onawa earlier today and is in studio with more. bria: and jenna, talk about buzz! the winner of the 2 million dolar prize is bryon stewart... a 23- year-old from onawa. showed up p morning in hopes of finding out who the person express their not being new millionaire. "i'd like to introduce our newest multimilionaire, bryon stewart. how about that?" said iowa lottery representer. on wednesay millions of people participated in the largest jackpot in powerball history. 1.6 billion dollars was up for grabs and even though the ultimate winners were out of florida, california and tennessee. 4-8-19-27-34 have made brrian stewart, from onawa who works as a security officer at a local casino, a new millionaire. "it's a nice small hometown and to see that someone won $2 million, that's going to be a great experience and bring a lot of happiness to their family," said lyons. the winner purchased a power play ticket from casey's doubling the

thisishe second time in one week that northwest iowa has had a millionare by winning the lottery. joel dominguez out of sioux city won one thousand dollars in the second drawing of this year and many were excited to find out who the lucky winner was. "that'll get the town buzzing, everyobody will be anxious," said savery. "we got about half way here and we hear that the news is out there at casy's interviewing and we were like, 'oh it's coming," said stewart. some locals say they were slightly disappointed and would love to be the one to inherit the new funds. "uhhhhh story of my life, maybe next time. laughs can't win them all right?" said savery. "even at work, we would always say what we would do, what would we plan to do with the money and i would love to have the $2 million dollars," said lyons. still keep his dayjob and already has "i'm only 23, i just put it away, invest it. hopefully later will be even more sitting in that representative: stewart: "i still feel like i'm dreaming" bria: congrats on your

bryon! reporting live in studio, bria bell . jenna: a 20 year old sioux city man is facing felony charges, after police say he lured an aquaintance into a robbery last night. jenna: authorities say justin dahlheimer is being charged with felony assault and robbery. court documents reveal he and another suspect arranged to meet with an individual and then robbed and assalted him. after searching dahlheimer's car police found the coat the victim was wearing during the incident. he's being held in the woodbury county jail on 10 thousand dollar bond. jenna: governors of both nebraska and iowa were in the sioux city metro today. after addressing their state legislatures, the idea is to bring the ideas to their constituants. tim: and iowa governor terry branstad got the chance to stop by our abc9 studio's today to speak on his goals for 2016. tim: the governor's plan moving medicaid services from state run to privately ruru created much

away from des moines. after a 60 day implementation of system takes affect march 1st. today the governor told me dispite criticisim, the state had to take. tim: " even with managed care our costs go up 46 million dollars next year. without it million. 150 millionis most of the growth we have in revenue theres virtually education or anything else in the budget," said governor branstad. tim: to hear me full conversation with governor branstad join me for this week in siouxland, sunday at 9am here on abc9. jenna: nebraska governor pete ricketts came to south sioux city to outline hisis plans for the new year. earlier in the day ricketts gave his state of the state address, saying t focus going forward will be on giving nebraskans relief from growing property taxes and increasing state funding for education.

my legislative agenda for this year are those proposals. it's two bills, one in the education and one in the revenue comitee that limit the growth of spending at the local entitities. we the state, we don't collect those dollars, your counties, cities, nrd's, school districts, community colleges. so what we've done is taken those other limits before and put them back underneath that package," said ricketts. when it comes to marijuana or gambling legislation, governor rickets says he doesn't plan to support those efforts. tim: onto the campaign trail... tonight g- o-p heavyweights will be in south carolina for the last debate before the iowa caucuses. 7 candidates will be on the main stage as carly fiorina and rand paul were bumped down to the undercard debate, set to take place before the main debate. rand paul saying he's boycotting the debate after the move. (sot paul) "to be artificially designated in some kind of lower

that you're not the same and don't have a chance." the main republican debate is set to air at 8 pm tonight. jenna: some concern over one g-o-p candidate visitng dordt college in the upcoming week tim: repbulican frontrunner donald trump is set to make an appearance in sioux center saturday january 23rd. but the announcementfom dordt college seemed controversy folks on social against the visit with the original announcement getting over 200 shares on facebook with more than 30 comments. and alumni out against the trumps message complete opposit of what the christian school stands f f. tim: social media promted the president to letter community ... we'll hear what he had to say and why the trump visit is important to the school .. all coming up at jenna: another presidential candidate

