your forecast first." brad/wx wall weather adlib: very strong winds have caused a lot of travel problems in northern iowa today. gradual improvement will take place tonight, but it will still be cold and windy throughout the night. skies will remain mostly cloudy with a few flurries or snow showers possible tonight. the nw winds that were 20-40+ mph will be more like 15-25+ mph overnight. blowing snow will not be much of a problem for most areas, but wind chill values will be dropping below zero into tuesday morning. tuesday will bring us another cold and windy day with increasing sunshine. " local 5 news at 10 in hd starts now. we are iowa" stephanie/2shot good evening. i'm stephanie angleson. jack/2shot and i'm jack miller. less than a month away from when iowa is supposed to switch over to privatized medicaid... some iowa senators are pushing a bill that would repeal that plan. stephanie: this, as govenor branstad lashes out at democrats...clai healthcare all about politics. stephanie: local five's nikki davidson joins us live in the studio to explain. nikki bam: right this morning govenor branstad had some pretty strong words for the supporters of this bill... it could effectively repeal his privatized medicaid plan before it even takes effect... he aimed the backlash at democrats.... but the thing is, there's also a republican voting to repeal privatized medicaid... that senator told me he wanted to make it clear that this isn't about taking political sides. (with that the meeting has adjourned we have bipartisan support) the clock may be ticking before privatized medicaid takes effect in iowa... but a bill in the senate is trying to squash govenor branstads health plan before it even can begin the first of march... 1:45:20 i've recevied phone calls about problems, angst and anxiety about this. 1:45:51 lets just stop, lets start over. supporters of the bill say the timeline is moving too fast... and there isn't a suitable provider network ready... 1:34:07 i'm still skeptical if theres even going to be cost savings because i just conference, govenor branstad dismissed 20:16:20 we've seen other states that has improved their health. pointing his finger at the bill democrats looking to play partisan politics... 19:18:09 that kind of have no place in trying to deliver the best but theres one doesn't fit that iowa republican 1:51:31 i believe this is going in the wrong direction, right now people are confused, not just providers but doctors, nurses staff and nonprofit centers. johnston says he is just resprenting the concerns of his constituents...and isn't saying "no" to privatizing medicaid... but hoping to pump the brakes. 1:53:59 you have to make sure the people who need the services are getting the services. 1:55:25 my goal was not to make it a parstian issue, if members of my party believe it anyway, i happen to have a different opinion. now the govenor said today he was concerned johnson never brought his concerns to him... the govenors plan is supposed to save 51 point three million in the first six months of privatizing medicaid.... and at this point... it is still slated to take effect march first... the senate bill passed out of committe with a 9-3 vote... we will follow it's progress and keep you updated. in the studio, nikki davidson local five news we are iowa. jack: this issue has created a lot of debate, and many of you have been sharing your thoughts with local five.. and we've been listening to what you say. jack: "the privatization is a stupid idea, and medicaid was fine the way it was. this is all to profit the insurance companies." robert - ankeny "it's a decision between profit and service. i hope the legislature takes a hard look at what they're doing and what's best for iowans." mary - ankeny "i have seen people that i treat concerned their jobs, doctors or coverage plans if this program goes through." ceo of iowa mental health provider - did not want to be named stephanie: taking alook at your weather now... the blizzard warning is over but the effects of today's storm still lingers especially in northern iowa. stephanie: earlier today, the iowa dot shut down i-35 between ames and clear lake due to low visibility and lots of accidents. that route is still closed off tonight, leaving a few people stranded in ames. "i've been here since 5:00 we've had at least 10 more arrivals than we had expected of just people walking in saying they needed a room because the roads were closed we just left dallas texas this morning driving straight through back to go home and i didn't realize it was closed here so i dont know what i'm going to do " stephanie: again brad, not a ton of snow...but that wind was the factor that made this dangerous day to be driving. brad: (adlibs weather) (brad wraps weather) stephanie: thanks brad. and for the latest weather related closings make sure to visit our com. jack: headquarters -- iowans are paying more big national politicians. jack: the presidential gone from iowa. now is -- how bills be around that they left behind? all the extra security and coordination that's needed to host the candidates has left some small towns with big bills. like marshalltown. donald trump and hillary clinton both hosted events on the same day on january 27th. the security cost marshalltown