How critical is it for the federal government to deal with National Debt . How welcoming do you think yourommunity would be if Syrian Refugees relocated in your community. Unlike other polls, loras hires trained pollsters to call registered voters in iowa on the voters telephone. Its a combination. We ask about 70 percent land line and about 30 percent cell phones. Budzisz says ononreason results vary from poll to poll is because there arent set definitions for every term related to polling. For example, the term, likely voter. Each pollster might have a slight variation as to what they count as a likely voter. Some will simply say if you tell me that youre somewhat likely to vote, i am going to count you as a likely voter. dr. Budzisz says loras pollsters however, ask follow up questions to help figure out how likely that person really is to actually show up on caucus night. We will be eager to see, as anyone, what happens on february 1st. These polls also help National Television candidate debates. Beth, for example, the Republican Debate coming up thursday night. The loras poll helped fox determine the top seven candidates who will be invited to the main stage for that debate. Tvnines Katie Wiedeman live in dubuque. Thanks katie. Fox Business Network has announced who will be on the main stage for this thursdays gop debate. Trump, cruz, ben carson, marco rubio, jeb bush, Chris Christie and john kasich will all take part in the debate which starts at eight thursday evening. Two people who fox did not invite to the main debate. Carly fiorina and rand paul. Paul has said he wont papaicipate in the earlier debate which starts at six. Republican jeb bush campaigned in coralville this morning. Despite low poll numbers, the former Florida Governor says he isnt going anywhere. He plans to continue pushing hard to win support in iowa and the iowans have legitimate concerns about Economic Security as well as national security. He told kcrg tv nines mark carlson today iowans should expect to see a lot of him and lver the next few weeks. Talk about what these next few weeks are going to be like for you in the state of iowa. Lot of volunteers coming from all over the country to help a really we organized team identify and then make sure people come to the caucuses, as you know this is contact sport basically, its a drag people out, make sure theyre motivated, make sure they show up. Campaigned in traded in the Large Group Speech to meet with a small group of people at the independence public library. Spoke with them and answered theieiquestions. He above other candidates on february first. They say theyre gonna fight for you, they say theyre gonna make changes in washington they say theyre gonna do all the ings that they knowowou want hear but its a mamaer of have they done it, can you trust them. And i think i bring something unique to the table which is a fighter for the values that made our country great. Santorum officially won i ia in 2012 after a recount of votes saying mitt romney took the win. Meteorologist joe winters joins forecast. Joe, please tell us it is going to get warmer. The cold is short lived as we see a rebound in temperatures alrebdy tonight. Overnight we wililremain steady and then slowly rise after midnight with more clouds scattered flurries are in our forecast on wednesday, but should not cause any major issues. We are keeping our eye on the track of a storm system for the later in the week that could bring wininry precipitation to eastern iowa. Tonight partly cloudy low 33 m cloudy, sct. Flurries high 2228 winds s 515 back to you. A man robbed the First National bank in cedar falls this afternoon. It happened about 1 45 at the bank at 2421 white tail drive. Police say the robber did not show a weapon, and after the robbery he ran across the street and into the lower level of Thunder Ridge mall. Police searched the mall but didnt find him. No one was injured in the robbery. Police have just released these photos of the robber. If you recognize him or have any information about the robbery, call the cedar falls police. The dubuque woman facing a Second Degree murder charge for beating her exhusband to death with a baseball bat allegedly told her son arrested 62 year old Delores Flynn yesterday. They say she killed her ex husband, 72 year old gary breckenridge. Court documents say a neighbor living above breckenririe heard a series of loud booms and heard breckenridge yell shes killing me. That was on january fourth. When police responded, they found breckenridge s body. Police say flynns son later told them his mototr admitted that she beat breckenridge with a baseball bat. Flynn is in jail with her bond at half a Million Dollars. Governor branstad wants to pump another 145 Million Dollars into k through 12 education in the next fiscal year. But one School Superintendent in eastern iowa isnt sure thats enough new money to make a difference. Kcrg tv nines Dave Franzman joins us now. Dave, the governors plan this year is higher than what he proposed a year ago. Bruce, last year the state provided just a one and a quarter percent increase to supplemental aid or what used to be called allowable growth. But the governor vetoed 55Million Dollars in onetime money which was a funding compromise hammered out by lawmakers. Compared to last year, some educators say the governors starting proposal, a 2. 