it's memorial day, may 30th. a wicked weather weekend turning deadly in some regions. texas flooding claims five lives and dangerous rip tides move up the east coast. new details vounlding a 400 pound gorilla killed after a 4-year-old boy fell in his enclosure at a cincinnati zoo. libertarians pick their candidate to battle the donald, they reveal a person to take on trum am. police have new leads on a deadly shooting in houston. a rookie running on fumes wins the indy 500 and we hohn yort fallen on this memorial day. "first look" starts right now. >> good morning, everybody. thank you for joining us today. at least five people are dead

and three more missing after severe weather triggered devastating flooding in the plains. four bodies were found in washington county, texas, alone after two feet of water flooded the area in hours. three people were in their cars when floodwaters swept them away torrential downpours led to damage. one man and his son were trying to evacuate an rv park when swept off the highway by floodwaters. the weight of the water even collapsed the roof of the local newspaper office. over in rosenberg, some roads are covered by more than eight feet of water. and the rising brazos river forced evacuation of 2600 inmates. and take a look at this. this video was recorded inside a school bus that was dropping kids off after school. the bus now resembling a boat wading through floodwaters. bonnie weakened to a tropical depression but is still slamming the carolinas in georgia with heavy rain, winds, and high

surf. at least one beach goer is reported missing. drivers trying to get away in south carolina had to form a caravan line just to stay on course. and over in north charleston, residents in this neighborhood parked on think lawns to escape the street now turned into a river. one homeowner was recording rising floodwaters as this is came close to his front door. bonnie is joining us tracking bonnie and all that's in her wake. >> it's been a very active weekend. for memorial day, we're looking at the threat from tropical depression bonnie. watch out for dangerous rip currents. keep in mind this storm is very, very slow to move out. so with the movement to the north at 3 miles per hour, we'll be talking about bonnie well into this week. i think we'll still see plenty of rain it from as well. a risk for severe weather this is right into central and southern plains. two million people at risk for

severe storms. we saw a lot of this this week. i hate to see it again for texas. large tail and damaging wind. not to mention the wind. that rain is in the forecast through the middle of the week. your memorial day, into the mid-atlantic and new england. stormy in the southern plains. looking beautiful to the west. nice mild temperatures. you're warming up quite a bit as we go through the middle and endst week on the west coast. the numbers are going up. but it doesn't look too bad. i think we have nice weather. we'll have to keep watching that storm with my name. betty? >> yeah. be nice to us, bonnie. both of you. thank you. terrifying moments at the cincinnati zoo this weekend. a mother watches in horror as her 3-year-old son falls into the gorilla exhibit and violently dragged by a 400 pound silver back. at times the primate drags the boy and other times it appears to be protective.

but with no time to spare, zoo keepers acted with lethal force to save the boy. we have the tense moments caught on camera. >> no! >> ten minutes of terror. >> mommy is right here. >> this cell phone video showing a had 400 pound gorilla and behind him in the corner of his exhibit a 3-year-old boy. suddenly screams. the gorilla dragging the boy through the water then stops. can you hear the mother talking to her son trying to keep him calm. >> mommy loves you. i'm right here. at one point, the boy looks up and the two briefly touch hands. the gore yailla stands him up a then drags him away. zoo keepers say they had no choice. a tranquellize woehr have taken too long and they had to put the gore yale down. >> we rescued the childs. >> you're talking about an animal that is over 400 pounds

and extremely strong. all sorts of things can happen in a situation like that. >> the gorilla is an endangered silver back. the zoo celebrating his 17 rnlg birthday the day before he was kill killed. the boy was taken to the hospital but he is going to be okay. his mother was watching several children when he slipped through the mote. >> the boy had been talking about wanting to go in. go n get in the water. and his mother is like, no, you're not. no, you're not. >> the zoo now re-examining the barriers around the exhibit. mean while, some mourning the gore yale's death are questioning the killing pointing to other examples of gorillas protecting children who fell in exhibits like this incident in england 30 years ago. or this gorilla in 1996 in chicago who cared for an injured boy and carried him to zoo keepers at the exhibit door. but this case, much more unpredictable. a boy's life in danger, a risk

zoo keepers wouldn't take. >> frightening video there. >> republicans may have finally recruited the third party candidate they've been wishing for. conservative bill kristol posted this on twitter. just a heads up over the holiday weekend, there will be an independent candidate with a strong team and a real chance. the never trump campaign calls the update meaningful. donald trump himself derided the news writing bill kristol has been wrong for two years and embarrassed loser. but if the gop cannot control their own, then they are not a party. be tough, rs. the republican party has to be smart and strong if it wants to win in november. they can't allow light weights to send up a spoiler indy candidate. a named independent candidate, the race for president goes up to four after former new mexico governor gary johnson won the libertarian nomination for president at the party's

convention this weekend. now johnson fully embraced the never trump montra and best path fort. >> taking him on on the fact that he wants to deport 11 million illegal immigrants, taking him on on wanting to build a fence across the border, that's nuts. taking him on when he says that mexicans are murderers and ra rapis rapists, absolutely call him out on what is really racist. it's just racist. >> meanwhile, trump took a part in the rolling thunder motorcycle rally on the national mall. the bikers raise awareness of unaccounted for pows and soldiers missing in action. trump ridiculed hillary clinton, called reporters low lives and his best to bring rally goers to his side. >> hillary is talking about jobs. she doesn't know anything about jobs. she thinks the va is doing good. did you see her statement a couple months ago? the veterans administration is doing a good job. if she think thinks doing a good

job, then i've been wasting a lot of time. i know the vets. they are miserable what w. what is happening. >> while i continues to make end roads, hold youdz like bill kristol and eric erickson are strictly against him. arnold schwarzenegger couldn't confirm he would endorse trump. he said he would announce support in his own time and way. bernie sanders campaign may hinge all hopes on the california primary. but the candidate is not entirely against being on the same ticket with hillary clinton. sanders says he's drafting an appeal letter to super delegates, he also did not reject a vp slot on clinton's ticket when asked. a community is on alert this morning after a shooting spree in houston. police described the scene as chaotic. a gunman with a rifle in tow fired bullets randomly hitting seven people. gunfire also struck surrounding vehicles, a police helicopter

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welcome back, everybody. leading the news on nbcnews.com. a tribute to honor the fallen service members. a moving series of images can be found on our website. i encourage you to check it out. >> iraqi forces enter fallujah. according to an army spokesman, the offensive came from three

directions. so far, 80% of surrounding territory has been recovered. the country's prime minister told the estimated 50,000 remaining his dents to leave the city or stay indoors. city is one of the last major islamic state strong holds in iraq along with the country's second largest city mosul. >> it was a deadly memorial day weekend in chicago. a string of over two dozen shootings killed four people and injured 40. 15-year-old ver on yak lopez was shot and killed while riding in the passenger southeast a car. the uptick in violence comes despite efforts by police to deploy additional officers. five months into this year so far, over 200 people have already been killed in chicago. >> let's turn to china. take a look at this terrifying moment caught on camera. a landslide pummels down a mound an side right as a car was passing. luck lit passer's by make a narrow escape from being buried alive. wow. to sports now.

jordan spieth going for his first professional win in his home state of texas at the colonial. the second ranked player in the world started the day with nine straight pars. then caught on fire in the back nine. six birdies. this is the eighth career victory for the 22-year-old and his first since his disastrous back nine at the masters. now alex ander rossi, the winner of the indianapolis 500 in his rookie run at indy. rossi was able to overcome the fuel tank running on empty and 66-1 odds. to grab the checkered flag and celebrate with a chug of milk. nascar held the longest race of the year, the coca-cola 600 at charlotte motor speedway. martin truex jr. came away with the first win of the season. he dominated that race setting a new nascar record by leading 392 out of 400 laps. and on the european tour, james morrison hits a hole in one and guess what? he wins a car. it's not just any car though.

morrison takes home a $142,000 bmwi-8. look at that beauty. not too shabby. good day for him. all right. well he is known as the human arrow. and on sunday, jeb corlis lived up to that name-dropping out of a helicopter wearing a wing suit and attempting to hit a target over the great wall of china. we have more on his wild ride. >> reporter: the starting line, 6,000 feet up. the finish, a paper bulls eye the size of an apple, suspended over the great wall of china. >> rock my world. >> reporter: all jeb had to do is make history, hit the target at 120 miles an hour. >> this is a project about precision. this was a project about doing something that is really, really hard. >> the 40-year-old made a name for himself cheating death with jumps from the world's tallest buildings. the sky park in singapore, malaysia's towers and flights

barely xwe lly squeezing throug smallest gaps. fierce tail winds. >> the tail wind was gusting. it made it really difficult to hone in. >> reporter: fighting to stay on target and coming in fast, covering 6,000 feet in 46 seconds. >> you got it. >> the human arrow mere inches from the hit. >> i barely got up and got the target. it was super scary. >> reporter: close enough and alive. >> to tell the tale. nbc news. and that's why they call him the human arrow. >> veterans issues front and center. but first, trump university revealed. scrambled politics is next. and with her, a flood of potential patients. a deluge of digital records. x-rays, mris. all on account...of penelope.

