Entered a plea deal in the case. The boy pleaded no contest in Stanton County juvenile court. The Stanton CountySheriffs Office arrested the four eighth andninth grade boys in november. Authorities say they were involved in the torture of a cat and an opossum. Former Stanton County sheriffs deputy and Stanton School board member kirk ven pelt has also been charged in the case. He faces animal cruelty charges and four counts of contributing to the delinquency of a child. According to the Humane Society of the united states, iowa is home to some of the worst puppy mills in the nation. And, as ktivs tommie clark tells us, lots of those mills are close to home. Kennels increase so its clear that the current legislation is not working and we need better oversight, said iowa friends of companion animals siouxland local Advocacy Team leader, kathie pfaffle. Iowa continues to rank high on the list of states with some of the worst puppy mills, according to a report released by the Humane Society of the united states. The u. S. Department of agriculture inspects these breeding facilities. But, one local Advocacy Group says thats not enough. Puppy mills that are licensed by the usda, even though they have very egregious offenses, theyre allowed to continue to operate. Very few puppy mills see fines related to their violations even though most violations have a fine thats able to be given to the operator, said iowa friends of companion animals siouxland local Advocacy Team leader, kathie pfaffle. Iowa friends of companion animals is a group working for better conditions for these dogs. They lobby for state oversight because they say the current legislation isnt enough. Its important to use legislation that legislators took the time to legislation, 717b, is not being enforced. Through the proposed legislation 717b will be enforced in usda kennels, said iowa friends of companion animals siouxland local Advocacy Team leader, kathie pfaffle. Sioux citys animal adoption and rescue center takes care of dozens of dogs every year. These are just a few. They didnt come from a puppy mill. While the centers executive director says the rules that allow puppy mills to be legal are falling through the cracks and you have to meet specific things to run a puppy mill, but. Its important to not only have food, water and shelter but you have to have specific things that they have to meet in order to have theseenimals and when these things arent being met yes that definitely upsets me a lot and those people need to be made responsible for what the state sets forth and if theyre not doing it then those kennels need to shut down, said executive director of sioux city animal adoption and rescue center cindy rarrat. The impact is easy to see. Rarrat says the products of these puppy mills are sold at pet shops, statewide. In sioux city. Tommie clark. Ktiv experts say before you buy a pet, make sure you do your research. To learn more about puppy mills, or to get involved with local Advocacy Groups, visit ktivdotcom and there will be a link inside this story. An eastern iowa woman is being investiga ted for housing 45 cats in her home. Heres a look at the home in grundy county, iowa. Two local animal rescues have taken all the cats from the house. And the tenant has since moved. They have been able to adopt some of the cats out, but many need rehabilitation. ive seen some pretty bad things, some hoarder cases, some dead animal cases, but this is the worst ive been in. And my first thought was, oh my god these cats suffered horribly, horribly the home has been empty for months but the home is trashed. The woman faces potential animal neglect charges. A rollover crash killed a siouxland teenager this morning. 7 30 on e54 outside of moorhead. The driver who was 15 yearsold said she lost control on black ice and went into the ditch. Two passengers werent wearing seat belts s d were thrown from the vehicle. 16yearold shelby montage was pronounced dead at the scene. The Monona CountySheriffs Office says shelby attended school at west harrison. The driver and a 12year old passenger went to burgess hospital in onawa for treatment. Authorities are still investigating the accident. The driver of a school bus involved in a crash in sac county has been charged with failure to yield. Today, authorities in sac county say Debra Dettman was driving an east Sac County School bus yesterday afternoon when they were hit by a truck on highway 20. Two students were treated for minor injures. The driver of the truck and a passenger went to the sac city hospital. Their conditions werent available. Well if you have any plans this weekend, is sure hope theyre inside. Meteorlogist tj springer joins us with our first look at the forecast at 5. For parts of northern northeas tern siouxland from 3 am until noon saturday after our mild stretch of weather, we will begin to take our arctic plunge this afternoon and evening. Temperatures will continue to fall as we progress throughout the rest of our friday with most towns getting close to that 0 degree mark. Wind chills will also be a factor with values dropping close to 30 below zero. Urge caution and bundle up if you have to travel tonight clouds will also be on the increase in the overnight hours as we move into our saturday out ahead of our next weather maker. Starting in may, people will have two options of where to fly from sioux gateway airport. Today, sioux city leaders announced that American Airlines will add daily flights to dallas. Thats the airlines largest us hub. They say this has something that has been discussed since the airline started serving the airport four years ago. City leaders say