Into the 50s. The south half of the area will likely touch the lower 60s as well. Today will also come along with lots of wind with gusts to 45mph possible. Tomorrow is very much the better half of this warmup with highs well into the 50s, but with wind under 15mph. By sunday, a cold front comes along, but with a significant dent in the snowpack, if not complete elimination, we really wont get that cold with upper 40s likely. Next week still appears pretty quiet with only periodic bouts of clouds the most likely result. Highs will average in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Have a terrific weekend today m sunny, windy, mild high 5662 winds w 2030 g 45 alo 55 dbq 55 iow 61 tonight mostly clear low 3440 winds w 1020 alo 35 dbq 35 iow 38 tomorrow mostly sunny, mild high 5359 winds w 510 alo 55 dbq 53 iow 59 tomorrow night partly cloudy low 3137 winds n 510 alo 30 dbq 31 iow 34 anks kaj. Today is the last chance for some bills in the Iowa Legislature to make it out of committee and stay alive. Today is the first funnel, and there are number of bills that have already made it through. Todays funnel deadline means the bill committee. If the bill started in the House Committee it must make it to the house floor today. Same goes for bills that started with senate committees. The second funnel is not until march 11th. By then, all senate bills must make it out of House Committees and vice versa. An iowa city woman is pushing for new legislation that would increase the punishment for peeping toms. The bill is scheduled for debate in the full senate. The bill passed committee this week when university of iowa Police Arrested 23yearold robert hightower. They say he videotaped a woman in the shower at burge hall. Ruth lapointe says in 2012, 66yearold elwyn miller put holes in the ceiling and floor of her iowa city apartment to spy on her. Police then found four similar peep holes in other apartments. Miller spent 5 months in jail, paid a 6thousand dollar fine and had to register as a sex offender. A peeping conviction requires the victim be partially nude and the suspect be aroused while spying on their victim. Lapointe says proving that others in the apartment. It was hard for me and the other victims to have to describe the fact that our landlord was or was not aroused and knowing that his guilt was resting on that was burdensome. Senate bill 2185 drops those requirements. It bumps the penalty from a simple misdemeanor to a serious misdemeanor. In a tv9 followup this morning. A state senator from dubuque wants the house to consider a bill that would stop the privatization of medicaid. I am calling on the house to take this bill up and give it a fair hearing. If they are listening to the people they represent, they need to bring this bill up before the entire iowa house and let there be a vote. The Medicaid Program is administered by the department of human services. Its not a legislated program. What the legislature does is legislates the amount of money needed for the Medicaid Program or the state match for the Medicaid Program senate has already passed a bill that would stop the transition that takes effect march 1st. But Republican Leaders say they have no plans to even bring up the bill in the house. A bill that funds road projects is moving on to the floor of the house. The house transportatio n committee passed a bill that would keep 17 Million Dollars a year in iowas road fund. Without the bill, that money would go to a fund for cleaning up underground storage tanks. Thats because 1 cent of a 32cent per gallon fuel tax earmarked for storage tank cleanup is expiring this fiscal year. The bill would cap the Storage Tank Fund at 36 Million Dollars. The iowa utilities board is meeting today to discuss a pipeline that would run through 19 iowa counties. The company, dakota access, wants to build a pipeline that would carry crude oil from south dakota to illinois. All other states have approved construction except iowa. Des moines. The board talked about the pipeline for a few days last week with no decision and scheduled todays additional meeting. The board could make a decision today, but it doesnt have to. Some in North Liberty now have clearer pictures of a handful of projects the city is planning on for the next couple of years. At an open house last night, the city showed various planning stages of those projects. Many of them involve street improvements and expansions. One will widen the lanes of penn street on the west side of town, near the i380 interchange. The city also has plans to expand and add to city parks, and make improvements to dubuque street to prepare for the new liberty high school. The city administrator says people in North Liberty should expect traffic delays. 