good morning. boiling over. more violence at donald trump's rallies and clashes between his supporters and protesters get out of hand. pepper spray and harsh words. >> go back to africa. >> after at an earlier rally, secret service tackling a man who tried to rush the stage. how will the escalating chaos affect the critical votes on tuesday? meantime on the democratic side, video evidence, the battle over health care. hillary clinton saying bernie sanders was nowhere to be found when she was making a major push for coverage two decades ago. the sanders' team firing back with this video. >> congressman sanders for joining us today. >> we are live with it all.

from bad to worse, as if they haven't had enough, residents in the water-logged south now looking for the possibility of more severe weather today. a chance for tornadoes, even more rain as rivers continue to rise. dylan is tracking it all. iditarod attack. facing charges this morning after police say he intentionally rammed his sled into two racers during the iditarod. >> he freaking tried to kill me. >> one dog killed and several others injured. the man now admitting he was drunk but that he never meant to hurt anyone. madonna's meltdown during her performance. how the custody battle for her son could be playing a part "today," sunday, march 13th, 2016. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today." live from studio 1a in

rockefeller plaza. >> welcome to "today" on this sunday morning. i'm erica hill. >> glad to have you with us. i'm craig melvin, alongside sheinelle jones and dylan dreyer is also here. the race for the white house. first, the results of two races last night, marco rubio winning the primary in the district of columbia and after caucuses in wyoming, ted cruz picking up delegates in that state. >> clashes at donald trump rallies on saturday. at one point the candidate had to be protected by secret service detail when a man tried to rush the stage. >> we have you covered on both sides. let's start with nbc's hallie jackson. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, craig. in bloomington, illinois, bracing for another day on the trail with donald trump, promising to push for arrests of those who interrupt his rallies,

to, in his words, stop the craziness. protesters, pepper sprayed during dueling demonstrations for and against trump in kansas city, and in cleveland, verbal arguments turning ugly. >> go back to africa. >> reporter: in dayton, this dramatic moment, secret service jumping on stage to surround trump, blocking him from a man trying to rush him. this new video showing a different angle, the candidate clearly startled. >> i was ready for him, but it's much easier if the cops do it. >> reporter: online and later on tanlg, trump making an inflammatory remark about the man. >> then one of my people found his name and said it was probably isis or isis-related. >> law enforcement officials from two different federal agencies say they know of no isis connection, adding there's

nothing to indicate any ties. rising tension at rallies so unnerving to natalie hill, she and her husband discussed not going at all. >> we discussed if anything happened edge to the wall and get out. >> reporter: so you had an exit plan? >> yes. >> reporter: his are questioning whether to support him if he win. >> it's getting harder every day. >> everybody take a deep breath. we'll see where it goes. >> reporter: ted cruz again is pledging to support the front-runner if it comes to that. >> donald trump, as president, i believe, would be a disaster but i think hillary clinton would be an even worse disaster. >> reporter: now marco rubio is putting some of the blame for what's happening at some of the rallies on president obama, telling the washington post there's, quote no, doubt the president has contributed to the divisiveness. how might all of this affect

voters as we head into the key super tuesday primaries less than 48 hours away? >> hallie jackson in bloomington, illinois, thank you. democratic candidates are setting their sights on donald trump. the candidates are locked in an increasingly tight race on the democratic side. critical state, as hallie just mentioned, set to vote on tuesday. chr kristen welker is in cleveland this morning with with more on all of that. good morning, kristen. >> reporter: good morning to you, erica. campaigning here in critical ohio today. but on saturday, those violent protests loomed large. the rivalry between hillary clinton and bernie sanders is escalating. but both were temporarily unified saturday, blaming donald trump's rhetoric for stoking violent protests at his rally in chicago friday. >> that is not leadership. it is political arson. >> violence at rallies is not

what america is about. >> reporter: trump then accused sanders' supporters for starting the demonstration. >> they were taunted, harassed by these other people. by the way, some represented bernie, our communist friend. >> reporter: sanders fired back in an interview with reverend al sharpton airing today. >> we have never, never once told anybody to do anything like that. the truth is, this guy really is a pathological liar. >> reporter: this comes as the democratic race is heating up. sanders, increasingly competitive in states like ohio, illinois, and missouri, after his surprise win in michigan. his call to reform job-costing trade deals resonating in the rust belt. >> instead of wages going up, they're going down. >> reporter: saturday, clinton also called for stiffer trade laws, but create aid small dust-up when she accused sanders of being absent during the 1990s health care fight. >> i don't know where he was when i was trying to get health care in '93 and '94. >> then a sanders aide tweet

