sot trump i have zero resesct for megyn kelly. trump wants debate moderator megyn kelly out. o'reilly suggested trump turn to his christian values. sot-trump it's called an eye for an eye i guess you can look at it that way? oh, no, no, no. if you are the christian the eye for the eye rule goes out. trump's biggest rival in iowa, ted cruz, is demanding trump debate him one on one saturday...the venue rented.sot cruz i don't think he is afraid of megan kelly. i don't think he's afraid of me. i think he's afraid of the people of iowa, he doesn't want to answer their questions for the democrats, hillary clinton and bernie sanders are in a statistical tie in a new nbc marist, wall street journal poll. sanders is back in iowa after his white house visit with president obama. sot sanders "the energy, the enthusiasm, the momentum is with us." the signs of momentum for sanders can been seen throughout iowa. the clinton campaign is watching. sot matthew dowdabc news political analyst i think if they let bernie sanders win...than they ever thought as for trump, our political analyst says s supporters are sticking with him on this debate boycott. trump has a dueling event in iowa tonight...a fundraiser to hehe veterans. kenneth moton, abc news washington. we'll have more on of tonight's news pololical analyst cokie roberts will join us live at 11:30. while republicans meet tonight, vermont senator and democratic presidential candidate morning. senator sanders recently took the lead from recent quinnipiac university poll released this week. on monday all depends on how many people turn out for the democratic caucuses. this morning he encouraged younger voters at roosevelt high school to get out and vote. "i can't in a million years why people would sit back and say 'hey, you can make a decision for my life', i'm not going to have anything to say about it. why uld you want to do that? think it's not cool, it's not hip to be thinking about politics. " cocong tonight on the kcrg-tv9 look at t at the caucuses really mean. does a candidate have to win the caucuses if they want to eventually be president? one university of iowa professor says it's really about finishing in the top 3 if you want to survive. and he predicts those on the bottom in iowa will have little success in the days that follow. "i would say that the bottom six candidates or so really going to have a much harder time, barring the fact a few of f em aren't'tompeting here, but i is going to narrow the field for the new hampshire folks and on to south carolina. " again, tonight on the tv-9 news at 6, kcrg tv 9's iowa city bureau chief mark carlson will look at the true importance of iowa. you can stay with kcrg t-v 9 for complete caucus coverage monday night. we'll have live reportsts from des moines and across eastern iowa along with expert analysis. it all starts at 8 pm on kcrg 9.2. then, we'll have full coverage pm right here on t-v nine. meteorologist justin gehrts has your first alert forecast, justin... clouds are on their way back into our sky yet again this afternoon, streaming in from the nonoh. we should get occasional glimpses of sunshine to poke through every so often, however. highs will reach the middle 30s this afternoon with a northwest breeze. southerly winds and a partly cloudy sky send us to the upper 30s tomorrow, providing a pretty nice end to the saturday w wh mild ghs in the lower 40s. some light rain/snow are monday. a more potent system brings us snow tuesday and wednesday. it's still too early to know much about the details of this system yet, so stay tuned.today: mostly cloudy high: 33-39 winds: nw 10- 20+ alo: 36 dbq: 35 iow: 38 today marks 30 years since the space shuttle challenger exploded shortly all 7 astronauts on board. what made the leadoff to that particular challenger flight was that a teacher was among e crew -- christa m mulliffe. remembered january 28, 1986 at an ceremony at kennedy space center this morning. a wreath was laid this morning at the space mirror memorial. "it's hard to believe it's beeee challenger and her crew. those of us that are old enough to remember can probably tell you exactly where we were and what we were doing that morning january 28, 1986. much like the assassination of president kennedy, the landing of apollo 11 on the moon and the attacks of september 11th, it was a defining moment in our history. " today the children of the victims took over for ththir parents to pay their respects at the annual ceremony. new at midday... dubuque police say they've 'substantial amount' of stolen property and want to get those items back to their rightful owners. police say they found different kinds of jewelry, money, lawn care equipment, power tools and electronics. officers rerevered those items during a burglary ininstigation. police are now looking for 2 people they believe are responsible. if you have had any of those items stolen, you're asked to contact the two investigators you see on the screen. their email addresses are listed their on your screen and with this story on kcrg.com. a waterloo man will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing his girlfriend's brother. a jury found martez smsmh guilty of first-degree murder in court yesterday. the waterloo- cedar falls courier reports jurors only needed 2 hours to make afternoon. the stabbing happened in november of 2014 outside smith stabbed shawonyta norman in the chest and also convicted smith of domestic assault for shovingngis girlfriend. a sentencing dada has not in a tv-9 follow-up... law enforcement have a man in custody for a shooting in dubuque that happened last april. 