>> reporter: ben carson hasn't finished higher than fourth. everybody wants to call the game after the first inning. >> reporter: a loss on cruz's home turf could cripple his campaign. of the delegates up for grabs on tuesday, texas has the most with 155. >> he called it himself the big prize. >>> hillary clinton is focusing on south carolina this morning but bernie sanders is hundreds of miles away campaigning in ohio, michigan, and illinois. clinton is making four stops in the state where democrats vote on saturday. nancy cordes is in columbia, south carolina, where clinton is also thinking about the gop front-runner. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that's right. republicans are not the only ones who are starting to come to grips with the notion that trump could be the gop nominee. yesterday, the clinton campaign sent out this fund-raising appeal saying, everything is coming up trump. a message meant to scare their supporters into opening their >> when with you talk about the trump's of the world to divide us up. >> reporter:

but ben tracy shows us how one day, a permanent fake heart may beat inside a person's chest and make donations unnecessary. >> there you go, there you go. now we're rocking and rolling. >> reporter: you wouldn't think >> yes! >> reporter: until you notice that backpack, those tubes and that unusable sound.

but ben tracy shows us how one day, a permanent fake heart may beat inside a person's chest and make donations unnecessary. >> there you go, there you go. now we're rocking and rolling. >> reporter: you wouldn't think >> yes! >> reporter: until you notice that backpack, those tubes and that unusable sound. >> are you aware of that sound at all at this point? >> no. >> is that just white noise to you? >> it's white noise to me. when people tell me about it, i hear it. >> reporter: it's the sound of his heart beating. >> and the artificial heart is right here. >> reporter: well, not his heart exactly. the one he was born with had to be removed when he had heart failure at age 47. he now has a total artificial heart beating inside his body. >> do you feel any less human knowing that you're carrying around a machine that is pumping a fake heart inside your body? >> you do. in the beginning you do. if it stops, you know, i'm in trouble. i don't exist anymore. >> patients will have this backpack. >> reporter: this is what it looks like. two art efficient ventricles are implanted in the che

>> donald trump says jeb bush swapped out his grasses for contacts because he want to look cool and ben carson is trying new eyewear to make him seem more energetic. announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by nationwide. >>> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. >>> south carolina's republican primary is tomorrow. a new poll this morning shows donald trump is still in first place but with a smaller lead. his controversial statements and blow-ups with other candidates far, but now he is battling with pope francis over immigration and walls. >> the pope said on a flight from mexico to roam, quote, the following. the pope was answering a question about trump's plan to build a wall along the mexico border. the billionaire candidate was quick to challenge the pontiff. >> for a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful. no leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith. >> donald trump softened his comments last night and blamed the mexican government saying the pope must have gotten o

ben, good morning. >> reporter: charlie, good morning. so secretary kerry says he called this meeting simply to discuss some ideas how to combat what he calls the isis narrative. some are concerned he is actually trying to get studio executives to produce anti-isis propaganda. >> america. we claim to have the greatest army history has known. >> reporter: this video has all of the hallmarks of a hollywood movie trailer. but it's actually a pro-isis propaganda piece, produced by the radical islamic terror group. now the u.s. government is asking hollywood for advice on how to counter that message. >> this is not just a military battle. it's a battle of ideas and a battle of ideas between competing narratives. >> reporter: richard stengel, a top kerry aide, was in tuesday's closed door meeting with almost the secretary of state made his pitch. >> hollywood is one of the greatest competitive advantages we have as a country. it's revered all around the planet and our second largest export. >> reporter: the film industry grosses tens of billion

john kasich and jeb bush and ben carson are all in the single digits. now despite donald trump's expanding lead, president obama predicted on tuesday that trump will not be president. major garrett is in mt. pleasant, south carolina, with trump's counterstrike at president obama. major, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. republicans don't take a lot of that is especially true when it comes to picking a presidential nominee. each show the president weighed in saying donald trump would not win the white house in the middle of the uth carolina primary and a comment that could boost support for trump among supporters who are eager to prove the president wrong and possibly even defy him. >> i don't think you're going to be able to be on his christmas card list this year. >> i don't mind. >> let me read you what president obama said. >> actually, a great compliment. >> reporter: donald trump wore the president's prediction like a badge of honor. >> i continue to believe mr. trump will not be president. >> reporter: wrapping up a summit with asian leader

