Places, should not be tied up in politics. The president , in california hosting an asian summit, those responsibilities described in the constitution are iron clad. There are no caveats, he office. And Hillary Clinton weighing in. Unleashing a flflry of tweets overnight aimed at gop senators. Hillary tweeting hillary tweet so, a message for senate the scalia succession fight now also a Campaign Issue for the democrats. Sot hillary today now last time i looked, the constitution did nottave a parenthesis. He an Election Year . Thats not the way our srinivasen of washington, dc and jane kelly of iowa, also Washington Appeals Court judges merrick garland, long on his list, although older at 63 and patricia millett, an experienced litigator and former clerk for justice ginsburg. President could decide to fire up his own democratic ase. Nominating a minority candidate, or another woman. In a deliberate contrast to the majority of the gop opposition in the senate. Back in iowa a longtime fued between an iowa police chief f nd a county sheriff boils over. The police chief is now running for sheriff. And the current sheriff makes a shocking accusation. As long as you are running for she had a miscarriage, okay . The police chief says its the voice of the Pocahontas County sheriff he recorded the cald. The two men have apparantly been battling for the past two years. Over which office is supposed to respond to crimes in certain areas. According to the fonda police chief, the allegations are not i can promise you 100 there is no truth, there will never be any truth to it. As for the allegations of assault the sheriff hasnt commented following the phone call about where he got that of a lawsuit. According to the des moines register, the sheriff cut emergency dispatch calls to the police chief last month. The mayor of fonda released a statement. Saying all county agencies need to work together. A 19yearold is dead after falling from a truck and landing on the highway. It happened friday morning in wisconsin, not far from the iowa border. Authorities says kyle vosberg haha his truck see at 30 Miles Per Hour on cruise control. He then got out of his truck and stood on the Running Board still steering from the outside. When he got back inside he slipped off the nning board. He landed in the highway and suffered a serious head injury. Three of his friends were in the truck with him. Vosberg was taken to the hosptial and later died. The accident remns under investigation. A Domestic Abuse survivor makes a plea to iowa lawmakers. In 2009 Tiffany Allison was attacked by her boyfriend. He was chged and convicted. But was released from prison after sentence. Once he got out, he attacked im really scared hes going to do this again and potentially kill someone the next time and i know i dont want to be responsible for that shes pushing for a bill that would require repeat offienders serve at least 85percent of their sentence. Currently they tend too only serve about 30 percent. This afternoon, were hearing from a Midwest Academy teacher. The fbi is now investigating the iowa boarding schoollfor tetenagers. Last month officers raided Midwest Academy in keokuk over allegations that a staff member sexually assaulted a student. That investigation has now expanded. Some teens say they were kept in isolation boxes for days or weeks. The 90 students were removed and the academy has been closed for now. Unless you worked out there or were a student out there, you just you dont understand what it was like. Its a privately funded school placements. Some say it was basically ew at noon the polls are open in cedar falls for a sscial school board election. The polls are now open in cedar falls for a special school board and ran for mayor. Theyll decide between meg campbell, joyce coil and eric giddens. Coil is a former School Board President who was defeated in last years election. The polls are open until 8 in the iowa legislattre. Lawmakersrshear from ststdents pushing for more money for their school. Davenport High School Students visiting the state capitol. They want education to be a top priority this session. According to governor branstad. Iowa has used the same funding formula since 1971. He says while it may be outdated, it likely wont be changed anytime soon. I think each year that we dont dont get great education. Under state law, the legislature was supposed to set the budget for Upcoming School year last session. They didnt and still havent. Leaving schools forced to make budget decisions without knowing how much money theyll have. Hundreds of iowa students could be forced to retake third grade. Starting nnt year. Thhd grade sttents who cant read at grade level could be held back. Thats about 25 percent of iowa third graders this summer. The Branstad Administration is launching a pilot Reading Program to help students who are behind. About 40 schoodistricts have already signed up for tt from the School Districts that have. About 46 weeks of the summer students who participate in the programwill be reevaluated to getting your taxes done early can help protect you from fraud. Thieves are filing returns early and the easiest way to protect yourself is to file early. If you need help getting them available accounting juniors. Seniors. And grad students at uni are offering free tax return help. They