we keep that slight risk all the way back to rapid city includes sioux falls and des moines. flood watch also because there's going to be a lot of rain with the storms, places that have already been inundated chicago included in a flash flood watch now. >> that part of the country

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field offices in iowa plus her headquarters in des moines.rganizing staff of 27 who are going out there hard. she had a big coup yesterday, an obama backer one of our leading democratic activists publicly supported her. so i mean, she's got all the signs of momentum. bernie sanders, who's her top challenger is still way down at the bottom. he tripled his support in our last poll but he's just nowhere near her. >> what did you call it? >> sandersmentum. you look at an iowan has a better opportunity to win the powerball than they do to get one of these golden ticket invites to the events hillary clinton is staging around the state. for those iowa democrats i talked to they're waiting by the phone on a saturday night by the phone for that call. you saw the republicans yesterday, the energy the enthusiasm we had in 2014 has carried over. i opened my door this morning and expected to see a candidate there with flowers and chocolates and tickets to the theater. i mean we're being courted right and left and i think iowa democrats are feeling a littl

that's the ames des moines back down to st. joseph.understorms, we'll get heavy rain. yellow one inch orange two inches. there's heavy rain to be found. how about the heat today? the heat index by the time we goat 4:00 p.m. today, it will feet mid-90s new york city to d.c. this i-95 coreridor, this is the the hottest day so far. >> my concern is humidity. is it humid today and tomorrow? >> straightener if that works. >> no way bill karinss. >>> police body cameras show things like this. we'll show you the officer that arrived on scene to find a baby unable to breathe. so this beauty can be yours with a down payment and 10% financing. oh larry, lawrence. thanks to the tools and help at experian.com i know i have a 798 fico score. ♪ oh. that's the sound of my interest rate going down. according to this score alert, my fico score just went up to 816. 816. 816! 816! fico scores are used in 90% of credit decisions. so get your credit swagger on. go to experian.com become a member of experian credit tracker, and take charge of your score. mm

>> nbc's kristen welker in des moines tonight. thanks so much. >>> those on the republican side are gearing up for a big announcement of their own after exploring a presidential run for months, jeb bush will finally make it official, kicking off his campaign at an event tomorrow afternoon. nbc's kelly o'donnell has a preview. >> reporter: the long expected launch of this bush campaign. >> i can't read the future. but i want to be authentic and genuine. i'm going to be who i am. >> reporter: and that means defining job ellis bush, jeb, as more than the son or brother of a president. >> well, jeb, jeb is different than george. and jeb is who he is. my life story is different. >> reporter: today, his campaign rolled out a glossy video. the official logo, minus the family name. >> america's best days are in front of us. >> reporter: their goal? portray jeb bush as a doer, with a record as governor by relying on the words of floridians. >> i think governor bush changed a lot of lives in florida. >> look at all this. >> reporter: the wo

log on to learn more. >>> we're back live from the iowa judicial building in des moines.ley rides and roasting biggs, iowa holds the first presidential contest, the special status that allows this state's voters to deliver big surprises over the years. joining me to talk about that and much more is the national political reporter matt strong who is a former chairman of the iowa republican party, and jennifer jacobs a political reporter for the "des moines register." the wind picked up here. let's talk about how many people we are talking about. ten declared republican candidates so far, and that doesn't include the actual governors, most of the governors, i should say, and they are probably going to declare in the next couple months and that will bring it to 15 total. let me start with you, matt. you have been the republican chair here and you have been through a caucus in the past and how does somebody break through in a field like this when there is so many competitors? >> i think we saw part of the secret to the success yesterday with joni ernst. if you look at the cro

ash-har quraishi has more for campaign trail in des moines. >> for presidential candidates the run up to the iowa caucus is all about momentum. trying to build it when you're behind, trying to maintain it when you're ahead. >> the grotesque level of wealth and income level in our country. >> bernie sarnth in sanders has in the last week drawn large crowds in iowa. >> governor how does it feel to be bake in iowa? >> it's great to be back in iowa. everyone wants to meet the candidate two or three times before making up their mind and that's good. >> governor o'malley is trying to get interest, he is making rounds in the hawkeye state. >> i'm running for president of the united states. >> reporter: this meet and growth in iowa city is o'malley's third of the day. >> the candidate has to be willing to have hundreds and hundreds of the meetings like the ones here and more that will follow in the days ahead. >> reporter: so far four democrats senator sanders -- >> where billionaires are literally i able to buy elections. let's not kid ourselves. >> three have them have been pressing the fle

