Charges including conspacy, making false statements on export certificates and wire fraud. Prosecutors says, during the trial, that aossey oversaw a plot in which midamar workers lied about the origin of their products so they could export them to malaysia and indonesia years ago. Both nations restrict imports to slaughterhos ues that meet their standards for halal aossey directed employees to swap stickers that made his products appear to come from an omaha slaughterhou se that had the proper certification. A state representativ e from clinton is sponsoring a bill that could mean many of iowas most violence offenders would see less prison time. , the Des Moines Register reports that democrat mary wolfes bill would see state judges and prosecutors more latitude in determining an appropriate sentence instead of following the stricter, mandes guidelines. Currently, an offender must serve 70 of a sentence before being eligible for parole. Wolfes bill would cut that to 30 percent include those convicted of Second Degree murder, first or Second Degree robbery and vehicular homicide. Inmates on work release in Clayton County must now carry a ew location tracker. Last month, the Sheriffs Office started using a gps system called buddis smart tad. The waterproof ankle bracelet monitors a work relelese inmates evevry movv. The sheriff says it prevents inmates from abusing their work release privilege. There have been some people who have violated the rules and maybe snuck home on their lunch hour, when t`ey are not suppose to go home. The mandatory bracelet comes at no cost to the tax payer. T if an inmate leaves jaion work release, the county will char that inmate 6 dollars a day t tuse the bracelet. Iowa lawmakers are considering a bill that would require local governments and authorities to tell federal agencies when they have Illegal Immigrants in custody. A submmittee passed the bill afer House Republicans proposed it. Normally, immigration officers ask local Police Departments to hold illegal until federal authorities can pick them up. But some cities and counties are considered sanctuaries. Those e e places in the us that refuse to hold Illegal Immigrants after their Court Ordered detention. The bill would prevent that from happening. According to the center for immigration studies, more thth 20 counties in iowa follow sanctuary policies. That includes linn, johnson, dubuque and benton counties. Some Iowa Veterans are worried about a bill that would legalize the sale and u of fireworks. A Senate Committee approved the bill on wednesday. The Veterans National can cse flashbacksor veterans with post Traumatic Stress disorder. Some are also worried about safety. This is a very big problem as it relates to the safety of our children and the public. We have been thoughtfull. De liberate. And responsive. The bill you saw action on yesterday is the sum total of the an amendment would let cities in iowa to continue to ban fireworks even if the bill passes. Its not quite time for firework season, justin. But more like time for another snow system. Clouds are taking over our sky this afternoon, bringing with them a chance of light snow. While a few flurries are possible as early as sunset, most of the light snow we get will fall late this eveninin for those who do see snowflakes, a coating to a few tenths of an inch are possible. Well have highs in the upper 20s this afternoon, dropping to the lower 20s tonight. Tomorrow is looking good with a partly cloudy sky and highs in the middle 30s. re back in the 30s sunday with a chance of light snow, mostly later in the day. Light snow continues monday, but the winds really crank up, causing patchy blowing snow. Itll be colder for the first half of next week, too. Today chance of light snow late high 2531 winds sw 510 alo 25 dbq 28 iow 30 the university of Northern Iowa its renowned college of education. Uni named gaetane jeanmarieiehe dean and the richard o. Jacobson endowed chair of leadership in education. Dr. Jeanmarie will officially start her position on june 30th. Her appointment rest in the hands of the iowa bod of rents. Theyll decide whetetr to approve her in june. A new 2 milliondollar space at the university of iowa is helping future teachers learn how to use advanced technology. Items like this rorot which lets homebound students wheel around classrooms in real time are part of the upgrades inside dhe lindquist center. Smartboards and wires that feed sound dirececly into hearing aids e also part t f the project. Its preparing future teachers to take on their own classroom. 