this had video from 1993, sanders standing behind the then first lady during one of her health care speech. >> i'm grateful senator sanders would join us today. >> reporter: clinton campaign pushing back, arguing she was the one leading the battle for health care reform, the tense back and forth underscoring the very high stakes tuesday. >> i promise you this. i will work my heart out for you. >> reporter: the clinton campaign says even if secretary of state clinton loses some of these mid western states, florida and north carolina, she could expand her delegate lead tuesday. still a senator sanders has a strong showing, this race could go all the way to the convention. erica? >> kristen welker for us this morning. thank you. >> chuck todd is nbc's political director and moderator of "meet the press." good morning to you, sir. >> good morning, craig. >> i watched the rally from beginning to end yesterday and i have to be honest with you. it feels like a certain darkness has befallen the trump campaign,

chaos spilling into the streets, protests, pepper spray. is there a chance that these images, that these scenes we're seeing play out over the past few days, that they're helping to rally his supporters? >> short term gain, long term pain, craig, i think, for the party. it is possible it helps him. i think we've seen this before. when controversy befalls trump, it stiffens the spine of his supporters. they dig in. sort of the more trump gets attacked. look, i think that's why trump has hesitated, perhaps, to sit here and somehow take responsibility, blame his own supporters. he doesn't want to do that. i think he doesn't believe they deserve the blame. so -- but it does feel like we've entered a new phase. again, i don't know if it has an impact on tuesday, but it is having an impact on whether donald trump can unite the republican party. and i think he took a couple of steps way back in his ability to

do that, after on thursday night at that debate, looking like he was on his way to doing it. >> you mentioned stepping back from that, uniting of the party. we heard very clearly from marco rubio yesterday, he was wavering on his support. same thing from john kasich. how does that all play out? in the end can they not support donald trump if he's the nominee? >> they're in a catch 22, the two of them, in particular. they've been so critical. marco rubio said he's a con artist. so how do you somehow -- how do you somehow be able to say oh, i can support a con artist for president? so i've wondered -- the language both, frankly, kasich and rubio have used to criticize trump. by supporting him, it looks more double talkish than if they don't support him at this point. >> john kasich's folkses have said if he does not went ohio, he gets out. it's hard to see how marco rubio stays in, if he doesn't win in

florida. what does a three-person look like? how does a three-man race change the dynamic? >> especially if it's kasich and cruz here, i think it depends on -- you could see a couple of things happen. number one, it means that trump, if he wins florida, but loses ohio, it means that trump will be the guy with the most delegates going into the convention. but he's probably going to be short of the majority he needs. and i think what you'll see over the next few months is cruz and kasich will sort of divide and conquer. if they think kasich is a stronger anti-trump candidate than cruz, cruz people will focus somewhere else, vice versa. i don't think they're quite coordinating yet, but i wouldn't be surprised if you see that coordination as soon as two days from now, if kasich does win ohio. cruz target arizona, kasich target utah and the two of them not get in each other's way. that's how a three person race could look, because it would be all about denying trump.

>> chuck todd, thank you so much. we'll see more on "meet the press" when donald trump, john kasich and ted cruz join chuck on "meet the press" this morning. at least six people have been killed in part to the more than two feet of rain that fell on that area. more severe weather possibly on the way today. joining us from louisiana with more on the situation there, sarah dallof, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. furniture, vehicles, personal mementos, all pieces of lives interrupted by floods. as record-setting floodwaters recede, homeowners are assessing the damage. what's it like to see it today? >> all i can think of is expenses, expenses. >> reporter: emotional task for this resident.

