Him since. Dozens of people helped search for sed. They printed and passed out flyers in areas they knew he enjoyed. Then the search shifted to some of the trails and lakes in the greenbelt areas along the cedar river. Friends say sed was an avid fisherman and rode his bike everywhere. One search Organizer Says the family appreciated the support. Especially for the family it provided them with some hope some sense that others were committed to help finding answers it provided them with a lot of strength. There were no signs of trauma, so the cause of death will depend on lab reports. Weve had mild temps in the 50s so far this week. Justin, are they sticking around today . The rest of the day will feature quite a few clouds, although some peeks of sun will try to come through every so often. Itll be mild again with highs close to 50. A few light showers are possible tonight. For saturday, the first part of the day should be generally dry, followed by scattered showers developing late. Some with highs in the middle 50s. Temperatures will rise saturday night, pushing close to 60 on sunday. Itll be a very wet day with a few thunderstorm s possible early with a pretty steady rain otherwise. By the time the rain wraps up monday, one to two inches looks like a solid bet with some higher amounts possible. While a few places may mix with or change to some wet snow on monday, accumulation s look minor if anything at all. Next week will be cooler with highs eventually returning to the 30s. Today partly to mostly cloudy high 4753 winds se 515 alo 49 dbq 50 iow 52 you can make sure you get weather and news updates by downloading kcrgs news app. If you have the old kcrg app, youll need to delete that. Youll find the kcrg news app in the apple and android app stores. Flu season is just getting started. Before its over, 200 thousand could be hospitalized and up to 20 infected. Those are the National Averages according to the cdc. If you havent gotten vaccinated, kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders tells us why you might want to reconsider. Flu experts are unsure how this season will shape up, but the good news . They say this years vaccine will be better than last year. Last season, the h3n2 strain appeared, which wasnt included in the mass produced vaccine given out to the public. Experts estimated the shots effectiveness at somewhere around 13 to 20 percent. This year, the shot is expected to be a better match, 50 to 60 percent, which is the seasonal average. Locally, Public Health nurse Heather Meador at linn county Public Health said the few cases that have appeared in the area have been a great match for this years flu vaccination. The centers for Disease Control recommends the vaccine for everyone six months or older. Officials there say, whether with a needle or the flu mist, vaccination is the first and most important step to preventing the virus. In the u. S. , flu season gets most active between last as long as may. With flu cases just starting to show up, officials at the cdc dont yet know if this season will be a mild or severe one. Timing, season length and severity all vary from one year to the next. Use the three cs. Clean your hands, often. Cover your sneeze or cough, using the inside of your elbow. Contain yourself if you get sick, meaning stay home. No school, no work to prevent spreading the virus to others. In cedar rapids, fs, kcrgtv9 news Cedar Rapids Schools say an investigation that found some students, staff, and construction workers may have asbestos is inaccurate. A dnr investigation found there was uncontained asbestos at Washington High School earlier this year. The district says renovation work was happening in the area and that students and staff did not have access to it. The district says it cleaned the area where they found asbestos and tested the air afterward. The dnr report said the district was initially reluctant to close the school over the summer due to the asbestos problems and in firing the Asbestos Removal company. The district says it used immediate and appropriate measures to address the situation. The dnr is pursuing legal action against the district and the Asbestos Company it hired, abatement specialties. The Cedar Rapids School district is considering starting classes later every wednesday next school year. The proposed change would mean middle and High School Students would start classes at 920 on wednesday mornings. Elementary students would not start until 1015, but the school would for students who are there early. The late starts would accommodate time for teachers professional learning. And there would only be two early dismissal days. The first and last days of the school year. Parents can email their opinions to the school district, and you can find that information with this story on kcrg dot com. A task force is working to find a School Schedule solution in iowa city. Right now, Elementary Students start classes at 8 45 am. Each day. Junior high and High School Students begin at 8 am. This years start times are different from last years. Thats when elementary School Students started earlier, while