Transcripts For KCRG KCRG TV9 Early Morning News 20151210

Alert forecast, kaj. Plan on a mild, breezy day out there with highs going well into the 50s. The warm front pushing through this morning will be replaced by a cold front by midafternoon. In any event, highs should be hit around the lunch hour with widespread mid50s likely. Tonight into tomorrow, dry weather is anticipated with temperatures still well above normal. Our storm system is still on track to impact eastern iowa this weekend with light rain as early as friday night. For at least the entire weekend, precipitation will stay in the form of rain in all areas, and that rain may be heavy at times. Thunderstorm s are also possible saturday night into sunday. Rainfall amounts of at least 12 are likely with higher amounts approaching 3 in any areas that see repeated heavy rainfall. Creeks and streams will likely respond with rises on the smaller basins likely. Next week, the weather trends cooler, with any remaining moisture going to light snow later monday, if our temperatures can drop fast enough. Today partly sunny, mild high 5258 winds w 1525 alo 54 dbq 55 iow 57tonight partly cloudy low 3440 winds sw 515 alo 35 dbq 36 iow 38tomorrow slight chance of rain late high 5157 winds se 515 alo 52 dbq 52 iow 54tomorrow night chance of showers low 4450 nds sw 510 alo dbq 45w 48 anks j. This morning were working to get more information on a stabbing in waterloo. Officers responded. To the perkins restaurant at avenue around 2 10 this morning. Police say a man arrived at the restaurant with a stab wound. An ambulance later took him to the hospital. Authorities have not released the mans name or condition. Police are investigating. Were working to get more information on an Early Morning fire in cedar rapids. Firefighters were at a vacant home on the corner of 16th avenue sw and l street around 3 00. Thats an area heavily damaged in the 2008 flood. Stay with tv9 and kcrg dot com for any updates. Today republican president ial candidate marco rubio will campaign in eastern iowa. The florida senator is scheduled to be at the Mediacom Outdoor Club at Kinnick Stadium this afternoon. Rubio is one of only 4 republican candidates polling in the double digits in iowa over the past 30 days. Todays event in iowa city is scheduled to start at 2 30. Democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton is moving on after a two day swing through iowa. It didnt take clinton to tell the crowd what she thought about trumps comments about muslims while in waterloo yesterday. She described the idea of banning muslims from the us as hateful and paranoid. And in an interview with tvnines dave franzman, clinton says that kind of talk works against us interests in fighting terrorism. He has gone to a total new level of discriminatory bigotry that has no place in american president ial campaigns. No place in our country the former secretary of state began her waterloo visit with a look at north americas largest 3d printing machine at the cedar valley tech works. Clinton was pushing for more support for advanced manufacturing during her stop. Senator Bernie Sanders will be back in iowa this weekend. Hell make several stops on saturday including clinton and dubuque. Hell also be holding a forum to address Racial Injustice and prison near one of the states high security prison. Then on sunday, hell make a stop in waterloo and mount vernon. This month, youve likely seen bell ringers outside of your Favorite Grocery or Department Store in eastern iowa. While those volunteers seem to be everywhere, the Salvation Army says its still well short of the ringers it needs for the holiday season. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders joins us live this morning from iowa city. Forrest, how short on volunteers are they . Seventy percent of Johnson Countys ringers are paid, taking a cut from the overall amount raised at the end of the season. In essence, they need more volunteers. Current donations 153,214 leaving just over half 171,786 to go. Through december 24th red kettles are located at all three iowa city hy vees the rochester ave. Hyvee drug store, ic coralville walmarts, ic dollar tree, ic nl fareway, ic coralveille hwy965 wallgreens, pauls discount, sycamore mall, theisens, annd hobby lobby counter top kettles are located at all Johnson County university of Iowa Community Credit Union Branches and sams market in solon online kettles can be created to raise a personal goal to support the Johnson County Salvation Army by jumping off icsalvationar my. Org http holiday donations make up approximately 60 of the Johnson County Salvation Armys annual budget. Currently utilizing 70 of ringers who are paid thus costing more money to come from our budget that could be used for services. Many kettles are not manned due to a lack of volunteers paid ringers. Kettles with a