Good monday morning. The wait is over. Decision day in way what. The 2016 president ial nomination process kicking off today. And the candidates are spending the night crisscrossing the state hoping to win the first in the nation caucus. Reporter the new poll on the republican side showing donald trump taking the lead, back from senator ted cruz. Senator marco rubio if third. For the democrats the newest poll from the Des Moines Register has Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders neck and neck in a statistical tie. Lana zak the is live in iowa. Reporter good morning. Were so excited to be here. You know, at 7 00 central time, iowans are gather together with their neighbors in church basements, School Auditorium as they try to pick the next it sounds like you want to make a political revolution. Im a better candidate and thanks to you, ill be a better president and i want you to know that. Reporter this is it. Time is up for the three democrats and the 11 republicans running for president. Administering a caucus in we shall des moines. I think a lot of people are going to be making that decision when theyre listening to their neighbors. Reporter the last iowa poll find 5 points or less separating first and second place. With about a third of voters still waivering in their support, campaigns can influence the results up to the last second. I pray to gods will. Reporter ted cruz attended church on the final day. He said he prayed for donald trump and marco rubio who made this ae peel. If im the president of the united states, when im the president of the united states, of our time. Reporter rubio fighting hard for an upset secondplace finish or better. Get out of bed and caucus. Reporter and donald trump long the man in the lead giving melaina the mike to close the deal. He will be unbelievable. Reporter and well expect to see results from the republicans pretty soon after 7 00 local time here tonight. But for the democrats, it tends to take a little bit longer because those caucuses unfold like a game of red rover. Sway from the less viable candidates over to their side. Red rover, i like that one. After the final push last night, what do the candidates all have planned for today. Usually on election days low. Iowa, they tend to come out a little bit more than other places. But still we see little events. Most of the events are from the position. Hillary clinton has one event this evening. Jeb bush is already heading to afternoon. Oh, a big day for everyone. Lana zak live in des moines. Ted cruz is coming under fire for sending mailers to iowa voters designed to look like official documents that accused them of a voting violation. The envelopes are labeled election alert. The document inside includes the voters voting score, even information about their neighbors. Iowa secretary of the state is calling the mailer deceptive. Cruz is refusing to apologize for what some are calling voter intimidation. Stay with abc news later this morning, george and robin will be live from iowa on good morning america. And david muir will report from des moines on world news tonight. Updates throughout the night. The next Republican Debate right here on abc, folks, this saturday after iowa and just days before the New Hampshire primaries, moderated by david muir and coanchor Martha Raddatz of this week. Iowa is bracing for a major snowmakers expected to ramp up just after tonights polls. Flagstaff, arizona, could see as much as 15 inches of snow. Yes, that is lightning you see there. Strong winds could trigger whiteout conditions. In southern, high winds gusting up 40 miles per hour, uprooting trees. One of the falling trees killed a driver in san diego. The latest radar shows those powerful storms now headed northeast. Impacting the central rookies and central plains, eventually taking aim at the great plains all three of those escaped inmates are back behind bars in southern california. Now, authorities are trying to determine how the trio pulled off such a brazen escape. Two others were captured saturday three miles north in san francisco. Thanks to an alert citizen who tipped off police. Police say a jailhouse english teacher supplied the inmates with Google Images that helped their escape. Isis has claimed responsibility for triple bombings that have killed at least 15 near a shrine in syria. More than a hundred others were wounded. Peace talks have yet to get under way. Some movement. A u. N. Mediator has met for the the first time with rebels. The group could declare the zika Virus Outbreak a Global Health emergency. Of serious birth defects mainly in south america. Two nfl conference champions have arrived in california ahead of the big game. First to land in san jose the Denver Broncos led by quarterback peyton manning. And an hour later the Carolina Panthers arriveded head up by of course cam newton. None of the players spoke to reporters. Theyre saving it all for the muchanticipated media day tonight. Still ahead, what wall street could be telling us about the president to shl election. And under arrest, two Virginia Tech students accused in the death of 13yearold girl. This morning, investigators laying out the details in this bizarre case. Plus, caught on camera, drummer getting into a song when he suddenly falls through a these are frightening moments on a British Airways flight from london to chicago. Two hours into the flight the boeing 747 head to dump fuel and returned to Heathrow Airport after two of the five set of landing gear wheels broke in flight. But the pilot managed to land the jet safely. Well a new month of trading begins today following the worst january in seven years. Month. 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Again, not a lot of rain but chance for it. As im watching what is developing late this evening, some of this we see offshore could develop into some fog, so again well keep a close eye on that overnight and early tomorrow morning. But at this time our visibility is good, the temperatures, so warm for this time of year, 66 degrees in tampa. 63 brandon. 61 bartow. 57 inverness. Thats one of the cooler spots. We should be starting in the our record 85 degrees. Were not going to be near records the next couple of days but certainly well above average for this time of year. Starting the day tomorrow in the low 60s and ending at 8 odegrees. Very low chances for rain today, tomorrow and wednesday. The next cold front approaches thursday giving us a good round of showers and a few isolated storms possible as well. It will all end very early on friday morning. We clear out and dry out for the weekend. The humidity comes down as well so well be comfortably cool with the highs in the mid to upper 60s. Morning lows on target with average or at least really close to it. Again those low chances for rain may be a sprinkle or brief shower but nothing that should be problematic