First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Everyone seems to want to talk about the tuesday storm system. While that one will probably be significant here, we cannot overlook the potential for mixed precipitation in iowa first. This is possible from m te saturday night through sunday. There should be a brief lull in the action on monday with only a small chance of mixed precipitation late on monday. Should mixed precipitation fall on caucusgoers, it seems it would be very isolated. The main show looks to arrive on tuesday with heavy snow, strong wind, and cold air to follow by wednesday. While still too early to get into amounts, this will very likely be a storm high impact in the area. Please stay tuned as we move through the ekend. Toda y partltlcloudy gh 3541 winds se 515 alo 35 dbq 35 iow 39tonight mostly cloudy winds w 515 alo 28 dbq 28 iow 29tomorrow mostly cloudy high 3945 winds sw 515 alo 40 dbq 40 iow 43tomorrow night light mix late low 3036 winds s 510 alo 31 dbq 32 iow 33 nats of crackling fire, firetruus running fire investigators will try to determine what caused this fire that burned down a bucucnan counun church. Firefighthtrs from multiple departments were called to the old Saint Peter Lutheran Church in lamont around 6 30 last night. Thats on oak street. The church was no longer used for services. The sheriffs s ffice said no one was inside when the fire started. Sentencing is now set for april for a woman who pleaded guilty in the death of a toddler. That woman ran a daycare in her home. Back on junun10th, the Pella Police Department received a 911 call for a 17 month old who was not responsive. Emergency crews rushed to the 1300 block of east 7th street. Police say the child had beeee sleeping impmpperly in later. Pella police and the division of criminal investigations determined 32 year old valerie unsupervised, and in the care of an uncertified adult. Yesterday, wackerly pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. Dubuque police say theyve discovered a number of stolen items as part of a burglary investigation. They say they found stolen jewelry. Us dollars and foreign currency. Lawn care equipment. And cellphones and tablets. Police are asking people to come forward to claim their items. Police say they have arrest warrants for 2 suspecds they think were involved with the thefts. Former president bill clinton is reaching out to younger caucusgoers with stops at colleges in eastern iowa. Yesterday he stumped for his wife at Wartburg College in waverly and Cornell College in mount rnon. He told the crowds that t hillary is the best candidate, not only because she has the right priorities, but because she has the experience and temperament. 1 35 theres one person running for president in either party. Only one, who went to wall street in 2007 before that crash and said if you dont clean up those housing policies and the the securities youre selling, as candidates vye for support, we looked at how often iowas first in the nation caucuses actuauay chose the eventualal president ial nominee. Since 1976, only three republican candidates who won the Iowa Caucuses have become the nominee. Thattnot counting incumbebes. Anddn that same time frara, democrats chose five candidates who became the nominee. The last time around, democrats selected incumbent barack obama in an uncontested race. And Republican Voters chose rick santorum, who won 10 more states. But mitt romney was the eventual nominee. Kcrg tv nines mark carlson explains why experts say its not about winning the caucuses, but how you finish. Back in 2008 Mike Huckabee won the gop iowa caucus. Now, 8 years later crowds at his events have shrunk, to at times only a couple dozezepeople. Its old fashion, grassroots, think thats what ultimately wins causes in iowa. Each race is different, and somebody who had a chance 8 yeararago or 4 years ago, if they werent successful, well now its a different race, its a different dynamic. While huckabees story may lead people to think that iowans arent very good at picking president s. But iowans get even better when it comes to narrowing the field, and thats what ui Political Science professor tim hagle says the caucuses are all about. The purpose isnt to pick the nominee or the winner if it were we would get even more grief from the other states who would say oh well gee after iowa its over, well its not over, our job here in the Iowa Caucuses is to wiwiow the field. And thats exactly what hagle says iowans do best. The last six president s all finished in the top three in iowa. Our job is to separate the contenders from the pretenders, people that really arent or arent serious or at least not competing. Putting uncommitted voters aside only one time has the gop or democratic top three in their parties iowa ucus. So the saying, theres three tickets out of iowa is very accurate. We take this very seriously, we are very educated about the candidates their positions and so were kind of serving as a committee and say to the rest of the country, okay, here is who we recommend. Johnson county democrats chair Martha Hedberg says iowans should be proud of their record. Now theres only one thing left to do. Make more history, and d all starts right here in iowa. I want to see everybody turn out to their causes all across the state isnt an extremely important process. Hagle says that old saying may be challenged this year because there are only three democratic candidates, while the gop has a huge field. Stay with us monday for complete caucus coverage. Well have live reports from des moines and