Step outside, it you will not really needed this morning. Metinka it feels really nice out this morning. 50 degrees already. No rain to worry about. That is going to change. Later on this afternoon, well have a little bit of light rain, light drizzle. Temperatures today still today stay really mild. Temperatures will start out decent and then fallout into the 30s. That would change the rain over into a wintry mix. We have a winter storm watch to talk about. Eric thank you metinka. Millions of americans are expected to hit the road this morning for their holiday travel. But officials are warning to stay alert and vigilant, amid heightened concerns over potential terror plots. Shaina humphries has the latest. What are Law Enforcement officials doing to keep americans safe this Holiday Season . Shaina travelers this week should expect steppedup security at airports and train stations across the country. The tsa is advising to get to the airport even earlier, to allow for extra screening time at security checks. President obama will be briefed by his National Security team this morning, as the fbi issues a new bulletin reportedly warning of potential copycats following the recent attacks in paris. Officials do say though, there is no current specific threat, so theyre urging americans to carry on with their travel plans as scheduled. What this is not saying is dont travel. We want americans to travel domestically, overseas. You have to live your life. You cant just live in fear, but its a little scary. You know it its going to happen its going to happen, but hopefully, god willing, it wont. Shaina there is also a new app being rolled out in some parts of the country called see something, send something. That allows users to send in photos and notes to authorities about any potential threats. Also happening right now, tensions are high in chicago. Following a night of unrest triggered by a policeinvolved shooting a year ago. Protesters clashed with police into the early morning, after graphic video of the incident was released to the public. It shows officer Jason Van Dyke shooting 17yearold Laquan Mcdonald 16 times. The officer was charged with murder tuesday morning, and remains in jail. And overnight, protests in minneapolis continued for a ninth straight night. Theyre demanding justice for the shooting death of jamar clark, by Minneapolis Police earlier this month. Prosecutors say a grand jury will decide whether to charge the officers involved, with any crimes. Meanwhile, police are holding three men who are accused of shooting at protesters monday night. Five people were shot in that incident but all are expected to be ok. Eric thanks shaina. A kcci exclusive now, a sergeant with the missouri Highway Patrol says its the agencys negligence that killed clive native Brandon Ellingson. Back in may 2014, 20yearold ellingson was in handcuffs in Police Custody when he went overboard on a patrol boat and drowned. Former water patrol supervisor sgt. Randy henry tells kcci, the Highway Patrol is at fault, but has been trying to silence his sgt. Henry says the Highway Patrol hid key evidence during a coroners inquest. And that the trooper that arrested ellingson, anthony piercy, should be facing criminal charges. Should someone have faced criminal charges for what happened on the lake that day . Yes, i believe so. What charges . Manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter. I was part of the system. I signed off on tony piercy to work the water. You regret that now. Yes, i regret it 100 . Its something im going to have to live with for the rest of my life. Eric meanwhile ellingsons father craig says the familys pursuit of charges in federal court is moving forward. Representatives of the missouri Highway Patrol will be in iowa next month for depositions. Elizabeth the driver involved in a deadly des moines car crash monday morning, now faces multiple charges. Police arrested 24yearold troy lee mure jr. Tuesday, as he was released from the hospital. Officials say mure was drunk when he crashed his car into a utility pole in the 600 block of 35th street. 22yearold Scalicity Perez was the passenger in the car, and was killed in the crash. Perezs family tells kcci she leaves behind four children. Mure is at the polk county jail this morning, charged with vehicular homicide by reckless driving, vehicular homicide by operating while intoxicated, and owi. Eric Brendan Mcginnis is expected to appear on murder charges. Mozilla was shot several times earlier this month. Again this is said to be arraigned this morning at a 30. At 8 30. Elizabeth a colfax family needs your help this morning, trying to get their therapy horse back. Take a good look at these pictures of buddy. Denise carroll says the horse disappeared from her yard in rural Jasper County overnight friday. She believes someone possibly stole him because he is valuable. The horse was donated to the family who has several special needs foster children. Carroll says horses are incredibly healing to children with special needs. To be able to have an animal they can have a trust with and some control over and bond with is so good for them, and buddy was perfect for that. Elizabeth buddy was last seen at his farm between newton and colfax, south of interstate 80, in the metz bridge area. If you have any information about his whereabouts, please call the Jasper CountySheriffs Office at 6417925912. Eric a lot of people are thinking about the thanks giving holiday. Metinka today is your getaway day, then you got some decent travel conditions. Temps are above freezing. You dont have to worry about slick spots. 