From hollywoods biggest night only on gma. And good morning, america. We have a lot of news overnight and well get to all that. Plus, all that excitement building around the oscars. Robin and lara out in l. A. Ready for all the action. Hey, robin. Hello there. We are inside the dolby theatre right now where the biggest stars will watch the Academy Awards. On the stage right over there, all eyes on chris rock. What will he do . What will he say . More on that ahead. Lara, i hear you were hanging last night. Yeah, no kidding, the executive producers, the guys calling the shots and they gave me a few tidbits. Some secrets, ill share them with all of you coming up. Back to you, rob. All right. We will have that and so much more ahead, george. Yeah, looking forward to that all. We begin on a deadly serious note, that rampage overnight in three people, injured 14 before he was shot dead in a showdown with police. Abcs Clayton Sandell is on the scene in hesston, kansas, good morning, clayton. Reporter hey, good morning, george. Behind me you can see the factory where this all took players. Normally they make lawn mowers here but this morning it is a massive crime scene. Horrifying moments as gunfire erupts in a small kansas community. The gun was strapped to him. He was ready to go. Reporter just before 5 00 p. M. Thursday Officials Say 38yearold cedric ford started his shooting rampage, first firing shots at random drivers wounding two in separate locations. Minutes later, ford heads to excel industries in hesston where he worked armed with a rifle and handgun. He shoots one person in the parking lot before going inside the industrial plant and opening fire on his coworkers. And then i see a mob of people running out saying, run, run and pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. Reporter witnesses say ford officer to arrive on scene took him down. Even though he took fire, he went inside of that place and saved multiple, multiple lives. A hero as far as im concerned. Reporter in the end, four people including the gunman are killed. At least 14 are wounded. Two medical choppers and 15 ambulances responded along with s. W. A. T. Teams surround the plant as nearly 150 employees finally flee the building. Friends and family outside desperately waiting to find out if their loved ones were okay. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Reporter the shooter has an extensive criminal record including arrests for burglary, battery and concealed firearms posting this picture and this video on facebook in september firing an akstyle rifle. Now just moments ago i talked to the sheriff here who tells me an hour and a half before the restraining order meant to keep him away from a girlfriend and investigators say that may have been one of the things that pushed him over the edge, amy. You. Just a few moments ago i spoke to an eyewitness to the shooting. Jennifer. Jared, i know you were inside excel when the shooting began. Tell me what you saw, what you heard when you first realized something was terribly wrong. We were working on production and i heard a loud bang. I saw a forklift driver running, sprinting and i thought it was an explosion of some sort like something was on fire. I had travis started screaming, yelling, run, run, theres a shooter. Theyre shooting at us. People were getting pushed, trampled. Everyone was trying to get out of the shooting where he was shooting at. Yeah, then, jared, you saw someone who had been shot and you went right into rescue mode . Me and another coworker saw chewy and he had been shot in the leg in the upper hip area and we went back to get him and we carried him across the street and we got him down. We set him down and started attending to his wound. We saw that beautiful reunion when you two finally found each other after all of this horror. What was that moment like . I was happy. My family said they saw him on the news and had been seen him but i hadnt seen him yet and when i finally got to see him, i was i didnt want to let him go. Jared, what do you remember about cedric ford . Do you know anything about him . Theres a couple types that ive walked by him or had said hello to him and he never would respond. He was really quiet. He really didnt say much. He just he didnt look happy. That, jared, you made it out safely and our hearts go out to those who did not. Those who were wounded. Jared and jennifer trujillo, thank you very much for joining us this morning. Yes. Yes. You know, jared and i spoke earlier. He said that all of the other shootings we witnessed over the past two decades prepared him for that moment because he always thought, what would i do if . Thank goodness. What a sad commentary on where we are. White house. Its your voice, your vote. And with super tuesday coming up, the final gop showdown last night was a texassize brawl. Marco rubio, ted cruz, coming out with guns blazing against donald trump and jbss jon karlabcs jon karl was there. Reporter marco rubio did something he has never done before in this campaign, he took