>> we have a hunter sighting, oh, boy, backing to complain about being compelled to testify but still in defiance of the subpoena. >> political theater. >> you want to publicly testify, no problem. but first comply with the subpoena for the deposition and then publicly testify. >> john: hunter biden back on capitol hill crashing a contempt hearing after defying a subpoena last month.

republicans are branding his surprise appearance as a p.r. stunt. peter doocy asked the white house about this moments ago. >> the last time he was on the hill he said the president was certainly familiar with what his son was going to say. >> i did say that, and what i'm saying today. >> president biden does not help him with his business deals but does help him skirt congressional subpoenas. >> that is not even true. that is a jump tha incredibly-- >> john: "this hour has seven days," and that's an old canadian television show, and that's the way it feels this afternoon. >> sandra: sandra smith in new york, "america reports" hour two. any moment now the house oversight hearing, wow, did it have some fireworks. it is expected to resume as the committee considers a resolution on whether to move forward with

contempt proceedings for hunter, adding another headache for the president's son as he is expected to appear in a los angeles courtroom on tax charges tomorrow. >> john: let's go live across the street to capitol hill where our hillary vaughan caught hunter biden while he was storming out of the hearing earlier today. hillary, intrepidity showing again today. >> thank you, john. hunter biden essentially crashed the party, showed up to capitol hill, shocking everyone, unannounced and uninvited but did crash the house oversight committee hearing where lawmakers are debating whether or not to hold him in contempt for being a no-show at his closed door deposition that was requested weeks ago. house republicans and democrats tangled over whether or not to hold him in contempt, republicans say he defied a congressional subpoena, democrats say republicans gave him a choice between a closed door interview and a public hearing and hunter chose a

public hearing. >> mr. moskowitz, mr. biden doesn't make the rules, we make the rules. >> mr. chairman, you make the rules and the rule you made is that he can choose. >> the rule is -- >> those were your words. reclaiming my time, mr. chairman. after he took you up on the invitation to come, and then oh, no, no, no, my god, what did i do. >> hunter biden has been to capitol hill now twice since he's been under congressional subpoena. he has yet to take any lawmaker questions on those two trips and until today he didn't take any reporter questions until he talked to me. >> mr. biden, why did you put your dad on speaker phone with your business partners if he had no involvement in your business. >> you have a dad? does he call you? >> yes. >> you answer the phone? >> yes. >> ok. >> why did you need to talk to him during business meetings if he had nothing to do with the

business. >> and john, that was an interesting new nugget of information that we got out of hunter biden, he acknowledged that in fact his dad was on the phone during some of these business meetings and he also pointed out that it was his dad, joe biden, that was calling him, so two new developments out of that quick exchange, john. >> john: you managed to get what others do not get, and hillary, we love you for that. thank you. appreciate it. sandra. >> sandra: great job, hillary. we thank her for that, and now this fox news alert. the racketeering case in georgia brought against donald trump facing scrutiny. allegations of an improper relationship with the special prosecutor in the case. trump and a co-defendant are now asking for the indictment to be thrown out. jonathan serrie is live with more on this. who is the co-defendant in

question? >> jonathan: michael roman, a former trump campaign official and this week he filed a motion to disqualify the two top prosecutors in the georgia case. it alleges that fulton county district attorney willis became romantically involved with attorney nathan wade prior to appointing him special prosecutor in the case. d.a. willis, according to the motion, has failed to remain independent and impartial in the performance of her official duties because she specifically awarded lucrative contracts to her boyfriend from which he now benefits financially through personal trips, hotel rooms and the like paid by wade. legal experts are split on whether the claims against willis if proven are serious enough to overturn the case. >> if you if there is a substantial conflict found and judge mcafee thinks it exists,

it would be tried by another d.a. office in the state of georgia. >> also contains invoices from special prosecutor wade billing the fulton county d.a. office for an eight-hour meeting with white house counsel in may of 2022, and 8-hour interview with d.c. white house in november of that same year. the white house has yet to confirm such meetings took place. the d.a.'s office says it will respond to the motion through appropriate court filings. neither prosecutor has commented publicly. the "wall street journal" reports willis has been subpoenaed to testify in wade's divorce case. fox news has learned that details of that force case have been sealed under court order. sandra. >> sandra: all right, a lot to be watching for there. we'll see where all this goes next. we'll be following it. thank you very much. john. >> john: sandra, for more on this, ben, get into the

