The record was set back in 1960 but we should break that. We have got rain all throughout the state at the moment. That total will continue to climb. You can see the areas where the heaviest rain has fallen at this point. Plan on more rain as we head through the evening and into tomorrow morning. There is finally an end in sight. Temperatures hold steady around 44 degrees. Much colder air in the forecast. Anchor the greenbelt trail and parker are shut down because of flooding. It could get as high as 10 and a half feet. This is just one area of concern. The driver in this one vehicle accident on i 235 was able to walk away without any injuries. The driver hit a patch of water and hydroplaned. The theory vehicle ended up on its roof. It has shipped temporarily shut down the two left lanes. Jolly Holiday Lights is shutting down for the rest of the season thanks to all the rain. The Holiday Light displayed close last night and they are hoping to reopen today but they were concerned about rain never any flooding like this. The amount of rain we have had down here, we have parking issues, we are dealing with electricity and water. Anchor with the shortened season this year they hope to fund about 20 wishes. Rain and warm weather have replaced snowy cold days. Marcus mcintosh went to find out if we would have some snow. Marcus what a difference 20 degrees makes. If it were that much colder, this would all be snow. Alan curtis, a meteorologist service, said it is not typical to play a round of golf in central iowa in december. Curtis says we have a White Christmas about 50 of the time. Snowy conditions and no visibility. The other half the time our christmas is green. If you are hoping for snow, you will most likely be disappointed. Anchor marcus reminds us that a Typical NationalWeather Service forecast is about seven days, beyond that it is not as accurate. You can check our website and our mobile app. Anchor a shakeup in the polls shows a new republican president ial candidate emerging as the top candidate to take on donald trump. Texas senator ted cruz is leading the gop president ial field here in iowa with 28 . Trump is in second place with 26 . It is just 50 days ago until the Iowa Caucuses. Is more than just one poll putting crews ahead. Ryne sandberg donald trump was taking aim at his usual donald trump look at the way he is still with the senate. He goes in there with the kind of a maniac. Youll never get anything done like that. Brian crews had a 10 point lead over trump in the Des Moines Register poll. Ted cruz has been lifted higher by evangelical conservatives and tea party conservatives. Ted cruz i believe gravity will bring both of those candidates down. The lions share of their supporters will come to us. The Washington Post reported that some party elders are considering ways to sidestep a possible trump nomination. Donald trump i signed a pledge but the pledge was a double. They were supposed to be honorable. Were going to find out. If it goes that way, they will brian the Iowa Caucuses are on very first. Anchor that poll that shows ted cruz jumping ahead is the iowa poll used by the Des Moines Register. It was a bit of a shock to see the turnaround from trump to ted cruz. Ted cruz has gotten several new endorsements and the decline of ben carson. Bet Bernie Sanders is trying to take back his lead here in iowa. He attended a Church Service in waterloo and also some Bernie Sanders our job is to reach out to people. Many of them have given up on the portal process. Many of them have never participated. Go around and you will find many people who have never voted. Anchor sanders finished the day at Cornell College in mount vernon. Anchor nearly 200 nations have adopted the Climate Change pact agreed to in paris. This is an effort to eliminate Greenhouse Gas pollution. But there are no sanctions on nations that do not. People around the world are both praising and protesting the deal. He was in paris for the worldwide agreement. Rose the mayor spent several days here at the paris dozens of people walking in the rain in Downtown Des Moines had one message. A message des moines mayor frank county health spread at eight meeting held in paris. Representatives of 195 nations agreed to limit Greenhouse Gas emissions. County was one of 650 worldwide leaders who represented local governments. Frank county there are things that local governments and citizens cant do. Rose he shared his experience. Des moines is making strides in energy efficiency. The mayor believes there a lot of work left to be done. Taking 10 trips to do 10 errands , lets try to do 10 errands in one trip. Rose environmental groups spoke about spreading the message, especially to the younger generations. Right now the goal is to limit Global Warming to two degrees celsius. Anchor Governor Terry branstad is making history. He becomes the longestserving governor in iowa and United States history. He just served nearly 21 years in office. The Iowa Governor will take the title from George Clinton who was a governor of new york back in the 1700s. There will be an open house at anchor Des Moines Police made an unusual arrest. A naked woman being arrested at the intersection of indianola avenue and southeast fifth. She is lying on the ground in