With 24 point 3 percent. And marco rubio makes a strong third place finish with 23 point 1 percent. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Our storm system m lifting on schedule today. Once again, difficulty individual area will receive. Pleas e refer to our Facebook Page and newscast for the latest graphics. The general theme is the heaviest snow falling northwest with the lightest amounts falling southeast. Wind will be an issue at two different times today, with theheirst being this morning. As the wind calms for a short time later this afternoon, a round of fog is possible across the area this evening. More snow should arrive later this evening into the overnight along with strong wind. This may make for a hazardous wednesday morning commute as well. In the wake ofthis system, it does get colder, but moderation back well into the 30s is not far off. Thanks kaj. Now we go to Justin Gehrts in the mobile weather lab taking a look now at the roads theres not anything on them yet. Im driving up to the nonoh where we expect the heaviest of the snow to be. For now to tv9s brea love there and how the city is preparing for the storm. Thanks justin. At this point in the early morning, were still awaiting the snowfall to hit in cedar rapids, and snow plpls will be heading out from here in just a couple hours. Crews say the most important part of the storm is timing. They are preparing the roads before the morning commute when snow is expected to fall. Streets superintenden t mike duffy says rain and warm temperatures will help with treatment. 7 54 13 we always prepare for the worst, hope for the best. It looks like a lot of this event is going to end up being rain to start with, which means well have crews out and ready for when it does turn to snow. A lot of times when that happens, that rain will turn to ice first. Well make sure we address that when it happens duffyfyays the plan is to u u a lot of salt to prevent any snow from bonding and icing on pavement. He also says the city has used less than half of the amount of salt they use in a typical winter. The city says, so far, crews have responded to 16 events, with only two being allplows. Live in cedar rarads, brea love, kcrgtv9 news. Black hawk county is expecting almost a foot of snow. With 30 employees in the Highway Department, the county has trucks ready for plowing and salting. That includes 12 hundred pounds of premixed salt and sand ready to go, plus an additional 800 pounds. The Black Hawk CountyHighway Department expects the storm will close gravel roads and some lack top roads today. The president ial candidates are looking ahead to their next challenge this morning. We have the latest results from the Iowa Caucuses from overnight. Texas senator ted cruz heads to with a win. He won 27point7 percent of the vote. Donald trump won second with 24point3 percent. On the democratic side, it is a rtual tie. With one precinct in polk county yet to report, Hillary Clinton is ahead at 49 point 9 percent. Bernie sanders is less than a poinin behind at 49pointnt 6. Last night, in des Moines Sanders spoke about the caucus results. I think the people of iowa have sent a very profound message to the political establishment, to the Economic Establishment and by the way to the media esttlishment while sanders is technically behind in the caucuses he treated this like a win. And Hillary Clinton says she can now breath a sigh of relief. I am honored to stand in a long line of american reformers to make up our mis that the status quo is not good enough, that standing still is former Maryland GovernorMartin Omalley has dropped out of the race. As the candidates pick up and move on so are the National Media outlets. And everyone of those people were relying on the caucus technology. Tv9s Forrest Saunders is live in des moines. Forrest, all eyes were on the capitol city last night . The world wawat just looking at the candidates last night. But microsoft too. This year, the Software Company partnered with republicans and democrats to try a new way of reporting results. Their new system based on a mobile app is got a trial by fire. The company promised quicker, more secure and more accurat results than prevevus cycles. Heres basically how it worked. Each party has nearly 17hundred precincts. One person from each site submitted the final results at the end of the caucus on these apps. One for republicans. One for democrats. For security, the app requires a person,n,hich is usually the caucus chair, and a special code before entering the final votes. Microsoft will then tallied everything. We talked with iowa party heads about the technology. Republicans loved it this app, when we decided to do it, we knew that were going to be some challenges. You know, teaching People Technology who havent used it before, dealing with some parts f the state where cell service might not be the best. But through training, through hardrdork with micicsoft we are so imprereed with the resests. Microsoft will post those results for the public, on two different website ia gop caucuses dot com or idp caucusus dot com you can find that and a lot more on our website kcrg dot com live in des moines, Forrest Saunders. Kcrg tv9 news. It was a packed houseseor both republblans and democrats at Alburnett High School where both parties met. Proceedings a caucus chair. Kcrgtv9s Jill Kasparie shows us how one of this years democratic volunteers was different an usual. A 16yearold High School Junior took on a big job as the caucus chair. Madon wolfe, a teen from linnmar high school, took on the challenge and led the processs nats of her saying something during the caucus she says