The iowa caulk caucus underway, voters deciding who will be their nominees for president. A total of 15 candidates are hoping their message connects with voters. Iowa, first state to decide who will be their nominees and the winners get serious momentum for their campaigns. Proving that the road to the white house is indeed a marathon, not a sprint. The New Hampshire primary is just one week away. Lets go live to keith landry, live in studio, monitoring the caulk results right now and a bunch of close calls so far. Keith looking at horse races on both sides. Heres what we know. State of iowa, 3. 1 million people, 30 republican delegates at stake tonight. 44 for the democrats. Heres what we know. 75 of the votes are counted. Right now. Ted cruz is up 28 to 25 over donald trump. Marco rubio, 22 . Heres what we know about the numbers so far. Ted cruz is benefiting from his strong ground game all across the state of iowa. Hes got the people on the ground. Analysts will say thats why hes up
Begin. Stuart yes, the markets are closed. But oil is trading, and look at it now, 47. 93. Okay. Big news on money. Its the price of gasoline still falling over this holiday weekend. Will you look at this . The national alleger for regular down to 2. 06 a gallon 3. 28 a year ago. Do the math. Were saving 1. 22 a gallon. Look at this, perhaps just as important, 25 states are in the 1 club. The average for regular is below 2 a gallon half the country. The cheapest gas is [laughter] i might even drive there for this doctor 1. 35 for regular at the murphy usa in texas. Steve moore is with us this monday morning, chief economist at heritage. Steve, look, weve said this before massive stimulus from cheap gas. But now along comes the president , and he wants to take it away with tax hikes. What do you say . By the way, stuart im old enough to remember back in the late 90s paying 89 cents a gallon stuart hold on a second, steve. When i first came to america i remember gas wars. It was 25 at on
Will be forced to pay record high gas prices during the jewel fourth weekend. What if i told you one simple step could save you 15 cents on every gallon of gas you buy . Here to explain, clark howard, host of the clark howard show and scott ray, senior director at walmart of the they have the details on the latest gas discount you need to know about scott, i will start with you. Give us the basics of there program. What is walmart doing with the gas prices . So, gerri, thanks a lot. One of the things we always try to do is save our customers money. So for the fourth year were able to leverage our partnership with murphy usa to provide our customers 15 cents off a gallon at all participating stations. You can do that in 21 different states. Gerri so there are someplaces you cant do it obviously. Doesnt work everywhere. Clark, to you, how important is this . I know youre talking to people all the time. You have got that radio show. What are people telling you about gas prices . Well they
Kpix 5 reporter ryan takeo with the stray bullet that injured a 10yearold girl and the search for the shooter. Ryan. Reporter hi, michelle. Police called those suspects cowards for opening fire overnight. You can see there are still detectives right here who are combing the scene. Investigators are trying to find out why the family called hours after gunfire. Were still trying to locate the suspects. We know these cowards came out in the middle of the night and fired aimlessly. Reporter there are traces of the overnight trouble on 27,000 block of tampa. The house has holes and the cars back window is barely holding on. A 10yearold girl was shot in the buttocks with one round. Multiple rounds were shot. Reporter the 10yearold was sleeping when the gunfire started. Around 1 00 in the morning 4 to 5 gunshots. Reporter it was loud enough to wake up neighbors but the family cannot call police until 7 30. Investigators want to know why. Were they aware that there was a the shooting occurred
Good morning, pooim im paige hopkins. Moments ago a huge loud explosion rocked the westgate fourth day in that hostage situation. Officials say theyre looking into a claim by kenyas foreign minister that, quote, two or thrown americans are among the attackers, but they say they have no definitive evidence. Kenya forces battled al shabaab overnight. The siege has left 60 dead and 200 injured, including americans. The kenyan government says on twitter its now in charge of the mall, but a. P. Is reporting that al shabaab is tweeting that its militants are, quote, Still Holding their ground. So its not clear how many hostages, if any, were treed. Smoke rose from the complex well into the night. The kenyan government says more than ten suspects are arrested for questioning, and kenyas president is expected to address the nation today. Back here at home, will they or wont they . Its a day of high stakes the the united nations. All eyes are on whether president obama will meet facetoface with