Alert forecast, kaj. Plan on another windy day in the area with highs around 30 degrees in many spots. Along this cold front, a passing snow shower may occur, mainly along and north of a waterloomaquoketa line. While no major issues are anticipated, a brief reductctn in visibility could occur in anynynow shower. Well see our coldest night of december so far tonight, with lows in the midteens. Plan on a nice saturday with highs back in the mid30s. Midupper 40s are still on track for sunday with a chance of rain by evening. Have a great weekend family and friends of an 18yearold iowa state student killed this week will honor her life today. Family and friends of an 18yearold iowa state student killed this week will honor her life today. The Center Point United Methodist church is holding a visitation today. Its for emmalee jacobs who died on monday after a hit and run on the ames campus. She just graduated from center pointurbana high school last may. Jacobs put a lot of her time into her Center Point United Methodist church youth programs. Her pastosays shell be greatly missese the visitation is today from 4 to 8 this evening. The funeral will be tomorrow morning at 10 30 at centerpoint urbana high school. Authorities are still trying to figure out how a central iowa teens body ended up in a pond. Search and rescue crews recovered 17yearold sam kepts body in a pond off highway 141 near granger. Thats the area sam was last seen saturday leaving a house party. Officials spent hours combing through woods and ditches, even searching from the air before making the devastating discovery. A spokeswoman for the family says no mother should have to bury her chilil sammy was their family, their flesh and blood, you know . Still no word yet on how this happened. Authorities say its too early to determine if its suspicious. Its been almost two weeks since authorities found 18yearold moe seds body in the cedar river. Thehefound the waterloo teens body y december 6th, and he went missing on october 22nd. There were no signs of trauma, and authorities are still trying to figure out what happened. A hiawatha family lost almost everything in a fire at a Mobile Home Park earlier this week. The butlerwilliams family says they are lucky no one was home wn the fire started tuesday night. It happened at sunset Mobile Home Park right off i380 st after six oclolo. The fire caused significant damage, forcing the family to find another home. Investigators believe the fire was an accident. Four emts who were in the area for a medical call were the first ones to notote the fire. As tv9s Sarah Mccarthy reports, they didnt hesitate to jump into action. 02 40 48 shsaid, i think thats on fire. So we all look over, i see flames, 02 29 28 hiawatha fire to a trailer fire on sunset. 02 07 54 normally, were at the firehouse and someone calls dispatch. Were not usually the ones calling dispatch sayingheres a fire out here. Address is 236 sunset. 02 43 32 i helped set up some scene lights because it was dark at the time. Engine 284 to 264. 02 46 55 we were in the checout line when my mom called and said the house was on fire, shshsaid the Fire Department was already here, attempting to put it out. 85 to 287 02 32 08 while they were in route we were running a 360, trying to getting scene awareness, we went to the windows and door to make sure no one was home. 02 30 02 looks like the trailers full of smoke. No signs of anybody inside. 02 47 48 it just seemed like chaos. There were multiple fire trucss here. It was just unreal. Unreal until you see his baby sons christmas stcking hanging in a burned out living om. And near the famimis five year old daughters room. 02 42 32 all the presents were back here, i mean theyre gone. For Robert Butler this aftermath is bad, but. Were lucky, because it couldve been worse. I mean its just a shell, but its Still Standing even though theres a massive amount of smoke and water damage inside. Damage decreased because of a glance in the right direction. 02 08 17 there was like a couple seconds where wewee like , is this really happening . But then your training and instincts kick in. And a fire crew who knew what to do. 02 19 01 especially close to the holidays, you never want to see that happ to anyone. Its tough personally, but professionally its very very tough. That was tv9s Sarah Mccarthy with that story. The red cross is helping the family with temporary housing. If youd like to help them, weve put a link for theit go fund me page on kcrg dot com. In a tv9 follllup this morning. Some at the university of iowa are protesting a controversial comment from president Bruce Harreld. Hey hey ho h Bruce Harreld has got to go. Theyre angry after harreld said teachers who dont come prepared to class should be shot. This week, harreld backtracked on thdt comment he made during a Staff Council meeting. Yesterday, a University Spokesman said harreld was directing the comment at himself. Protesters say it doesnt matter who was the intended target, it was inappropriate. I dont understand how you could be so, unsensitive and ignorant in using those words, but his is proving why we dont have any confidence in him. Harreld was not available to comment. The University Said in a statement it respects the protesters right to gather. The iowa hawkeyes are getting ready for the rose bowl. Theyre moving their gear from the Football Operations center all the way to pasadena, california. This equipment truck outfitted with roses is leaving today. They filled the truck yesterday. And equipment crews go over every last detail to make sure theyre prepared. Thehere even taking winter jackets to