christopher: richard walker therefore us from miami, florida. efforts to bring peace to syria appear to be gathering apace. secretary of state john kerry will be meeting president vladimir putin to talk about political transitions. russia has begun pulling out combat jets. a day after announcing the military has achieved its objectives in syria. reporter: these are russian tv pictures of the fighter base in syria. the first fighter jets have returned home. the un's special envoy to syria welcome to this is a significant development. >> the political solution is the solution. it is a good, sustainable solution. reporter: 275,000 people have died since the beginning of the war, among them children. the apparent lull in the fighting has given rise to hope. still, the cease-fire alone is not enough, argues the u.n. inquiry on human rights in syria. >> we need not and should not wait for a final peace agreement to the reached. reporter: a reference to war crimes. the opposition is demanding an interim government without president assad. with russian

our own keith cate and candace mccowan quill bring us reports quill bring us reports from miami in -- will bring us reports from miami in all of our stories tomorrow. >>> people have died from spice and even paramedics attacked from people they are trying to save. people have been using spice in the bay area for five years, so the question is why is this happening now? 8 on your side also paul mueller joins us live now from tampa and, paul, is this a deadly trend or do health officials think it's temporary? what do they think is going on? >> reporter: jen, it's only expected to last a few weeks. now obviously, of course, this is not the real thing, but there's a lot of bad batches of it going around the area right now. that has helped rescue officials racing for the worst. >> what's up? >> reporter: we've seen what spice can do. >> now calm down. calm down. calm down. >> reporter: fits of anger, rage and downright disturbing behavior. >> i smoke it every night. >> reporter: how long you been doing it? >> around two years. >> reporter: spice users like melvin scott line the streets of

former communications director -- miller joins us from miami. he has a new job. super pacfor formed not that long ago with the sole purpose of trying to stop donald trump from becoming the publican party's presidential nominee. tim joins us from miami. why did you take this job? sometimes in life, you have to be on the side of what is right and good. stopping donald trump from becoming the republican nominee is certainly that. he has no chance to become the president because hillary clinton would wipe the floor with him in the general election. his favorite thing to talk about in his speeches, the polls. i'm not sure what he would talk about in the general elections since hillary is cleaning his clock in every public poll that is out there. stop thatjob to horrible reality from happening. mark: there has been discussions infusion of cash, how much cash do you all hope to raise in the next three weeks? principles has spent $3 million in iowa, with some success. it is one of the states trump has not one to date -- won today. because of the fragmented field, there wa

tim miller joins us now from miami. he has a new job. working for our principles sole purpose of trying to stop donald trump from being the republican party's nominee. he joins us from miami. why did you take this job? >> sometimes in life, you need to be on the side of what is right and good. stopping donald trump from being republican nominee and the president is certainly that. he has no chance to become the president because hillary clinton would take the floor from him in a general election. he loves talking about the polls . i'm not sure where he would talk about in the general election -- hillary cleaning his clock in every poll out there. it is our job to stop that horrible reality from happening. mark: the pac has not raise as much money as it liked. how much cash do you hope to raise in the next three weeks? pac spentnciples about $3 million in iowa, with some success, being that that is one of the states that donald today.as not won because of the fragmented field, for a variety of reasons, there was not the financial support e

tim joins us from miami. why did you take this job? cause, sometimes you to be on the side of what is right and good. topping donald trump from being the republican nominee and stopping him from being the president is certainly that. become,o chance to because hillary clinton would wipe the floor with him in the general election. is everything to talk about is the polls, he loves talking about that. i'm not sure what he would talk about in the general election since hillary is cleaning his clock in every public poll that is out there. it is our job at principles back to stop that horrible reality from happening. the pack has not raise as much money as it would have liked. there has been discussion this week of an infusion of cash. how much cash do you hope to rees -- raise in the next three weeks? tim miller: sure, the principal spend $3 million in iowa with some success. it is one of the state donald trump has not one to date. focusing on a whole host of issues. as you said, there was not the financial support for stop trump effort in

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. >> joining us from miami is a director at the tea party network. it will be great to have it with you. we'll see what we saw. saying that he couldn't believe how tame it was. my question is wouldn't republicans be better off. >> i don't know. we'll see tomorrow morning, who will have a head line, anthony ray hinton tweeted out a joke saying she can't wait to debate the guys. this is a question - do the general public pay attention. they may have started out watching it, do they turn it off. this has been a problem with the republican party for the past two elections, they don't relate. they engage the american people. it is calmer, smoother, more sombre debate. it is more informative and engaging than the past. >> the question is whether they were too engaging before. what do you think about trump. do you think this helped or hurt him. because he wasn't quite the lightening rod he was in other debates. >> it shows that mr trump will not be controlled by the political class. he's not a politician, he can be this more sophisticated political person.

