Midnight, our the southwest. This is a very complicated system with a band of very heavy snow initially lifting up then a transition to rain and possible thunderstorms may occur before going back to snow once again for the evening and snow amounts will range from little to none over the southern half of the area, with areas to the north likely exceeding 6. Strong the system pulls away to the east. Today am fog, mostly cloudy high 3339 winds var 510 alo 33 dbq 35 iow 36tonight snow arrives late low 2632 iow 31tomorrow 3137 winds ene 2535 alo 33 dbq 34 iow 37tomorrow night snow likely low 2026 iow 26 thanks kaj. Is almost over. Tonight people all over the state will choose their favorite president ial candidate. Both parties in Johnson County arerereparing to take on a lot of people at each location. Kcrgtv 9s brea love joins us live in the newsroom this morning. Brea, the parties want to remind caucus goers arrive . Thats right chris and nicole. The first being to plan out your ride. Wi
The Black Hawk County Highway Department expects the storm will close gravel roads and some black top roads by tomorrow morning. This is s ucus night here in iowa, the night voters get together to decide who they want to win their partys president iti nommations. Caucuses start at seven tonight across the state. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders joins us live from whats beingalled the super site at Capital Square in des moines. Forrest, how are things shaping up in the state capital . Its basically caucus hq for journalists across the globe. Look at this place. The big American Networks are here, but many others too. Bbc, al jazeria, telemundo. Too many to mention. Here are the stats from microsoft. Broadcasting outlets. 112 print organizations. 18 d dferent countries. Heres the big one; more than 16hundred credentialed press. Thats about a fourth of my hometown of spirit lake, iowa. We caught up with a journalist from czech tv news out of the Czech Republic to see what he thought of the caucu
Alert forecast, kaj. We are starting off with some morning fog that may deposit a light layer of frost or ice on area roads. The fog should lift around mid to late morning, but with more clouds coming in from the west, well likely see more clouds than sun today. Caucus weather looks just fine with mostly cloudy sky and temperatures into the lower and middle 30s. After midnight, our storm system will lift in from the southwest. This is a very complicated system with a band of very heavy snow initially lifting up into eastern iowa, then a transition to rain and possible thunderstorms may occur before going back to snow once again for the evening and overnight. Snow amounts will range from little to none over the southern half of the area, with areas to the north wind will kick in as the system pulls away to the east. Today am fog, mostly cloudy high 3339 winds var 510 alo 33 dbq 35 iow 36tonight snow arrives late low 2632 winds ne 510 alo 27 dbq 29 iow 31tomorrow snow, wintry mix, windy
Republicic caucusgoers. Falling seven points behind is texas support. Florida senator marco rubio is edging up a bit still in 3rd place but now with 17 . On the democratic side, vermont senator Bernie Sanders holds a slight lead among caucusgoers with 49 . Just behind him, former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, haha46 . Struggling to get numbers, former Maryland Governor Martin O Malley is back at 3 . More appearances from the candidates are scheduled today the democrats are scheduled for central iowa but quite a few from the large republican field will be in the tv9 viewing area. Donald trump is in waterloo at this hour and heres a live look at his event from the ramada inn in downtown waterloo. Trump has been focused on large vevees and larger cities for his stops in the past seven days, including all four of our major cities dubuque was on saturday, iowa city last tuesday. Trump will also be one of the republicans at a cauaus event in cedar rapids county republicans have at lea
They have shattered the turnout caucuses. We dont have the official numbers just yet, but what Party Leaders tell us is in 2012 republicans had roughly 122,000 registered voters turn out, thats about 20 . They beat that earlier tonight with just9 of precincts reporting, gop leaders say they owe it to a variety of field. We owe that to the diversity of our field. Weve got a great field of candidates that have done great work trying to moat motivate our voters. Reporter guys, wehave jeff kaufman taking the stage riit now. Im going to get out of the way and let him speak and go back to you guys at the desk. Thank you, forrest. Brady smith has been following the numbers all night along across the state, county by big screens you sawbehind forrest are what you see. Its really close. It updated about 15 seconds ago. Healthhealthif you want to ok over at the gop still 90 , , so 10 eft to go here for those precincts across the state. Texas senator ted cruz in the lead there. Drump who we just