A wintry mix is possible in the north of the tv 9 viewing area, no accumulation is expected. If you are traveling this evening or Christmas Eve, locally the weather will hold for safe travels. However, if you must travel east conditions become more hazardous with moderate to heavy rain. Temperatures will remain into the low 40s for tomorrow and christmas day. Brady . While were experiencing mild and wet weather for the christmas holiday, people in other parts something tornadoes and icy roads in some regions. Travelers should expect bad weather. At chicagos oharar. Long lines ararusually expected. But on this day. Avni pateli was not expecting this, and i didnt come early enough. The rush was on bright and early. With mororthan 38 million flying this Holiday Season and 3 and a half million traveling through ohare. Julie scholli think ive never seen a line like this in all of my years coming to ohare airport. Thanks in part to this. Air fares are actually down n is year. More than 4 percent. Because of lower jet fuel prices. . . Car beeping . . And you can also thank low gas prices for what could be the busiest day on the roads. According to triplea. The National Average price for gas dropped below two dollars a gallon for the first time in more than six years. So with more crowds on the roads and at the airports. You know the drill. Pack your patience. Herbebe judon assista nt aviation directorwe had a ground stop so there were some flights that were coming in or leaving out while. Especially with mother ture. Threatening t tmake travel a mess across much of the country. From thick fog in arkansas. To gusty winds in california. Strong enough pick up and toss nearly a dozen tractor trailers. Mos mos its crazy man like what they say 80 h winds . Driving c cditions. Also trecherous in colorado. And this the scene in utah. White out conditions. After parts of the state got 24 inches of snow in just 24 hours. Elizabeth tag meanwhile here in new york, Christmas Eve is supposed to be in the 70s. But of course. Weather conditions across the country can always affect travel plans anywhere. So experts say plan accordingly. Eh, abc news, ny. Republican candidate donald trump tops the newest ccn orc poll. The poll l ows 39 percent of gop voters support trump. Ted cruz comes in second in that poll with 18 percent. Ben carson and marco rubio are this comes one day after a quinnipiac poll found 50 percent of potential voters would be embarrassed by a trump presidency. Any hawkeye fans headed to pasadena, california for the rose bowl will deal with tight security at the game and the tournament of roses parade. The city says visie and nonvisible security measusus will be in place along the parade route and at the rose bowl stadium. Umbrellas and selfie sticks are not allowed into the stadium. Also, there will be more unifmed Police Officers and explosive detection d dices. Homeland security says there is no known threat to the city of pasadena or any new years event. If youre not going to the game, you can see the rose bowl on espn on new years day. The hawkeyes play the Stanford Cardinal at four pm, iowa time. Dont miss a special hour long edition of tv nines countdown to kickoff on new years day. The tv nine sports team will starting at 9 am right before the tournament of roses parade. You can see that here on kcrg tv nine. Many are celebrating a Holiday Light display at summit pointe Senior Living in marion. After Russell Schmidt came up with the idea last year, Staff Members at the facility say he wasnt sure if hed still beberound to see the bigig reveal this yearar but kcrgtv9s Jill Kasparie shows us that he is, and he 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 3030. But tuesday night it was obvious things are a bit different. 3 19 13 with chrimas a couple days away what better of a night. It is the nighthtussell has waited for for a year. 2 57 45 christmas was passed lat year. I couldnt make christmas come back and,i had to wait until this christmas. The 82yearold says last christmas his daughter thought one just wasnt enough. 3 10 16 he said wouldt it be awesome to light every window in this building and thats i just t ok it from there. Russell still has the first box of lights from his daughter. And after that from donation to volunteers many worked to get lights up each one othe 363 windows on the building. 2 49 30 when they turned 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 together for my dad. For everyone at summit point they couldnt wait to celebrate his dreaea come true tonight with bus trips around the sparkling building. For a man whos always thinking of others and sharing hugs this night is all about russell. 