court in two weeks and could face up to a decade in prison if convicted. marci gonzalez, abc news, elkins park, pennsylvania" jenna: an update now on a story we brought to you yesterday, a story we brought to you yesterday, new details surrounding the car accident that has a cherokee woman facing two counts of attempted murder. jenna: court documents in the case reveal that prior to crashing head on into oncoming traffic melissa ebert stated she would killlloth her passenenr ananherself. authorories say ebert was traveling with damien johnson september 9th when the two got into an argument. the crash resulted in both johnson and the driver of the oncoming car suffering serious injuries according to a blood sample taken after the crash, ebert's blood alcohol content was point oh-eight eight. ebert is currently charged with several charges including two counts of attempted murder. she's scheduled to be in court jenna: three people from sioux city have been charged in a prostitution sting in sioux falls. according to officials, after arranging meetings at a sioux falls hotel monday night authorities arrested 28-year old amanda meyer, 23 year old brittany leners and 26 year old rashad lee, all of sioux city. investigators believe they drove to sioux falls for the illegal activity. authorites don't believe the women were bei trafficked. jenna: two women jumped out of a two story building during a frightening fire yesterday. today we talked to the first responder who came upon that scene. abc 9's bria bell has more on what he had to say. bria: jenna, prarie apartments caught fire around 10 am on tuesday and woodbury county sheriff's deputy todd peterson was the first on scene. he says he witnessed one of the women jump out of the two story building head first. peterson was only 3 blocks away at the time of the call. "a lot of things wen that point in time. the first thing that i was thinking is, i didn't want her to fall and land on her neck, [that] was the main thing. i ran over to where she was and told her that i was the only one there and probably not going to be able to catch you by myself, and at that point, she dropped out of the window," said peterson. peterson says everything happened so fast, it felt like forever before crews arrived the deputy sheriff says he believes the woman's injuries could have been worse if he was not thererto lessen the i iact of her fall... the fact both women jumped out of the window may have saved their lilis. "from the looks of the building, i mean, they probably didn't have a choice. the way the smoke and flames were coming out of the building...if i was put in their situation i would have probably done the same thing...yeah, if they wouldn't have came out that window they probably would have been killed@in that fire," said peterson. bria: both women's name have not been realeased yet, but are described as being in their early 20's according to woodbury county sheriff deputy todd peterson's body and dash cam is also not be released at this time. both women are expected to recover from their non life threating injuries. reporting live in studio, bria bell abc 9 news. jenna: if you're a customer of verizon wireless or sprint... you could be entitled to some money from a pending settlement. the catch is, the deadline for those claims is tomorrow. both wireless servicers settled a lawsuit back in may over "cramming", which is essentially an illegal l arge brought onony subscriptiti based services. that might be something like horoscopes or ringtones on your phone. charges for those services ranged from 99 cents to 14 dollars. if you'd like to find out more about cramming and how you can file your claim click on this story on our t's siouxland matters dot com. jenna: a new exhibit at the sioux city public museum is highlighting the city's historic department stores. martin's, davidson's and pelletier's (pella-tear's) stores grew to prominence in the late 1800's. they sold everythingn from clothing to manuractured goods, and at the time no other city in iowa had the variety and selection that those stores offered... creating a true regional destination in sioux city. "they were just these behemoths in downtown sioux city that attracted people to the e ail business here from a vast area outside of sioux city.y. the exhibit was made possible with a grant from the m-a martin everist foundation. you can see it at the sioux city public museum, through march 6t... admission is free. jenna: archie's waeside of lemars iowa is earning some serious aclades. on a recent t& yahoo! food article, archie's was named the best steakhouse the state of iowa. this latest honor comes off of the steakhouse being named number 4 on rachel ray's list of the top 200 steakhouses in america. but that's not all, archie's was american classic award this year after being a semi finalist in 2014. jenna: recent weather conditions have put a damper on more than just outdoor activities. it's actually having an effect on the area's blood supply. folks at lifeserve blood center say the blood supp has dipped to a crititally