Thing, youll want to enjoy today, even when obscured by the clouds at times. Plan on highs around 40 in many spots, and closer to 45 south of i80. Our next storm system is just coming into the Pacific Northwest this morning, and its decent. Plan on more clouds and even some drizzle and fog in the area for wednesday and wednesday night. By thanksgiving, we still anticipate areawide rainfall with amounts of a half inch to one inch. Fog will be possible east of us on thanksgiving, which could cause flying issues. From friday through most of the weekend, our weather is quiet. Later on sunday into monday is another window worth watching for possible rain or snow in the midwest, but much of this hinges on the eventual track of the thanksgiving system. Enjoy your tuesday today partly cloudy high 3743 winds se 515 alo 39 dbq 38 iow 43tonight mostly cloudy low 3137 winds se 1015 alo 32 dbq 30 iow 35tomorrow chance of showers fog high 4248 winds s 1015 alo 44 dbq 44 iow 47tomorrow night areas of drizzle fog low 3945 winds s 1015 alo 39 dbq 40 iow 44 iowa has too many roads for future needs. That assessment comes from department of transportation director paul trombino. Trombino says the current shrink. Travel is changing over time and so will the number of roads, bridges and rails. Trombino doesnt believe iowa can afford to keep up with all 114 thousand road miles and 25thousand bridges. He says iowans are shifting towards the use of high priority corridors and farmers are often traveling out of the state with their products. Transportation leaders arent rebuilding roads that arent used any more. For example, when interstate380 came through, engineers say some county roads werent reconnected. 1 53 00 my belief is i dont think anybody wants us to rebuild the system that was built in 1950 because people dont utilize the system as much as 1950, they want a 21st century or 2020 or 2030 system that will meet their needs in the future and thats different than how the system was laid out in the past. But some who live outside city limits are concerned about this change. And farmers hope the dot keeps them in mind when making these decisions. In a tv9 followup this morning. A judge has ruled that a man accused of trying to abduct a girl in dubuque is not competent to go on trial. 20yearold Robert Robbins faces a thirddegree kidnapping charge. Police say he grabbed 11 yearold girl while she walked home from school and forced her to go behind a house in march. They say he admitted to planning to sexually abuse the girl. She fought back and got away. A judge said yesterday that robbins is not competent to stand trial based on a report from the iowa medical and classification center. It seems as if the deals start earlier every year, and more people hit the tiled aisles in stores on the friday after thanksgiving. Black friday store deals have become a part of the holiday weekend. According to the National Retail federation, an estimated 135 point 8 Million People will shop on thanksgiving, black friday, or Small Business saturday. Thats about 59 percent of shoppers. Last year,133 point 7 million thanksgiving weekend deals. That was about 55 percent of Holiday Shoppers for 2014. Tv9s Forrest Saunders is live at the lindale mall in cedar rapids. Forrest, how is the mall going to handle hundreds of shoppers . Well, ashley and nicole, they are going to do several things to get ready for the influx. Joining me now is mall manager although nearly 60 percent of Holiday Shoppers had already started checking off their shopping lists by november 10, millions more are eagerly waiting to hear what retailers have in store and online for the biggest Holiday Shopping weekend of the year. According to nrfs preliminary thanksgiving weekend survey, an estimated 135. 8 million shoppers definitely will or may shop on thanksgiving, black friday, Small Business saturday and or sunday, similar to the 61. 1 percent who planned to last year and more than the 55 percent of Holiday Shoppers who said they did shop in stores and online over the weekend in 2014. Nrfs 2014 thanksgiving weekend results survey found 133. 7 million Holiday Shoppers were in stores and online over the holiday weekend. Well have more in our next half hour. For now back to you guys. Iowa students will continue to be eligible to receive thousands of dollars to attend cornell college. Its a Scholarship Program that aims to attract state residents to attend the school in mount vernon. The promise scholarship for iowans awaed more than 750thousand dollars to 38 incoming students this fall. Each student who qualifies receives a scholarship of 20 to 25thousand dollars. And its renewable for each of the four years theyre at cornell. Cornells tuition is more than 37thousand dollars a year. 4 47 55 we look at gpa, act or sat, and then we look at extracurricular activities, leadership, community service. Cornell says it hasnt decided how much money will be available for the Scholarship Program for its second year. Education comes easy to some students others make it their mission to work hard for success. Thats the perfect way to describe a student at Solon Middle School a girl who sets tough goals classroom and beyond. Its time to meet novembers gazette, kcrgtv9 student of bank and trust. Classroom nats in a room full of debate theres no arguement that 12yearold Ashley Stinocher is one of the hardest working kids in class. Classroom nats this 7th grader is learning the balance between the classroom and the finish line, basketball hoop and the