When you factor in i tama is at i tama is that four below. You are definitely going to need to bundle up today. 9 00 a. M. Temperature, just five degrees. More clouds this afternoon, 14 degrees, and we will watch some snow role in tonight. Alyx as the republican president ial field narrows, the remaining candidates are now courting voters in South Carolina, ahead of tonights the gop primary is almost a week away. The democrats next contest is nevada. The next two states are more diverse and candidates hope to win over more voters before next weekend. Candidates are looking for the support of africanamericans and latinos, and theyre also counting on christian voters. Diverse electorate will change things to some degree. That christian or evangelical vote is very important in South Carolina. Its traditionally a state that has been hospitable to kind of electorate. Alyx you can watch the debate tonight at 8 00 right here on kcci. A man fired gun shots into the air near a des moines business friday night. This happened outside platinum kutz just before 8 00 p. M. University avenue near Drake University was even shut down for some time. Police say the man stood in the parking lot, yelling and firing off his gun. We were able to make contact with the occupants of the barber shop and everyone came out, and we were able to get a hold of the man that was firing shots and take him into custody without incident. Alyx no one was injured. The man was taken into custody. His name has not been released. The case against a former Des Moines Roosevelt High SchoolGirls Basketball coach could be thrown out. Gerald tig johnson is accused of having inappropriate contact with a student. Des Moines Police tell us Video Evidence from the School District in the case was the Des Moines Register reports johnsons attorney filed a motion to have the case thrown out because he says johnson cannot get a fair trial. Back in december, Police Charged johnson with Sexual Exploitation and assault to commit sexual abuse, after a student claimed johnson kissed and touched her. We are still waiting to learn more about a deadly crash in ankeny. It happened friday in the 6900 block of northeast 29th street south of the ankeny airport. , polk county sheriffs deputies say, a female driver lost control of her vehicle, it went off the road, and became wedged between two trees. A child who was also injured was taken to a des moines hospital. The crash remains under investigation. The name of a woman killed in a next house fire has been released. Just in a knoxville house fire in a knoxville house fire has been released. 77yearold Patricia Henning died after a fire in her home. Her husband of 58years, ronald, suffered burns trying to rescue her. Ronald has a long road ahead and that he lost everything. If youd like to help, you can find a link to his go fund me account on our website, kcci. Com. The u. S. Office for civil rights says it is actively looking into allegations of genderbias in the university of iowa athletic department. The office is investigating bias allegations in 13 areas. They includes awards and scholarships as well as game and practice schedules. Investigators will be on the campus in april. Last month, state civil rights investigators said there was a reasonable possibility that former womens field hockey coach, tracey griesbaum, would be able to prove discrimination played a role in her 2014 firing. Over to the statehouse lawmakers , are considering putting an end to public intoxication arrests. Police officers in iowa wont be able to charge people for being drunk in public if a bill is passed. Supporters of the bill say those drunk in public should not be if were worried about their safety, take them home or take them to the hospital. If theyre in physical danger, dont charge them for it. And its something that can be on their record for the rest of their life. Alyx Law EnforcementOfficials Say sometimes hospitals or Treatment Centers cant take the drunk person in. Time now, 5 05. We will check back in with the forecast. All that sunshine yesterday although it was cold, was pretty nice. Frank it made it feel about five to 10 degrees warmer, although it was not. We will not see a lot of sunshine today or tomorrow and we have some snow moving in. You could see some flurries and extreme southwestern iowa. The main snow maker just off to the north and west, going to have to watch that later on tonight into tomorrow. The big story today will be the moines. Audubon, one degree above. Webster city at four below. If you look around the region, we are not the only cold spot. Minneapolis at six below. Notice it is a little warmer off warm front. Your weekend outlook, just a cold one today, only 14 degrees. Tomorrow, warmer with some snow. Alyx city leaders in clive are taking steps to respond to flooding faster. City Officials Say the flooding in june surprised them with how high the water levels rose and how quickly. Thursday night, the city Council Adopted an updated flood response plan. They want crews to set up road blocks sooner. What were trying to do is take into account those faster rising events and make sure that if were three stages or three levels away from that event, prepping and staging. Alyx the city plans to hold a Public Meeting on march 21st about the changes, as well as proposed updates to the fema flood plain map. Its an issue affecting more than a half million low income and disabled iowans, but its also one many have a hard time understanding. The plan to privatize medicaid in iowa has its detractors. The iowa senate voted this week to halt the process. The bill faces certain defeat in the iowa house, but critics continue to warn the change could impact patient services. Those in favor