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KCCI KCCI 8 News This Morning At 430am October 19, 2015

August 13. They say it happened at barnards home near the 3000 block of highway f 48 west. She said mommy i need to tell you something. It was there barnard allegedly touched the girl. I was just really in shock. Jason r. barnards girlfriend Michelle Wortman saw barnard and confronted him. But the report says wortman never told durant. While wortman allegedly never did anything to protect the girl. She got child endangerment and was released on her own recognizance the next day. Jason r. no one answered when we tried knocking on barnards door sunday. Barnard had been previously convicted in a sex abuse case back in 1997 and has been on the sex offender registry ever since. Because of this, durant says her daughter would visit her dad with the stipulation wortman would supervise. I have a lot of hatred towards her, and in my opinion i think she should be in just as much trouble as he is for allowing it to happen and not saying anything. Jason r. durant says shes received criticism for even allowing her daughter to be with her dad in the first place. Her response. They dont understand what it is like. I mean he is my dad. I forgave him for what he had done in the past. I thought hed changed and it turns out that he didnt. That he didnt. Eric the criminal complaint says durants daughter talked about several instances of abuse. Durant says the abuse is something that will be burned into her daughter for the rest of her life. Elizabeth right now a fort dodge man is in the Webster County jail, charged with sex abuse and child endangerment. 23yearold Benjamin Vazquez was arrested just before 9 sunday just before 9 00 sunday morning. Saturday night Police Responded to a call for domestic violence. A 25yearold female victim was found in the 1400 block of 2nd avenue. So far no more information about the investigation into vazquez. Eric a close call for a kid in for a girl in Council Bluffs hit by a train near her house. Police say 9yerold Hannah Dreher walked in front of a train around 12 30 sunday afternoon. Witnesses say she crossed the tracks after one train passed not seeing a second train. Doctors told the family she fractured her skull but should make a full recovery. The National Weather service is warning of an elevated fire danger today, because of strong winds and low humidity fire could start easily during the winds and low humidity. Fire could start easily during the harvest. This was the scene early sunday in sweetland township muscatine county. A member of the iowa Storm Chasers recorded this video he said a combine caught fire wind quickly spread it fully engulfing 100 plus acres. It took about two hours to bring the fire under control. Elizabeth we will check back in with metinka. That fire danger continues into today, does nick . Metinka doesnt it . Metinka a red flag warning for much of the entire state. Winds will continue to increase throughout the rest of the day. Temperatures are very mild, in this 50s in the 50s and 60s. Headed for a warm afternoon, 80 today. Eric despite a chilly morning sunday thousands took to the starting line for the imt des moines marathon and Half Marathon. Elizabeth the race started and finished on the locust street bridge downtown. Kccis Marcus Mcintosh was there. Marcus this was the scene at 8 00 this morning on the locust street bridge downtown. Thousands of runners and walkers started the imt des moines marathon and Half Marathon. About 90 minutes earlier the scene was much different much much different, much darker and much quieter. One of the first people we saw was dr. Richard deming who has about 30 people running the marathon with him as part of above and beyond dr. Deming as a part of above and beyond. Dr. Deming takes cancer survivors on incredible journeys. The only way to live ones life is to celebrate each and every day and running is a way to do that. Marcus the celebration on the bridge continued to grow as the dark faded and the crowd on the locust bridge swelled. Runners and walkers started warming up and getting ready for the miles that lay ahead of them and found two Grinnell College students and a Cross Country and track coach from eagle grove remembering why they decided to run. This is the third or fourth year i have been out here running a few years ago i started running to get in shape and lose some weight i just kept going. Ive always wanted to do longer distances. I ran Cross Country in high school and hannah texted me out of the blue over the summer and said lets do a race. Iran the l. A. Marathon before and it was a lot of fun and i wanted to do more Long Distance running. Marcus but some treat the imt des moines marathon as a race. This. We are indeed a qualifying race business. We are indeed a qualifying race for the Boston Marathon that is very important to a lot of people out here that is a major life goal for a serious runner. In des moines, Marcus Mcintosh, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Elizabeth this is the 14th year of the imt des moines marathon. Some 9000 people registered to participate in either the 5k , kids runs marathon or Half Marathon. Eric philip lagat of kenya held on to his title as mens champion of the marathon. He finished in two hours, 21 minutes and two seconds. In the womens race brooke degefa of ethiopia won in two hours 33 minutes. In the Half Marathon mason frank of minnesota took first in one hour 7 minutes. The womans champion erin fiedler of omaha finishing at one hour and 19 minutes. Still ahead this monday morning clinton testimony. , the 2016 hopeful scheduled to talk benghazi this week. And two gop candidates get heated up. Escalating as a tax this is iowas news leader. This is kcci 8 news this morning with eric