Theres this security concerns were especially high at a wwe event in atlanta after a hacker group claimed it uncovered an isis hit list that named the arena as a target. Dozens of police were spotted outside the facility during the event. The fbi said it was taking the alleged threats seriously, but there is no credible threat. President obama is back home in washington this morning after his trip to meet with Southeast Asian leaders. Before heading back to the states the president warned against overreacting to the paris attacks. He also defended his strategy to combat isis and said the us and its allies would not stop the fight against extremists. We do not succumb to fear. Thats the primary power that or against a country like malaysia, but they can make people fearful. He said the world will not accept attacks in places like paris as new normal. The attacks have spiraled into a conversation over whether to accept Syrian Refugees into the us. Iowa Governor Terry branstad is one of many governors across the country who do not want those refugees in their states. Cedar rapids is home to the longeststanding mosque in north america. Kwwls Kristin Rogers stops by the mosque this weekend and sits down with someone who hopes the governor changes his mind. cg taha tawil imam at mother mosque of america i can instead, he says we are caving in. By not allowing Syrian Refugees into iowa following this deadly paris attack. cg Kristin Rogers this is the mother mosque in cedar rapids, the longest standing mosque in all of north america. For decades, and that many muslim to the city for decades, were from syria. This is a tradition, tawil doesnt want to lose. Doing for all these years home to the Islamic Center, we spoke to the imam there as well. cg hassan selim imam at Islamic Center of cedar rapids most of the people that were scheduled to be located here in iowa are women, children, 400 children. I keep shutting doorr in their faces. They believe the want for change is out of fear. cg taha tawil i feel that the govenor and the others have been under the influence of some islamophobia, that is spreading around causing a problem to us. Not all Syrian Refugees are muslim, were told there are christians as well. Either way, when it comes to isis selim beliees cg hassan selim they are taking islam and the islamic scriptures out of context and they are misusing them for their own personal agendas, which are evil agendas. Agendas he says, dont belong to all Syrian Refugees. Weve got you covered in cedar rapids, Kristin Rogers kwwl news people at the mosque say they agree with the screenings bet they dont believe all Syrian Refugees should be blocked. As the debate continues across the country. Dozens of refugees living in the philadelphia area came together for a thanksgiving feast. They say the debate over Syrian Refugees after the paris terror attacks is ggnerating unnecessary fear. And that most refugees are just its very dismaying, there are elements of our history that we really should not be repeating. Here everyone can practice their own cultures so i like it. Middleeast at the event. But no syrians. Less than a dozen have relocated to philadelphia. Meantime belgium remains on alert, under the highest level of terror threat. Security forces are keeping people off the streets in certain neighborhos. The government cided schools and subways will be clooed today. Major Police Operations took place throughout brussels. According to a belgian prosecutor, there were 22 total raid ending in16 arrests. Indiana police say a shooting at a university was not a threat to the campus community. Shots were fired there on sunday. Police say the shooting involved quote parties known to each other. No arrests have been made. The number of People Killed in a terrorist attack on a hotel in mali has risen to twenty two. A Statement Released by the un mission in mali over the weekend says six other people have serious injnjries. A witness saa the gunmen raided the hotel and shot at people at breakfast. Security forces ended the siege hours later. The two attackers died. New york shut down a subway y station in Lower Manhattan over the weekend for an active shooter drill. The Homeland Security secretary said there are no specific or credible parislike terror threatss against the us. But, there is a concern for copy cat and lone wolf attacks which is why they went through this drill. Thanksgiving is just around te corner. And right now youre probably thinkng about what youre going to be making for thursday. You may be spending a little more on those classic thanksgiving items this year. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in the studio to tell us why. This is the first time the average cost of a thanksgiving meal for 10 is more than 50 dollrs. According to the American Farm bureau federation. Its 50 dollars and 11 cents. Thats 70 cents more than last years average. Now several foods spepeifically seem to be responsible for this increase. A turkey weighing 16 pounds is around 23 dollars and 4 cents. Thats up from last yeas 21 dollars and 6 cents. The afbf says turkey production is down this year compared to bunot dramaticlly. The pricee of rolls. Stuffing. And pumpkin pie mix and shells also increased. There are some items that are cheapef this year than last. Those are mainlydairy products. Such as whole milk anddwhipped cream. Weve got you covered. Amanda gilbert. Kwwl news. Prices for cranberries and peas are also down this year. Its aaew way to pay your parking fines. Starting today, park cedar rapids is accepting dontions for homeless shelters as payment fo parking fines. Donatios will be accepted for the next month. There are different forgiveness requirements based on how much you owe. Weve posted a story with more an ia native is named a rhodds scholar. Jeffrey ding grew up in iowa city and is a student at the university of iowa, studying economics, politicial science and chinese. Hes one of just 32 American Rhodes scholars