Accompany the front with gusts around 40 mph possible. This weekend, plan on cold temperatures to be in the area with highs only around 40 and lows in the lower 20s. The wind will make it feel colder. In terms of the next good rain chance, thats still on track to move in around tuesday wednesday of next week. Have a good weekend today windy with isolated showers and falling temperatures. Wind w 2040. High 62 tonight a few sprinkles flur ries are possible, staying windy. Wind nw 2040. Low 29 tomorrow mostly sunny, windy and much cooler. Wind nw 1530. High 40 tom. Night clear and cold. Wind nw 510. Low 20 thanks kaj. President elect donald trump is spending a lot of time in highpowered meetings as he prepares to take over the white house. The latest visitors to trump tower in new york are new contenders for toplevel positions. Heres abcs janai norman. From foes. To friends. President elect trump is making peace with former rival mitt romney. A republican who had some of the harshest criticism of him. Romney sot think of Donald Trumps personal qualities, the bullying, the greed, the showing off, the misogyny, the absurd third grade theatrics. Trump sot i mean, mitt a total fool of himself. Now an unexpected change. Sources tell abc news trump is considering romney for secretary of state. Among other candidates, another former rival South Carolina governor nikki haley who was also vocal about her opposition to the then candidate. Haley sot during anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices. We must resist that temptation. As trumps team works to get key players in place, abc news is learning lt. General michael flynn, whos been a contender for National Security advisory in the new Trump Administration , has reportedly emerged as frontrunner for the job. Flynn sot its going really well and its a great transition. And the about working hard with the airman of ford to keep the ncoln plant in kentkther than mr anned to move the plant to mexico. Jn tag at the center trumps trsition, hisninlaw o point a Family Member for a job at the white house, so kushner is now exploring whether could serveas an unpaid advisoc ws washington. Iowa democrats ar at to election. Andy mcguire is the chair of the processing the results, which included voters reelecting republicans in nearly all of the races for federal offices, and gaining control of the iowa senate. She says there are some weaknesses the party needs to work on. I dont think were in shambles do we need to rebuild . Absolutely. You can see that we have a problem with rural voters. Ive been to 99 counties. I hear rural people feel theyre not represented well. Mark cady of fort dodge to continue serving as chief justice yesterday. Voters retained him on the States High Court last week. A judge has sentenced a cedar rapids homeless man to another 50 years in prison. A jury previously convicted Travis Standlee of Second Degree murder. That earned him his first 50 year prison sentence. He killed two Homeless People in cedar rapids just days apart in september of last year. Police say he first killed Raymond Ursino after the two got into a fight in linn county attorney did not file charges, citing a lack of evidence. But just days later, he killed sharon mead near the coe college campus. That earned standlee the second sentence of 50 years in prison. A federal Appeals Court has blocked the release of Brendan Dassey in wisconsin. The Netflix Documentary making a murderer gave dasseys case renewed attention. Dassey and his uncle, steven avery, were convicted of killing Teresa Halbach in 2005. Free today. But wisconsins attorney general filed a motion to stop his release, pending the appeal of his 2007 murder conviction. The state of missouri will pay nine Million Dollars to this mans family after his death in 2014. Brandon ellingson died while in the custody of the Missouri State highway patrol. Trooper Anthony Piercy was arresting the 20 year old on suspicion of boating while intoxicated on the lake of the ozarks. Ellingson fell into the water while wearing handcuffs and an improperly secured life vest. Piercy is charged with Involuntary Manslaughter in his death. Ellingson father says thats not much comfort. So, you know with him pleading innocent, is no sign that hes repented on what he did to my son, so you know an apology now i thinks a little late Missouri StateOfficials Say theyve since made changes to for troopers on the water. Dubuque is taking applications for a flood resistance program. The city hosted an informational meeting last night for the Bee Branch Healthy homes resiliency program. Officials say the eight Million Dollars the city is getting can be used for foundation repairs, basement window repairs and sump pump installations. One of the applicants hopes the program can help reimburse her for what shes lost during flooding. Valete brown, dubuque resident weve lost a water once for sure. The money for the Program Comes from the Us Department of housing and urban development. In the next couple of years, mount