Are in a classic el nino pattern, and this tends to lead to a mild december at the very least. In addition, there are no major storm systems for the next 7 days that will impact iowa. Perhaps this weekend is your weekend to get the Christmas Decorations out have a good day today a waterloo family is back in their home this morning after a close call with high Carbon Monoxide levels in their home. Late saturday night, two Carbon Monoxide alarms went off in the rental home at 1732 mulberry strere in waterloo. At first, all four members of the family thought it was just a failing battery. But when the alarm wouldnt quit, they called 9 11. The Fire Department measured 74 partsper million of Carbon Monoxide in home. Normal indoor air should be 10 or below. A rustedout exhaust pipe from the furnace s causing the odorless, colorless and deadly gas into the home. Engle said saturday night she had a splitting headache and figured it was a migraine. Then the co detector started beeping. They saved out lives. If it wasnt for them. Weve probably be dead to be very honest engle sayser rental home has five smoke detectors and two Carbon Monoxide detececrs. Waterloo firefighters respond to about 25 calls a year of Carbon Monoxide detectors going off in homes. A teenager is in Critical Condition at the university of iowa hospital and clinics after a hunting accident. The Sheriffs Office says 17 year old daniel gibbs west union was squirrel hunting when he tripped over a loloand impaled himselff through his neck with the barrel of his rifle. The rifle did not discharge. It happened on a friends afternoon. The iowa state patrol has cited a Johnson County sheriffs deputy in a weekend crash. Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek says Deputy Ryan Quiles was on a routine patrol about 4 30 saturday afternoon n nr the intersection us highway 6 and 109. Thats north of oxford. He says quiles pulled away from a stop sign and into the path of another vehicle, injuring o person in that vehicle. The iowa state patrol cited quiles for failure to yield. Quiles remains on active duty pending a Department Investigation into the crash. Rememberwhenever you see nenes happening, call newsline nine at 319 3659999. You can also send pictures and videos to newsroom at kcrg dot com. This s ar, senior dining sites have served d re than 75 thousand meals and delivered more than 250 thousand. Now, aging equipment at some sites is making the preparation of those its mid morning at the cedar county senior county Senior Center in tipton. Site director karen lafrenz and head cook peggy bolzma are working diligently to prepare lunch for the seniors of cedar county. This is ouconvection oven, you have to be real careful with it and not shut it all the way otherwise it shuts itself off. One very important, but often overlooked aspect of the Senior Dining Program isishe equipment needed to cook the hundreds of hot meals every week. Yeah it would be important to have equipment that was working well. Right now its to the point where it turns off when we are in the mimile of cookininsomething. It takes forever to heat up and the doors dont close right. And its just to that point where if we dont get something soon the ovens not going to work. The equipment upgrades needed at the cedar county Senior Center are an example of an issue thats be a major help to this important program. To find out how you can help Senior Centers around eastern iowa just go to heritage aaa dot org. And dont forget to watch the fill the plate telethon this sunday night at 5 30 as we help Senior Citizens in need of a healthy meal. Today isiving tuesday. And Nonprofit Organizations in linn county are joining the effort. Gems of hope executive director Norah Hammond says she and other local nonprofits are working hard to spread the word about the initiative. One of the commitments that we made as non profits that work with the foundation is to all work towards the messaging of the campaign, so weve all stepped it up and included it in our social media, in our blasts, in our talking points about our organization. The Salvation Army is offering an incentive to get more people to donate to its red kettles on giving tuesday. The e nprofit says the manufacturin g company, apache inc, will double all the donations to the kettle at cedar rapids. E Salvation Army hasasollected a litite more than 20 percent of its 790 thousand dollar goal. Linn county residents are encouraged to share their participation by using the hashtag givelinncoun ty. There are 24 shopping days left until christmas. And many people turned to their computers and smart phones yesterday for cyber monday. The volume of online traffic caused some websites to crash. Targets had twice the visitors it previously had on its busiest day. That caused the site to go down, only allowing a cecetain number of peoplplto shop on the site at one time. Over the weekend, neiman marcus, best buy, walmart, and ebay all suffered online issues. West music in coralville had no probems. The business handled five times the normal number of online orders. West music offered ten percent off online orders and day. But one west music representative says cyber monday itself is starting to lose some steam th people shopping online on days like black friday and even thanksgiving day. I think what weve seen in the last two years is more customers are shopping online on black friday versus standing in line outside or anything of that sort, with more retailers open on thanksgiving it really spreads