Attacks at the u. S. Diplomatic outpost in benghazi, libya in 2012. Good afternoon everyone and thank you for joining us today. Clinton was secretary of state at the time of the september 2012 attacks and said she is appearing before the panel to honor the memory of the four americans who were killed. Weijia jiang has more. Reporter Hillary Clinton greeted members of the special House Committee before facing tough questions about the deadly attack at a u. S. Consulate in benghazi, libya. Where theres so many request for more security personnel and equipment and wireless west denied in washington . Reporter clinton said she was appearing in honor of the four americans who died in 2012. Im here to honor those he lost and to do what i can to aid those who service still. Reporter this is a alert this is the third time he is testified about the attack. Once again she kept the response before i left office i launched reforms to better protect our people in the field and help reduce the chance of another tragedy happening in the future. Reporter democrats and even a few republicans argued this hearing is nothing but a bipartisan effort to derail clintons presidency campaign. Clinton is a Democratic Front runner for president. Candidate in both parties will be watching her testimony very closely, looking for a comment that can be used against her. The hearing could last up to eight hours or longer. Mollie it appears, spun paul ryan will push ahead for bid to become the next speaker of the house. He received more than 70 of his support for the House Freedom caucus in a closeddoor session. He is reportedly waiting to hear from two other key house gop caucuses before he officially jumps in. Theres a new leader in the republican race for president here in iowa. A new Quinnipiac University poll puts ben carson at the top of the pack with 28 . The poll shows donald trump has slipped to 20 and marco rubio has climbed, coming in third at 13 . One candidate who has yet to gain any traction here in iowa is new jersey governor chris christie. Earlier this morning he sat down with our steve karlin and the des moines registers Kathy Obradovich who asked him if he is worried. Weve got 100 70s until the iowa caucus. Caucus voters not the site until very late. Have seen the poll change a lot in the last month. You get out there and you work. Mollie be sure to catch the entire interview this sunday at 10 30 a. M. Right here on kcci. Breaking news out of federal court here in des moines to pass along to you. A jury has ended the liberations and its relevant to aid to the 2012 ron paul president of campaign accused of making secret payments to state senator Kent Sorenson when he switched from Michelle Bachmanns campaign. Jesse benton faces one count of making false statements. Dimitri kesari faces five charges including conspiracy and obstruction. We understand that a verdict has been reached and our kim st. Onge joins us live now with the decision. Kim the jury came back about 30 minutes ago with the federal courthouse announcing they are unanimous on three of the six counts both of these men are facing. Count one, conspiracy. The jury was hong. False records, cassara is guilty. Three, false Campaign Expenditure reports. The jury is hong. Count four, the jury is hung. Cap five, false statements to Law Enforcement for just even. The jury, not guilty. Cap six, obstruction of justice. Not guilty. We did see jesse benton walking so mollie we apologize. We have lost audio and we will try to get back to camera just a little bit. Kim in just a little bit. Fire investigators have determine the cause of a fire at a duplex in des moines this morning. Crews were called to the home at 113 east mckinley avenue around 4 00 this morning and say they saw flames in a basement window when they arrived. Des moines fire investigators tell us that the home had no power and that the owner was using candles for light. They say one burned all the way down and started the fire. New at noon, an iowa judge has dismissed a lawsuit that challenged the iowa utilities boards authority to give the power of Eminent Domain to an outofstate developer of an oil pipeline that would cut through the state. The pipeline being developed by Dakota Access, llc would carry crude oil through iowa on its way from north dakota to illinois. In an order filed this morning, judge Carl Petersen said that the three landowners who brought the lawsuit had to exhaust the administrative remedies required before being allowed to sue the iowa utilities board. However peterson did not rule on whether Dakota Access is eligible for Eminent Domain. An iowa taxidermist has been sentenced to just over 2 years in prison for purchasing and transporting black rhinoceros horns from oregon to iowa. James hess of maquoketa also must serve three years of supervised release after leaving prison. Hess had pleaded guilty to one count of violating the lacey act, a law that criminalizes sales of animals protected under the endangered species act. Right now, black rhinos are classified as critically endangered. This was the scene on the campus of the university of iowa yesterday when protesters disrupted a meeting of the schools governing board angry about the hiring of the new university of iowa president. Hundreds of professors, students, and others packed into a ballroom in the Student Union during wednesdays meeting of the board of regents. The protesters delivered a petition calling for incoming School PresidentBruce Harreld to step aside. The event marked the first organized protest since the hiring of harreld, a former ibm executive with no experience in Higher Education administration. After a long dry spell it looks like we could once again be getting a little more rain. And even more tomorrow. Lets check in now with jason for more on that. Jason we