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People. The final confrontatio n on a street lined with houses. A dark suv riddled with bullets. A person with a gun shot down just feet away. Another dead inside. Sot chief Jarrod Burguan San Bernandino Police Department One is m me, one is a female. Both dressed in kinda assault style clothing. Both armed with assault rifles. Th armed with hand guns. Law enforcement tracked down the s spects just two miles from the initial attack . The inland regional center. Nats . Sirens . Sot multiple shots that were fired, were getting a spect last seen wearing a black ski mask, all black clothing, carrying a shotgun. N. Witnesses describe a barrage of gunfire. Sot Juan Hernandez witness kinda sounded like a shooting range . Sot boom, boom, boom. And she was playing and all of a sudden boom the people working there called theher families. This man readadg us the text he got from his daughter as she hid inside. Sot terry pettit father shooting at my work, peple shot. In an office waiting for cops. I am locked in an office. Thats it. Sot i have a suspect dressed in camo, masks, helmet kevlar. Investigators say the shooters targeted a gathering inside the center. Tonight that building still off limits the bomb squad investigating a suspicious device that authorities believe could be an explosive. Brandi hitt oncam close the Group Holding that meeting the San Bernadino county department of public health. Tonight, police are searching a nearby home where abc news has learned records show one of the Family Members appears to have worked as an inspector for the health department. Brandi hitt, abc news, San Bernadino, california. Meteorologist joe winters joins us now. Joe, some brighter skies are ahead tomorrow. Quite a few clouds hang around tonight with lows in the 20s. Our sky gradually clears tomorrow, sending our highs to around 40. Mild weather continues thereafter with highs staying in n e 40s through at least the middle of next week. The weekend is looking dry, followed by a slight chance of a rain or snow tonight mostly cloudy low 2531 winds nw 515t5torrow gradual clearing high 3844 winds sw 515 back to you. West Liberty Police are searching for a man whom an 11year old says tried to abduct him. The boy told police he was walking near 4th and columbus streets around 5 15 tonight. Thats when a white van pullele up to the curb anana man told the boy to get in. But the boy ran to a friends home nearby. Police say the suspect is a white man in his late 30s and has balding with a ddk short beard. If you have any information, call west Liberty Police at 3196272223. The owners of a hog g nfinement buililng that a fire destroyed last night say devastating. The fire at Brenneman Pork also killed more than four thousand hogs. They were inside the building, which was near wellman in washington county. Kcrg tv nines brea love talked with the owners today. The family that owns Brenneman Pork wasnt on the farm when the flames broke out. My husband flew out of the driveway around 10 oclock and i wahome, the kids were sleeping. Before you knew it every aunt, uncle, cousin, friend, Family Member was calling, and was here. Fire crews say there wasnt much they could do but to take the building apart tuesday night. The building caught fire again wednesday morning. Crews brought in equipment to move around steel and wood to put the fire out. Smoke could bee seen well into the afternoon. A hog building fire is becoming a little bit more common. Its one of the bigger fires we have but obviously Something Like have everyday or every year. R. O, it is a little bit unusual and d challenge to deal with. With the thousands of pigs lost in the fire tuesday night the family says its especially devastating. Raising pigs and farming is something that were passionate about, and raising our family on the farm but lm certainly hoping that we will be able to rebuild eventually and have a place where our kids can learn to raise pigs toto it something we love. Were not quite sure how were going to move forward but it is amazing how the community has just supported us. In wellman, brea love, kcrgtv9 news. Investigators say the Building Sustained so much damage in the fire that they wont be able to determine a cause. Police dogs that have served the cedar rapids Police Department now have theiei own memorial at a park that honors fallen officers. Today, police remembered 23 animals at a dedication event at sumner park. Police say other departments are also beginning totohonor the service of police dogs, who are trained to materials. This is becoming more and more common. The state of iowa is actually going to start a police k9 memorial in des moines donations have helped provide all police dogs that the department has used since 1975. Undergraduate students will payay a little more to attend the university of iowa next fall. Today, the state regents approved a three percent tuition increase for the fall semester. This only applies to students at the university of iowa. Thats because in september the board raised tuition for students at iowa state and uni for the upcoming spring semester. This will be the first tuition increase at the university of iowa since the 20122020 school year. The university of iowa Childrens Hospital will soon