Jack well check back in with sabrina coming up at 6 as more people filter into the auditorium at drake. Stephanie 1shot tonights debate is on fox, and the primetime stage will feature six of the leading candidates, minus trump of course. The lineup includes ted cruz, ben carson, marco rubio, rand paul, chris christie, jeb bush, and john kasich. Cruz leads the polls among those on stage, and will likely take a lot of hits. Stephanie nat pop 03 outcue shut it down but not everyone is excited for in des moines. A host of fast food workers walked out of their jobs this morning to protest candidates that do not support raising the minimum wage. The workers are part of the group fight for 15 who have organized rallies thorughout the country last year. My only message is to get out to other workers and to the candidates that, if they want our vote, they need to support fifteen and a union. And, for the workers that feel that they dont get enough and theyre scared, they have no reason to be scared. They should come out and protest with us. Stephanie the protesters say they will be downtown tonight for another demonstration during the debate. So far none of the republican candidates have responded to the protesters. Jack ots meanwhile at the statehouse, ben carson stopped by to meet voters before the debate tonight. nat pop 07 local 5s Sabrina Ahmed caught up with carson after, and asked ahmed caught up with carson after, and asked him about the shift of his the tragic car accident that left volunteer Braden Joplin dead two weeks ago. What has it been like, since then . I know that he was a very compassionate volunteer, but what has it been like . How have you been able to move forward from that . Well, we call it the braden effect. His first name was braden. He was so caring about other people. He would never do anything to harm anybody else. He always was interested in making sure that everybody elses feelings were okay and that they were comfortable. Its had a broad effect on the whole campaign. I was even pleased to see how much it touched other campaigns. We heard from virtually all the other candidates, both democrat and republican. Its nice to know that life can transcend politics, at least for a little while. Turning to the democratic side microsoft is partnering with both parties to handle results on monday night. An now Bernie Sanders campaign is questioning the tech companys involvement. Sanders iowa staff is suggesting microsoft is involved for monetary reasons, as well as the companys connection to the Clinton Foundation over the years through donations. Both state parties have said over the last few months that microsofts system is sophisticated enough to handle the data, and security is in place to ensure results are valid. Jack new at five tonight, Des Moines Police are looking for a runaway teenager. Jack 1shot 13 year old neko larmie was last seen on december 30th. Her family says she left the house after an argument with relatives. She was last seen wearing a gray and black colored jacket and brown colored boots. Des Moines Police are asking anyone with information to call crimestoppers at 5152834811. Stephanie 1shot some iowa lawmakers made a big move to try and stop Governor Terry branstads plan to privatize medicaid. Hearing from both Top Democrats and republicans about that move. Local fives chief Political Correspondent amanda krenz is live with more. Amanda . Amanda the democrats in the iowa senate made this move, all 26 of them. They sent a letter to president obama and the centers for medicaid services, cms. They outlined several concerns from iowans on medicaid and health care providers. Heres part of what the letter to the president said, we are calling today for you to deny iowas application to establish a statewide private managed care system for medicaid. For the sake of the most vulnerable iowans and their health care providers, we are asking you to reject this unwise and poorly developed plan. Gronstal dems 1 17 33 what were hearing is patients cant get answers from Service Providers about whether their provider has signed on with managed Care Companies so we continue to think this thing is a real mess. Upmeyer reps 1 41 09 i have no idea why we are telling iowans that were trying to get this set up and at the same time trying to amanda the original date to switch 560 thousand iowans over from medicaid to managed care was supposed to happen january first. The feds decided the state wasnt ready and pushed the date back to march first. They will take another look at everything at that point and then give the state permission to move forward, or tell the state theyre still not ready. Live in the studio, amanda krenz, local five news, we are iowa. Stephanie 2shot coming up on local 5 news at five. The standout continues in oregon, despite arrests earlier this week of protesters on federal land. Jack but next. We break down the latest trump versus fox battle and what it means for the iowa caucus. Jack miller, stephanie angleson, we are iowas most accurate forecast with chief meteorologist brad edwards. This is local 5 stephanie the Iowa Caucuses are just days away, and donald trump continues to rule the airwaves everyday with lastminute changes to his schedule. But is unpredictability a smart strategy . Stephanie political analyst Steffen Schmidt is here to talk is here to talk more about this trump versus fox news battle that is taking over the iowa caucus talk this week. Jack stephanie and steffen will be with us on caucus night caucus night with all of our live coverage. Jack now lets get a check in with the weather with brad edwards. Brad . Brad ad lib weather now, we are iowweatherrate the independent weather experts jack chief meteorologist brad edwards with central iowas most accurate forecast. Brad . Brad adlib brad adlib brad weather adlib put script here in green after some warming, morning sunshine, the clouds returned this afternoon to keep us a bit cooler, but we still are above average with temps