Good evening I'm on the Navas and I'm Jeff Bennett on the news hour tonight.

Voters in more than a dozen states cast ballots in Super Tuesday primaries, but the results could mean

for November's presidential match-up.

The families of Israelis taken captive by Hamas on October 7th offer different perspectives on a potential hostage deal.

And what's behind the shocking increase in alcohol-related deaths in the U.S. and what can be done

to stop it?

Those who use it don't think of themselves

as using a drug, and therefore they don't worry about it

as much as they should. Welcome to the news hour. It is the biggest night of the primary election season.

Voters in 16 states and one territory are making their picks for the Democratic and Republican nominees for president.

In a high stakes election year, with an array of domestic and foreign issues at top of mind,

voters today were weighing their options carefully.

I want to vote for Trump because I think he's conservative. He was pro-life.

Joe Biden.

Overall, I think he'd undone a a great job regardless what people think of his age.

I don't want to have Donald Trump as the option on the Republican ticket, so

Well, I'm gonna vote for anybody who says they're closing the border

Non-committed. Yeah, I am very

Concerned and about this election. I don't feel like we have equitable choices.

To help us make sense of it all, we're joined now by Republican strategist Kevin Madden,

Democratic strategist Faz Shakir, and Amy Walter of the Cook political report with Amy Walter,

with a welcome to all of you. Amy luckily

...