Congressman paul ryan of wisconsin has a new title speaker of the house. In assuming the position held by john boehner for four and a half turbulent years. Speaker ryan acknowledges the challenges he faces. He promised today to fix a house of representatives he calls broken. Brian mooar has the story from washington. The speaker of the house, congressman an honorable paul ryan. On capitol hill. A changing of the guard paul ryan took the gavel as the new speaker of the house of representatives. Its a house divided with republican factions battling each other even as they fight democrats. Wisconsin 18 26lets be frank the house is broken. Were not solving problems, were adding to them. Those problems were the downfall of outgoing Speaker John Boehner. Who was unable to break the legislative gridlock that had lawmakers lurching from one political showdown to the next. I leave with no regrets or burdens. If anything, i leave as i started just a regular guy humbled by the chance to do a big job. Nominee emerged after weeks of political uncertainty. As boehner announced his resignation. And republicans searched for a candidate palatable to the partys staunchest conservatives. The new speaker opened with an olive branch to members of both parties. Wisconsin 1 07 1 16i am not interested in laying blame, we are not settling scores we are wiping the slate clean. A clean slate and some serious challenges for speaker paul ryan. Under the constitution, speaker ryan is now second in the line of president ial succession right behind Vice President biden. Im brian mooar in washington. Now back to you. Iowas three Republican House members voted for ryan. It looks like ryan will not have to deal with a fight over Crop Insurance. A budget deal brokered by now former Speaker John Boehner would have cut three billion dollars from the program. However house leaders now say they will work to find those savings elsewhere after a number of representatives. Including iowas delegation. Spoke out against the cuts. No one is saying where those savings will now be found. But they wont come from the Crop Insurance program. Monroe police and the Jasper CountySheriffs Office are investigating a string of vehicle thefts. Four vehicles were stolen between sunday evening and monday morning. One vehicle has been found. But the other three are still missing. Six other vehicles and one garage were also vandalized. Monroe police say they believe the same group is responsible for all the crimes. For craft beer lovers in the metro, theres a new brew to check out near Valley Junction in West Des Moines. Fox brewing has been open for about six weeks. But theyre having a Ribbon Cutting ceremony in a few minutes to officially kick things off. The founder, brian fox, is from West Des Moines and says he wanted to bring a brewery to the historic Valley Junction scene. He started out by brewing beers at home before getting a job at court Avenue Brewing Company to gain more experience. Now, with six craft beers of his own, including the octoberthemed foxolantern pumpkin ale, fox says he thinks the craft beer scene in des moines is one to watch. When people talk about great beer cities, they talk about asheville, north carolina, they think about denver, they think about portland, and that sort of thing. But right now, des moines is one of the up and comers, and weve gotten a lot of recognition, because we do have some really great breweries around the metro. And its not just that we have great breweries making great beer, weve got quite a few new ones that are popping up. 01 20 if youre a walking dead fan, fox brewing may just become your new favorite place on sunday nights. The brewery is staying open late for the show, so you can enjoy a few drinks while you watch. If mid American Energy comes to your neighborhood to work, its possible you wont know it. The utility unveiled its new generation of Green Service trucks today. The new vehicles operate their boom and work lights from a battery unit, meaning the noisy engine doesnt have to run all the time. This means a smaller carbon footprint. The new battery unit can charge while parked, or it can be charged while driving down the road from a normal truck would, in order to operate the boom a normal truck needs to have the transmission engaged, so the motor has to be running. This allows us to turn the truck off, and run the same functions in the field on a battery pack. Mid american will put eight of the new trucks in service this year. Theyll keep building the fleet of green trucks as older vehicles are retired. The new green trucks cost 25 percent more than the old units. The winner of a big contest to name a big vehicle was announced today. A double decker mega bus came to the iowa capitol today. An online contest to name the vehicle. And the winner was Hawkeye State bus. Dont expect a huge new paint job. Just a small logo was painted to mark the bus. Mega bus is doing this in each state it serves. Governor Terry Branstad came out to check out the large bus. He also got a brief tour you know theyve got seatbelt for everybody. Theres some seats where you get a real special view. Double decker bus you set up front, and really get to see the country side. So anybody can hop on, obviously from omaha ne, come thru iowa with a couple of stops there. And then go right in to chicago, and connect throughout the whole country in the midwest, as well as the east coast. The new Hawkeye State bus is expected to be on the road in the next day or two. How much is too much when it comes to the cost of a prescription drug, especially one that could save your life . One local woman spoke on a panel today here in des moines about that issue. My drug costs, over the past five years, have totaled somewhere between 25 and 40 of my annual income. And that is simply not sustainable for me. I cant continue to take the medication at that price, and yet i am absolutely dependent on the medication to