Now have an exact number of Homeless People in the area. U. S. Department of housing and urban development requires all agencies using federal dollars to preform a count every other year. Hours checking spots like car washes, parks, and bridges for people who dont have shelter. If they do find someone, they make a note. They also offer to help them to an open bed in a nearby shelter, or give them with hand warmers and a sleeping bag. Community housing initiatives, a Transitional Housing Program for the homeless, participated in the group. Development director Marileigh Fisher says the count is an important thing to do. 29 1128 it helps us get an understanding of whats going on in the community, and as a a using provider we need to know if there are Homeless People on the streets during the winter time. It keeps people informed of whats going on, the Community Needs to know whether thats during the last count, only 8 unsheltered were found. Local shelters would like to get that number down. They ask the public to keep suppororng the shelters, allowing thth to get people off the streets and inside. Kids at the Linn County Juvenile Detention Center are getting help in a different way. Theyre doing yoga. Vunteer instructor Allison Ordman started tching yoga to offenders and detentioio center staff a year ago. The idea is the yoga methods of teaching relaxation and stress relief would benefit teens in custody. Now the program is expanding. Earlier this month, the Greater Cedar Rapids Community foundation gave the county more than five thousand dollars in grant money. My hope is well see a decrease the explosive time outs maybe evenenhysical restraints t tt we end up havavg in our facility this is sometime that will stay will kids long beyond our the Grant Funding will let the county train more staff to teach yoga techniques, with classes more than one day a week. A task force in cedar rapids is proving its effectiveness with some big arrests. Cedar Rapids Police formed the Police Community action team to address violence in the community. 10 months ago, the Cedar Rapids City Council approved funding for 4 new officers. That allowed 4 veveran officers to move to the new task force. The officers have between 3 and 10 years of experience and backgrounds in gang identification and narcotics investigations. Police chief wayne jerman says pcat will be deployed to what he calls atrisk neighborhoods, and areas of the city dealing with specific crime problems. He says the commander of the Patrol Division will review thesesissues and look at complaints from citizens. Jerman told tv9 hell be measuring the teams effectiveness in a number of ways. That includes a reduction in calls for service and an overall decrease in violent crime. When theyre deployed into a neighborhood that may have an identified crime trend, ideally, wed want to eliminate that trend so those reports of whatever incidents or crimes chief jerman says in the near future, he plans on sending the officers on the team totokansas city to see how its similar Anti Crime Team does things. He says the overall goal behind pcat is to address quality of life concerns in the neighborod s that need it the most. Is comes one day after the Cedar Rapids City Council formed the set task force. And thriving. The Task Force Members plan to try to get to the root causes of poverty as dedeease violence. The task force is also making an effort to that formed following the deadly shooting of aaron richardson. 14 year old robert humbles pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in that case. Hell serve time at a juvenile center until hes 18. Then a judge will either release him or send him to in a tv9 followup this morning. 5 people from dubuque are suing the city and Police Officers for using Excessive Force during a fight in august. According to the lawsuit, several people at the scene say the first officer to respond, jay murray, pepper sprayed several children in the face without warning them. It also claims murray also sprayed tina dean, who was 8 months pregnant. According to police reports, murray was attemptitig to arrest a 12 year old boy in the crowd. Police say a crowd surrounded murray and he used pepper spray for defense. In the law suit, the plaintiffs said thez suffered severe and permanent injuries for the situation, including mental scarring. Police in iowa city are hoping to open more discussion with people in the city this morning. They are hosting a coffee with a cop event from 9 30 until 11 30 am at the bread Garden Market on linn street. Police say the goal is to have people ask questions, offer their concerns, and get to know Police Officers. This is video from a similar event in december. Doctors at Mercy Medical center in dubuque can now prescribe medicine to treat the drug is called buprenorphine. Doctors are using it at mercys turning point inpatient treatment center. Doctors say heroin overdoses a a deaths i i Dubuque County have increased from 5 overdoses and 2 deaths in 2011, to 15 overdoses and 6 deaths in 2015. Experts say for years they relied on talk therapy and the 12 step program to help treat heroin addiction. But now this drug is available for treating patients. What that medicine does is get in there and tricks the brain and then thinks it getting roin, but its not a trick and helps them with withdrawal symptoms. Doctors say the drug does not cause the user to get high. And patients are able to take it as long as their doctor says they need it. Some iowa lawmakers are working on legislation so iowans would have the choice to end their life if theyre terminally ill. Itit called euthenasia o o assisted suicide. Yesterday people showed their support at the capitol for the legislation with dignity act. Many people who spokeut in support either have a terminal illness or know someone who does. I dont want to drag out the inevitable for weeks or months wishing it would end