That these temperatures are much better than those below zero. Well start off the day in the teens, but will top out in the upper 20s and low 30s for some by the afternoon. On top of the warmer temperatures making for a wonderfrf weekend weather, we get some sunshine. Mostly sunny skies will be around for the morning hours, but partly cloudy skies will being to build back into eastern iowa as the afternoon progresses. Sunday our temperatures will be even warmer thanks to a southerly wind. Highs will top out in the low to middle 30s for most. Clouds will be a bit thicker, but some sunshine will stick around through the day. A chance for snow and wintry mix arrives late sunday into monday. Thanks britley. Right now, a blizzard is hitting the east coast. More than 2 feet of snow is expected in washington dc, there have been thousands of crashes and this massive storm has already led to multiple deaths. Abcs Kenneth Moton has the latest from the target of the storm. The capitol. Eye of this storm. It is piling up this morning and this blizzard is just getting started. Blizzard blast. Nats blinding, white out conditions, heavy snow and bone chilling winds. This morning, there are blizzard watches and warnings from dc to new yorkrk airports in the northeast closed. Thousands of flights cancelled. Sot wendy harrisair traveler cant wait to get out of town in philadelphia, the streets are covered. A snow emergency is in effect. In dc, its predicted to be the biggest blizzard since the 1920s. More than 2 feet of snow expected. Sot mayor bowser washi ngton dc this is a major storm with life and death implications. This massive winter storm. Impacting more than 80 million people. Left a blanket of snow in the south. It also wreaked havoc. Nats spinning in kentucky, a 35 mile stretctcof i75 closed leaving more than 3000 drivers stranded in the cold, emergency shelters are open. Nats carolina snow plow in the carolinas, georgia and virginia, snow plows are working overtime. There have been thousands of crashes. Seve ral people have died. Sot scottie sheltonsnow plow operator yes, its definitely ice underneath. Ive slid several times this morning in my dump truck. Emergency crews have also been working around to clock. To save even our 4 legged friends. Nats come on milo in fairfax station, virginia, this large Saint Bernard named milo f fl through the i i in this freezing lake. Firefighters this storm has already left hundreds of thousands of people in the dark. Crews are working to restore power. Here in dc, people have been told to stay off the streets because its only going to get worse. Kenneth moton, abc news washington. The frequent threat of flooding is forcing the city of dubuque to fund its Bee Branch Watershed. This lowlying area has about 1400 homes. In the past 14 years, the neighborhood received a president ial disaster declaration 6 different times. Right now, homes there have extensive mold damage. Federal fundidi to fix the problem. 2 59 30 in the end its going to increase the values of those homes for the neighbors who have lost a lot of their value. Dubuques funding come from a 97 Million Dollar grant awarded to iowa from the Us Department of housing and urban development. In the grant application, iowas economic auauhority highlighted goals, including reducing flood risk and improving Water Quality. Today, Water Quality is a priority for one north Dakota Company who wants to help in flint, michigan. Flints water supply became heavily contaminated with lead after the city switched water sources in 2014. Chris duell and dan provost of flint o c and D Water Services in williston, north dakota. They want to help their hometown by shipping 26 pallets full of 4gallon Water Bottles today. A lot of people didnt understand why we were doing it, but were from thererso we want to o ve back. Were fortunate enough to come out here, do this, be doing well and we want to give back to the place that were from. Officials are dealing with lead contamination in sebring ohio thats east of akron near the pennsylvania border. Tests have shown lead amounts well above federal standards in several homes. Local epa officials closed classes at Sebring High School because high lead levels. The city manager said water problems began in sebring after their water plant was updated. Acidic water began to leach lead and copper out of old pipes. This morning, a young person is covering after an officers bullet grazed him on the las vegas strip. The incident happppned last night outside the bellagio casino. Police say an officer confronted a man in front of the hotel, after seeing him wave a gun through traffic. Officials say the suspect didnt listen to any commands. Thats when the officer fired his gun at the suspect. But instead of hitting t suspect,tinvestigators say bullets grazed 2 we do know that we have a juvenile that t ceived a graze wound as a result of the shooting. That juvenile was taken to umc and has since been released police did take the suspect into custody. The trial for a man accused of driving drunk and injuring a cedar rapids couple in las vegas has been rescheduled. Police say 25yearold Jonathan Donner was drunk and on drugs when his vehicle slammed into a tour bus last labor day. The crash seriously injured 39yearold brian zerbee and 34yearold sara zerbee. Because of