To relapse and things get sour, including a breakup with his girlfriend just days before the shooting. His exgirlfriend says she left him because he wouldnt stop doing drugs. Narcotics agents also sees about 20 pounds of marijuana from pols ons home. Trial resumes tomorrow morning and the jury will then have to decide whether polson was too intoxicated to form the intent to kill. Kevin meanwhile the iowa , Supreme Court says it will to hear an appeal in the Richard Daughenbaugh murder case. Daughenbaugh died after being beaten by a group of people in august of 2013. A jury convicted kent tyler of Second Degree murder in the case, but this spring, the Iowa Appeals Court threw out that conviction, saying the jury had no factual basis to find tyler guilty on any of the prosecutions theories. The Iowa Attorney Generals Office asked the Supreme Court to review the Appeals Court decision. Stacey Narcotics Task force officers on surveillance helped pella Police Arrest two men in the middle of a tire shop burglary. 40yearold jason beaman and 32yearold Joel Followill both face theft and burglary charges. Followhill faces an Additional Charge of interference. Pella police say beaman was arrested when he walked out the tire shop just after 11 00 last night. Officers found followill hiding inside the building in a stack of tires. Kevin republican president ial candidate rand paul under attack for a comment he made against yesterday. Stacey paul stopped at a number of colleges in iowa this week, saying his candidacy appeals to millenials. But our chief political reporter Cynthia Fodor shows us how he lost some support here. Cynthia. Cynthia kevin and stacey, rand paul spoke inside the olmstead offended the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender we ask every president ial candidate we can get to should fire someone simply because they are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. Cynthia this man, keenan crow threw out that question but was shocked to hear this answer. Sen. Paul i think the things you do in your house, you can leave those in your house and they would have to be part of the workplace. It sets up a class of people who can now sue. If you are gay there are plenty of places that will hire you. Just to be so dismissive was heartbreaking to us. Cynthia the executive director of one iowa donna red wing says she is done. It horrifies me and tells me we still have a lot of work to do. Cynthia to hear rand paul say its ok to discriminate and fire someone whos gay. I thought, what century does this guy live in . He exhibited such bias and some real homophobia and transphobia. Cynthia other candidates have way rick santorum, i dont think they should be fired but i dont think we need a federal law. Bobby jindal, i dont think there should be discrimination but i dont think the government should be intruding. Jeb bush, no, i dont think so. In iowa, it is illegal for employers to discriminate against lgbt workers but 31 states do not have such laws. This is a protection we have this is a protection we have here in iowa, hold dear, would like to see it across the nation. Cynthia Hillary Clinton also knocked paul for his comments about gay rights in the workplace. Im told some of the drake students took off their rand paul for president stickers after he made those comments. Stacey. Stacey fellow republican president ial candidate Carly Fiorina is in Windsor Heights tonight for a chili fundraiser. This is the latest stop on fiorinas swing through iowa. Earlier today, she help a town she held a town hall meeting in the western iowa town of spencer. There she commented on president obamas decision to hold 5500 beyond the end of the year. Ms. Fiorina he now is recognizing that afghanistan is becoming potentially a haven for isis and that the taliban is not on the wane as he has tried to convince the American People of for years. Its growing in strength. Stacey the latest fox news poll has fiorina in 6th place with 5 . Donald trump leads with 24 , a slight edge over ben carson with 23 . Kevin hearings on a proposed oil pipeline through iowa dont start for another month. But protests got underway today outside the iowa utilities board offices here in des moines. About 100 protests some who were about 100 protesters, some of who were bussed in, marched outside the building where next months hearings take place. Many of the protestors say they oppose the pipeline over fears for the environment. But one story county landowner says shes upset for another reason. Large company can come in and take emment domain away from the landowner. This is not a utility company. This is a privately owned company. Kevin the hearings on the pipeline begin november 12. Night eyes, the merry not scary halloween event kicks off tonight and Frank Scaglione joins us with what kind of weather the trickortreaters can expect. Frank it just got started here at 5 30. It goes until 8 00. Plenty of folks already coming in. It is a perfect night to be out here. Look outside at our temperature. It dropped a little bit. 65 degrees. Still a beautiful evening to be outside. Wind noticeable at about 1520. The winds dialing back a little bit. They just downright cold tonight. We are really going to be turning the dial down on those temperatures. I will have those in your 8 day forecast life here on a perfect fall night. They are