The cbs affiliate in wichita reports the shooter 38 yearold cedric ford opened fire at the turf manufacturing plant just before 530 this evening. Officers did shoot and kill ford in a confrontation they arent releasing any other information about him. Right now, authorities are investigating four to five different crime scenes. We will keep following this story and bring you the latest on fox 28 iowa dot com and coming up on cbs 2 news ten at 10. Also tonight a cedar rapids popeyes restaurant is gaining attention on social media. Not for how the food tastes, but for how its handled. Handled. Several fox 28 news viewers shared a video which is a recording of a our Facebook Page pagefox 28 News Reporter dora miller milleris live to tell us what Health Officials and Community Members think about itdora, what are people saying . For the people who eat at the restaurant. Theyre not feeling too good right now. If you see Something Like this happening at a place you like to eat, theres a way to report it. It. We all know popeyes for their chicken. But now, some think their workers have gone fowl. Fowl. Keep on doing that and dropping that s t, they gonna eat that s t. They high and drunk anyway. Anyway. Yuck and i dont go out to eat much for that reason. Reason. Thats disgusting, at home the 30 second rule i understand, but not a restaurant thats supposed to be at a higher level. That video is finiding its way around the internet. And its enough to make heidi from the Health Department shake her head. Head. Oh no. She says its never okay to drop food on the floor and serve it. It. Theres no such thing as the 5 second rule. But if you happen to see Something Like first step is the public is to l l the restaurant know that youve seen something thats not to your satisfaction and give them the opportunity to correct it. If that doesnt fix the problem, theyll step in. In. They high and drunk anyway. Aint nobody got time already working hard. Hard. Thats really insulting to say that im high or drunk just because im youve pretty much just sulted your restaurant. But a person claiming to be the manager at popeyes says the employee wasnt talking about customers. He was referring to the people who work there and eat after hours. Hours. We hope that this was just an offhand joke said in the back of the restaurant and not the true case. All food inspection reports are posted online. We e ve a link to the Public Health website for that information. Dora miller, fox 28 news dora thanks. In a statement to fox 28 news, popeyes thanks customers for reporting the issue. And they say in part. They are investigating the situation and making sure nothing like this happens Sexual Assault is a brutal crime e that can leave both physical and emotional scars but across the country tens of now, officials are working to find out just how many of those untested kits are in iowa fox 28 News Reporter joe huisinga has more on how theyre handling the problem. Sexual assault or rape k ks are an important tool for law enforcment agencies to identify suspects and bring them to juctice. Now the Iowa AttorneyGenerals Office is looking to eliminate a backlog of untested kits. Kits. 19;37;27its not done like it is on csi they dont get everything tested and Everything Else you know in a matter of minutes 7testing of Sexual Assault kits is a costly and a time consuming process16;39;9 gardnerif you provide all of the kits to the crime lab in ankeny whats going to happen is youre going to over burden the system for those kits that you need tested immediately for cases that are ongoing 11 nationally there are an estimated 70 thousand untested kits. Now the iowa attornrn gegerals office i iconducting a survey to find a figure for part of the test group that helped identify what needed to be collected for their investigation for their survey so weve already provided them with our data. Have roughly 30 kits that have been left behind here that have not been tested. 13some kits arent tested including if the victims dont want to press charges, want to remain anonymous or if the suspects confess before testing is done the kits are kept for 10 years in case a survivor decides to press charges. 17;59;14 survivors may take some time it may be a long p piod of time down the road where theyre like you know im ready to talk about this or im ready to explore my options legally. Once all agencies have a a ll invenetory of untested kits the state will have to develop a plan to process them all with out overloading crime lab resorces. Joe huisinga, fox 28 news. Now an update to a truly disturbing story in dubuque. Dubuque. The lawyer for a man accused of sexually assaulting a woman and beating her to death says he has a mental disorder and isnt capable of against him. Him. Helmon betwell is charged with firstdegree murder and firstdegree Sexual Assault. Investigators say he randomly attacked 66yearold nancy krapfl in september. September. Betwells lawyer is asking to have criminal proceedings suspended until the court holds a competency hearing. Betwell told police he attacked krafl, because he had Nothing Better to do and that she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The founder of midamar foods will spend two years in prison. Prison. A judge handed down the sentence to William Aossey junior today. This is a case fox 28 news has been following for several years now. Now. A jury convicted aossey of conspiracy and fraud last year. The company which sells halal foods falsified packaging labels on beef and sold it knowing it wasnt up to halal standards. Happening right now nowthe