junior high and High School Students began later. This group of teachers, parents, and students looked at four new possible schedules. All of those options would mean Elementary Students could begin as early as 7 30 in the morning. The latest option would mean secondary students would end their day at 4 05 in the afternoon. But busing is now the challenge. Right now we have it tiered so that buses go out pick up Elementary Students, so were looking at do we want to continue doing it that way or do we want to try Something Else . A decision will come by the end of february. If youd like to see all the proposed schedules, look for this story on kcrg dot com. Many of us worry about putting on a few pounds during the holiday season. But enjoying your favorite meal and staying healthy can be easier. Its as simple as cutting the fat and adding more flavor. Ending Climate Change. World leaders spend another day trying to figure out a worldwide solution. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. The rest of the day will feature although some peeks of sun will try to come through every so often. Itll be mild again with highs close to 50. A few light showers are possible tonight. For saturday, the first part of the day should be generally dry, followed by scattered showers developing late. Some thunderstorms are also possible with highs in the middle 50s. Temperatures will rise saturday night, pushing close to 60 on sunday. Itll be a very wet day with a few thunderstorm s pretty steady rain otherwise. By the time the rain wraps up monday, one to two inches looks like a solid bet with some higher amounts possible. While a few places may mix with or change to some wet snow on monday, accumulation s look minor if anything at all. Next week will be cooler with highs eventually returning to the 30s. Today partly to mostly cloudy high 4753 winds se 515 alo 49 dbq 50 iow 52 tonight chance of showers low 4248 winds s 510 alo 44 dbq 43 iow 46 ms late high 5258 winds se 515 alo 54 dbq 55 iow 57 tomorrow night showers storms low 5258 winds se 1020 alo 54 dbq 55 iow 56 sunday rain and storms high 58 low 55 monday chance of rain snow, windy high 41 low 40 tuesday partly cloudy high 43 low 33 wednesday chance of rain snow high 35 low 31 thursday partly cloudy high 35 low 25 friday partly cloudy high 34 low 23 the holidays and food go hand in hand. But how can we put a healthy spin on our main dishes . Holly firfer shows us some healthy alternatives to flavor the season. Holiday time means fun and food. So this year, throw a Holiday Party with a ton of flavor and not all of the fat. South africa restauranteu r Justin Anthony has tips on how to make healthier dishes. There are a lot of things that people can do that they dont realize, like instead of cooking in butter, you can cook in olive oil. Take this button grill the mushrooms with some olive oil, with some lemon, and some garlic and there we go. Easy, simple, tasty and people wouldnt know the difference. Jus tin often turns to spices to keep dishes healthy. Instead of using butter and salt on his rice, he throws in a little turmeric. Also, if you are using a store bought sauce, look at whats in it. What are those ingredients on the back how high is the sodium . And why not spice up the chicken, our old standby. Justin suggests trying curry and a few other healthy ingredients. Its got bananas in it, its got apricot chutney which is very healthy, we use the breast for the chicken, so its lean. All good suggestions for a healthy, fun holiday. For todays health minute, im holly firfer. Us legislators are on the edge of deciding where. Spending will go for the agriculture industry. But some important bills are still left on the tablelike gmo labeling. Two big chemical producers are set to but their plan involves a major split down the road. Stay with us. Agribusiness report. Im david geiger. Some of the major farm issues of the year are getting their turn in congress as legislators try to finish up a spending bill covering the rest of the fiscal year. Waters of the us repeal and gmo Food Labeling are still up in the air. As congress is still negotiation on what riders to include or remove from the bill. Some ag issues could be left at the table if shortterm extensions are proposed instead. But iowa senator Chuck Grassley expects country of origin labeling repeal will at least get done before the recess. He says there are two ways that could happen, both repeal cool. But one offers a voluntary alternative while the other doesnt. Which of those two will be in the final bill, to go either one of them but my first choice is as canada has done, voluntary labeling. Grassley says he will support a full repeal if necessary. A vast majority of us according to a new report from the usda. About 99 percent of farmland are owned by a principle operator and his or her relatives. Most are small family farms. Earning less than three hundred 50 thousand dollars in annual gross cash farm income. In 2014. Those accounted for 90 percent of all us farms. 