to travel to countries where zika has been identified. abc 9's christina gri-hall-va has more on what you should know. christina tim and jenna-- pregnant women are becoming more concerned about the outbreak-- because the virus can not only affect them-- but their unborn babies as well. the zika virus-- a disease commonly found in south and central america-- is raising some questions here in the u-s. now-- with cases of the virus being reported in 19 states-- pregnant women are being told not to travel abroad-- so they do not risk being infected and passing it on to their unborn babies. the recent outbreak has received attention from expectant mothers in sioux city. "this particular time of year, during the middle of winter, people at least the questions i've got are more interest. " the virus is passed through mosquito bites-- and with the winter weather-- the risk for infection-- in the area-- are very low. "the main thing is for mosquito control, uh if you conrol the

infection is going to be limited. and at least in this particular case, the likelyhood of a wide spread outbreak in this country is prettty low." dr. fleming-- being the only perinatologist in sioux city-- deals with high risk pregnancies-- and says this virus could cause major complecations during a pregnancy. "the main concern for the pregnant patient of course would be concerns about birth deffects, particularly microcephaly, which is a small head size and that is something that can be readily diagnosed through ultra sound." his opinion-- avoid the problem-- all together. "my best advice, don'tgo. if you don't getet bit by a mosquito, you're not gonna get the condition." even though researchers are a couple of years vaccine-- dr. fleming believes the chances of disease becoming a huge problem in the u-s -- are low. "the risk for particularly for this mosquitos, we don't christina the most common symptoms of zika--

eye-- which can last several days to a week. the c-d-c have issued travel notices for those traveling to certain regions where zika virus transmission is ongoing. reporting live in studio-- christina grijalva-- abc 9 news tim: charges are now filed against a man accused of shooting a sioux city police officer 18 year old isaiah mothershed was arrested sunday in tim: connection with a string of burglaries and robberies over the past`few months. according to police, mothershed was sitting on a couch and hancuffed, when he reached into the couch cusions for a loaded gun. he fired one shot that hit officer ryan moritz and after a struggle mothershed shot himself. he faces two counts of attempted murder and 5 counts of 1st degree robbery. jenna: it was an emotional day in woodbury county district court for two sioux city teenagers who staged a bank robbery last year " crying...i love you" 18 year old angelica perez

angelica perez and 19 year old heaven zevenbergen were both sentenced to 5 years in prison for robbing the security national bank located inside the hamilton hyvee store. that's where zevenbergen workrk as a teller. according to court proceedings, zevenbergealso pretended to faint to allow her roomate, perez, time to get away. the two were eventually caught and pled guilty to 2nd degree theft in connection to the crime. the judge presidig over the case says he's never had a case like this one in his 13 years on the bench. " i hope you understand i just don't understand this at all. doesn't make a bit of sense to me whatsoever. i can't imagine what the motivation whould have been. there are kids in this world who would love to have half of what you have going for them what you ve going for you." jenna: judge neary says he considered supending the two teens prison terms, but wanted to send a message that this type of crime results in harsher punishment. both teens have been ordered to pay back nearly 10 thousand dollars

and will havto serve at least half of the 5 year sentences. tim: sioux city's law enforcement center is one step closer to expandinin at today's woodbury county supervisors meeting the board interviewed three architects for a project that would expand jail space for roughly 50 additional inmates. other upgrades to the building include new boilers, an electrical system, and air conditioning woodbury county supervisor jeremy taylor says, "over the next week, the five different entities, including the sheriffs office, the taxpayers research council, the board of supervisors, our building services and the baker group, our consultants, will work together on scoring this request for qualification and then we'll come back with a recommendation for the board of supervisors for ultimate approval." tim: the decision to expand the l-e-c comes at the same time the prairie hills jail facility is set to close.. it's used to house overflow prisoners as well as the jail's kitchen facility. jenna: monsanto will be forking out 80 million dollars to settle civil accoununng

that's after the company allegedly mistated earnings to u-s security regulators for its top selling product "round- up". the case revovles ound a corporate rebate program, designed to boost sales of the popular weed killer. staying on the topic of agriculture, for the third year in a row profitability in the farm sector is on the decline. u-s-d-a projections for 2016 show net farm income is expected to dip 3 percent from last year's forecast levels, marking the lowest net income in 14 years. it's a drop of 56 percent from a recent high logged in 20-13. ag experts say thdrop is mostly due to a large supply, not only in the u-s but around the world. chris benson, director of applied ag and food studies at morningside college says a big part of the drop in corn and soybean prices is weather related. "i think the u-s farmer needs to be planning for two to three more years of markets in this area if we have normal weather. and if we have perfect growing conditions we could see those prices drop even

