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Collision sports to provide a licensed athletic trainer to assess concussions and other injuries. The Senate Education Committee Approved the bill on an 86 Party Line Vote yesterday. Democrats approved it while republicans opposed. State senator from maquoketa and former High School Wrestling coach tod bowman spoke in favor of the bill, telling the Des Moines Register quote we are not covering every practice, but this is a step in the right direction where the most vulnerability occurs. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts has your first alert forecast, justin. We saw southern counties but now the anticipation of spring is taking over. Cloudy skies remain for the rest of the day, but the light snow has left with the exception of a couple flurries near the mississippi through early afternoon. Well have highs in the e wer to middle 30s. Mostly cloudy weather continues through tomorrow with highs in the lower 30s again. Well climb into the 40s on thursday, friday and saturday. We should see more sunshine take over later this weekekalong with gustier winds. Our snowpack will be diminishing quickly late this week. Today cloudy high 3238 winds nw 515 alo 34 dbq 33 iow 35 the Cedar Rapids Community School District says people wont see much change following the firing of its equity consultltt last week. There were allegations the consultant edwin javius , misrepresente d his credentials to other districts in the past. Javius is the ceo of a Consulting Company called, ed equity, ououof san jose, california. The district says he worked alongside a Diversity Committee to create the equity action plan. It went into effect in 2015. Some events like this Community Forum in january are part it. The groups including African American, latino and special education students. Despite the recent termination, the district says plans are in motion to continue making progress. 15 33 53 from the onset of was kind of a gradual release to coach our manager of student equity to a place where he felelcomfortable taking that work and moving it forward and i think he has had opportunities to do that. Now that manager of student equity will take over work on the plan in the district. The district says it will look at school needs to determine if another consultant is needed in the future. But its not currently considering that route. 1,800 thirdgraders who arent reading at grade level are scheduled to participate in a Summer Reading Program Pilot study. Governor Terry Branstad announced the state has 1. 9 Million Dollars to cover the cost of the study. Beginning in 2017, wa School Districts will be required to provide Summer Reading programs to students who are still struggling to read at grade. The pilot study will happen this summer, and will inform next summers reading program. This is a pilot. A study program, that with a cohort, a group of School Districts across the state, that will be able to kind of test run high quality reading programs that schoololistricts will then be able to implement in the summer of 2017. Branstad said private gifts covered 1. 3 Million Dollars needed to implement the study. The rest of the money came from the Iowa Department of education and the iowa board of egents. Participating school istricts in eastern iowa incncde cedar rapids, marion, central community, decorah, marshalltown and aplington parkersburg. The World Health Organization says genetically modified insects might be necessary to wipe out the zika virus. The mosquito borne virus has spread over central and south america as well as the caribbean in recent months. The who says an Advisory Group is some earlier trials in the cayman islands. Health officials at the United Nations say zikaaffected countries should use old and new approaches to fight the spread of the virus. Says its getting calls from people who are concerned about going to countries that have the zika virus. For most people the symptoms are minor, like a bad cold. Destinations unlimited says no one has canceled their trips to those destinations. But Vice President Jane Schulyer talking with concerned travelers. Whether it be young or older, somehow everyone thinks its going t taffect them. Its not the age group. So we try to council them on what may be relevant, and what may not be relevant with the facts. She says her office also received a number of questions from travelers in 2014 when the ebola virus spread through a number of african countries. However, she said concerns are different because the viruses are different. The desire to get to the gym after starting a aew years resolution to get in shape. Looks at different ways to stay motivated. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. Of the day, but the light snow has left with the exception of a couple through early afternoon. Well have highs in the lower to middle 30s. S. Mostly cloudy weather continues through tomorrow with highs in the lower 30s again. Well climb into the 40s on thursday, with 50s ahead friday and saturday. We should see more sunshine take over later this week, along with gustier winds. Our snowpack will be diminishing quickly late this week. Today cloudy high 3238 winds nw 515 alo 34 dbq 33 iow 35tonight mostly cloudy low 1723 winds nw 510 alo 18 dbq 19 mostly cloudy high 2935 winds se 510 alo 31 dbq 30 iow 34tomorrow night partly cloudy low 2026 winds se 515 alo 23 dbq 21 iow 25thursday mostly cloudy, milder high 45 low 23 friday p cloudy, windy, mild high 55 low 45 saturday mostly sunny, mild high 54 low 37 low 32 monday partly cloudy high 40 low 29 tuesday mostly cloudy high 38 low 26 thanks justin. Whats a motivation to work out . How about a fine if you dr. Timothy johnson looks at the methods behind the motivation to stay active. Looking fitter . Feeling healthier. Sounded good right around january first. But relying just on will power is only one way of holding fast to your last round of new years resolutions. If youre looking for motivation, look to your wallet, and ask yourself this question whats more likely to work being paid to work out . Or having to pay someone else if you dont . You may not like the answer. Researchers at Johns Hopkins studied nearly three hundred obese people . To see which of the two to meet their daily exercise goal seven thousand steps. Some received a cash reward when they met the goal. Others had to pay a penalty. If they didnt. The penalty situation was significantly more motivating. Its just what behavioral economists have long claimed . People are most strongly motivated to avoid feelings of loss or regret. So when it comes to your exercise goals . Consider asking a friend or loved one to hold you accountable . And come up with a penalty so it will cost you to be lazy. Less carrot, more stick a bit of financial pain . Might pay dividends for your health. With this medical minute, im dr. Timothy johnson. 3. 3 million women are at risk growing baby to alcohol ccording to the centnts for disease and control. In a new study, the cdc asked women if they drink, they or their partners have had any procedures preventing them from pregnancy. The study found that women who are not using a form of protection are putting their babies at risk. Alcohol usage within even the first 4 to 6 weeks can cause lasting effects on a developing baby. Octors ask if a woman is trying to have a baby, she should refrain from alcohol, long before finding out. 43 35 what the study is really saying is up to 50 percent of pregnancies in the us are unintended, with unintended pregnancies being so common, if you are having intercourse, prevent a pregnancy. A good time can lead to more than people anticipate. She says its safe to just be as prepared as possible. Theres a lot of talk in the Iowa Legislature for Water Quality funding. The iowa secretary of agriculture says it will likely mean more money this year. Thats coming up next in todays agribusiness report. Good morning, this is the david geiger. Theres a lot of proposals from the Iowa Legislature for funding Water Quality. And iowa secretary of agriculture. Bill northey says its likely they will end this year with additional dollars. He points to Iowa Governor Terry Branstads pushes for Water Quality. He says its set the stste. Point of if. Ought to fund, or we out to support a regulatory rocess. That has to o e large part, been decided. Were going to find some dollars, grow that effort and were going to stay with this non regulatory process. Northey says that could come about in a number of ways. It could be the governors save proposal. Or other ways of funding. He says the legislature iss still sorting it out. Millions of federal dollars were awarded to the midwest for Water Quality. Iowa ag secretary bill northey and sean mcmahon. With the iowa agriculture water allianane says the usda Regional Conservation Partnership program awarded nine point five Million Dollars to the midwest agriculture wat quality partnership. Which is coled by idals and the iowa agriculture water alliance. Involving 43 additional partners. The funds will help an initiative engaging local agribusinesse s to bump up Water Quality bioreactors. Saturated buffers and wetlands. The grant is the Largest National funding pool award in the country this year. And the funds will be leveraged alongside four point seven five Million Dollars ininowas funding. And 33 Million Dollars from the private sector. Farmers and landowners. Will make even more investments. There were no markets yesterday in observance of the president s day holday. However. The colfax sheep and goat auction on saturday. February 13. Saw 141 head of sheep. Feeder lambs fetched the days high average price of 2. 19 per pound, while fed lambs averagege 1. 25 per pound. And because of low weight 15 to 30 pounders sold. The 61 head goats at the auction saw a high average price ranging from 60. All the way up to 220 per head. A voluntary recall of blue cheese in iowa was announced saturday. Newton. Announced a listeria. In its raw milk blue cheese. The products were packaged about a month ago. And included about eight hundred 96 pounds of cheese. It was distributed to some d d moines area restaurants. And the newton fareway. The possible contamination was found in routine testing. There have not been any illnesses linked to the product. Well post a agribusiness it under the news tab. Im david geiger with the agribusiness report. Trt 3. 