Day in campaign history. The four current republican candidates will share a debate stage. A former nominee will take center stage trying to shake up the process. The four republicans debate for the First Time Since donald trump won seven states. Ben carson says he sees no path forward. Donald trump will be there. Not just battling candidates on stage, but a candidate from the past. Mitt romney will deliver a speech and he will go after donald trump directly and hard. Trump is already responding to twitter. Looks like twotime failed romney will tell americans how to get elected. Why cant leaders tell the republican im bringing in new voters by the millions. We are creating a larger, stronger party. Cnns sara murray has the latest. Reporter good morning, john and christine, we know donald trump can throw a punch, but he may prepare to take a couple. We had a battle in detroit where he will be in the crosshairs of marco rubio and ted cruz. Before all that happens, we are expecting a speech from 2012 republican nominee mitt romney. In that speech, we are expecting him to knock donald trump forcefully and offer kind comments about the senators still in the race. All of that after donald trump had the huge super tuesday win. Now we are seeing this panic among the republican establishment as they hope there is still time to mount a challenge against donald trump. I think the knives will be out for him on the debate stage. Back to you. Big night indeed. Thank you. The republican establishment antitrump panic that sara mentioned is spreading to the tv with new multimillion dollar ad buys. Painting trump as a pro obama one time democrat. Former president ial candidate Lindsey Graham is hoping kasich gets the nomination, but he would get behind rubio and cruz. Anyone but trump. Donald trump is not a republican. I think john kasich is the most electable by left in the field. Marco is a close second and cruz and carson would be third. The bottom line is i think marco is going to do fine. Im pulling for john kasich in ohio and marco rubio in florida. If marco had to drop out, im anybody but trump. The subtext is Lindsey Graham doesnt like ted cruz. He would vote for ted cruz. Each non trump candidate is calling on other candidates to drop out. Ted cruz said he would have quit the race if he had not won texas on tuesday. This is cruz putting the screws on marco rubio. Pushing rubio to leave if he doesnt win florida in a couple weeks. Last night, if the voters of texas had made a different decision, i would have had no choice but to suspend the campaign. Of course, cruz did win texas. He also won oklahoma and alaska and this morning, searching for a way to pile up delegates before winner take all on march 15th. Cruz and marco rubio both see their biggest problem defeating trump. Rivals refusing to drop out of the race. Usually when you are the frontrunner, everyone is saying, get out of the race so we can unify around the frontrunner. People are saying everyone get together to keep the frontrunner from winning and destroying the Republican Party. If we are going to beat donald trump, the field cannot be fractured. Trump has a ceiling of 35 to 40 he cannot get above. As long as the field is fractured, it benefits donald. The field is going to stay fractured. Marco rubio is not dropping out. John kasich is not dropping out. C kasich is in michigan going after votes. He says he will stick to that. I believe that, you know, attacking donald trump or insulting him is not going to peel any voters away from them. Obviously, i would explain to people what my position is as opposed to juxtaposed to his. Donald trump releasing details about the health care plan. He has a sevenpoint plan for access making it more affordable and improving quality. The top of the list, repealing obamacare and making insurance plans available across state lines. That will increase competition. Health care Premium Payments would be tax deductible. The plan includes a Price Transparency on what doctors and hospitals are charging. Giving states block grants and changing Prescription Drug laws. Trump cannot do any of this by himself. This will require congress to pass new laws or change existing ones. Breaking overnight, the employee reached a deal with the Justice Department. He invoked his fifth amendment rights as they sorted through thousands of emails. The announcement that pagliano reached a new phase in the investigation. The spokesperson for Hillary Clinton says they are pleased that pagliano is cooperating. Since last summer, Hillary Clinton has been cooperating with the inquiry including offering to meet in august to assist them. Out on the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton not talking about that. She was taking a victory lap celebrating her tuesday wins. Cnns Brianna Keilar has the latest. Reporter john and christine, Hillary Clinton rallied a largely union crowd here in new york city. The featured politicians like mayor de blasio and governor cuomo. She emphasized her positive message and pivoted to the general election. The stakes have never been higher and the receihetoric froe other side has never been lower. So we have work to do, my friends, but not to make America Great again. America never stopped being great. We have to make america whole. Instead of building walls, we need to break down barriers that are holding back families and our country. Reporter and Hillary Clinton wrapped up her night with a fundraiser featuring katy perry and elton john as she tries to fill her coffers. She raised 30 million in february, but Bernie Sanders raised 40 million. Thank you. Bernie sanders is looking for votes in lincoln, nebraska today. There will be a clinton close behind him. Bill clinton plans to visit lincoln and omaha on friday campaigning for hillary. Sanders on the trail in michigan on wednesday. 