i think if you look at rubio's momentum with trey gowdy and following up with nikki haly, add to thatd cruz has a good ground game in the evangelical committee to go get out the votes for him. the momentum is if their favor. donald trump will under perform in the polls here. i'm not ready to say he's not going to win yet. i think he will under perform. >> obviously, this isn't a caucus state or a state where you need to round up people to do something that takes hours and hours and hours him we have been hearing more and more the grounds game does matter in south carolina. ted cruz has been bragging about his ground game. if terms of doing voighter turnout, immobile iegz door knockers and stuff. do you see a difference on that score? >> i would say cruz and rubio have a really good ground game. cruz has made a lot of support in the evangelical community and the leaders he has rounded up to, you know, for his ground game. i think that south carolina as you noted rightly is a paid meaning of the first state. the ground game is not as important as it is here in iowa and new hampshire. it

he is right up there with the popular governor nikki haly and others. it will be interesting to see what effect he has. also, we're going to have you back, thomas, i know you spoke with some young voters there. i want to hear their take on the campaign. i'll have you back in a bit. don't go anywhere. appreciate it. paul singer is joining me now. palm, we talked about the popularity there. you heard the numbers with the former president in south carolina. of course, he won the 2000 primary. goes on to win the state's general election in 2000 and '04. do you think this is the only state we can expect to see w campaigning for his brother? >> no, i doubt i. remember march 1st there is a whole sweep across the states, alabama, arkansas, texas. some of those i think the bush name will ring very strong, particularly george w. bush, of course, texas is basically headquarters for the bush family while ted cruz, obviously, is a texan. i think you could see bushes out beating the bushes for votes in texas. george w. bush has already done fundraisers for jeb in ark

that contest coming up in two days and marco rubio has just picked up the endorsement of nikki haly. looks like she was trying to decide between rubio and jeb bush and wish he could get that endorsement and says he was disappointed. >> it could give rubio a boost ahead of the primaries. >>> coming up, the bullet train is coming to san jose. what this deit scission could mean for the south bay. >>> i'm stephanie chuang live in vallejo where a three alarm fire takes a tragic turn when firefighters do a walkthrough and find the body of an infant inside. the latest on the investigation, coming up. we're tracking l >>> we are tracking lingering rain this morning. a live look at the radar this morning still pretty active. a lot of green making its way through the bay area. this after a wet night. good morning, thank you very much for joining us on this thursday. i'm sam brock. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. let's check the forecast with meteorologist kari hall. good morning. >> we continue to see some rain moving through parts of the bay area this morning, but it's very hit or miss and where