sioux. so you won't'teed to pay admission at an aquarium to get a glimpse of big fish. you're next trip could be to crystal cove park in south sioux city! the city has installed an underwater camera, getting live footage of nine thousand trout, eight hundred catfish, bass, and other large fish species. the cameras send live views back up to the observatory where you can watch warm and cozy from monitors inside. the underwater camera sits fifty feet offshort and almost twenty feet deep. there are also two above water cameras to catch live footage of birds. "in certain times of the spring and fall you can see geese all over this lake, it'll be covered with them, the migratory... not only geese, but also ducks" says gene maffit, parks director for south sioux. south sioux parks director maffit says with one hundrred acres of a clean, healthy ecosystem, there's a lot to learn about. he says the value in the cameras is the ability to learn about what happens when you take care of the environment. "i think there's educational part of this for school kids, but not only school kids... for everyone. they should learn what kind of habitat is out here and how to take care of it, different things like that. and to be able to see it makes you appreciate it more, i think" says gene maffit, parks director for south sioux. the observatory is not open to the public yet, but will be in about thirty days. maffit says he's excited to share the

"this has been a aun project to work on, it's been really excited. it's neat to e it come to life"says gene maffit, parks director for south sioux. the project was funded by grants and donations, and again... should be open to the public in about a month. reporting live in studio, elisa raffa.. abc9 news tim: a stolen vehicle was involved in a two car crash early this morning on sioux city's north side... according to the sioux city p-d, a white van was stolen from south sioux city nebraska before 6 a-m this morning the suspect then drove the van erracticly, hitting another white vehicle on outer drive just across from north high school, the suspect fled the scene, and was later apprehended by police, no other details are available at this time stay tuned to abc9

continue to follow this ststy... tim: sioux city police may have solved a ststng of auto thefts. 28 year old mack- quiber bracka- monte of sioux city was arrested after police say he stole at least 5 cars. police say mack- quiber bracka- monte stole those vehicles between october and december of this year. when police found the vehicles, they had several parts removed and were in the process of beiei stripped. he's charged with multiple counts of felony theft and ongoing criminal conduct. he's being held on a 47 thousand dollar bond. tim: sioux city police say a morning accident invovled a stolen vehicle. according to the p-d, this white van was stolen from south sioux city before 6 a-m this morning the suspect later collided with another white vehicle on outer drive juju across from n nth high school. the driver of the stolen car fled the scene but was later apprehended by police. no other details are available. tim: the sioux city fire department was busy earlier today after construction crews struck a gas line on sioux city's north side. no one was

ensure the situation was midamerican sasa that a t trd party contractor hit :30 this morning, but repairs are now safe and roads open, tim: authorities in south dakota are alerting the roads open, authorities in south dakota are public that the accomplice of a notorious south h dakota serial l killer is set totoe released next week. glen walker received two concurrent 25 year sentences for kidnapping and attempted kidnapping -- along with a consecutive five year sentence for being an accomplice to murder back in the 90's when he was convicted of helping his friend robert lee anderson kidnap and killtwo women. minnehaha county sheriff mike milstead had just joined the department when the incidents occured, and now says there's uncertainty about where walker will go after this. " there's always that uncertainty of what somebody is going to do, once they've served their time, and they're released

the department of corrections deals with that on a daily basis." walker received a redudud sentence for r od behavior and he's due to be released o o christmas eve without supervision such as parole or probation. tim: woodbury county emergency services picked up a big piece of christmas cheer today. cf industries presented a check of over thirty- seven thousand dollars to the local agency. the county will use the money to sponsor keynote speeakers at conferences, upgrade instruments at the fire departments, and buy hand held anhydrous ammonia detectors for all fire departments. "it comes at a great time, these are projects we've been working on for a long time, and it's going to help us get these off of our list of things to do so we can move on to some other project that we'd like to get done" says gary brown, director, woodbury county emergency serviceses the director of f emergency services says the hand held anhydrous detectors will help them make decisions based on the concentration levels for the

