you got it. it is super tuesday and voters can cast their ballots starting at 6:00 this morning in alexandria, virginia. as soon as they close in 12 states we could effectively have a nominee for both parties. super tuesday is here. the biggest voting day of the year leading up to the general election. voters in a dozen states and a u.s. territory will go to the polls today with 1,610 delegates at stake. hours before they open the candidates zig sagging across and holding rallies trying to grab last-minute votes. >> let me be very clear to the men and women of texas, i will not compromise the way -- >> reporter: ted cruz hoping to win big in his home state talking religious liberty. >> you know what they say about men with small hands. >> reporter: his barrage of insults against donald trump subsiding by the end of the day but at a trump rally in >> get them out. >> reporter: a large group of student protesters marched out and as they passed a photographer from "time" magazine thrown to the ground by a secret service agent. the secret service now investigating. >> i don't think america has ever stopped being great. what we need to do now is make america whole. >> reporter: hillary clinton hoping to keep her lead over bernie sanders. >> now it is time for massachusetts to lead the political revolution. >> reporter: but a fund-raising e-mail from clinton shows her looking beyond sanders and targeting gop front-runner donald trump. the latest national polls showing 49% of republican voters would support a president trump. here in virginia, many more voters are expected to turn out today, much more than the last time both pears held presidential primaries. kendis and reena, back to you. >> live in alexandria, virginia, steph, thanks so much. now to what's really at stake today. democrats and republicans. >> to break it down abc's lana zak is live in washington. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. no single candidate could win the nomination today, however, for donald trump and hillary clinton, this could be their opportunity to really pull ahead. for the gop, the state to watch is texas. ted cruz's home state where he has a slim lead in a recent poll. it is the biggest delegate prize of the day and experts say it is a must win for cruz. there are 595 total delegates up for grabs in the gop. more than a quarter come from texas and there are many more delegates at stake for the democrats. 1,015 delegates are up for grabs. bernie sanders will likely win his home state of vermont but a recent poll has clinton with a slight lead in neighboring massachusetts. for sanders to keep this rice close he needs to win in the south but six of those, alabama, arc, a, georgia, texas, tennessee and virginia have an electorate in which clinton has strong support. and if sanders continues to be beat badly in the south as he was this past weekend in south carolina, well, it will be virtually impossible for him then to catch up to clinton. reena, kendis. >> all right, a long day ahead for all seven presidential campaigns. we move on. the state department released its final batch of hillary clinton's e-mails while she was secretary of state. >> she's been under fire for using a private e-mail server at least 2100 e-mails that she sent or were received contained classified material. none were marked classified at the time which clinton has repeated ly repeatedly cited in her defense. the fbi is investigating whether any laws were broken. stay with abc news all day for super tuesday coverage. our political team will be here tonight at 10:00 eastern with the latest and tomorrow, be sure to tune in to "america this morning" for the results. >> let's take a look at the super tuesday weather. march is definitely coming in like a lion. you can see the storm bringing heavy snow this morning to the upper midwest. >> as much as 6 inches expected in wisconsin and michigan. although the worst should miss chicago and detroit. well now to a wild chase and standoff in southern california. dragging on for hours with children in the car. police responding to a domestic incident chased a driver in a hummer across at least three freeways in orange county. the man's girlfriend and his two kids were in the suv and she had a restraining order finally released unharmed nearly six hours after the ordeal started. the first time the u.s. or any country admitted this, the pentagon is using cyberweapons against isis and stepping up the digital warfare. the gold is to disrupt the ability of isis to communicate, control its forces and manage finances. defense secretary ash carter says it may force the extremists to use older technologies that are even easier to disrupt. hours until scott kelly leaves the international space station for earth. he's been in space for nearly a full year. kelly handed over command of the station to another astronaut on monday. now, later he and two russian crew members will ride a spacecraft back to earth. kelly says being up there so long required a lot of help. >> spaceflight is the biggest team sport there is and it's, you know, incredibly important that we all work together to make what is seemingly impossible possible. >> kelly and the russian will land tonight in kazakhstan. when he returns to houston kelly will quickly undergo tests with his twin brother mark. they will gauge the effect that all that time in space had on his body. >> they're not sure whether it willic weeks or months for him to recuperate. apple winning a major court case against the fbi. >> plus, breaking down. her emotional testimony talking about being secretly filmed. caught on camera. fedex driver narrowly escaping a jane's always on the move. luckily her light & fit proteinsmoothie can keep up with her. packed with 12grams of proteinand no added sugar. so she can watch her caloriesand where she's going. light & fit feel free to enjoy. feel secure in your dentures... feel free to be yourself all day. just switch from denture 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lockdown and the sheriff says he knows what's behind the shooting but he wouldn't release details. at the supreme court, gasps from the audience after justice clarence thomas spoke. it's the first time in ten years that thomas has said anything during an oral argument. the court and it wasn't just one question but a string of them in an exchange that lasted several minutes. thomas said in the past that he relies on written briefs and doesn't need to ask questions. well, apple has won a legal victory in its latest battle against the government. a judge ruled that apple can't be compelled to help the fbi to unlock an iphone in a narcotics case and is ruling the judge said he found no limit on how far the government would go to require companies to violate deeply held american values. the justice department plans to appeal. well, that ruling has no apple and the fbi. when it comes to unlocking the iphone of one of the san bernardino terrorists. apple's top lawyer will testify before 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