Odonnell says the reports of infected pregnant women in brazil having babies who have small heads, is worrying exexctant moms here at home. Patients are definitely calling. Its all over the news. Its all over the newspaper and magazines. So a lot of our patients are calling with concerns. Doctor odonnell recommends her patients follow the current cdc guidelines. Women who are pregnant or who are thinking of becoming pregnant, should not travel to those infected countries. And while doctors say the current risk here in iowa is extremely low, both medical providers say pregnant women need to be mindful of the risks. I think the cdc is right in heightening the awareness. If youre a pregnant mom, you want to know your risk. If youre going to these areas that are zika infested. As for murphy, shell stay close to home and worry about other things. That they baby continues to have a strong heartbeat, that i am measuring ok. Right now there are no reported cases of zika virus here in iowa. But the medical providers tell us the zika virus is not a mandatory reportable illness, like the mumps or influenza. So thats not something doctors have to report to the state, and its not considered public information. Live in dubuque Katie Wiedemann kcrg tv9 news. Lets turn now to meteorologist joe winters. Joe, its been quiet but the kind of cold weve come to expect midfebruary. Will this continue for the rest of the week . Our off again on a ain snow pattern continues right through the upcoming weekend. The next clipper arrives early on friday with a light snow chance pushing across the state. The sky increases with clouds later on thursday, after a partly cloudy start, as highs push back into the lower 20s. Fridays snow looks to be light, but a bit farther east than what the state saw wednesday. While saturday looks fine for travel state wide, valentines day on sunday looks to have some snow falling. Have a great night tonight chance flurries low 28 cloudy high 1824 winds nw 510 bruce and beth. The Tama County Sheriffs Office is looking for three men involved witta number of Home Improvement scams. An arrest warrant for Elvis Allison says hes working with Tyson Allison and bobby allison. Theyve offered bogus roofing jobs, lightning rods, and driveway coatings in tama county. The Sheriffs Office says all three are from indiana, and theyre using fake names and fake ids. The Sheriffs Office says the three men n ve scammed people all across the midwest. Elvis allison is also wanted in palo alto county, along transportation planners have recommend defunding a stretch of a road thth would connect marion, robins, hiawatha and northern cedar rapids. Linn county was hoping to build threequarters of a mile of Tower Terrace road from robins road to council street. But the eimated cost for that project jumped to almost 19 million dollars, three times the original estimate by the Corridor Metropolitan Planning Organization in 2008. So, that group is recommending taking 760 thousand dololrs from that project and putting it into a different stretch of Tower Terrace road. The other stretch would connect Tower Terrace from c avenue northeast in cedar rapids to alburnett road in marioio a group of students from the Cedar Rapids School district are in des moines today lobbying lawmakers for more money for schools. State lawmakers are trying to figure out how much Funding School districts will get next school year. The republican controlled house proposed a two percent increase in state aid to hools. The Democrat Controlled Senate says thats not enough and wants a increase. Cedar rapids schools superintendent brad buck says the District Needs at least a three point 72 percent increase to maintain current staffing and programs. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders joins us now live from the statehouse in des moines. Forrest, these students are very concerned about what could happen if the district doesnt get that three point 72 percent. I talklk with a metro student today who echoed exactly that. A message she and her peers brought to legislators today. The group of around 75 prepared over the last few days. This morning, they hopped on a bus and arrived in des moines at about 10 30. Almost immediately the lobbying began. Students had been told to look up their legislators ahead of time, then find them in the capitol and encourage support for at least that 3. 