And they saw their loved one who works as a local attorney. Family members and friends are looking for a Des Moines attorney who hasn't been seen since he made an ATM withdrawal at this drug town yesterday morning. I'm Cal Woods and I'll have that story. Des Moines welcomes its ninth major airline with more daily non-stop flights to Newark and Houston. I'm Susie Robinette. I'll have that story up next. And President Bush came to Iowa on tax day to talk about tax cuts. Plus, Ryan Burchette lets you know how warm it was today in your town. I'm Tiffany O'Donnell. Fox 17 News at 9 starts now. You're set on Fox 17 KDSM Des Moines. This is Fox 17 News at 9. Kurt Peterson's family is searching for him and searching for answers about what could have happened to the local man who's been missing since Sunday. Good evening Des Moines attorney Kurt Peterson has been missing nearly 36 hours now. Friends mobilized a campaign to help find him while his wife and two young daughters wait and hope for his safe return. Fox 17's Cal Woods has the story first on Fox. Cal, family and friends say little about Peterson's disappearance makes any sense. Yeah that's right Tiffany. Things were apparently going well at home and at the office. His 94 Saturn that he was driving isn't usually the kind of car that a carjacker might want to steal. Kurt Peterson didn't have a lot of money on him so friends and family members have intensified the search. Friends of the Peterson family have been all over town hanging missing person posters and hoping someone saw something that might suggest what happened to Kurt Steven Peterson missing since Sunday morning. He would not just take off and go on a whim. We talked every day on the telephone. If he went to the Drake Law Library he would call me and let me know that his phone would be turned off and I wouldn't be able to reach him. He would not just go. Something has happened. Somebody has him. He would be here if he could. Family members say the 38 year old attorney left a note he was going into work at his West Des Moines office Sunday morning. Someone used his ATM card at the University Avenue drug town at 42nd Street at 1009 a.m. A colleague says they have no evidence Kurt ever showed up at the office. Kurt is a very good lawyer, very professional, a family man, very unassuming. It would be wholly out of character for this to be intentional on his part. Our fear is that the last thing that he was seen was is withdrawing cash at the ATM machine and we're just very afraid that something happened between that ATM machine and his car. His car is missing as well. His car is missing as well. Family members have driven in from out of town. His parents are on the way from Arkansas while friends provide support and get out the word. We're asking for the public's help at this point. We need all the information that we can get and I guess just keep them in your prayers as our family and friends will keep up the search. And Kurt Peterson is 5'11", 160 pounds with gray hair and blue eyes. His missing car is a 94 red Saturn two-door license plate number 224 ELT. If you have any information Des Moines Police would like to hear from you. Tiffany? Cal we know that Kurt Peterson is a trial attorney. Any angry or upset clients or even opponents? Well he works on civil rather than criminal cases. His colleague Thomas Cunningham says there was nothing that he was aware of professionally that might lead to anything like this. All right Fox 17's Cal Woods. Thanks very much Cal. Starting in July a new airline will begin flying into Des Moines. Continental Airlines made the announcement today saying that Des Moines is an important city for that airline to serve. Fox 17's Suzy Rabanet has the story. Beginning in July it's going to be much easier to buy an airplane ticket to fly from Des Moines to Houston and Newark as the Des Moines Airport announces its ninth major airline. According to Continental plans have been in the works for quite some time to begin flying these express jets into Des Moines. We're starting service new non-stop service to both New York and to Houston and in fact we're going to have two non-stops a day to New York and two non-stops a day to Houston which will provide literally eight flights a day in and out of Des Moines. Hilfman pointed to a strong business community as one of the reasons Continental chose Des Moines. Senator Charles Grassley who helped lure the airline said it's a coup for Iowans. This is a real victory for central Iowans because by opening up two daily round-trip flights to Newark and to Houston Continental Express will provide travelers with more options faster service and greater access to key national and international business markets. Hilfman did acknowledge however that business has been tough for all the airlines since the September 11th attack. We got to go on the business needs to get done it's a global economy economy we need to be in important cities around the world and Des Moines is one of those cities. Continental plans to hire about 20 full and part-time employees in Des Moines. Suzy Robinette Fox 17 News at 9. Now service begins July 8th but they tell us you can now buy tickets. Iowa is in for