amy: that is hillary clinton speaking on sunday in des moines. we're joined by economist jeffrey sachs as well. can you explain, although she says it has to include all of these things and she has to read it, are people actually able to read the deal that is been proposed, jeffrey sachs? and doesn't satisfy you what hillary clinton has said considering your anti-tpp position? >> well, you can read parts of it on wikileaks, but you can't read the real current documents, except if wikileaks gets its hands on them. this is extraordinaire lace secretive. for that reason alone, in my view, the trade promotion should have been defeated as it has at least provisionally been. why are we agreeing to fast-track something that the american people have not seen and debated? and when president obama said it is not true, it's not secret, he is not really leveling because he says, well, dammartin people will get to review it. that is only after it is complete and subject only to an up or down vote fast-track were to prevail. the secrecy is re-worrisome because

june 30, 2009 is just winding down for an iowa bridge construction crew along the des moines river when crane operator joe lowe notices something terribly wrong. >> i seen the boat drift down and he started it up and he was trying to wrap with an anchor or rope or something. then i heard him holler at his wife, put her life jacket on and he didn't have one on. >> there's nothing anyone nearby can do to stop the boat carrying a husband and wife from plummeting over the center street dam. the man is carried downstream, but the woman is caught in the turbulence or boil of the falls, rushing over the lowhead dam. a swift water rescue team is called in and captured by local nbc cameras. they know time is not on their side for anyone trapped in the wash of a lowhead dam. the short falls create a powerful undertow too strong for the woman to swim out of. pushing against the strong current, rescuers get as close as they can, throwing her a line. but the celebration is premature according to des moines police sergeant, joe gonzalez. >> evidently, the person didn't have enough strength to hold on

but fargo, north dakota is a refugee resettlement community, des moines lincoln is one. they have good social services and available employment. so that is why one reason places like that are picked. on the other hand the federal government does nothing to help refugees beyond meeting them at an airport, usually in san francisco or jkf in new york and hand them a ticket to the town they have been assigned to go. people have no control over what city they are sent to. they don't even know necessarily until they open the envelope. usually families are kept together, friends of a lifetime people that escaped together and have been friends since the beginning of their lives are separated never to see each other. if they are handed a ticket to buffalo, new york they go to buffalo. if they are handed a ticket to lincoln, nebraska that is where they come. so people land where they are sent. not only do they get no help from the federal government. but they actually have to pay the money for the plane ticket back. as soon as they get a job and make money the wages are gar garnis

prescott and tucson, arizona and des moines iowa. looks at cost of living and crime rate and walkable. what cities should you avoid? new york city ranked last. you can leave here and go to des moines. >> sign me up. >>> "early start" continues right now. man hunt. dangerous men on the run. two convicted killers pull off a stunning escape from a maximum facility prison. >>> and president obama is with g-7 world leaders in germany today hoping to get europe behind him on standing up to russian anhsian aggression. >>> and outrage over the pool party chaotic. some are demanding action against the police officer for what they consider excessive force. we will have the latest. >> good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. it is monday june 8th. an urgent manhunt with state and local law enforcement trying to pick up the trail of two dangerous men. two convicted killers who escaped from a maximum security prison. the way they did it is stunning. richard matt and david sweat used power tools to crack th

>> john roberts from des moines, thank you. the u.s. has big plans for former gitmo detainees known as the taliban five. fox news has learned there was a government attempt to recruit them for intelligence purposes one being described as a total failure. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has the details of what went wrong. >> reporter: fox news has learned there was an effort to recruit members of the taliban 5 as sets to gntelligence and to influence their future actions once restrictions were lifted. the men who were swapped for sergeant beau bergdahl in may of 2013 were offered to help the obama's administration to prevent them from returning to terrorism. but the effort was described as a total failure. the white house today offered very little. >> as a general matter this is an intelligence matter i won't be able to discuss from here. >> they were held at the guantanamo bay detention camps for five years where these military reviews concluded they were bad actors and had, quote, high intelligence value. for those