. >> tim miller, jeb bush's communication director, joins us from miami. he has a new job. orking for our principle pac, a super pac for the sole purpose of trying to stop donald trump from being the republican nominee. tim joins us from miami. tim, why did you take this job? >> because it's -- sometimes in life, you need to be on what is right and good. and stopping donald trump from being the republican nominee and stopping him from being the president is certainly that. he has no chance to become the president, as you know, because hillary clinton would wipe the floor with him in the general election. his favorite thing to talk about his his polls. he loves talking about the polls. half of his stump speech is the polls. i don't know what he would talk about in the general election, since hillary is cleaning his clock in every poll out there. so it's our job to stop that horrible reality from happening. >> tim, the pac has not raised as much money as it would have liked. perhaps an infusion of cash. how much cash do you hope to raise in the next three weeks? >> well, sure.

keith is joining us from miami danger community college. >> well, who really knows? we are going to have to wait and see what happens. sparks could fly. we are still almost like four hours away from this debate. behind me. this is the media center. all the reporters and the getting ready for this debate. hillary clinton is still the frontrunner in this race. make no mistake. but there was a surprise whether and bernie sanders. the last time these two debated it was back in flint, michigan. show some of that video. you can see these two going at it. there was a lot of talk about international trade. job losses. talk about the economy. so important there in the rust belt area and really bernie sanders laid some things on hillary clinton that i think worked in his favor. clearly, last night, even though she was supposed to be way up in the polls, 20% in michigan, bernie sanders stole michigan last night. that gives him a lot of momentum. she picked up mississippi and a lot of delegates. both feeling good about their results last night. listen to some of this. >> i just

jamie is joining us from miami ith the details on this tragedy. jamie jamie. >> reporter: believe it or not, crews are still cleaning up. there's still stage up. slowly but surely they are tearing down the stages in this park getting dotown miami back to normal. organizers are kruncrunching numbers trying to figure out what they can do better, next year. ultra 2016 is in the books. everybody from organizers to fans to police say the weekend success. >> with any big event, any big operation you have to sit down ando a debrief and after action and look at what issues did you have. what can you improve on? >> this year set records for ultra. attendance soared to 170 people. arrests were down compared to the last couple of years. this weekend in total. >> i think that is in part because of the preparation and logisisical impact we have prior to the event. >> the number of fire rescue calls down. >> with the amount of people that showed up, less than 70 people we transported is tremendous when you have 45 to 50,000 people attending day. >> there were a

she joins us from miami. hello candace. >> reporter: good evening keith. we are here at florida international university here this evening. that event starts at 7:00. the doors open here at 6:00. if you look behind me, the room is getting prepped for a crowd this evening. the podium, rubio is expected to take the stage after the results come in and it will be very interesting to see what the mood of the room is later on this evening. now, rubio spent the past several days campaigning all over the state. he packed in multiple stops into each day. yesterday, he met with campaign workers at his orlando office saying that is one place that he can really make a difference in the outcome of this primary. face that this is still a fight here in florida. that he could win his home state. without it, there is not much of a road to the nomination. but rubio is changing his tune a bit this week on his thoughts about the campaign after florida. >> it comes down to florida. this state will elect 99 delegates. to one person. and i want it to be me and i need you to help

he is joining us from miami in doral. >> gary? >> well, a very busy early voting has concluded in florida. absentee ballots continue to pour in and election officials are talking about the possibility of a historic presidential primary turnout now. >> election eve dawns after a busy season of absentee voting. >> might have a hard time getting here after work. >> i make sure i voted. >> with lots of company in broward county much more than 158,000 people early voted or returned absentees in larger miami dade. and with 2,000 early absentees so far. across the state of 12 million voters. more than 2 million have cast their ballots. heavy voting spurred by heavy hitting. >> cowr rupt marco rubio has spent years dwee frauding the people of florida. >> donald trump attacking marco rubio for improper use of a credit card in recent days. >> i believes in the american dream because he lived it. >> feel good clips about the humble clips and the contentious. >> they will hold out between in 2008, it was around 35%. i am expecting it to be ar

