Alert forecast, kaj. Falling temperatures are likely today with a few scattered flurries likely as well. Plan on temperatures to be into the lower 20s in many areas by 5pm with upper teens also possible north of highway 20. Thehealling temperature trend continues right into the weekend with temperatures into the Single Digits on saturday. Some snow is still possible saturday night, mainly over the southern half of the area. Amounts will be very minor, and generally under 1. The big story continues to be on the Colder Weather for sunday with subzero highs likely in all locations. Wind chill numbers on sunday morning will very likely be in the 30 to 40 range with isolated colder values. Carry jumper cables with you and ensure you have plenty of gas in your vehicle if youll be out on sunday. Layer up, and dont forget about your several School Districts in eastern iowa are now using propane buses instead of the older diesel models. Cedar rapids, linn mar, vintonshellsburg are just some of those districts. Propane is considered a g gener alternative to diesel. It emits fewer Greenhouse Gases because it has a lower carbon content compared to diesel. Propane buses cost about 5 thousand dollars more than their diesel counterparts. But districts say they recoup the cost from lower propane prices. Right now, diesel is selling for 2 dollars and 18 cents per gallon. Midwest residential propane is selling for 1 dollar and 47 cents per gallon, according to the Us Energy Information administration. The buses are also becoming a popular option for harsh iowa winters. As kcrgtv9s Jill Kasparie ports, propane buses are becoming the way of the future. Nats of bus rolling in some new buses are rolling into eastern iowa. Theyre opening the door to savings. Running a diesel fuel. And then, in an oil change we only have to change seven quarts of oil versus 18 to 29 with some of our buses. The cedar rarads School District is expecting to receive its new propane fueled buses in time for next school year. Up the road at linnmar drivers started using their four new propane buses this school year. We are projecting about 3,200 a year o osavings per bus, and thats not just in fuel but in reoccurring maintenance costs. Those who sell the buses say theres Something Else thats grabbing the interest of iowa School Districts. Propane buses dont have problems in the bitter cold, like diesel engines. With a diesel bus, number one you are going to hope that you have it plugged in, number two you are going to hope you have your fuel properly blended so you dont have a gelling issue, which will ave that sitting basically along the road, which then involves a tow truck. Were told that propane buses can start up even week with temperatures hovering around zero, linnmars transportation manager put his new buses to the test. We did have one bus ice up that morning, a diesel bus, had no issues with the propane operation whatsoever most School Districts also plug buses into block heaters to warm them for the cold day ahead. Linnmar says it doesnt even do that with its propane buses. We have actually opted this year to run our without using the block heaters just to test them and we have had no issues at all. Tv9s Jill Kasparie with that story. Linnmar had to purchase a propane fueling system for 27 thousand dollars. Cedar rapids says its going to build a 10 thousand dollar base and plans to lease the fueling equipment. A federal Appeals Court has refused to reduce the sentence for a former Iowa State University scientist who falsified aids research. Dongpyou han had received a sentence of 57 said that was unreasonable. This week, an Appellate Court upheld the sentence. A group of harvard researchers discovered han and his Research Team had improperly used rabbit blood to achieve some promising results in fighting aids. The cedar falls Area Education Agency 267 is on its way increasing its budget this year. According to the waterloo cedar falls courier, the board of directors gave initial approval to 58 point 5 Million Dollars this week. Thats a 3 point 35 percent increase over last years budget. This budget is based off assumptions that aea 267 wont receive any state or other categorical aid. The board is also assuming there will be a drop in enrollment in School Districts and private schools in 18 North Central and northeast iowa counties. Waterloo schools are getting rid off a slower paced beginning algebra class to challenge stududts. According to the waterloo cedar falls courier, the board of education approved the High School Course catalog on monday. Students are required graduate, including algebra 1. One option to meet that requirement has included splitting the yearlong class to take it over two years. Now thats only an option in Certain Circumstance s. The iowa racing and Gaming Commission is fining the isle of capri casino in waterloo for letting someone underage gamble and drink. Radio iowa reports the casino has to pay 20 thousand dolllls. Last july, an underage woman made it onto the gambling floor. The casinos director of operations says the Company Fired two employees