Showers may mix in with the rain showers before things wind down will be falling all day on saturday, with sunday seeing very cold of the state. Highs there on sunday will be in the single digits, with low teens around the des moines area. The Iowa Caucuses are less than there on sunday will be in the single digits, with low teens des moines area. A month away, and businesses across the metro are expecting to do from hotels to restaurants. Reid chandler explains the benefit of being firstinthenation. Eric wahrman general manager, hampton inn suites 18 24 greg edwards president ceo, Greater Des Moines Convention and Visitors Bureau 44 54 Jessica Dunker president ceo, Iowa Restaurant Association 1 241 32 were pretty much going to make about double what we normally make in january, just this week alone. Eric wahrman general manager, hampton inn suites for the hampton inn and suites in Downtown Des Moines, this will be its first iowa caucus. General manager eric wahrman says the rates his rooms are going for on and around caucus night initially gave him sticker shock. It was amazing how people were just saying, okay, so quickly, so the rates just kept going higher and higher from there, pretty much. Eric wahrman general manager, hampton inn suites rates starting around four hundred dollars. Climbing to ninehundred before rooms at most Hotels Downtown completely sold out. We through that price point out to see if people would maybe stop booking, eric wahrman general manager, hampton inn suites its the same story for most hotels in the Downtown Des Moines area. And even more businesses metrowide. In a normal february weekend, noncaucus year, hotels throughout the metro would probably be running in the 6870 percent occupancy we anticipate the hotels to be running at 88 percent to 100 percent full. Greg edwards president ceo, Greater Des Moines Convention and Visitors Bureau you can save an arm and a leg if youre willing to book a hotel west of downtown. But the spoils of caucus night arent limited to downtown for the metros restaurant industry. Caucus night is the end of a really good ride for iowas restaurants. Jessica dunker president ceo, Iowa Restaurant Association the Iowa Restaurant Association says it expects full tables just about everywhere across the metro on and around caucus night. Of course the downtown restaurants will fare very well from the many visitors who are in town. But there are candidates who are from urbandale, waukee, and so we see that they spread the love across the metro in terms of restaurants. Jessica dunker president ceo, Iowa Restaurant Association just how much of an Economic Impact des moines will get from the caucuses is to estimated about a 12 million Economic Impact. We have some new tools now that we can utilize to better quantify those numbers and were going to try and get a better handle for this upcoming caucus season. Greg edwards president ceo, Greater Des Moines Convention and Visitors Bureau but one month out, its a promising forecast for the metros economy. In des moines, reid chandler, channel 13 news. At hampton inn and suites downtown, they sayhey usually ve to cut u and makelayoffs during january. But t this year. re etsing Blank Park Zoo amals make super bowl edictions. Today some otr animals made their caucus predictions at lls fargarena. The bulls from the worlds their selections this afternoon. We wont get too in depth on how the selections were made. But they included pictures of the candidates and the need for a potty break. On the republican side donald trump was the winner. There was no winner on the democratic side. Due to stage fright. Today the Clinton Family divided to conquer. Splitting their time between two states. Former president bill clinton hit the campaign trail here in iowa. He held solo events in Cedar Clinton shared some memories of his 1992 campaign here. And looked ahead to what his wife will do in the next eight years in the white house. Meanwhile Hillary Clinton was in nevada campaigning for herself. She says the republican president ial field is in such bad shape themselves. They are creating reasons to attack her. 58137i know i listen to the republicans and my goodness when theyre not blaming president obama, theyre blaming me. I think theyre going back in history, pretty soon ill be responsible for the fall of the roman empire at the rate were going. And i listen to them carefully because this is serious business. You know some of them send american troops anywhere, bomb anybody, and some of them dont get involved anywhere, pull the gangplank up. Neither of those is a workable foreign policy. We need to be smart. We need to lead with our values, we need to pursue our interests and advance our national security. Meanwhile on the republican side. Ted cruzs citizenship is under closer scrutiny. Steve handelsman has that story. Donald trump latest headline grab is giving away thousands of tickets for his rally tonight at a vermont venue that holds 1400. But trumps attack on ted cruz is a bigger headline. Trump tweeting today ted free legal advice on how to preempt the dems on citizen issue. Go to court now and seek declamatory judgment. You will win. Trump raised the issue. And its a problem for him. Whether cruz, born in canada, is eligible to be president. But a democratic congressman, alan grayson of florida is saying rep alan grayson, dflorida, Senate Candidate says will sue of cruz wins nomination cruzs mother may have given up us citizenship he