Jo thomas and Derrell Williamson of chicago and hailee flores of parkston, south dakota. All five are charged with 1st degree robbery, aggravated assault, 1st degree petty theft and using a firearm to commit a felony. Thomas has an Additional Charge of grand theft for stealing a car. And williamson is facing charges of failure to register as a sex offender. 3 meanwhile. Police in spencer, iowa are searching for the person or people responsible for stealing from an a t m. Early this morning. 3 Spencer Police say someone broke a window near the entrance of the South Park Mall and entered the building. Once inside. The thief or thieves broke into the a t m near that entrance and removed an undetermined amount of cash. Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call the Spencer Police department. 3 investigators believe combustibles left too close to a space heater caused a deadly trailer fire in spencer this past weekend. Saturday afternoon at 317 west th street in spencer. 3 the fire was quickly put out. But the body of 44 yearold Julie Bennett was found inside. 3 police say foul play is not suspected in the fire. 3 it appears a fundraising drive for a family of seven children in tilden, nebraska. May be linked to a murdersuicide discovered near pierce on monday. 3 the Antelope County news newspaper says donations are being accepted at the tilden bank and online to help the children affected by the incident. 3 neither authorities or the newspaper are releasing the names of the victims or the family. 3 but they do say the five children range in age from a 17 year old girl. To a a year old boy. 3 if youd like to make a donation. Weve put that information in this story on our website at siouxland news dot com. 3 3 sioux city has said its final farewell to a groundbreaking firefighter. Jeanne vakulskas became sioux city fire rescues first female firefighter in 1985 after stararg her career as a nurse. She served for 22 years until her retirement in 2007. She died this weekend at her home in sioux city. This morning her former colleagues joined her family and friends in saying goodbye at her funeral at st. Josephs catholic church. Jeanee vuhkulskuhs s s 63 years old. 3 3 theyre small. Their cute. And they smell good too 3 the Sioux City PoliceOfficers Association is trying to make the holidays a little more cheerful for some kids in local hospitals. Donating 29 scentsy buddies. Stuffed animals infused with fragrances. To Unity Point Health st. Kes, mercy memecal center and the e ne e. Nylen ncer center. Detective jeff harstad and his wife jasmine led the effort. 3 we wanted to do something good for our community and this time of year is a perfect time to do that. Since im a that our children love the little scentcy buddies that we have, the little stutued animals with the scents inside of them, i f fured it would be kind of a good way to incorporate scentsy and give back to the community as well. Officers also put several cards inside of the boxes for the children who receive the stuffed animals to read. 3 3 tonight clouds will be prominent with temperatures in the mid 20s. Thursday morning and early afternoon could bring some light snow across the area. Otherwise, mostly cloudy skies will persist through friday evening with temperatures in the low to upper 30s. Christmas evening brings chance for rain snow mix that will change over to snow by saturday morning and continue through saturday evening. Sunday will be mostly cloudy and blustery condititns with temperatures in the upper 20s. We are also keeping our eyes on a potential storm system that will impact the area monday and tuesday of 3 one of the four companies originally chosen to manage iowas Medicaid Program once a move to managed care is complete i iappealing thth cancellalaon of thehe coract. An Administrative Law judge in des moines recommended the Branstad Administration cancel the states contract with wellcare last month. And earlier this month the director of the department of Administrative Services upheld that recommendatio n. The company has filed an appeal in polk County District court. Saying the dedesion is based on claims wellcare hid facts they werent required to submit during the bidding process. Its asking until the end of the judicial review process. 3 donald trump is rock solid on top of the republican president ial field. As Sunlen Serfaty reports. A new poll shows him with more support than three of his closest rivals combined. 