Campaign was on life support. After losses in iowa, New Hampshire and nevada. Then he won the South Carolina primary on saturday, picked up a number of endorsements. Youve got momentum to propel him to this. States won tonight, seven states, virginia, North Carolina, alabama, oklahoma, arkansas minnesota and tennessee but dont count Bernie Sanders out. He won three states, colorado, utah and his home state of vermont. And as we said, california, the biggest delegate prize of all is leaning his way. There are still a couple states yet to call. You can see texas there as well. You need 1991 to be nominated, win the democratic nomination. At this hour, biden is leading, opening up his first lead of this entire primary campaign with 331 delegates. Bernie sanders at 269. Elizabeth warren who is still in this race trailing Pete Buttigieg who dropped out over the weekend. Where do we stand. We have 77 year old joe biden battling 78 year old Bernie Sanders for the right to challenge 73 year old donald trump. You could call it the supte jaw suptegenarians. We have just learned he filed a request with the courts to give voters more time had that. For an update lets go to nancy courkoaferred es. Es cordes. There was an emergency junction to keep the polls open for two more hours. Theyve heard complaints of hours long lines and voting problems. They want a judge to grant two more hours to anyone who wants to vote. We dont know what the judge is going to do. We do know that an l. A. County executive has told cbs news that anyone who was in line by 8 00 p. M. Pacific time will be allowed to vote. What we dont know now nora is how this will affect our ability to project the race in california. Obviously l. A. County one of the most populous counties so this could have a big impact. Here in vermont if Bernie Sanders is disappointed at all by the outcome of the races that have been projected so far he didnt show it. In fact in his speech he says hes confident that he is going to win the democratic nomination. One thing we didnt hear him say, norah, is that this was a huge night as he often likes to say. It certainly wasnt as huge as he has been predicting even a couple days ago. In vermont with benders. Rhat a turn around tonight for j joe biden. His win in North Carolina racking up those endorsements from others propelled this momentum today even in states where he had barely spent any money. He had not set his foot in some of these states had no Campaign Infrastructure relative to his competitors and yet has done quite well tonight given the odds. Jamie is with the Biden Campaign in los angeles and we will check in with her in just a moment but youre watching super tuesday coverage on cbs. The story of the night is joe biden and what were all waiting on whats happening in california. Lets check in now with jamie. Norah, i can show you that the crowd waited almost two hours to hear joe biden take the stage and they liked what they heard. We talked to one of our cbs news colleagues who has been following the campaign very very closely and what he told us tonight is he had never seen energy like this so far on the campaign trail. Realla returning of the tide. People were very excited about this candidate which was somewhat of a surprise to even joe biden who came out and was extremely energetic when he took the stage introducing his wife and his sister at his side. He had gotten a boost in los angeles touring around los angeles wearing sunglasses and eating ice cream and said he was feeling good about the night a different tone from sunday where he said this was a tough state for him to come back from. He has spent barely any money here in california. Zero dollars on tv ads, just a few thousand dollars on digital ads. Now they chose this location in los angeles because it is predominantly African American. It is middle and upper class African Americans, many of whom voted for barack obama back in the last election. The community oceaner said she got an email monday morning. This has been very disoceaned as you saw disorganized as you saw tonight. Two hours of delaying us delaying us and quickly all of a sudden he took the stage without much warning to any of the media as well. And came out and thats been pretty much the day that weve seen unfold here in the state of california. I can tell you here in california as well, you had almost a quarter of early quarters undecided. They had remained undecided. They want to see what would happen in South Carolina. We know early voters had requested those ballots early. Election office is saying they sent out about 16 million early ballots by mail but many of those had not been returned. We are also hearing very long lines in polling places up to four hours in those locations in the Los Angeles Area and Northern California near San Francisco. So a lot of people waited until the last minute to see how they will vote. I can tell you the break down of voters here in california is also interesting. Obviously a lot of talk about the hispanic vote when it came to Bernie Sanders, 30 of hispanics will make up the democratic vote here in the state. 