17 10 15 its kind of just learning and being flexible wiwh your teaching because this kind of stuff is going to be in our classroom one day. Organizers say this space is the first of its kind in the state. On a second location cedar pids this spring. Backpocket brewing says their experiment brewery will be called backpocket pilot pub. The new business will open at 415 third street se in downtown cedar rids, in building. The company says this location will be used to brew smaller, and more experimental batches than the coralville pub. In a tv9 followup this morning. Cedar lake supporters now ha a plan to transform the lake into a Recreational Area for cedar rapids. Friends of cedar lake unveiled a master plan at an open house on thursday afternoon. The plans includes asttics like vetative floating islands to amenities like more parking and an overlook. The group is also planning to add artwork to revitalize the area around i380. Friends of cedar lakekeay the project is expected to cost more than 8 million dollars, most of which it plans to fund raise. 53 55 its very exciting because now we have a concrete plan we can take o the people we would like to ask thth to contribute funds too ad say look at this board walk it has this price tag friends of cedar lake will now present the plan to the city council for approval. The group says it still needs to have an environmental study completed on the lake and ownership transferred from Alliant Energy to the city. As concerns over the zika virus also keep spreading. In florida, state leaders have declared a state of emergency, especially given floridas primity to other locations where zika has en confirmed. Updates our temperaturur coming up in your first alert bringing wiwi them a chance of light snow. While a few flurries are possib as early as sunset, most f the light snow we get will fall late this evening. For those who do see snowflakes, a coating to a few tenths of an inch are possible. Well have highs in the upper 20s this afternoon, dropping to the lower 20s tonight. Tomorrow is looking good highs in the middle 3030 were back in the 30s sunday with a chance of light snow, mostly later in the day. Light snow continues monday, but the winds really crank up, causing patchy blowing snow. Itll be colder for the first half of next week, too. Today chance of light snow late high 2531 winds sw 510 alo 25 dbq 2iow 30 tonight chance of light snow low 2026 winds s 510 alo20 dbq 22 iow 25 tomorrow partly cloudy high 3339 wiis w 515 alo 3434dbq 35 iow 37 tomorrow night partly cloudy sunday chance of light snow high 38 low 28 monday light snow likely, windy high 26 low 26 tuesday chance of light snow high 17 low 11 wednesday mostly cloudy high 23 low 6 thursday chance of snow high 31 low 13 friday partly cloudy high 29 low 20 thanks justin. Clouds are taking over our sky this afternoon, bringing with them a chance of light snow. While a few flurries are possible as early as sunset, mostst of the light snow we get will fall late this evening. For those who see snowflakes, a coating to a few tenths of an inch are saving lives one red shirt at a time. Today is national go red day, and its bringing awareness to the leading cause of death for women. Heart disease is the number one killer of women. Killing more women than all forms of cancers combined. This i ian advertisement froro the americic heart association. Theyre asking women to wear red and donate to help fund research. Aha says Heart Disease and strokes kill a woman every 80 secondsdsand that most times these cases are preventable. You can red for women. Org. Pregnant women are increasingly at risk from the zika virus. Late findings show the mosquitoborn disease in the united states. As abcs Lauren Lyster explains, at least 13 states have cases including florida. Changing their beliefs. President ial candidates switch their support back and forth on renewable fuel energy. Ted cruzon iowa even while syaing he didnt favor the rfs. A look at who did come around beforo the caucuses. Florida were going to get ahead of this. Just like in a hurricane, what we going to prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Florida governor rick scott. Comparing the states resplnse to the zika virus to preparing for a hurricane. Officials are expanding floridas s ublic Health Emergency declaration to a fifth county. As reports of infection continue to grow. Florida yesterday we had nine cases. Today, florida has 12 zika cases. The primary carrier of zika the aedes egyptiae mosquito known as an aggressie biter. Its very adapted to tte urban environment, it lives exxemely well in your home. And florida isnt the only u. S. State facing the threat. More than a dozen now have confirmed cases of zika. Including warmweather states where mosquitos thrive, like. Cadjfornia. Florida. And haqaii. Where the first us case f a neworn suffering brain damagee linkeddto zika was reported this week. It comes as world health fials express concern thate globalxpansion of zika maycontinuei tnk