let's bring in our own senior washington correspondent, mike viqueira. , this is certainly stunning news. what do you think we are going to hear from the obama administration? >> well, false you will hear a note of grace. it has been confirmed by the u.s. marshal service which, of course, keeps watch over the supreme court. and when we hear president obama react to this, i think he will strike a high note, notwithstanding political differences that each individual has had with the other in terms of where they stand on the court. much has been made about president obama's background, a constitutional lawyer. will poe will president obama nominate someone given the fact that this election year, he is unlikely to get a lot of traction in the senate controlled by republicans but whatever no, ma'am next day knee he puts forward, i think all of that is beside the point. >> i think the president will not nominate someone. i don't think that individual would be confirmed this year, but one of the reasons he would nominate someone is for the same reason on tuesday

i expect there to be a vote. >> mike viqueira joins us now. mike, that doesn't sound like the president is ruling it out or pulling it off the table should the republicans decide to play hard ball here. >> you know what, i had the exact same thought, david. he did not rule it out. he said i expect a vote full stop, which is not saying i would not put forward a recess appointment. there are all kinds of wrinkles in this thing. i read today where one school of thought says january 3 of 2017 is when the new congress is sworn in. that's part of law. a new president isn't sworn in until january 20, in the interim, if the democrats were to win the senate, then he could get his nominee through. in the meantime have a place holder or recess appointment. i think if the republicans will get rid of that, they will find a way parliamentary to avoid going into recess, the sinesdie recess add journal. that's happened a couple of times in recent history where a senator will go in and gavel in and gavel out to avoid going into recent to keep the president from

i want to go back to mike viqueira.he's at bernie sanders headquarters in new hampshire. >> i'm here at the bernie sanders crowd in new hampshire, i step away for a second. this is about the most jubilant project we can imagine. we were told that bernie sanders would be out here at the top of the hour at 9 o'clock. his crowd is filing in, coming through the secret service protectioning an indication that bernie sanders is somebody in this race. he's a serious challenger. he warrants secret service protection. that happened after the iowa caucuses. what happened next, we talked about nevada, and south carolina. i want to get off script a little bit. i have been in new hampshire the last knew days, and there was a democratic group allied with the hillary clinton campaign. i went to a marco rubio event the other day. they weren't going after anyone but marco rubio. it's american bridge, funded by george soros, david brock plays a role in that. he's a long-time clinton operative behind media matters. they are following marc

mike viqueira joins us live from manchester new hampshire, and mike how unpredictable is the primarytime around? >> reporter: well, it's very unpredictable, you look at the polling leading up to the real vote, donald trump lapping the field twice as clear as his nearest competitor, the nearest competitor being marco rubio. bern has lead for weeks over hillary clinton. a lot of people looking at that race, thinking it is going to tighten up somewhat. but there is a large number of undecided voters, and after frantic campaigning, the candidates making their final ditches del. >> several candidates say they need a strong showing today just to stay in the race. who are they? >> reporter: well, there are a lot of questions that will be answered by today's voting no question about it. donald trump as i said leading in the polls. the question is his support sort of a mile wide and inch deep, after all he was leading in iowa in the precaucus polling, and he ended up losing to ted cruz so it will be a barometer of how deep donald trump's support it, whether his operation can get out the vote.

. >>> our senior washington correspond mike viqueira joins us now. >> you don't have to go back very far in history to see contentious, angry debates over supreme court nominations. no one needs to be reminded of the drama with justice tomas. there are a number of hot button issues, visceral issues to the bases of both political parties, particularly conservatives. there are cases involving abortion, affirmative actions, the president's actions on immigration, the executive actions that have been stopped in the court so far, and so conservatives have a lot at stake here as do democrats. president obama no way no how he was going to pass up this opportunity, first of all as he put it from california on saturday night, it's his constitutional responsibility. second of all, it would be political malpractice if he were to give in to republicans and not nominate, because this will fire up the democratic base, as well. that is his choice as he moves forward. the white house said the nomination will happen in due time, expected to take about a month. they're going to look at the benefits of

