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WHO Director General Margaret Chan called the meeting for Monday in Geneva to decide whether the Zika virus outbreak rises to a public health emergency that would be of international concern.

Candidates blanket Iowa in a final blitz before the caucuses. David Greene talks to David Yepsen, former chief political correspondent at the Des Moines Register, now at Southern Illinois University.

The are 11 Republican presidential candidates competing in the Iowa caucuses. Senator Marco Rubio has tried to distinguish himself from the presidential pack on matters of national security.

The change comes after years of strife — and a weekend of celebration in Myanmar. But by law, Suu Kyi is barred from assuming the presidency.

Don't expect a parade of once-hopefuls trudging to microphones to quit the day after the caucuses. But the die will have been cast. Iowa doesn't kill candidacies; it puts them on life support.

At least six states are switching the rules so students can get diplomas retroactively.

Students at the University of Kentucky can now take a class on taco literacy. The state has a growing Latino population. In Japan, Nestle rolls out a sake flavored KitKat.

Blizzard conditions are expected in some parts of the state. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says she has it on good authority that the storm won't start until after midnight.

In Iowa, David Greene talks to Ann Selzer of the Des Moines Register and David Yepsen, former chief political correspondent at the Des Moines Register, now at Southern Illinois University.

The researchers want to study the first few days of an embryo's development. They must now seek approval from an ethics committee in the United Kingdom.