on the democratic side. in florida, on the democratic side, two-thirds of the vote is now in.linton has an impressive lead. 214 delegates are at stake for the democrats in florida. they don't close all the polls until the top of the hour. in ohio, less than 1% of the vote is in. hillary clinton has the lead there over bernie sanders. 68.1% to 30.6%. only about 11,000 or 12,000 votes are in. in north carolina, the polls are closed there. the votes are coming in significantly. 10% of the vote is in. it just changed, 62.1% for hillary clinton. 34.5% for bernie sanders. 10% of the vote is in. she's got a lead of almost 34,000 votes in north carolina right now. we're waiting for all the polls to be closed at the top of the hour. we're waiting for all of the polls in florida to be closed. we'll take a quick break and be right back. see me. see me. don't stare at me. see me. see me. see me to know that psoriasis is just something that i have. i'm not contagious. see me to know that... ...i won't stop until i find what works. discover cosentyx, a different kind of medicine for moderat

>> and the state's primary is a chance to score a knock out or make a big comeback. all, for democrats florida has the fourth most sell delegates and so how are the campaigns looking in florida now? >> hillary clinton's campaign and her people are already using the terms nails and coffin when it comes to her battle with bernie sanders. saying she already has a large lead and they are hoping that a win in the florida primary which offers plenty of delegates to democrats can take her over the top and make her lead insurmountable. and mayor bob buckhorn gave a speech to several dozen volunteers. he says the goal is to win florida's horde of delegates and impossible to overcome. rubio says he needs to win florida but he does trail in several state polls to donald trump and cruz. >> i'm going to support the republican nominee because it's not going to be donald trump. it's going be me, and i think if we win florida we'll be difficult to stop but we are going to have to win here and work hard to do it. >> let's send donald trump back to wherever the hell he came from! and we are going make it huge!

for the democrats 691 delegates in illinois and missouri north carolina ohio and florida. unlike republicans the state is not winner take all for the democrats. republicans have nearly 400 delegates up for grabs across the states. both ford and ohio once again be the biggest trophy. >>> coverage for florida is not over yet. in a few minutes we were bob schieffer will join us live to talk about why today's vote could have a huge impact on the overall rates. >>> the historic change in us cuba relations. the obama administration announced a new round of big changes in the relationships between the countries. the news comes five days before he visits the island. >> reporter: these changes will go into effect tomorrow and they are far-reaching. if you're interested in sending direct mail are visiting or doing business with cuba, these restrictions will impact you. starting wednesday for the first time since 1963 those original us post office to mail something to cuba should see their mail arrive faster and more efficiently. it will now be direct incident third country. the obama

republican party, in may last year, hired a bilingual director on the twitter page, and the florida democratic party just had an emt summit in florida, where we spoke to them again, and they have committed to hiring a communications director, which they have not. >> so on the other end of the argument, i'm being told by some public opinion researchers, and demographers, that bilingual outreach is less and less important with each subsequent campaign. >> i don't think so, especially in florida. if you look at the ratings for the median spark, that we have higher ratings in south florida than the median english. around 70% of hispanics here in florida speak spanish. so i believe that you do hav hae to reach out in both languages, and in their communities, and in their language also. now that marco rubio is out, who is the republican party going to speak in their language? we'll have to see what happens with the republican party and what their agenda is going to be this time. >> latinos in 2016, it's the >> pushing the boundaries of science. >> we are on the tipping point. >> we can save species.

hillary clinton announced that she will travel to south florida to hold a primary event . the poll of likely democratic primary voters in florida shows clinton leading with 60% in senator. bernie sanders far behind with 34%. we will have another special edition reading up -- leading up of kit -- to campaign 2016. >>> one person is dead after an out-of-control slant -- car slammed into a grocery store. live on the scene. >> reporter: that driver we can only imagine it was on a high rate of speed. look at the whole and not building the car went all the way inside. a smashed up car was pulled from a hollywood building. >> it was terrible. but like i've said before, i've heard it so many times, that i jumped out of bed, and knew it was a bad accident. >> reporter: just before 3 am a red cadillac slammed into this building. they say he was a young man in his 20s, and he was ejected and died on the scene. the female passenger was transported to the hospital. stephen scott who lives nearby says he has seen this happen way too often. >> unfortunately, i have seen it and heard it many times it was 3 am i was pr

caio caio. >>> >> >> this is 7 news at 6:30. >> now the 6:30 candidates sprinting across south florida. democrats ready to date. republicans pushing to thin the pack. tonight complete team 7 coverage on the fight for florida. >> >> lynn: good evening every one. all eyes on the sunshine state with the primary less than a week way. crucial for both sides. and that. >> robbin: and that means we'll be seeing a lot of the candidates stumcross the state especially here in south florida. we have live coverage. 7's alex diprato is live at a marco rubio valley but we begin tonight with jeff len movement live in coral gables with the latest from the ted cruz campaign. jeff. >> reporter: and ladies they say this is sizing up to be a two person race between trump and cruz himself. and they hope to take marco rubio thought of equation. now also we can tell thaw jeb bush could be a big player again in this raise. here's y.cnn says that bush is back here in south floloda and very soon he will be meeting with ted cruz, marco rubio and john kasich notably flition thateeting is donald trump and it is being said th

