made their picks for president. with local v ves tallied, it's now onto new hampshire. good tuesday morning! its 430 on february 2nd. here is a live look at . we'll get to the latest on the storm in moment - first, a quick look at caucus results as we're still waiting on 1 precinct out of polk county. it's still too close to call between hillary clinton and bernie sanders. but ted cruz will take the victory in iowa for the republicans. with now 99 percent reporting, clinton is ahead at 49 point 9 percent but sanders is just point 3 behind her at 49 point 6. 2-point-28 delegates are at stake in that outstanding precinct. for the republicans, ted cruz won with 27.7 percent of the votes. donald trump is in second with 24.3 percent. and marco rubio makes a strong third place finish with 23.1 percent. now to the storm headed our way we bring in meteorologist kaj o'mara has your first alert forecasas whwh's the timing looking like

our storm system is lifting north on track and on schedule today. once again, difficulty remains as to how much snow each individual area will rececve...pleas e refer t t our facebook papa and newscast for the latest graphics. the general theme is the heaviest snow falling northwest with the lightest amounts falling southeast. wind will be an issue at two different times today, with the first being this morning. as the winin calms f f a short time later this afternoon, a round of fog is possible across the area this evening. more snow should arrive later this evening into the overnight along with strong wind. this may make for a hazardous wednesday morning commute as well. in the wake of this system, it does get colder, but moderation back well into the s is not far oof. thanks kaj. now we go to tv-9's brea love

look at road preparations in the city. thanks justin. i am standing outside of the garage e ere snow plows ininedar rapids will be getting going later this morning. nothing is falling right now, but the city is preparing for a mixed bag of precipitation. some equipment has s lready hit the e reets laying down base materials to fight freezing roads. crews say the most important thing about this storm is the timing. one of the biggest concerns is the expected snow during the morning commute today. cedar rapaps' streets superintendent s ss his plan is to use a lot of salt on the roadways to prevent any snow from bonding and icing on the pavement. " 7:56:06 timing on an event like this where most of the snow comes throughout the day hours, it makes it a little easier on our crews. we have more people here on dayshifts and we don't have to hold people over as much. the downside is we are dealing with a lot of traffic and people

the city says, so far, this year crews have responded to 16 events. some have been smaller and only two were all-plow events. the strtrts superintenden t a ao says the city has used less than half of the amount of salt they use in a typical winter. live in cedar rapids, brea love, kcrg-tv9 news. the weather may pose a problem for candndates tryiyi to get to new hampshire today. that's their next stop, with primaries one week from today. on the democratic side, it is a virtual tie. with one precinct in polk county yet to report, illary clinton is s ead at 49 point 9 percent. bernie sanders is less than a point behind at 49-point 6. texas senator ted cruz heads to new hampshire with a win. he won 27-point-7 percent of the vote. donald trump won second with 24-point-3 percent. marco rubio was a close ird with 23-point-1 percent. rubio spoke to supporters in des moines last night

"tonight, here in iowa, the sent a very clear message. after seven years of barack obama we are not waiting any longer to take our country back." " in polls before the caucuses, rubio was in third but much further behind trump and cruz. moines last night. " "the state of iowa has spoken. iowa has sent notice, that the republican nominee and the next president of the united states will not be chosen by the memea -- " donald trump also made a speech that despite a 2nd place finish, he says he will go on to win the nomination. mike huckabee has suspended his campaign after finishing 9th. over, the presidential candidates are all moving on to new hampshire. while iowa is important as the first state to caucus, the schedule will pick

the next state to vote is new hampshire on the 9th. voters from m th parties will participate. after this, the different primaries and caucuses start to split. the democrats caucus in nevada on the 20th. on the same day the republicans have a primary vote in south carolina. then the republicans will have their caucuses in nevada on the 23rd. on february 27th, the democrats will hold their primary in south carolina. all leading up o march 1 -- super tuesday - 14 republican and 11 democratic primaries or caucuses... including the more populated states of georgia, massachusett s, virginia and texas. both political parties are reporting some of the highest caucus turnouts ever for last ninit. kcrg-tv9's forrest saunders is live in des moines. forrest, it was a busy night at the precincts. huge. there were reports that some had a hard time fitting everyone in the doors. four out

the republicans are the big story here. let's talk numbers. more than 180-thousand registered republicans voted last night. that's the new benchmark. for perspective, in 2012 republicans had roughly 122 thousand registered voters turn out. that's was about 20 percent. . gop leaders say ey attribibe the boom to the diversity ofofhe candidates this cycle. but, also the commitment the candidates had for iowa. ""i think it's been one of the most incredible campaigns that iowa has ever seen. it's been gogong on for a year. it's been going on year. it's been really enthusiastic among the candidates, among the people here. they've come to many events here. they've traveled to all 99 counties." " dem party leaders said, at last check, more than 140-thousand had turned out. even once the final numbers are official, the party won't likely break their huge turnout set in 2008, about 240-thousand registered voters. that's nearly 40 percent. live

