College basketball game to try and distract a freethrow shooter. Did the speedo do the trick . Today, friday, january 29th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie alongside willie geist, in for matt this morning. My Remote Control working overtime last night. My last button on the tv was used a lot last night. Well see if this paid off for donald trump. That is our top story this morning. Donald trump going through on his promise to skip the last nights president ial debate, but his presence was felt early and often. At his own event, trump admitted he wasnt sure how it would play over with voters. Correspondent peter alexander. Peter, good morning. Good morning. I think you hit it on the head right there. It was compelling counterprogramming. It was also a big risk for donald trump. On stage, he said he didnt want to be
The big day is finally here. Caucus day 2016. Tonight the First Americans will decide who they want for their next president. There are more than 16hundred caucus sites all over this state. Well have full Team Coverage all day leading up to the caucus. Channel 13s josh nguyen is live now in Capitol Square where much of the caucus chaos is expected to take place. But first, well go to megan reuther, who is live at west end salvage which is notes lets take a look at our coverage for but we will follow each candidate. Lets start with dave price. He will in now. Onto, donald trump he will be at with sonya hetisuhen. Right behind him in the polls is ted cruz and he will be at the fairgrounds and Stephanie Moore will be giving us the lastest from his camp. On the dems side, Hilary Clinton will be at drake, in the olsted center. Lynn melling will live from there and to close out Bernie Sanders will setup his hq today from the airport will be tracking the results with him. From most experts we
Caucus day is here. Channel 13s josh nguyen is live in Capitol Square where media is already gathering. Rollcue to vo from most experts we talk to this is shaping up to be an all timer. Not sure it will have the turnout of the 2008 caucus but the tight races on both sides have people excited. But the year that keeps coming up when i talk with professor is 1988 and the similarities are striking. We all know this year, the gop has a packed field and no one knows who will come out on top. The dems had that issue in 1988 with 8 candidates. Richard gephardt ended up winning that year. Its a much different on the dem side with just a 2 horse race with sanders and clinton. The republicans, dealt with that in 88 too. With bob dole and bush sr. Dole won that year with almost 40 percent of the vote. But where this resembles 1988 most is the amount of media here. We caught up msnbcs chris make this night historic is just one man. Roll to sot. 88 was so too. I think the most important election ton
Iowans will start to caucus exactly three hours from now. The storm. Before the blizzard dry for now but rain and snow central iowa late tonight. The heaviest snow looks to fall in the metro during the morning commute. Northwest iowa will see heavy snow and strong winds throughout the day. The metro will see snow in the range of 3 to 6 and higher amounts of 8 will occur in northern iowa. A blizzard warning and winter storm warning will be in effect through the day on tuesday. For two years dozens of our state asking for your vote. Tonight all of us will be watching Capital Square in Downtown Des Moines to find out if you gave it to them. Political director dave price joins us live from caucus central at Capital Square. Begin a long night of caucus coverage here on channel 13 and whotvdotcom. 3543 i will apologize to no 3543 i will apologize to no one for using every tool we can to get poepole to come out and caucus for us. Listen, our now to the democratic side of just a he may be the
Caucus and the entire state is seeing a fair share of president ial candidates making their final kwwls Kristin Rogers joins us ve from cedar rapids tonight where the clintons are campaigning together. Kristin . On saturday, january 30, gun violence prevention advocates former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and captain mark kelly will campaign for Hillary Clinton in iowa. Giffords and kelly will join Hillary Clinton for a get out the caus event discuss whats at stake for iowans in the february 1st caucus, and Hillary Clintons record of advocating or commonsense approaches to reduce gun violence. Kwwl news. Thanks kristin meanwhile int des Moines Clinton supporters kicked afternoon at campaign headquarters. Senator Bernie Sanders also makes a few stops arournd the statt todayy for a final push before caucus night. Heres what he had to say. Right now. Election were held secretary clinton a little bit ahead. Virtually tied. We will on monday night if there is a low voter turnout. Senato