air guard... crews used a tow truck to pull the trailer back onto its wheels. as you can see... the fence around the guard was also damaged. people are cleaning up damage just east of the metro in prairie city. 3 businesses sustained some structural damage because of high winds. part of the awning at this casey's was ripped off and thrown several feet away. the overhang of a bank was also damaged. there were no reports of injuries there. knoxville saw some of the worst wind damage though. one gust shot this two-by-four through a truck windshield. the southeast side of town also saw extensive tree damage. police say strong winds ripped two air conditioners off the roof of the nearby walmart. some minor injuries were reported there...officials say no one was seriously hurt. governor branstad plans to look at the damage in knoxville this afternoon. it's time now to get a first look at the forecast... let's head down to brett mcintyre at the science center. across the midwest...at least nine tornadoes left behind damage. high winds and heavy rains stalled traffic and caused numerous flight cancelations across the area. nbc's ron mott is in chicago with more... yesterdays storms hit one day memorable november storm. this storm, hit the small town of stratford... leaving a path of destruction and one person dead. according to the national weather it wrecked 27 houses... and damaged a dozen more. the aftermath... took months to clean up. emergency responders on scene that day... say it's something the town will never forget. "seeing everyone lives destroyed. the neatest thing about it was in an small town pulled together... we had meals coming in as far as waterloo" the town will hold a remembrance tonight. it's from 5 to 9 at the high school. hundreds spoke up to fight both for and against the bakken oil pipeline today in boone county... more than 260 people signed up for public comment in front of the iowa utilities board. it's meeting inside the community building in boone. the speakers alternated between those in favor and those opposed of the pipeline. it would cross 18 iowa counties carrying nearly half a million gallons of crude oil a day. many in favor pointed to the potential disaster a crude oil break would have on their iowa farmland and that the pipeline, which ends in illinois, is not an iowa utility because iowans would not benefit from it. those in favor say it could create nearly workers. dakota access hopes the iowa the right to use eminent domain despite any opposition. an evidentiary hearing is scheduled for monday. this morning five iowans were honored with the state's highest award for first responders ... the sullivan brothers award of valor. the award is given annually to police, firefighters and e-m-s personnel who go above and beyond the call of duty. this year's winners included state trooper tracy bohlen who saved the life of a man suffering seizures along i-35 in april. cedar falls firefighters eric jensen and kyly bovy were awarded for pulling a man from a burning home in april of last year. finally, nevada police officers chris brandes and firefighter bradley melton were awarded for finding and saving an unconscious man in a burning apartment building in february. while they were receiving the state's h hghest honor ... a u-s army ranger was given the nation's highest military honor. captain florent groberg was awarded the medal of honor for his actions in afghanistan in 2012. groberg was part of a convoy when a suicide bomber attacked. groberg tackled the bomber ... whose bomb vest then detonated. his actions saved the lives of the rest of his convoy. he's spent the last three years recovering from the injuries he suffered in the attack. he is the 10th living service membr to be awarded the medal of honor for actions in iraq and afghanistan. this week three iowa veterans reunited with each other ... and the helicopter that first brought them together decades ago. two of the men were riding aboard the helicopter ... which now is on display at dubuque's veterans memorial plaza. the third came to their rescue when they were shot down in vietnam. brad hanson has the story of their reunion. the cobra attack helicopter stands guard over the veteran's memorial plaza in dubuque. it last saw action more than four decades ago in vietnam--flown by these men--captain ken dehoff and chief warrant officer wayne burk. they're in dubuque ahead of a veteran's day ceremony, sharing their incredible story. "we were hit by three 51 caliber machine gun positions, and essentially shot out of the air, and crashed and burned. and then wayne and of that helicopter and get on with life." they were flown warrant officer kent crisler. "this would make a heck of a movie." but instead of a movie theater, they're holding court in a hotel ballroom--confronting ghosts of their past. "44 years after i saw it the last time, and now i'm seeing it again. maybe i'm hoping that this is a closure, but i don't know." all three men in dubuque for the first time, but it's hardly the first time they've been in touch with one another. "it's almost like a