[applause] i was in des moines iowa a week ago talking to some people at a farmers market and what they were doing, they were collecting food that was not sold at the farmers market and rating it to an emergency food shelf. what they said in des moines is that 90% of the people who went to the emergency food shelves were people who were working full-time. one would think that if somebody worked full-time, you would earn enough to be able to feed your family. [applause] let me state as clearly as i can , that the current federal minimum wage of seven dollars and $.25 -- of $7.25 per hour is a starvation wage and must be raised to a living wage. [applause] the city of los angeles did exactly the right thing. they raised the minimum wage over a period of a couple years. that is what we should be doing nationally. when we talk about work and wages, we have to and the disgrace of women making $.78 on the dollar compared to men. [applause] we need to pay equity for women workers in this country. equal pay for equal work. a couple weeks ago i announced a series of proposals that were a lot of

one from the des moines trade deal. i want to press with the polling. the washington post abc polling and cnn polling talked to everybody. but we talked specifically with democratic voters and 31% of them, a third of them, say she has a trust issue. >> yeah that is a big issue for her. it is not just trust but it is likeability as well. i think she is facing two giant hurdles. when one do you think is the biggest issue to overcome? is it trust? people know she is a shady lady by now. >> i think people know who she is and people distrust her. the question is does it matter? do voters sit and say all paul tig -- politicians are like that and let's pick the best of the litter. have they given up on politicians in general? the numbers in polling are horrible. so i am wondering if the key is they don't trust any politician. >> we don't like her. we are going to bernie sanders. >> i want to ask her about her speech where she seemed to channel elizabeth warren and one she brought up i thought wow, was wealth. >> of course that language popped out she said this

>> john roberts from des moines, thank you. the u.s. has big plans for former gitmo detainees known as the taliban five. fox news has learned there was a government attempt to recruit them for intelligence purposes one being described as a total failure. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has the details of what went wrong. >> reporter: fox news has learned there was an effort to recruit members of the taliban 5 as sets to gather intelligence and to influence their future actions once restrictions were lifted. the men who were swapped for sergeant beau bergdahl in may of 2013 were offered to help the obama's administration to prevent them from returning to terrorism. but the effort was described as a total failure. the white house today offered very little. >> as a general matter this is an intelligence matter i won't be able to discuss from here. >> they were held at the guantanamo bay detention camps for five years where these military reviews concluded they were bad actors and had, quote, high intelligence value. for

why go travel to des moines and go to the laugh track to get heckled by people there.mily: at least he still has a sense of humor. for more on his comments, kevin scott. i will start with you. he did not get specific about what kind of ceo he wants, but he did give some clues. >> he is a top interview particularly right now. a couple of things jumped out at me. he sings the praise of jack dorsey. he says nobody understands the product better. clearly he loves jack. they have a strong relationship. i asked him to talk about anthony noto and the head of sales. the story he told about adam staying up all night shows a much faith he has indicative atoms. -- faith he has in dick adams. emily: is a lot of talk to their not going to do a full search. >> i think they are in a strong position. dick said the company has the blessing of being loved by so many people. they have a great team. emily: it has also been bombarded by analysts and investors who are not happy. >> i think they have a very big business already. they just need to focus on the basics of what are making that b

." >>> jeb jabbed with jimmy, the donald debuted in des moines but as hillary clinton swings into south carolina where the clintons have a rocky history, new poll shows some swing state voters say they just don't trust her. >>> the national lead. police say there's no hard evidence that two fugitives are far gone yesterday. the search for richard matt and david sweat is expanding nationally and beyond. we'll talk to the district attorney about the latest leads in the investigation. >>> also in national the white woman who led an naacp chapter and who claimed to be black now has something else to worry about. minutes around the mayor charged her with ethics violations. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." the politics lead. it is 94 degrees right now in north charleston south carolina where democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton just wrapped up her latest campaign event, but as the summer heat spikes clinton's campaign could already by wilting under the glaring spotlight. a spate of new polls show a majority of swing state voters in florida, in ohio and in pennsylv

