In our forecast the iowa dot is unveiling a new vehicle to help stuck drivers. The highway helper is designed to push your vehicle if your stranded. They also provide blankets, can change your tires and take you somewhere warm. And be sure to stay up to date on all the cancelations in the area. Just head over to our webpage at kwwl dot com scroll over the weather tab and click on cancelations. A former motorcycle gang member once convicted of murdering a prostitute was all set to speak to High School Students. But due to backlash on social media, the event at North FayetteValley High School was canceled he still did speak to the public tonight however. Kwwls Olivia Mancino just got back from the event, she joins us now live ron gruber was a member of the motorcycle gang sons of silence he served his time in prison, and now he speaks candidly about his experience and how his faith and Church Program has lead him down a new he learned what happened on social media he said no, just disappointed those people focused on ron of as people lined the auditorium chairs waiting eaglerly to hear from the guest speaker a former motorcycle gang member and man charged with murder its hard to believe controversy brewed in this space just hours before. Ron is the person who embodies that, hes made bad decisions hes move forward gruber was scheduled to to High School Students about his journey on thursday. then the problems came. Schroeder says a wave of backlash started on social media from Community Members saying they didnt want gruber to to cancel the event entirely despite canceling grubers conversation with students, the later event, open to the public, still stood. Im excited to hear his testimony, its a really good thing how someone can turn around people of all ages, and of all different bacgrounds, showed up ive struggled with alcohol a long time and its nice to know someone understands hughes and other attendees telling me theyre going through a struggle right because they wish they had a guy like ron gruber to tell them whats what when they were kids. Ive made some bad decisions in my life that took me 15 or 20 seconds to make, and it changed my life for 1015 years grant says he could see why parents would be concerned, but wishes they had a more open mind if i could say maybe one thing to just one of those kids that would change their minds, it would all be worth it Stacey Schroeder the organizer of this event says the backlash was surprsing being a parent of a High School Student herself covered police are looking for a man who tried to rob a local supermarket at gun point. Waterloo police say the man walked in to rays supermarket late last night exchanging gunfire with the store owner. You can see some of the bullet holes in the door and ceiling tile along with shattered bottles of champagne. The store was also broken into on saturday. No arrests have been made at this time but police say they have several leads. A woman riding her bicycle is hit by a Police Squad Car on patrol. According to the Black Hawk CountySheriffs Office the waterloo officer was patrolling the area of west ninth and washington streets when the woman was hit. Her injuries were minor but she was cited for riding without a light and violating oneway traffic. The officer is not currently facing charges. A driver leads authorities on a chase after failing to pull over. The linn county Sheriffs Office says they tried to pull over the pickup after running a stop sign at the intersection of prairiesburg road and monticello road north of prairiesburg. The driver however kept going leading to a chase before hitting a tree on northway drive in waubeek. The driver then got out of the pickup and started to run away. Nobody was injured in the incident but authorities were not able to find the driver. Its designed to track stolen vehicles, hold parking violators accountable, and keep criminals off the streets. But do automated license plate readers invade your privacy . Kwwlss Macleod Hageman rides along with a Des Moines Police officer who uses the Technology Every day and explains how you might be affected. Cameras at intersections on your phone behind vehicles and now nats. Police car mounted to police cars tracking your every movement. nats. Of aclr des moines senior Police Officer luke harden says his automatic license plate reader nats. Of aclr gives him an extra set of eyes on the road. Itll alert you with a beep. In another program. Send you a quick picture of the plate and a description. So you know what to look for. Officer harden says the fourmounted cameras on his cruiser alert him nats. Of aclr of all violators. Its not always stolen cars. Things like that. Rain or shine, day or night, whether a car is moving or stopped, the license plate readers are always recording lots are popular spots for patrolling officers. Ill go to several apartment complexes where we found stolen cars before and just go through there and read all those cars sitting through there. Not all the time obviously, but a lot of the time well see one in the middle of nowhere, but sometimes its just out in plain site in a parking lot with a lot with technology knows computers are not perfect. Sometimes itll read a plate state. The technology has been part of the Des Moines Police department for nearly three years, two years in sioux city, its coming to cedar rapids in the coming months, Dubuque Police say theyre looking into it, and Waterloo Police say its not Cost Effective at this two cruisers equipped with the nearly 30thousand Dollar Technology has recognized nearly 75hundred offenders since 2012 ranging from parking violators to even sex offenders and helped