florida. for the democrats, a close race could get even closer. for republicans, with ohio and florida delegates winner take all, today could be win or go home for two of the candidates. we have the first batch of exit polling coming into "the situation room" right now that could give us some early indications. david chalian's going through all of the numbers. we'll bring them to you shortly. of course, we have our correspondents across the map. polling places and campaign stops bringing you the latest as well as best team of analysts around. jim acosta joining us from palm beach, florida, covering the trump campaign. trump is making a big play for florida and ohio. how confident is his campaign feeling now? >> reporter: wolf, donald trump and his team have seen the polls here in florida, feeling very confident they will win the state. will it be by 20 points as polls suggest? i talked to one trump official here who said that's going to be tough in marco rubio's home state. but the other big prize of the night, john kasich's backyard of ohio, obvio

while 44% came from registered democrats. florida is a primary state that you can only vote if you are registered to a political party. you can see the extended interviews with sanders and rubi if you missed those, we also did ananexclusive interview with donald trump yesterday morning. well. the former marine suspected of shooting a pastor in iddo has been arrested in washington, d.c. this is who i am talking about here in this picture. 30-year-old kyle odom was taken into custody by the secret service after he threw papers and a flash drive over the white house fence. take a look at this. brand new pictures coming into the nbc 6 newsroom of the scene outside the white house. officials say the package he threw had a manifesto mentioning the names of some house and senate members as well as israeli government officialsls in it. a different letter sent to his parents and several media outlet's. it said that the shootingas not random and that another church member may have been targetedhere. 55-year-old tim remington was shot six times

oft: democrat kathy castor florida joins us. she served as cochair of the cable working group. lead a bipartisan delegation on six members of congress on trips to cuba. what was on the agenda during that visit and who did you meet with? a fact-finding mission, mainly to meet with the entrepreneurs on the island. cuba is changing. they have made reforms in their economic system. it used to be everyone would work for the communist government, but after raul castro came in, he began to embark on economic reform. a lot of folks who used to work for the government now owned small businesses. for example, one young woman used to work for the government inserting medicine bottles into a cardboard package. think about doing that every day, all day. now, she has the room to make

for the democrats all roads to the white house lead through florida. the last five general elections when the democrats have won florida they have won the white house. before we get to november we've got to get through march and what happens tonight will determine who emerges from florida with the delegates. >> a split decision for clinton and sanders tuesday night. now they're ready to meet in miami. florida the biggest battleground in november is also the biggest battleground in march. while polls show clinton leading polls showed her leading in michigan, a state that sanders won. >> the clinton campaign has been on the ground for months, especially among the areas growing puerto rico community. sanders is not conceding. his campaign buying ad time and opening offices to drive up the vote. there are 246 delegates up for grabs in florida, the most of any state so far. even if sanders doesn't win them all he can still win a portion. more importantly, for both campaigns engaging voters now will make the job easier in those democrats will need not just vo

let's roll up the sleeve and show you the state won by the democrat contract and republican on the republican side donald trump peculiar up florida, illinois, north carolina. he's too close to call in missouri. john kasich got ohio. on the democratic side hillary clinton won florida. north carolina and ohio. she's too close to call. in illinois and missouri. as for the delegates too closeto call with bernie sanders. on the delegate count donald trump 6:19 to 3:94 still long way from 1237 and hillary clinton moving closer t.one final thing. north mile an hour yan a islands also held the primarytoday. donald trump got 73 percent of the vote. 9 delegates. trivia question where are those isiands. >> thanks for that patrick. i think we might have needed a map to typhoon it thank you. >> check with the google machine. >> what's a wrap for 7 news at 11:00. ciao ciao@. >> overnight development all these numbers and so on. we have them at wsvn today in florida at 5:00 a.m. see you real-time closed captioning provided by u.s. captioning company. pulling up a kids toy? acting? >>> the material mom talks about her down under controversy. >>>

on sunday, the democrats will hold their main caucus. >> florida's primaries are two weeks from today and early voting is already under way in miami dade and monroe counties. early voting begins in broward. you must be a registered democrat to cast a ballot. >>> chaos in the courtroom as several teenagers shouted and cursed during a hearing for their peers today. they were all there after the teen's allegedly led police on a wild chase in a stolen car. stephanie is live from ft. lauderdale tonight with the details. >> reporter: it was supposed to be a routine first appearance for the teens involved in that car chase and that carjacking. enagers were disrespectful to adults and the judge was not happy. disorderly conduct in this broward county courtroom. >> clear the courtroom. >> reporter: deputies required to control this group of teenagers who were there to support three 15 yeermds yeermd-year-olds accused of leading law enforcement on a chase. they stole a car and maeld them follow them around broward unty. detectives say teens took off on foot and that caused chaosh in neighborhoo

