The august 2014 murder of zach paulsen charging him with 2nd degree murder and 50 year sentence. I thought hed go to a maximum security prison because it was a very violent crime, he stabbed him 35 times. Jonas was sent to the medium level security newton correctional facility. It just shocked us, i read about newton and its a place to rehabilitate people. Hell have cell mates and 45 hours of free time. Fred scaletta, assistant director of the department of corrections described the placement process saying quote, it is more about the offenders history and current behavior that determines their custody level and facility placement; along with the specific rehabilitation needs that each institution provides when they evaluated him, i think he lied his way through that and got them to believe he was in harm. I think he got to go where he wants to go. Scaletta says that there correctional facility with a violent offense, 102 serving sentences of 40 years or longer and 31 inmates serving life in prison. the review board needs to be reviewed i just cant see that they are sending these people that do these kinds of things in these places when we have facilities for violent criminals. Until a change is made the paulsen family says it will be hard to find peace. To me it seems like hes in a country club right now, playing ping pong with young boys, it just doesnt feel right. For now one place gives them the comfort they need. Figured steve jonas who murdered him took this spot fomrus and i had to take it back. Its a comforting place now where it was a horrible place, most horrible place of my life. The department of corrections tells us 43people convicted of Second Degree murder were years. Of those. 41 were placed in medium security facilities. Just two were sent authorities will search a pond south of granger tomorrow in their hunt for a missing des moines teen. 17year old sam kemp was last seen at a Party Saturday night. It was a big party were told about 3 hundred kids were there. When the police arrived, everyone scattered. Including kemp. Kemps sister is holding out hope hell be found. Safe and sound. But shes getting frustrated with authorities. 310410 i want answers, my family wants answers. Something is not right 311614 i believe we are gonna find sammy and he is gonna come home safely. I still believe that. Im not giving up hope candice carr authorities will also take to the air tomorrow in their search for kemp. Police are questioning a suspect in a vandalism case that shut down the Webster County courthouse. 34year old daniel swick is already charged with burglary and he broke into a fort dodge business overnight and sprayed a fire extinguisher inside the building. Officers arrested him inside the store. Swick is also being questioned about this incident at the Webster County courthouse this weekend. The dust coating the inside of the courthouse is from chemicals sprayed from several fire extinguishers. The damage forced the county to close the courthouse this week for cleaning. Grain bins can be dangerous and today another farm worker lost his life in one near the town of murray in clarke county. Eric reasland was trying to break up a crust that had formed on the top of the corn in this grain bin. When the crust cracked. Reasland was sucked in. Rescuers drilled holes in the side of the bin in an effort to save reasland. But he was pronounced dead at the hospital. Three people escaped with only minor injuries in a headon crash this evening. It happened around six oclock along army post road and highway five. Police arents sure what caused the crash. But say speed was not a factor. Police say a three year old passenger was taken to the hospital to be a quickthinking Police Officer in nebraska helped prevent a similar accident. In this dash camera video you can see the officer run across the highway and hop inside a moving semi. Police say the driver was nearly unconscious because of low blood sugar and was not aware officers were trying to get him to pull over. The officer decided to make a run for the truck because the were approaching a busy area. Police in Dallas County also took part in a rescue today. Pulling a woman from her burning home. 43 1443 20 a Dallas County deputy. Removed the lady from the house the Dallas Center home caught fire around 530. There is extensive damage. Investigators havent determined the cause. But suspect Christmas Decorations could be to blame. They say it should serve as a warning for all homeowners. Derrick spoerry dallasl center the homeowner was treated for smoke inhalation. And police say she was up and talking at the scene. A Public Meeting on the Bakken Oil Pipeline didnt go as planned today. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is considering an environmental permit for the project. The pipeline would stretch more than 3hundred miles through 18 counties. The dnr held a Public Meeting tonight. But the format wasnt public enough for pipeline opponents. 17 14 3617 15 00. Theres no way the dnr can prevent. Let him speak, let him pipeline critics were furious after learning their comments wouldnt be heard publicly. Instead. They were asked to either write down their comment. Or record it. While recording their comments. Several people spoke loud enough so the entire auditorium could here. 17 30 2817 30 48 the way they set things up here. So the dnr could hear them 17 39 1017 39 28 this is democracy at work. And i do hope its approved making a comment was also a along with calling. Texting. And getting online. And this is the reason why. That red circle isnt a good sign. It shows a Massive Service outage. According to tmobiles website the outage includes all of the metro and a large portion of central iowa. Tmobile hasnt said what caused the outage or when it will be repaired. But says engineers are working to fix the problem. The Raccoon River will again be a problem tomorrow morning in Dallas County. Highway 169 remains closed in adel because of flooding. The river has fallen some since the highway was closed night. But it remains right at flood level. Better news in des moines. The Public Works Department reopened fleur drive this afternoon. They originally expected it to highway14 was also reopened in Marshall County today because of lower river levels. Chief meteorologist ed wilson joins us. Ed. The flood worry is slowly easing. Much colder temperatures are on the way the next couple days. Highs will rebound to the upper 40s by sunday. Next week will remain warm. The chances for a White Christmas are melting away. Still to come tonight at ten. They earned their schools still to come tonight at ten. They earned their schools first state title. And now waukee wants more. A little later. The warriors look to become backtoback champions. And why history shows it wont