be back with a look at how much to expect in just a few minutes. it's time for your news! "this is a great nation that is in decline." marco rubio makes a campgn blitz in iowa as the countdown to caucus day begins. "you put water on everything and it everybody." rural fire crews fight the cold to put out a sloan apartment fire. "we just need to stay task." they're anxious preps continue bowl. jenna: good evening and

joining us tonight im jenna rehnstrom tim has the night off. marco rubio is stepping up his presence in iowa... with more than two-dozeevents in the state over the pass couple months. today.. he launched a two- da six stop bus tour. but still... he's polling 3rd in iowa, ahead of the caucuses. lukas voss tells us if his stop in sioux city tonight convinced any voters. thank you jenna ... it was a packed house for the g- o-p candidate with more than 200 people in attendance at t e holiday inn .... and in a town hall style session ... . rubio took time to address some of the issues most pressing to voters wh a new supporter right by his side. nats: growly speaking ... conservative support from a prominent face in washington. trey gowdy, republican from south carolina and the chair of the investigation into the benghazi attacks

marco rubio in his bid for the presidency. he has been campaigning with rubio throughout wa and was with him in sioux city tonight. sot: "i have done my vetting i have reached my conclusion ... it's not my job to tell you what to do. i will respectfully ask you to give me a listen and give him consideration and see if he can convince you the way he convinced me." vo: the endorsement could be a big boost for rubio as south carolina is the third state in the primary. in iowa however a dec. 14 quinnipiac university polof likely republican caucus-goers, ows rubio with 14 percent support. natpop: rubio talking vo: well behind donald trump and ted cruz who lead by nearly double ... that's why he also adressed issues important to the area like the keystone xl pipeline. sot: "i want to be a worldleader in wind a world leader in biofuels in reneables. i think it's reckless to not utilize the oil and gas that god has blessed this country with. i am going to sign that permit and there is no sense why this president didn't do it." the event certainly didiconvince voters ... even some that are or weren't quiui convnvced yet. sot: "he is really dynamic ... he is a solid man ... i don't know if i can commit to him tonight but he is certainly appealing." sot: ". i am a stronger believer now actually hearing hi,' sot: "it was a little bit different ... it was a different mor

was a little bit surprised about that. and rubio's iowa trip is not over yet ... he is actually meeting up with his family in pella for the next event .. and also because his kids wanted to see snow ... before heading to newton and wrapping up in boone ... reporting live in studio ... lukas voss abc9 news. jenna: former new york governor george pataki is suspended his presidential cacaaign tonight pataki failed to gain traction in the polls, averaging 1 percent. he did not make it onto the main stage for any of

eliminated from the fox business network undercard debate. financially, pataki's campaign was struggling, spending more than he was taking in. pataki was governor of new york from 1995 to 2020, presiding over the state ring the 9/11 attacks. jenna: an apartment fire in sloan today took seven different departments to finally put out. and more than a dozen people have been displaced from their homes. the fire started around 10 am at the prairie apartment cocolex on buckley street in sloan. as crews were getting there, two womeme jumped from the second flooer to try to get away the flames. they were taken to mercy medical center in sioux city and were treated for non life treatening injuries. below freezing temperatures caused some extra problems in putting out the fire. "we had flames visible from the second floor from one of the window. by the time we arrived on scene, law enforcement had evacuated both buildings," said sloanan fire chief, lee blanchard. everyone displaced in the

place to stay. fire officials aren't sure yet how the fire started. jenna: a cherokee, iowa woman is being charged with attempted murder after police say she intentionally drove into the path of an ononming vehicle. the crash happened in plymouth county back in september. melissa ebert was driving on county road c-38 with a passenger in the car, when she collided head-on with an oncoming vehicle. ebert, her passenger and the driver of the other vehicle were all seriously injured. ebert is charged with two counts of attempt to commit murder and 2nd offense o-w-i. jenna: federal appeals court is upholding lengthy prison terms for sioux city brothers convicted in the armed robbery of two drug dealers. the court upheld a life sentence issued to 24- year-old jamal dean and a 30-year term for his older brother, levon. in a separate case, jamal dean also received a 25-year sentence when he plead guilty to attempted murder for shooting a sioux city police officece authorities sasa

local drug dealers on two occasions in 2013. jenna: the new hornick city clerk uncovered thousands of city clerk uncovered thousands of dollars of misspent funds dating back more than a decade. an audit of the city o ohornick identified more e than 130 thousanan dollars of unsupported expeditures since 2003. 18-thousand of that money was improperly used, about half went to two city clerks serving during that time. the report stated that the city did not document spending costs such as employee wages, phone charges, equipment and office supplies. "the report is complete at this int so we will not be doing any further investigation into the 115,000 dollars. we'll simply say that that is the amount during this 11 year period of timehat was spent that had no documentation." the report has been forwarded on to local authorites to see if any charges may apply.

