rotating from sw to ne ne cloudy cold weather is expected wednesday with a few snow shower readings climbing from 29 at 8am toto6 at 3pm 3pm opening statements are underway in the murder trial of edward cusic. he's the 47-year-old man accused of killing his mother cedar rapids. rapids.cbs 2 news reporter stephanie johnson was in the out. throughout his trial today cusic sat emotionless as the

their opening statements... statements... and the defendant repeatedly struck his mom over the head overernd over at least eight time absolutely unleasing on to his mother until she was deadthe prosecution argued the woman was defenseless when she diedthey also said cusic was addicted to drugs and attacked his mom to get her medicinethe defense argued cusic was addicted to druks but instead suffered from mental illness which theory as you listen to the evidence makes more sense or that he did it because he was out of his mindthe chief medical examiner also took the witness stand today she said cusic hit his mom at least eight times before she dieded

the iowa chief medical examiner also took the stand today. she said ms. cusic was hit with a crow bar 8 times before she died from her injuries.trial will resume tomorrow morning at 8:30 am. now a cbs 2 news update-- update--an out-of-state inmate at the cinter of a smuggling vestigation at the state prison in anamosa, is now being punished. punished.wesley ziegler was serving a sentence out of kansas apart of a transfer agreement.he has since been returned to kansas and will face confinement there. ththe.prosecutors say ziegler worked with a guard to smuggle cell phones into the prison in exchange for money, sparking an extensive investigation. four guards were charged.nine others lost their jobs.records show he's the only inmate to be disciplined. 16 million people in the world now receive treatment for h-i-v. h-i-v.today on world aids day - many say even though medicine has come a long way, there's still a stigma

aids.cbs 2 news reporter steffi lee shows us how iowa city is uniting in the fight against aids. today - the steps of the old capitol transformed into a publicstage to kick off a week dedicated to hiv awareness. awareness. it's one microphone, to give millions - a voice. voice."gregory piersons, rj m, m,"darryl, h, bobby lake." lake."gege, chris, don key key"matthew sarner, hector muniz" muniz""david clap, victor cash cash"eric f bell"name after name.. name.. "they live lives, they had loves."iowa city red week honors the millions@who have diedfrom hiv.fr this colorful aids memorial q qlt - stitched together to heal wounds of grief... grief... "it was such an epidemic in the 80s, i had some friends that passed away because of it."tohis podium - university of iowa student apoorva raikwar r ins others

remember hiv still exists. exists."these are people, these are people that could be walking around on the pentacrest right now."it's to educate - and advocate for testing. testing."i think hiv and aids is healthcare issue that's not really on the radar for many in iowa."and it's this microphone and podium at the pentacrest - that's a starting point to shatter any stigmas about the condition.n. condition. "there's a lot of talk about how it's a homophobic disease, even still now with the education that we have." iowa city red week will host events until saturday evening. that includes several free hiv testings.we'll have that information on cbs 2 iowa dot com.steffi lee, cbs 2 news. senator joni ernst is once again--a civilian. civilian.ernst announced monday that she is officially retired from the iowa army national guard.she served for more tha23 years, ncluding more than a year as a company commander in iraq.ernst cacaed the decision incredibly difficult, but says it will give her a greater opportunity

right now - voters in black hawk county are deciding a pair of run-off elections.s. elections.in waterloo - voters are selecting a new mayor.city councilman quentin hart and going head to head. head.there's also a mayoral run-off in cedar falls.both jim brown and incumbent mayor jon crews' names are on the ballot, even though crews dropped out.brown got the most votes during last month's elececon - but fafaed to win outright.dave halterman, who came in third, is mounting a write-in campaign. watch for results of these elections tonight on cbs 2 news ten at 10. so far this election cycle, there have been several ups and downs in the polls, including some who have never held office - - holding the lead, in some polls.but one candidate, who has a powerful family name, is struggling to keep his momontum. reporter kevin barry. barry. nearly all voters have at least heard of the clinton or bush names in politics.for jeb

walking a tightrope between defending two legacies. i'm not going to abandon my heritage. it's a good one, and i'm proud of it. it.is there a need to defend them. you said in the debate, by brother kept us safe. safe.yeah, i feel a need to do that. because i love them, and i care about them.his brother had an approval rating in the 90's in the days after 9/11 -- and left office about seven ars later downn the 30's. but jeb started strong and has since faded. 's been a race that's been hard to navigate for the politician who acts the way you'd actually expect one to. he's gone too far. and now he's showing a lack of seriousness in being capable of being president.the problem for bush is that lack of seriousness gets attention -- d so far -- polling numberer he's the only candidate in the top seven who's held political office above being a first term senator.