mike viqueira reports from washington >>> justice antonin scalya's remains are in the washington area arriving in a snow tomorrow in the night. >> i don't believe the president should appoint someone. >> almost from the moment of his passing the fight has been escalating, becoming a struggle that that could leave the supreme court with eight justices. >> republicans want to turn the november election to a nominee. insisting that any nominee by president obama should be blocked. >> we are one justice away from losing our federal rights in this country. we are one justice away from a radical 5 justice liberal majority >>> mr obama has ignored that call and says he'll go his constitutional duty to fill the vacancy. who would he nominate. first a jurist on the bench. a person sitting on the court of appeals, considered a stepping stone to the supreme court. he was confirmed for the seat by the senate three years ago. meric garland is the chief judge of the d.c. court. his name came up on previous lists, and paul watford confirmed to the bench on the ninth circuit of 2012. all three were m

rolling the diagnosis, let's begin with washington's seniorer washington correspondent, mike viqueira. >> i don't believe that the president should appoint someone. >> almost from the moment of his passing, the fight has been a political stroke that could leave the supreme court with 8 justices for at least a year. republicans want to turn the november election into a referendum for who should sit on the court. and any nominee put forward by president obama should be blocked in the senate. ted cruz has blocked a filibuster. >> we're one away from a majority that would effectively write the second amendment out of the constitution. >> reporter: mr. obama has ignored that call and said that he will do his constitutional duty to fill the vacancy. who will he nominate? speculation around two classes of candidates. first, a jurist already on the bench. a stepping stone to the supreme court. he was analysisly confirmed by the senate three years ago. merritt garland is the chief judge of the dc court. widely respected, his name has come up on previous lists, and paul wall ford, elected to th

al jazeera's mike viqueira is in new hampshire for the final day of campaigning. >> reporter: the voting starts in a matter of hours. many candidates, republicans and democrats had a last push, criss-crossing the state of new lamp shire in a hunt for voters. do you think you have lost momentum since saturday? marco rubio like many republican rivals needles new hampshire, and he seems to be on rise for a third place finish in iowa. then came saturday ninight. a blistering attack. and under fire he fell back on a similar tone. >> president obama doesn't know what he does. >> there it is. >> reporter: an opposition narrative was born. the junior senator from - and not handling the pressure. >> i haven't decided. >> reporter: and the man that led the attack, finding himself polling badly in polls. on monday they were on bended nee. >> i have dirt on my pants and everything now. oh, good. >> making it great again. >> the republican leading in the polls, donald trump, was challenged at a town hall, a man asking trump if he could look a syrian child in the face and tell him he couldn't go to sc

senior white house correspondent mike viqueira joins us live from washington, d.c. mike, this quickly became a hot topic for the presidential candidates. >> reporter: you are absolutely right, lori jane, it's only about about 24 hours since this news brock. this shocking news that took america by surprise, certainly took the white house and congress by surprise the death of justin antonin scalia after being on the bench since nineteens 86, appointed by ronald reagan it's just a mesh of the hot bunt cultural issues among the cultural war these battles that have been fought for decades now that are handled by the supreme court that has already become such a volatile issue. just consider the docket for the rebalance of this supreme court term. cases involving affirmative action. involving abortion. involving president obama's executive actions on immigration. and whether or not they are going to be legal. these are vital issues not only to americans in general, but in an election year to the base of both parties, both conservatives, and liberals we are talking about vo

. >> mike viqueira for us. mike, thank you.nd at the bottom of the hour, we will look at the cases before the supreme court right now, how his death will effect the rulings. >>> to south carolina now where republican candidate jeb bush is hoping a little help from his brother can turn things around in his struggle campaign. george w. bush is taking his first appearance on the cam contain trail. more on that from randall pinkston who joins us live now from north charleston. randall. >> reporter: tony, the rally is just breaking up here, the rally for jeb event that was a stage to try to raise some support for jeb bush. his campaign is not at all gone the way he had hoped, the way many has thought it would go. he performed poorly in iowa and new hampshire. george w. bush's approval rate here is 60%. compared to jeb who is at about 10%. here is former president george w. bush. >> presidency is a serious job that requires sound judgment, and good ideas. and there's no doubt in my mind that jeb bush has the experience and the charac

