it's monday, february 8th. coming up on "early today," score one for the underdogs and one of the best players of all time and from the gridiron to the granite state a mad scramble for votes as candidates fight for their political lives plus the northeast braces for another storm. "early today" starts right now. good morning. i'm gigi stone woods. peyton manning got the storybook ending to a career that many argue makes him the a greatest quarterback to ever play the game. his underdog broncos did what few thought possible as denver's

panthers. the broncos opened the game and scored again in the first quarter. >> in the end zone. >> the panthers got on track to start the second. cutting the lead to just three. both teams gave the ball away before halftime when the punt return led to another broncos field goal. a halftime that started with cold play and ended red-hot with bruno mars and beyonce joining the show. in the second half the teams traded field goals and later in the fourth with the panthers down by six they turned it down again their fourth in the game. the broncos then pushed the ball across the goal line securing the franchise ice third super

ring for peyton manning. jay gray, nbc news, santa clara. following the game a dejected cam newton had this to say before walking out on the media. >> they just played better than us. i don't know what you want me to say. >> hard night. the broncos' linebacker miller led the defense and miller was richly rewarded by being named super bowl 50 mvp. so have we seen the last of future hall of famer peyton manning? >> i've got let this sink in. it's been an emotional week, an emotional night and a night that's just beginning. i look forward to celebrating with my friends and family, and i think i'm take some time after that. like i said, i'm going to enjoy the night, take it one step at a time. >> and as broncos fans celebrated back in denver police

largely under control with just a handful of arrest. the broncos parade will take place tuesday at denver's station. it seems it's still anyone's race. the latest monmouth university poll came out. it has donald trump on top, but get this. only 49% of gop primary voters say they're undecided. it appears marco rubio has the biggest bull's-eye among all candidates. nbc's gabe gutierrez reports. >> reporter: with his political future on the line, marco rubio doubled down saying so what if he sticks to a script. >> it's interesting that right now after last night's debate, all of you said the same thing three or four times. >> i'm going to keep running that clip. >> reporter: but rubio seemed rattled repeating the same rehearsed line four times. >> let's stop once and for all with this fiction that barack obama doesn't know what he's doing.

he's doing. this notion that barack obama doesn't know what he's doing. anybody who doesn't know that he's doing what he's doing on purpose doesn't know what he's doing here. >> reporter: the all out assault by chris christie. his opponents are branding him an inexperienced robot. the #rubioglitch trending on social media. >> i think the whole race changed last night. you know there was a march among the clash. >> reporter: hoping to gain ground governors christie, jeb bush, and john kasich executive experience but it's still donald trump still leading by a wide margin after his latest jabs through repeated on ""meet the press,"" he terrorist.

and i'd bring back a helluva lot worse. >> what's the worst? >> i'm not going to bring it up on this show. the ground game in new hampshire intensified for the democrats as wellsanders holding a lead. we get more on the democrats from nbc's kristen welker. nton taking a detour to a baptist church in largely african-american flint, michigan, impacted by a toxic water crisis.is not merely unacceptable or wrong, though it is both. what happened in flint is >> reporter: clinton's visit designed to resonate with her base in south carolina critical if she loses new but the clintons aren't giving

volunteers are going door to r surrogate in chief bill clinton back in the state where he was labelled the comeback k catapulted him to prez denlcy. >> this is 1992 on steroids. you need to respond on steroids and you'll never regret >> reporter:.trails bernie sanders. women on the attack trying to pin sanders as weak on foreign >> there really isn't any kind of foreign policy network that is supporting and advisingsenator sanders. >> reporter: sanders firing back on the trail in new hampshire. >> war in iraq, i was right on that issue.n was wrong. >> reporter: hailing from neighboring vermont, sanders is leading clinton by double digits in the latest polls but clinton proven experience here waging her own comeback in 2008 beating barack obama.

made a quick detour in torks aer on "saturday night live" alongside the host, his nger, larry david. >> madam ail bright was doing a interview with secretary of she said there's a special place in hell for women who don't help other voters. >> that's unfortunate women should help women, men should help men. we're now talking about the president of the united states and people should make their decision based on who could the job best. >> you've been taking criticism. >> this is what i say. i say, a, it's nonsense, and, the same argument used against barack obama in 2008. who is this young senator? he doesn't havy sense with foreign policy.

foreign policy issue was the war in iraq, okay? i vote against that war, which was the right vote, i helped lead the opposition to hold on. wait a second. >> we were just talking aboutght live." >> she gave me a cough and shake. >> are you sure there wasn't a cough and a wipe and a shake? >> no,ou a finance of "curb your enthusiasm?" i think it was one of the best shoes around. >> you used to watch it. >> yes. >> it must have been surreal to havelay you. >> it would be an understatement. they held a rare emergencyiscussing the next step on what to do with north korea. pyongyang claims it was just a

underground nuclear attack. all 15 security council members pledged to adopt sanctions against them. >> with each action they move one step closer to its goal of developing nuclear tips and intercontinental ballistic we cannot and will not allow this to happen. >> of north korea's capability. it's been nearly three days since a powerful magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck southern taiwan and people are still be neath the rubble. this morning two people were pulled from the rubble. so far more than 170 people have been rescued from the building'sg. according to the "associated

now for a look at ther, hero's meteorologist bill karins. >> we've got two big blizzards the east. this is a huge monster storm off the coast. yesterday. we're so fortunate in many areaseading along the coast and out to sea but it's england. there's this storm way down to missouri. cape cod is going to be a full-fledged blizzard. you can see the heavy rain bandinvading the cape. some of this is trying to move out to long island and eventually have blizzard warnings to nantucket. winter storm warnings all the way to montauk and islip.under an advisory along with all our friends in new hampshire and much of maine. how much snow are we talking e totals closer to the ocean.

new york city may get nothing but 2very light and minimal effects there. out on long island, 6 to 10 inches. the blizzard is taking place. there it's blowing andt so much blowing and falling. here's a closer look at the day ahead. well, you can see the aren't all that cold yet. it's after these two storm systems move out. that's when the cold air will really invade from the north. our frien already a high of 14 degrees and a cold day in st. louis with some snow showers. i think when we start to tell going to be toward next weekend, people are not going to like it. >> we're going to run from you. >> yes. >> you were dead right on the storm last time. we'll see,> gas prices drop begun, and which one of those $5 million super bowl ads score the best, we'll let you know. a frightening scenendon alarms many but not the

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under the guise of humanitarian they also try to recruit women to marry isis fighters in syria. this friday pope francis will land in mexico citys week-long trip. supporters are asks thousands of worshippers to create a wall of prayer by holding up their cell phones. millions of people haved the beaches in rio de janeiro. last night the famous parade featured some pretty spectacular let's get down to business. if you bet the denver broncos would win last night's game, your winnings are actuallye income. americans bet about $4.2 billion on super bowl 50. nearly 4.1 billion of those bets are wagered illegally. the super bowl is the most

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