Smashandgrab. Dramatic video from a gun shop in houston. Thieves storm inside and steal more than 50 weapons. Several arrests overnight. And launching a desperate search for more suspects and those weapons. Pressure . What pressure . An 11yearold boy tests a new golf course designed by tiger woods in the most perfect way possible. And even tiger is in awe. Today, thursday, march 3, 2016. From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning everybody and welcome to today. A lot going on in politics. If you are a certain front runner on the gop side you are and a lot is negative. Our top story is about mitt romney set to launch an all out assault on donald trump. The 2012 republican president ial nominee is planning to unload on the current frontrunner. We will talk about that with donald trump live in a moment. Lets start with Peter Alexander in salt lake this morning. Reporter we just got our hands on excerpts from that speech and it is a harsh and blistering attack on donald trump and Hillary Clinton. It is clear that mitt romney didnt think 140 characters on twitter was enough to say this. Americas future. Harsh words from romney, slamming donald trump writing here is what i know. Donald trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from trump university. He gets a free ride to the white house and all we get is a lousy hat. The former governor and 2012 candidate not holding back adding his domestic policies would lead to recession. He has neither the temperament nor judgment to be president and his personal qualities would mean that america would cease to be a shining city on the hill. Trump tweeting just another desperate move by the man who should have easily beaten barack obama, misspelling the president s name. I will preserve and protect a womans right to choose. Reporter signaling new urgency in the stop trump movement. Several Top Republicans soliciting cash from donors, highlighting trumps comments on race. I dont know anything about what you are talking about with failures. He hides behind bankruptcy laws to duck paying bills. Reporter trumps opposition remains divided. Everybody get together to keep the frontrunner from winning and destroying the republican party. If you are at home and supporting another republican candidate i would tell you we would welcome you with open arms. Reporter the next showdown pitting trump against his rivals and moderator megyn kelly, their first facetoface meeting in seven months. I have been nice to you even though i probably could not have been. Reporter romney will not announce his own candidacy nor that he is endorsing anyone. Donald trump on the front cover, bully, showman, party crasher. The fifth one is unchecked. That one says president of the united states. As for tonights debate ben carson will not be participating, hasnt suspended the campaign. But has said that he doesnt see a path forward. Peter, thank you. Mark halperin cohost of with all due respect. Good morning. We know what mitt romney is going to say today. With this speech does he become fractured movement to stop donald trump . The next two weeks are critical not just for the game but for the country in choosing who the republican nominee will be. Mitt romney is choosing this moment. To say i think this is the wrong choice. Part of a movement and effort to stop donald trump which is not going to happen just because mitt romney says so but the other candidates, john kasich, marco rubio, ted cruz will have to step up at this debate to be part of this effort. There are different strands to this stop trump effort going on. What do you know about efforts to raise money to that end, to spend money particularly in some Republican Leaders openly talking about running a third acknowledge would all but assure a Hillary Clinton win. About the third party win. The logistics are difficult. The efforts are to raise money. Some richest members of republican establishment are thinking about it. They know donald trump is far and away the best position to be win enough delegates for the other three candidates to keep donald trump from getting the majority. If he has the most delegates but not the majority, can they stop him at the convention. But theyre not there yet. The effort from mitt romney and others today and next two weeks is can you get enough delegates to stop trump. It seems to make no sense for attacking each other tonight. They are all going to go after donald trump. Which donald trump replies . The guy who likes to insult people or the guy who was on the stage the other night . The guy on stage the other night was being a big figure trying to reach the country. If they go after hard after donald trump which i suspect they will, how does he respond . Based on tweets against mitt romney you think he will drop the money being spent, mitt romney trying to stop trump. Is there a risk to that in the sense there are trump voters bunch of rich guys are trying to i must be on the right track. The establishment will not stop trump. It has to be the voters. This has to be about the appeal to voters who say this shouldnt be who we nominate. In the end it is not done here in washington, d. C. It is going to have to be based on advertising and persuasion can you appeal to voters to say go with one of the other three guys. Dont go with donald trump. Trump is in a commanding position for the nomination. Thank you so much. As we mentioned we will talk to donald trump live in just a minute. First we want to talk about democrats. Hillary clinton taking aim at the republican frontrunner and in new york. Kristen welker has that. Clinton preparing for this weekends democratic debate and it comes as the drip, drip, drip over emails wont let up. Hillary clinton celebrating her strong super tuesday. Yesterday was super tuesday tonight is super wednesday. Reporter with a star studded fundraiser. Katy perry, elton john and more. A new spotlight on her use of a private email server. The Justice Department is brian Brian Pagliano who helped set up the email everybodier. Of a Congressional Panel he refusing to answer any questions. A clinton Spokesman Says the campaign