This has been a aun project to work on, its been really excited. Its neat to e it come to lifesays gene maffit, parks director for south sioux. The project was funded by grants and donations, and again. Should be open to the public in about a month. Reporting live in studio, elisa raffa. Abc9 news tim a stolen vehicle was involved in a two car crash early this morning on sioux citys north side. According to the sioux city pd, a white van was stolen from South Sioux City nebraska before 6 am this morning the suspect then drove the van erracticly, hitting another white vehicle on outer drive just across from north high school, the suspect fled the scene, and was later apprehended by police, no other details are available at this time stay tuned to abc9 continue to follow this ststy. Tim Sioux City Police may have solved a ststng of auto thefts. 28 year old mack quiber bracka monte of sioux city was arrested after police say he stole at least 5 cars. Police say mack quiber bracka monte stole those vehicles between october and december of this year. When police found the vehicles, they had several parts removed and were in the process of beiei stripped. Hes charged with multiple counts of felony theft and ongoing criminal conduct. Hes being held on a 47 thousand dollar bond. Tim Sioux City Police say a morning accident invovled a stolen vehicle. According to the pd, this white van was stolen from South Sioux City before 6 am this morning the suspect later collided with another white vehicle on outer drive juju across from n nth high school. The driver of the stolen car fled the scene but was later apprehended by police. No other details are available. Tim the Sioux City Fire Department was busy earlier today after construction crews struck a gas line on sioux citys north side. No one was ensure the situation was Midamerican Sasa that a t trd Party Contractor hit 30 this morning, but repairs are now safe and roads open, tim authorities in south dakota are alerting the roads open, authorities in south dakota are public that the accomplice of a notorious south h dakota serial l killer is set totoe released next week. Glen walker received two concurrent 25 year sentences for kidnapping and attempted kidnapping along with a consecutive five year sentence for being an accomplice to murder back in the 90s when he was convicted of helping his friend Robert Lee Anderson kidnap and killtwo women. Minnehaha county sheriff Mike Milstead had just joined the department when the incidents occured, and now says theres uncertainty about where walker will go after this. Theres always that uncertainty of what somebody is going to do, once theyve served their time, and theyre released the department of corrections deals with that on a daily basis. Walker received a redudud sentence for r od behavior and hes due to be released o o Christmas Eve without supervision such as parole or probation. Tim Woodbury CountyEmergency Services picked up a big piece of christmas cheer today. Cf industries presented a check of over thirty seven thousand dollars to the local agency. The county will use the money to sponsor keynote speeakers at conferences, upgrade instruments at the fire departments, and buy hand held anhydrous ammonia detectors for all fire departments. It comes at a great time, these are projects weve been working on for a long time, and its going to help us get these off of our list of things to do so we can move on to some other project that wed like to get done says gary brown, director, Woodbury CountyEmergency Serviceses the director of f Emergency Services says the hand held anhydrous detectors will help them make decisions based on the concentration levels for the safety, as well as the public. Tim heroic actions from 2014 are just now landing a local man and his family some special recognition. Gary olson from m jefferson south dakota and his family were awarded carnegie medals for heroism yesterday during a ceremony in pittsburg. The olson family recieved the medals becasue of their actions back in may of 2014 when they helped save a woman from her husband. During that incident the husband fired several gun shot at the family while chasing their car through north sioux city. The family managed to evade the gunmnm until authorities arrived, likely saving the womans life. Tim the Democratic National committee has suspended Bernie Sanders president ial campaign from accessing its voter database. This, after the campaign took advantage of a Software Error to access Hillary Clintons confidential voter information. Campaigns usually use that data to plot theirnext moves. The dnc database keeps the information gathered by different campaigns separated by a systems vendor that runs the program dropped the firewall for a brief period wednesday, during which time the data was accessed. A sanders spokesman said the staffers behavior is unacceptable and that person was fired immediately. The Sanders Campaign will remain suspended until it provides the dnc with a full explanation