Fiery debate. President obama gets emotional. As he announces a push for more gun control. What hes proposing. And the backlash. From critics here in iowa. Pedestrian safety. Last month an iowa state student was killed while walking to class. How the city of ames is working to make the intersection where she died safer. Reopening. A fire closed down a popular des moines restaurant this summer. When adong plans to reopen. And a look at the fresh new interior from who hd iowas High Definition leader. This is the channel 13 news at nine on fox 17 taking aim at what hes called the biggest frustration of his time in office, president obama unveiled a series of executive actions on gun control today. Good evening. Im lynn melling. Thank you for joining us tonight executive actions. Nearly all gun sellers must conduct background checks. Or risk prosecution. The plan calls for new fbi and atf agents. 500 Million Dollars for Mental Health care. And a new push to develop smart gun technology. During an emotional speech today. The president fired back against critics who say it will infringe on their right to bear arms. Obama says our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from moviegoers in aurora and lafayette. Our inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness was stripped from college kids in blacksburg and santa barbara, and from High Schoolers at columbine and from first graders at newtown. First graders. And from every family who never imagined their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun. Everytime i think about those kids according to the atf, the executive action that the president announced today is less about changing rules and regulations on guns. And more about reminding the public what those rules and regulations currently are. Mike dasilva has more. 1 59 50 our definition of those that need a license really hasnt changed and it didnt change today, president obama reminding people today people that if youre engaged in the business of dealing firearms, 11 05 1018anybody in the business of selling firearms must get a license and conduct background checks or be subject to criminal prosecutions. 2 41 00 so thats not an occasional sale to enhance your own collection, and thats not an occasional sale to a Family Member or a friend, those are all perfectly legal, without a federal firearms license, so what meets the definition of being engaged in the business of dealing firearms . 2 57 49 if this is something you do on a routine basis, something you devote time to and energy towards with the objective of making a profit or deriving a livelihood from that activity then youre required under federal regulation to have a federal firearms license 3 14 atf saying it doesnt matter whether that activity is taking place in a brick and mortar shop or online or at a gunshow or in any other capacity. That license is required if you sell guns on a regular basis. Tom hudson is the general manager of a brick and mortar gun shop. Crossroads shooting sports in johnston. 07 46 28 theres evil in the themselves or others, history has proved that theres not a rule or a law or a situation that will really truly prevent their intent from being fulfilled. while hudson doesnt believe changing rules or laws can stop gun violence. He does support modernizing the criminal background check system for those buying guns. 07 49 21 the National Instant criminal check system, nic, is what its called, the fbi administers that system, its antiquated. Its been going through an update for many many years now, and its far from being a good system. the Iowa Firearms Coalition also supports increasing the efficiency of the background check system, but calls the president s announcement today. Political theater. 08 09 42 i think this is an attempt to sort of intimidate people into not both of the gun rights supporters that i interviewed today say they do also support the idea of improving access to medical and Mental Health records for people buying guns and integrating those into the criminal background check system. A des moines teenager accused of beating his grandmother to death is now being held in the polk county jail. Yesterday noah laprei turned 18. Making him an adult. He was transferred on his birthday to polk county from Webster County where he had been held. Laprei is charged with first degree murder for the october beating death of his 79year old grandmother, rachel pray. After that attack. Police say. Laprei went on a rampage through a nearby gas station, overturning shelves and throwing things. In may. Its been three weeks now since iowa state student emmalee jacobs was killed in a hit and run crash and police are still without a suspect. Justin surrency fills us in on the investigation and new measures police plan to take to increase campus safety. Recent improvements last construction season were put in place to prevent such losses like the death of emmalee jacobs. we tried to make improvements to that intersection at lincoln way and ash and make that as safe as possible but we will have to analyze the situation. almost a month later, ames police and city officials are left with little information. it makes it difficult when we dont have an eyewitness, we dont have a vehicle descriptionpolice say numerous leads have lead nowhere. i would say well over 5060 tips have come in but most have been insignificant. but they arent without a plan for future safety its more about awareness and education and in the end we ant responsible behavior from everyone involved so thatll be our goal. We will hand out fliers concern. commander tuttle says the program has been the works for a while but implementation was sped up after jacobs was killed. we have more and more students constantly crossing those intersections. We thought this was a great time as students come back to remind them that we want