This is kcrgtv9 news morning news. Heading out and about for some black friday shopping roads eastern iowa. Any precipitation that will fall will be extremely light if any. Temperatures this morning will be in the low to middle 30s. Expect highs to climb into the low 40s today with gradual clearing to arrive later this afternoon. High pressure will sit to our south and east late tonight and into tomorrow. This will giving us a southerly wind and on top of that well get more sunshine. This will allow for our temperatures to warm into the low 50s for some, others into the upper 40s. Sunday will bring some sun to start, but rain chances will move in late and continue into monday. Today a flurry possible early, otherwise mostly 38 to 44 tonight skies clearing. Wind w 510 low 29 alo 28 dbq 29 iow 29 26 to 32 stores inside lindale mall in cedar rapids are officially open for black friday. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders is at the mall this morning. Forrest, have you seen many shoppers out there today . Stores open their doors on friday for what is still year, even as the start of the Holiday Season edges ever earlier. Black friday, the day after thanksgiving, used to launch the Holiday Season, but the competition to grab customers first is keen. Stores like macys, walmart, target and more were open on thursday evening in what they hope will be a new holiday tradition. Other stores, like the best buy Electronics Store in watertown, massachusetts, opened their doors early on friday morning. This weekend is crucial to set the tone for the their shopping during the thanksgiving weekend, according to a survey conducted for the National Retail federation. That includes online and store shopping. Black friday, the day after thanksgiving, vies with the saturday before christmas as the busiest shopping day of the year. The nrf, the nations largest retail group, expects holiday sales to rise 3. 6 percent for november and december, better than the 3 percent growth seen for those months last year. That excludes car sales, petrol and restaurant receipts but includes online spending and other nonstore sales such as catalogue spending right now, very calm. Maneuvering around and stuff customers in on thanksgiving day will help control black friday crowds. Shoppers hoping to beat the black friday rush headed out to the mall yesterday. Lindale welcomed shoppers eager to find the best deals. Some hope going shopping before black friday becomes a new thanksgiving tradition. Our Corporate Office decided the best opportunity for lindale was to be open tonight to provide shoppers with another opportunity to get the best sales, deals and the craziness that we see on black friday so it just starts a little earlier on thanksgiving night, mall workers say the crowds they saw last night were comparable to what theyve seen in previous years. Two eastern iowa marching bands had the honor of performing in a big parade yesterday. Struttin up the road here is the Mount Vernon High School weber. Music plays Mount Vernons band was in chicagos mcdonalds thanksgiving parade. The band made its way through a mile long route through downtown. This was their third time in this parade. Also there performing yesterday morning. 68 members of the Williamsburg High School marching band. They found out they were playing last year. Thats because each parade takes more than a year and a half of planning. This was their first appearance. Iowa senator joni ernst spent her thanksgiving serving in the military. She and two other us senators spent time in afghanistan and qatar with Us Service Members stationed at Bagram Air Force base. She met the 211th aviation battalion and the 185th combat support sustainment battalion of iowa. Ernst is a former Company Commander in the Iowa National guard and once worked with both battalions. The senators also traveled around afghanistan to get a closer look at the continued mission there. Authorities say a kayaker may grays lake in des moines. Police arent entirely sure the bones are from a person, but say that its likely a human jaw. Authorities were called to the lake around 10 yesterday morning. They say a kayaker called in about seeing what he thought were human remains in the water. A dive team went in to see if they could find any other bones. Right now first blush it certainly appears to be human, but were gonna need a little more forensic examination to confirm that so the medical Examiners Office is coming out here. Police say the investigation could go any number of directions. A change in command is coming to the Benton County sheriffs office. Sheriff Randy Forsyth confirmed to tv nine hes retiring. Hes worked with the office since 1973, starting off his career as a deputy. Forsyth did not seek re election this year and will finish his term through the rest of the year. In the election, Deputy Ronald tippett won today for the deadly shooting of a University Police officer in detroit. Authorities are currently are holding a suspect. Wayne state officer collin rose was on patrol tuesday when he was shot in the head. The fiveyear veteran of the University Police force died wednesday. Donald trump has been making moves to fill out his president ial cabinet. Right now theres a debate among his advisors for the key role of secretary of state. Good morning its. Some people in the pacific systems moved into washington state, bringing heavy rain, winds and snow in the mountains. Some areas were expected to get up to two feet of new snow by this morning. 