The defense says pete polson is innocent of the shootings that seriously injured two men last november. But the defense also maintains that polson was too intoxicated at the time of the shootings to be charged with intent to kill. For the first time we are seeing dashcam video of his arrest. The resting iowa state trooper says he was cooperative and followed commands but did not seem intoxicated or under the influence of any drugs. One trooper says the only thing that struck him as on was how calm polson was acting. Eight witnesses have taken the stand. Matthew stevenson was shot at several times for he was getting in his truck. Glasses breaking. I dont know what was going on. I instinctively was going for covered. Are you fearing for your life . Absolutely. Let update at 5 00 and 6 00. At the the federal courthouse, testimony also continues in the campaign payment trial of two former ron paul for president aides, jesse benton and dimitri kesari. Both are accused of trying to cover up payments made to former iowa legislator Kent Sorenson to switch from michael bachmanns campaign. Cameras arent allowed in federal court. Former ron paul staffer Fernando Cortez took the stand this morning, testifying about email invoices from kesari about interactive communication technology, inc. The Company Prosecutors say was used to pay sorenson. In fort dodge hazmat teams are called in last a train started leaking ammonia. Three people were exposed. One of those men is still hospitalized this afternoon. Because of the leak is under investigation. A Fire Destroys a barn near maxwell. Maxwell fire Officials Say they were called out to a barn fire just north of town around 5 00 firefighters were able to stop the fire from getting to a house. Horses usually kept in the bar were unharmed. No injuries were reported. Maxwell, collins, nevada, and cambridge Fire Departments responded to the fire. Officials say the cause of the fire is still under investigation. A woman convicted of embezzling more than 432,000 from a creston car dealership has been ordered pay it all back. 45yearold Lyndsay Huntsman already was sentenced to 20 years in prison for taking the money from creston automotive while she worked in the companys book keeping department. Huntsman made a deal with the prosecution, pleading guilty to five of six theft counts against her. Looking at our downtown skyca, a downtown skycam, looks like a beautiful day. But we know the other she will drop. Us. Temperatures will become our 59 is what we are sitting at the moment. A light breeze out of the northwest at six miles per hour. It is nice literally everywhere this point. Iowa and we will continue to build into the 70s today. That cool down is coming quick. Thankfully we will see sunshine like were seeing today. Beautiful day. We climbed to 71 by 4 00 p. M. I will have more on the cool down and we can possibly see ray nagin coming up shortly. Rain again coming up shortly. Iowa State University wants to add a 1500 surcharge to international students. Three years. Money would pay for the extra students. That includes reviewing foreign transcripts and helping those students with communication skills. The board of regents will consider the proposal next week. The democratic president ial candidates held their first debate in las vegas last night. And as Craig Boswell show us, it was the leading candidates who stage. Met with excitement following last nights debate. We are going to win. Reporter pundits are saying she wanted a push my command of the issues into letting attacks while adding some jets of her own. Is Bernie Sanders tough enough on guns . Not at all. Senator sanders dick pope five pence against the brady bill. Reporter sanders came to her defense on a issue that dr. Campaign. The American People are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails. Reporter paul sanders claim to be a democrat socialist, when for traders for traders over i am a progressive a place to get things done. Reporter he took clinton to task for not being tough enough on the corporations. You do not, congress is not regular wall street. Wall street regulates congress and we have to break off. Reporter clinton overshadowed the three other candidates and one potential candidate back in d. C. I think it closes the avenue. Were talking about her performance another huge vacuum in the race and hes be filled by a white knight like joe biden. Reporter Vice President biden watch the debate from his home. Craig boswell, cbs news, the white house. Mollie sanders debate performance helped his bank account. He raised millions of dollars in the donors in the hours after the debate. Republican president ial candidate Mike Huckabee joined us this morning for a taping for this sundays kcci close up. Talking about last nights democratic debate, huckabee took a shot at vermont senator Bernie Sanders on twitter saying, i trust Bernie Sander with my tax dollars like i trust a north korean chef with my labrador. Huckabee called the reaction from the media predictable. Huckabee they said it was a racist suite. Racist . Theres nothing racist about north korea. They are a totalitarian regime where the grass clippings to stay alive. The point was it was a point of humor. I find it sometimes people in the left are devoid of a sense of humor. Mollie you can see the rest of the interview with president of candidate Mike Huckabee sunday morning at 10 30 on