Local 5 news midday in hd starts now. We are iowa elias good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday. Im elias johnson. Elias new at midday today elias a man is being treated for injuries after being involved in a shootout with Waterloo Police while attempting to escape by car. Police attempted to stop 24year old Brandon Seeley around three tuesday afternoon. Seeley, who had an arrest warrant, drove at one of the officers, thats when the officer fired at seeleys car. A chase then ensued, coming to an end at a garage on hackett road. Seeley was taken to the hospital and remains in custody. No officers were injured during the incident. Elias back in the capital the medicaid debate brought plenty of spectators to the statehouse tuesday. Elias governor branstads plan to privatize iowas Medicaid Program went before a state Legislature Oversight committee. People talked about why they dont think thats a good idea at the public hearing. One of the top concerns voiced is the short amount of time to get everything done. There are 560 thousand iowans on medicaid and the roll out date for the new plan, is january one. Kelsey 1 04 33 we get a little nervous that when too much is transitioned too quickly, mistakes get made, errors get made, details get overlooked. Elias enrollment packets for medicaid are in the mail. But so far Provider Networks arent yet in place. A democratic senator tried to get the plan delayed six months, but the vote failed. Elias dont forget to share your thoughts about medicaid privatization. Do you think it is the way to go . How do you think it will impact your healthcare . Let us know we may use your comments onair. Your healthcare . Let us know we may use your comments onair. You can post you thoughts on twitter and facebook. Or you can email or call us. The Contact Information is on your screen. Elias a settlement has been reached over environmental violations in fort dodge. Elias the North Central iowa regional Solid Waste Agency will pay a 135 thousand dollar penalty to resolve violations at the landfill. The agency will also complete environmental upgrades and open a household Hazardous Materials regional collection center. The settlement addresses both solid waste and Water Pollution control violations that the state alleges date back to at least 2007. Projects agreed to in the settlement must be completed by the end of next year. Sabrina meteorologist sam schrier joins us again with a look at your forecast. Sam weather adlib we have another pretty nice day on tap, but like yesterday we are probably going to have to wait until the afternoon before the sun comes out and brings the warmth. We are likely to have some morning clouds and patchy fog similar to yesterday, but as we get closer to lunch the clouds should roll back and well warm back up. Highs today should be able to climb to around 72 degrees here in the metro with lows this evening falling into the upper 50s across the state. Thursday is looking mostly cloudy with a few isolated morning showers, but most of the rain will come through in the Late Afternoon through the evening. Friday we are going to fall back into the low 50s, and we will probably stay in the 50s through the weekend. Next week a big system will be trying to pull through the state bringing not only a bit of rain, but also a wintry mix and maybe light snow elias and now to the latest on the race for the white house. Elias the knives are out with republicans trying to winnow the field of candidates. And Hillary Clinton taking swipes at some gop front runners as a new poll shows how she would do against potential republican rivals. Abcs lana zak has the latest. Republican president ial hopeful donald trump thinks its time for republicans to coalesce around a few candidates. 7. Soundbite donald trump, republican president ial hopeful do i think its time to have some of the other republican candidates drop out . Yes. Theyre too many people. But with ben carsons popularity surging, trump is taking on his closet rival, saying carson lacks the experience and disposition to be president. Sot trump you look at ben, hes very weak on immigration, and he wants to get rid of medicare you cant get rid of medicare the attacks didnt seem to bother Carson Carson sot ive had a lot of experiences doing things that have never been done before particularly in the medical field. And with both trump and carson penning new books, the two men will begin battling it out on the best seller charts too. While in new hampshire, jeb bush is getting fired up were americans, damn it 18 32 00 some bush supporters saying the candidate they wanted finally came out last night. And on the left, Hillary Clinton is asking voters to support her, even if they dont love her. Clinton elias meanwhile the results are meanwhile the results are in for local elections here in iowa. Elias iowa voters headed to the polls for a number of elections across the state. With the exception of a few special elections, most of races were for city council or mayor. And one of the biggest races here in the metro, was the des moines mayoral race. Frank cownie gets a third term after taking more than 80 percent of the vote in his race against. 