boulevard in sioux city with live link 4. and tommie what's it like out there now. well al, all morning it's been a bit of a sloppy mess. i even had some trouble getting out of my neighborhood thisisorning. every time i made it u uthe hill outside my place, the slick conditions caused me to slide right back down. hopefully other siouxlanders aren't having that hard of a time. but, not to worry it should get better here soon. the heaviest snow hit the tri-state area this morning. then the snow exits out of the area this evening. it's picked up a bit since i've been out here. and plows are working to clean up the streets, but, siouxlanders still need to remember to drive slow. al? thanks tommie. let's get to ben with the latest from the storm team four weather center... > weather ad-lib snow began lasnight and has

in quite a few spots across siouxland and will continue to fall throughout the day. plan on it taking longer to get to your destinations this morning with the snow/slush vered roads, as we face snow totals in the 2-4 inchchrange by the time it exits later this evening. winds will also pick up from the north and northwest today/tonight which will create very cold conditions with wind chills beginning to approach zero. much of the same will be in place on saturday as temperatures drop during the day into the lower teens and single digits with sub-zero wind chills. it'll be our temperatures that drop b bow zero (wiwichills: -20s) saturday night/sunday morning and fall shy of 10 degrees above zero sunday afternoon. we'll get some limited relief early next week as temperatures return to the teens and gradually make it back into the 20s by the middle of it with some halfway decent sunshine. see graphics. >> joining us in studio now i i

trooper farley, how was drive to ktiv just now? -- have there been many accidents? -- this is that very wet, slick snow that's great for making a snowmgn, but not go great for driving in. what

president barack obama has vetoed legislation to repeal his signature health care law. it's one of many repeal measures pushed by republican lawmakers since 2010, when obama signed the health care program into law. but it's the first bill to clear both houses of congress and make it to obama's desk. republicans say they met two goals by passing the bill: keeping a promise to voters in an election year, and showing their ability to repeal the law if a republican wins the presidency. a philadelphia police officer is in stable condition after being ambushed while sitting in his police

the suspected shooter is also in the hospital. nbc's katy zachry reports from philadelphia.

officer had no idea he was coming. it's amazing he's alive" officer hartnett, a rookie of 5 years, was hit several times in the arm. he still managed to fire his own gun, hitting the suspect who was caught a few blolos away. s/ robert hartnett/offifier son shot) "it'll be a tough road, he's a tough guy, he's an excellent philadelphia officer" when officer hartnett was rushed to the hospital, his colleagues say he was alert and coherent. they tell us he has a broken arm and severe nerve damage, but his spirits are good. officer hartnett's family is meeting here at the hospital this morning. he grew up just outside philadelphia. his family says he always wanted to be a police officer katy zachry, nbc news, philadelphia. >> two people are being held on terrorism- related charges in california and texas. one is a refugee from iraq who's charged with lying to federal investigators about his travels to syria. he was arrested totoy in sacramentoto meanwhile, the governor and lieutenant governor of texas are praising the arrest in houston

as a terror suspect. a terror suspect in new york made a court appearance this morning. the fbi says 25-year old emanuel lutch-man was plotting a terror attack at a rochester restaurant on n n year's eve. people who know lutch- man say he's a panhandler with mental problems. federal prosecutors describe him as a would-be terrorist who wanted to prove he was worthy of joining the islamic state militants. the mother of a fugitive teen who used an "affluenza" defense after killing four people in a drunken- driving wreck made her initial court appearance this morning. bond was set at $1 million for tonya couch this morning in fort worth. authorities believe couch and her 18-year-old son, ethan couch, fled texas in november as prosecutors investigated whether the teenager had violated his probation. a video surfaced that appeared to show him at a party where people were drinking. the mother and son were arrested in mexico late last month. he is still being held there. some colleges across the country

their hoverboards at home. at least 20 universities have banned or restricted the popular motorized scooters. federal authorities say hoverboards are unsafe and can cause serious injury. plus, they tend to, on occasasn, burst into flames! airlines have been them and the university of iowa is now among the schools banning hoverboards from dorm rooms and other campus buildings. von stange/university of iowa housing director "if a fire breaks out, that's our main concern. if a fire breaks out, i mean it could damage the room, joining rooms, and things like that. fires burn hot, and it can damage a lot of property." other schools that have banned hoverboards include george mason university, george washington university and american university. after a very rough start to the new year, u.s. stocks have been inching upward today, as investors find encourageme nt in the latest job numbers. analysts had expected an increase of 200-thousand jobs last month, but the actual number was close to 300-thousand. stocks aren't making large gains, but the buying is widespread.

lost almost 400-points yesterday, and is down about 900 points for the week. but it's a different story in japan, where stocks fell again today, extending losses for a fifth day and marking the worst start since world war two. japan's finance minister attributed the fall to china's economy. tanking stock prices in china have spooked investors and fanned concern over the country's economic future. stocks stabilized slightly after the people's bank of china stepped in saying it would act to maintain the level of its currency. tomorrow night's powerball jackpot prize is crushing all expectations. it is now estimated at 800-million dollars! ticket sales have been soaring since nobody claimed wednesday night's drawing. tomorrow's jackpot will be the biggest prize for any lottery jackpopoever in the u-s. so just how rich would you be if there was one winning ticket.. and it was yours?? well, you would have made more

mayweather, taylor switft, garth brooks and katy perry---- combined! even if you took the cash payout-- which is 496-million dollars-- you would still top the list! but----the odds of winning are one in 292 million. so.... don't quit your day job just yet. snow today, bitterly cold temperatures this weekend. winter is making its presence known and meterologist ben dorenbach will be back with the full forecast after this. here's the live view from spencer, iowawawhere it's

many siouxlanders are dealing with snow today.