kcci. New developments in the volkswagen emissions scandals the man recently hired to head volkswagen left the company sudden resignation of Winfried Vahland was not related to the scandal over the rigging the emissions of its diesel engines. But the resignation comes the same day volkswagen admits that there is additional suspect software in its 2016 diesel models that would potentially help exhaust systems run cleaner during government tests. Federal regulators now are trying to determine whether the new software was a second effort to cheat emissions tests. The National Transportation safety board says two people died when a plane crashed into a florida mobile home park. The ntsb says the victims were the pilot of the plane and one person on the ground. They dont believe there were any passengers on the plane. The plane went down yesterday evening in a West Palm Beach neighborhood. Israels military has deployed hundreds of troops as the region struggles to contain a new wave of violence. But as Jonathan Vigliotti reports, their presence is reporter Israeli Police fired smoke bombs at a group of angry palestinians in bethlehem. The soldiers were meant to diffuse the violence but in some cases in flames crowds. Fully set up checkpoints across israel to curb a rash of attacks that began last month when israeli politicians try to restrict palestinian access to the to a mosque. Tuesday marked the Bloodiest Day yet. Four attacks in less than 24 hours. Surveillance video capture the moment a palestinian drove his car into a bus stop and inserted hacking at the wooded with a cleaver. Israeli police now have more leeway to shoot suspected attackers, like this Woman Holding a knife. Critics call the move inhumane and worry they will incite more anger. Palestinian and israeli officials have called for calm on both sides. Mollie secretary of state john kerry says he plans to travel to the middle east to try to calm tensions. Harris vaccines in ames and a French Company awarded contracts to manufacture a bird flu vaccine. An outbreak this spring and summer killed over 30 million chickens and turkeys here in iowa alone. As part of the contract the companies agreed to make the doses, store them for up to five years, and deliver them throughout the United States within 10 days as needed. An aunt sues her own 12yearold nephew. Why she tried to take him to court and what the judge said about the case. And there is no such thing as a free lunch. Why some companys p this is iowas news leader. This is kcci 8 news at noon with Mollie Cooney and meteorologist jason sydejko. Mollie gun stores and gun owners reacting today to a Court Decision in milwaukee. A jury yesterday ordered a gun shop to pay nearly 6 million in a lawsuit filed by two Milwaukee Police officers seriously wounded when shot by a gun bought at the store. The lawsuit alleges the store should have spotted warning signs that the gun was being sold to a customer illegally buying it for someone else. A 12yearold boy was the target of a lawsuit in connecticut. The person filing is his aunt. Jennifer connell claims she suffered a broken wrist when her nephew leapt into her arms at his 8th birthday party, causing her to fall to the ground. She testified that she loves her nephew but connecticut law for city go to court over her medical bills. She soon for 127,000. Sued for 127,000. A connecticut jury has rejected her bid yesterday saying the boy was not liable. A panel of state budget experts is lowering iowa revenue projections for the current fiscal year. The revenue estimating conference predicts the state will take in about 7. 05 billion for the fiscal year that began july 1, down from the 7. 18 billion estimated earlier. The group cited a slowdown in agricultural income. More and more Companies Offer their employees a free noon meal as a perk. But now, as julie watts shows us, the irs says that free lunch is going to start costing those workers. Take a look. Reporter how many days a week deviant office . everyday reporter what you think of the iris started taxing you for food . Thats a bad thing. Reporter it might be a real thing for hundreds of thousands of tech workers like damien. Is really something you need offer the employees. For the bigger, larger players out there. Google and facebook. Reporter they say they cater to their tech employees in more ways than one. The tech giants offer everything from gourmet restaurant, dry cleanings, and haircuts. And by weekly massages. Is the food the iris report of the once a fight of. While the agency wont officially comment, its publicly listed as a priority for the next year. At issue, tax exempt free lunches offered for the convenience of the employer, not the employee. If it benefits the employee, it is considered income. While free meals are able are supposed to give employees at their desk, google serves 30,000 meals a day at 2030 20 to 30 a pop. If the people were compensated 100,000 a year, this is an act or six or 7 of their income. Reporter this is far from a done deal. Even if the irs provides revises, it will face legal challenges in court. Mollie the free lunch is yet to be determined. We know what the weather is been determining that all day and it will click we are in for a big change. Jason if you have enjoyed the warmth, the not so falllike conditions, we are in for a sweeping change. I dont think it will last longer than a couple of days but we have soaked up a gorgeous also far. And a fairly wet summer. Weve been drive for the past 15 days. A similar look. Temperatures well above average in some cases. Today it will stay above average again as our current temperatures are sitting around the average 64 or 65 degrees. Low to mid 60s across the table. You can see how much rain we have gotten over the past couple of weeks. It is not been a lot. We have seen 15 days in a row with no measurable precipitation. We have to go back to march to see a streak longer than that. March 4 through the 23. 