Is justice served. A father speaks out against the man who claimed the life of his son. Tragic accident. A farm accident in Clarke County claims a life today. How it happened. And the efforts to save him. Missing teen. The search continues for a missing 17yearold boy. What the teenager was doing before his disappearance. From who hd iowas High Definition leader. This is the channel 13 news at nine on fox 17 good evening. Im lynn melling. Thank you for joining us tonight. The family of a murder victim is speaking out tonight. Saying they believe justice has not been served. In september. 50 year old Stephen Jonas was sentenced to 50 years in prison for stabbing and killing 21 year old zach paulsen in august of 2014. At the time. The victims family thought the punishment fit the crime. That is until a few weeks ago. Justin surrency has more. The memory remains fresh. I found him, my sons body laying against the fence, this is where he was murdered. In september, a jury made 50 year old steve jonas pay for the august 2014 murder of zach paulsen charging him with 2nd degree murder and 50 year sentence. I though hed go to a maximum security prison because it was a very violent crime, he stabbed him 35 times. Jonas was sent to the medium level security newton correctional facility. It just shocked us, i read about newton and its a place to rehabilitate people. Hell have cell mates and 45 hours of free time. Fred scaletta, assistant director of the department of corrections described the placement process saying quote, it is more about the offenders history and current behavior that determines their custody level and facility placement; along with the specific rehabilitation needs that each institution provides when they evaluated him, i think he lied his way through that and got them to believe he was in harm. I think he got to go where he wants to go. Scaletta says that there are currently 467 inmates at newton correctional facility with a violent offense, 102 serving sentences of 40 years or longer and 31 inmates serving life in prison. the review board needs to be reviewed i just cant see that they are sending these people that do these kinds of things in these places when we have facilities for violent criminals. Until a change is made the paulsen family says it will be hard to find peace. To me it seems like hes in a country club right now, playing ping pong with young boys, ii just doesnt feel right. For now one place gives them the comfort they need. Figured steve jonas who murdered him took this spot from us and i had to take it back. Its a comforting place now where it was a horrible place, most horrible place of my life. It is not a problem of the maximum security prison at fort madision being at capacity. At todays count scaletta says there are 541 prisoners with a Maximum Capacity of 634. A deadly farming accident this morning in rural Clarke County. Where a search and rescue mission quickly became a recovery mission. Several crews responded to a grain bin near murray. The Clarke County sheriff says the owner and 39yearold hired hand. Eric reasland of creston were checking out the corn that had crusted over. The owner went below to start the auger. While reasland walked over the corn to try to break it up. 11 49 01 a lot of time the crust will stay up there and grain go down below it. Gap. To get it to go down in the auger. 11 49 13 crews put about five holes in the bin to get the grain to drain away from the victim. The response effort took more authorities are calling the search for sammy kemp one of the most extensive searches in recent memory. The 17yearold disappeared this weekend, and was last seen at a party in granger. But family members are saying search crews are not doing enough 365618 hes 17 years old, anything could happen. He could be out in the woods hurt, cant get to a phone anything and your just handling it like hes another run away candice carr is the missing boys sister. She says family members are eager to search for sammy themselves. But authorities are still conducting their own organized search. Since monday crews have looked in and around a pond where the boy was last seen after a party on saturday. Polk county Authorities Say nothing can be ruled out at this point. 015913 were interviewing witnesses, trying to eliminate Different Things and try to get more information. We need more leads so we can try and follow up on those and determined what happened here and find sam weather has been a factor all week. But tomorrow morning several different agencies will will expand the search by land, water and air hoping to yield some results fleur drive is opening up a lot sooner than expected. Officials said the road would be closed down through the weekend, however, the Raccoon River receded faster than expected. As a result. Fleur reopened at three oclock this afternoon. The raccoon crested at nearly 18 feet yesterday. Since then. Its dropped about two feet. And is expected to continue to recede through the weekend. An adel car dealership remains open despite its proximity to rising flood waters. The dealership is located on highway 169, which was closed last night due to the flooding Raccoon River. But the store remains open for business, even with the water just feet from the front of the business. The dealership has been there ten years, and so far no cars have ever been flooded. A number of roads around marshalltown are closed by high water right now. And a local businessman could not be happier. The mild weather has kept larry wegner and his six employees scrambling over the last week. The tow truck driver says there is mud everywhere. And where there is mud there is likely a car stuck. Wegner says theres another reason his business seems to boom during flood season. A lesson he learned back in 1993. Definately helped us for some reason, we had one of the biggest tire months