Be extremely low. Highs today will be in the mid 20s under overcast skies and a northerly breeze keeping us feeling cold. Tonight we are going to be cold and calm with a low in the low teens. Saturday we are looking at partly to mostly cloudy skies with a high in the upper 20s. Sunday still looks very nice with highs in the mid to upper 30s with overcast skies. Im expecting light snow on monday morning, and with strong winds blowing snow is very likely so drive safe that day. Temperatures will slump into the upper 20s by next wednesday, but after that we look to grab a warming trend and 40s may finally creep back into the state. Elias lets get into the top five this morning. Elias americans will be bracing for a historic winter storm taking aim coast. Of snow could fall in some areas. With ice accumulations, and coastal flooding also expected. Five states have declared a state of emergency. Wit offices already elias two spot this morning. Elias accused of killing two their bodies, will be in court today. The body of his exsister in law was found in a pond in rural lorimor, and the remains of a second body at his home in thayer. Police arrested dillinger in december. Look for updates from the Union County Courthouse here on local five. Elias the third thing you need to know before you walk out the door. Elias the flint, michigan water crisis has now lead to the resignation of an administrator for the Environmental Protection agency. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder released all of his emails from 2014 and 2015 tied to flint. In her response, epa essentially shot him down. Resignation will take effect february first. Elias number four. Elias president ial candidate ben carson resumed his Campaign Last night with a town hall in glenwood. Carson has Campaign Stops car accident of his Campaign Volunteers. Meanwhile, new poll numbers show some big days until the iowa caucus. Donald trump points in iowa. And for democrats, Bernies Sanders points. Elias and finally in the top five. Elias we may be months away from ragbrai, big announcement this weekend about iowas big this weekend bike ride. A route announcement held saturday night, with the eight overnight towns being named for the 44th ragbrai. This years ragbrai kicks off on july 24th. Elias preparations may have started for the project, but iowa remains the one state that hasnt approved the bakken oil pipeline. Elias those opposed to the project, took to the State Capitol thursday to protest against its approval. About forty people stopped by for the meeting, which included more testimony from farmers and environmentalist s. They say they are concerned with the way the process has played out, and they feel the meanwhile, dozens were there to support the pipeline and the jobs that would come with it. Ryan hollinrake, apprenticeship trainer some of the High School Pep rallies antics that you can proud professionals that try to represent ourselves in a respectful manner at elias the iowa utilities board has Public Meetings in february to discuss the arguments case. A decision could come at those meetings. Elias the issue has created a lot of debate, and many sharing your local five. And we have been what you say. Opposes the ing they use public land, like highways. With part of the fee helping maintain the highways. Questions why pipe has been brought in and some land project has not been approved yet. Be sure to keep your comments coming. Are you for or against the what do you done . You can post you thoughts on facebook and twitter. Call. The Contact Information is on your screen. Elias were back with meterologist sam schreier. Sam sam adlibs sam weather adlib yesterday was the warmest day weve seen in more than a week with a balmy high of 28 degrees. Today we are going to be a bit cooler than that from passed through the state overnight. Very through Northern Iowa during the Morning Hours giving a few places a quick dusting to a few be extremely low. Highs today will be in the mid 20s under overcast skies and a northerly breeze keeping us feeling cold. Tonight we are going to be cold and calm with a low in the low teens. Saturday we are looking at partly to mostly cloudy skies with a high in the upper 20s. Sunday still looks very nice with highs in the mid to upper 30s with overcast skies. Im expecting light snow on monday morning, and with strong winds blowing snow is very likely so drive safe that day. Temperatures will slump into the upper 20s by next wednesday, but after that we look to grab a warming trend and 40s may finally creep back into the state. Elias local five is statehouse. As iowa lawmakers try to get Education Funding out of the way. Elias much like last year, there is a big difference on how much. The republican lead house is proposing a 2 percent funding increase for next year. Democrats say that increase shows that republicans have not heard concerns of iowa school districts. Gronstal 18 07 i think thats whats happened with legislative republicans. Theyve quit listening regarding funding for local schools. Upmeyer 31 01 nothing the truth we spent the interim meeting with superintendents, school boards, educators, importance of doing it on time getting it to them quickly. Elias meanwhile, a new report shows iowa schools are in good shape. The state board of education released its annual condition of Education Report for 2015. Enrollment is up, teacher salaries are up and iowas High School Graduation rate is at 90. 