Sara theis recommends any thursday night shoppers stay in if they can. If you dont have to drive, i wouldnt. The temperatures look like theyll warm up. The road will be in much better condition. Around lunchtime on friday would be a better time to be driving. Alyx if you do head out early this morning, public works officials advise you to drive carefully because they cant be at every trouble spot at once. We do have new pictures coming into the newsroom of the thanksgiving ice storm. This one from a viewer in lake city. That is some serious ice on that tree branch. Heres another one of the ice on a power line. A beautiful shot. And heres ice accumulating on the ground. Remember, you can always send us just upload them to the ulocal tab of our website, at kcci. Com, or email them to us at, news kcci. Com. As always, you can count on kcci to keep you in the know during the Winter Weather season. Watch live radar and get weatherrelated closing alerts, our kcci mobile app. Holiday shopping sales are already seeing a jump ahead of black friday. Online shopping sales are up 21 over this time last year. Industry experts say retailers are offering preblack friday deals earlier, leading to this uptick in holiday traffic. And right now, many of those sales have already begun. Kccis ryan smith was at jordan creeks best buy when the doors opened yesterday. Ryan rainy, cold weather couldnt keep dedicated bargain hunters from nabbing hot deals. It is pretty much miserable. Know, standing out here in the rain. Ryan about 85 people ditched thanksgiving dinner and opted to anxiously wait outside for 4 hours. 49 inch toshiba ryan this years musthave . The 49 inch tv for 150. For the 60 inch tv. Ryan what are you here for . Im here for the paddinton blue ray special edition. No, im here for the tv. Ryan turns out the Customer First in line marked his firstever black friday experience. I just came from nepal like 7 months ago, so this has really been an amazing experience for me. The whole thanksgiving experience is like really amazing for me. Ryan best buy opened its doors at 5 00 p. M. , one hour earlier than last thanksgiving. Rats in a maze that fits not hundreds of rats. Its crazy. Something you definitely have to experience in person to really understand. Ryan die hard customers armed with shopping carts, hunting for the best deals. Black thursday, i guess youd call it. Were going to finish the basement this winter so were just going to see if theres a good tv for a good value. Ryan shopping on thanksgiving thursday is gaining in popularity, according to the National Retail federation. Of the 58 of adults surveyed who planned to shop during thanksgiving weekend, 22 planned to hit the stores on the holiday itself. We just have fun, we laugh, we giggle. Alyx the shopping madness continues as stores reopen at 6 00 a. M. 136 million americans are expected to shop this weekend. Also in West Des Moines, a minor fire reported at the starbucks in the supertarget store just before 10 00 thursday night. Black friday shoppers and staff were evacuated and the store closed for several hours. But the black friday bargains are back on. The super target opened its doors again at 4 00. With your weather never more than five minutes away, a lot of measurable rain. Jason down near ottumwa they saw the most, two and a quarter inches. Just about an inch in des moines. Ice and snow not the only issues we saw throughout the day yesterday. Thankfully, this rain has pushed out at this point. Chicago now through same lewis and dallas st. Louis and there is a little bit of a mix and light snow that is forming so still a chance for areas south of des moines stretching from lamoni to around burlington, could see a light could see light snow. Your high is 30 degrees and with the wind out of the north, it teens. Bundle up if you are out and about. Alyx thank you, jason. Thanksgiving means a day off for most people, but not for the volunteers at chucks restaurant in des moines. Kccis emmy victor spent thursday morning there as they prepared holiday meals for hundreds. Emmy a small space with a big task. It is so hot in here, i am definitely sweating a lot. Emmy restaurant turned meal Packaging Center just one day of the year. It just runs like clockwork. It is crazy everyone just comes and goes. Emmy 250 volunteers at chucks working around the clock this thanksgiving. We cut pies this morning, packaged cranberries and just keep moving things all over. Emmy preparing enough food to feed over 4000 people in the metro. To make meals for this many people you really have to stay focused, Work Together and move quickly. Forming Assembly Lines to meet the demand. Most food choices are donated from local businesses. Des moines is a really giving community and this is just one example of everyone giving back. Emmy a dinner tradition carried on for 31 years. The team sacrifices some or all of their holiday to take part. We want people to have a sense of family. Emmy emmy victor, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Alyx Hope Ministries in des moines was also in the giving spirit on thanksgiving day. The Bethel Mission on 6th avenue about 200 volunteers packing meals to deliver to families in need. Volunteers prepared 2200 meals. It