It happened on u. S. 21 here i 77 last night. Troopers have not released the victims name or said if the driver will face any charges. I will be back in the breaking news center in a bit, breaking down the overnight supertuesday results. The suspect seen in this video right here will be in court today, amid questions about the officers actions, and some say the cmpd officers went too far, one punched the suspect while taking him into custody. Joe bruno is live at the Police Department to explain more on this. Joe . Reporter we will be pushing for more information from cmpd today, and we note officer is being investigated for excessive use of force. Its because of this video an officer used and sent to channel 9. You can seat officer punching the man several times. That man was the hitandrun suspect named malcolm elliott. Police spotted elliotts mazda, resisted when he was handcuffed, but some Community Advocates said they are concerned with the amount of times the officer punched elliott and question if it was necessary. Why it escalated to the use of force, punching the person, seven, eight, nine times, why was that needed . Reporter cmpd was assisting Highway Patrol with the arrest and chase. Today we will be pushing for more information on the investigation. Reporting live at cmpd headquarters, joe bruno. New details about a triple homicide in gaston county. We brought you live reports throughout yesterday on daybreak. Police say a woman confessed to killing her husband and two others all found naked at the home. Eyewitness News Reporter, angela hong is live to explain how it all unfolded. Angela. Reporter well, liz, Police Believe that the three victims actually met online, and gazette, they were involved in bedroom activities that the home when they were shot and killed, and the paper reports that crystal gambino went to a Family Members house on monday and told them what happened. The Family Member called police and eventually met officers at the gambinos home. Inside they found Glenn Gilliland and Giovanni Gambino dead outside, and then the inside and then they found Stephanie Sanchez dead outside. People in this Small Community are shocked by the scandalous details of the horrific crime. Kind of devastating, you killed at one time, right in this area. Now its also been reported that gambino will likely be charged for the two additional murders, and she has already been charged in her husbands murder, and she is due back in court on the 21st. Angela hong. Thank you for that, angela. Tonight is your first chance to give cms feedback for the Budget Priorities for the next year. They are hosting Six Community engagements from now to april. Cms expects 27 million in new costs next year for salary increases and more students and other things, and tonights meeting is at south mec high school at 6 00. Im back in the breaking news center. We got the final super tuesday results in the last 2 hours. Front runners, Hillary Clinton and donald trump extended their leads, but marco rubio got his Bernie Sanders each won states as well. What a super tuesday. Reporter with the super increasingly likely that the election will be a matchup of trump. Im going to go after one person, and thats Hillary Clinton. Reporter clinton marching forward on the clear path to her partys nomination, keeping an eye on Bernie Sanders who won, oklahoma, vermont, and minnesota, with the commanding lead, clinton taking on trump. Reporter america never stopped being great. Reporter on the republican side, ted cruz won his home state of texas, oklahoma, and alaska. And rubio won his first state, minnesota, ensuring the race for the gop nomination will stretch on. The night belonged to trump who commanded the leader board and was a bit more gracious to his competitors than in recent days. On the win in texas. He worked hard on it. It was a tough night for rubio, but he worked hard. Reporter cruz said voters should think of it as a twoman race. The race remains divided. Donalds race looks much more likely. Reporter for the first time here you have to show a photo id to vote. The law passed in 2013, and supporters stay will prevent voter fraud, but critics say it will keep the minority and the elderly from voting. Theres a list of early voting sites on our website along with supertuesday results, and you will see it on the home page of wsoctv. Com. The Union County School superintendent says she is retiring this year. Dr. Mary ellis retirement comes after the sbi and district will be filed against her in a case involving her company and a laptop contract. She has been the Union County Superintendent since 2012. Her last day will be june 1st. Mecklenburg county officials are working through a backlog of gun permits. The new law required the clerk of courts to release Mental Health records to the Sheriffs Office, and the Sheriffs Office says the paperwork is slowing down the process, and they are working as quickly as possible, but it will take longer for you to get a pistol permit or conceal carry permit. Lawmakers will press for answers about hundreds of weapons lost and stolen from a federal government program, and the federal government often donate extra guns to local Police Departments, and the Inspector General says the program has not been keeping track of the weapons, and just last year 69 guns from the program went missing from unnamed Police Departments. The General Administration runs general said they are improving the tracking system. Without reliable information about where the weapons are today, accountability is lost, and theres a heightened risk the firearms will be used for