5 percent, High School Graduation rate is at 90. 5 percent, thats one of the countrys highest elias at time check well take a short break, with lots more good morning iowa ahead. Coming up, well talk about some high stakes for kansas game. Elias but first. For those traveling into polk county. Be safe this morning. The Sheriffs Office has automated Traffic Enforcement vehicles at two locations. One at the. Fivethousand block of northeast 22nd avenue and a second at the. 16hundred block of southeast 68th street in pleasant hill. So take care on the roads today. Elias lets also get a quick look at traffic. This is i235 at valley west. [current conditions] good morning iowa continues after this elias schreier. This is good morning iowa. Sam morning iowa. Sam weather adlib yesterday was the warmest day weve seen in more than a week with a balmy high of 28 degrees. Today we are going to be a bit cooler than that from a weak cold front that passed through the state overnight. Very light snow will push through Northern Iowa during the Morning Hours giving a dusting to a few accumulations should be extremely low. The mid 20s under overcast skies and a northerly breeze keeping us feeling cold. Tonight we are going to be cold and low teens. Saturday partly to mostly high in the upper 20s. Very nice with highs in with overcast skies. Im and with strong winds likely so drive safe will slump into the upper 20s by next wednesday, but after warming trend and 40s elias maintenance workers in iowa gathered in the metro for the olympics of their trade. Racing against the clock, competitors have to install water heaters, faucets and ice makers. Local 5 photographer Ryan Davidson takes us behind the maintenance magic. The Greater Iowa Apartment Association is partnering with hg supply and several other sponsors to bring our industry maintence technitions here tonight to compete in a competion that gives them an opportunity to show off their skills revolves around is the typical actvities they do on an everyday basis in their jobs so doing everything from fixing ice makers to replacing water heaters replacing smoke dectors so were just using this to showcase the maintince people in the area and actually just giving them their night and their time to stand in the spotlight networking is a big thing for us we never really get to get out in the field and see any of our other comapnies or competitors so just seeing what they can do and how fast they do things and how they do things is a big plus its exciting to see these guys in here in action doing it this quick because we can take it back to the properties and remind them how fast they are at taking care of the resident issues all reax elias ahead. 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Very light snow will push through Northern Iowa during the Morning Hours giving a few places a quick dusting to a few highs today will be in overcast skies and a northerly breeze keeping us feeling going to be cold and calm with a low in the low teens. Saturday we are looking at partly to mostly cloudy skies with a high in the upper 20s. Sunday still looks very nice with highs in the mid to upper 30s expecting light snow and with strong winds likely so drive safe that day. Temperatures will slump into the that we look to grab a warming trend and 40s may finally creep back into the state. Sam toss back. Elias in take a look at this today. The stakes will be high when kansas takes on stakes will be high when kansas takes on iowa state monday. Sam a big isu fan, and sabrina, a kansas fan, place a wager on monday nights basketball game. Loser will shovel the driveway and walkway of a viewers home. Good thing sam doesnt have any muscles. reax elias well time now short break. But when we come back. Elias well time now for another short break. But when we it seems those who make cars, at other business. But first heres last night on jimmy kimmel live. On your money now elias uber and lyft will soon have some new competition. Americas largest automaker says its jumping into the ridesharing business. General motors announced it will create a ondemand Car Sharing Service called maven. The automaker plans to test the service in ann arbor, michigan. Launching in other major us cities later this year. Elias and tsa agents airports when it comes to finding full at americas airports when it comes to finding guns. The tsa says more than 26 hundred guns were found in carryon luggage last year. More than 82 percent of those weapons were loaded. The guns were found at more than 230 us airports during security checks. Airports in dallas, atlanta, houston, denver and phoenix saw the most confiscated guns. Elias thats a look at your money this morning. Coming up after the break. Sams in with central iowas most accurate forecast. But first. Time for a quick look at traffic. This is i235 at euclid. [current