Thatatas no parallel anywhere else in world. Brandi hitt oncam close authorities have not identified the suspects ring long guns, or a motivevethe building that came under fifi behind me, does hohoe county offices and an organization that helps the developmenta lly disabled. Bh, abc news, san bernadino. In the african nion of meroon, troops have freed 900 hostages that boko haram islamic extremists had been holding. This is file video of that group. Authorities say its killed 20 thousand people the last six years. Cameroon says forces from four didierent countries freed the hostages from multiple villages during a three day eration in late november. The raids killed more than 100 extremists, and authorities arrested another 100. Police in three cities are investigating gunshots that happened overnight. Within a six hour time span,n, police resesnded to reports of gunshots in cedar rapids, dubuque, and waterloo. Some only caused Property Damage, but there was at least one person hurt. That was about eight oclock last night in cedar rapids. Police say it happened in the 16 hundred block of b avenue northeast. They didnt find any victims there, but they did find a vehicle with bullet holes. And while police were at the shooting scene, they say a 19 year old man showed up at st. Lukes hospital with a gun shot wound in the arm. Hes expected to be okay. Then aroundnd0 30 last night, Dubuque Police found shell casings and some Property Damage from gunshots. Police say bullets hit the house at 611 university avenue. People were inside, but no one was hurt. And around 1 45 this morning, Waterloo Police responded to two gunshots. Officers fofod shell asings in both the 11 hundred block of west mullen and the 500 block of elm street. No one was hurt, though. There have not made any arrests, but anyone with information should call the Waterloo Police. A two car crash on an icy road killed one person early this morning in black hawk county. It happened around 5 30 am on east dunkerton road near North Raymond road. Authorities say one vehicle crossed the center line and hit the other vehicle head on. One driver died at the scene. The Sheriffs Office has not released the name of the person who died or the condition of t t other driver. Investigators are trying to find out what caused a fire that destroyed a hog confinement building in Washington County last night. A fire that killed mororthan four ththusand pigs. Firefighters arrived at Brenneman Pork near wellman around 9 45 pm, but the fire had already burned much of the there wasnt much they could do. Firefighters were not able to salvage anything from the building. They were back at the scene around noon today. This morning it just rikindled, a pile of wood buried under steel rekindled, and started flaming up. So, we got an extractor in to stir it around so we can get to the fire and put it out. Night on tv nine e ws at ten, youllllear from the owners of the farm and how theyre dealing with the damage. Lets check in now with meteorologist joe winters. Joe, some ofofs had a little dusting of snow overnight, but its all gone. Bruce and beth. The university of Northern Iowa the university of Northern Iowa needs a new Athletic Director because troy dannen is heading to tulane university. Hes taking the Athletic Directors job at that school in new orleans. La year, the National Association of collegiate directors of athletics named dannen as the under armour ad of the year. Uni will name an interim ad while it searches for a new one. Dannens last day at will be december 31st. Today the state regents approved a three per cent tuition increase for undergraduate students at in september, the regents raiaid undergraduat e tuition for the upcoming spring semester. But that three percent increase, whh totals about 100 dollars for full time undergrads, only applied to iowa state and Northern Iowa. The university of iowa was exempt from that increase. Kcrg tv nines Iowa City Bureau chief mark carlson joins us live. Mark, is this the final increase for next year . Bruce, well it really comes down to the amount of funding the legislature will give the universities in the future. But this discussion is likely far from over. It was a busy day for the regents. As noted they approved a plan that will cost instate university of iowa undergraduate students an tra 100 dollars per semester. 2016. Gotten use to tuition freezes, as there have been many of them over the coursef the last couple of years. They havent raraed Tuition School year. One student who has benefited from those freezes says he doesnt see future increases as that big of deal. I think three percent or 100 dollars added ttuition here is rerely negligible compared to the price, so i dont think it will affect people too much, so i dont see it being a big problem. As noted it wawaa busy day for the regents. They also approved a plan to rename the ui Childrens Hospital after a top donor. Beginning in november 2016, the hospital will b b known as the stead Family University of iowa Childrens Hospital after businessman jerre stead and his wife mary joy. Jerer stead was a member r the search commmmtee that recruited the universitys new president , Bruce Harreld to iowa city. In iowa city, mark carlson, kcrg tv nine news. Medicaid recipients have questions about the states switch to managed care on january first. Whats going to happen if you change providers in that to happen if you dont have good drug coverage like weve got now . But they say they didnt get any answers at this cedar rapids public hearing. Hey this holiday, u. S. Cellularss giving you 50 more data than verizon and at t for the same price. But i wanted a pony. [ gasps ] youre getting data. Ponysized data . No. U. S. Cellular sized data. Good, strong data you can actually use because it works in the middle of anywhere. Id like 100 youre getting 400 in promo cards yes switch to u. S. Cellular and get 50 more data than verizon and at t. Plus 400 per line. Waterloo has a new mayor, and he made history just by winning yesterdays runoff election. Tonight on tv nine news at six, youll hear from black mayor. City and School Leaders in dubuque planned to Work Together to