it's 95 in des moines iowa. 97 in wichita, kansas. these are not high temperatures for the day.they are current temperatures, so some of these places are going to get up to triple digits. some of that air is headed in this direction. that's why we're so confident about predicting 90s. we have some isolated showers generally up to the north. some of them going into the lehigh valley. but the dry air, that's coming in tonight and into tomorrow. you can see on the future cast this would show clouds and rain and we don't see either tomorrow morning, or tomorrow afternoon. that's going to allow the temperatures to go up into the upper 80s in some areas, but the humidity is down so it won't feel all that hot. it's going to be of course cooler right at the beaches as we get a sea breeze tomorrow afternoon. then the humidity starts increasing on thursday. and that will allow at least some clouds around but it's going to be warm. 8:00 a.m. already 82 degrees in philadelphia and then by noon, 91. northeast philly, 92. mount holly, 92. dover, 92. at noon just imagine how hot that's going t

now i'm coming into des moines. can't they do something? i can't do this in des moines. >> ulvestad has been driving more than 30 minutes at speeds up to 119 miles per hour, and her gas tank is still three-quarters full. fearing she won't be able to control the car much longer, ulvestad makes another attempt to stop. >> when she pressed on the brake and pulled up on the gas, she said, oh, it shook. i said, do it again. she said, i am, i am. she's like, it's slowing down. >> i think i just killed it. >> she's stopping. >> ulvestad's suv comes to rest on the median off interstate 35. still on her cell phone with bride, ulvestad emerges, shaking but alive. >> i'll call your husband, let him know the good news. >> okay. >> sergeant johnson secures the vehicle and for good measure disconnects the battery. he, like others, is impressed by ulvestad's driving skills. >> she went down into the median ten times. and each time she did that, it's a very dangerous thing to do. for someone to have no experience with any of that, and then drive one handed

joining me right now from des moines is jeff zellany.is jumping right into this campaign after yesterday's kickoff speech. what was hillary's message today in the more intimate setting compared to what we saw at roosevelt island yesterday? >> reporter: hey, fredricka, good afternoon. apologies, we're in the middle of a rainstorm here in iowa which the iowa farmers certainly appreciate. but secretary clinton was really emphasizing and amplifying her message that she gave in new york yesterday. she's trying to take this message on the road and say tha class. that she is trying to stitch all of the pieces of her biography together to show she is the candidate to address income inequality and all these touchstone issues but she has some work to do. we've seen senator bernie sanders who's been gaining traction and attention. he's been criticizing secretary clinton for not weighing in on trade. today she decided to do that and she started taking an implicit swipe at president obama. >> first let me start my saying no president would be a tough

they will be able to focus their attention on corndogs and tenderloins and the des moines register soapboxather than trying to win at the straw pollax. coming up a pair of president prospects picked a pepper. we will talk about the waler ker-rubio ticket. and then john sits down with rick santorum in the studio. it all happens after this word with our sponsors. ♪ mark: here at the romney romp in deer valley, i spoke with scott walker earlier today. i asked if he thought about joining forces with marco rubio. we started out on resonant obama -- president obama's decision to send more troops to iraq to defeat isis. >> it is good to the president acknowledge there needs to be more help. until they start lifting some of the research and -- some of the restrictions. we only have 3000 troops, so that is certainly a good thing but we need to drop restrictions. you have air controllers who could be doing a job to help the sunnis, kurds, and others. we need to lift restrictions. mark: would it be smarter rather than doing it increment, to putally to put in a significant amount of troops? governor w

in our latest i will pull with the des moines register, we asked publicans and democrats what the candidateshould do when they visited hawkeyes state. here are the results. the top answer, take questions from voters. after that, take questions from reporters. mark, if you are candidate would you change your behavior-based on what i once told us? mark: the two things low on this list that i would do, i would go to the state fair and eat a pork tenderloin sandwich. the voter question is key. over 90% one voter questions. there are a few people out there who are taking a lot of questions from voters when they do events. hillary clinton is not doing that. i think they are smart to go out there and show you can take it. that is what iowa and new hampshire are all about. john: i agree with that. in a split field, you could win this caucus with north of 20%. if you add up those percentages at the bottom of the list, the tenderloin eaters, the fairgoers, you could spend your time doing that, eat pork chops on a stick, you would be in a good place in iowa. mark: of course, the other thing on that lis