its quite prudent to edict that zika will continue to spread around the world, 30countries today, and that number could increage significantly. I m reid bion, reporting. Changing their biefs. D cruz won iowa even while aing he didnt favor come around good mornindavid geiger. On monday, the Iowa Caucuses took off and iowa chose its nber one caidates on the republican and democrat side. Ted cruz won the most votes on the republican side for a victory here at just under 28 percent. Which came as aisappointment to renewable fuel standard voters. The Iowa Renewable Fuel Association says they had discussions with many of the candidates here in the state. E. And in n e weeks before the caucus. Senator cruz changed his tone on ethanol. Including putting in a positive oped into the Des Moines Register. Now he never did embrace the rfs that is true, the renewable fuel standard, but tried to portray himself as r ethanol, forigher blends, for knocking down the blend wall. Just not for the rfs. Shaw says 85 percent of voters prorfs candidates. More than the last caucus. And while cruz won. His vote total was under 30 percent. Which is less than majority. Only two other republicans have won an iowa caucus vote. Unusual for an iowa caucus winner to be thatatow and so i do think that theres no doubt that ted cruzs position in opposition to the rfs with his track record for supporting the subsidies for oil influenced his vote totals. And i absolutely think it cost him votes that he might have otherwise had in iowa if he had a more equitable policy. Shaw says the america Renewable Fuels saw success in moving candidates toward a prorfs stance. There were only three at the start ofofhe race. And after the iowa caucus, there were 12 of 14 candidates behind it. Livestock are got a little support yesterday. And grains arent moving with the big news of the wee. Its been 15 years since its been 15 years since the last commercial horticultu survey was sent out. And its t te for an update. The Iowa Department of agriculture announced wednesday that the survey is being mailed statewide to farmers raising horticulture food crops. They want the farmers to complete it and send it back by midmarch. Secrerery of agriculture bill n nthey says a lot has changed in the last 15 years. And the data will be important. The survey data hopes to capture 2015 data of ommercial productiononf state fruit. Vegetable. Nut. Honey. Syrup. And crops. And thats all we have for the show today. Thanks for joining us on the agribusiness report. Ill be back here uonday. Have a good weend. Well post a video evevy day in the agribusiness section of kckc. Com. Youll find it under the news tab. Im david geiger with the agribusiness report. Trt 3. 46 oc webtease as oil prices have been hovering in recent months, president obama is calling for a new 10 dollarperbarrel tax on oil. L companies would pay the tax, and it would be used to pay for billions in masstransns and even a push for selfdriving vehicles. The fee would only be applied to imported oil, and crade pumped in the us would not be taxed. House and d senate so its unlikely to go too far. Back in november, the us imported 7. 4 Million Barrels of oil perday. Ahead, well hear from the culinary experts at t`e diamond jo casino in duque. On bison pasta hearty but one that satisfied the palette. Stay with kcrgtv 9. Perfect for the cold weather a bison bolognese made with iowa bison. The ingredients today are iowa bison, ground beef, roasted red peppers, diced onions, carrots and celery, kosher salt, black pepper, red pepper flakes, garlic, oregano, parmesian cheese, tomato paste and diced tomates. Heat olive oil in a pan. Add a to brown. Then remove the meat an add vegetables to saute for 3 minutes. Add the ground meat back in. Then add the garlic, salt, black pepper, red pepper flakes, oregano and sir. Add the diced tomatoes and tomato paste and cheese. Stir and simmer for about a half hour. Then add fresh pasta and mix. The dance marathon at the university of iowa is less than 8 hours away. Which means that. The students can finally stop dancing in less than 32 hours look inside e e 2015 marathon t t help children touched by cancer. And their families. Plus, debating in New Hampshire. The republicans are tomorrow night here on kcrgtv 9. With the top two democratlast night as the e imary is on tuesday. Y. Temperatures coming up in your a slowing or growing economy . A new us jobs report our today shows small growth and an uneven outlook for the nation. The only two democratic president ial candidates battle with words s New Hampshire. Lots of talk on the economy as the republicans will debate tomorrow. Dancing for the kids. University of iowa students are preparing for 24 hours of dancing this weekend. Well tell you about one girl whos hoping their efforts help in her cancer fight. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news at meteorologist Justin Gehrts has your first alert forecast, justin. Clouds are taking over our sky this afternoon, bringing with them a chance of light snow. While a few flurries are p psible as early as sunset, most of the light snow we get will fall late this evening. For those who do see snowflakes, a coating to a few tenths of an inch are possible. Well have highs in the upper 20s this afternoon, dropping to the lower 20s tonight. Tomorrow is looking good with a partly cloudy sky and highs in the middle 30s. Were back in the 30s sunday with a chance of light snow, mostly later in the day. Light snow continues monday, but the winds really crank up, causing patchy blowing snow. Itll be colder for the first half of next week, too. Today chance of light snow late high 2531 winds sw 510 alo 25 dbq 28 iow 30 shows an unclear outlook for the nations economy. Us employers added 151,000 jobs in january. The labor r partment says these jobs gains were only enough for the Unemployment Rate to fall from 5 to 4. 9 . Those numbers reflect a slowdown in hiring and also a drop of jobs in the education, transportation, and temp worker sectors. Now with only 4 days left until the New Hampshire primary, the debates fill the evenings. Tomorrow night, the republicans meet but last night, democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders debated over the economy and the best path forward. Abcs Marci Gonzalez takes a look back. Package script today back on the trail after a fierernight on the debate stage sot clinton lets talk about the issues the democratic presidedeial candidates facing off for the last time before the New Hampshire primary Hillary Clinton trying to overcome Bernie Sanders 15 point lead in the latest poll. With another poll also showing sande closing in on clinton nationally. Sot sanders secretary clinton does represent the establishment. I represent, i hope, ordinary americans clinton senator sanders is the only person who would characterize me a woman running to be the first woman president as exemplifying the establishment on the republican side marco rubio on the rise in 2nd place behind donald trump karl sot jk do you think donald trump i iready to be president . Rubio but trump still holds a commanding lead . Nats trump in exeter this is really crunch time. Ready to take his place at center stage in tomorrow nights debate here on abc. C. Ag bututrump is also looking ahead to the next big vote after New Hampshire. Canceling his only event here today because of this snow . Holding a rally tonight in South Carolina . The republican president ial candidates will meet in manchester, New Hampshire for a debate tomorrow. Abcs david muir and Martha Raddatz will moderate the debate. You can watch it right here on saturday at seven on tv9. A massive crane collapse in new york city killed one person this morning. Fwre Officials Say it happened this morning around 825 in lower manhattan. The crane can be seen landing across several parked cars, stretching across most of one block. There are no details yet on what caused thcrane to fall. At least 2 otherereople are seriously injured. Automaker, honda, is recalling 5. 7 million cars worldwide because of exploding airbags. This announcement is part of a latesesseries of recalls involving takata air bag inflators, which can explode and send shrapnel into vehicles. Vehicles are in the us. At least 11 ople have died from the problem and 139 have been injured. Were still awaiting more information from the state patrol on the deadly crash in Benton County yesterday that killed 3 people. Investigators say that reaching family members of the victims is taking longer than usual because they had to search outside the u. S. A minivan and a pickup truck crashed around 515 yesterday morning, on highway 30, just east of 16th avenue. Thats near keystone. The state patrol says the driver of the minivan carrying 10 people lost control. Another vehicle then hit the minivanancausing 2 other vehicles to crash. Three people from the cedar rapids area, who were all inside the minivan, died at the scene. Investigators have not released their names yet. Trooper bob conrad with the iowa state patrol says while it appears ice didiplay a role, he says it also seems the driver of the minivan failed to maintain control. He says the van was also overloaded. Cathy cutler District Office says they had road crews on the same stretch of highway 30 during and after the storm that hit earlier this week. Trooper conrad says all 3 People Killed were not wearing seat belts, andnd of them were ejected from the vehicle. 53 07 15 i cannot say enough about seat belts. Two of the fatalities were fully ejected out of this vehicle. Seat belts anywhere in the vehicle make a difference. Seat belts save lives. 