the rain. Police handcuffed her and then one officer gives her his jacket. No word yet on why she was arrested. She was taken to a local hospital. A man has been arrested in union county in connection with the suspicious death investigation. The county Officials Say they found a second body. Jerry dillinger was arrested and charged with two counts of firstdegree murder. They found the second body are investigating the death of authorities have not released the identity of the second victim or the cause of death. The suspect was loretta dillingers ex brotherinlaw. Jordan fully is considered armed and dangerous. He is accused of firing multiple shots inside a bar. In fort police are investigating a suspicious death. An autopsy will be conducted. In fort dodge, a man jumps off a bridge. Police were called there just before 9 a. M. Because of a Man Threatening to jump. All trains were stopped. Officers talked the man down he lunged away from officers and jumped off. He could be rescued. He survived the fall he was taken to des moines in critical condition. Anchor questioning the use of force. A shooting in california is under review. Anchor the paths of the instruction left behind by a tornado in texas. A cyclones star was out of the lineup. The iowa dot tweeted me saying they would have Something Special on monday morning. Governor branstad is its time to rise and shine. At kum go, were doing more for you to start your day right. Like serving up a friendly good morning along with breakfast sandwiches breakfast pizza, donuts muffins coffee that are all made fresh hot in our stores kitchens every day. Kum go. Where means more. Rmet cheeseburger as much as anybody. And thats why we created the pub burger at culvers. My favorite cheeseburger starts with great beef. When you get that burger in your hand and the juices are flowing, you want to devour it. Chef, were going to make a pepper grinder pub burger. Im stoked, man. Weve got a little wisconsin swiss and wisconsin cheddar. Those are the criteria for me fresh beef, bacon, wisconsin cheese. The fourpeppercorn mayo really sets this burger apart. This is the ultimate bacon cheeseburger. Our new pepper grinder pub burger. Anchor rain is still coming down. More than 24 hours of downpour. Flooding in parts of the metro. We will a full check by the storm team. Anchor Portland Oregon police are investigating what caused the train to crash into a tractortrailer hauling fuel. That sparked a railcar fire that sense black smoke into the sky. It took firefighters several hours to put out the flames. The shooting death of a young father at the hands of two los angeles sheriffs deputies is raising questions. Chris store Surveillance Video capture the moment that two deputies fired two shots as nicholas robertson. Angry demonstrators gathered at the shooting scene. Pamela brown is robertsons motherinlaw. They couldve tasered him or anything. Chris deputies responded to multiple 911 calls about a man firing shots into the air. The video shows robertson they did not comply with ever pleaded requests to drop the weapon. Deputies fired 33 rounds. Robertson was pronounced dead at the same. A Community Activist says that this shooting was disturbing. Local civil rights leaders have called for an independent investigation into robertsons death. Anchor to the San Bernardino shooting now. Nothing related to the terror attacks have been found in a local lake there. The fbi has not uncovered anything that will help the investigation. They tried to cover their tracks by destroying emails. Anchor a new look at the damage caused by a tornado touched down in texas. Several businesses and homes were damaged. The tornado also toppled power lines and trees. About 50 homes were damaged. We have some flooding to think about right now. Jason we are on the verge of it. By early afternoon we will start to rid ourselves of this. We are covered in green on the radar. That is the case from the majority of today. Up to three inches of rainfall over the past 24 hours or so. This is continuing. Until tomorrow morning. You can start to see the backside of the system. Help us cap out in the middle 40s. Youll see less rain. Another look across the state. Heavier rain from omaha to cedar rapids. More than three and one quarter inches. They have well surpassed in there one day record rainfall. 1. 68 inches. They have more than three inches of rain in just today. A lot of us are close. Des moines has eclipsed its record as well. You can see this huge flow of moisture from the south. Shifting to the east along with rain chances as we head into the late morning. You see this temperatures go up through the day. But we punch in that colder air, those temperatures were only be dropping for us. This shifts to the north. It takes all that yucky stuff along with it. We start to clear out of it. On tuesday we should see a few peeks of sunshine. Were going to you locked in with the cloud cover especially early on. The next wave of rain is coming as we head into the overnight. Do expect some light rain as you wake up tomorrow. But the worst of it has gone. There will be cloud cover throughout the day. There is still a lot of hope as we head into the middle of the week. About 12 hours to go to get 43 degrees is what we will