investigators say swick left his mark on both places by using fire extinguishers, covering the buildings in thick layer of of it. it's costing both businesses thousands of dollars to get it cleaned up. jack: local 5's claire powell has more in tonights big story, claire? claire: jack, between the webster county courthouse and little joe's computers... this vandal is costing them - not only valuable christmas business- but nearly one thousand up costs... . "it was quite a mess and deal to clean up" on december 8th , people working at the webster county courthouse walked into a mess. literally only 2 fire extinguishers did all that damage" police say in the middle of the night, the set off two fire left. his actions displaced all the county workers for nearly a week during clean up. supervisor merrill leffler says scrubbing remodeled courthouse- costs. of 52,000 to clean the building" leffler says the bill will likely be near 75 thousand dollars toward the final estimate. then one week later, on december 15, only three blocks away.. "unfortunately to burglarize i business, we have to

fort dodge police charged swick last week with breaking into a computer business down the street from the courthouse and setting off fire extinguishers. steve: a former lottery official, convicted of fraud here in iowa, now faces similar charges in kansas. prosecutors have now charged eddie tipton with rigging 2 jackpots there back in 2010. that brings the total number of states that have filed charges against tipton to 5. tipton worked as the head of security for the des moines-based multi-state lottery association. and the virgin islands. investigators are looking into the possible tampering -- investigations into possible tampering are now underway in each of those states. new court documents just filed by the prosecution are giving us a better idea as to what evidence might be used against tipton when he heads back to court in january. kcci's kim st. onge is live in studio with the new information. kim: these court papers give a detailed description of how tipton allegedly used his brother and a couple friends to claim the multi-million-dollar jackpots. prosecutors say his associa

swick also faces charges in a separate, but similar incident that happened last week. people in las vegas spent some of the night looking up... take a look at this video a man captured on his cell phone... it shows a fireball streaking across the sky. turns out... it was russian space debris reentering the atmosphere. that's according to the u-s strategic command. the object could seen from as far away as bakersfield, california. nasa has put its next mars mission on hold indefinitely because of a leaky instrument. the space agency the mars lander in march... from a california air force base... to take measures of the red planet's interior and its atmosphere. instead it's being sent back to its maker. even if the leak is fixed in a few months... the lander can't be launched anytime soon. nasa says the 20-16 launch window closes march 30th... the next rose bowl fever is building across iowa as the hawks prepare to fly west... it's the team's first visit to the rose bowl in 25 years. they'll head to pasadena tomorrow... for what promises to be a busy end to 20-15. they'l

daniel swick is being held in webster county jail. jack: tonight, the family of des moines teenager sam kemp continues its search for answers. they want to know how the 17 year old ended up dead in a pond between granger and grimes last week. kemp was at a party there and ran off when police came. it took searchers 5 days to find his body. one autopsy has been done, but the family is asking for another and more answers from police. tonight, mothers against violence joined the family outside the polk county courthouse to "we want answers we don't know why he ended up in that pond we have not gotten answers on why he's in there what even could lead to the reason he was in there no answers the dept has not even called us to give us updates " jack: a toxicology test was done on sam kemp, but the results have yet to come back. stay with local 5 for the latest in kemp's death. jack: in spencer, the high school wrestling team there is still dealing with a teammate who tragically passed away last weekend. austin roberts collapsed during a wre

swick also faces charges in a separate, but similar incident that happened last week. there are some new developments inside an old downtown des moines hotel... the "kirkwood hotel" was built back in 19-30... over time it was converted to apartments. now it's getting ready for another conversion... into dozens of condos. tim schutte is project. he says the first units hit the market in just a few days... and that's keeping crews busy. there's about 6 to 8 vacancies right now that we're trying to get painted and ready for the market to hit that beginning of january the units start out at more than 150 thousand dollars. not every project in downtown des moines is going as smoothly... this was supposed to be an aquatic center... the project at the "well mark y-m-c-a" is stalled because of a lack of funding. sporters are now turning to the city... polk county... and donors to finish it. today the "prairie meadows board" will consider donating another 200 thousand dollars. that's in addition to the one million the the madrid community will gather to remember a legendary foo