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stirred up controversy this weekend after an insta gram post took off. the police officer appeared to hope for violence during a san diego trump rally. dressed in riot gear, the officer poet aid photo and captioned it with "waiting, waiting, waiting, just riot already, people." #waitingsucks. anti-trump protesters demanded answers to the post telling nbc 7 the posts come on riot already so we can use this equipment against you? the san diego police department said they were looking into the matter. the police officer has since been -- or has since removed her account. some in key west had fun this weekend taking part in a costume regata. look at. that hillary clinton and donald trump went toe to toe as they paddled their way in boats made out of plywood and duct tape. they both managed to stay afloat. trump is pretty tan right, there isn'the? so hollywood stars are stumping for bernie sanders in an unusual way ahead of california's june

7th primary. crammed into an rv, they embarked on a 12 city tour of california. they are joined by sanders supporters and hope to bring out the vote in major cities across the state. hillary clinton meanwhile has her own army of celebrities, musician katy perry has hit the trail for her and while garion son wrapped up the libertarian weekend, one owe poen nebt that race tried to drum up support in his own scandalous way. take a look. ♪ ♪ >> and you can tell about it reaction he does strip down, my

friends. all right, that's your morning dish of scrambled politics. >> i want to bring in our political reporter, good morning, daniel. thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. bill kristol says over the weekend that there will be an independent candidate who is impressive and has a real chance. any idea who that might be? >> you know, there have been a number of names floated around already. nebraska senator ben sass, a frequent and vocal critic of donald trump's is one that comes up often. another one is mitt romney who has always been floated around by establishmen republicans as yet another viable candidate even late in the game to be a presidential nominee this cycle. and, you know, the last one i think is tom coburn, the former senator from oklahoma. he's been a contradict of just about everyone. he's not always super cheerful. but those are the big three that you can see if we're talking

about some kind of third republican independent. >> we're waiting to see who that person s very, very interesting. all right. in the meantime though, libertarian candidate former new mexico governor gary johnson hitting trump very hard, calling him basically a racist. does this spell big trouble for trum snp. >> it's a good question. we're seeing a lot of energy on the libertarian movement this weekend. during the nominating convention. and, look, there are a lot of people who don't like trump in the gop right now. i mean, a lot of people do. it's easy to see this cycle a candidate could draw support away from trump and even the democrats. >> speaking of democrats, bernie sanders says i may be open to being vice president. could that really be a winning ticket or perhaps hillary's worst nightmare? >> i think that the idea is that for sanders, he could bring his support to the clinton ticket

and bring the enthusiasm. it is tempting for clinton. the thing is though, not a name that the clinton team has bandied about as of possible running mate. you've seen other progressives on that list but not bernie sanders. >> yeah, but will they really butt heads if that was the ticket that we would see. it will be interesting to see how that would play out. all right. daniel, as always, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> veterans issues taking center stage on this memorial day. when donald trump addressed thous abdz of bikers at the annual rolling thunder rally in washington. and while hillary clinton is battling bernie sanders for the california primary, she'll be marching in her local memorial day parade and adopted hometown in new york. tracie potts has more on all of this from washington. good morning, tracie. good morning, bernie sanld serz going to be back in california today while donald trump takes the day off after spending already part of his weekend with veterans.

>> reporter: politics focusing on veterans this memorial day. donald trump promises they'll get better treatment than immigrants. >> thousands of people are dying waiting in line to see a doctor. that is not going to happen anymore. >> reporter: the clinton march in the hometown parade, on do h defense about her e-mail and urging bernie sanders to read the writing on the wall. >> reporter: but sanders is fighting for california's primary one week from toechlt he is standing with form r. farmworkers. >> conditions exist today for our farmworkers, the people who feed us that should not exist and have got to change. >> reporter: and trump for backing out of a possible debate. trump's campaign trail says they'll wait until clinton or sanders wins. >> when there's a democratic nominee, mr. trump will debate whoever emerges from the system. >> reporter: he could face more competition this fall,

libertarians voted gary johnson and conservatives are promising an impressive independent with a strong team and a real chance. and trump's response to that on twitter, he calls the people behind that light weighted trying to be the spoiler. >> i wonder who that independent is going to be. we shall see. this is "first look" on msnbc. have a great memorial day. back. then those places change every few months... please. it's time you got the quicksilver card from capital one. quicksilver earns you unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase, everywhere. doesn't get much simpler than that. what's in your wallet? is better for your skin than wearing no makeup at all? neutrogena® cosmetics.

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it's memorial day, may 30th. a wicked weather weekend turning deadly in some regions. texas flooding claims five lives and dangerous rip tides move up the east coast. necessity new details surrounding a 400 pound gorilla killed after a 4-year-old boy fell in his enclosure at a cincinnati zoo. libertarians pick their candidate to battle the donald, they reveal a person to take on trum am. police have new leads on a deadly shooting in houston. a rookie running on fumes wins the indy 500 and we hohn yort fallen on this memorial day. "first look" starts right now. >> good morning, everybody. thank you for joining us today. at least five people are dead and three more missing after severe weather triggered

devastating flooding in the plains. four bodies were found in washington county, texas, alone after two feet of water flooded the area in hours. three people were in their cars when floodwaters swept them away torrential downpours led to damage. one man and his son were trying to evacuate an rv park when swept off the highway by floodwaters. the weight of the water even collapsed the roof of the local newspaper office. over in rosenberg, some roads are covered by more than eight feet of water. and the rising brazos river forced evacuation of 2600 inmates. and take a look at this. this video was recorded inside a school bus that was dropping kids off after school. the bus now resembling a boat wading through floodwaters. bonnie weakened to a tropical depression but is still slamming the carolinas in georgia with heavy rain, winds, and high surf. at least one beach goer is reported missing. drivers trying to get away in south carolina had to form a caravan line just to stay on course.

and over in north charleston, residents in this neighborhood parked on think lawns to escape the street now turned into a river. one homeowner was recording rising floodwaters as this is came close to his front door. bonnie is joining us tracking bonnie and all that's in her wake. >> it's been a very active weekend. for memorial day, we're looking at the threat from tropical depression bonnie. watch out for dangerous rip currents. keep in mind this storm is very, very slow to move out. so with the movement to the north at 3 miles per hour, we'll be talking about bonnie well into this week. i think we'll still see plenty of rain it from as well. a risk for severe weather this is right into central and southern plains. two million people at risk for severe storms. we saw a lot of this this week. i hate to see it again for texas. large tail and damaging wind.

not to mention the wind. that rain is in the forecast through the middle of the week. your memorial day, into the mid-atlantic and new england. stormy in the southern plains. looking beautiful to the west. nice mild temperatures. you're warming up quite a bit as we go through the middle and endst week on the west coast. the numbers are going up. but it doesn't look too bad. i think we have nice weather. we'll have to keep watching that storm with my name. betty? >> yeah. be nice to us, bonnie. both of you. thank you. terrifying moments at the cincinnati zoo this weekend. a mother watches in horror as her 3-year-old son falls into the gorilla exhibit and violently dragged by a 400 pound silver back. at times the primate drags the boy and other times it appears to be protective. but with no time to spare, zoo keepers acted with lethal force to save the boy. we have the tense moments caught on camera. >> no! >> ten minutes of terror. >> mommy is right here.

>> this cell phone video showing a had 400 pound gorilla and behind him in the corner of his exhibit a 3-year-old boy. suddenly screams. the gorilla dragging the boy through the water then stops. can you hear the mother talking to her son trying to keep him calm. >> mommy loves you. i'm right here. at one point, the boy looks up and the two briefly touch hands. the gorilla stands him up and then drags him away. zoo keepers say they had no choice. a tranquellize woehr have taken too long and they had to put the gore yale down. >> we rescued the childs. >> you're talking about an

animal that is over 400 pounds and extremely strong. all sorts of things can happen in a situation like that. >> the gorilla is an endangered silver back. the zoo celebrating his 17 rnlg birthday the day before he was killed. the boy was taken to the hospital but he is going to be okay. his mother was watching several children when he slipped through the mote. >> the boy had been talking about wanting to go in. go n get in the water. and his mother is like, no, you're not. no, you're not. >> the zoo now re-examining the barriers around the exhibit. mean while, some mourning the gore yale's death are questioning the killing pointing to other examples of gorillas protecting children who fell in exhibits like this incident in england 30 years ago. or this gorilla in 1996 in chicago who cared for an injured

boy and carried him to zoo keepers at the exhibit door. but this case, much more unpredictable. a boy's life in danger, a risk zoo keepers wouldn't take. >> frightening video there. >> republicans may have finally recruited the third party candidate they've been wishing for. conservative bill kristol posted this on twitter. just a heads up over the holiday weekend, there will be an independent candidate with a strong team and a real chance. the never trump campaign calls the update meaningful. donald trump himself derided the news writing bill kristol has been wrong for two years and embarrassed loser. but if the gop cannot control their own, then they are not a party. be tough, rs. the republican party has to be smart and strong if it wants to win in november. they can't allow light weights to send up a spoiler indy candidate. a named independent candidate, the race for president goes up

to four after former new mexico governor gary johnson won the libertarian nomination for president at the party's convention this weekend. now johnson fully embraced the never trump montra and best path fort. >> taking him on on the fact that he wants to deport 11 million illegal immigrants, taking him on on wanting to build a fence across the border, that's nuts. taking him on when he says that mexicans are murderers and rapists, absolutely call him out on what is really racist. it's just racist. >> meanwhile, trump took a part in the rolling thunder motorcycle rally on the national mall. the bikers raise awareness of unaccounted for pows and soldiers missing in action. trump ridiculed hillary clinton, called reporters low lives and his best to bring rally goers to his side. >> hillary is talking about jobs. she doesn't know anything about jobs. she thinks the va is doing good. did you see her statement a

couple months ago? the veterans administration is doing a good job. if she think thinks doing a good job, then i've been wasting a lot of time. i know the vets. they are miserable what w. what is happening. >> while i continues to make end roads, hold youdz like bill kristol and eric erickson are strictly against him. arnold schwarzenegger couldn't confirm he would endorse trump. he said he would announce support in his own time and way. bernie sanders campaign may hinge all hopes on the california primary. but the candidate is not entirely against being on the same ticket with hillary clinton. sanders says he's drafting an appeal letter to super delegates, he also did not reject a vp slot on clinton's ticket when asked. a community is on alert this morning after a shooting spree in houston. police described the scene as chaotic. a gunman with a rifle in tow fired bullets randomly hitting

