Popping up in Plymouth County. Health officials there. Say they have 4 confirmed cases of the illness. And they expect that number to rise. Johnson county is still recovering from the largest mumps outbreak since 2006. And now Health Officials in Plymouth County are also battling the airborne virus we have four confirmed cases and several probably cases in Plymouth County, said tara geddes Community Health manager at Floyd Valley Hospital mumps is caused by a virus. And spreads through saliva droplets. Going from one person to the next. Through sneezing, coughing or even talking. Symptoms include. Fever, headace, and the biggest indicator. Swolle n salivary glands under the jaw. Community health manager. At Floyd Valley Hospital. Tara geddes says getting vaccinated is your best line of defense. This is our mmr vaccine. We reccommend giving it at 12 months of age and again when a child is 46 years old they get a booster dose before they go to school, said tara geddes Community Health manager at Floyd Valley Hospital. The fast spreading infection. First appeared at the university of iowa last students. And continued to spread across the state. As students returned home over the winter break. If you happen to fall ill. Tara says you should ride the illness out. If you do contract mumps the biggest thing you can do is just supportive care; making sure that you stay away from people, avoid contact with anybody, kind of isolate yourself during that period of time, said tara geddes, Community Health manager at Floyd Valley Hospital. On average symptoms appear within 12 to 25 days. And carriers are contagious 3 days prior to showing symptoms. And for four days after being ill. While this outbreak continues. Being vigilant is key. Really good handwashing if youre out in the public, especially in close areas; do not share drinks or cigarettes, or eating utensils with other people, said Geddes Deborah most of you may have already received the reccommended two doses of mmr vaccines. If so. You have 88 percent protection from the virus. One dose is about 78 percent effective. Reporting live in studio, Deborah Souverain abc 9 news. Getting a multi Million Dollar shot in the arm when it come to improving Water Quality. Along with dubuque and coralville the city will share 40 Million Dollars of a nearly 97 Million Dollar federal grant. Governor branstad learned of the award just today. State Officials Say storm lake will receive 6. 5 million for storm sewer improvements. The remainder of the grant will fund flood and Water Quality improvements in nine watersheds in iowa. Tim South Sioux City police chief scot ford is taking off his badge after a 42 year career on the force. Ford, was greeted by over a hundred friends and coworkers at the Law Enforcement center in south sioux as he finished his last day on duty. Ford says his only regret is leaving the family hes made at the department. We always try to maintainin this department a feeling of family and i think thats probably whats going to be the hardest to walk away from. Its like im losing part of my family or walking away from a part of ford will appoint an interim chief, while the citys Civil Service looks for his replacement. Tim have you ever wondered why iowa gets the honor of being the first in the nation to pick a candidate . It actually happened, by accident and dates all the way back to 1972. That answer can be found by sorting through artifacts on display at the state historical museum. The first in the nation exhibit, takes vistors through the entire history of the political process. Following the 1968 Democratic Convention in chicago, the party decided to moderanize its primary system. With more attention going to local voting. The new 4step process included state, district, county and precinct voting and iowa just happen to be in the right place at the right time. In 1972 when these new rules went into effect all across the coutnry iowa happen to be first. And weve been frst ever since and the reason were first is simple logistical calculations to make this new four step tim the Iowa Caucuses bring millions of dollars to iowa. Some states have talked about trying to steal the first in the nation status but professor caufield says its not that easy. In both the republican and democatic parties the rules explicitly allow iowa and New Hampshire to go first in the process. The exhibit remains on display tim traveling edition of the exhibit will be on display at Morningside College beginning next week. First in the nation at the hickmanjohnson furrow learning center. From jan. 30 to feb. 13, tim ben carson and donald trump will both be in siouxland tomorrow the Trump Campaign heads to sioux center to hold a rally at dordt college. The donald is set to speak tomorrow at 11 am doctor ben carson will be in hell be accompanied by kirk cameron and the casting crowns. That rally will be held at noon tomorrow tim students at iowa state univerty camping outside ran into a bit of trouble last night. Students have been lining up for tickets to the next isu game against kansas, since nday, and last night fire Officials Say a propane heater inside one of the tents started a fire burning through three tents firefighters say students need to practice caution. Paul sandoval, ames deputy fire chief in order to prevent it, we ask the students to be very careful whenever theyre trying to heat an area there. Its a good idea to always