Marcus according to the Police Report from the easton blvd burglary, three suspects were black males dressed in dark blue hooded sweatshirt and sweat pants and wearing gloves. The burglary of the pharmacies netted bottles of oxymorphone, morphine, hydrocodone, oxycodone and oxycontin. ,police tell us the suspects took the drugs that are in demand and knew what they were looking for. Nothing else was taken. Kevin it a des moines mom has received her sentence in the Drug Overdose death of her 5yearold daughter. As part of a plea bargain, tionne bloodsaw will serve a maximum of forty years in prison, pleading guilty to child endangerment resulting in serious injury, manufacturing of a controlled substance, and two counts of neglect of a dependent person. In october 2014, bloodsaws 5yearold daughter jayda canada was found dead from an overdose of morphine inside her downtown apartment. What is it that you did that created a substantial risk to her physical, mental, or Emotional Health or safety . I acted or failed to act, which resulted in my daughter jayda ingesting morphine, which resulted in a serious injury. This is why had to go to polk county. Kevin bloodsaws boyfriend deshaun trombone has been sentenced to 65years in prison. Steve new information tonight in a shooting north of des moines. Polk county deputies today charged 25yearold maria eshom and 32yearold dewayne cole with a long list of charges. They include robbery, intimidation, drug possession, parole violation, and possession of a weapon by a felon. Polk county investigations say the pair got into an argument with another group of people on october 22. They then fired shots into the victims car. Polk county investigators are still looking for information in in a deadly weekend shooting at a nightclub north of des moines. Gunshots were fired during a fight outside evolution nightclub on sunday morning, killing 20yearold dashawn smith. 3 other people were wounded. Investigators have not released any information on a possible suspect. Is asked to call polk county crimestoppers at 5152231400. Kevin was a des moines teenager legally insane when he brutally beat his elderly neighbors . Testimony resumes tomorrow in the first degree murder trial of ngor makuey. He was 19yearsold when Des Moines Police say he broke into 97yearold robert andersons home and beat him to death. Makueys waved a jury trial. His case is being heard by a judge. Steve construction news on the Iowa Event Center hotel. It is scheduled to start in february. Project, located just south of 100 million the Iowa Events Center downtown, is expected to open for business in march of 2018. The Des Moines Council approved the plan just minutes ago which , will mean major redevelopment in the area in and around the events center. Right now, the Des Moines City Council is also set to approve a big Improvement Plan for walnut street. A streetscaping project will soon get underway on walnut downtown, from 2nd street to 10th street. Kccis Cynthia Fodor is there live with more. Cynthia . Cynthia steve, as you know this , is where the transit mall for des moines. Now, after years and years of moving forward with revitalizing walnut street. New businesses may soon find a new home downtown, near where Younkers Department store once now, the old shopping destination is a burned out shell. After the fire in march of last year, plans to renovate walnut street were put on hold. Not anymore. Now we have a plan in place, coming forward. All of those businesses along walnut are going to pick up 50 4. 5 million project. Cynthia Chris Hensley is excited, saying emc insurance took the lead for businesses to privately fund half of the project. It will be removal of existing walnut as we know it. There will be traffic, parking, some beautification. Cynthia phase one will replace the dark and outdated streetscape with new landscaping and lighting. The city will remove the bus shelters and resurface the roadway to create a unique pedestrian and bike friendly district that will look similar to this. This is the first step. I think it is no different if you look at what we did with the east village. We did a hardscape, did everything on the streetscape. Cynthia they then hope to attract new trendy shops and restaurants all along here. Get that real city feel, that would be good. I dont want to walk all the way to the east village to do some shopping. Downtown used to be a hotspot for that, i think it should be again, especially since we got all this residential coming in Cynthia Blackbird investments plans to restore the old tea room, build 60 apartments, an underground parking garage, and bring in retail shops on the ground floor. That is expected to spur more development on walnut street. Kevin we keep loving the forecasts as they come in. Kurtis it sure didnt turn out to be a nice one. It looks like tomorrow could be more of the same. We are cooling off. 53 in des moines, 45 in ames. Knoxville at 52. Ottumwa i44. Warmer to the west