Out of the southwest to benefit our temperatures. Into the evening lows will stay warm, bottoming out in the middle to upper 20s. Winds will continue to move out of th southweses tomorrow brings slightly warmer onditions, but will change into the evening. Sunday starts off quiet, but light snow showers will move in later in the day and evening. Winds will also begin to pick up speed out of the west at 15 to 25 mph. With the light snow, accumulations are expected to stay light. However the wind will cause whe out conditions for some especially those to the northwest. If you haveve plans for the big game sunday thanks britley. A wellknown cedar rapids businessman wont leaea his j jl sentence until later this month. A federal judge had planned to announce the sentencing for midamar founder bill aossey yesterday. But testimony and arguments at led the judge to postpone aossey s sentencing. Last july, a jury convicted him of mislabeling meat products, mail and wire fraud, and making false statements. A number of aosseys supporters are asking the judge to for leniency. Hes just very open minded, he does things for people he helps people out hes a very kind and gentle man and its beyond my understanding prosecutors askethe judge to consider a sentence that would most likely result in eight to ten years in federal prison. But the defense is askiki for time served ananprobation. The judge is now expected to sentence aossey on february 25th. A former waterloo teacher was arrested in des moines, after police say he exposed himself to a mall employee. Officials say 60yearold Michael Madson did this back on. January 30th inside the valley west mall. Since then, School DistrictOfficials Say madson has a history of arrests. In 1994, he was arrested for indecent exposure after he was seen wearing nothing but a tshirt in a hotel lobby. And in 2001, madson resigned from his waterloo teaching position after a girl accused him of peeking at her in a tanning booth. Today blogger and legal rape advocate, roosh v, planned to host a private meetup in cedar rapids and des moines. Roosh leads a male rights group called return of the kings. In n e past, he has written about the why he believes rape should be legalized. Then later recanted, saying it was satire. Earlier this week, police told tv9 rooshs meeting may have been a ploy to lure women into dangerous environments. Roosh has since cancelled the meetups. New hampshire voters are getting closer to deciding which candidate they want to become president. Earlier this week, voters listened to Democratic CandidatesHillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders debate. The two candidates battled on topics like the economy. Tonight, the gop will voters head to the polls on tuesday, and state officials are expecting record turnouts. I thought that in 2008 that we night see anything like that again for a while because that was such an incredible turnout but i believe that this one will actually exceed d at. As of now, recent polls show dold trump leading republicans. While, Bernie Sanders has a widening lead above declared iowa caucus winnerHillary Clinton. The rereblican debate will be moderated tonight by abcs david muir and martha raddatz. You can watch it right here on tv nine starting at seven oclock. Swing right or left on your phone is how you meet a potential match on the dating app, tinder. But kcrg tv nines Sarah Mccarthy explains one cedar rapids woman was using it to connect with voters in new hampshire. Haley lent isnt your she has just one man on her mind. 17 28 37 i didnt rerely know who he was s nestly. And her interest in him. 17 29 30 oh yeah like from nothing. Built up pretty quickly. To im obsessed. A political obsession that began monday 17 31 50 in our precinct we lost, three to two, but i was still super pumped it was thatatlose. An energy for Bernie Sanders she took to tinder, 17 32 37 i could talk to people alal day on the internet. Its diffffent in person. A dating app that matches you with people nearby. And although shes married, with three children, she signed up for a premium account allowing her to reach across state lines. 17 33 31 so i could reach people in new hampshire. Her message . 17 35 05 can i ask you a question . Do you plan to vote in your primary . Do you plan to vote for Bernie Sanders . Its a question some didnt mind. 17 36 05 most of the time they were pretty positive about it, like oh yeah, im already voting for him. But others werent fans of replacing dates with 17 39 2222you Start Talking politics to them and theyre like, is this really all you wanted to talk about . Even going as far as reporting her to tinder resulting in this. Your account is under review, youve been reported too many times. Tinder responded to our questions with this statement we dont allow spamming. So feel free to spread the bern, just dont spam. But for lent. I dont think i did anythingg wrong. The babaon her account. All i was doing is talking politics with people over tinder. Doesnt make much sense. In cedar rapids, Sarah Mccarthy, kcrgtv9 news. The Iowa Caucuses were big money for some businesses in des moines. Central lighting and equipment workers spent dozens ofours setting up thth risers and stages at the media center at Capital Square in downtown. More than 16hundred journalists reported from the center. The Des Moines Company tripled its staff from 13 to 