Slush, although some icy conditions may be the case, especially in the northern half of the viewing area. Temperatures are in the upper teens to around 30 this morning with north winds 1020 mph that will cause some blowing snow to continue. The snow tracks out this morning and by this afternoon we should have sunshine. But it will stay cold. Highs will only be in the mid 20s to mid 30s with those north winds slow to die out. We have a couple more chances of snow in the forecast, too. Ill have that for you in a the big thing leading up to this storm seems to be how unpredictable but the storm has arrived. Theres been a mixture of snow. And sleet falling a lot of the night lets check in with storm track sevens amanda gilbert. She joins us live in waterloo with a look at the snow is falling pretty hard right now. Visibility is pretty low. This morning driving to work. I noticed a big difference between main roads and side roads. As you can tell from behind me. There seems to be a lot of secondary roads that do still need to be plowed heres a look at main roads in have been plowed. They werent too bad to drive on. And a big thing i noticed this morning. There seemed to be a morning. That could also be on the road. So it is important to be careful and cautious while driving. Weve got you covered live in waterloo. Amanda gilbert. Kwwl news. Right now were taking a closer look at what highway 218 looks continuing coverage. Authorities continue to look for the two men who escaped from an iowa correctional center. These are the two men who are missing. Both men are serving time for drug crimes. The Iowa Department of corrections is investigating the escape to find out exactly what happened and to make sure it these inmates pose a threat to the public. are people who have completed their recommended of the system so. A lot of times the parole board will want somebody to spend some time in minimum security before they consider putting them on some type of release. Either work release or parole. people who escape obviously dont want to get caught so he says new this morning. A judge has granted a new trial for a man convicted of shooting and killing a teenager. Perquondis holmes shot and killed 18yearold Daequan Campbell back in november of 2013. Jurors in his initial trial saw facebook photos of holmes that included gang affiliation. Holmes objected after his conviction, saying the photos violated an earlier court ruling that would keep them out of trial. Its considered the largest financial fraud in iowa history. 215Million Dollars, stolen from thousands of customers of cedar fallsbased pfg. Kwwls ron steele explains how banking changes caught russ wassendorf and his imaginary empire in this special report. He loved having a skybox for bears games and a to cheat. Im chairman and ceo of pfgbest. The man said to have the golden touch. This was not a very Good Business person. Everything he invested in was a loser. Founder of his own on line futures trading company. Hard business. Not for the man who would become known as madoff of the midwest. Russ was really taking as much money as he needed to support his lifestyle. Undetected for nearly 20years. On the day the merry go round stopped. He was supposed to have about 220million in the Customer Account and there was only 5, roughly. 911 audio unknown problem. Possible suicide. Here we had a suicide note, where Russ Wasendorf had acknowledged this fraud. Wasdendorf survived that 2012 suicide attempt. Regulators froze all pfg accounts. Employees lost their jobs. His companies immediately collapsed into bankruptcy, but, his personal descent to rock bottom was a long journey. Educated traders become successful traders. Peregrine, really, from its infancy, never made any money. Peter deegan, assistant us attorney for the Northern District of iowa in cedar rapids, prosecuted the case, which sent wasendorf to prison for 50years. This wasnt a successful man. Like it was successful for years and years and years, simply by stealing his customers money. Wasendorfs ambition expanded in 1992, using money originally financed by an investor, identified in these Court Documents only as as j. C. Russ stealing money from peregrine, and using the money to prop up his own lifestyle. Just a year later, when j. C. Wanted to pull out his money, the money was already gone. Wasendorf had stolen more than a quarter of a Million Dollars from other early pfg customers to buy out j. C. It was the beginning of the end. When we met russ, he was obviously a, in many way, was a larger than life character, and full of bravado. We knew we had problems with that firm, but, we had never seen any inclinations that there was an outright theft of customer funds. Daniel roth is president of the nfanational Futures Association in chicago. The nfa and commodity futures trading commission, regulate the futures industry. Wed had disciplinary had problems with that firm, specifically in their sales practices, and what their sales people were saying to retail customers. And not giving adequate disclosures of the risks involved. Just 5months before the company declared bankruptcy, nfa had fined peregrine 700 thousand dollars. The complaint said some