Onsite counseling or referrals to outside services for students most in need. Nurses i spoke with today say ey see that need ininde schools every day. 20 42 48 well see any child who is a Cedar Rapids CommunitySchool District student and their siblings. Inside taylor elementary. 20 44 37 we do stock some antibiotics too. A metro care clinic is on display at an open house. 20 40 50 we have three school based clinics. Clinics that are essentiallllan inschool doctors office. 20 15 22 were not here to take the there are a lot of kiddos out there who have barriers that they cant get to a health care provider. Were here to be that bridge. Nurse practitioners like sara gordon staff the clinics. She says many of the issues kids come to her for arent really physical health problems. A common hears is headaches. 20 35 00a headache is never just a headache. A lot of times students are focusing on tonight, am i going to get a didnt come home last ninit. Theres j jt a lot more to deal with than my math and reading and science need to get done. The abbe center and tanager place provide some Mental Health h rvices to students in certain buildings. But district Officials Say theres a larger need. 20 56 14 theres not enough services to meet the needs of the general population. Were seeing that reflected in the schools. The district recently hired Stephanie Neff who is looking for long term solutions. But she says a loss in future funding points one thing. 20 58 52 we have less service thats the bottom line unfortunately. The united way funds about 200thousand dollars in Mental Health servic each year for cedar rapids students. The district says payments through medicaid and private insurance plans help fill in the gaps. But bruce and beth, those programs often require a concrete diagnosis which doesnt always happen in bruce and beth . Thanks, sarah. The abbe Mental Health center in iowa city has a new home. It is now located on arthur street in the towncrest district, near other medical and Community Outreach organizations in the area. The center had been helping patients out of four buildings on college and van buren streets. Turning now to meteorologist joe winters. Joe, were going to see temperatures warming up tomorrow . High pressure builds into the area keeping us with a brighter outlook toward the weekend. We stick with partly cloudy skies through friday as the sunshine returns in full force saturday. Highs will also be on the rise from the 4 4 to the upper 50s on saturday. A cold front slides into the area bringing cooler weather and a chance at some measurable precipitation on friday. Have a super night tonight partly cloudy low 2329 winds nw 515tomorrow partly sunny high 3642 back to you. A series of shootings tonight in a small kansas town has killed at least three people and injured more than a dozen others. The shootings happened at and around the excel Industries Plant in the town of hesston, which is near wichita. The Harvey County sheriff says law officers shot and killed the suspected gunman, who was reported to be an excel employee. Police say there are at least four crime scenes, including the excel plant, the facilitys parking lot, and two roadway intersections. A man is dead after a singlecar rollover near washington this afternoon. The crash happened around one this afternoon near spruce avenue and fern cliff road outside of washington. Investigators say the driver, dirk weerman, of washington, over corrected after crossing the center line and into a ditit. First responders airlifted him to university of iowa hospitals, where he died. Seven people went to the hospital today after a vehicle collided with a school bus in jo daviess county, illinois. I i happened around 8 15 this morning on highway 20, south of east dubuque. The Sheriffs Office says the vehicle hit the school bus as the bus was making a turn. The bus was carrying 10 students, a teachers aide, and the driver. Seven people went to the hospital with minor injuries. The driver of the vehicle, Kathryn Vincent of freeport, illinois, received a ticket for not reducing speed to avoid an accident. And remember whenever you see news, call newsline nine at 3193659999. You can also send pictures and videos to newswsom at kcrg dot com. Marco rubio went after donald trump ahead of the critical super tuesday primaries and caucuses next week. Tonight, the two along with ted cruz and the other candidates took the stage for another debate. Abcs bazi kanani has a recap. Donald trump took to the stage miles ahead of his rivals. And trump quickly drew their fire. Sot rubio youre only person on this stage thats ever been fined for hiring people to work on your projects illegally sot trump no, no, im the only one at this stage thats hired people. You havent hired anybody the tension made for some heated exchanges nats up rubio heres the guy that inherited 200 million. If he hnt inherited 200 million, you know where donald trump would be right now, selling watches trump no, no, no, that is so wrong. That is so wrong. Marco rubio and ted cruz are fighting for second place and the chance to become trumps main opponent sot cruz . This is a man for 40 years has given money to jimmy carter, to joe biden, to hillary clinton. The gops 2012 president ial nominee, mitt romney, has suggested theres a bombshell lurking in trumps tax returns. Sot trump i want to release my tax returns, but i the former president of mexico, vicente fox, on thursday used an obscenity to say his country would never pay for trumps wall. Sot trump the wall just got ten feet taller, believe