Knowing what they want, so i have to kind of explain it to them as weve got more people coming in, just out of the woodwork, so you have to tell them about whats going on. With each 2 dollar ticket sold the seller gets 12 cents. That can really add up if you sell thousands upon thousands of tickets like they do at this hyvee in iowa city, or at a gas station along a busy road. While they may not sell that many tickets at places like this True Value Hardware store in North Liberty. They do still benefit from as official swelling powerballll jackpot. People come in and are fired up about, they always say if i win ill take care of the store, and ill take care of you. And while customers may come in to buy a powerball at the true value or down at the hyvee they often pick Something Else up along the way. Aa date before the drawing it seems like we get a flow of traffic into the store just because its getting to that deadline time, so very good the big drawing is tonight. So far lottery Officials Say theres about a 90 percent chance there will be a winner tonight. If theres not, we can certainly expect even more of this madness. In iowa city, mark carlson, kcrg tv nine news. Meteorologist joe winters joins us now. Joe, today we didnt feel that bone chilling cold weve had the last few days. What a nice change as the cold weather has moved east fr a couple of days. Lows tonight stay in the 20s and with a partly cloudy day on thursday we should see some middle to upper 30s throughout eastern iowa. As our next storm approaches thursday night, some light mix could develop with light snow showers possible friday. Cold arctic air then pours into the region for the weekend and sticks with us for the early part of the week. Have a great tonight partly cloudy low 2026 winds sw 510 tomorrow partly cloudy high 3642 winds s 515 back to you. The linn county attorney has cleared two Cedar Rapids Police officers who were involved in a Fatal Shooting in october. Police stopped a truck on ravenwood terrace northwest that was carrying people who they suspected of being involved a meth deal. This is that area. One man in the truck, 21 yearold jonathan gossman, tried to run away. And a Police Chase Led to officers shooting gossman, who police say had pointed a gun at t em. Gossman died at the scene. The county Attorney Says officers lucas jones and Bryson Garringer were justified in shooting. One cedar rapids man was temporarily stranded in a cherry picker on 1st ave and 3rd street southwest this morning. Cedar rapids police, fire, and ambulance responded to the scene at 9 50 this morning. They were able to get the man out within 15 snapped causing the picker to get stuck. The broken cherry picker was at 1st avenue for a few hours but police say it is now out of the way. More and more iowa students are taking advantage of a program that helps them apply to colleges. Over 35hundred seniors at 78 high schools participated in iowa college aids College Application Campaign Last year. Its a program to increase the number of first generation students and students from low income families who g gto college. The number of students involved in this jumped 36 percent last year, the largest increase for the program so far. A survey shows about 23 percent of students say they would n n have applied to colleges if it werent for this campaign. Linn county supervisors took a first step today to see if theres support for a higher minimum wage. Last fall, johnson c cnty supervisors ssed a threestep increase in the minimum wage in that county. There was controversy and some smaller communities rescind the increase. Today linn county supervisors listened to some facts and figures on the impact of a minimum wage hike. But the decision here was to go slow and gauge the interest while avoiding some of the controversy seen in johnson county. Thats what i want to avoid i want it to be something that builds and a consensus decision. Supervisors expect to form a group of business owners, workers and community representativ es to look at the issues of a higher county minimum wage. One recent report found more than 18thousand linn county workers would directly benefit from a higher minimum wage. Iowa Supreme Court chief Justice Mark Cady has added his voice to governor branstads call to end Racial Disparities in the criminal justice system. Today, cady gave his annual state of the judiciary report to the legislature. He said three percent of iowas population is african american, but they represent 20 percent of iowas prison populatioio cady also talked program where linn, johnson, and scott counties collaborate with georgetown university. The partnership has already reduced school referrals to Juvenile Court by 61 percent. Well have more about this collaboration tonight on tv nine news at ten. A pipe ruptured in the linn country courthouse last night, spilling gallons of water and antifreeze on the first floor. Afteteanother pipe failed in the jailhouse and Sheriffs Office this morning, workers are scrambling to get the heat back on. Were going to collaboratively meet here and look at the issues and try to figure out have t t have a solution in place probably within 24 hours to get heat back in to the facility. The chemical that spilled is not dangerous to courthouse. Heat back on by midnight, as temperatures were already dropping inside today. A sewer back up into a North Liberty homeownenes basement cost him thousands of the homes water detectors went off early allowing the family to stop the flooding before it got even worse. The city immediatly came to the house to investigate, and found multiple non flushable items in the sewer main that causedhe backup. We believe they were the adult version of the wet wipes that are being marketed as flushable and disposable when they really are not. Doing a little more research, and talking with the citys staff, and admininiration, its something thats happened in the past. Tonight on tv nine news at 10, North Libertys street superintenden t will explain why this has become a real problem in the city in the past couple of years. Several organizations across eastern iowa got word that they received a grant this week. Coming up, see how these grants help volunteer organizations stay running. Stay with us here on tv nine. Nonprofits and volunteer and government funding to keep them running. The National Center for charitable statistics says in 2013, 21 percent of nonprofits revenues came from contributions, gifts, and government grants. But what do nonprofits use e at money for . Just yesesrday, five volunteer organizations in eastern iowa learned theyre getting grant money. The iowa volunteer Generation Fund is distributing 99thousand efforts. The money went to united way organizations that serve 10 counties and to the volunteer center of cedar valley in black hawk county. Kcrg tv nines Dubuque Bureau chief Katie Wiedemann talked to the united way in dubuque, one of the organizations using this money for volunteers. Katie, volunteers, of course, get no pay. Does this mean theres a