27 yearold anthony taylor. In the city council races. Chris coleman is the new city council at large representative. Beating loren esse. In the des moines ward 2 race, Linda Westergaard got 71 percent of the vote to beat marty mauk. And joe gatto ran unopposed in the ward 4 race. And in windsor heights, the top two vote getters were threase harms and zachary baleshenry for the two atlarge and zachary baleshenry for the two atlarge seats on the city council. Baleshenry becomes the first latino to serve on the city council. For links to your county auditors website and results from around the state head to our website, thats we are iowa dot com. Elias in Major International news today protestors take to the streets in taiwan, as the two president s of china and taiwan, plan to meet saturday for the first since the chinese civil war ended in 1949, officially known as the peoples republic of china and the republic of china, the two were officially separated in 1949, following the communist victory in the civil war. According to senior government officials, chinese president xi jinping and taiwan president ma ying do not expect to sign any agreement, but they do plan to discuss ways to cement peace between the two nations. Elias coming up on local 5 news midday. Theres a hero on the football field and in the hearts of his players at a high school in detroit. Elias and. We have a preview for tonights Country Music awards in nashville, tennessee. Elias next. Some new detials on the chipotle e. Coli outbreak on the west coast. Elias johnson and we accurate forecast. We are iowa elias we have new details now on the growing e coli outbreak at chipotle. More cases have been reported in the northwest dozens of restaurants temporarily closed and now the company is taking aggressive action to get to the bottom of the outbreak. Abcs Neal Karlinsky is in bellevue, washington with the story. This morning, chipotle is on the defensive scrubbing 43 shuttered restaurants clean. And even though the chain has not definitively been linked to the ecoli outbreak , the mexican food chain is now announcing its conducting its own environment tests of its restaurants and Distribution Centers and batch testing ingredients, in addition to tests conducted by health officials. nats the aggressive move to protect its customers and reputation comes as Health Department officials announced growing numbers tuesday 37 sickened in washington and oregon up from 22. And the chipotle locations they ate at. Now up to 8 instead of 6. Woman victim i know were never gonna eat there again after this. This was just a horrible experience. Another 25 possible cases are awaiting test results. Sot any outbreak over 40 people is significant an eight year old hospitalized north of seattle, is a vegetarianseen as a clue that a vegetable saying its also unlikely multiple restaurants would have undercooked meat at the same time. Meanwhile, a new lawsuit was just filed an ecoli victim claiming a burrito bowl she ate at a chipotle in Washington State allegedly made her so sick, she needed medical attention a week later. More lawsuits are expected to be filed this week elias in other food news today is National Candy day in other food news today is National Candy day as if you needed another excuse to eat leftover halloween candy. As we all know, candy is a broad term that includes everything from chocolate and licorice to marshmallows. And everyone has their own justification for what they call candy and what they dont so unwrap your favorite one today and enjoy elias it may feel far from being winter. But when winter hits, so will cold season. But before you get sick, there are a few ways to keep a winter cold at bay. Or at least the symptoms. First, make sure to have pain relievers handy. And if you plan to take antihistamines, keep an eye on the side effects. For cough, youll want a medicine with one of two active ingredients. Gwafehnesin for congested coughs. And dextromeh thorfan for dry cough. Also, be sure to grab some tissues. Elias sam is back now. Sam we have another sam is back now. Sam we have another pretty nice day on tap, but like yesterday we are probably going to have to wait until the afternoon before the sun comes out and brings the warmth. We are likely to have some morning clouds and patchy fog similar to yesterday, but as we get closer to lunch the clouds should roll back and well warm back up. Highs today should be able to climb to around 72 degrees here in the metro with lows this evening falling into the upper 50s across the state. Thursday is looking mostly cloudy with a few isolated morning showers, but most of the rain will come through in the Late Afternoon through the evening. Now, we are iowas most accurate forecast with