4040mployees to make sure the center was ready for the reporters. Economy, puts people to work, creates more jobs the Greater Des Moines Convention and Visitors Bureau estimates the caucuses brought 10 Million Dollars to the area. About 40 Million Dollars statewide. Hawkeye sinesses are reaping benefits of successful athletic seasons. For the first time ever, the hawkeye football and basketball teams earned national top five rankings in the same school year. And theeuccess is lping businesses acrcrs johnson county. Restaurants and bars are filling up for games even on week nights. Hotels are already taking reservations for next football season. This year we play michigan, wisconsin, nebraska, northwestern and iowa state all at home, so thats a tremendous home football season almost irregardless of the success from last year. Players from both the football and basketball tes have also made it onto the of Sports Illustrated thihi school yearar iowa football head coach, kirk ferentz, is an excited and happy father he got a little emotilnal yesterday, after talking about his son james. James will be playing during super bowl sunday for the denver broncos. It is a good story we are really proud of him everybody here is proud of him. Its a good story. 25 sot chasing your dream a little bit aroud moment there. Y y can watch James Ferentz during the super bowl tomorrow at 530 on cbs. Dancers at the university y iowa have a aong day ahead as they raise money for kids fighting cancer. The university of iowas annual dance marathon is going at the iowa memorial union. More than two thousasa students are on their feet for a full 24 hours. This is video from a past marathon. Students started dancing at 7 last night and wont stop until 7 tonight. The effort raises money for the e iversity of iowa childrens break last years record of 2 Million Dollars. The 21 previous marathons raised more than 16 and a half Million Dollars. Do you want to build a snowman . Those are the famous lyrics of disneys animated moviefrozen. But one man is taking that song and movie further, by building a special snowman for his daughter. Highs today will top out into the middle to upper 30s and well see some sunshine to add to the warmer temperature winds today will also be out of the southwest to benefit our temperatures. Inin the evening lows will stay warm, bottoming out in the middle to continue to move out of the southwest. Tomorrow brings slightly warmer conditions, but will change into the evening. Sunday starts off quiet, but light snow showers will move in later in the day and evening. Winds will also begin to pick up speed out of the west at 15 to 25 mph. With the light snow, accumulations are expected to stay light. However the wind will cause white out conditions for some especially those to the northwest. If you have plans for the big game sunday drive carefully. Highs today will top out into the mile to upper 30s and well see some sunshine to add to the warmer temperatures. Winds today will also be out of the southhst to benefit our temperatures. Into the evening lows will stay warm, bottoming out in the middle to upper 20s. Winds will continue to move out of the southwest. Tomorrow brings slightly warmer sunday starts off quiet, but light snow showers will move in later in the day and evening. Winds will also begin to pick up speed out of the west at 15 to 25 mph. Th the light snow, accumulatioms are thanks britley. Whos thmom . This photo will have you guessing just like we are. Well tell zou the mystery behind this viral photo Center Jameel Mckay has been suspended from the team and did not make the trip to stillwater. No word yet on why he was suspended. The second ranked iowa wrestling team decked out in camaflage atome against the e osiers tonight. The hawks got a first period pin from Brody Grothus at 141 for the 12nothing lead. And edwin cooper picked up a major decision at 157 winning 131. And a great match at at 174 alex meyeye ranked 12th with the late third period takedown for the 87 come from behind win over 11th ranked nate jackson. And then sam stoll who is really coming on ranked 7th with the pinn at heavyweight and iowa shutout 20th ranked indiana 45nothing to clinch at least a share of the big 10 title. And their you see the trophy. Uni hosted iowa state live on kcrg 9. 2 tonight. And former denver tripola star dylan peters with the third period takedown for the 97 win. And the packed west gym was rocking. And what a dual at 165 paden moore with the take down in ot for the but ioio state at answered at 174. Leeland weatherspoo n with the 52 decision over kyle lux to cut the lead to 1615 going into the final match of the night at 184. And the cyclones dane pestano with takedown and he beat drew foster 72. And iowa state comes from behind to win the dual 1816. To hoops and what a match up tonight in troy mills. 172 north linn hosted 171 springville. Josh has the highlights. Springville beat north linn earlier this season. The orioles jumped out to an early l ld in the first quarter, Mikayla Nachazel with the hoop and harm. Springville up 115. 