good morning, easter sunday shock. thth toll skyrocketing overnight in sri lanka, nearly 300 people killed, including several americans. near simultaneous explosions targeting hotels and churches on one of the holiest days of the year. this morning, officials identifying the terror group with the carnage, a warning weeks o missed. it's possible, impeachment on the mouths of some democrats after the mueller report drops. >> the obstruction of justice if pushed will be impeachable. his lawyer's extraordina claims. >> there is nothing wrong with taking information from .

russia >> tight lipped. but will he talk to congress? tiger attack, a kansas zookeeper recovering this morning after being mauled the decision to save the to goer and how the zoo keeper is doing. all that, plus boeing's new problem, a safety conce raised by the company's own employees. the great american coin hunt, why you cld find rare d valuable coins mixed in with your spare change starting today. and twice as nice. inside the royal family's celebrations for both easter and the queen's 93rd birthday, today, monday, april 22nd, 2019. >> from nbc news, this is "today" with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio

1a in rockefeller plaza. >> , erybody, good morning, nice to have you with us on a monday morning. craig is in early, while hoda spends some time w her baby at home. >> let's get on the top story, what was supposed to be the earliest ofdays, bombings at chur and hotels inzy la sri lan. >> sri lankan officials believe the group had helped from foreign terrorist organizations. the u.s. state department hasev red its terror warning saying terrorist groups are still there. bill neely has the latest. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, savannah, you join me at the scene of another about 30

minutes ago, about 200 yards down the road, unfortunately, police have moved us in this direction before that went off. i'm at the scene of a shaered church, where more than 70 worshipers died. dozens of tourists killed also in this here at st. anthony's church, one eyewitness described the scene after the atck, he said, on the ground it was a riverf blood. in the air ash falling like snow. r be morgan.rning that will worshipers at mass, the victims of mass murder, hotel restaurants blown to pieces, among the hundreds dead and injure two americans confirmed killed, one wounded. one unaccounted for. just before 9:00, the first blast at st. anthony's church in ki cmeter batured on a dash-cam video. inside, carnage, families

praying together died together.e resc working and in blood stained pews. nearly half of the victims dead and injured were praying here at st. anthony's, church they were blown by a suicide bomber. shattering glass you can still see on the road. >> i just heard the expl nion. iever heard a version like that. >> repor m later, an explosion ripped through a second church. another suicide bomber has blown himself up, killing more than 50 worshipers. in the heart of kilometer ba, the first of three explosions targeting tourists, at the cinnamon grand, a man lined up and detonated his bomb. american dieter kowalski is one of eight guestsccounted for. two suicide bombers blew themselves up in the restaurant and lobby. hours later, special forces raid

an apartment, bomb exploded. three authorities were killed. authorities say this is where the attacks were planned. no one has claimed them. authorities are blaming a little known local islamist group. but the government tells nbc news, it had a tip-off that suicide bombers would attack. churches the target. yet on easter sunday morning, there was no protection here. why weren't the churches protected if you had a warning? >> well,y churches can be protected? but we inform. we informed we never expected an attack of this magnitude. >> and, bill, youon mentied there was an explosion i heard you a few minutes ago behind where you are standing. what do you know about at? >> reporter: yeah, well, they didn't expect thisne, either. it happened about 200 yards up the road. police had identified a white van. we filmed it with their doors they were looking night when

suddenly there was a massive deev deafening explosion. how did they get in here this threat has not gone away. islam sifts sometimes plant secondy devices to catch offenders or responders. police say they knowed who car out most of the explosions. it's one group, it's a radical islamist group. it protes isis. it has no history of anything like this. police also questioning more than 20 suspects. >> bill with so many still missing, and so many wounded, is it reasonable to expect the number of casualties will rise? is, eporter: i think it craig, yes. i mean, you've got more than 500 people injured. many of those are in the hospitals with really very, very, serious injuries, so

ever is waiting for that death toll to rise. >> bill, thank you. nowack here to the latest fights tied to the release of report.ller top democrats in congress raising the possibility of impeachment proceedings against president trump. nbc white house correspondent kristen welker has more on that good morning to you. >> reporter: craig,d morning to you. we are here live on the white house south lawn where the president and first la ed are about to hos the141st easter egg. it's a time honored tradition here at the white house. it comesde as presi trump just returned from florida overnight where he was celebrating easter and also new jersey about some of t revelations in the mueller report. the president back at the white house this morning, after spending easter sunday with his family infl ida. attending service and tweeting about the mueller report, calling it a hit job. the president repeatedly attacking the special counsel'sa findings,ll while maintaining

erhe has nev been happier or more content. mueller declining to answer questions from nbc news. >> reporter: sir, could i ask you a couple of estions? will you testify before congress, sir? >> i have no comment. >> repor the president's personal attorney rudy guiliani raising eyebrows when asking where members of the campaign took information from russians. >> there is nothing wrong to m russians. >> it is okay ca work with aigns on the stolen materials. >> it depends on the stolen material. >> jerry nadler has suspended for the full unredacted rgport, ang you it's up to congress to investigate. not ruling out impeachment. >> we may get to that, we may not. as ibe said fore, it is our job to go through all the evidence. >> do you thk this the impeachable? >> if proven, s te ofs would be impeacble. yes. obstruction of justice if proven would be imu impeachable.

