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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 polit ....
conditions and hazardous travel were widespread. some likely still impact roads since the strong winds will stay in place and that light snow hasn t been able today will be very the mid to upper teens and wind chills below zero for most of the day. overnight tonight we ll see a lot less cloud cover and wind leading us to a very chilly night with lows single digits. wednesday there is a quick clipper that will swing through the state in the morning and early afternoon that should give us a light snow with totals ranging from a couple tenths to about 2 inches. we re still cold the rest of the week but we will warm back to the 20s by thursday and friday. valentines day as of now still looks to be fairly cold with snow possible, but luckily next week we are still expecting a warming trend. elias: let s get into the top five this morning.. the winter north and forced the iowa department of and state patrol to close down interstate 35 between ames and clear lake..as we can se ....
leading us to a very chilly night with lows dropping into the low single digits. wednesday there is a quick clipper that will swing through the and early afternoon that should give us a ranging from a couple inches. we re still cold the rest of the week but we will warm back to the 20s by thursday and friday. valentines day as of now still looks to be fairly cold with snow possible, but luckily next week we are still expecting a warming trend. elias: let s get into the morning.. elias: the winter weather hitting north and central iowa forced the iowa department of transportation and state patrol to close down interstate 35 between ames and clear lake..as we can see this morning.this is looking at the northbound lanes of the interstate. high winds and snowy weather left visibility poor, leading to car accidents. the roadway some stranded in ames, and officials have also warned against using sections of highway 69, which runs parallel to the interstate. sabrina: in the nu ....
enforcement officials have to say, coming up. sabrina: tonight is the first in the nation primary. we ll take a look at the presidential race now that s it s moved on to the granite state. local 5 news midday in hd starts now. we are iowa sabrina good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday.i m sabrina ahmed. sabrina: new at midday today, an unexpected fire this morning, left one man dead. sabrina: it happened shortly after midnight on the 25 hundred block of 59th street in des moines. authorities were called to the residence twice last night following noise disturbance complaints officials evetually tried to make contact with a man inside the residence, when they saw a fire erupt within the home. the man refused to leave, and fire crews were forced out by the fire and smoke. the male resident died investigations show the fire was intentionally started. we will be sure to keep you updated on this investigation as we receive any new information. sabri ....