14 of the asian voters will come out to vote. Those are Record Numbers from what we indicated tonight a Record Number of hispanic and indication voters. Asian voters. Joe biden, this could change the tone he said he has raised 15 million so far this month. If you look at the calendar its march 3rd that that means just s alo has boosted the amount of money in his campaign tremendously just this month alone. Of course california has 415 delegates and we are in for probably a very long night as people who were already in line would get a chance to vote and that could take some time, norah. All right. Thank you for whats happening in california. I want to beret in the panel what was happening in the golden state. I think we knew when we walked in we wouldnt have the results of california we might have to wait until tomorrow because of the it may be weeks. The way they count because remember a good percentage of the state mails in their ballot. Those are in the system now. Others would have dropped their ballots off in voting locations today. Others show up in person. The other thing to keep up in mind 25 of the state was independent. They had to request a special president ial ballot. There are a few barriers to entry when it comes to voting. It was a struggle for the Bernie Sanders campaign. It was millions of dollars to reach those independent voters and tell them how to vote with the new laws in the state but appears to pay off. One other thing that Bernie Sanders did and paid off he showed up. He made 23 visits to the state oaf the course of the past year. The advantage he has unlike his competitors he didnt show up in california to raise money he went to meet with voters and it will pay off for him in big ways. Thank you. Robbie mook who managed Hillary Clintons campaign. As you mentioned the late ballot thing is very well. Bernie sanders voters were younger. We saw in 2016 the vote changed quite a bit over lets say the week coming after the election. One of the challenges i think for the Sanders Campaign who knows what numbers are going to come out early on but one of the challenges for them may be to keep up looking at that number because were just going to want to move on to the next contest. But the level set here the last total you showed biden is leading with 62 delegates. We move on in california in terms of momentum those numbers are going to matter. This is a tie right now, you know. California could be a huge difference maker. One other little detail inside the california numbers we have here on this question ive been obsessed with all night who can beat donald trump. 64 of the voters in california are interested in that question as well. Bernie sanders beats biden in california. Only 30 to 27. Weve been talking about this big debate in the Democratic Party do you beat trump with joe biden or go loud and proud as a progressive as Bernie Sanders has argued. In california they are buying that argument. One of the top issues in california healthcare Bernie Sanders winning on that measure in healthcare in the more liberal state of california which would favor the sanders proposal. Thats not only an issue for all california voters but specifically for latino voters they also care about healthcare as their number one issue. Another thing that could possibly be delaying is that the ones that are mailed in are count as of today. And in california one of the many new rules is you can register to vote right then and there. That could also be there. We have numbers from latinos if you want me to give you some of the numbers. About a third of the vote will be latinos. Exactly. This is interesting its more than what was expected. Latino 1829, 864 for sanders. For latinos 45 for biden and 28 for sanders which itaing ab. Just in the numbers were seeing here it looks like more than five out of ten latino voters voted for sanders. Thats a significant turn out. And a really important change from the past. Hillarys performance of latinos why she won 16. One of the things she changed is because of the sanders visit was a shift with that demographic cohort which is also important in texas, right. So i think thats one of the big new stories for sanders this year. The question we will have tonight and we will check in with our own anthony in just a moment to do the delegate math because even if you win a state the question is how close you can hold that margin because that ultimately decides that portional representation of that delegates. How will they get meted out to each of the candidates. So the margin of victory is important. The other thing well be looking for is how is bloomberg doing in california. What is the numbers i saw he spent in california . 77 million dollars. What does he get for that in the state of he got the america samoa. Half a billion dollars. Its Proof Positive you cannot buy an election. He made seven visits to the state of california but not many in the last few weeks a signal he thought perhaps california or at least viability in california was no longer in his grasp. And hes not winning on his main argument which is i can beat donald trump so hes behind both biden and sanders. Hes spending a lot of money hes less popular than he was before he spent all the money and the signature case hes making the is the one he comes third in of the top three candidates. Thats not really a recipe. Key for Bernie Sanders to show up because lots of democrats and especially latino democrats feel they are being ignored and their vote is going taken for granted for Democratic Candidates and he showed up. Theres a Good Relationship between him and young latinos which they call him tio bernie which is uncle bernie. He reminds them of their grand 23u6grandfather because they thk the grandfathers are very wise. Why dont they call him abuelito. This is reminiscent of 2016. What we saw a lot of earned media matter is so muceaned media that matters. All right. Thank you. You are watching super tuesday coverage on cbs. Tonight has been about the man, the delegate map. Anthony is at the cbs news decision desk in new york breaking down the numbers. Anthony, before we get to you i want to make a quick projection. Cbs news projects joe