out when people want to shop. Some Small Businesses are alsoso trying harder than ever to tap into the online market. Revival in downtown iowa city offered 40 percent off its online orders throughout cyber monday. John deere iilaying off hundreds of workers in moline, illinois. The layoffs at deeres seeding and cylinder factory affect about 220 employees. It goes into effect on february 15th. In past years, john deere has laid off workers seasonally, and those people would usually return in the fall. This time, the company says the layoffs will last indefinitely. The announcement came after john deere report last week. Deere earned 351 Million Dollars in august through october. Thaawas significantly lower than the 649 million the Company Earned in the Fourth Quarter last year. Deere is also expecting sales to drop about seven percent in the current fiscal year. A massive d da breach at a toy maker has exposed millions of customers personal information. And google is working on new technology that will have cars talking to peopop at crosswalks. Thats ahead in techbytes. Plan on thick cloududto be in the region today. If we are lucky enough to get a break this s rning, theyll fill right back in. A few scattered flurries may fly around as well, but no issues or accumulation s are expected with those. On wednesday, clouds remain thick and a few more flurries may be in the air again, too. The big story of the extended forecast is warmer condititis for friday and especially into the weekend. Overall, we are in a classic el nino pattern, and this nds to lead to a mild december at the very least. In addition, there are no major storm systems impact t owa. Perhaps this weekend is your weekend to get the Christmas Decorations out have a good day today windy, scattered flurriri high 3238 winds sw 1525 alo 35 dbq 37 iow 37tonight chance of flurries low 2531 winds w 1020 alo 28 dbq 28 iow 29tomorrow cloudy, scattered flurries high 3339 winds nw 1020 alo 36 dbq 36 iow 38tomorrow night mostly cloudy low 2228 winds nw 515 alo 24 dbq 26 iow 28 now heres abcs aditi roy and Kendis Gibson with in todays techbytes kids seem to be the target of a new data breach. Toymaker vtech says the personal information of 5 million customers and their kids has been stolen. Emails, homeaddresess, names and birth dates. Swatch is teaming up for visa for its new artwatch. It contains nfc technology. He new time piece which goes on sale in the u. S. Early next year, is compatible with retailers around the world. And will google selfdriving car be able to talk to pedestrians . The company is working on new technology allowing users to communicate with pedestrians. Boy, imagine whaha the hand all right, this is violet. Shes been waiting for this moment for awhile. A moment other kids wouldnt thinknkwice about. Her fifit bowl of cheerios. Because now that cheerios are gluten free, violet, and many others are enjoying their first bowl today. Every christmas is memorablele but a gift from m y jewelers. Makekeit unforgettable. Save up to 30 on diamond fashions at kay, the numberone memorymaker in america. Chicago is out of jail, after posting bail. Andrew spencer reports protests have continueue as the citys mayoror moves to create a new task force. Walked out of jail monday night, surrounded by apparent supporterssthey escorted him past the reporters waiting outside. Van dyke made bail. Hours after a judge set his bond at oneandahalf Million Dollars. Van dyke faces a firstdegree murder ccrge in the killing of Laquan Mcdonald during a confrontation with police in october 2014. An autopsy showed van dyke shot mcdonald 16 times. Since the dash cam video wasas released to the public last week, protests have been a steady reality in chicago. Those demonstrations have remained mostly peaceful, as leaders urged people to stand together. Use youou voice and shout it out its all about unity. Its all about unity. Chicago mayor rahm emanuel is now calling for the creation of a task force on police accountabilit y. His office says itill review the kinds of oversight t Police Officers get and how the city trains them. The move comes as emanuel finds himself amid a political firestorm over the the shooting. Protesters question why the video was kept from the public for more than a year, and why murder charge only came after a judge ordered the video released. Many protesters have called on emanuel to resign and for the chief of police to b b fired. Im andrew spencer, reporting the man known as the boston bomber is asking for a new trial in a different venue. Dzhokhar tsarnaevs lawyers will appear in court today to argue the motion. The same judge who presided over the trial will hear the arguments. In june, tsarnaev was sentenced to death for his role in the bombing. His lawyers say 15 of his convictions are now in question because the june ruling was based on the Legal Definition of crime of violence the bombing left three people dead and 260 people injured in april of 2013. Usa today reports the pentagon troops t tsyria to fight isis. A Senior Defense official told the paper the pentagon will consider deploying more special operations troops, if the Pilot Project there shows signs of progress. Last montnt the pentagon announced it would send 50 commandos to Northern Syria to advise forces fighting isis. President ial candidate hillary cnton received support from all mocratic female senators last night. Except for one key player who endorsed clinton in her previous campaign, who has not done so this time around. Heres