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good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. national security fears dominated last night's republican presidential debate. senators ted cruz and marco rubio battled on everything from combating isis to immigration, as they tried to make up ground on donald trump. a new national poll of registered republicans and likely republican voters finds trump with his biggest lead yet over his gop rivals. last night's debate was the first since the attack in san bernardino. the candidates used it to explain policy, attack the obama administration, and take shots at each other. danielle nottingham is in las vegas and she has our report. >> reporter: ted cruz and marco rubio went toe-to-toe. jeb bush came out swinging. and donald trump was his signature self. nine republicans took the stage

debate focused on national security. the first topic was donald trump's call to ban muslims from entering into the united states. trump said he would extend it to refuges already here. >> if obama has brought some to this country, they are leaving, they are going, they are gone. >> reporter: jeb bush said that's not a serious proposal. >> in fact, it will push the muslim -- the arab world away from us at a time we need to reengage with him. he is a chaos candidate and he would be a chaos president. >> reporter: ted cruz who is leading trump in two recent iowa polls, marked horns with marco rubio on how bet to gat isis. >> does that mean leveling the isis capital of raqqa and syria where there are hundreds of thousands of civilians? >> what it means is using overwhelming air power to defeat isis. >> they must be defeated on the grgrnd by a ground force and that must be primarily made up of arab sunnis themselves. >> reporter: the senators also clashed on immigration.

number of green cards. >> for marco to suggest our record is the same is like suggesting the firemen and the arsonists have the same record because they are both at the scene of the fire. >> reporter: the candidates have just two more scheduled debates to challenge front-runner donald trump face-to-face before the iowa caucuses on february 1st. an exchange about instituting a no-fly zone in syria led to rand paul questioning chris christie over the bridgegate scandal. >> yes, we would shoot down the planes of russian pilots if they were stupid enough to think this is president is the same as the one we have in the oval office right now. >> i think when we think about the judgment of someone who wants world war iii their about someone to shut down a bridge because they don't like their friends. >> reporter: carly fiorina quoted margaret thatcher in laying out hur defeat of isis. >> if you want something talked about, ask the man. if you want something done, ask a woman. >> reporter: the debate featured a number of tense exchanges amongst the candidates. >> am i allowed to finish? >> one at a time. >> excuse me.

>> go ahead, mr. trump. >> so -- >> little -- >> again -- >> i know you're trying to build up your energy, jeb, but it's not working very well. he is having a hard time with the polls and i'm not. i'm at 42 and he is at 3. if i were in his case, i would do exactly the same. >> trump showed not to go on the attack against ted cruz. >> the past three or four days, he has a wonderful temperament. hes just fine. don't worry about it. >> okay. >> reporter: trump was asked if he would run as an independent. he responded that he is party and will support its nominee. danielle nottingham, cbs news, las vegas. for more, we are joined now by yahoo's national news correspondent hunter walker. good morning. you've been covering the debate in las vegas. so i want to ask you, we saw some of the highlights in danielle nottingham's piece, but what do you think were the big

who o de an impact? >> for me, the big themes were that jeb bush attempted to challenge donald trump. we all know governor bush has been struggling in the polls and so we all understand why he attempted to take on trump and the question for me is whether or not that was successful and how much of a dent he willake in these national surveys. >> trump and cruz, prior to the debate, it seemed the two were having a bit of a war of words or a war of tweets. there was talk about whether or not they would clash. and we saw in danielle's piece, they sort of made up. >> absolutely. there seemed to be a little bit of a truce between trump and cruz. and in the days leading up to the debate, one of the major themes seemed like it would be a clash between trump and cruz. afterwards, i spoke to trump. he was calling cruz a good guy. it really did seem like they laid down their swords and

>> what about ben carson? you know, for months, we were talking about ben carson and trump, and then slowly he started to slide. this debate, we knew there was going to be a big focus on foreign policy. he is not stroro in that area and tried to beef things up. do you think he was successful? >> you're absolutely right. i think one of the big questions right now, as we have seen donald trump sink in the summer emerge as a front-runner who i i ininecond place. we briefly saw ben carson enter that zone. he has since gone in free-fall in the polls. in this debate, he seemed to sort of disappear. i think the question is who can emerge as the major challenger to truru, and for me, tonight, certainly it wasn't carson. >> okay. so bringing that point up, do you anticipate any shift at all in the polls moving forward? >> i think a big question for me is jeb bush went on the

didn't make a difference. did he put a dent in donald trump's lead? and, you know, we are waiting for the polls. we will see how that strikes out. >> hunter walker in las vegas, thank you so much. coming up on "cbs this morning," new jersey governor chris christie joins us with his take on last night's debate. and democrat hillary clinton is spelling out her plans to disrupt the home-grown terrorism threat. clinton said americans cannot give into fear. she called for an overhaul of visa waiver rules. >> anyone who has traveled in the past five years to a country facing serious problems with terrorism and foreign fighters should have to go through a full visa investigation, no matter where they are from. >> clinton also attacked her republican opponents saying shallow slogans don't add up to strategy. defense secretary ash carter arrived in iraq this morning on

he'll meet with u.s. military officials there to discuss the fight against isis. isis controls large amounts of territory in iraq and syria. the u.s. has changed its tone regarding syrian president bashar alssad. secretary of state john kerry, after meeting with russian president vladimir putin says assad can stay in power for now. until now, the obama administration has called for assad's removal. the faa is trying to figure out why a southwest airlines jet rolled o o the runway at nashville airport late tuesday. fire officials told cbs news eight people suffered minor injuries. southwest flight boeing 737 had just arrived in nashville from houston and was taxiing to the gate. the jet was packed. there were 133 passengers s d five crewmembers on board and

emergency chutes and taken to the terminal. passengers said they were taxiing to the gate when it felt like the jet bounced off the taxiway. >> we landed and then, the next thing you know, we are getting off the road. i'm looking at the wing and it looks like as if we are about to topple over, and then we stopped in the ditch. >> just you just kind of wonder what happened. did we hit somebody? did we hit a plane, a truck? what did we do? >> passengers say there was no panic and the evacuation was orderly. schools in los angeles will reopen this morning, one day after being shut over a terror threat. officials ordered the nation's second largest school district closed tuesday, after receiving the e-mail threat. it described a large-scale jihadi attack with guns and bombs. police said the decision was the right call. >> would you have sent your child to school? and every parere i've asked has said, no, of course, not. >> new york received a similar threat, but officials concluded

the los angeles unified school district kept 640,000 students home at a cost of $29 million. a powerful system is bringing heavy snow. heavy snow and strong winds to the upper midwest and it dumped up to two feet of snow tuesday in colorado's mountains. a plow slipped off a highway near boulder and flipped over. the driver is okay, though. the snow forced flights to be cancelled in denver and lines of passengers waited to be rebooked. coming up on the "morning news." inside a superstorm. a rare tornado whips sydney, australia, today, with powerful wins. later, ford's self-driving car heads to silicon valley. this is the "cbs morning news."are? engine oil changes tire rotations multi-point inspections roadside assistance and so much more for two years or 25,000 miles

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