Good afternoon. Im sonya heitshusen. And im dan winters. Thanks for joining us. The rain is gone, but the clouds are Still Holding on. Rain totals were mainly less than a quarter inch around central iowa this morning. Des moines received only 0. 06. It will be mainly cloudy and cool tonight with lows in the upper 40s. Some dry weather on thursday with partly sunny skies after nearly three full days of deliberation. The jury in the pete polson attempted murder trial returned a verdict this afternoon. There answer on all charges. Guilty. Stephanie moore has been covering the trial for us. She joins us now live with more. Pete polson was found guilty of all nine charges but at different degrees than what the state prosecutor 5451we the jury in the above and titled case find the defendant Pete Jason Polson guilty of the crime of attempt to commit murder to mark mitchell. Polson was also found guilty of two counts of assault to inflict serious injury for shooting at Zach Whitehill and matt stephenson, stephenson avoided getting hit but whitehill was shot in the back and neck and is still recovering from his injuries. Police say polson went on a random shooting spree last november in Pleasant Hill, polson claimed he didnt remember the shooting after taking a bad hit of meth the night before. The jury also found polson guilty on two counts of willful injury as well as all the drug and weapons charges. Polson was taken into custody i did have a chance to speak to a few of the victims and they were still trying to process the verdict and did not want to go on camera. Polson will be sentenced in december parents in a metro suburb are on high alert after two children claimed someone tried to abduct them. The kids said it happened yesterday afternoon. They were walking home from altoona elementary when they said they were approached by two white men in a small, white, older twodoor compact pickup. The children said the suspects offered them candy and told them to get into the truck. Altoona police are monitoring areas around elementary schools. They advise parents to talk to their kids about safety. Two officers were injured, and a West Des Moines man is facing a long list of charges following a pursuit. Officers were chasing a motorcycle rider at around two am when their squad car crashed into a ditch on the northeast side of des moines. The officers suffered minor injuries. The suspect didnt make it very far though. His bike stalled just a few blocks away and he was quickly arrested. 29year old jordan young is charged with theft, eluding and owi. Amongst other charges. This isnt the first time young has made headlines. Last year he was arrested after ramming a car driven by two bounty hunters who were trying to arrest him. Young ran from the scene and jumped into the raccoon river. Then had to be rescued by police. He plead guilty to assault. A police chase in cedar rapids last night ended with the death of one person being pursued. Police were trying to pull over a vehicle because they believed it was involved in drug activity. Police say a passenger. 21year old jonathon gossman. Got out of the vehicle. Ran and fired a gun at them. They returned fire. Killing him. The two officers and their k9 were not injured. That major shakeup many expected in the democratic president ial race. Isnt going to happen. This morning Vice President joe biden ended speculation and said he will not run for president. Biden says he and his family were mourning the death of beau biden, and too much time has gone by to mount a Winning Campaign now. Steve handelsman has the story from the white house with his wife jill and president obama by his side, Vice President joe biden said its too late for him to run for president sot joe biden, Vice President unfortunately i believe were out of time the time necessary to mount a Winning Campaign for the nomination the bidens have been mourning since may now theyre smiling at the memory of son beau biden. Says joe. Not just weeping over his death from cancer. But the Vice President warned his window to run narrowed while they mourned sot joe biden, Vice President that it might close. Ive concluded it has closed Hillary Clinton gets stronger, gaining 5 points over Bernie Sanders with biden out clinton at 58 in the new nbc news wall street journal poll sot john harwood, cnbc chief washington correspondent you cant say anythings certain in politics, but she is the closest thing to a lock ive ever seen in an open primary Campaign Trump tweet graphic personally, i would rather run against hillary because her record is so bad republican front runner donald trump tweeted personally, i would rather run against hillary because her record is so bad at the debate. Clinton called trumps party her enemy sot Hillary Clinton president ial candidate republicans hahahahahahahahah a thats not joe bidens style sot joe biden, Vice President they are our opposition. Theyre not our enemies. After 42 years in washington. A senator. Twice a president ial candidate. Then Vice President. Biden promises to keep speaking out. Which. Knowing joe. Nobody doubts. Audio outcue im steve handelsman, nbc news, washington. Im steve handelsman, nbc news, the white house. Today were asking you on twitter what you think about Vice President bidens decision. Do you think he should have run for president . You can vote right now. Just look for atwhohd on twitter. Biden bowing out means the speaker schedule is now set for the Jefferson Jackson dinner in Downtown