45 days. Hopefully we will not get there. The dry stretch definitely making it a little bit more peaceful outside. 63 is what we are sitting at. We are on track for 71 degrees as we head into the afternoon. We keep our skies clear throughout the day. In the evening we start to build in some cloud cover and that will linger into the Morning Hours. That could be good news. Some of us look at the temperatures in the low 30s. Tomorrow morning, much different. The clouds. A stay of it warmer. 48 degrees is what we are waking up to. This area of High Pressure keeping us a bit sunny out there and that will continue to depart eastward and make way for a little bit of cloud cover. I dont think we see any rain out of this. A pretty decent day. As we head into the next couple, our jetstream will shift and a big way. Often the pacific northwest, doubleshift far to the north and will be pooling pulling our high temperatures down to the 50s on saturday. We will get plenty of sunshine as we have dropped the day today futurecast brings in cloud cover as we head into the evening hours tonight. It keeps it into the Morning Hours tomorrow. I dont think it is as thick as it is showing. I think we get a few breaks the plan and a slight increase in clout plover cloud cover. We do work in a decent chunk of sunshine. Beautiful day out there today. 71 degrees and we keep the sunshine not quite all day long. The clouds work in a bit before sunset. Temperatures in the upper 60s to low 70s tonight. A little more mild out there. 48 degrees as we head into the next three days. You can see the change heading our way. 56 on friday. Waking up to temperatures in the 30s. Potential for freezing temperatures saturday morning. If you have to be running a race on sunday, i would wear warm clothing. You can ditch along the way. Mollie dress in layers. Mollie maybe watch out for the plans for frost . Jason bring the men, cover them in blankets, do what you do. Mollie the windy city celebrating last night cubs win in the nlds game. Even the skyscrapers got into the act, proclaiming cubs win in lights on the side. Chicago must wait to see who theyll play in the next round. The series between the new york mets and the Los Angeles Dodgers is going to game 5. Still to come, adoptables that next on iowas news leader. Mollie we are talking about a change in the weather. Stephanie is joining me with the Animal Rescue league to remind you of pictures with santa. Stephanie we do have our longest annual fundraiser coming up. Santa and paws. People can bring pets and other pictures taken with or without santa. The winterset at our location will be at University Photo at Southridge Mall this year. Mollie how do we find out more information . Stephanie you can go to our website. We will do some walkins that if space allows. The popular times fill up quickly. Mollie get the planning. We have some perfect pets. If you want t get a photo with santa. Stephanie you can adopt them now and have them in time for the event. This is citrus. He is three years old. He has three legs. He is getting around great. He prefers a house with level. Mollie good idea. Stephanie we have coda. He is one years old and loves exploring and meeting new people, going on car rides. He can be shy with other dogs at first. Bring your dog if you have one and we can make an introduction. Mollie black cat club. Stephanie bruce wayne. He loves having his chin scratched. He can be a little shy with fast movement. If you have any kids, bring them into the can meet them. And then cheyenne is a sixyearold. She is working on her manners which a lot of dogs are. She loves to explore and escape the yard. She will need a little supervision when she is outside. And then maggie. She is five result. Five years old. We are looking for an experienced cat owner home because she can be a little particular. Shes to be the only pet in the home. Otherwise she is a great cat. She just needs someone a little more used the having cap is a little personality. Mollie nothing wrong with that. And had expo this weekend . Stephanie we will have a double booth. We will have golf Walking Around and cats available for adoption. Mollie for more information you it is time to deal with skyrocketing outofpocket costs. Commentator the 32yearold head of a Pharmaceutical Company raised the price of a lifesaving drug overnight by 5,000 . Im announcing a detailed plan to crack down on these abuses. Commentator he may be lowering it after Hillary Clinton blasted him out of the water. Her plan would limit the outofpocket costs that consumers have to pay. Clinton nobody in america should have to choose between buying the medicine they need and paying their rent. Im Hillary Clinton, [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [kcci captioning is brought to jason it has been a cool one out there and we want 70 on wednesday