five remaining republican president ial hopefuls are duking it out in a live look at the debate right now at the university of texas. Well hear the hot button issues the candidates are taking about tonight coming up in the second halfhour of fox 28 news at 9 30. Fox 28 news continues to track the latest in applpls fight with the fbi. Fbi. Techgiants google and facebook are now throwing their support behind apple. They plan to file Court Motions supporting the encryption case. Case. Apple has asked a judge to throw out an order forcing the company to break into the phone of one of the San Bernadino killers. In Court Documents filed this afternoon, apple says the fbi is seeking a dangerouou power through the court system. Ceo tim cook says this case isnt about one phoneits about every cell phone in america. And apple would have to write a piece of software to comply with the order. He also says if apple could get at the information without putting other peoples privacy at the same me, iowa lawmakers are working to protect the privacy of cellphone customers. Customers. Today, the house unanimoulsy passed a resolution adding new rules for how authorities can search and seize electronic communitcations and data. It would make any electronic record only accessible with a warrant. Once approved, the measure would be put to votots inin018. What do you think . Whats more importantsecurity or privacy. Log on to fox 28 iowa dot com and take part in our national poll. New development tonight on cbs 2 news in the battle over the Supreme Court vacancy. Vacancy. One republican considered a possible nominee is saying thanks, but no thanks. Thanks. Today Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval took himself out of the running. Sandovals decision comes just a day after reports swirled that he was on the nominee short list. Another name thought to be on that list, is iowa federal judge jane kelly. Iowa senator head of the Senate Judiciary committee e vows thahano hearings will be held to discuss any of the president s nominees. As the Supreme Court battle intensifies, senator grassley may soon be feeling some heat when it comes to his own position. Today former Lieutenant Governor patti judge announced shes thinking about challenging him in november november. Today she ld the des moines register, shes isnt ruling out a run. Judge made two successful runs as secretary of agriculture before serving as Lieutenant Governor under former governor chet culver. She told the newspaper the senator deserves a strong challenge this year. New tonight the university of iowa is taking sustainability to the next vel. Vel. Even though its winter, some local farmers and ui staff today were harvesting miscanthus, a type of tall grass. This perennial can grow up to 13feet and can live for 30years. The grass is used by the university as a renewable power, heat and cooling on campus. Ththuniversity says the cost is going to be comparable to coal. Their goal is to achieve 40percent Renewable Energy by 2020. Next on fox 28 news, news,the miraclous story of one eastern iowa woman and why her Health Conditions have baffled all of her doctors. Doctors. And a warm up is in store for eastern iowa chief meteorologist terry swails tells us just how warm well live, and were ending our week with a laugh. Laugh. Comedian Jim Florentine stage this weekend at penguins. Thats tomorrow on fox 28 morning live eastern iowas only 7 am newscast. Full of life. Smart, caring, beautiful and physically fit. So when heidi suddenly died on her 21st birthday, it shocked everybody who knew her. And even with all the advances in medical technology through the years, heidi still doesnt have an answera answera but she does know why shes still alive. This warm and loving family in marion almost nener happened. whiteout effect to pic day of my cardiac arrest only hours after this wisconsin vacation photo was taken in 2002, heidiwithout any warning suffered a cardiac arrest. I dont really remembera i kind of remember being in the room. But apparently the phone rang stopped breathing from what i was told. A friend started cpr, called 911 and fortunately, a nearby Police Officer had a portable defibrillator. They got her heart beating again but she was in pretty bad shape, so doctors eventually airlifted heidi to a madison hospital. I guess i was not respsive, they put me on life support and it got to the point where the doctors had to have a meeting with my parents toa you know, discuss the thing that parents never want to discuss. Miraculously, heidi pulled through and was extensively studied to determine the cause of her cardiac arrest. But doctors never came up with a difinitive answer. Completely healthy by all other measurements, heidi received an implantable defibrillator in her chest. Chest. And it has leads that go down through the venous system into the heart, attached to the heart and sit in there to monitor the heart, pace the heart and potentially defibrillate the heart if needed. Back on her feet, heidi resumed training for a college degree. So it would have been 2003 after i graduated, i started not feeling well. Again. Heidi contracted pneumonia and thats when doctors discovered numerous blood clots that had spread to her lungs. Again, no explanation. Explanation. Shes had an extensive workup to look for a hypercoagulable state, the ability to form clots where you shouldnt form clots. And they found some abnormalities but nothing that they really could say that was it. One of the clots, an inchandahalf large, had grown on her defibrillators lead line into her heart. So