Two children are here at covenant hospital with avery in for observation but the three year old, mason, is currently listed in serious condition. The family believes all will eventually on helping a single mother with two kids get back on her feet. Firefighters say the call came from someone passing by who saw the smoke and frantically calling 911. Police officers arrived first and tried but couldnt put out the flames. So firefighters literally crawled through a burning doorway to find the family inside. Two firefighters crawling through the fire to rescue the three people inside brought them back out and extinguished the fire neighbors dean and onalee steege slept through the commotion next door at first. But onalee saw lights flashing and heard noises. When she got outside she told firefighters where theyd find the two kids and then held her breath. We were terrified, we stood at our back door so we could see as they picked the kids up. Theyre brave guys, that smoke was so black they crawled in. But they couldnt see anything the steeges say the fire damage wasnt as bad at first. But the fire rekindled at about four in the morning destroying the mobile home. Firefighters are investigating why the fire restarted but dont have an explanation yet. The grandparents of the two children say the mother was transferred to iowa city to treat lung damage. They believe all will eventually be ok, but worry what they will do after losing everything. They lost. Uh. If you walked out of your house this morning and went back tonight and it wasnt there. Thats what they lost friends and family have set up a go fund me page called the hundley family fire fund. They have raised a little under help the family recover after they get out of the hospital. Neighbors say the Ashley Calfee and her two children had lived at that mobile home about three years. Live in cedar falls, dave franzman, kcrg tv nine news. A house fire in fairfield yesterday afternoon killed a 56 year old man. Once firefighters got into the home at 800 north 12th street they found the body of richard hendershot. The state fire marshal, Iowa Department of Public Safety and iowa dci are investigating the cause. A dubuque man has taken a plea agreement for his involvement in a fatal crash last april. 26 year old Alexander Engling pleaded guilty to charges of vehicular homicide by reckless driving and drunk driving. The prosecutor is recommending a sentence of 10 years in prison for the vehicular homicide charge. Police say engling lost control of his vehicle and crashed on flannagan road in fifth. The crash killed 30 year old john cook. Englings sentencing hearing is set for april fourth. Remember when you see news, call newsline nine at 3193659999. You can also send pictures and videos to newsroom at kcrg dot com. Starting this fall, about one thousand students at nine iowa city Elementary Schools will lose their free bussing to school. The school board decided in january to cut discretionary bus service to save about 400thousand dollars annually. The district will use that money for classroom related expenses, like reducing class sizes. Parents say they are concerned about how safe walking routes will be. Linn county is paying thousands of dollars each year to store old, mostly unused, court files. And it doesnt look like theres an end in sight. Kcrg tv nines Forrest Saunders joins us now with a preview of his special report that hell have tonight at ten. Forrest, why does the county need to pay for theres just not enough room at the courthouse. Officials estimate linn county generates about 40thousand court files each year. Theyve all started piling up. Thats why officials have this. The county rents a half floor of the old hubbard ice building on 1st street for extra storage. Most of linn countys court files, 7thousand boxes potentially up to 700,000 individual files are kept here after the flood of 08 wiped out a bunch at an old location. Some of these documents date back to the 60s. Many are seldom used. Yet, the county spends 50thousand each year in rent for this space. Why not get rid of the files . State code forbids it, most of the time for ten years or more. We have to keep the physical files for a certain period of time. Then, after that time period has passed, we can purge the file. Microfilm some of the records, then destroy them. Document management system. It allows new files to be stored electronicall y, eliminating the need for paper records. The program was rolled out in phases. Linn county started in april 2014. But the program didnt address the mountains of old files. Theyre still around. Tonight at ten, we look at what it would take to change that, and a lot more. Bruce and beth . Governor Terry Branstad announced an initiative this morning to talk about how to close the statewide skills gap. This april, he and Lieutenant Governor reynolds will hold the governors 2016 future ready iowa summit in des moines. They say while traveling the state, one the biggest issues employers have is making sure iowans have the right skills needed to fill open positions. They hope to start a conversation at this summit about how to start and build on efforts that ensure students and workers are getting the right training. The allday summit is open to people who register. Three finalists will each have a chance tonight to tell the public why he or she should be the next Marion Public Library director. The finalists are ellsworth carman, mary jordan, and tyler williams. Carman is the manager of Library Experiences and initiatives at the oak park, illinois, public library. Jordan is an assistant professor at the Simmons College school of library and Information Science in boston. And williams is the senior librarian at the wichita, kansas, public library. The hiring of a new director will come as marion considers holding a special election this year on whether to put up a new library building. This evenings public forum library. For the first time, People Living in robins will be able to eat at a hometown restaurant. Hear why they decided it was time to open lebowskis bar and grill. Some classic bands are going to be headlining at the Linn County Community of robins now has something most cities that size, or even smaller, have had for many years. And thats a restaurant. Robins has more than 31 hundred residents. But until this morning those people didnt have one restaurant in the entire community. That situation changed this morning with the opening of lebowskis bar and grill at 925 robins city leaders celebrated the new addition before the locallyowned restaurant opened for the lunch hour. The city borders cedar rapids and