weve ever had. The month that highway 14 was closed. Part of it i think. Was due to all the extra traffic cause of all the people that were coming down to see the bridge and the water on the bridge and stuff. But wegner says there is no bigger business boom than after a snow storm. And he hopes for one soon. Local ski slopes are typically busy this time of year. But. Not this year. The average ski season in iowa lasts twelve to fourteen weeks. But so far, it hasnt been cold enough for much snow. That means a ski season as short as eight weeks. The folks out at seven oaks near boone hope to start pumping out snow soon. Sleepy hollow sports park in des moines says its feeling the same kind of pain. Both places are hoping to open the ski slopes right after christmas. Unfortunately. It doesnt look good for ski hills in iowa. Or any other businesses that depend on winter weather. Old man winter is taking his sweet time this year. Meteorologist Brett Mcintyre has details. Brett. Dreams of a white some insiders are calling marco rubio one of the winners of last nights gop debate. But he didnt have much of a celebratory mood this morning in ankeny. The crowd clapped when rubio was introduced at the beginning of the event. And most never clapped again until the speech ended. Few smiles, few jokes. It was a serious talk from rubio this morning. He talked to nearly 100 people in an ankeny Hotel Ballroom almost exclusively about terrorism. Rubio said its one thing to talk about defeating isis. Its another thing to have a plan to do it. Rubio. 0057 were going to utterly destroy isis. Were going to blow them up. Were losing that capability. . Rubio says Congress Needs to restore the money it took away from the military. That way he says us forces will have the people, bombs and equipment they need to defeat isis. The white house contenders are all back on the road tonight. Following another round of sparring in las vegas last night. Coming up at 930 in case you missed it. A playbyplay of last nights debate between the republican candidates for president. The winners. And losers. But first. Grinch steals christmas. A word of warning from a davenport man. After holiday packages were stolen from his front door. From who hd iowas highition leader. Youre watching the welcome back. A davenport man is taking on a porch pirate. That stole a couple of packages delivered to his door step. Chris minor shows us the video. With a word of warning for everyone waiting for Holiday Gifts to be delivered to their home. Mark riedesel lives in the village of east davenport. I get packages delivered pretty often recently, he ordered a cat toy for his kitty online, not once. But twice. I never found the first package so i had them send me a new package and that disappeared within the five hour space it was delivered a victim, of what are now being called. Porch pirates, people who swipe packages delivered to your door step. A cat toy, not a lot of money, but still a missing package mark wanted to catch the culprit, setting up a camera at his front door, and set out the bait. It was a box, i just taped up empty box, well played sure enough, a woman bites, caught on tape not once but twice, helping herself to the box, rifling thru it, right on marks front porch. Do you recognize her, no this man in las vegas decided to take it to the extreme, and teach thieves a lesson planting a box filled with dog poo on the porch. Sure enough it was taken. Fed ex now has an app to customize home delivery, ups offers a free Alert Service to announce delivery times, some consumers have high priced items delivered to their work. Mark is keeping his camera running over the holidays. I think its terrible, people just Walking Around stealing stuff its not right data on package theft is limited. But insurance quotes dot com estimates that 23 million americans have had packages stolen from their homes before they could open them. Ad lib weather toss back coming up two words. Lamar odom. Their significance in 2015. The fa youre welcome. You can also get an lg g4 or an lg g pad f 8. 0 with that penny. Nice isnt that just delightful . Pennies for everyone get penny doorbuster deals on great devices while supplies last. Stocks close sharply higher today. The dow closed up two hundred twenty four points. The sandp was up thirty points. And the nasdaq rose nearly seventysix points the Federal Reserve board did something today that it hasnt done for nearly a decade. And that decision will affect millions of americans. Earlier today, the federal open Market Committee decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate by onequarter percentage point, bringing it to onequarter to onehalf percent. This action marks the end of an extraordinary sevenyear period, during which the federal funds rate was held near zero to support the recovery of the economy from the worst financial crisis and recession since the great depression. The rate hike was widely expected, and a sign that the us economy is now strong after years of instability. The move is also significant for many, including home buyers, car buyers, investors and those just looking to save a few dollars here and there. Bank customers will see a little deposits. As a result of the rate hike. And those looking to get a mortgage on their new home will see rates gradually rise. New Home Construction jumped more than ten percent last month. The Commerce Department says construction of new homes and apartments climbed tenpointfive percent in november. Reversing much of the drop in starts during october. A big jump in apartment construction in the midwest and south boosted the pace of home building. And those gains appear likely to continue over the next few months. It seems like an inevitable match. Facebook is teaming up with uber, the Worlds Largest social network is testing the ability to book an uber car directly