them a cushion if they need up in michigan. you can see the crowds behind me here gathering in cleveland. there is a reason that show is in cleveland. there's a reason they are here in ohio. they believe ohio next week is a place that can put this race away potentially, but only if michigan goes well. there's still one hour left in michigan. the polls still open for one more hour. i just talked to a top democratic official in the state who's aligned with the clinton campaign who said they are still working to get out the vote. they're working in neighborhoods across detroit and flint to get more voters out there. a lot of times, you can get a lot of people to the polls in an hour. the clinton campaign is not giving in. they want to do well. if they win michigan tonight, wolf, this race is much, much closer to being her reaching the tips point to the nomination. wolf? >> she basically, all those states in the south, she has done really well in the south because in those democratic con tests, a huge percentage of the people who actually show up are african-americans. she does rea

under flint, michigan, but under a lot of american cities. jackson, mississippi has a lead problem. so does cleveland, ohio. [cheers and applause] >> more than 14% of the cleveland's kids have been exposed because of lead in paint so with he hae have problems in paint, in the saoil and in the water and i want to stand right here in cleveland and tell you as your president, if i'm so fortunate enough to be in that office next year -- [cheers and applause] >> -- we're going to tackle this lead problem everywhere our children are at risk. [cheers and applause] >> and we're going to stand up to cooperations that seem to have absolutely no loyalty to this country that gave them so much in the first place. [cheers and applause] >> look at nabisco laying off 600 workers in chicago, moving a production line out of the country, even though the company has long received tax breaks from the state of illinois. they have no problem taking taxpayer dollars with one hand and giving out pink slips with the other. look at the eden corporation here in ohio, they get millions of dollars in tax credit

michigan where bernie sanders despite what everyone said going in, all the polls showed going in, he upsets hillary clinton in the state of michigan winning that primary there, barely, but a big win and a psychological victory for the sanders campaign. hillary clinton took mississippi by a lot and she did win the most delegates of the night, but bernie sanders in michigan was huge. even before it was official, bernie sanders called it a fantastic night. >> what tonight means is that the bernie sanders campaign, the people's -- the revolution, the political revolution that we are talking about is strong in every part of the country and frankly we believe that our strongest areas are yet to happen. >> what does this mean for the delegate race? as we said hillary clinton won the most delegates tonight and she leads in that hunt. those numbers right there do include super delegates, but even without super delegates hillary clinton leads by more than 200. >> for the republicans, a very big night for donald trump. trump sweeping a victory in the michigan and mississippi primaries. dominating the

momentum in michigan? i'm anderson cooper. >> i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> another big night for candidates in both parties. millions of voters going to the polls right now in michigan. mississippi, idaho and hawaii. just a few hours away from learning the results, which could answer a whole lot of questions. we have the first batch of exit polling coming in. david chalian going through the numbers now. we'll bring him in momentarily. of course our correspondents across the map. polling places in campaign stops, bringing you the latest, as well as best team of analysts around. let start with cnn's sara murray with the trump campaign. what is donald trump's message? concerned about losing me mentum if he doesn't win tonight? >> reporter: well, wolf, donald trump has had a quiet day today. he hasn't been campaigning but when he was in mississippi last night he was bragging about how he's ahead in the polls by 20 points. but he was careful to remind voters you need to slow up and vote. i think that's a reality of the situation. cal pain goes into tonight

grabs tonight. the primary spot is on michigan. it has one of the highest delegate counts in the country, mississippi and michigan holding primaries for both parties. the polls have just closed in michigan, two states a big test for donald trump trump tonight. he was leading in the polls but will he pull it out. idaho has a republican primary. hawaii holds a gop caucus tonight. let's get started with david shooter. >> as you mentioned with the polls closing mississippi we expect to make a call in the next minute or two. hillary clinton will be the winner of the democratic primary in mississippi. this is another one of those states, 36 delegates, which is mostly african-americans again, compelling hillary clinton to victory. mississippi is another southern state with a large african-american turnout, so again, we do expect that a majority of the shirt six delegates in mississippi will go to hillary clinton. the only question is that is the proportion again. keep in mind on the democratic side, it is proportional tonight. that is also the case in michigan. this is going to be perha

michigan too close to call, 34,580 with 86% of the vote in. michigan happens to be where chris matthews is tonight. chris? >> well, brian, i think that we're seeing tonight, someone just mentioned the parallel voting pattern here, both for bernie sanders on the democratic side and donald trump on the republican side. both running on the antitrade issue in a state that very much feels affected by bad trade laws. the motor industry was the first one really hit, actually, probably second after the textile industry was blown away in south carolina. it went from -- of course, we all know the history of the trade stories. new england made shoes and textil textiles, they went south because of the labor unions not being down south and then the moving out of the country altogether. i think the auto industry was the most important industry in the country for us. what is it? as goes general motors, so goes america, so goes the country. and i think there was a strong feeling that we needed to protect our auto industry. and of course, people out there don't feel -- out here don't feel they'

