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KTIV News 4 Today December 10, 2015

This morning, a couple of brief showers might form along it with some shortlived cloud cover. It will exit by this afternoon and resume our sunshine and 50 degree temperatures which will be present for one additional day tomorrow. Wx timer 40 we have new details about two teens involved in a bank robbery this summer. Ktivs sam curtiss brings us the latest developments that took place yesterday in Woodbury County district court. Seemed as an inside job from the start. August 15th, perez, disguised as a man, said she had a weapon and demanded cash from the Security National bank inside the hy vee on hamilton boulevard in sioux city. On the other side of the counter, the teller out of sight, perezs friend, zevenbergen, a 2014 class valedictorian at elkpoint Jefferson High School in south dakota. Zenvenbergen later told police she helped stage the robbery with perez. Perez graduated from sioux citys East High School in 2015 and even participated in choir. Surveillance video caught her casually walking away from the store with thousands of dollars that day. Sioux city police zeroed in on both and arrested them a few days later. Both zevenbergen and perez could face up to five years in prison along with heavy fines. Their sentencing scheduled for february 10th. In sioux city, sam curtiss, ktiv news four. Both teens will also have to repay the bank the thousands of dollars they took. Weeks after the deadly terrorist attack on a paris concert hall. We now know who the third attacker was. Investigators say he was 23yearold frenchman, Foued Mohamed aggad. Traveled from strasbourg to syria with other radicalized young people in 2013. His mother learned in a text from syria that he was dead. And Police Matched his dna to hers. The canadian government is pushing ahead with a plan to resettle thousands of Syrian Refugees in just the next few weeks canadian officials announced that the First Military transport jets carrying Syrian Refugees are due to arrive late this week. But the price tag for resettlement has gone up. It now stands at 247 Million Dollars over four years. Preparations are underway at canadian airports to process and welcome them with toys for their kids and signs in their language. Canadas immigration minister says refugees will be welcomed. But will have to wait their turn. Angry demonstrator s called on chicago mayor Rham Emmanuel to resign. Wednesday was a day of raw emotion where protesters vented their anger at the Chicago Police board. The meeting came just hours after the mayor accepted responsibility for his handling fatal police shooting. And apologized. The anger was ignited last month with the release of dash cam video that showed a Chicago Police officer shooting a 17 year old 16 times. The man accused of killing two civilians and a Police Officer at a planned parenthood in Colorado Springs last month was in court yesterday. 57yearold robert dear was formally charged with 179 counts in the black friday shooting rampage. During the proceedings, dear had multiple outbursts, telling the court that he was a warrior for the babies. He repeatedly said the words, quote protect the babies, and that he quote wanted the truth out. Dear will be back in court on december 23rd. William porter, one of the six baltimore Police Officers accused in the death of freddie gray, took the stand in his own defense yesterday. Gray died from a spinal injury days after being injured during a 45 minute ride in the back of a police van on april 12th. Porter told a jury he checked on gray during a stop on the way to says there were no signs that gray needed medical attention. When asked why he didnt secure gray in seat belt porter said that even the most docile detainee presents a risk. Porter pleaded not guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter, Second Degree assault, misconduct in office , and reckless endangerment. His case is expected to end by december 17th. A High School Girls basketball coach in des moines is facing charges related to sexual abuse. 46yearold Gerald Johnson is charged with Sexual Exploitation by a school employee. He turned himself in tuesday afternoon. The penalty for a Sexual Exploitation conviction varies based on whether or not a pattern of Sexual Conduct is proven. This morning president barack obama will sign the every Student Succeeds act. the Senate Passed the measure which is being called a fix for no child left behind. It will become law with the president s signature today. Among other changes, the bipartisan compromise will return the authority to decide in assessing teachers and schools back to the states. It will also end federal efforts to encourage academic standards like common core. a morningside business student was recognized this week after winning a National Prize in chicago. Junior josh doering won a fivethousand dollar prize at the founders u. Pitch competition monday night. He presented his agriculture tech startup project seedslide. Doering was one of 24 College Students from around the country to compete after putting his entry on youtube. Doering presented his startup to shark tank cast member daymond john. While the fivethousand dollars is nice, i think thats one of the lower things i actually took away from this experience. The networks, the