residents are used to traveling there for commercial services. But a place to eat was on the wish list for years. In fact, a survey done several years ago put that request right at the top. The one that was the most consistently mentioned people wanted to see a non franchised, locally owned restaurant so here we are. The robins mayor says the community has an active Economic Development group and filling the restaurant request was one of the top activities in recent years. A little snow might be falling today, but dubuque is planning its summer concerts. Today well learn wholl perform at the americas river festival. On friday, june 10th, the nitty gritty dirt band will headline the show that will also include gunnar and the grizzly boys and jon pardi. Then on saturday, june the stage. Cheap trick, we were thrilled to bring in. We like to stack acts on stage and really it gives people a bang for their dollar coming in and with cheap trick it is a natural fit with reo, its a natural fit for this area. Tickets are on sale now. You can go to kcrg dot com to buy tickets. The hawkeye Mens Basketball Team moves up one spot in the latest ap poll. And hear from the cyclones basketball coach about jameel mckays indefinite suspension. Stay with your 24 hour news overall we are coming up on one of the coldest weeks so far this winter. Arctic air moved in on monday with strong northwest winds. Tonight some snow showers and flurries remain in the forecast with winds up to 20 mph. No major systems at anticipated this week with the next chance for light snow last wednesday and again friday. Temperature remain in the teens for highs this week with overnight lows in the single digits. Have a great night. Tonight cloudy, flurries low 511 winds nw 1530 alo 5 dbq 7 iow 10tomorrow m cloudy, flurries early high 1420 winds nw 1525 alo 15 dbq 16 iow 18tomorrow night partly cloudy low 24 iow 4wednesday chance of snow late high 15 low 1 thursday partly cloudy high 21 low 5 friday chance of snow high 23 low 11 saturday partly cloudy high 17 low 4 sunday chance of snow high 28 low 14 monday chance of snow high 32 low 23 thanks joe. This afternoon around 3 30, iowa Police Caught willie the goat between that checked him out said he is doing ok. The goat escaped from a portable carrier back on january 29th while someone was moving it. Welcome to first avenue draught house where we are getting ready for on iowa live in just few minutes over on kcrg 9. 2. We have another great show tonight. Jess will be back talk hoops and the hawkeyes moved up one spot to fourth in todays ap poll. The hawks looked impressive in yesterdays 7765 win against illinois in champaign. Iowa dominated the boards out rebounding the illini 4332. Jared uthoff with a double double 18 points and 12 on the glass with 14 rebounds and 10 points. He is good at getting his own rebound. He is good at getting all the rebounds and he is pass first big great energy. When plays like that we are good. We had a professional approach on both ends of the floor we moved the ball. We wanted to run and we ran we wanted to win the battle on the glass we did that. When they spurred it at the start of the second half our response to that was a very experienced and professional approach the kind of thing you need to be able to do on the road. Sot 39 oc be able to do on the road the cyclones are ranked 14th in the ap poll today. The cyclones with a big win over the weekend over at okey state and they did it without jameel mckay who has been suspended. Coach prohm will see how things go in practice to decide if mckay will be back for the texas game this is still standpoint but he will partake in practice today. It is really between him and me and he understands it is doing the right thing i expect each and every day it is from a whole perspective not one single thing and so i love jameel and we need jameel to be right and to max out and he knows that. We are continuing to communicate and hopefully he can have a good week this week and we can go forward. Right now he still suspended until i say more on the matter. Sot 42 oc more on the matter and finally its monday time for another edition of johns big ole fish. Haley van cleave of dubuque tips things off with the nice channel cat. Kaleb jones of hiawatha nailed this blue gill at prairie sabrina released it. Monte schrock of oxford holds up his 14 pound Lake Michigan lake trout. Rob leick shows off the 16 pound catch and release northern. Caught it at lake olearys. Mitch schultz of elkader was tossing a nightcrawler into the turkey when this 24 inch walleye hit. Travis michels was working the wapsie when this big ol bass gave him a thrill. Still takes two hands to handle a whopper. Check out Jason Sanders of washington and his 40 pound flathead from the skunk. First time out with a fishing pole and Oliver Trierweiler came home a winner. Talk about a nice canadian walleye, coach freeman released this dandy in lake wenasaga. and amy cahill was in hog heaven with this grouper caught off longboat key, florida. With all my fishing friends, this is John Campbell reporting. Bruce and beth . Again this year its time for the kcrg alist, and we need your help in picking the best business in eastern iowa. Right now through february 19th, you can nominate your favorite businesses in dozens of categories. Then in march, well release the ballot for you to vote for the best of the best. Go to kcrg dot com slash alist to enter your picks now. Now heres a look at todays top web stories on kcrg dot com. Stay with your 24hour news source, kcrg tv nine. And now to first alert storm t joe winters for your final forecast. Overall we are coming up on one of the coldest weeks so far this winter. Arctic air moved in on monday with strong northwest winds. Tonight some snow showers and flurries remain in the forecast with winds up to 20 mph. No major systems at anticipated this week with the next chance for light snow last wednesday and again friday. Temperature remain in e teens for highs this week with overnight lows in the single digits. Have a great night. Tonight cloudy, flurries low 511 winds nw 1530 alo 5 dbq 7 iow 10tomorrow m cloudy, flurries early high 1420 winds nw 1525 alo 15 dbq 16 iow 18 thanks for joining us for kcrgtv9 news at 6. Previously on the big bang theory. Sheldon, did you just figure out a method for synthesizing a new stable superheavy element . Did i . well, that cant be right. No ones ever done that before. Except me because i just did it sheldon and his brain, yeah sheldon and his brain, yeah ive made a horrible mistake. What are you talking about . This table its in square centimeters. You know what that means