me for the gop stragglers, super tuesday could b b their last hurrah. A strong showing on super tuesday could put trump in front for good. Bazi kanani, abc news, washington. A new district in iowa city is starting to tata shape. Right now, there are seven projects going on in the riverfront crossing district, including this 12 story hotel at the corner of clinton and burlington streets. The district sits directly south of downtown. The city has zoned it for large scale development. City leaders say the district has really taken off, and theres not telling what it will become. Were really pleased that its developing as quickly as it is, of course we cant predict exactly how long it will take because thats market driven. Completed in the district was this Midwest One Bank office building. Right now, the city is working on adding a parking garage next door. Des moinenewater works will stop dumping excess nitrate it filters from Drinking Water into the Raccoon River and it will pay the citys Sanitary Sewer System to treat the runoff. Thats under a plan to build a pipelinin this year that would connect the facility to the the citys sewer system. Were going to go above and beyond the law here and do something we think is right for surface Water Quality here in iowa. The move comes after the Iowa Department of Natural Resources recently identified excessive levels of sulfate and chloride in the discharge. A coralville Medical Research Facility is testing new ways to fight rare genetic diseases. Researchers are using stem cells to open new doors to finding cures and treatments to diseases. First heres a look at the most popular stories today on kcrg dot com. Stay with your 24 hour the last day of february is rare iowa citybased non profit wants to dedicate the entire month to finding cures and treatments to rare genetic diseases. The john paul the second medical Research Institute is trying to recruit 100 people into its patient registry. Kcrg tv nines brady smith visited the institutes coralville lab today, and he Rare Diseases by using blood and tissue samples from people who have those same diseases. Jay and anant kamath are ususg adult stem cells as a weapon to fight rare genetic diseases. 57 43 50 we can harvest those from tissue biopsies when children go in for various routine surgeries, we can also harvestt those from a a little as 7 milliliters of blood. They can use the stem cells to recreate any type of cell in the human body. These are nerve cells regrown from stem cells of a patient with gauchers disease, which affects tissue and organs. 10 11 17 we can take your own cells and reprogram them within a month, and then create new tissue types. The john paul ii medical Research Institute started in 2006 with the goal of finding cures for cancer, and neurological and chronic diseases. Now, the kamaths are turning their focus to rare genetic diseases, like niemann pick type c, a fatal disorder that slowly degrades brain function. Two of bryan hadleys kids, peyton and kayla, were diagnosed he described the symptoms over skype from his home in oregon. 6 41 47 slow speech, they have ataxia, balalce problems, vement. In his search for a treatment, hadley found kamaths team. Through its work with the National Institutes of health, they found a drug that slowed the diseases progression. The results were almost immediate. 9 30 37 they regained their speech back, their balance was better, swallowing better. Its not a cure, but hadley says its buying g s family time until researchers can find one. Anant says they want to find as many cures to as many diseases as they can, but they need blood and tissue samples from patients to do that. Eventually, he hopes to be able to cure fatal diseases like endstage cardiac failure and alzheimers. 10 31 37 our goal is to create a toolkit for patients, so they can be treated for things that are now terminal. In coralville, brady smith, kcrg tv9 news. If youd like to join the institutes patient registry, click onto the link website, kcrg dot com. The family of the accused kalamazoo shooter is apologizing to victims. Today, an attorney for the family described the suspect in the days leading up High Pressure builds into the area keeping us with a brighter outlook toward the weekend. We stick with partly cloudy skies through friday as the sunshine returns in full force saturday. Highs will also be on the rise from the 40s to the upper 50s on saturday. A cold front slides into the area bringing cooler weather and a chance at some measurable precipitation on friday. Have a super night tonight partly cloudy low 2329 winds nw 515tomorrow partly sunny winds w 515tmorrow night mostly clear low 2531 winds sw 510saturday sunny and mild high 58 low 28 sunday partly cloudy, mild high 57 low 44 monday partly cloudy high 50 low 34 tuesday chance of rain snow high 43 low 35 wednesday mostly cloudy high 39 low 30 killing six people and injuring two others last saturday in a shooting in kalamazoo, michigan. Today, an attorney apologized to victims on behalf of family members of jason dalton. Police say dalton shot people in a parking lot and outside a car dealership saturday night. They say dalton surrendered and later admitted that he took family says his wife sensed a behavior change in the days leading up to the shooting rampage. He had no Mental Health history and wasnt taking medication. jason by all accounts was a fairly gregarious character, a good father, wellknown in the community. Well liked. There was nothing to indicate that Something Like this would occur. Dalton faces six countntof