10,000 people turning out for a rally. Many students from the exit polls, that young people really broke for Bernie Sanders. The vermont senator assuring the president ial bid is on the right path. Super tuesday, we won landslide victories in minnesota and colorado. We won by 70 points in my own state of vermont. If you come out to vote here in michigan on primary day, we will win here in michigan. So the next week is march madness here on cnn. It begins sunday with the next democratic debate in flint. Followed by the series race to the white house. Next tuesday is the next super tuesday night. Wednesday is the democratic debate in miami. Thursday, the Republican Debate in miami. A week of political events all here on cnn. Then by the next tuesday, more states and delegates. I see that schedule and i see that is a week of not sleeping. A federal Appeals Court judge in iowa vetted by the white house as potential Supreme Court nominee. 51yearold jane kelly, appellate judge for the circuit of iowa. This is someone jeffery tuben is talking about. Supported by chuck grassley. He praised her in the past. Unlikely to support her now. This president is expected to announce the selection in a couple weeks. Facing strong opposition from the senate republicans. They say they will block any nomination the president sends up. Defense secretary ash carter coming out against the socalled back door to give the government access to encryption protection data. Carter told the security experts, he wants Common Ground with privacy advocates over access to an encrypted iphone belonging to one of the San Bernardino terror suspects. Building a socalled back door into devices is not a realistic option. The president goes to milwaukee to congratulate for an enrollment contest. Not everyone celebrates. Wisconsin is one of six states suing over the Affordable Care act. Governor scott walker claims it is anything but affordable. Another scott. Astronaut scott kelly was in space for a year. Early this morning, he touched down in houston on a nasa plane. He reunited with his family. Nasa studied the differences of the two after spending 340 days. Kelly grew two inches during his time in zero gravity. 340 days. My boys, identical twins, are obsessed with this. I wonder what it is, having a chance of two brothers being astronauts. Stunning video. Disturbing video showing a School Officer kicking and slapping a student. We have new reaction on this next. Kelloggs® frosted miniwheats®. 8 layers of wheat. And one thats sweet. To satisfy the adult and kid in all of us. Nutritious wheat for the adult youve grown into and delicious sweet for the kid youll never outgrow. Feed your inner kidult with frosted miniwheats®. Try new kelloggs miniwheats harvest delights with Sweet Drizzle and bits made with real fruit. The top Police Official in the Baltimore School official and two officers placed on administrative leave after a video shows one officer slapping and kicking a young man. This happened tuesday at the Reach Partnership school in baltimore. The video is tough to watch. Here is reaction from the baltimore mayor. [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. As a parent of a Baltimore City school student, i was appalled by what i saw. That behavior that was demonstrated on the video is certainly something you never want to see anyone treated like that. Certainly not a School Officer acting in this way. Particularly with a young person. I know the school is investigating it. I know that it surfaced late yesterday and the investigation is ongoing. I support that investigation because i never want to see anything like that happen again. Theres the video again. The spokeswoman for the school says the person is not a student at the Reach Partnership school. Why he was there and the circumstances surrounding this still being investigated. Major drama unfolding in erin andrews lawsuit. The executive with the Hotels Parent company admitted that nude video taken by a stalker was shown at a dinner the night before he was set to take the stand. This as the Hotel Security expert testified that andrews stalker was at fault calling the man a criminal and terrorist. Polo sandoval with the latest. Reporter the testimony from a psychologist who diagnosed the sportscaster with ptsd. The lawsuit filed by andrews against the