Our storm system is lifting north on track and on schedule today. Once again, difficulty remains as to how much snow each individual area will rececve. Pleas e refer t t our Facebook Papa and newscast for the latest graphics. The general theme is the heaviest snow falling northwest with the lightest amounts falling southeast. Wind will be an issue at two different times today, with the first being this morning. As the winin calms f f a short time later this afternoon, a round of fog is possible across the area this evening. More snow should arrive later this evening into the overnight along with strong wind. This may make for a hazardous wednesday morning commute as well. In the wake of this system, it does get colder, but moderation back well into the s is not far oof. Thanks kaj. Now we go to tv9s brea love look at road preparations in the city. Thanks justin. I am standing outside of the garage e ere snow plows ininedar rapids will be getting going later this morning. Nothing is falling right now, but the city is preparing for a mixed bag of precipitation. Some equipment has s lready hit the e reets laying down base materials to fight freezing roads. Crews say the most important thing about this storm is the timing. One of the biggest concerns is the expected snow during the morning commute today. Cedar rapaps streets superintendent s ss his plan is to use a lot of salt on the roadways to prevent any snow from bonding and icing on the pavement. 7 56 06 timing on an event like this where most of the snow comes throughout the day hours, it makes it a little easier on our crews. We have more people here on dayshifts and we dont have to hold people over as much. The downside is we are dealing with a lot of traffic and people the city says, so far, this year crews have responded to 16 events. Some have been smaller and only two were allplow events. The strtrts superintenden t a ao says the city has used less than half of the amount of salt they use in a typical winter. Live in cedar rapids, brea love, kcrgtv9 news. The weather may pose a problem for candndates tryiyi to get to New Hampshire today. Thats their next stop, with primaries one week from today. On the democratic side, it is a virtual tie. With one precinct in polk county yet to report, Illary Clinton is s ead at 49 point 9 percent. Bernie sanders is less than a point behind at 49point 6. Texas senator ted cruz heads to New Hampshire with a win. He won 27point7 percent of the vote. Donald trump won second with 24point3 percent. Marco rubio was a close ird with 23point1 percent. Rubio spoke to supporters in des moines last night tonight, here in iowa, the sent a very clear message. After seven years of barack obama we are not waiting any longer to take our country back. In polls before the caucuses, rubio was in third but much further behind trump and cruz. Moines last night. The state of iowa has spoken. Iowa has sent notice, that the republican nominee and the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the memea donald trump also made a speech that despite a 2nd place finish, he says he will go on to win the nomination. Mike huckabee has suspended his campaign after finishing 9th. Over, the president ial candidates are all moving on to New Hampshire. While iowa is important as the first state to caucus, the schedule will pick the next state to vote is New Hampshire on the 9th. Voters from m th parties will participate. After this, the different primaries and caucuses start to split. The democrats caucus in nevada on the 20th. On the same day the republicans have a primary vote in south carolina. Then the republicans will have their caucuses in nevada on the 23rd. On february 27th, the democrats will hold their primary in south carolina. All leading up o march 1 super tuesday 14 republican and 11 democratic primaries or caucuses. Including the more populated states of georgia, massachusett s, virginia and texas. Both Political Parties are reporting some of the highest caucus turnouts ever for last ninit. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders is live in des moines. Forrest, it was a busy night at the precincts. Huge. There were reports that some had a hard time fitting everyone in the doors. Four out the republicans are the big story here. Lets talk numbers. More than 180thousand registered republicans voted last night. Thats the new benchmark. For perspective, in 2012 republicans had roughly 122 thousand registered voters turn out. Thats was about 20 percent. Gop leaders say ey attribibe the boom to the diversity ofofhe candidates this cycle. But, also the commitment the candidates had for iowa. I think its been one of the most incredible campaigns that iowa has ever seen. Its been gogong on for a year. Its been going on year. Its been really enthusiastic among the candidates, among the people here. Theyve come to many events here. Theyve traveled to all 99 counties. Dem Party Leaders said, at last check, more than 140thousand had turned out. Even once the final numbers are official, the party wont likely break their huge turnout set in 2008, about 240thousand registered voters. Thats nearly 40 percent. Live kcrgtv9 news. High turnout was the story in much of eastern iowa as well. Tv9s Iowa City Bureau chchf mark carlson tells us about the enthusiastic voters at the university of iowa fieldhouse. More than double than what was expected turnout out to this caucus at the ui fieldhouse and it was very loud, a stadium like atmosphere c hanting nats Bernie Sanders was the clear favorite inside the fieldhouse monday night. Hundreds of young people lined up to caucus for the 74yearold. The line stretching way out the door, while people played basketball while waiting to caucus. Right when actually got up to the front the old guy was like, yeah can we get a few more cards, weve e t like 300 more peopop coming in and im just like. Im going to get a basketball, its going to take a little while. About 500 people turned out to the campus caucus. Organizers originally said they expected about 200. Participants say it shows attention to ever to politics. I think our generation is a lot more invnvved than older people think that we are, were a lot more opinionated, at least i am. My roommates actually a big Bernie Sanders fan, so we would spend, since we met each other, talking politics and which candidates better and exchanging ideas, its really fun. In the end the results favored sanders, at llst at this caucus. 