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expect at the upcoming rose bowl. nikki president obama will address the country tonight on the california terror attack. nikki and new details are being released about the home invasion that left one person dead and sent two to the hospital. "local 5 news at 5:30 in hd starts now. we are iowa " nikki: good evening. welcome to local 5 news, i'm nikki davidson. glad you're with us tonight. nikki: for the first time in nearly 25 years, the iowa hawkeyes are heading to the rose bowl! the announcement was made this afternoon. local 5's jordan furbee is live in iowa city with more. jordan? jordan/tvu saturday night the hawkeyes lost out on a chance to head to the college football playoff. now a little more than 12 hours they receive the ultimate consolation prize and will head to the granddaddy of them all. the rose bowl. they'll take on pac12 champ stanford new years day out in pasadena california what a roller coaster ride of emotions for hawkeyes and their fans last night doom and gloom now everything is coming up roses.
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hawks fans, this time last year iowa was getting ready for the taxslayer bowl. now new kirk and the new hawks will play on new years day nikki: senator joni ernst got in on the hawkeye excitement... and attempted to show them her support... last night she tweeted out "congratulation s on the win" ..... only problem of course... is they lost to michigan state in the big 10 championship, about ten minutes later she deleted her tweet and sent out this tweet quote "sorry for staff error. hawkeye football had a
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extraordinary effort tonight." end quote... you just never know whats going to happen on social media... nikki: new details have been released about a deadly home invasion that happened in des moines this weekend... we now know the names of the people involved... police say 31 year old travis alan williams of earlham died.. it happened after an altercation occured inside a home at 20-20 east 14th street in the early morning hours saturday... residents inside the home told police that they did not know williams and he had broken into their home.... nikki: police identified 19-year old ali cano and 18- year old whitney campbell of des moines as the residents inside at the time. an altercation then took place three... killing williams... police say teenage girls did not walk away from the incident unharmed. sgt. joseph frentress, des moines police department: "not officially the homeowner, but some people that were living there, they did go to the hospital with the injuries they received from fighting with this individual." nikki: an autopsy will l be conducted in the coming days to determine the williams's death
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conclude their investigation , it will be presented to the county attorney for review. this is the city's 20th homicide this year. nikki a sauna on iowa state campus caught fire this morning... closing down a school gym for a period of time... ames firefighters were called to the isu state gym at 10:20 this morning. flames and smoke could be seen coming from the facility's sauna. fire crews were able to put out the flames with fire extinguishers and completely removed the sauna from the building. crews were on scene for an extended period of time ventilating the building due to its size. no one was injured and the cause of the fire is still under investigation. nikki: there could soon be good news for parents living in rural school districts. the iowa association of school boards recently made a presentation to the state legislature about a plan that could fully fund school transportation outside of the general fund. instead of taking the money from the general education fund allotted for each district, it would come from other sources across the state. board members say it could really help improve academic
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galen howsare, deputy executive director for iasb: "as we're trying to create and encourage districts to improve their schools, it's only reasonable to expect that they should have a level playing field when it comes to the resources to help them try to achieve those results." nikki: the board has considered changing the formula for nearly five years now. coming up tonight at ten, we'll take a look at one of the school districts that's rooting for the proposal and what it could mean for the future. nikki/ots tomorrow is pearl harbor remembrance day. governor branstad has ordered flags lowered to half staff. the order applied to all flags on display in the capitol complex, public buildings, and facilities across the state. businesses, schools, and homeowners are also encouraged to fly the flag at half-staff as a sign of respect. this year marks the 74th anniversary of the japanese attack on the naval station in hawaii. nikki/lam tonight, president obama addresses the country from the oval office. the topic-- terrorism, in the aftermath of the deadly attack in california.