huston was one of four speakers today at the campaign for sustainable rx pricings event at drake university. The group is a nonprofit affiliated with the National Coalition on health care, and its goal is to get a National Conversation going about high drug prices. Today the panelists discussed why pharmaceutical companies can charge the high prices they do. They also tossed around possible solutions to drive prices down. One economist on the panel says society is beginning to care more about high drug prices, but were still not seeing much done to solve the issue in washington. We want innovation, but we also want competition. And what this panel is about, and what our conversation is about, is trying to redress the balance. Were basically out of whack; we have too much incentive for innovation, not enough incentive for competition. So the competition isnt able to drive prices down like we want them to be. 01 21 panelists called on iowa voters a pair of its previous pupils. Theres only one class being taught there these days. Fran riley has the story. In the tiny Clinton County town of elwood. Stands the former delwood high school. Dissolve hows that looking. Todd spain and kevin owen working in the building where they attended class years ago. They fight you every now and then. They are classics. Classic performance. Classic lines. Part of americana. This used to be the basketball gymnasium at delwood high school. Now its the place where these classic cars are waiting to be restored. We specialize in 19531967 corvettes. High end restoration. The colors. The sleek designs. Each has its own story. This is the first year for fuel injection. This is one of the earliest fuel injected cars. They got a lot of memories. They brought their son home from the hospital in 1963 when he was born. Todd s son levi also has a hand in the business. A shop steeped in history. You have the history of the car and the history of the location. The body work. Parts work. Painting. All done in house. Minimum time for restoration will take two thousand hours. And the end result is classic. Its great to be able to go and do what you enjoy everyday. Including going for a ride in an american icon. Corvettes to this day hold a special place in from purring engines. To purring passengers. Today the arl and uber combined forces to celebrate national cat day. This afternoon 30dollars could buy you 15 minutes of play time with an adoptable cat from the arl. Uber drivers delivered the cats. And an arl representative. To customers. Proceeds from the event were tonight winds will become less of a factor as lows once again slide into the 30s. Friday may see some sun early, but clouds will start to move in during the afternoon. Skies will be mostly cloudy and temperatures will be in the 50s for trick or treating on beggars night. Rain moves across the state late friday night into early saturday morning. Well be back in the 60s by saturday afternoon after and dry next week. Tonight winds will become less 30s. Friday may see some sun early, but clouds will start to move in during the afternoon. Skies will be mostly cloudy and temperatures will be in the 50s for trick or treating on beggars night. Rain moves across the state late friday night into early saturday morning. Well be back in the 60s by saturday afternoon after the rain exits. It looks warm and dry next coming up next. Sonya will sit down a drake professor to the pressing questions in america right now why are prescriptions so university on the rising prices of prescription drugs. We heard from the presenters at that forum. Now we want to talk to an audience member who has his own take on the topic. Professor tim welty is the chair of the Clinical Sciences department at drake university. He joins us now. A near tragedy was averted today dear future, sailed through that diaper stage, learned to walk, and im reading like a thirdgrader. But now its time to go out into the world. And from what i hear, its not all toys and games out there. Will you look out for me, future . Smells like spaghetti with johnsonville italian sausage. My favorite. The johnsonville factory burned down brian. I may as well move out. Well, if thats what yo. Youre right. Ill stay. Delicious johnsonville italian sausage. Find out how a burning plane was stopped from taking off. Last night was the debate on the issues. Today comes the debate on who won and lost . Our political director dave price will weigh in on the issue. And doortodoor politics could determine the winner of this next years election. But not the way youre thinking. Find out how halloween sales could predict the next president. News at four front door a nearcatastrophic scenario unfolded at the Fort Lauderdale airport today. When a passenger jet caught fire, moments before takeoff. Only 15 people were hurt, most during the evacuation and everybodys just giving thanks it wasnt worse. Passengers on other jets caught the dramatic scene thursday. Of a Dynamic Airline jet on fire. On the tarmac at floridas Fort Lauderdale hollywood airport. With over 100 passengers and crew on board, and fully loaded with fuel. The boeing 767 was preparing for takeoff to caracas, venezuela. When, according to the faa, the crew of a plane behind it. Reported seeing fuel leaking. Hey dynamic, out of the left engine. It looks like its leaking. Any time you have a spilling fuel on an aircraft taxing with an engine fire. Fire and fuel do not mix at an airport, or anywhere for that matter soon afterward, one of the planes engines did, indeed, catch fire. Reports of a fire. At least two emergency chutes were deployed. Where most of the injuries occurred. As the plane was hurriedly evacuated. We have one patient with burn injuries, the others, were other injuries although, firemen quickly brought the fire under control, the airport remained closed for a while after the incident. Dynamic is a Charter Airline based in north carolina. With just a few