trashmore, the old cedar rapids landfill, will transform into this. City Officials Say the Recreation Area will have trails and a nice view of the city. The plan for limited recreation at the old landfill site on a avenue southwest first came up more than a decade ago. The work was put on hold to accept 2008 flood debris. Now, things are moving forward. Next month, directors of the Solid Waste Agency will host a public hearing to explain the plan. Then, they will select a contractor. Officials say they could start the first project, a scenic overlook, next spring. The Solid Waste Agency also received grant money to create trails to the top of the landfill. But creating a scenic overlook is the first goal. The big thing is whenever we have somebody come to the top they always say its a great view so what we want to do first is we residents the expected price tag for the first part of the project is about 750thousand dollars. The site will continue to offer yard Waste Collection and some appliance recycling. More than 20 children will officially have new families after today. Three judges in waterloo will finalize adoptions today. This is video from a similar event in cedar rapids. The adoptions start at one oclock this afternoon at the waterloo courthouse with a reception is not only an opportunity to celebrate those families but also raise awareness to the hundreds of iowa children in need of a family. November is National Adoption month. A Cedar Rapids Group hopes to get more people out trying new food and drinks in the city. The newly developed app comes with a perk for you strong cold front is still on track to push through waterloo around 9am, iowa city and cedar rapids areas around day will occur just prior to the frontal passage, with a rapid drop in temperature to around 40 by sunset. In addition, very strong wind will accompany the front with gusts weekend, plan on cold temperatures to be in the area with highs only around 40 and lows in the lower 20s. The wind track to move in around tuesday wednesday of next week. Have a good weekend today windy with isolated showers and falling temperatures. Wind w 2040. High 62 ries are possible, staying windy. Wind nw 2040. Low 29 tomorrow mostly sunny, windy and much cooler. Wind nw 1530. High 40 tom. Night clear and cold. Low 20 thanks kaj. The go cedar rapids tourism expand your food and drink horizons. They call it thecrale trail. For 30 dollars a year, you can sign up and have exclusive access to deals on food and beer at certain places. Go cedar rapids says the idea is to get people out to try new things. As importantly the residents of the cedar rapids area in eastern iowa as they come to cedar rapids, get them into a different neighborhood than their used to, different restaurant that they havent tried just to showcase what we have here people interested in the cr ale trail can buy the pass at any cedar rapids hyvee or online. We have a link under this story on kcrg dot com. People in Clayton County will see more sand mining despite Health Concerns from people who live near a site. This week, a county board approved a proposal to expand from pattison sand company. It means pattison will be able to do underground sand mining on nearly 750 acres the sand will be used for fracking in other states. Fracking is the process of removing gas from underground. The practice is controversial and has led to earthquakes in oklahoma. Iowa has a plan to reduce phosphorus output. In todays agribusiness report, we see how Black Hawk County is working on that. But right now, heres a look at todays opening farm markets. Good morning its. Welcome to the agribusiness plan to reduce phosphorus output by 45 percent. Through the nutrient reduction strategy near waterloo and cedar rapids the black hawk soil and Water Conservation district has been working on that. Its the miller creek watershed. And theyve been trying to increase heads the project and says field days. Mailed newsletters. And social media help get the word out. There are a variety of incentives. Like a cost shares. Farmers can sign up for a 20 dollar per acre cover crop. Or get fifty percent of a cost share to put in a bioreactor or saturated buffers. Funded through the Iowa Department of agriculture we understand that they do the best job that they can to apply nutrients as best and most efficiently as they can there are practices out there that can help, that they can incorporate into their operations that they may just not have awareness of right now. Wulf says the project was originally a three year grant in 2013. That has been extended to 2019. China is not waiting to see if a new Trump Administration imposes punitive tariffs on its goods. Beijing is already threatening to retaliate against us farm exports. Staterun china newspaper global times. Says in and corn imports. As well as boeing airplanes. China is the number one buyer of us soybeans. Since september china has purchased five hundred 32 million bushels according to the usda Foreign Agricultural