regardless of his race. byard was a leader that helped shape this country and helped influence one of the country's most celebrated leaders, martin luther king. i think this story is directly inspirational to people. just being able to really facilitate the fact that it took more than just one person, more than just this one individual, martin luther king, to actually get to this march on washington, to kind of give these unsung heroes a light, i think is imperative because it influences you in a direct way where you feel like, oh, i can do it, too. king is such an icon, such a figure that's up there that i think sometimes we the people today feel like it's a height we can't reach. perhaps we can't, but we can do our bit. we can do our bit. that's what i love about the story of rustin and byard rustin specifically. >> it's an extraordinary story about an extraordinary man who

made an extraordinary contribution to move this country toward being a more perfect union. the film "rustin" is streaming now on netflix. please watch it. it's great. audra mcdonald and aml ameen, so honored to have both of you here today. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. that does it for us this morning. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. ♪♪ hello on this monday. it is 10:00 eastern. happy caucus day. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. all eyes on iowa with the official start of the 2024 election season. republican candidates all making their final appeal to iowans ahead of tonight's gop caucuses. the caucuses will be called to order at 7:00 p.m. local time, 8:00 p.m. eastern. the vote will be held by secret

ballot. our final nbc news "des moines register" poll shows donald trump maintaining his nearly 30-point lead over the rest of the field with a tight race for second place. one major and potentially dangerous obstacle stands in the way, arctic cold temperatures with life-threatening windchills. >> this is truly cold, but we're going to keep on going anywhere and everywhere. we're going to go all the way until the last hour. >> most people are predicting that it will be a smaller turnout than maybe in 2016, for example. if that's true, our folks are motivated to come out. >> you can't sit home. if you're sick as a dog, you say, darling, i got to make it. even if you vote and then pass away, it's worth it, remember. >> we have extensive coverage with correspondents across iowa all day on this crucial story.

we vaughn, you'll following the leading candidate former president donald trump in iowa. what can we expect? >> reporter: this is the first step toward donald trump winning the nomination again of the republican party and sending a clear message to his republican rivals that this party is still his. the nbc news/"des moines register" poll shows donald trump continuing to maintain a dominant lead over his gop rivals. a notable number is that 49% of his supporters said they are extremely enthusiastic about getting out there to show their support. i was down in indianola, iowa, just yesterday for his final campaign rally with negative 41 degree windchill. there were hundreds of folks that showed up to come see him in person, defiant that the weather will not get into the way. listen to two of the folks i talked to, betsy and roger. >> everybody is voting for trump, everybody.

>> you don't know anybody voting for desantis? >> no. >> nikki haley? >> no. you don't even see one sign for any of them. i might see a few desantis signs. but neal? please. >> why are trump supporters going to be the ones to show up tomorrow night? >> in my mind we saw what happened in the last election. even though there was a lot of support, he still lost. i think it's going to be huge numbers tomorrow. >> reporter: i met a number of folks, ana, like betsy, that first woman you heard from. she's a semi truck driver. notably she didn't register to vote until the 2020 election. she didn't even take part in the caucus eight years ago for donald trump, saying she got involved in politics because of him and she will do whatever it takes to get out there and show her support and caucus for him. in our new nbc news/"des moines register" poll, donald trump is winning first-time caucus-goers with 56% of support.

we're looking at a batch of folks that weren't even involved in the process when donald trump first ran against ted cruz and marco rubio in 2016. >> right. when he did not win the iowa caucuses. allie, you spoke to nikki haley yesterday. what can you tell us about her expectations and her message to iowa caucus-goers. >> we have a sense of what the trump coalition will look like. it seems that coalition is remaining strong. if you look at all the polls, it reenforces the theme that this is trump's race to lose in iowa. that's the assumption of the other candidates as well. it's fascinating when you look at the way nikki haley is trying to make a run at it. she's going to focus on the urban and the suburban areas. places where senator marco rubio did well. those are a lot of the same places that nikki haley is going to try to be making inroads,

largely college educated, higher income in those areas. part of her building that coalition requires her pulling in independents and democrats. that's certainly the strategy in new hampshire. our new "des moines register"/nbc news poll bears out that's clearly something playing out on the ground here in iowa as well. one of the questions i asked nikki haley yesterday was can you win the republican nomination with the input of independents and democrats to get you there. this is what she told me. >> republicans have lost the last seven out of eight popular votes for president. that's nothing to be proud of. we should want to win the majority of americans. that's why you need a new generational conservative leader to go in. we're bringing those people in, that's exactly what we should be doing. >> reporter: haley there making basically a big tent argument. certainly when you look at a general election, that is exactly the kind of coalition that you want to build. i look back to 2020, for example, when i was covering the biden campaign, and the way they were able to pull together, for

