continuing coverage now -- the search for university of northern iowa's next leader in its final days -- with the third and final candidate on campus with his vision for uni. kwwl's macleod hageman joins us mac? doctor mark nook is no stranger to iowa -- graduating from iowa state university with his master's degree in astro-physics. the montana state university billings chancellor says he's excited to be back. (nats... thanks for the introduction.i appreciate it.) wearing university of northern iowa colors -- presidential candidate doctor mark nook addresses curious students and faculty -- discussing challenges, opportunities, goals, and what it means to public good to higher education, up." adding there's more to a university than enrollment numbers and going to class. "first is their educational goals, that's why they're here. we also have to help them meet all of into their career." has more than half the student "i came in that july, and that september, and we knew we had to take $900,000 out of that budget that year, and the spending authority was gone right now, and we announce

northern iowa handled george mason 73-65 last year in fairfax virginia. the patriots entered tonight's game red-hot winners of three in a row. they are starting four guards--they have a guy playing on the block that can score the basketball he plays really hard and is a good rebounder and so far they have two or three guys that can shoot the three ball and shoot seven---we will have highlgihts at ten. and the iowa hawkeye women will have their hands full tonight when they play host to top ranked notre dame. the game is a part of the acc/big ten challenge..and its the second straight night the hawks will play the irisih on the hardcour lost to the unbeaten notre dame men. tonight--the iowa women will go all out for the season's bigget upset. the hawks and irish tip it off at 8 oclock tonight from carver hawkeye arena...we will be right colors - it's the next chapter in the life of young dolly parton... let's take a lok at a clip. worst nightmare you're real am i real pinch me and see for yourself, come on pinch me see i'm real as rain i wanna look exactly

it's game night at the mcleod center in cedar falls---- the northern iowa panthers back home tonight to the george mason patriots-- uni looks to snap a two game losing streak against a george mason team on a three game winning streak. head coach ben jacobson getting his team ready for battle.... and the panthers copme out firing--- juwann mcloud drives and gets the first basket of the night---- but that would be uni's last field goal for almost eleven minutes as the panthers fall behind by ten... uni freshman spencer haldeman comes off the bench and gives the panthers some instant offense... haldeman nails back to back threes to pull the panthers within four. haldeman maintains his hot hand --firing in another three pointer--he had a game high 16 points defenders for the jam... the panthers led 28-24 at halftime.. but northern iowa shoots just 26 percent from the field---and fall to george mason 54-50 acc/big ten men's challenge --rick pitino and 14th ranked louisville taking on 15th ranked purdue... purdue trails big in the second half when carsen edwards hits a 3- pointer to cut th

northern iowa also in the big dance facing creighton... this in lawrence, kansas ... 1st set was all creighton, jaali winters, from ankeny centennial, with the kill off some uni defenders... panthers try to come back in set two... jesup grad piper thomas comes around for the kill, uni down 10-6... then dike-new hartford grad bri weber rises up for the block... if you hunt pheasants and you have a dog you know that special bond that develops between hunter and retriever. john campbell saw that bond on display in northern linn county on the day of the supermoon. two weeks ago we were up here. out to chase some pheasants with rudy and the boss...the boss being kevin hartwig of cedar rapids. we usually come out saturday and monday.... 2 to 3 hours is great for both of us.... rudy and kevin have been a team for a long time. as a matter of fact this is not rudy of our great outdoors reports... you came at 8 months old . he ten years, 6 months now. he just loves it. rudy was mighty raw the first time we saw him but he had the enthusiasm. energy a

foster a cat or any animal for two weeks during still to come on the k-w-w-l --------- --------- northern iowa's president. we introduce doctor mark nook -- chancellor at montana state university billings -- and an iowa state university graduate. his qualifications and more -- still ahead. you can now have a taste of coffee in a popular breakfast a special pop-tart for the first time ever, the pair's create two limited edition, coffee- inspired pop-tart flavors: frosted vanilla latte and frosted chocolate mocha. both will be available at retailers nationwide sometime in the beginning this month blue danabue walts and >>> tonight, trump's victory lap. as the president-elect celebrates saving jobs at carrier, we now know the cost paid to keep them. tonight the campaign's over, but the rallies are not. >>> without a trace. family members missing in the devastating wildfires scorching the smokey they may never be found. >>> hostage crisis. nearly a dozen held inside a florida bank. tonight the dramatic moment they distracted the gunman, allowing the s.w.a.t. team to storm inside. >>> high-risk rescu