he hasn't told his wife the condition of her prized antiques. >> you see where the water was. >> reporter: you can see the line right there. >> i'm glad she's not with me. >> reporter: similar stories in the thousands of homes damaged by days of torrential rain. families given moments to escape. >> i went to bed at 12:00. water was in the ditches, everything was fine. woke up again at 3:00 am and the water was literally at the front door. >> reporter: the clean-up is back breaking. and for dwayne fuller, knowing he doesn't have flood insurance is disheartening. >> i guess we're just going to depend on neighbors and friends and our church family. >> reporter: a situation many other residents are finding themselves in, according to mayor wendy o'quinn perez. >> we didn't need flood insurance before. >> reporter: devastated by a deluge of water, now beginning to pick up the pieces. >> i reckon i can get somebody

to help me, nail a board here and nail a board. we'll make it back. >> reporter: among those six deaths we mentioned, a man overnight in northwestern louisiana, who was in a boat, attempting to return to his home to collect some personal belongings. dangerous conditions, erica, in a situation that continues to change moment by moment. back to you. >> sarah dallof, thanks. dylan is here. more severe weather is a possibility? >> more scattered severe storms. i want to point out that the rivers are still rising they won't crest until tonight and tomorrow. all that weather that's fallen over the past several days, looking at over the past several days all this water trickling into those rivers. monroe, louisiana, picking up 21" of rain. any additional rainfall will lead to more flooding. the setup right now, everything is quiet. clear skies through louisiana, into arkansas, mississippi. but what's going to happen later on today with that sunshine,

we're going to see those scattered showers and storms develop. that could lead to additional flooding. most of the threat is going to be across arkansas. it'sf an isolated storm pops up over louisiana, produces another one to two inches of rain, we could certainly see additional flooding. it's going to be hit and miss storms. some of those storm also produce hail, isolated tornadoes, gusty winds and torrential downpour. >> what a weekend. >> dylan, thanks. >> what a week. some scary moments to tell you about in alaska. a man on a snowmobile crashed into two sledders and their dog team. >> 26-year-old arnold damaskie was charged with assault and criminal mischief, for the incident that left one dog dead and three dogs seriously injured. >> i hope they can forgive me. i didn't mean it. >> reporter: a tearful apology from the man who is accused of slamming into two iditarod dog

sleds with his snowmobile. he says he blacked out while driving drunk. the man he allegedly hit, four-time champion jeff king, making the thousand-mile trek through the alaskan wilderness, said it felt like something else entirely. >> it did not seem like an accident. it seemed like an act of bravado. >> reporter: king says the snowmobile slammed him from behind, narrowly missing him, but striking and killing his 3-year-old pup, nash, and severely injuring crosby and banjo. >> one of my dogs was killed pretty much on the spot. and a couple of others, i gave first aid to the best i could and loaded in my sled. >> thank you, guys. >> reporter: ally zerkel, racing just ahead of king, feared for her life. >> he freaking tried to kill me. >> reporter: she said out of nowhere the snowmobile ran into

her sled, injured one of her dogs and appeared moments later, reving his engine. but he says he was just coming back to help. >> i turned around because i was concerned and i just had so much adrenaline. >> reporter: after meeting with law enforcement, both teams and their remaining dogs are back on the trail, hoping to put this frightening incident behind them. >> no one in their right mind would do what this person did. >> he says he woke up saturday morning, saw the news, realized what he had done and immediately turned himself into the village police. meanwhile, both mushers are continuing the race as planned. ally zerkel is is in second place. and jeff king is in 13th place with 11 dogs and a suspect is set to be arraigned this afternoon. >> morgan radford, thank you. a new report was just released about what led to last year's deadly crash of a german

wings jet. a doctor referred co-pilot to a psychiatric clinic two weeks before he intentionally flew that plane into the french alps, killing all 150 people on board. they're calling for new rules requiring doctors to report when a pilot's mental health could affect public safety. world class athlete, security personnel insisted she take off the head scarf for her i.d. photo even after she explained she was wearing it for religious reasons. to make matters worse, when she received her badge they had her the wrong name on it. today's college basketball teams will find out if they're going to the ncaa tournament better known, of course, as march madness two. teams punched their ticket to

the tournament first time on saturday. cal state beat new mexico state 57-54. they won the western athletic conference tournament and were pretty excited about it. stoneybrook beating vermont to take the american east conference championship. >> i love college basketball. >> so do i. one of my favorite times of the year. >> yes! dylan is back with a check of the rest of the nation's weather and maybe basketball. >> being play indoors, which may be good, considering all the rain we have right now. up into mississippi river valley and ohio. chance of storms will pop up later this afternoon. this area through arkansas and northern louisiana, that hard-hit area that could end up with more heavy downpours today and isolated severe storms. out west, w you heard dillon say we're

