Good weesday morning its 5 oclock on december 23rd. Here is a live look at. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Today will be an active weather day with light fog, drizzle, showers, and even some ttnderstorm s all in the game plan. We are still on track for widespread 0. 50 to 0. 75 amounts, however, any storms that materialize could boost this in isolated areas. As for temperatures. Plan on 40s for waterloo and 50s for dubuque, cedar rapids, and iowa city. This system may generate a brief period of mixed precipitation this evening, but it seems the ground will be too warm wet for any impact. We are still quiet for christmas ee and christmas day. More rain is likely by saturday. Today showers storms high 5056 winds s 515 alo 45 dbq 53 iow 56tonight rain ending, cloudy low 2632 winds nw 1020 alo 28 dbq 29 iow 33tomorrow mostly cloudy high 3642 winds w 515 alo 34 dbq 37 iow 39tomorrow night mostly cloudy low 2531 winds nw 510 alo 27 dbq 28 back in september, some Keota High School president ial candidate asking them to visit their school. By in october. And democrat martrt omalley this month. This time around, democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton spoke to students at Keota High School. The only three kids in a socialology class wrote e letter. Their teaeaer chalalnged them to dream big. So the students decided to start emailing, calling and approaching candidates on social media. They even drove u to coralville to ask clinton to come to keota duringngn eveve last month. She tololthem shed come down, and yesterday she made good on that promise. Our town only has a 1,000 people, and in my memory weve never had a president ial candidate here before and now weve had three, one of themem had this opportunity and its just pretty great. Much of clintons speech centered around education as well as her concerns about student debt for those who go on to college. Clinton isnt backing down from her comment about how isis uses videos of trump to recruit terrorists. He also said yesterday that claims from republican candidates, including trump, about how muslims are dangerous are shameful. She said someone who could be running the country shouldnt talk like that. Johnson county is showing that it supports the muslims in its community. The board of supervisors passed a proclamation yesterday. It ys the thousands of muslims living in the county have made it a great place to live, learn, and work. This comes in response to politicians and others making negative comments toward muslims following recent terrorist attacks. A new poll shows that 50 percent of American Voters would be embarrassed if donald trump becomes president. Also found that mosteople believe trump does not have a good chance of making it to the white house. The 18 to 34 Year Old Age Group claimed it would be most embarrassed by a trump presidency. The poll also shows 35 percent of all voters would be embarrassed if Hillary Clinton became presididt. The age group that said it would be most embarrassed by clinton is 50 to 64 years old. Quinnipacs poll also shows trump is still leading republican candidates nationwide, with 28 percent support. But ted cruz is close behind at 24 percent. The polls margin of error was 4 point 4 percent. Rounding out the top four candidates we marco rubio with 12 percent and ben carson at 10 percent. No other candidate had more than 6 percent support. On the democratic side, quinnipiac shows 61 percent of voters prefer Hillary Clinton. Thats more than double the support for bernie sanders. Martin omalley had just two percent. In a tv9 followup this a Health Care Company says shifting tens of thoususds of iowans to another medicaid provider will cause confusion. Wellcare of iowa is asking a district judge to review the states decision to terminate its contract. The state made the decision last week after the Company Allegedly failed to disclose some information during bidding. Wellcare says the state has assigned about 125 thousand iowans to receive coverage through h he company, starting march 1st. The state plans to re assign those patients over the next couple of weeks. The Iowa Department of health says thousands of children who use the hawki Insurance Program will january first. Wellmarkone of the extending its contract process. Asasof january 1st all o othe children in the program will be automatically switched to united healthcare. Hawkeye Area CommunityAction ProgramOfficials Say theyve had a concerned parents call asking they say you can find all of the information on the hawki website, or call hacap directly for one on one assistance. They want to assure parents their childldn will be covered. United healthcare graciously step forward and said well take all of the children that have not been able to go to an mco because of that tittle bit of a delay. Fammies do have the optiti to switch over to another provider before march 1st. The post office is hoping to match santas theyll be delivering thousands of letters and christmas. