say that there could be an easy solution to the problem. "here is the real issue. a lot of these individuals, low level non violent offenders should never enter the prison system to begin with.they should be diverted to drug courts or mental health courts," lukas: we'll have much more on the issue of mandatory minimums and why some are asking for changes ... tonight on abc9 news at ten. reporting live in studio ... lukas voss abc9 news. tim: are you a black friday shopper ? stores like walmart plan to open doors at 6pm on thanksgiving day. and this year a "designated one hour guarentee line" promises to send shoppers home with items of their choice at a marked down price. even if the item is not in stock, stores say they'll get it before christmas for a later pick up. "i can tell you that it is going to be a great black friday. we are going to have over one million tvs, over ten million pairs of pajamas and over 15 million movies that we will have ready for our black friday event, said van matre. wal mart will also be price matching items as long as you have a competitor's ad for an identical you have a competitor's ad for an identical product. many major retailers says plan to have more cashiers and associates on duty to make shopping a better experience for customers. jenna: an iconic building in sioux city will be home to a new business. tim: the former sioux tools building on floyd blvd now has a local owner.... who is planning to bring it back to life in a special way,. jenna: abc 9's bria bell has more... bria: tim and jenna, mark schuett who grew up in a small town not too far from sioux city is the owner of american natural processors, he purchased the former sioux tools building around march of this year and is in the process of rennovating it to look as similar as it did in the early 20's. "i would see it as a boy and say, 'god that is a neat building'," said schuett. mark schuett is the new owner of the building which was home to a company many siouxlanders know , sioux tools. but what many may even before sioux sioux city brick and tile. the building has over a century and mark says that his game plan is to remodel the building to its 1920's form. wanted to do was actually restore it back to what i'm going to call its glory days in the 20's and get it to look like that and to be our processing," mark's company is processors business that produces grain, protein concentrates, oil and more. he says that the motivation to purchase the building was not only because of family, but the history. project and so my decided we could make this building work. we know it's going to be more of an investment than if we would've started from scratch, but the idea that we can safe some of the history of the building...we plan on having a small room where we will display the history of the building," said schuett. majority of the building was not in use since 2002 leaving many people to suspect that it would soon be demolished if there was not a use for it. but with the current project in place, tom munson, an archival clerk for sioux city says that this upcoming plan is a bonus for the residents of sioux city. "well i think the resuse of a building like this means alot for the community. not only the reuse of an old factory building, but the fact that a new industry is coming here, i mean that speaks volumes," said munson. bria: mark plans on building is completely updated for locals and former employees who worked in the building years ago. reporting live in studio, bria bell abc 9 news. tim: governor branstad is standing by his decision to join other governors and refuse syrian refugees entering the state. individual states do not have the legal authority to block refugee placement but the governor expressed his frustrations with the feds, saying he will do what he can with his authority to stop refugees from coming in to iowa. that's a question all the governors are asking because this is really a federal responsibility and we're just deeply disappointed the administration has failed to contain and stop is." as far as state offices go... there is a bureau of refugee services under the iowa department of human services but it helps mostly with employment services for refugees. refugee resettlement happens through three different agencies in iowa - who work with the federal government... not the state jenna: president obama says the united states and france stand together to rid the world of the terror group isis. obama met with french president francois hollande today at the white house. the french leader is trying to put together an international coalition to go after the terror group. obama says the u-s will be part of that alliance. president obama says, "this is an important moment for our nations and for the world. this barbaric terrorist group, isil or daesh, and its murderous ideology, pose a serious threat to all of us. it cannot be tolerated, it must be destroyed and we must do it together." isis claimed responsibility for the terrorist attacks in paris that left at least 130-people dead. france has been the terrorist attacks in paris that left at least 130-people dead. france has been stepping up its airstrikes against isis since then. obama said the u-s will intensify its