Jessica rae coming up this morning on abc9 news. New revelations involving the married couple who were behind the attack in San Bernardino just two weeks ago. Jessica rae siouxland is seeing record month of december. Causing this wet out. Jessica rae plus. Fantasys about being luke sky walker or obi won kenobi . Well a new class aims to make you a jedi master. These stories and more. On abc9 news this morning. Jessica rae we begin this morning with major developments in major developments in that terror investigation in San Bernardino california. With new revelations about the husband and wife who turned into killers. And the missed warning signs on social media. Abcs brian ross shows us how us authorities are explaining when Tashfeen Malik came to the United States for the first time last year she had already sent extensive messages on line that she wanted to rage violent jihad. But none of that was known to the officials handling her fianc . Visa. John cohen abc news contributor duri
Ter in the week. The latest reported terror attack in the paris area never happened. French prosecutors say a preschool teacher made up his story about being stabbed in his classroom today by a masked assailant who invoked the Islamic State group. The teachers claim set off a manhunt in a suburb north of paris. That teacher is now being questioned. France is still under a state of emergency after lastonths attacks in paris that left 130 people dead. A few weeks later, isis urged its followers to attack teachers in france. Weather adlib itll be a rainy and windy morning commute for most siouxlanders with some isolated areas of mixed precipitation too, so be sure to watch out for a few slick spots on area roads. The rain will move east of the viewing area by around lunchtime which will leave us cloudy, breezy and cool this afternoon with steady temperatures in the 30s. Clouds will remain in place overnight, b b we should stay dry with the e eception of little patchy fog and drizzlin some
Decision 2016 coverage this morning. Tonight is the fifth republican president ial debate, and this comes after a s sift in the polls. Donald trump remains the frontrunner and in some cases is gaining ground. Ted cruz is surging. Could tonights debate reveal a new challenger . Tracie pott has a previewew ooh. And theyre all coming after me. This will not be night vegas rally. Super confident before tonights debate many of them dont have a chance you say what are you doing just go home and relax. Go home and relax. Hes number one in monmouth universitys new poll. Pulling a whopping 41 percent nationally but ted cruz leads in iowa among evangelicals and among the most conservative voters. Trump and cruz could be a disaster for the republican party. Its going to be difficult potentially for the party t t win over mainstream voters in swing states. Number three marco rubios running a new ad in iowa and New Hampshire today. Going millions with traditional values branded bigots and haters. H
Have that chance of rain tonight our top story this morning. An iowa state student is killed blocks from campus. Emmalee jacobs was an eastern iowa native from urbana. She graduated from Center Point Urbana high school earlier this year. University police found her yesterday morning. She died at a hospital. They believe shes the victim of a hit and run and are looking for help finding the person behind the at this point no ones came help, if they were anywhere in saw any vehicles or they saw people crossing the road at that time wed like them to give us a phone call. Police ask anyone with information to call you can remain anonymous. Live in our newsroom with was a top notch student. Emalee jacobs was a freshman at isu. Shes originally from urbana. And last night her friends from the centerpoint Urbana School distrct came together to remember her. Josie chesmore says she cant remember a time when she didnt know emmalee. She says emmallee was a shy math qhiz. A pre business major at is
With lows in the mid 30s strong southerly winds. Rain and a wintry mix will be falling across central and northwest iowa, but that will turn into snow in northwest iowa by wednesday morning. Northwest iowa will likely see accumulations ranging between 1 to 2 inches with totals increasing as you move towards south dakota. We are going to be dry but cold through the rest of the week as temperatures fall into the lower 30s and upper 20s. Next week there will be a few rain chances early in the week and we will likely warm back into the 40s, so as of now still no White Christmas in the forecast. Sabrina lets get into the top five this morning. Sabrina the rains over the past few days have lead to flooding in the metro. Days have lead to flooding in the metro. Rising waters metro. Rising waters forced parts of george flagg parkway, feir drive, and southeast hartford to be closed to traffic. Flooding at Water Works Park even forced Jolly Holiday lights to first in its 20 year history. Sabrina