doctors opened heidis chest, removed the clot and placed a defibrillator outside her heart in her abdomen. Taking the hardware which is two little pacing leads, sensing leads that screw right into your heart muscle, and these two Little Things that look like small flyswatters. Theyre about that big and they look like mesh, and you and back of your heart and those are the defibrillating paddles. Not willing to give up and stop living, heidi and casey got married, had two beautiful daughters. You think about why am i here . And theyre my reason. And now, fulfilling another dream, heidi is running her own womens clothihi store in uptown marion. Other than having a cardiac arrest and having some procedures for this hardware, she leads a very normal, active life. By the way, heidi recently completed that Half Marathon she started training for thirteen years ago. And the beat goes on. On. Oh, you know you justa you cant take life for granted. You gotta live each daya in the moment. You never know, you know, you get so wrapped up in your everyday life and its just a good reminder that life can you can meet heidi saturday night at the 24th cedar rapids heart ball which raises money for Cardiovascular Research and education. We have a link with all the information at fox 28 iowa dot still to come still to come on fox 28 28we take you inside a church where prayers come with a price. Fox 28 news is back in whats all this nonsense about balls . Pink balls, blue, yellow, red. Its hard to keep the whole thing straight. And all these socalled deals . Like when you leave the city the signal goes weak. U. S. Cellular built a network to give you a stronger signal where the other guys dont. And as for deals . Hows 300 back for every line you switch . 300 no ball nonsense. Get 300 per line and a stronger signal, based church is under fire tonight for the way it offers prayers. Fox 28 News National reporter Connie Thompson takes us inside the Christian Prayer Center where prayers come with a price. Price. For millions of people prayers have the power to bring healing and lighten lifes burdens. Most believers will gladly pray for you, free of charge. But at the Christian Prayer Center, a self described Online Church prayer comes with conditions. connie post Prayer Requests and receive prayers from thousands of christians. As long as you have a credit card. theres no mention of in the details. In order to get your message to the almighty, you have to sign in and answer a prayer survey that leads to the digital collection plate. The prayers start at 9 bucks. pastor john carlson jesus never did that. Jesus never did that. pastor john carlson is indignant. Indignant. people are thinking that their problems are going to be solved. carlsons congregation regularly meets in this Community Center outside seattle. Seattle. these are the rules of gods kingdom. by his rules only ungodly, its personal. Personal. well one fellow i remember, said i was going to hell. people posting complaints online think hes the one asking for money. I discovered carlsons name is linked to the Christian Prayer Center in state records. He says hes not involved but is still suffering the wrath of the righteous. Righteous. with people who are really upset and angry at pastor john carlson. And im pastor john carlson. beyond the prayer Business Bureau has taken complaints about unexpected monthly charges. Charges. they called us because they were upset they couldnt get a refund. They had a hard time getting ahold of the company. They tried emailing them. state licensing records show Christian Prayer Center is the brainchild brainchildof this man benjamin rogovy. We first met him back in 2005 promoting a venture he called bumvertising paying panhandlers to advertise his game website on their signs. rogovy theyre better off advertising for me than no advertising for me. we tried to reach rogovy to talk about the Christian Prayer Center through his Seattle Post Office box at his seattle home, home, knock on door by email and by phone but were met with silence. Silence. The website addresses the money questions in the about us section. Saying theres little difference between a credit card charge and an offering plate. assistant ag Shannon Smith what i would recommend people do, is spend some extra time, conditions. the state Attorney Generals Office has also received complaints 18 so far from prayer seekers across the country even singapore. Brian camerons wife wanted prayers after his cancer diagnosis. Diagnosis. cameron phoner if my wife, in her desperation, was falling for this, lord knows how many other people were actually paying him money. money. pastor carlson this guy preys on the desperation of people. Thats the way it looks to me. Connie Thompson reporting. It may look that way, but because Christian Prayer Center is really a Forprofit Corporation charging for prayers is perfectly legal. Next on fox 28 news, the gloves are off as the gop president ial hopefuls duke it out in the latest debate. Well have recap of whats been said so far. Plus. The improvements leaders plan to bring to parks narrowed republican president ial field is battling it out in texas. This is the final debate before super tuesday. Tuesday. After three straight wins. Donald trump walked into tonights debate as the gops president ial frontrunner. The other remaining candidates include marco rubio, ted cruz, john kasich, and ben carson. But it was the topic of immigration and trumps hiring record that triggered sparks between rubio and the billionaire businessman. Marco rubio, youre the only person whos ever