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Onetime mentor jeb bush out of the race. Meanwhile, on the democratic side, Hillary Clintons huge lead over Bernie Sanders in nevada, gone. That race too close to call. I have a feeling, folks, were going to make history tomorrow. Were going to win in nevada. As bill clinton comes to his wifes defense. Hillarys opponent talked about how bad i have been. Were live with both races. And direct hit. A massive cyclone hitting the island of fiji today. The top winds hitting over 177 miles per hour. And girls with goals the u. S. Womens National Soccer team easily beating trinidad in that means they have punched their ticket for rio. Today, saturday, february 20th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from sdio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im craig melvin. And im Sheinelle Jones alongside dylan dreyer. Erica has the day off. I spent the week crossing the state. We did columbia and lexington and low country in charleston. Few things clear. Few undecided votes left there. And people are sick of the campaign calls. Vegas. You cannot watch tv. I was gambling. You were watching television. I did tell her. You can chop it with a knife. You can feel it. Lets get to the top story. President in the president ial primary. Polls in South Carolina are now open. Donald trump is expected to win easily there, but for the rest, theres a heated battle to finish in the top three. For democrats, it is nevada. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders are virtually in a dead heat there. That state caucuses later today. We have full coverage on both sides this morning, including an interview in the next hour with senator marco rubio. Lets start this morning with nbcs Hallie Jackson covering the race in South Carolina. Hallie, good morning. Reporter hey, craig. Good morning. We are heading into the final push for the first in the south primary where nearly every candidate has something to prove. This morning on this voting day, it is donald trump raising eyebrows with controversial comments. This morning as republicans blanket the state, the state of play looks like this. Donald trump on top, but raising eyebrows at a South Carolina rally last night. About general John Pershing to kill a century ago. I dipped 50 bullets in pigs blood and they shot 49 of those people. The 50th person, he said you go back to your people and you tell them what happened. Reporter according to the rumor tracking web site snopes. Com, there is no evidence it ever happened. Trumps comments coming the same day over the remarks on iraq. I was against it. Reporter after highlighting his position on the iraq war, new interviews suggest something different. With howard stern before the war. Are you for invading iraq . I guess so. Reporter fox news confirming this interview took place after the start of the iraq war. Looks like a tremendous success from a military standpoint standpoint. Reporter the Trump Campaign quote, mr. Trump did not say he supported the war. He commented on the execution of the invasion from a military standpoint one day after it began. Now with his comments on ted cruz. Cruz hitting back. Easy to say lets make America Great again. You can even print that on a baseball cap. Reporter a super pac supporting cruz with robo calls about the confederate flag. Cruz campaigning with Phil Robertson. Imagine Phil Robertson as ambassador of the united nations. Reporter marco rubio joined by South Carolina governor nicki Halley Halley il ley haley. His Campaign Warning to watch for quote dirty tricks from cruz today. The two in a ferocious fight for second. His mother by his side. 90 years old. Still going strong. Reporter in bush country, he is hoping South Carolina wont be his last stand. John kasich isnt even in South Carolina today. He is in new england looking ahead to the primaries there. Ben carson hoping he can surprise folks in this state. It is still donald trump in the headlines and in the editorial pages this weekend. The wall street journal as trump to release the tax returns before super tuesday on march 1st. Thank you. And to the democrats in the virtual dead heat with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. State. What once looked to be an easy fight. We have Nbcs Kristen Welker with more. Reporter sheinelle, good morning. Hillary clinton once had a straight flush here. Now the vermont senator will have a winning hand. These caucuses will have an effect for the rest of the country. It comes down to turn out. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders making closing arguments in nevada friday night. I have a feelings, folks, were going to make history. Tomorrow were going to win here in nevada. We have a lot of work to do my friends. I think it is a privilege to do this work, but we have to do it together. Reporter with the race deadlocked, they spent the final few days chris crossing the state. Africanamericans. All critical to winning here. Guess what . Theres a caucus in nevada. So much at stake in the election. One of the more consequential decisions. Reporter and the campaign is Hillary Clinton accusing sanders of not being a democrat. She loved the president. He loves her and all that stuff. We know what that is all about. That is trying to win support with the africanamerican community. Reporter former president bill clinton getting into the game after sanders criticized his aspects of his presidency. That campaign has been remarkably fact free. Reporter nevada was supposed to be an after thought for clinton. The double digit lead evaporated to 1 . And jeff rahlston telling andrea mitchell. It could go either way. That is why you see all this activity on the last day. Reporter clinton picked up endorsement from Congress Member james clyburne. If clinton loses here, it would be a devastating loss coming on the heels of new hampshire. If