making news in america this morning, heated debate. hillary clinton and bernie exchanges. >> and enough is enough. if you've got something to say, say it directly. >> the two presidential candidates clashing on stage in new hampshire. we're live with the details. plus, gearing up for the next debate. tomorrow on abc, the gop candidates, crisscrossing new hampshire, barbara bush stumping for the first time and donald trump using a four-letter word. >> happening now tracking the weather system impacting major east coast cities right now.

and floor food. we've all done it, the five-second rule and scientists weighing in just before the biggest snacking weekend of the year. is it true? well, we have made it to friday. good morning, everybody. we'll get started with what was really a heated democratic showdown that took place in new hampshire. >> we're talking bernie sanders, hillary clinton, going toe-to-toe debate being described as caustic, nasty, even ugly. >> putting clinton on the defensive again is sanders. her ties to wall street. it is time for "your voice, your vote." abc's bazi kanani following the developments in washington. bazi, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, kendis. good morning, reena. this was the first democratic debate with two candidates on the stage and with just days to go until the next round of

the top two democrats face-to-face for the last time primary. >> i think it's time to end the very artful smear that you and out. >> reporter: the candidates clashing over charges of not standing up to wall street. >> i helped lead the effort against deregulation. >> reporter: while hillary clinton dodged a question about releasing the transcripts of her paid speeches to banks and big corporations. >> i will look into it. i don't know the status. >> reporter: she showed her muscle on foreign policy. >> i fully, fully concede that secretary clinton who was secretary of state for four years has more experience. but experience is not the only point. judgment is. >> a vote in 2002 is not a plan to defeat isis. >> reporter: bernie sanders again refused to go after clinton for her e-mail controversy. >> i will not politicize it.

her connections to the political establishment. >> secretary clinton does represent the establishment. i represent, i hope, ordinary americans. >> senator sanders is the only person who i think would characterize me, a woman running to be the first woman president as exemplifying the establishment. >> and the candidates are right back on the campaign trail in new hampshire today while hillary clinton is far behind in the polls there, analysts say her performance in this debate was strong and could help her in future contests. reena, kendis. >> hey, bazi kanani live in washington, bazi, thank you so much. in the meantime, by the way the republican battle for new hampshire is quickly turning into quite a horse race. >> the latest poll has donald trump enjoying a wide lead ahead of his two closest competitors, marco rubio and ted cruz but the other candidates are upping their game and pulling out all the stops. overnight a first for jeb bush's campaign. >> great to be back in new hampshire.

bush making an appearance in new hampshire. >> he's everything we need in a president. >> for the third time in her life the 90-year-old hitting the campaign trail for a presidential candidate named bush. >> he's not a braggart. we don't allow that. but he's decent, honest. his dad and i are very, very proud of him. >> also in new hampshire, donald trump stepping up the pace. >> this is really crunch time. >> at one of trump's rallies supporters unable to get inside because it was so packed. abc's tom llamas was there. >> so right now we're outside the trump event. we can't get in because there's so many in there. the fire marshal won't allow it. >> trump's message only an outsider can fix the problems. >> these people, i would like to use foul language. i won't do it. i was going to say they're full of [ bleep ] but i won't say it.

ing the cruz campaign of spreading misleading information suggesting ben carson was dropping out of the race after the iowa caucuses. abc news obtained the voice mail left by cruz's campaign on caucus night. >> this s is the cruz campaign with breaking news. dr. gio will stop his campaign. >> cruz denies any wrongdoing. cruz now trailing marco rubio in a new new hampshire poll. the florida senator now in second place behind trump. >> that's just the over flow crowd. >> they couldn't get them all in. we got to get a bigger room. >> of course, rubio and cruz will flank donald trump tomorrow night. >> yes, also on the stage at the abc news debate in new hampshire, kasich, bush, carson and christie will be right here on abc moderated by david muir and martha raddatz tomorrow saturday night 8:00 eastern, 7:00 central.

