Today is super tuesday voters across 12 states and one us territory are at the polls right now picking who they think is fit to be the next commanderin chief. The president ial candidates should have an idea of where they stand by the end of the day. Front runners donald trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton are hoping things go their way. The two are favored and have been leading in the polls. And today is the most important day of the 2016 president ial primaries. Some candidates will hold rallies and events in multiple states rounding up more voters. And there was drama at a trump rally last night in virginia. You grabbed me by nats of crowd take a look at this video. A times magazine photographer says a secret Service Agent choked and slammed him to the ground. He says he stepped about 18 inches outside a media pen when the agent grabbed him. Times magazine did release a statement saying the photographer apologizes for escalating the fight. This happened after dozens of protesters int
Matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on to super Tuesday Morning. Imagine thihi were the day you were coming back to earth like astronaut scott kelly. Just a Boring Campaign season. Whens the next rocket out of here . Anyway, well have more on that coming up later on. This is super tuesday and lets look at this map. Primaries and caucuses held in 12 states overall. The majority of them across the south. Ourfanned out across the country and well bring it all to you this morning. Lets start with National Correspondent Peter Alexander in texas. The biggest state up for grabs. Good morning to you. Good morning from here in texas. This is the biggest prize, and it could be make or break for some of Donald Trumps republican rivals, trying to stop his march to the our surveymonkey online poll, donald trump at a new high nationally, 40 . Marco rubio up, but still trailing trump 2 1. Ted cruz in third on a day that
Contest despite some conflicting and curious answers to a question thats left him exposed over very sensitive racial ground. Nbcs katy tur starts our coverage tonight. Reporter tensions high in radford, virginia. Secret service body slamming a time photographer who tried to leave the campaign mandated press pen. Trump on edge, too. This morning blaming his refusal to condition dem the kkk and david duke in a cnn interview on a bad ear piece. Im sitting in a house in florida with a very bad earpiece that they gave me, and you could hardly here what he was saying. Reporter a complaint he did not make during that interview. I dont know anything about david duke, okay. I dont know anything about what youre even talking about with White Supremacy or white supremacists, so i dont know. Reporter trump disavowed the clines infamous former leader last week. David duke and robo calls, White Supremicist movement supporting you. Any words for that . I disavow it and reporter trump cited the onetim
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Jazmin the judge set a little more than 25,000 bond on sunday s deadly crash, but then revoked her bond on a past case, meaning she has no chance of getting out. Syndia saint cyr didn t speak during this morning s short appearance. She was visibly injured. As she walked to the podium, you can see the bandaid on her left arm. The judge ordered a public defender to work with her. Saint cyr was arrested sunday, after troopers say a deputy tried to pull her over, but she took off. That s when she allegedly slammed into 23yearold cody garrick, killing him. Garrick had just finished deliveries on his first day, working for domino s pizza. His mother says she wants justice. She chose to run from the law. She chose to do it over and over again, to drive without a license. She killed my son. There are a lot of people that will miss him. Jazmin saint cyr got no bond today, because she was accused of fleeing Law Enforcement in saint cyr was ordered not to drive, if at some point in the future she