Right now. Good evening. We begin with a brandnew nbc news wall street journal poll and a pair of eyeopeners in the republican race. Donald trump has more than doubled his lead nationally over ted cruz since december. Trump now leads the republican pack at 33 . In a clear sign Republican Voters are taking his campaign more seriously, 65 say they could now see themselves supporting trump, up from 23 in march and nightmare oregon the gap with cruz who had 71 tops on that question. Its a critical snapshot of the state of the race 2 1 2 weeks before the iowa caucuses. And hours before tonights republican debate. Here is Hallie Jackson with the latest. Reporter filling up and counting down to tonight by the numbers. From ten candidates the main stage tonight. Zero room for mistakes. Ted cruz defending himself against news he borrowed money from Goldman Sacks for his first senate run without telling the s. E. C. So he did file proper personal disclosures. The loans from goldman and citibank
Those with the words of the salon owner who is now fighting for her life while her son is in custody for the shooting. Witnesses say she was behind the front counter when her son shot her in the face. Minutes later he returned, acknowledged this was his mother, walked outside where other eyewitnesses saw him put a handgun in his car. They alerted police and the arrest was made within 15 minutes of the shooting. An active scene out here, people coming to check on others who were in the salon at the time. At 6 00 you will hear more about those moments right after the condition of the mother and son police. Tisha also breaking right now, bond denied for the suspected the judge jewel thief. The judge denied her on, saying she is a flight risk. Authorities say she rocked six Jewelry Stores robbe six Jewelry Stores. Dthey have not recovered the 4. 3 million worth of jewelry she is accused of stealing. Just a short time ago, chris learned her punishment. After a fourday long panel, an advocat
The changes made in the citys Police Department. Also, indonesia rattled by a deadly bomb and gunfire attack. I. S. I. L. Claims responsibility, three men are under arrest. And you need a skeleton to start to understands these animals. Meet one of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered and the fans its attracting of all ages. We begin in south carolina, where the republican candidates scared off. T republicans scared off in opposition to what the president said on tuesday. David shuster joins us. A lot of attack on hillary clinton, each other and entertaining. Entertaining and attacks on president obamament frankly they are over the top, at least thats what democrats would say. You had, for example, marco rubio saying that president obama took every opportunity to undermine the second amendment. Jed bush said that under president obama the world has been torn asunder. They were going after president obama and the record of hillary clinton. They were going after each other. And they new
This is Aljazeera America live from new york city, im stephanie sy. Markets are opening here on wall street and dow futures pointing down this morning as china falls into a bear market for the second time in seven months. The drop of about 20 over just two months, the shanghai fell 3. 6 ending at its worse close in two years. Chinas government has been intervening but some say its not enough to manage the economic throwdown. Rob mcbride has more. This has been a horneddous end to the first couple of weeks of newer trading on the china and hong kong stock exchanges. The 3. 5 fall in shining high today brings losses for the week to nearly 9 and to 21 since last december. Thats very much bear market territory and of course the bears are predicting that it could fall still further. Last week, we saw various measures by the authorities to try to stop the selloff, this socalled 7 trigger that would suspend trading in the market. We saw measures being lifted. They clearly werent working. If a
The husband of celine dion has died of cancer. And this on the heels of the passing of alan rickman. Early today starts right now. Good morning. It was a bare knuckle brawl for republicans served up southern style. The hits came hard and heavy. The candidates taking on each other while also unleashing vicious attacks on president obama and their democratic rivals. Hes a taste starting with the texas senators take on new yorkers. There are many, many wonderful working men and women in the state of new york but everyone understands that the it values in new york city are socially liberal, pro abortion, pro gay marriage, focus on money and i guess i can frame it another way. Not a lot of conservatives come out of manhattan. Im just saying. When the World Trade Center came down, i saw something that no place on earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than new york and the people in new york fought and fought and fought and we saw more death and even the smell of death nobo