coming up on "early today," major airports around the country facing tsa travel nightmares as tens of thousands of flyers are missing their flights. voters head to the polls in two states today as the donald cruises and hillary clinton continues to feel the burn. health news involving silent heart attacks and cancer. two major studies you need to hear. doctors perform the first of its kind, penis transplant. and puppies who suffer from anxiety and playful pandas and much more on a busy tuesday. "early today" starts right now. good morning. thanks for joining us today. i'm betty nguyen. the country is waking up for another primary day with voters in kentucky and oregon hea

bernie sanders stands a good chance to take oregon but kentucky could be a tossup with hillary clinton spending severlseveral days campaigning there. clinton keeping her focus firmly on one donald trump. >> it's heart breaking that people who are running to be president today, most particularly the presumptive republican nominee, want to go back to those failed policies. he has written a tax plan which is a plan by billionaire for billionaires. >> president bill clinton campaigned in the u.s. virgin islands and in an exclusive exchange with nbc, he spoke of the possible role he would play in his wife's administration. the big super pac sporting hillary clinton's priorities usa is looking to the general election spending over $6 million in

ads will begin airing earlier than anticipated beginning wednesday morning. when it comes to trump and the "the new york times" story examining his past behavior with women, the woman in the story brewer is slamming the paper for its reporting. here is what she told msnbc. >> i don't have a negative story to give about donald trump because i don't have a negative, you know, account of anything. we had a great relationship. i just really felt like that they misled me into that -- the entire time into that article and that it was almost a trap. >> the reporters covering the story sat down with msnbc lawrence o'donnell last night and said none of the facts of the reporting are in dispute. donald trump looks to on develop his foreign policy expertise. a senior campaign aide confirms to nbc that former secretary of state henry kissinger will meet privately are trump on wednesday.

gop's preeminent statesman on world affairs. john kasich is speaking out for the first time since dropping out of the republican race saying he will not know if he will endorse trump and dodging questions on whether he will even vote for him. >> one of the questions is will you endorse donald trump? >> i don't know. i told you about this two paths. you know, if i feel, you know, i read some stuff recently, but i'm not, you know, glued to this, i read some other stuff to me is too negative so i'm undecided. i don't think when he is attacking and putting people down or learn to take it a little bit. you know, the idea, you know, at least initially of, you know, well, maybe paul ryan shouldn't be at the convention. common, man, you won. >> kasich also shot down a possible third-party run. meanwhile, bernie sanders spent the eve of primaries in puerto rico looking ahead to the state's june 5th primary. he vows to take the fight to hillary clinton. >> i know that i'mni

known throughout the island. i know that we have got an uphill battle. but with your support and the support of the people of the island, puerto rico can go on record and saying that we need a political revolution to transform america. >> that came as news broke that burlington college, the small vermont college that bernie sanders' wife jane used to run will shut down due to a 10 million dollar deal she spearheaded and it was racked up to property purchases that jane made while college president. the school announced it will close at the end of the month. the last class to graduate there collected their diplomas on saturday. doctors at massachusetts general hospital have successfully performed the nation's first pe

procedure occurred earlier this month. surgeons successfully connected the nerve structures of a donor p penis. the man lost the organ to cancer and manning issued a statement saying i want to go back to who i was. one of manning's surgeons had this to say at a press conference. >> we are hopeful that with the successes going guard that we will be able to open this up to other patient populations, such as wounded warriors returning from iraq and afghanistan who suffer these incredibly devastating injuries can leave them so despondent that they consider taking their own lives and often do. >> the only third recorded transplant of its kind ever and took three years of planning with 50 people directly involved. there are new revelations about an amtrak train crash that kill

year ago. nbc news has learned through a source close to the investigation that the engineer was distracted by radio dispatches when the train derailed and that he only has, quote, dream-like memory of the nightmare crash. the ntsb will meet on the final accident report today. so if you are traveling over last few days, you may have been stuck in a tsa checkpoint line on. the lines have been so bad this year that tens of thousands of air travelers have missed their flight. nbc's tom costello has more. >> reporter: it got this bad at chicago o'hare. passengers sleeping on the floor after long tsa lines prevented them from making their flights. just one airline, american tells nbc news 450 passengers missed their sunday's flights at o'hare. >> it's frustrating. we know it's frustrating for our passengers and it's just as frustrating for our employees. >> reporter: but it's not just chicago. nationwide, so far this year, americanairlines says the tsa problems have cost tens

thousands of customers to miss their flights. o'hay tops american's list of most affected airports followed by dfw, atlanta, l.a.x. and miami. the official security director is a whistle-blower who says moral among checkpoint screens is among rock bottom. >> poor leadership. lack of accountability, lack of a plan b for this summer and lack of trust. >> reporter: a new tsa hire between $15 and $24 an hour depending on experience, location, and whether they are full or part-time on. since january, every hire is sent to the new tsa academy in georgia for two weeks of intense training. the tsa union claims 66 new screening officers are needed as soon as possible and 200 new recruits graduate from the academy every week but 117 quit each week. meanwhile, at the airports. >> i have never seen anything like this. this is just -- somebody