been fined for hiring people illegallya donald trump, im the only one whos ever hired anybody. cheers ive hired tens of thousands , you hired nobodya you have problems, cards, et cetera. Ted cruz, in 2013, when i was leading the fight against the gang of 8 amnesty bill, and where was donald . Firing Dennis Rodman on celebrity apprentice. Marco rubio, if he builds the wall like he built trump towers, hes going to use illegal immigrant labor to do it. It. For extended political coverage and reaction from tonights debate, watch iowa in focus sunday morning right here on fox 28. Taking a look at the delegate count ahead of super tuesday. Trump has 81 delegates. Rubio and cruz each have 17. Eleven states will hand out 595delegates on super tuesday. Thats coming up on march first. Heres a look at the democrats delegate count ahead of this weekends South Carolina primary. Hillary clinton has a commanding lead the former secretary of state has more than fivehundred delegates. Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has 71. Voters in the palmetto state will go iran says it will conduct a rocket test in the next few days part of what it calls a space launch program. But that plus two missile tests last fall is raising eyebrows in washington with some saying such tests violates a Un Security Council resolution. Resolution. Fox 28 National CorrespondentKristine Frazao takes a look at whats at stake. Stake. A show of forcea on Iranian State tv, leaders flaunt a missile storage facility. Now, new information the Islamic Republic plans yet another a test, a space launch, in the coming days. Fredthis space launch vehicle will have a range of 45000 kilometers. Theres no chance that this is for satellites or putting monkeys into space. This is a test of an icbmthe icbm or Intercontinental Ballistic Missile tests are not prohibited by the iran nuclear deal. But fred fleitz, a former cia analyst , says its no doubt iran flexing its Ballistic Missile tests conducted last fall , nats and a recent letter from an iranian general to president Hassan Rouhani suggesting the goal of forcing americans back to the negotiating table. Fred fleitz former cia analyst it wouldnt surprise me that the reason theyre making these provocative statements is that they would like to get concessions out of the west especially the united states. Standupconcessions, like additional sanctions relief, which is raising concerns from lawmakers on both sides of the aislerep. Will hurd rtexas are they trying to target our friends like israel . How are they trying to threaten the balance of power within the middle east against some of these other moderate sunni arab nations . Rep. James himes dconnecticut if their activities are outside of their obligations thats not leverage, thats a cause for sanctions and for punishment by the international community. Still some experts call irans actions propaganda with the state department saying so far there have been no violations. Though no doubt World Leaders will be watching and waiting the future of an already delicate relationship, hanging in the the warmer temperatures lately may have given you the itch to get outdoors. With spring closing in, corridor cities are spending millions of dollars getting ready for people to do just that. That. Fox 28 News ReporterMellaney Moore explains all the park improvements coming to Johnson County this year. Year. More peoplea means a city needs more room to play. Play. The citys population is now over 18,000 people. When i started here about 20 years ago, there was about 2,500 people. This week North Liberty approved the new 10year parks comprehensive plan. Part of the plan identifies areas where the city might consider buying land for future parks before the area is developed. It also has plans to improve the parks that already exist. Exist. We currently have 20 parks, about 275 acres of ground that we maintain. There are more than a Million Dollars in improvements for this year. Park and rec says many of them will be completed by midsummer. A shelter area will meadows restroom and concession stand. Stand. We also have a splash pad going to go in here this summer, which is right directly behind me. In july, the city plans to add four thousand feet of recreational trail around the border of Centennial Park and additional parking. Beaver creek park is getting a new playground with a zipline. Zipline. Our parks and our facilities are really the Community Gathering places. Its where we want neighbors to meet neighbors, thats where we want families to have some time outside. Iowa city park and rec says there are more than a Million Dollars in projects happening all over the city to be completed this summer. The biggest is a new 150 thousand dollar playground coming to mercer park. Park. Its a very popular park because of the athletic fields that are there and the picnic pavilion, so a lot of people visit that park and i think theyre really going to enjoy the brand new playground. Covering the corridor in Johnson County, Mellaney Moore, cbs 2 news. Mellaney moore reporting. In solon the towns first and only Traffic Signals are in the works. Starting in june, four lights will go in at the and highway one. The city received 115thousand dollars in Traffic Safety funds from the iowa dot. The total cost is more than 230thousand dollars. The city hopes to have the project completed by the end of september. Nearly all americans have played it fast and loose behind the wheel at some point. Triplea says 87percent of drivers engaged in at least one risky behavior while behind the wheel in the last