Into the 50s and 60s look to return early news midday. The Alexander Fazzino trial resumed this morning, well have recap of who has already taken the stand and what to expect in the coming days. Lucas tomorrow is super tuesday and a potentially gamechanging day for the president ial candidates on the campaign trail lucas a grand view wrestler gets another chance. Local 5s Elias Johnson sits down with andrew long to talk about how hes rising up from the bottom he created for himself. Local 5 news midday in hd starts now. We are iowa lucas good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday. Im lucas casey. Lucas our top story. Police are on the lookout for two escaped prisoners this morning. Lucas Authorities Say the pair went missing from the newton correctional facility. Guards discovered jessy foley and Michael Amodeo were gone during a routine check saturday night. At this point, three local sheriffs departments as well as the Des Moines Police department are working to h
Registered sex offender got his third strike yesterday. Well take a look back at what got him kicked off the mat for good. Lucas and today is super tuesday one of the biggest Political Milestones on the way to the white house. Well take a look at what to expect from the candidates and what they need to do well. Local 5 news midday in hd starts now. We are iowa lucas good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday. Im lucas casey. Lucas we start in the courtroom. With the latest from the trial of alexander fazzino. Lucas he faces a first degree murder charge in connection with his wifes death. Yesterday the prosecution rested its case. They ended with two dci agents who noted emily did not overdose the day she died. Then the defense took over, bringing the fazzinos house keeper and family to the stand. Mother, aunt and testified they the influence countless times. Lucas emilys mom, took the stand, her daughter had admitted to high anxiety and addiction to opiates and pain
News midday. We have new details on that fatal car crash here in the metro last night sabrina there will be an evidentiary hearing today on the Bakken Pipeline sabrina the democratic president ial candidates took to the debate stage here in the metro over the weekend well take a look back at a weekend full of political events up next local 5 news midday in hd starts now. We are iowa sabrina good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday. Im Sabrina Ahmed. Sabrina we should get more details today about sundays fatal des moines. The accident at left two people dead sunday evening. Des Moines Police say investigating crash, though excessive speed and Impaired Driving have been potential factors. But say two involved. One was heading west, the other was turning into a quick trip when they collided. People who live nearby said the sound of the collision was like nothing they could have imagined. My great grandson and i were sitting in all of the sudden there was just a great
Back to the future prediction did not come true last night for one unlucky team. Elias plus some good news for one family after a tragic road rage incident in albuquerque. 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 we begin with Hillary Clinton the latest showdown on capitol hill over behghazi facing an allday grilling clinton and her allies denouncing the hearing calling it a political witch hunt abcs Kenneth Moton is on capitol hill with the latest. Kenneth standup open its a marathon day of testimony for Hillary Clinton. 8 hours and no question related to the benghazi attacks is off limits. pkg Hillary Clinton . Under oath and once again being grilled by lawmakers. Sot questioning this is not about you this House Select Committee created last year is under pressure to uncover new information on the september 11th, 2012 attack on a Us Diplomatic post in benghazi, libya. Under the form
Meanwhile, since missouri repealed a law requiring gun permits and background checks, guns have increased to more than 50 of the natioionalaverage. E. Criminals in missouri now have easier access to guns. And the evidence tells us that in states that require background checks, lawabiding americans dont find it any harder to purchase guns whatsoever. Their guns have not been confiscated. Their rights have not been infringed. And thats just the information we have access to. With more research, we could further improve gun safety. Just as with more research, we have reduced traffic fatalities enormously over the last 30 years. We do research when cars, food, medicine, evenoys harm people so that we make them safer. And you know what . Research science, those are good things. They do. But think about this. When it comes to an inherently deadly weapon. A nobody argues that guns are potentially deadly. But weapons that kill tens of thousands of americans every year, Congress Actually voted