50 degrees already in des moines. Today we will have some drizzle and fog develop. Temperatures remain above freezing all day long. Tomorrow . Look at this wintry picture. We are going to begin with unseasonably heavy rainfall. Potentially one to two inches of rain will fall on picks giving day. Then it is could be changing over to a wintry mix. Ice will accumulate. That will be followed by a little bit of snowfall. Elizabeth new College Football playoff rankings are out, and the hawkeyes have done it. Eric iowa cracked the top 4 this week, after a win over purdue last weekend gave them an 11 and 0 record, and made them one of two remaining undefeated teams. Heres a look at how things stand right now. Clemson, alabama, and oklahoma are numbers 1, 2, and 3 respectively. Then iowa at number 4. The rankings were revealed last night on espn after several revotes specifically surrounding spots 3 through 6, so Michigan State and notre dame are also teams to watch in the coming weeks. Whichever teams are in the top 4 on december 6, get to go to the College Football playoffs. If iowa does stay in the top 4, heres a look at their playoff schedule. Number 1 would play number 4 in the orange bowl on December December 31 in miami. Number 2 would play number 3 in the cotton bowl, also december 31 in arlington, texas. The winners of those games would move on to the championship game, january 12 in glendale, arizona. Elizabeth before we get there though, the hawkeyes will have a tough matchup this weekend though against big ten rival , nebraska. Regardless of what happens in this game, iowa will play in the big ten championship game, but a loss to the cornhuskers could potentially knock them back out of the top 4 in the playoff rankings. Kickoff is in lincoln on friday at 2 30 p. M. You can watch it on abc. Eric turning to the nba, it was a recordbreaking night last night for the golden state warriors. Point guard Stephen Curry led the team to a franchise record 27th straight home win, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers 111 to 77. The win also made the warriors the first team in nba history to start a season 16 and 0. They are perfect. That beats the 15 win record previously shared by the 1993 Houston Rockets and the 1948 washington capitals. Elizabeth in a recent interview with people magazine, iowa olympic Gold MedalistShawn Johnson opened up about an eating disorder she struggled with during her years as a gymnast. She says she always felt like she was too muscular and bulky and began to obsess about her weight. At one point she restricted herself to just 700 calories a day. A West Des Moines nutritionist says she appreciates johnsons announcement and says it was a tough thing to admit. This type of thing is very emotional and very psychological and shes in a good place in her life now and was able to talk about it and i sure do hope that it helps people. Elizabeth johnson says she began to feel better about goldmedal and eventually gained 20 pounds. Good for her. Eric hopefully it will help somebody else. Eric still ahead, wild weather. Holiday travel plans are threatened on the west coast by rain and snow. What you need to know if youre heading that direction for your thanksgiving. Elizabeth Small Business saturday. The shopping holiday thats all about buying local, and why more people are choosing that over black friday deals. Alyx thanksgiving is right around the corner. It is the festival of trees and lights. It feels like a Winter Wonderland. Weve got details on how you can come check it out. Shaina i will be keeping an i on those busy areas, the highways, interstates. A lot of people will be heading out today. Right now it looks good. Not seeing any problems. You are good to go if youre headed out anytime soon. A quick look at the roads before we go to break. If you are on the east side, you ny just for you. Thats no penny. Thats a galaxy s 6 at u. S. Cellular on black friday. Whoa, thanks, grandma youre welcome. You can also get an lg g4 or an lg g pad f 8. 0 with that penny. Nice isnt that just delightful . Pennies for everyone get penny doorbuster deals on great devices this black friday from 8 00 a. M. Till noon this is iowas news leader. This is kcci 8 news this morning with eric hanson, Elizabeth Klinge, meteorologist kurtis gertz and right now coverage with shaina humphries. Metinka 50 degrees already. Going to be a beautiful day. 43 degrees in ames. Everybody starting out above freezing. Tim just stay on the melting side all day long. Temperatures stay on the melting side all day long. We have a winter storm watch that has already been issued that does not include des moines. We are expecting some rain, heavy at times. Potentially some i speculation. Some ice accumulation. Shaina thanks metinka. Well have a rainy thanksgiving here in central iowa, but hopefully not quite this rainy. Parts of the San Francisco bay area are underwater right now. Heavy rains and very high tides flooded several streets there, including parts of two major interstates. Crews are hoping to have it all cleaned up as soon as possible so holiday traffic isnt affected. Further west, that rain turned into snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Reno around 10 00 a. M. , and the Higher Elevations there were expected to get anywhere from 12 to 22 inches through this morning. The snow is making driving conditions there very dangerous, several crashes and rollovers were reported, prompting officials to issue travel restrictions in Northern California and nevada. Most of the area is under a winter storm warning until later this morning. And there are about 40,000 