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cardboard kurtis: you can see s areas in darker blue, this extends all the way to northwestern iowa. snow picking up in dallas county, up towards perry. west of bagley. this will move into the metro. it looks like the heavier snow will be off to the west and southwest. already snowing in medicine and parts of a dare county. generally light snowfall. looking for around one inch in the metro. a bit lighter off to the north. there could be a band of an inch to two inches intersecting carol , ottoman, and maybe down into madison county. temperatures in the 20 s. not a lot of win tonight. wind tonight. snow will and before midnight. it will have sunshine tomorrow wind chills in a single digits. stacey: a man convicted of two murders in southern iowa is found dead in prison. the iowa department of corrections says staffers at the iowa medical and classification center in coralville found 37-year-old jerry ray dillinger hanged himself late last night using a bed sheet. dil ....
stacey: right now, the political battle is brewing over the successor to supreme court justice antonin scalia. scalia died this weekend. senate republicans want to wait until after the presidential election to fill the supreme court vacancy. but the president today challenged republicans to explain why they would refuse to consider a supreme court candidate. pres. obama: one court where we would expect elected officials to rise above day to day politics. and this will be the opportunity for senators to do their jobs. stacey: iowa senator charles grassley heads the senate judiciary committee. he wouldn t say today whether or not he would schedule hearings in the senate if president obama appoints a nominee. the senator would only say he will take it one step at a time. said senator senator grassley i think that it should wait : until the next election, and i believe that that s the right important position and would be kind of in line with what democratic leaders said ....
mark: prosecutors don t know why yahia picked mcneeley s home. they can t find any evidence they knew each other and likely now will likely never know. stacey: urbandale police say a material witness in that officer-involved shooting has turned herself in to authorities. officers issued a warrant for 17-year-old kiara olson last week. they believe she can provide information about the case. steve: the des moines police department is on a mission to outfit all uniformed officers with body cameras. kcci s marcus mcintosh is in studio. marcus, what s the timeline here? marcus: steve, the chief wants this to happen by june. that means the department will have to purchase some 270 body cameras. cameras that will record the interaction between police and the public. the department s school resource officers have been equipped with body cameras for more than five years. the department tells kcci it is well on it way to the more than all uniformed officers. it is a combination ....
gun bills, including legalizing suppressors and allowing firearms on atvs and snowmobiles. it s not clear if they will get enough support to advance in the democratic-controlled senate. stacey? stacey: breaking news right now. iowa gets approval to go ahead with its plan to privatize medicaid. federal officials say iowa is now ready to proceed and can start april 1. the centers for medicare and medicaid services postponed the state s original plan to start january 1, saying there were too many issues. governor branstad says managed care of the $4.2 billion medicaid program will save money and improve efficiency. steve: new at 5:00, state regulators say they will make a decision next month on the controversial bakken oil pipeline. the iowa utilities board is deciding whether to allow a texas company to bury 346-miles of crude-oil-carrying-pipe, under iowa farmland. environmental and property rights group oppose the project. the board plans to meet again on march 9. wants ....
university with more. cynthia: now that the first democratic debate is over, here they are already planning the next one which will be held one month from today inside this building. and a drake law student who had his 15 seconds of fame in the debate is still in the media spotlight. it was a genuine surprise, i actually wasn t even watching the debate. a lot of people sent me video clips of me asking the question. do black lives matter or do all lives matter? cynthia: cnn picked sterling arthur wilkins question out of hundreds asked on campus earlier. he s pleased especially with hillary clinton s response. she said she proposed a new deal for communities of color . cynthia: those who analyzed the debate are praising clinton s strong performance in particular. i thought hillary probably she came across as reasonably strong insecure and not offensive and she did pretty well. looks more human like that. she cynthia: bernie sanders delivered the most memorable ....