Close knit family. As you can imagine, this is a very difficult time for our family. Laura wednesday, his parents dan and wanda, decided to hold a , press conference inside Mercy Medical center to tell drews story. Such a tragic thing. I would just hate for another family to experience this. Laura they say drew was a quiet kid who never told them anything was wrong. But they found this excerpt in his prayer journal, written shortly before his death. What can i learn through my loneliness . Am i to find fellowship with others or remain alone . Laura drews parents believe his decision to take his life was an impulsive one, in a time when many teens feel hopeless. The brain is not developed yet, unfortunately, which leads to impulsivity and rash decisions. Other kids to know that asking for help is not a sign of weakness. You have got to grab hold of somebody, your parents especially. They are the ones who love you the most. Laura s parents take comfort knowing many of his organs will some of the 600 people on iowa waiting lists for transplants. But the lienemanns hope talking about this will make suicide less taboo and getting help much easier. Seeking help is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength. Laura statistics show suicide is the second leading cause of death for iowa youth. Doctors say there are signs you can look for in your teenagers. That includes things like changes in eating or sleeping habits as well as dramatic mood changes. Stacey . Stacey only on kcci, family members of Mevlida Dzananovic are speaking out. Former Des Moines Police officer Merced Dautovic killed the in april. Kccis ryan smith has the emotional story from urbandale. Ryan it has been 9 months since police found mevlidas body garage behind me here at an urbandale apartment complex. Members tell me theyve done everything they can to keep her memory alive by moving forward, raising her 6yearold son. My heart was pounding the fastest its ever pounded. Ryan merso jusic took us back to the moment he arrived on scene that rainy april morning. I didnt hear anything around me, i didnt see anything around me. It was just kind of a black out. Ryan praying the body inside was not his sister. The loss felt greatest by her son, eso. He lost his everything. She was his absolute everything. Ryan merso says mevlida worked tirelessly to obtain u. S. Citizenship for her son. Giving him a better life far away from the conflict ripping apart their native bosnia. She wanted him to have the american dream. She wanted him to go to college here. Would do anything to have. Ryan family members still cant believe mevlida was killed by a man who once swore to protect and serve as a Des Moines Police officer. Records show Merced Dautovic was arrested for Domestic Assault against mevlida, hitting her in the mouth, grabbing and twisting her hand and fingers. I think we deserve justice. Ryan merso claims his sister sought protective help from police just weeks before she was killed. My sister was very worried, you know, she had said to the detective, hes going to kill me, he has people, you dont know what hes capable of doing. Ryan the focus now moving forward for mevlidas family is getting esos biological father here to the states through u. S. Citizenship from bosnia, so the 6yearold can grow up with at least one parent. In urbandale, ryan smith, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Mark commitment 2016. New gop poll numbers put ted here in iowa. The bloomberg Des Moines Register poll has senator cruz with 25 support. Donald trump close behind with 22 . Senator marco rubio in 3rd with 12 . Dr. Ben carson at 11 . Everyone else is in single digits. Senator rand paul garnered 5 support in that poll. Hes using it as fuel to fight for a spot on the main debate stage tomorrow night in south carolina. The Fox Business Network did not include paul because he wasnt in the top 5 in an average of recent polls in iowa and new hampshire. But hes 5th in the new poll. He argues the poll was conducted before the deadline. Paul refuses to participate in the secondtier debate. You can catch the debate tomorrow night starting at 8 00 p. M. Central, Fox Business Network is on mediacom channel 248. He would force sexual intercourse with me. Stacey more than 2 days of testimony in the joe lopez murder trial thrown out. Misstrial after the victims mother, nisa alvarez, makes shocking new sex abuse allegations against lopez on the stand. Prosecutors say lopez murdered 20monthold ruby alvarez in 2014. Lopez says the child died after falling out of her high chair. A new trial is tentatively set for may. A look at the major issues in iowas courtrooms today. Chief justice of the Iowa Supreme Court mark cady delivered his state of the judiciary address. Cady called for efforts to protect children in juvenile courts, to end Racial Disparities by training judges to recognize biases, and for more resources to fight human trafficking. Mark right now new york city , police combing through Video Evidence on cellphones taken from five teenagers suspected of gang raping an 18yearold woman. The search comes after Defense Attorneys revealed a video clip they say shows a partially undressed woman smiling and laughing during her nighttime encounter with the teens in a public park. Police say the woman was tonight. The city now asking a federal judge to lift a protective order. And allow the release of video showing a white Police Officer fatally shooting a black suspect city attorneys previously 2013. Opposed the release of the video. Protests erupted in the city last november when officials released another video of a black teen. Stacey we enjoyed a welcome warmup. We found folks out enjoying the weather tonight at brenton skating plaza downtown. Runners were embracing it too, bundled up for an evening jog after work. Kurtis, it is only going to get better tomorrow, right . Kurtis 40 degrees today and it feels so good. After that goes along, we will we will break free to sunshine. A few slick spots. By noon, 40 degrees. 