How a Good Samaritan helped that boy find his family today, wednesday, march 2nd, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt uer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1ain rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a wen wednesday morning. Grab tooth sticks and stick them in savannahs eyes. She has a late night. The glasses are there to hide it i was surprised you said its wednesday morning because its still tuesday night for me. Late night but it was interesting. Lets get to the results. Statt with the republicans. Donald trump scored seven victories. Vermont, massachusetts, virginia, tennessee, alabama, georgia and arkansas. Ted cruz notched three wins, including the big prize of texas. He goes along there with oklahoma and alaska. Marco rubio took minnesota, his first win of this race. Heres how the delegate count stacks up this morning. Trump with 292. 188 for cruz. 98 for marco rubio. On the democratic side, it was a big night for Hillary Clinton. Virginia, tennessee, alabama, georgia, arkansas, texas and massachusetts. Bernie sanders is vowing hes not going anywhere. He won in his home state of vermont, as well as in oklahoma, minnesota and colorado. Take a look at the delegate count. Hilarylary clinton with a commanding lead, 979 to 382 for bernie sanders. We have complete coverage from our decision 2016 team. Lets start with nbc National Correspondent peter alexander. Peter, good morning to you. Hey, matt, good morning to you. It was definitely a super tuesday for donald trump, demonstrating wide appeal from the deep south to the northeast. Ten statete and collected more delegates than marco rubio and ted cruz combined. R rorter donald trump tallying up another impressive night. We could win s s or seven or eight or nine. Reporter the billionairere boasting lopsided victories from alabama to massachusetts, a a narrower ones from arkansas to virginia. Your critics would suggest youre dividing the coury and your party. I am a ufier. Once we get all this finished, ill go after one person Hillary Clinton. Reporter naysayers insisting hes toxic to the brand. Chris christie toned it down, trying to bring together a broken party. The Republican Party has become more damic and diverse. Were taking from the democrats, taking from the independents. We have more people. God bless the lone star state. Reporter by locking up wins in his delegaterich home state of texas and oklahoma next door, alaska, ted cruz strengthened his case as the best equippedo challenge trump. For the candidates who havent w a state, who havent wrapped up significant delegates, prayerfully consider coming together. Uniting. That is the only way to beat donald trump. I love you, miami reporter marco rubio with his sights set on florida in two weeks captured a desperately needed win in minnesota. Once again, targeted trump. The party of lincoln and reagan and the presidency of the United States witl never be held by a con artist. I will campaign as long as it takes and wherever it takes to ensure that i am the next president f the United States. One of the biggest take aways from last night should be the turnout. Consider this, 15 states have voted. 15 republican states have now had numbers, record turnouts, compare 2008, when barack obama swept to victory in the white heres how they compare. Places. On the right, 2008. Democrats with 8. 2 million voters in the states that voted in primaries on super tuesday. The republicans with 5 million. This time around, the almost exact opposite. The republicans with 8. 3 million voters turning out. The democrats with 5. 5 million. Matt and savannah . Peter, thank you very much. Donald trump says he deserves a lot of the credit for that. Its a a telling number we just showed. With wins in seven states last night, Hillary Clinton has taken full command of the democratic race this morning. With victory in her sights, her campaign is increasingly focusing on donald trump. Nbcs Kristen Welker is following that part of the story this morning. Good morning. Good morningng to you. Hillary clinton has major momentum this m mning after resounding victories all across the south. Fueled in large part by huge africanamerican support. Can stop her, but its goininto be a lot tougher now. Reporter clinton securing her front runner status tuesday, sweeping the south, winning seven states in all. Now this cpaign moves forward to the motor city and beyond. Reporter even pulling off a victory in massachusetts, defeating the vermont senator in his own backyard. This country belongs to l of us, not just those at the top. Reporr as clinton marchs smarches forward, sanders chances are narrowing. I am proud to bring vermont values all across this country. Reporter tuesday, he claimed victory in his home state of vermont and wins in oklahoma, colorado and minnesota. Thank you, bernie. Reporter vowing to fight on. Going to win many hundreds of delegates. Reporr still, clinton is setting her sights on the battle that may lie ahead. A faceoff with donald trump in november. America never stopped being great. We have to make america whole. Reporter painting herself as the antitrump. I believe what we needn America Today is more love and kindness. Reporter the republican front runner returning fire, signaling, if nominated, hell use the contrersy over her emails as one of his biggest weapons. What she did was a criminal act. If shes allowed to run, i would be very, very surprised. The rhetoric were hearing on the other side has never been lower. While clinton is leading by hundreds of delegates this morning, her aides dont think she can put the race out of reach until mid to late march. She holds a rally in new york tonight, while sanders will hold a breakfast