of the episode and provides proof that any accessed data has been discarded. Tim you can buy a tim you can buy a brand new iphone for just onene dollar today, but there is a catch. Best buy is selling the 16gigabyte version of the i phone sixs today for only a dollar. Customers who trade in a working iphone five can also snag a 200 dollar gift card. So whats the catch . To get an iphone for a buck, customers need contract with either verizon or sprint. Apple ceo tim cook says the Company Expects to sell a Record Number of i more than 74 million iphones were sold during the final three months of 2014. Tim christmas is seven days away and shoppers are out purchasing last minute gifts, but some dont know where to turn to. Jcpenney and buckles are just two stores that have customers grabbing items to gift. Both retailers say that there is something for everyone, while saving you some extra cash in the long run. Were really promoting a lot of gifts under 20, gifts under 10, and gifts under 5 dollars and were signing everything to that, so calling everything out for the shoppers this year, said murphy. If youre out doing, well not really last minute shopping, but last week shopping. Suggestions are [to] go in and ask a sale associate specifically for help, because theyre probably going to be able to help you find it faster than you just Walking Around telling them that youre just looking, said buss. Electronics, jelwery, clothing and more are just some items that jelwery, clothing and more are just some items that the stores say are marked down stores say they are marked down for potential christmas gifts. Tim lastminute Holiday Shoppers dont worry walmart has you covered. All Walmart Stores will be open until 8 p. M. Local time on Christmas Eve. For those who prefer online shopping, you can place holiday orders on walmartdotcom as late as december 20th for standard delivery. And as late as december 22nd for rush deliveries. Store pickup orders will be available until six pm, local time on december 23rd. Jenna still to come tonight. Have you heard of about it coming up fred the night ahead will be a cold one, but it will warm up this weekend. Will we see forecast is after the break. Tim jenna fred pretty low, tim. Fred hexom fhexom kcautv. C om fred the Port Neal Welding Company skycam hd shows the scene from the Ho Chunk Centre in downtown sioux ty. The almanac shows a high today of 31 and a low of 1 1 highs over western iowa were in the 20s and lower 30s. Eastern nebraska and southeastern south dakota saw highs of only 19 in sioux falls, but 20s and 30s elsewhere. 21 is our sioux city temperature. The dew point of 11 shows dry air in place. Local temperatures are in the teens north and 20s south. Winds are northwest at 5 to 15 miles per hour. Wind chills are in the Single Digits above and below zero for most of us, with teens across the south. The satellite and radar shows s quiet weather to our west, but snow to our east today. Heres a reminder to always drive slowly and carefully, even in light snow a picture from a 50 car pileup in michigan that happened in only 12 of snow. The stormcast hd shows quiet and cold weather tonight, then a warmup as we forecast for tonight is for a low of 8 degrees under mostly clear skies. Tomorrows high will be 39 with h mostst sunny skies. The 7day shows us topping 40 on sunday and again next tuesday and friday, so this christmas will be warm. And snowfree. Jenna tim fred fred you bet. Still to come. If youre planning on giving tech gifts for christmas, you may want to consider tech pain. Well explain in , coming up a smart phone, e or other gadgets. Use them continents, but a tim in our 24 7 world many of us have become obsessed with our high tech devices be it a smart phone, e reader, computer or other gadgets. But when we dont use them correctly or just plain overdo it, we may get some aches and pains. Holly firfer has more in todays health minute. Pat newby has traveled to 87 countries and all 7 continents, but a recent trip left her with nagging neck pain. pat newby patient i thought the worst because the pain was that severe the culprit . Her e reader. dr. Sharon bergquist emory school of medicine were dubbing it smart phone finger, some other problems are mouse tendonitis, or sometimes just a tablet neck. And thats what newby had. She strained her neck and shoulders muscles from hours of looking down at an ereader in her lap. The remedy getting her body back into starting with sitting up straight. dr. Sharon bergquist emory school of medicine you want the top of your screen to be roughly at or just below eye level. You want your shoulders relaxed pat laughs , elbows close to your body. Thats wonderful. Youre already protecting your lower body cuz you want your thighs parallel to the floor. You want your hips, knees and ankles at 90 degree angles and you want your feet flat on the floor. Taking frequent breaks can also help reduce injury. Tim coming up in sports. The musketeers are hoping to lock up a few wins