Will be warmer with clearing skies the current winds around our viewing area will be calm our planner features clearing weather today today new this morning, several eastern iowa firefighters firefightersresponded to a fire overnight in rural iowa county. Take a look. Our crew on the scene overnight said an entire barn was burned to the ground. Ground. The fire was on y avenue just south of homestead. On scene and well bring any updates throughout the show and be sure to watch the cbs 2 news at noon for the latest details. Breaking news overnight in South Carolina. Carolina. A female deputy was shot shortly after midnight just north of charleston. Right now the suspect has not been caught. The deputy was shot when a suspect she was trying to arrest began fighting her. She went into surgery earlier this morning and is in stable condition. Cbs 2 will continue to track this story and bring any updates as soon as they are released. Cbs 2 news has the latest on a developing story out of kansas this morning. Morning. Where four people are dead including a nman after a sesees of shootings. Shootings. It all happened in the hesston area, which is about 35 miles north of wichita wichitafollowing those shootings, and after the gunman, cedric ford, was killed, police e surrounded fords mobile home late last night. Neighbors called police when they heard music blaring from the mobile home. At first officers believed someone was inside, but when they finally anyone. Authohoties are not releasing what they did find. 14 others were injured in the shooitngs, and 10 of the victims are still in critical condition. Authorities say there re four shooting locations, and one was at excel industries, were the gunman worked. One of fords coworkers said he was shocked. Were there any incidcations that this would happen . No. No. Never would have thought in a million years nicest gentleman. I even, prior to work today, he talked to me as we were walking in to clock in today. Today. Multiple employees who worked their described the Work Environment as a large family. A nearby Medical Center was forced into a lockdown. Excel industries decided to stay closed into nextweek. Now a cbs 2 news update on the devastating Severe Weather that hit the southern and eastern portion of the United States earlier in the week. Week. The National Weather service is now saying a tornado that carved a path through Central Virginia was winds speeds of up to 165 miles per hour. It was on the ground for 13 miles killed one person and damaged more than 100 homes. The Weather Service says as many as 13 tornadoes hit louisiana earlier in the week one of those alsowas an ef3. Two people were killed in that storm. When a Sexual Assault occurs, rape kits are an important tool for Law Enforcement agencies to identify suspects and bring them to justice. Now the Iowa AttorneyGenerals Office is looking to eliminate a backlog of untested kits. These kits can go untested for many reasons often because a victim does not want to pursue charges. The kits use dna evidence that is put into a National Data base. Sexual assault victim advocates say eliminating the backlog could help catch repeat offenders iowa Law Enforcement agencies are currently working to complete surveys to inventory all untested kits. The lawyer for a dubuque man acccused of sexually assaulting a woman and beating her to death says his client has a mental disorder. Disorder. Helmon betwell is murder and Sexual Assault. Assault. His lawyer is asking to have criminal proceedings put on hold until the court holds a competency hearing. Investigators say betwell randomly attacked 66yearold nancy krapfl in september. The public defender assigned to the case says betwell doesnt understand the charges against him. The founder of midamar foods will spend two years in prison. Prison. A judge handed down the sentence to William Aossey junior thursday. This is a case cbs 2 news has been following for several years now. Now. A jury convicted aossey of conspiracy and fraud last year. The company which sells halal foods falsified packaging labels on beef and sold it knowing it wasnt up to halal standards. The final Republican Debate was held in houston just days before super tuesday next week. Week. There might have been five candidates on stage but the spotlight was really on the top three contenders and they all came out swinging. Swinging. Frontrunner donald trump wawain the crosshairs of his two closest competitors marco rubio and ted cruz. Those two are trying to gain whos won the past three primaries and caucuses. The attacks came early and often. Donald i know youre embarrassed, i know youre embarassed, but keep swinging man. Rubio youre the only person on this stage who has ever been fined for hiring people for your project illegally. Trump im the only person whos hired people, you havent hired anybody. You dont have the endorsement of one republican senator and you work with these people. You should be ashamed of yourself. Cruz donald, if you want to be liked in washington, ats not a good attribute for a president. President. Doctor ben carson and former Ohio Governor john kasich also took the stage last night. Most polls show them well behind the top three. On super tuesday nearly 600 delegates are up for grabs. Nearly 60 delegates will be awarded tomorrow night when the two Democratic Candidates get ready for their last contest before super tuesday. Democraticicvoters in South Carolina will hit the polls tomorrow. Be sure to watch the cbs 2 news weekend newscasts and check cbs 2 iowadotcom for the latest numbers and results. S. Latest details on the drama surrounding the open seat on the United StatesSupreme Court. Court. The newest name thrown into the ring says hes not interested. Nevada governor brbrn sandoval