First, whats at stake for the candidate. Martin omalley have a lot at stake on saturday night. The latest poll Shows Hillary clinton with a big lead over her rivals. As dr. Rachel a Political Science professor at Drake University explains, the poll is just a temporary snapshot. In november of 2011 herman cain [laughter] was doing really well. Newt gingrich was doing well. Reporter Martin Omalley has its own challenges. Yes to figure out ways to stand apart from his opponents while attracting voters. The debate. He has signaled he would go aggressively. The last debate. Reporter even though this is a nationally televised debate, when they take the stage they will be focusing most of their answers on voters in iowa. They will be the first to vote when they caucus on february 1. Other people are just turning to tune in and start a attention to the race. Here in iowa, this is been an ongoing process of getting another these people are, what thth stand for. Reporter viewers could have their own questions answered as they submit them via twitter which is a partner in the debate. Cbs news, des moines, iowa. Proud to partner with cbs to cohost tomorrows debate. Be a moderator. Our Live Team Coverage continues now with emmy victor with more on the final media scramble before saturdays big event. Emmy good afternoon. Im live. Because its a big day, Drake University has been preparing all week for something as big as this. Lets look at the video. We have a time lapse of everything thats been happening for the past week. It takes a full crew to turn the auditorium into a stage for the national debate. Dont get me wrong, outside campus is definitely no different. Its been buzzing with trucks and workers all week long. Students of a defined themselves going around fences just to get to some of the classes on campus. While setup seems exciting, they are excited to secure from some of those candidates tomorrow. Some students on campus, they have no idea as a writer who they will be supporting tomorrow. Others, a bit further in the process. Im definitely undecided. I feel like i dont know enough about these candidates to make an informed decision. A lot of people of my foot are big supporters of bernie and a nose and people supporting hillary. Im seen a strong showing for Martin Omalley. In debates. Emmy while the debate is being held on Drake Universitys campus, all students will not be able to attend. There was a lottery for any student those interested in attending. Not everyone was able to be picked due to a limited amount of seating. There will be lots of watch parties and a lot of things to take a part in at drake. No one will be without the opportunity. Emmy victor, kcci 8 news. Mollie it will be a busy weekend. Thank you very much. We were in fort dodge last night when republican president ial hopefull donald trump went off on pretty much everyone and everything during his Iowa Campaign stop. He also had this to say about how hed deal with the terror group isis. [applause] trump i would just bomb those suckers. And thats right. Id blow up the pipes. Id blow up the refinery. Id blow up every single inch. There would be nothing left. Mollie trump then went after dr. Ben carson, openly wondering quote, how stupid some iowa voters are for backing the retired brain surgeon. He also called rival marco rubio weak as a baby and accused Hillary Clinton of playing the womens card. And speaking of clinton, a story she has told on the campaign trail about attempting to join the u. S. Marines is now drawing criticism from an old friend. Ann henry claims the clinton visited a marine recruiter in 1975, possibly to explore if women were being treated fairly rather than an attempt to sign up for military service. The story has raised questions about why clinton, known for her antiwar views would try to join the marines while just beginning a new job as a law professor and an upcoming marriage to bill the Clinton Campaign shot back saying her effort to join the marines was sincere. Big developments over night in the war on terror. The pentagon is working to confirm if a u. S. Airstrike has killed jihadi john, one of the most recognizable figures within isis. Jonathan vigliotti has the latest from london. Its new at noon. Reporter a u. S. Official tells cbs news they are almost certain a u. S. Strike guild isis terrorists killed isis terrorists. They have been tracking johnny since wednesday waiting for a clear shot. A missile was fired thursday night as he entered a vehicle in syria. Is believed to be responsible for beheading at least seven hostages, including american journalists and an american aid worker in syria in 2014. The gruesome videos he appeared in presented the world with a terrifying image of the islamic state, and were a powerful propaganda tool for the terror group. Mollie he was a british citizen believed to be in his mid20s. He disappeared from his london home two years ago and travel to syria. The newborn democracy in tunisia is getting a boost from secretary of state john kerry as he visits for economic and security talks. Kerry arrived in tunis today to help officials trying to consolidate democratic gains made since 2011. Its a pictureperfect fall day outside. Lets check in with jason with what we can expect this weekend. Jason today is pictureperfect. We