Years as a detective. He also served in the air national guard, and this was his third deployment to the middle east. His second to afghanistan. Today two of his relatives in Dubuque County talked about their memories of him. I describe him best as a guy thats built like a grizzly bear with the heart of teddy bear, cause he liked peoe, and thats why he was so good at what he did. He was dedicad to his family, to his city, to his country, and thats something youll never get from somebody else like him. The 45 year old lemm is survived by his wife and two children. Mondays Taliban Attack in afghanistan was the deadliest assault on International Forces since august. Turning now to weather and meteorologis t joe winters. Joe, more rain on the way . The second storm system of the state drawing plenty of moisture with it. Unfortunately the moisture that falls will be in the form of rain and not snow. The showers begin to break out late tonight through the Morning Hours of our wednesday. Rainfall totals up to 0. 5 are likely in manlocations with the rain wrapping up remain near 40 for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with more rain ahead for the weekend. Have a good night. Tonight showers late low 3541 winds s 1015tomorrow showers high 4551 winds s 515 back to you. A boy continues to recover in the hospital from ininuries he suffered ininn middle school in cedar rapids earlier this month. His mother says the boys injuries include head trauma that later caused a seizure and a stroke. It happeped when her son Miguel Tirado was lking home from school and threw a snowball at an 11 year old in the 500 block street. Police say 11 year old then assaulted miguel. Police have rererred an assault charge for thehe1 year old to juvenile services because of his age. Kcrgtv9s Sarah Mccarthy joins us in the studio. Sarah, you spoke with the miguels parents . Beth and bruce, his parents and doctors say miguel is lucky to be alive. Although his head trauma is so severe, he sometimes isnt sure where he is. His family shared video of his current c cndition. It may b bdifficult for some to watch. This is not the twelve year old son. Danny torres and Analisa Rivera sent to schoho on december third. 05 20 30 he takes his time to help out anybody and everybody, no matter big, tall, mean, different. Hes not prejudiced at all, he just looks at you and sees the kindness in you. But everything changed, with just one phone call. 05 36 24 i get this call that says my son is being put in the hospital. We go to mercy and hes just laid out. Son. I get to the hospital first and see him rolling in on a gurney and hes just a mess. Injuries that initially seemed less severe. Doctors sent miguel home, his parents say he was walking, talking, and seemed fine. But four days later, his Little Brothers heard screams. 05 19 52 my five year old comes in and says hes screaming in the room m d my husband goeein and checks and he screams oh my god. I find him in bed with blood coming out of his mouth and nose. I pick him up and i wipe the blood and i breathe in air trying to keep cool, and tell my wife to paramedics. A call that brought miguel here. Doctors say it could take a year to recover, and theyre not sure if hell ever be the same. But his family says theyll be by his side. Video helping their son through a long recovery they say could be much worse. 05 32 10 our son is still still his charming self. Thats what christmas is for again, police say the 11 yearold who allegedly assaulted miguel could face chchrges in juvenile court. Miguels parents do have a go fund me page set up to help pay for hospital bills. If youd like to donate, look for the link under this story on kcrg dot com. Bruce and beth . Thanks, sarah. A marion man faces a willful injury charge for a stabbing. Police say 50yearold David Merrifield stabbed a woman in the neck early this morning. It happened in the 13 hundred block of grara avenue in marion. First responders took the woman to a hospital with serious injuries, but shes expected to be ok. Police later arrested merrifield. A Health Care Company says shifting tens of thousands of iowans to another medicaid provider will cause confusion. Review the states decision to terminate its contract. The state took thee action last week after the company allegegly failed to disclose some information during bidding. Wellcare says the state has assigned about 125 thousand iowans to receive coverage through the company, starting march 1st. The state plans to re assign those patients over the next couple of weeks. Iowas population grew to about 3million120 thousand this year. The Us Census Bureau releasas new estimates todaa showing population as of july 1st. Thats an increase from last year when the state had about 3 million110 thousand people. Thats about a point5 percent increase, which isisslightly less than the national rate. A dubuque man and his service dog are back together after the dog vanished last week. Curt curiel has multiple sclerosis and depends on his dog sassy to help him throughout this day. Up until a few weeks ago, the two were homeless week, sassy disasaeared while they were waiting for a bus. Curiels friends at the rescue Mission Posted information about the missing dog on facebook. And someone found sassy humane society. We made all the connections and here, belong to curt, so we did what we