Recently announced that hoverboards will no longer be allowed in residence halls, dining halls, and apartments on campus because of the fire risk. Today, i learned drake is considering a similar ban. The brightly colored, selfbalancing motorized scooters quickly became the hottest item on holiday wish lists. Theyre so popular a hoverboard store even opened at valley west mall. Its really fun. Its hard at first because youre like, i dont know what im doing. Kim drake student haley davis loves riding around the hoverboard her 10yearold brother got for christmas. But the futuristic scooters may become a thing of the past on college campuses. The university of iowa recently posted this warning on its website, telling students to leave their hoverboards at home because of a fire risk. I think they just got freaked out because they started having malfunctions with them. But i dont see anything wrong with them if you know that something bad could happen to kim drake students were surprised to learn their university is considering a similar ban. I mean, i can understand why universities would do it but i dont know that its all that serious. Kim the ban would forbid hoverboards in residence halls, dining halls, and campus apartments. There really doesnt seem to be a point to own one if you live on campus then. Kim haley says its a matter of doing your research. I feel like if you know what youre getting yourself into, youre not over charging the battery putting too much weight , on it when it has a weight limit that kinda thing is what , causes it to catch fire so i research you wont have much of a problem. Kim drake officials hope to make a final decision on whether to ban hoverboards by early february. In studio, kim st. Onge, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Steve Iowa State University says it does not have a policy on hoverboards. But that doesnt mean they may not have one in the near future. Pete englin, director of the isu department of residence says, says, given the risks being described in the media i think we could move that direction but we are not there yet. Stacey an update now on a developing story. The leader of the ymca of greater des moines is out. President and ceo Vernon Delpesce resigned this morning effective immediately. , delpesce oversaw the ys 11 branches in central iowa for 14 years. This comes after the wellmark y failed to raise funds for its stateoftheart, olympicsized swimming pool. Falling short 6 million to 9 million for the project. Top leaders tonight cite negative market conditions, like fundraising for the pool, as a reason for needing new leadership. Weve reaffirmed with our donors, weve reaffirmed with staff, and weve reaffirmed with our volunteers how important the years. So i feel confident that we are taking the necessary steps to take it forward. Stacey a Search Committee is were told that could take up to six months. Steve the Polk County Sheriff Office is looking for the driver who tried to entice a teenager into his suv. It happened this morning near the 7000 block of north east greater des moines softball complex. Driver of the suv asked the 16yearold girl if she wanted a ride. She said no and the suv drove off. But it circled around and drove back, right at the girl. The girl then ran to her aunts house. The suspect is described as a 40to50yearold adult male. He was diving a darkcolored suv. Stacey a missing newton girl has been found safe. 12yearold Charlene Brown disappeared from her foster home in Newton Christmas eve. Newton police say she was with her noncustodial biological mother misty shaver and shavers boyfriend kevin carlton. Back in december, investigators thought shaver and carlton may be taking brown to texas. But officers found all 3 at a rest stop near victor, east of newton. Webster county supervisors say the county auditor they tried to fire deleted computer files after she learned she was being supervisors fired Jeanette Thanupakorn during an october 27 meeting. She was later reinstated and placed on paid administrative leave, pending a hearing. Stacey county Officials Say about 300 files were deleted. Steve the Madison County Sheriffs Office is looking into how an inmate in their custody died. Deputies found 33yearold Joshua Lee Barker yesterday unresponsive in his cell. , he was immediately taken to the Madison County hospital where he was pronounced dead. The Iowa Division of criminal investigation is now investigating. But foul play is not suspected. Stacey the search is on for a former johnston man who vanished while on a hunting trip in rich hill, missouri. 29yearold adam nixson now lives in pleasant hill, missouri. Nixson went duck hunting in the area december 27. His overturned boat and hunting dog were found near a tree line, but no sign of nixson. His family here in in central iowa has been keeping in touch with searchers who been using k9 units and sonar to find nixson. Steve the Des Moines Police say that a driver who ran a caused a crash this morning on the southside. Investigators tell us the driver of an suv ran the light at southwest 9th and mckinley, hitting a car. The diver of the car suffered nonlife threatening injuries. No one else was seriously hurt. Charges are pending. Stacey the bad news is you didnt win the Powerball Jackpot last night. But youre not alone. Nobody bought a Winning Ticket for wednesday nights 500 million drawing. Now, the jackpot for saturdays drawing is 700 million. And expected to climb higher , before the drawing saturday night. By the way those winning numbers were 2, 11, 47, 62 and 63, and the powerball was 17. The iowa lottery has this advice for people playing powerball when the jackpot gets so large. If you want a chance at saturdays