support system, to be able to talk, because there were just so few people in the world that were there and part of that, that you can actually talk about problems." and they're together once again, seeing this helicopter exactly as it was, 44 years ago. "it's an experience that, i mean, if i saw this in a movie, this never would happen. who would believe it would happen." "what were you feeling when you got to actually see it, and stand there and experience all of that? "it brought tears to my eyes. it's truly an honor, thank you so much." the three men shared their story ceremony. news... how the ames community theater on stage this month... but first...we'll tell you the endorsement that is following tuesday's republican debate...and the backlash donald trump is getting. it will be a busy day of if you think there's no solution to the climate crisis, think again. in iowa, wind energy is already producing enough power for over a million homes, reducing our dependence on foreign oil and supporting six thousand jobs. i'm tom steyer. with bold leadership we can do that across america. the goal is 50% clean energy by 2030. so, what are we waiting for? four presidential candidates make several stops around our state. on tuesday...they were all in milwaukee debating about the economy. now that policy talk is spilling over into campaign visits. tracy potts has more about what they are talking about today. super burned intough policy issues that stumped the frontrunners in this week's debate: presidential candidate :04-:06"the currency manipulation they don't discuss in the agreement." presidential candidate :07- :08"china's not part of this deal." continue in new hampshire. donald trump.. offering few details on how he'd humanely deport 11 million immigrants: presidential candidate :16- :18"well, it's a whole management thing." ben carson - who now says he supports boots on the ground in syria - isn't elaborating on his debate comment that china is involved there: presidential candidate :26-:31"i would have to refer you to some other people to get you the actual data." ted cruz and marco rubio seem to be gearing up for a faceoff. this was cruz in new hampshire last night, on rubio and immigration: presidential candidate :39- :42"when the fight was being fought, where did you stand?" rubio's doubling down on tough talk against russia's leader: presidential candidate :46- :48"that's what he is - he's a gangster." jeb bush... who held his own amid struggling numbers... is targeting donald trump's promise to send syrian refugees home: presidential candidate :56- 1:06"wow. i'm thinking, donald to their slaughter. is that the america that represents this extraordinary country?" super burned indivisions highlighted in this week's debate.. playing out on the campaign trail. audio outcue: tracie potts, nbc news, washington. you can ask some of the candidates questions at a series of channel 13 forums next week. the first is next tuesday... with dr. ben carson. the topic is education.... and the two more forums will follow with bobby jindal and donald trump. to find out how to submit the forums...go to who-tv-dot-com. today is going to be cold and windy withhighs in the 50s. a wind adviso is in today is going to be cold and windy with highs in the 50s. a effect until 6 pm. wind gusts may be as high as 50 mph today. the first 32 degree reading for des moines is in the forecast friday morning. this weekend is looking dry and warmer with highs in the 60s. a british comedy is coming to life on stage in ames starting this weekend... after the break, what makes this production unique, and how you can get tickets to this jeb bush: leadership means you've got to be all in. it's not about yappin'. it's not about talking. it's about doing. i know how to do this because i was privileged to serve in florida for eight years. 1.3 million new jobs were created. we cut taxes every year. income rose in people's pockets. people were lifted out of poverty. children started to learn. as president of the united states, i pledge to you that i will solve problems. announcer: right to rise usa is responsible for the content of this message. dear future, sailed through that diaper stage, learned to walk, and i'm reading like a third-grader. but now it's time to go out into the world. and from what i hear, it's not all toys and games out there. will you look out for me, future? to mark the occasion, the theater is offering up the first show ever produced by "actors"....charlie's aunt. richard foster, who plays the role of charley in this british comedy, ames community theater is celebrating its 60th season this year. to mark the occasion, the theater is offering up the first show ever produced by "ators...charlie's aun richard foer, who playsth roe of charl in his bitish comdy, ins unow wh areview. i wod li to form youhat actorsmes commity thte joins us now with a preview. joins us now with a preview. i would like to inform you that actors ames community theater is celebrating its 60th season this year. as part of that joins us now with a preview. i would like to inform you that