Face any charges. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders was at the fundraiser inside the African American museum of iowa in cedar rapids. Forrest, family and friends are still waiting for answers regarding the shooting . And a great deal remain. Police have declined to release much more than what we just told you. Including dash cam video from that night saying, Early Release could compromise the investigation. A lot of Unanswered Questions but also a lot of nat cheers erupted as Jerime Mitchell showed his face from a hospital bed via skype on wednesday night. He thanked the crowd of perhaps more than 300 for coming. So large, it pushed the capacity limits for the event space. Its amazing. I think the turn out speaks a lot to my brothers character. If you look around that room, its all walks of life. Hopes of getting lower extremities moving again. Family said the medical bills are pilling up. Money raised at the benefit aimed to help pay them down. Organizers were collecting donations and holding a silent auction for those who showed up. Many said theyre still stunned mitchell, or danky as friends call him, was involved in the first place. After i heard everything, about the scuffle and all that and heard it was danky, i was like, not true. Just knowing the guy that hes probably one of the with the Iowa Division of criminal investigation announcing its finished looking into the shooting eyes now turn to the grand jury wholl review the findings and determine if officer lucas jones should be charged for the shooting. Linn county supervisor Stacey Walker spoke on the subject at the benefit. He strongly urged county attorney Jerry Vander Sanden to step aside and allow a special prosecutor to present evidence to the grand jury. Mr. Vander sanden has been previously to maintain a good working relationship with local law enforcement. It might be a better idea to have a third party. Calls to the county Attorneys Office werent immediately returned. Officer jones was cleared of wrong doing after a shooting last october that killed 21 yearold jonathan gossman. In that case, the investigation found gossman ran from police after a traffic stop and then pointed a gun at officers. Jones remains on administrative leave thanks, forrest. This marion man will spend two decades in federal prison for child pornography. Today, a judge sentenced bryan king for convictions on multiple charges, including Sexual Exploitation of a child. Prosecutors say king, who is 46, received and distributed a sexually explicit image of a 15 year old in 2014. The flurries are coming to an end in eastern iowa are a bit wet. Meteorologist joe winters joins us now. Joe, what can we expect for the rest of the night . Scattered flurries come to an end overnight bringing a gray and seasonable start to december. Clouds will hold tough through saturday. Highs also remain consistent in the 30s with lows dipping into the 20s. Our next chance for snow arrives later in the weekend on sunday. Have a super day tonight scattered 32 tomorrow cloudy and cool. Wind w 1015 high 37 back to you. President elect donald trump the presidency. Trump tweeted today that he feels its important not to have a conflict of interest with his businesses while hes serving as president. And he said his team is writing up legal documents to take him out of his business operations. He didnt offer other specifics but said he would announce details in a News Conference next month. The team trump wants for his administration is starting to take shape. And sources have told a sarah palin to head the department of veterans affairs. Palin was one of trumps earliest and highest profile endorsers. Also today, Vice President elect mike pence met with Iowa Governor branstad. It happened at the National GovernorsAssociation Meetings in the washington area. Pence said they talked about, what he called, the Important Role states will play in planning to make America Great again. A spokesman for branstad says he doesnt believe there was any administration. A program that provides Highschool Students with realworld experiences hopes to double its reach with a new school in marion. Thats what iowa big announced at an open house tonight in cedar rapids. The new location will be in partnership with linnmar schools. And its made possible, in part, because of a Million Dollar grant. That grant was from the xq the super school project, which promotes a different type of high school experience. Kcrgtv9s jordee kalk is live tonight with how the new school will help students. For starters, a lot more linnmar students will be eligible to join iowa big. This year linnmar did a Pilot Program through iowa big with about 15 students. And those students told staff they liked this projectbased learning style. Nat giving presentation unknown mushrooms. 5 20, when i first joined we were thinking of getting into dna sequencing of mushrooms but then we determined through the partners were working with thats not the direction to go. But after some professional guidance, she and her group modified their pitch. 5 32, then we working on building an app where people can upload pictures of a mushroom then that can be given to scientist and that can help identify the over one million fugal species that are unidentified. Fungid is just one of four projects jasper is says this learning model makes her a better student. 