The temperatures around the state. 27 for ames. There is your day planner. Going to be a nice, warm day, but it will be cloudy. Patchy fog this 20. Noontime temperature below 30s. 3 00, 36 degrees. We have 40s and the a day or cast in the 8 day forecast alyx after nearly 24 hours of being stranded in a snowstorm, some iowa students teachers and chaperons are on their way home. 25 Dowling CatholicHigh School Students are among thousands of people stranded because of this storm. They were on their way home from washington d. C. When their bus got stuck on a pennsylvania turnpike east of pittsburg. The bus left d. C. Thursday afternoon hoping to beat the blizzard. A car crash near the turnpike backed up traffic for several miles. Snow piled up so fast their bus wasnt able to move. But they made the most of the situation. Weve received dozens of students playing in the snow and singing on the bus. But there were some other issues. We are slowly running low on food, which isnt fun and weve completely run out of water. So if we want to drink water we have to go outside and fill our water bottle with snow and go back on the bus and wait for it to melt. Alyx luckily some men delivered more water for them yesterday. This blizzard pounded the east coast dumping several feet of snow in some of the nations major cities. More than a dozen people have died in the storm. Don champion reports from the nations capital. Don a major snow storm hammered the northeast. The foot traffic in new york noticeably quieter saturday night. The National Weather service says more than two feet of snow fell in the big apple. Packing a lot of punch. Don major coastal flooding pushed water up to residents doorsteps in new jersey. Philadelphia could get up to 2 feet of snow by the time the storm ends. Im well beyond the idea of Winter Wonderland. Theres no romance to a blizzard in my mind. Don this bride wasnt about to let the Winter Weather stop her wedding day. The Duquesne University mens basketball teams bus was finally freed after being stranded on the pennsylvania turnpike since the storm hit friday night. High winds caused blinding whiteout conditions in the nations capital. A pair of four by four pickups linked together to tow a ladder truck out of a jam. The snow fell so fast that crews couldnt clear roads side streets were out of the question and officials warned that could slow 911 response times. Our interests is in our Public Safety being able to move our First Responders and getting don the storm also stranded thousands of travelers and more than 10,000 flights were cancelled. Alyx officials now confirming at least 19 deaths are weather related. Its no surprise winter storm jonas is causing travel problems. Airlines cancelled nearly 7,000 flights over the weekend and are starting to cut monday services as well. Two airports in washington d. C. Will likely remain closed through today. Officials say the snow and high winds make snow removal difficult. Amtrak has also cancelled and cut back on services. Several trains scheduled to depart washington, d. C. For new york city were cancelled. Officials say passengers should contact amtrak or their airline directly for information and to rebook trips if necessary. A new mexico rancher renounced his u. S. Forest service grazing contract at an event in oregon saturday. The event was held by an armed group occupying the Malheur National wildlife refuge to protest federal land use began occupying the refuge on january 2. Bundy says the government has no authority to enforce grazing contracts with ranchers. The rancher, adrian sewell, says hes restricted to allowing 85 cattle to graze on his land. In the past he says hes run about 600 animals. Police say a 17yearold has been charged with multiple first degree murder and attempted murder after a mass shooting in a western canada school. Officials say the teen cant be named under canadas youth criminal justice act. Nine people were shot in the school, two fatally. The other seven wounded are hospitalized. Police say two brothers were shot dead in a home before the gunman headed to the school. The shooter was arrested outside the School Friday morning. In local news this morning two , people are being treated after an Early Morning rollover. City exit. Officers on scene tell kcci that the two sustained minor injures , but the car is in pretty bad shape. There were reports of slick roads in that area. An escaped inmate is in custody this morning. Officials confirm that the inmate who escaped from the Newton Correctional Release Center was apprehended last night. Edward shorter went missing friday afternoon. No word on where he was found. Time now is 5 06. As frank just mentioned, the missed he was talking about makes some conditions. Frank it actually uses on contact. You may have to be do scraping out there. Its actually pretty dry. No precipitation on the radar. We cannot even see on radar. I will to you what, there is a system brewing just down south. Mean more precipitation for us. We have been talking about it for a while. Waking up this morning, not bad. 29 in the metro. 28 in knoxville. 27 for ottoman. The backside highpressure were working. 