low level recently due in part to the cold and snow. represenentives say because of cancellations, closings and delays t tre is less than a one day supply of most blood on the shelves. " it is great to see donors in our center right now but we could always use more. right w 5 of the 8 blo types are in critical need which means there's less than a one day supply and that's really, that's kind of frightening for us because new year's eve is coming up and tre's always aittle bit more of a bump in blood supply need during that time." says claire deroin with lifeserve blood center. lifeserve blood center splies blood units to more than 11 hosptitals in the tri state area. jenna: the food bank of siouxland will be getting a big donation for its backpack program. woodhouse auto thousand dollars to help support the backpack program. the money was raised during this year's food challenge where they ask customers and community members to donate. the backpack program m pplies food for kids from six area elementary schools on weekends. jenna: several presidential candidates took the opportunity to make their last mark on the hawkeye state before the new year incuding republican caidate marco rubio. he was in pella iowa this morning, coming off his(& visit to sioux city the florida senator spoke to supporters at the pella golf and country club this morning at a town hall style meeting where he touched on several subjts including his stance on planned parenthood and funding the military jenna: democratic candidate martin o'malley will also be stopping in northwest iowa, right here in sioux city. the former maryland governor has a campaign stop scheduled for january third at the mary treglia house here in sioux city. that's on jennings street at 11:45 in o'malley will meet and greet voters and speak on issues faced by many americans. jessica rae: but he's not the only democrat that will be in sioux city in the new year, frontrunner hihiary clinton also has a campaign stoto duriri her "river totoiver in iowa tour". clintowill be in sioux city on tuesday january 5th. she'll also be attending events in osage and council bluffs. jenna: hillary clinton coinues to be a talking point of her g-o-p rival donald trump, but it seems a new "enemy" for trump may have risen on the republican side of the race. abc's bazi kanani has more. "(nats) donald trump usually prefers prime-time for his rallies, but was no less aggressive in a rare daytime ent in south carolina. (sot trump) we view this as war. don't we view this as war? trump recylcing his attack line against jeb bush... to strike at hillary clinton. declaring both "enemies." (sot trump) low-energy can be applied to hillary. i just elect to use the same thing twice on one of my enemies. i consider them enemies. (gfx) a turn-around from 2008 when trump wrote in a blog post that hillary clinton would make a "great president or vice (vo) but today: (sot trump) "hillary is a disaster. boo" and ump continues his attack on other clinton-- referring to old scandada-- as former president bill clinton prepares to campaign for hisiswife. (sot trump) the husband wants to come and accu me of things and the husband is one o the great abusers of the world. give me a break. hillary clinton is still refusing to respond directly to trump's taunts-- not even using his name. (sot clinton) see, i happen to think that american is great. but trump's other declared "enemy," jeb bush, isn't holding back... releaseing this new attack ad... (nats/sot from the ad) trump in the ad here a top 5 list of trump's campaign mistakes. (nats/sot from the ad) short bit here ==bazi on cam tag== less than 5 weeks from the first primaries, donald trump says he will start spending millions to buy ad time in critical early voting states " still to come... the iowa made the rose bowl for the first time in over 20 years. what coaches from each team are expecting. after the break. fred: (fred) we have some cold nights ahead! ur new year's fecast isn't a bad one, but the real warmup will come for the weekend! stay tuned! best season ever, , the iowa hawkey are in california for the rosebowl. and today, kirk ferentz, the head coach of the football team, received one of the most prestigious awards in all of college football. the bobby dodd trophy we have correspondant jon schaeffer in southern california, to bring us up to speed with ferentz and his outlook on the upcoming rose bowl, enjoying the nice weather there jon? jon: thanks we are aboard the uss iowa-- a beautiful day here in los angeles. we just finished a tour of the battleship and will have that story tonight at 10 for you. but earlier today-- both coaches addressed the media talking about friday's rose bowl. they talked key players, what makes their teams this environment is expected to be like. but the story is a little different for both of these teams. stanford is appeararce in last four years. time since 1991. neither coach expects it to have much of an i iact will be a small factor-- coach david shaw says it makes no difference. kirk ferentz: "i think it's a bit of a factor, but...i think the thing we share with our football team, we've played in a lot of big games and for us, every game this year has been extremely big. you know, we've been in playoff mode since week one."