a look at on our city c this morning. Kaj will be bacacright after the break with aa first alert forecast. Plan on thick clouds to be in the region today. If we are lucky enough to get a break in cloud cover this morning, theyll fill right back in. A few scattered flurries may fly around as well, but no issues or accumulation s are expected with remain thick a a a few more flurries may be in the air again, too. The big story of the extended forecast is warmer conditions for friday and especially into the weekekd. Overall, we are in a classic el nino pattern, and this tends to lead to a mild december at the very least. In addition, there are no major storm stems for the ne 7 days that will impact iowa. Perhaps this w wkend is your weekend to get the Christmas Decorations out have a good day today windy, scattered flurries high 3238 winds sw 125 alo 35 dbq 37 iow 37tonight chance of flurries low 2531 winds w 1020 alo 28 dbq 28 iow 29torrow cloudy, scattered flurries high 3339 winds nw 1020 alo 36 dbq 36 iow 38tomorrow night mostly cloudy low 2228 winds nw 515 alo 24 dbq 26 iow 28 a former Florida Governor is eastern iowa today. He is trying to gain more suppppters after a recenen poll says only 4 percent of potential iowa voters support him for the republican president ial nomination. Stay with tv9. Its. Youre looking live on our citycam this morning. Heres what you need to know today. Voters in cedar falls and waterloo will head to the polls today to vote for mayors in runoff elections. Officials in the linnmar School District want to move all pre schoolers into one building the only question, now, is where to put them. The mayor of chicago is creating a new task fce today for policee accountability as the former cop charged of killing a teenager is out of jail on bond. Workers at unity point st. Lukes in cedar rapids give a friendly custodian the trip of a lifetime to where all her dreams can come true. And its giving tuesday a day to give, rather than receive this hcliday season. And linn county non profits want you to get into the spirit. Youre watchininkcrgtv9. Now, rom your 24 hour news plan on thick clouds to be in the region today. If we are lucky enough t tget a break in cloud cover this morning, theyll fill right back in. A few scattered flurries may fly around as well, but no ssues or accumulation s are expected with those. On wededsday, clouds remain thick and a few more flurries may be in the air again, too. The big story of the extended forecast is warmer conditions for friday and especially into the weekend. Overall, we ararin a classic el nino pattern, and this tends to lead to a mild december at the very least. In addition, there are no major storm systems for the next 7 days that will impact iowa. Perhaps this weekend is your weekend to get the christmas decoraraons university of iowa officials are looking into a racist comment that someone carved into campus property. President Bruce Harreld says they found it in a bathrhrm in the spence laboratories which contains faculty offices and research labs. He says crews immediately sanded down the bathroom door to remove the comment. Harreld told students, faculty, staff that q qte the act is offensive to our community and will not be tolerated. Late last year, an assistant professor put this statue resembling a kkk member on the pentacrest. The professor said it was meant as a protest to the violence against black people. But some students found it offensive and authorities removed it. Today voters in Black Hawk County will make the final decisions on some key city they will choose mayors in waterloo and cedar falls. Councilman quentin hart and former mayor tim hurley are both vying for the seat in waterloo and mayor jon crews and businesesan jim brown will be on the ballot in cedar falls. However, crews recently announced plans to step down and urged people to vote for his challenger. Polling in t t runoff elections is open from 7 this morning until 8 at night. The polling places are the same as they were in the city election in november. Republican president ial candidate jeb bush will be talking to voters in eastern iowa today. He first will attend a coffee and donuts event at the university of dubuqueue that wililbe in the Heritage Center at 8 30 this morning. Then the former Florida Governor will go to waterloo for a town hall meeting. That event will be at the Sullivan BrothersIowa Veterans museum at noon today. Another repububcan president ial candidate is just now leaving the state after campaigning in the latest Quinnipiac University poll showed ted cruz in a statistical tie with repeplican front runner donald trump here in iowa. Yesterday, the texas senator told supporters at the Kirkwood Regional Center hes not attacking trumpmpecause he doesnt ththk trump will w w the gop nomination. He also talked about how he doesnt think any of the president ial campaigns are talking about the right issues. I believe the central issue of the 2016 election is reignitingng the promise of america, getting back to that fundamental commitment that our kids will have a better life than we do and their kids will have a better life than we do. Female Democratic Senators are officially supporting Hillary Clinton after a fundraiser in washington d. C. But one key senator was missing from last nights tumping event. Elizabeth warren, who liberal organizers failed to draft into a president ial campaign in 2014 attend. Warren signed a letter urging clinton to run in 2013, but hasnt yet endorsed her. Warrens