45 degrees in des moines, 39 in fort dodge and 42 in ames. currently having a break in the clouds. overnight had rain and now we have clear skies but a lot of wind. coming from the south with gus's closer to 30 miles per hour -- gusts 30 miles per hour. and it will be dragging in chilly air. temperatures will be falling and we are seeing are high temperatures for the day. expect snow flurries to work in across western iowa and roll through the central part of the state this afternoon. we have even colder days ahead in the forecast. eric: there are parts of central iowa dealing with the aftermath of the rainstorm. highway 169 north of adel has been closed due to flooding. we are told there is even more water over the road this morning. drivers should take a detour river levels are very high in des moines as well. the raccoon river at fleur drive crested at 17.72 feet. that's almost eight feet above flood stage. plotters are going back down, it is 16.9 feet. des moines city officials say because of the flooding, george flagg parkway and fleur drive will likely remain closed through the weekend. elizabeth: des moines police or investigating a deadly crash on the northeast side of the intersection of east 42nd and hubbell avenue before 6:00 p.m.. police say a man was walking erratically when he was hit by a car in the intersection and died. the driver that hit the man is cooperating with police and we are hoping to learn the name of the victim. same kcci on the air and online. eric: candidates clashed over national security and other hot nikole killion is in washington. nikole: this was the first debate since the attacks in san bernardino and paris which sparked heated expect -- exchanges over how they will tackle terror. a showdown on the strip. featuring donald trump versus jeb bush on trumps muslim ban. >> he is a ks candidate and he would be a chaos president. >> jeb doesn't believe i am really unhinged, he said that because he has failed in this campaign. nikole: ted cruz versus marco rubio, the two senators starting over the data collection program and immigration. >> legalizing people in this country now? >> i have never supported legalization and i do not intend to support legalization. nikole: rand paul jumped in. allegiance to chuck schumer and liberals than he does to conservative policy. >> i don't want to get in between them and let them fight. nikole: chris christie made this observation. >> if your eyes are glazed over, this is what it's like to be on the floor of the united states senate. nikole: democrats are preparing for their next match up this weekend. eric: marco rubio john kasich both have campaign stops in ankeny. the next democratic debate is this saturday in new hampshire. elizabeth: officials on the scene of a helicopter crash in arizona. shaina humphries is following the developments. any word on the status of them? shaina: our sister station in phoenix reports to people on the helicopter were killed and a third in critical condition. and a crash in the homes east of phoenix. what caused the help this -- is on scene two examine what caused this to go down. a southwest airlines plane went off the way and into a ditch as it approaches its arrival gate, injuring eight of 138 people on board. most injuries were bumps and bruises but one person complained of check -- chest plane. thousands of children in the nation's second-largest school district are heading back to school. police in los angeles shut down 900 schools tuesday because of a bomb threat. the threat turned out to not be credible but officials say in light of the recent terror attacks and paris and san bernardino, they didn't want to take any chances. the shutdown affected about 700,000 students. in the department of homeland security is expected to announce changes to the terror alert system. secretary jeh johnson says the u.s. needs a system that better informed about terror threats. the current system requires the new system would be similar to the bulletins the fbi uses to send information to law enforcement agencies. elizabeth: construction workers are closing out the year outdoors and on the job thanks to the warm december. as a result, one of the area's biggest developer says they are seeing record setting business. polk county data shows a spike in commercial and industrial permits over a three-year period.hubbell realty reports a record year for not only downtown construction but also single-family homes across central iowa. >> we put in a record number of foundations. single family foundations. he expect next year to be even stronger and we had a record number this year. elizabeth: hubbell realty reports they are currently building more than 500 apartments through six project in the downtown area. your input on alcohol policies at state beaches. the dnr officials say reports of rowdy behavior and excessive drinking have raised questions about banning alcohol on the states 56 beaches. officials are encouraging anyone with an opinion to go online and fill out a public survey. >> at a public beach if it's in the only one around for you can consume alcohol, it tends to draw a concentrated demographic of people doing that. want to make sure it is safe for the public. eric: there is no drafted their proposal that the dnr says public input will help you decide to do -- what to do next. metinka: it will be kind of a wintry day at the beach, turning cooler already dropping four degrees in the last hour. 41 is our temperature and we have a brisk wind coming from the southwest at 18. you may notice your roads and sidewalks are wet. skies are clearing temporarily but there is light snow wrapping around the backside of a fast-moving disturbance in the midwest through sioux city so we will have a chance to see flurries in the metro later on. the wind is coming from a southwest that will switch over to the west and pulling an all of those cold temperature so grab the warm coats and gloves. we have hit our highs, temperatures will fall into the 30's. elizabeth: new numbers show the des moines public school district is the most diverse district in the state. eric: in alyx sacks is taking a deeper look into how that impacts students. alyx: not only is the district ethnically diverse, it is also economically diverse. 