Their weapons behind and breaking news overnight. Overnight. The four remaining occupiers at a wildlife refuge in oregon will turn themselves in this morning. Morning. Sean anderson is one of the men Still Holding out t and he says he spoke with the fbi and agreed to leave their weapons behind and walk onebyone to a police checkpoint. This standoff has been going on since the beginning of the year when it started to protest federal landuse policies. The leader of the group ammon bundy was arrested back in january and the groups spokesman was killed the same day in a shootout with police. And righghnow ammons fathererliven bundy is in an oregon jail cell. Cliven traveled to a Portland Airport but no charges have been at the center of a nevada standoff back in 2014 with federal officials over the use of public lands. Well continue to track this story for the latest developments. New this morning out of the isolated nation of north korea, korea,it appears leader kim jong un has executed his military chief for corruption and other charges. Thats according to a south korean official, details from inside the north are ry difficult for outsiders to get. But if the execution did happen, this would be the latest in a series of killings and dismassals since he took power in late 2011. The us senate has approved new sanctions against north korea, with an overwheming 96 to 0 vote. Vote. The measure is meant to punish the rogue nation for recent nuclear and Ballistic Missile tests. It will target north koreas ability finance Nuclear Warheads and longrange missiles. The legislation also authorizes 50 Million Dollars over the next five years to send Radio Broadcasts into north korea and to support humanitarian assiststce programs. Hampshire,vermont senator Bernie Sanders will square off in a debate tonight against hillary clinton. Clinton. The two have split the first two states in the nomination process with clinton narrowly defeating sanders in the Iowa Caucuses last week. Tonights debate will be in milwaukee, wisconsin and starts at 8. Pbs is hosting but cnn will also carry coverage. Bernie sanders has pulled in another boost in fundraising. His success in New Hampshire has helped his campaign raise nearly 6Million Dollars in just one day. He had a similar fundraising boost after his close loss in iowa last week. President barack obama has not endorsed a candidate in this race but his former White House Press secretary jay carney believes the presididt prefers clinton. I think the president has signaled, while remaining neutral, that he supports secretary clintons candidacy and would prefer to see her as the nominee. He wont officially embrace her unless and until shes going to be nominee. The white house declined to comment. On the campaign t til clinton talks a lot about how close she is with the president. But Bernie Sanders just met with him at the white house a few weeks ago. The crowded field of republicans is narrowing. Two more candidates bowed out of the race following the New Hampshire primary. Primary. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie suspended his campaign after a bad showing tuesday night. He finished in sixth place. Christie de the annoucnement on facebook wednesday, saying hes leaving the race without an ounce of regret. Carly fiorina is also dropping out of the race. The former hewlettpackard ceo says she will quote continue to fight for those americans who refuse to settle for the way things are. Are. She finished in seventh place in New Hampshire. That still leaves seven republicans in the race for their partys nomination. The gop candidates xt debate is this weekend in south carolina, thats the location of the next republican primary. You can watch the debate right here on cbs 2 saturday night, it starts at 8. Schools in iowa city will be on different schedules next year. Year. The School District is elementary junior and high school students. Students. Elementary students will start at 755 while older students will begin their day at 8fifty. These changes came in response to concerns from parents after the district changed the start times for students this school year. Cbs 2 news spoke to parents who welcome the switchch kristi allen, parent22 46 21 the adjustment this year was way hard on the bell schedule, was huge, but i think going back to what seems like more normala will be a relief. Relief. Officials say their Research Shows Elementary School students perform better at earlier times and it lets older students who can drive to help take care of their younger siblings. Iowa city west high was the target of a threat on wednesday. The School District says the threat was phoned in a little after noon. Parents were notified and classes went on as scheduledits the second threat towards west high in the past month. In january police say a suspect called in a threat before going to rob a bank. Ioio is lower than previous s yeyes, but as we get close to peak season, iowa is one of only three states where the cdc has listed it as widespread. Widespread. Geographically, the flu is hitting every corner of the sste hard this year. Doctors say its never too late to get a flu shot, so if you havent received one yet, you can still get vaccinated. Usually flu symptoms will subside after a few days