World Health Organization is meeting in emergency session today over ways to battle the growing zika virus outbreak. It coo declare a Global Health emergency. The virus has been linked to brain damage in thousands of babies mostly in south america. Here at home, a major winter storm is developing in the southwest and moving across the country. Strong winds toppled trees in Southern California. Killing at least one person in san diego. Heavy rains flooded lanes on the 101 and Pacific Coast highways and to the east, snow has dropped up to nearly a foot of snow in parts of reno with more to come. Accuweathers Paul Williams tells us the storm is taking aim at the plains and midwest. Thanks, phillip, reena. Winter Storm Brewing with disruptive snow throughout utah, colorado, new mexico and arizona where dangerous cross winds and blizzard evolves and on the move hitting hastings and up towards omaha and reaching up towards green bay by wednesday morning. Were looking at a combination of blowing and drifting snow, travel being very dangerous. Road closures in abundance. So hold on to your hats. This is a real one. Reena, phillip . Okay, Paul Williams, thank you so much. Something new coming to oregon. Driverthrough weed. Yep. Hear this out. Oregon is opening a pot store with a driveup window kind of like mcdonalds but for pot just across the street from the hospital. Local officials are excited saying it will help boost socalled green tourism. Green tourism. Yeah. Sounds like ecofriendly tourism but its another word for pot. The drive through weed is also available in detroit and washington state. So you know where to go on your weed vacation. Straight there there to the mcdonalds drive through. Before you go home. Pampered pets in brazil have their own parade ahead of carnivale celebrations. And you had super heros. One of the dogs dressed as wonder woman. See that . Another superman and tiara sporting the Olympic Ringsings were among the costumes. Pre dog gets its day. Any excuse to dress up your pup, huh . Theyre all about it. They get their own birthday parties. Now they have their own carnivale. It is certainly cute to look at. I absolutely love dogs. Do you have a dog . I have a dog that his name is toby. A golden retriever. I dont like to dress him up. Hes a boy. I dont know. But toby so, i dont know if i could participate in the carnivale that way. Where is toby . Because youre traveling so much all the time. He is in texas being well taken care of. You didnt tell abc as part of your deal that toby has to travel with you wherever you go . Talk to the folks upstairs about that. Thanks, toby. Coming up in the skinny, the personal tragedy just hours before last nights tv musical of grease. Cindy crawford and what shes refusing to do. A big decision for the super model. Later unforgettable moments from the iowa campaign. 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We havent seen any of this. When i arrived here last week, its been one ad after the next. No break from it. In fact, 60,000 advertisements are going to have aired leading up to todays caucasus. 17,000 just in theunup over the last few days. Millions of dollars are being spent and most ads are negative. Some very entertaining how negative they are but very negative. Brandi, have those ads is helped sway voters . Are many voters still undecided going into today . Reporter there are a lot of undecided voters. Theres a new Des Moines Register poll giving the latest numbers on who is leading. This poll is when democrats and republican likely voters were asked who were going to be caucusing today, could you be persuaded to switch to change your mind, 30 of democrats said yes. 45 of republicans said yes. So when had he go into those caucuses today, thats a huge number that might say im voting for this person, but if you convince me and tell me more about this one on the day of, i may go the other way instead. And whats the deal . Theres some controversy with ted cruz over mailers. Whats up with that. Reporter over the weekend, this came up leading to todays caucuses. There was a mailer that went out and the words voter violation and official Public Record were put on the front. What people were finding were their names and neighbors names on this piece of paper. And it would grade you on your history of voting, giving you an f if you havent been showing up to the caucuses the last few years. Election officials got mad about this. Violation that anybody can get. However, the Ted Cruz Campaign responded and said hey, were trying to encourage people to get out and caucus today. We werent trying to disrespect anyone. It made quite a few people upset. We will see how that affects him today. Brandi hitt reporting live this morning from des moines. Thank you. Thank you, brandi. Coming up, a preview of next years oscars. The best of the sundance film festival. And nature according to snoop the skinny is next. ] all right. Topping the skinny this morning, the best brandnew films being honored at the sundance film festival. Taking the top two prizes this year are the birth of a nation earning both a grand jury prize and the Audience Award for drama. Based on the 1831 slave rebellion led by nat turner. And the face of this years lack of diversity at the oscars, nate parker said i made this film for one reason in the hope of creating change agents. The film was bought by Fox Searchlight for record 17. 