Winds s 1020 alo 72 dbq 70 iow 72tomorrow night partly cloudy low 5157 winds sw 510 alo 57 dbq 55 iow 56 Monticello Police say an anonymous tip texting system helped them learn about a potential school threat. But they say it also revealed a downside to the procedure. The Monticello School district says Police Received a text message indicating a student might bring a gun to the high school yesterday. As a precaution, police were at the school, and students were not allowed in hallways during classes. Parents, if they wanted to, could take their kids out of school for the day. Early yesterday morning, Monticello Police chief britt smith got a message on his phone. It was a notification that someone had sent an anonymous tip about the gun threat to the jones county text to tell system. Once the tipster sends the text, officers can respond asking for more information. But the tipster can end all communication at any time, by simply typing stop. With this program granting that anonymity we arent able to clarify. We arent able to update people. Its just an unknown until we are able to get someone to admit that and say i submitted it. Monticello, anamosa, the jones county sheriff and jones county safe and Healthy Youth coalition split the two thousand dollar annual subscription cost for the texting program. So far, chief smith says thats money well spent because theyve received many helpful tips particularly about drugs. Jury selection has started for a man whos on trial for the fatal stabbing of his exgirlfriend in the marion hyvee parking lot last spring. 32 year old Nicholas Luerkens is charged with first degree murder. Authorities say he followed 29 year old Lynnsey Donald around for months before he ambushed her in april. After the attack, police say himself. Lynnsey donalds seven year old son was with her when the stabbing happened. The defense plans to claim leurkens had diminished capacity and was intoxicated at the time. Iowa city police say a man broke into a house and assaulted two people. 33 year old ricardo prosper faces charges of first degree burglary, assault, and domestic assault. A conviction could put him in prison for more than 26 years. Police say it all happened about 630 sunday morning at a home in the two thousand block of davis street. Officers say prosper does not live there, and had been ordered to leave several times. They say he punched a woman in the face, who then threw him out and locked the door. Thats when police say prosper kicked open the door and assaulted a man in the house. The state has tentatively agreed to pay 235thousand dollars to settle a lawsuit by a former resident at the iowa juvenile home. Jessica turner claimed in her suit that the home kept her in small cement isolation cells for 280 days between 2011 she claims she would cry and tell employees she was in pain and wanted out, but they would only let her out to use the bathroom. Governor branstad closed the juvenile home in toledo last year, partially over concerns about the treatment of residents. Landlords are frustrated with the amount of time it takes the Black Hawk County Sheriffs Department to serve eviction notices to their tenants. Landlords say after they receive a court order, it usually takes about a week for someone from the Sheriffs Office to serve an eviction notice. Now, the process is amount of time because a sergeant is on extended medical leave. Landlords say they understand they have to be patient, but its costing them a lot. You are asking me as a landlord to go another month without collecting a rent, because you dont have enough man power or somebody scheduled that can help you remove the person you need to go, and that hurts. Weve got a total of 24 evictions scheduled over the next 11 days, our Civil Division only runs monday through friday and we only do evictions on day shift because of the iowa code. Captain boeschen says he has stepped in for the sergeant on leave, and things are going as fast at they can. A university of iowa scientist now has 3 point 7 Million Dollars to find matter. Thats because scientists have measured all the matter they know about and it only adds up to half of what they say it should be. Tv9s Forrest Saunders is live in the newsroom this morning. Forrest, this goes beyond People Places and things . For years scientists have been trying to find missing normal matter. Thats the stuff composed of protons and neutrons. People, stars, planets, everything that we can seen. That stuff should equal 5 of the universe. But it only comes out to half of that when added up. This ui professor is using his nasa grant to find out where the rest is by building a Tiny Satellite small body, a few xray detectors. The professor is looking into whether all that missing matter is actually giant halos of hot gas, circling galaxies like ours. The detectors are a way to see the gas and help measure just how much there is. The leading idea is that the extra matter is just in very hot gas that we cant see, because it doesnt make visible light. But, it does make xrays. The plan is to have the satellite assembled and ready for a ride to space by 2018. It will spend 520 days in space. This is the third time the professor has applied for the grant. He said hes really excited about the opportunity, but the pressure is on. His cube sat will be one of the first of the Tiny Satellites to look outside the solar system. Back to you guys. Tv9s Forrest Saunders. Thanks a lot. We have our three finalists for novembers gazette, kcrgtv9 student of the month. 