3 it appears a fufuraising drive for a family of seven n children in tilden, nebraska. May be linked to a murdersuicide discovered near pierce on monday. 3 the Antelope County news newspaper says donations are being accepted at the tilden bank. And online. To help the children affected by the incident. 3 neither authorities or the newspaper are releasing the names of the victims or the fafaly. 3 but they do say five of the children range in age from a 17 year old girl. To a 10 year old boy. 3 if youd like to make a donation. Weve put that information in this story on our website at siouxland news dot com. 3 3 sioux city has said its final farewell to a groundbreaking firefighter. Jeanne vakulskas jeanee vuhkulskus became siououcity fire rescscs first female firefighter in 1985 after staring her career as a nurse. She served for 22 years until died this weekend at her home in sioux city. This morning her former colleagues joined her family and friends in saying goodbye at her funeral at st. Josephs catholic church. Jeanane vuhkulskuhs was 63 yeararold. 3 3 some other public servants. Local police. Are trying to make the holiday a little happier for kids in the hospital. 3 the Sioux City Police Officers Association raised 600 dollars to buy 29 scentsy buddies. The small, stuffed animals are infused with fragrances. Theyre being donated to Unity Point Health st. Lukes. Mercy medical l center. And the june e. Nylen cancer center. Detective jeff harstad and his wife jasmine led the effort. 3 we wanted to do something good for our community and this time of year is a perfect time to do that. Since im a scentsy consultant, and i see that our children love the little scentcy buddies that we have, the little stuffed animals with the scents inside of them, i figured it would be incorporate scentsy and give back to the community as well. Officers also put several christmas cards inside of the boxes for the children who receive the stuffed animals. 3 3 a mixture of rain and snow fell on parts of siouxland today. Is more that in the forecast kayla . 3 tonight clouds will be prominent with temperatures in the mid 20s. Thursday morning and early afternoon could bring some light snow across the area. Otherwise, mostly cloudy skies will persist through friday evening with temperatures in the low to upper 30s. Christmas evening brings chance for rain snow mix that will change over to snow by saturday morning and continue through saturday evening. Sunday will be mostly cloudy and blustery coitions with temperatures in the upper 20s. We are also keeping our eyes on a potential storm system that will impact the area monday and tuesday of 3 the new year will ring in a slightly new license plate design for south dakotans. As reporter Brady Mallory tells us. Theyre being made at the same place thats been doing the work for more than 80 years. 3 a new year means s new look. Thats why these inmateat the south dakota state penitentiary are busy dishing out updated plates. Weve been doing it since 1929, so they have always been made right here. For the state of south dakota. Pat gacke, shop foreman, said. Year after year, all of the states plates have come from here. Here is how it works. It all starts will a long roll of aluminum, which is fed through a lot of machines. These gadgets and gizmos int numbers and strips and cut them into the plates that go on your cars. We put out a good product at a reasonable rate using the inmate workforce, gacke said. A group of 18 men have to make enough plates for an estimate of 1. 5 million types of vehicles in south dakota. This process churns out about 23,000 plates per day. Once we are here in the shop, the job is typical to just a job site, gacke said. Gacke says the work that happens in here can help the inmates once they are eligible to transition back into the community. You can see that in hiring some of these guys who have not kept an all day job. Work ethic they learn here. There are machine qualities that running the press. Running the baggers, there are machining qualities that they learn skills, gacke said. As they repay their debt to society, plates gives these men something else. You have ones who really take pride in their work, and want to gacke said. 3 gardner traveler im hoping that today will be a little bit smoother and the transition to catch other planes wont be so bad. bridge tsa officials tell cbs news more passengers will likely pass through body scanners. The enhanced Airport Security comes after the terror attack in paris. The technology has evolveda generic figure now replaces more revealing body images to protect privacy. sot Sabina Pinsky traveler i feel safer with people going through the body scanner rather than just go and notet checkedwith everything thats going on this country. nats rain and snow caused problems on the roads in the pacific northwest. Triple a says 100 million americans will travel more than 50 miles from home between christmas and new years. And, cheap gas helps. The average price for a gallon is around 2 dollars. Danielle nottingham, cbs news, los angeles. 