First on 13. Funding has run dry for an increased officer presence along court avenue. And that has one des mones mother pushing for the city to take action. They shouldnt have to worry about how safe it is to walk to their car, there should be security cameras, welllit parking lots, Police Presence the mother wants to remain anonymous. But she says her son and his friend were beaten near court several similar incidents followed that. Including a deadly shooting last month. The violence prompted police to hire extra enforcement for the area. Something they can no longer afford to do. But they say they are still trying to be proactive. Weve got some discussions with public and private partnerships weve had in place for quite some time and going to continue those and see if we can identify some funding and different strategies to make things a little safer down there. The Polk County Board of supervisors also says it discussed court avenue security in a meeting yesterday. However it will not release the details. Des moines could have at least one more officer on the payroll next year. During a City Council Workshop yesterday. The city manager presented his proposed operating budget. According to the Des Moines Register. It calls for hiring an additional officer. And two extra firefighters. He says the city should be able to make the move without raising property taxes. Domestic abuse survivors have a new tool to help keep themselves safe. Everyone deserves to be safe at Sexual Assault a way to keep their addresses confidential, not in public view where their perpetrators can easily find them. Safe at home is an address confidentiality program. Which provides survivors with a substitute address. That means they can have mail delivered to that address. Then forwarded on. The program goes into effect at the beginning of the new year. Weve posted information about how to apply on our website. Who tv dot com. The governor says iowa will be ready to make the switch to a privately managed medicaid system on march first. The change will impact about 560 thousand recipients. And save the state 47 Million Dollars in health care costs. Governor branstad hoped to make the switch on january first. But the federal government ordered a 60 day delay last week. Saying iowa wasnt ready. He says criticism of the change to private management has more to do with politics than health care. The aisle in the race for the white house. Even a race to obama. She was going to beat obama. I dont know whod be worse. I dont know. How does it get worse . But she was gonna beat, she was favored to win, and she got schlonged. She lost. I mean, she lost. Donald trump got a bit vulgar yesterday in an attack on hillary clinton. Trump said Everything Associated with clinton has been losses. The comments come as he demands an apology from her. Regarding a debate at saturdays democratic debate. He is becoming isiss best recruiter. They are going to people showing videos of donald trump insulting islam and muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists. A clinton spokeswoman later said they did not have a specific video of isis using clips of trump. But instead pointed to social from isis recruiters. An investigation into the actions of a former lottery official is widening. Eddie tipton is the former Security Director of the urbandale based multi state lottery association. Tipton was convicted earlier this year of rigging the iowa lottery to win more than 14 Million Dollars. Since then. Hes been accused of doing the same with jackpots in colorado, wisconsin, and oklahoma. Now the Des Moines Register reports investigators are linking two more jackpots. In kansas. To tipton. Investigators say he purchased the tickets and gave them to two people to claim. In december of 20 10. Tiptons attorney dismissed the allegations as a publicity stunt. The community of madrid is struggling with the loss of a respected coach and teacher. 58 year old randy hinkel died unexpectedly over the weekend. The head football coach walked madrids sideline for 29 years. Becoming only the 11th coach to reach 300 times. Players say the lessons he taught them transcend football. And they will not be forgotten. My favorite quote was how are you going to perform when you get uncomfortable. He used that in football and you can use it in life and i will use it for the rest of my life are you going to throw in the towel or are you going to get passed it. Sunday night madrid turned on the lights at its football stadium to honor coach hink. A visitation will be held this wednesday night. In the high school gym. Iowa state is falling in the rankings after their latest loss on the court. The new ap top 25 poll puts the cyclones at number 11. A six spot drop. The team is still nine and one despite their loss to the panthers saturday. And it wont get much easier. Isu is set to take on cincinnati on the road. Tip time is at six tonight. One panther played a main role in the iowa state upset. Thats why wes washpun was named the week. Washpun scored a career high 29 points. Dished out 11 assists. And grabbed seven rebounds. His coach says its all because of the seniors hard work in the off season. This summer and fall, wes put