Christmas decorations out have a good day today windy, scattered flurries s gh 3238 winds sw 1525 alolo35 dbq 37 iow 37tonight chance of flurries low 2531 winds w 1020 alo 28 dbq 28 iow 29tomorrow a waterloo family is back in their home this morning after a close call with high Carbon Monoxide levels in their home. Late saturday night, two Carbon Monoxide alarms went off in the rental home at 1732 mulberry street in waterloo. At first, all four members of the family thought it was just a failing battery. But when the alarm wouldnt quit, they called 9 11. The Fire Department measured 74 partsper million of Carbon Dioxide in jari engles home. Normal indoor air should be 10 or below. A rustedout exhaust pipe from thfurnace was causing the odorless, colorless and deadly into the home. Engle said sattday night she had a splitting headache and figured it was a migraine. Then the co detector started beeping. They saved out lives. If it wasnt for them. Weve probably be dead to be very honest engle says her rental home has five smoke detectors and two Carbon Monoxide dettors. Waterloo firefighters respond to about 25 calls a year of carbonononoxide detectors going off in homes. A teenager is in Critical Condition at the university of iowa hospital and clinics after a hunting accident. The Sheriffs Office says 17 year old daniel gibbs of west union was squirrel hunting when he tripped over a log and impaled himself through his neck with the barrel of his rifle. The rifleleid not discharge. It happened on a friends property near 11thousand great river road sunday afternoon. The iowa state patrol has cited a Johnson County sheriffs deputy in a weekend sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek says Deputy Ryan Quiles was on a routine patrol about 4 30 saturday afternoon near the intersection us highway 6 and 109. Thats north of oxford. He says quiles pulled away from a stop sign and into the path of another vehicle, injuring one person in that vehicle. The iowa state patrol cited quiles for failure to yield. Quiles remamas on active duty pending a Department Investigation into the crash. Remember whenever you see news happening, call newsline nine at 319 3659999. You can also send d ctures and videos to newsroom at kcrg dot com. This year, senior dining sites have served more than 75 thousand meals and delivered more than 250 thousand. Now, aging equipment at some sites is making the preparation of those meals a challenge. Senior center in tipton. Site director karen lafrenz and head cook peggy bolzma are working diligently to prepare lunch for the seniors of cedar county. This is our convection oven, you have to be real careful with it and not shut it all the way otherwise it shuts itself off. One very y portant, but often overlooked aspect of the Senior Dining Program is the equipment needed to cook the hundreds of hot meals every week. Yeah it would be important to have equipment that was working well. Right now its t tthe point where it turns off when we are in the middle of cooking something. It takes forever to heat up and the doors dont close right. And its just to that point where if we dont get something soononhe ovens not ing to work. The equipment upgrades needed at the cedar county Senior Center are an example of an issue that regionwide. Your donations will be a major help to this important program. To find out how you can help Senior Centers around eastern iowa just go to dot orgrgand dont forget to watch theheill the plate telethon this sunday night at 5 30 as we help Senior Citizens in need of a healthy meal. Today is giving tuesday. And Nonprofit Organizations in inn county are joining the effort. Gems of hope executive director Norah Hammond says she and other local nonprofits are working hard to spread the word about the initiative. One of the commitments that we made as non prots that work with theheoundation is to all work towards the messaging of the campaign, so weve all stepped it up and included it in our social media, in our eblasts, in our talking points about our organization. The Salvation Army isisffering an incentive to get more people to donate to its red kettles on giving tuesday. The nonprofit says the manufacturin g company, apache inc, will double all the donations to the kettle at the wilson avenue hyvee in cedar rads. The Salvation Army has collected a a ttle more thousand dollar goal. Linn county residents are encouraged to share their participation by using the hashtag givelenncoun ty. There are 24 shohoping days left until christmas. And many people turned to their computers and smart phones yesterday for cyber monday. The volume of online traffic caused some websites to crash. Targets had twice the visitors it previously had on its busiest day. That caused the site to go down, only allowing a certain n nber of people to shoho on the site at one time. Er the weekend, neiman marcus, best buy, walmart, and ebay all suffered online issues. West music in coralville had no probems. The business handled five times the normal number of online orders. West music offered ten percent off online orders and Free Shipping all day. But one west music representative says cyber monday itself is starting to lose some steam with people online on days like black friday and even thanksgiving day. I think what weve seen in the last two years is more customers areehopping online on ack friday versus standing in line outside or anything of that sort, with more retailers open on thanksgiving it really spreads out when people want to shop. Some Small Businesses are also trying harder than ever to tap into the online market. Revival in downtown iowa city offered 40 percent off its