The race for the gop president ial nomination is switching course here in iowa. A new Des Moines Register poll released yesterday shows texas senator ted cruz leading longtime frontrunner donald trump. Cruz sits 10 points higher at 31 percent, in this poll of a little more than 400 iowa republicans. Trump is still in 2nd place, with 21 percent support. Dr. Ben carson, who once held now in 3rd place with 13 percent. Florida senator marco rubio runs in 4th place. He is the only other candidate in the field of 13 who is in the double digits, with 10 percent support. Cruz has gained momentum over the past 30 days. Last weekend in cedar rapids, he acknowledge d that jump in the polls. Cruz believed more conservatives are choosing him now, after evaluating other candidates. Though donald trump sits in second place in iowa, hes still out in front in Many National polls. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is still far behind trump in the gop field. Yesterday, he attributed Trumps National lead to Constant Media coverage. 75 million of free airtime for donald trump so far and people wonder why he is ahead in the polls you keep talking about him and that is what is gonna happen. That was christie in new hampshire. Christie also defended trump saying hes not hateful or a bigot. People in crowd. Bernie says Prison Reform and social justice were the top issues at a town hall meeting for Bernie Sanders in anamosa. Yesterday, sanders started a twoday Campaign Across eastern iowa at Strawberry Hill elementary school. Sanders talked about decriminalizing marijuana, and putting more resources into education and less into prisons. Sanders also made stops in clinton, dubuque, and waterloo. This morning at 11, sanders will attend a service at Mount Carmel Baptist church in waterloo. Then around 2 15, hell head to mount vernon for a round table discussion with veterans. At 3, hell speak at Cornell College, also in mount vernon. Thats in the campus gymnasium. Hillary clinton is also returning to eastern iowa this week. Shes hosting a town hall meeting on wednesday at the Old Brick Church in iowa city. Today, hollywood actor and director tony goldwyn is campaigning on clintons behalf. Abcs scandal. Hell be helping out with canvass kickoff events in. Cedar rapids, iowa city, and in bettendorf. World leaders from 200 nations have accepted a global deal to end climate change. Yesterday, paris presented the paris agreement. The deal aims to keep Global Temperatures from rising another one degree celcius between now and year 2100. It also seeks to limit the amount of Greenhouse Gases humans produce to levels that trees, soil, and oceans can absorb naturally. Right now, individual governments need to ratify the deal before it can take affect. President obama has acknowledged the agreement isnt perfect. Negotiations that involve nearly 200 nations are always challenging. Even if all the initial targets set in paris are met, well only be part of the way there when it comes to reducing carbon from the atmosphere, so we cannot be complacent because of todays solved because of this accord. The 55 countries that have yet to ratify the deal, account for about 55 percent of the worlds Global Carbon emissions. Marching for change. Some iowans are taking to the streets of iowa city, to make sure their voices are heard area, especially the northwest portion. A Flash Flood Warning has been issued for hardin, story, marshall, tama, black hawk, and Grundy County until 8 am. Rivers and creeks are starting to rise quickly. Remember, if you see are roadway covered in water, turn around dont drown. Rain will continue throughout the entire day, dropping 1 to 3 inches and potentially higher amounts are possible. Record rainfall amounts will be broken. Temperatures are also very mild today. We will start off in the upper 50s this morning and continue to rise thanks britley. Chocolate joy is spreading its the national day for a drink thats hundreds of years old. And best enjoyed when its cold outside. Two months ago, north dakota state defeated uni 3128 at the fargodome. Two years ago in fargo, it was another close loss for uni, 2423. Today, the panthers were hoping to pull off the upset in the fcs quarterfinals. Ndsu is the 4time defending national champion, theres their head coach chris klieman. Used to be on mark farleys staff. First drive for the panthers, aaron bailey playaction, throws it up and Brandon Smith hauls it in for the 25yard touchdown. Thats just his 3rd reception of the season. Panthers lead 7. Watch Deiondre Hall strip the ball away and jared farley recovers for uni. Thats why hall was named the conference defensive player of the year. It would lead to this Michael Schmadeke 32yard fieldgoal. Panther s go up 107. Their defense was spectacular in the first half, tripoli native Karter Schult comes up with another sack. Uni would lead 107 at the break. But on the opening kickoff of the 2nd half, Bruce Anderson finds the lane. It looks he spins and breaks free. He goes 97 yards for the touchdown. Bison go up 1410. 