03 oc webtease in recent months, millions of people around the world binged the netflix show making a murderer. After the break, how the show andndome new technology is making some changes in iowas prison system. Stay with us. But some legal experts say they may not all be guilty, even though some have been locked up for decades. Kcrg tv nines Iowa City Bureau chief mark carlson looked into how the craze over murder documentarie s and new technology has the state taking a closer look at whos in our prisons. Everyday across the state of iowa new prisoners are dropped off at prisons, its happening right here behind me at the coralvlvle prison. But even prison officials admit, statistically over the years, there is no way every one actually guilty. Stevenavery it was hard, 18 years and almost six weeks, and it couldnt happen soon enough. The Netflix Documentary mamang a murder highlighted wrongful convictions. In 2003 steven avery walked out of a wisconsin prison after serving 18 years for a brutal rape that dna evidence later proved he did not commit. Now hes back in prison, convicted of a murder many again question whether he actually committed. The popularity of making a murderer and the recent podcast series serial highlight estions about the accuracy of criminal convictions. Brianfarrell both of those have been so important in helping people see the complexities of the criminal Justice System. University of iowa law professor Brian Farrell is the head of the Innocence Project of iowa, a group of about 20 volunteers from around iowa examines cases of prisoners who claim they are innocent. Brian farrell i think that awareness of these issu is probably going to lead to an increase in people seeking of iowa hasnt exonerated anyone. In fact, over the past 25 years there have only been 12 exonerations in iowa for crimes committed in these 7 counties. But state public defender adam gregg says exonerations could soon increase in iowa partly because of the fascination around documentarie s like making a murderer. And, perhaps more importantly, because the fbi recently admitted microscopic hair analysis used to lock people up for decades wasnt exact. Adamgregg theres no way you can say theres. Theres a oneinamillion chance that this hair came from somebody else, yet that was the type of testimony that was given by fbi agents throughout the country. Adam gregg it presents an issue for iowa because those same fbi agents who testified erroneously in those cases trained iowas dci agents in the same type of procedures. The revelalaon led governor branstad to create the states Wrongful Convictions Division late last year, led by audrey mcginn. This is going to exonerate some people. In just a few months, mcginn already has nearly 100 questionable cases on her desk, most of them with links to old hair analysis techniques. Audreymcginn the more the inmates learn about what were doing, and learn that there are people dedicated specifically to these kinds of issues, i think the cases will be coming in more frequently over the next few years. Mcginn will work with groups like the innocense project of iowa to review the expected influx of cases drummed up from all the recent publicity surrounding exonerations. Brianfarrell weve gone from what i would view as a very modest volunteer effort doing whatate can to a point of now having fulltimemeesources in iowa focused on wrongful convictions issues. Mcginn previously worked with the california Innocence Project and had a hand in at least seven exonerations there, including the highprofile case of brian banks, a rising football star who spent 5 years in n ison after being falsely accusededf rape. After his exoneration banks played briefly for the atlanta falcons. Ep that momentum going. Audreymcginn i get to watch get to be in relationships and get to have real jobs and live their life and that would have never happened if we wouldnt have been able to prove that their innocent and thats the coolest thing. Whether the case of banks or steven avery mcginn, farrell and gregg . All agree attention on these issues could change the criminal Justice System. And perhaps lead prosecutors and agencies like the fbi to take a closer look at the types of evidence they entrust. And thats one of the things averys former Attorney Says he wants to see come from all of his newfound making a murderer publicity. Deanstrang id much rather see us look forward and ask what should we be doing to strengthen our criminal Justice System and to improve the reliability of its outcomes. Historically iowa has hardly compensated the wrongfully convicted. Des moines attorney George Lamarca won the highest amount ever for a person wrongfully convicted in iowa, nearly 200thousand dollars. Larmarca says the state needs to be ready to start paying up if the wrongfully convicted start getting out. Mark carlson, police in central iowa are offering more details on a deadly officer involved shooting. Urbandada police have released the names of three officers who responded to a drug call over the weekend. 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Investigators with the Monroe County Sheriffs Office say Justin Stickrod sexually abused an infant earlier this month. Investigators recei