east of us. most of the snow should be done by noon sunday. sunday afternoon is looking dry and mostly cloudy with highs close to average in the low 30s. it should be a nice enough afternoon for the kids to go out and play in the newly fallen snow! warmer weather will finally start to take shape over the midwest and iowa next week with some 40s likely by the end of the week! have a great weekend! local 5 meteorologist james peterson nikki also coming up on local five news at six... a shooting at an urbandale hotel where a man was shot by a police officer nikki a 13 year old who lost his battle with leukemia made it his mission to get the word out about blood donation. how a legacy is living on. nikki and a supreme court justice dies at the age of 79. we have the latest on the breaking news. " local 5 news at 6 in hd starts now. we are iowa" nikki: good evening. welcome to local 5 news, i'm nikki davidson. glad you're with us tonight. nikki: today's big story. a man has been shot and killed police officer... nikki/1 shot: it happened inside an urbandale hotel early this morning. police officers hotel, because drugs... but the suspects the officers when they arrived. local five's jacob peklo has more.... jacob peklo, reporting: "investigators spent all morning and part of the afternoon, urbandale . the

hotel lobby between multiple officers and three suspects." sgt. gary lang, urbandale police department: "shortly after 4 this morning, our officers were tripped to the holiday inn at 4800 merle hay road on a drug complaint." but when police arrived, two women and a man started fighting with the officers near the main entrance. sgt. gary lang, urbandale police department: "shortly after they got there, a scuffle started out with a male subject. he ended up firing off one round during the scuffle and our officers returned fire." police say that man died at the scene. and during the scuffle, two women ran away. several other police departments were called as backup, and helped arrest the women about half a mile down the road. sgt. gary lang, urbandale police department: "everything happened really fast." authorities say it's going to be an extensive investigation, which includes dci, the polk county medical examiner, and attorney's office and urbandale police detectives. sgt. gary lang, urbandale police department: "it's an officer involved shooting, with a death, so we have to make sure everything is covered, that everything is done right."

make sure that the officers followed correct protocol during the fight. sgt. gary lang, urbandale police department: "video evidence is a key to any crime and investigation and our officers have been wearing body cameras for quite some time." jacob peklo, reporting: "at this time, authorities are not releasing the name of the officers or the suspects. investigators are expected to hold a press conference early next week, releasing more details. reporting in urbandale, jacob peklo, local five news. we are iowa." nikki/1 shot: the manager of the holiday inn told us that everyone in the hotel was safe during the incident. he says it's the first time anything like this has happened since it opened in 19-98. nikki: police have arrested a man for firing a gun outside of platinum kutz barber shop in des moines. des moines police say 45 year old reginald fitzgerald douglas stood in the parking lot of the barber shop last night around 7 p.m. yelling and fired a gun into the air... no one was hurt in the incident... douglas is facing charges of felon in possession of a firearm...dischari ng a firearm within city limits and possesion of marjuana...

breaking news nationally tonight.. nikki: supreme court justice antonin (ska-lee-a) scalia has died at the age of 79. scalia, who was nominated in 19-86 by president reagan, was found dead in his room at a west texas resort. he reportedly died in his sleep last night from natural causes. the long time justice will be replaced by president obama, it will be his third nomination to the supreme court. local five will have more on this tonight at ten. nikki/ots following the race for the white house.... the democrats are out west... while the republicans get ready to debate tonight in south carolina. it's just one week ahead of the states g-o-p primary. abc's lana zak has more. " from the rally stage? natsot - jeb bush / (r) presidential candidate "we lead the world when we have a shared identity." to the debate stage. jeb bush and john kasich warming up for tonight's g-o-p face- off? by courting voters in south carolina. sot - gov. john kasich / (r) presidential candidate "if you like me - give me a chance to take this message to american. give me your votes." the first showdown in the south will feature the remaining six republican

are expecting the tone to shift? sot - sen. ted cruz / (r) presidential candidate "as it gets closer, it's going to get nastier and nastier and nastier. and they get personal. they get ugly." sot - donald trump / (r) presidential candidate "then you have ted cruz? find out where he gets his money from." after his big win in new hampshire - donald trump had largely stayed positive? but not anymore - taking aim at senator ted cruz - tweeting: (gfx) "if @tedcruz doesn't clean up his act, stop cheating, & doing negative ads, i have standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen." cruz punching back? on the airwaves. "trump uses power for personal gain. imagine president." for marco rubio - tonight is a chance to the last debate? ============ nats - democrats hillary clinton and bernie sanders are facing off on the campaign trail - in their next nevada. sot - sen. bernie sanders / (d) presidential candidate iowa. we surprised then in new hampshire. we're gonna surprise them here in nevada." capitalize on his

winning new hampshire? clinton rallying supporters for a comeback. sot - hillary clinton / (d) presidential candidate "i am not new to this fight my friends. just one week left to woo voters ahead of the next caucuses. lana zak, abc news, washington." nikki/1 shot: after south carolina's republican primary and nevada's caucus... most of the focus will be on super tuesday... thats when more than a dozen state primarys are scheduled for march 1... nikki/wxhang: turning now to weather... there might be a tricky commute on the roads tonight... we are under a winter weather advisory until sunday.... snow has already started falling out west... lets check in with meterologist james peterson to see how much snow we can expect here in central iowa.

snow we can expect here in central iowa. nikki/1 shot:: many are planning on eating a romantic dinner this valentine's day... meanwhile... others are working hard on packing meals for the hungry. the iowa heart center and its

