This is like the crowning jewel because it will turn what is a successful event center even more successfulto finance the 101 Million Dollar price tag. The board of directors for the Iowa Events CenterHotel Corporation planned to use a rare government program. Its called eb five. Foreign nationals who agree to invest at least 500thousanddollars in a us project, are guaranteed a green card. it gives you some certainty in your financing. but a group of us senators, that includes iowa senator Chuck Grassley has criticized the program which is currently under investigation by the department of Homeland Security and scheduled to expire friday. 14 08 4314 08 54senator grassleys office and his committees are very involved and there have been some issues as to how it has been administered and some questions. The board was program to fund up to 20percent of the hotel, which comes to about 20Million Dollars. we are going to have to seek alternative financing thats going to take some guarantees and the like but we have been working on those alternative plans. But the board isnt quite ready to close the door on the eb5 program either. no one has a crystal ball of course but we are hopeful. While the board is not ruling out private funds to replace the nearly 20 Million Dollars from the eb5. They are still scheduled to receive 36 Million Dollars from the iowa reinvestment act. A 1st mortgage of 30 Million Dollars and money from tax increment financing bonds to help funding. The Iowa Chamber Alliance is also hoping to bring more immigrants to the chamber laid out its wish list for the upcoming legislative session this afternoon. The Chamber Wants lawmakers to make it easier to recruit immigrants to help fill jobs where there is a shortage of workers. Its also calling on the legislature to cut business taxes again. In october. A state rules comity agreed to what amounted to a 37Million Dollar tax cut for manufacturers. The chamber says current tax rates make iowa less competitive. It wants the state to Pay Companies up front. In cash to come to iowa. 51 3151 49 iowas incentives which we believe. To be competitive with those states. Paying for the chambers proposals will be the tough part. Tomorrow the revenue estimating conference will meet to predict much money the state will take in next year. Governor branstad will use the estimates to come up with a budget. During the october meeting. The conference lowered its estimate by 121Million Dollars. Councilwoman Chris Hensley is responding to accusations that shes putting developers ahead of taxpayers. During Mondays City Council meeting hensley pushed to extend des moines Tax Abatement Program for multi family housing. The program was supposed to expire at the end of the year for any company that hadnt yet started construction. Hensleys measure extended the deadline to the end of june. It was narrowly approved by a 4to3 vote. Councilman Chris Coleman responded to the change saying, i feel strongly the citizens got hosed night. It was a low point in my 17 years on the council. All designed to help two uber rich corporations. Hensley agrees it was a low point. But only because of comments directed at her by other council members. Channel 13s mike 18 01 39 everybody knew the deadline was 1231 of this year. But developers Hubbell Realty and Conlin Properties were apparently banking on an extension. One Council WomanChris Hensley helped push through this week. The two developers were unable to begin construction at these six locations by the end of the year to qualify for tax abatement. 18 02 3252 how long would you say theyve known about that deadline . Oh theyve known about it ever since it was passed the last time. When was that . Five years, ten years, five years ago. Five years ago. But the key thing there though is it was changed significantly more than its ever been changed in the past. those changes approved in october restricted the tax abatement to a specific area of des moines. All six of the pending projects were outside that area. 18 03 1720 no, theyre not getting special treatment. This is a transition plan. Councilman joe gatto says hensley had no business voting on the proposal. Housing equity group, a Syndication Firm that purchases and reinvests tax credits for developers. 18 18 11 well, she handles financing, tax sindicator for three out of the five projects that we voted on, not to mention probably some of the other projects in the past shes voted on, since 2013, since shes worked there. Gatto says hensley should have abstained from voting. Something he did when the council considered mobile food vendors. Gatto says he had a conflict of interest because hes a restaurant owner. 18 18 4718 19 02 personally, i would have recused myself. I mean, ive proven that, if i have a conflict, im gonna recuse myself just for the appearance. Thats clearly what i think. I mean thats who i am, i have to wake up and look at myself in the mirror every day. but hensley says shes on solid legal ground. 18 06 3649 i have a legal opinion from our city legal, indicating i do not have a conflict of interest and again, remember were voting on an amendment to the urban revitalization plan, we are not voting on projects. mike dasilva channel 13 news and we reached out to City Attorney jeff lester to find argument is. But he told us that its considered confidential. A des moines student says she was abused by a teacher at roosevelt high school. Special ed teacher and Girls Basketball coach Gerald Johnson turned himself into police yesterday. Hes charged with Sexual Exploitation by a School Employee and assault with intent to commit sexual abuse. According to the criminal complaint johnson started calling the 16year old girls cell phone last tuesday. Then on thursday had her come to his classroom. There. She says he talked about having sex with her. Kissed her. And groped her. News of johnsons arrest quickly made the rounds at roosevelt high. Aj 10 03 24 it got spread around pretty quick. Its all over twitter and facebook. Nina 10 05 32 we dont necessary know if he did it for sure. We cant really judge anyone based off an accusation and an arrest 36 nathan 10 04 34 we were just because we know his daughter and his son 39 mary 10 06 04 we havent been told a lot because i think they dont want people victim blaming if something happened 11 johnson bonded out of jail shortly after todays court hearing. He is scheduled to be back in court on december 18th. A des moines man convicted of attempted murder found little sympathy in court today. 