watching rain and mountain snow. there it is. you can see rain across the bay area. heavier pockets moving to south bay peninsula. you can notice the yellows and oranges. overall it looks like it's not going a huge deal a we move through the day. just some regular old rain. we have the microclimate alert in effect this morning. there's the future cast by noon the heavy rain moves to the north bay. by 4:00 the south bay. forecast. >> your alma mater rutgers not going to the dance. >> i don't follow college basketball. but thanks for filling me in. >> ready for football? "saturday night live" taking on donald trump, ben carson and the violence at his rallies. it is all right after this. ♪ i love to take pictures that engage people. and to connect us with the wonderment of nature. the detail on this surface book is amazing. with the tiger image,

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having a field day with the political antics of this republican and democratic presidential season. >> sheinelle in the orange room with more. >> this presidential race, you know it is comedy gold for our friends at "snl." larry david came back as bernie sanders and a fake political ad with hillary clinton, morphing into sanders and even poked fun at ben carson's recent endorsement of donald trump. the show tried to add a little humor to one of the most serious turns of this week's veendevente violence at donald trump's rally. >> breaking news, we're getting word of another incident of violence at a donald trump rally. aparentally the victim was this man, dr. ben carson. who was attacked moments ago by an angry mob that mistook him for a protester. we go there now. >> it's okay. i'm fine. >> guys, what did i say? not this one.

this is one of the good ones. i'm sorry, ben. >> hey, they're just lucky i don't have my knife on me. i've been known to cut a [ bleep ]. >> "saturday night live" pushing the envelope once again. a hot topic, guys. you know "snl" goes in. >> i'm not touching it. >> we'll leave it to our friends. still to come, madonna's strange on stage antics and a separate battle that is happening in her personal life off stage for her son rocco. >> lots to get to still on this sunday morning edition of "today." coughing...sniffling... and wishing you could stay in bed all day. when your cold is this bad... ...you need new theraflu expressmax.

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. good morning. your time is 6:26. we want to take you outside to a live look what is in happening san jose. there's a light rain falling. i'm vicky nguyen alongside anthony slaughter. we're looking at rain across the bay area today. >> yeah. it's wide spread this hormornin. will continue all day long. maybe heavier rain toward the mid-morning hours. especially for the north bay. right now the heaviest stuff is across the peninsula. you'll notice a length of time cloud cover as we zoom out and the rain band extends to the california coastline. we have awhile to go before we

get rid of the rain. pocket s of yellow and orange ae showing up denoting heavier rain. we'll dry out into the overnight hours. rain in the forecast today. keep the rain gear handy and jackets. it's going to stay cool outside. upper 50s and low 60s and 70 for the upcoming week. >> the big change heading our way. >> yep. >> see you at 7:00. rights in the middle of this latest storm the demolition of a pacific can apartment building is underway to keep it from crashing on the beach below. the work should be done by wednesday. city has been fighting the owner of the building at 320 for almost six years now. it's next to another apartment building that was torn down last month. high surf and strong storms are causing the cliff underneath the building to giveaway. >> the foundation will remain and stabilizing the cliff

probably until the summer then it will be removed. . >> the leaders say demolishing the building will prevent pollution from asbestos and lead from falling on to the beach below. a medical scare prompted an evacuation at a walnut creek hotel. about six people reportedly got sick last night at the holaday inn express. one person was taken to the hospital. many guests complained of their ice and throats burning due to a pepper spray coming from the y hallway. hazmat crews searched the building. >> they never found anything but we vented the structure with our own fans and switched the hvac system in the structure to bring in a lot of fresh air into the building. >> crews gave the all clear on the hotel did reopen a short time later. also, in the east bay police investigating an officer-involved shooting happening friday night after an armed man robbed a kfc.

when officers arrived they say saw a female employee with their hands in the air. the robber pointed his gun at an officer as he tried to escape. the officer fired a deadly shot. district attorney's office launched an investigation. fixing the gridlock in the silicon valley. that's what a big tech company is aiming to do. how microsoft plans to ease your commute. that plus your top stories. anthony slaughter back with a look at the weather changes ahead. for now back to the "today" show. see you back here at 7:00.