and lay out the path intention of getting out any time soon. Savannah . Kristen welker, thank you. Lets take a closer look at the super tuesday results. Chuck todd is moderator of meet the press, also up all night. Yes, maam. Any other election cycle, if anybody did this well on super tuesday, having won the early states, youd be saying, the race is over. Youd be taking a nap. The partyeaders would be falling all over themselves, excited about this l lder who is bringing enthusiasm and new voters and doing all thiss winning. But its not the case with donald trump. Instead, were seeinin the remaining in the race looking at an increasingly difficult path to the nomination. What could they do at this point . He has over a hundred delegate lead and we havent assigned all t t delegates from super tuesday. Hell likely get over 300. Even though a hundred, you think, it cant be much, but it is significant in the way the process works. They basically have 13 days. Caucusesy march 15th. Obviously, were spending a t of time. Well be talking about florida and ohio. Why . Marco rubio and john kasich. The gam now, they cant get the nomination of their own. Ted cruz, marco rubio. They cant get to the magic number. Without a contested convention. Donald trump is the only one to get the contested number. They have to beat them. I dont know whe marco rubio can win before florida. I dont know where john kasich can win before ohio. Cruz might get a few victories, but trump is going to w n most of the states. Starting perhaps with michigan six days from now. Well continue this conversation in a moment, but lets look at the democrats. People need to look at the delegates and see why pundits like yourself are saying this is a tougher road for bernie sanders. Few things. First of all, theres that gap. A 600 delegate gap there, number one. If you take out the super delegates, which people know have endorsed her, shed have a 200 delegate lead. But i want to focus here. The orange are the States Clinton won. This is a lot of africanamerican voters that night. Bernie sanders did pathetic with these voters. If you cant win these voters oh, here we go. You know what, roker . Use. Goodbye. Lick it while we come over on this. Thats something you dont hear every day. Us. Trump has a great night. Cruz had a better than expected night, and not a great night for marco rubeio. Play the role of rubio, staying in the race . Endeavor to stop trump from reaching the magic number of 1,200 plus delegates. At is all that rubio can hope for, in terms of the results and the delegate count in the primaries. He no longer has a path of getting 1,200 himself. Chuck, we watched as donald trump took to the stage. Who was tt guy . It was not the donald trump that weve seen over the last six months. He was restrained. He complimented ted cruz. Didnt call him a liar. Couple shots at marco rubio. Is that the tmp of the future, and how long can he stay in that character . I don know. We just had this conversation, and i singled her out with this conversation. Three hours ago. Yesterday, shes going, you know, if he could get act like a statesman for aminute. Well, he did it for a few minutes yestday. The problem with trump, one step forward and two steps back. If that trump can sustain this temperament for 13 more days, its all he has to do, until march 13th. And they wont be able to stop him at the convention. But the trump weve seen has never been able to sustain temperamentally that persona. Remember when we interviewed trump that one time . He said, im trying to be statesmanlike, then he was dropping a world at thedrop ing that word at the rally. Can a thirdparty candidate emerge . Last night, we coined a term, establishment fantasy. Is that what it is or is there a possibility . It is a possibility because in the cycle, everything is possible. Everything is on the table. You would have called a contested convention an impossibility three months ago but its also on the table. Maybe im slow on the uptake, but if the plan is to stop donald trump at the convention, wouldnt the republican establishment want all of these guys to stay in the race, to keep dividing up the delegates . Absolutely. Not only at, hope you get mitt romney to file late in the california primary. Will there be a nonaggression pact between cruz, rubio and kasich . Kasich, youre on your own in ohio. Good luck. We endorse you. We want our voters to vote for you. John kasich says, i want my supporters to vote for marco rubio. Ifh that is the plan, i just dont think these three campaigns can Work Together like that. No evidence of that cooperation. Its also really, really hard. Its really difficult to deprive trump of the nomination. Not because of the masses and numbers, but because of the frosty of his ferocity of his supporters. Rubio almost won virginia mostly from democrats trying to help him out, but it didnt work. Matt asked for a quick answer. That was like two and a half minutes. I dont know how that went. Guys, thanks. With that board. Thank you very much. Hallie jackson spent the night covering ted cruzs campaign. She caught up with him after he houston. Good morning to you. Good morning,matt. Ted cruz is already looking today. After cheering the resests of the oklahoma primary backstage at his party, he did what he had to do in texas, won, and bought himself more time to try to make his case that republicans, including his rivals, should unite around him as the best chance of stopping trump. Where you go from here, how do you get the republican nomination . At this point, there have been 15 states that have voted. Ly one candidate has beaten donald trump. Thats been us. Should somebody drop out . I think all of them love this country and are