it's tuesday, april 19th. coming up, primary day in new york. the donald and hillary clinton are looking for slam dunks in their home state but it's what in our new nbc news polls that may shock you. a flood for the ages brings the fourth largest city to a standstill. five deaths reported and is relief in sight? >> ash carter reveals hundreds of more americans will be deployed to iraq in the war against isis. plus, a battle at the supreme court over president obama's immigration policy. new details surrounding ecuad ecuador's massive earthquake. and the passing of one of tv's favorite moms. "early today" starts right now. good morning. i'm betty ng

a suicide car bombing in the afghan capital. afghan officials say the explosion happened close to the afghan defense ministry in kabul. it was followed by gunfire still ongoing. the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack on twitter. back here at home. at least five deaths are blamed on what is being called unprecedented rainfall in the houston area. the governor of texas has declared a state of emergency in nine counties. three to four inches of rain fell for an hour for some places inundating waterways and residents trapped in homes and vehicles. hundreds of flights were cancelled. we have more on what residents are facing. >> reporter: a flood for the ages. the nation's fourth largest city at a standstill, submerged by as many as 16 inches of

highways under water and public transit shut down and schools closed for a million students. >> i'm a little bit nervous. >> reporter: on tax day, people urged not to make a run for the post office. >> please stay at home. stay off the streets. >> reporter: a big rig driver nearly swept away. he disappears under water before being pulled to safety. >> leave the car. swim. >> reporter: a reporter for a tv station rescues another trapped driver. it's all captured live. already, more than 1,200 high-water rescues as authorities struggle to keep up. >> i was just scared. what if you fall? >> reporter: this couple walked to safety through high water with their newborn daughter. tommy woodward borrowed a phone to save his elderly parents. a boat load of family packed in this boat and more moved to higher ground. more than a

flooded. leaving nowhere for all of that water to go. to the race for the white house. cracks are continuing to show inside the trump campaign. his national field director has resigned. jolly is close friends with trump's campaign manager corey lewandowski. paul manafort he wants him to take on a larger role. in buffalo, trump was introduced by buffalo bills head coach rex ryan. >> one thing i really admired about mr. trump, he'll say what's on his mind. >> trump went on to promote his new york values but got tongue-tied when with talking about the terrorist attacks. >> i was down there and i watched our police and our firemen down at 7-eleven at the world trade center after it came down. i saw the greatest

i saw the bravest people i've ever seen. >> six protesters were arrested while 21 others were ejected from the venue. earlier, trump took a swipe at ted cruz sweeting that cruz hates new york. for his part, cruz is looking past new york, campaigning in maryland on monday. >> now maryland votes just over a week from now. maryland is a battleground. maryland is going to have an outsized voice. >> john kasich took time out from eating at new york city's delis in state new york. told the crowd he is still in the race and he would not leave his family for this long if he did not feel it was worth it. senate majority leader seemed to take a swipe at trump while speaking about a possible contested convention. >> it is important for everybody to understand that the convention rules will require you to get

until one gets to 1,2378 237 they will not be the nominee. the about 60% of the delegates bound on the first ballot will do a second battle. i think there will be a second battle. >> bernie sanders held a big rally in queens with a the manhattan sky line as the backdrop. sanders expects to win tomorrow if there is is a large turnout. after hitting on hillary clinton wall street speeches he released the transcripts of his own speeches. >> i am prepared tonight to announce i will release all of the transcripts of all the speeches that i have given behind closed doors to wall street. are you ready? here they are! none. >> none, h

meanwhile, clinton was introduced at a campaign stop by former representative gabby giffords and kristen jigillibra and others. >> later, she appeared on "the late show with stephen colbert." >> the republicans are waiting down there with a meat slicer. if you win, like the deli that sliced this meat, they are ready to run you through that. why are you ready he to go through that? >> when i have a job and supposed to run for a job i actually get things done with the republicans. i did as first lady, senator, secretary of state. >> all of this comes as the latest nbc news/"wall street journal" shows the candidates not bearing well in a national race. nearly 7 in 10 voters cannot see themselves supporting trump and 6 in 10 for clinton and similar numbers for cruz and sander and

kasich fare a bit better. 56% have an unfavorable view of clinton. defense secretary ash carter announced the u.s. is sending over 200 more americans to iraq as part of a growing train and advise effort to help in the fight to destroy isis. lefter holt accompanied carter to his visit to baghdad. >> defense secretary ash carter says the u.s. is increasing its role in the fight against isis in iraq. [ inaudible ] once on the ground, met with iraqi prime minister formalizing a new plan that will bring in 200 additional u.s. troops as advisers and offers advanced rocket launchers and