current strategy. but he said it would be a mistake to send a large number of u-s troops to syria. tim: donald trump is under fire for controversial comments he made on the nine-11 attacks. trump said twice over the weekend that he saw thousands of people in new jersey cheering as the world trade center towers came down in 2001. numerous publications and some politicians say trump is wrong. trump's special counsel, michael cohen, stated that the number of people cheering doesn't matter. " whether it's thousands and thousands or a thousand people or even just one person, it's irrelevant. to celebrate this tragedy, this killing of innocent people that went to what? to work? right. they're trying to enjoy the american dream, to earn a dollar? it's wrong, and mr. trump is making his point." one of trump's leading presidential rivals, ben carson, also said he witnessed the cheering, claiming he saw "news reels" of it. but carson walked back on that comment monday night, telling fox news he was speaking about muslims celebrating nine- 11, not an exact incident. jenna: more now on that potential diplomatic crisis in the war against isis... russian president vladimir putin is warning of "serious consequences" after turkish military jets shot down a russian fighter plane. it happened near the turkey-syria border and despite russia's denials.. turkey is insisting the plane violated its airspace. abc's elizabeth hur reports. " " a russian marine.. killed.. while searching for the two russian pilots.. ejected from their fighter jet.. shot down by turkey.. that's according to russian military officials now vowing to destroy anyone threatening their air forces.. ((sot)) putin "speaking in russian.." vladimir putin.. is calling the shootdown a "stab in the back by the accomplices of terrorists"... blasting turkey.. a nato member.. the showdown between the two nations prompting nato.. to call an emergency meeting. ((sot)) nato secretary general jens stoltenberg " the information we have from all the allies is consistent what we have got from turkey.." turkey is maintaining its air force brought down the russian jet only after repeated warnings were ignored.. claiming the russian pilots were told 10 times in a 5 minute-span at they were violating turkish airspace.. ((sot)) col warren " we were able to hear everything that was going on." from baghdad.. us military officials explain there are audio records confirming those warnings were in fact issued.. but stress.. the situation remains under review.. ((sot)) col warren "we're still kind of analyzing all of our data to determine exactly what we know." jenna: still to come tonight we'll take a look at a class that is dedicated to helping seniors stay active (fred) fog may be seen tonight and tomorrow, but of greater concern will be the wintry mix of precipitation on thursday. that could lead to tricky travel. your forecast is after the break. stay with us! omaha/council bluffs, on thursday. the threat will be for ice changing to snow. this watch may be expanded, so stay tuned. the port neal welding company skycam hd shows the scene in downtown sioux city from the ho chunk centre. our high today reached 51 after a low of 27. the king's pointe skycam hd shows the winter scene in storrm lake. 47 is our temperature in sioux city. around siouxland, temperatures range from the 30s northeast to the 50s southwest. wind chills are as cool as the lower 20s in the problem elsewhere. relative humidity is quite high, espeically across the northeast--as high as 100 percent in storm lake. as a result, we could see areas of fog tonight. right now, though, visibility is fine at 8-10 miles across the map. the stormcast hd shows fog tonight, drizzle tomorrow, and then thursday's weather will be rain changing to an icy mix changing to snow. the ice forecast shows up to a tenth of an inch of ice in the east. the snow forecast shows 0.5" to 1.5" of snow. your forecast tonight is for partly cloudy skies and areas of fog. the low will be 34. tomorrow, the high will be 45 with areas of fog and areas of drizzle. the 7-day forecast shows ice and snow thursday and a high of 33. we'll see a gradual cooldown afterward, with a high of just 27 saturday. monday will bring another chance of snow. tonight's ask fred prize is 4 world tour buffets at the hard rock casino! to enter, email your weather question to fhexom@kcautv.c om or enter on facebook under our ask fred post. jenna/tim/fred (fred) you bet. tim: still to come... can benefit from exercise, we'll take you to one fitness class that caters to senior citizens. details on seated aerobics, coming classes that cater to older fitness fanatics. in today's health minute, jennifer whalen tells us about seated aerobics. " "this energetic group has come to this seated fitness class to work on their mobility, strength and flexibility. the added stability of a chair means even people with balance issues can join in. (bobbie elzey/fitness instructor) "we always start off with a real long warm up because their body needs to adjust. and then, we do a little bit of standing up motions, doing squats because you need to squat. everybody needs to squat everyday and we work on that." instructor bobbie elzey has been teaching the class for 35-years