The fog should burn off quickly as the sun comes up. Highs will climb into the low to mid 40s over most of the area today. We will stay warm through the weekend. Ill have that forecast in a few minutes. The area today. We will stay warm through the weekend. Ill have that forecast in a few minutes. Our top story this morning. Authoriti es now say could have been much worse. They found Tactical Gear and thousands of rounds of ammunition in the suspects car. They also found pipebombs in their home. 14 people died 21 more were injured. Tracie potts has reaction from washington. Their loss is our loss, too. Were all one american family. What gives us the right to hold moments of silence when we do nothing to act upon it . Rand paul wants concealed carry permits in dc its nearly impossible to be able to have a gun with you if you were to see an active outlaw automatic weapons these weapons of war. They just dont belong on our streets and in our communities. A senate vote to keep preventing gun sales to the mentally ill failed expanding background checks to gun shows and Internet Sales failed. Officials say its still unclear what motivated the california shooting we dont know if its workplace combination of both. Im convinced it was a terrorist attack, that these people were inspired by isis. You look at the names, you look at whats happened, you tell me. Its becoming clearer that we are dealing with an act of terrorism. But not clear at all what if anything washington will do about it. Two senators sent a letter to homeland security, demanding the immigration history of the california suspects. Im tracie potts in washington, now back to you. Authorities are looking for a man who bought the rifles the suspects used. Well have more on the investigation in our next half hour. Police are looking for the suspect who shot a man inside a walmart store. This happened in illinois argument and eventually one man was shot in the stomach and i didnt see nothing. I was too busy ringing up customers. And thats when i heard the shots and stuff police are talking to witnesses and are still searching for the suspect. Its a name thats been used since the 1980s. But some are calling for the university of iowa to change it. The iowa student Information System is nicknamed isis. Its a Program Students use almost every day to check their school email accounts. Schedule classes. And make appointments around campus. But with the terrorist Group Different name. maggie Baker University of iowa student i know someone Mitchell Spenler university of iowa student it has absolutely nothing to do with it. Its just a coincidence that our acronym ended up the same as theirs. The University Said changing the name of the program is relatively straightforward. And is looking how much that would cost. Its been nearly 5 years after a mine explosion kiilled 29 workers. And the man who ran it is found guilty of violating a federal investigation found the man kept two sets of books to mislead inspectors and tipped off crews before surprise inspections at the West Virginia mine. The mans Attorney Says he will appeal. An explosion leads to a big fire at a natural gas plant. Take a look at the flames here at the plant in west texas. Two people have minor injuries though 200 were at the plant at the time of the explosion. Buses took the plant workers away from the scene as a safety precaution a four car pileup ends with one driver crashing into a drivethru. It happened near a mall in tucson arizona. Police say the gold car collided with two other cars then landed on its side after hitting a car sitting in the chickfila drive thru lane. Tucson police say it looks worse than it is. Everyone involved had minor injuries. Decision 2016. Hillary clinton is back in iowa today and shes expected to pick up an endorsement today clinton has events in sioux city and fort doge. Us labor secretary tom perez is expected to join her and endorse her today. Candidate martin omalley. Who helped launched his career by appointing him to a Maryland Office in 2007. The republicans cover many topics at a jewish, faith based forum. Reid binion shows us what they talked about along with a few awkward moments. More than a dozen gop candidates courted voters at the Republican Jewish Coalition thursday. Many took the opportunity to talk tough on terrorismnew Jersey Governor Chris Christie called the mass shooting in San Bernardino terrorism as a former prosecutor. I am convinced that was a terrorist attack. We need to come to grips with the idea that we are in the on softer topics happy hanukah. Others stumbled a bit trying to connect with the jewish audience donald trump, seemingly alluding to old stereotypes i really believe the iran deal im a negotiator like you folks, we are negotiators. Is there anybody the Antidefamation League issued a statement saying they do not think Donald Trumps intention Ohio Governor john kasich attempted to explain why he feels such a strong bond with the jewish community. This way my mother told me one time, she said, johnny when i was a very young man she said, johnny, if you want to look for a really good friend, get somebody whos jewish. doctor ben carson had this to say about the us one dollar bill america may not have ever become a place if it had not been for haym solomon. Thats why theres a star of david on the back of the one dollar bill. And jim gilmore started out his remarks with this last night i was watching the november josb report will be released today. The Unemployment Rate should remain at 5 percent its lowest level in more than seven years. It could even drop to the figures released today will help the Federal Reserve decide whether to raise a key interest move over verizon, tmobile is now the nations best wireless carrier. Thats according to Consumer Reports latest nationwide survey. Readers were most satisfied with tmobile Customer Support and value but the Networks Call and data quality fell below that of verizon and atandt. Fire and ice. Get ready to hear those words a lot this weekend in one eastern iowa city. The annual fire and ice festival is this weekend in cedar rapids. And theres some new things to look forward to. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in cedar rapids with more details. Im at the cedar rapids metro economic alliance. Who puts this annual festival together and im joined with jill the events planner. Now your were telling me the main event is tomorrow but this whole week theres been activities lead wrong up to this. Vo thats right one of those things that had been great is weve been lighting up five affiliated with fire and ice. The main tree will be lot tonight. One thing that sounded interesting to me was the fire performers can you talk about that. Yes its going on from 4 to 6 tomorrow. Really exciting. Now something everyone looks forward to is the parade at the end of the day. This parade will end in time for the big harley this parade will end in time for the big harley event so you can still go to that and you wont miss the game. Weve got you covered live in Amanda Gilbert kwwl news. This year for the First Time Ever there will be a caroling completion called not so silent night. Its coming up on today in iowa. If youre a fan of disney and single theres a new dating website just for you. Plus when a kids not interested in taking a picture and a couples picture with santa is turning out to be a huge hit online this morning were hearing from them about it. Youre watching kwwl, weve got you covered with now your storm track 7 from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather hey this holiday, u. S. Cellulars giving you 15 gigs of data for just 70 but i wanted a pony. [ gasps ] youre getting data. Ponysized data . U. S. Cellular sized data. 15 gigs of good, strong data you can actually use because it works in the middle of anywhere. Id like 100 youre getting 400 in promo cards yes switch to u. S. Cellular and get 15 gigs of data for just 70. Team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team fog this morning will burn off with the rising tomorrow afternoon as a few showers may track through tomorrow night and sunday morning. Stormtrack7 Live Weather Network cameras will show some areas with fog, some not as much this morning. The fog has dropped to 1 mile in some areas this morning, while in others, it is not as bad. Temperatures are cooler this morning. Mostly in the 20s, but still mainly above average. Even to the west, where sheldon was below zero yesterday morning winds are light this morning and will be light today, but will pick up more tonight and tomorrow over the area. We keep mainly clear skies this morning to help burn off that fog and the next system is still over the rockies. That will bring increasing clouds for saturday and may squeeze out a shower or two saturday night into sunday morning as the front tracks through the kwwl viewing area. We will stay mild, though. Temps will be in the 30s to the 50s in the midwest today with more 50s pushing into the region morning and we will keep the sunny skies. Highs will be in the 40s today with light winds. The winds will pick up mainly clear skies and we will have those clouds tracking in tomorrow afternoon with highs in the mid 40s to around 50 a few showers track through saturday sunday morning, but we will be mostly dry through next thursday with highs mainly in the mid 40s and lows around 30. Those clouds tracking in tomorrow afternoon with highs in the mid 40s to around 50 a few showers track through saturday night into sunday morning, but we will be mostly dry through next thursday with highs mainly in the mid 40s and lows around 30. Those clouds tracking in tomorrow afternoon with highs in the mid 40s to around 50 a few showers track through saturday next thursday with highs mainly in the mid 40s and lows around dating websites look to match people who have similar interests. If your interest is disney now theres an entire website just for you. Its called mouse mingle dot com. And claims to be the place to connect people who love disney and who want that same magic in their relationship. Response to the site has been so overwhelming, it couldnt keep up with new registrations for a time this week. The website is free to browse, but costs money to make contact its still to come. You may have seen these santa pictures online were meeting the people in them. Plus a new statue of a world leader made out of chocolate youre watching kwwl. Weve got you covered in parkersburg, when they told me that i was diagnosed with cancer, all i could think of was my kids and that i didnt want to leave them. I beat cancer, but it is still scary. Now i have a preexisting condition. So, if republicans take away obamacare, Breast Cancer survivors like me could be denied coverage. If hillarys in the white house, shes going to continue obamacare, so that i dont have to worry anymore. I trust her, and i know shes going to fight for all of us. Im Hillary Clinton, s morning right here in eastern iowa. Its been a busy morning for waterloo police. We start first with the area of mulbery and linden. Callers into our newsroom let us know about a heavy Police Presence there. We checked with police they told us the Tactical Unit was called but thats all they could tell us. This morning officers have also been in the 1600 block of franklin. Our crew saw a heavy police weve been reaching out to police this morning but they dont have information. Well keep checking on this and will fill in the gaps for switching gears now. Santa goes the extra mile to make sure a boys parents get the traditional holiday picture. Autism speaks is holding an