kurtis: 12 degrees below zero in mason city. currently, wind chill above zero at 2. wind chill advisory write through 8 a.m. saturday morning, along and north of highway s dirty, wind chill is 30-below zero. outside, the wind chills still get 20 degrees below zero. so you re better than i come a cold air filtering on in. overnight low in des moines at four below zero. our 7:00 a.m. wind is 16 below. tomorrow, we start with some sunshine greeted by the clouds moved in, and a high temperature at 15. in looks like snow will arrive after 8:00 on saturday. then continue on and off for sunday, i think ending by around 2 p.m. temperatures on sunday, 32. i will have the latest on futurecast and some of those snowfall totals, coming up. stacey: a woman is dead after a it happened around noon today in the 6900 block of northeast 29th street. the polk county sheriff s office says a child was flown to a metro hospital. and that crash remains under investigation. and there are new details
travelled to delaware. and senator chuck grassley at a town hall meeting this week said he has called on the company to sell them on the value of the assets they have here in iowa. we don t want to lose these jobs with pioneer in johnston. i also told them to remember the history of pioneer in iowa going back to 1920 s, and ought to put their corporate headquarters here. cynthia: i m told the state is waiting to hear any day now about the decision on where the new headquarters will be located. governor branstad told me he is optimistic about the company s future in iowa. the merger, creating the largest agrochemical and seed company, is still subject to regulatory approval. steve: thank you, cynthia. new information tonight in a deadly west des moines hit and run crash. 37-year-old ronald paul hauser of van meter now faces charges of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, and owi. west des moines investigators say hauser was the driver that hit and killed 22
there is no information yet about a possible suspect. this is the first homicide investigation in cedar rapids this year. stacey: right now, president obama is said to be moving forward with a nominee for the u.s. supreme court. and iowa senator charles grassley is speaking out for the first time today, since refusing to consider a nomination from the president. kcci s cynthia fodor is in studio. cynthia, this is just the latest in the vacancy controversy sparked by the death of antonin scalia. cynthia: that is right. cnn is reporting that president obama may be looking at a republican for the high court, but senator grassley insists a hearing will not be held on a nominee until a new president takes office. according to a cnn source, nevada governor brian sandoval is being vetted by the white house for a possible nomination to the supreme court. sandoval is a former federal judge considered a moderate republican. senator grassley does it become : an issue about who he nomina
stacey: a man is arrested after west des moines police say he intentionally set a woman on fire. kcci s mark tauscheck just back from west des moines. mark: true, this is hard to believe. 58-year-old john moore, jr. is charged with willful injury causing bodily injury. officers say they were called to 127 8th street around 6:20 this morning in west des moines on a report of a person who had been burned. they say they found 54-year-old jackie gilbert with burns on her upper body. she apparently waited almost 24 hours to report this. gilbert told police she had been arguing with moore thursday morning, when he threw an unknown flammable substance on her and then set her on fire. sgt. kock: this is a first for me. but i don t know i have ever heard of that before, someone intentionally lighting someone else on fire. mark: gilbert was taken to a hospital. polk county jail. look for much more on this breaking story tonight on air and online at kcci.com. steve: thank you, mark. the
, with 3 whole months before the iowa caucuses and the fact polls can shift a lot in that span of time. political analyst dennis goldford says the engaged crowd on saturday definitely isn t a bad sign. it s good to have a warm reception, but the question is how long that in fact will persist. jason r.: goldford says from here on out for cruz and rubio , it is about maintaining their momentum. they could well catch up in the polls cruz has a pretty good organization and iowa. rubio is still building one they still building one. they need to capitalize on that or else this can be the latest flash in the pan among the republican candidates. eric: goldford says take saturday s warm reception with a grain of salt the gop event had grain of salt. the gop event had roughly one-third the crowd of the democrat s jefferson-jackson dinner while he says trump and carson missing of the iowa event will likely be forgiven by their strong supporters. elizabeth: democratic candidate b