incoming without a filter and just regurgitate i iback out -- it doesnt' show a seriousness in serious times. bush now sits behind two candidates who have never held office before -- a tea party senator -- and marco ruo -- whom he worked closely alongsgse as governor of florida a en rubio was in the statehouse.he says his organization is strong and before jumping in -- he had plenty of cash on hand -- but he says the story he's pitching might just take a while e sink in with voters - - the way it normally does. does.look -- it's not supposed to be easy running for president. it's a hard job. so i accept the conditions in which this campaign is going forward and i do it with joy in my heart." heart."coming up at the bottom of the hour/tonight at 10, our sitdown with jeb bush continues with how he'd handle vladimir putin if bush were in thoval office. kevin barry, cbs 2 news. new w night at six, six,university of iowa president bruce harreld is requesting more than five million dollars in additional funding for university of iowa culty. faculty.harreld is beingng

university president steven leath, who's requesting more than eight million for faculty there.the two say they want the additional state funding to add faculty and give raisese totoeep the schools competitive. also new tonight, a strong dollar appears to be further slowing down the midwest economy. economy.the mid-erican business conditions index, from creighn university, dropped to 40-0-point-seven last month, down more than a point from october.the index ranges from zero to one hundred.any score above 50 suggests growth. the index surveys nine midwestern and plains states, including iowa. it's been a full month since the new johnson county minimum wage went into effect, and tonight, reaction is mixed. mixed.on november first the county jumped from seven dollars and twenty five cents an hour to eight dollars and twenty cents.the iowa city area chamber of commerce says they've been asking for feedback from m mber businesses.they say many of their businesses support a minimum wage increase, but

legislated and consistently mandated across county lines. me business owners support the increase whileleothers say they don't believe its sustainable.the minimum wage is scheduled to increase to ten dollars and ten cents an hour by 2017.tonight on the cbs 2 news ten at t n - a full look of the impact so far. next on the cbs 2 news at six, ready for the title game. game.how the team is preparing big stagagin indy.

cbs 2 this morning, a team of specialists teamed up to perform a first of its kind surgery. how it gave one woman something should couldn't imagine living without.that's tomomoow on cbsbs this morning. ((kelly))this is the time today is giving tuesday. tuesday.it's always the tuesday after thanksgiving. here in the corridor, one organization needs your donations for college students. students. "there's more barriers for those students, so yeah, definitiely, t t. to eliminate as many barriers as possible to say you can go to school, you can get an education, you can further your life, you can reach your goals and your dreams... i think that is exactly what this program is doing." doing."diversity focus is trying to raise ten thousand dollars to send students on a nationwide colege tour in the spring.many of the students

families to attend, or even consider, goininto cocoege. we forced our way through the grey again today--but the days ahead look a bit brighter. swails is here now with your cbs 2 'weather first' forecast. temperatures are cold in the low 30s 30ssnow showers will give way to cloudy weather wednesday. by thururay sunshine and warmer temps. return. return. clouds and snow showers continue rotate around an

iowa radar shows the e attered nature of the light snow showers. showers. little if any accumulation. at

inch snow showers will be scattered through early wednesday. then cloudy chilly conditions will prevava prevevl highs were in the upper 30s

inch current temps are in the upper 20s to 30s 30s winds are sw 10-18 10-18behind todays storm another over the pacific will bring mild weather for the weekend weekend highs tuesday will be back in the low to mid 70s 70sclouds are gathering out west with a few showers and storms near the east slopes of the rockies rockiesmostly susuy skies will prevail tonight through 6pm tuesday. tuesday.cloudy and cold with a few snow showers. lows mid to upper 20s 20scloudy and cold with a chance of snow showers early. highs mid 30s 30s temperatures will warm to the 40s by thursday and stay there

snow expected expected it was a banner day for the hawks hawkswhat kirk ferentz did for the 4th time and why the am just wants to prove they belong. belong."cbs 2 news connects with you.call us at 1-800- 222-kganemail us at news at cbs 2 iowa dot comconnect with us on n facebook at t facebook/kgan n cbs 2.

