>> in a defining speech. president obama once credited the cornfields of iowa for spreading his message of hope and change that brought him to the white house. will the results of today's caucuses have the same impact for this year's group of presidential contenders. >> expected that the 2016 caucus will have a record- breaking number of people turning out and also for the gop candidates given the number of candidates vying for the nomination. the difference between first continuing or ending a campaign could come down to a small number of votes. our journalists are in iowa and will kick things off with moines. >> the count down is on and we will be getting results electronically later on. the time and money on the ground, this race is officially out of the candidate's hands. >> wow.

what a great -- look at this. >> it is decision day in iowa. >> i believe we will win. >> i will reunite the republican party. >> after ads and campaign stops it is down to the hour for the front runners. hillary clinton and chelsea rallying the groups convincing voters to caucus. >> i am so excited. i am feeling so energized. >> many voters admit that they can still be persuaded to change their minds. >> it will be a tough choice. >> i will see what i feel at the caucus. >> a tight race between clinton and her democrat opponent bernie sanders. >> if a lot of voters come up we will win. >> a new poll shows donald trump widening his lead over ted cruz. >> this is the day we take our

>> if donald trump were to pull it out tonight he will win over new hampshire and then win south carolina. it is difficult to stop. >> now donald trump has been here 28 days in iowa and not close to rick santorum and his numbers are nowhere near donald trump. the caucuses begin at 7:00 p.m. central. brandy hicks, abc news. back to you. all right. thank you, brandy. there is a good chance you can ask around and not find anyone to explain what it means to caucus. a group of students from right here in northeast ohio are becoming experts and our john kosic continues the coverage. tell us what you know. >> reporter: frank, since 1972 we know iowa is the starting line in the race for the white house. something we learned about in school and caught up with northeast ohio kids and taking that lesson to a new level.

not your typical setting but this is not the typical set. students from three northeast ohio schools are here not to only observe but to be part of the caucus. >> they have picked campaigns to work for. donald trump campaign and rubio and sanders and clinton. >> the students are watching it to figure out who they wanted to back. >> i am kind of drawn because i like the ideas from the democrat and republican party but i think i will campaign for donald trump. >> she was not alone. the donald in columbus and politics. >> donald trump walked out of the room and i cried because i love donald trump. >> two months later in davenport calling people to the forum. >> to the people that picked up, we were saying high, do you support donald and they hung up. >> high schoolers representing

>> the cost of the trip was over one hundred bucks. >> we solicited donations from elected officials in geauga county and that reduced the cost. newberry principal's son was the first to do this in 2008 >> they are politically active and engaged. >> that's the result they were looking for then and now. speaking of results, governor john kosic's results in the low single digits and coming up at six. we will take a look at that decision to kind of skip iowa and go all in on new hampshire. reporting live in des moines. john kosic newschannel 5. the presidential candidates and those in ohio, the ohio students we are talking about in iowa today. but governor john kosic is not. ahead of the game campaigning in the next primary state. talking about new hampshire. he is not expected to do so well in iowa.

hampshire he was in second place. newschannel 5 will take you back to iowa tonight at six and 11. and by the way. you can track it for yourself on our app. download it, it is free. i think had this experience. playing dodge 'em with a pothole. our leon bibbs has more. >> some drivers traveling cleveland have hit potholes deep enough to jar a car's frame and the driver's nerves. this is the story of cleveland potholes that remain in the valley of despair. some holes are so deep they are dangerous. cleveland's plan to fix them sometimes seem to push the curb. some drives have called the 311

potholes but drivers need repairing. weeks later after news channel 5 got involved. we pushed to get the giant pothole at carnegie patched. the man in charge of the city's snow removal and patching the director of public works michael cox. with the lightweight snow season why couldn't workers with no snow fall fill potholes faster. >> we don't convert all of our snow falls every day. we may have 6 or 7 trucks to do asphalt. we have to do the inserts and we don't want to take them out and then get snow. >> we have a lot of work to do. my hope this is a we will continue to put the pressure on us so that we can put the pressure on the administration. >> the cycle of freeze and thaw