but ififou have more serious symptoms you should seek emergency help. If youre having trouble breathing if you are feeling significantly sh rt of breath or you are not able to keep fluids down if youre feeling pretty profoundly weak or light headed, feeling like you might faint those would be big things to come to the er for. Doctors say for more mild symptoms like body aches and fever its still a good idea to talk to your doctor. There have not been any reports of the zika virus in iowa. But the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center is now asking donors extra screening questions. Questions. They want to know if donors have traveled recently especially out of the country to mexico the any other country where zika is found. Those people have to wait 28 days tdonone. Right now they arent concerned about donors traveling to florida or anywhere in the United States aabb d a survey and a study recently to e how many donors they could for see being impacted by this 28 day referral period and their looking at just over two percent of blood donors that would be included. Two percent doesnt sound like a lot but we see thousands of blood donors in our organization ery week. week. Theyre also asking if you have been sick recentltl ththcenter hopes more people will donate blood to make up for the donations they expect to lose due to the zika virus. The zika virus now has u. S. Womens soccer goalie hope solo rethinking this summers olympics in brazil. Brazil is the epicenter of the outbreak, and solo says if they games were held today, she would not go. Olympic officials are working on ways to best protect athletes and good morning again, thanks for waking up with cbs 2 this morning. Morning. Its right now on this morning morning coming up next. Xxxx xxxxin your cbs 2 weather first forecast we have. Behold the power of protein in birds eye protein blends. Ok. Theyre delicious side dishes with the protein of beans, whole grains. And veggies mmm good. My work here is dooooone birds eye protein blends. Main weather your planner shows whats ahead for the next hoursa now a live look outside courtesy of our weatherfirst skycama temperatures around the area will be colda taking a look at regional temperatures we colda the regional satellite radar is featuring mostly sunshine todaya lets move ahead in time by taking a look at the midwest surface mapa moving into a closer view with our predictor forecast we see some snowy evenings todays forecast bring us sunshine today tonights forecast has us dealing with light snow chances tomorrow will feature mostly sunny skies with a cold evening the next three days bring us more cold weather our 7 day forecast has evening snow owers with warmer weekend weather its an exciting week for the cedar rapids titans. Its an exciting week for the cedar rapids titans. Titans. The first game of the season is friday fridaycbs 2 News Reporter Stephanie Johnson now joins us live liveat the us cellualr center in cedar rapids. Hey guys, im sitting with a couple of players. Playays. Are you excited for the first game . How did the team prepare for the first game . Do you think this season will be better thdn last season . Season . Live in. Stephanie johnson, cbs 2 nene. Johnson, cbs 2 news. Its now on this morning. Morning. D if youre in its degrees. If the cyclones could pull out a win even with one of their starters riding the bench. Heres a look at some of eastern iowas top stories on this morning. An ia County High School is getting in the prom spirit a little early this year. This weekend, eelish valleys high used formal gowns. In just a month, nearly 300dresses have been donated for the sale, each is priced between 20 to 350 dollars. For each dress sold 10dollars will be donated to help provide activities for students after prom. The event will be held in the school gym from two to five saturday afternoon. We have an update on a fundraiser wwve been telling you about the past few days. The blue bird diner in North Liberty raised 450dollars for todd bevans who recently lost hiservice dog to cancer. Bevans also has a gofundme page set up which has raised more than 11thousand dollars. Bevans is blindand will use the money for a new, specially Trained Service dog. Cyclone men were in this same situation on the road with no jameel mckay nd it worked well the first time iowa state left stillwater with the win in lubbock, the plan isnt to go 2 for 2 its to go 4 for 4 victories somthi isu hasnt done in 15 years jump to the 2nd half and the dynamic duo of Georges Niang and monte morris went to work morris with the nice bounce pass to niang who lays it up and in and then its niang working hard on the block the baby hook looks so good it would be more than two. And if you like that youll love this morris with the ally Deonte Burton bringin the oop big time s from burton but the red raidids would come all the way back to force overtime and in ot keenan evans backs in the triple texas tech upsets iowa state 85 to 82 uni looking for their 5th straight win hosting Missouri State and t panthers shot the lights out in the first half jermey morgan stops and pops for 2 of his career high 21 p pnts uni led by 11 at the break and they werent done second half Matt Bohannon went over 1 thousand point mark in