Tomorrow, though, that will do the job. But may bring more snow to the state. Ill have details in a few minutes. As temperaturessplummet thiss morning. Northwest winds will stay Strong Enough to keep us from warming much. We have a warm front that will track in tomorrow, though, that will doo the job. But may bring more snow to the state. Ill have details in a few minutes. New this morning the president is getting ready for his final state of the Union Address tonight. Hell talk about the econooic recovery, the fight against terrorism and gun laws. The white house says hell keep a seat empty next to the first lady to represent all of the victims of gun violence. Were also hearing a good part of his speech will be optimistic. Hes hoping to give embrace on the campaign trail. Many people dont see it that way. Seven in 10 amerercans said thhy see the us heading in the wrong direction. Thats from a recent nbc news wall street journal poll. You can watch the state of te Union Tonight at 8 on kwwl. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley will give the republican response to the state of the union. Expect her to talk a lot about isis. They say theyre behind a mall attack in baghdad yesterday that off a car bomb. 50 others were wounded in that attack. The us is expanding its targets as it goes after isis. Tens of millions of dollars in isis cash went up in smoke when one of its banks was hit by an airstrike. It happened on sunday in a city in iraq which is being controlled by isis. This is video of other recent airstrikes. Us and other forces have also been bombing isis Held Oil Fields and targeting tanker trucks carrying oil today in a military court a hearing forthe army serggant at the heart of a dangerous prisoner exchange. Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl faces charges of desertion. The hearing will be at fort bragg. He was held captive by thh taliban foo five years and ago. Before tonights state of the union, a similar speech focused jst on iowa. Governor Terry Branstad will give his condidiion of the staa address this morning. The iowa legislative session is now underway in des moines. Matt breen is there and spoke th the governor about what focused on this session. Governor Terry Branstad calls it one of the biggest and boldest measures hes ever proposed. A 20year extension of e onepenny state sales concern is we sharing in this sales tax growth gives us a longterm, reliable source of funding for what i think is already a good strategy. Administration Officials Say the first 10 million in new revenue, each year, would go to top of what schools are already getting plus providing a share of thatatgrowth to waar quality, branstad saa. How much more . An additional 20. 7billion for school infrastructure, and nearly 4. 7 billion for Water Quality. Critics in the Legislature Say the penny taawas approved at the local level to help local schools before it was modified to help all schools equally, said matt breen. And, moving that money robs iowans of the chance to vote on the new direction. Anstad says he understands those concerns. But, when looking at the best ways to fund Water Quality and education, it puts in on property tax, branstad says. And, iowans dont want that. At the State Capitol in des moines, matt breen, kwwl news. The governors condition of the morning. This session, lawmakers are also expected to focus on the issue of privatizing medicaid. History is made as the legislative sessisin starts. Republicaalinda upmeyer became the first woman to serve as iowas speaker of the house. Breaking the Glass Ceiling isnt this is such a speical personal moment for our family. I think into this chair. Upmeyers father served as iowa House Speaker maa years ago. A developing story a dubuque woman facing murder charares this morninn. Shes accused of beating her ex husband to death with a baseball bat. Dolores flynn faces Second Degree murder charges. Llst week police found hee ex in their home on jackson street. Police arrested flynn monday at mercy hospital. They say video frm traffic and surveillance cameras was key. Wewereviewed aa that footagg, saw her carrying a bag we we utlimately located it, where she had hidden it or disposed of it. So again, the cameras played a pivotal role in this location. Flynn is being held at the Dubuque County jail on a 500thousand dollar bond. A convicted killer whos the focus of a very popular Netflix Documentary wont be pardoned. At least not by wisconsins governor. Tens of thousands of people have signed petitions calling for steven avery to be pardoned after seeing making a murderer. Avery is serving life in prison for murder but claims he didnt do it. Mmny people believe him. They asked the president to exonerate him but this was not a federal case. That leaves it up to wisconsin Governor Scott walker. Yesterdaa, he posted on facebook ththt anyone whos seen the series on netflix should read opinion of the court of appeals on the case before jumping to conclusions. The mother of the affluenza teen ethan couch posts bond. Shes