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trump and texas senator ted cruz amid charges of fraud and dirty tricks. abc's bazi kanani has the latest now from washington. good morning, bazi. >> reporter: good morning, phillip. good morning, reena. hillary clinton and bernie sanders appeared separately at that televised town hall last night where we may have gotten a preview of the points they'll try to make in their debate tonight. the democrats lay out their differences in new hampshire. >> i think an objective assessment would say that there is more excitement and energy in our campaign. >> reporter: bernie sanders argues he is more electable than hillary clinton defends his plans to raise taxes to p for universal health care. >> so we're going to pay a little more in taxes but you're no longer going to have to pay private health insurance premiums. progressive political revolution. >> we will raise the minimum wage. people. >> it's very hard to see how any of his proposals could ever be achievable. >> reporter: clinton fights back

moderate not a progressive. >> i'm a progressive that likes to get things done. >> reporter: fielding questions about speaking fees. >> did you have to be paid $675,000. >> i don't know. that's what they offered so -- >> reporter: even that famous old theory from the '90s. >> do you still believe there is a vast right wing conspiracy? >> don't you. >> reporter: ted cruz fires back after donald trump accuses him of fraud for sending this e-mail to supporters on caucus day suggesting ben carson was dropping out of the race and told his team to spread the word to carson supporters. trump tweets ted cruz didn't win iowa, he stole it. he accuses trump of a nationality temper. >> i don't know anyone who would be comfortable with someone who behaves this way having his finger on the button. we're liable to wake up one morning and donald if he were president would have nuked denmark. >> reporter: and the republican field is a little smaller this

and rand paul dropping out. reena, phillip. >> bazi kanani live in washington, bazi, thank you. donald trump hit a major road bump on the campaign trail yesterday from 30,000 feet up. >> his private jet forced to make an emergency landing in nashville after the pilot reported engine problems. there are no details on what exactly went wrong with the boeing 757. the faa is investigating but trump did manage to make it to an event in little rock, arkansas, 90 minutes late. earlier in the campaign trump accused jeb bush of being, quote, low energy. >> bush will be campaigning today in new hampshire. he has a town hall meeting scheduled in dairy and we would think he's probably hoping to avoid another moment like what happened tuesday in hanover. >> i think the next president needs to be a lot quieter but send a signal that we're prepared to act in the natiol security interests of this country to get back in the business of creating a more

please clap. >> ouch. >> oh, y. no one said winning over the voters would be easy. >> we got to remind you of the republican debate before the new hampshire primaries this saturday on abc. 8:00 p.m. eastern moderated by our own david muir and martha raddatz. the lineup will be announced later today. this week's severe storm system is now marching through georgia. it spawned a tornado last night that loomed over this subdivision. tornado sirens clearly heard in the neighborhood. that twister left a trail of southeastern georgia. >> trees were knocked out and vehicles and buildings were damaged. one of them an elementary school is closed today. there are no reports of any injuries. and take a look at the radar here. that storm system now is along the eastern seaboard all the way from northern florida up into new england. the heaviest rain will be in the south and some flash flooding is also possible. the sexual assault case

a judge refused to throw out the case against the comedian and he allowed the current district attorney to remain involved. a former d.a. who testified for cosby claimed he had granted cosby immunity and the judge ignored that. cosby's attorneys say they will appeal the decision. emotions ran high on capitol hill in the first congressional hearings over the water crisis in flint. the chairman of the house oversight committee called on the u.s. marshals to hunt down the former emergency manager who failed to show for the hearing. and representative elijah cummings accused the governor of poisoning the children of flint. >> i want everybody who is responsible for this fiasco to be held accountable. we are the last line of defense anan if we don't do it, nobody is going to do it. >> he got caught red-handed poisoning children in flint and the residents of flint.

former flint emergency manager says his client will testify but he didn't have the time to prepare for the hearing. the syrian peace talks on hold with each side claiming the other doesn't want an end to the fighting. one thing is clear, five years of civil war has taken its toll on the country as video taken by a drone and home shows blocks after block reduced to ruins. once the third largest homs has seen fierce fighting. this drone video was taken by a group with ties to the kremlin. from the fog of war to the fog of washington now, a week after theation's capital was still digging out from a blizzard right now it's 57 degrees and that abrupt change producing heavy fog. take a look at these two shots of the white house taken about an hour apart and it's from the famous hay-adams hotel. see that heavy fog. you can barely see the white house. >> yeah, well, still ahead, a major malfunction at the irs

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he filed with the u.n. well, the face of corporate greed is keeping his mouth shut. martin shkreli plans to plead the fifth when he appears today. shkreli has made no bones about jacking up the prices of prescription drugs just to make more profit. but at a court hearing on securities fraud yesterday, his new attorney said the 32-year-old will no no longer b interviews or posting on sosoal media. real estate heir robert durst has pleaded guilty to a weapons charge in new orleans. he has been in custody since last year. just as an hbo documentary series was airing. it detailed his links to several murders and yesterday's deal durst agreed to an 85-month prison sentence. if a judge approves the deal it could clear the way for durst's extradition to california to face charges for the murder of a former friend. well, don't bother trying to file your taxes this morning, the irs tax processing computer system has had a hardware

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their mutual interest on poetry on an instagram page. harris from murrieta and van in new york messaged each other back and forth. five days into the online courtship, they took their romance offline. >> i said call me. i can't keep up. call me. we talked for five hours that first time and just went from there. >> reporter: accepting each other poe weapons and videos through, you guessed it, instagram. >> you're so limited on what you can do with each other that you have to dig deeper into each other to find out about them. >> reporter: then three weeks ago during an exchange on instagram, friends suggested they get married. so harris popped the question. >> and i said, yeah, why don't we get hitched? and there was about a three-minute pause. >> i tried to comment back and i lost my internet connection and it said failed. all of a sudden we're waiting. >> reporter: vann quit his job as a chef and bought a one way

harris needed to get her boys' blessing. >> why did you say yes. >> because i wanted toher to get married again so she can have an easier time. >> reporter: they have to make this instagram marriage legal and plan to do that soon. >> we're going to take it wherever it goes but i know i'll never leave her side. >> reporter: abc 7 shgsnews. >> i would have taken the loss of internet connection as a sign. >> no nod3 you know that feeling when you're wearing a super itchy sweater that never seems to be comfortable? that's this sheep's life. so when a friendly passerby decides to

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