ground yet." words of a local plane crashed in a farm field... in foggy conditions. women's health organization makes a presidential endorcement during the primaries... for the first time in history. "nats of snow mobile" and le mars gets set to take off road vehicles... onto city streets. tim: good evening and thank you for joining us tonight im tim seaman jenna: joining us tonight im tim seaman jenna: and im jenna rehnstrom

pilot whose plane crashed in rural nebraska over the weekend. tim the louisiana man was suppose to land in sioux city... but was diverted to the wayne airport because of foggy conditions. tonight... we'll hear some of his final words to air traffic control. the pilot is belived to be chris birk of louisiana. that's according to an area pilot and a coworker of the man. he was flying the cessna 172 when it crassunday evening. birk is employed by performance contractors, which is the company doing construction on the c-f industries expansion. one of birk's coworkers tells a-b-c 9 that chris' family will hold his funeral back home this week. jenna chris had last stopped in columbia, missouri to fuel up, when he ran into the bad weather. tonight we're sharing the last communication chris had with air traffic control before his plane crashed near pender. approach this is you read me?" jenna: chris birk was nearly at sioux gateway airport when he was denied because of low jenna: he was airport in wayne, nebraska.

04 delta - yeah, keep me advised on how the weather is on your way over there. we're showing vfr skies over wayne, but we are socked in here in sioux city and it might be spreading over that way. keep us advised and we'll get you down safe." jenna: conditions worsened, appearantly, impacting visibility. pilot: "5104 delta. have not identified the ground yet." controller: "04 delta, roger, and we are now showing a scattered layer at wayne at 200 feet." jenna: it was around 6-30 on sunday night when air traffic control last had contact with chris. controller: "04 delta i'm starting to lose you on radar. what's your current altitude?" pilot: "altitude is 1,800. no ground." controller: "04 delta, radar contact lost." controller: "04 delta still up?" pilot: "04 delta approach (cuts off)" jenna

investigation on scene and have taken the debris to colorado for further research. they hope to have a cause of the crash determined by next week. tim: the fbi is confirming that a santee man who was the focus of a manhunt earlier this week has died. spokesperson says when police attempted to place him in custody, the man shot himself, claiming his own life. f-b-i and knox county officials say 25-year-old david hoffman was transsported to a nebraska hospital, where he died of his self inflicted gunshot wound. officials says no law enforcement officers fired their weapons during the encounter and the gun hoffman used is currently undergoing ballistics testing. an autopsy has been scheduled for hoffman's body. hoffman was on the run from police, after assaulting and disarming a police officer after a botched arrest. jenna: presidential candidate rand paul celebrated his birthday in sioux city today. but it didnt get in the way of his

president. paul and his wife met with voters at the sioux city public library downtown. his remarks included his reaction to the president's executive actions to extend gun control laws. he says the president's plan takes the balance away from the branches of the u-s government. "you know i think north korea is one of the few nuclear powers that really has some instability, is putting it lightly, in their leadership and it is a real problem. i think the only way we're going to be able to influence their behavior is through our pressure, sanctions, and international pressure from all the countries that surround them." say presidential candidate rand paul. more than 50 people were in attendance at the meet and greet, voters say paul won them over with his stance on the current issues "i really like that he is liberal with his social policies, he wants to take control of our debt which is huge. i really that he's not looking to start a war with anybody. it would take him messing up alot to lose my vote." says rand paul supporter amanda johnson. paul also made a

the day. tim: gop presidential candidate ted cruz is continuing his week-long cruzin to caucus bus tour across the state. the texas senator made a stop in humboldt where he spoke to supporters at the rustix restaurant & event center. he also had events in webster city and goldfield. the cruzin' to caucus bus tour runs through saturday with stops in 28 towns in 36 counes..... but cruz says he hopes to visit all 99 counties by february 1. jenna: planned parenthood is endorsing hillary clinton for president. the national women's health group says it'll make it official in new hampshire this sunday. it will be the first time planned parenthood has endorsed anyone during presidential primaries. the move is likely to open clinton up to attacks from republican candidates. many of them have promised to cut the group's funding if elected. but clinton said

