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Any light snow showers are quickly moving out of the area. The sky should rapidly clear and the wind will be picking up as well. Plan on highs in the upper teens to lower 20s with a slow fall in temperature during the afternoon. Many areas should either touch zero or go a bit below zero tonight with wind chill numbers briefly approaching 20 tomorrow morning. Saturday continues to look great, with a good chance of snow on sunday all across the area. At this time, 24 continues to look like a very reasonable amount with a light fluffy consistency. Next week, plan on some 30s to start off, with a return to some 40s by next thursday and friday today clearing, turning windy high 1723 winds nw 1530 alo 17 dbq 18 iow 21tonight mostly clear low 42 winds nw 515 alo 4 dbq 3 iow 0tomorrow mostly sunny, chilly high 1117 winds nw 510 alo 13 dbq 13 iow 15tomorrow night chance of snow late low 511 winds se 510 alo 9 dbq 7 iow 11 thanks kaj. The Cedar Rapids Community School District says it has cut ties with a consultant. It says its because of recent activity on social media alleging he lied edwin javius is the president and ceo of edequity. Thats an Education Consulting Company Based in san jose, california. The district hired him back in 2014 to help promote equity within schools. The contract was for 3 years. And was worth between 189,000 and 219,000, plus travel expenses. Superintendent brad buck sent an email to district faculty and staff yesterday afternoon, saying quote social media posts raised concerns about mr. Javius training and professionalism. This led the district to conclude that the parties relationship had been compromised. A 2014 Facebook Post from a california School District javius had contracted with, said it had discovered he misrepresente d himself. It said javius claimed to have a doctorate from usc, even though he did not. Javius responded to that post this week, saying that he had completed his doctoral coursework, but not his dissertation. The cedar rapids School District paid him 268,000, including travel expenses, before terminating his contract yesterday. And procedures for hiring vendors and working with vendors in our district, and we do background checks that are required by the state of iowa for any of the vendors. We spoke with javius on yesterday afternoon. He says he never misrepresented himself as having the title of doctor to the cedar rapids School District, and regrets his past indiscretions. Morning activities at Cedar Rapids Prairie High School are canceled this morning, but there will be classes today. This is following a threat to the school. Cedar Rapids Police say a 16yearold Prairie High School student has been charged with harassment. They dont believe the threat was credible, but are taking precautions. The school is asking students not to bring backpacks and purses to school, and theyll be searched when they come into the building. University of iowa researchers teamed up with a Theater Group to create a new web toolkit to combat bullying. The website called hear just went live. It stands for helping educators use art to reduce bullying. The toolkit is filled with activities for teachers to use in the classroom. They are designed for kids from kindergarten up through high school to interactively learn about relationships and communication. We believe that programs that are more based on activating the limbic system or really helping with positive emotional reactions will be a little bit more effective than the traditional bullying curricula that are classroom based. Ui students helped test the website activities in iowa classrooms. Now the researchers want as many teachers and students as possible to use the antibullying toolkit. They believe cutting down bullying issues now could reduce family and dating violence issues later in life. In a tv9 followup this morning. Legislation to stop iowas medicaid system transitioning to private ownership is moving forward. The democratic controlled iowa Senate Approved legislation yesterday. The bill would end the states contracts with the 3 private Companies Take over march 1st. But the republican led house isnt expected to bring the bill to the floor. Iowa House Republicans have released their Budget Proposal for the upcoming fiscal year. And its lower than what Senate Democrats and governor branstad have proposed. The house plan calls for spending 7. 32 billion dollars for fiscal 2017. The senate plan totals 7. 398 billion. And governor branstads Budget Proposal was 7. 