Along the Mighty Mississippi. Thats a big river. Al, where are you . We are a cape girardo along the Mighty Mississippi in the fire boats. We are on the mississippi. Monster monday became part of terrible tuesday. We didnt land here until about two hours ago. So we have taken too many hits with the punchy stick. It should make for a fun show. I thought that happened yesterday. Al, we will check in with you in a bit. The republicans running for president. Gearing up for the debate showdown in milwaukee tonight and all eight on the main stage have things to prove to voters. We have this covered with nbcs Peter Alexander. Peter, good morning to you. Reporter savannah, good morning. You said it with eight candidates on the main stage. Four on the undercard and three on the sidelines all together. We expect to hear more from the candidates. Among the biggest questions, will ben carson need to fend off donald trump and how does jeb bush handle the pressure . And for the republicans, poses another test. Ben carsonacingcrutiny over his life story. Debate moderators his chief opponent donald trump is teeing off focusing on the description of his violent youth. The only election in history where you are better off if you stab somebody. What are we coming to . Reporter carsons Business Manager tells nbc news the controversy as lit a fire under the usually calm candidate. I think finally he had an epiphany and realized that look, i have to be ready for these moments. Bring it on. Im ready to fight. Reporter with the economy in is substance over style and show how his business saavy translates to white house. And marco rubio answers questions about the spending in the legislature. The last debate showdown with marco rubio and jeb bush. The tension between the two under scored by a times report out this morning that allies of bush are threatening a wave of attacks on and already casting a light on rubio because of his stance on abortion and the missed senate votes. All signs of how anxious they have become about the state of bushs candidacy. On the campaign trail, jeb is touting jeb can fix it and fielding questions. The three questions, they are better than the moderator debate questions. Just saying. Reporter after last month debate on cnbc, the moderators from wall street journal and fox business call it a business affair. Maria bartolomo says it is all fair game. Matt and savannah. Peter alexander in milwaukee. Thank you. Nicholle wallace is the former Communications Director for george w. Bush and we have steve wenake. Lets start with steve. He says he is being vetted harder than any other candidate. How will that affect his performance . That is the question. The question is how do the moderators and fellow candidates respond after all of the criticism of the last debate with the format on the gotcha questions. Does that give carson a potential out if people come after him . A moderator or candidate to say this is all beside the point. And donald trump lashed out at the Biographical Data aside, the others are in a tough position. They reaped the benefits of attacking the media. If they attack carson, they are doing what they are blaming the media of doing. Carson can say you are doing the bidding of the liberal media. And lets talk about jeb bush. How many times have we said he has to have a good night. His super pac is ready to throw serious money at attacking marco rubio. Does that say to you, nicholle, let the super pac do the dirty work. We are not seeing bush versus rubio. They do not spend anytime in the Campaign Headquarters figuring out how to beat carson or trump. They spend time how to win that establishment lane. How to beat Chris Christie and governor kasich and rubio. Third imperative is to top rubio. At the moment, rubio has momentum coming out of three strong debate performances. You mentioned Chris Christie. He had one of the best weeks of his campaign and he goes to the undercard. He has to be disappointed by that, but might it not be an opportunity for him to dominate that debate and get a lot of camera time and breakout in some way . We have seen this before. Carly fiorina in the first undercard debate. She got such great reviews, it vaulted her back to the main stage. He needs to get back to the main stage. The thing is to remember, he has moved up and quadrupled support with the town hall meetings. It is what john mccain once did. Cycle, debate moderators have become part of the story. If you are fox and hosting the debate, fox business, how do you handle that . On the one hand, you dont want to subject yourself to the candidates going after you or media. On the other hand, you want to pull your punches. Fox has a special place in the heart of the republicans. They go in with a lot more goodwill on every one of the woman and men on the stage. They prove tough. Megyn kelly and bret baier go in with scrutiny. I think they will play it straight. I dont see any signs of pulling any punches. I think they have more trust in the campaigns. Nicholle and steve, thank you very much. See you later. Federal Appeals Court with a blow to the obama plan to protect millions from being nbcs Pete Williams is following the story. Reporter good morning, savannah. Another setback to the plan. A lot of people here illegally to stay if they have children who are citizens. Expanding to let young people brought here as children to stay. By a vote of 21, the Appeals Court agreed with texas and 25 other states show the administration tried to put the policy in place without Public Comment first. The Appeals Court rejected the white house plan that the plan shifts enforcement priorities. The heart of the plan would give benefits to people here illegally, including Social Security and work permits. Texas said that would impose a big problem on the state. The administration can now appeal to the u. S. Supreme court and if it acts soon, it would be in time for the justices to take up the issue during the courts current term. To be continued on that. Pete williams, thank you. To a security incident at Miami International airport. Delayed more 50 flights. Heavily armed Police Called in after a suspicious item at a security checkpoint. Canine units at the terminals. Passengers were told to keep their hands up while officers swept the aisles. We were asked to stand up and evacuate the plane. At that point, we got about three rows forward and immediately, loudly told to sit down and put your hands on your head. A passenger was detained on an American Airlines flight. While items if his carryon bag looked suspicious, they were later deemed to be safe. The passenger does not face any chance charges. Now to a scandal. Russia is accused of state supported doping to improve this allegedly went on for years. It could lead to russias forfeit from the Olympic Games in rio. We have keir simmons with the latest. Reporter good morning. Antidoping Agency Report was published and look at the size much of it. The moscow lab where athletes are tested, but russian officials believe they put the doping