Wash journal. And if you missed any of the live coverage, watch any time on demand at cspan. Org or listen on the go with the free cspan radio app. Now to the lecture part of our program. Our speaker tonight is dr. William hitchcock, author of the age of Eisenhower America and the world in the 1950s. Dr. Hitchcock with the William Corcoran professor from the university of virginia where he focuses on international, diplomatic and military history of the 20th century, in particular the era of the world wars an the cold war, and in addition to the age of eisenhower dr. Hitchcock is the author of the bitter road to freedom, a new history of the liberation of europe which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a winner of the george lewis spear prize and a Financial Times bestseller in the united kingdom. Following dr. Hitchcocks remarks, ann compton will join for a conversation on this great biography and the 34th president of the United States. Ann is a pioneer of journalism in america. The f
Future of space travel. Welcome back everyone, and thanks for choosing kcci. Im eric hanson. Elizabeth im elizabeth klinge. Its tuesday, december 22nd. You will definitely want a code but things could be worse. Frank temperatures waking up this morning around our average high. I think we will take that. A live shot from winterset, notice some fog in the air. Especially down to the south and wests acute that in mind if you are heading in. You see the lights on top of the buildings, winterset down there and Madison County decorated so nice this time of year. 28 in ames, 27 and fort dodge. We could see fog around toward lamoni. He that in mind if you are in from the south and west. Mainly cloudy, 32 by nine. The low 40s. 3 00 has some sunshine and temperatures in the mid40s. Elizabeth we start with new information this morning, eddie tiptons alleged lottery fraud goes beyond just iowa. Emmy victor is here with what Kansas Lottery officials are saying he did. Emmy . Emmy elizabeth, this in
Had enough of that. Ryan s. last month a kcci investigation revealed county deputies responded to evolution nightclub 70 times in seven months. Thats more than twice every weekend. It was finally an overall symptom of a greater disease which was an out of control bar. Ryan s. polk county supervisor Robert Brownell says the tipping point, a deadly shooting in the parking lot six weeks ago. I think the bigger overshadowing piece was just safety when we had the gun activity. Ryan s. polk county suspended the bars Liquor License after novembers shooting. Weve learned the owners failed to appear for an appeal hearing friday, permanently losing its Liquor License. Investigators reviewed hours of Video Surveillance from inside the nightclub and witnessed multiple Violations Including serving minors failure to check serving minors, failure to check ids and serving alcohol after hours. County leaders now say theyd prefer that property remain alcoholfree. Its going to take some along with anothe
Ryan smiths live in north des moines with the new details. Ryan the door here at evolution nightclub is locked and will not be reopening. That parking lot shooting sparked an investigation into dayday operations here. What investigators found resulted in a Liquor License suspension. Now posted on the businesss front door. It appears the controversial nightclub is shutting its doors for good. I think thats a good idea. I think that the neighborhoods had enough of that. Ryan last month, a kcci investigation revealed county deputies responded to evolution nightclub 70 times in seven months. Thats more than twice every weekend. It was finally an overall symptom of a greater disease which was an out of control bar. Ryan polk county supervisor Robert Brownell says the tipping point, a deadly shooting in the parking lot six weeks ago. I think the bigger, overshadowing piece was just we had the gun activity. Ryan polk county suspended the bars Liquor License after novembers shooting. We have s
Christina williamson was scheduled to go on trial for those charges today. She was arrested in may after her estranged husband caught her abusing three children in her care on hidden cameras in their home. Williamson faced five counts of child endangerment. Today she plead guilty to two counts. And admitted her crime in court. 11 1311 24 i picked up the child by one arm. Did the child cry . When she laid down, she cried, yes. Like she was in pain. She now faces up to seven years in prison. Shell be sentenced on december 8th. After seven hours of deliberation, a jury has yet to reach a verdict in the trial of a des moines man. 33 year old pete polson is charged with three counts of attempted murder among other charges. Polson went on a random shooting spree in Pleasant Hill last november. Two people were shot. Bullets narrowly missed a third. During the week long trial, 40 witnesses testified, 37 of those for the state. Polson is using an intoxication defense. He claims he doesnt rememb