sanders loses, it raises question about his ability to raise the electorate. Back to you. Thank you. And elise jordan and harold ford are here now nbc contributor contributors. Thanks for being with us. Lets start with donald trump in South Carolina. Hallie mentioned he described the American General more than a century ago shooting a group of muslims. This is what he said. He took 50 bullets and he dipped them in pigs blood and he had his men load his rifles and he lined up the 50 people and they shot 49 of those people go back to your people and you tell them what happened. And for 25 years there wasnt a problem. Again, donald trump talking about this American General. Over in the philippines. Donald trump hurling insults on the trail. Now repeating online fables. This is consistent with his campaign. Celebrating on 9 11 were muslims. No one can point to facts to back this up. The question is how does he fare today . You want rubio to do well. You want kasich to do well. Someone to take cruz and trump on. What does it look like . It has to be a close third. Not a blowout third. If cruz and trump split 70 of that is a problem for the establishment lane. Rubio is surging with haley. And what happens to Trumps Campaign if he comes in second or third . Considering he is all about winning . I think it is a really terrible outcome for trump if that happens. Who knows . South carolina polls unreliable. They are done with landlines and phones and half of the people in South Carolina are wireless households. Going forward, we have to see if cruz is who i actually am concerned with. If he doesnt do well in South Carolina, not necessarily number one, but strong second, he will have trouble in the s. E. C. States. The southern states. Lets talk about jeb bush for a second. We saw jeb bush trot out his brother in the low country. He pulled out all the stops in South Carolina where his father and brother won. Happens . He will have to think about getting out. And he needs to persuade his donors he should have a shot in the next set of states. Otherwise, it is hard to imagine governor bush can convince his donors. South carolina is a great state for the bush family. He brought in his mom and brother. He was hoping he would get the haley endorsement. That increases the pressure. He said he was disappointed by it. He spent almost 100 million so far. He still has a lot of money left in that pac. He could sustain it longer. The question is will the establishment not wanting him to get out and open up a lane for someone else. And lets talk about the democrats. Nevada was considered the clinton, if you will. Heat. We were talking behind the scenes this morning. You talk about sports analogies and momentum. How powerful that can be. Lets bring in Bernie Sanders here. He gets this and if this happens, does he have the momentum to take this through . It is horrible for hillary if bernie wins nevada. That is panic for the clinton campaign. Longer. I think hillary ultimately will prevail there, but it will be close. Not a total win for hillary. Elise and harold, thank you. I need that barbers name in South Carolina. I will send it to you, my friend. Thank you, both. Family and friends say goodbye to the Late Supreme Court justice antonin scalia. His funeral will be held in a few hours after his service to this country was honored on friday. Nbcs Pete Williams is in washington with more. Pete, good morning. Justice scalias fine uneral at the basilica of the National Shrine of the immaculate conception. The casket was carried past the former law clerks and into the great hall of the Supreme Court. More than 4,000 people filed past to say their final goodbyes after waiting in long lines that wrapped around the building. So long, the court had to say open extra time. President obama and mrs. Obama passed by honoring the casket. And a prayer was said at the court friday morning for members of the family and remaining eight justices. He will celebrate the mass at the funeral and burial which is a private ceremony. The white house says president obama has been reaching out directly to Republican Leaders telling them he intends to move ahead with the nomination. The Senate Democratic leader at the funeral today, all eight of the Supreme Court justices will attend along with two retired justices. Sutter. Thank you, pete. The island nation of fiji cyclone. Wind speeds are near 180 miles an hour with gusts of nearly 220. That is equal to a category five hurricane. The capital city is reporting the power is out. The government declared a state of emergency for the next 30 days as its 900,000 residents are facing quote an ordeal of the most grave kind. And affluenza teen ethan after the probation violation. He fled to mexico which is a violation of probation after he killed four people in a drunk driving crash four years ago. And joseph dylan french is described as armed and dangerous. This security video captures the 16yearold hitting the female officer over the head. He then grabbed her gun and tried to shoot her. She says that gun failed to fire. French has been in juvenile custody before. Lets talk about the weather now. Dylan is here with the check of the forecast. Can we talk about what happened with that wind in chicago . Yes. Its the windy city, but this took it to another level. 