Alert forecast, kaj. Plan on a mild, breezy day out there with highs going well into the 50s. The warm front pushing through this morning will be replaced by a cold front by midafternoon. In any event, highs should be hit around the lunch hour with widespread mid50s likely. Tonight into tomorrow, dry weather is anticipated with temperatures still well above normal. Our storm system is still on track to impact eastern iowa this weekend with light rain as early as friday night. For at least the entire weekend, precipitation will stay in the form of rain in all areas, and that rain may be heavy at times. Thunderstorm s are also possible saturday night into sunday. Rainfall amounts of at least 12 are likely with higher amounts approaching 3 in any y eas that see repeated heavy rainfall. Creeks and streams will likely respond with rises on the smaller basins likely. Next week, the weather trends cooler, with any remaining moisture going to light snow later monday, if our temperatures can drop fast enough. Today partly sunny, mild high 5258 winds w 1525 alo 54 dbq 55 iow 57tonight partly cloudy low 3440 winds sw 515 alo 35 dbq 6 iow 38tomorrow slightthance of rain late high 5157 winds se 515 alo 52 dbq 52 iow 54tomorrow night chance of showers low 4450 winds sw 510 alo 45 dbq 45 iow 48 this morning were working to get more information on a stabbing in waterloo. To the perkins restaurant at 3280 University Avenue around 2 10 this morning. Police say a man arrivedt the restaurant with a stab wound. An ambulance later took him to the hospital. Authorities have not released his condition and are still investigating. Were working to get more information n an Early Morning fire in cedar rapids. Firefighters were at a vacant home on the corner of 16th avenue sw and l street around 3 00. Thats an area heavily damaged in the 2008 flood. Stay with tv9 and kcrg dot com for any updates. Today republican president ial candidate marco rubio will campaign in eastern iowa. The florida senator is scheduled to be at the Mediacom Outdoor Club at Kinnick Stadium this afternoon. Rubio is one of only 4 republican candidates polling in the double digits in iowa over the past 30 days. Todays event in iowa city is democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton is moving on after a two day swing through iowa. It didnt take long for clinton to tell the crowd what she thought about trumps comments about muslims while in waterloo yesterday. She dederibed the idea of banning muslims from the us as hateful and paranoid. And in an interview with tvnines dave franzman, clinton says that kind of talk works against us interests in fighting terrorism. He has gone to a total new level of discriminatory bigotry that has no place in american president ial campaigns. No place in our country the former secretary of state began her waterloo visit with a look at north americas largest 3d printing machine at the cedar valley tech works. Clinton was pushing for more support for advanced manufacturing during her stop. Senator Bernie Sanders will be back in iowa this s ekend. Hell make several stops and dubuque. Hell also be holding a forum to address Racial Injustice and Prison Reform in anamosa, near one of the states high security prison. Then on sunday, hell make a stop in waterloo and mount vernon. This month, youve likely seen bell ringers outside of your Favorite Grocery or Department Store in eastern iowa. While those volunteers seem too be everywhere, the Salvation Army says its still well short of the ringers it needs for the holiday season. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders joins us live this morning from iowa city. Forrest, what are the different ways to help out . Seventy percent of Johnson Countys ringers are paid, taking a cut from the overall amount raised at the end of the season. In essence, they need more volunteers. Current donations 153,214 leaving just over half 171,786 to go. Red kettles will be out red kettles are located at all three iowa city hy vees the rochester ave. Hyvee drug store, ic coralville walmarts, ic dollar tree, ic nl fareway, ic coralveille hwy965 wallgreens, pauls discount, sycamore mall, theisens, annd hobby lobby counter top kettles are located at all Johnson County university of Iowa CommunityCredit Union Branches and sams market in solon online kettles can be created to raise a personal goal to supporttthe johnson ccnty Salvation Army by jumping off icsalvationar my. Org http holiday donations make up approximately 60 of the Johnson CountySalvation Armys annual budget. Currently utilizing 70 of ringers who are paid thus costing more money to come from ou budget that could be used for services. Many kettles are not manned due too lack of volunteers paid ringers. Kettles with a bell ringer have significantly that participate uiccu, rotary clubs, kiwanis, ia assoc. Of realtors, u of i greek socity and others. Would love to have more Johnson CountySalvation Army provides ways to get involved sign up to voounteer from our site icsalvationar my. Org http or call 3193373725 bell ring online kettle assist with toy sorting distribution serve week night dinners volunteer Time ServicesFinancial Support give up 5 cup of coffee recognizing needs vs wantssupporting others needs the Salvation Army is also gigiing toys to more than 18 hununed kids in linn counun this year. Beginning in october, families had the opportunity to sign up to receive toys and food this holiday season. Yesterday, the nonprofit handed out some of those toys at hawkeye downs. Each family picked out a few gifts. The majority of them are really excited about getting stuff and i know today weve even heard from some of the parents that their kids wouldnt have