Himself. Hey, good morning, everyone, on a momentous and multilayered day in american politics. With voters in two key states heading out to vote. In South Carolina, the republican primary, which is really been a nasty race at points, donald trump is hoping to pull out his second win. Meantime, what jeb bush said last night that has people wondering if his campaign is all but over if he doesnt finish strongly in South Carolina. Race against Bernie Sanders for Hillary Clinton in the caucuses today. A nailbiter. And theres another political layer to all of this. President obama is spending the weekend studying that binder full of potential nominees for the supreme court. Even though republicans in congress have said they may block anyone that the president puts forward. Were covering every angle of were going to start with abcs tom llamas whos in charleston, South Carolina. Good morning. Reporter the polls are open here in South Carolina and the gop candidates are looking for a boost. Because in just two days, nevada votes. Super tuesday right around the corner. The big question this morning, who can catch trump . This morning, donald trump trying to make it two in a row. Trump hoping South Carolina voters make him the big winner tonight. All these thousands and thousands of people you have to get out and vote. Because we have a movement we have something very special. Reporter preelection polls have the billionaire as the frontrunner. But trump had a rough week, first tangling with pope francis over his immigration policy. Then, forced to explain this interview from 2002 with howard stern. I guess so. I wish the first time it was done correctly. Reporter one of trumps Major Campaign points he opposed iraq. I was against the war in iraq. I said its going to totally destabilize the middle east. I tell truth about iraq. I said the wars a disaster. Reporter in South Carolina, trump trying to explain. Then, i started looking at it, before the war started, i was against that war. Reporter as trump fought his personal battles, senators ted cruz and marco rubio battling each other to be the next in line. Feel a lot of pressure because no pressure. We feel a lot of momentum. We feel great. You know, its in gods hands reporter a super pac supporting ted cruz. Also on the offense. Sending out this robocall cruz telling voters trump was critical of the confederate flag. Trump t tks about our flag like its a social disease. Reporter cruz responding to the criticism that hes running a dirty campaign with humor. Should listen. Anybody else, hang up. Reporter a strange moment happened in South Carolina. Two nights ago, ben carson and senator cruz met backstage at a event here talking about what happened in iowa. The Cruz Campaign had suggested that dr. Carson was dropping out, thats not true. They had their secret meeting inside of a closet. When i thought of it, i thought of dan harris, thats where he wants to take people when hes not happy with them. Dan. Im not even going to go there. I heard the meeting didnt go so well. Thats an interesting thing. You couldnt make this stuff up. Tom llamas reporting from charleston. Now, to nevada, where the democrats will caucus today. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders have been running neck and neck. So much on the line for both of these candidates. And abcs mary bruce is on the story from vegas. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. As caucusgoers here get ready to Hillary Clinton is hoping the luck will be with the lady tonight. As she looks to take back the momentum from Bernie Sanders. Joined on stage by chelsea and bill clinton. And flanked by stars eva longoria and america ferrera. Hillary clinton made her Closing Argument at a latenight vegas rally. Lets make sure our country stays on the path of progress into the future reporter clinton counting on latino and union voters. Imagine a tomorrow where we finally pass comprehensive immigration reform, which i will work on from my first day in office reporter but as Bernie Sanders crisscrossed the state, in his final frantic push, he was confident that high turnout can propel him to victory. People will look back on what happens in nevada and say, this was the beginning of the reporter while nevada is neck and neck, clinton is already looking ahead to South Carolina where she holds a commanding lead. She got a big boost friday winning the coveted endorsement of influential congressman jim clyburn. My heart has always been with Hillary Clinton. Reporter and shes also enlisting the help of a famous voice. Her latest ad narrated by actor morgan freeman. Her lifes work has been about breaking barriers, and so would her presidency. Reporter now, its so close here that the party is actually distributing deck of cards like these to break any ties. Each side picks a card and the high card wins. Its the ultimate vegas spin on those infamous coin tosses we saw in iowa. Dan and paula. Classic nevada, mary bruce, thank you. Lets get more of this with matthew dowd. Math thur, good morning. Lets talk about South Carolina. Medal tonight . Well, i think trump is headed for a win but i think its going to be closer than many people think. I think hell win it. In South Carolina, its win the important spots are win, place and show. And the silver is really important in this. And theres a competitive race between marco rubio and ted cruz. Because