Billion dollar mark. A three percent increase from 2014. Im getting a dress pretty soon. I got some lotion for my mom and socks for my brother. Its estimated about 136 Million People will be shopping during the thanksgiving weekend, compared with a little over 133 million last yearsales will continue through this weekend and early next week at Southern Hills mall. And even with everything to be thankful for, shoppers were excited to catch somf savings. They lowered the price a lot, even though black fridays really chaotic. Theres lots of good deals. Because typically were waiting in line for half an hour and now were getting through lines pretty quickly, so its kind of nice to shop. Reporting in sioux city on this black friday, im jetske wauran. Siouxland news. 3 3 and while today is dedicatete to shopping at nationwide retailers. Tomorrow the deal search turns localtomorrow is Small Business saturday. Where those in search of holiday sales are asked to visit their local businesses. In sioux city. Businesses throughout the downtown area will be offering special deals. To find a list of the stores taking part. You can follow the link in this story on our websbste, ouxland news dot com. 3 thanksgiving Holiday Shopping sales appear to be off to a good start. Sales tracker adobe estimates that more than one billion dollars was spent online thursday. Thats up 22 percent from the previous thanksgiving. Adobe says more than a quarter of those sales came from mobile devices. Another firm, channeladvisor, says sales at amazon were up 30 percent from a year ago as of midday on thanksgiving. A number of stores also opened their doors on thanksgiving for holiday shoppers. Including target, walmart, macys, best buy and kohls. 3 3 students at West Middle School are getting into the holiday spirit. 3 the 6th8th grade Computer Programming students have created a festive light display thats synced up to sic outside of their School Building this years light up the night project uses more than 81 Thousand Lights and 20 miles of wire to created the display. The lights flash in time to musical selections ranging from the star wars theme to dont stop believin by journey. 3 last year we had a lot simpmpr network put in place. We had seventyThousand Lights last year, now were up to a little more than eighty thousand and we changed the network so its a little harder to program because the kids wanted it to be a little more challenging. Were programming it for technology and its the light show. Were doing it for thanksgiving thru christmas, well, kind of around christmas. Its a different way to program something on the computer. If you want to check out the display, head on over to West Middle School on west 19th street any time after dark between now and christmas. You can buy candy canes, glow sticks and american flags for a dollar each. Or make a free will donation to support siouxland soliders. 3 today and tomorrow pect pptly cloududskies and cold temperatur if you are out shopping. Wind chill values will be quite low due to breezy winds. Sunday will see a slight warm up and an increase in cloud cover ahead of this next system, which will start to arrive sunday night bringing a wintery mix to the area once again. Look for snow throughout monday and tuesday. Cant pin down snow totals yet, but this system looks to be a bit stronger than yesterdays storordnesday will start a clclring and warming trend with temperatures bouncing back into the mid to upper 30s. 3 3 a gunman opened fire in and around a Colorado Springs planned parenthood building sending at least 11 people to hospital. Five of the victims are Police Officers. Police say three People Including One Police officer are dead. The shooting started this morning friday . Several hours later. Officers took the gunman into custody. Mary moloney reports. 3 witness the cop was like get out of here theres a shooter and they got their guns out and they kneeled down. A shooter sent people in witnesses reported hearing a bararge of bullets. voice of vince witness a bullet cracked over my head and hit the stop sign on my left side. By the time i got to my truck and waited there i heard about 20. Around 1130 am police got the call of an active shooter. Hours later officers and the gunman were still involved in a shootout inside a planned parenthood facility. During the firefight some scared tnesses inside the building were able to o ll loved ones. no name provided as she was inside she called me and she was telling me that there was a shooting, i heard the shooting and she couldnt say too much because she was afraid that those guys. You know. Police evacuated people trapped fofohours side the building. As officers continued to Exchange Gunfire with the shooter. More than five hours after the shooting started police took the suspect into custody. Im mary moloney reporting. 3 planned parenthood released a statement saying its unclear if the shooter targeted their facility. 3 3 a confrontation over a cigarette ended in the shootiti death of a waffle housuswaitress in mississippi. It happened early this morning in biloxi on mississippis gulf coast. Thats when police say a 45 yearold man refused to put out the cigarette he was smoking. Police say he pulled a handgun out from under his shirt and shot the 52yearold waitress in the head. She died at the hospital. The suspect is charged with first degree murdererhesseing held on twomilliondollars bond. 3 demonstrators filled chicagos luxury shopping district, not to shop but to protest. As andy rose reports. This comes days after the release of video showing a Police Officer fatally shoot a teenager. 