The street. Police spending most of the afternoon searching tha area. State trooper, i believe, and two cedar fflls police, i i aw for sure. Then shortly after a few more came over here. Polic searched the Thunder Ridge court. Hartman one witness tells me, he sawwthe man causally walking through this hallway covered from head to toe in masks and winter gear, he then exited this south entrance. Authorties continuing to earch the area late into thee afternoon. And marked off these foot prints leading away from the bank and towards the thunderrridge court as evidence. Police say ellingson changed clothes after leaving the area and continued do a near by pharmacy and apartment complex. He was s money has been recovered. Weve got you covered live in the newsroom. Jessica hartman kwwl news. Thanks jessica we will continue to bring you updates on this investigation here and on kwwldot com. Another bitter cold day today lets go to storm track seven chief meteorologist Mark Schnackenberg now whos tracking it all. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl below zero in man locations under a clee sky. The low temperatures will occur shortly after midnight and then slowly warm to around 10 degrees by snow shower or a few flurries. The wind is light tonight through thursday. Speakg of thursday, highs s ill reach the low anddid 30s. A nice break from the brutal cold low temperatures will occur shortly after midnight and then slowly warm to around 10 degrees by sunrise wednesday. Clouds inrease overnight and linger through wednesday with a strry snow wind is light tonight through thursday. Speaking of thursday, highs will reach the low and mid 30s. A nice break from the brutal cold lately. A couple weeks left until the iowa caucuses. And theres a new frontrunner on the gop side donald trump now leading the polls in iowa. That development coming out yesterday tonight he was in cedar falls. It was a packed house at unis west gym so crowded, the fire marshal had to turn people away. With the soundtrack from rocky bellowing out of the swinging. 15 27 42 50 if i run and lets assume its be in prison. Trump said he should be the gop candidate because he says hes not owned by anyone. 18 26 23 im self funding my campaign. Im not having people give me checks for millions. Thhnk theyre doing hat for their health . Its a sentiment that made an impact in the crowd 14 45 08 16 hes a businessman and very confident. Sticks to his guns and not ayed by other peoples opinions. 14 46 03 09 hes out spending his own money anywhere else in this country. Trump quickly talked about the importance of ethanol 18 26 49 01 i toured your ethanol plants. Nything we o to create ethanol is good. Get away from dependence on mideast,,learned this lesson the hard way. He switched gears to two other hot button issues common core and guns. 18 19 46 04 on education were ranked 28 29. 31 in spending. Common core is gone. Local folks. Thats up common core is gone. And about his tough says hes not backing down. 18 20 28 34 we gotta get tough, we gotta get smart, vigilant. We need to know who the hell is coming ito our country 14 47 55 05 hes the man. You know its not about e being black or white. Its his agenda. Trumphas a two percentage lead over ted cruz hereen iowa. Nationally, he has a double digit lead. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton also in eastern iowa today. Clinton speaking at an event at the univevesity of dubuque to a room full of about 500 supporters. The former secretary of state is looking to regain some ground sanders is now ahead of her in iowa. Three people are killed following a fire at a trailer home. It happened at in the 27hundred block of 252nd avenue in montrose. Take a look at the damage here. 33yearold Jacob Russell was able to escape the fire, but did suffer severe burns. Three others were foundndead by firefighters inside the trailer. Eir names have not been released at this time. Fire crews are still working to see how the fire started. A local man is arrested after allegedly killing his cat and trying to drink its blood. According to a criminal complaint justin jaaby, of cedarrfalls, admitted to choking his cat with a rope. His landlord says he saw the cats body on the floor of jacobys shower and says he sawa small amount of blood on his jacobys face. He sss he killeddhe cat to satisfy his blood craving and to keep it from charged with animal torture. A man is arrested for allegedly driving under the influence in a snow plow, with a child sitting onn hissap. Police found 31 yearold robert stertz of eagan, minnesota plowing snow in a gas station parking lot, and say he appeared to be drunk. A fiveyearold girl was with hihi at the time. Stertz has already been convicted in three previous dwis. Area third graders are practicing making 911 phone calls in case of an emergency. Cedar rapids firefighters are thths year with the emergency practice including grant wood elementary school. Students get oneonone training talk to a a irefighter acting as a dispatcher on the other line. The simulation starts with an cg Bridget Buchheit student they shohoed us a picture of meone trying to do something or someone in danger and we had to call about it. Students are asked real questions by the dispatcher such as their name and address. About 50 o othe third graders participating