conditions] good morning iowa returns are iowas most accurate weather team. Good morning iowa starts now elias thanks for joining us on your [day of week] morning, im elias johnson. Elias weather is always first on good morning iowa. In with central iowas most accurate forecast. Sam schreier. Sam adlib toss sam weather adlib yesterday was the seen in more than a of 28 degrees. Today we are going to be a bit cooler than that from a weak cold front that passed through the state overnight. Very Morning Hours giving a few places a quick dusting to a few flurries, but accumulations should be extremely low. Highs today will be in the mid 20s under overcast skies and a northerly breeze keeping us feeling cold. Tonight we are calm with a low in the we are looking at partly to mostly cloudy skies with a high in the upper 20s. Sunday still looks very nice with highs in the mid to upper 30s with overcast skies. Im expecting light snow on monday morning, and with strong winds blowing snow is very likely so drive safe that day. Temperatures will slump into the upper 20s by next wednesday, but after that we look to grab a warming trend and 40s may finally creep back into the state. Elias our top story. A man accused of killing two people will be in court today. Elias Jerry Dillinger will go before the judge at the union county he has been accused of killing two people and hiding their bodies. Dillinge r was arrested back in december. They found the body of Loretta Dillinger in a pond in rural lorimor. And another body in his thayer home. Local 5 will be at the courthouse as well. Look for the latest updates on local five news and online at we are iowa dot com. Elias Text Messages are shedding new light on the death of emmalee jacobs. Elias the isu freshman was hit by a cyride bus while on her way to a final exam in december. According to the criminal complaint. The man arrested by police this week, may have been aware he hit her that morning. 23 year old Benjamin Clague was arrested 23 year old Benjamin Clague was arrested for leaving the scene of an accident and failing to obey a traffic device. The report shows he texted to a friend, saying he felt he was involved. And in a faceto face confession with a friend, he and in a faceto face confession with a friend, he said he felt he was the one who hit and killed however, clague failed to ever come forward. We continued to ask for pleas from the public for information. He knew he was in the area, he knew he hit something tha tmorning, didnt come forward to our detectives. Very frustrating for us and the famiyl elias clague has bonded out of jail. The friend he confided in will jail. The friend he confided in will not be facing any charges at this point. Elias snow preps are continuing this morning for what is forecasted to be a historic blizzard in the nations capital. This as the projected snowfall totals continue to creep up. Abcs Karla Barguiarena has the latest. Script pkg nats this morningone last mad dash to prepare for a potentially historic blizzard. Outside a costco in virgina lines to get in and lines to check out dcs really not ready for this kind of weather the same scene at this trader joes supermarket in the nations capital. Forced to limit customers to ten at a time. Shelves of water are now virtually empty and snow shovels are disappearing just as fast. Also preparing . The federal government which announced it would be closing at noon today ahead of the epic winter storm. Nat pop d. C. Metro d. C. s Public Transportation including rail and bus service will be closing later today too. Director of National Weather service were seeing a major storm system third of the country, and affecting at least 50 Million People at reagan all Major Airlines waivers to rebook their flights. But there is no doubt washington will be hit the hardest with more than 2 feet of snow during the storm. A state of emergency has already been states have also followed suit. Karla new york elias meterologist sam adlibs sam weather adlib yesterday was the warmest day weve week with a balmy high of 28 degrees. Today we are going to be a bit cooler than that from a weak cold front that passed through the light snow will push through Northern Iowa during the Morning Hours giving a few places a quick dusting to a few flurries, but accumulations should be extremely low. Highs today will be in the mid 20s under overcast skies and a northerly breeze keeping us feeling cold. Tonight we are going to be cold and calm with a low in the partly to mostly cloudy skies with a high in the upper 20s. Sunday still looks very nice with highs in the mid to upper 30s with overcast skies. Im expecting light snow on monday morning, and with strong winds blowing snow is very likely so drive safe that day. Temperatures will slump into the upper 20s by next wednesday, but after that we look to grab a warming trend and 40s may finally creep back into the state. Elias new this morning. Some big news for ragbrai fans this weekend. Ragbrai fans this weekend. Elias we may be months away from iowas giant bike ride, but this weekend will provide some Key Information about this years event. Organizers plan Anno