you just for being gay, but they're wrong. there is no such federal law. the bill that would do that, enda, the employment non-discrimination act that has languished in congress since 1994. good tuesday morning. right now on "first look," emotion overload. parents and loved ones facing unthinkable moments as their kids are pulled from the sunken ferry. change in the constitution? retired supreme court justice john paul stevens says six changes should be made. palcohol? the controversy over alcohol delivered in a powdered form. plus, president obama to visit washington's horrific mudslide. security concerns over just how that teenager snuck on board that jetliner to hawaii and jimmy fallon strikes again with an even funnier and creative brian williams rap song. well, hello and thanks for joining us on this tuesday. we want to begin with that heartbreaking ferry disasters

unfolding off the southern coast of south korea. the death toll has surpassed 100 as the desperate search for nearly 200 continues mostly high school students. seven days into the operation, the pace of bodies being recovered has accelerated now that divers finally succeeded in entering the ferry. families waiting at port, well, they are bracing for the worst. when one father identified his 15th-year-old's body, he tried to resuscitate him, pumping his chest and blowing into his mouth, yelling at him to stop sleeping. and today one teenage girl, just 17 years old was laid to rest. south korea's president offered support for the families, criticizing the crew saying "the action of the captain and some of the crew was incomprehensible. it was like murder. it can't be tolerated." the captain and several crew members have been arrested. the cause of the crash is still being investigated. at least two american drones

assisted in strikes in yemen over the weekend. the joint operation is the most aggressive counterterrorism activity in months. u.s. counterterrorism officials tell nbc news the air strikes hit "a full-blown terrorism training camp." they praise the operations as both efficient and well done. however, they also said there was no indication that any top al qaeda leaders were killed. vice president joe biden is paying a visit to ukraine's acting president today. the vp is expected to announce new technical support so the ukrainian government can implement energy and economic reforms. biden is the highest ranking u.s. official to visit the country since the crisis with russia began. the vice president's visit comes days after an international agreement was reached to quell violence in the country. the u.s. ambassador to ukraine warned, though, yesterday that russia has day, not weeks to abide by that agreement. security questions, they are being raised after a 16-year-old from california was able to

sneak into the wheel well of a plane and end up in hawaii. airport officials in san jose are reviewing how the teen was able to slip past security on sunday. >> it appears that he may have scaled the fence line under cover of darkness and he remained undetected as he then proceeded onto the aircraft ramp. >> the fbi says the boy was actually knocked out for most of the 5 1/2-hour flight and didn't regain consciousness until after hour after the plane landed. according to the faa, there have been 105 stowaways worldwide since 1947 and 76% of them did not survive. all right. we want to switch gears because last night nbc's brian williams was a guest on "the tonight show. but before he appeared, jimmy fallon showed off his latest sma smashup with the snoop dogg classic "gin and juice."

♪ so turn off the lights and close the doors ♪ ♪ we don't love them so we announce for this for cheese ♪ ♪ up, down, rolling down the street smoking and sipping on gin and juice ♪ ♪ laid back with my mind on my money and my money on my mind ♪ >> a little bit of a potty mouth from brian williams. >> i like the trio. i think that's new. >> adds kate snow -- hey, it's good. every single one makes me laugh. >> a good tuesday to you. to boston on monday. it was an emotion filled boston marathon. run e runners carried a fellow competitor to the finished line. married bombing victims cycling past where they both lost their legs and finish line proposals. yesterday, betty, it was not boston, massachusetts, it was boston usa. >> boston strong. >> that's right. >> now, taking it to the nba

playoffs. memphis and oklahoma with big shots last night. kevin durant's four-point play and kendrick perkins' game time basket, heading into overtime. memphis was not at all rattled. zach randolph's 25-point performance led the grizzlies to a 111-105 win tying the matchup, 1-1. l.a. turning things around against golden state. los angeles spanking golden state by 40 points. >> wow. >> sit down. >> 138-98. it's the largest victory in clippers history, series tied at one all. excuses, excuses. the sun was coming over. i lost it in the sun. it was a real hard liner. >> oh, so close. >> so says that fan for missing an easy fenway park catch. his lady friend right next to him. the staff feel so sorry. they walk him up a ball. the lady prann from embarrassment. san francisco sports fans, they hate the interior of their town's new train. >> i wonder why. >> why?

the design matches the color of their archrival, seattle seahawks. the art executive who gave it a thumbs up, a former transportation seattle executive. >> oops. >> over 17 assigned to scrap the color. bye-bye. no thanks. a before and after you don't want to see. a 90-mile-per-hour pitch hit the houston minor leaguer. delano deshields jr. he can only eat crackers and soft foods for now, but his spirits are up. one texas police officer got pretty ticked off. he didn't like texas high school students storming the field in celebration of a girls soccer championship. >> de just trip him? >> he did more than that. watch this. >> after a girl, too. >> he tripped and pushed the students. he was a police officer working as a security officer. >> that's not how you do it.

