good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, april 27th. i'm alex witt. for all of the build-up to last night's races, reading off the results was short and sweet for donald trump. three of the five races were called immediately for the republican front-runner with the final two falling his way minutes later. the clean sweep moves the first-time politician that much closer to the 1,237 delegates needed to lock up the nomination and avoid a fight on the convention floor in cleveland this summer. it was also a big night for hillary clinton who won four of the five states in her quest to shake off bernie sanders. and push ahead to the general election. donald trump's wins were sweeping and the margins were wide. trump won with 64% in rhode island, 61% in delaware, 58% in connecticut, 57% in pennsylvania and 54% in maryland. last night, trump basked in his victories in a press conference in trump tower. >> this is a far bigger win than we even expected. all five. that's something that's really --

that's really something. and not only is it all five, it's all five whether it's 60 or just about 60 and even i see one up at 66 and 67. you have to remember, i say this all the time to the pundits, i love the pundits but i say it all the time, there are three people. when you crack 60 and as we did last week with our great city and our great state of new york, when you crack 60 with three people that's very hard to do. in fact, i think chris can tell you, if you crack 60 with two people that's called -- that's called a massive landslide. i consider myself the presumptive nominee, absolutely. we don't have a ceiling. you know what our ceiling is? i think it's 100%. we don't have a ceiling. >> trump also addressed the speculation over his campaign strategy including that he has rejected an internal push to make him appear quote more presidential and that his blunt

rhetoric is merely a persona. >> no, i am me. you know what, i hear that. you know, he'll be presidential, not presidential. he'll do that. it's much easier to be presidential. but i'm not playing a part. look, i started off with 17. i'm down, now i'm winning. it's over. as far as i'm concerned it's over. why would i change? if you have a football team you're winning and then you get to the super bowl you don't change your quarterback, right? i'm not changing. >> hillary clinton's campaign is already looking to capitalize on some of the closing comments from trump's speech last night. a top aide to hillary clinton says the democrats campaign will send out a fund-raising appeal based on this. >> i think the only card she has is the women's card. she's got nothing else going and frankly if hillary clinton were a man, i don't think she'd get 5% of the vote. the only thing she's got going is the woman's card. and the beautiful thing is women don't like her. okay? and look how well i did with women tonight.

>> so that video is worth a second look. this time keep your eye on governor chris christie's wife mary pat right there on the right. >> i think the only card she has is the woman's card. she has nothing else going, and frankly if hillary clinton were a man, i don't think she'd get 5% of the vote. the only thing she's got going is the woman's card and the beautiful thing is women don't like her. okay? and look how well i did with women tonight. okay. >> hmm. eye rolling there. a top clinton aide called the comments a big deal and said that trump has quote, doubled down on the same offensive rhetoric towards women. at a rally earlier in the night, clinton addressed the suggestisu suggestion she only has her gender on her side. >> the other day, trump accused me of quote playing the woman card. if fighting for women's health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman

card, then deal me in. >> donald trump excelled with voters, and look at the map of pennsylvania. he won every county across the state. the statement is true in maryland and delaware. he won all but one county in rhode island and all but six in connecticut. ted cruz did not win a single county last night. according to exit polling, trump did wit voters of all income brackets. in maryland he took 60% of voters who made between 50 and $100,000. well, let's take a look at how the night went for the democrats. the lone bright spot for bernie sanders, rhode island, where he's up by 12 points. hillary clinton wins in connecticut by five points, in particular winning over new york's bedroom communities from there, her leads only widened. the margin is 12 points in pennsylvania. with 94% of the vote in, she's lead big 30% in maryland. really just 20 points in baltimore county. her lead grows around washington, d.c. to 36%.

and in nearby prince georges county, clinton won by an incredible 50%. according to nbc news exit polling she was dominant in polling among african-american votes and winning 68% of women. all this brings hillary clinton to 1,620 delegate, over 2,000 when you include the super delegates. bernie sanders has 1,330. it is still possible for bernie to get to the magic number. clinton walked out to a thrilling crowd and called for unity. >> with your help we're going to come back to philadelphia for the national democratic convention and we will unify our party to win this election and build an america where we can all rise together. an america where we lift each other up and instead of tearing each other down. whether you support senator

sanders or you support me, there's much more that unites us than divides us. >> meanwhile the democrats are sparring over who's closer to donald trump. yesterday, trump tweeted quote bernie sanders has been treated terribly by the democrats, both by delegates and otherwise. he should show them and run as an independent. trump added this in last night's victory speech. >> just take a look at the things that bernie sanders was saying about hillary clinton. he said some things about her that were so incredible. incredible. and so incredibly bad. that's a great level of hatred right there, but he's been telling the truth. i really mean it. i think bernie sanders should run as an independent. >> well, the sanders campaign rejected that advice and hit clinton with a picture of hillary clinton at trump's 2005 wedding. jeff weaver said that the clinton campaign said we're giving aid and comfort to trump