45 percent increase, is certainly an improvement. The governor told the crowd education would get 67 percent of all t t new dollars the state would spend in his proposed budget. But that wont be enough for some small districts like north cedar. Declining enrollment means an increase in state spending per pupil will still mean cuts next fall. Anytime youre talking about two and a half percent in supplemental aid, allowable growth whatever you call it, thats going to be disappointing to most superintendents. Superintendent cooper says for most districts it takes about a four percen increase in state aid to make up for increased salaries and other expenses. In his condition of the state message, the goveor pointed out prek thananhree point two billion dollars. Thats just a bit less than half of the overall proposed budget. Beth . The governor brought up a couple of other issues during his condition of the state speech. He talked about future ready iowa. Thats an initiative with the goal of having 70 percent of ias workforce educated or trained beyond high school by 2025. The governor also brought up criminal Justice System reform. He issued a call to with legislators to address disparities in iowas criminal Justice System. The Lottery Jackpot just keeps climbing. But one Financial Advisor says dont make any plans for the onpointfive billion dollars just yet. 5 59 08 the reality is, if you won that much money, youre no different that. You know im sure Warren Buffett has security around him, or a famous actor. The winner shovld have some things in place to protect themselves and that ckpot. Stay with tv9. One and a half billion dollars. And the jackpot could grow even more before tomorrows drawing if strong sales continue. But one financial expert says think twice before buying a ticket. He says winning that big of a jackpot will change your life for better and for worse. No matter how large the Lottery Jackpot gets the odds of winning are one in over 292 million. The winner could get annual 29 years. Or could choose a lumpsum of at least 930 Million Dollars before taxes. Kcrg tv nines brady smith looked into the pros and cons of winning a monster jackpot. Powerball ticket machines like this one at Hawkeye Convenience have been hot. Bob huber of solon bought five, and knows how hed start spending the winnings. 15 10 13 pay off the mortgage first probably. 15 18 21 new truck, nice vacation, probably go to australia or something. But Jeff Johnston says the first thing you should do is form a legal team to help invest and manage the momoy. 40 44 a lawyer, a tax preparer, and a wealth manager. It sounds like the start of a joke. But johnston says winning it all would be no laughing matter. 6 40 42 i think that much money could blmost destroy your life. At the time he ran the numbers for the roughly 1. 5 billion dollarr payout 581 03 the lump sums about 600 million you would get after taxes. About 30 million every year for 30 years. He recommends after deciding on the lump sum or the annuity, to go through a cooling offff period. 2 46 53 dont make any big financial decisions, because youre going to be tempted by a lot of people to open up that restaurant, to buy into some investment venture. While the odds of winning it all are astronomical, your chances of blowing through it are quite a bit higher. 1 13 17 70 percent of lottery winners, professional athletes, go broke within five years. And even if the fortune is wellmanaged, youd need extra security. 