Turning on each other all three republican president ial candidates are now backing away from unconditional support of whoever becomes the partys nominee. Welcome to your world this morning donald trump, ted cruz and john kasich each given the chance at that town hall meeting last night to say that they would support the eventual nominee. All three declining that goes back on a pledge the candidates signed with the republican party. It also makes the race important complicated also this morning donald trump defending his Campaign Manager who has now been charged with battery. As al jazeeras michael shaw reports it is an issue that is over shadowing policy discussion. Reporter please welcome ted cruz. Reporter senator ted cruz was first up in cnns g. O. P. Town hall in wisconsin. Right off the top a talk about the news of the day. The arrest of Donald TrumpsCampaign Manager the reporter alleged that she was physically assaulted. That i will say its consistent with the pattern of trump campaign. The culture of the gain has been a campaign built on attacks, insults and i think there have no place in politics for insults for personal attacks, for going to the gutter and there should be no place for physical violence either reporter with that ted cruz brought up the vitriole between his campaign and Donald Trumps im not an easy person to tick off, when you go after my wife and daughters, that does it reporter when the audience had their turns to ask questions, substance. How and why does your religion play a part in your political Decision Making . Most farms in the dairy industry cannot find american born workers. What is the shortTerm Solution to keep our Current Labor Force intact. Would you send a force of unrestricted use of power to owe blit rate i. S. I. S. . Reporter about spouring the nominee if donald trump is the nominee would you support that . Donald trump is not going to be the g. O. P. Nominee. Were going to beat him reporter when donald trump was asked if he wanted ted cruzs support i dont want him to do something that he is not comfortable with. Reporter even john kasich wouldnt promise support for the g. O. P. Nominee. If the nominee is somebody that i think is really hurting the country and defying the country, i cant stand behind them, but we have a ways go. Lets see how it folds out. Reporter is fair to say that you believe donald trump looks like he would harm the country if he was the nominee . That will be up to the voters here. Im not going to get into that. Thats too much below the belt reporter donald trump spent a third of the time supporting his manager i didnt know we in all the security cameras. I said this is wonderful. In exxon rates him totally reporter when asked about the tweet war with ted cruz youre running for president of the u. S. Excuse me, i didnt start it. I didnt start it. With all due respect thats the argument of a five year old. No. It is the argument of a five year old. You would say that reporter he was booed when he went after ted cruz so phony. It is so false. The whole thing with the five. Reporter john kasich continued to take the high road and talk policy. I have been able to be able to accomplish things in politics. Im going to tell you not because im so great, but ive been able to attract people throughout the years. Some people have been around me for 30 years. We form a great team. Reporter michael shaw a different legal battle could soon be back before the shorthanded Supreme Court. The justices split four to four in a closely watched union dues case out of california but the plaintiffs, a group of teachers, have vowed to seek a rehearing once a ninth justice is confirmed. Reporter this is a victory, a big victory for ploik employee unions and if zcalia had been on the bench it could have gone the other way. It involves the California Teachers Association and the question of what is called fair share dues. These are dues that teachers must pay even if they dont want to join the union, dues they have to pay to the union because the ideas that they still get the benefit of any contract negotiated by this group. A number of teachers had sued arguing this violated their First Amendment rights of free speech. Well, in a simple onepage ruling the Supreme Court said reporter reporter it was a four four split, no National Precedent is set and the court has simply affirmed the lower court judgment, the ninth circuit, which found in fact that these fair share dues are legal. The head of the National Education association issued a statement saying the u. S. Supreme court rejected a political employ to silence Public Employees like teachers. On the other side, the center for individual rights, they represented the teachers who were suing over these dues, they said this is too significant a case to leave as is. Reporter this case really brings into sharp focus the absence of Justice Scalia and it could be one of many that end in a tie this session, including cases involving abortion, affirmative action, immigration and parts of the Affordable Care act the court will hear arguments in two cases today, including one involving the arm corporation of engineers and protected waters. The man who could fill that Supreme Court vacancy will be back on capitol hill today. He will meet with democratic senators. On to us he sat down with republican senator mark kirk of illinois. It was the first meeting he has had with a republican. He said he would consider voting for garland over the objection of his Party Leaders this morning the u. S. Is ordering hundreds of people to leave turkey. They are relatives of personal there. Officials