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. >> danielle: docratic had hopefuls just days away from their showdown. both candidates rallying across the country before the big day. bernie sanders hammering his thoughts on public education in putting the economy front and center in detroit. >> the economy, which should be at the top of any list that anybody running for president has, was basically an after thought. maybe that's because all the republican candidates support the same failed policies, cut taxes for the rich, get out of the way of corporations. >> that world has changed. so when i talk about public education today, it must mean free tuition at public colleges and universities. some people say oh, this is a radical, radical idea. it is not a radical idea. i mean right now, tuition, college education in germany, scammed nativia is free. >> they will face off on sundayy at 8:00 p.m. white house heats up in floriri this sunday, 20 locations in broward and 13 in palm beach. brenda snipes speaking at the site in lauderhill. >> we have seen a lot of interest, and i think that the interestp has

from the christian docrats and the social democrats. this is the first thing.efore the election, the afd was a bourgeois party. into anutated anti-foreign right-wing party. this is the worry. peter: is this business as usual, a party that had bourgeois roots? one of germany's leading publications, tagespiegel described them as hate preachers, a populist party. malte: it is a populist party, and i would say it is not business as usual. most parties do not want to governith the d. they will be excluded from vernment. half the country is saying, i am skeptical or against refugee policy, which is not represented in parliament. there is no party in parliament representing where half the country stands on the refugee problem. it is 24%, quite a lot. that is the ground problem, that so many people do not feel represented. it started with the anti-european approach, which is something all is established parties are supporting. we have a lot of anti-european sentiment as well. policies are not represented right now. that is the basic foundation for the success of the af

. >> one d docrat also on the campaign trail. other stai say going buy toy a former first dlaiddy. for the whites house. a mayor saking 7 news after her city hall is raid bitd feds in a corruption case. just one station with the interview. >>> and the chase is on to catch main police call a crook, a ga sa maish tan trying stop him. it's tonights low down. >>> >>> >> danielle: and we do continue to follow some developing story coming out of west miami-dade. a brush fire burning. >>> >> this is 7 news at 6:00. >> lynn: all right. let's go back to those live pictures from sky force hdd of that developing story. flames scohing acre after acre and been doing so for over an hour. good evening everybydy. more than a hundred acres burning. >> danielle: and here's the thing.g. firefighters are trying to tame those flames. alex depra is live at the news and i know thre is not one but two fires burning. one was put out alex ie. >> reporter: one is contained and the other out of control at is hour. let's go to live pictures from 7 skyforce. this is the larger fire 160 acres burning at this hou

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. >> laurie: and we will have more team coverage on docratic debates and rubio's rally just ahead for you at 6:00, and then don't forget tomorrow night our political team glenna milberg and michael putney ll be live at the university of miami for the republican debate. >> calvin: we're now following breaking news. two alleged cases of sex extortion at a local high school. >> laurie: let's get to jeff weinsier in the newsroom with the latest on this shocking story. >> janine: you george an 18-year-old homestead student w charged with extorting fellow students for sex. let's take a look at who we're talking about. state attorney's office t@lling us the victims are 15 and 16 years ode and according to the state attorney office this gentleman 18-year-old terry fen a did lin sent text messages to the young women asking them for nude photos, and when theyly their families. lived. the victims in feaea sent pictures but they actually performed sex acts on his and his cousin. torsion and sexual battery with coercion. >>> we are also following another developing story for you at this hour. a mo

now to the d docrats. bested hillaryrylinton in the nebraska caucus. in kansas, sanderseasily won with 7% of the vote there. in louisiana, clinton had a huge victory with 70% of the vote there. the results did little to change the delegate map. clinton keeps her race. >>> all of the candidates, of course, took time off the campaign trail to address their victoryvictories and losses on super saturday. >> neki: local 10 news reporter sanela sabovic is covering this for us. she is in our newsroom, sanela. >> reporter: good morning, neki and todd. senator ted cruz and donald trump winning big and democrattrump winning big and democratic candidate hillaryclinton scoring a begin this a major key state. on the heels of a super tuesday win, donald trump had another strong night. he was in west palm beach celebrating wins in louisiana and kktucky. in a speech he congratulated and taunting senator mar rubio saying he should bow out. >> > want to congratulate ted cruz on kansas and maine. he should do well on maine because it is very close to canada. let's face.

