Religion. Were talking about security. Our country is out of control. Texas senator ted cruz rising in the polls still shying away from attacks on trump. Instead. Taking on fellow senator marco rubio. For marco to suggest that our record is the same is like suggesting that the fireman and the arsonist have the same plan because they were at the same fire. Rubio challenging cruz for his positions on nsa surveillance and immigration. Do you rule it out . Does ted cruz rule out ever legalizing people that are in this country illegally now. I have never do you rule it out . I have never supported legalization and i do not intend to support legalization. And after the debate a conciliatory tone from trump. I like jeb. I think jeb is a nice man i really do. But you know i think id do the same thing if i were him id be attacking me. Bazi kanani tag coming out of the debate, donald trump even promised that he would not run as an independent. Next up. The democrats debate again this saturday in new hampshire, hosted by abc news. The debate coming up in our next half hour. Abc political analyst Cokie Roberts will join us live from washington dc with her thoughts on last nights event. Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton is back in eastern iowa today. Shell be at the Old Brick Church in iowa city this afternoon at 245. From there, she will go to mason city for another town hall. Clinton plans to be there at 545. A recent quinnipiac poll shows clinton with a 51 to 42 percent lead over senator Bernie Sanders in iowa. She nearly doubled sanders support among women. New at midday. Pigs were on the loose this morning in cedar rapids. A semi turned over on interstate 380, spilling them onto the side of the road. It was a busy morning for response crews as they worked to round them all up. The dot says it didnt block traffic, but drivers were sight. The agriculture and Farming Program at Kirkwood Community college is there to help load up the pigs. Thanks to those of you who called our newsroom about this. Whenever you see news, give us a call on newsline nine. That number is 3193659999. You can also email pictures and video to newsroom at kcrg dot com. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts has your first alert forecast, justin. Temperatures will fall for the rest of the day as strong southwest winds continue up to 40 mph. The clouds are back, too. Skies remain mostly cloudy tonight into tomorrow as cooler air settles in for the end of the week. Well have highs in the 30s tomorrow and in the upper 20s on friday. We should get a bit of sunshine on saturday, sending us into the 30s once again. Warmer weather is ahead next week with highs getting back into the 40s. There are occasional rain chances throughout next week, as well. Today windy, falling temps high 3945 winds sw 2040 alo 40 dbq 45 iow 45 students in los angeles are after a threat shut down the whole district yesterday. Police say someone threatened a largescale jihadi attack on students. The threat was in an email to a school board member. Los angles is the 2nd Largest School district in the country with more than 640 thousand students. Police chief charlie beck now says the threat was a hoax, but says it was the right call to cancel school. When they make a decision they have to take in to account the safety of the children of los angeles. I think its irresponsible to based on facts that have yet to be determined, to criticize that decision at this point officials in new york city yesterday. But Police Commissioner bill bratton says they did not see it as a credible threat. Two people in waterloo say thieves took holiday packages from their front porches. The waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reports someone reported a theft on saturday on the 800 block of clough street. On monday, someone in the 11 hundred block of west mullan avenue reported a stolen package. That person says the package contained seven pairs of shoes, valued at about 90 dollars. The other package contained a baby carrier. Those two thefts are among millions across the country. A study from bankrate released this month shows 23 million americans have had packages stolen from their homes. The study says thieves are taking advantage of the growing popularity of online shopping. Bankrate says homeowners and renters insurance policies typically cover claims about stolen packages. Cedar Rapids Police say two pit bulls were stolen in the owners to keep an eye on their dogs when they are outside. The first from a back yard on maple drive northwest and the second from a home on Second Street southeast. Puppy is one of those stolen dogs. The pet owners say someone opened the tall wooden gate surrounding their yard and planned to microchip the dog. Animal shelter workers say microchipping cant prevent theft but can help return a stolen dog. 56 42 it probably will help, especially if your animal is taken to a veterinarian. If a vet scans that animal and your information isnt on it, but youre the person who brought it, theyll at least question that. Police also recommend watching your dog, even if its on a leash. The city of coralvilles Credit Rating has taken a blow. Moodys Investors Service has lowered its bond rating for the city. A bond rating affects a citys ability to borrow and the cost of borrowing. Moodys has given coralville a thats the lowest Investment Grade debt rating. Moodys cited the citys high debt profile and liabilities. Those include ownership of a hotel, golf course, performing arts center, brewery and restaurant. City Officials Say theyre working to improve the citys credit profile. Iowa city is focusing on a new east side Sports Complex that could bring more recreational sports to the area. The hope is to transform about 75acres of city owned farmland at taft avenue and 420th Street Southeast into recreational space. The idea comes after recent flooding forced Tennis Courts and baseball diamonds in lower city park to close for much of the summer in 2013 and 2014. Project leaders hope to have a draft of the new east side Sports Complex out sometime in the next month. It will likely include more Tennis Courts, baseball diamonds and soccer fields. University of iowa officials are noticing a growing Health Problem on campus. Through sometime next month. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. Temperatures will fall for the strong southwest winds continue up to 40 mph. The clouds are back, too. Skies remain mostly cloudy tonight into tomorrow as cooler air settles in for the end of the week. Well have highs in the 30s tomorrow and in the upper we should get a bit of sunshine on saturday, sending us into the 30s once again. Warmer weather is ahead next week with highs getting back into the 40s. There are occasional rain chances throughout next week, as well. Today windy, falling temps high 3945 winds sw 2040 alo 40 dbq 45 iow 45 tonight mostly cloudy low 2430 winds w 1525 alo 26 dbq 27 iow 28 tomorrow mostly cloudy high 3137 winds nw 1020 alo 32 dbq 33 iow 34 tomorrow night mostly cloudy alo 20 dbq 20 iow 22 friday mostly cloudy high 29 low 21 saturday partly cloudy increasing clouds high 47 low 28 monday showers possible early chance of showers high 48 low 33 wednesday chance of showers high 48 low 38 the university of iowa may not have seen the worst of with mumps. As of monday, more than 150 iowa reported having mumps. Thats up from 116 cases last saunders has more. You cant see it on the sidewalks of campus, but mumps continues to spread at the university of iowa. Only a handful of cases showed up at first, back in late september. As of monday, officials confirmed about 160 had mumps at the ui. Typically numbers of cases never get anywhere close to that. In an average year, sometimes you see one or two. The numbers are very low. A really random case here or there, but it doesnt spread. Lisa james, the uis associate director for clinical outreach, said mumps numbers this year are the highest theyve been since 2006, when the midwest had a large outbreak of the contagious disease. A couple hundred cases showed up on campus. Nat crowd with numbers again inching that direction, the ui fought back in november with free vaccinations. About 48hundred students got a third measles, mumps and rubella shot at eight clinics spread out across campus. Did it help . The shots dont seem to have slowed case numbers happen sometime after students return from christmas break. No one really knows the right number for herd immunity, which can protect a whole community. We certainly have done a good number of students. But, as you know, our student eollment is over 30thousand. Mumps is caused by a virus. Its spread by droplets, meaning coughing, sneezing, kissing, even talking can infect another person. Symptoms include fatigue, fever, muscle aches, and the tell tail sign of swelling under the ears, on one or both sides. If you get it, health Officials Say it will likely put a person out of commission for about five days. On campus, students are still talking about it. But those we talked to didnt seem concerned. I know that pretty much all my friends got the vaccination, but i didnt get the second booster shot because i already got the first two. Not too worried about it. Ui officials expect case numbers will drop dramatically in the next few weeks. Thats not because the outbreak has peaked, but because students will go home of mumps cases will return when students come back for next semester. Iowans have one more day to sign up for a new medicaid plan before private Companies Take over the system. Governor branstand announced yesterday that all four of iowas Major Hospital systems are now a part of the states medicaid modernization plan. They include mercy health network. University of iowa hospitals and clinics, Unitypoint Health and Genesis Health system. The four represent more than 35 hundred medicaid doctors, 73 rural clinics and 47 general hospitals. The last day people can sign up for coverage is thursday, and coverage begins january 1st. Providers have until the end of the year to sign up. Country of origin Food Labeling tariffs could start as early as next week. In todays agribusiness report, when canada and mexico could start retaliating against us labeling laws. Stay with us. Good morning this is the david geiger. The usda is starting a second phase of a data gathering survey to see nationwide Farm Management and conservation progress. Usdas Natural ResourcesConservation Service is the lead agency for the project. They say the conservation effects Assessment Project is critical to quantify the impacts of good conservation practices. And that it will help improve us da improve voluntary conservation delivery. We truly believe that voluntary conservation can work. We truly believe that landowners all over the country have a keen interest in the sustainability of their resources. They realize that in order for them to continue to provide for themselves and their families that sustainability of their resources is important. Jordan says the nrcs wants to continue to be a partner with landowners and provide resources that may be needed for