2nd quarter. North linn comes back, anna legrand threeball Corner Pocket is good. D. Ynx up 1716. But they trailed 3120 after three quarters. They try to come back in the 4th, ashley tull gets her own putback. North linn trails by seven. But springvilles riley menster delivers the dagger with this three. Orioles win 4632 and take the tririvers conference side, springvilleept this game close early. Andrew bbkely threeball Corner Pocket. Swish orioles up 53. But northlinn picks up the pressure on defense. Jake hilmer nice bounce pass to david seber who finishes with the layup. It was tied 9 all after one quarter. In the 2nd, hilmer with another steal. This time he takes it in himself finishing wit the left hand. Then with 1. 5 secons left before halftime, ryan miller floats one up and it falls. North linn wins 6437. The second ranked iowa city west boys were at jeff tonight. Scott westerberg has the action. Tanner lohaus was back in action after missing a number of games with an ankle injury and his trojans were on fire. Alex henderson, nothing but net. 2511 west. Then its dallas majors cleaning up the misis trojans open up a 16 point lead. The j hawks were scoring in bunches in the opening quarter as well, Royshawn Webb with the hoop and harm. Inal seconds of parks with the put back to beat t the buzzer. 3216 west. Trojans keep hitting the offensive glass in the second. Nate barnes with the board and bucket. Jeff answers from downtown. Adam van oort is money from three. But way too much offense from the trojans. Connor mccaffery with the swish. West tops jeff 10274. In cedar rapids, Scott Westerberg tv9 sports. We had a girlboy double header at kennedy tonight the cougars hosted wash. Lets start off with the girls. And wash with a good start dge johnson with drive to the rack and the warriors took a 3534 trey. But it was all kennedy after that turning up the full court pressure. They force the rnover and they makeke layupp. And that had them doing some crazy dancing. And then the senior lella sellers took over with the drive and kiss forwo of her 20 in a 6458 cougars win. And lots of dancing tonight the kennedy dance team put on a great show. To brewster was praying for a big game and delivered look at this drive down the lane. Wash answered with the long ball ian thomas three ball Corner Pocket. But matt burst can flat out shoot and he hit back to back triples and that had the crowd going bonkers and that is what you call an extreme closeup. But it was a big night for the warriors from behind the arc. Ieon wills from downtown and wash beat kennedy. So they split tonight. And finally lets head to the stable the roughriders hosted madison. Ceda r rapids on the powerplay early in the first when hugh mcging lights the lamp for the 18th time this season. 1 nothing riders. Cedar rapids with another powerplay later in the first and this time its Matt Gosiewski with the goal as the roughriders beat madison upper 30s and well see some sunshine to add to the warmer temperatures. Winds today will also be out of the southwest to benefit our temperatures. Into the evening lows will stay warm, bottoming out in the middle to upper 20s. Winds will continue to move out of the southwest. Tomorrow brings slightly warmer conditions, but will change into the evening. Sunday starts off quietbut light snow showers will move in later in the day and evening. Winds will also begin to pick up speed out of the west at 15 to 25 mph. With the light snow, accumulations are expected to stay light. However the wind will cause white out conditions for some especially those to the northwest. If you have ppans for the big game sunday nightt make do you want to build a snowman . Wewl, one montana dad aprently said yes just like that song from disneys animated movie frozen, it took tate dunkel a week to create this snowman. He built the movies s snowmanolaf dunkel says thth snowman n is for his daughter who has a condition that effectstser muscles. She cant walk and has trouble standing. Shes a special needs child, so i put in the effort to make it dunkel says when he sat his daughter down to take a picture with olaf, she actually stood up and gave it a hug. Who is the mom, and who are the daughters . Take a look at this photo that went viral yesterday we had a hard time figuring it out, but take a guess for yourself the two 16yearold twins on the right of your screen are twins this picture wenen viral on twitter and facebook. Daughter Kaylan Mahomes posted it with the caption mom, twin and meme the shot was retweweed more than 18thousand timim and rreived more than 29thousand likes. The twins mother, tina , says she maintained her youthful look by good morning from kcrgtv9. Good morning from is waking up with kcrgtv its heres what you need to know today. A deadly crash leaves a family mourning. A Community Remembers several People Killed after their van crashed in benton county. Finding a protection plan. The city of cedar rapidsds determines how to move forward with renovating prominent flood areas. Tax season is here. Well tell you about a new tax service set to help iowans get their taxes done on time. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour newew source, this is the kcrgtv9 saturday morning news. But first, meteorologis t britley ritz has your first alert forecast, britley. Highs today will top out into he middle to sunshine to add to the warmer temperatures. Winds today will also be out of the southwest to benefit our temperatures. Into the evening lows will stay warm, bottoming out in the middle to upper 20s. Winds will continue to move out of the southwest. Tomorrow brings slightly warmer conditions, but will change into the eveeing. Susuday starts offffquiet, but light snow showers will move in later in the day and evening. Winds will also begin to pick up speed out of the west at 15 to 25 mph. With the light snow, accumulations are expected to stay light. However the wind will cause white outconditions for some especially those to the northwest. If you have plaa for the big game sundndy night, make sure to drive carefully. Anks britley. Family and friends are remembering the three people who died in a crashshn benton county. It happened early thursday morning on state patrol says the driver of a nivan carrying nine people lost control on some ice. Thats an update from yesterday. Patrol originally said 10 were in that vehicle. When the minivan slid, another vehicle coming from the other direction hit it. Two other cars were also involved. Michka kabeya , Platini Namputu and dickson mandiki, all died in that crash. They all had immigrated from the democratic republic of t e congo. Kcrgtv 9s brady smith met with the victims s mily members about their loss. 53 21 25 michka, hes really my best fried for a long, long time. Emmanuel mambo says he grew up with michka kabeya, and even helped him get his visa to come to the united states. He leaves behind a wife who was injured badly in the crash and a young son whos in n ndergarten. Platini namputu, pictured here, lived with dickson mandiki. Mambo heard crash about 6 hours after it happened early thursday morning. He talked to us through an interpreter, using a mix of french and lingala. 55 54 06 the day before, i was with michka here, because he was living here with me, and we talked, we spent the night together. And then it was really a shock for me to hear from the family that he passed away. Mambo says the group was driving to work in tama when the crash happened. To lose 3 members of the local Congolese Community so suddenly is s incredibly hard to take, he told us, and hes now relying on that community as a source of strength. 58 34 41 i have friends who have become our family, but my family, theyre in africa, in congo. Mambo simply wants people to know this about the friend he lost 51 56 hes a really good person. And he got along with everybody. Authorities have still not released the names or conditions of f yone else involved. Were told the congolese meeting this weekend to discuss funeral plans, and to gather support for those involved. The Iowa Department of transportation plans to improve a dangerous portion of highway 20 in dubuque county. Its where the highway intersects with swiss valley road just west of dubuque. Dot data show there were 34 crashes in that area between 2010 and 2014. The project includes straightening the westbound lanes of highway 20. The dot says that will add more space between the east andndestbound lanes, allowing cars to cross two lanes of traffic at a time. The department estimates the multiphase project will cost 26 Million Dollars. Phase one will begin sometime in 2019. Cedar rapids is trying to move forward with the citys master Flood Control plan. But to do that, it needs to tear down some homes and plain. The city is planng on allllating up to onemilllln dollars to help People Living in those properties pay rent to landlords until the city can buy their properties. This is a map of a number of locations that the city is looking to eventually take over. The project aims to protect as Many Properties as possible against another flood like what the city saw in 2008. More than 10 square miles or 14 of the city was impacted by floodwaters more than 1,100 city blocks were impacted, 561 were severely damaged. Nearly 42,000 tons of flood debris was removed the city says eveveually, about 25 properties will need to go because theyre right where crews want to build the Flood Control system. This old, white block building is one the city will need to acquire. Pat lang owns it and says hes okay with the city buying the property. He says flood water was up to the roof in 2008, and since then it hasnt been used. 5 25 05 it just has been itting idly waitinin for the City Planners to decide what they are going to do with the flood walls so that we know or i know what i can do with this lang wanted to rebuild on the land if the levee was built in front of the property, but since its behind the building itll be part of the buyout program. The city saysts working to stay flexible with propertyty owners becacae this is such a long project. Former Iowa Governor chet culver says the states change to a privatized medicaid will have a negative effect on disabled iowans. Yesterday, culver said more than 120 thousand iowans with disabilities will lose the most with the change. Culver is holding two town Hall Meetings next week to talk about the change. Hell be at the coralville pupulic library tuesdayy morning at 10. From there, he goes to the Cedar Rapids Public Library for a town hall meeting at two tuesday afternoon. More than 55thousand iowans signed up for health insurarae during the latest Enrollment Period under the Affordable Care act. The number includes people who were automatically reenrolled this year and those who selected a plan by the january 31st deadline. Last yeye, about 45 thousanan iowans signed up for Subsidized Health care coverage. Insurance is more costly ts year. Its two thousand85 dollars, orr two and a half percent of the annual household income, whichever is greater. Now