Your forecast first. Weather adlib see the sunshine thursday afternoon, and it looks like we will have more of it in the forecast however, that really doesnt mean it is going to warm up real soon. Tonight will be clear to partly cloudy with temps dropping into the low 20s while those winds keep wind chills into the 10s. Friday will also bring us more sunshine, but also those chilly winds that could exceed 20 mph at times. Temperatures will be about average which means the low to mid 30s for highs. Saturday morning will be our coldest morning yet this month with lows in the 10s for most areas, but at least the winds will calm down. With lots of sunshine and southerly winds saturday, we will warm up to the upper 30s. Those southerly winds will increase on sunday helping to push temps back up into the upper 40s ahead of a new weather system. The clouds will be increasing all day by mid to late eastern iowa into the snow is expected with temperatures into mostly going to be in the 40s. There might be a slight chance for some snow showers Christmas Eve morning, but i wouldnt count on a White Christmas at this point. But that travel conditions for jack 2shot good evening and welcome to local 5 news, home of we are iowa dot com. Im jack miller. Tonight, a teenager accused of killing his own grandmother is back in court. 17 year old noah laprei had his pretrial Conference Today. He faces 1st degree murder charges after the murder in october. Jack you may remember this Surveillance Video we showed you video we showed you at the time from inside the git and go where laprei was arrested. This was after laprei allegedly beat his 79year old grandmother to death. This erratic young man is not the noah his family and friends say they love. They were at his pretrial Conference Today to show their support. Jack local fives amanda krenz has more in tonights big story. 17yearold noah laprei walked into a polk county courtroom wearing his orange Marshall County jail jumpsuit. He smiled at the his family and friends that filled the courtroom before he took a seat. His aunt, katie johnson, was one of several in support. 4 29 he is sweet and kind and loving, never violent. He babysat my girls. Johnson says the video of her nephew at the gas station, and the murder hes accused of do not represent the Southeast Polk High School student that they know. 49 this is so uncharacteristic of noah, hes a gentle, kind , loving kid. I didnt believe it myself when i heard it. noah laprei is being tried for murder as an adult, even though the family didnt want that. Theyve been paying regular visits to him in jail. 2 36 sometimes hes upset, crying, sometimes i can maybe get him to laugh. He goes back and forth with his emotions. After just a few minutes in the courtroom for his pretrial conference he was escorted out to the sound of support from his loved ones. 8 44 i love you noah, i love you. At that pretrial conference jack at that pretrial Conference Today, a trial date of may 6th was set. Stay with local 5 for the latest in this case. Jack march first is the new deadline for the medicaid switch over here in iowa. Jack this affects hundreds of thousands of iowans. The centers for medicare and Medicaid Services delayed the privitization of iowas medicaid by two months, saying iowans need the time to change from staterun medicaid to managed care. But the feds will only approve the change if the state improves these areas of the program. They say the managed Care Provider Networks are not fully developed. There are significant areas of the state that dont have many hospitals or doctors within a reasonable distance. And the state call center for people with questions about their healthcare isnt adequate. Jack for a full list of the required changes to the Medicaid Program before it can be privatized here in iowa on march 1st, we have a copy up on our website. Thats we are iowa dot com. Jack the search is over for a missing des moines teenager after police pull his body from a pond in granger this afternoon. Police say 17 year old sam kemp left a party in granger on saturday night and was never seen or heard from again. His family reported him missing sunday. And after five days of searching, the Metro Star Dive Team found his body in a pond just outside of granger. His family positively identified his body at the scene. This familys going to need prayer nad assistance. No mother should have to bury their child, no ones ever prepared for that jack theres a Memorial Fund youll find that on our website, we are iwoa dot com jack a hunter out looking for deer found someone dead in the woods yesterday afternoon just north of oskaloosa officers are now trying to figure out who it is. They sent the body to the state medical examiners office. Stay with local 5 for the latest in this investigation. Jack now to a des moines family we all know well, but just havent met. Until tonight. Its the family that got caught up in an awful double murder two and a half weeks ago. Heather belieu and bryon howard were shot inside their home by one of their roommates, whos since been caught. Tonight in an exclusive interview, i sit down with not only heathers mom and grandmother. But we also got to meet heathers two children who were inside the home when it happened. Its a story youll only see here on local 5. Clip 0267 main interview 0294 clip josh watching two year old peyton play with toys, youd have no idea of the horror she witnessed late last month. Her parents, both suddenly taken from her. And she was left with their bodies. She wont know for years what really happened. All she knows right now is she misses them. Deanna 48 11 she has her times like now. She wants her mommy. Especially when shes tired or gets hurt. Shell holler for her mommy or daddy. But other than that, shes doing good. 48 21 peyton sits on the lap of her grandmother deanna. And theyre joined by her 7 week old brother brylee, on the lap of his great grandmother leanna. Both children were inside the home when their parents were taken. Both found covered with blood as investigators surrounded the house and ultimately took the kids out. Now, these moms whove already raised their own kids are doing it all over again. 