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 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 erica hill. Im jeff rossen along with dylan dreyer and sheinelle jones. The first lady is looking at 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 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. Good morning. Even though the nevertrump is trending today for those not supporting the republican 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 trump. Marco rubio, your campaign is almost over, buddy. Showing a lot of desperation. Reporter the endorsement of the new york billionaire sending 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. I saw him back stage with makeup where he is taking it with a trowel and putting it on. He was soaking wet and he was 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 makeup around the mustache h mustache. Ort super pac supporting rubio. Rubio hoping his attitude is not 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 Chris Christie may be angling for a high level position in a trump administration. Maybe Vice President or attorney 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. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders trying to catch fire at 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 slapped the term super predators. Some saw as a slight. Where was concern for black boys that are lying dead in the street because somebody chose to call them super predators. 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 important to a democratic 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. Jeff and erica. We will watch it. Kristen, thank you. 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. That wasnt the big surprise. The surprise for some was that christie gives him an imprint of an establishment republican with 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. If the only way to beat him is to act like him . I dont know. We are three days away from super tuesday, it is too late to 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. You cannot make the argument this quickly. I dont think you can tear it down in three days. The question is where was this before . Pointed attacks. I agree with you. I dont know how this sticks 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 the case that im prohibitive frontrunner. It is difficult to stop me. 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. Especially iowa and New Hampshire. If sanders was going to just beat hillary nationally, he probably needed to win he iowa by 20 points. He about tied it. He needed to win New Hampshire 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. I know he has one surrogate about the remarks she made 20 years ago. The path seems to have narrowed lots to watch. Harold ford jr. And josh barro, thank you. Nbc is the place to be for super tuesday coverage. Join lester holt and Savannah Guthrie of super tuesday here at 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. Sarah hopkins. An exgirlfriend who is charged with knowingly giving weapons to 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. Cedric cedric. Reporter at the vigil last benjamin. She always had a smile. 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. The suspected gunman called the sheriffs officer to say he shot his own family. The officer raced to the home to 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 millions. We have Olivia Sterns with more. Reporter good morning, jeff. When oprah joined weight 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. In january, she put out a tweet. I love bread. Reporter again, a spike. But on friday, the stock 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 for free. Weight watchers does have their work cut out for them. Dont feel bad for oprah. 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. 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. We are looking at 55 in milwaukee. As we go into monday, we are still looking at scattered records to be broken. 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 nort a little cooler than average with a little bit of a breeze make you feel like 15. The morning its off to a cool start, afternoon temperatures a bit low average even for february standards. Upper 30s, but the wind will shift to the southwest. It is the southwesterly bed that will pump and thats your latest forecast. Dylan, thanks. Two michigan lawmakers forced in a sex scandal are facing felony charges. 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. We tagged along for the ride. Welcome back to miami, al. I wake up to you every morning. 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. We made the top ten. You did . Im not supposed to know your burger. 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. Who did the better job . 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. We will have a recap of all that. It will be hard to get into a dress after you have been 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 and it is still to come on today, dylan and sheinelle as intern interns. I have gone on twitter to look this up. That is the last time i cried. The fun we had together. The best. Im excited to see this piece. You were raving about it in good morning. It is 726. The sun is shining bright but it is chilly. Lets get over with a check on the forecast. A little bit cooler the where we were yesterday morning. Generally uplifting and low 20s at the moment. On the way to the upper 30s at the moment. The coolest of the two weekend days, mid50s for tomorrow. Enjoy a very beautiful weekend with a mild finish. The next chance of rain comes our way on wednesday. Rob, thank you so much. Here is a look at todays top stories. A single car crash killed two people on lynn right near blossom street. Police say a car left the road, slammed into a building, and finally stopped in the middle of the line. The two people in the card i the scene. Police close the parts of the roadway, and the crash is still under investigation this morning. A judges sentencing a campus team for life in prison for the murder and rape and robbery of his math teacher, 17yearold possibility of role in 40 years. He killed his teacher, calling retzer, and 2013 when he was just 14 years old. The victims family said they they were not happy saying you should never get a chance to be whats going on in here . Nothing who did this . She did liar