Line. Thats low. Vanessa caleb brown is a truck driver from north dakota. His goal is to get to paton. Slow down and i guess just hope. Vanessa as you mentioned, i35 in both directions is closed between clear lake and ames. There are several tow bans in place. Live in ames, vanessa peng, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Stacey commitment 2016 news tonight. New poll numbers from cnn show donald trump and Bernie Sanders holding substantial leads in New Hampshire. Sanderss 54 to 40 advantage over Hillary Clinton is down slightly from a 55 to 37 lead in the previous poll. No public poll has found clinton in the lead in New Hampshire since november. Donald trump tops the gop field with 31 , well ahead of marco rubios 15 . Ted cruz follows with 13 . Most polls open at 6 00 iowa a. M. Time. Chief political reporter Cynthia Fodor is live in manchester, New Hampshire right now. Cynthia, its been a full day on the campaign trail. Cynthia our weather here sounds like it is just like yours. In the
Highway 20 on the way to fort dodge. We had a few cars that were slowing down because of the ice and wind and the blowing wind conditions and were stopped. A semi actually came up and struck a vehicle and the semi then got stuck. Laura the jackknifed semi caused 40 to 50 drivers to be stuck at a standstill for up to two hours. Drivers like tristan obe. The 40 mile and hour wind was so loud we could barely hear him as we talked. The howling wind and slick spots were so bad even our news car got stuck. I couldnt see two feet in front of my car. Laura the dot eventually shut down i35 from ames to clear lake forcing drivers to take dangerous back road detours. And on the back roads there were huge drifts about three feet high and if you werent going 40 miles and hour you werent going to get through them. Laura state patrol says the best thing to do it just stay home if you can. If you go out you are going to risk your life. You are going to risk your familys life and you can actually risk
Ginned up the base all these years, have created a tiger, and the question is, who can ride that tiger and jeb bush could not. Grace goldford also says time will tell if the trump victories will continue beyond super tuesday, because the other contenders are splitting the nontrump vote. Political analysts tend to agree on one thing, that this is the most unique president ial race in decades. More twists and turns are expected as super tuesday looms large. That day is march 1. Laura still ahead, a look at the democrat race. How Bernie Sanders is hoping to rebound from a tough loss over the weekend. And, a look at the events from the campaign trail. New tonight, a des moines woman is facing attempted murder charges. Police were called to the 1900 block of east walnut saturday on reports that a man had lit himself on fire. When they arrived, police say they found the victim burned head to toe, and yelling that his girlfriend set him on fire. After questioning the amy thornton is facing ch
A light those numbers outside. A light breeze, warming up to the 50s by this afternoon. We hasnt changes coming next week. Alyx two that breaking nose News Des Moines Police are , investigating another homicide this morning. Friday night around 10 30, officers responded to the intersection of 13th street and jefferson avenue. When they arrived they found an adult male victim, deceased as a result of apparent gunshot injury. Police are currently interviewing witnesses, and a suspect description is being developed. Authorities hope to release more information later on today. You can count on kcci on air and online to bring you the latest on all of our breaking news. Taking a look at some more big stories this morning, Downtown Des Moines is expanding south, and rapidly. The latest evidence, two new restaurants opening south of mlk next week. Guru bbq and fuzzys taco shop both open monday in the latest century old building to be the Downtown Community Alliance Lists 441 Housing Units now
Breaking news overnight. Des Moines Police are investigating a double homicide right now. Emergency responders were in route when authorities arrived, they found two people dead with gunshot wounds. Kcci spoke to neighbors and they tell us there is a family with teenagers in that home. Neighbors tell us they hear the teen and the mother fighting. Last night, they did not hear anything and did not relicense something was wrong until police arrived. At this point, there have been no arrests. Eric another big story were following this morning iowa state football head coach paul rhoads is fired. Rhoads and Athletic Director Jamie Pollard met with the team sunday to break the news. This comes just before the end of rhoads 7th season with the cyclones. Record overall was 32 and 54 16 32 and 54. 16 and 44 in big 12 play and had only won 4 big 12 games in the last 3 seasons. Rhoads had six years left on his contract and will get a 4. 5 million buyout. He will finish out the season though and c