drawing, you must buy your ticket before 8 59 saturday night. Any ticket bought after that will be for next wednesdays drawing. If you buy tickets with a group in writing and provide everyone in the pool a copy of the tickets bought for that pool. Steve wall street continues to fall. The dow jones, the nasdaq, and the s p 500 were all down again today. Stock analysts say the drop is not due to economic problems in the united states. Its in fact due to fears that chinas economy has started to seriously slow down. The tumbling stocks are now setting records. The dow has had its worst start to a year in a quarter century. Theres no need to panic, but kurt pearson of compass financial says it is time to take a good hard look at your investments, to find out how exposed they are to volatility in the u. S. And international markets. Everything works in a cycle. So the stock market has had several years that have been positive. We havent had significant volatility for quite a while and so now, to experience 3, 4, 500 point moves in one day is pretty significant and that leaves every investor on edge. Steve pearson also says theres a lot of fear right now, but we may just wade right through it, if 4thquarter corporate earnings come in better than expected. There is one good side to the dropping markets. A good thing for drivers. The price of oil sank to its lowest level today in 12 years. The Falling Oil Prices are causing a dramatic dip in gas prices. A gallon of gasoline is now selling for 1. 83. Many Energy Analysts say gas prices could sag even lower. Stacey nexstar announces its buying up media general. A move that may leave des moinesbased Meredith Corporation out in the cold. Last year, media general announced plans to merge with meredith. But nexstar said its deal would be better for media general stock holders. Variety reports that meredith hasnt given up on the original media general deal, offering more money to media general shareholders. Cuttingedge technology will be used this year to track who wins the republican and democratic parties have teamed up with microsoft to create what they say is the most accurate way to tally votes through smartphones at each precinct. Thats so they wont repeat mistakes made 4 years ago, when mitt romney was first announced the winner, only to later learn Rick Santorum won by just 34 votes. When i walk out on that stage in the media center and declared the winner of the iowa caucuses, the republican winner of the iowa caucuses, i need to make sure that all those results are there find and they are absolutely as accurate as human beings can make them. Stacey the campaigns will also use a secondary system to verify the voting in a tight race. Steve from that kind of hightech to the lowest tech. Straight ahead, how a local rodeo used a bull, and bull stuff, to pick a president. Mark clinton pairing her with bill , cosby, president clinton is inonks ] okay, this is u. S. Cellular, and this is verizon. Now, same phones, but with u. S. Cellular you get 6 gigs of 4g data for only 40 per month 20 less than verizon. Like out here, here, and here. So, with all of that, why would you ever go to verizon . Switch to u. S. Cellular now and get 6 gigs of data for just 40 a month plus get 300 back. Announcer this is iowas news leader. This is kcci 8 news at 6 00 with steve karlin, stacey horst, chief meteorologist john andy garman. She never touched anything. Make better. Shes the best changemaker i ve i ever saw. Stacey Hillary Clintons biggest supporter visited iowa today as one of her biggest opponents unleashed another attack. Former president bill clinton appeared in dubuque and cedar rapids today. Steve while donald trump released a social media video featuring Hillary Clinton alongside bill cosby. Mark tauscheck here with the details. Mark president clinton stayed above the fray, focusing on his wifes abilities and avoiding opportunities to engage the leader in the republican polls. Before his appearance at a town hall style meeting with Hillary Clinton supporters today in cedar rapids, president bill clinton made an appearance before a startled lunch crowd at the newbo city market. He spoke with several people and took pictures, but took a pass when asked by a reporter about his wifes republican rival i have no interest in getting involved in their politics or doing anything other than trying to help hillary. Mark on his instagram account, trump released a new video pairing hillary with some very unpopular figures in politics and pop culture. Ms. Clinton lets keep fighting for opportunity and dignity. Mr. Clinton video16 45its harder to sideswipe someone with a 30 second ad in iowa. Mark the closest clinton came to a shot back at the Trump Campaign may have been this comment. Effectiveness of a president is often determined by how well suited they are by experience and temperament. Mark but during his 45 minute talk, he focused on the social wifes works outside the in underprivledged segments of mr. Clinton i do not believe in president that was more prepared , not only by experience, but by temperament, to step into this peril. Ever. I dont think it is close. Mark on fighting terrorism, president clinton spoke about the need to knit the country back together, saying well never do it without the help of peaceloving, americaloving muslims. Live in studio, mount tauscheck mark tauscheck, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Steve the Worlds Toughest rodeo at wells fargo arena, is taking a decidedly lowtech approach to select a president. He is decked out in his red. Both of these bowls really embracing the americana of this whole deal. Steve the 2 bulls, midnight and oley, were all in, making their selections with their own selfcreated chip ballots. Midnight, the republican bull, picked donald trump. Was, shall we say, undecided. His opinion is still a little liquid, and after an hour, he did not cast a solid ballot. Stacey kurtis, i dont know if i have any words. Kurtis how about that weather out there . Rate moving through, fog across the region. There is some snow flying. These winds at eight. Humidity, 89 . But in the rain, waterloo back through ames. Here is the movement. Some light snow falling off to the northwest. Rainy north of i35 down to the south. It has been transitioning back and forth in carroll county. This area in blue is just some very light rain. Most locations above freezing except for storm lake. Generally wet roadways for the overnight hours. 