That times are slowing David Underwood others disagree. 321329 it sounds like a lot of 20 Million Dollars but out of a 7. 2 billion dollar budget its way less than half of a percent dave rhoeder no matter how you view it. Lawmakers will have to figure out how to spend it. By law governor branstad is required to make his budget decisions at the end of january. But will likely make it on january 12 th which is the second day of the have more time work on the budget. The states revenue next year . That number is deceiving. Even though the revenue growing. Its still 21 Million Dollars less than what was predicted president obama calls the legislation he signed this morning a christmas miracle. the president signed a bill that overhauls the no child left behind initiative. It was first approved back in 2002 during george w. Bushs presidency. But critics have argued for years that it gave too much power to washington in controlling state education policy. Teachers and parents have also argued that it focuses too much on testing. Obama says the overhaul is long overdue. 3245for years, i have called on congress to come together and get a bipartisan effort to fix no child left behind. It took a lot under the new every Student Succeeds legislation state and local officials are allowed to set their own education standards. It does keep standardize testing in place for most students. It does keep standardize testing in place for most students. It also prohibits the federal government from imposing the common core model on schools. The Senate Just Passed that Education Bill yesterday. Three senators missed that vote. Ted cruz, Bernie Sanders and marco rubio. Thats because they are out on the campaign trail. Rubios effort brought him to the metro today. Our dave price met up with him. And dave, this visit was all about iowa veterans. Rubio thinks the federal government has let veterans down for years. He pointed to his brother as an example as a veteran who hasnt received the care he needs. But rubio pointed out he wasnt saying all people who worked for the va system dont know what theyre doing. Rubio. 4828 if you interact with the v. A. You know of them are really good people. But he says his older brother needs care for a facial injury years ago and cant get what he needs at nearby facility. Rubio told the story to several dozen veterans and their families gathered around him in an event sponsored by the concerned veterans for america. He wants veterans to have the option of seeking private health care if its a way of getting more convenient care. Rubio also pledged to stop budget cuts for the military. Rubio. 3405 i will also make this pledge here and now. I will never send our men and women in uniform into a fair fight. By tat i mean, i will always equip them with the resources and the strategies to keep the upper hand. Any candidate proposing that we keep the defense cuts under sequestration cannot make that same promise. Youll remember congress for the mi itary and some domestic programs as a punishment if they failed to reach a broader, overall spending plan. They failed. Theyre failing again now to come up with a new agreement which they were supposed to have finished by tomorrow. The president of the conservative group family leader is throwing his support behind ted cruz. Bob vander plaats endorsed cruz for the 2016 president ial race. The social conservative says he is impressed by cruzs character and competence. He thinks cruz has what it takes to deal with foreign and domestic issues. Vander plaats also says hes impressed by cruzs campaign staff. Several members of the family leader board also joined vander plaats in the endorsement. 04 54 2604 54 41 if the Cruz Campaign desire our help we will do whatever it takes. To help him be successful. To right the ship vander plaats endorsed Mike Huckabee in 2008 and Rick Santorum in 2012. Both went on to win the Iowa Caucuses in those years. Some iowa golf courses are seeing an unusual economic boom for december. Nats of golf swing Blank Golf Course has been open since last thursday and expects to remain open through saturday. The rule is. If its over 40degrees. The course is open for business. Workers say they are seeing up to 100 golfers per day. Thats similar to the number of during a summer day its a nice day to do just about anything outdoors. Lets check in with chief meteorologist ed wilson for a atypical forecast. Clouds will move back in as winds begin to die with highs in the 50s. This weekend is going to be wet with rain starting to move across the state by saturday night. On sunday, a strong storm system will pass through the midwest, bringing heavy rain to central and eastern iowa. An inch or rain will be possible, especially in eastern iowa where the highest totals will be possible. Temperatures will remain in the 40s to start next week, but will dip back into fire crews are on the scene of a extensive house fire south of the metro. A home on 80th avenue near new virginia went up in flames around 230 this afternoon. Authorities say fortunately, no one was home at the time. Besides new virginia crews. St marys and indianola Fire Fighters also responded. Theres no word yet on the cause. An ottumwa woman is in custody charged with first degree murder in the death of a child. 31yearold Kashenna Tucker was arrested today by utah authorities. Officials say she was wanted in evans. Police say tucker was evans guardian at the time of his death. Theres no word yet from authorities about how the child died. A semi crash blocked all northbound traffic on interstate35 this morning. State troopers say the 25yearold jacob shivers of missouri lost control in a Construction Zone around 630 near cumming. Traffic was rerouted off the interstate for about two hours. Paramedics took shivers to the hospital with minor injuries. Hes since been cited for as the crash on i35 was wrapping up. The state patrol got called to another crash. Troopers say at 845 a white f150 driven by 46yearold david brewer of des moines was westbound on interstate80. Lost control. And hit a cement barrier. That sent brewer across three lanes of traffic and off i80 onto east 14th street. Officials say brewe hitnother pickup dren by 69arld geld klv ofaneny. Boh suffed nor injies. The case ofthe crah reais unde invetigaion. Bster cuntauthortiesare tti creiven orr to kep buiness unnig. This ia ollow p to stor wefirsttold ouabout ast ghtat fve. Veral cunty workers have bn splacd dueto vndalis at the courouse. Authortie say they setff fre extinguishers. Laving a maor mess behd. Butt workrs go bus. Moving computers to relocate workers around the city. Hoever. There isnt enugh space for everyone. And some employees arent working. A mobile trailer has been brought in to keep the dot all srvices are up and runing today. Being taken care of. The courthouse is expected to remain closed until monday. No suspects have been identified. However, Officials Say there is a onethousanddollar reward for information leading to an arrest. Wells fargo arena is preparing to host its first ever set of ncdoublea volleyball