Snow will take over later in the day and continue into friday night. While accumulation is likely, the amounts are still in question. Two limiting factors will be the warm soil temperatures and air temperatures near freezing. The coldest air of the season is here for the weekend. Today sct. Showers, windy high 5056 winds sw 2035 alo 51 dbq 53 iow 53 kcrgtv9 has partnered with kmry radio and to host a radiothon on tuesday and wednesday this week to raise funds for the Variety Compassion Fund. At last check, the radiothon had raised more than 26,000. The fund works by giving social workers and care providers a debit card hooked to an account that can provide families with sick kids with emergency funds when they need it. Compassion Fund Donations can be made by two people are dead after two people are dead after overnight raids near paris, france. Authorities also arrested 7 people who may have been connected to last weeks terror attacks that killed 129 people. This morning, french president Francois Hollande said his country is at war with terrorism. Abcs Marci Gonzalez has the latest. An absolutely dramatic scene this morning . Seve ral officers injured, as police targetted the mastermind of fridays attacks . In a raid that went on for hours. Script nat gunfire gunfire nat explosions and explosions echoing through the Early Morning hours in the suburbs of paris . We felt the building shake. There were guys upstairs screaming. Shoot. Shoot . French police storming an apartment . Just a mile from the National Soccer stadium where fridays terror attacks began . Cell phone records and surveillance leading them here where they thought the alleged mastermind, Abdelhamid Abaaoud was hiding. Inside Officials Say officers were shot at . A woman rushed towards them, killing herself with a suicide belt . Another suspect also killed . At least seven people taken into custody this just one of nearly 120 overnight . As police also try to track down two of the accused terrorists who carried out the deadly attacks. Garrett this is like a tree growing. You have branches going off as they pick up more pieces of information from each raid. Frances president nat hollande reiterating that this country is at war with isis today sending an Aircraft Carrier to triple the militarys capacity to launch air strikes in syria . Saying france will never give in to fear. Tag officials still havent identified the suspects from last nights raid. Or said how they were connected to fridays massacre . But investigators believe this terror cell may have been planning more attacks. Mg abc news paris airstrikes in Northern Syria killed at least 33 isis fighters in the last 3 days. A britishbased Human Rights Group says warplanes from france and other countries killed the fighters with this weeks airstrikes. The Group Believes the air strikes killed far more than the 33 estimated, but says authorities couldnt recover or identify any more bodies. An eastern iowa man faces a hate crime charge, after Authorities Say he beat a black man at a dubuque bar. 40yearold Randy Joe Metcalf yesterday. White supremacist group. A criminal affidavit alleges metcalf repeatedly kicked and stomped on the face and head of a black man during a fight in january. It also says metcalf used racial slurs during the beating. Metcalf has a violent criminal history. He also has one tattoo of a swastika and one of a prison gang known for white supremacist ties. A jones county man pleaded guilty to burglarizing a cedar falls amvets post. 52yearold todd losh took that plea deal losh broke into the amvets post in august. Security photos show him attempting to break in to an atm inside the building. The waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reports losh apologized for the incident. He said his father, who served in the military in the 1960s, was quote rolling over in his grave because of the burglary. Losh will serve up to 10 years in prison. Cedar Rapids Police are warning people about a new phone scam. Police say people are getting phone calls, telling them their debit cards have been locked. In order to unlock the card, the scammers say you need to enter the 16 digit number on the card. Some of the scammers claim to be from bank of america, even though the person receiving the call doesnt own a bank of america card. Police are reminding people that Financial Institutions will not ask for credit or debit card numbers over the phone. People involved in auto collisions in the cedar rapids and iowa city area will now get the states expanded Highway Helper Program aims at quickly clearing crash sites and moving stalled vehicles off roads. The iowa dot transportatio n planner says the highway helper can assist on the scene of a crash to make sure a second accident doesnt happen. So the highway helper alos carries a sign board. They can lane just really on the interstate system in the cedar rapids, iowa city metro area. The two vehicles dedicated to this area will focus on places where traffic is busiest. But they can also be called to a scene for help. An iowa woman is trying to appeal to lawmakers to help her daughter, who suffers from frequent epileptic seizures. Sally gaer , along with moms from across the country, are trying to get congress to pass a bill that would allow more access to cannabis oil. The group of moms is meeting with congressiona l members and urging them to take action before 2016. That bill amends the controlled substances act to exclude plants