Management Group behind the nashville marriott hotel. The stalker altered the peephole and secretly taped her nude online. Barrett was sentenced to two and a half years in prison. Now andrews is suing for 75 million. She maintains they were negligent and checking barrett into the room next to her. During the two days of tearful testimony, andrews told jurors despite her reporting rear and several stints on dancing with the stars life hasnt been the same since 2009. The Hotel Executive who oversaw operations at that hotel also took the stand. He told jurors security wasnt an issue with the property. What did marriott score on the security assessment . It scored 100 . Based on your experience at that property and your dealing with the management team, are you aware of any need for additional security at that property as of september of 2008. No, i was not. Reporter Hotel Security expert testifies that hotels are not insurers of guest safety. It is up to a jury to decide that. Thank you. He will not get the death penalty, but Jesse Matthew will spend life in prison. Matthew pleaded guilty to the murders of Hannah Graham and morgan harrington. In exchange, a capital murder charge was dropped. The family is grateful they are not enduring a trial. A White AlabamaPolice Officer is charged in murder with the death of a black man. 58yearold greg ri gunn. He was carrying a gun. The investigators are not saying what led them though charge smith with murder. He claims it was done to prevent civil unrest. Nancy pelosi will house a group of democrats to flint to discuss the citys ongoing water crisis. The visit coming ahead of the democratic debate in flint. That is on sunday night. The mystery of what happened to missing Malaysia Airline flight 370. Now there are new clues. A new possible piece of wreckage found. We have the latest on this next. A piece of airplane debris that officials believe is part the doomed Malaysia Flight was found by an american tourist off the coast of mozambique. We have the latest from saima mohsin with the latest. Reporter good morning, christine. The debris found in the area. The oceananic experts believe it was washed ashore. The part identified last summer was part of 370. This is the coastline that any debris considering where they are searching would have ended up. There are two parallel sentiments here. Experts and authorities making that search certain they are searching in the right place and the Family Members, christine, who believe that there is still hope. Some of them believe this is happening in the right place. Some believe there is not transparency. I spoke with a daughter of one of those on board. She feels there is little transparency of the authorities this time about the debris. Didnt contact Family Members to tell them directly. She found out by a tweet from the transport minister here in malaysia. That is how she found out. This is every twist and turn they hold on to, christine. Every piece of evidence, they hope may lead to finding this plane. Of course, the twoyear anniversary is coming up. They are launching a petition saying search for mh370. That is because they are concerned. As the search area they are searching now draws to a close this summer. Will the search continue . She is urging the search to continue. She is concerned authorities will stop the search if they dont find anything. She told me i still have hope. How can i mourn and be a grieving Family Member . They want answers and they only get contintiny bits of information. Thank you, saima. Has donald trump become unstoppable . Parts of the Republican Party in fullon panic mode. This morning, launching new ads. What an event this will be. Mitt romney is addressing the media and he is going to go after trump hard. M only 6 ive got along life ahead. Big plans. So when i found out medicare doesnt pay all my medical expenses, i got a Medicare Supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if youre eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80 of your part b medical expenses. The rest is up to you. 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A student slapped and kicked by a School Resource officer. New reaction this morning. Welcome back to early start. Im john berman. Which day of the week is it . Im christine romans. 31 minutes past the hour. A busy week. This is a surreal day. Unprecedented in campaign history. Four current candidates on the debate stage and former nominee will take center stage. Four republican candidates debate since donald trump won 7 of 11 states. Ben carson will not be there. He says he sees no political path forward having not won a single state in the race so far. Donald trump will be there. Not just battling the candidates on the stage with him, but battling a candidate from the past. Because in just hours mitt romney will deliver a speech in utah will go after donald trump directly and hard. Trump is already responding on twitter. Looks like twotime failed candidate mitt romney is going to tell republicans how to get elected. I am bringing in new voters by the millions. Cnns