purposes they are not intended for. She and other leaders will give details on the congressional hearing. A possible tornado hitting jeffersonville avenue last night. Thats the same system that pushed through our video overnight. You can see the trees knocked down in the distance, even damage to homes there. At least four people were hurt, and crews will be out first thing this morning when they get light, so they can survey the damage. Its almost 7 after 6 now. Heres keith monday. We did wake up to wet roads in places. A lot of folks may have slept through the rain, and its off to thes, and the rain is out of here, the sky has cleared, and skies for the mountains, and you may find a few flurries up there this morning, no big snow. Travel in the high country, and the wet roads from last night are now refreezing because the temperatures are falling so fast. For some, barely around 50 for the high and the the rain will return tomorrow the rain will return tomorrow evening. I will show you how quickly its back in the forecast, leading up to a great weekend ahead. We will head to mark taylor to see if any alternate routes are available yet. This is East Charlotte, and theres a lot of room to move around, but with First Responders headed that way, good idea to use Hickory Grove road as the alternate route. Independence boulevard inbound at 53 miles an hour at East Charlotte. 12 minutes headed to uptown, and thats where we are looking now, the inbound commute, getting a little busy. Outbound looking good out towards monroe, headed from the people who live near the scene of a crash, explosion safer. Its heart breaking. The small change the towns mayor wants the dot to make, and the reason the state says it could take months. Scott kelly giving the thumbs up after returning from nearly a year in space. The next step he will take to go through. To go through. With a variety of freshmade seafood meals starting at just 4. 99, no one does seafood like ds try our new homestyle flounder meal or double dozen shrimp. Or our grilled menu, featuring new tuscan tilapia. Each with two sides and hush puppies. For full meals starting at 4. 99, it back now at 6 14, and youre taking a live look from a camera at mccray college in avery. We know the avery county schools and Watauga County schools are on a 2hour delay because of the black ice there. Most of us are waking up to wet roads. Just a little bit to find out when we will see the cooler temperatures before some what of a warmup. The cause of this huge Apartment Fire in rockhill is still under investigation. Chopper 9 skies flying over the scene yesterday on evan port road, and you can see just how charred the building is there, and 6 families were displayed, because of the extensive damage, and several people jumped from windows to get to safety. We talked to a man who rushed to get people out. And then i heard someone beating on the corner window, and it was the hispanic lady, and i took my fire extinguisher and grabbed her and yanked her out. Our partners at the rock hill harold said firefighters were able to save two cats. New this morning, all nine lexington county magistrate judges have excused themselves from Legal Proceedings on a drunk driver charge against solicitor donny meyers. The state newspaper says the recent decision means a judge assigned to the hear for meyers later this month. Troopers arrested meyers for driving under the influence after his car veered off the road and hit a utility pole. New morning, the North CarolinaUtilities Commission gave duke permission to move forward with two Natural Power plants in the state. The third is not slated to run until 2023. Joan walker says the switch from coal power to natural gas power is a huge step, but its not enough. Walker believes the plant should not be built. They are much larger than we need in western North Carolina and they are not the best use of rate payer dollars. Her groups want duke to focus on solar and wind power. She says the modernization to gas will hit customers later. The Duke Energy Spokesperson keeping the lights on. It will begin with operations in 2019. Overnight we checked stocks, and they are trended down. The dow is down a bit 4. 5 points, and this comes after the market soared yesterday, starting march off strong. We checked overnight, and oil is now at 34 a barrel, and its a 30 increase from february 1 st. When it was 26 a barrel it comes after saudi arabia, russia and others agreed to freezing the output. I have video of scott kelly arriving back on earth after 1 year of space. You can see people hoisting him out of the capsule just after midnight. Strength, heart function, and more shortly after he landed. He will fly to houston to undergo more tests, and scientists will compare his results to his Twin Brothers as a control. They want to know how so much time in space impacts the body. They hope it will lead to a mission in mars which would require a year and a half in space. Heres keith monday in Severe Weather center 9, with a look at what we will be waking up to. Reporter our view is spectacular this morning. The nice clear sky, looking to the east, and you can see the clouds, and thats the rain from last night, pushing way off to the east now, into the distance, and we will see a mainly sunny sky for the rest of date today. We are chilly down. 47 in charlotte that will bottom out as the morning wraps up. We have a little while to go. Mountains near freezing, and boone and jefferson, avery county, the communities are well below freezing, and the low 20s this morning. Watch for slick roads in the rain. 49degrees, and this morning by 9 00, breezy. The winds will relax throughout the day. At least until lunchtime, and higher in the mountains. Not much warming, low 50s through the afternoon, and thats well below average for this time of the year. We are resetting things for march to start out. Very warm weather to start the month, and now we are tailoring things back. Tomorrow, low 50s, and clouds building through the day. The drive tome tomorrow, the rain will be here. Mid to upper 50s headed into the weekend, and should be the 60s headed out of the weekend. A nice warming trend is coming in. The next weather maker to the west, rolling in late tomorrow afternoon. 