4th quarter, same score, twopossession game with this 4yard touchdown. Ndsu up 2110. Uni quickly drove down the field and settled for a 23yard fieldgoal from schmadeke. Panthers trail 2113. Their defense made a stand, so last chance for the uni offense. But for the safety. Panther season comes to an end as ndsu wins 23 13. Scott westerberg has more from fargo in a game that came down to just a few plays the argument could be made these are the two best team left in the postseason. Coach farley and the panthers didnt disagree. I felt like these two teams were the two best teams. Somebody asked me earlier in the week if we had the best team. I knew the two best teams were playing this week. I didnt say it, but i felt the two best teams in the field were playing today. North dakota state obviously has a great team. The rest of the teams in the field are great too, but i feel like the game today was like a title bout, like a heavyweight fight. Coach farley talks about what uni football means to you. You sit there as a freshman and say, ok, thats a head coach just saying some stuff and as the year goes on and now in my senior year you really understand what the Program Means to you, and it means something to me and deiondre and the rest of the seniors for the rest of our lives. Had. It was a great run. Off but the seniors played great. Those are lifetime brothers. If you were in the locker room you could see it on the faces of the seniors, the juniors, all the people in there. We were going for one goal and it hurts. Its like a stab to the heart that it ended up this way. Unis season ends with seven straight wins and a trip to the quarterfinals. The panthers bring back nine starters on offense, but the defense has some big holes to fill. From fargo, Scott Westerberg tv9 sports. Thank you scott. Lets go to the division 2 football semifinals. West georgia taking on northwest missouri state. 4th quarter. That is iowa city regina grad george sehl with the catch and taking in 64 yards to the house for norhwest missouri state. Northwest missoursi state will play for the National Championship next week versus shepherd university. Solon tight end jacob coons has committed to the university of iowa. Hes pounds. He caught 10 passes for 233 yards and 3 spartans. Hes the 4th verbal commitment class. The uni Mens Basketball Team was on the east coast on tuesday, now theyre on the west side of the country taking on new mexico. We go to the pit, first time these two teams have ever met. Uni leads the Missouri Valley conference with 78 three that trend going as linnmar grad Matt Bohannon nails a three gives it to iowa city west grad wyatt lohaus. Beautiful arc its Paul Jesperson finding an open look and hitting a three had some threes of their own as Anthony Mathis plays a little string music. New mexico goes on to win 76 to 57. Mens college basketball, wartburg at mount mercy. The mustangs put a lot of pressure on the mustangs. They get the steal off the trap and chris ford finishes with the layup for two of his 17 points picker. He hustles the other way and lays it in. He also had 17 points. That puts the mustangs up 2416. Wartburg tries to find a spark. Western dubuque grad nick webber drives, banks it in and he gets the foul. Knights down by six. But the mustangs respond as c. J. Parker hits the 3ball corner pocket. Mount mercy wins 8575. The wartburg women were also in action at cornell. 1st quarter action, diamond boyd splits the wartburg d and she lays it in for two points. Little bit later, boyd attacks the inside again. She had a teamhigh 22 points for the rams. But wartburg was on fire from threepoint land. Bobbie burrows buries the three off the inbounds pass. She had 14 points. Closing seconds of the first quarter, the kickout to linnmar grad Kristie Sommer and she beats the buzzer. Wartburg had 12 3pointers and wins 7562. Linnmar grad marcus paige made History Today as North Carolina took on texas sticks the landing on that threepointer. Hes now tied as the schools alltime 3pointers leader with Shammond Williams at 233. But just a little later, marcus left wide open for three. He breaks the record. Big congrats to him. He finished with 20 points tonight. Welcome back, in high school wrestling, nine teams took part in the five seasons dual at cedar rapids kennedy. Lets go to the championship round between prairie and alburnett. Remember, prairie coach Kane Thompson used to be the head coach at alburnett. Prairie jumped out to a huge lead. 106, Conrad Braswell nearly gets the fall at the end of the 3rd period. But he still wins the match 154 to give the hawks a 286 lead. Alburnett tries to collect some points. 120, ben moyer with the fall to give the pirates six points. They still trail 31 12. At 132, number one ranked sam uthoff pins his opponent in the first period to help prairie win the five seasons dual, 4034. College wrestling, iowa wyoming in their big 12 opener. 133, earl hall taking on p. T. Garcia. Hall gets the takedown as he stays inbounds. He won by major decision, 144. Fast forward to bear hugs Benjamin Stroh and takes him down. Nearly gets the pin, but still gets the back 14. To the ice, roughriders hosting omaha. Abdelkader dropping the puck tonight. 1st period, omaha gets on the board first, as mitch perraults shot finds its way through traffic and into the net. Lancers go up 10. The roughriders try to respond in the closing seconds of the first period on the powerplay. But Zackarias Skog stopped all those shots. Roughriders fall 41. Indoor soccer, rampage hosting milwaukee. 