4 billion. Republicans want to spend fewer dollars than democrats on both education and health care. The iowa utilities board pushed back its decision on the Dakota Access pipeline possibly to march. The board has been discussing the 346 mile pipeline for the last three days. The pipeline would go through north and south dakota, iowa and illinois. Iowa is the only state that hasnt signed on. The utilities board is trying to decide whether to give the Texas Company the authority to force 296 landowners to sign easements. The university of iowa and iowa athletics for the third Public University in iowa. A new bill in the iowa senate would order the two schools to transfer a combined 4 Million Dollars each year to the uni Athletics Department over the next five years. Unis athletic budget is about 13 Million Dollars 6 million of which comes from the universitys general fund. Thats much less than iowas yearly budget of about 89 Million Dollars, which is self sustaining. This weekend, love is in the air. Valentines day is on sunday. We all remember the stories of how we met our significant others. Times are changinga university of iowa professor is saying meeting through the web is becoming common. Kcrgtv nines brea love joins us here at the desk this morning. Brea, that professor has done some research on this topic . Yes he has. And he says its all about that initial presentation. Ui professor andrew high says people who Search Online are looking for the perfect match, and not the perfect person. Research shows more people are using sites cupid. Online dating use to be considered taboo, but now high says its accepted as a social norm. According to highs research, when meeting face to face there isnt time to make yourself out to be a certain type of person, unlike in other arenas. 37 22 youre seeing that person in their full self right away, and neither person has anytime to edit themselves. What you see is what you get, you get me, but people are meeting online all of a sudden they have time to really craft and make a self presentation. High says the number of success rates for online initiated relationships is on the rise. Some valentines day facts for everyone this holiday. According to wallethub on average lovers will spend more than 19 billion dollars for the holiday. With each spending around 146 a piece. And if you dont get your girl something. 53 percent of women say they would break up with their boo if they didnt receive anything. On the bright side 14 million holiday every year. Chris, nicole . Thanks a lot brea. In eastern iowa there are only 3 African Americans who serve in local government. That can leave people in the black Community Feeling unrepresented. Waterloo mayor quentin hart, iowa city councilman Kingsley Botchway ii, and waterloo city councilman Jerome Amos Jr are those three. They say its time to get to work. Hart and botchway say there are large issues facing African Americans in both of their areas. They are taking the steps to address those problems by reaching out. Im definitely making more of an effort especially in the leadership position to do more as far as bring some of the information back and providing, and say hey these are some of the things that need to be worked on and i need your help. Sometimes people think its this grand plan that needs to take place, and yes it does but its those smaller things that have the quickest impact in both say they hope to be role models to inspire younger African Americans to get involved in local government. Today national, state and local Health Industry experts will discuss the challenges and Opportunities Health care leaders face. Today is the Health Care Summit in cedar rapids. These experts will also talk about the future of health care and how Different Industries can Work Together to bring better care to patients. The event is being held today from 7 30 this morning until 1 30 at the cedar rapids marriott. Now that the race is down to two, the democratic president ial candidates are Fact Checking each other. Sanders and clinton are also fighting for who would be the best candidate for minorities. Opening farm markets. Good any light snow showers are quickly moving out of the area. The sky should rapidly clear and the wind will be picking up as well. Plan on highs in the upper teens to lower 20s with a slow fall in temperature during the afternoon. Many areas should either touch zero or go a bit below zero tonight with wind chill numbers briefly approaching 20 tomorrow morning. Saturday continues to look great, with a good across the area. At this time, 24 continues to look like a very reasonable amount with a light fluffy consistency. Next week, plan on some 30s to start off, with a return to some 40s by next thursday and friday today clearing, high 1723 winds nw 1530 alo 17 dbq 18 iow 21tonight mostly clear low 42 winds nw 515 alo 4 dbq 3 iow 0tomorrow mostly sunny, chilly high 1117 winds nw 510 alo 13 dbq 13 iow 15tomorrow night chance of snow late low 511 winds se 510 alo 9 dbq 7 iow 11 thanks kaj. Any light snow showers are quickly moving out of the area. The sky should rapidly clear and the wind will be picking up as well. Plan on highs in the upper teens to lower 20s with a slow fall in temperature during the afternoon. Many areas should either touch zero or go a bit below zero tonight with wind chill numbers