this point. donald trump wins the nomination or nobody does and we get that convention. that's it. what he's doing right now makes total sense. that does it for us tonight. we'll see you tomorrow for our super tuesday coverage. "first look" is up next. >> it's super tuesday, march 1. can anyone stop trump or hillary clinton from running away with the 2016 election? the northern virginia sky was lit up in red and blue flashing lights during a procession for fallen police officer. erin andrews breaks down on the stand over her stalker's secret filming of her naked in a hotel room. plus, after a year in space, astronaut scott kelly comes home today. more on this busy super tuesday. "first look" starts right now.

good morning. i'm dara brown. super tuesday is here, but will it be donald trump's grandest day yet? and for the republicans, 600 delegates are up for grabs and more than a quarter of all primary delegates. a pro marco rubio pac is slamming trump on his cnn interview and he blamed it on a bad earpiece. jeff sessions urged him to support fair treatment and 2012 nominee mitt romney called the interview disqualifying and not in the character of america. at a rally in radford, virginia, black lives matter protesters were escorted out and a photographer was slammed to ground men he tried to leave the mandated press pen. but the front-runner continues to nab doefrment -- endorsements

including nascar's ceo and several drivers. >> if the people that like and watch nascar vote for trump, they can cancel the election right now. nobody can win. nobody. >> the latest cnn/orc national poll showed donald trump ahead outpacing rubio and cruz. cruz is pushing hard for a large share of the delegates. the senator has 27,000 volunteers across the state and including eight u.s. congressmen, 11 state senators and 43 state representatives. and both current and former texas governors. but he is not predicting a sweep. >> tomorrow i believe we'll do very well here in the state of texas. our campaign is tom campaign that has beaten donald trump and this can beat donald trump. what i think is likely, come tomorrow night, donald trump will have a whole bunch of delegates that we will have a whole bunch of delegates and there will be a big, big drop-off between us and everybody else in the field.

and that in turn will effectively narrow this field. >> and with support for the front-runner transcending even pizza, it's an uphill battle for the rest of the pack. we'll know if any of the candidates can take down the front-runner with 11 gop states in play. and the democrats have 11 states in play. bernie sanders facing the fight of a lifetime with hillary clinton pulling away in the delegate count and another 1,000 on the line today. sanders is hoping for a super change in fortune. at a rally in monday he supported the showing at the polls. >> in ten months if you -- a few things have changed. here in minnesota, you can make that change even more significant. minnesota can play a huge -- dare i use that word. we can win, no question here in

minnesota. if we have a turnout. >> he pushed a similar narrative in massachusetts imploring people to turn out and vote. he desperately needs a big day to stay competitive. some good news, sanders leads clinton by five points in oklahoma. though it falls within the margin of error the former secretary of state beat then candidate obama there by 24 points in 2008. the sanders campaign announced it took in more than $41 million in february raking in over $5 million yesterday alone. clinton on the other hand continues to look ahead to the general election and her likely opponent sounding an alternative to the front-runner at four campaign stops monday without mentioning his name. >> i don't think america has ever stopped being great. what we need to do now is make america whole. america never stopped being great. we need to make america whole again. america never stopped being

great. we have to make america whole. i personally believe america is and always has been great. what we need to do together is make america whole again. >> tonight sanders will watch the poll results at a rally at his home state of vermont while clinton will be in florida. and msnbc is the place for politics all day long for wall-to-wall coverage of super tuesday. don't forget to see our special primetime coverage hosted by brian williams, rachel maddow and chris matthews, and that starts at 6:00 p.m. a funeral service will be held today for the 28-year-old officer who was fatally shot on her first day on the job. last night, more than a hundred patrol cars escorted her body from the funeral home to a chapel.

the procession passed by. officer guidron's funeral will be at noon. ronald hamilton has been charged for the murder. erin andrews wept openly in court when she took the stand in her civil trial. earlier in the day the man convicted of stalking her testified telling the court how he altered the peep hole on andrews' hotel room. now as morgan radford report it was andrews' turn. >> reporter: erin andrews still haunted by the video that she says has damaged her career. >> i feel so embarrassed and i'm so ashamed. >> reporter: her chance to look jurors, seven women and five men, in the eye and tell her side of the story. >> my naked body was on the front page of "the new york post" like they put bars over the body parts. my girlfriend was running around new york city throwing coffee on all the papers just because she