for women, 60% of the democratic women in florida are supporting clinton to sanders' 33%. for the men, 60% of the democratic men in florida are supporting her. it's pretty much even across men and women. the clinton campaign is hoping for all of them to go to the polls tomorrow to cast their votes. back out here live, you're looking at the big crowd gathering and that crowd is growing by the moment here at rawlins college. bill clinton is expected to take if you have not rsvped on this, we're live-streaming this on our website at clickorlando.com. >> matt: thank you, eric. >> lisa: florida has wrapped up early and absentee voting ahead of tomorrow's primary. orange county has the most votes in central florida with more than 106,000 people already casting their vote. brevard has about 70,000. volusia has nearly 50,000 people who voted early. news 6 is your source for getting results. we'll have live election coverage throughout the night as those returns and results come in on the news 6 app and on clickorlando.com, powered by news 6. >> matt: three separate shootings left t

there are pockets of heavily democratic florida that he won't make inroads. remember, many, many florida residents came from somewhere else. they've got a -- there's a whole lot of america that is represented in florida and you see how well donald trump is doing across america and it stands to reason that he would be doing well in florida. host: i want to play a clip where rubeyooh yoo where he says the problem is the media. senator rubio: the media needs to stop and examine their role in all of this. [cheers and applause] senator rubio: i'll tell you something and i said this the other day, i'm not proud of what i said about donald trump as a person and will never happen again. i have no problem attacking people on policy. i spent 10 months not doing that. i spent 10 months and 28 days campaigning on issues, and no one covered it. and the minute i started talking about someone they started cutting in live because they were hoping i would say something else because it was good for their ratings. so the media has failed us in this discourse as well. [cheers and

democrats are coming in. independents are coming in and very very importantly people that never voted before. it's an incredible thing. >> and this really does set up florida to be a battleground again with all these new voters coming out and showing up in favor of donald trump. hillary clinton winning the state easily on the democratic side. hey look all of a sudden guess what we're going have a big and tough race in florida with the winner of this state could be winning the presidency because of it. >> a people watched the flight for florida tonight. smith. shep, we're going start with what has happened in ohio with john kasich. big surprise. >> huge win for john kasich and a really big win for not trump if you're in that category, bob and sonni. the last of the precincts are now reporting 85% of them are in and john kasich points. that's huge because it means he gets all 66 of the delegates in that winner take all states. more importantly it means donald trump's road to the nomination in cleveland at the convention some june is now very rocky and difficult to travel. the chances that he will be able to get 12,037 delegates necessary to win that nominati

nationally, but comes in with just 17 percent here in florida, and john kasich is at the bottom of the pack with just 8 percent. on the democratic side, through...the gap is much wider. florida democrats are really feeling hillary clinton...and not so much feeling the bern. his voter support is just at 23 percent...while clinton is soaring in the polls with a whopping 68 percent. and speaking of who's supporting who...cnn is reporting that ben carson will announce his support for donald here in florida. i'm looking into what this could mean for the other republican candidates, coming up at 6. in this morning's lakeland ledger, you can see more of those poll results and read about who the biggest supporters are for each candidate. bernie sanders will be back on the campaign trial this morning after making a stop in the bay area. sanders showed up to thousands of supporters at the florida state fairgrounds. this week marks the sanders campaign's first visit to florida. given the crowd's size and enthusiasm 10 news' eric glasser asked the senator if they'd made a mistake not making florida a priority earlier. hours before sander's

clinton announced she will travel to florida to hold the primary event tuesday night in the latest cbs news poll of likely democratic primary voters in florida shows clinton leading 62% and sanders far behind with 34%. >>> the florida primary is still two days away and nearly half of all registered republican and democratic voters in florida have already cast their ballot. today was the final day of early voting and absentee ballots continue to roll into election headquarters in miami- dade and broward. you can say this about south florida voters, they like to vote absentee and they like to vote early.>> i worked tuesday night. i want to make sure that i vote.>> it gives me time enough so i don't have to rush. >> after two full weeks of early voting in miami-dade more than 83,000 voters cast their ballot and a whopping 114,000 absentee ballots were returned through saturday. broward offered only eight days of early voting and still more than 82,000 voters went to polling places to make their preference them. nearly 75,000 already voted absentee, some went to great lengths to select the parties nominee like this man

nearly a million democratic florida voters have already cast their ballot in this election. many were here today for a clinton rally in support of her. there were two big issues that former secretary hillary they were the economy, specifically infrastructure when it comes to making jobs she talked about two big projects that she hopes will get funded. one is an expansion of fort tampa bay. the other a light rail system that would go between tampa and orlando. the other big issue, which of course is a big issue here in florida, which is climate change, rising sea levels. mayor bob buckhorn has been sounding the alarm about urgency and hillary clinton spoke about what an issue it could be if floridians don't take action. >> it's the height of irresponsibility and neglect for anybody in a position of authority to understand that florida will be the most at risk from climate change of any of our states. >> reporter: some of the people at the rally today had already voted for hillary. some said they were still on the fence. you're going to hear a little more from them coming up a

