Right now many in cedar rapids are demanding answers after an officer involved shooting earlier this month. A crpd officer shot jeremie mitchell who remains hospitalized now two weeks since the shooting. Cbs 2 News Reporter dora miller has been following this case from the beginning. Beginning. Every night youll hear them on this family of Jerime Mitchell making sure he isnt forgotten. Forgotten. We basically want to make sure that this does not swept under the rug. Mitchells family says the one thing they want from the officials. Answers about what happened that night but release of a crucial video is still on hold. Hold. It just adds insult to injury, we just really want them to release it so that way we can get justice. Justice. The longer it takes to get the information out about what happened, the more difficult it is to get people transparency and an effort to work together. While they wait and protest for support. Support. Mitchells family says they will continue to keep it civil. Civil. With these peaceful demonstrations, we want to make sure our voices are heard, were bringing awareness but we want to make sure were doing it the right way. While Community Members continue to bring awareness to issues that are hitting closer to home. Home. We dont like the concept of people getting stopped for taillights and license plate lights because far too often for african americans, that doesnt end positively. Doenst happen to any other family because this is horrific. Horrific. Dora miller reporting, his mother and niece both say mitchell is hanging in there. They say hes a fighter and they will continue fighting on his behalf. Meanwhile Cedar Rapids Police are now responding to public demands to release dashcam video of that shooting. The Department Tells cbs 2 news officer lucas jones pulled over 37yearold oneam on november first. They say mitchell started fighting with officer jones who then shot him. Mitchell drove away hitting two vehicles before being taken to university of iowa hospitals and clinics where his family says he remains paralyzed. The crpd now says it is following the advice of the Linn County Attorneys Office and not releasing the video because its part of a dci investigation. Officer jones is still on paid adminstrative leave which is protocol for officerinvolved shootings. Shooting for which officer jones has been investigated. He was cleared in last years . Deadly shooting of jonathan gossman. There are a number of cases where video in a controversial case came out in a matter of hours or days. But this case and whats happenign is . Not out of the ordinary. At issue here is the terminology of iowas open records law. In part it reads public records including video can . Not be kept under circumstances where disclosure would plainly and seriously jeopardize an investigation. Investigation. Police refuse our request to see the video from mitchells shooting at the direction of linn county attorney jerry Vander Sanden. Sanden. In a statement Vander Sanden cited the very rule we just showed you to not release this video until the case goes to court or is resolved. The bottom line iowa law allows police to release the video at any time. But because of his interpretation of this rule any other case in linn county. Another shooting investigation in the spotlight this morning the recent ambush of two Des Moines Area Police officers. Republican state representativ e ken rizer says hes going to draft a bill that would bring tougher punishment for those who target Police Officers and fire fighters. One possibility being weighed increasing the manditory minimum prison sentences. Rizer tells cbs 2 crimes and penalties to determine whats best for his bill. Sot sgt. Chad underwood, Urbandale Police department 06 05 59 03 personally theres still a lot of pain and grief going on at my agency and here in the metro so personally, obviously i think id like to see stiffer punishments for those who target police. The aclu of iowa tells cbs 2 news its against any legislation calling for increased penalties. The Organization Says there are already laws in place to punish anyone who assaults or kills any Law Enforcement offic. Prosecuted aggressively premeditated killing or a deliberate killing of a Police Officer is already first degree murder which carries harshest penalities under iowa laws. In light of recent events Corridor Police will hold a Community Prayer service with a number of area pastors. Called to pray and serve the event begins this sunday afternoon at three at several cedar rapids marion or Hiawatha Police departments, or to the linn county sheriffs office. The woman accused of sexually eg exploitinga former student will meet a judge again this morning. Mary beth haglin was fired this past summer after telling cbs 2 news she had a sexual relationship with a washington high student while she was substitute teaching there. She has been charged with Sexual Exploitation by a school employee. Earlier this month her lawyer asked her trial be moved because media give her a fair trial. The prosecution argued haglin put herself under a National Microscope by going on tv shows like doctor phil. Stay with cbs 2 news well let you know what happens in court tonight live at five. Sexual assault prevention is now open to more university of iowa students. The daily iowan reports students can get additional training beyond the initial course offered to incoming freshmen or transfer students. Created in response to the Online Survey given to stduents and staff. It showed a fifth of women