3 donald trump dominating the gop field. A new cnn orc poll showstrump on top with 39 percent support. More than double his next closest opponent, ted cruz. Trumpp lead is even more definitive. When measured by the depth of his support on issue after issue. On handling the economyimmigration. And isisvoters all deem trump the best equipped candidate. By commanding margins. Natsot trump she was favored to win and she got schlonged, she lost, i iean she lost. The frontrunner. T hough. Still in the storm. Caused by his latest controversy. donald trump, r president ial candidate im watching the debate, and she disappeared where did she go . Where did she go . butt its disgusting, i dont want to talk about it. And now, Hillary Clinton for the first timeresponding directly to trumps vulgar rhetoric about her Hillary Clinton, d president ial candidate i really deplore the tone of his campaign and the inflammatory 3 rhetoric that he is using to divide people. Clinton saying she thinks trump has a penchant for sexism. Hillary Clinton, d president ial candidate i dont know that he has any boundaries at all. His bigotry, his bluster, his bullying have become his campaign. Trump hitting back. Tweeting be careful hillary as you play the war on women or women being degraded card. Meanwhileas they battle it out. Natsot cruz leave our kids alone. Tecruz takes on the washington postfor this cartoon depicting his children as monkeys. sen. Ted cruz, r president ial candidate when i saw that off. But making fun of my girls, thatll do it. This came after cruz. Daughters appeared in a tv ad natsot cruz ad i know just what ill do she said with a snicker, ill use my own server and no one will be the wiser. Kids are generally considered off limits in politics. Cruz. Now using the cartoon to raise money. And t t opportunity to take on his favorite foe sen. Ted cruz, r president ial candidate everyone expects the Mainstream Media to be liberal and biasas, folks want to attack me, knock yourself out. Thats part of the process, i signed up for that, thats fine. But my girls didnt sign up for that. 3 3 the Treasury Department says the i r s incorrectly issued around 46Million Dollars in tax refunds in 2013. An audit released earlier r this week blames inefficient oversight of refunds and faulty Computer Programming for the error. The i r s programming glitch ignored a process that allows the agency to delay refunds considered potentially fraudulent. More than 27 million in tax refunds before the i r s noticed the mistake. 3 now bureaucracy is resistant to change, the irs is resistant to change. So, were going to continue to have these problems of Terrible Service for Hardworking Taxpayers and at the same time, fraudulent returns that are given back to people who dont deserve that money. The other 19 Million Dollars that went out erroneously was due to improper screening. 3 3 still to come tonight. Great news for holiday travelers heading to the airport. The reason why, coming up in tonights fox means Business Report 3 3 but first. Is the recent jump in the number of terror arrests in the u s a sign of actual plots. Or just the f b i trying to look busy after San Bernardino. Well investigate, coming up after the break. 3 siouxland news at nine on fox 44, with larry wentz, diana 3 were tracking the latest developments tonight in the war on terror. As a terror attack is foiled in australia. Jonathan elias has the latest developments in tonights terrorism alert desk update. 3 from the terror alert desk in washington, im jonathan elias. Australian Police Arrest two men who they say wererelanning to attack a naval base. The raids were part of an ongoing g titerror campaign known as operation appleby. Authorities said there was no specific threat to the community but that a naval base was among the locations the suspects had discussed. Three people have been wounded in a stabbing attack at the jaffa gate in the old city of jerusalem. Twtw of the victims wewe seriously injured, and one was slightly attackers one is dead , and the other arrested. Almost daily stabbings, shootings and carrammings by palestinians have killed 19 israelis and a u. S. Citizen since october. From the terror alert desk in washington, im jonathan elias. 3 the f b i is coming under increased pressure to break terrorists plots in the united states. In the weeks following the terrorist atttack in San Bernardino. Federal agents have taken several suspects into custody. National corresondent jeff barnd is tracking what the f b i has been up to. 3 days after the terrorist attack in San Bernardino california, across the country in minneapolis, minnesota, fbi agents took Abdirizak Mohamed warsame into custody on charges related to terrorism. Was it a knee jerk reaction to tamp americans growing fears of another terrorist strike on u. S. Soil . [Katharine Gorka, unter terrorism expert]if thereepressure now to have in this country, i think that is a good thing. [jeff barnd standup]warsame has no known connection to the San Bernardino massacre, but