Its day five of the Alexander Fazzino murder trial, underway in winneshiek county. 42 year old Alexander Fazzino was arrested in 2013 for the murder of his wife emily. Emily was found dead in the couples bathroom in january of 2012. Since then the trial has been moved and delayed several times. But today, after nearly a week of testimony, prosecution wrapped up their final witnesses. Stephanie local 5s Claire Powell has more from the courtroom, its tonights big story. Claire the prosecution began and ended the morning with two dci agents. One who specializes in d na who told the jury she found alexs blood on the clothes he wore the night of emilys death. She also inspected emilys body including a negative Sexual Assault test. The other witness was the special agent who documented a february search warrant in the fazzino household. Pack full of those blood stained clothes, and more of emilys belongings. Dna, depending how the state of iowa rests claire this afternoon, the defense began by witnesses to the including fazzinos family all who say theyd witnessed emilys debilitating pain medication addiction more than once in the years leading to her death. This afternoon the defnese began its testimony with elodie or dede mcwilson emilys friend and the fazzinos former house keeper. The defense claims mcwilson illegally sold emily prescription pain medication shown here through text messages. Mcwilson plead the fifth to every question. Did you illegally sell to her pain pills, i plead the fifth for the first time, an emotional fazzino family testimony. Alexander fazzinos mother joann told times from may 2011 to saw emily so under the was an unable to take care of the children. I noticedher slurring responding to questions, wobbly, thing i mosted noticed most was trembling of her hands joann even asked alexs aunt maryann to help after seeing what full of medication she was skinny, gray and i just remember thinking my god. Somebody help her she needs help alex fazzinos brother and sister also took the stand testifying about emilys ongoing medication abuse. Alexs mother said she thought emily overdosed the night of her death but everyone hoped shed get a second chance. I saw a girl that i wanted to help but she didnt want help from us. I prayed that god would give her an mother again and realize how ill she was claire the trial continues tomorrow with more defense witnesses set to take the stand including a member of emilys family. Well bring you continuing coverage as it gets underway. Reporting live Claire Powell local 5 news we are iowa jack a bill to improve oversight of states new privatized medicaid system moves through the legislature. Jack and governor branstad spoke about it this morning. While he says he wont talk about that bill specifically until it makes it to his desk, he says oversight is already happening. With both the insurance commissioner and two ombudsmen. So were looking at more people who oversee the overseeings to manage the managers, how much of that dupilication do we want and how much is it going to cost . Those are the things you have to balance in determining whether this is good public jack a state innovation model. It provides to six iowa communities, together hospitals and to improve the health of iowans. Diabetes and obesity are the main issues the program targets. Stephanie also at the legislators and gathered to talk about Human Trafficking and its presence in iowa. One advocate, a mother of a victim, said the issue is happening everywhere in iowa, not just big cities. Kids come from all over iowa. Its not a city issue. Its not a rural issue. Its a statewide issue. Desperation or vulnerability, you can have trafficking. Stephanie and here are some numbers about Human Trafficking in trafficking resource center, 125 cases have been reported since 2007. 36 of those cases were in 2015 alone. And a majority of those reported the tip hotline is on your screen if you know of someone who has been a victim of Human Trafficking and needs help. Jack new at 6 the ymca in grimes is closing in two months. Jack its only been open for eight years. But theres not enough money to keep it open, and itll have to close. One grimes Council Member says hes sad to see the ymca go, as grimes doesnt have many other gyms for families to go to now. I would say disappointed is an understatement. We have a lot of grimes residents that are members of the ymca, have been for years, have been eagerly anticipating the new ymca being built and for those reasons, ya, its very, its not a good day for a lot of grimes people. Jack the center will stay open until april 30th, and employees will help members transition to other y locations in the metro. Members do have access to the other 8 locations throughout the area. Stephanie over in johnston, you might have noticed a different traffic pattern on your way home from work. Northwest 70th traffic from northwest 107th to northwest 100th street. And northwest 100th street will also be closed for construction. Signs and detour messages have been placed throughout the area to let drivers know of a new route. Construction of a new bridge there should be completed by this fall. Stephanie coming up on local 5 news at six. An ankeny mom and her teenage daughter are on the National Stage but not for what you may think. Jack and. State wrestling took over des moines two weeks ago, and now its state Girls Basketball that begins today. Find out whos dominating the court in todays first games. Your watching local 5 news at 6 in hd with jack miller, stephanie forecast with chief meteorologist brad director jon