Sharing memories ofofhe woman they call caring and charismatic. 07 04 she didnt take anyones garbage and i saw that the first time i met her and i was just like, who is this person . I want to be friends with her. Anjeli chafekar met Nicole Underwood four years ago. She says a friendship formed instantly. 07 07 54 i cant tell you how many timei would be upset and she would show up at my door with care packages, like fuzzy socks, and all of my favorite things. Ive never had a friend like tt. A friend who wanted to be a therapist. Just months away from graduation nicole was looking for graduate schools closer to her boyfriend. 07 15 55 she was the most beautiful girl id ever sese. 07 17 50 she was very caring, and so smart, so smart. Everything about her blew me away in the best kind of way. Qualities he hopes others will remember through this. Raising money for a Scholarship Fund in her name. They say this is what she would want. 07 10 06 i cant think of a better way to honor the kind of person that she was than this. 07 26 47 shed really like that. Knowing shes still helping someone, somewhere, somehow. If youd like to contribute to that Scholarship Fund, weve put that information under this story on kcrg dot com. Nicoles Funeral Services will happen in des moines, where her family lives. The date and time are still to be d dermined. Bruce and beth . Thanks, sarah. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts joins us now with your first forecast. Justin, some more snow is moving in . Light snow is likely late tonight into wednesday morning as a weak, fast moving wwther system crosses the midwest. A inch of snow will be common th some locally higher amounts between one and twtw inches. Fortunately, winds will be light, mainly under ten miles per hour. Well have highs in the 20s tomorrow. The year will end on a colder note with highs around 20 on thursday, followed by upper teens on new years day. Sunshine and highs in the 20s are back for the weekend. Tonig ht lt. Snow poss. Late low 1622 winds light alo 18 dbq 21 iow 20 back to you. A dubuque man faces a murder chchge in chicago after a dispute over a dice game. The chicago suntimes reports Police Arrested 23yearold Emmanuel Harvey for a death on the citys south side last may. Police say harvey and another person shot and killed 29yearold alvin randolh. They say the two went to confront another game. Randolph tied to break up the dispute. Thats when police say harvey and the other person shot and killed him. Waterloo police are investigating a report of gunshots this afternoon. It happened around 2 30 in the 500 block of elm street. Police say the initial report was that someone fired several spots at a group of people. But police say they dont know of any injuries. Police found a small amount of blood and several shell casings at the scene. The homeless man in cedar rapids who was severely burned is expecteteto survive. 38yeyeold corey smock was sleeping in a tent two weeks ago Near Railroad tracks in the northwest quadrant. Thats when a candle fell over, catching his sleeping bag on fire. A good samaririn saw the fire and tried to put it out. Kcrgtv9s brea love talked with smocks mother about smocks recovery. Tuesday corey smock went into his fifth surgery at uihc, with many more to come. Sixty percent of his body. Smock is in a medically induced coma. Even though he cant respond, plenty of people are by his side. A lot of his friends have come up, my husband and i are staying here with him so i am with him from 8 oclock in the moing until sometimes 10 oclock at night. Heathman says sheegrateful for those who have cared for smock. The nurses here are phenomenal, the doctors, i could not ask for better care for core one thing heathman wants is to get one of smocks most precious possessions. Smocks dog jack was put down two months ago. Ever since, he has carried his ashes aund in his bapack. They were buddie they went through the flood, they went through everything together, that dog just meant the world to him. Cedar rapids policefound the ashes while investigating the camp site. The depapament says it can notot relelee the ashes to heathman because she does not have smocks consent. But she knows her as his mom i know what that dog meant to him, that was the only ththg in this world corere had that meantntnything to him. Officers did advise heathman to work with hostal staff to obtain the needed paperwork. In the meantime she will l ay by her sons side. Doctors say he could be released for therapy by the end of february. In iowa city, brea love, kcrgtv nine news. Republican president ial candidate marco rubio says National Security would be his top priority as president. Today, the florida senator made several stops in eastern iowa, includingne at the Waterloo Center for the arts. He told dozens of supporters there that the governments number 1 job is to keep americans safe. H said he would beef up the military to help fight terrorism. He also told v vers that he would also undo many actions president obama have taken during his years in office. The gop president ial field is people. Former new york governor George Pataki ended his bid for president tonight. He made the announcement in a video posted on social media. 