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Start with morning clouds, but skies will eventually clear out for the afternoon. Winds will be very light at 4 to 8 mph becoming more southeasterly as the day progresses. The thermometer will read in the 20s tomorrow, but with sunshine and light winds it might not feel so bad winds will remain light overnight monday with partly cloudy skies. Lows tomorrow night will again drop into the teens. A mild warmup news at 10. Trumps got bad press and now his supporters are after hillary clinton. The drama of the campaign trail in your local election headquarters next. Nikki plussigns that the bird flu has left the statepoultry show bans are officially no more. Nikki but first, a big year for the iowa state patrol as they learn fatal accidents on their roads have decreased for another year. Hear what they contribute to their success. Local 5 news at 10 in hd starts now. We are iowa nikki good evening. Welcome to local 5 news, im nikki davidson. Tonight, some good news from the iowa state patro
First on 13. President obama is debuting a controversial new years resolution today. The president telling americans this morning. Its time to get serious about gun control. 22 30 my new years resolution is to move forward on our Unfinished Business as much as i can. Thats especially true for one piece of Unfinished Business, thats our epidemic of gun violence. Today hell meet with attorney general Loretta Lynch to discuss options for tightening gun laws. At the top of his list. Expanding background checks. Hell then conduct a three month review of other steps to help reduce gun violence. To make his ideas a reality. Hes expected to skip congress approval. And take executive action. But some republican president ial candidates are already promising to reverse any action obama takes if they win the presidency. President ial candidate 50 59 so he is going to sign another executive order having to do with the second amendment, having to do with guns. I will veto that. I will unsign that s
First on 13. Deadly Mass Shootings seem to be a regular occurrence in america. Now president obama is launching a final year push on gun control. Once again, innocent people were killed because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun. President obama used his weekly address to announce the initiative. Hell meet with attorney general Loretta Lynch today to discuss options for tightening gun laws. Hes expected to take executive action without congressional approval, expanding background checks. The move has widespread public support. But some president ial candidates are already promising to reverse the action if they win the presidency. He knows that he cant get it through congress so hes just gonna try and do it by executive action as if hes king barack obama. All these executive orders hes gonna come out with tomorrow that are gonna undermine our Second Amendment rights . On my first day in office, theyre gone. The expected actions come ahead of
Your forecast firs brad wx wall weather adlib our crazy, mild december weather will continue a couple more days typically, our highs are in the mid 30s and lows in the 10s, but tonight most areas will remain in the 40s overnight with a mild sw breeze. This will set the stage for a very mild, but windy, thursday as a strong system passes to our north. Skies will be partly cloudy tonight and into thursday morning, but we should be sunnier in the afternoon hours. Local 5 news at 10 in stephanie good evening. Im stephanie angleson. Jack miller has the night off. Tonight, plans to unite 4 metro fire departments. Waukee, West Des Moines, clive and urbandale are already on the same dispatch network. Now the cities are looking to take the next step toward improving response times. Stephanie local 5s jacob peklo joins us from the Digital Media center with tonights big story. Jacob . Jacob stephanieif you look at this map. You can see that the four cities have unusual boundaries. Sometimes, two