100 different when witches are spoken and 75% of students are growing up in poverty. this creates a different dynamic and classrooms. and the school district in its curriculum. one says having some of diversity is a huge advantage, difference -- different, but with the positive causes challenges. >> we are challenged with having students coming to us not just in kindergarten particularly with refugees. we get students from all ages. many from middle school or high school were starting school for the first time in learning english for the first time. we know we don't have them where we would like for them to be by the time they reach graduation age, but we know they are way better off than had they not received services at des moines public schools. alyx: he says sometimes they excel more than they think is possible. so how many refugee students are in public schools? that in 30 minutes. elizabeth: not on the courts, the bad news for cyclones basketball this morning. the problem that will keep him sidelined. abruptly retired last night affected immediately. elizabeth: we are giving away another free paris of tickets to newsies at the civic center. shaina: still a lot of water on the roadways. we have a number of closures to tell you about.and there are quite a few . particularly if you are through the south side today, we will head outside right now and take a look at the roads. things should be easier on these main roadways. no water here, not even very many cars at i-235 and valley west drive. we will let you know if that here's a penny just for you. that's no penny. that's a galaxy s 6 at u.s. cellular this saturday. whoa, thanks, grandma!! you're welcome. you can also get an lg g4 or an lg g pad f 8.0 with that penny. nice! isn't that just delightful? pennies for everyone! get penny doorbuster deals on great devices this saturday starting at 9:00 a.m. paris: there's a lot to do on a dairy farm. nobody's gonna do it for you. you have to get out there and do it yourself. bernie sanders is a well-known friend of family farms. bernie cannot be bought out by big money. bernie's opinion cannot be purchased. it's time for our next president to get in there, roll up his sleeves, take off the gloves, and take on wall street, take on big business, take on big money, and get the working class back to where they should be. he's a rock. >> this is iowa's news leader. this is kcci 8 news this morning. with eric hanson, elizabeth klinge, meteorologist kurtis gertz, and right-now coverage with shaina humphries. elizabeth: welcome back. snowfall and colorado tuesday caused chaos for drivers trying to get home from work. cars were sliding all over the roads with some getting stuck in snowbanks. parts of the denver area so nearly a foot of snow fall. eric: while tens of thousands of drivers in utah struggled to get around, 1/6-grader found a way to get to school. he braved the elements to cycle the one mile to his elementary school through the snow drifts. that's impressive without the snow. he said he did it because unicycling is simply faster than walking. i guess that sounds cool. kind of interesting. metinka: that is something you don't see every day. and there's no snow for us to do that to. 41 in des moines, 43 in ames. cooler temperatures are working in from the west so they have already set a high temperatures for the day and they will slowly fall through the afternoon. overnight we had drizzle and light rain move through. what is moving in will be a few flurries by noon time into the afternoon, not amounting to much at all but you may see a flake or two. gusty wind will be something we are dealing with through the end of the week so we will be tracking in cold temperatures. it will actually be feeling like the 30's. by sunday, temperatures warm up into the 40's and stay there for the first part of next week. elizabeth: there's bad news for iowa state basketball fans. senior guard naz mitrou-long is out for the rest of the season. eric: he is planning to buy for a medical redshirt there would give them another shot at the senior season next year. he had surgery on both of his hips the summer. he averaged 12 point and five steals a game so far this year. at the same time the cyclones lose it player, steve prohm gains one. elizabeth: he's an athletic big man who -- >> deonte is a great player, we just have to work him in. i'm going to meet with him this week to talk about his role in my expectations and our elizabeth: we will see how big of an impact these changes have as the cyclones take on the panthers for the big four classic at wells fargo arena at 6:00 p.m. after iowa takes on drake. shaina: the winning head coach in wisconsin, announced his retirement. after the badgers win over texas a&m, head coach bo ryan made the announcement he is retiring immediately. he said this is simply the right time for him to go and gave assistant coach greg guard the