she went to the training to learn how to be the chair three times. Madison was asked to step up to the challenge when the linn county democrats strrgled to find volunteers to do it. Now be involved in the political process. So, far i have taken ap government at my school and that really opened my eyes to the world of government, and then getting involved with campaigns and getting involved with the democrats it has really sparked my interest. The more i get involved with it, the more i realize ttt everyonessopinion matters and want my opinion to matter. The requirements are no requirements on who the caucus chair is, in terms of their age, but they cant be in the count for any of the preference groups. It could be a High School Student or it could be a canadian as counted in the president ial preference group, they can participate, said linnno. Democratic chair bret nilles two caucus sites were in this one room and both had the same result. Both awarded one delegate to Hillary Clinton and one to bernie sanders. In alburnett, jill kparie,kcrgtv9 news. Todays storm will delay voting for bond issues in several School Districts. Polls will open at noon today in the Denver School district in Bremer County and the clege community School District in cedar rapids and points s sth. They were originally supposed to open this morning at 7. Thats still the start time for voting in the waterloo School District. The waterloo School District is hohing voters approve a 47 Million Dollar bond issue. The districtctould use that money for career and Technical Education programs in a new 35 Million Dollar career center, near ntral middle school waterloo east and west high schools would also ceive 6 million eacacfor the College Community district will ask voters once again to approve a 49 point five Million Dollar bond issue. If approved, the district would add classrooms to the high school and update heating, cooling, and safety systems. Last year, a similar bond issue failed by only 58 votes. People in denver will once more decide ether or not to pay for a school expansion. The district is asking voters to approve a 7. 3Million Dollar bond issue, which would help pay for a new gym, auditorium, and indoor track. The bond issue narrrrly failed in a a vote last june. Also, this from springville as the School District is asking for 4. 7 Million Dollars for 9 Elementary School classrooms. Administrative office space. A multipurposeseoom. And an Exploratory Technology room. Our finalists for february are in for the gazette, kcrgtv9 student of the month. Well start in cascade, with 17 year old ray kurt. Hes a senior at cascade high school. Ray is the president of his ffa chapter and wrapping company. He balances his strong work ethic with time with his famililon his farm. Our next finalist is another senior, 17year old Ellen Schlarmann from monticello high school. Shes a 4 pointoh student at monticello and in her classes at Kirkwood Community college. Ellen, whos the 2015 ioio state fair queen, has won awards for her involvement in athletics and community service. Well complee our trio of seniors in tipton with 18year old mark becker. Hes at theheop of his class and mentors middle School Students while taking college classes. Mark is also active in school choir, athletics and his crch youth group. Cast your vote right now at kcrg dot m slash student of the month. Well feature the winner at the end of the month. A winter storm is making its way into the tv9 viewing area. Well be tracking it all our storm system is lifting north on track and on schedule today. Once again, difficulul will receive. Pleas e refer to our Facebook Page and newscast for the latest graphics. The general theme is the heaviest snow falling northwest with the lightest amounts falling southeast. Wind will be an issue at two different times today, with the first being this morning. As the wind calms for a short time later this afternoon, a round of fog is possible across the area this evening. More snow should arre later this evening into the overnight along with strong wind. This may make for a hazardous morning commute as well. In the wake ofofhis system, it does get colder, but moderation far off. The Obama Administration has lifted more trade and travel restriction on cuba. But the American Farm bureau says there are limits on what can be done. More in todayay agribibiness report. But right now, heres a look at todays opening farm markets. Good good morning, this is the agribusiness report, im david geiger. Last week. The Obama Administration lifted more its up to congress to lift us credit rererictions on agriculture commodity exports. Thats a part of a decades old us embargo of us banks ability to lend credit to cuba for ag exports. And cuba limits trade by funneling all sales through a state body. While the white house broadened goods and travel. The American Farm bureau says the are limits to what can be done. These trade financing restrictions, thehelack of use credit, provides an extra burden, allows for other countries to come in and get better price than e cubans, it will restrict, weve seen that for some sales to wheat, rice, probably other commodities where were just not as competitive because these trade financing restrictions so thats why we keep pushing to get the overall embarar lifted and take care of this. The Treasury Department already lifted cashin advance restrictions on agriculture sales to cuba. However, us firms. Including those in agriculture. Say they lose cuban access to credit. This week is started off in the red across the board for commodities. With some Interest Rate news from japan. The grain markets are giving back