snow began last night and has accumulated a solid inch or two in quite a few spots across siouxland and will continue to fall throughout the day. plan on it taking longer to get to your destinations this morning with the snow/slush covered roads, as we face snow totals in the 2-4 inch range by the time it exits later this evening. winds will also pick up from the north and northwest today/tonight which will create very cold conditions with wind chills beginning to approach zero.

temperatures drop during the day into the lower teens and single digits with sub-zero wind chills. it'll be our temperatures that drop below zero (windchills: -20s) saturday night/sunday morning and fall shy of 10 degrees above zero sunday afternoon. we'll get some limited relief early next week as temperatures return to the teens and gradually make it back into the 20s by the middle of it with some halfway decent sunshine. see graphics. >>

you might notice the missouri river a little fuller this nth. more water will be flowing out of gavins point dam near yankton, south dakota. the u.s. army corps of engineers increased releases from the dam and others on the river to make space for the winter's melting snow. the corps says a lot of rain and snow in december created higher than expected runoff, and will likely continue through february. rereases increased from m ,000 cubic feet per second to 24,000. we'll be back with a check of wall street and the farm market numbers... and---the straightest rows you've ever planted! see how this device made in siouxland uses gps technology to

one of the items on display at this week's dakota farm show in vermillion is toute as helping producers get the most out of their crops. the "protrakker" system attaches to the hitch of your planter and uses gps technology to get

combine that with a gps sonar system and its maker says it will assist farmers not just at planting time, but all year long. "we're trying g keep the rows in line across the entire field so when they come back with the next application with it be spraying, side dressing, strip till, etc., your next application is back on that sub-inch accuracy," said richard hundt, protrakker representative. the e tch is a part of a guidance assistance line helping farmers to improve efficiency and control. and it's a siouxland product.... made in odebolt, iowa. > stocks have been inching upward

investors encouraged by a good jobs report. still ahead: siouxland nature lovers learn about the link between birds and dinosaurs... and now that we've all seen star wars, hollywood has a whole lot in store for the new year. we'll preview more than dozen movies coming out in 2016.

marco rubio thinks it's unfair to criticize him for missing votes. "but i am going to miss votes, i'm running for president." but he's been missing votes for a long time. "one third of all of his missed votes in 2015 were missed before he announced he was running for president." over the last three years, marco rubio has missed more votes... than any other senator. washington politician marco rubio. doesn't show up for work, but wants a promotion? right to rise usa is responsible

here's a live look at west lake okoboji from our okoboji skycam... ouxland nature loverergot a prehistoric lesson last night. dinosaurs were the topic at the meeting of the loess hills audubon society. the group meets once a month to talk about birds, nature and all things outdoors. guest speaker brian fernando helped connect the dots on how birds and dinosaurs are related. he's a geology student who knows

"they looked ad it's arm and these feather quails where these big feathers would attach on its arm and i think that's really going to catch people by surprise," said brian fernando. "one of their raptor dinosaurs suddenly a big six foot turkey." fernando says some day, he hopes to researcrcand work with fossils in museums across the country. the new star wars movie passed "aatar" this week to become the biggest movie release in american history. and now that we've flipped our calendars to a new year, hollywood has a new crop of films that could become the next big thing. in the friday film feautre, raphael seth takes a look k some of f e most anticipated movies of 20- 16.

month in "x-men: apocalypse." "this is a different kind of superhero story." if you like your good guys to be all bad, check-out ryan reynolds in "deadpool" next month, or the all- star "suicide squad" in late summer. "good choice." "hey, well played!" there are plenty of sequels on the docket wititit"star trek" slated for july. "independence day" liberates its second chapter 20 years after the original...and "finding dory" swims into theaters more than a decade after "finding nemo." "large and small, fast...... and slow." that leads to more kids f starting with "zootopia" in march...a live- action version of "the jungle book" scheduled for april...and steven spielberg's "the b-f-g" due in mid-summer. "cut!" other films drawing interest: george clooney reteaming with the coen brothers in "hail caesar"...melis sa mccarthy leading an all-female revue of "ghostbusters"...and "selma" star stephan james runs like jesse owens in "race." that's the 2016 box office preview, raphael seth, nbc news.

also scheduled for release next december: the "star wars" spinoff "rogue one." helping to bring "bright futures" to local students. still ahead, on around siouxland. in the middle of a time when senior poverty is increasing. republicans and some democrats came up with a brilliant idea for cutting cost-of-living adjustments for social security. we said, "it will be over our dead bodies if you cut social security." as president, i will do everything i can to extend the solvency of social security and expand benefits for people who desperately need them.

and it was put in place to address low graduation rate actually. once the program started they realized that their community had a lot of needs. students maybe not having meals or not having coats, that type of thing. it was a way to organize community efforts, collaboration amongst different community agencies as well as the school in that system. then the joplin tornadoes hit and that structure was in place so that community was able to respond quickly to the needs of their community members. so the sioux city chamber actually brought this to dr. gausman and the sioux city community schools and asked us if we would lead the program. so we took it up. this has been about a year ago. so we had our big kick off, bright futures breakfast event,

we're trying to reach out to community partners, community members that want to volunteer in our schools and so forth. it certainly goes well beyond the academic into some of the lives of these kids. absolutely yes. if you want more information you can call (712) 279-6753. they also have a facebook page you can go to. it's facebook.com/ brightfuturessiouxcity. jen thanks for joining us. thank you very much. thanks for joining us around siouxland. >>

thanks for joining us. have a great afternoon!