bright lights of show choir. She also serves her community as a member of the octogon club. Our motto is kids helping kids, and we do adopt a family and we go shopping for kids in need. Its a club, that for ashley, has family ties. My sister was in it when she was in high school. Her First Middle School year was my first year in college. So i got involved with the dance marathon, which then translated to the octogon club having a mini dance marathon here at Solon Middle School. Ashley jumped right in. And along the way, she continued to set high goals for herself in school. Shes that kid who walks in the door with a smile on her face and you know shes going to give you 110 no matter what challenge you put in front of her. Sot ashley is somebody who will outwork the hardest worker to reach her goals that she sets for herself. A sister knows best. Thats why she nominated ashley for student of the month. Shes my best friend, and we do everything together and shes my role model. I couldnt be more proud to be her sister. Sharing a love for family, community and learning. Be yourself and be who you are, keep doing what youre doing and keep working hard. Ashley stinocher our gazette, kcrgtv9 student of the month. Before i left the school last week, ashley said she hoped to see me again someday. She says she wants to be a google is hoping to bring star trek to life. A major retailer is slashing prices on cyber monday,for everything on its website how much youll be able to save. In todays tech bytes. Plan on another decent day if sun is your thing, youll want to enjoy today, even when obscured by the clouds at times. Plan on highs around 40 in many spots, and closer to 45 south of i80. Coming into the Pacific Northwest this morning, and its decent. Plan on more clouds and even some drizzle and fog in the area for wednesday and wednesday night. By thanksgiving, we still anticipate areawide rainfall with amounts of a half inch to one inch. Fog will be possible east of us on thanksgiving, which could cause flying issues. From friday through most quiet. Later on sunday into monday is another window worth watching for possible rain or snow in the midwest, but much of this hinges on the eventual track of the thanksgiving system. Enjoy your tuesday today partly cloudy high 3743 winds se 515 alo 39 dbq 38 iow 43tonight mostly cloudy low 3137 winds se 1015 alo 32 dbq 30 iow 35tomorrow chance of showers fog high 4248 night areas of drizzle fog low 3945 winds s 1015 alo 39 dbq 40 iow 44 thanks kaj. Now heres abcs reena ninan and Kendis Gibson hey there, in todays ante on cybermonday sales. Walmart cybermonday deals will start sunday night. Almost 80 of Holiday Shoppers plan to make purchases that day. Google hoping to bring star trek to life. The tech giant working on a communicator badge. Interesting. The lapel pin would allow users to get answers to a variety of questions. Now, theres nothing that cant be delivered if you ordered it on your smartphone. So, the app purple will send someone to fill up your gas tank. So far, purple is only operating in southern california. All right, what is next . Well see. Those are [phone ringing when youve got a house full of guests on the way. And a cold with sinus pressure. You need fast relief. Alkaseltzer plus severe sinus congestion and cough liquid gels rush relief to your tough symptoms. [deep breath]to put you back in control. [doorbell] coming alkaseltzer plus sinus. There are 16 freshpicked oranges squeezed into each bottle of tropicana pure premium. And absolutely no space for added sugar, water, or preservatives. Tropicana. We put the good in morning. 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The state department issuing an uncommon worldwide alert due to increased terrorist threats. Sot jeh johnson Homeland Security secretary we are, and we continue to be, and we have been, concerned about copy cat like attacks. The state Department Says. Current information suggests isil and other terrorist groups continue to plan terrorist attacks in mulitiple regions. These attacks may employ a variety of tactics using conventional and nonconventional weapons. Proof that. Isis. Is not giving up. Promising attacks . In this propaganda video. Showing images of new york citys times square. The city in turn. Stepping up its police presence. Nats nyc police nats . The heightened alert not just in the states but overseas to europe. Sot if we start shooting youre in the cross fire the belgian Prime Minister extending the terror alert there for another week after 4 days of lockdown in brussels. As the hunt for the 8th paris attacker continues. With europe on edge. President obama meets with french president Francois Hollande at the white house today. The pair will discuss how to rampup the fight against isis extremists. Obama sot us will cont. To lead coalition. Verbatim one eastern iowa mayor says he wants to welcome syrian refugees. But some in town say theyre not happy with that decision and plan to start a petition. Heres a live look at. Kaj will be back right after the break with a look at meteorologist kaj omara joins us now with your first alert forecast. Plan on another decent day if sun is your thing, youll want to enjoy today, even when obscured by the clouds at times. Plan on highs around 40 in many spots, and closer to 45 south of i80. Our next storm system is just coming into the Pacific Northwest this morning, and its decent. Plan on more clouds and even some drizzle and fog in the area for wednesday and wednesday night. By