Great day. Its the 88th Academy Awards, which means this whole no black nominee thing has happened at least 71 other times. We are going to win so big. You know, we are leading in every single state . Is he unstoppable . There is no doubt that if donald steamrolls through super tuesday and wins everywhere with big margins that he may well be unstoppable. Have you seen his hands . They are like this. You know what they say about men with small hands . Tomorrow, this Campaign Goes national senator, a disappointing loss in South Carolina . I wont tell thaw we didnt get beaten and beaten very badly. Hamilton accused of killing a Police Officer in virginia will appear in court. She was sworn in the day Otto Warmbier detained in north korea begs for forgiveness. Save my life a rampage on a religious festival and luckily no one hurt during the festivities. All that. He hit the shot out of the water in his boxer breven. What is going on over there . What are you going to do once the big show is over . Im going to the oscar parties. The afterparties. When is your bedtime . 8 00. I want you to reach into your millionaire pockets and i want you to buy some of my daughters girl scout cookies. Look at my babies up there leo, you made 30 million. Come on on cbs this morning. There were no nominees. They were in line to buy tshirts at the Michael Bolton concert. The only way they would win tonight is if they let steve harvey announce the winner and that didnt happen. Announcer this portion of cbs lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. Gayle king is off. Jeff glor is with us. The Academy Awards ceremony turns months of racial controversy into pointed and entertaining social commentary. These four are celebrating their first acting oscars. It was host chris rock who stole the show. He took on the lack of racial diversity head on from the opening moments until its closing credits. Entertainment tonight cohost Kevin Frazier is in los angeles. Reporter good morning. No way last nights broadcast could be just about the awards. Leonardo dicaprio and brie larson took the acting honors and spotlight and surprise winner for best picture but the lack of diversity and the shows host chris rock owned the night. Well, im here at the Academy Awards, otherwise known as the white peoples choice awards. Reporter oscar host chris rock wasted actors were white. Rock kept the jokes coming even out of a commercial break. We are black. Reporter the broadcast politically charged atmosphere included more the diversity issue. Leonardo dicaprio took home the oscar for best actor and took the opportunity to deliver a message about the environment, a passion of his for more than a decade. Climate change is real, it is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species. Im the least qualified man here tonight. Biden walked on stage to a standing ovation and talked speaking out against sexual abuse. Part of his introduction to lady gagas song until it happens to you. Reporter as the song ended victims of abuse filled the stage. The emotional response from the audience was clear. Brie larson who played a sexual abuse victim in room hugged each other as they came off stage. And the oscar goes to spotlight. Reporter tonights top honor went to a film perhaps the strongest political message. It tells a true store of journalism in the boston globe. Survivors and this oscar amplifying that voice which we hope is a choir that will resonate all the way to the vatican. Reporter the first time a director has won backtoback oscars in 66 years p. M. The nights biggest upset, mark rylance of bridget of spies. Another winner best supporting act dress was alicia vikander. The real star of the show i thought was chris rock. I thought he hit it out of the ballpark. We will have much more from the oscars later on this morning. The president ial candidates making one last big push to super tuesday today. A new National Poll this morning shows donald trump is supported by 49 of voters leading the republicans. Major garrett, good morning to you. Reporter for better or worse, marco rubio has discovered his inner donald trump. Hurling personal insults. It is a successful model. For trump one potential downside procures another important conversation about trump, tolerance and the future of the Republican Party. He doesnt sweat because his pores are clogged from the spray tan that he uses. Reporter last night at a rally in virginia, marco rubio got a lot more personal in his attacks against donald trump. He is always calling me little marco. I admit he is taller than me. He is 62 which is why i dont understand why his hands are the size of someone who is at 52. He has small hands. You know what they say about men with small hands . Reporter trump referred to marco rubio. There is something wrong with marco. There is something with him. He is sweating. Reporter in the past, trump has retweeted support of messages from White Supremacists and even retweeted