across eastern iowa along with expert analysis. It starts at eight on kcrgrgine point two. Then, well have full coverage nine oclock right here on tv nine. The Dubuque Humane Society says recent changes have saved a Record Number of animals. It comes less than a year after facing criticism for its euthanasia rates. In 2014, the shelter euthanized more than 1,200 cats and dogs. Then, last spring, the Humane Society starting u ung a different methodology to d dide what makes an animal adoptable. In 2015, staff put down only 288 animals. Thats about a 75 reduction. Directors say t tyre doing more to teach people who adopt how to rehabilitate those cats and dogs. They become stressed out in a new environment. To adjust to being here we are also givinthem more time with our staff to get used to people so they have thoho interactions. That dedeeases anxiety which reduces aggressive. Directors also dropped the kitten adoption fee from 110 to 50. Fees for older cat adoptions fell 50 to 25. The midwest region of the red cross has an emergency according to a report frororadio iowa, which found blood supplies are severely low. The red cross blames winter storms and icy roads for having to cancel blood drives since the first of the year in iowa and across the country. A traffic stop turned into a birthday surprise for one Cedar Rapids High School student. Jefferson High School Sophomore student Hanna Burgess celebrated her sweet sixteen wednesday, which means spending some time behind the wheel. But a drive with her dad the night before her birthday ended in a traffic stop. Thats when Sergeant Thomas grubb handed her a different kind of ticket. The bad news is youre gonna get a ticket. The good news it, its to justin bieber. Happy birthday hannas father says the officer is a friend of the family and had permission from his supervisors to help with the surprise. Take a look at this. Piece by piece. It was out with the old in north liberty. This is the old water tower coming down. Crews started early yesterday morning and worked into the afternoon. Boom the city built the 200,000 gallon tower in 1976, and began municipal Water Service the next year. But the tower had been unused for years and was deteriorating. North libertys water superintenden t says the city had to wrap up contracts with cell and Internet Companies before taking it down. This tower has been removed, actually, unhooked from the Distribution System since probably 2010, so it hasnt served any purpose and would have been down a lot sooner except for trying to work out those contracts with the companies. Many who remember when it was built spent time watching it come down and taking pictures. Since it was located next to he fire department, fire crews say theyd like to expand the department onto the land by adding a couple of truck bays. A company that makes sure you destination on time will be adding to their services. Nonouber says they will make sure your deliveries get to you on time. More on that in todays tech bytes. Everyone seems to want to talk about the tuesday storm system. While that one will probably be significant here, we cannot overlook the potential for mixed precipitation in iowa first. This is possible from late saturday night through sunday. There should be a brief lull in the action on monday with only a mall chance of miid precipitation late on monday. Should mixed fall on caucusgoers, it seems it would be very isolated. The main show looks to arrive on tuesday with heavy snow, strong wind, and cold air to follow by wednesday. While still too early to get into amounts, this will very likely be a storm of high impact in the area. Please stay tuned as we move through the weekend. Today partly cloudy high 3541 winds se 515 alo 35 dbq 35 iow 39tonight mostly cloudy loww2531 winds w 515 alo 28 dbq 28 iow 29tomorrow mostly cloudy high 3945 winds sw 515 alo 40 dbq 40 night light mix late low 3036 winds s 510 alo 31 dbq 32 iow 33 thanks kaj. Details this mornings techbytes. Trt oc hello. In todays techbytes facebooks live stream now available for everyone. The periscopelike feature allows users to broadcast on their phone. Available to verified accounts for journalists and celebrities. The popular dating app has just added g firks. Uber is going up against amazon and other sameday delivery services. Launching what it calls uber rush. Customers wanting instant shopping grty occasion can use the app the same they they use uber to call for a car. Of course, theyll have to pay an extra fee for that service. Have a great day. 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Warning thursrsy that t t mosquitoborn zika virus is quote now spreading explosively. Directorgeneral Margaret Chan the possible links only recently suspected have ridly changed the risk prole of zika from a mild threat to o e of alarming proportions. With 3 to 4 million cases of the mosquitoborn illness estimated in the americas in a 12month period, concern is mounting in the u. S. Some 80 percent of those infected report not even feeling ill. As the virus silently strikes its most vulnerable victims pregnant womenennd their babies. It is a very, very severe risk in pregnant women. In areas where the virus has arrived, there has been anncrease in babies born with abnormally small heads which can cause severe developmental issues and sometimes death. Microcephaly can lead to lifelong neurological problems that can range from mild to very serious. There are no medicines to treat those infected with zika, and no vaccines to prevent it. Blthough u. S. Officials say Clinical Trials on a vaccine could begin this year. Im reid binion, reporting. Face a judge. 