from miami. >> back to you. >> okay. with some team coverage for us from miami. thank you. during the debate, hillary rodham clinton took aim at trump. she criticized his character. listen in. >> i think it's un-american. not at all in keeping with american values, karen. >> and tonight, the republicans will have their chance to face off. the four remaining gop candidates will attend a debate in miami. our own keith cate and candace mccowan are in miami and they'll cover the debate and bring us live reports in all of our newscasts beginning with first at 4:00. >>> jeb bush is getting back into the fray of the presidential race. the former florida governor is meeting privately with all of the remaining gop candidates except donald trump. speculation is growing that he is trying to strengthen ongoing efforts to bring down the gop front runner. >>> it's 6:06. we want to go back to breaking news. a backyard cookout turns deadly in the state of pennsylvania. that's where five people are dead this morning and two gunmen are now on the run. news channel 8's lindsey mastis is follo

abc's tom llamas leads us off from miami with the video and what that trump supporter threatens he'll do next. >> reporter: tonight, this ugly moment at a donald trump event exploding. a demonstrator walking out, gets sucker punched. multiple cameras at the north carolina rally last night capturing the assault as it happens. >> oh! >> reporter: officers then detaining the demonstrator who had collapsed to the ground. >> chill, chill! you ain't got to grab him like that. >> reporter: police say the man who threw the elbow, 78-year-old john mcgraw. he's now charged with assault and battery. mcgraw later boasting to "inside edition" about his encounter with the protester. >> the next time we see him, we might have to kill him. >> reporter: the attack follows weeks of trump suggesting to his supporters they get violent. >> we're not allowed to punch back anymore. i love the old days. like to punch him in the face, i'll tell you. if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? seriously. okay? just knock the hell -- i promise you, i will pay for

we will talk about it it jim joins us from -- we will talk about it. jim joins us from miami.ch of this coverage is his doing, and how much of it is the media acting on its own? jim: there was a quote that my maureen dodd -- dawd had. mark: if hillary clinton is the nominee, do we think that would be a huge advantage for him,? people -- a lot of the coverage is not positive. when we remember that the war was being discussed a lot, and it was not going well, and they were as long as we were talking about the war, we are winning. as long as we are talking about trump, he is waiting. hunt.m, al great today. one said no more of this special treatment where you which is a much easier interview, and then i watched stephanopoulos, and he slammed the moderator. if he does it, or to the others in?g to save in -- to cave jim: maybe george decides, hey, those guys are not going to take him on the phone, and i will get a spike in ratings. phone-inu know, a interview is much easier than an in-person interview, and he does well at those. trump, it is like they cannot break in. these sunday

he join us live from the university of miami. >> reporter: that's right. it here behind me on thursday night at the university of miami. the democrats the day before that over at miami-dade college. political historians telling us today no presidential candidate has ever made it this far to florida and done very well without taking lots of money from average citizens and now we have donald trump. here's donald trump one-uppi the pro golfers in doral sunday evening. lots of people want photos. it is a real phenomenon. >> reporter: fiu's professor just one of the political experts telling us what trump is doingn florida has never been seen before. >> they say if i win florida, it will be pretty much over. we'll see what happs. i have a nice lead now. >> reporter: true despite only a handful of florida residents our check of the federal elections commissions reports that only 381 florida residents donated to trump's campaign raising just over $200,000. that's dwarfed by marco rubio's 5600 donors and a take of $5 million. ted cruz, donors staid wide gave him ov

ryan nobles live with us from miami, florida, of course the state with the biggest prize. ryan? >> reporter: tony and catherine, if you are keeping count this is our third super tuesday and one iowans have an important say. an important vote in florida. 99 republican delegates at stake. 214 democratic delegates and the stories in both ohio and florida are part of what will take place here tomorrow. >> the race for president is getting heated. donald trump is crisscrossing america in the closing days before tuesday's vote and now beefed up security. after his event friday night was trump is blaming the protestors for the problems. >> i would like to punch them in the face i tell you. >> opponents on both sides of the aisle believe he is playing a role. >> donald trump is running a very cynical campaign. fear. >> reporter: the controversy may not have any impact on the final vote. polls show trump leading in illinois, south carolina and missouri. >> we win in ohio you have to take pictures because you may be taking a picture with the next president of the united states. >> ohio is

jim joins us from miami. jim, congratulations. thanks for being with us. jim: thanks.trump's voluminous coverage is his doing, and how much of it is the media acting on its own? jim: my favorite quote that my colleague maureen dowd had. "i do these tweets, and they can be completely insignificant, and they break into the news." mark: if trump continues to hit coverage like this, and he is the nominee, and hillary clinton -- if trump continues to get coverage like this, and he is the nominee, and hillary clinton is the nominee do we think that , would be a huge advantage for him? jim: a lot of people -- a lot of the coverage is not positive. do you remember in 2004 when the war was being discussed a lot, and the bush strategists would say, as long as we are talking about the war we are winning. , as long as we are talking about trump, he is winning. al: jim, al hunt. first of all, a great debut today. in your column, he pointed out that fox and chuck todd from nbc said no more of this special treatment where you get to phone in on some of these interviews which is a muc

