news at six... the cold temps don't spoil the fun for all.... its a downhill derby race of the cardboard variety... nikki and... there's only a few weeks left until the iowa caucus... and the presidental campaign trail is heating up as candidates aim their focus on central iowa.. nikki and it's the first gun show in central iowa since president obama's executive orders to make it harder to get a gun... will those orders impact today's crowd? " local 5 news at 6 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: temperatures are dipping into the single digits today....and it's only going to get colder... tonight we are expected to go below zero.... that means we've got some windchill advisories in effect.... we're going to toss it over to meterologist bree sullivan to tell us more, bree what do we need to be

bree thanks.. with those cold

with those cold temps tomorrow..it might force churches to cancel service tomorrow.. make sure to check back on the bottom ticker and at we are iowa dot com.. nikki: president obama's executive orders about gun sales are a divisive issue across the nation, and of course... among the presidential candidates. this weekend, a gun show at adventureland is expected to bring in about about two thousand people. vendors at the show say current gun laws are strong enough.... but aren't being enforced the way they should be. according to the n-r-a.... more than 80-thousand people lied on the forms, but only 44 people were actually prosecuted for breaking the law. people attending todays show said they confident in the process to buy a gun there. roger mcginley, des moines resident: "they want to buy a gun

the 4473, i have a feeling they might up ending having a conversation with the sheriff or the city policeman that's going to meet them at the door." coming up tonight at ten, more on what else the gun show has to offer and why the vast majority of the guests will leave it empty handed. nikki/ots: today.. the fourth annual midwest march for life took place at the capital building.. governor terry branstad joined thousands of people to fight for their rights.. this started out as the march for life in washington dc to commemorate the roe v. wade decision... and now it's come to iowa.. citizens marched and chanted to speak their opinions against legalized abortion. nikki: an officer involved shooting investigation is underway after a deputy shot a man in muscatine last night... it happened just after 10 pm ... when a muscatine police officer and a sheriffs deputy stopped a vehicle suspected of being stolen in the parking lot of the best western on cleveland

man in the vehicle attempted to drive off and hit several vehicles in the parking lot while doing so... including one of the fully marked law enforcement vehicles... the deputy on scene fired his gun and shot the driver... who was then taken to the hospital. the name of the deputy or the man shot hasn't been released at this time. an investigation into the incident is being conducted by the muscatine police department, the iowa divison of criminal investigation, and iowa state patrol. nikki: a sex offender escapes from the fort des moines work release facility. now police are asking for your help finding him 26-year-old ross clouse was serving time for a third degree sexual abuse charge back in 2009. police say he failed to return to the facilitiy last night. he's described as a white man, with black hair and brown eyes. about six foot- three and 254 pounds. if you have any information on clouse's wherabouts, please contact des moines police or the polk county sheriff's department. nikki: thieves led police on a chase down i-235 this afternoon. the polk county sheriff's office

chasing allegedly stole items from the mills fleet farm in ankeny. they were stopped and arrested around the martin luther king bridge on i-235. nikki: iran has freed four americans in a prisoner swap deal with the united states. the u-s government said it is the result of more than a year of top secret negotiations. a washington post journalist is among those freed... along with marine veteran and christian pastor. a senior administration official said today the u-s -- in return -- is dropping charges against seven iranians convicted of sanctions violations. a fifth american is also being released by iran, but according to us officials is not part of the negotiated prison swap.... nikki: rescuers have spotted a debris field as they search for 12 u-s marines missing off hawaii. they were in two helicopters that collided in mid- air and crashed. as catherine cruz reports, rescuers are going all out to find the missing service members. the images of military might rolled in all day long at alii beach park. from the air, sea and from shoreline, all

pounding surf. but mother nature has not relented making the search for survivors and crash debris difficult. the large waves are drawing visitors and residents to the north shore for a glimpse but the search and rescue operation is prompting an appeal to the public. (lt. kevin cooper, u.s. coast guard): "our main safety message about the debris is that if someone sees something we want them to report it. we do want them to call, but we don't want them to touch it. we just want them to allow the professionals to collect the debris once it's been assessed," (catherine cruz, reporting): "with this weather there's no telling where any marine debris may turn up. it could end up on a neigbor island. but this morning a team of tow-in-surfers reported seeing what looked like a propeller off alligator rock." (lt. kevin cooper, u.s. coast guard): "we had a report, we sent an aircraft to that area but we did not see that piece that was reported" city and state officials are asking the public for help in steering clear of this area so rescue crews can do their job (shayne enright, city emergency services): "there's large surf acoss the whole shoreline so we are just asking the public