will sue if cruz wins the nomination. That cruzs mother may have given up us citizenship. Democrats love to see controversy among republicans so theyre just pour gasoline on the fire hoping the entire house burns down. Cruz, in iowa today, where he is polling ahead of trump. Father. President ial candidate xx xxand he and my mom went on to start a Small Business together. So i grew up in texas. But cruz was born in canada, where his us born mom lived so long she qualified for canadian citizenship. He says hes a natural born us citizen eligible to be president . President ial candidate xx xxpeople will continue to make political noise about it, but as a legal matter it is quite straight forward. A law professor disagrees its not clear. I think the better argument is that he is qualified. But its not clear. And its not clear if the questions are cutting into cruzs support. A little drop could matter. Cruz passed trump in iowa polling in mid december. Now theyre both moving up just three to four points apart im steve handelsman, nbc news, capitol hill no candidate will be putting in more time in iowa leading up to caucus day than the man who won it in 2008, mike huckabee. Today, he completed the full grassley. Visiting all 99 counties in one republican to do so. Rick santorum completed his tour before christmas. Huckabee is planning to make 150 Campaign Stops in iowa this month alone. He has 26 events planned this week. Kentucky senator rand paul is hosting a Campaign Rally and Birthday Party tonight in des moines. Paul turns 52 today. The party is at buzzard billys, downtown. Its at eight oclock. Opening statements in the trial of a man accused of killing a clive toddler are expected to begin tomorrow. Jury selection began yesterday and continued today. Channel 13s mike dasilva is covering the trial at the polk county courthouse and he brings us up to speed on what this trial is all about 26 yearold joe lopez is accused of killing his girlfriends child. Lopez is charged with first degree murder and child endangerment resulting in death. On november 29, 2014, 20 month old ruby alvarez was brought to the hospital by her mother nisa alvarez, and nisas boyfriend joe lopez. Ruby had a Skull Fracture and broken ribs. Lopez, who had been staying with his girlfriend at a clive apartment, told police that that the however, police said the injuries did not appear to be consistent with a fall. On december 3, ruby succumbed to her injuries and died. It is alleged that lopez intentionally used unreasonable force, torture or cruelty against ruby and that his actions manifested in extreme indifference to human life. Back to you. Thanks, mike. A young girl missing from newton is back home today. And her mother is behind bars. 12year old Charlene Brown has been missing since christmas eve. She was in the care of foster parents. But visiting other family when she disappeared with her mother. Yesterday she was found safe. Her mother, misty shaver. And shavers boyfriend Kevin Carlton were arrested. Carlton is charged with child stealing. Shaver is being held on a material witness warrant. And further charges are pending. An online fundraiser has been organized for the family of a man yesterday. 30year old Justin Jorgensen of colfax died at the scene. Initial reports suggest in place at the time of the collapse. Birthday. A go fund me page is now jorgensen family. Nearly threethousand dollars hours. Weve put a link to the page on our website. Whotvdotcom. A keokuk man and his two dogs this morning. Keokuk police say 32year old ian keefe was shot three times at his home around one oclock this morning. His two dogs were also shot and injured. Witnesses reported two home and driving off. There is no word on keefes condition. Or that of his dogs. An anamosa state penitentiary guard is recovering from injuries allegedly suffered at the hands of an inmate. The department of corrections says Taylor Denney assaulted a corrections officer last night at the prison. The officer suffered injuries to treated and released at a nearby hospital. Denney is serving time for arson and escape. He will likely be facing new charges now. The Iowa Department of criminal investigation and the state medical Examiners Office are investigating the death of an inmate at the Madison County jail last night. 33year old Joshua Barker was rushed to the hospital after he was found unresponsive in the jail last night. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. The Madison CountySheriffs Office doesnt suspect foul play. But barkers death is being investigated. The university of iowa is joining a growing list of businesses and munincipalities that are banning one of the hottest new tech items. Hoverboards. The university announced this week that the hoverboards are banned from use in residence halls, apartments and dining facilities. The school says theyre too dangerous. And heres one reason why. There are widespread reports of the hoverboards suddenly bursting into flames. Usually due to overheating batteries. This weekend the biggest Powerball Jackpot in us history could be there were no winners in last nights 524Million Dollar drawing. This saturdays jackpot is expected to climb to 700Million Dollars. Or more. More than 73thousand iowans did win something in last nights drawing, just not the big one. You have until nine pm on saturday to purchase your chance for a historic jackpot. Its one of the newest School Districts in the state of iowa. Now it finally has a School