its been a long, but exciting process. One, its a great destination for siouxlanders thats in our top few, you know just in our destination, said barbara sloniker, executive Vice President for the Siouxland Chamber of commerce. Everybody wants to go to dallas. Its a great city. But even more importantly and because its the largest hub for american. The connections are phenomenal out at dallas. Flights will start going on sale tomorrow. Airport represenatati ves say current flights to chicago ohare are about 80 percent full. So, they expect flights to dallas to draw in large numbers as well. Former president bill clinton is campaigning for Hillary Clinton to tell voters why his wife is the most qualified for president. Today, he stopped at Morningside College in sioux city to talk to nearly 450 members. Bill clinton began campaigning for her last week in New Hampshire. Now hes making his rounds in iowa. Bill clinton called Hillary Clinton the best changemaker hes ever met. The reason republicans have been so hard on her for over a year now is they know that too, said former president bill clinton. Theyve basically been screaming at all of us democrats saying please nominate somebody else. We dont want to run against her. Bill clinton has said he is not surprised Bernie Sanders is coming close in the polls for the democratic nomination. He attributes that to republicans attacks on his wife. After sioux city, clinton headed to marshalltown. In the republican race for the white house, donald trump looks poised today to possibly win all of the early primaries. Steve handelsman, back from last nights debate, has the latest from washington. Sot donald trump r president ial candidate 08 11 im going to be here so much over the next two weeks you are going to be sick of me trumps surged to double digit National Lead in the nbc news wall street journal poll. And figures hes got the nomination if he wins the lead off contest sot donald trump r president ial candidate 21 25 the fact is i think we can really come in first in iowa and then its off to the races cruz campaigned in South Carolina sot ted cruz rpresident ial candidate 27 32 a lot of peopled are waking up they are rising up and were gonna turn this country around in last nights debate. Trump scored when cruz accused him of having new york values sot ted cruz rpresident ial candidate 38 42 you know, i think most people know exactly what ny values are. Hahahahah a but trump. Emotio nally. Evoked 9 11 sot donald trump r president ial candidate 451 06 when the World Trade Center came down i saw something that no place on earth could have handled more beautifuly, more humanely than new york. Hed hit a nerve heres the New York Daily NewsHillary Clinton tweeted Hillary Clinton hillaryclinton 1 15 16, 11 17 am just this once, trumps right new yorkers value hard resilience, and building better lives for our families. H just this once trumps right in New Hampshire today, marco rubio attacked cruz sot marco rubio r president ial candidate 1 171 21 time and again he has shown that he has changed his positions out of political calculation targeting the chief challenger while chasing the frontrunner insert ends two second pause audio outcue im steve handelsman, nbc news, washington. Republican president ial candidate Chris Christie will be in siouxland this weekend. The new jersey gov. Is hosting a town hall event a buffalo alicessin sioux city on sunday. Doors open at 3 30 p. M. Republican president ial candidate marco rubio will be in siouxland tomorrow. The florida senator is slated to speak at dort college. The event begins at 6 p. M. Powerball winners a couple from tennesse comes forward to claim part of their record breaking prize. And. Catching a movie this weeknd . Well break down the new Stock Exchange today. The day ended with the dow falling some 391 points. Leaving it down an incredible 14hundred points in just the first two weeks of the year. The fall of oil prices and concerns over chinas Economic Standing are fueling the stock markets decline. A tennessee couple who bought one of the three winning powerball tickets picked up their check today. John robinson said he bought four tickets at a Grocery Store near their house on his way home from work on wednesday night. Hes from munford, tennesse, a city of just 6 thousand people. Only three businesses sell powerball tickets there. Walmart announced today it plans to close 269 Stores Worldwide by the end of this month. 154 of those are in the u. S. And most will be smaller walmart instead plans to focus on super centers, neighborhood markets and ecommerce. The company has not said which stores will be closed, so we dont know if any in siouxland will be affected. But almost all of the stores being closed in the u. S. Are within 10 miles of another walmart location. Two astronauts aborted their spacewalk today after water leaked into one of the mens helmets. An astronaut reported a small water bubble inside his helmet, which quickly turned into a film of water. Mission control terminated the sixhour spacewalk just after the men hit the fourhour mark. But,they had already completed their mission of restoring full power to the space station. Nasa says this wasnt an emergendy and no one was in danger. But, a precaution. Thats because a similar leak led to the near drowning of an italian asasonaut in 2013. Compared to the past couple days, today is cold. And the weekend doesnt look much better. Tjs full forecast a judge says a siouxland man a judge says a siouxland man charged with killing his mother is competent to stand trial. If youre just getting home heres a quick look at todays headlines. After