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The linn county attorney is asking a grand jury to look at the case of a cedar rapids officer shooting a man. The Iowa Division of criminal investigations says officer lucas jones shot a man during an altercation after a traffic stop on november 1st. The shooting seriously injured jerime mitchell. Linn county attorney Jerry Vander Sanden says after reviewing the case, he decided it would be of Public Interest for a grand jury to determi are warranted. The grand jury will be composed of seven members, randomly selected from the county. He said the process of putting the jury together is under way. Dubuque police have released security pictures of a man who robbed a Convenience Store a week ago. It happened around ten pm last friday at the oky doky at 535 hill street in dubuque. These re surveillance pictures of the robber who police hd a gun. Anyone with Information News happening, give us a call on newsline nine. The number is 3193659999. You can also email news tips, pictures, and videos to newsroom at kcrg dot com. Meteorologist joe winters joins us now with our first alert forecast. Joe, its really starting to feel more like fall. As an area of low pressure departs, it leaves in its wake cold northerly winds. Wind chills tonight dip into the teens with highs through the weekend sprinkles and flurries are possible overnight with sunshine found during the daytime hours of saturday and sunday. Looking ahead at thanks giving week shows some showers on tuesday and wednesday with a dry thanksgiving day. Have a great night and a safe weekend. Tonight very windy. A few sprinkles flurries are possible. Wind nw 2040. Low 29 tomorrow mostly sunny, windy, and much cooler. Wind nw 1530. High 40 back to you. A Surgeon General report shows people in the us is expected to develop a Substance Abuse problem. It also shows that underage drinking is still a problem in iowa looking at an iowa study from 2014, 23 percent of admitted to having a drink of alcohol within the past month. Kcrgtv9s phil reed joins us in the studio phil, the teen drinking numbers are down in iowa, but there is one drug that is growing . Heroin use is on the rise in the state. One counselor i spoke with says it is most common with people in their 20s. According to the Surgeon General 608 people in iowa admitted to using heroin or in 2014. A counselor from Prelude Behavioral Services in iowa city says people outside the state could be behind the epidemic i think were seeing an influx from like the east coast and the chicago areas, and again there seems to be a lot of people using the oxy codone and the Prescription Medications and they tend to get addicted to it. Last year the Iowa Department of Public Health received a grant to to help them address the heroin problem. Prelude b says they are thinking about holding a town hall meeting to discuss the issue with the public. Thank you, phil. Despite layoffs in construction and manufacturing companies, iowas Unemployment Rate dropped slightly in october. Its now at 4 point 1 percent. Last month it was at 4 point 2 percent. The Iowa Workforce Development Director says iowa does have Jobs Available right now. Iowas rate is lower than the nations Unemployment Rate, which is at 4 point 9 percent. A year ago, iowas rate sat at 3 point 5 percent. Gas prices continue to fall across the country. Just in time for thanksgiving trips. Triple a says the National Average has dropped for at least 10 Straight Days this month. Right now, the National Average is two15 a gallon for regular unleaded. Cedar rapids today we found several stations the lowest price we spotted was a dollar83. That was at the bp station on williams boulevard. Across iowa, the states average today is two05 a gallon. Triple as Daily Fuel Gauge report shows the average price in cedar rapids is 201. Just a month ago it was two14. In waterloo and cedar falls, the average is also 201 a gallon. One month ago, drivers paid honor this year in the nations capitol. Every year, president obama pardons a turkey for thanksgiving. And this year, the pardoned poultry hails from wrn near the town of early. Chris and nicole domin and their children have been raising two turkeys for moe ta 4 m and today they said good bye t them. Choose one of the turkeys to aron. Th i te sixth time iowa has provided the turkey for is tradition. Some students from Dubuque Wahlert high school have a performance of a lifetime this weekend. Theyll be singing to pope francis. These are pictures from rome this morning as the wahlert choir members rehearsed. On sunday, about 300 singers from the us will perform at a mass that the pope will attend. Wahlert is the only American High School participating. When theyre not practicing, the students have been touring Historic Sites in rome, including this stop at the colosseum. News today. Its very exciting, 24 kids and 15 families is a huge deal those children joined their new forever families. Hear some of their stories, next on your 24 hour news source, kcrg tv nine. Some iowa children who were call home. Three judges finalized the adoptions of 24 children to 15 deserving families in children, here in iowa, who are still looking for a forever home. In 2013, 964 iowa children were in the foster care system, waiting to be adopted. Thats slightly down from about 10 years prior, when more than 11 hundred kids were on the wait list. Kcrgtv9s Dave Franzman attended todays mass adoption event in waterloo. Dave, its a very different day in court when these events take place during National Adoption bruce, Court Personnel actually call it the happiest day in court and its something they look forward to all year. And its quite a scene. The kids and new families waiting for a judge to finalize their decision and plenty of friends and relatives to celebrate something special. At age three, little aleyah probably didnt understand all the fuss. Sot nat but her grandparents and other relatives granddaughte r almost a year and a half ago after her daughter lost her parental rights. She and her husband could have just remained guardians and grandparents but wanted something more. A little bit of my heart is not here, because of my daughter, but for my granddaughter im happy sot nat many of the adoptions finalized by the judges involved people who started out as foster parents and took a next step in offering a barkers say aleyahs mother will still be involved in her life but just not as her parent. Every story here was probably a little different in the details. But all ended the same. Happily. Because were going to be a part of their family its a big deal, its a big deal. We have many needed families that we need to adopt more kids and theres many kids that dont get to go back home and we need throughout the year. But theres Something Different about this. The food, the fun and the new forever families. Iowa kids net organizers organizers largescale adoption events like this every november to mark National Adoption month. And the 24 adopted children. 