Hillary clinton addressed the news of the day. The president taking action on gun control. Clinton said, if elected, she will standup to the gun lobby and fight to get common sense gun safety measures. She also said shes proud of what president obama announced today, that hes going to use executive authority to require more gun sellers to conduct background checks. 00 35 57 00 36 16 im for comprehensive background checks. I want to close the gun show loophole, the online loophole, what they call the charleston loophole. I want to end the immunity from liability that was given to the gunmakers and sellers, the only business in america that was given that. clinton was an hour late to the event, saying her campaign had to dece in cedar rapids, which took a lot longer than she thought it would. The former secreatory of state arrived and took the stage standing next to former Iowa Governor tom vilsack, who told the crowd how clinton helped him get elected. In her stump speech, clinton talked about what was at including president obamas Affordable Care act, and she told her supporters that she would defend a womans right to choose and planned parenthood from being defunded. 00 44 1427 oh, i think it was just splendid. She just touched on all the important points, the reason that we are democrats. The reason that were going to vote for her. Equal rights for women, equal rights for everyone. 00 45 5800 46 03 i thought it was really great, i like how she appealed to all the womens rights, and definitely making college more affordable for us 00 46 1019 with college affordability, im a student at drake right now, and its expensive and to be able to lower the cost for us will really help for us for the future. 00 47 0822 it was wonderful hearing hillary today, talk about the things that i think in america need to be addressed. Things about social security, veterans, and she seems to connect with the people. Clinton did not attack donald trump specifically by name, but did appear to take a not so subtle swipe at by invoking Trumps Campaign slogan. Clinton said i happen to already think america is great, but we can be greater but we dont get greater by diving and by insulting, by engaging in hateful mean spirited rhetoric. Bill clinton spent the day campaigning on his wifes behalf in new hampshire. And on thursday, hell do the same thing here in iowa. The former president has appearances scheduled in cedar rapids. And dubuque. An armed protest in oregon is catching the attention of president ial candidates. It started saturday night when the protestors took over an empty Federal Building at a wildlife refuge. Theyre protesting the fiveyear prison the ranchers intentionally set a grass fire to burn a dry area in order to prevent a different fire from damaging their property. They were charged because the fire put firefighters lives at risk. Today the standoff became the latest topic in the race for the whitehouse. Po121mo santorum 08 going through a situation where someone is going to get hurt because of their protesting their government and the governments activity, thats not a good solution. Po112mo carson 13 i dont condone them taking over, you know, Federal Building. You know, we have better ways of expressing our displeasure than that. But the fact of the matter is there are legitimate grievances po95mo christie 09 there has to be the appropriate mix of firmness, in terms of enforcement of the law, um, unduly put human life at risk. Cruz 13 every one of us has a constitutional right, to protest have a constitutional right to use force and violence and threaten force and violence on others, it is our hope the protesters will stand down not everyone had an opinion on the standoff. For one candidate. It was news to him. Q governor what do you think about the situation in oregon, that standoff there . Kasich i havent heard about it. Q where the people took over federal land. You havent heard about that . Kasich no i havent heard about this. When did this come out . Im not familiar with it. The white house is calling the standoff on federal land a local Law Enforcement matter. Today, it got easier to get registered to vote. Connection. The secretary of States Office showed off its electronic Voter Registration system this morning. Once online all you need to register is a valid iowa drivers license or state id. You can find a link to the online Registration System at whotvdotcom. Registering from you computer will be much easier. And warmer than going to the dot or auditors office. Joins us. Ed. Sounds like we shouldnt complain about the 30s this a boone man will spend at least leigh lepon wont be eligible for parole until then. He was convicted of Second Degree murder in the shooting death of Devlin Lockman in december of 2013. Lockmans family spoke directly to lepon during todays sentencing. 