connections i made there was really, really nice of just people who want to help me succeed. The seedslide is a device to increase safety and efficiency on the farm. Its put into the gate of a seed box. When you lift it up over the seed wagon you use a remote to open it so the seeds the Startup Company was launched in april. The government has changed the way it rates vechile safety. Well tell you what officials are doing to keep you safer on the roads, coming up. Ben and ill have your resume our sunshine and 50 degree temperatures which will be present for one additional day tomorrow. Clouds will gradually become thicker going in to the weekend, when cooler temperatures settle in on saturday. We might squeeze out some light rain and possibly a mix of rain and snow saturday night and sunday as temperatures fall back into the 30s. Next week will be much more representative of december with these temperatures and a chance of some additional mixed precipitation on tuesday. This week. The government announced a big change in the way it gives out safety ratings to new vehicles. From new tests. To new dummies. Its an effort to keep us all safer when were on the road. Brian mooar has the story from washington. When it comes to protecting vehicle occupants. The tests by the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration along with the tests conducted by the private Insurance Institute for Highway Safety are coveted by automakers, and trusted by consumers who want to know just how safe makes and models of cars really are. The governments new tests measure how well vehicles fare in crashes at different angles. And how well people inside the car protected. Anthony Foxx Secretar y of transportatio n 46 55 the end result will be tests that more accurately impacts on the human body which will lead us to a more stringent rating system. The tests also determine how effective vehicles are at avoiding crashes to begin with. Crashtest dummies are getting an upgrade, too. Theyll better gauge the types and severity of injuries occupants might suffer in a crash. Nextgeneration tests designed to keep new generations of travelers safer than ever before. Brian mooar, nbc news, washington. Foxx says the new ratings actually create an incentive for automakers to make safer cars. Were just Getting Started this morning. When we come back. Kids are learning about Computer Programming in elementary school. Skills theyll use for the rest of their lives. But one group of students turned the tables and taught local Computer Programming is growing in the workplace and in schools. Ktivs tiffany lane has the story of one group you wouldnt expect to be teaching coding to local leaders. Vanderloos second grade class at Loess Hills Elementary School. The school teaches two computer programs to all of its students. Wednesday, they passed on their Computer Programming knowledge to local business, city and county leaders. The grown ups didnt know how to do it so i showed them how to do it, said Loess Hills Elementary School second grader colton pedersen. Colton pedersen is just seven years old and has already been coding for a year. The school has students like colton program at least an hour a week. Su even though many of the Business Leaders have their own Computer Programming experience, they say even they learned a thing or two from mrs. Vanderloos second graders. They showed me a little project and i was supposed to do it and i only made a couple mistakes, said terry murrell, president at western Iowa Tech Community college. But the student was right there to tell me exactly how and why i made the mistake and you know it was really kind of fun and exciting just to sit down with the students. Principal john beeck says its nice to be able to share their skills with influential local leaders. Schools are still a huge part of city, towns, community we want our community leaderknow what were doing here becathills elementary scprinanto have a partnership with ta glimpse of whestudents may also be in the future. In sioux city, tiffanyktiv news 4. The visit from local Business Leaders comes during the hour of code. The iowa governors Stem Advisory Council partnered with code dotorg in the international challenge. Loess Hills Elementary School was one of six state schools to be awarded in a challenge during Computer Science education week. The school won four thousand implementing an hour of coding into its curriculum this week. Loess hills has shown over and over again that they are dedicated to Computer Science, said molly faber, the northwest regional stem manager. They have it within their entire curriculum. They participate in it weekly, not just one week out of the whole school year. Principal beeck said they havent decided yet what they will do with the reward. He said that it will go toward something to help increase the enthusiasm and ability to improve program coding. Yesteray was a Beautiful Day to definitely the pick day of the week. But todays not looking to bad either. Bens in next with his forecast. And one boy started an organization to help children who are suffering from cancer. Well show you what hes doing for them, after in this season of giving, think about this. When is the last time you really made a difference in someone elses life . A latham, new york boy has found a way to touch the lives of more than