took about 250 turkeys to make all of those dinners. To have so many volunteers that come today to help and theyre fantastic. We couldnt do what we do without them. Alyx after the volunteers completed the deliveries, Hope Ministries also held a dinner at the hope cafe. Ere, they expected to serve about 300 people. While many people ended the holiday thursday with christmas shopping, others started thanksgiving day in a much more traditional way. Kcci photojournalist glele biermann shows us the pilgrimstyle service at make a joyful noise to the lord with songs of praise. It is your goodness and not ours that secures the wrestlings of our lives blessings of our life. We celebrate the bounty of this good earth, that there is food enough and more for every person on this day, and that we are all fed and bountifully so. In this, my 21st year as governor, i am honored and pleased for the 20th time to personally present the thanksgiving proclamation. The best is yet to come. God is still working in us and we pray around us and in spite of us. Alyx beautiful images. Still to come, remarkable reunion. Missing for 5 months, how this dog finally made it back home. Giving thanks for the little why one central iowa this is iowas news leader. This is kcci 8 news this morning with eric hanson, Elizabeth Klinge, meteorologist kurtis gertz and right now coverage with shaina humphries. Jason happy black friday morning to you, 4 42. We have a little bit of a chill to the air this morning with temperatures sitting in the upper 20s to lower 30s, but the breeze is dropping the feels like temperatures into Single Digits in some spots. One degree in storm lake. We are looking at a very chilly day and a windy one. Taking a look at the ice michael in henderson says he is without power. I hope you have got a lot of candles. Others of as saul rain. Ottumwa saw their record rainiest november 26, picking up nearly two inches of rain. Only looking at cloud cover today with highs in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Thats why we have so many homeless people, because once youre down in it, its very difficult to get away from. Alyx according to the institute for community alliance, polk county is in need of about 30 more Affordable Housing units to help combat homelessness. There are nearly 24,000 households in the county that qualify as extremely low income. But only about 16,500 units are available at a price they could reasonably afford. Thats why a central iowa man, who was homeless for 2 years, his head, is reason enough to give thanks. Kccis Elizabeth Klinge has his story. Elizabeth from the front door to the mail box. Having keys to something besides a bicycle padlock. Elizabeth its easy to take keys for granted until you dont have them. Homeless people dont need keys very much. Theres not too much youve got to unlock. Elizabeth and that was the case for wesley kuehll, when the 51yearold vet found himself out of work, homeless, and suffering from alcoholism. When you become homeless and when you lose a lot of material things, you also lose your self confidence, your pride, and along with those things goes your drive to better yourself. Elizabeth add on top of that an often poor credit and rental history, and he says finding a place to live again is nearly impossible. Thats why we have so many homeless people, because once youre down in it, its very difficult to get away from. Elizabeth eventually wesley after a late night fight, a blessing in disguise because it was there he says he got the resources to start over. As a veteran im so fortunate. It is even more difficult for a civilian to bring themselves up out of homelessness but the programs are there to help if the people want to put in the work. Elizabeth now marking a year in his own apartment with a steady job, wesleys setting an example to inspire others, even receiving a special award from local shelters this month, and reminding us all theres a lot to be thankful for. Just think about how fortunate you are to have the things you need. And family, friends, the ability to be together. Elizabeth in des moines, Elizabeth Klinge, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Alyx wesley kuehl was one of five recipients of the 2015 Opening Doors awards in the metro, a special recognition for overcoming homelessness. Heres a live look right now at moines. It is currently 30 degrees in the metro. Thursdays rain is now ice. You are waking up to crunchy the weather is never more than five minutes away. Still waking up to pretty cold air. We have seen Single Digits for wind chills and this is going to continue to chill out for us throughout the morning. The wind increasing from west to east and colder air moving in from west to east. You can see it is up in the teens to 20s range so if you are headed out, you have that to contend with. Have a little bit of light snow off to the southwest. Omaha picking up heavier than light snow that is trying to make its way into iowa. I think we will see that in the southern extent of the state and we should be talking about some relatively light stuff. We had some heavy rain through southeastern portions of the state yesterday to the tune of around two and a quarter inches in davenport. We are finally drying out