15 03 04 you have taken a person i loved very much and he has been replaced with a pervasive, overwhelming empty sense of sadness that will be with me the rest of my life 19 devlin 14 57 18 he was probably my biggest inspiration. Without him now, i cant find much of a reason to keep on keeping on, although ive been trying hard 29 lepon also addressed the court this morning. He described Devlin Lockman as a good friend he misses very much. Lepon also maintains that the shooting was an accident. Leigh 15 05 03 im going off to prison for something that i did not do. And i dont fault you for believing whatever you believe at this anger, no hatred because im going to prison and i know the truth and i have that inside of me 23 lepon has 30days to appeal his conviction and sentence. This Afternoon Police issued a material witness warrant in a des moines homicide. Theyre searching for alf freddie clark. Hes wanted for questioning in a deadly shooting on december 27th. It happened in the hallway of this Apartment Building on south union street. One person was killed. And a second is recovering from gunshot wounds. Police think clark may have information about the shooting. Investigators are not calling him a suspect. Iowa National Guard soldiers are making a difference in missouri. 45soldiers were deployed to a st louis suburb on friday. Their mission. Restore Drinking Water to an entire town. Brea love has the story. These troops are on their third day of hard work, and its been non stop since they arrived january 1st. Cg2nd. Lieutenant kenneth iowa National Guard when we arrived here we just go settled in. We had pretty much a up at 3 in the morning 3 in the morning until 3 at night. Troops are working in 12 hour residents are regaining a necessity. Within the last 72 hours theyve run 174,000 gallons of purified up to the fire hydrants and basically a fire hose runs, and we fill the on the back of the trucks and we have pumps on the back of the hippos, that will pump them into a tank, and into the water tower. The water from the hydrants is completely clean, but not suitable for drinking. The town is under a boil order, but lieutenant voorhees says residents very thankful. There have been a lot of honks, people drive experience the need shows its importance. Just seeing the signs that say conserve water, and going into gas stations you cant get a coffee because they cant serve anything with water. It just really puts things into perspective that they do really need this water, because it is a dyer issue. Thats why they are doing all they can. We also are running the Water Purification system those guys have just setting that up today, they got approval for the site, so they are working on getting that set up. The towns Water Treatment plant is now back up and running. But the water still isnt safe to drink. Iowa National Guard soldiers will continue work on the purification system until it is. They are expected to remain in missouri for several more days. It was a difficult end to the season for the iowa hawkeyes. And there could be reason to worry looking to next year. He was the best defensive back in the country. And nfl teams have taken notice. Later in sports. Will we see desmond king back in a hawkeye uniform. With congress in gridlock. President obama is going on his own. After the break. The First Executive actions on gun control. And why it the president deciding to do what he wants makes you knid of nervous in that legislators didnt decide this. Gun manufacturers saw their president obama to thank. Several proposed gun control measures are increasing demand. Tomorrow the Obama Administration will announce a series of executive actions to combat gun violence. And late this evening. The white house released new details about what those actions will involve. Details. 200 new atf agents enforcing gun laws. 230 new fbi employees dedicated to background checks. And 500 Million Dollars for access to Mental Health care. President obama is planning to announce these and other sweeping gun control measures tuesday morning. I think everybody here is all too familiar with the statistics. We have tens of thousands of people every single year who are killed by guns. We have suicides that are committed by firearms at a rate that far exceeds other countries. The focus of these actions. Keeping guns out of the wrong hands. The plan encourages states to report people who should be kept from buying weapons. It also partially closes the gun show loophole by expanding mandatory background checks for some private sales. However hobbyists and collectors register what i asked my team to do is to see what more we can do to strengthen our enforcement republicans in dc and on the president ial campaign trail have blasted any attempt by the white house to do this on their own. President ial candidate this is something that needs to be worked out with congress. Mary moloney, reporting. President obama will further detail his gun control measures on thursday. He is taking part in a town hall meeting at George Mason University in