the other big news story this morning, a winter storm that is set to snarl commutes in the northeast and air travel nationwide. >> take a look at this shot. the storm arriving. you can see a little bit of flakes outside our studio here in manhattan. the new coastal storm will bring snow accumulations from washington, d.c. to boston. ranging from 1 to 8 inches. >> and boston is expected to get the worst as you mentioned, 4 to 8 inches where schools are already closed today, the latest weather radar shows that storm system marching up the east coast at this hour, but it'll be quick expected to be history by as soon as this afternoon. >> well, concerns grow over the zika virus at home and health officials in brazil say at least two cases were contracted flew blood transfusions with 12 of the 50 plus u.s. cases in florida, the governor there expanded the state of emergency to a fifth county and asking the cdc for a thousand kits to test for zika antibodies in pregnant women who may be at risk.

michigan officials knew about a spike in legionnaires' disease in flint much sooner. the disease may have been linked to the contamination of the city's water supply. the governor said last month he had just learned of the connection but e-mails obtained by the associated press show state agencies and high ranking members of his administration knew about it ten months earlier. mass exodus is under way in syria as u.s. backed rebels lose their hold of a key province. tens of thousands of syrians are fleeing aleppo after days of air strikes from government forces supported by russia. and they're heading toward turkey. on thursday more leaders pledged 10 $10 billion to help syrian refugees. >> back here at home there was a little bit of fun at the white house as president obama welcomed the nba champions, the golden state warriors, mr. obama imitating warriors steph curry

and presented the president with president. >> he struck a heisman pose with crimson tide. they were together at the national prayer breakfast. >> it's always a highlight. >> i can see him doing the cam newton thing in the situation room, can't you. >> oh, could you imagine. >> we got obama. >> all right. >> still the curry -- >> did i confuse it? >> oh, all right. i'm going to get that together. it's another massive recall and this time it's not the takata air bags. >> smiling, smirking and pleading the fifth. martin shkreli, his performance on capitol hill enraging lawmakers. plus dramatic rescue caught on camera.

this dramatic rescue operation in washington state. a homeless man was hoisted to safety after being stranded on a cliff for three days. the man had slid to the edge of that cliff just a few feet short of falling to the river below. fortunately a worker heard him shouting for help. he's back on terra firma expected to be okay. well, enjoy the low gasoline prices while you can. president obama is proposing a $10 a barrel tax on oil. that's likely to raise gas prices about 25 cents a gallon. white house aides say the oil fee would fund environmentally friendly transportation projects such as mass transit. but it's unlikely to get a green light from congress. well, there's another huge air bag recall. these involve the controllers for air bags in about 5 million

the air bags made by a german company can deploy without reason or fail to inflate at all. involving older vehicles from honda, volkswagen and volvo among others. >> sad to say the deadline has passed and california lottery officials say no one has submitted the winning ticket for $63 million jackpot. it was sold last august at a 7-eleven near los angeles. whoever bought it had until late yesterday afternoon to claim happen. at least one person is suing claiming he submitted the winner but he was refused the prize. now, the lottery says some claims have to be investigated. grace. former heisman winner johnny manziel accused of hitting his girlfriend. the 911 call just released. is the five-second rule safe to follow?

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slippery in the northeast. roads are also slippery across the upper midwest and wet roads again in the pacific northwest. if you're flying airport delays possible in boston, new york, philadelphia and washington, d.c. will, the poster child for corporate greed, he didn't say much at a congressional hearing but still managed to annoy the committee members. >> krel shkreli has admitted raising prices of life-saving drugs as much as 4,000%. at this hearing he smirked, he doodled. he twiddled his thumbs and refused to answer questions. >> do you think you've done anything wrong? >> on the advice of counsel i invoke my fifth amendment privilege against -- >> he ignored the advice of his media. he called the committee members imbeciles on twitter. new details about the latest imsz dent involving cleveland

manziel which led to him being investigated for assault. a report by ft. worth police indicates his ex-girlfriend claims he struck her several times last friday during an argument. colleen crowley said he appeared to be on drugs and ran to a maybe's home to get away from manziel, that neighbor calling 911. >> i heard her screaming so i came out to the balcony and she said her boyfriend had beat her up. she didn't want me to call you. >> does she need an ambulance? >> manziel tells tmz he did not strike crowley. they have not charged him with a crime. the nfl, however, is investigating the incident. a couple of passings to note starting with the founder of earth, wind and fire, maurice white. i remember how the stars ruled the night away >> there you see white singing his band's classic hit "september."