. >> reporter: 500 startups invested managing partner yang talked with us from miami. >> it's how it's actually pretty similar. what makes a huge difference is the access to market and i think with this sort of opening, that really changes significantly. >> the cuban government pledged to expand internet access to 60% by the year 2020. >>> well, during this hhis hist transcribe to cuba, president obama issued drought. he wants a long-term strategy to drought and issued an action plan. a series of goals including communicating the drought risk. there will be 40 million americans living in drought impacted areas. >>> let's turn to jeff ranieri. the rain is helping everything for our drought. >> i have an update on the drought outlook here in just about two minutes but we'll start off with the doppler radar and after some of the heavier rainfall today, we're seeing most of it move off towards the east, only a few areas of moderate rain fall left and more of a moderate to heavy pocket occurring across the burkely hills to the north and east that will impact richmond over the next 15 minute

at where the candidates stand when it comes to next week's florida primary, andrew ruiz joins us from miami. >> we'll try to check in with him in a little while but make news all day for updates. carson chambers will be in miami, look for her report tonight at 11:00. >>> new poll numbers showing hillary clinton is expanding her lead among florida democrats. likely to vote in next week's florida primary. quinnipiac university finds clinton leads sanders here 62% to 32%. the reason apparently is because of a gender gap. clinton leads sanders among women 69% to 24%. quinnipiac believes the vermont senator just has too little time and too much ground to make up to win florida. the poll finds the only group where sanders doesn't trail clinton in florida is voters ages 18-44. they split that vote 49% apiece. >>> testimony gets back underway again this morning in hulk hogan's $100 million lawsuit against the web site gawker. a day after attorneys grilled hogan about his sex life. hogan claimed on the stand that gawker humiliated him by releasing a sex tape but gawker they played an interview hogan

terrell forney was there for that surprise vit. >> kristi: he is joining us from miami beach. kind of an interesting morning, terrell? >> reporter: it was interesting employed by the fountainbleau hotel as well. you know 600 people work for this establishment that is well known in the area and has been for many years,but it is also a large pool of union workers, and at's why hillary clinton decided to stop here and meet these workers face to face to, of course, ask for their vote. it was an unscheduled stop, but one that came off as a surprise to the staff at miami beach's famed fountainbleau hotel. >> as a cook i would never expect to see the candidate for democrat to be the president of the united states to be here with us hererin this moment. >>reporter: democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton greeting the many workers here posing for pictureworkers here posing for pictures and sharing a few candid conversations all aimed at rallying folks here to get out and vote. [speaking foreign language] >> reporter: the move and to many smiles passionly promising to mark her

joining us from miami . i'm walking down the street seeing people on their iphone watching by the way, the chris matthews interview with donald trump physically on the phones but how much do you see in terms of the impact of mobile on this election? >> well, mobile devices are accounting for about 70% of all the time spent on the internet and if you look at certain segments of the population, somewhere around 20% of their time is only spent on mobile devices where in the hispanic segment it's a third of millennial hispanics using their mobile devices to access the internet. so it's important to get information and video is just one of the ways in which people are enjoying content. the other thing that's important is the role social is playing in this election. facebook on twitter, somewhere and 80% of the time is coming via mobile device and the influence that the social networks are having on voter preferences is pretty astounding. >> how about, programming versus social. you look at trump. he's on twitter

. >> we continue now with post debate analysis and joining us from miami, bernard goldberg. i don't have questions for you. you heard the debate. you heard me with all of the candidates. so let it fly. >> i liked, i'd like to talk about the sound byte you just played leading into this segment. donald trump said something that i can't say on this channel what he really meant when he talked about the size of a particular body part. because that would be vulgar. but donald trump said it. i can't say it. but donald trump said it. and he is running for president of the united states. and he didn't only say it on national television, he said it during a presidential debate. bill, i know you care about kids. you talked about that a lot. imagine if a family isÑi watchi this debate with their 12-year-old daughter and she said what did he mean by that? about size and there is no problem? is there anything that would embarrass his supporters on conservative television and radio who have fallen madly in love with donald trump and slobber over him in just the same way as liberals in the

