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momentum we're live in doc .c. with the stage nearly set a fiery explosion at a vape supplier sending debris a quarter mile away. inside the search for what sparked the infer kno while congress is settingity sight setting its sights on a tiktok ban. how gyms are working up a sweat to attract new members in the age of ozempic it's wednesday march 6 "early today" starts right now polls have closed in the biggest primary day of the year. and here are the super tuesday election results at this hour. former president donald trump picking up a major haul of delegates. now very close to securing the republican nomination.

president joe biden is also barrelling toward that historic 2020 rematch let's turn to brie jackson, who is following the results from washington, d.c. what have we heard from the presidential frontrunners? >> reporter: good morning, fran stes president biden released a statement saying these results leave americans with a clear choice are we going to keep moving forward, or will we allow donald trump to pull us backwards into the chaos, division and darkness that defined his term in office. >> now we have a very divided country. we have a country that a political person uses weaponization against his political opponent it happens in other countries, but they're third world countries. in some ways we're a third world country, at our border and our elections. >> reporter: trump's top

challenger, nikki haley, did pull off one super tuesday victory, winning vermont's 17 delegates. now it's unclear what is next for the haley campaign there are no events planned in the upcoming primary states. late last night, the nbc news team in charleston, south carolina, saw members of haley's team wheeling items into the campaign headquarters, and it seemed like they could be setting up for an event there, but the campaign has not said anything about their plans the last update we got from the haley campaign is that they are honored to have gotten the support of millions of americans. >> mm-hm and brie, donald trump had that loss in vermont to nikki haley but president biden also had a surprising loss of his own last night. >> reporter: nbc news projects that jason palmer has won the american samoa democratic caucus palmer is a venture capitalist who focuses on information technology he won with 51 votes to president biden's 40 votes palmer did not step foot in the territory. he only held virtual events

there. he's also on the ballot in 16 states he says he wants to make education a priority in this election now there are also big down-ballot results. in texas, nbc news projects congressman colin allred has won the democratic senate primary. he will take on senator ted cruz in november. and nbc news also projects that adam schiff and republican steve garvey will face-off in november for california's senate seat that was left vacant and that they need to fill once, left vacant by the death of the late senator dianne feinstein >> thanks so much for the run down, brie, appreciate it. arizona senator kyrsten sinema has said she will not run for reelection this year sinema broke with the democratic party, becoming independent in 2022 she says partisan politics have become too powerful. >> compromise is a dirty word.

we've arrived at that crossroads, and we chose anger and division i believe in my approach but it's not what america wants right now. >> the leading republican for sinema's seat is kari lake who ran a failed campaign for governor in the democratic side, ruben gallego. this will likely be one of the toughest races in the nation now to details in a plane crash we told you about yesterday. authorities are still working to identify the five people on board who were all killed. they were all canadian citizens. three of the passengers were children harrowing video shows the moment the plane flew over the highway, exploding as it hit the ground seconds later. a preliminary report on what happens is expected in ten days. the united states has conducted another airdrop of aid in the gaza strip. the mission delivered 36,000 meals in the north it is the second such airdrop in less than a week, but it's still

far below the amount of aid needed for the around 300,000 palestinians who remained in the northern strip after the israeli invasion for the latest, let's go to chapman bell what more do we know about this aid? >> reporter: good morning, frances, it's much-needed aid for civilians, particularly in northern gaza who are in urgent need of basic supplies like food and water. in addition to medical supplies that have been exhausted in hospitals there as well as fuel for generators and power but while these ready meals delivered by the u.s. and jordan will provide some food, it's only enough for a relatively small percentage of the population there the director general of the world health organization, dr. tedros ghebreyesus saying in a tweet this week, grim findings during a w.h.o. visit to hospitals in northern gaza this week severe levels of malnutrition.

children dying of starvation serious shortages of food, fuel and medical supplies hospital buildings destroyed, adding that the only pediatric hospital in northern gaza that the lack of food there has resulted in the death of at least ten children and the world food program saying that airdrops are a last resort and will not avert famine this, amid growing calls to allow more trucks carrying aid to cross into gaza these trucks can bring in more aid than these airdrops, and also help with facilitating dise str distribution to people in gaza who are in a dire situation. >> chapman, thank you. a 19-year-old man was killed by falling shrapnel after that massive fire in clinton township, michigan it was used by a supply company for vape products.