meteorologist sam schreier. Certified by weatherrate the independent weather experts sam weather adlib we have another pretty nice day on tap, but like yesterday we are probably going to have to wait until the afternoon before the sun comes out and brings the warmth. We are likely to have some morning clouds and patchy fog similar to yesterday, but as we get closer to lunch the clouds should roll back and well warm back up. Highs today should be able to climb to around 72 degrees here in the metro with lows this evening falling into the upper 50s across the state. Thursday is looking mostly cloudy with a few isolated morning showers, but most of the rain will come through in the Late Afternoon through the evening. Friday we are going to fall back into the low 50s, and we will probably stay in the 50s through the weekend. Next week a big system will be trying to pull through the state bringing not only a bit of rain, but also a wintry mix and maybe light snow sam elias nature is also giving us a special treat this week. The Northern Lights are visible over much of the midwest youre looking at a timelapse of the lights early tuesday morning. The space weather tuesday morning. The Space Weather Prediction Center says a rare geo magnetic storm happening through today is the reason the Northern Lights are visible. Elias midday. We have scott wirth from the midwest comicon to talk about the Event Details for this weekend. And a change in ownership for a and a change in ownership for a very popular app. App. Sabrina elias midwest comicon will be november 7 and 8 at the iowa events center. Scott wirth is here with us today to talk about the event and the organization. Twelve years in the making and born from the longest running comic Book Convention in iowa, the new midwest comicon has stepped out of the science lab and has taken its first steps towards something far greater. It will stretch out beyond state borders to welcome all who want to be a part. This convention is for a community of comic book fans, artists, creators, families and so much more it is filled with tons of talented writers, creators illustrators, fun entertainment, vendors galore, very special guests as well as characters and costumes. One of our goals is to encourage the next generation to enjoy comics, reading writing, creating and thinking outside the box at the heart of everything the mc does is a goal to have a Family Friendly convention at an affordable price. Most conventions throughout the u. S. Include a stronger adult theme. From guests to cosplay attendees, many families are concerned about exposing their children to things they should not be seeing or hearing. Our plan is to eliminate those concerns because we want parents to feel more comfortable about bringing their kids to be a part of such a great event. We want husbands to feel comfortable about bringing their wives about being here with their husbands. The single most important element of the mc is our desire to give back. For example, each year a special child will be sponsored and a portion of the convention proceeds will go directly to the selected family. They can use our gift to help pay hospital bills, grocery bills, utility bills or anything else that will help them get out from under their financial burdens. So outside of attending one of the greatest comic Book Conventions around, our guests can know they played an Important Role in helping someone in a time of need. In addition, you can also know you are supporting local business, artists and talent from all over the midwest. The midwest comicon is a local convention and the proceeds will stay local and help our community grow. Ladies and gentlemen; kids of all ages, we encourage you to join us for what we hope to be one of the most remembered annual conventions around the iowa comic book club, a 501 c 4 Non Profit Corporation in cooperation with wmw,llc. Present the 2015 midwest comicon this years featured guest is comic book artist and legend jim steranko. Other guests include christian j. Simpson from Star Wars Episodes i iii, Nalini Krishan who portrayed jedi knight bariss ofee in Star Wars Episode ii, the white and blue dino rangers from the Power Rangers tv series, the actual shelby cobra sports car used for the filming of the 1st iron man movie, and roxy a life sized rancor, 14x17 ft. , from Star Wars Episode 6 return of the jedi. Events include a costume contest on each day, a live music concert, forty vendor booths youre watching local 5 news midday in hd. We are iowa elias on your money now elias candy crush is getting a new owner. Activision blizzard announced plans to acquire King Digital Entertainment for nearly six billion dollars. Activision is best known for more Traditional Games like guitar hero and call of duty that are played on pcs or gaming consoles. Buying the maker of candy crush will help it get a stronger foothold in mobile gaming. Elias hotel giant hilton is under fire for allegedly blocking guests personal