a lot of money. jack: trump's visit cost the marshalltown police department 3,596 dollars in overtime. and police chief mike tupper told me he has no overtime budget for events like this. hillary clinton's visit cost them 2,474 dollars. a visit by dr. ben carson on a different day cost them less, 800 dollars. and a quick visit by former president bill clinton came to 201 dollars. now chief tupper tells me he's sending each one of those he'll collect, but he's gonna try. and, for what it's worth -- the only candidate who asked for security help and paid up front for it -- was bernie sanders. stephanie: this year millennials will surpass baby boomers as the largest living generation . but that doesn't change the growing demand for housing more than 60 million people retiring over the next 20 years. jack: with more retirement communities competing for new residents, one facility in urbandale may have found the key to attracting new tenants while keeping them young at heart. elias johnson reports. "nats piano music" music over the buzz the deerfield glennis nunn - i think there's a lot of excitement. marlys schulte - deerfield resident oh yes, certainly. tom mckenna - deerfield resident we heard about it about two weeks ago. nat - elevator the fuss is all about the newest senior to move in glennis nunn - deerfield resident in fact i think when she walks in everyone is gonna say, 'oh, come eat with me." so i hope i get a chance to eat with her once in a but glennis nunn shouldn't expect her for bridge at 10 am on tuesday and thursdays - because thats when haley jenkins has composition class university senior family know i'm a bit of an old soul. the 21-year-old drake senior is officially the youngest person to ever call deerfield home thanks to a newly formed partnership haley jenkins - drake university senior i got an email from clarence badilla, the head of the music department at drake and he asked upper classman music majors at drake about this opportunity the opportunity was unique - play two music performances each month for residents at the retirement community in exchange for free room and board for the next year nat - music james robinson - deerfield executive director we're the first that we know of on iowa to have this type of relationship between a retirement community. but as deerfield executive director james robinson explains - there's much more haley offers to her new neighbors than just music deerfield executive and that's the relationships that the residents of deerfield and that glennis nunn - deerfield resident it give you a whole different outlook on young haley jenkins - drake university senior i really enjoy the older generation because they have a lot to teach and hopefully i can teach experience as well." including, how to run nat - cheers while haley keeps her new neighbors young at heart - they're also filling a void she's been living without for most of her life haley jenkins - drake university senior i only knew one of my grandmothers and she was very special to me because of that young relationship with me getting out of preschool, getting to spend time with grandma, baking and and going out on walks - but she died when i was really young. tom mckenna - deerfield resident a lot of us already think of her as granddaughter and shes a lovely young lady and a talented young lady and this relationship is going to be terrific and that's music to everyone's ears in urbandale elias johnson nat - end clapping local 5 news, we are iowa jack: haley's friends are also encouraged to come visit, just like they would anywhere else. deerfield isn't the first retirement community to invite a young person to live on site. in fact, they got the idea from a similar community in cleveland, ohio. stephanie: still to come on local 5 news at 10... stephanie: protecting your hearing while you protect your life? go inside the jack: then--iowa sits alone at the top of the big 10, hear more from the hawks as they gear up for a big week ahead later in sports. stephanie: and... video of just how bad it was on the roads today in iowa. we take you into the blizzard. brad: ((ad lib weather toss)) take sot tomorrow on good morning iowa... it's fat tuesday...but not all mardi gras celebrations happen in new orleans... and not all activities are saved just for people.. we'll see how some west coast folks are celbrating carnival.. and sam has a look at your forecast ((:04 wx ad-lib)) that's tomorrow on the all-new good morning iowa! "your watching local 5 news at 10 in hd with angleson, meteorologist brad edwards and local 5 sports with sports director jon schaeffer. this is local 5 news at 10. we are iowa." jack: high winds and driving in central and northern iowa slow today. here's video of that blowing snow in indianola sent into us by meggan wagner. stephanie: jack: brad weather adlib: northern iowa today. gradual improvement will take place tonight, but it will still be cold and windy throughout the night. skies will remain mostly cloudy with a few flurries or snow showers possible tonight. the nw winds that were 20-40+ mph will be more like 15-25+ mph overnight. blowing snow will not be much of a problem for most areas, but wind chill values will be dropping below zero into tuesday morning. tuesday will bring