With scott pelley. Pelley tonight iowans will gather in churches, schools and homes to reason, to argue and to vote in the nations first contest to pick president ial nominees. Each party has two frontrunners essentially tied. This is only the beginning, of course, of a process that lasts enter june, but these caucuses have never been more important. With three major candidates trying to turn the process outsidein trump, cruz and sanders, outsiders, testing establishment candidates, including clinton. We have a team of correspondents. First well go to Major Garrett with the republicans tonight. Major . Reporter scott, to win donald trump needs massive new turnout, thousands of voters participating statewide. Four years ago turnout was about 122,000. Ted cruz is betting everything here, his Massive Organization can withstand voter turnout up to 170,000, but beyond that, it night. Good morning. Its the day weve been waiting for. Reporter before dawn, ken brolin woke up 130 ted cruz centr
With scott pelley. Pelley tonight iowans will gather in churches, schools and homes to reason, to argue and to vote in the nations first contest to pick president ial nominees. Each party has two frontrunners essentially tied. This is only the beginning, of course, of a process that lasts enter june, but these caucuses have never been more important. With three major candidates trying to turn the process outsidein trump, cruz and sanders, outsiders, testing establishment candidates, including clinton. We have a team of correspondents. First well go to Major Garrett with the republicans tonight. Major . Reporter scott, to win donald trump needs massive new turnout, thousands of voters participating statewide. Four years ago turnout was about 122,000. Ted cruz is betting everything here, his Massive Organization can withstand voter turnout up to 170,000, but beyond that, it is trumps game and trumps good morning. Its the day weve been waiting for. Reporter before dawn, ken brolin woke up
No arrests yet. Reporting live Parker Collins channel thirteen action news. Also overnight. One person is dead and another is fighting to live after a shooting at a bus stop. This happened near eastern and tropicana just before one am. Police are also looking for whomever is responsible for thissoo. Right now in the valley. Metro is also on a manhunt for a man and woman they say are armed and dangerous. And its all because of a man who was stabbed to death. Officers say around 830 last night, a group of people got into a fight outside a house near the stratosphere. They went inside, and thats when Police Believe a man was stabbed. Metro says another man and woman live in the home and thats who theyre looking for. Information not to try to approach the suspects, but to just call police immediately, because again. They do believe the couple is dangerous. Ahead today. The woman at the center of an extreme animal hoarding case is getting ready to face a judge. Natalie beck is due in court
Threeway race is, indeed, a surprise here in iowa, not that donald trump and truz are locked neck and neck but that marco rubio has so dramatically entered the conversation and could finish as high as second. More on rubio in just a second. But this is really in iowa aivity of two different approaches to politics, one on the trump side about electricity, excitement, a populist message, an antiestablishment message, one designed to not only bring out republican faithfuls but to bring out those who had given up on politics and attract independents and may pull over some crossover democrats. There are indications, scott, thats precisely thats whaepg. For ted cruz, this is entirely a contest about the familiar approach to Iowa Republican politics, identifying and mobilizing the historically mostreliable republican voters. Who are they . Evangelical christians, social enthusiasts and home schoolers. The Cruz Campaign has spent tens of thousands of dollars and tens of thousands of hours iden