Sometime before 3 00 a. M. An offer spotted the car, thought it looked suspicious and headed over to talk with the driver who seemed intoxicated. They made contact. They had conversation. Went to gehim out to do some sobriety tests and he decided he was leaving. And leaving fast. The chief says the 3 3 to 40 year old man took off doing 60 to 70 on 25 mile per hour residential streets. He decided to take his convertible off road, neararake avevend south evans roadad coming down this little dirt path, and into someones lawn. The car came down this way. It spun around and ended up going backwards, into the water about ten feet. Now, heresshe crazy thing. This is the backyard of a city councilman. G e walkers yard to be exact. Fortunately for gene his home wasnt damaged in any way. The onvertible is another story. U can see it here being pulled out, soaking. The driver bailed once he hit water, swam to shore and was arrested by police. He was taken into and then transnsrted to the hospital for some non life t teatening medical issues, when hes released the chief says hell be booked in the Black Hawk County jail. Police said the driver had a meth pipe on him too, and will l ce at least a possession charge, but likely traffic charges too. In evansdale, Forrest Saunders kcrgtv9 news. One person in the hospital in waterloo this morning with a stab wound. Police responded to 518 locust street just before 130 this morning on the citys west side. The Police Department watch commander says the victim is expected to be ok and they have not arrested anyone. After 2 years, the safe cr program is noticing a positive impact. Safe cr stands for secure and friendly environments in cedar rapids. The Program Targets properties that are consideded a nuisance becausese police have been called there frequently or theres been criminal activity. Safecr keeps track of reports. Since e e program started in 2013, there have homes fixed the problem after receiving a notice. All of those 167 properties have stayed on the list for the past twelve months without having additional calls for service where theyve been billed, and theyve kind of exceeded that time. Theyve fixed the problem. The program created a focus group with multiplee organizations who recommended changes to the program. One of those changes would make sure those with Mental Health concerns receive help, instead of worrying about getting g violation. The Cedar Rapids City Council will vote on those changes december 15th. First, meteorologis t Justin Gehrts has your first alert forecast, justin. Quiet, mild weather continues. Well have a mostly sunny sky with just some passing high clouds every now and again. Highs will reach well into thehe will have a few more clouds, itll be warmer than close to 40. Tomorrow afternoons highs will be in the breezy west wind. Theres a slight chance of light rain late on friday, with a higher saturday. The brunt of our rain will fall one to two inches of rain looking pretty likely. Some snow is possible as this system departs, but ananamounts to be light. T. Day mostly sunny high 4753 winds w 515 alo 49 dbq 49 iow 50 federr investigators say 2 people responsible fofo last weeks killiligs in San Bernardino had been radicalized for years. Fbi director james comey says syed farook and his fe Tashfeen Malik dcussed jijad and martyrdom as early as 2013. During a senate jujuciary Committee Meeting this morning, director comey also said foreign terror organizations influenced the couple. He also described the shooters as homegrown violent extremists. Identified a third person who attacked a concert hall in paris last month. Police say a woman sent a text message, announcing her sons death in the november 13th attacks. Officials say that she provided a dna sample last week, allowing investigators to identify Foued Mohamed aggad as the third suicide bomber at the hall. One of the womans other sons, who has returned to france from syria, also faces terrorism related charges. A majority of repupulicans say the United States is accepting too many immigrants from the middle east. Thats according to a new Associated Press poll. The poll found 76 of republicans think the uuis allowing too many immigrants from that region. Compare that to 39 of democrats who think that way. House Homeland Security chairman Michael Mccaul says extrfmists have already targeted a us program to resettle refugees. Many Global Leaders are condemning the comments from republican president ial candidate donald trump on muslims. This week, trump who is leading the National Polls for republicans proposed a ban on any muslims coming inn the united trump says this would be a temporary move to stop extremists from sending terrorists to the country. Some in the Muslim Community in eastern iowa are weighing in trumps proposal. Cedar rapids shares a long history with members of islam. Muslims from lebanon were pioneers in early industry arriving in the late 1800s. The mother mosque in northwest cedar rapids was the first building