Then tried to escape. When they asked him for id he that time and he tried to take off running. When interviewed by police the report says madsons hands were shaking and he told the officer people only run for two reasons; because they are the officer asked madson if he exposed himself. He denied that it happened. After interviewing the clerk who witnessed the incident madson public exposure a simple misdemeanor. Lincoln high schools website says madson has been teaching for nearly 30 years he was also the schools involvement in the des moines education association. Des moines Public Schools released this statement thursday afternoon immediately placed on administrative return to the school. He resigned his position on tuesday. Madson spent 14 of his 29 years at lincoln high school. He was Police Custody saturday afternoon. He is scheduled to appear at the polk at 1 pm. Tonight, police say fire isnt what killed a nevada man. Just after three am, this home. The size of the fire made it unsafe for search and rescue. Once the fire was out, firefighters found the body of 36year adam blazek. A preliminary autopsy shows he died of a selfinflicted gunshot wound. Investigators think he set the house on fire because it was started in two different locations. No one else was hurt, university of iowa hospitals are warning 17hundred patients about possible exposure to a deadly bacteria. According to the cedar rapids gazette. The bacteria can be spread by a bypass machine used for major heart and lung surgeries. The hospital says one patient already tested positive for the bacteria. The hospital has since replaced the bypass machine and is improving how it disinfects and maintains students at North High School are rallying behind their drama teacher. In order to save money. The district wants to convert the full time position to part time. Students are trying to prevent the cut. They are holding a Public Meeting next week. The district blames a lack of state funding for the cut. Iowa lawmakers are already supposed to have School Funding finalized for the next school year. But instead of following the law. Theyre focused on football. State senator Mark Chelgren is sponsoring a bill to end any Academic Collaboration between iowas three state colleges and stanford university. Hes upset over the rosebowl halftime cow. 56 2356 31 if we fail to stand up. I was willing to do stanford says it regrets the enough willing to do stanford says it regrets the performance. That isnt good enough for senator chelgren. His bill public apology. A massive price hike landed the ceo of a Pharmaceutical Company in front of congress today. The House Oversight committee wanted to question Martin Shkreli about the lifesaving cancer drug daraprim. Shkreli raised the price from to 750dollars. Answer questions. And often smirked while pleading the fifth. Mr. Shkreli did not intend to show any disrespect for any members of the committee, listened intently. Some of what you saw was Nervous Energy shkreli showed plenty of disrepect after. The hearing. Tweeting, hard to accept that these imbeciles represent the people in our government. Healthcare was also the focus of tonights democratic president ial debate. President ial candidate the republicans want to repeal the Affordable Care act. I want to improve it. I want to build on it, get the cost down, get the prescription wants us to start all over again. President ial candidate lets make the Affordable Care act work for everybody. President ial candidate i am on the Health Education labor committee. That committee wrote the Affordable Care act. The idea that i would dismantle health care in america while were waiting to pass a medicare for all is just not accurate. Tonights debate wasnt supposed to happen. Hillary clinton requested the debate last week. And Bernie Sanders only agreed after three other debates were also added. During the debate clinton defended her ties to wall street. And the 675thousand dollar in speaking fees she was paid by goldman sachs. President ial candidate yes of course we have special interests that are unfortunately doing too much to right the game. President ial candidate i believe we can get back on the right track. A cnn poll released today has clinton trailing sanders by 31points in new hampshire. New evidence tonight the Ted Cruz Campaign intentionally misled campaign has already admitted to sharing a cnn story that carson was taking a break from campaigning following the iowa caucuses. And encouraged carson supporters to vote for cruz. Now. Exclusive audio obtained by Brietbart News shows it was more than just passing along a cnn story. According to brietbart. The Cruz Campaigned called caucus precinct captains on caucus night with a claim carson was suspending his campaign. Heres one of the calls. Hello, this is the Cruz Campaign with breaking