Heroic chief. Details about the police chief able to stop a gunman ending a rampage in kansas. The exgirlfriend is now under arrest. And breaking her silence. Jennifer garner speaking out for the First Time Since slitting with ben affleck. What she has to say about the nanny and what really broke them up. And moving and grooving. President obama with an impromptu performance during the white house tribute to ray charles. Hey ho even the first lady looked surprised. Today, saturday, february 27th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on saturday morning. Im jeff rossen along with dylan dreyer and sheinelle jones. The first lady is looking at him and saying what are you doing . You said you werent going to do this. The song like that, you just cant not do it. We all started to get in on it. And demi lovato and arizona shakes. And leon bridges, here featured on the today show. You can catch that tonight. Our top story this morning is the race to replace president obama. Republican frontrunner Donald Trumps campaign saying he will be back on the trail today with his newest supporter. New jersey governor Chris Christie. Marco rubio meantime is ramping up attacks on the billionaire. Hillary clinton is poised for a big win on the democratic side in South Carolina. We have full coverage for you this morning. We begin with nbcs Hallie Jackson in nashville covering the republicans. Hallie, good morning. Even though the nevertrump is trending today for those not supporting the republican frontrunner. He is making headlines who is. Chris christie. Embracing the billionaire and going on the attack. Reporter together today on air trump, they are taking it on tour. Chris christie now out of the race, but back in the spotlight as an attack dog for donald trump. Marco rubio, your campaign is almost over, buddy. Showing a lot of desperation. Reporter the endorsement of the new york billionaire sending shock waves through the republican race. I look forward to working with him. Reporter last month, he was calling out carnival barkers. Showtime is over, everybody. We are not electing an entertainer in chief. Reporter trump hoping christie can help him stay ahead of cruz and rubio. These are two desperate people. Where he is taking it with a trowel and putting it on. He was soaking wet and he was out here. You know, i only say it because honestly this is not a president ial guy. Reporter rubio firing back. Look, chris is an articulate guy. Donald needs a lifeline after last night. Reporter hes on offense now. At times gleefully. The makeup thing applying h mustache. Reporter nbc news supporting ort super pac supporting rubio. Rubio hoping his attitude is not coming too late to take trump down. You all have friends thinking about voting for donald trump. Friends do not let friends vote for con artists. Reporter all of this triggering speculation that for a high level position in a trump administration. General. Christie is insisting when he is finished, his term as new jersey governor, go into private practice and make a lot of money. Hallie jackson, thank you. I want to turn to the democrats where today is primary day in South Carolina. Pivotal race leaving Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders with something to prove. Nbcs Kristen Welker covering the democrats for us in South Carolina. Kristen, good morning. Reporter jeff, good morning. The polls just opened in South Carolina. Im at a polling place in columbia where folks started to file through. Secretary clinton has a double digit lead here. Her campaign insists they are not taking any votes for granted. Senator sanders is not giving up. Still sharply focused on super tuesday. Sanders trying to catch fire at the oyster roast friday night. Making a series of stops at voters head to the polls. Lets have a great turnout in South Carolina. The South Carolina primary is personally important to me. Reporter and the Democratic Candidates are sharpening attacks. Hillary clinton hitting sanders on guns. We need to strip the immunity that the congress voted for, including my opponent, giving gun makers and sellers immunity. Reporter and sanders trying to court critical africanamerican voters here criticized clintons stance on the death penalty. My opponent believes in the death penalty. I do not. Reporter the toughest words from rapper killer mike who predators. Some saw as a slight. Where was concern for black street because somebody chose to call them super predators. Reporter this after an apology for the 1996 comments earlier in the week. Do you apologize to black people . Reporter clinton said she was talking about drug cartels. Still, clinton tops africanamericans by double digits, leaving some to wonder if sanders can stop her. Can a democratic candidate win the nomination . I dont think so. The africanamerican coalition is probably one of the most candidate. And while senator sanders is hoping to narrow the gap here, the past week he has been campaigning in super tuesday states. Where the race is closer. In fact, he is not going to be here when the votes come in. Instead, he will be holding a rally in minnesota. We will watch it. Kristen, thank you. Harold ford jr. Is a Tennessee Congress member and political analyst. So is josh barrow. The New York Times correspondent. Good morning. Good morning. Nice to have you with us. This Chris Christie announcement took so many by surprise when it popped up on our phones yesterday. Interesting specifically because some of the terminology he used to describe donald trump in the past. Naive. On february 7th, he told a crowd he is just not the right person to be president of the United States and not the person we want representing our country. What is the impact of not only the flip flop from