Today in the trial of William Porter. The first of Six Police Officers to be charged in connection with the death of freddie gray. The defense rested its case on friday. Reporter Andrew Spencer has the latest. Prosecutors argue officer William Porter ignored pleas for help because the he did not care about freddie grays life. doug colbert university of maryland law professor the prosecution has presented evidence that went far beyond what the public expected, and thats what makes their case very strong. Over the last two weeks, theyve also argued porter went against Department Policy by not securing gray properly in the back of a Baltimore Police transport van. Porters defense has said the opposite arguing standard protocol was to not use seat belts. Theyve tried to pin responsibility on the vans driver, caesar goodson. warren brown attorney and courtroom observer i just dont see where the state has convinced anyone that beyond a reasonable doubt that simplynot belting him in when it w
Counts of driving under the influence. Resulti ng in serious bodily injury. Abc 9s lukas voss met with victims family today. Lukas . In thank you deborah. It was the Early Morning hours of january 19th, 2014. Tami allison got a call. The call that nobody wants to get. There has been an accident. Your two daughters are involved. From there its blank. For some. Charges and the nearing of a sentencing brings closure. For tami. Its the opposit. Sot it was very emotionally draining on all of us and it was hard. It was reliving the accident really. Vo the accident that changed tamis life forever. Her daughter Tiffany Schmitt was killed. At the hands of a drunk driver. The unthinkable happened and it struck without warning. Its always somebody else. You never think its going to happen to someone in your family, especially your children. And to tami. Preventing what happened to her is as call a friend or a family. Its not worth the risk. Its not worth the risk. Tiffany. Or just affectionaly ca
2years ago. One never made it home and another friend found responsible for her death. Ktivs sam curtiss attended his sentencing today at the Dakota County courthouse. Truck on a rural road near homer. The force threw schmitt into a ditch. Our lives were completely changed forever, said allison. A district judge says roberts history of seven speeding violations factored into the sentence. I do believe that this is the best we couldve hoped for and im very happy, said allison. Today we can finally ut this to rest and remeeer the good times of tiffany and not remembebethe accident every time we walk into this building, said allison. Pain the family endured for the past 738 days. In Dakota County, sam curtiss, ktiv news four. Roberts must serve at least five year in prison. The judge also revoked his license for 15 years. There is no word if hell appeal. Police in norfolk, nebraska still on the lookout for an armed suspect tonight investigators say the hampton inn was robbed at gunpoint t
Already in the 30s early this morning. We will however deal with some passing cloud cover especially across northwest iowa with a little bit more sunshine out west, so well be sort of splitting the difference of that here in sioux city as winds diminish out of the northwest. With some melting today and calmer winds tonight, fog will jump back into the realm of possibilities for friday mornings commute. Another system will pass us by to the north on friday too which might produce a few sprinkles on an otherwise mild day, and those days will continue into the weekend with a slight chance of a light mix saturday night sunday morning with yet another passing frontal boundary. The biggest of our concerns though is with a low pressure system moving out of the southwest early next week. Its associated snow chances appear to be on track next monday night and tuesday along with strong winds and a shot of cold air moving in behind it, so be sure to enjoy the mild see graphics. Wx timer 40 a nigh
Chief meteorlogist ron demers joins ss with our first look at the forecast at 5. After a cool morning start with areas of fog, things really turned around by the afternoon as central and western siouxland made it into the 40s we may take a small step back tomorrow, but only a few degrees which will still keep us above average. Well see more 40s on friday and saturday andnde could be close to 40 on sunday as well. Political insiders say Donald Trumps decision to pull out of tomorrow nights republican president ial debate in a feud with fox news is a gamble. Nbnbs Peter Alexander wiwi the story today from washington. N. Kelly, saying we cant give in to terrorizations toward any of our employees. Trump is still welcome at thursday nights debate and will be treated fairly. But he cant dictate the moderators or the questions. narr here in iowa, trump highlighting his antiimmigration stance with the support of controversial sheriff joe arpaio. And, looking to blunt criticism that hes a new y