chris christie will be making a campaign stop at buffalo alice on 4th street sunday for a town hall meeting. doors open at 3:30 for that event. christie also has plans to be in le mars and council bluffs. tim: former president bill clinton will be showing his support in sioux city for his wife and democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton he'll be holidng a campging event at morningside college tomorrow at the yockey family community room. hillary clinton was in sioux city just last week, holding a town hall at the orpheum. doors open in just after 11 in the morning tomorrow. tune in tomorrow to abc9 news at 5,6, and 10 we'll have full coveragef that event. jenna: after recent polls showing bernie sanders making up huge ground in the democratic race, it seems that his campaign is benefitting. sanders' underdog campaign is reporting a surge of dontations saying they're raking in nearly four times the daily average rate from the last quarter of 20-15. representatives attribute the bump in funds to recece "attacking remarks" made by clinton in the past

tim: the other underdog candidate in the democratic race, former maryland governor martin o'malley, got some good news today. finding out he'll be joining clinton and sanders on stage for the debate in charleston south carolina this sunday. but he barley made it. n-b-c the network holding the debate rounded up o'malleys most recent poll to 5 per-cent, the threshold they deem worth enough to take the debate stage. coming up the sun was out and about today, how some siouxlanders spend the slightly warmer day. after the break... a cold front will bring major changes to our forecast, starting tonight. arctic air will move in over the weekend, and we have a few chances for light ow. details next!

fred, it's going to get cold this weekend!

that is for sure. fred hexom fhexom@kcautv.c om (fred) the port neal welding company skycam hd time lapse shows partly cloudy conditions through much of the day today. the high has been 41 and the low 21. downtown, the high was 46! highs over western iowa were in the 30s for most. eastern nebraska and southeastern south dakota saw 30s and 40s. we still have 40 degrees in sioux ty. temperatures range from the 20snortheast to the 40s southwest. winds are 5 to 15 miles per hour, producing wind chills ranging from 12 in estherville to 41 in omaha. zooming out, we can see the beginning of very cold air across north dakota. minot has only 13 degrees. that cold air will be heading our way. the upper level wind, featuring the jet stream in the big arrows, separates warm and cold air. the southwest upper flfl we had today helped push wam air into siouxland. as the jet stream dips south,

weather. an arctic high will be seen over southern canada by saturday evening, ushering in a reinforcing shot of arctic air saturday night. but our coldest weather will come sunday and sunday night, when the arctic high will spill south into the us, dragging in n tterly cold air. the satelite and radar shows a line of rain and snow along the cold front that is heading our way. the stormcast hd shows the cold front tonight bringing us a chance of light snow after midnight tonight. another chance of snow comes saturday evening and early sunday morning, as very cold air moves in. while we could see a light dusting of snow tonight, saturday night's snow could bring a half inch to an inch and a half. yoyo forecast tonight is for a low of 22 and blustery conditions with a chance of snow after midnight. tomorrow, temperatures will be falling from a morning high of 22. blustery conditions will continue. the 7- day shows evening snow likely saturday. then, bitterly cold air comes for the weekend. sunday's

above zero, and we're headed for -13 monday morning. temperatures will l very gradually warm next week. another chance of snow comes tuesday and thursday. jenna/tim/fred

skycam hd time lapse conditions through much of the day today. the high has been 41 and the low 21. downtown, the high was 46! highs over western iowa were in the 30s for southeastern south dakota saw 30s and degrees in sioux range from the 20s northeast to the 40s southwest. winds hour, producing wind chills ranging from 12 in estherville to 41 in omaha. zooming out, we can see the beginning of very north dakota. minot that cold air will be upper level wind, featuring the jet stream in the big arrows, separates

the southwest upper flow we had today helped push wam air into siouxland. as the jet stream dips south, we are going to see cold northwest winds push in frigid weather. an arctic high will be seen over southern canada by saturday evening, ushering in a reinforcing shot of arctic air saturday night. but our coldest weather will come jenna: locals enjoyed the warmth today... and proved the weather is really all relative. we spotted quite a few people who ditched their heavy winter coats today. we even found some people who traded jeans and boots for shorts. this weather also provided a g gd chance for siouxlanders to get the car washed... getting some of that

tim: still to come... nominations were announced today. we'll see who may get the chance to win on oscar sunday. when we return.

