Reports in cedar rapids this month monthand pushes the citys total so far this year to 95. This time last year there were 96 reports of shots fired. That comparesto only 56 in 2013. The police depepment says the term shots fired doesnt necessarily mean there is a shooting victim. But it usually includes discovery of shell casings or property damage. People across the country and ththcorridor corridortomorrow will be walking to honor victims of gun violence. Socalled orange walks will mark the 3rd anniversary of the Sandy Hook School massacre that left 20 Elementary Students and 6 Staff Members dead. Here in the corridor theres a walk in iowa city starting at 10 am at the iowa city public library. A walk in cedar rapids will start at noon outside first lutheran churur. Cclapping . Clapping . Right now, the Cedar Rapids Police department has of the rapids rrional Police Academy y aduated today at Veterans Memorial coliseum. The recruits started their 17weeks of training back in august. They tell cbs 2 news that theyre now ready to start helping their community. It is very surreal. It is gratifing knowing we made it to this point, but now the real journey begins. We are going to try and fill in those foot steps of all those officers who came before us, and i am really excited to get out on the street. Iowa city, university heights, vinton and west liberty also added new officers with todays graduation women in and around iowa city are learning more about how to defend themselves against sexual predators. Today wraps up the weeklong rape aggression defense course. The allwomen class learned what Sexual Assault is and how to survive if they find themselves in a dangerous situation. Situation. Youll hear what the students think of the class tonight on cbs news ten at 10. Police in cedar falls have arson. Investigators determined that 18yeyeold royce lenth poured gasoline on a fire inside the detached garage of his home. At the time, three other people were inside that garage but all got out safely. Lenth is charged with second dedeee arson and faces up to ten years in prison,. Veterans in cedar rapids say theres new hope tonight, and it comes in the form of a new home thats being built just for them. Cbs 2 News Reporter joy howe is here to tell us about patriot place. Its tough to hear but its a sad fact, there are veterans in our Community Living in their cars or at shelters. Today, some of them got t e news that a new home is being built just for them. Healing our heroes is a nonprofit founded by the wife, daughter and granddaughte r of veterans. Kelly ridenour says when she first started working with vets, she immediately saw the need for veteran housing. Today, she and cedar rapids leaders presented the community with a 9Million Dollar, veteran called patriot place. It will be located next to the va clinic in cedar rapids, and some of the space will be set aside for veterans services. My goal is to strengthen the family so that when we have our emerging leaders, our emerging workforce, that those people have strengths and their needs have been met so that they can continue to be leaders in the community. Today, the city pledged support for the Capital Campaign to raise the final 1point5 Million Dollars thats needed, and healing our heroes hopes to break ground in july. Y howe, cbs 2 nene. Bernie sanders is coming to eastern iowa this weekend. Weekend. Tomorrow the democratic president ial candidate will visit several communities. Events include a forum in anamosa on Racial Injustice and the countrys prison system. Later in the day hell make stops in dubuque and waterloo. Sunday, sanders will make a second stop in waterloo before visiting Cornell College in mount for more political headlines, dont forget to join cbs 2 news anchor kevin barry sunday morning for iowa in focus. It airs at 1030 right here on cbcb2. Mumps cases seem to be betrending back down in iowa. This year, the have been 195 cases confirmed across the state, but 162 were found in johnson county. A lot of those cases occured at the university of iowa due to the highly contagious nature of the virus. The school gave out more than 48hundred free vaccines to o students to help curb the spread of mumps. Graduate students at the university of iowa iowaare asking to school to help them fight against rent increases at an apartment complex on university property. Property. Students say rents at aspire at west campus are higher than expected and exploitative. Some say theyre being priced out of their only oncampus housing option. University presididt Bruce Harreld urged the Property Management company to listen to student concerns. The necessary citing utility and real estate costs. A major redevelopment project is closer to being finished. Finished. Frew Development Group announced today the final tenants to fill the new multitenant building at westdale. Great clips and q nails spa have sisied leases and will join at t, noodles co. , wingstop and chipotle in the 12,000 squarefoot building. A second 12thousand square foot building is in the final design stageconstruction isislated to begin in eaeay 2016. Two Major Companies with a presence in iowa have agreed to merge in the largest deal evern the chemical industry. The corridor bubuness journal reports the merger between Dow Chemical Company and dupont is worth 130 billion dollars. The two companies will form into one new one, dowdupont. In iowa, dupont just opened a 225 Million Dollar ethanol plant in neveda. Just ahead on the cbs 2 news the event this weekend that hopes to matctcpets with a loving home this holiday on cbs 2 this morning for a look at the kind of technology terror groups are using to communicate. Communicate. How the government is responding and why its not a sure fix. Thats monday on cbs 2 this morning. Immigration is a hot topic right now all over the country and here at home. Leaders from all around iowa are calling for more conversations about how immigrants can help with economic growth. Growth. The Iowa Chamber Alliance has revealed their legislative priorities for 2016. The group brings together representatives from cities throughout the state. One