a couple western iowa and work through central and southern iowa through the day. accumulations will likely be around 2 to 3 inches here in the metro, so likely not a huge snowfall amount but timing will probably impact the morning and evening commutes. after that we're going to warm back into the mid 20s through friday. thursday we may see a bit of snow in the morning in southern iowa but at the moment it looks like we'll see low accumulations. temperatures finally look to warm back into the 30s by the weekend so let's just keep hoping they stick week! sabrina: also coming up on local five news midday.... celebrate the life and career of martin luther to celebrate month. three of the

back to the united states. into the details of how they were freed, the democratic candidates had debate of 2016 south carolina. back at the coming up. "local 5 news midday in good morning local 5 news midday...i'm sabrina ahmed. sabrina: local five is following the latest in an officer involved shooting in muscatine. authorities have identity of the person shot night... tim seefeldt was shot by a deputy stopped in a suspected of it happened in the parking lot of a best western as he attempted to drive off and hit several vehicles including a fully marked law enforcement vehicle.. the investigation is on-going.. sabrina: crash left one injured in union county.. the crash took night just after

highway 34- skyline bridge. deanne hoffman of creston died in the accident.. donna spare of afton was injured.. a go-fund me page has been remaining family memebers. behind a husband and two sons. sabrina: department has now located a missing teen. mallory lanser was first reported missing on january 9th, found safe the pella police department would like to who called in with information. them to locate lanser. sabrina: an inmate from the fort des moines work facility escaped has now facility escaped this morning, but has now returned. karlos goldman failed to return from employment morning. serving a 26 year assault while felony. sabrina: morning...it may be a cold one for a run, but that johnston's mayor.. sabrina: mayor paula

shoes this morning, reaching the end of a challenge she put to the city weeks ago. for each bag of food donated to the johnston partnership, she said she would run one mile...which came out to 191 miles total. this morning, she fullfilled her end of the deal, running her last mile starting at northwest 62nd avenue and pioneer parkway. dierenfeld even got the attention of runner's world magazine for her challenge. she began her run at ten this morning. sabrina: a fire investigation continues in boxholm...after a family is hit by tragedy this weekend. sabrina: a home in boxholm caught fire early sunday morning, claiming the lives of four people.. officials have identified the victims as a young mother... amber sorenson and her three children... riley, autumn and brayden... boxhold firefighters arrived around one a-m sunday....with assistance from nine nearby departments helping to battle the blaze. crews searched the home, but were not able to get to the victims in time... the preliminary

found that a space heater may have caused the of the house.... temperatures the flames difficult. dave huffman, boxholm fire chief: "it was an ordeal, freezing up, equipment failure, air packs were freezing sabrina: crews spent most of sunday at the scene...as hot spots were still found around the home. the ice made it difficult to get them all out. the victims' husband and father was working, and not at home at the time of the fire... there is a go fund me page set up for the family, that has gained almost 28,000 dollars. and today, counselors and pastors from the surrounding community will be at dayton elementary to speak students and staff. sabrina: today, as we celebrate martin luther king junior day, and a celebrate black history month, many are asking, "where did it really begin?" today local five is trying to answer that question... by going back to an

it takes us to a town in florida untold journey truly begins. "narr: - the year is 1565 world is taking shape people of african heritage who came to here in the us and in free james bullock - 01:19:31:15 - the new world was built by three groups, the europeans, the indigenous and the afrikaners. and that without any of those three. this would not colonists had a tremendous stake in this particular enterprise of florida. 00:54:57:00 - the free blacks became shopkeepers and merchants and artisans and craftsmen. in other words, what makes the colony function. is a baptism of a free black child in st. before jamestown is even founded. vo narr (new) - most of the slaves that were brought to spanish florida were domestic slaves or royal slaves who had very specific, highly refined skills. 9.5 sec michael francis 01:05:46:00 - (edit into bite) you also see african women in the late 16th century/early 17th century who serves really as the first nurse, the first recorded nurse in the hospital of santa barbara in st.