gunships to help iraq to retake the city of mosul from isis. >> these are capabilities that will continue the process to defeat isil. >> reporter: what do you think when people say this incremental approach doesn't get the job done. >> we will do this stellar campaign every time we have an opportunity to do so. i'm very comfortable that our operational approach is the right one. >> in other news. michigan governor rick snyder is putting his water where his mouth is. snyder says he will drink water from the city of flint for a month. he wants to demonstrate to residents the effectiveness of a new tap filter. snyder says he will use the water to drink and cook with, both at home and at work. he plans to reply with city water regularly. the u.s. supreme court has taken up

one that has been hotly contested in the presidential campaign. it is the battle of president obama's action on immigration and shield people from deportation. 20 states sued to block the plan in the lower court. yesterday, the justices appeared evenly divided on the issue. outside the court, hundreds of people rallied in sport of the president's policy. a tie would leave a lower court order in place. that's blocked the president from enforcing this plan. this morning, the death toll from saturday's devastating earthquake in northern united kingdom was door has risen to 414. rescue teams are searching through rubble from the powerful 7.8 magnitude quake in the hope of finding survivors. government official expect the toll to rise further in the coming days. we are learning an american was among the dead. after shocks continue to rattle the region. more than 94,000 people remain in shelters. we do have sad news to tell you about this morn

tv history has passed away. >> just want to smack you! >> i'm sorry! >> you smacked me! >> i know i did. i'm sorry. >> why did you do that for. >> it's just it's sounding like you're becoming just like your farmer. >> doris roberts of "everybody loves raymond" fame passed away. she won five emmy over the course of her long career in tv and movies and four of them the hugely successful "raymond" sitcom. doris roberts is dead at the age of 90. shift gears now to look at the weather outside. more than what 1 in 500 years? >> you hear a 100-year flood and this

flood. 0.2% of that flooding occurring going into the year. the odds you usually don't get a flood like that but what they saw. houston area. foot of rain in this color here. just north of i-10. where the horrible flooding was. thankfully that exact location is dry this morning and a chance for storms throughout the day. a wider spin near the four corners region and another disturbance rotating through. as of now the area is rain-free. here is the forecast over the next 48 hours. unfortunately, the bull's-eye for heavy rain is southeast portions of texas once again but it's not 7 to 8 inches that we were forecasting a couple of days ago which turned into 16 in some case. we are expecting about 1 to 3 inches here in this general vicinity corpus christi to shreveport and houston area. this isn't going to cause any horrific flooding than we have already seen but we could see additional flooding and the water levels have gone down could come up back up again so a flash flood wator

up isolated up to 4 inches. that is a look at your weather today and here is a look at the national storms. a chance of storms in oklahoma and texas and louisiana but not all that great. not everyone will see those storms today. even up as far south as southern missouri, could get a straight shower. i'd say probably 95% to 99% of the damage is already done. >> let's move past that. it's very bad, the flooding down there in texas. thank you. coming up, a terrible, awful, wickedly extensive wedding date debacle. major move in nfl concussions. concussions. but entresto is a medicine that helps make more tomorrows possible. tomorrow, tomorrow... ♪

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that breaking news, a possible standoff situation in greenbelt. we're waiting for confirmation from police, but we did get video in from the scene. good morning, i'm eun yang. >> and i'm angie goff in for aaron. let's get right to kristin wright who is monitoring things from the live desk. what we can tell you is that there has been a huge police response to something going on at an apartment complex in prince george's county. so we are gathering as much information as we can right now. this happened on spring hill court in green belt, a ton of police activity overnight. we aren't sure what is happening there, but derrick ward is on the way to find out

us know as soon as he can. back to you. thank you, kristin. some of the other stories we're working on for you this morning, the search for a firefighter who is missing now for a week continues. how her friends and family hope social media can help bring her home. >> as one group of firefighters look for their own, another group prepares t the final arrangements today for prince george's county firefiger shot and killed.ht

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that breaking news, a possible standoff situation in greenbelt. we're waiting for confirmation from police, but we did just get some video in from the scene. good morning to you. i'm eun yang. >> and i'm angie goff. we want to get right to the live desk. >> good morning. what we do though is that there has been a huge police response to something going on at an apartment complex in prince george's county. again, we're gathering as much information as we can and waiting for calls back from police. this is on spring hill court in greenbelt. what we know, what we saw with our own eyes, a ton of