Local 5 news midday in hd starts now. We are iowa elias good morning and thanks for local 5 news midday. Im elias elias sam schrier with a look at weather adlib tonight it should be very chilly as temps fall into the upper teens across central iowa with a very calm wind. Wednesday we are going to see some move through in the morning with a quick one to two inches morning commute could be a bit slower. We are going to fall extra cold by the end of the week with highs in the upper teens on thursday and a high near 20 on friday. We should warm back into the 30s by the end of the weekend and into early next week with another snow possible around next tuesday. Elias 1shot snow plow des moines public works has been out with crews overnight clearing roads. Hour shifts. And once theyre plowing, they plan to also put salt down to surfaces. Elias most metro cities also have their snow ordinances now in effect which means you cant park on snow streets to clear the way. In des moines, theyve also implemented their even odd plowing system for neighborhoods with limited offstreet parking. The neighborhoods involved in this can be seen on your screen. That means between the hours of 7 am and 7pm you have to be on a certain side of the street. Odd days of the month mean you park on the oddaddress side of the street. If you dont follow the law. Its a 35 dollar fine. If youre curious, you can also track state dot plows while theyre on the clock. The dot has a website dedicated to it. The orange arrows are where the plows are right now. There are more than 420 of them out righy now elias and an unintended impact from the snow storm power outages. Overnight, the lights were just overnight, the lights were just coming back on for more than 15hundred people in urbandale. Their power was out for several hours, after mid American Energy says somebody hit a power pole elias many flights out of the Des Moines International airport were delayed. Or even cancelled monday. Some stranded passengers tell us. They might not be able to fly out till the end of the week. Local 5s Nikki Davidson gives us a look at what the airport says its doing to minimize delays right now. Its the one time of year when passengers are hoping the airport benches are more comfortable than their airline seat. Most are spending a most are spending a lot of time. Right here. 18 39 09 six hours. But david ruggle is one of the lucky ones. His flight to houston changing pretty rapidly, well watch the board and see what happens. Its part of the almost inevitable Holiday Travel nightmare. 18 40 00 i expect things like this to happen around christmas, not to me haha but to together people. But this year the des moines airport says theyve got something new they hope will help cut out the headaches. Its not something passengers see. But its vital to keeping flights on time in winter weather. 18 29 31 the whole goal is to clear the runway in 15 minutes or less. nat this giant is what the airport calls multi tasking equipment. nat whirling they just got in two of them this year. A plow and a broom in one. 18 29 10 one operator can do what 2 would do the epuipment operates quicker. The crew works as a team nat rodger well finish delta and bravo pushing waves of snow off of the runways like clockwork. 18 29 36 the less time we spend on a runway the they work long 12 hour shifts. Day quickly turns to night. But at a time like this. They say theyve got a pretty good incentive. You see on the news those people sleeping on benches. You want to get them out and where they need to go. Nikki, thanks. The weather also causing trouble at airports nationwide. Nearly 2,000 flights were cancelled in the us monday alone. 1,000 of them chicago ohare and 400 of them in texas. A typical day at airports around the country sees only 200 texas. A typical day at airports around the country sees only 200 cancellations. Airports around the country sees only 200 cancellations. Meanwhile, the reason for those texas issues, folks are picking up the pieces in dallas after tornadoes swept through, causing substantial damage over the weekend. Dozens of people were injured in the storms from north texas, up through oklahoma, the storm blew the roofs off homes, mangled vehicles, damaged churches, downed power lines, toppled trees and caused natural gas lines to rupture. There have been 46 weather related deaths around the country since last wednesday elias new this morning were learning about a vigil planned for a little girl who died in a crash on christmas. A jeep was traveling east about 5 miles away from fort dodge when it drifted across the center line, and struck a truck traveling westbound. Both drivers. As well as a third adult and three small children were all injured in the crash and taken to unity Point Hospital the six year old payton henry, seen there in the middle, passed away while at the hospital. Well now her daycare is planning something special. Riverview Early Childhood center in webster city is asking people to bring candles and come at 5 oclock on thursday. They will sing songs and say prayers, and they ask that people wear elias coming up on local 5 news midday. Donald trump is on the attack again today. This time going after one of his opponents, republican president ial candidate chris christie. Elias chicago yesterday left a des moines resident dead. Now, her friends have started a College Scholarship in her memory. Elias next. The hawkeyes are in pasadena. With only three days left until big game, the teams has wheres the beef . News midday in hd with Elias Johnson and we are iowas most accurate forecast. Elias in take a look at this today. Ever wish you could just get rid of your bad memories . Some new yorkers are giving it a shot