But right now, some parents say they have several concerns. 08 46 20 agree, disagreeeokay, fascinating. Ssool district officialslssay this. 08 53 21 thats an important conversation to have is the first step toward changing a centuryold grading scale in all cedar rapids schools. 08 33 15 your grade shoul reflect what you know at thth end, not how many points youve accumulated. Standardsbased grading ditches traditional a through f grades. Instead, teachers grade students through four categories exceeding, meeting, or working expectation. But many parents are concerned what this will filling ou college applications. 09 21 30 not only colleges, scholarships, employers. A large section of the world, if you will, thinks about grading through a certain lens. And if we are going to change how we it is important that maps to the broader context. District Officials Say theyd work with teachers to translates the new scale into a gpa. All workkyet. Kathy talking roosevelt teacher kathy slaman is facilitating the transition at two middle schools. She says instead off earning points for homework, students must demonstrate theyve mastered a skill. And they can repeat a test to prove it as many times as needed. Its an approach she says promotes continued learning. 09 27 52 if we think people are set in this is what they know, or gee, im not good at math, thats not really the case in that there is opportunity for growth. This provides it, it supports it ass welel. The district says it plans to roll this grading system out in all schools. Officials just arent sure more feedback from parents in future meetings. Bruce and beth . Thanks, sarah. There are six more meetings on this grading system. The next one is at seven oclock this coming monday morning at the Districts Central Office on edgewood road. To see the full list of the meetings, go to the newslinks section of kcrg dot com. Meteorologist joe winters joins us now. Joe, how much more rain well get . More showers tonight with lingering light rain and drizzle continuing g nto wednesday. Cooler and drier weather moves in for thursday as the winds pick up from the west. Friday starts dry but another storm will be heading into the region, this time ith some ccoler weather in place. At this time any accumulation s of snow would occur friday night into saturday morning. We will continue to wach this systemand update the forecast as tonight showers likely low 4854 winds se 1020tomorrow sct. Showers drizz le high 4854 winds sw 1530 today, the outgoing mayor of cedar falls endorsed his chchllenger in nexx montnts runoff election. On november third, mayor jon crews received 35 percent of the votes in a three man race. Businessman jim brown receeved 45 percent of the votes. Neither candidate got the necessary 50 percent to secure the position. After the election, crews announced plans to step down from the position, but his name will still be on the runnoff ballot. Crews says people should vote for brown on december first, calling him an excellent candidate who will lead the city for years to come. Louisiana governor bobby jindal says hes blessed to have had the opportunity to run for president. 00 1227 its been a great honor to run for the president of the unitd states. This is a great country. My parents came here 45 years ago in search forr opporrunity and frfredom. They taught me americans can do anything. They are right. The reality is this isnt my time so im suspending my campaign. Governor jindal entered the race in june. Since ttn, hes been consistently low in the polls. Jindal wraps up his term as governor in january and says he will go back to working for the think tank he started a few year ago. The American Red Cross is urging people to be carefull when using space heatees and fireplaces during the winter months. The group says heating sources are the second leading cause of deaths from fires in homes. In the last four days, iowa red cross volunteers have assisted with 15 house fires across yesterday in dubuque. Firefighters spent about two hours putting out this one at 922 centerplace. No one was injured. Inveveigators say tty dont believe it was intentional. Reports on the precautions the American Red Cross is asking people to take. The ameriian red cross responds to nearly 70 thousand disasters a year. Thas one every eight minutes, and it says its mostly house fires. With the multiple fires in the last few days, the red cross is taking the opportunity to remind people how to keep safe. It says space heaters are a serious concern. If you have a space heater within your home make sure to give the space heater, space. Keep your children, pets, anything that is flammab at least three feet away from a space heater. Shana beal with the red cross also says never leave burning fires unattended, and have all chimneys professionall y inspected and cleaaed every year. The organization operates a Home Fire Campaign with teachings, and provide extra help in the community. The red cross is working with our of home fires, and also to prevent injury by 25 percent and deaths as well. We have Home Fire Campaign events where we go out within communities and install orkanizations red cross emergency app, which people can purchaha in the app tore, provides more information on how to prevent fires. It also provides guidance on what to do in case a fire breaks out in your house. The red cross says it plans to have many events throughout4south and eastern iowa over the next few months, but right now it wants everyone tt check smoke alarmm and practice fire drills at home. In cedar rapids, brea love, kcrgtv nine news. Waterloo is getting tens of help pay for a new video scoreboard atRiverfront Stadium. Its one o nine new projects that revenue e rom the isle casinoon waterloo is helping fund. And cedar rapids city leaders vote to keep the vacant knutson building standing in hopes of giving it new life. First heres a look at the most popular stories today on kcrg dotcom. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9 cino revenue will help casino revenue will help provide thomsands of dollars to nine projects inthe aterloo cedar falls area. The moneyyis from the bllck hawk county Gaming Association, which licenses the isle casino in waterloo. State law requires the county Gaming Association to allocate some of the casno revenue it recfives to the community. Some of the projects the Gaming Association is funding include. 150thousand dollars for a new video scoreboard at Riverfront Stadium in waterloo. Sumner will get 50 thousand dollas toward a new Emergency Services facility. Anddcedar falls wiil receive 25thousand dollars to help renovate classrooms at hearst center. Just last year, a 23 Million Dollar cedar valley sportsplex opened iwaterloo. 8 Million Dollars for that project came from tte black haak county Gaming Association. Cedar rapids will not demolish a building that sustained a lot of damage in the 2008 flood. Totoy, the city y ouncil voted to spend more than 160thousand dollars to vacant knutson building. The 128yearold structure sits on the riverfront across downtown. The city wants to see if it can raise two and a half Million Dollars for renovations through private fundraising. Dozens of new jobs are coming to oelwein. Today, east penn manufacturing announced that its finalized an agreement to build a production plant in the Fayette County town. East penn produces batteries for agricultural, automotive, commercial, and other uses. The commany says it hopes to break ground in the Industrial Park next year. East penn already runs a Distribution Center in oelwein. Starting tomorrow, hundreds of countty officiall will be inn cedar rapids to setttheir priorities for next years legislative session. The Iowa State Association of counties helps to connect county officials with state lawmakers to help local governments meet their needs. The groups prprorities for next years session includes more funding for Mental Health services, food safety and stricter laws we dont claim to be experts on all of these issues, but we will bring in the appropriate county department headsdsor elected officials at the right time to testify on bills, to share information, so theres an understanding of what were trying to accomplish. The groups fall nference kicks off tomorrow and members are expected to vote on legislative priorities thursday. French police are now searching for two men connected to the paris attacks. Today, the family of one of them called on him light rain and drizzle continuing into wednesday. Oler and drier r weather moves ii for thursday as the winds pick up from the west. Friday starts dry but another storm will be heading into the region, this time with some cooler weather in place. At this time any accumulations of snow would occur friday night into saturday morning. We will continue to watch this forecast as we move through the week. Have a great night tonight showers likely low 4 454 winds se 1022omorrow sctct showers drizz le high 4854 winds sw 1530tomorrow night areas of drizzle low 2935 winds w 1525thursday artly oudy, windy high 45 low 32 friday snow likely late high 42 low 25 saturday scattered flurries,cold high 333 low 27 sunday mostly sunny high 38 low 18 monday partly cloudy high 45 low 26 french authorities now say there are two suspects on the run ii connection ttthe deadlyy paris attacks last friday that killed 129 people. Meanwhile, much of europe is on edge, as a bomb scare forcedderman soccer officialal to cancel a match rlier today. Abcs Elizabeth Hur reports. With the 8th attacker still out there. French Officials Say it is no possible, he isnt the only fugitive. Meanwhile Authorities Say a credible theat in germany led to an evacuation at a soccer stadium. Sirens police sounding the alarm. And ordering people to go home. Loud speaker. A reportete bomb threat canceling the soccer match between germany and the netherlands. Police found nothing but the german team. Not taking any chances. Boom after playing in paris last week. When the suicide bombers struck. Unity. Prince william laying a wreath for the paris victims. And some 80 thousand englishmen singing Frances National anthem. Singing national anththm. Back in france. Authorities now confirming they are searching for a second fugitive. Possibly the 9th attacker. This amid the frantic manhunt still underway for sal abdeslam. The alleged 8th attacker. His brother pleading for him to surreeder. Mohammad abdeslam speaking french. Airstrikes. And just a day after france declared war against isis. Russia is also launching attacks. Believing a bomb brought down that russian passenger jeje. Here at home. With isis