32 05 14 its fun and exciting to be part of a growing community, and of course one of those challenges is keeping up with the infrastructure and then having patience as we make those improvements. Construction crews plan to start widening penn street near i380 in early a new study shows iowa has a lot of bridges that need to be fixed or replaced. The american road and Transportation Builders Association study says the state has more than five thousand deficient bridges. Iowa has the most in the nation partly because there are so many bridges. There are 24thousand, which is the same number as in california. One bridge on the list includes this one on bloomington road near mount vernon. Replacing or fixing these old bridges is not a quick process. To do a bridge takes years, just to start a big bridge project up you go through archeology, through hydraulics right of way negotiations. Those projects are slow. Gannon says 100Million Dollars has come from the 10 cent a gallon state gas tax. Linn county has 19 deficient bridges now, and there should only be 11 after this year. People in flint, michigan are getting 11 semi trailers full of bottled water thanks to monte morris asked people on twitter to donate to the red cross to help his home town. Flint is dealing with a major Drinking Water crisis and lead contamination. Hyvee saw the tweet and decided to help. It rounded up 11 semis and sent them to flint yesterday. 11 is morriss number. Morris says he was touched. Im emotional. It brought a lot of tears to my eyes because dont nobody want their city to be like that. Its just hard to talk about. Michigans governor has announced 2 Million Dollars to help flint replace some of its lead pipes within 30 days. Around 39,000 babies are born each year in iowa, and about 10 of those babies are premature. Thats according to the march of dimes an organization that supports babies and their families. Kcrgtv nines brea love is live at the cedar rapids marriott. Brea, theyre getting ready for their march for babies kickoff breakfast this morning. This is where the breakfast will be held. It starts at 7 30 this morning. All of this leading up to the march for babies walk this spring inspiring the community to Work Together for stronger, healthier babies. Each year march of dimes provides life saving therapy for more than one hundred babies in iowa. While also helping out families in a large way. The average medical cost for a healthy baby is around four thousand dollars. While, the average cost for a premature baby is more than thirteen times that price. 30 57 march of dimes is taking a proactive stance, were raising hundreds of millions of dollars each year, so that we can invest in the research and find out what causes preterm birth. And that fundraising starts with the community. Campaign cochairs mike and miranda wehr are taking the initiative to raise thousands. And doing it all through the business community. Close friends who had premature children sparked the involved. 25 57 we watched them get involved with the mission, get involved with march of dimes, and give back immediately, and through watching them and getting us involved we realized that march of dimes is so much than just for premature children, its really just the education and the research to help all women have full term pregnancies. 31 17 a lot of people think that the march of dimes only touches you if youve had a premature baby, and while that is true, weve actually touched everybody here within the United States. So, if youve had a polio vaccination, youve been touched by our organization. If youve had a healthy full term baby and you took your folic acid while pregnant youve been touched by our education. The wehrs set a goal for 60 thousand dollars 6 months ago. They are only five hundred dollars away from reaching it. The cedar rapids march of dimes total goal is two hundred thousand dollars. Gruber encourages everyone to join forces with them and give all babies a fighting chance. March for babies. You can find information on the website, ive placed a link under this story on kcrg dot com. On sunday, april 24th. Chris and nicole back to you. For babies breakfast. Thanks a lot brea. Democratic president ial candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are hoping their with voters in nevada. The Nevada Democratic caucuses are tomorrow, and the republicans in South Carolina go to the polls tomorrow for the primary. The decorah bald eagle has laid an egg. We take a look at the eagles nest coming up. But right now, heres a look at todays opening farm markets. Good its. Our much anticipated warmup is windy conditions today with highs well into the 50s. The south half of the area will likely touch the lower 60s as well. Today will also come along with lots of wind with gusts to 45mph possible. Tomorrow is very much the better half of this warmup with highs well into the 50s, but with wind under 15mph. By sunday, a cold front comes along, but with a significant dent in the snowpack, if not complete elimination, we really wont get that cold with upper 40s appears pretty quiet with only periodic bouts of clouds the most likely result. Highs will average in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Have a terrific weekend today m sunny, windy, mild high 5662 winds w 2030 g 45 alo 55 dbq 55 iow 61 tonight mostly clear low 3440 winds w 1020 alo 35 dbq 35 iow 38 tomorrow mostly sunny, mild high 5359 winds w 510 alo 55 dbq 53 iow 59 tomorrow night partly cloudy low 3137 iow 34 thanks kaj. Our much anticipated warmup is here plan on windy conditions today with into the 50s. The