numbers will take part in the earlier so-called undercard debate. more now on the final preparations and also what's at stake tonight. nbc's peter alexander reports from the site of tonight's debate, the reagan presidential library in simi valley, california. >> reporter: alex, good morning from simi valley. the spotlight will again shine brightly on donald trump but also on some of his challengers, note notably ben carson and carly fiorina. jeb bush and scott walker have seen their pollplummet. a bad performance tonight for a candidate could mean the end of the road. breaking out the big guns ahead of tonight's debate, republican front-runner donald trump revved up supporters on the "uss iowa" in los angeles. delivering a speech heavy on promises, but light on specifics. >> we're going to come out with some plans in a very short time. we're going to be building up our military. >> reporter: earlier predicting a barrage of attacks from his republican rivals. >> you know, they're all coming after me is what i hear. whatever it is, it is. >> reporter: the showdown is being touted as a heavyweight bout. rand paul sparreded with trump in the first round and appears poised to do it again saying, "i think he deserves both barrels. i want to make sure everyone in the whole country knows he's a fake conservative." still, trump's biggest challenge may come from the other republican outsiders with polls showing ben carson closing in and carly fiorina gaining ground. as jeb bush falls behind. the super pacs supporting bush now out with a new online ad saying trump is in a very dark place. >> the american dream is dead. >> reporter: looking to revive his own campaign, bush just released this bilingual ad declaring hispanics an integral part of the american dream. bush's mexican-born wife also speaking out. she rarely campaigns publicly. >> we have celebrations with the family. at the end et cetera's just that. faith, friends and family. >> reporter: in another sign he may be nearing a run, vice president joe biden for the first time attacked trump directly at a reception honoring hispanics. >> trump and that stuff you're hearing on the other team -- this isn't about democrat, republican. it's about a sick message. >> reporter: as for those republicans, obviously a lot at stake here. that means some last-minute debate prep but also some relaxing for john kasich, that's a trip to the gym. marco rubio will spends some time with his wife and daughters. carly fiorina's camp says all she needs is an iphone and some solitaire and she'll be just fine. alex? >> thank you so much, peter alexander. let's bring in our "news nation" political panel. former rnc chairman michael steele, an msnbc political analyst. beth fooy, and david corn joining us from washington. hello, everybody. michael, i'll begin with you here. look at the last debate. it was expected then to be donald trump versus everyone else but it never really materialized. in fact only senator rand paul directly went after trump. trump has certainly maintained his momentum and control really of the run race. what do you expect this time? >> well, i think you'll see much more of a concerted is attack, if you will, by the others on the stage. certainly if there is a moment where donald goes after carly, i think that will be a perfect opportunity for the other gentlemen on the stage to rally to her and then begin to do what they need to do to chip away at trump. the risk there is still high. i mean trump could go into that fight with everybody coming at him and still come out relatively unscathed. but these guys at this point are willing to take that risk. they have to because as trump gets closer to 35%, 37%, 40%, he begins to lock in that base vote going in to february and they can't have that if they want to be viable going in to that same time period. >> that is an "if." he's so far been hovering around 30%. hasn't seen a lot of momentum so far. but david, one change in the dynamic tonight -- carly fiorina on the main stage. given donald trump's recent comments about her looks, how do you think that dynamic's going to play out? what is your advice for her tonight? >> well, i'm not giving carly fiorina any advice. if i did, it would be to stay away from talking about your record of a company where you laid off 10,000 people and took a $21 million buyout. she goes up against donald trump on this, i'm sure he'll try to deflect it and may come back at her with that record of hers at hewlett-packard which is not stellar. but she has -- she has nothing to lose. she has everything to gain by going after him. but i think it is a bit of a side show because she will not become the nominee. she will not get over 10%, 20% any time in this race. the person really who has a lot to lose here is jeb bush. he has to signal to his money people and other supporters that basically he's in the race. "i am here." show some spunk, show some moxie moxie. show anything. he and scott walker to a similar extent both have to sort of create a footprint in the race where so far they've been the walking dead. >> i want to get to more on jeb bush in a second. beth, there's a candidate who might not be targeting trump tonight too much. we're talking ben carson. he is a close second to trump in the latest national polls. his campaign managers say carson has no plans to take on trump. do you think that's a good strategy? >> yeah, it probably is, alex, because he is so just temperamentally different from donald trump. he's very soft spoken, he's very gentle. he's not going to win if he's going to go head-to-head from donald trump. he distinguished himself in the late debate by being fairly funny. i suspect religion conservatives are going to sour on donald trump soon and ben carson is very well positioned to pick up those social and religion conservatives. he doesn't stand to gain a lot by going straight at trump. trump's a much better fighter. ben carson can just continue doing what he's doing, being gentle, talking about his faith and social conservatism, trying not to mix it up too much. frankly, it is kind of a suicide mission so far for all the people who have tried to do that. is there that's true thus far. michael, cnn says it wants to encourage the candidates to interact more. you are a former rnc chair. does that worry you? does it distract from the real i issues? >> no, i think they should. that's