cost for volunteers . Its all those Little Things you may not think about. The united way says just because nonprofits dont pay volunteers for their work, doesnt mean volunteers are free. Come on guys. Move it move it move it tony summer enthusiastical ly y leads the charge, as he shows kids from the boys and girls club a thing or two about cross fit. The personal trainer at true fitness works with these kids, for free. The hour they come down here should be the best hour of their day. The boys and girls club is one of more than a dozen charities the united way of most people dont understand though, how much work we do to engage out community in active volunteerism because we know the more engaged people are with their resource of time, the more likely they are to invest dollars. Executive director joey taylor says recruiting and engaging those volunteers costs money. Hosting volunteer fairs to recruit them and training them once they sign up. Different supplies. I think we take for granted just the supplies or the mailings. Theres a cost associated with those things. Taylor says some charities need money to keep those volunteers around. Some non profits pay for volunteers meals and transportatio n. Or they reward their efforts with small gifts. Boy it doesnt hurt to give them a pat on the back for some of the great things they do fofo the community. As for summer, no pat on the back is needed, he says seeing these kids improve is all showing kids that fitness and health is not something you have to do january 1st through february 1st. You can enjoy it and share it with your friends and with your colleagues. The united way says the very first thing they will do with the grant money is hire a part Time Employee to help connect eager volunteers with the charities who really need their help. Live in dubuque, Katie Wiedemann kcrg tv9 news. The hawkeye women a hoping for a win on the road tonight. And north linns father and son Coaching Team marks a major milestone. Stay with your 24 hour news what a nice change as the cold weather has moved east for a couple of days. Lows tonight stay in the 20s and with a partly cloudy day on thursday we should see some middle to upper 30s throughout eastern iowa. As our next storm approaches thursday night, some light mix could develop with light snow showers possible friday. Cold arctic air then pours into the sticks with us for the e rly part of the week. Have a great night tonight partly cloudy low 2026 winds sw 510 tomorrow partly cloudy high 3642 winds s 515tomorrow night chance of light mix low 2430 winds s 5 55friday chance of light snow high 32 low 27 saturday chance of light snow late hi 9 low 9 sunday sunny and cold high 1 low 5 monday chance of snow late high 9 low 8 tuesday partly y oudy high 20 low 4 wedneneay partly cloudy high 30 low 16 the iowa women will try to snap their two game losing streak tonight when they play at wisconsin. Scott has a preview and there are 3 generations of hilmers at north linn. Josh has that story. Stay with the hilmers of nothe hilmers of north linn have over 1 1 hundred combined wins. Bob and his son mike both reached milestones in the last week. Josh has more from coggin. On friday, north linn coach mike hilmer collected his 300th career win. Then on tuesday, his dad and cocoead coach bob hilmer got his 800th career win. The lynx starting point guard jake hilmer was happy to see his dad and grandpa reach both milestones. Its definitely a blessing. Not very many kids get the opportunity to play with one, let alone two. So, i try to realize that is something thats special. It means first of all that ive had a loving wife sharon, whos been able to be very patient and understanding. She knows my passion, weve been married for 51 years. We dont go into coaching to see how many wins we can get. It just means youve had longevity and great kids. Bob hilmer is the alltime winningest coach in iowa history. And in the last couple of years, he had discussed with his son mike about coaching together. But it almost didnt happen. They had their house for sale a couple of different times in winfield and never got it sold. So, they actually had decided to retire in winfield. And just one day y ady asked if their house was still for sale. The next week it was sold without a realtor and they were moved in to cedar rapids, and thats when it became a reality. My dad said hed be willing to volunteer coach, but i said that if he was coming, were going to cocoach. North linn is currently 111 on the year, but despite being father and son, theyve had to learn to work together. Even some of the fundamentals are little bit different. And i have to stop and think how we are doing this. A lot of times im almost stuttering to myself because i cant think. Then i realize were doing it this way. The funny thing i see is hes always reminding me that these kids are young and remember him telling me im young and make mistakes. My grandpa has taught us a lot. He knows all the fundamentals, hes been around for a long time. Dad, hell get the newer version on stuff sometimes. That gives us a little bit of both. After sharing those special moments together on friday and tuesday, they hope theres more memories to come. Hes second to none and im very fortunate to have him in my life as a co coach, but im pretty fortunate to have him as a father. Ive coached for so long, im not sure what would happen if i wasnt coaching. Even games we lose, i cant wait to get to the practice gym the next day. Josh christensen, tv9 sports the uni men with a tough road test tonight at indiana stati. This game tipped off at 6 00 and the panthersrsead the sycamores 16 to 13 early in the first half. I will have highlights of this game for you tonight at 10 00. Bluders bunch also on the road tonight at wisconsin. The hawkeyes have lost two straight and need a win to get abovov. 500 in it has been a long time since we lost to wisconsin or lost to wisconsin in general and we want to keep that going. I hate to make excuses but this is a bare of schedule we are in right now. Five games in 12 days people dont understand that impact that that makes. People dont understand when you play three games in a week in the Fourth Quarter against maryland you are exhausted. Sot 22 oc you are exhausted team meteorologis t joe winters for your final forecast. What a nice change as the cold weather has moved east for a couple of days. Lows tonight stay in the 20s and with a partly cloudy day on thursday we should see some middle to upper 30s throughout eastern iowa. As our next storm approaches thursday night, some light mix could develop with light snow showers possible friday. Cololarctic air then pours into the region for the weekend and sticks with us for the early part of the week. Have a great night tonight partly cloudy low 2026 winds sw 510 tomorrow partly cloudy high 3642 winds s 515 thanks for joining us for kcrgtv9 news at 6. We hope youll be with us again tonight at ten. Have a great evening. Tonight on kcrgtv9
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