democratic side, hillary clinton campaigned in missouri and ohio today while bernie sanders campaigned in missouri and illinois. the biggest prize among the five states holding presidential primaries tuesday is florida. for democrats, the sunshine state offers 246 of the delegates needed to win the party's nomination, and, asalysy will award them in proportion to the candidate's share of the popular vote. for republicans, all 99 of the republican party's delegates will go to the winner, no matter his margin of victory. joining me now to discuss the florida primary is anthony man, a political reporter from t "south florida sun-sentinel." so, the candidates are not right where are you today, but how hectic has this campaign traffic been? >> reporter: it has been incredible. it has just been very, very campaign centric, candidate centric. >> sreenivasan: what are the top issues facing floridians? >> the top issue facing floridaians really are similar to the things that we're hearing about elsewhere in this the country. there's this general kind of anger and agitation at government. i hear that a lot on the republican side. and there is some general concern about the economy. we've had a comeback in flo

senator from florida a surprisingly easy victory for donald trump. now on the democratic side even easier for hillary clinton. she won florida handedly almost 2-1 over bernie sanders in the state of florida. the other big state ohio donald trump couldn't beat out kasich, the governor of ohio. he got the first big victory there 45-37 over trump on the democratic side another victory for hillary clinton. doing very well tononht. right there hillary clinton 58rit there hillary clinton 58-42 over bernie sanders. as for the other states take a look right vow donald trump has won florida. illinois. and north carolina. john kasich has won ohio. on the democratic side lock at hillary clinton. so far she's 3 for 3. florida. north carolina. ohio. she leads illinois. she trails in missouri so we'll see how that turns out. these are what you need to get nominated. right now. donald tru has 5 68 he needs 1237.ted cruz 370. right behind him. on the democratic sididhillary clinton almost 2-1 over bernie sanders. she's doing very well tonight and craig and belkys, we'll see how those oth

and florida numbers now, on the republican side, donald 40%. rubio at 24%. cruz at 19%. as for the democrats in florida, clinton is well ahead of senator saernzs, at 61%. sanders at 34%. those numbers showing exactly why tonight's debate is so crucial. and why tomorrow's republican debate is so crucial here. and you mentioned some poll numbers. >> they don't always guarantee a win. >> reporter: absolutely. we saw that among clinton workers today, still working hard because clinton had the lead in michigan. but bernie sanders won quite convincingly there. >> bringing you complete keith will join candice later through the 11:00 newscast tonight and all day tomorrow. >>> a man driving the wrong way down a bay area interstate is under arrest. deputies used stop sticks and a pit maneuver to stop him. deputies found about a pound of an unknown white powdery substance, packaged similar to narcotics. >>> small business owners are cleaning up after a 2-alarm fire tore through several offices. we're told the fire started inside a drier at a rug-cleaning business. and it spread to a business that build

some notes there. >>> the news at 5:30 continues next. >> live team coverage of the democratic debate here in south florida. >> reporter:r:'m jawan strader live on miami-dade college's kendall campus where the stage is set for the democratic presidential debate. >>> we'll look at how groups on local college campuses are the >>> showdown in south florida. hillary clinton and bernie sanders will face off in tonight's democratic debate. the stage for the matchup the kendall campus of miami-dad college. >> the presidential hopefuls balling up their fists preparing mississippi and michigan primaries. >> the fight for florida continues to intensify as we close in our state's primary now just six days away. it is do or die for the hometown hopeful. >> the florida senator trails in the polls and in delegates. rubo walking away last night empty handed. they're going head to head in the last debate before the florida primary. >> jawan strader begins our live team coverage from miami-dade college's kendall camams. >> reporter: the atmosphere is pretty electric. i spoke to one student who talked about being somewhat u

and for the democrats, hillary florida, big win for her, adding to her already formidable lead in delegates. i'm here with our political analyst matthew dowd. another impressive win for trump. he gets 99 delegates. the end of the road for marco rubio, and all eyes now on ohio. >> absolutely. a huge win for donald trump. i think florida puts an exclamation point on how much the gop has changed. this is a magazine cover from "time" saying that marco rubio, the republican savior, from just a few years ago. and now donald trump just won his state. and keep in mind, marco rubio last week said, whoever wins the florida primary is going to be the gop nominee. we don't know what's going to happen in ohio, but if ohio doesn't go for trump, where we are in unchartered waters. >> no question about that. we're going to be here as soon as the results are in from ohio. the night begins, though, with big wins for donald trump and hillary clinton in florida.