us another cold and windy day with increasing sunshine. even with the afternoon sun shining we will only see highs in the 10s for most areas. the winds will still be nw at 15-25 mph making it feel even colder. there will be another chance for some light snow lighter and the snowfall is looking fairly light. right now, get about an inch in the morning hours. cold weather will remain here through saturday, but we might see some warmer weather sunday along with another chance for some snow. february is the longest month of the year- if you know what i mean! brad stephanie: jack: will take place tonight, but it will still be cold and windy throughout the night. skies will remain few flurries or snow showers possible tonight. the nw winds that were 20-40+ mph will be more like 15-25+ mph overnight. blowing snow will not be much of a problem for most areas, but wind chill values will be dropping below zero into tuesday morning. tuesday will bring us another cold and windy day with increasing sunshine. even with the afternoon sun shining we will only see highs in the 10s for most areas. the winds will still be nw at 15-25 mph making it feel even colder. there will be another chance for some light snow wednesday, but at least the winds will be lighter and the snowfall is looking fairly light. right now, it looks like we could get about an inch in the morning hours. cold weather will remain here through saturday, but we might see some warmer weather sunday along with another chance year- if you know what i mean! brad stephanie: jack: jack: will take place tonight, but it will still be cold and windy skies will remain mostly cloudy with a few flurries or snow tonight. the nw winds that were 20-40+ mph will be more like 15-25+ mph overnight. blowing snow will not be much of a problem for most areas, but wind chill values will zero into tuesday morning. tuesday will and windy day with increasing sunshine. even with the afternoon sun shining we will only see highs in the 10s for most areas. the winds will still be nw at 15-25 mph making it feel even colder. there will be another chance for some light snow wednesday, but at least the winds will be lighter and the snowfall is looking fairly light. right now, it looks like we could get about an inch in the morning hours. cold weather will remain here through saturday, but we might see some warmer weather sunday along with another chance for some snow. february is the longest month of the year- if you know what i mean! brad stephanie: jack: jack: will take place tonight, but it will still be cold and windy throughout the night. skies will remain mostly cloudy with a few flurries or snow showers possible tonight. the nw winds that were 20-40+ mph blowing snow will not be much of a problem for most areas, but wind chill values will be dropping below zero into tuesday morning. tuesday will bring us another cold and windy day with increasing sunshine. even with the afternoon sun shining we will only see highs in the 10s for most areas. the winds will still be nw at 15-25 mph making it feel even colder. there will be another chance for some light snow wednesday, but at least the winds will be lighter and the snowfall is looking fairly light. right now, it looks like we could get about an inch in the morning hours. cold weather will remain here through saturday, but we might see some warmer weather sunday along with another chance for some snow. february is the longest month of the year- if you know what i mean! brad stephanie: jack: jack: coming up on local 5 news at ten, the time to find out if emminent domain will win in iowa could be near. stephanie: next.... should gun supressors be allowed in iowa? why gun advocates and law enforcement different "your watchi jack: they're lining up. the iowa firearms coalition, the nra, and the american suppressor association are working together on the legislation. the bill has sub committee, the next step is the house floor. but why are these organizations pushing for this bill? " a 308 hunting rifle will be around 165 170 as far as a decibal 130 decibal range." jack: they say it's about hearing safety. but not everyone is in favor of the gun suppressors. some law officers say it could make their job tougher. "from a policing perspective if there's gunfire in our city we certinally want to know about it we rely o the community to report that to us most often so anything that would surpress that sound might impact our policing efforts " jack: stay with local 5 for the latest on this iowa legislation. stephanie this week, the iowa utilities board is holding meetings - all focusing on the bakken pipeline. the pipeline would run 346 miles diagnolly across iowa- cutting across 18 counties and cost about 3.8 billion dollars. the board deliberated over climate change, rail and of course issues- like job creation- the pipeline could bring. " " rather than consider of each factor separately, does it positively public conviencene and neccessity or is it against it take them into isolate, i really think the better approach is to take them all together at the end and decide how much weight each one is entitled to in each of your deliberations" stephanie: the board said they may not make a decision during this weeks' meetings... however, they'll continue