illuminates the rift between the dnc and the candidates who trail frontrunner hillary clinton in the polls they've accus the committee of favoring clinton's campaign over theirs s/ jeff weaver / sanders campaign manager:59 - 1:05 "the overreaction by the chairwoman at the dnc.. absolutely unacceptable. un-democratic." the internal democratic dustup is even drawing shots fromrepublicans on the campaign trail. s/ donald trump / republican presidential candidate1:10 - 1:20 "this poor guy, he's up at the first debate, he said i don't want to discuss the emails, it's fine what he did. he gave his whole thing away. gave it away. and then she zapped him." in an earlier debate, sanders dismissed hillary clinton's email controversy. tonight we'll see if clinton returns the favor to sanders.

there will be several debate watch parties across siouxland tonight clinton supporters will gather at the hillary for iowa organizing office. that's at 401 south lewis boulvard a watch party for martin o'malley supporters will be at 1408 nebraska street in sioux city starting at 6:30. and senator bernie sanders's suporters can watch the debate at 1918 pierce st. in sioux city speaking of sanders supporters, a few campaign backers greeted people outside a theater today. and they did so to the theme of star wars. this was outside the promenade theater in downtown sioux city. you can see "big bernie" dressed up as a jedi. volunteers approached movie goers talking about the upcoming caucuses. "i personally think that boots on the ground is s re effective than phone calling, especially lately," said dustin ferguson. "the phone calling hasn't been as effective cause we've been getting a lot of disconnects and wrong numbers but here we can talk to people and they can't hang up on us." they were also letting people know about the vermont senators upcoming visit to siouxland.

week at buena vista university he'll be there on tuesday at 10:00 a.m. on monday, the vermont senator will be speaking at the boys club of sioux city at 7 p.m. the last time sanders campaigned in siouxland was in july. the president has signed a trillion dollar spending bill stopping a government shutdown. it will boost spending for defense and non-defense programs over the coming year. the president fended off efforts to stop federal money for planned parenthood and to place greater restrictions on syrian refugees. republicans secured an end to the ban on most crude oil exports. congress also extended $680 billion in tax cuts for businesses and individuals. republican leaders and the white house have said they feel good about the outcome. a warm december weekend in siouxland= but, will itast, for more we'll toss it over to meterologist tj springer after a cold morning temperatures warmed up quite substantially compared to our friday, with most towns climbing close to 40 degrees. we will continue our warming trend right into our sunday as

up! this will bring even warmer temperatures for sunday with high temperatures expected to climb into the 40's under mostly cloudy skies. yourr7-day forecast is coming up in 10 minutes the sioux city public museum just announced their family-friendly winter programs coming up. 6% they start their free winter break programming thday after christmas on the 26th with some museum bingo. the game will go through the 27th. the following weekend on january 2nd, they'll kick off the new year with a walking tour. the 45 minute tour will take siouxlanders through the skywalks of historic sioux city. "over the holidays when people they have more free time or they have family in town people feel like let's show off our museum. maybe

and you feel like oh i've seen it, but this is just a fun way to go through again," said sioux city public museum curator of education, theresa weaver-basye. the museum will close at 4 p-m on christmas eve and will stay closed through christmas day. today some local officers spent their afternoon christmas shopping with siouxland kids. they had their annual "shop with a cop" outing. ktiv's tommie clark joins us live in the newsroom. tommie, you were at the walmart on floyd boulevard where the shopping happened. how'd it go today? well robert, the event has been held for over ten years and this is the biggest year yet. local kids partnered with a shopping buddy from the force and hit the aisles of walmart. thirty siouxland kids paired up with officers from both the sioux city police and woodbury county sheriffs departments. they went through the aisles of walmart on floyd boulevard to find the perfect gifts for their

shopper could buy some gifts. "when they spend money on the gifts for their family members they really get to experience the true meaning of the holiday. it's more about giving then it is receiving. it's touching to be able to walk around the store and see these kids that really want to get their mom something, or their dad something, or brother, sister, aunt, uncle, whoever it is," said sioux city police department crime prevention officer, chad sheehan. the walmart on singing hillls also held "shop with a cop" for ten local kids earlier in the day. and at the end of the outing, each kid got a bike and helmet donated by the variety club. tonight at 10-- i followed along with one police officer and the little shopper she was paired with. learn how much this day meant to both of them. robert? thanks tommie. looking forward to it now for one of those stories that captures the magic of the holiday season. carolers from nebraska are spreading good cheer. brian mastre reports.

