Steady or falling to around freezing through the day. The big story is the potential for a winter storm to track into eastern iowa monday. Timing and track of the system is still a bit uncertain but confidence increasing that iowa will be impacted by this sttm. This is a tricky system to forecast as models are indicating a surge of warm air mondaymorning. This means freezing rain sleet and snow will all be possible. Can you believe it . We say goodbye impacted by this storm. This is a tricky system to forecast as models are indicating a surge of warm air monday morning. This can you believe it . We say goodbye hello to anonoher year. Butt this ear still has one of its biggest shopping days on the calendar. That day is today shoppers are expected to snag more deals today than on black friday and cyberermonday. Shoppers are going for big post holiday discounts and some plan to buy presents for next year already and of course use gift cards they got for christmas. And if youre looking for an excuse to shop today is also boxing day. Boxing day celebrates when servants in the 17th century uk would recieve gift boxes from their bosses. The day is celebrated throughout much of britains former colonies. Like as youre seeing here check out these shshppers warming a department store. Sort of like black friday boxing day is now primarily known as a shopping holiday. Shoppers are expected to spend onepoint82 billion dollars in just 24 hours. Meanwhile waterloo firefighters respond to an early Christmas Morning fire. This happened in the 36hundred block oo raven wooddcircle. Heres a look at video from the scene crews responded a little after seven in the morning. Firefighters said a bathroom exhaust fan sparked the fire. Now some good news here no one was hurt and crews put out the fire in about 5 minutes. One denver family has a Christmas Angel to thank after an Early Morning fireredestroys their barn story. All that remains of an old barn is this pile of burnt lingering in the air. Hartman the old barn use to storage and not a big loss. What family home where they were sleeping. Stranger frrm missouri named mike the highway and woke up the family. It cculd have eassly; in thh time that it took for me to go the whole structure was engulfed by and just made sure we were all safe. Thanks to mike fire crews were abb to contain the fire from spreading to their home or the large barn where five horses are kept. The fire did however take out the main power line to the property. We areewith out family is working to get generators running. So mike, just thank you from the bottom of our heart that you stopped. It could have been so much worse. The family also wanted to thank firefighters and the other emergency crews who responed on christmas. Ccews were on scene for nearly two hours containing the blaze. An iowa Lottery Winner may have to return his 1 hundredthousand dollar prize. Ininlate july a man went to collect his prize check claiming a coworker bought him the ticket. The problem is the iowa lottery got a tip saying he purchased the ticket when he was underage. The day he went to the gas station and got the Winning Ticket the manager says he showed a fake id. The man is now facing misdemeanor charges for underage gambling. mary neubauer, iowa lottery spokeswoman the law is in place for a reason. We need to often. The store owner says he will appeal the decision saying all the money that comes from lottery is a good source of money for his business. A homeowner calls police after finding a man asleep in his was parked in his garage. Moments later the man ran from the property and took a loaded gun from the vehicle. The man is now in custody. Kwwls hillary magll reports the latest on an unusual string of events that has one man facing a handful of charges. Heres more. A sign outside this house in swisher says welcome. But the owners likely didnt home in their garage. Fortyyearold tommy duffer of shellsburg is now facing multiple theft and burglary charges after handgun from a truck inside one home on amana road. He went inside another house on the street to hide from police. sot. Cg Hillary Maglin one of these houses that duffer broke into even has a sign on the door, warning intruders that a Security System is in place. But that didnt stop duffer from stealing a laptop. Clothing. A pickup truck. And two hundred dollars in cash from the home. Police later booked in cedar rapids. But the handgun has yet to be found. Weve got you covered Hillary Maglin kwwl news. At this time, duffer is charged with theft and burglary. Despite the snow and colder temperatures some eastern iowans are celebrating the season in a strange way this year by water skiing. You heard me right Austin Jensen and his dad getting the boat back in the water for some christmas water skiing. While his dad went with the more traditional water skiing route austin went barefoot. They both zoomed up and down the cedar river, taking advantage of Austin Jensen, water skier cause a lot of years theres heard of past stories of people doing it on christmas, so i thought it would be a Good Opportunity to try. As you