tonight you'll visit his woodshop where he makes one very specific toy and tells s sries so good, fans will fly in from other states just to listen. it's a main street santa who's very convincing. this is iowa tonight on kcci 8 news at 6:00. still to come today at noon an , event to celebrate iowa, from frozen custard to craft beer, on iowa's news leader. mollie: welcome back. this coming friday is your chance to celebrate all that is iowa at the fourth annual celebrate iowa gala. jeff is joining me from the state historical museum. >> on friday, december 11 we will be hosting be fourth annual celebrate iowa gala from 7:00 until 11:00. it is a celebration of all iowa food. the components of the creative catalyst to help build capacity and communities generate job opportunities and economic growth. mollie: what is the goal, to >> to bring all of these different things together in one place to celebrate all iowa foods, arts, entertainment. also it is a fundraiser that help support exhibits and interactive educational programs at the historical society. we are very excited to be hosting t

he would hold classes like woodshop and metal shop. when he retired, he still did that with us, my brother and i. building soapbox derby racers and fixing lawnmowers and bikes together. we learned from a very young age, like 3- and 4-years-old, how things work, how to use tools. i did not know what a computer was until i saw my first one in 1979 or so. emily: you want to the university of michigan, you studied computer engineering. then in 1991, you moved to silicon valley. tony: yes, i worked with another guy to build a startup in high school. emily: oh, really? tony: we were doing mail order for apple ii. we were designing software and writing it for apple ii. ultimately, i was so frustrated, because we did not have the internet then, right? i thought i had to get to silicon valley as fast as possible. i would read "macweek" magazine religiously every week on the back. what are the rumors, what's going on? emily: so even back then, you are obsessed with apple? tony: i absolutely was obsessed with all things computing in the 1980's. i

we used to go to the woodshop and make things there.'d have birthday parties, and we'd get to go around on a sherman tank. >> one of my favorite events was our 4th of july party. [ all cheering ] my dad started a tradition of getting an old, beat-up car, and then he would crush it with a tank in the field out here. >> [ laughs ] >> a truly successful army is one that will not be called upon to fight, for no one will dare to provoke it. >> the timing of jacques' interest in tanks is perfect. with the u.s. military expanding under president reagan, the pentagon is getting rid of a lot of outdated equipment. jacques snatches up a few tanks and then a few more, including this m5a1 stuart tank, built by cadillac back in 1943, a model used in the invasion of normandy. jacques buys it for $20,000. the end of the cold war and then the first gulf war lead to more tank-buying opportunities. jacques pounces. sherman tanks... this m1917 "6-ton tractor"... a russian t-72 used by saddam hussein's forces... even a scud missile launcher. jacques builds

tomorrow night, eric hanson is going to take us to his woodshop, where he makes one very specific toy and tells stories so good, fans will fly in from other states just to listen. it's a main street santa who's awful convincing, in eric hanson's this is iowa monday on kcci 8 news at 6:00. we had a very special christmas present coming to hop fans. scott: rose bowl. we continue to get reaction from the hawkeyes players and coaches. it's time to rise and shine. at kum & go, we're doing more for you to start your day right. like serving up a friendly "good morning" along with breakfast sandwiches & breakfast pizza, yes pizza, that are all made fres& hoh in our store's kitchens every day. kum & go. where & means more. 's called a rigged economy, and this is how it works. most new wealth flows to the top 1%. it's a system held in place by corrupt politics where wall street banks and billionaires buy elections. my campaign is powered by over a million small contributions, people like you who want to fight back. the truth is you can't change a corrupt system by taking its money. i'm bernie s

tonight, you are going to visit his woodshop where he makes one very specific toy and tells stories so good, fans will fly in from other states just to listen. it's a main street santa who's awful convincing. news at 6:00. it was a magic moment. see the video from saturday's game that has hawkeye fans all over the country clicking and sharing. shaina: plus, we'll tell you how to buy a bowl package for pasadena and how much it'll cost and today's dot message has's called a rigged economy, and this is how it works. most new wealth flows to the top 1%. it's a system held in place by corrupt politics where wall street banks and billionaires buy elections. my campaign is powered by over a million small contributions, people like you who want to fight back. the truth is you can't change a corrupt system by taking its money. i'm bernie sanders. i approve this message. >> this is iowa's news leader. this is kcci 8 news this morning with eric hanson, elizabeth klinge, meteorologist kurtis gertz and right now coverage with shaina humphries. metinka: good morning, 5:41. this is our winterset scho

so coming into the people's temple at 18, them having a printing press, having a woodshop. having a construction crew. it all seemed normal. what made it seem so normal is that you can see this county at a meeting or willie brown would have a meeting or jane fonda. something about this has to be real. so you assumed. what happens after a period of time is that jim jones became background noise. what you felt responsible for were the other people there. the other people there were your family. people stay because they didn't want to leave their family there alone. they didn't want them to be abused or possibly hurt. or interrogated because you left. some people stayed out of guilt, some people stayed out of responsibility. some people stayed out of love for other human beings that they had no blood relationship with what they felt entitled to protect them and be at their call, so to speak. we never called old people old people. we called them seniors. they were the repository of knowledge. when an elder person spoke, you are expected to listen. if they needed assistance, you

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