13 24 we actually had called in extra people, justt because of the duration of this storm. Especially in the rural areas, we were seeing some blowing and drifting snow. So we wanted to make sure we did have at presence 24 7. Conrad also mentioned their effort to notify family members was taking a bit longer than expected. They had expanded their search outside us borders. The university of iowas dance marathon is just hours away. Students will dance non stop for 24 hours torovide yearround support for youth cancer patientstsnd their families at the ununersity of iowa childrens hospital. Kcrgtv9s brea love met the student organization. This is ava swift. Shes a healthy 6 year old,d,ho has been through a real battle. When ava was 6 months old, her parents noticed something strange. 4 01 when we fed her she would like sweat, like her head would sweat on our arm, she would sweat when sheoke up, but being our first child we didnt know if thats normal. As time went on they noticed her stomach was swelling. They went to multiple specialists who said ava was fine. Until one recommended the family make the trip from their home in northwest iowa, to the childrens hospital. 5 13 they started test right away, and thats when they told us she was diagnosed with stage 4, neuroblastoma. That would send the family on a year long journey featuring 14 chemo treatments, and surgery. Whwhh can be devastating to watch a child go through. 5 59 to a mother, like i was in the bathroom, crying, vomiting because im like quit hurting my child. Swift says ava took it like a champ, and walked away cancer free. Dudung this years dance marathon, ava w wl walk across the stage for her five year graduation from the cancer program. Its kids like ava, that make these kids want to dance. And those dancers help the hospital do amazing things. 23 40 this is revolutionizing how we are treating cancer in the year 20101 and dance last year doctors started using a new method to fight cancer attacking it as cancer cells change. They look at everything internally and individually, then adjust treatment as the cancer changes. 25 28 the conventional mechanisms for funding something is thorough the national institutut of health oo philannhropy and anyttme the science is cutting edge or innovative it is also high risk so its very hard to get funds. Only a few hospitals in the nation have access to this technology. 28 57 its going to be available to you at any center in the unite states, but dance marathon wanted that future for us to be today. And they will continue to support it. Making parents like swift forever thankful. 7 57 they are going to fight for your child as much as you are going to fight for your child. Ad there is a dance m mathon going on. You can donate by calling 8004562772 dance marathon starts tonight at 7, and runs for 24 hours taking over american tv. British h nd, coldplay, prepares for the super bowl. And mourning a legend in r n b, funk, and soul. One of the visionaries behind earth, wind fire passed away this week. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts clouds are taking over our sky this afternoon, bringing with them a chance of light snow. While a few flurries are possible as early as sunset, most of ththlight snow we get will fall late this evening. For those who do see snowflakes, a coating to a few tenths of an inch are possible. Well have highs in the upper 20s this afternoon, dropping to the lower 20s tonight. Tomorrow is looking good with a partly cloudy sky and highs in the middle 30s. Were back in the 30s sunday with a chance of light snow, mostly later in the day. Light snow continues monday, but the winds really crank up, causing patchy blowing snow. Itll be colder for the first half of next week, too. Today chance of light snow late high 2531 winds sw 510 alo 25 dbq 28 iow 30 light snow low 2026 winds s 510 alo 20 dbq 22 iow 25 tomorrow partly cloudy high 3339 winds w 515 alo 34 dbq 35 iow 37 tomorrow night partly cloudy low 2531 winds sw 515 alo 25 dbq 26 iow 29 sunday chance of light snow high 38 low 28 monday light snow likely, windy high 26 low 26 tuesday chance of light snow high 17 low 11 wednesday mostly cloudy high 23 low 6 thursday chance of snow high 31 low 13 friday partly cloudy high 29 low 20 super bowl sunday is two days away, and music band coldplay is getting ready to take the stage at halftime. But first, Jason Nathanson tells us about a loss in the music world. The music world again mourning a superstar from the 70s and 80 earth, wind, and fire Founding Member and leader maurice white. He cowrote and sang on most of the groups biggest hits producethem too. He foundfd the group with his brothers in 1969 in chicago. Mamaice died