americans. she'll head with questions with over whether she's a flip-flopper. on thursday a clinton spokesperson said she supports giving driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants. she gave an answer in a 2007 debate. that came a day after her campaign statement of new views of same-sex marriage. and martin o'malley is sounding like a candidate in his criticism of her evolving views. >> i'm glad she's come around to the right positions on these issues. i believe we are best when we lead with our believes and not with the polls. leadership is about making the best decision and the right decision before sometimes it becomes entirely popular. >> poking the bear there.

jeb bush is taking his message to new hampshire with a stop at a politics and pie. the event lived up to its name with the contender diving into desert dessert while breaking his diet. >> this is treat night for the governor. >> december. >> a long hard winter in a lot of ways. >> hell with the day diet. >> it's all right to have a cheat day. when asked if he eats at chipotle he said he did but suggested it's a much more ordinary experience than that of hillary clinton's. >> yeah i go there. the one on u.s. 1. i drive my own car, park my own car, get out of my own car. >> know how to drive your own car. >> buy it and take it home. we normally cook our own food at home.

it's pretty good. >> bush also used a little humor when asked why only two political families should hold the presidency for so many years. >> personally, i have enough self-awareness to know that that is an oddity. secondly, i have to prove that i'm not running for president if i go beyond the consideration of this to being an active candidate, trying to break the tie between the adams family and the bush family. that's not my -- that clearly isn't my motivation but i have to prove that. >> let's turn to capitol hill. both democrats and republicans are ratcheting up the rhetoric over loretta lynch's nomination. the senate judiciary committee has approved lynch. republicans are being criticized for not allowing the senate to weigh in. senate judiciary senate committee says democrats are to

blame for the delay. >> if you want to subtract november and december from that long period of time you should do it because the democrats were controlling the senate. they decided not to bring her up because they had several other pieces of legislation and a lot of judges that they wanted to get through. >> grassley's take on the wait to vote on lynch drew a harsh response from the white house. >> that in my mind is an astounding display of duplicity. >> is that helpful to the process of getting her nominated? is that helpful to building relations with the party that the controls the u.s. senate? >> i'll observe that being nice has gotten us a 160-day delay. maybe when they look up the definition in the dictionary we'll get a different result. >> and mitch mcconnell said the vote should in the take place in a lame duck session of congress.

senator mcconnell now says he's planning to bring lynch up for a vote as early as next week. harry reid says he's prepared to force a vote if republicans do not act. >> we've put up with this for far too long. we're either going to have a vote on this or i'll create one. i know parliament procedure around here and we're going to put up with this for a little while longer but not much. >> at least five republican senators have come out in support of loretta lynch. >> a naturalized u.s. citizen is in custody this afternoon accused to going to syria for training and coming back with intent to kill american soldiers. pete williams has more on this troubling terror trend. >> reporter: these are new charges against an ohio man who had been under surveillance for several months and was then arrested by the state. he'll be in federal court later today to face these allegations.

american officials say the charges reflect a growing fear. people in the u.s. going to syria and getting training and coming back as committed terrorists. prosecutors accused a 23-year-old somali born man of ohio of buying a one-way ticket to athens grease a year ago, getting off the plane and making his way into syria. for two months they say he got training in weapons, and hand to hand combat following his brother who had gone there in 2013 to join al qaeda in syria and was killed in a battle last year. court documents say when he returned in columbus he talked to others saying he wanted to target the military, police or anyone in uniform and wanted to quote, kill three or four american soldiers execution style. his arrest is a first since isis began recruiting. >> this is the first case of an american traveling overseas to syria, training with terrorist groups there and then returning

home to be arrested and indicted. >> reporter: he was arrested on state charges in february and had been under surveillance for months. tracing americans who have been to syria is an urgent priority for the fabzbi. >> we probably have hundreds under some kind of surveillance. >> reporter: authorities say tonight his postings on facebook help attract the attention of authorities. >> he will plead not guilty later this morning and that he was carrying for his mother when he was arrested. >> thank you so much for that report. back to d.c. the man who set off a security scare by landing a continuer at the u.s. capitol is out of prison this morning. he was charged yesterday and he is barred from returning to washington and flying. as we report the incident is reigniting a debate about whether enough is being done to keep the nation's capitol safe.