doesn't happen if she wins. tim: the iowa g-o-p is getting ready for caucus night. with just a little more than three weeks left until february first, workers are preparing packets that will be used to find out which candidate iowans support the most. those packets will eventually be sent out across the state..making it a top to bottom effort.. 00-15 jeff kaufmann, iowa gop chair, "we probably have the most talented group of individuals that we've ever had. they are cutting edge themselves, they are hard working, they are doing this because they are worried and believe in their future " packets are hand-delivered to all sixteen- hundred, eighty- one precincts in iowa and volunteers will have logged nearly three- hundred training hours by the time february first rolls around. jenna: president obama is taking his push for stronger gun control measures to the american people. the president headlined a national televised town hall meeting on guns tonight outside washington. the white house

part, to garner public support for the president's recent executive actions on guns. those changes are designed to expand background checks to cover more gun purchases made online and at gun shows... as well as make it easier for the f-b-i to complete such checks efficiently. a white house spokesman says the president also intended to debunk claims by some republicans that his intent is to take guns away from law-abiding americans. tim: folks in le mars are gearing up to take the streets in their snowmobiles? the city recently updated an ordinance allowing residents to drive off road vehicles on city roads. abc 9's bria bell was in le mars today and has more. "sound of snow mobile" the city of lemars recently updated ordinance number 9- 29, which deals with all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles. allowing the vehicles to be driven on city streets. "what this new ordinance does is combine them both. so where an atv can drive, a snow mobile can drive," said vacurah. vacurah says that if the community did not push for the

might not have looked twice at the issue. he assumes that the push stems from the vehicles being a hot item for consumers. "i think its becoming a lot more popular, a lot of people have them," said vacura. but taage foreman the general manager for bob's bike shop says it's not only a fad, it helps run the ag business a bit more smoothly. "sometimes they'll be in this for several hours in the morning...need to go to town to grab something from bomgaars or wherever that might be and have to go home, park this, the go get their truck and then come to town," said foreman. the ordiance was passed and approved on january 5th and once the local paper prints out the information, the law will officially go into affect. "if you ever question what residents think about what's going on in their town, a barber shop is the place to be," said bell. "buzzing of clippers" "well i think it needs to be more street legal meaning just like a vehicle...you know, headlights, turn signals just things like that. because if not, i mean, why don't we have golf carts on the roads, because i think those are probably just as fun," said bundy. in le mars, iowa, bria bell abc 9 news. jenna: a sioux city favorite is now bringing burgers to sioux falls.

sioux city bringing burgers to sioux falls. jim's burgers... which has three sioux city including in the downtown... is opening a store in sioux falls. they're taking over a former kfc. this will be the sixth location in the 13 years that the chain has been around. there's also a jim's burgers on gordon drive and one in leeds. tim: 4 thousand dollars is up for grabs for siouxland entrepreneurs. briar cliff university is hosting a grant competition called swimming with sharks, this february. the competition will give siouxland entreprenuers the chance to win up to

business. applications are due by midnight on february first and from there 7 finalists will be judging, which the 5th at briar ciffe. jenna: administration is now banning a common chemical found in many pizza boxes, perchlorate. (per-kloar-ate) the government believes the chemicals may cause birth defects and the chemicals are some sandwich wrappers and the microwave popcorn bags. jenna: after the break, if youre having trouble deciding who you're planning on voting for folks in des moines are getting help from an unlikely source (fred) accumulating snow is coming tonight and tomorrow, and an arctic blast is going to visit us for the weekend. next week, the cold air will stick around. stay with us!

deciding which candidate to

mind boggling.... jenna iowans have found help identify thier favorite candidate.

worked. " "while many americans are making up their minds about whom to support in presidential primaries... some people in iowa let bulls take their pick. it's not a cock and bull story, just watch how it worked. --pkg-- in: "he's decked out..." out: "...i don't know." trt: 1:11 (tim) fred, how much snow is coming? (fred) for most of us, about 1". (tim) fred, how much snow is coming?

for most of us, about 1". 2 line super: fred hexom fhexom@kcautv.c om (fred) the hd radar shows snow over many parts of siouxland. road conditions are already becoming slick in spots. be careful if you have to drive. the port neal welding company skycam hd shows snow from the ho chunk centre. 36 is the high and 34 the low. 34 is the temperature in sioux city with snow. visibility is not great around siouxland due to snow and fog.

looking at our temperatures, we can see cold air in the northwest. this cold air will hold off tomorrow, then satellite and radar snow pushing in. the snow tonight and snow showers tomorrow, ending by saturday when a push of cold arctic air will arrive. the snow forecast shows a widespread 1" snow totals with a 1.5" in the north and will be cold wind chills this weekend, reaching below zero by sunday morning. your forecast for tonight is for snow and a low of 31. tomorow, look for light snow and a high of 31. the 7-day shows highs in the teens and 20s for the rest of the 7-day forecast with dry weather after tomorrow. (jenna) thanks, fred. (fred) you bet. coming up in

at north tonight for a wrestling quad. we'll have action from the mat up ahead. tim plus two terrific scorers went head to head tonight as le mars battled east. find out which one could lead his team to a win after the break.