another round of tobacco settlement money. Attorney General Tom Miller says Iowa will receive another 46 million dollars. Ten of that will go to a program to prevent tobacco use as well as for substance abuse treatment and health care. Iowa has received more than 186 million dollars from the tobacco settlement in the last two years. Natural resource officials say Iowa is better prepared to deal with nearly 3 million scrap tires generated in the state each year. The Environmental Protection Commission today approved new rules to regulate tire disposal and reduce the risk of tire fires. The state recently completed the cleanup of more than 10 million scrap tires and the DNR says the rules will limit such future accumulations and help firefighters. Have wider fire lanes within each tire within the between the tire piles also to have greater setback distances from neighboring properties property lines so if there if there was a fire there would be we'd be in a better shape to contain it from spreading. There are limited markets for scrap tire rubber and the rules will ensure that haulers have the means to dispose of the tires. President Bush visited Iowa today to talk about tax cuts on of course tax day. Mr. Bush told hundreds of General Mills employees in Cedar Rapids that he wanted to make those tax cuts permanent and as Fox 17's Kevin Carriza reports the president also emphasized America's determination to fight terrorism. Cedar Rapids residents are singled out by the president. Where are you? There he is right behind me. Big John. But John Madsen, his wife Angelina and children Christopher and Amy seated behind the president received a special invitation. We were all asked if we'd sit down with the president and talk about what the tax relief had done for our families individually. He spoke about owning a home and how the tax relief helped him do that. That roundtable discussion was held just before the president gave his speech to General Mills employees and other supporters. He's real down to earth and a genuine nice guy. He was real genuine. He wanted to know everything that you're concerned about. Tax relief was one of several themes hit upon by the president. We basically said if you pay taxes you get relief. Including the need to bring terrorists to justice. And I can assure you it doesn't matter whether you're a Republican or whether you're a Democrat or whether you don't even give a darn about political parties. This country is united when it comes to defending the freedoms we hold dear. Not very many people get the president of the United States as an audience and this has been a day that several families here at General Mills will never forget. It's just unimaginable. Unbelievable. With the president in Cedar Rapids, Kevin Carrizo, Fox 17 News at nine. President Bush also talked about the need for an energy plan. Mr. Bush wants the U.S. to become less dependent on foreign sources of energy. He wants to focus on renewable sources of energy like ethanol. The president also came to Iowa to raise money for U.S. Senate candidate Greg Gansky. All roads lead to the post office or at least it seems that way today and tonight. April 15th means it's time to get those tax returns in the mail. There was a steady flow of traffic at the downtown post office. All those last minute tax returns getting postmarked today. In case you haven't done so, you have until midnight. Thank goodness to get your federal tax returns in the mail. For state returns, you have until April 30th. Thank goodness. Got me in about $4.55 today. I was going to say that sounds like a true procrastinator speaking. Exactly. Open until midnight though. You still got a couple hours. You should have used it as an excuse to get away from work for a couple hours and enjoy the warm weather because it's ridiculous today. You know, two weeks ago we were talking about snow today. Look at all these record highs. They were falling left and right. Carol takes the cake with a record high of 93 degrees. It's still 78 in Des Moines and Ames and overnight will only be falling off in the low 60s. Back into the mid 80s tomorrow afternoon, but a chance for some strong storms tomorrow night. Of all those details and more coming up in weather. All right. Thanks, Ryan. Tricky negotiations to end the killing in the Middle East has forced U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell to bob and weave like a boxer. The latest from Secretary Powell's visit to the Mideast tops our Fox World wrap tonight. Mr. Powell went to Damascus to the death race to end the terror with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Secretary Powell wants Syria and Lebanon to be part of a regional peace conference to pressure on Hezbollah guerrillas to stop their attacks in Northern Israel. Flames shot up from the middle of a field after a pipeline exploded in Canada. Police in Brookdale, Manitoba blocked off roads to keep gawkers from getting hurt. Officers evacuated 100 people from their homes. Investigators aren't sure why the natural gas pipeline exploded. A special memorial brought together in Washington, D.C. Those who know what it was like to serve in the Vietnam War. They honored 54 veterans who