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders is live at the post office in cedar rapids this morning. Forrest, its the busiest time of year for the post office . It really is. Here on just the northeast side, the post Office Behind me is delivering about 10thousand packages each monday, the usps says they had their busiest day of the year. Mail carriers were expected to deliver 30 million packages to peoplelen the united states. S. He usps estimated they deliver 15 billion packages by the end of the year. Officials estimated more Online Shopping prompted a 15 percent boost in package deliveries compared to last year. A big benefit for us locally, usps Officials Say the weather hasnt been an issue. I would say, if its out for delivery, if weve received it and its out for delivery, they can expect delivery. If we receive it, well deliver it. Mail carriers have been delivering all packages seven days a week since late november. Theyve been delivering just amazon packages seven days a week since january 1st. Officials at the northeast Side Post Office say ey even had one pososl employoy agree to carry mail on christmas. Hell try to get families those packages that santa back to you guys in the studio. Live in cedar rapids this morning. Thanks a lot, forrest. Many are celebrating a Holiday Light display at summit pointe Senior Living in marion. Its all for one man russell schmidt. After he came up with the idea last year, Staff Members at the facility say russell wasnt sure if hed still be around to see the big reveal this year. But kcrgtv9s jill kaarie shows u uthat he is, and he couldnt be more thrilled to see the project come to life. 3 02 41 hey dad, hello there. Hello hello russell is used to his routine with dinner at 4 30. But tuesday night it was obvious things are a bit different. 3 19 13 with christmas a couple days away what bettererf a night. It is the night russell has waited for for a year. 2 57 45 christmas was passed lat year. I couldnt make christmas come back and i had to wait until this christmas. The 82yearold says last christmas his daughter rusty holub put lights in his thought one just wasnt enough. 3 10 16 he said wouldnt it be awesome to light every window in this building and thats i just took it from there. Russell still has the first box of lights from his daughter. And after that from donation to volunteers many worked to get lights up each one of the 363 windows on the building. 2 49 30 when they turned the lights on, moment, it was a dream come true. I loved it. 3 11 40 it really touched my heart to see people pull together for my dad. For everyone at summit point they couldnt wait to celeate his dream come true tonight with bus trips around the sparkling building. For a man whos always thinking of others and sharing hugs this night is all about russell. 3 20 35 hes the typeef guy who no matter how bad hes feeling or having a rough day he makes sure to open the door for you. Now, russell gets to make it part of his routine to enjoy this holiday dream come true. 3 21 30 these are his lights and his pride and joy. 2 58 27 i like them, i love a lot of people and i want to appreciate it. In marion, jill kasparie, kcrgtv9 news. Christmas is the time of year to spend with family. But to do so, some moms have to spend their holiday hoping to today will be an active weather day with light f, drizzle, showers, and even some thunderstorm s all in the game plan. We are still on track for widespread 0. 50 to 0. 75 amounts, however, any storms that materialize could boost this in isolated areas. As for temperatures. Plan on 40s for waterloo and 50s for dubuque, cedar rapids, and iowa city. This system may generate a brief period of mixed precipitation this evening, but it seems the ground will be too warm wet for any impact. We are still quiet for chrtmas eve and christmas day. More rain is likely by saturday. Today showers stor ms high 5056 winds s 515 alo 45 dbq 53 iowow56tonight rain endidi, cloudy low 2632 winds nw 1020 alo 28 dbq 29 iow 33tomorrow mostly cloudy high 3642 winds w 515 alo 34 dbq 37 iow 39tomorrow night mostly cloudy low 2531 winds nw 510 alo 27 dbq 28 iow 30 thanks kaj. Their babies in the nicu will get a Christmas Present from a noprofit. For ththsecond year in a row, the iowa medical partners are delivering care packages to moms at the university of iowa hospital and clinics. Thanks to donations from private companies each mother gets aag th goodies ranging f fm scarves to baby clothing. Federal dietary guidelines are about to be released. In todays agribusiness report, how the new guidelines will affect students and school lunches. But right now, heres a look at todays opening farm markets. Good morning its. Good morning this is the david geiger. The nations dietary guidelines have congressional