50miles an hour to some parts of the state. Heading out and about for some black friday shopping roads should be just fine across eastern iowa. Any precipitation that will fall will be extremely light if any. Temperatures this morning will be in the low to middle 30s. Expect highs to climb into the low 40s today with gradual clearing to arrivel south and east late tonight and into tomorrow. This will giving us a southerly wind and on top of that well get more sunshine. This will allow for our temperatures to warm into the low 50s for some, others into the upper 40s. Sunday will bring some sun to start, but rain chances a flurry possible early, otherwise mostly cloudy. Wind w 515. High 41 alo 40 dbq 40 iow 42 38 to 44 tonight skies clearing. Wind w 510 low 29 alo 28 dbq 29 iow 29 26 to 32 tomorrow partly cloudy to mostly sunny. Wind s 510 high 50 alo 50 dbq 49 iow 51 47 to 53 tom. Night mostly clear. Wind s 510 low 32 alo 31 dbq 32 iow 33 29 to 35 afternoon and evening. Windy. High 49 low 32 monday chance of showers early. Windy. High 49 low 42 tuesday stray shower possible, otherwise mostly cloudy. High 42 low 34 wednesday chance of light snow showers, otherwise mostly cloudy high thursday mostly cloudy. High 38 low 28 friday mostly cloudy. High 39 low 25 saturday partly cloudy. High 39 low 24 thanks kaj. Heres a first look at good. In this mornings gma first look, an 18yearold Football Player channeled with killing a 16yearold cheerleader weeks after their breakup. If convicted riley gall can face the death penalty. According to police in the Morning Hours monday a shot fired by gall into emma jane walkers bedroom from outside her tennessee home killed her in her sleep. Police arresting of first degree murder holding him on 750,000 bond after having him under surveillance saying he was preparing to destroy evidence related to the homicide. The pair a pictureperfect couple. Classmates until gal moved on to college this fall. Well have the latest developments in the case coming up at 7 00 a. M. With your gma first look, im could make more cabinet decisions today. His advisors appear to be split on who should be secretary of state. 2012 president ial nominee mitt romney and former new york city mayor Rudy Giuliani are both in are worried romney wouldnt be loyal to the white house after he openly criticized the president elect during the campaign. Trump is trying to live up to his promise to keep businesses from moving their operations out of the united states. He sent out this tweet yesterday, saying hes making progress with carrier to stay in the united states. Last week, the president elect also took at least some credit for helping keep a ford plant in kentucky from moving to mexico. The current president spent his thanksgiving the military stationed overseas. He made nine phone calls to members of all five branches of the military. He wished them a happy thanksgiving and thanked them for their service. This morning shoppers across the country are already out looking for black friday deals. Economists expect about 137 Million People to go out black friday shopping. Thats up about 2 Million People compared to last year. Abcs janai norman reports. Bringing black friday madness to thanksgiving days as stores are opening earlier and earlier and some never closing. Pkg instead of focusing on food and family, some anxious Holiday Shoppers took their appetite for sales straight to shopping centers. Nats of shoppers some of the biggest retailers in dallas opening at five pm, allowing for 30 straight hours of shopping. Across the country, businesses are now calling thanksgiving . Grey thursday, as shoppers are staking out stores to gobble up bargains instead of gobbling down turkey. Sot im going to get some baby stuff then head over to walmart for a tv. Youve got it all mapped out. Experts say the biggest deals are on electronics. Like an hp laptop at best buy for 170 dollars. These amazon fire t high def smart tv at walmart for 290 dollars. Nats of checking out in new york, some shoppers say the deals came with more than they bargained for. Michelle rota, shopper it was just a lot. A lot of shoving. A lot of pushing. Sadia durrani, shopper i think its too crowded. Its crazy. And as those shoppers are stuffing their carts with thanksgiving deals, that means store employees are missing out on stuffing their stomachs with their families. John ordonez, mall employee i mean look youre taking care of the customers i about it. Some stores resist the urge opting for empty parking lots and registers than the frenzy of anxious bargain hunters on thanksgiving. Others, say thats just the warm up. Victor soto, mall employee ok this day its not that bad. But tomorrow, tomorrow is the real challenge. Jn tag some retailers have been offering discounts on holiday merchandise after a text to a wrong number went viral, an arizona grandmother added one more plate to her thanksgiving table. Wanda dench says feeding one more mouth on thanksgiving is what grandmas are meant to do. Its here is a live look at. Meteorologist britley ritz joins thanksgiving meal with a complete stranger. It was all thanks to a text invite to the wrong phone number. Jamal hinton