>> r the late sunday saying how do you impeach a republican president for a crime hat was committed by the democrats? democr are facing mounting pressure on impeachment from some 2020 senators led by progressive senator elizabeth warren. >> we cannot be an many earthquake that says the it is okay for a president of the united states to try to block investigations into a foreign attackn our country. >> repor other candidates argue the decision could u shoulde up to house democrats. e that to those members of the house who as they view tinse find can make that decision. >> chris, we heard from beto o'rourke there and senator warren. there seems to be this growing vide among democrats willing to talk impeachment. what are they saying on capitol hill? >> teporter: i think that's right way to think about it. right now democrats are mixed on

the issue. of course, have you the progressive branch of the party sang it's time to get serious about talking about impeachment. what we saw over the weekend is increasing number of establishment repuans saying the issue can't be taken off the table like congressman elijah cummings, for exam ot more skrept cam, republicans control the -- more skeptical.an republic control the senate. we want who hear from special counsel robert mueller, himself, they want to see that full unredacted report. for her part, nancy pelosi is set to hold a conference call to scuss next step later today. >> kristen welker at the white house, thank you. a u.s. army sergeant died, his parachute oailed ton during a recreational sky diving trip. they called it a frequent e freak accident. the 29-year-old was from florian

staked at f bragg in fayetteville, north carolina. there is new trouble for boeing, as it gets its max jet itself in the air. a new report is calling the production of another plane into question. nbc news' gab goode res has that story for us from charleston. good morning. >> rep craig, good morning, ten years o, boeing broke ground on this facility which makes the 787 dream liner, now, some past and present employees saying boeing cares more about quantity than quality. this morning, boeing is under new scrutiny involving another plane, a 787 dream liner built at a north charleston south carolina factory and threatened to compromise rdfety. acg to an investigation by the "new york times," that looked at hundreds of pas of documents and intervi aed more than dozen employees past and

present. >> from what i've seen building the airplanes here at charleston, i don't fl they're in a safe and air worthy n. conditio >> so this is my retirement black. >> r john barnett retired in 2017 after working as a boeing manager for 40 years. boeing says it has stashg and fo out of ten claims he made, one metal slivers left dangling over crucial wiring inside planes. >> over time these metal shavings are going to migrate down to these boxes or into the electrical checkers, start a fire. the last thing you want at 40,000 feet the a fire. >> reporter: barnett says so-called foreign object debris is common when planes are built, employees are expected to clean up after themselves, the "times" says in 2017, the faa ordered io reved from planes before delivery and boeing says it does

not present a flight safety issue.t boeing says i working with the supplyer to redesign the nut that resulted in the slivers, employees filed nearly a dozen whistle-blower claims and safety complaints with federal regulators, adding there no evidence problems at the plant led to major safety incidents. ere newag allegations come a boeing is und investigation for a 737 max in the certification process after two deadly crashes in a matter of months. in response to the "time's" investigation, they say safety t is the faa's top priority. we thorough le investigate c whistleblowerplaints if the actions are substantiated. boeing sent an internal letter saying it skus an inaccurate picture of our team. kevin mcallister says they are producing the highest levels of

equality in our history and safety and a qualityre at the core of boeing's values. there is nothing more important than that. >> that's what boeing has to say. how about t tir customers, airlines? what are they saying about the allegation of the dream liner? >> reporter: well, savannah, american airlines is standing by the dream liner, telling nbc news they have full confidence in the into 7 yempbs they currently have in their fleet and adding they have earned even more. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you very much. good samaritans diving into a philadelphia river to help a trapped motorist. check this out. take a look here. you can s people swimming out to an suv there, sink in the middle of the river. witnesses say they can hear the woman banging on the window, eventually rescuers broke her free and pulleder to safety. >> everyone is okay. it's what anyone will do, so glad we can help. >> the woman was conscious on

the way to the hospital. she is expected to make a full recovery. can you imagine what woulden happf they were left in there? >> he said anybody would do it. i don't know, i think they're heroic. >> dylan is in for al, let's get a check of the weather, good morning. >> today we got a little area of low pressure siting off the coast of delaware. >> that will continue toove to the north. it might just club these j shore and long island. we have more chance of heavier rain across eastern new england as well. moves to the north today. we will see heavy rain through boston, hartford, across cape cod and central and eastern long island. then as we go into tonight, it moves up to maine and clips new hampshire as wellys so this sm will pull away as we no into early tomorrow. we are waiting on a cold front that will bring run of the mills thunderstorm later in the late evening and overnight on tuesday as that cold front moves through. we could see the chance of isolated flash flooding because

of the intensity of those downpours. we can see as much as one-to-two inches of rain in boston and across the shore. we are looking at an inch of this small system. that's a look at the weather across the countrl we'l get to your local forecast we'l get to your local forecast in not buzzword fresh. but, actually fresh-fresh. fresh. k at panera, we hand-picberries at peak-season. use creamy avocado. cage-free eggs. and a dressing fit for a goddess. oh and every in.redient is 100% clea come taste what a salad should be. and for your next event bingor small, try paner panera. food as it should be. well, temperatures out there rit now in the 40s and 50s, annapolis on the water coming in at 60 degreeou white h easter egg roll if you are out and about, listen, it will be

