some parents are regretting the iowa city school board decision to alert parents about any school threat. one school has had three notifications since last week. not that long ago, at a theater not far away, ultimate movie marathon. and fans prepare for a 17 and half hour journey. good thursday morning! its 430 on october 22nd. here is a live look at . first, meteorologis t kaj o'mara has your first alert forecast, kaj... plan on a pretty decent thursday. it'll be cooler than yesterday, but we won't be dodging thunderstorms again. plan on highs into the 60-65 range from north to south. our next focus remains on the storm system set to affect our weather from friday afternoon into the evening. this will be a widespread rain, with amounts of

0.25" to 0.50" likely. plan on wet football in the area for friday night! this system will be moving out just in time for the weekend with highs remaining in the 60s and lows dipping down to the upper 30s saturday night. today: partly cloudy high: 61-67 winds: e 5-10 alo: 65 dbq: 64 iow: 65tonight: mostly cloudy low: 49-55 winds: e 10-15 alo: 52 dbq: 49 iow: 52tomorrow: showers likely high: 60-66 winds: se 10-20 alo: 63 dbq: 64 iow: 65tomorrow night: showers likely low: 51-57 winds: s 5-15 alo: 54 dbq: 57 iow: 57 thanks kaj. the d-c-i plans to interview two cedar rapids police officers tomorrow after they killed a man in a shootout. police say they stopped a vehicle near 32-hundred ravenwood terrace northwest around 10-30 tuesday night. 21 year-old jonathan gossman and two other people

were inside. police believe the three were involved in narcotics- related activity at a nearby drug store. police say gossman tried to run away. two officers, including a police dog, started chasing him. that's when police say gossman pulled out a gun and fired at the officers, who fired back, killing him. police are questioning the two other people who were inside the vehicle. the two officers involved were not hurt. " 3:14:30 my main concern is for the welfare of the police officers that go out every day and every night and these are the situations that they end up encountering. so it continues to be a huge concern of mine." the officers are on administrative leave, which is standard protocol in officer-involved shootings. there now have been 28 reports of gunfire in dubuque this year. police say someone fired a gun in the area of 19th and jackson streets about 3 yesterday afternoon. no one was hurt. the iowa department of

program that connects perpetrators of crimes with victims. right now, state prisons use a program called victim impact: listen and learn to help offenders empathize with victims. it's meant to lower the number of criminals breaking the law again. one cedar rapids man served more than seven years at the anamosa state penitentiary for second degree robbery. he says the program was a turning point in his life and hopes officials will reconsider the change. 14:30:10 "hopefully there's another young man or woman that can take advantage of the program, learn from it, and better themselves, put themselves in the situation that i'm in now. life is good. i'm married, we bought a home, i have a career, and all the odds were against me for that." officials say the state is now shifting to cognitive behavioral programming. that uses role-playing to help inmates think through how to react in possible future scenarios they may encounter after their release. in a tv-9 follow-up this morning..

with messages about threats at school. last week, the iowa city school board voted to report all threats to police and parents. that was after west high school didn't report a student who threatened to bring a gun to school on social media. longfellow elementary school has reported three incidents since last wednesday. the iowa city community school district sent out an e-mail to families yesterday. it said the district plans to evaluate any alleged threat for potential danger and then decide the correct response. the district told tv-9, this will allow some discretion for school administrators on what would qualify for an alert to families. "48:29 i think it's difficult, especially, i will say for working parents. you're at work and you get a text, an email or a phone call about something that has been going on at the school and i think there has been a lot of anxiety for parents here." the school district says it didn't send any alerts to high school parents. one came from a junior high and 17 were

law enforcement teams are turning to teens to help stop violence across the country, including here in eastern iowa. the marion police chief and the u-s attorney for iowa's northern district visited marion high school during their lunch hour yesterday. they talked with them about a pledge where students say they won't bring guns to school or use guns to settle personal disputes. marion students will decide if they'll sign it over the next couple of weeks. "14:59:36 i think it's important they know that we really care. we want to stop any gun violence that there is and the best thing to do is come out and talk to them, person to person. " daugherty says he doesn't think marion has a lot of issues with violence, but says he knows that it could happen at any time. cedar falls didn't raise enough money to put in a sculpture at a roundabout near the industrial park. according to the waterloo cedar falls courier, the city council had hoped to raise 150 thousand dollars for the sculpture. but a former city council member says they only

city council had planned to put the artwork at the intersection of west ridgeway avenue and chancellor drive. former council member barbara brown says the continuing controversy about roundabous hurt the effort. the city wants to put in several of them along university avenue, but many say they will cause more problems. the courier says the proposed roundabouts are on the ballot this year. johnson county's biggest road project is finally done. officials cut the ribbon at the mehaffey road bridge yesterday. the bridge, which passes over coralville lake, had been under construction for more than two years. the new bridge is much wider and includes a pedestrian walkway and bike trail. one county official says the new bridge should be around for a long time. "it's huge for the people that go back and forth here every day and it is a beautiful bridge under and above and it should be here about another hundred years." the mehaffey road bridge project cost about 9-million

its going to take a great deal of strength and even maybe the force to sit through 17 and half hours of movies. the wehrenberg theater in cedar rapids announced earlier this week it'd be one of the few theaters in the nation showing all of the star wars films. that includes the newest movie. kcrg-tv9's forrest saunders joins me at the desk this morning. forrest, that's seven movies in a row. is the theater showing them at different times? nope. it's as long as it sounds. the marathon beings at 4:00 a.m. december 17th and wraps up with the primer of the force awakens at 7 p.m. most impressive. ben dattilo of cedar rapids lives in the wrong galaxy.the star wars fan is so strong with this one, he belongs on tatooine. ben's desk and counter space at home is more like a space