the fight directly to donald trump. On the debate stage in houston, marco rubio and ted cruz immediately piled on donald trump. Bringing up allegations he used Illegal Immigrants to help build youre the only person on this stage thats ever been fined for hiring people to work on your projects illegally. You hired no, im the only one on the stage thats hired people. You havent hired anybody. Rubio is right they found him 2k3wi89ing being part of a conspiracy and entered a 1 million judgment against him. Reporter then an energized rubio took over throwing everything he had at trump. I dont know about bankrupting companies. You know you know why . Starting with one at a time. Reporter it got personal. If he hadnt inherited 200 million million, you know where donald trump would be right now. Selling watches. Reporter later rubio needled trump for more details on his health care plan. We should dr. Gotten rid of the lines. We should have gotten we have to get rid of the lines around the stuck on repeat as rubio had done in the New Hampshire debate. Just the lines. You have many different plans. Youll have competition. Youll have so many different plans. Now hes repeating himself. No, im not repeating mr. Trump no, no. [ cheers and applause ] talking about repeating i watched him repeat himself five types four weeks ago. I saw you repeat yourself five times five seconds ago. Reporter after the debate trump hammered his new nemesis. He went after you. I expected that. Theyre losing by a lot and they thought they were going to win. I had fun but it was nasty. Reporter what did you think of the way rubio came out. I think hes a lightweight. I think hes a lightweight. Reporter despite the relentless attacks trump told me that he believed he was the clear winner of the debate and in fact, he told me, george, he believes he has a good chance of winning across the board including right here in texas which is ted cruzs home state. Thank you. Joining us senator marco rubio from texas. Thank you for joining us this morning. Lots of great reviews and great headlines last night. Good morning. But the big question this morning for you, is it too little too late . Well, i dont believe that. I think its important for people to understand they have a choice to make. Look, if this pattern continues the conservative movement in the Republican Party will be taken over by a con artist portraying himself as the fighter of the ordinary person fighting for the working man but he spent years people. Earlier . Was that a hiss take . Because you know, george, i would prefer not to get into this situation where were attacking one another but the cover hes getting from the extraordinary. You watch last knighton 0 the cable shows afterwards. Theyre like what is trump going to do to marco rubio like hes and there are people now in the media, im not saying you, but others rooting for him to win because they love first of all what it means for their ratings in a general election but heres the other, for those biased this means you will have a republican nominee who basically agrees with Hillary Clinton on planned parenthood and being neutral on israel, on even on issues regarding the economy like the takeover of our Health Care System by the government. He used the talking point that democrats consistently use, that if you dont support a Government Intervention in the health care industry, youre in favor of letting people die in the streets. So, theyre holding back and as soon as the nominee theyll open up the floodgates and hit him with a bunch of stories. Its important for republicans what is happening. He has been hitting youover night in twitter calling you a choke artist, lightweight and puts up this tweet that has the cover of the drudge report this morning asking where do you win . And that is a big question. Donald trump is ahead in almost youre ahead in none. Yeah, i acknowledge im an underdog and have been my entire life, unlike donald, i didnt inherit hundreds of millions. My dad was a bartender. My mother did the job as a maid that trump hires foreigners to do and my whole life ive had to fight and will fight now. No way the party of reagan and conservative movement, ill allow it to be taken over by a con artist. He calls me a choker. Hes a con artist. He spent 40 years sticking it to the people he claims to be fighting for. Where do you win on tuesday . If he wins eight or nine states, can he be stopped. He can because, first of all, if you look at tuesday most will award delegates proportionately and well do well in virtually every state and hopefully win a couple. Even if we dont youll see us continue to pick up delegates. When we get into march 15th well win florida hes up double digits right now. Thats one poll. Weve seen multiple polls that show a very different race. I am i know florida well. Ive won there. Im from there. We are going to win florida. Florida is not going to vote for a con artist and its not going to vote for someone who in palm beach right now is now hiring willing americans that are willing