and there's one democrat who donald trump said would make a great president and it's not bernie sanders. last night, senator sanders congratulated secretary clinton on her victories and signalled he was looking ahead to the next 14 contests, but his campaign wrote, quote, the people in every state in this country should have the right to determine who they want as president and what the agenda of the democratic party should be. and it goes on to talk about fighting for a progressive party platform at the democratic national convention this july which many are reading as an acknowledgment that the campaign sees the nomination as slipping out of reach. last night in west virginia, sanders gave little attention to the day's voting and instead reminded the crowd of how far his campaign has come. >> we were taking on the most powerful political organization in america and an organization that elected a president -- president clinton on two occasions and ran a very strong campaign for president, for secretary clinton in 2008. as of today, we have now won 16

primaries and caucuses all over this country. and with your help, we're going to win here in west virginia. >> well, moving to the establishment democrats won key senate primaries in maryland's hard fought primary, seven term congressman van hollen defeated donna edwards. edwards was backed by almost 6 in 10 african-american voters and 35% supported van hollen but he took an even larger share of the white vote. if van hollen wins in november he will succeed mikulski. in pennsylvania, katie mcginty backed by both president

obama and joe biden, she will face republican incumbent pat toomey in november. in pennsylvania, 11 term democratic congressman chaka fattah became the first incumbent to lose a primary. fattah was indicted on corruption charges last year. let's turn to business, and big hit for the world's second valuable company, apple iphone sales have fallen for first time ever. that's not all. let's get to cnbc's julia chatterley live from london. what else did we learn from apple? >> well, it was a real disappointment. good morning, alex. 16% drop in the number of iphones that they sold compared to the current quarter last year. but they were so incredibly down beat on the current quarter which i think was a bit of a problem for investors too. why did they struggle? well, something that's been lifting their overall volumes was china. there was a real problem in china this quarter. they're facing all sorts of fierce competition from competitors. but the real issue for the guys they're an innovator, a design company. where's the big product?

and tim cook suggested said, look, there's a bright future for apple but ultimately investors are going is it going to be virtual reality, the car? we haven't yet heard enough from them. there was a bright spot though. 10% hike in the quarterly dividend and a $50 billion increase to their buy-back. so they're trying to offset weakness on the one hand with some kind of boon to investors on the others. we're used to hearing disappointing news from twitter and they disappointed too as well. sales come in weaker than expected. not bad on earnings but the big thing here was they did manage to increase user growth. so they have 310 million active users. so the ceo said yesterday, look, this is the first time you're hearing about our long-term strategy. and alex i can tell you the stock fell 12%. so investor pretty clear what they think of that long term strategy. more needed from twitter. that stock now worth half what it was when they went public. >> even despite the 5 million

additional twitter users this last quarter. thank you for that. nearly seven months after the cargo ship el faro was lost at sea, the ntsb has found the data recorder, 15,000 feet below the surface. 41 miles northeast of the bahamas. el faro was saying from jacksonville to san juan, puerto rico, when it lost power in a storm and that storm turned into hurricane joaquin. none of the crew members survived. the ship's owner is facing multiple lawsuits from family members. a heart felt tribute to prince. and some 24 million people are at risk today, hail, flooding, tornados. we'll get bill karins's forecast next on "way too early." there are two billion people

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time now for sports and last night's nba playoff action in atlanta, the hawks reclaimed the advantage in their first round series against the celtics. using the third quarter to plow out boston 110-83 in game 5. in toronto the raptors were 35 points and battled back in the fourth to take the 3-2 series lead over the pacers. indiana's hill would get a chance to tie the game before the final buzzer but the shot does not drop in time. and meanwhile, the los angeles clippers walked a way from the monday's game 4 against the trail blazers with more to worry about than a second straight loss. chris paul is out indefinitely after undergoing surgery to repair the broken bone in his right hand. and blake griffin grated the left quad -- aggravated the quad injury. and leading the warriors to the best regular season record in history, steve kerr has been

named the coach of the year. kerr who received 64 first place votes missed golden state's first 43 games of the season while recovering from back surgery. the warriors had a record of 73-9, passing that mark set by the '96 chicago bulls. let's turn to highlights to baseball. the athletics are scoreless. this is grabbed by justin upton. look at that leaping grab, upton saves the run. but the athletics still win it. to new york, the mets looking to get on the board, trailing the reds 3-0. but cincinnati center fielder will not make it easy. coming one a diving catch. and the mets however come back to win it -- 4-3. to atlanta. braves second baseman castro hustles to the outfield to bare handed catch, watch this. he then fires to first base to complete a double play, but that's about all the magic

atlanta can muster. boston star david price matched the career high 14 strikeouts allowing two runs in eight innings of work for an 11-4 win over the braves. let's get a check on the weather now from meteorologist bill karins. i heard some hoots and hollers there. >> good highlights. baseball highlights. >> they're diving and catching. >> i'm happy i don't have huge tornado highlights to show you. >> good. >> we made it through yesterday. we had damage that was done, no doubt about it. a lot of cleanup to be done, but not the devastating storms that really leaves a town in shambles. that's good. let me show you a video that was taken from all over the place. numerous areas had high winds with suspected maybe weak tornadoes including in bells, texas. again, these were weaker storms. we didn't get the really fast rotating low level winds. we had strong thunderstorms but we didn't have the wind set up correctly to get the big tornadoes. no complaints from anyone out there. throughout the target zone. it still was an outbreak. all of the dots here are indications of severe weather that occurred from the southern