the rally that we had the end of the week on grains. Japan went to a negative Interest Rate environment. That really gave us a push to the upside to end the week in the equities and also in the commodities. But also, back at it here with improved weather in south america over the weekend and also a pickup in fafaer movement. Has caused a stall out in the market and pressing us lower here today. The Cattle Market really was supported at the end of last week from the storm that is moving through. It doesnt look like its going to be as severe in some of the big cattle feing areas. Particularly oklahoma, texas as as earlier thoughthtso trying to give back a little bit of the gains. We did see cash cattle trade as high as 138 on friday. The continues to be an overachiever from the futures running a too big of a premium to the cash. Also the index feels like its trying to push up closer to the futures market. But we did have last weeks production up 3. 4 percent over a year ago. The colfax sheep and goat auction on saturday saw 251 head of shshp. Feeder lambs fetched the days high average price of 2. 15 per pound, while fed lambs averaged 1. 30 per pound. The 55 goats at the auction saw a high average price ranging from 110 to 195 perread. Malaysia has voted to sign and ratify the transpacific partnership. A motion last week passed by a voice vote. Malaysian Officials Say tpp is essential to maintata Economic Growth as a tradereliant economy. The tpp is expected to open markets to Malaysian Companies in the amount of 800 Million People and economies worth a total of 27 pointntive trillion dollars. The deal gets rid of trade the us. The agreement is set to be signed by country leaders in new zealand next month. And thats all i have for the show today. Thanks for joining us on the agribusiness report. I hope to see you again next time. Well post a video every day in the agribusiness section of kcrg. Com. Youll find it under the news tab. Im david geiger with the agribusiness on schedule today. Once again, difficulty remains as to how much snow each individual area will receive. Pleas e refer to our Facebook Page and newscast for the latest graphics. The general theme is the heaviest snow falling northwest with the lightest amounts falling southeast. Wind will be an issue at two different times today, with the first being this morning. As the wind calms for a short time later this afternoon, a round of fog is possible across the area this ening. More snow should arrive later this evening into the overnight along with strong wind. This may make for a hazardous wednesday morning commute as well. In the wake of this system, it does get colr, but moderation eastern iowa is about to see a mix of rain and snow for today. And sw crews in cedar rapids laid the ground work for the snow and rain. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9. Its. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, this were getting ready for a winter storm making its way into eastern iowa. Well tell you how it will it affect your travel to and from worr today. A wilil night. Ted crcrz takes the top spot for republicans in the Iowa Caucuses. But the democrat race is still too close to call. And high rnout. How the sheer number of ters affected the final results. And youre looking live at our citytyam. Expecting some snow to start moving in for your drive to work today. Storm in moment first, a quick look at caucus results as were still waiting on one precinct out of polk county. Its still too close to call between Hillary Clinton and bernie sanders. But ted cruz will take the victory in iowa for the republicans. With now 99 percent reportin clinton is ahead at 49 point 9 percent but sanders is just point 3 behind her at 49 point 6. 2point28 delegates are at stake in that outstanding precinctct for the republicans, cruz won with 27. 7 percent of the votes. Donald trump is in second with 24. 3 percent. And marco rubio makes a strong thirirplace finish with 23. 1 percent. First, meteorologis t kaj omara alert forecast, kaj. Our storm system is lifting north on track and on schedule today. Once again, difficulty remains as to how much snow each individual area will receive. Pleas e refer to our Facebook Page and newscast for the latest graphics. The general theme is the heaviest snow falling northwest with the lightest amounts falling utheast. Wind will be an issue at two different times today, with the first being this morning. As the wind calms for a short time later this afternoon, a round of fog is possible across the area this evening. More snow should arrive later this evening into the overnight along with strong wind. This may make for a hazardous wednesday morning commute as well. In the wake of this system, it does get colder, but moderation back well into the 300is not far off. Thanks kaj. Meteorologist gehrts is out on the roads this weather lab. Justin, whererere you at right now and what a a the conditions like . Theres not anything on them yet. Im driving up to the north where we expect the heaviest of the snow to in cedar rapids with weather conditions there and how the city is thanks justin. I am standing outside of the garage where snow plows in cedar rapids will be getting going later this morning. Nothing is fallllg right now, but the city is preparing for a mixed bag of precipitation. Some equipment has already hit the streets laying down base materials to fight freezing roads. Crews say the most important thing about this storm is the timing. One of the biggest concerns is the expected snow during the morning commute today. Cedar rapids streets superintendent says his plan to use a lot of salt on the roadways to prevent any snowowrom bonding and icininon the pavememe. 