Now to decision 20166overage ted cruz makes a stop in coralville today. He holding a town hall meeting. Cruz has recently been under fire with comments he has made about the Colorado Springs shooter. We will have more on his stop in deere and Company Announces more than 2hundred employees will be placed on indefinite layoof at john deere seeding and cylinder in moline. The company says the layoffs will be effective in february. The layoffs reflect last weeks forecast by deere that agricltural Machinery Sales will decrease in 20 16. In the past, manufacturing employees at john deere seeding and cylinder have experienced season layoffs in the spring and returned to work in the fall. L. Decision 2015 waterloo voters will head back to the polls tomorrow. Coununilman quentin hart and former mayor tim hurley go head to head tomorrow in a runoff for waterloo mayor. Well have more coverage tonight at 5 and 6. The epa is set to make an annnncement todayyhich will affect iowa farmers. The epa set today as the deadline for announcing a final renewable fuel standard. That standard sets how much ethanol must be blended into gasoline. According to the iowa corn growers association, nearly half of iowa corn is used to make ethanol. The epa announcement ming as world llders meet in paris to talk about Climate Change. Yesterday, French Police clashing with protestors. Who threw things at police. Officers responded by spraying tear gas and charging the demonstratorr. More than 170 people were arrested and held for questioning. Mass gatherings were banned following the terror attacks in paris. Its a problem which has many iowa lawmakers seeking change synthetic drugs. In san diego more than a dozen people hospitalized in just one day after taking the synthetic marijuana drug spice. The weekend before, several people were hospitalized after overdosing on a bad batch of spice. Everything from anxiety, rapid heart rates to some of the unconscious, actively seizing while were gotten there with respiratory. Decreased respiratory rates. Police are asking for information to track down the drug and its makers. Pope francis travels to the Central African republic, bringing a message of reconciliation. Under heavy security, the pope crossed into a violent neighborhood. He had insisted on visiting the area to appeal for peace in a country where two years of christianmuslim violence has divided the capital. Nearly one Million People have fled their homes. This visit marks the highlight of his threenation african tour. The man accused of shooting 12 people inside a Colorado Springs planned parenthood clinic appears in court today. Police say Robert Lewis Dear surrendered after an hourslong shooting spree and standoff friday. Including a Police Officer. Five officers were hurt. Dear is currently being held without bond. An online threat prompts the universittof chicago tooancel classes today. School Officials Say the university was informed by the fbi that someone posted an online threat of gun violence against the scols campus. They said there will be increased d olice and security presence in the area as well as other Law Enforcement agencies. I was surprised but maybe one thought, oh well. I will just have to cancel office hours and whatever else i had planned. Security personnel are working closely with the fbi, which is continuing to investigate the threat. A Police Officer is shot and killed responding to a Domestic Violence call. The officer a 25 yearveteran of the department in western pennsylvania. The suspect ran away following the shooting but officers were able a bond hearing is set today for the chicago Police Officer charged with murder in the shooting death of a teenager. Dashcam video shows the teen being shot 16 times some fired after the 17yearold fell to the ground. The release of that video last week sparked protests in response the october 2014 shooting. The officers lawyer says the officer opened fire because he feared for his life and those of other Police Officers when he saw the teen had a knife. Chicago will expand the use of body cameras on Police Officers. The city plans to buy 14hundred body cameras. Theyll spend twopointtwo Million Dollars on the program half the money will come from the city and the other half will come from a grant, from the Us Department of justice. World leaders, including president obama, are in the french capital, attending a Climate Change conference today. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell reports is underway but there is much going on here than the discussion of just the big issue of how to deal with Climate Change. Thats what brought about 150 World Leaders here to paris. But for president obama there are other subjects Vladimir Putin and barack obama met on the sidelines so to speak and talked about some very difficult issues relating to isis, Bashar Alassad in syria and their differing agendas on what should come of the syrian leader. Addressed the group and talked about paris resolve in the wake of the isis attacks here. sot president obama 38 44 we salute the people of paris and so many interested parties from around the world talking about how they could find ways for countries to come together for a deal to slow the of the changing temperatures of the earth. So that part of the conversation goes on for days to innovation on how to change some of the on cam s Kelly Odonnell nbc news how they could find ways for countries to come together for a deal to slow the growth of Carbon Emissions to try to get control of the changing temperatures of the earth. So that part of the conversation goes on for days to getting their traditional class photo, those sorts of things give them and opportunity to talk about these big issues. They include innovation on how to change some of the what to do. on cam s Kelly Odonnell nbc news paris, france 1 201 38 with the terrorist networks, that has very much cast a shadow on this conference for the obvious reasons that its is there enough being done, are they on the same page when it comes to battling isis . Im Kelly