72mileanhour winds. Look at this woman. The poor thing cant stand in winds like that. Southwest douglas park with a category one hurricane has winds up to 74 miles per hour. You see glass breaking on the buildings. Trees toppled. Power was out in several areas. It was a windy day with the Wind Warnings in effect. Ease a bit. Look at the jet stream. This is more like what you see in april or may. Way up to the north. Allowing temperatures to warm up significantly. Almost the entire country will today. In the areas in the plains and midwest, 20 to 30 degrees above average. Dallas should hit 80 today. Springfield, 78. Nashville, 67. That is 13 degrees above average. This spreads eastward. Washington, d. C. , 63 degrees today. We are close to 60 in new york city later this afternoon. We stay in the 50s through the midwest as we go through the new york drops back to the 40 and thats your latest forecast. Dylan, thank you. Now to the feud with apple and the federal government. The feds say the tech company is refusing the request because the company is worried about its bottom line. Nbcs Steve Paterson has more. Reporter the balance with security and privacy is at the core of the dispute with apple and the federal government. Opportunity to respond, federal prosecutors argued a judge should force the tech giant to create a program to crack Syed Rizwan Farooks iphone. Senior executives are calling the order a dangerous precedent. Likening any software to a nuclear bomb that in the wrong hands could threaten the privacy of millions. It is just one phone now, but if you build that pathway, others will come looking for it and you cannot control those people and when they use it for good purposes. Reporter but prosecutors call that an overstatement. Apple could maintain custody of the software and does not require a back door or hack its users. Saying the refusal is concerned for its Business Model and marketing strategy. Experts say the brand hinges on privacy and the Company Needs to fight the order to protect profits. Donald trump calls for a boycott. Let apple open up the phones so we find out where these threats are coming from. I said boycott apple until they do it. Boycott them. Who cares . Reporter the case already under way in the court of public opinion. For today, steve patterson, nbc news, los angeles. Virgin has rolled out its new spacecraft with Sir Richard Branson leading the way. Spacecraft unity was unveiled. The craft is designed to take space. The first spacecraft broke apart during a test flight in 2014. Branson hopes the new test flights can begin in a few months. The u. S. Womens soccer team the team clinched a spot last night at qualifying tournament. They won 50. They play for the tournament championship tomorrow. Both teams know they are headed to the summer games. I dont think anyone ever seriously doubted team usa. A look back at the weeks biggest stories and the 18yearold arrested and accused of pretending to be a doctor. Plus, why some in miami are urging Police Officers to boycott beyonces upcoming concert. Want a different way to cleanse . Try new micellar water from garnier. The micelles attract dirt like a magnet. To 1. Remove makeup 2. Cleanse and 3. Refresh. No harsh rubbing, no rinsing. New micellar water from garnier skinactive. Talking about being in South Carolina during the primaries. The weather is fantastic. It will stay fantastic. 60s and partly cloudy skies. No excuses. When the weather is a mess, it matters. Keeps folks at home. Still to come here on saturday morning on today, catching you up on the medical headlines from the latest news about zika virus to americas growing problem with it. Dr. Natalies in the house. What you need to cure a. It happened around 11 last night. In the 41hundred block of reading road. Near police headquarters. Police say a 39 year old man driving a cadillac was going south and crossed the centerline. Hitting a tow truck. The driver of the cadillac is at Uc Medical Center in critical condition. The driver of the tow truck was not hurt. Police say speed and impairment appear to be factors in the crash. The corner has now identified the body of a man found dead in west chester. Police say 28yearold eric pefley. Was last seen alive february 5th. He was on the departments missing persons list. Thursday night. Teenagers walking the trail at keehner park. Found pefleys body. Police say. The trail where pefleys body was discovered. Leads up to the susan springs culdesac. They havent said. How he died. Or if foul play is suspected. Anyone with information on pefleys death. Is asked to call the west or you get eliminated now lets get in formation okay a little controversy over beyonces song formation. Why some Police Officers are calling for a boycott. We are back on this saturday morning, february 20th, 2016. Look at these folks. A great crowd on rockefeller plaza. We will head outside and say hi to them in a little bit. At least 20 degrees warmer than last weekend. I would say 60. It was 1 last weekend. It may as well be 90. Here is what is making headlines on this saturday morning. A busy day for republicans and democrats. Making their final pushes on the primary and caucus day. Republicans heading to the polls primary there. Coming up in the next half hour, we will talk live to senator marco rubio about how important todays primary is for him. Jared fogle is asking a federal Appeals Court for a shorter sentence. He was sentenced to 15 years for possessing child porn and paying for sex with underage girls. The u. S. Attorneys office has not commented. And talk about the tired feet. Hundreds of people taking part in ten states annual danceathon. They started moving and groving yesterday. The day wont stop for 46 hours. The 700 dancers cannot sleep, all for a good cause. The money raised benefits pediatric cancer at the hershys childrens hospital. Lets start with the recap of the headlines. From the big talk on the campaign trail and the latest on other stories. Attention. The sound youre hearing is washington, d. C. Nbcs latest National Poll showing theres a new frontrunner for the president ial nomination. This as trump spins off his latest critics. A person who builds walls and not bridges is not christian. Sanders and clinton are in a dead heat in nevada. And clinton gets booed for he doesnt even know what the last two democratic president s did. And you know what . Well, its true. Several down. Two months after the terror attack that left 14 dead in san bernardino, the iphone