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>> tom llamas tonight. tom, thank you. >>> now to the democratic side, and hillary clinton bringing in and this race is very close. the newest poll has clinton at 45%, sanders at 42%. a statistical tie. secretary clinton campaigning push. warmer words toward sanders, and appearing confident. but the sanders team, raising more than $20 million in january alone. they say nearly all, from online cecilia vega tonight on the best ground game here in iowa. >> stick with me. stick with a plan. stick with the experience. >> reporter: 24 hours to go, and hillary clinton is counting down. >> come out and caucus, don't worry about the weather. >> reporter: bringing in reinforcements for the final push. >> please join me and welcoming, i hope, our next president, my mom. >> reporter: not just chelsea. the entire family center stage this weekend. >> thank you, bill. not stacked against them. >> reporter: tonight, hillary feeling the love. and talent will take them. >> reporter: and packing in the crowds. this is just the

>> tom llamas tonight. tom, thank you. bill clinton and chelsea, too. and this race is very close. 45%, sanders at 42%. a statistical tie. secretary clinton campaigning with her family in her final push. warmer words toward sanders, and appearing confident. but the sanders team, raising more than $20 million in january alone. they say nearly all, from online donors giving about $27 each. cecilia vega tonight on the battle between the two for the best ground game here in iowa. >> stick with me. stick with a plan. stick with the experience. hillary clinton is counting down. >> come out and caucus, don't worry about the weather. reinforcements for the final >> please join me and welcoming, i hope, our next president, my mom. >> reporter: not just chelsea. this weekend. >> thank you, bill. thank you, chelsea. people need to feel the deck is >> reporter: tonight, hillary feeling the love. >> go as far as their hard work and talent will take them. crowds. this is just the line to get look at how far back it stretches. today, clinton traveling more than 300 mi

>> tom llamas live in iowa. tom, thank you. >>> meanwhile, less than 24 hours after we saw former president bill clinton hitting seal the deal in new hampshire for his wife, tonight, bernie sanders, who holding a slim lead there, has come out with a tough new message for wall street. quote, greed is not good, saying it's time to blow up the banks that are too big to fail. abc's cecilia vega, one-on-one with sanders tonight, as a crowd of his supporters grew right behind them. >> we need to have the another democrat in the white house. >> reporter: hill little clinton now enlisting the big dog of democratic politics, her most powerful weapon, on the campaign trail. but there is one man standing in their way. >> secretary clinton is wrong. >> reporter: senator bernie sanders, the democratic socialist from vermont, drawing those massive crowds. and twice as many donors as president obama had at this ste in 2008. also beating clinton in the polls in his own backyard, new hampshire. today in new york, sanders bringing

>> all right, tom llamas on the campaign trail every step of the way. tom, thanks. >>> and, on the democratic side tonight, new numbers coming in, showing hillary clinton with a razor-thin lead over bernie sanders in iowa, leading sanders by two points, down from a nine-point lead one month ago. the caucus, as i mentioned a moment ago, just 18 days away now. >>> from the poll numbers to the to win. we are all still here tonight. but our cameras are in three three tickets that won the whole thing. were they individuals, were they groups? share the $1.6 billion. there were other winners, too, lesser prizes, still millions, though, including a group of teachers who talked to us late today, racing to pick up their check. abc's steve osunsami in tennessee, where one of the big tickets was sold. >> reporter: in suburban los angeles, on the eastern coast of florida and in small-town western tennessee, the rumors are flying tonight. >> i think it would be someone local. >> can you imagine? >> reporter: no. >> a world record jackpot! >> reporter: at this hour, no

tom llamas in iowa. >> reporter: trump is used to driving the news, but sarah palin took the wheel here. >> our vets deserve a commander in chief who will let them do their job and go kick isis' ass. >> reporter: mamma grizzly echoing her roaring endorsement for the republican frontrunner. >> are you ready to make america great again? >> reporter: giving her fans some of the greatest hits. >> so no, we're not going to chill. in fact, it's time to drill, baby, drill down and hold these folks accountable. >> reporter: but today not everything going as planned. the trump campaign announcing palin would be at a morning rally in iowa. the tickets even promising a but no sign of sarah. >> we were hoping sarah palin would be here. >> reporter: and what happened, no show? >> no show. >> i was looking forward to seeing her. wondering where she went. >> reporter: and palin's surprises didn't end there. today in tulsa, she brought up her 26-year-old son track's arrest this week for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend. >> it's kind of the elephant in the room. >> reporter: police say track, a veter

>> tom llamas leading us off again tonight. tom, thank you. >>> and we just five days to iowa, the republicans not the only ones with a debate controversy on their hands tonight. on the democratic side, a push for a new debate right before new hampshire. governor martin o'malley says he's in. hillary clinton's camp says she's in if bernie is. but bernie sanders, who met the white house, his answer? he's considering it. and look at this tonight. the new poll showing sanders edging out clinton in iowa. last night's poll had clinton barely ahead. which proves this evening what the campaigns already know -- this is all about turnout. >> reporter: a rare break from the campaign trail for bernie sanders. for a meeting with the guy he wants to replace. >> the president and i discussed this morning a number of issues. foreign policy issues. domestic issues. occasionally a little bit of politics. >> reporter: the meeting comes just after president obama seemed to tilt toward hillary clinton in an interview with politico. >> she can gover

>> tom llamas with us tonight cruz. tom, thank you. >>> now, to a battle erupting tonight over same-sex marriage. roy moore is ordering judges in his state not to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. that's in defiance of the supreme court's ruling late last year. >>> and from texas tonight, a controversial police case evening. sandra bland, pulled over, later dying in her jail cell. who arrested bland after that traffic stop last july is now charged with perjury. accused of lying about how she was removed from the car. bland was found dead in her cell three days later. her death ruled a suicide. >>> we turn tonight to a case involving a woman who was forced to leave the hospital, despite her calls for help. allegedly lying on the ground of the hospital parking lot. she died not long after. tonight here, a recording just released. in it, you can hear the woman, and you can also hear what they were saying to her, as she told them she could not breathe. here's abc's steve osunsami. >> reporter: this disturbing dash cam

abc's tom llamas is at the event live tonight. tom? >> reporter: david, good evening. at any moment, we are expecting donald trump to walk out with sarah palin. there is a lot of excitement in this room, surrounding this announcement. the candidate who has surprised us throughout the campaign trail surprises us yet again. tonight, sarah palin is back, shaking up the republican race with just 13 days to go before the iowa caucuses, declaring, "i am proud to endorse donald j. trump for president of the united states. "crisscrossing iowa today, shaking hands, trump building the hype, promising a mystery guest tonight, refusing to confirm who it would be. >> i'm a big fan of sarah palin, but i'm not saying who it is. >> reporter: the two former reality show stars have been close for years. palin sitting down for new york pizza in 2011 as she pondered her own run for the white house. >> how about a trump/palin ticket? >> that sounds exciting! >> reporter: trump recently appearing on palin's talk show, where she sang his praises. >> this is a movement. the trumpeters. these

abc's tom llamas reporting. now to a story you asked us to investigate. a valley man is fighting for unemployment benefits after he was fired for using medical marijuana 13:05:41 kyler wortham, fired for medical marijuana use "they said that it doesn't matter if you have a license or not, it's still against their policy and they can't have me working here." the 'pit stop' car wash in henderson fired kyler wortham.. even though he's a licensed pot user. experts say the car wash didn't break the law. they can fire people for any reason as long as it's not discriminatory. wortham.. however.. was also denied unemployment benefits and has since filed an appeal. we spoke with an employment