have painting perfect on the way for us. We have seen the wind kicked up in the Morning Hours and we look keep that into the afternoon. Thankfully temperatures have not dropped too much. 50 in des moines. Upper 40s off to the north and areas of the south still seeing low 50s. A lot of us look up to freezing or subfreezing temperatures. The latest we have seen that in the season ever or on record for the past 133 years. Pretty cold morning but thankfully a nice day is at hand for us. Winds have been strong in spots. Teens to 20s out there. These will eventually be dying down throughout the evening. Lets take a turn at the southwest. Warmer days are ahead. I will break on the forecast it when you can inspect rain coming up here soon. Mollie thank you jason. Our crews are in the courtroom today for closing arguments in the murder trial of ngor makuey. Prosecutors said he to liberally be elderly neighbors with a stainless steel spatula. The defense argues he was insane at the time after telling a psychologist a green man with forearms to control of his body in the hindu it. Prosecutors say Mental Illness he did not go there with a toothbrush or hairbrush or tv remote control. He went with something that can do damage. He chose this and it was in his possession for a reason. Mollie the judge will issue a written verdict. No word yet on when a decision is expected. Still ahead, more on ice is as terrorists on the run. Well show you how us airstrikes u. S. Airstrikes have helped Ground Forces move the group out of a strategic iraqi city. And a central iowa rematch is set for the class 3a football championship. When the news at noon continues. This is iowas news leader. This is kcci 8 news at noon with Mollie Cooney and meteorologist jason sydejko. Mollie kurdish fighters have reached the center of town in sinjar, iraq. Isis has controlled the strategic city for more than a year, but the kurds are making a big push to take it back with help from u. S. Warplanes and advisors. Cbs news correspondent Charlie Dagata is on the ground in the warzone. Reporter we are now inside you can hear gunfire readily as the battles are taking place in the east and west part of the city. We are on the north side. We had walked on the throw to get here. Do you see it piled with debris and cables running all over. That is one of the big threats. Not stepping on a pressure plate or tripwire they could set up a homemade bomb inside the street or inside the buildings around. That is as the of peshmerga start clearing the roads. We watched as a handful of they were winding into the village and that was followed by dozens more and then hundreds. They are clearing out the city house by house, street by street. Going after any isis militants that remain here. Mollie back here at home the junk jubilee is happening at the iowa state fairgrounds this weekend. From today until sunday antiques and vintage pieces will fill the dont be surprised to see some of your Favorite Stores from Valley Junction and the east village there, or vendors who travel around the country selling cheap collectibles to valuable items. Event happens twice a year. Will be at the end of april. The cedar falls to where two teams are facing off. No walks in a convincing norwalk had a convincing win last week. Earlier this year pella and it norwalk their only loss of the season. Other teams will take to the field today. The battle of West Des Moines makes its way to cedar falls. The only good news is that it is all indoors so do not have to worry about how cold it will going to get. Jason we are talking temperatures in the upper 30s and low 40s. Not out of the question for this time of year. Winds should stay fairly active in the will help not to feel low to mid 30s. That is where a lot of us are sitting right now. 36 for waterloo. Winds in northeastern portions of the state right now. That on a beautiful brisk chill in the air as he had throughout your day. Sitting at 50 downtown. Plenty of sunshine to be had. We will have it all day long. Nearly all weekend long to go along with that. Topping out at 52 degrees the temperature heads down to 37 degrees by 10 00 p. M. Dont be surprised if you dont see much for cloud cover today. A lot of sunshine. Go soak it up. That brought in those storms a couple of days ago. You can see the cloud line continuing to receive. We continue to have the northwest winds punching down on the backside of this. In the up of michigan. For now, settle into the sunshine as we continue to work a little bit of High Pressure from the south. That area of High Pressure pushes eastward and it will keep us sunny for a bit. You can see futurecast try to pop up some cloud cover. I would not expect much of anything drop the weekend. We do start to see some chances for rain on the backside of this by early next week. Before that absolutely splendid. The futurecast keeps is clear. And it will be sunny today 52 degrees is what we are topping out at. A big switch of the southwest of that will help us stay warmer this weekend. Sunshine all day long here for us. As we take a look in the next few days, beautiful. 