Rock taking aim at the lack of dye versety as ti i witinsel to celebrates its biggest night. Good morning. Welcome to your world this morning. I am del walters. Today is the final day of campaigning before the biggest day of the 2016 president ial race so far. Voteners 12 states will make choices in primaries and caucuses on super tuesday. For the democrats 865 delegates are up for grabs. Thats about a third of those who are needed to win the partys nomination. For republicans, 595 delegates are at stake. Thats just about the Halfway Point to the g. O. P. Convention. We are live in two of the most important states this morning. In richmond virginia, virginia but we will begin in dallas this morning. And heidi, how important is texas for ted cruz . Reporter del, it is absolutely crucial for ted cruz. With 155 delegates at stake, texas is a crown jewel on super tuesday. It is the home stayed of ted cruz where he is still very popular among Republican Voters. Cruz, himself, has branded tuesday the most important day in this entire president ial election, trying to motivate his base to turn out. One poll has him leading here in texas by 13 points. Now, many analysts are saying if cruz did not win here in his home state, he may as well throw in the towel. He is a good ol boy here in texas and the other establishment politicians here have turned out to help them win the vote with Current Governor greb abbott and former governor rick perry at two ernts. Texas isvents. Texas is one of two states not leading with donald trump. He is attacking trump comparing him to hillae clinton and on twitter, condemning trump for his refusal to condemn a kkk endorsement. Del . Speaking of attacking immigration, a major factor, texas has a huge latin 0 population. How big of a factor will that be . This remains to be seen. We know the latino vote will be important in deciding the general election. Here in texas, turnout among latino voters is historically low. We saw in nevada that trump ran away with 44 of the latino Gop Primary Voter support. Could repeat itself here in texas. Certainly at an event in fort worth that i attended odd friday form donald trump, there was a very big latinos for trump movement. Yesterday, the Trump Campaign rolling out another endorsement, a big endorsement this time, alabama senator Jeff Sessions. Is this a major blow to ted cruz . Reporter it is. Absolutely, del, because cruz has been counting on sessions for his endorsement. He did not expect it to go to trump. He named the alabama senator as a key ally in his efforts to reform the immigration. Now with sessions giving support to donald trump, this really hurts cruzs efforts to labor trump as a false conservative and hurts cruzs strategy of the southern firewall. Another senator lining up for donald trump. Heidi jo castro in dallas. Another pivotal state of voting is virginia. Live in richmond this morning, good to see you. Marco ruin yes was in village, donald trump and Hillary Clinton will hold campaignents there today. Talk about why virginia is so important appear win for these candidates. Stefanie, 49 statewide delegates at stake for the republicans. About 95 for the democrats. So this is a really important state. This is a battleground state. It has gone purple since 2008. So these candidates are taking this ver seriously. As you mentioned Hillary Clinton, donald trump are here in the state today campaigning. Marco rubio was also here on sunday. A and they are looking to really galvan eyes support from those, those voters here in virginia. Criticizing donald trump for what he called being a con artist of t artist. Take a license. This has been a defendant very different election years. Things have worked out as no one anticipated. The Republican Party, the conservative movement, the part lincoln and reagan is on the verge potentially of nominating a con artist to be the president , to be our nominee for president. Now, clinton, rubio and trump are supported by campaign ads. They are the om three who are supported by campaign ads here in virginia. Going back to that question about why virginia is so important. Its a litmus test. It closely reflects the dam graphics of the nation as a whole. Its a good litmus test to see how things stand as they move toward november. A swing state, as you say. What are polls saying about who is ahead there . Reporter well, right now, it looks like the most recent polls here in the state show that trump has an edge over rubio, about six points, and that rounds out with the republicans with ted cruz in third. Hillary clinton has an edge right now. She is trying to continue that momentum coming out of South Carolina where she had a huge win, and one of those areas she is looking to get support from is the Africanamerican Community in South Carolina, one in six voted for Hillary Clinton. She is hoping for that support here in village as well. That hampon road area is crucial for clinton. Virginia, i understand, does things a little differently than other states in the primary. Explain what happens there tomorrow. Reporter well, virginia is one of 14 states that is an open primary which means that anybody can vote for any party. There is no Party Affiliation when you are voting in these primaries. Thats something that has been col controversial, particularly within the Republican Party who back in september had made a decision to make primary voters sign a statement of intent essentially to pledge their vote for the republicans and that was scrapped