hanson, elizabeth klinge, meteorologist kurtis gertz and right now coverage with shaina humphries. Metinka good morning. You are waking up to a windy and warm morning. It does not feel very fall like. We have that wind at 25 Miles Per Hour. It is a warm wind. The minutes before 5 00 a. M. 55 up in ames. Temps will be warming today. By noon, temps will be in the low to mid 70s. Those there are strong winds will gust near 40 Miles Per Hour. Combined with very dry conditions will lead to a red flag warning. In effect until 7 00 p. M. Eric in commitment 2016 news, democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton is scheduled to testify before a Congressional Committee this week about benghazi attack. And a war of words between two republican president ial candidates is ratcheted up. Julianna goldman reports from washington. Julianna Hillary Clinton is dismissing her upcoming appearance, saying to previous testimonies saying two previous testimonies. What difference does it make . Julianna and other congressional inquiries into the theories, and its now an attempt to derail her president ial campaign. I think its pretty clear that whatever they mightve thought they were doing they ended up becoming a partisan arm of the Republican National committee. Julianna chairman trey gowdy insisted he wants to focus on the events surrounding the attacks even though his committees investigation revealed the more politically charged issue of clintons use of a private email server as secretary of state. I have told my own republican colleagues and friends shut up talking about things that you dont know anything about. Julianna but it will be impossible to take politics out of the equation on thursday. I wish for once mrs. Clinton would be prepared to stand and be held accountable for the murder of four americans in benghazi, libya. Julianna meanwhile this weekend donald trump and jeb bush continued to spar over the september 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and the gop frontrunners suggestion that former president george w. Bush was responsible. Mr. Trump talks about things as though hes still on the apprentice. Julianna bush has been under pressure from donors to take a harder line against trump. And increasingly hes making the case that the republican frontrunner isnt fit to be president. Julianna goldman, cbs news, washington. Eric it is still unclear if Vice President joe biden will enter the race for the white house. One of his advisors says hell make a decision in the near future. Elizabeth to the middle east now where violence is escalating. An arab gunman attacked a bus station, injuring several israelis. The aftermath was caught on cell phone video. Jonathan vigliotti reports from jerusalem. Jonathan cell phone video captured the chaos shortly after an arab gunman began shooting and stabbing people at an israeli bus station in beersheba sunday. At least ten people were injured in the barrage of bullets. It is the latest in a series of escalating attacks. Some israelis are now taking matters into their own hands. Gun shops like this in jerusalem are experiencing a spike in sales. Shooting instructor ari dobuler said in the last week, hundreds of israelis have applied for permits. If we worked 24 hours a day it would probably be the people coming in. Jonathan police have tried to diffuse the mounting tension by blocking off arab neighborhoods. But there are fears such measures could fuel more attacks and protests. The unrest began more than a month ago after rumors israeli politicians wanted to block palestinian access to the revered al aqsa mosque, islams third holiest shrine. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a proposal to send International Observers to the mosque compound. Meanwhile Israeli Forces and palestinians clashed in ramallah. Protesters threw stones. Israeli troops responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. The gunmen in sundays attack was killed but not before Officials Say he shot and killed an armed officer. Jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, jerusalem. Elizabeth secretary of state john kerry will meet with top israeli and palestinian leaders this week to discuss a path towards peace. Youre looking live as to 35 and 2nd avenue. We are waking up to 72nd we are waking up to 72 degrees. Weather is never more than 5 minutes away, only on kcci 8 news this morning. Coats. You dont need them today. Temperatures are a lot warmer. Winds gusting close to 25 Miles Per Hour across the state. Those winds will continue to increase as the day goes along. They should stay advisory criteria. By noon, twins will be gusting over 35 Miles Per Hour with all of the by noon, winds will be gusting over 35 Miles Per Hour. This means, please postpone any open burning fires. Those harvesting in the fields, keep an eye on equipment, they can start a fire very quickly. We are waking up in the 50s, near 60 degrees. A few clouds are moving in from the west. There are no rains. It should be a pretty decent our weather is going to be changing. There is a cold front that will be moving into the state as we head toward tuesday. This will bring a slight chance for a few showers as we go toward tuesday, noontime. The hold frontal boundary will slowly track off to the east. There may be a few showers left all thats left over for wednesday. Left over for wednesday. No rain in the forecast today. Instead, we are waking up to clear skies. It is very windy. Gusting up to 35 Miles Per Hour this afternoon. High temps would be near 80 degrees. Overnight lows stay mild, back near 86. Clouds will be moving back in. Here is your 8day forecast. The mild conditions continue into wednesday. Really no cold air insight just yet. Friday, here comes that better chance of widespread rain. Temperatures get