bell ringer have significantly better success. Appreciative of groups that participate uiccu, rotary clubs, kiwanis, ia assoc. Of realtors, u of i Greek Society and others. Would love to have more Johnson County Salvation Army provides ways to get involved sign up to volunteer from our site icsalvationar my. Org http or call 3193373725 bell ring online kettle assist with toy sorting distribution serve week Time Services Financial Support give up 5 cup of coffee recognizing needs vs wantssupporting others needs the Salvation Army is also giving toys to more than 18 hundred kids in linn county this year. Beginning in october, families had the opportunity to sign up to receive toys and food this holiday season. Yesterday, the nonprofit handed out some of those toys at hawkeye downs. Each family picked out a few gifts. The majority of them are really excited about getting stuff and i know today weve even heard from some of the parents that their kids wouldnt have christmas without this. The Salvation Army will also give food boxes to nearly 13hundred families. Iowa, iowa state, and uni will each hold commencemen t ceremonies a week from many of those students will likely stay in iowa, if past trends stay in place. Data shows roughly half of the graduates from the university of iowa. And Iowa State University last year chose to stay in iowa. More than 80 of university of Northern Iowa graduates last year stayed in the state. Some career counselors say they believe the iowa job market is luring students to stay. If the iowa economy is doing well, which is right now, they will always find jobs, and theyll get accepted to graduate programs in the state. When the iowa economy isnt doing so well, thats when theyll move. To find out more about job placement rates for iowas college graduates, go to kcrg. Com. There, you can find the full story, plus interactive charts and a full video. The Cedar Rapids Public Library is using Community Input to decide its future. The library is facing budget cuts after a 27cent tax levy failed in november. It will have to cut back on hours, services and materials as soon as march. The library held a Community Conversation meeting opinions on which Library Services are important to them. Library director dara schmidt says its important to have input on these tough decisions. Certainly in times of with less resources we have to make harder decisions about the choices we make. We want to still have a balanced Community Library where we are giving as much as we can to as many people we can if you werent able to make the meeting and still want to give your opinion, you can fill out an online questionaire. You can find that link on our website kcrg dot com. With the sharp Growth Trends in North Liberty especially with more families, a developer is looking to bring an Entertainment Center with arcades and activities. The 8. 5 Million Dollar family Entertainment Center would include bowling lanes, an arcade, bocce ball and a restaurant with a patio. John burchert already owns land off of west penn street in North Liberty near the i380 ramp. He says after years of research and planning, hes ready to build the facility in North Liberty. Him to do this project. 21 52 31 as a child growing up in the suburbs of chicago, like many, chicago or not, we had a lot of family trips to wisconsin dells. If it was spring break, if it was summer and the part i remember most was that time with my family. The developer says he wants to Start Construction in march and finish by late fall of 2016. He says most of the project is funded with private dollars, but hes also looking into the possibility of tif funding. The city of North Liberty says there will still be more votes on the project. The author of the harry potter series, jk rowling, has responded to the 500 Letters University of iowa students sent her earlier this year. The letters asked her to come to iowa city and speak on campus. She wrote back with 500 letters of her own, explaining shes focusing on writing right now. But the students arent giving up yet. They recorded video messages to rowling asking her to reconsider. A lot of speakers sometimes say the first time, and id say especially someone of her level. She doesnt speak publicly very often, doesnt live in the u. S. So we knew this would be a long process. Bell says the lecture committee will send rowling the video as soon as the messages are edited together. Some in cedar rapids want to revive an insect population in eastern iowa. They took advantage of this weeks warmer weather to make a more inviting place for bees and plan on a mild, breezy day out there with highs going well into the 50s. The warm front pushing through this morning will be replaced by a cold front by midafternoon. In any event, highs should be hit around the lunch hour with widespread mid50s likely. Tonight into tomorrow, dry weather