used by one of the killers has pitted tech giant apple against the fbi. With investigators unable to unlock the popular 5 c like this one, the federal judge ordered apple to create new software to unlock the iphone. And tim cook says if it creates the software and it fell in the wrong hands, it could unlock any iphone. And a tornado touching down near the rural town of century, florida. To blankets of snow in the east. The storm dumped snow and lots of it. Fueled by el nio as part of the massive system spanning 1,600 and in florida, an 18yearold out on bail after he was arrested and accused of pretending to be a doctor. M. D. Board exam. Im not trying to be one. No. He does insist he has listed valid credentials. I went into steps to take to become where i am now. An investigation launched in january after a patient said he stole checks from her and forging them for cash. The teenager would not comment on the accusations in detail. The 58th annual Grammy Awards celebrated the musics biggest stars. Kendrick lamar taking home best rap album and getting a standing o that paid tribute to the black lives matter movement. But a highly anticipated appearance by adele was marred by audio glitches. I believe my heart had i was embarrassed to wake up saying we still love you. I said i didnt ask you if you still love me. The german short hair. The new top dog. A german short haired pointer from california best in show. The 3yearold beat out 2,700 other dogs. Pretty dog. You were at the grammys. I was on the red carpet before watching every alist star walk by me. Gaga did not . She did. She was dressed in her homage to david bowie. To be ten feet from her was incredible. You see why sees a star. You see a person and they have that it factor. She oozed. That adele performance. I watched it. She said the microphone fell on the piano strings. And out of tune. Her voice. Im sensitive to that. Shes adele. And she still did an amazing job. Absolutely. We still love her. Although she doesnt care. Lets get another check of the forecast. Okay. Couple of scattered showers and storms possible through the ohio river valley. Thats it. You see the specs of green . The scattered showers. We will see isolated and stronger storms later today. Brief heavy downpour and lightning. Not a lot of severe weather. A marginal risk as this cold front moves to the east. This will Cool Temperatures down. Ahead of it, the very gusty winds like what we saw in chicago yesterday. Elsewhere, we are looking at temperatures to be about 15 to 30 degrees above average. 50s and 60s up the east coast. 70s and 80s through the plains. Average pretty much and thats your latest forecast. Dylan, thank you. Just ahead, have you ever noticed you and your spouse always seem to get sick when your kid does . There may be a scientific reason. And why ronda rousey is apologizing for with the pain and swelling of my moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. Ordinary objects often seemed. Intimidating. Meant enduring a lot of pain. If ra is changing your view of everyday things orencia may help. Orencia works differently by targeting a source of ra early in the inflammation process. For many, orencia provides longterm relief of ra symptoms. Its helped new ra patients and those not helped enough by other treatments. Do not take orencia with another biologic medicine for ra due to an increased risk of serious infection. Serious side effects can occur including fatal infections. Cases of lymphoma and lung cancer have been reported. Tell your doctor if youre prone to or have any infection like an open sore, the flu, or a history of copd, a chronic lung disease. Orencia may worsen your copd. 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A study in the journal found that having a kid radically rewires the immune system of both parents by 50 because they germs and bugs. I believe that. I just had a thought. For the first time last night, i didnt eat off my little guy. He is eating rice krispy treats. I said let me have a bite. I thought you are dirty. Im going to pass. Thats gross. Is it your rewiring or is it catching a cold . Im with you. With the 12 kids that you have in your house. Always a runny nose. Run runny noses are part of life. Theres a new twist on one stop shopping. Tuna . Tattoos anyone . It could happen thanks to whole foods. That company launching a smaller chain of stores called 365. The stores will be aimed at whole foods adding a variety of vendors to set up shop in the stores. Some of the rumored stores, fashion retailers and tattoo parlors. In a statement, whole foods is happy about the buzz, but we have not officially announced any friends of 365 partners. We anticipate making these announcements very soon. It sounds like a high end walmart. And scientists in london may have sound a simple cure for throbbing headaches. A pencil. Grab one. It is as easy as it sounds. They found holding a pencil between your teeth, go ahead, relaxes muscles in the jaw and that eases tension. You are supposed to bite down on it. I am. Does it help you relax . Did you used to bite down on pencils as a kid . I did. You know what helps a headache . A little tylenol. And ronda rousey apologize ing for a photo. Popstart. Ill channel sheinelle this morning. Thats the dance. You got that. A legal battle that rocked the music industry. The singer keisha left the courthouse after a judge ruled against her request to be released from the contract with sony. The deal specify ies she work alongside dr. Luke. In 2014, keisha filed the lawsuit against the producer whose name is lucas gobwald for sexually assaulting her and drugging her. The lawsuit is called defamatory. Weird situation for her there. The miami fop is getting in formation. Members of the miami chapter of the National Police union voted to boycott the april 26th show at the marlins stadium where she is slated to kickoff her tour. The reason is she used this years super bowl to divide americans with her black panthers and antipolice message. The miami move comes after praise and protest of the singer for the performance where her dancers wore black berets and belted ammunition. And ronda rousey early they are week post the this picture promoting her appearance on the tonight show. Fans in the noticed the picture was retouched to make her arm slimmer. Ronda is known for positive body image. Apologizing to fans and showing the original and retouched ronda said this goes against everything i believe. Im proud of ever inch of my body. I will assure you it will never happen again. I spent time with her last year for a story. That was one of the things she talked mostly about. 