in the mid to upper 30s. And it looks like the mildest weather is yet to come in our forecast tonight will be partly cloudy with our winds calming down to less than 10 mph. Temperatures will fall back into the low 20s for most areas by friday morning. We should have a mix of sun and clouds friday with southerly winds. This should help us warm up into the mid 40s for the metro. It will be even warmer saturday with upper 40s possible depending on exactly how much sunshine we get. There will be a chance for some light rain showers sunday morning with a mix possible to our north. It will still be relatively mild for late january with highs close to 40. This little system will move out quickly, so we might even see some afternoon sunshine sunday. Caucus monday is looking cool and dry until the evening when snow rain developing ahead of a major winter storm. It looks like we will see only minor accumulations before midnight with the heaviest snow expected during the day tuesday. Right now, it looks like either nw or central iowa will have the heaviest band of snow, but everyone will have to deal with the wind and cold into wednesday. Bit cooler, but we still are above average with temps in the mid to upper 30s. And it looks like the mildest weather is yet to come in our forecast tonight will be partly cloudy with our winds calming down to less than 10 mph. Temperatures will fall back into the low 20s for most areas by friday morning. We should have a mix of sun and clouds friday with southerly winds. This should help us warm up into the mid 40s for the metro. It will be even warmer saturday with upper 40s possible depending on exactly how much sunshine we get. There will be a chance for some light rain showers sunday morning with a mix possible to our north. It will still be relatively mild for late january with highs close to 40. This little system will move out quickly, so we might even see some afternoon sunshine until the evening when there will be a chance for some light snow rain developing ahead of a major winter storm. It looks like we will see only minor accumulations before midnight with the heaviest snow expected during the day tuesday. Right now, it looks like either nw or central iowa will have the heaviest band of snow, but everyone will have to deal with the wind and cold into wednesday. Jack bit cooler, but we still are above average with temps in the mid to upper 30s. And it looks like the mildest weather is yet to come in our forecast tonight will be partly cloudy with our winds calming down to less than 10 mph. Temperatures will fall back into the low 20s for most areas by friday morning. We should have a mix of sun and clouds friday with southerly winds. This should help us warm up into the mid 40s for the metro. It will be even warmer saturday with upper 40s possible depending on exactly how much sunshine we get. There will be a chance for some light rain showers sunday morning with a mix possible to our north. It will still be relatively mild for late january with highs close to 40. This little system will move might even see some afternoon sunshine sunday. Caucus monday is looking cool and dry until the evening when there will be a chance for some light snow rain developing ahead of a major winter storm. It looks like we will see only minor accumulations before midnight with the heaviest snow expected during the day tuesday. Right now, it looks like either nw or central iowa will have the heaviest band of snow, but everyone will have to deal with the wind and cold into wednesday. Jack coming up on local 5 news at five. A small group of local 5 news at five. A small group of holdouts carry on in the tense standoff in oregon. We have the latest from police on the ground. Are iowa are iowa jack 1shot oregon standoff as the leader of the Anti Government protesters issue a new message. Hes asking for remaining militia members occupying a federal wildlife refuge to go home. Abcs Elizabeth Hur has the latest. Three more protesters. Under arrest and each facing one federal felony count of conspiracy. And to those still occupying the federal land in oregon. A message from the groups leader. Ammon bundy. Now speaking out from jail. Through his attorney. sot michael arnold, ammon bundys attorney i love you. Let us take this fight from here. Please stand down. Bundy and seven others were taken into custody yesterday. Another member, Lavoy Finicum was shot and killed by Law Enforcement following a traffic stop. sot sheriff dave ward,harney county it didnt have to happen. We all make choices in life. Sometimes our choices go bad. Authorities. So far. Giving no details about the deadly shooting. But this morning. Conflicting accounts are emerging about cliven bundy, rancher Lavoy Finicum, they have murdered him. He had his hands in the air, and they shot him. sot mark mcconnell, eyewitness he charged at the Law Enforcement with remaining militants. Now surrounded by federal agents. Local residents echo bundys pleas to his supporters. Its time to go home. sot cheryl smith, burns resident im just kind of upset that bundy and his group didnt listen to the majority of the people said go home. Liz tag reportedly, there are as few as just four militants now out at the compound. As for the deadly shooting. Police say. A full investigation is now underway. Eh, abc news, ny. Stephanie 1shot 30 years ago today, the u. S. Watched on Live Television as the challenger shuttle explosed less than 2 minutes after liftoff. Today, nasa members on the International Space station honored the tragic event with a moment of silence. The challenger board, including a high school teacher. Nasa later determined the accident was caused by a seal failure on a rocket booster. Stephanie 2shot time for another quick break. Chief meteorologist brad edwards will be back with one last look at our forecast. Brad wxhang breaking news tonight. Trump versus fox. Donald trump, a noshow this evening. Holdg his own event upp again the debate. I told you, up front, i said,