Building to call its own. Coming up next. Well give you a tour of the new Marshalltown Christian school as kids start class there for the first time. And this story surely isnt a joke. Well take you to the Shirley Party in same moniker showed up to help a resident celebrate his late wifes life. A new year means a new school for some Marshall County that sound. Like nails on a chalkboard. But listen to this family talking thats a different kind of sound. The sound of the weekend. Unleash the power of dough. Give it a pop. Its always worth remembering. That icing the Cinnamon Rolls is a privilege not a right. Unleash the power of dough. Today was the start of classes for 2016 for Marshalltown Christian school. The kids are welcoming the new year in new facilities. Marshalltown Christian School was started in 2006. Now for the first time students have their own School Building. The k through 8th grade school had been divided up between two churches in town. Now all students are in one location. And the schools teachers will finally have room to operate. every week we had to pick up for evening events,at churches, even though we keep our classrooms immaculate and clean,. They can have their own space. Spread out they can have centers which we havent had before. A three year fund raising drive paid for the onepointsix Million Dollar building. Which sits on a nine acre campus. In marshalltown today there was a very interesting party for women named shirley. she went to a Shirley Party every month in south texas at grove rv park lots of shirleys that were named after Shirley Temple mostly. Ray pille of marshalltown lost his wife shirley two years ago. So today in her honor he threw a Shirley Party. Over 20 women named shirley and others showed up at the marshalltown senior center. As ray said. Many of the shirleys were named from Shirley Temple. But not all. Most of them are popular after Shirley Temple. I was born in 22 which was way before Shirley Temple, sup Shirley Ann Temple after i got married i retired from my job, and the girls at work played old Shirley Temple movies through the whole retirement party. Ray pille said that since the word got out about his Shirley Party hes heard from shirleys as far away as canada, and he expecting to hear from more. Light rain will continue as we head into the overnight to friday. Rainfall than 0. 25 in central iowa, with another 0. 10 to 0. 25 possible through friday. Lows tonight will once again stay above freezing, so widespread slick spots should not be a concern, though bridges and overpasses will require some caution. Throughout the day friday a few snow showers may mix in with the rain showers before things wind down into the weekend. Temperatures will be falling all day on saturday, w but i am going to miss votes, im running for president. But hes been missing votes for a long time. One third of all of his missed votes in 2015 were missed before he announced he was running for president. Over the last three years, marco rubio has missed more votes. Than any other senator. Washington politician marco rubio. Doesnt show up for work, but wants a promotion . Right to rise usa is responsible light rain will continue as we head into the overnight to friday. Rainfall totals through thursday afternoon were generally less than 0. 25 in central iowa, with another 0. 10 to 0. 25 possible through friday. Lows tonight will once again stay above freezing, so widespread slick spots should not be a concern, though bridges and overpasses will require some caution. Throughout the day friday a few snow showers may mix in with the rain showers before things wind down into the weekend. Temperatures will be falling all day on saturday, with sunday seeing very cold temperatures across the ne half of the state. Highs there on sunday will be in the single digits, with low teens around the des moines area. Coming up next. A new warning about a simple, popular toy coming up next. A new warning about a simple, popular toy that could easily phone ringing phone ringing you cant deal with something by ignoring it. But thats how some president ial candidates seem to be dealing with social security. Americans work hard and pay into it, so our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong. elephant noise donkey noise hey candidates the federal government is releasing a new list of suggestions on what a healthy diet looks like. The guidelines are updated every five years as dietary research advances. For the first time the government is telling you to cut down on added sugars. The new guidelines suggest limiting added sugars to tenpercent of your daily calories. Thats about 12teaspoons per day. Thats less than the amount of sugar added to a 20 ounce bottle of coke. The guidelines also suggest cutting back on salt and saturated fat. But not cholesterol. New research has shown that consuming cholesterol doesnt necessarily raise your cholesterol. Now to a warning for all parents. Especially with all those new christmas toys in the house. A swallowing magnetic balls. Haley hernandez spoke with her mother who has a warning about the potentially dangerous toys. Lexi kendall warns parents of magnets like this that she had in her home that took her toddler to the edge of death. They are so popular, theres youtube tutorials on how to shape them. Is this a circle . Is this a square . Wed play with them but we kept them out of reach and i honestly dont know how she got into them. Ava is almost 2yearsold, her mo