month. They include things like driving while distracted or sleepy and not wearing a seat belt. Experts estimate more than 35thousand americans were killed in coming up in ssports sportsthe hawks were badgered by the badgers last night why there isnt any panic in iowa city cityplus eric keller is doing more than just winning on the mat in wartburg how hes taking the knights to the next level next in the ed after fyling high for most of the big 10 season lately the hawks are heading south in the standings and last night against wisconsin lets face it they got badgered badgeredthe hawks lost their 6th straight game in the series and didnt look at all like what we are used to seeing iowa scored a season low 59 points turned it over 14 times and their bench was outscored 23 to 4 but the hawks are confident they can get back on track. We didnt execute like we needed to. So we just have to do a better job of that, and theyve got to understand that when im asking them to do something they havent already done, like theyve already just got to get back to playing that way. Way. We know that we are capable of being the best team in the country. Weve shown that before. Its not like it left us. We just have to get back to playing that way and playing the way we know how to play. Unlike iowa city, it was all smiles in cedar falls last night after unis senior day send off the pantehrs dominated the sycamores from the opening tip Northern Iowa downed indiana state by 22 for their 8 win out of their last 9 games and the scary thing for the rest of the valley coach jake believes the best is yet to come from the panthers. The thing i keep telling them is we are playing really good, but you have to want more. From a mindset standpoint, from a mentality standpoint. You haveto want more. Gotta find more and theyve done a good job of that. That. We are really rolling right now. Everybody is playing well. I dont think we could really ask for anymore at this point from all of our guys. Cedar rapids xavier finished the regular season on a 6 game saints quickly put that behind them with 43 point win over williamsburg in their district semifinal and looked like the team that started the year winning 9 of their first 10 10up next for xavier clear creek amana in the district finalsclippers down three late in the first Jake Neubauer stops pumps and rattles it home to cut the lead to 1 but the saints marched out of the gates to start the Second Quarter matt mims dials Long Distance and connects part of a 7 nothing run for xavierand then bryce shulte dishes to Nolan Butkowski another 3 for the saints xavier moves on 56 to 43. Theyll play Mount Pleasant monday for a spot at state. 1as defending champ Gladbrook Reinbeck taking on Grundy Center in their district final and the spartans werent scared of the 1 loss rebels chase boren splashes home the three ball Grundy Center jumped out to a 4 point leadbut gr got things going after that joe smoldt stops and pops for three rebels led by 4 after 1and then tyler lefty sunk 3 threes in the 2nd rebels will take on lynville sulley saturday winner heads to des moines. Its safe to say winning is a tradition for wartburg wrestling the knights have won 6 Straight National championships and 24 consecutive conference titles and eric keller is definitley all about it hes only lost 3 duals since taking over the program but what really gets him going training his wrestlers for life lifeeric keller our ed thomas coach of the week week the writing is on the wall at wartburg literally the tradition started before i was born. So you realize youre doing it for a lot more than just yourself. Yourself. Every time you put that singlet on its just like you feel obligated to hold that torch. Hold the rope for everything this programs ever done. And continue the tradition of dominance the expectation is excellence and nobody is expecting more out of this progam and these guys then me. Isnt only about conference titles or National Championships thats really what we are doing. We are teaching guys life through a sport. You know thats wrestling. Wrestling. If you give up on the mat youre going to give up in life. Every thing you do in this room coresponds to the character you show outside this room. And thats the most important to Keller Keller we want to be here for you. And they no its not just words. When you are done with this program. When you go out in the real world youre a better person because you went through here. And thats our goal. A goal hes taken down he leads by example. Hes not somebody who comes in here and preaches stuff he doesnt do. Hes a mile a minute. And thats what we all strive to be. Hes somebody we look up to so hes everything. Everything. Thats a check of sports terry has a last check of your forecast when the fox 28 news who wants more potatoes . Hit me. Chelsea, the way its supposed to work here is that berta serves us dinner. I dont mind. Hear that . She doesnt mind. Shut up. Evelyn were back hey, howd it go . I dont know what you were worried about. Your son is a wonderful driver. Oh, well, thanks for taking him, mom. He needs the practice. Mmm, pork chops. What are you wearing . Grandma bought it for me. Pretty cool, huh . You made him dress up as a chauffeur . He loves it. Dont get grease on that jacket, dear. Yes, miss evelyn. Would you like to join us for dinner . Oh, no, thanks, i had a late lunch. And she sent a piece of pie out to the car so i could eat, too. Anyway, i better get going. Well, thanks again, mom. Say thanks to grandma. Thank you, miss evelyn. Good to see you. You, too. Oh, i almost forgot