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KWWL Today In Iowa At 5 February 16, 2016

New this morning. A longtime fued between an iowa police chief and a county sheriff boils over. The police chief is now running for sheriff. And the current sheriff makes a shocking accusation. You knocked up a 15 year old and she had a miscarriage, okay . The police chief says its the voice of the Pocahontas County sheriff he rereorded the call. The two men have apparantly been battling for the past two years. Over which office is supposed to respond to crimes in certai areas. According to the fonda police chief, the allegations are not true. I can promise you 100 there any truth to it. As for the allegations of assault the sheriff hasnt commented followinn the phone call about where he got that idea. Citing the possibility of a lawsuit. According to the des moines register, the sheriff cut emergency dispatch calls to the police chief last month. The mayor of fonda released a statement. Saying all county agencies need to work together. Snow is a problem here, but in the south, they have their own problem. Theyre worried about tornadoes. This scene is along the florida panhahadle. Law enforcement says at least 10 homes were destroyed, but no serious injuries were reported. Today, the National Weather service says a crew will be out to survey the damage. You can get a better picture of the damage here. In a town less than 15 miles away, First Responders and volunteers had to pull a woman out of debris. In the video you can see the group form a human chain to pull her free. The workers first had to dig around the woman using tools in mississippi, a strong tornado left one school to suffer significant damage. So strong part of the roof to come crashing in. One student described what it was like inside. Everybody started freaking out breaking and the roof started falling in and stuff like that. It was all bad. It was honestly scary. The storm also damaged some cars and tore tree limbs apart. Part of the town has experienced a power outage and many trees are down throughout the area. A town continues to mourn after two deputies die on duty. A viewing for one of the maryland deputies was held yesterday and continues today he and another deputy both shot and killed responding to a disturbance call last week. It has been a hard, hard few service, and already the immense and were expecting its going to pick up each deputy will have his own funeral. The suspect who shot both deputies was later killed by other officers. Firefightes get to meet the kids they saved from a fire. 7 firefighters 2 Police Officers and 2 paramedics worked together to save two Young Children and their mother from a burning in our line of wor we see time it doesnt have a happy they come back and seeeyou. Its just nii to know that what we did make a difference. The kids visited the firefighters at work, took a tour and even had lunch with them. Smart phone apps continue to make the news not just for how popular they are but because of the dangers they pose. Were also hearing more about socalled secret apps which can lead kids and teens down a dangerous path. Tweeting, posting, sharing mobile apps practically anvade our cell phones. Phone apps can lead to deadly consequences. A recent murder in virginia highlights just that. Her favorite color was blue. She was a very lovable person. 13yearold Nicole Lovell met people on a messaging app called kik. You can stay anonymous, and send photos. Its popular with teens and Police Believe this app might have played a factor in her death. Following this case, Police Departments in eastern iowa sayayik is now on their radar. But theres another monster to tackle and thats secret apps. A number of them are out there, and require a password. Vault t hide, smart hide calculator, hide it pro. And look at the icons for these. They look entirely innocent. Some College Students know of them. I know a lot of like high schoolers, middle schoolers. My sister is in high school, i wouldnt be surprised if she had one to keep things private or away from my parents. Others hear about why kis might be using them. Do things like hie stuff from inappropriate photos and things like that. You get behind it and theres some nefarious activity going on. When it comes to teens being on their phones, susan entricken gets it. All the time shes a parent. A parent who stays plugged in. As soon as i get on an app or get on one of the social media sites, theres a new one that these socalled secret apps. Frankly, a lot of parents havent. So we also talked to police. Dubuque officers say these apps do what kids want them to o o. Blind the parents. Because itll have the face of a calculator, or other icons like utilities or settings. Other ses of secret apps center around hard crime. A couple of years s go we had an investigation that in that case, was for a child guns, drugs, nude photos and kids have access to the apps. The appeal dangerous. If you were to have images of peopll under the ge of 18, and illegal. For parents like susan its an alarming conversation. It desnt scare me so much that my kids are ddng it, i guess i feel sad that there are a lot of kids out there that are doing that. So what can you do to shut down`these secret apps one monitor whats downloaded, ask your kiis about whats oo the phone. Police also say look at your childs phone differently. Its not a diary. When you give them access to the world and communication with strangers and sharing images and files, thats not a private place. Thats something susan tries to teach her three kids. Fighting a false sense of security because once somethings out there, you cant take it back. Whehe it comes to alking to your teens, some advice thats worked in susans house. I would say talk to your kids, talk to your kids. And talkto your kids about why they feel the need to be