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Break in the case. West Des Moines Police video with the help of the Iowa Division of criminal investigations crime lab they were able to identify the driver of the vehicle that hit holly s 37yearold Ronald Hauser of van meter. He is charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in the death of a person and operating a Motor Vehicle while under the influence. Police say he turned himself in yesterday, was processed and has been released on bond. You can see more about this story later at 5 00 and 6 00 and at kcci. Com. Also new at noon, crews were out at Drake University this morning responding to electrical emergency. A contractor was doing work on a transformer box when he got electrocuted. An electrician with him performed cpr immediately and revived him. The victim was 27yearsold and suffered burns to his hands and head. He was taken to a local hospital in news from around the state authorities in hamilton and , webster countys are also asking for your help in finding a burglary suspect. They say their looking for this man, 33yearold Matthew Moore of west des moines. Authorities have been jointly investigating the burglaries to rungos bar in stratford and iron saddle saloon in dayton. The burglaries occurred in the Early Morning hours of new years day. The Hamilton County Sheriffs Department says they received information from west Des Moines Police department naming moore as a suspect. A warrant for felony third degree burglary has been issued. Police say hes believed to be living in the des moines area. Anyone with information on his whereabouts are encouraged to contact Hamilton County Crime Stoppers at the number on your screen, 5158328437. And Urbandale Police are trying to track down a teenager 17yearold kiara olson. , officials believe she has information in saturdays deadly officerinvolved shooting at the holiday inn on merle hay road. With police. Officers were called to the hotel on reports of a drug deal. A bill that would increase iowas interstate speed limit from 70 to 75 Miles Per Hour is being debated this week at the iowa state house. State lawmakers passed the speed limit bill through the first subcommittee in the iowa house on tuesday. Representative gary worthan says the dot has told him that the average speed people drive on iowa interstates is already 72 miles an hour, so increasing the limit to 75 isnt a huge change. The dot Officials Say they do not support raising the limit, fearing it would cause an increase in the number of traffic deaths. We asked what you think about the bill in our now poll. Right now 60 of you say yes, the speed limit should be increased to 75. 40 say no it should not. Come fast enough. We will be increasing this week the higher temperatures. Lets check in now with jason for a first look at your forecast. Jason its going to get kicked in here soon. Mid50s tomorrow, mid60s on friday. Pulling a page out of spring. It doesnt necessarily feel like it right now but temperatures are on the increase. 34 for the metro. 36 down in creston. We given reasonably warm the last couple of days. We have already seen some of the snow start to melt. Breanna sherman sent in this picture. If easter that long enough you might actually see yourself. A little bit of light snow today and a little bit of cloud cover continues throughout the day. That will persist. Dont plan on a lot of sunshine. We could see a few peeks. Temperatures dropping back of 33 degrees. I will have more on the warmup and how much longer that will mollie athletes and fans are flocking to the Wells Fargo Arena for the start of the iowa state wrestling tournament. Duels hit the mats today and individuals start tomorrow morning at 9 00. Wells fargo arena is expected to see 80,000 spectators over the next four days. Organizers say the championships saturday night is expected to sell out. There are a lot of great state championships in turn of its across the country, but i think the iowa state wrestling championship is probably the best in the country simply because of the fans we have an at Wells Fargo Arena. Mollie its expected to rake in more than 1 million to the local economy. Federal investigators say they are missing some key evidence in the terrorist attack at a San Bernardino health facility. A federal judge has mandated belonging to one of the attackers. The judges order. Reporter federal investigators say they carefully planned their bloody rampage which killed 14 people in San Bernardino. The couples were about leading up to the attack in who they spoke to remains a mystery. We still have one of those killers phones we inevitably open. Its been over two months and we are still working on it. Reporter a judge has ordered apple to help the fbi cap into one of that shooters encrypted iphones. Every iphone has an optional auto arrays feature that would erase the phone if there are too many incorrect passwords entered. Apple would have to figure out a way to disable that feature so investigators to try to an unlimited number of passcodes. In a letter to its customers, apple ceo tim cook says the u. S. Government has assess for something we simply do not have. It is something we considered too dangerous to create. Cook explained the problem in a 60 minutes interview with charlie rose last year. If you put a backdoor in, its for everybody. Good guys and bad guys. Reporter apple has five days to file an appeal which could go all the way to the Supreme Court. Mark albert for cbs news, washington. Mollie in world headlines, trucks loaded with relief items are starting to arrive to besieged suburbs of the syrian capital. Those supplies had been delayed for hours. 