safety, as well as the public. tim: heroic actions from 2014 are just now landing a local man and his family some special recognition. gary olson from m jefferson south dakota and his family were awarded carnegie medals for heroism yesterday during a ceremony in pittsburg. the olson family recieved the medals becasue of their actions back in may of 20-14 when they helped save a woman from her husband. during that incident the husband fired several gun shot at the family while chasing their car through north sioux city. the family managed to evade the gunmnm until authorities arrived, likely saving the woman's life. tim: the democratic national committee has suspended bernie sanders' presidential campaign from accessing its voter database. this, after the campaign took advantage of a software error to access hillary clinton's confidential voter information. .campaigns usually use that data to plot theirnext moves. the d-n-c database keeps the information gathered by different campaigns separated by a

systems vendor that runs the program dropped the firewall for a brief period wednesday, during which time the data was accessed. a sanders spokesman said the staffer's behavior is unacceptable and that person was fired immediately. the sanders campaign will remain suspended until it provides the d-n-c with a full explanation of the episode and provides proof that any accessed data has been discarded. tim: you can buy a tim: you can buy a brand new i-phone for just onene dollar today, but there is a catch. best buy is selling the 16-gigabyte version of the i- phone six-s today for only a dollar. customers who trade in a working i-phone five can also snag a 200- dollar gift card. so what's the catch? to get an i-phone for a buck, customers need contract with either verizon or sprint. apple c-e-o tim cook says the company expects to sell a record number of i-

more than 74- million i-phones were sold during the final three months of 20-14. tim: christmas is seven days away and shoppers are out purchasing last minute gifts, but some don't know where to turn to. jcpenney and buckles are just two stores that have customers grabbing items to gift. both retailers say that there is something for everyone, while saving you some extra cash in the long run. "we're really promoting a lot of gifts under 20, gifts under 10, and gifts under 5 dollars and we're signing everything to that, so calling everything out for the shoppers this year," said murphy. "if you're out doing, we'll not really last minute shopping, but last week shopping. suggestions are [to] go in and ask a sale associate specifically for help, because they're probably going to be able to help you find it faster than you just walking around telling them that you're just looking," said buss. electronics, jelwery, clothing and more are just some items that jelwery, clothing and more are just some items that the stores say are marked down

stores say they are marked down for potential christmas gifts. tim: last-minute holiday shoppers don't worry -- walmart has you covered. all walmart stores will be open until 8 p.m. local time on christmas eve. for those who prefer online shopping, you can place holiday orders on walmart-dot-com as late as december 20-th for standard delivery... and as late as december 22-nd for rush deliveries. store pick-up orders will be available until six p-m, local time on december 23-rd. jenna: still to come tonight.. have you heard of about it coming up (fred) the night ahead will be a cold one, but it will warm up this weekend. will we see forecast is after the break. " " tim/jenna/fred

pretty low, tim. fred hexom fhexom@kcautv.c om (fred) the port neal welding company skycam hd shows the scene from the ho chunk centre in downtown sioux ty. the almanac shows a high today of 31 and a low of 1 1 highs over western iowa were in the 20s and lower 30s. eastern nebraska and southeastern south dakota saw highs of only 19 in sioux falls, but 20s and 30s elsewhere. 21 is our sioux city temperature. the dew point of 11 shows dry air in place. local temperatures are in the teens north and 20s south. winds are northwest at 5 to 15 miles per hour. wind chills are in the single digits above and below zero for most of us, with teens across the south. the satellite and radar shows s quiet weather to our west, but snow to our east today. here's a reminder to always drive slowly and carefully, even in light snow: a picture from a 50+ car pileup in michigan that happened in only 1-2" of snow. the stormcast hd shows quiet and cold weather tonight, then a warmup as we

forecast for tonight is for a low of 8 degrees under mostly clear skies. tomorrow's high will be 39 with h mostst sunny skies. the 7-day shows us topping 40 on sunday and again next tuesday and friday, so this christmas will be warm...and snow-free. jenna/tim/fred

(fred) you bet. still to come... if you're planning on giving tech gifts for christmas, you may want to consider "tech pain." we'll explain in , coming up