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citizens. there is word authorities were waed about a terrorist plot two weeks ago but quote thought it would never happen so soon. life imitating art in comedian wholance pd the president in a tv sitcom was d. electe he bet petra bore chroshenko. president trp spoke to him and congratulated him with success and called itn important moment in ukraine history. 16 people we to hospital after they landed on sunday. the a airli jets were carrying a group o students, the group stopped in miami on its way to on officials believe a taied lasagna they ate nein next whic

-- ate in ecuadors to blame. wel talk to the zoo's director in a moment. first ron mott has more. good morning. >> good morning, this scary attack i took placethe exhibit area shortly after the zoo opened up for the day on saturday. it's unclear if any visitors ore anyon this area saw the malm emergency crews workedthuickly. is morning a star attraction at the topeka zoo is back on display. the zookeeper is lucky to be aliv >> every zookeeper hopes they never go through this, this is the worst rghtmare. >> they were hoping to see a tiger exhibit,ea instd, they saw a hor risk scene, this sumatran tigerttacked the

staff. it prompted an emergency response and closing the park for 45 minutes. >> staff is still in the e. enclosur the tiger is still next to them. still attacking. >> repor so the workers lured him away ithfood. >> he made a choice to leave her and go inside and that saved his life and obviously it saves thep ke's life as well, because any proceed to her could have been fatal. >> reporter: the zookeeper was trd multiple lacerations, and puncture wounds to her ckne, back and arm and was rusd to hospital in stable condition. they say maintaining tiger habitats is a daily task. they never should have been in the space at the same time stressing the cat didn't do anything wrong and euthanizeing him was neff on thetable. >> he's a really great tiger. i can't stress that enough. because it's aorrible situation, but he was just being e came to topeka from a ohio zoo as a species

survival plan. only a few sumatrans remain in the wild. nd a zookeeper on the mend a prized tiger preserved after an incident that could have been deadly for both. >> i wasra veryful for the way that the staff responded. because they sav them. there is no if, ands or buts. it was a miracle. the. >> repor okay. as luck would have it, she right back here maybe 20 feet behind me. the investigati into this incident continues. the answer oicials want is why did this happen? back to you. >> reporter: we are joined by the director of the zoo. rn. wiley, good morning. >> repor good mog, savannah. >> well, we really appreciate you being with us on what is obviously a very intense timeou period at y zoo. the first queson, of course, how is th vozookeeper doing?

>> we don't know the details. she has a road ahead of her. she is getting the support and care that she needs. >> can you walk us through, brendan, just a ltle bit more precisely how it is that all of this happened on sunday and how it als was that someone who was th managedo alert the zoo staff? >> sure. craig. what happened was about 9:15 noticed morning, it was by a visiting guest that there was one of our staff people, a zookeeper in the same spacee wih tiger. that's really a process failure here that should not have cu ed. and that set off an emergency kind of protocol that we have here that person that saw it got word to a different zookeeper whnitiated our emergency protocol. long story short, within about

under ten minutes, other zookeepers here were able call that tiger into an ad joining holding area, secure the tiger, allow emergency personnel in to he our staff person and just amade that it results that way. we could have been talng about a much worse story this morning. >> it must have been terrifying. was the zoo keeper able talk give any information about how it is she endedn up i that sails space? o.. >> you know, we've started an internal inv.tigation here she's the one person we haven't been able to talk to just yet. you know our system for managing utyingers is made of processes. we're going to find that process that failed and even if it was humanr, erro we're going to rework that process to make sure that that doesn't happen again. but as soon as she's ready and

able, we'll have that conversation, but, for right now, things are going normally here. >> brendan, you said that euthanizeing the tiger wasn't an option, in situations like this in the past, that is something that has happened, how did you guys decide in this particular case not to euthanize sanji? >> in this case, we're working with an endangered thspecies. e is less than 800 of these tigers world wide and under human care. the genetics that this cat represents are incredibly value. the tiger did nothing wrong,ha once person was in pits space, the tiger acted, did what tigers do, and so we're going to fix the process so that this never repeats itself. but the tiger was just never a question to >>us. brendan wiley, we certainly

appreciate you getting up talking to us. our best to your zookeeper and keep us posted on your investigation. we will. thanks, savannah. >> just those live pictures, the tigen that enclosure. >> back in action. let's take turn and if et the forecast on this monday. >> we have another area of rain, thing all that heavy or severe. we are looking at scattered thunderstos, in andround minneapolis, if you have any flights early this morning, keep in mind, that could create some ys. we will see this area of low pressure move to the east. we are going to see this cold fron trigger some storms across west central texas and amarillo across the panhandle of teans. >> that ce an area of isolated severe storms today. it turn into a stationary front tonight and tomorrow that will keep the showers and random down poursround san angelo, dallas will see some of those heavier downpours tomorrow. so that can be anyaer that could