wifi hotspots. The fcc fined hilton 25 thousand dollars for obstructing its investigation. The agency says hilton has refused to respond to most of its questions. Hilton guests have complained for more than a year that the hotels blocked individual wifi hotspots unless guests paid a 500dollar fee. Elias honda is dumping longtime supplier takata over its faulty airbags. The japanese automaker announced none of its new car models under development will use takatas airbag inflators. Honda, one of takatas biggest customers, also alleged takata misrepresented and manipulated requested the party to conduct an audit given to honda. Elias and finally. British music charts in fashion. The pop stars new single hello not only debuted at number one on hot 100. The song has become the first to get more than onemillion us downloads in a week. Plus, the songs music video set a record on vevo for most views in downloads in a week. Plus, the songs music video set a record on vevo for most views in a singleday. Elias in other music news were down to the final preparations for Country Musics biggest night. Entertainment guru George Pennacchio is in nashville getting in tune with all the festivities surrounding the cma awards. Sot musicians playing at the airport track when you get to music city, live music greets you at the airportbefore you ever reach baggage claim. When you reach the heart of nashville, theres music everywhere. And wednesday night here at the bridgestone arena, the oscars of musicif you willthe cma awards. Country musics biggest stars are busy rehearsing for Country Musics biggest night. And putting on this show is no easy task. Sot robert deaton, executive producer 15 years ago. Set design. track all that production, as you can see, requires a lot of equipment. A lot and plenty of instruments for all the numbers. This year, the audience is being treated to some special duets. Sot brad paisley one of the opening numbers is john mellankamp and keith urban . And still somehow sound country. Sot john and keith rehearsing aint that america duet track this arena will soon be full of major name in music. And the nashville streets are full of visitors whove come here to see the show of a lifetime. Sot Gidget Welborn i think everybody has a heart for nashville. This is a bucket list things. This is something you gotta dojust gotta do it. Sot Shawn Deremer growing up in the Central Valley of california. Roots . Dreamed of. Sot Mark Nordstrom to have this many talented . Our 35th anniversary . Come for it. standup close george you can see all of your favorties . In nashville, tennessee, George Pennacchio, for abc news elias coming up on local 5 news midday. Elias coming up on local 5 news midday. How much does it cost to be patriotic . According to congress, too much. The details, coming up elias next. The special needs student who was assaulted by his bus driver last week, spoke out youre watching local 5 news midday in hd. We are iowa elias good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday. Im elias johnson. Elias new details on our top local story now elias the student and his family are breaking their silence after an alleged assault by a bus driver and the whole it started when 9th grader Christian Suarez wouldnt sit his assigned seat. The bus driver grabs him by the ear and shoves him to the ground after suarez throws a book at him and makes a profane book at him and makes a profane comment. Because he was driver once he confront him. Driver once he the 15 year old and has the functioning level of a third grader. I was mad, angry, scared. Some person comes and touched your own family. It breaks your heart elias the bus driver 61 year old the bus driver 61 year old Robert Scarbrough faces child endangerment and assault charges. Hes out on bond and was given a nocontact order with christian. The suarez family will wait until the School District completes its investigation to decide if they want to sue. Christian will go back to school on thursday his parents will drop him off and pick him up for the next few weeks. Elias in knoxville. A memorial that sparked controversy will be moved. The kneeling soldier memorial mysteriously showed up, without permission months ago in youngs park. After an anonymous citizen complained about the memorial it grabbed National Attention about separating church and state. However, knoxvilles city Council Voted to move the memorial to private property. Local veterans said theyre happy the memorial is here to stay. In a way its almost better because right now, right now the rock blocks it and you better because right now, right now the rock blocks it and you kind of have to come over to see it, but over there itll be right in the wide open elias veterans said the controversy actually helped raise money for a new bronze memorial that will go in the silhouettes place. They will both be in their new places by veterans day. Elias in other patriotic news a congressional investigation shows