for the next three days in des moines. they all begin at 1 in the afternoon and are open to the public. if you can't make it, the hearings will also be live-streamed. jack: the iowa hawkeyes inching closer to that #1 spot in the polls! jordan: that's right and a lot of bracketologists have them as a 1- seed in the ncaa tournament playing here in des moines! but the hawks are only focused on that next game or so they say.... coming up, hear more from the big ten leaders after their win at illinois are iowa sport jordan: hear we are, 2nd week of february and iowa finds itself in first place in the big ten! the last time that happened this late in the year, was feb. 23, 2006! the hawks sit atop the big ten a half game ahead of 10-2 maryland. iowa picked up another road win versus illinois on sunday. the hawkeyes just keep rolling, nothing fancy, just good fundamental basketball. but they're not looking ahead, because they know what can happen if they do... "we've been through this before. we've been in a place where we're tenth in the country before my sophomore year and then we end up losing 7 in a row. so we've been through it and we know how to approach this in a professional way." "i think this is a special team here in how close we are and how we play together, i guess sort of like the football team, playing together and get wins one at a time." next up for the hawks, a road trip to bloomington to take on indiana, who's a game behind iowa in the big ten. that tips off thursday at 8 on espn. jordan: when steve prohm says indefinitely he means indefinitely. saturday it was announced jameel mckay was suspended indefinitely due to a violation of team rules, no specifics were given. mckay then took tweeting out "1 game" coach prohm didn't like that. today he said mckay will miss wednesday's game versus texas tech as well.. now the cyclones have to move forward without a big piece of their team... "he'll practice today, but he's still suspended indefinitely." steve prohm isn't messing around. jameel mckay will miss a 2nd straight game due to suspension. with depth a big concern for the cyclones, prohm knows how important bend the rules. "i love jameel, we need jameel to be right for us to max out and he knows that and me and communicate. and a good week this week and we'll go forward. right now he's suspended indefinitely until i really saw more on the matter." with mckay out, prohm moved deonte burton into the starting lineup and slid georges niang from the 4 to the 5 slot. a position, niang is familiar with, but took a half to adjust to. "early on i wasn't worth anything in the first half and coach told me i was the 5 and i needed to start playing like one." after a 2 point first lead isu to the win. it also gave the look opponents will "obviously we miss jameel blocking shots at the rim and finishing around the rim, but i introduces a new and that's pretty darn effective." the road facing some hard times, but coach prohm is confident back. "sometimes dealing with adversity away from home, rather than at home sometimes can be easier. and so we are under the gun a little bit now, with numbers and a little adversity, but our guys have responded to that and i expect them to respond again on wednesday night." wednesday night the clones will take on texas tech in lubbock. that game is set for 8pm and can be seen on espnu. the latest ap top 25 is out. six teams receiving at including iowa who has 11. they move up one this week to #4. villanova the new #1 for the first time in school history. maryland oklahoma the hawks and xavier round out the top 5. followed by kansas, virginia, michigan state, north carolina and west virginia. jordan: in non hoops related news. redshirt freshman thomas pollard won the usa track and field men's junior cross country championship saturday in oregon, earning a spot to run for team usa!! and that's not all! the former gilbert high stand out will now don the stars and stripes in the junior division of the apa panamerican cross country cup on march 5th in venezuela! pollard redshirted this past fall for iowa state, but clearly hasn't missed a beat. you can bet dad and a-d, jamie pollard is one happy poppa! jordan/3shot (wrap sports) stephanie: jack: we'll be right back... you're watching local five news at 10. brad: weather adlib: travnorthern iowa today. gradual improvement will take place tonight, but it will still be cold and windy throughout the night. skies will remain mostly cloudy with a few flurries or snow showers possible tonight. the nw winds that were 20-40+ mph will be more like 15-25+ mph overnight. blowing snow will not be much of a problem for most areas, but wind chill values will be dropping below zero into tuesday morning. tuesday will bring us another cold and windy day with increasing sunshine. even with the afternoon sun shining we will only see highs in the 10s for most areas. the winds will still be nw at 15-25 mph making it feel even colder. there will be another chance for some light snow wednesday, but at snowfall is looking fairly light. right now, it looks like we could get about an inch in the morning hours. cold weather will remain here through saturday, but we might see some warmer weather sunday along

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