. @>> mark barker, nbc news. @>> and, again, tonight is the @night. @the beginning of award season @starts, and it starts with the @golden globes. @stay tuned for a special @edition at 5:00, followed by @nightly news. @and then the stars start @arriving at 7:00. @all the action starts at 8:00. @and we're having some drastic @changes in our weather in terms @of today. @so we want to get over to betsy @kling and olga breeze who are @both in the weather center. @>> good morning. @temperatures at the bottom of @the screen. @you can see it. @47 degrees right now. @that's pretty darn toasty. @we will be a far cry from that @later on today. @have a few alerts you want to @make sure you know about. @>> mild temperatures, and the @winds are fairly reasonable @right now. @that's about to change. @winter weather advisory kicks @in at 10:00 this morning. @that's going to go all the way @into the afternoon. @the lake effect snow advisory @starts tomorrow as we get this @system cranking. @>> it is going to be a very, @very big day as far as the @weather goes in nor

mark barker, los angeles california. jason: i think a lot of people think star wars got snubbed. >> they are counting their money, so i don' t think they care. jason: today, it is starting to feel comfortable now that the afternoon hours are upon us. amy: i didn' t need my coat this time, we got a lot of clouds, it is a little bit gloomy. it is another' s -- another cool start. we dropped to 37 in ocala. that was around 3 a.m.. temperatures climb for much of the morning. most of us spent the morning in the upper 40' s and now of course we have climbed from here despite the fact that we have a lot of clouds. we are in the lower to middle 60' s already. 60 five in melbourne. orlando is at 63. ocala is at 57. we are getting there. we just have all of that cloud cover and it will continue to stream in. lots of moisture across the gulf of mexico rolling in. in fact, we have , see the showers? this whole broad area of low over the next few hours, we will see this meander closer to us and eventually, it will bring some showers

mark barker, nbc news. >>> there are new details about the reports of shots being fired at the naval medical center in san diego, california. the medical center is no military police say they checked a building after someone reported hearing three shots in the basement. >>> the race for the white house entering a campaign crunch time. the candidates are on a last-minute push for support in the state of iowa. that's because the iowa caucus is less than a week away. nbc is live in washington, d.c. with more on this neck and neck battle. >>reporter: thanks. good evening and a big endorsement today. most of the time political endorsements don't make a big difference but this one might because a lot of the g.o.p. voters who will caucus on monday night have very, very interested in religion. in a state where many republicans mix prayer with politics. >> god bless the great state of iowa. >>reporter: it's a blow to ted cruz who he's campaigning as a christian conservative. jerry fallwell, jr. now he's warning evangelicals in a video released by the christian broadcast network that trump has

mark: we will ask him about that carnival barker line. they flicked at trump, but in the end, given that everybody is firing in different directions, who is the most likely, if anybody, to take on trump? john: what is most likely is christy, because he is doing it in a not very subtle way. my question is when he starts to take the gloves off. trump is not afraid of christie at all for some of the reasons we refer to. i think the person who has the most interesting line of attack is cruz, who has laid off. if crispin comes out firing you will find a way to get back at cruz. mark: those are the two most likely. know what is effectively taking on trump. cruz has the resources and big political skills and kristi is such a great brawler and they both have an incentive to do it. john: and ted cruz get slammed from saying one thing, but ted cruz's bond israel. -- is real. i think it is the one place where he comes across as most like a phony, because no one really believes he is an evangelical in his heart or a god-fearing fellow. i think crews

. >> all right that is olympic historian barker joining us from the london studio and thank you very much for speaking to us. brazil markssporting year with traditional sylvester road race and 30,000 runners from 42 countries took to the streets of south palo for the 91st edition of the race and won the men's race in a time of 44 minutes and 31 seconds and he was fired and both of ethiopia. in the women's field it was also from either open -ore ethiopia who won the second straight race and more later. >> thanks very much indeed and see you later and do stay with us on al jazeera if you can, i'll be right back with another full half hour bulletin of news at the start of this new year, 2016. ♪ >> this is it. >> oscar winner alex gibney's "edge of eighteen" marathon. >> if i said that i'm perfectly fine, i would be lying. >> i feel so utterly alone. >> in this envelope is my life. >> if you don't go to college, you gonna be stuck here... i don't wanna be stuck here. >> catch the whole ground-breaking series, "edge of eighteen" marathon. >> the sports story everyone's talking about. >> don't miss the world exclusive undercov

mark: chris christie flat out dismisses john kasich as a non-threat in the race. jeb bush saying that he had abandoned his followers on obamacare. christie tried to convince voters that trump is a carnival barkerall style, no substance. calling him a buddy of the clintons. all of these attacks are from both the candidate and their supporters, including opposite super pacs. john: these are a lot of attacks, no doubt about that. given the scale of this intergalactic battle being waged, what would it take for a candidate be damaged by any of these negative ads? mark: normally you can break through. it's possible some of these attacks are working. based on my sense of where things are, these things are not working. they are throwing candidate offs, but there are so many of them, and none of them have been devastating. there is nothing on the scale of like when trump has taken down people in the past. john: let's go back to 2012, when in the fall of 2012, when mitt romney went after newt gingrich, they pummeled him from november through december. for only about 4-5 weeks. but in the course of the time it took him from the front runner to be fifth in iowa. that was a huge example about how negative

insiders and the carnival barkers of today, we must elect someone who has been tested. >> joining me now, mark. great to see you. >> happy new year. >> and to you. nice to see you. chris christie was, you might say, nowhere a few months ago. now he's up in second place in new hampshire. how did he get his way back up? >> he spent a lot of time in the states. new hampshire voters care about that. he's a northeasterner. new hampshire voters tend to gravitate at times to northeasterners. and he's worked very hard. there are no perfect candidates in this race. everyone's got some flaws. chris christie is going to get more scrutiny. the rubio super pac is coming after him and others will too. but he's a good fit for the state, he's worked hard there, as has his wife. >> and he's getting attacked now by rubio's super pac. i want to play a little bit of that. >> chris christie could well be obama's favorite republican governor. why? christie's record. he instituted an internet sales tax, supported common core, and liberal energy policies. incredibly, christie even backed obamacare's medicaid expansio