local five's jacob peklo joins us now with more. jacob: hundreds of volunteers spent their morning...prepari ng meals for families in need. but now, one former homeless man has made it back on his feet, and is giving to those who have the greatest needs. and he never wants to forget the changes that he's made. terry gable remembers hitting rock bottom. terry gable, intake coordinator: "while sitting in eight days of jail, i decided i'd had enough of that old life, and wanted something new." after battling an addiction to drugs and alcohol, he joined the program at hope ministries, designed to help people get their lives back on track. terry gable, intake coordinator: "after turning my life over, it completely changed. it transformed my whole life for me and my family." now, six years after first volunteering to work here, he's got a full time job. and when he sees more than 200 other people giving their time on this thanksgiving day, he knows firsthand how it can make a big difference. here and ate, myself, when i was running around

in ames, jacob peklo, local five news. we are stephanie: in addition to the partnership with cutters, the industrial design students are also partnered with tupperware, boeing and . pretty cool opportunity for those students. jack: another round of high school football playoffs tonight. here's local 5 sports director jon schaeffer live at johnston high school. jon? jon: thanks jack the valley tigers and johnston dragons are getting ready to battle it out in a little over an hour and half. the dragons are a little bit of a surprise being here in the quarterfinals. it's the furthest they've been in 4a history. now they will try to upset a valley team that hasn't won a state title since 2011. they were back in the dome in 2013 but came up short. valley entered the season as number one but two losses dropped them in johnston is at number 9 and very dangerous after they knocked off centennial last week-- the jags beat valley in the regular season and johnston is playing with a lot of confidence right now. jack: watch local 5 ne

local 5's jacob peklo joins us now with more on why they were here. jacob? jacob: that's right. people came here from all over the country. some flew here, others made drives of ten hours or more to get the chance to testify at today's hearing. some people have monetary stakes in this project but the vast doing it for the laborers. "gary speegle spent 8 hours in his car, traveling from tulsa, boone, iowa, for thursday's hearing. gary speegle, tulsa, ok: "every major pipeline that comes through the midwest comes into cushing, and then it travels out speegle says the major asset for oklahoma, and that the work in cushing project can work in iowa. ok: "the misunderstanding is that the pipelines leak. now, granted, 30-40-50 years ago, they had bad pipe. but with the technology that they unheard of. but it's not just oklahoma that's from as far away as texas and alaska also testified on thursday in favor of the pipeline. and laborers in the midwest want to make sure that the jobs stay local, instead of sending them far away. megan hardy, bellevue, ne: "a lot of times people could be