informed wanda dench he wasnt her grandson. And then proceeded to ask if he could come to dinner. To which, dench replied of course. Thats what grandmas do. Nohelani graf caught up with the new friends at thanksgiving dinner. Grandmas do. Nohelani graf caught up with the new friends at thanksgiving dinner. Natsot oh yea, perfect a bird in the oven. Natsot tadaa. Hows it look . Guests arriving from out of town. Its the family social event of the year. Natsot a selfie, yay but this year, thanks to social media at wanda denchs house, the table is set for a thanksgiving unlike any other. Natsot hi jamal her big family. Natsot how are you growing by one more. Thanks to a text message mixup. And an unintentional invite that grandma wanda decided to extend to jamal hinton anyway. this is our home and lets go do some eatinga simple gesture that gave everyone the feels. And won over the internet. i actually had to look up plate hashtag everybodys grandma hashtag natsot grandmas the goat, haha but no ones more thankful than these two. Thankful for a lesson in kindness. she welcomed me into her house, that shows me how great of a person she is, thats what im thankful forthankful for a blessing in disguise. its come from god above, hes just using us as tools and vessels to bring a message to otherstwo strangers that made the world smile with their selfies, now standing sure to last a lifetime. Its an emotional day for seniors on the iowa hawkeyes Football Team. Thats especially true for one senior lineman whose dad happens to be head coach kirk ferentz. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9. Live look at. Its november 25th. Heres what you need to know today. A firefighter is in the hospital with serious injures after a fire in c distributing yesterday morning. A kayaker says he found human remains in a Des Moines Lake on thursday. Police are treating the investigation like a crime scene. Florence henderson has passed away. The 82yearold played carol brady on the abc sitcom the brady bunch from 1969 to 1974. Its black friday. The National Retail federation expects 137 Million People to be out to in iowa city as the hawkeyes take on nebraska. Kickoff is 2 30 this afternoon right here on kcrgtv9. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. Black friday shopping roads should be just fine across eastern iowa. Any precipitation that will fall will be extremely light if any. Temperatures this morning will be in the low to middle 30s. Expect highs to climb into the low 40s today with gradual clearing to arrive later this afternoon. High pressure will sit to our will givi us a southerly wind and on top of that well get more sunshine. This will allow for our temperatures to warm into the low 50s for some, others into the upper 40s. Sunday will bring in a couple of hours, several in a couple of hours, several malls in eastern black friday shoppers. Coral ridge mall is open now for black friday and will welcome shoppers until nine tonight. Kennedy mall in dubuque also opened at the top of the hour and will close at 10 tonight. Crossroads mall in waterloo opened at 6 as well and stays open until 9. In cedar rapids, lindale mall has been open for about a half an hour. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders is out with shoppers today. Forrest, what are the crowds looking like this friday for what is still one of the busiest days of the year, even as the start of the Holiday Season edges ever earlier. Black friday, the day after thanksgiving, used to launch the Holiday Season, but the competition to grab customers first is keen. Stores like macys, walmart, target and more were open on thursday evening in what they hope will be a new holiday tradition. Other stores, like the best buy Electronics Store in watertown, massachusetts, opened their doors early on friday morning. This weekend is crucial to set the tone for the Holiday Season. Around 137 milliop their shopping during the thanksgiving weekend, according to a survey conducted for the National Retail federation. That includes online and store shopping. Black friday, the day after thanksgiving, vies with the saturday before christmas as the busiest shopping day of the year. The nrf, the nations largest retail group, expects holiday sales to rise 3. 6 percent for november and december, better than the 3 percent growth seen for those months last year. That excludes car sales, petrol and restaurant receipts but includes online spending and other nonstore sales such as catalogue spending us got the last one. Organizers of a free thanksgiving meal at the say the first year was a success. Members of the christianbased Womens Ministry say this was their first thanksgiving meal for the community. They say it came together in a short amount of time, just a couple weeks. We really just wanted to open it up to whomever. It could be anyone, you, myself. Anyone who doesnt have a organizers say they might make the meal an annual tradition. Its a busy time of year for holiday travelers. But one man in the moline airport hopes passengers have a moment to spare. Those traveling through the quad cities airport this weekend will probably see bobbie bassett, the shoe shine man. Hes been shining shoes for the past 27 years. And doesnt plan on stopping any time soon. It makes you feel good that you take pride in your work and that thy good