Staff, faculty, and students to its Second Harvest dinner tonight. The idea is to provide a meal for those who cant go home this thanksgiving. Kcrgtv9s Sarah Mccarthy shows us why University Officials say the celebration is an important way to build community. Hello, are you here to volunteer or are just here for the meal . A meal with all the traditional fixings. 14 32 00 cranberry sauce . In a nontraditional way. The harvest dinner is about coming together, breaking bread together spending time with people you know and love as well as meeting new people to know and love. Home, for many here, thousands of miles away. 14 41 16 space, there is an atmosphere of welcomeness, inclusiveness and home that children pick up on immediately and proceed to play together and have a great time. A time to give thanks. 14 37 21 thank you glad youre here . For a hot meal 14 48 45 meeting people, sharing a meal together, it just brings a lot of people together. And a new kind of family. In iowa city, S
Nebraska fans spending their thanksgiving admiring the venue. Its really pretty, beautiful building, a little small though, kind of on the small side. No theyre not lost. These huskers are in eastern iowa to celebrate thanksgiving with family. But at least one of them with a ticket is already prepping for an Early Morning so he can get back to lincoln, nebraska. Ill be here over night, then leave early in the morning to get to the game tomorrow. More than 90thousand people can cram into Memorial Stadium in lincoln. Well wait and see how many of them are wearing black and gold. In iowa city, mark carlson, kcrg tv nine news. If youre travelling for the holiday, several sheriffs offices in eastern iowa are reminding people to stay safe. Theyre cracking down on seat belt laws and pulling over impaired drivers. Its part of a National Effort during the busiest travel time of the year. In 2013, more than 3 hundred people were killed on the road just during the thanksgiving weekend in the u. S
Temperatures, but breezy conditions. Winds will be out of the north today at 15 to 20 mph, with gusts 25 plus. The weekend is dry and temperatus will remain in the upper 30s. The workweek brings more chances for snow. Thanks brititey. Malls, stores, and shoppers have been preparing for this day for quite some tiie. Black friday is part of the Holiday Weekend for many as they try to get the best sales and deals possible. Kcrgtv9s Iowa City Bureau chief mark carlson is live at Coral Ridge Mall this morning. Mark, people thehee dont have to waii outside for stores to open . 135. 8 million americans plan to shop on thanksiving weekend nearly 60 percent of started chchcking items offftheir lists by thehemiddle of last week, but millions more are eagerly waiting to hear what retailers have in store and online for the biggest Holiday Shopping weekend of the year. Nrfs latest survey finds that 135. 8 million. Consumers plan to shop thanksgiving weekend and nearlrl 80 percent oo Holiday Shopper
Team and we start with your forecast first. James wxcenter weather adlib stephanie 1shot the black friday rush interrupted by a fire. Good evening. Im stephanie angleson. Breaking news tonight at the west glen towncenter super target. Stephanie firefighters have been on scene for at least an hour. They tell us flames were coming from a fryer in a kitchen area for employees. But most of it was put out by the time they got there. The entire store filled with smoke though. So all the Holiday Shoppers and employees had to go outside. Luckily there were no injuries and no one needed to be treated for any smoke inhilation. Stephanie the store is closed right now. There is no word yet on when it will reopen. Stephanie 1shot weve been watching it as it rained all day. Now its urning to some slick spots in central iowa. Meterologist James Peterson is in with the latest. And james. I was just outside. Our news cars are now covered in ice. To freeze. James wxcenter stephanie 1shot few Winter Trav
Mr. Obama was told back in 2010. Germany is sending Senior Intelligence officials to washington. This morning, senator jean shehay says the nsa needs to come clean about its. Surveillance programs. The reflations from snowden and the secrets that have been revealed are doing significant damage to our bilateral relationships with germany, with mexico, with the other countries where the suggestion is that we have listened in. So i think we have repair work to do, and i think we have hard questions we need to ask of the nsa about whats really happening in this program. This morning, the chairman of the House Homeland Security had a different point of view. The reality is the nsa has saved thousands of lives not just in the United States but in france and germany and throughout europe. The french are someones to talk. The fact is they carried out spying operations against the United States, both the government and industry. As far as germany, thats where the hamburg plot began, which led t