let's go to senior washington correspondent mike viqueira, who is live in south carolina tonight. he is looking ahead to next saturday when the state holds a democratic primary. how much of an impact will hillary clinton's victory in nevada have on the next contest? >> well conventional wisdom pretty much went out of window. it appears to be reverting to the mean. going back to normal and a measure of conventional wisdom. the caucuses showed hillary clinton shows strength among black voters, and she is counting on the voters and throughout super-tuesday, a few days after that. while nevada's vote was small compared to what it is in here. more than 50" of the electorate. that is part of the fire wham, stopping the bernie sanders insurgency. >> it's a race that bernie sanders hoped could win. hillary clinton consistent come to south carolina. she went to texas. one of the super-tuesday states, a popular state, holds a lot of delegates, but she struck a theme of race relations in houston, later today. >> it's a blast from the jim crow past. i thought we won that battle in the 196 #s.

let's go to mike viqueira, senior washington correspondent. he is live in south carolina, and looking ahead to the democratic primary, the one sit for saturday. a lot of people wondering if band has a chance -- bernie sanders has a chance of stealing this from hillary clinton. >> bernie sanders says he will not give up and will not concede. if you look, there was low turn out caucuses for democrats. bernie sanders blamed some of that on his loss to hillary clinton. it was a convincing win for hillary clinton, if you look at some numbers. there was another troubling defence. 13% of the democratic electorate is african american. they went to hillary clinton by a substantial margin, you move to south carolina on saturday, and three days after the super-tuesday, and many of the dates involved in that, where the african american delegate represents half. that is a steep hill for bernie sanders to climb. >> hillary clinton did not come to josh starling, after the victory in nevada. she went to texas. another super-tuesday state. and she talked about

the meetings will go forward. >>> mike viqueira in washington. number of hate groups in the u.s. on the rise after several years of declining, according to reports that came out. al jazeera's roxana saberi has that story. >> in charleston south sudan, a white sooup rex sift is accused white supremacists are accused of killing nine at a bible study. >> we have no idea his motivation behind the shooting chattinoogoa four officers were kill. and in the springs three were killed. the poverty law center says the examples are of political violence sees a rise in hate groups. it coincides with the number of hate groups across the u.s. it jumped from 800 to 900 last year. an increase of 14%. the group include the klu klux klan erupted after a church shooting in south carolina. numbers more than doubled to 190 groups. the report also says the number of black separatist hate groups are growing, energized by shootings of black men. the groups are motivated by racially based hatred and seek a separate nation. they reported a rise in anti-muslim behaviour. li

mike viqueira reports from washington. >> president obama was asked about the controversy of the sunday death of justice angers ntonin scalia. he prayed justice scalia, and then quickly made it clear that he has the right to nominate someone to succeed him and will exercise that right. he was some how suggesting that the president in a second term in office should in the have a right and defer to the next president before appointing someone. as for who the president is thinking of or what type of candidate he's thinking of nominating to be the next associate justice, the president would not tip his hand. >> there is not going to be a particular position on a particular issue that determines whether or not i nominate them, but i will present someone who indisputably is qualified for the seat any fair minded person or anyone who disagreed with my politics would say would serve honorbly on the court. >> on the democratic side the president would not put his thumb on the scale. he was asked to comment on a controversial between hillary clinton and bernie sanders over who is more loyal or di

. >> mike viqueira joining us live from manchester new jersey, where candidates will choose candidates. quite a spanking the governor of new jersey gave. did the debate change anything for the voters? >> you know, it remains to be seen, one thing you are certain of heading into the primary, the first in a nation primary is number one historically it's shown that new hampshire voters are fickle and will change their minds at the last minute. reports show that many voters have not made up their mind and could do so when entering the polling booth on tuesday. it illustrates the desperation that some of the candidates, it could be the last gasp. some that launched the full-frontal assault on marco rubio, whom he considers the biggest threat. many consider him to be the biggest threat to defeat donald trump. but they are unreliable heading into the primary, particularly in the granite state. to defeat chump and ted cruz is not expected to do well at all. at least compared to the victory in iowa. the charge from chris kristi to marco rubio, that he's robotic, he delivers canned answers, he r

