have a great day, take a littstart with your forecast first." sam yesterday ended up being absolutely gorgeous with our highs topping out in the upper 30s and even 40 here in the metro. if you loved that, then break out the shorts and tee shirts because we're going even warmer today! expect mostly sunny skies with a breezy southwest wind and highs in the upper 40s across central iowa. unfortunately a cold front tonight is going to send temperatures falling fairly quick this evening as the winds switch out of the northwest and lows fall into the 20s. friday looks like a cold with temperatures falling fairly steadily through the day with lots of wind. there may be a few snow showers in the morning in northwest and central iowa friday, but any accumulation would be very limited. saturday looks like another very cold and windy day with highs in the low teens but wind chill values in the single digits. another light snow is likely late saturday through the evening although at this point it looks as if any accumulation would stay under an inch. sunday is the coldest day we've got coming with lows below and a high barely above zero. next week looks fairly cold again with a few snow chances mixed in. elias: also coming up on local five news midday.... a recent tragedy in waukee has pushed a family to help educate the community on the dangers of suicide. elias: three winners for the powerball jackpot. we'll take a look

on spending your lottery winnings, coming up. elias: but next, we'll look into why four melcher- dallas police officers turned in their badges and how the city is trying to help. "local 5 news midday in hd starts now. we are iowa" elias: good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday...i'm elias johnson. elias: local 5 is arriving on the scene of a structure fire in west des moines. it's on southeast juliann road. we'll be sure to arriving on the scene of a structure fire in west des moines. it's on southeast juliann road. we'll be sure to bring you more information as we receive it. - elias: a major development in the joe lopez trial wednesday... elias: due to comments made by a witness, the judge halted proceedings....de claring it a mistrial. the 25-year-old lopez faces first degree murder and child endangerment charges. he was arrested in december 2014 after ... 20 month old ruby alvarez died at blank children's hospital. the toddler had a skull fracture and broken ribs. it was comments from ruby's mom on the stand that caused the mis-trial, ...and a

scheduled. elias: projects under oversight committee projects could of iowa....the owners. pipeline and and an overhead called the rock that would take energy from illinois and farther east. make property concern. "21:42 it affects 1500 a decision that affets farmland. it's a huge decision that has bipartisan interest." elias: it's up to the iowa utilities board to make a decision on both projects. they are reviewing evidience and public input, but have not given a timeline for when they will approve or disapprove of the projects. elias: a marion county town finds itself almost without a police force... elias: four of the six melcher dallas part-time police officers handed in resignations this week. city leaders are

sudden resignations. they say scheduling conflicts led to the officers resigning.. the city held a special meeting to brainstorm what to do next. "the police chief was sitting there the mayor and the councilers were setting up a meeting with him to go over his hours because we're a new council the next thing he got up and said i resign and we never had a chance to say wheres the car he went out that door. " elias: right now, the marion county sheriff's office is watching over marion county sheriff's office is watching over the city. and it will stay that way, as the city council decided to let the sheriff's office control the situation. elias: a lawsuit filed by des moines water works will be heading to the state's highest court... water works filed suit against sac, calhoun, and buena vista counties....claimi ng county officials failed to manage nitrate levels

they claim that caused nitrate levels in the raccoon and des moines rivers to skyrocket. the district court judge said that because this is a first of it's kind case, that all parties should get the highest authority to rule on the case. elias: meteorologist sam schrier joins us again with a look at your forecast. sam weather adlib: yesterday ended up being absolutely gorgeous with our highs topping out in the upper 30s and even 40 here in the metro. if you loved that, then break out the shorts and tee shirts because we're going even warmer today! expect mostly sunny skies with a breezy southwest wind and highs in the upper 40s across central iowa. unfortunately a cold front tonight is going to send temperatures falling fairly quick this evening as the winds switch out of the northwest and lows fall into the 20s. friday looks like a cold with temperatures falling fairly steadily through the day with lots of wind. there may be a few snow showers

but any accumulation would be very limited. saturday looks like another very cold and windy day with highs in the low teens but wind chill values in the single digits. another light snow is likely late saturday through the evening although at this point it looks as if any accumulation would stay under an inch. sunday is the coldest day we've got coming with lows below and a high barely above zero. next week looks fairly cold again with a few snow chances mixed in. elias: anyone who's ever lost a dog knows how it can be. almost anything to recover their lost pet, including flyers and rewards. now there's a new app that uses the latest technology to help families recover their four-legged friends. misha dibono reports.