be easy. Just one season ago. Some hawkeye fans thought it was time for kirk ferentz to go. Later in sports. Even more evidence it would have been a huge mistake. And right after the break. A Campaign Swing through the midwest. Why Hillary Clinton says you supporter who makes Donald Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. Hillary clinton was a target in today she had the midwest to herself. Clinton made stops in iowa and nebraska today. In omaha she picked up a like to introduce the next president of the united states. Hillary Clinton Warren buffet. The second richest man in the country is backing clinton. The billionaire says hes supporting clinton because of her proposal to raise taxes on the rich. From there it was off to iowa city. Where clinton said theres another reason you should support her. President ial candidate i think the reason why you should vote for me is because im the best candidate and the fact that im a woman adds to that. In iowa city clinton also focused on taxes. Only in this case she promised not to raise taxes taxes on the middle class. Ankeny was the place for president ial politics today. Florida senator marco rubios hosted a town hall this morning. He focues on the war on terror. Saying the federal government is doing enough to keep americans safe. Rubio. 335 this is the most important thing. 355 tough you are. Rubio. 335 this is the most important thing. 355 tough you are. Dubuque. You can Tell Congress is nearing its holiday break. Lawmakers are starting to accomplish something. Today House Speaker paul ryan announced an agreement on a massive onepointone trillion dollar spending bill. It will keep the government funded through september. They also agreed on a 626billion dollar tax cut package. House speaker i have no reason to believe were going to have a shutdown. In divided government, you dont get everything you want. This is a result of a bipartisan, bicameral compromise. And, i think everybody can point to something that gives them a reason to be in favor of both of these bills. The house will vote on the spending bill friday before leaving for vacation. And perhaps this could be the clincher. Crammed into the bill is a measure to lift the ban on west lawn of the capitol. The ban was put in place to improve security. Much colder temperatures are on the way the next couple days. Highs will rebound to the upper 40s by sunday. Next week will remain warm. The chances for a White Christmas are melting away. 46th and grand xmas lights near security. Much colder temperatures are on the way the next couple days. Highs will rebound to the upper 40s by sunday. Next week will remain warm. The chances for a White Christmas are melting away. 46th and grand xmas lights near Greenwood Park ch colder temperatures are on the way the next couple days. Hig will rebound to epr s by sunday. Next week will main warm. The chances forWhite Christmas armelting ay. Waukee girls baskbl ven of the top ten tea in heart disease. Asthma. Diabetes. 7 out of 10 americans take prescription drugs. But in the last 7 years drugs prices have doubled. Hillarys going to take on the Drug Companies. Require medicare to negotiate lower drug prices. Let people buy their prescription drugs from countries like canada at half the price. And cap monthly prescription costs for every american. The Drug Companies have been over charging long enough. Its time to fight back. Im Hillary Clinton talk to a nurse, find a doctor, or coordinate appointments with bewell 24 7. One of the Many Services provided exclusively to wellmark members. Theres only one that can claim defending champs john sears has the story. Nats sot its something you dream about as a player and a coach to be in 9 months after their first Girls Basketball title in School History the warriors want more. Sot mataloni it gave us confidence especially having a lot of our team back which makes us excited for the season, but theres a lot of good teams in the ciml. Winning a state title comes with expectations, and a target. Waukee is now the hunted. Sot jacobson we know teams are out to get us, beat us, so we have to work hard every night no matter what type of game its going to be. Sot littlefield we know we have a big target on our back, being number 1 weve played great teams every night. We want to beat those teams as bad as they want to beat us. In the history of class 4a only 1 team has ever won back to back titles, waukee is trying to become the 2nd to accomplish the feat. Sot guess no different than any other School Everybody still has the same lofty goal of wanting to get there. Sot mataloni we would love to win another title, thats sot littlefield key is not to overlook any team because everybody could have a great night. Sot that would be awesome, to have that again 2 times in a row. John sears channel 13 sports. The five and oh warriors play at ankeny centennial friday night. Naz mitroulong out for the season. No one hates hearing that more than naz. Mitroulong hasnt fully healed from offseason surgery on both hips. He will pursue a medical redshirt. Naz played 8 games, averaging 12 points, but the pain became too much. No naz, but the cyclones add iowa saturday night at 6. Preceding that game, this one the hawkeyes and bulldogs tip at 3 30 p. M. The big four classic is sold out. Kirk ferentz wont say i told you so but the awards speak for him. Ferentz is the first hawkeye named the Eddie Robinson coach of the year. The Football Writers Association of america honors ferentz for leading iowa to 12 wins and its first big ten west championship. Ferentz also named a finalists for the dodd trophy and bear bryant award. Consensus allamerican. The American Football Coaches Association brings the curtain down on allamerica teams. Every one of them names the iowa junior as a first team cornerback. King has a big ten best 8 picks. King and company play the rose bowl new years day. Stanford is a 7 point favorite. Team coverage from the rose bowl in pasadena begins december 28th. Its an rvtv reunion from southern california. Iowa alumni association. Uss iowa. Finally tonight. Christmas has what started out as a routine day became a preschool welcome home party. Sergeant kadeem green senior surprised his son at school after a ninemonth deployment to the middle east. I love you. I love you daddy. Yeah, because i want my daddy, i want him. Live to do. I havent held him, touched him, since january, since the beginning of january. So here we are, 11 anncr when the attacks come here. The person behind this desk will have to protect your family. Will he be impulsive and reckless, like donald trump . Will he have voted to dramatically weaken counterterrorism surveillance, like ted cruz . Will he have skipped crucial National Security hearings and votes just to campaign,