and will have tte ance to england to get his graduate degree. Ding has interned in hong kong and with the us state department. The uni panther footbbll team is playoff bound and they get to stay at home the panthers will host easter illinois in the first round of the playoffs this saturday this weekend the e anthers rolled past Southern Illinois 49, 28 for their fifth straight victory saturdays game kicks off at 4 oh clock. People who engage ii highrisk sports do it even though they know theyre flirting with disaster. And if disaster strikes, what then . Sara stinson shares the story of how one man. Who nearly died in aaspeed flying accident five years ago. Has rebuilt his life. 911. Hey im on mount jumbo and a para glider just crashed if wat your doing has a high risk, but what your getting out of it is worth ttat much to your life. Its worth it. Crashed speed flying on mount jumbo. He was in a coma for a nth. When he woke up he was down. I was like okay lets go to therapy now. Lets work a littleharder. So he decided to make a goal for himself. To hand cycle the going to the sun road one day before the Year Anniversary of his accident. I have no idea if its evenen possible. Joe only had three months to train and learn how to accomplish this goal. Everyday i would get out and easy, figured solutions ttthat. And therrs a thousand other things i had to figure out it. It was mind over matter. Is not going to go fast so lets just take it slow and take it only one step at a time. It took him eight and half hours to go 12 miles. When your going that slow gaining such a small amount of ground thats mental breakdown in itself. And when he made it to the top of the pass. The limitations just went away and thats when i said i can do anything i want. From then on the possibilities were endless. Joe started fly fishing again and offroad cycling, skiing and wte water rafting. However, nothing gave him that adrenaline rush like speed flying, the very sport that caused his near fatal l ccident. I feel my most natural when im up in the air. This summer joe was able to get back in the sky again through paragiding. The flying aspect of it is just this so up in the air everybody as i am so at that point its just skills to make you better or worse than somebody else. My ddability it had disappearedd its coming up on 4oday in iowa. Social networking can be a little awkward after a breaa up. So facebook is testing out new tools to elp you see lees of your former partner. Plus. Its a tradition that requires you to make choice whether to buy a real or artificial christm tree. Mostly clear skies this morning will l lad to plenty of sunshine and melting snow later today. However, more clouds with rain will track into the area by the middle of the week and may affect your thanksgiving plans. Ill have the details coming up. Youre watching kwwl, weve got you covered with jerry gallagher, ally crutther and meteorologii eileen loann this is today in iowa. Now your storm track 7 wake up in your first home. Wake up in a home with a new address. Wake up in a home with no address. Your dream home evolves, and protecting it takes committed support. Team. See the screen for your cocoplete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kl stormtrack 7 weathe plenty of sunshine today and light winds tonight will lead to areas of fog tonight into tomorrow morning. Then rain tracks in for wednesday. No worries about rain on our stormtrack7 Live Weather Network cameras this morning. They will be dry and more of that snow will be melting today. There is a wide range of temps out there this morning. Teens to the upper 20s with some 30s to the west. Wind chills are in the teens over much of our viewing area with light wwt winds here, but they are a bit stronger to the west. They will be mainly 5 to 15 mph today. Plenty of clear skies out there this morning. And not much to the west, so we will have plenty of melting going on today and even afternoon, but we do have a system that will track into the area by thanksgiving day. This ll track fartrtr to the northth than last weeks, so we will have warmer temperatures over us. Rain is likely for the holiday. Temperatures will be split between the 30s and 40s to the north and 50s and 60s to the south in the midwest today and tomorrow even as that front tracks toward us. We are on the cooler side of the map. Higs in the mid 30s to w 40s today with h est winds at 515 mph. Melting snow today and light winds tonight will lead to areas of fog with lows in the teens and low 20s. Fog lingers tomorrow morning then we will have partly cloudy skies with highs back in the mid 30s to low 40s. We warm up for the holiday with highs in the upper 40s for thanksgiving day but back to the mid 30s for friday. Rain may track in on wednesday but it is likely for thursday before mixing with some snow before ending friday morning. Right now the weekend looks dry, t computer models are trying to bring in a system late sunday. Its coming up on today in iowa. Its a story of survival. Days after going missing, an animal is found miles away from home. Plus. For hundreds of years, the christm tree has been a popular symbol o o the holidays. Breaking up is hard to do, but facebook wants to make it a bit im chris bosh. When i was sidelined with ood clots in my lung, it was serious. Fortunately, my doctor had a game plan. Treatment with xarelto. Hey guys hey, finally, somebody i can look up to. Besides arnie. Xarelto is proven to treat and help reduce the risk of dvt and pe e ood clots. Xarelto is also proven to reduce the risk of stroke in people with afib, not caused by a heart valve problem. For people with afib currently well managed on warfarin, theres limited information on how xarelto and warfarin compare in reducing the risk of stroke. You know, i tried warfarin, but the blood testing and dietary restrictions. Dont get me started on that. M didnt have to. We started on xarelto. Nice pass. Safety first. Like all blood thinners, dont