operators to be the best stewards. Argentinas new president is holding up his promise to agriculture. President Mauricio Macri eliminated export taxes on ag goods like beef. Wheat. And corn. And cut a soybean tariff. And thats impacting the grain markets the grain markets having a bit here today and really its about world competition and on rallies we continue to to see a pickup in Farmer Movement but. Argentina did eliminate the export tax. 20 percent tax on corn. 23 percent tax on wheat and lowered the export tax on soybeans down five percent to 30 percent. So world competition is pressing the market along with support on breaks continues to come from positions squaring ahead of the year end and this is the last full week fo trading of the year. The Cattle Market is finding some solid support here today. We did have a bit of a market that is oversold but the real supportive factor on the Cattle Markets we have across the feedlot areas just med conditions poor performance. The hog markets taking bit of a breather here today after hitting some five week highs. Slaughters expected to move down into next year and ago. But its the massive supplies short term thats continued to cap rallies. Country of origin labeling tariffs may start as soon as next week. The World Trade Organization officially authorizes canada and mexico to retaliate against the us labeling laws as soon as friday. But according to a wto meeting. Its likely next week. Canada and mexico can impose up to a billion dollars cool. In a joint statement. They called on congress to repeal the labeling requirements for beef and pork to stop the retaliation. Canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau says they would rather not have the retaliatory measures. But they will stand up for farmers and canadians he says unfairly affected by cool. In the omnibus Spending Bill Congress is trying to pass this week. There could be a up our show for today. Thanks for joining us well post a video every day in the agribusiness section of kcrg. Com. Youll find it under the news tab. Im david report. Trt 3. 53 oc webtease conveinent for you, but also for scams. The Better Business bureau has some advice to avoid phony emails in the last minute rush next. Stay with us. Dont be a victim of a scam. The Better Business bureau says scammers are well aware that were shopping online. And here with a warning just in time for last minute shoppers is the bbbs barbara green. But you need to keep track of what youre buying and where its coming from. Also telling you that you missed a shipment. How can you double check to make sure that the emails are legitimate . Scammers know people are shopping online throughout the Holiday Season. Con artists will try to take advantage of the number of people who are expecting a Package Delivery. Better confirmation emails or fake tracking numbers, telling you to click the link to see your order. It redirects you to a site that steals your information or downloads malware. One of the more effective versions will tell you youve missed a Package Delivery or there was a problem, and now you need to go through the forms to track it down. These emails appear to be from u. S. Postal service or other wellknown delivery companies, but always doublecheck to make sure the sending address is legitimate. Hover over links before you click. Is it really directing you to the site you two letters to be wrong or out of place. Clicking the links could lead to malware or viruses being downloaded onto your computer or bring you to a page where youll be asked for personal or financial information. Republican president ial candidates said why they would make a good commander in chief during have reaction from abcs Cokie Roberts. And several dubuque businesses are lending a hand after someone drove through the citys Veterans Memorial plaza. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert Foreign Policy on the debate stage. Abcs Cokie Roberts will join us live with her reaction. A reno nevada man says the iowa state patrol didnt have the right to take his things during a traffic stop. Now hes working to get it all back. And people in central iowa have another chance to voice their concerns over the proposed Dakota Access pipeline. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, this is kcrgtv9 news at midday. Only a month and a half from now, iowa voters will decide who they want to represent their party next november. Last night, republican president ial candidates took to the stage in las vegas. Nine hopefuls, with donald trump and senator ted cruz on center stage, answered questions about domestic and international terrorism. Joining us now with her take on last nights debate is abc political analyst Cokie Roberts, live from washington dc. Do you think last night will impact momentum for any of the was there a winner or loser in how effective is the early democratic candidate how do you feel about the debate . By National Security fears, the candidates clashed intervention, government spying on americans communication donald trump defended his provocative call for temporarily banning muslims from the United States, although he has been criticized overreach. The candidates spent the night jockeying over which republican would do better as commander in chief, and especially whether frontrunner donald trump frontrunner is back in eastern iowa today. Hillary clinton will be talking to voters in iowa city at 2 45 this afternoon. That will be at Old Brick Church. Then she will go to mason city for another town hall. Clinton plans to be ther