. but this-i these races in mississippi and michigan have the potential to reshape the race to some extent. we see john kasich taking the place in some of the polling that marco rubio had held. and we see rubio fading and ted cruz continue to come on strong. at the end of the night, of course, the delegate totals will be either the reflection of that or not. but my guess is that cruz will do well. >> brit, the delegate math is such on the republican side now that realistically the only person who can win this thing prior to a convention would be donald trump. i mean, the number of wins and the proportion of delegates that the other guys would have to win from this point forward, according to the experts is unrealistic. so for everyone8m other than trump, the best hope at this point, say the experts, is a contested convention. today i talked to ted cruz, he said actually, that would be fine with him. contested convention fine with him. he says he doesn't want a brokered convention. your thoughts on whether -- on what the likelihood is of that. >> well, apart from donald trump winning

really surprising plot twist. bernie sanders pretty much out of nowhere, he wins the michigan primary, upset over hillary clinton. now, hillary clinton did win mississippi by a very big margin, and as a result, she did win the most delegates overnight. but bernie sanders, in some ways the big story of the morning. and even before the result was official, bernie sanders said he knew he was having a fantastic night. >> what tonight means is that the bernie sanders' campaign, the people's revolution that we are talking about, the political revolution that we are talking about is strong in every part of the country, and frankly, we believe that our strongest areas are yet to happen. >> let's look at the delegate math as it stands right now. hillary clinton with more than 1200, bernie sanders at 572. this includes super delegates. if you take out the super delegates, hillary clinton leads by more than 200 delegates. again, she did win more delegates overnight. >> for the republicans, some big news. we got to call hawaii. hawaii, the icing on the cake for donald trump. cnn project donald tr

presidential race. the candidates making a big push in key states. michigan, the crown jewel today. who is in for a big night? who can see their white house hopes erased? we have it all covered starting now. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. christine romans is sick today. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. this morning is a crucial day in the calendar. super tuesday, the sequel. voters go to the polls in four states. 150 delegates up for grabs. donald trump looking to regain momentum after trailing ted cruz in the weekend races. a poll shows donald trump ahead. ted cruz and john kasich gaining. we have cnn's sara murray with the latest from mississippi. >> reporter: donald trump was rallying a crowd of thousands here in mississippi last night hours before voters in this state and three others head to the polls today. trump and his campaign made it clear that mississippi and michigan are their top prizes today. these are both delegate rich states. as trump was talking in mississippi, he had an eye on florida and taking swipes at marco rubio. >> then we have little

two orders of business tonight, 8:00 eastern time poll closing in mississippi, 9:00 in michigan, though most of michigan will close, the polls will close, we have four out lying counties that don't close until the central time zone, so we're going to hold the call of the state as a whole. and we will be here for all of it. >> because then it rolls into idaho and hawaii. >> so far away. >> we had a very difficult negotiation with our employer here about the need to cite so we could be there at the end. >> we volunteered. >> sensitive subject around here. alas, we're here in new york city. obviously the polls say that donald trump is ahead and hillary clinton is ahead. but there are different dynamics that work in the parties right now. the southern states have been absolutely solid for hillary clinton. you look at all of the states that touch mississippi, she has won them by margins of 35 and 60 points. so if that softens at all, it would be a surprise for hillary clinton. it would be a big deal for bernie sanders. he is not even really trying to make in roads there. to the contr

contests. contest number 13 was in the state of michigan. the big prize donald trump will walk away with 21 delegates. he has a margin of victory wider over john kasich than a lot of people had anticipated. again, a decisive win for him in the industrial mid-west. he also got a big victim free in mississippi. there are more votes to be counted but it would suggest that he reached about 50% for the first time in this nomination contest, over 50% there and this would suggest that trump's feeling continues to get higher not loe as the republican establishment has been trying to argue. let's turn to the democrats. hillary clinton, well, she has another victory for her in the south 83 to 15 for her. she will get 30 of the 36 delegates in michigan. that is important because she is getting a buffer. that is important because look at what is happening to her in michigan. this has a lot of democrats nervous about the fall. bernie sanders 49 to 48 with the 47% reporting. a difference of about 8,000. hillary clinton if she is the nominee needs to win michigan if she is going to win the general