wind: w 10-15 high: 37 the third finalist for the president's job at the university of northern iowa is currently the chancellor of a school in montana. mark nook holds that position at montana state university in billings. he'll be visiting the u- n-i campus tomorrow for a public forum with students, the other two finalists are interim u-n-i president james wohlpart and former temple university president neil theobald. the iowa regents plan to select one of them for the job next week. the university of iowa has pushed back the opening of its children's hospital. the stead family children's hospital was supposed to open december 10th. but the university announced today it will begin to see patients late january or early february. the university says the hospital is not quite ready, and of patients and their families is a top priority. in a world where people love quick service, the health care field is also trying to fill that need. the american academy of urgent care medicine says that's one reason for the growth of urgent care centers across the nation. and eastern iowa is also see

after a house fire in northern iowa. it happened over the weekend in mason city. authorities say... a neighbor noticed the home was on fire...called for homeowner.when crews arrived--- the house was ?full of flames.the state fire marshal is investigating the cause. in anaheim california...a car involved in a street race slams into an apartment... killing two people... people...police say the driver lost control, jumped a curb and clipped a light pole ?before? hitting the building and bursting into flames... three people were inside the car... the 19 year old driver and another man were killed.... a 24 year old passenger was seriously hurt...police are looking for the driver of the second car...who witnesses say kept going after the crash. tragic event, this is a horrific crash and the important thing to know is this was one hundred percent preventable. we need to send a message that we will when people are caught and are involved in this type of activities, because these are the results." results."neighbors say street racing is a huge problem in the area. the crash caused minor dama

the third finalist for the president's job at the university of northern iowa will visit campus today. h the chancellor of a school in montana. mark nook holds that position at montana state university in billings. the other two finalists are interim u-n-i president james wohlpart and former temple university president neil theobald. the iowa regents plan to select one of them for the job next week. eastern iowa is seeing a growth in urgent care centers. that's part of a national trend according to the american academy of urgent care medicine. a new urgent care center opened in cedar falls yesterday. and another will start urgent care clinics that open each year in the u-s. and more than 9,000 centers have opened in the u-s since 2008. the center say the goal is to give more people an alternative to going to the emergency room. but they say that - even after opening the first urgent care clinic earlier this year - the same number of patients are still going to the e-r. the hospital says more patients want urgent care because it's faster. when unity point finley opened this urgent care

northern iowa also in the big dance facing creighton in lawrence, kansas.. after losing the first two sets.. ... the panthers rallied... jesup grad piper thomas comes around for the kill, she had 14... then former dike-new hartford standout bri weber rises up for the block... but the panthers comeback falls short losing 3-2.. the uni women's basketball team lost south dakota state tonight 61-50 former benton community all-stater madison weekley with 10 points in the loss. their was a big wrestling showdown tonight in lisbon.. h ranked alburnett. scott westerberg has more. --a couple of powerhouses doing battle at the lions den...after alburnett forfeits the first two weights, ben moyer scores a near-fall to end the first period...he wins an 11-3 major to get the pirates on the board... --lisbon goes on a run after that...cooper siebrecht at 132...this takedown is part of a 7-1 decision to put the lions in front 15-4... --then at 138, chase mclaughlin gives lisbon six more points with his first at 152 with kanan morris....butteris holds on for a 4-3 decision.

snow in northern iowa led to accidents on slick roads; and streets in and around new york nere bumper to bumper with last- minute traffic. aclanta's hartsfield-jackson is the world's busiest airport. nearly 40,000 people are expected to go through security behind me, just today. but, elaine, the average wait time in security here is only 15 minutes, thanks to a small army of t.s.a. agents and airport workers. t, quijano: all right, omar villafranca, amid the holiday bustle. omar, thank you. whll, where are the winter storms headed next? here's chief meteorologist eric wbsher of wbz-tv in boston. eric? >> good evening, elaine. the storminess all across the g,st coast. this is going to be the one we track over the next couple of days. and that speckling of clouds you see over the pacific, that's an indicator of much colder air that is moving in as well. so there's a whole variety of winter storm warnings across the stormn half of the u.s., including blizzard warnings udross the dakotas. so, this storm system sliding down through the southwest thnight. as we head into saturday, crossing