reported being sexually assaulted. Last month the university provided more money to the Sexual Assault prevention programs as part of a new plan to stop Sexual Assault. Meanwhile many students at ui are on edge this morning. This after two dorm intrusions in less than a week. The most recent happened sunday morning when a resident woke up to someone entering their room. Housing tell cbs 2 news all students need to be vigilant. Its really important for students to make sure theyre locking that when theyre on their floor communities in the Residence Halls that theyre locking the door at all times, because most times any burglaries or thefts that occur in the Residence Halls are crimes of convenience. Convenience. Police are looking at the possibility both intrusions are related. This is the sixth crime alert on campus this semester. Equipment. You couldnt even see the field at Kinnick Stadium after iowa rocked the College Football world beating out michigan. So it is understandable that in the mass celebration a few things got picked up by some overly enthusiastic fans. Fans. Apparently they noticed players and Coaching Staff werent paying attention to all the equipment and took advantage of the commotion. Head coach kirk ferentz tells cbs 2 news that around a dozen or more footba missing as of sunday. One was reportedly found after the game in the ped mall. It sounds like they all got back in the nest yesterday morning, i think the last one got returned. Brock bomert drove me back here after all the media stuff that saturday night and he said that student manager were really hunting it cause anything that wasnt nailed down was being accosted. Accosted. Coach ferentz says everything they could find even his headphones. But as of right now all major pieces of equipment are ready to go for this saturdays game at illinois. New this morning hundreds of university of iowa students will have to find new ways to get to chicago. Megabus is stopping service in iowa over winter break. The discounted bus service came to iowa in 2010 and some fares were as low as one dollar. However recent layoffs and omaha to chicago line has been discontinued. Megabus blames low gas prices for the cuts saying people can now afford to drive or fly. At ui students often took the cheap tickets to visit chicago to see friends or family. Megabus will end its iowa service on january ninth. Good morning again, thanks for waking up with cbs 2 this morning. Its right now on this wednesday morning what the . . . Youre welcome. I just helped you dodge a bullet. But i was just checking my. Shhh. Dont you know that checking your credit score lowers it just be cool. Actually, checking your credit score with credit karma doesnt affect it at all. Are you sure . Positive. So i guess i can just check my credit score then . Oooh check out credit karma today. Credit karma. Give yourself some credit. Right nowpresident obama prepares to obama president right nowpresident obama prepares to make an address in greece for his final foreign tour as president. Cbs 2 News Reporter Stephanie Johnson is at the breaking news desk. Stephanie what will president obama talk about today. Today. Jenee president obama will talk about democracy in europe and how divided europe at acropolis. Acropolis. The ancient greek monument known as the cradle for democracy. Since Brexit Relations in europe have been strained. Yesterday obama addressed people in greece about their fears and anger population. Especially since threats over mechnization and globalization have been used by pesident elect trump. Trump. After the president speech he will head over to germany on his final foreign tour as president. Its now on this wednesday morning. And if youre in its degrees. Degrees. Ever wonder why you or your friends swear more other people . 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Grassley scheduled a Judiciary Committee hearing for november 30th in order to take a closer look at these charges under the medicaid drug rebate program. Cedar rapids mayor ron corbett is encouraging state law makers to increase minimum wage across the state. Corbett tell lawmakers want to stop . Local governments from raising the wage the . State needs to boost it to eightsixty an hour. This follows governor branstads suggestion of a . Single statewide minimum instead of a variety of wages that vary by county. Four counties including linn and johnson have already raised the minimum wage. Meanwhile lisbon is the latest city to consider opting out of the linn county minimum wage increase. City leaders passed the First Reading of an ordinance to do so last night. 1025 by 2019. Eelee robins and alburnett have also rejected the ordiance. The next reading in lisbon is scheduled for november 28th. The celebration from saturday night is now over and all of iowas eyes are on to illinois and as pat moroney found out the hawks arent overlooking the illini just beacuse theyre flying high. After knocking off 3rd ranked michigan in dramatic fashion not because of what they did but because of what they know they can do Going Forward forward obviously the moods pretty good everybody realizes that we can play with a lot of guys now but its the same as last week we know that we just need to compete every play and stay focused i dont really think confidence was an issue for us we havent doubted ourselves with anybody in the country on paper illinois doesnt look like much but the hawkeyes approach every week the same so this isnt a trap game its another big ten game none of them come easy