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and remembering the fifth beatle, legendary producer, george martin is dead. ♪ this is al jazeera america live in new york city. i'm del walters. bernie sanders and hillary clinton getting ready for tonight's debate which takes on new meaning after that huge upset in michigan, sanders beating clinton in the michigan primary, despite every poll showing clinton with a double-digit lead going in. she did win mississippi. on the republican side donald trump had another big night, wins in michigan, mississippi, and hawaii. david shuster has more. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: with the swagger of a concurring hero, donald trump claimed the michigan and mississippi primaries by double digits, defying his challengers and the anti-trump republican establishment. >> i don't think i have ever had so many horrible, horrible things said about me in one

week. [ laughter ] >> $38 million worth of horrible lies, but that's okay. it shows you how brilliant the public is. >> reporter: trump thanked his supporters who were not swayed by an all-out attack against him lead by former presidential candidate mitt romney coming into tuesday's primaries. >> every single person we started off with 17. we're down to 4. of the 4, they are pretty much all gone. okay? pretty much. they didn't do so well tonight, folks. okay. i'm not going to say anybody dsht do well. they didn't do well. only one person did well tonight, donald trump, i will tell you. [ cheers ] >> reporter: no one had a worse night than marco rubio, the favored candidate of the republican establishment, rubio, walked away empty handed finishing last in mississippi and michigan in the single digits, despite help from romney. on the democratic side, a huge

upset. hillary clinton saw her double-digit lead in michigan evaporate. bernie sanders took the state with just over 50% of the vote. >> what tonight means is that the bernie sanders campaign, the people's rev -- the revolution, people's revolution that we are talking about, the political revolution that we are talking about is strong in every part of the country, and frankly, we believe that our strongest areas are yet to happen. >> reporter: clinton, though, pulled off a decisive win in mississippi with more than 80% of the vote there, and she still leads the overall delegate count by a wide margin. idaho voters turned in their votes for ted cruz. in the hawaii caucuses, republicans favored donald trump, but with three more states in the trump column, and momentum on his side, donald trump had a message for those in his party looking to take him out. >> i say let's come together, folks.

we're going to win. i say let's come together. >> reporter: david shuster, al jazeera. lincoln mitchell covers politics for the new york observer. is it time now for the democrats to be concerned. >> concerned about a real race? >> the fact that bernie sanders is now showing that he has staying power? >> i don't think that's a source of concern for the democrats. i think a good race between two democrats is not a big deal. the concern is how this ends. again, the concern is if this engineers with sanders not being the nominee and claiming the process was rigged, claiming he wasn't treated fairly, that would be a concern for the democrats. we're not there yet. >> when we say that sanders was surprised that this was an upset victory, i want you to listen to last night's accepts importance speech and how it was staged. >> i want to thank the volunteers for knocking on doors and making the phone calls that created this kind of enormously successful night for us. >> if you were looking at the

staging behind that, that is bernie sanders standing in front of something, no cheering crowds. >> it is a cabin on a lake in the upper peninsula? >> you have no idea. >> he was expected to be on a plane to ohio. i think this is a big surprise to him. >> let's talk about two things that didn't happen last night. marco rubio and john kasich did not get what they wanted. are they now done? >> it's hard to say. if rubio doesn't compete in michigan kasick comes in a much stronger second. so that vote combined would have been much more competitive. kasick needed a strong second in michigan, he didn't get it. he goes into ohio in a worse place than many thought he would. this on the republican side increasingly looks like the stop trump movement has to move to

ted cruz. that's a very difficult place for the republican leadership, who is not crazy about ted cruz either. >> is it time for the republicans to try to stop thinking it's time to stop trump and just embrace him? >> if they want to stop trump because he is a little too liberal for their taste, they should move away from that. if they think he is not the best candidate to go against hillary clinton or bernie sanders, they should move away from that. if they think he is a bigot, a fascist, then they must continue to stop him. but we don't know. >> but we keep saying they, and the bottom line is the voters keep voting for donald trump, so is the they the real face of the republican party, or is the person that is islamphobic, and anti-immigrant, is that the face

of the republican party. >> there's no real they. that's the problem. also these primaries are open primaries. the american nominating system is a strange one. parties choose their nominees based on popular elections when people that don't belong to the party can vote. if michigan was a closed primary, if only democrats could vote for the democrats candidate for president, hillary clinton would have won, and it wouldn't have been particularly close. similarly if these are closed primary, ted cruz is probably winning over donald trump nationally. so yes, there is an element of the republican party that genuinely feel those bigoted dangerous feelings. >> if the race were held tomorrow would hillary clinton beat donald trump? >> yes. >> would bernie sanders beat donald trump? >> yes. in my view yes. >> thank you. a man wanted in connection