vo narr 11 - by the mid- to-late 1700s. the spanish mission of keeping la florida to themselves had failed (edit bite. ...) james bullock - 01:31:47:00 - the english tried to colonize north america with, at first, indentured servants and a promise of 7 years of labor. what they will find is that being a slave for 7 years . it might as well be a lifetime . on cam narr (new) - now, the spanish did not shy away from large scale ruthless enslavement.. for blacks, there were now two americas, one english, one spanish.. and the difference between them could not be more striking. "

on america's untold story of the journey right here on local five. we'll be running a new story each monday morning over the coming weeks. in our next edition of america's untold story of the journey, scholars give us a look at the first underground railroad...which actually went farther south into florida... look for that here on good morning iowa next week. you can also find we are iowa dot com sabrina: up before they head out this week starts with bitter cold state. due to the frigid temperatures, a number of schools and organizations will be closed or cancelled today... for more information, and the latest weather conditions, you can log on to our website...we are iowa dot com. sabrina meteorologist sam schrier joins us again with a look at your forecast. sam weather adlib: bitter cold air has been locked over iowa since saturday and we're not going to break that pattern for

we're not going to today it's going to be a a light wind and a high overnight tonight we're going to see the and we'll stay dry as are looking at another cold day with snow possible. we will start seeing snow in the western iowa and work through central and southern iowa through the day. accumulations will likely be around 2 to 3 inches here in the metro, so likely not a huge snowfall amount but timing will probably impact the morning and evening commutes. after that we're going to warm back into the mid 20s through friday. thursday we may see a bit of snow in the morning in southern iowa but at the moment it looks like we'll see low accumulations. temperatures finally look to warm back into the 30s by the weekend so let's just keep hoping they stick around towards next week! sabrina

in your national sabrina: americans freed swap with iran -- are on their way home -- reunited after some minute hitches -- chief white correspondent jon karl brings went down first images of the so long as prisoners in reunited with family at the u-s military base in landstuhl, germany - they're getting much- needed medical treatment before eventually coming back home to america. their first stop out of where washington post reporter jason rezaian was greeted by the us official who helped negotiate his release, after being detained for more than a year and a half, on charges of espionage. also on that flight out of iran? amir hekmati, the former marine held for more than 4 years in the notorious evin prison? his sister and brother in law all smiles to on their way to meet him... and pastor saeed abedini, imprisoned and

three and a half years. sot - naghmeh abedini / wife of saeed abedini: i told my kids, i woke them up and i said daddy is released from prison you are going to see him soon at the white house, president obama celebrated the long- overdue release: sot - obama: they never gave in and they never gave up. at long last, they can stand tall and breathe deep the fresh air of freedom. in exchange for their freedom, the obama administration agreed to release 7 iranians charged with violating u-s sanctions and to drop arrest warrants for 14 others. the administration also agreed to pay 1.7 billion dollars to settle an old financial dispute with the iranian government " sabrina: local 5 news midday... the metro over local 5's nikki the cold to do some neat weather

sabrina: and... ted cruz and donald trump are neck and neck in iowa, with only 14 days left until the iowa caucuses, and the campaign trail is heating up. sabrina: next.... iowa's first lego league championship was this past weekend up at iowa state. we'll take a look into the competition and what the competitors had to offer. "your wathcing local 5 news midday in hd with

"your wathcing local 5 news midday in hd with sabrina ahmed and we are iowas most accurate forecast. this is local 5 midday. we are iowa" sabrina: over the weekend, ames became the weekend, ames became the battlezone fo a lego war! teams from across the state came together to compete in the iowa first lego league championship at the isu college of engineering.. local 5

gives us a look inside the competiton to see how competitiors stacked up. "3 2 1 lego we're dong junior first lego league which is for 6-9 year old children they're building lego models they're dong research we want to show them that when you're an engineer or a scientist or a mathmatician it's a really creative area so we're hoping by showing them that today they go on and think about that for their future they've never done this in a championship setting before so it's just putting them at ease letting them know we're all here to help them out from table 21 260 the lego league lions it's a critical age for us to say math is really cool science is really cool you can do it through fun things that you play with at home like legos which is a wonderful toy but there's a lot of mathmatical inclanation in it there's a lot of design behind it well i like the robot runs a lot and i also like core values the truck has the yellow box oh the robot got stuck it's driving on top of the truck you're having to interact as a team

problem solve you're having to think on your feet you're having to manage time those are the things these teams are having to do just show so much enthuasism not just with legos but being there with friends and doing everything they want to do it's really about getting the kids together having a safe space for them providing resouces and then letting the kids go at it " sabrina sam is back now... sam bitter cold air has been locked over iowa since saturday and we're not going to break that pattern for since saturday and we're not going to a couple more days.