drivers to apply the breaks if they are fast afoot on the pedal. the city will reimburse drivers that cars are damaged but there is a catch. the city must first be notified through its 311 system that indeed there is a pothole there. a cleveland man is recovering tonight after he was shot while trying to buy a pair of shoes. it happened late last night on east 146th street in the mount pleasant neighborhood. police say the 23-year-old victim drove to a home to purchase the shoes. when he arrived, two unknown men robbed and shot him. no arrests have been made. cleveland police are investigating a hit-and-run along i-90. officers say a highly intoxicated woman was walking in the westbound lanes near mckinley and hit by a four-door sedan that happened last night. the driver fled to the scene

fractured pelvis and head injuries. all three fugitives from a california jail break are back behind bars. >> broke out of a los angeles jail a week-and-a-half ago after elaborate escape. chris flanagan is like with information. two of the convicts are captured saturday morning after a man in san francisco alerted police officers that he saw the stolen van they were using. we have the video of the two men being taken to jail. early sunday morning. the other fugitive 43-year-old back tan wong was taken to custody friday morning in sanna anta near la after he asked a worker to call the police. we received the 911 call. take a listen. santa ana police. 911. >> hi. i'm calling about buck wong. he wants to turn himself. he is scared and he asked me to call. >> he is not armed or anything. he just wants to turn himself in. >> that's okay. tell him not to be afraid. we appreciate that he is

i need him to understand that i have a lot of police officers on the way. and i need him when he sees them, i will need him probably to keep his hands up. >> and the day before wong turned himself in the jail's english teacher was arrested. she may have helped them by giving them a google map. one of the fugitives took her english class even though he spoke given was a tip-off. >> sunshine all over the place. what is the word. >> news chopper 5 from friend 1st and do you see any ice on that beautiful lake? do you. i do not. there's very little ice to cover up lake erie on february 1st. it means lake-effect snow open for business. frank has got two shovels now. another. take a look. we got a beautiful sunset over downtown cleveland.

excellent job by the air tracker five. here is a blizzard warning in effect. our john kosic is in des moines under a winter storm warning. if you are listening and going to stay until tomorrow morning, you are going to stay through wednesday. just say it. if you get out of there tonight, you will be okay. the nearest storm is here. it will be moving in late and then this storm system will move up towards green bay and milwaukee and we are talking six to twelve inches of snow and blizzard conditions for half of the state of iowa. for us. look at this. quiet weather. we are seeing increasing amounts of clear coming our way. we will have a mainly clear to partly cloudy overnight sky. temperatures right now, lower and middle 40s and your hour by hour, we will keep you in the lower and middle 30s and partly cloudy skies. i got wind and snow on the seven-day forecast coming up.

the ohio officer was killed. charges are finally filed and that's not the only new development. what police reveal about the suspect this afternoon. a retired officer here in ohio is cast in a new light after his police department revealed new information about his fight to keep his canine partner. >> a man takes out a billboard looking for a kidney donor and

helped to save his live. an indiana school reopened. one week after its principal hit and kill by a school bus. investigating the accident but say susan jordan pushed students out of the way. jordan was buried in her hometown of henderson, kentucky. more than 1,000 people attended the memorial services. today two virginia tech engineering students were in kidnapping charges. year-old girl. the police say nicole lowell climbed out of her bedroom window and her body was found four days later but they don't

david eisenhower is accused of killing her and another person helped to dispose of the body. an amtrak report just released but what caused the derailment unexplained. there is information about the fatal may 12th derailment. the documents posted online and by the ntsb includes interviews for the train's engineer. he says he has no recollection of the moments before it. the engineer has been cooperative. among the documents are transcripts of two interviews that investigators have had with him. they say the engineer hit his head in the crash and doesn't recall what happened. he has provided a cell phone and investigators say there is no indication that he was using it while operating the train. the train was heading from washington to new york city and went on a curve in philadelphia.

twice the 50 miles per hour speed limit. a historic change. israel approved a people place to have men and women pray together at the wall. this is a liberal wall for liberal judaism. another consequence of the refugee consequence oversea. ten thousand ten reported missing. an agency says the children migrated to europe. suspected smugglers have reported to maybe have intercepted and the children may be slaves. so desperate a need in a billboard in wayne county. a donor.

billboard. our bob jones learned she decided to donate after seeing the story on newschannel 5. i would say she is special. just stepping up. this unusual billboard popped up along i-30 urging anyone to give up a kidney. both of jim's kidneys are failing. >> i have cysts on the kid kidney. >> the story touched kathy. >> i saw the story on news net 5 and thought about it. >> and couldn't stop thinking about it. >> something drew me that i can't explain. >> kathy wanted to give up a kidney and email jim and