63 on saturday and 60 on sunday with the sunshine. Your next shot for showers role in monday. We keep the off and on throughout the week. Next week is National Homelessness and hunger Awareness Week. Kathy is joining us now from Hope Ministries with a leaking due to raise awareness and to do something about it. They do symmetric coming in. Tell us what this whole next week is going to be about . Guest Hope Ministries has for dissipated in National Hunger and homelessness Awareness Week for many years. We think its a great opportunity for people to realize we have a mission right here in our own backyard. Hunger and homelessness are part of this Community Justice with the bigger cities we think of. We are blessed to have restaurants that partner with us. They comomand provide 200 delicious meals. Sometimes next week. Everything competes at the burgers to pasta, desserts. Thats a real treat. People that come any with us typically are able to got any. We serve an average of 400450 meals a day. We offer Community Awareness tours. If people want to personally see our shelters or come look at our hope cafe and learn more about it, we welcome the opportunity as well. Mollie where are you located . Guest our mens shelter is it 1310 avenue sth avenue. Mollie who are your clients . Guest from a meal standpoint we serve anyone in the community. Every meal, every day of the year. We are there as a constant what people when other Food Assistance runs out, it is a particularly bad month, we have regular meal guests and people that come occasionally. We feed everything from single men and women, complete families , all different types of people come in and even us. Mollie you have everyone signed up to serve kneels next week and thanksgiving. You dont need volunteers for that but how else can we help throughout the holidays . Guest there are many ways Financial Partnership is welcome. We are one nature percent 100 heavily funded. You can get you hopeiowa. Org and look for opportunities to adopt a man or woman or child with a Christmas Gift bag. We have food donation days before the holiday where we for our thanksgiving meal. For example they can ready to serve dinner rolls, brownies. We put one of those and everythings getting meal. We do that again at christmas. And there are other food items as well. Mollie can you need drivers to deliver meals as we get closer to the holidays . Guest we do a. Context giving day we are set up for Christmas Day many Delivery Driver teams. Do together. We hear wonderful feedback about meaningful experience for families on the holiday. Mollie next week is the hunger and homelessness Awareness Week. Website, hopeisland hopeiowa. Org. Here is to a very successful year. And with volunteers and all the back with a preview of thisou think theres no solution to the climate crisis, think again. In iowa, wind energy is already producing enough power for over a million homes, reducing our dependence on foreign oil and supporting six thousand jobs. Im tom steyer. With bold leadership and an Endless Supply of wind and sun, we can do that across america. The goal is 50 clean energy by 2030. Mollie it has become a popular addition to the des moines symphonys repertoire. This weekend we will meet for coffee of that as we travel back to russia during world war ii. Maestro joe giunta is joining us now. Guest such a terrific piece and what a great format. We play one piece of music and we focus on that. The first half is screens above the orchestra. There are some intense discussions from these actors about what inspired the peace and so on. Its a terrific way to learn about how a piece of music is inspired and the time it was written and and so on. We come back and play the piece as we normally would. People seem to love the format. The chicago 70 developed at about 12 years ago. Weve been doing it ever since. Mollie who will the accuracy . What we hear from them . Guest we will have some great actors. He does it with the chicago symphony. Here. Rogers wife is the narrator. Help us. It will be a lot of fun for us. This is a great piece. End of world war ii. He had so many friends and family numbers that had for some soviet union. He considers this a piece that was a masterpiece. If the last pc actually conducted himself. Three weeks later he had a concussion and never was quite the same again. Mollie is that right . Its just so powerful. Guest incredibly powerful. It is neil romantic. It was written in the 20 century but based on romantic melodies. People will not be able to thing the melodies but it will really mollie it you have actors and singers and the media. Its not to be missed. Performing. Piece of music. When you add the beyond the impactful. Hes playing at the piano and the orchestra will take from him and then proceeded to what he was doing. You get a lot of insight into just how a composer works. And how it becomes a great piece of art. Mollie how to get tickets . Guest this weekend, saturday night at 7 30 and sunday afternoon at 2 30. Des moines civic center. The website or show up about 30 vanessa for each concert at the box office. Mollie cant wait to see it. Absolutely one of my favorites. The oneofakind, creamy blend of sweet and tangy. Miracle whip and proud of it. At kraft we start with quality ingredients. All expertly blended to make our mayo. So you can take whatever youre making jason look at that sunshine. It will be gorgeous. After that, hard to say. Mollie it is friday the 13th. Watch out for black cats