forecast is coming up - your news starts now. "announcer: "now live from kcau-tv in sioux city, iowa... this is abc9 news this midday.... " " jessica rae: good morning and thanks for joining us this midday. i'm jessica rae. today president sioux city stumping for his wife, presidental ...hillary clinton slipping in the a new poll shows she only has a two percent lead over

president bill clinton will be in iowa today and tomorrow campaigning. jessica rae: our own bria bell is out at morningside college. she joins us live with more. how's it going bria? bria jessica im here at the yockey room at morningside college, where former president bill clinton will be speaking in about half an hour. he has been out campiagning for his wife, hillary. most recently bill clinton made a swing through new hampshire. today's event in sioux city is the first of six stops in iowa for the former president. the iowa events are coming on the brink of some disheartening news for the clinton campaign. a new des moines register and bloomberg politics poll shows clinton's lead over bernie sandering in iowa has dropped. the poll shows clinton with just two more percent support that sanders. that's down 9 points just one month ago. sanders just announced another stop in sioux city next week, as he continues to focus on iowa. this clip was from a rally he " " bria as you can see, there is still a

there is still a great deal of support for the clinton campaign. hillary fans are waiting for bill clinton to take the stage at noon. i'll be back at five and six with more on the campaign event. live at morningside college, bria bell for a-b-c-9 news. jessica rae: iowa governor terry branstad says his decision to change iowa's medicaid system from state run to private, managed care was a neccessity. the governor sat down with our tim seaman for a one on one conversation... saying without the change... iowa's entire budget was at risk. " even with managed care our costs go up 46 million dollars next year. without it it would go up 150 million. 150 million is most of the growth we have in revenue so if we dont do this theres virtually nothing left for education or anything else in the budget," said governor branstad. jessica rae: iowa's medicaid roll out begins march 1st. it was delayed for roll out begins march 1st. it was delayed for 60 days following a request by federal officials.

coming off his state of the state address, nebraska governor pete ricketts made a stop in south sioux city yesterday. spreading the word on his plans going forward into 20-16 saying he'll be working on giving nebraskans relief from growing property taxes and increasing state funding for education. "that's a key part of 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. jessica rae: governor rickets says he doesn't plan to support legislation that involves gambling or marijuana... unless it is first approved by the f-d-a. jessica rae: donald trump is bringing his campaign back to siouxland... but that's stirring up a debate of its own.

make america great again ... that i can tell you ... we'll make it great again." jessica rae: donald trump is set to visit a concervative northwest iowa community next week. jessica rae: dordt college in sioux center will play host to the candidate... stirring up a bit of a controvery of its own. abc9 news reporter lukas voss tells us more about the reaction on social media... and why college administrators say they're opening their doors to donald trump. nat sot: "donald j. trump is calling for a complete shutdown of all muslims entering the united states" vo: it's statements like this that make donald trump interesting ... but also controversial. now dordt college has their own controversy with hundreds of people speaking out on social media against having the g-o-p frontrunner on campus ... the college however arguing that this is not about supporting a candidate." sot: "an invitation and an opportunity for our students educationally to have first hand access does not mean endorsement by the institution." the college responded to critism with an open letter by hoekstra .... sot/standup: "and this actually is the letter from the president to the

coices the school invite no candidates and have none of them on our campus. the second one is to allow every candidate in good standing equal acces to our campus and third one to pick and chose those who are worthy of having campus and those who are not. they eventually opted for number two for one specific reason. "we didn;t in terms of trying to pick and choose candidates that tradition or christian biblical perpective on things ... it was an open invitation." vo: the letter well received by the student body ... in part because it explains. sot: "because there are so many different oppinions of trump , president did a bery good job of what we are about and why we are allowing him to come." "we had so much backlash coming from it and i reallz enjozyed it mostly because we are taking a side ... and that side is going to be neutral." vo: but it's also about something more ... one thing students feel like their college stands for and should support no matter what. sot: "we need to be open to our peoples views and to allow everyone else to have their oppinions whether or not we agree with them we are still called to listen." " it's important that trump comes for the community to realize that there actually people that do believe in those ideas." vo: reporting from

news. jessica rae: staying on the topic of the donald he was on stage last night in south carolina for a pre-caucus debate. he doubled down on his questions about texas senator ted cruz's eligibility to serve as president, because he was born in canada. cruz accused trump of raising the issue only because polls are getting close in iowa. meanwhile, other candidates took aim at president obama... and hillary clinton. (sen. ted cruz/(r) presidential candidate): "the good news is, the next commander in chief is standing on this stage." (gov. chris christie/(r) presidential candidate): "you're worried most of all about keeping your

cannot give hillary clinton a third term." jessica rae: carly fiorina, rick santorum and mike huckabee took the undercard stage before hand. rand paul decided to boycott the event when he was eliminated from the main stage. jessica rae: big news today for folks looking to travel. mayor bob scott announced this morning american airlines will be adding service from sioux gateway airport to their hub in dallas fort worth, texas. the flights are set to begin on thursday may 5th. with dallas being a top destinaion for siouxlanders whether it be leisure or for buisness folks are getting addition jessica rae: the philanthropy council of northeast nebraska is the 5th annual philanthropy 6th us this story and more " "about 50 landowners and producers attended on the proposed rules and regulations for meters in the lower elkhorn natural the board is official action on and regulations at its jan. 28 meeting. the chief financial apparatus in snyder member of northeast community college's board of governors.

