We did see some of the victims families crying when the verdict was announced, and did not want to comment when the trial ended. Zachary whitehill told us off camera that he was just still trying to absorb what just happened here at the courthouse today. I also reached to some of the jurors as well as the defense and prosecuting attorney to try and get comment but was told they did not want to comment. Polson is being held without bond until his sentencing on december 9. Stacey still no verdict in the federal trial of two former ron paul for president Staff Members jesse , benton and dimitri kesari. Both men are accused of trying to cover up thousands of dollars in payments to former state senator kent sorenson. Sorenson then switched his support from Michele Bachmann to ron paul. Steve new information tonight in the sentencing of a webster city wrestling coach. Radio station kqwc reports that 50yearold ted larson was resentenced yesterday to probation. Oneyear in prison for assault and 5years for 2nd degree criminal mischief. A jury found him guilty of going into a house and attacking lyndal olsen. Larson must now pay olson restitution, an amount that is yet to be determined. Another man, also charged in connection to this crime, terry nessa, goes on trial january 26. Stacey a house fire overnight in south des moines. Steve the man living in the home escaped, and because of the bravery of a neighbor, his 3 dogs did too. Kccis Mark Tauscheck is here to explain. Mark andrew robb did something firefighters will tell you to never do. He went into a Burning House to save the pets of a neighbor he had never met. He was trying to talk to me and i didnt know what he was saying because he had inhaled a lot of smoke. Pretty much telling him to come with me for real, i really couldnt talk. Mark Demarco Carter and andrew robb are neighbors, but met for the first time early this morning after carter awoke to a kitcn fire around 1 00 a. M. And ran out of his smoke filled home. He says anybody in there and i say, emi dogs. And he says well, we gotta get them out and he ran in there and grab one. Mark robb crawled through the Burning House twice to retrieve casey, scrappy, and chipper. I could see the kitchen going up in flames and everything but when i looked to living room where dogs were i couldnt even see their kennels until i was up close to them. Is got to be crazy. Mark the dogs seem ok, although scrappy is usually a white dog. Demarco says he doesnt know how to thank his neighbor, other than to just say thanks. Have you ever heard youre not supposed to go into a Burning House . Yeah, but i got dogs of my own, they are like my kids. Part of my family and i see these dogs all the time out here so im like that could be his , family. I cant leave those dogs in there. I cant do that. Mark andrews mother told him, never do that again. Stacey an Early Morning chase ended with a wrecked Police Cruiser and one man in jail. The chase started in des moines and ended just north of the Copper Creek Golf Course in Pleasant Hill around 2 00 this morning. Des Moines Police say an officer was chasing a motorcycle when the cycle lost control and crashed. The Police Cruiser also crashed and had to be towed. No one was seriously hurt. The driver of the motorcycle, 29yearold jordan young, is in the polk county jail on charges of theft, eluding, operating while intoxicated, and driving without a license. Steve a des moines mother is charged with child endangerment. Shes accused of beating her toddler son in a Grocery Store parking lot. 28yearold shauna davis was arrested just before 10 00 last night. Officers say they were dispatched to the scene on a child in need of assistance call. There, they met davis who said she was looking for her lost wallet. Davis denied hitting her son. But the son kept saying, quote, dashcam saying, mama hurt, mama hurt. The child was taken to the hospital with marks on his head. Stacey Altoona Police are looking for a truck that two Elementary School students say tried to entice them away. The incident happened yesterday afternoon. Two altoona Elementary Students say a truck pulled up to them while they were walking home from school. The men inside yelled they had candy and told the students to get in the truck. The truck and drove off. If you have any information on this case, youre asked to call Altoona Police. Steve after a dry few weeks in central iowa, weve had a couple of days of rain. Another shower moved through the metro area just as the morning commute was wrapping up. But can we expect some more rain tonight . Lets go to meteorologist kurtis gertz for the answer. Kurtis we do have some beautiful pictures coming in from our schoolnet webcams. Live picture out of pella. A little bit of light rain to extreme western iowa. 69 degrees. Steve mentioned that morning rain. It didnt amounts to much. I will false, 2 10 of an inch. About 1800s in marshalltown. The rain could move in here later tonight. It is not going to a not not going to amount to just a sprinkler two. A cool 40 eight to start out your thursday. 