Gathered in cedar rapids tonight, to plan and heal togegeer after a tragic lolo of three liveve michka kabeya, platini namputu, and dickson mandiki, all from the democratic republic of the congo, died in a crash on highway 30 near keystone early thursday morning. They were among 9 people who were traveling to work in tama in a minivan, when the iowa state patrol says it hit ice and lost control. Singing members and representativ es of the Congolese Community sang prayers and discussed Funeral Plans at Central Assembly of god church. People there say they need any help they can get, like prayer support for the other people still recovering from the crash, and donations to cover burial costs. Peter nkumu says planning for three burials at once will be daunting. Its going be a very challenging situation. Were just trying to cope with this, whahawe can do ourselves. Thats why, again, we are counting on anyone, any organization, that can help our community. These people did not have close family members here and now the communitys coming together and planned this to put them to rest. Nkumu says anyone who wants to help will be able to donate to a Memorial Fund for the Congolese Community. Thats being set up at Wells Fargo Bank locations, and nkumu said it should be ready to accept donations by monday or tuesday. The iowa utilities board will hold discussions this week that could end with a decision about the Dakota Access pipeline. The pipeline would ststt in north dakota and pass through 18 counties in iowa and into southern illinois. Iowa is the final state to sign on to the pipeline. There have been several protests over the last year against ththpipeline, the opposition saying it will meeting this week is tomorrow afternoon at the boards hearing room in des moines. T public is welcome to attend and listen to the meeting, but there will not be ananopportunity for public comment. The meeting starts at one. The Iowa Democratic party wrapped up its review of the iowa caucus results, officially verifying that Hillary Clinton did come away with the win over Bernie Sanders. The Party Reviewed the results at 14 of the precincts. It found that there were errors in the results that camemeut of five of thosos but it wasnt enough to change the statewide results. Clinton got 49. 8 percent support, while Bernie Sanders got 49. 6 percent support, still an incredibly close finish for those two candidates. The Denver Broncos are celebrating a super bowl 50 win this evening. The broncos topped the carolina pantherer24 to 10. This is Peyton Mannings bowl championship and he became title with two teams. Many araralso saying this may have been his final game. Tv nines Josh Christensen will have much more on tonights coming up in sports. Hosted parties for the big game tonight, as a way to raise money to build Affordable Homes in eastern iowa. For six years now, the cedar valley h hitat for humanity has encouraged people to try its Home Team Huddle fundraiser. Heres how it works at half time on super sunday, hosts of registered house parties pass a aund a hat and ask for donations to support cedar valley habitat for humanity. Those who chipped in, were entered to win an nfl Weekend Getaway for two. Sixtysix private parties and two public parties signed up. Organizers say the money raised will stay local. The reason were getting this money is to be able to support and serve families who are in need of a decent, safe and affordable home. 16thousand 500 dollars tonight. We should know if the group reaed that goal and who` won the big prizes in a couple weeks. A dubuque nonprofit is trying to make dreams come true for dubuque area children struggling with medical issues and potentially life challenging illnesses. And theyre doing it one bedroom at a time. Itssalled speciaia spaces dubuque. The organizers meet with the children to find out wt they like and create a special bedroom makeover plan. Kcrgtv nines Jill Kasparie shows us how this is lifting the spirits of one 9yearold girl. Volunteers only had five hours to get everything done. Lets go that way a little bit so we can get passed the outlet. Five hours to transform this small room into a magical princess get away for camdyn reisner. 10 24 06 its really amazing to me sinin i started this how w people are so willing to give of their time and talents to come help. One good push and that should be good 10100 41 right now we e e making little mod podge canvases to put up in camdyns in different spots up on her walls, on bookshelves, and on her dresser. 10 15 17 purple gold purple gold from handmade art for her walls to a new bed a a a handcrafted princess castle desk everything had its place. 10 34 31 screws 10 46 52 hairdrier 10 28 59 that would work the best right there 10 25 20 she is going to be in shock when n e sees it. She has no idea what we are doing. Then it was finally time time for camdyn to see her new room. Here is your special spaces, princess room ha go on in ha for camdyns mom its all a little emotional. 11 08 30 its great to see her so excited. She says it means a lot to the family, especially after so many medical struggles. 