is pleased pagliano is cooperating. I havent started on hillary yet. Reporter political opponent donald trump is already vowing to play the email card if they face off in november. I guarantee you one thing we will be talking about those emails every moment of every day. Reporter clinton has been taking aim at trump painting herself as a unifier. The Washington Post reporting the fbi could interview other clinton staffers about her emails. The Campaign Says they would welcome that in hopes of putting the matter to rest. The department of justice did not return our request for comments. Kristen welker, thank you. This morning in houston we have our astronaut back. Scott kelly is back in the u. S. International space station. He was greeted by close family and friends. Kelly says he is just happy to be home and back here on earth. When i left here in february i dont know what day it was in february. I was 50 and now im 52. But it feels great. One interesting note, kelly grew two inches during his time on the International Space station because the spine elongates in space. The growth spurt is expected to be temporary. Joined now on the phone by the republican frontrunner, donald trump. Mr. Trump, we just got excerpts from mitt romneys speech today. He calls you among other things a phony, a fraud and playing americans for suckers. For my endorsement. Literally begged me and he is a failed candidate. I backed him. He failed. He was a horrible candidate. He disappeared in the last month before the election. In all fairness obama is doing all of the shows and jay leno. This guy disappeared and got killed, decimated in the election. I will say this. If you look at what is happening and you see i won a lot of different states, maybe more importantly, millions and millions of people are joining the republican party. On the democratic side they are down 30 . The republicans are up higher than they have ever been because people are energized by what im saying. The American Worker is making less money now than 12 years ago and losing all of our trade, jobs. I want to go back to mitt become a unifying voice in this fractured and frantic effort on the establishment side to stop you . Mitt romney is a stiff. Mitt romney will not get elected. Mitt romney failed twice and really failed last time. He was going against a president that should have been beaten. The president was not doing well and should have been beaten. That should have been an easy election. Nobody came out to vote for mitt romney. Im talking about republicans. It is well documented. Im not just saying this. They didnt come out to vote for mitt romney. You may have just answered it with that answer. Tonight at the debate it seems highly likely that the three other candidates left on the republican side are going to go after you. They are going to save their fire for you. How will you respond tonight . Will you be the guy who just called mitt romney a stiff or appear much more president ial . Who is the real donald trump . Its different. I have these guys like this lightweight marco rubio who doesnt show up to vote for the people of florida. He has defrauded the people of florida. I cant imagine anyone from florida wanting to vote for this guy. If you take a look at what is going on, i cant act overly president ial because i will have people attacking me from every side. Ben carson is not there any longer so now more time for the fighting. President ial. Why cant you say im above because when people are angles, unfortunately, you have i would have a very, very president ial demeanor when i win, but until such time you have to hit back. When you hit back you are no longer president ial, on another topic, a lot of Republican Leaders have said the final straw for them was this controversy over the weekend about david duke and the kkk. You have since disavowed david duke. Not since this. I disavowed him many times over the years. People were surprised at that. He was talking about different groups and couldnt tell me who the groups were. You, yourself, said i dont know who this david duke is three times. What i meant is i never met david duke. I know who david duke is. Thats not what you said. Ill tell you what i meant. You dont know, i know. I never met david duke. Standpoint i never met him. I wouldnt have anything to do with him or the kkk. Everybody knows that. Disavow. Right after that i tweeted that i disavow any endorsement of david duke. That was just my question to give you the chance to say and convince the folks that this is not something you want. Let me say it again for the 20th time. I disavow david duke and the kkk and anybody else who preaches hate. Are you going to ask me about it in the next show . I disavow david duke and the kkk. I have been doing this from the time this question has been asked. Right except for that one time which is why people were wondering about it. I dont know. I think we settled it. He was talking about groups. In all fairness to groups there may be a group that shouldnt be disavowed. I think it is unfair to a group if that is the case. The word groups. If they are a White Supremacist Group you dont want their vote . I dont want their vote. I think i said it several times and maybe better the fourth time and ninth time. I disavowed right from the beginning. Donald trump, thank you for being with us. We appreciate you calling in. New developments in the story we brought you on wednesday what could now be a piece of wreckage from Malaysia Airlines 370 found off the coast of africa. Tom costello broke the story. Next week is the twoyear anniversary of the disappearance. This would be only the second piece of debris washed ashore in all that time. If you look closely there is something odd about the most recent piece. Photographs of the piece of said he found off the coast. On one side no step. But look closely. There is no sign of any marine life which raises the question, how long was it in the water . Overnight australias transportation minister confirmed the discovery. Found in the water. It is of interest to us but i cant confirm that it is a piece of plane or anything to do with