December first and require employers to pay overtime to salaried employees who make less than 47 thousand 476 dollars a year. That more than double the current salary threshold. But, tuesday, a federal court blocked it from happening pending legal challenges. 21 states are suing the Labor Department to block the regulation. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders looked into this and joins us now. Forrest, whats the local impact . Fourmillion workers would be impacted by the change. Some of them are at the united way of east central iowa. There, about a dozen from the around 30person work force would qualify for the new overtime rule. Even though a judge has put things on hold, united way has gone ahead and made the change for employees. Officials said given the amount of prep time needed, they decided to be proactive. Theyve put in place an electronic timekeeping system to better keep track of hours. Even if the rule never takes effect, united way thinks change. Weve already made changes on the Technology Side to better track peoples hours and things from a payroll perspective. For us, weve already spent the money and time to implement it. So, i think wed go ahead and stick with it. Fisher says, being a nonprofit, hours are closely monitored anyway. He doesnt expect the change will cost the group much money in the long run. Heres a little context for how worried people are about this change. Mark hudson, a advice to dozens who want to do about the new rule and injunction. He says many of them are nonprofits. Beth and bruce . Thanks, forrest. This monticello man has pleaded guilty to robbing the f and m bank in monticello earlier this year. Brandon brown is now awaiting sentencing. He admitted taking more police say a Marion High School student inappropriately touched a student at starry elementary school. The accused student is a 15 year old boy. He faces three counts of Second Degree sexual abuse, which is a felony. Police say they learned about the incident on october 25th and after investigating, they took the boy into custody yesterday. The trial will begin monday for a substitute teacher who admitted having a sexual relationship with a stude washington high school. Mary beth haglin, whos 24, faces a felony charge of sexual exploitation. A judge had moved her trial to tama county because of pretrial publicity. But haglin chose a bench trial, which means a judge will decide the case instead of a jury, so now it will take place in linn county. A little girl police found wandering the streets in central iowa is now in the custody of the department of human services. She is two years old and police her yesterday afternoon wearing pink pajamas but no shoes. Police dont know what led to the girl being alone. They have found a vehicle that may be connected to this little girl. Police havent arrested anyone. Have you seen news . Call newsline nine. That number is 3193659999. Also, snap a picture or shoot some horizontal video. And send it to newsroom at kcrg dot com. A will be joining people in north dakota who are protesting against the Dakota Access bakken oil pipeline. Moriah rhame, her husband, and another friend plan to be at the Standing Rock indian reservation early friday morning. They say they will peacefully protest the pipeline, but theyre taking protective gear with them. Protests have been taking place for months over concerns about the pipelines effects on tribal land and drinking water. The pipeline that will run from counties here in iowa. People in cedar rapids have a new place to shop for natural and organic produce. Natural grocers opened at 931 blairs ferry road northeast in cedar rapids this morning. Thats across from target. Natural grocers is hiring 18 people. All its produce is organic and the store also has a demonstratio n kitchen and complimentar y one on one health coaching. Oneanager says they are excited to open another location in iowa. Its pretty bus. Excited to be in cr. This is our 2nd store in iowa. Natural grocers is also planning to open another location in cedar falls in december. Organizers of this popular display of holiday lights in dubuque are trying something new. Kcrg tv nines Katie Wiedemann joins us live from murphy park, the site of reflections in the park. Katie, what are yes, for tonight only visitors can walk through the display instead of driving their cars. Directors tell us its a new option for an event thats become synonymous with christmas for thousands of visitors. Directors tell us this event helps raise more than 100thousand dollars to help pay for programs at Hillcrest Family services. More than 45thousand people visitor reflections in many of those visitors come with their families year after year as part of a family christmas tradition. Listen to this story about the very last visitor to come through the lights last year. A middle age guy with wisconsin plate and a diesel pick up truck comes rumbling down, hes all by himself. I said, welcome to reflections in the park, have you ever been here before . He said yes my mom and and used to come here every year. He started to cry and handed me her memorial card. She had just died two weeks prior. He was bringing her through one last time. Gansemer says there are that. Because this event has grown to be a family tradition. Over the years people have become engaged here, brought their newborns through. One couple even got married under the lights. A meaningful holiday tradition, now spanning over three generations. Live in dubuque, Katie Wiedemann, kcrgtv9. A long time thanksgiving tradition at the white house featured two special guests from iowa. Turkeys from a small town were on the National Stage to receive a pardon from the president. Stay with tv9. Today, president obama carried z26ckz zixz z26ckz zixz y26cky yixy thanksgiving turkeys. This year, the turkeys, named tatter and tot, are kcrg tv nines alex miller reports from our Washington Dc Bureau on the light hearted event at the white house. A tradition decades in the making from trumanto kennedy to bush. But at his final turkey pardon president obama says hes created another ritual to coincide with the holiday. I have established another tradition. Embarrassing my daughters with a daughters a mainstay at this event were missing this year. Instead, the president had his nephews by his side. Who unlike malia and sasha have not yet been turned cynical by washington. They still believe in bad puns. They still have hope. President obama made sure to cran in the puns. Because he says he doesnt want any leftovers though he joked hell continue the tradition out of the oval office. No cameras, just us, every year. No way im cutting this habit cold turkey. The president pardoned two turkeys raised on a farm in northw whether tater or tot would get their slice of the limelight. Tot got the official pardon. Tater is here in a backup role in case tot cant fulfill his duties. Hes sort of like the vice turkey. Were working on getting him a pair of aviator glasses. John reicks is the chairman of the National Turkey federation. He selected the turkeys and says they were treated like pets and prepared their whole lives18 weeks for today. 