"meals from the heartland"... and spent this valentines day eve packing meals for starving people around the world. the fun, fast- paced event was a good way for employees to bond all while helping a charity. "right now i think they have about a hundered people. they are packing the rice and soy meal which is shipped all over the world. " "it's just great. it's a great team building excercise for them. a holiday weekend with over a hundered people here to help promote heart health in the month of feburary is phenomenal." nikki: todays goal was put enough meals together to feed 30 to 40 thousand people... and coming up later this spring... they'll be trying to back a million meals in one week during spring break. nikki: a local 13 year old who lost his year-long battle with leukemia made it his mission to get the word out on blood donation. sam lemar asked to hold a blood drive to replenish the supply he used. he also needed a bone marrow transplant leading to today's drive at indian hills junior high

the goal of the drive is to keep lemar's legacy going by holding the annual blood drive and bone marrow registery drive. "prior to our nephew getting sick and suffering from cancer. when you look at donating blood and these types of drives you say "oh, well that's nice. i'm glad people are doing that. i don't think you realize how incredibly important it is until you have actually experienced it." the family was thrilled with the turnout as almost 100 people came out this afternoon. nikki: coming up on local 5 news at six... the nothern iowa men's basketball team has been red-hot as of late. see if they could shock wichita state on the road coming up in cyhawk rewind. nikki: and.... how does chocolate covered bacon sound on this valentines day eve?? pretty good. we'll check out one local candy shop as it prepares for the big day. nikki: have a story you think we should cover? email us at: news at we are iowa dot com. or call us in the newsroom: 1- 800-858-5555.

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local 5 news at 6 in hd. we are iowa" nikki/1 shot:: welcome back. one local candy shop is planning for one of its biggest days of the year with some mouthwatering treats. but how's it all made? local 5's austin page caught up with storybrook chocolates " "

want to get some chocolate covered goodies? a box of chocolate goodies? a box of chocolate covered bacon will cost you around thirty bucks. nikki/wx hang: the cold tempatures didn't stop nearly a thousand runners and walkers this morning from supporting a good cause. "you got this, keep going! watch the ice! " the 27th annual "red flannel run" kicked off the race season in central iowa today... it happened outside the wellmark ymca in

and walkers were encouraged to wear their red flannel to support the 20-16 ymca annual campaign. awards were given out to overall male and female runners along with prizes for costumes. " "when we started it was pretty cold but once we got going it got really hot for me." "it felt pretty good. i thought it was going to be a lot worse." the money raised from the event provides financial assistance to provides financial assistance to provides financial assistance to those in need in the local community. whats your favorite place in central iowa to celebrate valentine's day? let us know if your doing anything out of the ordinary to see your comments on-air. you can post you thoughts on facebook and

or send us an email or give us a or send us an email or give us a call . we'd love to hear what you think! the contact information is on your screen. nikki/2wxhang we are iowa's most accurate weather team... meteorologist james peterson is here now... james: i'll have your forecast next "now, we are iowa's most accurate

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after 6 pm saturday night and continue off and on into early sunday morning. right now, it looks like the metro could get about 2-4" while heavier amounts of 3-6" will be possible north and east of us. most of the snow should be done by noon sunday. sunday afternoon is looking dry and mostly cloudy with highs close to average in the low 30s. it should be a nice enough afternoon for the kids to go out and play in the newly fallen snow! warmer weather will finally start to take shape over the midwest and iowa next week with some 40s likely by the end of the week! have a great weekend! local 5 meteorologist james peterson

we love to see your weather photos! if you capture any good and it has prompted a winter weather advisory for much of northern, eastern and central iowa through sunday morning. snow will start up after 6 pm saturday night and continue off and on into early sunday morning. right metro could get about 2-4" while heavier amounts of 3-6" will be east of us. most of the snow should be done by noon sunday. sunday afternoon is looking dry and mostly cloudy with highs the low 30s. it should be a nice enough afternoon for the kids to go out and play in the newly fallen snow! warmer weather will shape over the

likely by the end of the week! have a great weekend! local 5 meteorologist james peterson

we love to see your weather photos! if you capture any good pictures make sure to post them at we are iowa dot com. just click on the share it tab! nikki/1 shot coming up on local 5 sports. iowa state has a monster game tonight in ames... as texas comes to town.

uni gets a big win today at wichita state. local 5 sports director jon schaeffer has your cyhawk rewind preview next. " now, local 5 sports

with jon schaeffer. we are iowa sports" " local 5 sports director breaks down the uni win over local 5 sports director breaks down the uni win over wichita state and previews the game in ames tonight as iowa state takes on texas" nikki: we'll be right back... you're

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miss a story? don't forget to visit local 5 on the web. we are iowa dot com is your home for the latest in news, weather, and sports. james: we have another "clipper" type system coming in from the nw and it has prompted a winter weather advisory for much of northern, eastern and central iowa through sunday morning. snow will start up after 6 pm saturday night and continue off and on into early sunday morning. right now, it looks like the metro could get about 2-4" while heavier amounts of 3-6" will be possible north and east of us. most of the snow should be done

tonight on "cyhawk rewind" the hawk s coming off a split week. they'll be back tonight against texas. this is "cyhawk rewind" on local five. >> welcome to the "cyhawk rewind." letting us know he couldn't quite make it in. he has a sick kid at home.

he may not be a 6'10" center, but -- >> you can still bowl, right? >> i shot threes. tonight we start with the hawkeyes. what was slated as the game to watch, indiana has been a tough team as of late. these were a game back of the hawkeyes heading into the night in conference standings. iowa looking for another big ten win. let's check out the action. jumping iowa down, gets the jumper to fall. he had nine in the first half. anthony clemmonss, makes it a 12-point game. this is where you see iowa start trying to clawback. jordan really a tough environment but they find a way to get back in this one. >> they did. and i know some people said iowa shot themselves in the foot and the first half lost the game but i don't think so. iowa clawed their way back.