relationship in just a second, ben, but another aspect to this, and that is that according to documents that were obtained by fox news digital, the special prosecutor nathan wade billed the fulton county d.a.'s office $4,000 for two meetings with white house officials. is that suggestive in your mind of coordination? >> it absolutely is, john. i think there is serious questions that the white house needs to answer and also obviously in fulton county we need more answers as well. we have seen some of these investigations in the past as i'm sure you are familiar with investigations in the past as i'm sure you are familiar with into political corruption actually become, you know, complete liabilities when it comes to the offices of the investigators. based on the personal interactions in this case allegedly romantic interactions

with people charged with the task of incurring very important roles in this kind of process. ones that should absolutely be looked at when it comes to the kind of contractual agreements in place, the amount of money exchanged here and a big problem for fani willis and the case to proceed forward if it turns out to be as serious as it looks like on the face of it. i think you could see a real push to have this prosecuted by someone else. >> john: well, certainly donald trump believes this is a problem for fani willis, what he said yesterday. >> event yesterday as you saw in georgia where the district attorney is totally compromised, the case has to be dropped. they went after, i guess, 18 or 20 people, they wanted to go after a lot of other people, after senators, she was out of her mind, now it turns out that

that case is totally compromised. it's illegal, what she did is illegal. we'll let the state handle that. but what i want to say -- what a sad situation it is. >> john: so he says the case is compromised, it has to be dropped. i don't believe either you or i have a law degree, so we don't know what the veracity of that is, but does not seem as though the case would be dropped, but handed over to a different prosecutor? >> that's likely what would happen, yes. and what i would say is that look, one of the things we know from the former president's approach to all of this, he will seize on the weaknesses and the violations of law of the people coming after him who put themselves forward as standing up for law and order, normalcy, and yet it turns out time and again they flaut regulations and requirements in pursuit of him

in so many different instances. it's becoming a recurring thing we see in the pursuit of him via this law fair tactic. >> john: so many times in the left leaning media, a story like this would probably just fall flat or not reported on, but even this one has caught the attention of the "new york times," jonathan swan and maggy haberman, "allegations against prosecutors bolster trump's criticism of georgia's case," and they say it was a very unusual choice for fani willis to pick a suburban attorney, nathan wade, for this position, but apparently he was a mentor and she really trusted him. but the allegations are that he was far more than just a mentor. >> absolutely. and i think one of the things we have in common in terms of the thread between this and the situation that you are seeing with hunter biden is that these are a lot of things that are creating headaches for democrats that they would prefer not to have. they would not like to go into a

situation where you are pursuing donald trump in a key way in this georgia case and have this type of thing that you now have to answer for. when it comes to the behavior of hunter biden on capitol hill today, as much as it creates a circus and a circus-like atmosphere around this, i think people would prefer hunter had kept his head down and not gone through the role of turning this into a p.r. nightmare for a lot of democrats who would have preferred that he just kick the can on everything and stayed quiet through the november election. >> john: it would seem as though he and his attorney have a far different agenda than others. great to catch up with you. thank you. >> good to be with you. >> they should not have remote learning. they should find other options for the migrants. >> sandra: the mayor of new york prioritizing illegal immigrants over some of the city's school children. so, how did that happen?

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so, there is no learning today. >> sandra: there is no learning today. those were parents fired up after students at one new york city high school were told no school today, stay home. nearly 2000 migrants were moved into their classrooms. that's after powerful storms threatened to destroy the migrant tent shelters paid for by, by the way, taxpayers. the school we just got word will be reopening tomorrow but nyc officials are under pressure for putting those children last. dagen mcdowell, why would those children not be prioritized, why were they not in school today? >> dagen: because individuals who break the law, illegal migrants who break the law to come into the united states and biden and his cohort who allow them to stay here rather than deporting them, they take precedent. they are the priority over