♪ we are back on this sunday morning, march 13th, 2016. little cold play. >> love that video. love that song. >> can't help but dance. >> tomorrow, the band will be here, rocking rockefeller plaza with their concert. >> you can dance live here on the plaza. >> some of these folks will probably stick around. it's just 4 hours from now. >> who is going to stay? >> cold play. if you stay here, you automatically get a ticket. >> and if anybody gives you a hard time, just say craig melvin said it. >> there you go. let's get you caught up now

on the headlines at half past the hour. sheinelle has that. >> tensions rising at donald trump rallies as his supporters and demonstrators reach an all-time low. one man even trying to rush the stage. all this is playing out two days before the next critical vote in five states on tuesday. one person is dead and two othersissing after a tugboat crashed into a barge in new york's hudson river. the tugboat sank within minutes of the crash saturday morning. thousands of gallons of fuel were also dumped into the river. second escaped inmate in new mexico is back behind bars. lionel claw escaped with cruz, who was capitaled on friday. they told reporters the shackles and shanks just fell off and that's how they were able to escape. >> fell off. incredible story.

madonna's meltdown on stage at her concert in australia over the weekend. some say she's been putting on bizarre performances for a while. there is speculation it could be due to her ongoing custody battle over her son, rocco. kelly cobiella has more. >> i want to dedicate this song to my son. >> reporter: madonna called him a rebel heart, and son, rocco, is living up to it. now with dad, guy ritchie, in london, and vying to stay there. madonna has pled for him at concerts. >> no love greater than a mother's for her son. posting pictures saying i miss this boy. and she lit up the stage at this concert with his baby picture. >> i probably could have enjoyed myself a little more if he hadn't disappeared so suddenly and also if i knew when i would see him again.

>> reporter: rocco is madonna and guy ritchie's only child together. they divorced in 2008. madonna, the rebel on stage, is a strict mom at home and rocco reportedly pushed back, in a fight over a cell phone. >> this is what we would call a teenage argument that escalated into a worldwide madonna crisis. and you have to feel sorry for her. she was only being a disciplinarian acres good mom. >> on friday, madonna ditched the clown suit for nuns in hot pants in australia while her lawyers said she now wants to heal the wounds and work with rocco and guy to resolve matter force her family, hoping oldest daughter, lourdes, can make peace. >> what she's trying to dorks as any good sister would, is try to get her brother to understand that, you know, her mother needs him. and he should make contact. >> reporter: it's now out of madon madonna's hands. a judge will decide whether to force rocco back into the arms

of his mega star mother on tour or whether to let the family work it out for themselves. kelly cobiella. it's all daylight saving time officially. we're hearing from you on social media that the clocks on your screen may not reflect that time change. we don't actually set that clock. we air at different tiechl timd the country. if you noticed it, let your local stations know. maybe their clocks didn't -- >> long way of saying don't blame us. >> trying to point the finger. >> in a really nice way. >> dylan is back with a check of the local forecast. >> if the local station koss come to my house and change the clocks on my stove and microwave, that would be great. they're all wrong right now. flash flooding, watches are in effect. the winds, especially along the coast of oregon, will be very strong, 55 to 65-mile-an-hour

gusts are possible, significant mountain snow. that's all good for building up the snowpack, but the rain could be heavy at times and that could lead to flash flooding and also some mud slides. we are looking at snow, two to four feet in the highest elevations. rainfall should be one to three inches. that whole storm system will spread east through this week. today we want to focus on severe weather through arkansas and northern louisiana, could produce heavier downpours that could lead to more flooding. showers through the ohio and tennessee river valleys and spotty clouds up across the northeast. tomorrow a better chance of rain through the northeast, temperatures dipping into the 40s. they'll get back above average for the rest of the country as we get into good sunday morning to you. meteorologist anthony slaughter here. there is the green on the map. you can see the rain falling across most of the bay area. the heaviest stuff across the south bay and the east bay. as we move through the morning, more rain will develop across the north bay. heavier pockets will move through around noon.

