Week left for the president ial candidates to make their pitches to iowa voters. One week from tonight iowans will head to their caucus sites to cast the first votes in the tonight des moines is ground zero for the three democratic candidates. Hillary clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin Omalley will share a stage at drake university. But dont call it a debate. Cnn is hositng a townhall with all three candidates tonight. You can tune in starting at eight p m. Heading into the home stretch, clinton is holding get out to caucus events across the state. The former secretary of state met with supporters at the Jewish Federation of greater des moines this morning. Instead of attacking any of her opponents, clinton talked up her record. Saying shes the only candidate with the experience and judgment to keep the country safe. 18 46 29 all this turbulence in Global Markets is a reminder to keep at home. To make it work for everyone. The struggling, the striving and time 45 thats why i am promoti
Minutes later they determined they were investigating the citys first homicide of 2016. Sgt. Paul parizek, Des Moines Police department right now, anything thats here that doesnt look like it belongs here is evidence. So, weve started a long process of identifying things that just seem out of place. Were just looking for anything that wasnt here before. Police say they got a call from inside the home at 1413 pioneer road to check on 71 yearold Norma Jean Mcneeley in the middle of the night. Officers say a relative made the call after hearing a cry out from mcneeleys downstairs bedroom. Sgt. Paul parizek, Des Moines Police department we cant discuss those details right now, but her death was violent. Detectives found around 100 drops of blood in the area around the porch, and stretching down the street from mcneeleys home. Police say mcneeley never left her house sunday morning and died inside of it as well. They spent the morning and afternoon interviewing potential witnesses, but say
Hopefully, everyone is looking over their shoulders because we do take homicide seriously and will find them. Marcus lyon says his thoughts are now with the families of messer and anderson and he hopes after the pain both families can find closure. Parents not only had to go through it initially, but now they have to go through the whole thing again. Marcus Authorities Say yenger and dye were involved in an altercation during a Birthday Party at the house and asked to leave. They believe that may be the reason the pair set the deadly fire. Stacey Des Moines Police say still no arrests in sundays murder of a woman on pioneer road. 71yearold norma jean mcneeleys body was found inside the home. Police have not released a cause of death, except to say it was suspicious in nature. Steve investigators are still looking for what caused a dart bus to go crashing through an eastside des moines home. Crews pulled the bus out of the house today and put a fence around it to keep people out. The wo
20s. Winter weather advisory in effect 6am monday until 12am tuesday for portions of west and north iowa. The advisory does not include polk county. The overcast skies will finally give way to precipitation tomorrow as highs top out in the lowtomid 30s. Nikki also coming up on local five news at 10. Snowzilla is leaving the country, but not before it dropped record setting snow. Up and down the east coast. Nikki then. Video of a special needs student pressed up against the windows of a Des Moines Public School bus. A bus driver and an assistant fired after the incident. Nikki but first, a metro woman found dead in her home early this morning. Now police are ruling it a homicide. Local 5 news at 10 in hd starts now. We are iowa nikki dead in her des moines home early this morning. Tonight, police are investigating it as a homicide. Good evening. Im nikki davidson. This is the metros the first homicide of the year. And while there arent many details on what happened right now, police are
Yesterday. But its a much, much different story to our north. Roger riley shows how folks are still struggling to move around today. Sot it was tough. It was 100 wind, snow blowing. So bad you couldt see where you were going. This is what wendell shellenbarger encountered on his way from des moines to fort dodge. Shellenbarger is a volunteer for lifeserve blood center. And was taking blood for a patient in the hospital they told me if i got in trouble i could turn around and come bad until you get north of story city. People we talked to noticed going south past the randall exit mdash; roads got better almost instantly. Spent the night in the motel, as their over the road truck could not reach their home near stanhope. Sot gary 3946 waited till wind died down. Backed down the hill came to the motel kyle kruse and doug minteer were busy in the storm plowing out hog farms around the area. Sot 5620 pretty nasty slick roads we need the wind to die even though the blizzard had moved on this