we're back next day. because if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." it's monday, june 6th. coming up on early today, tributes continue to pour in as preparations get under way for his funeral. another pray mare win puts hillary clinton on the verge of clinching the democratic nomination. plus, major progress in a fast-moving massive wildfire in southern california. a historic win for novak djokovic. and a new miss usa is crowned. "early today" starts right now. good morning, everybody. thanks for joining us on this monday. i'm betty nguyen. tributing continue to pour in from around the globe for icon muhammad ali. an interfaith memorial was held in the his hometown of ui

his body has arrived back in louisville, where a public and private memorial service are scheduled for later this week. jay gray joins us live from louisville with more. what's the atmosphere like there on the ground? >> reporter: yeah, betty, one of respect, one of thanks. since his death, many have showed up at the ali center, bringing flowers, balloons, as you can see behind me. some because of what he did inside the ring, others drawn here by his legacy outside of boxing. all to say one final good-bye to a man simply known as the greatest. muhammad ali is back home now. a chartered jet carried the body of the the champ and his family and friends back to louisville sunday afternoon. where preparations continue for a public memorial on friday. a celebration of ali's life that will include a winding 19-mile funeral procession past the places that were a part of his life, including the neighborhood wher h

fight. >> i still got the world! >> reporter: and now the world pauses to remember at ebenezer baptist church in atlanta. >> the only thing greater than his punch inside the ring was his voice outside the ring. >> reporter: a voice -- >> i am the greatest. i'm so great. >> reporter: -- that still echoes for fans, many drawn to the ali center in louisville to remember his greatness inside and outside the ring. >> he served his purpose that was put forth for him in this world, and he did it with grace. >> reporter: and with a flare never seen before or since. >> what are we going to do? >> you going to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. >> reporter: oh, yeah, those bees. a swarm showed up here sunday, a sign of sorts. >> he may have be

certainly of our lifetime, maybe of all time more. >> reporter: the greatest. now, we expect to learn more about the public memorial later today. what we do already know is that former president bill clinton, comedian billy crystal, and bryant gumble will all speak during that service. >> the greatest of all time for a reason. thank you, jay. breaking news overnight. hillary clinton has handily won puerto rico's democratic primary. clinton scored a major victory on her way to the democratic nomination, nabbing 36 delegates. she's now just 22 delegates short of the 2,383 needed to become the country's first female nominee for president. the puerto rico primary follows clinton's blowout victory in the u.s. virgin islands this weekend. a win in new jersey tomorrow could put her over the top before the california polls even close, but for clinton, it was businesses a usual on the campaign trail. witht

primary win last night, she couldn'ted to go after her would-be opponent last night, donald trump. >> donald trump has run a campaign based on insults. started with insulting immigrants, in particular mexican immigrants -- [ booing ] -- moved on to insult muslims, american-muslims, international musli muslims, insulted people with disabilities, insulted john mccain, and of course makes a habit of insulting women every chance he gets. >> and while clinton says she expects bernie sanders to unite behind her after tuesday night's results, sanders, it seems, has different plans. sanders, for the first time, went after clinton for her foundation's alleged conflicts of interest. >> if you ask me about the clinton foundation, do i have a problem when a sitting secretary of state and a

millions of dollars from foreign governments, governments which are dictatorships? yeah. do i have a problem with that? yeah, i do. >> and former president bill clinton had some tough words for sanders supporters yesterday when he responded to hecklers at this rally. >> i don't want to pick a fight, but if i were them, i'd be screaming too. if you figured this out. >> meanwhile, david french rejected calls for an independent run. he says after much time and prayer, he has decided against seeking the presidency, adding, quote, first the independent path is wider than people understand. second, i'm not the right person to walk it. that comes as trump now says a muslim judge would also have trouble remaining neutral regarding his trump university case given his proposed muslims ban. >> if it were a muslim judge, would you also feel like they

fairly because of that policy of yours? >> it's possible, yes. yeah, that would be possible, absolutely. >> those new comments add to trump's numerous attacks on the judge presiding over his trump university lawsuit as he continues to ruffle feathers within his party. first, speaker paul ryan said last week that he was taken aback by trump's comments against the judge, saying they, quote, came out of left field. and yesterday, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, newt gij rich, and bob corker all denounced trump's comments. >> is that not a racist statement? >> i couldn't disagree more a statement like that in. >> is it a racist statement? >> i couldn't disagree more with what he had to say. >> okay. but do you think it's a racist statement to say? >> i don't agree with what he had to say. this is a man who is born in indiana. all of us came here from somewhere else. >> i think that it was a mistake. i think that -- i hope it was sloppiness. he says on other occasions