15 families in Black Hawk County is the most ever for a single day. Some eastern iowa Football Teams were playing for at the dome today. And for one team, it could be their seventh straight championship win. Stay with your 24 hour news chills tonight dip into the teens with highs through the weekend sprinkles and flurries are possible overnight with sunshine found during the daytime hours of saturday and sunday. Looking ahead at thanks giving week shows some showers on tuesday and wednesday with a dry thanksgiving day. Have a great night and a safe weekend. Tonight very windy. A few sprinkles flurries are possible. 29 tomorrow mostly sunny, windy, and much cooler. Wind nw 1530. High 40 tom. Night clear and cold. Wind nw 510. Low 20 sunday mostly sunny and seasonably cool. High 41 low 20 monday partly cloudy. High 46 low 23 tuesday showers likely. High 47 low 34 wednesday chance of showers early. High 44 low 40 thursday partly clouy friday increasing clouds. High 47 low 31 saturday chance of showers. High 48 low 30 thanks joe. As an area of low pressure departs, it leaves in its wake cold northerly winds. Wind chills tonight dip into the teens with highs in the upper 30s and lower 40s. Sprinkles and flurries are possible overnight with sunshine found during the daytime hours of saturday and sunday. Looking ahead at thanks giving week shows some with a dry thanksgiving day. Have a great night and a safe weekend. Tonight very windy. A few windy, and much cooler. Wind the regina regals go after their seventh straight state football title. And the o duals. Scott will have highlights next. Stay with Scott Westerberg has more from the dome. Regina looking to make it 7 western christian. Reg ina strikes first. After an interception by jack jensen, Isaac Vollstedt bulldozes his way in. 70 regals. But that wasnt jensens only big defensive play of the first quarter. This time he makes the sliding interception in the end zone to keep the wolfpack off the board. Western christian does take the lead after a fumble return for a touchdown and then this short run by quarterback tyson kooima gives the wolfpack a 137 lead. Regina immediately scampers in from 18 yards out. 1413 regals. After western christian retakes the lead, the regals turn to vollstedt and he does the rest. Vollstedt hurdles a defender and hes off to the races. A huge run for vollstedt deep into western christian territory. Later in the drive on 4th and 2 from the 5, vollstedt stiff arms not one, not two but three wolfpack defenders. 2019 regina. Regals get the ball back late in the 2nd quarter and conlon goes deep for but with just seconds left before the half, ben granstra muscles his way in. The two point conversion makes it 27all at the half. Western christian scores the first two touchdowns of the second half as kooima finds ben gesink in the end zone. And the streak ends at 6 as western christian beats regina 4734. It stings. Never be able to play with those guys again, so i mean, it just hur. Game. Union and boyden hull rock valley. Openi ng drive of the game, the knights give it to isaiah vaughn. And vaughn sheds some nighthawk tacklers on his way to a 38 yard touchdown. 7 0 union. But the nighthawks rally in the Second Quarter as brett moser rolls right and hits alex frick in the endzone. Boy denhull rock valley leads it 137 at the half. Early third quarter. Mos er with a perfect ball to shane solberg. He hauls it in. That 70 yard pass union not going away quietly. The give to vaughn. He bounces it outside. Breaks a tackle and turns the corner. Vaug hn sprints 57 yards for the touchdown. Union pulls within 6. But boydenhull rock valley quickly answers as moser keeps it himself. The nighthawks beat union 41 22 for the 2a title. From the unidome, Scott Westerberg tv9 sports. Iowa city west will face Dowling Catholic in the 4a championship game tonight at 7 00. We will the iowa wrestling team was back in action today in the iowa city duals. The hawkeyes blanked iowa central 55 nothing as the hawks got pins from Thomas Gillman at 125. That was followed by another fall from corey clark at 133. And if you like pins you loved todays duals. Brandon sorensen added another fall at 149. All american alex meyer got the nearfall at 174 and iowa cruised to the 55nothing win. 45nothing. Iowa with 10 total pins and they scored bonus points in 16 matches. The iowa Football Team is a 10 point favorite over illinois tomorrow in champaign. Illinois had a big win two weeks ago at home when they knocked off Michigan State 3127. Pretty athletic Illinois Team the defense of ends the running back teo weeks ago against Michigan State they played extremely hard this is going to be a tough challenge. Last time in their own stadium they beat Michigan State theyve middle linebackers a very good player as well so we are going to have to be at our best and its not like an overly talented Football Team when we play together and play tough then we get ourselves a chance to win and thats exactly what its going take everybodys best effort saturday in any game we play this year thats gonna be the secret if we are going to have success sot 30 oc success and finally we have time change to tell you about the iowa Womens Basketball game against umass tomorrow in the hawkeye challenge has been change to 10 30 am because of travel well be right back. And now to first ale z268pz zixz y268py yixy departs, it leaves in its wake cold northerly winds. Wind chills tonight dip into the teens with highs through the weekend in the upper 30s and lower 40s. Sprinkles and flurries are possible overnight with sunshine found during the daytime hours of saturday and sunday. Looking ahead at thanks giving week shows some showers on tuesday and wednesday with a dry thanksgiving day. Have a great night and a safe weekend. Tonight very windy. A few sprinkles flurries are possible. Wind nw 2040. Low thanks for joining us for previously on the big bang theory. Oh, look at all that chest hair. And overbite. Of course youre a wolowitz. Son of a bitch, he bit me. Okay, i guess ill just go to the emergency room to be safe. Howie, this is just your hypochondria. When i sat on the mute button and thought id gone deaf, that was my hypochondria. Well find another time to tell him im pregnant. Morning. Morning. We . What is this . I dont know. 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