briefly approaching 20 tomorrow morning. Saturday continues to look chance of snow on sunday all across the area. At this time, 24 continues to look like a very reasonable amount with a light fluffy consistency. Next week, plan on some 30s to start Dubuque Police say their online tip website has been a success. Its been 1 year since they launched id for pd. The site features surveillance pictures of suspected criminals and vehicles that police have not been able to identify. Our coverage partner, kd th radio, reports more than 60 of the cases Police Posted have resulted in arrests. So far, theyve posted 21 cases since the site launched in january 2015. Power to part of cedar falls. All of the frames and panels are now in place at the simple solar farm at Prairie Lakes park. Its near the intersection of hudson road and viking road. Cedar falls utilities is hoping to start producing energy in march or april. Work started last year. More than 12hundred c fu customers bought into the project. Those customers will get a credit on their bill over the next 20 years. Groceries and tattoos. Whole foods is launching 365 new locations. And they will include other types of businesses inside the store, including a tattoo shop. More on that coming up on for the First Time Since Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary Clintons New Hampshire in the democratic primary, the two candidates faced off in a debate. Both are now looking to nevada carolina, hoping to convince a more diverse population that they are the better choice. Heres abcs lana zak with the latest. Sanders sot i do have a disagreement here. The differences were substantive , but subtle in last nights democratic debate. Clinton sot we agree that wall street should never be allowed to wreck main street again. But heres the point i want to make tonight. I am not a single issue candidate and i do not believe we live in a single issue country. Hillary clinton trying to reset after being walloped in New Hampshire gfx the demographics now changing. Vot ers more than 90 percent white in iowa and New Hampshire. But in south carolina, more than half of democratic voters could be African Americans sanders sot when we have more people in jail, disproportion ately African American and latino, than china does the fireworks really coming at the end with this contentious moments clinton sot . The kind of criticism that weve heard from senator expect from republicans. I do not expect from someone running for the democratic nomination to succeed president obama. Sanders sot madam secretary, that is a low blow. Tag clinton was asked about losing the female vote in New Hampshire, she responded she has devoted her career to empowering women to quote mkae their own choices even if that choice is not to vote for me. Lz abcn, w a suspect is dead this morning in ohio after police say he attacked people in a restaurant with a machete. It happened thursday night at a mediterranea n restaurant in columbus. Witnesses described what happened as carnage and a attack. Authorities say 4 people are hurt, but they are all expected to be okay. The suspect ran away from the restaurant, but police later confronted and shot the man. We do not know why the suspect attacked, and his name has not been released. A ceasefire in syria is now in place. Secretary of state john kerry says World Leaders have agreed to stop attacks. The world powers also agreed to accelerate and expand the delivery of humanitarian aid to that country. Kerry says the ceasefire would not apply to the fight against isis. But he says it would help end syrias 5 year old civil war. Now for a quick check on your weather with meteorologist kaj omara. Stay with tv9. Its. Now, one last look at this any light snow showers are quickly moving out of the area. The sky should rapidly clear and the wind will be picking up as well. Plan on highs in the upper teens to lower 20s with a slow fall in temperature during the afternoon. Many areas should either touch zero or go a bit below zero tonight with wind chill numbers briefly approaching 20 tomorrow morning. Saturday continues to look great, with a good chance of snow on sunday all across the area. At this time, 24 continues to look like a very reasonable amount with a light fluffy consistency. Next week, plan on some 30s to start off, with a return to some 40s by next thursday and friday today clearing, turning windy high 1723 winds nw 1530 alo 17 dbq 18 iow 21tonight mostly clear low 42 winds nw 515 alo 4 dbq 3 iow 0tomorrow mostly sunny, chilly high 1117 winds nw 510 alo 13 dbq 13 snow late low 511 iow 11 abcs reena ninan and kendis money. Youre watching kcrgt good morning, to whiching americas money oil prices doing no favors to stocks. The price of oil hit levels not seen in nearly 13 years yesterday. Thats one reason the dow opens this morning on a fourday losing streak. Stocks across asia were down sharply. 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