weve just got to stay focused this whole week and have energy we didnt do a good job two weeks ago we did a much better job last week and well get tested again this week and next week and the challenge is to get ready for it like we did against penn state put that one past us put a tough loss got to put the win behind us as well and move on to illinois and weve done that thatwhatever iowa wants to accomplish this season wont matter unless they beat illinois and historically they have their last loss to the fighting illini came way back in 2008 in champaigne in iowa city pat moroney cbs 2 sportsinstate rivalry on the hardwood iowa state hosting uniearly in the first the panthers on the Angie Davison and she drops home the triple giving uni the lead 45 seconds into the gamebut they never led again briget carlton dials Long Distance and connects for 3 of her 14 points and then later its Jadda Buckley taking it hard to the rack for 2 she finished with a game high 25 iowa state wins 76 to 68. Thats a check of sports. Terry is back with a final look at your weather first forecast. Cbs2 news connects with the corridor. Call us with your story tips at 1800222kgan email us at news at cbs2iowa. Comor connect with us apparently the use of swear words offers a unique look inside the workings of our brains. A new book called what the f what swearing reveals about our language, our brains and ourselves. Has drawn a lot of attention to the socalled slip of the tongue. Researchers found that the part of the brain that forms swear words is different than the part that processes language. Regular speech is generated in the left hemisphere of the brain close to the surface. Swearing on the other generated much deeper in the brain in the right hemiphere where your emotions are. Good morning again its now right now its degrees in still ahead donald trump is working hard on filling key coming together. Together. Youre watching cbs 2 this morning covering the right now on cbs 2 this morning. Trump transition, the bumps in the road that signal some problems might be brewing before inaguration day and the tweet signaling things might be taken care of. Plus a Campaign Promise has environmental activists in iowa worried about the future of our natural resources. And a coffee shop rant against Police Goes Viral what cedar rapids neighbors are now doing to show their support for the n welcome to cbs two this morning. Im jenee ryan we continue to track the trump transition ahead of his january inaguration, this morning the head of trumps transition to the white house Vice President elect mike pence ordered any registered lobbyists be purged from the team. Team. Yesterday two Trump Officials who had been handling the National Security transition were also fired. Both were part of another purge headed by trumps son law and close advisor. Pence is now charged with narrowing down another list of people to fill key posts and open positions. Among those rumored to take part former rival ted cruz Jeff Sessions and steve manoochin. Back on capitol hill democrats called on trump to fire steve bannon as chief strategist. sot Harry Reid Senate minority leader as long as a champion of Racial Division is a step away from the oval office, it will be impossible to take trumps efforts to heal the nation seriously. Even takes his seat in the oval office shows signs of turmoil. In a tweet a former state Department Official under bush called trumps team angry and arrogant urging colleagues to quote stay away. however late last night trump took to twitter to let the world know his transition is . Not in disarray saying hes very organized. At the same time a favorite for secretary of state Rudi Giuliani is being questioned about whether his business dealings should disqualify him from the job. The former new speaking career has contracts with the qatar government and has a vested interest in the Company Building the keystone xl pipeline. Some question whether his ties with groups like these make him a good choice to work as americas face to other nations. Giuliani says his business dealings created friends from across the world and dealing with foreign businesses and governments would not be new for him. He says fighting islamist terrorism would be a focal point for him if appointed. Continues to grow so do the concerns over his environmental policies. Policies. State senator rob hoag of cedar rapids says this is one time environmental groups hope a candidate does not keep his promises from the campaign. Trump told voters he wants to see increased coal and oil usage and to do that he says hell expidite work on things like the keystone xl pipeline. Sarah palin who favors drilling for oil in the arctic is on his list for secretary of the interior. And trump has change is a lie. Lie. Sot script the alarm bells are going off. This could be an environmental calamady. He could not just delay us years, he could actually set us way back by doing new fossil fuel developments. Not just in this country but around the world. He could set us back decades and we dont have decades to give up. Hoag says republicans have a history of protecting the environment that stretches back to Teddy Roosevelt establishing the national parks. He says he hopes trump will do the same once hes issues. There is good news for environmental advocates this morning. The Us Army Corps of engineers decided to delay construction of the controversial Dakota Access pipeline. They say they need to hold talks with the Standing Rock sioux tribe and look at more analysis. The