>> reporter: first, the stunt. now the scrutiny. >> this is not good people. >> reporter: this unprecedented act of civil disobedience is focusing new attention on a long standing vulnerability. secretary of homeland security jay johnson. >> this individual apparently flew in under the radar. >> reporter: doug hues is charged with operating an unregistered aircraft. the maximum penalty one and three years each. a judge released him and ordered him to stay out of washington until a hearing next month. hughes told the tampa bay times last year he wanted to deliver a message to washington about big politics. >> i'd rather die in a flight than see the this country fall. >> his flight sparked a discussion about security. >> how did the helicopter get

through in why weren't there alarm bells that wint off? >> there was the flight path. it rounded the washington monument and headed down the national mall for the capitol building. . the nation's capitol is teeming with secret service but none stopped what he once described as a flying bicycle. >> who should be in charge of that restricted air space? >> we've got a well coordinated federal response to dealing with issues of those who penetrate the restricted air space without permission. >> reporter: who? >> it's a well coordinated response. >> reporter: the u.s. no longer flies fighter jets over d.c. but a senior military official tells us even if jets were already in the air, they would have been ineffective against such a small, slow flying target. and a reporter drove to

washington to watch but the secret service says the paper never alerted authorities. >> it's not my job is pull the plug on somebody who's doing something like this. >> what a story. we are now hearing the frantic 9-1-1 call from midair monday from an airport baggage handler in the cargo hold of an alaska airlines jet. the worker who fell asleep before takeoff is heard pleading for help trying to explain he's trapped inside the belly of the jet. miguel almaguer has the details. >> reporter: the alaska airlines flight was departing seattle bound for los angeles when the 9-1-1 call came in. >> hello. i'm trapped in this plane. i called my job, but i'm in the plane. >> you're where? >> i'm inside the plane. and i feel like it's up. moving in the air. flight 448. can you please tell somebody to

top it. >> the caller, and employee who loads bags onto the plane tells authorities he took a nap. dispatchers are confused. >> where are you in a plane at? >> i'm inside the plane. alaska airlines plane. >> are you at the airport? >> i'm not in the airport. i feel like it's moved, because i feel like my -- >> reporter: the emergency call lasts 48 seconds. then suddenly it drops off. >> are you by yourself or with somebody? >> reporter: with the plane climbing at 5,000 feet passengers hear banging and a scream from below their feet. >> he was like help. help. and we're like what. >> reporter: airborne for 14 minutes, the trapped man was near the nose where it's pressurized and temperature controlled. the pilot made an emergency

landing. he was able to walk off the plane. >> reporter: we reached the trapped employee. he tells us he's in good health back on the job and said this morning, he's still feeling a bit tired. >> i hope he hits the coffee. thank you for that report. still ahead on "way too early," the nfl paves the way for adrian peterson to return to the league. and later, let it go senator. one lawmaker's ring tone lightens things up on a capitol hill day. those stories and a check on the weather when "way too early" comes right back. >> apollo 13 landed in the pacific at 1:08 eastern time today 540 miles southwest of sa mill la. its men were safe and well.

