Certified peace offjcers. What many people may not realize, is those working for smaller departments have to pay the department if they leave within four years. If the city is going to come up with the cost for educational training at the Police Academy that they stay long enough to get the benefit of that training and generally its about four years. Cedar rapids does not require such contracts, but many smallererepartments in eastern iowa do. Those contracts are typically on a sliding scale, with 100 percent reimbursement for an officer who leaves the first year to 25 percent after the third year. A woman who was acting as a guardian for a 3 year old when he died faces a first degree murder charge. 31 year old Kashenna Tucker was rested yesterday by the Utah State Bureau of investigation in midvale, utah. Shes in the Salt Lake County jail on a half a Million Dollar bond. Ottumwa police say this started investigation in january of 2014. 3 year old wysdomomvans died at university of iowa hospitals and clinics. Almost two years later, police secured an arrest warrant for tucker. Police say they do know how evans died, but its up to the prosecuting attorney to release it. Turning now to the forecast. As the holidays get closer, the Salvation Army is working through its red kettle campaign. Joes livevet newbo with an update, and has our forecast for tonight. It will not feel or look like december as we head into the weekend. Temperatures are expected to remain 1020 degrees above normal highs and lows through monday. With the warm weather in place all precipitation will be of a wet variety. Although some drizzle or isolated showers are possssle tonight and saturday morning, thth period of heaviest rain develops a bit later. Saturday night though sunday will see 12 widespread rainfall, with higher areas. Lingeriri moisture on monday could result in a brief rain snow mix. Have a good night and a safe weekend. Tonight chance of showers low 4248 winds s 510tomorrow showers storms late high 5258 winds se 515 back to you. Within the next half hour, republican president ial candidate donald trump will take the stage at an event in des moines. Heres a live look at the rally at the iowa state fairgrounds. Trump has had no plans to do a full 99 county t tr, but he has been to many cities across the state campaigning. Trump continues to have a sizeable lead among iowa republicans. Candidate Bernie Sanders is making stops in eastern iowa this weekend. On saturday at 10 am hell hold a forum in anamosa. He also has a town meeting at 4 pm in dubuque, and one in waterloo at 7 30. On sunday, hell attend service at Mount Carmel Baptist church h waterloo, meet with volunteers, and then hold another town meeting at Cornell College in mount vernon at 3 pm. At the Marion City Council thursday, members will accept nick abouassalys resignation from the council. Thats because last month voters elected him mayor. During their meeting, Council Members will appoint one of these four people to that ward 4 position. Their term expires will expire at the end of 2017. Today the Cedar Rapids School district held their state of the district. Kids singing the Jefferson High School meistersingers performed during todays presentation at district headquarters. Superintendent brad buck emphasized the importance of relationships s teachers and students, but also of the district and Community Groups and teachers to other teachers. The new positions made possible through a state grant have e eated 519 teacher leadership roles which allow teachers to mentor other teachers and spread best practices. Mary ellen maske deputy superintendent and it does take a team, it goes back to that old adage it takes a village, it takes a team and the teacher leadership system is all about that collaboration and teamwork. Superintendent buck also thanked the mmunity for passing the ppel vote last year which funds Building Improvements and new school buses. Parking will be much easier for visitors to the university of iowa hospitals and clinics this weekend. Officials will open a new underground parking ramp right outside of the main hospital on sunday. The project will add seven hundred parking spots to the area. It cost about 10Million Dollars. A Des Moines RegisterSports Reporter broke his leg after a crush of the court at the end of the cyhawk basketball game. Fans cheering as they rub players head iowa state beat iowa by one point last night in ames in a come from behihd victory. Uniform police are required for security at events like this. The big 12 conference can levy fines if schools fail to keep fans from storming courts or rushing fields. After the gaga, head coach steve prohm said fans rushing the court is a part of college basketball. Oh man it was great, that was great. I hate that randy got hurt, i mean thats terrible, but my thing was, i was going to shake hands and going to see my wife to be honest, because it t was a great moment. The big 12 conference conducted a review of security measures at hilton today. This afternoon it determinethe school quote. Handled ititpostgame celebration protocol consistent with big 12 conference rules related to sportsmanshi p and ethical conduct. The big 12 also wished reporter Randy Peterson a speedy recovery. Well have game highlights in sports. For people who love to spend time outside in the winter, you could call this problem a bit of a jigsaw puzzle. Right now we are just trying to find the wx to connect the pieces we have. Well look at how cold it needs to get to make snow for skiers and more, and when one resort hopes to open, next on t v nine. Staff sgt. Shawn ross from texas. Id like to wish my family in iowa a Merry Christmas and my looking forward to colder temperatures and snow. Across the Mississippi River in dubuque, Sundown Mountain resort did get a chance to make some snow a couple weeks ago, but most of that snow has since melted. Kcrg tv 9s Dubuque Bureau chief Katie Wiedemann tells us sunwn mountain hast had this late of an opening dayn 14 years. This is all thats left of the artificial snow since the recent warm up. Directors here are keeping their fingers crossed for temperatures cold enough to allow them to to open by december 19th. Green grass dominates the landscape along Sundown Mountain. The chair lift sits still at the top of the hill. And these snow guns, well, theyre not doing much. I am big on whinnig, but its frustrating. Absolutely wed just like to have the product open for our customers. But opening requires a base layer of snow. And directors here simply havent had the