The fighting was near the city of marja where the taliban has made recent gains. A medical helicopter sent to rescue casualties was forced to land and has yet to be recovered. It is confirmed that the at least one american was killed. And president obamas plan for unilateral gun control. Craig boswell is at the white house with details on why the president is taking the action and what opponents are saying. Craig president obama says he wont wait for congress to take action on gun control. President obama every year more than 30,000 americans have their lives cut short by guns. Craig the president s plan includes requiring dealers that sell guns on the internet and at gun shows to provide background checks. Changing a federal privacy rule to keep people from Mental Program from possessing guns. Asking people at the bureau of alcohol tobacco and explosives and hiring more than 200 30 additional fbi employees to process background checks. President obama thats what we are here today, not to debate the last mass shooting but to do something to prevent the next one. This is a wonderful start. Craig their daughter, allison, was gunned down on my tv in august along with her photographer alan ward. They are now advocates for stricter gun laws. This is also for beating up the atf, mental health, it is beefing up the atf, mental health. Craig president obama says hes taking action for people like the part record parkers. Craig republicans say these new measures infringe on Second Amendment rights and they will fight to overturn the president s plan. Craig boswell, cbs news. Mollie president obama says he is within his constitutional right to bring about more background checks. And we wanted to know what you think about the president s plan. We asked, do you support the president s move to expand background checks for gun purchases . Right now as you can see, 45 say yes, 55 say no. We still want to know what you think. You can vote by calling 2001508. You can also vote online at kcci. Com, or through kccis facebook or twitter. New at noon, Des Moines Police say they will not file charges in the stabbing death of a man who broke into a des moines home. 31yearold Travis Williams died december 5th after an altercation with two people inside the home. Police says theyve determined that the two were acting in selfdefense. They say that williams was armed the home. Des Moines Police are still working to catch a trailer thief. This is security video of a pickup truck with the trailer owned by rip roar events. The owner of the trailer says it was full of equipment needed to run his triathlon series for young people. Police say the thieves were most likely after Construction Materials and tools. Michael zimmerman i have to believe wholeheartedly that if it was a transparent trailer and they could see the contents it would never have gotten taken. Mollie zimmerman organized four races this summer after hyvee discontinued its iron kids triathlon. He says he hopes the thieves return the trailer once they realize whats inside. We are keeping an eye on a new system coming our way. Lets check in with frank because it sounds like snow and cold. Frank the first few days will be warm enough for mainly rain so thats the good news. Temperatures are not that bad, the other thing thats been nice is sunshine. We have gotten tons of pictures in on you local from my Kcci Facebook page. Heres steve in atoma. Fire in the sky, but you are right. We have a cold blast and rain and snow. 39 degrees thursday and friday, saturday 25, sundays high just 10 degrees. You dont really want to see but i have it in the forecast. Highs and lows and more on the snow coming up. Mollie we are not alone in weather woes. Flash flood watches have been a strong storm makes landfall. El nino storms lined up over the pacific started soaking california with light rain yesterday, but forecasters say a series of stronger systems are expected to arrive today. As much as 15 inches of rain could fall in the drought ridden state over the next 2 weeks with about 2 feet of snow expected in nevada mountains. To Washington State now where a United Airlines plane slid off an icy runway at the Spokane International airport this morning. No injuries are reported. The flight was bound for denver. Law enforcement is monitoring the occupation of an organ wildlife refuge where a group is protesting it calls what it calls government overreach of the sentencing of a father and son for setting a controlled burn on federal land. They returned to prison yesterday and John Blackstone has the latest. John this began as a peaceful protest and took an unfortunate turn when some of those folks broke off and began an armed occupation at the wildlife refuge. There was not a single law surrounds of the wildlife refuge headquarters. But the county sheriff, david ward, has a message for those occupying it. You said you are here to help the citizens, that help ended when a peaceful protest became an armed occupation. The hammonds have turned themselves in. It is time for you to leave our community. John they refused to say how many have joined the group