11 09 24 when camdyn was 21 days old she stopped breathing for no apparent reason. She went 57 min without oxygen so because of that she has a lot of spasticity in her lower extremiities and but there are lots of happy days ahead for this little princess. Give me a high five do you like it . Yeah for her this room is definitely a dream come true. In dubuque, Jill Kasparie, kcrgtv9 news. Camdyns mom says shes making a lot of progress with therapy and continues to improve. This was the ninth room special spaces dubuque has created for children in t t area since it started about two years ago. The organization runs on donations and families can apply for a room makeover for their children. You can find this organizations Facebook Page with this article on kcrg. Com. Tonight, we begin our series of 9 who care stories. Well introduce you to Chris Montross of cedar rapids, a woman whos dedicated decades of its the time of year when we here at tv9 recognize 9 people in our community who make a difference in the lives of others. For our first story, we introduce you to chris mtross of cedar rapids. Shes dedicated her life to all kinds of volunteer work, and thats why shes one of our 9 who care nominees. Chris montrosss passion for helping others began at age 7, during a stay at st. Lukess hospital. 36 31 37 i had pneumonia, the nurses i was going to work at st. Lukes hospital someday. Years later, she remembers applying to b ba physical therapy aide at st. Lukes on a thursday. On friday, she got called for an interview, and then. 37 13 20 saturday morning i got a call asking me if i could report monday morning with white shoes and white uninirm, and the rest i i history. She stayed at st. Lukes for 46 years, and during that time, she wore seseeral volunteer hatsts one of the most rewarding being her work as a hospice volunteer. 26 10 16 its always a wonderful thing when you can share somebodys end of life journey with them. Chris also took on newew personas during that time. She trained to be a Pastoral Care clown, and developed two clown characters for the sole purpose of bringing joy to those who needed it most. 33 08 14 i remember a spiritual care chaplain telling me one time, the greatest gift you can give another person is the gift of yourself. 31 26 29 the first clown character i had was rountuit. Later on, she created the patriotic americlown. Was named as such because if you break it into syllables, its amerryclown. she now serves as lead volunteer for pet pals, the Therapy Animal Program at st. Lukes. Her caca dewey is one of the dozens of nonhuman helpers involved. 27 10 18 animals are very intuitive and they seem to know when people are struggling, and they are just such a gentle presence. When we asked chris what she gets out of the countless hours of volunteerism shes put in over the years, this is how she summed it up 35 15 21 the joy and simple pleasure or just for a fleeting moment,hat a differenen you can have in someones life. Well honor all of our volunteers at the nine who care banquet on february 13th. Lets check backckn with meteorologist chris havely. Chris, what can we expect for the morning drive tomorrow . So, let me get this straight u. S. Cellular has the phone youre looking for, a network thats built to give you coverage and 6 gigs for only 40 a month. Thats a lot less than verizon and at t. So, why on earth would you ever go with one of those other guys . Switch to u. S. Cellular now and get 6 gigs of data for 40 a month plus get 300 back. Powerful blast of cold air returns to eastern iowa. Y winds at 2555 mph. This will create blowing snow and reduced visibility for travelers. Blizzard warnings are in effect r northwestern sections of eastern iowa, while Winter Weather advisories are in place farther east. Temperatures will be falling through the night, and dropping into the teens by sunnse. On monday, light snow showers and strong winds will continue, gusting over 40 mph at times. Total snowfall accumulation by tomorrow evening will be on the range of a trace up to 1 in most locations. Some isolated areas may pick up slightly more. The monday morning and evening commutes will likely be affected by this system, with reduced visibility to less than a quarter milil and slippery tonight snow showers, windy low 1622 winds nw 1530 alo 15 dbq 18 iow 20tomoow snow showers, winin high 1622 winds nw 2535 alo 16 dbq 18 iow 20tomorrow night cloudy, flurries low 511 winds nw 1525 alo 7 dbq 8 iow 10tuesday mostly clcldy, flurries high 16 low 8 wednesday partly cloudy high 13 low 1 thursday mostly sunny high 21 low 3 friday chance of snow high 23 low 11 saturday partly cloudy high 25 low 11 sunday chance of snow high 28 low 14 thanks chris. Josh joins us now, we say both teams tonight in ththsuper bowl. It was the number one and number two defense in the league. A lot of turnovers and sacks in this one. Stay with your 24 hour super bowl 50 between the Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos. For klein and former Hawkeye Brandon wegher, but he was inactive. For denver, formeme Hawkeye James ferentz. Before the game, the nfl recognized all the super bowl mvps, theres cedar rapids native kurt warner, the mvp for super bowl 34. This gamemeeatured the top two defenses in the nfl. 1st quarter, von miller strips cam newton, the ball is loose and Malik Jackson lls on it for the touchdown. Denver leads 100 already. D quarter, carolina a would finally get on the board as Jonathan Stewart goes airborne for the 1yard touchdown. Denver took a 137 lead at halftime. The broncos defense created havococor cam newton. 