., they just and we're going to see some heavy rain in baltimore, washington, d.c., back through west virginia. flood watches are posted for this rain. marching up the eastern seaboard. all snow from buffalo back through western pennsylvania and some severe weather across parts of south florida. there's a massive, massive storm. as you mentioned, all sorts of wild swings. a difficult commute this morning and this afternoon. back to you. >> you could feel the difference when you came to work this morning. >> a big difference. >>> we move on to the race for the white house. the focus on south carolina, the gop primary just four days away, jeb bush brings in his big brother to take on donald trump. as trump doubles down on his attacks against bush, ted cruz, the entire republican establishment. mr. trump will join us live after this report from abc's tom llamas in south carolina. >> reporter: george, good morning to you. that crowd last night loved seeing president bush. voters i spoke to afterwards said it added a layer of legitimacy to jeb bush's campaign. but donald trump saying it's

chris took himself down when he did the george washington bridge. and when he's rated 50 out of 50 in jersey. new jersey is the 50th worse meaning it's the last. he shouldn't be talking like that. i'm surprised he would talk like that. because i know him. i guess he used to be a friend until this all happened. no, i think it's been just the opposite. i would be very surprised. he's got enough problems and he's doing very poorly in the polls. i'm surprised that he would have said that. my life has been a life of success, it's been a life of winning, it's been a life of making great deals. it's been a life -- i have achieved tremendous success in so many different ways. for somebody to say that, obviously, isn't doing really well right now is pretty unusual, i think. >> you'll be facing the voters for the first time tonight. we'll be talking to your sons in the next half-hour. thank you for joining us this morning. we'll be talking to you later as well. >> thank you very much. >>> donna brazile. and matthew dowd and when we see what's going on here, i

abc's pierre thomas is in washington with that story for us. good morning, pierre. >> reporter: good morning, robin. in a blunt press conference the attorney general accused the city of ferguson of stonewalling attempts to right the wrongs of a police department she flatly described as racially biased. >> all: this is what democracy looks like. >> reporter: this morning the justice department firmly agreeing with african-american residents of ferguson saying their complaints of unfair and racially biased police enforcement are, in fact, true. >> the ferguson police department's violations in particular were expansive and deliberate, stopping people without reasonable suspicion. by arresting them without cause and by using unreasonable force. these violations were not only egregious, they were routine. they were driven at least in part by racial bias. department now suing the city of ferguson less than 24 hours after the city council rejected a deal to reform the police. >> i think the things that we've asked for are very reasonable. we're not t

runners in washington, d.c., ditching the coats. all the cold weather gear. check that out. well, nearly nothing. this year's cupid's undie run. some runners admitted they could barely feel their legs. others said they put hand warmers in other strategic places. make up your own mind what that means. >> their shoes, for example. the run raises money for the children's tumor foundation. at game time. at run time, temperatures, imagine this, were in the teens. running in your underwear in temperatures in the teens. >> that's why the hand warmers in strategic places. >>> it's still not as cold as where indra is. >> she's tough. >> but she's also not wearing a bikini. or a speedo. >> what is she not wearing? >> where are you going with this? >> she may have strategic hand warmers. >> we have -- i'm grateful for the layers i have on. the danger is real out here. you're talking about wind chills here in central park, 20 below. how towards boston as low as 40 below possible this morning. there is another threat looming out there. let's get right to it. we have the threat for anothe

both in washington and on the campaign trail. jon karl is at the white house with that side of the story. >> reporter: good morning, george, this is a battle that's likely to extend throughout this presidential campaign and into the first months of the next presidency. the battle over replacing justice antonin scalia came fast and furious. less than an hour after the supreme court announced his death on saturday, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell declared the vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president. senator marco rubio told george, the senate shouldn't start the process no matter who president obama nominates. >> within the last few months of the president's term we court justices. now the president can nominate whoever he wants. the senate shouldn't move forward until after the election. >> reporter: president obama called scalia a brilliant legal mind, made clear he would move forward anyway. >> i plan to fulfill my constitutional responsibilities to nominate a successor in due time. >> reporter: they're

