04 29 05 the only one im not leading in is this stupid des moines register, u know, its what a terrible paper, terrible paper. For some, this face time will help decide who theyll 03 52 03 i think as an american, you just have to to see them, get to know their beliefs and what they want to do and i think itit great popotive energy, and i need some positive energy. Using to oppose against trumps messages. 03 32 22 im no longer armed, that you know of, but i am armed with a im drawing breath, im going to defend my constitution and its a divide trump is promising to bridge. 05 06 53 i will get a lot of people on the democrat side to vote for me. Votes thatll all come into focus soon. In cedar rapids, sarah mccarthy, kcrgtv9 news. Asasarah noted, about 100 people protested trumps recent proposal to ban those of the muslim faith from entering the u. S. Standing across 2nd avenue from the venue this Assembly Said they wanted to quote stand in solidarity with our muslim brothers and sisters unquote. We met one 9th Grade Student at Kennedy High School who is muslim who felt she had to be here. 22 15 were not the stereotype that donald trump has brought us up as. Were normal people in this world just trying to live like everyone else and weve been degraded down into something that were not and i feel like we all came out here to prove him wrong. In the National Polling of republicans, donald trump has remained dominant capturing about 1 3 of the support in the polls. Yet in surveys of republicans here in iowa, trump and texas senator ted cruz have nearly split the last 7 polls cruz on top in 4, trump leading 3. Florida senator marco rubio has been edging into 3rd place in most of the recent iowa lls. Retired neurororgeo n ben carson has been in fourth in most iowa polls. No democrats campaigned in iowa today as they were in New Hampshire for tonights debate. All of the previous debates havee republicans instead of each other but tonight, some attacks between the 3. The early moments of saturdays New Hampshire debate among the 3 democratic president ial candidates touched on the weeks development. Bernie Sanders Campaign fired a staffer friday after news of the campaign obtained and saved voter information from hillary clinton. While sanders and clinton talked it out, former Maryland Governor mamain omalley, running a very distant third, tried to paint both as insiders. You want to know why things dont get done in washington . Because, for the last 24 hours, with those issues being so urgent to people as they tune in totoght wondering how theyll even be ablblto buy presents for their kids. Instead, were listening to the bickering back and forth. Where a major dynamic rises bebeween clinton and sanders has s en on wall street influence. This provided some of the more aggressive statements from each candidate as both try to appeal to the democratic base. Muir will cobporate america love a president sanders . Sanders no, i think they wont. Hillary and i may like hillary. They aint gonna like me and wall street is going to like me even less. Clinton about 3 of my donations come from people in the finance and investment world. You can go to opensecrets. Org and check that. I have more donatio from students and teachers than from the People Associated with wall street. A saturday of brisk winds. True december is here. Meterologist chris havely is in with the first alert forecast. Chris. Weve been experiencing a stretch of more typical december weather recently, however thats about to quickly change as we move into next week. A warm front will lift north through the area overnight, bringing in brisk outherly winds, and d lder tempeetures. Highs on sunday will be in the lowmid 40s. Along with those milder temperatures will come clouds. By late sunday evening, showers will an end by midday monday. From there on, we enter intntanother mild patternrn with temperaturere climbing into the upper 30s to upper 40s through the day, conditions are expected to be dry and mild. 2430 winds s 1020 alo 27 dbq 23 iow 28tomorr windy, chance winds s 1525 alo 42 dbq 42 iow 46 back to y yu. Police in madison, wisconsin say a mall was closed for hours after a shooting inside during this busy shopping weweend. Investigators say 1 person pulled out a handgun at the east towne mall in madison, firing at least 1 round. A bullet hit a 19yearold man in the leg but the injury is not considered ife threatening. First responders did take the man out of the mall on a stretcher. Police cleared the mall for hours and are still searching for a suspect. Remember about 10 days ago, when hawkeye fananwho wanted to o to the 2016 rose bowl were coming across tickets at about 600 or 650 each on the Online Ticket sites . If you gave up. The prices have dropped sharply. A check of the website stubhub price of a ticket just to get in the door, usually in the end zones is now about 240 dollars, including fees. T sit between the goal lines is,s,aturally, more xpensive, but this does represent a drop of more than 50 in the last week just to get in. The 2016 rose bowl is january 1st for iowa and stanford at 4 pm iowa time on espn. The big four is a celebration of iowa mens college basketball. In the late game from des moines, the uni panthers take aim on taking down another nbeaten team this time iowa state. The full story in n another decemr, another set of College Graduates are marking this saturday with celebrations of four years of hard work perhaps 4 4nd a half years. Kcrgtv 9s brady smith met some of the university of iowas nursing students now graduates on what they hope awaits in the next stage. 