Running a campaign of insults. Clinton today avoided making any predictions about whether trump would secure the g ops nomination. He could be on the path. Maybe someone else cbn intervene and rise above that. But im going to wait and see who they nominate. Ted cruz entered super tuesday as the only republican with a win over donald trump, beating him in iowa. Cruz is hoping to capture his home state of texas. Lets turn now to meteorologist joe winters. Joe, snow was falling earlierer today. So how are Road Conditions now . After winter roared back into portions ofofhe state weather quiets down tonight. Clearing continues and the winds die down leaving to lows in the teens for most of eastern iowa. Another system, very similar to the previous one quickly zips through the region snowowill be possible. We then take a springlike turn in the weather pattern looking at some 50s and 60s to start next week. Tonight mainly clear low 1521 winds nw 510tomorrow mostly cloudy high 3440 winds s 515 bruce and bh. A waterloo man pleaded guilty today to killing his girlfriend in linn county in july 2014. The gazette reports 38 yearold shaun hogan pleaded guilty to Second Degree murder. He admitted to beating 28 yearold crystal gaffney with a wrench and stabbing her in the head with a screwdriver. Hogan was originallll charged with firstdegree murder. Gaffneys body was found on the linnbuchanan road on july 9th. Shortly after, an amber alert was issued for her two children, one hurt. Hogans exwife Tamera Mcclaren told police she suspected hogan was responsible for gaffneys death after he asked to drop off the children with her. Police arrested hogan the next day. He faces up to 50 years in prison. His sentencing is set for may 20th. A fire this morning at an Apartment Building in cedar rapids sent two people to the hospital. Cedar rapids firefighters responded to 702 ninth street southwest just before 2 this morning. Crews extinguished the fire on the main floor of the building, and stayed on ene until 4 am to m mitor hot spots. Everyone inside got out before firefighters arrived. Emergency responders took two me to university for smoke inhalation. Remember, whenever you see news happening, give us a call on our newsline nine. Can also send in pictures and videos to newsroom at kcrg dot com. The iowa regents say they never heard about an incident involving the university of iowas interim Public Safety director and his driving crash. The Associated Press obtained records showing Public Safety director david visin refused to pull over for police while driving his stepson, sean crane, in june. Officers were looking for crane after his truck hit two cars in a parking lot outside a bar. Instead of stopping, records show visin dropped crane off at a gas station and then left before officers arrived. Visin says hes diabetic and needed to rush home to control his blood sugar. The regents subcommittee on Campus Safety didnt find o o about the incident until the ap broke the story yesterday. Interviews started today for applicants who want to sit on the Dubuque County board of supervisors. A total of 25 people are vying for one vacant seat on the board. The seat opened up when supervisor tom hancock died in late january from an apparent heart attack. Treasurer, and recorder, is interviewing the 25 candidates before making a decision. That decision could come next week. Kcrg tv ninessubuque bureau hief Katie Wiedemann joins us live with more. Katie, 25 applicants are quite a few for just one seat. How is the Committee Planning to narrow the field . A committee made up of the county auditor, treasurer and recorder will spend the next four days interviewing all 25 candidates. Each candidate gets exactly 45 minutes. Then on monday morning, the committee will get together and select one person for the job. The committee started the first of the 25 interviews this afternoon. Former dyersville mayor al gibbs was the first candidates. The committee asked him questions like what do you see as the biggest Dubuque County right now . And or of the committee decided to take to fill the vacancy. According to dubuque special election would have cost the county about 50 thousand appointment process is far less expensive, and interviewing all 25 candidates is the most fair way to s sect a candidate. Some of the applicants i know, some better than others. And some of them i dont know. I am anxious to get to learn about them and see who will be the best fit. Dolan says the other two Dubuque County supervisors do not have any say or influence during the appointment process. We talked with a few of the candidates today. Find out why theyre interested in filling the position. Live in dubuque Katie Wiedemann kcrg tv9 news. The city of cedar rapids is reassessing its rules for renovating and demolishing historic buildings. And it was to know what and the public think about any changes. After winter roared back into portions of the state to start the month of march, the weather quiets down tonight. Clearing continues and the winds die down leaving to lows in the teens for most of eastern iowa. Another system, very similar to the previous one quickly zips through the region late tomorrow and early on thursday. Once again a couple of inches of snow will be possible. We then take a springlike turn in the 50s and 60s to start next week. Tonight mainly clear low 1521 winds nw 510tomorrow mostly cloudy high 3440 winds s 515tomorrow night light snow likely low 2632 winds e 515thursday chance of light snow early high 35 low 29 friday mostly cloudy high 37 low 24 saturday partly sunny hig 46 low 28 sunday partly cloudy, mild monday chance of showers storms high 62 low 46 tuesday chance of showers storms high 67 low 48 thanks joe. Iowans who didnt register their aircraft with the state arent flying under the radar anymore. Thats after a new state audit shows the department of transportatio n is cracking down on collecting registrations, and registration fees. D dozens of Business Leaders across the state are pushing lawmakers to make medical cannabis available to people with certn chronic illnesses. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9. Iowans who didnt pay their fees arent getting awaw with it anymore. The department of transportation recently cracked down on aircraft owners who had not registered or paid their fees. A new report from the state Auditors Office shows those efforts helped iowa rerein more than one and a half million dollars. That money will go towards things like airport upgrades, runway markings and weather observation systems, according to the audit released yesterday. Starting in 2014, the state started tracking down unregistered aircraft. It found 714 aircraft not registered with the Iowa Department of transportatio n as of february 2015. The dots Aviation Office sent letters to the aircraft owners. As a result, 307 aircraft were registered, and owners paid the fees. The dot found 199 aircraft eight other midwest and plains states say the regional economy is looking up. Conditions in february. January. Survey organizizs say any score above 50 suggests economic growth. Iowa Business Leaders are urging state lawmakers to expand the states medical marijuana law. Have sent a letter to legislators asking them to pass medical cannabis legislation. The legislation would establish two growing facilities in ioio. It would also let the state distribute medical cannabis to people who suffer from chronic illnesses, something the current law doesnt allow. The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans museum in waterloo is honoring a medal of honor recipient who died in the vietnam war. Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of the day robert hibbs saved 14 lives attack. Hibbs attended the museum is planning a commemoration starting at one pm on saturday. A display medal of honor, a captured enemy flag and uniforms from the Cedar Falls Historical Society and university of Northern Iowa museum. Singer Barry Manilows coming to the Us Cellular Center in cedar rapids. Manilow will perform april eighth as part of his one last time tour. This is video from his cedar rapids concert in june 2013. Ticket prices for this next show will start at 19 dollars 75 cents. Thats because manilows hit song, mandy, ed the charts in the year 1975. Ckets go on sale thursday. The city of cedar rapids is thinking about changing the rules when it comes to renovating homes in Historic Districts. But those changes could be pensive for homeowners. Its Restaurant Week in cedar rapids, which means a number of restaurants menus and prices. Organizers say this is the largest one yet. Stay with cedar rapids wants to know what builders, developers and the public think about the citys Historic Preservation rules. The Citys Community Development department t planning a workshopopo focus on poteteial changes to those regulations. The department is focusing on two main topics. The historic review process and the historic demolition process. The historic review process addresses what modifications owners can make to properties in Historic Districts. And buildings 50 years o and older have to go through a demomotion review process before owners can knock them down. The city is looking to close a couple of loopholes in ordinance language. But theyre looking for input from the public before homeowners within the citys two local Historic Districts would be most effected. That includes the second and third avenue Historic District a a the redmdmd parkgrande avenue Historic District. Changes could effect what materials people can use in renovations, preserving unique details on the tside of homes, and more. And those changes can be expensive. 22 27 26 there is concern about the costs of potential changes. What we really strive for in the local districts is eping what was therere originally wch is sometimes wood over vinyl, which can be more expensive. Righthtow, the city only ofofrs a paint Rebate Program if a homeowner is repainting siding. But adding other incentives will also be part of the discussion moving forward. If youd like to learn more about the citys Historic Preservation plans, the workshop going over weve put that information under this story on kcrg dot com. Cedar rapids kicked off its Restaurant Week today. The theme is the hungry games. Today through sunday, people can join in on the fun at more than two dozen participating restaurants. 29 restaurants throughout the city are serving special menu items at special prices. People can then go online and vote for their favorites. This is the events third ear, nd its largest yet. Its really changed thanks to the Great Restaurant Development in the community. In past years weve had 15,16,17 restaurants participate, but weve had so many new restaurants come online just in the last year, year and a half that were able to up the ante all the way to 29 restaurants. The top four restaurants will l compete to seewhos the best at the dinner of champions competition a week from thursday. Voting for kcrgtv9s a list starts today you can have a say in the areas bars, and stores in the tv9 viewing area. Go to our website kcrg dot com and click on the alist logo on the right hand side. Voting ends on the 31st and we will announce the winners online and on tv9 the week of apriri 4th. You can also vote now for our student of the month. Go to kcrg dot com slash student of the month to find the ballot and more information about our finalists. Well feature the winner at the end of the month. Now heres a look at some of what youll see at 5 30 on abc. World news is next. Recapping todays top stories, the iowa house considers a bill to eliminate license plates on the front of vehicles. And some eastern iowa students are competing in des moines to b bome top chefs. See these stories and more tonight on tv nine news at six. Shaun hogan of waterloo pleaded guilty today to killing his girlfriend two years ago. Hogg pleaded guilty to seconddegree murder. He was originally facing a firstdegree murder charge in the death of 28yearold crystal someone found her body on linnbuchanan road in july 2014 senator Chuck Grassley said today he hasnt changed his mind about whether to consider a Supreme Court nominee from president barack obama. Thats after grassley and other republican senators met with obama earlier today. Grassley says he thinks the next president should select the nominee after being sworn in. But obama and other democrats want to fill the seat sooner than that. Lets go back to joe now for a final look at tononhts forecast. After winter roared back into portions of the state to start the month of march, the weather quiets down tonight. Clearing continues and the winds die down leaving to lows in the teens for most of eastern iowa. Anotherer system, very similar to the previous one quickly zips through the region late tomorrow and early breaking news tonight. The first major clues coming in right now. The super tuesday showdown. As we come on the air, the first exit polls are in. What the voters are saying. Whats driving them at the polls. Can donald trump be stopped . Dozen states. Trump and his 11th hour pitch. I can do practically anything. Marco rubio and ted cruz, battling to take trump cown. Donald trump will be an embarrassment to america. Onald trump could be a disaster. And Hillary Clinton tonight, and her pivot to the national race. How she would take on trump and the republicans. Theyre now running their campaigns based on insults. Long lines at this hour. Will there be recordsetting turnout . And scout voercould voters be sending clinton and trump on a collision course this november . Abcs Powerhouse Political Team on it all. Its your voice, your vote. World news tonight begins now. Good evening. And its great to have you with us on this super tuesday. And lets get right to it. The single biggest day of voting in the president ial primars. At this hour, voting still under way. Long lines. 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