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continents, but a tim: in our 24/7 world many of us have become obsessed with our high tech devices be it a smart phone, e- reader, computer or other gadgets. but when we don't use them correctly or just plain overdo it, we may get some aches and pains. holly firfer has more in today's health minute. " " pat newby has traveled to 87 countries and all 7 continents, but a recent trip left her with nagging neck pain. (pat newby/patient) i thought the worst because the pain was that severe the culprit? her e- reader. (dr. sharon bergquist/emory school of medicine) we're dubbing it smart phone finger, some other problems are mouse tendonitis, or sometimes just a tablet neck. and that's what newby had. she strained her neck and shoulders muscles from hours of looking down at an e-reader in her lap. the remedy - getting her body back into

starting with sitting up straight. (dr. sharon bergquist/emory school of medicine) you want the top of your screen to be roughly at or just below eye level. you want your shoulders relaxed (pat laughs), elbows close to your body . that's wonderful. you're already protecting your lower body cuz you want your thighs parallel to the floor. you want your hips, knees and ankles at 90 degree angles and you want your feet flat on the floor. taking frequent breaks can also help reduce injury. tim: coming up in sports..the musketeers are hoping to lock up a few wins before the holidays. hear from the guys after the break. tim: plus...nebraska toppled kansas last night to advance to the n- c-a-a title match. alex recaps the action when we

go out into the world. and from what i hear, it's not all toys and games out there. will you look out for me, future?

volleyball team is heading to the n- c-a-a- championship. the huskers beat kansas 3-1 last night, punching their ticket to the finals for the seventh time. all-american kadie rolfzen led nebraska with 14 kills in front of an n-c-a-a-record crowd of 17 thousand, five hundred and fifty one people. for the third time in school history, the huskers played a final four match on their de-facto home court in omaha, winning all three times. big red nation showed up in full force last night, guiding nebraska to the championship behind a wave of support. cecilia hall--"coming out there in front of 17,000 people on your home court, that's just crazy. i think that's what fired us up and i mean, just having that support too it makes it so much fun, you know? like when you get a point the whole crowd goes with you and it's just i don't know. you get so fired up." tomorrow night, the huskers will duke it out with former big-12 rival texas in the title match. there is plenty of history between these two programs and john cook is ready to face the talented longhorns. john cook--"texas has set the bar really high. i mean this is their fifth final four. we've

when bill byrne was our athletic director he kind of created a rivalry with texas. so there's probably a little something there and we like playing each other and they're a great program." always fun to re- kindle the old big-12 rivalry between texas and nebraska. saturday's title match can be seen over on espn-2 at 6:30. we will of course have full highlights at 10 right here on abc9. alex 23 games played. only 22 points earned. with two games left before the winter break, the musketeers have the third- lowest point total in the ushl. the holidays are rapidly approaching and sioux city hopes to finish strong this weekend. looking at the western conference standings, sioux city stands at sixth between fifth-place tri- city and seventh- place fargo. it just so happens that the musketeers play both teams this weekend. a pair of wins would be huge, starting with the storm this evening.

biggest thing is those teams are both fighting for points just like us. i think getting a few this weekend would help us for sure." jay varady--"as we talk about all the time, it's one game at a time. it's two games before christmas break in a junior hockey season. so for us it's about focus. we talked about walking through the desert, looking at the horizon, picking up a point. not looking too far ahead, just picking the next point and working towards that." we will have highlights from sioux city's matchup with tri- city tonight at 10. for the first time this season, former george- little rock and usd linebacker tyler starr is suiting up for the atlanta falcons. starr has spent the first 14 weeks of the season on the practice squad, but he has been promoted to the 53-man roster in advance of sunday's game against jacksonville. the 2013 missouri valley conference defensive player of the year was a seventh round draft pick in 2014.

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e san bernardino terror attack couldhave been much worse authorities say if the plotters had been able to follow through on all of their plans. a rush hour highway attack, an assault at the local colle. these are just some of the things that allegedly were being planned. >> reporter: chilling new details aemerging about the they are -- details are farook before the san his friend enrique marquez told investigats he and syed rizwan farook planned to slaughter people on busy california highway 91. imagine the nightmare, syed rizwan farook planned to throw pipe bombs on to the highway during rush hour bringing traffic to a halt d then he would go from car to car shooting helpless people trapped inside. the victims would have been sitting ducks. >> you would want to get underneath the door.

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