On the democratic side, Hillary Clinton made two stops in iowa yesterday. She held a town hall meeting in iowa city yesterday afternoon. During her stop, she addressed the fight against terrorism. She attacked her republicans opponents, claiming they are targeting all muslims as terrorists. From there, she went to mason city for a town hall meeting. One supporter in the crowd said her father was supporting donald trump in the election. So mrs. Clinton recorded a message to try and get him to change his mind. Hi sean im here with your daughter. I hope you can see, i dont have horns and i really do hope as this election goes on youll listen to your daughter. Thanks bye. A recent Quinnipiac University poll shows clinton currently leads vermont senator Bernie Sanders by double digits in iowa. Meteorologist britley ritz has your first alert forecast, britley. It is definitely starting to there. Highs are expected to only top out into the middle 30s this afternoon. Winds today will still be
Right noww city workerrare preparing to keep roads clean as the snow storm heads in to eastern iowa. Kcrgtv9s Dave Franzman is in our newsroom. Da, what are the city crews using to keep drivers sfe . Anybodydywho looks outside can see theres nothing to plow yet. But theres certainly a lot of activity at the citys public works building as cree get the plowsseady to go cedar rapids has approximately 90 vehicles equipped to push snow some of the vehicles getting loaded with salt and sand has other work scheeuled for today. But that was before the forecast. That work, including some road construction, was put on hold as the vehicles returned to get reconfigured to plow snow. The first snow of thhseason isnt usually a big event although the forecast says this will be an exception. In any event, crews are ready and the plan is in place. Were very prepared for this event a first event we dont have brokeedown poiecessf equument and we hhe all the material ready to go so get the staff to stay o
Wont really see much out of this from a rain standpoint. Well see a gradual downturn in temperature, and we should be down around 35 by 6pm. Plan on dry conditions through sunday, but our temperatures will be undergoing a rollercoaster ride. Our coolest day will be friday with upper 20s common, with highs bouncing right back into the upper 40s by sunday. Today windy, falling temps high 4248 winds sw 2030 g 40 alo 40 dbq 45 iow 45tonight mostly cloudy low 2430 winds w 1525 alo 26 dbq 27 iow 28tomorrow mostly cloudy high 3137 winds alo 32 dbq 34 iow 34 thanks kaj. Iowans have one more day to sign up for a new medicaid plan before private Companies Take over the governor branstand announced yesterday that all four of iowas Major Hospital systems are now a part of the states medicaid modernization plan. They include mercy health network. University of iowa hospitals and clinics, Unitypoint Health and Genesis Health system. The four represent more than 35 hundred medicaid doctors, 73 rural
Religion. Were talking about security. Our country is out of control. Texas senator ted cruz rising in the polls still shying away from attacks on trump. Instead. Taking on fellow senator marco rubio. For marco to suggest that our record is the same is like suggesting that the fireman and the arsonist have the same plan because they were at the same fire. Rubio challenging cruz for his positions on nsa surveillance and immigration. Do you rule it out . Does ted cruz rule out ever legalizing people that are in this country illegally now. I have never do you rule it out . I have never supported legalization and i do not intend to support legalization. And after the debate a conciliatory tone from trump. I like jeb. I think jeb is a nice man i really do. But you know i think id do the same thing if i were him id be attacking me. Bazi kanani tag coming out of the debate, donald trump even promised that he would not run as an independent. Next up. The democrats debate again this saturday in
Both are hispanic, one wearing a dark blue sweatshirt and the other about fivefoot five inches tall and wearing a red San Francisco football jersey. Secret witness is offering a onethousand dollar reward for information that can help them find and prosecute the shooters. Anyone who can help is asked to call the Reno Police Department or secret witness at 3224 900 below average temperatures will continue with strong valley inversions in place today. An active storm pattern establishes this week with multiple systems expected to impact the sierra and western nevada. Travel impacts are likely in the sierra this week and possibly for portions of western nevada as well. Short term. Warm air advection is producing light snow showers for locations north of susanville and light accumulations will be possible so Early Morning commuters should be prepared for potentially slick roads in those areas. The light showers will begin to dissipate this afternoon as the upper low continues to lift north