72 percent funding increase to maintain staff and services. Metro sophomore had to say. I feel like we got a lot of answers told to us. Hopefully that will h he some effect on the outcome. The kids got back on the bus to cedar rapids at 2 00. Well have to wait and see if legislators heeded their call. The district says it hasnt made any decisions on cuts, if the School Funding increase isnt large enough. In des moines, Forrest Saunders, kcrgtv9 news. The republican president ial field is thinning out. Today Carly Fiorina suspended her campaign, which essentially means shes dropping out of the race. She finishsh sevenththn yesterdays New Hampshire primary, and also had a poor showing in the iowa caucuses. Sources say Chris Christie will also end his campaign after the new jersey governor came in sixth yesterday. Johnson cocoty wants at least onethousand people to have communityissued identification cards. Iowas graduate Student Union to reach that goal. Our off again on again snow pattern continues right through the upcoming weekend. The next clipper arrives early on friday with a light snow chance pushing across the state. The sky increases with clouds later on thursday, after a partly cloudy start, as highs push back into the lower 20s. Fridays snow looks to be light, but a bit farther east than what the state saw wednesday. While saturday looks fine for travel state wide, valentines day on sunday looks to have some snow flurries low 28 winds n 510tomorrow partly cloudy high 1824 winds nw 510tomorrow night chance of snsn late low 1117 winds w 510friday chance of light snow high 23 low 14 saturday partly cloudy high 14 low 1 sunday chance of snow high 26 low 8 monday mostly clouou high 35 low 23 tuesday chance of rain snow high 38 low 23 wednesday partly cloudy high 3 3 low 26 now heres mark carlson with a look at whats coming up tonight on the kcrgtv nine news at six. There are more than 500 ash trees on the university of iowa campus and because the Emerald Ash Borer has been found on campus in the next will need to come down, coming up tonight on the tv nine news at six find out why this is going to be such a big project because many of these big trees are in very well traveled areas. Seven montnt after Johnson County startedd issuing community id cards, it hasnt reached its goal. The county hopes more people sign up, including those who are not us citizens. And a former mayor in eastern iowa now serves the public by volunteering to help people through some of their most challenging days. His storys still ahead here on kcrg tv nine. The university of iowas is working with johnson,county to hel people sign up for county ididtification cards. Last july, the Johnson County supervisors unanimously approved a program that let people with or without us citizenship get ids through the county. About seven months after the county started issuing the ids, 765 people have signed up. In the programs first month, the county issued 540 id cards. But then the interest slowed down considerably. The Johnson CountyAuditors Office says it wants to issue at least a thousand ids. Today, the university of iowas graduate Student Union, known as a Johnson County elections technician says the program is for people who otherwise might not be able to get a government id, like a drivers license. We have a lot of people from mexico, el salvador, honduras, um we have someone just now from lhonithuania, so its starting to kinda get a huge outreach from tpe community. Its interestingngo see t t people who actually live in Johnson County then and see where they actually came from before you know residing here and growing roots. Cogs and the Auditors Office plan to hold an id signup again tomorrow from 11 am till one pm at the old capital mall. University of iowa business students are offering to help lowincome people do theirr taxes. Ananne who earned less t tn 55thousand dollars in 2015 can sign up for the volunteer income tax assistance program. Last year, student volunteers helped claim more than one point six millili dollars in refunds for those they helped. Tonights free tax clinic starts city public library. You can find a full list of clinics on kcrg dot com. Is changing its top leadership to bring clinical and educational efforts closer together. Its combining the ui Vice President for medical affairs and the dean of the Carver College of medicine into one position on monday. Current vp for medical Affairs Jean Robillard will fill the new position. And the college of medicines current dean Debra Schwinn will become the associate v ve president for medical affairs. That new role will focus on special projects. Again this year kcrg is recognizing people in eastern iowa for their outstanding volunteerism. Today, we introduce yoyoto a former mayor whos helping people in the hospital as a chaplin. And today many christians throughout the wld are attending Ash Wednesday services marking the start of the lent. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrg tv nine. Kcrg tv nine and our show you pleased again this year to honor nine outstanding volunteers from throughout eastern iowa. We call them our nine who care. Paul rehn served as marions mayor ff four yeaea before e ciding not to run for reelection due to health issues. As kcrgtv nines chris earl reports, rehn is still serving the public. But now its by helping people hrough some of their most difficult moments. S. Paul rehn hasnt been sitting up here at marion in this room where, s mayor from 2008 to 2011 and eight years before that as a council member, he worked with others during a time of rapid growth for marion in people and possibilities. 27 40 after i retired from rockwell collins, the ward 2 position became avaable and someone very close to me reminded me of my statement many run for office b i would consider an appointment so it was time to put up or shut up. Ive never been one to shut up. Yet paul has Left City Council meetings for matters far more urgent than approving the minutes. Aul is one of the many volunteer chaplains for thehepiritual care team at Unitypoint Health st. Lukes hospital in cedar rapids. 3 years have passed. And im still doing it. Back in october,e learned more about that that mission entails. We cannot prozelitcize, we cant recruit and we dont do any of that because were trained to deal with all faiths and with no faith. Lets face it, nobody gets up in the morning and says what can i do today. Lets checkcknto the hospital. Sixteenhour shifts await paul or the other volunteer chaplains. With paul drawing on his years of empathy and his faith. Amid the range of emotions and sorrow that can come in this setting. 28 45 my work with st. Lukes as an oncall chaplain is the most rewarding with a tie between my work with thats been a life time of helping other people during the most stressful moments years w wh hospice of mercy and 30 years with the marion fire department. 29 49. While everyone is running away from a fire, youre running towards it and you can provide a valuable service to that family that no one else can do. Where, in a world of strangers, paul rehn wants to be a caring voice sometimes a familiar one for those from marion but one who offers his heart. When other hearts are tender. 26 21. Ive always felt that all of us have an obligation to give back because were taking the benefits that others have done to get us to this point so ive always elt weve always had an obligation to give back each of our nine who care honorees will receive 500 dollars to donate to their favorite charities. And this saturday, well announce which one of them will go to washington dc in june to compete for the Jacqueline Kennedy onassis jefferson award for volunteerism. Singing day marks the start of lent, and many christians throughout the world observe the day as Ash Wednesday. These parishioners gathered at st. Josephs Catholic Church in cedar rapids service at seven this evening. Ash wednesday begins the 46 day period leading up to easter sunday. Now heres a look at some of what youll see at 5 30 on abc. Coming up, is donald trp unstoppable after his big win, hear from trump tonight. The hospital nightmare, the doctor operating on the wrong child. And credit cards, the one step you can take that finds the fees you dont need to be taking. Coming up. Recapping todadas top stories, borer on the university of iowa campus, most of the pentacrest trees will now have to come down. Some iowa lawmakers would like to bri regulation of puppy breeding operatioio to the e ate level. Tonight at 6. Doctors say theyre receiving a number of calls from women concerned with catching the zika virus. Those doctors are warning patients not to travel to zikainfected countries. But theyre reminding pregnant women the risk of contracting the zika virus in the us without traveling to an infected country is extremely low. Lets go back to joe now for a final look at tonights forecast. Our off again on again snow pattern continues right through the upcoming weekend. The next clipper arrives early on iday with a light snow chance pushing across the state. The with clouds later on thursday, after a partly cloudy start, as highs push back into the lower 20s. Fridays snow looks to be light, but a bit farther east than what the state saw wednesday. While saturday looks fine for travel state wide, valentines day on sunday looks to have some snow totoght chance of flurries low 28 winds n 510tomorrow partly cloudy high 1824 winds nw 510 thank you for joining us for kcrgtv9 news at 5. Now we go to new york for abc breaking news tonight in the race for 2016. At this hour, two big names dropping out of the race. And can any repubcan stop donald trump . Hiss m mor victory in New Hampshire. Also, the surprise in second place. Oneonone with marco rubio and his stunning admission. Plus, clinton versus sanders, and the brand new battle tonight for the south. Also breaking at this hour, from the justice department, a federal lawsuit against the police and t t city, accused of