Im a champion of the trutn the public awareness, that we know the truth and that we know the science. Vanessa youth and Shelter Services prevention specialist Denise Denton says Research Shows some ecig users go on to be dual users. Meaning they smoke both conventional and electronic. She stresses the bottom line is ecig use is harmful. Reducing access wherever we can has been a very viable strategy in reducing first use and continued use. So that, among many strategies , are what we look at amongst Public Health in trying to reduce young people from using or adults from using. Vanessa we just noticed some guys that stopped in here. These people all tell me that they used to Smoke Cigarettes and now they are testing out vape or ecigarettes. Tom miller says he supports city and state laws that would ban ecig use in public spaces. Live in ames, vanessa peng, kcci todd Des Moines Police need your help to find the grinch that stole one familys christmas. These are pictures of the suspect. Police say he drove up to a home on the 2400 block of east 33rd street december 16. He then got out of the car and took a mail package from the porch filled with childrens presents. If you recognize this man, call crimestoppers at 2231400. State audits say more than 13,000 that should have been used for garwins City Ambulance service was used for personal expenses. Todd the state auditors report found the improper spending included cash taken by the Ambulance Services former secretary kerry and boege and her husband steve boege, the former president of the ambulance service. Both resigned back in february. Stacey pella police file new charges against a serial golf course bandit. 26yearold Scott Johnson of newton charged with burglary, criminal mischief, and theft for a breakin at bos landen golf club. Iowa golf course breakins. In fact, kcci reported back in july that the Jasper County sheriff arrested johnson on charges he broke into the fore seasons golf course with another man. Coming up tonight at 10 00, ryan smith shows us video from this latest breakin. Funeral Services Today for an iowa native killed in afghanistan. Sergeant joseph lemm died december 21st. A suicide bomber rammed an explosiveladen motorcycle into his patrol. Five other soldiers were also killed. Lemm grew up in the eastern iowa town of beemer. But his funeral was today at Saint Patricks cathedral. Lemm was a detective with the new York City Police department. He served with new York Air National guard. Todd another round of snow greeted drivers early this morning. This is what it looked like when our crew were out when the sun came up. Much lighter snow than what we had expected on monday. That snow putting a fresh layer on top of streets, sometimes just west of downtown. Some drivers doing a little sliding when they tried to stop at intersections. But as you can see Road Conditions are improving since this morning. This is a live look at the iowa dots Road Conditions map at 511 ia. Org. The areas you see in green are rated normal seasonal driving conditions. The areas in blue are roads partially covered in ice or snow. It looks like we are for a few days without snow. Frank scaglione with an early look at your forecast. Frank we will start to see more sunshine. We actually have a few flurries moving through the central part of the state right now. Just off to the west of ames, back toward boone on highway 30. Again, these are very light. You might pick up a quick dusting just to the north of the metro. Winds today have been pretty as we head throughout the evening, it will be chilly. 7 00 temperature 90 1 p. M. Temperature cover 24. Those clouds breaking up will mean some more sunshine for your new years eve through the weekend. Forecast for the first few days of 2016 coming up. Stacey flights are getting back to normal at the des moines airport for passengers heading out today. But as kim st. Onge shows us, rose bowlbound hawkeye fans who tried to fly out during mondays storm are scrambling with kickoff less than 2 days away. Kim they sure are. I had the no trouble finding hawkeye fans at the airport today, just really praying theyll make it to california without any issues. Hawkeye fans flying to pasadena wednesday are breathing a big sigh of relief. Were flying to las vegas and then driving from there. Kim Dave Creighton and his family are counting their blessings theyll only have to drive 300 miles. Thank goodness we werent going on monday and we were actually still a little i woke up and it was snowing of course this morning. Pet kim his friend chris costas family is driving 1700 miles. Their monday flight was canceled because of mechanical issues, so they rented a car and started the long drive to pasadena this morning. When i heard the story of our friend who has to drive 25 hours today i was kinda a little