be dropping to overnight. I dont think we gain much tomorrow. Those northwest winds continue to punch and keep the temperatures dropping. That colder mastiff of air is off to the north there. Most of this should fall as rain. Take a look at the next few days here. The temperature begins to take a bit of a hit. The northwestern portions of the state have a mix. Down to the low 30s by the weekend. We get a resurgence and sunshine. Temperatures back up to near 50 by monday. Scott we will talk about why a paris theres a lot to do on a dairy farm. Nobodys gonna do it for you. You have to get out there and do it yourself. Bernie sanders is a wellknown friend of family farms. Bernie cannot be bought out by big money. Bernies opinion cannot be purchased. Its time for our next president to get in there, roll up his sleeves, take off the gloves, and take on wall street, take on big business, take on big money, and get the working class back to where they should be. Hes a rock. Scott the sharpshooter is playing through pain. He has had hip surgery but he is suiting up this year. He had 19 points against iowa. The cyclones led by just nine at the half. Cyclones are 90. Arkansas pine bluff brought both teams. The womens game was a big mismatch. She scores easily. She was unguarded ball down low. They outrebounded them 4926. They win 7041. They named the iowa junior quarterback a firstteam allamerican. It was a sloppy mess out there are several nfl games. They slipped up in kansas city literally. Check out the weather. The chargers just couldnt catch it. Philip rivers gets its own. Slipping away. Charges were down by seven at halftime. Still talking about that slippery ball. The chiefs win it 103. They have won seven in a row. We have more nfl coming up on sports extra. A very Panther Christmas came early. Star wars night. Would be enough against one of the top teams in the american hockey league. Now i know what to get you for christmas. Anchor it doesnt really feel utley december out there. Businesses that were counting on the cold and snow are suffering right now. Coming its time to rise and shine. At kum go, were doing more for you to start your day right. Like serving up a friendly good morning yes pizza, donuts muffins coffee that are all made fresh hot in our stores kitchens every day. Kum go. Where means more. This month, get any breakfast sandwich and a drink for just 3. 25 middecember temperatures soaring into the 50s this week. But changes are coming. Anchor for those in the snow business it has been tough going. Rose empty ski lifts hills that are usually covered with snow by now. The general manager at seven oaks recreation says it is to warm to make snow. Temperatures keep reaching the mid50s and pushing back opening day. This is a time of year we are usually working 80 hours a week. It is just up to Mother Nature this point. At True Value Hardware in des moines it is another unusual site. Bags of rock salt are stacked high and the empty shelves are in the gardening department. Weve had a run on fertilizer. People are put fall fertilizer down before the rain comes. At the ice rink, people are anchor the general manager at seven oaks says he hopes to open the slopes around the 20th. Are we going to get cold enough for the rain to turn to snow . Jason not much of a chance with the rain we are seeing right now. There is a slight chance later in the week. Two structures have were getting a little bit of a break. Seeing quite a bit more rain pushing in from the south. Over two around ottumwa. Nearly three and one quarter inches of rain out in waterloo. The third wettest december on record from the rain that just fell today. We set some records of our own here in des moines. Yesterday. Weve seen almost 1. 6 inches on the day today from rain. We will probably eclipse that three inch mark around the metro. Flood warnings down near council bluffs. A rainy start your work week. I will have a further breakdown of how much more rain you can the iowa dnr is urging hunters to be careful after three accidents this weekend. The most recent happened in palo alto county. The hunter shot himself in the hand while loading his shotgun. Another hunting accident and was in delaware county. He was also loading his gun when he shot himself in the leg. A man was accidentally shot by a member of his own Hunting Party on sunday afternoon. 32yearold shamus smith was hit in the leg with a shotgun slug. The other hunter was trying to shoot a moving dear at the time. Anchor a touching moment in rome. The Christmas Lights in rome were turned off to mark the anniversary of the terrorist attack in paris. Then they were lit up in the mourners gathered at the concert hall where 89 people were killed by gunmen. Those attacks left 130 people dead. Anchor monday march the third anniversary of the sandy hook massacre that killed 20 children and six teachers in newtown connecticut. It will be the first time the anniversary falls on a school day. There will be no organized public remembrances for this solemn anniversary. Congress is in a race against time to pass the yearend spending bill and keep the government from shutting down. Lastminute negotiations are taking place in private at the highest levels. The bill would continue funding obamacare, too