27, north platte. Near 30 or kansas city. For kansas city. 37 degrees monday. It looks like rain for the morning hours. That will transition to a rain, snow mix. Tuesday, we dry out a little. We are back in the 20s. We have got 40s after that. I will tell you when coming up. Alyx lets just jump to summer. Its a sure sign that summer is not too far away. The 2016 ragbrai route was released last night. And here it is. Glenwood, shenandoah, creston, leon, centerville, ottumwa, washington, muscatine. If you have not noticed its a , southern iowa route. Ragbrai begins july 23. But, before summer starts, its caucus season. Last night was the premiere of caucus. The musical at the stoner theater. The story follows an iowa farmer and his family after they are dubbed typical caucusgoers by the national media. The candidates prove they will do anything to win their votes. The 2016 production features new songs, characters, and celebrity guest appearances. You can catch it now through february 6. The Opening Weekend shows continue today with a matinee at 2 00. We usually only see the president ial candidates giving their stump speech on the campaign trail. So our chief political reporter, Cynthia Fodor, asked Hillary Clinton to stop by and sit down with a group of iowa women for an informal candid conversation. President ial candidate stops by your house. And not many voters get to get up close and personal with Hillary Clinton. Marsha wannamaker put out lunch for the ladies with the former first lady. I thought it was a great idea this worked out. Absolutely. Sunday the woman who could be the first woman in the white house wants to know whats on the minds of women in the heartland. My question is about education policies . Lets have universal prek start on priority basis for low income kids. Cynthia these busy moms want to know hillarys secret. The question is simple, what keeps you going . My friends say i have a responsibility gene. Which sometimes gets in my way people, but thats who i am. I mean vitamins, exercise, yoga all help too. And how can she reach across the aisle . Ive always worked with republicans, when im not running they say nice things about me. The former secretary of state confided what keeps her up at night. Most. Terrorists getting two things i worry about mostare terrorists getting Nuclear Materials for a nuclear attack. And this whole issue of cyber. Cynthia before leaving, she talked about coming back. Maybe if im fortunate to be nominee we can do it again. Inviting this lunch bunch to her inauguration. This. Alyx you can hear more of the conversation with Hillary Clinton, up close and personal, coming up this morning, at 10 30, right after face the nation. Still to come register , recommendations. Who has the Des Moines Registers vote. Plus trump in town. He basic bargain of america is if you work hard, and you do your part, you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead. But so many families dont feel like their hard work pays off. Thats not the way america is supposed to operate. I want to go to bat for them every single day. Get incomes rising. Get equal pay for women. Cut the cost of health care and child care so people can actually get ahead. Hillary clinton, she has what it takes to get things done. This is iowas news leader. This is kcci 8 news this morning weekends with alyx sacks and meteorologist metinka slater. Frank welcome back. We are waking up with clouds, even some miss. We have had it all yet day yesterday. Kind of felt the sun peeking out yesterday around the clock. 27 in ames. Marshall also at 26 degrees. Whens at the south, southwest. It will not be a windy day today, but those winds coming in some warmth. Humidity at 85 . We have been talking about the warm temperatures for a a while. 36 today, 37 tomorrow. Wednesday the jump act in the 30s. And could see the orders by the end of the week. Alyx the Des Moines RegisterEditorial Board announced its president ial endorsements for each party saturday. For the republicans, its marco rubio. The board believes he has the potential to chart a new direction for the party. They like that he has a good favorability rating with independents as well as republicans. Now on democrat side, they chose Hillary Clinton. The board says she has experience that no other candidate can match. They believe each candidate is the best hope for their respective parties. We sat around and had a , both the democratic and republican, and i think we all felt good about where we landed. Alyx the endorsement comes on a busy weekend for Hillary Clinton. The democratic candidate is seeking to hold off a late surge from sanders. She was also in eastern iowa saturday holding a rally in davenport. Clinton took questions from the crowd. She says if elected, she will make sure a hallmark piece of legislation is never changed. I will never ever let them privatize Social Security, but we do have to get some more funding into Social Security, so when we say to young people it will be there we mean it. Alyx clinton held two more events in eastern iowa saturday. Before his event in pella last night, trump was in sioux city. He spoke at a rally Dordt College saturday morning. Supporters are so loyal they would stick with him even if he shot somebody in the middle of new york city. My people are so smart, and you know what else they say about my people . The polls, they say i have the most loyal people, did you ever see that . Where i could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldnt lose any voters, ok . Its incredible. Alyx trump spoke for about an hour to crowds in sioux city and pella. Trumps top gop rival also got a big endorsement saturday. Conservative political commentator and radio host glenn beck endorsed ted cruz for president. Beck appeared with cruz at a rally in ankeny. Cruz says hes grateful for the support from beck and all of iowa. I am so grateful right now that there are iowans across this state on their knees, asking for gods guidance in this election. That is what we need. I hope every one of us lifts up prayers for our nation. Candidates will be in town tomorrow. They will take part in a Town Hall Forum hosted by cnn at Drake University. We will be carrying the event live on our subchannel 8. 3 my des moines starting at 8 00 p. M. We will check back in with frank. You . Last night. This is from Julie Madison randall and hourly and in albion. Just enough to see the moon peeking out. Yesterday, not bad. Made it up to 27 degrees. 29 right now in des moines. 