did not know their home address or a phone number when asked, students say the smulation made them feel more comfortable to make a 911 call if needed. The Iranian Military seizes two Us Navy Boats and are detaining 10 american sailors. The sailors nine men and one woman were on a Training Mission when one of their boats experienced a mechanical failure and drifted into iranian wawers. Iranian officials are assuring us officials that the crew and will be promptly returned. Final state of the Union Address toniniht from tte nationals capitol. Steve handelsman has more tonight from dc. It looked like his earlier state of the Union Speeches but, in this last one, presidenenobama admitted no one expects new proposals to pass a congress thatgs defeated most of his big initiatives sot president obama no super 14 21 fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. An empty chair next to but both sides cheered when the prsident announced a push to beat cancee. Led by joee biden who lost his son to a brain tumor last year the president bragged about the economic recovery sot were in the middle of the longest streak of privatesector job creation in history. Yay 14 million new jobs. Unemployment cut in half. He deal with iran an achievement nuclear program, shipped out its uranium stockpile, and the world has avoided another war. No mention that iran sailors whose boats strayed into iranian waters hell fight isis but he said acting like thats World War Three builds isis up sot president obama no are killers and fanaticssho need to be rooted out and destroyed. In the gop response, South Carolina govern nikki haley said what America Needs is a republican president sot gov nikkkhaley rsooth carolina 1 201 31 we are facing the most 11th, and this president appears either unwilling or unable to deal with it. The democrat with a year left in the white house says what America Needs is for us to fix our politics insert ends two second pause audioiooutcue im stste handelsman, nbc news, washington. Coming up on wwl. A new more interest after the release of the latest star wars movie. Plus. Seseeral shelves collapse at a party city store with customers inside. Heres a live look at the storm track 7 live doppler radar. Stor track sevens chieff meteorologist Mark Schnackenberg has your full forecast, coming up. Youre watching kwwl. Weve meteorologist Mark Schnackenberg and sports with rick coleman. This is the kwwl someononjust got a free 6 subway sandwich. Just text offers to 782929 to sign up for weekly text offers. D youll get a free 6inch sub now your storm track 7 forecast on kwwl. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. Ee the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrk 7 weather te temmratures drop his evening below zero in many locations under a clear sky. The low temperatures will occur shortly after midnight and then slowly warm to around 10 degrees by sunrise wednesday. Clouds increase overnight and linger thrrgh wednesddy with a stray snow shower or a few flurries. The wind is light tonight through thursday. Speaking of thursday, highs will reach the low and mid 30s. A nice break from the brutal cold tely. Temperatures drop this evening below zero in many locationon under a cllr sky. The low temperatures will occur shortly after midnight and then slowly warm to around 10 degrees by sunrise wednesday. Clouds increase overnigh and flurries. The wind is light tonight through thursday. Speaking oo thursday, highs wwll reach thee low and mid 30s. A nice break from the brutal cold lately. 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Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team temperatures drop this evening below zero in many locations under a clear sky. The low sunrise wednesesay. Clouds increase overnight and linger through wednesday with a stray snow shower or a few flurries. The wind is light tonight through thursday. Speaking of thursday, highs will reach the low and mid 30s. A nice break from the brutal cold lately. Temperatures drop this evening below zero in many low temperatures will occur shortly after midnight and then slowly warm to around 10 degrgres by sunrise w wdnesday. Clouds inccase overnight and linger through wednesday with a stray snow shower or a few flurries. The wind is light tonight through thursday. Speaking of thursday, highs will reach the low and mid 30s. A nice break from the brutal cold lately. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl under a clear sky. The low temperatures will occur shortly after midnight and then slowly warm tw around 10 degrees by sunrise wednesday. Clouds increase vernight ann linger through wednesday with a stray snow shower or a few flurries. The wind is light tonight through thursday. Speaking of thursday, highs will reach the low and mid 30s. A nice break from the brutal cold lately. Coming up on kwwl. A longtime pub aa tourist attraction now turned into an ice how much Internet Speed does one family actually need . Ballpark. To answer your question, i assembled a similar family unit. We have centurylink internet. They offer a range of speeds. For us, 40 megs works great. With that, you can dnload an hd movie or tv show in minutes which is a good thing, because my pretend family is not big on waiting. Get up to 40 Meg Centurylink internet for 20 a month for a