Morning as well. Including sioux citys Public Schools and Bishop Heelan Catholic Schools with a two hour late start in the morning. A group of kids in dakota dunes even had scarves, clothes, and even wigs for their snowmen. Its clear by their rosey cheeks that they had been playing for hours. But the cold wasas going to stop them from enjoying their time off. 3 3 todays snowfall was just the second measurable snow of the season. And were already more than halfway to matching our total from all of last winter. Siouxlands chief meteorologist chad sandwell joins us live now from the Southern Hills mall. Chad, whats up with all this snow before december even hits . 3 back into the mid to upper 30s by thursday. 3 its been all hands on deck city. Today the city had 50 pieces of snowplowing equipment on the streets. Tonight theyre expected to have 12 to 15 pieces of equipment out on the road. Make sure you get your cars and trucks especially off the main streets so they can be cleared. And it wouldnt hurt to do that on the side streets as well as those plows make it into your neighborhood. 3 and then well come back in the morning and evaluate it and go from there. We may end up putting all 50 pieces in the morning too, as of right now i dont know, just busy. Were supposed get more snow and if thats the case, the day crew will be going back out in the morning. Crews will be paying extra attention to intersections and streets across the city, to ensure roads are as safe as possible given the conditions. 3 3 the heavy, wet snow causing a fair number of accidents throughout siouxland today. Iowa d o t cameras captured the aftermath of one accident on interstate 29, near the highway 20 exit. A semi hit a car in the before a tow ban was briefly put into effect for woodbury county. Nobody in either the semi or the car was injured. And taking a look out from that same camera now. Traffic moving at its normal pace through the construction zone. Still. Drivers are advised to take care as the Winter Weather warnings are still in effect here in siouxland. 3 believe it or not. Not every accident reported today can be blamed on the snow. Take this one, for instance, at the intersection of west 7th and hamilton. Police say one vehicle ran a red light and hit the other. One person was injured and taken to the hospital. Investigagars say they donon believe ather was a factor in this accident. Just human error. 3 todays heavy snow is forced sioux city to delay garbage collection. Residents who normally have their garbage and recycling picked up monday will instead have it collected tuesday. The city asks those affected to pull their bins off the curb so that snow plows can clear the streets. This only affects monday pickups. People who on tuesdays should still put it out for normal pickup. 3 south dakota has become the first state to give the go ahead to building the controversial bakken oil pipeline. The south Dakota Public Utilities Commission voted 2 to 1 to approve the construction permit. But that permit comes with conditions. Conditions that are unknown at this time. Plans call for the pipeline to originate in Bakken Oil Field of north dakota. Then through south dakota. Six counties in northwest iowa on its way to illinois. Many landowners in iowa are fighting to get the iowa utilities board to reject the pipeline. That board is currently Holding Hearings on the project. It isnt expected to make a decision until february. 3 3 it sounds like good news for the etetnol industry. 3 the obama a ministration is requiring more Renewable Fuels be used in the nations supply of gasoline next year. Refiners will be required to blend more than 18 billion gallons. Thats compared to about 17 and a half billion this year. But its far short congress set when it enacted the renewable fufu standard in 2007. 3 3 that decision is beiei met with scorn from iowa lawmakers. U s senator joni ernst says shes extremely disappointed by the agencys decision to set the ethanol requirement at a level less than called for by congress. She adds that the Obama Administration is once again using the epa to impose their agenda on hardworking iowans. Ernst says she remains committed to protecting our Domestic Energy security and promoting innovation in the next generation of biofuels. 3 3 senator ernst joined in expressing disappointment tonight by Iowa Governor Terry Branstad. The governor saying the decision shows the lack of interest in providing Consumers Choice at the pump, creating jobs and increasing incomes in rural america, and reducing our dependenen on ffeign oil. Branstad notes that his administration has s strongly supported the r f s. With several programs developed in the state to advance the development and use of biofuels. 3 3 the man accused of killing three people at a planned parenthood clinic in cocorado springs made his First Court Appearance on monday. 3 a judge advised 57year old Robert Lewis Dear that hes being held on suspicion of firstdegree murder, a charge that could carry a minimum penalty of life in prison or a maximum penalty of death if hes convicted. Asked if he had any questions, dear replied, no questions. The formal filing of charges in the case, and the next hearing for dear, is set for r cember 9. 3 frfrays shooting at planned panthood in colorado is raising questions about how we define terrorism. As our National Correspondent Kristine Frazao reports. Should the suspect be labeled as a gunman or terrorist. 