bit , concerned. Hopefully our plane is all good to go because were ready. Kim mondays snow storm canceled and delayed dozens of other flights. Thats why some panicked hawk fans trying to head west reached out to people like rick south, coowner of the travel center. One had to drive to chicago so that he could get out and then i would guess theres probably more that i dont know about that just maybe decided to drive. Kim some hawkeye fans are no doubt resorting to plan b, even plan c. But when they get their its gonna be awesome. Rose bowl, it hasnt happened in my lifetime so this is a great experience. Kim it will be well worth the wait. Its a dream come true. Once in a lifetime deal. Trying to make it to pasadena for the game and dont already have a flight booked, youre likely out of luck. He says your best bet is just to start driving. Stacey that is a long drive. But for hawk fans already in california waiting for the rose bowl to start is a blast. Todd kccis steve karlin joins us live from Huntington Beach with a look. Steve it is so sad to hear that people are still having problems getting here. Today, in anaheim, i have they been that the smartest hawk fans in the history of the world. This guy planned ahead. Jordan may be the happiest man on earth. Originally, he and his wife jill planned on taking their kids to disney world in florida. But then, on october 17, jordan think disneyland in december and january is much better than disney world in the spring. After iowa beat northwestern, we figured we might be able to knock out two birds with one stone. We had booked our hotels probably two or three weeks before the season ended. That was so smart. I agree. Steve jordan rowling is a genius. At that point in the season, the hawkeyes were 70. As a result, the family play the odds, beat the crowd, and they are now out here comfortably and coldly enjoying everything Southern California has to offer. Steve karlin, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. The hawkeye Football Team is preparing for fridays rose bowl game against stanford. Stacey kcci sports director andy garman is live outside the rose bowl in pasadena with that. Andy there is a game to be played. Kirk ferentz and company admitted that just as much today , knowing that as much fun as they have had here, and as much as they have enjoyed the beautiful weather, they still do have some work to do. Today was the final press conference. Final preparations underway for fridays rose bowl game between the hawkeyes and the stanford cardinals. Iowas schedule was muchmaligned this year. And when about how they had played anybody. It has gradually gotten tougher, including the big ten championship, and now stanford stands to be the toughest challenge they will see. Somebody from columbus just sent me a preseason they had three football expert. One had us third, the other to let us forth in the big ten west. I think if i had made that claim in august, somebody might have been chasing me a little bit on that one. Andy he certainly didnt think they deserved to be in the rose bowl in august, but kirk ferentz told me he believed they had a chance to be a good team if things came together right. For now, live outside the rose bowl, i am andy garman. Stacey rising from the ashes. A central iowa Apartment Building is rebuilt after a todd andm university of iowa in the middle of a time when senior poverty is increasing. Republicans and some democrats came up with a brilliant idea for cutting costofliving adjustments for Social Security. We said, it will be over our dead bodies if you cut Social Security. As president , i will do everything i can to extend the solvency of Social Security and expand benefits for people who desperately need them. Announcer this is iowas news leader. This is kcci 8 news at 6 00 with steve karlin, stacey horst, chief meteorologist john mclaughlin, and sports director andy garman. So smart, just everything about her blew me away in the best kind of way. Stacey friends remember a des moines woman killed monday in a 21yearold Nicole Underwood was taking the bus to chicago monday to be with her boyfriend for new years. Todd but, the bus crashed into a traffic sign. The crash killed underwood. And injured four other people. Underwood was going to school at the university of iowa. Her friends say she was just months away from graduation. Anjeli chafekar met nicole on campus four years ago. She says shes never known anyone like nicole. I cant tell you how many times i would be upset, or something would happen and she , would show up at my door with like a care package of candy and fuzzy socks, and all of my favorite things. Ive never had a friend like that. Todd friends hope to raise money for a scholarship in her honor. After 11 months of waiting, residents are moving back into an apartment