His lead in New Hampshire. But the fastestrising candidate there is marco rubio. Hes now at 13 , a ninepoint improvement since september. Trump is at 26 , followed by ben carson at 16 . Heres Major Garrett. Thank you very much. Reporter marco rubios rise has come at jeb bushs expense. Once an understudy, rubio is now running ahead of bush and attracting his donors. Leaving bush to scramble for support today in the two candidates home state of florida. New york im not frustrated about him. Hes a great guy. Hes a good friend. Hes a gifted politician. I just have the leadership skills to solve these problems. We have a little disagreement on that. Im going to tell you truth. Heres the truth. Reporter rubios surge began with his sprong spfs during last weeks cnbc debate. The same poll that shows rubio jumping to third place in New Hampshire also shows a spike in his favorable rating up from 50 to 62 . Hes now just two points behind ben carson, the republican with the highest rating. Rubios
Reporter after being in a halfway home and under house arrest for five months 50yearold Michael Higgins became a free man. The former Public School teacher served ten years in federal prison for dealing meth and ecstasy. I was released two years early, and i am so grateful for that. Reporter hes one of some 6,000 federal inmates mates to be granted Early Release under a u. S. Sentencing commission program. In 2014 the Commission Voted to cut jail time for some nonviolent drug offenders. The average 10 1 2year prison sentence is being reduced by two years. This program is part of a bipartisan effort to reduce the federal prison population, which has grown to more than 200,000 inmates. Alsosoeing adadessed, evening out sentences for thoho cauaut with cracks as opposed to powder cocaine, and loosening socalled mandatory minimum sentences. Critics say both practicic have led to high incarceration rates and unfairly targeted blacks and the poor. Kevin ring represents families against mandat
Notes. What we found was an arsenal of smoke guns. Reporter Deputy Attorney steven bright is representing foster. The notes were shocking in terms of just how explicit the racial factor was. Reporter the names of the potential africanamerican jurors were highlighted, and in this list of possible jurors titled definite nos, the top five people were black. In the Supreme Court monday georgias Deputy Attorney general argued prosecutors had valid reason for excluding africanamerican jurors in the 1987 trial, and it flagged the black prospective jurors to make sure they were following new Supreme Court guidelines handed down in a landmark 1986 case to prevent Racial Discrimination in jury selection. But a majority of the justices appeared skeptical. Liberal Justice Elena kagan said the case seemed as clear a violation as the court is ever going to see of the courts 1986 guidelines. Conservative Justice Samuel alito, a former u. S. Attorney, also seems troubled, asking what about the giving
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Vanished from radar. David martin at the pentagon reports the infrared satellite recorded the flash, but it is not known whether the flash was caused by Something Like a failure in a fuel tank or perhaps a bomb. The metrojet wreckage is spread over miles, indicating that it came apart at high altitude. All aboard, more than 200 people, were killed. They were mostly vacationing russian families en route from a seaside resort in egypt to st. Petersburg. Today u. S. Intelligence director James Clapper said its unlikely that terrorism brought down the airbus a321. Investigators hope the flight recorders will tell them what did. Allen pizzey is in egypt. Reporter Sunny Isles Beach teams have finished combing a eightsquaremile area of the sinai december ertd where the airbus went down and will now widen the search. Most of the bodies have been found along with the planes two flight data recorders. Decoding them to discover what caused the plane to suddenly breck apart in midair is expected t