6 36, its really expanding how i know and apply knowledge. Troy miller director of Strategic Partnerships iowa big 21 29, any employer out there will tell you that they can teach the nuts and bolts of something but its the interpersonal skills those mannerisms that can be hard to teach youth or people coming in and thats what we really excel at. Right now theres 125 High School Students enrolled in rapids and College Community school districts, along with some from the linn mar. 19 48, most students pop out during the afternoon and come to big or go to partners and work on projects. With the addition of a second school, iowa big hopes to nearly double its enrollment. And faculty say they hope to reach a broader range of students. 22 52, its also really important to us that we dont just serve a certain demographic of high or low achieving socioeconomic statues. We want to be a Cross Section of what this community is. And by doing that were proving that this is a scalable model. Iowa big hasnt yet decided on a location for a new school. But staff hopes the location will involve partnerships with local businesses. Live in the newsroom, jordee kalk, kcrg tv9 news. Business owners work to drum up community in fayette county. So theyre holding a number of Holiday Themed events in an effort to draw more people to the shops. And the iowa women took on the top team in the county tonight at carverhawkeye arena. Highlights are still ahead, so stay with us here on tv nine. Several dozen businesses in another. Its an effort the citys chamber of commerce is leading to spruce up the downtown shopping district kcrg tv nines vandenover jewlery sits on the corner of a main street in downtown oelwein. Its been there since the 60s. Linda benter one of the owners says she believes the town is coming back. 20 06 57;12 i would like to see oelwein come back to what it was twenty years ago when the railroad was here people were thriving all over the place so hopefully this plant will start that. The jewelery store is a part year. With one mission in mind bring more shoppers downtown. 19 45 55;20 we decided that we wanted to do something to market ourselves, and each little Business Owner cant do a whole lot with limited dollars for marketing so we came together as a group, and they each put in money so they pooled money together to pay for marketing and are using the slogan shop oelwein were awesome 19 48 13;03 we have town that will see some changes in a few years. 19 49 30;16 we have a lot of positive things going for oelwein right now. We have a lot of new industry and existing industries that are doing expansions, so were very happy with the position were in right now. Vandenover says some of the shop oelwein events coming up in december will help downtown businesses during the holiday season. 20 05 54;25 its starting to pick up now of course. Christmas is coming, weve had a few men in, which is unusual, but theyre starting the Olde Tyme Christmas coming up this friday. In oelwein, samantha myers, kcrgtv9 news. Olde Tyme Christmas will feature food, rides, arts and crafts, and, of course, visits with santa. The events are taking place at businesses all over downtown oelwein this friday. Most of them run from 4 00 to 8 00 pm. We have more information under this story on kcrg dot com. Biotechology companies in eastern iowa have made progress the eastern iowa biotech spotlight tour stopped at places like cargill and dupont in cedar rapids. It also took people to the state Hygienics Lab in coralville. There, experts talked about advances in the biotech industries. The iowa biotechnolog Y Association says the tour does more than just help people learn about the fields. We want some relationships ya know. We host this as a networking form to a degree and if people can take away do some business with one another then thats a good takeaway we want people to have as well. The Biotech Association plans to have more events like this in the future. Turning back to weather, joe, we have a quiet night start to december. Clouds will hold tough through saturday. Highs also remain consistent in chance for snow arrives later in the weekend on sunday. Have a super day tonight scattered flurries. Wind w 1020. Low 32 tomorrow cloudy and cool. Wind w 1015 high 37 tom. Night cloudy and cool. Wind nw 510. Low 30 friday cloudy and cool. High 36 low 30 saturday mostly cloudy. High 36 low 24 sunday chance of snow. High 37 low 29 monday mostly cloudy. High 38 low 28 tuesday mostly cloudy. High 37 low 28 that a Police Officer who fatally shot a black man wont face a District Attorney cleared officer brentley vinson, who is also black,. In the death of Keith Lamont Scott back in september. Police say scott was armed with a gun but family members dispute the claim. Tonight, people took to the streets to protest the decision not to bring charges against the officer. Some chanted stop killing black people, as they walked through the streets of charlotte. Parts of alabama, mississippi, and tennessee are starting to clean up damage from storms killed five people and injured at least seven others. In northeast alabama, the tornadoes damaged buildings and knocked down power lines in their paths. In one community there, the storms tore through a mobile home park. Authorities believe someone likely caused the Deadly Wildfires in tennessee. The burning fires have killed at least seven people and hospitalized dozens of others. They have also damaged hundreds of buildings near two popular tourist towns leading into the great coming up next, the uni Mens Basketball Team was back home tonight. Scott will have highlights. And the iowa women entertained the Number One Team in the nation. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9. For the first time in nearly two country was at Carver Hawkeye arena tonight. Bluders bunch hosted top ranked notre dame. And former iowa city west star ally disterhoft got the hawks on the board first with the three ball. But iowa with to many turnovers early. Michaela mabry with the steal but the hawkeyes played with a lot of heart in the first half. The freshman kathlene doyle with the steal and layup an then with time running down in the First QuarterMegan Gufstason with the buzzer beater and then ally cat with another long ball for three of her. And iowa only trailed by 8 at the break. And the cut the lead to four in the second half. On the Great Ball Movement to Hannah Stewart in the paint. And they sliced the lead two on the chase coley kiss. But notre dame can score in a another iowa turnover and Lindsey Allen finishes and the irsih beat the hawkeyes. But not without a fight. The panthers back home tonight hosting george mason on 9. 2. And after falling behind by 10 former tv 9 athlete of the week Spenser Haldeman from western dubuque sparked the uni offense with back to back treys to cut the lead to 4. And when he gets hot lookout. How bout the first half hat trick to cut the lead to 2. Spenser finished with 16. And with time runni former kirkwood standout Hunter Rhoads beat the buzzer for the 4 point halftime lead. And the panthers taking it to the hole in the second half. Clint carlon with the finger roll. But it was all george mason in crunch time. Otis livingston with the blow by for the 1 point lead. And the patriots clinched it at free throw line beating uni 5450. The panthers just 25 percent shooting tonight. To High School Hoops and the wash girls have a new head coach with a familiar chris james is getting his first shot as a varsity basketball head coach, but hes familiar with the cedar rapids washington program. Hes been a coach at the freshman and sophomore level for 7 years. I feel honored. I feel a little bit of pressure obviously. You have to feel like with all the tradition that this program has, you gotta produce. My favorite thing about him is his enthusiasm with us up and down court. Hes keeping our energy up. Another reason why hes familiar with the program, his dad paul was the head coach for 24 years and led the warriors to 2 state titles and is currently on staff as a volunteer assistant. I dont necessarily have to ask for his input, which is fine. Hes not afraid to put it out there, but he definitely lets me do my own thing too. Its so cool. And theyre really cool working together too. They dont act like father and son. Theyre really cool together. The season, and chris sees improvement every day. I think one area we need to improve on is defense. We need to develop an identity down there. I dont think its any secret that this program the last 13 years with frank, that weve run. Weve scored a lot of points. Josh christensen tv9 sports. The coe kohawks hosted central tonight in a double header at eby fieldhouse. Ladies first. 3rd quarter, former tv9 athlete of the week, mickey hansche, drives to the hoop and banks in the lefthanded floater. 18 points for the regina grad jenna lehman started to heat up from threepoint land. She hit five triples, including this one to end the third quarter. 26 points for her. Kohawks win 7259. On the mens side, pretty close first half. The feed inside to monticello grad spencer williams, count it and one. Coe up 127. Later, Dubuque Wahlert grad nolan timp drives the baseline and gets the kiss. Kohawks up 2221. Big game from trevor haaland, launches a sweeping the doubleheader the big 10 announced their all conference offensive team today. And iowa olineman sean welch, James Daniels and cole croston were named to the third team for opening holes for this guy akrum wadley who was selected as a third team runningback. Lashun daniels who went over 1,000 this year was Honorable Mention along with cj bethard, riley mccarron, orge kittle and ike buttger. Tha joe. Scattered flurries come to an end overnight bringing a gray and seasonable start to december. Clouds will hold tough through saturday. Highs also remain consistent in the 30s with lows dipping into the 20s. Our next chance for snow arrives later in the weekend on sunday. Have a super day tonight scattered flurries. Wind w 1020. Low 32 tomorrow cloudy and cool. Wind w 1015 high 37 thanks joe. Thanks for joining us for kcrgtv9 news at 10. We hope youll be with us again dicky from hollywood its . Jimmy kimmel live . tonight bono, julia roberts, channing tatum, dj ka legal, neil patrick harris, and the killers. And now, ready or not, heres Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy hi, im jimmy, the host of the show. Thank you for watching. Thank you for coming. You are watching our Second Annual red benefit show