Chief kelley we protect other people, and it seems like its us that have to keep helping each other. Vanessa the state Fire Marshals Office says theres nothing to connect the fires right now. But theyre not ruling anything out. In burnside, vanessa peng, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Kevin this actually is the third fire within the Lehigh Fire Department this year. In april, another firefighters house burned to the ground in an electrical fire. By the way, vanessa tells us this mornings fire is the second house fire the kelley family has dealt with. Four years ago, they lost everything in a fire at their old house. Stacey the jury has gone home for the weekend without a verdict in the pete polson attempted murder trial. But before they got the case, the jury heard sometimes contradictory testimony on the stand. Kccis kim st. Onge is live at the polk county courthouse. Kim polson testified again today in his own defense, sticking by his story that he shooting from november 17 of last
Biggest fundraiser for make a wish iowa. Tonight, see how the wishes will still happen. The news starts in 30 seconds. Youre watching local 5 news at 10 in hd. We are iowas most Accurate Weather Team brad wx wall weather adlib today is the First Official day of winter, which means that tonight will be our officially winter, it is really not going to feel much like winter this week. Tonight will be cool and dry with decreasing clouds late tonight. We should start out with some sunshine tuesday but then clouds will make for a partly sunny afternoon. With some sunshine and southerly winds returning, we will be able to get our temps back into the 40s in the afternoon. Tuesday will be dry, but it is looking a bit rainy for wednesday. Another system will be coming out of the sw and bringing us a good chance for rain. The heaviest of this rain will fall again over eastern iowa where about a half of an inch is expected. Thursday Christmas Eve we are going to have a slight chance for some snow
Are likely coming back in the middle of next week. Sabrina lets get into the top five this morning. Sabrina thirteen items will get the axe at West Des Moines schools. Includi ng the Foreign Language program for first through third graders. The cuts will first through third graders. The cuts will save West Des Moines schools nearly 600 thousand dollars. The district originally had a goal of saving 800thousand. Its not clear if more cuts are ahead. Sabrina elias in the number two spot this morning. Sabrina madrid is mourning the loss of head football coach rand hinkel. Despite leading his teams to 25 of the last 26 state playoffs, his winning record will not be the only thing remembered most by the community. 30 years ive seen him take boys make them into men, better citizens, fathers and husbands sabrina you could also feel the love for hinkel during our blitz game day live during football season where fans held signs of the beloved coachs head. Sabrina the third thing you need to know
Local 5 news midday in hd starts now. We are iowa sabrina good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday. Im Sabrina Ahmed. Sabrina our top story. Madrid mourns the sudden death of long time coach randy hinkel the beloved coach has a name that became synonymous with winner. Sabrina the beloved coach has a name that became synonymous with winner. Randy hinkel was known for winning on the football field in madrid. But it was away from the gridiron where he may have left his biggest impact. Local fives Claire Powell has the story wanted to go to sleep wake up and realize it was a bad dream. It wasnt just a bad dreamd we were looking for a football coach. And a teacher, he impressed us most as a teacher j first to chew your butt when you got it coming,but first to put his arm around you when you had that coming too he had that unique ability of making everybody important, had a role i got the news, i was shocked and didnt know what to do. I couldnt believe it would happen t
Heaviest rain totals. Temperatures will be falling quickly on the back side of the rain, so its possible we will have a bit of a rain snow mix work across the state, but again rain is the primary form of precip expected tomorrow. Thursday there is still a small chance for a few snow showers, but accumulations still look minimal at best, so travel shouldnt be affected. Rain chances return late friday and last throughout the weekend and into early next week. Well be in the 40s through most of the weekend but 30s are likely coming back in the middle of next week. Sabrina lets get into the top five this morning. Sabrina thirteen items will get the axe at West Des Moines schools. Includi ng the Foreign Language program for first through third graders. The cuts will save West Des Moines schools nearly 600 thousand dollars. The district originally had a goal of saving 800thousand. Its not clear if more cuts are ahead. Sabrina elias in the number two spot this sabrina madrid is mourning the lo