a mobile shredding truck was on hand at times square on monday for those wanting to destroy their memories. You write them down, then shred them up the Times Square Alliance group says the initiative is a great way to start 2016. Good riddance day is a nineyear tradition at times square. Elias sam reax now San Francisco is cracking down on some justin spraypainted on sidewalks. The City Attorney says theyre part of a guerilla Marketing Campaign promoting biebers new album purpose. The graffiti artists appear to have used permanent spray, so even rain may not wash them away. The City Attorney sent a letter to biebers record label and his distributor monday. He demanded their full cooperation in tracking down who is responsible for the graffiti. The socalled guerilla campaigns like this one are becoming a problem in San Francisco. The city is trying to increase Civil Penalties for such violations. Elias sam reax hacking scandal is apparently not stopping Cheating WebsiteAshley Madison from signing up new members. The website claims on its homepage that it now has more than 43million members. Thats up four million from this summer, when the hack was first publicized. The data breach exposed the names and some Vital Information of an estimated 32 million Ashley Madison members. Even with new members, the website may not survive. Ashley madisons Parent Company is facing numerous class action lawsuits related to the data breach. Elias sam reax according to an survey. Hillary clinton and president barack obama are this years most admired public figures. But theyve got some company. Donald trump. Gallup released its annual survey on monday. 13percent picked clinton and 17percent picked obama. Trump returned to the list for the First Time Since 2011 with the support of 5percent of topped the list more frequently than any other woman in the history of the survey. Elias sam reax elias sam is back now. Sam ill have your full forecast coming up. Most accurate meteorologist sam schreier. Certified by independent weather experts sam weather adlib tonight it should be fall into the upper teens across central iowa with a very calm are going to see some move through in the morning with a quick one to two inches morning commute could be a bit slower. We are going to fall extra cold by the end of the week with highs in the upper teens on thursday and a high near 20 on friday. We should warm back into the 30s by the end of the weekend and into early next week with another snow possible around next tuesday. Sam elias elias still to come on local five news elias still to come on local five news still to come on local five news midday. Protests across the country, following the ohio grand jurys decision to not indict the officers who shot and killed 12 yearold tamir us aouerwh y bino peen hri ls,t n beifcu tco wh d refuonoundoulod on. Alysryg t w arg dsndewecoly lpg u ar aouerheinu aras e we a mt noti vis r e arg imir. Nd hsowi uce u unghe tos. Ndhel treo lpoun uroueyo arg tt. He wt u bn ssg. Co itoelng hr d lko. Nd tay youre watching local 5 news midday in hd. We are iowa a look now at your national elias the city is on edge this mornign after a grand jury decided not to indict the two Police Officers involved in the shotting of 12 yearold tamir rice. Rices family says they are saddened but not surprised by the grand jurys decision. Abcs tj holmes is in cleveland with the latest. Marches in cleveland overnight. Nats marching in new york city as well. Nats marching nyc refused monday to indict two cleveland officers in the yearold tamir rice. Sot prosecutor tim mcginty around [2 12 19 pm] the death of tamir rice was a tragedy. It was terrible and regrettable, but it was not by the law that binds us, a crime the shooting captured on Surveillance Video was a perfect storm of human error, according to the prosecutor. Rice was shot by rookie officer Timothy Lohman lowman outside of a Cleveland Rec Center in november of 2014. The officer and his training partner Frank Garmback rhymes with report of someone with a gun. And mistook rices toy gun for a real one. Voice of prosecutor Matthew Mayer as you see side by side of tamirs gun and a real gun. 14;25;19;58 to any observer its extremely difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake e gun. The shooting shook cleveland. Nats march tamirs mother made clear in an interview with gs in december of last year what she hoped the outcome of the investigation would be. 07 13 19 im looking for a conviction for both of the officers. But the rice family lawyer claims the prosecutor sabotaged the grand jury case. Sot rice family lawyer 21;58;18;44 the rice family will never have their day in court in this case because the prosecutor tried very hard to lose it and he succeeded. 21;56;48;20 tj dont believe grand jury got a clear picture . Steered a particular direction . Rice family lawyer absolutely no question that the prosectuor orchestrated an effort to exonerate these officers. Elias youre watching local 5 news youre watching local 5 news midday in hd. We are iowa elias welcome back. On your money elias about giving and receiving and returning. Once youve made ditch the sweater your aunt gave you, there are a couple of rules you should know. Mary moloney explains how to survive the holiday gift return madness. Undeck the halls gifts under the tree that you want to give back. To survive the mall madness there are some things you should know. Be prepared. Gather your gift receipts and repack what youve opened. Some retailers charge a restocking fee especially for those tech toys. Its good that were past the day after christmas. Typically its the second busiest day of the year for foot traffic in stores. But dont wait too long to return. Find