Im going to stand up for what i believe in as i do that. Wel, im certaiily going too you cant turn you back on your ted cruz condemned the plan but steered clear of bad mouthing trump a lot of our interested in doing so. But the partys already taang a hit. Hillary clintons tying in other candidates their language may be more veiled than trumps but their ideas are not so different. Any republican whos too fearful of the Republican Base to admit it has no business serving as president either. Theres no shortage of critics that kind of crap is not going to work in the United States of shocking new low for him. Ive never ttought that loud, obnoxious and simpleminded solutions to really complex problems are the kind of but trumps not backing down. And listening to some of the headlines splashed across newspapers in idiot, dangerous demomgogue, unacceptable, betraying american. In the uk theres a push to ban donald trump from that country. That doesnt seem to be affecting his supporters much. Tracie potts, nbc news washington. Trump returvs to iowa later this week. He has a caaaign event at the evening. Meanwhile. The frontrunner on the democratic side of the race is back in eastern iowa. Hillary clinton will be speaking coming up here in about an hour. Shes at the five Sullivan Brothers center in waterloo. Holding a town hall which she says will focus on the discussion of a her plan to create good paying jobs. Shes expected to start speaking around 1. Police spot a car thats out of place and it leads to a chase that ends in a lake. The nature trail bridge a little before three this morning and thought it was odd. They went to pull the driver over and it led to a chase. The driver ended up in meyers lake, and was taken to the hospital. Charges are pending. An investigation on a stabbing is underway here in eastern wa. It happened in the 500 block of locust in waterloo before 1 30 this morning. Police say one person was stabbed. She is expected to survive. Officers do not have a suspect inincustody and do ot have a description of the suspect at this time. Were still waiting to learn the identity of a body found in an eastern iowa river. Blackckhawk county sheriffs deputies pulled the body from the cedar river in gilbertville on sunday morning. Were now waiting on autopsy results from the state medical examiner. The autopsy was set for yesterday. There will be no weaponfree zones in north liberty. A large crowd showing up to last nights City Council Meeting as the Council Discussed banning guns in all city buildings even for people with a concealed carry license. Ultimately the council decided french Officials Say the third attacker who targeted a paris concert hall has been identified as a frenchman who left for syria in 20 13. Nbcs chapman bell has more today. The third attacker in the bataclan attacks has been identified as 23 yearold Paris Prosecutors Office confirming his identity to nbc news. Hes from the city of strasbourg aa reported to have traveled to syria back in 2013. This morning the french Prime Minister told news outlets of a dozen radicalized young people who left a neighborhood in strasbourg in september 2013. Mohamedaggad was able to travel back to france and take part in that attack at the bataclan concert hall where the worst of the carnage took place ininhe foued mohamedaggad was identified by french authorities by matching dna with family members. After his mother received a message from syria telling her her sonnhad died as a martyr in the paris attacks. The mother reported this text to french police. Chapman bell, nbc news, london. Friday will mark our weeks since the attacks on the french capital. Here in iowa. A man will spend time in jail after he was shot by police. Kyle orth will served two 90day stretches in jail with a 30 day break inbetween. And he gets three years probation. Orth was shot by officers on march 9th after aaing his vehicle at police whod been chasing him. Orth pleaded guilty to drunk nowits up to a judge to decide what happens to a 144yearold in eastern iowa. The teen pleaded guilty to shooting and killing another teen. 15yearold Aaron Richardson was shot and killed in september in cedar rapids. He was 15. Robert humbles pleaded guilty. Hes 14. Voluntary manslaughter, reckless use of a firearm and going armed with intent. Authorities say the shooting happened after two rival groups met up follwing threatening texts and facebook messages. Did you shoot another boy . Yes. Aaron . Yes. And did he die after being shot . Yes. At first, he was charged with murder but after a plea agreement hes now charged as a youthful offender. Hes being held in the linn county juvenile detention center. A judge will decide his fate. After he turns 18 hell possibility. A wowoldwide show f support is emerging for a girl who lost her family in a fire. The girl from new york has only one wish this christmas she wants christmas cards. Her family died in that fire which was set on purposee after posting the request on facebook, the girl has gotten cards from all over the world. Weve posted the address to send cards in a story about the girl on ouou website kwwwdotcom. With the dominance of online shopping. The post office is reaching historic levels of deliveries this Holiday Season. Plus. More on the very special ift the iowa hawkeyes got to celebrate their upcoming bowl game. Well be right back with your storm track seven forecast. Now your storm track 7 from the kwwl stormtrack here is additional forecast information from the kwwl anncr when the attacks come here. The person behind this desk will have to protect your family. Will he be impulsive and reckless, like donald trump . Will he have voted to dramatically weaken counterterrorism surveillance, like ted cruz . Will he have skipped crucial National Security hearings and votes just to campaign, like marco rubio . 