the job, but the fire storm surrounding his hiring has time. many people showed up during hiring.others offered support, saying they hope he fights for much-needed funding tohelp retain university fafalty. ""verbatim." "verbatim."""verbatim." "verbatim." cbs 2 news reporter dora miller is working on this story right now and will have a full report tonight at ten. turning now to the weather, clouds filled the skies once, again today, but at least the clouds filled the skies once again today, but at least the temperatures were fairly mild. chief meteorologist gary swales is here with a first check of your weather first forecast. that is true. even with the clouds today,y,

eastern iowa. readings up into the 40s for highs in much of the area, still at 41 degrees in cedar rapids. winds are northeast at 5, cooling off a bit especially up north where there's still snow pack. 37 in charles city. otherwise, 41 in monticello. 42 in iowa city. here's the clouds wwve been dealing with today. look at the storm taking shape down to the south of us. that promises to be a very significant storm for parts of the ohio valley and looks like and chicago. a winter storm warning has been issued for the chicago area, where they could see 6 to as much as 8 inches of snow. but for us, we'll miss out on all of that. all we'll ha around here are gusty winds anancooler temperatureses as far as tonight goes, readings look like they will stay nice and mild, around 30 not overnight lows. >> thank you. an apartment fire that sent one person to the hospital monday. officials tell cbs 2news the

started in the kitchen of one of the units. a person was cooking with hot oil when the oil ignited, spreading to the cabinets. units sustained heavy damage. the fire has been ruled an accident. gun rights are another step closer to being expanded in iowa. iowa.the house passed several bills, including legislation which would allow children under-14 to use handguns with parental supervision.other bills would restrict public access to information about n owners and legalize the use of suppressors.the bills now head to the senate.it's not clear whether they'll receive much support there. it now appears almost ceceain that a successor to late supreme court justice antonin scalia will not be confirmed until after a new president is sworn in next year. year.republicans on the senate judiciary committee including chairman chuck grassley, sent a letter to majority leader mitch mcconnell saying they won't hold hearings--or a

by president obama.committee members claim their dedesion is based o onstitutional principle and protects the will of the american people. the republicans hoping to succeed obama have thier eyes fixed right now on tonight's nevada caucus. polls show donald trump has a large lead over marco rubio and ted cruz in that state. state.cbs 2 news reporter kevin barry is live in our newsroom with why the outcome could be slightly different. nevada is another state where donald trump has a ton of support -- at least in the polling that's been going on leading up to tonight. tonight.but just like in iowa -- where the caucus *process the polls up to tonight. just like in iowa, where the caucus process might have caused logistical issues for trump supporters, nevada could see a lot of those same challenges. a lot of trump support respect from people who generally are not involved in the ppitical process. in iowa, many people still didn't know on caucus night that they wouldn't be able to just cast their vote and leave.

says there's no reason to think there won't be similar issueses in nevada tonight. >> he is basing his campaign, basing his campaign off of, right, his personality. his television personality. that's not a good political ground game. that i ia good attention-n- grabber and it's good i ipeople have lots of time and they are flexible when they go in, but not good at getting people to a certain location at a certain time, which is what you need to do in a caucus. >> reporter: coming up tonight on the fox 28 news at 9:00 and the cbs 2news at 10:00, we'll take a look at some of the early numbers coming in by that time. people in nevada will still be caucusing at 9:00 and 10:00 iowa time. kevin barry, cbs 2news. >> thank you, kevin. new tonight, developments in a story cbs 2news is following in hiawatha. it pits a business owner against the rag bry committee. the owner of the farmers market

today, they met in a small claims courtroom. jennifer goodlove spoke why they should get back the money she had to pay for having an event on her property during bicycle stival. odlove says the fee was unfair since her business was not located where the city designated vendors to set up. the city says they charged a fee because it's part of an events. >> they were saying this is something we do differently days. always n ne our eents. that's part of the fun of the market. >> the committee says the market would have needed to close that day if she didn't want to pay the fee. it's now up to a judge to decide. for thousands of students in the cedar rapids community school district, long weekends will soon be routine. it's a story that's getting a lot of attention on our facebook page. last night, the school board approved next year's calendar, which cludes an early