trump is the winner of the republican primary in michigan. hillary clinton won the mississippi democratic primary so those are the three winners. let's get a key race alert on the outstanding race in michigan right now. in michigan, bernie sanders maintaining a significant lead over hillary clinton with 86% of the vote in. but 405,343 for hillary clinton, 439,711 for bernie sanders. bernie sanders maintaining a lead of about 35,000 votes. that's pretty significant. i want to go to brianna keilar. we just heard from bernie sanders. whatever the final number is, this is still considered a big win for him tonight. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. i mean, the sanders campaign feels like this gives them a lot of momentum going into these series of contests coming up here in a week, wolf. he's really looking toward ohio, even before seeing his showing tonight, his campaign felt that his message attacking hillary clinton for her past support of some -- even before seeing how it played here in michigan. that's certainly we should watch going into the next week here. i want to talk abou

for the white house here in the united states. the fight for votes in michigan. both hillary clinton and bernie sanders are campaigning in the state today after a fiery debate we saw here on cnn last night. clinton and sanders faced off in flint, michigan. the water crisis was front and center. clinton went after sanders over the bailout of the auto industry here in the united states and that led to this exchange. >> i voted to save the auto industry. he voted against the money that ended up saving the auto industry. i think that is a pretty big difference. >> well, if you are talking about the wall street bailout, where some of your friends destroyed this economy. >> you know -- >> excuse me, i'm talking. >> fiery exchange there. democrats hold primaries tomorrow in michigan and mississippi. 36 delegates are available in mississippi and 3 /* 130 in michigan. >> clinton has 1147. that includes 471 so-called super delegates. toez are lektd leaders, party officials. sanders has 498 pledged delegates. he 22 super delegates. the michigan primary will be a test for the sanders cam

up other bernie sanders. she hopes to run it up in mississippi, get a win in michigan to prove to senator sanders, stay as long as you want, but i will be the democratic nominee. >> the polls close in most of michigan, all of mississippi in an hour. idaho and hawaii later. we'll have the results and reaction of the another crucial day of voting. super tuesday 2.0 continues. >> the race for the white house is tightening as the remaining candidates fight it out in key states tonight. >> tonight's outcome could determine who stays in the wild ride to the nomination. >> new battle grounds in the presidential race. after a weekend of fresh wins for the front-runners and for their top rivals. >> millions and millions of people are coming to vote for the republicans because of me. >> four more states are weighing in, with both parties bracing for climactic battles one week from now. >> whether we like it or not, we're all in this together, my friends. >> who will win another super tuesday scramble? it's america's choice. tonight, in the republican race, donald trump piling up delegates a

sanders needs a win in the biggest prize of the day, that is michigan. "the lead" starts right now. good afternoon, welcome to a special edition of "the lead," i'm jim sciutto in for jake tapper today. it is super tuesday ii and the stakes are very high. donald trump continues to lead in most polls across today's contests, but ted cruz is coming off a strong weekend, winning two states, and splitting the delegate count in louisiana, with trump. tonight, michigan, mississippi, idaho, hawaii up for grabs in the republican party, michigan with 59 delegates at stake is the night's biggest prize. the latest "the washington post"/abc news poll shows trump leading the field nationally at 34% but ted cruz not far behind at 25%. narrowingtis trump's lead by se be points. trump loses to both ted cruz and to marco rubio. cruz has become a clear number two in the gop race. today insisted that trump is feeling the heat. >> you can usually tell how dismayed he is by his volume, by the level of insults. and typically when he goes down to attacking people's faith, it's a sign that donald is really

. breaking overnight. high drama and high stakes at the cnn democratic debate in flint, michigan. this one was different. one day before the crucial michigan primary, you could sense the frustration at some points. you could sense the candidates believe there are not many more chances to change the trajectory of the race. here are the highlights. >> i am very glad, anderson, that secretary clinton has discovered religion on this issue. but it's a little bit too late. secretary clinton supported virtually every one of the disastrous trade agreements. >> when i talk about senator sanders being a one-issue candidate, i mean very clearly you have to make hard choices when you are in positions of responsibility. the two senators from michigan stood on the floor and said we have to get this money released. i went with them. i went with barack obama. you did not. if everybody voted the way he did, i believe the auto industry would have collapsed taking 4 million jobs with it. >> let us be clear. one of the major issues secretary clinton said i'm a one-issue person. i guess so. my one issue is i'm