kcrg-tv9 news. high turnout was the story in much of eastern iowa as well. tv-9's iowa city bureau chchf mark carlson tells us about the enthusiastic voters at the university of iowa fieldhouse. "more than double than what was expected turnout out to this caucus at the ui fieldhouse and it was very loud, a stadium like atmosphere!"c hanting nats bernie sanders was the clear favorite inside the fieldhouse monday night. hundreds of young people lined up to caucus for the 74-year-old. the line stretching way out the door, while people played basketball while waiting to caucus. "right when actually got up to the front the old guy was like, yeah can we get a few more cards, we've e t like 300 more peopop coming in and i'm just like. i'm going to get a basketball, it's going to take a little while."about 500 people turned out to the campus caucus. organizers originally said they expected about 200. participants say it shows

attention to ever to politics. "i think our generation is a lot more invnvved than older people think that we are, we're a lot more opinionated, at least i am." "my roommates actually a big bernie sanders fan, so we would spend, since we met each other, talking politics and which candidates better and exchanging ideas, it's really fun." in the end the results favored sanders, at llst at this caucus. 4 4 people voted sanders, while 92 went with clinton. in iowa city, mark carlson, kcrg tv nine news. iowa democrats tried something different f f those who have trouble gettininto a caucus site. they brought to them with some first-ever satellite caucus locations. tv-9's dave franzman takes us to one of those sites. as far as efficiency goes, it was hard d beat the satellite voting set up at the oaknoll retirement community. the event started right on time at seven...and it was all over 50 minutes later. but one organinir says the

was simply getting the caucus to come to the people. " i think it was a wonderful thing the party is trying to do reaching out to communities having trouble getting to caucus night " the satellite idea was aimed at accommodatin g those with physical limitations--like the residents at this large iowa city retirement communitit 125 out of 170 democrats pre registered to take part in a caucus here. many of the residents have mobility issues using walkers or wheelchairs. so an opportunity to caucus literally without leaving home was a hit. "i thought for the first time in my adulullife i wouldn't have gone t t a caucus i might as well havevehrown in the towell so when we foiund out they were entertaining applications i thought oh that's great, i'll do it. " "there's too many that have troiuble walking any distance even those that have more ability than wheel chair people do" iowa democrats selected four cations statewide to host satellite caucus events. the greatest number of participants, by far, came to the oaknoll event. democrat hillary clinton got the largest number of votes here,

would have had trouble going to a regular caucus sisi were the real winnter. dave franzman kcrg tv9 news. in addition to satellite caucus sites, iowa democrats also hosted a tele-caucus for iowans living outside the state. an estimated 90 people took part in that conference- call caucus.s. texas senator ted cruz is hoping to ride the support out east. but for the democrats, the race is practically too close to call. our storm system is lifting north on track and difficulty remains as to how much snow each will receive...pleas e refer to our faceboooopage and newscast for the latest

is the heaviest snow falling northwest with the lightest amounts falling southeast. wind will be an issue at two different t tes today, with the first being this morning. as the wind calms for a short time later this afternoon, a round of fog is possible across the area this evening. more snow should arrive later this evening into the overnight along with strong wind. this may make for a hazardous wednesday morning commute as well. in the wake of this syyem, it does get colder, but moderation back well into the 30s is not far off. but right now, here's a look at today's opening farm markets. good morning! it's ---.

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too close to call in iowa-a virtual tie between clinton. while ted cruz wins the republican vote, putting with marco rubio hot on his heels. abc's lana zak is here in iowa - sanders it lolos like we are in a virtual tie.

sanders and hillary clinton in iowa, a race too close to call? in some precincts a coin toss broke the delegatat tie- nats coin toss the clinton campaign saying this morning, they believe they won. but clintodidn't officially declare victory in her speech. instead she took on the republicans- hilllly clinton: i will nono-- i will not let their decisiveness, their efforts to rip away the progress that we've made be successful. so as i stand here tonight, breathing a big sigh of relief, thank you, iowa by contrast, it was a decisive win for ted cruz- ted cruz iowa had made clear to america and the world, morning has come. and trump was gracious in his second-place finish- trump i absolutely love the people of iowa. and just one-point behind trump?marco rubio riding a wave of support for months they told us because we o oer too much optimism in a time of anger, we had no chance. tag: looking forward to

now for a quick check on your weather with meteorologist kaj o'mara. stay with tv9. it's . now, one last look at this

our storm system is lifting north on track and on scheule today. once again, difficulty $& remains as to how much snow each individual area will receive...pleas e refer to

for thhlatest graphics. the general theme is the heaviest snow falling northwest with the lightest amounts falling southeast. wind will be an issue at two different times today, with the first being this morning. as the wind calms for a short time later this afternoon, a round of fog is possible across the area this evening. more snow ssould arrive later this evening into the overnight along with strong wind. this may make for a hazardous wednesday morning commute as well. in the wake of this system, it does get colder, but moderation back well into the 30s is not far off. abc's kendis gibson and reena ninan have this morning's america's money. hey, there. good morning. topping "america's money" -- the world's new most valuable company. it google's parent company called alphabet. when the markets open this morning, it will be worth $544 billion roughly, about $6 billion more than apple, which has been on top since 2011. and free snacks, they're coming back to american airlines.

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source, this is kcrg-tv9 news early morning news. eastern iowa is preparing for a winter storm. looking at our radar, most of the activity is still to our west, but is heading toward eastern iowa. cedar rapids crews have been

roads already. they are