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Hell serve time at a juvenile center until hes 18. Then a judge will either release him or send him to adult prison. The Eastern Iowa Airport says the powder found in baggage claim is medicine and henna powder. Cedar Rapids Police shut down the baggage area after someone found a suspicious package around seven last evening. It ended up being much ado about nothing after interviewing the owner, police determined the powder wasnt hazardous. The baggage area re opened around 4 this morning. We want to thank the people that called us about this. Remember when you see news, call newsline nine. That number is 3193659999. You can also send us pictures and videos to newsroom at kcrg dot com. Meteorologist joe winters joins us now with our first alert forecast. Joe, parts of our viewing area saw snow today, but thats about to end, right . Scattered flurries remain in the forecast into tonight as a series of weak systems move across iowa. After a quiet end to the week the next one approaches from the west on saturday. This will lead saturday into sunday. We continue to monitor a much larger system poised to invade the plains and upper midwest tuesday and wednesday. This storm has the potential to bring significant travel delays. We will keep watching. Have a great night. Tonight scattered flurries low 2329 winds w 1015 tomorrow m cloudy, sct. Flurries high 3137 winds nw 1020 back to you. In a tv nine followup. Five people from dubuque are suing the city and Police Officers for using Excessive Force during a fight in august. Kcrgtv9s Katie Wiedemann joins us from the Dubuque Police department. Katie, what do the people filing the suit say actually happened that day . According to the lawsuit, several people at the scene say the first officer to respond, jay murray, the face without warning them. The suit claims murray also sprayed tina dean, who was 8 months pregnant, directly in the face. Dean claims she did nothing to warrant that use of force. According to police reports, murray was attempting to arrest a 12 year old boy in the crowd. Thats when police say the crowd then reencircled murray. Police say murray pulled out his pepper spray and sprayed it in a half circle motion towards the crowd. The attorney in this case told me today, theres a real problem with police in dubuque and the city isnt recognizing it. In the law suit, the plaintiffs said they suffered severe and permanent injuries for the situation, including mental scarring. Live in dubuque Katie Wiedemann kcrg tv9 news. Its five days until the iowa caucuses. And on the democratic side, its still too close to call. A new Quinnipiac University poll Shows Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders are in a statistical tie. Vermont sanders has 49 percent support. Former secretary of state clinton has 45 percent support. But the margin of error is plus or minus four percent. The poll also found more men support sanders while more women support clinton. The university of iowa is responding after some of its athletes have been playing a part in president ial candidate events. Members of the hawkeye Football Team came up onto the stage at last nights donald trump event in iowa city. They even gave him a jersey with a number one on it. And as kcrgtv9s mark carlson shows us, while some might be upset about this, its not against the universitys policy. We had a great Football Team, that i really enjoyed watching. That last game, we could have done maybe a little bit better, where is my Football Team, get over here Football Team. Come on up here, come on up, right. Get up. At times tuesday nights donald trump rally in the iowa field house looked more like a hawkeye pep rally. One member of the trump jersey. Vote for trump. Go hawks they were so nice, they endorsed trump, they like trump and i like them, i love you guys. Trump also got members of the wrestling team on stage you have an undefeated team, get the wrestlers up here, come on fellas. Earlier in the day hawkeye basketball star Jarrod Uthoff was also spotted at a Carly Fiorina event near the ui campus, where he posed for pictures with the candidate before her speech. All the political activity involving student athletes and president ial candidates quickly raised questions about whether any ncaa rules violations had taken place. Wednesday ui Athletic Director gary barta said he was confident no violations had occurred. In a statement barta said in part, quote university of iowa studentathletes are encouraged to participate in the political endorsement by a student or faculty member, their participation should not be considered representativ e of the entire team or university. Barta went on to say the jersey given to trump was not an official jersey. In iowa city, mark carlson, kcrg tv nine news. We asked viewers what they thought about this on the tvnine facebook page. Here are some of the responses we got kyra said its disappointing to see these young men support a candidate who publicly disrespects women, minorities, and people with disabilities. Christine wrote im hoping trump learns something valuable from these hard working men. You can be a winner without name calling and belittling people. He could learn a lot from our iowa hawkeye athletes. Jenna told tv9 i dont think its fair for people to say they have lost respect for the Football Team because a few players are openly supporting a candidate. Cameron said this is why the hawks are great. Theyre not afraid to do something in iowa. hashtag go hawks stay with kcrg tv nine for complete caucus coverage monday night. Well have live reports from des moines and across eastern iowa along with expert analysis. It all starts at 8 pm on kcrg 9. 2 then, well have full coverage starting at nine oclock right here on tv nine. Washington high school in cedar rapids is receiving statewide recognition for its work to close the achievement gap. 74 percent of the schools African American students are proficient in math and reading. Thats compared to the state average of for African American students of 54 percent. Educators say encouraging students to enroll in advanced placement courses is part of that success. But four instructional design strategists also focus on how teachers can better engage atrisk students. Teachers are overworked, they have a lot of students, sometimes they dont have time to expand on some of the come in. Were able to provide those resources and the supports for those teachers so we can get down to each individual student and how theyre achieving. The Governors Office presented School Officials with the breaking barriers award earlier this month. Relaxing to rehabilitate. Law enforcement are coming up with some interesting ways to help juvenile offenders. Yoga, a common practice that relaxes people is now seeing success with these young it was pretty easy to draw them into it and quickly see the benefits of being