Differences. Theyre going to have a hard time figuring out how to move forward here, so im more concerned about them, what are they going to do, whats their option here . Im waiting for the feds to approve his plan to privatize the states medicaid system. Four outof state companies will be taking over the program by january 1st if all goes smoothly. There is some concern about the deadline being too ambitious for hospitals to get on board and for medicaid customers to shop around for new care providers. But the governors confident it will get done and the states medicaid will be part of a system. Which better healthcare for people who are program. Without coordinated care, we have one provider basically medicatin, another, times are in conflict with eachother and the hopital or emergency room. Stephanie also says the 51million dollars once the through. Office has not numbers or the math to explain how they came up with the numbers. The department of Human Services says they used actuaries and a formula to predict the potential cost savings. Stephanie numbers are one thing. Real life is another. Tonight were introducing you to a family that depends on Medicaid Services for the well being of their children. Local fives chief Political Correspondent amanda krenz reports. With some help from his mom, its time for Jacob Anderson to take his daily stroll through the neighborhood. nats of walking mom talking if we have it its part of a new routine, Doctors Orders after jacobs recent surgery to correct his scoliosis. Jacob is no stranger to health services. The 16year old has autism and is also intellectually disabled. 31 37 i have to have the best care for my son and get him the services he needs. Jennifer anderson is able to get jacob, his medications, services, and therapies, through the help of their familys secondary insurance provider, medicaid. 13 38 there s no way we could manage what we need to manage without that assisstance. Now that governor branstad has announced an overhaul of how the state runs its medicaid program, jennifer is worried about the changes it will mean for her family. Specifically, the case worker that theyve worked with for almost ten years who knows jacobs healthcare needs inside and out. 17 50 that means im losing amember of my family. Shes been with me for so long, that is my biggest fear. Jennifer says no matter what changes take place due to the governors plan to privatize medicaid, shell find a way to get jacob the services he needs. But its hard to move forward with little information, families dont yet know what the new outofstate companies that take over iowas medicaid are going to offer. All the changes are supposed to take affect on january 1st. 31 47 im ok with changing plans, you have to give us information, we cant go into this blindly. In urbandale, amanda krenz, local five news, we are iowa. Jack its four years in the making. And the city of West Des Moines is about to finalize a master bike plan. Local fives jacob peklo has more on what bikers can expect to see. Gary scott, parks and rec director there wont be an immediate, like tomorrow, the universe will not change and all of a sudden bikers will overrun West Des Moines. Its not quite like that. Since 2011, the city of West Des Moines has taken a few big steps to improve its biking experience. And riders like jay morrison, say since the city has added things like sharrows and bike lanes, it has made cars pay more attention. Jay morrison, West Des Moines resident i think theyre getting used to the idea, you know. At first, you know, its a big surprise and once you get to know the lay of the land, theres room of the road for both of us, i suppose. On monday night, city council signed off on the latest advancement, which will add more signage, based on traffic patterns and the speed of the cars that go through each area. Jay morrison, west des intermingling the two is the hardest part, youre forced to go on and then, but thats thats why city leaders say theres still a done, including adding more lights to some of the busier intersections and make those crossings more seamless. Gary scott, parks and rec director our trails and onstreet bike facilities to create a biking network, so you can get pretty much anywhere in the community you want to go. In West Des Moines, jacob peklo, local five news. We are iowa. Right now, city leaders say theyve built about as many trails as they can. The only way they could add more would be to annex land to the city. Jack okay, lets check in with local 5s sports director Jon Schaeffer whos in van meter covering the second round of High School Football playoffs. Hows the atmosphere out there, jon . Jon thanks jack. A great night for some playoff football. Im here in van meter where the bulldogs will try to take down the madrid tigers. Madrid with a stud at running back in Michael Santi