thanksgiving, we still anticipate areawide rainfall with amounts of a half inch to one inch. Fog will be possible east of us on thanksgiving, which could cause flying issues. From friday through most of the weekend, our weather is quiet. Later on sunday into monday is another window worth watching for possible rain or snow in the midwest, but much of this hinges on the eventual track of the thanksgiving system. Enjoy your today partly cloudy high 3743 winds se 515 alo 39 dbq 38 iow 43tonight mostly cloudy low 3137 winds se 1015 alo 32 dbq 30 iow 35tomorrow chance of showers fog high 4248 winds s 1015 alo 44 dbq 44 iow 47tomorrow night areas of drizzle fog low 3945 winds s 1015 alo 39 dbq 40 iow 44 thanks, kaj. Some diehard shoppers are already making their black friday plans. And shopping malls are making their final preparations for the biggest shopping day hello to you on your tuesday. Youre looking live at on our citycam. Its november 24th and this is what you need to know today. A des moines man is in custody this morning after police say he shot his wife and daughter sunday night, then turned the gun on himself. Representative rod blum says he wants to protect americans when asked why he voted to restrict refugees from iraq and syria from entering the us. The Us State Department is now issuing a Worldwide Travel alert for americans just before the thanksgiving holiday after recent terror threats. Many people travelling this weekend will be driving and auto repair shops are seeing business revv up with those hoping for a tune up. And thanksgiving weekend also means shopping for a lot of people, and mall managers are getting prepared for the busy days ahead. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. First, meteorologis t kaj omara alert forecast, kaj. Plan on another decent day if sun is your thing, youll want to enjoy today, even when obscured by the clouds at times. Plan on highs around 40 in many spots, and closer to 45 south of i80. Our next storm system is just coming into the Pacific Northwest this morning, and its decent. Plan on more clouds and even some drizzle and fog in the area for wednesday and wednesday night. By thanksgiving, we still anticipate areawide rainfall with amounts of a half inch to one inch. Fog will be possible east of us on thanksgiving, which could cause flying issues. From friday through most of the weekend, our weather is quiet. Later on sunday into monday is another window worth watching for possible rain or snow in the midwest, but much of this hinges on the eventual track of the thanksgiving system. Enjoy your tuesday today partly cloudy high 3743 winds se 515 alo 39 dbq 38 iow 43tonight mostly cloudy low 3137 winds se 1015 alo 32 dbq 30 iow 35tomorrow chance of showers fog high 4248 winds s 1015 alo 44 dbq 44 iow 47tomorrow night areas of drizzle fog low 3945 winds s 1015 alo 39 dbq 40 iow 44 we have more information this morning on a double homicide in des moines we told you about yesterday morning. Police say a man killed his wife and 16 year old daughter with a gun and then turned it on himself. It happened on hull avenue in des moines around 7 oclock sunday night. Police believe 47yearold Barney Fraaken killed 42yearold amy fraaken and 16yearold Amber Fraaken at their home. Hes in the hospital with a selfinflicted gunshot wound. His step son told kccitv he believes the shooting is related to problems in the couples marriage. This wasnt fair, this was not justified. This was not appropriate. This was just straight up ignorance. And trying to gain selfcontrol from somebody who didnt want nothing to do with them. Russelllane says his stepfather had always made him uneasy, especially when he started buying guns. He said his mother had worked hard to keep her marriage together for 15 years despite her husbands unfaithfulnes s. The Us State Department says americans should keep an eye out when traveling this week. In a rare move, the department issued a Worldwide Travel alert for us citizens. The travel alert is the result of the recent terrorist attacks in paris that killed 130 people and injured hundreds more. The state Department Says isis and other terrorist groups continue to plan attacks in multiple regions. It also says the likelihood of terrorist attacks will continue as members of isis return to their home countries from syria and iraq. French authorities believe one of the people who was part of the paris attacks posed as a refugee from syria. The fear of other terrorists mixing with refugee groups prompted the us house to pass a bill last week that would require more extensive background checks for any syrian or iraqi refugee who applies to come into the us. Iowa congressman rod blum supported the bill. Blum was in dubuque yesterday doing a job shadow with paramedics from paramount ambulance service. After that event, he talked about his the recent vote. He says, right now, congresss most important job is protecting the american people. One way to do that is securing all borders, and restricting refugees from both syria and iraq. Its impossible to check effectively the background of these refugees because iraq and syria are not functioning countries and assad, who is currently the president of syria, were trying to topple him, so i dont think hes going to be very cooperative with any records he might have. Blum says the United States should instead create safe zones within those countries where refugees can live. Then United States military should patrol those areas. Congressman dave lobesack, a democrat also