see flight delays near dallas on ooesday. we areng at two to three to four inches of rain. some could end up with five or six inches ofrain, it is very warm down across the gulf coast, temperatures in the 70s and 80s, a little rainy, unsettled and out west, aside from showers in washington, highs in the mid- th upper-70s wit lots of sun. that's a look at weather across thcountrhe now re's a peek aug out your window. >> if are youwest, have you sunshine out there, temperatures in the 50s right now. we got a little breeze. >> that will die down as continue through the afternoon, temperatures shootg , low- to mid-70s for day time highs today. then we'rethe low 80s for tomorrow, average temperature is in the upper 60s. we head back into the 70s for ddle of the workweek, the reason we see the cloud, a disturbance off the east coast. >> that will

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. this is a news 4 tay news break. y7:56 isr time now on thismonday, april 22nd, 2019. good morning, everyone, i'm eun yang. mellissa, how sit going? >> good morning, fredericks southbound, we have everything shut down, all lanes have reopened, the delays are hanging around because of the crash. otherwise, looking gd this morning. belt massive issues, robably because of the easter holiday, otherwise, 50 westbound near 201. kennelworth, right lane blocked at the crash there. >> mellissa, thank you. we will take a break and check your forecast when we

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county. it ciftinues to lt to the northeast, we'll have some more sunshine, 74 degrees, you are getting sunshine in the west. there. little breezy out beautiful tomorrow, low 80s, small chance of rain as weead into thursday, friday, right now, keeping the weekend dry. >> lauren, thank you. news 4 is working with an impacting climate another local news update in 24 minutes. we are now back to the show after a short break. have

it's 8: it's 8:00 on "today." terror in sri lanka. who is behind t attacks on hotels, that's killed 300 people. police n saying 20 suspects have been arrested. we are live on the scene with the latest. plus, great expectations, the royal celebrating easter. as the world awaits the of prince harry's first child. and their faces ring a cbe. theast of "saved by the bell" reunites nearsy 30 yea after the show's premier.

>> we are here tonight with some old friends. >> the dinner date has so many people excited. on this date, april 22nd, 2019? happy birthday. >> here with my mom from south caroutna. >> a sho out to my students in the maricopadrama:ub. >> celebrating his 10th birthday. >> hello, free holt, new jersey. >> cheers 70 years from west virginia. >> i'm here to tell my friends and family, i'm having a baby! >> and good morning, everybody, welcome back to "today" we are celebrating easter holidays, we're happy to have with you us on the plaza. >> if you cannot, don't fear not. the hashtag there on the bottom

of the screen, #mytodayplaza. putt there. >> we like to have you with us. let's get to the news, new developments in the easter sunday bombings in i have la sr. officials say they were warned. bill neely, t good morning you. >> reporter: good morning, savannah, another explosion. this morning, another bomb went off about 200 yards from where i'm standing as army experts were trying to difse it. so the threat here has not disappeared. i am standing next toon st. an church where more than 70 worshipers were killed. the whole family had been praying together. the whole family died together. hundreds died, explosions not just at this church, two other churches.

hundreds among them, two americans, one american was also injured. another american is accounted for. i understand from the government this morning the fbi is on the ound now helping with the investigation. e police say they know the group responsible. but this is a t grouphat has had no experience, of this kind of attack, which is qayuisheyte di have the help onafdin rnational terror organization. but clearly, nothing like this has ever been sri lanka. but this is the worst o attackn christians in asia in livin memory. thank you very much. president trump facing new fallout. the house oversight committee chairman elijah cummings said he can proceed and the mueller report provides a road map. committee chairman jerry nadler

appeared on "meet the press" also not ruling out impeachment. that.may get to we may not. as i've said before, it is our job to go to all the evidence. >> do you think this is ha proven, yes, 'obstruction of>> if justice if proven woul impeachable. blasted the repon tue sunday calling it a total hit job. >> the field running for president is getting bigger. a man from massachusetts launched his campaign this morning. the trump administr clamping down on buyers of iranian oil this morning. the u.s. is poised to tell five .stions, including key allies thsaeync wtiilonls n if they continue tomp it oil from iran, those sanction waivers ar nogoing to be renewed on may second. japan, south korea, turkey and

china and india are theco untries involved. more fallout over racism and allegations against late singer kate smith. on sunday, the philadelphia flye a statue of smith outside the wellso farg center. they will no longer use smith's rendition of "god bless america." some of the songs she perform in the 1930s include racist lyrics. timfor the boost. i think we can all relate to the baby in this video, who wanted so badly a bite of her sister's ice cream. you see there, mouth wide, ready toshare, just one scoop, please. now, it turns out, the baby did already have some ice cream moments before this video was taken. so she had hers. she is looking for more andca y n never really get enough. >> look at the pleasure with which the older sister, though,

depriving. >> i know, she's like, it's not happening. >> it's like my house like my son would do withis little sister. >> all right, still ahead, we have a busy pop start, including how the team spent their holiday weekend. >> inside the royal family, celebrating easter and the queen's birthday. we will go live over the pond to ♪ and the only thing u have to say is wow ♪ ♪ make you're jaw drop drop say oh my drop drop drop ♪ ♪ make u say oh my god my drop drop ♪ ♪ make you're jaw drop make u say oh my god ♪ ♪ and you never felt this type of emotion ♪ ♪ make you're jaw drop drop say oh my drop drop drop ♪ ♪ make u say oh my gomy drop drop ♪ ♪ make you're jaw drop make u say oh my god ♪