is anticipated with temperatures still well above normal. Our storm system is still on track to impact eastern iowa this weekend with light rain as early as friday night. For at least the entire weekend, precipitation will stay in the form of rain in all areas, and that rain may be heavy at times. Thunderstorm s are also saturday night into sunday. Rainfall amounts of at least 12 are likely with higher amounts approaching 3 in any areas that see repeated heavy rainfall. Creeks and streams will likely respond with rises on the smaller basins likely. Next week, the weather trends cooler, with any remaining moisture going to light snow later monday, if our temperatures can drop fast enough. Today partly sunny, mild high 5258 winds w 1525 alo 54 dbq 55 low 3440 winds sw 515 alo 35 dbq 36 iow 38tomorrow slight chance of rain late high 5157 winds se 515 alo 52 dbq 52 iow 54tomorrow night chance of showers low 4450 winds sw 510 alo 45 dbq 45 iow 48 trade is booming between iowa and canada, but thats not the same for every country. In todays agribusiness report, experts explain the unstable trade climate with russia david geiger. Trade is booming between iowa and canada. Nearly two billion dollars worth of ag products last year were exported. According to agriculture and agrifood canada. Iowa exported more than a billion dollars in ag products to canada in 2014. In that. About two hundred million in soybean meal. A hundred 85 million in ethanol and a hundred 70 million frozen pork. In turn, iowa imported from canada. Eight hundred 70 Million Dollars worth of products. In that was. Two hundred Million Dollars in live animals. A hundred 60 million in oats. And a hundred 40 million in fats and oils. Canada is iowas second largest agriculture export market. And the trade and investment is estimated to support a hundred thousand jobs in iowa. On the meat side of us trade. This year has not been as good as last year. For one. Russia stopped its imports of pork because of economic sanctions. And because of a bovine spongiform encephalopathy case in 2003. China has never reopened its ports to us beef. In fact, 2014 was a record year for value for both beef and pork exports. But this year has been a bit tougher for a variety of reasons. A strong u. S. Dollar being one of them. Large supplies from one of our competitors like australia on the beef side europe on the pork side. But we have Market Access issues. The wasde report out yesterday wasnt much of a market mover. Just before the market close. I talked to analyst alan brugler. To see why. Basically the markets taken it in stride pretty well. The grains have been higher before the report. Basically some Short Covering driven by very sharp drop in the u. S. Dollar. Corn they did cut the exports 50 million bushels until those spreads get a little closer to alignment start looking for a turn in the cattle market. After decades of work at kansas state lc. Pigs were developed resistant to the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome. Or pprs that disease has cost the us pork industry more than 10 billion since it first appeared in the late 1980s. According to kansas state the discovery of resistant pigs could save hundreds of millions of dollars each year. Genus will continue to develop the technology and expects prrs resistant animals to be available to farmers in five years. And thats it for the show well post a video every day in the agribusiness section of kcrg. Com. Youll find it under the news tab. Im david geiger with the agribusiness report. Trt 3 40 oc std a group in cedar rapids wants to bring more monarch butterflies back to the area. Yesterday afternoon. Green iowa americorps staff and volunteers planted 2 acres of pollinator attracting plants at the cedar rapids linn county Solid Waste Agency. This will help bring more bees, birds, and butterflies. The Solid Waste Agency is doing this for species that have damaged or destroyed habitats. If we want to keep eating the foods that we enjoy eating specifically the apples and the different nuts and berries we want those pollinators because theyre required in order to make those foods. Green iowa americorps will install rearing tents in the spring. The tents serve as housing for raising and breeding insects. 