plus...morningside hosted southern oregon with a trip to daytona beach on the line. alex has the highlights next in sports. quest for a national title has ended in the semifinals. in 2013, grand view played spoiler and marian got in the way last year. . this season, southern oregon stands as the final obstacle between morningside and daytona beach. only one prior meeting between these two.....morningsid e won an overtime thriller back in the 2012 quarters...before falling in the national title game. second quarter...tyler kavan caps a 99- yard scoring a 7-6 lead into halftime... third quarter now....ryan kasdorf over the middle to jason vander kooi..... are you kidding me....the one- handed grab for 38 yards....unreal concentration... and that sets up this.....kasdorf to michael whitehead in the corner of the endzone...he taps his toes....stangs take the 14-6 lead... later in the quarter...now 16- 14 raiders...kavan his the edge and somehow finds the pylon for the five yard score.....21-16 morningside..... but here come the defending champs....tanner trosin was dynam

but getting to daytona beach will b banything but easy. the top-ranked mustangs welcome number seven southern oregon to olsen stadium this weekend. thraiders are the defending national champions, winning the 2014 title 55-31 over marian. morningside and s-o-u have only met once before...back in 2012 the mustangs won a 47-44 quarterfinal contest in overtime on their way to the nanaonal championship game. but after two straigig losses in the semifinals, morningside has one thing on their mind. ryan kasdorf--"i think our team motto this year, that we've instilled all year, 'finish it.' i think last year we kind of got up early on marian and i don't know, we kind of just let some things go and the game got away from us. so this week we're just going to prepare extra hard. we know they're gonna be a good team and we've just gotta stay the course and stay true to who we are all game." steve ryan--"i think they're hungry, you know? we've talked all year about finishing it, finishing have a good week. i i think they'll bebe ready to go next week."

a spot daytona beach was on the line as the mustangs took on southern oregon. we'll have that action later on in the show. <<>> well, it certainly wasn't the prettiest day outside today, but there was still a lot of melting that took place as many were able to make it close to if not above 40 degrees! a cold front moving through tonight won't do anything to help clear us out any, so with the clouds sticking around, a few showers will be possible, but that threat shhuld didiinish by tomoorow morningg our s snshine will return on sunday which ill help temperatures reach well into the 40s to possibly near 50, and that won't be the only day with those marks the next seven days. we'll have pretty much the entire week to enjoy some mild and dry weather before cooler air settles back in next weekend. see graphics still to come here on nene 4 at christmas came early for a hundreds of kids in sioux city today,. we'll explain after the break the ford holiday sales event... with 0% financing for 60 months on 2015 f-150 and focus and 2016 fusion and escape. plus 1,000 doll

daytona beach, florida. place known for its sun, sand and international speedway, but like a lot of tourist hot spots, there exists a seedy and dark underside. >> daytona attracts a lot of transient people, and so along with the people that want to come here and enjoy daytona, we also have the criminal element that wants to come, also, and prey on the visitors that come here. but it's not just the visitors here who fall victim to crime. >> i'm working alone here in the store and it was 3:00. everything is fine. >> an immigrant from bangladesh moves his family from new york to daytona beach to get away from the cold. but the sun and surf are no protection against what happens on that beautiful summer day at the valero gas station and convenience store. >> i was fixing the newspaper and one guy opened the door and came right behind me and put knife here. >> udon can't believe what is happening to him. he fights back, but the knife wielding robber quickly gains the upper hand and threatens udon. >> told me, don

welcomes the national champs oregon to olsen stadium this saturday with the winner earning a spot in daytona beach. the 10-2 raiders are ranked country and bring offense to town. over 42 points per game and it's a as the raiders average over 235 rushing and passing yards per contest. with the experience s-o-u stage, the challenge. steinberg--"tradition ally they're strong. look for, you know? teams by a lot but it's fun playing close games. they're gonna be big, they're gonna be fast, and they're gonna make plays. we can't let them--their ability to make plays affect how we play." steve ryan--"they're a very talented football team. there's a reason they're one of the final four teams in the country. they can make plays on offense, they play great defense. there's a reason why they won the national championship last year and that's that they know how to win games." as good as the raiders are haven't seen an offense like morningside's. the mustangs average over 60 points and 600 yards of total offense on the season and southern oregon says it won't be easy on either side of the ball. ken fasnacht--"

it is december, and i know it is florida, but 87 in daytona beach, wilmington, north carolina, 76 degrees. tonight, the low is down to 25, a wind around 20. mostly cloudy with some more sunshine down to the southwest. the 8 day forecast is still cold on friday with a chance for a few snow showers. noted saturday is starting out at 18 degrees, but that sunshine warms us up to 40. weimer on sunday, and any shower chance, not a great chance, would be late. -- warmer on sunday. and christmas eve eve looks to stacey: and ordering an stacey: new at 10:00, you can now hail an uber straight from facebook's privatge messaging app, messenger, and you will not even need to have the uberapp. you will actually be able to request a ride and track down your driver and pay for it all with in messenger. wambach holds records for female and male players internationally, and she says she is excited to move on. >> i am complete about this career. i am excited about the opportunity of watching this team grow. clearly, it is in good hands. it is now better than i found it. there are players that are better tha