mike viqueira reports from washington. >> reporter: the sudden death of scalia has trigger admit call free for all in washington. it is going to mean gridlock and it could translate to dead lock at the supreme court for more than a year. just advertise antonin scalia's remains are now in the washington area. >> i do not believe the president should appoint someone -- >> reporter: almost from the moment of his passing the fight over his replace has been escalating. it could leave the supreme court with just eight justices for at least the next year. republicans want to return it into a kind of referendum on who should sit on the court, and insists any nominee put forward by president obama should be blocked. ted cruz has vowed to filibuster. >> we are one justice away from losing our fundamental rights in this country. we're one justice away from a liberal majority that would effectively write the second amendment out of the constitution. >> reporter: mr. obama has ignored that call and says he will do his constitutional due to fill the vacancy. first, a juris already on the bench. he

al jazeera's senior washington correspondent, mike viqueira is live in washington. tell us more about the president's message today. >>> good evening, or good afternoon. it is really indicative of a theme president obama has been hitting over the past several months. he has been trying to reach across divisions in american society. this is an increasing theme that he has been striking whether those divisions be religious or political, and secondly, it's quite evident that the president is disturbed and upset by much of what he regards as the angry rhetoric coming from the campaign trail, particularly from the republican side, obviously. if you look at some of the speeches he has given over the course of the last weeks and months, first in may his first-ever trip to a synagogue. he gave an address at washington, d.c. at a place of worship. then last week at the holocaust remembrance ceremony. and his first-ever trip to a mosque on u.s. soil where he talked about the theme of unity in american society how the rich tapestry is threatened by some of the anti-muslim rhet

. >> ok, mike viqueiraing baltimore, thanks, mike, al jazeera will bring you president obama's remarks at that mosque live around 1:00 p.m. eastern. >> one mosque in wyoming i guess causing controversy with neighbors. a handful of muslims opened the center last year and face intimidation and lack of acceptance. we have the story. >> we had a new mosque open in town, there had never been one in the history of gillette and people contact me through the militia group i belong to. >> when the all white predominantly christian hometown in wyoming had its first mosque open in late 2015, he started a facebook page called stop islam in gillette. it soon attracted 400 members who shared his views that the mosque would foster islamic radicalism and incite terrorism. >> the issue with the mosque is we didn't know who was behind it, who was in it, where it came from. >> the family founded the mosque in a converted house. they make up almost all the muslims in gillette, 30 in all in a town of 31,000. >> we wanted a place to gather and pray and for kids to get taught islamic scripture. >> the famili

i'll go out to mike viqueira. the imam, as you can see, as you can hear, is very optimistic about what the president had to say. let's play one more clip of the president, and then we'll come back to you, mike. >> the best way for us to fight terrorism is to deny these organizations legitimacy, and to show that here in the united states of america we do not suppress islam. we celebrate and lift up the success of news limb americans. that's how we show the lie that they're trying to propagate. we shouldn't play in to terrorist propaganda. >> now mike, the reality of politics is that there are obviously members of the other party who will agree with president obama's take on how to address isil and some of the comments that he made. so going forward how do you think this is going to be received? >> well, you know, i agree with the imam. i said it myself when we started talking about this, it was an optimistic message, no doubt about it. i think its constructive to compare how president obama has spoken about these i

mike viqueira is live outside of the mosque. mike, what is the significance of this visit?> reporter: well, this is president obama's first trip to a mosque on u.s. soil. this is something that muslim leaders had urged president obama to do, many meeting at the white house with president obama and this is the result of those talks. obviously as you put it, del, the spike in islamaphobia, the an advertise muslim rhetoric that has happened in the wake of the paris and san bernardino attacks has been a great deal of concern. and we have heard president obama talk about this several times in the last several weeks, lashing out at those particularly on the campaign trail. donald trump saying he wanted to ban all muslims from coming to the united states until we can figure out what is going on. jeb bush said only christians should be allowed in among the refugees that have flooded europe and many that will be coming to these shores. and many others like ted cruz have hit president obama for refusing to use the phrase radical islamic terrorism. the president has lashed out at thos

