Could be looking quite the turnout as siouxlanders help pick the next president. Deborah souverain joins us now with more. Jenna no one can deny that this president ial election cycle is unique. A real estate mogul is leading the polls on the repubican side. And for the first time. A former first lady could be a commander in chief. Local political experts say. This unconventional political field. Is creating a buzz around thecaucus that hasnt been seensince 2008. After countless Campaign Phone cas, town halls, and debates. Iowans are gearing up to voice their choice for the president ial nominees. D this year, it looks like more iowans will be turning out to caucus on february first. The numbers that weve had, 560 changes and 144 new registrations, said mitchell. Tim mitchell, secretary of the woodbury count gop, says because voters can opt for sameday registration the night of the caucus. Ter turnout is expected to be even higher than registration numbers show. The numbers correctly we do expect a high turnout, said mitchell between january first and the 28th alone. More than 23hundred people registered as democrats in iowa. In that same time period. Close to 2 thousand republicananalso signed up to participate in the nomination process. People apparently are excited about the candidates, so they want to go out and register, said bottaro. And whether youre democrat, republican, independent or undecided. Political experts say voters are ready to be heard. On the democratic sidede have to say this; we have a candidate that may be the first womanpresident , that gets people excited, said tim bottaro. We have Bernie Sanders who has caught fire among young people and new people who havent been involved in the process. The Omalley Campaign as well, said bottaro. Well i think there are a lot of people that are angry out there about the way things are going; said tim mitchell theyre frustrated that nothing is getting done in washington and they want to see it changed, said have our first indication of which candidates will pick toward november. Currently close have registered to vote across the state. E. Mostly but the Largest Group of registered voters state wide. Are independents. If you dont have an affiliation with either party and would like to caucus. You do have to register as a republican or a democrat. Studio Deborah Souverain abc 9 news. Jenna the republicans took the debate stage in des moines tonight, but the leader going into mondays caucuses. Wasnt there. Mary moloney reports. Seven republican candidates stood on the main debate stage with the gop frontrunner missing. That didnt stop the candidates or the moderators from mentioning his name. megyn kelly moderator lets address the elephant not in the room tonight. Donald trump has chosen not to attend. ted cruz r maniac and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat, and ugly. And ben, you are a terrible surgeon. Now that weve gotten the donald trump portion out of the way. laughs earlier four lower polling candidates participated in a so called undercard debate. And set their sights on iowa. Mike Huckabee r president ial candidate hello iowa, its me. And you know me. Rick Santorum r president ial candidate the people of iowa, who i know pretty darn well, care about the issues. They care about who is going to be the leader of the free world. Carly Fiorina r president ial candidate im going to put my faith in the the gogo judgment of the votererof iowa. Also in iowa donald trump putting on honor veterans. But not everyone supported the event president ial only veteran bill and martha in this race any donald trump event over across town on some sort of issues. Two other republican president ial candidates who also won past Iowa Caucuses were in attendance. Governor mike senatotorick senator didnt comment on a potential a trump santorum1ticket but said he wont bash his fellow contders. Rick Santorum r president ial candidate im not going to to throw mud at anybody on this stage tonight. Im mary moloney reporting. Jenna gop candidate donald trump is boasting big numbers from his rally fundraiser thats going to benefit veterans. donald trump r president iti candidate for me personally is it a good thing . A bad thing . Will i get more votes or bad . Nobody knows. Youre going to like it because we raised one day. Trump says hes skipping the or bad move for his campaign but was happy with the support he received. Jenna debate, a twitter battle and republican unravelled with cruz calling on trump to face him in a one on one debate. The venue . Western Iowa Tech Community college in sioux city of course. Scheduled for saturday at wit challenged trump to meet him there. Western iowa representatives say theyre not opposed to that, asked ahead of time. Theyre not sure they could accomodate a larger crowd seeing as both candidates are leading in the polls. We would need to make sure that our was informed as to what was going on. It would be very unique for our campus to have that would be very unique for sioux city as well, its just that we are limited in our space here. I would think they would have an overwhelming response of people that would want to be here, said jasman. Cruz said he would make 800 Seat Available to iowans for t t impromptu debate. The auautorium his campaign booked. Seats about half that. Jenna marco rubio is coming to sioux city ahead of mondays caucus. His Campaign