we start off this chilly tuesday morning with a live look at the white house at 6:00 tonight the president will give his state of the union address. we will have that here for you on ktvu, certainly, but right now 1000 miles over to the east there is confusion and concern in iowa over the unresolved iowa democratic caucus. welcome to the 9, it is a busy one. the president making his way to capitol hill for the union address. the focus has been the impeachment trial, there is concern whether or not the president will talk about the impeachment trial tonight. as of right now we are talking about iowa, still no winner but still the presidential candidates are not sticking around. they have already moved onto new hampshire. some have claimed victory, officials say the delay is because of technical problems. we are joined live from des moines right now with details. reporter: the democratic party is scrabbling to count thousands of paper ballots in an effort to verify
The bus driver was fired for failing to intervene. Des moines schools released this statement. Saying in part, cases involving mistreatment of a student are a clear violation of the trust and expectation the district has that all of its employees work in the best interests of the students we serve. But apparently, the childs mother had a change of heart. The unemployment appeal documents include a letter from the mother, saying she didnt want to press charges. And that she thinks taylor did what she thought was best to protect the students on the bus. Including her son. Records show both taylor and the bus driver lost their appeals with Iowa Workforce development. They were ordered to repay the Unemployment Benefits they received. A des moines man will get a new trial, for his role in the beating death of another man in 2013 kent tyler is accused of punching richard daughenbaugh, knocking him to the ground. A group of other men then beat daughenhbaugh to death. The jury found tyler gui
A Des Moines School bus attendant and a driver are out of a job after the district says video shows one of them physically abusing a student with special needs. The bus attendant was accused of both she and the driver mishandled the situation. This is video from inside the bus on november 4th. Records show the attendant, ruby crying. The video shows him getting out hitting another student. Taylor pulls the child by the arm and sits next to him. Pressing his face into the window, which left a mark on his face the next day, the boys mother complained and the district fired taylor. The bus driver was fired for failing to intervene. Des moines schools released a statement. Saying in part, cases involving mistreatment of a student are a clear violation of the trust and expectation the district has that all of its employees work in the best interests of the students we serve. District, the childs mother apparently had a change of heart. Taylors unemployment appeals case includes a letter fro
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