to get their act together. >> the lines grow longer. it gets worse as the summer travel season gets under way. the lines will likely only get longer so pack some patience. a new stay to tell you about heart attacks in the u.s. suggest that half of the people who have them don't even know it. the study looked at 10,000 middle aged men and women and found 45% of heart attacks occurred without any chest or arm pain like the classic symptoms but the outcome would do as much damage. the silent killers increase the risk of dying as patients fail to get proper treatment. warning signs include increased indigestion and shortness of break and fatigue. a pickup truck in oklahoma slammed into a cell phone store and nearly hitting a customer and employee. it happened saturday. police say the driver was not under the influence and did not have any medical issues, but will be ticketed for inattention to driving. the estimated cost of the

yikes. a line of severe thunderstorms brought rain, hail, and high wind to the texas panhandle. the rain and held turned roadways into icy rivers, while the wind was so powerful, it downed power lines and shook this gas station canopy. a look at the weather in the rest of the area. bill, is this going to get better or is spring going to wreak havoc on so many places? >> mostly texas is where we have been all spring long, texas and oklahoma and where it was last night and strong storms this morning are going through. oklahoma city the line went tli yo through your area and you're safe now. wichita falls and severe thunderstorm watch continues and dropped for oklahoma now. we will watch the storms pushing through dallas and ft. worth the peak of the morning rush hour but the storm should weaken by then. later this afternoon, the storms fire up over texas and san angelo and start to h

16 million peoe in the slight risk and less than that in areas of the enhanced risk. large hail and wind damage. seven reported tornadoes yesterday and not of that similar today. in texas talking about the rainfall there the last couple of months. if you go back to the last 12 months, houston has an unimaginable 70 inches of rain. in florida expect showers and storms. our friends in the mid atlanta got more miserable weather. today and then

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now at 4:26, determining what led to a deadly deraildera, we're hours away from learning the official cause of the der l derailment in philadelphia. a slew of shootings in a matter of hours. authorities and flakneighborin demanding action. and video just in of the brush fire in arizona. no you are not seeing things just after two days of dry weather, the rain has returned. let's get straight to chuck bell. >> good morning. tuesday is here and rain chances are back after

cry days in a row, where's the rain coat, where's the umbrella, where is may for crying out loud. we haven't even been to 80 degrees yet in the month of may. that is the longest stretch on record to go into the month of may without a single 80 degree temperature. and we've been keeping records since the 1870s. so an unusually cool month. and it's cool and cloudy outside. temperatures in the low to mid-50s now. radar shows the arrival of raindrops. they will be with us all day long. we'll talk about h much rain and when it will end coming up a little later. melissa mollett, good tuesday morning to you. >> good tuesday morning to you. do have something top of the beltway, but let me explain why this won't be a major issue for folks this morning. inner loop at rockville pike, we have an overturned tractor trailer on the right shoulder. they have cones behind it. all lachb lanes are open. might slow as people are passing

it, but it will not make any major impact on your drive. inner loop at connecticut, two left lanes getting by that work zone. a look at 66 and 95 coming up. today another family will prepare to bury one of their loved ones. the funeral mass for claudina molina will be held in rockville. she tied earlier this month in an attempted carjacking outside a giant food store in aspen hill. she was born this bolivia and us moved to the u.s. hoping for a better life. >>ic people by and large like we said are really tired of the violence and they want to go about living their lives and raising their children and not worry about someone will pull a gun and shoot. >> five shootings a gun is not acceptable and people want

texas avenue and then a woman shot nearby on 49th street. police believe they're connected. three other people are expected to survive from separate shootings around the city. the engineer in the deadly philadelphia amtrak derailment a year ago was distracted by radio dispatchers. sources say that's what federal safety investigators are will announce today in the final report on that crash. the train was going more than dull t double the speed limit when it went off the tracks. eight died, porn 200 were injured in that derailment. it is now 4:29. today the trial begins for a husband accused of murdering his wife in loudoun county. prosecutors say castillo killed his wife and tried to make it looks like a suicide. the countwife was found hanging basement bathroom in 2014. the trial is

the man accused of confronting police with a bee bee gun at the u.s. capitol visitors center is if court today. larry dawson was formally charged last week. he fays more than 50 years in prison if convicted. police sea he pointed what looked like a hand gun. he was shot and has been in the hospital since the incident. good morning.. i'm angie goff at the live desk. a big brush fire right how is burning right outside of phoenix. check out this video. no signs of containment at this point. firefighters battling the blaze which is up to five acres already. we do know that it's not threatening any buildings at this point, but you can see the flames are huge. they can be seen shooting into the sky. we'll continue to follow developments. that's the latest. aaron, back to you. if just a few hours, the washington monument will reopen. it's set to open at 9:00 a.m. after elevator