64 g gduates of the ui college of nursing lined their degrees. Sarah armstrong already knows where shes going. 13 04 07 im going to head back to rochester, minnesota and work at mayo clinic. This is the field shes last of four kids to gradue filled with options. 13 35 44 a lot of us are going for more education, and then most of us would like to stay back at iowa, just because we know the program, and we know its prestigious. T his is one of the last 64 student graduations for the college of nursing, according to dr. Thad wilson. Class sizes are growing to 72, to accommodate an increase in applicants. 16 54 58 the hospitals and clinical sites are busier and busier and busier. Wilson says theres more competition to get into this program, but thats helping to cover a nationwide shortage of nurses. 18 37 45 in the state of iowa, the average age of a nurse in the 50s, and in the faculty range its even higher. Were in the high 50s wilson says the affordable carerect has creased the need f f nurses t tbe involved at all levels of care. In iowa city, brady smith, kcrg tv 9 news. Students at the university of Northern Iowa also walked down the aisle and shook hands to receive their degrees today at the mcleod center. While known statewide as a Destination University for future e achers and businesss newlyminted graduate spoke with us about the best elements of uni. Its size. Sot ive been here two and a half years and its been a good experience, ive had wonderful staff, its just its a big school but a small town feel so you get the besesof both worlds, so i really have enjnjed my two and a half years here. More than 600 undergraduat e and graduate students receivededheir degrees. Kids from all over the area faced off at the First Lego League challenge today. Perhaps you had a student somewhere in eastern iowa, trying to use engineering, critical thinking, teamwork and resource allocation. To place high. Each fll team has up to o constructing and programming robots often out of legos. The robots complete certain challenges on an obstacle course. The goal is always gracious professionali sm but the theme for this year is to cut the amount of trash in a landfill. The kids also present their findings in front of judges. Those judges also award points based on teamwork. Meterologist chris havely is back in with the first weve been experiencing a stretch of more typical december heres a penny just for you. Thats no penny. Thatat a galaxy s 6 at u. S. Cellular this saturday. Whoa, thanks, grandma youre welcome. You can also get an lg g4 or an lg g pad f 8. 0 with thapenny. Nice isnt thth just delightfufu pennies for everyone get penny doorbuster deals on great devices this saturday startidg at 9 00 a. M. Thats about to quickly change as we move into next week. A warm front will lift area overnight, bringing in brisk southerly winds, and milder temperatures. Highs on sunday will be in the lowmid 40s. Along with those milder temperatures will come clouds. By late sunday evening, showers will become likely aoss the tv9 viewing area, and come to an end by midday monday. From there on, we enter into another climbing into the upper 30s to upper 40s through the rest of the week. For christmas day, conditions are exexcted to be dry and mild. Tonight clouds increasing low 2430 winds s 1020 alo 27 dbq 23 iow 28tomorrow windy, chance of pm showers high 4349 winds s 1525 alo 42 dbq 42 night showers likely low 3440 winds sw 1020 alo 34 dbq 35 iow 37monday chance of shers early high 39 low 37 tuesday mostly cloudy high 43 low 29 wednesday chance of showers high 48 low 34 thursday partly cloudy high 43 low 29 friday partly cloudy high 45 low 27 saturday chance of showers high 43 low 37 thanks chris. Josh joins us now, Northern Iowa loves once again today. A lot of people wanted uni and iowa state to play each other last year. But the panthers didnt disappoint anyone. Highlights are next. Stay with your 24 Hour One Team in the country. Today in the big four classic, the panthers spiced up their resume even more. Scott westerberg and Scott Saville have the highlights from des moines. With a 3. Uni up 1614. Iowa state answers with Great Ball Movement a a Georges Niang drills a triple. Cyclones with 5 straight to retake the lead. Uni answers with 8 straight as wyatt lohaus drills one from deep. Panthers up 5. Cyclone fans got their first look at transfer deonte burton. He spots up and connects from 3. The fast tempo continues. Washpun to Jeremy Morgan for the flush. Then Paul Jesperson from downtown. Panthers up 3426. Uni playing iowa states style in theheirst half. Washpun to Matt Bohannon plus the foul. 4637 at the half. Washpun continues to dominate. Great bounce pass to ted friedman. Iowa state answers niang to abdel nader. A pretty quiet night for monte morris but this bucket and foul makes it a 6664 game. After iowa state ties it jesperson dials up a pair of threes. He hit 7 of them. The cyclones cut it to one with 15 seconds to go but niang falls. The ball ends up with bennett koch. He gets it to washpun who is fouled. He hits one of two free throws. Iowa state with a chance to e or win but morris cant hit the f fater as uni knocks of iowa state 8179. After falling behind 6 nothing the hawks went right to jared uthoff