virginia titled guns in america. The event will air on cnn. Thursday is also the fifth anniversary of the shooting of arizona representative gabrielle giffords. Gunrights advocates in iowa say done is encourag people to buy guns. Obama is the best gun salesman in American History and theres some truth to that. Im sure we will see a large crowd at gun shows across the state of iowa for the entirety of 2016. And this should only accelerate that process. Aaron dorr is the executive director of the iowa gun owners group. He thinks the president s proposals will drive up attendance at six already scheduled gun shows in iowa this month. At the same time. Enrollment going up. Weve been having around 20 but this december and january we have been having around 50 each. In the metro. There is a gun show scheduled for every weekend this month. Rotary park bobber sculpture along Des Moines River walk. Desmond king has unfinished business. According to Danny America is not just electing a president , were also electing a commander in chief. That choice matters. Because strengthening the economy, making healthcare more affordable, raising incomes. All of that depends on us being both secure at home and leading the world. I will get up every single day and do whatever it takes to make sure our country is safe and strong. Iowan, king will return to iowa for his senior season. Kings mother, yvette powell, told the di earlier this evening that her son will not leave for the nfl, but rather return to iowa city. King won every award a defensive back could win this past season and was named a consensus allamerican. He finished with 8 interceptions to go along with 72 tackles. A huge boost to an already strong iowa defense. Rutgers. After winning a football state title in November Pella wants to add a basketball crown to the trophy case. Valley hasnt won a Boys Basketball championship in 23 years. Both are legit contenders this year. And they met tonight. Tigers ranked 2nd in class 4a, pella number 1 in 3a. Valley trailed by 11 at the half but they heat up in the 3rd. Turner scott, from downtown. Next possession pete economos, bottoms up. And they just keep on firing. Scott, another from deep. Lead down to 2. On the run, carlo marble gets in on the fun. Another 3 in about 2 minutes the 11 point deficit gone, tigers up 1. The dutch answer. Drew pringle, rainbow 3 from the top. Pella back up 2. Then off the miss its ryan van wyk, was unstoppable in the 3rd q. Economos again hi scores 25. Valley puts up 32 points in the 3rd quarter. Tigers win 6857. 2 of the best College Basketball teams in the country reside in iowa. New ap rankings released today and both the hawkeyes and cyclones are in the top 20. After losing to oklahoma iowa state only drops 2 spots to 13th. Iowa makes the biggest jump ive seen in a long time, up 17 spots to 19th. Kansas is the new number 1. After taking down the top ranked spartans iowa then went on the road and beat 14th ranked purdue. It was iowas first win in West Lafayette in 10 years. Hawks now 11 and 3 overall, and 2 and 0 in the big 10. Hawks have just 1 game this nebraska. 8pm tip from carver. Its also Adam Woodbury bobblehead night. Iowa state had a chance for a huge road win on saturday but ran out of gas in norman, falling to oklahoma 8783. The cyclones are 112 overall after losing their big 12 opener. Iowa state back home on wednesday against texas tech. Deonte burton was picked as the pre season newcomer of the year in the big 12. Hes living up to the hype. For the 2nd straight week burton is named conference newcomer of the week. In 2 games, big number 30 averaged 18 points 5 rebounds while shooting 72 percent from the floor. Prohm says burtons minutes will go up, but he doesnt plan on putting deonte in prohm says burtons minutes will go up, but he doesnt plan on putting deonte in the starting lineup anytime soon. The iowa state women started the season 2 and 3, didnt look good. But 8 straight wins later, along with a 2 and 0 start in the big 12, all of a sudden big test on wednesday for iowa on average, it takes three hundred americans working for a solid year, to make as much money as one top ceo. Its called the wage gap. And the republicans will make it worse by lowering taxes for those at the top and letting corporations write their own rules. Hillary clinton will work to close the wage gap. Equal pay for women to raise incomes for families, a higher minimum wage, lower taxes for the middle class. She gets the job done for us. Days after the paris attacks, senators came together for a topsecret briefing on the terrorist threat. Marco rubio was missing fundraising in california instead. Two weeks later, terrorists struck again in san bernardino. And where was marco . Fundraising again in new orleans. Over the last 3 years, rubio has missed Important National security hearings and missed more total votes than any other senator. Politics first thats the rubio way. Right to rise usa