tim: benson says another factor is that the dollar is now as strong as it's been in twelve years. that may seem good, but that has actually given other countries an edge when it comes to lower prices for exports. jenna: about t 0 people in iowa are living with als... and in honor of a former siouxlanders, we're again renewing our focus to help families affected by als. abc9@is hosting the pete goede memorial als benefit concern this sunday. this is pete at the event last year... he was the lead singer for the iowa rock and roll hall of fame band "the establishment." pete died of als a few months later, and this year, his son will fill his shoes. dane goede talks ababt the support his family recieved during their experience with als. dane goede, pete's son says, "my family was very touche throughout all o this process and allof our hardshipswith als by just the huge amount of support we had from all of our friends

siouxland area where he grew up." jenna: more from my conversation with dane coming up on your health matters at 10. plus, i'll tell how donations from the als benefit will be used to help local fafalies. tim: students at north high school are working to help those in need. students from the school's life skills class.. along with staff and community members.. are donatting clothes, shoes and other necessities to the caring closet. student's say they were excited to take part in something to help give back. "we have dress pants, blazers, some nice jackets, some really cute dresses. some different style sizes of shoes and work clothes. we have scrubs and anything that you're looking for you'll probably find it here and it's all free of cost and open to the whole community." says senior araceli lopez. tim: the caring closet, opens saturday from 9:30 until 11:30 in the `morning and hope to be open every other saturday until the end of the school year. student members

be open. you can get that twitter handle by going to our website, soiuxland matters dot com. coming up if you thought the story was over, think again, a new harry potter book announced today details after the break... (fred) a cold pattern is going to continue, and we have more snow chances to tell you about. but, it still looks warmer next week. your forecast is coming up after the break!

some exciting news the eighth installment of the book series was announced to be released this summer "harry potter and the cursed child." will be released on july 31st. harry potttt's ficticious birthday. the book will be j-k rowling's first harry potter publication in eight years. tim/jenna/fred (jenna) fred, when is that

we have a chance in the afternoon and evening tomorrow, but it will be light snow. fred hexom fhexom@kcautv.c om (fred) the hd radar shows quiet weather. earlier today, we had light snow across eastern siouxland. peterson, ia had 1.0", worthington, mn had 1.0", sioux falls, sd saw 0.9", sheldon, ia

ia saw 0.5". road conditions are still partially snow covered in the north and east. here is the port neal welding company skycam hd in storm lake. 31 was the high today and 16 the low. here is the storm lake skycam hd. in sioux city, we

cold february? actually, it hasn't really been that cold. we've had periods of cold and warm weather, but there has been a l l of wind, makinin things feel colder. local temperatures range from the teens east to the 30s west. wind chills are below zero in parts of the northeast, with better conditions in the west. it's been fairly breezy yet again today, with winds of greater than 10 mph throughout. the satellite and radar

the jet stream has us stuck in a cold pattern, and that will not change anytime soon. the stomrcast hd shows a chance of snow late tomorrow and tomorrow night, especially in the east. we could pick up 0.5" to 1.0" in the northeast, with less than 0.5" elsewhere. tonight, look for a low of 8 and cloudy skies. tomorrow's high will be 23 with cloudy skies and a chance of snow in the late aftereron and evening. the 7- day forecast shows another chance of light snow late saturday and early sunday. it's going to stay cold for a while. wind chills could be as cold as -20 friday night, and saturday's high will be only 13! but we'll get to 31 sunday, and then warming to 45 by wednesday. jenna/tim/fred (tim)

a couple of presidential hopefulls are dropping from the race

primary and the presidential race is already two lighter. tim: former hewlet packard c-e-o carly fiorina announced today she'll be stepping out of the race. this comes after last night's poor showing at the primary, where she took home less than 5 percent of thevote last night but she e snt the only one. tim: governor of new jersey chris christie also announced he too will be suspending his quest for presidency.