4th quarter, von fumble. T. J. Ward recovers it inside the carolina 5yard line. A couple of plays later, c. J. Anderson bulldozes his way in for a 2yard touchdown. Denver goes on to win 2410. And the bronco player to touch the lombardi trophy was former hawkeye e mes ferentz. G congrats to him. Champaign hasnt been kind to the iowa Mens Basketball Team in the past. Two years ago, the hawkeyes won there for the First Time Since 1999. Today, they were hoping for consecutive wins for the First Time Since 1986 and 87. Iowa also trying to stay in first place in the big ten to a fast start. Look at Adam Woodbury running up the floor and he finishes with the easy layup. The first half, iowa with an offensive board, then nicholas baerr cashes in with a three. Iowa up 2112. Still in the first half, Anthony Clemmons with e beautiful step bac threepointer. He had 10 ints. Hawkeyes led. Their offense doesnt slow down in the 2nd half. Peter jok drives to the hoop and finishes with the left hand. Hawkeyes up 4132. Adam woodbury finishsh with another doubledouble. 10 points and 14 rebounds. That putback gives iowa a ninepoint lead. Peter joks defense has improved so much this season. Grabs the steal and he stuffs it down on the other end. He had 23 points. Iowa up by 12. Then watch jok fight for the loose ball. He gives it to a wide open Jarrod Uthoff who splashes in a three. Jarrod had 18 points and iowa wins this one, 7765. In about 19 days, cedar rapids native ryan sweeney will report to spring training with the minnesota twins. I spoke with him earlier this week via facetime for the sunday night spotlight about this new opportunity. Ryan, the big news for you was signing g minor league ago. How excited are you about this opportunity . The twins are a very young team and could use a 4th outfielder. Yea, im really excited. I just went to the twins fest this last weekend. So that was pretty cool to get to see all the fans and see how exexted they were for the upcoming season. I got to meet the coaches, meet the hitting coach and everything. Just talking to the guys, theyre pretty young. I think their oldest outfielder is 22 or 23 years old with no more than a year of service time. If i can go in there, have a good spring training, and be a mentor to the younger guys and shw them how to play defense. I think it a good fit and thats i chose it. You didnt play last season. Were you surprised you got the call or were you thinking baseball was over for you . I feel like the ball was more in my court. I didnt plalalast year. I w wted to rest my body and stay at home with the family since i a few offers to go play, but didnt really want to go to where i was offered. Just going into this offseason, i told my agent that i didnt want to do the whole minor league thing last year, so i wanted to make a team out of spring training. Ill be honest with you, there was a couple month period where i thought that i wouldnt play again. Theres still an itch thererto play and i still l nt to play. I i id that i have nothing to lose, i might as well give it one more shot. How do you feel physically after taking a year off . Good. I feel great. Ive been working out, not necessarily less is more now that im older, b not working out as hard as i was. But doing a higher rep, lower weight stuff. Im really concentratin g omy core, getting my gs under me. Ive been into spring training . Is it different compared to previous years . Yea, its been tough. Ive been on both spectrums where youre trying to make a team when youre younger when you have the security of knowing that youre already on a team. I think people know wh kind of player i am, but unfortunatel y with taking a year off im going to have to go in there and have a good spring training. Ive always been the type of person that sometimes ill have a great spring training and start off the year terrible. Other times, ive had terrible spring trainings and started the year off great. Im not one to really stress or guess this year im going to have to go in there and play well. And coming up after the break, ill have e me iowa Womens Basketball highlights. Three big ten losses where e had a doubledigit lead in the 2nd half. One of those losses was to Michigan State back in january. Both teams met up again today in iowa city. Coach lisa bluder was coaching her 1,000th career game as a head coach. 1st quarter action, tania davis drives to the hoop and scoops it in to put iowa on the board. Later in the 1st quarter, great passing by the hawkeyes and chase coley has an easy layup. She had 13 points. Hawkeyes down 2. Later in transition. Christina buttenham stops, pops and drops the deuce. She had 9 points off the bench. Hawkeyes trailed 2018 after one quarter. Michigan state had a 9 point lead in the 2nd quarter, but iowa fights back. Whitney jennings lays one in for two of her 10 points. Iowa down 3 iowa city west grad ally disterhoft who buries the three. She had a teamhigh 17 points. But Michigan State wins 7469. Uni Womens Basketball hosting wichita state. Panthers pass the ball along the wing. Stephanie davison has an open look and she drains the threepointer. Panthers down 1918. They would take the lead on this madison weekly threepointer in the corner. The Benton Community grad had a teamhigh 19 points. Uni wins 6948. To golf, final round of the phoenix open. Cedar rapids native zach johnsns with the chip on the 15th hole. It rolls a pretty good distance and stops about a foot from the pin. Hed tap in for birdie. Zach fired a 69, he finished tied for 14th at seven under. Hideki matsuyama isisyour champion afterr beating rickie fowlerer in a 4hole playoff. Tomorrow for on iowa live, we have jess settles, rob howe from hawkeyenation. Com to talk about signing day, and the prprrie wrestling thanks josh. And now to First Alert Storm Team meteorologis t chris havely for your final forecast. Tonight as a powerful blast of cold air is a production of learfield sports. Announcer uthoff hits a standstill three. Announcer gesell, his three is good excellent Ball Movement again, hawks have numbers. Three on two, clemmons the lob to uthoff. Jok for three, its good