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nats "we have gunshots" the terror attack in san bernardino is forcing law enforcement officials and the intelligence community to wrestle with possibility of new, unpredictable homegrown terror threats - threats that are prompting president obama to give a rare oval office address to a shaken nation. sot loretta lynch, u.s. attorney general "i think he'll talk about the actions we've taken not just since 9/11 but since paris to help keep the american people and american interests safe." the president huddled with his top national security advisers on saturday, as the fbi is investigating computer and phone files to figure out if the two shooters reached out to isis or other radicals before the attack. sot james comey, fbi director "we have hundreds of people running down leads all over the world on this / / the fbi also raided the home of enrique marquez, the man believed to have supplied syed farook with two high-powered
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people. sot dorian, neighbor "i woke up to a loudspeaker phone saying residents of 3838 please come out with your hands up." sot freddy escamilla, neighbor "that's when i heard the windows crashing, the garage door being pulled, doors being broken down." officials been unable to talk to marquez as he's checked himself into a mental hospital shortly after the massacre. but an fbi crime scene reconstruction team is using lasers to retrace every bullet fired in a room that bears horrible memories for survivors. sot regina kuruppu, witness "it was scary. it was really really scary." "i saw two bodies laying on the floor in a puddle of blood." elizabeth hur standup close: "and tonight.. the president's speech comes as fbi agents are fanned across the country and the world.. urgently hunting for answers. elizabeth hur, abc news, new york." nikki: former president jimmy carter announced today that he is cancer-free. carter said in a statement that his most recent m-r-i brain scan did not show any signs of the original cancer spots or any new ones.
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that he will continue to get regular 3-week health treatments. his announcement comes four months after telling the public cancer had spread to his brain. nikki: coming up on local 5 news at 5:30... it's been called the holy grail of shipwrecks... discovered deep in the sea. we'll tell you how much the treasure on this warship that went down 300 years ago is worth. nikki: and.... the warmer temperatures made it the perfect day for a winter jog.... we'll show you some of the costumes in today's jingle bell run.
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jewelry were found on a warship that went down 300 years ago. abc'5 sara haines has the story. feast your eyes on what could be billions of dollars in sunken treasure? experts speculate these images to be gold, silver and jewels researchers have been combing the sea floor to discover! it's been called the holy grail of shipwrecks - the san jose - sunken more than 300 years ago! in a mighty battle - what we imagine would be like this one from 'pirates of the carribean' nats - pirates caribbean clip pirates and cannon sound the three-deck ship sank in 1708 during heavy fighting with the british off the coast of cartagena ? sparkling coins captured in this image surrounding the ship, buried far below the ocean's surface ?(photo) along side ceramic and porcelain vases and personal weapons the treasure thought to be worth anywhere from $4 to $17 billion dollars making it the most valuable shipwreck in the western hemisphere? researchers using sonar imaging similar to the opening scene in titanic, to identify the ship, by its brass cannons marked with a distinctive dolphin insignia...(photo) nats - titanic celebration when ship is found described as one of the greatest finds of underwater heritage in the history of
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nikki: the snow may be gone, but the christmas spirit is still alive in downtown des moines. the science center of iowa's jingle bell rock n' run took place this morning. around 150 people dressed up in festive costumes across the streets of downtown for the 5-k. the money raised in today's run goes towards education programs hosted by the science center. "so there are all kinds of great costumes. we have a few santas, a few elves. we also have a christmas tree and we have an angel. lots of cool costumes. it's fun to see peoples creativity." nikki: everyone who participated also got to enjoy a hot breakfast and a live concert. nikki/2shot we are iowa's most accurate weather team... meteorologist
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local 5 news has a way for you to help right here at home this holiday season. help us can hunger. on friday, december 11th.. come to the fareway store on 86th and meredith from 8 am until close at 9pm. we'll be collecting all food donations. they will go directly to the food bank of iowa to help our neediest right here in central iowa for christmas and well into 2016. we are iowa and we give back to the community. nikki/three shot jon joins us now-- and a tough loss last night but still reason to celebrate today. jordan: yeah nikki-- not an easy one to get over last night but coming up on local 5 sports the hawkeyes will have to move on quickly as they get
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with jordan furbee. we are iowa sports" jon: welcome back-- it was a heartbreaking finish last night for hawkeye nation. iowa lost a last minute score by michigan state knocking them out of the playoff picture. not an easy loss to swallow-- but iowa proved they belong among the best in the conference. "it was an opportunity for us and i believe that we should be proud of how we played today. played a terrific game all four quarters just ran out of time. it came down to the wire. we showed that we're a good team. that we can compete with the top teams in the country so we definitely still proved people wrong but could have been a little bit better if we won this one.
