first, meteorologis t justin gehrts has your first alert ffecast, justin... clouds are moving back in today and will produce light snow later on. we may begin to see snowflakes as early as 3 or 4, but for most of the area it'll wait until after 6. light snow continues into the night with a dusting up to two inches likely, with most places in the lower part of that range. highs reach the lower teens today. tomorrow will be partly cloudy and warmer with highs in the 20s. we'll stay in the 20s right up to tt weekend, with temperatures actutuly getting above freezing on sunday.today: pm light snow likely high: 10-16 winds: se 5-10 alo: 10 dbq: 12 iow: 15 tonight: light snow likely low: 7-13 winds: e 5-10 alo: 7 dbq: 9 iow: 12 thanks justin. candidates are converging on iowa in a final push to collect votes before the iowa caucuses.

candidate carly fiorina will be in eastern iowa today. she's speaking at a presidential candidate forum at wartburg college. thaha will be e om 8:30 until 10 this morning. fiorina hasn't been polling well, pushing her to the undercard debate last week. democrat hillary clinton is telling voters she will improve the affordable care act. in toledo last night she also talked about making education more affordable. the former secretary of state also told supporters she'll be able to work with republican lalaakers on capitol hill. " i don't sugercoat it. it's hard but you have to find common ground with people with whom you disagree with on so many issues. that's what i've done." recently released campaign ads are targeting marco rubio saying he'sissed key votes and heariis. the gazette and kcrg-tv9 fact check team tested the claims of this pac which

has the results. ad: marco rubio was missing the ad from right to rise points out instances when marco rubio missed national security briefings for campaign events. then it adds this... "over the last three years, rubio has missed more total votes than any other senator." gov-track, a website that tracks congressiona l votes, shows rubio missed 177 votes, out of 11-hundred. that's more than 15- percent. most of those missed votes were in 2015, after rubio announced his bid for president. during last year alone, rubio missed almost one out of every three votes. data shows that's not uncommon for presidential candidates. fellow republican ted cruz missed about 24 percent of votes last year and lindsey graham, who has since dropped out of the race, missed 29 percent of votes. but rubio has missed the most over the three year period, which is why we give this ad an 'a' a pro- marco rubio pac, called conservative solutions, countered with an ad of its own making

more classified national security briefings than any other candidate." this is impossible to check because there are no public records available on classified meetings and their attendance. we tried to contact the pac to get its source for the claim but did not get a response. rubio is the only presidtial candidate who is a member of the senate intelligence committee. we checked committee logs and that committee has the most closed hearings. 71 of its 74 hearings lt year were closed. but because we can't confirm attendance records for classified hearings, we can't grade this claim. speaking directly to iowans, rubio says he opposes amnesty for people who are living in the country illegally. he spoke to a standing room only crowd yesterday afternoon in coralville. opponents have criticized him for stance on illegal immigratioio rubio told supporters he would deport those who are in the country without proper documentatio n. he also outlined plans for more border

u-s and mexico. "":00 as the son of immigrants, the grandson of immigrants, the community of immigrants i speak when with authority: enforcing our immigration laws is not anti immigrant it's what sovereign countries do all of them do it. " with just 13 days until the first in the nation caucuses, iowans are getting ready. precinct volunteers are going through a training process. the republicans will vote on small ballots with results reported to party headquarters. the democrats stand in groups to determine how many delegates the candidates get. the pbrties used to call in results, which led to problems in 2012. so, the parties are using a new app. "microsoft developed this app, we are sharing the app between the democrats and republicans to make sure we get an accurate count this time of where the results came form - how they were spread out across the state and so forth." one person from each precinct will report the results on c ccus night. they'll have to type in their cell phone number and a