a separate case, the court set donners new trial for july 25th. An iowa judge has sentenced a man to spend the rest of his life in prison for killing 2 people in southern iowa. 37yearold Jerry Dillinger pleaded guilty to 2 counts of 1st degree murder in court yesterday. He admitted to killing his former sisterinlaw and another person last month near creston. The Iowa Division of criminal investigation found the body of they found the body of Michael Robinson at a home in the same area a couple days later. A Johnson County woman received a sentence of 10 years in prison yesterday for her involvement in the death of her 20monthold son. 21 year old Mireya Balderas had pleaded guilty last october to a number of charges, including child neglect and child endangerment. An autopsy showed that 1year old Marcus Balderas died from Blunt Force Trauma in april 2012. Police say the actions of 23 yearold jorge perez, who was balderas boyfriend and the boys fathehe ultimately led to the childs death. Abuse by perez and balderas resulted in broken ribs, bruises, and internal injuries on the day of their sons death. Perez has already started serving a 50 year sentence. He pleaded guilty last june to child endangerment resulting in death. A man facesa threat of terrorism charge, after calling in a bomb threat to Iowa City West High School on tuesday. Police say 30yearold Clifton Brinkmeyer did that just 20 minutes of that, he faces a 2nd degree robbery charge. Police say brinkmeyer robbed the Us Bank Branch at 1117 william street in iowa city around 9 that morning. The bank is on iowa citys east side miles away from west high. Police arrested brinkmeyer shortly after the robbery. Around the same time, more than 2,000 students had to evacuate West High School because of the threat. Johnson county also had to move a polling place for a special election that had been at the school. Is it art. Or just frozen pants . This from minneapolis. More proof that culture and art can be found with anything. Even capris . . What a dramatic change from last weekend temperatures this weekend will be creeping into the 30s for some. I think most that these temperatures are much better than those below zero. Well start off the day in the teens, but will top out in the upper 20s and low 30s for some by the afternoon. On top of the warmer temperatures making for a wonderful weekend weather, we get some sunshine. Mostly sunny skies will be around for the morning hours, but partly cloudy skies will being to build back into eastern iowa as the afternoon progresses. Sunday our temperatures will be even warmer thanks to a southerly wind. Highs will top out in the low to middle 30s for most. Clouds will be a bit thicker, but some sunshine will through the day. A chance for snow and wintry mix arrives late sunday into monday. Now with 9 days left until the iowa caucuses, expect a thick slice of shaking hands today throughout the state. And here in eastern iowa. Well look at some of the candidates and their stops today. Sports tease. Trt oc tonight in high school basketball. Lets start off with two of the hottest teams in eastern iowa. The Mount Vernon Bobo hosted anamosa. Josos has the action. Mount vernon senior Connor Hermann was recognized before the game for reaching the 1,000 career point milestone on tuesday. And the mustangs jump on anamosa right away. Nathan stenger threeball corner pocket. Bingo. Mount vernon starts the game on a 110 run. Still in the first quarter, austin ash launches this deep three from lisbon. He had 21 points. Mount vernon led 169 after one quarter. Anamosa fights back in the 2nd. Kyle sayre drivethe baseline and gets the reverse layup. The blue raiders trail 2220. At halftime. The mustangs start the 3rd quarter on a 60 run. Adam ketelsen with the layup. Mount vernon pushed its lead back to nine at one point. But anamosas Kolin Schulte starts to heat up. He steals the inbounds pass and takes it all the way in for the layup. Then in the 4th quarter. He buries a deep three. Schulte had 27 points. Anamosa trails 5351 after that triple. But mount vernon responds with a huge bucket from Connor Hermann. Mustangs sweep the regular Season Series with the 6453 win. From mount vernon, Josh Christensen tv9 sports. We had a top 10 match with a couple of the future hawkeyes at linnmar tonight. The lions entertained wahlert. Scott westerberg has the highlights. Jordan bohannon and Cordell Pemsl both brought their a game tonight. The Golden Eagles feed it to pemsl. He finishes in the paint. Wahlert with a 4744 lead early in the 3rd. But linnmar responds with a 142 run as bohannon steals it from his future teammate and goes coast to coast. 