it's tuesday, november 3rd, coming up on early today," fresh new nbc news polls find a clear l-ader with the highest percentage of any gop candidate in our ansurvey. president obama speaks out on snding u.s. troops into syria. in an exclusive. and details on uber drivers. "early today" starts right now.ri

hello good morning every btd everybody. i'm be andenguyen. it is election day 2015 and that means the cou0,down is on. and the candidates, they are busy. jeb bush is now a day into his jeb fix it tour on a big reset starting in florida. that phrase was trending world wide by it actually refers to the 2000ef election in florida. and donald irump has a new punching bag. senator marco rubio. >> i think he's an overerated person. i don't thinkpe he's going to make it. >> a more friction between trump ande is fellow republican candidates. he will continue to negotiatendsev

of as a goi group effort. president obama joked at a fund raiser last night. >> it turns out they can't hand albunch of cnbc moderators. if you can't handle those guys, you know, then i don't think the chinese and the russians are going to be too worried about you. a >> a new poll with a brand new frontrunner and in a big way. >> reporter: breceived like a rock star. one of the quietest candidates greeted his fired up fans. the new republican frontrunner also at a front of a fight to shake up debates.

gry and looking for agreement on these demands. at least 30 seconds for opening andpe cloez sing statements, no lightning rounds. no sweat or them but the republican national committee is eling heat as they cut out party leaders to directly deal with tv networks. >> the outsidertw has really taken adoff the party. >> reporter: jub eb bush is tryinn y to reboot it. they're looking for a fighter and finding one. >> the challenges we face as a nation are too great to roll a dice on another presidentiak periment. >> reporter: who will come out

still up for debate. this morning the u.s. embassy in cairo is telling its staff to stay away from the sinai peninsely. this after a crash that killed all 224 people on board. so far no evidence of terrorism but data gathered by u.s. satellites is raising new concerns. >> reporter:co the wreckage tells a story of a plane broken apart in a midair. mystery. investigators worked on the ttw flight recorders, extractextracng information but releasing none. they clado a technical fault couldn't have caused the crash,

blaming a external impact. one thing weim know is that the doomed plaen was involved in a evious accident 14 years ago and no one is ruling out terrorism. isis claims it downed the plane. egypt and russia discounting that. the u.s.s. is not. >> we don't have any direct evidence of any terrorist involvement yet. >> reporter: the bodies of nearly 200 people are back in russia now. among the dead, the sheen family pictured leaving for egypt andu the youngest victim, 10 month old dorina waiting to go home, lost in a disaster still to be explained. new developments in that uber attack caught on camera. he, 's out of a job this morning. video of golden repeatedly punching an uber driver went viral.

on the case. in a statement, a taco bell spokes person said given tie behavior it's clear he can no longer work for us. the hotly deboted keystone xl pipeline may be on hold. the company is locked in a dispute with nebraska and the request could keep the project alivall ethothe state -- although the statement department isn't nt obligated obligated. and president obama tat down with an exclusive with lester holt. >> you take on one of the under, when you talk about lighter seerntences.

jail in all circumstances. the question is how do we go through the various levels of the elcriminal justice system and taylor it so we're getting the best results which is safer streets and reduced incarceration that has us as a society spending $80 billion a year. in if you have violent criminals, they need to be taken off the riret s and nobody is more invested than i am in reducing the trends of crime. >> and he spoke about his decision to put boots on the ground it syria. >> we hofen't heard from you since last friday when the decision was announced to put a small number of forces ongthe ground in syria. many will say you broke your promise about boots on the ground. haveve you?

have run special ops already and really this is just an extension of what we're continuing to do. we?re not putting uo . troops on the front line fighting fire ghtsir with il but i've been consistent throughout that we're not going to be fighting like we pad in iraq with a battalions and occupations. that doesn't solve the oblem. tonight, part two of lester's exclusive interview with president obama. this evening, the 2016 race and at he thought about republican reaction to astweek's cnbc debate. winter weather is in full force in alaska. this driver got out of the way just in time as an tsuv slid backwards. aney onsponded to more than 80 collisions before noon yesterday

and a huh boob, dustmstorm in california, at least five people were injured. so, we've ot icy roads huh booby, what else do you have for us? > nothing quite as dramatic as those pictures, but we're watching extreme temperatures between the warmth in the midwest and the cool in the west. that's going to continue across thace country. andthe sstrm is still goif to bring snow as we go throughout the early morning areas. winter storm watch and this weak storm moves through. and eventually some of that rain will make it into the texas. d not the heavier stuff until thursday. theseur temperatures are pretty s migoeapolis, 20 degrees above

this is unheard of stuff. om texas toall all most the canadian border 80s. and there's really no sign of any really cold air until the weekend coming down out of canada. no ca closer ly k that day ahead. so, today, down along the gulf coast,th temperatures mild. 91 near orlando and tampa. the only cool stuff on the map is in the northern rockies. when you get 70s in november in the northern half of thee country, you take it and run with ait p. . >> i don't want to jinx it. people who have betrayed pope francis's trust. and justice for one texas

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