news dr. Ben carson will be suspending campaigning following tonights caucuses. Please inform any carson caucus goers of this news and urge them to caucus for ted instead. Thank you. Good night. Today, cruzs campaign cochair Bob Vander Plaats told us he doubts the carsonrumors were spread as far as some are suggesting. Or that carsons caucus performance was hurt by the spread of the information. Tons lite todays 4 00 Bob Vander Plaats 16 29 34 16 29 49 person come up to me and say, hey, i heard that and i switched my vote. I wish i would. I have not heard any of that. By the way, there was only three candidates who outpaced their poll numbers. Cruz did. Rubio did. And carson did. So, i dont think it hurt carson. ben carson says otherwise. He finished fourth with 9point3 ben carson says otherwise. He finished fourth with 9point3 percent. The iowa poll prior to the caucuses showed him with ten percent support. While hes still in the running. Carson is scaling back his campaign. The Washington Post says carson is eliminating 50staff postions. Carson says the reductions are because of inefficiencies. And that the cuts will allow him to continue through the Republican National convention in july. The caucuses kept iowa in the months. And that return. Next month des moines will host the nc doublea basketball tournament. The tournament will be hard to miss. Banners like these will city. The convention and visitors moines. 290814 we know were a great sports city from all the other stuff weve done but a lot of the National People dont know what a great we are so now is our time to shine the tournament begins march 17th. It doesnt get the fanfare. But another event is just as fun this weekend. Get your bike ready for this. The 38th annual brr ride. This is what riders were up against last year. The 24mile ride takes cyclists from perry to rippey and back. No matter the weather. That ride is going to be a lot less dangerous than this one. Man from the town of Fort Atkinson fell off a fourwheeler last month. The throttle apparently stuck. Because the atv kept going. Without a rider. And thanks to this surveillance video, we get to watch what happened next. It spun a couple of donuts. Then went up a flight of stairs where it flipped over. That finally gave them a chance to shut it off. Wx tease you rarely see him celebrate a big win. Or agonize over a there is one topic that can bring out the emotion in kirk ferentz. See what got him choked up coming up in sports. At 98years old. Driving makes him a little nervous. But theres no traffic to worry about in the sky. Pilot he may be 98years old. But apparently the engineers who designed the ford f150 have been burning the candle at all ends. Cuz check out their latest brainstorm pro trailer backup assist. Just turn this little knob on the dash and it helps steer your trailer exactly where you want it to go. Its just one more bit of brilliance you cant get on any other truck. Freakish. This is the ford f150. Look, i know youre a cow and all. And you may not know what im talking about, but, uh. The yogurt made from your milk, is delicious. Mmmm, yoplait. The easiest way to find him. Is by looking up. Ernie smith is long retired from his day job. But he refuses to give up on his passion. Not only is the 98year old pilot still in the air. Hes flying towards a world record. Channel 13s roger riley has the story. 98 year old ernie smith is well known around red oak. He gets out for coffee with friends family. He has his drivers license. And he gets i dont drive in omaha anymore. I have someone take me. One place ernie likes to drive is to the red oak airport to enjoy his passion. Flying an airplane. 28 40 we always kind of make sure everythings working you know. Airport manager kevin mcgrew pulls ernies rented cessna 150 out of the hangar nats ok ernie and we get master switch on, and giver some start. nat start tak plane nats nats ernie on radio;red oak traffic cessna 162 departing 17 7 38 and away we go music take off segment music 4055 here comes your sun 40 59 we made it just right smith has always been an amateur pilot. Spent his working years building b29s in omaha, and driving a truck later. 4115 we got enough fuel, you got a little time. I do sure. Lets fly over to viking lake. And circle it and then come back. Ernie says he loves to have people ride along with him. 4130 roger what a beautiful sunrise. 4420 now were seeing the lake already. Viking lake. 4532 a friend of mine built it. He done all the dam work. Hes about. Hes probably 90 years old now. Name is homer foot he did all the original work on the lake. Its really a nice lake for this part of the probably 90 years old now. Name is homer foot he did all the original work on the lake. Its really a nice lake for this part of the country you know. 4931 thats stanton coming up staton f iowa smith loves to give the full tour of the area. Including the stanton water tower made to look like a coffee pot they still got it they took it down and moved it down town, ernie will also likes to have some fun flying. 