4 4 people voted sanders, while 92 went with clinton. In iowa city, mark carlson, kcrg tv nine news. Iowa democrats tried Something Different f f those who have trouble gettininto a caucus site. They brought to them with some firstever satellite caucus locations. Tv9s Dave Franzman takes us to one of those sites. As far as efficiency goes, it was hard d beat the satellite voting set up at the oaknoll retirement community. The event started right on time at seven. And it was all over 50 minutes later. But one organinir says the was simply getting the caucus to come to the people. I think it was a wonderful thing the party is trying to do reaching out to communities having trouble getting to caucus night the satellite idea was aimed at accommodatin g those with physical limitationslike the residents at this large iowa city retirement communitit 125 out of 170 democrats pre registered to take part in a caucus here. Many of the residents have mobility issues using walkers or wheelchairs. So an opportunity to caucus literally without leaving home was a hit. I thought for the first time in my adulullife i wouldnt have gone t t a caucus i might as well havevehrown in the towell so when we foiund out they were entertaining applications i thought oh thats great, ill do it. Theres too many that have troiuble walking any distance even those that have more ability than wheel chair people do Iowa Democrats selected four cations statewide to host satellite caucus events. The greatest number of participants, by far, came to the oaknoll event. Democrat hIllary Clinton got the largest number of votes here, would have had trouble going to a regular caucus sisi were the real winnter. Dave franzman kcrg tv9 news. In addition to satellite caucus sites, Iowa Democrats also hosted a telecaucus for iowans living outside the state. An estimated 90 people took part in that Conference Call caucus. S. Texas senator ted cruz is hoping to ride the support out east. But for the democrats, the race is practically too close to call. Our storm system is lifting north on track and difficulty remains as to how much snow each will receive. Pleas e refer to our faceboooopage and newscast for the latest is the heaviest snow falling northwest with the lightest amounts falling southeast. Wind will be an issue at two different t tes today, with the first being this morning. As the wind calms for a short time later this afternoon, a round of fog is possible across the area this evening. More snow should arrive later this evening into the overnight along with strong wind. This may make for a hazardous wednesday morning commute as well. In the wake of this syyem, it does get colder, but moderation back well into the 30s is not far off. But right now, heres a look at todays opening farm markets. Good morning its. On schedule today. Once again, difficulty remains as to how much snow each individual area will receive. Pleas e refer to our Facebook Page graics. The general theme is the heaviest snow falling northweswith the lightest amounts falling southeast. Wind will be an issue at two different times today, with the first being this morning. As the wind calms for a short time later this afternoon, a round of fog is possible across the area this evening. More snow should arrive later this evening into the overnight along with strong wind. This may make for a hazardous wednesday system, it does get colder, but moderation back w wl into the 30s is not thanks kaj. You can recognize a Hard Rock Caf anywhere in the world with the classic guitar sign. One in hollywood, florida will be taking the guitar shape to the next level. More on that coming up in todayyamericas money. Stata too close to call in iowaa virtual tie between clinton. While ted cruz wins the republican vote, putting with marco rubio hot on his heels. Abcs lana zak is here in iowa sanders it lolos like we are in a virtual tie. Sanders and hIllary Clinton in iowa, a race too close to call . In some precincts a coin toss broke the delegatat tie nats coin toss the Clinton Campaign saying this morning, they believe they won. But clintodidnt officially declare victory in her speech. Instead she took on the republicans hilllly clinton i will nono i will not let their decisiveness, their efforts to rip away the progress that weve made be successful. So as i stand here tonight, breathing a big sigh of relief, thank you, iowa by contrast, it was a decisive win for Ted Cruz Ted Cruz iowa had made clear to america and the world, morning has come. And trump was gracious in his secondplace finish trump i absolutely love the people of iowa. And just onepoint behind trump . Marco rubio riding a wave of support for months they told us because we o oer too much optimism in a time of anger, we had no chance. Tag looking forward to now for a quick check on your weather with meteorologist kaj omara. Stay with tv9. Its. 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