a thousand kids going through a tough time in the Capital Region and beyond. Jessica layton reports. The Childrens Hospital at Albany Medical Center. There were hand made hats, crocheted with bold blues and pinks. Hats that light up at the push of a button. Tiny hats the size of jeremys hand for babies and fleece hats for big kids. Weve gotten hats from the new york giants we also have new york jets and valley cats hats as well this is the third year the latham boy has collected hats for kids fighting cancer. He got the idea after he started shaving his head to raise money for the St Baldricks Foundation five years ago. I realized your head gets really cold and his heart went out to those children whose hair wouldnt grow back so quickly. So he and his family started setting up collection bins around the Capital Region. You can always hope you get more than you got last year. But you can never really predict how many youre going to get this year they collected 14 hundred hats. The child life specialist at albany med is overwhelmed by the delivery. S lisa duggan Albany Medical Center 1 22 1 30 just the generosity of community and goodness that jeremy brought to us at the Childrens Hospital is so wonderful he really is an inspiration to all of us somebody i dont know helping someone they dont know its a special cycle that gets better every year. A from a big heart. Its. News and weather for you in our second half hour of news4 today. First though. Heres a look at some of the events on the good morning and welcome back. Some of the stories were are receiving highlevel classified briefings on the San Bernardino shooting rampage. That comes a day after the fbi revealed startling new details about the attackers. Not only are we learning more about what the radicalized husband and wife did were learning about what they failed to do. Details from washington. And. Local leaders talk with state lawmakers about issues facing the sioux city area. What was up for discussion . And later. A specialized Education Program helps children with autism and developmenta l delays cope with the sometimes negative experiences of eating. Thats coming up in healthbeat 4. But first ben. This afternoon, lawmakers in washington are getting a classified briefing on the San Bernardino terror investigation. Tracie potts is on capitol hill with what they may learn behind closed doors. And the Surprising New info were already hearing from the fbi. Potentially directed threat from terrorist groups. Today the fbi willllell lawmakers what its director could not say in public, when he dropped this bombshell about the San Bernardino shooters sot james comey fbi director 24 39 they were actually radicalized before they started courting or dating each other online. And online, as early as the end of 2013, they were talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged. That was before the rise of isis and before the us approved Tashfeen Malik to travel here on a fianc0e visa. sot Josh Earnest White House press secretary 47 51 its still too early to make grand pronounceme nts about what could have been done differently. A year earlier the fbi says syed farook was talking to his neighbor about an attack. sot senator orrin hatch r utah 581 01 i mean in all honesty my greatest fear is more attacks and more dead americans. As investigators dig for clues in the couples smashed phones and hard drives, were also learning there may have been other targets this california a gh school farook inspected for work. Or another building or public gathering. Lawmakers are expected to learn Homeland Security and National Counterterrorism center. Also here the state department is supporting congress attempt to overhaul the visa waiver program. Anyone traveling here from whos been to syria, iraq, iran, syria or sudan in the last five years would be required to get a visa. Im tracie potts in washington, now back to you. Dozens of people converged on New York City Hall yesterday to rally against donald trump in his own home town. City lawmakers and faith leaders came together to denounce trumps proposal to ban muslims from the us. New Yorks City Council speaker sent a letter to community leaders, urging them to unite to oppose trump. Have commented on the protest. Trumps comments have been denounced by democrats, activists, and his rivals in the gop president ial race. Meanwhile, students at the university of virginia in charlottesville are combatting islamophobia with a small gesture. Muslim students gave out hugs in response to statements made by donald trump. The students say they believeverump himself is harmless, but t s message is dangerous. They say they are most concerned about people who believe trumps message as fact. Marco rubio campaigned in michigan yesterday. Spending time in a state not among the traditional firstvoting states that normally attract president ial candidates. The flflida senator spoke to backers in an airport hangar near detroit. Before attending an evening fundraiser. He mostly kept to his stump speech. With tough criticism of president obama for refusing to say the us is in a war on radical islam. Rubio also advocated for aggressive surveillance methods of suspected radicals in the us. Saying we than they know about us. Democratic president ial candidate Bernie San

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