people who are here legally and over who pay taxes. they are priority over those children, and at james madison high school out in brooklyn, more than half the students at that high school are minority students. they are latino students, they are asian students, and they are not important and that's the message. >> sandra: and it's hard, we learned through the covid pandemic, it's hard on parents when the kids are not in school, parents don't know where the kids are if they have to go to work, nothing planned for them, creates chaos. peter doocy had a moment to ask karine jean-pierre just a few minutes ago in the white house briefing room about this. >> if a working parent had to call out to stay home with their kid today, isn't this biden immigration policy literally taking money out of people's pockets? >> that is something that new york city needs the answers to, that is a process they took, so they have to answer to that. and as it relates to migrants

and what's happening at the border, look, the president has taken the issue seriously and the president has taken action to deal with this while house republicans do not. they get in the way. >> sandra: hold on, how are the two disconnected, what's happening at the border and happening to new york city. something new york city needs to answer to? they are getting an in-flow of migrants they didn't ask for. you know, they did say we welcome all, perhaps they shouldn't have done that, but this is a problem at the southern border and the migrants are coming from there because of federal policies. >> dagen: how long will they stand up there and lie to the american people and think they can get away with it. someone asked me that earlier today. why do the democrats, why do biden and company think this is a winning policy and i said to this person on the phone, only think it's a losing policy when they lose because of it. and from the top down. here is biden's policy, when

they say this is, has been a problem for decades and decades, during the first year that biden was in office, from the customs and border protection, they show border encounters tripled to almost 2 million. tripled from the prior year. the percentage -- this is just according to immigrations and customs enforcement. the percentage of illegal migrants deported has been under 5% every single year that biden has been in office. it was 3%, 2.6%, 4.4%. those are the deportations. in 2018, under president trump, it was 39% deportations based on the numbers from immigration and customs enforcement. let me just lay out the financial disaster this is. oh, and in, here in new york

city they refer to these illegal migrants as guests. no, guests leave. they were referring to the guests staying at floyd bennet field. no, anybody who has ever had people stay in their home know guests check out and leave. these are residents, and that's how they are treated by the biden administration. they are planning on them staying here forever. and the financial disaster that's looming, california expanded state medicaid to all eligible illegal migrants. now at the federal level, the federal government will not pay, will not reimburse the states for covering illegals under medicaid. however, so the states have to pay for it. and $60 billion budget deficit just in california while the actual taxpayers are -- >> sandra: declare a budget emergency. >> we both know money is

fungible. watch gavin newsom start crying money and it will cover illegal migrants healthcare. >> sandra: they are crying for help but nobody is blaming the federal government, they are blaming governor abbott down in texas. good to see you. john. >> john: the consumer electronic show is underway in las vegas, and artificial intelligence seems to be the star of the show. so fox business liz clayman is there and has this report for us. >> john, if you camp but i know that you definitely drive. and this area, which is of course the west hall, is consumer electronics show in las vegas, virtually, de facto car show. you see all the cars here but what we have here is the pebble flow, and for all the viewers who go out there and they

absolutely love to hang out in the rv, this is interesting. solar powered, so it will actually take you off the grid for up to 5 to 7 days. let me show you, talking about artificial intelligence, it knows what you want. this table can go down, and turn into a bed, which sleeps 2, if you come on in here and see all kinds of gadgetry, you have a cook top, an induction cook top, and it's amazing because all the solar panels are on the top and it's hitched on to the car. this is the bathroom. so if you look through the glass, you say there isn't that much privacy there, liz. ok, you go inside, you press this button, and there you go, the glass completely fogs up so nobody sees you doing your business. over here, this turns into a murphy bed, but sort of a lifestyle situation and when you talk about ai, and all that is connected, i want to show you the consumer gadget that really

caught our eye. it's called the can go, and it is a smart cane. last i checked, john, we are all definitely getting older and this cane does a lot. it's got a flashlight on it. that is embedded, and it will turn on the flashlight so you can see where you are going and see this controller, you can call your healthcare provider, you can call 911, it's got fall detection technology in it, and this is the kind of thing, it's enabled through at&t, it's exactly the kind of thing that consumer electronics are really kind of the hot thing that everybody is talking about here. it is a $1 trillion business so the kind of thing that has drawn hundreds of thousands of people. this crowd here, you can see a bunch of them, 130,000 attendees who have come here, 2.3 to 2.5 million square feet of exhibition space. we also have a watch we want to show you. so, this watch in particular is