50 36 deanna well make it work. Leanna ive got 15 Great Grandkids and ive raised quite a few of them. I think gods kept me here to raise my Great Grandkids. 50 44 and theyre getting help from a man they call their angel. This is josh dobson, a guy who was just looking to do a good holiday facebook his offer to help buy gifts for a family in need. 4 56 when i put that on facebook i definitely didnt think that this brought to me. But this is exactly what i was looking josh, whos a housing contractor, took the whole family on a big only for christmas presents, but grandmothers now needed to raise kids fulltime. 5;32 you know what, we just started on the left side of the store and worked our way over. We hit every aisle. 5 38 the family was hesitant at first, after everything theyve gone through. But theyre glad he found them. Deanna 47 27 and i sent him a thank you later letting him know that i thought he was my angel, our angel. 47 33 and angels are welcome in this family right now, just trying to get by with a very new reality. 51 19 the 6 year old, the 2 year old and the baby. My goal is to keep them together. Jack jack Heather Belieu had two more children who werent at home that day when the shooting happened. Her six year old son will be raised by the grandmas. Her 11 year old son with another man will go to live with his dad. Jack more news now another arrest in the San Bernadino terror attacks tops National Headlines tonight. Jack syed farooks close friend, 24 year old enrique marquez, was arrested in california today. Investigators say he bought the two assault rifles used in the attack earlier this month. He faces several charges including conspiring to provide Material Support to terrorists. Investigators say the two friends planned an attack at a Southern CaliforniaCommunity College with pipebombs. They also had a plan to target drivers stuck in rushhour traffic. Sot brad garrett, former fbi special agent abc news consultant jack president obama will visit San Bernardino friday to meet privately with the victims and their families. Jack the Us Department of justice tonight is investigating the Embattled Chicago Police department, this comes after the release of dashcam video showing the 2014 shooting death of an unarmed black teenager by a white Chicago Police officer. Chicago mayor rahm emanuel initially resisted the idea of a federal civil rights investigation, calling it misguided. But he told reporters today he now welcomes the dojs involvement. We need, quote unquote, a fresh set of eyes like the department of justice to help us make the changes to both training, discipline, policy, oversight that we havent had in the past or the efforts weve made have never really gotten at the core of this issue jack look into the Chicago Police departments use of force, police accountability, and more. The doj probe will likely last more than a year. Jack coming up on local 5 news at 10, star wars mania is in full swing. Fans at one metro Movie Theater got to meet on of the movies biggest stars. Jack and while des moines is all dried up, there are some parts of central iowa still dealing with december flooding. Brad ad lib weather toss take sot angleson, we are iowas most accurate forecast with chief meteorologist brad edwards and local 5 sports with sports director jon schaeffer. This is local 5 news at 10. We are iowa. Jack flooding in South Central iowa tonight. Youre looking the south skunk these are and floating like buoys in fields along county road t14. Brad brad weather adlib it was really nice to see the sunshine thursday afternoon, and it looks like we will have more of it in the forecast however, that really doesnt mean it is going to warm up real soon. Tonight will be clear to partly cloudy with temps dropping into the low 20s while those winds keep wind chills into the 10s. Friday will also bring us more sunshine, but also those chilly temperatures will be about average which means the low to mid saturday morning will be our coldest morning yet this month with lows in the 10s for most areas, but at least the winds will calm down. With lots of sunshine and southerly winds saturday, we will warm up to the upper 30s. Those southerly winds saturday, we will warm up to the upper 30s. Those southerly winds will increase on sunday helping to push temps back up into the upper 40s ahead of a new weather system. The clouds will be increasing all day sunday with a chance for some rain showers by mid to Late Afternoon for mainly eastern iowa into the evening hours. No snow is expected with this system as it passes through iowa as temperatures into early next week are mostly going to be in the 40s. There might be a slight chance for some snow showers Christmas Eve morning, but i wouldnt count on a White Christmas at this point. But that also means better travel by sled brad jack the forecast doesnt mean it is going to warm up real soon. Tonight will be clear to partly cloudy with temps dropping into those winds keep wind chills into the 10s. Friday will also bring us more sunshine, but winds that could exceed 20 mph at times. Temperatures will be about average which means the low to mid 30s for highs. Saturday morning will be our coldest morning yet this month with lows in the 10s for