3 more acres of plants will go into the ground at the Solid Waste Agency next fall. Diabetes affects millions of people in the us. In todays healthy life, how foods you love, while eating healthier. Stay with tv9. Its. Going well into the 50s. The warm front pushing through this morning will be replaced by a cold front by midafternoon. In any event, highs should be hit around the lunch hour with widespread mid50s likely. Tonight into tomorrow, dry weather is anticipated with temperatures still well above normal. Our storm system is still on track to impact eastern iowa this weekend with light rain as early as friday night. For at least the entire weekend, precipitation will stay in the form of rain in all areas, and that rain may be heavy at times. Thunderstorm s are also possible saturday night into sunday. Rainfall amounts of at least 12 are likely with higher amounts approaching 3 in any repeated heavy rainfall. Creeks and streams will likely respond with rises on the smaller basins likely. Next week, the weather trends cooler, with any remaining moisture going to light snow later monday, if our temperatures can drop fast enough. Today partly sunny, mild high 5258 winds w 1525 alo 54 dbq 55 iow 57tonight partly cloudy low 3440 winds sw 515 alo 35 dbq 36 iow 38tomorrow slight chance of rain late high 5157 winds se 515 alo 52 dbq 52 iow 54tomorrow night chance of showers low 4450 winds sw 510 alo 45 dbq 45 iow 48 27 million americans have type two diabetes. It happens when the pancreas makes more insulin than the body needs and sugar builds up in the blood. It can be deadly, but can also be managed with diet and medication. Martie salt has more on how making a few simple healthy much easier. Sixtyfouryearold bill szemcsak rides 45 miles a day. Twohundred miles a week. And more than four thousand miles a year but three years ago, that wasnt the case. I was obese, i didnt care, i ate all the wrong foods, the fats, the carbohydrate s and things like that. It wasnt until he was diagnosed with typetwo diabetes that he knew something had to change. I was scared. I knew that i needed to do something and the first thing that i saw was i had to change my diet. Registered dietitian kayeann taylor says diet and Lifestyle Changes are key to controlling diabetes. Even a minimum of 10 percent body weight is enough to see a decrease in blood sugar. So eat this one of our favorite dishes was um, mashed cauliflower instead of mashed potatoes. Alternative for pasta. Thats going to decrease calories from somewhere about 174 calories per serving now to 31 calories, huge difference. And if you have a sweet tooth. Twenty calories for sugarfree jello verses 120 calories for the equivalent serving size of ice cream. Simple changes that have helped bill lose 100 pounds, and get his diabetes under control. Even at the age of 64, i feel like im an 18yearold. Im martie salt reporting. Trt 1 34 oc std some in a waterloo home had a fire mostly out by the time firefighters got there. Despite the minimal damage, officials are still investigating for whether it is suspicious. And after the death of freddie gray in baltimore, the Jones County Sheriffs Office is making some major improvements to its prisoner transport van. Stay its. Source, this is kcrgtv9 news Early Morning news. School van crash. A truck rearends a Waterloo School district van, sending some students to the hospital. A new home. An eastern iowa food pantry is making a big move that will help workers feed more families. And filling the need. The Salvation Army is struggling in Johnson County, but there are ways you can help out this holiday season. And heres a live look on our city cam this morning. Another warm day n eastern iowa today. Alert forecast, kaj. Plan on a mild, breezy day out thre with highs going well into the 50s. The warm front pushing through this morning will be replaced by a cold front by midafternoon. In any event, highs should be hit around the lunch hour with widespread mid50s likely. Tonight into tomorrow, dry weather is anticipated with temperatures still well above normal. Our storm system is still on track to impact eastern iowa this weekend with light rain as early as friday night. For at least the entire weekend, precipitation will stay in the form of rain in all areas, and that rain may be heavy at times. Thunderstorm s are also possible saturday night into sunday. Rainfall amounts of at least 12 are likely with higher amounts approaching 3 in any areas that see repeated heavy rainfall. Creeks and streams will likely respond with rises on the smaller basins likely. Next week, the weather trends cooler, with any remaining moisture going to light snow later monday, if our temperatures can drop fast enough. Today partly sunny, mild high 5258 winds w 1525 alo 54 dbq 55 winds sw 515 alo 35 dbq 36 iow 38tomorrow slight chance of rain late high 5157 winds se 515 alo 52 dbq 52 iow 54tomorrow night chance of showers low 4450 winds sw 510 alo 45 dbq 45 iow 48 thanks kaj. New this morning, some students in the Waterloo Community School District had to go to the hospital after crash in a school van. This happened around 5 00 yesterday afternoon. Waterloo Police Responded to a 2vehicle crash at the corner of franklin street and east 8th street, just east of downtown and near the old Expo High School building. It appears a pickup truck rearended the school van in the intersection. Police tell a tv9 crew at the scene that ambulances took 6 people to the hospital. Investigators say several of those injured were students. They didnt say how many were students or how badly they were hurt. Also in waterloo, fire crews are investigating a house fire as suspicious. Firefighters responded to a home at 71 mulberry street around 8 45 last night near mulberry and mullan avenue. No one was injured. The Fire Department says people inside the home had put out most of the flames by the time fire crews arrived. In a tv9 followup this morning. Charges against a man who they say tried to kill a woman in elkader last month. 