chance to take over. he finishes out his time with the school record 364 wins and seven big 10 titles. lawmakers on capitol hill have come to an agreement with the white house on tax and spending. the $1.1 trillion spending bill funds all government agencies through the 2016 budget year. the deal avoids a government the central bank is expected to raise interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade. they have been kept near zero since the great depression. rates for your credit cards, card loans, and mortgages could go up. overseas markets were all ready braced for the news which will be announced this afternoon. elizabeth: while investors wait for a decision on interest rates, wall street finished up her the second day. the dow is up 156 points, the nasdaq gained 43. the s&p 500 added more than 21. ford says it will test self driving cars in january. the ford fusion hybrid will be put through a course in the company's research center in california and will start with extensive route mapping. the cars will hit the road sometime they say in the second half of 2016. eric: the holiday season is a time of giving but a new bank rate survey says most companies are not giving toward their own employees. a new survey shows less than a sometime of -- some kind of holiday bonus or a pay raise. those nubbers contradict a previous survey that found 78% -- its employees a huge gift. they are giving more than 1300 workers a bonus of $100,000 each. five years ago, the ceo promised the bonus if they doubled the somebod -- the size of the company and they did. $100,000, that's awesome. elizabeth: we want to head over to metinka and we have decent temperatures. metinka: temperatures are starting out right but they will come later on. starting in the 40's and heading back to the 30's. it will be blustery and cloudy with a few flurries here and there so it will feel and look more like winter. we've missed out on most of this system that stay to the spreading into minnesota but you can see a little bit on the back edge. that will wrap through the state as a goes through the afternoon. overnight we have light rain and skies temporarily cleared but the clouds are rolling back in across southwest iowa so it will be another great day -- gray day. wind will shift to the west this afternoon and it will usher in cooler temperatures so that's the reason temperatures will fall later on today. that is generally around 30 miles per hour but sustained wind around 20 will be pretty strong today through thursday and even into friday. a blustery stretch of days, the reason why the system is heading out is the strong pressure difference ringing and gusty wind. tomorrow is a reinforcing blast of cold air dropping overnight low temperatures back down into the teens. and we have more passing flurries by friday morning. we are expecting little in the way of accumulation. by 8:00 a.m. we have flurries working their way and across raindrops early on. by 5:00 p.m. we could have flurries but even by 11:00 before skies clear out. in des moines, 41. a few clouds and the southwest wind at 18. watch for gusts this afternoon near 30. wind will switch to the west. temperatures this afternoon falling into the 30's and over the next couple of days, temperatures turn colder. thursday highs close to freezing with friday highs close to 30 if that. lots of sunshine going for us. overnight lows are cold with flows into the teens but we can temperatures warm up into the 40's by sunday. elizabeth: let's check in with shaina to see what's on the roads. shaina: we are still dealing with closures and a few more than yesterday. further out in the metro, i know dallas county has close down highway 169 north of adel. highway 28 between the highway five bypass. closer to the center of the metro, george flagg parkway will still be closed into the weekend. also fleur drive between bell and mlk near gray's lake. southwest 30th between bell and george flagg, these border streets, the 2900 block of hartford and 39th. eric: you are giving away tickets to newsies at the civic center. elizabeth: eric: will ask you a trivia question about the musica. today's question is in what city does the storyline take place? eric: call us at this number to win. we will reveal the answer and the ticket winner and a couple of minutes. elizabeth: how did they really do? cand elizabeth: welcome back. national security dominated last night's republican residential debate which was marked by heated exchanges over how best to keep america safe. eric: marc sandalow keeps us -- joins us live. we know about donald trump span on all muslims, how strongly was marc: here's what they said about it. they called it un-american, unconstitutional, absurd. they said it doesn't represent america and will make it harder to defeat isis. they didn't say that they wouldn't support him as his company if he wins in the primaries. if anyone thought that this proposal by trump to ban muslims from entering the united states put him so far out of the mainstream that he would be isolated, that idea was put to bed. elizabeth: after paris and san bernardino, do you think fear is now the campaign's biggest issue? marc: world war iii has begun, that's what rick santorum had to say last night. all of them talked about how barack obama has not kept this country safe.time for a quick reality check. since september 11, summer between 50 and 100 americans haha been killed in america by jihadist muslims. during the same. about 300 americans have been if you look at figures of murder, a quarter of a million americans have been