3 00 p. M. Temperature, 45. Across the state, highway 20 north, you will see temperatures in the 30s. Mid to upper 40s down to the south. Kansas city tomorrow, 53. Enjoy the thought if you like mild wintertime readings. Friday, 29. Sunday, a high of just five. A little bit of moderation next week. Chances for snow coming up in your 8 day forecast. Mark next at 10 00 spur of the , moment shooting. New details from the man taking responsibility for the attack on a Colorado Planned Parenthood. Stacey most wanted man, most wanted shirt. The l. A. Business cashing in on el chapo. Mark stay away from the spuds. Why some women might want to avoid potatoes. Here are tonights winning shes always stood strong. To get the job done. Hillary clinton. She stood up to china. And spoke out on womens rights. Went toe to toe with russia on human rights. The drug and Insurance Companies spent millions against her. But hillary didnt quit until eight million children got health care. And i wont quit on you. Shes got what it takes to do the toughest job in the world. Marco rubio. He ran for senate saying he opposed amnesty. Then he flipped, and worked with liberal Chuck Schumer to coauthor the path to citizenship bill. He threatened to vote against it. And then voted for it. He supported his own dream act and then he abandoned it. Marco rubio. Just another washington politician you cant trust. Jeb bush. Hes a leader, so you always know where he stands. Right to rise usa announcer this is iowas news leader. This is kcci 8 news at 10 00 with steve karlin, stacey horst, chief meteorologist john mclaughlin, and sports director andy garman. Mark in case you missed the drawing a couple of minutes ago, these are the winning numbers in tonights 1. 5 billion jackpot. 8, 27, 34, 4, 19, with a powerball of 10. Spur of the moment. New at 10 00 tonight thats what , the Colorado Planned Parenthood shooter says about his decision to act on that day. Robert lewis dear admits to killing 3 people back in november. 9 others were injured. Dear says he believes fbi agents were following him that morning, he thinks they tipped off employees he was headed to the clinic. A judge ordered dear to undergo a Mental Health exam. Came out to see president obama at the university of nebraskaomaha today. He reprised many of the themes from his state of the union address. He says he wants to focus on the economy in his final year in office. Pres. Obama in this new economy, i believe, workers, start ups, small business, they need more of a voice more of a say, not less. The rules should work for working americans, and im going to spend some of the time this year lifting up a lot of companies who figured out if they pay good wages, provide good benefits, treat their customers well, are environmentally responsible. Stacey First Lady Michelle Obama may have stolen the show from the president during last nights state of the union address. The dress she wore sold out online before the president even finished speaking. Neimenmarcus. Com was selling it was originally Available Online for 628. Talk about popular clothes. A lost angelesarea company barabas is cashing in on the fashion of drug kingpin el chapo. They say he was wearing two of their shirts in the recentlypublished Rolling Stone article written by actor sean penn. They say the shirt selling for 128 and is flying out of the store. El chapo was captured january 8. Mark chipotle hoping to close the door on its ecoli crisis. The companys ceo saying tonight hes confident the cdc will soon declare the outbreak is over. It began in october and infected dozens of people in 9 u. S. States. Chipotle says its taking additional measures to make sure all of its food is safe. A new connection between potatoes and diabetes. A new study says women who eat more potatoes before they get pregnant may have a higher risk of gestational diabetes. Researchers from the National Institutes of health looked at data on more than 15,000 women. Vegetables and whole grains for those potatoes instead. Stacey you may remember the video from earlier in the week out of upstate new york, the car completely enclosed in ice. They chipped off and melted enough that ice to drag the car onto a tow truck. As you can see, it still wasnt easy. The car was parked along the lake erie waterfront. Mark easy for us a laugh now with 45 degrees staring us in the face. Kurtis what make wasnt . Was it . I dont want to pick it up at the auto auction. Mark im told it was mitsubishi. Kurtis we have temperatures in the 30s. We are going to drop below freezing, so we will get some selfsouthwest winds at six. We hit 40 degrees today. 20 in waterloo. A total at 30. Many locations down below freezing. 6 00 a. M. , some patchy fog. Southwest winds at 9 00 a. M. By noon, 40 degrees. Sun comes up tomorrow at 7 39. Temperatures in the afternoon cruising up into the mid40s. By 6 00, dipping down into the upper 30s. A few clouds will start to roll in. A little bit of snow upstream, but that is not headed our way in the near term. 50s across missouri. Upper 50s as you head out to kansas. This system will drive our way. Tomorrow and that is why we will warm on up. There is a reinforcing shot even colder air to the north that will slide in midway through the weekend. You can see the clouds sliding out. Sunshine across the state. It looks like as we head into late tuesday night or early friday morning, we will see a chance for a few snow showers that move through. Then the clouds hang around on friday. Saturday, partly sunny skies. A light dusting of snow possible, that would be about it. Temperatures tonight down around 29 degrees. Not as crisp as the past couple of nights. Some fog early tomorrow and then mostly sunny. Friday, snow chance would be early. Saturday, any snow chance would be late. Cold winds blowing both friday into saturday. 