Administration, the democrats were going to make sure he did not appoint anybody to the suprcourt. Cynthia today grassley said , after giving it more thought, he implied he wouldnt rule out Holding Hearings on an obama nominee, but would only say senator grassley i will take it a step at a time. He hasnt nominated anyone yet. Cynthia the constitution states the president can nominate with the advice and consent of the senate. Matt sinovac, who questioned grassley about the process, was not pleased with his answers. The kept repeating that we will take it one step at a time, but he tried to be very vague and continued to play political games with this nomination process. Cynthia president obama today challenged republicans to offer any plausible rationale for refusing to consider a Supreme Court candidate, and he vowed to nominate an outstanding legal mind. Stacey the man looking to unseat senator grassley comes to the Selection Process for the next Supreme Court justice. State senator rob hogg says we could and should have a new justice on the bench before the courts next term in september. He says it is time for congress to stop acting in its partisan interests. Clearly, president obama has a constutional duty to nominate somebody for the Supreme Court, and i believe the United States senate has a constitutional duty to consider that nomination. Stacey state senator hogg says, in an election year, it is crucial to have a full compliment of judges on the Supreme Court. There is new information in the Police Involved shooting at an urbandale hotel saturday. Urbandale say they are looking for this woman, 17yearold kiara olson. A material witness warrant has been issued for olsen. Investigators say they believe she has information in the shooting. Ali yahia was shot and killed during a shootout with police. Officers were called to the hotel on reports of a drug deal. Steve the Monroe County arrested a man for sexually assaulting a 2monthold baby. Justin stickrod is now in the Monroe County jail charged with child endangerment and firstdegree sexual abuse. Kccis Mark Tauscheck is just back from albia. He joins us live from the newsroom. Mark this is a horrendous crime. In fact, the Monroe County sheriff tells me his staff was reminded to handle the suspect the same as any other prisoner, and if they have any personal issues with this case or the suspect, to talk to a supervisor. I cant think of anything worse. My god, a 2monthold baby no i a twomonthold baby. No, i cant even imagine. I think he should get the very worst punishment there is. He has to be one sick person. Mark 30yearold Justin Stickrod is charged with molesting a twomonthold girl. Police say the abuse happened at this albia home. The girls mother took her to the hospital where workers called the Monroe County seeing the babys injuries. Out of the cases, this has probably been my hardest one to work through having children of my own. Mark stickrod is being held in the Monroe County jail on a 68,000 bond. He waived his preliminary hearing this morning and has not entered a plea. The sheriff told me they are looking into more possible charges in this case. They seized computer equipment during a search of stickrods home and sent it to des moines to be analyzed. Before the arrest the monroe , county Sheriffs Department told Des Moines Police stickrod was likely headed to blank Childrens Hospital where the young victim was being treated. Des Moines Police not only found him, they also charged him with owi before he was transported back to albia. As for the 2monthold, she is out of the hospital. Stacey the iowa Supreme Court holds a special night session tonight in des moines to review a lawsuit filed by the widow of former slipknot band member, paul gray. Gray, a bassist for the heavy metal band, died of a Drug Overdose in 2010. Grays wife is suing grays been treating gray. As kccis Laura Terrell explains, this case could have some major legal implications. She joins us from the Iowa Judicial Branch building to explain. Laura brenna gray is suing for financial compensation, on behalf of her and her daughter, for what she calls the wrongful death of her husband paul gray. Back in 2014, dr. Daniel baldi walked out of the polk county courthouse a free man. After weeks of testimony in his manslaughter trial, baldi was cleared criminally of any wrong doing in the overdose death of several patients, including slipknot bassist paul gray. But brenna gray, seen here testifying in the 2014 trial, still blames dr. Baldi for her husbands death. Thats why she filed this civil suit nearly four years later. A polk county judge threw it out, saying the two year statute of limitations for a medical malpractice suit was already over, and that her daughter cant get damages because she fathers death. Now, gray is asking the iowa Supreme Court to reconsider. If the highest court sides with her, this could have a big impact on when a person can bring a medical malpractice lawsuit and the rights of unborn , children. The special evening session begins at 7 00 tonight. Both sides will argue their case, and the justices can ask questions. But no decision will be made , tonight. That comes at a later date, still to be determined. In des moines, Laura Terrell, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Stacey the iowa Supreme Court says its going to keep an experimental Business Court going because it is working so well. Established in the