. >> taking the stage with marco rubio and ben carson. >> smallest yet to take the stage and trump will likely be the biggest target. >> the moderator. >> should be a pretty rough debate. all using each other to gain vang. >> in the roim primary, also

>> i think ben carson is the next person to go. predictions but i feel comfortable with that one. john kasich did well in new hampshire and most didn't have kasich will try to stick around for the ohio florida and rubio and cruz for the florida primary but this is going to take a while. >> this race in south carolina is different than new hampshire. very different territory. >> yes. it's sort of a weird blend between iowa and new hampshire.on one of the things tonight is a lot of questions of morality and trump swearing and that is important to the voters in the state. >> what about on the democratic side? how do things look after march first? >> i think hillary clinton's support will hold. new hampshire is a white state. once we get to south carolina and nevada, nevada is a caucus so hard to say. i think it will. i think after march 1st, a lot of primaries in the deep south and strong african-american turnout andnd in south carolina black in 2008. >> how important is it to make a strong showing in south carolina? >> very critical. hillary clinton should do well in south carolina.

. >> according to google, ben carson was looking for a republican candidate during yesterday's new hampshire primary, mostly because he is standing right where we left him! there! he is still there. >>> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. the republican presidential candidates are focused this morning on south carolina. that state's gop primary isust nine days away. chris christie and carly fiorina dropped on wednesday and reducing the gop field to seven. >>> donald had a good night last night. new hampshire is a good state for a liberal republican. >> he doesn't have any policy. he tells you what he is going to do but won't tell you how he is going to do tichlt he. he has not been tested. he is a talented guise unless you're awoman woman or a hispanic or a p.o.w. or a disabled person it's entertaining but if you're not night, it's divisive and ugly and mean-spirited. >> reporter: donald trump took shots at bernie sanders and hillary clinton. >> honestly, women don't like her. men don't like her. take a look what is happening to her. a guy that nobody ever heard of, literal

and we had the problem with ben carson who i think was really -- i thought a very unfair thing happened to him. if that didn't happen, i would have won iowa. so i was happy with iowa. i did really well. sort of interesting. that came in thivered,rd, they made him like a star. >> speaking of marco rubio? >> right. >> the republican party is hell-bent, the establishment on stopping you. even governor bush said this morning on this program it would be disastrous if you were the nominee. >> jeb is a person who he doesn't have. at the he spent $2838. >> i is not alone and you have talked about him before. the republican party, the establishment worries about awe and they want to stop you. >> i am getting so many calls from members of the establishment. people in the republican party were against me and want to join the team right now. we are doing so well. >> it includes chris christie. he called you? >> he didn't call to say he is -- >> no, but he did call you? >> he's a friend of mine. >> what did he say? >> he did a really good job in the debate and a friend of mine. he just congratulated

. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," ben tracy, los angeles. >> that song is still so catchy. grammy awards in los angeles monday night at 8:00, 7:00 central. that tag line, don't believe, just watch. i think that could be good for "cbs this morning." don't believe, just watch. >> like that gayle. i like it a lot. >> i do too. >> that song got everybody up off the couch. >>> bei bei seems to be following the old proverb. if at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. see what happens when the giant panda tryings to climb the tree again under the watchful eye of his mom. >> look. she's helping him. >> i know. that's next on "cbs this morning." it takes a lot of work... to run this business. i'm on the move all day long... and sometimes, i just don't eat the way i should. so i drink boost to get the nutrition that i'm missing. boost complete nutritional drink including calcium and vitamin d to support strong bones and 10 grams of protein to help maintain muscle. all with a great taste. i don't plan on slowing down any time soon. stay strong. stay active with boost. now try new

ben carson, in my opinion. and, frankly, i think we are really doing well in new hampshire. i hope to do well. i hope we don't have, charlie, they are talking about a snowstorm tomorrow. that's not what i want. >> you want a bibiturnout. >> i want a big turnout and snowstorms generally don't help. >> boy, it looks like -- >> but we are doing really well. >> we watched the debate and, boy, it seemed like you and jeb bush really got into it. he has stepped up his attacks on you. >> well, you know, he is trying to show he is a tough guy, which he is not. he is sort of the opposite. they are spending about -- he spent about $25 million on ads against me. he spent over a hundred million dollars on his campaign and it's gone nowhere. he's a very stiff guy. it sort of sad to watch, funt to know the truth, but he spent a lot of money on ads and then he goes into the debate and he tries to show that he is tough about eminent domain but it came out his family has private in texas and he doesn't mention things like that.