24yearold Brandon Thoma now faces first degree burglary and Second Degree theft charges. Thats in addition to the original attempted murder charge. Police say thoma broke into a home last month after the womans husband left for work. They say he then repeatedly punched and kicked her. Police dont think it was a random attack. This morning, a cedar rapids man is waiting sentencing after a jury found him guilty of Second Degree murder. 47yearold edward cusic beat his mother to death with a crow bar three years ago. It happened at her home on old marion road ne. He faces up to 50 years in prison. Police say he admitted beating his 68 year old mother at the time, but he claimed it was selfdefense. He was on trial for first degree murder, but the jury found him guilty on the lesser charge. Members of a Charitable Organization in iowa city say someone stole 2 flags and some rigging from members of the fraternal order of eagles noticed that a us flag and a fraternal order of eagles flag were missing tuesday night. The groups building is on highway 1, a block from riverside drive. Iowa city police say they have not heard any report from the eagles about the missing flags. New cameras installed in the Jones County Sheriffs Office prisoner transport van are helping deputies keep an eye on offenders. This van is similar to what police in baltimore, maryland, used when they arrested freddie gray last april. Gray died from a spinal injury while in police custody, and his death set off nationwide protests. Six Baltimore Police officers face charges, and one is already on trial. In addition to keeping prisoners safe, jones county sheriff greg graver says the system also covers his office from a legal standpoint. He says the freddie gray case exposed potential liabilities in how they transported prisoners. Theres a camera inside each of the 3 pods and one at the dash, all feeding to a computer screen. It records all the cameras at the same time, so you dont have to worry about the user forgetting to turn on a camera sheriff graver says the entire camera system cost the county around 15thousand dollars. The coralville ecumenical food pantry will soon have a new and much larger home. Its a space workers say theyve needed for years, but couldnt find an affordable solution. Kcrgtv9s Sarah Mccarthy shows us the new spot that should fix this growing need. This is the former Coralville Post Office its just a short drive away from where the food pantry sits now. You can see theres a lot of open space here, but it wont be empty long. Over here is where workers will put food and shelving. And if you look this way, this is where theyll being installing the pantrys current location, shelf space is tight. The group takes in about a thousand pounds of food each month from Community Members that feeds 24hundred people every year. And the organizations executive director says that need is growing. Food storage has been a really big obstacle for us. Weve had to find creative ways to store food and at times weve had to turn donations away just because we dont have space for them. Because the city of coralville owns this property, this is all happening because the Council Unanimously approved the move. Coralville mayor john lundell says its a good use for space that would otherwise sit empty. Im really pleased itll be occupied again and there will be more activity around here and the food pantry will dress it up a little bit. Itll be great to have a tenant in here. The agreement with the city means the food pantry is guaranteed this space for the next three years. And the best part . Its rent free. In coralville, Sarah Mccarthy, kcrgtv9 news. The organization is in need of help to renovate the space. On our web story on may be interested in fixing it up. Its a sign and the sound of the holidays were all familiar with people ringing bells next to the famous Salvation Army red kettles. But its not easy for organizers to lineup volunteers at every kettle in order to bring in the donations. Tv9s Forrest Saunders joins us live from iowa city this morning. Forrest, how can the Community Help . Seventy percent of Johnson Countys ringers are paid, taking a cut from the overall amount raised at the end of the season. In essence, they need more volunteers. Current donations 153,214 leaving just over half 171,786 