christie, but the endorsement when it comes to voters. Do they care . Politics has a long history. Ronald reagan chose george w. Bush. Kennedy chose johnson. We have a long history of this. The surprise for some was that christie gives him an imprint of an establishment republican with him. I think most important for christie, im sorry, trump, christie will be an important surrogate with him in the early states and ones after that. Making the case that rubio is not fit to be president. Important day for trump. Josh, are you surprised that marco rubio is getting more aggressive. Talking about makeup application with donald trump. Now comments about donald trump wetting his pants. Is this a smart tactic or is it too late . I dont know. I think it is very late. If he was going to do this, he should have done this months ago. He is trying to be donald trump. Why did he want the full length mirror . It is really undignified. It is weird. For months, one of the cases is donald trump is too undignified. I dont know. We are three days away from super tuesday, it is too late to make the shift. If you are going to beat trump, you have to make him look small and silly. Calling him a con artist is a good line. Calling out Trump University is a good call. This quickly. I dont think you can tear it down in three days. The question is where was this before . The animation and emotion and pointed attacks. I agree with you. I dont know how this sticks with trump this late in the game. Is there anything at this point that rubio or cruz can do to make a move . I think we will know that by march 15th. The republicans award delegates proportionately. Winner takes all on march 15th. You have texas in the first. The winner take all. If trump wins texas, a lot of this, before we get to the 15th, you see trump being able to make frontrunner. It is difficult to stop me. You may see more endorsements. What about the democratic side . Any path for Bernie Sanders . It is challenging. When you look at the states that is have already voted, states that are favorable to sanders. Hampshire. If sanders was going to just beat hillary nationally, he probably needed to win he iowa he about tied it. By 30. In South Carolina, he can lose it, but lose it by too much. As the map gets more filled in, he continues to underperform, he will not be the nominee. Two weeks ago. The story was powerful if sanders pulled off the victory in nevada. I think the chairman from South Carolina said it well. The demographics and the africanamerican population, Bernie Sanders has issues. About the remarks she made 20 years ago. The path seems to have narrowed in the last week or two. Lots to watch. Thank you. Nbc is the place to be for super tuesday coverage. Join lester holt and savannah 10 00. There are new developments in the horrific mass shooting in kansas. The shooters exgirlfriend is in custody this morning accused of giving him the gun. Nbcs blake mccoy is in kansas this morning. Blake, good morning. Reporter erica, good morning. Lets start with the exgirlfriend. Along, the authorities wanted to know how cedric ford was able to get his hands on the guns. This is a convicted felon whose rap sheet dates back decades. Police know this morning who helped him. With the kansas workplace shooter dead, attention turns to this woman. An exgirlfriend who is charged with knowingly giving weapons to convicted felon cedric ford. He later used the guns in his attack. Police recovered an akstyle Assault Rifle like the one on fords Facebook Page and glock. 22 pistol. The exgirlfriend arrested is a different woman than the ex who filed a restraining order against ford calling him an alcohol, violent and depressed and someone in need of desperate psychological help. It was the restraining order that Police Believe caused ford to go on the rampage and shooting coworkers and injuring 14 and killing three. I never seen it coming. From cedric and for him to take it out on us and coworkers. We worked handinhand with cedric cedric. Night, people remember renee benjamin. She always had a smile. Reporter Brian Sadowsky who loved rock music and josh higbee. Engaged to be married. He leaves behind a 4yearold son. His son was his world. He adored him. Reporter high praise this morning for the cop identified as the towns police chief who hailed the gunfire to take the shooter down before backup arrived. Saved a lot of lives. Reporter some estimates put the number of people inside the building behind me between 200 and 300 at the time of the shooting. The sheriff says if the police chief did not face that gunfire and run in, there would have been more deaths. He says the shooter would not have stopped until he was out of bullets. Erica. Blake, thank you. In washington state, five people are dead after a shooting rampage that led to a tense standoff. Sheriffs officer to say he shot his own family. The officer raced to the home to negotiate with the gunman. After three hours, the suspect walked out and shot himself right in front of the Law Enforcement agents. A s. W. A. T. Team entered the home. A survivor, a 12yearold girl, was taken to the hospital. John lennons widow yoko ono is in the hospital. She was rushed from her home among reports of unconscious and suffering a stroke. Sean later said his mother was suffering from dehydration. She is expected to be released shortly. Now to the oprah effect which may be in trouble this morning. No one is rushing to hold a bake sale, but her bottom line is smaller. A huge stockholder in Weight Watchers and main spokesperson. The stock took a plunge on friday costing her tens of we have Olivia Sterns with more. Reporter good morning, jeff. When oprah joined Weight Watchers in october, the hope is the magical fix and bring her star power to the brand