job. It makes you feel good. Bobbie says he learned how to shine shoes when he was just a little boy in downtown davenport. Its an emotional day in iowa city as seniors on the hawkeye Football Team play their last game at kinnick. Today is also a last of sorts for head coach kirk ferentz. Several of his sons have taken the field over the years and today his youngest suits up for his final home game as a with apologies to Fred Mc Murray and our younger viewers, we are calling this , my three sons. Kirk, with his boys brian, james and steve. Friday, senior day, kirk and his wife mary will go to centerfield and meet steve it is really powerful and bittersweet. I am sure it will be an emotional moment for me. It sure was for james in 2012. You try to hold it dad so he was in tears 80 yards away. The oldest boy, brian played his final home game in 2005. The day before he introduced his dad at the Johnson County i club. I wont roast you. I could. Brian is a great speaker. That is one thing he does really well. Steve was there that day, but does not remember it. 6 years earlier steve was present and accounted for when he is dad was hired as the iowa coach. His memories . He got hired dec5. My hotel room. Steve grew up watching his brother brian play for the hawks. And then brother james wore the black and gold. Naturally, steve followed suit as a walk on. You came in as a tight end and they shifted you to center. Did you assume that was going to happen . I am sure they did. I had other thoughts. In my head i was a bnit more athletic and a bit faster than i actually am. Although his playing time has been limited steve been extremely fulfilling. Absolutely. Loved every day every minute. Coming to iowa was easily the best choice of my life. It is coming down to finishing things the right way. Giving it Everything Else i have left in me. It is fitting that it is thanksgiving. Really appreciative of the opportunities allthree of our sons have had to be in the program. Sot kirk . . . . And that brings us back to this, one of the most prized pictures in kirks office. The coach and his three, hawkeye sons. John afternoon in iowa city. The hawkeyes welcome the nebraska cornhuskers to town for the final regular season game of the year. If youre not heading out to kinnick, you can watch the hawks rih thats following the houston and memphis game on tv9, meaning we will not have a midday newscast. For the fifth straight year, tv nine and the Heritage Area Agency on aging are teaming up to fill the plate. The annual telethon raises money for meals for older adults throughout eastern iowa. We hope youll join us and participate this tuesday during any of our tv nine newscasts. For months, native americans have been protesting the Bakken Oil Pipeline in north dakota. Its really a day of pain for a now to pray. But they temporarily changed to a different issue over thanksgiving. Up next. This mornings weather wise question. Meteorologist britley ritz is up right after the break. Its. Z26ckz zixz y26cky yixy shopping roads should be just fine across eastern iowa. Any precipitation that will fall will be extremely light if any. Temperatures this morning will be in the low to middle 30s. Expect highs to climb into the low 40s arrive later this afternoon. High pressure will sit to our south and east late tonight and into tomorrow. This will giving us a southerly wind and on top of that well get more sunshine. This will allow for our temperatures to warm into the some sun to start, but rain chances will move in late and continue into monday. Today a flurry possible early, otherwise mostly cloudy. Wind w 515. High 41 alo 40 dbq 40 iow 42 38 to 44 tonight skies clearing. Wind w 510 low 29 alo 28 dbq 29 iow 29 26 to 32 tomorrow partly cloudy high 50 alo 50 dbq 49 iow 51 47 to 53 tom. Night mostly clear. Wind s 510 low 32 alo 31 dbq 32 iow 33 29 to 35 sunday chance of showers, mainly afternoon and evening. Windy. High 49 low 32 monday chance of showers early. Windy. High 49 low 42 tuesday stray shower possible, otherwise mostly cloudy. High 42 low showers, otherwise mostly cloudy high 38 low 30 thursday mostly cloudy. High 38 low 28 friday mostly cloudy. High 39 low 25 saturday partly cloudy. High 39 low 24 underway across one more time from lindale mall in cedar rapids, next. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrg tvnine. Explosions ripped through the rubble of city business. Investigators this morning are still trying to determine what sparked a smoky fire at iowa gold distributing. The reports of the fire came in at eight yesterday morning. Numerous departments responded to the business, just off of highway 13. The Flammable Materials inside triggered several explosions. Authorities say they took one firefighter to the hospital with what was described as a life threatening medical issue. The central city fire chief asked those living nearby to were concerned about possible contaminates in the smoke. Officials say the fire spread quickly. Basically spread from that building the oil burst out of the poly tank. It ran on the ground and the oil was on fire and ran down and started the building behind it on fire oleary says he doesnt know what started the fire. The state Fire Marshals Office is helping with the investigation. We received dozens of phone calls, pictures and videos about yesterdays fire. Whenever you