with the shooting of an idaho pastor has now been arrested outside of the white house. the agency says he was throwing objects over the white house fence. he is a former marine, accused of shooting a pastor six times outside of his church in idaho. remington is now in the hospital recovering from his injuries. and there are new details in the killing of that armed protester by law enforcement in oregon. now his wife is accusing the fbi of a cover up. as john henry smith tells us, the fbi and police say that is not the case. >> reporter: the fbi has released video from inside the truck lavoy finicum was driving in the moments before police shot him dead. >> go ahead and shoot me! >> reporter: he was the spokesman for the armed protesters who spent weeks inside an oregon wildlife refuge

earlier this year. police say the video shows finicum goading them before reaching twice for a handgun. >> i have concluded that all six shots fired by the police are justified. >> reporter: but their report lists a total f eight shots fired on january 26th. oregon police say the other two came from fbi guns, as finicum stepped from his truck. those shots missed finicum. now there is an investigation as to whether those shots came from, and why any fbi didn't list the shots on its report. >> i can assure you that no one down to each and every employee wanted this situation to end in violence or death. >> reporter: finicum's wife claims the opposite. >> it was an ambush involving a

roadblock on a lonely stretch of highway. my husband was murdered intentionally and deliberately and with malice. >> he was walking with his hands in the air, a symbol of surrender. when he reached down to his left, he was reaching to the pain of having been shot. >> reporter: the justice department probe is focused on five so far unnamed fbi agents. john henry smith, al jazeera. defense officials telling al jazeera u.s. special forces have captured the leader of isil's suspected chemical weapons team. he was captured in northern iraq, and is being questioned. that raid was part of a new pentagon strategy to use clandestine teams to capture and kill isil leaders inside of iraq and syria. the u.n. saying syrian peace

negotiations will go ahead in geneva beginning monday. they are insisting the surrent cessation of hostilities does not need to be renewed while those talks go on. convoys have yet to reach six of the besieged areas. james bayes is outside the meeting with more. >> reporter: it's worth noting that this day was supposed to be the start of -- or the restart of the stalled syrian talks. this was the official date given by the u.n. envoy, but neither of the two main parties are here in geneva. the government side saying in principal they will come in a few days. the opposition side saying they have concerned and they will decide at the end of the week whether they will attend talks, and some of their concerns are exactly about this humanitarian issue, about getting to the besieged areas. that's a point i put to the u.n.'s humanitarian coordinator. >> the imperative is to reach people trapped in these settles.

irrespective of who is besieging the area. isil is besieging people, and al-nusra are besieging about 20,000 people. >> reporter: but those places have had aid, haven't they? >> indeed. >> reporter: you know why i'm asking these questions because it has all become politicized and the opposition say that they are fulfilling their part of the bargain, letting aid into their areas, and the government aren't. >> everybody has a lot more to do, and one thing that should not be done is to reopen humanitarian principals for political discussion. these are not for discussion. these are enshrined in international humanitarian law. >> reporter: one item of concern, and i think it follows what the opposition have been saying, saying there are many

violations by the syrian government's side and by the russian air force is a report in damascus, the west of damascus province in the last 24 hours of the most sustained attack using barrel bombs we have seen at anytime during this cessation of hostilities which has now lasted -- or been in place for over ten days. >> that is james bayes for us in geneva. new threats today from north korean leader kim ki-jong. he says his country has miniaturized nuclear war heads that can be mounted on ballistic missiles. he has called for his military to get ready to strike first if necessary. the move comes a week after the u.n. imposed its strongest ever sanctions against the country. all of this in response to a nuclear weapons test and a satellite launch >> vice president biden meeting with benjamin netenyahu in israel, but can he bring the

white house and jerusalem back together? and a tornado tears through parts of texas, and residents in other states are bracing for even more severe weather.

>> our american story is written everyday. it's not always pretty, but it's real... and we show you like no-one else can. this is our american story. this is america tonight. vice president joe biden is in israel today for talks with israeli and palestinian leaders but his trip was marred by violence. police shot and killed two palestinian drivers. speaking this morning alongside

the israeli prime minister, biden saying the violence must end. >> this cannot become an accepted modus operandi. this cannot be viewed by civilized leaders as an appropriate way to behave. >> there was violence in other parts of the west bank as well where a palestinian was shot and killed after attempting to stab an israeli soldier. nadim baba has more. >> reporter: two palestinian men were shot near a check point that went up on tuesday. that was after reports that at least one of them had tried to attack a member of the israeli border police. now we're now hearing that one of those palestinians has died of his wounds, and he has been named locally as a 16-year-old, a teenager, from the occupied

west bank. not long before that, the incident in east jerusalem. two palestinians traveling in a car fired towards an israeli bus. no one husband hurt in that incident, but the israeli police gave chase and during that chase, the palestinians then fired at a jewish israeli and they -- actually wounded that -- that person, before then being shot dead by the -- by the israeli police. on tuesday there were incidents not just in occupied west bank, but in other parts, in israel itself, including notably in the port city of jaffa outside of tel-aviv where a man committed several stabbings before being shot dead. one of his victims, an american tourist died of his wounds, and that happened just down the road

from u.s. vice president joe biden was holding a conference with the former president of israel after he had just landed in the country. and that is nadim baba for us in jerusalem. the u.s. condemning that stabbing attack that nadim was just talking about. taylor force was a management student ativan der belt university, and a retired army officer. he was with a group of students and staff from the school that was traveling to israel. one of israel's biggest concerns in recent years has been iran's nuclear program. and overnight iran firing two more ballistic missiles. iran's revolutionary guard also fired several missiles on tuesday. it says they are designed to hit israel. earlier this year, the u.s. sanctioned businesses and individuals linked to the missile program over a test that was conducted last october. the public will soon begin saying good-bye to nancy reagan.