10 tonight is the endf my journey for the white house as i suspend my campaigngn im confident we can elect the right person. Someone who will bring us together. Someone who will understand that politicians including the president must be the peoples servant not the master pataki was a long shot in the crowded field. Henever made the main stage in any of the gop debates. And he only received around one percent support in recent polls. The state of iowa is producing more ethanol than ever before. The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association says the state produced more than four bibiion gallons of ethanol this year, which is a new record. That total accounts for about 27 percent of the nations ethanol. The Association Says the states 43 ethanol refineries surpassed last years production by increasing iowa and stanford players answered all sorts of questions in pasadena today. Hear what some of them said, as we bring yououhe sights a a sounds of rose bowl media day. Stay with your 24 hour news the rose bowl game is just three days away. And the action today centered around media day. It is the only time that all the players and coaches from both teams are available to reporters. Kcrg tv nines Scott Westerberg was one of those reporters, and he joins us live tonight scott, it sound like quite an event. It definitely was a site to see. The rose bowl says have been issued, so things were a bit overwhelming today. Some of the players like the media interaction. Hers. Not as much. I noticed a lot of guys that would rather be practicing on the football field right now. If this is the worst thing that comes with playing in the rose bowl, ill take it all day. You just got to embrace all of it. You got to embrace the fun stuff and the dia stuff as well. Its a tribute to getting to the rose bowl. Its part of it and you got to enjoy every part of it. Cameras, cameras and more cameras. Thth media army spent an hour grilling the playererand everything. Boone myers said he can easily outeat Matt Vandeberg but vandeberg thinks myers cant really eat that much and he can outeat him. W w do you have in that draw . Id take boone for sure on that one. While this whole rose bowl experience is new to the players and most of the media from iowa, a couple familiar faces have done this many times before. Both remember their fifist rose bowl we stayed at the same hotel as the players an they were available for visiting or whatever, cess was easier and there wat any television, so you basically had a run of the place. Just as many members of the media then as there is now but the difference is you have all the social media a and the twitteteand snapchat and all that other good stuff which makes it tired answering a million questions, cedar r rids gazette columnist mike hlas took over. What else do you need to know . The two head coaches will hold one finalress conference in the morning, but other than that, we wont hear from the team again until after the game on friday. Coming up later in sports, Scott Saville will have more from media day. Live in pasadena, california, Scott Westerberg, kcrgtv9. The rose bowl game will air friday. The 12and1 hawkeyes face the 11and2 stford cardinal with the kick off shortly after fououpm, iowa time. You can see the game on espn. And dont miss tv nines countdown to kickoff earlier that day. The hourlong special airs at 9 am, right here on kcrgtv9. The city of pasadena will hold its annual tournament of roses parade before the big game. Hear how the festivities on friday will hold a special hey this holiday, u. S. Cellulurs giving you 15 gigs of data for just 70 but i wanted a pony. [ gasps ] youre getting data. Ponysized data . U. S. Cellular sized data. 15 gigs of good, strong data 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. Plus 400 in promo cards. Light snow is likely late tonight into wednesday weather system crosses the midwest. A duststg to an inch of snow will be common with some locally higher amounts between one and two inches. Fortunately, winds will be light, mainly under ten miles per hour. Well have highs in the 20s tomorrow. The year will end on a colder note with highs around 20 on thursday, followed by uppfr teens on new years day. Sunshine d highs in the 20s are back for the weekend. Tonig ht lt. Snow poss. Late low 1622 winds lilit alo 18 dbq 21 iow 20 tomorrow am snow likely high 2430 winds w 510 alo 26 dbq 27 iow 29 tomorrow night mostly cloudy 15 dbq 16 iow 18 thursday mostly cloudy high 20 low 16 friday mostly sunny high 19 lowow6 saturday mostly sunny high 25 low 9 sunday partly sunny high 28 low 13 monday mostly cloudy high 28 low 13 tuesday chance of rain snow football fans, but itll also be special for many other iowans for another reason. For more t tn a decade the iowawa Donor Network has helped create the donate life rose parade float in the tournament of roses parade in pasadena, california. Each yeye, the iowa Donor Network sponsors families to take part in the parade. Theyre organ recipients and their families, organ donor families and living donors. Kcrgtv9s Jill Kasparie introduces us to ome of them from the past and the prerent. For some in iowa, the tournament of roses parade. 