Odonnell in paris, now back to you. Small island nations hope to come to an agreement. They want assurance theyll be protected from storms and rising sea levels they cant control. Coming up. Black friday has come and gone and today its all about Online Shopping for the holiday deals and steals and, santa claus took a break from the jeb bush heres the truth you will not hear from our president we are at war with radical islamic terrorism. It is the struggle that will determine the fate of the free world. The United States should not delay in leading a Global Coalition to take out isis with overwhelming force. Their aim is our total destruction. We cant withdraw from this threat or negotiate with it. We have but one choice to defeat it. Vo right to rise usa is responsible well be right back with your storm track seven forecast. Temperatures have warmed enough could have the wintry mix return in a few hours. Ill have more got you covered, with ally now your storm track 7 forecast on kwwl. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team travel may be a bit tricky today and tomorrow as a winter storm tracks through the area with a mix of precip. A Winter Weather advisory is posted for the north and western part of the viewing area today and tomorrow for the areas expecting showing wet conditions returning with temperatures in the mid to upper 30s and the low 30s still out west where they are seeing some heavy snow out of this system. The low continue to provide rain, snow, sleet and freezing with snow showers by morning and continuing through tuesday. We will have a sharp line where we will see only rain and where we will have a mix to only snow. And that will make a difference in rain and snowfall amounts liquid will be mainly half an inch to an inch while snow will be a trace to 2 with the heaviest to the northwest. The mix will continue throughout the day, but at times may be mainly rain as temps warm a few degrees for a few hours. Rain, snow, freezing rain again tonight with lows in the upper 20s to low 30s and then snow showers tomorrow as the system tracks away. But we could see breezy southwesterly winds as the low tracks northeast. We dry out for the rest of the week and we will even warm the annual kwwl toys for tots freezing rain again tonight with lows in the upper 20s to low 30s and then snow showers tomorrow as the system tracks away. But we could see breezy southwesterly winds as the low tracks northeast. We dry out for the rest of the week and we will even warm the annual kwwl toys for Tots Campaign is happening through december 4th. The campaign is locally sponsored by the Cedar Falls Exchange Club and nationally by the United States marine corps reserve. To join. Just bring your new unwrapped toys to the kwwl lobby. Coming up. Tips on getting the best deals on the web and thousands dressed like santa it was a sea of red all for a good cause youre watching kwwl. Weve got you covered in tripoli, allison, tama and all of eastern iowa about a thousand people wore santa co its been her fight for twenty years. Something is wrong with our Healthcare System and it needs to be fixed. Then, it was about Health Reform and getting eight million kids covered. Now, its about stopping republicans from repealing obamacare, and taking on Insurance Companies to bring down drug prices. Im not going to let the republicans rip up obamacare and throw it away. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Look, the wolf was huffing and puffing. Like you do sometimes, grandpa . Well, when you have copd, it can be hard to breathe. It can be hard to get air out, which can make it hard to get air in. So i talked to my doctor. She said. Symbicort could help you breathe better, starting within 5 minutes. Symbicort doesnt replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. Symbicort helps provide significant improvement of your lung function. Symbicort is for copd, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. It should not be taken more than twice a day. Symbicort contains formoterol. 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They say its a big hit with families. Oh my god, i cant believe it, surfing santa. Its unbelievable, its more than i could have dreamed of. We hope santa remembered to wear his sun screen. Coming up. Millions are surfin the net in search for the best deals and, the hottest toy for the Holiday Season this is kwwl well be right back. And when you 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 cyber monday is in full swing. Way today, as millions logon and look for the best deals online. Amazon is one of the biggest cyber monday shopping spots. Jay gray has the latest. The cyber monday lines are packed. And moving right now. Miles of conveyor belts. Shuttling holiday orders at will be the busiest cyber monday ever. Sound dave clark, svp of deals for us with black friday and cyber monday for us but cyber monday is the king and dollars or more. Up 12percent from last year. Natural sound computer typing and that doesnt include those who logged in early. According to the the National Retail federation. More people shopped online. Black friday. A trend. According to a convenience, value, and the ability to compare prices and search for better deals. Sound Rebekah George retailmenot. Com 49 55 you can save on those great high ticketed items, appliances, electronics, high end accessories. The biggest draw. Accounting for as much as 75percent of todays online purchases. But then it kind of makes buying hightech. On one of the highest volume shopping days of the season. Jay gray nbc news robbinsville, nj. The team members and robots will move a million orders or more in of the season. Jay gray nbc news robbinsville, nj. The team members and robots will move a million orders or more in this facility alone. More than 40 million worldwide. Barbie reclaims her title as the top holiday toy for girls. A new survey says one in five parents plan to buy a barbie for last year merchandise from the movie frozen topped the girls list making it the first time in the surveys 