port, covered in ships. and oh yeah, check out the wedding day cuff links... holy sith, that's vader. "i'd say i'm a pretty large star wars fan. i was not alive when the first ones came out, but grew up watching the movies," but not in theaters. until, this december that is. ben was one of the first to get tickets to the showing of every star wars film, including the newest, at the cedar rapids wehrenberg. it'll be a marathon. p.m. it's going to be a long day." that's an understateme nt. you'd almost need light speed to get through the total run time of about 17 and a half hours. nat - trailer officials at the wehrenberg believe they're one of only a few theaters the area showing the marathon, the next closest likely being in des moines. the theater started selling the 55 dollar tickets monday. while things started slow, managers say it's nothing to fett about. "the marathon itself is building. that's takes a little bit more time, get the word out. i'm pretty

that we are offering this, that it's going to be a success."after securing his seat, ben feels like he could take on the whole empire himself. but, hopefully after more than half a day of sitting through the dark side, there's no pain from his under side. "big screen, loud speakers, more people to enjoy it with. it just sounds like a really good time." as you just heard there will be breaks. and people won't have to scavenge for food like a jawa looking for a droid. there will be a full service concession stand. now, i am one of the biggest fans but i wouldn't sit down in a theater that long. how about you nicole? yeah i don't think i would do

well, if you would prefer to curl up with a good book, today is the day. it's the 19th annual america reads: reading is contagious celebration. this is video from last year's event. community volunteers will visit classrooms today and tomorrow. those volunteers include many of us here at kcrg. ashley, kaj and i are all reading at wilkins. tomorrow, i'll be at hoover. joe winters will visit six school districts and will read in more than 14 classrooms. hillary clinton is in washington dc today to testify about the incident in benghazi while she was secretary of state. this testimony could have a huge impact on how she does in the race for the white house. police say a man arrested for shooting and killing a 4 year old girl has confessed to the murder. new mexico police say it was likely a case of road rage. but right now, here's a look at

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than yesterday, but we won't be dodging thunderstorms again. plan on highs into the 60-65 range from north to south. our next focus remains on the storm

system set to affect our weather from friday afternoon into the evening. this will be a widespread rain, with amounts of 0.25" to 0.50" likely. plan on wet football in the area for friday night! this system will be moving out just in time for the weekend with highs remaining in the 60s and lows dipping down to the upper 30s saturday night. today: partly cloudy high: 61-67 winds: e 5-10 alo: 65 dbq: 64 iow: 65tonight: mostly cloudy low: 49-55 winds: e 10-15 alo: 52 dbq: 49

showers likely high: 60-66 winds: se 10-20 alo: 63 dbq: 64 iow: 65tomorrow night: showers likely low: 51-57 winds: s 5-15 alo: 54 dbq: 57 iow: 57

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it's been an important week for democratic presidential frontrunner hillary clinton. she continues to lead in the polls, v-p joe biden is no longer a challenger and today she'll face house republicans investigating the benghazi attack. abc's stephanie ramos has the latest from washington. this morning - hillary clinton will once again testify before a special house committee investigating the september 11, 2012 benghazi attacks. nats: benghazi attack?fire..si rens..etc the assault by islamic militants on the state departments diplomatic compound in benghazi libya left 4 americans dead ....including u.s. ambassador chris stevens. sot clinton: " was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night decided they'd go kill some americans? what difference, at this point, does it make? it is our job to figure out what happened" that was former secretary of state clinton nearly 3 years ago.... testimony was supposed to be definitive on the attack....but republicans

clinton's private email server may even come up..if related to benghazi. sot gowdy: "if you want a window into libya and what was happening in the weeks and months before these four were killed, why would you not look at the ambassador's e-mails?" in all there have been 7 congressional investigations into that attack..its time for the next round and this one is expected to go for 8 hours or more not including breaks. sot hrc: "i don't know that i have very much to add." clinton will face tough questions from 7 republicans and 5 democrats ... this latest round of testimony comes in the wake of house republicans ... ....acknowledging that the investigation has been an exercise in trying to bring down clinton's poll numbers.... sot/mccarthy on fox: "?. we put together a benghazi special committee today. her numbers are dropping" tag: republicans on the benghazi committee deny the investigation has anything to do with politics. testimony begins at 10 oclock this morning...and could go well into the night. stephanie ramos abc news washington

group of people suspected of organizing the escape of fugitive drug lord joaquin "el chapo" guzman. he escaped from a maximum-security prison in july. among those in custody is the cartel kingpin's brother-in-law. the mexican attorney general says guzman's brother-in-law organized and supervised the tunnel guzman used for his escape. authorities in new mexico say they have charged a man for a road rage shooting that killed a 4-year-old girl. albuquerque, new mexico police have arrested 32- year-old tony torrez in the death of lilly garcia. police say her father had picked up the girl and her seven year old brother from school tuesday. they believe some type of road rage caused torrez to shoot at the family's pickup. police believe he was targeting lilly's father. instead, a bullet hit her in the head. she died later at a hospital. police say torrez has confessed to killing lilly and is in jail with a 650 thousand dollar bond. the f-b-i has launched its

own investigation. now for a quick check on your weather with meteorologist kaj o'mara.

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