Homicide investigation. Des Moines Police say one man might have answers about the deaths of two people. His connection to the home where the murders happened. And why authorities are also concerned about the welfare of a story county woman. Heating up. A new radio ad is taking aim at gop president ial hopeful ted cruz. What it says about his stance on Renewable Fuels. And the alliances it questions. Go hawks. How the Undefeated Football Team is preparing for the biggest game in hawkeyes history. From who hd iowas High Definition leader. This is the channel 13 news at nine on fox 17 two people were found dead inside a home monday now Police Believe they have found a man considered a person of interest in the case. Good evening. Im lynn melling. Thank you for joining us tonight. The man sought by police in connection with a des moines double homicide is believed to be in a standoff with Law Enforcement officials on a Dallas County highway. The Des Moines Register reports that Michael John Wanchanic is believed to be the driver of a vehicle that officers pursued for several miles along highway 141 this evening. Westbound traffic on the highway near perry was halted for hours while the standoff continued. We will bring you the latest as it becomes available. Part of the investigation into yesterdays double homicide has also extended into slater. Justin surrency has the story. P part of the investigation into yesterdays double homicide has also extended into slater. Justin surrency has the story. Solving des moines latest homicides could hinge on one man. We believe he has information that will be beneficial in understanding the motive and what happened in the assistance in finding him. 39 year old michael john wanchenic is believed to be a roommate of both 36 year old bryon howard and 31 year old Heather Belieau who were found dead monday afternoon inside a home at the 39 hundred block of center street. He may be driving a 2002 beige dodge grand caravan with the license plate of d mr 234 he was a resident there also, no relation to them but obviously he knew them. Also at the scene two small children. The 2 year old was moving around when we got there , the infant was crying but none were harmed. At the des Moines Police departments request, the Story County Sheriffs Office performed a wellfare check at the trailer home of peggy reed, wanchanics ex wife in slater. She was not found and they are concerned over her whereabouts. We are always looking for patterns and trends, things where we have to adjust our policing strategies. The 18th put des moines at a total not seen in nearly 20 years. The thing that is unique this year is that we have had several multiple homicides that obviously will raise that number quickly. The story county Sheriffs Department said it will keep checking the trailer home in slater for peggy reeds arrival. Michael wanchenics mother roseanne says she has not spoken to her son in over two years. Yesterday was the one Year Anniversary of his fathers death. Des Moines Police say they are closer to finding those responsible for a deadly shooting along court avenue early sunday morning. Police say the shooting followed a fight between two groups. 21yearold Edmanuel Perez died from his injuries. 23yearold Andrew Hurley boyd is remains hospitalized. Police say theyre interviewing several people who witnessed the shooting and are reviewing security video of the incident. The Iowa Division of criminal investigation is looking into the death of a Cerro Gordo County inmate. Just before seven this morning, a correctional officer an unresponsive male in his jail cell. The man was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Authorities have not yet released the mans name. A few flurries were flying in Downtown Des Moines this afternoon. But a warmup is on the way. Chief meteorologist ed wilson joins us with the latest on the forecast. Hi ed more cold air tonight and a gusty wind will make the wind chills drop to the teens. We will have a few leftover flurries tonight and early tomorrow morning. The rest of the week will be dry and warmer. Much warmer air is a Bipartisan Group is going after a Top Republican president ial candidate. It comes a day after a controversial move. That limits how much renewable fuel will go into the nations fuel supply. The Environmental Protection agncereleased its longawaited guidelines regarding Renewable Fuels yesterday. It dropped the requirement to 10 percent about 4billiongallons a year less than what Congress Mandated in 2007. Political director dave price shows us a new effort to make sure one president ial candidate knows the importance of Renewable Fuels while campaigning in iowa. We are still waiting on a response from cruzs campaign about the ads claims. Us senator joni ernst announced today that she has retired from the Iowa Army National guard. She served as a lieutenant colonel. And has been in the military for more than 23years. In 2003 she was deployed to iraq. Earlier this year she said she would retire to focus on her new role as senator and spend time with her family. The city of clive kicked off the Holiday Season this evening. 