democrat hillary clinton had a great night. >> thank you, florida, thank you, north carolina, thank u, ohio. >> reporter: bernie sands got close in that midwestern state but no upset. >> we are moving closer to securing the democratic party nomination and winning this election in november. >> reporter: the same for trump, trump forces hope. steve handelsman, nbc news, miami. >>> here in florida, the big headline, marco rubio did not have enough support from floridaers. nbc 6 reporter laura rodriguez has more &lorida international university. >> reporter: initially called a primary night celebration. it was anything but a celebration. it ended up being a very sad day for rubio supporters. >> aft tonight it is clear that while we are on the right side this year, we will not be on the winning side. >> reporter: minutes after the polls closed, marco rubio stood by his family and announced he's suspending his presidential campaign. the florida senator garnered most of the votes in miami-dade county, however, that wasn't enough to trump donald trump. rubio congratulated the businessman but

this poll surveyed 700 republicans and 500 democrats. florida residents will be casting their votes next tuesday. angela: each candidate is pushing their message of bringing the country together, they' re up against an democrats and republicans, wesh 2' s sally kidd takes up the political climate. >> it is a political vendetta. >> outrageous witchhunt. atrocious. sally: where compromise is rare, appalling callousness -- the day. >> what right is what' s right. the partisan warfare reflecting reflecting a deepening : red-blue divide in america. >> don' t walk in here and tell me. >> don' t go here. sally: a pew research poll finds the political gulf has been widening over the last 20 years. republicans have become more conservative and democrats more liberal. the center is shrinking. can the next president can be a unifying force? it is a pledge presidential candidates often make. >> i am a uniter, not a divider. :>> it will only happen if we fix our politics. >> the notion you can unite the country is more an illusion than a reality. >> sure the

choice. 56% of the votes cast came from registered republicans while 44% came from registered democrats. florida is, of course, a closed primary state. that means that you can only vote in the primary if you are nl registered to a specific political party. >> if you missed our clusive interview with donald trump yesterday morning around this time, find that as well on the nbc 6 news and weather app. >>> breaking for you overnight, shooting a pastot in idaho, this man has been arrested but he was arrested far away in washington, d.c. 30-year-old kyle odom was taken into custody by the secret service after he threw some papers and a flash drive over the white house fence. these are some brand new pictures into the nbc 6 newsroom overnight of the scene just outside the white house. officials say that the package odom threw had a manifesto mentioning the name of house and senate members as well as israeli government officials. a different letter was sent to odom's parents and several media outlets which says the shooting was not random and another chuchl member might have been targeted. 55-year-old

side, a very clinton is blowing out sanders in florida, taking home the lions share in florida, 107 democratic delegates. she also won in missouri and illinois. clinton at her florida headquarters in palm beach. >> if we win in november, i know our future will be brighter tomorrow than yesterday. thank you all, so very much. reporter: on the democratic side, we saw hillary clinton is stretching her delegate lead over bernie sanders. and on the republican side, a nether big night for donald trump. but john kasich possibly in in ohio, may stop trump from getting that lead he needs to read steve: the governor's race is set. they will challenge each other tisha: pat mccrory easily besting his challengers. he served 14 years as charlotte mayor. robert brawley, served in the general smb. steve: and roy cooper, getting the democratic nomination with a big winner over lawyer ken spaulding. he had 70%, to kansas 30%. mccrory and cooper are celebrating their wins tonight. we're live in downtown raleigh with more on that. reporter: he really did not comment on much tonight. the incumbent said there are c

cooper snagged 71% among democrats. >>> donald trump and hillary clinton won along with wins in florida and illinois. the loss to john kasich, mark coe rubio suspended his presidential bid last night. on the democratic side, clinton beat sanders in ohio, florida, and illinois. >>> voters headed out last minute across our area. this is the scene in clayton as the polls were closing. >> father areas experienced some areas had long lines. this was the scene in raleigh as the line stretched out of the building. a lot of nc state students voted there and told us they waited two hours or longer to cast their vote. >> i didn't think that so many, like, people our age would be vote. they look like our age. >> in two counties, they got to vote longer because issues came up. one area had an evacuation because a student thought they saw somebody with a weapon. another county, the judge showed up late so they extended the voting by a half hour. you can find them online where we have a special section go to the news tab on the home page of wncn.com. >>> right now, raleigh police need your help findi

florida. this was the eighth and what could be the final democratic debate this year.nother one has not been scheduled. so now attention is turning to republicans. >> all right. let me ask you one final question, jonathan, what do the polls say about where the democrats stand right now in florida? >> hillary clinton has persistently and consistently lead by pretty big margins here in florida. there was a poll released yesterday ahead of last night's debate that showed her with a 30 percentage point lead. it is a huge difference. bernie sanders has a lot of ground to cover if he is going to catch up, so without question, heading into tuesday east primary, hillary clinton has a big advantage. >>> the polls in florida have trump holding a strong lead with -- double-digit lead there. that threatens to humiliate marco rubio because this is his home state. stephanie sy has more. >> reporter: it has been a rough week for donald trump's rivals and republican leaders trying to change the trajectory of tonight's debate. >> we're going to win so much. we're going to win win win.