say there is no specific threat, but after weeks of attacks in turkey, they fear americans could be targets. Reporter both the pentagon and the state department say the mandatory order to departure of more than 700 u. S. Military and Government Employees dependents is not the result of any specific intelligence but, rather, in response to the overall degeneration of the security situation in turkey and the increasing threat of a mass casualty attack reporter at turkeys base where u. S. And Coalition Jets launch daily attacks against i. S. I. L. In iraq and syria, the base school was closed last week. Officials citing unspecified force protection concerns. Now the u. S. Is ordering most but not all families of state department and American Military personnel to pack up and leave out of an abundance of caution we want to take this step now as we can and in a safe and deliberate fashion and to try minimise the disruption to those families. We realise this is a disruption. We, obviously, sympathise with that but at the same time we feel we have a responsibility to do everything we can to ensure their safety and thats what this represents reporter it applies to dependants in three areas of turkey considered dangerous, these three areas. Not affected are those in ankara in the north and istanbul both of which are considered safer. The state Debt Department says the Evacuation Order was weeks in the making and done in full consultation with turkey. The decision to do this, first of all, wasnt taken lightly. It was done after careful thought and consideration and Inter Agency Coordination i might add, and i think it is very much a result of our ongoing assessment of conditions there in turkey and in recognition of the threat environment in southeastern turkey from a regional perspective. Reporter while the order applies only to families of u. S. Government employees and military dependants, the state Department Also issued a general travel warning for any americans in turkey. It is cited increased threat from terrorist groups throughout turkey, noting that foreign and u. S. Tourists have been explicitly targeted and urging everyone to avoid visiting south eastern it you are key, especially areas near the syrian border. The departure comes as turkish officials are travelling to washington for a summit on nuclear proliferation. They insist there is no connection. The u. S. Command says the move is temporary, that socalled accompany tours may room in turkey as soon as the threat subsides turkeys president is in the u. S. Today. He will be taking part in that National Security summit laut later this week. The white house turning down calls for a formal talks with obama. Erdogan will be holding talks with the vie president tomorrow. The administration saying its not a snub, but just about logistics. There will be more than 50 World Leaders attending that summit. The white house expressing concerns with turkeys crackdown on Free Expression in the media president obama will sit down with president xi jinping in a summit this week. There are lots of issues on their agenda. Including north korea. Reporter the Largest NuclearSafety Center in asiapacific recently opened in beijing. Its funded by china and the u. S. A sign of the two countries increasingly close cooperation on nuclear issues. It is a relationship spurred in part by north Koreas Nuclear ambitions. The government is believed to have conducted four Nuclear Tests in the last 10 years. The latest in january and has said it is planning more. How to curb north korea is something that obama and his chinese counterpart president xi jinping will have to address. What china is unwilling to do is to be so tough on north korea that either the country or the regime become unstable which means millions of refugees flooding across the border into china and which could mean a take over of the north by south korea which is a u. S. Ally and potentially extending the u. S. Influence. Reporter its not only in the Korean Peninsula that it fears an expanding u. S. Presence but also here in South China Sea where china has become more aggressive in recent years in asserting what it seize as its territory. Several other nations lay claim to parts of the South China Sea. The u. S. Says its neutral in the dispute, but some of its actions, including sailing a warship into the area has angered china. The president xi jinping is a more nationalist leader and more risk tolerant. Ache has a vision of china being th this regional value. The u. S. Is already a super power. China wants to become one. To do that it is ready to redefine its relationship with the u. S. And the rest of the world. The man accused of hijacking an egypt air flight will spend eight more days in jail. He and before a judge in cyprus today. He is facing charges including violating the countrys anti terror laws. He is accused of threatening to blow up the jet with a fake explosives belt. One passenger spoke to al jazeera about what it was like on board it was a horrifying moment. I thought it was an april fool joke. It cannot be real. I think like most of the passengers everyone thought that it was no end. Theres no hope for this plane to land because we were above the sea and with these people, you can never know when or how they can proceed with this act authorities in cyprus say he is psychological unstable. During the hijacking he asked to speak to his exwife. The interior Ministry Says he has a criminal record but what happened tuesday was not terrorism related switching gears and talking about weather, you have to hold on to your hat and Everything Else yesterday. Another