Youngest of 3 siblings. But with Treacher Collins syndrome. About one in 50,000 people is touched by it. He is lacking facial bone development. Small jaw. He doesnt have cheekbones and you can see his eyes are a little bit lower. The challenges arent just on the outside. A tcs patient also has smaller airways. If youre a parent, imagine the sniffles leading to a trip to the hospital. Nearly every time. A common day cololputs him in theeospital. Kelli notes her other children, 17yearold page and 7yearold payton are on the familys private insurance but medicaid isnt just on income guidelines it also covers disabilities. T t transfer trenton and his medicaid in recent weeks. Id call the hospitals and try to help them by getting on the right program for trenton and they could not tell me anything. They told me to keep calling back. Now, a 60day wait for iowa with about 15 of the population using medicaid to truly have the infrastructure to handle the transfer. I received thousands of email
The Salvation Army just got word about the Fundraising Campaign a couple of days ago. 8 34 15 i was surprised it even happened. 8 41 27 the Salvation Army says any money hassan raises could help with programs throughout the year like this christmas meal 8 36 11 doesnt matter what faith it is we reach out to our fellow human being when we see a need we want to address that need. So being able to Work Together is exciting hassan wants to help his neighbors and help reduce the tension felt against muslims. And if it takes 30thousand dollars thats what hell work toward. 8 10 05 i know its a lot of money, but i am a big dreamers so i like to dream big dreams. In cedar rapids, jill kasparie, kcrgtv9 news. Well put a link to the gofundme page with this story on our website at kcrg dot com, after the show. The Salvation Army says it has raised 58percent of its fundraising goal. It still needs about 330 our sky has cleared off for the time being, which will continue into the night. Our lows wil
First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on another windy day in the area with highs around 30 degrees in many spots. Along this cold front, a passing snow shower may occur, mainly along and north of a waterloomaquoketa line. Whiled no major issues are anticipated, a brief reduction in visibility could occur in any s sow shower. Well see our coldest night of december so far tonight, with lows in the midteens. Plan on a nice saturday with highs back in the mid30s. Midupper 40s are still on track for sunday with a chance of rain by evening. Have a great weekend thanks kaj. One person is in xhe hospital this morning after a late night fire in cedar rapids. The Fire Department responded to the area of i avenue and first street rthwest. They got on scene around 10 oclock last night, but were still on the s sne for hours. First responders took one person to the hospital who had set up a tent in that area. The Fire Department hasnt said how severe the persons i
Answered. And good morning, america. Happy friday. Standing room only at midnight. Theaters all across the country last night, 41 of them, of course, for the force awakens. It is finally here. And, dan, youre e eing it tonight. Yes, im eier going to dress up as boba fett orueen amidala. Trust me youll want to see it again and again and again. Cool, i need to clear my schedule. More on that in jusa minute. But we begin with h ose stunnini new details from San Bernardino. Enrique marquez, the childhood friend of syed farook arrested on terror charges revealing to authorities the neighbors had planned other attacks. This all comes as president obama visits the victims in San Bernardino this evening. Abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross is here with all of those details. Good morning, brian. Reporter good morning, amy. It could have been so much worse, Authorities Say today. If syed farook had followed through on his other terror plot for Southern California with attacks on a
Alert forecast, kaj. Plan on another windy day in the area with highs around 30 degrees in many spots. Along this cold front, a passing snow shower may occur, mainly along and north of a waterloomaquoketa line. While no major issues are anticipated, a brief reductctn in visibility could occur in anynynow shower. Well see our coldest night of december so far tonight, with lows in the midteens. Plan on a nice saturday with highs back in the mid30s. Midupper 40s are still on track for sunday with a chance of rain by evening. Have a great weekend family and friends of an 18yearold iowa state student killed this week will honor her life today. Family and friends of an 18yearold iowa state student killed this week will honor her life today. The Center Point United Methodist church is holding a visitation today. Its for emmalee jacobs who died on monday after a hit and run on the ames campus. She just graduated from center pointurbana high school last may. Jacobs put a lot of her time into he