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No, id rather go about any normal day. I would have to suck it up. Work . Rather than miss a year of life . You would rather miss a year . A lot in a year. You just going to have to see me. You come to work naked. Dont do that dance. Would you rather be trapped in an elevator with a bunch of wet dogs or trapped in a group of people with horrible breath . Wet dogs. Would you rather live without music or live without tv . Dont forget what you do. Oh, id rather live without music. Right answer. Otherwise id have no job. Would you rather be forced to say everything on your mind or never speak again . I think you would say. Please dont. Still to come, why Americans Still are not getting enough sleep on a daily basis. Theyre naked. And what you can do to help fix that. Hello, world still to come on today, the latest on South Carolina and nevada on the big voting day and we will talk to marco rubio. And plus, targeting big rigs for millions of dollars in stolen goods. 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Car enthusiasts are in good spirits this weekend. News fives Richard Chiles explains the winds have weekend, but the warmth has lingered. The winds have weekend, but the warmth has lingered. Temperatures are start mild this morning, and highs today will peak back in the mid 60s. Today. Tonight with most of the night spent in the 50s with lows around 49. A fast moving storm center and cool front will bring some rain early sunday before some sunshine returns during the afternoon, more in our northern counties. Sunday will not be a wash out and it will remain mild with highs around 55. Cooler air will begin returning sunday night as lows fall to around freezing. Next week will start cooler and get colder. Highs will begin the week in the 40s and fall to the mid 30s for highs by the end of the week. Nights will also be much colder with lows in the 20s, all except tuesday night. Good morning. Super saturday. All eyes on nevada and South Carolina today with two high stakes president ial contests in those states. Polls. Democrats preparing to caucus in nevada later today. So much at stake in nevada. While in South Carolina, its an allout push to get people to the polls. Well talk live to republican candidate senator marco rubio. Direct hit. Category five hurricane makes landfall on fiji. The monster storm packing winds of more than 175 miles per hour. Disaster. It will be hours before the full scope of the damage can be seen. And girls with goals. A big win for team usa handily beating Trinidad And Tobago 50 tournament. That means the ladies are headed today, saturday, february 20th, 2016. All you have to go and make me like you trip from maryland. Its my birthday. Happy birthday. Running the central park birthday. Is it a he or a she . Its a girl its my first time in new york and were from rhode welcome back to today on saturday morning. A growing crowd on the plaza. It feels like april. We will get out there in a bit. Right now, the polls are open in South Carolina. That state, of course, near perfect in picking the eventual gop nominee. No doubt about it. A big day for both South Carolina with the republican primary and nevada for the democratic caucuses. We have you covered on both sides. In a moment, we will speak with candidate senator marco rubio. First with Hallie Jackson with good morning. Good morning. 40 people have come through here in the last hour as candidates get ready for the push in the first in the south primary. Donald trump looking to dominate. He is raising eyebrows with controversial comments. Night about general John Pershing shooting muslims with bullets coated in pigs blood. He said he took 50 bullets and he dipped them in pigs blood and they shot 49 of those people and the 50th person he said you go back to your people and you tell them what happened. And for 25 years, there wasnt a problem. Trump trying to make a point about military toughness. Rumor tracking web site snopes. Com found no evidence to support the story happened. Trump amping up attacks after the position on israel. Cruz trying to fight off marco rubio for the second place position. Rubios Campaign Warning its supporters of potential dirty tricks from cruz today. And then guys, you have jeb bush hoping South Carolina will not ahead to a very busy day voting day in South Carolina. Sheinelle. Hallie, thank you. Senator marco rubio is in South Carolina this morning. He joins us live for an exclusive today show interview. Good morning, sir. Good morning. As we just heard, donald trump yesterday, last night down in South Carolina making the controversial comments about the general rounding up muslims and shooting them in pigs blood. What do we make the of sentiment . It is bizarre. Im sure people were offended. I hope people were offended by that. Thats not what the United States is about. It is doubtful that ever happened. I never heard that story before. So, look, were in a very weird year here. People are saying whatever they want in Politics Today and there we will focus on our message. We will have a debate over this issue in the next few days. The presidency is a