told the white house he doesnt want to be considered right now. Some believe nominating the republican was an attempt to sway senatrepublicans to consider the president s suggestion. The judiciary committee, led by iowa senator charles grassley, already says it will not hold hearings even if the president makes a nomination. As the Supreme Court battle intensifies, senator grassley may on be feeling some hehe when it comes to his own position. Position. Cbs 2 news is now learning former Lieutenant Governor patti judge is thinking about challenging him in november. Judge made two successful runs as secretary of agriculture befofo serving as Lieutenant Governor under former governor chet culver. She told the Des Moines Register on thursday the senator deserves a strong challenge this year. Its and ririt now in its degrees. Degrees. Just ahead. The new additions to one corridor town safer. In your cbs 2 weather r first forecast we have. Main weather your planner shows whats ahead for the next hours now a live look outside courtesy of our weatherfirst skycam temperatures around the area will be wawaer with clearing today taking a look at regional temperatures we see are going to warm heading into the weekend the regional satellite radar is featuring clearing skies today lett move ahead in time taking a look at the midwest surface map moving into a closer view with our predictor forecast we plenty of sunshine this afternoon todays forecast bring us clearing warmer weather tonights forerest will be clear calm tomorrow will feature sunshine, breezy mildweather our 7 day forecast has generally warming weather for the weekend we first told you earlier this week about a new robot getting rave reviews. Reviews. The robot is being called atlas, and many people are now commenting on how its creators arent being to kind to i i it. Jeanne moos shows use how its being bullied into showing off its abilities. Abilities. Its a wow moment. For robot fans. An impressisi new version of the atlas robot is unveiled. And what steals the limelight . Robot abuse. trevor noah, host, the daily show but its interesting that americas building robots that people can bully. trevor noah, host, the daily show going to be in the robot version of roots, you understand this. And its not just physical,but mental torture. By hockey stick. Taunted and teased. This after doing such a nice job of lifting boxes. Take this job and shove it, im outta here. No wonder atlas fans visualized robot t revenge scenarios. And this isnt the first time the highly garded robot Design Company boston dynamics has mistreated d one of f its creations. trevor noah, host, the daily show why do you ahhhh its a robot jeanne moos, new york actually there is a perfectly good reason for this robot abuse. When most robots fall down, they cant get back up. They often have to be carried off for repair. But when the faceplant. Watch it get back on its feet. And though it stumbles through the snow like bigfoot, it never loses its balance on the uneven terrain. Thats a very big deal. Even if one commenter noted looks like me coming home from the bar last night. jeanne moos, new york lest you think the engineers are just brutal bullies lacking any sense of humor. This was last years christmas greeting from boston dynamics. Even if their robots arent laughing all the way. Its now on this orning. Andnd if youre in its degrees. Degrees. After the break how cedar rapids own zach johnson fared during the opening round behold the power of protein in birds eye protein blends. Ok. Theyre delilious side dishes with the protein of beans, whole grains. And veggies mmm good. My work here is dooooone birds eye protein blends. Welcome back its now were taking a look at your your heres a look at some of eastern iowas top stories on this morning. Cedar rapids city leaders are working on plans for their next Big Development downtown. Theyre holding a meeting for developers to check out a site west of the paramount theatre. They want someone to put up a building at least five stories tall, that includes parking and has an appealing street view. That meeting is taking place next monday. In solon the towns first and only Traffic Signals are in the works. Four lights will go in at the intersection of main street and highway one in Traffic Safety funds from the iowa dot. The total cost is more than 230thousand dollars. The university of iowa is taking sustainability to the next level. Even though its still winter, some local faers and ui staff were harvesting miscanthus, type of tall grass. This perennial can grow as tall as 13 feet and can live for 30 years. The grass is used by the university as a Renewable Energy source to produce power, heat and cooling on campus. After fyling high for most of the big 10 season lately the hawks are heheing south in the standings and against wisconsin lets face they got badgeredthe hawks lost their 6th straight game in the series and didnt look at all like what we are used to seeing iowa scored a season low 59 points turned it over 14 times and the thewe didnt execute like we needed to. So we just have to do a better job of that, and theyve got to understand that when im asking them to do mething they havent already done, like theyve aeady way. We know that we are capable of being the best team in the country. Weve shown that before. Its not like it left us. We just havto get back to playing tt way. High school hoops clear creek amana taking on xavier in their 3a district finals clippers down three late in the first Jake Neubauer stops pumps and rattles it home to cut the lead to 1 but the saints marched out of the gates to start the Second Quarter matt mims dials Long Distance and connects saints march on to play Mount Pleasant monday for a spot at state. 