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says there are too many accounts of inconsistencies , untrained volunteers and confused voters. and today -- local 5 is getting its first clues that something went wrong, specifically two cases in woodbury county. local five's amanda krenz explains. amanda/bam: in one precint in oto, there was only one democrat who showed up to caucus on monday night, and he was a senator bernie sanders supporter. in another, both the clinton and sanders precint captains signed off that sanders won the precinct. but when the final results came out, both precints had their delegates going to hillary clinton. our sister station, kcau in sioux city, just wrapped up an interview with several people who couroborate witnesses accounts from these precinct locations, and we will be bringing you their stories tonight at 10. amanda/bam: now earlier this week, we did reach out to the iowa democratic party's chairwoman andy mcguire. she told us the results are complete and they won't be opening things back up for a
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supporters, enough. "mcguire - 25:29 when you have that you have to make sure you verify the results and this morning we have 100% of the precincts verified the results, we have our final rania - 34:38 we have very strong supporters who are have worked so hard. about such a tight these questions that want those things to be rectified. " amanda/bam: again, you can watch the full story about what happened in woodbury county on caucus night, tonight at 10. and we'll be looking deeper into this issue on "this week in iowa," our weekly political show. that airs sunday at 9 a-m, right here on local five. reporting in the studio, amanda krenz local five news, we are iowa. jack: many hawkeye fans would probably like to forget about the rosebowl. but an iowa lawmaker isn't letting it go. and it wasn't the lopsided score of the ballgame - but the halftime
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to his outrage. local five's amanda krenz talked to the lawmaker today at the statehouse. "nats of halftime show the band that took the field at stanford didn't raise any eyebrows with their talented musicianship. nats... but the cow running around - and farm themed show that was meant to make fun of iowa got booed - big time from the 50- thousand hawkeye fans at the game. nats.... chelgren 39:04 virtually everyone thought it was done in poor taste. republican iowa senator mark chelgren wants stanford to make a formal apology - and he wants to pass a law to get it done. 40:51 what it says - future collarboaration between stanford and regents universities whould be put on hold until that apology's made publicly. when reporters asked other lawmakers at the statehouse about it, this is what they said. gronstal 14:34 are you serious? is that a serious question? it's absurd.
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focused on whether the hawkeyes were gonna come back in the second half. but people at stanford might just be listening to senator chelgren's concerns. chelgren 39:20 since i've released the bill the spokesperson from stanford university has siad they regret the insults to iowa. chelgren says that's a start - but he wants an actual apology. a gesture he says, will bury the hatchet. 42:20 i think there was a long erm problem that would've caused long term dissention between stanford and the state of iowa. at the statehouse, amanda krenz, local five news, we are iowa." jack: in other statehouse matters. jack/ots: senate democrats made a bold move to stop governor branstad's plan to privatize medicaid. they say it's time to stop the whole thing and they've introduced a bill to do that. "gronstal - 11:20 they assured us back in november and december they were signing people up left and rightr and they're still not the halfway point. we think it's timr
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this, go back to the old system, maybe someday come back to this issue upmeyer - 27:10 i'm puzzled why we're not moving forward instea dof looking back and protect a status quo " jack:: speaker upmeyer said another reason the house won't bother debating the bill is because any repeal of the medicaid privatization would be vetoed by governor branstad. jack: taking a look around iowa. jack: a house fire in nevada today left one man dead. early this morning, story county investigators were called to a home in the 800 block of north avenue. they found the home burning, and a man dead inside. the victims is 36 year-old adam blazek. the rest of blazek's family was not home at the time of the fire. the cause of the fire is still unclear. " "the fire itself is suspicious only because of the markings and the indicators that are there. we have people on the scene still
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later once we get everything together."" jack: investigators are still waiting on autopsy results to see if the fire killed adam blazek, or if it was something else. there was also a today. crews from menlo, casey, and stuart were called to a fire in the sargent custom cabinets building a little before midnight last night. two sheds were completely engulfed in flames, as you can see here, from menlo and stuart were injured after slipping on ice in the early morning fire. crews were on the scene for more than eight hours trying to put out the flames, but the building collapsed and is the cause of the fire still isn't clear. jack/ots: made in a child endangerment case in newton. you might remember this. 20-15, several children tested positive for
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, while in the care of daycare providers 29 year old cristy clark and 28 year old somer speer. speer pled not guilty to her charge of child endangerment. today, eric mcdowell was also charged with child endangerment. his preliminary hearing is set for february 10. a warrant has also been issued for mariah dawson. jack: coming up on local 5 news at six. local 5 sports director jon schaeffer sat down with iowa state athletic director jamie pollard today, as he looks back on 20-15 and plans ahead for the new year. jack: but next, the university of iowa's muslim students now have a safe place to pray on campus. we'll take a look at how the administration worked with students to make it happen. "your watching local 5 news at 6 in hd with jack miller, stephanie angleson, we are