7 56 06 timing on an event like this where most of the snow comes throughout the day hours, our crews. We have more people here onayshifts and we dont have to hold people over as much. The downsihe is we are dealing with a lot of traffic and people traveling. Thth city says, so far, this year crews have responded to 16 events. Some have been smaller and only two were allplow events. The streetsuperintenden t also says the city has used less than half of the amount of salalthey use in a typical winter. Live in cedar rapids, brea love, kcrgtv9 news. The weather may pose a problem for candidates trying to get to New Hampshire today. Thats their next stop, with primaries one week from today. On the democratic side, it is a virtual tie. With one precinct in polk county yet to report, Hillary Clinton is ahead at 49 point 9 percent. Bernie sanders is less than a point behind at 49point 6. Texas senator ted cruz heads to New Hampshire with a win. He won 27point7 percent of the vote. Donald trump won second with 24point3 percent. Marco ttrd with 23point1 p pcent. Rubio spoke to supporters in des moines last night after his strong finish. Tonight, here in iowa, the people of this great state have sent a very clear message. After seven years of barack obama, we are not waiting any longer to take our country back. In polls before the caucuses, rubio was in third but much further behihi trump and cruz. Cruz celebrated his win in des moines last night. The state of iowa has spoken. Iowa has sent notice, that the republican nominee and the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media donald trump also made a speech that despite a 2nd place finish, he says he will go on to win the nomination. Mike hucuabee has suspended his campaign after finishing 9th. Over, the president ial New Hampshire. While iowa is important as the rst state to caucus, there are several more hurdles they must jump over. The next state to vote on the New Hampshire in a primary. That will be on february 9th. After this, the different primaries for the parties sometimes split. The nevada on the 20th. On the same day the republicanan have a primary vote in south carolina. Their caucuses in nevada on the 23rd. On february 27th, the democrats will hold their primary in south carolina. All leeing up to march 1 super tuesday 14 republican and 11 democratic primaries of caucuses. Including more populated states like geora, massachusett s, virginia and texas. Both politicic parties are reporting some of the highest caucus turnouts ever for last night. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders is live in des moines. Forrest, it was a busy night at the precincts huge. There wewe reports that the doors. Four out of ten who caucused, did it for the first time this year. The republicans are the big stororhere. Lets talk numbers. More than 180thousand registered republicans voted last night. Thats the new benchmark. For perspective, in 2012 republicans had roughly 122 thousand registered voters turn out. Thats was about 20 percent. Gop leaders say they attribute the boom to the diversity of the candidates this cycle. But, also the commitment thf candidates had for r wa. I think its been one of the most incredible campaigns that iowa has ever seen. Its been going on for a year. Its been going on year. Its been really enthusiastic among the candidates, among the people here. Theyve come to many events s re. Theyve traveled to all 99 counties. Dem Party Leaders said, at last check, more than 140thousand final numbers are official, the party wont likely break their huge turnout set in 2008, about 240thousand registered voters. Thats nearly 40 percent. Live in des moines, Forrest Saunders, kcrgtv9 neos. Thousands of republican caucusgoers filled one of the largest caucus sites in the state, right here in cedar rapids. The Doubletree Convention center housed 30 precincts overall. Kcrgtv9s Sarah Mccarthy explains how t tt worked out logisticacay. This room housed 19 precincts with thousands of people pouring into the space to fill out secret ballots. According to linn county gop officials, there are some major advantages to having so many voters in one place. But it can also cause some problems. Long lines of people crammed into this caucus location. Some searched for their correct precinct location. Others say it took a while to find the correct sigig in table for their precinct. Linn county gop Officials Say there are advantages to having so many people in one space,. 03 58 we have elected officials and candidates ask us last summer to have the fewest venues as came to address the crowd, they wouldnt have to go to 86 different places. But for one firsttme caucusgoer thehe packed space was a little frustrating. 01 54 52 we had to wait in line for a whe and some people who came in later had to wait even longer. We had a hard time hearing some of the cacaidates talk but overall, it was fun. The state gop party also held a big rally at the Convention Center earlier monday in an effort to get caucus goers excited. And by the turnout we saw here, id say that effort paid off. In cedar rapids, sarah h mccartrt, kcrgtv9 news. Iowa democrats tried Something Different for those who have trouble getting to a caucus site. They brought it to them with some firstever satellite caucus locations. Tv9s Dave Franzman was hard to beat the satellite voting set up at the oaknoll retirement community. The event started right on time at seven. And it was al over 50 minutes later. But one Organizer Says t t biggest deal was simplylyetting the caucus to come to the people. I think it was a wonderful thing the party is trying to do reaching out to communities having trouble getting to caucus night the satellite idea was aimed at accommodatin g those with physical limitationslike the residents at this large iowa city retirement community. 