actors ames community theater is celebrating its 60th season celebration, we are performing the very first show ever produced by actors, know actors has worked with your organization in the past to promote its shows. we would like to ask if article promoting both the show and the ames. the ames community theater was officially started in october 1956 as members of the ames playground players asked the simple question: why didnt ames have a community theater? previous interest in forming a group had high hopes but never became a reality. that is until that october in 1956, when everything just kind of came together. the first meeting was held at the sheldon munn on main street and jim okey was elected the first president. the first production arleys aunt was performed on december 14th and 15th at edwards school. actors is currently celebrating its 60thseason of productions, andaarmanent cility that houses s scene shop, costume room, prop storage, board meetis andre. it has become a leader in the arts in the community, and helped give birth to several other organizations in and around the ames area. actors is located at 120 abraham dr., ames, ia 50014 phone: 292-2073three oxford chums, charley, jack and lord fancourt 'babbs' babberly invite their best girls to lunch with donna lucia dalvadorez, charleys wealthy aunt from brazil in order to profess their love. when the chaps receive word that charleys aunt will not be arriving, they convince babbs to take her place and help them win over the girls. madcap hijinks and hilarity ensues as identities are mistaken and love blossoms in this ageless british comedy. november 12-14, 20-21 7:30 pm november 22 2:00 pm actorsinc.org we're back in just a couple of minutes with a look at today's top stories, tewe'll show you some of the worst and last night's strong winds ...and how many tornadoes were reported. the news at noon starts now. good afternoon and thank you for joining us, i'm megan reuther. crews with the national weather service are surveying damage across the state today...after possible tornadoes and straight line winds knocked down trees, damaged roofs and blew windows out of homes... that includes damage to this home, 27-63 stanton on the southwest side of des moines, just blocks from the des moines international airport. as you can see, several windows had to be boarded up, and large branches were knocked down there. take a look at this video a viewer sent us from inside the terminal at the airport on wednesday... you can see the wind blow a large piece of equipment across the before the equipment crashed into a parked airplane.. those same strong winds... flipping a trailer at the iowa air guard... crews used a tow truck to pull the trailer back onto its wheels. as you can see... the fence around the guard was also damaged. people are cleaning up damage just east of the metro in prairie city. 3 businesses sustained some structural damage because of high winds. part of the awning at this casey's was ripped off and thrown several feet away. the overhang of a bank was also damaged. there were no reports of injuries there. knoxville saw some of the worst wind damage though. one gust shot this two-by-four through a truck windshield. the southeast side of town also saw extensive tree damage. police say strong winds ripped two air conditioners off the roof of the nearby walmart. some minor injuries were reported seriously hurt. governor branstad plans to look afternoon. it's time now to get a first look at the forecast... let's head down to brett mcintyre at the science center. ad lib wx quick across the midwest...at least winds and heavy rains stalled traffic and caused numerous flight cancelations across the area. nbc's ron mott is in chicago with more... yesterdays storms hit one day memorable november storm. this storm, hit the small town of destruction and one person dead. service, the f-3 tornado touched down just before 5 p.m it wrecked 27 houses... and damaged a dozen more. the aftermath... took months to clean up. emergency responders on scene that day... say it's something the town will never forget. "seeing everyone lives destroyed. the neatest thing about it was inan smaltown pulled together... we had mealscomingin a far as terloo" the wn wl hold rembran tonit. school. hundreds spoke uto fight both for and against the bakken oil pipeline today in boone county... more than 260 people signed up the iowa utilities board. it's meeting inside the community building in boone. the speakers those in favor and those opposed of the pipeline. it would cross 18 iowa counties carrying nearly half a million gallons of crude oil a day. many in favor pointed to the potential disaster a crude oil break would have on their iowa farmland and that the pipeline, which ends in illinois, is not an iowa utility because iowans would not benefit from it. those in favor say it could create nearly 4,000 jobs for iowa construction workers. dakota access hopes the iowa utility board will grant them the right to use eminent domain despite any opposition. an evidentiary hearing is scheduled for monday. while they