increase in services for the homeless down here. the shelter will be open in the mornings during the week from 9 until 11-30. that ll go until about mid-march. they will offer coffee and a light breakfast. right now johnson homeless shelter, shelter house. but last year service providers started a temporary emergency overnight shelter. they served more than 100 different people last year. so when this day shelter opens there will be three shelters operating in the area. continues to be a hot button issue particularly in iowa city. two years ago there were homeless people sleeping in city hall to stay warm. since then we ve really seen an up tick in services. and this new day shelter will really be a first of its kind. in iowa city, mark carlson, kcrg tv nine news. nearly four dozen iowa national guard soldiers are back in the state after helping flood victims in missouri. they were in high ridge, just southwest of st. louis, floodwaters contaminated a water treatment plant. t
this year show 22 percent of iowa third graders are substantially deficient. an additional eight percent are considered at-risk. and 68 percent are adequately progressing. 2-percent are unknown. lawmakers passed the iowa reading and retention law in 2012 kcrg t-v nine s dave franzman joins us. you ve been looking into how schools are getting ready to meet the requirements. bruce, cedar rapids schools are testing students for reading skills three times a year and intervening sooner than state rules require. parents with students who don t read at grade level are being encouraged to do more reading time at home. the hope is it s enough to let those who are substantially deficient readers now catch up with their classmates next year. second graders in brooke speraw s classroom are some of the iowa kids who must meet the reading requirements next held back a grade.sot/nat so reading has an even higher priority than years before. many classes, like this one, have cut back on reces
se just before 9 p-m last night. when officers arrived on scene, they didn t find any victims, and no one has come forward with injuries. but police tell us, they did find evidence of gunfire in the area. with less than 4 weeks left until the iowa caucuses, we all see the candidates flocking to iowa. each trying to build support to get iowans to head out on february 2nd to caucus for them. retired neurosurgeo n ben carson is making stops throughout eastern iowa today. the republican presidential candidate will meet with people at the isaac newton christian academy in cedar rapids at 10:30 in the morning. and then at the national motorcycle museum in anamosa. that s at 12:30 p-m. jeb bush is bolstering his team by adding 100 additional people to prepare for next month s caucuses. his campaign said the list includes current and former elected officials and other activists. the former florida governor is planning a campaign trip through iowa next week. the iowa republican caucus
with just a wave of a hand, brain surgeons can get some help in the opeting room. that s all thanks a pair of university of iowa undergraduate students. live in the newsroom this morning. forrest, what did these students do to help surgeons? they built a robot. three ui students coded and assembled the thing for a senior project. take a look. currently, doctors often use microscopes to do brain surgery. they have to spend up to ten hours looking into the device, often hunched over. the robot replaces all that. it uses cameras to lock on to an area of the brain, like a tumor. video is sent back to a headset, which the surgeon can wear. the doctor can even use a special hands free controller to move the camera. though the robot is a prototype, creators have high hopes for the future. we re happy with our result. t, i think that in the future, new technology is coming out all the time, i think they ll be able to modify or change little things about this and make it even studen
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