championship matches. Crews started setting up late last night. And worked through the night. Workers needed to install special braces in the floor to setup the net. In all, it took about seven hours to make the transition from basketball to volleyball. Organizers say this event provides the well a chance to learn and plan for the ncdoublea mens basketball tournament thats coming in the spring. Of course basketball is the focus tonight in ames the big cyhawk showdown is just Justin Surrency is there live to tell us what we can expect from the intrastate showdown. Plus. Researcher show stage four Breast Cancer patients are now living longer. What university of iowa researchers found is helping boost the numbers. Plus, a new National Health report shows iowa is climbing in the rankings. The improvements the state has the survival rates for women with stage four Breast Cancer has the university of iowa wanted to know why. U of i researchers recently published a study that looked at more than 21 thousand cancer cases from the past two and a half decades. They found from 1988 to 1991 median survival was about 20 months. From 2007 to 2011. It jumped to 26 months. As forrest sauders reports. Its news Cancer Patients like to hear. Sharon jewin juon was diagnosed with stage four about five years ago. Doctors thought she had lymphoma at first. But it turned out to be much worse. Sharon juon waterloo i was conditioned for it being cancer. I wasnt conditioned for it being stage four. Ever the optimist, sharon put a challenge to her doctor. She booked an expensive trip to europe a few years out. Sharon was committed to getting there. A river cruise through europe, that i had put together on my help me achieve it. The uihcs dr. Alexandra thomas came through. Sharon, was able to get to europe and take her trip, and since has prolonged success like sharons is what prompted dr. Thomas to take a closer look at survival rates in the first place. Dr. Alexandra thomas uihc were seeing more and more stories like that. We wanted to ask, what does this look like broadly in the united states. Dr. Thomas said the data study suggested why some woman like sharon may be living longer, primary tumor removal. In the past, it was ignored to give patients as much quality of life as possible, but the Research Suggests if removed it could lengthen lives. The reasons why a numerous, but dr. Thomas says its pointing researchers in the right direction. We need to revisit and thats what we put in our conclusions, we need to revisit that. For sharon, the future looks brighter than ever. Thats why shes booked another trip, this time to disney world, and she intends to see it come may. Doctor thomas says surgery to remove the primary tumor isnt for everyone. However. According to data from the study. Researchers found 9point6percent of those who received surgery before 2002 thats compared to 2point9percent of those who did not have the surgery. A new report shows iowa has climbed two spots in a National Health rankings to number 22 overall. The report. Which is compiled annually by the United Health foundation. Found iowas rank improved in several areas. Including adults who smoke. Obesity and physical activity. However. It also found iowa is among the worst. For excessive drinking. The report considers four areas behavior, environment, policy and clinical care. Hawaii ranked as the healthiest state. And louisianna as the least healthy state. Clouds will move back in overnight into friday morning as winds begin to die down. Friday looks mainly cloudy weekend is going to move across the state by clouds will move back in overnight into friday morning as winds begin to die down. Friday looks mainly cloudy with highs in the 50s. This weekend is going to be wet with rain starting to move across the state by saturday night. On sunday, a strong storm system will pass through the midwest, bringing heavy rain to central and eastern iowa. An inch or rain will be possible, especially in eastern iowa where the highest totals will be possible. Temperatures will remain in the 40s to start next week, but will dip back into this nice weather has been perfect for those camping outside Hilton Coliseum. All that waiting comes to an end in about an hour. Next, Justin Surrency is live to tell us what we can expect when iowa and iowa state take the court. Its called a rigged economy, and this is how it works. Most new wealth flows to the top 1 . Its a system held in place by corrupt politics where wall street banks and billionaires buy elections. My campaign is powered by over a million small contributions, people like you who want to fight back. The truth is you cant change a corrupt system by taking its money. Im Bernie Sanders. I approve this message. Tonight all eyes are on ames. As the hawkeyes and the cyclones hit the iowa state head coach steve phohm. However iowa head coach Fran Mccaffery has never won at Hilton Coliseum. Channel 13s Justin Surrency is there to see how it all turns out. He joins us now live from ames with more. Justin . He joins us now live from ames with more. Justin . Almost all iowans have at least a small stake in tonights cyhawk game. Its been known to split towns friends and even families every time these two teams meet. Iowa state students are so excited for tonights basketball game against iowa that they began standing in line on monday just to make sure they made it inside. Cyclone fans have wrapped around Hilton Coliseum for tonights basketball game against the 72 iowa hawkeyes at 6 30pm iowa coach steve prohm. After the hawkeyes Football Team garnered National Attention with an undefeated regular season. Cyclones fans are eager to enjoy that same spotlight on the basketball court. 17 44 2017 44 29 Bailey Norland that go to iowa and they always say you guys are bad at football and we just say wait until basketball season comes and we will blow them out of the water. 17 41 3817 41 44 justin keen isu student i lost track of football season after game 2 but it is what it is its basketball season now and we are going undefeated student its fun its like a big party people and well be right back. For lynns family, the big stress is paying four hundred dollars a month in medical and drug costs for aidan. For other families its higher deductibles, premiums and copays that keep adding up. Thats why weve got to crack down on price gouging, cap outofpocket costs, and fast track approval of less expensive generic drugs. Because weve got to get Health Care Costs under control for lynns family and for yours. Anncr when the attacks come here. The person behind this desk will have to protect your family. Will he be impulsive and reckless, like donald trump . Will he have voted to dramatically weaken like ted cruz . Will he have skipped crucial National Security hearings and votes just to campaign, like marco rubio . 27 generals and admirals support jeb bush. Because jeb has the experience and knowledge to protect your family. Right to rise usa is responsible for the content of this message. Breaking news fbi divers enter a of a san bernardino