of momentum, i think marco rubio pulls out second. Which makes it very difficult for ted cruz in the super tuesday states coming up. Because he hoped to take this with momentum there. You dont want to finish out of the podium. Speaking of which, jeb bush, i want to ask you specifically about him. Something that he said at rally last night at a high school. Here it is. Thank you very much for allowing us to close out campaign here at your high school. God bless you. He said close out our campaign here at this high school, does that sound like hes going to call it quits on the trail . Of cues that, if he doesnt finish in the top three hes probably out of this race before the next vegas caucuses, which are on tuesday for the republicans. My guess is if that happens hes out by sunday or monday. Huge stakes. Its either Viva Las Vegas or fear and loathing. For somebody. For some of these candidates. Thank you very much, matthew dowd. We want to remind everyone analysis on the race to the white house tomorrow on abcs and now to the question, providing a provocative backdrop to this whole race. Who should fill the seat left vacant by Justice Antonin Scalia. President oba spending this weekend studying that binder filled with potential nominees for the supreme court. This morning, a funeral mass after thousands filed past his casket inside the supreme courts great hall and abcs devin dwyer is in washington with more on this story. Devin, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, dan. 4,000 family and friends of Justice Scalia and more than a hundred clergy expected to fill this basilica. The catholic mass will be celebrated by the justices son, paul scalia. This morning, a final farewell to the father of nine. May he rest in peace. Reporter Justice Antonin Scalia lying in repose in supreme court. Today will be laid to rest. Sidewalk memorials to the justice who famously slammed a majority opinion as pure applesauce, adorned with jars of apple sauce alongside candles. President and mrs. Obama among the thousands who have paid respects. Armed with research, the president today is preparing for a nomination battle. The president will be of his weekend digging into that information. Reporter likely on the list, judge judges jane kelly, merrick garland. All appointed to the federal bench with republican support. The senate has a right what the philosophy of the nominee. They only get to dispose. The president proposes. Reporter Senate Republican leaders said the president s pick is dead on arrival and that replacing scalia should wait until a new president in 2017, writing in the washington post, the american people, rather than a lameduck president. Should be afforded the opportunity to replace Justice Scalia. And among the attendees, Vice President joe biden will represent the obama administration. Justice Clarence Thomas will deliver a scriptural reading. And there will be at least one president ial candidate in the crowd, senator ted cruz today. Devin, thank you. We want to move now to battle between two giants. The government and apple. Apple still refusing to unlock a an iphone of a San Bernardino terrorist. The battle, however, has moved into the political arena and abcs eva pilgrim joins us with more on whats becoming a very fierce battle. Reporter the fight continues. Personal privacy versus national security. Tech giant apple versus the department of justice. Both sides arguing over the San Bernardino shooters iphone. This morning, neither side is backing down. In a new federal filing prosecutors slamming apple for publicly repudiating a judges order to unlock the San Bernardino shooters iphone. Calling the tech giants refusal to help a marketing strategy. Trump now calling for a boycott until apple complies. Boycott apple until such time they give that security number. Boycott apple. Reporter apple ceo tim cook said it wont create a back door because helping to unlock the device would mean circumventing several important features. Its not about us trying to get a back door. I dont want a door, i dont want a window, i dont want a sliding glass door. I want people to comply with court orders. Reporter apple executives say they tried helping the feds. Shortly after investigators found syed farooks phone, they reset the password removing apples ability to access the phone remotely. Now the only way into the phone, cracking the numerical pass code. Investigators only have ten tries before the phone automatically erases the data. A risk that the feds arent willing to take when there are thousands of possible combinations. Just because its easy to do doesnt mean you should do it. From doj, stating apple acknowledges that it has the Technical Capability to help but still rejecting the quest saying it will put the privacy of hundreds of millions at risk. This morning, the fbi doesnt need apple to do this. Offering to have his team hack into syed farooks cell phone for free for the fbi. Mcafee said it would only take him three weeks. Meanwhile the question about why the county went in there and changed the password. Still dont have answer. We have posed that question. Whether it was policy to do that. All right, eva, thank you. Lot of other news this morning, and for that, we get it over to dr. Ron claiborne. Good morning, everyone. We begin overseas with breaking news, a Serbian Foreign Ministry saying that two Serbian Embassy