resigned his seat in stayed on until his colleagues on the board could appoint his replacement. jeff scherer of beemer took the oath of office the philanthropy northeast nebraska is hosting the 5th annual youth philanthropy contest feb. 6th. a panel of judges will award ten winners with $1,000 each to bring their projects to life. the contest application and rules can be found at the web page philanthropycouncil ne.org. those and more stories can be heard lite rock 97.5 and 106 kix. jessica rae: many siouxlanders wouldn't think neighbor... something like shoveling their driveway. but... a man from getting a lot of attention take a look at why... " st. paul resident always been active, something." learned a thing or two about work ethic over his long i was the only boy,

me to more or less do a man's job. after his father died when he was four, he around the house to snow shoveling was one of his duties. we always had two of snow for two weeks at a time." him much attention until now, nearly a century later. a shoveling his gone viral. his neighbor is overheard in the video summing the situation up (mann's neighbor) to a lot of people to get up, get out and get something" shoveling snow has richard's daughter showed him the video yesterday. 138,000 have seen it. that's a big number - that's getting up there. wish i could collect a dollar for each one. mann says he was just doing his neighbor a favor and not expecting anything in return, as he was taught growing up. i've always been active, doing something. mann is a father, grandfather and great-grandfather. he lost his first wife to cancer, and his second wife to alzheimer's disease. when asked the key to a long life, clean living, and wine, women and money [laughs]. it's that humor, work ethic and kindness. "that's why i think people appreciated

are so many things going on that are people are not being kind to each other. key to having a successful and 'i've had a quite a life" jessica rae: still to come... a woman in california is birthday, we'll have more, stay with us scott: " "

skycam hd. a cold front slashed through siouxland overnight with a few flurries and a big drop in temperatures. we're currently in the upper teens and lower 20s for temperatures. the wind is strong from the northwest between 15 and 25 miles per hour. here's your stormcast hd where we've got a cold friday in siouxland. a reinforcing cold front passes through tomorrow with a chance of light snow. then it'll be even colder on sunday with highs just over 0. we expect about 1 to 2 inches of snow to come through on saturday night. our

and a half of snow occurring saturday night and into early sunday morning. today's high is 20 with gradual clearing. tonight's low is 2. your high tomorrow is 12 under mostly cloudy skies with late snow. let's get a check of the full day forecast. jessica rae scott: jessica rae:

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california celebrated her 108th birthday stay tuned for the celebration

a california woman turned 108 years old thursday... and she got some from a local fifth grade class. " happy birthday to you!" jessica rae: florence montrond (mahn-trahn) had a birthday

residents from her nursing, and she was also visited by 30 elementary school students. those students held a important events during the eleven decades she's been alive. such as.... which presidents were elected .. popular movies and songs... sports achievements and even food. " (florence montrond/celebrati ng 108th birthday) "ohhh, that's wonderful. to see them ... it called to me. it brings back when i used to teach school and saw all these and did this with the children. cause they're great." jessica rae: montrond taught school into her 90s. the kids even surprised her with a personalized letter from president obama and the first lady. jessica rae: pasta is a family favorite but sometimes, it can be get a little boring. howard is here to bring you a pasta recipe that that is oh so cheesy. pkg " " mr. food test kitchen cheesy baked rigatoni friday 01-15-16 1:29 if you're a pasta fan, then you have to check out today's recipe. you might learn something new about pasta along the way. if you've walked down the pasta aisle in your supermarket

it seems like every week there is a new from. so how do we should use for what? well lighter pasta like angle hair, fine egg noodles and vermicelli are best that cling to the powering it. heartier fettuccini is perfect when teamed with a heavier cream sauce twists, elbows and shells, give us the flexibility to use want, since it gets into all those nooks and crannies . giving us tons of flavor in every bite. now penne, rigatoni and other tube- shaped pastas are suited perfectly for heartier sauces and baked cheesy dishes like the one we are making today. for that all we do is toss cooked rigatoni with some ricotta and mozzarella cheese and sliced mushrooms then layer it with tomato sauce and bake it off. when it's bubbling hot, we finish it with more cheese and what we end up with is a mouthwatering weeknight favorite that's packed with flavor. i do hope you'll go online and get the recipe for our, "cheesy baked rigatoni," so you'll have the perfect recipe waiting for you the next time you need something easy and filling from the pasta aisle. i'm howard in the mr. food test kitchen, where today we found a "cheesy way" for you to say . "ooh it's so good!!" jessica rae: coming up after

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