constructed specifically as a mosque in all of north america. For those members to hear a major president ial candidate say close the borders is distressing. Im not really going to be upset about a pololician that hopefully has no chance to be elected. Now if he does get elected, as president , it says a lot about our country and thats unfortunate. Some eastern iowans of muslim faititsay they worry comments like trumps would encourage people to target members of that faith. They point to a severed pigs head thrown against the door of a mosque in philadelphia on monday night as proof its already taking place. Students at Dubuque Senior High School are with donated computers. Chad and Laura Chandlee donated the laptops, along with a mobile charging c ct, at the beginning of the school year. Students use them for Interactive Games and activities that help them memorize spanish words and phras. Teachers say it means students can study at their own pace. Theyre also good for differentiatiti because this Student Needs to work on this and that Student Needs to work on that. You can have them working on Different Things at the same time. Teachers say the Dubuque School district woululnot have been able t t afford the computers without the donation. The Cedar Rapids Public Library wants to know from the public what services are important to them. Voters rejected a tax levy last month. Now the library will consider changing hours and cutting some services in order to stay on budget. The meeting is from 5 30 to 6 30 this evening at the downtown library. A Cedar Rapids High School ha a major healtlt issue that could impact the people who walk its halls. An eastern iowa company talks about issues from finding and dozens are sick after eating at a chipotle in boston. This outbreak hasas nothing t t do with another burritorelated illness that recently spread across the country meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates ovr temperatures coming up in n ur first alele quiet, mild weather continues. Well have a mostly sunny sky with just some passing high clouds every now and again. Ghs will reachell into the 40s to around 50. Even though tomorrow ll have a few morerelouds, itll be warmer than close to 40. Tomorrow afternoons highs will be in the middle 50s with a breezy west wind. Theres a slight chance of light rain late on friday, with a higher chance of showers arriving on saturday. The brunt of our rain will fall saturday evening through sunday with one to two inches of rain looking pretty likely. Some snow is possible as this system departs, but the current expectation is fo any amounts to be light. Today mostly sunny high 4753 winds w 515 alo 49 dbq 49 low 3541 winds s 515 alo 38 dbq 37 iow 39tomorrow partly sunny, mild high 5258 winds w 1525 alo 53 db 53 iow 56tomorrow night partly cloudy low 3440 winds sw 515 alo 34 dbq 35 ow 37friday slighthance of rain late high 52 low 37 low 41 unday rain likelelhigh 47 low 4545 monday chance of snow, windy high 40 low 29 wednesday chance of rain snow high 39 low 27 the cedar rapids School District and the company the district hired to remove asbestos could face some trouble after a new report came out. An investigation by the department of Natural Resources found the company, abatement specialties, had failed d removing asbestos at washington high school. Kcrgtv9s Jill Kasparie has more. You see the guys in the white suits, thats what these are. Michael poe says his company gets calls just about every day to do asbestos removal. We have been going since 1989 and we are busy every day its a big job that requires a lot of precautions and a lot of equipment. 20 46 17 the hepa is in here which stops 99. 9999997 percent of all particles they need it all because you can find asbestos in a lot items. Over 3,000 items it has been used, mostly what you are familiar with is pipe insulation,n,ipe wrap, elbows on a pipe, like on a heating system, floor tile, roofing materials. Poe says asbestos doesnt become an issue until renovation or about. His team is one of the items to find out where its at. 20056 14 the dnr oversees testing and says you have to test commercial public buildings, apartment complexes fourplexes or greater, so thats when its required then they put up plastic and cover windows creating a containment area. 20 41 39 well have warning signs up and they are just not allowed inside that containment. They do anything and everything to keep the asbestos fibers from releasing into the air because they can cause Serious Health problems. 