strength. you need to be president strong. you need strong. you can t play games. yet with six weeks until the caucuses, trump is in the top tier against texas senator ted cruz. 27:41. if i m wrong, i m wrong. i ll say we didn t make it but i think that we re going to win iowa and iowa is very important to me. a quiet week is ahead for republican presidential candidates visiting eastern iowa. former arkansas governor mike huckabee is due to spend monday all over the tv-9 viewing area for a town hall meeting in toledo, a roundtable in van horne and then an evening stop at kava house and caf in swisher. huckabee won the 2008 republican caucuses but has stayed far back in the pack for 2016. last night in new hampshire, the 3 candidates for the democratic presidential nomination met for their latest debate. the top 2 in the polls will campaign throughout iowa this week. vermont senator bernie sanders has 3 days of iowa stops planned, all in western iowa, secretary of state h
thanks kaj. firefighters say they found a cedar rapids woman inside a burnt out mobile home. fire crews responded to the home on the southwest side at 7 o clock last night. firefighters arrived to the scene of 23 hundred block kelley street southwest to find the back half of the home on fire. that s inside grand view village. during the search and rescue, fire crews found a woman inside the home. first responders pronounced her dead at the scene. the fire department has not released her name. the fire and the woman s for the first time this presidential race a republican candidate has at least 40 percent support from voters. a recent cbs / yougov poll of iowa republicans puts ted cruz and donald trump well ahead of the 11 other candidates. texas senator ted cruz reached 40 percent he was at about half of that just two weeks ago. donald trump has 31 percent. florida senator marco rubio is third at 12 percent. the steepest drop is retired neurosurgeo n ben carson, still in h
store in the cedar valley will be closing. simpson furniture with lolotions in cedar falls and coralville will be closing its doors. area residents have received fliers indicating the company will be closing both locations. the stores location was closed today - - in preration for whaha simpson called i is biggest sale ever. kwwl reached out for a comment - - but have not heard back at this time. the company opened in 1946. a local man is pleading for help to free his brother from a prison in congo and he believes politicians can come to his rescue. koboko@koboko is the district superintendent for the east district of the unitetemethodist church in cedar rapids. this is a photo of his brother, vano kiboko in prison, praying. he tells our repooter kristin rogers today, his brother was put in to prison in congo for standing up for what s right and speaking out against the president of congo. kristin joins us live he says he worries his brother, vano kaboko is going to die in pr
(cg: kiboko kibbko) i know the clintin s are good friends with the president of rwanda and the president of rwanda is very powerful in central africa, they can intervene through president very powerful in central africa, they can intervene through president paul kagame. kiboko tells me he wants a call to action, not just to the clinton s but even to president obama or others in the government, he says something must be done. he says his brother went to prison for no reason. we ve got you covered live in cedar rapids, kristin kiboko tells us he worries abou his brothers health, he hs multiple bad disks in his back and diabetes. wind is keeping the temperature low in eastern iowa. let s go to storm track seven chief meteorologist mark schnnckenberg now for your first forecast. from the kwwl stormtrack here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team: a mostly clear sky and a lighter wind combine for colder temperatures. lows tonight drop into th
been in the jackpot in may when dawson won. but the iowa lottery says differently (terry rich, iowa lottery ceo) the iowa lottery believes that we rightfully paid mr. dawson the jackpot that was advertised and that he was entitled to. of course and in all of this, it s our strong belief to protect the integrity and every lottery player in this state of iowa and will defend this litigation. dawson s lawyers say they have been working on this petition for quite awhile. we ve got you covered live in the newsroom . . .jessica hartman kwwl news. dawson is asking for 10 million interest. a very cold night ahead let s go to storm track seven chief meteorologist mark schnackenberg from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. see the screen information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 athe tm: a mo chillsill be near 10 below thursday morning. clouds move back in quickly early thursday during the day. a few locations another cloudy sky.a mostly clear sky and a lighter wind combine for colder