swick is also being questioned about this incident at the webster county courthouse this weekend. the dust coating the inside of the courthouse is from chemicals sprayed from several fire extinguishers. the damage forced the county to close the courthouse this week for cleaning. grain bins can be dangerous and today another farm worker lost his life in one near the town of murray in clarke county. eric reasland was trying to break up a "crust" that had formed on the top of the corn in this grain bin. when the crust cracked... reasland was sucked in. rescuers drilled holes in the side of the bin in an effort to save reasland... but he was pronounced dead at the hospital. three people escaped with only minor injuries in a head-on crash this evening... it happened around six o'clock along army post road and highway five. police arent's sure what caused the crash.. but say speed was not a factor. police say a three year old passenger was taken to the hospital to be a quick-thinking police officer in nebraska helped prevent a similar accident. in this dash camera video you can see the

say swick did the same thing inside the webster county court house. "mostly a big hassle, we had to hire service master to clean literally everything from top to bottom, 2 days with 24 people, that bill is an estimate of 52,000 to clean the building"" sabrina: the courthouse has reopened while little joe's computer is has reopened while little joe's computer is hoping to reopen by late january. sabrina: record setting december rains turned the holidays into a wet one for the metro. but while the flood waters may be receding, a section of george flagg local parks and trails remain closed due to flooding. that includes gray's lake park and the principal riverwalk. as well as the simon estes amphitheater. walnut creek park has reopened. sabrina meteorologist with a look at the forecast is going to be wet and likely a bit snowy today, but it all depends on where you are in iowa. we are gloomy day with highs moving through iowa during the morning hours and into the afternoon, but a cold front following the back side of this rain in western iowa will try an

investigators say swick did the same thing inside county court house. "mostly a big hassle, we had to hire service master to clean literally everything from top to bottom, 2 days with 24 people, that bill is an estimate of 52,000 to clean the building"" sabrina: the courthouse has reopened while little joe's computer is hoping to reopen by late january. sabrina: new this morning....specia l honors for two former iowa national guard members. sabrina: today, the iowa national guard will honor two former soldiers with medals for valor. former sgt. justin schmitt and former spc. brian swedberg will be presented army commendation medals of valors. . the awards recognize their the awards recognize their actions while being deployed to afghanistan in 20-11. both men will be presented the awards this afternoon at the iowa army national guard in waterloo. at ((time check)) we'll take a short break here on good morning iowa... coming up, a special holiday reunion for a man and his dog. sabrina: but before we go...as you get ready to start your day...be safe out o

swick faces charges in a separate, but similar vandalism case that happened last week. tonight we know one of the six soldiers killed in a suicide bombing in afghanistan has ties to iowa... 45-year old joseph lemm was killed yesterday near bagram air base. lemm grew up in bernard iowa... and his father still lives in new vienna. lemm was a 15-year veteran of the new york city police department. this red, white, and blue bunting was hung outside the 50-th police honor. he leaves behind a wife and two children. earlier this month, a des moines city council woman cast the deciding vote in support of her measure to extend the city's tax abatement program... and she did it despite concerns of a perceived conflict of interest... christine hensley's extension allowed projects outside of targeted areas to qualify for tax abatements. the potential conflict of interest.... hensley works for midwest housing equity group... a syndication firm that buys and reinvests tax credits for developers. 18:06:36--49 'i have a legal opinion from our city legal, indicating i do not have a conf

investigators say swick did the same thing inside the webster county court house. "mostly a big hassle, we had to hire service master to clean literally everything from top to bottom, 2 days with 24 people, that bill is an estimate of 52,000 to clean the building"" sabrina: the courthouse has reopened computer is hoping to reopen by late january. sabrina at ((time check)) we'll take a short break here on good morning iowa... coming up, a special holiday reunion for a man and his dog. sabrina: but before we go...as you get ready to start your day...be safe out on the roads.... des moines police will have mobile radar set up at three locations... one at the ....44- hundred block of south union - north bound a second at the....41-hundred block of ingersoll - east bound and a third at the 26-hundred block of high - west bound so use caution while driving.. sabrina while we're at it... a quick look at traffic... this is i-235 at mlk... [current conditions] good morning iowa continues after this! forecast with schreier. this is good morning iowa." sabrina: record setting

