Escape a correctional facility in newton, and tonight some say they now exactly why it happened. Local 5 news at 10 is next. Youre watching local 5 news at 10 in hd. We are iowas most Accurate Weather Team and we start with your forecasAccurate Weather Team and we start with your forecast first. Brad wx wall weather adlib it was nice while it lasted we had a nice stretch of warmer than average temps, but now winter is making a comeback especially for Northern Iowa. There Northern Iowa tonight with mostly some snow expected there. One to three inches is likely north of hwy 30 overnight while areas south are expected to get less than 1. Temperatures will continue you to get colder tonight with 20s excted by tuesday morning. Tuesday will be a wintry day with quite a few clouds, cold northerly winds of 1020 mph and temps staying mostly in the 20s all day. We will try to recover a bit on wednesday, but another weather system will be coming through wed. Evening with another chance for more rain snow mix. Again, the metro should not see much if any accumulation. We will see some nicer weather by the weekend with sunnier skies saturday and much warmer temps expected for sunday. Our timing has been pretty lucky lately when it comes to our weekend stephanie day five in the Alexander Fazzino trial today. The prosection is done, and the defense in underway. Now, with alex fazzinos family taking the stand. Jack turns out the third time is not the charm. Why grand View University let one of its star wrestlers go today. Stephanie its super tuesday eve well take a look at the campaign trail and what to expect leading into one of the biggest milestones on the way to white house. Local 5 news at 10 in hd starts now. We are iowa stephanie 2shot good evening. Welcome to local 5 news. Im stephanie angleson. Jack 2shot and im jack miller. On tonight for two men who escaped from the newton correctional release facility stephanie officers discovered saturday night during a routine count that Michael Amodeo was missing. And during a second count. It became apparent a second inmate. Jessy foley was also gone. And tonight. A local Organization Says they know why these inmates got away. Budget cuts. Local fives Nikki Davidson explains. Nikki bam right the union that represents the employees at the department of corrections says theres simply not enough staffing at the facilities. Theyre not surprised these two men were able to escape. And they even expect more inmates will get away in the future. It wasnt long ago that danny homan was a employee for the department of corrections. He says for that reason he knows all too well what obstacles the men and women who work here face. As the current president of asfcme. The union that represents the workers. He says there are glaring problems with the system. 10 16 the department of corrections mission is to protect the public and staff, and they failed. He says a guard vehicle used to circle the perimeter of this facility. But due to there was not guard vehicle out here saturday when the men escaped. 13 55 21 i dont know if stopped the escape, found out about it sooner. He also says the public might be shocked at how few guards are inside some of these facilities. 8 50 27 one to 150, one to 100. It is just not a safe ratio. And thats what staff work with. Both of the inmates were serving time for drug offenses. But homan says that doesnt lessen the severity of this escape. Should still be on alert 9 45 27 they are on the run, what will they do to make sure they dont get caught . How hard will they fight when they get caught . And believes more problems are in store. Unless something is done at a statelevel. To increase funding for the department of corrections and make sure that money is spent on additional staff. 6 50 03 somebody may get hurt. Mabye not. I hope thats the way this turns out but everyone should be concerned. Nikki bam now i did ask the about hese claims. But they did not return my request for comment. In the studio Nikki Davidson local five news we are iowa. Stephanie once again if you know anything about the whereabouts of Michael Amodeo or jessy foley. You are asked to call 911 jack its a story you first saw here on local 5, and theres a new development tonight. Jack 2shot grand View Universitys star wrestler andrew long was dismissed today. School leaders say he violated a code of conduct contract. Stephanie its strange timing, because last night here at local five we aired a lengthy piece about longs unlikely addition to the vikings roster. He had previously wrestled for iowa state and penn state, but was kicked off because of legal problems off the mat. While at penn state, he was accused of guilty to indecent assault and served nine months in prison. But the grand agreed to give him another chance. But with some strict rules about his behavior. Today weve learned he violated those. Local fives Elias Johnson picks up our coverage in the Digital Media center. Elias johnson what a difference a weekend can make before andrew long ever laced up his wrestling shoes and put on his viking singlet on School Administrators gave andrew long a third chance with restrictions. He wasnt campus because is is a registered sex offender and he was abide by a code of conduct that held him to a High Standard head coach Nick Mitchell outlined that contract recently andrews Admission College theres been a process some expectations you have that are pretty straight forward. What were some of the things you had to do to make sure everybody was happy, what was signed, what does he understand the expectations are . Nick mtichell head coach there was a lot of people, i mean our campus counselor, our Vice President