voted with us and he did not. >> so your view as a michigan senator, your view of his argument while he would have supported that set-aside, he didn't support the larger t.a.r.p. fund? >> well, the problem is, we didn't get a choice. that's what happens. you have to decide what's most important. and if we had not had that pass, we would have lost millions of jobs. not just in auto manufacturing. but the 120,000 auto dealerships around the country, all of those who are in some way involved in manufacturing automobiles, and manufacturing more broadly, it affected the department of defense, it affected the -- those in aerospace. this was a huge issue. and you had to choose. and when it came time to choose, and i believe choosing the middle class was voting to make sure we continued american manufacturing. >> a big issue for michigan senator, and i dwell on it a little because it does seem to show some contrast. on the clinton side arguing, look, this is how washington works, if you want that money you have to figure out what's your pragmatic answer. let me also play for you senator sand

the winner in michigan, a very impressive win for bernie sanders in michigan. we there's a contest in idaho, 44% of the vote is now in. it's a republican primary. in democratic contest in idaho on this night. ted cruz has a solid lead, 41.6% to donald trump's 28.9%. ted cruz has a lead of about 9,300 votes. in michigan we projected that donald trump is the winner. we did that a while ago. 36 point %, but look at this fight for second place. 24 point % for ted cruz. marco rubio is down at 9.3%. he doesn't get that 15% threshold he wind up with zero delegates from the state of michigan. those are the numbers we have so far. let's talk with dana and mark. very exciting night so far and we're not done yet. >> that's right. we have idaho and hawaii. but mark you have been doing some really interesting reporting on the stop trump movement and where they're headed now. >> right. so there's been a lot of talk about how are they going to stop donald trump from getting the republican presidential nomination. there's been a lot of theories floated over the past week. in the past week it has a

i'm reena ninan. >> you know how big a night it was for bernie sanders michigan. >> you know what? hillary clinton does so well with minority community. i think possibly evangelicals, as well. so it was really a surprise for so many people that he broke out of that group and was able to turn it around. >> yeah. they gave her a 99% chance of winning michigan. >> you should have bet against the odds. >> i should have gone the other way. all right. let's start though with that race for the white house. yes, donald trump regaining momentum after a week of blistering attacks but bernie sanders enjoying that big victory that no one saw coming. > that photo finish in michigan, sanders winning by a healthy margin of more than 20,000 votes proving the pollsters wrong. hillary clinton handily winning in mississippi thanks to overwhelming support from african-americans. >> here's how it the republican race shaping up. donald trump winning in mississippi and michigan where john kas showing. ted cruz the projected winner in idaho and marco rubio finishing >> donald trump's ability to pick up t

delegates. donald trump picks up two strong wins in michigan, mississippi and another in hawaii. ted cruz wins in idaho. it was a terrible night for rubio with no wins on the board. the net result, trump preserves his big lead in delegates going into another week of big, important contests. both trump and sanders turning towards those upcoming primarie primaries. >> so, we are going to do something, i think we'll clean the slate. i think we're going to do really well in florida. it's my second home. i love florida. a specia place. i think we'll do really well. i think we'll do really well in ohio, now that i have paul o'neill's endorsement, i know i will win ohio. i have so many friends in ohio. it's an amazing place. >> what tonight means is that the bernie sanders campaign, the peoples revolution that we are talking about, the political revolution that we are talking about is strong in every part of the country. we believe that our strongest areas are yet to happen. >> reporting now is jeremy diamond from florida. good morning, break it down for us, jeremy. >> good morning, gu

, it was a win they were expecting. the stakes much higher here this michigan where our polling shows secretary clinton has a double digit lead but the internal polling shows the race is much closer. what happens here in michigan could set the tone for the rest of the race. if secretary clinton wins it would solidify her status as the front-runner. if senator sanders wins it would prove he's competitive in these larger, diverse states. we've seen clinton attacking sanders for posing the auto bailout. that's an issue that resonates in michigan and throughout the west. a lot of folks credited with savoring the economy and saving millions of jobs. senator sanders very aggressively firing back saying that's a distortion of his record. i have to tell you, it's an argument that has resonated. we'll have to see if makes a difference in the final polling. if secretary clinton were to win tonight, it wouldn't be enough to put this race out of reach in terms of the math, but it would give her a lot of momentum. her supporters cautioning he's got to be careful not to indicate or suggest th

