tomorrow s contest is now out. if the trends in this poll hold, donald trump is going to pull off a win by an unprecedented margin for a republican or a democratic presidential candidate in iowa. this is the final nbc news des moines registry iowa pole ahead of tomorrow s caucuses. trump, his lead is down ever so slightly, by the way. this is what was in december, 51. now he is at 48. you can see that he has 28 point lead over his next closest competitor, nikki haley. nikki haley s first choice support, meanwhile, rose from 60 to 20 points. ron desantis support has slipped three points from last month, 19 to 16. vivek ramaswamy is an out below, heat remains below 10%. the current record margin of victory in the iowa republican caucus says for a non incumbent candidates is 13 points. that was set by bob dole in 1980. trump wins to more by anything remotely close to what these polls were predicted, he won t make history. that s an addition to the history that donald trump is al
they wilt and they prayed over a body draped in a white burial shroud, covered with a blue press jacket. another journalist killed while covering the war between israel and hamas. this man, wearing his own navy blue press jacket, embracing a crying woman, is while he is al jazeera s gaza bureau chief. he is holding back tears of his own because the percent there all morning is his 27-year-old son, hamza. like his father, hamza wasn t al jazeera journalist. he was killed alongside a colleague in an israeli airstrike that hits their car in the southern city of rafah on the egyptian border a week ago. at first, the israeli defense forces confirmed carrying out the strike, say that it had targeted a terrorist vehicle. an idf statement saying, in part, we are aware of reports that during the strikes, two other suspects who were in the same feel cool as the terrorists were also hit. nbc news asked if the idf had evidence to support this allegation, that an individual
they re not all taliban. certainly not. let me put these pictures back up on the screen. a few of the kids age 2, age 2, age 7, age 6, 19-year-old, a 15-year-old, a 9-year-old, you see these kids who were killed. and what s so concerning to me is that this was an over-the-horizon drone attack, meaning we had no one on the ground trying to confirm this white toyota was in fact a terrorist vehicle as opposed to an ngo and worked with the u.s. for years and years helping the people in afghanistan with the cooperation of the united states and then all of a sudden this over the horizon drone attack happens. how worried are you that that s all we re going to be able to do right now over-the-horizon attacks as opposed to having people on the ground? i think in the short-term, it is going to be, quote,
history of psychological problems. he has not yet been identified and police may be searching his property this evening. but we do know also is not they responded not knowing what type of incident this was. but it was an attack or not. police now say that there is no further danger to the public. they also say it is too soon to call this a terrorist attack. they say they have been no further information about the possible second person cited who reportedly fled the scene for those rumors are being squashed. this it is a clear motive yet for any attack and as i say, please enough searching the home of the man to hunt for more clues as to what may have made him do this. it looks like now it may not have been a terrorist inspired attacker the problem is, it brought back all the memories of all the other terrorist vehicle incidents including one at the christmas market.
acquiring them is relatively easy for counterterrorism officials to monitor. a truck s just a truck. and this just seems like a very difficult dilemma for counterterrorism officials. it s impossible. and this has two purposes. one is that it tells isis supporters to use the tools at their disposal, just what you have at hand. you can t stop people from hijacking trucks. it s just impossible to do that. then psychologically it tells their victims that every truck is a potential terrorist vehicle, a potential weapon that could kill dozens of people. they really do want to sow the fear of every little thing around you including, you know, vehicles, stones, knives that you would get at a kitchen store, all these things can be used and will be. part of what i think everyone has a hard time getting their head around is when you see such sociopathic evil of driving a truck into people. how could a person get to a place where they can do that and in some ways that s part of the project abo