follows-- an animal shelter is the last place you want to see your pet. but if he or she does get lost, thanks to a new app called finding rover - families have a new tool right on their smartphones to quickly find them. (daniel desousa/san diego county animal services) "finding rover is facial recognition app." here's how it works. once you download the app to your smart phone or tablet, you take a picture of your pet and it's scanned into the system. (daniel desousa/san diego county animal services) "the public can use to register their dog, and if the dog ever runs away, they can post that their dog has been lost." using facial recognition technology, the app searches through thousands of images of old and recently added pictures to try and locate your pet. this is jane. she's been in the shelter for over a week and is helping us with our demonstration. (daniel desousa/san diego county animal services) "it looks at 8 different points on the dog's face. if the dog comes into us, we take the same kind of photograph and if that dog has been reported as lost, it makes that connection." and another feature -- the app will send alerts to be on the lookout for your dog to anyone in your neighborhood who also uses finding rover. and it also works in reverse. (daniel desousa/san diego county animal services) "if you just see a dog running loose down the street, you can take picture of it and it will still post it that way as well."

days these families have all been reunited with their pets here in san diego via the finding rover app. (misha dibono, reporting) "so here's the best part: the app is absolutely free and it takes just minutes. the guy that developed it did it because he wanted to make sure that all these dogs would be reunited with their families." (daniel desousa/san diego county animal services) "it's amazing to see anybody get reunited with their pet. it's a member of their family. we see people break down in tears just because they have been missing this family member for a day." elias: coming up on local 5 news midday... tears just because they have been missing this family member for a day." elias: coming up on local 5 news midday... there were three big winners announced last night in california, tennessee, and florida. we'll take a look back at their stories, coming up. elias: and... the home show is coming to town! we'll take a sneak peek into what to expect for this year's iowa home show at the state fairgrounds. elias: next....

on with a special furry guest. "your wathcing local 5 news midday in hd with

this is local 5 midday. we are iowa" elias: about the arl - about arl the animal rescue league of iowa (arl) is iowa's largest nonprofit animal shelter, caring for many thousands of pets each year. the arl serves people and pets from across the state

include pet adoption, humane education, pet behavior training, spay/neuter, animal cruelty intervention and much more. history the arl has grown dramatically since its expanding its programs that serve homeless animals

number of animals the arl provides shelter year. intakes have increased from a few decade ago to more 2013. through our proactive community outreach and spay/neuter programs, in the past few years

work is far from over. growth include the arl's programs designed specifically to address the reasons animals end up in shelters, including spay/neuter, programs. the arl's reinforcement expanded to offer year-round classes, as advice for dogs, cats, rabbits and other pets. the shelter continues to spay and neuter all

ferrets independent weather experts" sam weather adlib: yesterday ended up being absolutely gorgeous with our highs topping out in the upper 30s and even 40 here in the metro. if you loved that, then break out the shorts and tee shirts because we're going even warmer today! expect mostly sunny skies with a breezy southwest wind and

across central iowa. unfortunately a cold front tonight is going to send temperatures falling fairly quick this evening as the winds switch out of the northwest and lows fall into the 20s. friday looks like a cold with temperatures falling fairly steadily through the day with lots of wind. there may

in the morning in northwest and central iowa friday, but any accumulation would be very limited. saturday looks like windy day with highs in the low teens but wind chill values in the single digits. another light snow is likely late saturday through the evening although at this point it looks as if any accumulation would stay under an inch. sunday is the coldest day we've got coming with lows below and a high barely above zero. next week looks fairly cold again with a few snow chances mixed in. sam: elias: elias:

elias: the frigid temperatures causing a unique weather phenomenon in wisconsin... reports of a "frost quake" hit social media this week... officially known as cryoseisms...the y occur when water in the soil expands as it freezes...trigger ing a loud boom and shaking ground... the national weather service says the conditions were right....but aren't sure if that's

elias: still to come on local five news midday... local five news midday... the manager of the iowa home show is on with us to preview the big event for this holiday weekend. elias:

15th, 16th, 17th at the varied industries building at the fairgrounds

furnished homes inside the show, courtesy of lincoln homes! the iowa home show also boasts hundreds of new and innovative products for remodeling and updating the inside and outside of the home. for interior home improvement ideas, home vendors will showcase the hottest new trends in kitchen and bathroom remodelling, organization ideas, fireplace updates, sunroom additions, and color and texture ideas for floors and walls. for exterior home upgrades, vendors will showcase windows, doors, landscaping, siding, decks, roofing, guttering, garage additions and more - many at huge

" you're watching local 5 news midday in hd. we are iowa" : elias:

elias: dow chemical and dupont- pioneer announced they'd be merging and the ag giant will be finalizing the deal late this year... they plan to year... they plan to separate into three companies focusing on specific agricultural needs. however they havent decided where those companies will be located. the city of johnston is hoping dupont/pioneer's headquarters will be considered. the city is working with state officials, hoping to be the top choice. "we hope their decison is this is where they want their headquarters to be. we're ready to show them why that should be their decision." elias: dow-dupont isn't releasing which cities are in mind for company headquarters. those decisions will come within the next two years. elias: meanwhile, elias: meanwhile, chipotle says it is confident that its e-coli crisis is coming to an end. the chain restaurant's c- e-o says they are hopeful the c-d-c will soon

over. the outbreak begin in october and infected dozens of people in nine u-s states. chipotle says it is taking additional measures to make sure its food is safe, including having more of its ingredients go through centralized kitchens. elias: and finally....after just over two years of being on air...news channel al- jazeera america is shutting down. the news channel had been suffering from low ratings since its launch... some experts say the decision to shutdown may be linked to falling oil prices - the al-jazeera media group is owned by the oil-rich government of qatar. elias: the wait is over for that record powerball jackpot. nearly one point six billion nearly one point six billion dollars will be split between three winning tickets... sold in california, florida and tennessee.c crowdes gathered overnight at the 7-11 in southern california where one of those 7-11 in southern california where one of those tickets was sold... hundreds of people

manager. abc's lauren lyster has more. script: wspowerballdrawing wed nats 'can you believe it america, a world record jackpot coming to you right now' or 'tonight's jackpot is approaching $1.6 billion dollars' [powerball drawing] it was the more than billion dollar moment people across the u-s were waiting for? [quick nat pop from drawing - like the powerball number 10 at around :39 seconds in] [kabc aerials 7-eleven] and that moment undoubtedly changing the life of the lucky powerball players who bought one of the winning tickets here - at this chino hills, california 7- eleven...crowds of people showing up last night after it was revealed [any nat? --chanting, etc -or a transition??] sot: "it's almost like we won, even though we didn't cause our community won" [wnt lindsey davis] call it a sign of powerball fever sweeping the nation -- tickets ahead of the drawing selling at a frenetic pace of 1.3 million dollars a minute during rush hour

winner. this is the winner. drawing long lines?[kayna piece] inspiring people to cross state borders - from powerball-free nevada into california sot -- we're all going to buy round trip tickets to the moon. [karla pkg] crossing national borders in the case of canadians like this... karla pkg wspowerballwedpkg3 - canadian traveling to u.s. to buy tickets: "everyone's got the fever" [nightline] more than 300 million tickets sold wednesday-- that's almost one for every person in this country nat -lottery ticket printing/etc [wnt or other billboards w/the 999] for a prize, that got too big to even fit on billboards. but the officials reporting it comes out to $983.5 million. tag: the california winner who bought his or her ticket here will split the jackpot with any winners in other states ... a california lottery spokesperson saying there are two others that we know of... in florida and tennessee. lauren lyster, abc news, chino hills." " elias: even still the drawing for this jackpot created a mad frenzy across the nation. lottery ticket isn't on the list for everyone. lottery is a gambling