partly cloudy day with a light wind and a high overnight tonight we're going to see the cloud cover increase and we'll stay dry as lows fall near 1 degree "now, we are iowa's most accurate forecast with meteorologist sam schreier. certified by

experts" weather adlib: been locked over iowa break that pattern for a couple more days. today it's going to be a partly cloudy day with a light wind and a high near 9 degrees. overnight tonight we're going to see the cloud cover increase and we'll stay dry as lows fall near 1 degree. tuesday we are looking at another cold day with snow possible. we will start seeing snow in the

western iowa and work through central and southern iowa through the day. accumulations will likely be around 2 to 3 inches here in the metro, so likely not a huge snowfall amount but timing will probably impact the morning and evening commutes. after that we're going to warm back into the mid 20s through friday. thursday we may see a bit of snow in the morning in southern iowa but at the moment it looks like we'll see low accumulations. temperatures finally look to warm back into the 30s by the weekend so let's just keep hoping they stick around towards next week! sabrina:

sabrina: the new week

sabrina: begins recovery efforts in sunday tornado left at least two injured. the storm left damage, even trapping two rubble.. were rescued almost fifty- were without the storm. sabrina local five news midday... local five news midday... elementary school students from the state of texas celebrate the life and work of dr. martin luther king jr. today.

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legacy of martin luther king jr. -- with a special tribute from texas fourth and fifth graders. they were asked what they think the legendary civil rights leader would say in his campaign speech if he were year abc's linsey davis thoughtful answers. " speech nat: mlk slug: martin luther king's last speech- 'i've been to the mountaintop'.mp4 mlk - "i may not get there with you. but i want you to know people, will get to the (music start - ffp- sf052007 - inyourhands) (6 seconds) must keep reference to "promised land" per abc legal for good fair use his words: moving a nation. that promised- land - inspiring generations. speech nat: richard espinoza-garza, cornelius elementary slug: mlk2016houstonwinner video.mov 000025 - if dr. martin luther king jr were to run for president, i

speech. speech nat: kyle mosley, whidby elementary slug: tvu 6 mlk day material gma 172835 - we are a nation of promise and a land of opportunity speech nat: madyson roland, wainwright elementary slug: tvu 6 mlk day material gma 172350 - my brothers and sisters, i challenge you to keep the dream alive and uplift one another. speech nat: jessie dozier, gregg elementary slug: tvu 6 mlk day 180425 - we have made progress in the 21st not overcome. speech nat: brandalyn pleasantville elementary material gma 173530 - there is more that must be done / white and black lives must matter. hispanic lives, must matter, native and asian lives must matter. all lives must matter! speech nat: richard espinoza-garza slug: tvu 6 mlk day material gma 174540 - i am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other, they fear each other

because they don't communicate, and they don't communicate because they are separated. (3 seconds) today's youth asking if king's message can build more bridges. speech nat: malak albarguthi, sutton elementary slug: tvu 6 mlk day material gma 175004 - i am muslim. if dr king were running for president sot: richard espinoza-garza slug: tvu 6 mlk day material gma 182500 - he meant we should all come together. all races, all cultures. (4 seconds) and if there was one thing our nation's kids would tell dr. king? sot: jessie dozier slug: tvu 6 mlk day material gma 183510 - thank you? sot: kyle mosley slug: tvu 6 mlk day material gma 184638 - thank you for helping me be able to understand the right and wrong things to do in our nation and our society today. sot: samuel pratt slug: tvu 6 mlk day material gma 183941 - thank you for being a roll model to me and all the people around the united states of america. material gma sot: jessie dozier slug: tvu 6 mlk day material gma place" sam: hd. we are iowa" sabrina:

morning... sabrina: smoking a hookah, or water pipe, may

cigarettes, but a new study suggests that might not be the case. as cigarette smoking rates fall, the popularity of hookahs is on the rise. however, a new analysis found that smoking hookah exposes the user to 125- times the smoke... 25-times the tar... two-and-a-half times the nicotine... and 10-times the carbon monoxide... cigarette. here's why this is important... the c-d-c says hookah smoking is slightly more common among high school students than smoking. if you're still eight -- it's time to upgrade. ended support for the original release of its poorly-received system. the company says upgrade to windows eight- point-one, or windows ten. the end of support means the 50 million or so worldwide windows eight users will no longer get updates to block viruses and hackers. sabrina: and we finally have a new leader at the weekend box offices.. after weeks of domination by "star wars: the

new comedy "ride knocked the sci- number one spot. weekend, the movie took in more than 34- in second was the revenant. with star wars falling to third. sabrina: local 5 news midday... trail is heating and with only 14 the iowa donald trump going head to head. sabrina: the first debate of 2016 charleston. we'll take a look three candidates had to say about the issues and about each other. " you're watching

hd. we are iowa" sabrina good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday...i'm sabrina ahmed. sabrina: in your local election headquarters now-- sabrina: we begin with

debate -- before those iowa two weeks from today -- and it was a hot one -- and bernie mixing it up -- charleston for all of it side eye) and they went head to head nice split comments that senator sanders has that," received over $600,000 goldman sachs in one overnight? hillary clinton and bernie sanders taking their campaign trail war to debate stage? clinton accusing sanders of flip flopping on gun control? 21:12:49 clinton: he voted to let guns go on to amtrak, goes into national parks, he voted against doing research to figure out how we can save lives. sanders accusing clinton of lying about his health care plan? 21:32:02 sanders that is nonsense. but the vermont senator... on the defensive too? his universal healthcare plan that would raise taxes on the middle class-- unveiled just two hours before the start of the debate? clinton 21:33:24 i'm not sure whether we're talking about the plan you just introduced tonight or we're talking about

introduced nine times in the congress, the one thing they didn't fight about? the very topic hillary clinton was hoping to avoid... her husband. 22:44:18 sanders yes, his behavior was deplorable, have i said a word? no, i have not. i'm going to debate secretary clinton, governor o'malley on the issues facing the american people, not bill clinton's personal behavior." sabrina:: the republican attacks are escalating cruz. with his hardest hits yet against race between tighter. abc's tom llamas

" this morning there is no mistake how donald trump feels about the man hoping to beat him in iowa senator ted cruz. sot-trump & george "look, the truth is, he's a nasty guy." trump telling george-cruz is a quote hypocrite for railing against big banks even though he took loans from them to fund his senate campaign which the f-e-c says he failed to properly report. "he wants to look like the one protecting the people from the banks while he's actually borrowing money and personally guaranteeing it and not disclosing it, which is illegal." but cruz sticking with his attack that trump emobides new york values-tweeting out a link from this 1999 trump interview. sot-trump mtp interview dt: i'm very pro-choice. and again, it may be a little bit of a new york background, because there is some different attitude in different parts of the country. i was raised in new york. grew up, worked, everything else in new york city? george asking trump about it sot-trump & george gs: it's led a lot of conservatives to think, boy, maybe he's going to switch again. he's not going to be with us. dt: see, it doesn't matter what they think. it doesn't matter. they understand me. they understand trade. i don't consider myself

know when they ask labels. and overnight a super pac supporting ted cruz also putting out a video-again using trump's own word-this time from a fundraiser where the billionaire showed gushing support for cruz. sot-cruz super pac ad dt:he is a special guy. he's now a very popular and important figure in all of our lives."" sabrina meteorologist sam schrier joins us again with a look at your forecast. sam weather adlib: bitter cold air has been locked over iowa since saturday and we're not going to break that pattern for a couple more days. today it's going to be a partly cloudy day with a light wind and a high near 9 degrees. overnight tonight we're going to see the cloud cover increase and we'll stay dry as lows fall near 1 degree. tuesday we are looking at another cold day with snow possible. we will start seeing snow in the morning falling in western iowa and work through central and southern iowa through the day. accumulations will likely be around 2 to 3 inches here in the metro, so likely not a huge snowfall amount but timing will probably impact the morning and evening commutes. after that we're going to warm back into the mid 20s through friday.