18 28 50 its just such a natural fit. Its such a Great Community activity. I think we have had the best attendance that we have ever had. 18 28 58 the cold didnt keep people away from the citys plaza lighting ceremony. Truck and enjoyed cookies and hot cocoa with children. The Historical Society hosted an open house. And the indian hills choir students sang christmas carols. Theres no doubt a hawkeyes logo will sneak its way into at least one holiday lights display thiis season. Coming up next. Big game. The biggest in hawkeyes football history. Is just days away. How the hawks are preparing. And celebrating an undefeateeeting of World Leaders in paris continues. The progress so far in talks about how to combat Climate Change. From who hd iowas High Definition leader. Youre watching the channel 13 news at nine on fox 17 its been her fight for twenty years. Something is wrong with our Healthcare System and it needs to be fixed. Then, it was about Health Reform and getting eight million kids covered. Obamacare, and taking on Insurance Companies to bring down drug prices. Im not going to let any family be deprived of healthcare. Im not going to let the republicans rip up obamacare and throw it away. Hawkeye fans are counting down to the weekend thats when theyll watch iowa take on Michigan State in the big ten championship in indianapolis. Its been a dream season for the hawkeyes. Who are now 12 and oh. One more win this saturday and kirk ferentz and the players talked about playing on the big stage in indianapolis. John sears has the story from iowa well have more on hawkeye football coming up in sports. Ed ad lib weather tease on set more cold air tonight and a gusty wind will make the wind chills drop to the teens. We will have a few leftover flurries tonight and early tomorrow morning. The rest of the week will be dry sandwiches breakfast pizza, yes pizza, that are all made fresh hot in our stores kitchens every day. Kum go. Where means more. Ad lib weather toss back coming up meet Sports Illustrateds sports kid of the year. But first dog park. No. Not a park for your dog to run and play. A place to park your do theyre popping up. And who stocks on wall street advanced on tuesday. The s p 500 gained 22 points. Closing above 2,100, its highest level in four weeks. The dow jumped 168 points. The nasdaq ended the day up 47 points. Dog owners in brooklyn have a new option when patronizing businesses that dont allow pets. Rather than tying their they can now use a device exclusively designed to keep them safe. Nia hamm explains the same way you can access a mailbox thats tied to the street why arent there temporary use dog kennels on the street. Wonder no more. At select locations in brooklyn, dog owners can now park their pups outside of businesses that prohibit pets. Dog parker cofounder Todd Schechter says dog safety was a big inspiration behind the invention. Dog theft. The dog running away, the dog getting anxious or getting into a fight with another dog on the street. So heres how it works. You have this membership card which you hold over the sensor until it turns green. Once it does that you can open it and close it like so. Inside is franklyn helping us with our demo here. And if you need to close it you just hold this membership card back over the sensor until it turns red and locks again. Shes a rescue dog, shes a bryn haffey says its about convenience for her. Run out, go for a walk do an errand and be able to put your dog in a little house thats safe. We asked a few dog owners in clinton hill what they think about it. It could be a convenience. It could be of some help at times. Id rather keep my dog parked at home than on the street. So far frankln and about fifty other member dogs are testing the product out. Theres still much more to come in the next halfhour. Just ahead countdown. It is the final month of the year. And before the clock ticks over to 2016. Congress has some work to do. The flurry in washington. And the biggest Sticking Point im keithcity in turmoil. The man in charge of the Chicago Police force is fired. Amid murder charges facing one of his why the mayor of chicago made the move. And why now. Day two. An historic meeting of World Leaders in paris continues. The progress so far in talks about how to combat Climate Change. Sports kid. A coveted title is handed out for 2015. Who made the cover. And why. From who hd iowas High Definition leader. This is the channel 13 news at nine on fox 17 just four days after saying mayor rahm emanuel had his back, chicagos top cop is out of a job tonight. Emanuel today caved to Massive Public pressure and fired his Police Superintendent over the killing of an africanamerican teen by a white officer. Mike tobin has the latest. Amid a firestorm of racial tension chicago mayor rahm emamuel demanded and received the resignation of the Police Superintendant he appointed garry mccarthy. However, emanuel never gave about what mccarthy had done to merit his firing. Emanuel says he has become an issue, rather than dealing with the issue, and a distraction. The ouster of mccarthy is not a suprise. In october, City Councils black caucus demanded his firing, in light of the gun violence which still plagues the south