do y see thiaffectin republans or docrats me? bob: it is affecting young people, particularly.s not a provision that allows a broader range of ids to be used. it provision to use provisional ballots, that says if you don't have one of the acceptable ids, you can fill out a form, a bunch of forms, two fms. yog peopleere particularly -- without state licenses, their student ids would not be acceptable -- they had out-of-state licenses, but those were not acceptable. they had to fill out paperwork to have their ballot counted. people that move around, poor people, people who are more transient, they had problems. they do not have the ids that ordinary folks typically have in their pockets. it was a burden for people. it was not just the id. it is a problem. they try to eliminate same-day registration. they try to eliminate out of precinct voting. that were provisions helped people. because of a court order, those provisions were in play. we had them still in this primary election. you could see that with same-day registration we had over 8000 voters able to vote, able to use same-

i want to show our viewers the delegate count now for d docrats so they can see where this thing really stands. hillary clinton with literally almost twice as many delegates as bernie sanrs right now. is there still even a path for sanders to victory at this point, chuck? >> well, it would mean hillary clinton would have to collapse, he would have to win more than 60%. we're now at the point -- he has to win more than 60% of all remaining delegates in order to somehow capture this nomination. yesterday was a prime example of why it is going to be so difficult. he won two states. she won one. guess who won more delegates for the night? she did, because she won african-americans by such a large margin in louisiana. large margin. and when she loses to sanders, she doesn't lose by the same margins he loses to her in states where she wins. this path is becoming less and less viable by the day for him. >> chuck todd, thank you very much good to see you. we'll be watching when your guests this morning on "meet the press," former republican presidential nominee mitt romney. >> want to turn to t

and different from the gop race, reena and kendis, the majority of docrats in tuesday's primaries would be satisfied if clinton or sanders was the eventual nominee. >> so many findings we're learning from yesterday's result. trump at this point has won more than 20 states. what accounts for his support right now? >> so according to the exit polls it, really showed the continued appeal with discontended republicans. ong the more than half who want an outsider candidate,6% of those voters favor trump. then he won the majority of the support of those angry at the government, want to deport immigrants, want to ban muslims fromhe country. and feel that they're falling behind financially. >> spoken loud and clear in this election. >> all right. abc's lauren lyster, thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> thanks. best friend from behind bars. that's what a former prison guard calls himself. now the guard is opening up about the infamous double murder case. what o.j. reportedly said to him that makes him think o.j. did it. >> ahead in our next half hour, fixing fashion. online fash

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but if you were going to run not as a docrat or a a republican, if you were going to run as an independent or some weird third party thing, nobody really knows if those people could still get in and actually contest it. we might find out in the coming days if the republicans keep freaking out so hard about donald trump that they drive themselves into some crazy plan like that. >> jimmy: yeah. because some people just -- they just love trump. and then some republicans are like, i don't know what to d d >> yeah. it seems like it is irretrievably cleaving the and the cleave, like the two sides, are all the people in washininon, all the people in the beltway press, all the people in the republican establishment who are like, "trump? we can't give our party to trump! he's nuts!" then on the other side are all the voters -- [ laughter ] -- who want donald trump. >> jimmy: what are you gonna say? >> yeah. so you can split, but trump gets all the voters and you guys get yourselves. [ ughter ] and that's not enough. so i don't know what they're going to do. >> jimmy: yeah. >> it's a little nutty. e

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>> look, docrats are worried about enthusiasm. they are worried about making sure that they can energize their voters. have to focus on the fal election but right now today is she has to bank on the fact that be people of color. beyond that, can she break into bernie's stronghold in the northeast, massachusetts, that's the key toy for her. >> okay, donna brazile, jon karl, matthew dowd, we'll see you tonight. abc news will be out in force all throughout the super tuesday.y. i'll be here with our whole political team usa for a prime time special at 10:00 easterern plus special editions of "world news tonight" and "gma" tomorrow morning. >> going to be a lg day for you, thank you. >>> new trouble for the "anthem of the seas" cruise ship a powerful storm is s cutting s trip short as passengers onboard blattle a norovirus outbreak. abc's gio benitez is here with the latest. here we go again, gio. >> reporter: just weeks ago the ship was tossed around like a toy in the water. the cruise line now hoping to prevent a repeat. this morning