business 2013, court was supposed to end in may. It deals exclusively with business cases involving 200,000 or more in dispute. It is staffed by three judges. Steve we got some rain instead of snow this morning here in the des moines area thanks to our abovefreezing temperatures. But there were some areas of central iowa where things got a little slick during the morning drive. Kurtis gertz is here. Kurtis the system is moving on out. All we have left in behind it is clouds. Right now, visibilitys arent dropping. Later tonight, expect some fog. Temperatures to drop below the freezing mark tonight, so going to be some refreeze out there. Generally mostly cloudy for your wednesday. A high around 37, and that is our average high for this time of year. Well above normal temperatures on the way. Mid50s thursday, 60s on friday. We hang onto those 50s right and through the weekend. I do want to point out that we have already had some thin ice out there. Keep that in mind. Futurecast coming your way in just a few minutes. Stacey a pizza ranch fire in the Greene County town of jefferson is now an arson investigation. The Greene County news reports search warrants state that the jefferson fire and police january 27 was intentionally set. They point to a number of places in the building where the fire started. Search warrants have been issued for the pizza ranchs owners and manager, as well as for security cameras at a nearby bank. No charges have been filed. Steve believe it or not, one of the biggest pizza chains in the country, isnt really a pizza chain at all. Caseys General Stores now lays claim to being the 5th the largest pizza chain in the United States. This is based on the number of kitchens caseys has that serve pizza. The Company Makes 15 million pizzas a year. Caseys says its because it is now the 5th Largest Convenience store chain in the country. They recently opened a new warehouse in indiana as the chain expands east. Caseys says the indiana warehouse will take over some of the workload from its ankeny warehouse. Stacey at the statehouse today hundreds of people lobbied , against the use of tanning beds for minors. A house bill would ban tanning until the age of 17 and then cancer survivors who attended say tanning has too many side effects. Lawmakers in support of the bill say tanning is too risky for your health. This is like a ticking time bomb. It is something that is happening, you are damaging your skin now and you dont suffer the consequences until later. Stacey this is funnel week. The bill has to make it through committees this week or be considered dead for the session. Steve last month was a record breaker for the iowa lottery. The lottery says the 1. 6 billion Powerball Jackpot helped boost sales. Total sales in january reached more than the previous record 54 million. Was set back in february of 2006 at 42 million. The last time they met, things didnt go well at home for the cyclones. Straight ahead, why things are when isu matches tonight up with different when isu matches tonight up with baylor, on the road. Stacey we know the music stars who will play central iowas hinterland Music Festival this summer. Why organizers decided not to hold the concert in des moines. And, its breaking news for thousands of incoming iowa state why their acceptance to college now looks like a hollywood production. So, let me get this straight u. S. Cellular has the phone youre looking for, a network thats built to give you coverage way out here where the other guys dont, thats a lot less than verizon and at t. So, why on earth would you ever go with one of those other guys . Switch to u. S. Cellular now and get 6 gigs of data for 40 a month plus get 300 back. Announcer this is iowas news leader. Steve karlin, stacey horst, chief meteorologist john mclaughlin, and sports director andy garman. Lets go there live right now to see the reaction. Im on the big screen. Stacey a personalized message for every student who makes it into iowa state university. Steve after theyre accepted, future iowa state students are now being welcomed to the school with a video thats all their own. Stacey kccis vanessa peng live to show us what theyre saying about it. Vanessa students who havent even started classes here yet say they feel like theyre a part of the cyclone family. That is because of a video that stars them. Whats up . At first i thought it was real, but that is just because im blonde. Acceptance letters and emails every future iowa state , University Student is getting something else. I applied to other colleges and none of them did anything like that. Vanessa theyre a part of breaking news. This is Christine Romans from the cnn news desk with some breaking news. Vanessa even basketball coach steve prohm knows about it. I have got to get the word out. Make you feel special and that you were going to be a part of the isu family. Being a medium sized university, we really like to reach out to our students as individuals and we like to give them that personalized experience. Vanessa admissions folks wont tell us how they do it. That is admissions magic. Vanessa whatever their secret is, the personalized cyclone experience is apparently working. It like seems like they care about us and to have like a good and like right to be going to that school. Vanessa admissions started sending out the videos in august and they told me they sent out 16,000 of them for the following school year. This is their