4 00and 5 00, the showers will pass into charlotte. Tomorrow night, most of the rain will settle in, and it will be a mainly mountain snow event, but you may see flakes of snow into the foothills. I dont expect anything to add up out there the mountains will have minor accumulation. Corridor and blasting eastbound. We will clear the sky eastbound on friday. It will set the stage for the great weekend ahead. The weekend always in view. Cloudy during the day tomorrow, and the rain arrives into the drive home tomorrow night, and we are all dry for friday at 56, and sunny skies, and just a few high clouds passing for the weekend, back into the low 60s we go headed into sunday. Time now, 6 20. Lets get over to mark in the traffic center. 10 minutes ago we learned about an accident at west charlotte it happened on wilkinson boulevard, and it looks like plenty of folks are moving in drive Time Technology showing 35 miles an hour, head from the airport to uptown, 13 minute ride. 85 also looking good in the area out of gaston county. Keeping tabs on this wreck in East Charlotte where Police Kimberly glen lane. Now if youre headed out to uptown around the 277 loop, this is the john belk freeway this is what it looks like headed out to wilkinson, and no big issues here other than damp roadways. 6 21 now, and a South Carolina sheriffs deputy is fired after a fellow officer accused him of stealing from a Domestic Violence victim. Ahead on daybreak the item hes accused of taking that the sheriff says had a value of 10 cents. Lawmakers are fighting the controversial nondiscrimination ordinance when they return in april. 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Police would only confirm the names of the victims listed on the police report, and their names were not on it. The she suspects made their First Court Appearance yesterday. North Carolina Health officials have unveiled a new plan for the new medicaid, dividing the state into six regions. Heres the map. The state would contract with local doctors or hospitals, and one mom says she is not happy about this proposal, and her daughter has a rare neurological disorder and would no longer be able to see one of her doctors. Its hard enough to find a neurologist that will accept medicaid, so the idea they are going to create these regions that are going to separate her from a neurologist is beyond scary to me. The state is planning a series of public hearing on the month. New this morning, the developer bringing a new apartment complex near north lake mall is moving forward with the second phase. This is the apartment community. 310 units will be completed by the end of the year. The second phase includes up to 300 Additional Units along with parking. Neighbors said goodbye to a Cleveland County couple killed after a truck crashed into a propane tank outside of their home. They were truly good friends, and they will be missed far long time to come. Next this morning, the changes neighbors are begging the dot to make now. The rain is long gone. We will discuss this with the future forecast and the mountain snow chance. The battle over charlottes antidiscrimination ordinance the actions level breaking news, more students are sick at Wingate University. The symptoms they are dealing doesnt know what is causing the illnesses. Look at this beautiful sunrise over charlotte as the clouds move out after overnight rain, and we are tracking cooler temperatures, and we will tell you when the warmth will return. Just a beautiful sunrise there. Good wednesday morning to you. Im liz foster. Avery and Watauga County schools are on a 2hour delay because of black ice. Keith monday is in with your forecast. Reporter temperatures falling below freezing, and the sunshine is back in, and its a neat effect. The clouds are off in the distance with the sunrise behind you, causing the sun rays to shine up from the horizon to the sky. Pretty neat affect with the sunrise coming in. Its cooler but not dramatically cooler just yet. 45 in Mountain Island lake, and a few neighborhoods south are around 50 degrees, and throughout the day today, we full sunshine, breezy north wind, and we only reach the low 50s this afternoon, and its 20 degrees colder than we enjoyed yesterday at 73, and coer is here to stay, and we will have the preview for your weekend in a moment, and how much warm air we will have for the weekend plans, and the time is 6 31. Lets get you out the door with mark taylor. Reporter no big problems, and minor issues we are monitoring. Something too look out for down to southEast Charlotte, and its halfway between highway 51 and north. Still traffic is building, 6 31, and no big, big slowdowns, and that goes for the interstates as well. The earlier injury crash on Kimberly Glen clearing up. You can take harris boulevard back. Minor delays at this point. We are watching the county line, an accident out to 485, out of gastonia as well no delays northbound too early. Liz . Almost 6 32. We are in the