posting up in the paint. But he had to sit moments later with two fouls. Iowa was able to get out and run hometown finishes. And Nicholas Baer replacing uthoff with steal and flush to give the hwkeyes their first lead. And then they started to heat up behind the arc. Anthony clemons knicks one down from the corner for the 8 point lead. A big run by drake and a Casey Schlatter 3 gave the bulldogs a 2826 lead. Iowa answered with another steal and slam from dom uhl. And they were even at 30 at the half. Wa got another good second half from baer with the trey. And mike gassell takes it to the hole for 2 of his 17 to give iowa 5045 lead. And baer with his best game as a hawkeye buries another triple. For an 8 point lead. He had 13 points off the pine and blocked six shots. The hawks with a big 4 record 14 swats. And then baer with the nice look inside to uthoff and gasell down down lane throws it down n put it away. Iowa pulled away in. The iowa womenen basketball 22 consecutive home games. The hawkeyes were hoping to keep the streak alive tonight against bradley. John camamell has the ghlights. The injured carly mohns can only watch as her teammates warmed up. Alex kastanek puts her spin on the game. Iowa up by ten. Then is the go route. Tania davis fires to christina buttenheim. Bingo ally disterhoft hit back to back 3s and iowa led by 8 at halftime. Out of the break kastanek to disterhoft. She leded the way with 1 1 points. Now it is disterhoft of jennings. It was all part of a 92 run to open the 3rd qtr. Tania davis, who got the start at point guard, adds to the iowa lead. They led by 15 going to the 4th quarter, bradley got it down to 4, butiowa prevailed 60 to 53. We need to score better. Play consistently. We had nice first and third quarters but our 2nd and 4th quarters were subpar. We got to play 40 minutes. We need to buy in to what coach bluder has been preaching to us. Buy in defensivley, offensively, reverse the ball turn down a good shot for a great shot. T. E will be ok. Next up, the hawks host. College football, Division Two National championshp. A coup of local players for northwest missouri state. Taking on shepherd. 2nd quarter, former kcrgtv9 athlete of the week and regina grad Jacob Vollstedt with the sack. Thats his 12th of the season. Still in the 2nd. Brady bolles hits regina grad george e hl for the first down. That drive led to a fieldgoal. The bearcat defense had 12 sacks in this game, Jacob Vollstedt had 2. Theres the 2nd one. He also had a teamhigh 12 tackles. 4th quarter, bolles hits gain. Sehl had 34 yards receiving. The bearcats win their 5th National Title with a 347 v ctory. Coming up after the break, i have some High School Wrestling highlights. Stay with tv9. There were quite a few scattered around the state. Lets start at norththinn. These are the semifinals. 182, nick baumler of North Fayette valley with a takedown, he won 115 and won the championship by fall. To 195, visouth petererhmidt of midprairieieins collwhite of clear creekamana in 54 seconds. He won his championship match 31. At 220, levi duwa of mid prairie cruised through his semifinals matchup with the falllln just 46 secondnd. He in all three matches. At heavyweight, kyler schott of north linn takes a shot and gets the 3rd period pin to advance. He won the 285 title. Williamsburg won the team title, solon was 2nd, North Fayette valley 3rd. To cedar rapids xavier for the 18th annual doug philipp duals. Final matches of the day, xavier taking on mediapolis. The saints struggle, but jeff vipond gives them a bright spot with the 1st period fall at 113. But mediapolis would win 45 to 22. The tournament belonged to dubuque hempstead. Mustangs taking on west liberty here. At 152, alex ward gets the fall. That set off a firestorm of pins. At 285, future iowa pinned his Hempstead Doug Philipp duals. To the pool for the little hawk invite. 100 butterfly, iowa city wests Oliver Martin at the top of your screen wins by a fingertip in 53. 35 seconds. He won by. 39 seconds. Next event, the 100 yard freestyle. The trojans will scott goes on to take this one in 46. 99 seconds. He also won the 50 yard freestyle. Bettendorf would win the team title, west came in 3rd. Indoor soccer, rampage playing on backtoback nights taking on st. Louis. 1st quarter, rampage down 20. Patrick kelly sees an opening and boots it in with the left foot. The deficit is cut in half as the rampage trail 21. 10 seconds into the 2nd quarter, sam guernsey heads one in to tie it up 22. St. Louis took a 72 lead, but the rampage rally back 97 for their first win in franchise history thanks josh. And now to First Alert Storm Team meteorologis t chis havely for your final forecast. Weve been experiencing a stretch of more typical december weather recently, however thats about to quickly change as we move into next week. A warm front will lift north through the area overnight,ringing in southerly winds, and milder temperatures. Highs on sunday will be in the lowmid 40s. Along with those milder temperatures will come clouds. By late sunday evening, showers will become likely across the tv9 viewing area, and cime to an end by midday monday. From there on,n,e enterernto another mild patatrn, withthemperatures climbing into the upper 30s to upper 40s through the rest of the week. For christmas day, conditions are expected to be dry and mild. Thanks chris. Thanks for joining us for kcrgtv9 news at 10. [ branch snaps ] [ rustling ]