killed in that time meaning for every jihadist murder since september 11, about 4000 other killings have happened. fear and crisis play very well trail. eric: were there any big surprises last night? marc: guess what the peaceloving candidates had last night, that if we'd only not gone into iraq and afghanistan and save that money, we could have invested in schools and teachers, our infrastructure, biltmore roads. -- build more roads. trump said it was mistake to do those things and he also said forget the idea of a third-party candidacy, he is a republican throughout through and he would stay with the party whether he wins the nomination or not. elizabeth: we are giving away tickets to see newsies at the civic center and we have a winner. we asked in what city does the storyline take place? the answer is new york city. eric: katie from ankeny knew that, congratulations. for those of you that didn't, we have chances later this week. you can also buy them online through des moines performing arts.org. we will update you after two people were killed in the past two days. the investigations are holding different weights. we are learning about a medical helicopter crash in arizona, what went wrong. busted live on the air, the mistake a rubbermaid that landed elizabeth: the way you can that's a galaxy s 6 at u.s. cellular this saturday. whoa, thanks, grandma!! you're welcome. you can also get an lg g4 or an lg g pad f 8.0 with that penny. nice! isn't that just delightful? pennies for everyone! get penny doorbuster deals on great devices this saturday starting at 9:00 a.m. while supplies last. >> the most-watched morning news in central iowa. this is iowa's news leader. this is kcci 8 news this morning. elizabeth: deadly walk. as des moines police investigate what happened on this busy stretch of road, we will tell you the question they are expected to answer today. eric: flooding closes another major road in central iowa. find out if you will have to go >> i have to go here and call 911. elizabeth: spotting a suspect live on tv. the viral video of an iowa tv reporter who he saw during his five shot and what police did. incredible. welcome back, it is 5:30 on wednesday, december 16. eric: we are setting off today relatively warmer compared metinka:. it feels pretty good out there. the weather is quiet except the wind and temperatures in the 40's. this is about it, temperatures are starting to cool down across western iowa. colder air will arrive this afternoon on the very gusty wind. around 30 miles per hour across the state. directional change by the afternoon in a westerly direction. watch for snow flurries from the and a couple of pretty chilly december like days in the forecast for the rest of the week. eric: des moines police are working to identify a man hit and killed last night. it happened at the intersection of east 42nd and hubbell avenue. the man was walking erratically before he was hit. the driver stayed at the scene and police say he is cooperating. hubble is back open to traffic. we hope to learn tohe name of victim. 18-year-old iowa state student emmalee jacobs was killed monday morning. it was raining and dark at the time. police say there are no witnesses but there's surveillance video traveling in both russians on like an way during the time of that crash. elizabeth: a woman's husband recently passed away but the federal government thinks she's the one that died instead. they are claiming she owes them thousands of dollars. i'm ready to scream. i'm just thinking if my husband was here he would've made it so much easier to cope with. elizabeth: sherry bates says the u.s. office of personnel management is blaming a coding error and cutting off her monthly pension payments of more than $10,000 in lost income. opm also says she only worked there for 22 years instead of 30, meaning she would of the government $8,500. they have since presumed payments but have not responded to phone calls. eric: dallas county officials have closed highway 169 north of adel did a flooding. this is what it looked like on monday night. drivers should detour west out of adel on highway six. we are told more water could be over the road this morning. elizabeth: we are seeing record-setting business for construction workers. working, trying to get as much done as they can. elizabeth: polk county data shows a spike in commercial industrial permits issued over a three-year period. it is a record year not only for downtown construction but also central iowa. the company says they are working on more than 500 apartments through six projects and the downtown area. the iowa dnr wants to know if you think alcohol should be banned at state beaches. officials say they've gotten lots of reports of rowdy behavior linked to excessive drinking at the state's 56 beaches and recreation areas. it put a survey online to help them decide what to do next. shaina: two people are confirmed dead after a medical helicopter crashed in arizona. officials say a third person is in critical condition. they were the only three on board. a pilot, paramedic, and a nurse. a crashed in rugged terrain in the mountains east of phoenix. officials say a plane rolled off the runway at the national international airport injuring eight people. like 31 from houston to nashville and off the taxiway late tuesday afternoon as it approached the arrival gate. the 133 passengers and five crew members evacuated safely and were busted to the airport. schools in the los angeles area where open after yesterday's threat of a large-scale attack. new york city schools re ceived the