have rain out to the west. It is very scattered in nature but as we head to the overnight tonight and throughout the day tomorrow is when we will see the bulk of the rain all. 60 degrees right now. A lot of clouds out there. They overtaken the state. A mild day out there as temperatures linger in the low to mid 60s. The drain off to the less right now very isolated and scattered in nature. Not seeing the robust surge as we head into the overnight hours tonight. Clouds have helped us to stay reasonably mild. Upper 50s across a good portion of the northern half of the state and even 60 in the metro. Hanging onto a little bit of comfort out there. If you got up early over the past couple of days, you saw splendid sun rises. This was sent in from eric. Continue to send those in and i will keep tossing them appear for you guys. Mild and 66 is what we are climbing to the cloud cover. I will have more on the timing of the rain and how much we can see in the weekend coming up shortly. Mollie in national headlines, arsonists targeted seven st. Louisarea churches in recent days, with the latest coming this morning at the shrine of st. Joseph catholic church, built by jesuits in 1843. The seven fires were set over 11 days. Police say in each case the fires were set at an exterior door when no one was at the building. Authorities are investigating but havent determined if the fires are connected. The reward for information leading to an arrest in the arsons has now risen to 9000. Items believed to be part of a cargo ship lost at sea during Hurricane Joaquin have washed ashore in san salvador. 33 people were on board the el faro when it disappeared near the bahamas and until now there have been no clues as to where the vessel may have ended up. A navy ship continues to search for wreckage using specialized equipment. An eightyear Albuquerque Police department veteran was critically injured when Officials Say a traffic stop that led to an altercation left him with multiple gunshot wounds. More than 100 officers searched hours for the shooter. Just after midnight, Police Arrested 34yearold davon lymon. Police say lymon has a violent criminal background which included previous charges of battery and manslaughter. Police in sweden say mast man attack inside a school this morning, stepping to students and to teachers. Authority safety victims are dead. Reporter witnesses said the attacker was carrying a sword and a knife as he stormed this school in sweden. This eighth grader says he wore a mask and we thought it was a halloween joke until he started stabbing our teacher. Police say the man in his 20s staffed to teachers and two students in the school cafe. Doctors say one teacher and one student have died. The other victims are in Critical Condition with deep wounds. Authorities say the attacker may his way into classrooms before officers shot and killed him. Investigators are still searching for a motive and im not saying give the attacker had links to the school. Swedish media stays teachers held a meeting this point to discuss their concerns that the school was not secure enough. The school cafe where the attacker went on his rampage is open to the public. Jonathan vaguely body, cbs news. Mollie that school has 400 students ranging from preschool to high school. The students staff were boys aged 11 to 15. Coming up, a new study sheds light on the effectiveness of Handsfree Technology keeping you safe while driving. And wow do they do it . Straight ahead, the secret is revealed regarding just how the americans cell phones. We need to disrupt the old order in washington, dc. We can do a lot better by applying conservative principles we should lower rates and simplify the code to allow people to freely decide how they want to spend their money. What we need is leadership to fix a few big things. So that this country takes off and soars where people can dream the biggest possible dreams. And pursue them with a vengeance. Sfx applause jeb. Proven conservative. Real results. This is iowas news leader. This is kcci 8 news at noon with Mollie Cooney and meteorologist jason sydejko. Mollie many cars of Handsfree Technology that is designed to keep the drivers attention on the road. A new study from aaa is showing handsfree can be more dangerous and distracting than first thought. Its new at noon. Reporter this College Graduation from for went from a perfect day to a nightmare in seconds they straight distracted driver. He turned left through the red light. As he did that the 18 wheelers were to try to miss him. A clipped the front of his car within slant full force into our reporter her parents were killed instantly. She was given a 10 chance of survival. She beat goes on the suffered a lasting brain injury. She advocates against distracted driving killed more than 3100 people and injured an estimated 24000 and 2014 alone. A new study finds that new handsfree systems work of was commands leave people with a technology hangover. To get out of the distracted zone into an alert driver but that takes time. Adjacent to 27 seconds. Reporter he evaluated more than 250 adults in 10 vehicles. I guess that is a stop sign. Reporter lingering distraction was found across the board. If you are all of a sudden talking to your phone, you are now focusing on one task to the exclusion of attentive driving environment. Reporter researchers say because the technology is in your car to save voice to tweak does not mean you should do it well driving. Tweet does not mean you should do it well driving while driving. Mollie officials from the Justice Department and Homeland Security testified on capitol hill yesterday about stingray machines, devices that mimic an Actual Company cell phone tower and tricks your phone into connecting with it. They say Police Officers have been using them for years, but Officials