satellite radar sara murray has the latest. Reporter we know donald trump can throw a punch, but he may be prepared to take a couple. Before all of happens, we are expecting a speech from 2012 republican nominee mitt romney. In that speech, we are expecting him to knock donald trump forcefully and offer kind comments about the senators still in the race. Of course, all of this after donald trump had his huge super tuesday win. A string of seven wins there. Now we are seeing this panic among the republican establishment as they hope there is still time to mount a challenge against donald trump. I think the knives will be out on the stage tonight. Back to you. The republican establishment antitrump panic that sara mentioned is not just from the establishment, but the conservatives and turning to the ad waves. Painting trump as a onetime democrat. Lindsey graham hopes john kasich gets the nomination, but he would get behind marco rubio and ted cruz. Anyone but donald trump. Donald trump is not a republican. I think john kasich is the most electable guy left in the field. Rubio is a close second. What happens if marco loses florida . The bottom line is i think marco will do fine. If it got down to it where marco had to drop out, anybody but trump. This morning, each non trump candidate is calling on other non trump candidates to drop out. Ted cruz said if he had not won his home state on tuesday, he would have quit this race. This is cruz pushing rubio to quit if he loses his home state on march 15th. If last night the voters of texas had made a different decision, i would have had no choice but to suspend the campaign. Get the hint, marco rubio . Of course, ted cruz did win texas along with oklahoma and alaska. This morning, he is searching for a way to pile up more delegates before the winner take all on march 15th. Ted cruz and marco rubio, as you heard, they see their biggest problem defeating trump is the rivals who refuse to drop out of the race. Usually when you are the frontrunner, everyone is saying get out of the race so we can unify around the frontrunner. What people are saying now, please everyone get together so we can keep this frontrunner from winning and destroying the Republican Party. If we are going to beat donald trump, the field cant remain fractured. Donald has, i believe, a hard ceiling of 35 to 40 that he cant get above. As long as the field is fractured, that benefits donald. It allows him to win state after state. There are multiple dividing the vote. John kasich is not dropping out. Like rubio, kasich has been stumping for votes in michigan. Kasich has avoided attacking donald trump and he plans to stick to that strategy. I believe attacking donald trump or insulting him is not going to peel any voters away from them. Obviously i would explain to people what my position is as maybe juxtaposed to his. I dont intend to move in the direction of personal attacks. Thats not the way i operate. Breaking overnight, the former clinton staffer who set up the email server has set up a deal with the Justice Department. Bryan pagliano invoked his fifth amendment right. The fact he reached a deal makes one wonder if a crime has been committed. The Justice Department is pleased that pagliano has come to a deal. And Hillary Clinton says we are happy he has offered to meet with them and cooperate and assist with their efforts. On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton was talking about super tuesday and 7 wins of 11 states. Cnns Brianna Keilar has the latest. Reporter john and christine, Hillary Clinton rallied a large union crowd here in new york city. It featured mayor bill de blasio and governor cuomo. She emphasized her positive message and moved to the general election. The stakes in the election have never been higher and the rhetoric on the other side has never been lower. So weve got work to do, my friends, but not to make America Great again. America never stopped being great. We have to make america whole. Instead of building walls, we need to break down barriers that are holding back families and our country. Reporter and Hillary Clinton wrapped up her night with a fundraiser featuring katy perry and elton john as she tries to fill her campaign coffers. She raised 32 million in february. But Bernie Sanders raised 42 million. Thank you for that. Bernie sanders is looking for votes in lincoln, nebraska today. There will be a clinton close behind him. Bill clinton plans to visit lincoln and omaha. 10,000 people turning out for a rally at Michigan State university. The vermont senator assuring them his president ial bid is on right path. We won vermont and colorado. If you come out to vote on primary day, we will win here in michigan. The next week is march madness. It begins sunday with the next democratic debate in flint, michigan. Followed by the premiere of the cnn series, race to the white house. Next tuesday is the next super tuesday. Michigan votes next tuesday. Super michigan night. Wednesday another democratic debate. Thursday, a Republican Debate in miami. A week of political events. That is bonkers. That is a lot going on. Potential game changers. Five of them. The game could change five times in one week. Or cement the lead game changers. That doesnt make any sense. A federal judge in iowa vetted as a Supreme Court nominee. 