so has the american kennel club. it too has come out against the increased license fees and new regulations. in des moines, forrt saunders, kcrg-tv9 news. the iowa senate will likely debate a bill to kill privatized medicaid in the state, tomorrow. the bill would order the department of health and human services to terminate contracts with the three companies scheduled to take over iowa's medicaid program. the state is scheduled to transition to privatized care on march first. the transition was supposed to happen january 1st. but federal regulators said the state needed more time to sign-up iowans. the legislationonas a solid chance of passing in the senate tomorrow where democrats hold a narrow majority. it'll face trouble in the republican-controlled house. speaker linda upmeyer said she likely won't let the bililon the house floor, because governor branstad will certainly sponsor of the legislation, is hoping upupeyer will reconsider if republicans have a good show of support tomorrow and in the house. "hopefully she'll see that there maybe a lot of republicans and democrats who will support this bill when it gets over there and it won't be dead on arrival. " senator david johnson, a well-known senate republican, has put his support behind the bill. governor branstad is pushing privatization to help cut the rising price tag for medicaid. civil rights groups made their case at the iowa pitol today to try to get reforms for iowa's criminal justice system. members of the n-double- a-c-p and other groups support legislation that would ban racial profiling and keep juvenile records confidentiaia they would also like to see legislators "ban the box" to expand work opportunities for people with criminal histories. the iowa-neaska n- double-a-c-p president says she knows there are hurdles to passing these, meteorologist joe winters joins us now. joe, we don't seem to have much happening in the weather except for cold temperatures. 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. friday's snow looks to be light, but a bit farther east than what the state saw wednesdsd. while saturday looks fine for travel state wide, valentine's day on sunday looks to have some snow falling. have a great night! tonight: chance of flurries low: 2-8 winds: n 5-10tomorrow: partly cloudy high: 18-24 winds: nw 5-10 back to you. the zika virus might seem far away, but pregnant women and even colle students planning for spring eak have questions about it. the world health organization has declared the spread of the virus is a the mosquito- borne illness i spreading through central and south america and the caribbean. it's already in 29 countries. and it's causing concerns because of its link to a serious birth deft. students at the universi of iowa areundled up right now, but spring break is apppaching. and the zika virus could affect some of their spring break plans. many students travel south to vacation at places in mexico, the caribbean, and other locations where there are confirmed cases of the zika virus. "i think that it's definitely something that's serious and it should be a precaution like before we go definitely and be smart about it. " there is no vaccine for the zika virus the centers for disease control advise people traveling to the infected countries to wear long sleeves and pants, and use environmental protection agency's registered insect repellents. doctors in dubuque say pregnant women are zika virus. medical associates obstetrician erika o'donnell says in brazil, the virus has been linked to a serious birth defect. that's called microcephaly, and it causes small heads in babies of infected mothers. o'donnell urges pregnant women to follow the c-d-c recommendations. "patients who are pregnant and have gone to an affected country, it's now recommended that they get tested when they come back, even if they did not have symptoms. " medical providers tell us the zika virus is not a mandatory reportable illness, lili the mumps or influenza. finley hospital in dubuque now has a new birthing simulator to help in educating staff members. the families of long-time finley nurses, beth hoefer and mary riegler, donated the noelle birthing simulator. it shows the birthing heart sounds, and a removable abdominal cover. it so prepares nurses for any complications that might come up during a delivery. "we can simulate decreased heart rate which happens all the time. and the nurses have to go through the right steps to correct it. " "education was very important to her. she was very involved in starting up the neonatal icu. that was her baby, literally. " hoefer and riegler worked fo decades in the birthing unit at finley hospital. people living in the corridor now have a chance to give their opini on what they like and what services they would like to see in the area. a comomttee working on an initiative called iowa's creative corridor region vision rising opened a survey to people living in this seven county corridor area. three people are chairing this committee including university of iowa president bruce harreld. the committee will use the survey results to it is available u uil february 26th. we've put a link to it on our website, kcrg dot com. the university of iowa will soon start cutting down ash trees on the pentacrest. and it's all because workers found the the pesky emerald ash borer on a campus tree. stay with tv9. some are around the pentacrest of iowa campus could see some major changes in the next few years. landscape services plan to cut down quite a few ash trees. workers found the emerald ash borer on one tree near the main library. and now the university is planning to get rid of all of its ash trees over the next five years. about seven percent of the trees on the university of iowa campus are ash trees. that's approximately 560 ash trees altogether. and many of the trees around the pentacrest are ash trees. kcrg t-v nine'iowa city bureau chief mark carlsonn joins us live tonight. mark, the university says there's not much it can do now that the emerald ash borer has come to campus? arborists say this isn't something that has to happen tomorrow. but they do have to start planning on getting rid of these ash trees because of how t t beatle spreads frfr tree to o ee. east here on jefferson street and these are all ash trees on both sides of street here. ash trees are all over near the heart of the university of iowa campus. from iowa jefferson street to both sides of the t-anne cleary walkway. many more than a half- century old. " it's not going to look like a clear cut, a lot of them are spread out, but those are the areas, along those streets, the pentacrest that may be noticeable because it's just a single species along the street. " they found the tunnels there, oh that's what it is? the presence of emerald