59 by the noon hour. Through the temperature in the mid60s. Temperatures in the 60s moving in. Notice the cooldown. 60s for the weekend with some fixed with some 50s oblique next week. Stacey the university of iowa hopes to begin offering classes on the aib campus next fall. Aib plans to give control of the campus and facilities to the university as of july 1 of next year. The university of iowas plans are being discussed at a board of regents meetings today and tomorrow. The university of iowa says it plans to start using the campus as early as fall 2016. The university is currently developing undergraduate courses to be delivered at the aib campus. But iowa is also considering using the campus for its students studying medicine here in des moines. Aib plans to hand over control of most, but not all of its des moines campus. A portion will be sold to pay for aibs expenses. After months of speculation vice , President Joe Biden has declared he wont run for president. Steve chief political reporter Cynthia Fodor is here live with reaction from iowans to todays news. Cynthia steve and stacy iowans , who have been chanting run joe run tell me they are disappointed, but believe the Vice President must be breathing a sigh of relief after finally making a decision. Vice President Biden unfortunately, i believe were out of time to mount a campaign. A Winning Campaign for the nomination. Cynthia with time running out, joe biden ended a months long flirtation with a Third Campaign for the white house. I think people in their heart knew that he wasnt ready with all the tragedy had. Cynthia the iowa cochair to draft biden, Kevin Mccarthy, says 2 paid staff here and volunteers were all set to get to work if he ran. The last 2. 5 months have been a roller coaster. The Draft Biden Movement we had staffed in 14 states, so theres a lot of people disappointed today but we all respect the decision. Cynthia biden had said last month on the the late show with Stephen Colbert that he was still experiencing moments of uncontrollable grief after the death of his son beau in may. The supporters i talked to here in iowa said they would remain stacey the u. S. Attorney who covers des moines says he is resigning from the job next month. Nicholas klinefelter is stepping down to join the Des Moines Office of International Law firm. He has been in the Southern District office since november of 2009. The Southern District cap Southern District covers 47 counties. Steve there is a live look outside wrigley field, where fans are piling in to watch a do or die game for the chicago cubs. Kcci sports director andy garman , he is there live. Coming up a preview of this , crucial game 4. Plus, some Des Moines School kids get a look at this ride of the future. How its designed to keep drivers safe. Stacey and, a kid captains coin toss at saturdays isu tcu game turns viral. What the tcu quarterback did remember. Isrupt the old order in washington, dc. We can do a lot better by applying conservative principles we should lower rates and simplify the code to spend their money. What we need is leadership to fix a few big things. So that this country takes off and soars where people can dream the biggest possible dreams. And pursue them with a vengeance. Sfx applause jeb. Proven conservative. Real results. 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. Its crazy, its mind boggling. Stacey a picture of a simple act of kindness at a cyclone Football Game goes viral. A quarterback from the other team takes some time to talk to an iowa state kid captain. Steve our vanessa peng is live at jack trice stadium. Vanessa, you spoke to the girl in the photo . That they thats right. That girls name is abby faber and she is seven years old. She was inside jack trice stadium being the kid captain. Now, she says she feels famous. Its a touching timeout, social media wont let go. I feel famous. Shell say what . And ill say youre on fox sports. Fox sports, oh my. Vanessa a picture shared and liked hundreds of thousands of times shows a brief moment, when, instead of thinking about the game, Texas Christian University quarterback Trevone Boykin knelt down to say hello. Abby faber was the kid captain for the october 17 game between the isu cyclones and the tcu horned frog. When forth worth startelegram photographer paul moseley snapped the photo. I got to shake the quarterbacks hand. Vanessa he also asked her what her name was. It made me feel surprised. Vanessa abby was born 10 weeks early weighing in at only a pound and 13 ounces. My ring fit over her foot onto her leg, and over her hand , on to her wrist. Vanessa she spent days in the 105 nicu. Abby was diagnosed with cerebal palsy just before her third birthday. She usually travels with a walker, but for this special day dad thought it would be easier with a wheelchair. And now abbys family has have a freeze frame from a moment social media wont let them forget. Just take that brief second face, and just say, hey, whats your name. I thought that was pretty cool. He didnt have to do it. Vanessa abby attends weekly physical therapy sessions