20 59 11 basically when we are doing removal, we wet it and remove it either mechanically or with hand tools and then we will place it in fiber drums or plastic bags or lined dumpsters. We keep it wet and seal everything up and we go back through to clean everything. This team says they just want to makekeure everyone stays healthy. Its very important to make sure we are leaving a clean area after we leave so people going back into the the crew says theres also a requirement to test the air at school sitesfter the removal process. They tell ususny time you are doing a major home renovation project that its always a good idea to call the experts to see if asbestos is involved. Health Officials Say norovirus is to blame f sickening 80 Boston College students. The students contracted the virus after eating at a chipotle mexican restaurant. A Health Inspector says she found three health codeiolations and ordered the restaurant to temporarily close. It was a precautionary effort that if there was a question of illness we wanted to make sure that the establishment was set up properly and managed properly so that this would not be a perpetual thing the norovirus sickened 8 members of the Boston College mens basektball team. The sickness caused several of them to sit out a game on sunday. The majority of americans think the chicken we eat has additives. In todays a aibusiness report, the national rumors. Thats next on tv9. Stay ggd morning this is the agribusiness report. Im david geiger. The us country of origin Meat Labeling debate is heating up again. On monday. The World Trade Organization approved more than one billion dollars in export tariff retaliation by canada and mexico. It says cool discriminates against imported vestock. And its panel noted betwee 57 and 66 percent of beef. And 83 and 84 percent of pork muscle cuts in the us not offer consumer informatiln on origin. While asking upstream producers to record. Livestock groups are calling for a quick cool repeal after the announcement. Back in june. Th house voted for repeal of cool. Senate ag chair pat roberts held off bringing a repeal bill to the senate to together a compromise voluntary labeling bill but the wto announcement may spark quicker action. This isnt about cool, this isnt about that kind of an issue. This is about trade retaliation. The numbers are in. And theyy bad numbers. There is no need for this tariff fight. This is bad news for farmers, ranchers, everybody up and down main street. The cme group. Will require all cattle delivered against live cattle contracts to be born and raised only in the us. This move was in preparation for the cool announcement. To clarify existing live cattle future delivery regulations. If the us should choose to repeal cool. Cme says its trying to maintain status quo in an uncertain environment. The new requirement is effective december 18. Now heres a look at your markets. The soybean market is on a two day break. Less and central brazil, which has been dry. Thats probobly the one issue. The other issue is on top of the market is the concern with the biodiesel credit that looks like itd be a 50 50, if that goes through at the present time. And no lastingngigh pressure system in brazil. So what we had is Short Covering the last week, profit taking this week. We had a disappointing trade in nebraska iowa. Traded 180 to 190 dressed. That was the anchor that pushed prices lower. There was concern with demand, concern with the coolthat we could possibly see 100 percent tariff put wn by canada and mexico asasoon as next weeee. When you look over into the hog market, what you have is a market thats trying to forge a low the largest slaughter weve had since septber of 2012. Nearly threquarters of American Consumers believe chicicn contains additives. Thats according to a study by the National Chicken council. Who says thats mistaken because no chicken ld or raised in the us is given hormones or steroids. 73 percent of consumerer believe antibiotics are present in most chicken meat. And 77 percent believed chickens ve added hormones. In 1950 the usda banned all hormones and steroids in poultry. And it regulates withdrawal periods of antibiotic when used to treat poultry diseases. The study also found 78 percent of consumers believed chickens are genetically modified. And thats it for our show today. Thanks for joining. Ill see you again next time. Well post a vide every day in the agribusiness it under the news tab. Im david geiger with the agribusiness report. Trt 3. 46 oc std. To get their hands on tickets to the rose bowl. Barbara green will join us after the break to discuss scams surrounding some cheaper tickets. We are joined by barbara green from the Better Business bureau and one holiday item or present that is, understandably, demand. 2016 rose bowl with an event like this one, tickets in demand but also the concerns on making sure the tickets an iowa fan buys is legitimate. Rbara, what you are e telling people about being cautious . Ui alumni assoication and winebrenner sold out. Deadline for season ticket holders, students, and 5 00 p. M. They have 22,000 tickets. Prices vary from 150 185. The Athletics Office will accept requests past the priority deadline if the allotment is still available. Requests will be notified by dec. 14 of their status. Ticketmaster will have them on sale at 10 a. M. Tuesday. You can also contact travel agencies. Please be aware that there are sham s ses that will pop up offering g tickets at a great price. Be cautious on craigslist and other similar sites. The stands will be filled with black and gold. It would be terrible if someone paid thousands of dollars to go and then fofod that they have a ticket. Even though you may be excited, be alert to scams. An attempt to pull over a spicious driver ends with a car in a lake in suspicious driver ends evansdale. Well have the details on what bebeeen. And people in North Liberty will still be able to carry after the City Council Hears from people who live in town. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our temperaturesesoming up in your first alert muslims, his plan to close as the library tries to trim its budget, the Cedar Rapids Public Library wants to know what services are important to you. And an eastern iowa group wants to cut down on the cost of Getting High School students to College Campus tours. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news at midday. A waterloo man faces more charges for a robbery and shooting in march. Police responded to the 1400 block of jefferson street on marchch7th, thats just off us218 as it goes through town. Police say 2 men approached a car on the street and pulled out a gun, demanding money. Investigators say 20year old robert sykes now faces a 1stdegree robbery charge in the case. He was already in federal custody for a gun violation from april. Police say 21yearold Jonathan Wilder shot a passenger in the car he and march. Officers arrested him in november on robbery and firearm charges. A fugitive who faces federal weapons charges in iowa is back in the country after more than a month in cuba. The us marshals say Shawn Wegmann is charges in iowa. Investigators say in late october, he stole a boat in key west, florida, and used it to travel to havana. Thats when cuban Border Guards arrested him. The cuban governmentntecently returned him to the us, making him the first fugitive the government has returned since relations formally thawed between the 2 countries. This is viewer video of a car being pulled out of meyers lake in evansdsde. Police say the driver ended up there after they tried to get him to take a sobriety test at the nature trail parking lot. The man sped away, went off road near lake ave and south evans road, then lost control of the car in the back yard of an evansdale city councilor. The car ended up backwards in the water. Once he got into the water he wasted no time getting out of the water and swam to shore e driver was taken to a nearby treatment of minor injuries. The chief said the man will be tak to the Black Hawk County jail once hes oututf the hospital. Police think the e iver will face at least a possession charge, but likely traffic charges too. First, meteorologis t Justin Gehrts has your first alert forecast, justin. Quiet, mild weather continues. Well have a mostly sunny sky with just some passing high clouds every now and again. Highs will reach well into the 40s to around 50. Even though omorrow will have a few more clouds, itll be warmer than today thanks toto head start close to 40. Tomorrow afternoons highs will be in the middle 50s with a breezy west wind. Theres a slight chance of light rain late on friday, with a higher chance of showers arriving on saturday. The brunt of our rain will fall saturday evening through sunday with one to two inches of rain looking pretty likely. Some snow is possible as this system departs, t the current expectation is for any amounts to be light. Today mostly sunny high 4753 winds w 515 alo 49 dbq 49 named german chancellor Angela Merkel its person of the year. Time managing editor, nancy gibbs, made the announcement this morning on nbcs today show. She says the magazine chose merkel because of her response to situations like the European Economic crisis, the refugee migration from the middle east and several terrorist attacks in the region. Merkel beat out russian president vladamir putin, the president of iran and donald trump. At this hour, democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton is backckn eastern iowa for a pair of stops in waterloo. The former secretary of state, u. S. Senator and first lady is visiting techworks in waterloo before an appearance at 12 45 at brothers convention center. She campaigning in iidavenport. Recent polling in iowa has clinton leading vermont senator Bernie Sanders by anywhere from 6 to 22 points among iowa democrats. Today World Leaders are turning Donald Trumps comments on muslims into a global issue. Candidate called for a ban on all muslims coming into the United States. Thats resulted in backlash some moderate, some strong from both sides of the political spectrum. Abcs Kenneth Moton has more. And politics. A warm reception on live with kelly and michael his proposed trump together. Its not about religion, its about safety. Trump received applause here but across the globe. Conde mnation. In the uk, t tres a move to ban trump. Thth morning a petition to keep the billionaire out of the