Tomorrow, students in the corridor are making the drive to des moines to explain to lawmakers why they need more. Cbs 2 News Reporter matt hammill spoke with those students today, he joins us live from cedar rapids, matt . Karen some 50 students from area high schools will become lobbiests tomorrow. We caught up with the group from jefferson as they talked to superintendent brad buck this afternoon. The students say this isnt just a budget, its their future and they want to tell lawmakers face to face. We talked with grace morningstar, a jefferson band a show choir member, who says she couldnt just stand by and do nothing. If the funding is cut, were going to see a lot of things that directly impact us such as a lot of extra extra curricular activities and class size. Class sizes really lot of the Extracurricular Activities and classes, class sizes really affect students on an everyday basis. It is really going to change if there is that change in funding. Reporter that is part of an Education Foundation grant so it is not costing the School District any money. Win or loss, dr. Brad buck says it will be a tremendous educational experience for the kids. A new medical Marijuana Bill has an unlikely a lesson in itself. Thank you. A new medical Marijuana Bill has an unlikely sponsor. The bill Just Announced today at the iowa state house would make it legal to grow and sell medical marijuana and cannabis oil. The new legislation would republican sponsor. State representative peter cownie is supporting the bill and hes already got the support of other lawmakers and leaders in the state. These kids and families need this medicine. We know that it works. My daughter margaret has been on it, it works for her. Her. Representative cownie talked about the bill this afternoon at the capital. He on it. We know it has worked for her. The representative talked about the bill this afternoon at the capitol. He says he hopes lawmakers keep an open mind when considering this legislation. The medicaid debate rages on, now between the current and former governor. Cbs 2 News Reporter steffi lee shows us what the former governor is doing to reach out to medicaid advocates and what governor branstad has to say about it. Reporter the former Governor Holding these town Hall Meetings was he says iowans need to have their voiced heard about privatizing made indicated. To poor Public Policy making. He spoke to medicaid advocates. With more than half a million who will be affected by the privatization, culver says this is most important Public Policy decision made in iowa within the last 50 years. Governor Terry Branstad heavily cristeized culver about holding these meetings saying his one time state pending threatened funding for the program. Culver says these meetings baer citizens talking with other citizens before they rally at the capitol about this issue. Beneficiaries, family members, have not had an opportunity to sit at the table to help shape the policy. Policy. Coming up on the cbs 2 news at six, hear one moms story about the services shes afraid her son will miss out on when march first hits. Covering the corridor in coralville, steffi lee, cbs 2 news, live at five. Right now in North Liberty the bluebird cafe is holding a daylong fundraiser right now in North Liberty, the blue bird cafe is holing a day long fund raise for a North Liberty man would need your help. A car accident left todd bevins blind. But with his service dog, actual rvo by his side, he was able to get around town. Sadly, after six years, arvo was diagnosed with cancer and died. They are hoping to raise enough money to replace him. I ride a bicycle because im blind and i have some usable vision. The Service Dog Makes a lot more easier and i feel a lot more safer. One of the hallmark of a Big Community is supporting the members of that community. As a business that benefits from the support of the community, in this way, the a privilege and honor to be able to give back. If you would like to donate, me page on our web site, cbs 2 iowa. Com. New developments today concerning teens mental health. Experts now say all teens should be screened for depression. That is a major change since the last report in 2009 saying the new recommendations from the Us Preventative Services task force say primary care doctors should routinely screen all adolescents. Experts say the payoff could be huge teens often look fine but without knowing more, some can fall through the cracks they say this system would avoid that. Continuing coverage now on the hpv vaccine controversy, a new study shows the brand name vaccine gardasil may cause early menopause or early ovarian failure. The American College of pediatricians says this particular vaccine may be linked to the rare but serious condition. So far, there are a handful of cases of girls with so far, there are a handful of patient and girl with prethat tour ovarian failure within weeks to self years of receiving gardasil. Experts say longterm ovarian function was never addressed in the trials