event so kids could have their chance to get santa pictures. In some cases santa moves around when they children werent interested in getting on his lap. Social situations get very him an experience of a typical child is huge for him and huge for us. Each child got 10 to fifteen minutes with santa. A couple in their 90s takes a picture with santa and its a hit on social media. Boyd hupert has the story of grandma kissing santa claus a picture worth a oh happiness. Mary and bill petersen were taking the standard christmas photo sunday at tonkadale greenhouse. Santa said to my mother, now media moment was born. Its just who we are. Their early 90s who found each would ask mother to marry him, and she would say no. That was the furthest thing from my mind. Until the day it wasnt. And i said mother, you told bill no. And she said i know, but i you gotta choose happiness, especially in todays world. Bill and mary will be first to second that. Merry, Merry Christmas to all. Yeah, to everybody. Look for happiness. And should you find yourself lacking. You can always find some here. A life size chocolate statue and the man its of is pretty famous. And president obama shows off storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is back with another check of your storm track seven forecast. Fog this morning will burn off to sunny skies today. A few showers may track through saturday night into sunday very little accumulation expected , otherwise we stay dry through a russian sculptor creates a lifesize statue of Vladimir Putin out of chocolate. It weighs more than 150 pounds and is expected to be a world record. They also made a model of putins dog connie. It will all be displayed at the festival of chocolate fair in st. Petersburg. No chocolate version of but he is getting into the holiday spirit. Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. The president singing jingle bells at the National ChristmasTree Lighting ceremony actress Reese Witherspoon delivered the opening monologue. There were also performances by fall out boy and the coast guard band. But will he perform at the super bowl . The president s voice is going to be on the new coldplay album and nfl sources say coldplay will perform at half time of super bowl 50. Bruno mars is also slated to perform at the show and beyonce is reportedly in talks to make a guest appearance. Its coming up on today in iowa. Not your everyday santa. A billboard is stirring up some controversy this morning. Plus ice fishing is a popular hobby. This morning were taking a look at a jack that could help save your life if you fall in. And as the Salvation Army struggles to find volunteers, were hearing from a man who goes youre watching kwwl. Weve got you covered. This is today hey this holiday, u. S. Cellulars giving you 15 gigs of data for just 70 [ gasps ] youre getting data. Ponysized data . U. S. Cellular sized data. 15 gigs of good, strong data you can actually use because it works in the middle of anywhere. Id like 100 youre getting 400 in promo cards yes switch to u. S. Cellular and get 15 gigs of data for just 70. Plus 400 in promo cards. Mmm. Nothing like johnsonville breakfast sausage. Delicious and packaged with nothing to hide. No secrets. Just like our family. Well there is one. Folks, im not your grandma. Just a handsome kind hearted drifter who wandrered in years ago and stayed for all the yummy sausage. Feel bad about lying. Nap time. I got her. Seriously . I feel like i just woke up. Ha ha ha fully cooked johnsonville breakfast sausage. Now on today in iowa authorities are investigating after three people throw molotov cocktails into a nightclub early this morning, killing a dozen people. Plus a well known musician who was supposed to play a show passes away. Barrel of a gun this billboard has a lot of people talking this morning. Good morning, im ally crutcher. And im jerry gallagher. Areas of fog have formed overnight and some visibilities will be a mile or so at times this morning. Skies have cleared out allowing that fog to form as temperatures are dropping into the 20s over most of the viewing area with winds less than 10 mph. The skies will stay clear, so the fog should burn off quickly as the sun comes up. Highs will climb into the low to mid 40s over most of the area today. We will stay warm through the weekend. Ill have that forecast in a few minutes. Storm track seven meteorologist now with your storm track seven for waterloo police. We know theres been a heavy we are following breaking news this morning a busy morning Police Presence in a few areas but police are not saying much, we begin with the area of mulbery and linden. Callers into our newsroom let us know about a heavy Police Presence there. We checked with police they told us the Tactical Unit was called but thats all they could tell us. This morning officers responded to the 1600 block of franklin. Our crew saw a heavy Police Presence and an ambulance, weve been reaching out to police this morning but they dont have information, a developing story this morning 12 people die and five are hurt in a this happened in egypt early this morning. Authorities say three men on a motorcycle threw molotov cocktails into the nightclub and drove off. Police and federal agents are working around the clock to figure out more about the mass shooting in california which killed 14 people and injured even more. This grieving city gathered overnight. And i just wanna mourn with this family, all of them. Searching for the gives way to the painful reality madden does. The smell of fresh gunpowder was in the air. Madden was one of the first officers on scene the morning of the attack. It was unspeakable the carnage that we were seeing, the people injured or already dead and the pure panic on the faces of individuals. Those images frame the investigation t