. >>> the bbc reports ben stiller has created a self portrait like no other.trait lik the actor attached a camera to a 28-foot 1-inch poll in london he the other night which became the longest selfie stick of all time. members of guinness book of poll. >> when selfie sticks first came >> i out, i never thought anyone s would use them and boy was i out, wrong. they are everywhere, aren't they? >> they're very handy. >>> it's about >>> coming up, a new plan to cap the gas leak threatening a los angeles neighborhood. but area residents who fled their homes are skeptical. >>> and later, she's been rusting away at doc se for decades, but the once great ocean liner ss united states just might be returned to her former glory. morning saturday." >>> coming up, twitter in the crosshairs. the online social networking service is being sued for allegedly letting isis and other terror groups use its service to recruit fighters. >>> and later, why hosting the super bowl isn't all its cracked up to be. we'll hear from some less than enthusiastic rezsidents of the bay area. we'll be right back. saturday

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trump says that cruz manipulated voters telling them ben carson had dropped out of the race. cruz said that trump is, quote, losing it and said voters are not interested in what he called a trumper tantrum. >>> bernie sanders leading new hampshire polls, hillary clinton is downplaying her chances. clinton who narrowly won in iowa says sanders has an advantage because he is from neighboring vermont. sanders said she won the primary eight years ago. >>> after taking walalstreet money last night, hillary clinton was asked about high price speeches to the investment firm goldman sachs. >> i made speeches to lots of groups. anybody who knows me, who thinks that they can influence me, name anything they have influenced me on. >> do you have to be paid $675,000? >> well, with i don't know. that's what they offered. every secretary of state that i know has done that. and running for office? >> to be honest, i wasn't committed to running. i didn't know whether i would or not. >> you didn't think you would run for president again? >> i did not. several times at secretary of state, i sa

now ben carson's campaign had accused the cruz campaign of telling iowa voters that carson was dropping out in order to get their support. denied those allegations but, yesterday, cruz said his campaign made a mistake and he apologized. >> thank you. >>> hillary clinton officially won iowa democratic caucuses but bernie sanders is cashing in ahead of the new hampshire primary. his campaign says it raised $3 million in 24 hours after the iowa vote. a spokesman told "the washington post" it's been our best day ever. nancy cordes is in manchester, new hampshire, where the two campaigns are arguing over a debate tomorrow night. good morning, nancy. >> reporter: good morning. yeah, these debates are normally planned way in advance down to the tiniest detail. we don't even know if this debate tomorrow night is going to happen. that is because the two campaigns arealhaggling over the dates and times over a package of future debates and the old saying goes, nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to. >> i hope you will choose, with both your heart and your mind. >> reporter: clinton may

that happened to a california mother and ben tracy shows how she turned her personal tragedy into new hope for a little girl she never met until now. >> reporter: these two mothers had never met until this weekend, but their lives had formed an unbreakable bond 2 1/2 years earlier. heather clark lost her 7-month-old son lucas in june of 2013. >> lucas was very energetic, very smiley. losing a child yourself, you lose yourself. i don't want any mother to go through and that's when i decided to sign the paperwork and save somebody else's child. >> she decided to save his organs including his heart. it went to erica jordan now 4 years old. jordan's mother knows that first gift was the gift of her daughter's life. by the time she was 18 months old, she had undergone six surgeries because of a congenital heart defect. a transplant was her only hope. >> she would be so selfless to be able to think of another family while she's going through herr grief. >> reporter: living in different states the two mothers had been in touch only through the mail. social media and found calls since the tran

ben tracy in los angeles shows us all of the damage. >> reporter: high winds uprooted an eight-foot wide oak tree in san diego and killing a woman driving this honda. three other cars were also damaged. trees fell all across southern california because the ground is soaked by recent storms and winds were howling up to 70 miles an hour. gusts topped 115 miles per hour in some areas and some trees stood no chance. >> heard a pop. slow motion. it was down. >> reporter: the winds also to widespread outages. late sunday, 41,000 people still had no power. >> i've been here 15 years and never seen the wind blow thiss hard. >> reporter: this scaffolding was reduced to a pile of twisted metal. a worker trying to reduce the wind resistance when it collapsed and, thankfully, he hasn't hurt. >> he was just walking back like this and, all of a sudden, everything fell down around him. >> reporter: this car slid off an embankment and rolled over four times. but the driver walked away. >> i was pretty stable inside the vehicle as far as i had my hand on the steering wheel and my hand on the roof of the