ohio valley all the way through oklahoma and north texas. in all 400 reports of severe weather. five tornadoes but on the weaker end of the spectrum. we have thunderstorms and lightning that are pushing into eastern texas. some have a potential to do some damaging winds. we're watching this one line that just went through austin. now approaching the houston area. if you're in houston, you have about a half hour until that line gets to you. stay indoors, you'll be safe for the rest of the commute. lufkin has the strong storms over the top of you. so later on today, we'll go through another round of storms. again, the tornado threat looks on the lower end. so that's good. but from st. louis all the way down to houston, back over to new orleans, we have about 24 million people at risk of these severe storms including areas of mississippi too. again, all of our computers they don't show it's anything too huge. not like a big outbreak. again, the tornado threat is kind of low, alex. that's good. we made it through yesterday.

we have probably three or four days every spring where we get these really risky day, the big tornados. we made it through the first one. you know, we'll wait and see when the next one develops. >> hey, how are we going to bring back the bathing suit weather we had here? >> it's only april. too early for tan lines. >> i'm an l.a. girl. what can i say? bruce who travels with me, i want to ask you something. do you have a tape measure with you. >> sound and look familiar? we'll explain what ted cruz was up to in the hoosier state when "way too early" comes back.

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we've got some more headlines coming at you from the control room. hello, louis burgdorf. >> nice to see you. >> you too. what's up? >> well, movie buff ted cruz failed out last night while trying to appeal to the basketball fans in the hoosier state. last night he held a rally in the indiana gym where the classic 1986 movie "hoosiers" was filmed. he tried to recruit the iconic scene where gene hackman tried to calm his players' nerves ahead of the state tomorrow. but the republican senator struggled with the game's terminology. >> as you all know, we're here on the hickory basketball court. and bruce who travels with me, bruce, i want to ask you something. do you have a tape measure with you? >> measure this from the rim. buddy?

how far? >> ten feet. >> ten feet. >> i think you'll find the exact same measurements is our gym back in hickory. >> the amazing thing that basketball rim here in indiana it's the same height as in new york city and every other place in this country. >> not a basketball hoop according to the senator from texas, but a basketball ring. we're not exactly sure the point he was trying to make there. but cruz is hoping to rebound in indiana next week. all right. let's go to some media news now. kelly ripa is back at work after the highly publicized fallout over at abc. she and co-host michael strahan walked out hand in hand. it was the first time being seen together after she was mindsided by the news -- blindsided by the news he was leaving the show. she addressed the controversy yesterday. >> i'm going to be completely honest. i'm fairly certain that there

are trained professional snipers with tranquilizer darts in case i drift too far off message. i needed a couple of days to gather my thoughts after 26 years with this company. i earned the right. so what transpired though over the course of a few days has been extraordinary. in the sense that it started a much greater conversation about communication and consideration and most importantly respect in the workplace. apologies have been made and the best thing to come out of all of this, you guys, is that our parent company has assured me that "live" is a priority. [ applause ] guys, calm down, they didn't say anything about christmas bonuses. just calm down. >> abc news reports that strahan's last day will be may the 13th. now last night on broadway, "school of rock" audience got a special surprise during the

curtain call. take a look at this. ♪ that's singer stevie nicks there. she performed the fleetwood mac hit. she said it felt fantastic to play with the young stars. she shared memories of legendary musician prince who helped her write the 1980 hit "stand back." she told the audience the idea came to her while listening to "little red corvette." finally, last night on "the tonight show" musical guest deange deange deangelo paid tribute to prince. ♪ ♪ sometimes, sometimes i wish life was never ending ♪ ♪ all good things they say never last ♪

♪ i often dream of heaven and i know that prince is there ♪ ♪ ♪ he's found another friend maybe he's found the answer to all the april snow ♪ ♪ maybe one day i'll see him again ♪ >> incredible prince tributes just keep rolling in. >> that was beautiful. kind of heart breaking. anyway, louis, thank you. that does it for me, everyone and "way too early." coming up on "morning joe," a five state sweep for donald trump and a big night for hillary clinton as well. we'll have complete analysis of the primary results and plus the republican front-runner or the

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conjunctive nominee, definitely. i use the analogy of the boxer, when the boxer knocks out the other boxer, you don't have to wait around for another decision. that's what it is. that's what happened tonight. as far as i'm concerned it's over. these guys cannot win. if hillary clinton were a man, i don't think she'd get 5% of the vote. the only thing she's got voting is women's card. >> if fighting for women's health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the women's card, then deal me in. >> good night for hillary clinton. you know what, eh, for donald trump. depending how you look at it. >> we found where the ceiling was,