say every monday and wednesday night they will be in the Curris Business Building from 7 to 9. Students wiwil electronically prepare and exile both federal its just a fun time to come problems. In order to qualify for the program. You must make less than 52 thousand dollars a year. Coming up. Tonightoe eastern iowa city is going into a snow emergency what you need to knowowo you and, the dangers of hidden apps. They can look innocent but its where your kids may be storing the problem in a special report and when you see news or if you have pictures or video to share. You can do that by going to our page on febook. You can also like our page to stay up to date on breaking news well be right back with your storm track seven forecast. Lots of clouds this afternon and we could see a few snow showers and flurrii. That may continue into tomorrow with colder temperatures, but a warm up heads our way by the end of the week. Ill have details coming up. Got you covered, with ally crutcher and meteorologist eileen loan. This is the kwwl news at noon now your storm track 7 forecast on kwwl. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormttack 7 weather tetem gorgeous weather over the weekend up in portions of minnesota, where the ice fishing was apparently hot and ice skating was, too we will have clouds over us today along with some flurries and light snow showers for the next couple of days, but it will be breezy and we also have areas of fog this afternoon. It Weather Network cameras shows that light fog in the area, too. It wonn burn off. We have lots of clouds over us today with a few snow showers tracking through. Temperatures are pretty mild. In the low to mid 30s here and to the west. Around 5 to 15, but will eventually turn to the north and northwest this afternoon. We are pretty socked in with clouds over much of the midwest right now. We have another weak disturbance that will bring some snow showers to the state tomorrow, this one expected to be farther north, but still veryy light. And will keep clouds over us for a few more days. Temperatures will be mild today, but will cool a few degrees tomorrow. However, warmth is building nicely to the west and south. We will eventually see our boundary track to the north anan bring us some warmer temps. Today we will be in the mid 30s, but as the winds turn to the north, we may have falling temps this afternoon. A light wintry mix to low 20s tonight will lead to highs in the mid 20s to tomorrow with a few stray snow showers tracking through. We could get up to an inch of new snow out of that system if it holds together long enough. We warm back to around 40 on thursday and will aim for the upper 40s on friday. We could see a few showers on friday, but we will see a lot of melting snow later this week and that could lead to ponding on roadways, especially if the a snow emergency goes into effect tonight. The city of cedar falls says the college hill and downtown areas will be under a snow emergency from nine tonight until six tomorrow morning. Crews need to aul snow frr the area. A parking ban will be in place during that time. If you dont move your car it might get towed. Coming up. The dangers of hidden apps. We take a deeper look at the problem in a special report and, spring is near and the Housing Market is the lowest its been for several years youre watching kwwl. Weve got you coveed in la portrtcity, smart phones are a part ofnews because of the dangers they pose. Were hearing more out so called hidden apps which can lead kids and teens down a dangerous sharing mobile apps practically invade our cell phone apps can lead to deadly consequences. A recent t urder in virginia highlights just that. Her favorite color was blue. She was a very lovable person. Lovell met people on a messaging app called kik. And Police Believe this app might have played a factor in her death. Following thiscase, Police Departments in eastern iowa say kik is now on their radar. But theres another monster to tackle and thats secret hide, smart hide calculator, hide it pro. And look at the some College Students know of them. I know a lot of like high schoolers, middle schoolers. My sister is in high school, i wouldnt be surprised if she had one to keep things private or away from my parents. Others hear about why kids might be using them. Do things like hide stutuf from their parents, hide inappropriate photos and things like that. You get behind it and theres some nefarious activity going on. When it comes to teens shes a parent. Plugged in. As soon as i get on an app or pops up thats more popular. Susan hadnt heard of these socalled secret apps. Frankly, a lot of parents havent. So we also talked to police. Dubuque officers say these apps do what kids want them to do. Blind the parents. Because itll have the face of a calculator, or other icons like utilities or settings. Other cases of secret business. Guns, drugs, nude photos and kids have access to the apps. The appeal secrecy. The consequences dangerous. If you were to have images of people under the age of 18, and theye nude, then that is illegal. For parents like susan its a alarming conversation. It doesnt scare me so much that my kids are doing it, i guess i feel sad that there are lot of kids out there that are doing that. So what can you do downloaded, ask your kids about police also