for student life. All these people had time to meet with him, talk to of came up with a contract and sign and it really was what we call a last chance agreement and its really nothing totally unique to what i expect out of most of the wrestlers but its just something for his that its relay clear what the expectations are and you stick to this and we wont have any issues. Andrew wasnt arrested but regardless, the code on conduct clearly stated he was not to consume alcohol while a student at grand view. He violated that agreement saturday evening. Nick mitchell said he was made aware of the drinking and when confronted, andrew admitted to the violation. The vikings will continue their quest for a fifth Straight National title this weekend at the National Tournament in topeka kansas without their top ranked wrestler andrew long. He was also set to graduate after this semester. Jack 1shot after airing also reached out to the Iowa Coalition against Sexual Assault. They say no matter what happened with long on the mat, there will always be a victim that shouldnt be forgotten in this story. They remind everyone there are a number of professionals across iowa whove been trained to help survivors of Sexual Assault and trauma. The iowa sexual abuse hotline offers confidential and immediate phone counseling and referrals 24 7. You can call them at 800284 7821. Jack and we want to keep getting feedback on this story. You can watch it on we are iowa dot com. On facebook and twitter to share your thoughts. Stephanie today in court, it was day five in the Alexander Fazzino trial. Stephanie ram fazzino was arrested for first degree murder in 2013. After his wife, emily, was found dead in the couples bathroom in 2012. This morning, the prosecution rested its case. They ended with two dci agents who noted emily did not overdose the day she died. Then the defense took over this afternoon, bringing the fazzinos house keeper and family to the stand. Alex fazzinos mother, aunt and sister all testified they saw emily under the influence countless times. Slurring speech, disoriented, she was kind of staggering and i was so concerned i wanted to take her ot the hospital did she go . She would not go stephanie the trial continues tomorrow with more defense continues tomorrow with more defense witnesses to take the stand. Be sure to stay with local 5 as cover the case. Stephanie coming up on local 5 news at 10. Its is a milestone day in president ial politics. Well take a look at who we might be one step closer to the white house. By this time tomorrow. Jack then iowa state tries to send its 3 seniors out win at hilton coliseum. Highlights and sports. Brad ad lib weather toss it was nice while it lasted we had a nice stretch of warmer than average temps, but now winter is making a comeback especially for Northern Iowa. There is a Winter Weather advisory posted for Northern Iowa tonight with mostly some snow expected there. One to three inches is likely north of hwy 30 overnight while areas south are expected to get less than 1. Temperatures will continue you to get colder tonight with 20s expected by tuesday morning. Tuesday will be a wintry day with quite a few clouds, cold northerly winds of 1020 mph and temps staying mostly in the 20s all day. Take sot tomorrow on good morning iowa. A small town now in the national spotlight. The documentary making a murderer brought a lot of attention to Manitowoc County wisconsin. Well look at how the community is handling the reaction to the netlfix series and sam has a look at your forecast 04 wx adlib thats tomorrow on the allnew good morning iowa your watching local 5 meteorologist brad edwards and local 5 sports with sports director jon schaeffer. This is local 5 news at 10. We are iowa. Stephanie jack brad brad weather adlib it was nice while it lasted we had a nice stretch of warmer than average temps, but now winter is making a comeback especially for Northern Iowa. There with mostly some snow expected there. One to three inches is likely north of hwy 30 overnight while areas south are expected to get less than 1. Temperatures will continue you to get colder tonight with 20s expected by tuesday morning. Tuesday will be a wintry day with quite a few clouds, cold northerly winds of 1020 mph and temps staying mostly in the 20s all day. We will try to recover a bit on wednesday, but another weather system will be coming through wed. Evening with another chance for more rain snow mix. Again, the metro should not see much if any accumulation. We will see some nicer weather by the weekend with sunnier skies saturday and much warmer temps expected for sunday. Our timing has been pretty lucky lately when it comes to our weekend brad jack jack were on the eve in american politics. Super tuesday trump is in the drivers seat. Jack a new cnn with 49 percent of republican voter support. Marco rubio has 16 percent, ted cruz 15 percent, ben carson 10 and john kasich 595 delegates are up for grabs for republicans tomorrow in super tuesday contests across the country. And as the window to campaign narrows, the rhetoric among the Top Republican candidates keeps intensifying. Nationally, 65 of republicans recognize that donald trump is not the best candidate for us to nominate against Hillary Clinton that if donald trump is the nominee, Hillary Clinton in all likelihood wins. Stephanie ram and on the democratic side, Hillary Clinton boosted by her huge win in South Carolina on saturday is hoping to start locking out her democratic rival bernie sanders. Sanders and clinton are facing off for 865 delegates in super tuesday states tomorrow. About 24 hundred are needed to win the democratic race. Stephanie jack jordans in