emerging about the gunman at fort hood. the darker mystery remains about what triggered. mozilla's ceo divorces himself after the marriage equality. this is "way too early." hey everybody, good morning. it's friday, april 4th. welcome to "way too early." a show looking for a house band. i hear there's one available. now we've heard david letterman, his studio audience and a lot of people around the country after announcing the run on late night tv is congresswomcoming to an e >> sometime in the not too distant future, 2015, for the love of god, paul and i will be wrapping things up and taking a hike. thank you. thanks, everybody. a standing ovation there.

when letterman completes his run he's going to be the longest serving host in late night history. at 19 he was making $150 as a weatherman and booth announcer. his stand-up comedy landed his own show in nbc working in the shadow of carson. carson's throne went on to dave leno. letterman carved out the own nish. sometimes there were the top-ten lists. >> number nine, what's up gangsters? it's the mi double tizzle. >> number five, diffused stare. number three, look at this, no number three stolen by o.j. and the number one sign barack obama is over confident been cruising for chicks with john

edwards. letterman's run hasn't been without controversial including tabloid headlines over an affair. he was forced to apologize about sarah palin's daughter. >> one awkward moment, her daughter was knocked up by alex rodriguez. am i guilty of poor taste? yes. did i suggest that it was okay for her 14-year-old daughter to be having sex? no. >> letterman said he's looking forward to spending more time with his family. remains to be seen exactly who is going to replace him. it got our head spinning. who do you think should replace david letterman as the host for late night? there's a lot of candidates out there. how about a woman? tweet your most creative answers including #waytooearly. you've had some great thought. we move on there's new insight into the man accused of shooting and killing three

people at fort hood before turning the gun on himself. there was nothing that indicate that ivan lopez was violent or suicidal and the injuries he complained about was not from iraq. he was treated for depression. there's evidence it was a verbal altercation on the base that may have sparked the shootings. friends in his hometown of puerto rico told the nigh times that they were shocked. a former superior said he couldn't believe we're speaking about the same guy. i expressed anger about not getting more time off for his mom's funeral. he bought the handgun that major that dahl hassan bought his weapon. flags flown at half-staff around the country. friends and families spent the day remembering the loved ones. >> among those killed 37-year-old timothy owens. a counselor and 10-year army

veteran. he just remarried in august. >> i'm very proud of him. >> owens had two teenage children. his daughter posted on facebook. i hate you were taken away from me. i love you, daddy. injured yesterday, 32-year-old major patrick miller. >> when i called a lady answered. i said who is this? she told me. >> also injured in the shooting is keisha. >> it felt pretty good our patients. we still have some time to go before i declare them out of the woods. it has new discussions about personal guns on military weapons. the speaker of the house weighed in on screening on gun purchases. >> there's no question that those with mental health issues should be prevented from owning weapons or being able to purchase weapons. this issue, we need to continue to look at, to find a way to keep weapons out of the hands of people who should not have them. all right on a different

note. one of the first major rounds of severe weather kept the plains, midwest, and south under tornado warnings. a tornado believed to have touched down in st. louis uprooting trees, crushing cars. the governor declaring a state of the emergency and texas took it on the chin as well. look that the. on the campus of university of no one northern texas. students emerged from the dorms and found the buildings damaged. i want to bring in nbc meteorologist bill kerns. what about today? >> we have a threat but not so much the big tornado threat like yesterday. i have to say, thomas, many times we haven't had a tornado fatality in the united states this year yet. i didn't jinx it. yesterday we didn't have any either. there a reports of a injury. but as far as any horrible tragedy, we avoided that. it we have a strong line of storms. if you're trying to sleep last night in northern mississippi. it hasn't been easy. tornado sirens going on and off. line of storms went through a

ton lightening and thunder. now the line went through -- we have one more tornado warning that just expired now we watch the storms traveling across alabama. as we go through the day today, as far as the concerned area is going to go. it's in yellow. that's a slight risk. we don't have the red like yesterday. we're looking at slight risk of storms knoxville to huntingville, birmingham to atlanta to jackson, mississippi. those are the areas of concern. it's not so much tornados today but damaging winds. that's more typical of inside your house you can feel a little safer. you have to watch the falling trees. okay. we'll talk about the weekend forecast. majority leader harry reid doubling down on the criticism of the koch brothers whom he recently described as un-american. as the l.a. times is pointing out he's hardly the only democrat taking aim. al franken accused him of secretive network to funnel dark money all over the country.