have a new name. The regents approved naming the hospital the stead Family University of iowa Childrens Hospital, after businessman jerre stead and his wife, mary joy. The more than 50 Million Dollars to the ununersity. The name takes effect next november. One woman from linn county got a big surprise tonight. Ying with applause this was the reaction when Lucinda Alexander learned that she had been given a van. Several Companies Including marion tire, deery brothers and hyvee joined the salvation armymyo give away the car as part of a prograra called miles of smiles. The program narrows down nominations it receives from community members. For there, a selection n committee chooses s winner. I am excited, i am thankful, and grateful for someone to select my family. This is the fourth year for the mileleof smiles giveaway. Alexander says she doesnt have a car, and shes looking forward to driving it around with her family. Were partnering with the Heritage Area Agency on aging againinhis year for the e ll the to help provide healthy meals to Senior Citizens here in eastern iowa. The telethon takes place this sunday night, starting at 5 30. Waterloos mayorelect will be the citys first africanamerican to hold that office. Hear his ideas on how to bring people from different walks of life together, coming up. First heres a look at the most popular stories today on kcrg dot com. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9. Waterloos new mayor acknowledges the history bbind his election. But says he wants to be best mayor that he can possibly he. City councilman quentin hart will take over as`mayor in early january, becoming the citys first africanamerican to hold that office. Yesterday, he got nearly 60 percent support of the vote in a runoff election. He beat former mayor tim hurley. And now hart will succeed mayor buck clark who did not seek a fourth term. Kcrgtv9s chris earl met with mayorelect hart earlier today. Chris, this is a coerstone day for waterloo o litics. Were all seeing ththheadlines about harts election yet, for him, this is also years in the making from his time on the city council. Campaigning for the mayors office. For quentin hart, he said he nts his time in city hall to bring all of the city together. When quentin hart walked through waterloo on wednesday, people shouted congratulati ons. I didnt campaign on being the first black mayor. I campaigned on being the best mayor that i can possibly be for the city, joining both sides of the river to make sure that people have an a aquate voice. Hartt has had a voicecen City Politics for years, representing the 4th ward of the city the east and northeast parts of waterloo. Through the years, weve met then councilman hart doing some of the st heartbreaking andndhocking momentstssuch when someone shot at a house in april, hitting and injuring a 4yearold boy while the child was sitting inside his living room. The good thing about that is ive lived on the northeast side of town almost my entire life and ive worked on n e south side of town for about 18 years. Just having an opportunity to work with different groups of people, from the focused groups of our bosnian residents, our burmese white residents but having that experience to let people know that the challenges we face, we can meet them headon together. We also met with tim hurley, the man hart defeated on tuesday. Hurley served three 2year terms as mayor last decade and talked about the issue any mayor would face. From cedar rapids, waterloo, dubuque and iowa city, this vioionce and crime and guns is an issue. All five of us that started out in this campaign back in september, this was our number one issue. Nonoat quentin hart mmes from this office on mulberry street. To this one a block away in january. Just in time for talks over the city budget. We want to put together a very good package, increase or no increase, but we want to put together a budget thats respectful of the services that we need torovide with the city. My first 30 days will be rking on that budget for the council. Issues, from his election to the Business Climate t trying to keep the city in a good position on education, crime and economy. The full interview is online, on kcrg. Com. What was most striking was that quentin hart and tim hurley were two political opponents in this election who were extremely gracious to each other, noting they dont have many differences with hurley, the former mayor, sayiyi that its quentin harts time to sit in the mayors office. Bruce and beth . Thanks, chris. Coats, boots, and hats. They are just some of the things kids receive during the holidays. Coming up, hear how Cedar Rapids Police helped make some of those gifts come quite a few clouds hang around tonight with lows in the 20s. Our sky gradually clears tomorrow, sending our highs to around 40. Ld weather continins thereafter with highs staying in the 40s through at least the middle of next week. The weekend is looking dry, followed by a tonight mostly cloudy low 2531 winds nw 515tomorrow gradual clearing high 38384 winds sw 515tomorrow night mostly clear low 2127 winds sw 510fday mostly suy high 46 low 24 saturday mostlylyunny high 48 low 30 sunday mostly cloudy high 45 low 31 monday slight chance of rain snow high 43 low 32 tuesday partly cloudy high 44 spree