recover at least 30 stolen vehicles. Its been incredibly useful for us in terms of being able to maximize our time on the streets. The technology can do what we can do about 100 times faster. But critics say its an ivasion of privacy recording your every movement. Finding the balance between the publics right to know and your right privacy has been an issue. The American Civil Liberties union even filing lawsuits in four states. Here in iowa aclu legislative director dane schuman says innoncent people might be concerned information could fall into the wrong hands. The main concern the aclu has with automated license plate readers, is whats done with the information after its accumulated by law enforcement. But Des Moines Police say the license plate reader is governed by iowa law invasion is minimal and information is erased after six months. The problem that can arise is that the information is stored, archived and used to track movement of innoncent individuals who havent done anything wrong over time. Regardless of privacy concerns Des Moines Police believe the benefits outweigh the treats recalling this incident nats. Onair of virginia report where a virginia reporter and photographer were killed and police found this man moments through the use of this technology. nats. Radio it all boils down to stopping and supressing crime. This is a great tool we have to do that, and eliminate stolen cars or any crime we link to an iowa license weve got you covered and we asked our Kwwl Facebook friends how they felt about the automated license plate readers being used in their area. Wayne says let them read it i have nothing to hide. Lisa adds i think its great but then again i have nothing to hide. Ryan says i dont like this the government is gaining too much information already. If you would like to add to the conversation please log on and post. Coming up on kwwl. New video shows inside one of the busineeses attacked in paris. Plus. From subway to the bighouse for jared fogle. Heres a live look at the storm track 7 live doppler radar. Storm track sevens chief meteorologist Mark Schnackenberg has your full forecast, coming up. Now your storm track 7 stormtracforecast on kwwl. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team a winter storm is on its way. Snow will start to fall early friday afternoon, around 2 pm. The heaviest snow will fall after sunset on friday. The evening commute could be tricky. The snow will wrap up around 10a winter storm is on its way. Snow will start to fall early friday afternoon, around 2 pm. The heaviest snow will fall after sunset on friday. The evening commute could be tricky. The snow will wrap up around 10 am saturday, but the wind will pick up causing blowing snow in some areas, adding to the poor travel conditions. Snow totals will be anywhere from 3 to 8 inches with some isolated areas reaching 10. Stay with kwwl storm track 7 for further updates. A winter storm is on its way. Snow will start to fall early friday afternoon, around 2 pm. The heaviest snow will fall after sunset on friday. The evening commute could be tricky. The snow will wrap up around 10 am saturday, but the wind will pick up causing blowing snow in some areas, adding to the poor travel conditions. Snow totals will be anywhere from 3 to 8 inches with some isolated areas reaching 10. Stay with kwwl storm track 7 for further updates. A winter storm is on its way. Snow will start to fall early friday afternoon, around 2 pm. The heaviest snow will fall after sunset on friday. The evening commute could be tricky. The snow will wrap up around 10 am saturday, but the wind will pick up causing blowing snow in some areas, adding to the poor travel conditions. Snow totals will be anywhere from 3 to 8 inches with some isolated kwwl storm track 7 for further updates. A winter storm is on its way. Snow will start to fall early friday afternoon, around 2 pm. The heaviest snow will fall after sunset on friday. The evening commute could be tricky. The snow will wrap up around 10 am saturday, but the wind will pick up causing blowing snow in some areas, adding to the poor travel conditions. Snow totals will be anywhere from 3 to 8 inches with some isolated areas reaching 10. Stay with kwwl storm track 7 for further updates. A winter storm is on its way. Snow will start to fall early friday afternoon, around 2 pm. The snow will wrap up around 10 am saturday, but the wind will pick up causing blowing snow in some areas, adding to the poor travel conditions. Snow totals will be anywhere from 3 to 8 inches with some isolated areas reaching 10. Stay with kwwl storm track 7 for further updates. A winter storm is on its way. Snow will start to fall early friday afternoon, around 2 pm. The heaviest snow will fall after sunset on friday. The evening commute could be tricky. The snow will wrap up around 10 am saturday, but the wind will pick up causing blowing snow in some areas, adding to the poor travel conditions. Snow totals will be anywhere from 3 to 8 inches with some isolated areas reaching 10. Stay with kwwl storm track 7 for further updates. A winter storm is on its way. Snow will start to fall evening commute could be tricky. The snow will wrap up around 10 am saturday, but the wind will pick up causing blowing snow in some areas, adding to the areas reaching 10. Stay with early friday afternoon, around 2 some areas, adding to the poor travel conditions. Snow totals will be anywhere from 3 to 8 some isolated areas reaching 10. Stay with kwwl storm track afternoon, around 2 pm. The areas, adding to the poor travel 10. Stay with kwwl storm track 7 for further updates. Wait until monday before they play their championship