out the stores return policy. Some only have a limited time frame to give back those gifts. And others require receipts. Once you are in those stores do not sign up its one more bill to keep up with and it can ding your credit score. Keep tabs on gift cards. Check the balances often. That way you use all the money. Better yet cash in on unwanted cards. You can sell your gift cards online and in many cases get 90 percent of the value or more depending on the store. Some examples card pool dot com or Gift Card Granny dot com. If youve overspent this Holiday Season there is one way to use those cash cards. Pay down your bills. For consumer watch im mary moloney. Elias now target is actually buying unwanted gift cards. The company is partnering with gift card cardpool and electronic tradein company nextworth. Cardpool provides the tradein rate of consumers gift cards and then resells them. One example provided by target a 1 hundred dollar walmart gift card would change for an 85 dollar target gift card. Target will Exchange Gift cards from more than 600 brands, including old navy, cheesecake factory, tiffany co, staples and pottery barn. Elias whole foods them. And its paying 5hundred thousand dollars to do it. In a statement monday. Whole foods says it has agreed to pay the 5hundred thousand to resolve an investigation into whether it thousand to resolve an investigation into whether it overcharged for some items at its new york city stores. Days after the city went public with its investigation earlier this year. Whole foods execs admitted to, and apologized for, overcharging customers on some products like sliced fruits and sandwiches. Whole foods says the mistakes were unintentional. Elias coming up on local 5 news midday. Republican president ial candidate donald trump has a coloring book see how the business mogul turned politician is now being parodied. Elias its our 21st homicide of the year. Local 5s Claire Powell takes an inside look at the case. Coming up next. Local 5 news midday in hd. We are iowa elias good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday. Im Elias Johnson. Elias our top story today. Awaiting details on des moines latest homicide. Elias police were called to the Brookside Apartments on des moines south side on reports of a shooting. They found 36 year old Tacono Conner, of des moines, dead from gun shot wounds. 37 year old ami stolki was also shot but is expected to recover from her injuries. Police say theyre interviewing a case. Local 5s Claire Powell has more. The call came in as a areahallway on second floor des moines 21 st homicide of the year. Just before 11 pm on say 36 year old Tacono Conner was found brookside apartment union street also found shot 37 year old ami stolki of des moines whos recovering from her injuries at a local hospital. Police say theyre person of interest in the case. Our detectives have talked to witnesses throughout the night, identified person of interset that may have more information, trying to track that person down get them in here for an interview while stolki is expected to survive conners death marks des moines 21st homicide in 2015. That makes it the second highest on record. It was 20 years ago when we had 20 in 1995, the highest since then police say even though theres nothing connecting this case to others at the moment, many of this one thing in common. Patterns, commonality between overwhelming majority of these is a volatile inter personable relationship so we still believe the communitys very safe from des moines Claire Powell local 5 news we are iowa elias wife spoke to local 5 news yesterday, and says he leaves behind seven children. Des Moines Police have not made any arrests in the ongoing investigation. Stay with local 5 as more details become available. Elias des Moines Police are also asking for your help to catch a serial robber. They say this same man is behind five robberies at three Convenience Stores in des moines. He never shows a weapon, but does threaten violence. Here are the stores hes hit a kum and go on hubbell. A git n go on easton. And another git n go on urbandale ave. Two of the stores were hit twice by him. The suspect is described as a white man in his 20s, about 6 feet tall and 200 pounds. Know who he is . Call polk county Crime Stoppers 223 1400. Elias a des moines woman was killed in a bus crash in chicago. The burlington trailways bus lost control on i55 early yesterday morning. 33 passengers passengers were injured, killed. Been identified as Nicole Underwood was iowa student, and was headed to chicago to meet with her boyfriend to celebrate new years together. Burlington trailways says the bus was going 49 Miles Per Hour in a 55 zone. The bus driver told Chicago Police he was in the far right lane, getting ready to exit when a pickup truck veered causing him to lose control. And today, boyrfriend and friends have now set up a scholarhsip with the university of iowa in memory of nicole to give one hard working student pursuing a degree in Human Services 10,000 toward their tuition. You can donate to the fund by visiting the gofund me page there on your screen. Elias and a reminder the roads may still not be great in and around central iowa today. This is video from our road warrior crew driving the des moines last night. As the snow piled up, so did the accidents. However, no major crashes to report in the metro, which is good news. Elias many flights out of the Des Moines International airport were delayed. Or even cancelled monday. Including, our own sports director as he was trying to head to pasadena, california to cover the rose bowl elias ots Jon Schaeffer had his flight cancelled will be getting on a flight later follow the hawks to the follow the