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Dress good afternoon everyone. i m jake tapper. welcome to the lead. we begin with our politics lead. could hillary clinton lose iowa again? it happened in 2008. she came in third, you might remember. and now with weeks to go before the first votes and despite her campaign s best efforts, senator bernie sanders is closing the gap with clinton in iowa. and he s still leading her in new hampshire. cnn s senior political correspondent brianna keilar is covering bernie sanders in pleasantville, iowa. brianna, you interviewed sanders today. how does he explain his rise there? reporter: well, jake, pardon me for being a little quiet. we are in the middle of a bernie sanders event here in pleasantville, iowa. basically what he said is everyone knows hillary clinton and voters have had to get to know him. and he says that as they get to know him and what he s about when it comes to policies that ....
reporter: even those who would do what you would say the right thing, which is to get into a basement if you had one, there were people killed even in their basement. this was a storm that sought them out sxhuand hunted it down one rescuer put it notice. the damage was so severe in many cases houses were lifted into the air and dropped onto the basement. that s what they found. they found people crushed or trapped in their basements and most often they haven t found them alive. this shows sometimes there are storms no matter what you try to do. i know the mayor told me that he s gotten reports of maybe a couple of dozen people still missing, but it s possible that number could go much higher, right? reporter: it is. when i talked to the police chief here, robert knight, in pleasantville, he expects it to go considerably higher. there were some neighborhoods we went to, and people were very fearful of their neighbors and we checked back and they were ....
oh, yeah. asking you. this story is really an interesting one, an officer who shot and killed a college student last year has just been awarded officer of the year. the pba in pleasantville, new york, that s the policeman s benevolent association you can union it gave officer aaron hess the honor, fellow officers voted on it unanimously we are told. hess shot student dj henry outside a bar at a shopping center in october. henry was just 20 years old. a grand jury cleared two police officers of criminal responsibility in his death. we spoke to his parents on this show. henry s mother says this demonstrates the department s arrogance. we want to hear what you think. some of the other context, reading more, the headline sounds really bad. what they said is this officer was injured badly in that in the altercationing that led to the tragic death of mr. henry and that this was his first time actually being able to appear somewhere and that the pba was private so they did not mean ....