To be on any body of water in Johnson County or much of iowa. Weve had the el nino effect this year weve had fluctuating temps much warmer than normal, a lot of heavy rains. There hasnt been a Good Opportunity for ice to form solidly. Solidly. First responders had to break an inch of ice as they searched the waters and debris also made the search difficult. The news of such a young life lost is taking a toll on the city of solon. Solon. Cbs 2 News ReporterStephanie Johnson joins us now to explain. Stephanie . Stephanie . Kevin and kelly, last night more than a hundred students and staff from solon gathered to remember their friend and fellow student. Student. They held a candlelight vigil at Solon High School to show support and love for his family. Tanner was a senior who planned to study medicine in college. His teammates, friends even the superintendent say he was a great role model and friend to i still cant believe it. It feels like a dream, like it doesnt seem real. Its crazy to think that someone from a small town that Everybody Knows is gone. Gone. Hes a student that everybody wants to have in class and i believe everybody was fortunate to have as a friend, friend,right now the hashtag solon strong is being used on social media to remember the teen. Cbs 2 news has learned the school will provide grief counselors all week long for any student who may need them Stephanie Johnson, cbs 2 news. Thanks stephanie. Cbs 2 news is learning new details detailsabout a weekend shooting in nashua. 56yearold karl white died after being shot saturday afternoon. Authorities arrested the shooter but they havent filed charges so far. They say the shooting may have been an accident. Turning to a shooting investigation in dubuque, dubuque,where someone shot a two year old boy. It happened late sunday night on main street. First responders rushed the two year old to university of iowa hospitals and clinics. Condition. Police believe the shooting might have been an accident. So far they have not arrested anyone. Later this morning, president obama will announce controversial executive actions he hopes will decrease gun violence in america. America. Some of the measures expected are 200 new atf agents enforcing gun laws, 230 new fbi employees dedicated to background checks, and 500 Million Dollars for access to Mental Health care. It also expands background checks to include mandatory checks for all private sales. I think everybody here is all too familiar with the statistics. We have tens of thousands of people every single year who are killed by guns. Guns. The plan will also encourage states to report people who should be kept from buying weapons. The current top gop candidates for president are attacking the president s plan, calling it an abuse of power. Power. Frontrunner donald another step in the process of not being able to buy guns. And one of his main republican rivals, ted cruz, was campaigning in des moines, when he responded to the executive actions. It shouldnt surprise us that in the final year of his presidency, president obama is committed to continuing to abuse his executive power, in every way shape and form and espeically in going after our Second Amendment to keep and bear arms. Arms. Cruz is currently on a bus tour in the state of iowa. He hopes to visit all 99 counties in the state by the Iowa Caucuses. Florida senator marco rubio is in the middle of a three day iowa tour. Tour. In just a few hours, hell talk in cedar rapids at a town hall meeting at the marriott on collins road. This is footage from a town hall in burlington monday. After he wraps up in cedar rapids he goes to mason city and then fort dodge this afternoon before closing his trip tomorrow in marshalltown. The Iowa Caucuses are just a little less than four weeks away. Away. And Donald Trumps campaign is rolling out a new his controversial plan to temporarily ban muslims from entering the u. S. Trump plans to spend two Million Dollars a week on ads in iowa and New Hampshire right before the Iowa Caucuses. On the democratic side Hillary Clinton was back in the corridor. Shes trying to prevent what happened to her 8 years ago when she lost a lead in iowa to eventual president barack obama. Obama. Clinton was in cedar rapids monday and targeted the republican frontrunner donald trump with some of her remarks. But when she was asked specifically about trumps attacks on clinton and her family the former secretary of state took a more comical approach. Ive adopted a new years resolution and im going to let him live in his alternate reality and im not going to respond. Respond. Polls show clinton has a strong lead in iowa but she faces an uphill battle in New Hampshire against senator Bernie Sanders. Clinton campaign brought one of their biggest assets to New Hampshire former president bill clinton. Clinton. President clinton told supporters hes proud of the work hillary has done. The former president will be in cedar rapids on thursday. Hes scheduled to make a stop at the National Czech and Slovak Museum and library in that afternoon. It will be the former president s first visit to the museum since this historic moment. Clinton was at the dedication ceremony for the museum in 1995 along with the president s of the Czech Republic and slovakia. Its a moment 20 years ago that many people in cedar rapids still remember when three heads of state came to the city of five seasons. At the capitol, state lawmakers will convene the new legislative session in less than a week. Theyre going to have a lot to accomplish after last years sessionconsidered by many to be highly unproductiveeven though legislative leaders worked well beyond their scheduled end date. Date. Top of mind this