williams pointe condos. when officers arrived they did find evidence of shots fired but no one was shot. >> the victim was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and has been released by the hospital already. right now we are conducting interviews with some potential suspects -- subject involved in side investigation. mollie: it's not known how the person was injured. the schools were locked down as a precautionary measure. they were lifted about 9:00 this morning. west des moines police have released the name of a man who was struck and killed monday night in the 7000 block of ashworth road. they tell us richard carson was hit and killed while crossing ashworth. police say the driver did not violate any traffic laws at the time of the accident. new at noon, roads across this morning following another snowfall. plus re-freezing lead to a few more accidents. like this car that spun out along i-35 and morningstar. blowing snow also a factor decreasing visibility and adding more snow to plowed areas. and a check on the very latest road conditions across the state shows that things are clearing up here on central iowa and down but high winds, blowing snow and dropping temperatures all making travel hazardous to the north. and that's where we find our vanessa peng. she joins us live now from randall in hamilton county. our things improving? vanessa: so far we've not seen much improvement. we are on 6090 randall. -- 69 near randall. you can see the snow blowing all across the road. visibility is low as well. as we travel hear from ames we took 69 northward. it was slick. the car was moving all over the place. been there were a lot of drifts of snow. all the snow -- we will continue to drive slow. not a lot of cars are here. we will keep updating you at 5:00 and 6:00 at kcci.com. live in hamilton county, vanessa peng, kcci 8 news. mollie: we do have some good news. no snow is in the immediate forecast. let's check in with jason for more on what we can expect this afternoon. jason: we have continued wind. it will not be stopping anytime soon for us. we've seen gusts upwards of 40 miles per hour. out of the northwest absolutely 35 miles per hour in des moines. that is helping to drop the windchill temperatures down considerably. sitting in the teens and 20's and a lot of locations. feel like temperatures are widespread into the single digits. very chilly day out there but thankfully we did see that snow stopped before some locations picked up quite a bit early run. we at des moines sitting at 2.5. 1.6 inches overnight. never exist to a total of 4.1 inches. we continue to see the gusty winds throughout the rest of the day. they eventually lighten tonight and the temperature drops to 18 degrees. we will have more on a very sunny and warmer forecast coming up shortly. mollie: parts of the south bracing for more severe weather in -- just a day after being hit by storms and tornadoes. mississippi and alabama suffered extensive damage tuesday as twisters tore apart homes and david begnaud has more on that. >> it's in the water tower. reporter: at least 12 tornadoes reportedly toward to the southern u.s. tuesday. this one touched down in mississippi and made its way all would alabama. leveling homes in leaving a path of destruction that stretched across both states. in ranging county, mississippi firefighters rescued at least eight people from rising floodwaters. >> i seen the light coming down this road and i knew we would be ok. reporter: they hit is a tornado hit their home. >> we survived by the grace of god. reporter: the tornado that hit collinsville, mississippi river to part the first baptist church. the pastor told church ever see her the tornado sirens blaring and rest his family to safety. he loaded his wife and son up into this white suburban and pulled alongside the church thinking the wall of the building would help protect the vehicle. the family praised inside the church with a hidden under a desk. the same storm that fueled tornadoes in the south created blizzard-like conditions across the plains. a whiteout condition and southwest minnesota prompted a travel ban while more than a foot of snow fell in parts of nebraska. there are no reports of injuries or deaths related to the tornadoes in the south. as for today from tallahassee north to delaware the real threat is flash flooding. cbs news, mississippi. mollie: turning to commitment 2016 news. the bernie sanders campaign has asked the iowa democratic party to re-verify the numbers from each precinct. hillary clinton was declared the winner of the iowa caucuses by a razor-thin margin of 49.8% to bernie sanders' 49.6%. that all came down to one precinct, number 52. the votes were missing until yesterday morning so clinton passed. it -- the iowa democratic party chair said she make sure every vote was counted over she called it. but now the sanders campaign is asking for further clarification. >> it was making sure we aired on the side accuracy. --erred on the side of accuracy. we look at them in nature it was 100% done. >> make sure that all the numbers arrived. look at the paper from each precinct to make sure it matches what was sent in. mollie: the clinton camp released a statement yesterday saying that "statistically there is no outstanding information that could change the results and away senator