it's thursday, may 26th. coming up on "early today," head-spinning politic as the donald and bernie sanders talk about debating each other while trump and hillary clinton are about to launch an arsenal of info on one another. a scathing review from "the washington post" editorial board for clinton that follows an inspector general's report over her use of private e-mail. total devastation and incredible damage in the wake of more fierce tornadic activity in the midwest and plain states. the tsa grappled with a hundred million more travelers flooding the system. what caused a manhole cover to explode in front of first responders. and a 6-month-old record holder. "early today" starts right now. good morning, everybody. thanks for waking up with us today.

trump may be on their way to a slug fest. both candidates now agreeing to debate each other. here is what trump said about debating sander. >> he wants to know if you will debate him? >> yes, i am. how much is he going to pay me? >> you would do it for a price? >> if i debated him, we would have such high ratings and i think i should give -- take that money and give it to some worthy charity, okay? >> if it was done for charity? you would agree to do that? >> i would love to do that. >> just hours ago, sander tweeted, game on. i look forward to debating donald trump in california before the june 7th primary. now nothing is scheduled yet but trump also knitted to kimmel that he used fake names in the past in an effort to get better business deals. >> over the years, i've used alias and when i'm in real estate and especially when i was out in brooklyn with my father and i'd want to buy something and honestly

nobody knew me so it wasn't so much so important but i would never want to use my name because you had to pay more money to the land. >> trump sat down with kimmel with another day of protesters on the campaign trail. hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in anaheim, california, during his visit. like the images that came out of albuquerque, new mexico, on tuesday, protesters can be seen hurling objects at police and encircling trump supporters. a handful were arrested. the violence came after trump referred to the new mexico protesters from the night before as thugs flying the mexican flag. his feud with the state's governor susana martinez after she responded to trump's criticism. >> it doesn't bother me what he says. it is -- it just doesn't effect me. i was a prosecutor for 25 years, you know? and have heard names i've been called for a long time. it's not something that is going

>> while his relationship with martinez continued to fray, trump made inroads with house speaker paul ryan. the two spoke by phone after reports that ryan could endorse trump as early as this week. the purpose of last night's call was to continue their conversation about unifying the party. that on top of a campaign shake-up for on trump with top aide rick wily leaving after six weeks on the job. the donald told extras lopez he is ready to get in the mud with hillary clinton. >> she is tough. i mean, she has proven to be tough. she certainly is resilient over the years and been doing this a long time and very nasty. the clintons have really hurt a lot of people. >> i hear you have an arsenal of info on the clintons. any news there? >> they have an arsenal on me. they have got it on me, i've got on it on them and see what happens. the fact is they are tough and nasty and play a tough game. >> an independent government report is breathing new life into

a harsh view over the inspector general's office over official e-mail server when she was secretary of state. andrea mitchell has details. >> reporter: hillary clinton, again, dogged by her e-mail controversy. a year-long inspector general's investigation from the state department blasting clinton for using only a private home e-mail server while secretary of state. and finding she violated the federal records act by not turning over all official e-mails before she left office. concluding, sending e-mails from a personal account to other employees is not an appropriate method of preserving e-mails. despite her previous claims. >> this was fully above board. people knew i was using a personal e-mail. i did it for convenience. i sent e-mails that i thought were work-related to people's.gov accounts. >> reporter: she knew as early as 2010 her e-mails were not saved for the report. a new report with

abedin. she had the following. clinton responded let's get separate address or device but i don't want any risk of the personal being accessible. the report found no evidence clinton requested or obtained permission to use a private server and would not have been granted it if she had asked. clinton refused to be interviewed by investigators and her spokesman saying they wanted to talk to the fbi first. >> we quite fairlily made the decision that we were going to await the opportunity to answer questions from the justice department. >> reporter: but already donald trump firing away. >> she's as crooked as they come. inspector general's report, not good. >> you now have president obama's state department saying hillary clinton exercised bad judgment. she should not have done it and a republican talking point all the way through election day. >> the report also says former secretary of state colin powell didn't retain his personal e-mail but the rules were tightened under clinton years later. the report also blames the state department foron

cybersecurity failures. "the washington post" editorial board has come out against clinton on the issue saying clinton displayed inexcusable willful disregard for the rules. breaking news overnight. a deadly shooting at a new york city concert hall where rapper t.i. was scheduled to perform. police say someone opened fire last night in a green room in irving plaza. three men and one woman hit by bullets and one man died at the hospital. witnesses say the shooting sparked a stampede sending panicked concert goers running for the exist and no arrests have been made and no word on the possible motive. metal detectors were in place but one was told new york city security was laxed. t.i. had not taken the stage when the shooting occurred. the head of the tsa says the agency is adding staff to help deal with increasingly long airport security lines. >> we have a challenge this summer which we are aggressively meeting head-on. we are providing more overtime