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we are back with jenna's return to today's talker. two reasons we are back with jen, two reasons for the royal family to celebrate. >> easter happened to fall on the queen's 93rd birthday. nbc news' kelly kobiaya is live with details on that. >> reporter: good mornin craig,savannah. there is a very loud tribute to the queen today and royal fans he and around the world are also on baby watch, megan reallyd to go into labor any day now amid these new reports a young family could be moving to africa. guns firing in london to celebrate the queen'srt biay this morning. queen elizabeth turns 93 sunday surrounded by family at windsor

castle for easter services. prince harry is about to take on the new role of dad and possibly a new royal role, too, brother william prepares to be the future king. >> william is going, to be king harry is at the moment trying to find what role he will have. >> reporter: queen elizabeth serenad by the crowd as she left. heavily pregnant megan stayed away. she and harry wishing the queen happy birthday witth wback snaps on their new instagram account, where they shared never before seen pictures of themselves working well fants in africa. now sunday "time's" reporting the young family could be moving there, possibly sometime next year, citing a royal source saying the plan is to find a new way of user their softpower, prince harry has deep dies to africa, starting when he was sent to sentibale helping young children with hiv and calling

the country of botswanandis se home. >> that is from he took megan for a de a month after they met. the palace called the report speculation saying, in part, no decis have been taken about future roles. well, given it was my story and very well sourced, i think you can read if a lot to that. i think afra is the preferred option. >> r for now the focus is on the future baby ofsussex, megan and harry settling into the quiet frogmore cottage and keeping their birth plans to themselves. it's a popular time for royal births. prince louie was born a year ago tomorrow april 23rd and princesr chtte turns 4 next week. unlike charlotte, louie and george, baby sussex won't be introduced to the world on hospital steps, prince harry and megan itead choosing to celebrate privately as a new

23578ly. seventhl in line to the throne. as you can imagine, the baby betting is already in full swing. people putting their money on them giving birth to a girl and naming her diana, of course. >> >>oh. kelly kobiaya, so much happening in london right now, birthdays, babies. move t africa. >> the weather looks beautiful. haunk, kelly, dylan is here, carson is on "the voice." you have pop start. first upaved be i the bell, believe it or not, the beloved sitcom premiered 30 years ago, some of the alumni decided to celebrate over the weekend, former classmates, went out for dinner saturday night joined by their spouses, mario posting this photo of the gang back together which paul commented thanks for taking care of the bill. while we are still waiting for an onscreen reunion with these guys, i'll be figuringut how to get the invite fixed.

next up, chrissy mack. the actress just released her the music video over weekend for her powerful ballad "i'm with you." ♪ do whatever you go through ♪ i'm standing with you ♪ whereverou go to ♪ i'll stand beside you ♪ and when you think that all the odds are all against you < musical notes> and you just feel like giving up ♪ ♪ well, i won't let you ♪ so whatever you go through ♪ i'm standing with you >> the video atures scenes from the movie "break through" wh alstarring in.

congratulations to steph curr m power of prayerhi used to save s little boy, it's supposed to be fantastic. >> are you the steph curry expert? >> you know i'm not an expert on a eng. >> that could be your thing. finally easter, we wanted to share a little holiday festivities from overhe weekend, let's start with hoda, she spent the weekend dying eggs with haley and posted thisfa ly photo with her new edition. they gotet to me on friday, she's ecious. my son calvin did easter eggg dynd decided to knock the green dye on the floor, i don't think that's coming out of the carpet. we got this family photo. craig, you shared this beautiful picture of the melvin plan looking adorable and happy. savannah, from the looks of this video, veil and charlie opening their easter baskets. >> charlie opening up his candy.

all of them. >> exactly. >> what do you want to say? >> easter bunny, tha you, easter bunny. >> b nothing candy since then. >> i love it. >> your daughters. >> oh my gosh. >> in matching outfits, of course. >> i heard,actually, jenna and my la and poppy got a little something extra in their easter baheet? >> got something extra. >> sugary and swoo et? >> it's pretty sweet. i don't know if it's sugary. >> what are we doinghere? >> we're doing it. >> another? >> yes. >> what? >> yes. >> you are kidding me? >> i know. >> w have to say it. >> s, i'm pregnant. >> oh my god! >> i know and i'm only telling because my la and poppy found out in their easter baskets. they told the man behind me e a people at church. so. ye thank you. >> oh my god.