california. We do leave some stuff on the truck thats game day only, so like players capes, heavy coats, i learned a couple years ago we always take our winter coats because it was cold in southern florida at t e orange bowl, so there are some things t tt stay on there and hopefully we never have to touch, but in case we need it, its there. The truck will arrive in los angeles on monday the Football Team on christmas eve. At that point everything will be set up for them. Another factor in getting down there is wegther. The truck driver has budgeted at extra day of travel just in case anything comes s. Two small eastern iowa towns are getting what theyve been hoping for for the holidays full Service Grocery stores. Fareway stores announced agreements to open stores in both anamosa and peosta. Those new locations join that chains 112 stores in five states. For anamosa, the fareway announcement solved a roblem almost as soon as it began this family foods store, the only full Service Grocery in town, closed ten days ago after 50 years in business. The company will renovate the existing building and hopes to open by late spring or early summer. Grocery stores especially one in the downtown, such as this is, are very instrumental in the closeknit nature of a community they keep a community thriving. Its a different story in peosta. The town has worked for 10 years to interest someone in opening the firstever grory store. A new fareway building should open in about a year. Perfection is possible. At least when it comes to standardized tests for one Iowa High School senior. Matthew brucker from Ankeny High School scored a perfect score on both the act and sat. He says he didnt do anything special to prepare for the tests and calls himself just a regular student. Brucker hasnt decided where hell go to c clege, but he plans to study we want to remind you to send in nominations for our gazette kcrg tv9 student of the month. If you know a student that excels in the classroom, the arts and the communini, head to kcrg dot com slash student of the month. We will announce three finalists for january on the first tuesday of the month. What do you get when you combine a long exposusu camera, a light and a drone . Sounds like a bad joke but its making Holiday Light paintings in the skymore ahead in todays techbytes. Good morning its. Heres a penny st for you. Thats no penny. Thats a galaxy s 6 at u. S. Cellular this saturday. Whoa, thanks, grandma youre welcome. You can also get an lg g4 ororn lg g pad f 8. 0 with that penny. Nice isnt that just delightful . Pennies for everyone get penny doorbuster deals on great devices this saturday starting at 9 00 a. M. Around 30 degrees in many spots. Alolo this cold front, a passing snow shower may occur, mainly along and north of a waterloomaquoketa line. While no major issues are anancipated, a brief reduction in visibility could occur in any snow shower. Well see our coldest night of december so far tonight, with lows in the midteens. Plan on a nice saturday with highs back in the mid30s. Midupper 40s are still on track for sunday with a chahae of rain by evening. Have a great weekend plan on another windy day in the area with highs around 30 degrees in many spots. Along this cold front, a passing snow shower may occur, mainly along and north of a line. While no major issues are anticipated, a brief reduction in visibility could occur in a a snow shower. Well see our coldest night of december so far tonight, with l ls in the dteens. Plan on a nice saturday with highs back in the mid30s. Midupper 40s ararstill on track for sunday with a chance of rain by evening. Have a great weekend thanks kaj. Mornings techbytes. Trt oc hey there in todays tick the 6s today at best buy. You have to sign up for either verizon or sprint for two years to get that price. Best buy will throw in a gift card for tradeins. New way to search for your favorite movies on netflix. Users 10 users cans voice commands to look for specific tv and movie series. And heres a drone thats obviously in the holiday spirit. Its german manufacture mounted l. E. D. Lights with a flight pattern. Santa and his reindeer present delivered to homes. Have a great day, everyone. Today to meet with the victims of the terror attack and their families. This comes as pilice arrest syed farooks childhood friend who bought the weapons used in the shooting. Abcs Stephanie Ramos has the details. More than 2 weeks after the terror attack in San Bernardino. 24 year ol enrique marqueza chililood friend of shooter syed marquez arriving with the fbi late thursday at this federal courthouse in riverside california. To face serious terror charges. Authorities say 4 years ago. Marquez bought the two assault rifles used in the shooting. Nats chaos on San Bernardino scene. Ambula nces. Etc marquez himself called 911 after the shoooong spree. Identifying farook as the killer . Using his gun. Home soon after farook and his wife, tashfeen malik, opened fire killing 14 people at the inland regional center. Investigators say the two friends initially planned attacking a Southern California community college. Then. Wanand to target driverss stuck in r rhhour raffic on a california freeway by using pipe bombs and then shooting drivers. Plots dating back to 2011 that never happened. Sot brad garrett, former fbi special agent abc news consultant weeks befofo the attack friends s say marquez dropped hints of an impending attack. Nick rodriguez he would just talk,about how theres so many sleeper cells. Somethi ng big would happen. Nats president obama will make a trip to San Bernardino today to meet with the victims and