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forecast with chief meteorologist brad edwards, and local 5 sports with sports director jon schaeffer. this is local 5 news at 6. we are iowa." jack/1shot: with the closest mosque miles away, muslim students at the university of iowa don't have a quiet place where they can pray without interruption. now that space is available, and students are saying it's a step forward. local 5's brea (bre-uh) love has the story. " more than 30 thousand students attend the university of iowa. so you can imagine campus is constantly packed with people. which makes finding a quiet area to pray, hard for students like mohammad ismail.46:07
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is not the case like at 2 or 2pm, or i'd have to go on top of a staircase and just pray there and hope that no one would walk by and start asking me questions, because we can't talk when we pray."> many other msa members felt the same way. that's when the group decided to reach out. after a month of discussion and planning with university officials, they found a solution. 59:34 two new completely renovated rooms. one for men and another for women. ismail says getting this space is a step forward for not only the group, but the university as a whole. 46:24 47:04
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space to pray at i think that the university will see a need for them then they'll be fine with them and i think that's a good thing for everyone on campus."> redington agrees this is a chance for other groups on campus to be aware they can also express their needs, and their voices will be heard. 00:36 jack/wxhang chief meteorologist brad edwards is here now... brad:wxhang ( local 5 weather is coming up next. a little "clipper" system went through today and brought
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forecast with chief meteorologist brad edwards. certified by weatherrate the independent weather experts" brad/wxc: welcome back. i'm local 5 chief meteorologist brad edwards. brad: let's take a look at we are iowa's most accurate forecast. brad/wxwall: weather adlib: a little "clipper" system went through today and brought some clouds here and snow flurries to ne iowa. we can expect more of these systems in the days to come. tonight will be mainly clear early in the wake of today's clipper. this will mean cold, dry conditions overnight with lows in the 10s for most areas. the next weather system will come in friday with more clouds and a chance for some flurries or snow showers for mainly late afternoon and early evening. it looks like we will have some clouds to start saturday with, but then see more sunshine later in the afternoon with milder temperatures across the state. highs should reach the mid to upper 30s with even some 40s for southern have no snow on the clipper will swing to our north saturday
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stronger than the others. it will bring us a lot of wind with through monday. the saturday night, and it showers will be iowa. i think we start sunshine but more swinging down from the north by afternoon with some snow showers possible right through sunday night and into monday. we could see some light night into monday, but most areas will be less colder air will eventually find its way back into iowa for next week, but after monday's snow showers it does look pretty dry. jack/2bam: i'm here with jordan furbee, and jordan. iowa. we can expect more of these systems in the days to come. tonight will be mainly clear early in the wake of today's clipper. this will mean cold, dry conditions overnight with lows in the 10s for most areas. the next weather system will come in friday with more clouds and a chance for some flurries or snow showers for mainly late afternoon and early evening. it looks like we will have some clouds to start
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then see more sunshine later in the afternoon with milder temperatures across the state. highs should reach the mid to upper 30s with even some 40s for southern iowa where some areas have no snow on the ground. another clipper will swing to our north saturday night, and this one is stronger than the others. it will bring us a lot of wind with variably cloudy skies through monday. the first chance for showers will be late saturday night, and it looks like mainly rain showers will be possible for central iowa. i think we start sunday with some sunshine but more clouds will be swinging down from the north by afternoon with some snow showers possible right through sunday night and into monday. we could see some light accumulations sunday night into monday, but most areas will be less than an inch it seems. colder air will eventually find its way back into iowa for next monday's snow showers it does look pretty dry. jack/2bam: i'm here with jordan furbee, and jordan. today and brought some clouds here and snow flurries to ne iowa. we can expect more of these systems in the days to come. tonight will be mainly clear early in the wake of today's
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overnight with lows in the 10s for most areas. the next weather system will come in friday with more clouds and a chance for some flurries or snow showers for mainly late afternoon and early evening. it looks like we will have some clouds to start saturday with, but then see more sunshine later in the afternoon with milder temperatures across the state. highs should reach the mid to upper 30s with even some 40s for southern iowa where some areas have no snow on the ground. another clipper will swing to our north saturday night, and this one is stronger than the others. it will bring us a lot of wind with variably cloudy skies through monday. the first chance for showers will be late saturday night, and it looks like mainly rain showers will be possible for central iowa. i think we start sunday with some sunshine but more clouds will be swinging down from the north by afternoon with some snow showers possible right through sunday night and into monday. we could see some light accumulations sunday night into monday, but most areas will be less than an inch it seems. colder air will the hawkeyes continuing their great stretch of basketball... jordan/2bam: and a big reason, is their big man. adam woodbury. love him or hate him, you can't deny what he's done for the hawks this season... coming up on local 5 sports, alex giaimo has more on the big man's recent hot stretch....
