Debate lineup. This was the candidates to be on the stage tonight at the center. We now know that front runner donald trump wont be attending, thats right jack. Instead the business mogul said he would event. Local 5s Sabrina Ahmed is live now outside the event at Drake University. Sabrina . Stephanie look at all those people. And Drake University just people. And Drake University just released a statement saying the Trump Campaign over campaign over ticketed the event, only allowing a very small percent of registered attendees to actually come inside. Sabrina livetvu2 donald trump event at Drake University chose not to participate in fox news debate. Tons of media. Long lines. Des Moines Register to attend . How will this affect fox debate . Jack lam with republican president ial candidate ben carson this morning at the statehouse. And asked him about the election process. There is a lot of manipulation, theres no question about that. I dont know if id go so far as to say that the entire process was rigged, but there is enormous manipulation. No question about that. Is there any way for that to be fixed . About the only way its going to be fixed is for us to put people in office who have real integrity. A lot of real energetic people who really care about the future of this country. I believe that our speakers at our caucuses are very passionate people. I believe theyre going to be very effective. Stephanie with just four the campaign for months, president ial candidates have been flooding iowa. 15 candidates are still in the race to become president. And this week the state is on overload. Arent the only from the spotlight here in downtown businesses are the political tourists in for monday night. Local shops and turning a profit looking for a monday night, you may be out of luck, those booked for months. Local 5s dan corey has the story. The door at quality inn, youre greeted by john meyers. Here at the front desk, checking people in, taking care of the they have everything they need for a good stay. Meyers has been working at the Des Moines Hotel for several years and has seen his fair share of another one on the brian bocken, general manager definitely enjoy having the appreciate the enormity of it, not only with the other hotels but with the other retaliers, restuarants, stores, shopping, i think they all benefit from the Iowa Caucuses here. Dan corey, channel 5 reporter, now the State Capitol has no time to rest. Des moines hosts state wrestling, state girls and boys basketball, and the ncaa tournament, on consecutive weekends, in late february through march. Reporting in des moines, im dan corey, we are iowa. Stephanie quality inn still has some rooms avalaible for monday night. But almost every Hotel Downtown des moines is sold out for the big event. Stephanie 1shot a case involving Des Moines Water Works has led to a criminal investigation. 54 yearold jeffrey burma was arrested on charges of on going criminal conduct, involving improper billing to Des Moines Water Works. A boonebased Waste ManagementCompany Owned by burma was contracted by water works at this Polk County Water plant. After conducting an internal review, Des Moines Water Workslookid into irregular billings submitted by burma. A criminal investigation is ongoing. Jack an embezzlement case in marshalltown. Today, the director of the Marshalltown Convention and visitors bureau, shannon espenscheid, turned herself in following allegations of suspicious and fraudulent credit card charges. She was arrested today, charged with theft in the first degree and on going criminal conduct. Espenscheid was released on promise to appear in court on february 10. Stephanie 1shot two search warrants involving a Therapeutic Boarding School were conducted today both search warrants stem from allegations of sexual abuse of a former Midwest Academy student by a current staff member. The first, at Midwest Academy. And the second search warrant conducted at a location in montrose affiliated with the academy. Jack but next, local 5 political analyst dr. Steffen schmidt is here to talk with us about what to expect leading up to caucus your watching local 5 news at 6 in hd with meteorologist brad edwards, and local 5 sports with sports director jon schaeffer. This is local 5 news at 6. We are iowa. Stephanie dr. Steffen schmidt is a Political Science professor at iowa state university, and has been local 5s political analyst for this week in iowa. Jack tonight, dr. Schmidt joins us in studio to talk about what to expect from the campaign trail with just four caucus night. Stephanie dr. Schmidt, the big news this week is donald trump deciding not to attend the fox news debate tonight at Drake University. How do you think this will affect the debate . Steffen jack what role has the pool of candidates since the pool of caucus night with all of our live coverage downtown. Jack now lets get a check in with the weather with brad edwards. Brad . Brad wxcdl local 5 weather is coming up next. Experts brad wxwall weather adlib after some warming, morning sunshine, the clouds returned this afternoon to keep us a bit cooler, but we still are above average with temps in the mid to upper 30s. And it looks like the mildest weather is yet to come in our forecast tonight will be partly cloudy with our winds calming down to less than 10 mph. Temperatures will fall back into the low 20s for most areas by friday morning. We should have a mix of sun and clouds friday with southerly winds. This should help us warm up into the mid 40s for the metro. It will be even warmer saturday with upper 40s possible depending on exactly how much sunshine we get. There will be a chance for some light rain showers sunday morning with a mix possible to our north. It will still be relatively mild for late january with highs close to 40. This little system will move out quickly, so we might even see some afternoon sunshine sunday. Caucus monday is looking cool and dry until the evening when there will be a chance for some light snow rain developing ahead of a major winter storm. It looks like we will see only minor accumulations before midnight with the heaviest snow day tuesday. Right now, it looks like either nw or central iowa will have the heaviest band of snow, but everyone will have to deal with the wind and cold into wednesday. Brad 2wx thats all for my forecast. Check out are above average with temps in the mid to upper 30s. And it looks like the mildest weather is yet to come in our forecast tonight will be partly cloudy with our winds calming down to less than 10 mph. Temperatures will fall back into the low 20s for most areas by friday morning. We should have a mix of sun and clouds friday with southerly winds. This should help us warm up into the mid 40s for the metro. It will be even warmer saturday with upper 40s possible depending on exactly how much sunshine we get. There will be a chance for some light rain showers sunday morning with a mix possible to our north. It will still be relatively mild for late january with highs close to 40. This little system will move out quickly, so we might even see some afternoon