3 20 35 hes the type of guy who no matter how bad hes feeling or having a rough day he makes sure to open the door for you. Now, russell gets to make e t part of his routine to enjoy this holiday dream come true. 3 21 30 these are his lights 2 58 27 i like them, i love them. To me its been a lot of work for a lot of people and i want to appreciate it. In marion, Jill Kasparie, kcrgtv9 news. Tens of thousands of eastern iowa children on medicaid will have a new insurance provider come january st. And that has some eastern iowa parents flooding call centers with questions. And the Holiday Season can mess with your sleep cycle. Well have some tips on how to avoid feeling sleepy meteorologist britley ritz updates our teeratures coming up in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. Dubuque hi, im Brandon Langel stationed in japan. I want to sh my mom, familland friends happy holidays back in iowa and i hope to see you soon. Go hawks it is a soggy wednesday for sure here in eastern iowa. This rain will continue through the afternoon and a fewumbles of thunder n be expected. On the back side of this system a wintry mix is possible in the north of the tv 9 viewing area, no accumulation is expected. If you are traveling this evening or Christmas Eve, hold for safe travels. However, if you must travel east conditions become more hazardous with moderate to heavy rain. Temperatures will remain into the low 40s for tomorrow and christmas day. Thanks justin. It is a soggy wednesday for sure here in eastern iowa. Thisisain will continue through the affrnoon and a few rumbles of thunder can be expected. On the back side of this system a wintry mix is possible in the north of the tv 9 viewing area, no accumulation is expected. If you are traveling this evening or Christmas Eve, locally the weweher will hold for safe travels. However, if you must travel east with moderate to heavy rain. Temperatures will remain into the low 40s for tomorrow and christmas day. Thanks justii shifting tens of thousands of iowans to another medicaid provider will cause confusion. Wellcare of iowa is asking a district j jge to terminate its contract. The state made the decision last week, after the Company Allegedly 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. The iowa dedertment of health says thousands of children who use the hawki Insurance Program will have to switch providers come january first. Wellmarkone of the companies involveddecl ined extendingngts contract during the medicaid privatization process. As of january 1st all of the children in the program will be automatically switchedt to united healthcare. Hawkeye Area Community action p pgram or hacap says theyve had a lot of concerned parents call asking questions. They say you can find all of the information on the hawki website, or call hacap directly for one on one assistance. They want to assure parents be covered. United healthcare graciously stepped forward and said well take all of the children that have not been able to go to an mco because of that little bit of a delay. Families do have the option to switch over to another provider before march 1st. If youre visiting friends or family this Holiday Seasononit could mess with your sleep pattern and rob you of a good nights sleep. Holly firfer has some ways to make sure we all have a good night. When people travel a lot, it can be hard to g g a good nights sleep. Sherry torkos is a pharmacist and author who has written on diets, travel, and lifestyle. Youre changing time zones, youre eating at different times, maybe youre sleeping in a hotel room, listening to noise, you have lights. And these things can disrupt our sleep cycles making rest hard to come by. But there are things frequent travelers as well as stataat homers can doo to help. First off, experts say, avoid caffeine late in the dont eat a big meal right before you go to sleep, because all of your bodys processes s e going to go toward digestiononyoure not goii to feel calm and relaxed and you could have a bit of a belly ache and that may affect your ability to fall asleep. If youre hungry before bed, grab a light snack with a little bit of whole grain, and. Dont use alcohol l a sleep aid. Alcohol may help you to fall asleep, but if you have alcohol it can actually cause nighttime awakening. If you cant sleep, torkos says to try to avoid the distracting device we carry around, so dont check to work. This can amp you up. And if you turn on the tv, watch something thats relaxing or try meditating. For todays health minute, im holly firfer. A new spending bill will allow for a study on how the usda develops dietary guidelines. Many schools who use those guidelines every year will be watching the bill closely. And if you want to get latest scams going around. The bbbs bararara green will explain where you can sign up. Good morning this is the ddid geiger. The nations dietary guidelines have congressional eyes on it. In the spending bill passed last week. A Million Dollars were included for the National Academy of medicine to review how the federal dietary guidelines are updated every five years. This comes out just as the 2015 guidelines are getting ready to be released. And its a result of a bipartisan attack at an october congressiona l hearing. My concern is weve had these guidelines that have pushed people away from eggs and butter and milk and so forth. And then they come back and say, well, we were wrong. and so my question is, what are we going to do to make sure that future. Ag secretary tom vilsack argues science changes. And they are guidelines. However. It still affects scscol meals and military rations. The justenacted spending bill will let usda have 30 days to hire a stsdy on the guidelineso see how evidence is assembled. If ththe is process bias. And if the latest research is used. Hidden in the large budget process Safety Management or psm from the Occupational