warning washington dc is next. And authorities convinced one of the attackers posed as a refugee. At least 29 governors say refugees are not welcome and House Speaker paul ryan is calling for a pause in the president s plan to allow 10thousand Syrian Refugees into the us. Elizabeth hur oncam close as for the mastermind behind the paris attacks. Abdel hamid abaaoud. He is now believed to be back in syria. A country, now under attaak by and late tonight, the faa confirmed that two air france fights heading from the us to paris were diverted because of bomb threats. One of them was out of los angeles, the other was out of an airport near washingtonn d. C. Both of them anded safety. Russian now confirms it was a powerful bomb that brought down that russian passenger jet last month. Killing all 224 peoplenboard. Russian investigators say they found trace amounts of explosives in the debris and today russian president Vladimir Putin promised to hunt down and punish whoevers responnible. He also launched a strike on isis, which has claimed it planted the bomb. Coming up next in sports. Scott will have the latest college footvall playoff poll. And well have plenty of hoops action from uni, ann from coe versus cornell. Stay the Third College football playoff poll was released tonight. And the hawkeyes remain 5th. Still on top followed by alabama, ohio state and notre dame. The 100 hawks have a chance to clinch the big 10 Western Division title with a win over purdue saturddy at kinnick. But dont expect a big trophy you have a chance to clinch your division will you give the trophy away on the field will you do it privately or will you not even think about it. We have talked about it the facts are if we do win we clinch a bid dont want to put our heads in the sand on that yet. We still have a lot of football left that is how we are looking at it. If we are fortunate to win this Football Game we will acknowledge in the lockeroom and turn our sights around because we have a short week next week. Sot 30 oc shhrt week nextt week how bout some basketball with your eggs. The panthers hosted stephen f. Austin at 7 00 am this morning. Scott westerberg was their. Pass out the doughnuts and chocolate milk, its breasfast and basketball at the mcleod center. And the ppnthers kept tte 4,700 in attendance wide awake with plenty of action on the offensive end. Jeremy morgan to the rack for two. Then, wyatt lohaus penetrates and kic to Matt Bohannon for three. Panthers u u 5. More from bohannon as he finishes the layup in up 144 as the students continue to celebrate not being in class this morning. The lumberjacks needed a lesson in stoppipig the dribble drive. Aarias austin dumps it off to morgan. Jeremy finished with 14 points and 7 boards. Uni also got a big game from paul jesperson. He pulls the triger from the corner. Pauly pumped in 15. Jesperson tied for the team lead in points with bohannon who buried 3 of unis 7 triples. Wes washpun was the fourth panther in double figures with 14 as uni beats Stephen F Austin 7060. I thought in our first game we had some very uncharacteristic turnovers, our defense was awful, so for us to bounce back the way we did today and establish ourselves defensivelel and take care of the ball on offense, i think it was a very good step forward for us. Weve got some new guys and some younguys and some older guys in different roles, so to bebeable to start to build some confidence is a great thing. With the win the panthers improve to 11 on the young season, and theyll be back at home on saturday in what will be the biggest game in the history of this building s uni hosts number one north carolina. From the mcleod center, Scott Westerberg tv9 sports. The uni women beat south dakota tonight 64 43. Whether its tiddly winks or hoops. Anytime coe and cornell get together it means something. They met in a double header on the Basketball Court tonight. Ladies first and cornell cut the lead to three in the second half on thimaggie hogan putback. But theiras no stopping f frmer wash standout aaena hobbs with three the old fashion way and then hobbs burries one from behind the arc. She had 28 points in a 70 59 coe win. To the men and former marion ssrpshooter craig engle with the trey and it was raining threes tonight. Matt vonderhaar connects and then Trevor Holland hit back to ack triples and the coe beat cornell 8065. Longtime cascade basketball coach al marshall has announced this will be his final year of coaching. This will be als 47th season and he is third alltime on the iowa coaching list with 716 wins. And finally they had two signings at prairie today. Mckenzie soeken will run track and play voeyball at upper iowa. And one of he top runne in the state Tysen Van Draska wil run n or joey woody at iowwand concentrate on middle distance. Thanks scott. One last look at the forecast, joe. More showers tonight with lingering light rain and drizzle continuing into wednesday. Cooler and drier weather moves in for thursday as the winds pick up from the west. Friday starts dry but another storm will be heading into the region, this time with some cooler weather in place. At this timeeany accumulation s of snow would occur friday night into saturday morning. We will continue to watch this system and update the forecast as we move through the week. Have a great night