>> fear should not make you not help others. >> before testing kathy was told she has less than a one percent chance of being a match but against all odds she was and went forward with the surgery at the cleveland clinic. >> she said i am all in. i just want to do this. i want to help you save your life. >> the two have become very close. like family. the transplant scheduled for this wednesday. >> it is incredible sacrifice. >> i think that jim deserves to see his kids get married and a grandchild. >> kathy knows there is ris ks and knows she has a packup plan. a twin sister. >> my twin sister has one warm should i need it. >> was it a sign that kathy came in to jim's life. >> much more. >> she is an incredible person. >> that will make you smile

encouragement. >> one hundred percent. nice job. >> i got a scare cam with sunshine if you want to see that. >> the lake looks beautiful. >> not a bad weekend. 50s and we are ending the monday, the first day of february. it looks like spring. >> early april. wooster and wayne county. blue skies. the days are staying longer two minutes per day. mentor. saint abe's school looking west in downtown mentor and the sun is shining and skies are clearing out. that is the trend unless you are here. this is the winter storm. no warnings or advisories for heavy snow east of chicago. east of st. louis. that is where you and i are. we are on the warm side and we

winter weather at least not for the coming few days. here we go. cleveland, live radar. power of five live doppler. no rain had a little rain overnight and we dried out. moving in from the west. and the clearing cam will continuing a few clouds and all and all. nice weather. quiet weather. 44 canton and 46 akron and mid- 40s peninsula. and barberton. 36 downtown. 39 degrees kirkland and chardin and 31 at hopkins airport and 44 canton and 44 for ashtabula and as well as mansfield. for the greater cleveland. 32 degrees mainly clear skies by 9:00 p.m. wear the coats. all right? akron and canton the same story. lower middle 30s by 9 p.m. staying dry.

the low and this thing gets going. and six to 12-inches of blizzard conditions around milwaukee and iowa. warm side for you and me. that means scattered rain showers and the front moves in and yes wednesday morning we have the potential for high winds out there. some wind gusts 30 to 40 miles per hour. what is next on the mild side? 50s tomorrow and probably wednesday. and staying windy tomorrow night and here is the weather alert. tuesday night into wednesday morning. for high winds and rain. winds are the main problems. 30 to 40 miles per hourguses and rain likely and power impacted maybe by wednesday morning. something we are watching carefully. 29 and cloudy skies and dry and chilly. let's show you tomorrow. 52. any complaints.

dogs in the parking lot. what do you think? some late rain showers. back to lee and frank. still ahead. tax season is upon us. that means tax scams are afoot. why the scams are expected to be worse. coming up at six. incredible body cam video. look at that after officers

allegedly high on lsd on a crime spree. all right. jason it is time for the teacher of the week. >> every monday honoring a local teacher. and this week's winner a music teacher in mennaway. >> this week's newschannel 5 teacher of the week, we travel to crestwood in manaway. that's where the 2nd grade

the surprise honor. >> i am here to present mrs. gilis with a news channel 5 teacher of the week award. >> totally honored and shocked. >> that was our goal. >> well, thank you very much. >> tameka hale presented jenny gilis with a special gift congratulations. >> if you would like to head to newsnet5.com/teacher. thank you. >> one officer's story. not quite what it seems. the marietta police department respond after one retired officer campaigned to keep his attention.

potentially deadly overdose is pharmacy.

all new at five. a look at our top stories. voters in iowa will gather in two-and-a-half hours to decide which candidate to vote for. the voting is started. record turnout is expected for tonight's caucuses. download the news net 5 app for results. results after a massive pothole after carnagie street and asking questions when it was not fixed. we checked and it is patched. the city by the way will reimburse drivers for cars damaged and potholes only if

surgery that could save his life. a viewer with a big heart. kathy mendez saw our story about jim taking his search for a kidney donar and kathy contacted jim and the surgery is now set for wednesday. new at five a national drugstore chain took a big role in the war of drugs. tracy carloss has more. what c v s is doing. >> joining with the state attorney general to carry the drug narcan. the anecdote is increasingly available to the public in epidemic continues and administered at inhaler or with an injection and can reverse the effects of the drug. ohio safety records show it was around the state. last year alone.

