"early today" starts right now.ri hello good morning every btd everybody. i'm betty nguyen. it is election day 2015 and that means the countdown is on. and the candidates, they are busy. jeb bush is now a day into his jeb fix it tour on a big reset starting in florida. that phrase was trending world wide by it actually refers to the 2000ef election in florida. and donald trump has a new punching bag. senator marco rubio. >> i think he's an overerated person. i don't thinkpe he's going to make it. >> and more friction between

he will continue to negotiatend tv deals with the network instead of as a gop group effort. president obama joked at a fund raiser last night. >> it turns out they can't hand albunch of cnbc moderators. if you can't handle those guys, you know, then i don't think the chinese and the russians are going to be too worried about you. a >> a new poll with a brand new frontrunner and in a big way. >> reporter: breceived like a rock star. one of the quietest candidates greeted his fired up fans.

also at a front of a fight to shake up debates. unhappy with the last debate, angry and looking for agreement on these demands. at least 30 seconds for opening andpe cloezsing statements, no lightning rounds. no sweat for them but the republican national committee is feeling heat as they cut out party leaders to directly deal with tv networks. >> the outsidertw has really taken leadoff the party. >> reporter: jubeb bush is trying to reboot it. they're looking for a fighter and finding one. >> the challenges we face as a

dice on another presidential experiment. >> reporter: who will come out on top? still up for debate. this morning the u.s. embassy in cairo is telling its staff to stay away from the sinai peninsely. this after a crash that killed all 224 people on board. so far no evidence of terrorism but data gathered by u.s. satellites is raising new concerns. >> reporter:co the wreckage tells a story of a plane broken apart in a midair. eachmi piece, a clue in this mystery. investigators worked on the two flight recorders, extractextracting information but releasing none.

couldn't have caused the crash, blaming a external impact. one thing weim know is that the doomed plaen was involved in a previous accident 14 years ago and no one is ruling out terrorism. isis claims it downed the plane. egypt and russia discounting that. the u.s.s. is not. >> we don't have any direct evidence of any terrorist involvement yet. >> reporter: the bodies of nearly 200 people are back in russia now. among the dead, the sheen family pictured leaving for egypt and the youngest victim, 10 month old dorina waiting to go home, lost in a disaster still to be explained. new developments in that uber attack caught on camera. he's out of a job this morning.

video of golden repeatedly punching an uber driver went viral. he has not responded to requests on the case. in a statement, a taco bell spokes person said given the behavior it's clear he can no longer work for us. the hotly debated keystone xl pipeline may be on hold. the company is locked in a dispute with nebraska and the request could keep the project alivall ethothe state-- although the statement department isn't nt obligated obligated. and president obama sat down with an exclusive with lester holt.

>> you take on one of the under, when you talk about lighter sentences. >> nobody is talking about no jail in all circumstances. the question is how do we go through the various levels of the elcriminal justice system and taylor it so we're getting the best results which is safer streets and reduced incarceration that has us as a society spending $80 billion a year. in if you have violent criminals, they need to be taken off the streets and nobody is more invested than i am in reducing the trends of crime. >> and he spoke about his decision to put boots on the ground in syria. >> we haven't heard from you since last friday when the decision was announced to put a small number of forces on the ground in syria.

promise about boots on the ground. haveve you? >> well, keep in mind that we have run special ops already and really this is just an extension of what we're continuing to do. we're not putting u.s. troops on the front line fighting fire fightsir with isil but i've been consistent throughout that we're not going to be fighting like we did in iraq with a battalions and occupations. that doesn't solve the problem. >> tonight, part two of lester's exclusive interview with president obama. this evening, the 2016 race and what he thought about republican reaction to last week's cnbc debate. winter weather is in full force in alaska. this driver got out of the way just in time as an tsuv slid backwards.

they responded to more than 80 collisions before noon yesterday in anchorage. and a huh boob, dust storm in california, at least five people were injured. so, we've got icy roads, huh boobs, what else do you have for us? > nothing quite as dramatic as those pictures, but we're watching extreme temperatures between the warmth in the midwest and the cool in the west. that's going to continue across thace country. and the storm is still going to bring snow as we go throughout the early morning areas. winter storm watch and this weak storm moves through. and eventually some of that rain will make it into the texas.

theseur temperatures are pretty minneapolis, 20 degrees above average. this is unheard of stuff. from texas toall allmost the canadian border, 80s. and there's really no sign of any really cold air until the weekend coming down out of canada. now aca closer look that day ahead. so, today, down along the gulf coast,th temperatures mild. 91 near orlando and tampa. the only cool stuff on the map is in the northern rockies. when you get 70s in november in the northern half of the country, you take it and run with ait p.. >> i don't want to jinx it.

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now on today in iowa... protestors showed up at the university of iowa, again calling for the new president to resign. plus... a big vote happening in one state. and one group is using a mascot to get people to show up and support their side of the issue. and election day is today. we'll tell you what you can expect, and how people are preparing for today coming up i'm ally crutcher. jerry has