Claire bam everyone has a good luck charm. Rabbits foot, gameday rituals, whatever it may be. But for one hawkeye, hers is the 1957 rose bowl medal she earned as a drummer in a university of iowa band. She wore that medal proudly for every hawkeye game. This thanksgiving, it went missing, but the good luck it provided her was never lost. Anyone who knows me knows about my rose bowl medal take one look around dorothy carpenters home were certainly a family of hawkeye fans theres no doubt. Shes a hawkeye. And has been since 1956 when she joined the famous scottish highlanders, an all female bagpipe and drumming band. Oh im right here, third snare as fate has it, her first year at iowa, the hawks made it to pasedena. Was of course that magical football season for the hawkeyes to get to go to the rose bowl for the very first time the band played on their train ride out, in the parade, at halftime and on the rides back. And after it all, they got this medal. Nearly every day since. I consid
We have local fives Claire Powell driving the highways as our road warrior today claire what are you seeing . Claire ad lib Road Conditions heading northeast toward marshalltown on highway 330 claire toss back jack heres another jack heres another jack heres another driving issue tonight. Lots of folks are headed to ames for the home big 12 conference opener at hilton tonight. This is a live look at i35 at the east lincoln way exit to get into ames. You can see ad lib to conditions pm cyclones vs. The texas tech red raiders. So if youre headed that way, be careful stephanie we now know the name of the construction worker killed in a trench collapse this morning. Police say 30 year old Justin Jorgensen of colfax was killed. The collapse happened around 8 am near 5th avenue and andentureland drive in altoona. Local fives Claire Powell was there this morning as the rescue turned into a recovery effort. At 8 15 police and rescue crews rushed to the soontobe linden oaks apartments along adv
Jumping the small median and crashing into a semi in the southbound lane. A relative was following the victims car, and thats who stopped to help. The driver of the semi. Who was in a sam adams beer truck. Is ok. Stephanie the Rainy Weather was also a factor in another crash this afternoon. A pickup truck with a camper overturned on the east mixer of i35 south and 80 around 2 this afternoon. No injuries were reported. Jack millions of people in mexico are bracing for hurricane patricia, the storm that went from a Tropical Storm to a category five hurricane in just a day. Here to give us more perspective is local 5 chief meterologist brad edwards. Brad wxwall meteorologists predict patricia could dump as much as 20 inches of rain in some parts of mexico causing flooding and triggering mudslides. Whats left of the hurricane should drift north, into the Southern Region of the us where parts of the lonestar state are already under flash flood watches. Brad, thanks. And we want to know do y
Serious injury for both Matthew Stephenson who narrowly missed being shot that day. And also for Zach Whitehill who was shot once in the back and once in the neck. That assault conviction is only an aggrevated misdemenor instead of a forcable felony like the attempted murder charge. But polson was also found guilty on all other counts including willful injury, intimindation with weapon and all of his drug related charges. Claire now we talked to all of the victims off camera after the verdict was read Zach Whitehill told us hes just trying to absorb everything that just happened. Some members of were crying happy to hear the attempted we reached out to both attorneys for they denied as well. Polsons sentencing hearing is set for december 9th at 8 30 am. Reporting live in des moines Claire Powell local5 news we are iowa Claire Powell local5 news we are iowa jack claire, thanks. Jack new at five. An attempted child enticement that Altoona Police are checking out. Two kids say they were a
Down, after a four hour standoff. Coming up the disturbing new details about the metros latest murders. Stephanie then local five goes one on one with jeb bush. Is he ditching out on iowa . Local 5 news at 5 in hd starts now. We are iowa jack developing now in california. Jack at least 14 people are confirmed dead in a shooting in san bernardino. It happened during a function at the inland regional center. Thats a place for people with developmental disabilities. Jack police say theres more than one shooter and they were heavily armed when they opened fire. The shooting took place near a building that houses a library and Conference Center where at least 25 people work. Investigators are looking for up to three shooters. At least one of taken off in a black suv. Jack you can look for all the latest on the story developing out of california on world news, right after this newscast. Stephanie but for now lets get into some local news. Stephanie and our big story today the arrest of a man