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First on 13. A driver involved in a deadly des moines crash is being held on a 6 hundred thousand dollars bond. He faces two counts of vehicular homicide. But a legal expert says he charges. Channel 13s Aaron Brilbeck has more. Troy mure junior is charged with vehicular homicide by reckless driving; vehicular homicide by operating while intoxicated; and owi. Mure was driving monday morning with his girlfriend, 22year old scalicity perez. When he slammed into a tree. Killing perez. Mures mother says her son told her he was being chased by people in a gray cadillac who had flashed a gun at him. And thats what led to the crash. Mrs. Mure says her son had been receiving threats. That people thought he was tied to an unsolved murder earlier this on tuesday, Des Moines Police say they seized a gray cadillac in connection with the case. And officers say mures claims that he was being chased, quote, are a very real possibility. they should drop the charges and charge the people thats really responsible for what happened. Do you think thats gonna happen . Im praying that they will. They need to. defense attorney peter berger, who is not representing mure, says if mure was being chased, he could beat the charges with whats called a compulsion defense. now if hes driving a hundred Miles Per Hour to get away from the people with the gun, if thats what happened and if thats what the jury then he has a complete defense. Because hes been compelled to escape from serious injury. Now the drinking complicates it. because, berger says, the jury must decide whether the crash was caused by mure trying to escape the people chasing him. Or if mures alleged intoxication is to blame. does his driving while intoxicated cause the death of the passenger or was it the driving a hundred Miles Per Hour and hitting the tree to get away from the other people caused what happened . Its a very complicated jury question and if the jury believes he was compelled to escape from people with a gun than he would be acquitted. While police did impound the gray cadillac. They stress they dont know for certain there was a chase. Felony charges have been filed in another case of alleged drunk driving. 53 year old deanna gliem was booked into the polk county jail on four counts of vehicular homicide. Gliem is being held on a 120 thousand dollar bond. Police say she was drunk and speeding when she crashed into another car along hubbell avenue earlier this month. 60 year old rick hummel and 59 year old Randy Sonnenburg were killed. Their families say theyre happy justice has been served. But know nothing will bring the men back. Were pretty happy that the lady did get arrested. I do feel sorry for her family its not their fault and i know theyre hurting too. But it just feels like were one step closer to having some sort of justice witnesses say gliem was driving twice the speed limit at the time of the crash. Authorities are investigating the cause of a crash in the metro. It happened along interstate 235. At Martin Luther king parkway. Last night. The accident shut down a large portion of the eastbound lanes for some time. As you can see. A car veered off the road and became lodged under the overpass. Officials say three people were hurt. But their injuries are not believed to be life threatening. Two girls who survived a crash that killed their mother and sister are recovering. It happened along interstate 80. Near newton. Last week. 14 year old Bryneisha Watkins was driving. When she lost control. And went into the ditch. She and her 13 year old sister. Natasha. Were taken to the hospital. According to the Des Moines Register. The two are in good condition. The crash remains under investigation. Drivers will notice more officers on West Des Moines roads today. The Police Department is upping enforcement. In time for holiday travel. The effort is in conjunction with the governors Traffic Safety bureau. It aims to reduce traffic related injuries and deaths in iowa roadways. Officers will be watching for all traffic violations. While focusing on seat belt use. Des moines drivers will run into some road closures today. Thats because the annual turkey trot is taking place downtown. Heres a look at the 5 k. And 5 mile addition. Race routes. There are more than a dozen closures in the area. So drivers will either want to steer clear. Or allow some extra time to get around. Most roads will be back open by this afternoon. Iowa State University is crash. 3 decades ago. The plane was returning from a Cross Country meet on november 25th, 19 85. Officials say frozen wings brought it down in des Moines Waterbury neighborhood. 3 athletes. 2 coaches. An athletic trainer. And the pilot were all killed in the crash. Yesterday cyclone nation gathered to remember the team. Which went on to finish 2nd in the n c double a national meet. I learned that people will forget what you did, but they will never julie, sheryl, and ron as well, who i was very close to you made us feel great, you gave us a great bond a lovely friendship, youll never ever be forgotten. Bag pipes after the ceremony. Friends and family laid roses near the crash site. A permanent memorial is being planned for the site to remember the victims. A former Football Player says itll be hard to follow up iowa states coach paul rhoads. There was talent there. But the attitude of winning wasnt. So you have to have a guy who knows how to win. But you also have to have a guy that can bridge, personality wise, the rhoads players to his system. Because if you go from rhoads, who everybody really liked, to a guy who doesnt care if people