if any charges may apply. jenna: pasadena police are getting assistance from the l-a county sheriff's department for security during the rose parade and the rose bowl game. a caravan of more than a dozen sheriffs vehicles arrived in pasadena this morning. parade attendees can expect to see a lot more security this year... from undercover officers, to surveillance in the sky and more than a dozen rapid response teams on the ground. law enforcement is also reminding the public there are restrictions in place and no drones will be allowed. jenna: the iowa hawkeyes are ready for the challenge on friday with all the glamor of the high profile bowl game, the players are trying to stay focused on the game. we go to jon schaffer now in cacafornia who's stananng by live withthore. jon schaeffer im here....... "week after week-- day after day since december 5th ia

the rose bowl. macon klewa/iowa fullback :06-:12 ... really chomping at new years day for the rose bowl.macon klewa/iowa fullback :06-:12 ... really chomping at the bit here to get to stanford and play this game." with the end of this football season drawing to a close-- so go the beards that have fully blossomed or in c.j. beathards case been trimmed back-- building up to t t grand daddy ofofhem all. c.j. beathard/d/wa quarterback :26-:34 henry krieger coble/iowa tight end :35-:50 and maybe while they're here in los angeles they could run into a celebrity crush? or they may already

darian cooper may be a budding roaster-- at least he took it to jordan canzeri at the comedy club last night. darian cooper/ iowa defensive lineman 1:12-1:23 hopefully the hawkeyes will be having as much fun friday as s ey did today... we'll hear from coach ferentz tomorrow about this stout stanford team. tag from coach ferentz tomorrow about this stout stanford team. tag friday as they did today... we'll hear from coach ferentz tomorrow about this stout stanford team. tag 1:12-1:23 hopefully the hawkeyes will be hahang as much fun friday as they did today... we'll hear from coach f fentz tomorrow about this stout stanford team. tag

at 8 am tomorrow morning. we'll also visit the u.s.s. iowa in the afternoon-- that battleship is now a museum docked here in los angeles. " jon schaeffer im going to toss it back to you now reporting live in calfornia im jon schaffer jenna: thank you for that report john jenna: and coming up after the break authorties in westereriowa are investstating a crime involving livestock. stay tuned. (fred) tonight's ask fred question is "what is the largest amount of snow we have ever seen on new year's day?" the answer, and your 7- day forecast with snow tonight and tomorrow, is after the break. stay with us! " "

western iowa. the guthrie county sheriff's office says

shooting and illegal butchering of a cow. it happened north of menlo, a town 40 miles west of des moines. the sheriff's office was investigating a nearby attempted robbery at the time of the discovery. they believe the two incidents are connected. clair powell from our des moines station brings us more on christmas morning, keith partlow was doing chores & getting ready for family christmas. until his phone rang. "we got a call from the sheriffs office christmas morning saying they found a gate open" the guthrie county sheriff had been investigating a nearby robbery when- off the road- they noticed an open gate, a blood trail, then this. one of partlows cows... shot, beheaded, sawed in half... "ive never seen this" with only the front half left behind. "struck by lightening and pasture oculdnt find. this is the first time for a butcher thats taken place in a pasture" "course its harder to tell now, bought right here is where shes laying"partlow, who raises cattle with his

ago he remembers an incident like this... but not today. "cows were sleeping on the ridge the night it happened the 4 year old cow and half-grown calf inside her, were worth thousands of dollars. the sherif office says a job like this would take multiple skilled people, like experienced hunters, specific tools and time. "hunter or had an idea, been idea around a lacher maybe, random person off the street couldnt just take half a cow" "i dont know why would have to go shoot one. if they were hungry" the sheriffs office is examining two sets of tire tracks- one from a car, the other from a pick up, foot prints & the bullet for evidence. partlow who has other cows to wowoy about says security cameras are a possibilty... but it's hard to have an eye on everything. "thought about putting camera up, pastures you cant monitor everything" jenna: the u-s-d-a is aware of the situation, if the meat were attempted to be illegally sold.

attempted to be illegally sold. if caught, the suspects would face charges of theft, livestock abuse and criminal mischeif. (fred) there's more snow on the way! 2 line super: fred hexom fhexom@kcautv.c om (fred) the hd radar shows light snow around parts of siouxland. in the past 24 hours, the heaviest snow has fallen in the north.h.oad conditionsnsre much better today. the main roads are fine. here's the port neal welding company skycamd from the ho chunk centre. the high today was 26 and the low 20. sioux city has 24 degrees. local temps are in the upper teens and 20s. winds are northwest at 5 to 10 miles per hour. wind chills are in the teens and 20s for most, but only 9 in yankton. there's nothing but cold air to the north and weststso you can expect our chilly weather to coinue. the stormcast hd shows light snow tonight and early tomorrow. around 0.5" to 1.0" will be common for snow over the next 24 hours with the highest totals around orange city. your forecast for tonight is for light snow and a low of 16. tomorrow, look for light snow in the morning and a high of 25. the 7-day forecast shows 20s this week, then 30s for the weekend and next week. new year's eve will be