and it could be a big year for "the revenant." jenna: this morning... the academy award nominations were announced, but not without some surprise snubs. abc's brandi hitt reports from los angeles. "sot -- (from film): "the revenant" in the hunt for oscar gold -- "the revenant" -- leads the pack... receiving 12 nominations including best

dicaprio in "the revenant." ?and a fifth acting nod for -- leonardo dicaprio -- fresh off a golden globe win. sot -- david blaustein, abc news radio entertainment correspondent ((graphic -- "best actor")) also in the "best actor" category -- bryan cranston... matt damon... michael fassbender... and eddie redmayne. sot -- (from film:) "room" "room's" brie larson -- a favorite for "best actress" -- spoke to good morning america... minutes after her nomination. sot -- (audio only) she's competing against cate blanchett... jennifer lawrence... charlotte rampling... saoirse (sir-sha) ronan. sot -- chris cononlly, abc news entertainment correspondent white actors -- represent all 20 acting nominations again this year. many questioning why will smith... or idris elba... weren't nominated. sot -- (from film: "straight outta compton") "straight outta compton" was also snubbed for "best picture"... ((nominations gfx - all eight))

total of eight films this year -- ((video: mad max - fury road) "mad max: fury road" among them -- receiving ten nods. sot -- (from film: star wars: the force awakens) "star wars: the force awakens" -- was also nominated five times? in technical categories. ((on camera tag)) the academy is bringing back chris rock as host -- 11 years after his first run on the oscar's stage. see who wins an academy award -- february 28th -- on abc. brandi hitt -- abc news -- los angeles. " coming up in sports...the musketeers haven't scored a goal in ten days. find out how they hope to change that tonight against lincoln. plus...iowa and michigan state square off in the we'll hear from coach mccaffery hawkeyes can end a long losing streak in east

half weeks, the hawkeyes have a chance to knock off a highly ranked michigan state squad. but history is not on iowa's side tonight. michigan state has one of the best advantages in alal of college basketball. since the breslin center opened in 1989, sparty is 359 and 54 at home, and have won 88 percent of their

tom izzo. in fact, iowa is only 2 and 20 alll time at the breslin center, and haven't won there since before adam woodbury and mike gesell were born. fran mccaffery--"i don't think you can put too much into, 'hey, you know they've beaten you a certain amount of times.' because they're one of the premiere teams in the country. they beat everybody a certain amount of times. they win most of t times that they play. the bottom line is, you go on the road, play one of the best teams in the country, you have to execute." and execution has been key so far in this game that tipped off at the top of the hour over on espn.. at last check xx- xx. we'll of course have the highlights for you tonight at 10 right heren abc9. in the high school ranks, the ighsau released its latest basketball poll and twelve siouxland teams

three classes. some of the biggest news though is about two teams thth are no longer in the poll. west and heelan both fell out of the rankings in class 5a and 4a respectively, leaving no area schools in the raings in the big classes. here's a look at today's poll...kingsley pierson fell a spot to fifth while defending state champ newell fonda is up to sixth. westwood moves up a position to lucky 13 and undefeated mmc breaks into the poll this week. in 2a, unbeaten and defending champ unity christian remains at the topwhile western christian and okoboji hold steady at 5th and sixth. lawton-bronson is down two from 11th to 13th. finally in 3a, pocahontas area is number one followed by fellow unbeaten cherokee at number four. sioux center moves up a spot to fifth and spirit lake drops two places to 7th. chris: the musketeers are in the midst of a seven game road trip, and last week the trip p t off to a rough start. tonight t ey'll try totoounce back against conference leading lincoln. the muskies couldn't find any

in trips to cedar rapids and madison, dropping identical 4-0 decisions. in fact, the last time the team scored was on january 3rd against lincoln, when sioux city exploded for 6 goals. tonight, coach jay varady says it's going to take hard work to light the lamp and get a win. jay varady----ou gotta score a goal to win a game, a we didn't. i thought we had good goaltending the entire weekend and for us as a group of players we have to make sure we're getting pucks to the net and we alslshave to get bodies to the net. if goaltenders in this league see the puck they make the first save everytime. we've gotta make second chance opportunities and a lot of that is tenacious work ethic and being willing to put your nose in somewhere that you may get hit." last weekend actually marked the midway point of the season for the musketeers as well. the boys are currently seventh in the western conference with 31 points, but are just three points out of a playoff spot. if the season ended today, lincoln, tri-city, omaha, and sioux falls would be

photo of the day. today's picture comes from... fred hexom came to st. michael's this morning to read to some of the students. i am sending you a couple of pictures that you can use on the news, if there's time. thanks , pam mcdermott if you're like to submit a facebook fan photo, just post it on our abc-9 facebook page. jenna/tim/chris/fred (fred) your forecast tonight is for a low

chance of snow after midnight. tomorrow, temperatures will be falling from a morning high of 22. blustery conditions will continue. the 7- day shows evening snow likely saturday. then, bitterly cold air comes for the weekend. sunday's high will only be 1 above zero, and we're headed for -13 monday morning. temperatures will very gradually warm next week. another chance of snow comes tuesday and thursday.

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