this being a crutch for those addicted to the drug. doctors say they are pleased with the decision. >> i think it is a very good idea. any increase in accessibility of the anecdote will make it available for when they are at risk for overdose. >> it will be available with a doctor's prescription. we are the 12th state in the country to over the life saving drug. all right. thank you, tracy. the man accused of killing an ohio police officer can face the death penalty. if convicted. charged with stealing cottrel's weapon after shooting jones in the head. le face a competency hearing

>> a new canine officer began a debut with ryan davis. a texas charity donated tuco after he lost his partner jeffro during an armed robbery. after the training he will patrol with davis on the overnight shift. the fight over the future of another canine have captivated people in the country. a debate about what to do with ajax. leon bibbs, the city says the city did not need to go this far. >> what has happened since marietta officer has retired. a letter right here, a little story. when police officer hickey announced he was retiring. he wanted his partner ajax to retire but ajax is live and because of state law he is set

that news set off social media fire storm and people sounding off started a go fund me account. city leaders held a news conference to respond. they said they offered officer hickey a compromise that allowed him to keep ajax. the retiring hickey would become an auxilliary member of the police force and work special events. leaders said that hickey could have ended it all before it started and as reported in columbus things have escalated quickly. the marietta ohio law director has been threatened and his email has been hacked. in the meantime officer hickey was at the conference today and denied he was offered auxillary police officer's job. lee. leon, thank you. let's go to chief meteorologist mark johnson. the days are getting a little longer. >> guess what? >> what. >> two days away from the

45 days ago. not so shabby so far. look at how mild we are. 43 on february 1st. 46 in akron and 44 in canton. 39 currently in mentor and 42 for ashland. uh-huh. let's show you. we don't have rain or snow. we will deal up the cloud map and satellite. rain moving away and clearing things out. i'm thinking a pretty decent evening for stargazers and if you are going out out and about, will you want to wear fall coats for temperatures falling by sunrise. we are not done with 50-degree temperatures. i don't think the ground hog will need a coat when he wakes up and i will tell you when he comes back, whether the ground hog will see his or her shadow coming up. well some fear this could be a first step towards

we have a historic decision about the gene editing science. >> do you know where your money is going when you make a donation.

lottery numbers. >> most everyone has a little extra spring in their step after the warm weekend and not a bad day today. we are getting sunset via social media so my world of weather is about sunset from jms, 3160 via facebook. grant willis catching a sunset, looking good and finally this is shat field lake sunset. excellent job. love seeing it and get outside and notice signs of springs. mark jayweather on twitter.

see you picture when we come back. turning to a major held story making head lines. a landmark decision about a line of experimentation that some warn could lead to designer babies. scientists in britain have approval to edit it in human embryos.

in the u.s. there is no federal funding allowed for gene editing but no outright band. chipotle's stock soared after the cdc declared the e. coli outbreak over. the cause unknown. several customers including ohio reported getting sick after eight at chipotle restaurants. to win back customers chipotle is planning deep discounts for the upcoming superbowl weekend. next monday the chain will close all of its restaurants for food safety readings for employees. bedbugs. nightmares. chemicals used to fight it are failing. a new study found bedbugs becoming increasingly resistant to insecticide. there is nonchemical methods such as heat and steam may be used to combat bedbugs infestation. tonight an important consumer alert about how you

warrior project and how much money goes to helping veterans and that has other charities worried that people may become more stingy about sharing their money. we are wondering how to tell how a charity is spending cash. there are two great web sites that can tell you how the charity money is going. there's give dot.org. run by the better business bureau.

96 of the money is given to gives 64%. scams and according to multiple media reports it could delay your tax returns. there is a new plan in place to your social security number. and using it to file a bogus return. but that could mean the irs takes it longer to process your return. as dominic explains there are ways to avoid it and others after your tax refund. the start of tax filing season means the start of tax scam season and this year the scams are intended to be worse than ever. last week kathy loomis fell victim for a tax scam. someone filed under her social security number and she had to prove who she was. >> file early before a scammer tries to file under your name.