online orders throughout cyber monday. John deere is laying off hundreds of workers in moline, illinois. The layoffs at deeres seeding and cylinder factory affect about 220 employees. It goes into effect on february 15th. In past years, hn deere has laid off workers seasonally, and those people would usually return in the fall. This time, the company says the layoffs will last indefinitely. The announcement came after john deere released d s Fourth QuarterEarnings Report last week. Deere earned 351 Million Dollars in august that was significantly lower than the 649 million the Company Earned in the Fourth Quarter last year. Deere is also expecting sales to drop about seven percent in the cuent fiscal yea the mayor of dubuque will attend an important event in paris this week. Roy buol is coleading a four member delegation of midwest mayors at the paris climate conference. Th conference involves many world leadads, including presidede obama. The mayors will be there on thursday. The group will represent the Mississippi River cities and Towns Initiative at the conference. Last week, buol told tv nine that he believes Climate Change could dramatically impact the Mississippi River. President obama is increasing the amount of Renewable Energy sources for fuel. That may provide an econonoc boost foror iowa farmers, who are the biggest producers of plan on thick clouds to be in the region today. If we are lucky enough to get a break in cloud cover this morning, theyll fill right back in. A few scattered flurries may fly issues or accumulation s are expected with those. On wednesday, clouds remain thick and a few more flurries may be in the air again, too. The big story of the extended forecast is warmer conditions for friday and especially into the weekend. Overall, we are in a classic el nino pattern, and this tends to o ad to a mild december at the very least. In addition, there are no major storm systems for the next 7 days that will impact iowa. Perhaps this weekend is your weekend to get the out have a good day today windy, scattered flurries high 3238 winds sw 1525 alo 35 dbq 37 iow 37tonight chance of flurries low 2531 winds w 1020 alo 28 dbq 28 iow 29tomorrow cloudy, scattered flurries high 3339 winds nw 1020 alo 36 dbq 36 iow 38tomorrow night mostly cloudy low 2228 winds nw 515 alo 24 dbq 26 iow 28 the Environmental Protection agency has appointed a new regional leader for the midwest. In todays agribusiness report, david geiger had the chance to talwith the man in the position. But right now, heres a look at todays opening farm markets. Good morning good morning this is the agribusiness report. Im david geiger. The Environmental Protection agency has leaders down to the state level. The region seven administrator cers nebraska. Kansas. Missouri. And iowa. This year. Leadership exchanged hands and i had the opportunity to talk to the new administrator. Mark hague. Hes not new to the region. He grew up in missouou. And he was the deputy to the former administrator. Karl brooks. I asked hague what his goals are for the region and iowa in particular. Really want to build that relationship continue some of the work thats been done, to build good rapport, communication, im the kind of person that likes to meet with people face to face, hear their issues, concerns and a chance to talk about what epas doing. My perception is iowas been a aeal leader in the nutrient reduction aggressive nutrient reduction strategy. Weve been supportive of that movement. Moving forward we want to be a partner with them and other federal l encies, academic institutions, state partners, and stakeholders. The iowa nutrient reduction strategy is a plan led by iowa state university. The iowa dnr and Iowa Department of agriculture. Itstsoal is to reduce nutrients from point and non point sources to iowa waters and the gulf of mexico through voluntary measures. Hague says he was encouraged about farmer practices at the iowa state fair this year. Saw a lot of producers and farmers being recognized for the practices theyre putting in place and thats really good and encouragagg to see that going g on. I know thehe states invested a lot of resources to making that nutrient reduction strategy be realized and i think teres a lot of value that can be gained there. You know when you hear about nutrients in iowa y y dont hear anyone arguing over the need to kind of make some changes and improve how we protect our Water Quality and encouraging see the work going on. Hague has been serving as the region administrator since march. The grain markets are a little shocking today. A rally going on. Meanwhile cattle arent having such a good time. We actually gogosome green n ck in the grain sector. Very surprising trade. Weve got a strong dollar today, up roughly 22 points right now. Not any fresh, big export business over the weekend at all. And despite all that we are pushing higher. Taking out last weeks highs with beans at stops. Corn is right back up against it too. Pretty aggressive Short Covering as well. Key to sustain this rally is fresh demand. Can we find something there this week. And also too what the dollar does, does it keep pushing higher or nono we got red ink in the pork and beef sector today, thought wed be better in the cattle starting off today with the weather. Weve hid the whole five days. And not geing any type of bounce off of that. Selling pressure todays coming from the cash trade last week. Some areas steady at best,ome areas a buck or two lower, last week too on very light trade. Hogs opening up lower in spillover in the cattle sector. Same thing here, should get a little bit of a bounce off weather here shortly by midweek. The pressures still coming from big weights, big supplies, lower cuttts and i think we can shuffle through that here hopefully today. A bit of a larger run at the colfax sheep and goat auction on saturday. Four hundred 43 head of sheep. Feeder lambs fetched the days high average price of a dollar. 