Safety and heheth agency or osha. The illinois fertilizer and Chemical Association calls it a shield for ag retailers. Th bill requires osha qo conduct a formal rulemaking with Public Comment opportunities. And the Census Bureau has to set a north american industry clarification system for retail trade for farm suppliers. Psm was designed to make fertilizer retailers adhere to manufacturer standards for highly hazardous chemicals. Specifically psm would have cost facilities two thousand dollars to comply. But the Agriculture Retailer Association says it would be about ten times that. They. And the Fertilizer Institute both brought suit arguing against the process of its requirements. This week the Us Circuit Court of appeals blocked oshas efforts to dismiss it. Its still a but in the livestock recent reports are showing lots of green. The primary driver in the grains to some degrees have been the currencies and the dollars weaker. So typicalal the weaker dollar all things being equal gives us a little stronger. Grain market and today were not even, were not seeing that. I really think you have to look at the idea that argentina has a fair amount of stocks on hand. The e valuation to some supplies on sideways or rangebound, i think thats the apopriate comment on the corn market. Certainly if you look over at beans, you kind of have to think the same thing. So, if you look at the filling some gaps or was left december 2nd. And so i think well probably fill that gap and todays price action is more follow through on monday morning after. You know, what it rerelly comes down to is the cattle on feed report showed much smaller numbers. Weve made a nice rally from midnovember, i think were just kind of cycling to the lower side. Today were probably just looking a a this hogs and pigs report. And maybe just getting a little bit even. And that wraps up the show for today. Thanks for joining us. Hope to see you again tomorrow. Well post video every day in the agribusiness section of kcrg. Com. Y yll find it under the news tab. Im david geiger with the agribusiness report. Trt the bbb is here with us this morning, to show us a simple, easytouse resource that help your protect yourself against scams. Barbara, w wt is this called, and how does it work . Go to bbb. Org counc il bbbscamstopper. If you have any questions you can visit the website, the address is there at the bottom of your screen. Welcome back. Barbara green the bbb is here with us this morning, to show us a simple, easytouse resource that help your protect yourself against scams. Baara, what is this called, and how does it work . Go to bbb. Org counc il bbbscamstopper. If you have any questions you can visit the website, the address is there a athe bottom ofofour screen. Barbara, thanks for being here thehear of words. Hillary clinton and donald trump trade more jabs on the campaign trail. Home for the holidays. A former homeless man is reunited with his llst dog just days before meteorologist britley ritz coming up in your first alert forecast. If you could see your cough, youd see all the sickness youre spreading. New robitussin cf max severe soothes and delivers powerful reliej of cough, sore throat, stuffy nose and fever. Nenerobitussin cf max severe. Because its never just a cough. Fact. When emergfncy room doctors choose an otc pain reliever for their patients muscle, back and joioi pain. E medicine in advil is their 1 choice. Nothing is stronger on tough pain than advil. Relief doesnt get any better than this. Waterloo Police Arrest a man overnight shooting. Donald trumps ability to stay on top of the polls is stunning some analysts. Last minute shoppers are going to be w with some rain today. Ill have jusushow much coming up in your first alert forecast. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news at midday. Gop front runner donald trump has started a war of words with Democratic Front runner hillary clinton. Clinton said trump is bullying his way totohe white house. Trump used a sexually derogatory term to in the 2008 primary. Abcs bazi kanani takes us to the campaign trail. Donald trump now blames the Mainstream Media for mischaracteri zing the way he described hillary clilions election loss in 2008. She was favored to win and she got. She lost, i mean she lost. Trump claims the erm he used was t vulgar. But Hillary Clintons Campaign Calls it disgusting sexist called the youre looking at somebody whos say about me despite repeated controversies over trumps rhetoric. A brand new National Poll shows he maintains his commanding lead in the republican race. At 39 percent. The last time a republican was this dominant right before george w. Bush when on toin the nomination. A precedent that bodes well for trump. I think he has more than a legitimate chance to be the nominee. I think right now the course of this. He has a 20, 21point lead. But polls shows trump would likely have a harder time in a generaraelection. Something his gop rivals hope primary voters will consider. Its not a sign of strength to insult people with profanities. Tag tpat new poll out today also found half of likely Republican Voters think theyd have a better chance of winning the general election with someone other than trump. Ba abc news, washington the post office is hoping it can keep