today police charged 30-year old daniel swick with burglary and criminal mischief. police say the arrest was based on evidence found inside the courthouse during cleaning. a visitation will take place tomorrow night for madrid football coach randy hinkel. hinkel died of a heart attack this weekend. he's been a fixture on the madrid sidelines for the past 26-years... making the playoffs nearly all of them. the visitation will take place in the madrid high school gym from 4-to-7 tomorrow night. the family is asking everyone to dress in tiger orange and black. hundreds of people near clear lake are playing the waiting game... 43 right now for the most part the ice conditions are very poor if you could even say that to say the least but uh everybody is really antsy we're all excited to get out there its coming its just a matter of time clear lake did freeze over this for ice fishing... chief meteorologist ed wilson joins us... ed.. ice fishing could still be a ways off.. clouds are building back into central iowa and temperatures will hold steady or rise slightly to the

stephen swick / cyber security manager, american electric power "..we're seeing people looking for vulnerabilities, people scanning to see what types of openings they can find, looking for things they think might be available." the department of homeland security says isis is among those trying to access u-s power companies. next, the latest from teh campaign out .. and the current leader makes more demands. and the cringeworthy moment we're all talking about today.. "good luck to both of you. miss universe 2015 is..." what comedian steve harvey says what comedian steve harvey says happened at this moment that made him social media's target today. hey, is that it? i think that's it. this is krystal, and her dream is to be a roller derby girl. we love krystal! we love krystal! oh my god it's jj watt! oh my god! a 32-year-old lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bi- sexual men. but major restrictions will limit who can donate. the the food and drug administration says it will replace the blanket ban with a new policy barring donations from men who have had sex with a man in the previous year

elizabeth: officials in webster county have a arrested daniel swick for criminal mischief and burglary. he broke into the webster county courthouse on december 8 and set off fire extinguishers, forcing the courthouse to close for days until the mess could be cleaned. fort dodge police charged him for breaking into a computer business down the street from a courthouse and setting off by her extinguishers there. a webster county man is wanted for throwing hot grease on the stock. police have issued an arrest warrant for 52-year-old gary wilson a fort dodge. suffered second and third degree burns. the dog is being cared for by his other owner who does not live with wilson. eric: rain is falling all over central iowa. frank: it is and we are not the only ones getting in on that. there are strong to severe storms to the south and we could be seen a significant event from mississippi through portions of tennessee and southern portions of illinois. they fully we are talking rain and some of us could see the transition later on in the day to a bit of light snow or rain mix. mid 40's in des moi

daniel swick is now charged with first-degree criminal mischief and 3rd-degree burglary. earlier this month after someone discharged multiple fire extinguishers inside. officials say cleanup could cost $52,000. webster county authorities are investigating a case of animal torture. they have issued an arrest warrant for 52-year-old gary wilson of fort dodge. he is charged with throwing hot grease on his black labrador. authorities say the dog suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns on his head and face. the dog is being cared for by his other owner, who doesn't live with wilson. investigators say a space heater caused a trailer fire on saturday in spencer. firefighters found a body after putting out the blaze. the state medical examiner's office is handling the autopsy. kim: three iowa counties want part of a lawsuit filed by des moines water works dismissed. the utility company filed the lawsuit against buena vista, sac and calhoun counties in march. , it claims the counties' boards of supervisors are violating the federal clean water act by not the boards say some of the count

officers rushed in and found daniel swick hiding inside. he is charged with burglary and criminal mischief. we have an update now on the vandalism at the webster county courthouse in fort dodge. it's now officially back open for business. yesterday the remaining employees moved back into the building after someone broke in and sprayed fire extinguishers throughout it. police haven't made any arrests in that case. the iowa utilities board says the timeline on a decision about the bakken pipeline depends on the typing speed of a group of court reporters. a texas based company wants to build a pipeline across the state of iowa ... from the northwest corner to the southeast ... to connect south dakota and illinois pipelines. to do so they first need the approval of the iowa utilities board. over the last few weeks the board heard 11 days of testimony from concerned iowans and business interests in the pipeline. all of those days and hours of testimony must now be transcribed by court reporters. there is so much of that work to be done that the