after the shooter left, this terrorist left, i turned around to assess the situation and i walk into the lobby and i see lori laying object the floor unconscious. >> new details of the deadly shooting at a california synagogue. inb colluding the allegationed shooter. more violence in multiple places including baltimore and tennessee. to good news, six men found alive after two days in a cave. avengers soars beyond all

expect taugss to earn $1.2 billion in a weekend. and a fascinating story inside the ghost army. the unit made up of actors and r artist who is tricked the enemy in world war ii. "early today" starts now. >> good morning. standing strong in the face of hate. one day after the shooting that killed a woman and injured three others, the community held a memorial for the victim. she will be laid to rest later today. authorities say the suspected gunman, a 19-year-old, surrendered to police after opening fire on the final day of passover saturday. investigators believe he published a hate-filled letter before the attack to which the synagogue's rabbi had a powerful response. >> what he needs to know and what everyone needs to know, hating jews is hating humanity

we are all humans. we are all created in god's image. and having hate in your heart will only destroy. >> dan shenman has the latest sfwlr one day after a gunman opened fire, a community came together. >> god save us and answer uts u.s. on the day we call. >> reporter: saturday ernest opened fire marking the final day of passover. one person was killed. >> i saw the worst sight you could ever see. a young man holding a rifle and shooting. >> reporter: arab buy who lost a finger to a gbt wound said there was a miracle when the gun jammed. >> a u.s. veteran army threw a chair at him to disarm him. the border patrol agent join ed

in. they ran towards him. he was startled and he ran towards this car. >> reporter: among the victims an 8-year-old, her face and leg injured by shrapnel. >> i was scared. i felt like the movies. >> reporter: the mourning and the recovery will go on. >> you spend seven days in mourning and then we get up. we get up and we stand tall. >> reporter: a community dealing with tragedy, but vowing not to be defined by it. dan shenman, nbc news. police are asking the public's help tracking down a gunman who opened fire at a cookout. one person was killed and seven injured. they were hachg on the opposite sides of the street when a man shot into the crowd. detectives are also trying to investigate if a second person fired back at the gunman. the identities and conditions of

the victims are unknown. police believe the shooter may have been targeting someone in the crowd. police in tennessee say they have arrested a man they believe is connected to several bodies found in two tennessee homes. the 25-year-old michael mince was arrested on sashd after a manhunt. police responded to a 911 call at a home where they found six bodies and an injured person. another body was found at a location a short distance away. he was found in a remote area and was shot by an officer during the arrest. they are also locking for a possible motive and trying to establish if he knew the victims. one b day after a construction crane came crashing down in seattle killing four people, there's a new view of the accident. our seattle affiliate king tv acquired exclusive video of the collapse that some may find disturbing.

the crane follalls to the grounn two pieces. investigators are trying to determine if weather played a role. molly hunter is in seattle. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: good morning, we're standing at that uneincredibly y building. the metal is where the crash through. behind that we're watching crews remove what's left of the crane. seattle's construction boom turned deadly saturday. photos show a crane after it snapped and crashed to the ground from a six story building own bid google. >> i heard a sound that was like thunder. >> reporter: they shot video five minutes earlier. >> it was moving like it was swaying in the wind. >> reporter: you can see the crane right there swaying in the wind. at 3:30 p.m. it came down across

six lanes of traffic. >> a few seconds later i saw the shock wave. >> reporter: two crane operators and two others were dead before by the time firefighters arrived. investigators now looking at what role the weather played with powerful wind gusts passing through the area at the time. google released a statement saying we're km communicate with vul can. they said our deepest sympathies go out to the families who lost loed ones. seattle is going thus a tech building boom. there's more cranes here than anywhere else in america. there were at least 60 across the city. president trump is doubling down on immigration as a race for 2020 ramps up. during his rattle hi this weekend, he made headlines for calling his proposal to relocate migrants, sick idea kelly

o'donnell has r more. >> wants the to allow unlimited, uncontrolled and unchecked migration all paid for by you. >> reporter: this season's campaign message builds on 2016's wall. in part, he attacks the democrats' support for protected communities that do not enforce federal immigration laws. at hids green bay rally, president trump boasted already taking toox relocate migrants, but his own administration says that has not happened. >> i'm proud to tell you that was my sick idea. >> reporter: nobc news reached out to the white house. but officials provided no response and previous ly stated legal issues makes such a plan unworkable. while the words stir his base, actions sometimes do not come to pass. like repeated threats about the

border. >> we're going to close the damn border. >> reporter: portland, oregon, is a sanctuary city and the mayor says migrants are welcome there but the trump administration has not started the process. >> i haven't seen evidence at this point that relocations are taking place that's not to say they are not underway or that the president hasn't already put the wheels in motion, but there's been no communication with my administration. >> reporter: candidate trump taking on the newest democratic entrant joe biden over immigration in a phone int interview. >> i said is this really joe biden? he doesn't look the same to me. >> reporter: the president also jumping on beto o'rourke who says some existing porder wall should be moved. >> so beto o'rourke wants to take down the walls. that means he's finished. >> reporter: in this politically charged atmosphere, looking ahead to tomorrow when president trump will host congressional democratic leaders for a meeting

