Box in todays Iowa Caucuses. The tight race there with both parties as the candidates squeeze in last minute rallies and events. On the republican side, donald trump has retaken the leaded from senator ted cruz with marco rubio in a distant third place. Our coverage begins with abcs tomium maz. Reporter in iowa, donald trump and his family trying to close their biggest deal of all. He will be unbelievable. The best deal maker, the best master negotiator. Reporter shaking hands, signing autographs, even holding babies. An allout push to turn poll numbers into real votes. I dont care if youre feeling horrible, you have a 104 temperature, the doctor says you cant leave. It will be the end of you if you leave bed. You cant leave, you wont be able to make it. Iowa, his wife by his side. How do you close this deal . Trumps sons at a shooting range sounding like their dad. A poll came out where hes doing very, very well. I think you all saw that. Trump. Church receiving a blessing from the pa
Brain damage in thousands of babies mostly in south america. Here at home, a major winter storm is developing in the southwest and moving across the country. Strong winds toppled trees in Southern California. Killing at least one person in san diego. Heavy rains flooded lanes on the 101 and Pacific Coast highways and to the east, snow has dropped up to nearly a foot of snow in parts of reno with more to come. Accuweathers Paul Williams tells us the storm is taking aim at the plains and midwest. Thanks, phillip, reena. Winter Storm Brewing with disruptive snow throughout utah, colorado, new mexico and arizona where dangerous cross winds and treacherous travel and the blizzard evolves and on the move hitting hastings and up towards omaha and reaching up towards green bay by wednesday morning. Were looking at a combination of blowing and drifting snow, travel being very dangerous. Road closures in abundance. This is a real one. Reena, phillip . Okay, Paul Williams, thank you so much. Some
Off the weekend. Cbs 2 news sunday morning starts right now. Good morning. 7 00 a. M. On this sunday, january 31st im diane macedo. And im andrea grymes. Todays top stories are straight ahead but first Vanessa Murdock is here with one of our top stories this morning which is is the weather and this warmup. Hard to believe after the blizzard we are talking about a warmup. And a big time continued melting of whatever snow is left. We will be reaching nearly 60 by midweek. Today many of us will hit 50. So serious numbers out there for today. I think its a great end to the weekend. Lets check on the temps right now though. Were not at 50 yet. Most of us below the freezing mark or many of us any way. But it is 39 in central park. 37 in westberry. As we look at the vortex have plenty of clouds moving on in. For today plenty of clouds. Some sun. It will not be a completely cloudy day. We are calling for a mixture of sunshine and clouds. 9 00 a. M. , 40. It feels like 35. By noon 44 is feeling
And what was that is mystery fireball in the sky . Dashcam video out of ohio shows what appears to be a meteor streaking across the heavens on saturday evening. Seen as far as away as the washington, d. C. Area. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, february 1st. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning. We begin this half hour with decision day in iowa. Weve waited awhile for this. We have. The day is upon us. Thousands of iowans will caucus today in the first election test for this years candidates. Candidates on both sides have shifted into high gear cramming in as many last minute events and rallies as they can. On democratic side is, the newest poll from the Des Moines Register has clinton three points ahead of Bernie Sanders. Thats a statistical tie. With the democrats. Reporter Hillary Clinton is fired you. Please, come out and caucus, dont worry about the weather. Reporter bringing in reinforcements for the final push. Please join me in welcomin
Connoisseur of the arts. You are in queens chasing story of nail is salon that had to change their name because of pressure in the neighborhood. What a name that store had. I am in new york in queens right by forest hills in front of best nails and spa. That is the sign right now this salon used to be called isis nail salon. That created a whole host of controversy, and headache for the owner. I spoke with the owner charlene, she picked name in 2010. That was in 2010, right before all this came about. That changed last year in 2015 14 with the christian genocide going on in middle east courtesy of isis. Because of all of the bad publicity that terrorist group has been generating, her nail salon felt the repercussions, the problem started when someone took a picture of her isis nail sign posted it on facebook, and said that there was an isis center here by queens boulevard in queen that created a huge problem, she was receiving phone calls from people saying is this isis i would like to