build a new Swimming Pool or Aquatic Center r in the city. But those plans are now on hold. Hear why it involves a change regarding the state sales tax, up next here on v nine. Were fillingnghat pool at the Dubuque School District Needs a new Swimming Pool, but that project is nown hold. Its due to a change regarding the collection of the state sales tax from iowas manufacturer s. The change takes effect on july first next year. That iowa manufacturer s have paid on consumable supplies. Those are items they use in the manufacturin g process. The Iowa Department of revenue estimates that will cut ovovall state sales taxax revenue by 40 Million Dollars between 2017 and 2020. It could also reduce local option sales tax revenue by up to six Million Dollars annually. That would affect cities that have Large Manufacturing bases. Kcrg tv nines Dubuque Bureau chief Katie Wiedemann joins us live wh more. Katie, this affects the Dubuque School districts poolol project . Yes. Dubuque schools were planning to they were expecting from the one cent local option sales tax. They talked about renovating the pool at Hempstead High School and even partnering with the city to build an Aquatic Center. But now thats all on hold. Every single day, students from Hempstead High School fill this swimming or swim practice. But theres a mysterious leak somewhere in the pool. Were losing water and we keeee refilling the p pl as needed. And the rest of the pool leaves little to be desired. Its not deep enough for the school to host large swim meets. And theres not much deck space. E. Hats why, last year, the School District announced plans to partner with the city of dubuque to possibly replace this pool with an indoor aquati center. Undedethe proposal, the city would pay for part of the pool project. Dubuque schools planned to use seven Million Dollars from the one cent local options sale tax to fund their half. We want people to know we may not be as attraraive of a partner as we were a few months ago. We dont know if we are going to have that seven million. We might only have two Million Dollars. With that uncertainty, the pool project is on hold. Away from the pool, perintendent Stan Rheingans w wries about the larger funding issue he says could come from the proposed tax breaks. He believes that will mean a major loss in tax revenue districts have alrerey been working with less funding from the state of iowa. Year after year. Were always told the state doesnt have any money available to it. And now the state chose to reduce its Revenue Streams by somewhwhe between 37 and 90 Million Dollars. And rheingans has a sinking suspicion, School Funding is only going to become harder to come by. In dubuque, Katie Wiedemann kcrg tv9 news. Iowa department of Human Services is Holding Hearings regarding the privatization of medicaid. One was held in cedar rapids today, but up next, well explain why the few people who showed up were still frustrated when they program. The s ste is privatizing it, and four out of state managing the medicaid system on january first. But many patients have concerns about the push to privatizatioio medicaid participants have until december 17th to sign up for one of the four plans the privatized system will offer. And providers have until the end of the year to sign up to work with a plan. But a judge has recommended that the state throw out its contract with one of the four companies. Wellcare. Saying it should have fraud involving former executives. This morning, the department of Human Services held a hearing in cedar rapids on the medicaid changes. Tv nines Dave Franzman was there and joins us now. Dave, did people get answers . Bruce, a couple told me confused and disappointed are the two best words to sum up the experience. They went to the meeting at the Cedar Rapids Public Library hoping someone could status of the change process. That wasnt what they got. Michael chalupa and his friend ccleen morrissey depend on medicaid to manage their Serious Health issues. They came hoping to get information to help with sign up decisions. Sot nat but heres what they saw. Just a handful of people in a nearly empty auditorium. No public comments. No one giving t information. A nd the local dhs staffers prohibited from offering any advice. I was extremely disappointed. I expected to hear something that would tell me when this plan is going to go into effect. Not our deadline date because that isnt going to happen i just think the state is doing an inadequate job about getting e word out about these public hearings a dhs spokesperson in des moines pointed out some of the confusion may be the purpose of this public hearing. Unlike many hearings statewide earlier on the idea of privatizing medicaid, this was strictly to discuss a handndl of after reading the changes, only one person offered a public comment. A handful of peoe who work with medicaid clients did stay to help each other. Were all are just trying to go to whatever information we can to make the transition as smoothly as possible but two clients say they still need to know if managed Care Companies will let them keep their current doctors. And they didnt get those answers today. Because this was a hearing only about amendments to the plan the dhs only publicized meetings in cedar rapids and davenport today by filing an administrative notice. There are additional hearings in des moines, Council Bluffs and waterloo on friday. One big issue is how many medical providers have signed contracts with the ne private medicaid management companies. Several weeks ago, governor branstad said the figure e s 12 thousand out of 42 thousand providers. The dhs is compiling new available yet this a aernoon. Uce . D time is running out. Thanks, dave. Now heres a look at me of what the citys first black mayor. Hear what his plans are for waterloos future. And several iowans serving in congress react to the epas final decision on the renewable fuel standards for gasoline. Thank you for joining us for kcrgtv9 news at 5. Now we go to new york r abcs world news with david muir. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now,
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