Lets get into the top five this morning. Elias beginning with a gunman opening fire at an excel Industries Manufacturing plant in kansas thursday. The shooter killed three people and injured more than a dozen more across four crime scenes. The suspected gunman, who died in a shootout with police, has been identified as an employee of the plant. Sabrina plant. Sabrina in the number sabrina prosecution in brought six more witnesses to the stand thursday. Family members fazzino, who died in 2012. Her husband, alexander, has been charged with murder in her death. Today, the court will hear testimony from as the trial winneshiek county. The third thing you need to know before you door. Des moines water works says itll nitrates into the raccoon river. The company had been told it needs to make disposes of nitrates and chlorides, by 20 20. Environmental groups say its important to improve the livability for aquatic life. Sabrina number four. Sabrina last night, the five remaining republican p
Witnesses are set to testify tomorrow including doctors. Well have continuing coverage. Stephanie now even though emily died in boone county, the trial has been moved to winneshiek county, a change in venue because of how many people knew this family. Emily fazzinos grandfather founded the Fareway Grocery store chain, her dad is the former ceo. Local fives Claire Powell will be covering the trial for us in winneshiek county. Look for a live report coming up on local five news at six. New tonight at five. Stephanie 1 shot former Iowa Governor chet culver is back in headlines. Hes been Holding Town Hall meetings and rallies against the decision to privatize iowas medicaid. This is causing some speculation that he may be gearing up to run for office. Local fives Sabrina Ahmed asked him about it today. Chet culver, former Iowa Governor, you being in the spotlight again about this, i just want to ask one more time, everyone is speculating, everyone thinks the reason youre doing this is beca
And 6 yr old daughter, its a challenge for me to decide how much contact i want them to have personally, im very involved from West Des Moines Claire Powell local 5 news we are iowa Stephanie Ram the senate bill will be debated in subcommittee on monday afternoon to see if it will continue to the senate floor. We want to know what you think. Should athletic trainers have to be at every varsity sporting event . Let us know by calling, on facebook or sending an email. Jack a horrible car crash in rural ankeny around noon today. The driver was traveling along northeast 29th street, when she lost control of her vehicle and skidded off the road. Into a ditch and violently hit a tree. A child in the passengers seat was taken by helicopter to the hospital. Investigators were trying to reconstruct the accident this afternoonbecau se no one actually saw it happen. Sgt. Brandon bracelin, Polk County Sheriffs Department we had some witnesses in the area thatve seen the vehicle travel down ne 29th
Year the cherry pies have been around, well as long as veishea had. But this year, the pies are associated with valentines day. Not the spring festival. I think its great were trying to bring back the Little Things they were so iconic to veiseha students will sell around 1600 pies. Down 13,000 from two years ago. Thats a 25 thousand dollar difference for scholarship fundraising. Hello how are you, i need five, five ok but student body president Dan Breitbach says something is better than nothing. They raise money for students. All the money goes to the students scholarships and funding orgs, thats what we wanted to bring back. Somethign that directly effects the students breitbach, faculty and communtiy members plan to spread out a few concerts and Department Activities through the spring. Including the spring Football Game paired with the cyclone market featuring campus grown and raised goods. Back and forth conversations throwing out crazy and not so crazy ideas, trying to fill the v
Clouds but we should see sunshine open up through the afternoon allowing our highs to climb into the upper 40s. Saturday still looks amazing with a breeze out of the southwest and highs climbing into the low 60s under full sunshine sunday is looking fairly nice as well since our cold front will come through a bit later letting our highs stay in the upper 50s and the accompanying rain should stay up north. There is a big storm system were going to need an eye on coming next tuesday and wednesday that as of now looks to pack a pretty good amount of rain with snow possible. A warmer trend back into the 40s looks to follow that system so if we do see snow hopefully we can melt it back down soon after. Sabrina lets get into the top five this morning. Sabrina more than half a dozen people took the stand inside the Winneshiek County courtroom wednesday to shed more light on what happened after Emily Fazzino was found dead inside her familys home four years ago. Among them, her friend and nann