died during the Vietnam War. The dead were not eligible to have their names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The ceremony was part of the fourth annual in-memory day. Some students in Florida saw an alligator slither onto their school playgrounds. Then they got to watch from behind a fence a person trained to handle alligators catch the animal with a stick. It twisted and spun trying to get out of the news. You see it there. Wow. The alligator tried to head back to a nearby canal where he was swimming. As you grow older you may worry your skin is starting to look more like an alligator. Well coming up on Fox 17 News at 9 here how you can pick your poison to choose smoother skin. And later in the Fox Family Health Report the career path and the baby track are on a collision course. Now an author gets heat for revealing the cold hard facts about fertility. This is Fox 17 News at 9. 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Hey it's summer. All of a sudden. It's not only is it warm hey nice in spring but we're at air conditioning level. We're at record level some places. I felt that I didn't want to turn it on in the car. I know. It feels like cheating it's April for crying out loud. I did it I cheated yeah whatever. Well it was an amazing day to do anything outdoors. You about had to be outdoors to stay cool and get some of the breeze. These folks taking advantage doing a little fishing. It's like a nice blue gill there. Something or another. But uh look at these temperatures from the day to day. Absolutely amazing. I showed these to you earlier but I'll give you a chance to really look down the list. Atumwa made it to 89 degrees today. Mason City which is usually the ice box of the state and I can say that because I lived there for a while. 91 today breaking the record by 11 degrees and a lot of us breaking records that stood for 106 years that until today. 87 the record high for Des Moines today after a warm start to the morning at 59. It looks like we'll be back into the 80s for tomorrow. We've only fallen off to 78 right now dew point still at 59. It is muggy out there but there is enough of a breeze hopefully to keep it cool if you throw up in the windows tonight. At 78 in Ames 79 Fort Dodge Waterloo 76 Atumwa Lamoni and still 79 in Clarenda. Those wind gusts out of the south to southwest are still pretty significant despite the fact that the sun has gone down 22 miles an hour now in Des Moines 32 miles an hour in Omaha. Here's the setup. We have low pressure to our north and a second area of low pressure that's developing back to our west. This is going to work its way in our direction. We'll continue to see the warm air pool out ahead of that but also see a cold front move through and give us a chance for some storms. Right now that big bubble of warm air is camped out around central Iowa and back to the northwest tomorrow highs back into the 80s and then things start to change tomorrow evening. That low is going to slide back to our north. A cold front advancing from the west thunderstorms developing ahead of that some of which may be strong to severe or we are under a slight risk for severe weather from the storm prediction center in Norman, Oklahoma. Moderate risk back to our north and west including northwest portions of Iowa so we'll have to keep an eye on that but your fox forecast tonight. Temperatures dropping off into the low 60s tomorrow back into the mid 80s and then later on tomorrow evening we see those thunderstorms move through temperatures dropping off in the low 50s. Your foxcast over the next five days has a little bit of a roller coaster ride before we really cool off heading into the weekend. It does look like we'll see another shot of rain late Thursday and into Friday but highs by Saturday only 55 lows down in the 30s so you want to enjoy this little taste of summer wilds here. What a 30 degree difference coming up. Okay thanks a lot Ryan. A way to erase any signs of worry from your face is coming up on Fox 17 News at 9. See how a shot can smooth things over and making headlines by getting rid of lines on your head. Also just ahead the backlash over a book that says women who wait to start a family may not be able to beat the biological clock. Fox 17 weather is brought to you by a general store and more. Ever been ready to go furniture shopping then get bombarded by all those choices. Too many styles, too many fabrics, too little time. Now there's a not so scary way to transform your home with your own personal style. 