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in second place? it would be evangelical voters in the northwest here. the darker the county, the higher percentage of evangelical voters. a different map to nikki haley. she wants to appeal to independents and moderates. 99 counties in iowa. joe biden won six of them. these are the counties where nikki haley might have the most fertile ground. they include poke county, and dorrie county where iowa state university is and other college towns here. this is what to look for, wolf, as the night goes on. >> we'll be looking together with you. you'll be busy. still to come, following all of the final pitches by republican candidates in this first big event of the republican race for the white house. ron desantis' showing in iowa potentially could be a turning point in this campaign. his deputy campaign manager will join us. that's coming up next. it's not just iowa.
This week's Close Up includes a sit-down with new DMPS Superintendent Ian Roberts, more on Polk County's new effort to get gun owners to lock up their firearms and the latest on Iowa schools' efforts to comply with new book restrictions.
for the holidays. the stand in williamson county, texas, caught fire on monday, igniting the fireworks. firefighters brought the blaze under control. no one was injured. the cause of that was under investigation. it would have been better at night. firefighters in poke county, going beyond the call of duty, saving christmas presents after responding to a fire over the weekend. crews went in to retrieve the gifts and the christmas tree. all of the gifts and the tree were undamaged. a 6-year-old, er cancer patient bringing gifts to a hospital where she underwent treatment. poppy was diagnosed with leukemia around christmas last year.
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emotional scene this week as cameras circles the family, as they had to break apart and the younger daughter has to go back or is now back in mexico with the marine veteran father is still in poke county along with the eldest daughter. >> so why did they do that? why did they split up the two sisters? the one daughter going back to mexico with mom and then the older staying with the father? >> the older one is still in high school and is able to take care of herself after school. timo, the marine veteran husband works in the construction industry. so he's away for most of the day. it was a real practical matter that the younger daughter still being in grade school really needed to have an active parent around during the day. and so she ended up going back with alexandra to mexico to a country she knows neither the language flunltently or the cule well inform. it's going to be a tough situation for them. >> yeah, and, of course, i want to give the viewers the context
happening at june. poke county is doing it abdomen i think that's the case across the country. we will have to train professionals. what's better than having veterans at our school. give them a purpose and protect our teachers and students. i'm very happy about a project like that. >> i know you have gone onto sue the deputy sheriff that stayed outside the high school as your daughter and others were getting shot. where does that stand now? >> we are still doing it. i'm not sure if you saw on the news he just got his pension of $8,700 per month. >> $8,700 a month? >> yes, you look at teachers that are way underpaid. they are back at school and have no workerman comp.
three armed guards that would have been at your daughter's high school at the time of that shooting. again, we know of the armed gun that was there he went onto sue. there is no guarantee that he or she will do the job. >> another part of that bill is training for armed guards in a school. there was of $67 million in that bill. poke county the school board voted 7-0 in training personnel. not teachers. the top of the list is veterans and retired law enforcement. i'm excited about it. i've been working with poke county. the first cadets will be
heartland. we have seats that we can win in great lake states. we have seats we can win in the south, in florida. we've got to go to those communities and make the case. we can't be hollowed up in cocktail parties talking to consultants in northern california or new york city. it's just not going to work. that's part of the reason why we are where we are right now. >> speaking of the heartland, your tweeting -- you tweeted a picture of yourself flipping steaks in poke county with the democrats at the steak fry. that's in iowa. anything you want to say about your trips to iowa, congressman? >> nothing really. but i will say this, that there are two or three seats that we can pick up in iowa. and iowa is a state like ohio, like other states that we've got to go to. we have very similar things that happen in iowa. trump had the biggest victory since i think eisenhower. >> uh-huh. >> won iowa. we lost ohio by almost the same
votes. we're trying to find out exactly which county, which big county came in here because we saw that lead for hillary clinton. one thing is poke county here, sort of in the middle of the state. you can see trump now with a narrow -- hang on. there you go, trump right now, that's a little better than mitt romney did four years ago, but really the story looking at these returns in florida, the story seems to be almost a rerun of the 2012 election. a lot of these counties look an awful lot like they did in obama versus romney. >> steve, can we go back to the statewide in florida just a second. heading into today, we knew that three-quarters of the 2012 vote basically had already been cast in terms of the early vote. so looking to fill in from today's election day voters is going to be somewhere in the order of a quarter of the vote if they vote in the same proportion as they did in 2012. with 88% of the vote that we've got in and we've got trump leading by 1 percentage point.
two consenting adults. they would see the pump in the parking lot. >> sheriff's office, hands up. >> they would see how he takes advantage of her, how he has complete control of her life. she's property. she's property to be bartered with, to be sold. >> to begin the operation, sheriff's investigators set up in a polk county hotel. undercover male agents browse internet sites like back page for sex ads. >> is that you in the pictures. >> and invite women for hire up to the hotel for a date. >> can you come now. >> if you want bear back or something like that it's going to be extra. >> at the same time, female uncovers post fake sex ads on line to lure johns into the sting. >> 70 is yearly for under 30 minutes. >> this undercover has a john on the hookest. >> he's at the door. >> he arrives. the man enters the room in eager anticipation of a good time unaware that sheriff's investigators are watching his every move.