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money. and prime punch line. the president and canadian prime minister swap bieber barbs at the white house state dinner. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i m anne-marie green. after 11, mostly contentious and sometimes profane debates, the republican tenants are fighting a more serious tone. they muted their fiery debate in the past last night. they debated last night in miami and the last showdown before tuesday s critical primaries. five states will vote, including winner take all contests in florida and ohio. marlie hall has our coverage from miami. reporter: one thing that can be said about last night s debate here at the university of miami, the candidates focused on issues and not insults. i cannot believe how civil it s been up here. reporter: thursday night s republican debate delivered on its promise to be a kinder and gentler discussion of the issues. before a packed miami aud ....
believe how civil it s been up here. the gop candidates play nice. this election, this debate is not about insults, it s not about attacks. governor, did you give everyone like a john kasich pill before the debate tonight or something? you know, it was really interesting. clearly, they were afraid of me. today is very, very special. having his support, i think it adds total credence to what i m trying to do. ten southern states are under flood watches and warnings. almost two feet of rain triggered historic deadly flooding. we were not prepared. we got to get everybody out that we can right now. two top executives at the wounded warrior project are out following a cbs news investigation that raised questions about spending. you may well be the most popular canadian named justin. it s better to be the leader of a country that consistently wins all the big gold medals in hockey. a massive explosion outside of cleveland amazingly, despite what this ....
republicans have a four-seat majority, but they have 24 seats up in november, and the democrats have only 10. here s nancy cordes. reporter: arizona senator john mccain has called trump s views uninformed and dangerous. but that hasn t stopped his democratic senate challenger, anne kirkpatrick, from running ads like this. no matter what donald trump says, john mccain would support him for president. reporter: new york senator chuck schumer warned today that strategy will be replicated in dozens of races across the country. donald trump won t make america great again, but he will make republicans minority again. reporter: unlike mccain, many republicans have been reluctant to outright denounce trump. they fear that weakening the likely nominee will lead republican voters to stay home in november, hurting gop candidates down the ballot. but today, the senate s democratic leader, harry reid, said that silence is giving his party fodder, too. some of these peopl ....
with a gift of $19 a month, you can join a wounded warrior project. reporter: by appealing to america s generosity, wounded warrior project raised more than $1 billion in donations since 2003, $300 eric millette was a retired army staff sergeant when he took a job with wounded warriors as a motivational speaker, but after two years he quit. i ll be kalamazooed if you re going to take hard working americans money and drink it and waste it. instead of helping those brave men and women who gave you the freedom to watch the face of the earth. more than 40 former employees told cbs news that spending by the charity was out of control. these two former employees were so fearful of retaliation, they asked us not to show their faces. it was extremely extravagant, dinners and alcohol and just total access. reporter: for a charitable organization that s serving veterans, all this expense on expensive resorts and alcohol, it seems i mean, it s what the military c ....
meteorologist kate bilo on the sky deck for right now to explain how the conditions are helping foul these fires kate. we felt it for the past few days that warm dry air that s been in place when you get conditions like this, conditions are ripe for forest fires usually mid march is when the season begins. we re hitting it early certainly hitting the warm temperatures a bit early as well. unfortunately, fire risks will be elevated again tomorrow. take look at some of these fire danger bullet points hi especially in knowledge, warm dry air we ve plenty of that. low relative humidity. breezy conditions. we felt that today and tomorrow the breeze will be from a different direction but it will be strong again in the afternoon, very dry air moving in and that means fires could spread quickly. especially again with the change in within direction. nothing watch as we head into the day tomorrow. fire risk again elevated. today was record breaker. 82 degrees the high in philad ....