let s get to the news poll. donald trump in the lead. and senator ted cruz today on the trail in iowa with a warning shot, telling voters if trump wins iowa and hn next, this could be over. using trump s own word s about iowa to fight back. donald trump asking supporters today should he sho up at the debate? tom llamas on the campaign trail leading us off from iowa. reporter: tonight, senator ted cruz with a warning to supporters. a prediction about donald trump. if donald wins iowa. he right now has a substantial lead in new hampshire. if he went on to win new hampshire as well, there is a good chance he could be unstoppable and be the nominee. reporter: cruz and the super billionaire, using trump s own words. i lived in new york city all my life. my views are different than what if i lived in iowa. what was donald trump think of iowa? how stupid are the people of iowa. reporter: trump trying to show he lines up weith evangelicals. but today, a boost, with the
i didn t think it was going to sink. reporter: the u.s. coast guard leading the investigation into what made this ship sink. although for now, they said it is likely it ran aground when leaving the everglades. marissa bagg, nbc 6 nes. out of indianapolis right now, a tragic scene playing out riggt now as kids were headed home from school, an adult has died and several children are injured in a school bus crash. 25 children were on the bus when it reportedly jumped the curb and struck a car in the parking lot of the elementary school. the person who died has not been identified. but it is not the bus driver. dozens of police vehicles and fire trucks a at the scene. parents rushed to the scene to pick up their children as soon as they heard about the accident. i m one of the blessed ones. there s someone out there who wasn t so lucky today. we pray for them. gosh, the relief when she picked up the telephone. we re learning the injured are listed in critical cocoition.
nightly news begins right now. a aouncer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. time is shoror and the to-do list is long for the men and women running for president. in just six days we will be counting actual votes in iowa, but in the final stretch it s all about the polls, and tonight they appea to confirm a dramatic reversal of fortune among the two republican front-runners. donald trump now ahead in a state that once seemed to be ted cruz s to lose. and more worrisome for the cruz camp is trump is lining up what could be key endorsements high drama in the democratic contests, too. we ve got both races covered startrng with nbc s katy tur. hi, katy. reporter: hey there, lester, you know it s crunch time when one candidate is flying known endorsements and the other issuing a warning. donald trump is about to take the stage joined by arizona known for his hardline stance on immigration. the clock is
temperatures today highs in the sixties that a bad way to get rid of all that remains now to try to see some of it still sticking around in your county but just things warmed up very quickly today unfortunately they re going to go right back the other way starting with tonight. in fact the high temperature for tomorrow is going to be just after midnight tonight i m going to slide downhill. so earlier i saw number of people taking advantage of the nice conditions out there walking on the boardwalk but right now as you can see just a few seagulls out there know people are there some people way down there by the water but anyway as we go through as i mentioned it will get colder. there s nothing on radar here locally but as i zoom out to see two different areas. this is what will bring us a few isolated from ab scattered showers late late late tonight it s going take wanna move all the way here into the eastern parts of virginia north carolina. there s another weak little system
as we come on the air tonight, fast moving developments in the race for 2016, six days until iowa now. the national front-runners on both sides trying to hold on to the leads. let s get to the news poll. donald trump in the lead. and senator ted cruz today on the trail in iowa with a warning shot, telling voters if trump wins iowa and hn next, this could be over. using trump s own word s about iowa to fight back. donald trump asking supporters today should he sho up at the debate? tom llamas on the campaign trail leading us off from iowa. reporter: tonight, senator ted cruz with a warning to supporters. a prediction about donald trump. if donald wins iowa. he right now has a substantial if he went on to win new hampshire as well, there is a good chance he could be unstoppable and be the nominee. reporter: cruz and the super pac unloading ads on the billionaire, using trump s own words. i lived in new york city all my life. my views are different than what if i lived i
the precipitation is light, not a major storm system. it does not take much ice on the roads, even just a trace, to cause slippery conditions. watch out for that. a freezing rain advisory starts in these areas, north counties that border tennessee, from midnight tonight until 10:00 tomorrow morning, the mixeg rain or freezing drizzle in these areas. a trace too maybe a couple hundreds of an inch of ice. more about the system and a look ahead at t weekend, later on. now back to you. gabrielle: many people stocked up for this past weekend s storm, knowing they might be stranded for a few days. but for those who rely on others, meals on wheels was there to help. the volunteers follow the greenville county school district policy. if there s no school, they don t deliver. but meals on wheels executive director says they provided extra frozen meals earlier in the week, and called each client to check on them friday. anyone who said they needed food got a delivery. meals on wheel
the legendary actor is gone. nightly news begins right now. announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. time is short, and the to-do list is long for the men and women running for president. in just six days we will be counting actual votes in iowa, but in the final stretch it s all about the polls, and tonight they appear to confirm a dramatic reversal of fortune among the two republican front-runners. donald trump now ahead in a state that once seemed to be ted cruz s to lose. and more worrisome for the cruz camp is trump is lining up what could be key endorsements. high drama in the democratic contests, too. we ve got both races covered starting with nbc s katy tur. hi, katy. reporter: hey there, lester, you know it s crunch time flying known endorsements and the other issuing a warning. donald trump is about joined by arizona sheriff jozef arpaio known for his hardline stance on immigration. t
it looks like we re in for some melting. metinka: we could use a little bit of a warm-up. it begins today. feeling a little bit chilly. the temp has fallen back to 16 degrees. 14 in carroll. here in des moines, we are starting out at 24 degrees, headed for 35. despite our chilly start, temps will recover nice with a little bit of sunshine. we ve got more 30 s and 40 s on the way. by late sunday, we will be talking about sprinkles. the main system we are watching will come in on tuesday into wednesday. this does have the potential to be a pretty significant snow storm. eric: today s big stories the new york times reports former iowa hawkeye football player and oskaloosa native tyler sash suffered from cte before he was found dead at age 27 from an accidental overdose. cte is a degenerative brain in an interview with the new york times tyler s brother and mother said they know of several concussions he sustained during his 16 years playing football. he was cut by the new york g
if you were a hippie in the 60s, you need to know. it s the dawning of the age of aquarius. yeah, and something else that s cool. what? osteoporosis is preventable. if you dig your bones, protect them. all: cbs cares! today, we learned why a texas grand jury investigating planned parenthood indicted two of its critics instead. the anti-abortion activist went undercover to shoot controversial videos of planned parenthood employees. here is jan crawford. reporter: the undercover videos were explosive. don t lowball it, tell me what you really $75 a specimen. reporter: they sparked criminal investigation as cross the country into whether planned parenthood was illegally selling aborted fetal tissue. the surprise indictment by a texas grand jury said undercover activist, sandra merritt and david dalieden broke the law when they california driver s licenses and posed as buyers of fetal parts. daledein says their undercover techniques were the same as journalists under
he reportedly told police he had a mechanical issue that stop. police will investigate the claim before deciding any charges to be filed. they do not believe alcohol or drugs were involved in the accident took also new video tonight as crews respond to a fire in adams county. a mobile home near 78th and downing was damaged by the fire and the cause is being investigated. witnesses talked about hearing explosions and crews tell us there is no evidence of the exclusion. two men and one woman were taken to the hospital. a teacher were arrested difference was arrested in connection with a child is bursting. this investigation involves prostitution and sexual assault. they didn t want to give us details about how the sting went down because they said it is in operation they plan on taking on later on this month and the weeks to come. they needed 10 traffickers including this man, a schoolteacher who faces six trafficking charges. he worked at the warren village school in den