City council said it is vitally important to keep the company in johnston. Jack lam governor branstad released a Statement Today about the move, saying quote we are proud that dow duponts leadership has selected iowa as its Global Business center for its newly formed agriculture company. For the past few months, weve had the pleasure of showing them what iowa has to offer a worldclass biosciences company. Stephanie 2shot the waiting game continues for the iowa utilities board decision on the bakken pipeline. Jack 2shot today, the board resumed its discussions about any and all conditions several concerned groups have expressed about the pipeline. Jack and stephanie, its been a very deliberate process. But the board appears to be getting closer and closer to a decision. The talk today was about timing, easements and overall communication with land owners while no one on the board has given an indication of attendance today, seem to think the pipeline will happen. Chad carter, business e
Of 36 will be possible north and east of us. Most of the snow should be done by noon sunday. Sunday afternoon is looking dry and mostly cloudy with highs close to average in the low 30s. It should be a nice enough afternoon for the kids to go out and play in the newly fallen snow warmer weather will finally start to take shape over the midwest and iowa next week with jack 2shot good evening. Welcome to local 5 news, home of we are iowa dot com. Im jack miller. Stephanie 2shot and im stephanie angleson. Glad youre with us tonight. Stephanie concussions they are showing up more and more in pro athletes, as well as in players at the high school level. Now iowa state lawmakers are getting involved to make sure schools are watching for concussions very closely. Jack a bill will be introduced on monday that will require an athletic trainer to be on hand for any varsity football, soccer, or wrestling event. Its up for a vote before the Senate Education committee. Stephanie thats one side of t
To have you with hirs on a wednesday night. And we begin here with major new developments in the race for 2016. The chips falling fast after New Hampshire. Two candidates now out of the race. Chris christie and Carly Fiorina dropping out. Last night, the outsiders winning. After that huge win for donald trump in New Hampshire, hes now in South Carolina at this hour, about to hold a major event. Trump won New Hampshire. The other headline, the surprise second finish for Ohio Governor john kasich, as we ask hi is he ready for a battle with trump . And, senator marco rubio tonight, explaining to us why he came in fifth place. Rubio, pointing to the abc debabate and h performance. Abcs Jonathan Karl in South Carolina tonight, asking, can any republican now beat trump . Reporter Donald Trumps victory, in a worldd huge. Steamrolling the competition. I wanted to congratulate the other candidates, okay . You know, its always tough and then tomorrow, boom, boom. T thats the way it is. Reporter
March first. Liz mathis 4 56 37 which ones have they said are completed to them . Mikki stier 4 57 15 0 4. 5. 6. 7 is a network, of those one theyre monitoring is 5. The development of our network. That one of the biggest concerns of these lawmakers, the network. Will the 560thousand iowans on medicaid have the Health Care Providers they need within a reasonable distance. Republican senator David Johnson who represents one of the most conservative districts in the state says the whole plan needs to be revisited. 5 15 10 why was the legislature left out of this last year . Why . I really feel like we were just left out. Amanda bam a couple of other important notes. We keep talking about march 1st but theres a deadline coming up tomorrow february 17th. Day for individuals on which of the three managed Care Companies they want for their health coverage. Also, still no word from cms on whether this is all a go for march 1st. Many expect to hear from cms in the near future. Live in the stud
In from our northwest tonight with a mix of rain and snow. It looks like conditions will be mild enough before midnight for mainly rain showers in western iowa. Local 5 news at 10 in hd starts now. We are iowa stephanie 2shot good evening. Im stephanie angleson. Jack 2shot and im jack miller. Downtown des moines is looking to host some big events this year. But changes could make it tricky for those looking to use the skywalk system to get around. Construction of the Convention Center hotel has closed down parts of the skywalk until 2018. Stephanie tonight, just days away from the start of the state wrestling tournament. Construction concerns are going to cost them a lot of money. Stephanie local fives Nikki Davidson joins us live from downtown with more in tonights big story. Nikki . Nikki right during these cold winter months. Coming down the warm skywalk can be like heaven. But lately. Youre going to run alot of this. Parts that are blocked off and closed. An inconvience for some. B