michigan will close bernie sanders. in michigan, how close is it. >> have a great weekend. thank you. >> welcome to a special debate edition of america's nugs headquarters. bernie sanders and hillary clinton butting heads in their 7th debate tonight in flint, michigan. a solemn start with a nod to the past on a day rooted in charting our nation's political future. former first lady nancy reagan remembered as a devoted political life who often reached across party lines to leave her own mark on history. >> we would like to pause for a moment of silence in honor of mrs. reagan. >> the tributes were sincere, but it was soon back to the business at hand. the high octane debate. the gloves came off on the issue of who is best equipped to generate job growth. >> mr. president, what are you going to do to convince factories to keep the jobs here in the united states instead of sending them overseas to other countries? >> they are going to have to pay an exit fee. er we are going to stop this kind of job exporting. >> i am very glad, anderson, that secretary clinton has discovered religion o

michigan primary. michigan is one of four states where republicans will be choosing a nominee on tuesday. that follows puerto rico's republican primary, which takes place today. senator rubio's hoping to pick up a few more delegates in that contest. now, he made a stop late last night in puerto rico where he addressed an audience of supporters in spanish. and today he's headed to idaho before the state's republican primary on tuesday. over in the democratic race, saturday was a good night for bernie sanders. he won the democratic caucuses in kansas and nebraska. but it was a slightly better night for hillary clinton in terms of delegates, at least. she prevailed in yesterday's only democratic primary in louisiana. ending the night with 59 delegates to sanders' 48. democratic voters head to the polls again today, for a primary in maine. but tuesday will be the next really big day for democrats with primaries in mississippi, and here in michigan. a state with 147 democratic delegates on the line. that's exactly where the attentions of hillary clinton and bernie sanders have been fo

cuatro estados votaron en primarias en las electorales por los republicanos. michigan con 59 delegados, mississippi con 40 idaho con 32 delegados y hawai con 19 delegados. donald trump fue el gran ganador de la noche con victorias en mississippi y michigan. el senador de texas de cruz se impuso en el estado de idaho. los demÓcratas celebraronprimarias en michigan con los 147 delegados y en idaho con 41. hillary clinton ganÓ en mississippi y sanders en michigan. ilia: michigan es el padre gran premio de la noche en ambos partidos van al club se impuso finalmente a los republicanos mientras los demÓcratas sanders y clinton en una carrera muy reÑida que finalmente dio a sanders como ganador viviana Ávila tiene toda la informaciÓn. viviana: el estado de michigan tuvo una jornada electoral primaria con una cifra de votantes que no se veÍan dÉcadas en algunos condados de acuerdo a las cifras electorales oficiales. en algunas casillas electorales se acabaron las papeletas de votaciÓn. una encuesta de la universidad entre electores republicanos daba como favorito a donald trump, que g

, michigan, and new york. we start with the democratic senator from michigan. endorsing hillary clinton for president. good evening to you. >> good evening, ari. it's great to be here in flint. >> absolutely. i know it's an exciting night. i want to speak to you first as your role as senator of michigan. >> sure. >> let's try to drill down on the actual legislative debate over the auto bailout funds. the claim from the sanders side, which we heard tonight on our air, he may not have voted against the larger t.a.r.p. bill, but he said he did like the idea of the auto bailout. the clinton folks say the october vote and later vote on the 350 mill left over, he was against them. what is your view on behalf of michigan on that issue? >> well, there were two different votes, one under president bush, as you know, in 2008, and then 2009 when president obama came in. and asked us for the vote that hillary was talking about tonight. it was very clear that in order to do what we needed to do for the auto industry, we had to have that pass. and so she's absolutely right. and she was there

polls in tonight's biggest prizes, michigan and mississippi. trump is favored to win both states, but how big will his victories be if he does win them? and if there is truly some momentum going in the anti-trump direction, then we should see it in both states tonight, right? he is under serious fire, and we could see our first real evidence tonight if this stop-trump movement is gaining traction. to me, saturday will be explained away if trump does well tonight, as simply being a night of conservative contests. but if tonight is close, then we'll go back to thursday, that raucous debate, mitt romney, all of those things. hot off the presses, though, besides exit polls, we've got a brand-new nbc news/"wall street journal" national poll of the republican contests. so i've got a lot of numbers that i'll be throwing at you in a few minutes. you're looking right now at kannapolis, north carolina, that's where ted cruz is holding a 5:00 p.m. rally ahead of tonight's results. north carolina, by the way, one of five of those big states a week from today on sort of second super tuesday.