the water came up fast at this apartment complex near des moines, iowa.ain under water. that storm system is now heading toward the northeast. details from accuweather's justin pavek. >> reena and kendis, thanks and good morning. a very active next 48 to 72 hours over much of the northeast as low pressure takes shape over the ohio valley. it's going to pull north very, very moist air. we're concerned about heavy rain over several states from eastern ohio all the way into southern maine. this is going to be friday night in the west. saturday, much of p.a. and new york state and later on saturday night into sunday into northern new england. also the concern about the potential for severe weather from new york city to d.c. isolated tornadoes and damaging winds would be the biggest concern. and an odd heat wave on the way for the northwest into saturday afternoon, as well. reena and kendis, back to you. >> thank you, justin. >>> a new prison guard charged in connection with the escape of two killers admitted providing them with tools, paint, even frozen hambu

des moines kansas city will eventually get wet too. the it's weakening but we could get enough heavy rain for flash flooding later today. roschester omaha and colorado. we could see two to three inches southern portions of minnesota, wisconsin, is and additional areas in kansas later today. if we get tornados and severe weather, it will likely be along the cold front and especially areas around iowa. we have enhanced risk of tornados. that little enhanced risk we could see a tornado or two today. it will be hot everywhere else. >> that hail was incredible. >> a softball. your windshield anything it hit it would crush. >> appreciate that. >>> this morning the mystery is deepening over what caused the amtrak derailment that left eight dead. here's peter alexander. >> the ntsb announced there's no evidence the engineer running amtrak train 128 was using his cell phone that night. >> there was no talking, texting or data use involved. >> brandon bostian wasn't on the internet operating the train. he gave investigators the pass code to his

get ready for more comments like this from the des moines register.i'm the most successful person to ever for the presidency by far and then later, quote, i have a gucci store that's worth more than romney. vince vaughn is on the july cover of gq with his take on gun control. he says banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat. battle over a budget in alaska. 10,000 people got layoff notices yesterday. a partial government shut down could begin on july 1st if an agreement is not reached. a new poll, the facebook is the most common source for news. benjamin netanyahu is a cleveland cavs fan. david blatt said netanyahu called and told him all of israel is behind the cavaliers. and yesterday metals for families with seven or more kids is called the order of parental glory. seriously. and as senator bernie sanders talked about his satire calling it similar to 50 shades of gray. seth meyers had an important question for the senator on late night. >> considering the success of the 50 shades of gray books, do you regret that yo

one former iowa republican party chair telling the "des moines register" today, quote, now we have put network executives in charge of winnowing the field instead of actual voters. so that remains the big problem on the republican side and are for the republicans' giant field. on the one hand something to be proud of. on the other hand practically problems here something has to give. you can't have this as your field and only ten people, ten of them, in the debates. regardless of how they're doing in the early states. regardless of how they are likely to do in the early states. so that's still a problem on the republican side and i have to imagine that the folks at fox news are starting to feel maybe some second thoughts about that criteria as the way they're going to set up that debate. they are becoming the point of foe can cuss infocus. people are talking about the number of debates or about whether or not the structure of the debates and the party is set up in a way that's unfair to any candidate or group of candidates. people are talking about how fox news is skewing the field. yo

des moines to quincy under flood warnings. st. louis up to indianapolis.tches kansas city and north of st. louis. flooding from thunderstorms continue throughout the day and later this evening. denver to rapid city also going to see -- this looks bad, but it's a slight risk. concentration of storms is to the the greatest. what storms form could be strong. raleigh, richmond washington d.c., maybe an isolated tornado or two late today. the timing of these storms looks to be around 5:00 should be forming in and around hagers town d.c. area. they get more concentrated d.c. southwards. they'll race toward richmond norfolk and virginia beach late this evening with lightning and potential for wind damage. if you're in the mid atlantic, keep eyes on the sky in the afternoon and early evening. as far as the heat goes this is going to be historic in the northwest. we're going to approach all time record highs. warmest temperatures ever recorded in a few spots. boise 95 today, 102 friday as the heat wave begins. 102 is not a big deal. by the time we get to saturday b

