Mostly cloudy high 4147 winds se 515 alo 41 dbq 44 iow 44tomorrow night isolated showers low 3541 winds se 1015 alo 39 dbq 39 iow 40 thanks k kj. One park in downtown cedar raraids has seen aot of changes since the summer. One of those changes includes a new name. Greene square park is now Greene Square. Tv9s Forrest Saunders joins us from the newly renovated area. Forrest, these are the first changes to greene ago. It was originally known as green square park, but now is called just green square. This is theheirst major renovation in 32 years. The big features, a water feature thats a bit more than just a fountain. A new statue. And new design that clears a path from the Citys Library and museum. The city removed about 20 trees that were old and in declining health. A dubuque man faces drug charges after he reported an attempted burglary at his home. Police say 21yearold Austin Lovett called them friday night to his home in the 700 block of university avenue, saying someone had tried
Candidates is heating up. With senator ted cruz on the fast track in iowa. Running neck and neck with donald trump. Its a swift rise for the texas senator. A 21point gain since october in one poll. Cruz and trump up until now have played nice with each other. At all changed this weekend. In iowa, t tmp digging at cruz for opposing popular ethanol subsidies. If ted cruz is against ethanol, how does he win in iowa . Becacae thats very antiiowa. Reporter then on sunday morning shows. You look at the way hes dealt with the senate. Where he goes in there like a frankly, a little bit of a maniac. Hell never get anything done. Thats the problem with ted. Reporter cruz, in response, tweeting this video. Saying in honor of my friend, real donald trump and goodhearted maniacs everywhere. In the end, trump still wants to work with cr. Saying he sees cruz playing a part in n s administration. We would certainly have reporter this back and forth kicking off after cruz could be heard on tape behind
This bond to pass the second t te around to get ahead of the growth. Supporters of another bond vote will present a petition to the College Community board at the meeting tonight. The board is expected t t accept the petition and set the date for a vote on february 2nd. Incidentally, february 2nd could be a popular date for school bond votes. The Waterloo School will also consider putting a 47 Million Dollar bond vote on the ballot then at a meeting tonight. Thanks, dave. Turning to weather and meteorologist joe winters. The mild temperatures are great, but hopefully the rain is ending. Our three days of wet weatheb is finally coming to a close. Showers exit the state with some patchy fog possible late tonight. Although the 60s will not be around this week some mild 40s remain in the forecast on tuesday. The gradual trend is to continue to turn n e temperatures down n to any below normal levels. Look for highs to be in the 30s through the end of the week. Tonight patchy fog late low 32
Were celebrating this morning with one of the sts. Rolling out the red carpet. A lot more on that ahead this morning. Look at bb8 coming. Hell be one of the most popular. What a weekend in the east. Central park packed. There it is. People running in shorts. Take a look at this, as well. Mountain creek ski resort in new jersey. Thats last year. Here it was on sunday. Nothing. Nothing at all. We all know about green bay. Coldest place in the world to play football. Not yesterday. They dont wear shirts even when its cold. Even when its the frozen tundra. Those cheeseheads are no doubt. Ginger will have more. Lets go to kendis gibson, hes in lufkin, texas. Powerful storms there. Kendis. Reporter george, powerful being the key word. This giviv you a sense of how powerful the storms were. This, right here, 1 of 64 around. Looking like toys. Look over there. Across the highway, therergoes another r e. All across the highway over the weekend. Today, a massive cleanup effort under way here, as
Milestone. Fox 28 News Reporter and host of iowa in focus, kevin barry joins us now live from the governors celebration in des moines with more on tonights festivities. Kevin . More than a thousand people came to the fair grounds tonight to celebrate with the governor. The night included a discussion with the governor where he talked about his time in office. Early on he spoke about how he grew up in a family of democrats until he got to college. He said he didnt fit in with the College Democrats at the time so a friend invited him to a College Republicans meeting. And the speaker that night was a state representative named Chuck Grassley. So the first republican meeting i went to Chuck Grassley was the speaker and ive been an active republican ever since. Says from then on, he was a republican, and eventually got his mother to switch parties house. At the bottom of the hour. Hear what the governor has to say about how iowas worth ethic helped him get reelected over and over again. In