Pick up behind this storm and gust to 40 mph. Tomorrow we will see another chance for light snow in the morning and midday hours. This will be a weak system that will die out as it moves into eastern iowa tomorrow afternoon. Christmas day is looking dry. Highs will be in the lower 40s. Christmas night we will see a mix of rain and snow. The rain and mix will continue on saturday. Sunday will be mostly cloudy. Much cooler air moves in next week. Monday will be a messy day with rain changing to snow. Heavy snow is possible by monday evening. That snow will last through tuesday morning. Wednesday will be colder with mostly cloudy skies. The iowa state patrol says 2015 has been one of the safest in recent memory on iowa roads. Channel 13s jannay towne joins us with more on what you can to do to keep it that way. For the first time ever. More expected to travel between now and the new year. Most are getting behind the wheel. So get ready to share the road with more drivers on the way to your holiday destination. 23 51 58 its kind of heavy. Im from leon, iowa and theres not a whole lot of traffic down there. We got one stop light. 03 23 53 03 we have beautiful weather yesterday and today its making up for it 07 those who hit the road this morning had to deal with the rain which was heavy at times. The biggest factor driving travel right now is low gas prices. Well under two dollars in iowa. The state patrol will have extra troopers on the road this week to help keep you safe. So far, this years death toll of 310 on iowa roads is the lowest since 2010. Troopers say it will stay that way if drivers remember this Holiday Travel checklist. 23 48 48 safe holiday for everybody. Like i say, look ahead to where youre going, slow down, wear your seat belt, watch for distracted driving and if you chose to drink, get a air travel is also up in part to lower fares. The terminal at the des moines airport was bustling this afternoon. A check of the flight status board a few minutes ago shows a few delays this evening. Out of detroit, charlotte and chicago midway. Thousands of iowans are traveling to pasadena. And hopefully they got cheap flights because tickets to the rose bowl come with record breaking prices. According to stub hub the average price of those tickets is 5hundred dollars. A piece thats 3hundred dollars more than the average of the next most expensive ticket for a college bowl game. Tickets to the National Championship are going for over 12 hundred dollars. He made an impact on the football field. Tonight, the community of madrid is gathering to honor randy hinkel and the larger impact he had on peoples lives. Hinkel died suddenly this past weekend. He coached the madrid tigers to 25 state football playoff taught social studies. A visitation is happening right now until seven oclock at the Madrid High School gymnasium. A Memorial Service will immediately follow. A body has been identified. After a man was found along a set of Railroad Tracks in mahaska county. An autopsy revealed it was 34 year old jefferey allen versteegh. He was reported missing back in july. A hunter found skeletal remains along a set of Railroad Tracks north of oskaloosa in december. The cause of death hasnt been determined. West Des Moines Police are looking for two women who are wanted for prescription fraud. They say there are several cases involving this pair. Authorities are offering 1thousand dollars for information that leads to their arrests. They say the women may be driving this maroon suv or a white minivan. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers of central iowa at 515 2231400. A judge ruled the vast majority of black lives matters be allowed to protest at mall of america today. Lawyers for the nations largest mall had requested a temporary restraining order. In hopes of avoiding a repeat of the massive demonstration that closed stores last december. Instead the judge ruled to bar only three organizers from participating. Black lives matter participants carried on with the protest. But the mall of america considers the barring of those three organizers a victory. We are very pleased with the ruling. The court, yet again, said the state of minnesota protects private Property Owners such as the mall of america. Protestors rallied at the mall and also disrupted Light Rail Service throughout the twin cities. Thats according to the minneapolis star tribune. Protestors will not be filling local malls today. Just shopping procrastinators 123628 always wait until the last minute 153527 just out done. Im a procrastinator valley west was crowed with last minute shoppers. The week leading up to christmas is one of the busiest weeks for shopping during the year. Amongst the hustle and bustle, shoppers tend to get stressed. But one shopper says he keeping a positive attitude and offering that same advice to others. 191906 treating the Customer Service people with like as much respect as possible. Just being nice to them and wishing them a Merry Christmas and not yelling if youre a last minute shopper. You are not alone. According to the National Retail federation, 90 percent of shoppers still have gifts, food or decorations to buy the owner of an east side auto parts shop says his business is a total loss after a fire tore through it earlier today. Auto parts on maury caught fire around 10 this morning. Investigators say a wood stove is to blame. It took nearly two dozen firefighters several hours to put out the fire. And it was no easy task. Firefighters say mid American Energy had cut power to the business and remove flammable chemicals building before dousing it with water. 085218 first and foremost the amount of fire showing when we pulled up. It was fully involved. There were reports of oxygen tanks on the inside and farther back so thats a concern because if they get over heated they start to vent and we could have an explosion the Businesses Owners say they are already looking to find a new Building Space the suspect in the las vegas fatal crash over the weekend. Appeared in court for the first time today. Coming up. Why her defense Attorney Says she is innocent. How many people she hurt. And when she is expected to appear in court again. Plus. The Campaign Trial is a bit quiet this holiday season. But one candidate is in the state today. Which candidates plan to make a visit soon. And who is on top of a new released poll. The suspect in sunday nights time today. 