54 55 you want a 3 g turn. 55 15 ooooh. Ha ha. Secret of long life segment i dont drink or smoke. However i have smoked a little. Smoked cigars 35 years ago. I was 35 before i ever started smoking cigars. The only reason i started. Smoking i was driving a truck, and early in the morning after playing or dances, id play with my brother for dances a couple times a week in the winter. I cow;dont stay awake. So id light up a cigar. Eyes would burn. I would stay awake. Ernie smiths son michael remembers flying along with he was five or six. Landing in farmers fields. Sot3820 talk about the old funk airplane, we run put of gas, so we lit in another farmers fields hard to believe, but ernie ceased flying when he was in his 80s. But after his wife leeeyeluh passed away four years ago. He took to the skies again. Ernie got away from flying for few years don cashatt mentioned why dont you start flying again 81 year old norm yeager is ernies flight instructor. 4951 he passed his medical he passed his flight review. He just keeps flying. Lc people in red oak have been checking out the guiness book of World Records and found the oldest living active pilot in the world. Is younger than ernie smith. We got onto their website. Sent information in for ernie. Tell us what kind of documentation ernie will be the oldest active pilot in the world according to the guinessook of world cords. Hats flyinguc236 you like flying whetheor not youre the oldest pilot does that matter you . 4242 when eyre pushing forward on this uio eyouglot mchoic nat27 one. Ob. Of ownarel imith,le pporm asst e p. Orlom ea 13 e ho byea ws r plot dtade whar smicenonothefath thgthespilot award the award goes to pilots who have maintained safety for at least 50 years. Another layer of clouds moving in from the northwest will keep temperatures steady over the next several hours before they start to cool back into the 20s later be mostly dry. We do have a slight chance of some flurries in the des moines metro and light snow showers in the northwest on friday, but these will not amount to much more than a dusting. Well remain cool and in the lower 30s on friday but a warm up is ahead for the weekend when well see highs rise into the upper 30s. Another weak clipper system will move through late sunday and early monday. This will bring in a chance for light snow showers on monday which will again not amount to much. Behind this clipper system will be an arctic blast, bringing in a much colder air mass for the beginning of next week. Whats americas bestselling brand of trucks . Youre in for a big surprise, pal. Actually, youre not. Its ford fseries, again. And, it wasnt even close. Same trucks that have been leading the industry for 39 straight years. Why . Game changin innovation. Like f150s highstrength, militarygrade aluminum alloy. More capable and more efficient than ever. Innovation. Its why fseries is making the one with the most familiar name ferentz. James ferentz started three years at iowa, but worked at randys carpets in corallville before finding a will suit up for the broncos. Thats a proud papa right there. James ferentz also came up on night with jimmy fallon. Look alikes thats a great idea for a segment. The iowa girls union names its first female director. Jean berger say shes honored, humbled, and excited. Berger moves from interim Athletic Director at uni to executive director. Dick. Girls union class 5a basketball rankings centennial and johnston stay fifth, followed by indianola, and southeast polk tenth. President obama welcomed ames highs Harrison Barnes and the rest of the warriors to the white coach steve kerr. The way the warriors are playing, they may return to see a new president next year. Its a loss for the hawkeye women at indiana, 7974 hoosiers. The iowa men play there a week from tonight. A two game losing streak, including a rare home loss, has the cyclones disappointed, but not discouraged. Cyclones at Oklahoma State phoenix proam, a robot on the the emotional flaws out of golf it should be the robot, right . Shot from a robot since tiger in his prime. Before we go tonight. A new york man is fighting back parkers. 3038 i dont want to call anybody out, i would rather not, but sometimes people are a little too egregious in their parking and so they have to be checked and this is how hes checking them. A very blunt bumper sticker. Jeff orelick says he choose his words to get the most impact. 4801 00 you could of said you are not a nice person. , you park like a not nice person, i guess its just the natural language of a new yorker, its gotta be strong or else no one is going to Pay Attention or its not