putting this country rst. If it becomes clear to a candidate that that candidate does not have a path to the win a state in 15 contests, hasnt been able to rack up considerable delegates, there comes a point, do you want donald tru to be the nominee . If trump is the nominee, republicans get clobbered. I think people are going to look at the numbers, look at the results, and consider what to do. It isy hope that as a party, we come together and say, stop this madness. Do not nominate a candidate who will drive the party off a cliff. Howowo you beat donald trump when he has performed as well as hes performed tonight . E have to get one on one. Head to head. I dont just beat donalal trump, i beat him resoundingly. Where he benefits now, hee has everyone else being fractured and vided. Its my hope the party will say, it is reckless. At a time when the stakes have never been higher, its reckless to roll the dice and ninate donald trump. Donald trump may be the one ndidate on the face of the the democrats are celebrating. We cant let it happen. I dont think republicans want the general election to consist of two rich new york liberals, one republican and one democrat, running against each other. We should nominate a real conserve tiff andative and i hope thats what were going todo. Cruz is not wellliked by colleagues in the senate but he seems to be getting reluctant backup from lindsey graham, who says the establishment may be in a position where they have to rally around cruz to stop trump. The senator telling me, senator cruz, that is, that hed welcome the support. The establishment rallying around one of the ultimate outsiders . Apparently. Well see how this shapes up. Hallie, thank you very much. Well have more on the impact of super tuesday and the races moving forward in a little while. Breaking news in the seaeah for Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Nbc news learned investigators believe another piece of debris coast of africa. Tom costello h been on this story for two years and has the breaking news. Good morning. Nbc news learned a piece of debris was discovered on a sand bank off the mossambiqub coast. An early analysis suggests it could have come from mh370. Words were seen on the piece a the locals think it could have been in the water for two years. The debris found by an american man who has been blogging about the search for mh370. You callmay recall the first piece of debris washed on the other side of madagascar, reunion island last july. The ocean currents would have carried the new piece of debris to the african coast. Its thought the debris may also be from the planes tail section, from the horizontal stabilizer. Australia and the u. S. Have looked at the photographs of the debris debris. Close sources close to the investigation says it looks like a piece from a a bowing inging inging boeing 777. Mh370 was a boeing 777. 239 people on board. It disappears two years ago next week on a flight from malaysia to beijing. Ever since, the search has been focused on the indian ocean. The underwater search teams team. The command center tells nbc news its aware a piece of debris has been found and its trying to determine what it might be, arranging for a thorough investigation. Sources say engineers who looked at the debris say there is a good chance it came from mh370. Tom, i know youll keep an eye on it for us. Thank you. While ago. Our temperatures are going to start to drop. What it did down in alabama. We had strong storms s ve through. Jackson county, a little east of huntsville, alabama. They start to pick up the pieces. The good news, the worst is now done. Weve got warm air, and it has been a warm winter. warmest on record for over 20 spots from december 1st to february 29th. You can see the northeast and new england. Look, it goes to north dakota,al sand alexandria and virginia. 51 in new york city right now. By the time we get into this afternoon, well be down to the 30s. The temperatures in the 20s making their way to the east. Thats whats going on around the country. Were going to get plants may have their limits. Imagination. Doesnt with the right n nrishment. Care. O day. Have you seeyour garden . Itll blossom. Find low prices on the things that make easter fun and delicious. Walmart. Wednesday morning. Cloud cover moving in. A nice start to the day. Get ready for a warm forecast, too. Well be in and out cloud cover initially but sunshine still does win out through the afternoon. 67 right now in miami, 64 opa locka. Good morning to you imPembroke Pines and oakland park youre at 63. First alert weather mid60s towards 8 00 a. M. Hour then towards midday. Noontime temperatures at 81. Up to 8585warm a hats your latest weather. Matt . Al, thank you so much. 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Two teens who causedd chaos in court at a hearing yesesrday will be in cot themselves. They were there after they led police on a chas in a car. Two were sentenced to five days in a juvenile detention center. Well keep you posted what happened today in court. The 14yearold who accidentally shot and killed his friend ann in court facing manslaughter and gun charges. A judge allowing him to go hoo with a gps monitor. A look at your forecast with meteorologist ryan phillips. Early this morning, weve got mid60s across two county area. 66 ft. Lauderdale, 67 miami. Clear skies, 68 in key west. More cloud cover ill stream through our skies from time to time today but with an offshore breeze, a rapid warmup. 81 by the lunch hour. First alert forecast high today 85. Lets check the drive. Here is joe brennan. Looks like stillll a little trouble exiting 95, coppans road, disabledehicle on the right lane. Looks like they took off and left it