breaking news center right now, and we just learned more students at Wingate University is reporting symptoms similar to those from students last week. The school said additional students reported to the Health Center with diarrhea, vomiting, and nausea. Students are encouraged to wash they are sick. They are waiting for test results for last week to illnesses. The University Said they did take additional steps to clean bathrooms, resident halls, and other buildings. Charlottes nondiscrimination ordinance is now part of the governors race. Governor mccroy is planning to joe is live to explain more. Reporter cooper came out in favor of the ordinance yesterday and called on lawmakers in raleigh to spend their time discussing other issues, and i took the comments to house speaker, tim moore, and he said they will talk about the other issues, but they will discuss this ordinance as well. According to moore, six lawmakers are coming up with legislation to prevent one of the most controversial parts of the law from going into effect. Moore is talking about the part of the law that allows someone to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with. He is worried people will abuse it and possibly put children in danger. Theres certain things we learned in kindergarten, and this makes absolutely zero sense. Reporter and cooper dismiss the claims saying North Carolina criminal law still applies, and he say cooper is failing families across North Carolina. Joe bruno, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Channel 9 pushed the north a driver crashed into a Cleveland County home, hit a propane tank and killed the couple inside. Neighbors along the busy stretch of 182 say vehicles often speed around the curve can including sunday night. The truck crashed into the home, rupturing a gas line and causing an explosion, which killed naomi and johnie newton. The towns mayor is among several who had questioned the dot about studying the area again. The mayor wants the dot to put up a flashing light instead. What is the cost of putting a flashing light down here about the curve compared to the devastation youre looking at . So there is no comparison. Reporter and the dot spokesperson says traffic engineers will investigate the crash history, design of the road, and speed limit and warning signs, and that could take months. The Highway Patrol says the investigation, and its not clear if the driver will face any charges. 6 years ago one of the victims went to a Town Council Meeting and said he wanted a guard rail on the edge of his property. The complain was after four vehicles crashed into his yard for 3 years, but newton was told the state would have to add it because its a state road. The eight remaining members of the Supreme Court will hear arguments on Abortion Case from texas. Abortion providers are challenging the law that requires doctors who perform abortions to have privileges at a hospital. Usa today reports with the death of justice scalia, many believe Justice Kennedy holds the deciding vote. The decision will likely come in june. New this morning, duke attacks on the countrys largest Electrical Company is astounding. They said most of the attacks come from computer hackers backed by foreign governments, and duke energy said they are hardening their online defenses and focusing on quickly restoring power if its turned off to its 7 million customers. This morning the Pageland Police chief, larry brown, who is on administrative leave is preparing to head back to work. Its unanimous. You can hear the crowds cheering last night after the town council reinstated him. Chief brown was off the job for 4 months during a s. L. E. D. Investigatings, but the council has not told us what he is accused of doing. After his reinstatement he talked about his plans for the future. Move forward in my community, making the community feel safe, and making sure we solve the crimes, and we will do People Justice to serve our community. Reporter and chief brown 7th, and new this morning a South Carolina deputies lost his badge after the sheriff says the deputy stole tape from a victims home. According to the Richland County sheriff, caleb broom and another officer responded to a domestic dispute last week. While the victim was leaving the home, broom defaced a poster in the garage and took a roll of doublesided tape. Broom is charged with misconduct in office and could face a year in jail. Your job may be linked to how healthy your heart is. A new study from the cdc found different jobs appear to be linked to different risk factors for heart disease. Management and finance officials have a healthy weight but three out of four reported an unhealthy diet. Police officers are among the worst with high blood pressure, and 7 out of 10 people working in sales had unhealthy new this morning, a post be renamed. One lawmaker defending his vote calling angelo a sympathizer. We are back in the breaking news center, following a story happening in new york. Authorities said a Freight Train carrying hazardous liquids derailed in south western new york, and heres what we know right now. The train was traveling near the town of ripley, about 10 miles from the pennsylvania board. 