games at the tenth annual cnos classic at the tyson events center. the headliner tonight? a matchup between le mars and sioux city east. the dogs & dave irwin come in at 4- 3, east & ras is 7-2 on the year. we're tied at 41 in the third...but not any more...aidan vanderloo, money on the triple from the wing...raiders go up three. then off the turnover, connor murrell...you know what's coming...the two handed slam opens up a 5 point lead. but here come the dogs...will pottebaum gets to the hole and throws up the floater...it was a one point east lead after 3. in the fourth, trent

baseline for the deuce...bulldogs take the lead. but right away on the other end, murrell...with the thievery and the lay in...east would start to pull away. le mars had one last run...hilbrands, banks in three of his game high 33 to trim it to three. but murrell had 29 himself and east wins a good one, 67-59 earlier in the afternoon, spencer taking on a shorthanded lawton-bronson squad. in the first...riley maschino finds a hole in the zone...he hits the triple and the tigers lead it 11-7. on the other end...aj lefler, takes the handoff at the elbow...he gets into the paint and finishes to keep it at 4. then don't play 21 with matt herbold...he gets the tip and the putback to get the eagles within 3. but spencer was too strong...parker schenk gets the tough board and

around him...tigers win in dominant fashion, 80-45. how about this matchup? number 14 spencer taking on the three time defending champions from pierce. late in the first quarter...sara bauermeister, cans the midrange jay for the tigers to cut the lead to 9-5...but it was all blue jays from there. on the inbounds...carly sutherland rolls to the hoop and cashes in for two...pierce up half a dozen. the inside game was working...shelby bretschneider gets position inside for the easy pair...the lead up to double digits. then bretschneider, kicks it out to sutherland in the corner...she tickles the twine as pierce goes up 18-5. late in the half now, bretschneider shows off her range...it was 25-5 at the break...pierce wins it easy, 43-18. in the first game of the day...woodbury central facing off with north. early in the first...stars up one but payge ronfeldt, changes that...the old fashioned 3 point play puts the cats up 1. north responds right away...mercy oyadare goes

finish knots things up. on the other end...keely steffen, i promise she's there behind the official. triple puts wc up three. but it was a tight first quarter...breonia farris...gets to the paint...hoop and the hack ties it up again. but woodbury central pulled away...ronfeldt out on the break again and the wildcats win it by 20, 54-34. chris: while hoops fans were down at the tyson tonight, wrestling fans headed to north where the stars hosted north, east, and heelan in a city-wide quad. let's check out the host stars taking on the black raiders. we'll start at 106...east's sean heeney finishes off the pin for the raiders midway through the second period. but at 113, north gets revenge...brady hodgins, the senior...only needs 58 seconds for the six points on the fall. then at 120...check out this work from ethan sorenson...he's getting pushed but he finds some leverage and storms back for the pin...incredible

at 152...andres torres of east...able to finish off the fall...east gets six back, but it wouldn't be enough...north wins it 39-30...it was heelan sweeping the night though. chris: the sioux city musketeers are 5 and 6 away from the tyson so far this season, but they'll have a chance to improve that mark. today they start a 7 game road trip lasting until january 31st. the first stop on the road trip is cedar rapids to take on the rough riders. and things were rocky...just 3 and a half minutes in...ross colton with some nifty stick work lights the lamp and it's 1-0 riders. 2-0 cedar rapids in the second...hugh mcging...gets a one on one and wins it...rough night for the muskies, they fall 4-0. former hinton star kasey reuter has transfered from missouri to iowa to continue her volleyball career. reuter played in 31 matches with 12 starts two years ago as a freshman for mizzou and then redshirted for the 2015 season.

career at hinton, reuter was a three time all state performer and helped lead the blackhawks to the state tournament as a senior. reuter will have 3 years of eligibility remaining as she joins former heelan star lauren brobst in iowa city. (fred) radar shows snow over many parts of

forecast for tonight is for snow and a low of 31. tomorow, look for light snow and a high of 31. the 7-day shows highs in the teens and 20s for the rest of the 7-day forecast with dry