on saturday anywhere from milwaukee to des moines to chicago could see severe storms. today's forecast soaking rain for missouri and arkansas. another blistering hot day in the desert southwest. yesterday was 115 in phoenix. we should do that again in saturday. for the us open in the northwest, the weather weather as we go throughout this upcoming weekend. desert southwest just looks like the peak of summer. so the golf fans will enjoy it. >> it will give them a reason to stay inside. >>> now those two escaped new york murderers, they just made a top 15 list . >>> plus how one spouse decided to split everything in his divorce to make it all even. people are both soft and strong which is why our products are too. and we believe in value so we give you 60% more sheets than charmin ultra strong. angel soft. be soft. be strong. ♪ ♪ food should be good. strawberries should sing. lettuce should be dirty. dressing, clean. debates should be healthy. hatchets buried. tables should be full. and good food should be good for you. we're not saying these are the rules we should all

everyone is fighting for the same airtime in des moines or charleston.want to make sure they are getting the spots they want and that they are buying them efficiently. the equation we have here is english and spanish speaking latinos. when you buy tv, two very different audiences. you want to make sure you are buying airtime complementary. there is a guy who started a firm and worked for mitt romney and has built his career based on the claim that nielsen ratings are not necessarily the same as political groups. here are the 30,000 you want to reach in iowa. what shows are they watching? rate the shows that way. greg abbott's campaign said they saved $4 billion last year despite -- just by going where they told them to. how to spend millions in the right places. john: before we wrap up, to be clear, what is fascinating about this is that each of these candidates are thinking about using data in totally different ways for totally different purposes. you have one focused on voters and one focused on internal operations, and one focused on media buying and

a company in des moines called ray gun has designed risha -- has designed t-shirts for journalists to buy. one there, "is there a bail of hay i can interview you next to?" genie: crazy it is. thank you so much, stephen carroll, for a look at business news. time now for the press review. we have nicholas rushworth with us on the set to talk us through the press. you are starting with a possible shift in russia ties with syria. nick: let's go to the saudi-banked london-based an era paper, which has the story -- "moscow changing tack in its relationship with bashar al-assad." the argument is that the syrian opposition is saying that russian military supplies have not been delivered to syria for the last three months. russia, it has reported, has transferred dozens of its officials back to moscow, away from syria. so that adds up to a major u-turn, doesn't it, if that were to be the case. the argument is that perhaps moscow and vladimir putin are trying to refocus toward the gulf states in economic ties with gulf states. the quote in that piece is "clear signs are emerging of a dramatic u

her first interview was to the des moines register yesterday.ten. >> i will have my own proposals but it's not like i'm saying, you know bill clinton/barack obama are not going to influence how i see the world. i am a democrat. i believe that our country was stronger, more inclusive, produced more jobs with more rising incomes, the two democratic presidents who both inherited the problems of the republican predecessors. >> and so chris jansing, does jeb bush assume that he's going to be running if he were to win the nomination against hillary clinton? is that sort of their strategic game plan because she's so far ahead of her democratic challengers? >> i'm sorry, andrea. everyone is getting set up here so it's a little noisy. could you repeat that? >> so, sorry. i'm just saying is the calculus on their part down there that if he wins the nomination he's going to be running against hillary clinton? it's almost easier for him to strategize strategize. she has to figure out which of this large field of republicans she's going to be running against.

much of iowa and illinois from des moines to chicago remains under the threat of flooding. as wendy gillette reports many in new england are cleaning up after the summer's first big storm. >> the storm darkening skies as it moved in. southern new jersey getting battered. winds downed trees smashing cars and taking power lines with them leaving thousands in the dark. >> it came within 15 minutes and was here and gone. >> reporter: the severe weather halting amtrak service between here and philadelphia. it also caused a train to stall near harrisburg leaving passengers in the dark and without air conditioning for hours. the storm ranging from the mid-atlantic where the weather caused a deadly car crash near washington, d.c. >> the car appears to have skidded off, hit a pole broke the pole and unfortunately live wires, hot wires came down on top of the vehicle. >> reporter: to new england where wind whips trees from out of the ground. >> it was scary. it was rumbling our house and it was scary. my dogs were crazy about it and i didn't like it. >> reporter: the wind rain and li