people still without power right now in spokane, washington. Nearly 200,000 people there lost power last tuesday after a storm brought hurricanestrength wind gusts and knocked down dozens of power lines. Another round of strong winds last night hindered efforts to restore power and brought down even more utility poles. Right now crews say its unlikely theyll get everyones power back on before thanksgiving tomorrow. Eric thanks shaina. Were making our way into the Holiday Season, and starting today, the festival of trees and lights kicks off their Fundraising Efforts at the Iowa Events Center in downtown des moines. Elizabeth alyx sacks is there now with a preview. We hear this is a record breaking year . Alyx it is a recordbreaking year helping to inspire hope for all of the families that go in and out of the doors. They had a record attendance at the gala. They had a Record Number of trees. Last year was a recordbreaking year. They were able to raise 500,000 that goes to blank Childrens Hospital. If you want to check it out, it is open as of today all the way through sunday. It is five dollars to get in. Children under two are free. Ere are a ton of things to come up and see. You can check the art and crafts. There is childrens train, food offerings. You can shop. Plenty of things you can look at. It feels like a Winter Wonderland and check out all of these trees that have been decorated with such care. Each tree has come alive with so much character. There has been so much thought put into each and every one of them. It is going to an incredible cause. All of the money that is raised will be going to blank Childrens Hospital. To benefit programs like child life. Our ability to reach out to all 99 counties in iowa and provide services throughout the entire state those programs , wouldnt happen without festival of trees and lights. Alyx coming up, how you can weigh in on what your favorite tree is. It is a tough call but it will be really fall it will be really fun. I will tell you how to do that in 30 minutes. Back to you. Elizabeth another sure sign the Holiday Season is here, Jolly Holiday lights opened for its 20th season last night at water works park. Its now open every night through january 1 from 5 30 p. M. To 10 00 p. M. Tickets are 10 per car. 100 of the proceeds goes towards makeawish iowa. Eric a busy Holiday Shopping weekend ahead. Black friday, cyber monday, and saturday, its all about supporting local businesses. More iowans are turning to Small Business saturday as their day for Holiday Shopping. Iowa state researchers say 5 more people will shop locally this year. Ames Business Owners are some of the many across the nation that will participate this weekend. We are members of the Community Just like the customers are. By supporting local business youre supporting the people you love, the people that are your friends, the people that are your neighbors. Eric in ames, they will hand out 500 swag bags with coupons to shoppers this saturday. Elizabeth good deal. More economic headlines now, wall street closed mostly flat after a day of ups and downs on tuesday. The dow gained 19 points. The nasdaq added less than a point. And the s p 500 was up about 2. 5. Earnings at u. S. Banks rose more than 5 from july through september of last year. The federal Deposit Insurance Corporation says that profits reached just over 40 billion. Analysts credit the increase to a drop in Legal Expenses for the countrys Largest Financial Services companies. General mills is the latest company pledging to use only cagefree eggs. The maker of progresso soups and yoplait yogurts says the transition will take about 10 years to complete. Mcdonalds and starbucks have also promised to stop using eggs from animals confined to cages. The labels on Food Products may be getting easier to read. Lawmakers introduced new legislation this week to create a standard label for the front of all products, with calories and other basic nutritional information. The proposed bill also calls for a clearer definition of terms like natural and healthy. And if youre one of the eric and if youre thinking about what to get someone out, that lets you buy stock shares right there on store shelves. The new gift cards from Startup Company stockpile rolled out in major retailers like kmart and office max, and so far, the cards can be used to buy stock in 20 bigname companies. The founder and ceo of stockpile says its an innovative way to get started in owning stock. Were bringing wall street to america. People have never been able to own a stock and get started as quickly as they can here. Are you a flash in the pan or here to stay . I think its here to stay because we are seeing growth. Eric the stock gift cards are sold in denominations of 25, 50 or 100. Stockpile says so far, most of its customers are those over 30 years old buying for people under 30. Kind of an investment. Elizabeth we want to head over to metinka. Metinka temperatures are nice and mild. The weather is nice and quiet. What a beautiful way to start the day. Temperatures all across the state are above freezing. Right now, we are waking up to cloudy skies. No rain, nofault to worry about no rain, no fog to worry about. By afternoon, well have pockets of fog and drizzle out there. Nothing to affect your getaway wednesday. We have clouds in place. More moisture moving in from the west. The main system off across the rockies. This system will be approaching us as we head toward thursday. First of all, we are going to have the rainfall. Sometimes heavy on your thinks giving day here at that is going to be followed by a rapid changeover. Ic