viewings about to get underway in california. they will continue through tomorrow. her funeral set to take place on friday. officials saying that mrs. reagan wanted to be buried as close as possible to her husband. jennifer london has more. >> reporter: it was nancy reagan's wish to be laid to rest alongside her husband here at the ronald reagan presidential library before the primate funeral and burial on friday, the public will have a chance to honor and say they final good-bye to the final first lady. >> she will be in the main lobby of our library. >> reporter: a motorcade will arrive here at the library. every detail of her funeral has been meticulously planned by the first lady herself. >> everything from the actual pallbearers, to the family members and the people participating in the ceremony, they are hollywood people, they have government people. they are friends of the family. to the people who were actually

invited, the flowers, so we know we're carrying out her wishes. >> reporter: as the nation remembers and prepares to say good-bye, her life and legacy is especially significant here in california. from the movie studios in hollywood, to the state capitol in sacramento, nancy reagan was a first lady long before she arrived in washington. more severe weather could be hitting texas today that state still trying to recover from deadly storms on tuesday. there were lightning flashes and a tornado near fort worth that destroyed homes in the area. at least one person was killed. kevin corriveau has more. >> unfortunately there is no good news for the next couple of days. the reason being is we have an area of low pressure over this area, bringing up the moisture. and this air pressure really is not moving. we're looking at the same

ingredients over the area to continue the severe weather as well as the flooding. this is what it looks like now. we are seeing a big area of green. but you do pick up those lines of thunderstorms moving through, and within those lines, that's where we could be seeing the severe weather as well. over the last 24 hours we did have our tornado just over here towards the west of dallas, but notice all of the green dots. those are where we're seeing flooder warnings and damage across much of the area. just in the last 24 hours, northwest of louisiana picked up over 10 inches of rain, and it's not over yet. in terms of severe weather, today we'll be watching the gulf coast, but notice all of the rain expected here. over the next 72 hours the amount of rain is going to be really critical, because we're looking at very saturated ground as well as rivers and creeks that are already swollen.

here you see the bull eyes, and over the next couple of days things won't change too much. notice the constant rain across the gulf coast. this is going to be a big problem if you are traveling across this region. >> reporter: the fbi saying it has revised its rules for how its bureau collects information through the nsa. the guardian receiving confirmation from u.s. officials about the changes, but exact details are not being made. seattle once again trying to break new ground for worker's rights. two years anding the city passed legislation raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. now members of the same city council want to give workers what are called consistent schedules. >> reporter: first it was the $15 an hour minimum wage, now some city councils want

legislate how employers schedule their workers. >> what happens is you will close on an evening, and then you will be back to open the next morning. >> reporter: the proposed legislation would restrict those clopenings. when a worker closes at night opens in the morning. >> it's going to make it more difficult for business owners to find a way to make a profit. >> sabrina register, al jazeera, seattle. still to come. ♪ help me if you can, i'm feeling down ♪ >> the man behind the music. a look at the life and legacy of beatles producer, george martin. find fantasy shows.

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beatles replace their studio drummer with ringo star. others from len cav rets to david cameron took to social media to commemorate martin. it was after serving in this the royal navy that he chose the industry has his career. he was also a composer. ♪ >> reporter: and conducted the string section for eleanor rigby and suggested strings be added to "yesterday." paul scribbles on it, and said you have got my name on it. this is it here. and he wrote on it at the top here. by paul mccartney, john lennon, george martin esquire, and mozart in reference to the fact

that it was a classic piece of music. >> reporter: martin also produced for other big artists such as kenny rogers, and elton john. he was knighted by the queen in 1996 a year before paul mccartney. and inducted in the rock and roll hall of fame in 1999? amazon east ceo says he plans to launch humans into space next year. major league baseball building a new stadium for the army at fort bragg. the first game ever played on an active military base. after the game, theball is going to be converted to a softball field and multi-purpose center. >> thanks for watching.

i'm del walters in new york. the news continues next live from london. ♪ this is al jazeera. ♪ hello, i'm loren taylor, coming up -- >> if their children were stuck here in this rubbish, would they make the same decision they made to close the border? >> a stark message to e.u. leaders, as the main migrant trail from greece to northern europe is blocked. three palestinians are shot dead on a second day of escalating violence in the occupied territories. and safety