same threat but dismissed it as a hoax. it came as an e-mail to a school board member. eric: they do ver -- diverse spaces in the school district. alyx sacks adjoins us live. what does this mean for the district? alyx: they face different challenges the neighboring districts. some students never attending we met with the head of the the front lines and sees the dynamic that diversity brings to hoover. >> some weeks we are getting waves of them, 10 at a time. alyx: at least 88 different countries are represented and spoken. an estimated 1509 refugee students are in the school district today. children and teens who have opportunity. the district says when they arrived, the administration is given a heads up and have staff in place ready to grade students -- greet students. these systems, the superintendent says is working. >> i think we've managed our money well. we have an instructional staff that is, i would have to argue, second to none. the job is harder here than in other places. i would argue the rewards are greater as well. alyx: he says about 75% of the students are growing up in poverty. how the district handles that coming up in 30 minutes. elizabeth: at five: 37, kids heading to school will probably need to bundle up. metinka: grab warm coats and gloves. cold air is moving in, 41 in des moines with brisk wind in the southwest at 18 gusting to 30. overnight, light rain has lifted out but we have light snow moving in across far northwest iowa up near sioux city heading for cherokee and toward storm lake. we could see flurries in central iowa this afternoon. that wind is pretty strong coming out of the southwest that will become more west and northwest of the by late this afternoon. that will cause temperatures to fall through the day. it will feel more like december should the next several days with highs even struggling by elizabeth: that up with of an iowa school report card. it is a web-based system to evaluate and rate every school. the city of knoxville will unveil a new movie theater. the group raised $500,000 to open the theater. the grand opening is today from 4:00 to 7:00. eric: the iowa dnr will host a hearing regarding the bakken oil pipeline. one will be speaking at -- 50 year -- she was protesting the vietnam war and ended up at the supreme court, she will be there at 7:50 this morning. the big mistake a bank robber across the iowa board are made and how it all unfolded live on tv. elizabeth: they said they needed help but a muscatine man said he in a big way paris: there's a lot to do on a dairy farm. nobody's gonna do it for you. you have to get out there and do it yourself. bernie sanders is a well-known friend of family farms. bernie cannot be bought out by big money. bernie's opinion cannot be purchased. it's time for our next president to get in there, roll up his sleeves, take off the gloves, and take on wall street, take on big business, take on big money, and get the working class back to where they should be. he's a rock. >> this is iowa's news leader. this is kcci 8 news this morning. with eric hanson, elizabeth klinge, meteorologist kurtis gertz, and right-now coverage with shaina humphries. in a quiet and pretty mild wednesday morning, 41 in des moines. 45 in atoma. colder air is working in across the western half of the state. temperatures are starting mild but a gusty wind will dragon cooler temperatures. they will fall through the day with mainly cloudy skies and flurries working and across the western half of the state. we are not expecting anything in the way of accumulation. it will feel like december should, highs on friday may not make it out of the 20's. over the weekend, a spike in temperatures, forming rapidly on sunday into the upper 40's and that is where temperatures stay. elizabeth: in the buzz, we have two viral videos from iowa. shaina: a mason city tv reporter turned crimefighter on-air. >> back i right there. -- that guy right there is the robber. >> that is the robber, he just went by according to the bank employee. i have to go call 911. elizabeth: he handled that play well. shaina: that was reporter adam sallet from k imt in mason city. that happened a day earlier when a bank employee as we saw said bank again the next day. police got there, took descriptions, and within the hour they tracked the suspect down to i-35 near from a 10 -- near farmington. >> we'll is try to get live news as it happens but we never thought we would be part of the story like this and coming from a reporter who does this on a daily basis, six or seven times a day, you never think this will happen during a live shot. i was just glad they were able shaina: this morning, the suspect, ryan liskow is charged in both robberies. police say he used the same mo both times handing it out to the teller demanding money. eric: you go back to the same bank robbing it two days in a row? you are going to be on tv. another viral story, over in muscatine, a business owners offer to panhandlers. >> we were hired and they said we are not from around here and i said but you are here. and they just smirked. eric: mike potter him says he felt bad for the tube was asking for money outside his business the one he offered them a job they turned him down twice. so he made a sign and join them on the street. the sign said offer these guys a job, they said no, don't give them money. with panhandlers, he just wants to make sure they do need the help. i saw that several times yesterday on facebook. elizabeth: one organization that needs help his make-a-wish iowa. the sudden shutdown of jolly holiday lights because of