11year history that barbie was not number one. Frozen merchandise is now second on the list followed by dolls. Coming up on kwwl, the mister food test kitchen. Its the monday after thanksgiving and were seeing red everywhere, including our pancakes. But first, a look at your latest numbers from wall street and the farm its been her fight for twenty years. Something is wrong with our Healthcare System and it needs to be fixed. Then, it was about Health Reform and getting eight million kids covered. Now, its about stopping republicans from repealing obamacare, and taking on Insurance Companies to bring down drug prices. Im not going to let any family be deprived of healthcare. Im not going to let the republicans rip up obamacare and throw it away. Thanksgiving leftovers and like magic. Everywhere we look, all we see is the red and the green, and the sparkle of christmas. And with christmas less than a month away i thought or so that would be perfect for mixing a few dry ingredients together some pancake mix, cocoa powder, and a bit of sugar. To that we add some milk, a couple of eggs, vanilla and a splash of red food color. After we mix that up and the batter is nice and smooth, we pour it onto a hot griddle, or skillet, and make them like we would any other pancake. And if you have little ones at home, maybe make a few Silver Dollar size just for them. And since youll need to make these in batches, youll want to keep syrup, these are even better when we top them with an outrageous homemade cream cheese icing. I hope youll go online and get the recipe for our, red velvet pancakes. And since youll have the recipe to a washington prison. Plus, one of the most wellknown players in the nba has an announcement to make. And, a missouri woman is arrested for the third time in waterloo what she did this time to end up welcome back to the news at noon. Im ally crutcher lets go to storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan now western iowa is looking more like this today, but our roads are much better ice as we go into the afternoon. Most of them are wet right now as rain in our viewing area, but we could still see a mix in the where a Winter Weather advisory is still posted through tomorrow. Most of us will see if the temperatures start to fall in the next couple of hours. Ill have more on the messy forecast in a few minutes. It didnt take long days after the season ended, iowa state announces a new football coach. Matt campbell former university of toledo head coach getting the job. Coach campbell will replace paul rhoads who was fired a week ago after seven seasons leading the cyclones. Heres a live look in ames where Matt Campbell is being welcomed into iowa state for the first time as the new football head coach. Kwwls mark woodley is at there and will have more at 5 and 6 a woman finds herself behind bars accused of her third crime in eastern iowa in recent months. 26 yearold tiffany reed of missouri charged in connection to a theft at the waterloo Dicks Sporting Goods store reported back in october. Police say she robbed the store before leading state troopers on a chase. It ended in washington county. One trooper fired at the car. No one was hurt. Shes also one of the suspects connected to this theft at von maur in cedar falls. You can see three people quickly grabbing entire racks of clothes. Shes being held in the Black Hawk County jail. A man is arrested after police say he murdered a waitress over smoking a cigarette. According to police hit lit up a cigarette after the waitreess asked him not to smoke inside. Investigators say thats when he pulled out a gun and shot her. Im furious for someone to take her life over a cigarette. Of all the things. crying . The suspect is in jail on twoMillion Dollars bond. A lawyer for the man accused of climbing the white house fence on thanksgiving says his client was trying to deliver a message. The man was draped in an American Flag when he jumped over a white house fence. Hes due in court later today. Police say a suspected burglar died after getting stuck in the chimney of a home he was trying to break into. A homeowner in california heard the man after lighting a fire in the fireplace. Firefighters used jackhammers to break open the brick chimney but when they got to the man it was too late. A handcuffed woman steals the police suv shes being held in and takes it for a joyride. Officers arrested the 27yearold to cash a stolen check. She was placed in the back of the police suv but somehow got into the front and drove away causing a threecar wreck. Two people were taken to the hospital with inuries. Icy roads are to blame after a tractor trailer slams into a restaurant. This happened in texas. Police say a person was driving a ford pickup truck when they lost control and hit a semitruck. The driver of the semitruck then lost control and crashed into an outback steakhouse. Police say at least six cars in the steakhouse parking lot were damaged and two passengers inside the tractor trailer were hurt. No one inside the restaurant was injured. Two High School Teams are practicing in a dome when it collapses. The fabric at the Eastern Michigan University facility split. Deflating the 80thousand squarefoot structure. People inside rushed to the collapsing dome i barely made it out. There were light fixtures crashing down on me. And some players from the other team were sprinting to get out. No one was hurt. The university now investigating the cause. Athletes whove suffered a concussion may not be ready to get back into the game even though they feel better and pass medical exams. A new study from the Medical College of wisconsin finds mri evidence of reduced blood flow in parts of the brain eight days after athletic injuries. A basketball star has spoken or written about his future Los Angeles Lakers star kobe bryant says he will retire at the end of the current season. The reveal came in a poem written by bryant and posted on the website, the players tribune. In it, the 37year old allstar guard says this season is all i have left to give. My