something that can be difficult to overcome . especially when buying powerball tickets has been everywhere you turn over the past week. "if you want to go out and spend 2 dollars on a powerball ticket great it's fun you know why wouldn't you do it the big part is knowing it is just a chance it's a very slim chance but you do it for fun ans you always have that big dream of what you would potentially do with that money elias: if you have a gambling problem or know someone who does, we want to pass along this number 1-800-bets off. elias: coming up on local 5 news midday... actor alan rickman passed away last night at the age of 6-9. we'll take a look back at his life and career, coming up. elias: next.... the state of the judiciary address was yesterday. we'll take a look at what chief

" you're watching local 5 news midday in hd. we are iowa" elias: good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday...i'm elias johnson. elias: our top story today-- elias: a recent tragedy has put a waukee family on a mission....the prevention of suicide. earlier this week, waukee high school senior drew lienemann was pronounced brain dead at mercy medical center following a weekend suicide attempt. yesterday, his family held a press conference to try prevent the same tragedy from happening to other families. they spoke about how he helped talk another student out of committing suicide. his parents say they don't want to glamorize what happened, and believe their son's life was just beginning. wanda lienemann, drew's mother: "knowing drew and all that he could have provided over his lifetime, it would have just been incredible. i can't even imagine how

we do find comfort that our people are being helped, but what else he could have done was just incredible. " elias: if you know a teen who may be showing warning signs... doctors say to keep the lines of communication open with your teenagers. they say it's better to communicate too much than to let something slip by them. they also recommend getting counseling for anyone who's been closely involved with a suicide case. elias: iowa's supreme court chief justice delivered the state of the judiciary address yesterday... chief justice mark cady shared concerns about racial disparities in the judicial system. three percent of iowa's population is african american, but they represent 20 percent of the prison population in this state. but the most applause came when cady talked about human trafficking. we can no longer view human trafficking as a problem reserved to the major cities in america. it exists as a

across iowa and is associated with some of iowa's most iconic places and events. elias: support was also shown for his remarks on the need to rehabilitate juvenile offenders. chief justice cady said often times they're locked up before they have a chance to work on their problems. elias: an ankeny burglary has been getting social media... that holds special value for an army veteran... iraq war veteran matt stolze is in the middle of moving across states to indiana for his job. his family had left a few things in their townhouse to pick up, but before they could do that.... it was broken into and someone took off with several items. stolze says among the missing items is a leather vest that he wears as part of the american legion riders to charity events... " it's important to me personally, the patches on the vest are from my uniform when i served. i've

bike " elias: stolze is just asking for the vest to be returned, no questions asked to the polk city american legion post. if you have any information about this crime... you can also contact ankeny police. elias: in your sports news now-- the iowa hawkeyes travel to michigan for a big game on the hardwood tonight... just over two weeks after defeating a top- ranked michigan state....iowa takes the road for a rematch. the spartans came in to iowa city ranked number one in december...but left with their first loss of the season. now the 16th ranked hawkeyes look to repeat the feat...in michigan. " (anthony clemmons) i mean there's probably a lot of teams that haven't won up there in that long. but to be able to win there that's special. " elias:

remains the only one for the currently fourth ranked michigan state... tipoff is at six tonight....and look for highlights on local five news at ten. " nat sounds..." elias: the sounds of john lennon's imagine were just one of the songs heard on the iowa state campus wednesday... iowa state carillonneur tin-shi tam performed a variety of selections as part of martin luther king junior celebrations on the campus. along with the melodic bells of iowa state...a community birthday celebration was held as well for the civil rights leader. elias: meteorologist sam schrier joins us again with a look at your forecast. sam weather adlib: yesterday ended up being absolutely

highs topping out in the upper 30s and even 40 here in the metro. if you loved that, then break out the shorts and tee shirts because we're going even warmer today! expect mostly sunny skies with a breezy southwest wind and highs in the upper 40s across central iowa. unfortunately a cold front tonight is going to send temperatures falling fairly quick this evening as the winds switch out of the northwest and lows fall into the 20s. friday looks like a cold with temperatures falling fairly steadily through the day with lots of wind. there may in the morning in central iowa friday, would be very limited. another very cold and the low teens but wind chill values in the single digits. another light snow is likely late saturday through the evening although at this point it looks as if any accumulation would stay under an inch. sunday is the