7 00 p. M. , mid 30s. 34 degrees at 7 00 a. M. I think a little more snow up in northern iowa. Notice, from now through tomorrow afternoon, we are above freezing. Rain flying across central iowa. There is that little band of snow that expand that extends back into nebraska. This is going to move north and northeast, not really dragging any colder air. That is why most of it will stay in the form of rain. Some cold air to the northwest that will stay there until this lobos far enough to the north. Then well start to see those winds shift. Rain tomorrow morning. Some light snow northwest. Heres comes moving into the evening hour. Most and saying to the north. Light snow showers on saturday through the morning midday, and by saturday evening, drive with a whole lot colder air moving in. There will be a band of anywhere from 24, maybe a little boring northwestern iowa. A dance next to that of a band next to that of 13. Rainfall we have already had about 18 hundredths of an inch. Tonight, that low down to 34. Fog could be a problem again. Tomorrow, 37. The rain wont change over to snow until very late. Saturday, blowing snow. Sunday, wind chills 1020 degrees below zero. It is going to be had arctic blast. We stay dry next week with a little moderation in temperatures late in the week. Stacey ok, andy garman. Andy i want to go back to the rose bowl after that. The hawkeyes have some soulsearching to do after the cyclones america is not just electing a president , were also electing a commander in chief. That choice matters. Because strengthening the economy, making healthcare more affordable, raising incomes. All of that depends on us being both secure at home and leading the world. I will get up every single day and do whatever it takes to make sure our country is safe and strong. Marco rubio thinks its unfair to criticize him for missing votes. But i am going to miss votes, im running for president. But hes been missing votes for a long time. One third of all of his missed votes in 2015 were missed before he announced he was running for president. Over the last three years, marco rubio has missed more votes. Than any other senator. Doesnt show up for work, but wants a promotion . Right to rise usa is responsible for the content of this message. Announcer from iowas sports leader, this is kcci 8 sports. Andy it has become an annual tradition. The post bowl game press conference. Kirk ferentz met the media in iowa city putting a bow on a , terrific regular season. And a rough postseason. The rose bowl was not only iowas 2nd loss in a row this year, it was the 4th straight stumble in a bowl game. There are lots of things to work out this spring but the head , hawk says he is thankful for the gigantic level of support this team has received from the hawkeye faithful. The turnout in indianapolis was unbelievable. A great environment. So good to be part of that. Again, the turnout or fans is legendary. Again, on behalf of our program, i just want to let our fans know how much we appreciate all they do in support of our program. Andy onto basketball. In the last 75 mens basketball games at hilton coliseum, the cyclones are 705. Some have been easier than others. Last night was certainly a tougher challenge than many had hoped for but isu pulled away in , the final minutes to beat texas tech 7669. Jameel mckay was clutch at the free throw line, hitting 9 of 11 from the stripe. Matt thomas led the way with 22 points. He also had one important assist. Matt told me this about a week or so ago, to just go to the line and think about making it. Dont think about trying not to miss. I have been doing that and it works. A week or so. Right when he started making. Andy thomas, k, and the rest of the cyclones host baylor on saturday as 2 00. Womens basketball getting underway in ann arbor. We will get you an update tonight at 10 00. The broncos are turning back to the old man for the playoffs. Peyton manning will be the starting quarterback with denver in the postseason. Gary kubiak told his team today that manning will be the starter, replacing brock also weiler. Manning missed seven starts with a left foot injury. The broncos went 72 with manning, 52 under osweiler. Nfl playoffs begin this weekend u got people working incredibly long hours. Median Family Income today 4,000 less than it was in 1999. The bottom line of this economy is that it is rigged. What this campaign is about is to demand that we create an economy that works for all of us rather than a handful of billionaires. If you work 40 hours a week in america, you should not live in poverty. Kurtis cold rain falling here, snow to the north. Steve [ horn honks ] okay, this is u. S. Cellular, and this is verizon. Now, same phones, but with u. S. Cellular you get 6 gigs of 4g data for only 40 per month 20 less than verizon. And u. S. Cellulars network was built to work in places like out here, here, and here. 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