amounts are possible. record rainfall amounts will be broken. temperatures are also very mild today. we wi start off in the upper 50s this morning and continue to rise into t low 60s by mid-morning. the race for the g-o-p presidential nomination is switching course here in iowa. a new des moines register poll released yesterday shows texas senator ted cruz leading longtime front-runner donald trump. cruz sits 10 points higher at 31 percent, in n is poll of a little more than 400 iowa republicans. trump is still in 2nd place, with 21 percent support. dr. ben carson, who once held the top spot, is now in 3rd place with 13 florida senator marco rubio runs in 4th place. he is the only other candidate in the field of 13 who is in the double digits, with 10 percent support. cruz has gained momentum over the past 30 days. last weekend in cedar rapids, he acknowledge d that jump in the polls. cruz believed more conservatives are choosing him now, after evaluating other candidates. th
youngest of 3 siblings.but with treacher collins syndrome. about one in 50,000 people is touched by it. he is lacking facial bone development. small jaw. he doesn t have cheekbones and you can see his eyes are a little bit lower. the challenges aren t just on the outside. a t-c-s patient also has smaller airways. if you re a parent, imagine the sniffles leading to a trip to the hospital. nearly every time. a common day cololputs him in theeospital. kelli notes her other children, 17-year-old page and 7-year-old payton are on the family s private insurance but medicaid isn t just on income guidelines it also covers disabilities. t t transfer trenton and his medicaid in recent weeks. i d call the hospitals and try to help them by getting on the right program for trenton and they could not tell me anything. they told me to keep calling back. now, a 60-day wait for iowa - with about 15% of the population using medicaid - to truly have the infrastructure to handle the
. we ll see our coldest night of december so far tonight, with lows in the mid-teens. plan on a nice saturday with highs back in the mid-30s. mid-upper 40s are still on track for sunday with a chance of rain by evening. have a great weekend! thanks kaj. family and friends of an 18-year-old iowa state student kied this week will honor her life today. the center point united methodist church is holding a visitation today. it s for emmalee jacobs who died on monday after a hit and run on the ames campus. she just graduated from center point-urbana high school last may. jacobs put a lot of her time into her center point united methodist church youth programs. her pastor says she ll be greatly missed. the visitation is todgy from 4 to 8 this evening. the funeral will be tomorrow morning at 10:30 at center-point urbana high school. authorities are still trying to figure out how a central iowa teen s body ended up in a pond. search andndescue crews recovered 17-yeaeaold sam kept s b
in arizona in 20- 11. giffords formally endorsed clinton earlier this month. republican front-runner donald trump landed for a campaign stop in dubuque today. trump made headlines this week, for refusing to appear at the final republican debate before the iowa caucuses. today he addressed that decision. i think the debate turned out to be good that i didn t do it. it was a lousy debate anyway. boring, boring. that was a hard thing to watch, wasn t it? but it wouldn t have been hard if i was there you would ve lilid it, right? trump is currently neck-and-neck with texas senator ted cruz in most recent iowa polls. also in dubuque, voters gathered to hear r at carly fiorina had to say in one of her last stops ahead of monday night. hillary clinton wants to go to the white house, she s more qualified for the big house, she has escaped prosecution more times than el chapo, i think shawn penn should interview her frankly. charlotte s coffee shop in downtown. the g-o-p candi
event targeted at students and from tonight s turnout, that group p owed up here. but a big focus from everyone tonight is getting that group to turn out on caucus night. video messages emphasized finding your correct precinct location and asked supporters to show up for canvassing shifts all the way uuntil three p-m monday night. and even for p pple who stood in line but couldn t get into tonight s iowa city event, organizers walked down the line, handing out flyers to emphasize that get out the caucus message. it s an effort that johnson county supporters say is key. ...those are the things that matter once senator sanders took the stage he spoke mostly about issues like legalizing marijuana, ending instittional racism, and taking on the country s income inequality. he says it s a job no one person can take on, but says come monday, all eyes will be on iowa. it s not just the name of the person who wins, what is morrimportant is whether iowa is prepared to lead this n