could to help them find each other and be reunited. Staff at the Dubuque Rescue Mission have now pooled their money to pay for sassys shelter fees curiel and sassy have also found a place of their own to stay in dubuque. Tonight, a Senior Living community in marion turned on a holiday lights display that was mths in the making. Of one man n o people say is always thinking of hers. First heres a look at the most popular stories today on kcrg dotcom. Stay with your 24 hour recent completion of a holiday summit pointe Senior Living in marion. And its all for one man, he struggles with some health problems, needing dialysis three times a week. Afeer he came up with the idea last year, Staff Members at the facacity say russell wasnt sure if hed still be here to see the big reveal this year. But kcrgtv9s Jill Kasparie shows us that hes definitely around and couldnt be more thrilled to see the project come to life. 3 02 41 hey dad, hello there. Hello hello russell is used to his routine with dinner at 4 30. But tuesday night it was obvious things are a bit different. 3 19 13 wititchristmas a couple days away what better of a night. It is the night russell has waited for for a year. 2 57 45 christmas wasassed lat year. I couldnt make christmas come back and i had to wait until this christmas. The 82yearold says last christmas his daughter rusty holub put lights in his window and he thought one just wasnt enough. 330 16 he said wouldnnit be awawsome to light everer window in this building and thats i just took it from box of lights from his daughter. And after that from donation to volunteers many worked to get lights up each one of th363 windows on the building. 2 49 30 when they t tned the lights on, moment, it was a dream come true. I loved it. 3 11 40 it really touched my heart to see people pull everyone at summit point they couldnt wait to celebrate his dream around the sparkling building. For a man whos always thinking of others and sharing hugs this night is all about russell. Who no matter how bad hes feeling or having a rough day he makes for you. Now, russell gets to make it part of his routine to enjoy this holiday dream come true. 3 21 30 these are his lights and his pride and joy. 2 58 27 i like them, i love work for a lot of people and i want to appreciate it. In marion, Jill Kasparie, kcrgtv9 news. Both donald trump and Hillary Clinton are doubling down on their comments about each other. Neither one is backing down from the feud following the second storm system of the week heads into thehe state drawing plenty of moisture with it. Unfortunately the moisture that falls will be i ithe form of rain and not snow. The showers begin to break out late tonight through the Morning Hours of our wednesday. Rainfall totals up to 0. 5 are likely wrapping up during the early evening. Highs remain near 40 for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with more rain n ead for the weekend. Have a good night. Tonight showers late low 354141 winds s 1015tomorrow showers likely high 4551 winds s 515tomorrow night mostly cloudy low 2632 winds nw 1020thursday mostly cloudy mostly cloudy high 45 low 29 saturday showers high 41 low 34 sunday chance of showers high 37 low 33 monday chance of showers high 38 low 32 tuesday mostly cloudy high 35 thanks joe. The hawkeyes and the 11th ranked cyclones both pick up wins tonight. Scott will have all the highlights, ahead in sports. Stay with your after a specific word he used in attacking Hillary Clinton. Trump used a derogatory term against her in the latest of a back and forth battle between the two after saturdays debate. Abcs bazi kanani reports. On the trail in iowa today, Hillary Clinton again says Donald Trumps language is helping terrrrists recruit. It plays into the hands of violent jihadist. The democratic frontrunner refusing to respond directly to trumps latest attack involving a sexually derogatoto term to describe how she was beaten by barack obama in 2008. 8on the trail in iowa today, Hillary Clinton ignores donald trump to focus on the issues. We can do . This if we stop fighting each other, insulting each other. The democratic frontrunner refusing to respond to trumps latest attack using a sexually derogatory term to descrii how she was beaten by barack obama in 2008. She lost, i mean she lost. Trumps fury. Sparked by an unsupported claim clinton made in her last debate. Trump. Now mocking that claim. Donald trump is on video and isis is using the video to recruit. A new Quinnipiac University poll shows trump may need to take aim at someone else ted cruz is catching up. Now just four points behind trump nationally. The texas senator still careful not to criticize his gop rival. When asked about trumps disparaging slam on clinn. I dont need to be another political pundit. I am gonna let donald trump speak for himself. I am gonna speak for myself. But Carly Fiorina has a warning for trump. In a radio interview, saying she also has been called derogatory names. We cannot have candidates who insult women beat Hillary Clinton. Army Sergeant Bowe bergdahl made a brief appearance today at a military hearing at fort bragg, north carolina. But he did not enter a plea to charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. E taliban held bergdahl captive after he afghanistan in 2009. He was freed in a controversial prproner Exchange Last year. Xavier coach tom lilly goes after win number 500. Scott has highlights. And its been a busy Night College basketball with the hawks, cyclones, and panther men and women all in action. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrg tv nine. Hey this holiday, u. S. Cellulars giving you 15 gigs of data for just 70 but i wanted a pony. [ gasps ] youre getng data. Ponysized data . U. S. Cellular sized data. 15 gigs of good, strong g ta you can acacally use because it works in the middle of anywhere. Id like 100 youre getting 400 in promo cards yes switch to u. S. Cellular and get 15 gigs of data for just 70. Packages delivered, leading into the new year. And in this weeks angies list, some potentially lifesaving ti for anyone decorating their home with holiday lights. Thats tomorrow the iowa men hosting tennessee ch. Josh has the highlights. This is just the 2nd meeting between iowa and tennessee tech, the first one was back in 1970 first half action, hawkeyes with some great ball movement. Cedar rapids jefferson grad Jarrod Uthoff dials Long Distance and connects then later its the pick and roll. Mike gesell down low to Adam Woodbury for the layup. Hawkeyes go up by 15 and that lead keeps on growing. Anthony clemmons from the corner. It twirls out, but falls back in. He had 11. Iowa up 17 then peter jok started to heat up from threepoint land. Hits the triple in the corner. Then its a catch and shoot three from the top of the key, money. Jok had five 3pointers for a total of 21 points. Iowa led 43 to 21 at halftime walkon Nicholas Baer was just named the big ten freshman of the week on monday. Today he had another career day finishing with 19 points and five rebounds as iowa cruises to the 8563 win. Im just hapap for him because an opportunity and ultimately he believed in himself. We can believe in him, we can give him a chance. But he had to make it happen. From the minute he said he was coming here, hes really worked. Id say its probably the best shooting team weve had since weve been here. Pete and jarrod can really shoot, baers been shooting well lately. When we play defense like we were in the first half, it really gets our offense going. In iowa city, josh christensen, tv9 sports. Bounce back from that loss to uni had another tough one tonight at cincininati. The cyclones really attacked the basket tonight. George niang takes it to the rack hard and his game high 24. And then the d monte morris with the steal and he goes coast to coast for the reverse layupp for two of his 16. And Deonte Burton not afraid to shoot with 12 points off the bench tonight and iowa state led by 7 at the break. Down three late in the game triple to tie it at 78. Wide open for three to give the cyclones a two point lead with 11 seconds to play. Y. The bearcats had three chances. Troy copain for three no gary clark with the putback no. Not done yet cobb at the buzzer no iowa state wins it 8179. The iowa state women hosted norther broke open a tight game late in the sececond half for a 7963 win. Bree fern strom led iowa statete with 23 points. And Jadda Buckley chipped in with 17. Bluders bunch hosted former Hawkeye Jenny Lillis and drake in game one of the double header at carver. Iowa was feeling it from 3point land early. Alexa kastanek hits one from the top of the key. Hawkeyes up 97drake kept it close. Caitlin ingle kicks one out to north linn grad Nicole Miller and she hits the 3ball corner pocket. But iowa starts to pull away. Tania davis with the steal and she takes it in for the layup. Hawkeyes led 2115 after the lead continueueto grow in the 2nd quarter, iowa city west grad ally disterhoft spots up and buries the triple. She had 20 and iowa leby 16 at the break. Drake made a comeback in the second half led by lizzy wendells 35 points. But 8 is close as they could get. Whitney jennings wide open down for the bunny. Total team effort for iowa in an 8976 win. Mmost coaches dream about five players in double figures we had six players in double figures including two people coming off the bench in brittany and megan. I am really proud of our team we didntthoot the ball well but i think we wanted and i never saw any quit sot 17 oc any quit the uni women lost to creighton tonight 69 61. The panther memewill play hawwi on the big island with a 12 30 am tip time. High school hoops xavier coach tom lilly was looking for win number 500 tonight against davenport assumption. And the great high low action to meghan jones for two. And xavier got a with the baseline drive for the 11 point lead. And then kiana stanek hit back to back treys and tom lilly wins number 500 with the e 47 win. After the game his players presented him with an autograph ball. I have had some great players and assistant coaches i am blessed i guess 500 is supposed to be Something Special by i you know what i am worried about 501 so thank you. Sot 15 oc 501 so thank you thanks scott. One last look at the forecast, joe. The second storm system of the week heads into the state drawing plenty of moisture with it. Unfortunately the moisture that falls will be in the form of rain a not snow. The showers begin to break out late tonight through the Morning Hours of our wednesday. R rnfall totals up to o 5 are likely in manan locations with the rain wrapping up during the early evening. Highs remain near 40 for
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