5 million. Wow. Other notable mentions, the top documentary earning the grand jury prize weiner based on former new york congressman anthony wiener. Were talking about Swiss Army Man for best director even though some audience members walked out over the films subject. A flat to you lent corpse. Moving right along maybe. A little awkward. I dont know. Why they walked out. Thats all im saying. Latest live tv event delighting fans of the musical. This was a big night. Were talking about grease, the latest broadway favorite to get the small screen treatment. The reviews are still coming in but so far, theyve been pretty good. The production took some bold new moves utilizing multiple sound stages as well as a live audience. It seems like, you see right there, dancing with stars, julianne hough. There she is playing sandy and veteran Broadway Aaron ta have a. Sandy and danny. Stealing the was riz zero, listen to her big number. Shall i sing i dont steal and i dont lie but i can feel and i can cry a fact ill bet you never knew but to cry in front of you boy, she just nails that and can you believe it, just hours before that, hudgens got the sad news that her father had passed away from cancer. Just gives me chills. Before the performance, hudgens tweeted out she was doing the show in his honor and no doubt would have made her father very, very proud. Beautiful, beautiful moment. And grease was in good hands. That is directed by the same director tommy cales who does hamilton the huge, huge hit here. Have you seen that yet . I have. Its really good. Lucky guy. He was doing that and its such a big hit. Here at abc, the adaptation of the 80s classic dirty dancing a taped musical with Abigail Breslin cast as Jennifer Greys iconic role of baby should be a lot of fun into in case you missed it, Cindy Crawford is retiring from the modeling world. So in case you didnt already think that she was, surprise. Crawford made the announcement in an interview with United Airlines for this months edition of hemisphere, an inflight magazine. Shes sure she will have her picture taken for maybe ten more years but just not as model. Still looking great though. She did quit modeling full time in 2000 but continued to pose professionally. I dont know what the difference is but thats what they say. Finally exciting news for fans of hiphop and nature documentaries. I am both. A favorite jimmy kimmel bit featuring snoop dogg and videos of wildlife may soon become a is it mon gooses . Oh. Wow. Its about 1 of them. They back the gator up. I aint never seen a gator get punked by no mon gooses. Retreat, yeah, back up. An online petition close to being delivered to the folks at Animal Planet needs 50,000 more signatures and it is right on the cusp. Write down this number now. 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The Hawkeye State where politicians pose with a cow made of butter, take kids for a spin in their chopper. Did we mention the pork chops . So many pork chops. Pork chop on a stick. Reporter its enough to make a politician scream. But it all comes to a head at those caucuses. Youre the caucus expert. Reporter to ask that burning question. What the heck is a caucus anyway . Its complicated. So they gave us a demonstration. For the democrats, groups gather to choose delegate whos go on to choose their party nominee. One side tries to convince the other to join their team or break a tie with food or. Rock paper scissors is one possibility. Reporter really . The republicans have it a lot easier they write down a candidates name on a slip of paper and done. If it sounds like a bunch of song and dance, well there is a caucus musical. Reporter but just remember, iowa launched president ial runs pore jimmy carter, two george bushs and barack obama. And they may just launch the next leader of the free world. Cecilia vega, abc news, council bluffs, iowa. The leader of the free world with rock, paper scissors. Yeah. Im curious to know if cecilia has tried the pork shop. For sure. She wouldnt have missed that opportunity. Facebook at wnnfans. Com. Good morning. Im phillip mena. Im reena ninan. Here are some of the top headlines were following this morning. Its decision day in iowa as the president ial candidates face their first test in this election season. The Iowa Caucuses. The latest polls show tight races with trump in the lead and sanders and clinton in a statistical tie. Full coverage ahead. In syria, a Suicide Attack has killed at least 50 people as peace takes may be forward in geneva. For the attack. In california, all three of those escaped inmates are behind bars this morning. One surrendered on friday and the other two were captured on saturday. Now, authorities trying to determine who may have helped them. And what was that is mystery fireball in the sky . Dashcam video out of ohio shows what appears to be a meteor streaking across the heavens on saturday evening. Seen as far as away as the washington, d. C. Area. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, february 1st. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning. We begin this half hour with decision day in iowa. Weve waited awhile for this. We have. The day is upon us. Thousands of iowans will caucus today in the first election test for this years candidates. Candidates ondes have shifted into high gear cramming in as many last minute events and rallies as they can. Newest poll from the Des Moines Register has clinton three points ahead of Bernie Sanders. Thats a statistical tie. Cecilia vega kicks off coverage with the democrats. Reporter Hillary Clinton is fired you. Please, come out and caucus, dont worry about the weather. Reporter bringing in reinforcements for the final push. Please join me in welcoming, i hope, our next president , my mom. Reporter not just chelsea. The entire family, center stage this weekend. Thank you, bill. Thank you, chelsea. People need to feel the deck is the game is not rigged against them. The deck is not stacked. Reporter feeling the love. Go as far as their hard work and talent and ambition will take them. Reporter and packing in the crowds. Clinton traveling more than 300 miles in iowa. Bernie sanders, clocking in