, 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 thanked his supporters who were not swayed by an all out attack against him led by former presidential candidate mitt romney coming into tuesday's primaries. >> every single person, we started off with 17, we're down to four. of the four, they're pretty much all gone. ok? pretty much. they didn't do so well tonigh

, michigan. michigan the biggest prize on the board, our first big test for candidates in the rust belt so far this primary season. will the state restore donald trump's grip on this republican race or will it push us closer to that thing we have never seen in the modern era of presidential politics, the contested convention. the latest poll in michigan putting donald trump ahead by 13 points, ted cruz and john kasich essentially tied for second. a note to that poll at the very end the final two days it showed kasich surging. for ted cruz this is a good test of how he performs in this part of the country, the rust belt, he was in michigan last night, today he is in north carolina, that's a state that's going to vote next tuesday. for john kasich a strong showing in the wolverine state could keep his campaign alive and give it new momentum heading into next week's critical showdown in his home state of ohio. meanwhile a more urgent question for marco rubio, his star may be fading ahead of next week's big primary in florida. a brand new statewide poll out this morning there has trump lead

he'll win his home state next week. will his performance tonight in michigan be the key? i'll ask him. he joins us. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. >> i'm anderson cooper. >> and you're in "the situation room." >>> we begin the hour with a lot going on including new polling that shows the race at least nationally is now a statistical dead heat between donald trump and ted cruz. take a look and ask yourself, is this the beginning of a whole new race? trump leading. cruz second. but within the margin of error, john kasich third, marco rubio now in fourth place. any or all of those numbers could move, though, after tonight. plenty about to unfold as the results begin to come in. first from mississippi then michigan. idaho and hawaii. it's getting really interesting for all of us. paulo sandoval starts out with with what voters have been calling him tonight in jackson,villevilljackson mississippi. how busy has it been where you are? >> reporter: a steady flow and the 12-hour window for people in mississippi to close theast th

both sides, the biggest prize is michigan. hillary clinton is looking for a win there today trying to extend her lead over bernie sanders. right now she has 1147 delegates to sanders' 498. but that includes clinton's 471 super delegates. sanders has only 22 super delegates. for the republicans, ted cruz is trying to chip away at donald trump's delegate lead, within striking distance of the front runner. a poll out this morning shows trump still in command of the race, although his support has dropped since december. the new i abc news "washington post" poll shows he has 38% support nationally among republicans. cruz follows with 25%. rubio with 18% and john kasich trails with 13%. we're watching all of this go down today. we are watching all of the delegate totals. again, michigan is a key contest for both parties today. 59 delegates are at stake. republicans 130. polling stations have been open for several hours. jean casarez is joining us from warren, michigan, not far from detroit. what's the latest over there? >> reporter: wolf, it's fascinating here. it's been a steady stream

season lysol that. upset victory for bernie sanders defeating with hillary clinton in michigan. clinton enjoyed a landslide win in mississippi. trump scoring big securing michigan and mississippi and the a.p. calling hawaii, as well for him. ted cruz won idaho. his seventh victory to date and kasich also had a strong showing in michigan. but marco rubio continued to slide failing to pick up a single state. >>> we, the pentagon says u.s. warplanes targeted a top isis leader in syria last week. it's unclear whether the leader was killed. >> thousands of u.s. military personnel in the persian gulf are involved in that fight against isis. we get a rare inside look at that effort. we're "up all nightline" with abc's martha raddatz. >> reporter: do you have any ridgeals before you go out? >> go to the bathroom, say a prayer. >> reporter: lieutenant commander john hilt call sign johnny kittens is calm on the surface but he is about to be hurtled off an aircraft carrier to attack isis. call sign wing nut has his camera rolling as he embarks on this risky mission flying in the dead of night over

. mitt romney's efforts to prevent the republican frontrunner from winning in michigan. >>> rising intentions between the white house and israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu after a canceled trip. >>> ordered to testify against his colleagues. one or more officers accused in the death of freddie gray and celebrating women all around the world. and we begin with another round of presidential primaries and caulk uses. four states up for grabs, including one of the biggest prizes on the primary schedule. delegate-rich michigan is holding primaries for both parties, and so is mississippi. republican voters also head to the polls for idaho's primary, and they're caulk using now in hawaii. we have aljazeera senior correspondent, michael shure, and jan than martin is in jackson, mississippi. but we begin right here with david schuster >> reporter: this is a night when donald trump and hillary clinton hope to solidify their lead. it should be a good state for bernie sanders, 70% white, and 30% african-american vote. and bernie sanders began 25 points down and the question is how much