for a few days. we don't want anyone to get into trouble if they don't need to," ocean services has provided two jet skis to help assist in looking for survivors between the sets. but there is some concern that rescues of surfers or beachgoers could strain resources. honolulu's fire department is pulling back after assisting in the search overnight and today and says it will be tapped as needed. (batallion chief john bowers, honolulu fire department): "at this time because we are now focusing out on the open ocean, the fire department itself, we have reallocated those resources back," portions of the haleiwa harbor and alii beach park are off limits to the public as the field will be used as a recovery area during the search effort. nikki: the debris includes an empty life raft and possibly pieces of aircraft. the u-s marines are still looking into what caused the collision. nikki: the cold temperatures means perfect weather for some sledding.. today at sleepy hollow.. several people

return of the morning moose downhill derby... local 5 photojournalist ryan davidson braved the cold to take in the fun.. "3 2 1 go!! this is the 6th annual morning moose downhill derby out here at sleepy hollow we encourage listeners to make sleds out of nothing but cardboard paint and duck tape some of the creativity is insane not only is the creativity there but the sleds keep getting bigger and bigger each year everything from garbage trucks to bigger each year everything from garbage trucks to submairnes to this year a massive battleship with actual airplanes made out of cardboard paint and ducktape on top of the battleship t ty just get so big go r2 go you look so good then the intersting thing is to see these big sleds try to make it down the hill some do really well some not so much we came up with this skywalker speed racer we thought we had a pretty good one 3 2 1 go two years ago we actually won the

this year we all work different jobs and this kind of brings us together in the evenings we work on them. " nikki: moving indoors now.. nearly 500 athletes gathered today for the 20-16 crossfit circus.. the event was held at the state fairgrounds 4h building.. presented by crossfit 80-35.. it's iowa's largest team functional fitness competition.. hang cleans..power lifts.. and box jumps were all part of the event.. but building relationships and good sportsmanship are a big key too.. "when you come out here you compete but sportsmanship is untouchable we all cheer each other on the crowd is great the athletes help each other out everyone kind of comes together through the same sweaty workouts " six different states were

the crossfit circus.. nikki: coming up on local 5 news at six... presidental candidates were all over central iowa today.. we'll tell you who was where.. nikki: and.... the iowa state men try to bounce back at kansas state.. we'll preview cy-hawk rewind.. nikki: have a story you think we should cover? email us at: news at we are iowa dot com. or call us in the newsroom: 1- 800-858-5555. we're on facebook "we are iowa local 5 news" and twitter "we are iowa 5 news" we'll be right back. you're watching local 5

" you're watching local 5 news at 6 in hd. we are iowa" nikki/bam: welcome back.. we're just over two weeks away from the iowa caucus and candidates are making central

today.. marco rubio held a town hall meeting at stoney creek in this morning in johnston.. rubio will be at drake on tuesday.. nikki: chris christie was in ames today at the brick city grill.. he talked about iran releasing the american journalists... and added we need a president like ronald reagan back in office.. nikki/bam: the political fisticuffs continued to fly between donald trump and senator ted cruz on the campaign trail today it's on the heels of their first debate of 2016 heated words from both candidates. and as abc's mary bruce explains how neither side appears to be letting up. the war of words between donald trump and ted cruz is escalating. in the key battleground state of south carolina today, cruz wasted no time taking a stab at his former friend after getting stuck in an elevator. sot - sen. ted cruz "who put donald trump in charge of the elevator." nats trump started the day, ripping into cruz on twitter. writing: "ted cruz was born in canada and was a canadian citizen until 15 months ago. lawsuits have just been filed with more to follow. i told you so." cruz fired back

lot of nervous energy. and uh for whatever reason donald doesn't react well uh when he's going down in the polls." and he doubled down on his comments questioning "new york values"?. a line of attack he used against trump during thursday's debate sot - sen ted cruz "if you are offended at my pointing out how much the failed policies of hillary clinton and andrew cuomo and bill de blasio have hurt new yorkers then which of those policies do you agree with?" at a rally in new hampshire, trump blasted cruz sot - donald trump he finally went off the wagon a little bit and went a little crazy and it's very, i mean he's being a great hypocrite. the two are locked in a heated primary battle and trump is getting some unexpected support. hillary clinton, a new york resident and former senator from the state tweeting "just this once, trump's right: new yorkers value hard work, diversity, tolerance, resilience, and building better lives for our families." mary bruce abc news myrtle beach south

nikki: and in world politics ...major news out of taiwan. the opposition party there claiming victory in a landmark election... as they get their first woman president ((t)s-eye eeng wuhn) tsai ing- wen has pledged to work toward maintaining peace and stability in relations with china. but she emphasized that must reflect public will... and that no provocations or accidents should take place. nikki/2wxhang we are iowa's most accurate weather team... meteorologist james peterson is here now... james: i'll have your forecast next "now, we are iowa's

weatherrate the independent weather experts" bree: weather adlib: put script here in green a wind chill warning

