see any more snow?" in just a few minutes. it's time for local news that matters! "it's kind of a well kept secret in kingsley. " a more than century old "miracle mysteryry in one siouxland mmunity continins... but who's behind it? "it was a dream come true. i loved it. " " we'll share one man's dream to light up his home.... and that of hundreds of other seniors. and the hawkeyes celebrate christmas with a rose bowl road trip to california.... tim: good evening and thank you for joining us tonight im tim seaman jenna rehnstrom has the night off random acts of kiness ... especially during the holidays ...

most of the time we know who does those good deeds ... but thats not the case in kingsley, iowa. tim: where for over a century a mysterious group called "the kingsley spooks" has provided random strangers with joy on christmas eve. our lukas voss walked the streets in kingsley today trying to find out what the spooks are all about..... music vo: kingsley, iowa is a quiet town ... especially around the holidays ... knows eachother ... well, except those people called the kingsley spooks ... a secret group that since 1882 has provided strangers in need with a little help on christmas eve who those people are ... it's a mystery. sot: "only thing that we know is that some people get a few groceries that kinda needed and need a little extra help and all of a sudden it appears." vo: at chet's groceries people can leave in a box at the door ... and then ..... it disappears on the eve of christmas ... without anybyby knowing ... . the spooks have santa. sot: "wether it's santa clause that's taking

taking care of it. he has somebody else it." bit's one of those is never solved because people join in." vo: and not even the they are .... sot: "probably only the members know the . i don't know anything else. people enjoy that it happens and they don't push it too hard." vo: what we do know is that the spooks have made quite an impact. when nora moved to kingsley 25 years ago as a single mother ... the spooks came ... and made her christmas. sot: "they showed up at my house and delivered and food you wouldn't believe evererhing they donated. and it was amazing." sot / standup "and while we spooks, quite frankly nobody in this town can, what we do know is that they have been providing kingsley with holiday cheer and joy for the past centuries ... reporting in kingsley, iowa , lukas voss abc9 news. tim:

of familiar faces back to town, and when folks come home for the holidays, many make it a point to hit all of the holiday hot spots here in sioux city at palmer's candy company today, cash registers were swamped, as first titi shoppers paid a time candy shoppe. but that's not the only place families were gathering to reminisce milwaukee weiner house downtown is in the middle of one of it's busiest times all year.... siouxland native, amy denny says keeping a family tradition stsrted by her dad alive....is as simple as eatting a hot dog. we use to do all of our christmas shopping for my mom on christmas eve day and we always came to milwaukee wiener, so when i got married and had kids its something that we continue to do," said denney. and siouxlanders young and old made sure to visit miles inn is another lunch spot.... and ice

have been servedthere for decades. destination for r folks back home for the holidays. because it has a warmth about it and coziness, especially around the holidays at miles for a charlie boy tavern is a must around the holidays, tim: crowds filled part of downtown sioux city . 3 services were at the orpheum by community church as thousands filled the theatre pastor jeff moes says the church spreads it's christmas message in a unique way with special lights and music. the pastor says the gospel will be presented through various acts and in front of people from all over. "so we do it in a very contemporary fashion, there's going to be music, there's going to be drums...guitars. there's going to be skits that are kind of fun and funny and then there's a message based on the word of god," said pastor moes tim: sunnybrook estimates over six thousand people

attendance between all of its services, the church also enjoyed a high traffic through its online streaming service. tim: good news for kids all across siouxland, and santa's wallet, the u-s department of agriculture waived its usual permit fees allowing santa's reindeer to fly without charge. the permit allows all nine reindeer to enter and exit the united states "through or over any northern border port." but there''s a catch, the christmas team has to be done by 6 a-m christmas morning. the u-s-d-a says the department wants to do everything in its power to help santa make his deliveries. tim: cocoa beach florida sounds like a winter timeget away, and thousands of people converged on the popular surfing spot for the seventh annual "surfing santas" event. 43 skydiving santas landed on the beach, but the ones in the water set a new world record. organizers say 648 of them bundled up in 80 degree weather to shatter the