6 10 18 youd probably want to a personal l dyguard or have somebody drive you around, because think of the liability. Youre driving a car and you rearend somebody and they just found you won the powerball. In other words mo money, mo problems. In cedar rapids, b bdy smith, kcrg tv9 news. People in six states have to try a harder to win the powerball jackpot. Religious reasons prevent alababa. Mississippi. And utah from participating. Alaska and hawaii say they are concerned that a lottery wouldnt pay off. And nevada has no interest in a 23 year old sioux city man is one Million Dollars richer. Joel dominguezs ticket matched the first five numbers in saturdays powerball drawing. But he didnt match the powerball number. He claimed his prize yesterday at the lottery headquarters in clive. He was one of 25 ticket buyers across the country that won one Million Dollars. Scott introroces three more candidates for tv nines athlete of the week. And back in action. Thhawkeye Mens Basketball Team is hoping to come back strtrg after nine days off. Stay with your 24 hour news temperatures already tonight. Overnight we will remain steady and then slowly rise after midnight with more clouds building from west to east. Forecast on wednesday, but should not cause any major issues. We are a storm system precipitatiti to eastern iowa. A. Tonight partly cloudy low 33 winds sw 515tomorrow m cloudy, sct. Flurries high 2228 winds s 515tomorrow night partly cloudy low 1723 winds sw 510thursday partly cloudy high 37 low 20 friday chance of rain snow high 32 low 27 saturday chance of snow high 20 low 17 7 nday papaly cloudy, cold high 9 low 4 monday chance of snow high 10 low 3 tuesday partly cloudy after nine days off. Scott westerberg has more on the hawkeyes unusually long break. The red hot hawkeyes were coming off one of the recent history beating number one Michigan State at home and then overcoming a 17 point deficit on the road to beat number 14 purdue. Last tuesday, it was an eleven point win over nebraska and then nine days off, which is an eternity to a team on a roll. As players you dont really like it. Youd rather just get out there and play games, but i think we made the most of it and it was fine. But sometimes a long break can be good, case in point, banged up senior guard anthony clemmons. I dont think anybody likes breaks this long, but if you have a guy thats injured it certainly benefits him. Were thrilled about that because, obviously, hes a very important part of whawe do. The break also gives iowa extra time to prepare for Michigan State, a team out for revenge on thursday. But according to the hawkeyes, the entire nine days havent been dedicated to the spartans. In fact, the hawks have been more concerned about themselves. For the first part of this break it was how do we get better, and they yesterday we began worked a lot more on ourselves. We knew we had Michigan State coming up but we knew we had a nine day break, so we worked on our stuff and werent focused on them yet. We just prepared for Michigan State the way we always do. In iowa city, Scott Westerberg tv9 sports. The 17th ranked cyclones will try to get back on the winning track tonight at texas. The cyclones have lost two straight to fall to 12 in the big 12 but they are not about to push the panic button yet. The best thing about my team they are all committed all saying the right things and as long as they are doing that we are headed in the right direction. We know we are talented and we have a good team and i am in this for long haul and we are trying to be the best we can in february, march and put ourselves in a position to make a great post season run. Sot 22 oc great post season run its time to announce three new finalist for the kcrg tv9 athlete of the week sponsored by cedar rapids toyota. All three wrestlers. Athlete connor schulista of alburnett. He is the top ranked 152 pound wrestler in the state in class 1a. Athlete number 2 is kyle briggs of jefferson he is 250 and ranked second in the state in class 3a at 152 pounds. And athlete number 3 three is Brock Henderson of north linn. Brock is ranked number one in the state at 113 pounds in class 1a. To vote go to kcrg. Com. I will feature the winner thursday night at 10 00. We have double header on kcrg 9. 2 tonight at north linn. The lynx hosting alburnett. In the boys game north linn cohead coach bob hilmer can win his 800th game if the lynx get the w. He coaches with his son mike who got his 300th victory last week. And finally congrats to former cedar falls all stater Ross Pierschbaker who did a great job in the trenches last night as a starting guard for alabama and helped the crimson tide win a National Title over clemson 4540. T joe winters for your final forecast. The cold is short lived as we see a rebound in temperatures already tonight. Overnight we will remain steady and then slowly rise after midnight with more clouds building from west to east. Scattered flurries are in our forecast on wednesday, but should not cause any major a storm system for the later in the week that could bring wintry precipitation to eastern iowa. Tonight partly cloudy low 33 winds sw 515tomorrow