ash borer, or e-a-b in trees looks like this. it looks like a jackson pollock painting, these squiggles all over, it's just nuts. this limb wasasut from an ash tree in gibson square next to the campus rec center. replacing all of the ash trees on campus cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, but officials say it'll be cheaper than trying to treat them. the city of iowa city is also dealing with e-a-b... they expect to replace about 2000 ash trees in the next couple of decades. "we'll start to identify ash trees that either have disease decay, are in poor site locations, and we'll start to remove those and work on u-i officials say the good news -- hopefully by planting many different species of trees this next time around, they can stop this sort of things from happening again. "the silver lining in this, one of the things we're going to do, is diversify our urban forest." " u-i officials say they hope to stagger the removal so that it's not too much at once. right now they're planning on taking down about 100 trees a year for the next five years. in iowa city, mark carlson, kcrg tv nine news. iowa isn't the only state dealing with an emerald ash borer. the insect has now spread to 24 states and areas of canada. the list includes missouri, iowa. mmy states have quarantines on transporting ash wood products. the iowa state cyclones are on the road tonight against texas tech. and they will again play without jameel mckay. till ahead, coach prohm talks a littleleabout mckay's suspension. stay with your 24 hour news 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. friday's snow looks to be light, but a bit farther east saturday looks fine for travel state wide, valentine's day on sunday looks to have some snow falling. have a great night! tonight: chance of flurries low: 2-8 winds: n 5-10tomorrow: partly cloudy high: 18-24 winds: nw 5-10tomorrow night: chance of snow late low: 11-17 winds: w 5-10friday:)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 cloudy high: 35 - low: 23 tuesday: chance of rain/snow high: 38 - low: 23 wnesday: partly cloudy points short of a state title last y yr. that has served as motivation this season. josh has more on the orioles. after finishing 2nd last year in the state tournament, the springville girls basketball team has some unfinished business. the orioles closed out the regular season 20-1, but they're not trying to look too far ahead. "we want to go back and that's our ultimate goal. but we live in the moment, so each game is e eh step, and so we focus on how we need to get there by prioritizing our practices based on the games ahead of us." the orioles make things difficult for opposing teams with their defense. they have 335 steals, lee menster is 4th with 110. "i've gotten more comfortable reading the ball this year so i can get a steal and pass it to my teammates-" "we have such quick players up front and we run a couple of different styles of presses. but with rylee menster up front, she's such a quick player. she's got tremendously quick hands. teams are only shooting 26 percent from the field against us, 17 percent from ttee on the year. part of that's just being more athletic. part of it's being a little bit longer. part of it's the kids being in the system another year since we have four sophomores that play quite a bit." on offense with figures. "with so much to do out of our offense, it makes our ball movement better and faster. the other team doesn't know if we're going to run a set play, a switch or if we're going to do a screen-and-roll." "our team this year takes a lot of pride in being able to move the ball so quickly and have so many different offensive roles. it makes it a lot harder forr the defense to guard us because there's not will face tuesday in regionals. josh christensen, kcrg-tv9 sports. 14th ranked iowa state will hit the road tonight to face texas tech in lubbock. the cyclones will be without suspended center jameel mckay again tonight.. they won without him at oklahoma state and they like the challenge of playing on the road. you don't have the support we have at hilton so you really have to play as a team we have kind of takethat mind set into most of our games this year and stuck together and we have played some our better games this season on the road that just shows how close we are together as a team right now. these guys understand the expectations the expectations are great but we can meet all the expectations we have for our team. i just want our team to be right as we go into late feb and march and that is what we are doing right now we are going thru some things right but i think at the end of the day it wl help our basketball team. sot :39 oc: "help our basketball uni is back home tonight hosting missouri state. the panthers are on a roll and have won 4 straight but they are not about to overlook the bears who beat them earlier this year. both teams come in 6-6 in the valley. their young guys have played very well. young guys and new guys miller a new point guard is a junior a lot of those guys are freshman and miller the freshman guard has just done a terrific job having guys not playing the same number of minutes other roles. you have to give those guys a lot of credit for the way they have played and the job paul has done. sot :30 oc: "the job paul has done " and finally football news.. iowa state wide receiver d'vario montgomery has beenen dismissed for violating team rules. montgomery had 23 catches last year and running back joshua thomas is transfering. thomas had 7 touchdowns last season. thanks scott. growing heroin and prescription drug addiction problem in iowa. coming up on the kcrg-tv9 news at ten, hear the story of an anamosa state penitentiary sergeant who died as the result of his addiction to prescription pain killers. and now to first alert storm team meteorologis t joe winters for your final 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. friday's snow looks to be light, but a bit farther east than what the state saw wednesday. while saturday looks fine for travel sunday looks to ha it's an outrage. i know. the university-- they think they can do whatever they want. we just have to sit there and take it. you neededo let it go, sheldonon you work tirelessly for someone, and this is what you get. oh, my god! they're just making you use your vacation days! but i don't want a vacation. okay, listen, i don't mean to diminish what you're going through, but i'm a little distracted right now. oh, this again? so, penny proposed, you didn't say yes, and now you think you may have lost her love forever. how does this compare to me being forced to relax for a few days? it doesn't! thank you! i'm going to go inside, put on my coziest pajamas,

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