have an extinguisher there and to have somebody be alert and watch for the heating unit itself tim officials at the schooll say ths is the first time Something Like this has happened. And theyll looking for ways to prevent Something Like this from happening again tim sioux citys is now a little easier to locate. The museums sign was assembled and hoisted into place at the museum on pearl street. Its one of the finishing touches for the museum thats set to open next month. Staffers tell us the museum is designed to be a place for youngsters to learn and have fun. The grand opening of the Launchpad Childrens Museum is set for february 11th. Tim the route for the 44th annual ragbrai will be reveald tomorrow. That announcement set to be held at 8 15 at night. If you would like to watch it live to find out which cities the ride will tour this year, be sure to tune in to abc9 news at 10 tomorrow night. Tim this weekend briar cliff is celebrating fifty years of basketball and some of the legends from the panamanian pipeline are in sioux city to celebrate and remember coach ray nacke. Mario butlerits just a great feeling to be back and having you guys bring me back, and bringing those great memories back and being able to thank briar cliff and coach nacke. Day tomorrow, highlighted by the games against nebraska wesleyan at 2 and 4. Still to come. Chris and alex join us with highlights of 12 games from around siouxland tonight, including a battle of number one and number four in hull. Cold tonight, above freezing this weekend. But more snow monday . Details next. Cloudier skies today. Got to 27, just shy of normal. This weekend well be a little above normal temperatures not too bad. Upper teens. Winds calm, starting to get that southerly flow in gear. Wind chills are cold. In the single digits. Tonight wind chills will dip towards 0. Stubborn clouds tonight with patchy fog. Temperatures in the teens again tonight. Stubborn clouds with not many breaks in sight. High pressure in place, well see some fog tonight. As High Pressure shifts south, well kick in a south wind that will have us warming this weekend. But it will be breezy tomorrow so even though well be in the low 30s, well still feel like were in the teens. High pressure gets out of here once the blizzard thats that will allow a front to start to make its move. Southerly flow and warmer sunday. Mid to upper 30s sunday night well start to see those winds shift, maybe a few flakes. Snow really comes in for monday. But its light. 13. Tonight 15 and patchy fog. Wind chills near 0. Tomorrow 32 with clouds and leftover fog. Gusty winds has it feeling like the teens. 7day breezy and 30s this weekend. Blutery with light snow likely on monday. A colder day tuesday before we get back up to the 30s. By the way. A blizzard taking aim at east coast right now. All yellow in winter storm warning, but blizzard warning from dc to philly to nyc and even the Outer Islands off ma. Theres the system. Beautiful on sat rad. Will bring 2 to 3 feet to dc. Around a foot to nyc. Coastal flooding in jersey and blustery white out conditions. Chris happy friday everybody and welcome in to another edition sportszone, walker, im Chris Palmquist and what a bunch of lined up for you. Alex thats right, well check out action from norfolk, mapleton, and onawa. Well find out whether east could sweep heelan this season and well see if the muskies could win their Third Straight, but we start with the game of the night in all of iowa. Chris they dont get much better than fourth ranked spirit lake taking on number one western christian. Back in december, the wolfpack dominated the indians, winning by 30 on the road. Chris would it be more of the same tonight or could spirit lake return the favor . Early on. Spirit lakes billy brown. Hes heading to north dakota because he can do this. That ties it up early. But taylor miedema. He blows by his defender on the other end. Wolfpack go up four. The indians respond with the iowa commit, ryan kriener. Hoop and the hack. Spirit lake within two. Then jake heitritter. Open in the corner, he take the lead. But here comes the wolfpack. Tyson kooima answers with a three pointer of their own and wc storms back in front by 4. Then miedema, shows off his range as well. Western christian, shows why theyre number one, 7354 the final. Chris a huge matchup in the girls game as well. The wolfpack, newly minted at number 1. Right out of the half, macy smith. Gets the ball on the low block. The indians trail by a dozen though. And it got worse from there. Nobody stops payton harmsen. She stops and pops. Pack lead it 4020. Smith, trying to keep her team in it. Gets the defender in the air and drives to the basket. But the deficit now 25. On the other end. Karsyn winterfeld with the feed into ashtyn veerbeek. Too easy. The chris a lot of times when east and heelan meet on the hardwood its for the missouri crown. Thats not the case tonight, but that doesnt mean there would be any let down in the rivalry. Alex the black raiders won by 12 in the pit five weeks ago. The crusaders looking to return the favor. Opening quarter. East strikes first. Connor murrel to the rack he finished with a gamehigh the early lead. Next east possession. Elija off the length of the course and lays it in. Heelan ties it up. But the raiders break it open. Jaylen rees with some open space and he sticks the j east goes on a 80 run. Then heelan settles