christmas without this. The Salvation Army will also give food boxes to nearly 13hundred families. Iowa, iowa state, and uni will each hold commencemen t ceremonies a week from saturday. Many of those students will likely stay in iowa, if past trends stay in place. From the university of iowa. And Iowa State University last year chose to stay in iowa. More than 80 of university of Northern Iowa graduates last year stayed in the state. Some career counselors say they believe the iowa job market is luring students to stay. If the iowa economy is doing well, ich is right now, thth will alwaysysind jobs, and theyll get accepted to graduate programs in the state. When the iowa economy isnt doing so well, thats when theyll move. To find out more about job placement rates for iowas college gradadtes, go to kcrg. Com. There, you can find the full story, plus interactive charts and a full video. The Cedar Rapids Public Library is using Community Input t decide its future. The library is facing budget cuts after a 27cent tax levy failed in november. It will have to cut back on hours,ervices and materials as soon as march. The library held a Community Conversation meeting last night to hear opinions on which library hem. Library director dara schmidt says its imporornt to have input on these tough decisions. Certainly in times of with less resources we have to make harder decisions about the choices we make. We want to still have a balanced Community Library where we a a giving as much as we can to as many people we can if you werent able to make the meeting and still want to give your opinion, you can fijl out an online questionaire. You can find that link on our website kcrg dot com. Students at pierce elementary in cedar rapids are running their own town. Theyve elected a mayor and learned some new laws as part of a project they call gym city. A pe teacher converted the pierce gymnasium into a little town that includes streets, parking lots and businesses. Students can even use cars, but they earn them with exercise. Children learn best t hen they get to have creative play. We want physical education to be fun for them so want to make exercising fun and this is one way to do it. Some older students have to accounts. The youngest students have designed safety posters. Langhurst says shes been creating gym city for about 20 years. Serious news stories dominated the chatter on facebook this year. And lowes wants to help you and your kids track santa and his reindeer this christmas eve. More ahead in todays tech bytes. Good morning its. Plan on a mild, breezy day out going well into the 5050 the warm front pushing through this morning will be replaced by a cold front by midafternoon. In any event, highs should with widespread mid50s likely. Tonight into tomorrow, dry weather is anticipated with temperatures still well above normal. Our storm system is still on track to impact eastern iowa this weekend with light rain as rly as friday night. For at least the entire weekend, precipitation will stay in the form of rain in all areas, and that rain may y heavy at times. Thunderstorm s are also possible saturday night into sunday. Rainfall amounts of at least 12 are likely with higher amounts approaching 3 in any areas that see repeated heavy rainfall. Creeks and streams will likely respond with rises on the smaller weather treres cooler, with any remaining moisture going to light snow later monday, if our temperatures can drop fast enough. Today partly sunny, mild high 5258 winds w 1525 alo 54 dbq 55 iow 57tonight partly cloudy low 3440 winds sw 515 alo 35 dbq 36 iow 38tomorrow slight chance of rain late high 5157 winds se 515 alo 52 dbq 52 iow 54tomorrow night chance of showers low 4450 winds sw 510 alo 45 dbq 45 iow 48 now heres abcs reena ninan and Richard Bacon with this morningg techbytes. Hey, there. Intodays techbytes, a big year of facebook. Yeah heres a look what the wowod has been talking about in 2015. Topping the list, the u. S. President ial election. Second was the paris attacks. Apple is slicing the price of the apple watch. You can pick up the eventually level model for just 249. Andnd lowes wants to help you and your kids track santa. The free app is called iris by lowes santa tracker. It will let you know when and how stan moved around your house on christmas. They can catch santa sneaking milk and true. Those are your techbytes. Have a good day. My moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis made a simple trip to the Grocery Store anything but simple. So finally, i had an important conversationon with my dermatologist about humira. He explained that humira works inside my body to target and help block a specific source of flammation that contributes to my symptoms. In clinical trials, most adults saw 75 skin clearancece humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. Seris, sometimes fatal infections and cancersrs including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. Before treatment,get tested for tb. B. Tell your doctor if youve been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, and if youve had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flulike symptoms or sores. Dont start humira if you have an infection. Ask your dermatologist about humira. A Baltimore Police officer is claming his innocence in the death of freddie gray. Officer William Porter is the first of six officers to go to trial. Gray ed while in Police Custody in april. Andrew spencer reports this triri is expected to wrap up by t t end of next week. Officer William Porter testified that he knew freddie gray from his patrols of the west baltimore neighborhood. He said, quote, freddie gray and i werent friends, t we had a mutual