Than 3,000 families. A black hawk helicopter swooping in to save drivers as the mayor says this storm is worse than a hurricane. The woman behind sean penn and the drug lord taking on hollywood. Scared to be alone with the kingpin and told us about the moment she wanted to die. The canadian Prime Minister comes to washington charming babies and even sasha, malia and justin fever takes over the white house. Good morning, america. Happy friday. A little bromance between the president and canadian Prime Minister. A romance going on with america, i think. Yes, absolutely and Justin Trudeau and sasha and malia obama also attended and the president got choked up as he talked about his daughters and how much theyve grown up. Well have what he said. And so grown up. Really remarkable. Oh, no, it happens like that but we have a lot more coming up on that state dinner. First right to the big Republican Debate over night. The joe remaining four candidates taking each other on ahead of the critical primary votes tuesday. Trump racking up another big endorsement and jon karl starts us off, good morning to you, jon. Reporter good morning, amy. Last night may have been the last big chance to take donald trump down but for the most part they didnt even seem to try. Trump kicked off the debate by touting another big endorsement from one of his formal rivals. Ben carson is endorsing me tomorrow morning. Reporter his debate with his current rivals was remarkably tame. I cannot believe how civil its been up there. Reporter personal insults, interrupgs and vulgarities of the last debate disappeared. Donald trump tried to loan like the unifier this time. The republican establishment should embrace whats happening. Were having millions of extra people join. Democrats. Reporter one place trump was challenged his most recent controversial comments about muslims. Last night you told cnn, quote, islam hates us. Did you mean all 1. 6 billion muslims . I mean a lot of them. I mean a lot of them. Reporter marco rubio said talk like that is alienating americas muslim allies around the world. If you go to any National Cemetery especially arlington youll see crescent moons there. In large mosques all over the middle east you have people chanting death to the usa. Reporter some of the strongest criticism came over his praise for brutal authoritarian regimes including Vladimir Putin of the russia and the china government that mowed down protesters in tiananmen square. That doesnt mean i was endorsing it. Powerful government that put it down i think that the Chinese Government butchered those kids and when that guy stood in front, that young man stood in front of that tank we ought to build a statue of him over here when he faced down the Chinese Government. Reporter ted cruz ended with trump. What an incredible nation we have that the son of a bartender and the son of a mailman and dishwasher and a successful businessman can all stand on this stage competing and asking for your support. Reporter afterwards donald trump called the debate elegant. A reflection perhaps on the fact that it didnt appear to do anything to change his position as the overwhelming frontrunner for the republican nomination. George. Okay, jon, thanks. Lets take it to senator marco rubio who joins us from palm beach. Thanks for joining us. Youre getting a lot of good reviews last night but did you do anything to slow donald trump well, i dont know if its about tear donald trump down. I think its like any debate an opportunity to convince people that im the right choice to be president. There are still significant number of undecideds across the country in illinois and ohio and North Carolina and the other, missouri and other states in play but also in florida so i think its an opportunity to do that and an opportunity to get people supporting other candidates to give you a second look and also an opportunity to reinvigorate your own supporters. Thats what the debates are about. Thats what it was about. Felt good about the night we have, see if it pays dividends. Anything you wish you would have said . Well, look, i give credit to the moderators. It was a policy debate. It was very policy oriented and a lot of topics we could have talked about that we didnt get to, twohour debate. I give them credit. Substantive debate and aim good it was. Website marcorubio. Com. According to most of the polls ive seen over the last several days still down by double digits in florida. One report that youre not even advertising. How can you make up that ground in the final four days . Well, were not down by double digits. Ive always acknowledged that it was going to be a tough fight here in florida. But were making real progress. I love all the trends that are happening and i think a couple of things are happening. Number one is there is a significant number of voters that are now making up their minds and i think theyll head our way, i hope so anyway and feel strongly they will and a lot of kasich and cruz supporters that realize neither of them have any chance to win and florida and if they dont want donald trump to be our nominee voting for them in florida is a vote for donald trump. Even if you win florida on tuesday night, get every single one of the delegates by our calculations youll need to win 78 of the