spokeswoman did not respond to questions about why the senator did not attend. Governor Terry Branstad says there is no reason to delay plans to shift iowas medicaid operation to private management. This comes after a judge recommended the state throw out one of four contracts awarded to companies to run the program. The governor says the state always planned to have between two and four Companies Running the program. But he says the state has not decided hoto move forward. The iowa medicicd program is set to shift to private management starting january 1st. The 250 preschool students going to class in the linnmar School District could one day be under ononroof. As kcrgtv99 Jill Kasparie reports district leaders want to make the change, but have not decided where. Start of jingle bells from practicing music c learning health t tse kids and their nats of food conversation teacher melissa bray recently took on another assignment. She joinededther parents and administrator s as part of the preschool advisory board. The committee was formed in order to make an educated decision on what we think would be best for our district whether it would be to o ve preschool classrooms stay in elementary buildings or to have them be in a centerbased program. We came to the conclusion that a centerbased program would be our recommendation the district says thatat could become a reality in the next three to five years. With so much demand, there just isnt enough space in the kindergarten program. Linnmar is a big, growing district and our preschool is growing at the same rate, and we always have large waiting lists. The district says while centralized preschool would also help with space issues in elementary buildings, school leleders say they wanted to make this decision based on whats best for the kids. We have about 20 percent of k students with zero preschool experience and those are the kids that we want to reach. As the teachers hahang collaboration with each other, we hope to also have adequate space, the use of new technology, families to have a Central Location to go to. They want to keep these kids busy and learning for a brighter future. In a one e rse open sleigh hey that was tv9s Jill Kasparie with that report. The district says it plans to work out the details such as location and cost in the future. A saint lukes employees dream has come true, thanks to her coworkers efforts. More than 50 people raised enough money to send resa collier to disney world. She is a custodian at the hospitata friends say she brings joy to all of her coworkers and patients. After colliers father recently passed away, they wanted to do something to bring that joy back into her life. The emotion, the happiness, just lost my father, so they were my new family and they had been with me through thick and thin theres just no describing howowuch love i felt. She plans to take the all expensespaid trip with her husband in october. Someone cauut the entire surprise on camera, and its been shared all over social media. Mercy Medical Center in cedar rapids is making sure all mothers are able to give breast milk to their babies. The hospital has started a new donor milk program. It offers donor breast milk to newborns who need the supplemental milk when their mothers cant produce it. The program has no income requirements, and its free to l mothers. The hospipil has purchased the milk from university of iowa health cares Mothers Milk Bank of iowa. Today people around the country and in eastern iowa will be raisininawareness for world aids day. Today university of iowa aloud names of people who lost their lives to aids. This is video from last years reading of the names event. Linn county puuic health is also providing hiv testing starting today through friday. Students at one eastern iowa after School Program will have an easier way of getting to and from ththcenter. Thats thanks to one anonymous donor who is embracing the meaning of the season of giving. Up next. This mornings weather wise question. Meteorologist kaj omara is up right after the break. First Alert Storm Team meteorologist kaj omara joins us now. Plan on thick clouds to be in the region today. If we are lucky enough to get a break in cloud cover this morning, theyll fill right back in. A few scattered flurries may fly around as well, but no issues or accumulation s are expected with few more flurries may be in the air again, too. The big story of the extended forecast is warmer conditions for friday and especially into the weekend. Overall, we are in a classic el nino pattern, and this tends to lead to a mild december at the very least. In addition, there are no major storm systems for the next 7 days that will impact iowa. Perhaps this weekend is yo weekend to get the Christmas Decorations out have a good day today scattered flurries high 3238 winds sw 1525 alo 35 dbq 37 iow 37tonight chancncof flurries low 2531 winds w 1020 alo 28 dbq 28 iow 29tomorrow cloudy, scattered flflries high 3339 winds nw 1020 alo 36 dbq 36 iow 38tomorrow night mostly cloudy low 2228 winds nw 515 alo 24 dbq 26 iow 28 people in cedar rapids can see a new 35 foot the lights arep on the tree, but they wont turn n the lights until a special event tt city council in iowowcity will hold a public hearing in two weeks to go over plans for a controversial fifteenstory high according to the Iowa City Press citizen, the city Council Voted 5 to 0 to hold the public hearing too talk about extending the chauncey projects deadline. Two lawsuits attempting to block the project