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Its kind of a sad day when you lose one of your neighbors thats been here for r ite a few years id see them out in the yard, on the porch with their plants and stuff and they like to be out with their garden and trees and whatnot. Neighbors say they heard firefighters found Ronald Jacobs near the front t f the mobile home and karen jacobs in another room. Ronald jacobs was pronounced dead at the scene. Cedar rapids fire investigators have no this mobile home yet for for the moment its labeled as undetermined. Live in cedar rapids, Dave Franzman kcrg tv9 news. Remember, whenever you see news hapapning, call newsline nine at 319 3659999. You can also send pictures and videos to newsroom at kcrg dot com. Lets turn now to a live look city cam. You can see much of the university of northern iowas snowfalls. Us now. Joe, we could see some more light snow tonight . An area of low pressure pushes across eastern iowa tonight bringing the chances for a wintry mix. The precipitation looks light in nature and will change to light snow before ending. Lingering flurries could be with us into the afternoon with all accumulation s generally under 1 inch. You may get a touch of spring fever later this week as a warmup commences. Highs by thursday climb into the 40s with 50s ahead for the end of the week. Have a great night tonight m cloudy, mix late low 2430 winds s 510tomorrow chance of snow, mainly early high 3238 winds nw 515 bruce and beth. 18hundred thirdgraders who grade level are scheduled to participate in a Summer Reading Program Pilot study. Today, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad announced the state has one point nine million dollats to cover the cost of the study. Beginnnng in 2017, iowa s sool districts will be required to provide Summer Reading programs to students who are still struggling to read at the end of third grade. The pilot study will happen this summer, and will inform next t mmers ading program. This is a pilot. A study program, that with a cohort, a group of School Districts across the state, that will be able to kind of test run high quality Reading Programs that School Districts will then be able to implement in the summer of 2017. Branstad said private gifts covered one point three Million Dollars needed to implement the study. The rest of the money came from the Iowa Department of education and the iowa board of regents. Participating School Districts in eastern iowa include cedar rapids, marion, central community, aplington parkersburg. The Iowa Democratic party says human error caused five precincts to report incorrect caucus results two weeks ago. Hillary clinton is still the winner of the caucuses, but the party is shifting its allocation of county Convention Delegates a bit. We looked into these issues that were brought up just to make sure we had it accurate. Nearly 1,700 precincts and of the five counties that incorrectly awarded delegatete nearly all of the mistakes canceled each other out. Taken altogether, the incorrect reporting gave Bernie Sanders one more county delegate. And Martin Omally also didnt get a delegate he was entitled to. The party fixed those mistakes. A federal Appeals Court judge who once worked in cedar rapids could make president obamas short list of potential Supreme Court nominees. Justice Antonin Scalia died suddenly on saturday from his death set off a debate about whether obama should nominate someone to fill the seat in an election year. Some Senate Leaders say the next president should nominate someone when he or she comes into office in january. President obama says he does plan to nominate a replacement. The senate then must approve that nominee. And thats why y dge jane kelly s on a short list of nominees. Kelly was an assistant us attorney in cedar rapids until president obama appointed her to the 8th Us Circuit Court of appeals. The Senate Unanimously confirmed her nomination in 2013. Iowa senator Chuck Grassley accelerated her nomination. Grassley is now the chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee. Kcrgtv nines Forrest Saunders joins me now. Forrest, does grassleys past support of kelly make her a strong potential nominee . Thats a good question, but hard to answer. Grassley has started towing the party linin sayyg the president should wait for his successor to nominate candidates. Quote given the huge divide in the country, and the fact that this president , above all others, has use the courts to through his own we defer to the American People who will elect a new president to sesect the next supreme e urt justice. If republicans dont get their way, university of iowa political scientist tim hagle thinks the gop will stonewall any nominees until a new president is elected. That will reset the whole process. I think that their better move will be to delay. If you give hearings to somebody and that person comes across as knowledgeable and calm it becomes harder to vote no. Kelly was confirmed in 83 days to her circuit seat. Thats fast. On average, research shows, it takes more than 270 days for that kind of its likely grassleys support was key for kell. Live in the newsroom, Forrest Saunders, kcrgtv9 news. Today, flags across iowa are flying at halfstaff in honor of justice scalia. Iowa Governor Terry branstad ordered the wering of all flags at government facilities in iowa. Individuals, businesses, schools and counties were also encouraged to fly flags at halfstaff from sunrise to sunset today. An eastern Iowa Travel Agency says people are calling with questions about whether to take trips to countries with the zika virus. And its not just people who could become the virus. An area of low pressure pushes across eastern iowa tonight bringing the chances for a wintry mix. The precipitation looks light in will change to light snow before ending. Lingering flurries could be with us into the afternoon with all accumulation s generally under 1 inch. H. You may get a touch of spring fever later this week as a warmup commences. Highs by thursday climb into the 40s with 50s ahead for the end of the week. Have a great night tonight m cloudy, mix late low 2430 winds s 510tomorrow chance of snow, mainly early high 3238 winds nw 515tomorrow nigig mostly cloudy low 1723 winds nw 515wednesday mtly cloudy igh 31 low 20 thursday cloudy, milder high 43 low 23 friday chance of am rain, windy high 53 low saturday partly cloudy high 52 low 37 sunday partly cloudy high 49 low 32 monday partly cloudy high 40 low 29 dozens of members of a veterans post in decorah have a place to meet. Ananits because one dedicated volunteer debt. Kcrg is pleased to recognize him as one of our nine who care. And a company that produces coatings for various products is planning to open a showcase facility in dubuque, and bring jobs too. Stay with your 24 ho one cedar rapids travel agency says its getting calls