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remaining his dents to leave the city or stay indoors. city is one of the last major islamic state strong holds in iraq along with the country's second largest city mosul. >> it was a deadly memorial day weekend in chicago. a string of over two dozen shootings killed four people and injured 40. 15-year-old ver on yak lopez was shot and killed while riding in the passenger southeast a car. the uptick in violence comes despite efforts by police to deploy additional officers. five months into this year so far, over 200 people have already been killed in chicago. >> let's turn to china. take a look at this terrifying moment caught on camera. a landslide pummels down a mound an side right as a car was passing. luck lit passer's by make a narrow escape from being buried alive. wow.

to sports now. jordan spieth going for his first professional win in his home state of texas at the colonial. the second ranked player in the world started the day with nine straight pars. then caught on fire in the back nine. six birdies. this is the eighth career victory for the 22-year-old and his first since his disastrous back nine at the masters. now alex ander rossi, the winner of the indianapolis 500 in his rookie run at indy. rossi was able to overcome the fuel tank running on empty and 66-1 odds. to grab the checkered flag and celebrate with a chug of milk. nascar held the longest race of the year, the coca-cola 600 at charlotte motor speedway. martin truex jr. came away with the first win of the season. he dominated that race setting a new nascar record by leading 392 out of 400 laps. and on the european tour, james morrison hits a hole in one and guess what? he wins a car.

it's not just any car though. morrison takes home a $142,000 bmwi-8. look at that beauty. not too shabby. good day for him. all right. well he is known as the human arrow. and on sunday, jeb corlis lived up to that name-dropping out of a helicopter wearing a wing suit and attempting to hit a target over the great wall of china. we have more on his wild ride. >> reporter: the starting line, 6,000 feet up. the finish, a paper bulls eye the size of an apple, suspended over the great wall of china. >> rock my world. >> reporter: all jeb had to do is make history, hit the target at 120 miles an hour. >> this is a project about precision. this was a project about doing something that is really, really hard. >> the 40-year-old made a name for himself cheating death with jumps from the world's tallest buildings. the sky park in singapore, malaysia's towers and flights barely squeezing through the smallest gaps.

fierce tail winds. >> the tail wind was gusting. it made it really difficult to hone in. >> reporter: fighting to stay on target and coming in fast, covering 6,000 feet in 46 seconds. >> you got it. >> the human arrow mere inches from the hit. >> i barely got up and got the target. it was super scary. >> reporter: close enough and alive. >> to tell the tale. nbc news. and that's why they call him the human arrow. >> veterans issues front and center. but first, trump university revealed. scrambled politics is next. it's more than a network and the cloud. it's reliable uptime. and multi-layered security. it's how you stay connected to each other and to your customers. with centurylink you get advanced technology solutions, including an industry leading broadband network,

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here's your look at dish of scrambled politics. a judge order the release of trump university internal documents. this is part of a class action lawsuit against the real estate school owned by donald trump. the order is in response to a request by "the washington post" and comes after trump railed against the judge on the campaign trail calling him a hater and saying the judge who is hispanic is biassed against him because his call to deport immigrants. those trump university documents are order tobd released by june 2nd.

a san diego police officer stirred up controversy this weekend after an insta gram post took off. the police officer appeared to hope for violence during a san diego trump rally. dressed in riot gear, the officer poet aid photo and captioned it with "waiting, waiting, waiting, just riot already, people." #waitingsucks. anti-trump protesters demanded answers to the post telling nbc 7 the posts come on riot already so we can use this equipment against you? the san diego police department said they were looking into the matter. the police officer has since been -- or has since removed her account. some in key west had fun this weekend taking part in a costume regata. look at. that hillary clinton and donald trump went toe to toe as they paddled their way in boats made

out of plywood and duct tape. they both managed to stay afloat. trump is pretty tan right, there isn'the? so hollywood stars are stumping for bernie sanders in an unusual way ahead of california's june 7th primary. crammed into an rv, they embarked on a 12 city tour of california. they are joined by sanders supporters and hope to bring out the vote in major cities across the state. hillary clinton meanwhile has her own army of celebrities, musician katy perry has hit the trail for her and while garion son wrapped up the libertarian weekend, one owe poen nebt that race tried to drum up support in his own scandalous way. take a look. ♪ ♪ >> and you can tell about it reaction he does strip down, my friends.

all right, that's your morning dish of scrambled politics. >> i want to bring in our political reporter, good morning, daniel. thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. bill kristol says over the weekend that there will be an independent candidate who is impressive and has a real chance. any idea who that might be? >> you know, there have been a number of names floated around already. nebraska senator ben sass, a frequent and vocal critic of donald trump's is one that comes up often. another one is mitt romney who has always been floated around by establishmen republicans as yet another viable candidate even late in the game to be a presidential nominee this cycle. and, you know, the last one i think is tom coburn, the former senator from oklahoma.

he's been a contradict of just about everyone. he's not always super cheerful. but those are the big three that you can see if we're talking about some kind of third republican independent. >> we're waiting to see who that person s very, very interesting. all right. in the meantime though, libertarian candidate former new mexico governor gary johnson hitting trump very hard, calling him basically a racist. does this spell big trouble for trum snp. >> it's a good question. we're seeing a lot of energy on the libertarian movement this weekend. during the nominating convention. and, look, there are a lot of people who don't like trump in the gop right now. i mean, a lot of people do. it's easy to see this cycle a candidate could draw support away from trump and even the democrats. >> speaking of democrats, bernie sanders says i may be open to being vice president. could that really be a winning ticket or perhaps hillary's worst nightmare? >> i think that the idea is that for sanders, he could bring his support to the clinton ticket and bring the enthusiasm. it is tempting for clinton. the thing is though, not a name that the clinton team has bandied about as of possible

running mate. you've seen other progressives on that list but not bernie sanders. >> yeah, but will they really butt heads if that was the ticket that we would see. it will be interesting to see how that would play out. all right. daniel, as always, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> veterans issues taking center stage on this memorial day. when donald trump addressed thous abdz of bikers at the annual rolling thunder rally in washington. and while hillary clinton is battling bernie sanders for the california primary, she'll be marching in her local memorial day parade and adopted hometown in new york. tracie potts has more on all of this from washington. good morning, tracie. good morning, bernie sanld serz going to be back in california today while donald trump takes the day off after spending already part of his weekend with veterans. >> reporter: politics focusing on veterans this memorial day.

donald trump promises they'll get better treatment than immigrants. >> thousands of people are dying waiting in line to see a doctor. that is not going to happen anymore. >> reporter: the clinton march in the hometown parade, on defense about her e-mail and urging bernie sanders to read the writing on theall. >> reporter: but sanders is fighting for california's primary one week from toechlt he is standing with form r. farmworkers. >> conditions exist today for our farmworkers, the people who feed us that should not exist and have got to change. >> reporter: and trump for backing out of a possible debate. trump's campaign trail says they'll wait until clinton or sanders wins. >> when there's a democratic nominee, mr. trump will debate whoever emerges from the system. >> reporter: he could face more competition this fall, libertarians voted gary johnson and conservatives are promising an impressive independent with a

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delays on your way out of vacation or delays on the way back as you're trying to reacclimate to the weekly grind. lines are starting to stack up here. there are a lot of agents on duty, six of them doing the check in, 12 separate screening lines are open. and this line while long is only about 7 1/2 minutes long. so good news here in orlando. but around the country yesterday, people started to make their way back home for the work week, there were trouble spots, peak hours in boston and atlanta and chicago. lines of over an hour. here at peak times, lines stretch up to 50 minutes long. so still we have to advice people to get here two hours early. but at the moment, two hours early you're going to fly through security and have 90 minutes to kill inside of an airport. a different kind of problem. there is the result of a combination of factors, record numbers of travelers and also cutbacks from the tsa, some changes though, some rescheduling, part timers made to full time, new workers added. so far, so good.

but it is only 7:00 a.m., chris, back you to. >> let's talk about what happened at jfk. there was a computer outage and massive delays yesterday afternoon. what do we know about what might have happened there? >> you have other things to overcome from security. there is the rental car counter and check n that's what happened at jfk. a verizon router was down and the airlines were unable to process customers as they arrived at the counter. they couldn't get tickets on time. that line was two or three hours at moments. so on top of security, maybe go hours after all is not enough. get to the airport. leave immediately if you're watching. i don't want to overstate it. you can have trouble. there is weather. there is computer glitches, there is human error. do your best to get there early. it will be a very busy day, particularly places like this, orlando. 100,000 passengers today already. >> some of the agents hand

writing the tickets with pencil. not a good day yesterday there. tony, thank you for that. let's go to politics now where a new presidential candidate may be ready to toss his or her hat into the ring. republicans looking for that last minute alternative to donald trump and then we have this tweet from one of the leaders of the never trump movement, bill kristol, an independent candidate, an impressive one is imminent. trump firing back on twitter last night saying republicans need to stay united and can't allow light weights to set up a spoiler candidate. trump has no public events today. he spent yesterday honoring veterans in a parade. hillary clinton was in a parade in her hometown. and bernie sanders is in california. he continues to hold events. tonight he'll be in oakland. we have a reporter in washington tracking the trump campaign. let's start with what got him to twitter last night which is this

promise of potentially another candidate. what do we know about that? >> you know, not much about that. what we can say is this never trump movement, that fell apart, is quietly working behind the scenes to try to find at least i'm told, a serious candidate to be able to run. there's been some frustration that in the words of one source telling me the media has decided that there will not be an independent candidate. but from the spokesman point of view, they could put up a fight for donald trump. that's an impossible task at this point. but you're seeing people like bill kristol. he's been a leader of the never trump movement. people who believe that donald trump is not the right candidate for the republican party. what you're seeing from folks with the party is they're starting to coalesce around trump. he is the presumptive nominee. there are questions about what cryptic candidate may be. when we may hear more about him or her or somebody coming up to

