been chilly and snow on the ground. today temperatures were around 40 degrees. so close to where we should be this time of year. it was a nice quiet date with no rain or snow. tonight there is a weak disturbance moving across eastern iowa and as you can see there is a band of rain and snow mixed that is trying to work its way to the central part of our viewing area. were not expecting this to last but there could be a brief period of snow as it comes by. right now -- fire investigators are trying to figure out what caused a massive fire in central city this morning.it happened at recycling business on iehl street.fox 28 news anchor matt hammilljoins us live from central city. matt? a thanksgiving no one will forget - as explosions rocked the town early this morning.as you can see behind us - - still some hot spots -- smouldering - - ad lib - - but also a feeling this could have been so much worse. nats fire " " witnesses saw flames soar into the air and responding fire teams could see the smoke ten miles before they got to the scene - with so much oil - to feed the fire - what started in one building - another.nat ((3:24:32)) " the explosions are going off and you can feel the heat. " neighbors say - the flames moved so fast - they didn't know what would happen next. tina vanourney - witnessed iowa gold fire (( 3:24:37 )) " it's crazy, it was very scary, i had major panic attack until i figured out you know for sure what was going on. " nats - fire " " right in the middle of the battle - as crews struggled to bring the raging fire under control - chief jim o'leary bring the fire under control, the chief watch the smoke settling over central city and >> we do have them to turn the heat off and shut the windows. >> one firefighter had to be rushed to the hospital for exertion and other stepped up. joe trexler's son is a volunteer and says everyone rushes in. >> he is caring air tanks to make sure the firefighters have fresh air. >> crews fought through the afternoon before the flames at philando control. the chief calls it an emotional day. people left their families to help the community and the chief is thankful for them all. >> we were told we were just volunteers. >> everyone did an awesome job. they did great. >> more than half a dozen other departments rushing to help. the fire chief says the air quality here is fine. no worries about that. he expects the state fire marshal to come in to search for the cause. covering the corridor tonight in central city , matt hammill fox28 news team expect we want to thank our viewers who submitted some of these pictures of the fire. have a gallery on our website. it out. breaking news tips pictures or video make sure to share with us on our facebook page. >> two corridor schools grabbed national attention this marched in the chicago thanksgiving day parade.this is the first time either band has been selected to march in a national parade. marching band musicmarching bands -- giant balloons -- pa all the other thanksgiving balloons and parade cars and all the other thanksgiving favorites filled the streets in new york city for the macy's charlie brown and the mc- donalds clown.security was heightened this year after parade security threats.new york city closed the streets down the day before to get ready.about three million people were at the parade this year. some members of the corridor community spent the morning making sure other people got a reporter mellaney moore takes us along to see how one community cared for their neighbor. for some in the cedar rapids community, fellowship this holiday came from friendly faces right at their front door.00:07:31 hi, how are you doing?120 volunteers carefully packed thanksgiving meals for delivery.23:52:34 mom we need your organization skills, pleasekathy horan, aging services vice president 23:59:34 we have in our community a lot of older adults who are home bound or maybe don't have family to come with them on the holidays. some volunteers met for the first time.23:53:50 hello, i'm kyliekathy horan, aging services vice president 23:59:54 for a lot of our volunteers it's a family tradition.dotti burke, volunteer00:03:05 i look forward to this every year because i've been doing this over 30 years.a first round of volunteers packed cold food 00:04:18 cranberry sauce, there's rolls and butter, silverware and of course pumpkin pie.then another packed the hot food with all the fixin's.23:54:56 oh this is going to be an awesome scoop.23:53:32 potatoes coming in, hot!23:55:28 hang on, baby 23:53:25 turkey on twocounting blessings...and boxes.00:00:16 we've got over 700 meals going that...23:55:37 way to go, team one!it's a wrap.23:57:11 paper crinklepacking up holiday ...23:56:25 happy thanksgiving!...cheer23:56:09 woohoomellaney moore, fox 28 mellaney woohoo23:56:09 woohoomellaney moore, fox 28 news at nine. organizers say you can call aging services to find out how you can get involv or have a meal delivered to your door. many corridor retailers are ready for the holiday shopping rush.this is a live look at lindale mall which opened up at six tonight.managers tell fox 28 news every store got last minute shipments for black friday so they should be ready for all of the early shoppers.lindale will be open until one a-mthe mall will reopen at six tomorrow morning.several other stores are open right now .j-c-penney friday.best buy is open until one a-m.the electronics retailer reopens at eight tomorrow morning.coral ridge mall is also open tonight until midnight.the mall will re-open at six a-m on black friday.tanger outlet center in williamsburg will be open until 10 friday night. in iowa city -- the area's chamber of commerce is rewarding shoppers for taking their holiday lists to local stores.12 businesses are participating in