from inside the messenger chat app. The new feature is the first Transportation Partnership for messenger, but facebook hopes add other ridehailing companies in the future. It is rolling out slowly messenger, but facebook hopes to add other ridehailing companies in the future. It is rolling out slowly to users in the United States at first. To promote the partnership, uber is offering the first ride for free, up to 20. Facebook has big plans for the messenger app. You can already use it to send money to friends and track online purchases. Theres still much more to come in the next halfhour. Just ahead tracking terrorists. The fbi is refuting claims made in the gop debate about the San Bernardino killers what really happened. And the that keep adding up. Thats why weve got to crack down on price gouging, cap outofpocket costs, and fast track approval of less expensive generic drugs. Because weve got to get Health Care Costs under control and for yours. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Mistrial. The jury in the freddie gray murder trial is deadlocked. What happens next. And the pleas for calm in the city of baltimore. In case you missed it. A recap of last nights debate between the republican candidates for president. Google it. What do terror attacks, a near death experience, and math have in common . A breakdown of 2015 on the world wide web. From who hd iowas High Definition leader. This is the channel 13 news at a baltimore jury could not come to a decision over officer william porters responsibility in the death of freddie gray. Porter was one of six officers charged after gray died in police custody. Polo sandoval has the latest from baltimore. Police officers stood side by side in long lines as protesters approached. Crowds gathered in the street. But the family of freddie gray and the city of baltimore urge calm. If some choose to protest they must peacefully demonstrate. That is their right. But i also want to be very, very clear about any potential disturbances in our city. We are prepared to respond. Gray died after being transported in a police van. William porter was the first officer out of six tried. Prosecutors argued porter ignored grays pleas for help. They also said porter did not buckle gray properly into a seat belt and did not follow police policy. Porters defense said the opposite. Arguing standard protocol was to not use seat belts. The jury considered the charges against porter involuntary manslaughter, seconddegree assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment. But could not reach a decision. Now grays family will wait for a new trial as protesters in the city of baltimore demand justice. we ask the public to remain calm and patient because we are confident there will be another trial with a different jury. We are calm, you should be calm. Reporting in baltimore im polo sandoval. After the judge declared a mistrial. Porter told cnn by phone quote im doing well. When asked for his reaction to todays hung jury he told cnn you know i cant comment on that, but i cant blame you for trying. Porter is still suspended without pay. Students were back in class today in los angeles. This following a district wide shut down yesterday. After a threat was emailed to a member of the school board threatening a large scale attack. After investigating. The fbi ruled that the attack was not credible. Some parents agree with the shutdown. Saying you cant be too careful. But, others say the School District overreacted. Arreola says well, as the police chief said, if i was in the same position i probably would have shut it down as well. Sandefur says it didnt inconvenience me but i do think that they overreacted, i certainly think they overreacted. Paul says i believe that the School District and the city officials handled it awesomely, even though it became a hoax, our safety was their priority so i was very happy. New York City Schools received a similar threat tuesday. But it was deemed a hoax. The fbi is refuting claims made in the gop debate that the San Bernardino killers communicated openly on social media. Cnns pam brown reports. Today fbi director james comey made it clear the married terrorists Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik did not post anything on social media that the fbi could have picked up on. But rather communicated privately about jihad, away from the eyes of Law Enforcement in late 2013 before there is a physical meeting of these two people resulting in their engagement and journey to the United States their communicating online showing signs of their joint commitment to jihad and to martyrdom. That comment came in the wake of contradictory claims in tuesday nights gop debate that the shooters communications were on facebook. We didnt monitor the facebook posting of the female San Bernardino terrorist because the obama dhs thought it would be inappropriate she made a public call to jihad and they didnt target it. Today, for the first time, the fbi called another attack on american soil terrorism the murder by Mohammed Abdulaziz of four marines and sailor at military chattanooga, tennessee in july. To my mind theres no doubt the chattanooga killer was inspired, motivated by a Foreign Terrorist Organization propaganda. Directo r comey and Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson both spoke today of the fear americans currently feel, but assured the nation the country is safe. Secretary johnson announced an update to the countrys terrorism advisory system with a third level called a bulletin. Aimed at describing current threat trends to the public. We want to put in one place for the public to see what we are seeing concerning the homeland and what we are doing about it and what the public can do about it. President obama is set to visit San Bernardino friday to meet privately with families of victims of the terror