games. The Iowa High SchoolAthletics Association postponed fridays championship games unitl monday due to the winter storm warning that is issued for tomorrow. The first game will start at 11 06 am. Coming up on kwwl. Well hear from uni head football coach mark farley before the teams last regular season game this weekend. New video shows one of the attacks on a paris bar daily mail dot com. In the video you can see people ducking and taking cover as bullets fly into the walls and shatter glass. Heres another angle of it here you can see people behind the bar taking cover as well. This was one of several spots hit in the isis attacks last friday that killed more than 100 people. Former subway spokesperson jared fogle sentenced to 15 years in prison. Jared pleading guilty to child authorities raided his indianapolis home back in july. He admitted to paying for sex with girls as young as 16 years old. He will also have to pay 14 of his victims 100 thousand dollars each. Coming up next. We sit down with mark farley as the panthers look to make a final push in to the playoffs this weekend plus it was championship thursday in the dome as a top mark woodley joins us next on kwwl. Now, kwwl sports. Have courier headline, coach, pretty muh says it all. And it says all or nothing for the panthers this satuirday at home against southern illinois. Your players know exactly whats at stake and what they need to do. Well exactly. We kind of tell them, youre living your dream right now. Youre right in the middle of it. And, now, you have its senior day. Thats always very emotional. But, you have alot of football left to play, hopefuly. What does that mean to you, that senior day, getting ready for a big game like this against a potentially potent offense that can score alot of but, seniorwise, were fortunate to have a great group of seniors, and its always, i dont want to say its unfortunate, but, you feel bad that youre losing them. But, youre also very proud of what they became over the time theyve been at uni. You know, the last game, aaron bailey scored four touchdowns and ran for 176 yards. His play has been phenomenal lately our offense is doing very good right now. Were rushing the ball well. Alot of that has to do with aaron bailey, but, also with tyvis smith and the offensive game, takes a whole unit, a whole team. Yes. Bailey had 4 touchdowns and 176,. Tyvis smith, our of davenport central, both of thjose guys are juniors, which is always great news. So, you had two guys over 100 yards for the offensive line is coming around. The receivers are blocking downfield, and now, wed just like to incorporate a little more of the throwing game and i think we still have room for growth. Youre one of the jottest teams in the country right now. Youve won 4 in a row. 5 in a row would certainly impress the selection commirttee, would it were in good shape. Thats why we;ve kind of focused on just the purposes, the team were getting ready for. Because, if we do our job, were in good shape playoffwise. That 115 plays against illinois state. This is a big saturday. You have North Carolina, the number ojne team in basketball, coming in to play at the Mcleod Center at 1 oclock, followed by your game at 4 oclock. Thaty is fantastic. I also wanted to mention deiondre hall. Hes been invited to the senior bowl, as David Johnson did last year. What an interception he had last week. That vertical was something else. Hes an athlete. Congratulations to him. For deiondra to get that. Thats a great honor. I think hes one of weve got a lot going on this weekend. The North Carolina basketball game. The footbal game right after, and, i think theres a volleyball game later on. Its a big day, and hopefully, the weather holds time to come in here. Panthers play at 4 oclock this saturday afternoon against southern thanks a lot ron now its my turn the Hawkeye Basketball Team hit the road for the first time travelling to marquette solid performance from fran mccafferys hawks especially from the arc peter jok from downtown iowa off to a 26, 8 start out of the gate jok with four triples 20 points hawks also moving well in transition after the gesell steal Anthony Clemmons finishes with the stuff iowa led by 27 at half second half keeping it up jared uthoff from downtown he had 15 hawkeyes roll 89 to 61 to the dome class a title game between gladbrookreinbeck and Akron Westfield rebels rolling from the getgo jake schuman from the 45 his second rushing touchdown of the game 21, nothing rebels and they kept on rolling schuman finds erik knaack in the zone gladbrookreinbeck up 28, nothing at the half second half eric stoakes puts it away he set 2 class a title game record with 282 rushing yards and 4 touchdowns winning a state title 52 to 20 we dont talk about told the kids after the game gets over, now we can talk about a championship because we have it. Its there. We can say were the best. 8man title game don bosco and marcus, meriden, cleghorn 1st quarter Brandon Bagby looking to the endzone hes got caleb rigdon for the score dons rolling up 14, zip but things fell apart ben specht dowfield to Jacob Spieler part of 43 unanswered points for the eagles to go up 43, 14 but the dons do not quit joel sweeney ends the drought with a 43 yard td reception from bagby they would make it close in the end the rally though falls short 57, 52 thanks rick. Americas never been a country of quitters. Its not who we are. We dont ignore threats like climate change. We face our problems headon. With americanmade clean energy, we can end our dependence on foreign oil. And create millions of new jobs. Solving our Climate Crisis starts with 50 clean energy by 2030