northern iowa looking to bounce back after 2 straight losses -- hosting george mason.kevin lehman doing his thing on the mic -- panther offense -- struggled early -- down by as many as 10 points -- but battled back -- specner haldamen knocked down 4 triples -- that one cuts the lead to 4 -- haldamen then bennett koch -- turns around and slams it home -- for two of his 10 points -- and later in the half -- jordan ashton -- gets into the action -- he splashes home the three -- panthers shot just 26 percent from the floor. patriots -- a tad better -- marquise moore -- sinks the floater -- and george mason gets the win-- 54 to 50.if there's a mount rushmore of women's basketball -- notre dame is on it -- that's what lisa bluder said on monday about her team's opponent in the big 10 / a-c-c more to say the irish are undefeated, are the number 1 team in the country, and have never lost to the hawks that didn't stop ally disterhoft from doing her thing -- the west high product -- dials long distance and connects from the corner -- ally finished with a game high 18. and then with time winding d

the third finalist for the president's job at the university of northern iowa will visit campus today. he is currently the chancellor of a school in montana. mark nook holds that position at montana state university in billings. the other two finalists are interim u-n-i president james wohlpart and former temple university president neil theobald. the iowa regents plan to select one of them for the eastern iowa is seeing a growth in urgent care centers. that's part of a national trend according to the american academy of urgent care medicine. a new urgent care center opened in cedar falls yesterday. and another will start serving patients next week in dubuque. they are part of the 50 to 100 urgent care clinics that open each year in the u-s. and more than 9,000 centers have opened in the u-s since 2008. the center say the goal is to give more people an alternative to going to the emergency room. but they say that - even a urgent care clinic earlier this year - the same number of patients are still going to the e-r. the hospital says more patients want urgent care because it's faster.

northern iowa also in the big dance facing creighton in lawrence, kansas.. after losing the first two sets.. ... the panthers rallied... jesup grad piper thomas comes around for the kill, she had 14... then former dike-new hartford standout bri weber rises up for the block... but the panthers comeback falls short losing state tonight 61-50 former benton community all-stater madison weekley with 10 points in the loss. their was a big wrestling showdown tonight in lisbon.. the second ranked lions hosted top ranked alburnett. scott westerberg has more. --a couple of powerhouses doing battle at the lions den...after alburnett forfeits the first two weights, ben moyer scores a near-fall to end the first period...he wins an 11-3 major to get the pirates on the board... --lisbon goes on a run after th part of a 7-1 decision to put the lions in front 15-4... --then at 138, chase mclaughlin gives lisbon six more points with his first period pin... --jack butteris in a tight match at 152 with kanan morris....butteris holds on for a 4-3 decision... --at 160, alburnett'

the third finalist for the president's job at the university of northern iowa will visit campus today. he is currently the chancellor of a school in montana. mark nook holds that position at montana state interim u-n-i president james wohlpart and former temple university president neil theobald. the iowa regents plan to select one of them for the job next week. eastern iowa is seeing a growth in urgent care centers. that's part of a national trend according to the american academy of urgent care medicine. a new urgent care center opened in cedar falls yesterday. and another will start serving patients next week in dubuque. they are part of the 50 to 100 urgent care clinics that open each year in the u-s. u-s since 2008. the center say the goal is to give more people an alternative to going to the emergency room. but they say that - even after opening the first urgent care clinic earlier this year - the same number of patients are still going to the e-r. the hospital says more patients want urgent care because it's faster. when unity point finley opened this urgent care clinic back in

could be 1 to 2 feet and generalized in the northern plains and milwaukee, green bay, areas of northern iowaso travel forecast, areas on the east coast and see light rain going to the big cities tomorrow afternoon. maybe minor delays and the big storm on christmas eve in the rockies. and then we'll head out into the central plains and watch out. severe weather possible. oklahoma, kansas and then a blizzard on christmas day. you wanted snow? you're going to get way too much with blowing winds around negative 30 in the dakotas. more "msnbc live" and katy tur when we come back. 6- . >>> now to breaking news on the berlin terror attack. europe's most wanted man is dead after a shootout with police in milan, italy, overnight. nbc's claudio lavango in europe. how did they get this guy? >> reporter: in the end, what got him was a routine check. two young policemen in a quiet and residential area, they noticed this guy was hanging around at the local train station at 3:00 in the morning. they thought that was suspicious enough and show us your id and the guy, the suspect just put his hand in and ins