99 per pound, while fed lambs averaged a dollar 33 per pound. The one hundred 76 goats at the auction saw a high average price ranging from a hundred and 10 to a hundred and 75 dollars per head. And thats all we have for the show today. Thanks for joining us on the agribusiness report. Well post a video every day in e agribusiness section of kcrg. Com. Youll find it under the news tab. Im david geiger with the agribusiness report. Trt 3. 54 oc webtease boosting the amount of ethanol and other Renewable Fuels in the us gasosone supply. The Environmental Protection agency said it will increase the nations renewable fuel standards. The agency says it will require more than 18 billion gallons of Renewable Fuels next year. Thats less than the level lawmakers set in 2007, but more than what the epa proposed last spring. Iowa produces more corn for ethanol than any other state. Governor branstad released a statement saying hes disappointed that the epa didnt follow what congress had called for. He said, the decision shows the lack of interest in providing Consumers Choice at the pump. Creating jobs, and increasing incomes in rural america, and reducing our dependence on foreign oil. There are few things more embarrassing in sports than this guy is blaming his bad luck on the wind. Well have more sports bloopers stay with tv9. Its. Plan on thick clouds to be in the region today. I iwe are lucky enough to get a break in cloud cover this morning, theyll fill right back in. A few scattered flurries may fly arod as well, but no issues or accumulation s are expected with those. On wednesday, clouds remain thick and a few more flurries y be in the air again, too. The big story of the extended forecast is warmer conditions for friday and especially into the weekend. Overall, we are in a classic el nino pattern, and this tends to lead to a mild december at the very least. In addition, there are no major storm systems for the next 7 days that will impact iowa. Your weekend to get the Christmas Decorations out have a good day today windy, scattered flurries high 3238 winds sw 1525 alo 35 dbq 37 iow 37tonight chance of flurries low 2531 winds w 1020 alo 28 dbq 28 iow 29tomorrow cloudy, scatttted flurries high 3339 winds nw 1020 alo 36 dbq 36 iow 38tomorrow night mostly cloudy low 2228 winds nw 515 alo 24 dbq 26 iow 28 some professional Football Players had a rough Holiday Weekend after making some terrible lets start off with ole Charlie Brown kick. Hes lucky he got part of the ball. And their is nothing worse than getting tackled by the turf monster. They should put the turf monster in the stat book. Actually it could be worse you could trip over the flag and get tackled. And sometimes you can out think yourself. I dont the colts will be trying that play anytime soon. To hoops and the worst pass of the week. You might want to look nexttime i lied this is the worst pass of the week it almost breaks the glass. Ya that will get you a seat on the nch. To the pitch and how would you like to be all alone for the goal and do this. Oh but alteast he didnt score in shot got taken by the wind and it blew backwards high bounce and over the goalie for an own goal and i had fun n mount ernon this week bump setting iking good night as one republican candidate leaves the stata after campaigning, another starts his swing across the state. Former Florida Governor is talking to voters in Black Hawk County. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9. Its. From your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news early to the polls. Voters in Black Hawk County will vote to fill mayoral positions in waterloo and cedar falls. A new center. School leaders in one Eastern Iowa School district are looking to bring all preschool students under one roof. And the trip of a lifetime. Coworkers pay it forward to a deserving woman at one cedar rapids hospital making all her wishes come true. And heres a look at on our city cam this morning. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on thick clouds to be in the region today. If we are lucky enough to get a break in clcld cover this morning, theyll fill right back in. A few around as well, but no issues or accumulation s are expected with those. Wednesday, clouds remain thick and a few more flurries may be in the air again, too. The big story of the extended forecast is warmer conditions for friday and especially into the weekend. Overall, we are in a classic el nino pattern, and this tends to lead to a mild december at the very least. In addition, there are nonoajor storm systems for the next 7 days that will impact iowa. Perhaps this weekend is your weekend to get the Christmas Decorations out have a good day today windy, scattered flurries high 3238 winds sw 1525 alo 35 dbq university of iowa officials are looking into a racist commentnthat someone carved i io campus property. President Bruce Harreld says they found it in a bathroom in the spence laboratories which research labs. He says crews immediaaly sanded down the bathroom door to remove the comment. Harreld told students, faculty, staff that quote the act is offensive to our community and will not be tolerated. Late last year, an assistant professor put this statue resembling a kkk member on the pentacrest. The professor said it was meant as a protest to the violence again black people. But some students found it offen