the fire department went to that address, right after finishing up at 816 north dubuque street. that fire was at the beta theta pi fraternity house. the fire department says they found flames in the third floor bedroom. they were able to contain the fire to that room. only one person was displaced. no one was hurt in any of those fires. four people face drug charges in vinton - as part of an ongoing investigation. there were two searches yesterday morning at 704 east eighth street and at 512 west 1 1h street. officers arrted 42 year old martin lundvall and 41 year old edward finley on charges of they alslsarrested 37 year oldld kathy johnson and 36 year old jonathon franklin for possession of drug paraphernalia . and they arrested fifth person, 34-year-old phillip horak on an outstanding warrant for contempt of court. the survival rates for woman with stage four breast cancer has improved ove the last 20 years..& the university of iowa conducted a study to find those numbers and what factors have contributed to the improvements. kcrg-tv9's forrest saunders joins us at the desk t

the fire department went to that address, right after finishing up at 816 north dubuque street. that fire was at the beta theta pi fraternity house. the fire department says they found flames in the third floor bedroom. they were able to contain the fire to that room. only one person was displaced. no one was hurt in any of those fires. whenever you see news, give us a call on newsline nine. that number is 319-365-9999, you can also email pictures and video to newsroom at kcrg dot com. first, meteorologis t justin gehrts has clouds are back for the rest of the day and may manage to produce an isolated light shower or two. many of us will stay dry with highs well into the 40s. light rain will end early tonight with lows rererning to the 30s. mild weather continues tomorrow with partial sunshine and highs in the upper 40s. we'll be pushing into the 50s on thursday and friday. a bit of rain is possible late friday, but much othe rain will wt until saturday and sunday. as cooler air moves in, a transition to snow is probable late sunday into monday.today: isolated light showers high

while curt still visits here, he and sassy recently found a place of their own to call home on dubuque's north enen now the only thing he really wants, is for his wife to come home for christmas. live in dubuque, katie wiedemann, kcrg-tv9 news. stay with your 24 hour news the second storm system of the week heads into the state drawing plenty of moisture with h t. unfortunately the moisture that falls will be in the form of rain and not snow. the showers begin to break outt& hours of our wednesday. rainfall totals up to 0.5" are likely in many locations with the rain wrapping up during the early eveveng. highs remain near 40 for christmas eve and christmas day with more rain ahead for the weekekd. have a good night. tonight: showers late low: 35-41 winds: s 10-15tomorrow: showers likely high: 45-51 winds: s 5-15tomorrow night: low: 26-32 winds: nw 10-20thursday: mostly cloudy high: 40 - low: 29 friday: mostly cloudy high: 45 - low: 29 saturday: chance of showers high: 41 - low: 34 sunday: chance of showers high: 37 - low: 33 monday: chance of showers high: 38 - low: 32 tuesday: mostly cloudy h

the fire department went to that address, right after finishing up at 816 north dubuque street. that fire was at the beta theta pi fraternity house. . e fire department sasa they y und flames in the third floor bedroom. they were able to contain the fire to that room. no one wahurt in any of those fires. nd now here's your first alert forecasas plan on clouds to increase as the day goes on. within these clouds, we may see an isolated shower pop up, primarily in the late afternoon or early evening hours. any measurable shower would only be a few hundredths. the bigger story continues to be on mild temperatures with another day in the 40s for everyone. 50s are possible in spots tomorrow, w wh widespread 50s likely for thursday and friday. plan on a wet weekend, with a possible transition to snow out there on sunday or monday as well. this is a multi-pronged storm system with a lot of moving parts, therefore it's important to stay tuned as we get closer and as more data becomes available. today: isolated pm showers igh: 46-52 winds: s 5-15 alo: 48 dbq: 46 iow: 50tonight: isolated s

