apple firing back. the showdown in nevada. hillary inton and rnie sanders. and this evening, the early gift for clinton. inside the rescue, one passenger trapped. and the dramatic fire whorls, the whipping winds in chicago. >> your money tonight, are you passing up free money? and america remembering harper lee and her work, read by generations of american students. good evening. it's great to have you with us on a friday night. we begin with t the showdown just hours away in the race for president. and breakin developments on both sides tonight. in south carolina, the republican rumble, and the new poll.

lead not as large as before. cruz five points behind. rubioo in third, with 15%. and tonight, donald trump at the center of another headline. telling people to boycott apple until they help the fbi break into the terrorists iphone. we have it a covered. tom llamas leads us off from south carolina. >> reporter: tonight, donald trump with a new target. the billionaire now declaring war on apple. >> how do you like it? i just thought it. boycott apple. >> rorter: trump fuming as the tech giant refuses to help investigators unlock the cell phone of one of the san bernardino terrorists. >> first of all, apple ought to give t the secury for that phone. okay?? what i think you ought to do is, boycott apple until such time as they give the security number. >> reporter: tonight, senior apple executives telling abc news the company has no sympathy for terrorists. that they left their rights at the door.

terrorists. those executives adding, this is not apple versus the government. this is the people versus the government. saying they're out to protect their customers. apple, the second giant trump is trang -- tangling with this the first? pope francis, who suggested trump was not christian for wanting to build a wall on the mexican border. [ speaking foreign language ] question a person's faith is disgraceful. i'm proud to be a christian. >> reporter: but today, an oliveve branch from the vatican. the pope's spokesman saying his comments were "in no way a peonal attack or an indication of how to vote." trump's tone softening, as well. >> today, he was very ninice. u probably heard. he put out a message that cleared things up. i will say the pope is great. he's a vy nice man. >> reporter: but the south

don't end there. trump now under fire claiming he is the only republican candidate who opposed the war in iraq. >> i was against the war in iraq. i told the truth about iraq. we did it. i should get points for vision, because i was totally against the war in iraq. >> reporter: but today, trump confronted with this recording of a 2002 interview with howard stern. >> are you for invading iraq? >> yeah, i gss so. i wish the first time it was done correctly. >> reporter: on the stump, the candidate trying to explain. >> the first guy that ever asked me about iraq was howard stern. i said, i don't know. yeah, i guess. then i started looking at it, before the war started, i was against that war. i was against that war. i don't go to iraq. i said it strongly, and i said it loud. >> reporter: but trump's campaign, unable or unwilling to produce a shred of evividence th he was ever a vocal opponent of the war before it began. on the other side of south carolina today -- senator marco rubio, surrounded by the state's top republican

later tweeting this video on the plan with tim scott and nicki haley. doou feel a lot of pressure? >> it's in god's hands tomorrow. >> reporter: but tonight, cruz with some problems of his own. states challenging whether cruz's name can appear on the ballot because he was bo in canada. >> all of this on the eve on south carolina. tom llamas live from that state. how is cruz responding to the lawsuits? >> the cruz campaign says it's no coincidence. they have lawyers fighting back,

his mother was born in america. and in nevada, the neck and neck battle between bernie sanders and hillary clinton. the latest poll showing a dead heat. and the national poll, clinton leading sanders, 53% to 42%. and on the eve of south carolina, hillary clinton getting a gift, a key endorsement. and bernie nders confident, saying he was once made an honorary woman. cecilia vega from las vegas. >> reporter: tonight, the final push looks like this. >> how you doing? >> we're doing well. >> reporter: bernie sanders racing across the state. barely time for a pit stop with his wife. >> i hope we hav a very, very large, very, very large voter turnout tomorrow. >> reporter: hillary clinton already looking ahead to the next state up -- south carolina. where today she got the boost she's been waiting for.

demomocrat. congressman jim clyburn. hillary clinton. >> r reporter:lyburn saying nevada's neck-and-neck race pushed him to endorse now. >> reporter: here it is. a fight to t the finis cheersn the final forum before tomorrow's caucus. >> senator sanders wasn't really a democrat until he decided to run for president. he doesn't know what the last two democratic presidents did. well, it's true. it's true. you know it's true. >> reporter: sanders, drawing laughter after this. >> gloria steinem, one of the leading feminists in america, made me an hononorary won many years ago. i don't know exactly what that meant, but i accepted it. >> reporter: it all comes down to the ground game. clton opened her first campaign office here months before sanders. but he has more offices than she does.