chances of filings that they may step in and file a bogus return. >> now here is tax scam number two and this one affects a lot of people. an email from the irs or appears to be. it is a scam to steal your social security number. >> the irs does not contact taxpayers by email. >> and tax scam three. the irs phone call scam where a caller threatens with arrest unless you pay immediately. martin got the call last year. >> he gave me a name and stated that he was from the u.s. treasury. >> the irs would not be threatening immediate arrests. >> if you get that call as thousands have, hang up. scammers getting more creative. a great idea to file as soon as possible.

that way you won't have to make a correction later. here is something you won't see every day. check this out. we can show you we are talking about a police officer and driver in florida flipped the script. a miami woman says she saw a speeding squad car. there it is and instead of holding back, she chased the officer down. and began recording the whole encounter on her cell phone. she followed that officer until she got him to pull over. you are leaving me behind and i was going 80 miles per hour and i just want to know what is the emergency? >> i don't know how fast i was going. but i can tell you i am on the way to work right now. i don't believe i was speeding. the video has gone viral and shows the officer.

by the way miami dead police investigating the matter. how many people have gotten tickets on their way to work. >> and the weather not affecting you too much because of the great weather. >> the idle snow shovel. >> don't worry. >> i am warned. >> you are warned. no snow shovels for a while. a live look at mentor sun going down and let's see what else. switching over to downtown cleveland. and once again, i'll put it in time lapse mode and watch the trend. we will see clouds in and out. what a beautiful evening in northern ohio. but here is the elephant in the room. should we talk about it.

mid section. it will dump six to 12-inches of snow and blizzard conditions, nebraska and colorado through iowa and wisconsin and michigan. we are on the warm side. so for us, i would expect rain showers for us in the later part of the day and pretty good winds tomorrow night into wednesday. i think the main impacts, rain and wind for northern ohio and chillier air for thursday and friday. we are dry for now. wherever you want to go. no worries. in fact this is your evening outside. we will enjoy some outstanding clear sky action. everyone will clear out. in fact greater cleveland and dover new philly and akron and canton. the first night of the overhalf

in all looking good. 40 norwalk and 48 in ravenna. your hour by hour, temperatures in the upper 20s. lower 30s as you begin your day tomorrow morning. and look. we are jumping right back up. i'm thinking low to mid-50s for highs for many of you. in fact we will track them hour by hour. tomorrow we are starting off at freezing and look at the temperatures. you notice the rain showers coming in. late afternoon and evening and lingering in tomorrow night and things getting windy. hold onto the garbage can lids. 9 and partly cloudy and chilly and should be dry. tomorrow 54 and clouds thickening up. tomorrow night especially wednesday morning is when the rains are most likely. tonight 28 for canton and slightly breezy. tomorrow 53. late day showers. wednesday, showers and maybe late snow by late in the day

starting off in the morning in the mid-50s and falling temperatures. 32 on thursday. normal stuff, 34 on friday. but back in the lower 40s saturday and sunday. frank and lee. >> all right, thank you lee. >> a high school student found half naked and covered in blood. >> the disturbing scene. brand new details about what happened. why police are so worried. from the rnc, cleveland facing millions of expenses this year and learning how much taxpayers will be paying. >> the live on 5 returns. instant romance. the couple meets in person

how the unlikely path to the altar started online. a blind man nearly rowly escapes a fire.

the picks show how intense the blaze was. roger was home alone making breakfast when he realized that his health was on fire. his son says his fire struggled to call for help. >> the intense amount of heat once he opened the front door. he retreated in the house and grabbed his phone and attempted to call 911. when that failed he realized he needed to get out of the house immediately. >> the home is considered a total loss. >> the cause of the fire is under investigation. a california mother marries the man of her dreams seconds after she meets him for the first time in person. they met on instagram last march. communicating ever since on friday van bought a one-way plane ticket to the ontario airport in california. shortly after landing van met up with harris and moments later they explained vows. the newlyweds have advice all

>> don't listen to your thoughts. don't listen to your head. follow your heart and soul. >> for anybody that doesn't believe in fairytales who am i. it can happen to you. >> isn't that a song? >> there is a lot of songs, frank. okay. that's a good profile. this person saying she is married to the man of her dreams and van says she is the love of his life. >> sounds good for now. doesn't it? >> that's it for live on 5. >> let's go to chris and danita. >> we begin with a scene from a horror movie. >> a teen covered in blood. >> and now someone says he was high. and the homeowner watched the entire scene unfold. >> governor john kaisch in iowa.

live in des moines with the