north throughout the day. right now, it appears areas along and south of hwy 20 possible, especially from a dubuque to cedar rapids line and south. winds over 40 mph may cause damage to trees anan power lines if iccaccumulation does occur. this area will then see a switch over to snow during the afternoon with totals around four inches or less. areas along and north accumulation will begin by mid from 4-8", with isolated higher amounts are possible. the farther northwest, the higher the snow amounts are expected to be. strong winds could als create areas of blowing snow and low visibility. this system will rack out of the state byy early tuesday. again, this is a very tricky forecast and snow/ice amounts will be dependent on surface temperatures and when the swtch from freezing rain to snow occurs. confidence is high that travel will beeome difficult quickly across the state monday. be sure to stay up to tha >>> this sunday, donald trump is still leaping ahead and nothing he says seems to slow him down. >> i know where shehe went. it's disgusting. i don't want to talk about it. >> will 2016 will the year the i'll

north of tonight. joseph lemm -- a dubuque county native -- was killed during a kwwl's brad hanson got a chance to sit down with with his family media newsroom in dubuque with the details. brad? he sure was--family members down to earth, incredibly nice guy. lemm was on patrol monday near bagram afghanistan when a motorcycle laden with explosives went off in the midst of their patrol. lemm, originally from bernard iowa, moved to nebraska and eventually new york, where he was a member of the police force for about 15 years. he was on his third and final tour overseas. loras link, who's wife was lemm's cousin, says even though they only saw him every couple of years, he left a mark on their lives. (loras link, joseph lemm's cousin) "he had the size of a when he would walk in. he was once, you had a friend forever." link says it had been about a year and a half since they last saw could've seen more of him. link and his daughter shared some other great memories of lemm with me today--we'll hear we've got you covered live from the t-h media newsroom in lemm's body was brought back to the united states tod

we are expecting them to affect mainly the north part of the state from mason city to dubuque. this is a disturbance in the upper atmosphere quickly moving through come -- moving through, and this weekend things will change again. warmer temperatures on saturday. we will have some drizzle breaking out by the evening on temperatures fall a few degrees on monday, but the week ahead next week is looking pretty mild. highs in the low 30's today so dress warmly, and the wind that become gusty again this afternoon. tomorrow looks beautiful, highs closer to 40 degrees and sunday, highs close to 50. a slight chance of precipitation wednesday and into christmas eve, but temperatures look to warm for it to be a -- for it to be snow. eric: speaking of travel this morning, no problems out on the road. things are green. mobile speed units are set up, north east 3rd street, and 10,000 northwest beaver drive. elizabeth: paris: there's a lot to do on a dairy farm. nobody's gonna do it for you. you have to get out there and do it yourself. bernie cannot be bought out by big money. bernie's opin

you get a bulge of the yankee that starts at dubuque and moves north. loose threaten it, and calvinist, ordered freedom and liberty kind of our approach to thing. flow into theer northeastern part of iowa which is why i categorize it that way. off people,bouncing what you see in the early history of violent, there was an effort to make the new territory of iowa yankee. -- in the early history of iowa there was an effort to make the yankee.itory of iowa i would be curious to see what some from their think of it, if any of you are here. it is good to get crowdsourcing from individualized places. >> my question is, you mentioned in the modern times people are becoming more ideological condensed, perhaps is the word. there are homogenous effects. do you think this sort of condensing can cause something thererecently in texas have been more and more movements to separate texas in a old civil war secession manner? >> governor perry was talking seceding at some point. that feeds into the zeitgeist. country that ideology and parts and loyalty and regional locat

north throughout theday. right now, it appears areas along and south of ice possible, especially from a dubuque to cedar rapids line and south. winds over 40 mph may cause damage to trees and power lines if ice accumulation does occur. this area will then see a switch over o snow during the afternoon with totals around four inches or less. areas along and north of hwy 20 are more likely to see sleet and snow. snow accumulation will begin by mid morning. snow accumulation from 4-8", with isolated higher amounts are possible. the farther northwest, the higher the snow amounts are expected to be. strong winds could also create areas of blowing snow and low visibility. this system will track out of thetate by earll tuesday. again,,his is a very tricky forecast and snow/ice amounts will be dependent on surface temperatures and when the switch from freezing rain to snow occurs. confidence is high that travel will bbome difficultt quickly y cross the ststte monday. be sure to stay up to date on the latest forecasts. a few light snow showers are possible again on wednesday. temperatures will cool down for the est of t