well, ed henry joins us from miami with more. and i will bring it up here.urprised you came on this show today. and you know exactly what i mean. i'm going to ask you the question. just last week, one of the polls showed hillary clinton at 21% lead over bernie sanders. late deciders went with sanders. do we know what it was that made him decide to go with them? and did it surprise the hillary clinton team to be beaten so badly last night in michigan in. >> it did. just moments before, the clinton camp said they thought they had michigan. that it was night but they would win. two things are significant. number one, this is the sanders' play book. they've been telling us for weeks. we've been waiting to see what would happen to see if sanders would be for real at this point. once we get it out of the south where clinton is running the table, largely because of the african-american vote. michigan, ohio next tuesday. illinois. because people being upset about the loss of manufacturing jobs and sanders' message, playing into that. much like the trump message is p

joining us from miami bernie goldberg who has written a column on this fascism business on his websited you say? >> bill, the crazy wing of the far left accused george w. bush of being hitler and a nazi. some conservatives have done the same to barack obama. now, we have the latest edition of this slander. donald trump, donald trump is hitler. you know what? there are plenty of reasons, in my view, plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize donald trump. but to make comparisons to hitler is beyond disgraceful. let me give you some specifics that you alluded to in a+ñse vague way. a professor from harvard wrote an op. he ed in the "the washington post" recently comparing the rise of hitler to the rise of trump. "saturday night live" just the other day made the comparison, bill maher made the comparison and lewis c.k. a very big time comedian flat out said trump is hitler. on the other side glenn beck made the comparison. david brooks of the "new york times" went on a sunday talk show and said if we're going to get trump,cq we might as well get the nuremberg rallies to go with it. i'm goi

jeff zeleny joins us from miami. certainly as we said, a big night for clinton. s goes from here? >> bernie sanders is going to focus on the coming contests this weekend. they happen to play nicely into the kind of voter he's been reaching out. largely white voters and college students. he'll be focusing on nebraska, on kansas, on maine. those contests are over the weekend on saturday and sunday. and then going into michigan, he is really focused squarely on michigan. his advisers believe his economic message resonates well with michigan and michigan has a white electorate. that's what he has been doing very well in. but he was a little punchy in maine today at a rally. the pundits have been wrong all year long. they are predicting hillary clinton is going to win. i'm going to win in a landslide. mathematically it's not possible but there are still roots for hum. and to win delegates, the clinton campaign acknowledge he's going to win delegates in the next coming weeks. >> it's also important to acknowledge he's got money, a lot of money and that's still coming in

are working to get her back tolorida to face laura rodrigez following this case for us joins us live from miami where this whole drama started in the first place. laura? >> reporter: that's right, keith. we're outside of the home of the boy's guardian, theoman who had custody of him. she hasn't spoken to us since the boy was found i laredo, texas. recovered and in good condition, logg hernandez is now in the custody of the state of texas according to police. the day long search for the boy set off an amber alert while his care giver begged the boy's mother to turn herself in. >> transtor: please, please don't let this escalate into something wose. >> reporter: logan's mother caregiver's home and took off in a silver mazda. she will be extradited from florida to texas by u.s. marshals. no one at the caregiver's home wanted to comment once the boy was found. rodriguez believes she was worried she'd never get custody of him again. in 2008, hernandez was charged with child neglect in a case involving one of logan's siblings. in 2005, she was charged with grand theft. she asked me to do her theavor

earlier the miami-dade fire rescue told us there are radio towers in danger there this is video from earlier as the flames wereigger. miami-dade fire rescue using bomb ba deers in the area have been trying to knock this fire down. again, 160 acres on fire. another fire contained to 5 acres on northwest 130th we'll keep 7 skyforce there and

joining us from miami bernie goldberg who has written a column on this fascism business on his websiteand you say? >> bill, the crazy wing of the far left accused george w. bush of being hitler and a nazi. some conservatives have done the same to barack obama. now, we have the latest edition of this slander. donald trump, donald trump is hitler. you know what? there are plenty of reasons, in my view, plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize donald trump. but to make comparisons to hitler is beyond disgraceful. let me give you some specifics that you alluded to in a+ñse vague way. a professor from harvard wrote an op. he ed in the "the washington post" recently comparing the rise of hitler to the rise of trump. "saturday night live" just the other day made the comparison, bill maher made the comparison and lewis c.k. a very big time comedian flat out said trump is hitler. on the other side glenn beck made the comparison. david brooks of the "new york times" went on a sunday talk show and said if we're going to get trump,cq we might as well get the nuremberg rallies to go with it. i'm g