27 generals and admirals support jeb bush. Because jeb has the experience and knowledge to protect your family. Right to rise usa is responsible mostly sunny today with a few high clouds passing through this aaternoon. Winds are from the west southweast at 515 mph. Clouds track in tonight with a warm night expected. Lows will be in the upper 30s and low 40s. Thursday will be windy at times, but it will be the warmest day of the week with highs in the lower to middle around 50. Rain returns saturday afternoon and lasts through the weekend. It appears light rain will be scattered across the area on saturday with heavier rain expected on sunday. Current thought is that areas along the Mississippi River will see the higher amounts of rainfall than western counties. There is also a slight chance for a wintry mix with this system especially latt sundaa night and mondndy. Precipitation type will be dependent on track of system and will continue to be monitored in upcoming forecasts. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information ffm the kwwl mostly sunny today with a few high clouds passing through this afternoon. Winds are from the west southweas at 515 mph. These inds and sunny skies tonight with a wwrm night expected. Lows will be in the upper 30s and low 40s. Thursday will be windy at times, but it will be the warmest day of the week with with highs again above normal, generally into the upper 40s to around 50. Rain returns saturday afternoon and lasts thriugh the weekjnd. It appears light rain will be scattered across the area on saturday with heavier rain expected on sunday. Current thought is that areas along the Mississippi River will see the higher amounts of rainfall than western counties. There is also a slight chance for a wintry mix with this system especially late sunday night and monday. Precipitation type will be dependent on track of system and will continue to be monitored ii upcoming forereasts. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team mostly sunny today with a few high clouds passing through this afternoon. Winds are from the west southweast at 515 mph. These winds and sunny skies will help to warm highs back in the upper 40s to around tonight with a warm nightexpected. Lows will be in the upper 30s and low 40s. Thursday will be windy at times, but it will be the warmest day of the week with highs in the lower to middle 50s. Friday will remain dry th highs again above normal, generally into the upper 40s to around 50. Rain returns saturday afternoon and lasts through the weekend. It appears light rain will be scattered across the area on saturday with heavier rain expected on sunday. Current thought is that areas along the Mississippi River will see the higher amounts of rainfall than western counties. There is also a slight chance for a wintry mix precipitation type will be dependent on track of system and upcoming forecasts. Forecasts. Coming up. A festive holidy train roll through eastern iowa once agaa. And. As they prepare for pasadena. A big honor for iowa footballs head coach. Youre watching kwwl. Weve got you covered in evansdale, rowley, marion and all of eastern iowa train rolls into marquette for the fifth year in a row. Its the 17th year the train has been aroundone route staying in nada, while one comes down into the us. Thousands turned out to see the lights, enjoy a free concert, and even see the man in red himselfsanta but this train also serves a much bigger purpose. melissa urray, manager, Community Affairs 13 weve raised over 10. 6 Million Dollars message of hunger issues that exist all across north america, but particularly along our network. Last night, they presened the Clayton County food shelf with a as iowa gets ready for the rose bowl, a big honor for the coach. Kirk ferentz receives a National Coach of the year award. He won the woody hayes award given by the Touchdown Club of columbus. That group says few outside of iowa city expected the hawkeyes to raise much of a fuss this year but at the end of the regular season, they were one of only two undefeated teams in the country and are now headed to the rose bowl. And in honor the hawks incredible season 43hundred roses are now at the university of iowa. The floral manager at hyvee in iowa city led thh project. The ses were processed and packaged into bouquets by a floral team in less than 24 hollopeter hyvee floral manager over 200 pieces of arrangements that went over to the football us there was nothing significant about the number of roses 43hundred, but they wanted to do something too congratulate the team. They also said so far there are no plans in the works to deliver red roses if they win. A new repeprt shows how aving children really costs on a yearly basis. Hear the results right here. Plus. The post office maximizes efforts to keep up with the heavy rush of shipping during 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 n facebook. You can also like our page to stay up to date on breaking news year for post offices. But this year some are busier than evee before. With the holidays around the corner. The post master in waterloo says theyre delivering 15 percent more packages this year than last year at this same time. This is the time of year they have to devote more time sorting through those larger packages containing online purchases. Right now. The post office sorts through around 30thousand packages every night. Yeah i think we can definately tell that theres been an uptake in line purchasing. From thh its p petty obvious that people are moving away to do a lot of their shopping online this year. The Waterloo Post Office has started working seen days a week. Theyre even delivering on sundays theres good news and bad news about finances. A new study says the e umber of americans with no debt is growing but so is the number of people who say theyll never get out. A study from credit cards dot com finds 21 percent believe theyll die with debt. On the flip side, t t study found 22 percent of americans say they dont have any debt at all. Thats up from 14 percent last year. A new report will surprise very few of you who are parents. It shows children are a familys biggest expense costing more per year than what the average family pays for housing. According to the report, child care can cost more than 17thousand dollars a year for an infant. Or 12 thousand annually for a fouryear old. Coming up on kwwl, the mister food test kitchen. Dressing up an alltime favorite that makee for a perfeet afttrnoon snack. But first, a look at your latest numbers from wall street and the farm markets. Whether were invited to a hoiday party and asked to bring make. Well, worry no more its called a rigged economy, and this is how it works. Most new wealth flows tohe 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. Favorite, thats really dressed up. We start by drizzling some melted butter in the bottom of a 9x13 baking dish. On top of that, we sprinkle on some chopped walnuts, a bit of honey and a good amount of brown sugar. Well set that aside for which is a lot easier than making your own dough so its super convenient. After cutting each piece in thirds, we place a cocktail hotdog or littleesmokie on each piece and roll them up. They have room to bake. Then just pop them in the oven serving them. Thats it. What we end up with is everyones favorite, taken to a whole new out the recipe. And as always, you can find it tn the station website or mrfood. Com. Just search foo dressed up weenie wellingtons. And as you can imagine, these are always the first to go. Im howard in the mr. Food test kitchen with kelly, whos always the first one to show up as soon as these come out of the ven. After all, she too, like you. Looks for every reason to say. Ooh its so good youre watching kwwl, weve got you covered. This is the amount of holiday spirit to help out a family in need. Plus. The vatican gets very visually creative in support of the environment. And. Time magazines person of the year is announced today find out who will grace the welcome back to the news at noon. Im ally crutcher lets go to storm track seven meteorologist Denice Pelster now for your first forecastn mostly sunny today with few high clouds passing through this hehep to warm hiihs back in the warm night expected. Lows will be in the upper 30s and low 40s. The warmest day of the week with returns saturday afternoon and lasts through the weekend. There is a slight chance for a wintry mix with this system especially late sunday night and monday. Precipitation type will be dependent on track of system and will continue to be will be dependent on track of wintry mix with this system especially late sunday night and lows will be in the upper 30s 50s. Friday will remain dry, before the chance for rain mix with this system eeecially late sunday night and monday. Precipitation type Time Magazine named its person of the year this morning. Time magazine named its person of the year this morning. German chancellor Angela Merkel was selected by the magazine. And revealed on the today s sow this morning. Shes also often referred to as the union by virtue of being the leader of the unions largest and most economically powerfufu member state. She beat out seven other finalist groups. Including black lives matter activists, a primary isis leader, caitlyn jenner, ubers ceo, vladimir putin, irans president and president ii candidate dononld trump. Anyonewhos been in iraq or syria and wantto come to the uss coulddsoon have to take an extra the house overwhelmingly visa waiver program. Heres how it works. Right now, people from 38 countries are allowed to be in the us for up to three m mnths without a visa. This new bill requires visas for anyone whos been in iraq or syria in the past five years. Exceptions are made for government visits and military servic tata a look at this. A scary scene at a town meeting in indiana last night. As tempers flew so did fists. The town board voted to hire a new town marshal. Well arggents followed about the new hire and then a fight erupted between the new and the old town marshal. The old marshal was fired last october. I didnt really expect it to be ininand screaming and yelling and she dont know nothing and i told her to shut up. Then here they come there was three of them attacking me. Indiana state police is investigating the swtiching gears. As a startup is guiding people toward healthy eating. With the touch of a button. Foodwaze is a new Smartphone App that sends foodies right to the source of where their food is produced. Rachel menntoff shows us how the app works today. Come on cows erica hellen and her husband own free union grass farm. The thing that really sets us a forestfed pork. Those sustainable efforts make free union a prime candidate to be included in a new Smartphone App, foodwaze. We essentially are listing restaurants and markets and any other food business that we feel meets certain criteria about where theyre getting their food. Mike reilly is the co time finding healthy food options. Thats what inspired him to help others on the hunt for nutritious eaeas. Theres a lot of talk these days about where your food is coming partner visit places like free union as well as markets. Then, they share what theyve learned about those sustainable producers with consumers using the foodwaze app. So, this is a way for people tt say well, i heard that doing that. Hellen says these days its easy for restaurants to claim their food ilocally sourced, but this app now holds them accountable. We want to