nearly 12hundred mile oil pipeline would span from north dakota to illinois. The developer asked permission from the army corps to tunnel under the Missouri River in order to complete the line. The Standing Rock sioux tribe for its Drinking Water says the line will put them at risk and others downstream if oil is leaked or spilled. Meanwhile protesters against the Dakota Access pipeline say theyll keep fighting this project. Yesterday they gathered across the whole country showing their support for iowa landowners affected by the Dakota Access pipeline and the Standing Rock sioux tribe. Their signs banners and speeches were part of a day of action against the pipeline including the coralville and des moines. Although the u. S. Army corps of engineers delayed the construction of this controversial pipeline protesters say thats not enough. Take sot ed fallon bold iowa were cautiously optimistic that the corps decision yesterday is an indication of their good will, their good faith and they intend to sincerely study it more and i mean, if they study this more, they cannot help but come out with the opinion that this is not a good idea. Idea. Backers of the pipeline say its the safest and most efficient way to transport trucks. On the campaign trail, donald trump said these pipelines will help the us become less dependent on oil from foreign countries. However that campaign trail promise isnt the only one that has . Some iowans rattled this morning. In iowa city large groups have been protesting hate speech many say insighted by trumps coments on minorities. Last night hundreds marched through downtown. Organizers stressed that this demonstration was but rather recent events. We are so againt hate and discrimination. Not the president elect just the hate and discrimination that he was awoken in our country. And we want everyone to know that we love and respect everyone and as a community we are strong. Strong. Organizers say they pulled the march together after some of them were called racial slurs at school and they started to feel afraid to go back to class. In cedar rapids friends and Community Members will meet tonight for a support rally. The focus is to stand in solidarity with Muslim Americans immigrants and racial minorities. If youd like to come out head to first avenue near seventh street . Northeast at 6 tonight. Groups have also been coming together to find ways to heal. This afternoon Cornell College is welcoming everyone to hear from zen buddhist priest redding. Redding will share wisdom on compassion and other postelection feelings many have shared. The event will begin at 11 15 at the right now an iowa lawmaker says he doesnt want education money spent on these kinds of events. State representative Bobby Kaufmann says he has seen schools spend time on grief counseling after the election last week. After fridays protest in iowa city that briefly shut down rush hour traffic on i80, kaufmann said he had seen enough. He says any actions like that which could receive funding from state institutions should be cut and penalties increased. Some ui students say kauffman is gonig too far. 06 25 44 i think its always justifiable to seek counseling resources. Thats a personal choice and if you want to do so, you and especially the institution thats designed to help students in all aspects shouldnt be punished for people seeking resources. Resources. Representative kaufmann says he wants to introduce his bill during the legislative session months. Breaking overnightchicago police have arrested a man for responsible for dismembering a young child last year. Year. Cbs 2 News Reporter Stephanie Johnson is at the breaking news desk. Stephanie when was this arrest . Made . Jenee first degree murder charges came down against 41year old kamel harris two hours ago. Hes responsible for the death of 2 year old kyrian knox two years ago. His 2 year olds remainwe lagoon last year and since then police have been looking for the person responsible for his death. Authorites say evidence was found in his harriss carwhere he claimed the boy was never in. According to authorities harris had been watching 2 year old kyrian in september 2015, after his mother moved from rockford to iowa to start a job. Thats when police say he killed the boy because he was cried from a milk allergy. Cooperated with authorities and have requested a lawyer. A viral video of a woman berating Police Officers at a corridor coffee shop has inspired a lot of reactions. Cbs 2 News Reporter joe huisinga explains how Community Members are thanking cedar rapids officers. Officers. On november 6th the owners of brewhemia were having trouble with a customer. Customer. Wouldnt leave so after a lot of conversation and her getting more and more irate we ended up calling the police to have her removed. 12but when the police came the woman turned to Facebook Live some up tight iowa a hole thought i was impolite sh god damnshe began to criticize police for a recent officer involved shooting as well as the fatal attacks on two des moines area officers. Officers. We got the po po badge, i guess shes sorry a couple of cops got wacked in des moines. The woman was removed and as the video spread several people donated a few dollars to get free coffee for cops. Cops. We thanked them on facebook last night and that immediatly went viral. 7with the phone ringing off the hook brewhemia launched operation bluehemia and started a go fund me page. Page. Weve had a few stop in and you know some take a cup of coffee and for it. The shop plans to continue the free coffee for cops until the fund dries up. Up. Recieved over 6 hundred dollars in the last 5 hours so thats a lot of cups of coffee. 