eyes on it. In the spending bill passed last week. A Million Dollars were included for the National Academy of medicine too review how the federal dietary guidelines are updated every five years. This comes out just as e 2015 guidelines are getting readyo be released. And its a result of a bipartisan attack at an o oober congressiona l hearing. My concern is weve had these guidelines that have pushed people away from eggs and butter and milk and so forth. And then they come back and say, well, we were wrong. and so my question is, w wt are we going to do to make sure that doesnt happen in the future. Ag secretary tom vilsack argues science changes. A they are guidelines. However. It still affects school meals and military rations. The justenacted spending bill will let usda have 30 days to hire a study on the guidelines to see how evidence is bias. And if the latest research is used. Deal. Was a rider. That delays process the Occupational Safety and Health Agency or osha. The illinois fertilizer and Chemical Association calls it a shield for ag retailers. The bill requires osha to conduct a formal rulemaking with Public Comment opportunities. A north system for retail trade for farm suppliers. Fertilizer retailers adhere to manufacturer standards for highly hazardous chemicals. Specifically anhydrous ammonia. Osha says psm would thoususd dollars to comply. But the Agriculture Retailer Association says it would be about ten times that. They. And the Fertilizer Institute both brought suit against osha earlier this year. Argui against the process of its reqeqrements. Tts week the us circucu efforts to dismiss it. Its still a but in of green. The prprary driver in thth grains to some degrees have been the currencies and the dollars weaker. So typically the weaker dollar all things being equal gives us a little stronger. Grain markekeand today were not even, were not seeing that. I really think you have to look at the idea that argentina has a fair amount of stocks on hand. The devaluation of their peso is likely to lead to some supplies on the foreren buyer network. Sideways or rangebound, i think thats the appropriate comment on the corn market. Certainly if you look over at beans, you kind of have to think the same thing. So, if you look at the live cattle feb contract, were filling some gaps or trying to fill a gap here that was left december 2nd. And so i think well probably fill that gap and todays price action is more follow through on nearly a five dollar gap left on monday morning after. You know, what it really comes down to is the cattle on feed report showed much smaller numbers. Weve made a nice rally from midnovememr, i think were cycling to the lower side. Today were probably just looking at this hogs and pigs report. And maybe just getting a little bit even. And that wraps up the show for today. Thanks for joining us. Hope to see you again tomorrow. 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 today will be an active weather day with l lht fog, drizzle, showers, and even some thunderstorm s all in the game plan. We are still on track for widespread 0. 50 to 0. 75 amounts, however, any storms that materialize could boost this in olated areas. As foror temperarares. Plan on 40s for waterloo and 50s for dubuque, cedar rapids, and iowa city. This system may generate a brief period of mixed precipitation this evening, but it seems the ground will be too warm wet for any impact. We are still quiet for Christmas Eve and christmas day. Showers storms high 5056 winds s 515 alo 45 dbq 53 iow 56tonight rain ending, cloudy low 2632 inds nw 1020 alo dbq 29 iow 33tomorrow mostly cloudy high 3642 winds w 515 alo 34 db 37 iow 39torrow night mostly cloudy low 2531 winds nw 510 alo 27 dbq 28 iow 30 the holidays are here and if you want to show your seasonal spirit, be careful when you light up your house. Nearly 40 percent of all home from december through february. We tell you how to safelel decorate the homomin todays angies list repor. Like most people, i like to keep my decorations from year to year, but you need to check them before you put em up each year to make sure you dont have any broken light bulbs or any frayed cords because, if you do, you need to replace e ose items. Depending on what youre plugging in, nongrounded outlets with a nongrounded plugin are actually as safe as to be used in a certain manner. Thats what the ul code talks about. When stringing up your lights, its important to not overload the electrical outltls. And if you use wornout light strands, theres a fire risk there. Even when you buy new lights, be sure to check for the ul to make sure they are approved. Alal, its important use lights in the proper place. If they are meant for inside your home, dont try to string them up outside. When you hang your outside lights, be sure to plug them into a ground fault or gfci outlet. You can identify those by the test and