late last month, but again, this is one of those states, one those 14 states that is considered an open primary stefanie. In richmond, thanks. Stefanie as we talked about, donald trump in damage control over his reaction to that endorsement by former kkk leader david duke. Al jazeeras erica pitzy has that story. The controversee stated when the white supremacist, former grand wizard of the ku klux klan. Running against donald trump is treason to your heritage. To go out, call the Republican Party. Call do not trumps headquarters. Volunteer. Trump responded. I didnt even know he endorsed me. David duke endorsed me . I disavow. Okay . But the matter did not die there. The Antidefamation League called on him to condemn dukes racism. On sunday morning, jake tapper repeatedly pressed trump about whether he would condemn duke. If you dont know about their endorsement, there are these groups and individuals endorsing you. Would you just say, unequivocally, you condemn them and you dont want their support in t their support . I dont know what group you are talking about. David duke and the ku klux klan here . Honestly, i dont know david du duke. I am pretty sure i didnt meet him. I dont know anything about him. Reporter as criticism mound. Trump tweeted out the video clip and repeat his disavowal but his opponents saw an opening and pounce did. Should the republican nominee be someone that today like donald trump refuse refuse to criticize the ku klux klan . Reporter sunday, john kaesi central line h hate groups have no place in america. When trump addressed a large rally, one thing was clear for yet another day, he had managed to define and dominate the days political news. Erica pitzy, al jazeera. A former Chris Christie backer blasting the endorsement of trump. Chris christies astonishing display of political you opportunism. Governor christie reacted to the comments. I log meg whitman. She is a great friend to me, always has been. We obviously from that statement have a difference of political opinion. Thats what makes this country different. People can have differences of opinion. I honor her. We absolutely adore our relationship with her. I am sure it will continue. Christie denied telling a reporter with the new hamp shear union leader earlier this year that he would not endorse donald trump. Hillary clinton will campaign in massachusetts and virginia, as we said earlier. On sufrnld, she got the backing of a president albeit a fictional one, tony goodwyn who plays the president on scandal joined clinton at a coffee shop in nashville. He said he is supporting her over Bernie Sanders because she gets things done. She called clinton tireless in her efforts. We all need to fight as had for hillary as we know she will fight for us when she gets behind that desk in the oval. The one that i pretend to sit behind in my day job. Ists in los angeles not i was in los angeles not a long ago. I went over and looked at the set that they filmed scandal on. She said the star will be appearing in commercials for her. Bernie sanderss littest backer, hawaii Tulsi Gabbert resigned as vice chair of the dnc to announce her support for sanders. She is one of the first female combat veterans to serve in congress. She says as a military veteran she wants sanders. Speaking with voters from minneapol minneapolis. He felt the love at the mobi arena at colorado state. State is considered a mustwin for sanders tomorrow. Also a mustwin, his home state of vermon. O ont. Clashes between refugees trying to reach northwestern europe and Border Guards trying to stop them. As many as 7 ,000 people many fleeing the war in syria and iraq stranded in a greek town on the macedonian border, trying to break through a fence today. The police reduced tear gas. There with the latest. Reporter it started with a rumor that the Border Crossing had opened. There were many people sitting here when the rumor spread. Everybody started running. Not only the people who were here but the people camped out in the fields surrounding rirm tracks. Everybody pushed all the way down the Railroad Tracks when are there is a great that opens and closes each time the cargo trains go through. They pushed through that fence as much as they could. Some of them managed to get through on the other side, but heavy forces deployed. Hungarians patrol that border 24 hours a day. The macedonians have used tear gas to push all of these people back and the situation, at the moment, is that you have some people who are sitting there shouting open the borders. Open the borders. There is a huge disappointment because this is an emotional rollercoaster for these refugees who have been stranded here some have been stranded for as much as 10 days wait can for these borders to open, wait can for the number to be called. This is the frontier to the balkan route. From there, you can reach western europe. Otherwise, you are stranded on this side, and its been closed, i would say even though a trickle of refugees have been able to go through over the last 48 hours, maybe 600 at the most have been able to make it through. So this is now the frontier to western europe. Hoda hamyd resulting from edamane, the border between greece and macedonia. Some of the balkan countries building fences, after more than a Million People passed through on their way to germany. Hearing the screams of the people trying to get through with children. Thats about the largest escalation of the crisis we have seen in recent weeks. We will take a look at the