of gardasil. Faulty readings on your fitness tracker might be a sign that youre pregnant a man turned to an online forum to get answers about his fitbit result. It said she had been having a high heart rate for hours. Someone replied to the forum suggesting that he check for pregnancy. Turns out, she was. The man went back it the forum the next day to announce he was going to be a dad. Doctors say it is true that heart rate intensifies during the first trimester but they do not recommend fitness trackers for pregnancy detection. Coralville city leaders are planning for the future at Tonights City Council meeting. At 6 30, they will be looking ahead to 2017 as well as what largest piece of undeveloped one thing theyre talking about tonight is the longterm plans for the west land use area, which is going to be used for things like. A park. Retail. And housing. Vo city leaders say the area surrounded by coral ridge avenue, interstate 380, interstate 80 and forevergreen road is an important area to get right as the city grows. The growth and new standards from the Environmental Protection agency and federal government are also driving 31 Million Dollars in water plant improvements. The wastewater plant will is planned to take two years and the water planta about 18 months. 9 Million Dollars in improvements will also come to first avenue between sixth and ninth street. Kelly hayworth, coralville city administrator 22 04 14 its been widened, sidewalks improved, new lighting new landscaping done south of that area and also norththe city council is south of that area and also north. The city council is scheduled to vote on the budget at their meeting tuesday, march 8th. Live at five. New tonight at five is considering whether to new tonight at 5 00, the highest court in the state is considering whether to relax iowas ban on voting by convicted felons. Civil Rights Groups want the court to restore many felons rights before the november election. A decision could come this summer. Happening right now, primary voters in New Hampshire have been going to the polls all day long today and have less than an hour to cast a vote. Cbs 2 News Reporter and political expert kevin barry here now with what experts are looking for in the nations first primary tonight. Lets talk, kevin, about the difference between iowa caucuses, New Hampshire primaries. One thing with know is that they are both very similar and everyone is very cold when they go. The big difference is the religous nature of both of those states. Iowa is known for its evangelical voters. That is a big reason why ted out in New Hampshire, it is much less relimbous. Only three of 10 New Hampshire voters said they were very religous and a gallup poll in 2014 said that New Hampshire is the 49th most relimbous state in the nation. Iowa by comparison is 22nd. That means they value different thems when they go to the polls. Ted cruz has been managing expectations all week when he has been in New Hampshire saying that no state is a must win but understanding that the bible belt comes next. It does. Super tuesday is a lot of southern states. How do you see that playing out. That will be very helpful for someone like ted cruz. You have places like alabama, arkansas, georgia, north dakota, texas and tennessee which are all considered more religious than iowa. Ted cruz did well in iowa vote. He is expected to do well in the bible belt states so to speak. So New Hampshire not very important for someone like ted cruz. Important for the governors, quote, unquote. That would be john kasich especially but also Chris Christie and jeb bush. If they cant show that their viable candidates, their campaigns will be in danger. John kasich is the guy to watch. He may take second place after having gotten only one delegate here in iowa. I know youll be watching. Let us know what happens. Coming up on live at 5 00 today, the a new location for a favorite spot to have dinner. Why today is especially big at this iowa city restaurant. A live look now at the Educational Leadership support center in cedar rapids. Tomorrow, students will be driving from the corridor to money for th to enthe day with fair skies here into eastern what. What the snow showers and clouds from earlier today have since moved out. What you cant see are the wind which continue to gust up to 25 Miles Per Hour and that is producing wind chills as low as seven below here in cedar rapids with an actual temperature now of 13 degrees. You can see how the cloud have now started to push off into illinois and with fair skies, well see a quick drop in our temperatures here after sunset this evening. Some of these clouds to the west of us will scrape our western counties during the day tomorrow as a little clipper works its way across the upper midwest. Looks like most of the snow with that would stay just to the west of us in the western half of the state. Now, if you take a look at todays high temperatures, youll find it was plenty cold out there. Most of our highs here into eastern iowa