you're going to be fine! >> i'm not playing games. mexico has to stop it. >> the president eases off threats to shut down the border. but a progress report on the wall is stirring raw emotion on bothides of the aisle a of providing new evidence or ploy to not go to prison. cruel intentions. a man with a lengthy record dupes the family and a>>hority. > steph curry just made one adjustment thatnstantly improved his shooting percentage. today says goodbye and good luck to kathie lee.

cheers to her t and friday. this "early today" starts right now. >> good rning, i'mhillip mena. >> and i'marlie hall. president trump will tour wal construction in california sday. the presidents mexico has one year to stop the influx or else he'll close the border. we have more. border backtrack,fter threatening to shut down the border as early as this week unless mexico stops the imgrigs and drug shipments. the president s nows he'll delay sealing it off giving mexico a year. >> we areoing to give them a one-year warning. if the drugs don'ttop or largelystop, we're going to put tariffs. if that doesn't stop the drugs, we close the border.

>> it comes as the border patrol says the flood of migrants comes to a breaking point approaching march. in the president has faced backlash from members of his own partykeo the border open saying a shut down would devistate the economy. >> it would cause as much damage to the u.s. econos would the mexican economy. it looksha like w a case ofon quid pro quapitol hill. in a bid to stay out from behind bars, michael cohen is telling members of congress he has more to according to a letter sent to several top democrats, he said he located several documents that he belves woulddd significant value. cohen found a hard drive with 14 million files. he's been reviewing the documents alone without help.

they said if he reports to prison as scheduled, he won't be able to continue viewing. the justice department has put on mounting preure to release the full mueller report d even expressing frustration of how william bar presented the findings on the question of obstructio of justice. hallie jackson has more. >> reporter: nbc news has learned theha evidencet president trump obstructed justic is stronger than suggested according to a us official. mueller never concluded either way wheth the president obstructed justice so william barr made a determination himself writing he and his attorney general rod rosenstein said the evidence is not. sufficie the details indicate mueller's

full report coulde more damaging for the president than initially seemed. en as th white house dismisses those concerns. >> let's not fget the people involved in this, they wasted two years of their life and they need to find a way t val date it. >> reporter: democrats said this v validates their cause toth relee report. >> as discreet as the mueller team has been and the fact that they areo distressed about the potential misconceptions theve created speaks volumes. >> reporter: barr needs to ckout sensitive information and he continues to work with special counsel o appropriate redactions. t >> reporter: a why mueller never came a conclusion, threef als tell us partly because of a dispute inside of the special counsel's team over the facts of the case and the law.

president trump taking new bs at former vice president joe biden. thresident tweeting a video mocking the former vp after seven women accuse biden of inappropriate behavior. andrea mitchell has the latest in this war of words. >> reporter: joe biden said to speak in plic for the first time followinghe video he made at home. >> i get it. i get it. i understand it. >> the video par owe died by a far whiteoutube and reshared by the president. >> biden fighting back, i see you are on theob and presidential as always. one of hisccers now 22 first talked to the new york times. >> he had his hand on my thigh,

hugged me a little too long. >> reporter: she said tell anybody. it was just so normal the way males acted ever day. andreamitchell, nbc news washington. > president trump is speaking out about criticism by former first lady barbara bush. in the book, the late barbara bush reportedly calls president trump a symbol of greed writing that trump now mns greed, self-ishness and uy. mr. trump fired back saying i have heard she was nasty to me, she should b look at what i did to her sons. spking of the defeat of jeb bush for the presidential nomination. a year's long search for a boy will continue on after dna

results debukted the possibility that he had been found. . >> reporter: aft getting word that timmothy pitzen might finally have beenound, heartbreaking news. >> it is devastating. it is le reliving that day over again. >> reporter: a dna test proved the person who showed up in kentucky is not timmothy. he is 23-year-old brian michael rini. he has a criminal record. the family disappointed but not angry. they have dealt with false sightings before. >> i reserve all judge and pray for the young maninvolved. >> reporter: timmothy appeared. his mom found in an apparent

suicide. a note said the boy was fine but would never be found. >> we have a child who said he ran away. >> the person told him he escaped from two men running from a red roof inn across the timmothy's bike sits a neighbor's house. >> this was timmothy's house. >> jaclyn lives in the house he once called home. his hand print cast in stone. >> iope one day, he'll pass by. >> why would anyone imperson nate a missing child. >> we know you are out there. we will never stop lking for you, praying for you and loving you. >> reporter: brian michael rini is from the ohio area, about a

three-plus hour drive to kentucky. police aren'th releasing m information including whether or not he'll face criminal crges. authorities will investigate any new leads that come in in an effort to find timmothy pitze >> thank you. strong storms moved across louisiana. severe weather warnings in effect. heavy rain led to flooded neighborhoods and reports of thousands of homes and ut businesses wit power. some people able to make the most of the situation likehis man who was caught on camera casting a line into the water. >> if the universe gives you water, y go fishing. >> he lives in louisiana, they've faced problems like that in the past. exactly. trying to get the crayfish. that zoneas actually the severe weather risk for yesterday. it has transitioned out of that

area. more rain is in storehere. we are watch pg this as it makes its way through the southeast to the midwest. the northeast, going into tonight. from washington to new york all the way up to up staterk new you are dealing with widesprd ine. you are dealing with a little bit of snow. still dealing withpril snow weather. the bulk of the rain out to the southeast could see two to three inches out towards panama city. ahe closer look at your day. warmer air makingts way through the midwest. seeing highs back in the 60s across ohio. mild air for the sth. severe weather throughout the weekend acrossenal texas into louisiana. so the kick off of the weekend here dealing with rain. prime time wer for saturday and sunday. in today's quickhits, watch

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that breaking news is happening on i-295 in the district right a deadly crash has shut down the southbound lanes near howard road. >> five people in all were involved in this crash.

some of whom were pulled out of a burning car. one person died, two others are in critical condition rightnow. two others in serious condition. >> the southbound lanes of 295 are still closed. it's unclearighen they reopen. we'll stay on top of this throughout the morning. it is 4:00 good morning, i'm aaron gilchrest. >> i'm eun yang. thanks for joining us on this friday. that crash happened before 2:30 this morning and could keep the road closed for several more hours. let's start this morning with a look at the impact this crash is having on your traffic.et melissa moith the first 4 traffic. good morning. >> good morning. here's the sway right now, southbound 295, before howard road southeast, all lanes are shut down because of the investigation. a little delay heading northbou a,roaching the situation. outbound 11th street bridge, all traffic diverted to kenilwo.h aven as we zoom out this morning, be use of the closure delay will be building toward