sunshine sunday. Caucus monday is looking cool and dry until the evening when there will be a chance for some light snow rain developing ahead of a major winter storm. It looks like we will see only before midnight with the heaviest snow expected during the day tuesday. Right now, it looks like either nw or central iowa will have the heaviest band of snow, but everyone will have to deal with the wind and cold into wednesday. Brad 2wx thats all for my forecast. Check out weareiowa. Com for the latest in weather are above average with temps in the mid to upper 30s. And it looks like the mildest weather is yet to come in our forecast tonight will be partly cloudy with our winds calming down to less than 10 mph. Temperatures will fall back into the low 20s for most areas by friday morning. We should have a mix of sun and clouds friday with southerly winds. This should help us warm up into the mid 40s for the metro. It will be even warmer saturday with upper 40s possible depending on exactly how much sunshine we get. There will be a chance for some light rain showers sunday morning with a mix possible to our north. It will still be relatively mild for late january with highs close to 40. This little system will move out quickly, so we might even see some afternoon sunshine sunday. Caucus monday is looking cool and dry until the evening when there will be a chance for some light snow rain developing ahead of a major winter storm. It looks like we will see only minor accumulations before midnight with the heaviest snow day tuesday. Right now, it looks like either nw or central iowa will have the heaviest band of snow, but everyone will have to deal with the wind and cold into wednesday. Brad 2wx thats all for my forecast. Check out weareiowa. Com for the latest in weather. Stephanie 2wx thanks brad. Jack 2bam im here with sports director jon schaeffer, and jon the iowa wild getting a boost from a blue line jon 2bam yeah Jack Joe Finley has shown a spark lately coming up on local 5 sports. Hear whats clicking and why his coaches are jon the iowa wild continue to show they can compete in the month of january. Part of that has been credited to a defenseman who has seen an uptick in ice time. While he may not be putting many pucks in the back of the net joe finley is doing all he can to keep other teams off the scoreboard. When you scan the ice during warm ups for the iowa wild theres one player who stands above the rest joe finley. Hes a big long guy that plays against teams better lines he shuts them down he plays safe hes a physical presence for us all over the ice. Hes chipped in hes had a couple of goals for us has a great shot. The last couple of weeks here hes been really hot. Being good on penalty kill and stepping up physically doing some of those things. Its nice when you can add in offensively i mean i think its par for the course as far as my game is concerned. Season the 6 foot 8 blue liner wasnt seeing much ice time mostly because the defensive core was filled to the brim. It can be a frustrating situation for a seasoned player like finley. As things have thinned out a little bit though he has thfound his niche with this iowa squad. Joe has been well deserving. Hes done a great job working on the ice and off the ice with David Cundiff our assistant coach. Cundy has been working with him on his footwork moving the puck quicker just keeping it simple. Over the years some of my best games come when im doing the simple things moving the pucks up to forwards not over complicating it. Getting the pucks to the net making sure were being physical boxing out in front of the net those things. You know and when you can put those key components together youre going to have a good game. While finley admittedly wont lead the team in goals he does lead the iowa wild in something very important to defensemen plus minus. Finley sits with a team high plus 3 and the only player on the active roster with a plus rating. And more importantly a category that isnt kept statistically blocked shots. One of the biggest things about him is hes fearless. Hell block your shot. Hes Walking Around with bumps and bruises on his body because hes willing to do that for his team. A team thats practically in the backyard to his home town edina minnesota. Having Family Friends be able to come down and watch a game here or there and ive enjoyed my time this far and look forward to more wins here. Jon meanwhile the iowa wrestling team is top ranked and ready to grapple with their rival minnesota. The hawkeyes are ranked 2nd nationally and a perfect 130 this season. The gophers however have been down a bit this year. Theyre 76 and ranked 23rd. Still coach tim brands realizes the importance of showing up big on friday night in a key big ten match. Seems like theres always fireworks but you cant count on that either i dont know how much different it is its minnesota, our ticket requests have gotten a lot more on my end people pestering me a little bit so were fired year. And its one of those ones we pointed to and it looks like theres going to be a good response from the hawkeye faithful jon sx3s stephanie sx3s jack sx3s well be right back. Youre 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. The frontrunner decided not to attend the last Republican Debate before caucus night. Well take a look at what happened on the main debate stage and at trumps alternative event. Jack wxhang now one last check of your weather, with chief meteorologist brad edwards. Brad weather adlib after some warming, morning sunshine, the clouds returned this afternoon to keep us a bit cooler, but we still are above average with temps in the mid to upper 30s. And it looks like the mildest weather is yet to come in our forecast tonight will be partly cloudy with our winds calming down to less than 10 mph. Temperatures will fall back into the low 20s for most areas by friday morning. We should have a mix of sun and clouds friday with southerly winds. This should help us warm up into the mid 40s for the metro. It will be even warmer saturday with upper 40s possible depending on exactly how much sunshine we get. There will be a chance for some light rain showers sunday morning with a mix possible to our north. It will still be relatively mild for late january with highs close to 40. This little system will move out quickly, so we might even see some afternoon sunshine sunday. Caucus monday is looking cool and dry for some light snow rain developing ahead of a major winter storm. It looks like we will see only minor accumulations before midnight with the heaviest snow expected during the day tuesday. Right now, it looks like either nw or central iowa will have the heaviest band of snow, but everyone will have to deal with the wind and cold into wednesday. Stephanie 4shothang thank you for spending your time with us tonight. Jack 4shothang we are working hard on another great newscast for 10pm. Were proud to tyra it will happen. Surprise, tyra banks is a mom, so why did she keep it all secret . What we know about the newborn babys father. Thats myboyfriend, eric. Eric, quick little turn around