46 percent of farmland. And 22 percent of agriculture production. Largescale family farms earning more than one Million Dollars were about three farms. But accounted for 47 percent of the value of production. In the world agriculture supply and demand estimates report. Corn exports are projected 50 million bushels lower. But us corn ending stocks are 25 percent higher. Month. And livestock. Poultry. And dairy total meat production are reduced from last month. And no changes are in hog production. The hogs and pigs report will come out on december 23. That will give more insight into pork producers 2016 intentions. That report didnt do much to cattle finally got a sharp bounce. I think the grain market cents but corns been in a 20 cent range for quite some time. The report didnt say a lot. Corn had some bullish momentum going towards it. I think it could cents. But as a speculator i just dont see the possibility of making really any money in this market. The only bullish grain in my opinion is soybean oil. Due to the fact of the el nino and the extremely warm weather is hurting the palm production palm oil production. Well, ive been short cattle. Still have recommendati on of being short it up almost limit up today after being down 200 points you in place. But its short term, im still not bullish cattle so remain short. But today was just an overdue bounce. If we start to rally a little higher im going to start recommending a short position but the warm weather is very solid. Towards expansion. Im not bullish hogs and im looking to sell on any rally as im still extremely, and i cant stress this enough extremely bearish livestock and the commodities in general. And that wraps up our show for today. Thanks for joining us on the agribusiness report. I hope to see you again tomorrow. Well post a video every day in the agribusiness section of kcrg. Com. Youll find it under the news tab. Im david geiger with the agribusiness report. Trt 3 33 oc std dupont is exploring a billion dollar merger with dow chemical, which would eventually lead to three separate companies. First, the allstock merger would be worth 130 billion dollars. Then the plan is for dowdupont to split into three with focuses on agriculture, materials, and specialty products. Climate talks just outside of paris will go for one more day. Diplomats are trying to compromise over the cost that each country will take on to fight Climate Change and shift to clean energy. Negotiators from more than 190 countries are working to reach a deal. It would include nations working to reduce manmade carbon emissions, rising seas, and extreme weather caused by humans. A group of singers does more than keep each other in tune. They overcome their differences to find harmony in music and in all walks of life. Stay with us. They call themselves the choir. The group consists of about 60 people, and it meets every tuesday to practice. Friends and family came together to watch the final product last night. Kcrgtvs Jill Kasparie takes us there. The choir is all here. Choir director practicing its the last quick practice before the show. Joel conard and steve dunham are shaking their lastminute nerves. 21 36 42 i am usually calm and cool until im right on the spot. 21 41 11 i try to be in the when the concert beings they each have their parts. Joel is whats called an inside singer steve an outside singer. The big difference outside singers get to leave, inside singers have to stay. 21 30 25 we dont call ourselves inmates. Its inside singers and outside singers. The men in green are serving time at the iowa medical and Classification Center in coralville. Those in purple are volunteering their time 21 43 05 when we first started a years ago there was a lot of tension, both the inside singers and the outside singers were very nervous. Now they say theyre more comfortable as they sing holiday songs and songs written by inmates. 21 40 48 each one is powerful in its own way. Music isnt the only powerful part of this group its the connections they make. 2 33 55 this gives me a connection with people that i wouldnt helps them but i think the outside singers get more out of it. A group of insiders and outsiders setting aside their pasts and working together for a 21 35 55 we wear different colored shirts but i think we have an understanding that we are all human beings and weve all made mistakes. In coralville, Jill Kasparie, kcrgtv9 news. The woman who started the group is an associate professor at the university of iowa who was researching music in prison. She says the goal is for participants to learn from each other and to empower inmates to gain skills for successfully reentering society. University of iowa students werent happy with the name of an online system. So the university is using the complaints as system and change the name away from isis. And after a huge hawkeye lead, a little hilton magic changed the momentum of the cyhawk rivalry in ames. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. New polls are out the race for parties amid controversy from one candidate. Investigations are switching to a new scene in San Bernardino. But this time it involves looking for one specific item a computer hard drive. And an an iowa Football Player is spending time some kids in need. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news at midday. Terror fears in this country are at their highest level since after 9 11. A new poll shows 44 percent of americans think an attack is very likely to happen in the next few months. Those concerns may be driving Donald Trumps recent surge in the race for the republican nomination. Abcs megan hughes has details. Supers nats protests sho w antitrump signs being at the center of controversy doesnt seem to bother donald trump. Brushing off protesters in New Hampshire sot trump weve had people talking, i will tell you that. The controversy and terrorism news in recent months have given him a boostback in late octoberther e were signs he was starting to fadesince then hes jumped 13 points in the same cbs news poll. Carly fiorina on cnns new day sot fiorina on cnn when he makes another outrageous statement so he starts dominating it again statements like a proposal to ban muslims from entering the us. New polls show the majority of americans oppose trumps idea, but gop primary voters are split. Trumps number one rival in iowasenator ted cruz has been careful not to publicly attack trump. Sot cruz the voters are going to make a decision about every candidate. One poll this week shows cruz leading in iowa for the first time and in privatein audio obtained by the New York Times from a closed door fundraisercruz questions trump and ben carsons judgement. Gfx who am i comfortable having their finger on the button . Now thats a question of strength, but its also a question of judgment. And i think that is a question that is a challenging question for both of them. Reporter tag trump has tweeted in response to that New York Times recordingsa ying that cruzshouldn t make statements behind closed doors to his bosses. Its more fun to theres a new poll out on the likeability of donald trump. The Associated Press registered voters think the republican candidate is very or somewhat decisive. At the same time, the poll suggests voters think trump is not compassionat e or honest. Called on a us. Donald trump will be in iowa this evening. At 630 tonight, hell campaign in des moines at the iowa state fairgrounds. The rally is inside the varied industries building. The latest cbs news poll shows trump in first with 35 percent of republican primary support. Ben carson is also in iowa. At 1230, hell travel to for a town hall meeting. Earlier this morning, carson stopped for breakfast at the burlington golf course. Right now, carson is in third place in the same cbs news poll. Us lawmakers are rushing to prevent the midnight. Thats when the last shortterm spending bill runs out. Yesterday, the senate agreed to extend the deadline 16th. The house is expected to do the same today. Might be needed. Right now, republicans decide on several issues attached to the bill like funding gun violence research, and how the government vets Syrian Refugees. Syrian refugees are now in toronto. Canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau greeted 163 refugees as they arrived late last night by a government plane. The newly elected liberal government has a pledge to resettle 25thousand Syrian Refugees by the end of february. Canadas welcoming to the us. Rain will be back for the weekend. Justin, were preparing for a lot of rain. The rest of the day will feature quite a few clouds, although some peeks of sun will through every so often. Itll be mild again with highs close to 50. A few light showers are possible tonight. For saturday, the first part of followed late. Some thunderstorms are also possible with highs in the middle 50s. Temperatures will rise saturday night, pushing close to 60 on sunday. Itll be a very wet day with a few thunderstorm s possible early with a pretty steady rain otherwise. By the time the inches looks like a solid bet with some higher amounts possible. Or change to some wet snow on monday, accumulation s look minor if anything at all. Next week will be cooler with highs eventually returning to the 30s. Today partly to mostly cloudy high 4753 winds se 515 alo 49 dbq 50 iow 52 Police Arrested a woman in utah with the murder of a 3year old from ottumwa. Ottumwa police got an arrest warrent earlier this week, charging Kashenna Tucker with murder. They had been investigating wysdom evans case since the little boy died at uihc in january of 2014. Tucker was a guardian for the child at the time. Shes in the Salt Lake County jail on a 500thousand dollar bond. A Facebook Post from the Johnson County sheriff is sparking conversation about gun control. The post shows part of a gun permit request, and lists the prior offenses of the person who wants the permit. Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabeck says he doesnt want to issue the permit because of all the offenses, but state law says he has to. In 2011, lawmakers changed iowas gun law from may issue to shall issue. Under may issue, sheriffs could deny gun permits for nearly any reason. Shall issue allows sheriffs to deny permits only for specific reasons, such as alcoholism, mental illness, or past felony convictions. Pulkrabeck says he posted the permit application on facebook to make a point. Like a no gun permit. Its just another glaring not, and i not consider a law abiding citizen. Pulkrabeck says he would have to petition for a change in the law to deny such an application. Lawmakers will make changes any time soon, but he hopes they will eventually reevaluate the gun law. Today, investigators say they may know where the suspects in the San Bernardino terror attack were just before they were killed in a shootout with police. An fbi dive team is searching that area right now, hoping to uncover new clues in the case. Abcs Marci Gonzalez is following the latest developments. Supers pkg script the fbi searching this lake near the scene of last weeks terror attack in San Bernardino looking for possible evidence the killers may have dumped here just after the massacre. Sot david bowdich, fbi leave no stone unturned. This latest effort to uncover more about syed farook and tashfeen malikas the fbi continues questioning enrique marquez. Farooks former neighbor accused of supplying the militarystyle rifles used in last weeks shooting rampage reportedly told investigators he and farook planned another attack in 2012, then abandoned the plot. Sot senator risch there had been some arrests immediately adjacent to that right in their area following the first of the funerals for the 14 People Killed last week. Sot chuck franklin, family friend its just tragic and its unspeakable today the fbi is still trying to figure out whether the San Bernardino attack was directed by isis. Now authorities are revealing another concern linked to the terror group saying isis militants overseas now have at least two government Passport Printing machines. Sot john cohen if isis has been able to acquire legitimate passports or create legitimate passports, this would represent a major Security Risk in the united states. Marci gonzalez standup close several of the fraudulent passports have already been found in europe including this one used by one of the suicide bombers who carried out the paris attacks. Marci gonzalez, abc news new york. The university of iowa is renaming its information hub for students called isis. The ui says its received complaints about the acronym for iowa student information systems. Isis is a collection of tools where students can sign up for classes or review financial aid. The complaints started as the terrorist group isis became more well known. Officials say they will create a new information system, with a new name. On social media there were some students that were expressing concern about googling the name isis trying to find the university of iowa isis, and they didnt like the fact that they were typing that name in. The university of iowa hopes to sometime next semester. Iowa state fans stormed the court at Hilton Coliseum last night after a last minute win against the hawkeyes. But in that excitement, the Des Moines Register reports columnist Randy Peterson broke his leg. The hawkeyes traveled to Hilton Coliseum for the mens basketball game. And although they havent won at hilton since 2003, they came out on fire. They led at halftime 49 to 35 with iowas Jarrod Uthoff getting 30 points in the first half alone. But iowa state made a comeback in the second half, chipping away at the hawkeyes lead. With just over 21 seconds left in the game, the cyclones monte morris made the game winning basket for an 8382 final score. Tv9 caught up with morris after the game. George handed me that ball and he said to go win this game. That just shows the character, the type of person georges is and confidence he has in me and my teammates. The cyhawk series. The cyclone women will host the hawkeyes tonight starting at seven. The game is on cyclone tv. One star hawkeye Football Player is working hard off the field to help kids succeed. Running back jordan canzeri has spent the last several months volunteering with the Nonprofit Organization strive for success. Canzeri spends his days off helping kids catch up on spelling and reading. He started volunteering to earn credit for a class, but says he continued doing it because of how much the kids inspired him. Its the kids futures and we tell them that all the time, and they laugh, that okay, well even though i dont to do the school work and it needs to be done, well we tell them, dont do it for the teachers, dont do it for anyone else but yourself because this is something that is going to be huge importance later on down the road. Canzeri is also an active volunteer at the ui childrens hospital. Yesterday he and some teammates handed out yellow roses to patients to celebrate the hawkeyes recent the oscars are just a few months away. And this means movie critics are predicting right now, which actors and actresses will take home statues at the sag and golden globe awards. Updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. The rest of the day will feature although some peeks of sun will try to come through every so often. Itll be mild again with highs close to 50. A few light