3 Father Michael Pfleger activist, saint sasana church were all out here in the street shutting down michigan avenue, telling people dont shop telling people chicagos mad, were angry. Hundreds of protesters filled chicagos magnificent luxury shopping corridor on black friday. Theyre angry about the shooting death of laquan mcdonald, who was shot 16 times by Police OfficerJason Van Dyke last year. Hes been charged with first degree murder. Anger boiled over this week after Chicago Police released dashcam video of the moment the 17yearold was shot. Reverend Jesse Jackson is calling officials who saw the tape and did nothing, accomplices in mcdonalds murder. rev. Jesse Jackson RainbowPush Coalition thats why we need a full impartial federal investigation, so to know who saw what when, and why was the tape suppressed for 13 months. The crowd is demanding the resignation of the lead prosecutor in the case, the mayor, Police Superintendent. And a federal probe into the chicago pd. protester of Chicago Shooting of teen we need immediate firing a resignation of anita alvarez. We need mayor rahm emanuel, we need superintendent mccarthy to resign and not to be in the system where cops who kill our people not only take our lives they take our money and they do not invest in our future meanwhile, Police SuperintendentGarry Mccarthy says he has no plans to resign, and hes working to fix the broken parts of his department. Im andy rose, reporting. 3 the president of france is back home tonight. After trips to the u s, germany and russia seeking help to fight isis. Coming up at 1018 in tonights world wrap. His promise to the families of the paris attacks. 3 siouxland news at ten on kmeg 14 with larry wentz, diana castillo, siouxlands chief meteorologist chad sandwell and sports director chris 3 3 3 3 kayla and diana talk about todays weather and the upcoming forecast. 3 today and torrow expect partly clouly skies and cold temperatures if you are out shopping. Wind chill values will be quite low due to breezy winds. Sunday will see a slight warm up and an increase in cloud cover ahead of this next system, which will start to arrive sunday night bringing a wintery mix to the area once again. Look for snow throughout mond and tuesday. Cant pin down snow totals yet, but is system looks to be a bit stronger than yesterdays storm. Wednesday will start a clearing and warming trend with temperatures bouncing back 3 as isis continues to threaten tacks against america. The debaba over freedom versus security intensifies. 3 well get a Historical Perspective on the debate, 3 3 3 the president of france is vowing to continue the fight against isis until the terror group is destroyed. Francois hollande making that promise to the families of the 130 victims killed in the attacks on paris earlier this month. His comments coming at a Memorial Service for those victims, and the more than 300 injured, today at napoleons tomb in paris. Since the attacks, france has increased the number of airstrikes its launching against the terror group in syria. 3 American Values versus national securitywhich is more important . Thats the question many are asking after the paris attacks and renewed threats from terror groups like isis. National correspondent Kristine Frazao takes a look at americas dark historyin times of fear and uncertainty. 3 sotsdonald trump we cant take em, folks. We cant take em. Joe biden, to turn them away and say there is no way you can ever get here would play right into the terrorists hands. Vothe war of words over Syrian Refugeesturns into a debate over American Values. When it comes to america taking in refugees from conflicttorn countriesthat debate is decades old. Sotmax paul friedman, the United States did take more jewish refugees from europe than any other country in the world. 2 27 butt to between 1934 and 1945 when the nazis were in power. Roosevelt would have liked to take in more, but he felt his hands were tied because congress was not going to increase that quota. Volast week the house passed more stringent vetting procedures which could halt the flow of Syrian Refugees into the us earlier this year, president obama had pledged to increasesehat numberthere are also calls like these from the gop president ial frontnners sotsben carson, i want everybody to have a database. Donald trump, i want surveillance of certain mosques, okay . Vothose calls compared to the slippery slope that has led to some of the most shameful moments in american historylike the imprisonment of thousands of japanese americans after the attack on pearl harbor. Kristine oncam standup Abraham Lincoln considered e of the nations greatest president s denied suspected confederate collaborators their day in court. Its a dark legacy which americans visiting his memorial hope wont be repeated. Sotsmos 1, i would be horrified if we had to get to that. Mos 2, we just hope they make the best decision to keep us safe. Sotfriedman, we have a National Identity which is based on rights and democratic principles which are written in the constitution. When we feel insecure, historically, weve been very quick to jettison those principles. It didnt help our securityand in some cases it hurt it. And thats the kind of lesson that we should learn from history. In washington, im Kristine Frazao, reporting. 3 the fight over the relocation of Syrian Refugees continues in congress. The housepassed bill calling for stricter vetting heads to the senate next week. Senate democrats are vowing to block that bill from reaching the floor. President obama has also threatened to veto the measure, if it reaches his desk. 3 brain tumors are some of the hardest types of cancer to ttat. But coming u uafter the break in tonights healthwatch. Well look at a new treatment that attacks the 3 a new Clinical Trial is giving hope to people with a highly aggressive type of brain cancer. Patients in the experiment are getting a chemotherapy drug delivered directly into their tumors. 