51yearold jane kelly, appellate judge is presented to fill the vacancy left by antonin scalia. Republicans are determined to block any nomination. She is from cedar rapids, iowa. Confirmed for the appellate court. Virtually no chance to get on the Supreme Court this year. Defense secretary ash carter coming out against the socalled back door to give encryption protected data. He wants to seek Common Ground with advocates with the apple fight over access to an encrypted iphone that belonged to one of the San Bernardino terrorists. The president visits milwaukee today for an obamacare enrollment contest. Wisconsin is one of six states suing over the Affordable Care act. Governor scott walker says it is anything but afford able. An oil tycoon ties in a fiery car wreck one day after being indicted by a federal grand jury. Here he is. Aubrey mcclendon, the founder of chesapeake energy. The pioneer in americas shale oil boom. He is part owner of the Oklahoma City thunder. Mcclendon was driving alone and traveling fast when the car drove into an overpass wall. This is according to the Oklahoma City police department. Pointed out he did nothing to slow the car and had plenty of chances to do that. His 2013 chevy tahoe was engulfed in flames. He had time to get back on the road and avoid the crash. He did not. He was indicted on tuesday on conspireing to rig the price of oil in oklahoma. Back in 2013, he was ousted from chesapeake after he was bank rolling his lifestyle with more than 1 billion in loans backed by a personal stake in the company wells. He recently stride to stage a comeback. Aubrey mcclendon was 56 years old. This is the most talked about business story this morning. Everybody knew this guy. Connected in the sports world. A warm homecoming for astronaut scott kelly after a year in space. Early this morning, kelly touched down in houston from a nasa plane. He reyunited with his family. He and his brother mark were studied after a year in space. They wanted to see the impact on the body. Nasa said scott kelly grew two inches over the last year during his time in zero gravity. As a parent of twins, you love this story. If i grew two inches in space, i would be 64. Awesome. 43 minutes past the hour. Caught on camera. A student kicked and slapped by a School Officer. What investigators are revealing about the stunning video next. A top Police Official in the Baltimore School system and two other officers placed on administrative leave after one officer slapped and kicked a young man. This happened at the baltimore Reach Partnership school. This video is tough to watch. As a parent of a Baltimore City school student, i was appalled by what i saw. That behavior that was demonstrated on the video is certainly something you never want to see anyone treated like that. Certainly not a School Officer acting in this way. Particularly with a young person. I know the school is investigating it. I know it surfaced late yesterday and the investigation is ongoing. I support that investigation. I never want to see happen again. The School System and the young mans attorney differ on whether he was a student at the school. The circumstances around the beating is investigated. Drama unfolding in the erin andrews lawsuit involving the executive with marriott and parent company. Admitting the video taken through the peephole was shown at the dinner the night before he was set to take the stand. This as the Hotel Security expert testifies that andrews stalker was solely at fault for secretly recording her. Andrews suing marriott for 75 million. He will not get the death penalty, but Jesse Matthew will spend the rest of his life in jail. Matthew pleaded guilty to the murders of Hannah Graham and morgan harrington. Prosecutors withdrew the capital murder charges. The families of the victims say they are grateful not to endure a trial. A White AlabamaPolice Officer charged with murder in the death of a black man. 58yearold gregory gunn last week. Officials said gunn was carrying a stick or another object to could be perceived as a weapon. Investigators are not saying what led them to charge smith with murder. It is political and claims it was done to prevent civil unrest. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will lead democrats to flint, michigan to discuss the water contamination crisis. The visit comes ahead of the democratic debate in flint. A cnn debate which is sunday night. Sunday night. A snow storm on its way to the northeast. Lets get to meteorologist derek van dam. Good morning, john and christine. Winter trying to hold on just a few more days across the upper midwest. Chicago, indianapolis and cincinnati, light dusting of snowfall anticipated for thursday morning commute. This is a fast moving storm system. Mainly rain from nashville to atlanta. As it moves to the midatlantic, a few inches of fresh snow. Perhaps for the Nations Capital and north into the new york city area and philadelphia. You can see nothing more than 1 to 2 inches. Maybe 3 or 4 inches of snow. That will be a different story over the western half of the u. S. Through the course of the weekend. They will measure snowfall in feet for the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Heavy snow expected in california. Look at the warm up for the weekend. 