Organization is meeting in an emergency session today over ways to battle the growing zika virus outbreak. The group could decide to declare it a Global Health emergency. The virus has been linked to brain damage in thousands of babies mostly in south america. Here at home, a major winter storm is developing in the southwest and moving across the country. Strong winds toppled trees in Southern California. Killing at least one person in san diego. Heavy rains flooded lanes on the 101 and Pacific Coast highways and to the east, snow has dropped up to nearly a foot of snow in parts of reno with more to come. Accuweathers Paul Williams tells us the storm is taking aim at the great plains and the midwest. Good morning, paul. Thanks, phillip, reena. Winter Storm Brewing with disruptive snow throughout utah, colorado, new mexico and arizona where danger crosswinds, snowcovered roads and treacherous travel. And then the blizzard evolves the midwest, hitting hastings, up towards omaha, reaching towards green bay by wednesday morning. Were looking at a combination of blowing and drifting snow, travel being very dangerous. Road closures in abundance. So, hold onto your hats, this is a real one. Reena, phillip . Okay, Paul Williams, thank you so much. Something new coming to oregon. Drive drivethrough weed. Yep. Hear this out. Oregon is opening a pot store with a driveup window kind of like mcdonalds but for pot just across the street from the hospital. Local officials are excited, saying it will help boost socalled green is that what they call this, Green Tourism . Green tourism. Yeah. Sounds like ecofriendly tourism but its another word for pot. And the drivethrough weed is also available in detroit and washington state. So, you know where to go on your weed vacation. Separate from there to the its true. Pampered pets in brazil have their own parade ahead of carnivale celebrations. And you had super heros. One of the dogs dressed as wonder woman. See that . Another superman and tiara sporting the Olympic Rings were among the costumes. Every dog gets its day. Any excuse to dress up your pup, huh . Theyre all about it. They get their own birthday parties now. Now they have their own carnivale. It is certainly cute to look at. I absolutely love dogs. Do you have a dog . I have a dog that is his name is toby. A golden retriever. I dont like to dress him up. Hes a boy. I dont know. But toby so, i dont know if i could participate in the carnivale that way. Where is toby . Because youre traveling so much all the time. He is in texas being well taken care of. You didnt tell abc as part of your deal that toby has to travel with you wherever you go . You should maybe did you just talk to the folks upstairs there you go. Thanks, toby. Coming up in the skinny, the personal tragedy just hours before last nights tv musical of grease. Also in the skinny, Cindy Crawford and what shes refusing to do. A big decision for the super model. Later, unforgettable moments from the iowa campaign. Its been all pork all the time as both parties play up to downhome voters. You are watching world news now. Announcer world news now weather brought to you by ridx septic cleaner. Ised my little girl a Fabulous Garden Party for her birthday. So i mowed the lawn, put up all the decorations. I thought i got everything. Almost everything you know, 1 in 10 houses could get hit by a septic disaster, and a bill of up to 13,000. But for only 7 a month, ridx is scientifically proven to break down waste, helping you avoid a septic disaster. Ridx. The 1 brand used by septic approaching medicare eligibility . You may think you can put off checking out your Medicare Options until youre sixtyfive, but now is a good time to get the ball rolling. Keep in mind, medicare only covers about eighty percent of part b medical costs. The rest is up to you. 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Abcs brandi hitt is live in des moines this morning. Brandi, there must have been an overwhelming amount of campaign advertising, huh . Reporter definitely. Nonstop advertising. I mean, you live in new york. I live in l. A. We havent seen any of this. When i arrived in iowa last week, its been one ad after the next. No break from it. In fact, 60,000 advertisements are going to have aired leading up to todays caucuses. If you can believe that . 17,000 just in the runup over the last few days. Millions of dollars are being spent, and most of these ads are negative. Some very entertaining how negative they are but very negative. Brandi, have those ads helped sway voters . Are many voters still undecided going into today . Reporter there are a lot of undecided voters. Theres a new Des Moines Register poll giving the latest what i found interesting about this poll is when democrats and republican likely voters were asked who were going to be caucusing today, could you be persuaded to switch, to change your mind, 30 of democrats said yes, 45 of republicans said yes. So, when they go into those caucuses today, thats a huge number that might say, im voting for this person, but if you convince me and tell me more about this one on the day of, i might go the other way instead. And whats the deal . Theres some controversy with ted cruz over mailers. Whats up with that . Reporter over the weekend, this came up leading to todays caucuses. There was a mailer that went out and the words voter violation and official Public Record were put on the front. What people were finding were their names and neighbors names on this piece of paper. And it would grade you on your history of voting, giving you an f if you havent been showing up to the caucuses the last few years. Election officials really got mad about this because they say theres no voting violation, no however, the Ted Cruz Campaign did respond and said, hey, were just trying to encourage people to get out and caucus today. We werent trying to disrespect anyone. But it did make quite a few people upset. We will see how that affects ted cruz today. Brandi hitt reporting live this morning from des moines. Thank you. Thank you, brandi. Coming up, a preview of next years oscars. The best of the sundance film festival. And nature according to snoop dogg. The skinny is next. Announcer world news now stations. Skinny, so skinny skinny so skinny all right. Topping the skinny this morning, the best brandnew films being honored at the sundance film festival. Taking the top two prizes this year are the birth of a nation earning both a grand jury prize and the Audience Award for drama, based on the 1831 slave rebellion led by nat turner. And the face of this years lack of diversity at the oscars, the films writer, director and star, nate parker said, i made this film for one reason, in the hope of creating change agents. The film was bought by Fox Searchlight for a record 17. 