up with delivery demands. Theyll be dropping off thousands of letters and packages just in time for christmas. The post office on n e northeast side of cedar rapids is delivering about 10thousand packages each day. Monday, the Us Postal Service busiest day of the year. Mail carriers are expecting to deliver 30 million packages to people in the united states. The usps estimated they will deliver 15 billion packages b bthe end of the year. Officials estimated more Online Shopping prompted a 15 percent boost in package deliveries compared to last year. Online shopping is so big, it prompted u sps officials to deliver amazon packages seven days a week, starting january 1st this year. Its become necessary to take care of our customers and were a Customer Service organization. R employees have embraced it and are looking forward to more challenges as greater volume increases. The northeast Side Post Office says it even had one postal employee meteorologist britley ritz joins us with your first not feeling more like spring outside today. It is a soggygyednesday for sure here in eastern iowa. This rain will continue through the afternoon and a few rumbles of thunder can be expected. On the back side of this system a wint mix is 9 viewing area, no accumulation is expected. If you are traveling this evening or Christmas Eve, locally the weather will hold for safe travels. However, if you must travel east conditions become more hazardous th moderate to heavyvyain. Temperarares will remain into the low 40s for tomorrow and christmas day. Open this midday after a water rescue. The cedar rapids fire and Police Departments responded to an area near j avenue and Hawkeye Downs road southwest at 9 33 this morning. They say a boatstyle atv got stuck in prairie creek. The four people on the boat were able to get off the atv and to a sand bar. Firefighters say the four people were not injured. Ut high, Rushing Water was a aactor in this rescue. The water is clearly moving pretty quickly. Thats one of the issues that we were worried about. Fast moving water can really pose a challenge to resses and people in thehe water and our responders. The atv will stay in the water until river levels lower. One man is s custody this morningngfter a latenight incident of gun fire. Waterloo Police Responded to a gunfire at randolph street and west 7th street last night at 10 45. When they arrived, several people ran from the area. Officers chased them and arrested a man in the 600 block of wellington street. Police searched the scene and found a gun in the streetetthey didnt find any evidence of damage. And no one was hurt. Police arrested 22 yearold vincent harrington. He is being held on an outstanding warrant in the Black Hawk County jail. A a 2 yearold cedar r rids boy is recovering from head injuries from an incident near mckinley of the month. His mother says the boys injuries include head auma that later causus a seizure and a stroke. It happened when her son Miguel Tirado was walking home from school and threw a snowball at an 11 yearold in the 500 block street. Police say the 11 y yr oo then assaulted miguel. Police for the 11 yearold to juvenile services because of his age. Current condition. Doctors placeded small passage in his head to drain blood away from his brain. But miguel is often confused and unsure where he is. His parenen are hopeful hell make a full recovery. 05 32 10 our son is still alive. Hes coming out, hes what christmas is for us, thats our christmas gift. Miguels parents have a go fund me page set up to help pay for hospital bills. If youd like to donate, look fo the link under this story on kcrg dot com. And remember when you see news, give us call on newsline nine. That number is 3193659999. You can also send pictures and videos to newsroom at kcrg dot com. People in Dubuque County are death of a Us Service Man stationed in afghanistan. Joseph lemm died monday in a suicide bomb attack in afghanistan. He was born in dubuque and worked as a lice officer in new york. The pentagon says an attacker rammed an explosivespacked motorcycle into lemms patrol near baam air base. The blast also killed five other us soldiers. The nypd, working the last two years as a detective. He also served in the air national guard. This was his third deployment to the middle two of his relatives in Dubuque County talked about their memories of him. I describe him best as a guy with the e art of teddy bear, cause he liked people, and thats why he was so good at what he did. He was dedicated to his family, to his city, to his countrz, and thats somethng else like him. The 45 year old is survived by his wife and two children. Mondays taliban atta in afghanistan was the deadliest assault on International Forces since august. The defense lawyer for Lakeisha Holloway says she plans to plead not guilty to murder and other charges. But she wont be required to enter a guilty plpl during her initial appearance today. Shes accused of intentionally driving her car through crowds of people on a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk on sunday. That incicint killed one person and injured 35 others. Her 3yearold was in the back seat at the time. Many of us may still be looking for a last minute christmas gift. Cedar rapids animal care and control wants people