Threat was. The scare yesterday didnt cancel classes today, activities. Social media posts are the reason this consultant, edwin javius , is no longer being paid by the cedar rapids javius heads a consulting compancalled, san jose california. The district hired him back in 2014 to help promote equity within schools. And was worth between 189,000 and 219,000, plus travel expenses. But the district says social media posts alleged javius lied about his credentials to past clients. A 2014 faceok post from a california a chool district javius had contracted with said it had discovered he misrepresente d himself. It said javius claimed to have a doctorate from usc, even though he did not. Javius responded the post, saying he completed his doctoral coursework, but not hh dissertation. Since, the Cedar Rapids School district is noting the importance of and procedures for hiring vendors and working with vendors in our district, and we do background checks that are required by the state of iowa for any of the vendors. We spoke with javius yesterday afternoon. Himself as the Cedar Rapids School district, and regrets his past indiscretions. The district has paid javius 268,000 dollars, including avel expenses,efore terminating hihi contract yesterday. Your first alert forecast, justin. The majority of the clouds are on their way out, leaving us with a mostly sunny sky the rest of the fall this afternoon, thanks in part to a blustery northwest wind gusting as high as 30 mph. Lows tonight fall to around zero or a few degrees below. Winds approach 20. Tomorrows looking mostly sunny and chilly with highs in the teens. Snow moves in after midnight tomorrow night and continues sunday. A broad area of two to four inhes of accumulation islikely, and some blowing snow is possible as winds pick back up. Warmer weather is coming with 30s and 40s for highs for much of next week. Today windy, mostly sunny high 1521 winds nw 1530 alo 16 dbq 16 iow 19 unrepresentatio n is the current feeling for some members in the black Community Across eastern iowa. Thats because hereonly 3 African Americans serve in local government. Waterloo mayor quentin hart, iowa city councilman Kingsley Botchway ii, and waterloo city councilman Jerome Amos Jr are those three. They say its time to get to work. Hart and botchwawasay there are large issues facing African Americans in both of their areas. They are taking the steps to address those problems by reaching out. Im definitely making more of an effort especially in the as far as bring some of the information back and providing, and say hey these are some of the things that need to be worked on and i need your help. Sotimes people think its this grand plan that needs to take place, and yes it does but its those smaller things that have the quickest impact in the lives of people. Both say they hope to be role models to inspire younger African Americans to get involved in local government. Winning the campaign trail for the us senate, is the goal flr cedar rapids state senator democrat rob hogg. Hes meetetg with voters all day across eastern iowa. In about 25 minutes, hogg will meet with residents at the daly creek winery and bistro in anamosa. Hogg is running for the nomimition to face six erm republican senator chuck grassley. Not runningthats the decision for iowa house representative, sally stutsman. Voters elecded her in 2012 following 18 years as a johnsosocounty supervisor fofo district 77. She said after 21 years of spend more time with her husband. North libertys mayor amy nielsen has already announced plans to run for stutsmans seat. She has been mayor for 2 years. The debates are over for the democrats between now and super tuesday. That means 18 days of campaign to win nevada, South Carolina and 11 democratic states on super tuesday, march 1. Republicans have a similar schedule with their next debate tomorrow night. But first, abcs bazi kanani, takes a look a alast nights democratic debate in milwaukee. Upers package script lets not insult the intelligence of the 4 American People. Looking to keep up momentum in the race Bernie Sanders keeps up the charge against big money influence. Why in gods name doewall street make Huge Campaign contributions . I guess just for the fun of defeat in new hampshire, Hillary Clinton hammers home details in her responses. And pushes sanders plan. Inton the American People this would work. Sanders that is absolutely over the c cdidates relationship to president obama. Clinton hes called him weak. He has called him a disappointment sanders madam secretary that is a low blow . Meanwhile, the republican frontrunner louisiana already ptojecting a run for reelection. Good job, hopefully maybe i dont. Of the next primary pulling all attack ads from the air in arent backing down. Donald trump has zero Foreign Policy experience. Do you want an entertainer in chief . Someone who will say whatevererhe wants to make all about him . Insult people . Bazi tag the democrats will meet again tonight when they both attend a dinner in minnesota. The republicans faceoff again in their next debate tomorrow night in South Carolina. Legislators are moving forward to stop iowas medicaid transition to private ownership. The democratic controlled iowa Senate Approved legislation yesterday. The bill would end the states contracts with the 3 private companies scheduled to take over march 1st. But the republican led house isnt expected to briri the bill to the flolo. Iowa House Republicans have released their Budget Proposal for the upcoming fiscal year. And its lower than what Senate Democrats and governor branstad have proposed. E house plan calls s r spending 7. 32 billion dollars for fiscal 2017. The senate plan totals 7. 398 billion. And governor branstads Budget Proposal was 7. 