one of the elements in the last debate i thought was missing, that interaction between one and the other. i think it is important because then you begin to see not just the comeback from some snide remark or something like that, but on the substance, how you engage one another. let's make this a debate around the ideas that you're proposing. it could actually put trump and ben carson, quite honestly, who have been a little bit light on policy side to really have to step up their game when you've got sitting governors who are talking about the nuances of governing and how that shows up against those other candidates. >> but here's in terms of establishment. i'm looking at the latest "new york times" poll numbers here. it shows more and more republicans see donald trump as the party's best chance to win the white house. in addition you've got the three who have never even held public office making up more than half of the total republican voters. what's that mean for establishment candidates? how high are the stakes for them tonight? >> that means they have a lot less hairs tonight than they had a few months ago. this is the problem. it goes back to my first point about what the other candidates have to do to pull this conversation away from donald trump and back not so much into the establishment camp but i think some of these guys can establish themselves as outsiders, not beholden to the washington elite. >> but, david and beth, i want to ask you both about do or die time. david, you go first. who's got to make a splash tonight? do or die time. with rick perry having gotten out. >> i think a lot of these guys can dribble along for a long time as long as they keep getting invited to the debates and are getting 5% in a crowded field. it is not quite do or die time for jeb bush because he'll stay in the race forever. but at the same time he has to start showing his supporters with be that is his investors, the people who hpaid for his campaign, that he can make a splash. scott walker probably the guy who has the most on line given his precipitous fall in iowa has to start reversing that, otherwise he'll be out whether he is in the race or not. >> beth, who do you think? >> i think rand paul and chris christie are teetering on the precipice. i think if neither one of them breaks out in a positive way they both fought with each other in the last debate to no great avail. if neither one of them really pops and says something to raps that they should hang on, think one of them is going to be out, or maybe both. >> i do want to play everyone the club for growth ad. okay? it is a very powerful organization. michael. spending millions they say on this ad casting trump as a liberal and the worst kind of poll significance. >> which presidential candidate supports higher taxes, national health care and the wall street bailout? it's donald trump. >> in many cases i probably identify more as a democrat. >> trump wants us to think he's mr. tell it like it is, but he has a record. and it's very liberal. he's really just playing us for chumps. >> club for growth is a phony outfit. they came to my office a few months ago. they asked me for $1 million. i said no. right after i told them no. because i don't even know who these people are. right after i told them no they came out with a negative kind of an ad. >> as you see, michael, no matter what, donald trump says or does, support grows for him. but do you think that could change tonight? >> it could possibly. again, it's not so much what donald trump says or doesn't say, does or doesn't do. it's how the other candidates pull that imaging towards them. what is their positive forward looking vision. and can they cut through the conversation that donald trump is having with america which is the one they like. this ad means nothing to the average republican base voter right now. they see club for growth and others as part of the problem. not the solution. >> beth and david, very quickly. beth, you answer first. how important is the tone tonight, the ability for every candidate to show strength and still go on the attack with donald trump? is that a form of showing strength? >> it's a form of showing strength but it's really a rabbit hole, alex. anybody who's gone down this rabbit hole trying to fight with him has lost. they can't look like they're just going to sit there and take it. they have to seem strong, they have to seem positive, they have to seem future looking. john kasich i think has a very good chance of making a mark. he did that in the last debate. he has deliberately not gotten involved in this trump mayhem and he's gaining ground particularly in new hampshire. so i think there is a lane for that to just be strong but positive. we've seen that with kasich. we'll see what the others can do. >> but you know what? the issue here is not so much what the candidates say. it's what republican grassroots want. they want someone who's angry. they want someone to. vent for them. polls all show recently that if you ask them if they want someone who's good at government with good policy ideas with experience, they say no. they'd rather have an outsider. i think it is very hard for the non-trumpian candidates to get a foothold here if the republican electorate they are trying to appeal to is so far off base whether it comes to what they want in a leader. that's just not going to change because of one debate, and it may not change in time for 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from these flash floods on monday has devastated this community. it could grow as high as 20. behind me you can see the physical damage done to this creek bed. all the mud and debris displaced by all that rushing water on monday. we're starting to learn more about some of those that were killed. >> there's two vehicles! >> reporter: shortly after 1 of 3 survivors fled this scary scene in search of help as floodwaters threatened -- >> oh, my goodness! oh, dear! it went over the thing! oh, no! >> reporter: the rapids moved in. sweeping at least a dozen members of one family to their deaths. three sisters and their children, one still missing this morning and feared lost as well. >> my name is joseph jessup. this here is my john, joseph jessup. my family and my friends' family were swept away in this flash flood. >> reporter: joseph jessup, the eldest son of one of the mothers, couldn't