surfing santas set in australia earlier in the month the cocoa beach event raises money for local non-profits tim: whne it comes to spreading holiday cheer, age makes no difference. jill kasparie with our affiliate in cedar rapids explains how one 82 year old man is handing out his good tidings. ""hey dad, hello there. helel hello!" russell is used to his routine with dinner at 4:30... . but tuesday night it was obvious -- things are a bit different. "with christmas a couple days away what better of a it is the night "christmas was passed lat year. i couldn't make christmas come back and i had to wait " the 82-year-old says last christmas his daughter - rusty holub - put lights in his window and he thought one just wasn't enough. "he said wouldn't it every window in this just took it from russell still has the first box of lights from his daughter. and after that - from donation to volunteers - many

of the 363 windows on the building. "when they turned the lights on, moment, it was a dream come true. i loved itit" "it really t tched my heart to see people pull togogher for my dad." for everyone at summit point they couldn't wait to celebrate his dream come true tonight around the for a man who's others and sharing all about russell. "he's the type of guy who no matter how bad he's feeling or having a rough day he makes sure to open the door for you." now, russell gets to make it part of his routine to enjoy this holiday dream come true. "these are his lights and his pride and joy. " "i like them, i love them. to me it's been a lot of work for a lot of people and i want to appreciate it." " still to come... a tradition

started after an accidental phone call. the story behind santa tracking. after the break. (fred) we have a warm chirstmas day coming up, and light rain and snow are possible. cooler weather will follow next week. all that, plus the abc9 santa tracker, after the

norad--tracking his every move on this christmas eve--they've been years. tonight how and why the launched this high here's abc's

" tonight santa claus is under the watchful eyes of norad. nats - general looking at screen / "on the screen you'll see the last place that we've seen santa claus ,which in this case was purm , russia ? usually on alert for things like missile attacks? noradtakes this very seriously. sot - general hokanson clayton: how important is this mission? general hokanson / oh, this is a this is a no fail mission. a mission that goes back to the cold war. as the story goes? back in 1955? a sears newspaper ad gave kids a number to call santa. but that number? was off by one. so instead of reaching the man in red? kids were calling

sot - terri van keuren that red phone was top secret. the colonel? ordered his men to play along? sot - terry van keuren he was military though and throuou. but he loved kids and he loved christmas. and a tradition was born. norad has been playing along now? for sixty years. nats- "santa loves cookies and milk" 15-hundred volunteers taking 135,000 calls from excited kids in 235 countries.. nats - volunteers on phone you might just reach terri van keuren? taking calls today for the first time ever. nats - have you got cookies for him? colonel shoup was her dad. sot - terri van keuren clayton: so your first call, what's it feel like? terri: oh it's great. better than i even thought. she says that went for her dad too. a simple mistake? he helped turn into sixty years of magic. cs abc news colorado springs. " (tim) fred, is any more snow coming? (fred)

enough to make the ground white. 2 line super: fred hexom fhexom@kcautv.c om (fred) radar shows that the snow is gone, and snowvision shows that the heaviest snow fell in the south and the east. omaha had over 6" in spots! road conditions are pretty good locally, but central iowa has more snow on the ground. here's the port neal welding company skycam hd from the ho chunk centre in sioux city. the high today was 33 and the low 27. 31 is our sioux city temperature. local temperatures are mainly in the 20s. wind chills are in the ens and 20s. there are some areas of fog, especially in the southeast where the snow was heaviest today. the satellite and radar shows quiet weather

that areas north and west of siouxland will have more snow tomorow and early saturday. that's where we find winter weather advisories in light blue (which includes lyon county in iowa, lincoln and turner counties in south dakota, and the sioux falls metro. farther west is a winter storm warning in yellow. the stormcast hd shows the next round of snow, maybe mixed with some rain, moving in around 3 pm tomorrow afternoon. the snow will fall mainly across the north tomorrow and into weather is e eected during the day saturday and into sunday. the snow forecast shows 1-3" north and west and the south and east . the low tonight will be 18 with clearing skies. tomorrow, look for a high of 39

and snow with the highest accumulations in the north. the 7-day shows breezy winds saturday and 37. cooler weather will come next week with highs in the 20s and a slight chance of snow late in the day monday. the abc9/countryside senior living santa tracker shows santa flying over the skies of montreal, canada! (tim) thanks! thanks! you know who else has been

