Would win 55 to 43 . Clinton would win 52 to 44 . One of the more unusual states caucusing today is colorado. Republicans in that state will caucus, but delegates wont pledge their support to any candidate until the convention in july. Kcrgtv9s kellie meyer has more from the democratic race in colorado. This was the spot where just 8 years ago Hillary Clinton gave full support to president obama at the denver Democratic National convention. Shes hoping the race will be much different this time around. But clinton is facing a tough battle here today against the current colorado favorite Bernie Sanders. Take nat pop bernie headquarters bernie supporters are making a last minute push, canvasing and making calls to show why they think their candidate is the one for the job. Across town, hillary supports were doing just the same. Bringing in reinforcemen ts and hoping to build on momentum from this weekends win in south carolina. Kellie tag it will be interesting to see if history repeats itself here for clinton, she didnt win colorado and if the grassroots support that im seeing here at the sanders headquarters holds strong, he could take home the win tonight. Reporting in washington, im kellie meyer today a Virginia Police officer killed on her first day will be laid to rest. The funeral for officer Ashley Guindon started just a few minutes go. This is video from her procession in the city of woodbridge yesterday. Guindon was one of three officers shot on saturday while responding to a Domestic Violence call. Say this week has been difficult for the entire community. Its taking a toll on everybody that knows these officers. There were very few dry eyes in the Police Department over the last few days. 32yearold Ronald Hamilton faces a capital murder charge in the case. Police say hamilton also killed his wife over the weekend. Hes being held without bail. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts has alert forecast, justin. First the snow up north and then a return here in cedar rapids for some in the morning commute. Snow is on its way out, leaving us with blustery north winds and some clouds. Well get breaks in the overcast every so often this afternoon with highs staying in the 20s. Winds back down and the sky clears overnight, sending most of us into the teens for lows. More clouds return tomorrow as highs climb back into the 30s. More light snow arrives tomorrow night and early thursday, but this will also be a fast moving system producing less than a couple of inches of snow. Warmer weather kicks back in this weekend with 40s saturday and 50s sunday. 60s are likely for at least part of next week as our weather pattern turns unsettled with occasional shower and storm chances. Today partly to mostly cloudy high 2632 winds while the political divisions are sharp in these times, one poll in iowa found a clear majority of support for one issue. Ethanol. A new Des Moines Register poll found most iowans support the renewable fuel standard. The newspaper polled both republicans and democrats and found 71 support the rfs. Only 21 oppose it. 8 were undecided. Last fall, the epa said refiners will be required to make a little more than 18 billion gallons of renewable fuel this year. Thats up from last year, but still about 4 billion gallons fewer than a target goal from congress. The poll also found that a majority of iowans do support increasing the states minimum wage to some extent. The register found 7 out of 10 think the minimum wage should be more than the current 7. 25 an hour. While theres a movement on the National Level to make it 15 an hour, only 16 of iowans in the poll believe it should reach that level. 1 3 of those polled think at 10 hour minimum wage iowa now generates more than 31 of its energy from the wind. The Us Energy InformationAdministration Says thats more than any other state in the country. Iowa is 6 Percentage Points ahead of south dakota and kansas. Governor branstad says there is a potential for the state to generate about 40 of energy from wind in the next 5 years. The Marion Public Library officially has a new director. This morning, the city announced Elsworth Carman will become the new director. He comes from oak park illinois, which is just outside of chicago. Carman was manager of Library Experiences and initiatives in Public Services at a library there. He officially take over the position on april 18th. Current director, doug raber, retires this month. The future owner of the hamburg inn 2 says he doesnt plan to change the feel of the popular restaurant. Michael lee will take over the iowa city restaurant on thursday. The hamburg inn is best known, especially this time of year, for hosting president ial candidates. Stop from new Jersey Governor Chris Christie last year. Lee is a university of iowa graduate and a native of china. He tells the gazette he loves the restaurant and the atmosphere at the historic site. Current owner dave panther says he chose lee to take over the restaurant after hearing he didnt want to change anything. He told the gazette quote michael had assured me he was interested in hamburg inn because it was hamburg inn and not coming in here to mess up an icon. Today also opens up Restaurant Week here in visit the participating restaurants and vote for them online. Each one is offering a 10 lunch and 25 dinner specials. This year, the week of deals comes with a social media competition. Each one of the 29 participating will display their special dishes, in the effort to win over costumers. It is chance for restaurants to show off their talents, and for customers to support local businesses. Theres so many