Not to mention probably some of the other projects in the past shes voted on, since 2013, since shes worked there. 18 06 3649 i have a legal opinion from our city legal, indicating i do not have a conflict of interest and again, remember were voting on an amendment to the urban revitalization plan, we are not voting on projects. the city Council Voted to release that legal opinion last night. While saying there is no conflict on interest. It does warn hensley that quote, there are are significant factors due to your mheg Board Membership and consultant contract that may create the appearance of a conflict or the potential for a conflict that should be taken into serious consideration in determining your participation in discussion of and voting on ifa applicatons the leal opinn rommeedthat heley astai frovotingin orderto pevet th appearce of a coflict o iterest. Hele wt onto intrdce the ther i a ton of evlopmen downwn, garles ofany tax abtemets. Lenty f new acesto live. Chnn 13sjanna town jons us. Janny. 2016 mght aneven bigger year. Downtown des moines houses about 6thousand condos, lofts and apartments. In the new year. More than a thousand or so additional Living Spaces for rent or sale could be added to the market. 14 43 24 we have about 13 to 1500 units in various phases of development. Some of them like the one behind me is about half way done with construction. Others like Randolph Hotel will open early next year. 43 its all part of the housing boom in downtown des moines. Drive around and youll see construction on new lofts and condos. The market began to take off in the early to mid 2000s. Then slowed during the recession. Now its picking up momentum and city leaders say theres no end in sight as millennials and empty nesters decide city living is for them. While it isnt new hotel has rooms for sale. The new owner of the historic Kirkwood Hotel is converting the space into 54 condos that will be move in ready by the new year. 14 38 14 its been fun getting to learn the building. Taking the risk that we did, i wanted to make sure i knew what was going on all the time and thats why i moved into the property 25 the city says almost all of the units downtown are occupied. The new condos and lofts will be completed a few hundred at a time. The projects are spaced out so they shouldnt flood the housing market. A Webster County man is charged in the vandalism case that shutdown the court house for a week. On december eighth workers found someone sprayed several fire extinguishers on the second and third floors of the building. Shut down the courthouse and postpone all cases. The courthouse reopened on december 14th after six days. Today Police Charged 30year old daniel swick with burglary and criminal mischief. Police say the arrest was based on evidence found inside the courthouse during cleaning. A visitation will take place tomorrow night for madrid football coach randy hinkel. Hinkel died of a heart attack this weekend. Hes been a fixture on the madrid sidelines for the past 26years. Making the playoffs nearly all of them. The visitation will take place in the Madrid High School gym from 4to7 tomorrow night. The family is asking everyone to dress in tiger orange and black. Hundreds of people near clear lake are playing the waiting game. 43 right now for the most part the ice conditions are very poor if you could even say that to say the least but uh everybody is really antsy were all excited to get out there its coming its just a matter of time clear lake did freeze over this for ice fishing. Chief meteorologist ed wilson joins us. Ed. Ice fishing could still be a ways off. Clouds are Building Back into central iowa and temperatures will hold steady or rise slightly to the low 40s through the night. Rain is expected through the day on wednesday, especially morning through noon. It will get slightly colder through today was the final day of school before winter break for most metro schools. And many celebrated the holidays with a party. During an assembly at Westridge Elementary in West Des Moines students sang songs about what they were thankful for. 35 4236 01 we celebrate our families. We celebrate out military. Clapping two little girls have the best reason to be thankful. Dad is home. And just in time for christmas. Sergeant cody grubbs planned to didnt expect it to be this big. 40 2240 35 i started off. The whole school, that was good, that was exciting while the news may have put a little pressure on sergeant grubbs. Were very thankful he let us take part in the reunion. Not everyone will be with family for holidays. The hawkeyes have a rose bowl to get to. When the team leaves. And how theyre preparing for the grand daddy of them all coming up in sports. And instead of fighting for votes. Two democratic president ial candidates are fighting over dollars. A look at the money race. And a possible advantage for Bernie SandersBernie Sanders is leading in new hampshire. And closing the gap in iowa. And it now has Hillary Clinton sounding the alarm. The Clinton Campaign sent an email today warning they are losing the money race against sanders. The Clinton Campaign expects sanders to have a higher fundraising total in december. And this is one of the reasons why. Hes attracting huge crowds to his events. Sanders campaigning this morning in storm lake. It was also a large crowd last night in sioux. Both events had to be moved to larger venues because of the turnout. Sanders has one more event tonight in pottawattamie county. And a pair of town halls tomorrow also in western iowa. Hillary clinton is also campaigning in iowa. And this morning shared a president