all right. good morning, everyone. it is saturday, january 13th. i m amara walker. i mean, my list is short but there are a few people on it. i m victor blackwell. that you would shovel snow for? yeah. really. i ll have to during the break. i m not going to reassess. much of iowa is still under a blizzard warning this morning. and you can see why. snow like this contributed to the snowiest week in des moines since 1942. and republican presidential candidates are worried that weather could lead to low turnout at monday s caucus in iowa. despite canceling events earlier in the week, most planned to still engage with viewers voters i should say, we re engaging with viewers, they re engaging with voters. that s right. some are doing it virtually. donald trump will hold a virtual rally today. how many of these likely caucus goers are going to stay home baz of the temperatures and all the snow?
to blunt the momentum of his opponents. so, he is trying not only to win but to win big on caucus night. eva mckend, thank you very much. joining me now to discuss the race is gaylan, politics reporter with the des moines register. hello. i m glad you re staying warm inside. so let s talk about the concern about the weather monday. i mean, obviously we re talking about potentially dangerous, frigid temperatures. we know that iowans are very proud of this process. and we also know they re very used to cold, cold weather. how could the weather impact turn out? yeah. i mean, echoing what eva said, iowans, midwesterns are used to conditions like this. they will trek to the grocery store in a blizzard just to say
des moines right now, the temperature itself is 4. it feels like 16. but the concern for des moines and really the rest of iowa becomes monday for the caucuses. this is a look at the monday evening temperatures. not the wind chill, the temperatures. des moines looking at minus 10. then you factor in the wind gusts that are around that. that feels-like temperature drops to minus 28 in des moines. and really for the rest of the state, you re talking vast majority of them with those wind chills of minus 20 to minus 30 degrees throughout the evening as all of those folks are getting together for the caucuses. how does this compare to previous years? the forecast is minus 4 on monday. that is not even remotely close, guys, to what we have seen in previous years. you can t even cry about those temperatures because the tears will just freeze on your face. exactly. allison chinchar, thanks so much. just in to cnn, new developments in the taiwan presidential election. we ll go live to t
systems across the u.s. that s why you have such a wide swath here of so many winter weather alerts. but it s not just for snow and ice. it s also the incredible cold air that s going to be sliding in behind some of these systems. look at all of these areas. you re talking overle 80 million people under some type of wind chill alert. some of these areas could see the wind chills 40 to 50 degrees below zero. for some of those areas it s lasting for multiple days. here is a look just to show you how widespread this cold air is really going to be. yes, about a quarter of the country, population in the lower 48, is going to have temperatures below zero. but even areas outside of that, you re looking at three quarters of the population, 75% of the lower 48 population is going to have temperatures below freezing. so even places like florida, georgia, other states far south are still going to be very cold nor time of year. looking at these temperatures, it s already starting to set in bismarc