that heavy band of rain will slide through the south bay at 4:00 this afternoon. after that things will lighten up. we have a flash flood watch for the north bay. rain continues and that will be the general trend all day long. >> and that's your latest forecast. craig? dylan, thank you. sad news this morning about the health of a famous whale from seaword, tilicum, the killer whale, popular attraction before he killed his trainer years ago, is apparently near death. >> good boy there. you go. >> reporter: this is tillicum, the killer whale, believed to be 35 years old, he has lived here at seaworld for more than 20. in a video put out by seaworld, caregivers say he has a respiratory infection they can't cure. >> i wish i could say i was tremendously optimistic about

tilikum and his future, but he has a disease, which is chronic and progressive. >> reporter: tilikum's life has been a symbol of the orca's majesty as well as their danger. he killed a trainer, then a trespasser in 1991, then after killing trainer dawn brancheau, that led to the scathing documentary "blackfish." sea world's profits have slumped since the documentary's release. seaworld announced it was ending the controversial killer whale show in san diego. animal rights groups say orcas shouldn't be forced to live this way. >> they will swim up to 100 mile ace day in the ocean. in captivity, they're relegated to what would be the equivalent of us living in bathtubs.

>> reporter: tilikum's trainers in orlando say he's receiving the best care. >> if he would have shown up with this disease in the wild there's no doubt in my mind he would have been gone a long time ago. >> reporter: the hope for now, at least, that somehow a 12,000-pound killer whale can find peace. for "today," steve patterson, nbc news. still to come on this sunday, the second act for college football player who became an opera singer. >> love that. also on our sunday stories, group of american moms making a difference in an international crisis. but first, these messages. totalo give us vegetables. i know. it's awesome. >>boo-yah. blow it up. bush's baked beans. slow cooked according to our secret family recipe with a hint of sweetness. they're the vegetable kids love. they're totally eating their vegetables. boo-yah. >>blow it up. whaaat? bush's baked beans. the veggie kids love. try our newest flavor,

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♪ >> if you like movies, if you like war and violence, sex and all those things, you go see that in the theater. well, it is all in opera too. ♪ >> reporter: morris robinson is one of the preeminent voices in opera today. >> 10 to 20 singers in each vocal category around the world that can continue to have a successful career year after year. ♪ >> reporter: robinson's success follows an unusual path, playing college football as a lineman at the citadel, then spending a decade working in corporate sales for exxonmobil and 3m before taking on the stage. >> i was always singing at weddings and singing the lord's prayer and there is always invariably some little old lady walking up to me saying, you know, you should be doing this

for a living. >> reporter: and at 30 years old, he took a leap of faith when he got a full scholarship to boston university's opera institute. ♪ there are not a lot of guys that look like you that sing opera. >> not a lot of guys that look like me that work for 3m. i think that the opera world is a microcosm of the real world. the real world doesn't all look like us. you have to find a way to overcome that. >> reporter: after years of establishing himself in italian and german operas, robinson is tackling rolls he arovoided for the majority of his career. >> i'm a big black guy, i'm a bass, everyone who sees me and hears me speak thinks two things, sing old man river and i bet you can sing corgi. >> reporter: he started with showboat. and now looks to milan as he prepares to play the lead role in porgy and bess this fall.

♪ >> i've seen both sides having gone to school there. this story is written about blacks from the other side of the track who weren't afforded the opportunities i was afforded in that very town. ♪ >> reporter: robinson hopes to reach a new audience, willing to take a chance on an old classic. >> everyone can't sing like michael jackson or beyonce or rap like jay-z, but that doesn't mean you can't express yourself musically. two chains and jay-z should know about morris robinson. >> one of the coolest guys i've met in a while. one of his missions now is to introduce young people to opera. he is

he said you'd be surprised how many people he talks to. >> what a great story. >> love that. >> thank you very much. still to come, a group of american moms and their journey to reach syrian refugees to help them on their road to a better life. life. that's after these messages. ♪ life. that's after these messages. hey, you're going to do great. ♪ hi. ♪ the whole day to sell to the their old cart aside and buy a new one... oops.

