tomorrow s contest is now out. if the trends in this poll hold, donald trump is going to pull off a win by an unprecedented margin for a republican or a democratic presidential candidate in iowa. this is the final nbc news des moines registry iowa pole ahead of tomorrow s caucuses. trump, his lead is down ever so slightly, by the way. this is what was in december, 51. now he is at 48. you can see that he has 28 point lead over his next closest competitor, nikki haley. nikki haley s first choice support, meanwhile, rose from 60 to 20 points. ron desantis support has slipped three points from last month, 19 to 16. vivek ramaswamy is an out below, heat remains below 10%. the current record margin of victory in the iowa republican caucus says for a non incumbent candidates is 13 points. that was set by bob dole in 1980. trump wins to more by anything remotely close to what these polls were predicted, he won t make history. that s an addition to the history that donald trump is al
alex marquardt in washington. thank you so much for joining us today. we begin this hour with new details surrounding the indictment or former president donald trump. he is now the first ex president in us history to face criminal charges. trump is expected to travel to new york on monday, then surrender and appear in a manhattan court on tuesday. that s when charges against him of which sources tell us there are more than 30. that s when they will be. formally unveiled. attorneys for trump say he has quote ready to fight and will not accept a plea deal ahead of his appearance in court next week. the nypd is preparing for potential unrest. all officers are being told to report to work in uniform and to prepare for deployment today. cnn s kara scannell is outside the manhattan courthouse and cnn s leyla santiago is near trump s mar-a-lago home in west palm beach, florida. karen i want to start with you in new york. what more are you learning about what may be in this historic
supreme court. tomorrow s results will tee up the race to come, it will unveil who trump s main challenger won t be. it appears at the moment to beat nikki haley. she is calling fall behind trump. the polling confirms i was passion for haley is slowing. 61% majority of nikki haley supporters over here say that they are mostly enthusiastic, i m sorry, mainly enthusiasts or not that enthusiastic about turning out. where s 88% of trump supporters say they are extremely enthusiastic, or very enthusiastic about colchicine for him. you can see the orange and the darker orange there. that is where your enthusiasm is greater. nikki haley is actually running behind event ron desantis in terms of the enthusiasm. there is evidence that trump himself might see haley as a growing threat. he has been targeting hurt this week with the same kind of false attacks that he once used against both book rock obama and ted cruz. trump alleged to a six and a half million followers on truth
highlighted in hot pink davenport s included in that as well as memphis. those are the areas that are the high risk. that s the level five out of five. however we could see very strong, significant violent, long track tornadoes. this is all language that the storm prediction center has used to. plane. these storms we could see those anywhere that shaded in these orange areas as well as that darker orange. we could see strong, long lived tornadoes. that s tornadoes that are on the ground for a long period of time. we re talking about ef three or greater and strength are also looking at damaging winds in excess of 75 mph. here s a closer look at that northern risk area and then the southern risk area. it does include memphis in the areas around there and then you can take a closer look at the northern area. that s the highest risk level. but the area the greatest area, producing tornadoes, anywhere with these black lines are so that s going to be your greatest probability of a strong tor
you are you ready for the meat sweat? jedediah: i know you did it looks like a meat friendly farmer s market. rick: today is what i am talking about. tons of barbecue. we are excited. kick off of barbecue season show us what s going on. unfortunately a lot of rough weather going on and not going to be a great memorial day weekend. see where we have the severe weather the last couple of days. that exact same pattern continues with us and down across the southeast it is hot. if you are there you know what i m talking about. temperatures have been breaking records, daily records for a number of days and there is no real change in this system. we are going to continue to watch that high pressure stay in control. it s going to keep your temperatures really shot and on the west side of that it s going to continue to keep that storm track going in the spot where it s been going. today you see that darker orange that s our biggest threat for severe weather. likely see a few tornadoes that defi