the buy her holiday blitzchamber representatives say there is no purchase necessary to sign up. tickets go into three drawings in december.there will be two 500 dollar prize winners in each drawing.we have complete list of participating stores on our website fox 28 iowa dot com. are you going out shopping tonight or tomorrow?we want to see your photos!in the fox 28/cbs2 news app -- click on the "see it, send it" tab in photos in an upcoming newscast. the salvation army's famous red kettles are out across the corridor.the organization is trying to raise 805-thousand dollars through their annual kettle campaign.fox 28 news reporter joe husinga shows us how you can get invovled. pkgthe holidays are an important time for the salvation army.lia pontarelli 15;35;03;26 during the christmas campaign we project we hope to raise 48% of our annual operating budget so really important to us for next sure that we're meeting the needs of community. 11do that volunteers schneidermerry with more thousand cover and only a the times thankful for dedicated lia pontarelli, development, army they've got all filled out that they've they want want. jeannie 15;51;02;26 i like this is my i live not too and i know a people 6are you)post no weather.schneiderthe man that before me and gave me hand walk around a sometimes i sad and brings me hot taking her backschneiderfortunate and donation at a time. covering the corridor joe huisinga fox28 news. >> right now the red kettle campaign has raised more than fox28 news at nine we are taking a look outside and making sure all your travel plans for getting home from your thinks giving dinner are so clear. this is i-380 at fort street at fort st., southeast. smooth sailing so far on thinks giving night. >> in parts of the area we have rain and snow showers on going. we will explore those more in detail and t z2z24z4zzzzz z z1212fz z2z24z4zzzzz z z1212fz y24zzy y12fy tomorrow on fox 28 morning live, as you recover from your thanksgiving coma - we have some last laughs for you. why you need to make penguins comedy club part of your thanksgiving festivities. that's tomorrow morning right here at 7 a-m. before the >> before the sun came up this were hitting the road with hundreds of pounds of food. they were packed up in a bus and heading to north dakota to feed the people protesting the north dakota access pipeline. they brought me hot milk and roles to the volunteers. >> we need to do something. we need to have a call to arms. >> we will have a lot of still. it's about thanksgiving. >> the volunteers will cook as much as they can and donate the rest to other groups preparing food. they are trying to feed as many people as possible. the holiday season is also called the season of giving for organizations that rely on donations, this is a critical time of year. mellaney moore found out that giving can be good for you center operates a 24 hour crisis line. a mobile crisis outreach program the largest food bank in the county and rent and utility assistance. the services impact thousands of johnson county residents each year and that takes a lot of resources. >> we get over 43% of our income from donations from the community. >> generally a third of donations come in a single month. >> start seeing a spike in november but triples in december. >> people say it feels good to give and there are reasons why. >> taking direct action on those things that we think are important is meaningful. >> dr. burke says kindness triggers positive biological changes. >> this process of these feel- good things getting released in your system has a direct affect on the stress response in your body. >> the crisis center says they are so thankful for the community's help and as it you too. >> there would be no way to replace our donors generosity. there's nothing we could do to fill that void if people stop giving. >> experts say even witnessing someone else giving their time or donating resources can have some of the same benefits. >> one waiter got a huge surprise this holiday season. a waiter in houston shared a picture of a receipt he got from a generous customer this week. jeffrey left left a for a meal that cost more than $122. the note said hopefully this can help you back to ireland for the holidays. >> i had on fox 28 news at 9 the time transition continues. the message from the partisan -- president elect on thinks giving day. >> coming up next we will tracking rain and snow showers that are moving across eastern iowa and can tell you what you can expect further rest of the the trump >> at 9. they look above lindel malt we see plenty of cars. those stores are open. they will be open until the wee hours of the morning. 1 am when it closes. it will open back up early at 6:00 tomorrow. tomorrow is black friday. we have seen people camped out in all kinds of weather that is much worse than we are seeing friday think. >> when the deals are that good -- >> who doesn't want a bargain. our weather has been a good bargain around here in recent times. we have not had a lot of cold and so far very little in the way of snow. if you places have had flurries. tonight on the radar we do have a narrow stripe of visa petition that is moving across our central counties and here and there there is snow. we're going to go closer on this. the thing you will no not very wide. it extends north of highway 30 which runs through here and south of highway 20. where you are seeing the blue is where there may be snow showers. that extends from the south of the puke back to monticello into anamosa and into central city and centerpoint. that's where you can see some further to the south temperatures are warmer and primarily rain. this will quickly move east and be out by midnight tonight and that will be and tomorrow will be a much drier