Local election tonight. The news starts in 30 seconds. Youre watching local are iowas most accurate weatheryour forecast first. Brad wx wall weather adlib it was nice to see the sunshine today, but we still had to deal with those cold nw winds. Thankfully they will be coming down this evening, but this will also mean a very cold night for all of iowa. Skies will be clear early tonight with a few clouds coming in later. Winds will drop to 510 mph later tonight as temps drop into the 0s and 0s. Clouds will likely be back to greet us for wednesday along with a chance for some light snow. Central and western iowa are most likely to see about 1 of snow after home in the evening. At least the winds will not be blowing this little snow around like monday. More cold air will be with us right into the weekend with the sun returning for saturday, but highs will only be in the teens for central iowa. There will be another system coming through sunday that could bring us several inches of snow, so
Jacob peklo, reporting at this time, the names of the driver and the passenger are not being released. Reporting near ankeny, jacob peklo, local five news. We are iowa. Stephanie the countdown to healthcare is on for hundreds of thousands of iowans. Stephanie 1shot with only a couple of weeks remaining before an important deadline, families on medicaid are wondering about the change over to managed care. Local fives chief Political Correspondent amanda krenz is live tonight with an update for us. Two major in the last two days with governor to privatize medicaid. 1. Senate democrats voted to stop it. And 2, the Iowa Democratic party is calling for the republican led house to take it up for debate. Lets take a look at the calendar first to see just how close we are to the deadline to do away with the states Medicaid Program and put it in the hands of three, private, out of state companies. The new deadline given to iowa by the federal government pushed back the rollout date to march fir
Janet petersen. Shes one voice pleading with the public to step forward and stop the to managed care. 47 28 deborah ann turner, md ive been a provider for a long time in iowa. Doctor deborah ann oncologist, said changing an entire iowa medicaid to one of these private outof state companies can set people back years in care, and turner 49 11 when you have to lose your provider, or case manager, or change the medical system you dont understand how devastating it is to both the participant and also to the providers. The Senate Passed a bill to stop medicaid. And now representative in the house wants to do the art staed 59 36 lets protect the most then nobody loses the now. Staed says his efforts to the house floor for debate. 59 58 i filed a bill more than a week ago to do the same thing the senate has, that hasnt been taken up, thats amanda governor amanda governor branstad is holding out that his plan to change over medicaid will work. And hes moving full steam ahead, his office saying
Morning. But the situation quickly escalated. They noticed a fire had started inside the home. They say they tried unsucessfully to get johnston to come out. They even broke through the door. But the smoke and heat made the situation too dangerous. 2 40 13 we dont want to die, when that fire and smoke gets to that point the officers cant function thats when we need to move. The Fire Department was called to the scene. They were able to get the flames extinuguished in about 2 minutes. 2 42 59 we went in and found a deceased male in the structure. Nikki now there was about a ten minute delay from when firefighters arrived on scene. To when they started fighting the flames here. Coming up at six well explain the reason for that delay. And why police and fire Officials Say this was a incredibly unsual and tricky situation for them to deal with. Reporting live in des moines, nikki davidson. Local five news, we are iowa. Jack trail today iowa went first, but now its New Hampshires turn. Jack
Local 5 news at 10 starts in 30 seconds. Youre watching local 5 news at 10 in hd. We are your forecast first. Brad wx wall weather adlib our quiet, mild weather is about to change as we head into tonight and tomorrow. We had light winds and mild temperatures the past two days, but some northerly winds will be bringing us back down to closer to normal for late february. Look for our mostly cloudy skies to continue tonight with even a few light showers possible for mainly eastern counties early tonight. The winds will be increasing from the nnw at 1020 mph and stay with us the next two days. This will mean colder temperatures with mainly 30s the next two days for highs. We could see a little sunshine thursday afternoon, but a better chance for that on friday with our best looking day will be saturday with sunshine and milder sw winds helping to push us up into the 50s in central iowa with some areas reaching 60 our relatively warm weather will hold into early sunday, but then a cold fron