it. The confirmed piece of debris was covered in barnacles found not so far away on reunion island. Blaine allen gibson is the american tourist who made the most recent discovery. This is definitely from an airplane. This could be from a boeing. This could be from a 777. This could possibly be from malaysia 370. We dont know yet. Wealthy adventure traveler. He admits he has been fascinated with mh 370 since it disappeared and meeting with families and exchanging theories. Gibson says he figured there was a chance some debris could have drifted but insists he did not go looking for it. I talked to him on skype. I didnt think i would be finding a piece of airplane that day. I dont know what airplane it is. There have been other planes that have crashed in the indian ocean. Reporter sources close to the investigation say based on photographic evidence there is high probability it is part of only missing 777 in the world is Malaysia Airlines flight 370. The australian transport minister said the location of the debris matches the drift end up. It wont tell investigators where the rest of the plane is. The search remains focussed on australia which is 3,700 miles to the east of where they found this piece of debris. Thank you. We turn to al and checking on winters last gasp. That is the way we should go. Lets show you why we are thinking this. We have the system, heavier showers and thunderstorms to the southeast. Snow breaking out from chicago into lexington. We right now have Winter Weather advisories, winter storm warnings stretching about 600 miles and 20 Million People at risk for this. We watch this low pressure system bringing snow to washington, d. C. Late. This evening heavy thunderstorms around atlanta. As we move into the evening hours we look for snow spreading from washington, d. C. To new york light snow to richmond and intensifies. We see snow for the eastern end of massachusetts. Snowfall amounts two to four inches from south hill to richmond. Washington, d. C. One to three. New york city about an inch. We are going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. Thats your latest weather. Just ahead caught on camera. A crew of thieves yank a gun shop door right off the hinges and steal dozens of weapons. The frantic search for those suspects. Erin andrews civil trial putting Hotel Security in the spotlight. Would a clerk put someone in a room next to yours because somebody asked . Like a team. The washes with the shampoos, the shampoos with the lotions. A combination designed to help improve your babys skin barrier while you stimulate his senses. With johnsons, the more you put in, the more they get out. Johnsons good morning. Im corey rose. Happening on channel 20 for 9news 7 00 a. M. Theres a special place that serves up good food and a chance to work in arvada, something the employees may not have had before. Well take you to jacks par and grill for the scoop. The story is coming to the denver art museum. Well get a sneak peek into the familyfriendly exhibit including artifacts. Lets detail some problem spots. Travel time of 11 minutes between lodo and cherry creek. Average speeds, 25 mph. 36, one of our lighter highway drives, but probably see something the most sun glare. Some of the tougher locations, a new wreck down south near quebec. Up north, this might affect folks coming in from fort collins. A lot of sun and warm conditions. The wind will stay in the foothills and in the front range but not down here on the plains. Sunshine across most of the state, filtered sun, at times, but it will be plenty warm, mid 60s for the front range and northeastern colorado, as well as western valleys, warmer in the southeastern state. Denver, 64 degrees. Wind in the foothills but not on the plains. Calm tonight and a few clouds tomorrow morning, and saturday morning, but warm into the weekend. [ cheers and applause ] 7 30 on a thursday morning, thursday, march 3, 2016. We will get out to those people in just a little while. Lets get a check of the headlines. Mitt romney will share his thoughts on a president ial race in a major speech today. In excerpts out romney plans to label trump a phony, a fraud and say he is playing the American Public for suckers. We talked to trump and got his reaction. For my endorsement and he is a failed candidate. Frankly, i backed him, he failed. He was a horrible candidate, he disappeared in the last month before the election. The republicans will face off in a debate in detroit. Ben carson will skip it saying he doesnt see a path forward for his campaign. Hillary clinton hosts the star studded fundraiser for her campaign at radio music hall. As for Bernie Sanders he was busy campaigning in maine ahead of the democratic caucuses there. An 11yearold boy hitting the first shot at the new golf course in texas codesigned by tiger woods. Including tiger [ cheers and applause ] aces it from 81 yards, a hole in one. The crowd goes wild. Tiger goes wild. The major champion giving the kid a well deserved hug and pat on the bat. Tiger needs to start designing harder golf courses. That is crazy easy. Thats your take away. This morning a brazen smashandgrab at a gun store in houston caught on camera. This is some crazy video you will see. It is now a federal case with the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and fire arms joining Houston Police to solve the crime. The bandits are expected to face multiple charges. An atf spokesman confirms authorities have made multiple arrests and recovered most of the weapons. The crime looks like a scene from a hollywood movie, bold, in a smashandgrab assault, a black pickup truck backs up to the store. One grabs a chain, smashes the glass doors and wraps it around the metal security gates. As the driver guns the engine and smoke billows from the tires the pickup lurches forward. And then the robbers wearing sweatshirts with hoods just run in. Once inside they leap overthecounters, smashing the glass and ransacking the place scooping up more than 50 weapons, both rifles and hand guns before making their escape dropping weapons as they run. A very professional operation. The entire thing