felt so bad. >> reporter: just hours earlier andrews left the courtroom as her stalker explained the sordid details of the day he secretly recorded her. in two taped deposition video, michael barrett explained how he altered the peep hole. >> i waited for the opportunity. >> was it your intent to get her without clothes on? >> yes. >> reporter: her mother paula also testified describing the embarrassment her daughter continues to face. >> it's a nightmare that doesn't stop. we just kept telling her it's not your fault. you're a victim. you have been -- you have been assaulted. >> reporter: andrews devastated. >> it upsets me, it's so embarrassing. it was my private time. i never thought this would happen. i never thought a hotel would let somebody next to me without telling me. >> reporter: that was nbc's morgan radford reporting. and president obama awarded

the medal of honor to a member of seal team six in what he called a rare opportunity to catch a glimpse of one of the elite warriors. senior operator, edward buyers was awarded it for actions during a 2012 mission to rescue an american doctor held hostage by the taliban. after hiking in the mountains of afghanistan for hours his team approached the building holding the doctor. nicholas check went in first and he was shot and later died. byers shot and killed two guards and disabled a third in the room where the doctor was being held. he heard the doctor call out and laid on top of him to protect him and subduing another one by the throat until the rest of the team arrived. byers says he didn't accept the award for himself but for the entire community. >> it's for the brotherhood. it's for everything that we have sacrificed since 9/11 in defense

of our country. >> byers has done 11 overseas deployments and nine combat tours and has two purple hearts. a federal judge in new york says the fbi cannot force apple to open a locked iphone. it's important to note that the ruling is in relation to a brooklyn drug dealer case, but can be viewed as a boost to apple's case in california to unlock a phone used by one of the san bernardino terrorists. the judge can't order apple to unlock the phone because congress rejected a bill requiring companies to make data on a locked iphone available to law enforcement. meanwhile, the house judiciary committee will hold a hearing on security versus privacy and encryption. james comey and bruce seawell are expected to testify. veteran actor george kennedy whose film career spanned nearly six decades has died. he won the academy award as a chain gang prisoner in 1967's

"cool hand luke." decades later he would win a whole new generation of fans. >> you see these cuff links i'm wearing? they're not just cuff links. each one fires a dart that knocks out your victim for a few minutes but does no permanent damage. here, let me demonstrate on him. >> why? >> that's when kennedy was cast alongside leslie nielsen in "naked gun" series. george kennedy was 91 years old. let's get down to business business with cnbc's landon dowdy. >> good morning. nasa wants to bring speedy travel to the masses. the design of the supersonic aircraft was revealed. it would go 1100 miles an hour but without the sonic boom. and a test plane could be ready

for takeoff in 2019 if nasa can find the money. houston is hosting the annual livestock show and rodeo. it is considered the city's signature event with the attendance topping 2.4 million people last year. it also draws some pretty big musical acts. this year, you can catch luke bryan, miranda lambert and florida georgia line. you can have the chance to own a piece of oprah's wardrobe. she is cleaning out her closet and putting 150 items up for bid on ebay. it runs through thursday with proceeds going to oprah's girl's academy. back to you. well, something happened in the supreme court that hasn't happened in ten years. plus, after almost a year in space, scott kelly is headed home today. and voting will begin in a few hours in oklahoma and arkansas and you're already dealing with severe thunderstorms. these will push into other super tuesday states. i'll tell you which ones coming up.

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welcome back. 22 million people at risk of seeing severe storms today, maybe isolated brief tornadoes. of the voting states we have arkansas, tennessee, alabama and georgia all within the risk. the possibility of the lines going outside the polling places and then severe storms rolling through will send everyone back to they're cars and looking for shelters. that's what we want to avoid today and avoid any tornados if possible. let's take you through the forecast here, here's all the states. there's a winter storm headed for new england tonight. vermont and massachusetts, no problem whatsoever. snow and ice holds off until after midnight. in the south we mentioned the severe weather threat moving through tennessee during the afternoon hours. heading through alabama late afternoon into the evening and then georgia after dark type of storms for you. fast moving storms will last a

half hour or so. we'll clear it out early in arkansas. same in oklahoma. texas, you look fine. windy and gusty. cold in minnesota, but clear conditions for colorado and also up there in north dakota. alaska looks fine too. again, dara, the biggest problem will be with the severe storms rolling through tennessee and then late today into areas of alabama and georgia. >> let's hope it doesn't stop voters from going to the polls. >> it may send them skcurrying, but it will fine. tragedy at an ohio school yesterday where a student opened fire and hit two others. two others were injured in the chaos. according to police the 14-year-old suspect tossed his handgun as he fled the building. he has been caught and charged with attempted murder, felonious assault and making terroristic threats. for first time in ten years, supreme court justice thomas