reset buttons on the face. Also, you should consider led lights. They stay cooler, last longer, and use leses energy. When it comes to chaining light strands together, experts say you should limit that to two or three. You can find more helpful tips on aniges list dot com. 6 us soldiers were killed in an attack in afghanistan. One of those killed was from dubuque, and his family members are remembering his life. Stay wh your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9. Your the road to recovery. One cedar rapids middle schooler is in the hospital recovering from a violent incident after school. Working around the clock to get packages delivered before Christmas Eve. And reunited at last. A dubuque man and his service dog are together again just in time for the holidays. And youre looking live at this morning. Might be a little rainy as you head out today. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Today will be an active weather day with light fog, drizzle, thunderstorm still on track for widespread 0. 50 to 0. 75 storms that materialize could bst this in isoted areas. As for for waterloo and 50s for and iowa city. This system may gegerate a brief period d of mixed precipitation this evening, but it seems the ground will be too warm wet for any impact. We are still quiet for Christmas Eve and christmas day. More rain is likely by saturday. Today showers storms high 5056 winds s 515 alo 45 dbq 53 iow 56t6tight rain ending, cloudy low 2632 winds nw 1020 alo 28 dbq 29 iow 33tomorrow mostly cloudy high 3642 winds w 515 alo 34 dbq 37 iow 39tomorrow night mostlcloudy low 2531 winds nw 510 alo 27 dbq 28 iow 30 thanks kaj. One man is in custody this incident of gun fire. Waterloo Police Responded to a report of gunfire. Street last night at 10 45. When they arrived, several people ran from the area. Officerchased them and arrested a man in the 600 block of wellington street. Found a gun in the street. They didnt find any was hurt. Vincent harrington. He is being held on an outstanding warrant in the Black Hawk County jail. A twelve year old cedar rapids boy is recovering from head injuries from an incident near Mckinley Middle School at the beginning of the monthth his mother says the boys injuries include head trauma that later caused a seizure and a stroke. It happened when her son Miguel Tirado was walking home from school and threw a snowball at an 11 yearold in the 500 block of mckinley street. Police say the 11 year have referred an assault charge the 11 yearold to juvenile services because of his age. This video shows miguels current condition. Doctors placed a away from his brain. But miguel is often confused and unsure where he is. His parents are hopeful 05 32 10 our son is still alive. Hes coming out, hes still his charming self. Thats what christmas is for us, thats our christmas gift. Miguels papants have a go fund me page set up to help pay for hospital bills. If youd l le to donate, look for the link under this story on kcrg dot com. People in Dubuque County are mourning the death of a Us Service Man stationed in afghanistan. Afghanistan. He was born in dubuque and worked as a Police Officer in new york. The pentagon says an attacker rammed an explosivesladen motorcycle into lemms patrol near bagram air base. The blast also killed five other us soldiers. Lemm was a 15year veteran of the nypd, working the last two years as a detective. He also servedn the air tional guard. This was his third deployment to the middle east, his second to afghanistan. Two of his relatives in Dubuque County talked about their memories of him. I describe him best as a guy thats built like a grizzly bear with the heart of teddy bear, cause he liked people, and thats why he was so good at what he did. He was dededated to his family, to his city, to his country, and thats something youll never get from somebody else like him. The 45 year old is survived by his wiwi and two children. Mondays Taliban AttackInternational Forces since august. Just two days until christmas meaning its the final countdown for all ages. And that also means just two days until all of the presents need to be delivered around the country. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders is live this morning at the post officicin cedar rapids. Forrest, christmas is coming, but postal workers are working right up until the big day . Mail carriers will be delivering those last minute packagesesn Christmas Eve. And that comes on top of weeks of working seven days a week. The Postal Service says monday w the busiest day this year. Mail carriers delivered an estimated 30 million packages in the united states. Officials said this year theyre seeing a 15 percent increase in package deliveries compared to last year. Theyre on t tck to hit 15 billion packages delivered nationally this year eve. In cedar rapids, around the holiday, local officials expect theyll be delivering