called the navigail 580, and looks like a basic watch, teaming up with a finland-based company and at&t, looks like a regular analog watch by design but it's a mobile personal emergency response, yes, aging tech is a huge deal here but it's also obvious than the old i've fallen and i can't get up thing that's hanging around the neck. we have to give people dignity. that's the kind of thing, john, we are seeing here. but it is a massive market and what has come here in the west hall of the las vegas convention center is a very important message that semiconductor chips have to run all of this, and our biggest consumer electronics device is our car. of course it has so sync up the phone as well but amazing to see the advancements, 55 different countries that descend upon las vegas for this, some is moon shot type of stuff, some is more

evolutionary incremental changes to what we already have. but the moon shots that happen here are a huge economic story. billions and billions of dollars spent every year on consumer tech, and john, all i can tell you, when you see the excitement here, there are 6,000 accredited media here are some of them. rich, one of our second camera guys right there. you know, we've got a huge crew here, and we move. 3:00 p.m. eastern on fox business, we have the ceo of one of the top chip makers that's doing ai-enabled chips that make everything you have much smarter and that's cristiano of qualcomm, he's talking about how with simple hand motions everything will change with every single consumer tech item that you have. john. >> john: that is an incredible place to go. and speaking of ai watches, i have a new apple watch for christmas and i was skiing and just fell, it was -- easy little fall and the watch says we detect a fall, calling emergency

services in 15 seconds. i'm trying to get my gloves off and cancel the damn thing. i did it just before it went off. you had me going there with the see-through glass bathroom. crazy. all right. liz, have fun there. it's a great place to be. >> i will. i will. in fact, we are going to run and find a whole bunch of other tech. we'll see you then. >> sandra: hey liz, can i jump in here? nobody covers this conference like you, liz. you are amazing. i love the camper, i just am curious, do you think you could live off the grid for 5 to 7 days? >> i was thinking about you, sandra, i know you are a fly fishing girl, you would absolutely love it. princess from los angeles, not is much, wait, where do i plug in my blow dryer. but living off the grid, you see everybody running around and all the crowds, everybody is looking down, looking at their tablets

or their phones, and i do find it kind of exciting to think about simply looking at people in the eye and talking, but when you see things like the smart cane, you realize this tech could change people's lives for the better. >> sandra: so cool. thanks, liz. >> john: you know, i've done so many interactions with people who have been at the consumer electronics show, sandra, and always wanted to go. i've never had the opportunity. i want to go to that and go to the nam show, the national association of music merchants. never been to effect one. >> sandra: what could go wrong if they base it off our hand motions. we all talk too much with our hands. send a lot of false signals. >> john: this little guy, i can control a couple things doing that, it's pretty rudimentary. remember tom cruise movie "minority report," moving everything on the screens. >> sandra: not too far away. thanks to liz on the ground, all

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>> it's indoors, we are iowans, we'll be there. >> i definitely think it will impact people that are not passionate about their candidate. >> we came here, can't get any worse than this. >> if it's like today it could be a problem. if it's just cold, i'm not worried about it. >> candidate events seem to be back on track today after they had to cancel some because of this week's snowstorm. on caucus day, it's possible temperatures won't get above 0° the entire day. that would make it the coldest caucus day in decades, possibly ever. so, if the weather does affect turnout, the question becomes which candidate, if any, does that help? >> trump has been smart in over the last week or so saying listen, we can't take anything for granted. i think the weather does help the hard core supporters of trump because you know they are coming out month matter what. >> of course all of this impacts

only the gop caucuses. remember, the democratic party snubbed iowa this election cycle so today -- so monday, rather, will essentially be administrative work for them because democratic caucus-goers will instead mail in their candidate preferences and won't get results for several weeks. on the republican side, we will be watching to see if there are any surprises. sandra. >> sandra: and grady, don't underestimate the power of the weather. we were just talking to darin shaw about this last hour and it can have a big impact, but clearly heading into all of this, clear front-runner, obviously nikki haley and desantis the challengers for the second possible finish. it's going to be one to watch, that is for sure. are you noticing less people on the ground leading up to monday, grady? >> well, it's been an unusual week and i think the weather has played into that, sandra. with all those events canceled, that means the candidates are