reach help in time to save his family. according to distant relatives estranged from the polygamist sect controlled by warren jeffs. >> we know guide is guiding all things and trust in him to heal our wounded hearts at this time. i would not like to take any questions at this time. thank you. >> reporter: officials say the three sisters, manaomi, della a josephine were stopped short of the flooding. many stood watch throughout the day in this close-knit community as clean-up crews worked and rescuers continued looking for the last person. the utah governor gary herbert took to twitter tuesday to express his sorrow over dual tragedies, at least four people found dead at zion national park where three remain unaccounted for into the night. officials urge visitors to be mindful of threats. >> be extremely careful. this area does flash flood. it doesn't take that much. >> reporter: 25 members of the utah national guard have been called in to help with all the efforts going on here. for the third straight day, rain is in the forecast. >> ron mott, thank you so much. on top of the 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these are people who are hoping to cross into hungary. many didn't know hungary had in fact closed its border. only arrived at the border, and to great frustration and great disappointment were told that they could progress no further. a lot of them sat down with their families. they sat down and they set up tents. there are no facilities there. there are some aid workers who are trying to provide some basic medical care, food and water. but a scene of incredible despair. and today we saw that despair boil over. a group perhaps 100 or 200 strong charged up toward the border, the hungarian border. lun garian riot police were standing there in shields. they were pushing them back and then when objects started to fly and the angry refugees and my grants were throwing stones and bottles and trash at the hungarian soldiers, they fired both water cannons and a very caustic pepper spray. they fired it right into the crowd. you can imagine there weren't just young men who clearly wanted to pick a fight with the hungarian police, but they were also families, women, a pregnant woman collapsed right in front of me while we were recording. a lot of people were pouring water on their face to try and get the pepper spray off of them. then these clashes continued for quite some time, typical in the way clashes happen. there is an intense moment, then people run away, then there is another intense moment. but i think really what we're seeing is just people who are -- believe they have no other choice. they can't go home, they've spent their money to get this far and they're just distraught. >> in terms of choices -- i should note that hungary has made good on its promise to arrest people. 367 people arrested, 316 will be prosecuted for doing damage to the razor wire fence. but alternatively, can't they now go through croatia? croatia's offered safe passage, right? >> reporter: i think that's why we're seeing a group of hundreds and not thousands and tens of thousands. communication and information are a real problem here. and these people came to the border thinking they could go through hungary and, frankly, the croatian border is only couple hundred of miles from here now. that sounds like quite a distance but when you consider some of these people have traveled more than a thousand miles, it is not a great trek to the -- or cab ride or bus ride to the croatia border. eventually, yes, i think people will realize that hungary has in fact sealed its border and is prepared to defend its border and will consider alternative routes and croatia seems the most likely. ahead, mark murray joins me live with what each candidate needs to do tonight. plus, why marijuana will be tax-free in colorado today for one-day only. it is one of the things we just thought you should know. we'll also be talking live with the football player being called the toughest in america. that athlete, by the way, guys -- not a plan. she is april goss who just kicked her way into 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"free." if you see free wi-fi advertised, be wary. 1 out of 10 suspicious networks calls itself free. we asked tourists in times square how they pick a wi-fi. >> honestly i'm not too picky. i just choose one and if it works i'm like -- woo. >> if i'm desperate to contact, i would risk it. >> to prove how easily hackers can gain access to phones, he hacked mine in less than a minute. >> i have access to your password, i have access to your bank information, i have access to your e-mail. >> you can see all of this. >> i can see all of that. >> studies suggest 92% of people who use free wi-fi never read the disclaimer which sometimes clearly states the network will access your personal information. on the list of tourist sites surrounded by risky wi-fi -- we weren't surprised to find the hollywood walk of fame. >> everywhere i go i'm searching for a wi-fi to be with my friends. >> i just assumed that it is a safe network. i don't know. >> reporter: also on the list, the areas surrounding notre dame cathedral in paris, major theme parks in california and florida, golden gate park in san francisco, and the vegas strip. but this one was a surprise -- just outside vatican city in rome. >> around the vatican you've good six suspicious sites. you're not saying the vatican is suspicious. >> that's right. when people go they stay roughly 30 minutes distance from the tourist destination. hackers know so they have set traps around the tourist destination. >> just because the network suspicious doesn't mean it is malicious. but it may be worth avoiding. >> the safest way not to get sick is not to shake hands with sick people. >> that's the advice. really it comes down to not logging on to wi-fi networks that you don't absolutely know you can trust. and don't download an app necessarily if it is for free. be very careful. >> super good advice. thank you so much, tom costello. coming up -- i'll talk live with the woman being kaumd the toughest player in america. a woman. >> april goss. writes her name in the ncaa record books. >> there she is. april goss. making history as the second woman to ever score in a major college football game. her inspirational story is next. 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