and on all the dialect maps you get a bulge of the yankee northern speech that starts at dubuque and works northom there and you had the norwegians who are sort of coming from the lutheran, cal n calvinist ordered liberty and ordered freedom kind of approach to things had an overflow into the top counties from minnesota, so it was sort of that minnesota overflow and into that northeastern part of iowa which is why i catewpcntt it that way. i've been bouncing it off people is it -- because there was that yankee effort you see in the congregational churches and in the early history of iowa there was an effort to make the new territory of iowa yankeedom and it didn't succeed and i took a conservative approach to parts where maybe it did dominate over the pluralistic culture but i would be curious what people from iowa and particularly the northern tier counties think of that if any of you afterwards there. it's always good to get crowd sourcing from individualized places.ed&? yes, please. sorry, i'm supposed to look at the mikes. >> my question is you mentioned that in the modern times people are

in dubuque katie wiedemann kcrg tv-9 news snow or not, sundown will host its annual ugly christmas sweater party on december 19th inside the north lodge. stay with your 24 hour news into the weekend. temperatures are expected to remain 10-20 degrees above normal highs and lows through monday. with the warm weather in place all precipitation will be of a wet variety. although some drizzle or isolated showers are possible period of heaviest rain develops a bit later. saturday night though sunday will see 1-2" widespread rainfall, with higher totals likely in some areas. lingering moisture on monday could result in a brief rain/snow mix. have a good night and a safe weekend. tonight: chance of showers low: 42-48 winds: s 5-10tomorrow: showers/storms late high: 52-58 showers/stor ms low: 52-58 winds: se 10-20sunday: rain and storms high: 58 - low: 55 monday: chance of rain/snow, windy high: 41 - low: 40 tuesday: partly cloudy high: 43 - low: 33 wednesday: chance of rain/snow high: 35 - low: 31 thursday: partly cloudy high: 35 - low: 25 friday: partly cloudy high: 34 - low: 23 thanks joe. we've got a special friday edition of athlete

dubuque hit the jackpot with mississippi river northern. this is one, very larege sheephead. julie valley nailed the 18 pounder near north buena vista. sadie strowmatt also finding some action on that private pond. talk about a slab bluegill , zeb wessels caught and released this chunker in a palo farm pond. we go to lake erie for the next picture. shelby sloan and her monster walleye. 8 chalupas. eli mumey of bettendorf caught this 20 inch catfish . also on the team were his dad, grandpa and brother ryan. mason oldenburger was using a cain pole and a nightcrawler when this monster crappie took the bait. you are witnessing the start of a great fishing career. ada herold and her first fish ever. owen boge and leah steger of dyersville teamed up on the mississippi for this sheephead. this is adam erwin of williamsburg with a farm pond hog. have you hugged your channel cat today? hailey dietze sure has. all 12 pounds worth. kaden martinson of independence pulled a crawdad out of the river, slipped it on a hook and voila! nice smallie. next up is ethan brockman who holds up one of many cats he caught in picture. this is brennan esbeck an

dubuque. the weekend, a warm-up, sunday the best day with highs close to 50. drizzle late. next week, temperatures too eric: i highway north of a dell" is a flooding. elizabeth: cbs this morning coming up next, thank you for joining us. have a great weekend. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its captioning funded by cbs