he was the first of a handful of suspected isis sympathizers the fbi arrested in the weeks following the attack. [michael greenberger director, university of marylala center for Health Homeland security] post San Bernardino, its been a wakeup call to intensify all measures that can be done to thwart these attacks. Fbi agents have now picked up suspects in places like edgewood, maryland, and harrisburg, pennsylvania. And if one looks back to november, there have been six arrests in all over the past six weeks. Counter terrorism expert Katharine Gorka says law enforcment, on average, makes out 3 anana half terrorist related arrests each month so there has been an uptick. [Katharine Gorka, Counter Terrorism expert]you dont want to be too alarmist, you dont want to get people all nervous about the threat, but at the same time, ifou dont present a realistic picture of the threat, one of the outcomes is local police will not be prepared. President obama noted media saturation of terror threats in a recent National Public radio interview [president barack watching television for the last month, all you have been seeing, all you have been hearing about, is these guys with masks or black flags who are potentially coming to get ya. And depending on your view america is either panicking or downplaying [Katharine Gorka, Counter Terrorism expert]i dont think they understand the seriousness of the threat. [michael greenberger director, university of Maryland Center for Health Homeland security] efforts need to be made to tamp down what is now become a panic within the united states. Im jeff barnd reporting. 3 3 3 taking a live look tonight out over norfolk tonight on our square tire skywatch camera. Were looking at a green christmas. But Mother Nature looks like shell make up for it soon. Kaylas forecast is meteorologist kayla novak. 3 3 kayla and jetske talk about todays weather and the upcoming forecast. 3 tonight clouds will be promoment with temperatures in the mid 20s. Thursday morning and early afternoon could bring some light snow across the area. Otherwise, mostly cloudy skies will persist through friday evening with temperatures in the low to upper 3030 christmas evening ings chance for rain snow mix that will change over to snow by saturday morning and continue through saturday evening. Sunday will be mostly cloudy and blustery conditions 20s. We are also keeping our eyes on a potential storm system that will impact the area monday and tuesday of 3 arent turning water in to wine. Theyre making it the oldfashioned way thats tonights check this out. 3 but first. If youre looking to buy a plane ticket for holiday travel. You can expect your wallet to take a smaller hit. Thats coming up 3 good news for people who want to stream the beatles greatest hits on their next round trip flight. Neil cavuto has those details in tonights fox means Business Report. 3 santa making an early stop. On wall street. The dow picking up another 185 points on wednesdaymaking it three days of triple digit gains this week. Meantime, if youre flying to that christmas getaway. Youll have a little extra cash. Triple a saying the average domestic round trip airfare is just under 175. And thats down from last year. And with Interest Rates heading higher. More people are looking to get a mortgage. Applications surging last week and refinancing. This moving coming right around the time the Federal Reserve raised Interest Rates. And the beatles are now singing. Let it streamfor the first time ever, the entire catalogue for the iconic fab four will be available on streaming music servicesyou can start cranking up the tunes on thursday. Thats business. Im neil cavuto. 3 3 they say its the same kind of wine jesus might have drunk 3 prominent with in the mid 20s. Thursday morning and early light the area. Otherwise, mostly cloudy skies will persist through friday evening to upper 30s. Christmas evening brings chance for over to snow by saturday morning and continue through saturday evening. Sunday will be mostly cloudy and blustery conditions with temperatures keeping our eyes on a potential storm system that will impact the area monday and tuesday of next week. Stay tuned. 3 3 finally tonight, check this out near the traditional birthplace of jesus, a monastery is making wine similar to that produced in the time of christ. The winemaking process has come a long way since biblical times. With stainless steel fermenting tanks and oak barrels replacing clay. Winemaking is a relatively new industry in the holy land. As there were heavy restrictions on winemaking in the area for hundreds of years turning the types of grapes that survived into wine is still a new undertaking. But one, those doing it think, has plenty of potential