doing that. I think sometimes we get lost in what happening behind it. On kids phones theyre free to download. We have a list of other secret apps to look out for and more advice for parents from police on our website. Just head to kwwl dot com. Meantime three teenagers in eastern iowa have created a website to help victims of cyberbutlying. They say its big problem and that it happens to we feee that websites are a great way to reach people reach people, its not somewhere they have to come to your school or see your presentation. Anyone can see it, any time they want. The website features stats on online bullying, tips to help. As well as a video the girls created. In the iowa gislature. Some High School Students are fighting for their School Districts money. Headed to des moines to meet with state lawmakers, to make Education One of the states top prioritiess they wawa change to a unding formula that gives their district 175 dollars less per student, than other neighboring School Districts. I think each year that we dont dont get great education. Governor branstad says he agrees the funding formula is outdated. But that it probably wont be changed anytime soon. The governor says iowa has used the same formula since 1971. Hundreds of iowa students could be forced to retake third grade. Starting next year. Third grade students who cant read at grade level could be held back. That would involve 25percent of iowa third graders. This summer. Governor branstad is launching a pilot Reading Program to help students who are behind. About 40School Districts have already signed up for the pilot program. From the School Districts that have. About 46 weeks of the summer Reading Program in the summer of 2017 will be reevaluted to determi if they are allowed to move to fourth grade. Filing your taxes. It can certainly weigh on your mind, especially right now. And some students are offering free tax assistance to those who need it. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in cedar falls at the uni campus. You caught up with h me of these students. Accounting juniors, seniors and grad students at uni are offering free tax return help. They say every monday and wednesday night they will be in the Curris Business Building from 7 to 9. They are a part of a program called vi ta. Which is dedicated to helping low income taxyers. Students will electronicallll preparrand efile both federal and iowa tax returns for people i spoke with one woman whose been using this program for 15 years. Its just a fun time to come and get them done, and get them done prprblems. In order to qualify for this program. You must make less than 52 thousand dollars a year. Students participating in this have completed a onesemester tax course. And have been irs certified. There are also teachers that review the students work and make sure it is done correctly. Weve got you covered live in cedar falls. Amanda gilbert. Kwwl news. This program is going on through april 6th. Excluding march 14thh and 16tt. Which is spring break week. A new movie showcases the inspiring love story of a midwest man during his battle with cancer. Like most parents bonnie and dan boyum are very proud of their son. All the ingredients of a minnesota made success story. Everything but a happy feel this lump, and i felt it, im a nurse, i knew it was cancer. The cancer turned out it was just devastating, although it wasnt to michael. He saw positive in everything. Michaels inspirational story didnt end with his death 16 years ago. Michael had so much faith, he said if god wants tttake me home at age 21 thats fine, but i have a High School Sweetheart here. Its that love story bonnie succeeded in getting made into an independent film called until forever. I not exactly sure when it was that i fell ininlove with michaeae boyum. until forever was filmedin the twin cities, and while its a love story, the film also explorere michaels faith and how he touched other lives including his brother matt, who was suffering from debilitating depression. Mike always talked bout how life is just so short, and it really gave me an internal boyum says she sure of one thing. For anyone who sees the movie. In some area, it will change peoples lives the film will play in select theaters this moh. Its coming up on today in iowa. The 1970s are famous for bell bottoms and the rise of disco, but well tell you why apple doesnt want you to turn back time. Plus. Gas prices here may be under 2bucks a gallon, but thats a fortune compared to what some motorists had to pay over the weekend. Were talking pennies. Light snow and wintry mix are tracking into the area this morning. Ill let you know what that means for your morning weve got you covered with jerry llagher, ally crutcher and meteorologist eileen loan. This is today in iowa. Forecast on kwwl. Weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather light wintry mix possible this morning with some light snow tracking through toorrow, but brey and warmer for the end of the week. We have some light snow and light wintry mix showing up on radar right now. There arent any reports of aware of slick spots on untreated surfaces this morning. The heaviest precip is to our west, but we will still see some light stuff. Stormtrack7 Live Weather Network cameras will also keeps showing clouds and maybe some light fog this morning, too. Temperatures are fairly mild this morning. In the mid 20s with mid 30s to the west as the clipper tracks in. The winds are stronger aroond sioux city, but ours will stay around 5 to 15, but will eventually turn to the north and northwest this afternoon. This system will brinn the bulk of precip to central and southwest iowa today, but we could still see liht stuff through the morning. We have bring some snow showers to the state tomorrow, this one expected to be farther north, but still veryylight. And will keep