north carolina back in 1903. the wright brothers even spent the planes being built now are full scale models and technically could fly. a civil rights activist in dubuque will now beemembered, thanks to the dubuque city council. the council voted to rename the multicultural family center to the ruby sutton building. sutton was an instrumental figure in dubuque during the civil rights movement. she died earlier this year. ruby's daughter lynn says it's a big honor... "that her memory will always more. but it's just a symbol of quiet about what she did, but she still got the job done." the building will officially be renamed early next year during a dedication ceremony. iowa's population is growing --but is still behind the national rate. new estimates show iowa's population grew poii five percent t tis year. the national population grew point eight percent. iowa is still 30th in population among the states. a seat in congress because the state's population grew more slowly than other states. a 7-year-old saved all of her allowance money for more than a year to buy gifts for veterans how she wanted to show them they're appreciated. a small girl, with a b

dubuque. a local hospital is seeing a baby boom for the meteororogist justin gehrts updates our temperatures coming up in your afteron highs will range from the upper 30s north to lower 40s south. plan on more clouds to come in tonight, leading to another good rain chance out there for wednesday. rain will be around most of the day on wednesday with amounts around a half inch three quarter inch amounts. christmas eve and christmas day continue to look quiet, with chances of rain still on track for this weekend. rain n amounts on this system remain in question and we'll continue to monitor this system as we get closer to the weekend. for the second year in a row, hospital's birthing unit has seen a record number of babies born. as of yesterday, finley had delivered 733 babies, which beat last year's record of 730. and many of the moms are return patients. staff members say they'y' seeing more famimies having three or four children. "that's very comforting for a mom to know that when she had a great experience and lots of support the second time. " the hospital says this year, its most popular baby y names are similar to national trends. liam for a boy, and ol

north of the warm front, temperatures are in the 40s, south of the warm front temperatures are near 60 degrees. there have been some record high temperatures broken as well. iowa city, cedar rapids and dubuque have all broken temperature records. if the warm front can lift through waterloo in time, we may break the record here as well. here is a look at future track. throughout the evening hours, we continue with light to moderate rain showers across the area. as we go throughout the overnight hours, we will continue with the steady rain. there may be a rumble of thunder, but generally this will stay in the showers. as we head into tomorrow morning, getting the kids off to the bus stop, you'll want to have the umbrella handy, as well if you are heading out to work or any time spent outdoors. by the late morning to early afternoon, the rain will become more scattered across the area, and eventually will come to an end by the afternoon hours. now if the cold air wraps in before the moisture leaves the area, there could be a few wet snowflakes in our far northwestern counties. no accumulation expected. it will be cloudy with areas of fog possibly as we head into monday night and tuesday mornin

north of marquette. this is aerial video of that area. the bones were between one and two thousand years old. munson said he had kept them in his garage for decades. a dubuque group working to connect people with their community now has more money thanks to a grant. the surdna foundation has granted 65-thousand dollars to the community foundation of greater dubuque in support of "inclusive dubuque." it's a network of individuals and organizations that make sure people in the community feel respected, valued and engaged. ""we have a lot of resources, what we could do better is connecting the dots with those resources, making sure we are identifying who are the populations that aren't being served, where are their vulnerability and how do we make sure that the resources are provided." van milligen didn't say what inclusive dubuque will group recently completed a community equity profile on things like the city's demographics, housing, transportatio n, and health. the organization will use this data as a baseline to monitor what changes the community needs. crews in iowa city are making some changes to a construction site to better protect kids at a junior hig

north of marquette. this is aerial video of that area. the bones were between one and two thousand years old. munson said he kept them in his garage for decades. a dubuque group working to connect people with their community now has more money thanks to a grant. the surdna foundation has granted 65-thousand dollars to the community foundation of greater dubuque in support of "inclusive dubuque." it's a network of individuals that make sure people in the community feel respected, valued and engaged. ""we have a lot of resources, what we could do better is connecting the dots with those resources, making sure we are identifying who are the populations that aren't being served, where are their vulnerability and how do we make sure that the resources are provided." van milligen didn't say what inclusive dubuque will use this grant money for. the group recently completed a community equity profile on things like the city's demographics, housing, transportatio n, and health. the organization will use this data as a baseline to monitor what changes the community needs. crews in iowa city are making some changes to a construction site to better protect kids at

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