Announced hell make a stop at bevs on the river this saturday. Thats at 9 in the morning with 8 30 rubio also has events scheduled in Council Bluffs and ames that day as well. Jenna using tonights debate as a plplform for their own cause, ththgroup fight for 15is raising the issue of raising the minimum wage. And they say the republicans arent paying enough attention to what theyre saying. Reporter jacob peklo brings us more from des moines. Nats its a message many of these protesters have trying to give for many years now. Wiley king, des moines wendys worker i believe 15 an hour to cover the basis rent, transportation, health care and our children. Their fight for a higher minimum wage rate took them outside the republican president ial candidate debate. As they walked the streets, they wanted to know that their votes have authority. Simone davis, des moines mcdonalds worker and we deserve so much more. We cant even pay our basic needs in life. We have to struggle from month to month, borrowing, getting loans and depending on the government. We shouldnt have to do that. We work too hard. Hundreds of workers left work early to participate in these rallies throughout the day. Many traveled to iowas Capitol National weight. Anggie godoy, los angeles resident just like we fougug in la and we know how important it is in la. I know how important it iin iowa. Last june, godoys county around los angeles passed a law to make 15 per hour the standard. She says its made a big difference in her lifestyle. Anggie gody, los angeles resident its great i can actually go to college now. They say raising the minimum wage wont hurt the rest of the economy either. Wiley king, des moines wendys worker no, i actually believe that the businesses will profit because if we have more money in our pocket, were going to spend it. And now, they say with thousands of others joining this cause, they think its closer to reality than ever before. Anggie godoy, los angeles resident it makes you feel like its possible, and it is possible. Weve seen it in la and in new york. Nna camp high hopes is celebrating one of their volunteers for outstanding job last year camp volunteer celebration was held today at tthe camps adowlark lodge in sioux cici. And this years recipient of volunteer of the year 2015 . Kristin burbank was awarded the special event year award as well. Staff says that a camp without volunteers. High hopes could not do it without the volunteers, they are a very critical componentof our all the hours they put in day in and day out we wouou not be susuessful in providing the services that we do. Says ceo of camp high hopes ali langseth. Over 200 their time to help camp high hopes, helping give a fun experience to disabled children teens and adults in the tri state region. Jenna a newlyformed Service Group is ready to make another big donation to a siouxland non profit. During its second quarterly meeting at briar cliff university, 100 men who care, picked siouxland cares as the non profit that theyll be supporting. Last fall, the group was able to donate 7,000 to the warming shelter, and they hope this donation will be even bigger as they continue to add members. Tremendous amount of support that we got and having the ability to have a huge impact for non profit within the community has just been something really special and something im really proud to be part of and look forward to continuing to grow in the months and member chrhr barondeau. Every man in the group committs to writing a 100 check to the nonprofit chosen basis. Their next meeting is planned for may. Jenna a new barbecue joint in town has a fomer staple in town, green gables crazy bobs barbecue opened the corner of street, customers say that they are glad to see the former greeeegables rerearuant, something owner bob larsen agrees with. I dont want it to justook like a cookoe cutter restaruant and its got character. T location, green gables, has been a restaruant for a long time and i think it needed to stay restaruant and this part of the town could really use it. Say owner bob larsen. Larsen says that the exterior of being worked on to get completed, but wants customers s come hungry becausushe want to havavyou leave ll. Open seven days a week. Still to come. A doll with a long history is getting a makeover a longtime in the making. Details up ahead. Pleasant friday, 40s for the weekend and a snow storm possible on tuesday. Details next. Look toy maker in all shapes and variety of skin tones. In an effort to get the dolls to look a little closer to reality. Melinda davenport gives us a sneak peak. Were here at the creek where the look of barbie is changing as we know of the popular will change the look three new bodydy also come in seven skin tones, 22 eye colors and 24 styles. The toy company says theyll still sell the original barbies, but for years, the doll has been criticized for being unrealistic in terms of representation of the womans body. So the store shelves will look like this for a little bit the new barbies will start to be sold on march 1. Gorgeous day 2 line super fred hexom fhexom kcautv. C om highs today in the 40s, top 10 day for winter. Nice night on the sky cam. 39 our high, and our morning low well above normal. Temperatures looking fantastic right now. Still some 30s, upper 20s east. Winds are calm which will help the development of some fog. Not too cold tonight with partly