The leap year birthday. An unexpected delivery makes this special day. Even more memorable. Nats from game ending surviving state. Siouxland tes advance at the Girls Basketball tournament. Tim good evening and thank you for joining us tonight im tim seaman jenna and im Jenna Rehnstrom its been nearly two years since esther and Donald Neunaber were found dead in their rural akron home. Tim today her son johnathan agreed to plead guilty to the murder of his 80 year old mother. And for the first time is speaking publicly about what happen on that july day in 2014. Jenna abc9s elisa raffa was at the courthouse plea hearing was being held i struck my mother, more times than i wanted to says jonathan neunaber, pleaded guilty to murder. Shocking testimony guilty to one count murder and one injury in connection of his mother, 80 according to court records, Esther Neunaber suffered blows to the head. In july of 2014, both of neunabers parents were found dead in rural it was later father, donald
Department. And the reasons for that are that theyre behavior just makes them more susceptible rosendahl says kids around two on the floor and put things in their mouths that may have lead. That includes dust from leadbased paint. The impact can last a lifetime. The first thing that can be affected at the more lower levels, is that developing nervous system, said rosendahl. And so it can cause things like a lowered iq or behavioral problems later on. And those kids dont always have to be living in the home to be exposed to lead. Su kruse and his wife have been living in the home behind me for nearly 12 years. And when it comes to lead poisoning, the precautions they take arent only for themselves. When we first moved in, we actually repainted the walls concerning the lead and thought it would be safer, you know, with my grandkids and stuff that come over every now and then, said kruse. Just a few steps kruse takes to live a leadfree life. In sioux city, tiffany lane, ktiv news 4. There
Occurence within the community. Often times, owners of stolen vehicles dont get their cars back in same condition they once were. A stolen red Nissan Altima was traveling at a high rate of speed on tuesday when it rammed the front of an suv that was backing out of a driveway. Shane stapleton, owner of shanes towing, has towed many stolen cars found in bizarre places, i actually had to take a payloader to get it out of there. It was in like a twenty foot hole. So we had to push about 3 trees out of the way and then hook up chains to it and just start pulling it out, said shane stapleton, owner of shanes towing. This truck was found by the police with stolen plates. Stapleton mentioned that he gets calls almost every day to have stolen vehicles towed. Rachel if your vehicle has been stolen has been burglarized, please notify local Law Enforcement to have a report filed immediately. Live in the studio, rachel ramos, abc9. Tim another election day is winding down, and locally Woodbury Coun
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. Weve 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 cochair 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 to go in 14 states.
Reporting live, lukas voss abc9 jenna yet on what might fire. The family is getting some help from the red cross as far as a the time being. Tim if the developers pipeline need to use eminant domain to secure project, its apparently ok with Iowa Governor terry branstad. That project, also known as the Dakota Access pipeline. Is upsetting several whos land is needed for the pipeline across the state. Eminant domaine allows the state to take private property for public use with financial payment to the land owner. Brandstad says that theyre not taking the land away. Theyre simply using the land and putting pipeline under it. And that iowa has many different types that go through the state. I think eminant doman should be think there are times that it may be appropriate, so dont statement that eminant domain should never be the governor added that he thinks its best for the iowa utilites board to decide if its necasary to use eminant domain. And the laws that are in place that gives the u