down. Kyrese peck puts the spin cycle on east. And sinks the jumper. This one was back and forth and it went to overtime. With the home team top aidan one east wins 78 alex up on the northside, the stars looking for of west. Late first half. Al drills the deep into halftime. To the Third Quarter we go. James king hits the easy jumper in the paint. Wolverines starting to close that gapp. Then its marquise bolden for the wolverines. The triple is pure west cuts the lead to six. But north has tavian williams. And mr. Williams can elevate lets eat stars hold on for the narrow 7168 win. Chris we have to take a quick timeout but when we come back well head back to hull and see if the comets could win their 12th straight. Stay owned the state when it came to class 1a basketball. Chris siouxland was home to six straight state teams from boyden hull and one from west lyon. Chris the wildcats and comets squaring off tonight in hull. We pick it up in the second quarter. Dalton moser. Fights through the contact and draws the foul. Comets break a 17all tie. West lyon eventually found a rhythm. Collin snyder money on the corner triple. They trail 2922. Then its colton hage hitting from the top of the key. Wildcats down six at this point. But boyden hull continued to attack the rack. Jamison te slaa. Hits the deck hard but he finishes to go up 8. Then jacob schafer. Another Old Fashioned 3 point play. Comets win it, 8056 chris unity christian saw its 40game winning streak come to an end last saturday. The knights hosting hinton tonight. And they had some pent up frustration. Anna kiel with the long outlet ahead to alyssa fedders. She lays it home to go up 60. Then check out this swat. Kiel week. And this was the kind of night it was for hinton. Kailey burke gets a block, but unity recovers it and gets it to chanda zomermaand. She knocks down the trifecta. Theyd lead it 291 midway through the second. Hintons Laura Brighton finally stops the drought, but unity christian has no trouble. They win it 6028. Alex fifthranked Kingsley Pierson on the road tonight to take on west monona. First quarter. Kps marina keck drives baseline. Pulls up in the paint and gets the shot to drop to put the Lady Panthers on the board. Couple of minutes later. Kp up by four. Cierra gossage gets the steal for the spartans. And gets it ahead to bella schull for the contested layin. But the Lady Panthers answer as Abby Sitzmann connects on the three pointer to widen kps lead to five. Later kp with the bailey gets the hoop and the harm. Panthers win it xx. Chris westwood climbed up two spots to 11 in the latest poll. They were in mapleton for a rivalry game. Fourth quarter. Lady rebels up by 25. Carah drees gets the ball inside. And shell score two of her 19 points. With the layin. Mvao doing what they can to chip into that deficit. Emalee fundermann connects from way behind the arc. Cuts it to 24. But westwood showing its power inside. Kaylee smits gets the board and the putback. Lady rams keep pressuring as fundermann on the fast break goes in for the lay up but it was too large of a gap to close. Lady rebs win it 4624 and claim the wvc championship. Alex in the boys matchup, the rams, just outside the top ten this week. Delagarza with the long two pointer. To start the game out. Then andrew oneal with the sweet finger roll and the harm. Rams jump out to a 50 lead. But here come the running rebs. Zach allen with nothing but net on the three ball to cut it to a twopoint defict. Back and forth throughout the quarter and with three seconds left. Its allen throwing it up. Calling bank and making the deposit for three rams only up by two after the first. But pull away to win it 60 32. Alex out to nebraska. Wahoo and norfolk catholic. Cody ronnfeldt and Tanner Schafer from our sportszone partners at necc shot this game for us. 1st quarter. Wahoos jake ruzicka passes to cameron quick for the layup. Warriors get on the board. Later in the quarter. Great 12 action between myles vrbka and matt miller under the basket for the layup. Nc strikes backl. Then its Billy Hancock of wahoo inbounds the ball to jake ruzicka back to such a pure stroke. And they would keep it up. Billy hancockwith the dime to will shanahan who takes the jumper. And drills it. They come out on top 7239. Alex and the same matchup on the girls side. Cody ronnfeldt and Tanner Schafer also got this game for us. 4th quarter. Lady knights are trying to throw the ball inbounds but its picked off by wahoos elly larson who passes it to Mallory Lindstrom she takes the shot and sinks it for the deuce. Few minutes later. Maddie love drives the ball down the court and takes the easy layup to extend the knights lead. Then its baily ehlers for norfolk catholic. Steals the ball and takes it up for an uncontested layup and gets the foul. Great coast to coast. Wahoo would Third Straight win large ammount of snow, and folks around siouxland might be sick of the snow, but for one man in Fort Campbell kentucky is making the most of his situation. He is out shoveling his driveway wearing a dinosaur costume,. Well, at least hes making the best out of a snowy situation. Tonight 15 and patchy fog. Wind chills near 0. Tomorrow 32 with clouds and leftover fog. Gusty winds has it feeling like the teens. 7day breezy and 30s this weekend. Blutery with light snow likely on monday. A colder day and now Abcs Jimmy Kimmel live. Dicky from hollywood, its jimmy kimmel live