open until 8 00 tonight. Stacey 200 sex offenders will soon be transferred to the prison in newton. The department of corrections says that will provide better treatment. Kccis Jason Rantala is live with reaction from newton. Jason r hundreds of inmates from the prison in Mount Pleasant will be heading to the newton correctional facility. People we talked to in newton say they had no idea this was happening. Neither did a few local politicians. The newton correctional facility will soon house 200 new inmates all sex offenders from the mount , pleasant correctional facility. State corrections director jerry were unable to get treatment in the Mount Pleasant facility. The newton prison will allow for individual, multipleoccupancy cells and dormitory areas, with a less open environment. And will be better equipped for treatment with more security. Bartruff says the risk to the public is low. Given that Mount Pleasant is a less secure facility and newton is a more secure facility, i would say the risk of something significant happening in the community is minimal at best. Jason r state senator chaz allen says despite not knowing until recently moving to the better security facility in newton makes sense. Those living in town say arent too concerned for the most part while for others, feelings are , mixed. If the facility for them is safe and secure, thats fine with me, theyve got to go someplace. Better here than alcatraz. Jason r bartruff acknowledges they could have done a better job getting the word out. Representative dan kelley of newton has concerns with current prison understaffing and how the community was kept in the dark. The move will happen in phases and it could take up to a year. The Mount Pleasant prison will become a more minimum custody facility. Live in the studio, Jason Rantala, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Stacey broadlawns medical central breaks ground on a major revamp of its campus on hickman road. That expansion will take place on the eastern part of the broadlawns campus. The 72,000 square foot building will house several new facilities, including a Family Health center and residency apartments. The plan calls for remodeling the inpatient and Outpatient Behavioral Health facility, expanding the number of beds to 44. It will also expand the medical centers dental clinic. The entire project is expected to be complete sometime in 2017. Kevin tomorrow will be an historic day for the des moines fire department. The department will promote three men to district fire chiefs. Two of those men, steve brown and percy coleman, will become the first africanamerican chief officers in the departments 132 year history. Their promotions will come 48 years since the first African American was hired in des moines. You might call him the bridge of spiesmaster. How this iowa man is connected to the latest Steven Spielbergtom hanks film. Stacey but first, the man at the center of campaign payment scandal takes the stand. Hear what former iowa lawmaker Kent Sorenson told a federal jury today. If you work hard, and you do your part, you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead. But the republicans. They want to go back to letting the super wealthy call the shots. They dont stand up for equal pay for women. They dont support paid family leave. They dont even really support refinancing student debt. Weve got to get this economy working for the vast majority of thats what i intend to do as president. Ome to subway, what can i make for you . Youll love our new rotisseriestyle chicken. 100 white meat, herbseasoned pulled chicken, fresh toasted with melty cheese n crisp veggies on freshly baked bread. Enjoy it while its here subway. Announcer this is iowas news leader. This is kcci 8 news at 6 00 with kevin cooney, stacey horst, chief meteorologist john mclaughlin, and iowas sportscaster of the year andy garman. Kevin former senator Kent Sorenson took the stand today in the federal trial of two former ron paul 2012 president ial campaign aides. Stacey jesse benton and Dmitri Kesari are accused of making hidden payments to sorenson, who switched his endorsement to pauls Campaign Just before the 2012 iowa caucuses. Kccis rose heaphy was in court today and heard todays testimony. Rose after hours of fbi investigators reading through emails, sorenson and friend, aaron dorr, took the stand today. Now, no cameras or recording devices are allowed in the federal courtroom. Dorr explained an email that he sent to benton in oct 2011, proposing a deal worth 8,000 a month for sorenson to switch to the Paul Campaign in another email benton , responded saying that deal was illegal and unethical but said the Paul Campaign would be happy to employ them. Fastforward to december of that year. Sorenson and his wife had dinner with kesari. That evening, he says kesari gave his wife a check for 25,000. The check was from kesaris Organization Designer goldsmith inc. And made out to sorensons corporation grassroots strategies. But sorenson says at the time he told kesari that he wasnt sure he wanted to switch to pauls campaign. He said he was conflicted and feeling stressed from the situation because he was facing and felt paul was a better Financial Issues political candidate. Testimony and the trial will continue tomorrow. Kevin the Steven Spielberg cold war thriller bridge of spies opens tomorrow. The movie about the trading of a soviet spy for u2 pilot Francis Gary Powers has an iowa connection. Francis lebeda is a 76yearold cedar rapids man who, like of lot of retirees, has a workshop. But unlike most people who use their workshop to do odd jobs around the house, francis uses his to make movie props. For bridge of spies, he created a special coin the soviet spy uses in the movie to hide his secrets. Stacey now lets check back in with frank live at the Blank Park Zoo for the Opening Night of night eyes. Frank were tonight at the Blank Park Zoo. Things just got started at 5 30. Plenty of people filtering in. They must have got the handset tonight was going to be a perfect fall night. Lets take a look at current temperatures. 