to work, instead hes importing a workforce from abroad and out there some immigration crusader. Its a fraud and well expose it. Thanks for joining us. Lets go to matthew dowd in texas this morning. You saw about eight months worth of attacks on donald trump last night from marco rubio and ted cruz. Does it change the dynamic of this race . Well, i think that i think marco rubio landed some punches but i dont think there were any knockouts and one of the difficulties for marco rubio in this is hes been this aspirational, optimistic im not going to attack figure through 11 debates and showed up a very different marco rubio. Think thats part of the problem. What is the authentic part youre running in the race. In the end your question is right where can he win on tuesday . And i dont think the debate last night changed the dynamic at all. I think donald trump is still set up to win most of the states on tuesday. If he wins most of the states tuesday, ted cruz has to win texas to stay in and marco rubio has to win florida two weeks later to have any chance to get the nomination . I think ted cruz is probably going to win here in texas but i think he absolutely has to win in texas. I think this debate last night as of tuesday night when we get the results in, this debate will fade in memory and will be going on to the next thing. I think donald trump and his supporters last night watched that debate and all of them cheered and anybody this race is pretty set. Nothing they put on the table will hurt donald trump . I think the only thing that could hurt donald trump if in the aftermath some of the allegations they made and attacks they made stick over the not in the moment of the debate but in the aftermath of the debate. Okay, matthew dowd, thanks very much. Well have much more sunday on this week. Ill be with our whole Political Team for a special program at 10 00 p. M. Back to robin in l. A. Thank you very much. Back now with the countdown to oscars and host chris rock taking center stage. His monologue one of the most eagerly awaited in oscars history. I think thats safe to say and nick watt is here. Millions of eyes on him, the boycott, jada pinkett smith, will smith, spike lee not coming. Chris rock himself has declined, canceled all interviews apart from one and that was before even the nominations came out. Well show you that in a moment and testing material in comedy clubs but there is no recording, no video of that. All we have so far are some overnight he tweeted this see you sunday blackout. Previously, getting my outfit together, the space suit referenced to nominee the martian maybe and almost showtime with kristen wiig and works . No comments. What you can expect from chris rock this oscar sunday is that he is going to go there. Reporter we know he will address the oscars so white controversy, not one plaque acting nominee on twitter saying its the white b. E. T. Awards. Our host for the evening, chris rock. Reporter this was last time he hosted in 2005. Great night tonight. We have, what, four black nominees tonight. Kind of like the def oscar jam tonight. Reporter with every hollywood mover and shaker in the room and 40 million plus of us watching at home. Foot, though, its a real hard hole to dig yourself out of. Reporter i think he might relish that. Im only here because ellen didnt want to do the show. Im only here because ellen said no. Reporter other clues from his last time hosting, he will probably get political. Bush did some things you could never get away with at your job. Reporter he will definitely get personal. Wield that sword. Toby maguire is just a boy in tights. Reporter any tips . I might curse. Reporter he wont, i hope. We like to keep it clean here at abc but he is a safe choice that you tune in and want to see how far hes going to take things and what hes going to say. Reporter rock is publicly proud of hosting a very fast show. Last time, fast, furious and funny, expect that. Now, my favorite clue came on the day he was announced as host. He tweeted, someone at abc is for the sake of our colleagues, robin, i hope thats not the case but hell take it up to the line and beyond. Its a balancing act because, as we saw, hell go there but it is a serious issue but then its also celebrating those that were indeed nominated. Well see what happens. Fast, furious, funny, what was that . All of that. Whoopi goldberg will have a live interview with cheryl boon isaacs this morning on the view. Watch the oscars starting with the red carpet show 7 00 p. M. Here on abc and the party keeps going monday on gma. Coming up, a closer look at the oscars controversy. More on that, lara, later. Yes, robin. Thats true i talked to the new executive producers about how they promise this years oscars will be more diverse than ever. They were also very forthcoming about major changes to this years show. Im telling you these are changes that you will notice and i dare say youre going to love. Robin. Were looking forward to that, lara. 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