hes ran for more than 2 thousand one hundred yards this season. Number two in the state. But he is number one in yards per carry with 11 yards per touch. Van meters ben trent has tossed the ball for 17 hundred yards this season and hell look for another big number tonight in what could be a high scoring affair. Of course well have highlights of 13 games local 5 news at six. 10 republican presidnetials in des moines over the weekend. How they used one event to take on an entire news network. Jack and. Will changes come to upcoming debates if enough candidates protest . Your watching local 5 news at 6 in hd with edwards, and local 5 sports with sports director Jon Schaeffer. This is local 5 news at 6. We are iowa. Anim stephanie iowans got to see 10 republicans running for president over the weekend. And all in one place. Stephanie more than two thousand people gathered on the iowa state fairgrounds for party of iowas first ever opportunity all of the candidates republican ticket were represented at the party, with decorated booths and themed games. Ten candidates took the stage throughout the day, telling iowans their goals for the country and calling out cn the way they debate. Branstad also the party, and of the group iowans have to choose from this year. Iowa republicans are candidates to decide who they want to suport. They see a lot of talent, a lot of people who theyre seriously considering. Jack there could be changes coming to future republican president ial debates. Candidates staff and gop leaders met yesterday to discuss what they want to see changed in upcoming debates hosted by major networks. Many candidates and their staffs want to eliminate gotcha questions and change the structure of the debate into two equal panels of candidates. The next debate is on november 10th in milwaukee, and will be hosted by fox business and the wall street journal. Jack meanwhile republican president ial candidate john kasich is back in the state today after not campaigning in iowa for more than a month. Kasich has been low in the polls since announcing back in july, but says his record as a congressman and current Ohio Governor sets him apart from the pack. And when we get the power back here we are all going to have to Work Together and you are going to have to challenge a lot of things like you are challenging president ial candidates. Jack kasich will finish his time in iowa with a stop in dubuque tomorrow. Stephanie wxcdl jack wxcdl chief meteorologist brad edwards is here now. Brad wxcdl local 5 weather is local 5 weather is coming up next. Brad wxcdl local 5 weather is coming up next. Now, we are iowas most accurate forecast with chief weatherrate the independent weather experts brad wxc welcome back. Im local 5 chief meteorologist brad edwards. Brad lets take a look at we are iowas most accurate forecast. Brad wxwall weather adlib put script here in green so far, november has been unbelievable we hit 76 sunday and 78 today, which tied the record high for november 2 set back in 1938 well, it looks like we can keep this Indian Summer weather going for a couple more days at least tonight will be mild with temps cooling into the 60s this evening and then the 50s overnight. Tuesday should be another warm day with near record highs in the metro. The record for tuesday is 76 and we should be pretty close to that by afternoon with southerly winds of with warm and windy weather and highs in the mid 70s. Thursday will still be warm by november standards, but there will be clouds rolling in during the day with some rain possible alter in the afternoon and evening. Much cooler tps will roll in here for the end of the week with high friday in the low 50s and we might not even reach 50 on saturday although, it does look like we will have another nice bounce back on sunday with highs reaching the 60s in the afternoon thats warm enough to grill in my book brad 2wx thats all for my forecast. Check out weareiowa. Com for the latest in weather. Stephanie 2wx thanks brad. Sports director Jon Schaeffer is jack sports director Jon Schaeffer is live in van meter covering the Jon Schaeffer is live in van meter covering the second round of High School Football playoffs. Jon . Jon coming up in sports we show you how playing football for pleasantville has stayed in the family for a lot of their players. Now, local 5 sports with Jon Schaeffer. We jon the Pleasantville Trojans head into tonights 2nd round playoff game against Gladbrook Reinbeck, just two wins away from their first trip to the dome since 1995. And while most schools have a rich tradition on the gridiron, football in pleasantville is to the next; but in pleasantville, its taken to a whole different level. Im the fifth, but it goes way back to the early 1900s. Thats right, Ethan Worthington is a fifth generation trojan his dad played for pleasantville, so did his dad, so