Local 5 news midday in hd starts now. We are iowa elias good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday. Im Elias Johnson. Elias round three for the republican president ial candidates last night in boulder was a spirited debate. The 10 candidates on the main stage launched fierce attacks on the each other, the moderators, and of course, Hillary Clinton abcs tom llamas brings us the highlights. For the first time donald trump was not in the middle of the biggest fight at a republican debate. 20 38 37 27 sotjeb bush what is it like a french work week . You get three days where you have to show up jeb bush going after the man he mentored senator marco rubio. Attacking him for missing votes in the senate. 20 38 43 07 sotjeb bush you can campaign, or just resign and let someone else take the job. But rubio standing his ground. Delivering a line that left bush silent and the audience cheering 20 39 20 11 sotrubio someone has convinced you that attacking me is going to help yo
Layoffs five hundred and thirty that could happen in march. This is just the latest round of layoffs at the company. It was last month that they laid off one hundred and sixty workers at ge and then in november a hundred and eighty five received pink slips being blamed the cuts on a shrinking workload for maybe thirty news now is reaching out to be easy for more about these layoffs. Look for the latest on the news at four pm. Well a big goodbye to local sailors on the uss barry the ship and her crew just left naval station norfolk this morning and right now the guided missile destroyer is in route to japan yet this move has been long planned but its key for the region elise brown was peer site for todays appointment families here tell me were going to miss their loved ones in the navy sailors and the calling to protect their country and usually very proud of him consoling kids before the u s s theory its more than three hundred feet off the dock for its journey to japan ships new home
25mph. Tonight mostly clear. Lows will be in the low orth 5 saturday mostly sunny. Highs will be in the low mid 40s. Winds north 510mph. A cold front is slowly moving offshore with an area of low pressure along it. Colder air is filtering in from the west as the sytem moves snow in the region. Most of this will melt with a warm wet ground in place. But some areas north northwest of the metro could see some light accumulations on grassy surfaces or vehicles. Wet roads and some wintry weather will likely cause slowdowns for this mornings commute. By the midmorning we will dry out. Well gradually clear out through the day. Highs will be in the 40s. Cool dry weather is expected for tomorrow. At this time sunday looks fairly quiet, but we will be on the edge of another offshore low. Coastal north carolna could see a few showers on sunday. A stray shower could move up to the southside. This is a fairly large system. So any change in its track could change the forecast. Stay tuned for updates
As the fighting rages in gaza, the u. S. Ordered a stop to commercial flights into israel. Most airlines canceled flights until further notice. It comes after a rocket fired from gaza landed close to tel avivs main airport. Nick, tell us more about the suspension of flights into the International Airport there in tel aviv. This is this afternoon, a rocket fired from gaza into israel came closer to the airport than any rocket of the more than thousand that have flown from here into israel has come before it largely destroyed a house. Israeli Officials Saying this ban is unnecessary, call the airport safe and guarded and say dont hand terror a prize by restricting flights into that airport. Prime minister netanyahu specifically asking john kerry, the secretary of state for that. That airport closed and we saw people running for cover, running in panic as those air sirens went off. Those are the images that the u. S. Airlines are responding to, people not feeling inside the airport that t
Two federal appeal court contradictory rulings. The junk was considering whether the federal government can help people pay for insurance bought through health care exchanges. They came to different conclusions. Libby, break it down, tell us what exactly these rulings mean. When the Obama Administration launched the Affordable Care act, it assumed that states would want to run the insurance exchanges. In fact, a lot of republicans had agitated for that control, but when it became law, republicanled states said you do it, were not going to take on that challenge, so mar more americans get Health Insurance through healthcare. Gov than it was originally kind. The decision tailed gets at americans who dont get their Health Insurance through state exchanges, but the federal exchange and get help as part of the Affordable Care act. The decisions were very different. The d. C. District court of appeals said the three judge panel said that americans receiving their health care through the fede