respect. When one of porters lawyers asked if he wau sorry porter responded, absolutely. Gray died in april, a week after officers put him in the back of a police van shackling him but not putting him in a seat belt. During the ride, somehow, gray suffered a broken neck. The van made six stops during his 45minute ride to the police station. Prosecutors allege porter should have caaled for a medic after the fourth stop, when gray asked for help. Porter testified that he didnt realize gray needed immediate medical assistance until the last stop. With one of his attorneys at times demonstratin g grays position, porter testified that people transported in wagons were never secured with seat belts certainly not the people he put in wagons roughly 150, he says, since joining the Baltimore Police department in 2010. On wednesday, porter told the jury, quote, it is the responsibility of the wagon driver to get the prisoner from point a to point b. During cross examination, the states attorney accused porter of doing nothing to protect freddie grays life. Porter called that, untrue. Prosecutors formally charged the alleged planned Parenthood Shooter with 179 fely counts, includinin1st degree rder. They accuse robert dear of killing 3 people, including a police officer, in colorado springs. The november 27th shooting also injured 9 others. Duringis Court Hearing today, dear repeatedly interrupted the proceedings. The fbi is uncovering more about the married couple that killed 14 people a week ago today in san bernardino, california. The director of the agency say syed farook and Tashfeen Malik talked about an attack as early as 2013. Investigators now believe the couple had become radicalized before they met or started d dating online two years ago. They also say farook might have plotted an attack with the man accused of providing him assault rifles used in the shooting. As early as the end of 2013 they were talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom, before they became engaged and married and live together in Law Enforcement officials tell abc that images on electronics the couple tried to destroy show other locations, including a high school. But they dont know if they were targets. It was a scary ride for some eastern iowa students yesterday. A few ended up in the hospital ter a truck rear ended a school van. And youre looking live at our city cam. J will be back ririt after the break with a look at your thursday forecast. Stay with us. Meteorologist kaj omara joins first alert forecast. Plan on a m md, breezy day out there with highs going well into the 50s. The warm front pushing through this morning will be replaced by a cold front by midafternoon. In any event, highs should be hit arou the lunch hour with widespread mid50s likely. Tonight into tomorrow, dry weather is anticipated with temperatures still well above normal. Our storm system is still on track to impacaceastern iowa this weekend with light rain at least the entire weekend, precipitation will stay in the form of rain in all areas, and that rain may be heavy at times. Thunderstorm s are also possie saturday night into sunday. Rainfall amounts of at least 12 are likely with higher amounts approaching 3 in any areas that see repeated heavy rainfall. Creeks and streams will likely respond with rises on the smaller basins likely. Next week, the weather trends cooler, with any remaining moisture going to light snoolater monday, if our temperaturur can drop fast enough. Today partly sunny, mild high 5258 winds w 1525 alo 54 dbq 55 iow 57tonight artly cloudy low 3440 winds sw 515 alo 35 dbq 36 iow 38tomorrow slight chance of rain late high 5157 winds se 515 alo 52 dbq 52 iow 54tomorrow night chance of showers low 4450 winds sw 510 alo 45 dbq 455 one iowa city charity is left scratching their heads this morning. Members want to know who stole two amemecan flags from outside their building. Stay with tv9. Its hello to you on this thursday morning. Youre looking live on our city cam. Its december 10th and heres the Salvation Army says it needs more volunteers to ring bells at its famous red kettles to meet its holiday goal. More candidates for the 2016 president ial race are back in eastern iowa trying to pick up support over the next 8 weeks. Baltimore Police Officers arar in court today in the case of freddie gray. One officer says hes sorry that gray died on his watch. Now the Jones County Sheriffs Office has installed cameras in its prisoner transportatio n vans to avoid situations like the one in baltimore. And a food pantry in coralville is moving to a new location. And it will serve families there rentfree for the next three years. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning newsws first, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first plan on a mild, breezy day out there with highs going well into the 50s. The warm front pushing through this morning will be replaced by a cold front by midafternoon. In any event, highs should be hit around the lunch hourt with widespread mid50s likely. Tonight into tomorrow, dry weather is anticipated with temperature still well above normal. Our storm system is still on track to impact eastern iowa this weekend with light rain as early as friday night. For at least the entire weekend, precipitation will stay ininthe form of rain in all areas, and hat rain may be heavy at times. Thunderstorm s are also possible saturday night into sunday. Rainfall amounts of at least 12 are likely with higher amounts approaching 3 in any areas thattee repeated heavy rainfall. Creeks and streams will likely respond with rises on the smaller basins likely. Next week, the weather ends coolee with any remaininggoisture going to light snow l