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Partly cloudy skies once again. The sunshine will quickly warm our temperatures into the low 30s by late morning and into the upper 30s by early afternoon. Highs today are expected to reach into the low 40s, putting us a good 10 to 15 degrees above normal. Throughout the evening clouds begin to thicken so dont get used to the calm and quiet weather. The first of two systems is making its way into the tv 9 viewing area heading into to sunday and monday. The first system will bring a rain and snow mix causing a few slick spots here and there. Travel should move along just fine both days. Tuesday...

The Black Hawk County Highway Department expects the storm will close gravel roads and some black top roads by tomorrow morning. This is s ucus night here in iowa, the night voters get together to decide who they want to win their partys president iti nommations. Caucuses start at seven tonight across the state. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders joins us live from whats beingalled the super site at Capital Square in des moines. Forrest, how are things shaping up in the state capital . Its basically caucus hq for journalists across the globe. Look at this place. The big American Networks are here, but ...

They have shattered the turnout caucuses. We dont have the official numbers just yet, but what Party Leaders tell us is in 2012 republicans had roughly 122,000 registered voters turn out, thats about 20 . They beat that earlier tonight with just9 of precincts reporting, gop leaders say they owe it to a variety of field. We owe that to the diversity of our field. Weve got a great field of candidates that have done great work trying to moat motivate our voters. Reporter guys, wehave jeff kaufman taking the stage riit now. Im going to get out of the way and let him speak and go back to you guys a...

Group. Eastman says she knew she had to get involved. 9 36 40 i knew the health and wellbeing of the community is directly tied to the health and wellbeing of the university and that they werent necessarily getting the support id like to see in des moines and so it was going to be up to everybody in the community to stand up and fight for uni. When it comes down to it the pair wants to open more doors for students. Its very difficult to grow our academic programs, for one thing, and thats really impoant in a society thats changing as rapidly as ours is. Universities have to be and our academic...

Authorities have not released their names yet. Kcrgtv9s brady smith joins us in the newsroom. Brady, what else are investigators saying about the crash . Trooper bob conrad with the iowa state patrol says while it appears ice did play a role, he says its also apparent that the driver of the minivan failed to maintain control of that vehicle. He says the van was also overloaded, and that meant too many people inside the vehicle, and not enough seat belts. Cathy cutler with the local dot District Office says they had road crews on the stretch of highway 30 where the crash happened, during and af...