3rd quarter, rampage were on the powerplay and had some decent chances to score being down 31. But milwaukee wave goalkeeper matt eisold made a couple of good saves. The rampage come close, but still fall 86 area, especially the northwest portion. A Flash Flood Warning has been issued for hardin, story, marshall, tama, black hawk, and Grundy County until 8 am. Rivers and creeks are starting to rise quickly. Remember, if you see are roadway covered in water, turn around dont drown. Rain will continue throughout the entire day, dropping 1 to 3 inches and potentially higher amounts are possible. Record rainfall amounts will be broken. Temperatures are also very mild today. We will start off in the upper 50s this morning and continue to rise into the low 60s by when its cold. Nothing beats when its cold. Nothing beats a cup of hot cocoa. According to the national day calendar, it is believed the first chocolate beverage was created by the mayans. Cocoa is made from the dried, fermented seeds of the cacao treeand used to make cocoa powder. Fancy self balancing hoverboards can be seen just about everywhere these days. But one ohio mom has a warning for parents who are considering buying the futuristic skate board. She says the charger for her sons monorover hoverboard caught fire, even though the machine wasnt attached at the time. The charger started smoking and the family had to throw it outside to keep everyone safe. The family has sent an email to the monorover company, but say they havent heard back. The Us Product Safety Commission is investigating at least 10 reports of hoverboard fires. Good morning from National Debate over gun control. Some iowans remember one tragic event in us history, as they work to end gun violence. And an eastern iowa teenagers longtime wish becomes reality. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is the kcrgtv9 saturday morning news. But first, meteorologis t britley ritz has your first alert forecast, britley. Significant rain has moved into the tv 9 viewing area, especially the northwest portion. A Flash Flood Warning has been issued for hardin, story, marshall, tama, black hawk, and Grundy County until 8 am. Rivers and creeks are starting to rise quickly. Remember, if you see are roadway covered in water, turn around dont drown. Rain will continue throughout the entire day, dropping 1 to 3 inches and amounts are possible. Record rainfall amounts will be broken. Temperatures are also very mild today. We will start off in the upper 50s this morning and continue to rise into the low 60s by midmorning. Thanks britley. Nearly 3 years ago, a shooter killed 20 children and 6 educators at sandy hook elementary in newtown, connecticut. Monday will be the first time that tragic date december 14th will fall on a school day in newtown. Across the nation, many people are wearing orange this weekend to remember those victims and protest gun violence. Mccarthy shows us why some eastern iowans hope their voices will lead to change. These are the names. Avielle richman, benjamin wheeler, allison wyatt, dawn hochsprung. And stories. 32 26 Charlotte Bacon was six years old, she wanted to be a veterinarian when she grew up. Of victims of a shooting so sad, for leslie pettie, its still hard to comprehend. Her writing. 32 13 how could anyone be so merciless . She says helps. Shes not the only one using her voice. 02 25 we walk today to remember all those who are victims of, survivors of, and witness to gun violence. We walk today because that list is achingly, horribly long. A long line of orange wove from a downtown Iowa City Library chanting steps one mom says are for sandy hook. 13 11 i have three Young Children and i very much saw their faces in the faces of those children. Anyone who was watching from the sideline said this is it, i have to get involved. Something she felt so strongly, she couldnt stay silent. Shes part of a group called moms demand action. They want Gun Legislation reform and ultimately to end gun violence. A goal she fights for with her children in mind, saying tragedy can happen here. These lock down drills for an active shooter and it creates a lot of fear for the kids, to have to imagine that scenario and be preparing for that is traumatic. I think wed all like to where thats not a reality for our kids. Thats why people here say today. Jack pinto, age 6. These names. Their stories. On the last day she would ever attend school, she wore a new pink dress and her favorite pair of boots. Kcrgtv9 news. Aircare took an edgewood woman after her car ran into a manure spreader. The iowa state patrol says 74yearold verna lenth tried to swerve to avoid a tractor on gunder road near postville on friday night. They say her vehicle ran into it, sending her into oncoming traffic. She ended up colliding with an suv. Air med flew lenth to a hospital in la crosse, wisconsin. Just to the west, air care took another woman to the hospital, after a crash near clermont. The state patrol says 30yearold lacey nagel of waukon hit a deer on highway 18, causing her to enter the opposite lane of traffic. Her car collided headon with an suv driven by 58yearold susan roberts. Air care took roberts to a la crosse, wisconsin hospital. A driver in downtown cedar rapids damaged a car and the side of a building. Last night, Police Responded to a crash near 8th avenue and 6th Street Southeast a little before 7. Officers say a man drove and then smashed into the side of a building. As you can see, the car is about halfway through the front door of that building. The driver of the car initially hit was not hurt. An ambulance took the driver of the other car that went into the building to the hospital with minor injuries. Officials say a man tried assaulting a Police Officer, after he stole food from a Grocery Store in cedar falls. Investigators say a man charged at a Police Officer in the College Square manor parking lot, near hyvee. Cedar falls police went to the store after 6 saturday morning. They got a report that 33yearold Mic