Racist. Senator ted cruz says he disagrees with trumps plan but refused to pile on. I do not believe the world needs my voice added to that chorus of critics. Supporters continue to back the billionaire. Sot trump supporter i like what he had to say about the muslims, we just have to get control. But this Muslim American in New Hampshire who once called the republican an icon says hes dumping trump. You cant categorize all muslims as being bad. Its just not fair, the chairman of the Republican National committee disagreed with trump but said in a statement this afternoon quote we need to aggressively take on radical islamic terrorism. Kenneth moton, abc news washington. Republican president ial candidate Carly Fiorina criticized trumps remarks at a Campaign Event in des moines today. She told reporters trumps comments undermine the character of who we are as a nation, and that a policy to ban muslims would be dangerous. I disagree with Donald Trumps prescription on what to do to constitution. Ha ving a conversation about internment camps, not defeating isis. Fiorina also said she thinks trumps comments have more to do with politics and recovering the spotlight from ted cruz who is rising in the polls. Members of the Muslim Community in eastern iowa were quick to condemn trumps call for a shutdown of muslims entering the us. Cedar rapids shares a long history with members of that faith. Muslims from lebanon were early pioneers in early industry arriving in the late 1800s. The mother mosque in northwest cedar rapids was the first building constructed specifically as a mosque in all of north america. So to hear a major Party President ial candidate say close the borders is distressing. Im not really going to be upset about a politician that hopefully has no chance to be elected. Now if he does get elected, as president , it says a lot about our country and one thing that does concern local muslims is whether comments like trumps would encourage faith. They point to a severed pigs head thrown against the door of a mosque in philadelphia last night as proof its already happening. Well have much more on this news at 6. Luther College Students in decorah have issued a statement calling for unity with muslims. It says in part, an alarming wave of islamophobia is sweeping our nation. We repudiate the hostility and hatred aimed at muslims in and beyond our community. We pledge to and wherever it occurs. Many faculty, staff and alumni have also signed the online statement. Within the past hour, the us house approved on travel to the us. It also requires visas for anyone whos been in iraq or syria in the previous five years. The white house supports the legislation. Lets turn now to meteorologist joe, its been a gray day, but still with above average temperatures. We are quickly moving into a very active weather pattern. The first in a series of storms moves east tonight. Clouds will not totally leaves the sky, but some clearing occurs, bringing a bit of sunshine wednesday. Mild december conditions are set to continue, as highs push into the 50s on thursday and friday. Rain chances develop friday, with a much better rain event cooler air moves south late sunday meaning we need to watch for a transition to snow for the early part of early low 3137 cloudy high 4652 winds w 515 a cedar rapids teenager today to a plea deal for killing a 15yearold. Authorities say 14year old robert humbles shot september. Police say the shooting happened when two rival groups met near redmond park. Humbles pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, reckless use of a firearm, and going armed with intent. He faces 25 years in prison. He will be in a juvenile facility until he turns 18. A judge will then decide whether to release him or make prison sentence. Federal Authorities Say theyre pursuing leads that could result in charges against weeks massacre in san bernardino, california. The fbi says someone deposited more than 28 thousand dollars into the bank gunman syed farook two weeks before he and his wife killed 14 people at a holiday party. The fbi also has surveillance tape of farook and his wife taking target practice at faces of before the two killers opened fire. Federal agents have Enrique Marquez bought the rifles the couple used in the massacre. Violence Prevention Task force convened today to discuss the causes, costs, and best ways to reduce gun violence in the us. Calls for more gun control have grown after last weeks mass shooting in san bernardino. On sunday, president harder for people on to buy guns. For all americans to buy assault weapons. A recent donation to the Dubuque School district will have a big impact on the way students learn Foreign Languages. Chad and Laura Chandlee donated 30 laptops to dubuque Senior High Schools wiedemann shows how its changing the way some students study spanish. Inside this spanish class, all the new words and translations can come at a pace thats hard for some students to keep up with. But because of these new laptops, students can work at their own pace. Foreign Language Development because it happens at different speeds for different kids and it just enables us to reach more of the kids. Teachers started using these touch screen lap tops at the beginning of this school year. It looks like theyre playing games, but theyre working on repetitive lessons that help them better memorize and understand the language. Wed normally just be playing games with cards or up on the board. But his way we can a bunch more games online and its more interaction. And that interaction seems to be a major motivation for students. The games we get to play with the vocabulary, they help me memorize. I can actually get beat each others times and that helps me memorize them. Administrators say during most class periods, every single student has access to his or her own computer. Thats not something the School District would have been able to afford on its own. Not like this. Wed normally just be playing games with cards or up on the board, but this way we can do a bunch more games online and its more interaction. Yo me gusta. Yo me gusta, el los computtoras. Muchos. Muy bien. Mucho, mucho. A donation that has students speaking praises in more than one language. In dubuque Katie Wiedemann kcrg tv9 news. The chandlees also donated a mobile charging cart for the computers. That allows the computers to be used in all Foreign Language classrooms, not just for spanish. Tickets have gone quickly for the rose bowl game between iowa and stanford. And the university of iowa says fans trying to get tickets on the secondary markets should be extremely careful. Wewell up. Hey this holiday, u. S. Cellulars giving you 15 gigs of data for just 70 but i wanted a pony. [ gasps ] youre getting data. Ponysized data . U. S. Cellular sized data. 15 gigs of 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 15 gigs of data for just 