28 for knoxville. Mid20s pretty much ever else notice storm lake, only a quarter of a mile of visibility. Keep in mind you might have patchy fog. Winds out of the southwest. 29 degrees for your 9 00 a. M. Temperature. By 3 00, 36 degrees. Unfortunately will not see much sunshine. By 9 00, we are still in the 30s. Notice on the radar, we are still seeing the south build. We are watching this system down in the south. That is going to bring us our next shot for precipitation. Heres our future cast. Notice in the south, the temperature system is going to be moving east and wrapping up moisture. Looks like the snow is going to be late tomorrow. Were starting things out this afternoon, again mainly cloudy. Clouds increase in more even more tonight. We see a break in the clouds this afternoon. Were going to see more clouds tonight. I think we are going to wake up to rain on monday. That will transition to a rain, snow mix in the morning hours. The evening commute could be a little dicey. These the system will pull out late monday and early tuesday. Area light accumulation. Generally around an inch or less. Could be up to an inch and a half up north. Not expecting a major snow that as temperatures will be to warm. 36 your high fort des moines. Could see some freezing drizzle tonight. 37 degrees on monday. That is going to keep us mainly in the rain for monday. 20 eight, tuesday. Back in the thursdays 30s on wednesday. 45 degrees by friday. It is a big weekend george my familys lived on this farm for three generations. The Bakken Pipeline would pump dirty crude oil across iowa. Patti the fact that Bernie Sanders stands up against the pipeline is one of the reasons we support him. George Bernie Sanders didnt hesitate to say no to the big oil companies. Patti bernie knows that if we dont act, we threaten the climate and the health of our children. Bernie sanders understands that. Patti Bernie Sanders has the guts to just stand up for what he believes in. A win for iowa state over topranked oklahoma. A chance against kansas on monday. Taking on tcu saturday afternoon , hoping to stay and the when column. Lets jump into it. Early on. Huge jim and the foul hooch huge jim huge jame and the foul. Closing seconds of the first half, iowa has the lead. Drink the three at the buzzer. They led by nine at the halftime. We before the junior morris, pulled away in the second half. Just one turnover. I would state winds it 7360. Next up, the big one. Step 48 00 tipoff. You can see the game on espn. Speaking of the jayhawks, they were home on saturday. Looking to get when number 200. Second half, here come the jayhawks. Perry ellis, great basket. He had a huge day. Then you have got to cover ellis, wide open. Jayhawks when it 76dixie seven 7667. The panthers have lost three straight games in the ballet. Trying to get back in the win column. Taking on Illinois State. Here he drains the v3. Later on, walked in couples up, Illinois State would find a way to pull away in the second half. Drake taking on loyola. Next up against Illinois State on the 26th. Peter jok with a careerhigh. We wanted to get off to a good start. My teammates kept finding me and i was knocking down shots. All i had to do was make a shot and it was great. Clemens was spectacular. Another example of us moving the ball and doing what we needed to do to win on the road. Reporter in womens basketball, if you want to win the big 12 you have to go through baylor. At home over the fourthranked team in the country. Doing her part to help the cause. Later on, she gets it from the outside. Drains the three. She had a gamehigh 22 points for baylor but baylor, ranked number four for a reason. They beat iowa state. Saturday the energy hit the early on, here comes iowa. James innes with the strong finish. Strong move to the basket for the bucket. Andrew harrison from kentucky am a drive than. He had a 26 point game on the night. Grandy wrestling does one thing. When win. They were taking on grayson on saturday. Topranked gotland color with the takedown. He gets the win. They went easy, 44nine. Wild on the one of the cool perks of this place is you can eat as much cereal as you want. Its like im going to work to get some. Alrighty. We just like cereal. We make it, eat it, love it, live it. This is iowas news leader. This is kcci 8 news this alyx after 36 hours of relentless snow, people on the east coast are seeing better conditions this morning. Plus, a group of students that got stuck on the new jersey turnpike. Waking up to some damp air out there, frank. Frank that is a travel concern to. It is freezing mist in some portions, so obviously that is going to mean you need a few exit minutes. Also, you are probably going to do some scraping if your car has been sitting outside. The air is below freezing so so this submit missed so this mist will freeze on contact. The skycam looking pretty good. 29 degrees here in des moines. Humidity at 85 . We have a lot of moisture in the air. Mid20s all across the state. There is your day planner looking good temperature wise. Temperature, 31. It will be a quiet day today. Going out this afternoon with temperatures in the mid30s. We gave forecast, got a Little Details coming up. Alyx speaking of snow, cynthia piles of snow at least 17 inches. Up to 40 inches in the outlying suburbs many roads are covered and and passable so there is a lot of work for crews. The mayor has been asking drivers to stay off the road. At Reagan National airport, no teams are working to clear the runway. They will likely not reopen today. It service will remain suspended to give crews time to clear the tracks. Alyx duels airport has reported about 30 inches of snow. Landmarks were deserted saturday. Officials are still trying to determine whether the lateral government will open tomorrow. Two airports in the washington region will likely remain closed throughout the day. Heavy snowfall and high winds are