3 many would say this man the suspected mastermind of the recent paris attack Abdelhamid Abaaoud ahbdell hahmeed ahbahoood is the face of terrorisisvo but at about this man . Robert dearthe man accused of 9 at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic friday. Graphic not long after dear was taken into custodysocial Media Chatter began over whether he too should be considered a terrorist. SotKyle Shideler, its now more than a decade after 911. We have been at a war on terror against islamic jihadists for that te. So theres an awareness of that enemy in a way that people arent aware of other terrorist organizations. Vo Law Enforcement have yet to declare a motive in the colorado shootingbutthere are reports that dear mentioned the sale of fetal tissue a hot button issue during his arrest. Graphic according to the fbidomestic terrorism is defined as acts dangerous to human life which violate federal and state law to intimidate a population or to affect the conduct of governmentoccur primarily in the jurisdictional united statesvoexperts caution that the label of domestic terrorist compared to shooter or gunman could be misusuedsotrichard vatz, terrorism, it shouldnt be for one polititil side against another. Vothere is bipartisan use of the label, when it comes to discussing fridays incidentsotsmartin omalley this most recent act of terror. Mike huckabee what he did is domestic terrorismvo experts like Kyle Shideler shiedler caution its too quick to make that determination. Sotschideler, if i was going to make that determination, i would be looking for other ties to other known organziations or other known individual actors. And a sense that dear is fully aware of what he didkristine stand upthe Justice Department is in contact with local colorado Law Enforcement. Experts say it is possible the department could open a domestic terrorism case against robert dear in addition to murder charges. In washington, im Kristine Frazao reporting. 3 threats against planned parenthood clinics have ramped up over the past few months. Clinics in Washington State and california were set on fire in september. Another clinic in New Hampshire was broken into and vandalized with a hatchetin october. American strategy is the subject of our next your voice, your future townhall. The one hour townhall will take place tuesday night, running from 6 until 7. Now, we usually stream these townhalls on line at siouxland news dot com. But this time were doing something different. This townhall will be broadcast live on our decades subchannel, 14 point 2, as well as online. Again, thats tomorrow night, starting at 6 oclock, on decades channel 14 point 2 and siouxland news dot com 3 3 still to come tonight on siouxland news at ten. 3 iowas governor has a response for everyone concerned about the states impending switch to privately managed medicaid. Why he says hes not worried about it, ahead in tonights healthwatch. 3 siouxland news at ten on kmeg 14 with larry wentz, diana castillo, siouxlands chief meteorologist chad sandwell and sports director chris 3 3 3 3 3 3 chad, diana and larry talk about todays weather and the upcoming forecast. 3 said and done, we are expecting 6 to 8 inches across most of the area. Some areas could see close to 10 by early wednesday morning. Wednesday will start a clearing and warming trend with temperatures bouncing back into the mid to upper 30s 3 3 coming up after the break, u s marshals need yoururelp tracking downwnanother fugitive. What this weeks featured fugitive is wanted for. In this weeks edition 3 tonight u s marshals need d your help finding aafugitive whos wanted for failing to appear in federal court. Nathanuel downs is wanted by the U S Marshals Service for failing to appear and violating his pretrial release on an attempted commercial sex trafficking charge. Downs is 28 years old, 3 6 feet tall, 3 and weighs 300 pounds. If you have any information about nathanuel downs. Please ll the U S Marshal Service in sioux city at 712 2520211. Or send marshals an email at siouxlands dot most wanted at u s d o j dot gov. You can also use the marshals text a tip program. To text a tip, text the keyword t e n all in uppercase 9 9 and your tip to p411 847 411 . Member. The information you provide remains confidential and could put this fugitive 3 3 patients with congestive Heart Failure in siouxland have a new treatment option available. Coming up after the healthwatch. Well ask a Mercy Medical center 3 3 a new device is changing the way doctors treat patients with congestive heart fafaure. Ouxland News Reporter kayla novak met a doctor to see how it works. 3 this is a cardio mems device. It is a device that measures the pulmunary artery pressure. It helps congestive heart proactive with their health. This device is usually reccomended for medicare patients who have been in the hospital within the last year. Its a procedure where we haveveto go in through the vein usually the vein the fibrual area. And we go up the the right side of the heart. And we measure pressures in the right side of the heart. And then we take a couple of pictures and find what we consider to be a good location on one on the pulmunary arteries going on the left side usually and we deploy the device. A couple days after the procedure, the patient can go back to normal l activity. Once the device is in place, it measures and collects the pressures in the pulimunary artery, while the patient is sleeping on a specific pillow, which then transmits the data through a cell phone to a secure website where the doctors can monitor the information. This allows doctors to adjust medications accordingly to help prevent the patients from even feeling sick. This proactive routine reduces hospitalizations up to 35 percent for congestive Heart Failure patients. This little device could save lives and money, which is why procedure costs. Kayla novak, siouxland news. 3 3 3 iowas governor says he sees no reason to delay a planned privatization of the states medicaid plan. 3 Terry Branstad says the move is something done already in more than half the states in the u s with few difficulties. But critics continue to insist the governor delay the planned change, set to take effect on january 1st. He says the change should be smooth and simple. 