say thats not true and something needs to be done to reign in the rising cost of medicaid. The services are not going to be reduced, they are just going to be better managed and better coordinated, the same way we would do with state employees. The model has not worked well , has not delivered on the alyx we will have a lot more on that coming up sunday on closeup as we unravel the details and the concerns with guests Senate President , pam jochum, and Governor Terry branstad. Close up airs at 10 30 a. M. , right after face the nation. Coming up on kcci k9 classmate. , why one area school is welcoming a dog as their newest student. Plus, the clocks ticking. Valentines day is tomorrow. Well tell you where you can get your sweetheart something alyx we have breaking news after an officerinvolved shooting at the holiday inn on merle hay road. This is a live look at the crime scene. When officers arrived, they met scuffle broke out. The man pulled out a weapon and was shot by an officer. Scene throughout the morning. This is breaking news that is happening right now. The time now is 5 12, we will take a look at the weather forecast. Frank youre going to need to bundle up, the coldest morning in quite some time. Temperatures barely above zero. Fort dodge and marshalltown just off to the north below zero this morning. The coldest locations are north of highway 20. Satellite radar starting to pick up on some light returns to the southwest and we not seeing anything hitting the ground. As we start to saturate the air later today into tonight, we could see some snow. 14 in des moines, 12 in fort dodge. These are just high temperatures. Mason city at seven degrees. We are going to detail that snow i think kids will be very surprised. Alyx surprised is right. A des moines Area Elementary School is getting a very unusual classmate. This classmate comes at a cost of about 2300. Kccis kim st. Onge has the story. Kim the new classmate cant even read or write, but hes going to teach students here at cla a valuable lesson. Go to your desks. Get out your writing notebook. Kim its never easy being the new kid. We were very, very nervous. Kim these 4th graders know their new classmate comes with challenges. Its going to be pretty funny because we dont have a dog walking down the halls everyday. Kim this golden doodle, bogey, will be the districts first ever therapy dog. Hes very shy but hes a friendly dog. Kim bringing bogey aboard was the students idea. It will help our students with a lot of things. It would help them with anxiety kim they had to convince administrators, having a dog at school is beneficial. They had a lot of the questions that most people would probably have when talking about bringing a dog to school. Weve learned that test scores have gone up. Weve learned that behavior improves. Kim the deal was, these 4th graders had to come up with the money to care for bogey. So they wrote letters to people in our community. I am writing to ask for your support to raise enough money to keep our therapy dog happy and healthy. Kim while we were there, they hit their goal. We passed our goal. Kim chances are, this new kid will be welcomed with open arms. As far as feeding bogey, take him outside, and clean up accidents, bocook says thats up the the 4th graders. At clive learning academy, kim st. Onge, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Alyx bogeys first day will be in the next few weeks. He is a hypoallergenic dog but trying to figure out how to plan for students with allergies. The clock is ticking for lastminute shoppers, valentines day is tomorrow. As we found out one des moines , flower shop takes pride in producing much more than holiday arrangements. Flowers by anthony has been a south side staple for more than six decades. But its not mother natures creations the owner is most proud of these days. Its products hes designing himself. For the past year and a half, kevin funaro has been using a hightech laser machine to engrave personal memorial tiles. You are looking at one now. Oftentimes for customers loved ones, he says it helps with the familys healing process. Printing pictures and dates on materials like marble and wood. I started doing the engraving simply because, to me, it was just an extension of the flowers except for, its something that captured a persons life after alyx beautiful sentiment. His good deeds go far beyond memorial engravings. They also provide funeral floral arrangements free of charge to local families who have experienced the death of a child. Flowers by anthony is open today from 8 00 to 3 00. Have you gotten your valentine Something Special . Frank i am one of those lastminute people. Thankfully, there is folks open and ready to take lastminute people like me. Clarion at six below, five below when you factor in the wind, it feels even colder. Webster feels like 18 below zero, six below in knoxville. The wind is not very strong, but there is just enough out there to put the extra chill in the air. They are out of the northeast at about five miles per hour. Southwestern iowa, much of that not making it to the ground. The next system will be coming through tonight into tomorrow, bringing us a better chance of snow. With that sinking air, we are not saturating the lower levels of the atmosphere for the snow to hit the ground this morning but as High Pressure moves out, this warm front will be moving through the state along with this area of low pressure. Lets track it with futurecast, starting things out, i think most of the day stays dry but it will be very cold. 4 00 is trying to spit out some snow showers for northwestern iowa. It is going to start as light snow but will be over a longer period of time. The snow continues throughout the overnight hours tonight into sunday before it will finally pull out by the end of the day just how much snow we are expecting, two to four inches and the metro, higher amounts to the north and east. Two and less around audubon and atlantic. I want to stress the higher totals will be off to the north and east of the metro. 