back to where they should be. By the end of the weekend, highs will be in the week highs will be in the 50s. These temperatures are amazing eric tanks metinka. Thanks metinka. Elizabeth of the past 25 teams to fall behind 2 games to none in the League Championship series only 3 have come back to win the series. Eric and thats what the cubs are facing now against the mets of the first. Thats new yorks daniel murphy. Golfing one out for his fourth straight playoff game with a homerun. That put the mets up 30 in the first. Top of the 2nd same score. The cubs finally look like they have a run until Curtis Granderson takes the homer away from chris coghlan. Bottom of the more trouble for third, arrieta. Yoenis cespedes hit a grounder to short bobbled slightly by javier baez. Curtis granderson scores. Arrieta had won his last 13 starts but last night gave up 4 runs and left the mound after 5 innings. Mets win 41 and lead the series 20. We are looking for several onegame winning streaks. That would be kind of nice. It is never going to be easy this time of year. They are geared they are good. We know that. We are also very good. Eric game 3 is tuesday at 7 00 in chicago elizabeth the royals meanwhile are getting ready for game 3 of the alcs. That is tonight at 7 00 in toronto. Kansas city leads the series 2 to 0. Turning to football now in the , preseason polls iowa was picked fourth in their division. Eric but right now they are up to 12th in the nation. Iowa is 70 and alone in first place in the big ten west with a 30 conference record. They have beaten two ranked teams on the road this year , crushing northwestern 4010 on saturday and edging wisconsin as well. They are deep enough to sustain injuries to key players and still win. And theres really no reason to believe they cant keep it going. Weve got a lot of Different Things thrown our way. It just seems like whatever has come our way, we have handled it pretty well. I like to say it is something that grows a little bit on the team. Was that gets going and can be a great thing. Wants that gets going, that can be a great thing. Take a look at the schedule the rest of the way after the bye this weekend theyll face maryland. And they wont see any very strong teams for the rest of the middle of a 3game stretch against the top three scoring offenses in the nation right now. Tech beat them 66 to 31. Tcu beat them 45 to 21 on saturday. And up next is baylor the top scoring offense in the nation with 64 points per game. The cyclones know it has to start fast in these games and play their best for all 4 quarters. We were executing at a high rate against a highpower offense. Competitive with key stops and a big turnover finally pierced special teams had some big plays. We can definitely finish games a lot better. We wouldve finished again, who knows what the score wouldve been aixa we wouldve had the w. If we work on it, we will be victorious. In waco at in waco is at eric star future, sailed through that diaper stage, learned to walk, and im reading like a thirdgrader. But now its time to go out into the world. And from what i hear, its not all toys and games out there. Will you look out for me, future . Thats amazing. Its amazing. This is amazing. Thats amazing real people are discovering surprising things at chevy. Were sold. Its so pretty. Beautiful. It feels great. Perfect. This is not what i would expect from a chevy at all. Get more than you expect for less than you imagined. The 2015 models are going fast. Find your tag and get cash back for 15 of the msrp on select 2015 vehicles in stock. Or, get 0 financing for 72 months on these remaining 2015 chevy vehicles. Metinka good morning in it is a no coat kind of day. We have a strong wind at 16. That will be gusting close to 35 Miles Per Hour during the drive time and afternoon. A huge improvement over temperatures this weekend. There is your 8day forecast. It is going be a warm and windy day today. Headed for a high of 80 degrees. Red flag warning in effect. Any fires that could start could rapidly spread. Tuesday, we may see a little bit of relief. A slight chance of rain in the forecast. Temperatures will be cooling down for the end of the weekend. Eric of all the big name players on the Iowa Basketball roster theres two you may not hear much about. Elizabeth nonetheless these guys are keeping teammates and coaches on their toes. Tony seeman has more. Tony at media day, things tend to look the same. Same pictures, same questions. Is a senior, i see myself as a leader. Tony same answers. Working as hard as possible. Tony it is almost here he how identical these things become. It has been a great experience so far. Tony so saying steve and michael so seeing stephen michael, so seeing steve and michael can seem different even though they are both the same. Steve and i were saying it has been a blessing so far. Tony since they have been on, people have been doing a double take. Luckily they dress the part. I usually try to tell them tony i mean would you correct this guy . They are the exact same. They hope to make a difference. The place feels right for us. Tony in iowa city, tony seeman, kcci, iowas news leader. Elizabeth coming up on kcci at 5 00 a. M. , a man charged with sexually abusing his granddaughter. Plus two major trials in des moines. And three foods to help whiten eric right now, charged for sex abuse, again. A registered sex offender is back behind bars after allegedly assaulting his own granddaughter. Why the girls mother says she let her daughter see him despite his past. Elizabeth drone owners may soon have to navigate some new laws. The changes the department of transportation is making to try to keep a better eye on the sky. Plus, trump versus bush. The latest on the rift between

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