and many of the participants work out with her three- times a week. she guides them through free-weight and elastic strap routines to help them build strength. (suzanne goodell/92 year old participant) when you're old, range of motion in your legs, in your hips, in your knee, in your neck and all over is excruciatingly important because then you've moved all the rest of the day, you move more freely." bobbie says she's seen the improvement in class participants. (bobbie elzey/fitness instructor) "their muscles gets so strong so quickly it's amazing like within 2 or 3 weeks, they're a little bit stronger. the grocery bags aren't quite as heavy, they can open up the car door a little bit easier, they're more confident in going up and over curbs and balance." for today's health minute i'm jennifer whalen. coming up in sports...the heroes game is just three days away now. hear from the hawkeyes on their border battle with nebraska up ahead. plus...norfolk catholic was in search of its first state championship since 2012. we'll have all the action from no program can beat norfolk catholic's 9 state championships. today the knights were back in lincoln for the first time since 2012, looking to get to double digits. the second seeded knights taking on top seed columbus scotus in the class c1 title game. in the first...baeley pelster, takes it in from 7 yards out...the shamrocks go up 7-0 after the extra point. in the second, scotus up 13...but myles vrbka hits matt miller for 17 yards and 6 points...knights cut the lead in half. later in the quarter...david engelhaupt, muscles his way in from 15 yards out...norfolk catholic takes the lead but they'd trail 19-14 at the break. in the third...shamrocks up 8 and they add to it...jake bos--from 53 yards away--that's a nebraska state championship record...scotus goes up double- digits. but the knights had some fight in them...vrbka with the fake and he throws it back to engelhaupt...we saw the strength earlier, now we see the speed...90 yards--that's a c-1 record and they get within 5. norfolk catholic with one final drive here, but engelhaupt, gets stripped and scotus recovers...they hand norfolk catholic its first loss of the year, 32-27. "we've had alot of success down here winning this game also, it just didn't happen today cause we played a good football team and i think give them credit in the things they've done but we had more mistakes then we typically make as a team. no coach coach to lose but there's a time when you have to man up and you have to say we did what we did and we got beat and so i feel very good about our kids and what we've done." in the class c2 championship, oakland craig, fresh off an upset of battle creek can't pull off another stunner. aquinas catholic wins its 4th title in the last 5 years...36-7 the final from memorial stadium. chris: lincoln is also the location on friday for the fifth installment of the heroes game between iowa and nebraska. the huskers have won three of the previous four meetings in the series, but for the first time since the two became big ten rivals, its the hawkeyes with more on the line. iowa at 11-0 has already clinched the big ten west and a spot in the conference championship game, while the huskers come in at just 5-6. but the hawkeyes are expecting a tough battle on friday in lincoln. c.j. beathard--"i know ever since i've been here, for four years, this is my fourth year, the previous three years, everytime we've played this team they've been good games. i could expect the same this game." cole fisher--"i've kind of had this one circled for a while. but i'll still try to treat it just like any other game. it's got a little personal, little personal extra for me." kirk ferentz--"my first game as a head coach in 1999 was against nebraska, very high mountain point. and i would go back, whatever our first year was this think the mountain was a little bit higher than we could mount. our job is to be able to play with those guys, go out and compete with them. they recruit well. they've had great teams in the past, and they've got a really good football team this year. our challenge is to be ready for them on friday." kick off is set for abc9. before kickoff though, abc9 is your spot for the best pregame coverage in siouxland. thursday night at 6:30, tune in as alex walker and myself bring you a 30 minute pregame show on the border battle. and then on friday at 10 am, i'll be live in lincoln as part of a special hour long preview that you can only find right here on abc9. " " it's time for our facebook fan photo of the day. today's picture comes from... ashley ross paisyn ross-5 years old..built her own snowman if you're like to submit a facebook fan photo, just abc-9 facebook page. jenna/tim/chris/fred: (fred) your forecast tonight is for partly cloudy skies and areas of fog. the low will be 34. tomorrow, the high will be 45 with areas of fog and areas of drizzle. the 7-day forecast shows ice and snow thursday and a high of 33. we'll see a gradual cooldown afterward, with a high of just 27 saturday. monday will bring another chance of snow. tonight's ask fred prize is 4 world tour buffets at the hard rock casino! to enter, email your

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