challenge trump. it fields like mitt romney's name comes up because of the fact he was so early on coming out strongly against trump. remember that big speech he gave? it was three months ago, chris, talking about how donald trump should not be the candidate for the republican party number comment obviously from romney's camp. they batted down some speculation a couple weeks ago that he may be considering some kind of and dependent or third party bid. but all of this goes to show that in some corners in, some conservative circles there is still deep resistance to trump as the gop capped date. trump taking notice because of his trip last night. he and the campaign feel they have the support of the grassroots. they're moving forward and working on fund-raising and logistics and staffing. i can tell you this morning he shifted his attention to something else, tweeting several times about the border wall. that is his topic for this morning. >> he's not happy about the judge and trump university and questions being raised about whether or not his campaign is big enough. we have much more to talk about

throughout the day with you. thank you so much, hally jackson live in washington for us. let me bring in our panel. gentlemen, good morning. happy memorial day. >> dave, what are you hearing about an independent alternative who may get into the race? are there any republican names prominent which is what bill kristol is indicating that you think still might get in here? >> i don't think the kristol group demonstrated the confidence to have that now. i'm in orlando now. they nominated more republicans that will appear on the republican ticket in gary johnson and bill weld. they were ham strung because they had to win over anarchist that's are not part of the republican base. they're going to be having conversations with the sore of people that might want to vote for a nontrump candidate over the next week. >> jonathan, what do you think even is the viability of an outside bid right now? i mean the deadline to get on

the ballot in texas passed. i think the north carolina deadline is imminent. how realistic is this? >> i don't think it's realistic to think a third party or independent candidate can win the presidency through the electoral college. i think if you're bill kristol or looking at this an analytical point of view, i think you would pick off a couple states and deny them enough electoral votes and then throw the election to the house of representatives. for those that don't like the establishment right now, the house of representatives picking a president after people voted would be inept. that is the more realistic option. >> however unrealistic it may be that somebody beside the major parties are going to make a play, you were covering a conve weekend gary johnson.

johnson quick to say how he would handle running against donald trump. i want to play that sound. >> he wants to deport 11 million illegal immigrants taking him on on wanting to build a fence across the border. that's nuts. taking him on when he says that mexicans are murderers and rapists, i mean, it's incendiary. call him out on what is really racist. it's just racist. >> dave, is he going to make any ripples or he could cause problems for either side? >> in polls, there is a large no hillary, no trump vote about 10%, about 15%. and johnson when included in polls, captures most of that. that was actually an argument he made to delegates at this convention saying that we're used to playing in the sand box and getting maybe 1% of the vote. this could be a break out year. the same press conference you played there, he said libertarian party said the coke brothers who were rumored to be interested in knocking down that rumor, they might be more interested now that there is a solid republican ticket and they

have nothing to gain supporting t republican party under donald trump. so there is a chance. he always says there is a chance they get in the debates to have a victory here. even the libertarian party making anyst presidential debates will be the first time any third party has done that since 1992. >> in the meantime, you still have somebody in the race who is making things interesting and that is bernie sanders. donald trump, the guy completely slammed the door on any hope there was for this debate with bernie sanders saying it would be inappropriate to debate the second place finisher. but i've been following bernie sanders. i asked him if he thought there was sftill an opening here. >> who knows, maybe i'll get a call he's ready to debate. i don't know. i think you have a personality in many ways which is not the kind of personality and the kind

of demeanor that we need for a president. >> so jonathan, i don't think we're going to have a debate. i don't think that donald trump ever intended to debate. i don't think that bern yea sanders ever intended to debate. where do you see the democratic party and where do you see bernie sanders, you know, we heard just yesterday from some prominent democrats it's time for him to get out of the race. that's nothing new. where is this going? >> i think it's going to a nominated contest at the convention where hillary clinton wins the nomination, gets most of what she wants in terms of the platform, rules, those things. but there is a real question as to whether bernie sanders will help unify the democratic party and to what degree he'll put his credibility out there. we heard him stipulate conditions in terms of the platform and who is on the committees at the convention and what type of vice president she picks as her running mate. >> and he didn't close the door on that yesterday. i mean, i spoke with him. chuck todd spoke with him.

he didn't say, no, i'm not saying he's on the short list for hillary clinton, but he didn't close the door on it. >> i don't think he's somebody who would close the door on his own personal advancement or political advancement. there is no gain for him in shutting that door. even if he doesn't think it's likely, and i don't think it's likely, there is no reason to preclude that perfect happening. >> jonathan allen, dave ribel, thank you so much. >> take care. >> coming up, outrage growing this morning over that controversial decision to kill a gorilla after a 3-year-old boy went into the enclosure at the cincinnati zoo. up next, we've got dramatic video of the encounter and an update on the little boy's condition. and happening now, explosions and gunfire can be heard in fallujah. forces work to retake a city from isis. coming up, new details on the assault that is underway right now.

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we're back live on this memorial day weekend. happening now, tropical depression bonnie making its way up the east coast causing risky travel conditions and dangerous waters for beach goers this holiday weekend. the storm slammed the carolinas bringing heavy rain and flooding. dangerous floodwaters forced evacuations in texas with six deaths already confirmed due to the severe weather in that state. let's turn to nbc's reporter who is in myrtle beach, south carolina, with the latest on the coastal threat. good morning. >> chris, good morning. it looks like a beautiful beach day right now. but bonnie became a holiday spoiler not because of the intensity of the storm but it just lingered over the area for so long. interstate 95 south of here was shut down because of flooding. there was a backup of 22 miles of cars. can you imagine being stuck in

that much traffic? and along some of the beaches, beach goers were not allowed to go in the water higher than the ankle or knee because of the fear of rip tides and rock water. >> it's a memorial day washout for millions of americans. tropical depression bonnie making its way up the east coast on sunday, hitting the carolinas the hardest. with drenching rains and flooding. a section of interstate 95 south of charleston submerged. authorities finally shut it down after too many drivers tried to go through it. in georgia, floodwaters submerged not only streets but homes. and while there was sun in myrtle beach, fear of rip currents had some vacationers afraid to go in the water. >> i'm very concerned about my kids being out there. i get nervous when they get further than their knees. >> rescuers are still searching for a 21-year-old man who went mising in north carolina late saturday. after swimming in rough water. in texas, it was another round of floosh flooding.

several communities calling mandatory evacuations. >> we knew it was coming. at the same time, i mean, you don't prepare for something like this to pack up your whole house. >> among the deaths in texas, a national guardsman who posted this haunting image on facebook as floodwaters overcame his truck. writing, all i wanted to do was go home. in houston, the river is spilling over the banks. the brazos river is doing the same. more than 2,000 inmates from several prisons moved to higher ground. a astronaut tweeting with the overflow texas rivers looked like from the air. and, chris, you talked about the updated death toll in texas. six people. the rivers, they just can't handle anymore water. it's only been five or six weeks since the historic 500-year floods in houston. so everything there is so swollen. any small amount of rain is going to cause more flooding. in myrtle beach, it looks like a

beautiful day. we know we could have showers here today. there is still a strong concern up and down the coast about the waters and possible rip occurrence. back to you. >> and that fwetweet, so heartbreaking, all i wanted to do was go home. and a 3-year-old boy is now out of the hospital after his terrifying encount we are a 400 pound gorilla at the cincinnati zoo. the whole ordeal caught on camera by horrified on lookers. let's get the latest from cincinnati. blake? good morning to you. there is growing outrage here in cincinnati this mork over what happened here on saturday and now calls for the parents to be charged after thur 3-year-old son somehow managed to get passed a barrier and into the gorilla enclosure, falling into that enclosure and then spending about ten minutes inside with the gorilla. at times the gorilla picking the child up and dragging the child through the mote. zoo officials say they feared

that child's life was in danger and they had no choice but to shoot and kill the gorilla. they didn't use a tranquellizer because it would have taken too long to take effect. the child is doing okay this morning and back home with parents after a brief stint in the hospital. there are growing calls as i mentioned this morning for the parents to face charges for neglect. one witness said the child had been talking about wanting to go into the water before the incident. and somehow managed to get past the barrier when the mother was distracted. there is a petition started with 85,000 signatures wanting the parents to be charged. but so far, police have given no indication that that will happen. the family has not been identified. but they have released a statement saying they are sorry for what happened and do appreciate the difficult decisions they had to make to kill the gore yale, that endangered low land gorilla. back to you. >> thank you so much, blake

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clinton will march in the memorial day parade in their hometown. good morning, kristen. we have a situation where bernie sanld serz making the electability argument, looking at the polls and the hypothetical matchups. but what is interesting is to see where she has spent her last time over the week. nor california than she thought they would a month or two ago. didn't think she'd be spending so much time in california. what is the strategy? what are we seeing and hearing from her between now and june 7th? >> chris, great to see you. you're absolutely right. she has been spending a lot of time in california because the polls there are so close. i think closer than the clinton campaign anticipated. she still leading senator sanders but only by about two points. i anticipate you'll see her campaigning vigorously in california. but she also heading to new jersey on wednesday. that is significant because new

jersey could give her enough delegates to clinch the knoll nation even before all of the votes in california are counted. so that just gives you a perspective of the math that we're looking at. senator sanders acknowledging that california in his words is the big enchilada. he is essentially putting all eggs in that basket, vowing to stay in the state through the primary. vowing to turn out more than 200,000 people before voters go to the polls there. he's actually out spending secretary clinton by 2-1 on the airwaves this weekend. he was there barnstorming throughout the state. secretary clinton was off the trail but her surrogates, chris, were out putting the pressure on senator sanders to get out of the race. senator dianne feinstein essentially saying the race is all but over. i'm not so subtle attempt to urge him to get out. but senator sanders was defiant on "meet the press" saying he's not going anywhere. he's in this race until the very end. interestingly though, chris, he is not ruling out running as