his career he finished with 19 points and 5 triples him m e king chef the one handed slam part of his 19 point performance panthers make it 5 straight 83 to 69. The starmont girls baskskball team might have done something this season nobody has ever done in the state of iowa start 5 relatives in 1 game proving the stars arent just a team but a High School Wrestling 3a regional final kennedy hosting clinton winner heads to the state dual touramentthe cougars got off to a strong start at 160 check out ben sareahsins balance on his head getting the near fall sareahsin would win with a tech fallthen at 182 garrett kuebohvec gets the huge take down enrout to his 12 to 4 major decisionbut spree and take the dual x to x the final. Stay witcbs Community Calendar is brought to you by collins we now know whats in this years oscars gift bags that will be given to the Academy Awards nominees. Theyll dollars in gifts. Gifts. On the highend, items like a 10day, firstclass tripipo israel and unlimited audi car rentals from silvercarless expensive items include a hazeual v3 vaporizer, which retails for about 250 dollars. But the most interesting item might be the voucher for the vampire breast liftapparently a new hollywood must have. Its said to use quote bloodderived growth factors to revive implants. Also on the long list of highpriced items. Toilet paper. Said to be the most soothing and absorbent available. Available. The 88th Academy Awards air live february 28th. Good morning again its now right now its degrees in coming up next. The breaking news overnight after a shootout erupted in a panera bread on the east coast. Coast. Youre watching cbs 2 this morning covering the right now on cbs 2 this morning. The breaking news overnight in maryland ere two Police Officers and their killer are all dead. The new details this morning about an incident that forced an officer to fire his weapon. The latest infmation this morning about the eastern iowa group trying fight back across the nation. Welcome to cbs two this morning. Im kevin bbarry. Barry. And im kelly dambrosio. Dambrosio. Lets get a check of our cbs 2 weather first forecast. First weather your planner shows whats ahead a w a live look outside courtesy of our weatherfirst skycama temperatures around the area will be cool again todaya the current winds around our viewing area are calma our planner features mostly sunny skies new this morning. Morning. Flags in maryland are at halfstaff today to honor two deputies that were sho and killed. Killed. One deputy was shot in the head in a crowdepanera bread abingdon, which is 20 miles northeast of baltimore. The second deputy suffered a fatal wound during a shootout. The suspect, 68yearold david evans, was later killed in a shootout with police. Witnesses inside the restaurant described the suspect as a cold, calculated killer. He just took out his gun and shot him in the head right after the officer just asked him, how was y yr day . day . all the people who were in there and witnessed this, in talking, think that it was probably a man who knew what he was doing with a gun because he shot directly into his head. I mean, the man did not have a chance, shooter targeted the first victim because he was wearing a uniform. Many people later came to e restaurant to leave flowers and pay their respects. We have new dedeils this morning about an officer involved shooting wednesday in des moines. Moines. 25yearold austin allen is in jail right now accused of driving a stolen vehicle directly at a police officer. Officer. Thats when police say that officer fired at the vehicle but missed. Allen drove off ditched the car and tried to run but authorities arrested him at an apartment complex. No one was hurt ananthe case is now under investigation. A man is now facing five attempted murder charges for a shooting and standoff in omaha. Police say 63yearold Dwight Rogers opened fire around 2 wednesday afternoon at a local pub before driving away. Officers tracked rogers to his apartment where he shot at them before surrendering. No one was hurt. The man who shot and killed Bobby Kennedy has now been denied parole for a 15th time. Time. Kennedy in june of 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in los angeles just after the president ial candidate won the california primary. He also wounded fiveother people, including a kennedy adviser who testified at sirhans latest parole hearing that he could not have been the only shooter. Sirhan still maintains he does not remember shooting kennedy. In howard county, investigators are still stilltrying to figure out the cause of a fire that heavily damaged a local business in cresco. Cresco. The fire at deans auto body earlier in the week actually caused neighbors near the shop to bebeevacuated due to paint chemical fumes coming from the building. Those neighbors were later able to return to their homes when the situation was deemed safe. Cedar rapids played host to a very serious summit on a dangerous drug. Drug. The Eastern Iowa Heroin Initiative held a town hall meeting at the cedar rapids public library. Library. Law enforcement agencies the Us Attorneys Office and survivors told their stories to help anyone in eastern iowa handling the and black hawk counties may only have 16 percent of the