see you next time, folks. rrow. it's wednesday, march 9th. coming up on "early today," the donald wins big and bernie sanders score as major upset as the delegates add up, so do calls for some to step down. sir george martin has died that age of 90. weather alert. bill karins warns of flash flooding and torrential rain today. and hulk hogan is back on

sex tape trial. the bazar scene of what happened next. "early today" starts right now. good morning. i'm dara brown. more primaries, more results. donald trump was a big winner, while bernie sanders had a huge upset in michigan. trump handedly took michigan and followed closely by ted cruz, marco rubio and john kasich. cruz did win idaho, and a state trump didn't even campaign in, although he said he liked their potatoes potatoes. and michigan, where bernie sanders edged out hillary clinton, although clinton dominated in the mississippi primary and nbc news called trump as the winner in hawaii. speaking from florida last night, trump thanked supporters while talking about a growing movement. >> thank you very much, everyone.

i want to thank the public, the people of michigan, i want to thank the people of mississippi. there's only one person did well tonight, donald trump. the single biggest story today booth. the tremendous number of people voting. and the democrats are down. we're up by 50% and even more. you're talking millions of people. so i think it's the biggest story in politics today. believe it or not, i'm a unifier. i want to thank paul ryan, he called me a couple of days ago. he was very encouraging and i ryan. and li ying ted. and then he holds the bible high and puts the bible down and lies.

anybody, they're liars and they'll never get you to the promise land. and by the way, i can be more presidential if i want to be. and i've said this a couple of times, but more presidential than the great abe lincoln. >> and trump hit back in one of the stranger moments of the night, showing off his trump water, magazine and steaks and wine. >> we make the finest wine, as good as you can get anywhere in the world. and i know the press is extremely honest, so i won't offer them any. >> and bernie sanders fighting back against recent polls. >> i want to take this opportunity to thank the people of michigan who reputeiated the

ago, who repudiated the pundts who said bernie sanders wasn't going anywhere and i want to thank the many thousands of volunteers for knocking on doors and making the phone calls that created this kind of enormously successful night for us. and what this means is that the bernie sanders's campaign, the people's revolution that we are talking about, the political revolution that we're talking about is strong in every part of the country and frankly, we believe that our strongest areas are yet to happen. >> meanwhile, clinton appears to be looking past sanders and not so subtlely jabbing her republican opponent. >> running for president shouldn't be about delivering insults. it should be about delivering results. for the american people.

kindness instead of bluser and bigotry bigotry, we could see the best in each other, not the worst. if we lift each other up, instead of tearing each other down, there's nothing we can't do together. >> well, sanders win in michigan was big, delegate wise, about even and with clinton's dominating performance in mississippi, she's set to win more delegate said than sanders on the night. and trump has 456. senator cruz in second with 363. and trump is no doubt looking towards next tuesday with missouri and north carolina in play. and even though florida is rubio's home state, according to

he was known as the fifth beatle, sir george martin has died at the age of 90. the news was broken early this morning by beatles drummer, ringo star who wrote it was 1962 when martin heard a demo tape from the beatles. he set them on a course that would lead them to the top of the rock and roll world and rise them to a level of super stardom never before seen and even an academy award. and john lenin said george martin made us what we were in the studio. he received a knighthood in 1996

roll hall of fame in 1999. sir george martin dead at the age of 90. the search for a suspected shooter was arrested by the secret service outside the white house. saying he threw objects over the white house fence. he's accused of shooting pastor 10 times on sunday, leaving him in critical condition, just one day after he delivered prayers at a ted cruz rally. servl news outlets in spokane reportedly received letters with flash drives, said to be from the subject. >> wunls once we got the information and realized the scope of really who could be in danger in this case, we alerted everybody. our federal partners were brought in, we were in contact with the secret service. we began to alert anybody who we