you have to be a republican or democrat in florida. we'll explore that issue and talk about that problem coming up at of clock. live in pembrook pines, i odzer. >>> many will be in south florida tonight. willard shepard is keeping tabs marco rubio will bee rallying tonight. laura? >> jackie, we are on the siu campus, where marco rubio will be tonight. his campaign calling the event a pri pear night celebration. rubio is optimistic about a win here today in florida. the senator did certainly mediaists views today and essentially said the polls are getting it rod. polls show trump leading in the sunshine state by double dinl its. although rubio said in the past it all comes down to florida, today he said he plans to continue forward with his presidential bid, if the florida primary doesn't go in his favor. yesterday tt senator rallied where he grew up, the city of west miami, and stressss the importance of going out to vote. >> make sure no one stays home. we don't know how close this is going to be. >> reporter: and rubio has said multi

where 793 delegates are at stake. >> that very well could be the last democratic debate, another one is not yet scheduled, so here in florida, attention turns to republicans who have their own debate, also in miami later tonight. >> we'll get more on that in a second. what do the polls say now about where the democrats stand in florida? >> hillary clinton has consistently enjoyed a very wide lead in florida. there was a poll released yesterday before last night's debate showing that she has a 30 percentage point lead over her opponent, senator bernie sanders. it's a huge lead, a huge challenge for sanders. >> jonathan, thank you. the republican candidates are also focused on the winner take all primary in florida. they'll debate tonight at the university of miami. the latest poll in florida when it comes to the gop has trump holding strong with a double budget lead, threatening to humiliate marco rubio in the senator's home state. >> it's been a rough week for donald trump's rivals and for republican leaders trying to change the trajectory of this race. trump goes into tonight's debate compelled by decisive victories this w

ted cruz is strong nationally but here in florida john kasich trails at the bottom of the pack. on the democratic side the gap is much wider. florida democrats are really feeling hilary clinton and not so much feeling the bern. voter support at 23% chyle while clinton has 68%. there's a lot at steak stake in this election especially for rubio because it will likely set trump on an even clearer path towards the g.o.p. nomination. read a lot more about the poll results and who the biggest supporters are for each candidate in today's edition of the ledger. emerald marrow 10 news wtsp. >>> final preparations are under way for nancy reagan's funeral in california. are expected to attend the private event. >> journalists from around the world are setting up outside the reagan presidential library where a long list of celebrities will attend the private funeral of nancy reagan. over the past two days 5500 people paid their respects at a public viewing for the former first lady. >> i had to come and pay my respects. >> people who knew her well say she would have loved to see this out pouring of admiratio

clinton is leading with florida democrats. the poll shows-- she is ahead of sanders... 61-percent to 34-percent. developing in orange county.... investigators are trying to figure out how a body ended up in a winter park lake. emergency crews found it yesterday morning around 10 right now.... police are not releasing any information on the person's identity. also developing-- deputies are searching for the suspect who murdered a man... at an apartment complex in orlando. 33-year-old "la-tony jones" was found dead in the parking lot of the "silver hills" apartment complex saturday night. deputies say he was shot to death. witnesses say they saw a silver car leave the scene. deputies are asking anyone with information to give them a call. a man accused of firing a gun outside of a greyhound bus station is expected to have a first appearance today. but it's how he was arrested... that's grabbing headlines. fox 35's kristin delgado has the story. trt:1:17 injured p|ppplp```pp ``po``|m|oo`mppp`pm`pf running this morning... after a

in florida there are 99 on the gop side and 246 for the democrats. keep in mind florida and ohio are rain or take stock states. what is next. look for more endorsements for the candidates including people like governor rick scott before making a decision. >>> the polls close in about 55 minutes. cannot 10 news for instant results. download our free to the tsp app and put us at 11:00. >>> revealing body cameras footage of a takedown of a suspected drunk driver last night. pascoe county sheriff said christopher conti was out of control and intoxicated. deputies followed him from port richie to trinity where he ran to patrol cars. this body can video shows his arrest. the video you are looking at will help sheriff offices around the case. >>> taxpayer concerns in tampa. the authority to schedule we saw these long lines at the month. file. >>> the ceo gawker on the stand today in the former professional wrestler hulk hogan sex tape trial. the jury looking at how the views celebrity privacy. gawker founder nick denton says right to know and a public figure

democratic side. those delegates are divvied up proportionally here in florida so it's important to note there are more than 200 democratic delegates at stake, and because it's done by proportion, both clinton and sanders will walk away from florida with some delegates each. steve litz, nbc 6 news. >> meantime, clinton's rival bernie sanders is rallying in arizona tonight. but hisis supporters are keeping track of all the votes in florida. dan krauth is live in wynnwood with more. dan? >> reporter: jackie, i'm surrounded by signs that say for sale inside his local campaign headquarters here in wynnwood. all the chairs are set up for tonight's volunteers to watch the big screen that will take place about an hour from now. they've been working out of this office forr months to get out the vote in the sunshine state, making phone calls and knocking on doors. sanders is not here tonight, he spent this moing greeting voters in hicago. he's actually heading to phoenix where the arizona primary will take place one week from today. even though sanders is trailing clinton in the polls here, volunteers say they'