our northern counties from 9pm tonight until noon sunday. our temperature roller coaster continues its slide down through the overnight. lows will be sub-zero across most of the state tonight with only far southern ia seeing temperatures hovering just above 0. a bitter breeze from the northwest will have wind chills sitting around -20 in the metro and closer to -40 in northern iowa. expect snow showers overnight as well, mainly in southern and southwestern iowa. one to two inches of accumulation is possible in those areas, with only a few tenths accumulating downtown. the sun will be back for sunday, but temperatures will remain frigid. northern iowa will remain single digits below zero all day, while the metro and areas south will be single digits above zero. the northwesterly breeze continues through the day tomorrow keeping wind chills -15 downtown in the afternoon and closer to -25 in northern iowa. temps will plummet again sunday lows for monday single digits by monday afternoon. snow moves in again on tuesday before temperatures return 20s for the rest of the work week and 30s by next weekend. we love to see sunday. our temperature roller coaster continues its slide

most of the state tonight with only far southern ia seeing temperatures hovering just above 0. a bitter breeze from have wind chills sitting around -20 in to -40 in northern iowa. expect snow showers overnight as well, mainly in southern and one to two inches of possible in those areas, with only a few downtown. for sunday, but temperatures will remain frigid. northern iowa will remain single digits below zero all day, while the metro and areas south will be single digits above zero. the northwesterly breeze continues through the day tomorrow keeping wind chills -15 downtown in the afternoon and closer to -25 in northern iowa. temps will plummet again sunday night with sub-zero lows for monday morning and barely single digits by monday afternoon. snow moves in again on tuesday before temperatures return to more seasonable 20s for the rest of the work week and 30s by next weekend. nikki: we love to see

tonight until noon sunday. our temperature roller coaster continues its slide down through the overnight. lows will be sub-zero across most of the state tonight with only far southern ia seeing temperatures hovering just above 0. a bitter breeze from the northwest will have wind chills sitting around -20 in the metro and closer to -40 in northern iowa. expect snow showers overnight as well, mainly in southern and southwestern iowa. one to two inches of accumulation is possible in those areas, with only a few tenths accumulating downtown. the sun will be back for sunday, but temperatures will remain frigid. northern iowa will remain single digits below zero all day, while the metro and areas south will be single digits above zero. the northwesterly breeze continues through the day tomorrow keeping wind chills -15 downtown in the afternoon and closer to -25 in northern iowa. temps will plummet again sunday night with sub-zero lows for monday morning and barely single digits by monday afternoon. snow moves in again on tuesday before temperatures return to more seasonable 20s for the rest of the

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your weather photos! if you capture any good pictures make sure to post them at we are iowa dot com. just click on the share it tab! turning to sports now.... nikki: the cyclones needed a win today in manhattan.. we preview cy- hawk rewind next.. " now, local 5 sports

up tonight on the cyhawk rewind we take going opposite conference play doing what no one expected. iowa state lost two straight heading into today's matchup against k-state of against the wildcats. highlights of that game as well as a look tuesday night. and

hawkeyes, 4-0 in the big ten a team no one wants to mess with. they're coming off of a big upset over number 4 michigan state on thursday night in east lansing making some history there. we'll talk with al lorenzen a little bit about what makes this team special and what they could do come march. all that and more on the cyhawk rewind. once again 6:30 let's send it back to nikki. nikki: cy hawk starts right after the news here on local 5. we'll be right back with a final forecast...you're watching local five news at six. bree: weather adlib: put script here in green a wind chill warning

tonight until noon sunday. our temperature roller coaster continues its slide down through the overnight. lows will be sub-zero across most of the state tonight with only far southern ia seeing temperatures hovering just above 0. a bitter breeze from the northwest will have wind chills sitting around -20 in the metro and closer to -40 in northern iowa. expect snow showers overnight as well, mainly in southern and southwestern iowa. one to two inches of accumulation is possible in those areas, with only a few tenths accumulating downtown. the sun will be back for sunday, but temperatures will remain frigid. northern iowa will remain single digits below zero all day, while the metro and areas south will be single digits above zero. the northwesterly breeze continues through the day tomorrow keeping wind chills -15 downtown in the afternoon and closer to -25 in northern iowa. temps will plummet again sunday night with sub-zero lows for monday morning and barely single digits by monday afternoon. snow moves in again on tuesday before temperatures return to more seasonable 20s for the rest of the

the following is a local 5 sports special in hi-definition. [ music ] tonight on the cy-hawk rewind the iowa hawkeyes are rolling since the loss to the cyclones including two wins over michigan state. plus the cyclones are riding the struggle bus. looking to get back on the winning road. all that and more next on the cy-hawk rewind. >> this is cy-hawk rewind on local 5.