Using a politician. Weve all taken pride when crowds chant usa in fan filled arenas. But for the Perry High School basketball team. Its turned into a mockery as opposing fans have used the chant to blatantly target the minorities whos parents may be from other countries. Perry high school bucks the trend of what is typically found in a rural iowa setting. We are really more of an urban school in a rural setting. Here at the high school we are 48percent minority. They embrace that diversity and it shows on the Basketball Court with players of latino, native american and African American desent. Its all about who you are as a person and thats what is great about a small town like perry. Unfortunate ly that diversity isnt being celebrated by everyone. We are all aware of racism, its alive and well in small portions but its alive and well and its just hurtfull to see thats what they resort too. At monday nights game against Dallas Center grimes opposing fans used trumps disdain for Illegal
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
Tonight. Making history. How iowa women are breaking new ground in the military. Where theyre going. That they havent been allowed to go before. A mothers love. Her son spent seven years as a prisoner of war in vietnam. And she chronicled as much as she could. An iowa womans historical collection. And how her son recounts his time as a pow. From who hd iowas High Definition leader. This is the channel 13 news at nine on fox 17 good evening. Im lynn melling. Thank you for joining us tonight. A young des moines couple on the vacation of a lifetime was killed in a tragic car wreck. Tonight, the family of one of the victims is asking for your help. Aaron brilbeck has the story. This past weekend kristine buttermore did something no mother should ever have to do. She buried her daughter. 34year old Allison Backstrom of des moines was driving back from a las vegas vacation october 29th with her boyfriend, jeffrey christiansen, when the couples car crashed on rain slicked roads. Buttermore re
Hour adds up to a little more than 15 thousand dollars a year. Zac 13 40 46 im a food associate. I make pizzas zac campbell is a student at drake. Even with the 9dollars an hour he earns working at a local gas station. He couldnt make it on his own. Zac 13 41 20 yeah, trying to save money living at home now. Hopefully i can get another job and make things, make ends meet 30 the group says not everyone has that option and many wind up stuck in a job. Living in poverty. Iowa senator Chuck Grassley says a 15 dollar minimum wage wont help the workforce. Grassley 14 46 i dont think we ought to do something that causes more people to be unemployed and when you raise the price of labor. It does increase unemployment 58 grassley says americas labor force already sits at a 38 year low. He blames the taxspendregulate cycle. Grassley 15 50 if we jobs and productivity which in turn increases wages then we need to give people that create jobs less uncertainty and more predictability so theyre willi
Its a silly argument 36 4036 51 jb 12 million illegal immigrants, to send them back. And its not embracing American Values 37 3337 48 dt we have millions of people right now. Very very unfair to them 41 2841 53 tc the politics of it would be very very different if. That is befalling our nation perhaps the candidates with the jeb bush. He received the smallest amount of time in the last debate and his poll numbers are falling. Tonight he tried to reverse the trend by focusing on the likely democratic nominee. 20 1320 35 Hillary Clinton has said that barack obamas. The best america can do that theme was also an issue during the undercard debate. Governor Chris Christie says democrats are making promises with your paycheck. 10 3011 01 how do you win a national election. In order to provide all that Governor Jindal was also pointing the finger tonight. But instead of attacking democrats. He criticized republicans who he accuses of promoting democratic policies. 16 3116 43 there is not much