For making their decisions in the final days. Four candidates will be on the stage. Carly fiorina, mike huckabee, Rick Santorum and jim gilmore will get things kicked off. Gilmore make an appearance to the debate circus. Two hours after that, 9 00. Seven candidates on stage for the first time. Ted cruz and marco rubio will be front and center. They will be flanked by dr. Ben carson, Chris Christie, rand paul, jeb bush and john kasich. There is one notable absence, that will be donald trump he will be holding a different event. Its most certainly going to change the dynamic tonight. I can tell you from talking to the folks over at the campaign of ted cruz. They prepared much differently for this debate tonight because of that dynamic, a trumpless debate. They expect that their candidate will receive crossfire from all sides because they say when those other six candidates on the stage look right, look left, it will be cruz in the middle. They are look up to trump and cruz and the only o
Tipping point. Reporter it has been raining and we have men and women on the sidewalk. We found out there is a plan maybe finally in the works to set up enough beds and a temporary shelter for these men and women. Daytona beach just happened to have a meeting scheduled to take an architect to design the safe harbor homeless shelter paid for. The Midi Committee meeting going on . Expected to find out what they plan to do about the growing homeless encampment on beach street it i found the meeting going on downstairs with city employees. Even though city staff met about the safe harbor project we were here and we found the city manager was not here and the mayor and commissioner was not here. Reporter the city manager and police chief met at north how homeless. Finger pointed between the city and county is juvenile and embarrassing. The dangerous encampment on beach street has been a place for 2 months. Homeless advocates are frustrated and have accused leaders on both sides of using the
Absolutely. A 99yearold woman, well, she had a scare over an exotic animal. Where else but its my home state florida. They always make fun of me about this. Have you heard of a kinkajou . Apparently neither did she till she woke up with one on her chest. I would have been gone. She thought at first it was a cat. When they both got a good look at each other, she freaked out. Then it freaked out and it ran into her attic. No, no. So, the woman called a daughter and a friend, who were able to lure it out. It turned out to be someones pet and they were reunited at a miami veterinarians office. No, thank you. I can say that kinkajous are not homegrown in florida. Theyre not . No. Panthers, yes. Manatee, yes. Kinkajous, no. In the middle of the rain forest in brazil maybe. Im curious how they got it there to begin with. Weird. Coming up, the cost of staying fit and working out in a gym is skyrocketing. We know this very well. Expense . Also ahead, the baby clydesdale horse making a super bow
And good morning, america. Happy friday. Okay, could you make a free throw staring at Michael Phelps like that. Curtain of distraction . You never know whos going to be behind that curtain. Welcome back, robin. Thank you. What a night in politics last night. Last debate for the republicans before the first votes and donald trump did follow through on that promise. He refused to take center stage, instead he hired a hall just five minutes away, held his own event to raise money for veterans. Actually it was at one point in the evening there were five big events going on at the same time. As you know, three days until the Iowa Caucuses, and its your voice, your vote. We have full Team Coverage starting with abcs jonathan karl. Hes in des moines, iowa, this morning. Good morning, jon. Reporter good morning, robin. Donald trump has dominated this race since the moment he got back in in june, but for one night, the other candidates took center stage without him. Before we get to the issues,
Michael jackson, absolutely. Theres controversy. You know, about who they selected for this role. Kind of interesting, yeah. One of the oscar controversies weve been talking about is there are no good roles for black actors. Oh, kendis. And apparently, this is a good role for a black actor. Interesting story though. Well get to that in a bit. But another controversy surrounding tonights gop debate on fox news. Donald trump insisting he will not take part in tonights debate, pushing senator ted cruz into center stage surrounded by the six other republicans. Trump spoke out again last night. Heres abcs david wright. In iowa, a high stakes game of chicken. Donald trump insists hes ducking the last gop debate before the caucuses reasons he outlined to bill oreilly. I was not treated well by fox. They came out with this is ridiculous pr statement. The donald apparently not in your christian faith, there is a very significant tenet, and thats of forgiveness. Its called an eye for an eye also