can see here austin got a little festive sporting the big they said the water was about 33 degrees. Its coming up on today in iowa. We arent the only state dealing with some unseasonable weather. Mississippi is dealing with rare winter tornadoes. Plus, a brush fire continues to burn. Displacing hundreds in its pat and denice has a look at our weaaer. Youre watching kwwl news. Weve got you covered. Youre watching kwwl. Weve got you covered. With lauren moss and meteorologist Denice Pelster. This is today in iowa. Im chief mass seargant gary sharp, deployed in Southeast Asia and i would like to wish my friends and family back in im chief mass seargant gary sharp, deployed in Southeast Asia and i would like to wish my friends and family back in northeast iowa and misawa, japan a Merry Christmas and a iowa this morning. A light warmer air will work its way in be light. Highs today will be in the mid to upper 30s with cloudy breezy with temperatures Holding Steady or falling to around day. The big story is the potential for a winter storm to track into eastern iowa monday. Timing and track of the system is still a bit uncertain but confidence is increasing that indicating a surge of warm air monday morning. This means freezing rain sleet and snow will all be possible. Current thought is a wintry mix will occur mainly south of hwy 20 before a switch to all snow later in the with Ice Accumulation possible in our southern counties. Well keep you updated on this potential storm as the track and timing get nailed down with further model runs. This system will track out Tuesday Morning with temperatures expected to cool down for the rest of the highs struggling to get above 20 by the end of the week. 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 disturbance is tracking across iowa this morning. A light wintry mix will be possible for a brief time mainly before 10 am and warmer air will work its way in and switch the mix to rain for the afternoon. Widespread rain is not expected and totals will be light. Highs today will be in the mid to upper 30s with cloudy skies and breezy east wind. Rain chances will end early tonight. Sunday will be breezy with temperatures Holding Steady or falling to around freezing through the day. The big story is the potential for a winter storm to track into eastern iowa monday. Timing and track of the system is still a bit uncertain but confidence is increasing that iowa will be impacted by this storm. This is a tricky system to forecast as models are indicating a surge of warm air monday morning. This means occur mainly south of hwy 20 before a switch to all snow later in the day. The Northern Counties will likely stick with all snow. Snow totals could be over four inches with Ice Accumulation possible in our southern counties. Well keep you updated on this timing get nailed down with further model runs. This system will track out Tuesday Morning with temperatures expected to cool down for the rest of the week. Another slight chance of snow tracks in wednesday with highs struggling to get above 20 by the end of the week. 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 disturbance is tracking across iowa this morning. A light wintry mix will be possible for a brief time mainly before 10 am and areas north of hwy 20. Warmer air will work its way in and switch the mix to rain for the afternoon. Widespread rain is not expected and totals will be light. Highs today will be in the mid to upper 30s with cloudy skies and breezy east wind. Rain breezy with temperatures Holding Steady or falling to around freezing through the day. The big story is the track into eastern iowa monday. Timing and track of the system is still a bit uncertain but storm. This is a tricky system to forecast as models are indicating a surge of warm air monday morning. This means freezing rain sleet and snow will all be possible. Current thought is a wintry mix will occur mainly south of hwy 20 before a switch to all snow later in the day. The Northern Counties will likely stick with all snow. Snow totals could be over four inches with Ice Accumulation possible in our southern counties. Well keep you updated on this potential storm as the track and timing get nailed down with further model runs. This system will track out Tuesday Morning with temperatures expected to cool down for the rest of the week. Another slight chance of snow tracks in wednesday with highs struggling to get above 20 further model runs. This system will track out Tuesday Morning with temperatures expected to cool down for the rest of the week. Another slight chance of snow tracks in wednesday with highs struggling to get above 20 in mississippi relief organizations and volunteers are of a rare round of winter tornados this week. Those storms killed at least 14 people. Cleanup efforts continue today however anticipated heavy those efforts. Despite all that communities are still coming together to help. Weve got red cross has been up people at the commodore hotel, weve had numerous churches open up their doors and let people stay the night. Everybody just pitched in really well and im really