Id be honored to be considered trump releasing a statement saying hes been unbelievably impressed with him and his phenomenal record but sessions could face a challenging confirmation in the senate in 1986 he was blocked from becoming a district judge over racially charged comments. Matt dowd the country is very concerned about diversity and how the appeals are made and what happened in the campaign and again senator sessions could have real problem getting approval by the senate. Another appointee facing resistance . Leuitenit gener National Security advisor. Michael flynn its going really well and its a great transition. At the Republican National convention flynn incited the infamous lock her up chant against Hillary Clinton. And in his book, field of fight, flynn wrote i dont believe all cultures are morally equivalenta top democrat on the House Intelligence Committee says hes deeply concerned with flynns inflammatory remarks and the Transition Team has filled one more spot pompeo of kansas. Currently a member of the House Intelligence Committee. As director of the cia. Maggie rulli close trump also plans to meet with former rival mitt romney over the weekend. The two have exchanged some heated words in the past, and this meeting is supposed to be all about mending fences maggie rulli abc News Washington this morning iowa senator Chuck Grassley released a statement on the selection of senator Jeff Sessions to be attorney general saying, he knows the Justice Department as a former us attorney, which would serve him very well in this position. Confident he would be reported favorably out of the committee. Iowa democrats are figuring out their next moves after republicans won full control of State Government last week. Andy mcguire is the chair of the Iowa Democratic party. She says shes still processing the results, which included voters reelecting republicans in nearly all of the races for federal offices, and gaining a 3019 majority in the senate where democrats held the balance for years. She i dont think were in shambles do we need to rebuild . Absolutely. You can see that we have a problem with rural voters. Ive been to 99 counties. I hear rural people feel theyre not represented well. The Iowa Supreme Court selected mark cady of fort dodge to continue serving as chief justice yesterday. Voters retained him on the States High Court last week. The man accused of killing two Des Moines Area Police office shootings. On october 29th, scott greene wrote a online compliment form saying the officers in the Urbandale Police department were absolute heroes. He also apologized for prior runins and said he was getting treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder. Greene faces two counts of first degree murder. For the the deaths of urbandale officer Justin Martin and Des Moines PoliceSergeant Tony beminio. Police say he ambushed them while they were november second. A judge has sentenced a cedar rapids homeless man to another 50 years in prison. A jury previously convicted Travis Standlee of 2nd degree murder. That earned him his first 50 year prison sentence. He killed 2 people who were in cedar rapids just days apart in september of last year. Police say he first killed Raymond Ursino after the 2 got into a fight downtown. Authorities let him go when the linn county attorney did not file charges, citing a lack later, he killed sharon mead near the coe college campus. That earned standlee the second sentence of 50 years in prison. People in Clayton County will see more silica sand mining despite Health Concerns from people who live near a site. This week, a county board approved a proposal to expand from pattison sand company. It means pattison will be able to mine sand underground on nearly 750 acres of land northeast of garnavillo. The company says the sand will be used for fracking in other states. Fracking is the process of controversial and has led to earthquakes in oklahoma. In colorado both directions of i70 had to close for hours on thursday after 20 vehicles became involved in crashes. This is a video from a crash that involved semitrucks. Responders are investigating whether ice and snow led to the crashes. Snow in the area that began falling thursday morning created hazardous conditions. The crashes killed at least 2 people. Meanwhile, businesses in montana were happy to see snow just in time for the ski lodge, several inches of snowfall hit. Last year snow totals there were short of ideal. That meant a loss in revenue for the businesses. Now, the mountain is hoping to open to the public next friday. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts has your first alert forecast, justin. The cold front is barreling through and afternoon as blustery winds blow at 20 to 40 mph. Winds remain just as strong tonight with lows dipping a bit below 30. A stray flurry or sprinkle is possible, mainly in far northern iowa. Saturday will feel quite chilly as northwest winds remain gusty and highs struggle to hit 40. Therell be lots of sunshine, though. Tomorrow night will be the coldest is going to be another seasonably cool day with sunshine and highs around 40, but there will be less wind. Well stay in the 40s next week with showers likely tuesday into early wednesday. Today very windy with falling temperatures. Mostly cloudy. Wind w 2040. High 62 alo 50 dbq 60 iow 65 tonight very windy. A few sprinkles flurries are possible. Wind nw 2040. Low 29 alo 26 dbq 29 iow 30 the un called on turkey to release all jailed journalists, saying holding them is not justified with the governments need to protect public safety. A un official said the turkish government does not have a blank check to do whatever it wants to restrict freedom of 37,000 people since a failed coup attempt in july. About 155 journalists are in detention. China and the United States wrapped up a 3day humanitarian relief military drill. The drills included academic exchanges, a command post exercise and a live troop exercise in simulated disaster conditions. The goal is to build trust and coordination between the two militaries, whose governments are frequently at odds over disputes in the Jeremy Reynolds says the exercise helps to create mutual understandin g. It has been a very Successful Exchange of ideas between our two militaries and it will definitely benefit us as an organisation in the future. The exercises come a month after an American Navy destroyer sailed near islands claimed by china in the south china sea. Beijing called the moved illegal and provocative. Dubuque is taking applications for a flood resistance program. The city hosted an informational meeting last night for the bee branch dollars the city is getting can be used for foundation and basement window repair and sump pump installations. One of the applicants hopes the program can help pay back what she lost during flooding. Valete brown, dubuque resident weve lost a water heater, and weve lost our washer and dryer a couple, once for sure. The money for the Program Comes from the Us Department of housing and urban development. In the next couple of yea, will transform into this. City Officials Say the Recreation Area will have trails and a nice view of the city. The plan for limited recreation at the old landfill site on a avenue southwest first came up more than a decade ago. The work was put on hold when that landfill had to reopen to accept 2008 flood debris. Now, things are moving forward. Next month, directors of the Solid Waste Agency will host a public hearing to explain the plan. Officials say they could start the first project, a scenic overlook, next spring. The Solid Waste Agency also received grant money to create trails to the top of the landfill. But creating a scenic overlook is the first goal. The big thing is whenever we have somebody come to the top they always say its a great view so what we want to do first is we want to make that view available to all linn county residents the expected price tag for the first part of the project is about 750thousand dollars. The site will continue to offer collection and some appliance recycling. More Research Shows that lowdose aspirin helps keep the heart healthy. We look at new guidelines advising adults on how much aspirin to take daily. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our temperatures coming up in your behind it. Well fall through the 40s this afternoon as blustery winds remain just as strong tonight with lows dipping a bit below 30. A stray flurry or sprinkle is possible, mainly in far northern iowa. Saturday will feel quite chilly as northwest winds remain gusty and highs struggle to hit 40. Therell be lots of sunshine, though. Tomorrow night will be the coldest night so far this another seasonably cool day with sunshine and highs around 40, but there will be less wind. Well stay in the 40s next week with showers likely tuesday into early wednesday. Today very windy with falling temperatures. Mostly cloudy. Wind w 2040. High 62 alo 50 dbq 60 iow 65 tonight very windy. A few sprinkles flurries are possible. Wind nw 2040. Tomorrow mostly sunny, windy, and much cooler. Wind nw 1530. High 40 alo 39 dbq 39 iow 41 tom. Night clear and cold. Wind nw 510. Low 20 alo 19 dbq 21 iow 21 sunday mostly sunny and seasonably cool. High 41 low 20 monday partly cloudy. High 46 low 23 tuesday showers likely. 