No spoilers here. Im on debate duty tonight. In las vegas, theyre getting ready. Take a look at the strip right there. Hottest ticket in town. Donald trump right now, the strong frontrunner. They are preparing for a prize fight. And well take a look inside the venetian, where that debate will take place. Nine candidates up on that stage. Donald trump center stage once again. The gop frontrunner growing Even Stronger in the polls topping our new abc News Washington post poll with 38 but that trump rally last night got ugly and Abcs Cecilia Vega starts us off in las vegas. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter robin, good morning to you. Because of those polls ted cruz for the very first time will be standing right next to donald trump on that stage here in just a few hours. But as you mentioned about that rally last night, some very disturbing allegations about things that were said as protesters were being taken out of that room. Take a listen. Overnight a donald trump rally in las vegas tur
Linn county. He also says gossip in the community will prejudice potential jurors. Police were trying to pull over chadwick in april for registration violation when he drove off. He crashed into a City Water Division vehicle in the area of 16th avenue and 9th street southwest. Stephen cook of palo died in the crash. The city has dedicated two Conference Rooms in his memory. Chadwicks trial is set for march 7th. Ames police are trying to find the driver who hit and killed an iowa state student from urbana. Police say an officer found 18yearold emmalee jacobs in the road yesterday morning on the south side of the campus. Emergency crews took jacobs to a hospital, where she later died. Police believe it was an hit and run because of her injuries. This morning about that time, it was still dark. It was raining pretty hard at that point and so that could have all played into what happened, but again theres never a reason for someone to investigators say they have not found any witnesses and
We begin with First Alert Storm Team meteorologis t britley ritz. Thanks britley. The three democratic president ial candidates face off tonight for the last time this year. Hillary clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin Omalley will take questions onstage in New Hampshire. The debate starts at 7 oclock tonight right here on kcrgtv9. This comes after the Bernie Sanders campaign had to staffer accused of tapping into clintons confidential Campaign Database with information about voters. The Democratic National committee temporarily suspended Sanders Campaign from using the party voters file. Sanders has now filed a breach of contract lawsuit against the dnc. The Top Republican president ial candidate is here in cedar rapids today. Donald trump is talalng to vvers at the Veterans Memorial auditorium today at 2 oclock. The doors open at 11 30 this morning. The latest fox news poll has trump at 39 percent support nationwide. His closest competition is ted cruz with 18 percent. Senator marco r
Night mostly cloudy low 2127 winds nw 515 alo 22 dbq 22 iow 24 thanks kaj. A mysterious substance shouldnt impact flights this morning at the Eastern Iowa Airport. A hazmat team arrived late last night to investigate. They found it at baggage claim, which is where we find tv9s Forrest Saunders live this morning. Forrest what did Airport Security tell you when you arrived . Chris, nicole, its back to business as usual here at the Eastern Iowa Airport. Earlier this morning though, totally different scene. Airport police had closed off this entire area, the bag claim, while hazmat checked out an unknown substance. Heres what authorities are telling us this started just before 7 pm. Airline personnel altered suspicious bag had come in on a flight from chicago. The bag area was closed off a little while after. Hazmat was called in to investigate. That unidentified substance was tested. Authorities say it was determined to be non hazardous. The bag claimed area reopened around 4 a. M. No one
Republicans by a wide margin in national polls. Its still tight here in iowa in recent polling against ted cruz. Yesterday, trump stopped at the university of iowa yesterday where plenty of supporters and protestors showed up. Kcrgtv9s Sarah Mccarthy has more. This space inside the university of iowa fieldhouse was completely filled with people waiting to hear from republican president ial frontrunner donald trump. But not everyone was a supporter. Scenes like this stopped Donald Trumps speech at least half a dozen times tuesday night. An organized group of protestors with bright red tshirts reading i stand with my muslim neighbors interrupted trump with plastic whistles. For one iowa city mother, shes here for her son. Stand up when he sees things that he doesnt agree with, so i feel like i needed to be here. I really feel strongly that love is more powerful than hate. But several supporters also stood in the crowd including several university of iowa football players. Cj beathard and