secretary clinton's vp nominee. but he's warned her she should pick a progressive and stressed he's focused on running his own race right now. >> yeah. so interesting. when i talked to a lot of sanders supporters, the one name that keeps coming up is elizabeth warren. they don't think that she'll choose ben r bernie sanders. we shall see. a lot can happen between now and then. thank you, kristen. great to see you. >> great to see you. we're two months away from the start of the democratic national convention where bernie sand serz hoping to swing enough delegates to his side to win the nomination. over the weekend he tried to aid his cause by calling for the removal of two of the top democrats at the convention, both of whom have endorsed hillary clinton. he wrote a letter to the dnc, the sanders campaign signalling out connecticut governor dan maloy and former congressman barney frank, head of the rules committee. i had said, the appointment two of individual so closely

affiliated with secretary clinton's campaign raises concerns that two of the three convention standing committees are being constituted in an overtly partisan way designed to exclude meaningful input from supporters of senator sanders candidacy. they rejected that request. wanlt to bring in a man who knows a few things about how the conventions are run, ed rendel and also dnc chair during the lection of 2000. good to see you, governor. good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> so what do you make of this? you have a democratic party right now, frankly, where you have this split. there is no doubt about it. you talk to the sanders people. they feel the deck has been stacked. you saw bernie sanders coming out in support of the guy who is running against debbie wasserman shultz. where are we right now in the democratic party? is it more divided than the republicans? >> well, i think there is some

procedural bat thalz atles that going to go on. it's nothing new. i was a delegate for ted kennedy in 1980. we argued about the platform. the platform committee reported a platform we didn't like. we had floor fights where the issue was brought to the entire convention. >> and it didn't hurt you? ultimately, did it hurt you? >> no. i think what hurt is senator kennedy didn't do, for example, what hillary clinton did for barack obama in 2008. and i still believe that bernie sanders, when the chips are down, will do everything necessary to elect hillary clinton. he knows that hillary clinton is much more likely to advance the agenda that he's put so much time and put his heart in than donald trump. so i think this is all a little bit of sound and furrey signifying in the long run nothing. governor maloy and congressman frank are co-chairs. they're not the sole chairs.

they're co-chairs. and the sanders people said they had no problem with the co-chair of the committee. and if there is any dispute, kit go to the floor. the delegates can hear it. by the way rs you know i'm an avid hillary clinton sport. i would make an independent judgement on platform or rules and listen to what the sanders campaign put forth on the floor. so i think the process is not stacked. i think it's fair. i think, you know, how about hillary clinton winning the washington primary by six points and because we had a caucus a month and a half earlier. she's getting 28% of the delegates even though six times as many people voted in the primary than in the caucus. >> you know, i do think -- >> is the process stacked against her? >> i think people are learning more about how this process works than they ever knew before. >> and it's awful. >> in part because of what, you know, these conversation that's

have come out with bernie sanders. it was interesting when i talked to him the other day over the weekend in california, he said he is going to send a letter. they're drafting it right now to the super delegates which is a real part of the complaint. let me play for you what he said is message is to them. here it is. >> we have to send them a letter. we're working on it right now which says to them, look, you guys came onboard clinton's campaign bring was even in the race. take a look at reality today. take a look at all of the national polls and state polls. we're doing -- we are doing better against trump than is secretary clinton. give that some thought. and then we're going to also say to the states where we won landslide victories, we're going to say to the super delegates, why don't you vote with the people of your state? and we think adding all that together, we got a shot to get the nomination. >> governor, the question i get the most is what does bernie want? clearly one thing he wants is the whole process to be looked at, not just for this year but down the road.

does the democratic party need to look at the role of super delegates, the number of super delegates and just the whole in, to many people, convoluted way that this plays out? >> well, yeah. there's no question about that. but bear in mind that if we had no super delegates at this convention, hillary clinton would be the nominee. because she going to get by far the majority elected delegates. she's got three million more popular votes than bernie sanders. so bernie sanders is not going to lose because of super delegates, number one. number two, we super delegates have been in politics for a while. that's why we're super delegates. we know no one is running a negative ad against bernie sanders in this entire presidential campaign in his entire career whereas hillary clinton has taken 25 years of incoming fire. once the negative ads start, polls have a tendency to change. i think she'll be a stronger candidate in the fall than

bernie sanders. but listen to senator sanders' argument. does he want the super delegates in washington to support hillary clinton because she won that primary going away even though he won the delegates at the caucuses? same thing happened with nebraska. look, we should get rid of super delegates and get rid of caucuses. we should have primaries. because caucuses are unfair to people who can't spend three or four hours at a caucus. caucuses are unfair to seniors who can't come out at night. caucuses are unfair to shift workers. and caucuses routinely get a fraction of what the people who vote in primaries, what their total s i think we need reform. i think senator sanders and secretary clinton should lead us in that reform. >> ed rendell saying that he agrees with bernie sanders on that, at least. always good to see you, governor. >> for sure. >> thank you so much. >> good day. >> happening now, tropical depression bonnie moving along

the east coast. take a look at that satellite. the forecast is dropping more rain and dangerous surf as it heads north. we'll get the latest a live report. first, take a look at arlington national cemetery on this memorial day. later this morning, president obama will lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier. he'll then deliver remarks to honor members of the u.s. arms services. ? ? no more questions for you! ooph, that milk in your cereal was messing with you, wasn't it? try lactaid, it's real milk, without that annoying lactose. good, right? mmm, yeah. lactaid. the milk that doesn't mess with you.

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storm, tropical depression bonnie. it is meandering very, very slowly at 3 miles per hour. that means it will be a rain mak maker. take a closer look at the track. even though this is a depression, still taking the name bonnie, it will be a remnant low off to sea. that's not until the endst week. look for substantial rain all the way into the mid-atlantic and across the carolinas and the jersey shore. we could see up to three inches accumulating by wednesday. so bonnie is a rain maker. another one we're watching is what is happening in texas. right now we have strong storms. two million people are at risk for severe weather today. last week was an incredibly active week. hopefully this one won't shape up to be that way. we're looking at a lot of rain already rolling through san antonio this morning. looking at the next few days, the rain looks like it will stay more to the west into west texas. this is the area where we saw the immense flooding thursday. north and west of houston. still any rain to this region could cause flooding because we've had just so much of it. it's been such an active spring so far.

so stormy weather for this part of the country into memorial day. the southern central plains. temperatures are not quite as hot for the northeast. beautiful out west. and temperatures there will actually be warming up as we go throughout next couple of days. by tuesday, we've got almost 80 in l.a. and 99 in phoenix. but thn up to 102. so heating up out west an a little stormy to the east. chris? >> bonnie schneider, thank you very much. 38 million people are traveling this memorial day weekend. the latest test for the tsa which has been under massive scrutiny. joining me from washington, d.c. is the managing partner of "airline weekly." seth, good morning. >> what are you hearing? how is travel going today? >> so far, kind of a mixed picture. you know, as we -- i mean it's just getting started. typically you don't have the worst of the lines for another several hours because most people like to get out later if they can. we heard yesterday about lots of

delays in places luke atlanta, boston, chicago. other places where, you know, maybe things weren't as bad as at least the very worst here. when you show up two or three hours before the flight, you had some extra time once you got to the other side of security. >> look tshgsz not like tsa doesn't know they had problems. the administrator recently spoke to nbc about the agency's new command sent cher designed to help combat the long wait times. let me play a little bit of what he had to tell us. >> we -- i set up a national command center focused -- it's a function of our operation center but focused on volume coming to airports. that is given us at built in near real time to see what is happening and to make adjustments on the fly. and we've seen great improvement. we're looking across all of the airports but really focusing on the top tier. >> somebody who flies almost every day, i'll keep my opinions to myself. have you heard any noticeable improvement with this new

command senter er isenter in p? >> some is simple math. more people are traveling an fewer screeners. things are not good because. that even in the research out there, there is more that can be done. and it seems like at least in small ways, many in some places, between what tsa is doing and what the airlines are doing to kind of, you know, in some cases really contribute their own staff to help with the nonscreening functions. you don't need a uniformed screener to bring the bins back to the front of the line. you have airplanes pitching in a little bit. it seems like in some small ways things are getting better. but not where they need to be. chris, the problem is that although, look, hoef the time you don't wait an hour or two to get through a line. when you're telling millions of americans they have to get to the airport that early, i mean, that's just a huge, look, productivity drain for the country. we're waisting a lot of people's times and there there are safety issues associated with the long lines themselves.

on one hand in places where people with choose to drive, look, if you're flying from new york to los angeles, you're going to put up with it. but if you're going from st. louis to kansas to city, houston to dallas, you're going to say i don't need to put up with this. what we're doing is encouraging people it not travel which is basically the safest way to get around, air travel, aento hop in cars which is more dangerous. not to mention, i hate to say it, but what we learned in brussels is huge crowds of people that have not been screened are in and of themselves, you know, some of what a risk. you want to screen people thoroughly but do it as promptbly. get to the other side of security where they're safest. >> i agree, people have a four hour rule. if they can drive there in four hours or less, it's not worth it to fly because of the time you have o get to the airport, park the car, get through screening, whatever. so still some things to work on. goods to hear it's getting better. seth, good to see you, thank you. >> likewise. thank you. >> coming up, former new mexico governor gary johnson now

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>> it's incendiary that 50% of the population of new mexico that he's talking about hispanics and mexicans in this way when the absolute opposite is true. it's just racist. >> but as the libertarian party tries to present itself as a serious alternative to donald trump, this happened. ♪ we're all very grateful that some of c-span's banner covered up part of that strip routine who chose to disrobe in his two minutes. and yes did it all happen live on c-span. on that note, let's bring in the chairman of the libertarian party. it's good to see you this morning. i have to start with the obvious question k. somebody take the libertarian party seriously when something like that happens at your convention? >> mr. weeks decided that he wanted to turn the process into a joke in the race for my office

which i won re-election. you know nshgts old parties, there was a gentleman who got on stage, turned the whole process into a joke and they nominated him. we ejected our guy who turned night a joke from the hall. so i think we're fine. >> let's talk about gary johnson then. he got 1% of the popular vote in 2012. what makes you think he can do better this time around? >> the old parties are busy nominating the most hate ed candidates in modern political history. every single american is looking sear quusly at alternative this is year. and the libertarian party has done the hard work over the last 45 years to make sure we're an option for every single american and will be on the ballot in all 50 states in the district of columbia. >> there are many obvious problems as you know, the most obvious, name recognition and money. what do you do about that? we're talking about a campaign that's going to go a billion, $2 billion. >> money doesn't really control everything in politics.