proud of this community. This is surviellance video that was sped up. From a bank in Holly Springs where the storm hit. Watch as you see the tornado rolling past. Another tornado touched down in Central Alabama last night. Firefighters say three homes were one person was transported to the hospital with minor injuries as the mayor declared an emergency with rain continuing to pour and creating flash flooding. Heres a look at some of that flooding happening in the state. Rescue workers were forced to raft families to safety after floodwaters cut off neighborhoods. Some roads have been washed away as creeks and rivers overrun their banks. A brush fire in Southern California has quickly spread to more than 9 Hundred Acres early this morning. More than a hundred firefighters are currently trying to control the flames. Investigators say at least 30 homes are in the fires path. The california Highway Patrol shut down a stretch of the Pacific Coast highway as evacuations in the area have been issued. No injuries have been reported yet in the sudde blaze. Its coming up on today in iowa. Many people headed home for the thats on the way. Well be right back. Youre watching kwwl weve got you covered. This is gordon. Downtown for a sales call. West side for a presentation. Meeting after meeting. Thats why gordon stops at exxon and mobil. For fuels that help his engine run cleaner, smoother, and with better fuel economy. So he can make it to the meeting that matters most. Gordon is energy. Exxon and mobil are proud plenti partners. Lots of points. Lots of places. Unwanted gifts to stores. But not all those returns will be made in good faith. According to the National Retail federation, stores estimate that threeandahalf percent of their holiday returns this year will be fraud holiday return fraud is expected to cost stores 2. 2 billion dollars this Holiday Season alone. Nine out of ten retailers said theyve experienced the return of stolen merchandise. If youve traveled home for the holidays. Are you staying with family . Or did you book a hotel . A survey found that 61 percent of those polled said theyd prefer not to stay at a family members home overnight this Holiday Season. Why . Well the top reason given was i wouldnt have my own space and even though that craziness is what makes for some holiday movie classics apparently people dont want to experience it in their actual lives. Rounding out the top three reasons. I would have to share a bathroom. And i wouldnt be able to watch tv alone. Still to come on today in iowa. We take a look back at the greatest moments in iowa sports this year. Can you guess whats number one . Youre watching kwwl. Weve got you covered in toddville, iowa city, marion and all of kwwls mark woodley takes a look back at the states greatest moments in sports. Heres mark. Weve already counted down numbers 12 through 7. Now its time for the top 6 iowa sports stories of 2015 former waterloo east state senior using a move dubbed the gadson put had just one thing on his mind. Ice cream we step back to a historic day rallying from a 16 point second biggest win in Mcleod Center championship took another major at the age of 39 besting playoff to win the open championship, and take home the claret jug from historic Saint Andrews the panthers at number 5 and against Illinois State as the panthers grabbed their first tournament title in 5 years which vaulted them to a 5 seed School History another tournament title at number two as the iowa state earned a number 3 seed in the big dance of 2015 is one that will be continued on the first day of the new year the iowa hawkeyes the taxslayer bowl did a season finish in School History and their first ever big ten another tournament title at number two as the Iowa State Cyclones went back to back iowa state in the final go around for the mayor held off kansas in a thrilling big 12 tournament final the second straight for the cyclones who earned a number 3 seed in the big dance of 2015 is one that will be embarrassed by a lackluster performance against tennessee in the taxslayer bowl did a complete 180 the following fall sprinting out to their first 12 and oh regular season finish in School History hawkeyes are now smelling roses as iowas set to travel to in 2015 im mark woodley kwwl news and what a sports year it has been if you missed part one of marks top sports moments this year head on over to our website at kwwl to relive the complete list. More sports still to come today. But first well take a quick break. Still to come the rose bowl game is coming up. People all over iowa are out buying hawkeye gear. Even in cyclone nation plus. Cruzing to caucus iowa bus tour. Ted cruz announcing his big bus tour through the hawkeye announcer one candidate tough enough to take on the bully. Jeb bush donald, youre not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency. Thats not going to happen. applause announcer one candidate tough enough to take on isis. Jeb will destroy isis. And keep america safe. Jeb bush the United States should not delay in leading a Global Coalition to take out isis with overwhelming force. Announcer