Final round. For 2015. The gop president ial candidates take the stage in las vegas tonight. What the debate was focused on. And who traded shots. Preparing for the worst. A threat shuts down school in los angeles. How police here in des moines stay prepared for potential threats in the metro. Search continues. Ames police are coming up empty in their search for the person responsible for a deadly hit and run. How you can help police find the suspect. From who hd iowas High Definition leader. This is the channel 13 news at nine on fox 17 the Los Angeles School system was shut down today after receiving an online threat involving its school buses. Good evening. Im lynn melling. Thank you for joining us. La city superintendent Ramon Cortines closed all of the Public Schools in the city for the day. After receiving a threat overnight. Reportedly from an ip address in germany. Robocalls from la School Officials informed parents early Tuesday Morning of the decision. Some schools even perso
Outside right now. Were monitoring those conditions complete weather coverage ahead. Elias plus the Chicago Police department is again following shooting. And a Young College student dead. Elias donald trump is on the attack again after a holiday break from the campaign trail. Only now hes attacking hillary and former president bill clinton. Local 5 news midday in hd starts now. We are iowa elias good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday. Im elias johnson. Winter weather is here. 98 of iowas 99 counties are under a storm warning today. Elias meteorologist brad edwards joins us first with a look at your forecast. Brad weather adlib a large winter storm is going to impact nearly all of iowa today warranting a statewide winter storm warning. We are going to see a combination of snow, sleet and ice depending on the time of day and location highest snow totals will likely fall across central and northeast iowa with 6 to 10 inches possible stretching from des moines past
Sleet this morning, but now all of the wet weather has moved out of here even though well see increasing sunshine through the afternoon, itll remain windy and chilly with highs only in the mid40s. Overnight, expect mainly clear skies with temperatures dropping back into the low30s. It wont be as windy on saturday, but itll be cool with highs in the low to mid40s. Hey, at least well be back under mostly sunny skies by sunday, a storm system will develop offshore, which will give us a little more cloud cover and the possibility of some scattered showers in northeast North Carolina and along the outer banks during the afternoon and evening hours. Well be tracking mostly cloudy skies through monday with with our team of meteorologists through our wavy weather app. Its free for all android and apple users. Make sure you turn the notification settings on to let you know when weather is changing in your area. Our team of meteorologists will join Anita Blanton and Stephanie Harris starting at
In new york, and massachusetts and connecticut and rhode island and New Hampshire and across the region, 650,000 homes and businesses are without power this morning. New york mayor Michael Bloomberg urged people to stay off of the roads, but the long island expredzway is littered with cars that became stuck overnight. New england is getting the brunt of the snow with two feet of snow in boston. And Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has banned every vehicle on every road in the state. And the snow is creating a travel nightmare for passengers with more than 5 sthou flights cancelled already. We will have updates throughout the show this morning, but now we are turning to a threat that is more manmade than naturemad naturemade, and that is the threat of war. This mile an houring, i wa inii morning i want to direct your attention to a little skirmish in the china sea and the bbc it is calling it a little skirmish that could have big, big consequences, think world war iii consequences,
Id rather do it faster. Shepard that statement could be part of the legal challenges that the president knows are coming. The aclu Just Announced they plan to file a suit. We will have a National Emergency and we will then be sued and they will sue us in the ninth circuit, even though it shouldnt be there. We will possibly get a bad ruling and then well get another bad ruling and then well end up in the Supreme Court and hopefully well get a fair shake and well win in the Supreme Court. Shepard thats the legal system. Show downs are also expected in congress. Some lawmakers are already promising to introduce bills to end the president s National Emergency. That could force President Trump to override congress with a veto. If so, it would be the first veto of his presidency. The house speaker, nancy pelosi, and the Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer say the president is not above the law and congress cannot let the president shred the constitution. Speaker pelosi tweeting, this is pla