at black childrens hospital. Blank partners with isu for the kid captain program, where a special kid gets to act as a team captain during a home game. By the way, abbys dad tells us that her brother, who is also seven years old, is getting jealous over all the attention shes receiving. Live in ames, vanessa peng, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Steve also new at 6 00, some meredith middle and des Moines Hoover high School Students got a handson demonstration at what could be the future on driving. The university of iowa brought over its semiautomated research vehicle. The car has the ability to do some emergency maneuvers like automated braking, if the car needs to make a sudden stop. Stacey that is pretty cool, but it takes a win the fun driving. Kurtis it is fun to engage think years. Although if you saw some of the teenagers at my house drive you would want that. Look at this absolutely gorgeous shot from big creek marina. Full skinning out and enjoying the still waters. Temperature, 65 degrees. Northnorthwest winds at seven miles per hour. Temperatures in the mid60s. 11 00 p. M. , 58 degrees. I think we can see a few light showers and sprinkles. We were back up into the 60s, a little bit above where we should be at this time of year. Temperature at noon, 55. We did have that morning rainfall. Nevada, 1800s. Right now, you can see this little precipitation in southwestern iowa. That rain chances not going to about to much out there. Should be drive for the game with a northwest wind. There is a bigger system spinning southwest from southern colorado. But in the High Temperature today. 70 in des moines, 80 in burlington. Mideighties in st. Louis and kansas city. That is trying to filter in behind the ridge of high pressure. That precipitation moving in on friday. For tonight, a couple of sprinkles possible late. I think southern iowa will have rain early friday morning and then we get another round of rain as we head into friday evening. A few showers late. North winds, 510. Sunshine north, clouds south. East winds at 515. Friday, a pretty good chance of rain. Right now, morning and early evening, kind of two rounds of rain. Temperature, 64 degrees. Sunday starts off the 40s but it will warm up to 65. More 60s early next week and then we cool down into the 50s. Steve you might say the chicago cubs have their backs against tony announcer from iowas sports leader, this is kcci 8 sports. Such an important historical landmark. Cubs win world series. Against miami . Who would have thought . 100 to one shot. Tony it was predicted back in 1989. In 2015, the cubs win the world series. And considering we are all moving around on hover boards and driving flying cars, we need to take back to the future 2 very seriously. So being down 3 games to 0 seems like a steep hill to climb but the cubbies hopefully have hollywood on their side tonight. Sports director andy garman drove our delorean east to chicago and he joins us live with more. Andy the nlcs, to this point, has felt more like groundhog day starting groundhog day starring bill murray. They are trailing the entire zero games to three. That is the series score right now. The mets have a chance to clinch. Joe maddon said there are no magic tricks or words, they just have to get out and play better. To stand up and give a speech, that have nothing to do with tomorrow at all. Our guys come prepared to play and i expect the same thing tomorrow. The mets pitched exceptionally well in you have to give them credit. Business as usual tomorrow and then take it from there. Andy the next certainly have played fantastic in this series. Tonight, the cubs will have to be a picture they have not faced this year. The amount to begin what they hope is a fourgame sweep. If they dont win tonight, the season comes to an end here in chicago. Live coverage coming up at 10 00. Im andy garman, kcci, iowas sports leader. Tony kansas city is a team that just flat out knows how to win. Yesterday they scored 14 runs, 14 runs. A win today would send them to the world series. But they ran into some trouble. Game five, Chris Mccullough bellow Chris Colabello says see ya finally this one, 71 blue jays. Isu has their hands full this weekend. They take on baylor, the topranked offense in the country. Saturday 11 00 a. M. The hawkeyes are undefeated and week. The republicans finally admit it. Republican Kevin Mccarthy saying. The Committee Investigating benghazi and clintons emails was created to destroy her candidacy. Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right . But we put together a Benghazi Special committee. What are her numbers today . Republicans have spent millions attacking hillary. Because shes fighting for everything they oppose. From Affordable Health care. To equal pay. Shell never stop fighting for you. And the republicans know it. Im Hillary Clinton and i approved this message. Welcome 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. Kurtis pretty nice night out there. Showers friday. Stacey back at 10 00. 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