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A recently published book says young women who choose to put off motherhood to pursue their careers may assume fertility doctors can help them have babies later in life but fertility experts say drugs don't often do the trick. As Elizabeth Cohen reports critics claim the book is scaring women. This mom knew that if she wanted to have a baby easily without fertility treatments she shouldn't wait too long and so she didn't. Nine month old Rogelio was born when Alissa Lupo Zulueta was 31 years old. An actress she didn't let her career get in the way of having children and she says her friends are the same way. They don't want to wait till they're 40. They know that there are risks you know there are higher risks once you hit the age of 35, 36, 37. But the media buzz around the new book says the opposite. The author says her research shows that the vast majority of high achieving women in their 20s and 30s are ignorant about infertility statistics and so embrace briefcases instead of babies assuming fertility clinics can always bail them out later on. Part of the problem is that they focus like a laser beam you know on their career for 10 years. Carol Rivers who writes on women's issues hasn't read the book but has seen the coverage and calls Hewlett's message toxic for women. The message that's coming across on the media is clearly watch out women if you're ambitious if you don't get married and have kids right away you're going to be miserable the rest of your life. Melissa Ledke agrees. The author of a book on motherhood she was 46 years old when she adopted Maya. She's read Hewlett's book and says if she listened to Hewlett's advice she'd be miserable today. I was married at just about the age that Sylvia Hewlett would suggest one be married and that was in my late 20s. I got married at the age of 27. Had I followed her prescription and had a child simply because I was fearful it would have been one of the worst mistakes I could have made because that marriage was not a solid marriage. It was not a good one and in fact four years later it ended. Ledke still wanted children but couldn't find a man to have them with her so she did it on her own. This is the best time in my life to give what I have to give as a mother. And that's how Alyssa Lupo-Zulueta feels that no book can give orders that for each woman the timing is different and that's what she told a frantic young woman who asked her recently when's the best time to have a baby. Her voice was getting higher and higher and she started talking faster and faster and I just told her you know what relax when the time's right you'll know it. Elizabeth Cohen CNN Atlanta. Some of the fastest feet on the planet took some quick steps on the streets of Boston today coming up next in Fox Sports. 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That's understandable but it's also also worth noticing that today's Patriots Day, a holiday in the city of Boston, that means two things for sports fans. The Red Sox will play a morning game and the annual endurance test known as the Boston Marathon will be run. Neither Tiffany O'Donnell nor myself in the field for this one thankfully. Rogers Robb your winner. He crosses the finish line on the male side two hours nine minutes and two seconds. On the women's side Margaret O'Kio set a course record by more than a minute when she crossed the finish line at two hours 20 minutes and 43 seconds. Both of your winners are from the nation of cake. Let's get to that morning baseball the Red Sox and Yankees from Fenway Park. Bottom one Nomar Garcia-Parr smokes the double off the monster. Ricky B. Ricky Henderson come on down to second base. One nothing stocked with the lead. Socks up two to one. Derrick Lowe no problem. Strikes out the side to end the inning. Socks hold on to knock off the Yankees. Final score four to three. If the White Sox can finally get their bats going they're going to challenge for the AL Central excuse me and they got those bats going today. Ray Durham single to left. It scores two runs three zip socks for the lead. Base is loaded again just two batters later. Carlos Lee rips one down the left field line. Six to nothing socks. They cruise. Final score 13 to four from Kamiski. Your score from today. Seattle leading seconds nine to seven. That one in the seventh. Let's move over to the senior circuit. Cubs ahead of Montreal six to three. Sammy Sosa another home run in this game. Atlanta and Montreal tied up in the ninth at six apiece. Pittsburgh leads Milwaukee in the seventh three one. LA over Colorado five to one in the fourth. St. Louis and Arizona both got one run on the board in the second. They are scoreless in San Diego between the Giants and the Padres. Yeah that's what I meant to say. 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Spinning rafts ride down twisting channels. The ride ends with a splash in a reservoir filled with geysers. The park opens a week from Saturday. Boy that does mean summer's here. Bring it on. Adventureland's opening up. Adventureland's open. Keep it up into the 80s the rest of summer. Sure that's right. That's right. It looks like we'll be back there for tomorrow. Temperatures warming up to about 85. We do have a decent chance of seeing some strong thunderstorms tomorrow night however and a cool down towards the end of the week but in the meantime another day to get out there and enjoy a little peek of summer before it's gone. We'll put you on the spot. Severe like between one and ten. Ten being the most severe. Well it looks like the biggest threat is to our north and west but we'll definitely see some thunderstorms roll through tomorrow. All right you'll be here watching it. That's right. All right we're out of time tonight for this edition of Fox 17 News at 9. 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