. >> we have sent a message that we'll echo from wall street to washington. the government of our great country belongs to all of the people. and their super pacs. >> reporter: hillary clinton conceding defeat. >> i want to begin by congratulating senator sanders and his victory tonight. >> reporter: with bill and chelsea standing on stage >> it's not whether you get knocked down that matter, it's whether you get back up. particularly with young people. and here's what we're going to do, now we take this campaign to the entire country. we are going to fight for every vote in every state. >> reporter: and clinton concedes bernie sanders managed to tap into a real sense of anger among voters but her camp is telling us this morning they are shifting their focus now to those upcoming states south carolina and nevada, robin, where they hope she can tap into african voters. >> cecilia, what are we hearing about these reports of a possible shake-up within the clinton campaign? >> reporter: well, for now, robin, there is adamant denial inside the clinton team saying

they're trying to keep warm in washington state. apparently the most googled search for a valentine's gift, bearskin rugs. >> really? >> in mississippi, romantic mix tapes. what is it, the 1980s? >> hey, i'm from mississippi. easy, easy. >> when is the last time you made a mix tape, robin? >> are we allowed to ask followups? >> massachusetts is looking for cooking classes. >> i think it was idaho or montana. adam and eve not romantic? >> yeah, not biblical. >> yeah, what was that about. >> i don't know. there's a lot of head-scratchers. montana was searching for lobster tails. >> i'm sticking with the mix tapes. when you made somebody a mix tape, that was love, baby. that was love. >> oh, yes, it was. >> it was. thank you, amy. >>> to lara with a look ahead. >> thank you, robin. >>> here's what's coming up on our "gma morning menu." lamar odom back in action. kanye west rocking the fashion world. all the details from the huge event last night. >>> our big "10 dates in 10 states" finale. one of these guys is getting a big date. which

>>> let's bring that question to jon karl in washington. you just saw that targeting that cecilia put up for bernie sanders. he's got to find a place to get some wins tuesday. >> reporter: that's right, and they see several possibilities on super tuesday to get some wins. you have bernie sanders' home state of vermont, neighboring massachusetts, minnesota, colorado, all states the sanders camp thinks they can win and single state for the democrats the delegates are awarded proportionally. even in states sanders loses to clinton he will still gather delegates. >> so hard to read. it's a relatively new caucus there but you got some firsthand evidence yesterday of the republican establishment really closing ranks behind marco rubio. >> reporter: oh, absolutely. you saw several united states senators, several congress -- members of congress, governors, former governors, all coming out and endorsing marco rubio yesterday. really quite a list including bob dole, the 1996 republican nominee. but, george, dole told me, i talked to him about this. h

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officer ashley guindon responded in woodbridge, virginia, south of washington, d.c., respond to a call about an altercation at a home when shots rang out. this was on saturday. fatally wounded her and wounded two others. a suspect has been arrested. >>> violence erupting at a ku klux klan anti-immigration rally. in california. the group gathered in a park in orange county to protest illegal immigration. and muslims. they were confronted there by counterprotesters. members of the two groups clashed. three people were stabbed. 13 arrested. >>> and day two of the cease-fire in syria. the truce seems to be mostly holding. no russian air strikes since the agreement between the syrian government and rebel forces went into effect friday night. the terrorist group isis, not a party to the cease-fire, launched a surprise offensive in a northern syrian town and carried out a suicide truck bombing. say a drag race on a freeway in los angeles ended in this. a deadly inferno. three people were killed in the crash. one of the speeding cars lost control, hitting a big rig, sending the tractor trailer

. >> reporter: nicole lovell's mom telling "the washington post" that police believe the 13-year-old met eisenhauer online. active on kik, a messaging app which offers users eisenhauer, a track star, his high school principal remembering him as goal driven and focused. >> it's just very difficult to i don't want to speculate at this point. just very concerned. >> reporter: the second student, natalie keepers, an engineering student who once interned at nasa, accused of helping eisenhauer get rid of the girl's body. >> i was really shocked to see her face as one of the suspects for the murder because i didn't know she was like -- she didn't seem like that type of person. >> reporter: her parents say lovell pushed a dresser up against her bedroom door before climbing out her window. thousands joining the search for her but, on saturday, police discovered her body 80 miles away in north carolina. neither student was charged with using a gun and neither has entered a plea but eisenhauer however making this statement, quote, i believe the truth will george. >>> let's get more on this from

