Good morning. On a busy monday. Im phillip mena. Good to have you here. Im reena ninan. You were saying, western talking about the caucuses starting up. Big today in iowa, huh. Everybody has been waiting for it. Weve been talking about it for months and months. Today is the big day. Theyre saying it might be snowing. Theyre trying to push people to get out and vote and get there. Its the nations first president ial nominating contest hours away. After months of hectic campaigning the latest polls showing a tight race. Its your voice your vote. Brandi hitt is in des moines. Morning to you, brandi. Reporter good morning reena and phillip. I agree with you. Monday is finally here. Weve been talking about if there for so long. The caucus day is finally here. Were in the media center where the vote totals will be slowly coming in much later this evening. As you mentioned, reena weather could be a factor. But this weekend, man, these candidates have ever been so busy crisscrossing this state
Emergency. The virus has been linked to 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. So hold on to your hats. This is a real o
Over. Dangerous levels of lead were later founded in flint water and 200 kids so far have tested positive. Knowing somebody did this to my kid, i cant sleep at night. Reporter officials are warning the filters they handed out to residents may not be eb enough to keep their water safe. Alex perez, abc news, flint, michigan. 675yearold man south of boston is thankful this morning for what appears to have ever been divine intervention that saved his life. Doug goldman was cutting down a tree in the woods when it fell on top of him severely injured his legs. It was trapping him for two hours. He yelled for help and luckily, his prayers were answered by a nun who happened to be praying in the woods. The patient told us himself hed been there for about two hours and was lucky somebody heard him screaming for help. Wow. Fire Officials Say if it werent for that nun running back to her help, he would not have lasted through the night. Is he now recovering this morning in the hospital. Lucky guy
This location is Sergeant Bluff community center. Reporter this volunteer is a student at iowa state. In addition to the visits and the calls, iowans have ever been bombarded with 60,000 campaign ads, 17,000 this month alone. Just another washington donald trump . New york values. Clinton and bush. Reporter and then theres the junk mail. Some iowans received this ominous envelope. Election alert. Voter violation. Official Public Record stamped on the document inside. Underneath, the persons voting score, whether theyve voted in recent elections. And information about their caucus on monday to improve your score it says. After the vote. Not a government document but a mailer from the cruz campaign. Iowas secretary of state denounced as deceptive. Over at the diner, these folks are still truly undecided. Had when are you going to maybe 7 00 tomorrow. I dont know. The deciding factor in this race could be people who have never been to a caucus before. On the democratic side, Bernie Sander
Right now. Good morning, im diane macedo. And im andrea grymes. We have been talking about the warmup and it starts today. It starts today. A ten degree jump over yesterday. Many will see 50degree high temperatures. I think it will be a beautiful end to the weekend. We will have more clouds around today than yesterday. But over all not too shabby. Temperatures right now on the chilly side still. Still 38 in the city. 28 in summit. As we look at the satellite and radar picture, there are plenty of clouds over head, for your day it will be partly sunny. 9 00 a. M. 40 degrees. Feeling like 35. And then today in the city we anticipate topping out at 49 degrees. It will feel like 47. But as i mentioned, we will see looking good to end your region. Coming up we will talk about an even bigger jump as we head into the midweek forecast. Andrea and dianne, back to you. Back to campaign 2016. One day to go before the Iowa Caucuses the president ial hopefuls are pull out all the stops to attract v