the process secure. if something goes wrong, the parties say a separate call system will act as a backup to get results into des moines. a few presidential candidates will attend the iowa renewable fuels summit today. republicans donald trump, carly fiorina, and rick santorum plan to speak. theyy will give their opinion on renewable fuels like biodiesel and ethanol. governor terry branstad and lieutenant governor kim reynolds will also speak, as well as former governor and ag secretary tom vilsack. this summit is today at prairie meadows in altoona. today, voters in johnson county will fill a vacancy on the board of supervisors. lisa green-douglass and chris hoffman are vying for the empty seat on the five- member board. terrence neuzil left the position for a job in kalamazoo, michigan. the winner will serve the rest of neuzil's term and be up for public vote again in november. polls open at seven this morning and will close at nine tonight. the college community school district is trying to approve a

referendum... again. this s ter the voters shot down the last referendum in april, by a mere 58 votes. kcrg-tv9's forrest saunders is live at prairie view elementary school in cedar rapids. forrest, supporters of the bond got enough signatures to bring it back for a vote february 2nd. how much money is the district looking for. cole, they are askininfor 49 and a half million dollars. the reason? growth. the district says student enrollment has outgrown their current facility. this gives you an idea. in 2014, 291 students graduated. in 2018, about 410 will graduate. passage of the bond would meme the disisict's property tax rate would increase about 32 cents to $16.13 per thousand dollars of valuation. that's actually 81 cents lower than originally estimated, seeing as the board has agreed to commit 6- million in one cent sales tax funds. in the end, the new rate would

property taxes $17.50 per year for a home assessed at 100-thousand dollars. the money is going a lot of places. the big ones, more classroom space. improved safety and security. replacing obsolete mechanical and electric systems. adding more parking and public space. we'll get more into that in our next half hours. in cedar rapids, forrest saunders, kcrg-tv9 news. cedar r rids police are lookiki for someone who shot at a house. police were called to the intersection of 12th street and j avenue northeast last night for a report of gunfire. officers arrived at about 9:30 last night. they searched outside a home for any evidence and found shell casings. police say no one was hurt and they are still investigating. one manans in the hospital this morning after a crash in black hawk county. sheriff's deputies responded to the 58- hundred block of independence avenue around 9:30 last night.

oelwein rolled over into a ditch after avoiding a head on crash at the round-about. first responders took him to allen hospital, and then he was transported to u-i-h-c. the accident is under investigation. in a tv-9 follow-up this morning.. a space heater likely caused a fire that killed a mother and her three children a small town n bbne county, north of des moines. that's according to a preliminary investigation. crws responded to the fire in boxholm shshtly before 1 o'ccck sunday morning. sub-zero temperatures, caused some pumps and trucks to freeze. firefighters found the bodies of 27-year-old amber sorenson and her three kids inside the home. a massive fire destroyed a decades-old warehouse in fort dodge. it broke out shortly after noon yesterday. crews say the fire was difficult tfight because there were 6-thousand tires burning inside. one firefighter was hurt but is expected to be ok. a cedar rapids landlord trying to thaw out frozen pipes started a

house. the fire chief says the landlord was using an electric heat gun about three yesterday afternoon at the home at 26-20 johon avenue southwest. no one was hurt. the fire department says this was the second fire like this yesterday. remember, whenever you see news, give us a call on newsline nine. that number is 319-365-9999. you can also email pictures and video to newsrooooat kcrg dot com. a homeowner may soon be in hot water if waterloo decides to cite the property as a nuisance. police calls to the home include gunfire, disorderly conduct and people blocking the street. director of safety services dan trelka says officers responded to 520 elm street 16 times last year. city ordinance says the owner has 10 days to tell the city how they will address the problems. but in a letter, the owner accused police of harassment. if cited, police could bill the owner 50 dollars per

handling these calls. a similar ordinance in cedar rapids called safe e r has been successful. the p pgram aims to reduce service calls to problem properties by penalizing property owners and working with them to fix the issues. the city says 85 percent of properties on the nuisance list are now in compliance. tensions are rising in flint, michigan over the water crisis. people there want government officials arrested as they deal with lead in the water. authorities in texas s e requesting the "affluenza teen" could be tried as an adult. but right now, here's a look at today's opening farm markets. good orning!

