Crash. Four people killed including a young nurse. The new miss america making history. The first active Duty Air Force officer to win the crown. And a day of service. Tonight Martin Luther King jr. In his own words on what would have been his 95th birthday. This is word news tonight. Its great to start the news with All Of You tonight. Were glad youre indoors with us. We begin with the first major test in the race for the white house. Whether americans are ready or not for this. It is here the Iowa Caucuss windchills are 25 to 30 below zero. Record cold. It could affect turnout tonight. Former prus up by 30 points. He made the fewest trip to the state. Predicting he will win big tonight. Florida governor Ron Desantis visiting all 9 counties in iowa,
Candidates have appeared repeatedly on your Show Need to know with jeff angelo. I saw you, was it last week, and it was much warmer. It was positively balmy compared to what youre much warmer. Okay. So lets talk about Ron Desantis its always been much warmer. It was the warmest winter on record and now here we are. Ron desantis says hes built this great army on the ground in iowa and whats fascinating is i know you stumbled today across the Turnout Training Session for Team Desantis and it was last night at a hotel bar. Whats their Game Plan . I mean, what are they ready to do, jeff . Well, it was amazing to talk to them after they had their training, so their Game Plan was to go Door Knocking and erin, look, there were a bunch of people here from around the country including texas and florida, welcome to Minus 26 windchills. Some of them were telling me they were probably going to call
Necessarily what had the fans going wild. The entire state of utah got free chicken nuggets, that is thanks to a promotion with chickfila, fans could get an eight Piece Chicken Nugget while supplies last, of course. That is pretty cool. I would be pretty excited. Because he missed two. That seems too easy to fix that. Tonight, winter wallop. A dangerous mix of snow, brutal cold and lifethreatening windchills from Coast To coast. The Deep Freeze spreading and a big Nfl Playoff Game postponed. Im Charlie De Mar In Davenport iowa
All right. Tonight iowa gripped by an historic storm. Record low temperatures that are guaranteed to affect tomorrows caucuses one way or another. And right now with the windchill in iowa, it feels like a negative 28, which is colder than alaska right now. Whether this cold makes people want to stay inside, well, of course, getting people to turn out and go out in the cold, in the dark, is what happens. Thats what Iowa Caucuses are all about Tomorrow Night. The chair of the Iowa Republican Party saying a few moments ago that he still expects a, quote, robust turnout. Elisa raffa is out in front of the cnn center. This is perhaps the most important report of the night when it comes to tomorrow, right . This really is about the weather. What do you see it look like Tomorrow Night . Were not going to break zero as we go through the next couple of days in iowa. Iowa has had temperatures below zero since yesterday afternoon. Still sitting at 11 degrees below zero right now in des moines, wi
Charlie, thank you. Lets check in with Cbs News Meteorologist Vanessa Murdock for more on the weather threat. Good evening to you. Good evening, weijia. It is a very busy period across the continental u. S. We are watching a massive Storm System make its exit. It flooded coastal communities today. Behind it, arctic air barrels in, bringing Windchill Warnings as far south as texas and windchills as cold as 70 below on the northern tier. We will be breaking record cold records through much of the midsection. And then, moving forward, we have got another crosscountry Storm System. It really begins to ramp up in the Tennessee Valley tomorrow, bringing snow, and then travels up the East Coast tuesday, bringing snow to major cities like New York and boston, and may finally break the Storm Record here, which is approaching 700 days straight. An inch or more would wrap that record for us. Vanessa murdock, thanks. This is the last weekend of