24 trucks carrying food, medicine and other assistance have almost reached the rebelheld town of madaya east of the capital, while a 35truck convoy is about to enter a rebelheld suburb to the west. Turkeys president is criticizing the United States for not supporting turkeys proposals for a nofly zone in syria. The turkish leader says it would have prevented russias air campaign in the region and saved thousands of civilian lives. U. S. Fighter jets flew over south korea earlier today in a north korea. Sources say the north will view that as a threat in the standoff between the two countries. The u. S. Often sends warplanes to south korea during times of tension with the north last month it sent a Nuclear Capable b52 bomber to south korea after the north conducted its Fourth Nuclear test. Still to come today at noon, while politicians bicker over replacing the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court they may want to take a lesson from his life and his biggest foe on the bench. And well tell you what was last nights westminster dog this is iowas news leader. This is kcci 8 news at noon with Mollie Cooney and meteorologist jason sydejko. Mollie they were known as the odd couple on the Supreme Court. Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away over the weekend was good pals with fellow Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. Never mind they were often ideologically opposite. As jeanne moos reports, they bonded over anything from opera reporter for conservatives, he laughed liberally. One of the things that made others smile was Justice Scalias friendship with Justice Ginsburg. White and because the odd couple . Reporter not slop versus clean freak, but opposite sides of the bench. That is not true. I have to disagree. Reporter Justice Ginsburg wrote, we were best buddies. What is not to like . Except her views on the law. Reporter their spouses spent many an you see together. They wanted vacations, shared an elephant. Something that caused her feminist friends to give them a hard time. She rode behind me. The driver explained it was a reporter Justice Scalia paid homage to his friend for something he said he would never do. Go parasailing over the mediterranean. You think he would never come down. Reporter when her head bowed down at the student union, they joked about the wine that helped put her to sleep. At least i wasnt 100 sober. Before he went to the state of the union thats the first intelligent thing you have done. [laughter] reporter the state of their union was strong. They bonded over opera. They became in opera. A comic opera named after them. Reporter tell that for those fighting over if president obama gets to appoint his replacement. Did is outrageous. Reporter just one we could use more odd couples, we have one left. Mollie and the politics of replacing late justice Antonin Scalia will be the subject of this weeks kcci close up. Well be joined by Drake University constitutional law professor mark kende as well as leading local republicans and democrats. Thats this sunday morning at 10 30 right after face the nation. Lets check back in with jason to find it when the weather is going to start warming up and how warm it will get. Metinka we are talking tomorrow. Spring coming early, at least a few days pulling out of it. Teens across the state. A much warmer day tomorrow. A few isolated snow showers earlier on in those continue to weaken and shift eastward. You can see the cloud light off to the west. If youre hoping for more sunshine, today will not be the day for you. 34 degrees. We have the wind chill at 27 degrees. If you look at the rest of the day, it is not bad. Lows dropping to freezing. 32 by 10 00 p. M. We hold tight throughout the morning hours. Clouds do linger. Wind chills down into the mid20s. Not exactly a freezing night ahead for us. We dont have to worry about those for a whole lot longer. You can see a front sliding in. These black lines, lines of constant pressure. Those winds increase. What they are pulling as they do is the good stuff. Temperatures climbing to the 50s and 60s. Our reasonable chance for some of us acclimate to the mid60s. We do have chances for sunshine to go along with that. The cloudy day remains. Off to the southwest there is some clearing. I think that sticks around but a little cloudier than futurecast is showing. Dont expect rain or snow for the next 36 hours or so. Scattered cloud cover to the day on friday. If youre heading out over the next couple of days, truly looking to be beautiful. Today we are at 37 degrees. A light breeze. You can see the warm up to the southwest building. 