15 cars derailed overnight. At least three of the cars had hazardous liquids including ethanol. And one of them was leaking. The leak has been contained, and Governor Andrew Cuomo says at least 45 homes have been evacuated, we will continue to follow the story and bring you get them. The Carolina Panthers are thrilled the franchise tag was used on josh norman. He can negotiate with other teams but the panthers could match an offer from another team or let him walk and get two first round picks. In less than 2 games he would make more than he made all of last season. Weather and traffic every 10 minute, and heres meteorologist keith monday. I can not get enough of the sunrise we are seeing this morning. Its been a beautiful morning. We are chilling things down. As you Step Outdoors to enjoy the beautiful sight, you will notice the big chill. The big chill is up to the north. Feel the colors change . Into charlotte, our maintains are tapping into that. From the rain refreezing, its 21 in banner oak, and rolling there will be a few icy patches this morning, and the foothills still in the 40s. We will talk about the warmup headed our direction, maybe not just through the weekend, but could be a good part of next week as well. 20 minutes until 7 00. Two new wrecks i want to get folks caught up on, including one to east mecklenburg this is right around cape stewart road, and at this particular time, im not seeing a big delay. Look at the First Responders headed out there as we speak. Near 77th, this is a fender bender, we are watching, and we are watching the merging delays, and they are taking shape. 77 here. We are right on schedule with this, and we are monitoring the wreck on sarnish road. It was halfway here between 51 and sarnish road north. John . Learned a hard lesson about leaving her cell phone unattended. Ahead on daybreak the pictures a student found on her phone and sent to himself that forced her to resign. We are learning shocking new information about a triple homicide, and im angela hong live in gaston county. The next steps in the case that will likely come today. This is the time of the year when storms bring power outages. We just saw some in our area last week. Now some of the outages are getting new attention from duke energy after they found the most frequent trouble spots were slipping through the tracks. Which 6 44. Back in the breaking news center a family escaped their burning home in pineville, and firefighters sent us these pictures where you can see the charred ceiling and part of the wall is gone. This was near lancaster highway, and investigators said it started because an extension cord was being used as permanent wiring. The suspect you can see here in the controversial video here will be in court today amid questions of the customers actions. Some say the officer went too far punching the suspect. Joe bruno is live with the questions we are asking this morning. And length of service have not been released yet, but hes being investigated for exteasessive use of force. Channel 9 sent us this video. It shows one Police Officer punching him several times, and according to thrice, the suspect was malcolm elliott, and he was wanted for a nearby hitandrun. Elliott fled the scene and resisted handcuffs before the recording. Cmpd police are being pushed for an investigation. Several City Council Members are withholding judgment until after the investigation. Reporting live, joe bruno, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Breaking news, troopers say a driver hit and killed someone walking along a york county road it happened on u. S. 21 near i77 last night, and troopers have not released the victims name or said if the extra counselors will be at West Mecklenburg High School as students mourn the death of evan shea. The driver crashed into a tree yesterday morning, and the driver and two other students in the car were hurt. Police say the driver was speeding and lost control. They have not filed any charges. Today police plan to file more charges against the woman who they say confessed to killing three people at a gas ton county home. This morning we are getting a better idea of what police say happened before they found the victims. Eyewitness News Reporter angela hong is live at the home off of alexis lucia road with the details. Alexa . Two of the victims, Jen Gilliland and the suspects husband were found dead in the home, and the third suspect, Stephanie Sanchez was found we were here all day yesterday. Our News Partners report that authorities believe the three victims met online and were engaging in sexual activities in the home on monday morning. Rererts say crystal gambino did not like what was going on and shot the three victims. Crystal is being held without bond for the murder of her husband, and the Gaston Gazette reporting she will likely be charged with the two additional murders today. Tonight is your first chance to give cms feedback about the Budget Priorities for next year. The district is hosting Six Community engagements from now until the end of april. Cms expects 27 million in new costs next year, and for salary increases, more students and more. At south mec high school. We have weather and traffic every 10 minutes. What did you call the rays . Anticapuscular rays. Awe usually you see them from the clouds shining down, but this is because of the sunlight passing through the clouds adds the as the sunrise is working its way in. We will enjoy it all day today, and much, much cooler. 