captioning funded by cbs it's wednesday, february 3rd, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." the presidential campaign crisscross hamp, while the candidates are looking ahead to tuesday's primary. donald trump still stewing over his second place finish in iowa. an airplane is rocked by a mid-airplane explosion over somalia. two people were injured and terrorism could be to blame.

heavy smoke and flames force a little girl to her third floor balcony. her only option, to jump into the arms of three police waiting below. you make me feel like i'm alive again >> the road to the super bowl is paved with carpool karaoke with chris martin riding shotgun and james corden gets a preview of sunday's halftime show. good morning from the studio headquarters in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. the focus of this year's presidential campaign has moved to new hampshire and its first in the nation primary, now just six days away. the iowa caucuses, as they often do, change the game and some candidates hoping to build on momentum and others find

targets. weijia jiang is in manchester, new hampshire. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to everybody. texas senator ted cruz says he was able to win iowa with a strong ground game, something donald trump was criticized for not having. trump also ditched the last debate before the iowa caucuses. it's a decision he now says he does not regret but admits it might have cost him the state as he aggressively tries to rebound. donald trump took to the campaign trail in milford, new hampshire, tuesday, brushing off his second place standing in iowa and downplaying march owe rubio's third place finish. >> he comes in third. i come in second. trump, no good. rubio, unbelievable night! unbelievable victory. unbelievable! >> reporter: rubio outperformed expectations in the hawkeye state and finishing just one percentage point behind trump, the new hampshire favorite. >> we have to go out and convince more people that

i've done that and will do that. >> reporter: the florida senator is now positioning himself as the alternative to trump and first place iowa finisher ted cruz. with the first in the nation primary here in new hampshire, less than a week away, candidates on both sides are flooding the state in an effort to sway voters. while some have already made up their minds. >> everything that ted cruz believes in, he acts on. he believes in the best things for america. >> reporter: others remain undecided. >> i am going to be going to a lot of town halls and, you know, looking at candidates face-to-fans talking face-to- face-to-face and talking to them face-by-face. >> reporter: hillary clinton has come to the granite state as the underdog, trailing sanders by 18 points. >> i hope you will choose with both your heart and your mind. >> we are going to go state state.

could face each other in a possible debate here tomorrow. and here on the campaign trail, hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail account is following her. the state department now says then senator john kerry also used a nonofficial account to send her information now deemed classified. >> weijia jiang in new hampshire, thank you. we will talk about what happened in iowa and the upcoming new hampshire primary with senator bernie sanders coming up on "cbs this morning." this morning, a major storm system has brought a mix of severe and potentially dangerous weather to the central united states. that same system is pushing a band of tornadoes into the deep south. heavy snow and, in some areas, blizzard-like conditions hampered travel in the plains. tornado watches were issued for parts of louisiana, mississippi, and alabama. don champion has our report.

tornado hit western alabama late yesterday. >> thank god we, you know, we are all -- we were all okay. that is the main thing any time you have a storm. >> reporter: it left a trail of damage about 45 miles west of tuscaloosa. mobile mobile homes, trees and power lines were destroyed but nobody injured. >> not as bad as oklahoma or texas but when we have one, it's usually bad. >> reporter: it was one of several tornadoes to touch down in the south. at least eight were reported in mississippi, sending residents scrambling for safety. >> we got in our truck with our grandson coming to our storm pit. as luck would have it, we never made it to the storm pit. the tornado picked us up and threw us. >> reporter: east of the of jackie, severe flooding is reported. several people had to be rescued. in the midwest, the issue is heavy snow, as strong winds, there were whiteout conditions from nebraska to michigan.

snow fell, drifts were several feet deep. in wisconsin, the flakes came fast and furious. >> all of a sudden, it's just like somebody snapped their fingers and she was coming down in pretty big flames. >> reporter: there are blizzard conditions in southwestern minnesota where folks are being advised to stay off the roads. more than 10 inches of snow has fallen and several highways have been shut down. here in the east, no big worries about snow, at least for now. in fact, record highs could be set and temperatures could reach into the 60s in new york and washington today. 70s in the southeast. anne-marie, let's hit the road. >> my goodness. don champion here in new york, i think it's a great idea. in the coming days, centers for disease control. health official in texas identified the first u.s. case of the zika virus transmitted through sexual contact. the patient are not traveled but had sex with someone who had

>> now it's a game-changer. we are talking about sexually transmitted virus, the zika virus, and that is a concern as we go forward, since 80% of the individuals don't have any symptoms. >> reporter: the virus is usually spread by mosquitoes and is linked to a serious birth defect. it's still unclear what caused an explosion on board a commercial airliner in africa. the airbus operated by a somaliay airline had just taken off from mogadishu late yesterday en route to jabuti. 74 passengers and two crew on board. two were injured. the jet returned to mowing dish a -- mogadishu and landed safely. the cause of the explosion is under investigation. a pretrial hearing in bill cosby's sexual assault case resumes today in pennsylvania. cosby was arrested and charged

sexually assaulting a temple university employee in 2004. cosby wants the case thrown out because of a deal made with the former district attorney. as today. a denver broncos player is sent home from the super bowl this morning amid a prostitution scandal. ryan murphy, a safety on the broncos practice squad, was detained by not arrested during a prostitution sting tuesday night. jamie yuccas has more. >> reporter: investigators let ryan murphy go without citing him, once it was determined he was not involved in any illegal activity but all of the negative attention ahead of the biggest game of the year bought him a one-way ticket back home to denver. the prostitution sting was centered around a san jose hotel. murphy's broj

the detectives. murphy was assigned to a practice squad after released from the seattle seahawks. he is from nearby oakland, california, right near the san francisco bay area. after sending murphy home, broncos head coach gary kubiak released a statement saying, quote, it's best for the team if we continued our preparation for super bowl 50 without him. now in a bit of a twist here, the broncos opponent, the carolina panthers, was given a little bit of a word of warning, you could say, from eugene robinson on sunday. you may remember that robinson, back in 1999, was arrested for soliciting a prostitute the night before super bowl xxxiii. he was a former atlanta falcon. robinson told the panthers on sunday, quote, don't mess this up. anne-marie. >> ya that is pretty good advice. jamie yuccas in san francisco, thanks a lot, jamie. coming up on the "morning news." a dangerous water rescue. crews looking for a surfer

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the girl's mother was overcome tuesday, talking about her daughter. >> nicole was very loveable person. nicole touched many people throughout her short life. >> another virginia tech student, natalie keepers faces a charge that could mean a life sentence if she is convicted. florida sun sentinel reports on a small plane crash in the ocean off miami beach. within minutes of going down tuesday, the single engine plane was submerged. witnesses photos show the seen as the pilot and passenger made it to a wing. a lifeguard helped them make it safely to shore. >> they are really lucky, you know? when you hit the water, it's like concrete. when you hit that water with that speed. >> the two men escaped without serious injury. they had they experienced engine trouble before the crash. a tow boat hauled the plane back to a marin a.

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