the "des moines register"/bloomberg politics poll, has not just been asking people who they like for president, they are also -- and this is crucial, they're asking people who they would never support for president. and in that part of the iowa polling, donald trump is doing really great right now. in the new poll out today, likely republican caucus goers in iowa were asked if they could ever support a particular candidate or never support a particular candidate. the candidate who most republicans would never support is donald trump, the 58% of iowa republican likely caucusgoers saying they could never support donald trump. new jersey governor chris christie does well on that metric. 45% who say they're going to go to caucuses say they could never ever support him but on this one donald trump wins. on the other side of the ledger, the candidate iowa republican voters most like as their number one choice for president right now is wisconsin governor scott walker. he comes in at 17% in this poll that's out today. tied for second at 10%, ben carson and rand paul. but they're way back th

the latest "des moines register" poll shows walker in first place with a seven-point lead over rand paulday, walker went after president obama on foreign policy. >> president obama said you needed to bone up on foreign policy. i guess you've been doing it. traveling, talking to foreign policy experts. >> yeah i thought it was interesting for the president to say the guy who called isis the jv squad and yemen a success story saying someone should bone up on foreign policy. we've been to israel. i talked to david cameron in the uk. we've been elsewhere. my belief is if i'm thinking about running for president of the united states it's not about preparing for debates. it's about being prepared to be the president of the united states. >> joining me now is our rapid response panel, john nichols washington correspondent for "the nation" magazine bob shrum, democratic strategist and professor of politics at usc. so, john is scott walker really the front-runner here? >> at this moment. but let's understand that there's probably nothing worse to be than the front-runner in iowa in the summer bef

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john: i want to ask you about latest des moines iowa poll.ok at the top issues and republicans said things they cared about our economic issues like the budget deficit, also national security. social issues did not rank high. if these issue preferences hold up, which republican presidential candidate could benefit the most? ken: if they hold up and we believe that is that people who attend the caucus believe, it's going to help a more establishment candidate like jeb bush. i am a big fan of your iowa poll, and that is the poll i would be paying attention to now even more than these national polls. that said, at the end of the day, we've been around a lot and i think we first met at iowa caucuses many years ago. the folks who show up on a cold february might tend to be those very hard social conservatives. mark: also from our iowa poll the top two issues republicans , and democrats care about our job creation and immigration. same question -- if those two issues are big, who does it benefit? ken: it's interesting -- on immigration, one side ca

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and tomorrow from chicago to des moines. flash flood watches, parts of the west and california and iowa and minnesota, that's for tomorrow. and another, kansas and oklahoma and texas, quite a bit of rain friday and saturday. >> through. >>> and president obama approving sending troops to iraq. the first order of business helping iraqi fighters take back ramadi. and martha raddatz, showing us the american weaponry left behind by iraqis. now, american troops coming to help get it back. here's martha raddatz. >> reporter: tonight, the this are getting reinforcements. 450 new troops now heading to a desert training facility in western iraq. not just more troops it's more money. some of the $2.5 million in vehicles armor, and weapons. this is a remotely piloted aircraft, also called a drone. they're in the fight, 24/7. these will help the iraqi military. >> it's a growing process, will get better as it goes on. but it's definitely unique working with them. >> reporter: that's a diplomatic way of saying that. >> we've been well-tr

the bun and photographs to gene czarnicki, a certified print examiner at the dci crime lab in des moinesmed this was a right foot in the soft bread but found enough clear ridge detail to convince him that it was the footprint of carlos robinson. >> i think if the bun was in a dry or stale condition, the print may have not been reproduced. we were quite fortunate in that the bun appears to have been fresh when he stepped on it. >> this proved that the only evidence at the crime scene was carlos robinson's. investigators believe christina was a victim of her own trusting nature. carlos was her neighbor. they already met. so when he knocked on her door, she let him in. >> how are you doing? >> carlos wasn't wearing any shoes since he lived next door. once inside, prosecutors believe he made a sexual advance which christina turned down. so carlos hit christina with tremendous force, knocking out three of her teeth. he then dragged her to the bathroom where he sexually assaulted her and killed her with a knife. he filled the tub with water in an attempt to wash away evidence, but he grabbed t