pedestrians to be safe, bicyclists to be safe and drivers to be responsible. and the city of ames plans to work with the university on a safety study at the intersection. well likely do a pedestrian count, traffic counts, potentially a speed study but the elements havent been defined yet. there might be some improvements we can still make at that intersection. the intersection is equipped with audio and visual cues for drivers and pedestrians but city engineers say even the slightest piece of information from the study can prove valuable going forward. something we take very seriously, the safety of our pedestrians and iowa state students as well as how they use that intersection in the corridor. both the Safety Program and intersection study will begin when students arrive back on campus for the Spring Semester on monday. The Des Moines Public School district announced it wants to hire more than 200 new teachers for the 2016 2017 school year. The district will host the 2016 educator career fair to fill a variety of vacant positions created by retiring, promoted or departing teachers. The career fair will be held at the Iowa Events Center at 8 am on saturday, january 9th. You can register for the career fair at jobsdotdmschoolsdotorg. Walkins will be interviewed as time allows. A popular des moines restaurant is getting closer to reopening after it was gutted by a fire this summer. Workers are putting the finishing touches on the remodeled seating area and installing a new state of the art exhaust hood in the kitchen. Inspection, the owners plan to reopen for business. Theyre shooting for next weekend. January 16th. Which would be exactly five months after the fire. Hot soup is going to be a popular menu item in the coming days. When the temperature takes a nosedive. Meteorologist ed wilson has weather details. Ed. It was nice to see the sun today. The sunshine was a nice change for us today. Now say goodbye more clouds build in tonight and clouds and drizzle take over the forecast. The temperatures will stay mild tonight in the mid to upper 20s. There will start to be patchy drizzle and freezing drizzle beginning at times wednesday theres still much more to come tonight. Coming up next. Caucus countdown. The weeks are dwindling down to caucus night in iowa. The candidates making stops in our sta. In a push to win over voters. And later. At 930. International tension. The growing rift in the middle east. Between saudi arabia, countries caught in between. Where the us stands tonight on the evolving situation. From who hd iowas High Definition leader. Youre watching the channel 13 news at nine on fox eakfast pizza, yes pizza, donuts muffins coffee that are all made fresh hot in our stores kitchens every day. Kum go. Where means more. Al candidates are making their final swings through the state to try to win over voters. Republican marco rubio had plenty to say during his Campaign Stop in mason city immediately following the president s announcement today on gun control. just today issuing an executive order that undermines the 2nd amendment, by the way outrage of outrage, theyve assigned over 400 agents now to enforce this executive order. Thats more people that theyve put in that special force thats designed to go after isis. They are dedicating more people to undermine the second amendment, than they are to undermine the most powerful and dangerous terrorist group in the history of the world. Rubio told a crowd that president obama does not see america as a great global power, but rather a he also accused the president of cutting deals with the nations enemies and gutting the military. Meanwhile. Democrat Hillary Clinton was on her second day of campaigning in iowa this week. Today, she talked about her autism initiative. Her plan would direct money into screening and research. As well as expand Employment Opportunities for individuals with autism. And require insurers to cover autism services. She also said voters need to elect a democrat to the white house. To keep the economy on the right path. Clinton says now i know my republican friends dont like it when i say this but our economy does better when we have a democrat in the white house and we can look and remember go back 35 years. We had 5 president s, 3 republicans and 2 democrats. I know both of the democrats and i know they both inherited economic problems from their predecessors. On average, it takes three hundred americans working for a solid year, to make as much money as one top ceo. Its called the wage gap. And the republicans will make it worse by lowering taxes for those at the top and letting corporations write their own rules. Hillary clinton will work to close the wage gap. Equal pay for women to raise incomes for families, a higher minimum wage, lower taxes for the middle class. She gets the job done for us. Clouds move back in tonight. Temperatures will hold steady in the mid 20s through the night. Wednesday will be cloudy and gray with drizzle at times and temperatures in the upper 30s. Northern iowa may see a touch of freezing drizzle as well. All should remain light. More rain is forecast for thursday and friday. Through friday morning, some parts of southern iowa may see threequarters of an inch of rain. Cold air pushes in night through saturday. This will lead to snow fall across the state with 1 to 3 possible through early saturday morning. Temperatures will be much colder for the weekend with highs in the teens and overnight lows in the single digits. Coming up you still have time to hit the jackpot. How big tomorrows powerball drawing is worth. But first toasting 2015 it was a good year for car salesman. Just how good. The findings of a report phone ringing you cant deal with something, by ignoring it. But thats how some president ial candidates seem to be dealing with social security. Americans work hard, and pay