rich in cannabidiol from the definition of marijuana. It would also exempt those plants from being treated as a controlled substance. She gets the support known to reduce seizures. Gaers 25 year old daughter, margaret, has the cognitive abilities of a 4 yearold. Shes at high risk for sudden death, because of her condition. Its an education piece. Its a binine substance no body can get high off of it its like oh. This isnt the scary evil thing we thought it was. Gaer has met with nearly every president ial candidate in des moines, and says shes received good feedback from most of them. Eating healthy isnt always the most affordable way to maintain a diet. Coming up, well have some tips on ways to cut meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our temperatures coming scattered light showers and drizzle are sticking around this afternoon into the first part of tonight. Temperatures will continue to slowly fall through the day as breezy southwest winds gust above 30 mph from time to time. Tomorrow is going to be quite blustery with winds gusting as partly cloudy sky and highs in the middle 40s. While friday will start dry, snow will take over later in the day and continue into friday night. While accumulation is likely, the amounts are still in question. Two limiting factors will be the warm soil temperatures and air temperatures near freezing. The coldest air of the season is here for the weekend. Today sct. Showers, windy high 5056 winds sw 2035 alo 51 dbq 53 iow 53 tonight patchy drizzle early low 2935 winds w 1525 alo 31 dbq 32 iow 32 tomorrow partly cloudy, windy high 4248 winds w 2040 alo tomorrow night mostly clear low 2228 winds w 1020 alo 24 dbq 24 iow 27 friday pm snow likely high 39 low 25 saturday flurries, windy cold high 29 low 25 sunday mostly sunny high 35 low 14 monday partly cloudy high 39 low 21 tuesday partly cloudy high 41 low 23 wednesday chance of eating healthy can get pricey at times. Holly fifer has some tips to avoid slimming down your wallet too much, in todays health minute. Eating right on a budget starts with a little planning that before you head to the grocery store, plan out your meals in advance, make a Grocery Shopping list and stick to that list when youre shopping. And though it may be a little more trouble, double a recipe from time to time so you can freeze part of it for another day. Buying in bulk is often cheaper. Registered dietitians recommend filling half your plate with fruits and veggies, and buying ones that are in season is often cheaper. Fill the other half of your plate with whole grains and lean meats. And if you want to save a little on that meat . One way to make your meat dollars go further is by adding beans to the mixture and then you can stretch the meat and actually use less in the same dish. Controll ing portion size is another way to help your budget. Experts say if something is in front of us we tend to eat it even when were full. So try using smaller plates. And finally, save going out to eat for special occasions. Dining out is almost always more expensive than cooking your own. And if you get tired of doing all of the work, get the kids to help. For todays health minute, im holly firfer. This years iowa crop could be one for the record books. In todays agribusiness report, a look at the data and how it compares with previous years. Good morning this is the david geiger. This year is a record breaker for iowa corn and bean production. And nationally records also look to be broken. Soybean production looks to be the highest ever at three point 98 billion bushels. And a 48 point three yield is also a record. Corn is predicted to be the Third Largest production on record. And yields are the second highest. The november report has a small margin of error on average. Give or take for corn. And 40 million for beans. The reason for that. Is most farmers are done with harvest and give more accurate data. At the state level, in iowa for instance, we do an objective yield survey where we actually go out into the fields and take physical counts. But were also going out to the producers and asking them what their expected yields are going to be. So, theres two pieces of information is what we use to make our forecast in our Crop Production reports. There are two ways u sda gets the data. Field enumerators go out and take counts. And they send out surveyors to farms asking what the crop looks like. Prillaman says hes thankful for producers and agribusinesse s who complete the survey. Their goal for accuracy is to get back about 80 percent of what they send out. The final yields survey will be released in january. In one of the last iowa crop reports of the season. Farmers are wrapping up the corn harvest. Only about four percent is left statewide. And moving on to postseason fertilizer applications. But. Theres still a sluggish trade in the grain markets. I am still bearish. Im short corn, december corn around 3. 