example, womens in the suburbs of key places like georgia and wisconsin, that ended up making all the difference in the electoral college win that joe biden was eventually able to notch. we're not in a general right now. frankly, far from it. we've got a year to go and haley still has several rivals in this race and many, many points to make up. they're not going to do that on the ground in iowa. they're aware of that. they are looking to bounce into new hampshire with some momentum. >> dasha, florida governor ron desantis has been all in on iowa. he's now polling in third. at one point he was saying he would win iowa. is he still expressing confidence? >> reporter: change in framing here, ana, now calling himself the underdog in this race. it's interesting what ali points out. the big tent argument haley is making that's exactly what desantis is criticizing her for, saying the core of her voters

aren't exactly conservatives. you can't win a republican primary, certainly can't beat former president trump when your polling numbers show you've got democrats and independents and moderates mostly voting for her. of course, desantis has mostly spent this campaign trying to chip away at trump's voters in iowa, going to some of those rural areas. at the same time using his wife casey desantis and governor reynolds to appeal to others. the question has he tried to go too far to the right and turned away some of the more moderate folks that might have voted for him that are now turning to haley and is that why we're seeing them neck and neck here right now. certainly with the frigid weather conditions, it is what's going on behind me here that they are relying on. they believe this organization that they have here, that they started back in june of last year, started organizing in these precincts all across the state, that that's what's going to potentially make the

difference between second and third place. they've got precinct captains all across the state right now trying to organize car pools, trying to get people to those caucus locations. they're phone banking, they're out door knocking. they're hoping the full force will help edge them over nikki haley. of course, we've all seen the numbers. the question is how big of a margin is it going to be for former president trump. >> so those final get out the vote efforts. that last push is under way right now. the stage is set. my thanks to all of you. i know it's going to be a long day, but an exciting day. let's bring in nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki joining us at the big board. steve, what should we be watching when it comes to these different counties? >> of course, donald trump, remember, ran in iowa in 2016, lost the state, finished second to ted cruz. obviously the big front-runner heading into this one. why did trump lose in 2016?

two very different types of counties. number one, counties with large evangelical populations. the modern rule in iowa republican caucuses, win the evangelical vote, you win the caucuses. almost two-thirds of all caucus-goers in 2016 with evangelical christians. he lost them to ted cruz, lost the state. sue county in northwest iowa, take a look at 2016 result, you don't see donald trump's name. he finished at 11%, his worst county was in deeply religious sioux county. this was a huge problem for donald trump. expand that statewide. of the 99 counties in iowa, there are 42 of them that voted mike huckabee in 2008, rick santorum in 2012 and ted cruz in 2016. those three candidates all won the evangelical vote. those three candidates all won

the caucuses. those counties were critical to ted cruz winning in 2016. the question here for trump s how many of those has he won over? how many inroads has he made with evangelical christian voters? the question for ron desantis who is trying to get into second, trying to have a surprise night tonight, he's really targeted evangelical voters. how many of those 42 huckabee/khan tropical storm/cruz counties can desantis win? i'll give you a sample here. take a look here, winnebago county 2016, trump finished third. this was a huckabee/santorum/cruz county. this was cruz's best county in the state. trump got buried here. they're small, rural, generally all over the state where desantis has to overperform if he's going to have a surprise statewide. the other type of county where donald trump struggled in 2016 was very different, more

secular, more professional class, higher income, suburban, urban. a good way to look at it, let's take story county, trump's second worst county in 2016, finished with 15%. marco rubio won this county. it has the second highest concentration of residents with college degrees of any county in the state. that's the other kind of county that trump struggled in in 2016, the urban/suburban, lots of college degrees, higher income counties, trump struggled there. those are the counties when we look at the polls that nikki haley seems to do poised to do best in. tonight you want to look for nikki haley, what is she doing in story county, polk county where des moines is, dallas county, huge suburb outside of des moines. those are the kinds of places haley needs to put up big numbers tonight.

