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Medicaid system. K12 Education Funding as their top priority. You might remember that last year, lawmakers went several weeks past their deadline on coming to an agreement on that issue. And it finally ended with governor branstad vetoing the 55. 7 Million Dollar agreement the legislature finally came to. Representative dave jacoby says democrats and republicans will need to sort of re learn w to Work Together on the issue. Weve dug quite a deep hole with what the governor has done to education ithe last fouor five years. So now we have to make an incremental improvement. And incremental to me...

The lawmakers weve spoken with so far all seem to agree that coming to an agreement on how to fund k12 education early in the session representative ken rizer told us yesterday that how the agreement and how quickly they do it will set the tone for the rest of the session. Right behind education, managed medicaid system. We spoke with senator liz resources committee. She says lawmakers will be working on an oversight bill that will insure the companies that would handle the new system arent taking advantage of iowans. There are a number of other issues on the table making texting while driving...

W7iowas lawmakers are a c des moines this morning for the start of the legislative session. Representatives and senators want to follow up on some things from last year, while keeping their eye on new developments this year. Kcrgtv9s brady smith is live in des moines this morning. Brady, what can we expect this session . Most of the lawmakers we spoke with yesterday say theyre keeping an eye on the states move to private management of its medicaid system. But theyre really looking k12 Education Funding as their top priority. You might remember that last year, lawmakers went several weeks past ...

Im in iowa where it is coming down to the wire for the president ial candidates, now less than two days away from the caucuses. And Governor John Kasich is hosting town Hall Meetings across the golden state. The endorsement he picked up today. And a suspect breaks into the common man store general store and leads police on a 30mile chase. How police captured him. No one covers New Hampshire like we do. Now, wmur news 9 tonight. Police are looking for the aaronist who broke into nine cars in less than 24 hours, setting some of them on fire. Good evening and thangts for joining thanks for joinin...

While her two year old son watched that video we have to warn you is very graphic and very violent. La tia harris on her way to the salem county jail without talking to reporters. Are you sorry at all . Reporter she was a much different woman since we saw her last week. Police say thats harris in the red mcdonalds uniform beating and kicking victim 27 year old Catherine Ferrara as her two year old son tried to help his mom. Ferrara suffered a concussion, a broken nose and lots of bruises. Were looking for miss harris over the weekend i think they were getting very close and i think she had no ...