4 00 59 never miss it. Is something special. Not for football or for flowers, but for memories. Every year we watch it and get a little emotional to see the float come across. Julie schneider mother rode on the donate life rose parade float holding a picture of her father. My dad wasasiagnosed in the early 80s with a rare Liver Disease and in 1989 became very ill and received a lifesaving liver transplant after six days on the waiting list. Now another iowa family is preparing to play a sisilar same role in this years parade. On new years day, people will see a picture of this man russ gerdin with his daughter julie whos already in california. Im gogog to be riding on thth float and carrying his picture in his honor. Russs son, mike, runs the Trucking Company his dad started. Hell be in the crowd remembering his father who struggled withthliver cancer. 4 10 15 he needed a transplant and one came through for him. 4 16 50 when he received his liver in 2006, it was such a tremendous gift, one you caht even put into words 4 07 2 2itll just be a goodod time to rereect on all the good things that happened and were able to happen. He got to see five more grandkids born after his with his new grandkids. The iowa Donor Network wants millions to see these stories on new years day because othe need. Theres a great need for organ donors in this country. Theres 120,000 people on the wait list at any given time, 600 here in iowa and we just want people to register, find out what it means to be a donor and how they can register. In north liberty, Jill Kasparie, kcrgg9 news. The tournament of roses parade will air live from pasadena at 10 am friday. You can see it right here on kcrg tv nine. And we understand the donate life rose parade float will be about halfway through the lineup of floats. Coming up in sports, ill have more on the preparations for the rose bowl game this friday. Stay with your 24 hour news. Michigan state has been the big bully against the iowa Mens Basketball Team winning the last nine meetings. The hawkeyes welcomed number one sparty to Carver Hawkeye arena. The last time iowa beat Michigan State was in iowa city back in 2011. Cedar rapids native Jarrod Uthoff gets the scoring started for the hawkeyes as he decides to take the threepointer. But he dealt with early foul trouble. His teammates picked up the slack. Adam woodbury with the spin move and layup. Hawkeyes go up six. Nicholas baer continues to give production off the bench. Grabs the loose ball, sets, fires and hits the long triple. Iowa up seven. More from the hawkeye bench. Dom uhl with a long three and the bank is open late on a tuesday. 3117 iowa. For the Third Straight game, baer finished in double f fures with 11 points. Throws it down to give the hawkeyes a 3521 lead. Closing seconds of the first half. They get to jok who knocks down the catch a a shoot three. Iowa led 3723 at halftime. 2nd half action, mike gesell muscles his way inside. Count the basket and the foul. Gesell finished with a career high 25 poiois. Iowa knocks off number one Michigan State, 8370. First win against a Number One Team since 1999 last year hurt, so did iowa from it. And i was really proud of my guys for the way we rallied in the second half and were able to keep that lead. Trt 10 oc keep that lead. Iowa offensive coordinator greg davis helped the hawkeyes finish with a top 5 offense in the bib ten. Scott saville joins us live in california, scott t vis has faced a lot of criticism during his time at iowa, but patience had paid off. Josh the iowa offense has been extremely balancecethis year. They can beat you on the ground or thru the air and they are tough to defend. Theres a lot of flexibility that a lot of the players have. Once the ball is snapped in the passing game, and it just takes a while for them to understand that flexibility. It takes a while theres a lot of flexibility that a lot of thplayers have. Once the ball is snapped in the passing game, and it just takes a while for thth to understand that flexibility. It takes a while to get on the same page with the quarterback. I think the fact that were able to run the ball so much better this year. Were a lot were just going out there and really focusing on our job. I dont think its really anymore complex than that. Hes like a dad to me, like a grandpa to me. All the quarterbacks as well, we love him. Hes fun to be out ttre with on the f fld in practice. And he know what hes doing. Hes a great teacher of the game as well. Hes taught me more than i can even say. I know it gets old talking about being resilient, next man in and one day at a time, but when you have really good teams, thats what they do. So kirk has kept talking about that and players took that mind set. So that has been really they have a lot of time to prepare i i thihi coach davis a lot the rose bowl. Back to you josh. Former Northern Iowa quarterback jay johnson has been named the n offensive coordinator for the minnesota gophers. He ent the last four s ssons as the ocoordinator at louisiana lafayette. The ragin cajuns set School Points in 2012 under his guidance. Thanks scott. One last look at the forecast, justin. Light snow is likely late tonight into wednesday morning as a weak, fast moving weather system crosses the midwest. A sting to an inch of snow will be common with sove locally higher amounts between one and two inches. Fortunately, winds will be light, mainly under ten miles per hour. Well have highs in the 20s tomorrow. The year will end on a colder note with highs around 20