not able to get the vote out as much as they would like to. and then here we are in downtown des moines, fresh snow on the ground, the first major snowstorm of the season so that keeps people inside as well. a crazy week coming from mother nature and that has certainly been a big story as we have been here sandra. but they are hearty out here in the midwest. you know it as well as anybody and they plan to show up if they feel strongly about their candidates. >> sandra: fur lined hooded coats necessary, right, grady? >> you bet, i dug this out from my chicago days. >> sandra: good for you, good for you. no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing. grady, thank you so much. >> john: more on iowa with bret baier just ahead. but first, the faa expanding the grounding of boeing 737 max 9 planes after an alaska airlines midflight door blowout.

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>> john: five days away now from the all-important iowa caucuses. will it be a blowout for former president trump or could there be some surprises in store? bret baier, anchor and executive editor of "special report," also a fox news -- our fox news chief political anchor. bret, i'm glad you are braving the weather out there, my gosh,

looks like it's cold. i want to bring up the latest power rankings. >> bret: it is a little cold. >> john: we won't keep you long. latest fox news power rankings, nikki haley squeaking past ron desantis in the number two position and the rcp average of iowa polls, nikki haley is in 2nd place, 16.6, desantis 16.4. when you look at monday, bret, all about exceeding expectations. haley and desantis could exceed expectations but then again so could former president trump. >> bret: yeah, you know, john and sandra, good afternoon. i'm here at a stop in waukee with vivek ramaswamy, a town hall event he had about 100 people in this gastro pub behind me and did an interview with him that will air tonight on 6:00 p.m. on "special report." you know, he sees in that polling something different in all these events. he thinks that his momentum is

there, as he's traveled around these countries and he thinks he's going to outperform and each candidate is saying that. but going in we have never seen the kind of lead that we see for the former president into any iowa caucus. this is the fifth iowa caucuses that i've covered and i can tell you that bouncing around, you know, heading in, this is a different feel. what they are saying in here is don't count us out and it's all about the logistics and who you get out to show up and when it's - 6 and show up at the schoolhouse or the fire house it is determination and organization that makes that happen. so that's what's different about iowa. and i think it will be fascinating to see how the close happens over the next four days. >> john: the point you made a second ago, some background and back to 1988, no republican candidate has ever crossed the 50% threshold in terms of the caucus vote, ted cruz 27.6 in

2016, santorum, 25, huckabee, 40, george bush high point, almost 41%. bob doyle, if donald trump goes above 50, that will be historic. >> bret: it will, and you know, we are going to have that town hall tonight in des moines and we expect a lot of folks to come out and ask the former president questions. he has not done that q & a a lot, he's had a number of rallies obviously in iowa, and fascinating to see how he answers things. we are going to obviously cover the news of the day and what's happening in all of his, what's been happening in recent days, but really it's about hearing iowa voices and citizens and we have done that over the past two nights with nikki haley and governor desantis and listened in here at the town hall and did an interview with vivek ramaswamy about substance, and you know, there are smart voters in iowa.

they have been through this process a lot, care about a lot of things and if you went down the list, it would be a lot of the things we see in polls of the key issues that people around america care about. >> john: no question that iowa voters do dig into politics in a way many other people don't, which is why the campaigns like to keep it first. also media dollars go further in iowa than in california. in terms of whether or not desantis or haley or even chris christie or ramaswamy -- 37% are hard maga based, vote for trump no matter what. 35% are persuadeable and 25% never trump. how many do you think are really up for grabs? >> it's a great, great question, john. i think that's what each campaign is trying to figure out. i think nikki haley is betting on new hampshire, that independents and democrats will help in the formulation.

i thought jonathan martin with the "new york times" had an interesting piece, he called donald trump's supporters beer drinking and other pinot sipping. and fascinating in iowa how it breaks down. i think there could be surprises here but tonight is a big night for answering questions for the former president. >> john: your town halls have been great. we expect nothing less, bret. >> sandra: who is mr. beast? and why is the 25-year-old youtube mega star rejecting elon musk? we'll have the story for you next. introducing ned's plaque psoriasis. he thinks his flaky, red patches are all people see. otezla is the #1 prescribed pill to treat plaque psoriasis. it can help you get clearer skin. don't use otezla if you're allergic to it. serious allergic reactions can happen. otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting.