thank you. now for a look at the weather, bill karins who doesn't trip or push anyone around here. >> not since 4 years old. happy earth day. >> happy earth day to you. the biggest deal, 1970 it started a long tile ago. >> turn out the lights. make sure we recycle. >> the tornado season. we've had a lack of it. yesterday no tornadoes reported. large hail in texas and here's how we stand this year. 425 tornadoes is where we should be for this date on average. we've only had 109. we've only had 25% of the normal tornado activity and thankfully of the 109 we've had none of those turned out to be killer tornadoes and now as of today, this is the latest we've gone into a year without a tornado death going back to 1950 when that's when we had our reliable records begin. we're not looking at tornadoes

after this morning. a few thunderstorms roll in through mississippi into alabama and as we go through today, no tornadoes but tomorrow, this area of yellow, there is a slight risk of severe storms and possibly isolated tornadoes out in the central plains, but, you know, what a great record to break. >> yeah. >> lack of tornado deaths. >> love those stats. thank you, bill. a major supreme court case. a wild courtroom shootout during a gangland trial. plus controversy over palcohol which is alcohol in powdered form you mix with liquids. we have those details next.

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let's get down to business. seema mody, good morning. netflix is planning for an increase. they're trying to offset costs for new content and for new shows like "house of cards."

customer also continue to be charged their current fees for now. on line travel agencies in surveys. cramped planes and more in-flight service. they rated them low for bathroom and seat comfort. united rated the worst domestic carrier. earnings are squarely in any just for investors anticipating results from the likes of mcdonald's, travelers, xerox and comcast, the parent of nbcuniversal. betty. >> seema, thank you. today the supreme court takes up one of the biggest copyright cases in decades. two-year legal battle between tv broadcasters including nbc and an internet start-up company they say is stealing and rebroadcasting their content without permission. nbc's tracie potts is in washington. tracie, good morning to you. this case could have big implications on the tv industry. >> reporter: it not.

broadcasters are bringing this to the supreme court including nbc arguing that this is piracy and a violation of copyright law. to watch the major networks you have to watch it live but now there's aereo. >> this is piracy. picking up copyrighted content that somebody else spent a lot of money to develop. >> reporter: broadcasters agree and they want the supreme court to decide. but they argue they're not stealing programming but renting thousands of antennas for consumers who decide when and what to watch. >> if they can pull this service down which is so carefully designed to be legal, you'll have a spate of lawsuits about any cloud storage of any

content. >> reporter: it's a case about money, too. broadcasters charge cable and satellite providers big bucks to rebroadcast those programs. aereo pays nothing and charges consumer as little as $8 a month. it is a case and as you said, betty, it could have far reaching implications. we're not expecting a decision on this one until the end of the term in june. >> all right. tracie potts reporting for us, thank you. some other stories making news this morning, president obama will travel to washington state this morning. he'll meet with families and first responders from that deadly landslide a month ago. so far, 41 people have been confirmed dead. two people remain missing. two men in an affluent suburb of philadelphia are accused of running a drug ring aimed at high school students. mar juan that, cocaine, ecstasy, hash oil, all sold to students at nearby high schools and colleges, according to prosecutors. the two were arraigned yesterday after a four-month investigation. all right. this is a scary scene in a salt

lake city courtroom. a u.s. marshal shot and killed a defendant after he lunged at a witness with a pen. authorities say the defendant charged the stand while the witness was testifying about gang initiation. and some incredible video out of western india this show you. people there discovered this leopard on a rooftop. watch it as it charges people before darting away. the forestry department eventually caught it and released it back into the wild. in health news, the alcohol and tobacco tax and trade bureau is taking back last week's approval of a powdered alcohol product called palcohol. according to the associated press the bureau says the approval was made in error, but a company spokesman says it's just a discrepancy with its labels and that they will be resubmitting them for approval. palcohol can be mixed with water or any liquid to create an instant alcoholic beverage is different flavors.

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by a nonprofit group. the list of previous recipients include andy griffith, yogi bear remarks bill clinton and hulk hogan. "i never thought i'd be on the same list as hulk hogan," he tells the company. shawn parker is making a new part in politics. until now he has given mostly to democrats. it looks like the bible won't be the official state book of louisiana as some had hoped. republican congressman thomas carmody told the statehouses going to shelf the measure at least for now. could splurging be the key to life? well, first lady michelle obama thinks so. according to the associated press she told a group of child reporters "how would you appreciate vegetables if you never had chocolate? you couldn't live without a little chocolate, a little french fries" and former

president george h.w. bush is offering supporters to join in on his guilty pleasure, socks. yes, a new fund-raiser features rn krch rnc striped socks signed by the prez himself. on late night with seth meyers, john mccain talked about his decision to come on "saturday night live" three days before the 2008 election. he says it was a chance to reach young people. >> the hardest thing i think for a politician today very lawnsly is stay in touch with younger people so next time you're on your app look for mccain.com. >> on your app. are you right about that? that's your scrambled politics. i am joined by newsday columnist ellis. >> you can't try to fake that techie stuff.

