and good morning everyone. thanks for being with us. i'm shannonmulaire. iowa voteers have spoken, ted cruz is the winner of the iowa caucus, while nbc news has named the democrats. in a race so close that at three caucus sites, clinton won by an actual coin toss. after the rerelts were at a stalemate they flipped a coin to decide who to support. very interesting. on the republican side, donald trump finished second behind cruz followed closely by marco rubio and then a massive drop off for the rest of the field. of the 30 gop iowa delegates, carson three, rand paul, jeb bush and mike huckabee each won

and tracie potts joins us live with the latest. >> reporter: let's talk about these results starting with the democrats because it's not clear if anyone really knew it would be quite this tight between hillary clinton andnd bernie sanders, both sort of declaring victory before all of the votes were even counted. it was just about 20 minutes ago that we got word that nbc called it after the democratic party here in iowa declared this a historically close race. in fact, singing fight song there, clinton's camp declared her the winner earlier in the evening, before the networks did, before she even came out and spoke and a lot of people were questioning that but she came out and said thank you, iowa. we also heard from bernie sanders who called it a tie at that point. now, the big story for the

fact that he sailed to victory over donald trump who had been favored in the latest pole and the o oer big story with the republicans is marco rubio. he was the first major candidate of the evening to come out and declare victory. a third place finish but extremely close. for a while we thought he might get second place but just behind donald trump. but what does all of this m mn going into new hampshire? first all of, it means donald trump, who's doing much better in new hampshire than iowa, could see a s sit between iowa and new hampshire. we could see at least three candidates on the republican side moving on from there. bernie sanders, who has been doing very w wl in new hampshire moves forward into that state with a lot of momentum because frankly, a lot of people didn't think it would be quite this close here in iowawa it was a night that did not

and of course, the announcement of clinton's parent win happened moments ago. it was a dead heat most of the night. and it didn't stop her from giving victory speech even without the final numbers in tonight. >> so, as i stand here tonight, breathing a big sigh of relief, thank u, iowa. [ applause ] i want you to know i will keep doing what i have done my entire life. i will keep standing up for you, i will keep fighting for you. i will always work to achieve the america that i believe in where the promise of that dream that we hold out to our children and grandchildren never fads. >> and called the sanders campaign the little engine that could.

having hillary clinton feel the burn until the very last minute. >> the no president can do what has to be done alone. and that is why -- and that is why what iowa has begun tonight is a political revolution. [ applause ] a political revolutionn that says when millions of people come together, including those who have given up on the political process, they're so dismayed and so frustrated with what goes on in washington with young people who before had never been involved in the political procs, when young people and working people and seniororbegin

clearly, enough is enough. >> all right. so, how did kroouszcruz pull off the victory? he drew strong support from those who call themselves very conservative and got 32% from evangelical supporters and from those who say their values supported cruz's. and he thanked curaged conservatives for their support. >> tonight is a victory for the grass roots. tonight is a victory for curages conservatives across iowa and all across this great nation. when the washington lobbyist settled on other candidates in this race, when the media in one

win, nation wide, over 800,000 contributions poured in to ted cruz.org as curages conservatives said yes, we can. >> the precaucus polls show donald trump in the lead. so, what happened? trump campaign insiders say both trump and rubio had better round games and trump is a loser in iowa. he gave easily his shortest speech and appeared humbled. >> so, on june 16th, when we started this journey, there were 17 candidates, i was told by everybody, do not go to iowa, you could never finish even in the top 10. and i said but i have friends in iowa iowa, i have a lot of people in wa, let's give it a shot and they said don't do it and i said

and we finished second and i'm just honored. i'm really honored and i want to congratulate ted and all of the incredible candidates. >> although, even without taking the top spot, trump remains as confident as ever. >> we will go onto get the republican nomination and we will go on to easily beat hillary or bernie or wloorvhoever they throw up there. >> not everyone is as posative. check out the cover of the new york dailynews. even though he came in third, marco rubio is on a positive trajectory. the nbc news entrance poll show s some ultimately supported rubio. and speaking last night, rubio exuded confidence.

said would never happen. if am our nominee and i will be our nominee thanks to what you have done here in this great state state, when i am our nominee, we are going to unify this party and unify the conservative movement. weir arerare going to win iowa and this election for this country. >> meanwhile, there were some campaign casualties after pour showings. martin o'malley and mike huckabee both suspended their campaigns. perhaps it all wrapped just in time. bill, it sounds like they're about to get weather in that area? the blizzard is beginning and we saw blizzard warnings north of the omaha area.

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candidates and 10 republican candidates still in the running. today is groundhogpunxsutawney, pennsylvania, over 15,000 tourists gathered to see if he will see his shadow. so, will we get six more weeks of winter or an early spring? we will have to wait and see. i heard he's lost a little wait. >> on the groundhog tread mill all winter long. pp. >> it's dark and cold. >> he has his own way -- >> does this hold true? >> it's very accurate. >> really? >> oh, extremely. now a look ahead, bill cosby is his attorneys are trying get a criminal sex assault case against him thrown out. he's been charge would three

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