restaurants that businesses, theyre supporting families, and you have a lot of these people that come in every single day and theyre just pouring their hearts out, giving all of their passion and all of their soul into trying to make that business work every single day. This the third annual year for Restaurant Week, and it runs through sunday. Well have more from Restaurant Week coming up in our next half hour. Eastern iowans head to the polls today for local votes. Voters in ainsworth will choose a new City Council Member today. The mayor resigned in january which lead to the appointment of a City Council Member to that position. The polls are open from noon to 8 pm today at the ainsworth fire station. While voters in kalona will vote on a bond referendum for a new community center. City leaders say the current building is run down and needs to be renovated. The 3. 9 Million Dollar bond would cost a taxpayer with a home assessed at 100,000 dollars, an extra 92. 34 per a new vendor is making its home at newbo city market in cedar rapids this spring. Matthew 25 will set up shop in the permanent vendor section of the market. The nonprofit is already preparing for the growing season by starting plants for the urban farm on the citys northwest side. Itll sell that produce at the newbo space. They sell it for half price to incomeeligible families and full price to others. 21 55 16 we hope it will increase the number of families we serve. That more people will be able to get access and hopefully long term maybe this will lead to us getting more land to grow more food for more people. The Organization Also wants this to become an educational opportunity. Iowas medicaid system will officially change one month from today. After the break, well check in with another state the past. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our first alert snow is on its way out, leaving us with blustery north winds and some clouds. Well get breaks in the overcast every so often this afternoon with highs staying in the 20s. Winds back down and the sky clears overnight, sending most of us into the teens for lows. More clouds highs climb back into the 30s. More light snow arrives tomorrow night and early thursday, but this will also be a fast moving system producing less than a couple of inches of snow. Warmer weather kicks back in this weekend with 40s saturday and 50s sunday. 60s are likely for at least part of next week as our weather pattern turns unsettled with occasional shower and storm chances. Today partly to mostly cloudy high 2632 winds n 1525 alo 24 dbq 26 iow 31 tonight mainly clear low 1521 winds nw 510 alo 13 dbq 16 iow 20 high 3440 winds s 515 alo 33 dbq 34 iow 38 tomorrow night light snow likely low 2632 winds e 515 alo 27 dbq 27 iow 30 thursday chance of light snow early high 35 low 29 friday mostly cloudy high 37 low 24 saturday partly sunny high 46 low 28 sunday partly cloudy, mild high 59 low 34 monday chance of showers storms high 62 low 46 tuesday chance of showers storms thanks justin. In just a month, iowa will switch to a privatized medicaid system that affects some 560,000 iowans. After federal regulators ordered 2 delays, the the state of kansas implemented a similar system 3 years ago. Kcrg tv nines Sarah Mccarthy spoke with hospital officials in that state to learn how the changes there might also affect the medicaid system here. About four percent of patients at this rural hospital in sabetha, kansas rely on medicaid to cover their health care bills. And while thats not a huge number, it has forced the hospital to make some changes. And those changes could be a reality for iowa hospitals soon. 22 00 the ceo of this hospital says working with three Insurance Companies to file claims is more complicated than the old system of state reimbursement. Those complications mean it often takes longer for this hospital to be paid for services. Theyve had to hire more staff to handle the paperwork load, which means paying more to workers. Lora key says those issues have hurt her hospitals budget. 01 55 you have to look at that overall when youre budgeting your revenue, your expenses. Underestimate what those dead claims will be for you, it does. One of the goals of privatization is to reduce those costs add up only see a small reduction there over the last three years. Now this is not a change that will only effect iowa hospitals. That report. Providers, nursing homes, and more will likely also see some changes here in iowa. You can find her indepth story on kcrg dot com. The Senate AgricultureCommittee Chair will be presenting his gmo labeling bill to the committee today. Farm groups are showing their support. Thats coming up next in todays agribusiness good morning, this is the agribusiness report, im david geiger. The us senate is meeting up today to Committee Chair pat solutions markup. And farm groups are lining up behind this legislation they think will head off a thread of patchwork gmo labeling laws. Which they say are different labeling laws in different states in july. Vermont will be the first state to impose a mandatory labeling of foods that have gmos. Farm groups and senate will create market chaos and higher food costs. On thursday the Senate Ag Committee will mark up that labeling bill. And its unsure if there will be enough votes on the democrat side. According to the draft, the senate bill would require usda to set a voluntary National Food labeling standard for genetically engineered foods, preempt state labeling laws on both gmo foods and seed, and require usda to provide consumers with information on the benefits of biotechnology. Roberts says he is open