before the holidays. Hear from the guys after the break. Tim plus. Nebraska toppled kansas last night to advance to the n caa title match. Alex recaps the action when we go out into the world. And from what i hear, its not all toys and games out there. Will you look out for me, future . Volleyball team is heading to the n caa championship. The huskers beat kansas 31 last night, punching their ticket to the finals for the seventh time. Allamerican Kadie Rolfzen led nebraska with 14 kills in front of an ncaarecord crowd of 17 thousand, five hundred and fifty one people. For the third time in school history, the huskers played a final four match on their defacto home court in omaha, winning all three times. Big red nation showed up in full force last night, guiding nebraska to the championship behind a wave of support. Cecilia hallcoming out there in front of 17,000 people on your home court, thats just crazy. I think thats what fired us up and i mean, just having that support too it makes it so much fun, you know . Like when you get a point the whole crowd goes with you and its just i dont know. You get so fired up. Tomorrow night, the huskers will duke it out with former big12 rival texas in the title match. There is plenty of history between these two programs and john cook is ready to face the talented longhorns. John cooktexas has set the bar really high. I mean this is their fifth final four. Weve when bill byrne was our Athletic Director he kind of created a rivalry with texas. So theres probably a Little Something there and we like playing each other and theyre a great program. Always fun to re kindle the old big12 rivalry between texas and nebraska. Saturdays title match can be seen over on espn2 at 6 30. We will of course have full highlights at 10 right here on abc9. Alex 23 games played. Only 22 points earned. With two games left before the winter break, the musketeers have the third lowest point total in the ushl. The holidays are rapidly approaching and sioux city hopes to finish strong this weekend. Looking at the western conference standings, sioux city stands at sixth between fifthplace tri city and seventh place fargo. It just so happens that the musketeers play both teams this weekend. A pair of wins would be huge, starting with the storm this evening. Biggest thing is those teams are both fighting for points just like us. I think getting a few this weekend would help us for sure. Jay varadyas we talk about all the time, its one game at a time. Its two games before christmas break in a Junior Hockey season. So for us its about focus. We talked about walking through the desert, looking at the horizon, picking up a point. Not looking too far ahead, just picking the next point and working towards that. We will have highlights from sioux citys matchup with tri city tonight at 10. For the first time this season, former George Little rock and usd linebacker tyler starr is suiting up for the atlanta falcons. Starr has spent the first 14 weeks of the season on the practice squad, but he has been promoted to the 53man roster in advance of sundays game against jacksonville. The 2013 Missouri Valley conference defensive player of the year was a seventh round draft pick in 2014. Facebook fanphoto of the day. Todays picture comes from. Todays fan photo is from the food bank of siouxland. They got a huge donation of Peanut Butter terror plot exposed. Cops say they were planning to shoot up a s angeles and this college cafeteria. Then, lebron james court side collision. The wife of a famed athlete wheeled away in a sttcher. Quite a scare. Are the best seats in the house way too dangerous . And deboborah stawars mania. The wedding, the worlds littliest jedi and even the weather forecast. The force Awakens Early tomorrow morning and it will be on the dark side. And then homealone 25 years later. Can you believe this is Macaulay Culkin today . Your whole family goes on vacation, whole family, and they forget their 8yearold son. And the new jennif lawrence movie. My name is joy. And the true story of a woman who built an empire with a mop. Plus, the Miss Universe evening gown competion. Now inside edition with deborah norville. Deborah hello everybody and e San Bernardino terror attack couldhave been much worse Authorities Say if the plotters had been able to follow through on all of their plans. A rush hour highway attack, an assault at the local colle. These are just some of the things that allegedly were being planned. Reporter chilling new details aemerging about the they are details are farook before the san his friend Enrique Marquez told investigats he and Syed Rizwan Farook planned to slaughter people on busy california highway 91. Imagine the nightmare, Syed Rizwan Farook planned to throw pipe bombs on to the highway during rush hour bringing traffic to a halt d then he would go from car to car shooting helpless people trapped inside. The victims would have been sitting ducks. You would want to get underneath the door. Ask the wheels because the