a Mental Health evaluation, the judge dededed Jonathan Neunaber is mentally capable to stand trial for firstdegree murder. No trial date has been set yet. Starting in may, people will have two options of where to fly from sioux gateway airport. Today, sioux city leaders announced that American Airlines will add daily flights to dallas. Thats the airlines largest us hub. And. Former president bill clinton is campaigning for r llary clinton president. Today, he stopped at Morningside College in sioux city to talk to nearly 450 students and community members. Bill clinton began campaigning for her last week in New Hampshire. Now hes making his rounds in iowa. Thats a look at your just home headlines. Chief meteorologis t ron demers joins us with the forecast. Windchill advisory in effect for parts of northern northeas tern siouxland from 3 amamntil noon saturday after our mild stretch of weather, we will begin to take our arctic plunge this afternoon and evening. Temperatures will continue to fall as we progress throughout the rest of our friday with most towns getting close to that 0 degree mark. Wind chills will also be a factor with values dropping close to 30 below zero. Urge caution and bundle up if you have to travel tonight clouds will also be on the increase in the overnight hours as we move into our saturday out ahead of our maker. This cold front will give us our strongest arctic blast along with anothth chance for snow. The snow will be of the dry and fluffy nature due to the temperatures being so cold. With that in mind it looks like the best bet for siouxland is anywhere from 13 of the white stuff through sunday morning. Highs will stay below zero during the day on sunday along with dangerously cold wind chills. This will be the coldest air ofofhe season so far with low tempepetures heading into monday morning plummeting close to 20 degrees. We will start a bit of a moderating trend as we kick off the work week with temperatures getting close to 20 come tuesday, with yet another chance wave of low pressure moves could star wars get beat out this weekend in the box office. A look at a potential challenger straight there are two democratic visions for regulating wall street. One says its okay to take millions from big banks and then tell them what to do. My plan break up the big banks, close the tax loopholes, and make them pay their fair share. En we can expand health care to all, and provide universal college education. Will they like me . No. Will they begin to play by the rules if im president . You Better Believe it. The person who lives here. Has to solve problems as big as the world. And as small as your kitchen table. Thats the job. Everyday. And now, the first lady who helped get healthcare for eight million kids. The senator who helped a city rise again. The secretararof state who stood up for america, and stared down hostile leaders around the world. Is the one candidate for president who has everything it takes to do every part of the job. Shell never let anyone privatize Social Security and medicare. Or shut down planned parenthood. Shell take on the gun lobby. Finally get equal pay for women. And stopophe republicans fromm ripping all our progress away. So on february first, stand up for hillary. Because if you want a president who knows how to keep america safe. And build a stronger economy. Hillarys the choice. Im listening to you, im fighting for you, im going to deliver. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Star wars the force awakens has led the box office for four straight weekends. But a new release might have the power to silence the force. Rick damigella looks at whats now showing. 48pointsix million opening. Expect these cops to clean up. nat also hitting theaters this weekend is 13 hours the secret soldiers of benghazi. Michael bays movie chronicling the terrorist attack on the Us Diplomatic compound in benghazi, libya is opening on less screens than ride along 2 but could make 20million this weekend according to variety. Thats whats now showing im rick damigella. Darth vader showed he was a good guy. A 9yearold boy from omaha received a bionic arm. And, it was delivered by peopole dressed up as star wars characters. Alvin Garcia Flores was born with part of h h right arm missing. About 140 other fourthgraders at his school were there for his exiciting surprise. Shes always stood strong. To get the job done. Hillary clinton. She stood up to china. And spoke out on womens rights. Went toe to toe with russia on human rights. The drug a a Insurance Companies spent millions against her. But hillary didnt quit until eight million children got health care. Ive never been called a quitter and i wont quit on you. Shes got what it takes to do the toughest job in the world. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Marco rubio. He ran for senate saying he opposed amnesty. Then he flipped, and worked with liberal Chuck Schumer to coauthor the path to citizenship bill. He threatened to vote against it. And then voted for it. He supported his own dream act and then he abandoned it. Marco rubio. Jeb bush. Hes a leader,r, so you always know where he stands. Right to rise usa more on reaction from city leaders on the new route to dallas. They say its been a long time coming. Its a project thats been in the works for years. Coming up at six. An update on the project and what we can exect in the next few years. S. Lets check in one more time with ron. Thanks for joining us for news tonight, market plunge. Fear on wall street as the dow dived 400 points, extending the worst start to a year ever. The gloves come off. An allout feud. Ted cruz again for