Its the biggest day for online shopping. Shopping. By midnight tonight americans are expected to spend three billion dollars online. That is 12percent more than cyber monday last year. Wallet hub says jewelry is e most discounted category while tech gadgets were the least discounted. Smaller businesses like hands in harmony of cedar rapids also promoted online deals. They offered massage packages at t discounted rate. Two years ago during the height of the Holiday Shopping season, target discovered hackers accessed the personal information of 70 million customers. Customers. Its happened other places since then and Cyber Security experts say its an shopping is incredibly convenient, but not perfect. Perfect. Cbs 2 News Reporter matt hammill hammillis live in the newsroom with the latest. Matt . There are some amazing deals on line Free Shipping gift cards buy one get one. But police also want us to keep p mind there can be a dark side as you type in your credit card number. Number. Police say police say even be careful of searching on google. Some of the choices may sod like a big retailer but may be fake. Andhe theft doesnt end there. Theft doesnt and the fake. But m m be big retailer sound like a searching on careful of searching onongoogle. Some of the choices may sound like a big retailer but may be fake. And the theft doesnt end there. Police say a lot of packages get stolen from front porches so make arrangements with the shipper or a police say even be cceful of searching on google. Some of the choices may sound like a fake. And the theft doesnt end there. Police say a lot of packages get stolen from front porches so make arrangements with the shipper or a neighbor. Matt hammill cbs 2 news, ten at 10. Thanks matt. More than 95 Million People across the corridor and country shopped during the fifth annual Small Businesses saturday promotion. Thats up eight percent from last year, according to one survey. It also found shoppers spspt more than 16 billion dollars on saturday, an increase of 14 percent from last year. Cbs 2 news ten at ten continues now with more of the corridors top stories. Stories. A man acccced of killing his mother nearly two years ago will stand trial this week. Week. Investigators say 44year old edward cusic used a crowbar to murder his 68 ononold marion road. Court documents show cusic is the one who called 911 telling the operator he killed his mother because she threatened him with a knife. An autopsy shows she died of blunt force trauma. If convicted of first degree murder, cusic will spend the rest of his life in prison. Cbs 2 news is learning new details about the man who went on a shooting rampage at a colorado ssings planned pararthood clinic. Robert dear made his First Court Appearance today. Hes accussed of killing a university of Colorado Police officer, an iraq war veteran and a mother of two. Police say dear also planned to ignite two propane tanks left outside his car. He surrendered to police after a fivehour standoff. A motive for the killingswas not discussese today. Dear will be back in court next week. Baltimores police chief says the future of the city is at stake as the first trial in the death of fredd gray gets underway. Six Police Officers have been indicted in april 19. The 25yearold died while in police custody. Jury selection for officer william porters trial began today, while demostrators gathered outside. Porter faces charges of assault, manslaughter, Reckless Endangerment and misconduct in office. The chicago o Police Officer accused of shooting a teenager 16 times is free tonight. Bail for Jason Van Dyke was set at onepointfivemillion dollars, hours latat he posted ten percent of that to get out of jail. Van dyke is charged with murder in the october 2014 shooting of 17yearold laquan mcdonald. Dash cam video of the hooting was released last week and sparked days of protests in the city. Police say mcdonald was carrying an unopened pocketknife. They say he slhed the tires of a police cruiuir before the shooting. If convicted, van dyke faces 20 years to life in prison. Now ten at ten continues with stories across the corridor. A Johnson County sheriffs deputy is now being blamed for causing a crash. According to the iowa citypress citizen, itappened over the weekend at the intersection of highway six and highway 109 near oxford. The Sheriffs Office say the deputy pulled out in front of another vehicle and thats what caused the crash. One person was taken to the hospital, and is expected to be o. K. Muslim students at iowas three public universities are seeking a permanent place to hold prayers. The university of iowa already accommodates space requests from faith based student groups. Students at iowa state say they have access to the schools chapel