Des Moines this weekend. They will go in reverse alphabetical order. That means Bernie Sanders will lead off, followed by Martin Omalley, Hillary Clinton and lincoln chafee. Adding to the mix of the four Democratic Candidates will be former president bill clinton and pop singer katy perry. Plus the thousands of rally supporters for the president ial hopefuls. Perry is scheduled to hold a free concert in support of hilary clinton. Its in a parking lot along 5th avenue beginning at 3 pm. Also at 3 00 thousands of Bernie Sanders supporters will be meeting at the armory to march across the women of achievement bridge and into hyvee hall. Former Maryland GovernorMartin Omalley is planning an outdoor concert of his own at 3 30 at the plaza of Veterans Memorial auditorium. Iowa Democratic Party officials are pleased with the level of excitement for this years event. But Law Enforcement realize the challenges this creates. We are gonna have a lot of people in a small geographic are so we will have significant presence to make surer people are safe and traffic flows smoothly, but yeah for us to have to plan where we want all of our people, it can sometimes make it challenging. It just doesnt get much better than this is what i tell people because we can highlight what we are doing and that is finding the best president to be our next president. Police say anyone planning to attend the events should arrive well ahead of time and be prepared to walk farther than normal due to parking being limited. Today governor branstad joined the Homeland Security and Emergency Management conference to talk about the newest kind of Natural Disaster threatening the state. Governor branstad told the group this morning this years bird flu outbreak was like nothing anyone had experienced before. He says the outbreak proved that it is local officials who people count to recognize a problem. And when to get the state involved with resources in such a situation. The governor said he is hopeful that vaccines being created now may help to stop the outbreak from happening again. i think theres a lot that we can learn from what happened last spring and summer hopefully we can avoid a re occurance of that kind of situation. Thats where preparation is important, we need to learn the lessons what we did right and what we did wrong, and how we can do things better. The governor said that the big Lesson Learned is the state needs to communicate better with the usda in cases of biological outbreaks. The iowa dnr is coming to the rescue of the monarch butterfly. With some help from taxpayers. The dnr announced today its getting nearly a quarterMillion Dollars from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to build a monarch habitat. It will be housed on more than 33 Hundred Acres of private land in the state. Monarchs are being threatened by pesticides that destroy their natural habitat. They are one of the best pollinators in nature. Its a disgusting crime when you bike. This week an ames child fell victim to a thief. But his heartbreak was short lived. Coming up. See how his missing wheels were replaced quickly, thanks to a kindhearted community. And how do you get kids interested in stem . You show them some really cool technology. Coming up next. See how the university of iowa peaked the interest of metro students today. Here in vineland, home of progresso, we love all kinds of chicken soups. But just one kind of chicken. White breast meat chicken every time. So if youre not going to make your own chicken soup tonight, do what we do. Make it progresso. Old el paso says. Zesty chicken and avocado tacos in our stand n stuff tortillas. record scratch you say stand n stuff tortillas old el paso says. Most of these students dont licenses yet. But today they got a sneak peek at the newest Driverless Car Technology that could make that first parallel parking job a breeze. The university of iowas driverless Research Vehicle pulled in to two des moines schools today. Its a car developed by volvo, not the university. But the ui is using the car and its technology to promote safer roads across the state. The reason for this automation is that were really bad drivers. 32,000 people a year die on our roads, we know 95 of those crashes are driver error. So this technology can step in, and protect those drivers. 01 14 students at Herbert Hoover high school and meredith middle the car today. Its a semiautomated driverless vehicle. So it doesnt exactly drive on autopilot. But it does help the driver stay in their lane on the highway, press handle parallel parking without any assistance. The vehicle is part of a Larger Campaign from mycardoeswhat dotorg thats aimed at teaching people about Automated Technologies in ui researcher dan mcgeehee says if marty mcfly from back to the future actually arrived to 2015 today. He may not see flying cars, but this Driverless Technology would be just as cool. The technologies that are in this car are actually going to be more helpful for the masses, i think. I think thats really the key, is that in the next few years, cars will have automatic braking systems, and so forth, that will really protect drivers from the most common types of crashes. So, back to the future is way cool, but these technologies are here now. 01 22 mcgeehee says in just 10 years, this technology will all cars. Well also have a few completely Driverless Cars on the roads. As for back to the future day, well have more on that later in the newscast. Ad lib main