service. President elect donald trump made Campaign Promises to brand china a currency manipulator. And impose a 45 percent tariff on chinese products. Bayer is moving forward on week the Company Announced it has placed four billion euros. Or about four point two billion dollars. In convertible notes to start the first step of financing its 57 billion dollar purchase of monsanto. Bayer says the notes will be converted to shares in november of 2019. The first component of the plan to raise about 19 billion in equity. Bayer expects the applications to regularities in the European Union in the First Quarter of next year. And to us authorities by the end of this year. And that wraps up the agribusiness well post a video every day in the agriculture section of kcrg. Com. Im david geiger with the agribusiness report. Trt oc standard weve heard it before. When it comes to finding a prime fishing spot, its all about location, location, location. And for this weeks collection of lucky spot. More top catches in this weeks big ol fish. Stay with tv9. Its. Z268pz zixz y268py yixy strong cold front is still on track to push through waterloo around 9am, iowa city and cedar rapids areas around 10am, and the dubuque area around 11am. Highs for the day will occur just prior to the frontal by sunset. In addition, very strong wind will accompany the front with gusts around 40 mph possible. This weekend, plan on cold temperatures to be in the area with highs only around 40 and lows in the lower 20s. The wind will make it feel colder. In terms of the next good rain move in around tuesday wednesday of next week. Have a good weekend today windy with isolated showers and falling temperatures. Wind w 2040. High 62 tonight a few sprinkles flur ries are possible, staying windy. Wind nw 2040. Low 29 tomorrow mostly sunny, night clear and cold. Wind nw 510. Low 20 its a new level of fishing fame when john campbellg worthy of a top angler. Here are other clever catches in this weeks edition of big ol fish. They will be calling her bass barske after this catch. It is kayla barske of marion with her fish of the day. Next up is Young Charlotte bailey and one of the bullheads she caught. Jeremy orourke is all smiles with his last day of the vacation 21 inch northern. Russell heinsius of olin traveled to montana for this hog largemouth. Fishing at another two hander for hunter lagrange. The cats keep coming. Emily horak nailed this big ugly on the cedar. How about the beautiful trout that sage horgen landed at little paint creek. Brynn recker teamed up with her dad bradfor this catch of and release bass. And wrapping things up is willy meyer of dubuque with this red ear. With all my reporting. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is releasing twothousand trout at an eastern iowa fishery this morning. For the fifth year in a row, the dnr will release all of this trout into prairie park fishery. This is video from last year. Trout stocking is a part of the states urban fish program. The goal is to get more fish species out there 10 30 this morning at the fishery. Thats on otis road southeast. If you are interested in fishing for trout you have to have a valid license and state trout stamp, which you can get at a Sporting Goods store. Its a rumor throughout cedar rapids, and now police are confirming its partially true. Officers with the department do believe crime from chicago is spilling into the city. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9. Its. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, Early Morning news. Cedar rapids is just a few hours from chicago, and the citys police say there is an influence on crime from the windy city. But its hard to tell how much. The man accused of killing two Des Moines Area Police officers apparently wrote a note the university of iowa needs the communitys help to pay for an exhibit that will give students the chance to find the truth behind a pair of lions. Good friday morning its 530 on november 18th. Here is a live look at. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. The mild air that has been with us most of the month l still on track to push through waterloo around 9am, iowa city and cedar rapids areas around 10am, and the dubuque area around 11am. Highs for the day will occur just prior to the frontal passage, with a rapid drop in temperature to around 40 by sunset. In addition, very strong wind will accompany the front with gusts around 40 mph possible. This weekend, plan on cold temperatures to be in the area with highs only around 40 and lows in the lower 20s. The wind will make it feel colder. In terms of the next good rain chance, thats still on track to move in around tuesday wednesday of next week. Have a good weekend today windy with isolated showers and falling sprinkles flur ries are possible, staying windy. Wind nw 2040. Low 29 tomorrow mostly sunny, windy and much cooler. Wind nw 1530. High 40 tom. Gh thanks kaj. Police say the amount of crime in chicago is cedar rapids. Kcrgtv9s forrest proximity is just one