heart can take the pounding my mind can handle the grind but my body knows its time to say it and excited for whats to come honestly. Bryant is a five time nba champion. Stray cats in one washington county. Are now being sent to prison. As drew mikkelsen found out. Its a new way to care for the kittens and inmates. Theyll want to grab your handlers. sot shauna teagle, inmate they are loved. Know a thing or two about rehabilitation. Its just a little behavioral modification. Ha ha. These six kittens. nats this is ashes. And their mom. Were found as strays. Someone turned them in to the Kitsap CountyHumane Society. sot shauna teagle, inmate were working with them to make sure they use the litter box. The Humane Society is having the cats raised. And prepped for adoption. By inmates. At the Mission CreekCorrections Center for women. sot shauna teagle, shauna teagles serving three years for drug dealing. Both of us. Cydney berthels in for theft. nats they say helping the cats. Also helps them. Been a part of something that really makes a difference. For some of the offenders it they will have a desire to be a vet tech when they grow up. Get out of prison. This is giving them skills. The programs only open to offenders who are violationfree and those with histories of violence need not apply. The cats have only been inside for three weeks. But the waiting list to have the furry bunk mates. Is sot cydney berthel, inmate were rehabilitating the lives too. And considering all of the women at Mission Creek will eventually be released. They say teaching them to be compassionate. Means theyll be less likely to reoffend. sot cydney berthel, inmate its a winwin for everybody involved. S 12 cats are part of the first Pilot Program at the prison. Once those are put up for adoption, the inmates are expecting another batch to rehabilitate. Coming up. How a dating app helps save a womans life thats in need of a kidney and when you 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 breaking news and stormtrack seven meteorologist will be back with your storm track seven day its called a rigged economy, and this is how it works. Most new wealth flows to the top 1 . Its a system held in place by corrupt politics where wall street banks and billionaires buy elections. My campaign is powered by over a million small contributions, people like you who want to fight back. The truth is you cant change a corrupt system by taking its money. Im bernie sanders. I approve this message. Join us for real change. Now your storm track 7 forecast on kwwl. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team travel may be a bit tricky today the area with a mix of precip. A Winter Weather advisory is posted for the north and western part of the viewing area today and tomorrow for the areas expecting the worst of the system. Stormtrack7 Live Weather Network cameras are showing wet conditions returning with temperatures in the mid to upper 30s and the low 30s still out west where they are seeing some heavy snow out of this system. The low will track to our west as it heads northeast and continue to provide rain, snow, sleet and freezing rain in our area through tonight with snow showers by morning and continuing through tuesday. We will have a sharp line where we will see only rain and where we will have a mix to only snow. And that will make a difference in rain and snowfall amounts liquid will be mainly half an inch to an inch while snow will be a trace to 2 with the heaviest to the northwest. The mix will continue throughout the day, but at times may be mainly rain as temps warm a few degrees for a few but before you logon for those deals. You should take some precautions. Online Security Experts recommend using a separate credit card for on line shopping. That way if hackers do get your information the rest of your credit line and Bank Accounts will be safe. And Pay Attention to your statements after your purchases for any unusual charges. Hackers hope you wont notice one or two dollars missing from your account. Monarch butterflies are arriving in their winter home. Millions of monarchs make the journey from as far north as canada down into mexicoeach fall. But the number of migrating monarchs is dropping. Experts say about 35million monarch butterflies migrated to mexico last year, compared to a billion in 1996. The butterflies draw visitors from all over the world. I think canada, where they lay is important for the butterflies and i think that everyone recognizes how important the butterflies are and they protect each of the areas where the butterflies come. Its very beautiful. The usda is helping farmers in iowa and nine other states to grow milkweed. The only plant where monarchs will lay their eggs. Its an effort to boost the population. Coming up. Well meet snoopy hes looking for a loving home a live interview next name snoopy breed beagle gender male age 11 mo. 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I feel like i have a front row seat to such just an amazing miracle a miracle thats turned into a special friendship. Jennifer Thomas kidney donor i hope that theyll keep me cause i love everyone that ive gotten to meet through this whole experience. Its really changed my life. scott bragen erikas husband through a tinder blind date, of and now together they pkd. Jennifer Thomas kidney donor not only do we have and they want to help and that has befriended his food the tiger and this goat now live in the same cage at a russian safari park. The tiger usually dines on goats, but he was decidedly braver than his predecessors. Apparently the goats bravery earned respect from the tiger and the two animals now sleep steve look, hope, i told you, i have to stay out of this thing you want to do, and you make it really hard for me when you follow me to my room hope tell me about going to find bo. Steve i already have. Hope then tell me again. What did they do to him, steve . Who was there . Who kept him from getting medical treatment . Steve hope. Its over. Hope its not. Its not going to be over until those bastards