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(áááSTEVEááá) Breaking tonight - 100 percent of the precincts are now reporting Iowa Democratic Caucus results. And they are tight! Take a look -- Pete Buttigieg is in first place, slightly ahead of Bernie Sanders. Both have about 26 percent of State Delegate Equivalents. Behind them -- Elizabeth Warren is in third place with about 18 percent. In fourth -- Joe Biden has nearly 16 percent. (áááLAURAááá) Amy Klobuchar is in 5th place, with 12 percent. Behind her -- Andrew Yang and Tom Steyer are the only other candidates to get any support. (áááLAURAááá) KCCI's Chris Gothner is in the newsroom tonight with how the candidates are reacting. (áááCHRISááá) This is obviously good news for Pete Buttigieg. Certainly not ábad news for Senator Sanders either -- if these results this is about as close to a tie as you can get. Buttigieg appeared on a CNN Town Hall tonight in New Hampshire -- where he and everyone else has been campaigning while these results have been tabulated. Take a listen to his reaction when CNN anchor Chris Cuomo told him that news -- just two hours ago. <03 I HAVE NEWS FOR EVERYBODY IN THE ROOM, INCLUDING YOU SIR. THE IDP JUST RELEASED THE FINAL BATCH OF RESULTS FROM THE CAUCUSES. 100 PCT OF PRECINCTS REPORTING. YOU ARE HOLDING A NARROW LEAD OF 1/10TH OF A PCT PT OVER SEN SANDERS ON THE SDE WHICH IS THE METRIC WE USE TO DETERMINE A WINNER. WHAT IS YOUR REACTION? WELL THAT'S FANTASTIC NEWS TO HEAR THAT WE WON... áAPPLAUSEá> (áááCHRISááá) Senator Bernie Sanders had preceded the former South Bend mayor holding his own town hall in New Hampshire. The results hadn't come in before his time finished. But here's what he told CNN's Anderson Cooper about the possibility of a recanvass. <ANDERSON COOPER: "THE DNC NOW HAS SAID THEY SHOULD RECANVASS. DO YOU WANT. . ARE YOU GOING TO CALL ON THE . . ?" SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: "WE'VE GOT ENOUGH OF IOWA. I THINK WE SHOULD MOVE ON TO NEW HAMPSHIRE. I MEAN THE PEOPLE. . IT REALLY DID DISTRESS ME CAUSE I WENT ALL OVER THE STATE OF IOWA. THE PEOPLE THERE ARE REALLY GREAT PEOPLE WHO TAKE THEIR RESPONSIBILITY OF THE FIRST CAUCUS IN THE COUNTRY VERY, VERY SERIOUSLY. AND IT IS REALLY SAD THAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF IOWA, IF I MAY SAY SO, SCREWED UP THE COUNTING PROCESS QUITE SO BADLY."> (áááCHRISááá) Sanders said earlier today that the outcome will show a popular vote victory -- and says the national delegate counts will be a tie between him and Buttigieg, so he considers this a victory as well. In that town hall tonight, Buttigieg congratulated Senator Sanders and his supporters as well. (áááCHRISááá) The Associated Press has NOT called this race because of all the irregularities with results. It's also unknown if the I-D-P will hon