7 joe husinga reporting, right now that page has raised more than 9 hundred dollars. Its and right now in its de. Popular again find out whats records are hot again and thats fueling a boom in turntable sales. Kenneth craig reports has a look at how turntable companies are profiting during mat weisfeld runs vpi a. A highend turntable business his father started in 1978. nats thats four thousand. Five years ago, thousand. Thats four nats 1978. Started in father started in 1978. nats thats four thousand. Five years ago, sagging sales had his family thinking about selling it off. Today, everything has turned around. sotmat weisfeld vpi kenneth how big of a jump have you seen, in terms of sales, say the last five years . Mat drastic. Id say its easily doubled if not more. nats vinyl is back. And a spike in album sales over the past few yearsa has led to a turntable boom. natsot i bought this april or may. Digital age millenials like 25 year old Alex Reynolds are leading the revolution. sot Alex Reynolds own turntable i think it was the cool factor and nostalgia combined a little of both. gfx turntable sales are projected to hit 194million dollars in 2016 up from just 19million 11 years ago. vo staff to meet demand and major corporations are doing the same. images from panasonic technics panasonic is resurrecting its legendary technics record player after taking it off shelves in 2010. sotmat weisfeld vpi kenneth do you see a time when sales will plateau or sort of the cool factor will go away and this will kind of fall back down again . Mat i wouldnt be surprised. butt but i dont think itll ever go away again like it did in the early 90s with digital. Hes counting on people to keep spinning vinyl for generations to come. Kne its and youre watching cbs 2 this morning. And if youre in its degrees. Degrees. Coming up on your cbs 2 morning live. To one company, snapchat is becoming welcome back its now were taking a look at your . . . . . . . Your . . . . . . . A shoe company is speaking out about controversy surrounding the president el balance is defending itself after being described as the official shoes of white people and of the trump revol revolutionmatt lebretton vp of Public Affairs at new balance says things are moving in the right direction with trump elected president. The shoe company responded on twitter saying they dont tolerate bigotry or hate in any form. New balance also clarified they employ thousands of people of all races genders cultures and sexual orientation. Snapchat is making it big in paperwork for an ipothe fiveyearold company is estimated to be worth 20 to 25 billion dollars. Facebook offered to buy out snapchat at three billion dollars back in 2013. The unique social media app has expanded its horizon by introducing its First Venture into hardware with smart sunglasses that includes a wireless video camera. And the companys reach isnt stopping anytime soon. Snapchat is helping Ford Motor Company in unveiling a new vehicle. The new subcompact suv by ford has been released and its the first time any major automaker used snapchat to show off their new ride. Ford has not said how much the car will cost but expects the ecosport car to start selling as early as 2018. The Holiday Season is always about giving but treating your self isnt so bad either. Either. The National Retail foundation found most americans plan on buying for cents. Thats an increase compared to last year. The nrf expects store and mall sales to go up this year thats even with the expected rise in online sales. Well isnt this peachy. Apple has brought back their original peach emoji which looks much like a rear end. The look was changed earlier this month in the beta one update but revearsed it to its origianal unicode constorium creates the emojis but fixes can be made by apple. Its right now its degrees in coming up next, a tution hike by the board of regents could at longhorn, tonights special great steak pairings. Baby back ribs, or parmesan crusted chicken. You cant fake steak. Heres a look at some of the other things going on around eastern iowa on this wednesday morning. A state representative is advocating for the board of regents to extend their in order to help students budget. The board has been seeking a two percent increase in tuition in the next two academic years. Students at the university of Northern Iowa said they support the idea but are more concerned with the two percent increase for next year. The us army has selected Rockwell Collins to be a collaborator for the Architecture Implementation process deomonstration. The aipd is in the process the aipd is in the process of helping to improve on the future vertical lift family of collins will be assisting the army by researching advanced, openended system technologies that will keep cost low and attain certification for future Mission Equipment packages. A new Fareway Store is set to open its doors store is set to open its doors in anamosa a Ribbon Cutting ceremony is set to kick off at 10 am this ceremony as well. This is fareways newest location in addition to their other one hundred and 17 store in iowa, illinois, minnesota, nebraska, and south dakota. If youre just getting up, good morning its now right now its degrees in coming up. A strong support system is still alive for a man shot by a Police Officer officeryoure watching cbs 2
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