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line. that s low. vanessa: caleb brown is a truck driver from north dakota. his goal is to get to paton. slow down and i guess just hope. vanessa: as you mentioned, i-35 in both directions is closed between clear lake and ames. there are several tow bans in place. live in ames, vanessa peng, kcci 8 news, iowa s news leader. stacey: commitment 2016 news tonight. new poll numbers from cnn show donald trump and bernie sanders holding substantial leads in new hampshire. sanders s 54% to 40% advantage over hillary clinton is down slightly from a 55% to 37% lead in the previous poll. no public poll has found clinton in the lead in new hampshire since november. donald trump tops the gop field with 31%, well ahead of marco rubio s 15%. ted cruz follows with 13%. most polls open at 6:00 iowa a.m. time. chief political reporter cynthia fodor is live in manchester, new hampshire right now. cynthia, it s been a full day on the campaign trail. cynthia: our weather here sounds like ....
at 511ia.org, you can see a lot of purple on the map, meaning that travel is not advised. and some roads are actually highlighted in red, meaning those roads are currently impassable. good afternoon. thanks for joining us on this monday. we re going to check in with frank in just a minute to find when the high winds will be easing up, but we begin with vanessa peng, who has been checking out the hazardous conditions all morning. vanessa, where are you and what are the roads like at this hour? vanessa: molly, it is crazy out here. i m still in hamilton county. you mentioned the impassable portions on 511 ia.org co. we were at one of the locations eastbound on highway 175. you can see how insane it is. when they say white out conditions, this is what they are talking about. visibility is pretty much at zero. because you do not know if there is something in front of you that you may smack into co. i spoke to a woman at the rest out there and she mentioned that she was head ....
digits. clouds will slowly thin. we will break free to some sunshine later in the day with a degrees. stacey: let s take a live look at road conditions from across that state from the iowa dot. this is from 511ia.org. the areas you see in blue are partially snow covered roads. pinknkre completely covered. recommended. interstate 35 from ames to clear lake is closed because of the winter weather and the number of accidents along that stretch of road. semi-trucks jackknifed in the southbound lanes and numerous vehicles lined the ditches kcci s laura terrell has checked out the driving conditions north of des moines. laura: we were just up north, where there were major blizzard conditions at this time, at this time. problems were off 35 toward highway 20 heading toward fort dodge. our news truck actually got stuck at mile marker 151. state troopers told us that probably 40 or 50 cars were backed up and stuck for probably close to two hours. if you are thinking about goin ....
does crash data tell you on those roads,the roadway geometrics will they allow for an increase in speed limits. hoye says it is not for him to advocate on what is better a five mile an hour increase,a $10 mile an hour increase or the two lane rural road speed limit staying at 55 miles and hour. he says when all is said and done public safety is tasked to enforce the law and that is what they will do. whatever the legislature after they have done their investigation whatever they deem appropriate obviously law enforcement will enforcement any law they pass through. reporter: the dot tells us it has concerns because research shows fatalities and the severity of crashes go up with an increase in speed. next week is the first funnel week so if this bill does not get out of committee by friday the 19th it will not move forward this session. steve: iowa lawmakers are also looking changes to keep those we told you 2-years ago about a little known state law that made it a off ....
live in the drake neighborhood, kim st. onge, kcci 8 news, iowa s news leader. steve: powdery snow falling across the metro this morning and afternoon. a little under two inches at the des moines international airport. we could see some more tonight. kurtis, it sure got slick out there. kurtis: it really did. no doubt about that, especially on the sidewalks and secondary roadways. here in the metro, 1.9 inches. it was a little more in jefferson and polk city. if you are out in it, you noticed how big the flex work. very fluffy. air space in between. right now, the band of snow is very light from southern story county through jasper county. not expecting any additional accumulations out there. going to be a cold one tonight. clouds of slowly decrease at the not a tremendous amount of wind, but enough for the windchill of three below early on. highs tomorrow 23 degrees. 8 day forecast has two snow chances and a warm-up. details, coming up. stacey: des moines authorities a ....