Western avenue around 4 00. Thats just across the river from the downtown area a few blocks from us 218 on waterloos west side. Firefighters said they found heavy smoke coming from the home when they arrived. Everyone inside the house was able to safely escape. Crews were on the scene for several hours. The cause of this fire is still under inveveigation. One person died in an overnight fire in des moines. Police were originally called out to a home on the citys Northwest Side for a report of a disturbance. Police say a man inside the home was threatening officers s en they arrived at the home. When police couldnt get the man to come outside, officers saw a fire erupt in the home. After breaking into the home to rescue the man, police say that man resisted the officers attempt to save him. Police ultimately had to leave him behind and run out of the home because of the fire and smoke. Investigators say the fire was set intentionanay. Authorities have not released the victims name. New at midday, a washington faces a manslaughter charge after a deadly hit andrun last year. Arrested 30 yearold justin milam of west chester on monday. Manslaughter influence. He was taken to the Washington County jail where his bond was set at 10,000. 51yearold Katherine Whetsine near wellman last june. Whestine wawaout running north of town when investigators say milam hit her with his car. She later died at the university of iowa hospitals. Today 9 people are dead after two trains crashed in germany early this morning. Fifty others were injured. Germanys transport minister says the 2 passenger trains were going around a curve when they crashed headon. Authorities say both trains were likely goininabout 60 Miles Per Hour on that stretch of track. The transport minister says there is a Safety System in place to automatically stop trainbefore they crash, but this morning that system crews have recovered the black boxes from both trains which they hope will give them a better idea about how the crash happened. With the 8day wait since the Iowa Caucuses over, its decision day for voters in New Hampshire. Polls are already open as both republicans and democrats decided whohey want to represent their parties in november. Voters have been coming through at a steady pace this midday. Polls opened bright and early at 7 00. After coming in 2nd in iowa last week, Donald Trump Holds a commanding lead in New Hampshire. The realclearpolitics average shows trump with 31 support. Florida senator marco rubio is in 2nd place. Ohio Governor John Kasich came in 3rd place kasich avoided iowa and has put his resources into New Hampshire. Texas senator and iowa caucus winner ted cruz and former Florida Governor jeb bush are then virtually tied for 4th. And after narrowly losing the iowa senator Bernie Sanders holds a strong lead in New Hampshire. Realclearpolitics shows sanders with a 13 point lead in polls over former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. Well have more from New Hampshire, coming up in our next half hour. Today former Iowa Governor chet culver is Holding Townhall meetings in eastern iowa to educate people about iowas move to privatized medicaid. Hes holding one meeting at the Coralville Public Library right now. This afternoon hell travel to cedar rapidss for another town hall at the cedar rapids Public Library at 2 00. Culver says the change will have a negative affect on the several hundred thousand iowans who rely on mededaid. Meanwhile, a bill that would undo governor branstads plan to privatize medicaid is moving forward in the state legislature. For now, the state is set to transition to privatized care in less ththn a month, on arch 1st. The transition was supposed to happen january 1st, but federal regulators said the state needed more time to signup the more than Iowa Governor terry y anstad sss privatization will help cut the rising price tag for medicaid. The administration said costs are expected to the state currently spends more than 4. 2 billion dollars each year on medicaid. Branstad has said privatizing will save during the first 6 months. Some of iowas democrats are saying the transition is too o st, that it disrupts longstanding patient and provider relationships, and could diminish care. Senators will likely vote this week on the billo dismantle medicaid privatization. Republicans s s it wont pass through the house where they hold the majority. Yet Senate RepublicanDavid Johnson from northwest iowa says hes supporting the bill. He didnt say hes against privatizing medicaid, just that the p pcess should slow down. Im going to support it to give it a little extra push. To give it an extra push because i want this to be a bipartisan the bill passed the Senate Committee vote. If a company will build a pipeline across the state. This week, the iowa utilities board is meeting to discuss whether to approve a permit for the project. The company, dakota access, wants to build the pipeline from nonoh dakota to illinois, and it would cut through 19 counties in iowa. The utilities board is reviewing a range of concerns, from vironmental to economic. Dakota access says that pipelines have a Better Safety record than other methods of crude oil sierra club points out that in 2013, more than 800,000 gallons were spilled froro railroad cars. But over 5 million hazardous liquus were spilled from pipelines iowa is the only state that has not yet approved a permit for the pipeline. Tonight, weve got girls and Boys Basketball as linn mar saints court. Tip off is at 6 for the girls. And 7 30 for the boys. You can catch all the action on kcrg 9 point 2. World leaders are trying to get ahead of the dangerous zika virus outbreak. Today the Top Health Official in the United States is addressing the issue before congress. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. Clouds are on their way out, sky for the afternoon. Even with sunshine, itll still be cold with highs in the middle teens. Northwest winds remain pretty stiff, keeping wind chills below zero. Well have a partty cloudy sky tonight as lows fall to the lower single digits. Clouds increase through ththday tomomoow, bringing a chancncof light snow late. That snow chance continues tomorrow night, with a halfinch or less likely. The best chance of snow will be the fararer west you go. Well get a break thursday before another chance of light snow returns friday. Another shot of snow comes in sunday. After that, all signs coming back for at least several days. Today moly sunny, chilly high 1319 winds nw 1530 alo 14 dbq 14 iow 18tonight partly cloudy low 24 winds nw 1020 alo 1 dbq 1 iow 3tomorrow chance of light snow late high 1117 wiwis nw 515 alo 13 dbq 13 iow 15tomorrow night chance of light snow low 28 winds n 510 alo 2 dbq 5 iow 7thursday partly cloudy high 21 low 5 friday chance of light snow high 23 low 11 sunday chance of snow high 26 low 8 monday mostly cloudy high 35 low 23 tuesday chance of snow high 38 low 23 thanks justin. Today the secretary of health ervices will be at the capitol to brief lawmakers ononhe spreading zika virus. And at the white house, president obama is asking for nearly 2 billion dollars to fight the virus. Abcs lana zak has more. Dr. Anne schuchat, centers for Disease Control and prevention the cdcs Emergency Operations center in atlanta is now at the highest level of alert repared for the threat of the zika virus in the u. S. And already some southern states, including texas and florida are on the defensive. Bite dr. Anne schuchat, centers for Disease Control and prevention for most, zika is just a mild infection. But for pregnant women, it could lead to the microcephaly, associated with small heads and virus is known to spread throug misquitos, including a type common in the u. S. Thats what has Health Authorities here asking congress for an investment of 1. 8 billion to fight the disease. Tag the request for additional funds still needs congressional expect the secretary of health and humama services to make her plea today that this is essential. Lana zak, abc news, washington iowa senator joni ernst spent her weekend starting her 99 county tour o oiowa. At one stop she met with farmers who had a lot of questions about federal ag policies. Stay with us on tv9. Agribusiness report, im david geiger. This weekend, iowa senator joni ernst was back in town for her 99 county tour. In williamsburg. She met with farmers at the Iowa County Farm Bureau to talk about some of the ag issues important to local farmers and agribusinesses. And theres a lot of federal ag policies on their minds right now. Ernst says she gets questions about the hot topics of ag legislation all over the state. So whether its cool, whether its gmo, whether its the renewable fuel standard, wotus, you name it. These are topics that always come out and people are very active in these areas. And wanting to know more in maybe what the federal government is doing. So they are very in tune in whats going on out there in washington d. C. I love to hear that, i love to see that engagement. Iowa was recently in the National Spotlight because of the first in the nation caucuses hosted here last week. But candidates siding against the renewable fuel standard. Agriculture stayed largely out earlier in the Campaign Season there was the ag summit hosted by businessman bruce rastetter. Where nine republican president ial hopefuls were inxerviewed on their stances. But we really need to hear more om our candidates on this topic, make sure they understand how important our agriculture is, our agribusiness. We do a lot of trade with the world. We feed and fuel the world. Ernst adds its important candidates understand the issues from the seed to the table and shessxcited to talk more with them about iowa agriculture. Cattle are crashing the start of this week. After nice gains for a month. Over in grains. Its not too much better. Beans are down 20 cents from last week. And still falling. The market today is under a lot of pressure in the grains, corn beans we started out overnight with improved weather. In south america again. Theyre about 8 percent harvested on soybeans in brazil. Then the outside markets under a lot of pressure weve got the equity markets under pressure. Crude oil under pressure so its a commodity liquidation. And it all adds up to some selling ahead of the monthly supply demand Crop Production report. The Cattle Market had a very poor trade on friday in the cash market after the futures close. Poor technical have stalled out. We had a weather rally and now we have to deal with bigger suppliesoming at us in is following the Cattle Market lower to a certain degree. Weve had some technical buying early in the day. But now were back to reality. And bigger supplies going to be coming at us in a few the last week so the top end of the range. The colfax sheep and goat auction on saturday saw 179 head of sheep. Feeder lambs fetched the days high average price of 1. 82 per pound, while fed lambs averaged 1. 