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he has an eye popping 230 million subscribers on his channel now. he's just 25 years old, and one of the world's most popular and highest earning creators on youtube. he's now caught the eye of elon musk. and he's making him an offer he can refuse, apparently. let's bring in elma, founder and chief operating officer of a marketing firm that specializes in online influencers. you were quoted in an article featured in the "wall street journal" that covered this back and forth with elon musk courting mr. beast, and mr. beast responds i can't make enough money on twitter or x. why would i go there. this is amazing to watch. how has he become this mega star at 25. >> sure, yeah. as influencers, basically, you have to roll out the content all the time. so basically working 12 to 24 hours sometimes just producing content, so you are looking

obviously to get your bills covered and a lot of the influence from gen z to millennials. they need to make meaningful income. >> sandra: and my co-anchor has kids in this age group, too, popular with the age group, and looking over the shoulder to know what they are on. i took notice, he has found a way to captivate audiences young and old. he's got this massive following. he doesn't swear, i don't see him drinking, and now not only atrafficking elon musk but a lot of a-list celebrities that are wanting to appear with him. this is just a 17-second sot of him with tom brady on an episode. watch this. >> oh! got it. >> put the sunscreen on. >> that was probably the worst wide receiver you've ever thrown him. unless you hit him in the head he's probably not going to catch

it. >> hey, karl, don't screw this up. throw it as far as you can. >> sandra: i could tell you that episode in particular as you know, they were showing yachts, like a million dollar yacht, then a $10 million yacht, and then $100 million yacht, crazy stuff. appeared with justin timberlake, and elon musk decides to court him, ok. so creator rewards will increase significantly, telling them come over to x, mr. beast says yeah, the economics just don't work out. my videos, he said, cost me millions to make, right, to even turn a profit would be very difficult. mr. beast responded to his offer said my videos cost millions to people and even if we got a billion views on x would not fund a fraction of it. i'm down to test stuff, sort of a slam on musk and his offer. >> that's right, that's right. yeah, so depending on the platform sort of right now,

youtube is king, so they are paying on average again it depends on the creator and the platform, $18 for every 1,000 impressions so rpm, and tiktok, $0.20 on average to $0.40 per rpm and then basically x is less than a penny per rpm. >> sandra: kids everywhere are going i want to be a youtube star. mr. beast figured out how to do it. and his whole thing, every dollar he made he said he kept putting back into the youtube channel. and it has made him this behemouth. is that what it takes? >> you have to reinvest and reinvest in the content and get really creative and carving your niche in there. >> sandra: he gives away a lot of his money, and decided to pay for 100 cataract surgeries, the

yacht, he invited all his followers on and said now you can stay on here and have a good time, he gives away cash. it is an interesting thing to watch, you know. you never know what's going to work, i guess. and you are in the business. exciting day, i'm sure. thank you very much for joining us. >> you are very welcome. >> sandra: john, i know you are a big -- you are aware of mr. -- eric shawn was sitting here and said who is mr. beast. >> john: oh, no, i am all too aware of mr. beast and my 12-year-old son is devastated, youtube channel up to 10,000 subscribers and said oh, you are not 13, your channel will be canceled. he has two months to wait until he turns 13 and he will try to get it back. >> sandra: there are rules, that's for sure. quick break, we'll be right back. back. cler krfor your family? newday usa can help. veterans have earned a lot of va benefits with their service, but the va home loan benefit is a big one.

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week or two for this show to go by we had so much breaking news. back to the mr. beast thing. his success on youtube is really extraordinary. my twins have been watching him since they were 10 years old since they discovered youtube. the amount of philanthropy that he engages is remarkable. to think that he's done it at the age of 25 is incredible. >> sandra: he does really nice things. >> john: but now every 12-year-old wants to be mr. beast. my daughter wanted to be a vet. now she wants to be a youtube star. >> sandra: he does pour the money back in and give it back to his followers. it's an incredible formula. nobody else is doing it. great to be with you. never miss us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" with martha in iow