day across eastern iowa. if you will be traveling tomorrow morning were doing shopping around eastern iowa the temperatures are expected to be in the 30s. skies will be cloudy and temperatures will be chilly. the normal lows ar start the day tomorrow. on satellite, you can see this is a weak system. not much organization. it is moving quickly. we will get this out of here but the clouds not showing much of a tendency to clear. i'm thinking tomorrow will be another overcast day and without the sunshine temperatures will struggle to get much above 40 degrees. here's a disturbance little on our predictor we will show you the model is not impressed with this. at midnight if not showing any light snow or rain. it's under doing a bit. finally tomorrow morning everything is moves off into wisconsin and illinois. around noon you can see the package of the clouds tried to punch into the western counties. if everything goes right the clearing should get in here late tomorrow afternoon or evening. chance we will see sunshine and that will allow the temperatures to jump up into the 50s. if you are heading to kinnick stadium for the big game at 2:30. the kickoff temperature is 41 degrees and mostly cloudy skies. a nice conditions. you'll notice on the weekend with the southwest -- west winds blowing we eventually have 57 degrees by next wednesday and thursday the temperatures won't be too much above the freezing mark. we do have the nexus of the comes in with the front on sunday night or monday. it could produce some rain and something where fine-tuning the next few days. tonight the temperatures will be around 30 to 32 degrees. in our southern counties not too much happening. low temperatures around 32 234 and many clouds around. in t cloudy conditions and upper 30s to lower 40s. in the southern counties the clouds will hold on until late in the day. temperatures around 42 in cedar rapids. 41 in monticello. >> here's the extended forecast. we are dry on sunday -- saturday. sunday night and monday the rancid -- ring system will move in. >> next on fox 28 news at nine voters just passive $40 million bond measure on election day. find out how some leaders say it could be worth five times more when fox 28 news at nine returns. >> the day for your weather >> welcome back. president-elect donald trump continues to make his transition to the white house. he tweeted today he is working hard even on thanksgiving. keep manufacturing in the united states also. released a video asking americans to set aside their differences. >> we have just finished a long and bruising political campaign. emotions are raw and tensions do not heal overnight. >> right now there are tensions around who should be secretary of state. 2012 gop mitt romney is on the shortlist. trump's advisor kellyanne conway says on twitter she is getting a lot of messages warning against romney position. president obama spent the day wishing a happy thanks giving to the men and women serving overseas. the president made nine phone calls to service numbers in the marine corps, army, navy and coast guard. he wish them a happy holiday and thank them all for their service. >> in the same election that linn county voters decide to reduce the county voters of supervisors from 5 to 3 saving the county thousand dollars of salary. measure for water quality. they say the goal is to attract more money and prevent water quality disputes already happening in other parts of the state. >> the water rushing past rocks on the what's up i river stops for no one. linn county supervisor says neither to the increasing problems with i went waterways. >> water quality cannot continue to go the way it is in iowa. we have the most impaired rivers. >> that's why olson says three years ago he started to push for a significant investment for the water that runs through linn county. he says initially he wanted 60 million research showed $40 million with still start the process and sit a better chance of being approved. it will cost taxpaying sirs -- about 27 $27 million year and about two dollars per month. >> my goal is to take that 40 million. >> the county where the pot to partnership using the $40 million to provide matching funds to grants over the next 20 years. larry hughes is a vice president of the lien county conservation board. >> for some project it's easy to get partner dollars and others it's more challenging. especially water and land protection. >> having money on hand allows the county to make more projects possible as soon as they are proposed even they don't have the time to raise a lot of cash. >> developing a wetland is one leveraging dollars. yes, we passed a 40 million dollar bond measure for linn county but we can have many community partners involved whether private funds or grant dollars and those dollars could double or even triple and you get more of a bang for your buck there.there's also more room for communities or individual people to come forward with project proposals.this is going to be shark tank on the environmental level so people we're going to see if it makes financial and good sense for linn county to invest in it. those proposals will be judged on how they help water quality -- store water to help prevent floods and improve the existing recreational areas.we felt the majority of our focus should be to water and land existing recreational areas. >> we thought the majority of our focus should be to water and land protection. that's our greatest need. >> 12 million of the 40 million is marked for park about 22 million of the $40 million will be reserved for water quality and land protection. >> this is after the treatment process has sent many different things. >> improving water quality has been in the spot light. the water utility company is suing three