14 degrees today, it is going to be a chilly one. 13 the low tonight. Temperatures rise as the warm front pulls through. Tomorrow, 32 degrees, the snow will taper off by the afternoon, and a big warm up. Monday, 39, tuesday, close to 40. By the end of the week we are back near 50 degrees. Coming up in your morning sports, will he play or will he not . Dad i know. Spots. Culligan man the problem is your water anncr a culligan wholehouse water conditioning system gets rid of sediment or impurities. So keeping everything spotless is effortless. Mom hey. Dad the culligan man. Culligan man morning so, let me get this straight u. S. 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The battle from the metro does not get any bigger than this, what does it get any louder . But does it get any louder . Yes, it does. The party was at des moines north on friday. The polar bears out in a hurry. English got the polar bears running but the huskies, douglas wilson. The second half belonged to the hoover huskies. We really focused. We hang our hat on the defense. Andy congratulations to the dowling hosting valley. The maroons lead by three. Turner absolutely fearless. Nevermind the defense, he is still just in their. Back and forth this game went. Right place, right time, gathers the rebound. Valley went inside to Charlie Crowley for the finish. The tigers make 23 froze free throws. 535 hosting the earlham cardinals. Laying it in for two. Earlham went answer. Would answer. Monte morris style, he knocks it trent williamson, keep an eye on the pot. Beat the buzzer. I35 came back to protect the home court, the road winners win 6452. One of my favorite things each and every week is you make the call, where we make somebody out there a sportscaster for the night. Even though it is a reference to calling highlights, not being on the phone. Hold on, i have got to call you back. I have to do this you make the call thing. Senior night. Looking to go out with a win over valley, third quarter, dowling up eight. Here comes dowling. What a play then for her pays her back. But we are not scared, we are dowling. Becca hittner throws it in reverse. Then fellow senior 43. For three. Dowling wins big, 7156. This is a may with you make the call. I am back. Andy nice job. East hosting indianola, and that is grace berg inside with the rebound. They were just in control. A pretty finish, going baseline and swooping it up. Knocking it home, but indianola what a rivalry we have, the east side of the metro and the westside, southeast polk playing host to waukee. Through the waukee defense and laying it in for two. Abby, a tremendous player for the rams, wide open underneath. Waukee not going anywhere. Watch her pump fake, one step over. Southeast polk would protect the home floor, 7764. The tournament because it shows we can do it, and we can make it and stay as long as we want to. We have gone through a lot, we are battling every day, and i at the right time. Know it is going to be a battle, and im am really proud of how the girls stepped up. Andy 5a is going to be a fantastic tournament. Ballard on the road with carlisle, gabby dowell for the. Doubt ballard was up 19. Haley knocks down the long three for the wildcats, but sin on the highlights for carlisle. Ballard just really good. Ballard wins 6346 the final over carlisle. Womens College Basketball last night, a good night for iowas Missouri Valley conference teams. Drake, 9858. Northern iowa beat indiana state. The Senior Center for isu has been suspended for a violation of team roles are the last two games, but steve prohm said mckay will be in the lineup although he will not start. Burton expected to get the starting spot for the Third Straight game. At 7 30 at hilton alyx breaking news on kcci, officerinvolved shooting. One man is dead after he pulled a weapon on an officer around 4 00 this morning at the holiday inn on merle hay road following a domestic disturbance. His is a live look at the crime scene now. When officers arrived, they met a male and two females. A fight broke out, a man pulled out a weapon, and was shot by an officer. The two females are in custody, and it is very much an active crime scene right now. 5 32. Frank it is going to be a chilly one with temperatures below zero in some ports of the state. Here in the metro, three above. One above in ames. North of highway 20 and it just gets downright cold. Six below in mason city and when you factor in that wind, it is just enough to put that extra chill in the air. We are sitting at six below in des moines for the windchill. Cloudy, not as much sunshine. More clouds by 3 00, and we are watching for some snow that will rolling tonight. Alyx speaking of bitter cold on , the east coast, the National Weather service says the coldest air mass of the winter may hit this weekend. A wind chill advisory will be in effect this afternoon through tomorrow. Temps could fall as low as 4 degrees below zero. Although new york city could see degrees to 24. Wind gusts could reach 45 miles per hour. Meanwhile just to the south, republicans are gearing up for their ninth debate. Donald trump and ted cruz will stand center stage in South Carolina just a week ahead of the primary there. Weijia jiang is in greenville, South Carolina with the latest. Weijia donald trump hit the campaign trail in florida after taking aim again at rival ted cruz. 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