43 in charlotte, and we are cooling things down quite a bit this morning, and its going to stay there all day today. Barely close to 50 by lunchtime, and only near 50 for the the high today, and we are at 53 for charlotte. Northern counties, youre probably in the upper 40s all day, and mid50s down south, and much colder into the mountains. The higher ridges, we see flakes here this morning. Socked in with low clouds, and slick travel for sure, only bouncing back into the mid30s with increasing sunshine throughout the day. Further south, a big warmup, and compared to yesterday, at least 20 degrees cooler, and back to 55 degrees down for today. The clouds are already back in by the afternoon drive for tomorrow a few light showers working in, and this is the latest update of the futurecast event. Our solid chance of rain coming in when it did last night, around 11 00, and it will drift out of here in the predawn hours by friday morning. You may see light snow showers coming through, and i will expect it to add up into the mountains. You may have a light coating on the grasses, is thats about it. 13inches for the mountain counties, winding our way to the weekend, and beautiful weather is in place, back to 60 degrees for saturday and sunday. The 5day forecast, with the weekend always in view. Thursday through the Early Morning hours of friday, and its all dry and quiet as we head our way through friday and the weekend. Mid to upper 50s, turned to lower 60s to wind our way for sunday. Stay on top of the weather changes for this week. Download it for free, and you can track the rain into your neighborhood. Anticrapuscular. Good spelling word. Yeah. I cant say i have ever heard of it. An accident that was unfortunately off to the scene, but now its blocking the left lane, and now its from briar creek. You can see the issues with congestion because of the accident scene. Use this as an alternate. I just learned about this wreck headed inbound at lake forest and its causing some delay. You stick with it or use pence road to harris, and thats probably going to take longer than the actual delays we are saying, and look out for this on rocky River East Church road around rocky stewart road. A South Carolina teacher forced to resign after a student accessed her phone and sent himself racy pictures meant for her husband, and next this morning, the way she says that student got to the images without her even knowing. And breaking overnight, Hillary Clinton and donald trump claiming victory after the super tuesday contests in a dozen states. Breaking down the number eaking down the number time now 6 54. Im in the breaking news center, and we have the final supertuesday elect results. Ted cruz won in alaska in and donald trump locked in 7 states increasing his delegate total to at least 274 overall but needs 1237 to get the nomination. Hillary clinton also won in seven states, and clinton has at least 1005 delegates but needs 2183. Good morning america will have much more on what the candidates need to do to lock in the nomination. Thats comina up right here after Eyewitness News day break. A union county South CarolinaHigh School Teacher resigned after she says one of her students leaked a risque others. Lee ann arthur says she had taken valentines day photos for her husband, showing her partially nude. She says a student took her phone and sent them out while she was patrolling the halls between classes. The school said she should not have left her phone out. 10 minutes, and mark taylor is monitoring a crash right now on independence. Its starting to cause big backups, around briere creek inbound. Fire and medics just arrived on the scene with police. Theres a come of cars in the left lane inbound, and traffic is starting to back up. Orman and central orman utilize those as an alternate. Additional delays in charlotte, headed inbound to lake forest road, and this this is east of harris. Does not last long, but we are seeing additional delay. If you want to jump over that will get you around the congestion. Keith . Beautiful morning out there. Only a little cooler, and you will notice more throughout the day today as the temperatures do not warm up much from where we are now. The low 40s now, bouncing up to the low 50s for this afternoon. Compared to yesterday afternoon it will feel a lot cooler. Plenty of sunshine in place today. Rain returning tomorrow evening, and after that, rain will push out, warming up and staying dry through the upcoming weekend, and those 60s will likely be back headed into sunday afternoon. Looking forward to that. Thank you, so much. The local news continues now with Eyewitness News on tv 64. Join us there now as we monitor backups because of this crash on independence boulevard. Good morning, america. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton in command. Winning big on super tuesday. Were just having a celebration. The gop frontrunner raquets up victories in seven states. Ted cruz takes three looking to stop the billionaire from making history. That would be a disaster for republicans. And marco rubio promises to fight to the end. The presidency of the United States will never be held by a con artist. Hillary clinton also a big trump. This country belongs to all of us, not just those at the top. The two frontrunners now on for president takes a dramatic also overnight, terrifying twisters threaten voters. At these three tornadoes reported tearing through the south. Now the storm hits the northeast bringing snow and rain to the coast. Millions facing a messy commute this morning. Breaking overnight, rocket man returns. Astronaut scott kelly back on earth after an epic 340 days in space. The moment he emerged victorious from this capsule and how all that time out of this world may do some good here on earth. We do say good morning, america. Huge wins overnight for both Hillary Clinton and donald trump. The two frontrunners each winning seven states on super tuesday. Donald trump claims victory all over the map. All the way from arkansas to massachusetts and also got support from all kinds of gop voters, but his success now threatens to split that party as