the northern iowa women's volleyball team in a first round ncaa tournament showdown with number twenty-ome creighton. the panthers are huge underdogs to a blue jay team that beat uni during the regular season... the panthers would lose the first two sets tonight before storming amie held is going to fly in and rip a kill from the back row... later it's panther sophomore bri weber with one her 12 kills--- uni takes the third set 26-24. and the panthers storm the blue jays in the fourth set--senior kayla haneline with one of her eleven kills--- the panthers roll to a 25-14 fourth set vicotry to force a fifth.... 15-12 to end the panther's courageous comeback effort and their season--three sets to two. sot creighton is an amazing team came here to win but we came up short... but what of the things i talked about we left it all out there and unfortunately we didn't come up on the winning side of it but i am proud of this group and what they have been able to match--the purdue boilermankers sweep the iowa state cyclones---ending iowa state's season at 18 and 11. the uni women play host to a sou

the third finalist for the president's job at the university of northern iowa will visit campus today. he is currently the chancellor of a school in montana. mark nook holds that positi the other two finalists are interim u-n-i president james wohlpart and former temple university president neil theobald. the iowa regents plan to select one of them for the job next week. and now here's your first alert forecast. welcome to the first day of meteorologic al winter! it sure will feel like it.a stray flurry may be possible early this morning; otherwise we're dealing with cloudy skies once again today. temperatures upper 30s again today. winds will also be strong again today, blowing out of the west at 10 to 20 mph. the clouds will stick with us throughout the evening hours, but the winds will start to die down out of the west at 5 to 10 mph. low temperatures will drop into the upper 20s. conditions won't change much for the rest of the week and into the weekend. the dreary skies will remain and high temperatures will stay in the middle to upper 30s. it won't be until sunday where the chan

jacksonville to atlanta, raleigh, dry on friday, you'll run fellow flurries across the northern plains, many through minnesota and iowa and a few showers as we get to the mississippi maybe snow into the higher elevations, but otherwise, looking good. quick look at the weekend forecast then we'll get to the seven-day. hanukkah begins saturday and it's christmas eve, there could be showers, we think they will be mostly before noon, sunday looks like, christmas day 50 and lots of sunshine, that forecast as gotten better. as we wrap it up, i want you to notice that next week, we're at 55 on monday, 60 on tuesday. and wednesday about 45, so all of those temperatures are above average. >> bonus >> bonus is right. >> ding. >> traveling trying to get to somebody's house, trying to have people come to your house. there aren't going to be too many travel worry, coast to coast really. >> very nice. that's good. >> seems like every year, we have all the, you know, travel, you know, planes >> gosh, question, nothing worse when you're trying to get somewhere on a tight schedule. all right. >> we'll be right back. ck. >> i'm in afgh

there is a little snow flying across minnesota and iowa and central and northern wisconsin. i do think we stand a chance for a few flurries between 1:00 and 4:00. early temperatures, take a look at this, 36 kenosha. 37 racine and milwaukee and cooler in watertown 32. 30 in waukesha. we get a little bubble of the warm air. look at the teens across the dakotas. colder air is coming our way tonight. mostly cloudy this morning. we are here at 2:00 this afternoon, a little light snow and flurries with a cool front and note the rapid clearing in the wake of the boundary. colder, dryer air is moving in. sunshine. fair skies tonight. then for wednesday and thursday, breezy, colder. a mix of sun and clouds as the temperatures hold in the 20s for the highs. in fact, friday is the coldest day. 37 today. 30s this morning and slowly falling with the temperatures after 3:00. 22 tonight. 26 tomorrow. windy thursday. 24. the windchills day side in the teens, overnight windchills in th patchy light snow possible on sunday. temperatures closer to around 31. >> sal, thank you. melinda: an 21-y

even less so through thisghhi midsection of the country, minneapolis saints pauleats anywhere in iowa, northernns like that all goinghag to be fine today for travel.ral. just a few scattered flurriesedr and showers. and where i think the bigsh problems will be is the west today. mostly kind of seattle portland and interior portions i of the northwest.orthst that's where kind of the worst of the weather is for later on r this afternoon.this so, if you're traveling thatli way, keep your eye on yourn flight times. could be some signiflficantnint laysys out there. satellite and radar locally,all, all clear skies to start theo se day. you do see a little more cloudd cover trying to scoot its wayoti across the mountains from the west. that will be here by thise by is afternoon. all ahead of our next stormstor system here that's getting itsti act together once again kindce d of out in central portions ofon the country. that will be headed for ther great lakes later tonight.lar t. will bring us some showers overnight this afternoon theis a first half of your saturday.lffo let's quickly do futurecastura