and oprah would make Weight Watchers trendy again. If this weeks results are a guide, the talk show queen could be losing her touch. Are you ready . Lets do this oprah, Weight Watchers is a good fit. She struggled for years with her weight. Who better to be the face of the nations largest diet brand. Every time i tried again, every time i tried again. It has brought me to this. Reporter in october, oprah bought in. Sinking 43 million to buy a 10 stake. Weight watchers doubled in more than a month. Reporter again, a spike. But on friday, the stock crashed. Oprah taking a nearly 30 million hit. The company reporting a drop in sales as it lost more subscribers. Oprah is not a panacea. Reporter Weight Watchers says the partnership is off to a strong start. The opportunity is huge. 2 3 of American Adults are overweight. Of course, that means competition. Look whos back . Reporter jenny craig and Weight Watchers seem out of date. You can get free apps and your wearables. You dont have to go to a meeting or have a coach. Reporter you know, for many of us, the focus is more on wellness rather than weight. Working out more and not just counting calories. The truth is, Technology Gives us options to track our diets Weight Watchers does have their work cut out for them. Dont feel bad for oprah. She lost nearly 30 million yesterday, but she bought the stock when it was so cheap, she still made a lot of money on the investment. At the end of the day, she is still eating bread. There is a winwin. Thats a win. Olivia, thank you. Dylan dreyer has the check of the forecast on this saturday. Good morning. Good morning. Eating bread . Im always eating bread. We are looking at a really nice warm up through the weekend. We have the big ridge in the jet stream pushing the cold air up in canada. Warmer air from the south. Temperatures most likely break records. In minneapolis, the old record 53 degrees in 1896. A forecast of 79. Oklahoma city, 73 degrees. Cheyenne, wyoming, 65. Same for the carolinas and new york city should be close to 60. As we go into monday, we are still looking at scattered records to be broken. Especially back through the midwest with st. Louis in the mid60s. Little rock in 70s. Raleigh at 59 degrees. We dont have a lot going on today, besides the warm up, breezy in the northeast. Thats a look at the weather across the country. Now heres a peek out your window. Forecast. Dylan, thanks. In a sex scandal are facing felony charges. Former represent todd corser is charged with misconduct and lying under oath. He could face 15 years under prison. The other is charged with misconduct in office punish able by five year in prison. They were involved in a sexual affair. One tried to cover up by faking a male prostitution scandal. Coming together for the south beach food and Wine Festival festival. Al roker and Natalie Morales with friendly competition. Welcome back to miami, al. I wake up to you every morning. Were here in the miami wine and Food Festival where i get to be a judge. A hard job. I have to eat may way through the burgers. Al, apparently, has a killer burger. I cant wait to try it. A brisket burger. The grilled cheese. 1,000 island. Slice it up. Youre done. How good is that . Isnt that the best one . We need your vote. Help a brother out. Give us your vote. You think that burger can beat that burger . A lot going on. Final cut. We made the final cut. This is my buddy al. He has been cooking up a storm all night. Im not supposed to know your burger. Give me a little bite, al. A little nibble. Im judging. Okay. Al, ive died and gone to heaven. All of a sudden, i ate 47 burgers. Thats delicious. Now for the award for the best burger award. It goes to jersey dog. Lights off, partys over. Al or me . Im in a meat coma. Time to go to bed. Good night, natalie. Al has a busy weekend. He and natalie off to l. A. For the oscars. It will be hard to get into a dress after you have been challenged with all those burgers. In that is when you go for the moomoos. A recap of the weeks biggest stories and this caught on camera moment. When a mans pocket catches on fire. And remember the good old dress debate . We had that here in the studio . Guess what . It is exactly a year after the dress drama and there is still the same question over the jacket. But first this is today on nbc. And it is still to come on intern interns. I have gone on twitter to look this up. That is the last time i cried. Piece. Makeup. Whats going on in here . Nothing who did this . She did liar. Tattletale. Was this an accident . It will never happen again. All right. Girls, we decided to have mercy. Some things never change. A moment a lot of us full house fans want. Fuller house. On the air. More on that in popstart. Outside on this saturday, february 27th, some chilly fans out there. Not for long. It will warm up. Good. Tell them that. I will. Guys, its going to warm up. Stick around. And say it with a smile. Here is a look at headlines. Donald trump on the campaign trail. This time with his one time rival Chris Christie. Christie announcing on friday he is endorsing trump for president. On the democratic side, primary day in South Carolina. Hillary clinton holds a huge lead in the polls over Bernie Sanders there. The exgirlfriend of the shooter in a horrible rampage in morning. Police say cedric fords ex convicted felon that elate used. And information from the irs is actually much worse than originally thought. The agency now saying hackers accessed more than 700,000 taxpayer accounts. That is more than double than what originally thought. Lets begin this half hour with the download. Sheinelle is here the with the headlines. From Donald Trumps win to the gorilla in space. Here are the stories that caught our attention. A hat trick for