serious job. Especially now more than ever. I hope we can focus on the serious aspect of it and not the circus aspect. With that said, evangelicals are a large voting block in South Carolina. Yet, donald trump is leading in the polls. What is your thought on why trump is leading the evangelicals and what is your message to them . First of all, lets see what happens today. Thats the poll that counts. Who cares what somebody said years ago. You ask about evangelical voters. Evangelical voters care about the freedom and live out the teachings of our faith. They want our culture to reflect the jeo culture values. They care about the national security. They also work. They have Young Children and young adults in their family. Going to college and health care and Everything Else that matters. Our message is the same for everyone. We will return to the principles of limited government and Free Enterprise and Strong National defense defense. If we do that, america has a chance to be better than it has ever been. If we dont, we are the First Americans to leave our kids worse off than ourselves. Senator, jeb bush, you know his brother campaigned for him in the low country. He had his mother campaigning for him as well. He finished sixth in iowa. He lost endorsement of Governor Haley. How is it that you beat jeb bush and knock him out of the race for good . We dont deal with that. Thats not the way we deal with it. The bush family and him. Im not in this race to prevent him from winning. Im in this race because i want to be president of the United States. You can go on my web site marcorubio. Com. You can see why im running. I wish him the best. I still have tremendous personal respect and affection for him and his family. He is a great governor of florida and great man. We will see how it turns out today. Senator, a lot of folks talking about the endorsement you picked up from Governor Haley and tim scott as well. You have a lot of republicans backing you. If you dont finish in the top two in the palmetto state, is that considered a loss for your campaign . No, i think we need to field. There are six people running full scale campaigns here. That is usually not the case. By the time you get to South Carolina, four years ago, mitt romney and newt gingrich. You have five fulltime campaigns and john kasich has been in and out of the state and he was second in new hampshire. This is a very different election from any other year. We saw that after new hampshire. We will see a bit after South Carolina. I think once you get the race down to two or three people, you will have a much clearer more traditional campaign. Until then, states like this will be important. For a lot of people, it is about whether you can go on. We are leaving here tonight and nevada tomorrow. Come. Senator marco rubio in columbia, South Carolina. Senator, thank you for your good luck. Thank you. Lets turn to the democrats Hillary Clinton and bernie neck. The stakes are so high. We have Kristen Welker with reporter good morning, sheinelle. Secretary clinton and senator sanders spending millions courting africanamerican voters and latinos. Hillary clinton lead has evaporated. Clinton topping sanders by 48 to 47 . Friday night, both candidates made their closing arguments. 10, 20, 30 years from now, people will look back on what happened in nevada and say this was the beginning of the political revolution. So lets go caucus tomorrow. Lets get on the path. Lets win this election. Lets make sure our country stays on the path of progress and into the future. Reporter a win here in the state would be critical for clinton to regain momentum from for a win for sanders, could prove he is competitive in larger diverse states. Sheinelle and craig. Kristen, thank you. A state of emergency declared on the island nation of fiji as cyclone winston makes landfall. The storm is packing 200mileanhour gusts and high waves with the power of the cat five hurricane. Cell phone videos shows houses be battered. A judge refused to delay the deposition of bill cosbys wife. The deposition is part of the Defamation Case against bill cosby by seven women who claimed he defamed them. A fraternity at Buffalo State College suspended over a possible hazing death there. The Police Investigating thing death of the 21yearold student to determine if something he drank during a hazing ritual was because of the death, the alpha fi fraternity has been suspend by the school. Lets get a check of the weather with dylan. Maybe southern florida with below average temperature. The north. The next storm system developing through the midwest as temperatures in the 70s. We are looking in the northeast for highs in the 50s and 60s. We will see the next storm system drag in the warmer air. It will be rain up and down the east coast. Here it is getting together back through the rockies into monday. We will start to see it produce rain and severe storms along the gulf coast. Heavy rain down the east coast the winds have weekend, but the warmth has lingered. Temperatures are start mild this morning, and highs today will peak back in the mid 60s. Partly cloudy skies are expected today. It will remain quite pleasant tonight with most of the night spent in the 50s with lows around 49. A fast moving storm center and cool front will bring some rain early sunday before some sunshine returns during the afternoon, more in our northern counties. Sunday will not be a wash out and it will remain mild with highs around 55. Cooler air will begin returning sunday night as lows fall to around freezing. Highs will begin the week in the 40s and fall to the mid 30s for highs by the end of the week. Nights will also be much colder with lows in the 20s, all except tuesday night. Winter will return next week. And thats your latest forecast. Dylan, thank you. Now to a story of highway robbery. Some new video shows thieves targeting the big trucks. It turns out