The mostwatched news at noon in central iowa. This is iowas news leader. This is kcci 8 news at noon. Many people are going to struggle to identify with that life and death situation in that moment, in that second. Mollie the Des Moines Police chief defends his departments internal review that concludes an officer did not violate policy when an officer shot a man through the window of her squad car. Good afternoon. It was later discovered that man, 28yearold Ryan Bolinger of west des moines, was unarmed. Mark tauscheck spoke with the chief this morning. He joins us now with the details. Mark a grand jury has already decided not to indict officer Vanessa Miller in this case. Now the Des Moines Police departments internal shooting review has concluded that officer miller was justified in shooting bolinger. This is video of the incident back in june. It started when bolinger pulled up next to another officer on a traffic stop along merle hay road and blocked him in, couldnt even open his
Eric right now on kcci, new rules for gun buyers. What steps president obama will announce today and why it will be tougher for one group to own guns. Plus your instant reaction. Shaina and arrested. Where Police Finally Found this sex abuse suspect after six months on the run. Youre watching kcci eight news. Shaina also this morning, a if youre new to working out, maybe trying to keep your resolution, well have some ways to really make it stick so it becomes a healthy habit. Welcome back everyone, its tuesday, january 5th. Im shaina humphries. Eric im eric hanson, thanks for waking up with us. A cold morning to wake up to. Metinka it will wake you up when you step outside. We have wind chills on either side of zero. The windchill in carroll at three degrees. Warm coats and sentence, you name it, he will need it to a brisk wind from the south. Lunch, recess, 30 degrees. Heading for 35 and maybe a little bit of melting. Kids will need to dress in layers. Today looks like the best day of
Your world in 90 second. What we really have is a president that finds the congress the constitution and the American People to be inconvenient to his gun control agenda. The president set to take executive action on gun control. This plan, much of it having to do with background checks. Donald trump is blowing off criticism of his new tv ad. Some of the individual which looks like its from mexico is from morocco. Its just a display of what our country is going to look country. Oregon. The fbi is monitoring the situation. It goes into its fourth day. Isis reveals there may be a new jihadi john, threatening cameron. Bracing for a band of storms, covering nearly the west coast of california. Flood waters begin in some areas of the midwest. Some areas in the south are on alert. In missouri, they lost everything. Uncertainty over iran and saudi arabia and a plunge in chinese stocks sent marks down. Chris gayle fined for playing cricket. Dont blush, baby. All that, the jayhawks. Three overt
Im Jodi Whitworth in for lynn. Nicole underwood graduated from East High School in des moines and was senior at the university of iowa. She had hopes of going to graduate school in illinois to be closer to her boyfriend. Thats where she was headed yesterday when the bus she was riding in lost control and hit a road sign she was the only passenger killed. Mike dasilva joins us now with more. Mike, you spoke with some of the girls closest friends. Nicole underwood was home for the holidays and got to spend her final days with her family. They even were with her as she boarded the bus. To say goodbye. Tonight, some of her family members and a close shared some of their fondest memories of nicole and told me what kind of person she was. 17 28 24 we were at the bus station and i think we were joking about all the celebrity look alikes that were going to be on the bus nicole underwoods brothers say chicago. She was going to see her boyfriend and celebrate the new year with him. 17 28 3751 wh
Would still be on schedule. That is if the weather holds up. And their people are expecting things to stay clear and dry. So good news for many hawkeye fans. A florist from eastern iowa has already made his way to pasadena. Hes facing off against some of the best in the country. In the tournament of roses parade. Laurel hollopeter is a floral designer for the dole float. This is the eighth times hes helped with the floats. This years 55foot long dole float has a tropical theme. With over 30thousand flowers. Prepping containers, prepping flowers, stuff like that. We have to reprocess all the flowers to make sure they hold up for the length of time when were putting them on. So, monday will probably be the first day that we put a lot of flowers on the float. Float included an acrobatic element. It actually features a zipline. You can catch the 2016 rose parade right here on channel 13 friday morning at ten am. This is just the beginning of our rose bowl coverage here at five. A little la