george martin dies. this is al jazeera america live from new york city, i m stephanie sy. this morning, bernie sanders is celebrating a big upset in the presidential race. he took about 50% have the vote, beating hillary clinton in michigan despite every poll showing clinton with a double digit lead going into that contest. clinton did win mississippi and picked up delegates in michigan, as well. she still holds a commanding lead in the delegate count. for the republicans, donald trump had a big night with wins in michigan, mississippi and hawaii. al jazeera s david shuster begins our covering. with the swagger of a conquering hero, donald trump claimed the michigan and mississippi primaries by double digits, defying his challengers and the anti-trump republican establishment. i don t think i ve ever had so many horrible, horrible things said about me in one week. $38 million worth of horrible lies, but that s ok. it shows you how brilliant the public is. trump thanke
a reminder, we ll have live coverage of mrs. reagan s funeral from the presidential library in simi valley friday at 2:00 p.m. eastern. white house spokesman josh earnest took reporter s questions about the supreme court vacancy, last night s presidential primary and this is a one hour portion of today s briefing. good afternoon, everybody. i do not have anything off the top so we can go straight to questions. darlene, would you like to start? do you have anything to add to your reports that u.s. special forces are questioning the head of the islamic state units trying to develop nuclear weapons? unfortunately, i do not. i ve seen those reports. at this point i m still constrained i m still constrained by some operational security concerns from answering them. you do know there are u.s. military forces that are on the ground in iraq that are part of these forces that are dedicated to carrying out raids, collecting intelligence and where possible getting access to h
service after he threw objects over the fence. how was a wanted man able to get on a plane and fly to washington. raining debris. powerful twisters rip across texas. whoa! that was a tornado. yeah! yes, that s a tornado. major flooding forcing evacuations in louisiana. 18 million people facing the threat of more severe weather today. and the man behind the mania. george martin, known as the fifth beatle, the legendary producer who signed the fab four and guided them into music history has died. paul mccartney says the world has lost a truly great man today, wednesday, march 9th, 2016. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. i know you weren t even born, but, boy, george martin, what a legendary figure in music. responsible for a lot of the music we came to love from the beatles. they don t call everyone the fif
yesterday, of course, a gorgeous day in store at 75 degrees and today we are soaring through the 70 s and getting so close, to 80 degrees, a high temperature today of 79. but we do have an 80-degree reading, in your seven day forecast and i will let you know when to break out those shorts, meisha, in just a couple minutes. all right, sound good, thanks very much, lauren for that great news, good morning everyone if you are just waking up with us we are so glad you are here. grabbing your first cup of coffee and we will bring this to you. we have police activity pulled off to the right shoulder, schuylkill eastbound approaching city avenue, not causing too many slow downs yet but i am watching this as we crack in the the 5:00 o clock hour, because this will slow us down as we will get more gaper delay and volume issues out there just make note that is where you it is, but it is pulled off to the shoulder. boulevard moving in the the southbound direction approaching schuylkil