did his, all the way back to ethans greatgreat grandfather who played on one of the schools first football teams. Its kind of weird to think about actually, ive never actually thought about, until this year or put it in perspective, how long my family has been playing football in this town and its just really cool that i can just keep it going and i hope to bring a 6th generaton of worthingtons back to this town. But its not just the worthingtons, generations of familes in pleasantville have seen fathers and sons take the field on friday nights. I dont know the exact numbers, we have 53 kids and id probably say close to 4050 percent have family that played here at pleasantville. I do that our starting offense, out of the 11 players, 10 of them have dads that played on a Pleasantville Trojan football team. That includes, qb zeb adreon and Center Carter cook. Both of their dads wore the black and orange, but heres where the story gets weird. My dad was the center when carters dad was the quarterback and then viceversa here. You cant make this up, zeb adreons dad robb snapped the ball to carter cooks dad jeff. Zebs dad said something to my dad about isnt it funny how 30 years ago we were in the complete opposite situation and its just funny how things come full circle. Its really cool. My dad, zebs dad, carters dad, theyre all still Close Friends too, which is really cool because i feel like well all have that same bond when were out of high school, out of college and we all have jobs. Because i think well all stick around pleasantville, well all hopefully, well all have our kids play football together here someday too. One of the sayings we say all the time, we break down with one team, one family. Nats and with these kids it almost really is. I think these kids have heard about the pleasantville tradition, their whole lives from their dads and i think its finally their time that they want to try and create their own. Ya thats our ultimate goal is to get to the dome and reach the championship and ultimately bring home the state title. And if we were able to do that i think that would eclipse what they were able to accomplish in their time. No team has ever made it to that finals game and so day 1 our goal was state title and thats what weve been working step by step all season. And so hopefully at the end of the season we can say we have that and thats something that no one can take away from us and well have brought a state title back to pleasantville. The trophy case already has an empty space cleared out, waiting for the hardware. The only thing left to do is bring home the title. In pleasantville, jordan furbee local 5 sports we are iowa. Jon pleasantville is at home tonight against Gladbrook Reinbeck in a huge class a tilt. We will have highlights from that game as well as 12 others including here in van meter as madrid comes to town a handful of 4a and 3a games. Well be up in gilbert tonight as the tigers take on norwalk. Down in mt. Ayr as well. So be sure to tune in at 10 35 to the blitz playoff edition as jordan, binger and i break down the action again 13 games total on the half hour special tonight only on local 5. Stephanie sx3s jack sx3s well be right well be right back. Youre watching local five news at six. Dont forget to visit local 5 on the web. We are iowa dot com is your home for the latest in news, weather, and sports. Jack 2shot before we go tonight, local 5 news crews are working hard to bring you even more stories that affect how you live. Stephanie 2shot tonight at ten. Local 5 is going indepth on student debt. Right now , the department of education says americans owe 1. 3 trillion dollars in federal student loans. And that number is just expected to grow, new grads are leaving college with mortgage like debt. And in many cases. Not making enough money in their field of study to make those high loan payments. We look into why students are shouldering so much debt and how a local man is trying to keep more of them from becoming broke, busted and disgusted. Jack wxhang now one last check of your weather, with chief meteorologist brad edwards. Brad weather adlib so far, november has been unbelievable we hit 76 sunday and 78 today, which tied the record high for november 2 set back in 1938 well, it looks like we can keep this Indian Summer weather going for a couple more days at least tonight will be mild with temps cooling into the 60s this evening and then the 50s overnight. Tuesday should be another warm day with blake and gwens pda. Blake shelton and Gwen Stefanis hollywood romance. Theyre Seen Holding Hands and more. Plus, a rare look inside brad and angelinas marriage. Its whats coming up right now. On entertainment tonight. Thats what ten years of marriage will do to you. Candid and side by side wlachlt she is sayingbout her cancer scare and brad looks on. Whatevers got to be done