cetera, but that's irrelevant. >> i don't condone the comments, and we can press on to another topic. >> while trump continues to disparage the judge, he says when elected president, he would instruct his attorney general to re-investigate clinton. when pressed, however, he would not say what she's guilty of that's criminal. as for clinton, she'll be spending the day holding four separate campaign events in the los angeles area ahead of tomorrow's california primary. she's expected to host a watch party tomorrow night in brooklyn, where her campaign headquarters is located. now to southern california. evacuation orders have been lifted and roads reopened now that a 516-acre brush fire that damaged several structures is now 80% contained. that massive blaze in the l.a. suburb of calabasas has forced the mandatory evacuation of some 5,000 people. officials say it rt stayed saturday when an suv crashed into a power pole. three firefighters were injured

se celebrities. in texas, more evacuations as part of the state continues to struggle with flooding now blamed for nine deaths. gabe gutierrez has more from texas. >> reporter: they were young, ranging in age from 19 to 38. private james from new jersey ran track in high school and joined rotc. >> she's my baby. >> reporter: her mother is in agony. >> she had so much to live for. she should have never been out there. >> reporter: the nine soldiers were killed at ft. hood on thursday when their tactical vehicle overturned in high water during a training exercise. private first class zachary fuller came from a military family in florida and wanted to follow in the footsteps of his mom and dad. >> he was really sweet. he was all

responsible. he'll help you out if he could. i mean, he's just an absolute angel. >> reporter: can bet mitchell whiney was 21 from indiana and had reported to west point two years ago. >> i was waiting to see him in uniform when he comes home. he's coming home. but not in uniform. >> reporter: the heartbreak comes as texas is still reeling from record floods. >> something like this h i mean, it just took out our whole community right here. >> reporter: here in south texas, more mandatory evacuations are in effect, and water rescues are under way. >> you don't realize how bad it is until it happens to you. >> reporter: this man has lived in his home for 31 years. home after home in his neighborhood inundated. the loss in the lone star state is immeasurable. gabe gutierrez, nbc news, texas. well, the miss usa pageant had its big

>> district of columbia! >> congratulations to the newest miss usa. she is a 26-year-old army officer and i.t. analyst for the u.s. department of commerce. barr ber represented the district of columbia in the pageant. this is only the third time in history that d.c. has taken home the crown. we are watching right now tropical storm collin, which is headed for florida. another busy week for you, bill cari karins, it seems. >> yeah, it'll be a 24-48 hour event. minor impact. we're watching a lot of heavy rain on the east side of the circulation. still relatively dig organize l. here's the stats. 410 miles southwest of tampa moving north at ten. max winds at 40 miles per hour. we're not expecting hardly any wind damage from this storm at all. we do have tropical storm warnings in areas of red. the green is where we're showing is the aerial flood watch. possibility of

florida has that sandy soil that soaks up the rain really well. even 5 inches of rain in a short period of time can cause problems. somewhere near the big bend of florida coming inland around 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. actual landfall doesn't matter because there's no strong winds. there's no eye or anything like that. then it will scrape the coastline of georgia, south carolina, north carolina tuesday morning. gone by tuesday afternoon. the rainfall totals will be high right along the coastlines of the carolinas and georgia and right down through the sunshine state. widespread 3 to 5 inches of rain. significant rainmaker for everyone in the southeast coastal areas. that's the national weather. now here's a closer look at your day ahead. well, you can see all the showers and thunderstorms. some of that is associated with a dying cold front. others are associated with colin moving into florida and southern georgia. finally drying out in central texas, although scattered storms are still possible in coastal

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to the pga memorial. this is mcgurk's first tour victory. jack nicklas congratulated him as he celebrated with his son. novak djokovic beat andy murray to win the french open. djokovic roared back after dropping the first set to murray. this caps a career grand slam for djokovic. congrats to him. broncos star cornerback ai keeb talib has been released from the hospital after he was reportedly shot in the left leg. the injury reportedly wasn't serious and did not require surgery. the broncos have announced talib won't travel with the team to the white house later today. some scary moments on the track. look at this. a funny car qualifying race in new hampshire. oh, my goodness.