30-year-old cowan godfrey faces multiple weapons charges. investigators had been searching for him since july. they thought he'd left the state. law officers recently learned that he was in dubuque and took him into custody at his home on white street tuesday morning. police say someone fired multiple shots in jackson park on april 1st. no one was hurt. police say cameras in the area captured that video led police to zoro's gyro restaurant nearby where they arrested a teenager. on legislation so iowans would have the choice to end their life if they're terminally ill. it's called euthenasia or assisted suicide. yesterday people showed their support at the capitol for the legislation called death who spokekeut in pport either have a terminal illness or know someone who does. "i don't want to drag out the inevitable for weeks or months because i'm being tortured " this woman says she only has about a year left to live, and says she wants to have contl when it ends. last year lawmakers tried to legislation but it didn't have enough support. a lawmaker says most of the opposition this is year is coming from religious groups. debating whether oror not to legalize the sale, purchase and use of fireworks in iowa. a revised bill has cleared the iowa senate subcommittee. the bill lets cities and counties opt out, and continue banning the e explosives if they so choose. lawmakers say iowans are buying fireworks from other states anyway, but can't legally use them. firefighters and health care representativ es told lawmakers yesterday they don't think legalizing fireworks is a good idea. carrying an epipen and constantly being on the alert is normal for anyone with a peanut allergy. but new research does the avoiding peanuts in hopes s beating the healthy life report. updates our first alert forecast. stay with tv9. clouds are on thehe way back afternoon, streaming in from the north. we should get occasional glimpses of sunshine to highs will reach the middle 30s this afternoon with a northwest breeze. southely winds and a partly cloudy sky send us to the upper 30s tomorrow, providing a pretty nice end to the saturday with mild highs in the lower 40s. some light rain/snow are monday. a more potent system brings us snow tuesday and wednesday. it's still too early to know much about the details of this system yet, so stay tuned.today: mostly cloudy high: 33-39 winds: nw 10- 20+ alo: 36 dbq: 35 iow: 38 tonight: mostly cloudy low: 19-25 winds: nw 5-15 alo: 20 dbq: 21 iow: 23 tomorrow: partly cloudy high: 35-41 winds: s 10-20 alo: 37 dbq: 36 iow: 39 tomorrow night: mostly cloudy low: 25-31 winds: sw 5-15 saturday: mostly cloudy high: 42 - low: 28 sunday: chance of 33 high: 36 - low: 27 tuesday: snow likely snow likely, windy high: 24 - low: 23 thursday: partly cloudy high: 17 - low: 8 we've seen more and more people with peanut allergies. how about treating peanut allergies with peanuts? it's a new approach to a potentially deadly allergy. martie salt tells us more about the research. a few teaspoons of peanut powder at a time and five-year-old price capps is becoming one of america's yououest medical volunteers. that a aunt is the equivalent of one-fiftieththf a peanut, and kelly capps can vividly recall her daughter's 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 10ears of age participating in a groundbreaki ng allergy study involving immunotherap y. "which in allergy terms, means giiing back to the persrsn what they're allergic to in increasingly larger amounts over a period of time to try to change their immune system." researchers began giving the children one-one- percent of the kids dropped out with severe side-effects. but of those who stuck with it for the net two years.half of them uld eventually eat anywhere from seven to 20 peanuts without any reaction. "their immune system really is 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- threateni and that wooldn't have been the case before ttis research study."price can now stomach up to eight peanuts. it's far from ar but it gives her some proteco and gives her mhersome peace of mind. m martie salt reporting. trt 3oc std e origin of labeing lw was pealed last month, and canada is seeing the benefits. in today's agribusiness report, some in the u-s want more answers about where their food comes from. stay with us on tv9. good morning, this is the good morning, this is the agribusiness report, i'm david geiger. ---- just last month.. the u-s mandatory country of origin labeling bill.. or cool was repealed in a budget deal.. but the damage has already been done.. canada has a strong hog trade with the u-s.. specifically between the province of manitoboband midwestern states like iowa.. when the repeal of cool happened.. canada praised it.. but here in the u-s.. some still want to know where their food comes from. but labeling meat isn't a simple matter.. you have to track where the hog was born.. raised.. slaughtered.. and where the cuts all go. "a piglet weighting 15- 20 pounds comes south to iowa, where it's fed and raised to 250 pounds then goes to market. the value added to that 15-20 pound piglet all occurs in iowa." says when businesses had to deal with all the paperwork.. they'd rather just use u-s piglets.. 