their families. Sot president obama sot Karen SpignerSan Bernardino i do appreciate him coming and talking to the families, and this is going to go a long way towards healing. Tag according to the federal complaint, farook persuaded marquez to convert to islam and then radicalized him. Rquez is also facing weapons charges and immigration fraud for an allegedsham marriage with a member of farooks extended family. Stephanie ramos abc News Washington one eastern i iwa man is trying to help families in need. And hes trying to break down stereotypes about his religion at the same time. Youre looking live on our camera this morning. Kaj will be back right after the break with a look at your friday forecast. Stay with us. Meteorologist kaj omara joins first alalt forecast. Plpl on another windy dadain the area with highs s ound 30 degrees in many spots. Along this cold front, a passing snow and north of a waterloomaquoketa line. While no major issues are anticipated, a brief reduction in visibility could occur in any snow shower. Well see our coldest night of f cember so far tonight, with lows in the midteens. Plan on a nice saturday with highs back in the mid30s. Midupper 40s are still on track for sunday with a chance of rain by evening. Have a great weekend Mount Mercy University has new plans for its campus. It wants to have true Home Field Advantage when it plays against its opopnents, so its planning new outdoor athletic fields. Good friday morning to you from tv9. Youre looking live on our city cam. Its december 18th and heres what you need to know totoy. The federal Government Forces iowa to delay the switch from public to privatized medicaid. The switch will now ppen on mah first. A hiawatha family is without a home for the holidays after a fire destroyed theirs. They owe what they do have to Quick Response by emts in the area. Today ti meet with victims of the terror attacks and their families. And police have arrested a man in connection with the case. Gop president ial hopefuls are stopping in eastern iowa today and tomorrow to meet voters. And democrats are gearing up for a debate. And anamosa and peosta are getetng new grocery stores. Fareway announces it will open stores in both communities. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour nws source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on another windy day in the area with highs around 30 degrees in many spots. Cold front, a passing snow shower may occur, mainly along and north of a waterloomaquoketa line. While a brief reduction in visibility could occur in any snow shower. Well see our coldest night of december so far tonight, with lows in the midteens. Plan on m nice saturday with hhs back in the mid30s. Midupper 40s with a a ance of rain by eveningnghave a great weekend iowans using medicaid now have more time to sign up for a new program. M. The federal governmenenstepped in, delaying the transition from a public to private system. The federal government ordered the state yesterday to delay the transition until march 1st. The centers for medicare and Medicaid Services says the extra time will help the state move half a Million People to one of four private insurance companies. Governor branstad had original wanted to make the switith by january 1st. This shift comes as some people complained that iowa was moving too quickly to shift patients to private care. Kcrgtv9s chris earl reports one mother of 3 in marengo says even getting information to hospspals for the switch was time consuming. Kelli scott never expected to news on medidiid then trenton came into the world nearly 2 years ago, the youngest of 3 siblings. But with Treacher Collins syndrome. About one in 50,000 people is touched by it. He is lacking facial bone development. Small jaw. He doesnt have cheekbones and you can see his eyes are a little bit lower. The challenges arent just on the outside. A tcs patient also has smaller airways. If youre a parent, imagine the sniffles leading to a trip to the hospital. Nearly every time. A common day cold puts him in the hospital. Kelli notes her other children, 17yearold page and 7yearold payton are on the familys private insurance but medicaid isnt just on income guidelines it also coverrdisabilities. To traasfer trenton and his medicaid in recent weeks. Id call the hospitals and try to help them by getting on the right program for trenton and they could not tell me anything. They told me to keep calling back. Now, a 60day wait for iowa with about 15 of the population using medicaid to truly have the infrastructure handle the transfer. I reeeived thousands of emails from people across the stateondering whatsgoing to happen next. W are thegoing to know ichmanaged care ganization toign up with . Ybe their child has 5 different doctors and each is ith adifferent managed reoperation. Thats the case r trenton, with a team of doctors tween uihc and unity point hhlth st. Lukes in cedar rapids. And, for the shift, kelli will be ready amid the others trying to transfer their coverage. I can be on the phone long periods of time even though its hard. Kcrgtv9s chris earl w wh that story. Most Health Care Providers and political leaders in iowa approve of the delay. That included state senator liz mathis, who has been one oothe biggest critics of governor branstads plan. Giving caregivers more appreciation is a new focus for one cedar rapids hospital. Mercy Medical Center in cedar rapids opened the new family caregivers center. It says theres plenty of research about those who help an elderly parent or sick spouse deal with intense stress and even loneliness. So, the center pairs each caregiver