either you got it or you don't. >> when you don't you really don't. okay, so four years into retirement, former supreme court justice john paul stevens is really wanting to amendment the constitution. what do you think about his suggestions when it comes to gun control and state's rights because he's trying to change all that. >> well, let me praise him for a second. we could do the political analysis. he has his finger on something. many americans feel like our government is tied up in these crazy knots not able to solve some of our biggest problems, right? the gun issue is one of them. most americans think, you know, yeah, you have a right to have a weapon, a gun under the constitution but don't be crazy bit. we don't want people walking down the street with an aquality rifle and they're saying these situations aren't serving us well. >> that's the guns. what about the states' independence. >> all of it. it's -- he's playing to

something that's real. is it going to happen? no. >> but he's making us think. >> no, because think about how hard it is to change the constitution, right? you've got to ultimately get three-quarters of the state legislatures to go along. good luck on that. >> and he has seen plenty of cases that really challenge a lot of this. what about the death penalty? he's suggesting you just abolish i will together. >> again, i think increasingly americans in the polls show this have lost faith in the death penalty. they don't think it helps with crime. it ties you up in these legal knots and yet our legal system, the courts and the congress, are just -- can't get their hands around it. but is it going to happen? no. >> probably not. well, will this happen? he may get the public on board when it comes to restricting political campaign spending. that might have some support. >> well, another example, betty. the court has juice been going in the opposite direction going corporations can give more and

rich individuals can give more and yet most americans don't want our political system to be turned over to the highest bidder. >> right. >> yet the laws aren't working with us on that. so i think what justice stevens is saying the current system isn't serving us very well. maybe we need to change it in some big ways. >> do something radical. >> something big. i love it. listen, he has surprised people his whole career. now he's talking about this stuff. >> new book coming out. interesting to see his thoughts. ellis, thank you for your insight. >> hey, always fun to see you. >> you too. first buzz with bill and richard coming up. we explain what's going on in this video. that's next. [ mom ] hi, girls! mommy! [ laughs ] i travel a lot for business, but i have two little girls at home, gemma and abby. mom! my llama smells like you. oh, kiss llama for mommy! i use tide plus febreze in the wash. it keeps their clothes and stuffed animals smelling fresher for longer. plus the smell reminds them of me.

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all right. we are buzzing today. lots to talk b i have bill and richard here with me. the first thing we'll discuss is this palcohol which is powdered alcohol and apparently it got some approval but now the federal agency is saying, wait, we reverse that but the company says being going forward. just basically a labeling error but my question is you can add this to just about anything, right? you can add it to water which would make it an alcoholic direct. what if you added it to alcohol. is it double the dose? >> yes, it would be. >> it would be. >> other things like maybe snort this. >> lots of ideas. >> prom season trouble. kids are sneaking this stuff anywhere. >> into games. >> they've had powdered beer before so this is perhaps another flavor of -- >> powdered beer was morean

effort. it's larger. >> mixed drinks. we're close to like -- >> we're close to like powdered shots. >> could you put into food? the company was originally advertising it as vodka and eggs. you could just sprinkle it over your breakfast. >> why would you have breakfast like that? >> we're not serving that at my house. but we may be serving veggie ice cream very soon. >> yes, it's not going to be in the u.s. thankfully. haagen-dazs announcing in japan in may they are starting two new vegetable ice cream flavors. tomato cherry and carrot orange. it only has -- it's about half the fat as the typical ones that i love. >> i'd be willing to try that. >> carrot orange may be like carrot cake maybe. >> i don't know. >> maybe a creamsickle. why? >> you have cool video to show us. >> i don't know what's going on. saudi arabia, i got this video changing tires, two of them, while balancing on the other

two. it took them three minutes to do both of them and what i did is i -- i thought i googled like how many people -- this is obviously a fad in the middle east. >> that's scary. >> ten videos come up of people doing this. >> don't try this at home, folks. "way too early" starts right now. >> in the living room. >> getting it on and they ain't leaving till 6:00 in the morning. ♪ what you want to do pocket full of rubbers and my home boys too so turn off the lights and close the doors ♪ ♪ but what -- we don't love them so we go announce this oppose up down while you [ bleep ] down to this rolling down the street smoking and sipping on gin and juice ♪ >> brian williams getting a send-up gin and juice style by fallon and "the tonight show." what is he requesting for the future. one certain country drone

strikes, the most effective weapon to do it. netflix continues to grow in popularity. is a price hike looming? orange is the new green, this is "way too early." hey, everybody, good morning. i'm thomas roberts. it is tuesday, april 22nd. welcome to "way too early." the show that promises not to raise prices no matter what. like dolly parton says it takes a lot of money to look this cheap. it does. anyway we want to start -- thank you, joey. we begin in boston where it's a bittersweet day that turned into a historic moment on boylston street. >> he knows a good photo opportunity when he sees it coming. there's the line. he's across.