and northwest today. A shot coming in from our you local page. Tomorrow morning, sunshine early. By 3 00 p. M. , that temperature at 60 degrees. Average high this time of year is around 51. Rain on wednesday could be heavy. Some locations may squeeze out over an inch. Latest on that coming up with your eight day forecast. Steve governor branstad says he has no plans to delay his proposal to begin allowing private Companies Manage iowa medicaid system. Speaking this morning during his press conference branstad said , his administration has been working on this transition since january. Several key iowa senators have requested a delay, but branstad says the transition will take place over a period of years. Kevin crews unloading truckloads of equipment at Drake University this week. Generators and technical equiptment as well as materials for a stage at sheslow democratic president ial debate. Hillary clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin Omalley will all be in des moines for the event. It is cohosted by cbs, kcci, and the des moines register. The debate starts at 8 00 channel 8. Steve university of missouri resigned. The announcement comes after protests over racial tensions at closer to home, the leaders of iowa state universitys black Student Organization say they are keeping a close eye on whats happening in missouri. The call for wolfe to stepdown started when a black graduate student went on Hunger Strike claiming wolfe didnt do enough , to address racism on campus. A week later, 30 black mizzou Football Players said they would boycott all team activities, including this weekends game with byu, until wolfe resigned. They really wrote the blueprint, so if anything of that nature at all were to personally would like to get involved with that. I mean, the Hunger Strike first and then also getting the athletes in. Steve members of the black Student Organization say, Race Relations at isu are nothing like they are at mizzou, but there is still work to be done. Kevin the longtime head of the boone and Scenic Valley Railroad has passed away. 71yearold Fenner Stevenson was also involved with boones annual Pufferbilly Days for more than 3 decades. And, he served as a boone city councilman. Funeral services for Fenner Stevenson are pending. Steve riding high after shutting out texas, oklahoma brought iowa state down to earth saturday, with a thud. Straight ahead, how the cyclones hope to bounceback against an undefeated oklahoma state. Plus, the Iowa National guard says something is missing. What they plan to do to improve their ranks. Kevin and see what cost him his this is iowa. On average, women need to work an extra two hours each day, to earn the same paycheck as their male coworkers. Join the fight for equal pay. Join the fight for sara and women everywhere. 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. Steve its pretty common for iowa farmers to spend 6 to 8 weeks on a tractor, nearly nonstop, during harvest season. Kevin after that long, most want to leave the fields behind. But in sac county, one guys soaking up every second this fall because he almost didnt live to see it. Eric hansons this is iowa introduces us to the farmer whos grateful just to be back in the cab. Their job. Theyll swear, its in their blood. Oh yeah. Been there all the time. Eric rick meister cant wait to get in the tractor seat when iowas countryside turns yellow and brown. You work all year for this. But last october, he was in his eric but last october, he was in his combine when one of those perfect days turned tragic. The head plugged and i went out and i left the darn thing running. Eric it was almost suppertime. I was about done and i got know where the rows go in, they grabbed my left hand leg. I had to hold myself out, otherwise i would have gone all the way through the combine. Eric there he laid, suddenly with no legs. At first, i thought only one was in the corn head, but it was both of them. Eric ricks son found him. I remember everything until they loaded me on the life flight. Eric the average man has only 10 to 12 pints of blood in their body. I lost 8 pints of blood. Eric but the little that remained, pumped with that same purpose. Yep, that night. It was, i said were going to do this. And were going to conquer this. Eric 12 months later, he did, when his sons helped him back in the cab. I wanted to conquer that. I didnt want that to defeat me. Eric most tractors already have hand controls. The rest have been jerryrigged. But the 55yearold who still has therapy three times a week, has set his ultimate goal. I want to get in and out of the tractor by myself, eric. Eric even with his new prosthetics, some would consider that nearly impossible. But remember, this is a guy who was pulled into a combine only to climb back in the driver seat. Still part of the farm. And thats what i wanted to be. I didnt want to sit over here. I couldve done that. I still could do that, but i dont want to do that. Eric because, its in, his blood. Im glad to be here. Lucky. Eric rick says being out on the farm with his sons and his dad is the best therapy. Eric hanson, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Kevin while were on the topic iowas harvest is almost , complete. The usda says 93 of iowa corn has been harvested. 