south half of the area will likely touch the lower 60s as well. Today will also come along with lots of wind with gusts to 45mph possible. Tomorrow is very much the better half of this warmup with highs well into the 50s, but with wind under 15mph. By sunday, a cold front comes along, but with a significant dent in the snowpack, if not complete elimination, we really wont get that cold with upper 40s likely. Next week still appears pretty quiet with only periodic bouts of clouds the most likely result. Highs will average in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Have a terrific weekend today m sunny, windy, mild high 5662 winds w 2030 g 45 alo 55 dbq 55 iow 61 tonight mostly clear winds w 1020 alo 35 dbq 35 iow 38 tomorrow mostly sunny, mild high 5359 winds w 510 alo 55 dbq 53 iow 59 tomorrow night partly cloudy low 3137 winds n 510 alo 30 dbq 31 iow 34 thanks kaj. Theres a new addition this morning to the Decorah Eagles nest. The bald eagle has laid an egg. Of the Decorah Eagles nest. You can see there the eagle is sitting on the egg keeping it warm. Here is a picture of the egg the raptor resource project posted last night. The Nonprofit Group specializes in the preservation of falcons, eagles, ospreys, hawks, and owls. The organization maintains more than 50 nests. More Airline Passengers complained last year than the year before. And they picked their least Favorite Airlines to use. More on that coming up in its the last leg of a political showdown in South Carolina and nevada. President ial candidates are pleading to voters. Tomorrow the candidates new push to get the votes. The stakes couldnt be hopefulls hot on the campaign trail. The democrats criss crossing thru the state of nevada. Sot Hillary Clinton president ial candidate to have an election that is about real change . Not promises you cant keep. Sot Bernie Sanders president ial candidatethe eyes of america will be on nevada both Democratic Candidates facing voters at a telivised town hall meeting answering tough questions on topics like immigration, privacy and their records sot Hillary Clinton president ial candidatemay be its that senator sanders wasnt really a democrat until he decided to run for president , she said. He democratic president s did. Nats of crowd booing clinton response well, its true. Its true. Bernie sanders president ial candidateif anybody thinks a senate or the United States house has to agree with somebody in his own party who is president , well, you know, all the time, thats not my understanding of democracy. Nats of clapping at republican town hall on the Republican Trump . Face toface with South Carolina voters. At issue religion. And comments the pope made criticizing donald trump sot donald trump president ial candidatecoo per was there a moment you first heard the pope had said something about you that you thought maybe youre going to have to ask for forgive forgiveness . Trump no. I have a lot of respect for the pope. Tag going into both contests this weekend, the latest polls in South Carolina show donald trump still far ahead of the pack . While Bernie Sanders are still in a statistical tie. Rr, abc News New York now for a quick check on your weather with meteorologist kaj omara. Mornings weather, kaj. Our much anticipated warmup is here plan on windy conditions today with highs well into the 50s. The south half of the area will likely touch the lower 60s as well. Today will also come along with lots of wind with gusts to 45mph possible. Tomorrow is very much the better half of this warmup with highs well into the 50s, but with wind under 15mph. By sunday, a cold front comes along, but with a significant dent in the snowpack, if not complete elimination, we really wont get that cold with upper 40s likely. Next week still appears pretty quiet with only periodic bouts of clouds the most likely result. Highs will average in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Have a terrific weekend today m sunny, windy, mild high 5662 winds w 2030 g 45 alo 55 dbq 55 iow winds w hey, good morning. Topping americas money tax scams are soaring. The irs says email and texting scams have surged 400 so far this year. Theyre designed to get your personal information. Remember that the irs does not send tax notices by email. Heres a sign of the times. Smart watches are more popular than swiss watches. The new numbers show the hightech devices outsold the lowtech time pieces in the last quarter. Heres something of little surprise to most travelers. Airline complaints runup with more than 20,000 comeplaints in 2015. 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Tomorrow, therell be another look at who voters are really supporting for the president ial nomination. March for babies. One organization is working to raise money and awareness for the thousands of babies who are born premature in iowa. Students at a Tiffin Middle School are trying to navigate their way through a new expansion for their school. Some say it exceeded expectations. Good friday morning its 5 am on the morning of february 19th. Here is a live look at. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Our much anticipated warmup is here plan on