with a volunteer coach, who works with a family to provide support. Family caregivers are stressed because they feel overwhelmed and isolated. And often times they cant figure oututhat they need en theyre taking caca of someone with a chronic condition. So our center will the Mercy Foundation is raising money for the family caregivers center, which is currently working with 50 families. Several republican president ial candidates are stumping through iowa today and this weekend following the debate earlier this week. Senator marco rubio will be talking to voters in dubuque following stops in other cities yesterday. He spoke at a town hall in muscatine yesterday. Today, rubio will hold a town hall at giese sheet metal in dubuque. That will be at 12 45 this afternoon. Carly fiorina will also be talking to voters in dubuque today. She has two other stops planned, as well. Fiorina will start in clinton at 11 this morning. Then she will go to dubuque. Fiorinas town hall there starts at 2 oclock this afternoon. Finally, she finishes off her r day with a christmas reception in davenport at 5 this evening. Republican president ial frontrunner donald trump will be coming to cedar rapids tomorrow. He plans to hold an event at the Veterans Memorial coliseum at 2 oclock. In a recent abc News Washington post poll, trump is leading the other 13 38 percent support. Campaign stops in iowa, Democratic Candidates are getting ready for their debate tomorrow. And Martin Omalley will faceoff in New Hampshire tomorrow. You can watch that even oclock. One cedar rapids man has launched a Fundraising Campaign to help struggling families, but his efforts also come with another message. Its e of kindness and love. Hassan selim is a religious leader at the Islamic Center of cedar rapids. He recently started a Gofundme Campaign to raise 30 thousand dollars for the Salvation Army to help struggling families. Selim says he wants to help his neighbors and create a positive message surrounding the muslim community. 8 06 56 comments that are made by ceain people, certain politicians the bad news coming from the middle east and even here weve been hit by terrorism so all of these things just fuel bad feelings s and people dont feel comfortable, dont feel safe, dont feel like they can trust each other and i just wanted to share with some people the good if you want to help, you can find a link to his gofundme page with this story on kcrg dot com. Thealvation army in cedar rapids hopes it spread some holiday cheer. More than 250 people turned out for a holiday meal yesterday afternoon. Extra volunteers came together to make it happen. Organizers say each year it gets little bigger. Major paul logan says this meal is all about the holiday spirt and spending time with friends. Its open to the public so anyone who wants to, they can come, if they want to stretch their budget a little bit or if they want the fellowship together so its really open to anybody who just wants to enjoy some time. The Salvation Army is still working to reach its 790 thousand dollar Christmas Campaign goal. It still needs to raise about 330thousand dollars. The m mey helps Fund Programs throughout the year. People now have an idea of what university in cedar rapids plans to do in order to add outdoor athletic fields. Thehe5 Million Dollar capapal campmpgn is called the Home Field Advantage project. The goal is to provide a true home field for the universitys track and field, baseball, softball, and soccer teams. Soo far, crews haveveleared the land close to campus. Up until now the mustangs outdoor teams have been competing throughout the city, often on High School Fields and tracks. 17 49 weve been looking at different facilities and so forth and, in the last 6 weeks, ive learned about track surfaces and artificial turf and weve been to some places but this is about what we want to do and how we want to model something. Mount mercy leaders also stressed the importance of having facilities accessible to young people in the nearby moundview neighborhood. Star wars seems to be about everywhere you look today. And that includes one cedar rapididchurch. Its using the series plot to teach the bible. Up next. This mornings weather wise question. Meteorologist k omara is up First Alert Storm Team meteorologist kaj omara joins us now. Plan on another windy day in around 30 degrees in many spots. Along this cold front, a passing snow shower may occur, mainly along and north of a waterloomaquoketa line. While no major issues are anticipated, a brief reduction in visibility could occur in any snow shower. Well see our coldest night of december so far tonight, with lows in the midteens. Plan on a nice saturday with highs back in the mid30s. Midupper 40s are still on track for sunday with a chance of rain by evening. Have a great weekend thanks kaj. The area with highs around 30 degrees in many spots. Along this cold front, a passing snow shower may cur, mainly waterloomaquoketa line. While no major issues are antipated, a d brief reduction in visibility could occur in any snow shower. Well see our coldest night of december so far tonight, with lows in the midteens. Plan on a nice saturday with highs back in the mid30s. Midupper 40s are still on track for sunday with a chance of rain by evening. Have a great weekend thanks kaj. We have less than a week until many people havent bought their presents yet. But they still have this weekend to grab those goodies. And dubuque businesses one person from cedar r rids is in the hospital this morning. Thats after a late night fire. The Fire Department responded to the area of i avenue and first street