rural counties over the nitrate that gets put into the waterworks has to take out. alston said linn county could face similar problems. >> is not as bad as the morning but it could get that way given the rate at which our rivers are becoming impaired with heavy nitrates and other pollutants. >> olson says the first step in linn county will do with the out water trust fund was intended to do in 2010 when it was passed. that is a protective find. problem is the legislature has not put money into the find. >> this should sent a signal you have to do it the right way. >> the vote is an affirmation the people are aware of our natural resources and want us to do better by them. >> olson says he's pulling together a citizens review board to make sure the projects that get money from the funds stay true to the mission and the way that many supposed to be prioritized. if it's something you want to be a part of you can reach out to print directly to his county >> this weekend i will in focus i sit down with linn county supervisor amy johnson. we talked about her extremely busy six months. catch iowa in focus every sunday morning on fox 28 at 9:30 on cbs 2 on -- at 10:30. >> next teaching the x's and o's of football. the special reason wt about much more than their >> everyone thinks of football when they think of score in bunches and can entertain you while they do it. what they have not shown is how invitational - the cylones up against indiana state... first half - the 'clones get a lift from darrell bowie - a nifty finish from the transfer - bowie had 13 and 11...late in the game - down two - monte morris taking over - he splits the defenders and kisses the window - we're all tied up at 69...later - down two again - matt thomas in that's what you call a shooter's roll...the go-ahead three bounces in - the sycamores miss at the buzzer... and iowa state escapes, 73 to 71 - they'll play miami tomorrow at 10 a-m... the hawkeye men will play in the emerald coast classic on saturday - their opponent - 7th-ranked virginia - a team known for low scoring, grind- it-out games - which is friday. their opponent seventh -ranked virginia. if a team known for low-scoring grinding out games which is if fran mccaffrey's team is precise on offense they can play with the cavaliers. >> is not a team you will score on one pass. you have to work the ball. you have to run your stuff. you have to get the ball moving. >> right now in iowa women are playing in the cancun challenge. they trail ucla by 11 in the fourth quarter. >> there is a fee involved that that alone does not make a rivalry. what does years and years of nailed biters and hatred. iowa and nebraska don't hate each other get but this series gets bigger and bigger every year. 12 months ago the hawks won in lincoln to claim a big 10 w. title. this year i will is aiming for a strong november finish and whoever stands in the way is against these guysboth teams are gonna go in there and compete - with the trophy on the line - last game of the season - nationally televised all that stuff - so you know you're gonna wanna play your best gladbrook-reinbeck football just went back to back - two straight state football championships for the rebels - the man with the headset doesn't want any credit - but john olson - our ed thomas - coach of the week... of coaching football - john olson knows -the x's and o's - he is a genius - he literally knows where to put us every time - to make us successfulhe's got a great understanding of what goes on in the games - he calls out stuff that i just can't see - - he's football smart he's also - people smart i just think i try to think likehe or 16 years old - i don't know if football's the most important thing to them - but during those two hours we want it to be the most important thing to them and the rebels win with players - not plays he's really good with everybody - and he knows the game of to turkey day to turkey day them influence on making an making an influence on them to turkey day football - the vikings in detroit to play the lions...first half - matt asiata is eating lion for thanksgiving - he charges through for a score - we're tied at 7....final minute of the game now - tied at 13 - sam bradford - the opposite of clutch - he throws it - right - to - darius slay... and that's how you lose - matt prater kicks the game winner... and the vikings lose a >> at 9. a live look from central city where crews are still working on some of those utility poles and power lines near where that big fire and set of explosions earlier today at an oil recycling plant in central city. a massive fire that took hours to put out now tonight that fire is under control and is out that the crew still working to repair the damage that was done. weekend to get the latest information on what happened. let's go now to chief meteorologist terry swails to look beyond our seven-day forecast.>> in that picture i could see some raindrops and if you wet snowflakes around central city. this is part of a narrow band of precipitation that is cutting across our central counties generally south of highway 20 and north of highway 30. if this area in here that extends through monticello into southernub cedar rapids with there may be if you wet snowflakes. i don't see anything that is expected to stick and these showers will move across the region to the nighttime hours and by tomorrow morning they are long gone. if you will be doing traveling or shopping looks like temperatures tomorrow should be in the low to midshipman 30s in eastern iowa and skies will be cloudy. temperatures should be around 41 degrees. as will be mostly cloudy and for this time of year that is a good day for football in iowa city. now beyond the seven day, you can see we have good weather in terms of