reporting live in des moines, jacob peklo, local five news. we are iowa. jack: there's a new leader for the republicans in the race for the whitehouse. ben carson is sitting in the number one spot. a new quinnipiac iowa caucus goers shows carson is leading the pack with 28 percent support. donald trump is behind him with 20 percent, followed by marco rubio with 13 percent with 10 percent. this is the first june showing donald trump trailing any a significant margin in an early primary or caucus state . jack: chief political correspondent amanda krenz has more. "when i talked to the assistant director of this quinnipiac poll about ben carson taking over first, he said yes, it's huge deal! lets take a look back at ben carson's rise... starting with the quinnipiac poll in june... he's red... donald trump is blue.... then fast forward to the poll that came out in september... you can definitely see an upward swing for both candidates. carson does very well among republican women voters, much better than donald trump... and also... people just really like dr. c

local five's jacob peklo is here now with more on the rally. jacob/bam jack, we've heard a number of different people weigh in on the pipeline. many are in favor of it, but today was the biggest display of disapproval so far. they're hoping their big drop off leaves a big impression on the utility board. <<(natural sound of drumming the calls against the bakken pipeline were loud and clear on thursday morning. natural sound: "no corporate oil!" nathan malachowski, cci organizer: "iowa utilities board is in the pocket of big oil and we want them to know that they're watching their process, and that we're going to fight back tooth and nail, and that they need to be accountable to the everyday citizens." about eighty people gathered outside of the iowa utility board to voice their opinions. natural sound: "but it is our fight!" dan gannon, ankeny farmer: "a for profit corporation is going to make a profit off of us is going to cross our land and it has nothing to do with eminent domain, it has to do with violating our rights as land owners." on th

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

live in des moines, jacob peklo, local five news. we are iowa. jack/lam happening now -- democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton is in fairfield, iowa, preparing to talk about alzheimer's disease. you're watching the event live right now -- she'll be speaking at the fairfield community arts center, announcing plans to call for a dramatic increase in federal spending a dramatic increase in federal spending to find a cure for alzheimer's disease the democratic front-runner wants to spend two billion dollars a year in an attempt to cure the degenerative brain disease by the year 2025. the alzheimer's association, the disease is the only top-10 cause of death in america that can't be prevented, cured, or slowed down. an estimated 5.1 million people age 65 or older have it, and that number is expected to increase to 7.1 million by 2025. and -- this wasn't the only way hillary clinton made news today. jack: she also doubled down on a claim made at saturday's democratic debate that isis operatives are using donald trump in recruitment videos f

reporting live at the state fairgrounds, jacob peklo, local five news. we are iowa. jack: thanks, jacob. we'll check back in with you live at the rally before trump walks in. jack chief meteorologist brad edwards joins us now.. james: ((ad lib weather toss)) "now, we are iowa's most accurate forecast with meteorologist james peterson. certified by weatherrate the ((ad lib weather toss)) forecast with fairly mild temperatures for this fall into the low 40s. mostly cloudy with highs in the 50s. we are rain moving in from the afternoon but especially through the evening. sunday is going to be a very wet day with near constant rain falling all day with those showers morning. rain totals will be fairly high across central iowa with many places capable of reaching 2 inches by monday when the rain has passed. next week will start warm with highs in the 40s for the first couple days, but after that we return to average as temps fall back into the 30s. have a great evening! james/wxhang (adlib) jack: thanks, james we'll be right back into the 30s. have a great evening! james/