1530 degrees below zero. A little bit of improvement next week, but still below zero early monday. They need your 30 next wednesday. Maybe near 30 next wednesday. Stacey next at disneys the 10, newsies is here in des moines. Steve berry in next with a review. If youre billion dollars trees dont pan out, you can lucky cordes most nurses are tough. Theyre problemsolvers. They like making things better. People dont have access to healthcare because they just cant afford it. Bernie sanders understands how pharmaceutical companies and Major Medical companies are ripping us off. Bernie tells the truth, and hes been consistent. He understands that the system is rigged, and hes the only one who can bring real change. Theres change coming once and for all. Stacey its the newsies. The tonyaward winning musical taking center stage at the civic center right now. Mark it brings the newsboy strike of 1899 to life. Steve berry joins us tonight with a review. Steve, did it live up to your expectations . Steve b newsies hit des moines last night like a major news story hot off the press. Winner of two tony awards for best choreography and musical rousing, highenergy show to a full house of enthusiastic civic center guests. Set in 1899 new york city, newsies tells the story of jack, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a ragged band of teenage newspaper carriers, who dreams only of a better life far from the hardships of the streets. But when publishing magnates Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph hearst raise distribution prices at the newsboys expense, jack rallies the newsies from across the city to strike for what is right. Its no surprise that newsies won a tony for best choreography. The entire cast taps, high kicks and flips their way through both , acts with enough energy to leave even the audience exhausted. Add to that the beautiful musical score, deftly handled by rich and powerful voices, along with a story that includes politics, power, history, and a little romance and youve got a story that is sure to make front its interesting to note that newsies is inspired by the reallife newsboy strike of 1899 , when newsboy kid blink led a band of orphan and runaway newsies on a twoweeklong action against pulitzer and other powerful newspaper publishers. You have got to get your tickets soon. Last nights ground was pretty big and it only runs through sunday night. Stacey onks ] 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. 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. Lets not overthink this. donkey sound elephant sound theres a big difference between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound when it comes to Social Security, we need more than lip service. Our next president needs a real plan to keep Social Security strong. elephant noise hey candidates. Enough talk. Give us a plan. Announcer from iowas sports leader, this is kcci 8 sports. Andy a lot of questions and not a ton of answers right now revolving around the cyclones basketball team, 18 that was ranked number two in the country in the coaches poll just a month ago, but which now has stumbled to a 13 start in conference play. One third of those losses in overtime. Short coming in texas last night. Steve prohm the steve prohms the defensive and. They have to figure out a way to get things dialed in in a hurry. Youre playing the best teams in the country. I know we have a great coach, great guys in our room. Were going to fight. We have winners in this locker room so we are going to find a way to get it done. I would rather you beat me up then my players. But we are going to get to the right place, i know that. Andy what a gauntlet that stands in front of the cyclones. This weekend, at case states, then home at kstate, then home for oklahoma, against tcu and back at kansas. Northern iowas hoops team is up and down like a yoyo. Tonight, on the road. Indiana state squad looking for a big win. Then its cook inside bennett cook inside. A 12 point lead with 6. 5 minutes to go in the first half. Then, they got their doors blown off. Indiana state outscored the panthers from that point by 26 points. They pull a way to win. Final score, 7450. Good night for lisa bluders team. The hawkeyes beat wisconsin in madtown. Whitney jennings added 11 for the hawkeyes. Good news for big 12 football fans. The league now has the opportunity to host the big 12 football championship game with just 10 teams. That was one of the announcements made today in the College Football voting. 10 team leagues across the games can have championship games. There is a caveat you have to play a full round robin scheduled to do that. Now, the big 12 will decide whether they are going to add a championship game. Certainly doesnt sway things one way or another. One thing it does do is likely slow down all of the talk about realignment and adding more teams. If the big 12 is forced to bring the two teams to get to 12, they little more, but a the butterburger is made of just three cuts of fresh midwest beef. Nothing more, nothing less. So we got the sirloin, the chuck and the plate. No fillers; thats it. All prized cuts, all wellmarbled for richness and flavor. This is where those three wonderful cuts of beef come together. You can just tell that blend is working in there. And we sear them, and that seals in the juices of the burger. It doesnt get any better than that. And thats the culvers butterburger. Mark lets take a look once again at the numbers of the night. 8, 27, 34, 4 19, powerball 10. The California Lottery is reporting a winning Powerball Ticket sold in chino hill anyone have relativess. Hills. Kurtis Beverly Hills is where i want to be. 40s tomorrow, beautiful sunshine. Then the transitional day friday. Cold for the weekend with below zero wind chills. Stacey coming up next on the late show, paul giamatti, guerrilla girls. Mark i just hope it was someone who needs it. Marco rubio. He ran for senate saying he opposed amnesty. Then he flipped, and worked with liberal Chuck Schumer to coauthor the path to citizenship bill. He threatened to vote against it. And then voted for it. He supported his own dream act and then he abandoned it. Marco rubio. Just another washington politician you cant trust. Jeb bush. Hes a leader, so you always know where he stands. Right to rise usa