were somewhere in the middle teens. The normal highs are up there around 32 degrees so we were a long, long way that today. Our weather headlines include a bitter cold night ahead of us actually left places will go and our wind chills by tomorrow morning could reach as low as 20 below in spots. We have another blast of cold air that comes in friday night and saturday to reinforce the cold air and then finally by sunday, it looks like the cold will ease a bit but then a chipper is expected to bring some snow to eastern iowa with the possibility of accumulations. Now, here is todays high temperatures at 14 degrees in water look and dubuque. Our current temperatures are back in the teens around eastern iowa set to take a quick fall this evening as the skies are now clear. The temperature will start heading towards that zero mark. You can still see the wind right now or plenty strong out there generating wind chills which are now running around 2 to 7 below across all of eastern iowa. And our predictor by tomorrow morning shows some of of the wind chills getting down into that range of 18 to 22 below up in in northeastern iowa. We have a cold start to the day tomorrow. Out and about early in the day. Here is the northwest flow then. This is bringing cold air southeast towards us. It will eventually bring a still ahead live at five a grandaughter has special plans to honor her grandfathers still ahead, a granddaughter has special plans to honor her grandfathers memory that makes this tribute so memorable. A live look the eagles northeast. Eggs are usually laid late this month. No eggs there but it is still a little early. We always like to check some with the decorah eagles. When we come back. A corridor woman is trying to save a piece of family history. History. Cbs 2 News ReporterMarissa Scott joins us live to share her trying to save a piece of family history. Marissa scott is joining us now to share heroux sneak story. Reporter it is so cool. We all have trinkets or memories that we like to keep in a special place for our family. This memory of a late grand father is a little bit too big to save but she want to get it back in her familys hands. Reporter megan has been wanting to save and restore her late grandfathers home. Settle in iowa city and built a home in 1883. So there is a lot of family memorandum ruses and to understand of character tucked away in this brick home. Always have a rose, which made his mother absolutely silent whenever he snuck into his sisters bedroom. The family sold it in the 1960s and there have been different owners ever since. Since. It would be really cool if i got it all fixed up by what would be his 100th birthday. The only problem is that the house is not for sale. Sale. One time it was on the market we did a tour of it and walked through it. At the time, duffner didnt have enough money to buy it. It. Its really expensive to buy it and fix it up. Her family tried to save it as a historical site, but were told there was nothing historically significant about the place. Place. It didnt have any but we are told there is nothing historically significant about the place. They said it didnt have any specific historical reason to save it. Reporter there is something she can do to save it but it means we have to wait. They would be willing to do a first right of refusal meaning whenever they got ready to sell the property, they would agree to contact you first. Reporter megan hopes she can save it in five years, whether that means he buys it or them it a historical site. I really dont want it to be destroyed. Reporter she says her mom would hike to turn the home into a bed and breakfast but she said it would be neat to raise her family there. She also joked that she was hoping to win lottery so she could put that money aside and save it for when the house does go on sale. But i did post her email on our web site. If you would like to help her out and throw a couple of buck her way, i know she would appreciate it. This is a big way to remember them. Well see what happens. A couple right now, celebrations are underway in the French Quarter. sounds of celebration celebration right now celebrations are rpd way under way in the it is fat tuesday in new orleans. Tourists and crowds spent the the spirit of the French Quarter is now alive and well in iowa city. Augusta opened its doors for the first time today. The cajun inspired restaurant was started by a couple from louisiana. Their website says the halperins left new orleans during hurricane katrina, heading to chicago where they got married. They took their honeymoon in iowa and thats when they decided this was the place to be. And now a final look at your forecast. Thats cbs 2 news live at 5. Coverage continues now with the cbs evening news and well be back here at 6 with the top pelley high hopes in New Hampshire. Its very exciting. We feel great. I am so happy to be here. I think were going to do very well. I feel good. Im feeling great. 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