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this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i m del walters. voting in the first presidential primary is now underway. the polls there have been open for several hours in new hampshire. votes already tall lived in a few small towns including dicksville notch, nine voters voting there. new hampshire officials saying the vote will likely top the high mark set back in 2008. mike viqueira joins us live from manchester new hampshire, and mike how unpredictable is the primary this time around? reporter: well, it s very unpredictable, you look at the polling leading up to the real vote, donald trump lapping the field twice as clear as his nearest competitor, the nearest competitor being marco rubio. bern has lead for weeks over hillary clinton. a lot of people looking at that race, thinking it is going to tighten up somewhat. but there is a large number of undecided voters, and after frantic campaigning, the candidates making their final ditches del. several candid ....
it s the inside story . welcome to inside story . i m ray suarez. new hampshire has a way of shaking up a young race. john kerry beating howard dean in 2004, ben carson s win in 1992, saving his campaign after he got a thumping in iowa. and john mccain in 2000, over george w. bush. last night did things, confirmed donald trump s place, and chased carly fiorina out and may be sending chris christie back to new jersey. it cast doubt on marco rubio s theory of how to run for the republican nomination. there was heavy turnout on the republican side, healthy but not record-breaking turnout on the democratic side. we ll start this edition of inside story in where else, in new hampshire with aljazeera s libby casey. because of a uge voter turnout, and i say uge, we won. reporter: in concord, new hampshire, democrat, bernie sanders, thanked his supporters. what began last week in iowa, with voters here in new hampshire confirmed tonight is nothing short of the beginni ....
capital. we look at the battle to keep control of the bermese python in florida s everglades. the united states has urged turkey to halt military strikes to kurdish targets in syria. it comes as the prime minister demanded kurdish fighters withdraw from the border. it carried out the shelling near the town of a zchlt a zchlt in the north of the country - azaz. turkey says it was striking in return - retaliation under the army s rules of engagement. reporter: turkish military confirming that their targeting positions of y.p.g. inside the northern aleppo prons clearly a message. over the past few days this armed group and their allies have been taking ground from turkey back to syrian opposition groups, taking advantage really of the government offensive in the northern aleppo countryside. as we speak we do know that the y.p.g. has been trying to advance towards the two main strong holds in aleppo province. so clearly a warning telling them not to advance any further or ....
tonight s g.o.p. debate. campaign finance has become a major part of democrat bernie sanders campaign. tonight a deeper look at money spent so far, how it is raised appeared how it is spent we begin tonight with breaking news out of texas where supreme court justice was found dead at a resort in west texas. he was 79 years old appeared apparently died of natural causes. he was the longest serve justice on the bench. he was one of the most conservative members. questions over what is next for the supreme court. reporter: for three decades he was one of the most outspoken and controversial members of the supreme court known for his unapologetic opinions and scathing dissents. in his opinion zcalia wrote that the ruling was at odds not only with the constitution but the principles upon which hour nation was built. he our nation was built. he said we should call this law zcodistk care. born in new jersey parents, he attended high school in new york city. in 1953 he enc ....
diplomatic disagreement about whether a pause in syria s war. just pope travels to mexico. will he trump them again. live at the debate ahead of the south carolina primary one of the u.s. supreme courts most conservative members, justice scalia has died. he was 79 years old. it has the potential to shift the balance and power in the court should obama manage to appoint a more liberal justice. we just heard from the president a few moments ago. what did he have to say? that s right. after his death we instantly heard from republicans who said they did not believe president obama should name a successor to the supreme court, that that was a decision that should be made by the next president. well, obama came out and made it clear that he does not intend to follow their advice. he said i intend to fulfil my constitutional duty and the senate has plenty of time to approve that decision. the average time to previous supreme court justice is something like 70 days. presid ....