mike viqueira reports 88 years has come and gone since a president visited cuba. >> reporter: the president has been laying the ground work and is going forward with a presidential visit. >> early thursday president obama made it official with this tweet. i'll travel to cuba. it can approve lives. it's the first lady president obama. mr obama is looking forward to the trim. >> it will be the first time since 1928 that a sitting u.s. president has been in cuba. the trip comes from the opening. after a handshake with cuban president castro, all leading those these moments last summer, when flags were raised at the embassies, bringing normal diplomatic relations for the first time in 54 years. president obama said that the trip is part of the overall effort to force the castro regime to loosen its grip. >> we'll be in a better position to support human rights and raising it. president obama plans to meet with president raul. there are no plans to meet with brother fiddle. siting a lack of time. since the news broke, and they have attacked the visit. >> the presidents ought to be pushing for a

mike viqueira is live outside of the mosque. ke how much of a game changer could this be among muslim americans? >> reporter: well, i don't know if it could be termed a game changer. after all the president has been urged time and time again by muslim leaders, including a recent trip by many of them to the white house to have president obama do such a visit. he has never visited a mosque here in the united states. this is the first time that he will visit one, seven years into his presidency. it is a continuing theme that the president has hit time and time again, in the wake of a rise of anti-muslim statements, not only by members of the public at large, but also by some top republican political leaders. donald trump's notorious comment, banning all muslims from the united states until we can, quote unquote, figure out what is going on. other top leaders criticizing the president for his refusal to used terms. and in fact he has spoken out quite forcefully first at an international conference in turkey, a very angry statement cr

mike viqueira is live with us from washington. and mike, what is the goal of this visit?> reporter: well, the president says there has been progress made in 14 months, del. and he believes, and as do his aids that going to cuba will further that progress. but this is something that president obama has personally wanted to do. there you see him shaking hands with raul castro in panama. as talks had been underway for quite sometime, secret talks brokered by st. francis in the vatican. and then over the summer in july, the cuban flag being raised in washington over what is now the cuban embassy. in that flag being raised for the first time in 54 years. the united states reciprocating in august. president obama despite the criticism that there has been very little progress on human rights since this a announcement, president obama believes he is going to keep the momentum going here; that the openings that he has announced just the other day, more direct flights being announced between the united states and cuba, the united states easing that restriction, he believes that his

mike viqueira what was the president's message today? >> reporter: good morning so you, del.here is a theme in what the president has been saying. he has been reaching across partisan and religious lines. it was a week ago where he spoke at the israeli embassy, and today the national prayer breakfast which is an annual event that has been going on since 1953. but the president also picking up on a second theme that he has been hitting over the course of the last several days, and that is the partisanship in washington, and some of what he has been hearing on the campaign trail. there were no overt political statements, no criticisms from the president. it's really not the setting or the context. but he talked about fear, economic fear. he talked about the fear of displacement and war. he talked about the fear of change, and there was really no mistaking the guiding principle and the structure of this speech. a clear illusion to a lot of the rhetoric, the inflammatory, the incendiary messages we have been hearing on the campaign trail. >> fear does funny things. fear can lead

mike viqueira is live for us in washington, d.c. mike, what is the goal of this visit?> good morning to you, richelle. it's a surprise and in some respects it isn't a surprise. president obama since his historic announcement that his intention was to normalize diplomatic relations with cuba, has made it no secret that he planned to make a trip to cuba, and he said he will go to cuba with first lady michelle obama on march 21st and 22nd, an overnight trip, as part of an overseas trip to argentina and elsewhere. any president in his series of tweets says we still have differences with the cuban government, but he believes his trip there will help facility progress towards a more open and civil society, and in fact the president announced that he in addition to meeting with recall all castro, the president, he will meet with elements of civil society that translates to human rights advocates, and civil rights advocate within cuba. he said that was something that was a predicate before he could go on to cuba. that evidently has been ironed out. the last trip by a u.s. presi