3 those of us that are in health systems, like those of us who have the state Employee Health plan, its a aanage care system. And its worked, i think very effectively, and its worked effectively in other states and i seno reason why in iowa we cant work it effectively. Critics were emboldened by a decision last week by a judge in des moines to cancel the selected management companies. The judge e ys the company should have disclosed legal issues it had managing medicaid in other states during the bidding process. The company in question, wellcare, says it will appeal. 3 3 the naia National Volleyball tournament is back in sioux city. Hear how briar cliff is hoping to bring home a win for the home team. 3 and as for the visiting teams. Some of the players saw snow in perern for the First Time Ever we talk to a player from a team in southern california. Hear how their day 3 3 big things are hahaening in the naia this s week and the focus is squarely on sioux city. Not only is the morningside Football Team, the number one seed hosting Southern Oregon in the National Semifinals on saturday, but this week all the best volleyball teams converge on the Tyson Event Center as well. 24 of the best teams in the country vie for the right to be crownd national some video from last year. That will include siouxlands own dordt and briar cliff. Pool play begins tomorrow where four teams play each other, each of the next three days. With the top two advancing to the first round. More than 17thousand people are expected to attend the festivities now through friday. Organizers say theyre excited to show siouxland off to all the visitors. 3 it gives s a chchce to show off the city. We havavgreat community support. The sponsors we have come back year after year. Weve had some that have done volleyball every year that weve had it. Basketball weve had a few that have been here 18 years with us. And they look forward to it. They build up relationships with the girls and the coaches over the years and keep in contact and it just makes for a great experience for everyone. 3 brbrr cliff is up first tomorrow and the unranked chargers facethe daunting task in pool play of trying to beat the number two team in the nation, lindsay wilson. Its pool play so that means they can afford a loss since theyll play the other two libero amy frank says theyre certainly not playing that way though. At todays banquet the sioux city e et grad reflected on heecareer coming to a close and what itll take to beat such a great volleyball team. 3 we had our last practice today and that was kind of tough. But i dont think its really sunk in yet. Not completely. It will when were done. But not yet. Theyre a big team. They have a big outside i believe. Im n n sure one of their r g front roroplayers is really big and hits away at the ball so obvioulsy blocking is really important and defense. So for us just to focus on our side of the court because year every team we play here is really good. What we can do, just to be the best team we can be is what we need to focus on. 3 iowa state football has their man at a press Conference Today Athletic Director Jamie Pollard introduced matt campbell. The former toledo head coach knows what it takes visited the cyclones in week three. Football experts say its campbells ability to recruit thats his biggest strength and today he talked about getting iowa kids to stay in their state and come totolay at ioo state. He says he cant t it to get started. 3 its about putting, having the foundation around you to get this thing done. And weve got a Great Foundation around this program. So to me thats the great challenge. I love the challenge. I love the build. And thats why i knew this was the right place for matt campbell. This place is special. Number two the fan support, the facilities, hat you have the portunity to sell are outstanding. I think you could go to multiple places across the country and not have what this university has. And for me its about putting together an unbelievable plan. Great people, great leaders and come in here, recruit really really well and put the best Football Team we can on the football fieldldach and every saturday. And feeling snow for the very firstime. For most of us we cant remember that but for many athletes visiting siouxland for the naia volleyball tournament thats exactly what they experienced today. These are pictures of the vanguard volleyball players just giddy over the snow they woke up to today. Vanard is out of costa mesa california. So many of the kids are from that area and this is the first time they got to maks snowballs, snow angels, and snowmen 3 it was so fun we woke up and we looked out our window and it was snowing. And were like we have to g goutside obviously. So we went outside and had a snowball fight and rolled around in the snow. It was so fun. I have teammates that like, have never felt snow before. So it was really cool, they were like oh my gosh like feeling the snow for the first time. Winter storm warning until tuesday, as the snow continues to move through the area. The majority of the snow has already fallen, but we could see a couple more inches by the time this system moves out of the area. Tuesday winds will pick up and possibly cause some blowing and drifting snow. When all is said and done, we are expecting 6 to 8 inches across most of the area. Some areas could see close to 10 by early wednesday morning. Wednesday will start a clearing and warming trend with temperatures bouncing back into the mid to upper 30s