30 per pound. The 27 goats at the auction saw a high average price ranging from 115 to 155 per head. And thats all i have for the show today. Thanks for joining us on the agribusiness report. Ill see you again tomorrow. Well post a video every day in the agribusiness section of kcrg. Com. Youll find it under the news tab. Im david geiger with the agribusiness report. Trt 3. 38 oc webtease linn county Officials Say theres not much they can do about a warehouse full of papapwork. Its something thats costing the county thousands of dollars every year. Thats next a warehcounty thousands of dollars each year. And the county cant do much about it. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders followed the paper trail and has the story. Remember that final scene of indiana jones. Rows and rows of boxes. This isnt a hollywood set, its where linn county stores most of its court files. The county generates an esttated 40thousand newewnes each year. And, as you can see, those files have really piled up over time. To try and figure out how many we have, ill say we have thousands of files here. How about that . Thats linn county clerk of court roxann repstieh. Shes essentially in charge of all the shes out of space to store it all in the courthouse. Nats this is one we have two of these rooms you can come on in here. Ats why the county rents a half floor of the old hubbard ice building on 1st street. 7thousand boxes, potentially up to 700,000 individual files are kept here. Itused to be more. The 08 flood destroyed a bunch at an old facility and damaged many others. They had a company freeze dry them. Then they all came back in boxes. We had to inventory. Rh onda ogreen comes here regularly to grab a few relevant files each week. She says some date back to the 60s. Many files are seldom used. Yet, the county spends nearly 50 grand in rent to store them, each year. And it doesnhave a choice. Depending on the type of record it is there are different retention rules. Repstien is talking about this it says, for civil cases, once settled, the county must keep the file for at least ten years. For criminal cases, ten years after the sentence is complete. Then files can transfer to microfilm, which is much smaller to store. Things get longer from there. Probate files, we have no rules to get d of any of those. We have those forever. Juvenileefiles, there are no rules. Linn county isnt alone. Courthouses across the state face the same storage problem. To the north, jones county owns a similar warehouse. Essentially its little more than a tightly packed, dank basement. Well, its very dark in here. Wehave to use our flashlight. Relief is in sit, in 20101 the state started the electronic Document Management system, allowing new files to be stored electronically, eliminating the need for paper records. It was rolled out in phases. Linn county started april 2014. But that didnt address the mountains of old files. They have to stay put, meaning linn county s to keep payayng its 50grand rent check. Thats a full job position. So, thats a big deal to us. County supervisor Linda Langston says this is an excellent example of an Unfunded Mandate from the state. Something, she says, legislators donoften notice but should. We want to make sure that theyve mindful when they impose these things the only way old files get ditched is if iowa code is changed. State legislators we talked to didnt know of any bills currently in the works to do that. In fact, some said there isnt enough man power to digitize t paperwork and purur all the files, anyway. Nor would it be worth the price tag. Nat door. So, for now, it looks like all this paper is here to stay. Destined to collect dust in courthouses, basements, and in linn countys case, a warehouse, while tax payers foot the bill. The city is working to buy the hubbard ice building, where the county stores those files right now. The city will likely demolish it to make way for a flood wall. The county says it has the rest of the year to find a new spot for the files. Today marks`8 days since the Iowa Caucuses. Hampshire is up foror picking the new leader of the free world. Well have more from the New Hampshire primary after the break. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our temperatures coming up in your first alert forecast. Stay with tv9. N w hampshire voters ar hitting the polls in the 2016 race for the white house. Im where coming up, ill tell you how the candidates are criss crossing the state to get those last minute votes. State lawmakers want to make some changes to how iowas Traffic Cameras are run. And a community of several thousand in linn county finally has a place to dine in town. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news this is a live look this midday from New Hampshire where voters have been going trough the polls all morning. Republican and democratic voters will decide who they want to represent them in novembers general election. If you go by the polls, its shaping up to be a runaway for vermont senator Bernie Sanders on the democratic side and donald trump for the gop. But we wont know for sure until results come in tonight. Abcs Kenneth Moton has more. Nat Chris Christie polling place visit Christie Christie christie its been a sprint from one polling place to another in New Hampshire. Nat john kasich polling placeisit hakes hands . Hi how are you . This morning, the candidates including Hillary Clinton were out and about trying to influence those undecided sot Hillary Clinton were going to keep working literally until the last vote is cast so much crisscrossing , at one stop clinton even ran into the husband of gop candidate carly fiorina. They put partisan differences aside for a pic