Sundays investigation was not mothersheds first runin with sioux city police. Mothershed was arrested for kidnapping and burning two men over a drug debtback in july of last year. The judge orded mothershed be held on a 300 thousand dollar bond. I would advise you now that you are not required to make a statement and any statement you do make can be used against you at trial. Sir do you have any questions for the court at this ti about your charges or your bond . I do not. Christina mothersheds premlininary hearing will be at the Law Enforcement center february 19th at 9 00 am. Reporting live in studio Christina Grijalva abc9 news jenna slight icy conditions were the reason for a semi accident on highway 20 today. Police and emergency crews responded earlier today to an accident involving this pepsi truck, in the westbound lane of highway 20 in sioux city. According to police, roads were slightly covered in ice, causing the truck the driver sustained only minor injuries. Tim last novembver, the safety of one hilly area in sioux city came into question after two people died in a car accident on 25th street. The area is also known as thrill hill. Now sioux city officials are looking at a plan that could mean blocking off the street. Jenna a meeting is underway to determine the future of the hill moving forward. Abc 9s bria bell is at the meeting right now, what can you tell us . Bria tim and jenna, im at Trimble Methodist Church where residents who live on 25th street will be able to voice their safety concerns. Many of the residents who are at tonights meeting, signed a petition to close the top of the hill. So far that petition has received about 40 signatures. This hill has caused controversy for residents on 25th street as some want to see it go and others want it to remain. The citys public works staff will be in attendance at the meeting going over what would happen if the city decides to close the end feedback from residents. I was able to speak to a resident earlier today and he says he would like to hill to remain as is, but just wants the city to do somethin that they want to have the hill closed third option. Which would be like to keep it open. And the thing is like, to have a stop sign at the top of the hill here coming up, or going down and its like they could put a regular stop sign and then they have like the red deals that they could putand plus what they could also do is they could put a yello caution light there too if they wanted to, says kevin juron. Bria it is unclear if a final decision regarding thrill hill will be made tonight, but some residents say its a start. Im going to toss it back to you guys in studio, reporting live at Trimble Methodist Churchia bell abc 9 news. Jenna our current weather watch warning advisory system could be getting a facelift. The national is hoping update confusing terminology and a complex color system. Tim our meteorologist elisa raffa spoke to meteorologists at the Weather Service and has more. Elisa do you understand the difference betwn a weather watch and warning . If an advisory is issued. Is that a downgrade . These are questions causing some head scratching and its prompting the national Weather Service to research some changes. Theyre teaming up with social scientists to better understand how people take in and use weather risk information. How should meteorologists protray information to prompt you to take action and move to your basement in the event of a tornado . For some, the near 70 year old system just isnt doing that. The watch Warning System has been around for a number of years, and its probably the most misunderstood concept that the national Weather Service has as far as the public understanding the difference between a watch and a warning. Even though when we say watch it means watch out. Watch the sky, with a warning. take warning. But, people get those wawa words, if you will, misunderstood says coordination meteorologist at nws sioux falls. On top of terminology. Colors are confusing. The national Weather Service currently uses 124 colors to display weather hazards. Is it too much . How do those who are color blind decipher the difference between their weather hazards . These are all questions the national Weather Service and social scientists are trying to answer and are looking for the publics input. After all. These changes would be implemented for you elisa coming up tonight at 10 well hear from dr. Gina eosco, a social scientist at the forefront of this project, with what she found in her research, plus more from the national Weather Service on their thoughts of the possibility of change right here at home. Reporting live in studio. Meteorologist elisa raffa. Abc9 news tim the last of four iowa utility board meetings over the proposed Dakota Access pipeline in t books. Sessions began monday to review a Building Permit request for the pipeline. If bui it will cut diagonally across the state of iowa, the north Dakota Bakken Oil fields. Tonight no word if the board has on the permit request. The iowa senate voted today on the future of the managed care iowans on medicaid have been faced with the decision of what managed care company to pick governors plan to switch to private, managed the iowa senate terminating the state has with state companies, stop the governors plan. Pam jochum 4 29 thousands of iowans who are caregivers and have expressed and anger at times they cannot get most basic questions. Stand here today in opposition to this bill because i believe it would set us back, it will turn the train around and take us to the wrong destination. No matter what the legislature does, the federal centers for medicaid and still has to give its approval for the plan to move foward. So far they have not done that. Tim House Republicans have decided on their budget plan for the 2017 iowa fiscal year, and its 7. 