>> anderson, let's get to a key race alert right now in the state of michigan. 52% of the vote is in. bernie sanders was not ahead in the polls going into michigan but he is right now, 51.7%, 46.5%. actually, it's a pretty significant lead right now, that's a lead of 27,415, 271,051 for sanders, 243,636 for clinton. i guess they're not very happy right now, the clinton folks when they see these numbers, though we're not quite ready to make a projection. >> hillary clinton just finished speaking here a few moments ago and did not acknowledge the race in michigan, did not acknowledge what is really going on that is consume beiing everyone in her campaign. they are poring over the numbers county by county. wayne county may not have delivered as big of a margin as they expected. they're also looking at ann arbor, home to the university of michigan, not far from detroit. they believe that senator sanders may be running up a big margin there as well. so the clinton campaign, about an hour or so ago, wolf, thought this would maybe be a three or point win or so. they believe this is incre

, saying forget it to the pundits, taking michigan in a crazy close race with hillary clinton. monday, the question was whether clinton would seal the deal. now the clinton camp is wondering what's the deal with middle class and independent voters as they struggle to connect. >> so on the republican side, donald trump winning three states. we will talk to donald trump live in our 6:00 hour. stay tuned for that. also ted cruz scored a win as well. marco rubio got crushed last night. what does that mean for the future of his campaign? we have this race covered only the way cnn can. let's begin with john bermen on who won what where and the latest delegate count. >> this was the biggest surprise, bernie sanders with the upset victory in michigan. you can see how close it was. less than 1%. but enough to be a huge moral victory for bernie sanders. but hillary clinton didn't leave with nothing. she won mississippi, and she won huge, by more than 140,000 votes. that's a big victory, and it has a big impact. it means hillary clinton won more delegates last night. look at the delegate math. h

. >>> back to our top story, bernie sanders staying in the game with an upset victory in michigan, edging out hillary clinton, despite polls that gave her a double-digit lead. but clinton trounced sanders in mississippi with more than 80% of the vote. donald trump is the big winner on the republican side easily taking mississippi and michigan. the biggest prize. and ted cruz, he won idaho. john kasich picked up some delegates but a disappointing night for marco rubio. >> a lot of people will be dissecting exactly what happened in michigan and trying to figure out what went wrong. >> incredible. i got to tell you, the past 24 hours the news cycle has been donald trump is losing momentum, he's losing momentum. but after this mississippi win, i find it hard to say -- that he pretty much swept the south. did really well last night. how can we say his momentum is draining? >> and hillary clinton, let's admit, she did have a huge victory in mississippi, but the michigan defeat is stunning. the 538, our partners over there are saying the sanders win there was one of the greatest upsets i

republicanos. michigan tiene 59 delegados, mississippi con 49, idaho 32 y hawai con 19 delegados. donald trump fue el ganador de la noche con victorias en mississippiy michigan. el senador ted cruz mantiene una ventaja preliminar en el estado de idaho. los demÓcratas sacaron 157 delegados en michigan, en mississippi 51. la secretaria hillary clinton obtuvo la red historia mississippi mientras sanders mantiene en michigan es el gran premio de la noche en ambos partidos y las contiendas fueron reÑidas, y la pelea entre clinton y sandra se ha dado hasta Último momento. liliana: el estado de michigan viviÓ una jornada electoral primaria con una cifra de votantes que no se veÍa en dÉcadas en algunos condados de acuerdo con oficiales electorales del estado incluso en algunas casillas electorales se acabaron las papeletas de votaciÓn. una encuesta entre lectores republicanos daba como favorito hacen al trump y se consolida en el camino por la eliminaciÓn republicana. vamos a recuperar la industria automotriz de michigan ninguno de los otros candidatos se preocupÓ por michigan. quien sorprend

appreciate the fact that donald trump has done so well in two very different states, michigan and mississippi. >> yeah. and i think they do appreciate it. and i think that the folks who want to stop trump also should appreciate it this evening because their job just got a lot tougher. you saw that marco rubio didn't do anything this evening. ted cruz wants to position himself as the chief challenger to trump and he won idaho and all roads to the white house go through idaho i guess. >> if not hawaii. >> if not hawaii. we'll see. so look, i think -- i think that donald trump is in a commanding position, but as john was saying, let's see next week is going to be dispositive. let's see what happens in florida and ohio. >> a week from tonight on the republican side, 60% of the delegates have been allocated. >> is he stoppable? >> i think he's stoppable, but highly unlikely. i do think this debate on thursday is pretty big because this is the last chance to throw something his way before super tuesday. i do believe campaigns are tests to see how you deal with pressure. i think there's