in a lot of time shooting jump shots so that he could have a first half like he had tonight. He knows the way people are going to guard him. They arent going to want him driving it to the front of the rim. So he put in a lot of time shooting jump shots and its paid off for him Northern Iowa now heads to the diamond head classic in hawaii it is starting off foggy on this tuesday morning. Highs will zip back to the upper 40s under mainly cloudy skies this afternoon. Wednesday will be wet. Most of the rain will fall before noon. By early thursday morning there is a chance for a light rain snow mix. But the warmer temperatures will not allow for a white christmas. Temperatures Christmas Eve through christmas and the holiday coming up next, david geiger joins us with this mornings agribusiness report. Then a little later, a way for kids to ring in the new year. Without staying up until midnight. Driving into a crowd on the Las Vegas Strip sunday night heads to court today. What shell learn and where police think she and her three year old have been living. Paris theres a lot to do on a dairy farm. Nobodys gonna do it for you. You have to get out there and do it yourself. Bernie sanders is a wellknown friend of family farms. Bernie cannot be bought out by big money. Bernies opinion cannot be purchased. Its time for our next president to get in there, roll up his sleeves, take off the gloves, and take on wall street, take on big business, take on big money, and get the working class back to where they should be. Hes a rock. Theres a new cooperative in iowa. The members of Farmers Cooperative company and west Central Cooperative voted an approval for a merger effective april 1st. The unified cooperative will be called Landus Cooperative and will be led by the west central president milan kucerak and headquartered in ames. Together, west central and fc have more than 70 grain, agronomy, and feed locations in 26 iowa counties. According to world grain magazines grain and milling annual, landus coop will become the seventh largest Grain Company in north america based on storage capacity. It will also have access to all seven major iowa rail lines. We put stories up every day just our top story. Funding has run dry for an increased officer presence along Court Officers hired extra officers after several beatings. And a deadly shooting last month. Police say theyre discussing alternative sources of funding. And different strategies to increase safety in the area. It was also the subject of a Polk County Board of supervisors meeting yesterday. But details of the meeting havent been released. West des moines students will see some changes in the districts Foreign Language offerings. The district wants to trim its budget by nearly 600 thousand dollars for the Upcoming School year. Last night. The board of education approved more than a dozen ways to do so. They include phasing out the japanese program. And starting spanish education in fourth grade. Instead of first grade. The cuts are a result of declining enrollment in the district. Authorities continue to investigate what caused a woman to drive into a las vegas crowd. Meanwhile. The woman will make her first appearance in court. 24 year old Lakeisha Holloway will have her formal bond hearing today. The 24 year old is accused of driving up on onto the one and injuring dozens. Her three year old daughter was in the car at the time. Officers believe they had been living in the vehicle in vegas for about a week. The child is now in protective custody. The case against former pow Bowe Bergdahl heads to a courtroom today. Bergdahl was charged with desertion for walking off his army post in afghanistan in 2009, which led to his capture by the taliban. He was held for nearly five years until he was released earlier this year in a prisoner exchange. The open hearing will take place this morning at fort bragg, north carolina. Army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl is scheduled to appear in military Court Tomorrow on charges of desertion and endangering fellow soldiers. A crowd went crazy after a succesful space flight in florida last night. The Spacex Company launched its first rocket after a sixmonth hiatus. Thats when one of the private companys unmanned rockets exploded after liftoff. Destroying two tons of nasa cargo. But this time, things went as planned as the spacecraft deployed 11 satellites. And for the first time, spacex managed to land the unmanned rocket back on earth after the flight. Netflix is once again helping parents fool kids on new years eve. If you dont want the kids staying up till midnight on new years eve. No problem. Netflix has launched a whole new set of new years eve on demand countdowns to the new year. That way, parents can let their kids ring in the new year at any time. There are six countdowns, featuring favorite characters from care bears and cousins, inspector gadget, all hail king julien and more. The countdowns are available now please. But before the new year rolls around. We have to celebrate christmas. And a quad cities homeowner is really getting into the holiday this year. Coming up. See the home completely covered with twinkling lights. And hear why its going to keep