Say they do not gather calls or messages. Congress is concerned about the widespread use of the devices. Lets check back in with jason to find out what is tracking in the weather department. Jason we have a little bit of rain out there still but it is not bad. We held onto a beautiful forecast for so long, even just a little bit of rain cannot spoil that. A few scattered showers. Areas to the west half clouds inundating iowa. You can see very scattered in nature. Light stuff. Definitely not enough to ruin your day out there. Temperatures holding a pretty nice right now. That will be the case as we head into the afternoon. Only gaining if you were degrees. Too bad we are hanging onto the clouds as we go to the evening tonight. A chance that see the space station again at 6 44. If there happens to be breaking the cloud cover theres a chance you could see it. Otherwise of the clouds streaming in, not too likely. 60 degrees right now at their. Hanging onto quite a bit of comfort. We climb up to 66 by 4 00 p. M. Easy the clouds on the increase throughout the evening hours and into the morning. That is our next shot. Sizable transfer bit of rain. That will stick around for a good portion of the day tomorrow. You can see that hanging out down here just south of north platte. As it continues to surge its way north and it will bring a minor showers and the potential for a few thunderstorms along with it. A glorious area of high pressure. It will help bring in sunshine. We will be left with clouds and a little bit of rain. Anything sizable. Weve been so dry. Clouds inundating. Together as we head into the overnight hours. Stuff makes its way through the late morning and early afternoon hours on friday. Behind this a good silver lining. We keep some clouds in the next are the evening hours. You notice it will start to clear out friday evening and saturday morning. If you have outdoor weekend plans, they look say at this point. Tomorrow looks to be a soggy one. A few sprinkles possible throughout the day today. Temperatures in the middle 60s all across the state. Clouds will continue to be an issue along with rain off to the west. Could see a couple of thunderstorms to. A mild night tonight. Temperatures only dropping into the middle 50s. We see the chance for showers and storms through the overnight. The bulk will fall as we head of the day on friday. A beautiful weekend. Heading into the beginning of the week in style. 66 is the high on labor partly cloudy skies. Connect shopper ravens in on tuesday. After that we get a wall of. Mid50s by the end of the week. Mollie that 36 is looking pretty cool. Coming, how you can mollie welcome back. Once a year the association of fundraising professionals and iowa recognizes and honors many heroes who help make dreams come true to yourself the support of our community. You to tell us about National Philanthropy day is steve, decker, and jessica. Jessica, what is your organizational about . Guest if the association of fundraising professionals. It exists in over 200 countries. It is comprised of professionals with dedicated their careers to the fundraising industry. Here in central iowa we have just over 100 members. One of our special events is held every year in november. National philanthropy day for us will be november 13. Mollie friday the 13th. We are looking at photos from past years. Tells about the luncheon. We recognize one corporation, several individuals, and use philanthropists. Mollie that was last year in your recognizing this year . Guest we are very excited about this years honorees, and specifically those individuals and companies are Outstanding Corporate Foundation philanthropists, salmon financial group. Outstanding individual philanthropists, thomas k in linda kane. Outstanding fundraiser is steve chapman. Spirit of length of the award for those fisher goes to johnny gano. Mollie steve, you are out and about. You see a lot of the community that supports volunteerism to your work . Guest these names are very familiar to me. You cant go a day without seeing the impact these people have. If you dont know them, you are your life has been impacted. Its kind of in their dna to give. Its what they do. Their generosity has such a great positive influence on our community. Mollie they are not doing it to be recognized . Guest no, most are shy about this. Mollie how do we get tickets and more information . Is there a cap on reservations . You better get them in, right . Guest we have availability for 500 people, but they go fast. I encourage people to go to our website or call the number on the screen to get more for mission. Mollie 75 . Guest tickets are 75 and tables or 650. Mollie friday the 13th but its good luck for you. You do in the c the republicans finally admit it. Republican Kevin Mccarthy saying. The Committee Investigating benghazi and clintons emails was created to destroy her candidacy. Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right . But we put together a Benghazi Special committee. What are her numbers today . Republicans have spent millions attacking hillary. Because shes fighting for everything they oppose. From Affordable Health care. To equal pay. Shell never stop fighting for you. And the republicans know it. Mollie recapping the breaking news we for bringing you at the top of the newscast, a jury has found in a two ron pauls 2012 president will campaign guilty on one of five charges related to secret payments to former state senator Kent Sorenson. The jury said he caused the campaign to file false records concerning the payments to sorenson. He was acquitted of one other charge while jurors said they could not reach a verdict on codefendant jesse benton was acquitted of the one charge he faced, making false statements to the fbi. Prosecutors had alleged the men knowingly hit 73,000 in