that income tax season is here, the irs is encouraging taxpayers to take advantage of a program that could save them money. Iowa free file provides Free Tax Preparation Services to people who qualify. Tax Software Companies along with senator joni ernst were at Kirkwood Community college to get the word out yesterday. Companies showed how people can file for federal and state tax returns online for free. People w earn 62 thousand dollars or less arareligible to use the program. The program is very simple, i am not a tax prep person and i thought it was very easy, you just put it in and it walks you right through the steps and asks you the questions and i found it to be very easy. So if i can do it pretty much anyone can do. Sot its a Great Program im glad to see so many people out today and i hope that a lot of folks around this area come out to kirkwood and utilize this assistance contact kirkwoods volunteer income tata Assistance Program until the april 15th deadline. Earthquake destruction. People in taiwan are picking up the pieces and looking for survivors after a ququke destroys and kkls. Well have the d dails on the clean up. Weather se question. Upper 30s and well see some sunshine to add to the warmer temperatures. Winds today will also be out of the southwest to benefit our temperatures. Into the evening lows will stay warm, bottoming out in the middle to upper 20s. Winds will continue to move out of the southwest. Tomorrow brings slightly warmer conditions, but will change into the evening. Sunday starts off quiet, but light snow showers will move in later in the day and evening. Winds will also begin to pick up speed out of the west at 15 to 25 mph. With the light snow, accumulations are cause white out conditions for some especially those to the northwest. If you have plans for the big game sunday night, make sure to drive carefully. Highs todayayill top out into the middle to upper 30s and well see some sunshine to add to the warmer temperatures. Winds today will also be out of the southwest to benefit our temperatures. Into the evening lows wiwi stay warm, bottoming out in the middle to continue to move out of the southwest. Tomorrow brings slightly warmer conditions, but will change into the evening. Sunday starts off quiet, but light snow showers will move in later in the day and evening. Winds will also begin to pick up speed out of he west at 15 to 25 5 h. With the light snow, accumulations are expected to stay light. However the wind will cause white out conditions for some especially those tohe norwest. If you have plans for the big gaga sunday night, make sure to drive carefully. Thanks britley. President bama highlights the nations ecomy after the release of the new us job reports. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9. Rescue crews are searching for whos plane crashed off the coast of long beach, california. There is some discrepancy between agencies involved on what led to this crash. Some reports say two planes collided mid air off the port of los angeles yesterday. The federal l iation agency stopped short of calling it a midair crash, but at least one small plane went down. No word as to how many people were aboard the plane. E person is dead, after a Officials Say the plane crashed under unknown circumstance s then caught fire. Officials have not yet identified the pilot who died in the crash. President obama is celebrating a recent us job report which shows a slight decrease in the Unemployment Rate. The jobs repopo released yesterday showed us employers added 151 thousand jobs in january. That helped bring the Unemployment Rate down from 5 percent to 4 point9 percent. These s sts led president obama to say the us has the strongest, most durable economy in the world. He addressed the report yesterday at the white house. The policies that ill push this year are designed to gigi workers even more leverage t t earn raises and promotions. The job report shows the unempyment rate at the lowest level since president obama took office. Us Senate Lawmakers are urging president obama to use funding to defeat zika virus. Its caused several states and us territories like puerto rico to declare state of emergencies. In florida, doctors have diagnosed more than a dozen people with the virus after they traveled to south or central america. Florida governor rick scott declared a state of emergency for four counties in the state earlier thip week. A magnitude six point four quake is responsible for killing 11 people in taiwan. A Massive Force struck. Taiwans southwest coast where nearly two Million People live. There two high rise buildings collapsed. Firefighters and soldiers used cranes and and other equipment to rescue more than 200 people from the rubble. Well ke another look at your first alert forecast, next. Stay with tv9. Back now to todays top stories. A federal judge has delayed a sentencing decision for midamar founder, bill l ssey. Last july, a jury convicted him of mislabeling meat products, mail and wire fraud, and making false statemts. The judge uays a testimonys and arguments from yesterdays hearing led to that decision. The judge is now expected to sentence aossey on february 25th. And you can watch live sports action on kcrg nine point two tonight. The dubuque figging saints host the cedar rapids roughriders. Now, a final look at the forecast. Republican candidates just hours