033727 i hope you spend the rest of your life in prison. I hope you die in there and i hope you got to hell Mark Mitchell 530500 i got more angry when i thought of you sitting in jail, able to walk able to move communicate with others. While my husband was in a medically induced coma 063516 the doctors are still not certain on what percentage of movement and strength ill get back in my left arm due to the choices you made that morning zachary whitehill one after another they spoke directly to pete polson. The man who drove through Pleasant Hill last november shooting at random. Polson shot two people and today he was sentenced to 55 years in jail. And must serve at least half of that before being eligible for parole. Polson blamed drug abuse for the shootings and apologized to the victims. 174425 i wish now that every bullet would have hit me instead. It is impossible to come to terms with this. I hope that when i say im sorry, it heals in some way the shooting also led to the arrest of pete polsons father. Because the two lived together. Officers served a search warrant pete polson seniors home. There officers say they found 10 pounds of marijuana. As part of a plea deal he pled guilty to one count of failure to affix a drug stamp. He was given a five year suspended prison sentence and ordered to serve two years probation. The Webster County courthouse is coping with a mess left behind by vandals. Police say someone broke into the building yesterday and sprayed fire extinguishers on the third and fourth floors. You can see the dust they left behind. Rescheduled and the courthouse is expected to remain closed until monday for cleaning. No closures at the des moines post office. The Processing Center is preparing for the christmas rush. The post office showed off its highspeed sorting and Automated Systems this evening. They say the center will really be humming on monday. The busiest mailing day of the year. Meanwhile a quad cities woman is already spreading the holiday cheer. Kimberly watkins decks out her dog in reindeer antlers and then parks along busy roads and listens to christmas music. She says people driving by love it. I noticed a while ago that he enjoys wearing hats, so i came up with an idea to get him the antlers and the santa hat and i thought we would just sit out here and try to bring a smile to people as theyre going by the mild weather is perfect for cyclone fans in ames. A little later. A look ahead to the cyhawk showdown. And the already long line to get into hilton coliseum. And Hillary Clinton is accusing donald trump of helping isis. How she claims hes recruiting and chances are youve seen this. Its pretty hard to miss in west des moines. After the break. The man behind the sign. And if hes for trump or against him. Six years after a federal bailout that cost taxpayers General Motors is bringing chinese made cars to the us. Today gm announced it will in the us next year. The car was designed in the us but built entirely in china. Democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton is targeting a different corporate loophole. Its called tax inversion. And allows companies to dramatically reduce their Tax Liability. Tax inversion involves a us Company Merging with a foreign company. And then relocating in another country in order to pay that countrys tax rates. Drugmaker pfizer announced plans to do just that with an Irish Company last month. The change will reduce pfizers us Tax Liability to just 5percent. Clinton says as president she would close the loophole through executive order. The drug maker isnt clintons only target. Today in the metro she accused donald trump of helping isis. Political director dave price has the story. Clinton has a Comfortable Lead not the case in new hampshire. A new cnn poll has vermont senator Bernie Sanders with 50percent support. Clinton is at 40percent and Martin Omalley is at onepercent. New hampshire holds the first in the nation primary on february ninth. Eight days after the iowa caucuses. Donald trump is getting a lot of attention in west des moines. And this is the reason why. This large sign of donald trump is hard to miss along jordan creek parkway. The homeowner says he isnt for or against trump. He just wants to get people thinking. 18 1418 39 what inspired me to put the sign up. Shaking up the establishment really well its also shaking up the internet. A photo of the dozens of comments from people trying to decide if its for or against him. Many of the posts are also about the size of the sign. With most people saying. Dan. A Big East School comes to the knapp center for the first time in 35 years. And its actually one of the original teams. Depaul tonight, then drake plays nevada and iowa next. Tough sledding. Graham woodward, measuring, driving, bucket and hes heading to the line. Bulldogs stride for stride with the blue demons. Casey schlatter backing down, hook shot, aaandd it falls. Drake down by four with two seconds in the first half. Giacoletti draws up the play for reed timmer finishes with 30. But depaul dunks drake 7471. The energy playing just their third home game so far. Theyre 20 at the well. Iowas joel wright, fade away, thats nice. Energy down five. Lazeric jones degree of difficulty dialed down, still pretty. Three ball is good. John stocktons son, michael plays for canton. Thats cool, but it didnt help. Energy wins 106101. Hoiberg, floyd, eustachy all won their cyhawk debut. Mcdermott, morgan, and orr didnt. Steve prohm will try to join that first group. Recent history is on prohms side, the home team has won 10 out of the last 12 years. Last season being one of those exceptions. Cyclones also riding a 31game non first come, first serve for student seats. Tents started popping up on monday. New cyclone head coach, Matt Campbell knows the way to win the students over. Pizza. Lots of it. State wide braggin rights decided tomorrow night at 6 30. Iowa and 4th ranked iowa state. Big 12 post season awards recognize mike warren as the offensive freshman of the year. Warren led all backs with 1,339 yards rushing. Juco transfer Demond Tucker is named big 12 defensive new comer of the year. Jameson lalk and dale pierson were both named to the all big twelve second teams. The walk out of Lucas Oil Stadium was long. Especially in slowmotion. Kirk ferentz has made the walk after wins and losses, with good and bad teams for 17 years. January first, will be his first rose bowl as head coach. Anncr when the attacks come here. The person behind this desk will have to protect your family. Will he be impulsive and reckless, like donald trump . Will he have voted to dramatically weaken counterterrorism surveillance, like ted cruz . 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