of the reasons for chicagos impact. Chicagos influence . Sgt. Doug doyle is a 10 year veteran of the Cedar Rapids Police force. Like many officers, time and time again, hes heard people in the Community Say chicago is a main contributor of local crime. I think theres a lot of people that push the blame there to the people coming from chicago. Chica go has made a lot of headlines recently for its high crime rates. Had more than 500 total homicides in 2016, according to the chicago tribune. That outpaces bigger cities of la and new york. Combined, those two had about 100 fewer homicides through late august. The sgt. Can recall hearing Horror Stories from visitors to cedar rapids. A few months back, i met a family that was in town. Her children werent allowed to go play in the front yard for fear of what may happen to them, for fear of being shot. Theres troubling cedar rapids, which, by car, is fewer than four hours away. Police chief wayne jerman recently weighed in on the question. Is there an influence, sure. And were aware of it. Its hard to pinpoint exactly how much of an influence, though. Arrest records may offer some insight. Data from crpd shows last year nearly 16 percent of those arrested were born in illinois, about 12hundred of 77hundred arrests. Its nearly the same for the two previous years. The pd says its the second highest number of arre those born in iowa the majority of arrests. Other states were negligible. Weve got to point out the data has two big holes. One we dont know if all the people arrested were from chicago specifically just that they were from illinois. We also dont know how long those arrested had been in cedar rapids. Ultimat ely, though, police think theyre seeing a chicago crime influence for a couple reasons. Crime in nearby towns. Minneapolis, kansas city, st. Louis, detroit. Weve seen and arrested people from all those cities as well. People relocate. They come here and they bring some of those lifestyles with them. Another reason. This stuff. Heroin. Cedar rapids, like many communities across the country is seeing upped numbers of heroin overdoses as the drug becomes more and more available and affordable. Dea agents call it an epidemic. They say chicago is the source for the majority of the heroin found on cedar rapids streets that the community is a destinat since its a major metropolitan area, its technically the source area for the heroin and what theyre doing is transplanting people to the area to distribute that heroin. When it comes to fighting back the chicago influence dea agents say theyre focused on finding the primary suppliers who bring heroin into the us. Cutting them off will trickle down to communities like cedar rapids in time. Nat for other crimes, like gun violence cedar rapids has turned to a new program called the Police Community action team. It crime specifically, its much broader. Pcat is a Flexible Team of officers that are sent to patrol atrisk parts of town. Officers work in cars are on foot, for varying hours, depending on what a situation dictates. Theyre there to get to know people and their problems. Theyre establishing relationships, positive relationships. Theyre having an influence. On the offenders and their families to give them alternatives sgt. Doyle is one of the pcat officers and a big believer in the program. He thinks its already having an impact since its inception about a year ago. Data suggests it could be. In september, the crpd reported overall Violent Crime in town was down slightly by about a percentage point, compared to the same when it comes to chicagos influence, sgt. Doyle only has anecdotal evidence. But, the way he sees it former chicagoans are mostly coming here for one reason and it isnt to commit crime. Theyre truly trying to escape what there is in chicago. I think there is a lot of good people that come from chicago. I think some crime comes from chicago but a lot of it comes from cedar rapids. Even though info is limited, the stats seem to agree. In cedar rapids, forrest saunders, kcrgtv9 news. The man accused of killing two one of their departments just days before the shootings. On october 29th, scott greene wrote a online compliment form saying the officers in the urbandale heroes. He also apologized for prior runins and said he was getting treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder. Greene faces two counts of first degree murder. For the the deaths of urbandale officer Justin Martin and Des Moines PoliceSergeant Tony beminio. Police say he ambushed them while they were sitting in their patrol cars on november second. The us senate has passed a bill to improve care for suicidal veterans. Iowa senator Chuck Grassley says the bill is more necessary now than ever for Iowa Veterans grassley cosponsored the Senate Version of the no veteran crisis line call should go unanswered bill. Iowa congressman david young introduced the house version of that bill. It would require a plan to ensure that someone calling the Veterans Crisis line or the backup call