5849 lions. Linnmar the d and lays it in. Lions up 14 early in the 4th. But wahlert rallies. Pemsl returns the favor as he takes it away from bohannon. Pemsl with the highlight reel slam to pull the Golden Eagles within 9. Cordell finished with 34 points. Wahlert continues to close the gap as josh schmitt nails a 3 to make it a 4 point game. Riley till then drives and scores. Wahlert within two with 2 45 to go. But linnmar stops the bleeding as bohannon buries three of his game high 35. Lions up 7772. This one went down to the final possession. Wahlert with the ball down three with 3 seconds to go, but david wedewers tying shot wont fall as linnmar holds on 9087. In marion, Scott Westerberg tv9 sports. Anytime wash and jeff get together in means something. Ladies first and wash came out blazing Payton Bruner with the triple and the warriors opened up a 23 point second half lead. Jayla pledgejohnson nothing but net from behind the answered with Kennedy Dighton on this spinning drive for two of her 27. And then the jhawks turned up the defense and cut the lead to seven. Kaylee donner with the steal and layupp. But wash with just to many shooters. Bruner showing off the great form and the warriors win the girls game 7670. To the guys and jeff came ready to play roy shawn webb goes coast to coast for the layupp. And the green man was loving it. Whos in thier. Great crowd tonight and then they turned up the defense the steal. That triggers the break and adam vanoort finishes to give the j hawks a 6 point lead and that had the band was rocken. Wash pounded the ball inside Laveechie Williams for the easy two and then dallas hobbs goes to work in the paint. But more jeff defense james brown junior with the steal for two more and jefferson wins the boys game. Kcrg 9. 2 tonight. Regina hosted north cedar. Miranda timmes with three as north cedar jumped out to a 10 point first half lead. Camryn bungee three ball corner pocket. Regina answer with the nice cut from cameron verducci for the duce. And with the game tied at 42 in the Fourth QuarterMary Crompton went off hitting 3 straight treys and regina came from behind to win the girls games 5951. To the boys and regina came out bombs away. Sam stine with the triple. And then the regals work it inside to the football star nate stenger and with north cedar down 8 and 2 seconds to play in the half ian malaby with the ally oop tip in to cut the lead to six and they iced it to one in the Third Quarter on the Aaron Woodward bucket down low. But regina kept firing away. Stine with another three ball and regina wins the boys game. And finally the second ranked iowa wrestling team hammered 20th ranked purdue tonight. Thomas gillman with the take down got the hawks started with a 238 tech fall. Then corey the major 12nothing. Brody grothus got the start tonight at 141 and picked up the 60 decision , and Brandon Sorenson with the takedown won 82. And then edwin cooper with the fall to give iowa a 21nothing lead at the break. And the hawks rolled to the win to raise their record to 120. Weekend temperatures this weekend will the 30s for some. I think most of us would agree that these temperatures are much better than those below zero. Well start off the day in the teens, but will top out in the upper 20s and low 30s for some by the afternoon. On top of the warmer temperatures making for a wonderful weekend weather, we get some sunshine. Mostly sunny skies will be e ound for the morning hours, but partly cloudy skies will being to build back into eastern iowa as the afternoon progresses. Sunday our temperatures will be even warmer thanks to a southerly wind. Highs will top out in the low to middle 30s for most. Clouds will be a bit thicker, but some sunshine will stick around through the day. A chance for snow and wintry mix arrives late sunday into monday. One lighter moment from the least around the white house. This is sunny the first dog. Enjoying a snow day. If you have a dog, you always wonder how the dog will navigate that new snowfall perhaps thats especially true when youre surrounded by secret service agents. There is a quirky new trend in outdoor winter art in minnesota. People jeans and other clothing and putting them in their yards as ice sculptures. Its their way to add a little comedy to the cold temperatures. It all started with one minneapolis resident placing frozen pants across the neighborhood to lighten the mood. Now neighbors are joining in on the fun and posting the photos on social media. For months, concerns over the shift in iowa on for months, concerns over the shift in iowa on medicaid on the official start date. With march 1 as the target, some are worried about not reaching that date. As well as back payments that are due. Stay with kcrgtv 9. Good morning from its heres what you need to know today. Swinging across the state. With only a few days to the iowa caucuses, candidates are claiming campaign territory. Well tell you where the candidates are today. Taking a jab at the real world. Little kids get their chance at the electoral process in a mock iowa caucus. Making medicaid private. Families deal with the stress of transitioning to a new plan. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is the kcrgtv9 saturday morning news. But first, meteorologis t britley ritz has your first alert forecast, britley. What a dramatic change from last weekend temperatures this weekend will be creeping into the 30s for some. I think most of us would agree that these temperatures are much those below zero. Well start off the day in the teens, but will top out in the upper 20s and low 30s for some by the afternoon. On top of the warmer temperatures making for a wonderful weekend weather, we get some sunshine. Mostly sunny skies will be around for the morning hours, but partly cloudy skies will being to build back into eastern iowa as the afternoon progresses. Sunday our temperatures will be even warmer thanks to a southerly wind. Highs will top out in the low to