Changes you can expect, coming up. Local 5 news midday in hd starts now. We are iowa sabrina good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday. Im Sabrina Ahmed. Sabrina new this morning, the iowa dci joins a suspicious Death Investigation in union county. Sabrina the investigation began with the discovery of a decomposed body near the county line with madison county. Authorities say a hunter found the body of 37 yearold Loretta Dillinger in a farm pond off of Redwood Avenue last week. An autopsy has since been conducted by the state medical examiner. Due to the ongoing investigation, the cause and manner of death have not been released at this time. Local five will continue to follow this story and bring you any new details as they are made available. Sabrina residents in a Monroe County town will need to begin boiling there water this morning. Sabrina a planned boil advisory goes into effect beginning today for the city of lovilla. Will begin completion of a water main p
Nearly missing a third. Sabrina before heading off to deliberate. The jury heard from 40 witnesses. 37 just from the prosecution. Evidence included this dash cam video newly released from the state patrol troopers. Special agents who searched polsons home found more than 20 pounds of marijuana and other drug related items, including meth residue. As well as a ballistic vests. Polson was the last person to take the stand before the defense and prosecution closing arguements. You dont go shooting people with a 9 mm weapon unless you have the intent to kill, pete polson had the intent. S no reason. He doesnt know. He had a mental disability and was in a state of drug intoxication. There was no way he formed the intent sabrina the jury only had 20 minutes to deliberate friday. So theyre continuing deliberations this morning. Local 5 will be there as the verdict comes down. Sabrina you can keep up with the latest on the trial. And any story we cover on our website. We are iowa dot com is yo
Windy day with even colder temps as highs teens. Saturday night snow showers with about an inch possible across the metro and a bit more expected to our southwest. Temperatures saturday night will fall dangerously cold as they dip below zero. We will likely not climb which means wind chill temperatures are going to be between 20 and 30 degrees, so be outside. Monday will start even colder in the morning with less wind, but we are expected to climb above zero for the high. We have a few snow chances next week with warmer air expected to return after thursday. Sabrina morning. The debate over Education Funding has already begun, as state to get their top the way. Democrats have four percent increase for schools. But a subcommittee has approved a increase. Amount branstad has also proposed. Two percent increase. Thats below the amount governor branstad has also proposed. Elias in the number two spot this morning. Elias the iowa hawkeyes traveled to east lansing last night, looking for the
Through the afternoon. The roads may be a bit slick in the afternoon and evening when you are coming home from work depending on how much slush wants to stay on the roads so be careful driving home later today. If anyone sees snow accumulation it should remain fairly low with maybe a couple isolated areas north of i80 seeing around an inch or so. Highs will stay just above freezing today in the mid 30s, and this evening lows should fall to around 33 here in the metro, so im not worried about icy roads. Thursday still looks warm enough across most of iowa to see mainly rain showers, a few of which could come in the morning, but primarily falling through the afternoon. Friday is going to be more of a wintry mix to light snow day lasting into saturday morning. Temperatures are going to be falling dramatically saturday from the morning into sunday where the coldest air of the year is expected to slam home. We are going to stay very cold throughout the remainder of next two snow chances. Sa
Why . Well, the reason the u. S. Is not growing is because government has grown too large. Its become too intrusive in our lives. Americans arent lazy. They havent run out of ideas and initiatives. They suffer government barriers to Economic Growth by definition. If you want to reverse this. If you want to restore the middle class, theres basic things to do. Abollishing the Capital Gains tax which penalizing investment in new jobs and companies would be a good idea. Id also love to see the dollar stabilize but this is simple to reverse. What gets me and by the way the middle class has been shrinking more since the end of this study. But the Obama Administration spent six years pulling the country to the left and then blames the right for the middle class shrinking, i dont get it. Well, look, im going to try a different approach to this. One thing we can all agree on is we have this problem with income inequality. We had it for a very long time which is why i wonder if we should be appr