no one ever really knows what ideas will catch on with the masses. for six weeks these residents of seven oaks retirement community have been preparing for this morning. they're headed to the nearby diner in florence the legendary harold's koffee house. (barb mcdonald - customer :28-:33) "it is a hometown diner where they know you. i'm bad with names but they all know me." several of the seniors were anxious. what would the customers think? (melanie ennen - notre dame sisters :40-:45) ("good morning harold's customers. these are the seven oaks singers." and just like that... natso: "deck the halls with boughs of holly..." ...breakfast took a break. the conversations paused and no one seemed to mind the side order of christmas carols. if she could the owner would add the singers to the menu. (nancy bohnenkamp - harold's koffee house 1:07-1:16) "the music started and everybody settled down. it was nice. it

table back there they started singing." kenny bowtie, the most musical of the bunch, helps keep them on point, even if the membership rules are fairly laxed. (kenny bowtie - musician 1:27-1:33) "seven oaks singers are whoever shows up and sings, we include them. if they like to sing, that's what counts." some of the singers remember caroling as children and wonder, what happened to those days? (phyllis kubes - seven oaks at notre dame 1:42-1:51 sot partially covered) "i think we need more and more of this to make people happy and make them realize what it's all about, what christmas is all about." (melanie ennen - notre dame sisters 1:54-1:56 sot covered) "this is our last song. i'd love for all of you to sing with us." and many of them did. some louder than others. (barb mcdonald - customer 2:04-2:17) "i sat here and i enjoyed every minute of it. because when they started to sing they were giving me millions and millions of blessings that you can't get anyplace else." seven christmas songs, 12-minutes worth each followed by applause.

planning an encore. not sure when or where but hope you will join in, too. maybe even start up your own group. in omaha with photographer jim hinchik, i'm brian mastre reporting for nbc news. >> coming up on news 4 at 6 the big four classic descended on des moines today. highlights of iowa and drake are coming up later on in sportsfource.

close to 40 degrees. we will continue our warming trend right into our sunday as southerly flow begins to ramp up! this will bring even warmer temperatures for sunday with high temperatures expected to climb into the 40's under mostly cloudy skies. temperatures will remain above average in our 7-day forecast with a bit of a cool down closer to christmas. >>

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a consistent, principled, and effective leader. building a future to believe in. sanders: i'm bernie sanders and i approve this message. expected to be a big weekend for retailers and holiday shoppers... courtney reagan has an update on

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infoscout says as a result consumers are buying more this holiday season, and it's costing them less (sot: jared schrieber, infoscout co-founder & ceo) "in order to make up the difference retailers are having to sell more units at a lower price. you saw walmart do this with wrangler jeans for $10 a pair, you see many retailers offering promotions where they're making up for the lower prices on volume, just by selling more product" but as the clock ticks toward christmas, retailers will also settle for just winning the sale, almost regardless of what it costs... courtney reagan, cnbc >> mark's in now with sports - and the big four classic taking place in des moines. (mark) iowa, iowa state, drake and uni

other in des moines today. the hawkeyes and drake have already finished up - we'll take

for the fourth year in a row, basketball fans in des moines were treated to the big four classic. all four division-one basketball programs in the state, at the wells fargo arena for two matchups. in the early game, the 7- and-3 iowa hawkeyes were taking on 4-and-6 drake. iowa - of course, 0-and-1 against teams from iowa - with the loss to iowa state. drake gets on the board first - kale abrahamason kicks out to ore arogundade for three - the bulldogs up early. later in the half - hawkeyes move it around to mike gesell - the south sioux grad drills the triple - a team- high 17 points for gesell - iowa up 14- 13. 5 minutes to go in the half - hawks up 7 - reed timmer to the cup - timmer had a great day - scoring a game-high 25 - and griff loving it as well. but near the end of the half - nicholas baer with the huge block - iowa

anthony clemmons finishes - iowa shot 46 percent and holds off a late run from drake, 70-64. in the other game - northern iowa leads iowa state by a point midway through the first half. it's 16-14 at last check - washpun 10 we'll have those highlights coming up tonight at 10. the creighton men - on the road at oklahoma. the bluejays, hoping for a repeat of last season - when creighton upset the sooners - but oklahoma forward buddy hield doing everything he can to stop that. creighton down 10 but closes the first half strong - khyri thomas - from the corner - splash - bluejays down just 7 at the half. second half - it's a five point game - maurice watson junior - the strong drive creighton within 3 - upset on the mind. but the preseason-all american - hield - scored 33 points - burying the three as oklahoma pulls

for the first time in 15 polls, dating back to last december, the morningside women are not number- one in the naia. the mustangs, still 9-and-1 on the season, were at home against gpac-newcomer, college of st. mary. the flames are just 6-6 on the year. morningside came out strong - scoring the first seven points - lexi ackerman - with her only field goal of the day - giving the mustangs the early edge. then off the turnover - madison braun goes the other way - the steal and the score - braun had 15 points, 4 steals - morningside had 16 steals overall. college of st. mary put of a pretty good fight - peyton hagen from the corner - the flames actually shot better from the field than morningside. but the mustangs hang tough - jordyn wollenburg underneath - 12 for her - morningside hangs on, 81-75. the briar clifff women - ranked 4th - hosting midland. third quarter - midland -

overkamp - from the corner - she had 23 points - warriors up one. here comes briar cliff - check out jessi corrick - cutting across the lane - tough finish - corrick had 15 for the chargers. then corrick - assisting - to lexi henschke all alone under the basket - 14 for henschke - but bcu was still down one. midland was just a little too tough - sammi licari led all scorers with 25 points - and in overtime - the warriors knock off briar cliff, 78-75. it was announced last night - morningside quarterback ryan kasdorf is the n-a-i-a player of the year. the senior from california led the naia in passing, with almost four- thousand yards, and total offense, with over 43- hundred yards. kasdorf threw 45 touchdowns and just four interceptions, leading the mustangs to a 12-2 record and their fourth- straight appearance in the naia semifinals. for his career, kasdorf threw

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