>> of course, 8:00 eastern is when those caucuses get under way. you will be honing in on those counties as we get those realtime results after people give their secret ballot and results start coming in. thank you, steve kornacki. the people of iowa are not just voting for presidential candidates, they're always remembering be loved principal dan marberger. after ten days in the hospital he died after a gunman opened fire in a small high school. he tried to calm down the shooter and, quote, distract him, so students could flee according to his daughter. a sixth grader was also killed in the initial shooting. when we're back in just 60 seconds, it's not just in iowa, bone-chilling weather slamming millions of americans. are you feeling it? we've got your forecast. how mlk day and 2024 are colliding for president biden in one swing state today.

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because breathing should be beautiful, all day and night. it's not just in iowa. this morning a blast of arctic air creating dangerously cold temperatures across much of the u.s. almost every state in the country is getting walloped by record lows, strong winds and snow. the extreme cold raising alarms with areas not accustomed to arctic temperatures, beginning to see a strain on their power grids. around 20,000 customers without power in texas. around 100,000 people in oregon are in the dark. nbc's michelle grossman standing by with our forecast. first i want to go to nbc's jesse kirsch in michigan which

saw up to two feet of snow in the first cold spell, the coldest in years. what are people waking up to this morning? >> reporter: ana, take a guess, more snow. we're dealing with temperatures hovering around zero. with the windchill, it feels like around minus 20. brr. take a look at what the street is doing right now. even though they've plowed repeatedly, even though we've seen shovels and snowblowers out, it continues to be a blanket of whiteout here, making for dicy conditions on the roadways. seven days straight of snow here in grand rapids, michigan. there's more tough weather for the country on the way. this morning an arctic blast is sweeping the country. more than 100 million americans waking up to bitter cold. >> when it's like this and it's calm and falling down? >> it's fine, feels good. >> reporter: sgl when you feel the wind? is. >> i felt like my jaw was freezing.

it was very cold. >> reporter: in grand rapids, michigan, today is expected to be the seventh straight day of snow. the frigid punch hitting millions with bone-chilling temperatures, making the job even harder for first responders. in oregon a woman was killed in an rv fire after a tree fell on the vehicles. first responders finding some roads impassable and a fire hydrant believed to be likely froenz. much of the country could dip 20-45 degrees below average today including parts of texas where cold weather has overwhelmed the power grid in recent years. >> you lose power, you lose heat, then you risk your pipes freezing. we might have to look into installing a generator just in case. >> reporter: for those braving the cold, getting around has been a mess, hundreds of flights canceled because of the storms, stranding passengers. even amtrak even canceling some trains. driving has been treacherous, too, with icy roads and blinding snow. officials say this colorado

highway was hit by an avalanche. >> it's overall just been a terrible, terrible winter. it came out of nowhere. >> reporter: the travel troubles are not behind us yet. according to flight tracker flight aware, at u.s. airports today alone, more than 1,600 cancellations so far for the day at those airports. anna, again, it's still snowing and the winds are making it that much tougher out there right now. >> it looks like the key word today is layers. thank you, jesse kirsch. we'll let you go get warm inside. michelle, it is 40 degrees below zero in chester, montana this morning. wow. how long is this frigid cold going to be with us? >> hi there, ana. they're not alone with those temperatures. they're potentially life-threatening. you can have frostbite between five and ten minutes if you have any exposed skin out there. a little better on wednesday and

another arctic blast comes in thursday and friday. all eyes on iowa today. right now it feels like minus 29 in spencer, iowa, feeling like 35 below in mason city, 25 below zero in ford dodge. des moines feels like 27 below zero. we're talking really dangerous temperatures. we're not going to improve as we go throughout the day. jesse mentioned the winds. we're seeing winds gusting from 20-30 miles per hour. as we go through the afternoon, still looking at temperatures in the single digits. windchill minus 32 in ford dodge later this afternoon, minus 34 in waterloo and minus 33 in des moines. this will be tough not only today, tomorrow. we moderate a little on wednesday before we get the second arctic blast by thursday. this cold air is setting the stage for snow. jesse showed us that where he is. the ohio valley, we're looking at temperatures frigid in texas, they are not used to that.