125 out of 170 democrats pre registered to take part in a caucus here. Many of the residents have mobility issues using walkers or wheelchairs. So an opportunity to caucus literallylyithout leaving home was a hit. I thought for the first time in my adult life i wouldnt have gone to a caucus i might as well have thrown in the towell so when we foiund out they were entertaining applications i thougmt oh thats great, ill do it. Theres too many t tt have troiuble walking any distance even those that have more ability than wheel chair people do Iowa Democrats selected four locations statewide to host satellite caucus events. The greatest number of participants, by far, came to the oaknoll event. Democrat Hillary Clinton t the largest number of votes here, but participants say those who had trouble going to a regular caucus site were the real winnter. Dave franzman kcrg tv9 news. Theres a new king on the throne as the worlds most valuable company. Alphabet is taking a big bite out of apple with our storm system is lifting north on track and on schedule today. Once agagn, difficucuy remains as to how much snow each individual area will receive. Pleas e refer to our Facebook Page and newscast for the latest graphics. The general l heme is the heaviest snow falling northwest with the lightest amounts falling southeast. Wind will be an issue at two different times today, with the first being this morning. As the wind calms for a short time later this afternoon, a round of fog is possible across the area this evening. More snow should arrive later this evening into the overnight along with strong wind. Wednesday morning commute as well. In the wake of this system, it does get colder, but moderation back well into the 30s is not far off. Thanks kaj. Our storm system is lifting north on track and on schedule today. Once again, difficulty remains as to how much snow each individual area will rececve. Pleas e refer to our Facebook Page and newscast for the latest graphics. The general theme is the heaviest snow falling northwest with the lightest amounts falling southeast. Wind will be an issue at two different times today, with the first being th morning. As the wind round of fog is possible across the area this evening. More snow should arrive later this evening into the overnight along with strong wind. This may make for a hazardous wednesday morning commututas well. In the wake of this system, it does get colder, but moderation back well into the 30s is not far off. Thanks kaj. Iowa. But, if you are flying soon, some airlines are adding w perks and spurringng compepetion. Stay with your 24 hour news stocks closed slightly lower yesterday after rebounding from steep losses early in the trading day. And theres a new worlds mosos valuable company. 530a googles parent company, alphabet, has ended apples reign. Alphabet is now worth 554 billion dollars a 20 billion dollar advantage over apple. Phabet is now on top because its franchise search continues to dominate, raking in Online Advertising dollars. Microsoft currently holds whe number three spot and facebook comes in at number four. The wall street journal is reporting that yahoo will announce job cuts when it releases its yahoos ceo will layout a costcutting plan that will include cutting about 15 percent of the workforce, o oabout 1,600 positions. And free snacks returned to the economy cabin of United Airlines flights on monday. Soon free snacks will be back for American Airlines coach customers, too. American is also adding more free Inflight Entertainment options for travelers. Free snacks may not be a huge change in how airlines operate, but it signals increased Competition Among the biggest cararers. Its heres a live look at . . . On our city cam. Our storm system is lifting north on track and on pchedule today. Once again, difficulty remains as to how mumu snow each individual area will receive. Pleas e refer to our Facebook Page and newscast for the latest graphics. The general theme is the heaviest snow falling northwest with the lightest amounts falling southeast. Wind will be an issue at two different times today, with the first being this morning. As the wind calms for a short time later this afternoon, a round of fog possible across the area this evening. More snow should ararive later this evenini into the overnight along with strong wind. This may make for a hazardous wednesday morning commute as well. In the wake of this system, it does get colder, but moderation back well into the 30s is not far off. Heres a look at todays top stories. 2016 president ial hopefuls are now looking towards New Hampshire. Ted cruz had a big night in iowa last night. He ended the night on top. Donald trump came in second and marco rubio surged to finish third. Its still too close to c cl between Hillary Clinton and bernie sanders. With 99 percent reporting, clinton is ahead at 49 point 5 percent but sanders is just point 3 behind her at 49 point 6. And s se voters in eastern iowa will be heading to the polls today. They will vote for school bond votes in the waterloo, College Community, denver and springville districts. Some polls are opening later due to the weather. Well be right back here on tv9. Stay with us. Loon r city cam. Its february second and heres what you need to know today. Road crews across eastern iowa are prepping the roads and getting plows ready as the winter storm approaches this morning