system moving east reporter this is what we watched across the rockys. Still very widespread. You can see the moisture. I will have more on that in the next half hour. Raining move up in the mid west. Look at this moisture flow from the pacific. Then this will tap into gulf moisture as well. So this is going to be a very wet system now over the next couple of days. Here is a look at the next 24 hours. Portions of the south where we have already had recent flooding just a couple of weeks ago could get widespread areas especially in the deep south getting five to six inches of rain, some places going over that half foot mark and because we already have the recent flooding in the saturation, we already in advance of this, the rain hant started yet, we have the flood watches up across the area. As this continues to pull along, anywhere from the great lakes south ward, we will look at those areas of rain by the time we get into tomorrow this starts hitting the east coast later in the day and the Severe Weather risk. We have enough dynamics and moisture that we watch that shift from a little bit father to the west today through the east tomorrow, but all along the gulf coast and that include the risk for tornadoes thank you for that when we come back, a new era in myanmar the countrys first elected civilian government is sworn into office also a National Treasure becoming endangered. We look at what is destroying the grand cannian. The gr new fallout this morning in north carlina over a law discriminating against lgbt people reporter the protest over a new law many are calling discriminatory against the Lgbt Community. We should not be here today. Reporter tuesday also turned into a war of words between the two men vying to be the states next governor. Were here because the governor has signed statewide legislation that puts discrimination into the law. Reporter cooper says he wont defend a law which among other things makes transgender people use the bathroom of their birth sex our office has defended the state, its officials and agencies when they have been sued. Our office will continue to do that except it will not defend the constitutionality of the discrimination in house bill 2 reporter cooper called the law an embarrassment. That prompted a response from the governor later in the day released on youtube the real embarrassment is politicians not publicly respecting each others positions on complex issues. Reporter the bills sponsor has called on cooper to resign and the governor wants him to change his mind when you are the states lawyer, you are a lawyer first and a politician second. Therefore, i would like to encourage the attorneygeneral to reconsider his flawed logic cooper points to the number of big corporations like ib m and pay pal that denounced the law. He points to official travel bans like new york and San Francisco and the potential for more lawsuits as evidence that the law will cost the states lots of monday i imagine the govern noor has a different take on that reporter indeed. With regard to all the National Condemnation that his anti law has received, he says that his state is the subject of a Smear Campaign on the National Stage and that politicians like cooper, well, theyre just manufacturing conflict for their own agenda ib m is a huge chunk of the revenue of the state. Also this morning critics calling on mississippi delegate protesting the law. Much like the bill that was vetoed it would allow businesses to cite their religious beliefs and deny service to gay and lesbian customers but this allows employees to hand out marriage licences the First Amendment of the constitution protects everyone in their freedom to believe whatever they want to. But its never been used as a tool to deny someone their krif rights it is not yet clear if that bill will pass to the state senate or if the governor plans to sign it. It has been approved by the state house for the first time in half a century today myanmar has a civilian president. Htin kyaw was sworn in this morning. Hand picked by the woman most expect will really be running the government. Reporter an emotional moment for many in myanmar after a long and difficult fight for democracy a civilian president is sworn in. Witnessing this historic event many who were jailed for years by the military. The new president htin kyaw is relatively unknown. He has been hand picked by Aung San Suu Kyi who constitutionally is barred from the highest office because her children are foreign nationals. Htin kyaw announced he will try to change this constitution. Translation as the new government we will try to establish the constitutional principles which are national reconciliation, the Peace Process and the establishment of Democratic Federal union. We will try to work to develop the lives and Living Standards the people. Reporter Aung San Suu Kyi will lead four ministries. She will be the foreign minister, the education and Energy Minister and head of the president s office. She is seen by many as the person who will, in fact, be exercising the powers of president. All eyes are on this lady, Aung San Suu Kyi. Many here are looking at her for change, but many are not sure how much change she will be able to bring. Despite the excitement, celebrations throughout the country were subdued. Translation i really wanted to make a big celebration to celebration this era, but i cant because i have to earn money for my children. Reporter this is the last farmer here after the army evicted hundreds. He hopes the new government will be less corrupt and compensate him for his land. Translation we have lived in a dark