one of the political action committees top operators is set up right here in south florida. us live from miami. >> reporter: well, we want you to meet tim miller. used to be the spokesman for jeb bush when he was running for president. now, he is a spokesperson at the communications director for something called our values. they have a whole lot of money and their mission is to derail donald trump. let's take a look. >> anybody but trump abc. >>abc is about to hit florida. >>at trump university we teach success. that is what it is all about. >>said. it will happen to you. >>former students take trump university was a scam. >>the movement going on right now and parts of miami and the battleground will be florida ahead of the march 15 presidential primary. >>no matter what the issue is donald trump has been on both >>we will do a surroundsound approach, male, radio, digital, television. >>big-time -- big timers are now making their move . the owners of the chicago cubs, the ricketts family have kicked in millions. >>we have big donors and big supporters were worried about the republican party, t

cbs4 spoke with them and joins us live from miami. >> reporter: well, we want you to meet tim miller. used to be the spokesman for jeb bush when he was running for president. now, he is a spokesperson at the communications director for something called our values. they have a whole lot of money and their mission is to derail donald trump. let's take a look. >> anybody but trump abc. >>abc is about to hit florida. >>at trump university we teach success. that is what it is all about. >>said. it will happen to you. university was a scam. >>the movement going on right now and parts of miami and the battleground will be florida ahead of the march 15 presidential primary. >>no matter what the issue is donald trump has been on both sides.>> tv ads will saturate the florida airways. >>we will do a surroundsound approach, male, radio, digital, television. >>big-time -- big timers are now making their move . the owners of the chicago cubs, the ricketts family have kicked in millions. >>we have big donors and big supporters were worried about the republican party, they came together and said thi

. >> jose diaz-balart watching along with us from miami. part of our team there. chris, i keep wondering what eisenhower, kennedy, and the like would make of this day, as we're watching these pictures over and over. and i keep wondering how the government and society of cuba is going to manage the waves of change that start coming at them, and in fact, already have. >> well, that's part of the challenge, isn't it, brian? the white house has been very clear about this. they see this as a new beginning, a significant step forward. there's no doubt that this is a pivotal moment for this country in addition to obviously being a key moment in u.s./cuba relations. but we're talking about millions of americans who could potentially come over here, and we have seen this start. andrea mentioned some of this. not only sheraton hotels which is now merging with marriott, going to revitalize three iconic buildings here, 4,000 places listed with airbnb, other foreigners have been able to go now, now americans will be able to use it. credit card companies

ballots will be cast in illinois, missouri and north carolina cbs news reporter weijia jiang tells us from miamididates are covering a lot of ground on the campaign trail. >> reporter: security escorted a small group of protesters out of a donald trump rally in north carolina that demonstration was low key, compared to heated confrontations over the weekend, involving trump supporters. >> we're not angry people. we're all good people. >> reporter: trump is hoping to sweep tuesday's primary which could make him uncatchable but in ohio polls have governor john kasich neck and neck with trump. >> i will in the take low road to the highest office in the land. >> reporter: in florida marco rubio volunteers are calling in as many voters as possible, trump is beating him in the polls there by a large margin but senator is optimistic. >> tomorrow is a day where we will shock the country and we will do what need to be done. >> reporter: ted cruz is focusing his efforts on other states, this morning he answered at what point he would not back trump if the businessman is nominated. >> if for example he wou

he joins us from miami. congressman, nice to have you with us, sir. fair to say that as we watch the president's plane taxi out for a trip to havana, cuba, that you and a lot of other cuban americans feel betrayed, or is that word too strong? >> well, leland, it's really interesting. i notice that he's taking, in essence, the entire family. this looks less of a foreign policy trip and more of a, i don't know, like a quasi religious pilgrimage -- >> spring break, maybe. >> -- to the only totalitarian dictatorship, anti-american dictatorship in this hemisphere. so, there are about 120 countries that the president has yet to visit, allies, friends, folks that would love to receive the president. and yet, he takes his entire family on what, again, seems to be almost a pilgrimage to the one remaining totalitarian dictatorship, anti-american dictatorship in this hemisphere. it is, frankly, a tragic and a disgusting and horrific day for the united states, and frankly, for the entire world. >> interesting that you note the first family on the plane. >> yeah.