pfg brokers made trade recommendations which maximized commissions without regard for the best interests of their customers. From the pfg best new accounts department. Pfgs online futures Trading Platform helped build a Customer Base of thousands, but russ senior only took money from the large, segregated Customer Account, which federal rules dictate is not to be touched. Wow is a good description. That from bankruptcy trustee, ira bodenstein, in chicago, whom, after 3 and a half years, still calls it the most complicated trustee case hes ever had. Well, the largest account we had of record was 17million, returned, so far, 49per cent. So, so far, theyve gotten half of that back. Thousands of customers didnt even file claims, as some of the smallest account balances were just 3 or 4cents, of the more than 379Million Dollars invested with pfg before its bankruptcy. When this whole thing exploded, many of the dreams of those people were crushed chicago attorneys Brooke Conner and Michael Eidelman have been locating and selling the assets of Russ Wasendorf, senior. Eidelman is the Court Appointed receiver. Dealing with what was his fake image, his image, was interesting, because so many people had looked to russ. So, demistifying russ was interesting. Eidelman has sold all wasendorf assets, including the new, 20 Million Dollar pfg building in cedar falls, which opened just in 2009. The sale price was just 3million, 255thousand dollars, Real Estate Company of well known area developer, aj spiegel of peosta. The building currently has a taxable value of nearly 7 millionbut is not occupied right now. The only thing thats really left in the estate in terms of asset at this point are some Life Insurance policies, and, were still trying to determine, given the fact that russ is still incarcerated, whether or not we can monetize those policies. Here is chicago and in washington, federal regulators have made significant changes, as a direct result of the pfg, wasendorf fraud. After peregrine, we confirm those balances with the banks, holding the funds. So, we confirm Bank Balances for 2thousand accounts, every single day. Inside the Cedar Falls Post Office is box 706, which played a key role in hiding the fraud from regulators, who thought 706 belonged to us bank, when russ, senior, actually controlled it totally. Hindsight, you can always find red flags. The po of them. Wasnt then. Isnt now. Most major banks use po boxes for confirmation requests. But, wasendorf was using that po box address; forging his us Bank Statements and sending them to regulators, with totally false balances,like this one. To forge his Bank Statements, wasendorf simply used photoshop, a fax machine, printers, and the us bank logo. Russ senior would often control people by using what he would tell investigators was his blunt authority. Blunt authority, as the owner of peregrine. He was able to go in and say, look im the only one who gets to look at the Bank Statements for this particular account, and they go directly to me, and the folks he put in place in his company complied with that. Us bank paid more than 62million to settle lawsuits related to the pfg case. When asked if the bank made any changes because of fraud, Senior Vice President dana ripley wrote we are pleased to have this matter resolved. Under terms of the settlement, us bank has no additional comment. A lot of victims in this case. Not just financial victims. And, bankruptcy trustee bodenstein is gong after money wasendorf donated to nonprofits, and charities, uni. Iowa and more. Theres a pending action against the Memorial Foundation of allen hospital. They might have used those funds for very good purposes, but, they were customer funds, and its my view they should be returned. Wasendorf sent kwwl this letter from his prison in terre haute, indiana. He did agree to do in interview for this story, but, the prison warden denied all of many interview requests. But, in his letter, wasendorf said he received one Christmas Card last year, and he also said this if you have the opportunity, please express how very sorry i am for the problems i have caused in the cedar valley. He certainly did express extreme remorse for the victims. theres no question, we learned a lot, and were a then we were then. There are now new rules in place to help protect customers. You can learn more about that plus see the letter wasendorf sent ron just to go to our website kwwl dotcom. Decision 20 16. Todays the day that can reveal which candidates have the best chance at winning their partys nomination for president. Its super tuesday. Twelve states hold voting today. Republican candidate ted cruz and democratic candidate Bernie Sanders both need to carry their home states texas and vermont today. A photographer covering a donald trump rally in virginia says he was choked and thrown to the ground by a secret service agent. Time magazine. And says he stepped outside the media pen when this all happened. The secret service is working with police in virginia in this investigation the future of dentistry in iowa may be at risk. As more than 50 percent of dentists in the state are edging closer to retirement. Some professionals worry smaller