if you recall, republicans through $166 million into a hole and lit it on fire trying to nominate jeb bush and it didn't work. the truth is libertarian party is becoming more and more popular and so i think that we have an ability to break out this election cycle. i've talked to multiple people at this convention in orlando, florida, this weekend who have super pacs who didn't have a candidate coming into the weekend. i think a lot of them are excited about the johnson-weld ticket this year. >> do you have any commitments? what kind of money do you think you'd have to raise? i think even bernie sanders who has done better than anyone expected, his campaign will tell you it's the money that came in from small donors that allowed him to go up on the air in early states, get his name recognition up and message out. gary johnson doesn't have that now. >> the big donors will come in. there is a better return on

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the iraqi city seized by isis forces nearly 2 1/2 years ago. iraqi troops launched their main assault about eight hours ago backed by the u.s.-led coalition. i want to bring in retired army colonel jack jacobs, an msnbc military analyst. happy memorial day. what do we know about this operation and how it's being carried out. >> they've been planning it a long time. it's just now getting under way. the first is that isis has been there for 2 1/2 years. they've had plenty of time to build up the fences. the second thing is, this is urban warfare. i've been in combat in built-up areas. and it is the most difficult of all of the ways in which you can find. you have to isolate individual blocks. you have to get a lot of forces on the roof and through the front door simultaneously and wa work towards the middle and do this room by room, floor by

floor, block by block. >> was there some kind of opening the iraqi forces saw? why now after 2 1/2 years? >> it's taken them this long to get the forces together. it's not just the iraqi army. a lot of these forces going into fallujah now are shia militias. and they've had to try to coalesce these guys into some kind of coherent force. the planning for this type of exercise is monumental. takes a long, long time. you have to isolate blocks. it's taken a long time to train. it's taken a long time to plan. and trust me, it's going to take a long time to execute, too. >> notice the phraseology which would be official phraseology, backed by the u.s.-led coalition. what are the americans and other forces' role in this? >> providing intelligence. we have intelligence collection capability through intercept, listening to phone conversations and radio transmissions, using satellites for imagery on the ground.

we have infrared and we can tell where people are, and assist them in coordinating their activities, but also assist them in their air planning. that is how they're going to deliver the precision guided munitions on specific targets, and we've got to be absolutely certain these are targets that are enemy targets and that we minimize the civilian casualties and so on. but don't forget this force going into fallujah is a shia force. they're not very much concerned about collateral damage and that's going to be a problem. >> and some groups backed by iran, who is helping out here. >> it's t raised an interesting question about who is helping afterwards. after all this occurs, they sake control. now you have a shia force in control of an area that's largely sunni. it's not for nothing that isis is there. i think you'll see lots and lots of retribution, old score settlements, so on. the aftermath is going to be just as unfortunate and difficult as the fight to take the place in the first place.

>> let me just ask you in our last 30 seconds. 100 americans died there in the fight for fallujah in 2004. how important is this, what's going on now? >> very important. also more than 600 wounded. the families of the people killed and wounded very, very irritated that nothing has been done to retake it, that their people might have died in vain and so on. we forget it takes more sources to hold on than to take it in the first place. our objective was to leave in the end. the families of the fallen are not very happy. they look at this as some sort of vindication, justification for the loss of their loved ones but this battle is just beginning. >> colonel jack jacobs, always good to see you. thank you. happy memorial day. coming up, an update from the national hurricane center on tropical depression bonnie. it continues to dump heavy rain as it heads up the east coast today. that's just ahead on msnbc. we'll continue live after a

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good morning. i'm chris jansing. coming up on 8:00 on the east coast. we're following several developing stories this memorial day. beginning with the 38 million people traveling home from the long holiday weekend. and some of them are facing severe weather that's making a mess of the roads and creating long lines at airports. we've got this story covered from all angles. tony has the latest on memorial day travel. you said it was moving pretty well last hour. how is it looking now? >> good morning. after weeks and weeks of long lines at airports, things were pretty good. this morning at orlando, things are very, very good. the wait time was about 7 1/2 minutes.

it's gone down from there. not only are there six screeners out front but 12 security lanes open and the really big reason it has four legs and a lot of fur on the ground. that's langley, a labrador mix. people sniffed by langley get expedited passage through the security line and at airports nationwide, dogs like that are speeding up security times. they're doing a great job. a very, very good job. very helpful to people overall. the only problem is people like to pet dogs like that and that can slow things down. there will be longer lines undoubtedly across the nation at some of the bigger airports like orlando, atlanta, chicago, boston. it is memorial day. people should keep in mind if they're frustrated or upset, the tsa employs veterans at a tremendous rate. one of the largest groups to employ ex-service members. about 20% are prior military. as we honor our fallen today,

even if the lines get long, many people helping you through put their lives on the line for this country. so back to you. >> i was on a flight this weekend where they moved a bunch of military up to first class which was nice to see them all going up there. have you been talking to folks? what are they telling you about your travel experiences? pretty happy, based on what i'm seeing behind you? >> people are happy. they've had a good weekend at one of the many resorts in orlando. conventions. they've given themselves the recommended two hours. when they get through security so quickly, they find themselves with an extra long time on the other side waiting for their gate. a lot of families moving through. it can be a hassle to deal with small children early in the morning waiting for a flight. but that's better than having to do so in a long, seemingly endless security line. this line is very, very, very fast. none of the terrible social media pictures we saw in the weeks past. and also none of the computer

glitches that have caused problems at other airports. jfk yesterday, a verizon router went down. lines stretched for hours. 1,500 passengers unable to check in even before they got to security. the airlines resorted to writing tickets by hand. none of that today. all so far, so good, chris. >> tony dokoupil, thanks so much. as well as what might happen because of the weather. tropical depression bonnie wreaking havoc along the east coast. let's bring in msnbc meteorologist bonnie schneider who has the latest on the storm's path. >> this storm does not want to seem to leave us. we're looking at a lingering depression. there it is. coastal south carolina. not seeing as much convection as earlier. doesn't mean we'll not see it. even though this storm is just moving slowly to the north, it's still going to stick around and be a rainmaker up and down the east coast. here's the last advisory. 30-mile-per-hour winds. hasn't really strengthened but

moving so slowly that we'll still be talking about tropical depression bonnie all the way to the middle of the week. eventually it will become a remnant low. look at the rain as far south as connecticut into new york. rain coming through coastal areas of the outer banks in north carolina. still heavy rain in the forecast straight through wednesday due to this tropical system. remember we're not even officially in the start of hurricane season yet. that begins june 1st. we're ahead of the curve right now. i want to take your attention to texas. austin getting rain. san antonio hammered with strong thunderstorms. gusts as high as 35 miles an hour. if you are traveling, wait until these storms pass because they are dangerous. in fact, that threat for texas will persist throughout the day today. we can look at a lot of hail coming through and damaging wind. 2 million people at risk for severe storms. in tex aa really rough spring so far. heavier rain expected into oklahoma as we go through the next few days. at least it's not in east texas

where we've seen that torrential flooding we saw on thursday. keep in mind still plenty of people deal with that flooding. your holiday forecast for today looks good except stormy in the central plains and due to bonnie on the eastern coast. let's turn to presidential politics now. the so-called never trump movement within the republican party is not going away. one of the men behind that effort, bill crystal, now saying a third party candidate is coming. he promises it's someone impressive with a, quote, real chance at winning in the fall. donald trump quickly taking to wait toer er twitter saying it would spoil the race for the republicans. trump was in washington sunday at a biker's rally. hallie jackson covering the trump campaign. so third party independent effort. what do we know? >> feels like a little deja vu. a couple of months ago talking

about a possible third party effort. a couple of weeks ago, talking about it again. and here we go. in some conservative circles, there's such a deep concern about donald trump as republican nominee. so you're seeing what's left of this never trump movement scrambling, looking for what i'm told is a quote/unquote serious candidate. sources within that movement saying a candidate could be presented some time soon, although not giving much guidance as to who it could be or when we might see something. there's a couple of names that always come up when you talk about someone that could run as an independent or third party candidate. one of those names, mitt romney. he came out very strongly a few months ago speaking out against donald trump. his folks have stayed mum at least over the weekend, although previously batted down speculation romney is looking into this. he made phone calls to people like john kasich, people in the republican party to see if they would be interested in mounting a third party bid.

another name that comes up is ben sass. a big never trump guy. his folks are telling us nothing has changed when it comes to senator sass as far as him being uninterested in going after an independent run. a lot of talk about this. bill crystal is one of the leaders of the never trump movement along with erick erickson and so you're seeing people concerned about a trump candidacy but at the same time in the broader republican party, there is a sense that people are coming together around donald trump. big money donors. top dollar fund-raisers. people in the establishment now throwing their weight behind trump. it leaves a question mark as to how viable an independent candidate could be. and the concern if there is a conservative independent candidate -- if, and that's a big if -- then it would only draw support away from donald trump and make it easier for the democrat to take the white house. >> hallie jackson, always good to see you. thank you. on the democratic side, the focus remains on california. polls showing a tight race ahead

of the june 7th primary. hillary clinton dropping six figures on tv ads across the state desperately wanting a win there to close out the primary process. but bernie sanders is promising to go until the very end. now one of his senate colleagues, a powerful democrat saying the vermont senator should throw in the towel. >> senator sanders has the right to run, no question. he ought to be able to read the sign posts as well as anybody else. and if he did that, he would know that it's all but over. >> nbc's kristen welker is in chappaqua, new york, with hillary clinton. so let's talk about what they see in california right now. obviously, and we talked about this in the last hour, they think they may be able to close out this nominating process in new jersey, even before the polls close in california. nevertheless, she doesn't want to lose the biggest state, a state she won in 2008. how are they feeling about it? what's the strategy between now

n voting day? >> they feel like it is going to be close in california. there's no doubt about that. polls show secretary clinton has a small lead there, about two points. but this is a state where independents can vote, and typically those types of states do favor senator sanders. he's outspending her in television ads 2 to 1 vowing to bring out more than 200,000 people before primary day, vowing to stay in the state through the primary. secretary clinton has made an aggressive push for this state as well. i spent the better part of last week there with her aggressively campaigning. she has nine offices opened up. that's more than senator sanders has. she's very serious about trying to win. she doesn't want to lose the state. she doesn't want to limp into the convention. but new jersey, as you rightfully point out, could be key to that strategy as well. and guess where she's going to be on wednesday? new jersey. she'll spend a lot of time there this week. polls show she has a pretty strong lead but she's not taking the state for granted.