a little bit. We had some light Ice Accumulation across a good portion of iowa, and you can see there is still that mix down to the south. They may just talking chilly conditions and cloud cover through our day as we do not make it above freezing. I think we mainly are going to be talking cloud cover throughout the day today and tomorrow. Futurecast tries to give it keep us clear that i think it is way under doing it. It should be a little bit nicer than yesterday precipitationwise, but we will take a pretty big hit as far as temperatures go. The breeze remaining pretty stout out of the north at 10 to 20. Are sitting in that 20s to lower 30s for our forecast. We do bring in another wintry mix on monday and i think we snow. Nothing added up to much yet. I think alyx i think this might be the first 8 day forecast that does not have any 50s and it. Thank you for that. A waukee family has a lot to be thankful for this holiday season. A Family Member is reunited, 5 months after going missing. Kccis vanessa peng shows us his incredible journey. Vanessa cats have 9 lives. Max had friends and a lot of luck. He could have been killed out there. Vanessa more than 15 miles, part of it over interstate 80, from waukee to West Des Moines. Hes so bonded with me that i knew that if he was gone, he would be so afraid. Vanessa max ran off when mom was away for a weekend in june. Five months later, he turned up in a West Des Moines neighborhood living by a creek. Residents couldnt catch him so they left out some food for him. They fed him and made sure that the best that he could do, that he was ok. They didnt chase him off. They let him sleep in their yards. Vanessa he came up to jennifer kingland, who was out walking her dog maggie. I was calling for her, mags, maggie, come here. The dog came out of the woods and started following me and that really got my interest up. Vanessa she went online to iowa pet alert for lost pet listings and kept clicking through old posts until she found max. I just kind of made it a mission. Vanessa the reunion was as mom calls it, priceless. He just sat up and bound across. There was a big stream in there and he just leaped across the stream and just like, jumped up on me. Vanessa and mom says ever since max has been home hes just been sleeping curled up in a ball, just relieved to be home again. I just felt like we needed each other, thats why he was brought back because i just , really need him. Vanessa vanessa peng, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Alyx a touching story. Jennifer kingland, who found the dog, says she thinks max came up to her because when she called out for her own dog and saidid mags, he heard max. A special tribute thursday night at Jolly Holiday lights at Des Moines Water Works park. The family of tyler cross was there to remember tyler and his love of Public Safety workers. In honor of tyler, who died in july after suffering for 17years from a rare skin condition, Jolly Holiday lights offered free admission to anyone who works in Public Safety. His parents, terry and joan, were there to volunteer. Its an honor just to pay back. People have done so much for us, and our family during tylers illness. To us, its just another way to pay back to everybody thats helped us out. Alyx terry and joan cross say they love to support makeawish because they brought so much joy to tylers life. If it wasnt for that, i wouldnt be here, so very thankful. Ankeny man is ex jason happy friday morning, i hope you are inching away from that large food hangover that you likely have. We have wind chills in the teens all day long, temperatures only warming to 30 degrees so we will be below freezing with cloudy skies. Cooler off to the northwest. Wind chills are inching towards zero. We have through the next few days a warmup. Back to average on sunday, but we plunge again, likely seeing accumulating snow on tuesday. Alyx for one ankeny man, this time of year is all about the heart. A year ago terry corkrean received heart transplant and had to put the holiday on hold. Kccis rose heaphy has his story. Rose in 2014, corkrean had a pump inserted in his heart. His sister says his health had taken a turn for the worse. He was losing weight and faced other complications. 12 hours of surgery at university of iowa hospital later, the transplant was a success. This thanksgiving he spends with family, instead of a hospital room, with turkey trimmings and a cake in honor of the occasion. Its a special day he can enjoy, all thanks to his new heart. Just spending more time with family, been able to spend a lot of time with family and my daughters and just appreciating health a lot more. Alyx Family Members told kcci they now call corkrean their thanksgiving miracle. Two full hours of todaytop stories are coming up at 5 00. We are live at jordan creek for holiday shoppers, and we will take a look at the big game between iowa and nebraska. Adam heres a penny just for you. Thats no penny. Thats a galaxy s 6 at u. S. Cellular on black friday. Whoa, thanks, grandma youre welcome. You can also get an lg g4 or an lg g pad f 8. 0 with that penny. Nice isnt that just delightful . Pennies for everyone get penny doorbuster deals on great devices this black friday from 8 00 a. M. Till noon