sanders can overcome secretary clinton's advantage." in the meantime several republican presidential , candidates are launching new attacks against their opponents as they try to gain supporters before tuesday's primary in new hampshire. and the field just got a little weijia jiang reports from manchester, new hampshire. reporter: donald trump is alleging that ted cruz won the iowa caucus by committing fraud. he tweeted, " ted cruz did not win iowa, he stole it. that's what all the polls were so wrong in what he got far more votes than anticipated. that." -- bad." he says the crews campaign put out a -- he tweeted a new election should take place or the result should be nullified. >> we will utterly -- reporter: cruz held a town hall. >> the central issue in this election will be reigniting the promise of america. reporter: as the two front runners battle for supporters, rand paul announced his race is over. his can't issued a statement that said he is suspending his campaign and is focusing on winning another term as senator seven of the republican hopefuls are here in new hampshire today holding events lessen than a week before the first primary race in the nation. marco rubio got a boost from a stronger than expected showing in iowa. he said he will seek paul's endorsement. rubio is scheduled a hold for townhall today. cbs news, manchester, new hampshire. mollie: we want to remind you that just like here in iowa you can trust kcci for the most complete coverage of the new hampshire primary next week. our chief political reporter cynthia fodor will be there. you can follow her on twitter and facebook for a behind the scenes look at all the action. still ahead today at noon, authorities suspect terrorism after an explosion blows a hole in a passenger jet killing one person. and bill cosby is back in a pennsylvania court for day 2 of his bid to get the sexual assault case against him thrown out. news at noon continues. >> this is iowa's news leader. this is kcci 8 news at noon with mollie cooney and meteorologist mollie: there's a bomb cause a midair explosion on a jetliner that just took of from mogadishu? investigators are looking into the explosion that led to the death of a 55-year-old man that was sucked out through the hole in the planes fuselage. jonathan vigliotti has the very latest. reporter: cell phone video captures the aftermath of tuesday's explosion as airport from the gaping hole the plane. oxygen masks were tossed around in one passenger was sucked out, his body was found later. a somali diplomat on board said everyone was afraid he were going to die. >> there was a hole in the plane. the first thing you are you about is if you're going to make it. reporter: he was heading to djibouti when the blast happened. it was at a relatively low altitude in the aircraft held together until the pilot was somali officials say they found no evidence of criminal activity so far, but the plane's pilot and aviation experts say the whole -- hole show signs of terrorism. >> that was caused by a bomb. they probably already know. reporter: a terror group controls part of the country and isis is expanding in the region. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news. mollie: in other world headlines, french officials want the state of emergency to be extended for three months following the attacks in paris this past november. the state of emergency has been extended once already into late february and must be approved by parliament. it expands police powers and allows authorities to stop the movement of people and vehicles at specific times and places. the request was made to the cabinet today. bill cosby is back in court for day 2 of his effort to get the sexual assault case against him dropped. at issue is an unwritten promise of immunity that a previous cosby's now-dead lawyer a decade ago. cosby is accused of drugging and violating a former temple university athletic department employee in 2004. health officials in texas are investigating the first known case of the mosquito-born zika virus transmitted in the u.s. they say the person likely contracted the virus after sexual contact with an infected person who had traveled to venezuela. health officials say that would change the paradigm of the quickly spreading epidemic. the virus has been linked to a rare birth defect in thousands of babies, mostly in south america. the governor of michigan is expected to propose today that the state provide $30 million to help residents of flint pay their water bills. others say michigan should fully cover water bills instead of just a portion. the acting chief of the epa has told congress that the flint crisis was avoidable and that state officials had resisted calls to deal with it. very low. blowing snow up north of us. how long will that continue? jason: throughout most of the rest of the day and the winds will be dying down tonight. until then we have the wind with us. no snow falling even if we see it blowing around at the surface. you see the main batch has shifted to the northeast and left us with largely cloud cover. do not expect any more snow falling today. those of us that have gotten up to enjoy it, some pretty impressive things. you can see out and guthrie center they're putting together a snow fort. when i put snow forts together i just kind of mashed snow on top of each other. i do not build exquisite bricks. thank you for sending in that picture. 