3 chris and laura amununen a mundsin sped up their wedding after chris received devastating news. The 37 year old has an often fatal brain cancer called glioblastoma. gleeohblastohmuh sot Chris Amundsen patient it was kind of a shock. I didnt, you know, its a scary name but at the time i really didnt know that how life threatening it was. Sot Laura Amundsen patients wife they told us i should take off from rk and spend as much time with him because it would be my last summer with him. The long island couple would not give up. They found an experimental Drug Treatment Program at Lenox Hill Hospital in new york nats all right, lets get you inside. Directed by dr. John boockvar. Sot dr. John boockvar Lenox Hill Hospital so this Clinical Trial is novel because were givingng high dose of the medidition thatate rmally give by mouth directly into the tumor. A catheter is placed in the patients groin and threaded to the brain, so that a higher amount of the drug goes directly to the tumor. Sot boockvar and thereby limiting exposure to the rest of your body of that drug. Standup don champion new york amundsen was the last patient enrolled in the first phase of the clinical trtrl here at lenox hihi. That means he wawaallowed to receive a higher dose compared to other patients. The goal of the treatment is to keep amundsens tumor from growing so far it has remained the same. Sot amundsen im hoping this kills the tumor completely. I know that may not happen but im still hopeful for it. For now chris and laura are planning their future which cludes starting a family. Don champion, cbs news, new york. 3 the second phase of the trial thats about to roll out will determine the effectiveness of the treatment. 3 im Chris Neyenhouse outside Memorial Stadium where nebraska and iowa duked it out today. Iowa with tons on the line going for a perfect regular seaean. The huskers wanted nothing more than to spoil that. Stick around for 3 3 im Chris Neyenhouse here in lincoln nebraska outside Memorial Stadium where the nebraska iowa rivalry heated up today. Iowa had a chance to cap off a perfect regular season. Nebraska wanted nothing more than to spoil that. 14nebraska trying to spoil the hawkeyes perfect season. The fans in Memorial Stadium doing their best to help 1 no score early into the First Quarter as both defenses were solid. But cj beathard and the hawkeyes started to break free. Here he finds Henry Kreiger coble on second and long for a big gain. 2 that set up this on the very next play. Beathard finds George Kittle in the back of the end zone its 70 hawkeyes huskers held beathard to 97 yards passing. 3 after exchanging drives iowa muffs a punt to set up excellence field position for the huskers and they capitalize imani cross with the four yard td run. We are tied at 7. 4 and then watch hesse fools the cameraman and quarterback tommy armstrong. Its a four yard interception return for a touchdown its 147 hawkeyes. 5 under ten seconds totoplay nebraska drives down the field for this field goal to make it 147 at the half. 6 less than 7 to go 4th quarter now its 2817 iowa. Huskers facing a 4th and 1 deep in iowa territory after a 3rd and one a play earlier. Armstrongs deep pass to Brandon Reilly falls incomplete iowa wins 2820 theyre 120 and on to the big ten title game 1 21 kirk ferentz iowa head coach. It was pretty good. Thats what makes this fun actually. The highs and the lows. If youre going to be involved in that. If youre going to get involved in that youre going to get both. But today just to see, i mean look at our players. And what theyve accomplished. Everybody on our staff felt the same way. Its a great thing. 1 39 c. J beathard iowa junior qboh it was definitely louder than any music we played in practice tryininto act like its crowd noise. And it got loud out there in moments. But thats the best part about it. Many thousand they have in that stadium and theres not a better feeling than busting a 60 or 70 yard run like that and shutting them up real quick. 2 01 jordan canzeri iowa senior rbthe further you go down in the season with more wins and especially now to cap off the regular season and be undefeated its amazing. Its great. And we feel so, again, its hardtop describe honestly. But yeah, were going to remain humble and hungry. And were not satisfied. We know were going to have a lot of games in front of us and if we win this big ten championship then we can have more ahead. 2 23 austininblythe iowa senior ol i wasas little emotional coming off the field just because ive never been a part of a team like this. Just everybody fights for each other really. No individuals. Just a total team effort. Thats why were here at 120 now. 2 35after capping a perfect regular season iowa will try to cap off a perfect conference record by winning the big ten championship game. And then of course it would be on to a likelylynational championship playoff berth. For siouxland news in lincoln, im Chris Neyenhouse. 3 3 both iowa and iowa state also in action tonight on the basketball court. Well start things off with the cyclones taking on virginia tech. First half iowa state up 2722 george niang kneeang showing some moves in t t post. 2922 cyclones iowa state in control up 12. Niang kneeang displaying his range. 3924 cyclonessecond half its all iowa state. Up 25hokies head coach Buzz Williams couldnt love watching this his former signee jameel mckay with the strong finish. Iowa state wins 99 to 77. 3 iowa also in action taking on notre dame in the consolation round of advocare invitational. 1. Pick up action in the second half. Iowa trailed by fieen at one point. Peter jok jock hits the three to cut the lead to ten. 2. Than jok to former sioux city east layup. Woodbury would end up with fourtrtn points and ten rebounds. 3. Than the siouxland connection. Mike gesell guhzelle with the nice pass to woodbury. ,iowa would take the lead by`one after a fifteen to nothing run. 4. It was all irish after that as they go on to defeat the hawks sixtyeight to sixty two. 3 today and tomorrow expect partly cloudy skies and cold temperatures if you are out shopping. Wind chill values will be quite low due to breezy winds. Sunday will see a slight warm up and an increase in cloud cover ahead of this next system, which will start to arrive sunday night bringing a wintery mix to the area once again. 3 thats all our time for now. Enjoy your saturday