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 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 lesssshan that. it was a huge decrease" and over in the january livestock, dairy, and poultry outlook from the u-s-s-a there is suggestiti 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 live hog imports peaked at about surge is not expected because canadian hog inventories have declined.. and the country is dealing with more local packer dedend. ---- it's a stagnant beans are going a bit to the upside.. but it doesn't look like this sideways soon. corn. there's extradited those positions with a small loss, but we're about.." "$3.70 in the march contract. and that's about a 20 cent rally here in the last couple of weeks but you know what, it's just a dead market. so i've looked at more at the soft commodities but, you know, there's no fresh fundamental news. the usda crop report is still three weeks away, i just don't see any price movement here in the short term, at least for the month of february." "extremely volatile, straight down, i'm currently not involved i think a short position is coming. 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 don't 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 they're going to go up there. i was short the hogs and i took a loss on this trade. i'm surprised that prices continue to move higher." ---- that wraps up ououshow for today.. . anks for joining us on the agribusiness report.. i'll see you again video every day in the agribusiness section of kcrg.com. you'll find it under the news tab. i'm david geiger with the agribusiness report. trt 3.42 oc webtease the iowa caucuses aren't the only big events coming to the area over the next few days. we'llun down the best bests for some non- up next with the gazette's diana nollen. on this thursday, as we takeon this thursday, as we take a peek at the upcoming weekend for arts and lture, we welcome diana nollen from hoopla now and the cedar rapids gazette. for the best bets for the coming days.. o.a.r. is in cedar rapids on tuesday, february the 2nd at theatre. tell us more about o-a-r. shifting back to this weekend, i understand on saturday the "father of contemporary a cappella" will be at the englert theatre in iowa city with "vocalosity". for those who don't mind dirt and paying homage to the rugged west, the "world's toughest rodeo" is friday and saturday at the us cellular center. i covered rodeo as a rookie sports reporter in kansas 19 years ago... i wanna go... tonight republican presidential will take the stage in des moines. we'll run down what you can expect in their final debate for the iowa caucus. abc political analyst cokie robertrtwill join us live coming up after the break. with only a few days to go, candidates will take the stage one last time before monday's caucus. but the national front-runner for the gop won't join his fellow republicans for tonight's debate. officials in waterloo now have a more updated idea of the homeless issues within the city. and workers at a juvenile detention center in iowa are helping kids there relax while serving time. you're watching kcrg-tv9. now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrg-tv9 news at midday. tonight 7 republican presidential candidates time before the iowa caucuses. right now it's a close race to win iowa with only 2 points separating donald trump and texas senator ted cruz in the latest quinnipiac university poll. tonight, cruz will be the only front-runner on the stage as trump continues his feud with fox news moderator megyn kelly. joining us now with more is abc news political analyst cokie joining us... the news of the day is about tonight's republican debate -- donald trump is refusing to appear tonight in the debate. do you think this is a misstep for his campaign? does this open a for ted cruz or even marco rubio -- who has been pushing past 13 percent and reaching a little bit side, i've covered events for both bernie sanders and hillary clinton. i cannot deny the enthuasism of the sanders events, particularly with younger peoe. i've sensed mrs. clinton even downplaying the expectatioio of iowa in recent days. have you picked up on this in what you've seen? trees here in iowa. why do explain the bernie sanders -- two candidates who, say, 20years ago, would have been out of the mainstream spectrum of traditional candidates? cokie roberts -- as someone who has followed politics for decades, let me express my gratitude to you for making time for us today here on kcrg-tv 9... on the democratic side, former president bill clinton is camamigning for his wife hillary clinton in eastern iowa. this is a live look at his event at wartburg college in waverly. bill clinton has made several stops for hillary in the last few weeks. mrs. clinton is currently in a tight sandnds in the state. you can stay with kcrg t-v 9 for complete caucus