they call citizens for constitutional freedom. They demanded inquiry into why the rangers were ordered back to prison for setting fires on federal land after they had already served prison time. It has been left to us to decide whether we allow these things to go on or whether we make a stand. John many in the area that support the hammonds oppose the occupation. It is still imperative to find ways to address the issues that are peaceful and legal and productive. A kind of these occupiers out. Mollie the growing rift between saudi arabia and iran is spreading through the arab world. More nations are following the saudis lead, and cutting diplomatic ties with iran. Yesterday, bahrain and sudan announced theyre severing relations, and now the United Arab Emirates says its recalling its ambassador from tehran. The dispute started with saudi arabias execution of a prominent shiite cleric who they say advocated for islamic terrorism sponsored by iran. The cleric was one of nearly four dozen people put to death there over the weekend on terrorism charges. Sources tell cbs news the newest socalled jihadi john to speak for isis is siddartha dhar, a london father of five who left to join isis terrorists in syria over a year ago. The englishspeaking militant threatens attacks against britain in a 10 minute isis video that appears to show the execution of five men. British Police Arrested dhar in 2014 on suspicion of encouraging enough evidence to hold him. And take a look at this. Two pedestrians in turkey were hurt after a build up of snow fell from the roof of a mosque onto a busy street. Two women were buried under the avalanche of snow. They were taken to the hospital. Their conditions are unknown. Coming up, how a new feature on apple iphones is costing some consumers thousands of dollars. And lolo makes her decision on whether or not to go for gold one last time. More when the news at noon this is iowas news leader. This is kcci 8 news at noon. With mollie cooney. Mollie you may notice, but data overages can lead to big phone bills. But one family was shocked when i got a bill for more than 2000 through the julie want to explains julie watts explains. Julie he got a warning he was near his data limit. Used. I thought my dad was going to kill me. Usually its about 250 per month and it was over 2000. Juliel the new feature was wifi assist which is standard with the new ios 1. 9 operating system. I had no idea what that was. Julie it automatically switches to cellular data when a wifi signal is weak, like in ashtons bedroom where he got he was connecting to wifi while streaming and surfing where he thought he was connecting to wifi while streaming and surfing. It was pretty high. Julie mikey campell says what wifi assist does, many dont know they have it. By default it is switched on. That is part of the reason there is an uproar. To turn it off go to settings and then cellular and then at the bottom under actions no discovered, that is where you turn it off. Mollie now we know. Lolo in rio . It sound too good not to be true. Lolo you are turning 34 on opening day, i guess. 34 is young. Look at it as stronger than ever. How you think youll trained differently . Mollie the des moines nativist tanning for games in the des moines native is gunning for the games in rio de janeiro. We wish her well. Turning to basketball. The iowa hawkeyes will try and stay perfect in the big 10 tonight at home when they take on nebraska. Thats at 8 00 p. M. On the big ten network. And tomorrow, the iowa state Hilton Coliseum in ames. That game tips off at 8 00 p. M. On espn u. Lets check in with frank for a look at the weather and snow possibly heading our way. Frank the cold is probably the bigger story, this system will not be dropping a kind of precipitation. We wanted to share some of these pictures, this one around the collins area. Nice shot around sunrise. Some trails out there this morning, they are obviously colder the farther up you go in the atmosphere. So of the exhaust freezes. Some of the exhaust freezes. Beautiful start to the day. The other thing we are starting to see is wind. Somewhere around 13 and 15 Miles Per Hour but in sometimes 15 to 20. 31 is the current temperature at the airport. Clarion at 23. Cooler to the north and west. I think most of us today top out in the upper 20s, lower 30s. 35 in the metro, 3 00 with plenty of sunshine. More clouds filter in later today into the overnight. Those clouds will help to steady temperatures through mid 20s. Tomorrow morning is not too cool or too bad at 27. Satellite radar shows clear skies, lots of sunshine. Mid to high level clouds. South and west of the system will be pulling through and that is what gives us the chance for precipitation. Travel weather across the midwest today, you go to the dodge city in low 40s, same for kansas city and st. Louis. High pressure moving out around the backside of highpressure. Wind out of the south, it will be pulling through in waves. Weight one comes tomorrow and another wave thursday into friday then we get the cold blast. Futurecast starts things with maybe a few high