5 million. Wow. Other notable mentions, the top documentary earning the grand jury prize weiner based on former new york congressman and a film a lot of people were talking about Swiss Army Man for best director even though some audience members walked out over the films subject. A flatulence corpse. Moving right along maybe. A little awkward. I dont know why they walked out. Thats all im saying. Latest live tv event delighting fans of the musical. This was a big night. Were talking about grease, the latest broadway favorite to get the small screen treatment. The reviews are still coming in foxs version of the classic, but so far theyve been pretty good. The production took some bold, new moves utilizing multiple sound stages as well as a live audience. It seems like, you see right there, dancing with the stars julian hough, and there she is playing sandy and veteran Broadway Aaron tava. Sandy and danny. Played by vanessa hudgens. Shall i sing and i dont steal and i dont lie but i can feel and i can cry a fact ill bet you never knew but to cry in front of you boy, she just nails that and can you believe it, just hours before that, hudgens got the sad news that her father had passed away from cancer. Just gives me chills. Yeah, before the performance hudgens tweeted out she was doing the show in his honor and no doubt would have made her father very, very proud. Beautiful, beautiful moment. And grease was in good hands, though. That is directed by the same director tommy cales who does hamilton, the huge, huge hit here. Have you seen that yet . I have. Its really good. Lucky guy. Its hard to get tickets in town. He was doing that and its grease was in good hands. Here at abc, the adaptation of the 80s classic dirty dancing a taped musical with Abigail Breslin cast as Jennifer Greys iconic role of baby should be a lot of fun. Looking forward to that. In case you missed it, Cindy Crawford is retiring from the modeling world. So, in case you didnt already think that she was, surprise. Crawford made the announcement in an interview with United Airlines for this months edition of hemisphere, an inflight magazine. Shes sure she will have her picture taken for maybe ten more years but just not as a model. Still looking great though. She did quit modeling full time in 2000 but continued to pose professionally. I dont know what the difference is but thats what they say. Finally, some exciting news for fans of hiphop and nature documentaries. I am both, actually. 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The third installment of the saga pulled in 41 million with the revenant trailing over with a little over 12 million and star wars just shy of 11 million. Meanwhile, in iowa, plenty of drama. The first votes in the 2016 race to the white house, but in iowa, they do things a little differently. Thats the word we keep hearing, caucus. So, what is this really all about . Well, with some clarity here is abcs cecilia vega. Reporter the Hawkeye State whats it like to be greeted by bacon . Amazing. Reporter where politicians come to flip pork chops, pose with a cow made of butter, take a spin in their chopper. Did we mention the pork chops . So many pork chops. Pork chop on a stick. Reporter its enough to make a politician scream. Ahhh reporter but it all comes to a head at those caucuses. Youre the caucus expert to ask that burning question. What the heck is a caucus anyway . Its complicated. So, they gave us a demonstration. For the democrats, groups of iowans gather to choose delegates who then go on to choose their party nominee. One side tries to convince the other side to join their team or break a tie with food or rock, paper scissors is listed as one possibility. Reporter oh, really . The republicans have it a lot easier. They write down a candidates name on a slip of paper and done. If it sounds like a bunch of song and dance, well, there is a caucus musical. Oh iowa reporter but just remember, iowa launched president ial runs for jimmy carter, two george bushs and barack obama. They may just launch the next leader of the free world. Cecilia vega, abc news, council bluffs, iowa. The leader of the free world with rock, paper, scissors. Im curious to know if cecilia has tried the pork chop. Oh, for sure. She wouldnt have missed that opportunity. Oh, no. Dont miss our updates on facebook wnnfans. Com. Announcer this abcs world for two decades. Good morning. Im phillip mena. In for kendis gibson. And im reena ninan. Here are some of the top headlines were following this morning on world news now. Its decision day in iowa as the president ial candidates face their first test in this election season. The Iowa Caucuses. The latest polls show tight races on both sides with trump in the lead and sanders and clinton in a statistical tie. Full coverage ahead. In syria, a Suicide Attack has killed at least 50 people as peace talks may be moving forward in geneva. For the attack. In california, all three of those escaped inmates are behind bars this morning. One surrendered on friday and the other two were captured on saturday. Now, authorities trying to determine who may have helped them. Is what was that mystery fireball in the sky . Dashcam video out of ohio shows what appears to be a meteor streaking across the heavens on saturday evening. The scene as far away as the washington, d. C. Area. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, february 1st. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning, everyone. We begin this half hour with decision day in iowa. Weve waited awhile for this. We have. And the day is upon us. Thousands of iowans will caucus today in the first election test for this years president ial candidates. Candidates on both sides have shifted into high gear cramming in as many lastminute events and rallies as they possibly so on the democratic side, the newest poll from the Des Moines Register has clinton three points ahead of Bernie Sanders. Thats a statistical tie. Cecilia vega kicks off coverage with the democrats. Stick with m