and west sides. That was before the impactful dashcam video was released as per a court order. The one that showed officer Jason Vandyke unload an entire clip into 17year old laquan mcdonald. Most of the shots after mcdonald was on the groundfirst degree murder charges against vand dyke were not enough to calm community anger. Demonstrators still took to the streets last week they called for the firing of mccarthy and others furious that the city held the video and van dyke did not face charges for more than a year. Brooks says those who are in office who failed to hold accountable those who are responsible for misconduct need to leave office. African american male 25year old Ronald Johnson has come forward. They want video released of his shooting 8 days before the mcdonald shooting. Their Attorney SaysChicago Police shot johnson in the back and planted a weapon on him. Johnson says he never had a weapon, the Police Department and the city are still covering this up. Illinois attorney general has now sent a letter to us attorney general loretta lynch, asking for a federal investigation into the patterns and practices of Chicago Police. Highlighting what she called, the use of unlawful and Excessive Force by Chicago Police, and a lack of accountability. As World Leaders discusses Climate Change in paris. Another major city is suffering through one of its worst smog attacks in years. Rick leventhal has the story. Beijing is a city under siege right now. The chinese capitol. Under attack by a thick smog. Pedestrians are wearing masks. And schools are keeping children indoors. Event is particularly bad because wind is blowing in pollution from coal fired plants outside the city liansai says and as we know,big provinces in coal burning are in the south, such as Hebei Province nd shandong province, and all these contributed to pollutants in beijing. One Performance Artist is using a vacuum cleaner to illustrate his point about the filthy air renzheng says what i do is Performance Art and it does not change anything immediately. It wont change the air pollution situation even if i bring 100 or 1000 people to suck the air with vacuum cleaners. The artist used the pollutants collected over the course of a month to create a brick. He hopes his art will encourage members of the public to leave their cars at home and take public transit. In paris. President obama is among the World Leaders calling for rapid change obama says if we let the world keep warming as fast as it is, and Sea Levels Rising as fast as they are and weather patterns shifting in more unexpected ways, then will have to devote more and more of our economic and our military resources, not to growing opportunity for our people, but to adapting to the various consequences of a changing planet. President obama is calling Climate Change an economic and security imperative that must be tackled now. The Climate Conference in paris runs until december eleventh. In new york, im rick leventhal, fox news. More airstrikes against isis targets in the middle east by a key nato ally. France says jets took off from a jordanian military base to destroy an ied factory between the iraq syria border as part of steppedup military operations against isis militants. Frances parliament voted last week to step up the strikes in the wake of the paris attacks. French president Francois Hollande has said that Ground Troops will not be used. In washington, members of congress are back from thanksgiving break. And already feeling the pressure. A flurry of pivotal bills are set to expire over the next few weeks. The transportation bill expires this friday. Exactly one week later. Lawmakers must decide whether to pass a onepointone trillion dollar. Both chambers claim to be working to avoid a potentially devastating Holiday Season government shutdown. But, one thing theyre clearly at odds over. Is if they should include the issue of Syrian Refugees within the spending bill. Mcconnell says the refugee issue is likely to be dealt with in some way in the omnibus. butted to reid says theres not a single one connected to terrorism. Its hard for me to comprehend that they are more concerned about these Syrian Refugees than things that are important. And, while the house has failed more than 50 times to repeal and, while the house has failed more than 50 times to repeal obamacare, thats not stopping Senate Republican leaders from moving ahead with a repeal package of their own. Saying theyre cautiously optimistic they have the 51 votes needed to pass it. Today marks a major milestone in the civil rights movement. On december first 1955, rosa the black seamstress refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in montgomery alabama. Parks was arrested. The incident sparked the yearlong boycott of the buses by blacks. In 1999, parks received the congressional medal of honor. The civil rights legend died six years later at the age of ninetytwo. Parks was the first woman to lie in state at the u. S. Capitol. A pennsylvania teen is in the spotlight for his abilities in the pool. Reece whitley a 15yearold swimmer has been named the sports kid of the year. And you can see his photo on the front cover of the Sports