Who sail on her. Mary winnefeld is the ships sponsor, and now considered an honorary crew member. It was up to her to send the sioux city on its way. With one swing. Nats of launch now in the water, work will begin to finish the ship, which is about 80percent complete. The sioux citys executive officer, ken lieberman, says the crew cant wait to get aboard. To be here since the beginning, since it was born, and see it being built the last yearandhalf, and to now see it go into the water sitting in its natural habitat to start its trials is truly and honor and an amazing experience, said cdr ken over the next 10 to 12 months the uss sioux city will undergo what are called builders trials at marinette marine. The first step is to get inside, and check the hull to make sure its secure. After the builders trials come acceptance trials. If all goes according to plan, the uss sioux city should be sold off the to navy in 2017. robert matt, i know youve been going nonstop the past few days. Alo
Breen, reporting. Saturday, another milestone. The christening. A ceremonial breaking of a champagne bottle on the ships bow. The champagne bottle gets broken, but this day is about the bonding. The bonding between the sponsor of the ship and the crew, howard said. For the United States of america, i christen thee sioux city, said mary winnefeld, uss sioux city sponsor. May god bless this ship and all who sail on her. Mary winnefeld is the ships sponsor, and now considered an honorary crew member. It was up to her to send the sioux city on its way. With one swing. Nats of launch now in the water, work will begin to finish the ship, which is about 80percent complete. The sioux citys executive officer, ken lieberman, says the crew cant wait to get aboard. To be here since the beginning, since it was born, and see it being built the last yearandhalf, and to now see it go into the water sitting in its natural habitat to start its trials is truly and honor and an amazing experience, said cd
Democratic and republican frontrunners. As both swing through sioux city this sunday evening, hoping to how onto single digit leads going into monday. Jenna we begin with Hillary Clinton, who spoke to an estimated crowd of 500 people at the Sioux City Convention center. Chelsea clinton joined the former secretary of state as the family has been campaigning in iowa all day. After she talked to voters, secretary clinton sat down with me for a oneonone interview. I asked her. Tonight, i had the chance to sit down with mrs. Clinton, just one day before the caucus. Jenna rehnstrom says, are you confident you can win iowa, and are some feelings about 2008 and Barack Obamas surge at the end playing a role . Secretary clinton says, i have to say, i feel very good about this campaign. It is close, and thats why its very important that people who support me come out and caucus tomorrow night. We got good news that the blizzard wont be here till after midnight, so you because i think so much is a
We are now less than 48 hours away from the iowa caucus. Hear the candidates last pitch to voters. No nat nikki and on the fence when it comes to who to vote for . We have some caucus fun with an old sport. Nikki plus, students put robotics to the test. We head out to a contest where kids show off their skills. No nat local 5 news at 10 in hd starts now. We are iowa nikki good evening. Welcome to local 5 news im nikki davidson. Glad youre with us tonight. Nikki weve had beautiful Winter Weather the last few days. But its not going to last. Meterologist Bree Sullivan is tracking a winter storm that may hit early next week. Bree how does it look so far. Nikki thanks bree. Nikki the countdown is on in iowa. By this time monday night. Well start to have an idea of who iowans are voting for. And today, candidates pitched their ideas hoping to sway voters their way. Abcs brandi hitt has more. Nats sanders rally tonight the count down in iowa. Is getting ugly. Sot trump ted cruz, who was not
A distant third with 3 . Now, donald trump is now leading on the republican side here in he has 28 of likely voters. Ted cruz is in second with 23 . And marco rubio is in third with 15 . People behind the register poll explained their findings at a live event downtown. That analysis. Rose the register iowa poll is seen as the Gold Standard for its strong predicting power. But the pollsters tell me caucusgoers still have a lot to decide for caucus night. Kathie no one has got it locked up, at this stage. Rose on the republican side, donald trump regained the top spot. This, after falling behind 10 points behind ted cruz in december. Ann for trump to have come back to seize the lead, now thats an interesting story. So, hes doing well. Ted cruz is suffering from the attacks that have been laid against him. And well see if he can recover in time. Rose however, the poll shows a lot of fluidity from potential republican caucusgoers. 45 say they could still be persuaded. Could be good news fo