are in the appeal stage. They have significantly slowed down construction. The meeting will be on december 15th. Starting today, people can use a new online database that showcases all the Historic Properties in cedar rapids. The site has information on where they are and what characteristics the properties have. The city will hold two informational sessions today a the Downtown Library at noon and 5 30 this evening. The Obama Administration is boosting the amount of ethanol and other Renewable Fuels in the us gasoline supply. The Environmental Protection agency said it will increaea the nations renewable fuel standards. The agency says it will require more than 18 billion gallons of Renewable Fuels next year. Thats less than the level lawmakers set in 2007, but more proposed last spring. Iowa produces more corn for ethanol than any other state. Governor branstad released a statement saying hes disappointed that the epa didnt follow what congress had called for. He said, the decision shows the lack of interest in providing consums choice at the pump. Creating jobs, and increasing incomes in rural america, and reducing our dependence on foreign oil. The mayor of dubuque will attend an important event in paris this week. Roy buol is coleadingng four member r legation of midwest mayors at the paris climate conference. That conference involves many world leaders, including president obama. The mayors will be there on thursday. E group will reprprent the Mississippi River cities and Towns Initiative at the conference. Last week, buol told tv nine that he believes Climate Change could dramatically impact the Mississippi River. An afterSchool Program now has a better way to help students get to and an anonymous donor gave the Dubuque Dream Center two school buses which volunteers can use to transport students enrolled in that program. The dream Center Director says the after School Program help kids who need some structure when class lets out. But its also away to engage and prove the neighborhoods. For there to be a change and for people to understand one another. We need to build relationships with the families and the people who live in downtown dubuque. The dream center is a Nonprofit Organization that runs only on grants and nations. Directors say the two buses are something they never would have ever been to afford without that donation. People in cedar rapids are starting out the month of december with a 2 and a halfton Christmas Tree in the city. A large crane pulled the citys new 35foot chchistmas tree into itsts designatat spot on mays island yesterday. A family donated the colorado spruce from their property in southwest cedar rapids. City estimates the trereis about 30 years old. You dont always see trees flying through the air. Its a different thing to do. Its always kind of a neat process more than a dozen workers helped to stabilize the tree with cables. They also decorated the tree with 11hundred led light bulbs. The city is planning to light the tree on friday at 5 30 pm. Now heres our morning mugshot on your tuesday. Its the annual cedar rapids nativity celebration. Members and friends of the church of jesus chriri of latterday saints invite you to this growing holiday tradition. Enjoy nearly seven hundred different nativity setsincludin the nearly lifesized armstrongsmulekoff natitity. Its at the lds church on blue jay drive northeast in cedar rapids on friday from 11 am to nine pm. And saturday from 11 am to visitors are encouraged to bring a non perishable food item for a local food pantry. If you have a nonprofit event or organization youd like to see ffatured. Send us an email. Mugshot at kcrgdotcom. Heres what you need to know as door on your tuesday. Voters in waterloo and cedar falls will head to the polls today. Councilman quentin hart and former mayor tim waterloo. And mayor jon crews and businessman jim brown will be on the ballot for mayor in cedar falls. Crews is endorsing brown. Polls open at seven andd close at eight pm. Well have all the r rults here on tv9. Republican president ial candidate jeb bush will be in eastern iowa today. Hell be at the university of dubuque at 8 30 this morning. Then, hell be in waterloo for a town hall meeting at noon. And Boys High School hoops starts tonight on kcrg nine point two. The season tips off at 7 30 with the raiders of williamsburg travelling to take on the mustangs of mount vernon. Again, thats tonight on kcrg 9. 2. Now, one last look at this mornings weather, kaj. Plan on thick clouds to be in the region today. If we are lucky enough to get a break in cloud cover this morning, theyll fill right back in. A few scattered flurries may fly around as well, bu no issues or accumulation s are expectct with those. On wednesday, clouds few more flurries may be in the air again, too. The big story of the extended forecast is warmer conditions for friday and especially into the weekend. Overall, we are in a classic el nino pattern, and this tends to lead to a mildld december at the very least. In addition, there are no major storm systems for the next 7 days that will impact iowa. Perhaps this weekend is your weekend to get the Christmas Decorations out have a good day today windy, scattered flurries high 3238 windd sw 1525 alo 35 d d 37 iow 37tonight hey this holiday, u. S. Cellulars giving you 50 more data than verizon and at t for the same price. But i wanted a pony. [ gasps ] youre getting datat ponysized data . No. U. S. Cellular sized data. 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