we are also converting with the help of congress and the reprogramming request our front line officers from part-time to full-time as necessary. >> reporter: in front of a house committee, tsa administrator peter neffenger said a combination of factors are to blame for the screening jams, including more flyers, less screeners and fewer travelers than anticipated having applied for the government's precheck program. meanwhile, the tsa says it has cut the lines at chicago's o'hare international to 20 minutes from over two hours last week. and this morning, the head of the tsa appears exclusively on "today" to discuss all of the changes as the busy summer travel season begins. another round of severe weather barreled across kansas wednesday. storm chasers captured several violent tornado rolling through abilene, kansas, throwing dirt and debris. emergency managers say at least 20 homes were damaged or destroyed in dickinson, county. check out how close storm chasers

abilene. you can see a video grapher as the things were happening. fortunately no injuries from the latest outbreak. more on the severe weather, bill kari karins, you've been busy this week. >> all of those were with the same tornado. all of the pictures you just saw. numerous tornadoes, you know, formed and reformed. >> talk about a super cell. >> exactly. this was it last night. 7:00 p.m. when we started watching the tornado forming right here a little hook echo right there. as it began to cross and head for interstate 70 we had our tornado emergencies. chapman, kansas, scary. looked like the thing was heading through the middle of the town and went a half mile to the south of there and where most of the homes were damaged. very mature storm in junction city, scared for you too and the storm weakened. by the time it got over you you had a hail storm. impressive stuff last night. today, cluster we

iowa getting a lot of the thunderstorms and wind damage a problem overnight tonight. towards tomorrow, we will reload the atmosphere and possibility of a minioutbreak. 28 million people at risk and enhanced risk in texas and enhanced risk same spots over central kansas, north kansas and southern half of areas of nebraska into omaha. almost into kansas city. a few strong tornadoes are possible today. large hail, damaging winds definitely. the possibility of those dangerous tornadoes in numerous ones that will be the concern. that is your national weather. here is a closer look at your day ahead. the thunderstorms threat go down through texas. texas we are more concerned with large hail and wind damage. the tornado threat is greater and a little more spin in the atmosphere in areas of nebraska and kansas and eastern iowa. yeah, this was advertised as a big week for severe weather and today could possibly could be the worse of it. >> tornado alley active this time of the year. thanks, bi

making ways on line as one of the youngest water-skiers ever. 6-month-old doesn't know how to walk yet but over the weekend zila glided 700 feet across the late and treaded water along her ski pads were the adults. her parents bother water-skiing champions. that's it. they say they placed her on indoor skis after she learned how to stand and they noticed she had a strong grip. that is quite amazing republican the best places for college grads to live when jump-starting their careers? we will name cities. plus, the frightening thing when a manhole cover explodes near first responders on. you're watching "early today."

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how much did that cost? >> 200 billion dollars. >> damn it! >> well, not everyone is laughing. 11 states filed a lawsuit to block new federal guidelines on may 13th, the obama administration told public schools they must allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice or on risk losing potential federal funding. the states led by texas want a federal judge to validate the notice and. two armed suspects entered a maryland game stop friday night ordering customers to stand against the wall but one tiny gamer said he wasn't taking it. the 7-year-old punched one of the bad guys seven times before being wrangled. the villains took off with cash but their ego may be bruised. new video said that drew peterson planned to sell drugs to mexican cartels after his release from

the prosecutor that put him behind bars as being, quote, gone. though, there is no explicit mention of murder, the tapes were played during peterson's ongoing trial for allegedly plotting to kill the prosecutor. st. petersburg, florida. firefighters responding to a fire in a manhole, when suddenly, wow. duke energy blamed transformer energies for that blast. crews had cut power when the smoke appeared. amazingly, no one was injured. what a sight, though. let's get down to business. president obama and world leaders got a tour of the latest driverless technology in japan today. part of the g7 summit where discussion on the economy tops the agenda. college grads looking to kick-start their career might want to move to so-called starter cities. according to a study, pittsburgh, indianapolis, kansas city, missouri, minneapolis, and columbus, ohio, are among the top five places for entry level jobs. while big i cities like san francisco, boston, washington and new york are at the bottom.