teachers will use that time for professional development. the district says it will not be providing any sort of supervised student activities for those early out days. however, officials do plan to work with the city and others to identify available resources to keep students occupied. exact details of this plan are on the newly redesigned working group theatre put on a play - sparking conversation about social issues. issues.now - university of iowa researchers teamed up with the theatre to focus on *one of the topics - llying prevention. prevention.cbs 2 news reporter steffi lee shows us what they did. steffi? scott and karen - they partnered together and created a web toolkit called helping educators use art to reduce e bullying. bullying.the idea of the website is to help teachers helping educators use art to reduce bullying. the idea is to help teachers try new ideas in their classroom to preventntbullying. rerearchers from the university of iowa college of public health say traditional methods sometimes don't work, but they

students can learn how to work "reflective writing, drawing, there are activities where you can actually write and perform parts of a play." play."researchers on the project say they'll continue to tracacwhat teachers and students like from their toolkit.steffi lee, cbs 2 news. the so-called stem field is getting a lot of attention these days. days.stem, of course, is short for science, technology, engineering and math.this afternoon, a stem festival was held at the downtown cedar rapids public library.more than 150 exhibitors gave those attending a hands-on look at what they do.some included the cedar rapids traffic engineering department as well some included the cedar rapids traffic engineering department, as well as several robotics teams from across the area. >> it's all about getting people out and having them see what stem is, but then it's connecting the community, too, because we have individuals that are able to see maybe

then they are working on that in their classes. >> this is the third year for the cedar rapids stem festival. animal welfare experts say spay and neuter surgeries are life-saving procedures for dogs and cats. >> today on world spay day, cbs 2news reporter mellaney moore learned about the pet overpopulation problem that exists here in stern iowa and what one local organization is doing to help. >> reporter: five days a week, the carts come through the alliance. animals and staff-- >> this is for cats. >> reporter: -- getting prepped for a day of surgery. >> i enjoy working with missioio oriented people and we accomplish a lot every day. >> looks good p. >> reporter: the goal is to provide low-cost, high-quality spay and neuter services to reduce the number of animals

>> it's estimated that in cedar pids alone, there are 20,000 female ferrell cats. >> reporter: there just aren't enough homes for litters and litters of pets. that means almost half of animals going into shelters nationally are euthanized. >> even being a veterinarian, didn't realize what a need there was for affordable spay and neuter and what a problem there was with pet overpopulation. >> reporter: on a busy day, the liance could perform surgeries on up to 60 dogs, cats and rabbits that are owned, strays, or from shelters. >> since opening in january of 2013, the iowa humane alliance has performed 19,676 spay and neuter surgeries. today on world spay day, they will do 30 more. >> reporter: in honor of world spay day, the organization is ving additional discounts to the animals from eight shelters. >> can my puppy have a couple-- benefits of spay/neuter surgeries also give these

going to forever homes. covering the corridor in cedar rapids, mellaney moore, cbs 2 news. coming up on cbs 2 news at six, re-charging and re-focusing. re-focusing.how w e iowa hawkeye mens basketball team is getting ready for refocusing. how the iowa hawk eye men's basketball team is getting ready for wisconsin, who has been on a hot streak lately. >> and the biggest chahaenge ather-wise for our forecasters here in eastern iowa will be the temperatures over the next few days. we'll go down a little bit the next two days, but just in time for the weekend we see a nice bounce here. look at saturday. should be a pretty nice ay with temps back up in the 50s. i don't think we'll run it through the entire weekend. as you can see, there is a chance of showers on sunday and things will cool off towards the end of the weekend.

