Pressure on us, getting an adequate agreement on Education Funding early in this session. Hogg and other lawmakers also want to see progress on cleaning up iowas polluted waterways, oversight on the states move toward privatized medicaid services, and more emphasis on helping small business. 29 43 weve become too focused on one thing only, and thats agriculture. We need to diversify even more. And that helps if we help those young people and people going through life changes in a startup situation for a business. In des moines, brady smith, kcrg tv 9 news. For the first time in history, a woman is leading the iowa house. Republican Linda Upmeyer from clear lake took over as iowas speaker of the house for the first time today. Upmeyer is taking the gavel from kraig paulsen, a republican from hiawatha who stepped down after last session. Three years ago, pam jochum became her partys first female Iowa Senate President , where she still serves. Between jochum and upmeyer, the Iowa Legislat
2018 school year. Officials say the project is right on schedule. Most of the foundation has been put in and the site has been graded, a lot of the concrete block has gone up, about half of it is done, theyre laying about 2,000 blocks a day, there about 300,000 blocks in this building. Construction and the roads around the school is set to begin this march. It will be complete before the school opens. It will probably be a long summer out there if you drive that road regularly. Live in ic, mark carlson, kcrgtv9 news. The results of a special census last fall will help North Liberty get more funding for Road Construction projects like this. The census showed the citys population has grown to more than 18 thousand, which is up nearly five thousand from a census count in 2010. Thats 36 percent growth in five years. And it means North Liberty will get an additional and construction. Iowa lawmakers clocked in this morning for the 2016 legislative session. Shortly after that, Something Speci
Front that will track in to the state. Ill have details in a few minutes. Picking up our team seven coverage. Storm track sevens Amanda Gilbert is live at a waterloo tire shop, where theyve been seeing more business due to the weather. Well this is something i didnt know. But tire shoo across eastee iowa. A. Like the one im in pressure check does this look familiar to you . pressure check with these below soon be dealing with this. flat tire weve had a combinatino of just good old flat tires. And cold weathers the crowning blow Services Says colder temperatures can cause your tire pressure to drop. They get low on air. Adn then if theres any other extenuating cirmcumstances. Wsuch as a pothole. It can be the major piece of straw that breaks a camels back. To avood this standup one thing you can do is cceck your tirrs every morning before hitting the road. Its a good idea to take a look airplane pilot. And its just a matter of Walking Around and taking a look at it. Lind says this is wh
Mart know Martin Omalley are in town at 6 00 at drake university. Complete coverage on air and online at kcci. Com and our chief political reporter will be there. Steve Hillary Clinton is picking up new endorsements in the democratic race for president. Placidoplanned parenthood gave clinton its backing. Gabby give giffords also giving support to clinton and Tracy Trayvon martins mother is endorsing clinton for the same reason. Stacey the republican race is getting tighter. The latest quinnipiac poll head but ted cruz not far behind. Marco rubio with 15 report. Steve today is day one of the 2016 iowa legislative session. Kccis Marcus Mcintosh is live at the state house with more on the festivities. Marcus you can see the state house behind me. This morning, when legislators came in to start their first day of work for the session, in the house, they met each other with hugs, hand shakes and smiles. A few new legislators were sworn in and there was a first in the iowa house. Republican
Announcer the mostwatched news at noon in central iowa. This is iowas news leader. This is kcci 8 news at noon. Alyx right now at noon, prosecutors lay out their case against the man they say brutally killed a clive toddler back in 2014. Good afternoon, mollie is off this week. We begin with new developments in the murder trial of joe lopez. A clive detective says lopez told him he sensed his girlfriends 20monthold daughter, ruby, crying in the middle of the night, and put her in a high chair to feed her. Lopez says he heard a smack and found ruby face up on the ground. The prosecutor questioned why lopez didnt immediately call 911. Detective vernon lukehart he indicated that ruby was laying parallel with the bottom of the chair and that she was gasping for air and that her eyes were rolling back in her head. Alyx detective vernon lukehart says lopez went back to the apartment while ruby was in the hospital, before Law Enforcement arrived. Our kim st. Onge is in the courtroom. Shell ha