involved, and suspended another. Lisbon police are searching for a man who broke into a local bar and may have burglarized some homes. Police say the man broke into whiteys bar and grill early in the morning on december 27th. This is Surveillance Video from that morning. Police say he stole money and damaged a cash register, an atm, a juke box, and game machines. If you have any information, call lisbon police. The country is still waiting for he three winners of Powerball Jackpot to come forward and claim their prize. Country also became overnight millionaires by matching most of the powerball numbers. Enough for one Million Dollars. Eight tickets won two million. And an iowan won one of those two milliln dollar prizes. That ticket came from a caseys Convenience Store in western iowa. It matched the first five numbers but missed the powerball. Thats good for a Million Dollars, dut the buyer also took the power play option which doubled the prize. Nearly 225 thousand tickets in iowa won prizes. Seven tickets in the state were just one numr away from getting a share of the big prize Million Dollars buying Powerball Tickets for this drawing. A chairperson for the Powerball Group says it has sold more than three point two billion dollars worth of tickets since november. Some of that money goes back into the public sector. Of that amount, more than 1. 2 billion is going directly to its a great win for the entire country he said about 40 cents of each Powerball Ticket goes to those programs. In a tv9 followup this morning. Pipe work is done and the heat is back on at the linn county courthouse this morning. Pipes burst earlier this week, leaving a mess and cutting off heat to the building. A portable heating and power unun from the countys Emergency Management agency pumped heat into the building until the regular system was back. Now the county is trying to get answers. What the county has done is weve hired an engineering expert. And we have a manufacturers representative on site trying to figure out what happened there were two leaks in the system that heats both the jail and courthouse. Pocket in the pipes. Some users of the hightech thermostat nest are and amazon has a new gift for users to celebrate its golden globe victories. Thats ahead in todays techbytes. Good morning its. Falling temperatures are likely today wh a [ horn honks ] okay, this is u. S. Cellular, and this is verizon. Now, same phones, but with u. S. Cellular you get 6 gigs of 4g data for only 40 per month 20 less than verizon. And u. S. Cellulars network was built to work in places like out here, here, and here. So, with all of that, why would yoyoever go to verizon . Switch to u. S. Cellular now and get 6 gigs of data for just 40 a month plus get 300 back. Few scattered flurries likely as well. Plan on temperatures to be into the lower 20s in many areas by 5pm with upper teens also possible north of highway 20. The falling temperature trend continues right into the weekend with temperatures into the Single Digits on saturday. Some snow is still possible saturday night, mainly over the southern half of the area. Amounts will be very minor, and generally under 1. The big story continues to be on the Colder Weather for sunday with subzero highs likely in all locations. Wind chill numbers on sunday morning will very likely be in the 30 to 40 ranan with isolatat colder values. Carry jumper cables with you and ensure you have plenty of gas in your on sunday. Layer up, and dont forget about your pets today sct. Flurries, windy high 2531 winds nw 1530 alo 23 dbq 28 iow 29tonightht clearing colder low 612 winds nw 1525 alo 1 dbq 8 iow 10tomorrow chance of snow late high 612 winds nw 1020 alo 4 dbq 7 iow 10tomorrow night chance of snow low 126 winds nw 1020 alo 13 dbq 10 iow 8 thanks kaj. Now heres abcs reena ninan with this mornjngs techbytes trt oc in todays techbytes net users are complaining about using left in the cold. Ever since they got a Software Update last month. Nest said the problem has been resolved for over 99 . And amazon is celebrating its Golden Globes success. Get amazon prime for 76. And espn getting serious about gaming. Abcs Sister Network has launched a new division, espn esports. Will cover the world of competitive gaming, top gamers thats a lote a great t y. Im here at my house, on thanksgiving day and i have a massive heart attack right in my driveway. The doctor putute on a bayer aspirin regimen. Be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. Go talk to your doctor. The gop president ial the debate stage for the first time in 2016. The showdown was in charleston, south carolina, just a couple of weeks before the first votes are cast in iowa. Heres abcs Stephanie Ramos with details from washington. 