firstdegree murder charges, among others. Apple filed a motion today to vacate the federal ordert that forces the company to help the fbi. The federal government wants apple to help unlock an iphone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters, syed farook. But the tewh company says the request violates its first a a fifth amendment rights. Google and microsoft are among those supporting apple. Severe storms have killed at least eight people this week and left hundreds of people without homes. Four of those people were killed in virginia, where at least two tornadoes hit. One of them was with winds reaching up to 165 miles per hour. The national weatheheservice has confirmed more than 30 tornadoes across the country this week. Coming up next tonight, scott will feature the tv nine athlete of the week. And the tournament trail continued for the boys tonight with district finals. Stay with the road to Wells Fargo Arena continued tonight for the boys with 3a district finals. Lets start f at prairie. Xavier faced clear creek amana and the clippers got off to a good start look at the duck under jumper from Jake Neubauer and that had them on thier feet. The saints found an opening in that zone and max techau took dvantage with three straight buckets in the paint. But the cippers with some Great Ball Movement and aaron akers with two down low. Xavier playing without their star guard Mitchell Burger because of f coaches decision. So they needed a big game from the sophomore matt mimms and he responded with a couple of big threes for a 10 point lead. With time running down in the first half cca with the steal ahead to kaler green who beats the buzzer to cut the lead to six at the break. But xavier with just too many weapons and they pull away for the 5643 win. They will face Mount Pleasant monday night. Congra ts to coach otteson on a great 43 year career. Two time defending state champion wahlert took on west delaware westerbg has the action. This matchup was at western dubuque high school. Golden eagleleapplying the three quarters Court Pressure and it pays off. Cordell pemsl with the steal and flush. 115 wahlert. Back come the hawks. John nagel with a ctrong move through the lane. West delaware within 3. Then tyler kelley gets behind the d and scores in transition. The eagles go back to pemsl. The future hawkeye gets through three defenders. Wahahrt up 3119 at the half. Third quarter, sage maiers with the hoop and harm. Wahlerts lead grows to 15. Right before the end of the quarter, David Wedewer drills a 3. Wahlert wins 5639. The eagles play waverlyshell rock on monday in cedar rapids. From epworth, Scott Westerberg tv9 sports. And im Josh Christensen with highlights of mount vernon and Benton Community at Vinton Shellsburg tonight. Pick up the action late in the 2nd quarter, drew adams open for three and he buries it to give mount vernon a 2911 lead. Hunter semelroth drives hard to the hoop, count it plus the foul. But mount vernon the kiss off the glass at halftime. 3rd quarter, benton tries to make a run. Tyler eggert sets, fires and knocks down the triple. Bobcats still down by sixteen. Mount vernon has just too many weapons, led by shararhooter austin ash who hit three consecutive threepointers. Mustangs advance christensen, kcrgtv9 sports. And finally its time for another edition of the kcrg tv9 athlete of the week sponsored by cedar rapids toyota. Cpu senior Brock Rathbun finished his career in style winning his Third Straight state title and ending his High School Career with 144 straight wins. Brock had to face some adversity to do it. He was diagonosed with type 1 diabetes before the season and then injured his knee in his first match at state this year. It is probably the most pain i have ever been in once i when you first heard it pop did you think my god i might not be able to finish this thing. That was probably one of my initial thoughts but i new i had to finish it. The releif when you won your third what was that like . Probably one of the best feelings in my life just knowing i completed what i set out to do. Pretty big hug for you coach. They deserved it. He is a pretty special young man very goal driven. I always remember his dad back in junior high coach you better buy yourself a new suit you are going to need it. As we do every year with state champion athlete of the week winners we gave brochis own parade. Riding behind the kcrg tv9 cedar rapids toyota rav 4 athlete of the week vehicle brock was in a sweet out candy to students, friends and facitly members. Every state championn deserves their own parade. Especially three time state champs thanks scott. One last look at the forecast, joe. High pressure builds inino the area keeping us with a brighter outlook toward the weekend. We stick with partly cloudy skies through friday as the sunshine returns in full force saturday. Highs will also be on the rise from the 40s to the upper 50s on saturday. A cold front slides into the area bringing cooler weather and a chance at some measurable precipitation on friday. Have a super night tonight partly cloudy low 2329 winds nw 515tomorrow partly sunny high 3642 winds w 515 thanks joe. Thanks for joining us for kcrgtv9 news at 10. We hope youll be with us again and now Abcs Jimmy Kimmel live. Dicky from hollywood, its Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight kelly ripa from how to get away with murder, billy brown mean tweets movie edition and music from tinashe and snakehis featuring chance the rapper. With cleto and the cletones and now, no kidding, heres jimmy kimmel