towns could be the first to see the impact. According to the university of iowa there are several counties across the state with only a few private practice dentists. Dental students at the university of iowa are hoping to fill that need. If you stay in iowa, theres that many more people but then a big way as soon as you graduate. Professors at the university of iowa say the state could see dentists start retiring in the next 10 to iowa lawmakers are getting tough on animal abusers. Under the bill approved yesterday by the senate. A person accused of abusing an animal could be charged with a felony. Right now animal abuse is an aggravated misdemeanor. The bill also requires the department of Human Services to do a Wellness Check if the abuse happens in front of a child. Us astronaut scott kelly is heading back to earth today after nearly a year in space. Hes been at the International Space station longer than any other us astronaut. Its a test to study the affects of space on the human body to make sure astronauts can handle a trip to mars. Once he lands, kelly will undergo physical and scientific tests. This is his Fourth Mission in space. Its coming up on today in iowa. A law requiring some restaurants to put salt warnings on their menus has now been put on hold. Well tell you why. Plus. A followup to a story from last week. About a cat with a pretty unique face. A last round of snow will track through this morning and taper off within a couple of hours. We have more snow forecast for later details coming up. Youre watching kwwl, weve got you covered with jerry gallagher, ally crutcher now your storm track 7 forecast on kwwl. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 whats all this nonsense about balls . Pink balls, blue, yellow, red. Its hard to keep the whole thing straight. And all these socalled deals . Well, they come with a lot of deal breakers. Like when you leave the city the signal goes weak. U. S. Cellular built a network to give you a stronger signal where the other guys dont. And as for deals . Hows 300 back for every line you switch . 300 no ball nonsense. Get 300 per line and a stronger signal, team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team here are some of the latest snowfall totals. Most of the snow will be done by midmorning, but we have more tomorrow night and thursday with another round too. Winter weather advisory continues through 9 this morning for much of the viewing area. Mainly the parts that will see the last round of snow track through this morning and where the roads are partially to completely covered with snow and slush. The snowplows are out and dealing with some pretty bad roads in some areas this morning, made worse by north winds at 1020 mph. Stormtrack7 Live Weather Network cameras will in most areas this morning with sunshine for the afternoon. Temperatures wont improve much today. We are in the teens to around 30 this morning with colder temps to the west and north winds at 1020 mph all over the state. Not expected to die down until toward evening. This round of snow will rapidly track away from us today, but we have another system that will track in by tomorrow evening with another round of light snow. Today, the snow sunshine this afternoon. It will be cold, though. Highs in the mid 20s to mid 30s will be the best we can do with north winds slow to die down. Lows tonight will drop into the Single Digits and teens with mainly clear to partly cloudy skies. We have sun tomorrow morning but will cloud up as the next system its coming up on today in iowa. A cruiseline is adding pricier drinks to its Beverage Package. Plus. New details about the cat with a mustache stay with kwwl, weve got you covered. New york city wants to fine vo want to be happy with your next vehicle purchase . At enterprise, we guarantee it. Head to your neighborhood enterprise car sales and let the people who buy more vehicles than anyone. Warnings on its menus. But it was supposed to take effect today. But a judge has put a hold on the citys plans. The National Restaurant association asked for the order last week, after a judge ruled the city could fine restaurants that dont comply with the rule. The association is appealing that decision. Good news for those cruising with carnival. The cruise line has improved its onboard Beverage Package by adding pricier drinks to the program. It now includes drinks costing up to 50 dollars. The new Program Takes effect today. A followup to a story we brought you last week. Mustache cat now has a permanent place to call home. The kitten, with a black patch of fur shaped like a mustache, was found in a Salvation Army donation box last week. Dozens of people tried to adopt her from the shelter. Her new owner says shes naming meteorologist eileen loan is back with another check of your storm track seven forecast. Snow ends this morning with breezy conditions through early afternoon. Highs will be cold today but warm by the weekend. We have another chance of light snow tomorrow night through thursday and again friday afternoon through friday night. Each round of light snow to the today 12 states hundreds of delegates. And 7 candidates. All hoping to stay in the race. We