as we go throughout the rest of the country here, we're looking at temperatures, minus 27 in portions of iowa, minus 4 in little rock. look at houston, 20 degrees is the wind child. ft. worth feeling like minus 6. they're not improving as we go throughout the afternoon. these temperatures are staying in place monday, tuesday, wednesday. chicago in the single digits by tuesday, in the teens by wednesday. memphis, below zero temperatures on tuesday, right at the freezing mark on wednesday. in atlanta temperatures in the 30s by tomorrow. as we go throughout the later part of the week, i mentioned that second arctic blast. really no relief in sight. chicago still in the single digits on thursday and friday. we are looking at rain, snow, also some icy mix in portions of the south central states. that's going to be tough, especially where we lose power. >> michelle grossman, so much to track there. up next on "ana cabrera reports," it's cold in iowa, but democrats are turning up the

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while republican white house hopefuls are focusing on iowa, president biden and vice president harris are heading to two important states today to mark mlk day. president biden will be in swing state pennsylvania. he's arriving right now. he's volunteering at a hunger relief organization there while the vice president heads to south carolina which holds the first sanctioned primary for democrats in a couple of weeks. she'll be speaking at an naacp event. they have some wind in their sails, announcing a hefty re-election war chest as we begin the slog toward november. nbc's aaron gilchrist joins us from philadelphia where we'll see the president. is this their version of counterprogramming today? >> reporter: ana, i think you can look at it a couple of different ways here. first the president practicing what he preaches, in his proclamation for this holiday, martin luther king day, the only congressionally designated national day of service. the president encouraged

americans to go out and perform acts of service. we'll see him here today at fill abundance, this food bank you referenced, packing healthy meals going out to people in need. some 500,000 people in this region are food insecure. that's the first part of what we'll see today. at the same time, this is philadelphia. the president has made three trips to pennsylvania this year, in just the 14 days of this year, i think elevating the importance of this area. we know he was in philadelphia seven times last year for official events and campaign events as well. so the governor, one of his advocates, one of his advisory board members in philadelphia, governor shapiro said pennsylvania is one of the swingyist of swing states. at the same time, as you referred, ana, we'll see sur gasses for the president in iowa today colding a news conference, talking about what they think president biden offers americans

in contrast to the republican candidates. >> as we mentioned, the biden campaign raised $97 million in the last quarter of 2023. they're heading into 2024 now with $117 million cash on hand. aaron, how significant is this with that long road to november ahead of us? >> reporter: it's a significant amount of money. the campaign called it a historic haul in releasing that information today. i think we can't ignore the fact that it was -- these numbers released today on a holiday, but also on the day of the iowa caucuses. there, i think, is a little counterprogramming, countermessaging. the campaign saying this amount of money, cash on hand, really proves what they say is people's recognition of what's at stake and trying to help the biden campaign beat what is likely

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gatherings, secret ballots. this year the added complication of extreme weather may be the biggest wildcard in a state where voters have to show their support in person and at a very specific time, how much will a subzero chill and snow impact decision making? nbc's priscilla thompson is in sioux center, iowa, on the move for us. priscilla, what's required of caucus-goers and what are they saying about the weather? >> reporter: ana, they're going to be in that room by 7:00 p.m. in order to caucus, and the weather is a big concern. it's why we're in the car right now. we're driving through some of these rural areas. we actually have a camera on the dashboard to give you a look at what we're talking about. you've got the road still covered with snow. in some of the city centers like des moines they've been able to get the plows out and clear those roads. here a lot of the main roads are clear. when you get into some of these

neighborhoods, places where there are homes where people are living, not all the roads are cleared. it leads to the question of whether or not people are going to be able to turn out in these weather conditions. we've been asking that of folks planning to caucus across the state. i want to play a little bit of what we're hearing and we'll talk about it on the other side. take a listen. >> i feel like trump supporters have always had this determination and this will to go out and do things that others don't want to. >> i feel like supporters for trump are very -- they're very passionate, definitely very passionate about him. they're willing to go through the conditions to see him and do stuff for him. >> reporter: are you planning to caucus? >> depends on how cold it is. the plan is tentative yes. >> i don't think it will hurt my guy. i think if it's cold, the weather, if anything, will help our guy. >> reporter: you heard it there, the weather certainly a factor. trump supporters saying they're diehard, they're going to make it out.