year, is the governors plan to privatize the states medicaid program. Federal officials have transitions rollout to march first,but many worry that may not be enough time. Reaching agreement on Education Funding is also on the todo list. My biggest hope is we figure out Education Funding ahead of time so the School Boards can plan their budgets. Budgets. We also have to make sure the 1 2 million citizens of the state of iowa who rely on medicaid arent going to be left out in the cold with privitization plans the governor wants. Wants. In addition, some democrats are looking to raise the minimum wage statewide. Again this year, republicans control the iowa house, while democrats control the senate. And today, the Associated Press is holding its annual iowa legislative seminar at the statehouse. State lawmakers will be on hand to give their thoughts on the upcoming session. Governor Terry Branstad will follow them and speak at 11. An iowa city west high sophomore is one of ten students nationwide nationwidebound for seattle to show what he can do with numbers. Numbers. The midwest in the american mathematical societys who wants to be a mathematician competition on thursday. Lee finished High School Math in eighth grade and now he takes math classes at the university of iowa. Lee says he looks forward to potential prize money but also taking in all the experiences like traveling to washington for the first time and meeting other young mathematicians. I get to compete with them so i get to see what thats like and i guess if i do well here, i guess it would kind of be a big confidence boost. Boost. If lee wins the competition he would take home five thousand dollars for himself and five thousand dollars for the west High School Math department. Department. Its after the break. Break. The new pieces of 2016. In your cbs 2 donkey sound elephant sound theres a big difference between making noise, and making sense. elephant sound donkey sound when it comes to Social Security, we need more than lip service. Our next president needs a real plan to keep Social Security strong. elephant noise hey candidates. Enough talk. Starting the new year off with some new tech. Tech. The next gadgets and gizmos of tomorrow will be revealed at the biggest show in the world. World. Mary moloney gives us a preview of tomorrows Consumer Electronics show in las vegas. Vegas. Some of the largest names in the tech world will showcase their shiny new gadgets at the Consumer Electronics show. Drones dominated last years event as did cool cars. This year expect more drool worthy inventions and mind blowing tech. The tech watchers at engadget predict new Tv Technology will be unveiled. Big names like lg sony and sharp are forecasted to tout new ways to make your tv watching better. But at least one company is jumping the gun what it will show off. Samsung has three projects from its super secret creative lab that may someday change your life. The first is the welt. Its the next generation of wearable technology. It looks like a typical belt but hidden inside there is socalled Smart Sensor Technology that can track your health. Like recording waist size eating habits steps and even time you spend sitting down. This is a rink. Its a handmotion controller for those who like to play in virtual reality. And the last project is a little harder to see. Its a watch strap called tiptalk and it lets you hear your smartphone without headphones. All you have to do is touch your ear and voila calls videos and anything else you play can be heard in your ear without pesky headphone chords. Cool huh . Dont expect to find these things on store shelves anytime soon. Samsung says the projects are still in the development phases. But well be able to see these prototypes and other eye ces. For consumer watch its now on this morning. Morning. Coming up next. Next. The hawkeye football favorite whos easing the blow after a bad rose bowl loss. Loss. Youve upgraded all your old technology. So what about this . Its time to get into the new with ford new is ecoboost technology. New is a footactivated liftgate. New is tougher, stronger and lighter. New is ford. Americas bestselling brand. Now get into a new focus, fusion, or escape with 0 financing for 60 months plus 2,000 dollars tradeassist cash. Only at your local ford dealer. On new years day. Hawkeye fans quickly turned their attention to next season. And the chances of a return to the rose bowl. Look a little better with news that broke tonight. The daily iowan is reporting that corner desmond king will return for his senior season. Thats according to kings mother. Who said her son still has unfinished business. Before making his decision. King submitted his name to the nfl advisory committee. Vivian stringer took the iowa Womens Basketball program to new heights nine ncaa tournaments in twelve seasons and tonight. For the second time in twenty years. Shes back. The last time stringer brought rutgers to carver was 2005. And they beat the hawkeyes that night. Tonight. Was a nailbiter. Ally disterhoft in the post. Just bullying a scarlet knight. Bucket and the foul for disterhoft. Iowa regains the lead. Fourth quarter now. Game tied at 61. Alexa kastanek from deep. Oh yeah. Thats a triple. Her fifth of the night. Iowa back on top. Then a couple minutes later. Puts it on the floor. Pulls up and hits. That puts the hawks up five. Fran likes it. Everybody likes it. Because iowa is in the win column. They get past rutgers, 6965 the final. And halftime adjustments were a big key. We really came together in the locker room and just said. We know what theyre gonna be doing. Weve been working on it. Just look for the shots weve been looking for in christmas. And i