too. but clinton's volunteers, 7,000 strong. sanders' team says he has more than 2,000. >> hi. >> hi. >> reporter: today i was there as clinton's army hit the streets. >> we've been knocking on doors since late august. going out seven days a race. >> reporter: so why is this race so close? >> i think it's expected. >>eporter: clinton, her eyes now on south carolina, hittiting the airwaves there with this ad today. starring one of america's most famous voices, actor morgan freeman. >> she understands our country can't reach its potential, until we do. >> you were telling us, both of the campaigns acknowledged that this is very close. >> that's right. bernie sanders feeling very

sayi if the turnout is good, he's going to win. >> and back in nevada, they flipped a coin previously. and you told us, they're going nevada. >> they have them ready. >> cecilia vega, thank you. and as we reported at the top, donald trump taking on apple, calling for a boycott. and tonight, the justicee well. and changing the apple i.d. on the phone, saying once apple could help, it was too late. here's pierre thomas. >> reporter: tonight, th justice department turning up the heatat on appl calling on a federal judge to compel the tech giant to hack into syed farook's iphone. the potential legal threat, that a federal court could hold apple

does not comply. the fbi says opening farook's phone is urgent because it could hold critical clues about the san bernardino massacre, including whether others were involved. but senior apple executives suggested the government's filing has no legal merit and could set a dangerous precedent. tonight, those senior ecutives saying they plan to fight, bebecause colying would create a master key that could unlock millions of apple phones. the net effect, they say, of a nuclear bomb for software, making customers vulnerable to hacking. apple says if it complies, requests from law enforcement could come with ananother phe e an ur later, opening a pandora's box. they pointed to a manhattan district attorney who says he has 175 iphones with potential evidence from serious crimes, including murder, that he cannot open. he's lashing out at apple. >> they are acting like teenagers, saying you can't tell us what to do. >> reporter: apple officials say that right after the phone was recovered, someone ret the

even more difficult to retrieve information from that phone. apple claims it was in t the hands of authorities at the time. the government says the change was made by farook's employer in the hours after the attack. >> and i want to get back to that point you made. apple saying authorities changed the apple i.d. on the phone while they had it? >> yes, they say they may have been able to recover the information had the password not been changed. and new images from hawaii, the helicopter crash. hitting the water. strangers jumpingng ino help. struggling to cut loose a young passenger. kayna whitworth is there.

details about the dramatic and terrifying crash caught on camera. >> when someone screamed, we turned andnd ran. didn't have much time before it hit. >> reporter: seconds later, shocked bystanders plunging in to help. the water just ten feet deep, but murky. new video showing the confusion on the surface, nobody realizing that for three minutes that teenage boy was still trapped below. >> i could hear them say they have ahold of his foot but they couldn't get to him and they couldn't get him out. >> reporter: the teen was entangled in his seat belt. taking turns cutting the boy free. he was rushed to the hospital wherhe's in critical condition tonight. three other family members are okay, but the pilot has had to undergo two surgeries. davi the helicopter is still in the water behind me, just a

the navy is expected to haul it up today so the ntsb can continue the investigation. and this isis leader, believed to be involved in twowo terror attacks, killed with does dozens of foreign fighters. > and the flag-draped casket of justice scalia carried in today. here's jonathan karl. >> reporter: former clks, nearly 100 of them, lining the casket. scalia's fin journey into the court.

the casket in silence. on to the platform thatnc held abraham lincoln's casket. republican leaders said again today in the "washington post" that scalia's replacement should wait until after the presidential election. outside a makeshift memorial, one slamming the majority opinionn as pure apple sauce. and another, likens to the aphorisms of fortune cookie. >> and the president is working on his nominees? >> yes, we're told he will be working on that over the

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local 5 news, i'm jack miller. stephanie/2shot: and i'm stephanie angleson. stephanie/2shot: after months of fighting for a spot in the dow- dupont merger, today we learned johnston lost it's bid as a headquarter location. jack/2shot: instead the company has chosen wilmington, delaware on the east coast. but johnston isnt losing out completely. local 5's claire powell is here with details. claire/bam: there have been mixed reviews since this morning's announcement. instead of a headquarters for merging ag giants dow- dupont, johnston will now become a "global business center" for the company. dupont pioneer president paul schickler said "this choice will be an innovative choice for farmers and he's proud of what pioneer has accomplished." after the announcement, the iowa economic development authority awarded 16 million dollars in incentives. two million of that is forgivable loans to retain 500 research and development jobs. the city of johnston also approved a one million dollar matched incentive - in total giving 17 million to the

in hopes to reduce the amount of layoffs potentially coming with the merger. " " see some more loss of jobs in short term. but over long term we believe they'll do research activities here in johnston, employment numbers will go back up again, possibly higher than what we have currently" " claire/bam: dupont pioneer currently has 26-hundred employees. and the merger between dow and dupont pioneer is expected to be finalized in the second half of this year. reporting live claire powell local 5 news we are iowa. stephanie: thanks, claire. and with this big change coming to johnston. here are some numbers that show how the local community will be affected by the move. the city council reported visitors to the dupont pioneer headquarters in 20-13 spent nearly 3 million dollars, staying at hotels and eating at local restaurants. dupont pioneer makes up almost 40 percent of taxabale commerical value in johnston and 9 percent of all taxable value for the city.