host: fort myers, florida. democrat. caller: good morning. ng and saying that we voted for hillary clinton. thing, you got ahead of me and stole my thunder regarding voting in the state of florida. we're not the only state with closed primaries. those of you listening on c-span, find out your rules. inre are independents florida, but they don't get to vote unless they change their affiliation 30 days before the election. this is not the only primary that we will have been the state of florida before the november elections. november, everyone can vote for whoever they want. all of the candidates. host: we have asked this before, but if you could change the primary system in this country, what do you think is the most fair way of doing it? caller: the fair way is select the party, be involved, find out who the candidates are. if they do have a restriction where -- let's face it. if i watched what happened in new hampshire where people walk in as independents, republicans, or democrats, and said i'm changing into this, then they walk to the exit

clinton is blowing out sanders in florida, taking home the lions share in florida, 107 democratic delegates. she also won in missouri and clinton at her florida headquarters in palm beach. >> if we win in november, i know our future will be brighter tomorrow than yesterday. thank you all, so very much. reporter: on the democratic side, we saw hillary clinton is stretching her delegate lead over bernie sanders. and on the republican side, a nether big night for donald trump. but john kasich possibly in in ohio, may stop trump from getting that lead he needs to read steve: the governor's race is set. they will challenge each other in november. tisha: pat mccrory easily besting his challengers. he served 14 years as charlotte mayor. steve: and roy cooper, getting the democratic nomination with a big winner over lawyer ken spaulding. he had 70%, to kansas 30%. mccrory and cooper are celebrating their wins tonight. we're live in downtown raleigh with more on that. reporter: he really did not comment on much tonight. the incumbent said there are complex problems that will be difficult to solve, a

it's expected we'll have a better idea of the state of both the republican and democratic parties. florida is one of along with florida... voters will head to the polls in ohio.... illinois... missouri... there's a lot on the line for the candidates today. for republicans... there are 358 delegates at stake. for the dems... 691. several presidential hopefuls will spend their days campaigning in the sunshine state. marco rubio will stay home.... with a campaign event in miami. donald trump will be in palm beach... where he will address voters later tonight..... he'll be joined by fellow frontrunner hillary clinton who will also be in palm beach. let's head out to gina benetiz in where they're expecting a lot of voters today -- good morning, gina! presbyterian church one of the busiest polling places in ark -- more republican voters. but lines expected to be moderate because so many people voted early. trt:22 oc: (take sound byte she politician like my husband is, but i'm pretty good at doing the job. that's what we need. someone who can do the job. ) 7am looking at the race for the white ho

. >>> on the democratic side a poll shows hillary clinton leading in florida and ohio. she leads senator sanders 60% to 40%. in ohio the race a much tighter one with clinton leading sanders 51% to 40%. a short time ago hillary clinton made a campaign stop in chicago. she attended an immigration workshop in the heart of the city's mexican american community. the organization trains people to help immigrants work through the process. clinton will travel to south florida to hold a primary here tomorrow night. >>> bernie sanders is hitting the campaign trail hard. sanders held a rally this then will travel to north carolina and missouri. >>> hundreds of thousands of republican and democratic voters in florida have already cast their ballots. >> absentee ballots continuing to roll in in miami dade and broward. gabby is live with the latest. >> reporter: hey lauren and vanessa. the polls are closed today but preparation is well underway. the board here is going through absentee ballots that came in this morning and based on the numbers so far election officials are expecting

she has her eye on the florida democratic primary for 246 delegates will be awarded on a proportional basis. most polls put clinton will head of sanders indecisive march 15 win in florida would put the former first lady in secretary of state in the momentum driver seat meanwhile her opponent is voting in his home state of vermont he will not be coming to south florida. several states on super tuesday. >> a day in which the american people around the country have an opportunity to stand up and say moment to a corrupt campaign-finance system. say no to wall street and billionaires >> you're watching volunteers signing up folks for the very organized hillary campaign march 15 is the date of the florida primary. hillary clinton knows that is very important. and also she will be in town march 9 for the debate. the democratic debate here in miami. hillary clinton is getting a lot of face time in south florida. >>> jim defede he host of facing south florida. you think the florida primary was today. >> essentially it is here today. voting already started for early voting. going out for a whil

pamong ohio democratic primaries. pin florida, 6% of democrats premain undecided. p16% say that they could still pchange their mind. p>>russell: now let's look at the prepublicans. pdonald trump did not win every pstate last night. pted cruz did win idaho. ptrump leads cruz in the delegate pcount. pmarco rubio trails 151 and pkasich 54. ptrump says all of the negative pads running against his campaign pare horrible. p>> i don't think i've had so pmany horrible things said about pme in one week. p$38 million worth of horrible pit shows you how brilliant the ublic is because they knew they pwere lies and it was just really pamazing to watch and you get pthese kind of numbers that they pcall immediately is very pspecial. pi want to thank the public. pi want to thank the people of pmichigan. pi thank the people of pmississippi and it is such a pgreat honor. p>>russell: florida's primary is pmarch 15. pthat is next tuesday. ptoday is the last day you can pvote by mail, by the way. pearly voting for most florida pcounties ends on saturday. p>>laura: and on to other news