year when bundled with a qualifying home phone plan. 12 month contract required. Their best to startand complete thee Jedi Training. The Dubuque Karate Club now a few months into their newest class. The Lightsaber Academy, of course based onnthe popular ar kwwls brad hanson getting a first hand. And brad, this ccb launched even before the wildly popular the force Awakens Movie was released. Star wars, the force Awakens Just Broke the all Time Domestic Box Office record, replacing avatar on top of that list. But it was the original star wars movie, released nearly 40 years ago, that inspired this unique training course. The fascination with schmitt. Nearly 40 years, in fact. Six years old, you know, some i wanted to be a jedi. Schmitt was crushed when he found out jedis werent real. But he soon started a decades longngjourney with to merge his two passions into a very real class. As a kid, i wouldve given anything to join a Jedi Training academy or lightsaber you know, im going to look into starting my own. brad hanson, tt closest thing to it. As for me, i still need quite a bit of training. Schmitt says the Lightsaber Academy is more than just larning cool moves with combat ready light sabbrs. I wanted to be able to teach a class that has some substance to it too. We didnt want to just like theyre getting something out of it. It tlok more than a had nevvr seen the mooes before they started this journey. Although thats no lot of fun, and its different from anything else at ive done or anything thats really being nats ashlah hmitt tells mmthose lighghabers they use range in price from one hundred to several hundreds of dollars. Some just light up, while others change colors and make soundsall of them, pretty awesome. Weve got you covered live from the th media wsroom in dubuque, brad hanson, kwwl news. The Lightsaber Academy runs every monday night from seven 15 to eight 15. You can find more details on our website at kwwl. Com. Seven aisles o shelves collse at a party city injuring three people. Take a look at the scene in palm beach county, florida. Investigators are not sur what juries suffered are all minono. The store saying in a statement the safety of our customers is our number one priority, and we are committed to providing a safe environment. A longtime pub and tourist attraction is now covered in icicles after fire crews put out a massive fire. The fire detroyed the bar in omaha over the weekend as parts of thth first floor and roof collapsed. Fire crews sprayed down the building in the sub zero temperatures which has now frozen oer turning the building into an ice castle. The building has been ststnding for more than100 years in the city. Coming up next. Wed get overtime as the Iowa State Cyclones went after their first big 12 road win of thhseason plus weve got High School Hoops highlights of a top ten matchup in parkerspurg mark woodley joins us next on kwwl. Ow, kwwl sports, presented marco rubio. He ran for senate saying he opposed amnesty. 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Welcome to dicious rebound on the road iowa state would face a texas team thats also suffered just one loss on their home court this season cyclones looking to hand them another tonight solid early on as abdel nader 36, 33 iowa state but the rest of the half all bucket and the foul 4236 later in the half tevin mack with the run longhorns up 11 at half 4938 second half cyclones go on a` run matt thomas from the arc rains it home iowa ate back within 8 57 65 then Georges Niang another solid night gets the inside deuce to tie it up late xx in`the game for niang it would end up in overtime in the ot cyclones found themselves down three in the final seconds niang gets it off doesnt go tough one for iowa state they fall 94, 91 at texas snow in West Virginia didnt stop the biggest upset of the night the mountaineers hosting top ranked kansas and getting it done Devin Williams off the steal ops e hammer West Virginia up 11 williams with 17 points, 12 boards and late in this one jevon carter helps put it awaywith the threebaa and there was a court storming in morgantown mountaineers upset the jayhawks 74, 63 good one in boys hoops tonight 2as number 9 team ap hosting jesup number 6 in a strong start for the falcons shot puts it up and in 5, 2 ap early moments later off the in bounds cade alberts rains home the three falcons quickly out to a 6 point lead jesup however tyler lienau nice touch on the floater jhawks back up ne big night fofo lienau 16 points that deuce part of a 17 to 2 run jesup gets it done as alex mccoombs knocks home the trey jhawks behii 20 from ethan wyant pick up the win 58 to 52 the saint louis rams are headed to la as nfl owners voted tonight to allow team ooer stan kroenkkto move in to a new stadium in inglewood california the San Diego Chargers have also been given the option to join the rams in te new facility oakland meanwhile who also applied to move withdrew from the process with the promise of 100million dollars from the nfl if they were to build a new stadium thanks rick. A final look at your forecaa. Is the economy rigged . Well, the 15 richest americans acquired more wealth in two years than the bottom 100 Million People combined. Im bernie sanders, and i approve this message. My plan make wall street banks and the ultrarich pay their fair sh