but its too far from classes. At Northern Iowa, more than 300muslim students are looking for a place to pray. In cedar rapids, rapids,the city Christmas Tree is now in place on mays island but ull have to wait to see the twinkling lights. City crews cut the 35foot colorado spruce from the yard of the Anderson Family on the southwest side. The city will while many are still enjoying leftovers from their thanksgiving feast, others still cant put food on the table. Table. Its a reality that local food banks are battling every day, and ey need yoururelp. Help. Cbs 2 News ReporterMellaney Moore is live in North Liberty to explain, mellaney. The North LibertyCommunity Pantry helps feed people year round, but right now you can help them give to families for the holidays. Holidays. In this season of giving, you can help more families have happy holidays. The biggest items this time of year are the itememthat youre going to have to celebrate with your family. North Liberty Community pantry director tina dubois says the pantry is looking for donations of things like stuffing mix, pie crusts and other holiday favorites. If youre going to have olives, of if youre going to havav yams or youre going to have Something Else even however unique it is to your family, most likely theres someone else who also would like that for their celebration. The pantry says they are trying to fill in the gapapof holiday families they serve each week. Some of their food comes from the Hawkeye Area Community Action program, which serves 97 local agencies. Theres quite a bit of challenges in the holiday season. For one, it comes during winter and a lot of people are forced to decide, do they pay for their electric bill or do they feed their family . Bourgeacq says for families who celebrate christmasa there is added pressure of trying to afford gifts. The need is, it just keeps unfortunately keeps growing. Weve distributed close to 4. 5 Million Pounds of food last year. Ten years ago we distributed 100,000 pounds of food. Bourgeacq says more families also need help this time of year when kids go on christmas break. K. For some families, school not only educates their children, but feeds them. Its our responsibility to help care for everyone and if we want our nation to be a pwsitive place where all want to hacap says for every dollar donated to them, they can buy seven pounds of the kinds of foods they distribute. For information on how you can help, just go to our website, cbs 2 iowa dot com. Cbs 2 news would likekeo congratulate Kevin Linquist from cedar rapids rapidshe won our gridiron getaway. That means kevin receives two tickets to watch the iowa hawkeyes take on Michigan State at theheig ten championship in indianapolis this weekend. He also wins a hundred dollars and a hotel stay. Congratulations, kevin be sure to watch the big game on our sister station, fox 28. Kick off i isaturdayayevening at seven. That is cbs 2 news ten at ten the corridors top stories and tomorrows weather first forecast in the first ten minutes. Minutes. But we are just getting started. Coming up. Up. The plans to change ethanol in the countrys gas supply and why it isnt cbs 2 this morning, its that time of year, and holiday festivities have already begun. Begun. Were taking a closer look at an annual celebration of chirstmas, right here in the corridor. Thats tomorrow next on cbs two news. News. Why governor branstad says hes forging ahead with a plan to privatize iowas medicaid program. Texas senator and republican president ial candidate ted cruz spent time today. Cruz criticized democrats democratsover their plans to bring Syrian Refugees to the u. S. The senator says the proposal would make the country more dangerous. He says s the United States should be helping the refugees find a safe place in the middle east. Former news anchor Ashley Hinson announced today she is seeking the seat being left open by former speaker of the house kraig paulsen. Hinson, a republican. Republican. Is the second candidate to make a bid for the seat. Attorney mark seidl is running as a democrat. Waterloo voters will go to the polls tomorrrr to elect a new mayor. Mayor. Councilman quentin hart and former mayor tim hurley will go head to head. Neither secured a majority of votes on november 5th, forcing the automatic runoff. Another runoff will take place in cedar falls. Voters will see jim brown and incumbent mayor jon crews names on the ballot. Brown gained the most votes during the november 5th election, but dnt pick up enough to win outright. Crews dropped out of the runoff and endorsed brown for mayor. Dave is running a writein campaign. Congressman rod blum is once again is spending the most money to send mass mailings to constituents. Blum spent nearly 130thousand