senator marc beg ginch -- running it into the ground. a lot of alaska begans are losing jobs. i'm concerned about the drinking water. charles koch responded to it as character assassination. senator reid didn't seem the least bit bothered by it. >> most people are familiar with the koch brothers. i helped make them more famous. i'm glad i've done that. these two men are a pair of billionaires spending millions of dollars to rig the political system. by every indication, my republican colleagues are falling all over themselves to advance their self-described radical philosophy. already we've had one senator run to the senate floor and read word for word the piece on the

floor. after two weeks on the job mozilla's new ceo stepped down. brendan eich stepped down. in 2008 he gave $1,000 to back a bill bang marriage equality. mozilla was aware of the donation and when he became ceo, half the company's board member quit the post. the dating website okay cupid.com, 8% of whom are gay or lesbian. the company said it is satisfied with the resignation. earlier this week he said he would not resign. however, it became clear that the company felt the controversy was too much to tolerate. moving on. later today we gate look at the march jobs report. yesterday the dow and s&p were treated from record highs to close the day in negative territory stamping four-session win streak. c good morning, steve.

this is all about the weather. we didn't have bad weather in the states in march compared with january and february. we had the polar vortex. it's about the economy getting on sustainable path or is there a problem there as well. the figure we're looking for is 200,000 jobs created. search looking at that. average earnings they picked up in the february payroll as well. was it a blip or are we seeing, finally, median incomes going up? he'll do whatever it takes in quantititive easing to shore up the european economy. good news on the ipo. ipo activity in the united states up hugely. around $10,000 worth of deals in the first quarter. it's the best quarter since 2000. globally the figures up 98%. back to you. >> steve, thank you very much. have a great weekend.

still ahead on "way too early." one mets player being criticized for missing time for the birth of his son. we'll show you why some in the new york media are up in arms. if sky diving wasn't dangerous enough. we'll show you one close call in the skies above norway. we'll find out why it is out of this world. those stories and check on weather whether "way too early" comes back. martin luther king jr. was killed tonight in memphis, tennessee. shot as he stood on the balcony of his hotel room. he died in a hospital. [ female announcer ] who are we?

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take a look. >> in the air, way back. goodbye. >> indeed on a fast ball on a 2-0 caught by a fan. >> dj pollock looking behind him a lot. right to the beat on the track he's get ought there have in a hurry. yankees and astros how smooth is

derek jeter after making smooth from bill over there. young fan wearing the shirt in the stand, he goes over to give the kid the ball. look at that. there you go. all right. that's so bad. anyway. look at that. so happy. makes you happy, bill. >> very, very happy. >> i feel a little bad. we have drama surrounding the nets not because they started 0-3. that's normal. it has to do with daniel murphy. on monday murphy's wife gave birth to a healthy baby. he missed the game. murphy decided to miss the game on wednesday. the decision did not sit well with some in the new york sports media. >> how is the c-section before the season starts. i need to be at opening day. i'm sorry. this is what makes our money. this is how we're going live our life. this is going to give my child

every opportunity to be a success in life. i'll be able to afford any college i want to send my kids to. i'm a baseball player. >> i assuming everything goes right. mom is healthy. >> no complications. >> no complications. >> get back to work. >> he picks the knuckles up off the floor. murphy was back in the lineup. he was asked about the controversy after ward. >> the awesome part about being blessed and a parent you get the choice. my wife and i discussed it, and we felt the best thing for our family was for me to try to stay for an extra day. i can only speak from my experience. but fathers seeing their wives. she was finished. she was done. she was wiped. so having me there, i think, helped a lot and vice versa to take some of the load off. according to collective bargaining, players are allowed up to a three-day absence after being put on maternity leave.

what do you think of it this. >> i listen to mike who is a local sports talk guy. they were on top of the subject. they come across looking very naive. >> very naive. and healthy baby boy, so congratulations. >> good for him. every mets fan -- i didn't hear any mets fans complaining they were like it's two games out of 262. give me a break. i don't think it is a controversy. our friends in minnesota, yeah. not fun. it's still snowing. it's snowing hard and, you know, the last gasp of winter. it's april. we'll warm up over the weekend a little bit. it's snowing hard. imagine that, you have school cancellations and delays, like, the first week of april. that's what we're dealing with. why you're speaking my language as a kid. >> i'm sure the teachers are happy. they don't want to be school until july. as far as the weekend we're looking a the minneapolis area light snow today. it'll be ending. thunderstorms through the southeast as we talked about. some with damaging wind. as we go through the weekend,