spoke and he asked ten questions about a federal gun law. perhaps thomas felt it was time to speak up with antonin scalia gone. in southern california, police conducted an hours long chase of a hummer whose driver had allegedly kidnapped his girl friend and two boys. the driver released the girlfriend and the kids and help he flew uphill into the dark of night as shots were fired. police are still searching for the suspect. and check out this dramatic surveillance video of a car barrelling into a gas station in arlington, texas, it knocks the gas pump to the ground which causes it to burst into flames. the driver was able to pull her passenger out of the car before firefighters arrived and put out the flames. and today is the day, astronaut scott kelly will be returning to earth after setting a record for the longest time in space -- 340 days. he is due to land in kazakhstan. making sense of super

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maybe we could ship one to mr. trump himself. >> well, this may be what marco rubio needs after a slip of the tongue in oklahoma city. >> as difficult as this may seem, do not give into the fear. do not give into the hopelessness, do not give into the hanger -- the anger. >> bernie sanders already has a super tuesday win -- new zealand. democrats abroad got their votes tabulated today and he won 21 to clinton's 6. according to "usa today" ben carson is leading the field for trump's vp slot. in a poll by morning consult, the retired neurosurgeon took the top spot when voters were asked who he should choose as the running mate, but keep in mind, nearly 40% couldn't decide. now that the final batch of hillary clinton's e-mails have been release we get more insight on he including one telling exchange with the subject line exord, military parlance for executive order.

the word sounds like a character from the bar scene of "star wars." we don't know if she was referencing the first movie or the force awakens. and on "the tonight show," jimmy fallon noticed something odd about david duke's infamous donald trump endorsement. >> former kkk grand wizard david duke says he supports donald trump for president but does not endorse everything about him. so you know it's bad even when the kkk is like let's be careful with this guy because we're not sure. >> that is your morning dish of "scrambled politics." and leading the news today on nbc news.com, bill clinton's campaign presence felt on stage and off. clinton saying we do need to make america whole again. and hillary clinton shifts fire from sanders to gop ahead of super tuesday. and in "the washington post" gop candidates on a frantic run to

stop trump. and cruz and rubio made their final push to voters and cruz is banking on a victory in the home state. and rubio is seeking to unite the anti-trump forces. joining me here in the studio, best selling author ellis henican. good morning. >> welcome. >> this brings up a big point is super tuesday going to be a sweep or is cruz maybe going to take texas? where's rubio going to fit in? >> well, let's call it a demi sweep, right, it will be close to a sweep. you're right to focus on texas, that tess piece in play if ted cruz doesn't win he's toast. texas toast. >> you had to get that in there. let's talk about the rumor that possibly ben carson could be his vp. what do you think about that? >> i'm skeptical of that. i would put chris christie ahead

of him. we don't have any idea, what does carson bring to the trump tick? >> well, ben carson said he's planning on staying in the race until the end because he doesn't think we the people haven't voted. not all states have voted so he's staying to the end. what does that do to the gop? >> well, it's not going to have that much effect because he's not getting that many votes. taken together, they add up to a fair number of votes. kasich says why should i go? why not the best, why not me? all of these candidates look in the mirror. they still see if not a future president at least someone who wants to be part of the game and i don't see that any of them has an incentive to leave any time soon. >> somebody in the game, hillary clinton looking all the way to the face-off with donald trump. how is she going to sway the voters because she's eyeing the moderate republicans to move over to democratic side. how does she do that? >> so fascinating. and catholic republicans too. keep an eye on them.

because they really are a group that's kind of at sea right now. listen, she understands that all politics really is fought ultimately in the middle. how many of the other sides of voters can you peel off in your direction and at the same time, hillary is doing that, don't forget assuming we get a trump/hillary race, the trump people will try to figure out are there democratic voters out there that we can pull in our direction? maybe some of those white working class voters or maybe the last few southern democratic white voters. >> how splintered is the gop now she could do that and garner the votes? >> there's a lot of splintering going on. the official people are panicking or accommodating and they can't decide what. >> well, ellis henican, thank you. i'm dara brown. this is "first look." don't forget to like us on facebook. stay tuned. "way too early" is up next.

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