were receiving the state's highest honor ... a u-s army ranger was given the nation's highest military honor. captain florent groberg was awarded the medal of honor for his actions in afghanistan in 2012. groberg was part of a convoy when a suicide bomber attacked. groberg tackled the bomber ... whose bomb vest then detonated. his rest of his convoy. he's spent the last three years recovering from the injuries he suffered in the attack. he is the 10th living service member to be awarded the medal of honor for actions in iraq and afghanistan. this week three iowa veterans reunited with each other ... and the helicopter that first brought them together decades ago. two of the men were riding now is on display at dubuque's veterans memorial plaza. the third came to their rescue when they were shot down in vietnam. brad hanson has the story of their reunion. the cobra attack helicopter stands guard over the veteran's memorial plaza in dubuque. it last saw action more than four decades ago in vietnam--flown by these men--captain ken dehoff and chief warrant officer wayne burk. they're in dubuque ahead of a veteran's day ceremony, sharing their incredible story. "we were hit by three 51 caliber machine gun positions, and essentially shot out of the air, and crashed and burned. and then wayne and i had the opportunity to get out of that helicopter and get on with life." they were flown to safety by this man--chief warrant officer kent crisler. "this would make a heck of a movie." but instead of a movie theater, they're holding court in a hotel ballroom--confronting ghosts of their past. "44 years after i saw it the last time, and now i'm seeing it again. maybe i'm hoping that this is a closure, but i don't know." all three men in dubuque for the first time, but it's hardly the first time they've been in touch with one another. "it's almost like a support system, to be able to talk, because there were just so few people in the world that were there and part of that, that you can actually talk about problems." and they're together once again, seeing this helicopter exactly as it was, 44 years ago. "it's an experience that, i mean, if i saw this in a movie, this never would happen. who would believe it would happen." "what were you feeling when you got to actually see it, and stand there and experience all of that? "it brought tears to my eyes. it's truly an honor, thank you so much." an iowan used to saving lives is now fighting for his own. @42:57 "in a way it's been bad news, but there's always been a positive side to it." the good news...he's not in this fight alone...what his community is doing to support him, and how you can today is going to be cold and windy with highs in the 50s. a wind advisory is in talk to a nurse, find a doctor, or coordinate appointments with bewell 24/7. one of the many services provided exclusively to wellmark members. the son of a polish immigrant who grew up in a brooklyn tenement. he went to public schools, then college, where the work of his life began -- fighting injustice and inequality, speaking truth to power. he moved to vermont, won election and praise as one of america's best mayors. in congress, he stood up for working families and for principle, opposing the iraq war, supporting veterans. now he's taking on wall street and a corrupt political system funded by over a million contributions, tackling climate change to create clean-energy jobs, fighting for living wages, equal pay, people are sick and tired of establishment politics, and they want real change! [ cheers and applause ] bernie sanders -- husband, father, grandfather, an honest leader building a movement with you to give us a future to believe in. sanders: i'm bernie sanders, and i approve this message. effect until 6 pm. wind gusts may be as high as 50 mph today. the first 32 degree reading for des moines is in the forecast friday morning. this weekend is looking dry and a volunteer firefighter battling several cancers is now out of a volunteer firefighter battling several cancers is now out of and not able to do what he loves. so now...the community is coming to his rescue. nat @ 00:29 or 00:35 it feels like family... @34:57 "these are our brothers and sisters up here." at the bondurant fire station. @43:37 "we support one another through thick and thin." but lately, the thirty-five member volunteer force...is down its deputy chief. @32:56 "chris "boxy" poulson has been on the department for 24 years. he's battling stage 4 rectal cancer and several other cancers." @41:42 "it's been a long three years." poulson...or boxy as he's called...has had eight surgeries, ten hospital stays, and many treatments since being diagnosed.....not long after meeting his now wife. @38:20 "kate and i had only been dating about three months....ummm." cut to kate @39:18 "started our we're going through chemo. we had almost lost him a few times that year." as he battles his newest round of cancer, he's had to leave his job...and his role as a firefighter. @50:58 "the one thing i would say about what i've had to deal with so far is it has brought me closer together