see news, give us a call on newsline nine. That number is 3193659999. You can also email us at newsroom at kcrg dot com. Authorities say a kayaker may have found human remains just off the shore of grays lake in des moines. Police arent entirely sure the bones are from a person, but say that its likely a human jaw. Authorities were called to the lake around 10 yesterday morning. They say a kayaker called in about seeing what he dive team went in to see if they could find any other bones. Right now first blush it certainly appears to be human, but were gonna need a little more forensic examination to confirm that so the medical Examiners Office is coming out here. Police say the investigation could go any number of directions. After clashes with Law Enforcement on sunday, protesters at the Dakota Access pipeline are wearing pr of your group wearing ballistics, wearing armor. Why would they be doing that if you are peaceful. Officers addressed a crowd in with a megaphone yesterday, saying they respect their right to protest. They also questioned the protesters need to wear body armor. Protests have been taking place for months over concerns about the pipelines possible effects on tribal land and drinking will also go through 18 counties here in iowa. Some protesters switched course over thanksgiving. Several mandan, north dakota streets shut down yesterday morning while people protested those celebrating thanksgiving. Law enforcement monitored the two hour protest and arrested two people. According to the Morton County sheriffs department, there were no serious injuries. One native american protester says most people dont understand why the holiday is difficult for him. To many people, thanksv but for many natives, especially me being a mohecan. So for us, its really a day of pain for a lot of natives. But were here right now to pray. The protest did break up after demonstrator s learned their cars were going to be towed. In cedar rapids, lindale mall opens in a little less than a half an hour. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders is out with shoppers at lindale mall cedar forrest, what are the crowds looking like this morning . Stores open their doors on friday for what is still one of the busiest days of the year, even as the start of the Holiday Season edges ever earlier. Black friday, the day after thanksgiving, used to launch the Holiday Season, but the competition to grab customers first is keen. Stores like macys, walmart, target and more were open on thursday evening in what they hope will be a new holiday tradition. Other stores, like the best buy electronics massachusetts, opened their doors early on friday morning. This weekend is crucial to set the tone for the Holiday Season. Around 137 Million People plan to or are considering doing their shopping during the thanksgiving weekend, according to a survey conducted for the national mugshot. Christmas comes early in kalona next week. A full day of christmas crafts, events and activivites starts on december third throughout town. Vendors will be set up at the rec center. Crafts, a cookie walk and even santa claus will be at the library, the chamber of commerce and several churches. Kids can also take their stockings to area businesses in the Historical Village to pick up a special holiday gift. If you have a nonprofit event or organization youd like to see featured. Send us an email. Mugshot at kcrgdotcom. Investigators in central city it started yesterday morning at iowa gold distribution just off highway 13. One firefighter suffered a possibly life threatening medial issue while battling the flames. The National Retail federation expects millions to bargin hunt on this black friday. In cedar rapids, stores inside lindale mall opened up early on thanksgiving night but closed again at 1 00 this mon black friday deals this morning at 6 00. Now, one last look at this mornings weather, kaj. Heading out and about for some black friday shopping roads should be just fine across eastern iowa. Any precipitation that will fall will be extremely light if any. Temperatures this morning will be in the low to middle 30s. Expect highs to climb into the low 40s today with gradual clearing to arrive later this afternoon. High pressure will sit to our south and east late on top of that well get more sunshine. This will allow for our temperatures to warm into the low 50s for some, others into the upper 40s. Sunday will bring some sun to start, but rain chances will move in late and continue into monday. Today we certainly hope your is off to a good start. Good morning america is next. And well be back with a local news update in about 20 minutes. Also make good morning, america. Found alive, the super mom who vanished without a trace while jogging three weeks ago found bound on the side of the road. A thanksgiving miracle. We are very ecstatic to report that Sherri Papini has been located. And her captors. Cabinet showdown. The battle for secretary of state and the backlash from trump loyalists still angry at top contender, mitt his tough talk during the campaign. As donald trump boasts and tweets from his thanksgiving celebration. And theyre off. Black friday mayhem unleashed across the country overnight. Whoo more than 100 million doorbusters fighting for those blockbuster deals
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