candace mccowan joins us live from miami where rubio is hoping to celebrate tonight. >> reporter: a lot of people eager to find out what happens here tonight. what marco rubio will decide to do once the results come in. take a look at the room behind me. it is filling up with supporters hope ing that this will be a celebration and only time will tell what the mood will be here. just a bit earlier, these supporters were lining up for several hours outside the door here trying to get in. this event is called a celebration. and of course, the people here are optimistic. the rubio camp. celebration. >> he came from way behind when he ran for senator and ... i believe he can do it. let's say he doesn't. i think he should go all the way and shouldn't determine if he will continue or not based on what happens here. >> reporter: and that is the big question. is seeing what will happen in florida tonight. and if marco rubio will carry on his campaign. he has said he is continuing onto utah tomorrow. he is not done in florida no matter what the results come in later on this evening so we will be

mark rivera joins us live from miami where that debate is just wrapping up. mark? >> reporter: huge debate night polarizing candidates sparring a lot of energy. senator and secretary clinton hard on her voting record and taking money from wall street. he still has a long way to go if he wants to win florida on tuesday. it started with a bang. clinton questioned hard on the e-mail scandal that dogged her campaign from the start. her answer? >> if you get indicted, what happened happen? >> i'm not even answering that question. >> that is what exactly folks want to see tonight. >> i want to hear energy from hillary. >> reporter: energy and both candidates brought their a game. immigration a huge subject and that brought fire works. >> when you were running for the senate you made it clear by the vote senator you were going to stand with the republicans when you got to the senate in 2007, 1 of the first things you did was immigration reform. >> reporter: sanders fired back. >> i will match my record any day of the week with yours. >> let's do that. >> reporter: and bot

bc 6 reporter jamie guirola joins us live from miami where the former secretary of state is expected tonight. jamie? >> reporter: well, early voting began today in florida. this as many of the candidates, including hillary clinton, begins to shift their focus and their camigns on the sunshine state as early as today, super tuesday. nearly a quarter of the democratic delegates are up for stake today. hillary clinton trying to sosoidify her lead and bernie sanders trying to hang on. while sanders voting in his home state of vermont, hillary clinton campaigned in minneapoli the front-runner pivoting to the general election, attacking donald trump more than her democratic rival. moments ago she criticized trump for f fling to disavoi davidd she took issue with the level of rhetoric and tone on the republican side. >> obviously he's done very well. he could be on the path. maybe somebody else can intervene and rise above that. i'm going to wait see who they nominate. i think every one of them have made comments. [ inaudible ]. >> reporter: doors were supposed to open at 6:30 for the hilla

brianna keilar reporting for us from miami. let's get analysis right now on what we just heard.democratic competition tonight, we could get some real indications of what to anticipate in the weeks ahead based on what's going to happen tonight. >> we absolutely could the and michigan, as we were talking about earlier, is so incredibly key. and fascinating, because for a while, the clinton campaign felt pretty comfortable there. all you have to do is look at the schedule of the candidate, of her husband, the president, her daughter, and maybe they understood this would be more competitive than they had expected. and if you kind of take a step back as we were talking about, it makes sense because of the economic situation in michigan. it is ripe for a bernie sanders message the a populist message, a message of washington doesn't get it. they don't understand. anti-trade. hillary clinton has been up until now for trade agreements. and it could be pretty tight there. >> we heard this op the debate stage when anderson moderated the debate in michigan the other night. you heard hillary

our own keith cate and candace mccowan will bring us reports from miami during all of the at 4:00. >>> this morning, new details in the murder investigation of a man brutally beaten to death. polk county deputies arrested three brothers, brian, anthony friend michael gunn for the killing. the sheriff does not believe the murder was justified. somehow they justified this. and in our mind, it's not justified. in the law, the reading of the law, it's not justified. >> investigators also arrested brian johnson, sr. charging him with helping his boys dispose of the victim's body. >>> time now is 4:35. this morning, polk deputies need our help identifying a man who tried to lure an 11-year- old girl to his car. this is the man investigators are now looking for. they say it happened as the girl was walking home from her bus stop. she told deputies that he said hospital and wanted her to get in the car. >>> a symbol that could make your child a target for pedophiles. a mother is outraged after fining the symbol on a toy she bought for her daughter at monster jam. >> the toy was made right her

our own keith cate and candace mccowan will bring us reports from miami in all of our newscasts today. >>> well this morning, new details in the murder investigation of a man brutally polk county deputies arrested three brothers, brian, anthony and nathan johnson and their friend michael gunn in connection with the killing. the sheriff says the men killed robert banks after a young woman told them he raped her. and then they dumped his body . >> i think in their mind, somehow they justified this. and in our mind, it's not justified. in the reading of the law, the it's not justified. >> investigators also arrested brian johnson, sr. charging him with helping his boys dispose of the victim's body. >>> time now 5:35. this morning, polk deputies need our help identifying a man who tried to lure an 11-year- old girl to his car. take a look at this sketch. this is the man investigators are now looking for. as this little girl was walking home from her bus stop. now the girl told deputies a man in the passenger seat of a white car said her mother was in the hospital and she, quote, sent us t