temperatures as we go into the weekend. we make reach 57 degrees by the time we get to monday. later in the day a strong front comes through and after that temperatures get closer to normal and finally around the fifth or sixth of december expecting a strong front. the high temperatures that we are projecting around the six and seven they dropped from 32 to 20 tubes. so much colder air appears to come in as we get later into the time they are. our extended forecast shows 42 tomorrow and 52 on saturday. late on sunday and into monday a chance of showers. those are expected to move out by tuesday you can see the our high temperature next wednesday at 34 degrees. >> before families got started sitting down to begin their feast tonight, thousands of runners made their way to new bohemia or the annual turkey trot. matt lang shows us how runners got a morning workout and gave back. >> reporter: food, family and football and fitness. >> although heart health is not the first thing people's mike thinks giving day this morning there were 2000 people in there's nothing early morning run -- just ask these guys.(nats)but when you can run with loved ones on a holiday to support the american heart association -- that's just gravy. "it's kind of a family tradition now that people come out and run and also volunteer. we have a lot of families that are volunteering volunteer. we have families that are volunteering together. loved the results."last year there's two-thousand"but they aren't the only ones looking to make the turkey trot as much of a thanksgiving day staple as a second piece of pumpkin pie. "two of us are running, the rest are walking." janet and her family were excited to add to their turkey-day tradition. "mentioned the shirts that came with it and the kids were on, mentioned the cinnamon rolls and the husbands were on!" so was ashley's family. "we decided that it would be fun to do the turkey trot as a family and then we are, umm, going to indulge ourselves in wonderful food and desert after this." the question, even with the run will the calorie count be on the positive or the negative side today?"oh geez, well you know they offer cinnamon rolls afterwards and pie is our favorite food so, positive side.""positive, yeah, we're going to have too many calories today." "i get two pies, i get two pies!"the turkey trot does plan on returning to cedar rapids next year following the big turnout once again -- and even if you don't want to run -- walkers are welcome to participate and anyone can or family run -- matt lange -- fox 28 news. next on the fox 28 news at nine --a thanksgiving that's out of this world-the special way one team is celebrating the holiday together that we'll likely never experience. that will likely never experienced. >> 6000 american service members are celebrating because of the army's cooks they are getting a taste of home. box 20 news reporter holly williams reports from northern iraq. >> reporter: many of them not long out of high school. they are american soldiers in the fight of -- against isis. >> it's a long way from home for private first class. men casa learn -- southern california. >> i came out of basic. >> many others were children when the u.s. invaded iraq in 2003. they told us they don't know much about america's recent history here. five years after they u.s. said are now 60 -- 6000 service members back in the country again. >> is private is caught with the security in the command center launching airstrikes on isis. >> you could give your life to protect others. >> yes. >> is that scary? >> no not really. shoulders. this specialist a 22-year-old from north carolina told us she is thankful to her grandfather who served as a military cook inspiring her to an list. >> a passion to serve their country in many different ways has led them half way across the world and in the battle to defeat isis extremists. a laboratory and the chef calls himself a scientist you know it's not going to be your average turkey dinner. fox28 news reporter caitlin wesley has a behind look at how and you and is serving up in space. >> we have all the fixings. traveling from your mama's kitchen to your empty plate. it's traveling from texas a&m to outer space. >> this is what we used to fill sauces. >> benjamin o'neill is a contracted food scientist at nasa. he in these students work with the johnson space center in houston to fill these pouches. -- >> are you a good cook? >> i don't know about that. >> the team knows the stakes are sky high. >> don't want to get any astronauts sick. 251 degrees fair -- fahrenheit is to kill all the organisms. >> i tried the food. >> astronaut bonnie dunbar teaches at texas a&m. >> this is the picture of the six expedition. the 50 crewmembers that are celebrating thanksgiving in space tonight. peggy whitson is there and she is the oldest woman to go to space. >> next on fox 28 news at nine >> we do have a few light showers around eastern iowa. there should be gone by tomorrow morning. will start the day cloudy and end up temperatures in the upper 30s hey. what are you doing? picking out a shirt. oh. that one looks nice. you like it? yeah. then no. okay. uh, list i was wondering, um...e, do you have any plans for thanksgiving? alan, i don't think that far ahead. it's this thursday. no kidding. didn't we just get through that whole pumpkin-- the costume thing with the kid? lloween? yeah.ha yeah, thres ago.e week huh. then no, i--i got no plans. why? well, i was thinking, uh, jake's going to be with his mom and her parents, and i thought maybe you and i could do something. okay. want to go to vegas? well, i was thinking something ttle more traditional.a li reno? charlie, it's a famiay. ly holid yeah, so, i'm your family...

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