be that one source that people can rely on when they go out to eat. Foodwaze is currently spreading to cities throughout the east coast. But reilly says his goal is to reach users nationwide so we y have access here in iowa soon. Concernsscontinue over whether Rio De Janeiro will be now human Rights Groups are accusing the city of human rights violations. Among their concerns housusng, police violence, and the budget. On the other hand. The games also announced that the Olympic Village would not be provided air conditioning order to lessen the budgt. Smog continues to ccver much of north china as beijing faces its first ever red alert for pollution. Half of beijings private cars thats two thousand vehicles were ordered off the roads for the second day today morr than two thousand factories have been ordered to stop operations. Many schools and construction sites remain closed. These concerns coming as the conference on climat change continues n paris. Secretary of state john kerry expressed concerned about chemical runoffs while at the conference. Which can cause dead zones in the ocean. Missouri river, the Mississippi River, the ohio river, down the mississippi and coming out into the gulf of mexicoco and we have a 500 mile dead zone where nothing grows, nothing lives. Kerry said that even when laws and oceans, enforcement is difficult hed like to see more collaboration to enforce the laws. As the climate talks in n ris wrap up saint peters basilica lights up with nature. Giant images of animals shot by National Geographic lighting up outside the basilica. Pope francis has strongly acked the environmental cause. The Holiday Season is a time of giving. And that is exactly what a California Police chief and his family did. They used their Christmas Money to buy a car for a family in need. Claire doan hh their story today. While now, and it sounds clich\ but i started it and i remain in the career field to have those a way to do that. He spotted a post on the internet from the family of tim conn. Ththyre homeless. Family lives in the yuba county river bottoms. Been here for about two and a half, three years. Just cant get a step ahead. Get a job. The economy is shot. And now car is shot. A Good Samaritan getting fixed for a greaa price. Problem was, they didnt have money. And easton read about that on facebook. Wken i saw this opportunity, i wwted to helpphis family oot. So the chief sat his three children down, and asked if theyre ok with him buying great kids and all of them said, absolutely, without hesitation lets help this family out. I think about it even. My wife, when we first met, cried on his shoulder. And well call him our Guardian Angel. A Guardian Angel whose kindness is as generous, as it helped me provide fofo my kids. Thats just it. My kids are everything. Easton even invited conns two girls to walk in last weeks christmas parade. Aaron, he got the kids in the parade with marysville pd. They were ecstatic about it. And theyve always wanted to be in a parade. They got their wish. This chief also got his wish. His daily goal to show kindness in honor ohis compassionate wife whom he lost just months ago. Could be a part of it. They could feel a sense of pride, that they helped other people out. Great holiday story for youu there. Coming up on the news at noon. A new study delves into how much time we spend connected. And for quite a few it never ends. More on that after the break. Well also have stotomtrack sevenn meteorologist denice ppster who has your storm track seven day forecast when we return. 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 witn 5 minutes. Symbicort doesnt replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. Symbicort helps provide significant improvement of your lung function. 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Rain returns saturday afternoon and lasts through the weekend. It appears light rain will be scattered across the area on saturday with heavier rain expected on sunday. Current thought is that areas along the Mississippi River will see the higher amounts of rainfall than western counties. There is also a slight chance for a wintry mix with this system especially late sunday night and monday. Precipitation type will be dependent on track of system and will continue to be monitored in upcoming forecasts. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team mostly sunny today with a few high clouds passing through this afternoon. Winds are from the west southweast at 515 mph. These winds and sunny skies will help to warm highs back in the upper 40s to around 50. More clouds track in tonight with a warm night expected. Lows will be in the upper 30s and low 40s. Thurrday will be windy at times, but it will be the warmest day of the week with highs in the lower to middle 50s. Friday will remain dry with highs again above normal, generally into the upper 40s to around 50. Rain returns saturday afternoon and lasts through the weekend. It appears light rain will be scattered across the area on saturday with heavier rain expected on sunday. Current thought is that areas along the Mississippi River will see the higher amounts of rainfall than western counties. There is also a slight chance or a wintry mix with this system especially late sunday night and monday. Precipitation type will be dependent on track of system and monitored in upcoming forecasts. Frm 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 mostly ssny today with a few high clouds passing through this afternoon. Winds are from the west southweast at 515 mph. These winds and sunny skies wiwi help to warm highs back in the upper 40s to around upper 30s and low 40s. Thursday will be highs in the lower to middle will be scattered across the arara on saturday with heavierr rain expected on sunday. Current thought is that areas along the a slight chance for a wintry mix dependent on track of system and will continue to be monitored in upcoming forecasts. It seems we just cant get the day without the internet. The Pew Research Center finds one in five people report going online almost constantly its the first time that answer has been an option. 