[Lu Stout:] Nevada's GOP caucus results are yet another sign of how Donald Trump's momentum appears to be building. But what's fueling the surge? Now Jacob Parakilas is the assistant head at U.S. and Americas program at Chatham House, it's a London-based think tank. And he spoke to Max Foster a short time ago about the billionaire's lead.
[Jacob, Parakilas, Chatham House:] I think Trump is drawing in people who wouldn't necessarily participate in the political process. It's been observed time and time again that there is an undercurrent of anger, or an overcurrent of anger, even, that's running through this primary. And I think Trump is appealing to people who feel disenfranchised from the existing political process. And they want to see someone who has no connection to the existing political establishment.
[Foster:] If we look at the numbers, they are still coming in, aren't they? We are watching them very closely, because it's all about second place right now, in Rubio and Cruz. As long as those two are fighting it out amongst each other, it is good for Trump, isn't it? But it's very important who comes second.
[Parakilas:] It is. And at the moment it looks like Rubio by about a slightly over a percentage point. But the problem is that as long as Trump continues to rack up victories by a margin of 15 percent or 20 percent, he has a very good cushion going into the Super Tuesday primaries. And beyond that, the delegate proportional method goes from proportional to winner take all. So, if Trump can continue to sort of maintain this momentum, he may start winning the very, very large pots of delegates, because the number assigned so far have been relatively small compared to the 1,237 that you actually need for the nomination. But at the point where Trump has notched up victories in states all over the country, states with different demographics, it is going to be very difficult for one candidate, let alone four, to make the case against him.
[Lu Stout:] Now, there are a lot of states ahead and a lot of ground to cover. Now, CNN's John King has this look at the Republican race.
[John King, Cnn Correspondent:] A long way to go to the 1,200 plus you need to clinch the nomination. But again, he's three for four so far. And momentum matters in politics. Let's look ahead to Super Tuesday. A dozen states fill in. We give Ted Cruz Texas here. Looking for other states. You know, the Rubio people, this is hypothetical now, folks, the Rubio people say maybe they'll win Minnesota. For the sake of the argument let's give it to them. Donald Trump second, and Ted Cruz third and Kasich fourth. Even that, if Rubio wins that, Donald Trump still starting to pull away. So, you look at the end of the night, maybe a couple other states and here to the competitive. But, Anderson, this is the state of the republican race right now. Donald Trump has won three of the first four states. In any past campaign people would be saying, wow, that's unstoppable. Is he unstoppable? No. But if you have a continued race where the reaction tonight was, Kasich goes after Rubio, Cruz goes after Rubio and nobody goes after Trump, the Trump campaigns feels very strongly that maybe they'll lose Texas on Super Tuesday. They are going to compete, trust me. But maybe they'll lose Texas, maybe they'll lose one or two other, but they believe by next Tuesday night we're going to be talking about a big Donald Trump lead in the delegate.
[Lu Stout:] John King there. Now, if you want to crunch the numbers just like John King, just head to our website. You can find the current delegate estimates. You can check out the calandar of upcoming key states on the road to the White House. It's all at CNNpolitics.com. And we are hosting the final Republican debate ahead of those crucial Super Tuesday contests. You can watch that live on Friday 9:30 in the morning in Hong Kong, 10:30 a.m. in Tokyo right here of course on CNN. Now, the full scope of the devastation in Fiji is just beginning to be realized after the most powerful storm on record in the southern hemisphere ripped through the country. The death toll now stands at 42. And workers are scrambling to reach the hard-hit outer islands. Now, the prime minister says that there are people out there who are without food, water, or shelter. Now, one young woman survived by hiding in a cupboard with her family. Now, the power had gone out. And she tweeted from her phone in the dark. She said this, the house is leaking and everyone is crying. Planning where to hide when the entire roof comes off. Now another said, quote, everybody is safe and in the cupboard with a mattress against us. No roof. Barely any house, but alive so far, thank god. Now, daylight broke and the extent of the damage was revealed. And she tweeted this, quote, can't even begin to comprehend how we survived. Every room in the house is shredded to bits. Now, earlier I spoke with this young woman, Kaila Takara and asked her to describe the moment she felt her house being torn apart.
[Cayla Tikaram, Survived Cyclone Winston:] Oh, god. It was so terrifying, because we were at one side of the house and then we could hear the roof tearing off. So we had to run through the house as the roof was tearing off to the other side. And we the doors were still open and slamming around the place. And it just looked like one of those things you see in movies where everything is just torn out and flying above you and everything was just going crazy. It was one of those totally out of body, it couldn't be real, kind of experiences. And it was absolutely terrifying. Nothing, I think, anyone in Fiji ever wants to live through again. I've heard stories. I was talking to some of my neighbors and people in the community afterwards and they were saying that during the eye of the cyclone they had to just run through the fields and try to run to neighbor's houses. And stories of people running through the streets yelling out for help because their house had been ripped away and things like that. So, it is definitely terrifying for a lot of people.
[Lu Stout:] And as the cyclone tore apart your home and swept through Fiji, you were sharing the details in real-time on social media, on Twitter. And I'm wondering just what gave you the strength and what compelled you to put aside your fear of what you were experiencing in that moment to share your story with the world?
[Tikaram:] I don't know if it was me putting aside my fear. I think it was more me being extremely terrified. I was really lucky we had reception, because we live on a hill. And so me just being able to could hear everyone else in the other parts of the world kind of the reassurance that people were out there was great. And I was really lucky to have that, because then I still am that we have this means of communication available to us. And I know so many people who were on their phones.
[Lu Stout:] And we are very fortunate right now to be having this conversation because we know that power lines, communication lines are very, very patchy at the moment in the wake of Cyclone Winston. A final message from you how can the international community best help the people of Fiji right now?
[Tikaram:] Oh, god, that's a big one. Well, just really go out of their way, you know, try to get supplies here. We need I know a lot of organizations have been saying that they need money, but as as I can see where I live, in the really, really rural part of Fiji and isn't anything getting through out here. So, you know, we really just need food, clothing, support, infrastructure, small building tools, as many things as we can possibly get over here would be absolutely brilliant.
[Lu Stout:] Now Cayla is also helping to track down survivors in Fiji who are struggling to contact relatives overseas as lines of communication have been cut off. You're watching News Stream. And we'll be back after this short break.