to go. Red kettles will be out through december 24th red kettles are located at all three iowa city hy vees the rochester ave. Hyvee drug store, ic coralville walmarts, ic dollar tree, ic nl fareway, ic coralveille hwy965 wallgreens, pauls discount, sycamore mall, theisens, annd hobby lobby counter top kettles are located at all Johnson County university of sams market in solon online kettles can be created to raise a personal goal to support the Johnson County Salvation Army by jumping off icsalvationar my. Org http holiday donations make up approximately 60 of the Johnson County Salvation Armys annual budget. Currently utilizing 70 of ringers who are paid thus costing more money to come from our budget that could be used for services. Many kettles are not manned due to a lack of volunteers paid ringers. Kettles with a bell ringer have significantly better success. Appreciative of groups that participate uiccu, rotary clubs, kiwanis, ia assoc. Of realtors, u of i Greek Society and others. Would love to have more Johnson County Salvation Army provides ways to get involved sign up to volunteer from our site icsalvationar my. Org http or call 3193373725 bell ring online kettle assist with toy sorting distribution serve week night dinners volunteer Time Services Financial Support give up 5 cup of coffee recognizing needs vs wantssupporting others needs chris and nicole . Tv9s Forrest Saunders, thanks a lot forrest. You can now pay parking tickets in cedar rapids by helping people in need. Until december 23rd, you can donate items like baby wipes, laundry soap, and blankets to benefit horizons, the willis dady shelter, and waypoint. Each donated item has a price attached to it, and adding those items together can cover parking fines up to 100 dollars. For more information go to our website, kcrg dot com. If youre looking to fly to your holiday destination, you might have an added treat. A Popular Airline is debuting some unique on flight snacks. Flooding is making roads near seattle, washington with plan on a mild, breezy day out there with highs going well into the 50s. The warm front pushing through this morning will be replaced by a cold front by midafternoon. In any event, highs should be hit around the lunch hour with widespread mid50s likely. Tonight into tomorrow, dry weather is anticipated with temperatures still well above normal. Our storm system is still on track to impact eastern iowa this weekend with light rain as early as friday night. For at least the entire weekend, precipitation will stay in the form of rain in all areas, and that rain may be heavy at times. Thunderstorm s are also possible rainfall amounts of at least 12 are likely with higher amounts approaching 3 in any areas that see repeated heavy rainfall. Creeks and streams will likely respond with rises on the smaller basins likely. Next week, the weather trends cooler, with any remaining moisture going to light snow later monday, if our temperatures can drop fast enough. Today partly sunny, mild high 5258 winds w 1525 alo 54 dbq 55 iow 57tonight partly cloudy low 3440 winds sw 515 alo 35 dbq 36 iow 38tomorrow slight chance of rain late high 5157 winds se 515 alo 52 dbq 52 iow 54tomorrow 4450 winds sw 510 alo 45 dbq 45 iow 48 thanks kaj. Some homeowners may be in a refinance this morning. Experts say its because the Federal Reserve could make a big decision at its next meeting. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrg tvnine. Its. A slump in Technology Shares helped turn early gains into losses on wall street. And home owners are scrambling to refinance before a rate hike from the Federal Reserve. Mortgage applications rose one point two percent last week. Refinancing applications jumped four percent. Rates are already on the rise in anticipation of a fed move with a 30 year fixed Rate Mortgage now at four point 14 percent. Walmart is testing a new Digital Payment mmhod at select stores in arkansas. The feature allows customers to pay for purchases by scanning a qr code with their smartphone. The company says the payment feature will be available at all walmart locations by the first half of 2016. And United Airlines says its bringing back free snacks on flights within north america and latin america starting in february. Travelers on morning flights will get a roopwafel a dutch, caramel filled waffle. Those on later flights will get rice crackers, mini airline says it is lookingngo refocus on the b b and Little Things that matter to customers. Its heres a live look at . . . On our city cam. Plan on a mild, breezy day out there with highs going well into the 50s. The warmrmront pushing through this morning will be replaced by a cold front by midafternoon. In any event, highs should be hit around the lunch hour with widespread mid50s likely. Night into morrow, dry weather is anticipated with temperatures still well above