it's tuesday, february second and coming up on "early today, after spending hours in a dead heat with bernie sanders, hillary clinlt ton is named the parent winner in the iowa caucus caucuses. "early today" starts right now. and good orng everyone. thanks for being with us. i'm shannon mulaire. iowa voteers have spoken, ted cruz is the winner of the iowa caucus, while nbc news has named hillary clinton the winner of

in a race so close that at three caucus sites, clinton won by an actual coin toss. after the results were at a smalemate they flipped a coin to decide who to support. very interesting. on the republican side, donald trump finished second behind cruz followed clos y 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 one. 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

hillary clinton and 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 eclared 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 republicans is ted cruz and the fact that he sailed to victory over donald trump who had been favored in the latest pole and the other big story with the republicans is marco rubio. he was the first major candidate ofal the evening to come out and

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 mean going into new hampshire? first all of, it means donald trump, who's doing much better in m new hampshire than iowa, could see a split 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 doamg very well in new hampshire moves forward into t m state with a lot of momentum because frankly, a lot of people didn't think it would be quite this close here in iowa. >> it was a night that did not disappoint, that's for sure. tracie, thank you. anigd of course, the a ouncement of clinton's parent win happened moments ago. it was a dead heat throughout most of the night.

giving a victory speech even without the final numbers i tonight. >> so, as i stand here tonight, breathing a big sigh of relief, thank you, 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 ere 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. the vermont senator stunned by having hillary clinton feel the burn00ntil the very last minute. >> the no president can do what has to be done alone.

whyhat iowa has begun tonight is a politic revolution. [ applause ] a political revolution that says when millions ofypeoplrycome ntointher, including hose 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 proces when young people and working people d seniors begin to stand up and say loudly and clearly, enough is enough. >> all right. so, how did kroousz cruz pull ff the victory? he drew strong support from

copservative and got 32% from evangelical supporters and from those who say their values supported cruz's. anm d he thanked curaged conservatives for their support. >> tonight is victory for the grass roots. night is akvictory for curages conservatives across iowa and all across this great nation. when the washington lobbyisv settled on other candidates in this race, when the media in one voice said a conservative cannot 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.

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 asstarted 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 iowa, let's give it a shot and they said don't do it and i said i ihave to do it. d we finished second and i'm just honored. i'm really honored and i want to congratulate ted and all of the incredible candidates. >> althou, even without taking

confident as ever. >> we will go onto get the republican nomination and we will go on to easily beat hinllary or bernie or wloorv hoever they throw up there. >>li not everyone is as posative. check out the cover of the new york daily news. even though he came in third, marco rubio is on a positive trajectory. the nbc news entrance poll show s some ultimately suppoed rubio. an wsyoaking last night, rubio exuded confidence. >> so, this is the moment they said would never happen. i am our nominee and i will be our nominee thanks to what you have done here in this great state

are going to unify this party and unify the conservative movement. weir are r are going to win iowa and iselection 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 soundike they're abget t to get weather in that area? the blizzard is beginning an yd we saw blizzard warnings north of the omaha area. d winter storm warnings continue from denver and eventuallyilater er later today, all across the state of wisconsin. it's on mt. wichita, kansas and now we're really seeing it exploding and watch the blue

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