third year. Live in ames, vanessa peng, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Steve a summer Music Festival in central iowa is already generating a lot of buzz. The headline acts were recently announced for the 2nd annual hinterland Music Festival. This year, Willie Nelson and Ray Lamontagne get top billing for the two day event. The other acts include 2 iowabased bands, the folk wave duo, field division, and William Elliot whitmore. The hinterland Music Festival takes place at the avenue of the saints amphitheatre in Saint Charles on august 5 and 6. Tickets go on sale friday morning at 10 00. Information, log on hinterland for more information, log on hinterlandiowa. Com. If you remember, originally, the hinterland Music Festival was going to be held last year at Water Works Park in des moines, along with the rising Raccoon River forcing a change of locations. Organizers tell us the move to Saint Charles last year went relatively smoothly and now, the , avenue of the saints amphitheater is the home of the annual Music Festival. Stacey check back in with meteorologist kurtis gertz. Kurtis a little bit of fault will develop as the night goes along. It will take probably until thursday for the higher temperatures. Around normal temperatures for the next 24 hours or so. 35 degrees, wind chill 27. Northnorthwest winds at 12. No problems out there right now with faulk statewide with fog statewide. Frank scaglione over at South Middle School in waukee today. Temperatures tonight down around 33 at 7 00 a. M. 24 tomorrow. Temperatures in the 20s. , 33. 3 00 p. M. Temperature, 37. We did have that rain the metro,. 37 inch. There were reports in southeastern iowa of an inch or inch and a half. Maybe a drizzle or flurry on to be widespread. Tomorrow. Minneapolis and green bay in the 20s. Rapid city, north platte, upper 60s. That warm air is going to slide our way. This little rich slides by to the north. The moisture will kind of stay locked in place. Not going to see a lot of sunshine tomorrow. Early in the morning, could be a sprinkle. Clouds will thin out gradually wednesday night. Another little batch of clouds will move through thursday night and early on friday. Then, we will break free to sunshine as we head into friday afternoon. Temperatures tonight will dipped down below the freezing mark. Keep an eye out for some slick spots. Northwest winds fairly light. Tomorrow, 37. Mostly cloudy, winds out of the southeast at about 510 miles per hour. Thursday, 56 degrees. I do want to point out, these are very mild reading, but nowhere near the record high. Thursday, the record is 68 back in 1981. Friday, the warmest day. It is going to be windy though. We will bounce up to the 60s, but i think to get out of the metro, you will see gusts over sunshine on sunday, 50. Cooler next week but still above the normal highs. Stacey crews are taking advantage of the warm weather to work on the jackson street bridge. They are taking down old lights and replacing them. The bridge closed in 2013 because it was deemed unsafe. But last november, the Des Moines City Council approved plans to restore the bridge for bicyclists and pedestrians. The city hopes to reopen the bridge, which is located south of downtown des moines, later this year. Steve the iowa saint the Iowa State Cyclones are down waco, texas doing some bear announcer from iowas sports leader, this is kcci 8 sports. Andy iowa states men are on the road tonight, looking for revenge against a baylor team that shot isu in ames last month. Not made teams have come into hilton and hung an l on the cyclones, but baylor did it in january. I like where our team is. The texas game was where was as good as we have played in a long time. We were efficient authentically andy the game tips a little after 8 00. Live on espn2. They are just under way in the league basketball. For the second straight game, the iowa hawkeyes have to be aware of a trap. After running through some of the best, the hawks play some of the lesser teams. A winless Minnesota Team at Carver Hawkeye arena over the weekend. Tomorrow, it is a trip to happy valley for a team for a Penn State Team that has only won three big 10 game this year. It is our job to make sure we come in ready. We understand we are going to go through hardfought games like this, physical games versus athletic teams. Were just trying to make sure we are ready each and every gain. 5 30 iowa time on btn. The iowa wild an unexpected coaching change over the weekend with their head coach, john torchetti, was called up to the minnesota wild. His decision opened up an opportunity. David cunniff had spent years at years as an assistant, but he will now be in charge of the team for the first time in his life. My wife came in that night. Here she is, her first time in des moines, and we get the first we get the news that i am taking over. She has been through a lot, my kids have been through a lot through this process. A lot of nights away from home, a lot of times missing her. Andy cunniff one of the good guys in a sport. Only three of the next 16 games will be on the home ice. Iowa playing 2 next weekend. A bigtime road trip. State wrestling starts tomorrow with the tools. A week off, and then voice and girls basketball. Steve [kcci captioning is brought to taylor swift. Swift revenge. There will be people along the way who take credit for your accomplishments. 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