1as defending champ Gladbrook Reinbeck taking on grdy center in their distct final and the spartans werent ared of the 1 loss rebels chase boren splashes home the three ball Grundy Center jumped out to a 4 point leadbut then Tyler Eiffler heated up the lefty sunk 3 threes in the 2nd rebels run to substate where theyll take on lynville sulley saturday. Zach johnson playing in the first round of the Honda Classicthe cedar rapids native was battling the winds all round long on 13 he played it just right sticks it about 18 feet away from the pin and then zach attack curves in his only birdie of the round hes plus 5 10 shots back. Its safe to say winning is a tradition for wartburg wrestling the National Championships and 24 straight conference titles and eric keller is definitley all about it hes only lost 3 duals since taking over the program but what really gets him going training his wrestlers for lifeeric keller our ed thomas coach of the week the writing is on the wall at wartburg llerally the adition started before i was born. So you realize youre doing it for a lot more than just yourself. Yourself. Every time you put that singlet on its just like you feel obligated to hold that torch. Hold the rope for everything this programs ever done. And continue the tradition of dominance the expectation is excellence and nobody is expecting more out of this progam and these guys then me. But winning to eric keller isnonly about conference titles or National Championships thats really what we are doing. We are teaching guys life through a sport. You know thats wrestling. Wrestling. If you give up on the mat youre going to give up in life. Every thing you do in this room coresponds to the character you show outside this room. And thats the most important to Keller Keller we want to be here for you. And they no its not just words. When u are you go out in the real world youre a better person because you went through here. And thats our goal. A goal hes taken down he leads by example. Hes not somebody who comes in here and preaches stuff he doesest do. Hes a mile a minute. To be. Hes somebody we look up to so hes everything. Everything. Cbs2 news connects with the corridor. Call us with your story tips at 1800222kganor email us at news at cbs2iowa. Comor connect with us final weather your planner shows whats ahead a the regional satellite radar is featuring morning clouds moving into a closer view with our predictor forecast we see clearing skies today todays forecast bring us clearing warming weather our 7 day forecast has a nice a unicorn was on the loose in a california community. Community. The police started getting calls that a unicorn was running around on the roadway. Of course, unicorns dont exists so police didnt know what to think. Think. The unicorn was juliette. A pony with a belongs to five year old tatum. Wednesday the horse was spooked by something and pulled the reins out of a guys hands and just kept running. Juliette led police and residents on a three hour chase just like a real unicorn, they had trouble finding her. She was running around in an orchard and blended in with some of the blooms. Blooms. Tatum said she tatum said she got a time out after that for being a bad pony. Good morning again its now right now its degrees in after the break. The excuse one local fast food manager is giving after employees are caught talking about food getting dropped on the floor. Floor. Youre watching cbs 2 right now on cbs 2 this morning. T latest information overnight after a car rolled over on highway 151. The explanation from one fastfood manager in cedar rapids after employees are caught on camera talking about food that falls on the floor. The next move from apple in welcome to cbs two this morning. Im kevin bbarry. Barry. And im kelly dambrosio. Dambrosio. Lets get a check of our cbs 2 weather first forecast. First weather your planner shows whats ahead now a live look outside courtesy of our weatherfirst skycam temperatures around the area will be warmer with clearing skies the current winds around our viewing area will be calm our planner features clearing weather today like justin mentioned, its gonna feel alot like spring this weekend. Weekend. Still, many cars are still covered with the salt, dirt, and grime of winter. Cbs 2 News ReporterStephanie Johnson johnsonis live in cedar rapids now nowto explain why you should use the warmer weather to clean your car. Stephanie. Stephanie. Good morning guys, this is my producers car and last fall but getting your car washed in the winter, not only looks good but its also vital to your cars maintenance. Maintenance. During the winter months salt can rust parts of your vehicle and chip away the paint. Aside from that it can also, rot away the car frame and other parts costing you more money in auto repairs. Anderson automotive recommends getting an underbody car wash which washes salt and grime from small corners of your car. They also recommend washing your car at least every ten days. Its not necessarily the paint on the vehicle but underneath all of the aluminum suspension parts. They get corroded and kindve fused together it can be very difficult to take apart in the future futureif ten days seems is too much. Mechanics say if you see chunky white salt on the inside of your car its a sign to get in line at the car wash. Covering the corridor in cedar rapids, stephanie thanks stephanie. A new report says nearly all americans gamble behind the wheel at some point. Point. Triplea says 87percent of drivers engaged in at least one risky behavior while behind the wheel in the last month. That includes things like driving while distracted not wearing a seat belt or getting behind the wheel drowsy. Experts estimate more than 35thousand americans were killed in crashes last year. A cedar rapids wom