have called off their $3.8 billion merger. a federal judge ruled in january that the deal violated antitrust laws after a lawsuit from the department of justice. and it looks like writing skills are in taylor swift's dna. genealogy company ancestry.com says the singer is the sixth cousin three times removed of famed poet emily dickinson. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. it's tuesday, march 5th, 2024. this is "cbs news mornings." it is super tuesday, the biggest day of the presidential primary season. voters in more than a dozen states head to the polls including colorado, which lost its fight to block donald trump from the ballot. calling for a cease-fire. a key member of israel's war cbinet and political rival of benjamin netanyahu is in washington as the biden

administration pushes for a pause in the fighting. and breaking overnight, explosions rocket a detroit suburb. an industrial building goes up in flames, sending debris shooting into the air. well, good morning and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. super tuesday is finally here, coming one day after the u.s. supreme court ruled against colorado's efforts to remove donald trump from the ballot. will nikki haley, his last standing republican challenger, manage to survive today's vote? trump won last night's republican caucus, notching another victory on his path toward a likely rematch against president biden. today voters in 15 states and one territory head to the polls with 865 delegates on the line, the biggest single-day haul in the presidential primary. cbs's skyler henry is joining us now from alexandria, virginia.

skyler, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. as you mentioned, primary voters all across the country from here in virginia out to california will be heading to the polls as the presidential front runners look to get one step closer to securing their party's nominations. super tuesday is here with hundreds of delegates up for grabs in 15 states in american samoa. last night the gop front-runner, former president donald trump, swept the north dakota gop caucuses. it followed the release of the supreme court's unanimous decision that says states like colorado cannot ban trump from the ballot. >> i think it will go a long way toward bringing our country together. >> reporter: for republican rival nikki haley, it's make or break amid gop calls for her to drop out of the race, though,

over the weekend she picked up her first primary in washington, d.c. >> we can either have more of the same or go in a new direction. >> reporter: cbs news polling shows a large margin of likely voters have negative feelings about a possible biden/trump rematch. the same polls show biden behind trump in a head-to-head matchup. meanwhile states are pushing people to vote uncommitted over the war in gaza. >> we all want this conflict to end as soon as possible. >> reporter: even if both front-runners pull off a clean sweep tonight, they still won't win enough delegates to clinch their partys nomination. and while all eyes will be on the presidential race, we'll also be paying attention to several key races down the ballot. as well, there will be contests for u.s. senate, u.s. governor races, as well as 100 house seats that could potentially be secured tonight. that's because the primary

winners won't have much competition come the general election in november. anne-marie? well, be sure to watch cbs news' extensive coverage of the super tuesday primary at 8:00 p.m. on cbs news streaming and continuing here on cs with a special at 10:00 p.m. eastern. so the white house is intensifying calls for a temporary cease-fire on the israel/hamas war, and they're turning to a political rival of benjamin netanyahu visiting washington for help, this as a u.n. report finds there are reasonable grounds to believe hamas committed sexual violence during the october 7th massacre and on women and children held hostage. israel's military also released new information on the embattled u.n. aid agency unruh saying the organization employed more than 450 military opera actives from hamas and other israel groups, though, it provided no evidence to back up its investigation.

cbs's jarred hill joins us with the latest. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. let's start with what's going on here at home and this new call for a cease-fire. the fighting relentless as the u.s. intensifies caller for six weeks' cease-fire. >> israel has a right to defend itself. too many palestinians, innocent civilians have been killed. we need to get more aid in and get the hostages out. >> reporter: vice president harris sat down with benny gantz. crowds are scrambling for sacks of flour to feed their families. too late for this man, burying his 10-year-old son. i never thought he would starve

to death, he says. please forgive me, my son. >> as you know, the situation in gaza is catastrophic. >> reporter: the united nations is warning they're on the brink of famine and called for maximum restraint amid a ground restraint in rafah. in israel, calls for cease-fire and hostage release growing louder. >> the hostages and the hostages' families are not the enemy. the enemy is hamas. >> reporter: it's shedding a dur new light saying hamas committed sexual violence on women and children during the attack. benny gantz is set to meet with members of the cabinet including secretary of state antony blinken after meeting with multiple top officials

yesterday. prime minister benjamin netanyahu fiercely opposed this visit, anne-marie, which some say the fact that it's happening anyway shows some fractures in his government. >> i think o. jarred, thank you very much. well, the supreme court temporarily blocked a new texas law that allows police in the state to arrest migrants who enter the u.s. illegally. the new law was set to take effect yesterday. yesterday justice samuel alito put the new law on hold while a high court looks at the case. and an air force civilian employee is due in federal court in nebraska today after charges of sharing classified information on a foreign dating website. prosecutors say david slater shared about the war in ukraine that he learned while attending briefing s he communicated with an unindicted co-conspirator who

claimed to be a woman living in ukraine. and a national guard member pleaded guilty to leaking class feud military documents. the 22-year-old jack teixeira admitted in court in boston about leaking information about the war in ukraine and other things on social media. he could be sentenced to 17 years in prison. just as people in california dig out from a massive blizzard, more snow is on the way, and it comes after a weekend blizzard dumped more than 7 feet of snow in the sierra nevada. hurricane-force winds closed highways and knocked out power, and left hundreds of cars and trucks stranded on the roads in nevada. winter warning effects are in effect in california where another foot or two of snow could fall in the next 24 hours. cooler temperatures and hundreds of additional firefighters are helping in the battle against several wildfires in the texas panhandle. the smokehouse creek fire, the

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