>> the pastor's son says his father is expected to make the full recovery. a massive manhunt in missouri that put schools on lock down as they skoured. a mexican national suspected of killing five people is now in custody. the search began late monday when they found four men fatally shot in a kansas city kansas home and then the man hunt switched to missouri when a vehicle was found abandoned. and then they apprehended the suspect. they say he was deported in 2004 and reentered at an unknown date. it was a bazar ending to a high-speed chase in new mexico.

reportedly throwing items out of her vehicle. the driver eventually crashed at an intersection and fled from the vehicle naked. the 51-year-old woman was arrested and charged with multiple counts and there's no word yet on why she was naked. >> it is official. federal meteorologists say this winter is the hottest ever for the lower 48 states and alaska and they have their second warmest winter. that is 4.6 degrees above normal. record keeping began in 1895. the warmer temperatures are causing cherry blossoms to bloom earlier than expected. they say peek bloom is expected to occur 13 days ahead of schedule. one confirmed tornado

of fort worth. at least one death is being blamed on the massive storm system. nbc meteorologist, bill karins is here with your storm update. >> we're not concerned with hail or damaging winds, we're very concern would the flooding situation in texas, and arkansas. just a ton of rain, lot of lightning. they're slow moving thunderstorms. already numerous reports of four to seven inches of rain. and that means there's fire workers out there in their boats. and there's a flash flood warning where they're saying to get to higher ground. austin is under a flash flood warning. and that rush hour is going to be miserable. and this is going to be like this throughout much of the day. clusters of thunderstorms will continue. and eventually the rain gets its

so, how much additional rain in addition to what we've already seen will fall, we're predicting another five to seven inches of rain and eventually all this has to goer 60s in northern new england in march. so, record highs on the east coast and flooding in the south. >> are you sure it's spring? >> it looks like an april map. >> it does. well, dramatic courtroom testimony from hulk hogan in his $100 million trial.

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michaels is engaged. and "the daily show" asks kids what they think of the upcoming election. >> rubio, cruz and trump, i think they acted like a bunch of kids. they act like kids in preschool. >> and you should know because you were in preschool four years ago? >> yeah. >> and they're fighting over nothing and if they want to do that, they should go to jupiter. >> you don't want to act like children when you want to become a president like that. >> those are pretty interesting comments. >> you wonder what they absorb and filter at what ages and they're pretty young and getting the sense of this is unusual. >> this is crazy, yeah. strange politics. i'm dara brown and this is

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republican party. a he says rubio and rest of gop field were left watching in horror as trump crushed all comers at the polls and used the victory speech to hawk steaks, wine and the most fabulous mag genes s zeens you will ever read. and sexual transmission of the zika virus is more common than previously thought. according to the who director general. and authorities are currently investigating over a dozen cases of sexually transmitted zika in the u.s. quick reflexes by a dad saved his son a world of hurt

landen were taking in the at lant baseball games. >> i didn't really realize how close it came. i knew the bat hit my arm but didn't realize how close it came to my son's face. i didn't have a lot of time to think about it, i just -- the only thing i can describe is dad mode. >> amazing reflexes there. >> it helps that the dad's forearms are biggest than most bats. it would have hit the kid in the nose. >> so, his dad has more than that, he's actually a hero there. now a time for a look ahead. former first lady nancy regan will lie in repose. mrs. regan will be laid to rest in a private funeral friday morning

brittany snow is 30 and can you bleervsh believe, actor emmanuel lewis turns 35 today. keep it here for more news, weather and sports. i'm dara brown along with bill karins. thanks for watching "early today" today.

mark: a west chester teen will learn his fate after a drunk driving crash killed his friend. the message both families hope gets across. kyla: a night of surprises and close outcomes on the campaign trail. who came out on top in what' s being dubbed the second super tuesday. mark: and an inside look from republican presidential candidate john kasich' s campaign. what kasich had to say at his watch party in columbus about his numbers in michigan. [captioning made possible by wlwt-tv] >> from cincinnati' s wlwt, leading the way, this is wlwt news 5 today. mark: good morning, everyone. thanks for joining us. i' m mark hayes. kyla: and i' m kyla woods, in for