remaining delegates to get that. That cant be done. How do you answer Donald Trumps argument whoever has the most delegates going to that veng should be the nominee. The majority, almost twothirds of republicans do not nominee. If you have someone your frontrunner and nominee who has a significant percentage of the party rejects you wont win a general election. I think im the only candidate left in the race who can unite the Republican Party and also grow it and so i think that is the reason why ultimately were going to be the nominee. Its not going to be a traditional way. Will take a long time most people anticipated to get there. But its important and i feel really good about it, especially after tuesday when we win florida what it is going to mean for our campaign. Senator rubio, thanks for joining us this morning. Thanks, george. Five big states on the ballot tuesday. A lot at stake. One of the questions talked about last night in the debate, the physical violence seen at some of Donald Trumps rallies. Well, now one reporter is saying she was assaulted by Trumps Campaign manager. Abcs tom llamas has that story in palm beach for us. Good morning, tom. To you. In just a couple of hours donald trump will receive dr. Ben carsons endorsement here at his maralago resort this as the Trump Campaign is dealing with several incidents involving violence. Overnight, donald trump on the defense at the Republican Debate grilled on this Violent Exchange at his rally in North Carolina wednesday night. When they see protests in some cases, youre mentioning one case i vance seen, i heard about it which i dope like, when they see whats going on in this country, they have anger thats unbelievable. Reporter the ugly moment going viral. Get out of here, out. Reporter as trump is speaking a demonstrator walking out gets sucker punched. Police say the man who threw the elbow, 78yearold john mcgraw. Hes now charged with assault and battery. But before getting arrested, mcgraw said this to inside edition. The next time we see him, we might have to kill him. Reporter the protester who affiliate wtvd. It feels ugly around. Reporter this morning another video posted by a rally. The student attacked by another trump supporter. Hey, hey, hey. Reporter the Trump Campaign saying they discourage this kind of behavior and ensure the safety of any and all attendees but it follows weeks of trump suggesting to his supporters they get violent. Were not allowed to punch back anymore so if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of him, would you . Seriously. Id like to pump him in the face, ill tell you. Reporter and now trump also dealing with accusations his Campaign Manager, Corey Lewandowski assaulted michelefields a conservative reporter with breitbart. You dont grab a female reporter the way he grabbed me. Reporter fields showing us the bruise where trumps if you had a chance to talk to donald trump right now, what would you say to him . I would just ask him to just put himself in my shoes and imagine if i was his daughter. Reporter lewandowski flat out denying it happened but this is an audio recording of the incident. [ bleep ]. Yeah, he just threw you down. I cant believe he just did that. That was so hard. Reporter i asked trump about it after the debate. Your Campaign Manager has been accused of assault. Your campaign has flatly denied it. What do you say to that . I wasnt there. I dont know anything about it. I can say this, i was walking and we have tremendous secret service around and he was within that whole grid and the secret Service People said nothing happened. Reporter now, ben terrace who you heard in that is a reporter for the washington post. He says he saw the whole thing go down and says michele fields is telling the truth. George. Okay, tom, thanks. To matthew dowd in austin, texas, you saw in the debate last night that Donald Trumps his feet. But is this any kind of a danger, these incidents of violence to Donald Trumps campaign . Well, it seems like a danger to a lot of people at the rallies. I dont think its actually going to be a political danger in the course of this. I think donald trump said last night, listen, i discourage this. There is some accountability he and his campaign have for creating an environment around these things happen. I think Going Forward they have to do Everything Possible to stop this kind of thing from happening. Sometimes it does, george, as you know, these things happen but politically its not going to hurt donald trump right now going into tuesday. He praised that debate as an elegant debate, remarkably civil. His opponents mostly pulled their punches last night and i guess theyre responding to the criticism of last weeks debate. Was it an overcorrection . I was fascinated. We went from some combination of game of thrones and a comedy this week in the course of seven days we saw that i think what youll see out of this, donald trump in the category of the bar isnt very high, this was Donald Trumps best debate in the course of this. He stayed restrained. He stayed disciplined, calm in the course of this even when pushed by ted cruz he stayed this way. I think its good for donald trump going into tuesday and this, george, we dont know if there will be another debate after this. This may be the last