on june 7th, if she does win new jersey by a pretty significant margin, she could effectively clinch the nomination before all the votes in california are counted. that's the strategy over the coming days. i wouldn't be surprised if we saw her make a return trip to california. but again, chris, the broader point he she wants to pivot to the general election. we've seen this on the campaign trail, ramping up her attacks against donald trump, as her top surrogates, as you say, surrogates like senator dianne feinstein turning up the heat to bernie sanders to get out of the race. he is definant. he's not going anywhere. talking to chuck todd over the weekend, he didn't rule out running as secretary clinton's vp but he's squarely focused on trying to win the nomination for himself. >> kristen welker, thank you. let's bring in ameesh and senior politics editor for the daily beast, jackie kucinich.

let me play a little of what bernie sanders told me. if you don't win california, will you drop out? >> let's not get into speculation. i think we are going to win california, and i think we'll do very well in the remaining states. i don't like to speculate in the future. our job is to win the nomination. you've been on the campaign trail with bernie sanders. you and i have ridden the bus it. does he sound like a candidate who seems something unforeseen will happen or someone who knows the end is coming? >> i think he sounds like someone who really, really still wants to be president and try to win this nomination but knows the numbers are the numbers n his time is likely coming to an end in terms of running this campaign. the fact he's even engaging people like chuck todd talking about vice presidential picks and who hillary clinton should look to to try to get his supporters, that signals he knows that his supporters are going to have to turn somewhere else and that the democratic party is going to need his supporters. >> and the question becomes, jackie, as you well know, what

role does he play? how does he play it in terms of turning those supporters? i've seen tremendous amount of time over the last month talking to the bernie or bust folks who say they wouldn't vote for hillary clinton if she was the last person on earth. then a lot of people on the fence who he presumably could impact. where do you see this going? >> it all lies with bernie sanders. i spent the last couple of days talking to veterans of the puma movement who were hillary clinton's most loyal supporters. and one of the things they kept saying that it really does depend on how bernie sanders communicates to his supporters about supporting secretary clinton at the end of the day. he asked them if he makes it very clear that that's where his loyalty is lying at this point. then they might go along with him. and a lot ended up voting for president obama at the end of the day after headquarter dropped out out in 2008. it does lie with senator sanders

at the end of the day. >> there's these two tracks, one is to fight bernie sanders, the other donald trump. i'm sure her campaign was not thrilled with the headline, hillary clinton struggles to find footing in unusual race. so do you think we'll see something different from her? she really is running a very conventional campaign in a very unconventional year. >> i think that we're going to see her having to kind of pivot and having to kind gf into -- trying to figure out how she's going to go after trump. she's in this two-front war that she's trying to be nice to bernie sanders. there's a story out that was talking about the fact bernie sanders, while talking about hillary clinton, he's not really bashing her anymore. i think both of them are starting to realize at the end of the day, they need to somehow coalesce and get rid of donald trump. what we're going to start seeing is her idea of what -- how she's going to handle donald trump's some way being a street fighter why she's poised and have her gloves on. we'll have to see hillary

clinton do some interesting things. she's going to have to find her footing in that story you mentioned in "the new york times." we talk about the fact she's trying to figure out, do i go after him on policy? do i go after him and do an elizabeth warren. elizabeth warren is obviously trolling him on twitter, going after him head-on. really being very personal in her attacks. in some ways ridiculing him. but hillary clinton, of course, she was secretary of state. she was a senator. she wants to talk about policy differences. she wants to talk about how her vision for america is different than donald trump's. that may not be the way to defeat trump. it will be interesting to see what she ends up using to take down donald trump and if she can do that. a lot of his supporters, they're not really worried about whether or not donald trump is switching his issues or whether or not he's saying one thing one day and saying something the next day. they really feel like he's talking to real people. and in some ways, hillary clinton's biggest issue is whether people feel they really understand her, and do they feel

like she's talking to them? that's going to be a hard thing for her to do. >> you have this lingering threat, if you want to call it that, of bill crystal saying, that they were going to announce someone substantial who was going to mount a third party bid. is it a real threat? >> i feel like all that's left is the crying with that movement. it really does seem like -- we've heard this over and over again. someone is going to emerge. it's just becoming less and less something based in reality. we've already had some dates passed where these candidates wouldn't even be able to get on the ballot, let aalone, and the republican party at large is not really calling for a third party candidate. it's a lot of people in washington. it's more the establishment class. so while there is some disappointment, perhaps, in various states around the country that donald trump will be the nominee, there isn't the widespread call that you hear, you know, more around the

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cincinnati officials are defending their decision to shoot and kill a 400-pound gorilla after a 3-year-old boy fell into the animal's exhibit over the weekend. let's get the latest from the cincinnati zoo and nbc's blake mccoy. we want to hear about what happened. 50 first, what do we know about

the little boy's condition? >> the little boy was injured and taken to the hospital but he's okay. he's back home with family this morning. there are growing calls for the parents to face neglect charges after what happened here this weekend. we want to warn our viewers some of this video may be hard to watch. cell phone video capturing the horrifying moment a 3-year-old boy coming face to face with a 400-pound gorilla after falling into the enclosure at the zoo. you hear his mother's desperate calls. >> mommy loves you. i'm right here. >> reporter: visitors watched the gorilla pick the boy up and drag him through the water. >> you heard a splash. and people were yelling. you know, there's a boy in the water. there's a boy in the water. >> reporter: witness kim o'connor said the boy had been talking about wanting to go in the water. his mother was watching several other children when the boy slipped through the railing and passed wires to enter the

enclosure. ten agonizing minutes go by before zookeepers make the difficult decision to shoot the endangered western lowland gorilla with a long rifle. >> a great big animal. it seemed very much by our dangerous animal response team to be a life-threatening situation. so the choice was made to put down or shoot harambe, so he's gone. >> reporter: they say a tranquilizer would have taken too long. people blame the child's mother. one writing while i'm very sorry a child was hurt, i'm angry the parental negligence caused the death of this magnificent animal. on sunday, protesters calling for justice. >> he don't have a voice anymore. we have to be his voice. >> i feel like they did this animal wrong. and i feel like the mother should be held accountable. >> reporter: the family issued a statement saying we're so thankful to the lord that our child is safe. he's home and doing just fine. we extend our heartfelt thanks for the quick action by cincinnati zoo staff. we know this was a very

difficult decision for them, and that they are grieving the loss of their gorilla. it comes just one week after zookeepers in santiago, chile shot and killed two lions after they mauled a man who jumped into their den, took off his clothes and began taunting the animal. in cincinnati, the gorilla exhibit is temporarily closed while a memorial grows for the gorilla named harambe who had just celebrated his 17th birthday. gorillas like this can live to be 50 years old in the wild and in captivity. a chaunge.org position has been startod the internet called justice for harambe. so far 85,000 signatures. that petition is calling for the parents to face neglect charges. so far police have not indicated any plans to press those charges. >> i'm trying to figure out what it looks like. how did that kid get through? how does a 3-year-old kid, and we presume it didn't take a long period of time for him to

actually get through and be able to get into that enclosure. >> right. the way authorities describe it is there's a railing right next to the sidewalk where people are looking at the exhibit. and then passed that, after a buffer zone, there's then some wiring and the child was able to get through that and fall into the enclosure. we have not been allowed to have our cameras look at it today. we'll keep trying for that, chris. >> blackhake mccoy in cincinnat thank you. i want to bring in zoologist jerod miller. so i'm sure you've seen these pictures. one witness says it looked like the gorilla was actually trying to protect the boy. what do you see when you look at this video? >> well, chris, first off, you're right. gorillas by nature, obviously, they aren't a carnivorous animal and they are a primate, just like us. he was reacting in a typical gorilla manner. he has offoffspring of his own.

when he sees this gorilla-like human child in his territory, he's going to be a little bewildered, but he will react to him in a similar way, very curious as he would one of his offspring. >> it is scary when you see him dragging the child through the water. the child does not seem, at least from the little bit of the cell phone video i've seen, to be terrified or screaming or anything like that. do you think that there was another alternative? in that ten-minute period of time, what do you imagine that conversation was like among zoo officials who had to make this terrible decision? >> you said it right there because it was such a short -- i mean ten-minute time frame, that says it right there. within ten minutes, that's amount of time isn't even enough for the mobilization to take into effect. keep in mind that zoological staff and parks throughout the country and throughout the world

train for this on a weekly and daily basis. first off, zoos, when it comes to recreational areas, zoos can be considered one of the safest places you can go because there is so much attention and rigorous demand for keeping the public safe and keeping the animals safe at the same time. so that ten minutes, what was going through the staff's head was just that. they were trained. they were prepared. and this was the perfect storm. the worst case scenario that they were all prepared for. unfortunately, they had to make that unfornat decision, which ultimately did potntially, in fact, save the young boy's life. >> we shouldn't lose track of that. i am just curious. how long would it take a tranquilizer to take effect on a 400-pound gorilla? >> the way it works, you said it's a 400-pound animal. there was a lot of commotion.

you don't know how much adrenaline could have been coursing through the animal's body. that does affect the process. 10 to 15 minutes for an animal of that size. >> well, zoologist jerod mill ei'm sure there's going to be a lot more discussions going forward. we're all glad that the boy is safe in any case. thanks for talking with us. >> thank you, chris. let's look at the live pictures from arlington national cemetery. president obama will participate in a full honor wreath laying ceremony at the tomb of the unknowns at 1 1:00 before he delivers remarks to honor members of the armed services. we'll have those events live for you when they happen. stay with us. it's more than a network and the cloud.