center gets an answer in a timely manner. Two Iowa Veterans have committed suicide since august. One of them was curtis gearhart. His family says he took his life earlier this month after doctors told weeks to get an appointment for severe headaches. And the va Inspector General is investigating the case of iowa veteran brandon ketchum. He took his life after the va allegedly denied him treatment. The crisis line bill is now on its way to president obamas desk. The university of iowa is turning to crowd funding to help supply a new exhibit at the museum of natural history. The University Says the exhibit will display a lion and lioness. The pair may have spent origin is unknown. The university is using its own website, similar to go fund me to help raise ten thousand dollars. The Fund Raising Site is called gold rush and launched wednesday. The money will also pay for students to research the lions origin. 09 06 13;14we were looking for a way to engage a broader audience for some of our smaller projects in particular for faculty projects for some undergraduate and graduate student projects. The University Says it will soon open theo in fundraising for their projects. It will review applications before putting them on the website. Volkswagen announced overnight that its cutting thousands of jobs to save money. The Company Faces a tough road ahead as it tries to recover from its emissions in other states compared to us. Yesterday, the first snowfall caused a major interstate in colorado to close in multiple spots because of accidents and slideoffs. This is video from georgetown, which is an hour west of denver, where traffic was backed up for miles. Oh, i dont like it. Its cold. Came all at once. And its pretty slippery and its pretty dangerous out here. One person died in a crash near silverthorne, which is about 20 miles west of georgetown. And another accident involved a semitruck and at least 22 other vehicles. The mild air that has been with us most of the month will be gone very soon. Our strong cold front is still on track to push through waterloo rapids areas around 10am, and the dubuque area around 11am. Highs for the day will occur just prior to the frontal passage, with a rapid drop in temperature to around 40 by sunset. In addition, very strong wind will accompany the front with gusts around 40 mph possible. This weekend, plan on cold temperatures to be in the area with highs only around 40 and lows in the lower 20s. The wind will make it feel colder. In terms of the next good rain chance, thats still on week. Have a good weekend today windy with isolated showers and falling temperatures. Wind w 2040. High 62 tonight a few sprinkles flur ries are possible, staying windy. Wind nw 2040. Low 29 tomorrow mostly sunny, windy and much cooler. Wind nw 1530. High 40 tom. Night clear and cold. Wind nw 510. Low 20 upward climb and retailers moved higher. Overnight, volkswagen said it will cut 30thousand jobs to recover from its emissions scandal. The goal is to cut costs and invest more in electric powered vehicles and digital services. Company Officials Say 23thousand of the job cuts will come from within germany and save nearly four billion dollars a year. Volkswagen has agreed to pay 15 billion dollars in a settlement for 500 thousand vehicles that had software that turned off aol is cutting about 500 jobs. Verizon bought aol for about fourpoint four billion dollars last year as part of its effort to build a digital ad business. Aol added about 15 hundred employees over the past year from acquisitions and partnerships. Now it says it needs to consolidate to improve operations. Gaps Third Quarter profit fell nearly 18 percent, partially because of costs related to store closures outside north america. One issue gap and other fashion less clothing overall. Then when they do shop, they go to offprice chains like tj maxx. Wells fargo said its customers are significantly pulling back from doing business with the bank after a sales practices scandal. New customer accounts fell 44 percent in october compared to the year before. Customer loyalty scores also fell more than 10 percent. Its heres a live look stay with kcrgtv9. The mild air that has been with strong cold front is waterloo around 9am, iowa city and cedar rapids areas around 10am, and the dubuque area around 11am. Highs for the day will occur just prior to the frontal passage, with a rapid drop in temperature to around 40 by sunset. In addition, very strong wind will accompany the front with gusts around 40 mph cold temperatures to be in the area with highs only around 40 and lows in the lower 20s. The wind will make it feel colder. In terms of the next good rain chance, thats still on track to move in around tuesday wednesday of next week. Have a good weekend today windy with isolated showers and falling temperatures. Wind w 2040. High 62 tonight a few sprinkles flur ries are possible, staying windy. Wind nw 2040. Low 29 tomorrow mostly sunny, windy and much cooler. Wind nw 1530. High 40 tom. Night clear and