42 percent say they use tte web several times a day. Pepsi is bringing back a 90s favorite, crystal pepsi. The prwduct was on the shelves for less than two years but some have campaigned for years to get it back. Starting tomorrow, pepsi wl hold a contest and thousands of fans will win a six pack of the cominn up. Have you been itchy and sneezy recently . Well intense allergies arent always jus for the summer months. More on the way. Youre watching kwwl. And when you see news or if can do that by going to our page on facebook. You an also like our page to stay up to date on breaking news headquartered in blackneeds of their communities. Community health nes assessments let individuals and discuss the survey and collaborative efforts is Jim Waterbury of Unitypoint HealthAllen Hospital in waterloo. Jim is the Vice President of intitutional development at allen. Unityoint health Allen Hospital, wheaton franciscan healthcare iowa covenant medical ceceter and sartori Memorial Hospital and black are working together on this initiative. All replies will be gathered, analyzed and published as Community HealthNeeds Assessment reports to improve local health carservices. Surveys are done every three years. To find out more regarding the survey and to take it yourself, visit https or the kwwl homepage for more information. Three Health Care Systems headquartered in Black Hawk County are coming together to ask residents across thh cedar valley to assess the health needs of their communities. Community health Needs Assessments let individuals and organizations identify and Prioritize Health needs in their communities. Joining us today to discuss the survey and collaborative efforts is Jim Waterbury of Unitypoint HealthAllen Hospital waterloo. Jim is the Vice President of intitutionnl developmenn at allen. Unitypoint health Allen Hospital, wheaton franciscan together on this initiative. All replies will be gathered, analyzed and published as Community HealthNeeds Assessment reports to improve local health care servicess surveys are done every three years. To find out more regarding the survey and to take it yourself, visit https or the kwwl homepage or more information. Three Health Care Systems headquartered in Black Hawk County are coming together to ask residents across the cedar valley to assess the health needs of their communities. Community health Needs Assessments let individuals and organizations identify and Prioritize Health needs in their communities. Joining us today to dissss the susuey and collaborative efforts is Jim Waterbury of Unitypoint HealthAllen Hospital in waterloo. Jim is the Vice President of intitutional development at allen. Unitypoint health Allen Hospital, wheaton franciscan healthcare iowa Covenant Medical Center and sarttri Memorial Hospital and Black Hawk CountyHealth Department are working all replies will be gathered, analyzed and published as community heth Needs Assessment reports to improve local healthhcare services. Surveys are done every three years. To find out more regarding the survey and to take it yourself, visit https or the kwwl homepage for more information. Three health caae systems headquartered in Black Hawk County are coming together to ask residents across the cedar assessments let individuals and organizations identify and Prioritize Health needs in their communities. Joining us today to diicuss the survey and collaborative efforts is Jim Waterbury of Unitypoint HealthAllen Hospital in waterloo. Jim is the Vice President of intitutional development at allen. Unitypoint health Allen Hospital, wheaton franciscan healthcare iowa Covenant Medical Center and sartori Memorial Hospital and Black Hawk CountyHeal Department are worrng together on this initiative. All replies will be gathered, analyzed and published as Community HealthNeeds Assessment reports to improve local health care services. Surveys are done every three years. To find out more as an issue when the weather is warmer, Buu Adam Mccoy explains winter allergies can also leave its winter. Time to think about your. Allergies . Dr. Kathleen sheerin says absolutely. Springtime when all of the trees are blooming, it makes a your typical tree pollens, saas sheerin, but indoor allergens like dust mites and pet dandee. If you spend more time inside, but fear not. Regardless of the trigger, the symptoms and the treatments are still the same. You can have itchy eyes, itchy throat, itchy nose, a lot of people do this we call that the allergic salute. Runny sneezy, congestioo, and those are the basic allergy symptoms. For dust mites, coveringup is the best plan. Covers on the mattress, pillow, boxspring, are available online, in all of the linen type stores, and can really make a difference if youre allergic to the dust mites. Washing in hot water also helps. For pet allergies. Keep pets off the furniture, and wash them offn. And as always, there are medications that can help. A hot air balloon carrback in the upper 40s to around upper 30s and low 40s. Thursday will be windy at times, but it will be highs in the lower to middle 50s. Friday will remain dry, before t te chance for rain rereurns saturday afternoon and lasts through the weekend. There is a slight chance for a wintry mix with this system especially late sunday night and monday. Precipitation type will be dependent on track of ssstem and will continue to be monitored. That will do it for us here at noon. Our next newscast is tonight at five