polson was too intoxicated to form the intent to kill. live at the polk county courthouse, kim st. onge, kcci 8 news, iowa s news leader. kevin: thanks, kim. meanwhile former state senator , kent sorenson back in a federal courtroom today for a second day of testimony. he s testifying in the case of two former ron paul 2012 aides. jesse benton and dmitri kesari are accused of making secret payments to sorenson, who switched from the michelle bachmann campaign to ron paul before the iowa caucuses four years ago. kcci s rose heaphy was in court today. and she s live in studio right now. rose? rose: prosecutors continue to find more evidence how he kept his name off the books. our cameras were not allowed in the courtroom, but our cameraman caught this video of him walking in. sorenson explained kesari had given his wife a check for $25,000 in december, which he later told sorenson not to cash. he said kesari told him to bill a company called ict for payment, which would then pa
he will not remain silent. vice pres. biden: i intend to speak out clearly and forcefully to influence as much as i can where we stand as a party and where we need to go as a nation. steve: iowa democrats have been waiting for a decision from biden for months. stacey: chief political reporter cynthia fodor is live in studio this afternoon with local reaction. cynthia: steve and stacey, supporters in des moines tell me they are disappointed but not totally surprised by the decision, knowing biden was still struggling with grief from losing his son in may. we ve been working hard to encourage him and signs were getting increasingly strong he was going to do it but in last , few hours, he made decision to not do it. cynthia: kevin mccarthy has been co-chair of the draft biden campaign in iowa. he recently had lunch at the vice president s residence in d.c. but we respect him if he chose not to. so we respect the personal decision he made today. cynthia: biden had staff ready t
iowa this summer. it s ben carson s turn in the spotlight. the quinnipiac university poll shows carson with 28% support. donald trump, 20%. marco rubio, 13%. ted cruz, 10%. all other candidates in single digits. dr. carson: well, you know, it s one poll. so, when we ve had several of them then i might get a little more excited. it is nice to know that people are actually listening to what i m saying as opposed to how it s being reinterpreted. cynthia: women are especially listening, giving the doctor a lead of 33-13% for trump. men are divided as 25% back carson and 24% go with trump. at this point we don t know if this is a meaningful development or the next chapter in our flavor of the month series. the question now, is he emerging as a clear leader or is he a cynthia: carson seems to be a clear leader with evangelical christians, with 36% support to trump s 17%. and carson tops the charts when it comes to favorability with 84%. rubio and cruz also trump trump. to know
and two juveniles, will all face two charges each, simple assault and hazing. superintendent robert olson declined to go on camera, citing student privacy issues. he did say on the phone the school board expelled three students until the end of the school year. he would not let us know whether these expulsions were related to the incidents or not. live in clarion, vanessa peng, kcci 8 news, iowa s news leader. steve: new information in a serious car-versus-pedestrian crash that shut down interstate 35 in west des moines for hours overnight. it happened right after 11:00 monday night just south of mills civic parkway. police say a driver got out of his car after he was in an accident. he was walking in the travel-portion of i-35 when he was hit by another vehicle. the driver of that vehicle stopped immediately. no charges are expected. the pedestrian was taken to a area hospital for treatment. police have not released his identity. stacey: new at 5:00 authorities , say a man s
that states in part, deadly force is justified when a person cannot be captured any other way and either the person has used or threatened to use deadly force in committing a felony or the officer believes the person would use deadly force against any person unless immediately apprehended. live at the des moines police department, mark tauscheck, kcci shibboleth. mark tauscheck, iowa s news leader. steve: new developments in the knoxville cross controversy. last night, voters ousted the 2 city council members who voted to remove a veterans memorial, which included a cross, from a city park. kcci s marcus mcintosh is just back from knoxville with the story. marcus: steve, it may have been that vote that played a role in the ouster of april verwers and carolyn formanek. this was the scene in august, as a few thousand people packed young s park in knoxville to make it known they want the veterans memorial to stay put. just monday night both verwers and formanek voted to remov