7 gop president ial candidates. One debate stage. And no lack of attacks. First up. President obama. Fresh off of tuesdays state of the union address. Sot cruz president obama didnt so much as mention the ten sailors that had been captured by iran. Sot christie on tuesday, i watched story time with barack obama this debate. Had the fewest number of candidates on the main stage. A last ditch. H. Hh profile effort to persuade voters before the february 1st iowa caucuses. The gloves coming off between donald trump and ted cruz. This bromance apparently over. A Testy Exchange between the 2 candidates about accusations that cruz might not be legally able to serve as president because of his great constitutiona l lawyers who say you cant be taking legal advice from donald trump. Cruz also forced to defend a new report that Election Commission about a Million Dollar loan from campaign. Sot cruz i made a paperwork error disclosing it on one piece of paper but not on the oth. Cruz then throwing more jabs at trump, attacking his chief rivals conservative credentials by saying he represents new york values sot cruz not a lot of conservatives come out of manhattan. Trump called the jab insulting, and praised new yorks response to 9 11. Sot trump when the World Trade Center come down i saw something no place on earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than new york. Tag attacks on democratic president ial candidate hillary clinton. Wer e also in full force. She was on a different stage. With. Tonight show host jimmy fallon. The democrats have their next debate sunday. Stephanie ramos abc News Washington United States government have been transferred from the guantnamo bay prison to oman. That reduces the prison population there to 93. Its the first time the number has dropped below 100 0 nce 2002. In his final state of the union on tuesday, president obama reiterated his argument for closing the prison. Secretary of defense aston carter says a navigation error caused two Us Navy Boats to drift into iranian waters earlier this week. Iran detained the 10 sailors on the boats before releasing them. Carter says the sailors were going from kuwait to bahrain, but he doesnt know what led to the navigation error. So i think we need to give these guys the opportuni to tell us what was really going on and what the overall context is before we can really know the us navy has received initial statements from the sailors and will go ough a full debrief with them when theyre back home. Some people will take an important oath today. This oath will make them citizens. And youre looking live on our camera. Kaj will be back right after the break with a meteorologist kaj omara joins us now with your first alert forecast. Falling temperaturereare likely today with a few scattered flurries likely as well. Plan on temperatures to be into the lower 20s in many areas by 5pm with upper teens also possible north of higigay 20. The falling temperature trend continues right into the weekend with temperatures into the Single Digits on saturday. Some snow is still possible saturday night, mainly over the southern half of ththarea. Amounts will be very minor, and generally under 1. The big story continues to be on the Colder Weather for sunday with subzero highs likely in all locations. Wind chill numbers on sunday morning will very likely be in the 30 to 40 range with isolated colder values. Carry jumper cables with you and ensure you have plenty of gas in your on sunday. Layer up, and d dt forget about your pets today sct. Flurries, windy high 2531 winds nw 1530 alo 23 dbq 28 iow 29tonight clearing colder low 612 winds nw 1525 alo 1 dbq 8 iow 10tomorrow chance of snow late high 612 winds nw 1020 alo 4 dbq 7 iow 10tomorrow night chance of snow low 126 winds nw 1020 alo 13 dbq 10 iow 8 one 2016 gop hopefuls supporters made a lot of noise at last nights debate. And he wasnt even at the debate. How rand paul spent his debate night coming up in our next half hour. Stay with tv9. Its. On our city cam. Its january 15th and heres what you need to know today. Former president bill clinton will be in coralville today hosting a Campaign Event for his wifeeillary. This is his second time in eastern iowa in two weeks. Several 2016 gop president ial hopefuls attacked hillary at the first focused on hillary, trump and cruz took jabs at each other. Several School Districts in eastern iowa are switching their buses from diesel fuel to propane. Its better for the environment and in the cold weather. Police chiefs from around easasrn iowa gathered in cedar rapids to talk about the growing issue of gun violence in their cities. And sissy the schanuzer from cedar rapids gets some National Attention and a new trophy at the worldld dog awards for her amazing journey to see her owner in the hospital. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news first, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Falling tempererures are likely today with a few scattered flurries likely as well. Plan on temperatures to be into the lower 20s in many areas by 5pm with upper teens also possible north of highway 20. He falling temperature trend continues right into the weekend with temperatures into the Single Digits on saturday. Some snow is ssll possible saturdayayight, mainly over the southern half of the area. Amounts will be very minor, and generally under 1. The big story continues to be on the Colder Weather for sunday with subzero highs likely in all locations. Wind chill numbers on sunday morning will very likely be in the 30 to 40 range with isolated colder values. Carry jumper cables with you and ensure you have plenty of gas in your vehicle if youll be out on sunday. Layer up, and dont forget about your pets today sct. Flurries, windy high 2531 winds nw 1530 alo 23 dbq 28 iow 29tonight clearing colder low 612 winds nw 525 alo 1 dbq 8 iow 10tomorrow chance of snow late high 612 winds nw 1020 alo 4 dbq 7 iow 10tomorrow night chance of snow low 126 winds nw 1020 alo 13 dbq 10 iow 8 former president bill clinton eastern iowa today. Just last week he stopped in several cities to campaign on behalf of his wifehillary clinton. Today clinton will host a Campaign Event in coralville. The former president willll speak to voters at Northwest Junior High School at 6 45 tonight. Hes hoping to convince iowa caucus goers to vote for hillary, who is the current frontrunner in the field of democratic president ial candidates. There are just 2 and a half weeks left until the iowa caucuses. For the democratic president ial candidates, their next debate is this sunday night. Hillary clinton, bernie sanders, and Martin Omalley will be on the stage in charlessn, south carolina, for the nbc newsyoutube debate. The network says omalley has qualified for the debate, despite his low poll numbers. He has been averaging 4 point 6 percent in iowa and candidates needed at least 5 percent to be on stage. The gloves are off. With less than 3 weeks until the iowa caucuses, g op president ial candidates are going above and beyond to sway voters. In last nights gop debate, the candidates turned their attention to hillary clinton. Main stage, with chris christie, jeb bush, and marco rubio all claiming clinton would not make a good president. But the top two donald trump and ted cruz took swings at each other. Trump is claiming cruz is not eligible for the presidency because cruz was born in canada. If for some reason he beats the rest of the field. See they dont like that. See they dont like that he beats the rest of the field because they like me. but why now, why are you raising this issue now . President ial candidate because now hes doing a little bit better. Besides those personal attacks, the debate largely focused on terrorism, immigration and the economy. We want rand. We wawa rand. We want rand. People in the audience last night started chanting we want rand in reference to rand paul. Paul is polling low in the numbers, so he was put in the second tiered debate. The gop candidate questions from voters on twitter with the hashtag rand rally. Thatat hashtag trended nationally for majority of the debate, and the candidate gained the second largest following of all the candidates. Five people are in the hospital this morning from a crash in dubuque county. It happened on hartbeck road near epworth around 9 45 last night. 29 year old Marquita Robertson of epworth failed to negotiatete curve and went into a ditch and over an embankment. The four others in the car range in age fm 14 to 25. Ambulances brought all five to Finley Hospital in dubuque. Troopers cited robertson for failure to maintain control and iving while suspenend. And in an update from a crash in cedar rapids we first brought you yesterday morning. Five cars were involved in a crash near the edgewood road southwest overpass for highway 30. And while police were responding to that accident, the squad car crashed into a jeep. One of the officers had non lifethreatening injuries. No one else was hurt. Eastern iowa are working together to reduce gun violence. Cedar Rapids Police hosted a summit that included Police Chiefs from a half dozen cities. The city has seen an increase in incidents in the last five years. In 2009, there were 17 shootings including two homicides. That number jumped to 93 shootings in 2014, with eight homicides. Kcrgtv9s chris earl tells us how the group hopes to change things. The concerns of gun violence remains a component of everyday life in some parts of the country, even at times in eastern iowa. Just last weekend, three separate shootings on the east side of cedar rapids didnt kill anyone but served as a reminder of the threat. 22 45 were all dealing with it and tackling it. Which led to thursdays threehour meeting at cedar Rapids Police headquarters. Seven Police Chiefs and a u. S. Attorney in a room trying to figure out how to minimize gun violence in each city. Chief dalsing from dubuque and back in november where he saw some similarities that the cities were experiencing, upticks in violence and gun violence and proposed that we get together and meet as a group. Communication between departments is not that unusual chief jerman said cedar rapids and Iowa City Police are in frequent contact over people who may be involved in criminal activity in both cities. Yet this approach a larger scope to talk about specialized units. We have the violence crime apprehension team. Pcat is Police Community action team. But, really, questions are the answer for these leaders in Law Enforcement to bring back to their officers. Is another city doing something thats working that were not . I dont think anybody has that single one answer thats going to fix everything and were going to try y fferent initiatives and see what works. Tv9s chris earl with that story. Chief trelka, from waterloo, said these Law Enforcement units have agreed to continue talks like this on a regular basis. Release of a police video that shows another Deadly Police shooting of an unarmed black teen in chicago. 