requested nancy pelosi. it will be about infrastructure, an issue that's important and has been a place they claim they can find some common ground. >> thank you. washington is remembering former senator richard loouger. he was a foreign policy, pert known for his work on arms control inclouding legislation that helped russia and other soviet republics scale become their nuclear, chemical and biological arsenals. he was awarded the presidential medal of freedom in 2013. richard served in the senate for 36 years. he was 87 years old. the nightmare is over for five men trapped in a cave in virginia. the group of men planned to spend the weekends inside the cave but got trapped because of heavy rains. one man was able to escape ask alert authorities. the owner of the cave says the

men didn't ask for permission to enter the private property. bill karins is here with our forecast to start the week. >> good morning, is is it early april or late april? we're watching thunderstorms. but the blue on the map is where the snow is. it's snowing in portions of six different states at this hour right now from the rockies to the northern plains. 4 million poem at risk for severe weather. it will be isolated. not many tornadoes. and tomorrow we'll have a pretty bigger thet. we're worried from tulsa to joplin. and these storms will stretch see where our contrast is. very warm conditions throughout the southern half of the count b try.

the week ahead is a lot of have and have notes as far as the cold goes. it's going to snow again in some areas. >> i might need my jacket. thank you. after a new jersey high school's production of alien went viral, students received recognition from the original star of the 1979 film. she made a surprise visit to the encore performance and congratulated them for their hard work. the director also proximate caused the students if r their creativity in a letter and provided $5,000 to help fund that on core performance. >> they look so excited. >> you get those big names coming at you. just ahead, why fewer americans are taking vacation and it's no spoiler. the avengers assembled the greatest box office haul of all time. the heroic amount they brugt in opening weekend.

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a driver of a truck is lucky to be alive after the truck became engulfed in flames in the muld of a drive-thru. he was orderinged to at that burger king in arkansas when an employee noticed the propane tank appear ed to be leaking. the driver got out to check the tank and the truck burst into flames. he managed to get away before the tank exploded, but he did get hurt. static electricity may have been to blame. leading the news, a $1.2 billion milestone worldwide. avengers scoring the biggest box office opening ever. kathy park promises no spoilers in this report. >> it's a super heat hero film crushing records. avengers the first film ever to soar past $1 billion in its debut. >> i said no more surprises. >> reporter: 21 movies in the

series led to this monumental moment. >> just the way it ended. >> reporter: any spoilers were highly discouraged. but that didn't stop lesean mccoy who tweeted theeneding and became a social media villain. don't worry, we won't give it away, but one person who read his tweet wrote i'll be in my room crying. a marvel ending, but ticket sales are just the begin ining. to keep up with the demand, the movie has in play in 4600 theerts in the u.s. and canada. some have been pulling around the clock showings. >> thank you. no surprise there. >> no, all about avengers and "game of thrones," no spoilers here. still ahead, a heartwarming reunion between aed to her and deputy who saved his life. how the chance encounter changed

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this was the scene in england. a rehearsal went terribly wrong. yesterday boot prints for each of them were laid out on the sand. members of another u.s. army operation began shortly after d-day are being considered for the congressional gold medal. >> reporter: it's an iconic image, soldiers storming the beaches of norman day. but for decades none of us knew

about the top secret unit sent in just days later. >> it was 19 years old. >> reporter: bernie was an art student hand picked to be part of the 23rd headquarters special troops now known as the ghost army. >> didn't know what to think. no idea what our missions would be. >> reporter: their mission was to deceive with fake guns and uniforms and sound effects combined with tanks that looked real, but were filled with air. 1100 actors, artists and sound experts acting as decoys. the ark terkt was an officer. >> we had one incident where two frenchman saw a tank being lifted by two men and moved. they turned to me and said, how can two men lift a tank. so i said, you know the americans are very strong. and that seemed to satisfy them. >> reporter: they created illusions to draw the nazi army into the wrong place to stop them from attacking.

the last operation in the final weeks of the war. a crucial bat until germany with thousands of lives at stake using every last trick they had. >> we were sitting on the other side of running from the germans waving at the enginegermans and saying, hey, here i am, shoot at me. >> it worked. the real fighting force was here ten miles north. 30,000 american soldiers storming across the river and meeting almost no resistance. for decades after the war, the mission remined top secret. >> you didn't tell a sole. >> reporter: the government opened the files in the mid-1 0 mid-1990s. gill is 104 still a practicing architect. bernie is 95. >> do you consider yourself a hero? >> i suppose so. i don't want to be, but i suppose so. >> if we saved even one life, i'm very proud of that. >> reporter: proud to of how

they fought with a lot of imagination and a big dose of bravery. kelly cobiella, germany. >> fascinating

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