70. Weather pattern. The first in a series of storms moves east tonight. Clouds will not totally leaves the sky, but some clearing occurs, bringing a bit of sunshine wednesday. Mild december conditions are set to continue, as highs push into the 50s on thursday and friday. Rain chances develop friday, with a much better rainvent headed our wayayn saturday. Moves south late sunday meaning we need to watch for a transition to snow for the early part of the week. Tonight iso. Showers early low 3137 winds w 515tomorrow partly cloudy high 4652 winds w 515tomorrow night partly cloudy low 3541 winds s 515thursday mostly cloudy high 52 low 38 friday slight chance of rain late high 54 low 37 sunday rain snow likely high 40 low 38 monday chance of snow, windy high 36 low 34 tuesday partly cloudy high 36 low 23 thanks joe. Some studies suggest e cigarettes are safer than smoking tobacco. But the research lags behind their popularity. Connection between the Electronic Devices and lung disease. And well explain why the cedar rapids School District is discussing academic equity. Stay with your 24 hour news researchers say a flavoring chemical linked to severe respiratory disease is something thatat in most ecigarettes. The Harvard University study says more than 75 percent of flavored e cigarettes contain diacetyl researchers have linked that chemical to a lung. The disease first appeared in workers who inhaled artificial butter flavoring from microwave popcorn. The harvard study also found two related, potentially harmful compounds in mama of the tested flavors. The studys authors say the findings show that theres much to be learned about the dangers of e cigarettes. Today principals and other schoololeaders in the cedar rapaps School District met for their first ever equity summit. This was the meeting this morning at the district headquarters. The district defines equity as improving instruction for all students. And the ssmit was a way for School Leaders to share their best practices for helping on goals like closing the student achievement gap. For example, the iowa black students in the districts Elementary Schools are not at grade level for reading. Thats more than double behind in reading. So we want to push those top students and accelerate the bottom students within that gap. That was an interesting part of the equity summit process different goal thats specific to their building. The district will hold equity summits like this twice each school year, and its planning for the next one to be in may or junene the university of iowa is teaming up with Rockwell Collins to create new drone technology. It will allow drones to operate on their own if they lose contact with their controller. Researchers s y that means the drone wont collide or interfere with manned aircraft. The project comes as the federal Aviation Administration works to make rules for drones in national airspace. Its not known when that will happen. Dogs and cats are sometimes popular christmas presents. One local Animal Shelter has so many pets available for adoption, theyre having a sale. Spoken for. This morning tickets for the hawkeyes game against stanford went on sale to the general public through ticketmaster, and they sold out in a matter of minutes. The university of iowa says fans trying to now get tickets on the secondary markets should be extremely careful to avoid buying fake tickets. Kcrg tv nines Iowa City Bureau chief mark carlson joins us lili. Mark, athletics Officials Say theyve never seen anything like this . Its been a wild couple days, bruce and beth. And keep in mind the university does have 22 distribute next week to season ticket holders. And theyre working to get more tickets for fans. Ive been here for o or 30 years and been to all the rose bowls and i dont know if ive ever seen anything quite like this. By 2 pm tuesday there were already 39thousand 500 fan requests made to the Ui Ticket Office for the 22thousand tickets allotted to the hawkeyes. Meanwhile tickets on stub hub were up to nearly 600 dollars. Perhaps one reason last fall for the First Time Ever the rose bowl did a presale of 45hundred tickets before the teams were announced and those are the ones that ended up on stub hub before tickets were released to the general public tuesday. Already rose bowl officials have declared the game a contractual sellout, leaving ui officials scrambling to find more tickets. Were going to be working through this week and the weekend with stanford and seeing if we can use some of f their tickets because traditionally stanford has not used their total allotment. Ui officials are also warning reputable websites or ticket scalpers. Officials say some fake tickets even surfaced last weekend at the big ten championship game. As for the rest of iowa roses. The excitement of the rose dream. Stores like tailgate are rolling out new lines of rose bowl merchandise and even though it wont get in until next week. Just like tickets. Theres already a waiting list. Do think youre going to sell a lot of them . Yes. Oh yes, our call list is probably about ten pages long at this point. The university will announce who gets tickets on monday. We did just check and there are a few Tickets Available now on ticketmaster, but they are not the 150 dollar tickets theyre of the 2 thousand dollar variety. In iowa city, many Animal Rights groups caution against giving pets as christmas presents. But the iowa city animal care and Adoption Center says it needs more animals adopted out. Animal center Officials Say theyve become overcrowded with animals as the weather has gotten cooler. Last week, officials said they had more than 70 cats and kittens in the facacity. So the center is offering specials on cat, kitten and rabbit adoptions. Through december 31st the shelter has reduced the cost of adopting such animals to 25 dollars. That includes neutering, vaccinations and a microchip. Well be right back. Recapping todays top stories, donald hey this holiday, u. S. Cellulars giving you 15 gigs of data for just 70 but i wanted a pony. [ gasps ] youre getting data. Ponysized data . U. S. Cellular sized data. 15 gigs of good, strong dada you can actutuly use because it works in the middle of anywhere. Id like 100 yes switch to u. S. Cellular ananget 15 gigs of data for just 70. Plus 400 in promo cards. Is the program that aims at reducing nuisance properties in cedar rrids doing its job . We check it out. And a proposal for a North Liberty gun ban on City Properties seems to have failed. Thats tonight on tv nine news at six. Lets go back to joe now for a final look at tonights forecast. We are quickly moving into a very active weather pattern. The first in a series of storms moves east tonight. Clouds will not totally leaves the sky, but some clearing occurs, bringing a bit of sunshine wedneneay. Mild decemberr conditions are set to continue, as highs push friday. Rain chances