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some years ago this week the syrian civil war broke out setting off a tidal wave of refugees. millions fled with many risking their lives in boats not sea worthy, all in a desperate bid to reach europe. last fall we followed a group of american moms who wanted to help these families, many with small children, by delivering baby carriers, inspired by efforts like that, another group of american moms had set out to provide comfort to the youngest victims. >> two of our producers who made that first trip traveled back to greece a few weeks ago to see the moms in action. their story begins in the sea of orange, piles of discarded life jackets, each representing a harrowing trip across an unforgiving sea, all in search of a better future. >> we went to one of several life jacket graves, words can't

describe how sad it is. we're playing a game of let's see if we can find a real one. it is just filled with styrofoam. >> i was in the military and i've been following the middle eastern conflict for years now. we'll do the same thing. i would pack up my stuff and try to get my 15-month-old baby to safety. i live in california, i have two kids. my son lace and my daughter helena. it was difficult leaving my kids behind. i felt so compelled to do something. >> i was in boulder, colorado, i have a family of three small children. i am here working with operation refugee children. >> we supply relief packs to refugee children. >> a backpack is something very simple. the items we include are items

we take for granted daily. >> a lot of the needs are just things as a mother we felt they would appreciate. >> the kids go on to the bus and we could see through the window they were going through their stuff and this little boy pulled out the crayons and the gloves and looking at them and trying them on and then he looked back at us and waved. >> he couldn't take his eyes off of us. couldn't stop saying thank you. >> lesvos is something out of a postcard or magazine.

people think of it as something very soothing and very calming. it is hard to put into words how something you used to associate so much with beauty is now -- you associate it with tragedy. >> we were able to go to the people. the people are lovely. they don't refer to them as refugees, but as guests. >> they were kneeling down, the same i would kneel down and put a jacket on my son. no difference between them. they both deserve the shelter they seek. he was so happy. he was so appreciative. >> they're from syria. >> they don't know where the

father is. >> how does it make you feel you have to leave syria? >> she has good spirits. she's positive. she also says she's getting used to it, getting used to all the suffering. >> grandchildren and great great grandchildren will judge us by the compassion we showed during this crisis. they're just like us. they're mothers, they're fathers. they have careers. they had a home. they never asked for this. >> patrice and denice, that woman, when she said, our grandchildren and our great grandchildren will judge us on

our compassion really sums it up. >> it does. i think, you know, these are backpacks full of items that they need and they so desperately need, but i think the bigger symbol is that when these moms were giving out the backpacks of telling these kids their lives matter and that they exist because there is just this general sense of a whole generation that feels like they don't matter. so, you know, the moms put so much thought into the backpack and what should go in. >> what kind of things? >> it has been unseasonably cold in europe this year, so it has been snowing. you have all the kids arriving and they're having frostbite. so they, you know they pack little warm booties and fleet and another thing too is they included like a whistle, and a safety device for the parents, but what was really unexpect is when we were in the camps, the kids view ed it as a play toy. so all over the camps you have kids running around blowing the whist whistles, for a brief moment you

forgot you were in a refugee camp and they were acting like kids. they put a lot of thought into what they -- especially from a mother perspective, what they thought they would need and what a mother would need as well. >> really incredible that a few months from this country can have so much impact and do so much over there, just with a dream. >> yes, this is only a group of five moms from the entire country. they have been able to get corporate donations, you saw in the piece. some people had patagonia jaekts, hjaekt jackets, hats, cliff bars was a sponsor. to ought all of this together was really inspirational. >> people can customize a backpack if they like to help. >> right. that's their new initiative. the moms at operation refugee child want to give you the opportunity to really deliver whatever you want to the hands of refugee children. they have a shipping -- they have a packing list and you check off whatever you have. whether it is for a mom, whether it is for a boy or a girl.

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your time is 7:00. let's give you a live look at the golden gate bridge to start you off this sunday, march 13th. traffic moving nicely but it's slick on the bridge. another wet weekend in the bay area. we are tracking the storms for you to help you plan your day. and here is a look at the peninsula. let's take a look at palo alto now. rainmaking for dangerous driving conditions there. more wet roads. good morning and thank you so much for joining us. i'm vicky nguyen. let's get a check of the microclimate forecast with anthony slaughter. >> good morning. wet conditions everywhere. >> yeah. and it's coming down pretty heavy. you can see here the lens is wet with rain drop lets