And a trip back in time to a viking festival that dates back hundreds of years. Early today starts right now. Eight people have been arrested in connection with the arm occupation of an oregon wildlife refuge that began three weeks ago, including the leader, aimen bundy. Killed. He saidki he had no intention of being taken into custody. So,io youre prepared to die . Absol tely would you like toeo be in a cell . Nobody wants to live their life in a ha cell. Nbcs dan shanman has more. Reporter the leader of the armed occupation of a wildlife the fbi confirmed that on tuesstedday it and the Oregon State Police started what the sttratement calls to bring into custody a inof individuals associatedid with the arm ochacupation. Shots werecu fired and one person was killed. The other person suffered nonlife threatening injuries. Aimen en en en en bundy others start protesting the arrest of and then over took a wildlife refuge. And residents demanded it come to an end. Its time for you to go home. [ applause ] reporter bundy is the son of controversial bundy who was involved in a 2014 stand off with the govlsent over grazing ri heghts. O in seattle two people are homeless encampment nicknamed thekn jungle. One person was pronounced dead at the scene while another died that hospital. One is in Critical Condition and two others are serious. This happened as the mayor was delivering aay speech addressing thess citys homeless problem. And he spoke again from the scene. Cant help but wonder, i cant help but wonder did i act too late . Maybe i should have issued the state of emergency months later. We in have tried to do the best that we can due to the circumstances we have. But obviously im going to question was i gool enough at my own job . You know, its on me in the end. No arrests have been made but police say there are at least twoea persons of interest and they believe this is a t geted shooting and not because the the gop frontrunner is withdrawinafrom the fox news debate. Trump, who had threatened to bo dycott the debate was put over the edger by what he called a quote wise guy press release put utby out by the networkhat said heard that the ayatollah and putin planned to treat trump unfairly. D iffa he has a plan to replace the ca tnet with hisep twitter followers. And mr. Trump doesnt play games and instead, husll host a fund raising even int for veterans and wounded warriors. Cruz s dtif megyn kelly is so scary, what does he think hell do with Vladimir Putin and then offered up a challenge. I would like to invite him on one on one debate with me and donald. Im happy to go an hour 1 2, mono a mono with no moderators at any time. Meanwhile, both received aling indorsements yesterday. Tony perkins, the head of the christian lobbying group indorsed cruz. And Bernie Sanders is taking time off for a sitdown meeting with m president obama in the Oval Office Later today. Nbcs tracie pots joins us with more. Youou talked about the big story of the day which is donald trump refusing to do this fox debate. Hes had this on again, off again issue with megyn kelly. Fox says theyre not changing the questions, nor will they change the moderator because of welcomsae to participate and this drop out is near unprecedented. They referred to tears arations of their host, megyn kelly. And earlier he dids talk about this. And cruz is hoping to gain ground by challenging trump to nthis one on one. Member, cruz is a college debart. This is an area he feels and tends to do very well. He feels strongly and tends to perform very well in a debate tuliion. So, this could certainly help him gain ground in iowa where it looks like he was running very strong but now trump has been gaining ground and even picking up, as you say, key indorsements from people like jerry fallwell. And Hillary Clinton is touting her tiexperience and will be as he sits down with president obama. The white house says this was a meeting meeting first discussed back in november. Just ave private meeting with no agenda. Ag tracie, thank you. Some incredible footaae from northe tern brazil shows a explosion destroying a prison wall and dozens of inmates are seeing a going over the fence to escape. 36 of thees 40 escapees were captured within hours. Milligtwo were killed. Police are investigating the explosion and are looking at what appears to be a man walking up to the wall min btsre utes before the explosion occurred. And officered were removed for a highspeed chase in which well over 100 bullets were fired in just a few seconds. 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