have a preview of super tuesday. Plus, very anxious moments at a gas station. A car out of control slams into a gas pump. And today, a key meeting at the white house between the president and an iowa senator. There are at least two big issues on the table. Good morning, im ally crutcher. Storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is here now with your storm track seven forecast. Winter weather advisory continues this morning over much of the kwwl viewing area. We will have another band of snow track through the Northern Counties with light snow sleet possible to the south. Iowa dot cameras are showing that some roads remain coated. Mostly with snow and slush, although some icy conditions may be the case, especially in the northern half of the viewing area. Temperatures are in the upper teens to around 30 this morning with north winds 1020 mph that will cause some blowing snow to continue. The snow tracks out this morning and by this afternoon we should have sunshine. But it will the mid 20s to mid 30s with those north winds slow to die out. We have a couple more chances of snow in the forecast, too. Ill have that for you in a few minutes. Winter wont go quietly. Another reminder this morning that spring is not here yet. The roads are messy and in some spots, theyre slick. Lets go to storm track sevens amanda gilbert. She joins us live in waterloo with a look at well if you are driving anywhere you are going to want to be careful. Ive been out for about an hour now and the snow is still falling pretty hard. Its been windy too, so drifting may be a concern this morning. Heres a look at downtown roads. Most roads are like this. They have at least a thin layer of snow. Possibly sleet on them. So again you are going to want to be careful driving. And a lot of secondary roads like the one behind me still theres more than 200 plows out on highways right now according to Iowa Department of transportations track a plow website. Weve got you covered live in waterloo. Amanda gilbert. Kwwl news. Thanks amanda. Right now were taking a look off of i380 in Black Hawk County. Well continue to track the snow all throughout today in iowa. New this morning. Two people are in the hospital following an overnight fire in cedar rapids. According to firefighters, the fire happened around 1 45 this morning in the 700 block of 9th street southwest. Apartments and everyone got out on their own. However, two people had to be taken to the university of iowa hospitals and clinics due to smoke inhalation the search for a young man is over. Rashon montgomery was found at the caseys off University Avenue in waterloo. He had been missing since friday and his family was very today is the biggest one day grab of delegates yet in the race for the white house. Its super tuesday. Tracie potts tells us texas is the big prize an important one for ted cruz. Its the only state where donald trump isnt expected to win. To build on his frontrunner compeititive. A vote for donald trump tomorrow is literally a vote for hillary clinton. For ted cruz, that means winning his home state, texas what we will see, i believe, is else far behind. There could be trouble for trump this super tuesday buzzfeed reports theres a secret New York Times tape where trump reportedly rejects his own promises to close the border. You should be very troubled by a candidate like donald trump one thing and the voters another. Trump should ask the ny times to release the audio of his interview with them so that we can see exactly what it is he vermont. Massachusetts. The midwest and maybe texas i think well do better there than people think. Hillary clintons already looking past super tuesday, focusing on trump at some point you cant just say whatever pops into your head if you want to be the president looking ahead too, concerned whether trump can beat clinton in november. Im tracie potts in washington, now back to you. Iowas governor is not endorsing anyone yet, but is anxious to things play out today. Hes also talking about another governors endorsement. Last week, new Jersey Governor Chris Christie backed trump after christie had dropped out. And it obviously, it changed the endorsement in the near future. I think well get some indication as to how things are going when you have all these folks that are going to vote on super tuesday. Ahead of the iowa caucuses, branstad spoke out against ted cruz. Cruz won the caucuses which happened a month ago today. Governor branstad is also talking wind power. He says iowa is now generating more than 31 percent of its energy from wind. The federal government says iowa is the first and only state to have hit that number. The govenor says hes proud of iowas leadership in wind energy and is hoping to push that number up to this morning at the white house, a special meeting between the president and iowa senator chuck grassley. The focus is the standoff over a Supreme Court nominee. The president plans to nominate someone to replace the late justice scalia. Republicans including senator grassley who chairs the committee that considers Court Appointments want that decision to be up to the next president. The Senate Majority and minority leaders will also be at