clouds. Sunshine. We will notice clouds on the increase tonight into tomorrow. I think thats when we will start to see precipitation start to roll through. I tell you, the best chance for precipitation will, Late Wednesday into thursday. Thursday night into friday is when it changes to snow. We wont the cooling down that much. Late in the day mainly rain. Thursday night into friday is when that could change to snow. Saturday it will finally pull out but look at temperatures with 25 on sunday. We wake up to three degrees. Monday in below zero temperatures. It looks kind of wet the next couple of days. I think it will mostly be rain the farther north you go. Mollie we will keep our fingers crossed. Thanks frank. Fitbit was the most downloaded app on christmas day. And it makes sense as americans plan to kick their new Year Resolutions into high gear. Jason gast, owner of the new anytime fitness in downtown des moines, says the first month of critical. He recommends setting goals one week at a time, and being more specific with those goals helps focus. Gast says instead of saying your goal is weight loss. Maybe concentrate on portion control, eating more vegetables, or working out at least 3 times a week. Jason gast we think people get stuck on the treadmill a lot, just doing the cardio that same old routine we want them changing their routine up get them in the weights get them on some plyometrics. The cardio is still importatn but definitely changing things up. Mollie also, studies shows that anticipating rewards may help you be more devoted to your coming up, its a great way to shed some pounds during the winter months, and have fun at the same time. Details on new skating classes iowas news leader. He middle of a time when senior poverty is increasing. Republicans and some democrats came up with a brilliant idea for cutting costofliving adjustments for Social Security. We said, it will be over our dead bodies if you cut Social Security. As president , i will do everything i can to extend the solvency of Social Security and expand benefits for people who desperately need them. Mollie are you looking for ways to keep your kids or yourself active in des moines and learn at the same time . This skating plaza is the place to be because this saturday is the start of their learn to skate classes january and february. Darlene lewis is here with the it has been 10 years since the plaza has opened and you have been there since the getgo. Darlene it is just the best experience down there. Everyone says skating is a wonderful thing. Mollie tell us about your background. Darlene i have been skating for a long time. I found that my expertise was more in the coaching arena. I have about 20 students, figure skating and hockey. They do very well they are doing fantastic. Mollie now we can all learn from you and other coaches. Starting this saturday for the next four, it is not too late to sign up. Tell us about the learn to skate program. Darlene we have been doing this program for 10 years and it is all the way up to jumping and spinning. The great things about the program is you get to do it with other people. We have an adult class which is always fun. We start where you are and put you in the class we think you should be in. Have fun, learn how to skate. Mollie the you go, perfect weather for it. It will be chilly this year but as far as january, you are expecting it. Darlene we have done lessons in the snow. The kids love it, we made snow angels on the ice. It was very comfortable. Mollie and rentals . Theres a price for all this . Darlene 55 is the price and a onetime 12 the as well. Plus you get a free public skate class to come practice. Mollie so how long other classes . They will run during the mornings . Darlene we will start at 10 00 in the morning on saturday morning and the we have three backtoback classes at 30 minutes each. Mollie obviously this is a dear love of yours but what do you like about it . Darlene i like the freedom on the ice and the challenge. You never get to the point where you are perfect so you are always learning. Lots of people have different reasons. Doing it with friends is a big one for the people that come with us. And it is great exercise. If you want to lose weight, where to ice skate. Mollie do you have special skates for the little ones . Darlene we have had their skates but its amazing they can we have pinged when and theyre able to skate forward and acworth most of the time forward and backward most of the time. Go to our website brentonpla za. Com. You can also call this number. Mollie classes will be this january and you will start another one in february. That triple the paris attacks, senators came together for a topsecret briefing on the terrorist threat. Marco rubio was missing fundraising in california instead. Two weeks later, terrorists struck again in san bernardino. And where was marco . Fundraising again in new orleans. Over the last 3 years, rubio has missed Important National security hearings and missed more total votes than any other senator. Politics first thats the rubio way. Right to rise usa frank today is the day to be