if you're doing everything right but find it harder and harder to get by, you're not alone. while our people work longer hours for lower wages, most all new income goes to the top 1%. my plan -- make wall streettbanks and the ultrarich pay their fair share of taxes, provide living wages for working people, ensure equal pay for women. i'm bernie sanders.

we can make a political revolution and create an economy and democracy that works for all and not just the powerful few. it's been her fight for twenty years. something is wrong with our healthcare system and it needs to be fixed. then, it was about health reform and getting eight million kids covered. now, it's about stopping republicans from repealing obamacare, and,taking on insurance companies to bring down druruprices.

i'm not going to let the republicans rip up obamacare and throw it away. i'm m llary clinton and i approve this messasa. "um... we are probably the team that's not suppose to be go cut it loose, see what happens." i love it -- it's the new kirk -- e maverick kirk as he refered to himself today or the big 10 coach of the year kirk -- they all sound nice -- but latter was just anunced --

cocoerence's coach of the year -- it's the 4th time captian kirk has won the award, the last time was 2009... this year they're 12 and oh for the first time in school history and playing in their first ever big 10 title game -- and as mia o'brien found out -- they belong. all season long... the hawks been criticized... criticized...because they haven't played anybody... flashy... "there's been games we haven't been respected all season long and we'v'vgone out and won every single one of them so far."so the haters may continue to hate, but the wkeyes' mentality ist changing either. either."we're not gonna think differently even though we have a lot of people doubtbtg us and we've had that each week, in and out... we just focus on what we can control--not really how they're gonna play but how we will play.b "we've been out to prove everybody wrong, and really it's about us and what we do... this one holds maybe a little more weight but at the same time we're trying to

game."but this saturday the hawkeyes will finally get to play that "top ten team" and be a battle. battle."both teams are gonna come in and play hard, and we expect nothing less than a 60- minute fight fight"they've got a lot of talent. they've got a lot of good players on thdefensive side espececlly and i know offensively they do as well ...i think it's the most talented bunch that we've played"especially one of the big ten's best -- quarterback conn cook cook"yeah, you know he throws some really accuratatballs. that's gonna be tough, definitely not like we faced last week." week.""their quarterback, offensive line. they're very experienced offensively. and you know that's gonna be a necessary challenge.. challenge.."no one can say 's not a good game" "...it's gonna be a good test to prove how good we really are." in order to finally prove they belong. in iowa city, mia 'brien, cbs 2 sports. it didn't take long for iowa state to transform into toledo west for matt campbell -- the new head clone -- added 4 coahes to his staff -- and all 4 of them coached with campbell at toledo -- tom

offensive line coach -- d.k. mcdonald cornerbacks -- alex go-lish tightends and recruting coordinator -- and john cooh-see-es-key -- who's not pictured -- director of scouting other news out of ames -- third string q-b grant rohach is transfering -- not because of campbell but because of playing time -- rohach played in 7 games in 2013 -- throwing for over 1 thousand 2 hundred yards and 8 ouchdowns -- but didn't attempt a pass this season -- as a graduate transfer, he will be eligable to play right away we will be right back to take

a little boy's picture with nta has gone viral.in indiana, 6 month old zeke dozed off while in line with his parents to see santa. instead of waking the boy up, santa told the parents to let him sleep...and posed into thisisdorable picture.zeke's dad posted some pictures online and they've been liked and shared more than 500

cloudy cold weather is expected wednesday with a few snow showers. readings at 3pm thanks for watching your cbs 2

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