forecast hitting the 50s in december, but it doesn't quite compare to the mid 70s right now in daytona beach. the morningside mustangs are yet again just one win away from a spot in the russell athletic bowl down in florida, but getting over that hump the last two years has been a struggle. this is the fourth straight seasons morningside has played in the semifinals, and the mustangs have lost three of those four contests, including the last two. back in 2013, ryan kasdorf was unable to play due to injury and the mustangs fell 35-0 to eventual national champs grand view. last year, the stangs had a 2 touchdowowowad in the second quarter on marian before giving up 35 unanswered points. morningside has used that disappointment to fuel them all season long and has a chance to finish it off tomorrow. steve ryan--"we haven't talked at all about the last few years, but you know i think they went into this year and they did not like the way they finished last season. so you know finish it better. and they have an opportunity to do that on saturday." jackson steinberg--"you know this finishing every

the naia championship game is december 19th in daytona beach. saturday's game starts at noon at olsen stadium. it's day two of the naia volleyball tournament in sioux city. briar cliff and dordt are each back on the court after losing their pool play opener yesterday. lost the first set, 25-18. the defenders beat viterbo in the regular season, 3-1, in sioux center. at 8 o'clock, briar cliff faces #11 eastern oregon. the chargers were swept by top- ranked lindsey wilson of kentucky last night. we'll have highlights of both matches, tonight at ten. this summer, we asked for football gear from siouxland scscols for our set on sportsfource extra. now we're looking for basketball gear - if you have it, we want it. you can send it to us at ktiv, at our new address, 2929 signal hill drive -- or you can just bring it to the station. we're looking for school jerseys, warmups, banners, anything your team uses. when the season is over -- you'll get the equipment back. northern iowa athletic director troy dannen has been hired as the ad at tulane. jeb bush:

to olsen stadium - winner heads to daytona beach to face marian in a few weeks. southern oregon gets on the board first - on their first drive - keegan lawrence is in - but it was just 6- nothing after a quarter. morningside gets on the board in the second - with a 99-yard drive - tyler kavan scores on 4th down - 7-6 mustangs at the half. third quarter - ryan kasdorf airs it out to jason vanderkooi one handed grab - take another look - vanderkooi had 100 yards receiving. next play - kasdorf - to michael whitehead - the toe tap - morningside takes a 14-6 lead. later in the quarter - mustangs up 21-16 - but here goes tanner trosin - the juke - back across the field - 27 yard touchdown - southern oregon leads 23-21. 4th quarter - kavan - his third touchdown of the day - morningside goes back on top, 27-23. now with a minute and a half left - 4th down for southern oregon - quarterback draw - gutsy playcall - raiders re-take the lead 30-27. morningside gets a chance - lining up a 41-yard field goal try to tie the game - but it's blocked - and morningside falls a game

find out what the mustangs have to do to book a trip to daytona beach. tim plus briar cliff and dordt were in action tonight at the n-a-i-a volleyball championships. we'll have all the action from the tyson coming up country still have national championship aspirations, including two from right here in northwest iowa. dordt and briar naia tournament tonight. the upset minded chargers taking on top seed lindsey wilson out of kentucky. in the first, breanna nogelmeier, comes around on the slide hit...homer nebraska loves it and it's 8-5. then emily sanburg, getting up on the block...the chargers continue to lead by 3. toni beck...gets in on the offensese for bcu...that swing finds the floor as well. then gehlen alum katelin langel...with the big lefty swing from the right side, chargers up 3 late. but lindsey wilson would score the final six points...this one right here their first lead at 23- 22...and they down the chargers in 3 katelin langng--"with that good of a team you can't go down like that because you know they're going to pick up off of your nega

it's in areas of syria where isis or daytona beach is not located. it's in the areas, the opulation centers around the current, at least the capital of syria and intended or at least effective against those who oppose asaad. so a lot of people are questioning what russia's real intentions are. isis is not good for russia. they need to understand that. some of the foreign fighters are russian. if they're highly trained by this exercise as they seem to be and go back and hit russia, that's not a good day for vladmir putin. >> turning to the domestic threat which is inspired by islamic state and other groups, president obama said america is facing a new phase of terrorism. we have seen that in san bernardino. is the u.s. prepared to deal with the new threat? >> i think the u.s. is doing pretty well. there have been a few successes, san bernardino and the boston marathon bombing are two of them. >> san bernardino a success? >> it's a success. these people were successful in killing a lot of people. it's not a catastrophic attack on the scale of 9/11, but

today is more typical of daytona beach, florida than boston, massachusetts. unreal to see this come southwesterly wind surging, too. at times over 20 miles an hour. will scour out the cool air that enough place. through nashua, new hampshire. massachusetts, too. the temperatures will jump a quick 10-15 degrees at times. once we can break through the fog and some low-level chill you have in place. not much going on on the radar. heading toward the islands. from the vineyard over to nantucket. today. right? there are a couple of showers about to clip you there. we may catch an isolated shower throughout day. overall, the bulk of the rain staying to the south of us. again, upper 60's to near 70 heading true through the afternoon. even christmas day itself, another mild day. not quite record-setting. we will have temperatures christmas. it is a dry day. get the kids outside. let them run around for a while. get them off that sugar high. after eating all the christmas chocolate. christmas eve forecast tonight. midnight mass. no need to bundle up that much. frbs it