stop taking xarelto without talking to your doctor, as this may increase your risk of a blood clot or stroke. While taking, you mamabruise more easily and it may take longer for bleeding to stop. Xarelto may increase your risk of bleeding if you take certain medicines. Xarelto can cause serious, and in rare cases, fatal bleeding. Get help right away for ununpected bleeding, unusual bruiuing, or tingling. If you have had spinal anesthesia while on xarelto , watch for back pain or any nerve or muscle related signs or symptoms. Do not take xarelto if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. Tell your doctor before all planned medical or dental procedures. Before starting xarelto , tell your doctor about any kidney, liver, or bleeding problems. You know xarelto is thehe1 prescribed blood thinner in its classss thats a big win. It is for me. With xarelto there is no regular blood monitoring and no known dietary restrictions. Treatment with xarelto. Was the right move for us. For its users. The social network is testing tools to keep users exes from appearing in their newsfd and to limit their presence in photo tags and staas suggestionn. The e ptions are to appear once you change your relationship status to single. The tools are available now on facebook mobile. Driving in the us in september has reached a new high. New estimates released by the Us Department of transportations federal Highway Administration show that driving in the us reached nearly 2hundred and 60 bilion miles this september. Thats the most ever in september of any year. According to the report, the nations driving has increased for 19 months in a row now. Keeping Tobacco Products out of sigt in stores may help keep smoking out of md for teens. Researchers gavv teens money to spend in a store where Tobacco Products were either in full sight or hidden behind a screen. Teens who did not see the Tobacco Products were 11 percent less likely to try smoking than those who saw cigarettes while shopping. Following the traditional thanksgiving turkey this thursday, theres another tradition millions of americann will participate inn. But Chris Clackum tells us its a tradition that requires you to first make a choice. 20 04 18 . Or real. Or the 81 of all american households went with the artificial thats not what the growers of Real Christmas trees artificial tree in tte white house that i know of grower henry helms naturally believes we should buy american and real. Because 85 percent of we get enough stuff from china lets do domestic, lets so home stuff, usa stuff his chrismas tree farm ar lincolnton, North Carolina is about to get busy. Although, the crowd that favors fake still want the ambiance his trees offer. Like my mom i buy the fraser r spray and spray it through the house and d ou never know. laughter . June and you dont have the needles, you dont have the needles, you dont have to worry about the needles no needles. Convenieiece. Use year after year. Are the arguments the artificial industry makes. They dont have to water it, they dont have to go out and already prelit for them. So, easier to stick by whatever choice you make because itll still be christmas whichever tree you choose. Chris clackum, nbc news. The Christmas TreeAssociation Says most artificial trees are typically sold to people who alreadd have one. Zoo officials are relieved after a red panda is found safe. A woman in california found masala the red panda after she went missing for three days from an area zoo. The woman says she alerted police who called zoo officials to get the tiny creature out of her hiding place in a tree. Theyrr glad shes not hurt and was able to make it home safe. It was a very stressful three those three days were like for her laughs but we dont so we can only speculate. Its still unclear how masala escaped. The panda is scheduled to be its coming up on oday in iowa. Were just days away from thanksgiving. And well tell you how a wellknown rapper gge back to his community in a big way ahead of the holiday. Heres live look at storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan has hundreds of needy families last week. He paid for one thousand turkeys to be distributed to peopleen ininewood, california. The city gave away as many as 15hundred turkeys. Organizers said he gave out hugs and took pictures with anyone who asked. Speaking of snoop dogg, shortly after iowa won against purdue this weekend, the rapper tweeted this picture of himself wearing an iowa hawkeye sweathshirt and said big west champs. His tweet has nearly 4thousand retweets. Storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is back with another check of your storm track seven forecast. Mostly sunny today with areas of fog tonight into tuesday rning. Rain i likely late wednesy through thursday with snow mixinin in thursday night and friday morning. Temps will be cooler than average today and tomorrow before climbing into the upper 40s on thursday then dropping its coming up on today iowa. A professional nascar driver is calling it quits. More on his final race coming up. Plus. After seven seasons, iowa states head coach learns hes got just one final game as the cyclones head man. More on that when today in iowa its holiday time, and no fruit is as versatile as our ocean spray cranberries. You can decorate with them, bake with them, even make holiday drinksks like our cranberry punch we call the festive sparkler. Mmm. Festive. For all these reasons, we declare the ocean spray anberry. The unofficial official fruit of the holidays. Well l obably get flak from the dates and figs. But no one can tell them apart anyway. [ both chuckle ] what iowans need to know about flying over the holidays this year compared to last. And plus, thiimorning, police are investigating a double homicide in one part of iowa. And the hawkeyes havent been in this position for a very long time. The new football rankings are out as iowa gets ready for a big game on a and storm track seven meteor