>> we surprised hecraig. >> wn is this baby coming and are you saying whether it's a boy or a girl? >> well, you might have to tune into for that. i this i so. >> oh my gosh. >> you all, i'm very pregnant. so i don't know how i hid this. but you guessed? >> i don't know. >> savannah and i knew, we have been jumping around dancing. i need seven or eight sports bras to hold these babies in. it a ock, it's a lot. but we're grateful. >> they are so happy? >> they are so happy to they're telling strangers. >> anyway. so happy for you. >> yes, don't say it like that. >> what does henry say? you will have a houseful? >> henry will be all of a sudden, what are we doing? >> i can't wait tore hear what you having. >> i'll tell you on commercial break. >> we're so excited. >> we're so happy for you guys. >> i told hoda, i was worried about it because we're starting

this new show. i toldhoda, i'm so sorry, she kind of had a glimmer in her eye and lo and behold, we're doing this at the same time. >> a total baby boom happening there. >> so when are you two ever going to be together agoen? >> never. no, we will be. >> we got to check the water around this place. >> i know, seriously. >> or drink it if you want some, pass it on. >> what a delight. we're so happy for you guys and yourhole family, it's exciting. >> thank you, thank you. henry needs the congratulations, because he's a little terrified. >> and then it all works out. >> do we haveime for a daily click? we do. >> how do you top that? >> you don't. >> okay. we'll get to it, thgh. the stanley cubs playoffs are under way, singer gavin degraw was given the chance to lts sine

national anthem. it wentff without a hitch, they could have used a little work. ♪. >> no, you see him there, just one step back, just missed the carpet. he slipped and he fell. >> oh my god. >> oh, no. >> he was not hurt. he laughed it off. how unfair to have to put the singer on ice. >> you know it's going to happen. >> everyone thinks the song is hard, just standing and getting the ice. >> he wrote on instagram, i didn't know singing the anthem was a national sport. >> you have o the weather? >> all right. amazing gracefully. let's talk about an april warmth. that's all what we have been missing. we g temperatures expected to get to 10 to 15 degrees above average. detroit 75, cincinnati 75, 86

degrees, almost high in st. louis. >> that warmth moves cleastward. eland low 70s, same in rochester chester. new york 71, d.c. 82. 12 degrees aboveaverage, a little farther down south. charlotte 83 on wednesday, charleston, south carolina 83, jacksonville, close to 90 degrees, that is all going to move in, in th,meantime we have the cold front that will bring isolated severe storms through central texas. we have stronger storms through minneapolis and wisconsin, the west coast looks good the northeast, we have that disturbance especially to southern new england as we go through the next couple hours. that's a look at tr, weathe now here's a peek out your window. >> we have temperatures in 50s right now, 6 in anal nap liss. we do have clouds, a little breeze, that's all becse of this disturbance off the eastern seaboard. lit pull any of the that wind

with it as well. 74 degrees, so a touch warmer than yesterday. heain, becoming sunny as we continue through t day. temperatures low 80s tomorrow, more rain showers towards the end of the workw . and>> that's your latest forecast. >> thank you. today, of course, rth day. there is an alarming trend developing across the country. >> in some stides, flor tennessee, they're starting to scrap their recycling programs. they say the whole thing has become too expensive due in part with our trade war with china, nbc news' gadi schwartz is here with more on that. good morning. >> ley, guys, good morning. this story was a total wake-up call. a lot of us, myself included, don't realize how bad of a job we do before we throw the o recycling inthe bins. to learn that china is no longer taking our trash, we head to san francisco, leaders all over the world are visiting to relearn how to reduce and reuse.

on trash days across thetr coun a heating crisis, new york to florida, oering to pennsylvania, small cities in a growing number of states quietly sending mountains of recyclables straight to landfills, all after china stopped most reshricyg as an anti-complugs campaign saying there was too much trash combined together, up to 25% was deemed unfit to recycle. not all is lost. one city is a world leader if reducing and re-using. san francisco. where we found recycling habits are taught early. >> where do we put our hard plastic? >> in recycling. that's right. >> reporter: here something as simple as a new paint job on a recycling job is enough to light up little faces. so when kids see you drivingby, what's their reaction interest. >> they get so excited. they want to get out. >> reporter: this is sans francisco' main sorting facility, processing 400 million pounds of recycling every year.

how important is it for people to clean out theirli recycng before they throw it away? >> it is ver important. >> most of the city has gotten used to separating sponsibly, allowing them to invest more into this massive structure. >> what what happened if nobody sort and it all came int this machine. >> would probably break the machine. in san francisco, people do a pretty darn good job of separating their recycling into the recycling bin and the composite in bin. >> rep pickingthe composite in city trucks has been a game changer. we're looking here with a warehouse filled with mountains of paper and plastic. you are saying that compositeing is bigger than this here in san francisco? 0> believe it or not, we are composting 80 tons a day of food scraps and yard trimmings. this city composting has some of it helping to turn waste into wine, enriching royal is at rd59ya