talk about the drug problem in this country. Senator grassleys office says more than 47 thousand americans died from overdoses in 2014 an alltime high. His office says thats more deaths than from car crashes or gun violence. New this morning. New records say a university of iowa Public Safety director did not cooperate with other officers. They say david visin refused to pull over driving with his stepson in june. Officers were looking for his stepson after his truck was involved in a hit and run crash. Instead of stopping, he allegely station. He says he didnt know anything about the crash at the time. And didnt stop because hes testimony continues this morning in the trial of a man accused of murdering his wife. Alex fazzino is on trial. His wife emily was found dead in their home in boone four years ago. The defense which claims her death was an accident called the couples former housekeeper to the stand. She refused to answer questions, pleading the fifth, when she was asked if she sold prescription drugs to emily. The defense then called alexs mother. She says she saw emily stumble, stagger and slur her words i was very concerned, it was was upset for my son. Now at that time and all times, you loved emily as a daughter. I loved her, i loved her, and i thought we had a very close relationship. Prosecutors say emily was on the road to recovery before she weve learned the person killed in an iowa parking lot was a three year old boy. Davenport police say the boy was playing basketball in a School Parking lot when a truck hit him on sunday. Police have not released the name of the driver. U. S. Marshals arrest an iowa man wanted on charges of attempted murder. Authorities say Cordarryl Smith was involved in a cedar rapids shooting last september. Smith was found yesterday and arrested in illinois after he tried to run away. This morning, four students are recovering after a shooting at a high school. Police say a 14 yearold fired the shots inside an Ohio High School cafeteria monday morning. Two students were shot and two others were hurt trying to get out. All of them are expected to be ok. Police say the shooter ran from the building and dropped the gun before being arrested. Police say they do have a motive but are not releasing it right now. Apple scores a win in a new york court as it continues to fight the fbis court order in investigators i dealer. Being pressured by federal investigators to break into 13 iphones across the country. That includes one that belonged to one of the San Bernardino today, iowas gas tax increase has been in effect for exactly one year. Many people havent given it much thought because prices have been so low. The tencent tax hike kicked in march first of last year after lawmakers approved it. It was expected to bring in about 215 Million Dollars a year to help fix roads and bridges across the state. The dot predicted Black Hawk County would get about 845 thousand dollars. The county engineer says one thing theyre focusing on is improving gravel roads. Theyre also looking to bank a lot of the money for future projects. Scary video out of texas shows a driver plowing into their car into a gas pump. You can see the driver frantically try to get other people out of the car. It took firefighters about two hours to get the fire under control. Was hurt or what caused the driver to lose control. It happens just once every four years but for a select few leap day which happened yesterday can be life changing. Kwwls Jessica Hartman introduces us to one of eastern iowas leap day babies. Meet leaping landry leaping into this world four days early. Something mom dad didnt expect. No. Now that he is here the big question what do you do without an offical birthday most years. Right away he said when do you celebrate . Do you celebrate in february or march . He said he would rather celebrate in march and i like february so we will disagree on age jokes through out his life. My aunt said it best. She said that you are forever going to be young. So even when you are meantime turning 100 is a huge milestone for anyone. But for one wisconsin woman. She also turned 25. She was born on leap day 1916. So how old are you today . 25 laughs her daughter says shes doing well at 100. Living in her own apartment. Much more to get to this morning ill take a medium cheese with a side of politics. Check out what one restaurant is making. Can you tell who that looks like . Plus many of you love movies and movie stars. But not like this group. Unless you celebrated like they did when one star won an oscar the other night. A last round of snow will track through this morning and taper off within a couple of hours. We have more snow too. Ill have the details coming up. Youre watching kwwl, weve got you covered with jerry gallagher, ally crutcher and meteorologist eileen loan. This is today in iowa. Now your storm track 7 forecast on kwwl. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team here are some of the latest snowfall totals. Most of the snow will be done by midmorning, but we have more tomorrow night and thursday with another round later in the week, too. Winter weather advisory continues through 9 this morning for much of the viewing area. Mainly the parts that will see the last round of snow track through this morning and where the roads are partially to completely covered with snow and slush. The are out and dealing with some pretty bad roads in some areas this morning, made worse by north winds at 1020 mph. Stormtrack7 Live Weather Network cameras will show snow in most areas this morning with sunshine for the afternoon. Temperatures wont improve much today. We are in the teens to around 30 this morning with colder temps to the west and north winds at 1020 mph all over the state. Not expected to die down until toward evening. This round of snow away from us today, but we have another system that will track in by tomorrow evening with another round of light snow. Today, the snow will end this morning and we should see sunshine this afternoon. It will be cold, though. Highs in the mid 20s to mid 30s will be the best we can do with north winds slow to die down. Lows tonight will drop into the Single Digits and teens with mainly clear to partly cloudy skies. We have sun tomorrow morning but sunday one womans heels force her to take a detour at the airport. Take a look. Take a look. Take a look. These are stilettos with a gun theme. Tsa agents found them in a womans carryon bag at the airport in baltimore. It had to be checked because the agency doesnt allow any replica guns past the checkpoint. She had to leave them with the tsa because it was too late for the airline to check it. Its senior out in style and get a win before they face the Top Ranked Team in the nation. The highlights next. Plus what topping do you want with a slice of trump . One restaurant cooks up a tribute to the republican president ial frontrunner. Youre watching kwwl. Weve got you covered in lamont, prairieburg, tiffin and all of eastern iowa and theyre coming up with victory. In russia, his fans did this dance of joy for their favorite actor. They call themselves oscar to leo. They obviously got to together to watch the Academy Awards sunday night and saw dicaprio win his first oscar for his performance in the revenant. They even collected silver and gold to make an oscar statue they plan to give to him. Todays the first day of march which means this is the most exciting time of year for College Basketball fans. Last night, iowa state honored Georges Niang on senior night. Its his final game at hilton as the cyclones host oklahoma state. Watch what happens here niang at the line for a oneandone. He misses the first but no one knew it was a one andone. He finished with 17 and the 21st ranked cyclones win 5850. They go to number one kansas on saturday. Senior night for iowa is tonight at carverhawkeye arena. Trump supporters are hoping a big super tuesday win is on the menu. For now, theyll just take one alabama restaurant is offering a slice of the donald for lunch. Its a classic cheese. Student artists drew the face and hair of the republican president ial candidate. No one has taken a bite of have taken a bite of him. Hopefully soon someone will try to trump pizza and we can ship one to trump himself. Alabama is one of the super tuesday states. Recent polls have trump ahead in that state. Its youre watching today in iowa on k wwl. vo shop all makes, models and colors in your neighborhood. All with worryfree ownership. Head to your neighborhood enterprise car sales and let the people who buy more vehicles than anyone. Shift your thinking about buying your next one. Whats all this nonsense about balls . Pink balls, blue, yellow, red. Its hard to keep the whole thing straight. And all these socalled deals . Well, they come with a lot of deal breakers. Like when you leave the city the signal goes weak. U. S. Cellular built a network to give you a stronger signal where the other guys dont. And as for deals . Hows 300 back for every line you switch . 300 no ball nonsense. Get 300 per line and a stronger signal, of my favorite days. Peanut butter lovers day and ally is a big fan. Peanut butter on apples, bananas or just by itself. A few fast facts about it it takes more than 500 peanuts to make a 12ounce jar of Peanut Butter and it was the secret to help control mr. Ed tvs talking horse. Eileen loan is back with another check of your storm track seven now on today in iowa. Our storm track seven Team Continues to keep an eye on conditions this up to snow were taking a live look at highway 218 at sergeant road a number of schools are delayed this morning you can see those on the bottom of your good morning its 6 am today is. Im ally crutcher. And im jerry gallagher. Lets get right to it. Storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is here now with your storm track seven forecast. Winter weather advisory continues this morning over much of the kwwl with light snow sleet possible remain coated. Mostly with of the viewing area. Temperatures are in the upper teens to around 30 this morning with north winds 1020 mph that will cause some blowing snow to continue. The snow tracks out this morning and by this afternoon we should have sunshine. But it will stay cold. Highs will only be in the mid 20s to mid 30s with those have that for you in a few minutes. And by this afternoon we should have