so because im being tortured this woman says she only has about a year left to live, and sayyshe wants to have cocorol when it ends. Last year, lawmakers tried to pass similar legislation but it didnt have enough support. A lawmaker says most of the opposition this is year is coming from faith groups. The City Government in marquette is losing several leaders all at the same time. The mayor of the Clayton County community resigned, along with a City Council Member and a member of the board of adjustment. Recently elected mayor dave schnhnder stepped down over a zoning rights dispute. It started when a man wanted the city to re zone a property in town so he could put in a mobile home. But the city denied it, saying the plan went the dispute later went to court, and a judge ruled against the city, therefore allowing re zoning. Just recently, the city council decided not to appeal the court decision. Schneider says he resigned because city leaders were not able to enforce the zoning policy. The Monticello School district wants another bond vote to improve its schools. There were a lot of opinions on the options at a meeting last night. Supporters want a new middle school attached to the current high school. Last september, voters rejected a much biggererlan that included the middle school and work on two elementary schools. This is just the first step in a long process, but district leaders say theyre aiming for about a 17million dollar bond issue. Dealing with a peanut allergy means you have to watch your food constantly and carry an epi pen. But now researchers are finding out that exposing a patient to peanuts in small doses day goes on. As the clouds increase, temperatures will level off, and many areas will probably see highs reached around noon with mid30s common. Tonight into friday, it does appear the clouds may break up a bit, leading to a partly cloudy finish to the work week. Late saturday into of low pressure, and that should bring a light mix of rain and snow into the area. The system following this continues to look substantial with a risk of heavy snow in part of the midwest, including iowa. Its important to understand this system is closer to japan than the united states, which means we are way too far out for any kind of detail. Any kind of snowfall numbers could not be broadcast with confidence until around sunday, and even that could be stay tunud today mostly cloudy high 3238 winds nw 1020 alo 33 dbq 34 iow 36tonight mostly cloudy low 1925 winds nw 515 alo 19 dbq 21 iow 23tomorrow partly cloudy high 3541 iow 38tomrow night mostly cloudy low 2531 winds sw 515 alo 28 dbq 29 iow 29 we have hii School Wrestling for you tonight on kcrg nine point two. The west delaware hawks travel to independence to face the mustangs. It starts at seven oclock tonight, again on kcrg nine point two. Repealed last month, and canada is seeing the benefits. In todays agribusiness report2 some in the us want more answeru about where their food comes from. But right now, heres a look at todays opening farm markets. Good morning good morning, this is the agribusiness report, im david geiger. Just last month. The us mandatory country of origin laling bill. Or cool was repealed in a budget deal. But the damage has already been done. Canada has a strong hog trade with the us. Specifically between the province of manitoba and midwestern states like iowa. When the repeal of cool happened. Canada praised it. But here i i the us. Some still want to know where their food comes from. But labeling meat isnt a simple matter. You have to track where the hog slaughtered. And where the cuts all go. A piglet weighting 15 20 pounds comes south to iowa, where its fed and raised to 250 pounds then goes to market. The value added to that 150 pound piglet all occurs in iowa. Rempel farms the Southeast Side of manitoba. She says when businesses had to deal with all the paperwork. Theyd rather just use us piglets. Before cool. There were a lot of farrowing barns in manitoba. Because its low winter climates kill off disease. The piglets there were contracted to ship to the south. Where we have a feed advantage. That ground to a halt with cool. So we went from sending about six million weenlings from manitoba to be finished and slaughtered in the south to about one million or even less than that. It was a huge decrease and over in the january the usda there is suggestion of a slow ramp up of live hog imports. Canadian live hogs are expected to increase nine percent this year. To about six million head. Before cool legislation. Live hog imports peaked at about 10 million head. However. A surge is not expected because canadian hog inventories have declined. And the country is dealing with more local packer demand. Its a stagagnt corn market right now. Whwhe beans are going a bit to the upside. But it doesnt look like this sideways trade is going to stop any time soon. I had some small positions in corn. Theres just nothing going on, ive extradited thosos positions with a small loss, but were about. 3. 70 in the march contract. And thats about a 20 cent rally here in the last couple of weeks but you know what, its just a dead more at the soft commodities but, you know, theres no fresh fundamental news. The usda crop report is still three weeks away, i just dont see any priri movement here in the short term, at least for the month of february. Extremely volatile, straight up, straight down, im currently not involved i think a short position is s ming. But the problem is, the risk reward is just not in your favor at this time. I mean, tomorrow we could be limit up or limit down and i dont like that percentage. The hogs have been rallying. The highs in the june hogs was on october 13th, which was around 81. 65 so it looks like theyre going to go up there. I was short the hogs and i surprised that price continue to move higher. That wraps up our show for today. Thanks for joining us on see you again next time. Well post a agribusiness section of kcrg. Com. Youll find it under the news tab. Im david geiger with report. Trt 3. 42 oc webtease a man faces prison time after pleading guiy to stealing corn seeds from two ag companies that have farm fields in eastern iowa. Mo hailong also known as obert mo, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal trade secrets yesterday. Mo was the leader of a group of six chinese nationals accused of stealing corn seed from Dupont Pioneer and monsanto fields in 2011. That includes this one near dysart. Investigators say they tried to smuggle the corn seed to china. Carrying an epipen and constantly beininon the alert is normal for anyone with a peanut allergy. But new research does the opposite of avoiding peanuts in hopes of beating the allergy. More on todays healthy life report. Clouds will be racing back in from the north as the day goes on. As the clouds increase, temperatures will level off, and many areas highs reached around noon with mid30s common. N. Tonight into friday, it does appear the clouds may break up a bit, leading to a partly cloudy finish to the work week. Late saturday into sunday is our next area of low pressure, and that should bring a light mix of rain and snow into the area. The system following this continues to look sububtantial with a risk of heavy snow in part of the midwest, including iowa. Its important to understand this system is closer to japan than the united states, which means we are way too far out for any kind of detail. Any kind of snowfall numbers could not be broadcast with confidence until around sunday, and even that could be pushing it. Bottom line is, stay tuned today mostly cloudy high 3238 winds nw 1020 alo 33 dbq 34 iow 36tonight mostly cloudy low 1925 partly cloudy high 3541 winds s 1020 alo 36 dbq 36 iow 38tomorrow night mostly cloudy low 2531 winds sw 515 alo 28 dbq 29 iow 29 weve seen more and more people with kids who live with peanut allergies. How about treating its a new approach to a potentially deadly re about the research. Powder at a time and fiveyearold price capps is becoming one of americas youngest medical that amount is the equivalent of onefiftieth of a peanut, and kelly capps can vividly reccl her daughters reaction to it a few years ago. She got hives everywhere that, where she made contact with it, and then she began to vomit within seconds. Price is one of 80 allergic children under 10 years of age participating in a groundbreaki ng allergy study involving immunotherap y. Which in allergy terms, means giving back to the person what theyre allerc to in increasingly larger amounts over a pererd of time to try to change their immune system. Researchers began giving the children oneone percent of sideeffects. But of those who stuck with it for the next two years. Half of them could eventually eat anywhere from seven to 20 peanuts without any reaction. Their immune system reallys changing and it looks very different at the end of the study than it did at the beginning. If she were to be accidently exposed at school, for us it would likely not be life threatening and that wouldnt have been the case before this Research Price can now stomach up to eight peanuts. Its far from a cure, but it gives her some protection, and gives her mother some peace of mind. Im martie salt reporting. Trt 1. 34 oc std a Cedar Rapids School is getting recognition for closing the achievement gap. The school credits its success to instruction given to teachers on how to work with certain students. Stay with your 24 source, this is kcrgtv9 news Early Morning news. Ready to debate. Republican president ial hopefuls are gathering in des moines to debate one last time before caucuses, but one big name checking the facts. Tv9 and the gazette take a Bernie Sanders latest ads. And hration donation. A church in cedar rapids donating tens of ththsands of bottlesesf water to help those in flint, michigan. And youre looking live on our city cam. Going to shape up to be a pretty decent thursday. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Clouds will be racing back in from the north as the day goes on. As the clouds increase, temperatures will level off, and many areas will probably see highs reached around noon with mid30s common. Tonight into friday, it does appear the clouds may break up a bit, leading to a partly cloudy finish to the work week. Late saturday into sunday is our next area of low pressure, and that should bring a light mix of rain and snow into the area. The system following this continues to look substantial with a risk of heavy snow in part of the midwest, including iowa. Its important to understand this system is closer to japan than the united states, out for any kind of detail. Any kind of snowfall numbers could not be broadcast with confidence until around sunday, and even that could bee pushing it. Bottom line is, stay tuned today mostly cloudy g 3238 winds nw 1020 alo 33 dbq 34 iow 36tonight stly cloudy low 1925 winds nw 55 alo 19 dbq 21 w 3tomorrow partly cloudy high 3541 nds s 10 alo 36 dbq 36w 38tooght mostly cloudy low 2531 winds sw 515 alo 28 dbq 29 w 29 anks kaj. Republican president ial candidates are meeting in des moines today for a final debate before the caucuses on monday. All the major candidates will be there except for one. In the most recent quinnipiac poll releasese earlier this week, it showed donald trump and senator ted cruz in a statistical tie among Iowa Republican voters. Senator marco rubio held onto third place with 13 percent, but percent. Those on the main stage tonight include john kasich, jeb bush, marco rubio, ted cruz, ben carson, chris christie, and rand paul. Fox news is hossng the debate aathe Iowa Events Center in des moines at 8 iowa time. Trump says he will not be at the debate tonight. He defended his position on the same channel he is boycotting he spoke to bill oreilly on fox news last n