>> thank you for that.classes have been canceled today at every public school in the greater los angeles area... almost 12-hundreds schools with 640-thousand students... ... closed, after at least one school board member received an electronic bomb threat, sent late yesterday. the superintenden t says the threat was was made against students at many of the district's schools, so today, police are searching every single building. the los angeles unified school district is the second- largest school district in the nation, covering 720 square miles. school district officials are about to hold a news conference.. and we'll be going to it live as soon as it happens. storm lake police are filling in a few more details about the disappearance of two young siblings and

grandmother after the children were found safe. police say 3-year old ymani banks and d ne-year-old yamir banks were found at a home in alta about six 'o clock last night. witnesses told police the children were dropped off by another family member earlier monday. police say the witnesses were unaware of a court order that the children be turned oveveto authorities. the chchdren's father, 32- year-old scott banks and their grandmother, 50-year-old dionne pamon are both charged with kidnapping. they're accused of hiding the children from officials with the iowa department of human services. the children have been turned over to the custody of d-h-s. >

flood warning in effect for calhoun, carroll, sac & crawford counties until 10:45 a.m. today winter weather advisory for holt county from 6 am today until 1 pm wednesday winter weather advisory for yankton coty from 3 pm today until 3 pm wednesday later today, some, especially those in western siouxland could start to see a wintry mix of precipitation that will continue into tonight and tomorrow morning. holt county and its surrounding areas could see around 2-4 inches of snow by noon tomorrow with the rest of the viewing area only seeing around an inch or so of the white stuff as winds become strong. the rest of the week will be dry and cool with highs in the 20s and 30s through saturday with 40s returning sunday. see graphics. >> a familiar face of the democratic party made a stop in siouxland to campaign for presidential candidate, hillary clinton. ktiv's sarah te slaa has more from the morning of politics at a sioux city home.e.

made a stop in sioux city this morning. the democrat is talking to voters about why they should vote for hillary clinton. "hillary c cnton, she's about kids, she's about momsmsshe's about families that are trying to keep it together," says dean. at the house party, dean gave supporters two main reasons to vote for clinton, her decision making skills and her experience. "first, is she makes decision based on facts, not based on political reason or emotional reason and that is really important because when you are presesent, you better carerehat the facts are and the second is she e s been in the fight for working people, for middle class people for a very long time," says dean. he emphasized her record and says she's made change for average ericans. "she understand that the real problems in the country is that republicans have moved us toward a position to support the top 20 percent in expense of the other 80 percent. that is very dangerous for this country and we need to restore america to a position where the average perron has a chance agagin. money cannot equal speech or wealthy people will have everything," says dean. :51 "there's nobody that has the experience that she has," says tim bottaro, the host of the event. "back when she was just the first lady, you'd have to question, but she's so much part of what american needs."

dean ran for the democratic nomination for president in 2004. he's also served as chairman of the democratic national committee. he also making six other stops in iowa later today and tomorrow to campaign for clinton. round 5 of the republican presidential debates takes place tonight in las vegas. it will be the first faceoff for republicans in more than a month, and also the first since the attacks in france and california. trump still sits atop the gop field, but finds himself being challenged by senator ted cruz. cnn's dianne gallagher is in las vegas with a preview.

donald trump has a huge lead, at least in the national polls. he has crossed the 40-percent mark in a national poll from monmouth university. that's more thth the next three competitors combined. the polllng began last thursday, just days after trump announced his plan to temporarily ban muslims from entering the u-s. it's a move that may have gotten backlash, but as we've seen with trump before, that just strengthenen his support. take a look at this poll from abc news, suggesting nearly 60-percent of republicans back the proposal. it's no surprise to the billionaire businessman. (donald trump/(r) presidential candidate) "i have many friends that are muslims, and i will tell you, they are so happy that i did this." coming up fast on trump is texas senator ted cruz. a pair of polls shows him leading trump among iowa republicans. one of cruz's s ggest backers says polls are f fe, but the real test will be atathe convention. (rep steve king/g/) iowa) "i would say that they're

voters, the primary voters, an the iowa caucus-goers, so what matters in this, is about the nomination." if cruz does get the nomination, many critics say he's too conservative to win in the general election. (jeffrey toobin/legal analyst) "he is someone who believes, to the core of his being, that republicans fail when they move to the center." meanwhile, the rest of contenders will use the debate stage to try to win back

another gray day in siouxland. when will the sun be back? stay tuned for the forecast from meterologist ben dorenbach, up next. here's the live view from spencer, iowa, where it's cloudy and 38 degrees. anncr: when the attacks come here... ...the person behind this desk will have to protect your family. will he be impulsive and

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ben, just kind of a gray, drizzly, blah day.

will continue into tonight and tomorrow morning. holt county and its surrounding areas could see around 2-4 inches of snow by noon tomorrow with the rest of the viewing area only seeing around an inch or so of the white stuff as winds become strong. the rest of the week will be dry and cool with highs in the 20s and 30s through saturday with 40s returning sunday. see graphics.

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sioux city's indian hills shopping center has a new owner. the boys and girls home bought the property for about two-million dollars. officials say they'll reveal what they have planned for the site next spring. mayor bob b ott says he'll be speaking with boys and girls purchase. try and call him and see if there's anything the city can do, and see what's going on, but i've not been able...today was just a really busy day, we had a lot of things going on. but this week i'm going to try and call art and see if there's anything the city can do to helpp him in that process." said sioux city mayor bob scott. the boys and girls home has helped chldren and adults in siouhland for more than 100 years. still ahead... it's, nice if you're driving. not so nice if you want to going skiing. folks in minnesota are wondering... when will the snow

here's a live look at west lake okoboji from our okoboji skycam... some people at the university of iowa are calling for a name ange to their onlinenetudent information system. put the name iowa in front of the words "student information system" and the acronym is "isis". the system has been called isis for many years but in light of world events some want it changed, so

name officially in place by spring. however, at least one student thinks most people wouldn't think of terrorism when they log on. "i mean i feel like it's pretty obvious that the university of iowa is not standing with isis, the terror organization but i guess if you know we don't want to seem affiliated with it, if that's the case," said iowa university student, heidi aude. a university spokesperson said the university is seriously considering the acronym change. december has been much too warm for some people in minnesota. temperatures in minneapolis have been as high as 10 degrees above average. and weather watchers say the city is nearly 8 inches below average for snowfall so far this season. so how are winter r orts lovers coping? molly rosenblatt found out.

is probably some of the worst we've ever had actually." here at theodore wirth park in minneapolis, green grass is whererehe snow should be. the snow cat is camped out in the parking lot and the rope tow sits idle. (jamie neldner/ park and recreation mgr.) "we just need cooperation from a temperature standpoint. so it has to be in the mid to low twenties for about a week to ten days in order to accumulate to the standard for the cross-country skiing, the tubing and the snow shoeing." but mother nature isn't cooperating. (jamie neldner/ park and recreation mgr.) "snow would be wonderful, a nice base to ssart with." at finn sisu in st. papal, business is a bit slower than usual. and for high school ski teams, practice is nearly impossible. (paavo taipale/ski coach) "we can't practice the ski movements, the ski motions that are really critical tobeing good once we do get snow." with multiple races already canceled, coach paavo taipale is just hoping for the best... (paavo taipale/ski coach) "best case scenario -- if we get snow, skiable snow in the immediate future." >> that was molly rosenblatt reporting from minneapolis. the national weather service is calling for snow and sleet tonight for minneapolis -- but not much of it. ben's back to wrap the forecast.. after this.

forecast. thanks for joining us. have a great afternoon!

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