3 billion dollars. Today, the budget plan was released and republicans say it continue a promise to iowans of fiscal responsibility. Almost one billion dollars alone will go to iowa education, instate supplemental aid and the teacher leadership and compensation program. 93 of the increase in the House Republicans budget is devoted to funding for k12 education. That means an additional 143 Million Dollars have been targeted to k12 schoools in our budget plan. Tim the house budget subcommittees will now begin their work to build each individual partys budget plan. Jenna us lawmakers in washington are moving forard government cant tax internet access. The Senate Passed the bill5to20. Barring state and local governments from taxing consumers for accessing the internet. The bill already passed the house. It will now go to president barack obamadesk whos expected to sign it into law. Jenna a brief look into the pursuit for the white house, now with both iowa and New Hampshire in the rear view mirror for the president ial candidates. Jenna the two Democratic Candidates are meeting in milwaukee wisconsin tonight to debate. Sanders is coming off a big win in New Hampshire and Hillary Clinton is looking to reestablish her lead before the South Carolina primary. The race is just as intense for the republicans, with those once polling on the low end of the spectrum now attracting larger crowds. Like john kaisich, who recently enjoyed a second place finish in New Hampshire. Tim coming up after the break. Donald trump the movie. Youll never believe which actor was cast as the president ial candidate. Result in generally light accumulations, then its going to be cold the next couple of days. And, there is another chance of snow over the weekend. Ill be back with details after the eak have just trumped trump the comedy website created a 50 minute long movie spoofing the republican president ial candidates past, the title of the movie . Trump the art of the deal. And its star . Johnny depp is somewhere underneath all that makeup. The movie is supposed to poke fun at trumps bestselling book the art of the deal. And co stars Michaela Watkins as ivana trump. Tim jenna fred tim fred, are we expecting a lot of no, generally less than an inch. Fred hexom fhexom kcautv. C om the hd radar shows snow moving into siouxland. 0. 2 of so far in sioux city. Road conditions are snow covered. The Port Neal Welding Company skycam hd from the sioux city. 20 is the high and 17 is the low. The ground is snow covered in storm lake on the skycam hd. In sioux city, we have 20 degrees. Temperatures are in the teens and 20s. Wind chills are in the Single Digits and teens. Winds are southeast at 510 miles per hour. Visibility is lowered where we have falling snow. The jet stream shows that we will be stuck i our cold pattern for another couple of days, but by late saturday, we will see the jet flattening out a bit. We call this zonal flow, and it will result in a warmup in siouxland. The stormcast hd shows snow this evening, then a cold north wind tomorrow working up, then another chance of snow saturday and early sunday as a warm front moves in. 0. 5 or less of additional snow will be seen tonight, then the next round of snow will be seen sunday, when we across the northeast. Tonight, look for light snow this evening, tapering off after midnight. The low will be 13. Tomorrow, the high will only be 18 degrees under partly cloudy skies. The 7day forecast shows that next round of snow over the 30s and 40s next week. Jenna tim fred jenna thanks, fred. fred you bet. Still to come. An iowa company familiar with an iowa Company Fighting illness is looking to take a stand against the hightened alert on travels due to the zika virus, some iowa researchers are working to make an effective vaccine while educating people about the threat. Claire powell from our des moines affiliate has more. At this time last year, researchers say the zika virus was basically dorment. It feels like a mild flu, most people thats what happens and they dont know theyre infected within 10 months, thats all changed. What was amazing was there were no cases and now its over 1. 