4 billion. A cedar rapids Family Service agency needs the publics help in expanding their tanager place serves children and famili who need sociaand psychological help. It announced yesterday its soaring beyond campaign has raised more than five point three Million Dollars. Thats about a Million Dollars away from its goal. Now, its asking for donations. Tanager place will use the money for renovations, which would double the number of children its Mental Health clinic would be able to help. Each child is different, the kids are not cookie cutters. The more opopons you have that may connect with a child the better and thats what this space has allowed us to do and allowed practitioners to spread their wings and to develop different skills. The tanager place outpatient Mental Health clinic opened l lt june. Keeping the mind sharp and strong. Some researchers believe mind games are the trick to keeping your brain healthy. Much better use than in relationships. ll tell you about t t benefits behind this new technology. Taking valentines day to another level. Well tell you about a new study diving into the meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. The majority of the clouds are leaving us with a mostly sunny sky the rest of the day. Temperatures will slowly fall this afternoon, thanks in part to a blustery northwest wind gusting as high as 30 mph. To around zero or a few degrees below. Winds will still approach 20. Tomorrows looking mostly sunny and chilly with highs in the teens. Snow moves in after midnight tomorrow night and continues sunday. A broad area two to four inches of accumulation is likely, and some blowing snow is possible as winds pick back up. Warmer weather is coming with 30s and 40s for highs for much of next week. Today windy, mostly sunny 16 dbq 16 iow 19 tonight mostly clear low 42 winds nw 515 o 5 dbq 5 iow tomorrow mostly sunny, chilly high 1117 winds nw 510 alo 12 dbq q 11 iow 15 tomorrow night snow likely late low 511 winds se 510 alo 7 dbq 7 iow 10 sunday snow likely,y,indy high 26 low 8 monday mostly cloudy high 34 low 17 tuesday chance of rain snow high 38 low 23 wednesday partly cloudy high 34 low 18 thursday partly cloudy high 43 thanks justin. Keeping our bodies healthybut what about our brains . Holly firfer shows us how mind games can give your brain a sharp workout. Should we shell out time and money for games that we are told will make our brain brain dev starts in utero and there is a long period of time in which the brain matures just as the rest of the body maturesand after that its pretty much a downward slide after its fully developed its like the rest of the body nothing works as well ten years down the line. Thats where bra games come into the equation with promises ooless forgetfulness, sharper and quicker problem solvingbasically better thinking power. The question that then pops up is to w wt degree do these cognitive tasks that youvv practiced on will generalise and help maintain cognitive skills in a variety of real world taskswe do know there are some things we can all do to make our brains function better. Healthy living and a fair amount of exercise will help keep your brain strongng both social interaction that you have and some of the more broad type of activities in which you engage are related to maintaining a level of function at optimum levelsso if you want to play a few brain games now and then, its probably not the worst thing you outside, see people and try something new, because those brain boosters are free. Holly firfer, cnn this weekend is valentines dayand love will be in the air. But this season, the times are changing where couples are meeting online. Ui professor andrew high says people who Search Online are looking for the perfect match, and not the perfect person. Research shows more people are using sites like eharmony, match. Com, a okcupid. According to highs research, when meeting face to face, there isnt time to make yourself out to be a certain type of person, unlike in other settings. 37 22 youre seeing that person in their full self right away, and neither person has anytime to edit themselves. At you see is what you get, you get me, but people are meeting online all of a sudden they have time to really craft and make a self presentation. High says the number of success rates for online bird flu scare. Just a year after an outbreag in iowa, farms in indiana are experienenng the virus panic. But that fright may soon be over. Well tell you why Animal Health officials plan to lift safety measures. Start good morning, this is david geiger. Well it looks like the bird flu scare in indiana was just that. A scare. The indiana Animal Health authorities plan to release the control area and surveillance zone after last months of highly pathogenic avian influenza. They hope to have it complete before the end of february. If no new positive tests are identified before then. The outbreak resulted in more than four hundred thousand turkeys and chickens depopulated. But there has been no new cases for a month. Quarantines will stay on the infected sites until cleanup requirements are met. On the last day of the Agribusiness Association of iowa showcase and conference. Water quality was a big issue on the agenda. Governor branstad was at the event. He says there are 32 different conservation and environmental practices that help iowa water quality. Saying its not just a one size fits all. There are different soil types and situations in iowa. A. So it needs to be tailored to meet individual needs of the landowner. And theres a lot of interest with some of the initiatives. And Financial Support thats been coming out of the state government. Landowners are very interested, but they also need some sort of cost share or some assistance and we have some great practices its a scientifically based nutrient reduction strategy. The biggest challenge is to have an adequate source of funding thats going to be reliable for the long term. The governor also mentioned his save which would extend a sales tax. Giving 80 percent of the growth to schools and some to water quality. He acknowledge d at the event that theres dissent on the capitol. But he says the idea gets both issues more funding without a tax increase. Beans are getting a nice rally. And some are taking advantage of that. Analyst mike seery has more. I got short soybeans in the may contract, around 8. 