states population but those counties account for 44percent of the heroin incidents in iowa between overdoses hospital visits and police calls. In the Law Enforcement community we know we cant arrest o o way out of this problem, budded to it really needs a 360 degree multifaceted approach. Approach. Officials say the solution involves doctors being more aware of who they prescribe medications to, putting fewer pills into the community while Law Enforcement is also more committed to helping addicts. State lawmakers are workingn ona bill that could provide a lifesavininoption n addicts. Addicts. S. E legislation would leagalize a drug called narcan. Its given to drug users that overdose on heroin or opioids to help stop cardiac arrest. Some lawmakers rgue it gives addicts a second addicts a Second Chance before its too late. The bill unanimously passed the House Public Safety Committee and now goes to the civil Rights Groups are pushing state lawmakers to reform iowas criminal justice system. System. Members from the local ndoubleacp and other advocacy groups were at the state House Wednesday to support mmtiple bills. The legislation would ban racial profiling, keep juvenile records confidential and ban the box to expand Work Opportunities for people with criminal histories. The president of t t iowanebraska group, says lawmakers need to address several issues, like disenfranchising voters and overall Racial Disparities in the criminaljustice system. The partment of justice has s filed a lawsuit against the city of ferguson, missouri, claiming the city continues to violate the rights of African American residents. Residents. The doj and ferguson had previously come to an agreement in a civil rights investigation that would have reform the Police Department and the court system. The investigation began following the 2014 Police Shooting death of michael brown. But earlier this week the towns c cy council ammended the agreement, changing deadlines, fees and requirements. mayor James Knowles ferguson, mo there is no reason to enter into an agreement we know that we can not live up to. And financially impossible for us to live up to. And it serves no ones purpose fous to fail. Fail. Next, thfederal government will try to proro ininourt the city made constitutional violations through baseless stops and searches of black drivers, Excessive Force by officers and a prot driven court system. Hackers used stolen personal data in a cyber attack on the irs website. They used about 460thousand Social Security numbers to create fake logins. Thieves were trying to generate pin numbers hich could be used for ffing fraudulent tax returns. The irs says its notifyinf affected taxpayers by mail and add no personal mail and add no personal taxpayer data was compromised. An update to cruise ship that had hadto turn around after it was caught in a major storm in the atlantic ocean. Ocean. The ship and its back on land this morning. 45hundred passengers had to ride out the storm with its 30 foot waves and Hurricane Force winds. sot Kim Robinette passenger weve been on the high seas we were trapped in our room for 17 hours like on a rollercoaster you cant get off and you werent strapped in. sot dennis maher passenger i thought i uldnt make it. I thought we might have to use the lifeboats and what not, so it was pretet ild. Woke up, things were flying everywhere. Everywhere. Four passengers got minor injuries. Royal caribbean is giving every passenger a full refund and a certificate for half off on a future crurue. Good morning again, thanks for waking up with cbs 2 this morning. Morning. Its right now on this morning morning in your cbs 2 weather first forecast we have. Main weather your planner shows whats ahead for the next hououa now w live look outside urtesy of our weatherfirst skycama temperatures around the area will be colda taking a look at regional temperatures we see are going to remain satellite radar is featuring mostly sunshine todaya lets move ahead in time by taking a look at the midwest surface mapa moving into a closer view with our predictor forecast we see some snowy evenings todays forecast bring us sunshine today tonights forecast has us dealing with lqght snow chances tomorrow will feature mostly sunny skies with a cold evening the next three days bring us more cold weather our 7 day forecast has evening snow showers with warmer weekend weather the nfl the nfl season is over but the cedar rapids Indoor Football Team the titans are ready to hit the field. Field. The first game of the season is this friday and cbs 2 reporter is down at the u. S. Cellular center with more more hey guys, im sitting with a couple of players. Are you excited for the first game . How did the team prepare for thth firsrsgame . Do you think this season will be better than last season . Hey guys, im sitting with a couple of players. Players. Are you excited for the first ga . How did the team prepare for the first game . Do you think this season will be better than last season . Johnson, cbs 2 news. News. Thanks, stephanie. News. Johnson, cbs 2 nnews. News. Thanks, stephanie. Its and youre watching cbs 2 this morning. Morning. And if youre in its degrees. Breaking news from north korea this morning about the latest welcome back its now were taking