flooding means they will come up with $200,000 short of their fundraising goals. top executives from the iowa clinic, unity point, and mercy medical center started an online campaign called #bringthejolly and they encourage you to post a picture and challenge someone else to do the same. eric: three competitors joining forces, many accepting that challenge. here's a picture after they donated. one said it's not much but it's the $10 i would have spent to do jolly holiday lights. shaina: we want to thank you for you helped us raise 78200 and three dollars and you donated several thousand toys. we all thank you very much for that. eric: we have been talking about the star wars movie lately and it doesn't come out until thursday night. the world premiere was on monday in l.a. so some fans are talking about it online. there is a way to avoid the spoilers. there is an extension of the chrome application that blocks every mention of star wars on your phone or desktop. it is called the force block and it wants you not to look at a particular site. elizabeth: it's pretty amazing what you find online and the washington post recently reported that google's data confirms that men tend to protest and eight -- tended to procrastinate when it comes the gift for wife is a very popular gift but it peaks on december 22. some searches are on christmas day. searches for gifts for husbands are up but not nearly as much as gift for wife. shaina: also searching for goodness forrom wife. eric: and they might say but i googled it. thanks for waking up with kcci, we are looking at the east mixmaster. >> weather is never more than five minutes away, only on kcci 8 news this morning. metinka: 10 minutes before 6:00 a.m., starting out mild temperature wise with readings in the 40's. temperatures will fall back into the mid-30's by late this afternoon. clouds will hold tight, and a few passing snow flurries and blustery wind. it is because of this system that is heading up into minnesota. we missed out on most of the snow across the dakotas back to denver and now through minneapolis. we will see more snow showers in across northwest iowa near sioux city. the region, we will have a chance of snowflakes across the central part of the state. the wind has been coming out of the southwest but that is shifting to the west and northwest across far western iowa and that will drag in the cold conditions. this heads out and we will have light snow later today followed by a reinforcing shot of cold air tomorrow. then quiet weather by friday and with colder air, here comes another batch of snow flurries toward friday morning. snow flurries for you, by 8:00 a.m. snowflakes across russia and i were with drizzle initially. evening commute, don't be surprised to see snowflakes across central iowa. snow flurries will head out of here during the overnight. it is breezy, 41 degrees in des moines, a gusty southwest wind close to 30 miles per hour already. that will shift more to the west and northwest. be careful on the roads. will be followed by colder temperatures. finally it will feel like december with a brisk wind and highs near the 20's and 30's. overnight lows in the teens. check out sunday, high temperatures into the 40's. eric: still road closures. shaina: it takes a while to recover from the rain. more closures than we had yesterday. dallas county has closed the road north of adel. south of the metro, if you take highway 28, that is closed the 12 -- between 24. in the middle of the metro we have the closure from george flagg parkway between southwest 23rd and floor drive near gray's lake between bell and mlk. southwest 30th in that same sort of area between bell and george flagg. 2900 block of hartford and east elizabeth: remember to take kcci with you on the go. check traffic from your car with our mobile app. just look under weather for the eric: welcome back. the stars have nothing for love but star wars. those of the world career were joseph gordon-levitt and rainn wilson both dressed up. they tweeted the movie was epic and awesome and perfect. elizabeth: the first trailer for "fantastic beasts and where to find them" features everything we've come to expect from jk rowling's wizard world. suspense, spells, and strange creatures. we catch a glimpse of one thing fans of never seen. american wizards. the u.s. set harry potter spinoff hits theaters next november. eric: tina fey joins alan today talking about hosting snl with her friend and costar, amy poe hler. >> the two of you together are hilarious but especially during this particular time with the election-year going on. >> it's always fun to work on snl during an election year and even though we are like a million years out from the election, there is so much already. people saying you play hillary clinton and sarah palin but how's it going over there? check out these. >> i don't know what our political characters will be. >> so you don't know yet. eric: they also talk about her upcoming movie "sisters". plus they play a hilarious game of heads up with an audience member. that is at 4:00 on kcci. elizabeth: news this morning's live with overnight news, here's what we're working on for 6:00 a.m.. alyx: diversity continues to grow within des moines public schools and now 75% of students in the school district are battling some kind of food insecurity. shaina: there has been another medical helicopter crash overnight. the latest from arizona. metinka: strong wind dragging in more december like temperatures. eric: it is 5:57 this wednesday morning.

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