weather skies will dear 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 . Tonight with cool temperatures. A cool front has moved through and temperatures tonight will drop into the 40s by morning. Thursday brings partly sunny conditions and cooler daytime highs in the mid to upper 60s across the state. A strong area of low pressure will move in from the southwest across central iowa on friday. This will bring us cloudy, cool and rainy conditions for our state. The rain will move out by saturday with some lingering clouds and highs in the low 60s early next week. Coming up next. An ames cop best thing for a local boy. If you think storm damage is the only cost of climate change, think again. From the rising price of food to higher insurance rates for homes and businesses, the economic damage will only get worse. But with americanmade clean energy, we can save money on electricity and spur innovation to create new businesses and jobs. It all starts with 50 clean energy by 2030. Some caring members of the community. Last week ames pd was called out on what is. Unfortunately a common occurrence a stolen bike. But what makes this case different is what happened next. Roger riley has the story. Theres a five year old boy named finn who is riding a bike again. Last week, his bike was stolen. Honey. Youre bikes stolen, im sorry that was not a nice thing that somebody did, sad,but i had a great idea to call the police, officer vincent junior came to take the report of the missing bike. 2939 it was kind of cool, he drew some arrows to show where the bike was stolen. couple days ago my bike was stolen, no suspects, no witnesses, this is the description o the bike, so it was a generic report. 2946 as junior was filling out his report, hed remembered a sign he had seen down at skunk river cyles they had free bikes to give away. Talked to the manager and i told him the situation, he was awesome, he said ron said give me 15 minutes, im gonna go to the east side of town, so its going to take a little bit of time, ill get some bike tires, well air it up, well shine it up. The bike store manager got finn a bike. And hes back riding again. Finn the other bike that he got me was almost the same size finns mother, a native of los angeles,was very surprised to learn her son was getting a new bike i was really shocked and surprised that he would go out of his way to tend to this kind of a matter. Where i come from Police Officers dont care about these kinds of things. At skunk river cycles, helping people in the community is nothing new. Theyve been known to help out youth agencies, a womens shelter, and a mens Halfway House with people who for whatever reason, need a bike, but cant pay sot ronn ritz skunk river cycles yet to shoot 3400 sometimes i ride around really fast now officer junior. Has a five year old friend who sees Police Officers as someone who can help. Officer vince wasnt just doing his job like any other job, he was doing it in a way that was compassionate. 3310 kudos to skunk river cycles for helping out. Nats riding 3249 ill always remember him, i can say that. In Ames Roger Riley channel 13 news speaking of toys. Weve got a story about one every kid wants. If they have a few hundred dollars to spend. Coming up. See how an Oregon Company is making jedi dreams come true as star wars fans reach a fever pitch. And today is the day weve waited 30 years. Well look back at what back to the future got right and wrong crime. Hear what lead to the shooting death of a child. And who police are looking for. Grab your hoverboard and pepsi perfect. Its back to the future day. Well compare our modern lives to the one predicted by back to the future two. And speaking of science fiction. Hear the story of how an oregon man turned his love of star wars into a luxury lightsaber business. News at four front door we are learning more form investigators tonight about a tragic road rage incident in new mexico a toddler was shot and killed during the incident. Police are now begging other drivers along the busy interstate where it all took place. To help them find out whos responsible. Jay gray has more. Natural sound ambient it happened along this stretch of interstate 40 in albuquerque. Sound jonelle tofoya, witness 03 10 the truck was literally going across several lanes just to avoid this vehicle to pass. Road rage. That investigators say ended with murder. Sound simon drobik, Albuquerque Police department 14 17 one car pulled up against the other car and started firing rounds into that vehicle. One of those rounds killing a 4 yearold girl inside this truck. Sound chief gorden eden Albuquerque Police department 22 29 ive seen tragic loss of children in car crashes. To me this is one of those crimes that is unexplainable. Veteran officers, struggling to understand the tragedy. And to find a suspect. Sound chief gorden eden Albuquerque Police department 35 43 we are in desperate need of information to help us resolve the conflicting information we are getting right now. Information from witnesses about the suspect. And other vehicle involved in the attack vary widely. And investigators are urging other drivers to share whatever they may have seen. Sound chief gorden eden Albuquerque Police department 531 00 we are begging for the communities help. This should have never happened. This is a complete disrespect of human life. Sheriffs deputies also hope at some point. To get Important Information from the little girls mom and dad. Who were inside the t