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"now, local 5 sports are iowa sports" the iowa keep on winning. the hawks moved to 12-0 at carver this season with state last night... their success of senior center alex giaimo has more from iowa city. "(alex giaimo) iowa's 7 foot 1 center, adam woodbury is playing the best basketball of his life.. against penn state the senior pulled in a career high 15 rebounds (adam woodbury) uh i would like to think i thought that the four years i've been playing, uh, just trying to improve. obviously everybody looks at stats at me like that but i try to pride myself on winning games and we've been doing that as of late. (giaimo) his stats often don't jump out on paper but his teammates know how important his defensive presence is on the team. (jarrod uthoff) you've got a physical penn
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to go to the boards. they are going to work hard. they are going to you got a guy who can very essential to our (nicholas baer) he's the anchor to our of rebounding. he's look for rebounding and he takes that upon himself (alex giaimo) switching gears from a rebounding king senior to a growing freshman star. power wagner is getting better every game he plays in. wagner iis 68.8 percent from the (fran mccaffery) he's just a guy who really play. knows what to spectacular athlete and he impacts the game. he's another guy. better. (giaimo) last night wagner had 8 points and 5 rebounds also tying a career high. (ahmad wagner) yea i feel like i'm improving every game. these guys are getting me more prepared in practice the older guys and it feels good to go out there and perform the way i do. (giaimo) in iowa city with your hawkeye i'm alex giaimo
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jordan: meanwhile iowa state has to regroup after another game theu let slipped away. saturday the team plays at oklahoma state, who's 9th in the big 12, but is always tough at iba-gallagher... the team says it's focused on learning from what went wrong, and focusing on the big picture. "georges niang, steve prohm and monte morris look back on the wvu loss and ahead to the rest of the season..." speaking of iowa state...
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to you the most on the year that was. well from a work standpoint i would say two things. one the opening of the football stadium. the south endzone where we sit today. it's a project that iowa staters had talked about and dreamed about and so for it to come to fruition was pretty neat. and then secondly i would say winning the second big 12 championship in basketball because those are pretty special moments. it was a little unique for me because i got to experience it and experience it in a different way from a hospital bed." jordan: tune in tonight at 10 on local 5 to hear more of jon's interview with jamie pollard.
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expectations for both basketball and football this year. jordan/sx2s: jack/sx2s we'll be right back... you're
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news crews are working hard to bring you even more stories that affect how you live. tonight at ten. after nearly seven months, a popular vietnamese restaurant opened its doors again today. we'll take a look at why their re- opening after a fire is making metro diners so happy. jack/wxhang: now one last check of your weather, with chief meteorologist brad edwards. brad: weather adlib: a little "clipper" system went through today and brought some clouds here and snow flurries to ne iowa. we can expect more of these systems in the days to come. tonight will be mainly clear early in the wake of today's clipper. this will mean cold, dry conditions overnight with lows in the 10s for most areas. the next weather system will come in friday with more clouds and a chance for some flurries or snow showers for mainly late afternoon and early evening. it looks like we will have some clouds to start saturday with, but then see more sunshine later in the
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the state. highs should reach the mid to upper 30s with even some 40s for southern iowa where some areas have no snow on the ground. another clipper will swing to our north saturday night, and this one is stronger than the others. it will bring us a lot of wind with variably cloudy skies through monday. the first chance for showers will be late saturday night, and it looks like mainly rain showers will be possible for central iowa. i think we start sunday with some sunshine but more clouds will be swinging down from the north by afternoon with some snow showers possible right through sunday night and into monday. we could see some light accumulations sunday night into monday, but most areas will be less than an inch it seems. colder air will eventually find its way back into iowa for next showers it does look pretty dry.
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