biden is the winner in massachusetts. That is a big deal. As Elizabeth Warren represents the state of massachusetts, Bernie Sanders had tried to give elizabeth a run for her money and joe biden in a surprise tonight winning the state of massachusetts. It just was unimaginable walking into this night. There was a thought maybe he would do well in some of these states but get some momentum from all of the endorsements but massachusetts was not one on our list. And Elizabeth Warren didnt win, people were expecting bernie to win. In massachusetts, yes. Lets bring in anthony to break down some of these numbers. Anthony explain to us what were seeing tonight. Well its all massachusetts but i want to take you back to the west coast, norah to california because this is where the delegate map is going to change as you mentioned. We dont have any vote in yet from california but based on what we saw in our exit polls we can estimate that Bernie Sanders has already netted, im going to put a plus 48 heres and our viewers will get used to the handwriting. Hell get 48 delegates at least out of california and thats going to give him a boost. We saw joe biden take off tonight, start off with the delegate lead youve been showing everybody. But now with california coming in, Bernie Sanders is going to start to catch up. That delegate number overall for the nation that 331 to 278 that you were showing folks thats going to get a boostut 06 california again out of california. Not just the winner will get some. Bernie sanders will get some, joe biden might pick some up but based on our polls we can start adding to sanders total and that catapults us further into march and continue to be a tight race, nora. Lets break that down. I want to see what the latest numbers are that you apportion to each of the candidates. Lets go back to the delegate board if we could or the washington monument. 332280. As they come in from california do you expense Bernie Sanders take the demonstrate gut lead. He might get delegate lead. He my get clear. You have more than a hundred yet to get allocated. If sanders ends up winning the state if he does win the state by lets say five or six points then hes going to get more of the delegates but hell have to split them up with joe biden and thats where the math starts to get a little bit in his favor maybe not to put him back in the lead. Er could end up in a tie after all of this, after all is said and done. I suspect tonight well probably allocate maybe another 50 delegates out of this and well have to wait maybe another week to see what comes in from all the individual california district. Are you saying we could anyone issue this night with joe biden in the delegate lead . Yes, we could. In fact, what will probably happen is that what we can count will have joe biden in the lead but there will be a lot of votes still from california left to come in and as we see it come in, if its more for Bernie Sanders, then his delegates, were going to come back here, well check in on thursday, well check in on friday and youll tell folks in the evening news weve got some more from california and well start updating that delegate count again as we start into next week. All right. Political ge junkies. Weve got more ahead. Well be back with ed okeefe who has questions for you and what issues are important to california voters. These whats coming up. Its super tuesday on cbs. Welcome back to our special coverage of super tuesday here on cbs. It has been a big night for joe biden. Lets take a look at where he has won. Former Vice President has won eight states tonight in the south. Virginia, North Carolina, alabama, oklahoma tennessee and arkansas and we just called massachusetts and minnesota for the vice. The Biggest Surprise of all may be massachusetts. Elizabeth warrens home state. How did biden win there . Sanders has taken vermont, colorado and utah. Remember, it takes 1,991 delegates to win the nomination and heres where it stands right now. Biden with the lead at 344. We have yet to call here at cbs california or tex l toute progre in the process. Democrats across the country are going to have to listen. We call it mean sanders and theres a couple issues. Lets look at the matrix in california level of support. Free tuition for public colleges, support 76 . Only 20 opposed. Something thats been identified mostly with Bernie Sanders campaign. Lets go to healthcare. Replace all private Health Insurance, all private Health Insurance with a government plan. That would be medicare for all. Bernie sanders very aggressive on that. Supporting california 57 , opposed 36 . Also what do California Democrats think about the economic system. Needs a complete overhaul. 52 needs minor changes. Norah more than 90 want some change in the economic system. That does favor Bernie Sanders but if youre in Silicon Valley or San Francisco or los angeles, its going to give you a few tremors. California democrats are saying whatever is happening in california theyre not happy with it and Bernie Sanders isane responding. Lets pull back up the california board because at this hour, california we have not called at cbs news except it leans towards Bernie Sanders. Lets bring back in our political panel. If you look at the state of california, this is one that Bernie Sanders has invested in for a long time. Yes. And he needed a win here to pull ahead. He has to come out of tonight with a big lead because the calendar, theres no huge pick up opportunities for him. Back in 2008, obama came out of super tuesday with a tiny tiny lead but then he has all these caucuses and states with heavy African American vote where he eventually