e rushed to the hospital. two with critical injuries. dozens of homes have been destroyed and people have been reported middling. they are going door to door. rain also forced oklahoma city to declare a flash flood emergency. the national weather service sent out an alert urging people to seek higher ground and a wildlife refuge just outside of oklahoma city took a direct hit, allowing lions and tigers and other animals to roam freely before thankfully being recaptured a short time later, oh my. bill karins is tracking the storm and will bring us the latest soon. let's go to the nfl. the controversy about deflated footballs, a laeg report has been released on whether the new england patriots cheated against

the indianapolis colts in the game by deflating the balls, making them easier to handle. it is painting the star quarter back tom brady in a harsh light. nbc has the details in massachusetts. >> reporter: tom brady addressed the public in january and denied any involvement in what's become known as deflate gaitte. >> i've always played within the rules. i would never do anything to break the rules. i believe in fair play and respect the league. >> an nfl investigation found it is more probable than not that the quarterback was at least generally aware of the inappropriate activities. the report said patriots personnel were involved in a deliberate effort to break the rules that a locker room attendant and equipment assistant participated in an effort to release air from the

game balls after the referees examined them. >> it lacks the smoking gun. >> the stroefrt stemmed from the championship game in which the patriots defeated the colts to advance to the super bowl. officials discovered 11 of 12 game balls used by the offense different balls used by the opponent before underinflated. the investigation showed the two men disparaged brady in text messages after he complained about football air pressure. one writing i'm going to make the next ball a baa look. tom, 16 is nothing. wait until next sunday. >> they say the league will consider taking disciplinary action. we will continue our efforts to protect the integrity of the game. reaction by fans outside the team's stadium were mixed. >> it's a shame, but you know i'll still be a fan.

>> he's carried himself over these last years as a pro, acted as a pro. i suggest that what we're talking about is much adieu about nothing. >> reporter: the owner bob craft demanded an apology from the nfl if they turned up no proof of wrong doing. >> i would expect and hope that the league would apologize to our entire team and in particular coach belichick and tom brady for what they have had to endure this past week. >> thanks for that reporting on deflategate. as the number of official republican presidential candidates doubled earlier this week, a new poll as han unannounced candidate at the head of the pack. scott walker holds a lead in iowa. according to a new poll senators rand paul marco rubio and ted cruz in a close fight for second

place. along with mike huckabee fwhofs iowa yesterday striking a tone on fast track trade authorization with our own casey hunt. >> when there's cronies involved in getting a special deal and when other countries are cheating and americans lose jobs i'd like to think the u.s. government would stand up for the u.s. workers ravter than let them take it in the backside and somehow have to tough it out that somebody got wealthy at their expense. that's not free trade. >> sounds like elizabeth warren right there. and chris christie returns to new hampshire today where he will speak at a dinner before holding another town hall meeting tomorrow but the new granite state poll says he has a long way to climb up from 10th place. jeb bush surprisingly is currently leading there and finally nbc news confirms that rick santorum will announce his

candidacy. getting crowded there. "the new york times" is reporting this morning that hillary clinton will begin personally courting donors for a super pac supporting her presidential bid. the times claims it is the first time a presidential candidate has accepted it. clinton allies hope she can raise between 200 million to $300 million putting them on par with the republican aligned super pac, american cross roads which they spent that amount in 2012. we report clinton met with donors yesterday and will meet with more in los angeles. this after clinton said that campaign finance reform is one of the four big fights she wants to take on as a candidate. >> we need to fix our political system and get unaccountable money out of it once and for

all. >> meanwhile hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server is still red meat on capitol hill and during a committee hearing yesterday, the state department's chief freedom of information officer acknowledged it would not be acceptable for employees to keep government e-mail on a private server. >> i think that the actions that we've taken in the course of recovering this, these e-mails, have made it very clear what people's responsibilities are with regard to recordkeeping. i think the message is loud and clear that that is not acceptable. >> so as the completely unacceptable process going forward and it should have been retrospectively. >> going forward, yes, sir. >> ouch. joyce bar didn't acknowledge whether it was acceptable when clinton was secretary. she also admitted she had no way of knowing how much official

