Stacey a man is arrested after West Des Moines police say he intentionally set a woman on fire. Kccis Mark Tauscheck just back from West Des Moines. Mark true, this is hard to believe. 58yearold john moore, jr. Is charged with willful injury causing bodily injury. Officers say they were called to 127 8th street around 6 20 this morning in West Des Moines on a report of a person who had been burned. They say they found 54yearold Jackie Gilbert with burns on her upper body. She apparently waited almost 24 hours to report this. Gilbert told police she had been arguing with moore thursday morning, when he threw an unknown flammable substance on her and then set her on fire. Sgt. Kock this is a first for me. But i dont know i have ever heard of that before, someone intentionally lighting someone else on fire. Mark gilbert was taken to a hospital. Polk county jail. Look for much more on this breaking story tonight on air and online at kcci. Com. Steve thank you, mark. The school bus sign say
Really not that cool. Keeping some of the heating from the day yesterday towards the ground but the wind is a little stiff from the northwest, currently at 15 miles per hour. 8 00 a. M. Temperature holding in the mid50s. It will be a slow warm up and we will not warm up much. Low 60s by 4 00 with mostly sunny skies. It will be a great day to be outside as long as you can stand that wind. Alyx thanks, frank. Getting right to commitment 2016, the Democratic Party may be down to only 3 candidates, but as many as 7000 democrats are expected to gather in des moines tonight for political rallies and the Jefferson Jackson dinner. Our chief political reporter Cynthia Fodor has a preview from hyvee hall. Cynthia here at hyvee hall, the candidates will each have 15 they will be in the center of the audience. The tables are set for 2000 chicken dinners, the teleprompters tested, the ballroom lit with stars and stripes but the fun will start hours before the main event. Hillary clinton will hold a
Crashed into an Apartment Building in akron, ohio. That building and an adjacent home were engulfed in flames. Police say best they can tell, no one was inside either building but survivers from the plane are unlikely. Were going to go to our transportation correspondent kris van cleave who is following this. Kris. Reporter scott, local police say it was a twin engine hawker business jet that went down. At least two people on board are dead, and that number is expected to rise. There are reports up to nine people may have been traveling on that small plane. Investigators say no one on the ground was hurt when the plane crashed a little before 3 00 p. M. As it approached the citys airport. Witnesses saw the crash. It landed on the Apartment Building, and it just blew up, and it just sounded like gunfire going off, like ammunition just keep going off. Everything was gone. It looked like a bomb exploded. There was no plane plane, no buildings. All the cars were on fire and it building was
Of iowas next president. Stacey dr. Subhash sahai, a regent from webster city, says he and the board made a mistake in how they selected bruce harreld. Kccis vanessa peng is live in our ames bureau to show us why he says hes angry and sad. Its new at 6 00. Vanessa doctor sahai says the whole hiring process was a sham. And he wants the board of regents to be more transparent. Bruce harreld will become the university of iowas president on november 2, despite an uproar from students and faculty about his appointment and lack of Higher Education experience. The iowa board of regents unanimously voted for harreld, a former ibm executive. Dr. Sahai we may have dropped the ball. Vanessa webster city doctor sabhash sahai is an iowa regent. Hes speaking out about how the search for harreld was conducted. Dr. Sahai i was angry, and i was sad. Vanessa sahai is calling for changes. Dr. Sahai i only had 20 minutes with each candidate, which is not enough for such a big job. So i told the board peop
Metinka stay whether aware especially this afternoon. Early we will watch showers and thundershowers lift through the for Severe Weather about noon 7 00 this evening. Possible including tornadoes. We do have a few showers developing across southwest iowa from corning toward creston and a drizzle near osceola. 52 degrees with clouds, notice showers drifting to the area followed by Severe Weather this afternoon. Highs will be warm, it is side of 60 degrees as the storms move out. Expect extreme wind to build in. Elizabeth and right now the Severe Weather is already hitting parts of colorado. This is a look at a dot cam near denver, you can see the ground already covered in snow as a Winter Weather advisory is in effect there. Further east, parts of eastern colorado and western kansas and nebraska are expected to get 6 inches of snow and blizzard conditions. Eric here in iowa, were expecting high winds, hail, and possible tornadoes. Polk county Emergency Management sent out an alert overn