northwest. They got on scene around 10 oclock last night, but hours. First responders took one person to the hospital who had set up a tent in that area. The Fire Department hasnt said how severe the persons injuries were or how the eire started. City leaders in cedar rapids shared a year in review on the citys Flood Control system. The Flood ControlProgram Manager says in 2015, the city transitioned from Flood Recovery to t control stage. Crews have met with the community and have laid out plananfor a series of levees, removable walls and permanent walls to protect the community from the cedar river. While we are not flooding today, its just an emphasis of why we need to do this. We are having record flows in the cedar river for the month of december. Just imagine if this was happening in the summer, we would need this. They also discussed a big project thats slated to begin in late 2016. Theyre already preparing land at the former sinclair site newbo area. In a tv9 followup this morning. Cedar rapids could soon make some changes to the nuisance property ordinance. That ordinance holds landlords accountable for the upkeep and number of emergency calls to their properties. The ehange will make sure the ci doesnt penalize crime viviims who are just trying to get emergency help. A vote on the modified ordinance is coming in january. People in cedar rapids will have easy access to bus routes starting today. The Cedar Rapids Transit Division is launching their mobile application. Users will be able to view bus routes, track buses in real tim and figure out when the next bus will arrive at a location. Lots of people still dont have all of their Holiday Shopping done, but that could change this weekend. The National Retail federation says 90 percent of people still have some Holiday Shopping to do. Many shoppers in dubuque say they plan to finish by t torrow. That is traditionally one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Retailers say it seems shoppers are spending a little t more money this year. Gasoline prices are relatively low, so thats putting a few more bucks in everyones pocket. So it wont encourage more people to come to a shopping mall, but it may allow them to spend more on some of the National Retail federation also says more people are looking for an experience, rather than a traditional gift. A cedar rapids churcis talking about faith through the storyline of star wars, as the new movie is making Box Office History in theatres. First Lutheran Church played some clips from the first six movies last night. Pastor craig brown told members about the fall of anakin n ywalker as he joined the dark side, becoming darth vader. He also talked about his redemption through his son, luke. Pastor brown likened it to the redemption through christ. 12 36 00 i think one of the biggest allures of this franchise is the battle between good and even. And i think thats something that resonates with people of faith. Star wars fan himselflf. And binge watchehethe episodes to find the right clips. Heres our morning mugshot on your friday. Holy family gala. Its february 5th at the st. Patrick Parish Center in cedar rapids. This fundraising Event Features an evening of dinner, music, live and silent auctions and a a t of fun. The archbishop of d duque will be there as well. Funds raised benefit the holy family Tuition Assistance program. Reservations are 50 dollars per person. You can m me those reservations by callili the chchrch at 3193627966 if you have a nonprofit event or organization youd like to e featured. Send us an email. Mugshot at kcrgdotcom. Heres what you need to know as heres a penny just for you. Thats no penny. Thats a galaxy s 6 at u. S. Cellular this saturday. Whoa, thanks, grandma ure welcome. You can also get an lg g4 or an lg g pad f 8. 0 with that penny. Nice isnt that just delightful . Pennies for everyone get penny doorbuster deals on great devices this saturday starting at 9 00 a. M. Door on your friday. The federal government is delay the transition of medicaid from public run to private run. The trtrsition was supposed to happen onnanuary first. First. The extra time will allow more people to choose a private care company. Family and friends will gather to mourn the life of emmalee jacobs tonight. The urbana teen and iowa state student died from a hitandrun in ames. Police havent found the person who hit her. Her visitation is tonight from four to eight at center poininunited methodist church. Several republicananandidates will be in eastern iowa today and this weekend. Senator marco rubio will host a town hall meeting in dubuque at 12 45 at giese sheet metal. Carly fiorina will make stops in clinton, dubuque and davenport. And donald trump will be in cedar rapids tomorrow. Now, one last look at this mornings weather, kaj. Plan on another windy day in the area with highs around 30 degrees in many spots. Along this cold front, a passing snow shower may occur, mainly along and north of a waterloomaquoketa line. While no major issues are anticipated, a brief reduction in visibility couldccur in any snow shower. Well see our coldest night of december so far tonight, with lows in the midteens. Plan on a nice saturday with highs back in the mid30s. Midupper 40s are still on track for sunday with a chance of rain by evening. Have a great weend we certainly hope your i i off to a a od start. Good morning america is next. And well be back with a local news update at 7 25. Also make sure to join us at eleven for the kcrg tv9 news at america this morning. Wow. Good mornini, america. Stununng new details about plots planned by that San Bernardino terrorist