most areas, but at least the winds will calm down. With lots of sunshine and southerly winds saturday, we will warm up to the upper 30s. Those southerly winds will increase on sunday helping to push temps back up into the upper 40s ahead of a new weather system. The clouds will be increasing all day sunday with a chance for some rain showers by mid to Late Afternoon for mainly eastern iowa into the snow is expected with this system as it passes temperatures into early next week are mostly going to be in the 40s. There might be a slight chance for some snow showers Christmas Eve morning, but i wouldnt count on a White Christmas at this point. But that also means better travel conditions for those of us that dont travel by sled brad jack jack the force is its a movie decades in the and tonight fans are getting their first look. Jack earliest show times in the 7 tonight, and shows will continue past midnight. The premiere at Flix Brewhouse at Merle Hay Mall got a special treat during their wait. Take a look. Jack a fully fuctioning r2d2 made his way to the new brewery slash Movie Theater. Hes one of the few characters whos in every one of the star wars movies. And did you know in the original star wars movie, an actor actually hid inside r2 d2. Jack local 5 meteorologist out at jordan creek mall where fans were waiting all day long for the movie to start. We talked to some diehard fans about the first time they remember watching star wars. My first memory of star wars was falling asleep right after darth vader came in that first scene at the drive in so i was about 4 or 5 then so to be able to share kind of that same experince with the kids this time is kind of cool jack look for more from sam and other fans tomorrow morning on good morning iowa. Jack every where you go nowadays, youre sure to find star wars themed products. From toys, to clothing and even fruit. But one waukee man looked past those products in the store and made his own special star wars themed christmas topper. Steve mosley is an engineer. Hes made really creative projects all over his house. Since the mosley family are huge star wars fans, he made this special death star tree topper complete with a revolving xwing yeah, weve got some neighbors that have seen it and everybody thinks its a lot of fun and with the movie coming out its been a lot of fun for everybody. Jack steves other projects inclued a motorized ping pong ball gun, a trex 3d puzzle and a kinetic marble track that circles his sons room. Jack jon is here now and High School Hockey getting the spotlight tonight. Jon yah jack bitter rivals capitals and oak leafs both teams from des moines playing tonight coming up on local 5 sports it was a lopsided affair wtonight the Second Chapter of the season is the des moines moines oak leafs high school the first meeting took overtime to it was the caps top. 130 so far this to land their 14th. The oak leafs the caps their season. But the capitals just under 10 minutes left in the first period jason noga going wide fires a shot thats an absolute sniper top shelf short caps. Ben tinker throwing one on net from the blue line its deflected five hole 2 nothing. Connor close not getting much help tonight in net but stands tall with the shot on the door step. Still in the first blake ramsey buries the one timer from the slot 3 zip. Then on the 2 on 2 noga to joe krueger he buries one top shelf and caps up 4 nothing fun fact joe once coached me 9 plus years krueger with tonight for the as they top the oak leafs 7 to 1. Iowa wild on the charlotte striking first Michal Jordan finds the back of shot from the charlotte. 2 then jordan about three minutes later makes it 20 with a power play blast that trickles past irving. Third period, wild defenseman dylan labbe a 21 game, with the shot from the faceoff win. 4 charlotte goal by drayson bowman, extends the checkers 5 49 left in regulation. 5 less than a minute later, iowa makes it a 32 game, colton beck redirects the centering pass from mike reilly and we got a onegoal game with 4 58 left in the game. But the checkers hold on for the 32 win. Jon welcome back. The waukee Girls Basketball team is out to a perfect start to their season. They are coming off of a three point win over dowling as they try to defend their state title from last season. If you swing by practice youll find an environment that breeds success while still enjoying the game itself. The waukee Girls Basketball was the best team in the state last year claiming the fivea championship. That put them in a National Spotlight as usa today ranked them 23rd in their Preseason Poll coming into this season. Its nice to have the recognition of the accomplishments of last years team but thats a credit to the two seniors who left Anna Kollmorgan and ellie cavanaugh. And its also a credit to our returners. If it were something in march it would mean a lot more than right now. Still the warriors are ranked number one in 5a. Theyll get every teams best effort every night but the only expectations that matter come from within this waukee team. I think the only pressure we have is the pressure we have on ourselves. Anything from the outside cant be any more than what were putting on ourselves to be successful and trying to get better everyday. We want to keep that title, and keep the number one in the state but we cant really Pay Attention to that. Youd think a team with such high standards would be on point and focused day in and day out. Not the case for waukee who take an occassional juggle break, or dance session. Its all part of enjoying this experience and it pays off on the court. Like you saw we like to have a lot of fun and so we have that Team Chemistry and that really helps because if one gir