that was damaged in a fire. A Ribbon Cutting was held this morning to celebrate the reopening of the courthouse View Apartments in nevada. Last february, a kitchen fire the entire building, the new building is more fire safe. Theres a new fire alarm system, smoke dampers in every apartment, which keep any fire contained to the room where it started. It is beautiful. My apartment is not very big, but being a single man, i dont need one very big and yeah its very, very nice, it all looks like brand new. Todd it took more then 500,000 to clean up and renovate the building. Stacey it is cold outside but it looks like we have seen the last of the snow for a few days. Frank you will need to bundle up to go and shovel that snow. This picture centered on my Facebook Page by eric wade. Fort dodge and clarion getting in on some of this. Not expecting much in the way of any accumulation. Going to the state right now, dropping some of those flurries. Otherwise, just cold. 27 degrees, winds out of the northwest at eight. Look at these temperatures. 15 in mason city, 25 and fort dodge. Just about the same down in ottumwa. We will keep the clouds around and that will level out temperatures for the most part. By 9 00, we will start to decrease the clouds. Were going to lose that blanket. Were also going to lose the heating of the day. Waking up tomorrow morning at 12 degrees. Central and west central iowa, those are going to amount to much. High pressure is going to start to work in over the next few days. Futurecast. Notice that highpressure system pushes the clouds out. Wednesday, they will be pretty light. We wont have to worry about much in terms of low temperatures with the wind chills. Another light system passes through by the end of the week. Notice, we are clearing out the clouds. More sunshine for new years eve. That will keep us a little bit chilly although the sun will field ice. Friday, waking up with sunshine. Maybe you have got the kids. 8, mason city, around 10 here in des moines. 23, the high tomorrow. Sunshine, but still chilly. New years day, nine degrees. Saturday, a little warmer air. Back in the low 30s. Back into the mid 30s by next tuesday. Todd coming up, tony seeman with sports. Announcer from iowas sports leader, this is kcci 8 sports. Tony welcome back. Each day, that faint smell of stronger. The rose bowl now only two days away. Today, the coaches took the podium to discuss the grand daddy of them all. Sports director andy garman joins us live from california. Hey andy. Andy the stages dont get any bigger than it to do a big 10 or pac12 football fan. The champions from each conference squaring off in the venerable rose bowl stadium. The playoff this change that somewhat. For a team that was 120 before losing in the big ten championship game just a couple of weeks ago. Kirk ferentz spoke step up to the mic today just to give some final thoughts today. This is an iowa team that kirk ferentz says has been in a 13 week play up already. This point, it is just another huge challenge ahead. Summary from columbus just sent me a dispatch. They had three football experts, one had us for. If i have made that claim back in august, somebody might have been chasing. Andy the rose bowl marquee behind me is a popular spot for fans to take pictures. Scott reister is in the thick of them. Huddle. Scott is this heaven . The l. A. Convention center. We are hanging out with 15,000 of our closest iowa friends. Expecting 60,000 at the game. This is what iowa dies. Just like the swarming iowa city on the football field. Scott it is a hawkeye party and it will last well through the week. Andy that is a great scene at the l. A. Convention center. And even cooler seen tomorrow where there will be a Pregame Tailgate Party on the deck of the uss iowa battleship. They are expecting almost 30,000 fans to show up for that one. Tony if you blew off last night iowamichigan state basketball game, you missed the roof blowing off. Iowa cruised to a win led by mike gesells performance. It is a huge w, that this conference grind is just getting started. Is the first game in the big ten season. Celebrate tonight and go back to work tomorrow. It is a great confidence builder in that sense, but we have a great team going saturday. Hopefully, we learn the lessons of how to compete and how to execute and carry that over four tony next up, iowa takes on purdue on saturday. Cyclones take on coppin state tonight at 7 00. Uni starts play in the valley. The isu women are on the road hey this holiday, u. S. Cellulars giving you 15 gigs of data for just 70 but i wanted a pony. [ gasps ] youre getting data. Ponysized data . U. S. Cellular sized data. Because it works in the middle of anywhere. Id like 100 youre getting 400 in promo cards yes switch to u. S. 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