there are safety concerns with what they are stealing inside because it would wind up in your medicine cabinet or table. Scott freedman from kxas in dallas has more. Scott, good morning. Reporter craig, good morning. Just one stole especially trailer full of cargo to net thieves 1 million for more. We have exclusive video showing the scope of the crimes and how it is costing us money and why police are struggling to keep up. Along the americas highways. Dollar targets for a new breed black market industry. They are running a business. Stuff. Reporter a business so big the bad guys now have warehouses that look like walmart. All the stuff you want for christmas is what they want. Reporter police in grand prairie, texas discovered the shipping center run by a suspected cargo theft ring. Palates of soft drinks and other popular products taking by an organized group accused of stealing by truck. Others break into trailers. In the video from travelers insurance, thieves use a bolt cutter and crack open the lock and go shopping in search of items they can sell. These folks are smart. Reporter investigator Phillip Harris has seen it all. A truckload of stolen cowboy stolen diet supplements. The most popular are beverages and food. Investigators intercepted stolen beef bound for a black market. Those who steal it, do they care about the date it expires . No. Reporter experts say stolen food and drugs are often sold online and at Mom Pop Stores putting unsuspecting customers at risk. Companies that lose cargo pass on the cost charging consumers higher prices. The worst hot spots are los angeles, dallas, chicago, miami. Despite the big losses across the country. Most states do not have a statewide Cargo Theft Task force. Many local Police Departments dont have investigators with special training to work cargo gas cases. There is low risk that you coming up, how this chicken dish could help you live longer. After these messages. Vo across america, people are taking charge of their type 2 diabetes with noninsulin victoza. For a while, i took a pill to lower my blood sugar. R so i asked my doctor about victoza. R he said victoza works differently than pills. And comes in a pen. P victoza is proven to lower blood sugar and a1c. T its taken once a day, any time. Victoza is not for weight loss, but it may help you lose some weight. Victoza works with your body to lower blood sugar in 3 ways in the stomach, the liver, and the pancreas. 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The pursuit began in oxford. When officers tried to stop the driver. Who was wanted for theft. But they say. He kept going. Even driving through Franklin County indiana. Through several farm Fields Police say. They were able to catch up with 30 year old cody webb. After boxing him in. In union county ohio. The chase lasted nearly an hour. Webb. The winds have weekend, but the warmth has lingered. Temperatures are start mild this morning, and highs today will peak back in the mid 60s. Partly cloudy skies are expected today. It will remain quite pleasant tonight with most of the night spent in the 50s with lows around 49. A fast moving storm center and cool front will bring some rain early sunday before some sunshine returns during the afternoon, more in our northern counties. Sunday will not be a wash out and it will remain mild with highs around 55. Cooler air will begin returning sunday night as lows fall to around freezing. Next week will start cooler and get colder. Highs will begin the week in the 40s and fall to the mid 30s for highs by the end of the week. Nights will also be much colder with lows in the 20s, all except tuesday night. We are back on this saturday morning, february 20th, 2016. A lovely crowd out here today. A little warm. A lot warmer. A lot warmer. We are last weekend in front of the fire pit. My face was numb. You couldnt feel your face. This is good. This is a good crowd. Birthdays. A triplet birthday. I went over and said where is the third triplet. Happy birthday nonetheless. Married for 45 years. Nice. Right here. Happy sweet 16. Everybody goes awe. We all remember the good old days. So much to get to this this half hour. Still to come, how Pope Franciss comments is not the first time he or other folks have taken on politicians. We will lighten up and help you get over winters last hump. Mario armstrong will help you. And cooking up a chicken dish with key ingredient n greed gredients to help you live longer. Dylan has the forecast. It will be warmer across the country. We are looking at a nice day for the primary down in South Carolina. Partly cloudy, temperatures 60s and 70s. No excuses. Heading out to nevada, temperatures are nice out that way. 50s and 40s in some of the northern parts of the state. There is no rain to mess up the primaries or caucuses. We have scattered showers and thunderstorms. Especially this afternoon and overnight through st. Louis and Southern Illinois and western kentucky and tennessee. Eastern half of the country, temperatures above average. 50s and 60s in the plains. Scattered storms approaching the gulf coast the winds have weekend, but the warmth has lingered. Temperatures are start mild this morning, and highs today will peak back in the mid 60s. Partly cloudy skies are expected today. It will remain quite pleasant tonight with most of the night spent in the 50s with lows around 49. A fast moving storm center and cool front will bring some rain early sunday before some sunshine returns during the afternoon, more in our northern counties. Sunday will not be a wash out and it will remain mild with highs around 55. Cooler air will begin returning sunday night as lows fall to around freezing. Next week will start cooler and get colder. Highs will begin the week in the 40s and fall to the mid 30s for highs by the end of theeek we always see such lovely signs on the plaza. What happened this morning . It is a little chilly