middle 30s for most. Clouds will be a bit thicker, but some sunshine will stick around through the day. A chance for snow and wintry mix arrives late sunday into monday. Thanks britley. Were a little more than 1 week out till the iowa caucuses. President ial candidates are wrangling up any last minute support they can this weekend. Across the state today. Texas senator ted cruz. The firstterm republican is campaigning alongside radio hostglenn beck. Hes making stops in central iowa and waterloo. Senator cruz and beck will Convention Center at 7 tonight. One of the many others in the republican field, ben carson, will be in cedar rapids on sunday morning at the river of life church. He talked about education during a stop in mount ayr in southern iowa on friday afternoon. Carson says education and americas youth would be a priority under his presidency. The fact of the matter is, my whole professional career is spent trying to save the lives of children and trying to give them longevity and quality of life and thats something that doesnt leave you just because you decide to retire. Carson will be at a prayer rally in sioux city today. His polling has fallen off sharply since early november as cruz and donald trump have been leading the republican field in iowa. On the democratic side, vermont senator bernie sanders, will start 3 days of campaigning in iowa. He plans to make eastern iowa stops in davenport, clinton maquoketa. Sanders will continue his tour through sunday, and end on monday with visits to iowa state and grinnell college. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton is bringing more celebrities to campaign with her today. This afternoon, scandal actor and director, tony goldwyn will join her. Mrs. Clinton will stop in mason city this afternoon, before heading to the unis Maucker Union in cedar falls. Thats a 5 30 pm appearance at uni. Tonight, the former secretary of state will travel to cedar rapids for another campaign event. The democrats will all be together in des moines on monday night for a town hall. The president ial hopefuls will answer questions from Democratic Caucus goers. It starts at eight oclock, and you can see it on kcrg nine point two. While children cannot legally vote, they will get a chance to partake in politics, during a mock caucus event at the university of iowa. The program uses children make Campaign Posters and talk about issues that are important to them. At the end of the program, kids will participate in their caucus or hawkus. Itll imitate a republican caucus, so children can also practice using ballots. 12 26 04 they just hear a lot of Campaign Speeches and commercials and their parents talking about it. We want them to understand the process that goes into it before they become active in the rhetoric. The museum will hold a second and final hawkus next friday. Governor Terry Branstads plan to privatize iowas medicaid system is moving forward as planned. For now. Thats according to a polk County District judges ruling on friday. In december, federal administrators ordered iowa to delay its privatization process at least 60 days. Pushing the january 1st start date for three private care for 560,000 iowa medicaid patients to march 1st. That left iowa medicaid to handle reimbursemen ts during that 60day period. Havent received any payment for Patient Services going back to january 1st. Kcrg tv nines Sarah Mccarthy shows how that delay could hurt hundreds of mtal Health Patients in rural iowa. 11 59 17 have you ever played mancala . Board games like these. Thunk are about more than winning or losing. Your white beads are for score keeping. For the five play therapists training here. 12 03 39 its a great game for adhd because its textile. The grace c. Mae advocate Center Serves three hundred families each week in rural iowa communities. All are coping with Mental Health problems or substance abuse. 12 01 24 and while their job is to help those struggling to move forward. 12 21 19 one two, and down i go. Founder Patti Gilbaugh says confusing changes to medicaid. 11 56 02 it has different places on the board where you can either advance or go back. Feels like moving backwards. 11 42 07 when you go from a cash flow of two to three days later you get paid to maybe one hundred days later you might get paid, thats a significant cash flow problem for Small Businesses. Prior to january first, a Company CalledPatient Services. That contract ended managed Care Organizations were supposed to take over. Making the state responsible for reimbursement during a sixty day delay. But for gilbaugh. January first. That delay is making day today operations nearly impossible. 12 06 12 this is a good game for teaching frustration tolerance. The state says they can wait up to six months to pay providers. Forcing Small Businesses like gilbaughs to take out bank costs. 11 42 25 you have an increased cost in expenses because you have to pay interest on the money youre borrowing. She says if the delay turn away medicaid patients by the end of january. 12 16 49 these are people who are merely living to survive. Something marshalltown therapist jamie johnson, says would devastate rural patients. 12 17 07 some families struggle to find any support systems. Were all they have. If you take that away, they have absolutely nothing. In cedar rapids. 