think thats really what got us this win tonight. What a week it was for iowa hawkeye hoops. First. They knock off the numberone team in the country. Then. They go on the road. Erase a large deficit. And beat another top15 team. Today. The hawks squeezed into the top 25. Theyre still looking up at the iowa state cyclones. They sit at number 13. After losing on the road to oklahoma. Iowas big week puts them at number19. Its their first appearance in the polls this season. So now the milliondollar question how will iowa respond to cracking the top25 . Fran mccaffery and the players insist. Nothing will change. Its a team of veterans. And theyve been ten. Nobody gave us a chance. Nobody thought wed be 2andoh right now except the fifteen guys in our locker room, so i mean. No matter what anybody says we still gotta go out there and play and perform to our best ability. Ability. I think we gotta remember were only two games in. And we beat two very good teams but we havent accomplishe alot. Yet. Weve still got a long ways to go. Business. Cbs2 news connects with the corridor. Call us with your story tips at 1800222kganor email us at news at cbs2iowa. Comor connect with us Anne Hathaways baby belly is trending online online she posted this bikini pic on instagram to show it off. Off. But she did it just to beat the paparazzi the caption explained that bikini pics are out of character for her, but she was at the beach and noticed she was being photographed so she wanted to beat them to it and at least have a shot out there that made her happy. The good news is everyone is praising her and saying how she has that good morning again its now still to come. Come. Why hawkeye basketball is giving iowa fans something to root for after an exciting football season. Season. Youre watching cbs 2 this morning covering the right now on cbs 2 this morning. The latest information in the standoff between federal authorities and an Armed Militia Group in oregon. The new developments about a story right before christmas in the corridor that was more serious than some people thought. The shooting suspect whos free this morning even after caught on camera. Welcome to cbs two this morning. Im kevin barry. Barry. And im kelly dambrosio. Dambrosio. An update to a standoff in eastern oregon. Oregon. A sheriff is now telling an armed group that seized a National Wildlife refuge, its time to leave. Leave. This all started after the protest over two ranchers being sent back to prison to serve time for arson. Those two ranchers reported to a prison on monday. Now a group led by ammon bundy has sent demands to the federal government saying they want authorities to look into claims that local ranchers have been intimidated by the government. There have been some tremendous abuses. They used the courts to prosecute and to basically take the land and resources away from the people. People. Bundys father had a similar standoff with nevada in 2014. The ranchers say they dont support the actions of bundy and his group. The fbi is working to resolve the situation peacefully. The city of chicago has paid out 5Million Dollars t0 more than 57 people peoplewhose claims that they were tortured by police decades ago were found to be credible. Credible. The money was paid on monday. Most victims received checks of 100grand. The city has been receiving heavy criticism and is facing a federal civil rights investigation into their police department. Mayor rahm emanuel said that before righting more recent wrongs, the city must heal past wounds. New this morning, a former South CarolinaPolice Officer is now out on bail. Bail. Online records show Michael Slager was released about an hour after a judge allowed him to post 500 thousand dollar bond. Slager was charged with murder after a video showed him shoot a black man several times in the back following a traffic stop last april. Prosecutors opposed bail, saying he remained a flight risk. The victims family opposed it too, but urged the community to remain calm. Now to an increasingly tense middle east after saudi arbia executed a man critical of that countrys government. Government. He was an outspoken shiite leader and a group of iranians responded to his death by marching to the Saudi Embassy and setting it on fire. Saudi arabia is mostly sunni and then severed all diplomatic ties with iran and halted all flights to the islamic republic. The us russia china and several other countries are now calling on both sides to take a step back. We are urging all sides to show restraint and to not further inflame tensions that the region. Region. Experts say that likely wont happen any time soon. Demonstrations have been reported in a number of countries on both sides of this dispute. Analysts say this new war of words could ruin any chance of bringing all peaceful end to the war in syria. Also overseas, a strong earthquake killed at least 8 people and injured more than 100 in indias Remote Northeast region. Some indian media is reporting that more were killed but there hasnt been any official confirmation. The 6point7magnitude earthquake could also be felt in nearby bangladesh, where one person died of a heart attack. A tornado hit hiawatha on december 23rd according to the National Weather service. Service. The storms that hit eastern iowa brought a brief twister that didnt do too much damage, but downed some trees and flipped a semi on i380. The Weather Service says the ef1 tornado was on the ground for just two miles. Bad weather hampered search efforts for a downed plane near the iowanebraska border. A single engine plane was declared missing when it didnt contact the airport in sioux city on sunday night. Authorities were able to locate the plane m