cloudy skies and some fog chilly 20s in the morning. Clouds have been tricic today cloudier in nw iowa. And we can see well. Low pressure to our northeast spilling in some that tonight as well. Stormcast besides some clouds and southerly flow kicks in, that will have us warmer, in the mid 40s. Well alal have a system passing us up north, that could hinder some sunshine, especially in nw iowa. Also could drop a raindrop or two. But either way sun and clouds tomorrow. Quiet again fray night. Saturday well keep the southerly flow, so well keep the mid 40s again. By saturday night, sunday morning we could see a wintry mix come into play, very light accumulations. Tonight, 25 patchy fog and a bit chilly. And clouds, possibly more clouds and mid 40s. 7day has sunday, still in the 40s. Then all eyes on tuesday. Snow likely, winds blustery. How much snow. Too soon to tell, we are working on that in the weather center. Chance range, the track is uncertain. Timing would be tuesday, with threats of heavy snow and high winds. Enjojothe weekend, wewel keep an eye on that snow in the weather center. Coming up in sports. West hosted ninth ranked spirit lake tonight. Find out if the wolverines could notch a win or if the indians could spoil the night. Tim plus the hawkeyes made their first ever trip to maryland tonight for a top ten matchup. Could they stay undefeated in the big ten . Well have the highlights up hawkeyes came into tights game rankek third in the country and the only Undefeated Team left in big ten conference play. But the hawks were five and a half point underdogs on the road tonight against number 8 maryland. The first top ten matchup at the Xfinity Center in college park. In t first half, hawkeyes down five, but Anthony Clemmons finds a gap and elevates for the flush to cut the lead to three. Just a aew possessions later though. Diamond stone. Great name, great dunk in traffic to go back up five. Adam woodbu. Making a difference on both ends of the court tonight, he hits the short jumper as the hawks continue to hang around. Then out on the break, dom uhl flashes to the corner, catch and fire three. Iowa would trail by six at the break. In the second. Woody, the hoop and thehe hack, he had a doubledouble tonight, 11 points and 10 boards and iowa takes the lead. The crossover frees up some space for the long two. But the terrapins protect home court. They down the hawkeyes, 74 68 chris west came into tonights game at 123 but the wolverines were in search of a statement win to prove they belong with thth elite in class 5a. Tonight, they had a chance for that when spirit lake came to town. The indians come in ranked ninth in class 3a and they get off to a good macy smith finds erin dau wide open on the backside. She lays it home for the early lead. But on the other end, nobody picks up amanda gors. Her high three pointer finds the bottom of the net to cut the deficit to one. Late in the first. Joie veldman dishes it off to anna brown for the triple, the indians led it 97 after one. But in the second. Gors, gets the steal and takes it coast to coast for the lay in, wolverines tie things up. Then maddy amongst the trees and west wins it at home, 4134. Western valley conference tournament action, Lawton Bronson hosting mvao. We pick it up in the fourth. Andee martin gets cut off, she finds Brooke Hunwardsen down low though. Eagles go up 20. And they put the pedal down. Lexi binder. Open down low and she wont miss from close range. Then martin. Just a freshman, knocking down the triple. That 20 point lead swells to 29. Would continue to grow. Ali verzani with the strong take to the rim. Lb goes up 30. Mvao doing what they can. Emalee funderman goes in for the layup but it was too little too late. Eagles move on to the semis against westwood, 7347. King of the cage returns to siouxland saturday and a pair of area ghters have a chance at belts. Will go for the welterweight amateur world title saturday night at winnavegas casino resort. That would be his first championship. In the comain event, john devall moved up a weight class in search of a second championship this time as a flyweight, and he hopes to add to his collection. John devalli view myself as a pirate and you know, i got my main goal in life. Now im kind of on this treasure hunt. And for us its, our prpre isor our booty would pepese be belts. You know, i want all the gold i could possibly get til i finally reach that number one spot. Kyle angermani will have the belt. Ive been training really hard and hesgonna have to really kill me to win that belt from me. Itd mean everything. Doors open at 4 30 saturday down in sloan with fights starting at 6. Afafr just one game last weekend, the musketeers return to action with 3 games in 3 days this weekend. While thats certainly a tough stretch, the team is anxious to get back out on the ice after their in that lone game the last two weeks, the musketeers went to lincoln and came home with a seven nothing loss and the team is ready to get back to work. Fog and a bit chilly. Tomorrow, pleasant for our friday. Sun and clouds, possibly more clouds and temperatures in the mid 40s. 7day has that early mix on sunday, still in the 40s. Then all eyes on tuesday. Snow likely, winds blustery. How much snow. Too t soon to tell, we are working on that in the weather center. What we can say is its still in the chance range, the trtrk is uncertain. Timing would be