>> compost this. >> reporter: this 13-year-old, composting happens every sometime she empties her lunch box. >> i pit my napkin in the dirty clothes. this is a cloth napkin. all right. when is the last time you used a plastic water bottle? >> i felt bad about bing a plastic water bottle. i was almost a little mad at myself for not bringing a water i think the idea that it all adds up, like that goes somewhere and that piles up in a landfill and it's just not good. >> reporter: her mom proud to see the kind of conscience that could help save the world. >> i think we have to caref with what we do on a daily basis. we can't be so cavalier. >> it's such an impactf interview. since then i have been walking around looking inside of recycling bins. we got a pop qui here so before i used to throw everything i saw into a blue bin, right? what doou guys think? >> recycle.

>> do you have to rinse it out first? >> this is something they want you to t.ow aw this is a 5, a hard one. check with your local progra >> throw away or recycle. >> throw it away. >> why? >> it has this, this type of thing contaminates all the other plastic. if you clean it, yes, if you throw it aw it will contaminate everyt ang. whatut this? it has aluminum. >> recycle. >> i would do gore gage. >> you throw i now that carolina is no longer sorting this stuff, it's up to us to figure out what is cyclable. >> recycle. >> there part you thr away, this part you recycle. >> what about the >>ring? nd the ring can mix in, you saw those big machines, those can sort everything out. we've done a bad job just throwing everying away. >> this might be a good time for those guys to launch plic education. >> i think we need to. what's happened is we got so used to people sorting that stuff for us. it's now up to us. another iossible re-education

something we need to do. if you want to hope e help at home, we're putting another pop quiz for you to do, thene green thing challenge on today.com. it will help you decide what heitself test way you can help the environment. >> another eye opener. good information. thank you, appreciate itt straigh ahead, jane lynch in the house will tell us about the stars getting ready for something special. >> let's get ready to shop. e will reveal the highly coveted award winners after your

this is a new for today news break. >> good morning, 8:26 on this monday april 22nd. i'm aaron gilchrist. let's go over to mellissa molette with your traffic. >> the beltway looks okay. laurel b-w parkway, a crash. 197, right lane blocked by a medical emergency. 395 to 14eeth strtat bridge, n us. we are back in minutes. >> all right. we will get a check on yourst foreca when we com not all water

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maybe thursday night we'll have some rain. the weekend right now l king degree i. >> lauren, thank you. we'll get you the latest news and weathhe and t nbc washington app. they'll be her

♪ and and we are backfilming on a monday morning. 22nd of april, 2019. have a wonderful holiday weekend. we'll explain why so many are donning red noses. we're so excited. he is excited about the news. >> he is sniffing it out.nn je is having a baby! >> also somebody over there is y having a ba, too. babies everywhere! >> congrats. >> is rachel from pittsburgh anywhere? rachel from pittsburgh. where are you? over here. okay. >> oh, she is hiding from me,

where are you? wave your hand, hi, hi, hi, hi. >> how are you? >> i i heards your earth day birthday. >> it wis. >>t brings you this way? >> i love to new york a and the today show. >> have you been to new york? >> to new york, not to the "today" show. >> i love you. >> i love yo too. >> let's get a selfie. >> okay. we got it. rachel, happy birthday, thanks, for comi. so fun. earthday birthday i love that congrats on your baby. >> and coming up, we've told you about the cbd craze, the cannabis product that's turning up in everything fromcosmetics to foods and just ahead, we will hear from parents who claim it's helping their parents with autism we will talk about that. >> plus, we'll reveal the nners of good health keepers heaward and ttoisturizer t helps when you sleep and to the tan, no sun required.

i need that. >> it is a nice day. >> it is nice. >> sit going to continue? >> it will continue. just for you. at least here, not everywhere. you across new england, the sunshine is replaced by clouds. we will see the heavier rain move in, today a little coastal storm makes its way up the coast. we are looking at heavy rain, in southern wisconsin, that little disturbance fizzled out, more severe storms are dssn acro texas. the temperatures very nice in the 60s and 70s. we could see record highs in the southwesty the time we go into friday. heavy rain up and down the east coast is possible, though, it in go to be cloudy and grey, t ba the great lakes by the end of the week. we should still see a goods amount of sunshine, that's a look at the weather across the country. now, here's a peek out your window. >> we have clouds there, a breeze as well, temperatures in

the 5 s. we are going to head into sunny skies after lunchtime. and we'llo a get a little -- take on that breeze we are seeing out there. temperatures topping out in the low-mid-70s today, if you are headed out to maybe watch the caps game tonight, bring the tv outside, it will be beautiful, temperatures in the 60 in the evening and clearing skies and a light wind. enjoy. >> and that's your latest forecast. >> okay. thanks, dylan. >> > there are two times each year when red noses are in style, christmas and right now as we gear up for the fifth annual nbc news' red nose day special. here to tell us more is jane lynch the host of hollywood game night here on nbc. jane. >> that's right, it's so good to see you. congratulations, mama, so happy for you. >> first of all, these noses have gten an uplift. >> they have, we have four new characters. you can get them at walgreens, if we r out, we can run across the street and buy them. this is our fifth year, we are i