schaeffer. This is local 5 news at 6. We are iowa. Jack an ankeny mom and her teenage daughter are faces on the big screen but not for glitz and glamour. Alisha morton shared her 14 year old daughter morgan sellers experience with bullying earlier today on the steve harvey show on local 5. Stephanie morgan says she was called fat by her classmates at Northview Middle School in ankeny, and despite complaints of the bullying to school officials, the insults didnt stop. And thats when morgans mom stepped in. I picked her up from school one day, and she told me the day that i picked her up that she wanted to die. And i had enough at that point. I said morgan where is the boy at, and she said that he was in the school, and so i wanted to speak with him. And everything owuld still lecture him. Then all of the sudden a girl, who had nothing to do with the situation, had gotten up, got directly in my face, and i said no, get out of my face. I just put my hand out, and at that point she had thrown back her arm and otok a swing at me and morgan had stepped in the middle and morgan had gotten punched in the side of the face and neck. And i had called the cops at that point jack a criminal complaint filed by Ankeny Police shows Alisha Morton admitted to pushing another student, but shes pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor. The mom and daughter want to get the word out about bullying, and theyve even created a Facebook Page called moms against bullies. Jack we want to know what you think about this ankeny mother and daughter speaking out about bullying . Let us know for a chance to see your comments onair. You can post you thoughts on facebook and twitter. Or send us an email or give us a call. Wed love to the Contact Information is on your screen. Stephanie wxcdl chief brad wxcdl local 5 weather is coming up next. Brad wxcdl edwards. Certified by weatherrate the independent weather experts brad wxc welcome back. Im local 5 chief meteorologist brad edwards. Brad lets take a look at we weather adlib put script here in green it was nice while it lasted we had a nice stretch of warmer than average temps, but now winter is making a comeback especially for Northern Iowa. There is a Winter Weather advisory posted for Northern Iowa tonight with mostly some snow expected there. One to three inches is likely north of hwy 30 overnight while areas south are expected to get less than 1. Temperatures will continue you to get colder tonight with 20s expected by tuesday morning. Tuesday will be a wintry day with quite a few clouds, cold northerly winds of 1020 mph and temps staying mostly in the 20s all day. We will try to recover a bit on wednesday, but another weather system will be coming through wed. Evening with another chance for more rain snow mix. Again, the metro should not see much if any accumulation. We will see some nicer weather by the weekend with sunnier skies saturday and much warmer temps expected for sunday. Our timing has been pretty lucky lately when it comes to our weekend brad 2wx thats all for my forecast. Check out weareiowa. Com for the latest in weather. Stephanie 2wx but now winter is making a comeback especially for Northern Iowa. There is a Winter Weather advisory posted for Northern Iowa tonight with mostly some snow expected there. One to three inches is likely north of hwy 30 overnight while areas south are expected to temperatures will continue you to get colder tonight with 20s expected by tuesday morning. Tuesday will be a wintry day with quite a few clouds, cold northerly winds of 1020 mph and temps staying mostly in the 20s all day. We will try to recover a bit on wednesday, but another weather system will be coming through wed. Evening with another chance for more rain snow mix. Again, the metro should not see much if any accumulation. We will see some nicer weather by the weekend with sunnier skies saturday and much warmer temps expected for sunday. Our timing has been pretty lucky lately when it comes to our weekend brad 2wx thats all for my forecast. Check out weareiowa. Com for but now winter is making a comeback especially for Northern Iowa. There is a Winter Weather advisory posted for Northern Iowa tonight with mostly some snow expected there. One to three inches is likely north of hwy 30 overnight while areas south are expected to get less than 1. Temperatures will continue you to get colder tonight with 20s expected by tuesday morning. Tuesday will be a wintry day with quite a few clouds, cold northerly winds of 1020 mph and temps staying mostly in the 20s all day. We will try to recover a bit on wednesday, but another weather system will be coming through wed. Evening with another chance for more rain snow mix. Again, the metro should not see much if any accumulation. We will see some nicer skies saturday and much warmer temps expected for sunday. Our timing has been pretty lucky lately when it comes to our weekend brad 2wx thats all for my forecast. Check out weareiowa. Com for but now winter is making a comeback especially for Northern Iowa. There is a Winter Weather advisory posted for Northern Iowa tonight with mostly some snow expected there. One to three inches is likely north of hwy 30 overnight while areas south are expected to get less than 1. Temperatures will continue you to get colder tonight with 20s expected by tuesday morning. Tuesday will be a wintry day with quite a few clouds, cold northerly winds of 1020 mph and temps staying mostly in the 20s all day. We will try to recover a bit on wednesday, but another weather system will be coming through wed. Evening with another chance for