Illustrated kids magazine. Shawnette wilson has more on the star athlete. Whitley says i think its incredible. At just 15 years old. But standing 6 feet 8 inches tall. Reece whitley has landed a prestigious title 2015 sports kid of the year. And the cover of Sports Illustrated kids. Whitley says i think its the penn charter sophomore is a competitive and record breaking swimmer who has also made strides in basketball and baseball. And he mentors other young athletes. Hes says hes honored. Whitley says i am 68 and African American which is uncommon in swimming so i think those are other things that helped me to receive this award today because i know that there are so many other swimmers that could have received this award. But the road to Sports Illustrated kids isnt an easy one. Whitley says mon wed fri im in the weight room actually here at school at 6am. Ill go to school from 8oclock to about 3 oclock and then ill get in the pool at 6 and that ends at 830. Coach crystal coleman says what stands out about reece even more than his height is his love and dedication to the sport. Coleman says its a grueling sport and its not easy its not one of those sports where you can practice once a week and go to a game or go to a meet. Reece says he doesnt swimming past his mid 20s so school is important. Whitley says hopefully academics can take me somewhere outside of the pool but you know in the short term i think i could see myself possibly making World Championship or maybe get lucky and make an olympic team. Mom says whatever he does is enough for her. Reece has worked so hard and is so focused in and out of the pool that even if this hadnt happened im still an extremely proud mom. More cold air tonight and a gusty wind will make the wind chills drop to the teens. We will have a few leftover flurries tonight and early tomorrow morning. The rest of the week will be dry and warmer. Much warmer air is [ gasps ] youre getting data. Ponysized data . No. U. S. Cellular sized data. Because it works in the middle of anywhere. Id like 100 youre getting 400 in promo cards yes switch to u. S. Cellular and get 50 more data than verizon and at t. Plus 400 per line. More cold air tonight and a gusty wind will make the wind chills drop to the teens. We will have a few leftover flurries tonight and early tomorrow morning. The rest of the week will be dry and warmer. Much warmer air is expected by the weekend. Ad lib weather toss back and the cyclones start the night ranked fifth in the nation. Thats down one from a week ago, even though undefeated iowa state just won the Emerald Coast classic. Jamie pollard and new football coach Matt Campbell still happy they found each other. Campbell receives a warm welcome from cyclone fans. He made a good first impression. Isu hosting north dakota state and a scary moment in the first half. All american Georges Niang goes down, and it looks bad. Looked worse than it was. Niang would return. Hed return and hit this three. Cyclones showing the extra pass. Isu up ten. Monster game for jameel mckay. 15 points, and 19 rebounds. Iowa state beats the bison by 20, 8464. Most importantly, niang is fine. New cyclone football coach Matt Campbell wasted no time. One positive of hiring a guy who already is a head coach hell assempble a staff quickly. New cyclone assistants include, offensive line coach tom manning from toledo. Tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator alex golesh comes to isu from illinois, before that he worked with campbell at toledo. Cornerback coach d. K. Mcdonald and director of scouting John Kuceyeski both come from toledo. Ed wilson may coach the rockets in their bowl game. Kirk ferentz goes from hot seat, to award winner. The big t coaches and media name ferentz coach of the year. Its the fourth time for ferentz, tied for most all time. After a 76 season, ferentz took inventory of the hawkeye football program, and made many changes. The results led to a perfect 12 and oh regular season, and nicknames like new kirk, and kirk 2. 0. He added a new name today. The success of our season is the lot of hard work by our entire Coaching Staff and every member of our football program. I have Great Respect for the head coaches in the big ten and appreciate their acknowledgement of our accomplishments. Didnt take raygun long to jump on maverick kirk bandwagon goose were going to indy. Knowings kirks references, he may have been talking bret maverick. If ferentz and the hawks win saturday, theyre a lock for the College Football playoff. Its still fun to check the new rankings. No change in top five. Clemson and alabama stay 1,2. Oklahoma three, iowa number four. Michigan state first out. Ohio state jumps to sixth. The hawks will take the field in indianapolis as underdogs. Theyre used to it. Michael admire has more from iowa city. Spartans the visitors. Hawkeyes will wear their home black an update to the story we a high speed chase that has evolved into a standoff. Its happening along highway 141, between the towns of woodward and bouton. The highway is closed in both directions. Police have been searching for 39 year old michael wanchanic. 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