iowa but at the moment low accumulations. look to warm back into the 30s by the weekend so let's just keep hoping they stick week! sabrina: in take a look at this today...first responders take in take a look at this today...first responders take to the ice... sabrina:

emergency... officers, firefighters, and military members u-s and canada travelled to maine for the fire, police and the athletes hit the ice for a competition that benefits the children's hospital.. police and fire crews get their communities involved by having them sponsor their trip to the games, and allowing the competitors a chance to give back. " "we all come together for mainly hockey, but if it's going to bring money for shriner's hospital, then 'why not?' we're all here for the competition and to have a good time."" sabrina: organizers say they couldn't make this happen without volunteers. 100-percent of the proceeds go right back to the shriner's. all: (reax) sabrina: no doubt about it, you will face a

it, you will face a cold day today if sabrina: no doubt about it, you will face a cold day today if you head out... the below zero temperatures and wind chill advisories gave local five's nikki davidson an idea.. she went outside to do a few weather experiments last night. " we are doing cold weather tricks. first we are experimenting to see if what happens when we put this egg on a frying pan. now we are experimenting with lunch meat and a metal pole to see if it sticks. finally we are putting old clothes and getting them wet and leaving them outside for 15 mintues to find them frozen solid. surprise surprise its joe mauer i have an imaginary boyfriend. i am so happy. " all:

local 5 news midday... (weather) sam has the details in central iowa's most accurate forecast next. "now, we are iowa's

schreier. certified by weatherrate the sam bitter cold air has since saturday and we're not going to a couple more days. today it's going to be a partly cloudy day with near 9 degrees. overnight tonight we're going to see the cloud cover increase lows fall near 1 degree. tuesday we are looking at another cold day with snow possible. we will start seeing snow in the morning falling in western iowa and work through central and southern iowa through the day. accumulations will likely be around 2 to 3 inches here in the metro, so likely not a huge snowfall amount but timing will probably impact the morning and evening commutes. after that we're going to warm back into the mid 20s through friday. thursday we may see a bit of snow in the morning in southern iowa but at the moment it looks like we'll see low accumulations. temperatures finally look to warm back into the 30s by the weekend

hoping they stick around towards next week! sam: sabrina:

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we'll be back after this. sabrina: about the arl - about arl the animal rescue

iowa's largestnonprofit animal shelter, caring for 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 of iowa through its programs, which include pet adoption, humane education, pet behavior training, spay/neuter, animal cruelty intervention and much more. history the arl has grown dramatically since its founding in 1926 -

programs that serve both people and homeless animals across iowa. the most obvious growth is the number of animals the arl provides shelter and care for each year. intakes have increased from a few thousand animals a decade ago to more than 15,000 animals in 2013. through our proactive community outreach and spay/neuter programs, in the past few years we have begun to see a decrease in the number of animals we care for, but our work is far from over. other areas of growth include the arl's programs designed specifically to address the reasons animals end up in shelters, including spay/neuter, behavior training, and humane education programs. the arl's positive reinforcement training program has year-round classes, as advice for dogs, cats, rabbits and other pets. the shelter continues to spay and neuter all dogs, cats, rabbits, ferrets and pigs that are adopted from our shelter. in addition to the through the arl's serves the people of services. to promote animal welfare, strengthen the human-animal bond, and prevent the overpopulation of

he's also vying for a new title... world's largest dog. meet rocko... a great dane looking to break

years old... he stands at 40 inches from his paw to shoulder. he's definitely no lap dog... though he may think otherwise his owners say rocko enjoys playing "tug of war"...which usually results in them being pulled across the floor. all: (reax) sam weather adlib: bitter cold air has been locked over iowa since saturday and we're not going to break that pattern for a couple more days. today it's going to be a partly cloudy day with near 9 degrees. overnight tonight we're going to see the cloud cover increase and we'll stay dry as lows fall near 1 degree. tuesday we are looking at another cold day with snow possible. we will start seeing snow in the western iowa and through the day. accumulations will likely be around 2 to 3 metro, so likely not a huge snowfall amount but timing will probably impact the morning and evening back into the mid 20s through friday. thursday we may see a bit of snow in the morning in southern

look to warm back into the 30s by the weekend so let's just keep hoping they stick around towards next week! sabrina thanks for watching... you can view