tested and proven leadership matters. Jeb bush. Details on the way plus. Rose bowl t shirts are a top iowa. Then. President obama and the first lady send out their christmas speaking of christmas i hope everyone had a great holiday. Thank you for starting your day with us today. Im lauren moss. Some parts saw a bit of a White Christmas yesterday. But now we have quite a bit heading our way. Storm track 7 meterologist Denice Pelster joins us now for seven meteorologist Denice Pelster for a check of our warmer air will work its way in and switch the mix to rain for the afternoon. Widespread rain is not expected and totals will cloudy skies and breezy east wind. Rain chances will end early tonight. Sunday will be breezy with temperatures Holding Steady or falling to around freezing through the day. The big story is the potential for a winter storm to track into eastern iowa monday. Timing and track of the system is still a bit uncertain but confidence is increasing that iowa will be impacted by this storm. This is a tricky system to forecast as models are indicating a surge of warm air monday morning. This snow will all be possible. Eastern iowa monday. Timing and track of the system is still a bit uncertain but confidence is increasing that iowa will be impacted by this storm. This is a tricky system to forecast as models are indicating a surge of warm air monday morning. This means freezing rain sleet and snow will all be possible. The big story is the potential for a winter storm to track into eastern iowa monday. Timing and track of the system is still a bit uncertain but confidence is increasing that iowa will be impacted by this storm. This is a tricky system to forecast as models are indicating a surge of warm air monday morning. This means freezing rain sleet and people around the world celebrated christmas last night. And the president offered a message of hope while troops overseas honored those killed this week. Edward lawrence has the story from washington. A somber christmas in afghanistan where military members honored six americans killed this week by a suicide bomber. this was especially important here where we got the opportunity to remember those who we have also lost. More than 200,000 us far from home. Including 4,000 country of djibouti. Back in the a message with the first lady. Christmas spirit. Treating one another with love and compassion. Caring for those on societys margins the pope francis also offered his message of hope. He called for renewed those affected by terrorist attacks. Specifically mentioning the one in paris last month. As many celebrated. People in mississippi and several other states hit by tornadoes the past few days cleaned up. At least 14 people died. In Holly Springs, mississippi the Community Stepped up. Weve got red cross has been assisting the people that have people stay the night. Others homeless. Its an annual tradition pulled off with volunteers. As fast as it came this year well wait another year for christmas 2016 to sneak up. Congress is taking the Holiday Season off and the president will be back to work january second after his christmas vacation in hawaii. Morning. The gop Hawkeye State frontrunner in some new polls will take to the streets of iowa soon. According to a report from the des moines register. Texas senator ted cruz will take part in a six day bus tour of iowa from january 4th through the 9th. The republican candidate is calling it cruzin to caucus iowa bus tour. He plans to stop in 36 counties including a handful of stops in our area towards the end of his swing. You can log onto our website at kwwl dot com for more information. President ial candidate marco rubio will hold a town hall meeting in eastern iowa next week. Senator rubio is set to speak at 330 pm on tuesday at the Waterloo Center for the arts. Doors open at three and the event is open to the public. On the other side of the aisle Bernie Sanders plans to ring in the new year in iowa. The democratic president ial candidate will be hosting an event in des moines on new years eve. The event is free and open to the public but you need to rsvp. The program goes from seven to nine that night. Youve likely heard of the 16 presidenital candidates but theres one more who started gaining a lot of attention this week. When a democratic president ial candidate named rocky opened his doors for a Holiday Party inside his new West Des Moines home he had visions of santa, christmas trees, and bright lights. Instead he got a visit from police. officer we have had complaints about the trailer and the bus parked in the driveway here. When we get complaints and they are in violation of have to take the proper steps. Police say rocky is violating a City Ordinance so he has to move within the next week. Many residents say the big trailer and bus are an eye sore to the neighborhood. Rocky says some neighbors have greeted him warmly while others made it clear they do not like his campaign resources. rocky de la fuente d president ial candidate everybody has the right, i everywhere i go, and i am very considerate with people but sometimes people