you heard that desantis supporter say that could actually help him. that's because he has a robust ground organization in the state already. we've seen the campaigns scrambling to arrange pickups and car pools, so folks who have the right types of vehicles can get through these road conditions. we're talking negative 37 to negative 40 windchill. it's going to be very, very dangerously cold out tonight. >> priscilla thompson, thank you for that look, and please stay safe, stay warm so you continue your coverage. each and every one of the leading candidates made a plea to caucus-goers over the weekend, to show up, despite the weather. one candidate spelled out the need for dedication can trademark, shall we say, gusto. take a listen. >> you can't sit home. if you're sick as a dog, you say darling, i got to make it. even if you vote and then pass away, it's worth it. if you're sick, you're so

sick -- darling, i don't think -- get up. get up. you get up and you vote. >> that's one way to try to motivate people. senior political editor mark murray is joining us from des moines. also with us, former ohio governor and nbc news political analyst john kasich and fer nan amman difficult, an msnbc political analyst. if you look at past margins of victory, bob dole has the record winning by over 12 points back in 1988. this latest poll this weekend shows a nearly 30-point edge going into caucus night. would anything short of that leave trump at all weak end? his campaign has said winning by 12 points will be a great night. will enthusiasm for him turn into turnout? >> reporter: ana, i think the historical perspective is

important there's been talk trump needs a lead by 25 points or 30 points or 35 points. if the polling holds, his margin of victory will end up being double if not triple that bob dole margin of victory back in 1988. it would be a humongous victory in a multicandidate field. you mentioned enthusiasm. the poll shows that donald trump supporters are the most enthusiastic followed by ron desantis and followed after by nikki haley. in that really close race for second place between desantis and haley, that enthusiasm could really end up impacting tonigh >> governor, "the hill" laid out fi theories being batted arbout the weather and how it may impact tonight's sult. theory number one, it will help trump because of the passion of his supporters. number two, it will hurt trump because his polling lead that's so will make his supporters

complacent. number three,t will hurt haley because her supporters are less hard core, less enthusienthusia. number four, it will help desantis because of his ground game. five, it will help ramaswamy because his supporters tend to be younger. which theory -- >> if kaitlyn clark, the great basketball player was playing tonight, they'd have 60,000 people. it wouldn't matter what the weather was, ana. i think the trump supporters are strong. i think they will go out. his supporters are in the rural areas. they're tough people in iowa. they know how to get out and deal with the cold. this is really tough. the other interesting thing to me is this ground game argument. here you have a situation where haley needs to finish second or wants to finish second. desantis has got the ground game, haley supporters have probably come later in the game. the question is can desantis finish in second place? if not, he's bordering on being

toast. he can't go to new hampshire. he's now talking about going to south carolina. he needs to finish second. that's the thing i'm going to keep my eye on. those are the things that strike me as the most significant thing. >> ferdnand, what do you think? will the field narrow after tonight? >> i think it will. today is the day i've been dreading, and a lot of americans i suspect as well. this is the first time donald trump goes before the voters since he did something no one else has done in american history, which iso interrupt the peaceful transfer of power, trying to overturn an election from taking place. unless the polling is catastrophically wrong, i don't think it is, not only is donald trump going to win, but he'll win by an historic margin. whether nikki haley manages to make a fight out of it in new hampshire, i think it's all over but the counting once he wins in south carolina which the polling also shows he's up significantly, this despite the fact that trump called for his

supporters to give their lives this weekend. >> still you have the candidates chasing trump really continuing to battle each other. it seems like they're more in it for second at this point. ron, ron desantis' closing argument as he tries to edge out nikki haley for second is she can't unite the party. take a listen. >> haley cannot do that. she is not getting support from conservatives. she's relying on democratic-leaning independents for her support in the primary. that's just not the way you can win and galvanize support from the party faithful. >> mark, you know the polling. it shows a lot of haley support comes from the democratic-leaning independents. more than half of haley supporters say they would back biden over trump in the general election. how should we read that in terms of her strength as a candidate? >> our polling does back up the

argument that ron desantis was making, that half of her supporters in iowa among likely republican caucus-goers are people that are either independents or cross-over democrats. they do make up the anti-trump faction, even willing to vote for president biden in a general election. as we move past iowa, new hampshire does seem to be a favorable terrain for that kind of coalition of crossover democrats and independent voters. that's why the polling between nikki haley and donald trump is much closer. once you get beyond new hampshire, talking about south carolina, the super tuesday states, you end up having a disproportionate amount of republicans, the rank and filed registered conservative republicans and not as many independents and crossover democrats. >> each state has its own unique demographics we'll be watching. governor, one that we'll be watching are the evangelicals.