coverage monday night. we'll have live reports from des moines and across eastern iowa along with expert analysis. it all starts at 8 pm on kcrg 9.2. then, we'll have full coverage starting at 9 pm right here on v nine. meteorologist justin gehrts has your first alert forecast, justin... clouds are on their way back into our sky yet again this afternoon, streaming in from the north. we should get occasional glimpses of sunshine to poke through every so often, however. highs will reach the middle 30s this afternoon with a northwest breeze. southerly winds and a partly cloudy sky send us to the upper 30s tomorrow, provididi a pretty nice end to the workrkek. more clouds are here saturday with mild highs in the lower 40s. some light rain/snow are possible sunday and again late monday. a more potent system wednesday. it's still too early to know much about the details of this system yet, so stay tuned.today: mostly cloudy hig 33-39 winds: nw 10- 20+ alolo 36 dbqq35 iow: 38 housing encies in waterloo now have an exact number of homeless people in the area. u.s. deptment of housing and urban development requires all agencies using federal dollars to preform a count every other year. last night, groups spent 3 hours checking spots like car washes, parks, and bridges for unsheltered people. if they do fifi 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 and says the count is an important thing to do. understanding of what's going on in the community, and as a housing provider we need to know if there are homeless people on the streets during the winter time. it keeps people informed of what's going on, the community needs to know whether that's occurring." during the last count, only 8 unsheltered were found. local shelters would like to get that number down. they ask the public to keep supporting the shelters, allowing them to get people off the streetand inside. a new hampton farmer plans to sue a pipeline company, claiming a pipeline running under his field is damaging his crops. roger tiemessen originally sued the alliance pipeline in 20- 14. he claims the natural gas line is thawing out and drying out his land earlier than his neighbors. a judge threw out that lawsuit, claiming he didn't have any cause of action against the company. but this week the iowa court of appeals said he had enough evidence to claim the pipeline was doing damage. this lawsuit comes just as the debate another pipeline- the dakota access pipeline. some are worried about the environmental impact that project could haha on iowa farmland. a man faces prison time after pleading guilty to stealing corn seeds from 2 ag companies that have farm fields in eastern iowa. mo hailong also known as "robert mo," pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal trade secrets yesterday. mo was the leader of a group of 6 chinese nationals accused of stealing corn seed from dupont pioneer and monsanto fields in 2001. that includes this one near dysart. investigators say they to china. parts of month. the waterloo- cedar falls courier region rose to 4.2% in december. that's up from 3.7% in november. black hawk county's unemployment rate 4.4% in december. despite the higher numbers, iowa still holds the 6th lowest country. decades old restaurant in iowa city. the hamburg inn is known for its political campaign stops. this is video from a chris christie visit last year. dave panther's family has ownwn it since it opened in 1935. he says he's retiring to pursue storytelling and his hobby of clowning. panther isn't saying who the new owner will be, but he says they'll likely finalize the sale next week. a popular furniture store in cedar falls wants to move to a more prominent location. slumberland furniture wants to move into the old hy-vee storeext to the college square mall on university avenue. that building has been vacant for a decade since hy-vee opened up its new store right next door. slumberland's owner wants to develop that location to house the furniture store, a restaurant and a ather retail space. construction will be coordinated with the major roundabout project planned along that same stretch of university avenue. kids at the lincounty juvenile detention center are getting help in a different way.. volunteer instructor allison ordman started teaching yoga to offenders and detention center staff a year ago.he 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 rads community foundation gave the county more than $5,000 in grant money. "my hope is we'll see a decrease the explosive time outs maybe even physical restraints that we end up having in our facility this is sometime that will stay will kids long beyond our doors." the grant funding will let the counun train more staff to teach yoga techniques, with classes more than 1 day a week. plenty of talk recently in entertainment about diversity within the oscar nominations... even the president offered some thoughts on a subject that may take over the storyline of the oscar awards... plus, the 3rd ranked iowa men's basketball team continues the big ten gauntlet tonight... with a trip to meteorologist justin gehrts updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. stay with tv9. into our sky yet a ain this north. we of sunshine to highs will reach