a look at your your problems continue for social media giant twitter. The company says it lost two million users in the last 15. That news caused twitter stock to drop 12percent in afterhours trading wednesday. At the end of last year twitter had about 305million active users. Facebook has onepointsix billion. Even instagram passed twitter in september with 400million users. Twitter has been struggling to win over new users. Youtube is taking on streaming Services Like netflix and hulu. Theyve released threemade foryoutube movies. Movies. They also launched d new series, which is available to customers who have you tubes red subscription service. It costs 10 dollars a month. This allows customers to watch content ad free and gives them access to original content and their music service. All in response to the success their competitors have seen with original content. The average us household is expected to pocket around 3 hundred20 dollars in savings this year, all thanks to plunging prices at the pump. Pump. The Energy Information Administration Says the average price of gas for the dollar 98 a gallon. Thats the lowest fullyear average since 2009. Triplea says the current average price of gas is 172 a gallon. But that is ojected to start climbing soon. Volkswagen is recalling hundreds of thousands of cars because of airbag problems. Problems. The recall involves 680thousand vehicles of different models in the us. The company says the vehicles hold drivers side airbags that may have defective inflators from takata. According to takata the inflator may rupture and metal fragments could pass through the air babaand hurt or kill the driver. The recall includes several models made between 2006 and 2014. Volkswagen plans to notify all owners of affected vehicles about the recall. The us is one step closer to having true Driverless Cars on the road. Road. Regulators have insisted Driverless Cars still need a driver who can take controroby grabbing the eering wheel and slamming on the brakes. This week regulators gave car that wouldnt need a driver at all. No Steering Wheel no accelerator or brakes. This wont stop states from passing laws requiring vehicles to have those things. Those cars are still years away from being available. Another harry potter book is on the way but its not exactly what you think. Think. So you know how theyre doing the new play harry potter and the cursed child. Well, its the h hdback version of the script the play opens july 30th in london. And this is just too much for potter fans, the book will be released the next day which is. Guess what. Harry potters birthday. The play is cowritten by jk rowling and two others. This will be rowlings first potter its right now its degrees in just ahead. The latest information this morning about another bomb threat called into an iowa city school. Final weatatr your p pnner shows whats ahead a the regional satellite radar is featuring sunshine todaya moving into a closer view with our predictor forecast we see some snowy evenings todays forecast bring us sunshine today our 7 day forecast has evening snow from the nfl to the uil, concussions are a serious business. He hit me right here the last thing i remember mathew freemans ears were ringing when he got the standard questions. Whats your name do you know what day it is . The freshman answered them all correctly. So. Should he continue to play . Baylor college of medicine dr. David eagelman thought there must be a more scientific way to approach the problem. By testing. Perception cognition, memorythe neuroscientist designed braincheck, which measures brain function. Kids take a baseline test, before the season. And after a hit. Test again. While on the field compare the results. In 5 minutes we can tell whether or not to send that child back to play or send him to the dr. We can also use it to track recovery for time. To help determine when to return to the game. Former nfl linebacker joe wesley is also working with braincheck. For food drive can trigger questions. I really forget everything i just orderedam i really have some type of effector am i just tiredyy ask yourselves those question in your daily routine . Yes hes likes the technology, with randomly generated questions. Its gives you opportunity not to game the test. We asked matthew to give the app a try. I really had to think about some of the stuff i was doingits tougher than the field test he did pass. By the way his coaches, pulled him from the game. My parents actually drove me to the hospitalan xray showed the 15 year old did have a concussion. The cdc estimates that somewhere between 1 and nearly 4 million concussions happen each year. Year. And only 5to10 percent of sports related concussions involve a player actually losing consciousness, so they can be difficult to spot sometimes. If youre just getting up, good morning its now right now its degrees in coming up next. Were overnight in oregon where the federal land protest may be coming to an end and one of the groups biggest supporters is in jail. Jail. Youre watching cbs 2 right now on cbs 2 this morning. The breaking news overnight about what could be the end to the stand off in oregon thas already killed the latete information about
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