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joining me now on the phone is senior white house correspondent mike viqueira.our reaction here? >> reporter: it's a thunder bolt. no one saw this coming. it's given everyone pause here twitter, people are in shock. people already talking about the implications for the supreme court. with these reports now, still sketchy even though the governor of texas has lauded the life of anthony scalia. the san antonio "news express" describing a resort where he attended a private party on friday. he did not appear for breakfast and according to the san antonio news express news, a person associated with the ranch went to a room and found the body. the initially reports, it does appear now that the 79-year-old antonin scalia, a conservative, saying the constitution should be strictlied interpreted who had been a defendant thorn in the side of liberals for every moment that he has been on the bench, who has treated some opinions, and when he was in the majority those who oppose him with utter disdain, he has apparently passed. this creates something a dilemma for the obama

mike viqueira is in washington, d.c. with more on this. also seemed to be speaking to republicans out there, as well, mike. do you want to take it away? >> reporter: you are absolutely right. and the president has made no secret of the fact that he has been very irritated about how did he put it the boom and despair trail that plays out among the republicans. and that they are talking down the american economy. for the president the trend is your friend. at this time in his first term, the unemployment rate was still skyrocketing, until it ended up in 10% in double digits. down now to 4.8%. and as you reported, richelle, the results are mixed in that, while 150 to 160,000 jobs were created last month, it is still below the level -- the economy had been going gang busters in terms of job creation at the end of last year, so i guess in economics as in politics, everything is relative. but you have a buoyant president obama who wants to hit back at those republicans who are talking down the economy. and he wants to boost the democratic prospe

as mike viqueira reports, years have come and gone since the last time a sitting u.s. president visited cuba. >> the president has laid the count work for the trip: early thursday, it was made official by this trip. i'll travel to cuba, in an effort to improve the lives of people. abdel fatah fayed, president obama alongside. president obama looking forward to it. it will be the first time since a sitting u.s. president has visited. it was a deal agreed to in secret talks, and after a handchaining with cuban president at an international summit in panama. all leading to these moments. when embassies were reopened in washington and havana, bringing diplomatic relations for the first time in years. the trip is part of an effort to force the kavert roe regime to release its grip. we can engage and raise these images. >> the white house has no plans to meet with brother fiddle, citing a lack of time. since news broke, attacked the president over his planned visit. >> the president ought instead by pushing for free cuba, and to go there and acts as an apologist. >> reporter

but bernie sanders could put up a fight. >> that is our mike viqueira. you very much in south carolina on the ground. south carolina congressman jim clyburn, the highest ranking african-american in congress are already endorsing hillary clinton. >> officials are warning that the death toll likely to rise after a series of isil attacks in syria. 129 people died in the bombings on sunday. the first was a double suicide-bomb in homs, which targeted an alawite neighborhood, that's the minority secretary of bashar al-assad. hours later another explosion hit a shiite shrine in damascus. >> in fact, we are closer to a cease-fire today than we have been. and i take nothing for granted about this. a cessation of hostilities, is possible over the course of these next hours. >> neither kerry nor his russian current part sergei lavrov have released any details about the agreement. it's the second time in as many weeks that the u.s. and russia have said they have reached a short-term truce. russia said it will continue targeting isil despite any stop in fighting. we'

. >>> our senior washington correspond mike viqueira giants us now, scalia's death affecting severalending before the supreme court. what happens to those cases? >> well, they would revert back to the lower court decisions and only apply to those circuits around the country. there are federal court benches around the country but only apply to the circuit served. these are volatile issues, issues incredibly important to the political bases of bolt parties. if you look at the supreme court docket, there are cases involving abortion, affirmative action, union deuce, immigration and president's executive orders there. a lot of this would accrue to the benefit have conservatives, because the lower courts have held up the president's order that would law those who are the parents of u.s. citizens who are themselves not here legally to stay in this country, so a lot of vital issues before the court this year and are evidently going to be before the public before the pops next november. >> we have talked about isil, about the economy, now justice scalia's death underscoring the unusual impor

mike viqueira is in manchester tonight. >> reporter: john you see the weather behind me, that didn't stop many of these candidates some of them in very desperate condition trying to criss-cross the state and drum up a vote in the hunt for late-deciding voters? marco rubio like many republican rivals needs new hampshire, and he seemed to be on the rise here. >> thank you, george -- >> reporter: then came saturday night and the blistering attack at the latest republican debate. rubio repeatedly fell back on a standard talking point. >> this notion that barack obama doesn't know what he is doing is just not true -- >> there it is. the memorized 25-second speech -- >> reporter: an opposition narrative was born. the junior senator from florida is too canned. >> marco rubio-bot here. >> reporter: but it was the man who lead the attack on rubio, chris christie who still finds himself trailing badly. on monday christie pleaded on bended knee for support. >> i got dirt all over my pants and everything now. i hope i got your vote, man -- all right. good. hey! >> reporter: the republican leadin