into it. So our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong. elephant noise donkey noise stocks on wall street closed modestly higher on tuesday snapping a threeday slump. The s p 500 closed 4 points higher. The dow added 9 points. The nasdaq ended down 11 points. Car salesmen may be sad to see 2015 come to an end. It was a good year for them automakers set a new us sales record for 2015 even as december sales fell short of expectations. Us sales hit a record of 17point 47 million vehicles in 2015, breaking the previous record set back in 2000. Easy credit and strong job growth are some of the reasons for the boost in sales. Three of the largest us airlines have increased their fares. On monday Delta Air Lines increased prices on flights by up to four dollars oneway. Southwest airlines followed suit raising its cost for a oneway domestic flight by three dollars. And American Airlines also raised domestic fares by three dollars to match its rivals. Us airlines regularly adjust their fares. But hiking prices for nearly all domestic flights is less common and an industrywide match even less so. Youre twitter message may be getting a little longer. The company is exploring extending the length permitted in a tweet. Saying the character limit for tweets could grow to ten thousand. Thats the same limit on direct messages on its service. And the new character limit could take effect early this year. The social media website theres still much more to come in the next halfhour. Just ahead shutting down. The progress. Or lack thereof. On the president s promise to close the prison at guantanamo bay. Coming up in sports. The 19th for three years. That way the price is locked, youre not. You can just hang out and be free. Lock in your Monthly Price for 3 years without a contract when you bundle with unlimited nationwide calling. Days after the paris attacks, senators came together for a topsecret briefing on the terrorist threat. Marco rubio was missing fundraising in california instead. Two weeks later, terrorists struck again in san bernardino. And where was marco . Fundraising again in new orleans. Over the last 3 years, rubio has missed Important National security hearings and missed more total votes than any other senator. Politics first thats the rubio way. Right to rise usa in between. Where the us stands tonight on the evolving situation. One year later. How people in france marked the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Charlie Hebdo. And the continued efforts to thwart Terror Threats there. Wild weather. El nino causing problems across the country. What folks are dealing with on the west coast. From who hd iowas High Definition leader. This is the channel 13 news at nine on fox 17 the uns envoy for syria says tensions between saudi arabia and iran will not have a negative impact on officials here in the us and elsewhere are not so sure. John huddy has the latest tonight from the middle east. The fallout from the attack on Saudi Arabias Embassy in iran continues. Today, kuwait said it is recalling its ambassador from tehran. Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have also severed or downgraded diplomatic relations with iran a growing list of sunni controlled countries siding with saudi arabia. Others are trying to intervene. Almoullimi says we are not behavior of the iranian government that continues to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries. Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said today that saudi arabia cannot cover up its crime executing nimr al nimr the shiite cleric executed along with 46 others saturday in saudi arabia. Shiite protesters attacked the Saudi Embassy in tehran because of alnimrs execution. The protests continue. Thousands of people marched in tehran, carrying posters of nimr al nimr, some reading in arabic my blood is the beginning of your end. The anger wasnt only directed at saudi arabia. State Department Officials say that the United States should not act as a mediator between iran and saudi arabia, but secretary of state john kerry says that both countries should work to deescalate the tensions. In jerusalem, john huddy, fox news. In afghanistan. Cook says . Earlier today a Us Service Member was killed and two Us Service Members were injured when they came under fire while conducting a train, advise, and assist mission with their Afghan Special operations counterparts in marjah, thats in helmand province. Its my understanding that a number of Afghan Forces were injured as well. Us special Operations Forces are helping afghan troops in helmand as the taliban makes a push to retake parts of the area, the militant group was behind a suicide bombing which killed six american Service Members near Bagram Air Base late last month. 98hundred us troops are set to remain in afghanistan through most of this year. That number is supposed to drop to 55hundred by next january. While the president moves to tighten the gun laws here in the us his administration is also planning to release more terror suspects from guantanamo bay. Catherine herridge has more. Fox news is told the 17 detainees who are scheduled for release from us custody at guantanamo bay. Well as alqaeda followers. And under the Bush Administration, the men were assessed to be significant terror risks. Today the Defense Department said secretary carter. Who personally signs off on the transfers, is comfortable with his decision. Cook says he carefully reviews each and every one of these cases to determine if they pose any risk to u. S. National security 10 20 22 a source who has seen the list of 17 detainees told fox the administration will not publicly identify the men before the transfers are complete because it could delay or even derail the process. Speaking to Greta Van Susteren last night. Republican congressman trey gowdy questioned the administ