17 year old Cedric Chatman was suspected of car jacking and ran away from officers. Thats when police shot him four times. Officers say chatman was pointing a dark object at them and shot in self defense. It turned out to be a black iphone. People gathered to protest against the police. Today, were taking back chicago. This will not continue to happen. These systemic problems have got to stop. Police blamed chatmans two accomplices, who were 10 blocks away, for the teens murder. They later pleaded guilty to lesser crimes. The offers did not Face Criminal Charges and kept their jobs. Now they are facing a wrongful death lawsuit. The Episcopal Church is facing a suspension for its stance on samesex marriage. Iowas bishop says this means real pain for many of the churchs 9 thousand iowa members. In june episcopalians across the country voted marriage. The anglican communion in england handed down a suspension yesterday in response. For three years the episcopop church will not be allowed to participate in many internal decisions, or represent the church in meetings with other faithbased groups. Continual pain for those who are gay and lesbian, especially those who members of our church but those in the community at large and how much more do they have to suffer from discrimination the Episcopal Church is largely known as the us branch of the anglican communion, which dates back to the church of england. A group of people will become americans today at the National Czech and slovak museum. People will participate in a naturalization ceremony at 1 30 this afrnoon. These ceremonies happen at different places around eastern iowa, but less frequently at the czech museum. The ceremonies typically include music and taking the oath of citizenship. Iowa city could look a little different in several projects are almost finished including major overhauls to buildings damaged in the 2008 flood. Up next. This mornings weather wise question. Meteorologist kaj omara is up right after the break. Its. Joins us now. Falling temperatures are likely few scattered flurries likely as well. Plan on temperatures t tbe into the lower 20s in many areas by 5pm with upper teens also possible north of highway 20. The falling temperature trend continues right into the weekend with temperatures into the Single Digits on saturday. Some snow is still possible saturday night, mainly over the southern half of the area. Amounts will be very minor, story continues to be on the Colder Weather for sunday with subzero highs likely in all locations. Wind chill numbers on sunday morning will very likely be in the 30 to 40 range with isolated colder values. Carry jumper cables with you and e eure you have plenty of gas in your vehie if youll be out on sunday. Layer up, and dont forget about your pets today sct. Flurries, windy high 2531 winds nw 1530 alo 23 dbq 28 iow 29tonight clearing colder low 612 winds nw 1525 alo 1 dbq 8 iow 10tomorrow chance of snow late high 612 winds nw 1020 alo 4 dbq 7 night chance of snow low 126 winds nw 1022alo 13 dbq 10 iow 8 thanks kaj. One eastern iowa city is closer ymca in town. Marion has big dreams for its y and is getting closer to picking the final design. That and more still to come on tv9. The Iowa County Sheriffs Office says a piece of dangerous road on highway 212 may have contributed to a crash that killed a teenage mother and her son. 18yearold bethany clark, of belle plaine, and her twoyearold sosororan. Were traveling on highway 212, about five miles west of marengo, around 7 oclock yesterday morning. The Iowa County Sheriffs Office says clark lost the car on the frost covered road. The car went into a ditch and caught fire. Both died at the scene. The Sheriffs Department says this area is more prone to accidents because drivers tend not to notice the slight curve. According to data from the Iowa Department of transportation, this is the first fatal crash to happen on this curve. There have only been two other crashes here before, one in 2005 and one in 2010. Neither of those were major. But the iowa county sheriff says the layer of frost most likely caused clark to crash. Frost was also a factor in a twovehicle crash that sent three people to the hospital in Fayette County. It happened just before eight yesterday morning at highway 150 and 190th street. Thats just south of west union. The Fayette County Sheriffs Office says 23 yr old sara shaffer of waterloo lososcontrol of her car and crashed into another vehicle. First responders used the jaws of life to remove the driver from that second vehicle. 