workers, held hostage in libya since november, are air strikes in that country. U. S. Officials say an isis operative responsible for deadly terror attacks in tunisia may have been among dozens killed in that attack. Happening right now, fiji is in the middle of one of strongest cyclones ever to hit that island nation. The category 5 storm is packing winds more than 180 miles per hour. Evacuation orders are in effect. One of the strongest ever recorded in the southern hemisphere. And to hawaii, where the navy was to help recover the helicopter that made that dramatic crash and rescue that occurred there. The tour helicopter plunging into the waters off pearl harbor on thursday. A teenager in that chopper in critical condition. The pilot identified as a former marine. Who has undergone two surgeries. Take a look at this. A teenager if in a Tennessee Juvenile Detention Center after the beating, the teenager is seen snatching the gun, pointing it at and seeming to pull the trigger. But the gun was not loaded. The 16yearold managed to escape the facility barefoot. Manhunt is under way. He faces attempted murder charges. And the case against a socalled afflnza teen ethan couch, has been transferred to an adult court in texas. He faces up 120 days for allegedly violating his probation. He and his mother fled to mexico where they were arrested in december. He faces decades in prison if he violates her parole again. And now, to the death of harper lee, the famed author of to kill a mockingbird. The novel about a white lawyer in is south who defends a falsely accused black man. Lee said she didnt expect the book to sell well. It sold over 40 million copies and counting. Harper lee died in her hometown of mobile, alabama. She was 89 years of age. Frigid waters in New Hampshire friday night. Rescuers pulling a woman from the fastmoving merrimack river. Near manchester. The woman was hospitalized for hypothermia. And now to our galactic finale. Very gin galactic rolling out the new addition. The unveiling coming less than 18 months after his predecessor broke apart. Spaceship 2 named unity will carry six passengers and is designed to fly more than 60 miles high above the earth. The price of the ticket, 250,000. Hopefully, two way. Return flight included . Hopefully. Do you get pretzels and peanuts or no . The best Seat Available right now, harrison ford, hans solo himself was at control of the unity. Would you fly . I would. Forget the peanuts. I would need a cocktail. I would want paula to go very nice of you. I want her to test the peanuts. Youre just being a gentleman, letting the woman first. She always cover for me. Indra, if we wanted a heat wave. This is about as close were going to get. A gorgeous day out there. If you have a friend in chicago, see twitter yesterday or facebook yesterday, lighting up. Winds gusting 60 to 70 miles per hour. Im going to say it, it was crazy out there. But it started to turn dangerous. Streets evacuated. Debris falling off the buildings out there. 250,000 people were without power. Definitely today a milder day for them. And for a rot of us on the east coast here, look at the maps. Mild air moving in for one day. Its going to feel like a saturday. Temperatures, look at this. Do i have to remind you, last weekend, we were feeling wind chills on the eastern not this weekend. Look at those temperatures into the upper 50s. We want to be couch potatoes. We stay on the couch. Today is not a day for onesies or sweats. No . Every day is a day for onesies or sweats. Enjoy it. You just broke dans heart. Those hoverboards, one of the most popular gifts under the trees this christmas. This morning, a stunning announcement from the federal government. Safety officials saying all of the hoverboards sold in the u. S. Are unsafe. Reporter they have spontaneously come busted, in malls, and park path and its on fire reporter then blamed for house fires and banned on airplanes. This morning, the government cracking down. It is irresponsible for a company to continue to sell hoverboards that they know do not comply with the standards. Reporter and since not a single one has been certified safe, the cpsc warning that consumers risk serious injury. Or death if their selfbalancing scooters burn. 52 boards have been burned since december. This nashville home reduced to ashes after a hoverboard caught fire. You always think it wont happen to you. It could happen. I dont think its worth the risk. Reporter it was the hottest item on many christmas lists. Every 12 seconds. Chairman, would you let one of your own children ride a hoverboard . Absolutely not. Reporter which is why the cpsc said the first thing to do is take these away from your kids and then go to your retailer and demand a refund. At least one retailer, amazon is honoring refunds. Swagway offered a statement. Saying we have been actively working with the cpsc on the investigation on the hoverboards. Were continuing to work on improving our product features including enhanced safety, which remains a top priority for us. For Good Morning America, matt gutman, abc news, los angeles. Thank you to matt. Lot of people are going to be disappointed by that news. Coming up here on Good Morning America freedom for a man held in solitary confinement for more than four decades for a murder he says he didnt commit. Why hes released now. 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