to amendments to the bill. He hopes it will stop the commodities are keeping with the down trend at the end of last week. Starting off this week mostly in the red. The market tried to rally overnight on some Short Covering and some deliveries that were smaller than what people thought on the grain. But reality hit the market here midsession coming under pressure. Its a hangover effect from the negative outlook report the usda report put out last week. Combined ending stocks bottom line corn, beans, and wheat are the largest since 1987. So, its just the reality. Large supplies and trying to reach the demand base that we can increase our exports. So far, were not at that level. The cattle markets finding some stability from cash cattle last week. Really traded a whole range 135137. So its the strength of the cash market thats giving us a little bit of support. Continues to just run in place. Packer margins are tightening up a little bit so a slower cash market. Overall, the pork market has been flat the last several weeks. The market starting to look forward to the inventory report in march. Expect that to show a slight increase in the breeding herd and again just an awful lot of meat that we have to chew through literally in 2016. Federal regulators in canada and the us announced new ways they hope to reduce the phosphorus levels of lake erie. Administration s hope to reduce the levels by minimizing the extent of low oxygen dead zones in the targets would then maintain algae growth at consistent levels. The us committed in 2012 to combat growing threats of toxic algae development in february of 2018. And thats all i have for the show today. Thanks for joining us on the agribusiness report. Ill see you next time. Well post a video every day in the agribusiness it under the the agribusiness report. Trt 3. 43 oc std some maple syrup producers in eastern iowa are already hard at work. They say the recent mild weather is letting them tap their trees earlier than normal this year. The recent mild weather weviowa has created perfect conditions one Dubuque County farm is making the syrup 3 weeks kcrgtv9s Katie Wiedemann talked to one family already at work and has more. Northwest Dubuque County, the wolf family taps these mature maples trees, to extract what the rest of us love on our pancakes. This one in particular is the sap out of the tree. And that all starts just as soon as the weather cooperates. I think this could be one of the best years weve ever had, ya know. And it seems, this year, mother to have a sweet tooth. You need it to drop below 32 degrees at night. And then above 32 degrees during the day. You have that freezing and in that tree and it releases the hundreds and hundreds of gallons of sap. We process anywhere from eight to nine hundred gallons of raw sap an hour. Inside this old machine shed, boiling equipment to turn that sap into a savory syrup. Then the family fills that sweet stuff into 16 oz bottles. We are ready for the new season so were ready to put this right on the shelves. So it will be fresh. This is all natural. There are no preservative in it. Theres nothing added to it at all. Just straight from the tree. And thats something this family is proud to produce, no matter if Winter Weather is set to return. They call it a sugar snow and really pumps out a lot of sap. And were really looking forward Katie Wiedemann with that story. The family sells their syrup at hyvee and Specialty Stores in dubuque, waterloo, cedar rapids and iowa city. They say most stores sell a jar like this for about 10 ten dollars. A bill up for debate in the state legislature could make Birth Control easier to obtain. The bill is out of the senate, but some House Republicans say they have concerns about potential risks. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts updates our president ial election. Today voters from 11 democratic and 14 republican states head to a bill in the state legislature has to goal to make people across iowa safe from Carbon Monoxide. And lunch and dinner deals are all across the cedar rapids area. Amid the competition the end goal to encourage diners to dine local for Restaurant Week. And beyond. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news at midday. Two major storylines for today in politics. Will super tuesday turn into a coronation for Hillary Clinton and donald trump . Or will Bernie Sanders for the democrats or ted cruz or marco rubio on the republican side pull out victories as time is getting short and the delegates are getting chosen. Abcs Stephanie Ramos reports. Theres a reason why its called super tuesday . Its the biggest voting day of the year leading up to the general election. Voters in 12 states and a us territory for the democrats are at the polls hundred and 10 delegates at stake. Woman with kasich sticker on looks at camera i believe that its really important that we stay unified as a party and i really dont like all the negativity another man at rubio table donald trump is a bully and i think America Needs a fighter not a bully. Rubio will fight for conservative principles that we believe in both marco rubio and ted cruz rallying to stop frontrunner donald trump from sweeping up big wins. Rubio making stops today in minnesota and his home state of florida. Cruz also trying to win support on his home turf . Texas. In the latest cnn poll . Hillary clinton could easily beat trump if up against each other, but loses to rubio and cruz. Trump dismissing the poll trump theyre not going to get the nomination. I havent even focused on Hillary Clinton yet, and i can tell you the one person that Hillary Clinton does