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
Unstoppable. Have you seen his hands . They are like this. You know what they say about men with small hands . Tomorrow, this Campaign Goes national senator, a disappointing loss in South Carolina . I wont tell thaw we didnt get beaten and beaten very badly. Hamilton accused of killing a Police Officer in virginia will appear in court. She was sworn in the day before. Otto warmbier detained in north korea begs for forgiveness. Save my life a rampage on a religious festival and luckily no one hurt during the festivities. All that. He hit the shot out of the water in his boxer breven. What is going on over there . What are you going to do once the big show is over . Im going to the oscar parties. The afterparties. When is your bedtime . 8 00. I want you to reach into your millionaire pockets and i want you to buy some of my daughters look at my babies up there leo, you made 30 million. Come on on cbs this morning. There were no nominees. They were in line to buy tshirts at the Michael Bo
Rock hill to uptown, 21 minutes, 65 miles an hour. Concord to center city, 17 minute commute, lake norman southbound at 16 minutes at 64 miles an hour. Most of the major highways run in the green, well keep an eye on that as we head toward the rush hour. Earlier we had Central Avenue blocked in both directions, with an investigation with a fatal hit and run accident. That scene has been cleared and Central Avenue has reopened. That is a check of the morning commute, john and christine, back over to you. John now lets begin with the breaking news weve been following out of east charlotte, Police Say One person was killed in a hit and run on Central Avenue near sharon amity. Right now the investigation has moved to the green briar amounts not farapartments. Mark davenport live at the scene, tell us what happened and what have police found . Reporter john, fatal hit and run on Central Avenue and just around the block like you said, the green briar apartments, police found the vehicle. A m
And the kkk though he did so. And nascar strived to increase diversity. Race fans they do not play the political game. And long time fan got to the heart of the matter. Wondering if race fans listen to what brian france had to say. I do not think mr. Frances comments is going to sway the race fan either way. And obviously mr. Frances comments were important to donald trump. And nascar released a statement saying that endorsement was from brian france personally it was not a corporate endorsement from nascar. Thank you. Now, you will recall nascar the organization once distanced itself from trump after remarks on mexican immigrants after the Title Sponsor of the nascar truck series sent a letter denouncing trump and yesterday marcus tweeted there is no place for politics any political endorsements in any business. Your customers and employees should have their own mind hashtag period. Trump took to twitter to thank france and the drivers for their endorsements. Im now with leigh brock i
Through uptown charlotte. Back to the breaking news in east sharment. Police are looking East Charlotte. Police are looking for a driver who hit and killed someone overnight in East Charlotte. In the past half hour, officers cleared the crash scene on Central Avenue. Eyewitness News Reporter angela hong is live at an apartment complex nearby where officers are focussing their investigation now. A . Reporter thats right, stephanie, were at the green briar apartments a quarter mile away from the accident scene and you can see right now, police are in the process of covering up the windshield of the Silver Honda Odyssey with, i believe it is some sort of blue tape. We were here earlier, we were the first on the scene, and actually got some video of that car. We got a closer look, you could see the window is smashed through. There is heavy front end damage. The bumper was nearly falling off. Police tell me they have not made an arrest in this case. This car was left here at the apartment c