3 this year. Triple a says the average price of a Roundtrip Airline ticket costs 174 dollars. Down significantly 3 Iraqi Security forces took to the front lines for a second day as they fight to take back control of the city of ramadi. Cbs News Reporter Jonathan Vigliotti has the latest on their progress. 3 Iraqi Security forces went street by street wednesday clearing out militants one at a time. nat rocket being launched iraqi Officials Say the twoday offensive in ramadi has already gained ground against the islamic state. The captpte of the city west of baghdad this past may was a huge defeat for the iraqi government, which is conducting a ground offensive with the help of its own air force and the usled multination coalition. Security analysts say the offensive is not just about military might; its also about changing impressions. cbs news Senior Security contributor Michael Morell isis has had the perception for over a year n n that theyre winning. And that gets them recruits both in iraq an syria and overseas. It gets that we can begin to turn back that perception and take the momentum away from them, that will be really important. But the Missions Success will not come easily. A wave of bombings throughout the city killed at least ten civilians and wounded many more on wednesday. No one has claimed responsibility for the bombs, but iraqi officials said they bore the hallmarks of the islamic state. Jonathan vigliotti. Cbs news. 3 the u. S. Military is optimistic about the operation. With one spokesman saying, the fall of ramadi is inevitable. 3 the latest entry in the Star Wars Franchise is breaking all sorts of box office records. But it holds special meaning for one des moines man and his family. Why they received a private screening of the movie this weekend. Coming up in tonights healthwatch. 3 youre watching siouxland news at five on kmeg 14, with larry wentz, diana castillo, siouxlands chief and sports director chris 3 3 it may be the biggest blockbuster ever made. The new star wars movie. And now a dying young man from iowa has chosen it to be the last movie he may ever see. Reporter eric hanson has his emotional story. 3 for patients, one night in the icu is one night totomany. Nats this is the worst time of their lives. The guy in room 5 only knows hes somewhere in the triple digits. shawn norman icu patient its genetic disease that i possess. Shawn norman is 28. He was a kid when Doctors First said noonan syndrome. shawn norman icu patient you tired, it can make you weak, it can make you face death. rita norman shawns mother its all heart related, its very complicatete its not very well known. Other than you spend a lot of time, dreaming of the icu. Oh. Shawns mom couldnt singlehandedly grant his first wish electing donald trump. But a couple paramedics helped her with another. Busting him out,t, right past the white board where his big goal still read. get out of here to see star wars. tom norman shawns father thats kinda been a goal of his, every time he starts feeling down, or whatever we point at the board and say hey, we gotta get out, we got a couple more days, were getting close. Saturday morning, just after sunrise nats ill see you there ok . Shawn got a chauffeured ambulance ride to ankenys springwood 9where theyd reserved one entire theater for the guy who was living, it seemed, to see this movie. rita norman shawns mother star wars was his anchor, his drive, his gotta geto see star wars. With his bed adjusted in the aisle and 26 norman chose star wars as his last movie im thankful. The curtain rose and the coming attractions started. Which hurt. tom norman shawns father it does, it does. Because shawn had made it clear. This movie would be his last. rita norman shawns mother so thats what were doing, thats his wish, to go home, hes tired of being poked and prodded, he just wants to go home. By the time his face flickered with the return of his favorite character shawn norman chose star wars as his last movie i like han. The hospice nurse by his side had already officially taken over. Natsthey were telling themselves this is what he wants. rita norman shawns mother its tough but i have to fulfill his wish, i have to. For 2 hours and 16 minutes, the guy whos already decided to donate his body to science soaked in every frame. rita norman shawns mother were making memories, and not everybody gets to do that. Once the lights came up, the guy on the stretcher was so twoword review shawn norman star wars fan not bad. And a few, final hugs. tom norman shawns father ok, shall we get you home . All right, lets get you home. Where the guy whos only 28 wants his story to end. rita norman shawns mother its his call. 3 we got rain and snow all across the area today. Now we are getting a break,, but for how long. I will have more details on your forecast 3 first alert weather with meteorologist kayla novak. 