the weather pattern quiets down. notice that pretty much from coast to coast we get showers out there. seattle, billings, also on and off rain along the gulf. no dangerous weather, snowstorms or sleet. as we head through sunday we'll see the storm in the gulf starting to head northward. in the southeast the better day is saturday. sunday could be a rain-out type day heading for atlanta, mississippi, alabama, we're going see a beautiful sunday. especially compared to what we deal with today with the clouds and the rain. areas like new york city, boston, d.c., it looks like just a picture-perfect typical spring sunday. a great day for the yard work or enjoy the day. in much of the country it looks nice, too. no huge dangerous storms heading your way. you gate break and so do i. coming up. the democratic party's public enemy number one. koch brothers under fire from lawmakers on the left. and setting the stage fur the midterm fight against money and

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at the want to show we talked about david letterman announcing his retirement. it you want to sound smart tell

your friends during his time at nbc and cbs he hosted a staggering total of 5,914. it's more than jay leno who h t hosted 4610. letterman has really incredible résume. can you believe it or not, lewis, he's been doing it for over 30 years. technically letterman is older than you. >> just as a career. you have a ways to go. i don't think you are quite at 4,000. but regis fillman has the record of 17,000 hours on television. i don't know if anybody will beat the king. >> maybe you have a shot, tom. >> maybe. the first item to the skies in the sport of sky diving. this is a video of professional skydiver. it starts out with an incident. when anders pulls the shoot. watch carefully.

did you miss it? he narrowly missed b eed by a f meteorite. it was confirmed at university of oslo. they are calling a world first. the chances of it happening less likely than winning the lottery three times, thomas. i don't know if he's lucky or unlucky. >> he's lucky. it could have torn through the shoot or clocked him in the head. >> it's probably moving pretty fast. i don't know if you recover from that. >> i don't know. good thing for him. we wouldn't be showing it if something worse happens. i think he's lucky. turn to paul ryan has taken plenty of criticism in the budget. but jimmy fallon might think he has another motive. >> paul ryan released the budget proposal for 2015. saying it would balance federal spending in ten years. it's a detailed plan he lays out month by month. take a look, in january of 2015, he wants to have obamacare

repealed. in february he wants to begin enacting $5 trillion in cuts. march, increase defense spending. did you see april? let see may. i think i know what's going on here. he's trying to sell us the 2015 calendar. budget hunks in 2015. paul ryan looks like don n dondo donny duetch there. you brought us important news gun show out of russia. putin's divorce is final. he's back on the market with pictures like this. how could the late night resist his charm. >> pew st-- putin is officially divorced from his wife. you know, they look so happy. that's what smiling looks like in russia. this, by the way, bring other picture up.

this is the woman putin is supposedly dating now. i think she's giving birth to herself. coming in april 25 beautiful women try to win the chance but only one get the man of her dreams. >> he's hot! >> he's powerful. he's the bachelor. only on abc. >> you can tell he's single because he's working up on the pickup lines. do your legs hurt? because you've been running from my military all night. next we have, is your father a baker, because i would wait in a bread line for three days for you. are you an angel bought i thought i killed you months ago? >> i think he's going bring chifl i are back. he doesn't strike me as an e harmony. i think we'll see a profile on tinder or one of the more

aggressive. just te we had the funny hashtags yesterday. ask her to say it macho. >> i'm here. >> #machoputin. >> we will see putin on the market. we'll see blow calm we'll see blow a couple of minutes. "morning joe" moments away. [ female announcer ] take skincare to the next level with roc® multi correxion® 5 in 1. proven to hydrate dryness, illuminate dullness, lift sagging, diminish the look of dark spots, and smooth the appearance of wrinkles. high performance skincare™ only from roc®.

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earlier in the show we asked you who should replace david letterman. >> we have a lot of good ones. a couple of people were saying chelsea handler who announced she's leaving her work this week. >> don't you think it is suspicious timing? >> my favorite dave chappell, which would be awesome. conan oh brian, lewis ck. amy poehler, which would be cool. eddie murphy, and wane murphy. other people were saying drew

carrie, lena dun ham. what about craig ferguson? he's in the running. a few people are saying that as well. >> it odd that everybody is looking beyond to see who potentially might take over? we will all wait and see but we love david letterman. congratulations on a wonderful career to him. thanks, gang. happy friday. "way too early" is over. "morning joe" starts right now. ♪ i phoned him just before the program and i said, leslie, you've been great, the network has been great but i'm retiring. >> you actually did this? >> yes, i did. >> wow. thank you very much. what this means now is that paul and i can be married.