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else has been flying over the u-s today? the iowa hawkeyes, they were on their way to pasedena for the 2016 rose bowl. this afternoon a charter plane departed carrying its load of passengers who have just one week to go to prepare for the rose bowl. the last time the hawkeyes were in the rose bowl was 25 years ago. and as legendary eastern iowa sportscaster bob brooks waited to board with the team, he recalled his first rose bowl trip with iowa in 1956, which he said didn't go off exactly as

"we were going to have a big ceremony celebration, kind of a pep rally. well, it snowed, it sleeted and we finally wound up leaving from moline." but the hakeyes may have a chance to make up that pep rally the night before the big game, in california a new year's eve pep rally is going to be held at the battleship u-s-s iowa museum. fans can attend battleship u-s-s iowa museum. fans can attend the rally for free, which is at the los angeles waterfront , they just ask that you wear black and gold to help cheer on the hawkeyes! the hawkeyes take the field against stanford on new year's day still to come after the break - iowa has arrived in pasadena for the rose bowl. hear their thoughts on stanford's potent offense after the break. tim plus.....nebraska is preparing to face ucla on saturday in the foster farms bowl. hear from husker offensive coordinator danny langsdorf

will face off with ucla in the foster farms bowl. the huskers have been in santa clara all week preparing for the bruins and they are ready to roll. this afternoon, the huskers practiced for ninety minutes after touring alcatraz this morning. ive done that tour. pretty neat. with the bowl game on saturdya, nebraska is utilizing a normal game-week schedule culminating in a friday practice at stanford university. nebraska has played its best football down the stretch and offensive coordinator danny langsdorf is proud of how his team has progressed. "we've had good work. we had good work last week at home. this ends up being a fine-tune period as we go

couple more days to should be good." saturday's foster farms bowl is set for an 8:15 kickoff over on espn. alex after a nice and easy flight, the hawkeyes have arrived in southern california. on new years day, iowa will take on a very talented stanford team in the rose bowl. the cardinal won the pac-12 championship this seas . and they are led by heisman trophy-runner up christian mccaffery. the sophomore rushed for nearly 1900 yards this season, adding 540 receiving yards yards on returns. iowa's defense knows they are in for a challenge. "they are a very powerful running up front line and running back. they have a great quarterback so its huge challenge for us but as long as were are playing defense, we should be fine." "fantastic team, pac- 12 champs, they do a lot of good things have a fantastic offense, its going to be a good game, two teams that do some

similar, they are going to run the ball, we are going to run the ball, and its going to be a smash mouth game." we will have coverage over the next week and a half leading up to the rose bowl. on new years eve, we will be airing a rose bowl special called "dream season" right here on abc9. alex matt campbell has been the head coach at iowa state for 26 days. in that time frame, the former toledo head man has been on a mission. locking up the current class, recruitng the future....and finalizing his coaching staff. eli rasheed coached the toledo defensive line....he will work in a similar role at iowa state. under rasheed's leadership this season, the rockets led the mac in scoring defense...and they ranked second in rushing defense. also of note....rudy wade has been named iowa state's director of strength and conditioning. 2015 was an incredible year for athletes in siouxland. don't believe me? check out tomorrow's abc9 top plays of the year. i sat down this week and compiled

best......the hardest hits......circus-act touchdowns.....ga me-winning goals....you name it. night at 10:20 to that was. alex northern iowa on saturday in des moines. the panthers then to face off with the opener against the host school didnt go as planned....a 16 point loss. late last night, u-n-i had the chance to bounce back in the consolation bracket. their next test came from the pac- 12......washington state and star forward josh hawkinson.... late second at 48......m-v-c week wes iso....hangs and hits! panthers take the two point lead....... next wazzu possession....grea t passing leads to an easy bucket from hawkinson........he double...14 points but back comes washpun./...this kid is tremendous.....som ehow gets that floater to fall....the senior finished with 16 points.... on the other end....the cougars johnson! right on state takes the one point lead with four minutes to play.... uni would hit five free throws to

point lead...then its junior longrus....and one! cougs hanging around.... but the panthers had no desire to lose two in a row...paul jesperson.....dagg er from deep! he had a game high 18 points......uni survives and wins it 63-59. they will face byu in the fifth-place game at 2:30 on christmas day.

look for a high of 39 and a chance of rain and snow with the highest accumulations in the north. the 7-day shows breezy winds saturday and 37. cooler weather will come next week with highs in the 20s and a slight chance of