normal. Our storm system is still on track to impact eastern iowa this weekend with light rain as early as friday night. For at least the e tire weekend, precipitation will stay in the form of rain in all areas, and that rain may be heavy at times. Thunderstorm s are also possible saturday night into sunday. Rainfafa amounts of at least 12 are likely with higher amounts approaching 3 in any areas that see repeated heavy rainfall. Creeks and streams will likely respond with rises on the smallerr basins likely. Next week, the weather trends moisture going to light snow later monday, if our temperatures can drop fast enough. Today partly sunny, mild high 5258 winds w 1525 alo 54 dbq 55 iow 57tonight partly cloudy low 3440 winds sw 515 alo 35 dbq 36 iow 38tomorrow slight chance of rain late high 5157 winds se 515 alo 52 dbq 52 iow 54tomorrow night chance of showers low 4450 winds sw 510 alo 45 dbq 45 iow 48 thanks kaj. Heres a look at todays top stories. New cameras in the Jones County Sheriffs Office prisoner transport van deputies watch offenders. The sheriff also says the system vers his office from potential legal issues. The entire camera system runs the county around 15,000. A developer is working to bring an eight point five Million Dollar family Entertainment Center to North Liberty. It would includede bowling lanes, an arcade, bocce ball and a restaurant with a patio. The developer says he wants to Start Construction in march and finish by late fall of 2016 the City Council Still has totoapprove the project. Trt oc trophy winner in the rose bowl. Stanford sophomore Christian Mccaffery broke Barry Sanders all time record for all purpose yards in a season with 3,250. Mccaffery who had 461 yards against usc is one of three finalist will be awarded this saturday night. Even though he is receiving a loattention mccaffery is trying to stay grounded. He weweave so many goals ahahd of us we s sll have a huge game against iowa at the rose bowl in pasadena so as great as it is i am extremely humbled to have thisbut we are focused on winning this next g ge. Humble the e ung man is such Team Oriented proud of him he has worked so hard to getere he is and he is that good. He has gained more e rds in one year of anyone that has played college football. Its not a conference record or just a really good year this is historic year he did something that know one has ever done better than anyone who has ever won a hiesman. 43 oc anyone that has ever won a hiesman the leader of the iowa offensive line Austin Blythe could have been playing for stanford in the rose bowl. The pride and joy of williamsburg visited stanford with his mom and coach really wanted austin bad. Its kd of funny to hear the phone conversation iowa assistant coach reeee morgan had witit coach ritchie before the plane ride back from california. Stanford it really came down to those two places i was able to go on the visit to stanford and i will never forget coach morgan calling me as we got on the jet to come back home to see what i thought. I do remember my response was if you got to ask him but if it is me making the decision this is an amazing place and it would be hard not to comeback. I think his response was well you just be quiet. I remember coach shaw running around and coach harbaugh spent the most time with austin trying to get commitment before we left. Community has always been very important to him and family and to be close and having the blessing to do o at this close to home was really the determining factor and so it has been fantastic. Sot 47 oc been fantastic we will have more on blythe williamsburg. We are heading to several iowa players hometowns fororeatures for ououone hour rose bowl special countdown to kickoff that will air at 9 00 am new years day right before the Rose Bowl Parade right here on kcrg tv9. Joe schad of espn is reporting that desmond king is leaning towards returning to iowa next season. King is in Orlando Florida for the Home Depot College football awards show tomorrow night. Iowa state freshman running back mike warrenn was named the big 12 offensive freshman of the year. Warren was the leading rusher in the country for freshman with 1,339 yards. And cyclone nose tackle Demond Tucker was named the big 1212efensive newcomer of the year. Tucker had 13 tackles for a loss and six sacks. Hey this holiday, u. S. Clulars giving you 15 gigs of data for just 70 but i wanted a pony. [ gasps ] youre getting data. Ponysized data . U. S. Cellular sized data. 15 gigs of good, strong data you can actually use because it works in the middle of anywhere. Id like 100 youre getting 400 in promo cards yes switch to u. S. Cellular and get 15 gigs of data for just 70. Plus 400 in promo cards. Hello to you on this thursday morning. Youre looking live on our city cam. Its december 10th and heres what you need to know today. More volunteers to