the pentagon paid dozens of professional sports teams to support the troops. Now, some members of congress are looking to ban the practice of what they call paying for patriotism. Examples uncovered so far included military men and women carrying that giant flag at the Buffalo Bills game, throwing out the first pitch at the Milwaukee Brewers game, and rapelling down a rope at center ice to drop the puck at a Minnesota Wild game. Sot flake we have specific contracts spelling out 20,000 dollars for a salute to the home town hero actually specifying how long something had to be on the jumbotron elias congressional investigators say 53 million taxpayer dollars have been spent on sponsoring these events. The president is expected to sign a defense spending bill in a couple of weeks that includes a ban on the practice. Elias we have some neat night shots of lightning elias meteorologist sam schrier joins us again with a look at your forecast. Sam weather adlib we have another pretty nice day on tap, but like yesterday we are probably going to have to wait until the afternoon before the sun comes out and brings the warmth. We are likely to have some morning clouds and patchy fog similar to yesterday, but as we get closer to lunch the clouds should roll back and well warm back up. Highs today should be able to climb to around 72 degrees here in the metro with lows this evening falling into the upper 50s across the state. Thursday is looking mostly cloudy with a few isolated morning showers, but most of the rain will come through in the Late Afternoon through the evening. Friday we are going to fall back into the low 50s, and we will probably stay in the 50s through the weekend. Next week a big system will be trying to pull through the state bringing not only a bit of rain, but also a wintry mix and maybe light snow elias moving to National Headlines and the hero ordinance that has been capturing the nations attention elias 1shot with people across the country watching how houstonians voted last night. The message and promise delivered from houston mayor Annise Parker she wont give up on hero and she will prevail. Truly and unfortunately i fear that this will have stained houstons reputation as a tolerant welcoming global city. And i absolutely fear that there will be a direct economic backlash as a result of this ordinance going into the feet. Elias hero is a very the feet. Elias hero is a very meaningful mayor parker. It is the houston equal rights ordinance that includes nondiscriminatio n protections of all kinds for the city of houston, but most controversially protections based on Sexual Orientation and gender identity. Mayor parker received a lot of support from the white house, Hillary Clinton, and some hollywood celebrities for hero. But it wasnt enough. She said opponents, among them many conservative and religious groups, used fear tactics to convince the public that voting for hero would allow men dressed as women, including sexual predators, to go into womens bathrooms. We say to those who did not agree with how we voted evidently overwhelming in our city. We say come, lets sit down. Lets reason together under god. Applause elias after the announcement was made last night, there were people in tears. Visibly upset. Mayor parker and city council initially passed hero and it was in effect for three months but a lawsuit forced it to go before the voters. Didnt say what exactly she will do next to revive the ordinance, but she did firmly state her opinion that no ones rights should be subject to a popular vote. elias and now to detroit with a heartwarming story of a hero on the football field, a former nfl and College Coach who has been a blessing for one Michigan High School team and town abcs t. J. Holmes has the story. [nats] you just won the first playoff game in the history of Benton Harbor high school. Congratulations meet the former big time College Coach who came out of retirement. And turned a downtrodden High School Team into a winner. Sot coach Elliot Uzelac a lot of people said im crazy and i probably am a little crazy. Elliot uzelac had coaching jobs at places like michigan, navy, western michigan, and ohio state. But the 74 year old got bored after retiring and took the head coaching job at nearby Benton Harbor high school. The team hadnt had a winning season in 25 years and had never been to the playoffs. Now, theyre on the verge of a division championship. Sot coach Elliot Uzelac im seeing young men with more confidence. Thats really rewarding. Benton harbor is 90 percent African American and one of michigans poorest towns a place where hope was in short supply. Uzelac says some of his players were the breadwinners in their homes more concerned about their jobs than school or football. Sot coach Elliot Uzelac that was a difficult situation because they had to work. Uzelac provided job alternatives, set academic goals, instilled respect, discipline, purpose, accountability. The players responded. And began