debate. Good you got all of amys favorite shows in one answer. So true. Way to go, matthew dowd, all right. We move now to some deadly flooding down south. Six states under flood watches this morning. Both louisiana and mississippi. In states of emergency as more water is on the way. Abcs Steve Osunsami is in greenville, mississippi, with the very latest. Good morning, steve. Reporter good morning, to you, amy. The forecast calls for as much as another inch of rain and if you take a look all around me inch that families dont need. This is one of several neighbors underwater here and adding insult to injury are the storm drains which are clogged so all of this is going nowhere fast. Families across the south are waking up to a fifth day of historic floodwaters surrounding their homes. Since monday five people have died. Three of them drowned. Several states. This is new video thursday evening of what it looks like near shreveport, louisiana. Subdivisions still soaking in we got you. Reporter this morning the National Guard is sharing these pictures of their excellent work this week. Theyve helped rescue more than 3,500 families at one point using black hawk helicopters to flood. In mississippi the governor declared a state of emergency. Here is a driver that should have turned around and didnt and when she finally woke up to the floodwaters she ended up first. In greenville he said this is worse than a hurricane. Last time we had water this high was in 2008 when gustav hit us. Reporter the Silver Lining is that the water here was a foot higher last night. But many of these homes like this one behind me are built on wooden foundations and theyre ruined. Amy. Its just a horrible situation. Steve osunsami, thank you. Rob is tracking the storm. Not good news . More rain coming and historic event in monroe, louisiana, over 20 inches in 48 hours, 1 in 1,000year event. Hattiesburg and north of greenville 1 to 2 feet of greenville. This is a mayan express from the el nino waters filtering into this area of the gulf of mexico and in through the midsouth. More flash flood watches and warnings that extend through the middle of next week. How much more do we expect ask more rainfall today. 2 to 4 inches in jackson, mississippi. Thank you, rob. We move on to the new headline about el chapo and the actions that brought himtogether with sean penn. Kate dell castillo is here to speak out. Shes speaking out about sean penn too. He never told her about writing an article until they were already in front of el chapo telling the new yorker she thought they were making a movie. Overnight kate del castillo, the mexican star who facilitated that meeting between sean penn aen nd Joaquin El Chapo guzman talking about how she and penn traveled deep into the jungle to meet him. I want to make clear that this interview reporter according to the weeds actress and guzman reached out because he wanted to do a big movie and wanted moo he to star in it. I immediately said yes, the correspondence between the two continuing for months and sending a handwritten letter to dest l castillo from prison saying i hope to say hello to you in person someday. Hopefully soon. Reporter less than a year later guzman got his wish and del castillo traveling with penn and two others to meet with him while on the run from mexican authorities. According to the article the drug lord doted on the actress even escorting her to her bedroom at the end of the night. Del castillo saying she believes el chapo might assault her when they were alone. Instead he said thanks for giving me one of the best days of my life and left. In january when the druglord was captured. Following actors and producers and when del castillo heard that she wanted to die. He said it was one of the best days of his life. How about that. The celebration of Nancy Reagans life. So many lining up to honor the former first lady who will be laid to rest in just a few hours. Former president george w. Bush and first ladies including Michelle Obama will be among the friends and Family Gathering at the Ronald Reagan president ial library and abcs matt gutman is in simi valley, california, with matt. Reporter good morning, lara. And to celebrate her life nearly 10,000 people filed by her the reagan library. A thousand expected to be in attendance, a former president , first lady, celebrities, even diane sawyer will be here to read from the bible and mr. T. Will be on hand. Who could for get those iconic planting that kiss on his forehead. Saluted by firefighters and saluting the woman who helped create Ronald Reagans legacy and this incredible devotion and love they had for each other. Former canadian Prime MinisterBrian Mulroney will be here reading from Ronald Reagans love letters to nancy reagan. In fact, the romance ended till the very end. One of Nancy Reagans last dying wishes, an important one for her, she be buried so physically close to ronnie they would be as that is beautiful. Thank you so much, matt. Abcs live coverage of the funeral beginning at 2 p. M. Eastern. A lovely farewell it should be. To rob and serious heat. Past couple of days, recordbreaking, do some sunning and bikers and taxi drivers out, as well. Cooler the next few days but looks like a nice weekend. 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