to consider giving a pet as a gift. The shelter is trying to find good homes for all of their animals by new years day. It is dropping adoption fees for spayed ananneutered be 25 dollars and dogs fees will be 50 dollars. You can stop out at the shelter and see all of the available pets mondayayhrough saturday. A former homeless man and his beloved dog are together again after the dog had run away. The Dubuque Humane Society and friends at the Dubuque Rescue Mission helped reunite the two. As kcrgtv9s Dubuque Bureau chief shows us the Human Society is making sure the two dont get separated again. They say dogs have a certain intuition about their owners. Curt curiel has multiple sclorisis and epilepsy, he says his 12 year old dog, sassy, anticipates every move he makes. Right before i am getting ready to have a seizure shell start whining and crying. Curt recently fell on to some hard times. His wife was p pced in a nursing home and he became homeless. So when his companion vanished from a bus stop, curt i had all the bus drivers out looking for him. And i figured if they couldnt find them, no one could. But sosoone did. A Good Samaritan found sassy and took her to the Dubuque Humane Society. Meanwhile, curts friends at the rescue Mission Posted information on facebook about this missing dog. That st was shared more than 300 times. Staff at the Humane Society saw the post and made the connection. Because it was a city stray, there was an impound fee as well as a care fee and a vaccination fee. We also gave sassy a micro chip in case shes ever lost again. After learning of curts circumstance s, the staff pooled their money to cover all the costs. And brought sassy and curt back together. For lack of a better word, it was amazing. Knowing that curt and sassy are back together is just a greaeahome for the holidays story. Star wars is picking up some nominations. And a former nickekedeon star is in some hot water this it is a soggy wednesday for sure here in eastern through the afternoon and a few rumbles of thunder can be expected. On the back side of this s stem a wintry mimiis possible in the north of the tv 9 viewing area, no accumulation is expected. If you are traveling this evening or christmamaeve, locacaly the weather will hold for safe travels. However, if you must travel east conditions become more hazardous with moderate to heavy rain. Temperatures will remain into the low 40s for tomorrow and christmas day. Thanks britley. It is a soggy wednesday for sure here in eastern iowa. This rain will continue through the afternoon and a few rumbles of thunder can be expected. On the back side of possible in the north of the tv 9 viewing area, no accumulation is expected. If you are traveling this evening or Christmas Eve, locally the weatherill hold for safeferavels. However, if you must travel east conditions become more hazardous th moderate to heavy rain. Temperatures will remain into the low 40s for tomorrow and christmas day. Thanks britley. Weekend with a star studded cast. And some of the biggest actors in hollywood have found themselves on the latest most overpaid list. Abcs Jason Nathanson has todays showbiz wrap. Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past . The big short hits theaters nationwide today a funny and sobering look at the conditions that led to the 20072008 financial meltdown and housing bubble. And star Christian Bale tells me the film leaves you with the feeling that we may not have learned our lesson thth star studded cast a ao includes steve carell, brad pitt, ryan gosling and more. Whos the most overpaid actor in hollywood . Johnny depp, according to forbes. The financial mag is out with its yearly list it looks at the last threre films made, and what the actors were paid, and comes up with a ratio. For every dollar depp was paid, the mortdecai stars films made back only a dollar 20. Dedeel washington was 2nd, will ferrell in 3rd. Star wars snuck in as a top film nominee from critics. The Critics Choice Award film nominees were announced last monday, before anyone had seen the force awakens. After the film camemeut, the bfca decidededo reopen the voting in only the best film category, and the force awakens is now a contender. Former nickelodeon star drake bell, seen here on the show drake josh, busted in l. A. County on suspicion of d. U. I. He was pulled over early Tuesday Morning f r allegedly speeding and sweing. Officers say he smelled like booze and failed a sobriety est. And thats whats happening in hollywood, im Jason Nathanson, abc news, los angeles. Coming up, our veterinarian will be here. If you have a question for doctor greg winterowd, thanks for being here. And meteorologis britley ritz will haha another , thanks for being here. And , thanks for being here. And t britley ritz will havenother check of your first alert forecast, coming up it is a soggy wednesday for t sure here in eastern iowa. This rain will continue through the afternoon and a few rumbles of thunder can be expected. On the b bk side of this systete a wintry mix is possible in the north of the tv 9 viewing area, no accumulation is expected. If you are traveling this evening or Christmas Eve, locally the weather will hold for fe travels. However, if you must
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