ababt 10 thousand packages each day. Officials say all of this demand for carriers is prompted by more and more use of sites like amazon. With the package volume increasing, more people shopping online, the volume has increased tremendously. Our carriers have been prepared and delivering 7days a week since the th of november. Postal carriers have already been exclusively delivering amazon packages on sundays since january 1st. Officials at the northeast Side Post Office say they even had one postal employee agree to carry mail on christmas. Hell try to get families those packages that santa couldnt get to. Back tyou guys in the studio. Tv9s Forrest Saunders. Thanks a lot a dubuque man and his servicic together after the dog vanished last week. Curt curiel has multiple sclerosis and depends on his dog, sassy, to help him throughout this day. Up until a few weeks ago, the two were hoholess and lived atathe Dubuque Rescue Mission. Last they were waiting for a bus. Curiels friends at the rescue Mission Posted missing dog on fafabook. And someone found sassy and took her to the dubuque society. We made all the connections and turned out the dog that was here, belong to curt, so we did what we could to help them find each other and be reunited. Staff at the Dubuque Rescue Mission have now pooled their money to pay for sassys vaccines, a micro chip, and shelter fees. Curiel and sasas have also found a place of their own to stay in dubuque. Those going to pasadena, california for the rose bowl will have to deal with tight security at the game and the tournament of roses parade. Nonvisible security measures will be in place along the parade route and at the rose bowl stadium. Umbrellas and selfie sticks are not allolod into the stadium. Also, there will be more uniformed Police Officers and explosive detection devices. On new years eve and new years day, federal personnel will be employing a variety of explosive detection methods at key venues across the city from bomb sniffing dogs to sophisticated devices that register even minute amounts of radiation. Homeland security says there is no known threat to the city of pasadena or any new years event. A popular coffee shop is expecting a lot of business over the next two days. Starbucksksays Christmas Eve is one of its busiest days of the year thanks to lastminute shoppers. Today will be an active weather drizzle, showers, and even some thunderstorm s all in the game plan. We are ststll on track for widederead 0. 50 to 0. 75 amounts, however, any storms that materialize could boost this in isolated areas. As for temperatures. Plan on 40s for waterloo and 50s for dubuque, cedar rapids, and iowa city. This system may generate a brief period of mixed precipitation this evening, but it seems the ground will be too warm wet for any impact. We are still quiet for Christmas Eve and christmas day. More rain is likely by saturday. Today showers stor ms high 5056 winds s 515 alo 45 dbq 53 cloudy low 2632 winds nw 1020 alo 28 dbq 29 iow 33tomorrow mostly cloudy high 3642 winds w 515 alo 34 dbq 37 iow 39tomorrow night mostly cloudy low 2531 winds nw 510 alo 27 dbq 28 iow 30 an online shohoing git and ititshipping partner a a having some relationship problems. Amazon and ups are blaming the influx of packages for the strain. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrg tvnine. Its. Helped stocks rise for asecond day yesterday. And amazons strong relationship with ups could be changing. Amazon is currently u pss biggest customer. The wall street journal is reporting that the relationship is getting rocky. Amazon wants alternative delivery options from the us Postal Service and its ownrucks because of rising numbers of packages. Mazon declined to cocoent. Bututups said it will continue to work with amazon to help solve their growth and Customer Service challenges. The National Association of realtors announced that sales of existing homes fell 10 and a half percent in november. It blames the challenge of rising home prices and a tight inventory for the decline. And starbucks is expecting gift card sales to look for Stocking Stuffers in time for christmas. Last year, the coffee giant sold two point five million cards on Christmas Eve across the us and canada. One in seven adults in the us got a starbucks gift card last holiday season. Its heres a live look at . . . On our city cam. Today will be an active weather day with light fog, drizzle, showers, and even some thunderstorm s al in the game plan. We are still on track for widespread 0. 50 to 0. 