captioning funded by cbs it's friday, march 18th, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." president obama's pick to fill the supreme court vacancy gets the seal of approval from senate democrats. but the battle to get merrick garland confirmed is just beginning with republicans saying he'll never make it to the high court. taking on trump. forces from conservatives to activists line up to stop donald trump from winning the republican nomination. march magic for the yale bulldogs! >> upsets abound. the first full day of the ncaa

college basketball fans. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. senate republican leaders are digging in their heels over the nomination of judge merrick garland to the supreme court. garland met with democratic leaders yesterday. both sides are mustering their resources to press their case. garland is expected to return to capitol hill today. don champion reports. >> reporter: senate minority leader harry reid. >> i am confident he is going to get approval. republicans cannot continue this. it won't work. >> reporter: the 63-year-old moderate appellate judge also sat down with ranking democrat patrick leahy during hisir

>> you guys are paid to do your job. make up your mind. >> reporter: garland did not meet with republicans opposed to granting him a confirmation hearing. senate majority leader mitchell mcconnell laid the visit as a stunt orchestrated by the white house. former presidential contender marco rubio also stood firm. >> i don't think we should be moving forward on a nominee in the last year of this president's term. i would say that if it was a republican senate. >> reporter: a handful of republican senators up for re-election this fall have indicated they are open to meeting with garland including committee chair chuck grassley. >> if i can meet with a dictator in uganda, i can certainly meet with a decent person in america. >> reporter: the white house says it will set up with meetings when lawmakers return from their easter recess in two weeks. garland has spoken with senate majority leader mcconnell over the phone.

are toying with the idea of confirming garland in the lame duck session, something the white house has dismissed. >> don champion here in new york, thanks a lot, don. new york city police and the secret service are investigating a suspicious letter sent to the home of eric trump, one of donald trump's sons. police responded to a call about the letter at eric trump's new york city apartment last night. a source tells cbs news the letter contained a white powder but that it did not appear to be hazardous. a source close to the investigation says the lerp thre letter threatened harm to donald trump's family if he didn't get out of the race. conservative leaders and donors held meetings in washington and florida to consider the trump campaign. some want to press ahead with efforts to try and stop him, but others are resigned to the idea that he will be the nominee. mark albert has more.

candidate marco rubio told reporters thursday, he's done with politics. >> i'm not running for re-election to the senate. as i said, i'm going to finish my term here and then i'll be a private citizen. >> reporter: rubio dropped out of the presidential race tuesday evening after donald trump won the primary in florida. rubio's home state. trump now has nearly half the 1,237 delegates he needs to clench the gop nomination. >> we have to bring our party together. >> reporter: trump warns any plans to derail his candidacy could lead to riots but on thursday a group of activists and lawmakers met behind closed doors to discuss alternatives to the gop front-runner. senator lindsey graham threw his support behind his adversary ted cruz. >> i think the biggest to stop donald trump is ted krcruz and m going to help ted in any way i can.

claims it posted the billionaire's personal information online. on the democratic side, senator bernie sanders conceded the missouri primary and campaigned in arizona thursday night. >> with your help on tuesday, we are going to win here in arizona. >> reporter: hillary clinton took the day off the trail to attend two closed door fund-raising events as she looks toward the general election. mark albert for cbs news, washington. president obama has reportedly told democratic donors in private the time has come to unite behind hillary clinton. "the new york times" reports during a meeting last week in texas, the president told donors that bernie sanders' campaign was nearing the point where it will end. mr. obama did not call on sanders to quit the race, nor did he explicitly endorse clinton. coming up on "cbs this morning," we will talk to voters who have already had enough of this year's campaign and are less than pleasedh

candidates. another round of severe storms and wet weather is forecast today in the deep south. heavy rain, flooding, and hail remain a threat along the gulf coast from texas to louisiana. the town of deweyville, texas, on the louisiana border, is still under water. the worst flooding there in a hundred years. for the most part, the small town is evacuated and even when the water recede, it will be a while before residents can return. hail the size of tennis balls in some cases fell in the dallas/ft. worth area yesterday. windshields were shattered and greenhouse roof was destroyed. the zoo said the hail killed a number of exotic birds. an americanairlines flight headed from new york airport to raleigh/durh raleigh/durham.

they say a flash and loud back and no one injured. overseas now. north korea fired a medium-range ballistic missile into the sea this morning. south korea said the missile was fired from a site north of the capital and flew about 500 miles before crashing off the north korea's east coast. violated several u.n. resolutions banning the north from testing ballistic missiles. the california university student who wounded four people in a campus stabbing attack back in november was inspired by isis. the fbi said 18-year-old mohamed may have acted alone. authorities found isis propaganda on his laptop and evidence he visited the isis website. the american who joined isis and surrendered in northern iraq this week says he quickly became disenchanted. >> at the time, i m

decision to go, because i wasn't thinking straight. i didn't see myself living in that environment. you know, i wanted to go back to -- to america. >> mohamed jamal khweis is a palestinian-american from virginia and says he joined isis in september. in flint, michigan, rick snyder faced tough questions and criticism at a contentious hearing yesterday. he apologized and blamed washington bureaucrats. >> we are taking responsibility in michigan and we are taking action, and that is absolutely essential here in washington too. inefficie >> the city's water was contaminated when flint's water supply was switched to the flint river two years ago to save money. coming up on the "morning news."