with coffee. Florida . Yes. They are visiting us. I guess by florida standards, it is chilly. You picked a good morning. You should have been here last weekend. That was cold. Guys. Thank you. I just found out twitter is exploding. Everybody wants to know where you got your leather hat. Really . Yeah. You dont believe me . Im sure my wife bought it. Its sharp as they say. Thank you. That means a lot. Thank you. A lot of people are talking about pope francis and he is back at the vatican after the week long visit to mexico. While there, he had blunt comments about donald trump. He is not the first pope to wade into political waters. Nbcs Anne Thompson is at vatican city. Reporter good morning, sheinelle. The vatican is trying to tamp down the furor over the popes comments. Popes words were not a personal attack. He did not mention trump by name. Now like popes before him, he is in the middle of the political debate. Pope francis paid at the border as a pastor. But the words on the papal plane sounded political to many. Saying a person who thinks only about building walls and not bridges is not christian. For a religious leader to question a persons faith is disgraceful. It wasnt Pope Franciss intention to get involved in that particular candidate. I think it was Donald Trumps reaction and other peoples reaction is turn this into a political episode. Reporter they have a history of smiling, but clashing on policy. John paul ii took issue with clinton and bush for the pro abortion position and the republican for the second iraq war. Obama for supporting abortion and stem cell research. And this past september, francis urged congress to take action on climate change. The environmental challenge reporter it is not just american politicians. Pope francis in 2014 here and last week, he said the church does not need princes. And this week showed anger over someone pulling him on a wheelchair over a person. I dont Like Fighting with the pope. Reporter after all, the popes business is peace, not politics. Francis is on the record opposing walls or fences from the partition that separates the palestinian territories from israel or the razor wire fences as for critics who say the vatican has walls, those walls were built in the ninth century. And the heart of st. Peters basilica and square is open to everyone. Thank you, anne. 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You have examples here. Throw a girls night favorite things party. You can swap your favorite things gifts. Everybody brings a gift and swaps it. I would bring chocolate chip cookies. I love this thing. This is a shower foam. It comes out like a gel. You mix it with water and it foams up. It has a nice scent. I steal my husbands in the shower. We also have fun with the kids. Get the family involved. You have bubble art. You mix paint and soap and water and blow. Okay. Put it on there. You are creating gorgeous art with bubbles. You can frame it. That is a great idea. Tara, thank you so much. George to the rescue is here. Although we have a month of winter left, it is not too soon to get house ready for spring. George oliphant of george to the rescue. We have a quiz of what we should do to get ready. Dylan says it is a beautiful weekend. A lot of stuff you should do. Should you clear out dead tree limbs or wait until spring . Wait until spring. Wrong. 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Cheers to you. I think you can. Why not . Jonathan now on news 5 today, two cars collide outside of police headquarters. The late night crash and the new details on the victims condition. Plus the sound of chainsaws will be heard around Greater Cincinnati today after strong wind knocked out power and brings down trees on cars and houses. Well take a look at the damage. Also, a springlike day ahead. Meteorologist Jennifer Schack has whether well see nice weather for the entire weekend or not. Lots of sunshine beaming around at this hour. Its saturday, february 20, this is news 5 today. [captioning made possible by wlwttv] jonathan good morning. Welcome to news 5 today. Thanks for joining us on this saturday. Hope yours is going well so far. Im jonathan hawgood. This is meteorologist Jennifer Schack. How are you doing . Jennifer good. Jonathan good morning. Look at citycam 5. Talk about a good morning. 54 degrees and sunshine. A little bit of haze out there. Is that the fog you were talking about . Dissipating. Jennifer not necessarily fog, but a little moisture in the air, lets say. Mixing out some in the next couple hours. South winds arent strong, but theyll mix that out around ten miles an hour. Jonathan look how swollen and muddy the ohio river is. Jennifer the clouds are clearing out. We increase sunshine through the midday. We have a good amount through this afternoon as well. A nice day, 66 degrees, feeling but 22 degrees above where we should be for the average high. The record goes all the way back to 1891. The warmest for today, 72 degrees. Current temperatures are climbing nicely. We had a couple of spots bottom out with lows in the low 40s. Cincinnati officially dropped off to 49. Were climbing back right now. 54 degrees. Well keep that climb through the afternoon. Highs today expected in the mid 60s. Ist will be a little bit breezy, a southwest wind at 10 to 18 miles an hour. But not expecting those strong wind gusts or anything near what we had for friday afternoon. Look at our trend. Were looking from north to the south, from mt. Auburn down across cincinnati. The clouds on the eastern side, a little bit more in the way of blue sky on the western side. Clouds moving off to the east over the next couple hours, bringing in more sunshine. It looks like an increase in today. From here, we start to fall with the temperature and winter will return. Well talk about when were expecting rain and maybe some snow coming up. Jonathan it was breezy this morning still, but winds have