polled in the top half of the republican candidates. jenna: all eyes are now on south carolina in the race for the white house.. after voters in new hampshire delivered their picks of donald trump and bernie sanders. abc's elizabeth has more from the campaign trail "((nat)) "bernie bernie bernie.. cheers on the view" following his huge win in new hampshire.. bernie sanders feeling the love on the view.. telling the ladies.. he's all in. ((sot)) "the view" bernie sanders: "...the message that we're bringing forth, that this country is supposed to be a nationonf fairness, and we're not seeing that fairness right now. " sanders stopping in harlem for coffee with al sharpton earlier.. hillary clinton also in new york.. after reassuring her supporters in new hampshire.. she's a fighter. ((sot)) learned it's not whether you get knocked down that matters, it's whether you get back up." for the republicans.. front runner.. donald trump is crediting his huge voter turnout. ((trump phoner from gma)) "we were getting great signals we would have a rally and many-many people would show up many more than we ever anticipated." his challengers.. already back on the

the next primary in south carolina.. with the surprise second-place winner.. john kasich promising to keep his campaign messages.. positive.. ((sot)) kasich today kasich: "not interested in being out there ... just going on the attack against somebody." and iowa winner senators ted cruz sounding defiant.. despite finishing third last night. ((sot)) cruz cruz: "this is a national campaign and one of the most important conclusions coming out of these first two states is that the only candidate who can beat donald trump is me." " coming up in sports...iowa state will be without two of their offensive weapons on the gridiron this fall. details on the departures up ahead. plus...nebraska will be without their best player tonight at wisconsin. hear from the team on how they plan to pick up the slack without shavon shields.

streak sunday, the huskers are back in action tonight against one of the hottest teams in the big ten. wisconsin has won five straight and if nebraska is going to pull the road upset, they'll have to do so without their best player, shavon shields. the husker senior is in the concussion protocol after this scary fall in sunday's win over rutgers. shields lost consciousness and was carted off the court, but a ct scan later that day was negative. shields is averaging almost 16 points and five rebounds this season, but the team doesn't know when he'll be able to return to action. instead of one guy stepping up, coach miles is expecting his entire team to pick up the slack. tim miles--"like i told the guys, do your job. we don't need a hero. alright, so let's just do our job, let's everybyby collectively--you know basketball's the one game where you know, the sum of its parts can be greater than the individuals and so we need to concentrate on just being a better team." glynn watson, jr.--"you know shavon, he's a big

that's missing it just feels way different for us as a team playing together. we've got jack starting now so he'll have to score for us and we've just got to find other people to get open." the huskers ad lib score this game is airing right now over on btn and we'll have full highlights right now over on btn and we'll have full highlights for you tonight at ten right here on abc9. chris: excitement in ames for first year head coach matt campbell is incredibly high. but this fall he and the cyclones will be without two offensive weapons. wide receiver d'vario montgomery has been dismissed from the team for violating team rules and running thomas will montgomery had three touchdowns last season while thomas scored 7 touchdowns on the ground as a freshman. but thomas was behind freshman all american mike warren on the

isu's spring game is set for april 16. chris: with a pair of losses last weekend, the musketeers have now dropped four straight and fallen to the cellar of the western conference. a key reason for that inconsistency, is the lineup shuffling coach jay varady has had to do this year. between injuries, international competitions, and finals, the musketeers have suited up 36 different skaters this season...that's already more than all of last year. and of those 36, only two have been with the team for each of their 39 games. coach varady says finding the right lineups has been achallenge, but that he's not too concerned about this recent rough patch. jay varady--"it's more circumstance for me. what's happening with the team at that time. i don't get involved with streaks, winning or losing. i look at the day and what we have to do to be successful the next day. and for us, a lot of times we look at the roster, and it's a constant shuffle. there really hasn't been any consistency to o lineup or our roster and sometimes a reflection of that is up and down play. i

challenge of a group. hey, this guy's out today, who's going to take his spot? if anybody wonders what a coach does during the day, we spend hours upon hours trying to figure out what those combinations are going to be." the muskies have two chances to get back on track this weekend. friday night they'll be in chicago...the steel beat the muskies 3-0 last friday night. then after an off day saturday, the team will stop in

if you're like to submit a facebook fan photo, just post it on our abc-9 facebook page. jenna/tim/chris/fred: (fred) tonight, look for a low of 8 and cloudy skies. tomorrow's

chance of snow in the late afternoon and evening. the 7- day forecast shows another chance of light snow late saturday and early sunday. it's going to stay cold for a while. wind chills could be as cold as -20 friday night, and saturday's high will be only 13! but we'll get to 31 sunday, and then warming to 45