have freezing rain this morning in kansas, light snow that's now broken out from omaha, northern portions of iowajust north of the des moines and ames area, and rochester, minnesota. and all of wisconsin, a good chance of about an inch or two of snow today, including the milwaukee area. just enough to make things a little more difficult than you'd like. then out in the west, a storm coming into california and that's why we have winter storm warnings from all the mountain areas of the sierra. also the mountains of utah are going to get it pretty good with snow. that will be on saturday. let me take you in to some of the maps. here's the snow fall forecast. for those dreaming of a white christmas. a little coating for you today. maybe it will stick around long enough to be there for christmas morning. omaha through minneapolis, green bay included, madison, milwaukee, about one to two inches for you today. and then all of this mess, especially you see the brighter colors, that's all the mountain peaks, san juan mountains of colorado as we go towards provo and cedar city that's where we're getting th

northern half. for us here in eastern iowa that means slightly colder and near normal snowfall but every la nina is not exactly the same. this just gives us an understanding of what could happen but it doesn't mean it will happen. >>> coming great pride that i accept the privilege extended to me by my colleagues. >> despite an electoral pumping democrats stick with their leader in the house. the message nancy pelosi had the butterburger is made of just three cuts of fresh midwest beef. nothing more, nothing less. so we got the sirloin, the chuck and the plate. no fillers; that's it. all prized cuts, all well-marbled for richness and flavor. this is where those three wonderful cuts of beef come together. e juices of the burger. it doesn't get any better than that. and that's the culver's butterburger. welcome to delicious! 7 people dead from wildfired small rain fall -- slow but >>> we are still following the latest information out of gatlinburg tenss the wildfires. we know tonight seven people have been confirmed dead and that number goes from just three last night. there are house to house searche

after that on tuesday evening it's in the northern plains moving towards iowa and minnesota. as we get into wednesday, yeah, it's well entrenched here but starting to break out towards new york state. on thursday and friday is when we will feel it. by friday morning it's covering a good chunk of the east. notice the white color-like earlier. what happens is the air comes south and modifies some. st going to be the coldest air of the season still not as cold as canada and alaska over the next week or so or longer. let's see the forecast for tonight. cold, 30s. clear to partly cloudy. wind chills down in the 20s, northwestern winds at 10. for tomorrow morning, 30s and 40s, breezy and cold. northwest winds 10 to 20. in the afternoon anywhere from the mid to upper 40s in the cold spots. like 52 at national should do sunday won't be as windy. won't be as sunny either, 46. a stray shower on sunday morning, 50. tuesday rainy and raw in the 40s. milder wednesday ahead of that strong arctic front that will keep temperatures on friday mostly in the 30s and guys don't be surprised if fr

i had been raced museums today, we have the uss iowa up in northern california, but it's down in san pedro at the museum now. so i was wondering to your knowledge how many that have been raised are at museums today in the united states? >> none. >> the arizona and utah are still there. the oklahoma, 100 being toed back. >> it sunk on the way back. >> in the '50s. >> what's the fate of that. now, the only rehaning warship that was on the island on december 7th 1941 is the coast guard cutter. which is birthed in downtown baltimore. then there is one other ship. it is the tortoga. that was just recently wrereno e renovated. those are the last with two ships. type in yard the tug and read about these. where's the museum? >> little rock. >> hi, roy. >> thank you for this con vering sags. i have two things to comment on. understand that the japanese did not bomb the fuel tanks for fear of smoke. of scaring targets in the harbor. my second question is i understand that most of the film, both moving and still went down with the japanese. went down with the carrier at mid way. that's correct

. >> today the very ligwintry mix moving through kansas and northern portions of missouri. we will watch that through iowa and wisconsin during the day today. i'll take you 32 you the complete holiday forecast a little later in the show. >> all important, bill, thank you very much. >>> coming up, what one florida officer dressed as the grinch is handing out in place, speeding tickets this holiday season. there is. hey! hey! ♪ this is for you. did you really? didn't have too! ♪ getting the gift you almost kept for yourself? mini miracle. and it's easy to create your own at walgreens... with most stores open till midnight, and till 10 p.m. on christmas day. walgreens. at the corner of happy and healthy. but pantene is making my hair practically unbreakable. whenever i try to grow out my hair, strands always break off. the pro-v formula makes every inch stronger. so i can love my hair longer. strong is beautiful. pantene. plumping surface cells for a dramatic transformation... ...without the need for fillers. with olay, you age less. so you can be ageless. olay ageless. ♪ snowmen with buttons, snow