It is the biggest night yet in the president ial race with a slew of contact that will likely push donald trump to the brink of clinching the gop nomination. We are tracking every single vote, including in North Carolina, where right now people are lined up to cast ballots on this pivotal night in the fight for the white house. Welcome to cnns lives Super Tuesday coverage. Im erin burnett in new york, and im jake tapper in washington were less than an hour away from the first major round of Poll Closings and the first results on this historymaking normshattering primary night, donald trump, former president , now a criminal defendant four times over hopes to continue his extraordinary winning streak. And the night very close to locking up his third republican president ial nomination. Thats possible because the race for the white house is Going National tonight with 16 States Holding contests and a whopping total of 865 delegates at stake for the republicans. Thats more than onethird o
live here inside the historic civic club of harrisburg where in moments we will replay some of last night s debate for our live voter panel and we ll get their reaction as we sit here 13 days from election day. also, the republican senator in this state, pat toomey, leaves that seat open for oz or fetterman. he joins us live as well. first, bryan llenas takes a look at the debate that everyone is talking about today. hi, bryan. martha, good afternoon. one of those moments that everyone is talking about is when lieutenant governor john fetterman was pressed on his stance on fracking. last night he said he has always supported fracking. but in 2018, he said he did not and never has. i absolutely support fracking. that you said i don t support fracking at all. how do you square the two? i i do support fracking. and i don t i support fracking. i stand and i do support fracking. after last night s performance, there s more questions, not less, against fetterman s hea
berman. the investigation into one of america s deadliest school shootings is taking new turns this morning. police in uvalde, texas, say a teacher closed a propped open door shortly before a gunman used it to get inside, but it did not lock. now investigators are trying to figure out why. this new detail reversing earlier claims the shooter breached the building because the door was left ajar. there are also new questions about law enforcement s response to the massacre. cnn affiliate ksat has obtained audio of the school district s message alerting parents of an active shooter incident. parents, there is an active shooter at robb elementary. law enforcement is on site. your cooperation is needed at this time by not visiting the campus. both the school s facebook post and the audio message according to ksat came during the time that officers were inside the school and apparently believed the situation had become a barricade situation. cnn has learned that chief peter a
and relatively cool compared to what the mediterranean experienced yesterday. in some spots we had extreme temperatures, the highest of which was recorded in sardinia 48.2 degrees celsius. not a record, but close to it. i want to show you what s going to be happening over the next 24 hours. the jet stream will take a bit of a dive across europe and into the mediterranean. that essentially means that the heat will be pushed away towards more eastern parts of the med, so a huge drop for this central mediterranean region. in palermo it was 47 degrees on monday. by wednesday we re talking about 29. so a huge, huge drop in those values. let s have a look at the forecast for the rest of today. sunny spells, scattered showers. temperatures will be typically in the high teens for most of us. 17 there in glasgow, about that in birmingham and maybe nudging up to about 20 or 21 degrees further south. through this evening and overnight, we ll have more persistent showers moving through north wes
time for a look at the weather. thank you, the weather is relatively cool and showery but i want to touch on the temperature recorded in sardinia yesterday. it was 48.2 celsius, a near record, the second highest temperature ever recorded on the european continent during the summer. the extreme heat is not going to last much longer. if we look at tomorrow, a dip in the jet stream from the north west to the mediterranean means the extreme heat will be pushed further towards the east and look at the values. palermo yesterday was actually at 47 celsius and tomorrow it will be 29 and nowhere near as hot as sardinia so the temperature is easing in the central med. back to our neck of the woods, this afternoon, sunny spells