coming with lows below and a high barely above zero. next week looks fairly cold again with a few passed away at the age of 6-9. elias: rickman was best known for playing the villain hans gruber in "die hard" and severus snape in the "harry potter" series. he also appeared in robin hood, severus snape in the "harry potter" series. he also appeared in robin hood, sense and sensibility, and love actually. rickman was one of film and theater's most admired actors, known for his signature nasal baritone voice. sources familiar with his career say rickman had been battling cancer. . elias: trending now...oscar buzz kicks into high gear... elias: hosting this year's awards show will be comedian chris rock. this morning the nominees for the 88th academy awards were announced... the revenant and

up oscar nominations for best picture and best director. six other best picture nominations to join them: bridge of spies spotlight the big short the martian brooklyn room two movies that you might be surprised were left out were straight outta compton and carol, and be sure to catch the oscars right here on local five sunday, ffebruary 28th. all: (reax) elias: a lot of people waking up millionaires this morning -- including those three lucky winners who struck the jackpot in last night's powerball. their lives are all about to change. we've heard some horror stories about winners ending up broke -- but there are also some incredible success stories -- tj holmes is here with that. " gfx sure, winning is just pure luck... but keeping that jackpot takes some strategy the secrets of some of the most

save... and en "rich" the lives of others. like the lohse (prono: low-see) family from des moines, iowa... nats from winning (woi piece in crackle) this couple used a portion of their 202 million dollar jackpot to build a new athletic field at their local high school. gmem100512003 sot brian lohse "we want to benefit our community and church" gmpa070414a @ 7:09 and knoxville's 59 year old roy cockrum...who started a foundation to donate his nearly 260 million winnings to theater an charity organizations. quick nat sandra hayes sandra hayes was living on less than 26 thousand dollars a year as a st. louis social worker when she hit it big winning a $224 million powerball jackpot along her coworkers in 2006 sot sandra hayes tbd 18:09:57 well when i really realized that i won the lottery, basically my attitude, i became, a little on the nervous side. the single mother of three decided to retire, pay off her debt, and put the rest into savings.

18:30:57 i live on a budget and i'm discipline hayes says she treats her family to nice vacations, but hasn't forgotten to pay it forward. sot sandra hayes 18:14:09 in my life, didn't have enough money to buy groceries, food pantry who would give me a month's worth of food and she still splurges on the the occasional powerball ticket sot sandra hayes 18:25:55 do i still play it? yes. i'll take my chance, does lightning strike twice." elias: still to come on local 5 news midday... (weather) sam has the details in central iowa's most accurate

"now, we are iowa's most accurate forecast with meteorologist sam schreier. certified by weatherrate the independent weather experts" sam weather adlib: yesterday ended up being absolutely gorgeous with our highs topping out in the upper 30s and even 40 here in the metro. if you loved that, then break out the shorts and tee shirts because we're going even

mostly sunny skies with a breezy southwest wind and highs in the upper 40s across central iowa. unfortunately a cold front tonight is going to send temperatures falling fairly quick this evening as the winds switch out of the northwest and lows fall into the 20s. friday looks like a cold with temperatures falling fairly steadily through the day with lots of wind. there may be a few snow showers in the morning in northwest and central iowa friday, but any accumulation would be very limited. saturday looks like another very cold and windy day with highs in the low teens but wind chill values in the single digits. another light snow is likely late saturday through the evening although at this point it looks as if any accumulation would stay under an inch. sunday is the coldest day we've got coming with lows below and a high barely above zero. next week looks fairly cold again with a few

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yesterday ended up being absolutely gorgeous with our highs topping out in the upper 30s and even 40 here in the metro. if you loved that, then break out the shorts and tee shirts because we're going even warmer today! expect mostly sunny skies with a breezy southwest wind and highs in the upper 40s across central iowa. unfortunately a cold

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