The Iowa Caucuses are six days away, but iowas young people have already weighed in on the race for the white house. matt more than 50,000 students, in 80 counties across iowa, took part in the iowa youth president ial straw poll, today. On the democratic side, vermont senator Bernie Sanders bested Hillary Clinton and martin omalley. Sanders earned 53 percent support of students from kindergarten to 12th grade. Among the republican candidates, the students favored Businessman Donald Trump by six points over senator marco rubio, and dr. Ben carson. Senator ted cruz came in fourth followed by jeb bush and carly fiorina. Among the students that took part were kids at Sunnyside Elementary School in sioux city. Students signed in at the checkin booths, and then made their way to the voting booths where they chose one candidate from each party. Their votes came after a week of class discussion on candidates. Thats where they decided who they liked, and who they didnt. I voted for ted cruz be
Today will present more sunshine and nice weather, but with a couple of twists as a little disturbance moves through the area. Ahead of it, with calm winds and moisture at the surface, some patchy freezing fog will be around but should burn off fairly quickly as winds increase out of the southwest throughout the morning. As our little boundary sweeps across the area, in addition to the winds light mix will be possible in some of our northernmost counties during the midday hours. The vast majority of the viewing area though, will be mild with temperatures reaching well into the 30s to near 40 with some decent sunshine. Well see more of the same 3040 degree temperatures over the next few days including this weekend with a chance of a light mix saturday night sunday morning. A more potent system looks to move in early next week giving us some decent snow chances next monday night and tuesday which could make for an interesting caucus night groundhog day, so well have to wait and see how t