24 year old Lakeisha Holloway is accused of driving her car into a crowd of pedestrians. Killing one and injuring dozens of other people. She made a brief appearance before a judge today. Her first after she was first formally charged. Police say she intentionally drove onto the sidewalk along las vegas boulevard striking dozens of people. 37 people were injured. One was killed. So far shes been charged with three counts murder with a deadly weapon,. Leaving the scene of an accident. And child abuse, neglect or endangerment because she had her outside the courtroom. Her lawyer said its too early to tell if she is guilty or not. Just because shes charged, doesnt mean that shes guilty. There are all kinds of possibilities that we have to look into to make a determination of what happened here. Holloways next court date is january 20th. Families of those killed in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in connecticut have finalized a 1 point 5 Million Dollar settlement. 16 plantiffs will share the money. The settlement involves eight separate lawsuits filed against the mother of the suspect nancy lanza. The lawsuits were filed earlier this year. Saying she allegedly was careless and negligent in leaving a bushmaster ar15 rifle unsecured in her home. Adam lanza killed his mother before he went on the rampage and killed himself back on december 14th in 2012. Donald trump is topping the republican in a new cnn poll released today. The new cnn orc poll shows thats more than double senator ted cruzs numbers who came in second with 18 percent. Doctor ben carson and senator marco rubio are next tied in third place with 10 percent. For democratic candidates. Bernie sanders stopped in western iowa this afternoon. Other candidates will travel to the state after the holidays. Martin omalley heads to the metro on sunday. Hell be at the des moines social club. For a Foreign Policy forum at 430 pm. A tornado watch issued earlier for se iowa has been canceled. Now we are watching the snow from the same system move through the central iowa area. Heavier snow was reported this afternoon in boone and dallas counties as totals. There will be some slick roads this evening in western and northern iowa. The snow will end tonight. The west wind will pick up behind this storm and gust to 40 mph. Tomorrow we will see another chance for light snow in the morning and midday hours. This will be a weak system that will die out as it moves into eastern iowa tomorrow afternoon. Christmas day is looking dry. Highs will be in the lower 40s. Christmas night we will see a mix of rain and snow. The rain and mix will continue on saturday. Sunday will be mostly cloudy. Much cooler air moves in next week. Monday will be a messy day with on average, it takes three hundred americans working for a solid year, to make as much money as one top ceo. Its called the wage gap. And the republicans will make it worse by lowering taxes for those at the top and letting corporations write their own rules. Hillary clinton will work to close the wage gap. Equal pay for women to raise incomes for families, a higher minimum wage, lower taxes for the middle class. She gets the job done for us. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. A tornado watch issued earlier for se iowa has been canceled. Now we are watching the snow from the same system move through the central iowa area. Heavier snow was reported this afternoon in boone and dallas counties as thundersnow kicked up heavier totals. There will be some slick roads this evening in western and northern iowa. The snow will end tonight. The west wind will pick up behind this storm and gust to 40 mph. Tomorrow we will see another chance for light snow in the morning and midday hours. This will be a weak system that will die out as it moves into eastern iowa tomorrow afternoon. Christmas be in the lower 40s. Christmas night we will see a mix of rain and snow. The rain and mix will continue on saturday. Sunday will be mostly cloudy. Much cooler air moves in next week. Monday will be a messy day with rain changing to snow. Heavy snow is possible by monday evening. That snow announcer one candidate tough enough to take on the bully. Jeb bush donald, youre not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency. Thats not going to happen. applause announcer one candidate tough enough to take on isis. Jeb will destroy isis. And keep america safe. Jeb bush the United States should not delay in leading a Global Coalition to take out isis with overwhelming force. Jeb bush. Right to rise usa is responsible for the content of this message. Fresh off its second win over a topfive Team Northern iowa took off for the diamond head classic in hawaii. The islands are a four hour time difference and it showed. Uni and hawaii tipped off at 12 30 this morning. Panthers looked half asleep turning the ball over 19times. The rainbow warriors put uni away 6852. Two bright spots, Matt Bohannon threepointers, and they were playing in hawaii. No sleep for panther fans. Uni and Washington State set for 10 30 tonight. Cyclones looked out of sorts the last few games. That changed in cincinnati. Iowa state came out with energy scoring the games first seven points. Number 22 cincinnati, took a late lead, but abdel naders first three of the game sealed the cyclones 10th win. Isu plays coppin state next wednesday. Two games too early to know how good Nicholas Baer will be. Two games long enough to know baer needs to get his school paid for. The walkon backed up his big four classic game with a career high 19 iowa opens big 10 conference with the spartans on tuesday. Jennie baranczyk played for lisa bluder at iowa. Bluder coached at drake where baranczyk is now. They get along. But they dont agree on everything. I feel some gamesmanship going the contract between drake and iowa is a twoyear deal. Jordan canzeri wont miss the rose bowl. At least if he has his way. Canzeri suffered another sprained ankle in the big ten championship. The senior doesnt want that to be his final play. Iowa taking the fight to the west coast, against the and were coming with them. Praised as one of americas best mayors who governed as a pragmatist. Bernie sanders passed more amendments in a Republican Congress than any other member. Cracked the gridlock with john mccain to strengthen veterans healthcare. Bernie sanders. A consistent, principled, and effective leader. Building a future to believe in. Sanders im Bernie Sanders and i approve this message. Rudolf and the rest of his gang might not have to work this year. Thanks to these robotic reindeer. Three of the robots are seen pulling santas sleigh in this youtube designed by a Company Named boston dynamics. Coming up next on the news at wheel