e-mail she had actually turned over. >> we have them now, sir. >> do you have all of them? >> we have the e-mails that she's released to us all of the official ones. in. >> do you know what percentage that represents of all her e-mails on her server? >> i do not. >> you don't have any way of verifying that you have all of the official e-mails she process processed on her personal e-mail account? >> we have been told she provided those to us. >> who told you that? >> the secretary. >> you're taking her word for it? i'm sorry? >> yes, sir. >> let's go down the road to charm city. we first told you yesterday about the mysterious planes that were flying over baltimore during the city's unrest. we now know why. the fbi is admitting they were used to help police monitor possible criminal activity. a spokesman says they were approved at a, quote, high level

and that the planes were not being used to monitor activity protected by the first amendment. it comes as the mayor calls on the u.s. justice department to launch a full investigation of the city's police department. >> we have to get it right. failure is not on option. in order to achieve the kind of sustainable and significant reform that we want to see, that i want to see, that the citizens want to see in baltimore, i am requesting the department of justice conduct a federal pattern or practice investigation into the baltimore police department. we have to have a foundation of trust and i believe that we need the assistance of the department of justice and the civil rights investigation to shore up the foundation that is weak right now in our city. >> and maryland governor has lifted the state of emergency that went into effect in the

city's worst riots in more than 40 years. he's pledging to contribute $20 millions from the state's rainy day fund to help baltimore rebuild. >> baltimore city is an amazing city. a city that i love. but it's obviously not a city without long-standing serious issues and problems. the state has a roll in assisting baltimore city's government efforts to find common sense creative and new solutions to these urban challenges but we have to be honest with ourselves. these problems have taken many decades to grow and they will likely take decades to repair. >> indeed. coming up on "morning joe," we'll talk to labor secretary fresh off his visit to baltimore. let's turn to business. a disappointing employment report released monday. we are joined live from london. steve, tell us about the

lackluster numbers out of the private sector and what they could mean for the april jobs report which is due out tomorrow. >> yeah. well, this is very important. one thing we can cling onto throughout the really recent data was the employment report and the employment report last time around was not good and they were hoping it was a one-month aberration and this time around we were going to have a much better figure. it is an outliar. they came in blow the jobs expected to be reported. the chairwoman of the federal reserve, interesting comments. people say the market took freight because of her comments. i think it's different. she said equity valuations are generally quite high. after it she said i don't see any bubbles forms at the moment and he described the risk of

financial stability of moderate not elevated. i'm pretty confused. >> and, steve, in important news for the yuppie community. whole foods and a possible expansion plan? >> is that what you and i hope to be? whole foods, they call it whole paycheck at times because it's great and organic but expansive so you the ceo is talking about a new chain for people like you and me hip, cool and technology oriented. numbers were disappointed at whole foods. they had an increase in sales but not as much as they expected. hip, tool and technology oriented. could be luking fb you. >> i love it. it's great food but it's expensive. live from london thank you so much. still ahead on "way too early," pick a saying, what goes up must

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>> if i was tom brady, and i told them to do it? you know what i would say? i'd say why didn't you deflate the 12th ball? >> time now for sports. we begin with round 2 of the nba playoffs. the western conference semi finals, the rockets down for quite a while. relying on a late push from james harden. dwight howard added 24 and the houston rockets even up the series at one game a piece after a 115-109 victory. cleveland, lebron james busting out the head band after hanging it up. it was magical. it seems to have helped his game. he led the cavaliers with a game high 33 points. cay kyrie irving added points. the head band spoke.

for round two of the stanley cups playoff. the rangers and caps. tied game early in the third period. and a back hand for a second goal of the night. the caps under stellar goal tending. dropping the rangers into a 3-1 hole in the series. let's see if the caps can close it out. and the canadians had a lightning tie late in the third. but tampa's tyler johnson beats the horn. game winner. the lightning take a 3-0 series lead after the 2-1 victory. good for them. let's go to baseball in d.c. the nationals hosting the marlins. bryce harper he gets back up to the plate in the fifth. harper another one.