charged after investigators say she and her son took off to mexico which was violations of his parole. He is still in mexico. Tonya couch is expected to be released from jail this morning. Another University Says its taking an Honorary Degree away from bill cosby. George washington said it made the decision in light of quote renewed distress for students and alumni who are survivors of sexual assault. Cosby was recently charged with sexuaa assault. Heres another good reminder to wash your hands. The flu is on the rise in iowa. Three viruses are active in the state right now all of which are covvred by the vaccine. Flu season typically peaks between now and february but doctors say its not too late to get your shot. This morning, a tribute to a legendary singer. Death of david bowie, musicians and fans came out to show their support. A wreath was placed right next to his hollywood star. Bowie died on sunday night after an 18 month battle with cancer. Heres an unusual namesake to honor his legacy. The cincinnati zoo named this baby penguin bowie days before he died. Was born on bowies birthday. Really cool to actually honor david bowies legacy and his musical influence by naming the little penguin after him. The penguin will make its public debut at a zoo exhibit this spring. A minnesota man builds an organ out of snow. He was hoping for a kidney transplant. He finally got the livesaving transplant. But as adrienne a new mission. Hillside trail in cottage we started at 10 pm and slept jim gorbunow chiseled away. I feel like kevin has found a home and this just kind of symbolizes that to understand the home behind this kidney snow back to the first year we met jim 2014. Running on empty now. Then, he needed of a new kidney to live. So he and his brother created kevin the snow kidney. Next to message went viral. This picture of jim s take last march after he received his kidney transplant. But that hasnt stopped his mission to save others in need of the organ. Im kind of hoping that by doing this there ar those peopleewho come through that dont know me and they see this and they at least think about it or think twice about it we live wn the street and so weve been wondering what this guy has been doing this wholee but by having the word donate next to it i feel like it ties the two together hes a spokesperson for the nationnl Kidney Foundation and said hes concerned about the number of People Living with kidney disease. We still hve a lot to get to this morning the postseason was filled with blowouts but last nights National Championship game was very were scored. In the Fourth Quarter alone. Highlights coming up plusus you dont expect this when you park your car on the street. Find out what happened to leave this car in a deep hole. Wind chills are in the negative despite mostly sunny skies. Wet will warm things up tomomorow, but more snow may track in. Ill have more coming up. Now your storm track 7 it will be breezy with dangerous wind chills again this morning along with cold temps. Showers tracking through and it will warm up even more for thursday. A wind chill advisory continues over portions of the kwwl viewing area until noon today for chills down around 25 a a times. Theeare mostly in the negative teens right now, but will stay cold today and tonight. Winds are from the northwest at 15 to 25 mph and will stay strong today. Some blowing snow may still occur for a few hors, although the worst of the blowing has shifted farther south. Stormtrack7 Live Weather Network will show mostly clear skies today, but it wonte very warm out there. Temperatures across the state are in the Single Digits either side of zero and strong winds until later tonight. The snowfall will continue to track away from us, but a warm front to the west will track through tomorrow and bring a few snow showers or flurries. Mostly it will bring warmer temperatures. We go from the Single Digits and teens in the midwest today to the teens to 30s tomorrow. But today. Brrezy and cold with wind chills staying in the negative double digits all day. Lows tonight drop into the negatives over most of the iewing area with light winds, but chills still down around 15 to 20 at times. Clouds track in by morning and they may havevesome stray snow showers tomorrow. Amounts look light. And temps will climb get even warmer thursdayyand friday, but a system bringing some snow friday and saturday will bring falling temperatures on saturday as well. Highs on sunday will only be in the teens with single digit highs on monday. Its bad enough when your car wont start. Its even worse when you cant even get to the door. But a system bringing some snow friday and saturday will bring falling temperatures on saturday as well. Highs on sunday will only highs on monday. Its bad enough when your car wont start. Its even worse when you cant even get to the door. A sinkhole opened under this car in missouri north of it was caused by a water main break. Nobody was hurt. The rear wheels stayed on the road but as you can see, the rest went into the