18 year old ethan couch landed in texas yesterday after mexican authorits deported him. Couch and his mom are accused of going on the run after a video showed him at a party, which violated his probation for a fatal drunk driving. Authorities found them hiding at a mexican resort city last month. Couch is on probation for killing four peoplin a 2013 drunk driving crash. His attorneys argued that he suffered from affluenza. Meaning he was too spoiled to know right from wrong. An american will spend 20 years in prison for fatally stabbing a south Korean University student in seoul. Arthur patterson was sentenced overnight. He was extradited in september, 16 years after fleeing to the us. Patterson killededhe student at a burger king in 1997. He was originally sentenced to 18 months for destroying evidence in the case. When he was freed in a special amnesty, patterson ran off as authorities launched a new investigation. A family of a former nfl player and hawkeye Football Player now has some answers. A new report was released for player who died last fall. And his family is speaking out abououthe results. Youre looking live on our camera. Kaj will be back right afafr the bbak with a look at your friday forecast. Stay with us. First alert forecast. Everyone seems to want to talk about the tuesday storm system. While that one will probably be significant here, we cannot overlook the potential for mixed precipitation in iowa first. This is possible from late saturday night through sunday. There should be a brief lull in the action on monday with only a small chance of mixed precipitation late on monday. Should mixed precipitation fall on caucusgoers, it seems it would be very isolated. The main show looks to arrive on tuesday with heavy snow, strong wind, and cold air to follow by wednesday. While still too early to get into amounts, this will very likely be a storm of high impact in the area. Please stay tuned as we move through the weekend. Today partly cloudy high 3541 winds se 515 alo 35 dbq 35 iow 39tonight mostly cloudy low 2531 winds w 515 alo 28 dbq 28 iow winds sw 515 alo 40 dbq 40 iow 43tomorrow night light mix late low 3036 winds s 510 alo 31 dbq 32 iow 33 thanks, kaj. Candidates just have the weekeke voters before they go to caucus. But, many still wonder if f cast their votes. With us her on tv9. Its. Good morning from the temperatures pretty nice out for the end of january. Its friday january 29th. Heres what you need to know today. A church in the small town of lamont in Buchanan County burned to the ground last night. No one was hurt and no word on the cause. Cedar Rapids Police are gun shots on the Southeast Side where one man went the hospital. No word yet on any arrests. Republican president ial candidates debated in des moines last night for the final time before mondays caucuses. Donald trump boycotted the debate. A top three finish in the Iowa Caucuses is almost mandatory to win the white house. Making mondays caucus results important. The National Transportatio n safety board wants to lower the legal blood alcohol limit to point zero five percent. Eastern iowa Law Enforcement arent pushing the change. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first everyone seems to want to talk about the tuesday storm system. While that one will probably be significant here, we cannot overlook the potential for mixed precipitation in iowa first. This is possible from late saturday night through sunday. There should be a brief lull in the action on monday with only a all chance of mixed precipitation late on monday. Should mixed precipitation fall on caucusgoers, it seems it would be very isolated. The main show looks to arrive on tuesday with heavy snow, strong wind, and cold air to follow by wednesday. While still too early to get into amounts, this will very likely bb a storm of high impaa in the area. Please stay tuned as we move through the weekend. Toda y partly cloudy high 3541 winds se 515 alo 35 dbq 35 iow 39tonight mostly cloudy low 2531 28 iow 29tomorrow mostly cloudy high 3945 winds sw 515 alo 40 dbq 40 iow 43tomorrow night light mix lalae low 3036 winds 510 alo 31 dbq 32 iow 33 the clean up process will soon gin after a urch burned to the ound. Firefighters were called tt old Saint Peter Lutheran Church in lamont. Is was around 6 30 last ght. Its on oak street, just east of east street. Ltiple fixe departments were lled in to help. E chch was no longer used for services. E Buchanan CountySheriffs Office said ey did not believe anyone was inside when ei arted. Investigato have not said t what started the fire orsaid how much the magect. One was hurt at shakespeares pub and grill in iowa city when a fire started there. Firefighters were called out shortly before 10 yesterday morning at 8 19 uth first avenue. Thats across from the hy vee. The fire caused some damage inside the building. When you see news, you can tell us about it by calling newsline nine at 3193659999. You c also send us pictures and videos to newsroom at kcrg dot com. Lets address the elephant not in the room tonight. Donald trump has chosen not to attend just 3 days left until iowa voters go out to caucus. And all the republican candidates at the p of the polls except for donald debate in des moines last night. Civil tone last night. But despite the lack of trump, they still clashed on and immigration. Texas senator ted skirmage over immigration. I was for legalization we led the fight against amnesty. The truth is, ted, throughout this campaignnouve been willing to