low temperatures they need to produce artificial snow. The magic temperature is right around 28 degrees. We need that to have the water come down and become snow. Anything below that is better because we can get even better quality snow. With those kind of temperatures in next weeks forecast, gordon is shooting for some kind of 19th. That might mean somewhat of a soft opening, or only opening just a few slopes. But gordon is hopeful the customers here will continue to be patient living in iowa everything is the pretty supportive. But they are ready to ski here. And snow board. And while this is set to be a late start. Its not even close to the latest start of a season. Back in 1974, they didnt open until february 1st. In dubuque Katie Wiedemann kcrg tv9 news snow or not, sundown will host its annual Ugly Christmas Sweater Party on december 19th inside the north lodge. Stay with your 24 hour news into the weekend. Temperatures are expected to remain 1020 degrees above normal highs and lows through monday. With the warm weather in place all precipitation will be of a wet variety. Although some drizzle or isolated showers are possible period of heaviest rain develops a bit later. Saturday night though sunday will see 12 widespread rainfall, with higher totals likely in some areas. Lingering moisture on monday could result in a brief rain snow mix. Have a good night and a safe weekend. Tonight chance of showers low 4248 winds s 510tomorrow showers storms late high 5258 showers stor ms low 5258 winds se 1020sunday rain and storms high 58 low 55 monday chance of rain snow, windy high 41 low 40 tuesday partly cloudy high 43 low 33 wednesday chance of rain snow high 35 low 31 thursday partly cloudy high 35 low 25 friday partly cloudy high 34 low 23 thanks joe. Weve got a special friday edition of athlete of the week, which takes us to the lanes in cedar rapids. Live with uni as they take on the bison in playoff the panthers have won 7 straight. Scott westerberg joins us live from fargo and scott you have to like unis chances in this game. For the first time in mark farleys career at uni, the panthers are playing the same opponent on the road twice in one season, and aftethe way the first meeting ended, the uni playays have all the motivation they need. Westerberg remote bp what happened in that last everyday, really. What happened in that 1 50 was nothing but heartbreak for uni as north dakota state drove down and punched in the winning touchdown with 35 seconds left on the clock, sending the panther to one their four early season losses. Since thth day, the team has wanted a chance to go back to the fargodome. Its fargo. I dont think you couldnt be emotional going back there. That atmosphere, its crazy. If i had to pick anybody, i think i would pick north dakota state. I know the guys are ready to go back there. Its not going to take much motivation going back to that place. While revenge seems like the appropriate word to desesibe the emotions at uni, coach farley has cautioned his team about focusing too much on that. I think when you throw that factor into it you arent playing for the right reason. I dont think youre in the right mindset to make plays the way you need to for four quarters. The panthers enter the game having won seven in a row after being in a do or die six games in. When your back is against a wall where youre falling off a cliff you tend to fight and claw and do some things in that situation than if you had a safety net. We lost our net early in the season when we were 24, so we had to play each game with the sense of to make it to the next game you have to win this one. What a crazy game last night at hilton. The hawkeyes led by as many as 20 points, Jarrod Uthoff scored 30 points in the first half alone. But the cyclones came back to win on a Montee Morris floater with 8 seconds left. Matt thomas was a huge contributor off the bench for iowa state with 19 points, including six 3pointers. I dont know if any of you guys saw, there was an honestly, i had a different feel coming into this game. I read that article a couple of hours before the game, and that brought back a lot of memories and reminded why i do what i do and i i ork so hard. I just went out there and played and had fun. They did a really good job of capitalizing on our mistakes. When we turned it over, they scored. Which they d typically. And thats to their credit. Trt 27 oc thats to their credit and finally its time for a special friday edition of the kcrg tv9 athlete of the week sponsored by cedar rapids toyota. Prairie bowler kaitlyn early has already rolled a 245 game in High School Competition this year and last weekend kaitlyn topped that with a 277 and a 622 3 game series. You bowled a 277 over the weekend . I did. What was that like . It was nerve racking but i am really happy i did it. 277 is flirting with a perfect game did you ththk about that at all. I did i got a 9 spare in the 5th frame and i the 10th frame. You started bowling in a league when you were four years old. I did that is really young what do you love about the game . Just like everybody that does it are all good supporters it is just a fun game to do. We are going to have a challenge alright. First one to roll a strike between the legs wins. The loser has to go human bowling and you dont want to have to d dthat. Kaitlyn went f fst and she was just a little off the mark i knew i had to strike quick or i was in trouble and this one was right down the pipe. It was time for kaitlyns first ever attempt atatuman bowling and luckely she didnt break any bones. It will not feel or look like december as we head into the weekend. Temperatures are expected to remain 1020 degrees above normal highs and lows ththugh monday. With the warm weather in place all precipitation will be of a wet variety. Although some drizzle or isolated showers are possible tonight and saturday morning, the period of heaviest rain develops a bit later. Saturday night though sunday will see 12 widespread rainfall, with higher totals likely in some areas. Lingering g isture on monday could result in a brief rain snow mix. Have a good night and a safe weekend. Tonight chance of showers low 4248 winds s 510tomorrow showers storms late high 5258 winds se 515 thanks joe. Thanks for joiningng us for kcrgtv9 news at 6. We hope youll be with us again tonight at ten. Have a great evening. It was a nice retirement party. I guess. Still, its a shame professor rothman was forced to step down. What choice did the university have . He snapped. It happens to theoretical physicists all the time