the middle 30s this afternoon with a northwest breeze. southerly winds and a partly cloudy sky send us to the upper 30s tomorrow, providing a prettyty nice end to the workweek. more clouds are here saturday with mild highs in the lower 40s. some light rain/snoare ssible sunday and again late monday. a more potent system brings us snow tuesday and wednesday. it's still too early to know mucabout the details of this system yet, o stay tuned.today:: mostly cloudy high: 33-39 winds: nw 10- 20+ alo: 36 dbq: 35 iow: 38 tonight: mostly cloudy low: 19-25 winds: nw 5-15 alo: 20 dbq: 21 iow: 23 tomorrow: partly cloudy high: 35-41 winds: s 10-20 alo: 37 dbq: 36 iow: 39 tomorrow night: mostly cloudy low: 25-31 winds: sw alo: 27 dbq: 27 iow: 29 saturday: mostly cloudy high: 42 - low: 28 sunday: chance of light rain/snow high: 39 - low: 33 monday: chance of rain/snow late high: 36 - low: 27 tuesday: snow likely high: 32 - low: 29 wednesday: snow likely, windy high: 24 - low: 23 thursday: partly cloudy high: 17 - low: 8 controversy over a british actor who will play michael jackson... plus the president also talks about the diversity concerns with the oscar nominations. abc's jason nathanson has thehescar diversity contrtrersy hahamade it to the oval office - president obama telling kabc in los angeles and he said he thinks the industry should make sure everyone is getting an opportunity and speaking of diversity and the oscars - why not just get rid of the awards? danny glover r sed that thought whwhe promoting his new film mr. pig at sundance you know, judging a film or judging performances , it's so subjective in so many ways. and one of the problems, you should do away with it. in all honesty, do away with all of these things where we talk about winners and winners in some sort of way. and controversial casting news - british actor joseph fiennes is going to play michael jackson - and given all of the talk about diversity in hollywood right now, some aren't happy about it. it's for a british tv project - the official bet account tweeted quote a white actor will play mj. because we aren't whitewashed enough in hollywood, apparently. and fiennes told entertainment tonight that jackson quote was probably closer to my color than his original color. and that's what's happening in jason nathanson, abc news, los angeles. tonight the iowa hawkeyes have their biggest test in this year's big ten season. they're aveling to college park maryland toto take on the 8th ranked terrapins. the hawkeyes jumped to 3rd in the ap poll after beating purdue on sunday at carver hawkeye. iowa has taken down some of the top talent in the nation with two wins over michigan state earlier this year. they beaasparty in their big ten opener last month. after today's game, iowa only has two more games against currently ranked opponents left on the schedule before tournament time. coverage starts at 6:00 on espn. and be sure to watch the kcrg-tv9 news at 10 for full highlights. enveloped land in our mailboxes... our financial expert, terry bergen, will stop in to talk about options for those of us with a tax refund on the way... stay with tv-9. we're joined by terry bergen, our financial expert today...and, in your mailbox, , u may be encountering those w-2 forms that outline your income and federal and state taxes paid... one questions tt comes up for some -- what to do with the tax refund. terry, what guidance do you usually offer on this? coming up tomorrow, our fitness stop in -- juststn time for a weekend where it won't be too cold to get outside... stay with your 24 hour republican presidential candidates will take the stage one last time before the iowa caucuses. seven contenders will be in des moines for the fox news debate. current national front-runner donald d ump will not be in attendance. democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders was also in des moines this morning. he spoke to potential voters and high school school, encouraging younger voters to get out on caucus night. and today marks 30 years since the challenger space shuttle exploded shortly after takeoff. seven astronauts died in the explosion. today the family and nasa officials held a ceremony to remember the victims. now, one last look at this morning's weather, justin. clouds are on their way back into our sky yet again this afternoon, streaming in from the north. we should get occasional glimpses of sunshine to poke through every so often, however. highs will reach the northwest breeze. southerly winds and a partly cloudy sky send us to the upper 30s nice end to the workweek. more clouds are here saturday with mild highs in the lower 40s. some light rain/snow are possible sunday and again late monday. a more potent system brings us snow tuesday and wednesday. it's still too early to know much about the details of this system yet, so stay tuned.today: mostly cloudy high: 33-39 winds: nw 10- 20++alo: 36 dbq: 35 iow: 38 tonight: mostly cloudy low: 19-25 winds: nw 5-15 alo: 20 dbq: 21 iow: 23 tomorrow: partly cloudy high: 35-41 winds: s 10-20 alo: 37 dbq: 36 iow: 39 tomorrow night: mostly cloudy low: 25-31 winds: sw 5-15 alo: 27 dbq: 27 iow: 29 saturday: mostly cloudy high: 42 - low: 28 sunday: chance of light rain/snow high: 39 - low: