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weather center. >> more and more violent these storms are minute by minute. these are tornado watch boxes. no tornadoes just yet but these are nasty, severe thunderstorms popping over the last hour or so. severe thunderstorm warned storms and tons of lightning, we've seen tennis ball sized halt and these storms have the capability to drop more baseball sized hail over the next several hours. racing north and east and oklahoma city right here, we'll be waufingtching that closely as the storms move along. we're concerned with a moderate risk for severe weather. oklahoma city you're innen enhanced risk for today. this is for today, watch what happens when we change the map to tomorrow. hardly moves at all. tomorrow could be even worse. it looks like it's going to be a little more explosive out there. there will be a threat for long track tornadoes and oklahoma city as well into your saturday. as we head into sunday not catching a break yet, you can

see this is going to be the risk, sunday, 28 million people under risk for severe thunderstorms that could include large hail and wind damage and maybe even ice latded tornadoes. the threat in yellow from omaha, st. louis, places like dallas and interior texas as well. it's going to be a rough couple of days. it looks like this afternoon no tornadoes just yet. we've seen very large hail and wind damage tomorrow though could be even worse. krystal, over to you. >> i know you will keep us updated and kerry sanders is in wichita falls texas, that is smack dab between oklahoma city and dallas right in the path of those storms, people there certainly aren't taking chances. >> reporter: no, they are actually keeping their eyes and ears open. ears open for a siren that may blast telling them to look for shelter. you grew up in virginia o i'll ask you the question because you probably didn't grow up with tornadoes, where do you go if a tornado is coming where do you

go for safety? >> basement or a doorway. >> reporter: yes, now, if you go into a doorway or go maybe into a closet you can still have winds in a tornado, hundreds of miles an hour which can literally destroy. this is not uncommon okay we're here in the garage. where would you go? this is an actual tornado shelter here. so the folks who live here actually knew two days ago there was the threat so down here in the storm shelter they've already put their supplies like water. they have their flashlights and idea is if there is a tornado, they would come down here and seal this up and wait for the threat to pass one of the questions of course is if a tornado comes and let's say it's a big one. we saw some of those yesterday that were half mile plus wide and it destroyed everything. you could literally be trapped

down in there. this is what happened in oklahoma with the rain, the water started rise and people trapped. fortunately in oklahoma somebody was able to come in and clear the debris and get them out. steve baird lives here. this is not inexpensive. how much does this cost to do? >> 6500 $7,000. >> reporter: why do it? >> what is your safety worth and life worth? >> reporter: have you had to go down there since you built it? >> we have not but it's nice to know it's here. >> you did it because? >> when all of the tornadoes in moore, oklahoma a couple of years ago, that's when we got serious about it. >> reporter: so now you're prepared and hoping nothing happens. >> hoping we never use it. >> reporter: that's what it looks like krystal, that is -- they don't have basements in the homes here so there is no basement to go to but there is that safe room there i storm shelter in the event of a

tornado tornado. >> glad to see residents are prepared for the worse. the let's head to oklahoma city and nbc's jay gray they are expecting the rough weather there early this evening. what have you got? >> reporter: hey, krystal, let's say you're in the storm cellar kerry showed us this is the potential of what's going on outside. look at all of the devastation. we've seen people coming through, sorting through what they can, trying to salvage anything, with a eye on the sky, as you talk about more severe weather could be on the way here. we've seen the clouds build and there's the possibility of more storms well into tomorrow. how strong were the tornadoes? this is one of those huge rock star hv type buses flipped on its side. that's the power of the winds that swept through this area and what we're hearing from forecasters right now, it could be even worse this weekend. a lot of people doing what they can to clean up but also bracing for what could come next. it's going to be a tough go as we've been talking about through the entire weekend here.

back to you guys. >> all right, nbc's jay gray thank you very much for that report. >> now to the political storm sweeping great britain that could change the landscape of foreign policy putting the u.k. one step closer to possibly leaving the eu last night's poll have conservatives winning, sweeping more than 33 seats and labour party suffered losses and liberal dems a bigger blow. scottish national had a huge surge. david cameron is sticking to his pledge to hold a vote on the uk leaving the eu. let's head to our london newsroom and alistair jamison. it is a big day in britain. >> that's right, polls predicted conserve testifies would be neck in neck with the rivals and

despite a relatively weak economy, cameron is the first political leader since the 1960s to achieve a better election success on his second term election than his first. labour party and liberal democrats took such a bad beating both leaders quit immediately. you're right, the biggest drama was in scotland taking 56 the 59 seats, including the youngest member of parliament for 350 years, share prices rose on the back of the ee lks result because it removes the uncertainty of a hung parliament but britain faces two crises first a potentially damaging referendum whether to quit the european union. cameron promised that as part of the preelection manifest toe to appeal to right wing voters and new pressure from the scottish nationalists who want to split up the 300-year-old united

kingdom. the prime minister may find his celebration party tonight comes with aim bad hangover. >> alistair thanks for that. friend of the show josh barrow domestic correspondent at the "new york times" and man i think of when i try to think what's going on in england. why should we care? why does cameron's victory matter to americans? >> it reflects a broader dmek trend and says something about the next election in the united states. the economy like the uk is like in the u.s. cameron seems like the sort of leader you would expect to get re-elected and he did. scotland was doing its thing but in england they consolidated enough to get a majority. going to the 2016 election assuming we have the same economic performance here we've been having the last couple of years, it's a reason to expect a status quo election republicans holding on in congress and democrats holding onto the presidency. i think in terms of geopolitics,

cameron has been a stalwart ally but we need to worry about the europe stuff. i don't think the u.k. lestz the eu but it is a problem in the united states, it drags down the world economy. we need to export to europe. they need to buy stuff. we depend on european allies for all sorts of things around the world. if they are distraktded with infighting -- >> talk about those polls, nate silver writing the world may have a polling problem after he got this election totally wrong. what happened here? >> it's not just this election. we had a number of elections where the polls completely misled us. we had a poll in albert ta which elected a left wing government -- >> that was a nutty election. >> that got predicted at the very end. cameron had a couple of other screwy elections where the polls have come in different. people don't answer their phones anymore. pollsters are having trouble figuring out how to get people to give responses and moving towards web polling which

reaches a more diverse audience but has its own problems. the exit poll was almost perfectly correct and understated the score by a little. that's a problem. there are various reasons we want to know -- >> abby is with us in washington. people respond to polling questions on text with emojis and people don't know what it means. >> what does that translate to. >> that's an important point. i'm glad you brought that up. thank you for keeping my seat warm. we have an election here it is well more than 500 days away but feels like it's going to happen next weekend, what everybody is talking about right now. one thing they are talking about is this book "clinton cash", digz into clinton global initiative and foreign investments, peggy noonan has an op-ed hitting it pretty hard. she asked a important question, she baseically says if this were

anyone other than the clintons would they get away with it? >> but it's not anybody else it's hillary clinton possibly the most vetted person ever to be a major party presidential candidate in the united states. she's been exhaustingly on the political scene for three decades and everybody has an opinion about her and clintons. if you were inclined to think the clintons are shady, then you think they are shady. if you're someone who likes the clintons then you're so accustomed to seeing clinton scandals probably more fake than real on balance when new allegations there goes the right wing media going after the clintons. pz partly a boy who cried wolf. so many fake scandals when they do something that deserves krut scrutiny, it's hard to get -- >> that's a good point. what if they went above and beyond these rules. what if they were really responsible about conflicts of interest would that get as much

attention. i almost wish we had a hypothetical example of that. we do. the "washington post" reporting as you may have seen that the clintons went way above and beyond investment rules to keep millions of dollars that they have earned in catch, which is highly unusual for high net worth individuals foregoing hundreds of thousands of dollars in easy gains. you know as a finance guy, they basically took a loss to avoid any appearance of i am propriety and that move doesn't get much attention. >> it's weird, who would have accused them of imi am propriety in an index -- >> i don't know, rootthe right wing machine. >> their attitude is they are going to attack us the same amount no matter what we do. >> if you're going to do the crime, might as well do the time scenario, people will find something else to criticize the clintons for. if this is a little shady, but

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>> for tom brady, this packed college arena outside boston may have as well have been his super bowl rally. >> has that detracted from your joy of winning the super bowl? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: brady declined to discuss his thoughts about the highly critical 243 page deflategate report. >> i don't very any reaction it's only been 30 hours, haven't had time to digest it fully, when i do i'll be sure to let you know how i feel about it. >> are you that slow a reader? >> well my athletic career has been better than my academic career. used to reading xs and os. this was a little bit longer. >> brady's appearance scheduled before the release was heavily restricted with cameras alouled to record the first ten minutes. the moderator jim gray. >> there is an elephant in the room. >> where?

>> you may be the only one who doesn't see it. >> is tom brady's legacy tainted? >> absolutely not, not to me. >> reporter: his long time agent is vee vemtly defending the mvp, a significant and terrible disappoint. accuseing investigators as leaving out key facts and key portions of brady's testimony. the question what if any punishment will brady face? brady is facing tough criticism for refusing to turn over his phone or text messages or e-mails with the league policy dictating, failure to cooperate in an investigation is subject to discipline. he's choosing a finding of conduct detrimental to the league by not cooperating over cooperating and who knows what they would have found in his text messages or e-mails. >> weighing in on the dan patrick show the reporter who broke the story. >> if tom brady is not suspended, i think it will be

another black eye for the league. >> reporter: overnight as wradbrady headed home social media sounded off. tom is delusional and wrong. what a cheater. one avid fan added tom brady is innocent. >> as of the middle of today brady's camp tells me the nfl has not reached out to them indicating there is any punishment that's been decided on at this point. tom bratddy says the next time he'll discuss this will be in his words, hopefully soon so we wait to hear from brady or whether the nfl acts first. back to you. >> thank you to peter alexander. now we turn to a new york times expose everyone is talking about, just in time for mother's gift. a popular gift may be a gift certificate for a nice manicure. at what cost? this report finds many salons have conditions far worse than might appear on first glance. terrible hours and dangerous chemical exposure and some abuse

and wage theft by owners and some likening it to slave labor. a range of studies the times found manicurists struggling with toxic fumes and one found her fingerprints had essentially disappeared from the chemical exposure. the result is an installment in four different languages so that the information will be accessible to many of those people laboring 14 hours a day who often suffer in silence. our guest is the south or. sara thanks so much for be being here. what's going on in these salons? >> it has been likened to slave labor. i interviewed over 125 manicurists over the course of a 13-month investigation and four or five separate languages with a team of translators and we found indemic this industry is absolute underpayment, the starting salary foreman curists is negative $200 because

manicurists are required to pay for their jobs and work for free for a period of weeks until an arbitrary time when the owner decides they are good enough to merit getting paid and get around $30 a day. >> getting underpaid is pretty bad but a lot of manicurists are having miscarriages. >> the science is unclear because this demographic hasn't been studied but there's a loophole in the cosmetic law that is federal that cosmetics are not tested before they are on the market. i'm talking the stuff you put in your hair and face everything is not tested before it goes to the market. nobody knows what the chemicals do. european union has much stronger laws. 1300 chemicals are banned from cosmetics in the europe mean union. guess how much here? is he 11. for you and i maybe our exposure is to some degree but different order of magnitude for women would work all day long burning

throat hands down stop cracking and asthma and threat of miscarriage and cancer. >> how much does the undocumented status of many of these workers contribute to the powerless they have here? >> i had a manicurist tell me that send chills up my spine that she does have the green card to get here but she pretends she doesn't. the only way she can get hired because owners prefer undocumented workers because they can -- they are voiceless. >> thank you for writing this piece and shining a light on it. so incredibly important and something that most of us never even think about. i'm like krystal, we get our nails done all the time there's one on almost every block in new york city. i don't think i'll walk in again without thinking about it. talk to us about how we can avoid bad practices? how do we know which to pick when there's so many of them to make sure they are treating people right? >> well it's a complicated question. in my investigation, i didn't

find any good actors. and a lot of people have asked me this throughout what should i do? should i tip more? if you tip more yes, that's great, but then you're taking the burden off the owner to do the right thing. i said look around you should potentially look for a punch card machine to see if you manicurist is clocking in. but how do you know there's not a second set of books which several owners told me they keep of people off the record. it's a little challenging. i don't know what the answer is. i think it speaks to a systemic need for change. >> people talk about investigative journalism and here's something that is in front of our faces every day and did a lot of reporter to reveal something people didn't know. 3 million people have already read this article and comes out this weekend's "times." thank you for being here. >> thank you so much. >> next up the markets are reacting to the new jobs report and so is our dynamic duo.

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back now with a market alert, stocks are soaring after a strong jobs report one that showed a strong rebound from the less than impressive march numbers. in april 223,000 jobs and unemployment rate fell a tenth of a point to 5.4%. that is the best we've seen in seven years. to analyze the numbers we bring in our team of bernstein and maurice si i know you both want to jump in. what does this rebound mean? and why is wall street so happy shouldn't investors be concerned we're closer to an interest rate

hike? >> they are flipping between a good report means that the fed might act sooner to slow things down or the other side boy, that's a relief this good report suggests that the lousy results we saw in the job market last month or the very weak first quarter gdp number are probably outliers and that the underlying economy continues to grow at a moderate pace. i would call this a relief rally. as far as march's job report that was marked down to 85,000. so march really a troubled month in terms of job growth but 223 back on trend for april. if you smooth out the monthly data like i like to do you'll find that over the past three months we added 190,000 jobs per month on average. go back about a year we were actually adding about 250,000 per month so we have decelerated a bit on the job growth but still trucking along at the moderate or maybe an upper kind

of moderate pace. >> everybody likes data smooth. how do you see it? >> well the economy is certainly adding fewer jobs than it was last year. the average for last year 260 as jared points out. i think this is consistent with wall street's expectations that the interest rate hike is coming but it's coming further into the fut aur than we might have thought say last december. i'm starting to think we won't see an interest rate hike until the fourth quarter. the number we got is consistent with that. going forward, i don't know we're going to need as many jobs as we've had in the past to keep unemployment down and falling simply because we have to face the fact that a lot of people that left the labor force have probably left it more or less permanently. we're dealing with an economy that is saying 90% of the size of what we thought it would be ten years ago but from here we move forward. that's good news for the 90% that's in and it's bad news for the 10% that's out. that's going to be a long-term

structural issue and going to be very difficult to resolve. >> jared, 62 consecutive months of private sector job growth. sounds like we're moving in the right direction. are we? >> sure the white house adds another month to that tally every month and it's over 12 million jobs now and again, this is not only i think a solid recovery in terms of its length but at this point we are adding enough jobs to slowly bring the unemployment rate down but the key word there is slowly. and until we get to what i consider full employment which is a really tight labor market you might not expect that the benefits of the growth we've seen are going to reach middle class the way we'd like them to. for example, wages continue to perk late around 2% year over year. that's not great and stuck there for a while. as the job market tightens up we would like to see that accelerate and see that in today's report not much. one area where i disagree with peter, he's be a little

pessimistic, i think if this economy could really start percolating the way it should and bring that unemployment rate down even further, we would pull some folks back in. some of those folks who left the labor market are gone for good but i think a lot of them maybe say, a point and by the way a point of the labor force in our economy is 1.5 million people we might get that point back with strong enough labor demand. >> let's talk about trade and how changes in our trade status around the world could affect our economy. the headquarters at nike trying to talk the tpp deal. >> there have been a bunch fl critics about trade deals generally and the trans pacific partnership and what's interesting is typically they are my friends coming from my party. and they are my fellow travelers on minimum wage and on job

training and on clean energy and on every progressive issue, they are right there with me. on this one, they are like whooping on me. on this issue, on trade, i actually think some of my dearest friends are wrong. >> peter, one of the sticking points here is there are no provisions it looks like in the trade deal or strong provisions on currency manipulation. should we be backing a trade deal that doesn't include those provisions? >> no i don't think we should. senator schumer is right on this one. it's time to start including currency inside of trade deals. when we started structuring trade deals in the late 1940s, we had a system of fixed exchange rates and that's why we dell grated this to the imf the imf has no capacity to deal with currency manipulation we should deal with currency manipulation like we do with subsidies or product standards or things we call barriers.

it's well within our capacity to do that. i think the president is wrong and i think it may cost him this deal and that's unfortunate. i do agree with the president that we need to build this trade partnership in asia. asia is where america's future lies. we have to manage our relationship with europe but asia is where the century will be. we're an asian nation and we need to seek partnership with those countries there but do it right. >> that's a great point. peter and jared, thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> back now to the weather and that big tornado threat is not the only thing we're watching, our first tropical system of the year a month before hurricane season even starts wnbc meteorologist steve sos na is checking that for us. >> i am tracking subtropical storm ana, it means it's not totally tropical yet and hurricane season is still two weeks away yet.

we have to watch the storm system and it's crawling along, moving slowly. by saturday at 8:00 still out of the open waters but by sunday it's moving onshore, looking at rain and wind across south carolina and north carolina and looks like the worst of the storm will stay offshore. so let's talk mother's day. all of you mothers out there in the west the west is best. we're looking at beautiful weather, temperatures in the 70s and east keep mom hydrated cool and upper 80s and hot down in the southeast and middle part of the country, that's where we'll be watching all weekend long for severe weather. watch out from st. louis down to dallas. we'll have much more of the cycle coming up after the break.

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into the patterns and practices of the baltimore police department. >> this investigation will begin immediately and will focus on allegations that baltimore police department officers used excessive force, including deadly force, conduct unlawful searches and seizures and arrest and engage in discriminatory policing. >> baltimore mayor stephanie rawlings-blake requested the investigation and lynch says the fraternal order of police is welcoming reform with both parties ranging solutions from body cameras to reducing the number of people they incarcerate. a fantastic and maul new book called solutions, american leerds speak out on criminal justice touches on many ideas and short essays by folks you know bill clinton, chris christie, ted cruz and other leaders and criminal justice experts. the co-editor is michael

waldman. you can get it for free as a pdf. one thing that struck me cathy lanier, new way of policing her thoughts boil down to we have to strengthen trust between communities and police and this zero tolerance or broken windows form of policing she writes drives a wedge between police and communities. do we need to completely refocus how we police in this country? >> so it's really quite interesting. she notes in d.c. as in so many other places crime is way down way, way down. there's a lot of factor as ennobody is entirely show why crime is down but we think that the rise in incarceration may not cause it and some of the police practices didn't cause it either. what she argues is that the key for police is to prevent crime, rather than just rack up the arrests and sort of get their numbers up. and you know the challenge is how do you have community

policing as vice president biden talks about in this book without having a wedge driven between the police and the communities. and what's exciting for us is this is left and right and republicans and democrats and law enforcement as well as civil libertarians. there's a real hunger on the part of all of these folks to work on this together at a moment where there's a huge national hunger -- >> full disclosure i've done pro bono work for at the brennan center. i would say this regardless this is a public service, creating a platform to have a policy competition over fixing some of the parts of our justice system that we will know are so broken and done it in a bipartisan way. i want to ask you about marco rubio's essay, talk about rehab and talk about the death penalty. he singles out the idea that too many things have actually become illegal. he says the average american unknowingly commits three felonies a day and that invites selective enforcement by which

he means the police can then decide who if everybody could technically charge decide who to go after. >> one of the things that's so interesting, it is a competition, you used to have a competition who who could have the most draconian policies and marco rubio and number of conservatives focus on the number of crimes and over criminalization. and if you remember after the eric garner incident the controversy, rand paul said one of the problems was if you are arresting people for selling loose cigarettes, you're going to have police abuse. one of the things we think is if you listen to what hillary clinton said last week that the underlying problem is not just community relations but massachusetts mass incarceration. police will do what they have to do to enforce laws we tell them as a society to enforce. if there's too much that's

criminalized or if penalties are too strong or too much of a numerical system you get abuses even among the best of folks. >> rick perry touches on a few themes. rick perry is the governor who is executed more people than any other governor in modern history. he is a texas gun slinger, you would think of him as this tough on crime guy. for too long fear deticketed america's criminal justice policy and citizens afraid of growing violence brought on by drug wars demanded harsher penalties and longer sentences and politicians afraid of looking soft on issue eagerly oblige but policy driven solely by fear has failed us. i mean this is remarkable from rick perry. >> one of the things -- this will be a surprise to folks. in the last few years as there's become this recognition of the problem as you know we have five percent of the world's population and 25% of the world's prison population if the number of people actually

locked up right now in prison it would be the 36th largest state in the country. and people started to recognize this in states and you've actually had from texas to california to new jersey and other places very different political philosophies efforts too reduce the prison population. i don't want to make people's hair stand up here but rick perry in texas has been the leader on this. so it's one of the reasons there may be an opening where sanity can prevail. what we hope is that first off that there's this creative ferment and see it in congress where you have mike lee and dick durbin and rand paul and ted cruz and cory booker sponsoring bills but that something actually happens. the tragedy would be if we look back, wasn't that a wonderful moment where there was a chance to happen. >> too bad nothing happened. >> it's interesting all of the

names you have mentioned, many of them are running for president and when you're running for president, often times you're trying to find the biggest differences on these issues from the other party. you look at the list of namsz, hillary clinton included and rick perry, mike huckabee even on there and marco rubio, if we can't make change in criminal justice, we're in pretty bad shape. >> there are more of them. >> those are just a few. >> you know yeah this is an issue that used to be as they called it a wedge issue. because people -- and this is where i'll show my age, you know these tough on crime laws were born of a real sense of genuine crisis crime was out of control e and it was a plot to do a bad thing, something of an overreaction to real problems. and some of the steps taken were strong community policing and some were not over incarceration

incarceration, it's a chance. >> now as it says in the book at this point mass incarceration threatens american democracy. thank you so much for your time. fantastic. today thousands of police officers and mourners turned out to pay tribute to fallen nypd officer brian moore. they lined the funeral procession route standing shoulder to shoulder silent and saluting the hearse where nypd commissioner bill bratton and bill de blasio among those who remembered the officer who died on monday. moore was shot in the head last weekend when he and his partner stopped a man they suspected of carrying a hand gun. >> we're all gathered in one purpose, to mourn the loss of a great man, a young man but a very great man. >> why is it always the good ones? well, maybe it's because almost all of them in our profession are the good ones.

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every time we read letters she was in a heap. we felt like we were learning what makes an impact on kids just from reading everybody's letters. it was the little things. it wasn't maybe the trip to whenever or the trip to disney land. nobody mentioned that. they mentioned the times they spent with their parents and their mom, you know, in particular and the little things that she did like peanut and butter jelly sandwich after school or brushing their hair at night when they were not feeling well. >> i don't want to get everybody in a heap but you have melissa rivers in the book talking about her legendary mom. she was on the "today" show earlier this week. let's run a little bit of that. >> i slept on the cot next to my mother's bed that night with the lights on and the tv blasting the way she liked it. in the morning when it was time to remove the ventilator she was rounded by those who loved her most and whom she loved most. i lay in the bed and held for awhile. after a few hours, she was finally gone. i didn't have to tell her i loved her. she knew. she didn't have to tell me she lot offed me.

i knew. >> that's amazing to her story in this. >> it was. and melissa wrote that letter before joan passed, and she actually read it to joan and said that joan her mom that was one of the best things she wrote. it is. it shows you melissa has so much of what her mom had. that great wit and it is a really, really clever letter. we love her. >> dr. phil people say where does he get that spirit? you know from oprah he's something else. >> he's something else. >> he's part of oprah. >> for sure. i think with phil i love dr. phil and i think people see him as being gruff and tough kind of tell it like it is kind of guy and he did tell it like it is in his letter. i saw the softer side of him, and i saw the influence that his mom made on his life. i think that was interesting for us, too, to see this different perspective on some of the people that we know and love.

>> it says i'll never forget the day you were diagnosed with terminal cancer. the doctor said 90 days tops. they said you have your schedule, i have mine! five years later cancer free. >> i think they look alike. i'm like you did in a lot of ways take after her. she was his big supporter. >> you say how you learn something about the people in reading the letters, too. i was struck by the letter from monica lewinsky she said i literally wouldn't be here if it were not for you and your support. >> i think it's important to see something who has gone through something like she has. i think people forget when they criticize somebody like her they forget this is somebody's child. she's got a family of people that love her. i hope it gives some compassion. >> is there anybody in the book lisa, who says mom you screwed me up a little bit. what is going on? >> i would say most people have a complicated relationship with their women in particular. our relationships with our moms

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♪ ♪ 70 years ago today allied forces declared victory over the nazis. today in our nation's capitol, world war ii veterans and the next generation joined to mark the end of the war in europe. in 1945 celebrations rang out across the nations. americans took to the streets on mass as president truman declared complete ally triumph over germany. it was a somber victory paid for by the service of 16 million americans called to action. that included my own grandfather who landed on the beaches at normandy. 400,000 americans paid the ultimate sacrifice to secure our freedom. 40 million people including 6 million jews were killed across the continue in the end. the war was not over yet. allied troops continued to fight three more months in the pacific. 70 years their sacrifice represents a hope for peace. that does it for the cycle. now with alex wagner starts

right now. jeb bush sents george w is the chief advisor on the middle east. christie at the loss for words when it comes to immigration. and the california drought is breaking down the food chain. it's friday may 8th. this is "now." jeb bush courts the religious right. chris christie tries happy hour in new hampshire. and eight is enough for south carolina freedom summit. it's a busy weekend for those on the eye on the white house in 2016. in an hour chris christie will go face to face with new hampshire voters hosting one of the tell it like it is town halls in a pub called furry. as the governor barn storms from through the state he's taking lots of questions. but on the issue of immigration, he's not giving many answers. >> do undocumented immigrants have -- >> i guess that's a conversation i think our country has