a quote over the weekend from world war ii dictator mussolini. He hesitated when asked about david dukes endorsement of the ku klux klan. I know nothing about david duke or white supremacist. I dont know what group youre talking about. You wouldnt want me to condemn a group i know nothing about. Trump knew enough about duke to say this friday in ft. Worth. I didnt know he endorsed me. David duke endorsed me . Okay. I disavow, okay. Reporter marco rubio called trump dangerous to the gop. How are we going to grow our to condemn the ku klux klan . Donald trump refused to disassociate himself and condemn white supremacist. Every day, its another thing. Reporter ted cruz took to twitter. We should all agree racism is wrong and kkk is abhorrent. Trump picked up the endorsement of alabama senator Jeff Sessions and that only be interrupted as a blow to cruz. Trump invoked his name in the fight against rubio and comprehensive immigration reform. Thank you, major. In the democratic race, Hillary Clinton carries the momentum. The latest tracker battleground poll shows clinton big lead in georgia, virginia and texas. Clinton scored a decisive win this weekend. She beat Bernie Sanders by a landslide in saturdays South Carolina primary. Clinton will hold an event where reporter she is leading by 20 points here in virginia in our Battleground Tracker. Its one of two states a that she is visiting today. Those poll numbers help to explain why increasingly clinton is turning her attention away from Bernie Sanders, training her fire, instead, on the republican candidates. I want to debate whoever they put up because here is what they are saying. They are selling the same snake oil, trickle down economics. Reporter clinton changed her focus after her South Carolina blowout. Tomorrow, this Campaign GoesNational Reporter she won the states africanamerican vote by a staggering 72 points. On face the nation, sanders didnt sugarcoat it. We did really, really, really badly with older africanamericans voters. We got decimate. Reporter tomorrow, he must compete in seven more southern states. The latest cbs news battleground and 28 points in georgia. Voters there said clinton is more qualified, but they viewed sanders as more principle and honest. Secretary clinton does it a little bit differently. Reporter a distinction he tried to draw in Oklahoma City. If youre going to get paid 200,000 for a speech, must be a pretty damn good speech. And if its such a good speech, you got to release the transcript let everybody see it reporter clinton campaigned in nashville, a camera caught her can dit reaction when he told her about the latest trump controversy. Sanders shared that sentiment tweeting americas first black president cannot and will not be succeeded by a hatemonger who refuses to condemn the kkk. Some of his supporters say we like mr. Trump because he tells it like it is. Bigotry is not telling it like it is reporter sanders is heading to minnesota today, one of a few states where he thinks he can notch a win tomorrow. Ironically, even as clinton pulls ahead in the delegate count he is poised to notch his best fundraising month ever, pulling in 36 million in february. Nancy, thanks. Cbs news political director and face the nation moderator John Dickerson is in washington. Here we have all of this trading of insults and more Aggressive Campaign against trump. But the question remains will the race change until people stop dropping out . Well, right or, you know, one of the things we saw in our Battleground Tracker even if the other candidates who are not donald trump start dropping out, whoever is left doesnt get that much more of the vote to really overtake trump. What happens when the voters get in the booth and start deciding what they are going to do to see if there is anything to stop trump. At the moment, this race to the bottom in the back and forth between the candidates hasnt seemed to have hurt him. Rather than a campaign of ideas has become a campaign about mussolini and kkk and the size of a candidates hands. What is going on in the National Republican party about how this may affect the partys future and electoral chances in other races . Once youre talking about mussolini youre in dangerous territory than makeup. These are repugnant ideas that the Republican Party stands very far apart of and the difficulty for donald trump even though he dissed about david duke on friday when he was asked by jake tapper on cnn about this, he seemed to be sort of unable to immediately denounce the kkk and this should not be difficult and gives support to those saying he is playing footsy with the ugliest ideas out there. A debate on thursday, a lot of people thought marco rubio did very well in. What is Chris Christie looking for . Do you see this possible vp ticket for donald . Possibly. I think it was a chance for Chris Christie to get back in the story a little bit after his poor showing in New Hampshire and dropping out of the