11year old gabby shakespeare is a 6th grader at prairie creek. She loves helping out at home, school and in her community. Shes active in music, girls on the run and rings the bell for the salvation army. She also volunteers to support the homeless and children in need. Next is Ashley Stinocher , a 12yearold in 7th grade at solon middle school. Ashley sets goals for herself every school year and works hard to improve in the classroom. Shes on the basketball and Cross Country teams, a member of the Solon Youth Octogon Club and volunteers with local organizations. Rounding out this months finalists madelyn monroe, a 16yearold junior at south winnesheik. Madelyn started the ftc or first tech challenge at her high school which is a stem related robtics program. She also mentors younger students on the lego league team. Madelyn is involved in her school choir and also works at a local nursing home. Head to kcrg dot com slash student of the month to read more about this months nominees, and to vote. Well feature the winner at the end of november. Google is releasing new details about its plan for drone delivery. Plus, singer adele is saying hello to a new download record. Thats in todays tech bytes. Plan on another decent day across eastern iowa with many areas making it back to the 70s again. One thing we are watching is the potential for fog development over the southern half of the region this morning. Should the fog develop, it will likely be out of here by once the patchy fog leaves the area. Wednesday should be another good one with highs in the 70s, followed by cooler weather on thursday and friday. Our rain chance continues to be on track, and mainly centered on thursday night, though there may be a lingering shower on friday morning. Temperatures will return to november normals by friday and saturday. Have a great tuesday today am fog south, m sunny high 6773 winds s 1015 alo 71 dbq 70 iow 72tonight patchy fog low 4753 winds s 515 alo 51 dbq 50 iow 53tomorrow mostly sunny high 6975 winds s 1020 alo 72 dbq 70 iow 72tomorrow night partly cloudy low 5157 winds sw 510 alo 57 dbq 55 iow 56 now heres abcs reena ninan and Kendis Gibson with this mornings techbytes. In todays techbytes, googles plans for drone delivery. They hope to using drones to deliver packages. They can hover and lower packages to the ground. Other Retailers Including Amazon are also experting with drone delivery. Tmobile is giving customers its own cell carrier a small desies that creates a 4g lte signal in your home or a small business. Free for simple choice customers. And adele, has recordbreaking sales with hello. First song ever to sell more than a million download in one week. And hello shot up to number one on the billboard top 100. Should we at hillshire farm, spice is the spice of life. Thats why our craftsmen season every sausage perfectly. So you can coax out great flavor effortlessly. Hillshire farm. Because its worth doing right. Innovative sonicare technology with up to 27 more brush movements versus oral b. Get healthier gums in 2 weeks guaranteed. Innovation and you. Philips sonicare save when you buy the most loved rechargeable toothbrush brand in america. Looking for 24 7 digestive support . Try align for a nonstop, sweettreatgoodness holdontoyourtiara, kindofday. Live 24 7 with 24 7 digestive support. The 2016 race to be the gop president ial candidate is getting interesting. Ben carson is ahead of donald trump in the latest national poll. The campaigns are duking it out over upcoming debate rules many now saying they wont sign on to a plan that they agreed to just one night before. Abcs lana zak has more from washington. They cant handle a bunch of cnbc moderators. Overnight. President obama poking fun at gop president ial candidates and their the Republican Debate demands. If you cant handle those guys, you know then i dont think the chinese and the russians are going to be too worried about you. And after initially banding together, the Republican Alliance is coming apart at the seams. Donald trump says he prefers to negotiate for himself telling bloomberg tv sot we should be like basketball players . Go on strike. Demand money for charity. Also refusing to sign on john kasich, Chris Christie and carly fiorina, controversy, choosing quote dinner at the applebees in pella, iowa instead. And now