should be a little bit more patient. If they see we just moved in, they should give me a little more than two days to move in. Rocky says he plans to continue urging the public to stopy by his home for the campaign events. An annual year end tradition is celebrating 90 years of high kicks and ringing in the season in style. The worldfamous radio city rockettes perform in new york city. Nbcs rehema ellis is behind the scenes coming back year after year. Famous tap opening number as the curtain rises. Are high kicking into a the group was formed in 1925 as the missouri rockets. When they made it to ny a few line of precision and style. Ellis rockettes they really are athletes, the rockettes. Julie branam, once a rockette herself is now the director and have such an amazing amount of strength. You can throw any dance style at them and theyll do it. Theyre well versed in every different style. Between 56 and 510. 5 and once theyre in, they stay in lh yeah, this is my thirteenth christmas. I work hard every single year to come back and dance on this great stage known for those synchronized, inline kicks, the secret. Look closely most people think when we and precision kicks, the world famous rockettes 90 years in the making and living up to their name. Re, nbc news, new york. The Rockettes Christmas spectacular performance runs through january 3rd this season. Coming up on today in iowa. Mcdonalds is trying out a new menu item for all you cheese lovers. Plus, it was a big year for movies. We take a look back at this year in film. Youre watching kwwl news. Weve got you covered. Forecast on kwwl. Wintry mix will be possible for and switch the mix to rain for the afternoon. Widespread rain is not expected and totals will skies and breezy east wind. Rain chances will end early tonight. Sunday will be big story is the potential for a winter storm to track into eastern iowa monday. Timing and track of the system is still a bit uncertain but confidence is increasing that iowa will be impacted by this storm. This is a tricky system to forecast as models are freezing rain sleet and snow will all be possible. Current thought is a wintry mix will occur mainly south of hwy 20 before a switch to all snow later in the day. The Northern Counties will likely stick with all snow. Snow totals could be over four inches with Ice Accumulation possible in our southern counties. Well keep you updated on this potential storm as the track and timing get nailed down with further model runs. This system will track out Tuesday Morning with temperatures expected to cool down for the rest of the week. Another slight chance of highs struggling to get above 20 by the end of the week. 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 disturbance is tracking across iowa this morning. A light wintry mix will be possible for a brief time mainly before 10 am and areas north of hwy 20. Warmer air will work its way in and switch the mix to rain for the afternoon. Widespread rain is not expected and totals will be light. Highs today will be in the mid to upper 30s with cloudy skies and breezy east wind. Rain chances will end early tonight. Sunday will be breezy with temperatures Holding Steady or falling to around freezing through the day. The big story is the potential for a winter storm to track into eastern iowa monday. Timing and track of the system is still a bit uncertain but confidence is increasing that iowa will be impacted by this storm. This is a tricky system to indicating a surge of warm air monday morning. This means occur mainly south of hwy 20 before a switch to all snow later in the day. The Northern Counties will likely stick with all snow. Snow totals could be over four inches with Ice Accumulation possible in our southern counties. Well keep you updated on this potential storm as the track and will track out Tuesday Morning with temperatures expected to cool down for the rest of the week. Another slight chance of snow tracks in wednesday with highs struggling to get above 20 by the end of the week. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather stormtrack 7 weather team a disturbance is tracking across iowa this morning. A light wintry mix will be possible for a brief time mainly before 10 am and areas north of hwy 20. Warmer air will work its way in and switch the mix to rain for the afternoon. Widespread rain is not expected and totals will be light. Highs today will be in the mid to upper 30s with cloudy skies and breezy east wind. Rain breezy with temperatures Holding Steady or falling to day. The big story is the potential for a winter storm to track into eastern iowa monday. Timing and track of the system is still a bit uncertain but confidence is increasing that iowa will be impacted by this storm. This is a tricky system to forecast as models are indicating a surge of warm air monday morning. This means freezing rain sleet and snow will all be possible. Current thought is a wintry mix will occur mainly south of hwy 20 before a switch to all snow later in the day. The Northern Counties will likely stick with all snow. Snow totals could be over four inches with