hot button issues. Congress reconvenes tomorrow and i have until wednesday to come to a budget compromise. I love a gourmet cheeseburger as much as anybody. And thats why we created the pub burger at culvers. My favorite cheeseburger starts with great beef. When you get that burger in your hand and the juices are flowing, you want to devour it. Chef, were going to make a pepper grinder pub burger. Im stoked, man. Weve got a little wisconsin swiss and wisconsin cheddar. Those are the criteria for me fresh beef, bacon, wisconsin cheese. The fourpeppercorn mayo really sets this burger apart. This is the ultimate bacon cheeseburger. Our new pepper grinder pub burger. Todd omen and michigan rushed to catch a flight so she could see her dying mother one last time. Laura but the flight is delayed and then canceled. I just broke down and started crying. My dad was completely alone down there. Laura thats when she met her airport angel. She had heard the story and she ran with her to the next flight and then paid for it. She gave me a big hug and said i love you. Ive seen relatives fight over who was paying for the ticket. It was a full fare, woke up at laura she said her mother wouldve loved this story about the kindness of strangers. Todd they are hoping no one would fire grill will bring in some customers. The chain is based in north carolina. Its known for burgers and steak and seafood. After a few days hosting, it officially opens tomorrow. Laura we will see a lot more rain tomorrow right . Jason the bulk of the rain that we will see has already fallen. But there will be some more rain tomorrow morning. Take heed of that and drive a flood warnings across the map at this point. Often the southeast near ottumwa. Up into waterloo as well as council bluffs. I wish i could say that was the end of it. There is more to the south. Heres the next way that was kansas city down to st. Louis is still seeing a lot more moisture push on and we will continue to see that throughout the morning. There is an end in site for us. By the afternoon hours we start to taper this off. Temperatures drop all day long. It still will not be warming up. But even so will be about 10 degrees above average. The area of low pressure that is brought us to this mass continues to roll on. This eventually does clear there. If you have outdoor plans on the rain continues to shift northward. Locked in with cloud cover for most of the day. 43 degrees tonight along with the rain. The wind will remain fairly gusty. The middle portions of the state taper off we are back to average throughout the middle portion of the weekend. We are back to near 50 by monday. Yo scott the cyclones so they can win this one without him. They played pretty well. In the first half, alex kirk takes his shot. Game. Here. Check it out. Half. They pulled away bigtime. Out. 11 assists and 12 points for morris. 7864 as the cyclones improved to nine wins and zero losses. He is really not worry wants to be physically right now. We thought we get through this game without them. No more wear and tear on the body. Where off tomorrow. Light on tuesday. An extra day of rest for him. He has to fight through some pain. Scott the big four classic is coming up in wells fargo arena. Iowa state will take on you and i. A bigtime mismatch. Iowa state was a huge in the second half. Very much outrebounded. 4926. 7041 is the final score. They zipped past akron. 5951. Last week the packers needed a hail mary to beat lastplace detroit. They took on another last place have to rely on a miracle. 14nothing dallas. Cowboys kept it sort of close. Up the middle, it cut the lead to 147. Lead. The cowboys fall to 49. The bears missed a field goal that would of the game against the redskins. They rallied back from a 217 thirdquarter deficit against washington. A touchdown run right up the gut. Chicago needs something. Flings it keeps a alshon jeffery. A gametying 50 yard field goal. Bears lose 2421. San diego was slipping and sliding in kansas city. He found out that wilson. Right to malcom floyd you cannot catch it. It is not easy to catch. The final play wouldve tied it. The chiefs win it in the slop. Todd gurley lunges for the pylon. This one made it 217. The final minute, st. Louis is going. Can the defense rise above . They didnt really have to. A bad snap goes right past the quarterback and he can make anything happen. St. Louis expenses winning streak. Watch this pass from cam newton of the panthers. It goes around by inches. Through another persons hand. The panthers one 380. It has been a magical year for the panthers. The mention if you were a kid in charlotte and got to meet some of the players. Q can i have for panthers linebacker aj klein. A shopping spree with the carolina panthers. It is not enough to say this is a big deal. For 30 kids from the elementary school, it was a huge deal. This is a chance first to give back to the kids. Aquamarine blue. They are shopping with panthers players. From shoes to bikes to a little bit of everything else. It is hard to tell just to have the most fun. The kids or the players. It is something these kids wont soon forget. The team hosted star wars night at wells fargo arena. The characters were on hand. 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