to the people up here at the fire station." standup@11:07 "now his fire fighting family is coming to his rescue. volunteer firefighters in bondurant and surrounding communities are rallying support with a spaghetti fundraising dinner." @37:48 "we're asking our community to step up to people that, like chris, who have been on the department for 24 years volunteering his time, not only up here, but teaching other firefighters. he's helped with school outreach the dinner will also include a silent auction and raffle. the money will help pay medical and living expenses as boxy battles his cancer cover with video of walking boxy at locker@43:44 "i'm very proud to be a part of this department and very proud to be in the fire services as long as i have been. i'm hoping to be able to continue that until god decides it's time for me to quit." the spaghetti dinner fundraiser is saturday night from six to eight. it's at the american legion hall in bondurant. we put a link for a go fund me account on who-tv-dot-com. look under the "on 13" tab. stick around, the agribusiness about wrapped up.. only a few percentage points left in the state of iowa.. and i did a lot of harvest coverage in the last month.. so for this agribusiness report special.. i have a harvest 2015 in review.. "well, the season started off real good, everything looking good. and then in july we started getting a couple of real heavy rains and that took away some of the both quantity and quality of our yield a little bit. we got some ponding after the crops were pretty tall and did a little damage to the ponding areas. but we still overall got a real good crop out here." "the season's been a pretty decent season compared to years past. the crop seemed to grow rather fast and almost seemed like the crops, the corn especially, is rather tall this year. we've had a lot of wet, late rains. a lot of dew. a lot of moisture laid on. there's a lot of disease within this corn, that the integrity of the corn is dwindling fast. i think we're one major wind storm or rain storm away from a disaster." "this season was a rather unusual season, we had an abundance of moisture. when we put the crop in we had a lot of moisture, it was planted a little bit wet. and through the growing season we had a lot of, and of course soybeans like moisture in august. and throughout the month of august we had ample moisture, in fact i was concerned that we might be having too much for the soybeans. but as the season progressed, the soybean yields have been excellent so far and evidently it's been an ideal year for soybeans in this area." "yeah it's been a really good year, we probably had a little bit more moisture than we needed, but we had good moisture. you know, crops really never suffered all year we had reasonable amount of heat and yields this year have really been pretty good. bean yields have been really good, corn yields have been good. probably the only thing that we're dealing with right here now is the corn's too dry and the plant health is not very good and some of the winds that we have been having, have blown down some of the corn. so it's been a really good year, but there's been some obstacles but that's the way it is every year." "we've been off to a real good start here, here in the soybean harvest, see we're running 60, just under 60 bushel right now. we had some beans that we planted in april, we've taken all them out. we're now into soybeans that were planted into early june. it's amazing for what they're yielding, for being planted in early june. but i guess when you have 32 inches of rainfall in a year it helps grow a crop. you know, we never did hit a time where we were lacking for moisture." "it's been wild, david, we've gone, probably three weeks now without any rain hardly at all. a little bit the last couple of days, but it's allowed the producers to just keep right on rolling. and it's gone incredibly fast, and it's been really good so far." "harvest has gone very well, we just completed harvest today. we've had very few rainouts we went pretty and through the corn and the corn's been dry in the fields. we've had very little field loss. it's been a very good year. how does it feel to be done this season? it always feels good to be done. especially in nice weather." i gave a call to the farmers you just saw.. and all the central iowa harvests are done.. south parts of iowa had a tougher season.. one farmer told me he finished so fast this year.. he was done before his wife's birthday.. she told him that's only the second time that's happened in all his years of farming.. if you want to see more on those harvests you can check out my photographs of the season, they're on our website as well as my facebook page.. you can check it out backslash geiger reports thanks for joining us on the agribusiness report.. i'll see you next time.. good morning, honey. mmm. honey? so sorry, mrs. parker. so sorry... find a doctor, coordinate appointments, or transfer records with bewell 24/7. one of the many services provided exclusively to wellmark members. call 844-84-bewell. >> daniel: nicole, hello.