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put them at the line for two shots. hagan is tripling it out and just looking for three. chucks one up. it's good! >> arkansas little rock ties it up against purdue in the closing seconds of their ncaa tournament matchup. the teams duel through two overtimes but in the end, 12th seeded trojans upset purdue 85-83. fountain first full day of tournament action another tournament seed scored a big upset. yale playing in its first ncaa tournament game since 1982 upset baylor 79-75. it is the ivy school's first win during a tournament ever. one shell-shocked baylor player didn't appreciate a rert

game. >> how did yale outrebound baylor? >> you go up and you grab the ball off the rim when it comes off and you grab it with two hands. you come down with it and that is considered a rebound so they got more of those than we did. >> a little sarcastic. a last-second layup sends providence to the next round. the road doesn't get any easier for providence. they will face number one seed north carolina in the next round. the tar heels struggled in the first half with florida gulf coast but pulled away during the second half to win 83-67. one seeds kansas and virginia also advance. the top seed in the west, oregon, plays holy cross tonight. another full day of basketball is on tap today. our coverage tips off at noon with dayton taking on syracuse right here on cbs. finall

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this broadcast is real time captioned by carrie o'brien. we are following a developing story this friday morning. police are looking into claim from a student as a prestigious school that she was raped on- campus by a fe s

bar in washington, d.c. is suing. he is claiming his bar is being targeted. >> old man winter is not done wet. after a mide end to the -- mild end to the week. meteorologist allyson rae is saying we could have snowflakes on saturday and sunday, or monday. we wanted to give you the first day of springlike you wanted. a little bit of snow mixed in there. yeah. talk about snow and snow, wet snow and rain. it will not be that bad, and those details of the forecast coming up. in the meantime, for your friday, not too pad of a day. pretty nice here. 46 right now for leesburg. and sunshine today mixed in with fair weather clouds. a little bit breezy today. that's for sure. winds 20 miles per hour. sustain winds, gusts

than that. headed to the 60s. the futurecast of the snow arriving on saturday and sunday. that is coming up in a little bit, larry? allyson, we're off to a great start this morning. but watch out for road maintenance, i.e. pot hole repairs. weather and traffic back shortly. over to you. in houston a police officer involve shooting left two suspects dead. >> it happened in a parking lot outside of a furniture store. two other suspected robbers were injured in a fifth was captured. a group of officers were monitoring the suspects throughout the day in connection to other robberies. they pointed their weapons at the officers. baltimore ravens cornerback, trey walker is in

after he infrastructure involved age dirt bike crash in miami. he was riding a dirt bike with no lights and hit a car. he was a native of miami. in a statement, the ravens coach is saying this is devastating news. the u.s. is investigating the purpose behind north korea's latest missile launch. amedium range missal and flew 500 miles and crashed into the ocean yesterday. it is unknown it is a test or show of force against the united states and south korea. this is a day after the president imposed new sanctions on the country. if you're looking for a new job, this one might interest you. google wants to pay you to heck into its system. the go to find weaknesses to help google improve society. this deal has been on the table since 2010 now it

instead of $50,000, you get $100,000 to successfully hacking google's devices. >> wow. today he starts his mission to be the new american record holder for days in space. >> jeff williams blasts off to? international space station today with two russian astronauts. he will surpass kelly's time. when williams finishes his tour, he will have spend 534 days in space. we are counting down to the weekend. >> and just revving up the engines for the news. right now, 4:30. we are tracking wintery weather for the weekend. just when you thought the snow was over, it is back. >> turned

right? i'm andrea roane. >> i'm mike hydeck. and time saver traffic is shortly with larry. all right. aslushy wet snow have a lot of us, not a lot of accumulation. areas north and west near fredrick an inch on the grassy surfaces. through the mountains elevation- based. in the district don't count on much, an inconvenient sunday. and your current temperatures on your friday. 46 right now for chevy chase. in the 40s and headed to the 60s. a nice looking friday, but windy. so ladies tie up your hair and enjoy your friday. larry miller, good morning. good morning, meteorologist allyson rae. >> it is friday. >> all right. still working and watching out for the road construction or the pothole repair going on in the outer loop. yon