ever heard of a rube goldberg machine? we'll take a look at iowa's first ever rube goldberg machine competition. that's coming. lucas: but next.... new details have emerged about the michigan uber driver who killed 6 people over the " you're watching local 5 news midday in hd. we are iowa" lucas: good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday...i'm lucas casey. lucas: a story at the top of your national headlines this morning-- lucas: new details are emerging about the suspect in that deadly shooting in michigan. he's now charged with killing 6 people and injuring 2 others. investigators say the uber driver has admitted to his rampage and now we are learning what the suspect may have done just hours before the shooting. abc's elizabeth hur is in new york with the " charged with 6 murders and facing life in prison.. ((sot)) judge: "do you understand the charges? dalton: yes sir." uber driver jason dalton showed no emotion.. ((sot)) dalton: "i would prefer just to remain silent." and revealed no new details d

sabrina: ever heard of a rube goldberg machine? named after a famous cartoonist...they are devices that do simple tasks.....using numerous steps and complicated procedures... elias: such inventions are marvels of engineering...and at one iowa high school...a way for students to test their creativity. dan conradt has more on iowa's first rube goldberg competition. " it might sound like a umbrella?" the answer might surprise you. "we have 30 steps," said st. ansgar high school senior jesse bless. this is the first time iowa has hosted an official rube goldberg competition. "1986 i believe is when the official rube goldberg started, and iowa has never done one," contest facilitator devin schwiesow told us. "we all had to build a rube goldberg machine, which is a complicated machine with a bunch of steps to complete a simple task," said bless. "their overall task is to open an umbrella," said schwiesow. the rules say the machine had to go through at least 20 steps, but no more than 75. "obviously, this is engineering at its core, being

a rube goldberg machine is a contraption that is deliberately over-engineered to perform a simple task in a complicated way. "they had to use three different simple machines out of the six we learned about and have a minimum of five steps to complete whatever task they went with," said seth sackmann, a sixth grade science teacher at mater dei nativity. "my sixth period was mixing baking soda and vinegar." students used toy cars, dominos, homemade pulleys and other items to accomplish their goals dorenbach with the forecast... << << work week today as temperatures soar into the 40s after starting the day in the 20s! we'll see a few lingering clouds and perhaps some patchy fog early this morning, but the rest of the day looks sunny and calm. winds will pick up just a little bit saturday which will help boost our temperatures into the 50s and 60s with lots of sun ahead of our next frontal system set to move through saturday night. this will result in a cloudier and cooler day sunday with highs close to 50, strong wind and possibly a quick shower or two. we'll end the month of february on

students at mater dei nativity shcool in sioux city built "rube goldberg machines" for their science class. a rube goldberg machine is a contraption that is deliberately over-engineered to perform a simple task in a complicated way. on thursday, they put their machines to the test. "they had to use three different simple machines out of the six we learned about and have a minimum of five steps to complete whatever task they went with," said seth sackmann, a sixth grade science teacher at mater dei nativity. "my sixth period was mixing baking soda and vinegar." students used toy cars, dominos, homemade pulleys and other items to accomplish their objectives. "we used two different pulleys," said collin jackson, an eighth-grader at mater dei nativity. "the car would land inside this side of the pulling, lifting up the card that was blocking the marble which would come down and hit the students started reading about simple machines and ng about three weeks ago. the sioux city community theater tackles a heavy topic in conjunction with tolerance week. that's still ahead on "around <

in a rube goldberg kind of contract continues that mst is the special audit defines its parameters this month. he agrees with the auditor assessment saying it is time for the county to take the keys. mike: the special audit will have subpoena power and will use it if necessary to determine if there is any criminal culpability in the workings of msd. sheree: a mudslide created a huge headache. falling from the hillside, wrapped up around 4:00 today. the westbound lanes of columbia fixing it could face a whole lot of money. >> the right-of-way is right behind the retaining wall here. private property coming out of the public right-of-way. sheree: engineers estimate they moved 1000 tons of soil during this cleanup process. a new push to bring back the loveland farmers market. the group called friends of the loveland farmers market will petition city council next week to find a permanent location for it. they moved the market to a temporary location citing safety concerns. it is not clear if the market will have a place to return to this year. a local golf course for a housing development.

a rube goldberg machine is a contraption that is deliberately over-engineered d perform a a mple task in a complicated way. homemade pulleys and other items to accomplish their goals "they had to use three different simple machines out of the six we learned about and have a minimum of five steps to complete whatever task they went with," said seth sackmann, a sixth grade science teacher at mater dei nativity. "my sixth period was mixing baking soda and vinegar." the students started reading about simple machines and planning about three weeks ago. buying a home can be a huge undertaking. coming up next, how a company in ohio is helping its employees travel the path to home ownership. ben: and i'll have your complete << >> << wx timer @ 2:45 it'll be a great way to end the work week today as temperatures soar into the 40s after starting the day in the 20s! we'll see a few lingering clouds and perhaps some patchy fog early this morning, but the rest of the day looks sunny and calm. winds will pick up just a little bit saturday which will help boost our temperatures into the 50s and 60s