more rain snow mix. Again, the metro should not see much if any accumulation. We will see some nicer weather by the weekend with sunnier skies saturday and much warmer temps expected for sunday. Our timing has been pretty lucky lately when it comes to our weekend brad 2wx thats all for my forecast. Check out weareiowa. Com for the latest in weather. Stephanie 2wx thanks brad. Jack 2bam im here with jordan and a big one in ames and im here with jordan and a big one in ames and also here in des moines. Jordan 2bam a sports fans dream senior day for iowa state and the start of the girls state basketball tournament. Coming up on local 5 sports, highlights from day 1 at the well up next. Now, local 5 sports with jordan furbee. We im feeling it more than ever honestly. As a player, you never think its going to come to an end and then you finally like, man i got one more game to walk through those doors actually compete in front of the best fans in the country. and you cant take it for granted ever. And i think me as well as my fellow senior teammates we just want everybody to remember us on a positive note and we want to win the games. Jordan welcome back everyone. Today is also the beginning of the girls state basketball tournament. The action tipped off this morning at 10 with class 1a taking the first up, mount ayr taking on 1 Turkey Valley. Raiderettes down as much as 10 in the 2nd half. 4th quarter, kelcie shields pulls them within 2 then megan warin with a chance to tie it, but its no good. And on the other end. Shelby reicks with the hoop and the hack. Tvs would go up to 7 with a minute to go. But mount ayr fights back. Sheilds again, the bucket cuts it to one she had 25 points and 10 boards today. But the raiderettes cant complete the rally. They fall to still unbeaten Turkey Valley 5551, but pick up great experience for a young team. Our girls did a great job of handling the pressure and making it close at the end and putting themselves in that situation and yup we lose one senior in keirston, but our starting five is back and weve got some good young kids coming up through the ranks, so you know success breeds success and hopefully they get a taste and they wanna be back. The defending champs from newellfonda underdogs today versus unbeaten exira ehk. Mustangs shot only 23 percent in the first half, but thanks to 17 offensive break. 2nd half, back come the spartans. Maggie rasmussen the hoop and the hack, ehk up by 3 but the Mustangs Press was suffocating. Newellfonda forces 29 turnovers, thanks to 23 steals that went along with 22 offensive rebounds mustangs are on to the semis with the 5342 win . Pleased by their effort and intensity today. Lets check out 2a action, this one just finishing up between 8 central decatur and 1 western christian. First points of the game come from the wolfpack. Erica bousema drains the triple. Not to be outdone tho, raegan booth from nba range splashes it in to tie it at 3. But western couldnt miss from long range. They drained 5 First Quarter 3s. In fact, only 3 of the combined 21 First Quarter points didnt come from a the cardinals home, jordan sx3s stephanie sx3s jack sx3s well be right back. Youre watching local five news at six. Miss a story . Dont forget to visit local 5 on the web. We are iowa dot com is your home for the latest in news, weather, and sports. Stephanie before we go meet some of the newest members of the leapling club. Unity point hospitals sending us some video of babies born today on leap day, february 29th in des moines. Including wyatt, and zane. They will only have true birthdays now once every four years jack wxhang now one last check of your weather, with chief meteorologist brad edwards. Brad weather adlib it was nice while it lasted we had a nice stretch of warmer than average temps, but now winter is making a comeback especially for Northern Iowa. There is a Winter Weather advisory posted for Northern Iowa tonight with mostly some snow expected there. One to three inches is likely north of hwy 30 overnight while areas south are expected to get less than 1. Temperatures will continue you to get colder tonight with 20s expected by tuesday morning. Tuesday will be a wintry day with quite a few clouds, cold northerly winds of 1020 mph and temps staying mostly in the 20s all day. We will try to recover a bit on wednesday, but another weather system will be comin through wed. Evening with another chance for more rain snow mix. Again, the metro should not see much if any accumulation. We will see some nicer weather by the much warmer temps expected for sunday. Our timing has been pretty lucky lately when it comes to our weekend stephanie 4shothang thank you for spending your time with us tonight. Spending your time with us tonight. Jack 4shothang we are working hard on another great newscast for 10pm. Were proud to say we are iowa. Have a great night. Orlando blooms sexy vacation. Its the oscars. Where anything can ha anything can happen. E. T with the winners, partying all night long. This is the os to be here is to be part of history. Gold, what his mom told us. Everything you didnt see. He only has one eyebrow, so i drew it on for him. Jlaw backstage. Plus exclusive photos of katy perry and Orlando Bloom hand in hand. Find out where hollywoods hottest new couple spent their oscar weekend. And what jens closest friend told us. Shes dealing with a lot of dress and pain. And oscar fashion. Our joe zee breaks do the best, the worst and what needs a little fix. A snip here, a top and that dress will go from awful to awesome. 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