40 thursday partly cloudy. High 46 low 34 friday increasing clouds. High 47 low 31 saturday chance of showers. High 48 low 30 thanks justin. Now advise adults between ages of 5 take a low dose of aspirin daily. They say it will help stop cardiovascular disease. Cnns holly firfer has more. For Cathy Steinberg,a Family History of cardiovascular disease gave her cause to worry about her own heart health. My mothers side of the family everybody except one person has had heart disease. So she consulted a preventive cardiologist early on who recommended eat healthy, stay active, exercise, drink water, get a good nights sleep, reduce your stress her doctor told her to add one more weapon to her arsenal a low dose aspirin. It reduces your risk of stroke and heart attack if you have narrowed arteries and help the blood flow get through better. People younger than 50 or older than 70 are not good candidates for a daily aspirin. They should have a conversation with their doctor about aspirin. The most common side effects from this daily dose are excess bleeding and acid reflux as for Cathy Steinberg who continues to be heart healthyshe gets some peace of mind by following at least a few of her doctors recommendations. I dont exercise enough and i dont watch my weight enough but at least i am taking the aspirin and the other things she recommends am pretty faithful. For cnn, im holly firfe. Phosphorus output. The strategy includes using social media to get the word out. In todays agribusiness report, we see how Black Hawk County is promoting conversation practices. Welcome to the agribusiness plan to reduce phosphorus output by 45 percent. Through the nutrient reduction strategy near waterloo and cedar rapids the black hawk soil and Water Conservation district has been working on that. Its the miller creek watershed. And theyve conservation practices through awareness. Shane wulf heads the project and says field days. Mailed newsletters. And social media help get the word out. There are a variety of incentives. Like a cost shares. Farmers can sign up for a 20 dollar per acre cover crop. Or get fifty percent of a cost share to put in a bioreactor or saturated buffers. Funded through the Iowa Department of agriculture we understand that they do the best job that they can to apply possibly do. But we know that there are practices out there that can help, that they can incorporate into their operations that they may just not have awareness of right now. Wulf says the project was originally a three year grant in 2013. That has been extended to 2019. China is not waiting to see if a new Trump Administration imposes punitive tariffs on its goods. Beijing is already threatening to retaliate against us farm exports. An editorial. That china will stop us soybean and corn imports. As well as boeing airplanes. China is the number one buyer of us soybeans. Since september china has purchased five hundred 32 million bushels according to the usda Foreign Agricultural service. President elect donald trump made Campaign Promises to brand china a currency manipulator. And impose a 45 percent tariff on chinese products. Bayer is moving forward on it has placed forward on its plan to buy monsanto this week the Company Announced it has placed four billion euros. Or about four point two billion dollars. In convertible notes to start the first step of financing its 57 billion dollar purchase of monsanto. Bayer says the notes will be converted to shares in november of 2019. The first component of the plan to raise about 19 billion in buyout to close by 2017. And will submit applications to regularities in the European Union in the First Quarter of next year. And to us authorities by the end of this year. And next time well post a video every of kcrg. Com. Im david geiger with the agribusiness report. Trt oc standard pumpkin pie can be really simple. But is it memorable . For this thanksgiving, well for a pumpkin pie shake. Im diamond jo executive chef Jonathan Nelson and chef Jonathan Nelson and z268pz zixz z268pz zixz y268py yixy corner. If you have a bunch of kids coming to your party, this will be extra special. A pumpkin pie crust. Take a little cream cheese frosting, Graham Cracker crust and roll around on the outside. Next roll it in minimarshmallow s. Vanilla bean ice cream, a tsp of malt powder, 2 shakes of pumpkin pie spice, 2 scoops of pumpkin pie puree, 1 2 with a slice of pumpkin pie, a good amount of whipped cream. I hope your family your family has a great holiday. Bring this a try and have some family smiles. The university of iowa wants outside help to pay for an exhibit. The school wants to give students the chance to find the truth behind a pair of lions. We tell you more in the next half hour. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. More names are filling crucial two highlevel security spots, plus a longtime trump supporter is asked to be the new attorney general. Its a rumor throughout cedar rapids, and now police are confirming its partially true. Officers with the department do believe crime from chicago is spilling into the city. And major recall from fiat chrysler. The automaker says nearly 89,000 cars and suvs have possible fuel leaks or problems with windshield wipers. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 newa offering the post of attorney general to alabama senator Jeff Sessions. The fifthterm republican senator was one of the earliest public supporters of Donald Trumps campaign. Sessions served as alabamas attorney general 20 years ago. The next president is also nominating republican congressman from criticized the iran deal, blasted Hillary Clinton over the benghazi attack and believes Edward Snowden is a traitor. His confirmation hearing could focus in part on his views on using harsh interrogation techniques on detainees. We are looking at live video from National Lawyers convention in washington, dc. Senator ted cruz is speaking at the event. This is where earlier today south ca are under consideration for top positions in the next administration. One of the candidates, however, could face a challenging conformation in the senate. The country is very concerned about diversity and how the appeals are made and what happened in the campaign and again senator sessions could have real problem getting approval by the senate. The president elect also plans over the weekend. The two have exchanged some heated words in the past, and this meeting is supposed to be all about mending fences. The university of iowa is turning to crowd funding to help supply a new exhibit at the museum of natural history. The University Says the exhibit will display a lion and lioness. The pair may have spent time at the former zoo in city park, but their true origin is unknown. The university is using its own website, similar to go fund me to help raise 10,000. The Fund Raising Site wednesday. The money will also pay for students to research the lions origin. 09 06 13;14we were looking for a way to engage a broader audience for some of our smaller projects in particular for faculty projects for some undergraduate and graduate student projects. The University Says it will soon open the gold rush website to students interested in fundraising for their projects. It will review applications before putting them on the website. Fiat chrysler is recalling problems with windshield wipers. The recall covers nearly 35,000 Dodge Durango and Jeep Grand Cherokee suvs worldwide from the 2016 model year. Chrysler says, a fuel tube may have been damaged in manufacturin g, and that could cause a gas leak and fire. The other recall covers more than 54,000 dodge dart compacts from the 2016 model year in north america. The issue with that model is potential short circuits that can cause the wipers to your first alert forecast, justin. The cold front is barreling through and temperatures are plummeting behind it. Well fall through the 40s this afternoon as blustery winds blow at 20 to 40 mph. Strong tonight with lows dipping a bit below 30. A stray flurry or sprinkle is possible, mainly in far northern iowa. Saturday will feel quite chilly as northwest winds remain gusty and highs struggle to hit 40. Therell be lots of sunshine, though. Tomorrow night will be the coldest night so far this season with lows near 20. Sunday is going to be another seasonably cool day with sunshine and highs around 40, but there will be less wind. Well stay in the 40s next week with showers likely tuesday into early wednesday. Today very windy with falling temperatures. Mostly cloudy. Wind w 2040. High 62 alo 50 dbq 60 iow 65 sprinkles flurries are possible. Wind nw 2040. Low 29 alo 26 dbq 29 iow 30 the state of missouri will pay 9 Million Dollars to this mans family aftehis death in 2014. Brandon ellgsondf e Missouri State highytrol. Oop boating while intoxicated on the lake of the ozarks. Ellingson is from central iowa. During the arrest, ellingson fell into the water while wearing handcuffs and an improperly secured life vest. Piercy is charged with Involuntary Manslaughter in his death. Ellingson father says thats not much comfort. So, you know with him pleading innocent, is no sign that hes i thinks a little late Missouri StateOfficials Say theyve since made changes to the training procedures for troopers on the water. Police say the amount of crime in chicago is having a clear influence on cedar rapids. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders talked with Cedar Rapids Police, who say the proximity is just one of the reasons f sgt. Doug doyle is a 10 year veteran of the Cedar Rapids Police force. Like many officers, time and time again, hes heard people in the Community Say chicago is a main contributor of local crime. I think theres a lot of people that push the blame there to the people coming from chicago. Chica go has made its high crime rates. As of early september, the city had more than 500 total homicides in 2016, according to the chicago tribune. That outpaces bigger cities of la and new york. Combined, those two had about 100 fewer homicides through late august. The sgt. Can recall hearing Horror Stories from visitors to cedar rapids. A few months back, i met a family that was in town. Her