. >> and al jazeera's alan fisher joins us live from miami in florida.e know that the republican establishment is really unhappy with the idea that donald trump would be their nomination. what can they now do to stop it? >> there is very little. john kasich said he's going to go to the convention in cleveland later in the summer. but he can't win enough delegate to do that. that then becomes the messy fight, the brokered or contested convention. what might help is if john kasich drops out of the race, and there is no sign that he's going to do that, and make it a straight fight between donald trump and ted cruz. and then the possibility that ted cruz could overall the number of trump's delegate particularly as the next few delegates are closed contest. very few can vote. but the establishment said they will not support donald trump. they're very clear about that. this could- could rip the republican party apart. this could an big problem for a large number of peep who until now were happy to call themselves a republican. >> we've seen recently that donal

. >>> if you hear the base booming from downtown miami this thing, ultra music festiv has arrived. miami faces big changes. steffi joipsz us live from downto miami with more on this. stephanie? >> reporter: well, trina, those changes already under way. fences like this one are up, on the other side a main stage decorated in lights, and part of biscayne boulevard blocked off for the three-day event. preparations under way for that annual electronic dance music event localscan tell you all about. >> it's going to be hectic, crazy. >> reporter: it's expected to bring in tens of thousands of people each day.. some who are into this music scene travel overseas. like this man from germany. >> miami is a nice place to be. and this party is a nice party. from all over the world people come here. spending big bucks to party with top deejays. the crowds of people around the main stage will bleed over into miami's downtown core, and like every year, traffic will be affected. that's why officials are blocking off part of biscayne and recommending you use public transportation. officials say this is the best way to get to where you nee

but nonetheless, it is a big victory for the clinton team, jeff zeleny who joins us from miami where clinton headquarters are located this ev evening. >> reporter: no doubt, jake. i mean, arkansas is no surprise, but it's a win nonetheless and a very sweet win for this democratic crowd here. you can hear behind me right now, they're just hearing the news here. 32 delegates in the state of arkansas. of course, bernie sanders will win some, again, but hillary clinton, of course, carrying this state. and it's an interesting question to think about arkansas. george w. bush was the first republican to carry that in 2000 since it's always been a democratic state. so could hillary clinton put this into play in the general election? if she becomes the nominee, could she put this into play? that is one thing that some democrats here are talking about, jake. of course, that's getting ahead of ourself. she still has to win the democratic nomination, but this arkansas victory certainly a sweet one for this former first lady of the state of arkansas. jake? >> all right, jeff zeleny at clinton cam

abc's marci gonzalez joins us now from miami with the details on all the results. a big night and a big morning. good morning, marci. >> reporter: hi, kendis and reena. yeah, it is now a three-man race on the republican side. as you mentioned, dot coming away the winner of the biggest contest of the day here in florida. but that one loss that you mentioned could complicate his path to the nomination. millions of americans in five states lined up to cast their votes. the front-runners are celebrating big wins. >> this is another super tuesday. >> we're going to go forward. and we're going to win. but more importantly, we're going to win for the country. we're going to win, win, win. >> reporter: but the night quickly claimed his first campaign. senator marco rubio losing his home sta trump and bowing out. >> while it is not god's plan that i be president in 2016 or maybe ever, the fact that i've even come this far is evidence of how special america truly is. >> reporter: but it wasn't a clean sweep for trump. governor john kasich dealing him a critical loss projecte

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and abc's tom llamas, leading us off from miami. >> reporter: tonight, donald trump with a new messagepredicting he'll go for a knockout if he wins ohio and florida next week. >> you think you'll get all the delegates? >> i think so, yeah. i really think so. i don't see the convention going that route. i see -- i see probably getting the delegates. you know, it's like the fighters. that's the ultimate way of doing it. you knock them out. if you knock them out, nothing can happen. >> you want to go for a knockout. >> i'd rather go for a knockout, yes. >> reporter: trump talking like a brawler late today, just hours after promising his leadership style would be one of the most presidential ever. >> i would say more presidential and i've said this a couple of times, more presidential than anybody other than the great abe lincoln. he was very presidential. right? >> reporter: at the country club news conference, trump surrounded by some of his signature products, including trump magazine, trump water, trump wine. even raw meat. >> and we have trump steaks. and by the way, if you want to ta