79. I still think lower prices are ahead. The u. S. Dollar is higher once again. And i just dont think that trend is going to stop. And the problem with corn is, corns used as an ethanol product. Crude Oil Continues to hit new lows, down another dollar today, and thats affecting corn. I just short beans from still think to own the grain market at this time. The cattle trade was outstanding. I have taken off about 75 percent of my positions, which were numerous. I am still short, i still think prices are going to the 115 level in the december contract. However, volatility is massive at the current time, and if youre not involved in this market, i would avoid it. Hogs, same thing, very volatile. Avoid this market at the current time, wait for better chart structure to develop. But the Commodity Markets in my opinion are still in trouble. I want to own nothing at the current time. Taco bell plans to be the very First National fast food chain to have cage free eggs at all of its locations. A production of nearly five hundred thousand hens would be affected by this change according to the Humane Society of the united states. The goal is set for december 31st of next year to have all restaurants swapped to cage free. But taco bell isnt the First Company to announce cage free style. Two months ago mcdonalds announced a swap for us and canadian restaurants over the next ten years. And thats it for the show today. Thanks for joining us. Ill catch you again tomorrow. Well post a video every day in the agribusiness section of kcrg. Com. Youll find it under the news tab. Im david geiger with the agribusiness report. Trt oc overseas, several countries are searching for the people responsible for last weeks terror attacks in paris. In the wake of those attacks, president obama is weighing in on the issue of refugees coming to the united states. Stay with us. The refugee debate is an served by some of the comserved by some of the commentary thats been taking place by officials back home and in the media. States needs to be open to Syrian Refugees. Thats after some us governors, including Governor Terry branstad, said they would not accept or help to resettle refugees after last weeks terror attacks in paris. Abcs megan hughes reports. President obama in manila today expressed outrage at politicians back home. Obama sot i cannot think of a more potent recruitment tool for isil than some of the rhetoric thats been coming out of here during the course of this debate. Prior to fridays thousand Syrian Refugees this year. Of the country now want to block them from entering their states. And Republican Leaders in congress are pushing for a pause while extra screening is developed. Meantimedonald trump is backing a ban. Donald trump jk we have no idea who the people are, they have no papers, they have no paperwork. You can get forged documents very easily in syria ted cruz tells abcs jon Karl Christian refugees should be allowed into the us but not muslims. Cruz jk pkg theres no credible threat that christians fleeing middle east violence are likely to carry out acts of terrorism. The Administration Says each refugee goes thru several extensive background checks by the state department, the department of Homeland Security and the intelligence community. David milliband runs one of the 9 Refugee Resettlement organizations that contracts with the state department. Milliband sot the very stringent security arrangement that are in place mean its harder to get to america as a refugee than almost any other fashion. The process takes 1824 months before a refugee even sets foot in the united states. Most are women and children. Sot obama when candidates say we cant admit 3 year old orphans, thats political posturing. And with tensions hightwo air france flights grounded. They were bound for paris but landed in Salt Lake City and halifax last night after bomb threats. No explosives were found, but fear was palpable. Sot phoner liz papera passenger people on the plane said some of the stewardesses were like in tears crying. Reporter tag today gop candidate Carly Fiorina reacted to the president s remarks in manilasaying they were beneath his office. Megan hughes, abc news. With just a couple months before primary and caucus season, the rd of republican candidat thinni toncepopular candidate is lng itits. The Variety Compassion Fund radiothon continues through tonight. Well introduce you to a family benefiting from your donations. County leaders from across iowa rapids today. Theyre making decisions on legislative priorities for the state. And french authorities arrested 7 people overnight who may have been connected to last weeks terror attacks in paris. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news at midday. We begin this midday with a look at storm damage in eastern iowa. Today the National Weather service is in marengo to survey storm damage. This is from iowa Outdoor Power thats right next to the capper auto dealership along highway 6. Police say a strong gust of wind that lasted about 20 seconds blew tin siding into the City Square Park about a mile away. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts joins us live from the variety radiothon where donations have been coming since yesterday morning. Justin. Scattered light showers and drizzle are sticking around this afternoon into the first part of tonight. Temperatures will continue to slowly fall through the day as breezy southwest winds gust above 30 mph from time to time. Tomorrow is going to be quite blustery with winds gusting as high as 40 mph. Well have a partly cloudy sky and highs in the middle 40s. While friday will start dry, snow will take over later in the day and continue into friday night. While accumulation is likely, the amounts are still in question. Two limiting factors will be the warm soil temperatures and air temperatures near freezing. The coldest air of the season is here for the weekend. Today sct. Showers, windy high 5056 winds sw 2035 alo 51 dbq 53 iow 53 kcrgtv9 has partnered with kmry radio and varietythe Childrens Network to host a radiothon on tuesday and wednesday this week to raise funds for the Variety Compassion Fund. At last check, the radiothon had raised more than 26,000. The fund works by giving social workers and care providers a debit card hooked to an account that can provide families with sick kids with emergency funds when they need it. Compassion Fund Donations can be made by visiting varietys website or by calling 319 3786400 on tuesday or wednesday between 5 a. M. And 6 30 p. M. Watch for coverage on kcrgtv9 beginning at 4 30 a. M. On both days, or tune in to kmry 93. 