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this morning, on "today" as president obama's time at the white house begins to wind down, a look at d.c. mansion the first family will reportedly call home after his presidency is over. now to sports. the cavaliers stomped all over the raptors. kyrie irving and lebron james outscored the entire raptors team by themselves en route to a 31-point halftime lead which is the largest in conference final history. cavs win by a whopping 38 points 116-78 and they are one win away from a trip back to the nba final. the longest home run of the season was hit yesterday by the youngest player in the league. check it out. texas ranger rookie crushed this pitch deep into the upper deck in right field. the final distance? a colossal 491 feet!

it was a rough night for frisco roughriders manager joe mikulik. after throwing his hat he then proceeds to slide into second base and appears to sit and goes in for another slide and rips the base out! kicks it along with his helmet. kicks the rosin bag and destroys the third base chalk line before finally walking off. whee. can you say anger management? the san jose sharks are heading to the stanley cup finals for the first time in the franchise history after knocking out the st. louis blues. it took more than 2,100 regular and postseason games, over 24 seasons. congratulations to them. ahead, a major hollywood couple files for divorce. kate mckinnan is at it again. you're watching "early today." [phone rings] ah, it's my brother. keep going...

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>> thank you for that. now to entertainment news. amber heard has filed for divorce from johnny depp citing irreconcilable differences. "ellen" impersonating the host kate mckinnan. >> hi, hillary. i'm ellen. thank you so much for spending your life fighting for the middle and for women and for kid. i've also spent my life fighting for kid but i'm talking about goats. hi, ellen. him hillary rodham clinton. we face which blazer to wear every day. when i'm president, i will make sure every american has a fair shot to live up to his or her god-given potential to watch you dance! >> yea!

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good morning. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm erika gonzalez in for eun yang. a new report that says somebody gets past security once every ten days. a closer look at that and where area airports stack up. and speaking of airport security, getting drigrilled ase tchl tsa gets ready for another day on capitol hill. and a shooting at a concert in new york. >> know molette green is at the live desk. >> the shooting turned deadly. we first brought you this story at 11:00 last night right after

it happened. new this morning, one of the concert goers has now died. three others hurt, one critically. no arrests so far. shots rang out during the union square concert in a green wroom where well-known wrapper ti was set to perform. he wasn't on stage at the time. police are investigating how the shooter got into the venue with metal detectors set up there. witnesses describe chaotic scene as you see there as people just ran for the exits. that is the latest from the live desk. back to you. 4:27. want to check your weather headlines this morning. >> chuck bell standing by on this thursday morning. >> it's a quiet start to the day. it's getting hot in here. yes, indeed, temperatures flirting with 90 degrees later this afternoon. a touch more humidity coming our way for tomorrow

tropics. there may be a named system at the tail end of the memorial day weekend. for now all dry, but there are showers out here in south we were have a have and southern west virginia, so there will be a better chance for an isolated pop-up shower or thundershower today primarily out along i-81. we'll be close to 90 today. a look at the neighborhood highs coming up. for now the key to the early morning traffic. >> key is avoid the key bridge here. take a look at this road work under way. we've had a couple days of this already. so inbound key bridge, they're saying one lane getting by. have not seen any vehicles come across .the right lane gets by this morning. outbound shut down, inbound no access to canal road. inner loop at colesville, a lane getting by. rockville pike at nicholson lane, that crash has cleared out. happening today, those wrong security lines at

be center stage on capitol hill again. a house subcommittee will hear from airport and airline representatives to get their perspectives. yesterday the head of the tsa testified about the agency's plan to get that problem under control. and administrator peter neffenger will speak with matt lauer this morning on "today." his first interview following his testimony yesterday on capitol hill. we're staying on top of new information, intruders making it through gates and over fences at d.c. airports. the associated press reports it happened at least ten times in the nation's capital in the last ten years. most recently last january. it that is when a man breached the perimeter security at reagan national airport. there have been two breaches at the reagan. dulles had eight such breaches an

none involved terrorism and all were caught. there were 45 perimeter beaches at 31 of the busiest airports. megan mcgrath is headed to reagan and will bring us an update in a short while. a father will learn his sentence today for killing his son. a montgomery county judge found him guilty back in march. he says he kill his three month old so he could catch in on a $750,000 life insurance policy. the original sentence in 2002 was appealed an even with a new trial, the judge found the baby died from injuries from being shaken by his father. also in court today, the man convicted of crashing his ford 150 into a pair of workers will be sentenced this afternoon. maryland state police say he lost control of of his truck back in february much 2015