Crash that injured two people. It happened at 8 30 last night in brentwood at the intersection of cellars avenue and church road. One person had to be extricated. This Railroad Crossing on highway 99 is where officers say a high speed driver was barreling towards two officers directing traffic. It appears crossing arm was down and they were trying to avoid accidents. We have one down. Reporter within minutes after arriving at the rail crossing, one officer was hit with an u. S. V. That driver 21 yearold lucas nelson jumped out of the car and started running trying to flee the scene. His partner of the injured officer ran after the suspect on foot and got him and arrested him. The injured officer was airlifted. Major life threatening injuries. Currently critical but stable and being evaluated by medical staff here. This happened around 1 20 a. M. Nelson was intoxicated and from the bay area but attends cal. State chico. His father said he is shocked at his sons actions. A. I. Talked to
[applause] please welcome our county chair. Hello, iowa. Fellow democrats from across america. All 50 states of america, welcome to polk county. Celebration for our Democratic Party. Together, we will get to meet 17 candidates who are leading a conversation about the future of our party and our country. One of these 17 people will be our next president. They say bad weather brings good luck, and it rained like heck at last years steak fry, and then we won back the congress. I hope the weather we have today is going to win us back the white house next year. Before we get started, please join me in welcoming the elected officials and candidates who are here today. Usually, we read all their names at our events, but obviously this is a little bit eager, so we are not going to go through all hundred of them. Please join me in welcoming them here today. Welcoming join me in five of our newer steak fry leaders. Lindsay paulson and peter crane are our steak fry chairs. Our executive director
Thank you. All right. Thank you. Hello New Hampshire democrats. Thank you so much. They you think you New Hampshire. Thank you. You are making me feel right at home, thank you. Thank you to ray buckley in the New Hampshire democratic rte team for everything you are doing. Thank you joyce craig. I am with the people of manchester. [ applause ] and thank you New Hampshire for giving us the breaking delegation of sen. We need more like them in washington. Policy buff but because she has type i diabetes and she is worried about what will happen if her parents lose their coverage. She is 12. And this is what she is thinking about and the only fair answer to kids like that is that they should not be dealing with this at all. We, all of us old enough to vote should sort that out so they dont have to. Thats what we owe to them. So they can focus on being kids. And a few years from now by the time they are adults, there could be 100 million more guns on the streets emma we will cross the point
For sell hours of coverage several hours of coverage from iowa. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] have five president ial candidates coming to the stage today. Julian castro. Lets have him take it away. [applause] Julian Castro good morning. It is great to be with you in des moines at the iowa state fair. Thank you to the folks who helped organize this. Was proud of this state fair. Im excited because i am here with my family. Our daughter and and son. [applause] Julian Castro this is a real treat for me because as you can imagine, like all the candidates, i dont often get to travel with my family. So it is neat that we get to spend some time together. I think the kids are looking forward to the bumper cars and the sky ride and the bacon you sell on a stick. Thist to talk to you morning about what we are going to become as a nation. Here in we went around this crowd and listened to t
Ms. Williamson hello. Hello. Welcome to the Des Moines Register political soapbox. The politics editor for the paper, and we will go over the rules again, because we have to be iowa nice here. Art of iowa nice means you dont hold up signs, because then people behind you cant see. We also dont jeer, but feel free to cheer if you want, and be nice to each other. Now, author Marianne Williamson. [cheers and applause] thank you, thank you. Thank you. Ms. Williamson thank you. This is an extraordinary experience, and i am aware, particularly as a woman, that we cant do this everywhere. I am aware that if i said the fraction of things that i sometimes say and critique our governmental policy that there are countries where i might be taken off to prison, even tortured. So i am not only very aware of right we have to say what we think, but at this point in our history, we need to remember that we have a profound responsibility to say what we think. I am running for president because i think so