12 20 18 that is so hopeless, so Iowa Senate President pam jochum of dubuque believes the state wont be ready for the medicaid transition by march 1st. She has concerns that a new system without proper oversight could shortchange iowans. A multiagency work group report earlier this month said the state needs to hire 134 additional workers and spend as much as 17 Million Dollars more a year to achieve that oversight. Congressman Dave Loebsack met with some families of special Needs Children and adults to hear their concerns about the medicaid changes. The Second DistrictDemocrat Families can hope for might be a delay in the implementation. Jeff edberg, who hosted loebsack, says hes concerned the medicaid change could eventually force his son out of the group home where he lives. Yesterday, edberg said the way he sees it, program cuts are inevitable. Its hard to understand, its hard to get services through this system, people will fall off and it will save money because services will be cut. The Branstad Administration said in a statement yesterday afternoon, that theyre still targeting march 1st as an implementatio n date. Another School Shooting but this one in western canada. Well go inside the investigation from saskatchewan as four are dead from a shooting in a small community. Stay with tv9. Its. Meteorologist britley ritz joins what a dramatic change from last weekend temperatures this weekend will be creeping into the 30s for some. I think most of us would agree that these temperatures are much better than those below zero. Teens, but will top out in the upper 20s and low 30s for some by the afternoon. On top of the warmer temperatures making for a wonderful weekend weather, we get some sunshine. Mostly sunny skies will be around for the morning hours, but partly cloudy skies will being to build back into eastern iowa as the afternoon progresses. Sunday our temperatures will be even warmer thanks to a southerly wind. Highs will top out in the low to middle 30s for most. Clouds will be a bit thicker, but some sunshine will stick around through the day. A chance for snow and wintry mix arrives late sunday into monday. Coast storms battering the region. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9. Morning after a shooting. Today, at least 5 people are dead after a person started shooting at a high school there. Officials say those victims were shot yesterday inside the la loche the community is reeling and all of us across the countrys hearts are going to out to the families and to the whole community. Authorities say 2 of the victims are siblings of the shooter. The suspect is now in custody. Millions of americans are huddled inside this morning, as a dangerous winter storm pummels through the east coast. Forecasters are expecting snow fall totals of 2 feet in places Like Washington philadelphia, and new york city. Given many of the storm predictions, new Jersey Governor Chris Christie declared a state of emergency. If you dont have to drive, dont. The work week is over. The smartest thing to do on saturday afternoon is just stay home, stay where you are. The National Weather service says the storm could easily cause more than 1 billion dollars in damage. Well take another look at your first alert forecast, next. Stay with tv9. Dubuque will get 31point5 dubuque will get 31point5 Million Dollars in federal funding to combat damage. Recent floods left homes in the Bee Branch Watershed area with extensive mold damage. Dubuques grant is apart of a 97 Million Dollar grant to help iowa improve Water Quality. The east coast is getting slammed with a dangerous winter storm. Forecasters are predicting up to two feet of snow in areas Like Washington dc. The storm has delayed and cancelled hundreds of flights across the country. City officials across the coast, are cautioning people to stay home and off the roads. Stick with us for our 8 oclock newscast this morning. Were talking with Amanda Whitlock from unity point. Shell give us a tips on how you can qualify and receive home and make sure you listen to some talented eastern iowa students at the Paramount Theatre in cedar rapids. Its for the metro orchestra festival. You can see those performances live at 8 tonight on 9point2. Now, a final look at the forecast. What a dramatic change from last weekend temperatures this weekend will be creeping into the 30s for some. I think most of us would agree that these temperatures are much better than those below zero. Well start off the day in the teens, but will top out in the upper 20s and low 30s for some by the afternoon. On top of the warmer temperatures making for a wonderful weekend weather, we get some sunshine. Mostly sunny skies will be around for the morning hours, but partly cloudy skies will being to build back into eastern iowa as the afternoon progresses. Sunday our temperatures will be even warmer thanks to a southerly wind. Highs will top out in the low to middle 30s for most. Clouds will be a bit thicker, but some sunshine will stick around through the day. A chance for snow and wintry mix arrives late sunday into monday. Thanks for joining us this be sure to watch kcrg tv9 coming up ay 8, right after Good Morning America weekend well see you later. Have a great saturday. Weeken good morning, america. Happening right now, the blizzard of 2016