ben carson, abandoned by many of his fellow contenders, on the defensive when asked if his campaignled debate reforms are backfiring. Thats a bunch of garbage. I dont deal with that type of stuff. Carson pushing forward with demands that include no gotcha lightning rounds no show of hands questions and a requirement that the temperature remain below 67 degrees. As republicans debate the next debate. Anotehr poll shows carson in the lead. Sixpoints ahead of trump nationwide. Marco rubio is in third place with 11percent. Ted cruz and jeb bush. A rounding out the top five. Based on this poll, the same 10 candidates are likely to be on the main stage for the next debate, whatever form that takes . But the results are particularly concerning for gov. Bobby jindal, who may not make even the undercard debate, with ohio residents will vote on Marijuana Legalization today. This is the first time voters in a state election will decide whether to approve recreational and medical marijuana at the same time. Under the measure, residents would be able to grow their own four plants for personal consumption. If, approved, ohio would be the fifth state to legalize recreational marijuana. Cleanup efforts are underway after severe storms rolled through several Southern States over the weekend. There have been at least 18 tornadoes in the past three days, from texas to georgia. The National Weather service says its the largest outbreak since july. Parts of texas also experienced flooding, which has killed at least six people. A Popular Store in one Iowa Community is closing its doors for good. And its leaving lots of workers without a job for the start of 2016. Heres a live look at our citycam this morning. Look at your tuesday forecast. Stay with us. First alert forecast. Plan on another decent day across eastern iowa with many areas making it back to the 70s again. One thing we are watching is the potential for fog development over the southern half of the region this morning. Should the fog develop, it will likely be out of here by 10am. Plan on sunny sky once the patchy fog leaves the area. Wednesday should be another good one with highs in the 70s, followed by cooler weather on thursday and friday. Our rain chance continues to be on track, and mainly centered on thursday night, though there may be a lingering shower on friday morning. Temperatures will return to november normals by friday and saturday. Have a great tuesday today am fog south, m sunny high 6773 winds s 1015 alo 71 dbq 70 iow 72tonight patchy fog low 4753 winds s 515 alo 51 dbq 50 iow 53tomorrow mostly sunny high 6975 winds s 1020 alo 72 dbq 70 iow 72tomorrow night partly cloudy low 5157 winds sw 510 alo 57 dbq 55 iow 56 amazon is offering customer a chance to get black friday discounts before black friday. The retailer launched its black friday deals store yesterday. It will feature sale items daily between now and december 22nd. Amazon prime members will get the deals 30 minutes before everyone else. Amazon also announced a Major Overhaul to its employees parental benefits. New moms get 20 weeks of fully paid leave. Birth mothers and primary caregivers can ease back into work on a flexible schedule. The new policies start next year. The New York Times published an article about the online retailers workers having a poor balance with work and life back in august. The target in ottumwa will permanently close on january 30th. The Stores Corporate Office confirmed to abc affiliate ktvo that it notified employees of the closure yesterday. Target says it is offering all eligible employees at the ottumwa store the option of transferring to other target stores. It closed the store in clinton in january of 20 15. 2016 president ial candidates from both sides of the aisle will stop in eastern iowa today. That includes the democratic frontrunner and one trying to make a name for himself in the gop field. Good morning. This is a live look on our city cam this tuesday. Its november third and this is what you need to know. Voters will head to the polls today across eastern iowa. On the ballot City Council Positions and a tax levy that could mean more money for Cedar Rapids Public Library. Gop president ial candidates are going back on their debate demands the campaigns agreed to earlier this week and carson is gaining ground on trump. Monticello police say an anonymous tip texting system alerted them to a potential threat at the high school. Now they admit, there are some holes in the system. Jury selection begins for Nicholas Luerkens, who police say stabbed his girlfriend at a marion hyvee last spring. And a university of iowa professor gets money from nasa to build a new satellite to find missing space matter. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on another decent day across eastern iowa with many areas making it back to the 70s again. One thing we are watching is the potential for fog development over the southern half of the region this morning. Should the fog develop, it will likely be out of here by 10am. Plan on sunny sky once the patchy fog leaves the area. Wednesday should be another good one with highs in the 70s, followed by cooler weather on thursday and friday. Our rain chance continues to be on track, and mainly centered on thursday night, though there may be a lingering shower on friday morning. Temperatures will return to november normals by friday and saturday. Have a great tuesday today am fog south, m sunny high 6773 winds s 1015 alo 71 dbq 70 iow 72tonight patchy fog low 4753 winds s 515 alo 51 dbq 50 iow 53tomorrow mostly sunny high 6975 winds s 1020 alo 72 dbq 70 iow 72tomorrow night partly cloudy low 5157 winds sw 510 alo 57 dbq 55 iow 56 today is election day, and across eastern iowa voters will choose City Council Members and make other local decisions. One choice for voters. Is if the Cedar Rapids Public Library see additional funds. The library wants voters to approve a levy of 27 cents for one thousand dollars of the assessed taxable valuation of a home. That would cost the owner of a cedar rapids home valued at 150 thousand dollars an extra 23 dollars a year. This levy would raise an estimated onepointsix Million Dollars each year for the library. Board members say if they dont get the funding, the library could close one day a week. Also on the ballot in cedar rapids are those vying for the atlarge and district candidates for city council. Voting officials in Johnson County will be extra watchful during todays city elections. They want to make sure poll watchers are following state law. Johnson county auditor Travis Weipert says hes heard some candidates in University Heights and iowa city will have poll watchers at voting locations. These people can contest a ballot, if they believe the person who filled it out is not eligible to vote. Weipert told tv9 earlier yesterday that he was waiting on some paperwork from some those poll watchers who will be writein candidates for mayor and city council. But he contacted us later to say no writein candidates turned in poll watcher applications. Waterloo voters are headed to the polls today to decide whether to support the grout museum district. The cultural and scientific facilities levy is a new property tax for the districts five facilities. A few of those include the grout museum of history and science, the imaginarium, and the Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans museum. Project leaders say this is the second time voters will take up this issue. It didnt get enough support in 2013 and left the museum to make tough spending cuts. Those behind this effort say this is their way of supporting the districts five buildings and keeping new programs and exhibits coming. 19 55 31 when we added on the vets museum and acquired all of these properties it was built into the plan to look for more funding and this has been the most reliable source of funding that we can look for. The Committee Says if this passes, it would mean an extra dollar25 per month for those owning a 100 thousand dollar home. It would bring in about 600thousand dollars a year. As voting closes tonight, you can catch the results on tv9 news at 10 and kcrg dot com. With now an Even Stronger lead in the polls, democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton comes to iowa today. She is hosting two town hall one in eastern iowa. The first town hall will be in coralville at 3 oclock. Clinton will speak to a crowd at s. T. Morrison park. Then she heads off to grinnell for another town hall at 6 45 tonight. Both events are open to the public. On the republican side, Ohio Governor john kasich is also in eastern iowa today. He will speak at a town hall at 11 this morning. Kasich will be at Loras College in dubuque. In the recent wall street journal nbc poll kasich has 3 percent support among republican primary voters. Wheres the matter. Is whats the matter. Nasa recently gave a university of iowa professor millions to search for matter and conduct some potentially Ground Breaking research. Tv9s Forrest Saunders joins us at the desk this morning. Forrest this professor is looking for matter that cant be found . What exactly do you mean . Heres some Simple Science for you. Studies show 5 of the universe should be whats called normal matter, which is people, planets, stars, the stuff made of protons and neutrons. The rest is dark energy and dark matter. Trouble is when scientists start adding things up, only about half of that normal matter can be found. So wheres the rest . Ui professor Philip Kaaret is a man looking for missing matter. A Sherlock Holmes of space who, instead of using a magnifying glass, will be making a satellite for nasa after receiving 3. 