scandal behind them and president putins Spokesman Says the allegations are groundless. This morning, president putins athletes are facing world condemnation. With less than a year away russia may have no way to play in the games. This report reads like a spy thriller. The lab was used for state sanctioned doping. Filmed drugs being handed out like candy. This was shown in a german documentary last year. That is the system. Reporter across the globe, athletes are outraged. American alysia montanyo. You put out honest effort and time and energy and emotion. And being cheated out of it, you cant ever get back those moments. Reporter russians took gold and bronze in the same race. According to the report, they and eight more athletes and coaches should be banned for life. After londons 2012 olympics, sabotaged. Londons mayor stunned. A successful games. One of the greatest games ever. Some serious allegations made reporter at the olympics in sochi, president putin celebrated. Protected. And russia has been told it has until thursday to respond and further action may be taken by the end of the week. Get this, matt and savannah, interpol is investigating people in the report. This yet may lead to a criminal investigation. Keir, thanks. Yesterday. Not only accused of intimidating, but innfiltrateing the system. And major story we told you about monday. Tim wolfe resigned over handling allegations of racism on campus. That came two days after black Football Players boycotted this saturdays game and the graduate student on the eight theth day of the hunger strike. The chancellor of the campus announced he is stepping down. Detectives say a person of interest destained in shooting of the texas judge. Julie kocurek was shot in the driveway of her home. Now many believe it was a targeted attack. He was arrested on the judge remains hospitalized. The family said her condition has been improving every day. Also this morning, we are learning more about the murder case against two Louisiana Police officers charged in the shooting death of a 6yearold autistic boy. The officers are now being held on 1 million bond each. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez has the story for us this morning. Gabe, good morning. Reporter savannah, good morning. The marshals have been moved to another jail better equipped to family members saying goodbye to the 6yearold boy about questioning over his death. A small funeral in hattiesburg, mississippi. Jeremy mardis being laid to rest. His dad not there. Recovering from critical gunshot wounds. This morning, he still doesnt know his son was killed. He hasnt been able to speak to him. Reporter today, Derrick Stafford and norris greenhouse jr. Each being held on 1 million bond. Witnesses say tuesday night, few had an argument with his girlfriend outside this bar. Someone called 911. It is unclear why he was chased and officers shot at him 18 times. A lawyer for the few families who has not seen the body camera it will show few had his hands up. Typically marshals serve arrest warrants, state police said there were no outstanding warrants on chris few and no gun found in his vehicle. Two months ago, the marksville mayor sent this letter asking for an opinion about the marshal marshalsmarshal marshals duties. We understand why they want to duplicate what we are doing inside marksville. Reporter in a written statement, the elected city marshal, a local bus driver, says under louisiana law, his office is allowed to make arrests and preserve the peace. The attorneys for the marshals charged have not commented. A judge issuing a gag order in the case. Savannah. Gabe, thank you. Lets look at video from oklahoma. A Police Officer being run down by an suv in middle of the highspeed chase. Look at it here. Stop stop react, officer matt stacy pulled his gun and fired multiple rounds. He suffered minor injuries. He got up and with the help of other officers arrested the 41yearold driver who now faces a list of charges. Meantime, officer stacy is out of the hospital. And to the story that will have the attention of parents across the country. Major new steps taken to reduce injuries among young soccer players. By setting strict rules on heading the ball. It is one of the staples of soccer. Heading the ball. But on monday, the u. S. Soccer federation took the bold step of eliminating heading from youth soccer to eliminate concussions. Per the new rules, children and under banned from heading the ball from my session, practice or game. To head the ball during games only. Mondays announcement after the Class Action Lawsuit charging soccer organizations with negligent in treating head injuries. Reaction on social media was mixed. This is why the u. S. Will never been good at soccer. Cant imagine soccer without headers. Best time to learn proper technique to prevent concussions. Former u. S. National team member whose career was cut short by concussions spoke out. Cant tell you how emotional i am about progress being made. I cannot wait to see it come to fruition. I have a 14yearold who plays sockplay plays soccer. That is the part i dont get. If you dont practice it, why permitted to use it in a game . They are saying the repetitive nature of heading the i can see both sides of this one. Lets go down to where . Mississippi. I cant keep track where you are, al roker. Do you know where you are . I know where i am. Im the one who is working on less than an hours sleep. Not you. Where are we . Cape girardeau, missouri. It is 31 degrees with mild visibility. Plenty of visibility. We have to go. This is rusty. Watch it, rusty. Lets show you what we have going on as far as your weather for today. Along the east coast, we are looking at wet weather. It is not a big deal. We look for periods of rain in the night. Probably some airport delays. 1 to 2 inches of rain. The Severe Weather will be back to the west. In fact, around here, later on today, i should say to him, storms develop wednesday large hail and damaging winds. We have the enhanced risk of strong storms. Isolated weather in iowa and illinois. Heavy rain from 2 to 3 inches of rain wednesday into early thursday morning. We will watch Severe Weather here over the next 24 to 48 hours. We will get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. Wednesday will have strong storms that will produce a lot of lightning and wind along with the potential for some tornadoes in the south. There mainly along and south of highway 20, but the best chance of hail and tornadoes is south evening. But today we will have another pretty nice day. Stormtrack7 Live Weather Network will show plenty of dry weather today, although we are starting off a bit chilly areas, although there are upper 30s to low 40s to the southwest. Southerly winds are light this morning but will be mainly 5 to 15 mph today. However the next couple of days increasing clouds will be expected today, but that storm to the all right. Thats your latest weather. Guys, 22 states down now with missouri. 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