Ice Accumulation possible in our southern counties. Well keep you updated on this potential storm as the track and timing get nailed down with further model runs. This system will track out Tuesday Morning with temperatures expected to cool down for the rest of the week. Another slight chance of snow tracks in wednesday with highs struggling to get above 20 with Ice Accumulation possible in our southern counties. Well keep you updated on this potential storm as the track and timing get nailed down with further model runs. This system will track out Tuesday Morning with temperatures expected to cool down for the rest of the week. Another slight chance of snow tracks in wednesday with highs struggling to get above 20 by the end of the week. Mcdonalds may soon be adding a new menu item that both kids and adults are sure to love. The fast food chain is trying out the popular comfort food at some locations in ohio. Which is about the same as a 4 piece chicken mcnuggets meal. Mcdonalds has been trying out several as a way to boost sales. Coming up on today in iowa. Iowa rose bowl shirts are a top seller this week even in nation plus, serena is at it again. Bringing home an award for the 4th time we will be right back. But first lets take a live look outside with our. Skycam we have some more snow headed our way this week. Its to be expected but whats surprising this business is in cyclone nation makes tshirts. Just for the rose bowl, theyve made about 30thousand shirts. Employees are working 12hour shifts to crank out 3thousand shirts a day. As soon as we get them into the stores they are selling out which is great and we are going back on press to get more stock to the stores. They say this is the biggest order theyve had and theyve been in business for ten years the owners also believe championship rose bowl shirts could be available at stores like hyvee and walgreens as early as monday january 4th. The game will of course be played friday but starting tomorrow our live coverage from california begins tonight in our evening shows you can join ron steele, mark woodley and the crew to keep you updated on the hawkeyes as they get set for their rose bowl matchup with the sixth ranked stanford cardinal. Watch for updates throughout the broadcast called road to the rose bowl live from pasadena on wednesday at 630. In other sports headlines. Anoter award for serena williams. This one for the fourth time. The number one female tennis player was chosen as the ap female athlete of the year. She also won the award in 2002, 2009 and 2013. She was 53 and 3 on the year with 5 w ta titles. Coming up on today in iowa. It was a big year for movies we take a look at all the record breakers. Plus, the man everyone was talking about last week. Steve harvey has a bit of fun this christmas. Box office highlights. And get year for movies ever mark barger has much more for us this morning. 2015s Biggest Box Office question is still up in the air. Whether star wars the all Time Box Office record. Two point eight billion dollars worldwide. The only way you can make thats what helped vault brian, tez, blow it furious 7 raced its way into the number five spot. Number 6. Each one huge hits. 2015 is going to be remembered as one of these years as far as mammoth box office. Jennifer lawrences hunger games finale. Mockingjay part 2. Led another group of films than 200 million dollars. Well. Or a movie like trainwreck, written by and starring a amy schumers comedy brought in more than 100 million dollars. So did Melissa Mccarthys espionage gigglefest, spy. Three major Success Stories for femaledriven films. Thats a trend were going to see continuing more and more as still crack 11 billion dollars in u. S. Box office. An all time record. I dont think were going to see a year like this for quite a long time. Leaving a tall challenge for the films to come in 2016. Mark barger, nbc news. Another one of 2015s hits crashed the all time top ten in global box office. Minions took more than 1. 15 billion dollars. And in my opinion it deserved well steve harvey is a really good sport. Harvey tried to shut down critics on Christmas Day and poke some fun at himself with a special easter message. The tv host lit up social media this week after he announced the wrong winner of the Miss Universe pageant and had to correct the error. But yesterday he owned it by tweeting merry easter yall mistakes happen. At least he has a sense of humor about it. Youre watching kwwl well be time mainly before 10 am and the afternoon. Widespread rain is not expected and totals will skies and breezy east wind. Rain chances will end early tonight. Sunday will be breezy with temperatures Holding Steady or falling to around freezing through the day. The eastern iowa monday. Timing and track of the system is still a bit uncertain but confidence models are indicating a surge of warm air monday morning. This snow will all be possible. A tricky system to forecast as models are indicating a surge of warm air monday morning. This means freezing rain sleet and snow will all be possible. 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