67 for denver. Look at new york citys temperature forecast for the next seven days. We start to warm up. Maybe breaking 70 degrees by the middle of next week. Enjoy. Thank you, derek. Stocks are posting a hot start to march. Why one important number could make or break the rally. Next. Piece of airplane debris that officials believe could be part of mh370 will be sent out for examination. It was found off the coast of mozambique. We have saima mohsin with more. Reporter john, lets talk about the debris found in mozambique. It is around a meter long. It has the words no step on it. That has what led experts believe it could be from a plane. Perhaps a 777. One u. S. Official says it looks like a part known as a horizontal stabilizer. That is the tail end of the plane that sticks out triangular formation at the end of the plane. This could be from a 777. We know mh370 is the only 777 plane missing in the world right now. Another expert said it could well be from another type of plane. Everyone is urging people to err on the side of caution. Including malaysias transport minister. This was found washed ashore by an aviation enthusiast that has been following the mh370 story as long as i have, really. Why mozambique . Crucially this is in line with the drift model. The ocean experts have come up with where the search is carried out, deep inside the indian ocean led by australian authorities, given the currents, this is where it could end up in terms of debris. Now that is why we found that flaperon on reunion island. Experts are now traveling to australia to give their final analysis. Thank you, saima. In the face of global condemn nation, north korea. Seoul says north korea fired missiles into the sea hours after the toughest sanctions approved on pyongyang. Punishment for north koreas Fourth Nuclear test in january. And migrant crisis in greece growing more desperate by the hour with more balkan states restricting borders. 30,000 refugees are stranded in greece. European Union Announced plans to send 750 million for the aid package. And 57 minutes past the hour. Stock futures flat this morning. Lets look at stock markets in europe. Down slightly. Solid gains in asian stocks. Investors in a Holding Pattern ahead of the jobs report come. Strong gains to bringing a hike in the oil reserves. I can assure that whatever happens in the job market, you will hear about it this weekend. Gas prices are ticking higher, but drivers will save hundreds of dollars. Aaa says the National Average for a gallon of regular is 1. 80. Today is the ninth straight day of rising prices. Back above levels from last month. Down 63 cents from a year ago. A lot of people talking about the reasons for the jump. Rebound in oil prices and seasonal switch to the summer blend of gasoline. With the recent increase, drivers should save 330 this year due to the prolonged slump. Google says searches for zika virus increased 3,000 . Google is donating 1 million to unicef. It is using the Mapping Technology to help the doctors. When you think about how it. What do you do when you feel ill . You google the symptoms. Amazing how google can track that and help others track and map viruses. That data, there are fields of medicine which would love this data. Early start continues right now. Taking down donald trump. Some conservative republicans, establishment republicans, desperate to keep him from winning the nomination. New attacks launched. This and mitt romney gets ready to give a speech where he will go after donald trump. After months of refusing to testify, the staffer who set up Hillary Clintons private email server will tell all. Stunning video showing School Officer, you see it there, slapping a young man. What was behind this video . Details ahead. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Im christine romans. It is thursday, march 3rd. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. This promises to be a surreal day in campaign history. The four republican candidates will share a debate stage and a former nominee will take center stage trying to shake up the process. Four republican candidates debate for the First Time Since donald trump won 7 of 11 super tuesday states. Ben carson will not be there. He says he sees no political path forward having not won a single state. Donald trump will be there not just battling candidates on the stage, but a candidate from the past. In hours, mitt romney will deliver a speech in utah where he will got after donald trump hard. Trump responded on twitter. Looks like twotime failed candidate will tell people how to get elected. Why cant the leaders see im bringing in new voters