he has 130,000 iowa names in his daytona beach.he had 30,000 hard i.d.s, people who say they're very hard committed to caucusing for ben carson. we'll see if that stands, as for the mainstream candidates, i'd have to say jeff bush and chris christie have the strongest ground games, rubio playing catch-up. >> let's talk about new hampshire with james, the real clear politics average james has trump in a big lead right now in new hampshire. over rubio, christie and cruz coming in fourth. paint the picture for us? >> yeah it's really a tale -- there's donald trump and then there's everybody else. donald trump is now leading for 23, 24 straight polls, he's really been leading new hampshire for months. that's not changed. what has changed is who's in second place, who's in third place. that's the action we're looking at. right now it's marco rubio in second place. the chris yistie is the hot hand right now. he has a really good ground game and that battle for second, that battle for third, could be very critical as we head to say march

next up is eric from daytona beach, republican line. caller: good morning, it is a pleasure to speak to you. i am a student of history and i'm wondering when did this happen? when did this start? i will take your call off-line. guest: i would say that as far as what we are seeing with the police, if you want to talk about that, that started in the 1980's with the emergence of swat teams. there were 3000 swat team raids in 1985 to give you a figure. they were used against hostage situations, high tense situations. today there are over 80,000 happening across the united states on a daily basis -- i mean a yearly basis. that is increasing. 85% of those are from lawrence where police used to come -- warrants were people used to come and knock on your door. today that has changed. ge now where chan they smashed on your door. police were doing a sweep of this man's neighborhood, they crashed through his door in the middle of the night and took his wife and child and put them in a closet. the only weapon he had was a hunting rifle. the police

the next day, jackson flew all three boys to daytona beach for what they expected to be a meeting. to admission to bethune university and any costs not covered by federal grants would be paid by the university. a free education. >> i didn't even know what to say. like, he hit me with that. and i was just like -- i couldn't talk. >> it was just like, surreal. it didn't feel real. like, i was going to wake up at any second. >> it was an easy thing for me. i mean, i didn't have to think about it. i saw promise. i saw opportunity. and any young man that we touch and help to become successful is one less young man that becomes a statistic. >> terry and kyriq are now roommates, members of the freshman class of 2019. jahmell will enroll next fall. they've been given mentors and academic coaches and an order from president jackson, simply stated. >> don't you mess up. this is a golden opportunity for you. >> an opportunity, albeit daunting, these boys acknowledge is their chance to escape the drug trade and the gun violence and take a shot at a better life. >> it's real now. you've moved o

temperatures yesterday resembling daytona beach, not boston, massachusetts. 57 in marshfield. right now we have areas of dense fog this morning. really the only thing we have to contend with throughout the day. so some dense fog this morning by about 9:00, 10:00. a lot of that lifts. partly sunny this afternoon. mild day still this christmas day, in the lower 60s this afternoon. cooler weather working in for the first half of the weekend. and then believe it or not, guys, i know we're talking about it feeling like we've passed moisture, but it's just delayed. it's not denied. we have to deal with snow and ice on tuesday. the seven-day forecast ahead. >> nancy: chris, thank you. now to the day's top stories. a single mother of five from south boston came home to find her closet filled with gifts ransacked on tuesday. all those toys were gone. police say someone broke into her home and several people have now stepped forward offering to replace those gifts. >>> also police say a report of man throwing a baby in the merrimack river in haverhill was a hoax. according to the a 42-y

next up is eric from daytona beach, republican line.aller: good morning, it is a pleasure to speak to you. i am a student of history and i'm wondering when did this happen? when did this start? i will take your call off-line. guest: i would say that as far as what we are seeing with the police, if you want to talk about that, that started in the 1980's with the emergence of swat teams. there were 3000 swat team raids in 1985 to give you a figure. they were used against hostage situations, high tense situations. today there are over 80,000 happening across the united states on a daily basis -- i mean a yearly basis. that is increasing. 85% of those are from lawrence where police used to come -- warrants were people used to come and knock on your door. today that has changed. ge now where chan they smashed on your door. police were doing a sweep of this man's neighborhood, they crashed through his door in the middle of the night and took his wife and child and put them in a closet. the only weapon he had was a hunting rifle. the police sa

the naia championship game is december 19th in daytona beach. saturday's game starts at noon at olsen stadium. it's day two of the naia volleyball tournament in sioux city. briar cliff and dordt are each back on the court after losing their pool play opener yesterday. lost the first set, 25-18. the defenders beat viterbo in the regular season, 3-1, in sioux center. at 8 o'clock, briar cliff faces #11 eastern oregon. the chargers were swept by top- ranked lindsey wilson of kentucky last night. we'll have highlights of both matches, tonight at ten. this summer, we asked for football gear from siouxland scscols for our set on sportsfource extra. now we're looking for basketball