Whit super tuesday countdown. Polls showing donald trump on track for a massive sweep. Our Political Team taking a hard look at nikki haleys chances. Plus, President Biden ready to kick off the next phase of his campaign. Janai breaking overnight. The arrest in the killing that shocked a tightknit Amish Community. A pregnant mother found dead in her home. What were learning about the suspect. Gio spring break crackdown. Miami beach breaking up with spring break. The tough new rules aimed at taming the chaotic crowds. Youre not going to be checking into a hotel. Youll be checking into the bay county jail. Gio and changes in other coastal cities as well. Hey now youre an allstar whit and hoops history. Overnight lebron james becoming the first nba player to reach 40,000 points. How will she go for history. Whit as Caitlin Clark is on the brink of becoming the highest scoring division i player in the ncaa, and the unbelievable price to witness the moment as clark courts history. Janai we are going to have a good time talking about all those sports highlights later. Whit i caught you. You were looking up the stats. Janai i did. Whit she had the almanac out. Janai lebron surpassing Kareem Abduljabbar who just had over 38,000. Its impressive. Whit you googled that just now. Janai of course. Whit exciting time in sports. Janai yes, absolutely. Good sunday morning, america. Thank you for starting your week with us. Cant wait to see what happens as Caitlin Clark plays today. Less than 20 points shy this one is in the prompter of Pete Maravichs record. But theres a lot of news we are following. The u. S. Military making airdrops of desperately needed food in gaza. And Kamala Harris going to selma, alabama, marking the 59th anniversary of bloody sunday, a key moment in the battle for civil rights. Gio plus, everything you need to know before super tuesday. More than a third of the republican delegates are up for grabs. Former President Trump with the commanding lead in the polls and rival nikki haley hoping to keep her campaign alive. Also, the battle over the diversity, equity, and Inclusion Programs with the university of florida in focus as it eliminates all dei positions. Whit but we begin this morning with the Severe Weather impacting millions of americans. The winddriven texas wildfire now the worst in north American History. While blizzards hit other parts of the country. Abcs faith abubey is in truckee, california, for us once again this morning with the latest. Faith, good morning. Reporter good morning to you, whit. What youre seeing around me is Patio Furniture buried in several feet of snow around me. The gusty winds and heavy snow have made for a dangerous travel combination here on the mountains. Highway patrol telling us between 200 and 300 vehicles got stuck in whiteout conditions on interstate 80. Even tow trucks and Emergency Personnel had trouble getting to them. This morning, millions on alert as extreme weather hits california, impacting nearly every state in the west. The strongest winter storm of the season slamming the Sierra Nevada mountains with blankets of snow. The lifethreatening blizzard even shutting down interstate 80 for more than 70 miles. Hundreds of drivers rescued as gusty winds caused intense whiteout conditions. A rash of bad luck, i guess. Reporter the truck driver getting stuck on the icy roads. And here along interstate 80, you can see just how high the snow pack has gotten. In some places like this as high as 5 feet tall. In the town of truckee, several feet of snow blocking doors to houses and apartments. I could barely open the door. It was waistdeep to get out of the house this morning. Luckily the plows were moving. Reporter urn fortunately, though the National Weather service just extended the blizzard warning until tomorrow morning and then were expecting about a foot of snow today and theres another system after that once this is over. A long way to go. People here are taking it in stride and are hunkered down. Janai and were thinking about you, faith, as you have taken that weather coverage in stride. We appreciate you. Meanwhile, powerful wind gusts and dry conditions are hampering efforts to contain historic wildfires in the texas panhandle. At least two people have died and Governor Greg Abbott saying as many as 500 structures have been destroyed. The largest of the fires, the smokehouse fire burning across an area bigger than the state of rhode island. Firefighters are battling rough terrain as they try to contain the flames. The images are just unbelievable. Lets see how the forecast is shaping up now. Somara theodore is here with that. Good morning to you, somara. Somara good morning, janai. The fire threat is still in place today stretching from lubbock to pierre, all the way out to des moines in kansas city. Conditions are primed for this. You can see the wind gusts could reach throughout the region as high as 40 to 60 miles per hour. Where that wildfire is burning, they could see gusts as high as 50 miles per hour. Meanwhile, were dealing with that wintry weather as you saw in the footage with faith there. Tons of snow out west. Blizzard warnings, Winter Weather advisories,high wind alerts in santa fe. This is what will happen in the next 48 hours. Well see the snow wind down, but as faith mentioned, we have another round getting ready to move in. This next storm moving in. This is going to impact them monday kicking up around lunchtime. Notice where its heavily weighted, Northern California in the sierra. By the time this is all said and done between the last round and the next one, we could see anywhere from 8 to 10 feet of snow total. Gio . Gio somara, thank you. To politics now, and super tuesday just two days away, a critical test for Donald Trumps final republican challenger, nikki haley. Abcs maryalice parks is in washington with more on this, along