>> reporter: fiecrefighters spet much of the day tuesday trying to cool hotspots that were still smoldering after that could be t five miles away. we heard from the fire chief and the community saying that there were multiple explosions at what used to be a vape shop the debris from the explosion, which included canisters containing butane and other gases scattered. a 19-year-old male, who wasn't even near the building, was about a quarter mile away from the site, was hit in the head by some of that debris. that teen, unfortunately, didn't survive. a firefighter was also injured he is home recovering. the cause of the fire is still unclear. the fire chief telling us inside of what used to be a vape shop were 100,000 vape pens, containing lithium batteries back to you. >> adrian, thank you

flood watches are in effect on the east coast as storms stay in the region. nbc meteorologist angie lassman is tracking what's ahead for us. the umbrellas are staying out. >> indeed, frances i hope you brought yours this morning. good morning to you. we've got a big push of moisture happening here this is what we're going to watch today. you can see stretched across the southeast and the ohio valley. we're going to see the northeast, new england get into this action. and we do have flood alerts up right now. 30 million people including places like boston, down to new york that is where we'll see these flood alerts stay in effect even into tomorrow morning with all of this moisture working through the knnext 48 hours. the moderate to heavy rain possible from basically maine to virginia through the today toda. it will be out of here by tomorrow but we'll see lingering rain across the northeast and potentially wintry mix focussed across new england

anywhere from a an inch to three inches we'll see really impressive rainfall rates, one to two inches perour. flas hh d dealing with that rain san antonio and houston head to the mid-80s. and that's a look at your forecast, frances. back to you. >> appreciate it, angie. straight ahead, the new cr crackdown on credit cardil late fees cardil late fees. of women are struggling with hair damage? just like i was. dryness and frizz could be damaged hair that can't retain moisture. new pantene miracle rescue deep conditioner, with first-of-its-kind melting pro-v pearls... locks in moisture to repair 6 months of damage

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steve, good to have you back with us. >> yeah, great to see you, frances. i think we're going to get more of that this year, election year and all that here's the deal. house lawmakers, and it's bipartisan so that's very interesting, are basically trying to put in a law that would actually prevent app stores or web hosting services from tiktok applications, unless it severs ties from bytedance. one of the backers of this, republican mike gallagher says, look, my message to tiktok is break up with the chinese com communist party or lose access to american users. tiktok says this would violate the free speech rights of 170 million americans. it would trample on the first amendment and deprive 5 million businesses of a platform they use to grow and create jobs. elsewhere, as you mentioned, really interesting, the largest u.s. health care payment system

in the u.s. has had a hacking shutdown, basically. the largest care payment system in the u.s., causing financial chaos, it's affected a broad spectrum of services from large hospitals to single doctor practices. the attack forced the shutdown by change health care, a sizable unit of united health care as well the government has got involved. the health and human services department saying they would take steps to try to alleviate some of the finance pressures. back to you on a busy day. >> we're grateful to have you with us on our show. thanks, steve. now to the crackdown aimed at helping you hang on to more of your money. the biden administration finalizing a key sdecision on h much credit card companies can charge this late fees. are >> reporter: inflation-weary americans feel nickel and dimed. the administration touting a new

rule that will cap credit card card card late fees to $8, down from 32 closing a loophole in the 2009 card act it means an average savings of $220 per american household. >> it's a really big deal, because we are talking about people who are on a tight budget, who are living paycheck to paycheck. >> reporter: americans now hold record credit card debt, and all those balances carry a record high interest rate, averaging above 21%. late fees bring in $14 billion a year for credit card companies the chamber of commerce vowed to sue the administration over the rule change. saying the cfpb quote punishes americans who pay their credit card bills on time by forcing them to pay for those who don't. this will amount to limited

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