. >> live in manchester, thank you, mike viqueira >>> one candidate not campaigning in new hampshire, hillary clinton. she visited flint michigan, the community in the midst of a water crisis. andrei rowan is there. what is she doing there, is this viewed as a political move? >> if you can hear me, we have noise out here, they talk about politicizing critics. the smokes here are buying sincerity. she had a raucous welcome. the baptist church, the crisis was more than fixing the pipes. it would take millions to help for the treatment of, and the attesting for led poisoning in kids, so the effects of which could take years to develop. also, if you wanted to employ and empower the residents of flint to fix the water infrastructure here, like a jobs programme. she condemned the amount of time it took to acknowledge there was a problem after the water, after a disastrous switch to the water supply recollects and got the biggest applause when she suggested that race and class did, indeed, play a role in the state government's response to the water crisis. >> i said weeks ago. if this had be

for more on who is up, and who is down, we're joined by mike viqueira live in new hampshire.seems basically this is a race for second place among the republicans? >> good evening to you, richelle. of course donald trump was ahead in the polls heading into the iowa caucuses, his lead wasn't quite as great as it is here in new hampshire. but there are a number of voters, a significant percentage who have not made up their minds, and donald trump is taking no chances. he has had several events today. and just behind me, he is expecting several hundred if not thousands at a final closing rally to try to bring out the vote here across the state of new hampshire, meanwhile all of this weather really causing havoc on the roads, but it didn't stop many of these candidates both republican and democrat from criss-crossing the state today. you think you have lost any momentum since saturday? marco rubio like many republican rivals needs new hampshire, and he seems to be on a rise here. then came saturday night, and a blistering attack at the latest republican debate. under fire, rubio r

mike viqueira is live this morning in manchester, new hampshire, the stakes are pretty high for severaltes especially in the gop field, right? >> you're absolutely right, stephanie. it's all over but the voting here after a furious bought here, candidates crisscrossing the state, many on the edge on the bubble. if they don't do well here, they could be heading home. supporters will see no more reason to keep sends checks and sending them to the polls. donald trump is going to run away with this thing. if you average the poll, he's got roughly twice the polling of his closest competitor and most of those ma is marco rubio and on the democratic side, bernie sanders that long held a monumental, a colossal advantage, a gap between himself and hillary clinton on the democratic side. it is on the republican side where many candidates could be disappearing if they do not farewell today. many people are looking at the so-called governor's side of things, jeb bush of course the former governor of florida, chris christie of new jersey and john kasich of ohio. really, they're going to have to coal

. >> mike viqueira, thank you. president obama was also asked about syria during the news conference, and he said that he's under no illusion that's the cessation of hostilities will bring lasting peace. jamie mcintyre reports from the pentagon. >> tony, the idea is that the temporary pause in the fighting would allow for food and he medicine for desperate syrians, and possibly laying the ground work for more enduring seeps fire when the peace talks resume in geneva next week, but now with the help of russian air power, forces it in favor of bashar al-assad are making big gains on the ground. the latest video posted on social media shows the syrian army's advance on aleppo. once a rebel stronghold and syria's largest city. before years of fighting drew much of the population away. over head, a russian jet appears to drop cluster bombs, unguided munition condemned by the u.s. for combat because it can cause inscrip at casualties. they also accuse russia of bombing a doctors without borders hospital in northern syria

mike viqueira joins us live now from washington, d.c. evening to you, mike, how soon will the president nominate someone you think? >> reporter: i think it's going to happen relatively quickly. one of his spokes people, eric schultz, traveling with the president in california, as he prepares for a summit with asian leaders later this week. has said it's unlikely to happen this week, a president has a lot on his plate. senate incidentally is in recess with this presidents' day week. he will consider it. i don't think it will be much longer after that, erica, that the president puts forward a nominee and, of course, a respected jurist, although perhaps the most polarizing figure on the supreme court, was antonin scalia. and no sooner has the news broken about his shocking death. a bunser bolt that nobody saw coming at the west texas hunting ranch on saturday morning. the red recipients and vitt recipients on that we have seen back and forth now. republicans are saying president obama should honor their will when they go to the polls and vo