these simple machines, called rube goldberg machines, are contraptions that e a challenge to build but perform easy tasks. "they had to use three different simple machines out of the six we learned about and have a minimum of five steps to complete whatever task they went with," said seth sackmann, a sixth grade science teacher at mater dei nativity. "my sixth periododas mixing baking soda and vinegar." students used toy cars, dominos, homemade pulleys and other items together. "wesed two different pulleys," said collin jackson, an eighth-grader at mater dei inside this side of the pulling, lifting up the card that was blocking the marble which would come down and hit dominos." the students started reading about simple machines and planning about three weeks ago. sackmann says he will be having his students do this again next year. this again next year. still to come on live at five.... the battle between apple and the fbi continues. at the center of the battle, the phone of one of the san bernardino shooters. battled a large fire. crews were called to the 300-block of main street just

sackman's saturday night class built rube goldberg machine. they used items like toy cars, dominoes, and linken logs to design and build their machines. >>> painters have completed painting a vietnam war era jet. it will be on display in it took two weeks for the air guard painters to completely restore the fighter jet which was used in myrtle beach, uth carolina as a trainer jet for pilots going to vietnan. it will now be in display and no longer flown. if you want to see more images of it, go to the photo gallery on this story on siouxlandnews.com. >>> still to come tonight at 9:00, chevy is trying to spark sales of the volt electric car. what they are doing coming up in tonight's fox news business report. >> but first, just a few months after the deal blockingngiran from developing a nuclele weapon, the nation appears to be investing in bullistic technology. the latest coming up in tonight's safe and secure report. >> you are watching siouxland news at 9:00 on fox 44 with larry wentz, diana castillo, and siouxland's chief on fox 44. 3 we're

these simple machines, called rube goldberg machines, are contraptions that are a challenge to build but perform easy tasks. students used toy cars, dominos, homemade pulleys and other items to put them together. still to come on news 4 at 6: we'll take a look at all the excitement "building" at the siouxland d me show! (robert live) "the home show kicked off today.. we'll show you w wt you can find buying a home can be a huge undertaking. how one company in ohio is helping its employees travel the path to home ownership. and one washington state couple recently tied the knot in anan airplane. . we'll show you their sky high a combination of clouds and a steady north wind kept temperatures in the 30s this afternoon with wind chills down in the 20s. we're going to quickly turn things around the next couple of days as warmer weather is about to return. we'll start clearing out our skies some tonight which could lead to a little patchy fog. then with more sun and a lighter wind we'll see highs get into saturday gets downright mild with highs in the 60s possible for some of us. with some

described the deal as a rube goldberg contraption which would see the businesses broken up. lcdbiggest, merging operations. another step would be to merge sharp's goods with those of hitachi and toshiba. yvonne: speaking of toshiba, they are announcing results at the same time. what are we expecting? for toshiba, more than the immediate earnings, it is the full-year outlook that is the question. they are forecasting ¥550 billion losses. could tipwn in china it higher. the big variable is a possible right down in the nuclear power unit. that could be billions of dollars. that could be a major blow for a company trading at 835 year low. a 35 year low. ahina's -- it is landmark moment. the biggest acquisition and will in pesticides and agrochemicals. it could help feed china's billion plus mouse. let's look closer. good to see you. tell us the thinking behind this deal. all comes down to food security. this is part of an ongoing slate of deals we have seen from china. previous deals have been more on farms or processing. feeds andives them agrochemicals. they are locked in the

sackmann's science class designed and built what are called "rube goldberg" machines... which use at least three simple machines to complete a simple task. the fish tank. 3 "we came up with the idea during school, we had to make a plan and then i had to bring, we had to bring different stuff. like i brought race tracks and they brought cars and a marble and then we just made a pulley and pretty much made it from our minds."students used things like toy cars... dominoes... and lincoln logs to design and build their machines. 3 painters from sioux city's 185th air refueling wing have finished painting a vietnam war era f - 100 jet.the f - 100 super saber jet will be on display in washington d - c later this spring. it took two weeks for the air guard painters to completely restore the fighter jet... which was used in myrtle beach south carolina as a trainer jet for pilots going to vietnam. it'll now be a static display and not flown anymore. 3 "having the opportunity to paint and knowing it's going to go out to dc for years to display, yeah, definitely a sense of pride it

with a seat purchased [inaudible] put the policy charges made here to go through this rube goldberg machine to assemble huge amounts of funding to build new affordable housing it that some most efficient way to day public dollars and transform them to the public we want. so we want to get affordable housing we got a bunch of folks to make a certain [inaudible] outside of government and inside to ensure that those are viewed as the private property for construction of the widgets they produce when they may or may not be the best kind of a form housing we need to devote scarce public resources to. someone involved along, i've never heard of a public meeting the mayor's office of housing talks about a competitive process to allocate affordable housing to developers. it may happen somewhere but it doesn't happen in public. the reason lies in the mayor's office is to keep that basically in the dark to see you get 4000 people that make up their life's work to do this work and ostensibly desirable work but the outcomes never seem to quite get there. that guide the party tries to play the guitar is

and we ended up with this, like, jury-rigged rube goldberg kind of approach the cadillac tax to try to scratch that itch. but i applaud your efforts to try to do something geographically in the president's budget. >> we have the support of those economists still. they all signed a letter. >> they sure have. they sure have. we got their names. i think it was mentioned the infrastructure and whether or not the repatriation for international tax reform should be used for that purpose. i said to the president and i certainly say to you, if the congress wanted to pass and i supported an actual tax reform, part of the working group led by senator schumer and senator portman, but i said if we could actually pass that use that money for at least for a while for infrastructure that would be fine by me. although it runs counter to what we've done for 50 years and that is to pay for the people the businesses that use the roads highways bridges actually pay for them. it's not a wild, crazy idea. it seems to work out pretty well for half a century. i was intrigued by the $5 oil fee that i think the