"the washingn post" described a phenomenon in which some actually gravitate towards trump because of the 91 criminal charges he's facing. so sort of painting this as a david and goliath fight. what do you make of that? >> evangelicals are very split. there are some horrified by some of them that support donald trump, frankly, ana. there is great split in the faith community. frankly, a lot of us in the faith community, we shake our heads and scratch our heads to figure out what the heck is going on with these people of deep faith who have gravitated towards trump, and the nature of the evangelical community has changed when they look at it through the political lens. ana, i wish i could explain to you what the heck is going on here, but i just -- i'm just pretty stunned by it, that you have any of these folks that are behind him. now, the head evangelical in

iowa, platt, has endorsed desantis we'll see if that makes a difference when we finish caucus night. >> one dand hoping to surprise people in iowa, vivek ramaswamy. supporters wearing t-shirts that said save trump vote vivek. trump took to truth social to slam ramaswamy this weekend for deceitful campaign tricks, telling him sly. telling his supporters a vote for vivek is a vote for the other side. we haven't seen trump pay much attention. is trump right to worry ramaswamy could cut into his lead? >> ramaswamy is a fetish candidate. he represents no threat to the nomination for trump. what i think he is learning is that famous adage that

everything trump touches dies. trying to be trump-like got him truck crashed, just like ron desantis will learn tonight after he's crushed after spending 2 1/2 years being the mini me to trump. >> thank you so much, mark murray, john kasich, ferdnand am amandi. ahead i'll talk to the state's lead climatologist about how this cold prepares to past caucuses. will history be made in iowa? a car rammed into pedestrians in israel. police calling it a, quote, terrorist attack. we'll have the latest. stay right there. we'll have the latest. stay right there

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welcome back. iowa is waking up to possibly its coldest caucus day ever since the tradition began more than 50 years ago. a big question could snowy roads and windchills in the negative 20s and 30s keep typical caucus goers home. we took a look at the temperatures and the voter turnout rates from past caucuses. you can see there does seem to be a bit of a trend and even in iowa, no stranger to cold or snow. today's forecast is extreme, so what happens to turnout. the state climatologist of iowa, justin glisten is joining us now. i'm sure you've been real busy preparing for today and this week watching those models. we keep saying it may be the coldest caucus day ever, but by how much. take us through what caucus goers have braved in years past and how today stacks up. >> great question, nice to be with you from the arctic, ana.

you'd have to go back to find a negative low temperature, negative 4. and back 20 years to see a daytime high of 16 degrees. so at negative 1 for the daytime high today forecasted and negative 10 from the overnight low, this is definitely going to be the coldest caucus that we've had on record. if we look at des moines, the average temperature is 31 degrees. we'll be 32 degrees below that. so it's very cold along with the unbearable windchills. >> negative 1 as the high temperature today. that is nutso. and despite the cold, we know it was very chilly over the weekend. we're still seeing people pack into rallies. this one from the former president. you know the state well, you're a member of the community. do you expect weather to be a strong deterrent for otherwise would be caucus goers. >> you know, as governor kasich said, iowans are a robust people, we get out in these temperatures. we see these temperatures often.

when you couple that with the windchill values we're seeing along with these one-two storm punches we saw, that dropped a lot of snow across the state. my jeep did not start this morning given the cold temperatures. i had to uber into the office. a lot of iowans are going through that, if they can get to the caucus sites i believe they'll get there. >> iowa had 150,000 registered republicans. let's say 20% go to the caucuses. that's 150,000 people, which would still be less than 2016. does iowa have the infrastructure to handle a rush of people on the roads during this storm? how dangerous is it out there? >> well, i live in des moines and coming into the office there were still some of the main roads that were covered in ice. and given how flat iowa is, especially in the rural parts of the state, blowing snow can easily loft on the road and cause drifts. so, yes, the plows have been working overtime to get out, but in these hazardous conditions, some municipaliies have pulled

plows off the road overnight. definitely we're telling people to take it safe outside, have a to go bag in your car in case you do get stuck. wear as many layers as you can. really take care of yourselves and pets because this is not the type of weather you want to be stuck out in. >> listen, i think you just shared potentially life saving information, thank you so much. we do hope everybody stays safe this week moving forward. that's going to do it for us today. we'll see you back here tomorrow, same time, same place. thanks for being here. don't forget, you can also catch our show online. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york, josé diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm josé diaz-balart. it is caucus day in iowa, the first major test for the republican candidates. our brand new polling shows former president trump with