73. My stop is above the ten day high which is at 8 90. But the chart structure will start to improve on a daily basis. Meaning that risk in a couple of days might come down. Im taking advantage of the 11 cent, 10 cent rally today. Im very bearish a lot of the commodities. Im Still Holding many short positions. Et short soybeans i see no reason why theyre going higher. Brazil is 8 percent completed in harvest. Excellent crop. Bad commodity market. The volatility in cattle is extremely high. So im not involved. At 138 levels very difficult to get through in the april contract. If youre a producer you have to see theres a global slowdown. Yoyo have to have some protection. Thats all i can stress. Cattle prices are going to start to pressure hog prices. I dont have a short position recommendati on for the speculator at this point at 7 7 that will be the level to be broken, which would be the four week low. But certainly, certainly do not be buying hogs up at this level as they will come back down and match the resesof the Commodity Markets as they are too expensive. Us agriculture secretary tom vilsack wants to open up an Agricultural Office in cuba. And hopes to find funding to do so in the 2017 agriculture appropriations bill. Asasart of budget requeue materials released on tuesday. Us da says the agency needs an incountry presence in cuba to cultivate key relationships. Gain firsthand knowledge of agricultural challenges and opportunities. And develop programs. Well post a video every day in the agribusiness section of kcrg. Com. Youll find it under the news tab. Im david geiger with the agribusiness ever eaten chocolate lava cake . A true, decadent delicacy. Our culinary expert from diamond jo takes us through some of the steps to create one. In your kitchen. Stay with kcrgtv 9. Were at the dimond jo and its going to show you how to make Something Sweet for your honey. For our lava cake, we need whole egg, egg yoke, a little flour, avy cream, sugar, vanilla, butter, dark chocolate chips. Using a double boiler, add a pound and a half of chocolate chips, add a pound of butter and melt. Then add a cup and a half of sugar and a cup of heavy cream. Stir in a quarter cup of flour and combine til it is smooth. Then take it off the heat to cool for 5 minutes. In a new bowl, add the egg and egg yoke and vanilla and whisk. After the chocolate cools, drizzle in the egg mix a little at a time. Then scoop the batter into cup cake pans. Bake on 400 11 minutes. Hope you enjoyed indoor football season is here. And the cedar rapids titans are gearing up for a big opener. Well you why the team y have some good lulu with their new quarterback. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert mandatory time. A law may soon chchge how long some violent offenders in iowa are required to stay in prison. Ending the standoff. Well tell you whats next for the handful of people who have ended their fight against the federal government in oregon. As one s sson ends, another beginsindoor football well tell you how the rapids titans has ties to the Green Bay Packers. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour newss source, this is kcrgtv9 newswst midday. Police say a shooter has injured two teenagers inside a arizona high school. It happened in the phoenix suburb of gleleale this midday thats about 15 minutes northwest of downtown phoenix. Right now, the school is on lockdown. But Authorities Say there is no more danger to the campus. Police dont know whether the victims are students, and they havent released any details on the suspects. This april, a waterloo man will go to trial in federal court aftetebeing arrestst for having child pornography. The waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reports. 60yearold Forrest Rindels pleaded not guilty to 4 child pornography charges on charges comes from an indictment returned on february 3rd in us district court. Rindels case became unsealed after us marshals arrested him this week. Rindels is accused of receiving images of minors engaging in sex acts between august 2001 and february 2015. Hes also accused of having child pornography on his computer hard drive, an external hard drive, and a flash drive. Records show investigators searched his home and found the material, 5 firearms, and marijuana plants. In a tv9 followup this midday. A judge has refused to move a mmder trial out of dubuque county. 27 year old eddie hicks faces a 1st degree murder charge for the death of his girlfriend, kahdyesha lemon, last year. His attorneys asked the court to move his trial to another county, claiming the amount of Media Coverage would jeopardize getting an impartial jury. A judge has denied that request. Police say hicks stabbed lemon more than 20 tis at her h he on arlington street last june. A relative told tv nine lemon dating on and off for almost 10 years. Owners of a zoo near manchester now have to transfer their tigers and lemurs to another facility. A federal magistrate said the cricket hollow zoos owners, pam and tom sellner, dont provide the right sanitary Living Conditions and medical care for the animals.