with new wins for trump overnight. Good morning, maryalice. Reporter gio, good morning. Overnight donald trump continuing to blaze his way towards the republican nomination, winning caucuses in both idaho and missouri, but despite his dominant position in the race, so far still no outreach to more moderate republicans who have yet to back him. Donald trump overnight arguing he is unifying the republican party, but saying he is doing so by trying to kick some members out. Were getting rid of the romneys of the world. We want to get romneys and those out. Reporter the former president sweeping two more primary states overnight, on track to dominate super tuesday just two days from now, but with no outreach to moderate republicans who have yet to back him this cycle. How many more times do we have to lose before we realize maybe donald trump is the problem . Reporter nikki haley this weekend saying trump needs her voters to win a general election. Without them, hell lose, but the future of haleys own campaign uncertain. With 15 states and a territory voting tuesday, over a third of the total delegates up for grabs, she needs a major upset or two or else any possible path to the nomination for her could be all but closed. During his rally last night, trump focused mostly on the border, promising mass deportations, painting a grim, inaccurate picture of rampant crime and disease, broadly and falsely calling all undocumented immigrants criminals. Its called migrant crime. These are tough people that come over, you know, and they come out of prisons. They come out of these institutions and theyre rough people. Reporter in arizona, a state her husband flipped red to blue four years ago, First Lady Jill Biden also out campaigning, talking mostly about reproductive rights. Donald trump is dangerous to women and to our families. We simply cannot let him win. Reporter now, haley did get a boost this week from two highprofile senators, alaskas Lisa Murkowski and Maines Susan Collins both signaling their support for her. Trump cannot technically clinch the nomination this week, but he can get close and unless haley has some big surprises this week, he can make it impossible for her to catch him. Whit extraordinary. Maryalice parks, thank you. Lets bring in political director rick klein. Rick, good morning. Always great to see you. So give us a bigpicture look at super tuesday delegates here, whats at play, and whats at stake. This is by far the biggest day of voting until election day itself. As maryalice just reported, youve got more than 800 delegates in play. You need 1,215 to get the nomination. Weve got voting coast to coast, the two most populous states, california and texas, and all the way up to maine. And heres the thing, once you get beyond super tuesday, its almost impossible to catch up because by super tuesday, almost half of all the delegates will have been selected. Donald trump has opened up a big lead and its only getting bigger, with the victories over the weekend. Already more than 200 delegates ahead of haley. 1215 the manch magic number, he wont get there, but he might get close. Whit and on that very same point, some call this the last stand for nikki haley. Where is her focus heading into super tuesday . Are there some states where she could pick up delegates . You could look at this, and all these opportunities with the big states. There are several states that are essentially off the map. California and a couple of states in the south, the way they award delegates, nikki haleys going to get shut out almost certainly. Donald trump will win all of the delegates and instead, haley is focused on a couple of places where she can pick up some delegates and a few states where donald trump is particularly unpopular, focusing on utah and up in new england. She was just in massachusetts last night. Shes going to be in maine and vermont today, but already we are seeing this campaign more for one that is focused on winning delegates to try to overtake donald trump, to one that is more trying to make a statement, and if she can get 30 , 40 in a bunch of states, her campaign tells me that is the message theyre trying to send, that in nikki haleys view donald trump is going to lose. Theyre trying to represent republicans and a return to normalcy and potential wins in the future, whit. Whit a big night on tuesday. Rick, thank you so much. We appreciate it. Tune into this week later this morning. Jonathan karl has exclusive interviews with some senators on both sides of the aisle, democrat chris murphy and republican mike rounds, plus, jon speaks with Chef Jose Andres about his work providing humanitarian aid to civilians in gaza. Janai. Janai we head overseas now to the israel and hamas war and the first u. S. Airdrop to feed the people in gaza. Abcs Tom Soufi Burridge joins us live from jerusalem with the latest. Good morning to you, tom. Reporter good morning, janai. The first u. S. Airdrop completed, but u. S. Officials planning more saying they are also pressuring israel to open more crossing areas for aid trucks into gaza as aid agencies warn of a potential famine there. This morning, u. S. Airdrops of food into gaza now under way. Bundles containing 38,000 readytoeat meals parachuting into the strip where half a Million People are on the verge of famine, says the u. N. , and some children are starving to death. This weekend, the desperation for food all too clear. With a mass of people converging on an aid truck in northern gaza. Calling the need in the north absolutely critical, suggesting gaza should be flooded with aid from all possible routes. Aid agencies questioning the efficiency of those airdrops. On the ground, gazans racing to gather supplies. With this man saying, its not enough for one family. Another man angrily shouting accusing the u. S. Of trying to buy peoples silence saying its part