ial candidate im going to be a grandparent again. Its like the best news for me. Its the best club ive been in. But its not stopping her from trying to join the president ial club. In keota today clinton stuck to her claim that video of donald trump is being used to help isis recruit soldiers. Hillary clinton you know, people around the world pay close attention to our elections. And if you go on arabic television, as we have, and you look what is being blasted out with video of mr. Trump being translated into arabic, no muslims coming to the united states, other kinds of derogatory, defamatory statements, it is playing into the hands of the violent jihadists clinton made the same claim during saturdays debate. But was unable to back it up with video evidence. Does show images of barack obama. George bush. And bill clinton. The next republican president ial debate could be the most important one. Fox news is hosting the debate. And it will take place in des moines on january 28th. Three days before the caucuses. Fox is yet to say what criteria candidates must meet to take part. Or if it will be split into two debates because of the large field of candidates. It will be hosted by bret baier and megyn kelly. Kelly tangled with donald trump during the first president ial debate in august. 33 you call women you dont like, fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals. Following the debate trump heavily criticized kelly for what he says was an unfair line of questioning. She starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions and you know you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. Criticism. Only this time it was directed at trump. Three days later trump appeared on four political shows to clarify his statement. I was going to say nose and or ears because thats a very common statement, blood flowing out of somebodys nose. Its a statement showing anger,. Do you think id make a stupid Statement Like that. Who would make a Statement Like that only a sick person would even think about it. Trump briefly boycotted Fox New Network following the debate. The next democratic president ial debate is on january 17th in south carolina. Nbc news is hosting the debate. The sunday debate is the third democratic debate taking place on a weekend. Both Bernie Sanders and Martin Omalley have criticized the dnc for scheduling debates on a weekend when viewership is typically lower. Sanders and omalley say the d nc designed it that way to help hillary skies will stay mostly cloudy this evening with mild temperatures in the low 40s. Temperatures will hold steady or rise slightly through the night. A few showers will begin to develop around midnight with most of the rain occurring by 7 am. Rain will be steady and heavy at times through wednesday morning. Temperatures will be in the low to mid 40s through the morning but will begin to drop back to the 30s wednesday afternoon and evening. Northwest iowa may transition briefly to snow wednesday evening. A cold front will pass through on Christmas Eve morning. This may also bring a few light snow showers to parts of central iowa early thursday morning, but no accumulation is expected. The weather will be quiet Christmas Even through christmas day. More active weather returns this weekend with rain chances and possibly some snow the hawkeyes wont be at home but no ones complaining. Iowa leaves for pasadena thursday, and the chance to win a rose bowl for the first time in 57 years. Michael admire has more from iowa city. Admire 0005 cole croston 1116 Leshun Daniels 2227 ike boettger 2833 jordan canzeri 4752 kirk soc 1 22 the early betting for the rose bowl has favored stanford. The cardinal now a 7 point favorite over iowa. Standford fans dont have far to travel, but theyll be outnumbered. We begin Rose Bowl Team coverage monday from pasadena. Lisa bluder once coached drake. And she once coached jennie baranchyk at iowa. Baranchyk was jennie lillis, hawkeye basketball star bluder and baranchyk now head to head as head coaches. Drakes Caitlin Ingle drives, drops it off to lizzy wendell. Dogs down one. Hawkeyes Alexa Kastanek three pointer. Two point hawkeye lead. Drake freshman, Nicole Miller with the quick answer. Drake back up one. Bulldogs get sloppy on other way for an easy two. Iowa pulling away Bill Fennelly wrote fans a note to miss work today. Play hooky, watch the cyclones matinee. And that note worked for school as well. Cyclones hosting northern arizona. Behind in the Third Quarter when, bri fernstrom shoots three. Got it monster game for the sophomore. Fernstrom scores 23 points, with 13 rebounds and a School Record nine blocked shots. Have a game bree anncr when the attacks come here. The person behind this desk will have to protect your family. Will he be impulsive and reckless, like donald trump . Will he have voted to dramatically weaken counterterrorism surveillance, like ted cruz . Will he have skipped crucial National Security hearings and votes just to campaign, like marco rubio . 27 generals and admirals support jeb bush. Because jeb has the experience and knowledge to protect your family. Right to rise usa is responsible paris theres a lot to do on a dairy farm. Nobodys gonna do it for you. You have to get out there and do it yourself. Bernie sanders is a wellknown friend of family farms. Bernie cannot be bought out by big money. Bernies opinion cannot be purchased. Its time for our next president to get in there, roll up his sleeves, take off the gloves, and take on wall street, take on big business, take on big money, and get the working class back to where they should be. Hes a rock