About a dozen members of local union 347 were racing to take down boxes and retrieve miles of chords as the raccoons raced around them. You get up close to it, and all of a sudden it buckles. Reporter it took dozens of Union Members and other volunteers three weekends to set up the electrical grid. Theyre trying to take down as much as they can. In one day. Were not going to get it all out, a few more hours and we would have been in pretty good shape but we didnt quite make it. Reporter now the question how high will the waters go . And what will be left of the elaborate light displays after it recedes . Electrically, were in pretty good shape. I dont know how displays are thats hard to say. Mark Jolly Holiday lights usually goes 6 weeks. This year, it only mode to dish made it three weeks. The presdient of make a Wish Organization that makes wishes come true for sick children, tonight at 6 well explain various ways you can help make up that difference. Live in des moines, mark tausche
Beautiful out today but showers and colder air are moving in wheres everything at right now . Chief meteorologist don slater is in the super doppler 10 Weather Center with our first forecast. Tonight stray showers before 10pm. Maybe a flurry or two for the northern neck. Otherwise, cold lows fall into the upper 20s. Wind nw 10 20mph wednesday cold with sunshine. Highs only in the midupper 30s. Wind wnw 1015mph. Thursday mainly sunny. Very cold am 20s , but warms into the low 50s by the afternoon. Wind sw 1015mph. A strong cold front will cross our area tonight. As it moves by, it could create isolated showers. But even a flurry or two for areas around the northern neck. Will filter into our area tonight. Lows will fall below freezing, and itll be a struggle for highs to reach the upper 30s tomorrow wed . To no surprise, temps will rebound back to around 50 degrees by thursday with 60s on deck for the kickoff to the weekend. There will be an area of low pressure that rolls into our area
Cassandra jones with fox5. We hold onto a slight chance of scattered morning but it looks like the bulk of the activity is heading east. The Winter Weather advisory for the mountains will last through 4pm today dropping down to morning with 36 possible above 5000ft 69 above 8500ft. We will dry out through the Late Afternoon with highs right around 50 degrees over the next couple days with a slight chance of showers back on saturday into sunday. We dry out through next week with highs right around 51 heres your fox5 Traffic Solutions here is a look at your drive here are the accidents to watch out and alternate routes you can use listed on our maps here are the construciton areas to look out for and alternate routes listed on our maps here are your photos for the day back to the news desk. The democrats hoping to become the next president are reaching out to nevada voters. In an interview youll only see on fox5. Fox5s Christine Maddela sat down with Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton here
Join me, lets go win the nomination. A momentous beginning to the president ial election. Were live in iowa with all angles covered and complete analysis. And we do say good tuesday morning, everyone. Iowa. Despite enjoying a wide and steady lead in the polls donald trump has been handed a stunning defeat by texas senator ted cruz in yesterdays Iowa Republican caucus. The fiery conservative wildly un unpopular by his own partys leaders edged out a victory over trump after wooing the states influential evangelical leaders. Heres how it shook out. Cruz beating trump by 4 Percentage Points and a surprisingly strong showing by florida senator marco rubio place. On the democratic side, Hillary Clinton defeating many think the neck and neck race with Bernie Sanders still too close to call. And the projected numbers do bear that out. A race split 50 50. In the first real test, there is no grand slam winner showing just how divided voters are in iowa. It could be an indication of the broader c
Politics right now. Theres a lot going on in the news right now. President obama is sending 200 more u. S. Troops and a bunch of apache attack helicopters back into iraq to go fight isis there. That 200 extra special Operations Forces will put the number of u. S. Troops in iraq right now at over 4,000. Those apache attack helicopters and the mission of these new special forces that are going to be sent back into iraq, not to mention the specific place where they are being sent in iraq, all of these details leave no illusions about the fact that this new deployment is not some kind of support operation or something thats going to put u. S. Forces well behind front lines. This is basically a combat deployment. As the u. S. Involvement in iraq, or i guess its now u. S. Reinvolvement in iraq, does continue to escalate. President obama himself is also about to head off on an International Trip that will have him visit some of our staunchest european allies. The president will be stopping in