regularly scheduled flights to mainly south america each week. Chris clackum, nbc news. This is the second incident like this in recent months. Back in midaugust a skywest plane caught fire in nashville just moments before it took off. That fire was blamed on spilled fuel igniting in the planes tail pipe. No one was injured. After a dramatic, historic and lengthy game one of the world series tuesday. Things calmed down quite a bit yesterday in game two. After spending four hours on the edge of their seats in game one, roaysl fans could relax a little last night. The royals took a four to one lead in the fifth inning last night. Then stretched it to a sevenone win over the mets. Johnny cueto pitched a complete game for the royals. They head to new york for game three tomorrow night. Royals fans are looking for any luck charm they can to push the team to its first title in 30 years. Those fans should look no further than elizabeth spicers hospital room. On tuesday she delivered a daughter, mariah, during game one. As she explains. The timing was due to the stars aligning. I was born october 21, 1985, and it was between the second and third game of the series the year that we won it, so were hoping shes our good luck charm and well win this year. I was born october 21, 1985, and it was between the second and third game of the series the year that we won it, so were hoping shes our good luck charm and well win this year. 1419 but marco, when you signed up for this, this was a and you should be showing up to work. Edit to 59104 the only reason why youre doing it now is because were running for the same position, and someone has convinced you that attacking me is going to help you. It was the moment of last nights third president ial debate as mentor and apprentice went toetotoe. That moment caught the eye of our political director dave what else were his takeaways. Of last nights debate. Many of those candaidates are many of those candaidates are now making their way to iowa after last nights debate for a major this weekend. The Republican Party of iowas growth and Opportunity Party fundraiser is being held on saturday at the varied Industries Building at the iowa state fairgrounds. Ten candidates have rsvped for the event including jeb bush, chris christie, ted cruz, carly fiorina, lindsey grahm. Mike huckabee, bobby jindal, rand paul, marco rubio and rick santorum. Tickets for the fundraiser are for sale through the iowa gops website. Tonight winds will become less of a factor as lows once again slide into the 30s. Friday may see some sun early, but clouds will start to move in during the afternoon. Skies will be mostly cloudy and temperatures will be in the 50s for trick or treating on beggars night. Rain moves across the state late friday night into early saturday morning. Well be back in the 60s by saturday afternoon after the rain exits. It looks warm and dry next week. Tonight winds will become less of a factor as lows once again if you think we can grow our economy while ignoring climate change, think again. Americas most Innovative Companies are already moving to clean energy using existing technology to improve their bottom line. Now we need a plan to help businesses and families across america to save money on electricity and create millions of new jobs. It all starts with 50 clean energy by 2030. 30s. Friday may see some sun early, but clouds will start to move in during the afternoon. Skies will be mostly cloudy and temperatures will be in the 50s for trick or treating on beggars night. Rain moves across the state late friday night into early saturday morning. Well be back in the 60s by saturday afternoon after the rain exits. It looks warm and dry next coming up next. The president ial candidates are heading for your front door. But theyre asking for candy, not votes. Find out why halloween could thpizza ranches. Theres another industry thats cashing in, too. Theres a good chance youve seen a candidate or two greeting voters in your hometown this year. This weekend youll be seeing a lot more of them. But they wont be asking for votes. Megan noe has more on the candidate costume boom. Theres spooky and sweet. Pirates and princesses. 07 37 37 were busy. We pretty much stay busy all day. but this year at spirit halloween. Another familiar face is proving to be a popular pick, as well. 06 04 08 we do have donald trump. moline store manager lisa daman says donald trump masks have been a strong seller. 06 09 09 weve sold quite a few actually. head online, and youll find plenty of Hillary Clinton masks, too. Now, its not exactly scientific but theres a chance the donalds costume popularity. Could be a sign of things to come. According to spirit halloweens president ial index. Mask sales have accurately predicted the past five president ial elections. Bill clinton scored 71 percent of sales in 1996. George w bush had 65 percent in 2004. And barack obama masks outsold mitt romney in 2012. 60 percent to 40. Damans not convinced, though, that these sales have any predictive power. 06 43 36 no. Hahaha and of course, the next over a year away. But the National Retail federation predicts political costumes will be among the top ten this year. 06 30 50 they wanna support who they wanna be behind, you know . Which is kinda cool. and love him. Or hate him. Jeb bush was a very strong governor, probably the strongest governor in the history of the state of florida. He was a young guy and i think there were some folks in the legislature that thought they might be able to run over him. That didnt happen. One tax cut wasnt enough he had to do more. It wasnt enough to have 15,000 kids with School Choice in florida, he wanted to have 100,000 kids. If he didnt like a project, it was going to be vetoed. It didnt matter if you were a republican. It didnt matter if you were his best friend. He said this is where were going, this is how were going to reform state government. every politician comes in