florida. diversity. clinton has done well with people of color, and that's going to make up 35-40% of the democratic voters in florida. age, too. voters in florida are a little older. even with her loss in michigan, clinton has doubled the dig eliz -- delegates needed to win the nomination. florida and south florida -- >> i would definitely go socialism has no place in this country.>> i want to see what they're going to talk about and how we will be able to pay for it. >> reporter: the latest poll i saw has clinton up by 30 points over sanders. i am working on a story right now trying to see if sanders can win the nomination if he does well on tuesday. that's coming up at six. mark rivera, 10 news.>> if you want to watch the debate tonight, here's everything you need to know. it starts at 9:00 on cnn. it will also be on univision in spanish. it will be streamed online it will be streamed members killed brian john senior, the killed the man beat him and raped them all out of revenge. they ambushed him, saying he would buy drugs, then took pictures of the murder. his body was later found by officials.>> they

quinnipiac poll in the presidential race, florida primary six days away and this poll finds hillary clinton leading bernie sanders 62% to 32% among likely democratic primary voters in florida. we'll bring are how results at 6:30. >>> a former marine accused of shooting an idaho pastor after a ted cruz rally has been arrested outside the white house. secret service agents say they found kyle olden flying objects over the white house fence. the investigators believe he targeted pastor tim remington though his exact motive is unclear. remington has regained consciousness. >>> music fans are mourning the death of the man nicknamed the ringo starr broke the news on twitter writing "god bless he will be missed" and paul mccartney tweeted "the world has lost a truly great man." also called him a second father. in the early days of his 50- year career sir george arranged some of the beatles best known songs including "yesterday." he was also a member of the rock 'n' roll hall of fame and produced more than 700 records. he was 90 years old. >> you can tell us your favorite song and well wishes for martin's family on our facebook page >>> yesterday mid-60s

. >> lynn: tonight, democrats have the south florida spotlight. and nicole is is there where thehe candidates face-off. >> reporter: at the college in kendall, this is where the two democrats will be having the first debate in florida before the florida primaryext week. let's go ahead and show you the video from last night, which is the first time that they have had any significant rallies, because they have been doing debate prep. hillary cnton expecting to win michigan by double digits, but instead, it was a big surprise. late into the evening, despite winning mississippi, michigan bernie sanders was in downtown miamam and predicted to us that he thought that he would do better in michigan than the polls all indicated that he would. and in the end, it turned out that he just edged out hillary clinton in michigan. here's what they both had to say. >> running for president shouldn't be about delivering insults, it should be about delivering results for the american people. >> the political revolution at we're talking about is strong in every part o

florida. in less than four hours this ball room will be packed and waiting to hear from the front runner for the democratic nomination. hillary clinton nay fight for florida with bernie sanders. yetd yesterday clinton telling reporters. she viet choice. >> i want people who are democrats to look at this election for who be the strongest democratic nominee that we can put out and a think qhat is most likely me. >> reporter: one of her last stops before take the stage in the sunshine state. she is set to speak in the grand ball room at the convention center around 9:00 p.m. today more delegates up for grabs than ni lamb any other day in the pry mare right. clinton hoping she will leave we are any behind. meanwhile sanders stumping in chicago with hopes to gitmo men tum on this super tuesday sequel. >> if there's a large voter turn out. we'll do just great here in hopefully north carolina and florida. >> i think that in the steaks that are coming down the pipeses we have great opportunities to win many of. they we're feeling reay good. sanders getting support in florida with the florida relay walk for bernie

it's not the same full sweep for the democrats but here in florida this could be a good indicator of who the nominee will be. let's talk about the democrats first. hillary clinton is expected to win florida but voters are deciding, 214 delegates that can be shared between clinton and bernie sanders. many of the primary voters today are women, clinton has shown a strong lead over sanders with women. sanders has said that even if he doesn't win here he's still going to continue on in the republicans, all of those 99 delegates, again up for grabs. marco rubio has even said this week whoever wins florida will be the nominee but what are people basing their votes on? how are they picking their candidates? here's what the political expert we spoke with says. >> at this point i'm not sure if it's actually motivated stuff and i'm not sure how much voters in this primary are voting on policy. i think a lot of this may have to do with tone, might have to do with their ability to seem presidential. >> reporter: keep in mind more than 1.6 million ballots have already been mailed in, in florida. p

florida is a key state. there are a handful of must-win states for the democrats and republican canidates. >> reporter: florida is huge. ohio is as important. these are winner take all states. you'll see hillary clinton in ybor today and bernie sanders in the tampa area. if hillary pulls off a win in florida and ohio she is so likely to snag the nomination away from her opponent. clinton isn't getting comfortable. she knows if sanders can win in ohio he'll continue in this race to the white house. on the republican side florida and ohio are key as the winner take off states. some are many of the upcoming primaries as marco rubio and the race and ted cruz works to catch up to donald trump in delegates. missouri, north carolina and illinois will be holding their primaries next tuesday. by this time we roll around to next tuesday when our primaries are here in florida more than two million people will have already cast a ballot in early voting. we are seeing a lot of people very interested in what is happening in these elections. reporting live in florida sarah hollenbeck 10 news wtsp. >>> today university of flo