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we want to bring in jonathan karl in washington. i know you're prepping for a big edition of "this week." thanks for taking a couple of moments out of your busy day. we want to first and foremost, exit polling shows clinton has serious issues. empathy. distrust. how does she repair that? if not, how vulnerable does she remain? >> first thing is to move on to where every single public poll since the beginning of this campaign has had her with a big, double-digit lead over bernie sanders. she's hoping back-to-back victories will put the distant she does have significant vulnerabilities. not just the ones you mentioned. also, she still hasn't connected with young democrats. still overwhelmingly in the exit polls, the young vote, under 45, goes significantly overwhelmingly to bernie sanders. she needs to find a way to get that obama coalition back together. she hopes by racking up wins, she can start doing that. >> let me ask about sanders. he, as mary pointed out, a pretty strong showing against minority voters -- among minority voters

abc's pierre thomas in washington has the latest for us. >> reporter: good morning, robin. while rallies in support of apple across the country off with both sides digging in, this morning, as you said the fbi director is getting personally involved in a very public debate. releasing a letter calling on apple to comply to help unlock the iphone of san bernardino killer, syed farook. we can't look the survivors in the eye or ourselves in the mirror if we don't follow this lead. fbi director james comey said, we don't want to break anyone's encrypiton. or set a master key loose on the land. i hope thoughtful people would take the time to understand that. but apple is taking to the air waves to challenge the fbi's reasoning. saying that the privacy and security of millions of his customers are at risk. >> no limit on what the government could require apple to do if it succeeds this way. >> reporter: to make the case, apple has hired ted olson whose wife died on one of the planes in the 9/11 attack and this is pandora box. we can't surrender our civil terrorists a victory. >> r

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of emergency to five counties and there are now more than 50 cases of the virus across 13 states and washington, d.c. abc's linzie janis has the latest. >> reporter: this morning florida preparing for the worst, declaring a public health emergency in five counties, there are now 12 travel-related cases of zika reported governor rick scott calling on the cdc to provide at least 1,000 zika antibody test kits for pregnant women to see if they contracted the virus in the past and thousands more kits to test for active cases. >> the mosquito that causes zika virus is common in florida. >> reporter: the spread of the virus a growing concern for the estimated 20 million tourists expected to visit florida in the spring break months and at miami international airport, hundreds of flights a day coming in from the 30 high-risk countries flagged by the cdc. over 100 of them just from brazil. this morning, 2 million people are flocking to the streets of rio for the start of carnival where now mosquitoes aren't the only concern for spreading zika. health authorities there saying a man was infected with the v

dead on arrival and that replacing scalia should wait until a new president in 2017, writing in "the washington post," the american people, rather than a lame-duck president, should be afforded the opportunity to replace justice scalia. and among the attendees, vice administration. justice clarence thomas will deliver a scriptural reading. and at least one presidential candidate will be in attendance, senator ted cruz of texas, says he'll attend today. >> devin, thank you. >>> we want to move now to battle between two giants. the government and apple. apple still refusing to unlock a an iphone of a san bernardino terrorist. the battle, however, has now moved into the political arena and abc's eva pilgrim joins us with more on what's becoming a very fierce battle. good morning, eva. >> reporter: the fight continues -- personal privacy versus national security. tech giant apple versus the department of justice. both sides arguing over accessing the san bernardino shooter's iphone. this morning, neither side is backing down. in a new federal filing prosecutors slamming apple for publicly repudiati

she joins us from washington this morning. mary, good morning to you. >> mary, we don't expect the candidates come out and holding hands and singing kumbaya. we want to know who has the most on the line and the most incentive to come out swinging? >> i think donald trump and ted cruz are in good position in south carolina. they're going to be fighting on the trail and trump -- cruz laid off trump in the last debate. but i think he'll be looking to differentiate this time around. i think rubio has the most to lose or gain here, because his last slip was on the debate stage. now, he has the chance to prove himself again. >> he has said -- he has told his supporters, it will not happen again. as we know trump is coming in as the front-runner here, but mary mentioned just a few moments ago, mary bruce, that he's swearing off swearing. i just got -- i wonder, in a state that's heavily evangelical, is his use of profanity from the podium actually going to hurt him? even if he stops doing it henceforth. >> two things at work here. af

we start our coverage this morning with abc's mary bruce right in washington. hi, mary. >> reporter: hi, paula. good morning. well, this is a potential game changer in this roller coaster campaign. donald trump getting his first major endorsement from a card republican establishment just as he heads into super tuesday. his former rival showed up unannounced and dropped a bombshell on donald trump's campaign. >> we need a first class president, and we're going to have it in donald trump. >> reporter: new jersey governor chris christie this morning is lending his credibility to trump's runaway campaign. >> i can guarantee you that the one person that hillary and bill clinton do not want to see on that stage come next september is donald trump. >> reporter: they weren't always so friendly. >> we're going to do it. i'm going to get it done because i make deals and i get deals and i'm doing deals. >> reporter: now united christie and trump are taking aim at a common enemy, marco rubio. >> desperate people in campaigns do desperate things flailing punches in the last