say look at your childs phone differently. Its not a diary. When you give them access to of security because once somethings out there, you cant take it back. When it comes to talking to yor teens, some advice thats worked in susans house. I would say talk to your kids, think sometimes we get lost in the act and were not looking at what happening behind it. One way these apps are getting on kids phones theyre free to download. We have a list of other hidden apps advice for parents from police on our website. Just head to kwwl dot com. Coming up. The most popular alcoholic beverage among millenials might surprise you stay tuned to fin out what it is. And, pressure is building from Animal Rights activists to go cagefree. And stores are listening. This is kwwl well be right back. Dringeneration. According to the nonprofit wine market council, millennials drank 42percent of all wine in the us last year. Thats about 2 cases for eacc person 21to38 years old. When it comes to High Frequency drinkers, those who drink several times a week. Baby boomers are number one followed by millennials and generation xers. Trader joes says it plans to sell only cagefree eggs. The Grocery Store chain says by 2025 itll sell eggs from only cagefree hens. At this point, about 62percent of the eggs it currently sells arr cageefree. It plans to make that 100percent in the next nine years. The move comes as pressure builds from Animal Rights activists to o cagefree. A number of major reeaurant recently announced theyre moving to cagefree eggs including target and mcdonalds. The spring housing season kicked off this past weemend, but with record short supply. President s day weekend typically kicks off the start of the spring Housing Market. But right now, supply is down. In fact this is the lowest number of homes for sale since 2005 coming up on kwwl, the mister food test kitchen. A delcious rib recipe. Thats Finger Lickin good but first, a look at your latest were a nation that loves our baby back and spare ribs, and if you want to bundle great tv with highspeed internet, then call centurylink at. 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Food test kitchen, where got a big surprise when they pulled up to the pump and only had to pay pennies find out why coming up plus, one man is getting a lot of attention by the ladies after the message he puts on a billboard and a beautiul blessing by the pope to a a an in a wheelchchr welcome back to the news at lets go to storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan now for your first forecast. A few snow showers and flurries continue to are mainly in the low 30s and the winds have turned to the northwest and are mainly 5 to 15 mph. They will stay that way through tonight. We will keep a few snow showers flurries in the area, too. We will gain a few more tomorrow. Ill let you know if that will continue for the rest of the week in a few minutes. A kwwl followup. The people injured in a 30car crash are expected to recover. Three people were hurt in the pileup in cedar county this week. Investigators say traffic was backed now to another follooup a couu date is set for a cyride bus driver accused of hitting and killing an iowa state student. Isu freshman emmalee jacobs died in a hit and run in decmeber. She was from bana. Benjamin clague is accused of hitting her with a bus hes pleading not guilty to charges of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death. Clague entered that written plea yesterday. His jury triaawill start onn april fiftt three Iowa Police Officers now on paid leave following a deadly shooting. The urbandale officers respondd to a tel over the weekend for a drug compllint. They say a man shot at them, and they fired back. The man died from his injuries. A Community College president plagarizes part of his Matin Luther King day speech. Now trustees are reprimanding him. The kikikwood communitit College Board approved a motion expressing its disappointment that president Mick Starcevich didnt attribute the source of an anecdote he used the quote came from a blog on the New York Times website. A middle School Basketball coach is under fire for reportedly making racist comments to her players. The indianaacoach was telling r plaars to be on their best behavior but allegedly used racial steoreotypes. Now the naacp is responding. Talk about ghetto or dont act like black kids, thats very inappropriate to use the coach has since taken sensitivity training. Its not known when or if shell return to coaching the case against two high School Basketball coaches and an athletic director. Facing allegations of failing to report players sexual abuse. Will continue. All three men pleading not guilty yesterday. Four tennessee basketball players have been accused of sexually assaulting a teammate while on a team trip in december. Three of them face aggravated rape eharges. Bullying is a problem so many kids face. Making it so much worse. Thats why three teenage girls from dubuque are doing something about it. Erin, alexis and katherine made a website to help victims of cyberbullying. We feel that websites are a their phones or social media, so or see your presentation. Anyone can see it, any time they want. The website features stats on online bullying, tips to help. And shows a video the girls created. A Muslim Advocacy Group