contests in michigan and mississippi that could define the race in both parties. first, the democrats. nearly 200 delegates at stake for bernie sanders and hillary clinton. the big prize is michigan where the pressure is on the sanders campaign. in a moment, we'll break out our new, brand new nbc news wall street journal poll on the shape of the race nationally between the two candidates. on the republican side, 150 delegates up for grabs in four states. michigan and mississippi, joined by hawaii and idaho with voters in all of those states taking calls this morning from the latest republican to lead the anyone but trump charge. >> i believe these are critical times that demand a serious, thoughtful commander-in-chief. if we republicans were to choose donald trump as our into nominee, i believe that the prospects for a safe and prosperous future would be greatly diminished. i'm convinced donald trump would lose to hillary clinton. >> our team is in place across country. hallie jackson and gabe gutierrez and kristen welker in cleveland covering the democrats and alex seiswald in detroi

sayonara. >>> coming up, "hardball" with chris matthews. >>> the battle of michigan. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews out in las vegas right now. tonight, power politics in motor city, the hard-working cold weather nfl cheering midwest world, we belovedly call the rust belt. hillary clinton showed last night she's got a fastball, hammering bernie for his vote against the automobile bailout. you don't vote against cars and car-making jobs in a part of the country that helped make america great. you don't give your political rival an issue to mow you down with. you don't do what mitt and bernie did and stand tall and still stand tall in the upper american midwest if you vote against cars. that is precisely what the experts think donald trump could win this coming november. today trump continued to hammer away at his rivals, marco rubio and ted cruz. >> you know, ted cruz, he comes in bible high, bible high, puts the bible down, then lies to you. he told you -- i mean, it's unbelievable. rubio is worse. this guy is such a scoundrel. you look at his past w

and his campaign made it clear that mississippi and michigan are their top prizes today. these are both very delegate rich states. as trump was talking to voters in mississippi, he had an eye on florida and taking swipes at marco rubio. >> and we have little marco rubio. when we had chris christie endorse me two weeks ago, when chris was on the stage, chris is the governor of new jersey, but former prosecutor and tough cookie. i thought honestly marco was going to faint. he was choking like a dog. he was pouring down sweat. chris hit him once. he said the obama thing. remember the phrase. he did it again and again and again. after the fifth time, you see the size of that hand? look at that. i was going to grab him to show him how strong that hand is. he made that sucker up. i was going to say, marco, i won't let you fall. i don't want you to get hurt. >> reporter: as soon as we get past the states here, the trump campaign will be focused on florida. they want to knock marco rubio out of the race. they went on air with a new attack ad against him. this all trying to secure senator r

making their choices in key states day with michigan the biggest prize were republicans but i'm jenna lee. hope you're off to a great start so far. >> i'm eric shawn in for jon scott purple voters head to the polls in four states for the republicans, to for the democrats there's a lot at stake in the delegate rich state of michigan. that's the first industrial state to hold a primary this election year. front-runner donald trump and hillary clinton both with tangible leads with winds today but their challengers are trying to catch up in michigan and three other states. jenna: live coverage of the big debates today. stephen live in mississippi but we start with peter in detroit. peter? >> triste. reporter: john kasich is another only republican candidate in michigan and since he has been seen as surging here that could make a big difference for the governor from just next door in ohio who's been cracking jokes as part of his stump speech about the michigan ohio state football rivalry for months. kasich is reasoning today that he may surprise people here in michigan because he has been

were deciding between marco rubio and hillary clinton. remember michigan as an open primary like other states so you can register that day and devote your coke we have a number of questions that are veryinteresting and i'll try to bring up topics we haven't heard in the democratic race today to hear from . jon: the auto industry and its help is a big topic in michigan. will be a big topic tonight? >> you know, there's some follow-up probably to do after last night's debate to go that exchange you played was the most fiery we've seen in the debates so far. i think there's more to mind there and obviously it's an issue that is on the minds of michiganders here. i think the economy, i think a number of topics that have not come up before in debates of the past, the town hall format allows you to kind of get beaver, get into the weeds in some topics and gives some breathing room. we hope to have a lot of substance in 30 minutes. jon: obviously it's tough to bring these two candidates together. i know for a while you had one of them then finally got both of them. bernie sanders really needs