5 million in brazil. Its incredible, thast just from last year the virus, discovered in the 1940s, has spread to a pandemic. Recently, newlinnk genetics, a Cancer Research company in ames, known for their ebola vaccine and Infectious Diseases division has tossed their hat into the ring. Their researchers are attempting to find a vaccine to battle the mosquitoborne illness. For every company its in the palnning stages. Like i said, this virus wasnt recognized as a threat. The virus has been nked to Serious Health issues including birth defects like microcephaly the shrinking of infants brain size and developmental growth. Everything points to that being the case, so yes, it scary this association of the two species of mosquitos known to carry zika, one is found here in iowa. But the unknowns heavily outweigh the known facts at this point. We dont know if zika can survive the winters in places like this. So the race is on for researchers not to find the cure, but the solution. This is a Public Health emergency, whoever can get there nad get an effective vaccine, its good for the whole world really continue to reload for 2016. Find out which key member of last years squad they locked up for the upcoming season. Plus. Adam woodbury is playing the best basketball of his career down the stretch. Well hear from the east alum and hawkeye senior senior Adam Woodbury has four double doubles and its not a stretch to say hes playing the best basketball of his career. Hawkeye headquarter reporter alex on the hawkeyes man in the middle. Alex giaimoAdam Woodburys fourth year on the iowa hawkeyes has been nothing short of incredible. Hes faced plenty of criticism from his haters over the season hes finally Adam Woodburyi mean who would say it doesnt feel nice, you know what i mean . Obviously it feels nice to be appreciated but for the few people that didnt appreciate me, that kind of gave me even harder. You know, get on him or when theyre praising him, i think he still just stays true to himself and game. You know hes not looking for approval or anything, hes just looking to get better every single day. Alex giaimohes a dirtywork type of player, always putting the team before himself so his stats were never eyepopping. But now hes averaging over nine rebounds, close to a doubledouble in every game and wins nearly every 50 50 ball on the floor. Fran mccafferyhis role is obviously much more critical than its ever been. Hes been a starter since he got here, but i mean, the way he anchors the defense, the communication that he provides, and the rebounding, he provides an element of toughness that i think every team needs. Adam woodburyi think if you guys listen to some of my interviews when i was a senior back in high school, this is what i wanted to do. I wanted to help bring the iowa team back to some of the National Prominence that it used to have. Alex giaimowoodbury always believed in himself and now hawkeye fans are also believing. Adam woodburyfor it to kind of come to fruition a little bit so to speak, its cool. But right now im stuck in the moment and just trying to win as many games as i can. Alex giaimoin iowa city with your hawkeye headquarters report, alex giaimo, abc9 sports. Hawkeyes have a big one tonight. They head to Assembly Hall to take on indiana. P off is at 8 o clock and the game can be seen on espn. Chris were less than 100 days away from the sioux city xs opening up their season and manager Steve Montgomery continues to build his roster with key holdovers from last years recordsetting squad. Today the Team Announced league era champ Ryan Zimmerman will be back for his second year in sioux city. Zimmerman went 142 last year with a 1. 80 era while Holding Opponents to a submendoza line. 190 batting average. He becomes the fifth explorer to resign from last years 7525 team. Zimmerman joins infielders tommy mendonca, ryan court, and noah perio back with the team this summer. Outfielder michael lang will xs uniform. The xs open up the season on may clark park basketball season is officially beginning to wind down here in is officially beginning to wind down here in siouxland as class 1a girls teams in iowa begin their regional tonaments tonight. And this afternoon the ighsau released the final poll for class 1a, 2a, and 3a schools. In 3a, pocahontas area still leads cherokee is fourth. Sioux center and spirit lake are 7th and 8th and sbl moves up four spots to 11th. In 2a, western christian holds steady at the top with unity christian up a spot to third. Okoboji and Lawton Bronson remain fifth and 13th respectively. Finally in 1a, only two siouxland teams are in the top fifteen. Kingsley finally in 1a, only two siouxland teams are in the top fifteen. Kingsley pierson and newell fonda check in at 6 and 7 respectively. And finally we need your help restarting our abc9 rising star promotion. Just head to siouxland matters dot com and click on the rising star tab to enter. Our winner each week will receive a tshirt, a framed photo, and two passes to kings pointe courtesy of sign pro. And unfortunately, they told me im ineligible to win those prizes despite digging picture of myself. Jenna tim chris fred fred h. Tonight, look for light snow this evening, tapering off after midnight. The low will be 13. Tomorrow, the high will only be 18 degrees under partly cloudy skies. The 7day forecast shows that next round of snow over the weekend, then we will warm up to the 30s and 40s next week. Iinside edition goes undercover as an old lady. How vuvuerable are the elderly to getting ripped off . 57,000. 12500. Lisa guerrero goes undercover to find out. Ive beewaiting for you for three days. Then cruise from hell. The video you havent seen. It was much worse than we thought. It was hell. It was hell. Oh, my god. And a head butt. Thefamous wrestler o says oh, my god. That can be fatal. That can use permanent damage to your brain. Then a funny thing happened on the way to the white house. You are a blabber mouth. Plus, her prison nightmare