in his sleep wednesday night. He fought a long battle with parkinsons. He was 74. Coldplay is ready for the super bowl halftime show t martin wow. I feel like donald trump. The band hit the stage to talk to the media ahead of sundays performance, and front man chris martin said there wont be a left shark type moment sot weve trained em so well sharks. Nenemovies this weekend probably wont be a lot of competition for the super bowl. Kung fu panda should again finish first. Then of the new films, theres George Clooney in the coen brothers 50s farce hail, caesar , a retelling of the classic novel pride and prejudice with zombies, called, naturally, pride and prejudice and zombies . And our yearly love ststry from Nicholas Sparks called the choice. None of the newcomers are expected to crach 15 million. Apaptn1300 italy Fiennes JacksonJoseph Fiennes is as shocked as anyone he was cast to play Michael Jackson for an upcoming british tv project 5. Soundbite Joseph Fiennes, actor i was very shocked that i was chosen for the role of michael. It is a comedy. Itit a beautiful comedy its for one episode of a show on sky arts. It was already filmed, and is due to air later this year. And thats whats happening in hollywood, im Jason Nathanson, abc news, los angeles. Spending too much time on your phone or ipad can literally be a pain in the neck. Our fitness expertrtill show us how to care for your neck without giving up your technology. Do you suffer stiffness into as a society, we spend a large amount of time at our computers and on our cell phones. These prolonged postures often lead to poor spinal alignment and then lead to pain. Our fitness expert feryl york will give you a f f tips to reverse these tends to lead us into. O. Back to our top stories this do you suffer stiffness into your neck and shoulders . As a society, we spend a large amount of time at our computers and on our cell phones. These prolonged d stures often lead to poor spinal alignment and then lead to pain. Feryl york will give you a f f tips to reverse these poor postures our technology tends to lead back to our top stories this midday. Police say 36yearold Nicholas Hostak burglarized two vans at the reutzel pharmacy. That sits at 8th avenue southeast in cedar rapids. Police say one of their k9s caght hostak inside during the burglary. He now faces 3 counts of 3rd degree burglary and driving while revoked. Today, a federal judge is set founder of midamar corp73 year old bill aossey jr. He was convicted 7 months ago on 15 charges including conspiracy, and making false statements on export certificates and wire fraud. During his trial, prosecutors said aossey oversaw a plot in which midamar workers lili about the origin of their products so they could export them across the world. The university of Northern Iowa has named a new dean for their college of education. The waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reports uni named gaetane jeanmarie the dean and the richard o. Jacobson endowed chair of leadership in education. Dr. Jeanmarie will officially start her position on june 30th. Starting tonight at 7, some uniirsity of iowa students will dance 24 hours for dance marathon. Their dancing will help raise money for sick kids at the uis hospitals and clinics. The event usually raises millions of dollars for the cause. We have College Wrestling action for you tonight on kcrg 9. 2 the cyclones travel to Northern Iowa to face the panthers. The mats go live at 7 pm on kcrg 9. 2. Now, one last look at this justin. Clouds are taking over our sky this afternoon, bringing with them a chance of light snow. While a few flurries are possible as early as sunset, most of the light snow we ge will fall laae this evening. For those who do see snowflakes, a coating to a few tenths of an inch are possible. Well have highs in the upper 20s this afternoon, dropping to the lower 20s tonight. Tomorrow is looking good with a partly cloudy sky and highs in the middle 30s. Were back in the 30s sunday with a chance of light snow, mostly later in the day. Light snow continues monday, but the windss really crank up, causing patchy blowing snow. Itll be colder for the first half of next week, too. Today chance of light snow late high 2531 winds sw 510 alo 25 dbq 28 iow 30 tonight chance of light snow low 2026 winds s 510 alo 20 dbq 22 iow 25 tomorrow partly cloudy high 3339 winds w 515 lo 34 dbq 3535iow 37 tomorrow night partly cloudy low 2531 winds sw 515 alo 25 dbq 26 iow 29 sunday chance of light snow high 38 low 28 monday light snow likely, windy high 26 low 26 tuesday chance of light snow high 17 low 11 wednesday stly cloudy gh 23 low 6 thursday chae of snow high 3131 low friy partly c coudy high 29 o 20thatsll the time we have today on the kcrgtv9 news at midday. Be sure to watch kcrg