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it's sports time. we begin with america's passion, football. minnesota vikings running back adrian peterson has been reinstated by the nfl. he was suspended in november for violating the league's personal conduct policy. after an incident which he disciplined his son with a switch. while he is now eligible to participate in team activities it's unclear whether he will rejoin the vikings. his agent says he wants to play on a different team but the vikings don't appear as though they'll trade him. he must continue a treatment and counseling program. florida state quarterback jameis winston is being sued by the woman who accused him of rain in

2012. she's claiming sexual battery, false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional di d distrez. she also filed a federal lawsuit against the university that was back in january. let's turn to hockey. round one of the stanley cup playoffs to the new york rangers. off to an early start hosting the penguins. ryan mcdun in a, stud ads a second goal. they beat the pens 2-1. red wings goally with a strong performance against the lightning last night finishing with 44 saves. a good defense with the help of a pair of goals detroit gets the

3-2 victory. if we go over to the nba, you'll learn the nba will test players for human growth hormone. each player will undergo three random drug season. a player would be dismissed and disqualified from the neighborhoods for his third violation. good to see that. by the way, the nba playoffs tip off on saturday starting with the raptors hosting the wiz zards. in hawaii for this weekend's lgpga event. one person is trying to retrieve his hat in the water. and it only gets worse from him from this. >> this fellow paid a lot of money for that hat because he's gone into the water to go and get it and is he going to be

able to get it? can he do it? he almost fell over going in. what's he lost now? he's lost his beer. he's going to have to go back to get that. that's pretty valuable. >> has he managed to get out? >> yes. >> i don't think that's that good a hat for that. >> he's lost his -- place plant. >> old mangos down. time for a check on your weather. do you own a hat that's worth jumping into a pond at a golf course for? i do not? >> i do not but i will say i'm not a golf fan. that's the most riveting golf i've ever seen in my life. i would have watched that all day. we are still talking storms and it's down to the south. it's the same areas today that we saw yesterday. we do have a thunderstorm watch box up now for about a next half hour through parts of oklahoma.

some severe weather into the oklahoma city area. unfortunately the threat will be renewed once again. here's what we're looking at for severe weather. from boundsrownsville, best chance for isolated tornadoes in south and central texas. then again up through the kansas area we could see afternoon strong storms and tornadoes maybe on tap of that. keep that in mind. today's forecast it stays rainy in the south. we are going to have on and off showers along the east coast. by saturday it is looking summerlike with temperatures 10 degrees above normal up and down the i-95 corridor. 78 in new york. unfortunately the showers from the south start to spread to the east by sunday. but not a bad looking forecast for the east coast this weekend.

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and we're back. espn reporter britt mchenry has been suspended for one week after security video showed her berating a towing company employee in what appears to be an edited tape her insults continued after she was warned she was being reported. >> i'm in the news. >> that's okay. i'll play the video. >> that's why i have a degree. it makes my skin crawl, you being here. >> let's get you out of here quickly. >> yep. that's all you care about is just taking people's money. with no education. do you feel good about your job?

so i could be a college dropout and do the same thing? >> maybe if i was missing some teeth they would hire me, huh? >> she expressed regret staying in part in an intense and stressful moment i allowed my emotions to get the best of me. she did not apologize to the person. >> the force is back. the second teaser trailer for star wars episode 7, the force awakens. i'm no fired up. it debuted to thousands of the series faithful in an annual fan gathering in california thursday. i missed this one. the trailer followed a presentation by the director who bought pizza for people and all the casts. and harrison ford. the force awakens opens in theaters december 18th. it's april and people are this

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>> the key city of ramadi on the brink of falling to isis. >> u.s. and the coalition strike air power to strike back is isil advance. >> the city itself is not want to get it back. the issue is not brick and mortar it's about defeating isil. >> after a trillion dollar 34,000 american lives, this is what 2003 has brought us. >> we'll be dealing with it forever. >> top advisers to hillary clinton confirm today her second presidential campaign swing will be to new hampshire next monday and tuesday. >> the state of new hampshire which is becoming an early battling ground for republicans, rick perry appearing at two events today. >> this isn't my first rodeo. i get it. >> just going to have fun. looking forward to breaking my diet. >> meanwhile jeb bush will take part in the politics and pie event. >> i have to prove i'm not running forrd if i go beyond the consideration of this trying to break the tie between the adams