1 191 25 handle the pressure, the lights. And the family did well getting them trained for that. The turkeys will now head to their forever home at virginia techs gobblers rest. Where you can visit them if you happen to be on campus. Reporting at the white house. Alex miller wdbj 7 iowa mens basketball coach Fran Mccaffery and his wife rallied around one of their sons after finding out he had cancer. S how theyre now using what they learned from their sons fight to develo help others. Stay with your 24 hour news tonight, but thankfully the rain has stopped. As the wind swings around to the northwest a cool day is also ahead with no fog worries. There is a weak disturbance that rolls through morning. This could bring some flurries, but nothing that will have any major travel impacts. Saturday remains dry with low pressure heading back into the state on sunday bringing a shower chance. Have a great night and a happy thanksgiving. Tonight cloudy. Wind nw 515. Low 32 tomorrow cloudy and cool. Wind or light snow, mainly north. Wind se 510. Low 31 friday cloudy with flurries possible early, mainly north. High 41 low 31 saturday mostly cloudy. High 47 low 30 sunday chance of showers, mainly afternoon. High 47 low 35 monday chance of showers. High 45 low 34 tuesday chance of rain snow. High 42 low 34 wednesday chance of snow. High 38 low 30 38 low 25 how life changed for iowa mens basketball coach Fran Mccaffery and his wife because of their son patricks battle with Thyroid Cancer. And uni defensive end Karter Schult got a big honor for today. Stay with here is part 2 of my series the first family of iowa basketball. It is devastating news he thought he was going to die he knew what that meant. Patrick mccafferry was diagnosed with thyroid sure it didnt last very long ingot thru it so it is all good now. It is hard for anybody who is 13 years old and find out they have a tumor 14 years old when they find out its malignent. I do think those who reached out to him really impacted his ability to get thru it as well as he did. The support patrick received nationally and locally meant mccafferry family during a difficult time. It was people who had no connection to our family at all and just reached out because they had Thyroid Cancer and wanted us to know how the journey was going to be. It was a lot support it was really helpful to help me get thru it. Patrick had the malignent tumor removed march 19th of 2014 and his first question after surgery. Wether it was going to stunt his growth and the you pituitary gland not your thyroid so he breathed a sigh of relief he has grown about 8 inches since he got sick so the doctor was right about that. By june of 2014 patrick was cancer free but his battle with cancer changed their lives. I dont think i live and die with every possession like i once did i dont think you will see a major change in my intensity level. Patrick really appreciated the sup an indiana girl that was also battling Thyroid Cancer. That was cool because i was able to help somebody else out with what i went thru and guide her and help get thru it. Fran who lost both of his parents to cancer is fighting back thru coaches versus cancer and he has even lobbied on capitol hill for Cancer Research funding. To see the incredible mobilization of people from all over country and how much it we meet with senators and congressmen. The mccafferys are now working with the university of iowa and the holden comprehensiv E Cancer Center to develop a new adolescent and Young Adult Cancer program. Its a program that is centered around people who cancer between the ages of 13 and 30. The people in that age group are not fairing as well older adults or younger children so we need to have more research into thrilled that they asked us to help and we trying to focus and bring as much ergy and awareness as we can because that is what you do when you have been impacted by that disease. That is what life is all about giving back. And a big thanks to the mccafferys for inviting me into their home to show what an amazing family they have. Karter schult who was named the Missouri Valley conference defensive player of the year. The tripoli native led all of done football with 17 sacks and tied for second in tackles for a loss with 24. Thanks, scott. Now heres a look at todays most viewed web with your 24hour village of cedar rapids had to move partially because of the flooding. Tonight on tv nine news at 10, hear why she is scrambling to get her new shop open for the holidays. And now to First Alert Storm Team meteorologis t joe winters for your final forecast. Tonight, but thankfully the rain has stopped. As the wind swings around to the northwest a cool day is also ahead with no fog worries. There is a weak disturbance that rolls through thursday night into friday morning. This could bring some flurries, but nothing that will have any major travel impacts. Saturday remains dry with low pressure heading back into the state on sunday bringing a shower chance. Have a great night and a happy thanksgiving. Tonight cloudy. Wind nw 515. Low 32 tomorrow cloudy and cool. Wind w 510 high 40 thanks for joining us for birds singing, insects trilling sheldon its nice to get back to nature. Why dont i do this more often . What a beautiful forest. gasps delightedly hello, little butterfly. Whats your na. screams whatcha doing . I was enjoying some virtual reality, until you ruined it with your actual face. What am i smelling . Oh, its car air freshener. I was simulating the smell of the forest. Thats not what the forest smells like. Well, how would i know . Why are you pretending to be outdoors . You hate it. Hmm . Oh. Amy showed me a compelling study that demonstrated the cognitive benefit of spending time in the wilderness. Buddy, i am ready to drive you into the wilderness any time you want and leave you there