46 for council bluffs. Warmer off to the northeast. As far as only dropping to freezing tonight. Tomorrow is warming up even more. 63 at council bluffs. 40s up to the north. 57 degrees throughout the metro. The snow we have got is not going to be sticking around. Rotten tomatoes for somebody else as we head into our next couple of days. Temperatures will be a increase. Back up to 64 by friday. We hang on a beautiful weekend. Temperatures in the mid to upper 50s. Prime snow melting temperatures for five days. Mollie thank you very much. Dog enthusiasts. A german shorthaired pointer has been crowned top dog at the 140th westminster dog show. Jamie yuccas was at the event and takes us backstage. New at noon. Best in show. Tonight is the german shorthaired. Reporter a threeyearold german shorthaired pointer named cj is the best in show. Is breeder, owner and handler says cj is an old soul. Hes a serious show dog. He is all business. While we go home he is a pet. Reporter the head judge explained by he singled out cj. Alert, bright, paying attention. Started with nearly 3000 canines from 199 breeds. Only the seven top dogs made it to the final. Lucy, panda, annabelle, rumor, cj, bogey, and charlotte all bounded onto the green carpet on tuesday night. Seven new breeds were added to the competition this year. All the meeting, greeting, and printing about 1. 5 miles from the arena. Most of the competitors then arrived by bus to adoring fans. They are super adorable. I just want to look at all of cj will now embark on a whirlwind media tour. Mollie cjs grandmother one best in show back in 2005. She is the first breeder, owner, years. Ever heard of the doxie dash . Leader. Mollie we know that last sunday was valentines day. Stephanie is here with good news. Stephanie we adopted 177 pets during our adoptath on. Mollie there was always more coming in. Stephanie unfortunately. We are trying to curb that. We have some great pets that need a home. This is basil. Hes a 10monthold male. He loves cat trees. Hes pretty active since he is still a kitten. And we have coda. He is also pretty active. He is a year old. Theres still some puppy in him. We are encouraging families have older kids with him. And then we have figaro. Hes very friendly with other cats. Hes very cuddly and a senior at hes got a reduced adoption fee but has a lot of life left in him. Miya is a threeyearold. Very shy. We need a home with older kids and somebody can help her go through Training Classes or meeting new people. And we have smoke. Smoke is three years old. Loves to chase balls. Loves to be lazy. Kind of your typical cat. Would be a really good companion. Mollie perfect for the wintertime. And we are talking about the doxie dash. Tell us all about it. Stephanie we are going to be at the bucs game. During one of the intermissions we will race is used a lightweight. They pretty much run from one owner to the next. Mollie wherever they go. Stephanie pretty funny. They get gifts for just trying and the winner gets other gifts as well. Its a great way to support the Animal Rescue league. We still have a few spots left. We do sell out every year. Make sure to register online. Or if you want to come and watch the fun, we have tickets online. Mollie that sounds wonderful. For more information its 15 per dog. They do it throughout the night . Stephanie they do it one time between we have a couple of ways until we get an ultimate winner. The entry fee does include two tickets. Mollie if you want to get one of the little ferry friends we saw, where do we go . Stephanie arl maine on northeast 22nd street. All the pets at that location on on our website. Mollie thank you very much for [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [kcci captioning is brought to mollie i would not be surprised if a few people called in sick on friday. Jason i almost hope so. Mollie i think we should have a nice day off. Jason we need it real. Grill. It will be perfect for. We will have clouds lingering into the evening. You look up to the southwest and that warmth. 44 in lamoni. Contrast that to the upper 20s in the north. We have 64 degrees on friday. That and sunshine to go along with it. We keep the warmth throughout the temperatures weekend with temperatures in the 50s. Jason [ insects chirping ] bill super will whoo okay, how mad is mommy gonna get that im getting you all hyped up before bedtime . Hmm . What time what time is it . Lets see. Wheres mommy . Brooke oh, wait thats not a. Family. Photo. I love you. You will always be the greatest love of my life. Bridget you still love him. Brooke my love for bill has never changed. Its as powerful as its ever