with santa claus. Toninit 70 kids in the cedar rapids area didnt have to imagine this fantasy came true at shop with a cop. Registered kids were paired up with a santa cop at the cedar rapids super target evening. The department raised enough money to allow each child to spend 150 dollars. Kids shopped for winter necessities like coats, hats, and boots as well as a fun toy. Department staff say they always look forward to the event. We feel its essential to reach out to the community so they see us more as partners and family and not just somebody that writes tickets and we want kids to be able to come up to officers and know that were there to support them. The departrtnt holds two shop with a cop events a year. The next one happens just before next school year. A vinton woman is making it her job again this Holiday Season to light up her whole yard wiwi a christmas tradition that everyone can enjoy. Heidi koopmans family has been doing this for 50 years, and shes hoping to keep it going for many more. Ive always enjoyed it because its everything ive christmas without it. 32 thousand lights, which can add up to a etty lofty electricicill. But there is a donation box at the house to help pay it. The lights are on till 9 30 on week nights and 10 pm on weekends. The display will come down on december 27th. Coming up next in sports. Uni Athletic Director troy dannen is leaving cedar falls for another job. Scott has details. Hell also have iowa babaketball highlights and go one one one with football coach ferentz. Stay with your 24 news source, k kto become the new a. D at tulane. Dannen has been at uni since 2008. He was named the national Athletic Director of the year in 2014. During his time as a. D. , hes had 15 coachesof theyear and 15 conferenceplayersof theyear. Hell be introduced at a press conference on friday at 11 a. M. His last day at uni will be decememr 31st. To hoops and the hawkeyes hosted florida sate tonight in the big 10acc challenge. And after falling behind 82. Dom uhl with the nice drive down the lane for the kiss. And then n jared uthoff started heat up with the triple to tie the game at 21. And here they come off the break peter jok 323131t the break. And what a talent utoff is with that length the swat on d and then the flush on the other end to put iowa up 4441. And jared can do it all the nice dish to woody who goes baa door. Bluders bunch with a big win on the road tonight at virginia winning 8577 alex kastanek led the hawks bluders bunch with a big win on the road tonight at virginia winninin8573. Alex kastanek led the hawks in scoring with 22. And ally disterhoft chipped in with 18 points and 7 boards. Uni hosted io state tonight in cedar falls. Seanna johnson comes up with the steal and takes it coastto coast for the layup. Iowa fighting, iowa city west grad Mikaela Morgan gets the roll on that layup. P. Panthers trail by 7. But then mororans pass is stolen by johnson, she had five steals and also added 28 points, tying a careerhigh. That layup puts the cycloneneup by 12. I ends the first half on a 92 run as Benton Community grad madison weekly banks in a three in the closing seconds. But iowa state goes on to win 8475 ananfinally the hawkeyes are 3 point underdogs against Michigan State in the big 10 title game. Heres more with coach ferentz. Michigan state connor cook Quick Release he has great weapons how do you defend that . It is going to be a big challenge for us he is a good quarterback experienced he has won a lot of games for them he is a leader and they have excellent receivers. Part of f e key is their offensive line they were not healthy early in the season they are all back now and have played well the last couple of weeks it is going to be a big side of the ball they got some they have a couple of first round draft picks on the defensive line how do you attack that . It is interesting first round draft picks the qb and you flip p it over on the side they look like an nfl line. Extremely big and talented, they play hard it is going to be a real challenge but it does start up front we have to nuetralize those guys. It is like a mirror game if you look at the stats they are almost identical plus 14 turnover margin. That is ononthing both teams do a great job of taking care of the ball they deem that really important and we have done the same of all the stats that is an important one. Might be the biggest game in iowa football history that is debatable how do you get your team ready to play in a game of this magnitude . I am not going down that road a aall because these ototr 12 games havav been big to that is what has allowed us to play 13. It is really important reward for our guys an opportunity. To me it is like any big game we have played thth year. The bowl game or playoffs and i think the message to our team is playing good football that is what gets you where you want to go that is what determines big games. Ben niemann was knocked out in that last game is he arlight tg go and how healthy are you going in . He is working back k the progression they set and everything has been very positive. We anticipate him being ready to go but that could change at anytime if he cant go bo bower can step in and do a great job. Thanks scott. One last look at the forecast, joe. Quite a few clouds hang around