23 is what we are at right now. a chilly 23 as the wind continues to blow. 29 miles per hour, a wind chill do you see the massive system continuing to push eastward. we have the skies clearing up to the northwest. eventually we will break of the cloud cover overhead. that will leave us with partly cloudy skies tonight and tomorrow as well. we do have some sunshine in the forecast if you can believe it. we have to wait until tomorrow to actually get there. it will be a chilly weight as our -- wait as our windchill temperature state above and below zero depending on where you are at. that wind is on the backside of this system now. you can see these thin black lines. they are called isobars. this whole thing will continue to shift eastward. you can see those close together bars are not so close together anymore. that will mean a lightning of the wind -- lightening of the wind. we have chances of actually getting our average temperature of 33 tomorrow. you can see clouds continue to clear as we head into the evening tonight. we do bring in some light cloud cover tomorrow as the system begins to pass to the north of us. i don't think we see anything out of this but we do have a chance at a little bit of sunshine and eventual cloud cover as a moving to the evening tomorrow. winds do eventually lighten. we are talking 20's, 30's, even 40's. we are down in the teens tonight. there is a lot -- a relaxing of the winds for us. it will be a chilly one. 13 tonight. feel like temperatures still sitting in the single digits. we have got clouds. those clear from west to east. then we warm back up. 33 on thursday and at the 34 on friday. you look at the weekend and yes, we have a straight shot for snow on sunday but we are back to 40 degrees. we can shake a little bit of this ice off. thank you very much. coming up, adorable adoptables plus details on the annual raise next on iowa's news lea i've been a turkey farmer my whole life... we don't use growth-promoting antibiotics, that's just the way things should be done. that's important to me. my name is glenn, and i'm an independent turkey farmer. (female announcer) honeysuckle white . no growth-promoting antibiotics, mollie: lindsay is joining me now from the animal rescue league. we will talk a little bit later about raise your paws, a successful fundraiser. this will be another fun event. first of all we have some adorable adoptables. argument capacity right now? lindsay: we had lots of adoption and even yesterday with the weather we had people at adopting. mollie: we like to hear that. we were out there earlier today let's take a look. lindsay: this is georgia belle. she is the life of the party. look at that smile. she can be shy. we like you to do an introduction with any other dogs you have. this is duke. he's very curious. he love streets. he is pretty active and he will keep you on your toes. baltimore feather ones. this is poker. he knows sit, down, and come. he's got the basics down. he seems to like other dogs but a dog intro will let us know. this is frosty paws. he can be cut only want to get to know you. he has lived with cats and dogs in the past. mollie: he just wants to be on your lap. lindsay: he is eight years old which makes them available without better with age program. and this is rosetta. she can be shy until she gets to know you. but once she does she loves to cuddle. she enjoys plush toys. she has done well with other cats. it's nice for a cap to have a buddy cat they can be remakes with. mollie: especially these cold winter days. raise your paws? it's our biggest fundraiser of the year. is the place to be in april. it's april 16 from 5:00 to 10:00 p.m. we have over 450 items available to bid on in both our silent and live auction. we have original art, jewelry, tickets to sporting events, you name it. it's a really great event and all the money benefits the homeless pets. mollie: tickets are available in all the information and where do we go to find that? lindsay: arl-iowa.org. you can get ticket information and purchase them right on the website and see all the adoptable pets we have. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [kcci captioning is brought to you by the iowa clinic] mollie: finally it's being , called a low tech solution to a high tech problem. police in the netherlands want to use bald eagles to take out drones. the dutch national police are unmanned devices that some consider a nuisance. they've been trained to swoop in and neatly dispose the drones. the rise of drone technology has been matched by the rise of anti-drone technology with companies creating radio jammers and even net-weilding interceptor drones, porches getting eagle. jason: high tech lingo. go eagles. mollie: drone wars, i guess. jason: sounds like a movie. gusty winds continuing to the afternoon and we will eventually see these fade back. it will not be enough to get our feel like temperatures out of the single digits. we will be there all day long. highs today in the mid-20's. that occurred early on and we continue to see our temperatures drop off. we will continue to do so into the overnight but we are back in the 40's this week. mollie: thank you for joining us

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