snow later on. we may begin to see snowflakes as early as 3 3 4, but for most of the area it'll wait until after 6. light snow continues into the night with a dusting up to two inches likely, with most places in the lower part of that range. highs reach the lower teens today. tomorrow will be partly cloudy and warmer with highs in the 20s. we'll stay in the 20s right up to the weekend, with temperatures actually getting above freezing on sunday.today: pm light snow likely high: 10-16 winds: se 5-10 alo: 10 dbq: 12 iow: 15 tonight: light snow likely low:

alo: : dbq: 9 iow: 12 tomorrow: partly cloudy high: 21-27 winds: s 5-10 alo: 22 dbq: 21 iow: 25 tomorrow night: partly cloudy low: 16-22 winds: s 5-10 alo: 16 dbq: 16 iow: 19 thursday: mostly cloudy high: 27 - low: 19 friday: partly cloudy high: 25 - low: 13 saturday: partly cloudy high: 31 - low: 12 sunday: mostly cloudy

monday: chance of snow high: 30 - low: 22 tuesday: partly cloudy high: 24 - low: 17 thanks justin. schools and businesses are back open today, but eastern iowans are still carrying the legacy of dr. martin luther king junior with them. hundreds of university of northern@iowa students

packaging up 25-thousand meals for a local food bank. so many wanted to help, that the list of spots was filled more than a week ago. the northeast iowa food bank will collect the dry packaged meals which contain a mixture of beans and rice. the food bank will distribute the efforts of u-n-i students in 16 northeast iowa counties. haven't made dinner reservations yet for valentine's day yet? one fast food restaurant has got you covered. that's coming up in today's america's

flint, michigan. the mayor is headed to washington today to push the white house for more help. protesters are expected to show up at michigan governor rick snyder's state the state address tonight. reid binion reports. "arrest rick snyder, arrest rick snyder"angry

michigan.... ...calling for the arrest of governor rick snyder... ...as residents cope with lead-contaminated water flowing into their homes. it started in april 20-14, when the state temporarily switched flint's water source to the notoriously dirty flininriver. it was a cost-saving measure... while officials built a new supply line to lake huron. the water, found by virginia tech researchers to be highly corrose, flowed througugservice lines made o o lead, carrying the noxious element into homes. the water source was swithced back in october, but the damage to the pipes was done. ...with the state now ung the national guard to hand out cln water. president obama declared a federal emergency saturday... ...but flint city counciman wantwaz davis, says much more is needed and available. "the state of emergency only gives us a $5million cap, which the preredent has already sigigd for. if they were to submitted for a disaster declaration, we could have got the $96 million dollars, or more..."the crisis is sparking widespread outrage....among... celebrities... activists... and presidential candidates...

also right, is demanded the resignanaon of the governor. b man who acts that irrisponsibly should not stay in power."snyder , responded tweeting quote: "finger pointing from political candidates only distract from solving the flint water crisis." this, as state officials face lawsuits alleging they knew about the contamination risk... and broke federal laws by failing to avert it. i'm reid binion reporting. texas authorities are expected to hold a hearing today requesting to transfer "affluenza- teen" ethan couch's court proceedings from juvenile to adult court. the teenager himself is still in mexico, but his mother has been extradited to the u-s. the pair flfl across the border late last year over fears he would be found to be in violation of his probation. despite killing four people in a drunk driving accident, couch only received probation after his lawyers argued that his wealthy upbringing left him unable to distinguish right from wrong. representatives from mothers against drunk drivers will be at today's hearing. now4for a quick check on ur

meteorologist justin gehrts.

clouds are moving back in today and will produce light snow later on. we may begin to see snowflakes as early as 3 or 4, but for most of the area it'll wait until after 6. light snow continues into the night with a dusting up to two inches likely, with most places in the lower part of that range. highs reachchhe loww teens today. tomorrow will be partly cloudy and warmer with highs in the 20s. we'll stay in the 20s right up to the weekend, with temperatures actually getting above freezing on sunday.today: pm light snow likely high: 10-16 winds: se 5-10 alo: 10 dbq: 12 iow: 15 tonight: light snow likely low: 7-13 winds: e 5-10 alo: 7 dbq: 9 ow: 12 abc's reena ninan and kendis

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