maurice white died at his los angeles home wednesday. he was 74 years old. and veteran bmx biker and x games star dave mirra has died. winning medals over a 15-year span and his stunts were legendary. police say he died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. dave mirra leaves behind his wife and two young daughters, he was 41 years old. important health news. the government revising it's rules on narracott inpainkillers. tens of thousands are addicted and dying from overdoses. the five-second rule for food dropped on the floor, the science channel discovered that there's very little chance of germ contamination if both the floor and food is dry. quick draw for moist food left on the floor longer than 30 seconds will collect ten types the bacteria than those snapped

>> so much for licking up that ice cream fallen on the ground. >> or chicken wings sunday. >> let's hope there's not too many food funnelles. >> hoops highlights from our guys at espn. >> he's stan. i'm neil. mine says usc. his says kobe bryant. >> lakers and pelicans, kobe coming off that 38-point game in new orleans, taking on the pelicans, pelicans rocking their mardi gras uniforms. kobe bryant was leading the way, 11 points in the first quarter, 13 in the first half. a minute to play, lakers up three. bryant for three put them up by six. that was really, really big shot. a lot of fan, a lot of blaker fan, jrue holiday tried to tie it. no, sir, 27 points, 12 rebounds. gus williams honored. save our sonics. yeah, that's right.

and then usc went out and ran ucla. andy infield really took heat these last couple of years. he has a club that is playing some hoop and the bruins, they've had some big wins but they'll get swept by usc this season. elijah stuart had 16. he gets three of it here. julian jacobs had 17. us krchlt usc, they're 18-5. 7-3 in the pac-12. >> all right. that's your pac-12 report from now back to you. >> thank you, gentlemen. up next in "the pulse," a kale salad and a big mac from mcdonald's. which one is better. from the star-spangled cry.

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hey there, time to check "the pulse" beginning with the skinny on a seemingly healthy choice under the golden arches. >> talking about some of mcdonald's salads and apparently they're packing more calorie, fat, salt than a big mac. among them mickey d's premium southwest salad starting out with kale and spinach but it stopped with buttermilk chicken, cheese, ranch dressing and much more. >> all told that's about 710 calories. 43 grams of fat and more than 1300 milligrams of salt. >> sold. >> really? that's nearly 200 more calories than a big mac, kendis and more salt and more fat too. >> with a diet coke. okay, so it's a friday before the super bowl. time to highlight some of this year's so-called prop bets. of course you can bet on the

length of lady gaga's national anthem. >> but here's some exotic ones. will peyton manning announce his retirement in a postgame interview and will he cry during the broadcast. >> you can also bet how many times -- that's what we're talking about, dabbing will be mentioned or how many types cam newton will do the superman motion. another good one, what will coldplay's first song be during the halftime show. >> very interesting. look forward to that. las vegas always gets a little action. >> exactly. a record has been broken at a london premiere. >> ben stiller is officially the king of selfies. that guy. he's breaking the guinness world record for photo taken with the longest selfie stick. this is the photo he took of himself and the entire cast of "zoolander 2" at the film's premiere in london last night. >> impressive selfie arm. wow, we're talking 28 feet long. >> wow. >> stiller tweeted the photo out saying, this was much more

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julian assange.a human rights panel says he should be freed. assange has been holed up in a london embassy... to avoid extradition to sweden on rape charges.assange says those charges are politically motivated. it's a frosty start to our morning with temps near 20. skies will be clear for the first half of the day, turning partly cloudy this afternoon. our high improves to 41. temperatures warm through the weekend. saturday's high reaches 45, sunday at 49. enjoy the dry, partly cloudy and warmer weekend!

good morning tri-state at 4:30 starts right now. a young girl... hit in a crosswalk by a hit and run driver.her condition this morning... and the changes community activists want to see at that intersection. fireworks erupt between the democratic presidential candidates.the issues dividing bernie sanders and hillary clinton... and just who was telling the truth. going red for women...you're taking a live look at the p-n-c building downtown... which is lit up this morning...