water. Crews brought in a crane to lift the car onto the street. The College Football season goes out with a bang. Highlights of a wild National Championship game next. Plus no one saw this coming. Ttery signs donont have enough room to show us how big wednesdays powerball drawing will be. Youre watching kwwl. Weve got u covered in alburnett, reinbeck, holy cross and all of eastern iowaa after a bowl season filled with in the middle of a time when senior poverty is increasing. Republicans and some democrats came up with a brilliant idea for cutting costofliving adjustments for Social Security. We said, it will be ovov our dead bodies if you cut Social Security. As president , i will do everhing i can to extend the solvency of Social Security saved its best for last. The National Championship alabama against clemson last night. Four quarter bama up four kenyan drake takes the kickoff, avoids one tackle and is off down the sideline. 95 yards for the touchdown. Alabama wins 45 40. Its alabamms Fourth National sabans fifth as coach. That means he now only trails legendary head coach bear bryant, who had six. The College Football seaan just wrapped up hours ago. But already the experts are looking ahead. In one very early prediction one writer has clemson the favorite to be number one next year. Alabama right behind them with iowa number 15 in the country. With the super bowl less than a month away, the stadium hosting on monday, crews laid down the new field for super bowl 50. Thats 75 thousand square feet of fresh grass. Also, temporary structures were put in place to handle the larger crowd. Hating a picture of yourself isnt uncommon. But what this fugitive does to put a good face forward is a bit extreme. Police in ohio are looking for this man. Donald pugh. So they put his picture on facebook. He wasnt happy with it so he sent police ts. A selfie and a message that says one is terrible. Hes wanted for not appearing on chares of domestic violence. Police also call him a person of interest in another case. An iowa man says ii wouldve been nice to win the whole thing, but hes not turning down one Million Dollars. The jackpot for wednedays powerball drawing is onepointfour billion dollars. Lolotery signs weweent designnd to handle that kind of a number. So for now, they read 999 million until someone wins the jackpot. Joel dominguuz almost did. T te sioux city man matched the first five numbers but missed the powerball for saturdays drawing. Thats still good enough for a one Million Dollar prize. Its a feeling that. So your are goinnto play again, oh ya of course. Well have the winning numbers of the onepointfour billion dollar drawing on wednesday night at ten. Still to comeeold man winter sends more people to the auto shop. Not to get something fixed. Theyre looking for an upgrade. That story next. And when n ou see news or if you have pictures or video to share. You can do that by going to our page on facebook. You can also like our page to stay up to date on breakingngnews and weather information. But not because cars are breaking down nessarily. Kwwls Jessica Hartman tells us freezing temps making it pretty miserable to run to the store or head to work. Cvsi motorsports has seen an increase in installations in recent weeks. Installing an average of 8 aaday and are book nearly now. Hartman with weather like it is outside, its nice to stay toasty starts out there. And thats the conveniece people say they cant live wwth out. Yea i really want to have the move to arizonia or somewhere warm. Even if you are use to iowa temps many say they still donont want to live with out it. Grew up in the cold, i hunt in the cold, i am in the cold all the time. It is still a convince to have an automatic start on my truck. Its a convince and comfort that i worth the cos. We see more that people are just willing to spend tte money to be coofortable. No one wants to go out and scrape their windows. Many people say its a time saver. Theyre spending more time on things scraping ice. Also, its a safer way to warm up your car to protect it from being stoen. Your car might need some extra time this morning to get warmed up. Weve got the forecast from storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is back withforecast. Breezy and cold today with chills from 15 to 25 all day. Through friday. A few snow showers will track through wednesday with the passage of a warm front, with more snow on friday and saturday as a cold front tracks digit highs returning by monday. Itssnd coming uu on today in iowa. Investigators are looking for two people missing after house explodes. Plus. A scary scene for two window washers. They were stuck on a scaffolding 71 stories off the ground. Youre watchinnow today in iowa. This frigid weather can cause car trouble. This morning, were focusing on your tires. Tips to keep your car out of the shop. Plus. This wasnt the monday morning many ere expecting. A plane lands in the middle of a highway. And itsall aboard a wedding to remember. 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