country had reached more than 150 thousand signatures on parliaments web site. Sot tasmina ahmedsheikh, British Parliament member we have it witn our power to deny entry to people into this country who conduct thenselves in such a manner and i think donald trump falls within that category. The us op diplomat w wighed in trumps anti muslim stance. Sot john kerrysecreta ry of state it makes our job of reaching out america just that much more complicated and much more difficult and can put it. Abcs Barbara Walters asked trump in a one on one interview if he was playing into the hands of isis, putting the us in more danger. Sot trump im the worst thing that ever happened to isis. The people in my party fully understand that abc news political analyst matthew dowd says trump isnt showing any signs of slowing down in the polls. Sot matthew dowd i think the idea that he can keep an option out there open and to run as an independent, i think empowers him. Kenneth moton, abc News Washington in a tv9 followup this the Cedar Rapids Public Library wants to know from the public what services are important to them. Voters rejected a tax levy last month. Now the library will considet changing hours and cuttingngome services in order to stay on budget. The meeting is from 5 30 to 6 30 this evening at the downtown library. People in North Liberty will still be able to keep carrying their weapons on cityowned property. North liberty city leaders will not vote on the issue that caused plenty of reaction. Not vote on the issue that caed a lot of reaction nearly 20 people spoke at a meeting, mostly opposing the proposed ban. The discussion came up last month when people on the North Liberty Library Board questioned the citys policy on guns in cityowned buildings. 07 47 31 they are plenty of gun owners who believe they should bring their gun wherever they are to protect their family. And theres also plenty of residents who believe you dont need to have a weapon in the library possible gun ban in 2013, but the Council Voted against the proposal. Several Washington City departments are sharing cramped quarters. Anan Council Members cant agree on a way to move forward, leaving city hall, police, and fire workers without a space solution. The city is now looking at 2 options. The first would mean building a new fire station near the existing building. But uncil members would need a referendum to make that happen. The second option would move city hall to an old library building. But some officials are worried that renovation uld have hidden costs. Either way, the citys administrator says the city needs to make a decision. On the old library project,the next steps are to take bigger steps in terms of hiring an architect, a project manager andndou cant plunge into a large project like that if youre ambivalent or not sure. The Council Hopes to decide which option to many students will choose a college or university for many reasons, but its especially person. One grgrp plans to cut down the costs of college visits for many students who will be the first in their family to go to college. Diversity focus, the nonprofit behind the effort, is hoping for 10thousand dollars by the end of the month. It will use that t ney to offset the cost of something called the iowa college tour. The program has been around for three years now. Annually, a group of about 30 students of color take a trip to part of the country and tour about ten colleges in the spring. Each pays 500 for transportation and room and board. The more they raise, the lower the cost. Thats especially helpful for students who might not be able to afford it. Those signed up are excited to go. I want to make sure that the college has diversity. Make sure that nobody is left out with anything. The meal plan of course. Also, make sure campus is whatat want when i go to school. Mama sure im happy where i am. This year the group is headed schools including florida state, florida a m, and albany state. Sosoar the donations page shows about 240 dollars raised. If you want to help, weve got a link posted inside this sty on kcrg dot com. Forbes released numbers on the highest id musicians in thehe country. Younger artists at the top. But also one group that has been at it. For the long run. Plus, tickets for the 2016 rose bowl are officially sold out. Thanks, largely, to sales beforee the teams were announced. Well explain that process as so many are interested in watching iowa in pasadena. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. Iet, mild weather continues. Mostly sunny sky with just some passing high clouds every now and again. Highs will reach well into the 40s to around 50. Even though tomorrow will have a few more clouds, itll be warmer than today thanks to a head start close to 40. Tomorrow afternoons highs will be in the middle 50s with a breezy west wind. Theres a slight chance of light rain late on friday, with a higher chance of showers arriving on saturday. The brunt of our rain will fall saturday evening through sunday one to two inches of rain is possible as this system departs, but the current expectation is for any amounts to be light. Today mostly sunny high 4753 winds w 515 alo 49 dbq 49 iow 50tonight partly cloudy low 3541 winds s 515 alo 38 dbq 37 iow 39tomorrow partly sunny, mild high 5258 iow 56tomorrow night partly cloudy low 3440 winds sw 515 alo 34 dbq 35 iow 37friday slight chance of rain late high 52 low 37 sunday rain likely high 47 low 45 monday chance of snow, windy partly cloudy high 40 low 29 wednesday low 27 a charttopping star is officially the richest artist in the wold. And the end of the hunger games movie series might not actually be the end. Abcs Jason Nathanson has todays showbiz wrap. When it comes to making money in music, katy perry is the queen forbes says she was the highest earner this year, raking in 135 million bucks, thanks mostly to her longrunning prismatic world million per city. One direction takes the number two spot,with 130million, garth brooks in 3rd but when it comes to ticket sales, stub hub says taylor swift reigned supreme. On their service, she sold the most seats, they say more than doubling the number 2 spot held by garth brooks. Billy joel was 3rd. Apaptn1800 france eodm a somber scene in paris, as the california band on stage during the terrorist attacks a few weeks ago revisited the scene. Members of the eagles of death metal openly weeping as they returned to the bataclan, which is now a shrine to the at least 89 people who died inside. And the odds are in the favor of hunger games fans looks like more movies are coming. An exec at lionsgate says its a nobrainer that they would make some prequels. He points out that the movies featured just the 74th and 75th hunger games competitions, so the franchise has a lot of life left. And thats whats happening in hollywood. Im Jason Nathanson, abc news, los angeles tickets to the rose bowl are sold out on ticketmaster this morning. Hawkeye fans hoping to cheer on their team in pasadena will have to pay a pretty steep price for tickets. Thats because the rose bowl allowed early were announced. That explains the high prices on sites like stubhub. Tickets on the site are going for around 600 dollars. And expensive tickets can lead to scams. Ui athletics Officials Say if you try to buy a ticket off the secondary market make sure youre going through a reputable source. The 81 rose bowl it was a big deal and everyone wanted to go, but i dont think it was quite the craziness as this is, and i do know back then there was a lot of counterfeit tickets, i think today people are a little more savvy that that can happen, id be very careful on the secondary market. And the rose bowl is also big business for retailers. Tailgate in iowa city put out these designs for shirts theyll begin selling next week. And just like tickets, theres already a waiting list. The hawkeyes play in the rose bowl on friday, time. You can watch the game on espn. Our vet expert is next here on tv9. If you have a question about your family pet, our vet expert ryan steen joins us now. If you have questions about your family pet, give us a call on the bottom of your screen. , thanks for being here. Coming up tomorrow, stay with an attememted traffic stop e eed with a car driving into a lake in evansdale. Police say they tried to pull over an intoxicated man around 3 00 this morning. Thats when he drove away and led pice on a short chase, ending in meyererlake. Police have not released the drivers name. A waterloo man faces charges after a robbery and shooting. 20yearold marcus sykes faces a first degree Jonathan Wilder shot a passenger in the car he and sykes approached in waterloo in march now, one last look at this mornings weather, justin. Quiet, mild weather continues. Well have a mostly sunny sky with just some passing high clouds every now and again. Highs will reach well into the 40s to around 50. Even though tomorrow will have a few more clouds, itll be warmer than today thanks to a head start close to 40. Tomorrow afternoons highs will be in the middle 50s with a breezy west wind. Theres a slight chance of light rain late on friday, with a higher chance of showers arriving on saturday. The brunt of our rain will fall saturday evening through sunday with one to two inches of rain looking pretty likely. Some snow is possible as thi system departs, but the current expectation is for any amounts to be light. Today mostly sunny high 4753 winds w 515 5 o 49 dbq 49 iow 50tonight partly cloudy low 3541 winds s 515 alo 38 dbq 37 iow 39tomorrow partly sunny, mild high 5258 winds w 1525 alo 53 dbq 53 iow 56tomorrow night partly cloudy low 3440 winds sw 515 alo 34 dbq 35 iow 37friday slight chance of rain late high 52 low 37 saturday rain likely high 52 low 41 sunday rain likely high 47 ow 45 monday chance of snow, windy high 39 low 34 tuesday partly cloudy high 40 low 29 wednesday chance of rain snow high 39 low 27 thats all the time we have
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