3 3 kayla and jetske talk about todays weather and the upcoming forecast. Prominent with temperatures in the mid 20s. Thursday morning and early afternoon could bring some light snow across the area. Otherwise, mostly cloudy skies will persist through friday evening with temperatures in the low to upper 30s. Christmas evening brings chance for rain snow mix that will change over to snow by saturday morning and continue through saturday evening. G. Sunday will be mostly cloudy and blustery conditions with temperatures in the upper 20s. We are also keeping our eyes on a potential storm system that will impact the next week. Stay tuned. 3 3 the vikings could clinch a playoff spot this weekend. Hear from head coach mike zimmer as his team prepares for the giants. And fresh off their victory over tennessee tech, wa mensnsbasketball coach Fran Mccaffery talks about the teams showdown with number one Michigan State. Chris 3 fresh off their 22point victory over tennesse teach last night the iowa hawkeye Mens Basketball Team sets their sights on number one Michigan State next week. 3 spartys 130 this season. But theyll have a week to prepare for them. After last nights victory head coach Fran Mccaffery talked about playing them as well as number 14 purdue to start off big ten play. 3 we always kind of look at it like this. You gotta play those people at some point. You play em early you play em late it doesnt matter. Youre still playing 18 really tough games. Against really good teams. Those two are particularlylytalented. If you look at where theyre ranked and so forth. I think any time you enter into conference play you recognize a challenge. And well do anything we can to get everybody ready. 3 the vikings clinch a playoff giants sunday night. They could also clinin a playoff spot before kickoff. You see, a loss or tie by atlanta against carolina would get it done. A seattle win or tie at home against saint louis would too. But no matter what this game is huge because a win sets up a battle for the Division Title at Lambeau Field against the packers next week. And the home playoff game that would come with it. Head coach mike zimmer is crossing his fingers that his running back Adrian Peterson will be ready to go sunday. 3 we want t trun the football. And we want to be efficient throwing the ball. I dont particularly see us as a team thats going to be throwing the ball every play. Its just not who we are and built how we are right now. So but i think you can see when we are effective throwing the football how much better we can be offensively. As a reminder we will have that carolina and atlanta game on our sister station kpth fox 44 at noon vikings giants game that was flexed into nbcs sunday night football game. We were scheduled to have the bears and bucs game but since that one has no playoff implications the switch to the falcons and panthers was made. 3 the vikings wont have to worry about covering giants record setting receiver Odell Beckham junior. This just comind down in the last hour. Bekchams appeal of a one game suspension following his frfras with panthers corner josh norman has been denied by the league. So he officially wont play against the vikings. No receiver in nfl history has more yards than beckham through their first full 16 games of their career. 3 siouxland news and notes now dordt Senior Center mycah hulst has been named the gpac huaff mid america spspts womeme basketball player of the week. She just set a new School Record with 25 rebounds against number fourteen concordia last week. That 3 3 3 tonight clouds will be prominent with temperatures in the mid 20s. Thursday morning and early afternoon could bring some light snow across the area. Otherwise, mostly cloudy skies will persist t through friday eveningngwith temperatures in the low to upper 30s. Christmas evening brings chance for rain snow mix that will change over to snow by saturday morning and continue through saturday evening. Sunday will be mostly cloudy and blustery conditions with temperatures in the upper 20s. We are also keeping our eyes on a potential storm system that will impact the area monday and tuesday of next week. Stay tuned. 3
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