tonight's ask fred question is "what is the snowiest new year's day on record?" the answer is 5.8" in 1960! we won't see any snow this new year's in siouxland. jill weiting from pierce, ne is our winner of 4 muskies tickets! to enter, send a weather question to fhexom@kcautv.c om or enter on our abc9 news facebook page. and, if you think december has been snowy, you are right! we have seen 10.7" of snow this month to date. normally, we would have 7.4". (jenna)

you bet. still to come after the break - we head out to

elkhorn. stay tuned for highlights from four cornhusker state teams tim plus....iowa hosted top-ranked michigan state in the big ten opener. find out if the hawkeyes pulled the upset when we come back.

games against michigan state. their last win against sparty came back in february of 2011. tonight, iowa opened

ranked michigan state with hopes ofofnapping the strere. the spartans a perfect 13- 0...playing without their star denzel valentine.... first half....hawkeyes up four.....sioux city east alum adam woodbury goes up and under.....iowa playing great early on.... one minute later...off the shot-clock reset...nicholas baer drills the deep triple....oh my! iowa up seven..... then mike gesell getstsn on the action......the senior guard hits the j to keep that cushion...he had a career-high 25 points!. then right before the half.....peter jok buries the off-balance jumper...hawkeyes take the 37-23 lead into recess... second half....sparty climbing back....aaron harris with the shot clock expiring. bang! state within but the sioux city crew closes it out....gesell to woodbury......iowa shocks top- ranked michigan state 83-70....their first win over numberne since they beat uconn back in 1999.. alex the briacliff men have won eight straight games. ranked twelth in the country, the chargers went for nine

the bcu classic. briar cliff.......opening its home tournament against the jimmies of jamestown.... pipiing things up first half.....erich erdman goes coast to coast......and the chargers open up an 8-2 lead.... jamestown answers quickly.....brequan tucker....the spin.....and he hits 'em with the j....jimmies within two...... a few minutes later.....jake hagler sets up in the corner and buries the three....jamestow n starting to heat up.... but briar cliff was cocoing on its home court......erdman answering from distance...he finshed with 13 points! chargers win their ninth straight...92-65 the final. on the ladies side....fourth- ranked briar cliff facing off with nvmber ten jamestown..... fourth quarter.....morgan hansen connects from three point land...lady chargers take the 53-50 lead.... on the other end....the jmies answer...bryn woodside for three! jamestown up 56-55.... but back comes b-c......t.tlor vah- sa down low off the pretty feed...easy bucket....charger s now up one.... and they hold on to that lead.....jessie corrick to kaylee blake.....big win for the

done 70-65. earlier in the day....second- ranked morningside matching up with waldorf. third quarter...thats brandan tie.....for three! stangs up 72-34.... then out in transition...tieie getting after it...10 points off the bench for the sophomore from dakota city.. a few minutes later.....heelan grad tristan bull-you spots up and connects from three point land...stangs in complete control... to the fourth we go....lexi ackerman tickles the twine from the wing...morningside eclipses the 100- mark....they clobber waldorf 100-55. same matchup on the men's side...morningside looking to snap its four-game losing streak. in the early going.....bryce cook....a man possessed.....grea t footwork on the baseline to finish for two.....stangs up 6-4.... back to cook......he crashes the glass.....bodies his way inside....and goes up strong.....he was s morningside's mama source of offense with 23

later...adebayo baba-lola attacks the rack and gets the tough, off- balance runner to fall... but waldorf was the better team today...michael morgan the fadeaway j......so smooth.....warrior s win it 80-74. alex winter weather postponed the shootout on the elkhorn, makinin today the official start.the ladies bracket featured eight area teams and we start with battle creek and ponca. the indians 4-2 this season.......the braves off to a s-3 start looking to get back over .500. picking things up third quarter.....abagail van dyke finds some space down low for the easy bucket...indians within three..... then its cassidy gillespie answering for the bravettes with the offensive board....battle creek ties it at 40..... ponca hanging touhg.....mackenzie boyle sweet baseline drive with the little kiss......this one went down to the wire. and it was battle creek coming out on top.....kiana bolling with the runner in the lane....that gets the job done...bravettes hold on 54-51. over to the boys bracket......wakefi eld squaring off with eighth- ranked pierce.... early in the

braydan waldner for ththeasy deuce......jays takeke the lead...... and they would get hot fromdeep....bailey spots up at the top of the key...bang! pierce rolling right along.... this would turn into the taggart bailey show.....the steal......and man does he start making people look silly....the dime for two.....jays out to a 7-0 lead.... next wakefield possession......bra dy starkel the