rest of your forecast aft tomorrow on cbs 2 this morning. each year, thousands of americans die from infections they picked up at the hospital. hospital.how you can protect yourself and your family during your next hostal visisithat's tomorrow on cbs2. . low pressure is getting its act together down to the south of us tonight. that's been pushing a little moisture up into eastern iowa, causing clouds. but we still stayed in the mild temperatures once again, readings today in most locations up in the 40s for highs and we're at 41 right now in cedar rapids. you can see the clouds that hug the area today. those go from the border up here in minnesota all the way down to the gulf of mexico. so these are going to be a part of our forecast in the next 24 hours, as the low pressure makes a swing through the ohio valley. up to the north, you can see a few light showers here. most of these are aloft, not

there is a chance up here in northeastern iowa there could be a couple sprinkles during the evening hours tonight. temperatures around iowa today for highs, generally in the upper 30s in the north. you get to about highway 20 and go south of there, temperatures easily were in the 40s this afternoon. we got to 46 here in cedar rapids. southwestern iowa, nice and toasty. temperature there today at 50 degrees. our weather headlines include the fact that we are going to avoid a major storm here in the next 24 hours, as it eases by just to the east of us. that's been our luck all winter long. it's going to be windy, though, and a little cooler as we get towards the middle of the week as the storm presses by. that doesn'n'last long, as warmer air comes right back in here for the upcoming weekend. our temperatures now, not looking too bad out there. upper 30s in the north to around 40 in the south. it is 42 in iowa city. going down to the south tonight, you can see the gulf of mexico moisture starting to

we've got a lot of rara. eventually as this system gets

bring in colder air. tomorrow is a big basketball wednesday... three local college teams return to the floor... . 'll break down each game... next

boboyan no longer roams the sidelines... frank kaminsky and sam dekker . well, ryan no longer roams the sidelines. tomorrow night at carver, iowa won't be sleeping on the badgers. wisconsin's one of the hottest teams in the big 10, winning eight of their st nine games. the hawks have had a week off to reflect, recharge and refocus. >> we've had time to work on some things. but the next four gagas are really all against very good teams.

a little better than wehave recently. we're close, but, you know, i think our defense has to get better, especially with the weapons that we're going to face on wednesday night. the iowa women are scheduled for a rematch against penn state wednesday night. the lowly nittany lions shocked the hawks on their home court back in january, but penn state hasn't exactly protected their home court. they are 1-7 in the conference and hawk ice hope to take advantage on wednesday. >> i would venture to say it was our worst game of the year, but i know we're a much different team. >> playing against penn state the first time, we were probably on a losing streak. but now we've got a couple good solid wins under our belt, our confident has definitely shot up. uni fans will say good-bye to three seniors tomorrow night, stepping on the floor at the mccloud center for the

have done for years. try to get a win. the three seniororhelped the panthers win 55 missouri valley conference games over the past five years. teetering on the brink of disaster in january... washpun, bohannon, and jesperson stepped up and saved the day... those three guys... they made it happen... at a hard time in our season... you don't go from losing four in a row to winning sesen out of eight without great leadrship.... and i think that's great... i think they'll be talked about in that fashion by our fans and i think that's terrific... the important stuff is still ahead for iowa wrestling... the big ten championships are next weekend and then nationals in mid-march... but as far as momentum goes... last night was a setback... the hawkeyes lost their first dual meet of the eason... a 21-17 defeat at the hands of n- c state in the national duals series.... tom brands said he saw some good things... they just couldn't check-mate the

we didn't take itito them when there was a mismatch on paper... and if you want to give those guys the paper matches... what's favored on paper then let's just play chess online... he can stay in north carolina and i'll stay in iowa city and me and him can play chess if we want to do that... but the thing the fans look forward to and the thing this program looks

call it the orbit of the apes. astronaut mark kelly is having some fun in space.he tweeted . astronaut markrkelly is having fun in space. he tweeted out this crazy video yesterday. we see someone in a gorilla suit bursting out of a bag on the international space station, then teasing a crewmember. mark kelly returns back to earth in march. >> love monkeying around up there. >> think they are getting a little stir crazy up there. >> been there a year, so yes, i would be.

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