of their mains focuses for next year bringing immigrants to the hawkeye state. The Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance president serves as chair for the Iowa Chamber Alliance. She says there are four critical areas workforce, economimi development, the simplification of taxes and infrastructure. The icad group in iowa city is also trying to make this community more international taskforce. The Group Launched a welcome iowa city area website just a week ago providing resources to the international community. And hopefully. Making them want to stay. Kate moreland, icad Group Director of Community Relations we bring in all sorts of International Talent from students to faculty and so thats the make up of our community and as the population of iowa is declining we need to look at ways to bring people to the area. Area. The icad group says one thing they want to focus on in the next year is getting more International Voices on their boards and commissions. Weve been spoiled with warm temperatures all week, but lot of rain this weekend. Justin roberts is in for terry the meavy rain expected is causing one of the corridors ggest Holiday Events to be cancelled, the annual lighting of the luminaries planned for sunday wont be happening. There is some good news, all other asile of lights activities in coralvivie are still on. You can help give some lonely animals in the corridor a home for the holidays. Holidays. Tomorrow from ten to two is the iowa city animal care and Adoption Centers holiday with the hounds. The shelter encourages the community to have cookies, hot chocolate and meet their new furry family member. Guests are for the animals. Shelter staff f say they are in need of f washable pet beds and toys even if youre not ready to adopt right now, its a great time to come and visit, just to see the new facility the new facility if you havent yet, help us celebrate the season and to help us try to promote what we do, which wed really love to have every one of these animals in a real life home for the holiday. Holiday. The shelter says they ll also take monetary donations to help them buy food for the animals. What a game it was last night in ames. Coming up in sports. Well recap the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat from last nights classic at hilton coliseum. Cbs 2 news connects with you. Call us at 1800222kganemail us at news at cbs 2 iowa dot comconnect with us on facebook at facebook kgan cbs 2. Iowa had a chance last night. A chance to stun the numberfour team in the country. And a chance to win in ames for the first ti since the nit in 2003. Bu hilton magic struck again. The hawkeyes were in full control for most of the game. Jarrod uthoff was unguardable in the first thirty points. And iowa built a 20point lead early in the second. But the cyclones are comeback kids. And monte morris capped the furious rally with a goahead floater with ten seconds left. Giving iowa state the win in this tale of two o lves. You gotta give them credit. They moved the ball. They pushed it. I think they did a really good job capitalizing on mistakes. When we turned it over. They scored. If you take a bad shot. And you turn it over. They score. We all played with a lot more poise in the second half. I thought we got into stuff better in the second half. And then we got stops. That was huge. We just had to stayaythe course. I tell our guys all ththtime. Just stay the course. Stay the course. Stay the course. And were gonna be fine. Since october. Uni footballs been redhot. Steamrolling their way to seven straight wins. If the panthers can rattle off three more. Theyll be fcs champions. But a tall task stands in their way tomorrow. When they return to the fargodome dakota state. Uni lost to the bison in a wild backand forth game earlier in the season. But dont call this a revenge game or a rivalry. Panthers to keep the ride going. If i had to pick anyone else. Think i would pick north dakota state. I know the guys are ready to go back there. Its not gonna take much motivation going back to that place. Im not into o were playing. I just know that this is a process right now. And the road that we were put on. Now takes us on the road again. And we have to find a way to put a good plan together against this particular team. And find a way to win. The vikings have had plenty of heartbreakers in their history. And they can add another one to the list after last night. Minnesota was in field goal position with 13 seconds left. T decided to run one more play. Big mistake. Dwight freeney came off the edge for a sack fumble. And the vikes lose. So mike zimmer why not just kick the field ithought about it. I thought about a lot of things. Throwing the ball in the end zone, throwing you know. But we were trying to get the ball out of bounds to get a little closer to kick thefield goal and go to overtime. Ertime. The play call was designed to gegeout bounds. So we didnt have any time outs. Couldnt afford to get tackled in bounds. But had that clock going off in my head. Got ready to throw the ball out of bounds and the guy just hit me from behind. Maybe the tide of the cubs cardinals rivalry is changing. In october. The cubbies knocked saint louis out of the playoffs. And today. They signed away one of their best players. Multiple outlets are reporting that Jason Heyward has agreed to an eightyear, 184Million Dollar deal with the cubs. The outfielder hit just 13 homers last season. But his defense and speed made him a hot commodity. He led the cardinals in w ws above we will be right back to take one last look at your forecast after the break. Break. Pluto might not be considered a planet anymore, but that doesnt mean were done learning about it. Nasas new horizons spacecraft took these beauty shots of the demoted planet over the summer. The surface were formed when ice evaporated. These new pictures are the highest resolution images ever taken n of pluto. Thanks for watching your cbs 2 newst six. Entertainment tonight is up next. We hope youll join us tonight at ten. Evening. He was so excited. He was screaming. Lady gagg today. How her fiance celebrated her