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myrtle beach, south carolina, for us. and doesn't look like a terrible day there. take us through the conditions where you are, janet. >> reporter: hey, chris. good morning. i want to take off the jacket and join the beachgoers. take a look down the beach. it looks beautiful right now. a lot of these people traveled here for this weekend especially. checked into hotels, spending money. saturday and sunday turned out to be something of a spoiler with bonnie. really not the intensity. she was more of a rainmaker. and talk about heavy rain. just south of here along interstate 95, they got slammed. they closed a portion of that interstate. imagine doing that on a holiday weekend. 22-mile backup of vehicles. imagine being stuck in that kind of traffic. look at it this morning. it is glorious. and people here are hoping to salvage at least a little part of their weekend. i want to mention texas as well because they had devastating flooding there. and they've been having it for

weeks on end. the brazos river, the san jacinto are so full, they can't handle it anymore. any more rain is going to push that over its banks. the death toll in texas is now up to six people in the rosenberg area. they evacuated a couple of prisons. 2,600 prisoners had to be moved to different facilities. it's been a bad weather weekend in some parts of the country. at least in this area, it looks like they'll pull it out for monday. but there's still the concern of rough seas and rip currents here. yesterday they only let people into the water to their knees but it looks better today. hopefully they can salvage something of their weekend. >> when you showed that shot down the beach, there are two little boys that look like they're having already the time of their life at only 8:30 in the morning. good for them. janet shamlian in myrtle beach, where some people will be able to salvage a little bit of their weekend. thank you. also a couple of frightening

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bob dole, says it's time for trump to mend fences. >> i'm going to try to get trump to issue an apology. i mean, john mccain suffered to torture, broken arm. what do you expect? >> i want to bring in katrina pierson. happy memorial day. >> hi, chris. great to be here. happy memorial day. >> has there been a conversation between bob dole and donald trump, and will donald trump apologize to john mccain? >> no, not to my knowledge, chris. most veterans understand this was a very targeted statement specifically to mccain who had been very critical of mr. trump, as well as other conservatives for the last couple of presidential cycles. and mr. trump is a counterpuncher. this is the exact same thing. >> but to take on someone who is acknowledged even by his

fiercest critics as a war hero? >> well, there is no exception to the rule. if you attack mr. trump, he will respond in kind. he is a counterpuncher. this was in the midst of the republican presidential primary where he took on 16 other candidates and won. he is going to fight back, and i understand a lot in the media and political pundits in d.c. don't what defense is. and mr. trump will defend himself. >> "the washington post" took that on with this article titled "even in victory, donald trump can't stop airing his grievances." they talk about the fact that long after these sort of, you know, back and forths happened, he still openly is criticizing two female republican governors. he's gone after jeb bush, mitt romney, a former employee, the california district judge linked to the trump university case. is this presidential? is this productive to keep attacking people, including a lot of republicans at a time when he says he wants to bring

the republican party together? >> look, these aren't attacks, chris. these are responses. every one you've mentioned has said something or done something against mr. trump. so, yes, this is one of the things that have drawn so many people to mr. trump's side is simply because he doesn't allow people to go out there and to trash him and completely destroy him in the media, misrepresent what he says, what he thinks and feels his vision for america. he fights back. that's something we haven't seen on the republican side in a long time. >> let's talk about the 15-state strategy. he says the states include some pretty blue states like new york, california. at the same time that -- and some of your folks have had to answer questions about whether or not you are up to speed, if you have enough employees. how are you going to mount this strategy? what's the plan in terms of numbers of people, amount of money that you think you'll have to spend? how are you looking at this campaign going forward? >> well, i think it's fair to say at this point, considering

how mr. trump has clinched the nomination prior to the nomination by achieving 1,237, and, look, we have been underestimated from the very beginning. we were told early on we didn't have a ground game. the trump campaign is in turm owl. we're still hearing that today. we were told other candidates had a superior ground game. yet mr. trump has broken the record in gop primary turnout with five states left to go. i think we know what we're doing. we're running a lean machine. the hiring process is taking place right now. we'll have an effective strategy on the ground as well as in the air. >> i just want to make sure what you're saying. you say you are hiring. you are expanding your campaign. >> absolutely. >> will you be on par with the democrats? will you spend the kind of money, have the kind of staff or you saline, mean campaign, are we looking at something significantly smaller than we've seen? >> we'll have to look at where our needs are and hire

accordingly. this will not be run like hillary clinton's campaign, which is like a bureaucracy. he wants to run the campaign like he would the government. hiring competent people to do the job that needs to be done. he's done very well so far. hillary clinton has 800 people on her staff. and she still is campaigning against one person whereas mr. trump has had less than 100 people and have cleared out 16 candidates, secured the nomination and now moving forward to the jgeneral. that's the thought process we need in a commander in chief and someone to oversee the united states economy. >> what's going on with the convention planning? we know what has been said by donald trump about how he wants it to be sort of more entertaining and he's looking maybe at a bigger venue and all those kinds of things. how is that going? give us a little foreshadowing of what we'll see that's different than what's been seen before. >> well, i think this convention is going to be unconventional, just as the trump candidacy has

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campaign. >> if you don't win california, will you drop out? >> well, we're not -- let's not even get into speculation. i think we are going to win california and do very well in the remaining states. right now our job is to win the nomination. >> so if you take the five most recent polls in california they show clinton in the lead with an average of those polls having her up eight points. does sanders have a shot in golden state? she's a professor at the paul price school of business. >> i miss you. >> i miss you, too. i was just in california with bernie sanders. it's been interesting to talk to people there. this state, obviously, very politically engaged. internally, the clinton campaign seems to think they're still up. you had this recent poll that showed it a statistical dead heat. what's your sense? you've been in california politics for a long time. how close is it there? >> this election like every

other election is going to come down to turnout. who gets their voters out. how big the turnout is, what it looks like. and i am seeing -- it's very interesting. i'm seeing large, large crowds for bernie sanders. but i don't see any energy, any lightning, any real enthusiasm for secretary clinton and, quite frankly, once the crowds just disappear, i don't see it there for bernie either. it's bizarre. >> we saw this in new york. a lot of big crowds but then, obviously, you know how that state turned out. >> exactly. >> how is the early voting going? that's very big in this state. i think 60% vote early? >> it could be as much as 50% at least. it's going. it's about -- the last time i looked it was about 30%. so it's not exploding in this

state at all. i think we're going to find a lot of -- maybe not a lot, but many no-party preference voters. that's independent voters out here who show up at the polling booth and say, here, give me a democratic ballot. and they will vote in the democratic primary. this is an election that's unlike any other election i have seen out here for a very long time. >> and to that point -- >> it's as whack noodle as this election is. >> donald trump thinks he can win california in the general election. let me play that for you. >> big play for california. should i? i am going to make a heavy, heavy, heavy play because i honestly think we're getting these massive crowds all over the place. i actually think we're going to win california. >> as unconventional a year as this has been, could donald trump make a serious play there? >> the arithmetic tells me not

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it's called hops for heros. several microbreweries around the country releasing home front ipa this weekend. they're going to donate 100% of the profits to benefit soldiers angels. more than $750,000 has been raised by hops for heroes since

it started five years ago. joining us to talk about it, former baltimore orioles pitcher chris ray, founder of hops for heroes. tell us about why you started hops for heroes. >> thanks for having me on. back in 2011, i was playing out in seattle. playing baseball. and came up with the idea to brew a beer for our troops. teamed up with free mont brewing company out there and created home front ipa. brewed it with maple bats from louisville slugger and donated it all to charity. >> how does that money translate into helping veterans? how does this benefit the folks who we're honoring this weekend? >> so this year's charity is soldier's angels. an organization that provides care packages to our men n women overseas, as well as helps out with any kind of family emergency here stateside. all the funds are donated by the

breweries to soldiers angels, and they disperse it to the men and women of our military. >> let's talk about the brew, home front ipa. where can people get it, and tell us about the beer. >> so the beer is brewed all across the country. you'll need to find it at your local brewery that's producing it. you can find that list on hops for heroes.com. the beer itself is an ipa. it's brewed with fresh orange zefts. and we do age it on the maple bats. some can pick up a flavor for it. it's a nice light ipa full of citrus which is great for the warm weather that's upon us now. >> any projected target? how much are you hoping to raise from this latest round? >> this year we're hoping to get to $150,000. every year we add a few more breweries and partners and keep trying to grow organically. >> chris ray, great of you to come on. great charity. good luck today. >> thank you. that's going to wrap up this

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>> reporter: it's a memorial day washout for millions of americans. tropical depression bonnie making its way up the east coast on sunday, hitting the carolinas the hardest with drenching rains and flooding. a section of interstate 95 south of charleston submerged. authorities finally shut it down after too many drivers tried to go through it. in georgia, floodwaters submerge not only streets but homes. and while there was sun in myrtle beach, fear of rip currents had some vacationers afraid to go in the water. >> i'm very concerned about my kids being out there. i get service when they get further than their knees. >> reporter: rescuers are still searching for a 21-year-old man who went missing in north carolina late saturday after swimming in rough water. in tex tarks was another round of flash flooding. several communities calling mandatory evacuations. >> we knew it was coming but at the same time, you don't prepare for something like this to pack uppiorle