now and a very special night up in ames. Jordan hard to believe but georges niang, jameel mckay and abdel nader have all played their last game at hilton. But the good thing is they went out with a coming up on local 5 sports, highlights and reaction from senior night at hilton coliseum. Now, local 5 sports with jordan furbee. We jordan the great boyz ii men said it best. Its so hard to say goodbye tonight iowa state fans saw georges niang, abdel nader and jameel mckay play one last time inside the friendly confines of hilton coliseum. And theres better way to send out those three than with a win. Cyclones welcoming in oklahoma state. First half. Abdel nader showed up big tonight. The steal and the highlight reel slam puts the clones up 2. Then its niang over to matt thomas, he gives it right back to georges who lays it in for two. He finished with 17 points and 10 rebounds in his final game at hilton. More from the one they call darth nader the two handed throwdown he led all but it wasnt just the seniors in on the action tonight. Matty ice from on the court. Buries the triple then its all three seniors here. Nader to niang up to mckay for good to see that back again. Cyclones up 2725 at the break. Would go up 18. But the cowboys down to 6 then check out this weird play. Jameel mckay with the slam, off the defnders head. Refs tho, call it didnt matter, isu would not falter in this one. They send the seniors out on top, 5850 the final. Dan corey has more from ames. Theres Certain Program where youre just required to do certain things. And ive been blessed to coach at a couple programs like that. You gotta be awesome in the community, you gotta shake hands, you gotta sign autographs, you gotta impact people. You gotta win. But if you do all that, then you have moments like that. The support, the love, the real love that i felt here. I was afraid for that to happen one last time. And you know i think ive put my all into this place and im content with closing the chapter at hilton, because i left everything i had out there. You cant thank cyclone nation appreciate them every day, especially with traveling on the roads and seeing what other teams crowds may look like, you just appreciate it every day. Especially with these two guys right here ive built such a strong relationship with them in the past three years since ive been here and just the energy and the positivity thats around this place, its a hell of a place and im gonna miss it. The final game of the regular season is all set. Iowa state travels down to take on the 12 champion and new 1 kansas jayhawks. Isu can knock off its 2nd 1 of the year and become the first big 12 team to sweep ku since 2001 game set for saturday at 3pm on espn. Jordan stick around, plenty more to cover. When we come back. Weve got highlights and reaction from day one of the girls state basketball tournament to senior night in ames, is also the beginning of the girls state basketball tournament. This morning in also hitting the floor. And thats where we start. 8 central on 1 western 1st quarter. Raegan booth splashes it in to but western from long range. They drained 5 First Quarter 3s. At halftime. 4th quarter, back. Masters back and in. Central decatur pulls within 6. But the away down the stretch. Western ends the cards season. Played more aggressively and got back into it. Down to 1a from this morning. Mount ayr taking on 1 Turkey Valley. Raiderettes down as much as 10 in the 2nd half. 4th quarter, kelcie shields pulls them within 2 then megan warin with a chance to tie it, but its no good. And on the other end. Shelby reicks with the hoop and the hack. Tvs would go up to 7 with a minute to go. But mount ayr fights back. Sheilds again, the bucket cuts it to one she had 25 points and 10 boards today. But the raiderettes cant complete the rally. They fall to still unbeaten Turkey Valley 5551, but pick up great experience for a young team. Our girls did a great job of handling the pressure and making it close at the end and putting themselves in that situation and yup keirston, but our starting five is back and weve got some good young kids coming up through the ranks, so you know success breeds success and hopefully they wanna be back. The defending champs from newellfonda underdogs today versus unbeaten exira ehk. Mustangs shot only 23 percent in the first half, but thanks to 17 offensive rebounds, they led it by 1 at the break. 2nd half, back come the spartans. Maggie rasmussen the hoop and the hack, ehk up by 3 but the Mustangs Press was suffocating. Newellfonda forces 29 turnovers, thanks to 23 steals that went along with 22 offensive rebounds mustangs are on to the semis with the 5342 win . Pleased by their effort and intensity today. Action coming up tomorrow. In 2a, manson nw webster and 240 iowa city regina finish up action at 10 am. Then things pick up in 3a, as 1 and unbeaten pocahontas area mount vernon. Then in the evening. The defending champs from nevada take on pm. Followed by a good one between 4 ballard and 5 keokuk to cap off the night at 830 jordan 3shot state qualifiers in boys 3a. Stephanie jack well be right back. Youre stephanie the world members to the Leaplings Club unity point us some video of babies born today in des moines. Wyatt was the first leap day baby and zane was the first baby for his parents nik and ashley. Congrats to their families ad lib brad weather adlib it was nice while it lasted we had a nice stretch of warmer than average temps, but now winter is making a comeback especially for Northern Iowa. There is a Winter Weather advisory posted for Northern Iowa tonight with mostly some snow expected there. 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