involved in it. Yoga classes are showing up in unusual places in linn county. This one takes place at the countys juvenile detention center. Its possibly a first in iowa. Yoga classes that take place behind bars for offenders. Kcrgtv9s Dave Franzman says supporters already see some signs its working to improve offenders lives. The mats probably look the same. Sot nat the instructions sound the same. But as for location. Thats definitely different. The volunteer who started yoga instruction at the Linn County Juvenile Detention Center came to administrators a year ago and said, you know theyre doing yoga at other prisons, mostly for adults, in other states, would you like to try it here . The answer was, well yes. For both juveniles in custody and staff one day a week. Some juveniles in custody were skeptical at first. But one says after doing yoga for awhile she started noticing some benefits. It like calms me down if im frustrated ive had kids tell me when theyre in their rooms at night they use this to fall asleep. Instructor ordman teaches whats called trauma informed yoga. What that means is more of an emphasis on breathing control, stress relief techniques and emotional calming and less on the more exotic yoga positions. Its aimed at participants who have different needs and issues than regular yoga students. What were trying to do is help people whove experienced trauma to notice how the body and mind Work Together juvenile center staff believe those whove taken part in yoga classes are less likely to have outbursts. Sot nat they believe that makes it worth the time and trouble. Dave franzman kcrg tv9 the Greater Cedar Rapids Community foundation gave the county more than five thousand dollars recently to train more staff to teach yoga and expand the program. Stay with your 24 hour news scattered flurries remain in tonight as a series of weak systems move across iowa. After a quiet end to the week the next one approaches from the west on saturday. This will lead to some light rain and snow late saturday into sunday. We continue to monitor a much larger system poised to invade the plains and upper midwest tuesday and wednesday. This storm has the potential to bring significant travel delays. We will keep watching. Have a great night. Tonight scattered flurries low 2329 winds w 1015 tomorrow m cloudy, sct. Flurries high 3137 winds nw 1020 tomorrow night mostly cloudy low 2127 high 38 low 24 saturday areas of fog, drizzle high 39 low 28 sunday chance of light rain snow high 37 low 33 monday chance of rain snow late high 36 low 26 tuesday snow likely high 32 low 29 wednesday lingering snow, windy thanks joe. Tv9s John Campbell will feature former linn mar athlete Matt Bohannon, the best three point shooter uni has ever had. Stay with tv9. He is the best three pointer campbell has more on former linnmar allstater Matt Bohannon. I was a shooter in high school and a shooter in college too. Kaboom. Matt bohannon. So who taught Matt Bohannon deep ball . Ez, his dad gordy who was quarterback at iowa in the early 80s. My dad. He knows how to do it. A little tweak here. A little tweak there. It has been a lot of his doing. Matt once hit a uni School Record seven threes in one game. As you get older, it gets quicker. In college game you have to get it off quicker. Matt admits there were times early in his career when he would miss a few and struggle with his confidence. That is no longer a problem as i got older coaches and teammates told me i was one of the best shooters in the country. Shoot your way out of it. Some days it is there. Some days it is not you have to fight through it. Right now bohannon and his teammates are fighting through a season that has featured some incredible highs and incredible lows. We need to dig something deep. Realize why we are here playing it in front of these fans. There has certainly been a lot more winning than losing the last 4 years for Matt Bohannon a reason he cherishes his time time wearing the purple. Awesome. Couldnt ask for anything else. People ask why uni . Perfect fit. A perfect fit. That kind describes his ability to put the rock in the hole. When it is there and i know if i get to space and it is going up. Those days are fun. Kaboom kabullseye Matt Bohannon. , Matt Bohannon, a long range shooter like uni has never seen before. John campbell, tv9 sports. Matt leads the valley in 3 point shooting. He has hit 61 of 149. Thats good for 41 . Bohannon and the panthers will try to snap a four game losing streak tonight at bradley. I will have highlights for you tonight at 10 00. And what a year matts brother jordan is having at linnmar. He is averaging 24. 1 points a game and has hit 47 three pointers brother is hitting over 41 percent from behind the arc. We will feature the future hawkeye tomorrow night at 6 00. The kernels will hold their hot stove banquet tonight at the double tree. They will induct three new members into the cedar rapids Baseball Hall of fame. This years class includes Reggie Sanders who starred for the kernels in 1990 and played 17 years in the bigs winning a world series and playing in the allstar game. Also being inducted tonight former manager tom lawless who led the kernels to the 1994 Midwest League championship. They will join public address announcer dale brodt who worked over 1700 Minor League Games and of course used to report right here at kcrg. And finally practice is underway for the senior bowl mobile. Theirs a good look at Iowa Center Austin Blythe and he did a nice job blocking on this run and hawkeye tight end henry krager coble got mugged on this pass pattern. But the coaches say henry has impressive in practice. But as a receiver he is pretty polished with good hands he runs good routs and he has stood out in practice especially in the passing game. Sot 17 oc in the passing game thanks scott. Well be right scattered flurtonight as a series of weak systems move across iowa. After a quiet end to the week the next one approaches from the west on saturday. This will lead to some light rain and snow late we continue to monitor a much larger system poised to invade the plains and upper midwest tuesday and wednesday. This storm has the potential to bring significant travel delays. We will keep watching. Have a great night. Tonight scattered flurries low 2329 winds w 1015 tomorrow m cloudy, sct. Flurries high 3137 winds nw 1020 thanks joe. Thanks for joining us for kcrgtv9 news at 6. We hope youll be with us again tonight at ten. Have a great evening. Sheldon, its not a great time what do you want . Hello to you, too. Im sorry, but this is important. What is it . Back to the future ii was in the back to the future iii case. And back to the future iii was get this in the back to the future ii case. So . So, did you do that, or am i in the house with an intruder . Sheldon, i got to go inside. Its getting rough out here

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