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doubted us but we never doubted ourselves we knew we had the ability to go out there and compete and win that was our goal going into this game and we just came up short. we played tough but playing tough doesn't win ball games. we're going to take this loss and regroup it and use it as an advantage in the next game and move on to it and correct our mistakes. what's the goal for this team now? just win the next game wherever it may be. pasadena. i don't know where else we're projected at but wherever the next bowl game is our goal is to win that and go 13-1. " jon: there was some concern that iowa could get there was some concern that iowa could get left out of the rose bowl-- but today the committee made the right decision to put them into the 102nd rose bowl-- their first appearance since 1991. that sets them up against pac-12 champs stanford-- and believe it or not-- stanford was the loser in the first ever rose bowl back in 1902. ferentz and the team spoke with media today in iowa city about their upcoming trip to pasadena. "(kirk ferentz) it's just great medicine for us because as you might imagine it was a quiet it was amazing getting off that bus just going into the hotel. this game affected everybody certainly but i got that sense in the morning and coming over and
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when everybody got the news today they were all picked their spirits up and that will help us all move forward and that's something we are all going to have to do here this week at some point. (cj beathard) we wanted to win last night we wanted to be in that playoff picture but we played really well and really tough and i'm proud of the guys for playing like that but this is the next best deal you cant get better than that and yea we are happy to be where we are at. (jordan lomax) right it's the rose bowl it doesn't get better than that and we are also playing another high level opponent so it's going to be a great competitive game . (austin blythe) i know guys are excited to go play in a bowl game like this um this one stilll stings but at the same time we are excited to go play a good team in the rose bowl. "
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will be played january first in pasadena.. kickoff set for 4:10 central time. iowa proved their worth in the big ten last night-- now i think this will be an even better gauge of where the hawkeyes stack up national. stanford touts a heisman candidate in running back christian mccaffery. a great test for the hawkeyes so we have just over 3 weeks from the rose bowl. in womens hoops today. the iowa state cyclones take down southern 86 to 46. meredith burkhall with 18 points today and 8 rebounds. jadda buckley added 16 more. seanna johnson another double- double--12 points 14 rebounds and tack on 6 assists. jon/2shot nikki: we'll be right back... you're watching local
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feast your eyes on these.... they may be the clearest close- ups of pluto's surface humans have seen decades, according to nasa. the black and white images show craters, mountains and terrain along a strip some 50 miles wide. although their spacecraft sped past pluto this past summer, nasa says it will take about a year to transfer all of the photos and data. bree skies are very slowly clearing from west to
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clearing from west to east across the state and will continue to do so overnight. temperatures will settle into the 20s in western iowa where skies clear out first and 30s for eastern iowa where clouds will linger into the morning hours. fog will begin to develop late night tonight into early tomorrow morning. once the fog clears, sunshine coupled with a southerly breeze at 5 to 15 mph will take over and warm us back into the 50s in central and southern iowa with northern iowa getting into the 40s. the week ahead looks to be mainly dry with the thermometer sitting well above average in the 50s all week. several days look to be windy, particularly thursday through the end of the week. the pattern looks to switch next weekend as temperatures return closer to the 30s we would expect for december, so get out and enjoy this short break from cold!
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