>> see you upper deck again. >> not one, not two, but three. harper launches his third long ball in a row. he could have had four but he decided to get a run in from third brace. the nats win it. nba broadcasting shaquille oh'neal shows us how dangerous a studio can be during his show. >> this is obvious. >> get him. >> oh. >> you set me up. >> what do you mean me in. >> oh. >> you set me up. >> oh look at that monitor. that monitor just got squashed in a hurry to beat his colleague to the video board, he ended up on the floor. the 7-footer took the hard spill

but he's all right and everyone has a good laugh. look at the size of that shoe. shaq, thank god he's okay. let's get a check on your weather with bill karins. bill you said yesterday that they didn't think the weather was going to be too severe in the midwest but it got bad. >> we call that an overachiever. it's may. it's the peak season. we were expecting some tornadoes but not 50 to be reported in one day. that's how it happens. as far as predictions go in weather, winter storms hurricanes, a lot easier to predict than thunderstorms and what the form is. the pictures out of the area it was scary. from about 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. everyone from oklahoma city, these storms were southwest of the area and coming up interstate 44. there was big and strong tornadoes. a lot of these lifted and got a little weaker but the time they made it to norman and moore.

a scary situation. and the rain was tremendous. oklahoma city about 7 to 8 inches of rain. water rescues ongoing. they had dive teams in one area trying to get to people stuck in cars. i'm mazed we haven't heard of any fatalities from the storms. bad ones in kansas too that did a lot of damage. this was day one. this is a four-day severe weather outbreak with saturday being the worst. it only takes one to hit a town and be the worst. as far as the number and coverage of severe strong storms north of the dallas area. driving north, keep that in mind. here's the risk area today. we get severe in the morning. it's dying off. then it fires back up late in the afternoon and will continue into the evening hours. kansas oklahoma texas, this is the same area the next four days. it's not going to spread across the country much. we'll see, again, a few tornadoes again today likely west of dallas into northern texas. then we do it on friday.

16 million people. enhanced risk is orange. every category is a little worse. saturday we put this red coloring in here. that's a moderate risk of severe storms. that could go up to high risk by the time we get there. rare three days out that we get this large of an area in a moderate risk. that's a big concern. the difference is when like yesterday we had a couple strong tornadoes. they weren't on the ground lock and didn't last long. by the time we get to saturday we could have strong tornadoes that are called long trek tornadoes that are on the ground for a long time. these are traditionically the deadliest and scariest ones. it's going to be a long four days here in the middle of the country. >> let's hope for the best especially in the community of moore. they got hit hard a few years ago. >> everyone couldn't believe they had a hard tornado headed for them. >> they just rebuilt. let's hope for the best. first flash flood warning in oklahoma city as well.

>> it was the first ever flood emergency in the city of oklahoma. 8 inches of rain. the north canadian is at the tenth highest it's ever been. >> hopefully it gets better this weekend. sir elton john laughs it up on capitol hill but we also testified on a serious issue. we'll have more on his message that could mean the difference between life and death. photos are great... ...for capturing your world. and now...

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beautiful morning in our nation's capitol. for our other headlines, we head to the control room and lewis burg cover of. >> elton john said the aids epidemic can be e rat kated within his lifetime but he says it requires america's help. >> the aids epidemic is not over. and america's continued leadership is critical. there is a window of opportunity before us a window through which we can see the end of aids within my lifetime. we cannot afford to let the window close. >> his work has been amazing. john praised programs like the president's emergency plan for aids relief. he warned lawmakers that any funding cuts could seriously

disrupt the global fight against hiv. let's turn to a lighter story where the world's pop music and technology collide. ever wish taylor swift could text for you? there's an app for that. it uses apple's feature to predict the perfect taylor swift lyrics for any conversation. it draws from 60 of swift's songs. you can choose the themes. the app was inspired by a keyboard which does the same thing with drake lyrics. i think you're going to have to down load that on your phone. >> every time i do tv with you, i feel like we're 22 but wipe off the tear drops on your guitar. that does it for me on this thursday edition of "way too early." let's bring in mika. stay for chris mad dog.

>> he's coming in. thank you very much. you and lewis can go now. 22. you know the song. i know what he was doing. >> does mike know the song? >> yes, i do. >> if you can believe it deflate back after an investigation found the new england patriots likely did deflate balls and the quarterback probably knew. will anyone be punished? we'll ask. and hillary clinton and her cooperation with a super pac that will back her. plus the latest polling in the race for the. nomination including an undeclared undeclared contender in the state of iowa. and we have bellamy young and pierce morgan. "morning joe" is just moments away.

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