somewhere. i am jim cramer and i will see you tomorrow! it is friday, may 6th. coming up on "early today," did penn state joe paterno know about jerry sandusky's alleged abuse in 1976. people running for cover. donald trump is not willing to support speaker paul ryan's recommendation. plus, explosions and toxic flames sending thick clouds into the sky forcing hundred dollaei to evacuate. a space x launch by a successful landing. a precious pooch gets the runaround. we will explain. "early today" starts right now. good morning on this friday. thanks for joining us today.

this morning. reports have surfaced that suggest top penn state coaches and administrators and officials including the late joe paterno knew of a sexual abuse allegation against jerry sandusky as early as 1976. the claim emerged in a dispute over whether the university or its insurance company to pay penn state's share of about $60 million in settlements for 26 men who say san dudusky abused m when they were children. in the court documents the judge wrote in passing that the insurance company claimed, quote. paterno family issued a statement that read, in part, because of a single sentence in a court record of an insurance case, joe paterno's reputation has once again been smeared with unsubstantiated 40-year-old allegation. in response to willinged

demanding a full public review of the facts. penn state released this statement. sandusky was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison in october of 2012 for abusing ten boys. paterno died in 2012 and was never charged with any crimes. terrifying moments during the kentucky derby parade. look at this gunfire erupting and sending frightens people running for cover. police ran to get things under coal. two boys were taken into custody shortly after the shooting. police say there is no reason to believe this was a random act of violence. the shooting injured a

14-year-old girl. according to louisville police, the injuries are not life-threatening. members of the republican party are waking up to an enter party civil war. the gop is butting heads over donald trump's presidential nomination. it was a shocker late yesterday when house speaker paul ryan joined other prominent republicans against trump saying flatly, he is not ready to support or endorse trump just yet. well, since then, illinois governor bruce rauner would not support trump but addleson and rick perry say they are all in on trump. nbc's katy tur has more. >> reporter: donald trump may be headed to cleveland to accept the republican party's nomination, but the leader of the party paul ryan says he cannot support or endorse yet. >> i'm not there right now. and i hope to, though. and i want to. but i think what is required is

>> reporter: the speaker of the house saying trump needs to live up to the gop legacy. >> we hope that our nominee, as far as it be reaganesque. >> it calls into the future of the party. whether or not the gop past november will be able to be a viable national party that can elect presidents. >> reporter: ryan's former running mate mitt romney announced he would not go to the gop convention and joining presidents george h.w. bush and george w. bush and saying they would not endorse. john mccain said he would support the party's nominee but privately worried the fund-raisers about his own re-election bid in arizona. trump is still drawing record crowds. thousands waiting in the rain in west virginia. a state filled with white working class voters. to win in november, trump will need to capitalize on that demographic, making states obama won in 2012 like ohio,

michigan, turn red again. while mitigating a potential loss in arizona, a republican stronghold and home to a large latino pooppulation turned off his comments. hillary clinton immediately firing back with video in english and spanish targeting trump's deportation plan. >> trump responded to paul ryan with this statement. i perhaps in the future we can work together and come to an agreement what is best for the american people. they have been treated so badly for so long it is about time for politicians to put them first. hillary clinton fired back against trump's cinco de mayo comment. speaking at a california event she focused almost entirely on immigration reform. >> now every election is a choice and

donald trump doubled down on his plan to create a deportation force to round up millions of people. that is actually what he said. he has pledged in his first days in office to scrap doca el dapa and finalize a design for a giant wall on the border. well, the best way to prevent that from happening is to make sure he never gets near the white house! >> and while clinton went on the attack against her likely general election rival, her democratic primary opponent bernie sanders continued to campaign in west virginia. he held his final rally there last night. west virginia will allot 37 democratic delegates in its tuesday primary and guam holds its primary tomorrow awarding 12 delegates there. hazmat teams are trying to clean up a

houston. hundreds were forced to evacuate or shelter in place. nbc's janet shamlian has more. >> reporter: explosions amid a massive fire rocking houston. >> a bomb. >> reporter: starting in a home the glaze quickly engulfed a neighboring industrial building. inside ammunition and drums of chemicals that blew up like fireworks. >> explosion was big. you could feel it. it should around a little bit. >> reporter: with smoke spilling hazardous material in the air, a shelter was placed and people were ordered to stay inside. more than 600 students evacuated from a nearby elementary school. the fire went to four alarm with almost 200 firefighters on the front line. fighting the flames amid high winds and flying debris. >> that thing flew over and big ball of fire erupted and

zone. firefighters say it's a miracle no one was hurt. officials are trying to determine what chemical exploded. meanwhile, residents are being told to avoid runoff from the fire. spacex successfully launched a falcon 9 rocket overnight from cape canaveral in florida. it was part of a mission to send a japanese communication satellite into orbit. the first stage of the rocket also successfully landed in the atlantic ocean on board a ship called of course i still love you. successfully landing the rocket was a major priority of the mission and the second successful ocean landing for spacex. accou company reps weren't optimistic of the touchdown with the rate of speed this rocket was traveling. arsenio hall has filed a lawsuit against sinead o'connor. o'