race, because he really ran on things, Chris Christie, that donald trump doesnt believe in and said things about trump and his lack of experience that are contradicted by what he said in supporting him ultimately in the end. So its helpful as you mentioned endorsement from somebody like that in a blue state. So it was good for the news cycle but i think other than own and got his own thing going. Whether a place for christie in a Trump Administration there probably is in some possible way. John, thanks. Our team will bring you super tuesday results in prime time and our coverage begins at 10 00 9 00 central on cbs. A soldier accused of killing his wife and a Police Officer is expected to face a judge today. Police say that Staff SergeantRonald Hamilton shot and killed officer Ashley Guindon on saturday. It was her first day with the Prince William county Police Department in virginia. Jeff pegues is at the court where hamiltons arraignment is scheduled to take place. Jeff, good morning. Reporter good morning. Ron hamilton will be in a courtroom today. Not working at his job in i. T. At the pentagon joint Staff Services center. On saturday, investigators say he got into a heated argument with his wife and first to roll Ashley Guindon was just sworn in and on her First Official shift, thats what happened. With bagpipes ringing and hundreds gathered on sunday to celebrate fallen Police OfficerAshley Guindon. Recognize that we will continue one step at a time in honor of ashley. Reporter some covered a police car in flowers, while others visited the hospital where she died. She had been through so much with the marines and to have this happen over something so stupid. Its so sad. Reporter guind don was serving her first shift died. A day earlier she was sworn in at the Prince William police interned. The department tweeted out this safe. According to reports before deciding to become a Police Officer in 2015, guindon spent corps reserves. Police say ashley, along with two other officers, arrived at Ronald Hamiltons woodbridge home saturday night on a domestic disturbance call. They approached the front door of the home and the subject inside the home opened fire, striking three officers. Reporter the pentagon Staff Sergeant allegedly shot and killed 28yearold guindon and shot and wounded 33yearold david mccown and 31yearold Jesse Hampton before surrendering to police. During the search of the home, police found the body of hamiltons wife crystal. Authorities also discovered the couples 11yearold son unharmed. The wife was able to contact the Police Officer, however, before our arrival, she was shot and killed allegedly by the accused. Its always been a peaceful neighborhood where everybody get along with everybody. Reporter neighbors of hamilton say they are shocked by his violent behavior. He was a good guy, like a been working at the pentagon since 2011, faces capital murder charges. If convicted, could spend the rest of his life behind bars. As for the two injured officers, they have a combined 19 years on the force and they are both expected to make full recoveries. Charlie . Thanks, jeff. The temporary ceasefire in syria appears to be holding largely but the United Nations says thousands of syrians may have died from starvation during the civil war. Elizabeth palmer is in holmes, where residents halt in fighting will bring a lasting peace. Elizabeth, good morning. Reporter good morning. Well, this partial ceasefire is holding. It has to be said pretty long odds. The position has officially complained to the United Nations of numerous violations by the syrian army and 26 russian air strikes. Are quiet, this patchwork truce offers relief and a glimmer of hope it might grow into a broader and more lasting arrangement with monitors and designated safe zones. Especially in neighborhoods like the old city here thoroughly destroyed by years of fighting but now back in government hands and quiet. Life is starting to return to the ruins. Calmer, repairs, even school. The partial truce is also a rare bit of good news to the thousands of homeless syrians who were forced out of their towns and villages by fighting and who know want nothing more than to return. The United Nations now wants to take advantage of this pause in the fighting to deliver aid to 150,000 people in various parts of syria. And they have also announced a new round of peace talks starting a week today. Elizabeth palmer, thank you. A cyberbreach targeting thought. Thank you. Hi everybody. Beautiful green there makes you feel like spring. Well the weather is too. We had 60 yesterday shooting for 59 today now that said, were looking at the possibility of some day showers so remember that. Little umbrella middle part of the day well see wet weather and blows out. Weve got a pretty nice march day to march into 52 and then wednesday will be a challenging day winds, rain, 54 and a lot cooler to wrap up the week. 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