made an extraordinary contribution to move this country toward being a more perfect union. the film rustin is streaming now on netflix. please watch it. it s great. audra mcdonald and aml ameen, so honored to have both of you here today. thank you so much. thank you. thank you very much. that does it for us this morning. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. hello on this monday. it is 10:00 eastern. happy caucus day. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. all eyes on iowa with the official start of the 2024 election season. republican candidates all making their final appeal to iowans ahead of tonight s gop caucuses. the caucuses will be called to order at 7:00 p.m. local time, 8:00 p.m. eastern. the vote will be held by secret ballot. our final nbc news des moines register poll shows donald trump maintaining his nearly 30-point lead over the rest of the field with a tight race for second place. one major and potentially dangerous obstacle stands in t
Welcome back. Iowa is waking up to possibly its coldest Caucus Day ever since the tradition began more than 50 years ago. A big question could Snowy Roads and windchills in the negative 20s and 30s keep typical caucus goers home. We took a look at the temperatures and the Voter Turnout rates from past caucuses. You can see there does seem to be a bit of a trend and even in iowa, no stranger to cold or snow. Todays forecast is extreme, so what happens to turnout. The State Climatologist of iowa, Justin Glisten is joining us now. Im sure youve been real busy preparing for today and this week watching those models. We keep saying it may be the coldest Caucus Day ever, but by how much. Take us through what Caucus Goers Have Braved in years past and how today stacks up. Great question, Nice To Be With You from the arctic, ana