1 fm or 1450 am for allday coverage. All radiothon donations will benefit hospitalized children at Unitypoint Health st. Lukes and Mercy Medical center in cedar rapids. As justin mentioned, todays will benefit families who need help to pay for lengthy hospital stays. One of those families is the ackersons from cedar falls. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders has their story. Emily ackerson had a though holiday last year. Her twins, gabriel and nora were born in december, 17 weeks early. Both kids faced a potentially deadly situation because their bodies were so under developed. Anywhere from brain bleeds to problems with their heart to their lungs, was the main thing at first. Doctors had to keep a close eye on the twins. Gabriel spent four and a half months in the nicu. Bleeds, spent five and a half. Its very scary. Your whole world seems to stop when Something Like that happens. Adding to the ackersons troubles, limited income. Emily had to leave her job as nurse to be with her kids. Plus, the couples home was in cedar falls, more than 60 miles away from their children, recovering in a cedar rapids hospital. We put on 27,000 miles. With all the bad, it was time for some good. The Compassion Fund was there to help the ackersons make ends meet. It took care of bills and filled up their vehicles with gas. The fund works by giving social workers and care providers a debit card hooked to an account that can provide families with sick kids with emergency funds when they need it. The Compassion Fund was really built for reason, to help the families in need within a certain area. This year it benefits st. Lukes and mercy here in cedar rapids. For emily and her family, the future is bright. Both kids are doing well and finances are back in the green. The fund wasnt just taking care of our kids, it again if you would like to help families like the ackersons, you can call the radiothon through tonight. That number is on the bottom of your screen 3193786400. Others are behind bars, after an overnight raid in suburban paris. French authorities were searching for the mastermind behind last fridays terror attacks. Authorities havent said if that person was among those killed or detained during the raid. A Prosecutor Says information from tapped phone conversation s indicated that the suspected planner of the attacks might be in a safe house in the area. Airstrikes in Northern Syria killed at least 33 isis fighters in the last 3 days. A britishbased Human Rights Group says warplanes from france and other this weeks airstrikes. The Group Believes the air strikes killed far more than the 33 estimated, but says authorities couldnt recover or identify any more bodies. New at midday, three people went to the hospital after an explosion at a protein processing plant. The Sioux City Journal reports the explosion happened at the plant in lytton, just before 6 00 last night. Authorities say the three victims in the explosion were welding in a storage tank when it happened. Two of the victims went to a local hospital. The third was transferred to a hospital in omaha. Authorities have not released their names or conditions. Two people, including a teenager, died in a crash in jasper county. The iowa state patrol responded to the westbound lanes of i80 near newton around 12 30 yesterday afternoon. Authorities say a 14year old was behind the wheel. 30yearold Sabrina Watkins and her 13year old daughter natasha died. Ambulances took the driver and an 11yearold passenger to the hospital. President ial candidates is one lighter today. Louisiana governor bobby jindal announced hes dropping out of the race. We announced obviously today we are suspending the president ial campaign. Look im honored to have the opportunity to run for president of the united states. Jindal has been polling in the bottom half of the group of more than a dozen gop candidates. Last night, former Florida Governor jeb bush sai he was surprised to hear of jindals decision. Look hes a great guy. Great policy guy. Really effective governor of louisiana. I wish him well. Hell, hes got a role to play Going Forward for sure. Hes a young guy and hes got a role to play. Jindal says he will support the eventual gop nominee. He also says current frontrunner donald trump will not win the nomination. About 800 county leaders from around the state will be in cedar rapids today. Theyll be attending the Iowa State Association of conference. To vote on legislative priorities. Isac works in des moines during the legislative session by getting information to lawmakers, and connecting them with county officials. This year theyll be focusing on five main issues delinquent court debt, e 911 funding, food safety, Mental Health and Disability Services, and distracted driving. Isacs executive director says a bill that would have changed distracted driving into a primary offense got session. Theyd like to see it get picked up again. 