weather now here two different storm systems are poised to cause problems to start this week. Lets bring in Nicole Mitchell for more. One more troublesome than other. The broad look across country we have an area moving more into the northeast. Now, a lot of this is going to be lighter rain through the day today. But you can also pick out that last system from the west, kind of starting to move through the rockies as this pulls out. Will be a little bit monre o a trouble maker in terms of widespread impact. Those areas of rain anywhere from new york down to about village. Dealing with that. Also, another little band behind that of snow for places like michigan not too many problems with all of this over the course of the days today. But as this clears out and that does so pretty quickly, you can see the next system already by tomorrow starting to pull out. In fact later today, we will see some of that. Slight risks in places like oklahoma. Into the day, this becomes more widespread south of the great lakes could look at storms, hail, i would say, probably our biggest threat the next couple of days. Can i say on behalf of the audience it was nice not having rain, snow, sleet, hail. Depending upon where you were this weekend. Thank you very much. Coming up, the oscars addresses diversity. Talk about how chris rock blasted the problem of racism in hollywood. A peptide steps out of the shadows today for one of the nations highest honors. Hey hows it going, hotcakes . Hotcakes. This place has hotcakes. So why arent they selling like hotcakes . With comcast Business Internet and wifi pro, they could be. Just add a customized message to your wifi pro splash page and youll reach your customers where their eyes are already on their devices. Order up. Its more than just wifi, it can help grow your business. You dont see that every day. Introducing wifi pro, wifi that helps grow your business. Comcast business. Built for business. 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He is joining us via skype from delaware and larry, how concerned should we be abouted stepped up military involvement by the United States libya . Is libya the new front . Libya has become another front. It doesnt rise to the level of iraq or syria, but we ought to be concerned about the whole libya situation when you decide whether to intervene in a civil war because its one thing to get rid of the ruler as we did with Saddam Hussein and colonel gadaffi. The next is what comes next . Unless you are prepared to go in and deal with that situation, you ought to think twice before getting involved in the first place . So what is the state of libya today . The New York Times and others describe it as a failed state. Many blaming Hillary Clinton as the former secretary of state for what libya has become at times and others saying she persuaded president obama to intervene. Are they write . Well, there is no doubt about the as the New York Times article points out as secretary of defense gates and the military were opposed. Secretary clinton was in favor of it, but ultimately, it was president obamas decision. I mean she seemed to have a different position than he did on the Syrian Civil War but he didnt accept her position. So ultimately, its the in thes responsibility. Give us the bigger picture. How much pause should there be when it comes to situations like libya when we get involved in these conflicts. We toppled Saddam Hussein and iraq has never really recovered. Gadaffi and hosni mubarak, that that accused United States caused United States and others to rethink strategies when it comes to peek like alassad in syria . There is no doubts about it. When i had the privilege of working in the penitentiarygon, we had what we called the wineberger or powell doctorine before you use military force, you ask yourself what is your real objective . Are you prepared to do everything thats necessary to achieve that objective . And when will you know . This is, you know, particularly, when you dont have a Core National interest or an existential threat and hopefully thats what we learned. I think president obama has applied that lesson very well in syria by staying out of the civil war. Our Main Objective there is to deal with the threat that isil poses to the region. Yet, there is the criticism that when the United States does not get involved, there are these vacuums and there are the situations like we saw earlier in that report where you have refugees, where you have people fleeing conflicts in places like syria being denies access and entry into places in europe. It creates a domino effect that ipples across all of europe. Again, there is no doubts about it. Thats why this is not just a u. S. Problem. I mean when you go back to the situation in libya, it was really the European Countries that wanted us to get involved. You may remember the famous devote, the United States was lead from behind one of obamas people used in a television interview. They then should have picked up the ball after they got rid of gadaffi as they did in the balkans. If you want to look at how to do it, thats what we did. We got rid of the leader in the balkans killed and slaughtering innocent muslims and went in and occupied. In fact, there are still, you know, troops there in that area. Thats what you need to think about before you do that because if you dont, you are going to have to deal with the aftermath, one of which is going to be lots of refugees. Larry corb, thank you for joining us. Isil is claimin