7 million from the group. I made a very sophisticated model. The satellite will actually be slightly smaller than this box. Itll be whats called a cube sat. Inside its small body, a few of these xray detectors. You see, the professor is looking into whether all that missing matter is actually giant halos of hot gas, circling galaxies like ours. The detectors are a way to see the gas and help measure just how much there is. Our project is to try to that it solves the missing matter problem or is it smaller and we have to go look somewhere else . The plan is to have the satellite assembled and ready for a ride to space by 2018. Itll also provide grad and undergrad students a chance to work of something for nasa which, if youre an aspiring astrophysicis t, is a dream come true. When you start here as an undergrad, you start taking classes, you never expect to be working on stuff that is actually going to go up into space. But, in a few years it will, starting its 520 day mission to give us back on terra firma a little better understanding of whats going on up there. Itll give us a better understanding of our galaxy, our own home galaxy. This is the third time the professor has applied for the grant. He said hes really excited about the opportunity, but the pressure is on. His cube sat will be one of the first of the Tiny Satellites to look outside the solar system. Yeah, thanks a lot forrest. Alliant energy has teamed up with the city of oelwein to help people reduce their energy costs. Together theyre Offering Energy audits and will weatherize any home for free. Its part of the Hometown Rewards Program that offers incentives to cut energy usage. So far, 60 oelwein home owners have signed up to get the free help. We have newer windows, we have a newer roof but id like to see them come in and let us know what needs to be improved. Alliant hired the green iowa Americorps Team to do the work. Members cant do large jobs like adding insulation or replacing windows. But if the audit finds air leaks, the members will caulk, add weather stripping to doors, and other small jobs to improve energy savings. Bruce harreld is into his first week as the president of the university of iowa. Hes hoping the rest of the week will bring fewer protests from student and staff calling for him to quit his job. First Alert Storm Team meteorologist kaj omara joins us now. Plan on another decent day across eastern iowa with many areas making it back to the 70s again. One thing we are for fog development over the southern half of the region this morning. Should the fog develop, it will likely be out of here by 10am. Plan on sunny sky once the patchy fog leaves the area. Wednesday should be another good one with highs in the 70s, followed by cooler weather on thursday and friday. Our rain chance continues to be on track, and mainly centered on thursday night, though there may be a lingering shower on friday morning. Temperatures will return to november normals by friday and saturday. Have a great tuesday today am fog south, m sunny high 6773 winds s 1015 alo 71 dbq 70 iow 72tonight patchy fog low 4753 winds s 515 alo 51 dbq 50 iow 53tomorrow mostly sunny high 6975 winds s 1020 alo 72 dbq 70 iow 72tomorrow winds sw 510 alo 57 dbq 55 iow 56 thanks kaj. Casinos. And all you have to have is a giving heart and maybe a few canned goods for veterans in need. That and more still to come on tv9. Meet in des moines. The committee will review the privatization plans for the states Medicaid Program. Critics are raising questions about the projected cost savings. How the state awarded the contracts. And what the effect will be on medicaid patients. The legislative Oversight Committee meets at 10 this morning. The governor claims the move will streamline services and reduce costs. He says iowa is doing the same thing many other states have done. The dept of Human Services has shared with me the spreadsheet and the citeria and the approach that they used. I think that we acted in an appropriate way. And we feel confident. And just as 25 other states have been able to move forward with this. Iowas Medicaid Program provides care to poor children, families, and disabled people as well as low income adults. Its state and federal funding totals more governor branstad says he would be okay with using Eminent Domain for an oil pipeline. But he says hell let the iowa utilities board make the decision for the proposed bakken oil pipeline. The pipeline would stretch from north dakota, through much of iowa, to southern illinois. And it would carry up to 570 thousand barrels of crude oil each day. The utilities board will hold hearings later this month on whether to allow Eminent Domain. The board could make a decision next month or in january. University of iowa president Bruce Harreld says he hopes students, faculty and staff give him a chance as he starts his new job. He had his first day as head of the university yesterday. Dozens of people protested on campus, and some gathered outside his office in jessup hall. They called on him to resign, saying he has little academic experience. Protestors