47 54 12 wed like to change the law related to distracted driving to make those primary offenses, so that a Police Officer or sheriffs deputy or state Patrol Officer could stop those individuals if they see them in that action. As for the Mental Health and Disability Services item. Peterson says counties are struggling to individuals with Mental Health issues. Chauncey building in iowa city continues. Trinity Episcopal Church is appealing, after a judge dismissed a lawsuit trying to stop the project. Trinity filed the lawsuit, saying the city unlawfully rezoned the land. But a judge threw it out, saying the city didnt violate any rules. Marc moen wants to build the 15story building in downtown. It would include apartments, a hotel, offices, a alley. He says he wanted to complete the project by december 2018. Crews to push back the target date to late 2019. Cedar rapids will not demolish a building that sustained heavy damage in the 2008 flood. The city Council Voted to spend more than 160 thousand dollars to stabilize the vacant knutson building. The 128yearold structure sits on the riverfront across raise two and a half through private fundraising. A piece of super hero history could be yours. If youre willing to pay up. And the countdown to a galaxy farfar away hits a major todays showbiz wrap. Temperatures cominnup in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. Scattered light showers and drizzle are sticking around this afternoon into the first part of tonight. Temperatures will continue to slowly fall through the day as breezy southwest winds gust above 30 mph from time to time. Tomorrow is going to be quite blustery with winds gusting as high as 40 mph. Well have a partly cloudy sky and highs in the middle 40s. While friday will start dry, snow will take oveelater in the day and continue into friday night. While accumulation iilikely, the amounts are still limiting factors will be the warm soil temperatures and air temperatures near freeziig. The coldest air of the season is here for the weekend. Today sctshowers, windy high 5056 winds sw 2035 alo 51 dbq 53 iow 53 31 dbq 32 iow 32 ttorrow partllcloudy, windy high 4248 winds w 2040 alo 42 dbq 43 iow 46 tomorrow night mostly clear friday pm snow likely high 39 low 25 saturday flurries, windy cold high 29 low 25 sunday mostly sunny high 35 low 14 monday partly cloudy high 39 low 21 tuesday partly cloudy high 41 low 23 wednesday chance of an animated film from screen. And a super suit is hitting the auction block. Jason nathanson has more in todays showbiz wrap. Todays a big day for star wars fans just one month until the new movie premieres in the u. S. Early Online Ticket sales have been huge, with many of the first screening sold out. The film will debut a day earller in the u. K. , two days earlier in places including italy and france. Star wars the force awakens hits u. S. Theaters december 18th. Wanna slip on supermans suit . The man of steel muscle tunic worn by Christopher Reeve in his first superman film in 1978 is going up for auction. Nate d. Sanders auction house says its composed of a german made fabric which absorbs sweat stains, and was used in flight scenes. Bidding starts tomorrow at 50grand. Last night in hollywood, it was invasion of the dinosaurs. Disney and pixar took over hollywood boulevard for the premiere of the upcoming animated adventure the good dinosaur. And the films stars turned out in force the good dinosaur hits theaters a week from today. Another taste of adeles new album thii time in the form of a new video. Its for the brand new song when we were young and its a taping of a Live Performance at the Church Studios in london. No word on if the version were watching is the same version that ended up on the album, 25, which is out friday. And thats whats happening in hollywood, im jason nathanson, abc news, los angeles. Ouexpert of the day will be here next. If you have any questions, our veterinarian will be here. Call us now at 3193688606. Centrum brings us s e biggest news. In multivitamin history. A moment when something so familiar. Becomes something so. New. Introducing new centrum vitamints. A multivitamin that contains a full spectrum of essential nutrients. You enjoy like a mint. New centrum vitamints. Dr. David graeff is here with us tiny pet in need of a new home. , thanks for being here. Coming up tomorrow, our financial expert will be here to discuss charitable giving. Stay with your 24 hour newss two people are dead and 7 others are in custody after an overnight raid in suburban paris. French authorities were searching for the mamatermind behind last idays terror attacks. Authorities havent said if that person was among those killed or detained during the raid. First, meteorologis t Justin Gehrts has your first alert forecast, justin. Scattered light showers and drizzle are sticking around this afternoon into the first part of tonight. Temperatures will continue to slowly fall through the day as breezy southwest winds gust above 30 mph from time to time. Tomorrow is going to be quite blustery with winds gusting as high as 40 mph. Well have a partly cloudy sky and highs in the middle 40s. While friday will start dry, snow will take over later in the day and continue into friday night. While accumulation is likely, the amounts are still in question. Two limiting factors will bb the warm soil temperatures and air