75 amounts, however, any storms that materialize could boost this in isolateareas. As for temperatures. Plan on 40s for watero and 50s for dubuque, cedar rapids, and iowa cici. This system may generate a brief period of mixed precipitation this evening, but it seems the ground will be too warm wet for any impact. We are still quiet for Christmas Eve and christmas y. More rain is likely by saturday. Today showers storms high 5056 winds s 515 alo 45 dbq 53 iow 56tonight rain ending, cloudy low 2632 winds nw 1020 alo 28 dbq 29 iow 33tomorrow mostly cloudy high 3642 winds w 515 alo 34 dbq 37 iow 39tomorrow night mostly cloudy low 2531 winds nw 510 alo 27 dbq 28 iow 30 thanks kaj. Heres a look at todays top a twtwve year old cedar rapids boy is recovering from head injuries he suffered in an incident near Mckinley Middle School. Police say Miguel Tirado assaulted miguel. Miguel suffered a seizure and a stroke from his injuries. People in Dubuque County are mourning the death of a Us Service Man stationed in afghanistan. Joseph lemm died monday in a suicide bomb attack in afghanistan. He was born in dubuque and worked as a Police Officer in new york. Five other us soldiers died in the attack. The iowa men hosting tennessee tech. Josh has the highlights. This is just the 2nd meeting between iowa and tennessee tech, the first one was back in 1970 first half acacon, hawkeyes with some great ball movement. Cedar rapids jefferson grad Jarrod Uthoff dials Long Distance and connects then later its the pick and roll. Mike gesell down low to Adam Woodbury for the layup. Hawkeyes go up by 15 and that lead keeps on growing. Anthony clemmons from corner. It twirls out, but falls back in. He had 11. Iowa up 17 then peter jok started to heat up from threepoint land. Hits the triple in the corner. Then its a catch and shoot three from the top of the key, money. Jok had five 3pointers for a total of 21 points. Iowa led 43 to 21 at halftime walkon Nicholas Baer was just named the big ten freshman of the week on monday. Today he had another career day finishing with 19 points and five rebounds as iowa cruises to the 8563 win. Im just happy for him because all he wanted was an opportunity and ultimately he believed in himself. We can believe in him, we can give him a chance. But he had to make it happen. From the minute he said he was coming here, hes really worked. Id say its probably the best shooting team weve had since weve been here. Pete and jarrod can really shoot, baers been shooting well lately. Whwh we play defense like we were in the first half, it really gets our offense going. In iowa city, josh the iowa state men trying to bounce back rom that loss to uni had another tough one tonight at cincininati. The cyclones really attacked the basket tonight. George niang takes it to the rack hard and gets his own putback for two of his game high 24. And then the d moe morris wiwi the steal and he goes coast to coast for the reverse layupp for two of his 16. And Deonte Burton not afraid to shoot with 12 points off the bench tonight and iowa state leddy 7 at the break. Wn three latat in the game george niang with the big time now down one. Abedel nader wide open for three to give the cyclones a two point lead with 11 seconds to play. The bearcats had three chances. Troy copain for three no gary clark with the putback no. Not done yet cobb at the buzzer no iowa state wins it 8179. The iowa state women hosted norther arizona this afteroon at hilton. The cyclones broke open a tight game late in the sececond half for a 7963 win. Bree fern with 23 points. And Jadda Buckley chipped in with 17. Bluders bunch hosted former Hawkeye Jenny Lillis and drake in game one of the double header at carver. Iowa was feeling it from 3point land early. Alexa k ktanek hits one frfr the top of the key. Hawkeyes up 97drake kept it close. Caitlin ingle kicks one out to north linn grad Nicole Miller and she hits the 3ball corner pocket. But iowa starts to pull away. Tania davis s with the steal and she takes it in for the layup. Hawkeyes led 2115 after the first quarter. The lead continued to grow in the 2nd quarter, iowa city west grad ally disterhoft spots up and buries the triple. She had 20 and iowa led by 16 at the break. Drake made a comeback in the second half led by lizzy wendells 35 points. But 8 is close as they could get. Whitney jennings wide open down for the bunny. Total team effort for iowa in an 8976 win. Mmost coaches dream about five players in double figures including two people coming off the bench in brittany and megan. I am really proud of our team we didnt shoot the ball well but i think we wanted and i never saw any quit sot 17 oc any quit High School Hoops xavier coach tom lilly was looking for win number 500 tonight against davenport assumption. And the great high low action to meghan jones for two. And xavier got a big game for mkenna anderson with the baseline drive for the 11 point lead. And then kiana stanek hit back to back treys and tom lilly wins number 500 wi the 5747 win. After the game hihiplayers presented him with an autograph ball. I have had some great players and assistant coaches i am blessed i guess 500 is supposed to be Something Special by i you know what i am worried about 501 so thank you. Sot 15 oc 501 so thank you