dollars on mailings from july to september. Thats up nearly 80 thsand spent last quarter. Cbs 2 news reached out to blums office for comment. They defended the spending, saying the mailings are the best way to get feedback from people in the district. Governor branstad is once again speaking out against calls to delay plans to privatize iowas medicaid program. Program. The governor says theres no reason to push the transition beyond january first. This comes after a judge threw out a contract the state signed with one of the four outofstate providers. The governor says the plans can move forward with just three, citing similar programs in other states. As of right now, the changes will go into effect the f fst of the year. For more political headlines, be sure to watch iowa in focus, this sunday morning at 10 30, right here cbs 2. A blow to the corn industry today, by cutting the amount of ethanol being pumped into the countrys gas supply. Supply. The required level for 2016, is above the industry target and is higher than proposed requirements from the Environmental Protection agency. Iowa leaders are expressing their disappointment about the decision. Governor branstad says the epas final decision failed to follow the renewable levels set by congress. Senator joni ernst says ethanol is a critical component in reducing the nations need for foreign oil. Prices at the pump keep falling. The latest figures from gas buddy dot com show the e average pricicfor a gallon of gas in iowa dropped another two cents last week. Week. The statewide average for a gallon of gas is twodollars and five cents. Thats two cents above the national average. Average. To track gas prices i i your area, log on to cbs 2 iowa dot com. Not so mean green coming up in sports sportshow the panther contniued thier winning ways thanks to a career High Performance by their big man pleasure to introduce our new head football coach. Matt campbell. clapping clapping clapping and with that, the matttt campbell era in ames is underway Jamie Pollard offically introduced the the afternoon ending a search, that wasnt a long process the bigtake away from hihi First Press Conference as the head clone he won it he won the press conference he was enthusiastic excited about the opportunity and confident in the players and himself now the next step r campell win games where not many have been won in life. Change is inevitable. Change happens. But greatness is a choice. From this day forward. Every decision that i make. Will be strained to bring greatness. Im truly honored to be a cyclone. And im truly honored and humbled to be the head football coach here. The big question now is who is Matt Campbell well hes winner, hes won 35 games in 4 years at toledo, hes offensive minded, which is key inorder to compete in the big 12 his rockets averaged 31 points per game while being balanced on offense and he can recruit so on paper, package. Speaking of the total package desmond king is that and more on the field and the big 10 took notice by naming the junior ball hawk the tatum woodsondefensive back of the year the only other hawkeye to wiwi that award micah hyde whos now in the nfl this season king leads the nation with 8 interceptions he also was named Unanimous First Team all big 10er Northern Iowa passed their rst road test of the season with flying colors now the panthers are hoping to enjoy some home cookin for the last time for a month after tonight, coach jake and the guys are on the road panthers hosting the mean green from north texas but uni was the one being mean on the Court Bennett cook operating down low a spin, pump fake and a basket koch led the panthers with a career high 18later ininhe half shot clock winding down Jeremy Morgan lets it fly from deep the former west high trojan dropped in 15. And his buddy from linnmar was scoring too att bohannon with the nice cut for and wes waspun you know washington warrior alumn well he was doing his thing to the rack and 1 panthers get a big win win93 70 the final. The month long road trip starts saturday at richmond. Stay with cbs two terry has one last look at your forecast after the break. If youre doing everything right but find it harder and harder to get by, youre not alone. While our people work longer hours for lower wages, almost all new income goes to the top 1 . My plan make wall street banks and the ultrarich pay their fair share of taxes, provide living wages for working peoplele ensure eququ pay for women. Im bernie sanders. We can make a Political Revolution and create an economy and democracy that works for all news at ten. Well see you jon Stephen Colbert band playing intro music cheers and applause captioning sponsored by cbs cheers and applause stephen welcome to the late stephen