from people who concerns about going to countries that have the zika viruru zika is a mosquito borne virus thats been linked to a birth defect that causes abnormally small heads and brain damage in babies. Are minor, like a bad cold. The disease is spreading in central and south america. Destinations unlimited says a number of its clients are heading to the area for the warmer temperatures, including the caribbean and mexico. So far, the travel agency say no one has canceled their trips. But Vice President Jane Schulyer says the company has been counseling concerned travelers about how the virus could impact them. Whether it be young or older, somehow everyone thinks its g gng to affect them. I is not the age grgrp. So we try to council them on what may be relevant, and what may not be relevant with the facts. She says her office also received a number of questions from travelers in 2014 when the ebola virus spread through a number of african countries. However, she said concerns are different because the viruses are different. A Minnesota Company that produces coatings f f jobs to dubuque. Rie coatings plans to open a new facility in the dubuque industrial district. Space will serve customers in iowa, illinois and indiana. The Dubuque Development Corporation Says Companies Like rie are exactly the kind its trying to bring to the area. What it means is eventually its going to be their showcase facility, this is where they are going to be bringing their costumers. So, its access to indiana, but also they provide services that are existing in industriess that are utilized so thats important for the city of dubuque, the industry, and the community. The company is planning to employ 12 to 15 production workers in dubuque. It hopes to start production on july first. The iowa lottery is searching for two unclaimed winning powerball tickets that wililexpire in a month. A hyvee in West Des Moines sold a 40thousand march 15th. And the caseys in manly, iowa, sold a 10 thousand dollar ticket the same month. That ticket expires on march 14th. The iowa lottery says about one point three Million Dollars in lottery prizes go unclaimed each year. Kcrg tvnine is again honoring nine outstanding volunteers in eastern iowa. Today, we feature a military veteran who works 40 hours a week for free so other veterans have a place to get together. Stay with your 24 hour eachsponsors honor nine outstanding volunteers from throughout eastern iowa. Their peers, and we call them our nine who care. After Mark Stockdale retired from mililiry service, he moved back to decorah and found a new calling as a volunteer. Kcrg reports he helped save an organization that was drowning in debt. For members of decorah v fw post 1977. Friday night is fish fry night, the groups most popular event. Sot nat and post commander Mark Stockdale is always there taking orders, stocking the salad bar and overseeing other volunteers as a more than 40houra week unpaid c cb manager. He joined this vfw about ten years ago, eventually learned a was failing financially. I spent time analyzing what was going on. What was working what wasnt working. The decorah vfw that mark joined was thousands of dollars in debt with unpaid loans thats when his military training kicked in. Mark handled finances and payroll in the army. He made drastic changes, eliminating all paid club workers and even paid back taxes out of his own pocket at first to stop penalties. That begs this question. Rk, what would your mother say about loaning money to a nonprofit bills . I was worried he wouldnt get that money back. But it worked out just fine to dig the vfw out of the debt situation really took a process of years. Convincin g all sorts of folks to help out as volueers rather than have paid staff it wasnt until lasassummer he got the final check to make the organization debt free and how important was it to make those tough economic decisions . The door would be locked. The bank would own it Dave Franzman, kcrg tv9 news. Each of our nine who care winners have received 500 ddlars from our show you care donate to their favorite charities. Now heres a look at whats coming up at 5 30 on abcs world news. Coming up, breaking news. A deadly mix on american highways at thisisour. More than o thousand crashes. S. Now and freezing rain, were tracking it. Scare in the air, a jet headed to new york, the emergency in the cockpit. World news tonight is cing up. Iowa, an organization investigating cases where it convicted. Theowa State University cyride driver charged in the killing of an urbana woman enters a plea. Recapping todays top stories, a 72yearold man died after a fire at his home this morning. Police say Ronald Jacobs was in his mobile e me at 3701 16th avenue southwest with his wife karen jacobs when the fire started. Emergency responders transported mrs. Jacbos to the hospital. A federal judge who once worked in cedar rapids could make president obamas short list of potential Supreme Court nominees. Experts say obama will likely consider jane kelly, who was an assistant us attorney in cedar rapids. Thats until obama appointed her to the 8th Us Circuit Court of appeals. A number of iowa third graders who arent reading at grade level are scheduled to Reading Program pilot study. More than three dodon school stricts throughout the state are scheduled to participate in the study this summer. It will inform how the state implements a statewide Summer Reading program in the summer of 2017. Lets go back to joe now for a final look at tonights forecast. An area of low pressure pushes across eastern iowa tonight bringing the chances for a wintry mix. The precipipition looks light in nature and will change to light snow before ending. Lingering flurries could be with us into the after breaking news tonight. The travel chaos at this hour. A deadly mix of snow, ice and rain. More than 2,000 accidents. Major travel delays. And at least six tornadoes reported, as this major system moves through, winter alerts from georgia, all the way up to maine. Trumps tirade, taking aim brother, the formerpresident , who was out on the trail for the first time. The World Trade Center came down during your brothers reign. And whatonald trump is now threatening to do. And epic battle under way over the Supreme Court. The death of justice Antonin Scalia, and now, the fight over his successor. The scare in the air. The passenger jet headed to new york, 252 people onboard. And the emergency y the cockpit. T. And, going to the dogs. Seven new breeds competing at the Westminster Dog Show tonight, and well take you right there. Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a monday night. And its a good thing for millions of americans this was a day off from work, becauset this hour, a dangerous mix of snow and freezing rain is making driving treacherous. A storm 1,200 miles long, from the south, all the way up to the northeast