of the crime against gaza. The american airdrops coming days after israeli troops opened fire near a convoy of aid trucks. Israeli soldiers saying their soldiers were threatened and most of those killed were crushed in the chaos. But this u. N. Mission visiting a nearby hospital saying a large number of the injured had gunshot wounds. We have seen people with gunshot wounds. We have seen amputees, and we have seen children as young as 12 that were injured. Reporter well, israel insisting it is working to get more aid into gaza, but adding it wants to keep supplies away from hamas, and a top israeli official telling me just now there is still no breakthrough in those negotiations to get a ceasefire and the release of more hostages. Gio . Gio still no breakthrough. Tom, thank you for your reporting. Also overseas, a commercial ship carrying more than 20,000 metric tons of fertilizer has sunk in the red sea after being attacked by houthi rebels. The cargo ship had been drifting leaking fuel and fertilizer since it was hit by an Iranianbacked Houthi missile nearly two weeks ago. U. S. Officials have warned of the potential for ecological damage to the red sea. Whit. Whit gio, now to the killing of a Young Pregnant amish woman in her home in northwestern pennsylvania. A suspect under arrest now and making an appearance in court. Abcs reena roy is here with more. Reena, good morning. Reporter good morning. Thats right. This killing has absolutely shaken the Amish Community in rural pennsylvania, and now were learning new details about who investigators say killed 23yearold rebecca byler. Police arresting 52yearold shawn cranston. He was court for arraignment this weekend, facing a slew of charges including two counts of criminal homicide for allegedly killing byler, and her unborn baby. Investigators poring through evidence since last week when bylers husband came home to find the pregnant mother of two unresponsive with head and neck wounds. Their two children were also in their Amish Country home, but not hurt. And experts say Violent Crimes are rare in these kind of communities. Theyre tightknit, and very religious living separately from the mainstream world and one of the core beliefs of the religion is the importance of practicing a life of peace and nonviolence. Cranston is being held without bail at the Crawford County jail, and is expected to be back in court in less than two weeks. Janai . Janai already such a disturbing case, but to learn that there were two kids home at the time. Reena, thank you for that update. Turning now to the university of florida becoming the latest school to eliminate all diversity, equity and Inclusion Program positions due to new state rules. Abcs jay obrien joins us with the details on that. Good morning, jay. Reporter janai, good morning. Florida now at the center of the latest firestorm over diversity policies in schools. This time at the states flagship university. This morning, the fallout after the university of florida eliminated all diversity, equity and inclusion positions, getting rid of more than a dozen fulltime jobs including the campuss chief diversity officer ending 15 administrative roles, and canceling all deifocused contracts with vendors. The university now led by former republican senator ben sasse saying its complying with new florida education restrictions after the state Legislature Passed a law last year banning public funding of diversity, equity and inclusion, or dei programs. Florida Governor Ron Desantis celebrating the move posting, dei is toxic and has no place in our public universities. Republican state representative berny jacques talking about this. To make sure that our education and our High Education system here in the state of florida, is instead of indoctrination. Reporter critics warning that eliminating all dei policies and staff rules at a leading Public University will have ripple effects nationwide. Our young people, our students, our educational institutions, are the ones who become the Collateral Damage of everything that were seeing right now. This is so far more than just politics. This is whats going to start happening all across this country. How can you be certain that this doesnt inspire fear in academics and in a way, make them fearful of teaching any kind of diversity . It doesnt do that, right . If theres a studentled group that wants to engage in diversity discussions or, you know, gender or what have you, if its studentled, we can do that. What we dont want to happen is it to be institutionallyled, and taxpayer funded. Reporter now, eight other states in addition to florida have passed legislation aimed at dismantling dei programs on College Campuses and at least a dozen states are now considering similar legislation. Gio . Gio and it appears this debate is far from over. All right, jay, thank you so much for that. Time now for the weather. Somara theodore is back with a look at that, and oh. Its looking a little, what, foggy in new york. Somara so this is yesterdays shot. Remember how dreary it was . Im showing this because of the juxtaposition. Come, come, come and see. Yesterday was so bad and look at today. Yesterday, today. Yesterday, today. Gorgeous, its going to be so nice outside. As the young kids are saying, we outside. Lets see what its going to feel like. Temperatures today will be in the low 60s and weve got some hot spots on the board. Topeka, 81 degrees. These are nearrecord highs that are possible. Columbia, missouri, 82, and even as far north as minneapolis, 73 degrees. We could be looking at a recordbreaking afternoon for a lot of cities. This record warmth continues to migrate eastward into detroit andbuffalo, we should be looking at the 30s for this time of year. By monday, chicago, detroit, and buffalo could be in the 70s. Down in philly in the 60s to start. Tuesday, about 57 degrees. Thats a lo