like him he wants to succeed, the locker room will absolutely fight that hard core tooth and nail. Cyclone fanatic says there are 6 potential candidates who are generating the most buzz. Thats buffalos lance leipold. Willie fritz of georgia southern. Navys ken niumatalolo. Toledos matt campbell. Ohio state assistant tony alford. And montana head coach bob stitt. Coach rhoads will lead the team onto the field one more time. At west virginia. On saturday. Kickoff iowa is trying to go 12 and in the big 10 for the 1st time in school history. But the hawks will have to do it on the road. Against a tough nebraska. Kickoff is at 2 30 p m on black friday. Foreign language in the West Des Moines School District could take a hit next year. The district is trying to trim up to 850 thousand dollars from its budget of 150 million. A Committee Recommended ways to save money. Some by eliminating certain programs. The Des Moines Register reports Foreign Language offerings would be affected the most. The district would save more than 38 thousand dollars by dropping its japanese classes. And it would save around 12 thousand by phasing out the german program. The school board is expected to vote on the cuts next month. A metro church is continuing a generous thanksgiving tradition. The West Des Moines Christian Church is hosting its third annual holiday meal today. Organizers are expecting around 200 people to attend. They say they start planning back in the summer. And Start Cooking one week in advance. One of the unique things about the event. Is people can get free rides to it. Organizers want to make sure no one is left at home alone on thanksgiving. They know they would spend the day alone. Another thing that we have found in previous years is that they look out for their friends as well. And so we always prepare extra food so they can take food home for themselves and for other neighbors. We have many people who come in and say i have a Neighbor Lady at home that wasnt able to be here so can i take a meal to her. So we make sure we have extra food and extra meals. Organizers say there is still room fore people to come eat. They start serving at 11 a m. The West Des Moines Christian Church is located along mills civic parkway. Another organization is serving up some holiday spirit in a similar way. Hope ministries will provide about 25 hundred thanksgiving meals theyll feed to low income families, the elderly, and home bound iowans. More than 200 volunteers will package, deliver, and serve the meals. Deliveries go out this morning. And food is served at noon at hope cafe. Thats along 6th avenue in des moines. Turkey, mashed potatoes, vegetables, rolls, and brownies are on the menu. Stores are bracing for the busiest shopping day of the year. And black friday starts a day early. With brown thursday. At jordan creek mall. Stores start opening their doors at 6 p m. They stay open until 1 a m. Then reopen at 6 tomorrow morning. Merle hay mall follows the same schedule. Valley west mall is similar. But stores close at midnight. We have a new look at the race for the white house here in iowa. Coming up. See the results of our exclusive poll conducted it is going to be cloudy today with patchy drizzle possible. Thursday may bring some tricky travel metro, we will have mainly rain but northwest iowa will see a wintry mix early in the day. There will be a touch of a transition with a light wintry mix very briefly across central and southern iowa late in the day on thanksgiving. The best chance for 13 of snow by early friday will be in the northwest corner of the state. A winter storm watch will go into effect at 6 am thursday for parts of western iowa until 6 am friday because of the potential for icy spots. Friday will be cloudy and our poll of the president ial race in iowa shows an issue requiring attention on the campaign trail. After the break. Our political expert thanksgiving. When they return to the campaign trail. Iowans want them to focus on a certain issue. Channel 13s political director dave price has the details. Its the economy, stupid. Remember, thats the line made famous back in 1992. Bill Clintons Campaign used that line to make president George H Bush seem out of touch on the everyday issues of everyday americans. Today, it still seems true. Its the economy, stupid. Our whotv iow6a State University poll found no other issues more important to likely caucusgoers right now. But we wanted to dig deeper into the numbers. Heres what we found. Men seem more concerned about the economy than women. 28 percent of men picked the economy as their top issue about 18 percent of women did. Something surprised us on the economy issue. Thats when you look at peoples views on it based on the amount of money they make. Those making under 25,000. The poorest of the iowans sampled. They cited the economy as their top issue less than other income groups. 17 percent of iowans in that group picked the economy as their top issue. The income group that chose the economy the most. Those are people who make between 25 and 50,000 dollars. That is the income level where the a republican whos gaining ground in several polls will be here this weekend. Ted cruz is making a three day swing through the state. The schedule of his first day shows him campaigning for ten hours straight. It starts in greenfield. At the corner at ten a m. And ends in chariton. At caseys at 10 p m. Sunday morning hell attend a service at Christian Life assembly of god on fleur drive in des moines. Hell end his visit monday save your coffee from the artificial stuff. Switch to truvia. 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