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now to entertainment news. the teenage mutant ninja turtle sequel won the weekend for movie goers despite making only about half of what the original did in 2014. but the biggest win was for zootopia. it became the fourth animated film to cross the one-billion mark worldwide. >> that's where the money is. it was a whirlwind of a weekend for tenacious d fans. they got taken for our ride by a twitter hacker. jack black is the latest victim of the all-too-common celebrity death hoax. the hacker broke into tenacious d's twitter account and posted its frontman had died. after the band regained control, they tweeted, we had our twitter account hacked. we can assure you jack is alive and well and this was a sick prank. and john oliver took on trump university last night. he took

employee's playbook of sales tactics. >> perhaps the most suspicious thing of all is the playbooks even include specific instructions on what to do if an attorney general shows up. apparently you contact april immediately and also remind you, you do not have to show them any personal information unless they have a warrant, which is suspicious advice for a university employee. i'm pretty sure harvard doesn't tell its new professors. welcome, here's a gun in case. don't let them take you alive. >> he does make a bit of a valid point there. >> i'll have to check our handbook, what it says. >> we're supposed to have read that, right? i think we're just getting ourselves in trouble with our bosses. the phone is ringing now. i'm betty nguyen, and this is "early today." and this is "early today." if you have allergy congestion, muddling through your morning is nothing new.

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right now on "news 4 today," a major traffic challenge as metro's safetrack program faces its sfifirst weekday commute. the tools you'll need. a pedestrian killed by a train, what investigators are now revealing about an early morning death. >> district of columbia! >> these beauty and grace, miss d.c. is miss united states. the big hometown win are real reason to celebrate. i can't believe i just read that. >> you're a poet. >> no, i just remember miss congeniality. that's r

she is beautiful, in the army, she was m.i.t. >> it applies. we'll talk more about that a bit later. first, 4:27. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. chuck bell telling us about whether or not we'll get any more rain today. >> shut labsolutely not. the rain drops are gone. my headline didn't update. there were areas of fog around earlier p most of that is confined to farther northern maryland and central virginia, but certainly no big deal there. otherwise we're keeping a close eye on tropical storm coal lip which is expected to go over the northern part of florida late soon or early tomorrow morning. looks like it will stay off the mid-atlantic coastline. we'll talk more about your monday forecast and a look at the week ahead coming up.

moved out of the roadway. so far for delay whatsoever. also reminder again this morning, independence avenue coming eastbound on to the kutz bridge, only a right lane getting by. that will be in place until 5:30 tuesday morning. we'll be single tracking on blue and orange between the 16th of june. we'll see how it goes. good monday morning, everyone. i'm angie goff at the live desk. we just got new video where someone was truck and killed by a train, you can see a lot of police and investigators still on the scene here at la fayette avenue and irving street in laurel city. we are still making more calls to find out exactly what happened. also looking into whether this will impact service this morning. more as

4:29 now. you might want to give yourself extra time this morning. this is the first monday morning commute since metro's safe track program began. >> we're covering the entire affected area on all of our platforms. be sure to follow nbc traffic on twitter for updates. this morning trains are single tracking between east falls church and ballston. orange line trains between vienna and new carrollton are operating every 18 minutes. and this will last until next thursday. >> if you need another option to get to work, a woodbridge map is implementing new slug line pickup sites at the vienna metro 7:00 to 8:00. and then atting f ing fofoggy bn 4:00 and

to accommodate the extra traffic because of metro safetrack program, ddot is implementing parking restrictions. ddot will extend morning and evening rush hours by 30 minutes monday through friday on certain busy corridors. that means there will be a emergency parking restrictions along the streets. signs are posted letting you know when you can and cannot park in some areas. businesses in the district say they're already feeling the impact of metro safetrack program. trains now stop running at midnight on weekends instead of 3:00 a.m. d.c. police have set up new pickup zones for cabs, uber and lyft drivers. according to our news partners at wtop, cabs will begin offering shareded rides anywhere within one mile of a metro station or at a cab stand while safetrack is under way. >> we have set up a special section in the app and you can see all the scheduled closures. just search