65 in des moines. Clarion i59 degrees. The story today has been the wind. A little gusty at times of the north and northwest. As we head through the night tonight, they will start to call down a little bit. We see the sunshine today and the winds a littleezy out of the north. Otherwise, a perfect fall evening. Low 60s by 7 00. Upper 40s by 11 00. It will be a chilly night tonight with those clear skies. Look at your wake up temperature tomorrow. 39 degrees. If you are north of highway 20, numeral probably be waking up in the low to mid 30s. Clouds kind of filtering through in southern iowa today but it has been a great day and is a notice that cold front. That is really going to be changing things as we head for the next 12 or so hours. Ice tomorrow, much cooler than today in the mid50s as High Pressure starts to slide in behind the frontal system. Were going to let it roll all the way through friday. Friday, a very nice day. It will be cooler than it has been the past few days. As we head into saturday, sunny skies and temperatures still saying on the cool side. Northern iowa, lowtomid 30s. Central iowa, upper 30s. A frost advisory in effect for portions of western iowa. It will be a chilly night. You definitely will need to bundle up if you are out. 55 degrees tomorrow. Lots of sunshine. The winds not as gusty as they were today, out of the northwest at about 515. Waking up to a cool start on saturday in the low 30s it low 30s. 57 by the afternoon. We are going to jump back into the low to mid 70s by monday and tuesday, and that is our next best chance of rain. Back out here live at night eyes. A perfect night and people are really getting the hint that this is a perfect night. We are here until 8 00. Acta you. Kevin that Program Reminder for thursday night. Football game tonight. The Atlanta Falcons taking on the new Orleans Saints at 6 30. Coverage begins that means our late news here on kcci will be delayed. If youre looking for a 10 00 news broadcast, you can switch over to metv des moines, channel well also have late news 8. 2. Coverage following the stactt2watx n4 p bt qj4 tt2watx n4 p a qz8 tt2watx n4 p bm qq3 tt4watx n4 r dztq 4 , tt4watx n4 r entq d l tt4watx n4 r gzt ],4 tt4watx n4 r announcer from iowas sports leader, this is kcci eight sports. Scott the cyclones had plenty to celebrate last season, especially its second straight big 12 tournament championship. Does more partying await, despite the separture of the mayor . And the new polls out thursday seem to think so. Iowa state is ranked seventh in the nation in the newly released usa today coaches poll. Its a historically high number, and has them in pretty rare company. Take a look at the top teams around. Kentucky, unc, maryland. And there are the cyclones at 7. The highest preseason ranking the isu program has ever had was 9th by the ap back in 1996. This years ap poll isnt out yet in the big 12 coaches poll, they are behind oklahoma. The kansas jayhawks are picked to win their 12th straight big 12 title. New coach steve prohm isnt afraid of all the hype. Grexit you have a lot of expectations out there but you want that. This program now is about championships, it is about winning, it is about doing things the right way. Scott friday, november 6 is the teams first exhibition. Hawkeyes by the way were not , ranked in the usa today coaches poll. Grab those goggles, it is another Postseason Party for kansas city. Back in the alcs thinks last nights game five win over houston. All three of the royals victories in the series were comefrombehind win. Up next, the mighty bluejays. The matchup i think everyone predicted. It is going to be a hardfought battle just like this series but if there is a group that is up for the challenge, it is this one. Scott later in the evening, some of the players showed up to party with the fans. Friday night, 7 30, game one. If the cubs make the series, it a hamstring injury he suffered monday in game 3. The winner of this game will host the cubs saturday night in game 1. Finally, the drake will it continue to get better at better even if they need a little work. That this team is loaded. The bulldogs were excited about all the expectations. Great players and player of the year candidate lizzy wendell l. That is the kind of standard we want to have. For yearsstacey one more timeout to frank. Frank beautiful night tonight at night eyes. The winds have started to dial back a little bit. Going to be a cool 1, 39 for a low. Tomorrow, highs in the mid50s. Kevin we will see you later tonight after football on channel 8. 1
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