$& david shaw: "you know, we went to back to back years and that second one...it doesn't matter. i mentioned this yesterday. midway through the first quarter, for me - i know it'll happen again because it's happened twice and it'll happen for different guys at different times - it's gonna hit you. this is the rose bowl." jon: obviously both jon: obviously both teams play very physical styles-- and both coaches having a strong respect for one another. you can expect some hard nosed football come friday regardless of past experience. reporting from the u.s.s. iowa-- jon schaeffer-- local 5 news we are iowa././c9 fred: jenna: tim: (fred) we have a very cold night ahead, jenna! fred: (fred) the hd radar shows that the snow is gone. sioux falls picked up 1.5", as did yankton. beresford, sd saw 1.1", while storm lake and the north side of siou city had 1.0". downtown sioux city picked up 0.7". thankfully, road conditions are fine. the port neal welding company skycam hd shows cloudy skies from the ho chunk centre in downtown sioux city. 27 was the high today and 15 the low. in sioux city, we have a temperature of 23 temperatures are in winds are northwest hour. wind chills are ininhe single digits and teens. zoomingout, t tre is nothing west and north. that means a continued cold pattern, since our winds will be from the northwest tonight and tomorrow. the midwest satellite and radar shows this morning's snow moving away from us. skies will be clearing tonight. the stormcast hd shows decreasing clouds and a cold night tonight, then increasing clouds tomorrow. new year's eve and new year's day will be seasonally cool, but dry and quiet, with more sunshine friday and saturday. your forecast tonight is for decreasing clouds and a lowowf 2. tomorrow, clouds will be increasing with a high of 23. the 7-day forecast shows 12 new year's eve, then 29 new year's day friday. saturday will warm to 36. after 20s monday and tuesday, we'll enjoy 30s again tuesday and wednesday. there will be no additional fred: tim: jenna: (jenna) thanks, fred! (fred) you bet. giving birth at giving birth at home. it's a growing trend, but are there any risks associate with the practice. find out when we come back but what are the risks when it comes to a more traditional delivery? abc dr. timothy johnson fills us in. bringing a new baby into the world? a life-changing event for parents that will occur an estimated 3.9 million times next year in this country alone. and these days, some women are choosing to give birth outside of the hospital. they represent a small - but growing - proportion of the total. but what are the risks of giving birth outside of the hospital setting? to try and answer this question, researchers looked at data on babies born between 2012 and 2013 in the state of oregon. of the 79,000 births they analyzed, about four percent occurred in homes or birth centers other than the hospital. they found that in both settings, the risk odeath or other serious medical issues was very low. however, compared to planned in-hospital birth, out-of-hospital birth was linked to a slightly higher rate of perinatal death - in other words, death during development or in the first month of life. " after the break... thinking about buying a home ? why you may st trigger in 20-16. buying a home ? why you may just want to pull the trigger in 20-16. but mary moloney why you may make 2016 the year home. buyers -- 2016 might just be your year. here's why. one -- rock bottom mortgage rates are on the way out. interest rates are going up and that's going to make new home loans more expensive. so 2016 could be a great chance to lock in the rate of a lifetime if rates keep rising. number two -- expect home prices to rise more slowly. prices have been soaring the past few years. but real estate tracker zillow says you can expect home price tags to rise just about 3 and a half percent. those improving numbers will push more owners to list their homes -- easing the inventy crunch. meaning g ere might bebeore homes available to buy in 2016. bringing us to reason number three -- morornew homes on the market next year. builders are focused on starter and midrange houses. and the final and perhaps best reason to buy a home -- soaring rent prices. rents just keep going up. becoming almost unaffordable in some markets. so that means in most places --uying bargain. to recap -- 2016 can mean more options and fewer bidding wars for prospective home buyers. for consumer watch -- i'm mary moloney . " tim: fred's back next with a final check of our forecast. decrsing clouds and a low of 2. tomorrow, clouds will be increasing with a high of 23. the 7-day forecast shows 12 new year's eve, then 29 new year's day friday. saturday will warm to 36. afterer0s monday and tuesday, we'll enjoy y s again tuesday and weweesday. there will be no additionana snow over the next week.