With the man on the run. Kcci 8 news. Eric also this half hour, a new gym program in urbandale is teaching students all about including others and building new friendships. Well tell you how it works and what students think about it so far, coming up. A pretty cool program. Thanks for waking up with kcci 8 news this morning. Im eric hanson. Elizabeth and im elizabeth klinge. A little preview of winter this morning. It will not stick around too long. Metinka you might have to warm the car up for a few minutes, 35 in des moines. The frosty is temperatures so far this season and the wind has settled down, not a factor today. A great afternoon, headed for 56 degrees with a slight chance for a few showers overnight and into early saturday. Dealing with patchy fog this morning. In ottumwa, visited just give yourself extra time. Rain gives out saturday morning giving way to a beautiful weekend, highs in the 50s and 60s. Next week, 70s with the next chance of rain by the end of the week. Eric
Which means we have to reduce the size of government we have to reduce the tax burdon on hard working families, we have to get the federal government out of the student loan business, said carly fiorina. If you want to hear more of what mrs. Fiorina says needs to change in washington, join me sunday morning at nine for this week in siouxland. Mrs. Firorina joins me foa one on one conversation,. Jenna earlier this afternn, former pennsylvania senator rand paul made a Campaign Stop in altoona, iowa. He held a meet and greet at the pizza ranch in town. Paul made stops in winterset and ames today as well. Jenna new Jersey Governor Chris Christie was in cedar rapids today. Christie continues to campaign in the hawkeye state. The gop president ial hohoful has been ininowa since tuesday nights Republican Debate in milwaukee. And when asked for his best impression of gop rival donald trump christie lightheartedly delivered. Everyone in washington is a loser. Im a winner ill win in washington.
Good morning, and thank you for joining us on kcci 8 news this morning. I am eric hanson. Elizabeth i am elizabeth klinge. We will check things out starting with metinka. Metinka 57 already in des moines, a huge improvement over the frosty weekend we had. Wind at 17 Miles Per Hour and will continue to increase throughout the morning. The wind could gust over 35 Miles Per Hour by noontime right through the afternoon. Headed for a high today of 80 degrees, but the wind combined with the dry conditions is leading to an extreme fire danger today, so we have a red flag warning in effect. Elizabeth this morning, several businesses in newton are cleaning up after a fire that started last night in the panda garden restaurant kitchen. Customers and employees made it outside a free. Smoke and water damage was caused to the apartment above. No word yet on the extent of the damage. Eric a registered sex offender is charged in a child sex abuse case. Berlou barnard is accused of sexually assaulting
Steve new at 5 00 a pleasant , hill man is now in the polk county jail charged with 2 counts of lascivious acts with a child. Court documents show that 18yearold kyle calvert used a social media app to communicate with someone he knew was a minor. Calvert asked the victim to perform sex acts with other Young Children and record it. His bond is set at 40,000. Stacey the South Carolina deputy who slammed a student on the floor and tossed her several feet is out of a job. Kevin cooney is following that right now. Kevin stacy, this is deputy benfields. Deputy been fields. He has been fired after this video of a Violent Arrest quickly went viral and sparked national outrage. The Richland County sheriff says the student was being disruptive and refused to leave the classroom. But he says what happened with the deputy was not acceptable. It continues to upset me when i see that video. Its the fact that he picked that student up, and he threw the student across the room. Thatats not a proper t
Manager is looking on the bright side so we will hear from him in a few minutes. It is thursday, october 22. Shaina another cool morning but it looks like we are back to normal. Metinka it does feel more like fall. 56 in des moines with frosty conditions to the north. Therrien waking up to 32 degrees. Grab a jacket out the door. We have a couple of stray sprinkles. Those are not going to amount to too much. They will move out this morning but clouds will hold tight. A couple of peaks of sunshine but it will be cooler overall going for 65. Dont put the umbrella away, or rain in the forecast. Shaina breaking news. A fire at a duplex in des moines. This is 113 east mckinley avenue. Flames in a basement window and they arrived at work clock 4 00. Nobody was injured but firefighters are still in seen. Elizabeth the des moines mother charged with child endangerment after allegedly beating her tablet in a Grocery Store parking lot. An exclusive interview we are hearing from the witness he ste