98 of the being crop is in. Thats about one week ahead of an update on the size of the harvest comes out tomorrow. Steve meteorologist kurtis weather has a little bit to do with the harvest. Nice are getting chris. Humidity just 39 . Clear skies at 7 00 p. M. Down into the 40s by 10 00 p. M. Sunshine early, clouds will fill in as the day goes along. 57 at noon. By 3 00 p. M. , i think well crews out to around 60 degrees. Highs warmer to the west and northwest. Mason city, 61. Clear skies out there tonight. There are a few clouds started to drift into south dakota. The main system well to the west but we will see a couple of these clouds as we slide into our tuesday. Going to be another nice one. The first alone moose up into canada. The main area will be spending over in colorado and that looks headed our way on wednesday. Tonight, clear skies out and about. Starting the day with sunshine. Wednesday morning, this precipitation looks to be generally light. Sprinkles, showers, light drizzle. These will be thunderstorms as we head into wednesday afternoon. We get some wraparound precipitation. Half. We have some strong winds as we move into thursday. Including the metro in a slight risk. This area in orange, and enhanced risk. Down to 38 degrees. South winds, 510. Tomorrow, winds out of the depending on how thick the clouds get, that will affect your high temperature. Wednesday, temperature also around 60. Most computer models bring in about 6 10 to an inch of rain in the metro. On thursday, a whole lot of win. Gusts can top out at about 48 miles per hour. Friday, saturday, and sunday with sunshine. Steve the Iowa National guard says it needs more women in its ranks. Tomorrow, Major General timothy orr will sign a pledge to work harder to recruit and keep more female guard members. General orr says female roles in the military are expanding. Case in point, the army recently decided to open Field Artillery jobs to women. When we sit down with our new with our future recruits, were now able to open the whole book up and be able to show them steve general orr says 18 of iowas air national guard, and 15 of iowas Army National guard, are female. Orr says he would like to double those numbers. Kevin leading up to democratic debate saturday in des moines , kcci 8 news have a special threepart report that looks at the issues the candidates will likely cover. First up, the minimumwage. Todd magel has been talking with Bernie Sanders the head of the , Iowa Federation of labor, and announcer from iowas sports leader, this is kcci 8 sports. Andy Georges Niang has been one of the best players in the big 12 since he arrived in ames. And now, National Recognition for isus senior leader. Niang today named ap firstteam. Hes been one of the toughest players to guard in college basketball. An undersized forward with a myriad of post moves, coupled with a point guards handles. He is a handful. It is one of the top five players going into the season. Three seniors including buddy hield from oklahoma, kris dunn, and ben sirmans. On the football. Oklahoma state put themselves on the national map by trouncing tcu last weekend. Now the top 5 team is coming to ames to face iowa state. Can the cyclones pull off a major upset . Tony seeman says just turn the clock back 4 years. Tony lets take a little trip down memory lane. In 2011, jeff woody barreled into the end zone to give iowa state in overtime victory against undefeated oklahoma state. The thing is, a lot of the players of this years iowa state roster were even in college yet, but i still remember that moment. I was at a friends house. I remember, we were watching twilight. Tony no matter what they were doing, every cycle remembers 2011. Ariba watching from the sideline, this is amazing. I wish i was out there. Story. Ok state comes to town undefeated as one of the top teams in the country. There are similarities, with the date of the game, with their highranking, and the playoffs team. Tony iowa state hopes to repeat history and keep their postseason alive. We are also playing for something. Kcci, iowas sports leader. Andy that game kicks saturday afternoon at 2 30 live on espn. Iowa state game the following week will be at 11 00 a. M. Live on fox sports 1. If a big ten othe son of a polish immigrant who grew up in a brooklyn tenement. He went to public schools, then college, where the work of his life began fighting injustice and inequality, speaking truth to power. He moved to vermont, won election and praise as one of americas best mayors. In congress, he stood up for working families and for principle, opposing the iraq war, supporting veterans. 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