to flourish on and off the field. Sot percy brown we need more coaches like him. He cares about you, your family, and what youre going through first. [nats of cheering fans at game] their playoff run isnt over yet but uzelac has already helped change their football fortunes. And perhaps, their lives. Elias and a des moines fifth grader is getting praise. Her actions may have saved the life of a fellow student on a school bus last week. Anastaisa evans, a student at Perkins Academy was on the bus ride home last friday. When another student started experiencing a medical emergency. The bus driver didnt notice what was happening. So anastaisa jumped into action. Anastaisa driver, bus driver, this kid cant breathe. Dan coss the bus driver was able to veer off route, and go straight to that persons house to get the medication. Elias thanks to anastaisas quick action. The other student is doing fine. Elias still to come on local 5 news midday. weather sam has the details in central iowas most accurate forecast next. Now, we are iowas most accurate forecast with meteorologist sam schreier. Certified by weatherrate the independent weather experts sam weather adlib we have another pretty nice day on tap, but like yesterday we are probably going to have to wait until the afternoon before the sun comes out and brings the warmth. We are likely to have some morning clouds and patchy fog similar to yesterday, but as we get closer to lunch the clouds should roll back and well warm back up. Highs today should be able to climb to around 72 degrees here in the metro with lows this evening falling into the upper 50s across the state. Thursday is looking mostly cloudy with a few isolated morning showers, but most of the rain will come through in the Late Afternoon through the evening. Friday we are going to fall back into the low 50s, and we will probably stay in the 50s through the weekend. Next week a big system will be trying to pull through the state bringing not only a bit of rain, but also a wintry mix and maybe light snow elias youre watching local five news midday. Well be back after this. Local 5 news midday in hd. We are iowa elias for the first elias for the First Time Since we lost the great comedian, Robin Williams his wife Susan Williams is speaking out Abcs Amy Robach here with the story. Nats walk and talk 14 56 40;09 i just keep doing the things that work, you know . For years . She was the woman behind legendary funnyman . Nats birdcage Robin Williams. Nats mork and mindy fly, be free amy robach 13 05 45;05 nats mrs doubtfire amy robach was he the same guy that we all think we know . Amy robach 13 06 19;09 but not always funny . Susan williams 13 06 20;13 oh no, no. Robin robin but in the months before his death. She began to see that robin slowly fade away over. 13 30 06;12 hes such a beautiful genius, amazing person, and hes so talented, there was nothing, you know, his fears and insecurities were were killing him. And the day before he put an end to those personal demons. Taking his own life. She believed her husband was getting better. Susan williams 13 51 04;22 it was the perfect day. We just did what we loved to do together. And i know now that he gave me that perfect day. He gave us that perfect day. Amy robach 13 51 21;16 he planned it . Susan williams 13 51 23;21 in hindsight, its he knew what he was doing. After his death a media frenzy ensued. As she became embroiled in a contentious legal battle. With robins children her step kids. Over his estate. Amy robach Susan Williams 14 33 55;26 i was forced into it 14 35 01;29 in early october . They settled the case out of court . Amy robach 14 38 19;05 what agreements were reached . Susan williams 14 38 24;19 basically, what my husband wanted, which was just that i could live in the home until i die. That it would be taken care of. Shes now. Taking life one moment at a time. Amy robach 12 55 09;23 they say time heals all wounds. Susan williams 12 55 17;05 elias sam is back now with a quick look at our skycam. Sam we have another pretty nice day on tap, but like yesterday we are probably going to have to wait until the afternoon before the sun comes out and brings the warmth. We are likely to have some morning clouds and patchy fog similar to yesterday, but as we get closer to lunch the clouds should roll back and well warm back up. Highs to climb tbut like yesterday we are probably going to have to wait until the afternoon before the sun comes out and brings the warmth. We are likely to have some morning clouds and patchy fog similar to yesterday, but as we get closer to lunch the clouds should roll back and well warm back up. Highs today should be able to climb to around 72 degrees here in the metro with lows this evening falling into the upper 50s across the state. Thursday is looking mostly cloudy with a few isolated morning showers, but most of the rain will come through in the sick of that tired old turkey
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