sabrina: lelani is in the hospital in iowa city... money raised from that benefit helped the family with medical costs and travel costs... sabrina time for another short break, but when we return, a look at a record-breaking attempt involving a very "now, we are iowa's most accurate forecast with meteorologist sam schreier. certified by weatherrate the independent weather experts" sam weather adlib: put script here in green rain continues to fall across the state today with more records expected to be busted as totals keep stacking up. many places across central iowa have already gotten around 1 to 2 inches of rain, and i am fully expected roughly another inch possible today, although an isolated report of nearly 2 inches is possible. underneath the cloud cover and rain temperatures are only going to climb into the mid 40s. on top of being very cold and rainy, it is going to be windy mph. the rain will end this afternoon and we will see a cold and breezy night as lows fall into the low 30s. tuesday looks mostly cloudy with dry and bre

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its great news for lelani... but family says she's more concerned with helping others... worried about younger kids she mets in the hospital. she would say if i stay here forever can they just go home? its her giving nature that captured the communities heart.... lelani has three brothers...and her medical stay has put a they noticed the family needed help.. 1:37:19 we're going through cupboard after cupboard in the kitchen, and on oh no. we're in bad bad trouble. so they got together... and held a benefit in her honor to support the family through this journey. 1:37:48 i'll bet we can get people in our community to help out, and low and behold we made it happen. and although lelani couldn't be here physically... technology reminded her shes far from alone... (theres daryl) making this holiday hospital stay (laugh) a reminder that it can be wonderful life. 1:33;42 shes amazing, incredible we are grateful for it. sabrina: lelani is in the hospital in iowa money raised benefit helped the family with and travel sabrina sam is back now... sam rain continues to fall across the

this is lelani and alan. tell me what you heard?s sitting along the field on a rock behind us here. and i heard rapid shooting. just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. and honestly i thought, oh, god, somebody was hunting and i was frightened because i saw a chair, ice chest, oh, they're going to come out and start shooting at just random people. i was very frightened and i was right behind the building where the shooting was sitting the right along the field there. i heard everything. >> and you're still shaking there. >> yes. >> the sound, did it appear the gunshots were coming from outside or inside a building? >> it actually sounded like it was from outside the building. >> yeah, outside. boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. i was walking down from here -- >> to go to the hernandez center here in san bernardino. it's at third and sierra way. we will meet with the family members there and be able to determine where their loved ones are or their friends and try to get them reunited at that point. >> now, there's been talk about a shooti