cold. Wind nw thanks kaj. Sports is next. Stay with seton hall. The hawks off and running early nicolas baer with the flush. And iowa took a 1512 lead on the baer trey from the corner. And then checkout the feed from peter jok to the freshman Cordell Pemsl for the duce. And then jok dials up the long ball and iowa led 4442 at the half. And what a second half for the freshman cook with the spin move and the left handed throw down for two of his points. Another look wow what an athlete. But too many breakdowns for the hawks defense and seton hall outscore orlando and they go right inside to bennett cook to get them started and then they started to heat up from behind the arc. The pride and joy of western Dubuque Spenser Haldeman connects and then former iowa city west allstarter Jeremy Morgan for 3 of his game high 20 and it was raining threes checkout the rainbow bomb from haldeman to beat the shot clock. And the former tv 9 athlete of the week was 33 in the first half and the same in the second half Klint Carlson for three of his 19. And then haldeman with back to back triplets. He was 57 from 3 point land and finished with 17 points and uni beat Arizona State 8263. They will play at 6 tomorrow against oklahoma. Its championship week at the unidome. Josh starts our coverage with the 8 man title game. First up, don bosco was hoping to win its 2nd state title in School History facing the dons, Brandon Bagby finds Kendall Becker who does his best david tyree impersonation of the helmet catch. What a grab. First down, and it would lead to a touchdown. 2nd quarter action, Austin Svoboda takes the snap. Looking for a hole on the outside, he somehow breaks free and hes off to the races. He takes it 45 yards to the house, its his 3rd touchdown of the game. Don bosco took a 2414 lead at halftime. What a day for svoboda, 180 yards rushing and seals the deal as don bosco wins the 8man title with a 4821 victory. I remember the feeling when my older brother won it and i think im going through the same thing. Its incredible. Theyve had a taste of the championship when they were freshman, then last year they had the bittersweet taste. Obviously, the offseason is a big testament to these guys. In class a, Gladbrook Reinbeck looking to repeat as state champs, facing bishop garrigan. Hunter lott on the quarterback keeper. He bounces off some tacklers and scores. Gladbrook takes a 1413 lead. That would be the score at halftime. 4th quarter, rebels down johannsen for the 23yard touchdown. Gladbrook with the lead up 2019. The defense forced a turnover on downs. And on another 4th down, lott hits erik knaack for the first down and more. That allowed the rebels to take a knee and repeat as state champions winning 2019. Thats awesome. I went to all the juniors and everybody else that was playing that wasnt a senior and just told them, thank you for letting finish my season like that because thats awesome. from the uni dome in cedar falls, Josh Christensen tv9 sports. And finally its time for another edition of the kcrg tv9 athlete cedar rapids toyota. Hudson 64 senior kiley deberg led the entire state of iowa in kills with a whopping 698. She also led the state in aces with 112. Deberg who helped the pirates advance to the state title game and will play for illinois next year. 698 kills thats mindboggling how do you get to that number down i have to rely a lot on everyone else that plays like a defense hit to be 64 right yes now they know youre going to get the ball a lot of times how do you get in around the blocker . Being tall helps like i can hit over a lot of people and then being smart because i have played how many years now being able to place the ball where people arent helps lot. What is it like to play in the state volleyball tournament its crazy down there at its unbelievable like doing this i senior year is memories are made with it are really awesome. Since youve got probably a foot on me were going to try a serving challenge youre the best in the state will see if i can beat you alright okay. It was the dumpster challenge first one to serve it in the dumpster wins and i thought it won right here. Youve got to be kidding me. And i new kileys next serve chanching. I just whipped a shirt old man starting off with a live look at. Its friday, november 18th. Heres what you need to know today. Cedar Rapids Police say they believe theres an influence on crime in the city from chicago. Although, its tough to exactly tell how much. The suspect in the killings of 2 officers near des to police apologizing and praising the Department Days before the shootings. A judge has sentenced Travis Standlee to another 50 years in prison for the death of a homeless woman. He was previously sentenced to 50 years for the death of Raymond Ursino. President elect donald trump is making peace with people who previously disagreed with him. He is considering mitt romney and governor nikki haley for the secretary of state position. Within a couple of a years, an old cedar rapids landfill will turn into a park