showers are possible tonight. For saturday, the first part of the day should be generally dry, followed by scattered showers developing late. Some thunderstorms are also possible with highs in the middle 50s. Temperatures will rise saturday night, pushing close to 60 on sunday. Itll be a very wet day with a few thunderstorm s possible early with a pretty steady rain otherwise. By the time the rain wraps up monday, one to two inches looks like a solid bet with some higher amounts possible. Or change to some wet snow on monday, accumulation s look minor if be cooler to the 30s. Today partly to mostly cloudy high 4753 winds se 515 alo 49 of showers low 4248 winds s 510 alo 44 dbq 43 iow 46 tomorrow showers stor ms late high 5258 winds se 515 alo 54 dbq 55 iow 57 tomorrow night showers storms low 5258 winds se 1020 alo 54 dbq 55 iow 56 sunday rain and storms high 58 low 55 monday chance of rain snow, windy high tuesday partly cloudy high 43 low 33 wednesday chance of rain snow high 35 low 31 thursday partly cloudy high 35 low 25 friday partly cloudy high 34 low 23 thanks justin. Nominations are out for stars. This is just weeks away from the sag and golden globe awards. Jason nathanson takes a look at which films have the best chance of taking home the gold. Steve carell didnt fall short when it came to nominations this week. His new film the big short, about the recent financial and Housing Market collapse, got a lot of sag and golden globe love. Before the nods he told me its great to be a part of the conversation, but he wants attention for the film, not himself i think more importantly that people are seeing it and liking it and talking about it. Cause i think its relevant. Its important. The big short is in select theaters today, it opens wide on christmas. Only one new film opens wide this weekend, and thats ron howards in the heart of the sea. Apaptn2100 us globes analysis so now that we have the sag and golden globe award nominations which film has claimed oscar frontrunner status . Variety awards editor tim gray has one suggestion its kind of hard to make any other predictions, because things seem all over the map right now. But weve got two months until nominations apaptn2100 us star wars auction preview the new star wars hits theaters today, so its a perfect time for fans to stock up on collectibles but this stuff might put you in debt with jabba the hut. Today sothebys is auctioning off 175 lots of star wars stuff including a 1978 Luke Skywalker figure in the original packaging that could go for as much 18grand. Should have saved your stuff. And fans of the emmy winning show transparent today is a happy day season 2 hits amazon for your binging pleasure. And thats whats happening in hollywood, im jason nathanson, abc news, los angeles. This time of year, many of us take our workout routine inside. Show us how to keep your heartrate up as temperatures fall. Stay with us. Fact. Advil pain relievers are used by more households than any other leading brand. To treat their aches and pains more people reach for advil. Relief doesnt get any better than this. Advil. [ male announcer ] pain not sitting too well . Burning to feel better . Itching for relief . Preparation h offers the most maximum Strength Solutions for all hemorrhoid symptoms. From the brand doctors recommend most. Prefer to take their exercise routines inside. Cardiovascular exercise indoors doesnt have to be lacking in the intensity department. Join our fitness expert feryl york as she gives you options that will get your heart pumping while keeping in top stories. Police arrested two university of iowa students who they say stole a womans credit card on a cambus in november. 19yearold Frensua Hooker and 18yearold Danyelle Patton are charged with multiple counts of credit card theft. Officials say they used the money on clothes, food, and a bus ticket an autopsy may offer answers in the death of waterloo teen, moe sed. A trapper found the 18 year olds body in the cedar river near gilbertville. Sed was a junior at waterloo west high school. And you can catch High School Girls basketball evening. Center point urbana will host clear creek amana. Tipoff is at 7 30. Now, one last look at this mornings weather, justin. The rest of the day will feature quite a few clouds, although some peeks of sun will try to come through every so often. Itll be mild again with highs close to 50. A few light showers are possible tonight. For saturday, the first part of the day should be generally dry, followed by scattered showers developing late. Some thunderstorms are also possible with highs in the middle 50s. Temperatures will rise saturday night, pushing close to 60 on sunday. Itll be a very wet day with a few thunderstorm s possible early with a pretty steady rain otherwise. By the time the rain wraps up monday, one to two inches looks like a solid bet with some higher amounts possible. While a few places may mix with or change to some wet snow on week will be cooler with highs think you dont have time to put together a great Holiday Party . Think again. Were showing you how to throw an amazing bash in a flash