a facebook post writing that prince was a long time hard drug user who got his drugs over the decades from hall. according to the associated press, hall's lawsuit calls the accusations fabricated laws. you may remember a hit she had which was written and composed by prince. poor puppy. animal control services, they had to be called to the scene of a pup stuck in a bathtub drain! apparently the dog named mr. russells got his paw stuck after a shampoo. rescuers had to spin the pooch. two of mr. russell's toes were sworn but otherwise he is doing okay. that is one way to get a dog out of a drain. a proud looking mr. russells even posed with this picture with two of his rescuers. he looks a little shell-shocked there. let's

weekend forecast. >> i didn't know what they were doing! they were spinning him. they are going to break his legs! >> exactly. he is okay. >> i'm glad he is fine. we are not so fine in the northeast once again. rain is coming down. the end of one of the dreariest weeks all year long. the rain is mostly located over the north carolina areas from raleigh to richmond up i-95 and batches of rain off the atlantic and greet you on your morning drive all the way from areas of richmond back up to new york city and on long island. the timing today. steady rain for the morning drive at 8:00 a.m. i-95 is wet periods of moderate and heavy rain and shifts further inland by the time we get to noon. rain in baltimore to d.c. to northern maryland but we start to dry out a little bit in new york city to philadelphia. then during the afternoon, it all continues to go all the way back towards pittsburgh as we dry out along the coast and could have minor coastal flooding with this too. the weekend forecast, starting today, the warmth in the middle of the country, one of the warmespo

at 87 degrees. northern plains cool off on saturday. slow improvement mid-atlantic, northeast you have to wait until sunday for your improvement. still showers a little bit early in the day but sunday afternoon, i think mother will be happy to see a little bit of sunshine finally. that is your national weather. now here is a closer look at your day ahead. there is that ugly forecast in mid-atlantic. minneapolis will be one of the warmest spots in the country today and one of the coolest is around the delmarva peninsula. 87 in minneapolis and a chance for the warmest temperatures in the country. so by sunday, my gift to you will be at least that yellow globe in the sun. >> thank you. we will take what we can get. a place where everyone gets a 2,600 check every month. plus the latest on the massive wildfire north of the border. and when robbery victims fight back. you're watching "early today." strength is something earned

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a fatal stabbing investigation under way in alexandria. >> erika gonzalez is at the live desk with the details. >> we're just getting this information here to the live desk. this stabbing happened around 9:30 last night in alexandria on the 6,000 block of lincolnia road. police get to the scene and they find somebody be that has stab wounds. unfortunately, he did not survive. at this point we don't have an i.d. we'll continue to work on the story and bring you more development

gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. hoping things will dry out soon. >> maybe? i may need you to define soon. it won't happen today. today be will be the 11th day in a row with rain chances around the area. and today will be by far the rainiest of the last few. limited, limited, limited amounts of sunshine coming your way tomorrow. not a total washout on your saturday. be looks like we'll be a little nicer on mother's day. we'll start talking about when we'll see the sunshine for real coming up. breaking news on bw parkway northbound bw parkway here at 197, we have northbound lanes right now shut down. traffic being purchased on to 197 to kind of get away this crash. a tow truck is on the scene, so i'm hoping this doesn't last too much longer here this morning. outer loop at university boulevard, two left lanes getting by the work zone.

the radar showing the rain. beltway at st. barnabas looking good. a live look at 270 coming up. in half an hour, metro riders will find out whether overnight safety work will pay off for their commute. two fiery situations shut down the federal center station. first a fire bomb and then on the third rail. the problems wrought delays on orange, blue and silver lines. megan mcgrath is live at federal center station where riders were promised a normal friday commute. good morning. >> reporter: and it looks like that will happen. we are sighing the trucks behind me here, just one work truck left here this morning. but when we pulled up about 15 minutes or so ago, we had a lot of trucks in the area, a lot of workers coming up out of the station. i shouted out are you done with the work and he said yes. so it looks like we're a go.

morning as promised. there were two separate incidents at the federal center metro station including one that was captured on security video. take a look. sparks and a flash right alongside the platform. very it is turning video. the other incident involves a burning piece of paper and the third rail causing smoke in the tunnel. service on the blue, orange and silver lines was suspended and emergency repairs performed. the decision made to close that metro station as well as the capitol south station so that those repairs could be done quickly and efficiently. everything appears to be on track with those repairs and it appears that we will open on time this morning. of course we'll be keeping an eye on it and bring you updates as we get them. but right now, if you use the station, it looks like you will be okay this morning. and delays for metro riders will get worse before this

better. today they will layout their new maintenance plan called safe track. some could single track for a month and two to three could be shut down entirely for weeks. paul wiedefeld does not think large track sections will have to close, but it involves a huge amount of work. they will make an announcement at 11:00. >> adam tuss has been breaking this story all week. follow him in the nbc washington twitter page during the announcement as we break town what the safety plan means for your commute. >> sunday, paul wiedefeld sits downtown what the safety plan means for your commute. >> sunday, paul wiedefeld sits down with adam, his first sit-down interview since his ntsb hearing. you can watch adam's interview on "news 4 today" starting at 9:00 a.m. sunday morning. tonight woodbridge community will hold a vigil for one of its