children werent allowed to go play in the front ya fear of being shot. Theres little doubt that chitown crime is troubling. But is it really troubling cedar rapids, which, by car, is fewer than four hours away. Police chief wayne jerman recently weighed in on the question. Is there an influence, sure. And were aware of it. Its hard to pinpoint exactly how much of an influence, though. Arrest records may offer some insight. Data from those arrested were born in illinois, about 12hundred of 77hundred arrests. Its nearly the same for the two previous years. The pd says its the second highest number of arrests behind those born in iowa the majority of arrests. Other states were negligible. Weve got to point out the data has two big holes. One we dont know if all the people arrested were from chicago specifically just that they were from illinois. We also dont know how long those arrested had been in cedar rapids. Ultimat ely, though, police think theyre seeing a chicago crime influence for a couple reasons. The first of which, that m crime in nearby towns. Minneapolis, kansas city, st. Louis, detroit. Weve seen and arrested people from all those cities as well. People relocate. They come here and they bring some of those lifestyles with them. Another reason. This stuff. Heroin. Cedar rapids, like many communities across the country is seeing upped numbers of heroin overdoses as the drug becomes more and more available and affordable. Dea agents call it an epidemic. They say chicago is the source for the majority of the heroin found on cedar rapids streets that the community is a destination city for drug dealers. Chicago, since its a major metropolitan area, its technically the source area for the heroin and what theyre doing is that heroin. When it comes to fighting back the chicago influence dea agents say theyre focused on finding the primary suppliers who bring heroin into the us. Cutting them off will trickle down to communities like cedar rapids in time. Nat for other crimes, like gun violence cedar rapids has turned to a new program lled tpolice Community Action tt doesnt focus on curbing chicago crime specifically, its much broader. Pcat is a Flexible Team of officers that are sent to patrol atrisk parts of town. Officers work in cars are on foot, for varying hours, depending on what a situation dictates. Theyre there to get to know people and their problems. Theyre establishing relationships, positive relationships. Theyre having an influence. On the offenders and their families to give them alternatives sgt. Doyle is one of the pcat officers and a big thinks its already having an impact since itscepti september, the crpd report era olent crime in town was down ightly by o percentageint, compe the year before. Nat officeren o commit crime. Theyre truly trying to escape what there is in chicago. I think there is a lot of good people that come from chicago. I info is limited, the stats seem to agree. In cedar rapids, Forrest Saunders, kcrgtv9 news. From mrs. Pots to lumiere to the beast himself, the beast himself, a tale as old as time is coming to cedar rapids. Beauty and the beast begins at tcr tonight. Well talk with the shows director about moving the disney classic to the stage. Good form is is paramount to get the most out of your workout. Our fitness expert will have some tips to make sure core. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. The cold front is barreling through and temperatures are plummeting behind it. Well fall through the 40s this winds blow at 20 to 40 mph. Winds remain just as strong tonight with lows dipping a bit below 30. A stray flurry or sprinkle is possible, mainly in far northern iowa. Saturday will feel quite chilly as northwest winds remain gusty therell be lots of sunshine, though. Tomorrow night will be the coldest night so far this season with lows near 20. Sunday is going to be another seasonably cool day with 40, but there will be less wind. Well stay in the 40s next week with showers likely tuesday into early wednesday. Today very windy with falling temperatures. Mostly cloudy. Wind w 2040. High 62 alo 50 dbq 60 iow 65 tonight very windy. A few wind nw 2040. Low 29 alo 26 dbq 29 iow 30 tomorrow mostly sunny, windy, and much cooler. Wind nw 1530. High 40 alo 39 dbq 39 iow 41 tom. Night clear and cold. Wind nw 510. Low 20 alo 19 dbq 21 iow 21 sunday mostly sunny and partly cloudy. High 46 low 23 tuesday showers likely. High 47 low 34 wednesday chance of showers early. High 44 low 40 thursday partly cloudy. High 46 low 34 friday increasing clouds. High 47 low 31 saturday chance of showers. High 48 low 30 a tale as old as time opens tonight at theatre cedar rapids. The disney classic beauty and the beast will begin a 5weekend run. Director David Schneider joins us this midday. This follows the story of belle belle and a beast how does the stage production resemble the movie . The costumes are almost as iconic as the characters themselves. How is the cast handing these complex weekend due to demand . Youve already added a 5th weekend due to demand . When trying out a new exercise has some tips on having proper form when doing the bridge, next. Stay with us on tv9. Thanks for staying with us. Exercise that i get a lot of questions about whether its bein being completed correctly, how can i make it more challenging . Its called the bridge. So i do want to give you a little tidbit on the bridge as well. Its a great exercise that acts as a precursor to the squat. So i know in previous fitness segments, weve talked about squatting techniques. And if thats something that you have a goal of attaining, but youre not quite there yet, this exercise is for you. So you can or actually you can do this laying across your bed. Whatever works best for you, so join me. So the first thing you want to do you want to lay comfortably on your back, your knees are going to be bent arms are just rested comfortably on the floor. So for some of us, what you want to think about is having just a little bit of an abdominal contraction so that you dont have quite as much space between the floor or your mat and your back. So tuck your tail underneath you just a little bit, feel those abdominals engage and hold them for the rest of the excercise. From there, youre going to use the legs and the glutes to press up off the floor. So i get the question all the time how far do i need to lift up off the floor to get a good, quality bridge . The answer is, whatever core contraction and you can just lift up off the floor maybe an inch or a half inch, thats great. Thats where you start. The more you practice, the more strength youll get and then youll notice that youre able to come up off the floor a little bit more every time. So if thats gotten easy for you and you want a little more challenge, you can take and cross one leg over the knee, or some folks are more co leg into the air. Its completely up to you, whatever is more comfortable. And the same rules apply. Little abdominal contraction to set your core, glutes activate and a little bit of hamstring to lift you off the floor. Same thing you want to do this in a slow and controlled Movement Just like you did the bridge with both legs on the floor. And the last but not least thing thats most important is to keep your pelvis level. So if i tuck my pelvis and i lift myself up off the floor, i that could lead to increased back pain which we dont want you to have to be going through. So you want to really focus on really keeping that spine level on the way up and on the way down. So join me with the bridge, practice getting your glutes strong and well check back to see if youre ready for those squats. Im feryl york, your fitness expert. 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Trump aides say the president elect will be meeting saturday with retired marine corps general james mattis. Mattis is a potential contender to serve as trumps defense secretary. The man accused of killing two Des Moines Area Police officers, praised one of their shootings. Last month, scott greene wrote a online compliment form saying the officers in the Urbandale Police department were absolute heroes. Greene faces two counts of first degree murder. For the the deaths of urbandale officer Justin Martin and Des Moines PoliceSergeant Tony beminio. And in the next couple of years, mount trashmore, the old cedar rapids landfill, will transform into this. City Officials Say the Recreation Area will have trails and a nice view of the city. Next month, directors of the Solid Waste Agency will host start the first project, a scenic overlook, next spring. Now, one last look at this mornings weather, justin. The cold front is barreling through and temperatures are plummeting behind it. Well fall through the 40s this afternoon as blustery winds blow at 20 to 40 mph. Winds remain just as strong tonight with lows d sprinkle is possible, mainly in far northern iowa. Saturday will feel quite chilly as northwest winds remain gusty and highs struggle to hit 40. Therell be lots of sunshine, though. Tomorrow night will be the coldest night so far this season with lows near 20. Sunday is going to be another seasonably cool day with sunshine and highs around 40, but there will be less wind. Well stay in the 40s next week with showers likely tuesday into early wednesday. Today very windy with falling temperatures. Mostly cloudy. Wind w 2040. High 62 alo 50 dbq 60 iow 65 tonight very windy. A few sprinkles flurries are possible. Wind nw 2040. Low 9 alo 26 dy nny, windy, and mh cooler. Wind . Low 20 alo 19 dbq 21 iow 21 sunday mostly sunny and . Announcer today, forget the main course. Its an hour packed with incredible appetizers so you can have an appy thanksgiving. 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