fear he could cut programs that dont bring in money. But harreld, whose background is as a businessman, says he wants to talk with people about their concerns. Weve got to move on. This institution today is a lot different than it was in 1847. Its going to be a lot different moving forward. If were going to continue the great, excellent things that have gone on here in iowa city, whats the plan . Whats their plan . Please, lets engage. Harreld has a five Year Contract with an annual salary of 590thousand dollars. Bruce harrelds path to the university of iowa presidency has been full of protests and demands for him to step down. Weve put together a timeline of events on our web site, kcrg dot com. In a tv9 followup this morning. The Johnson County board of supervisors is creating a committee to review the impact of the countys minimum wage increase. The first of three boosts went into effect sunday, raising the wage to eight dollars, 20 cents an hour. It will eventually increase to 10 dollars and 10 cents in 2017. The supervisors hope the committee will help them better understand the challenges of low if you enjoy gambling, this month you can give to play. The riverside casino is holding a food drive to fill up four food banks in the area. Casino staff made the first delivery yesterday to the Iowa Veterans food pantry in cedar rapids. Donations will also go to the North Liberty food pantry, the iowa city crisis center, and pearl city outreach in muscatine. The riverside casino will reward players who bring in two to five items with play of the day points. With the upcoming holidays, casino staff encourage everyone to give. The casino will accept donations until the end of the month. The veterans food pantry encourages people to give toiletry items too. And now heres our morning mugshot on your tuesday. Its the Preucil School of musics harvest hoedown 20 15. The hoedown is at five on november 15th at the ce3lebration barn in solon. There will be an iowa prairie supper with samples of local area harvests, plus, world class hoedown music. There will also be a short live auction. Single tickets are 50 dollars, tables of eight are 350 dollars. You can get your tickets online at preucil dot org. Money raised will be used for Financial Aid for deserving students at the music school. If you have a nonprofit event or organization youd like to see featured. Send us an email. Mugshot at kcrgdotcom. Heres what you need to know as you head out the door on your tuesday. Its election day. Voters will head to the polls across eastern iowa. Most cities and towns will vote on City Council Positions. Voters in cedar rapids will decide on a tax levy of 27 cents per one thousand dollars of taxable Property Value to support the Cedar Rapids Public Library. We will have a recap of Voting Results tonight on the tv9 news at 10 and on kcrg dot com. 2016 democratic president ial frontrunner Hillary Clinton will stop in eastern iowa today. She will hold a town hall in coralville at three oclock at st morrison park. Then, she will be in grinnell for another town hall at 6 45 at the Grinnell College harris center. And on the republican side, Ohio Governor john kasich will campaign in dubuque today. Hell hold a town hall on the loras campus at 11. Its at the Alumni Campus Center ballroom. Now, one last look at this mornings weather, kaj. Plan on another decent day across eastern iowa with many areas making it back to the 70s again. One thing we are watching is the potential for fog development over the southern half of the region this morning. Should the fog develop, it will likely be out of here by 10am. Plan on sunny sky once the patchy fog leaves the area. Wednesday should be another good one with highs in the 70s, followed by cooler weather on thursday and friday. Our rain chance continues to be on track, and mainly centered on thursday night, though there may be a lingering shower on friday morning. Temperatures will return to november normals by friday and saturday. Have a great tuesday today am fog south, m sunny high 6773 winds s 1015 alo 71 dbq 70 iow 72tonight patchy fog low 4753 nds s 515 alo 51 dbq 50 iow 53tomrow mostly sunny high 6975 winds s 1020 alo 72 dbq 70 iow 72tomorrow night partly cloudy low 51 nds sw 510 alo 57 dbq 55 w5we certainly hope your is off to a good start. Good morning america is next. Rning america. Have a great tuesday. Good morning, america. The new poll that shows ben carsons lead surging in the race for the white house. Donald trump right behind him. As president obama has something to say about the gop candidates. They cant handle a bunch of cnbc moderators. For the first time, donald trump is here live in times square this morning, for a no holds barred, live, one on one, only on gma. The first major winter storm of the season hammers the west, up to a foot of snow in the mountains. Powerful wind gusts triggering
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