clouds over us for a few more days. Temperaturfs will be mild today, but will cool a few degrees tomorrow. However, warmth is building nicely to the west and south. We will eventually see our boundary track to the north and bring us some warmer temps. Today we will be in the mid 30s, but as the winds turn to the north, we may have falling temps this afternoon. A light wintry mix this morning, otherwise mainly cloudy today. Lows in the teens to low 20s tonight will lele to highs in thhmid 20s to low 30s tomorrow with a few stray snow tracking through. We could get up to an inch of new snow out of that system if it holds together long enough. We warm back to around 40 on thursday and will aim for the upper 40sson friday. We could see a few showers on friday, but we will its coming up on today inowa. Paying employees to exerse does not appear to be effective, but taking away money just might. Plus. Two gas stations in price war down to pennies. But was it just a publicity the spring whats all this nonsense about balls . Pink balls, blue, yellow, red. Its hard to keep the whole thing straight. And all these socalled deals . We, they come with a lot of deal breakers. Like when n u leave the city the signal goes weak. U. S. Cellular built a network to give you a stronger signal where the other guys dont. And as for deals . Hows 300 back for every y ne you switch . 300 no ball nonsense. 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But the reverse just might researchers found out proggams that paid workers for achieving their daily goal was no more effective than having no incentive at all. But programs that gave cash up front which was taken away if workers missed their goal were 50percent more successful. Drivers in one ohio city got quite the surprise over the weekend. Two gas tations got inin a bit of a price war. That meant drivers were paying just pennies a gallon to fillup. But the dropping prices then caused a computer malfunction. And that glitch caused a gas station across the street to get in on the action. They dropped their prices to compete, leaving customers in disblelief. I just filled my whole gas tank she only gave me five bucks and now i need to go get my change. Hats too funny. The price drop lasted for at heres a live look at storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan has your storm track 7 forecasas this is besper. The skiing cat. He also enjoys hiking and tagging her adventures. He even has his own blog and thousands of facebook fans. Storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is back with another check of your storm track seven forecast. Light wintry mix this morning then cloudy and mild today. Highs in the 20s to low 30s tomorrow with a few snow showers tracking through and then warming up for the end of the week and through in iowa. This morning after the death of a Supreme Court justice the debate about what should happen next on the court grows even louder. Plusus a boarding school for troubled teens in iowa shut down temporarily. The fbi is investigating. And were hearing about another baby beingelivered on the side of the road. But this case is a ltle different becauaue of the weather. Good morning, im ally crutcher. And im jerry gallagger. Storm track sezen meteorologist eileen loan is here now with your storm track seven the clipper is tracking farther to the west and will bring us only light stuff this morning, but it may include some light freezing rain and drizzle. We are not expectinmuch accumulation, but untreated surfacesesmay become sllppery this morning. Temperatures are in the mid 20s this morning with southerly winds at 5 to 10 mph, but they will turn to the northwest later today. We dont expect a lot of accumulation out of this system but we will be mainly cloudy for the rest of the day with only a few breaks here and there. We will be mild, though, with highs in the mid 30s. As the winds turn to the northwest, though, those temps could start to slide. We will be colder tomorrow, but it warms up by the end of the week. Our top story this morning the democrats want an up or down vote on a Supreme Court nominee when the president announces his choice. Republicans have vowed to bloc it wanting the next preedent to have the choice. Tracie potts has the latest developments on capitol hill. From capitol hill. Talk about cowardice talk refusal to ive president obamas Supreme Court nominee a vote. Lets have a hearing. Lets hear from our constituents what they think and then vote not say no vote at all. The people of this country should send a very clear message hat is not the way our nstitution wowos. They point out Anthony Kennedy was confirmed by a democratic senate. In president reagans final year. The constitution does not include exemptions for election years, or for the president s last term in office. Flash were in an election year, so im not going to pretend that thats not part of the atmospherics here. Republican candidates insist the replacement for Justice Antonin Scalia should not be president obamas choice. It. I think the new president should have that option. The praccical implications are nil. Its all about politics. They argue even if an obama nominee is confirmed, it could be too late to have any impact this term. In an oped posted overnight by the washington post, top democrat harry reid calls this nakedly partisan and says republicans are insulting americans intelligence by blockig a vote. Im tracie potts in washington, now back to you. Were learning ore about eastern iowa judge whose name is on the list of potential nominees. Jane kelly is a federal Appeals Court judge in cedar rapids. She was confirmed by the senate in a vote of 96 zero. She also survived being attacked on a trail in 2004. Experts say if shes nominated she brings an background to t te table

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