46 yearold Kellie Blanchard of west union. They airlifted her to a hospital with serious also went to the hospital. Business leaders in dubuque now have a better ea of what to expect for the areas economy this coming year. 500 Business Leaders met at the Dubuque Chamber of commerces annual business forect luncheon. Financial experts say theres one thing that many businesses will have to deal with in the near future, interactive teller machines. Itms are like atms but there are cameras on the machine that let customers talk face to face with a bank teller. When it comes to higher education, experts say students are looking for alternative ways to earn degrees. We live in a world of customizations. And people are expecting things to be customized for them. And colleges and universities are going to have to change to address that. Predictions from the Healthcare Industry . Mercy medical centers president says with so many baby boomers turning 65 this year, shes expecting a shortage in health care workers. More than three quarters of a billion dollars in construction work is almost finished in iowa city. University of iowas arts and music campuses. The new Arts Building will open in may. Then in june, work at the new Hancher Auditorium will wrap up. And in august crews will finish work on the voxman music building. The buildings replace several destroyed in the 2008 flood. Those who are going into the buildings have persevered during this interim time and they too celebrate seeing the building come together, it means a lot because its a real symbol of this university and communitys recovery from the flood. Crews are also planning to complete the new 360 Million Dollar Childrens Hospital by the end of the year. Marion residents are getting closer to seeing a new ymca building. The y is working with Martin Gardner chitecture to narrow down a design proposal. Heres an unofficial look at what the ymca Planning Committee imagines for the layout. It promises four middle school size gyms, family changing areas, and a larger fitness area. The new location will be off of Tower Terrace road and will serve surrounding communities. They estimate theyll break ground for marions new ymca building in six to eight months. A car rapids dog is enjoying the national spooight and some new hardware this morning. Ladies and gentlemen, the winner of the award for amazing journey sissy sissy the schnauzer got her golden hydrant statue at the world dog awards. It aired last night on the cw. She ran away from home one night last february and walked several blocks to mercy dical center. Then, she walked right through the automatic doors and into the lobby of the hospital where her owner was recovering from surgery. First of all, we want to thank everyone who voted for sissy, and everyone who shared her journey to Mercy Hospital to see me. Were very proud of her. Thank you very much sissys category relied on public votes said they enjoyed their trip to california for the show. Heres what you need to know as [ horn honks ] okay, this is u. S. Cellular, and this is verizon. Now, same phones, but with u. S. Cellular you get 6 gigs of 4g data for only 40 per month 20 less than verizon. And u. S. Cellulars network was built to work in places like out here, here, and here. So, with all of that, why would you ever go to verizon . Switch to u. S. Cellular now and get 6 gigs of data for just 40 a month pluset 300 back. Lets not overthink thisis heres what you need to know as you head out the door on your friday. Former president bill clinton will be back in eastern iowa today. He will host a Campaign Event in coralville for his wife, hillary. The former president will speak to voters at Northwest Junior High School at 6 45 tonight. A group of people will become american citizens today at the National Czech and slovak museum. People will participate in a naturalization ceremony at 1 30 this afternoon. Mornings weather, kaj. Falling temperatures are likely today with a few scattered flurries likely as well. Plan on temperatures to be into the lower 20s in many areas by 5pm with upper teens also possible north of highway 20. The falling temperature trend continues right into the weekend with temperatures into the Single Digits on saturday. Some snow is still possible saturday night, mainly over the southern half of the area. Amounts will be very minor, and generally under 1. The big story continues to be on the Colder Weather for sunday with subzero highs likely in all locations. Wiwi chill numbers on sunday morning wilil very likely be in the 30 to 40 range with isolated colder values. Carry jumper cables with you and ensure you have plenty of gas in your vehicle if youll be out on sunday. Layer up, and dont forget about your pets today sct. Flurries, windy high 2531 winds nw 1530 alo 23 dbq 28 iow 29tonight clearing colder low 612 winds nw 1525 alo 1 dbq 8 iow 10tomorrow chance of snow late high 612 winds nw 1020 alo 4 dbq 7 iow 10tomorrow night chance of snow low 126 winds nw 1020 alo 13 dbq 10 iow 8 we certainly hope your is Good Morning America is next. Good morning, america. The republican showdown in the south. We owe 19 trillion