captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: tonight iowans will gather in churches, schools and homes to reason, to argue and to vote in the nation s first contest to pick presidential nominees. each party has two front-runners essentially tied. this is only the beginning, of course, of a process that lasts enter june, but these caucuses have never been more important. with three major candidates trying to turn the process outside-in trump, cruz and sanders, outsiders, testing establishment candidates, including clinton. we have a team of correspondents. first we ll go to major garrett with the republicans tonight. major? reporter: scott, to win donald trump needs massive new turnout, thousands of voters participating statewide. four years ago turnout was about 122,000. ted cruz is betting everything here, his massive organization to 170,000, but beyond that, it is trump s game and trump s night. good morning. it s the day we
conditions cycle from wet to icy, back to wet, back to icy. and that s because after the plows moved through and treat the roads, those chemicals only last so long. so obviously, the later we go tonight, the colder the temperatures get, and the more common icy road surfaces will become. a quick measurement here in castle pines, coming up on 3 inches of snow here. i think at least in the next couple of hours, we ll see the snowfall increase along here along the palmer divide. a quick check of the road condition, icy, 32 degrees. and the air temperature outside is 24. a pretty pronounced up slope starting to pick up from the northeast. you can see a little bit of in this light snow now, fwhut thing is getting start but this thing is getting started. as we take a look at our map, you can see the pink shaded area is the winter storm warning, covering all of the state, except for the northwest, where they re under a winter weather advisory, as for as the amounts because we hav
first we ll go to major garrett with the republicans tonight. major? reporter: scott, to win donald trump needs massive new turnout,t,housands of voters participating statewide. four years ago turnout was about 122,000. ted cruz is betting everything here, his massive organization can withstand vwter turnout up to 170,000, but beyond that, it is trump s game and trump s night. good morning. it s the day we ve been waiting for. reporter: before dawn, ken brolininoke up 130 ted cruz central central tears living in this apartment complexes known as camp cruz. we give this our all for one moredy and wean be proud of what we did here. he is real. reporter: cruz volunteers worked the phones all day sunday at the campaign headquarters outside des moines, part of the largest mobile disition effort of any g.o.p. candidate. cruz himselfs in his 99th and final iowa county today and i got to tell you, this race right now is neck and neck. it s all about turno. reporter:
all women are created equal. that our rights do not come from the democratic party or the republican party or even from the tea party. our rights come from our creator. and the federal government s role, the federal government s responsibility is to defend those fundamental rights, to defend us. and while americans will continue to suffer, under a president who has set an agenda that is causing millions to hurt across this country, i want to remind you of the promise of scripture. but joy cometh in the morning. and we finished second, i want to till you something. i m just honored. really honored. i want to congratulate ted. i want to congratulate all of the incredible candidates including mike huckabee who has become a really good friend of mine. congratulations to everybody. [ applause ] congratulations. we have had every indication, we are going now on, we have a poll we are at 28 points ahead. new hampshire. we love new hampshire. we love south carolina. and, we re leav
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