partne and $150 million has been raised so far, getting children out of poverty all over the world, the 50 states, puerto rico and some of the poorest communities in the world, it's a terrific effort. again, we are doing a special hollywood game night. >> how much fun is it. >> kelly clarkson, jennifer garner >> sean hayes. oh my gosh, help me out. >> lia thoh thompson, it's a hollywood game night. we raise a lot, goes directly to red nose day. >> howdy can everybo here, we see a lot of red noses on the plaza, how can they get involved? >> go to walgreens or dwayne reed's, by one, two, three, we have all these brand-new characters. all have names and acngch t.otear rs raise a lot more. >> jane, thank you so much. you will be back to have fun with us in the fourth hour. we will play a game or two.

you can catch the red nose special, including hollywood game night on thursday, may 23, now to savannah. >> thank you so much, coming up next in, could cbd be a potential treatment for autism? we will hear from one mother that says it really helped her son. we will take a closer look at what the research says. first, there is "today" on nbc. [vacuum]

♪ introducing fresh step clean paws, with low tracking litter. your vacuum becomes a cat toy. let's make litter less of a mess. let's start fresh. ♪ . we are back.8: on this monday morning, more with our ongoing look at the marijuana compound cbd. >> we see it everywhere, now some parents are using it to help parents with autism. it was first brother to our attention by wthr. thestephanie gosk picked up story, what have you learned here? >> cbd is everywhere. people claiman it c help everyone with just about anything. the reality is there is still little research to prove its benefit. at we found when it comes to

parents who believe it helps their children with autism. what they see with their own eyes is what matters most cbd is all the crage. theompound extracted from cannabis doesn't get you high like c. but those who take i say it does a whole lot more, lowers stress,du res inflammation, helps you sleep,ome claims it cures cancer. there is virtually no research to back up the claims. >> hudson. >> reporter: for mom allison rogers that doesn't matter. she says cbd is a great break sthrough for her hudson who has autism. >> it's gotten him closer to a quality of life than most of us get to take for granted. > repor for years the nom of five from texas struggles for treatment for his behavior symptoms, like wandering, a constant symptom of autism. >> you talk about kids outside your body. i thought i lost him.

i did lose him, it's an actual life or death siation. >> r rogers says prescription drugs made the 9-year-oldsi aggres. >> he actually attacked one of his brothers andlammed his brother's head and i was five feet away, i f couldn't movet enough to help either of them. >> reporter: in that moment, rogers says she felt absolutely powerless and knew it was a turning point. >> you wanto keep all your kids safe. sometimes you feel desperate and ou you start looking for things that maybe y haven't thought of before. >> reporte andhen she discovered cbd after a mom in huton's cla said i worked for her child, rogers now gives hudson up to 500 milligrams per day she buys online. >> he's more relaxed. we see more intensive communication. puppies? >> you get better eye contact.

>> repor in a statement, the fda sayti we cone to be concerned that the number of drug claims being made about products not approved by the fda that claim to contain cbd. >> we don't know what some of the down stream harms might be of exposing young people to the medications in the long term. >> clinicians say clinical trials are necessary to see if it's a viable treatment for autism. >> we hute to our brakes on and understand the extent to which these medications are safe, to him rated and efficacious. some preliminary international studies say cbdco uld prove effective and a first of i kind american study is expected to begin this year at uc san diego. another hurdle when it comes to cbd is the law. the federal governmenast year legalized cbd so long as it contains less tha .3% thc. some states have legalized cbd

as a qualifying treatment for autism. local laws in five states heavily regulate the compound, making it illegal for most uses. texas, where rogers lives is one of them. and treating hudson can cost her up to $400 a week. not covered by insurance. despite the multiplest obles, rogers is not willing to wait for the law or the science. >> i had such a dismat outlook. whateverlong-term effects are, i'm seeing so much nefi it at this time. it doesn't enter my mind. >> rogers is now working with hundreds of moms acrosshe country to raise awareness and change state regulations, texas removed hemp as a schedule 1 drug earlier there month. the state attorney general's office says it hasn't iss d a legal opinion on cbd so the

legal water there is are still very murky. >> all right, stephanie, thank you very much. we want to bring dr. john torres into this conv hsation. yourrt goes out to a mom seeking relief for her son, feeling she found it, what s oes the research, if any, say about this. >> you can understand, for the child nothing seems to be scientists say e the big concern is claims are far outpacing the science, we're not there with the science yet, it's right aund the corner, they're telling people, if you can wait off a little bit, in the next year or s we will get studies. the unknowns, we don't know the dosing behind it, how much they will need in thiscase, she was given a fairly high dose. we don't know if that will mawo, how d you will give. what you give the doses for. we don't know the side effects. >> there is so much out there on cbd right now.

how should parents be sifting through all of it? can they use it for all of it? >> the main thing parents want to do is watch the research. again, by the end of the year, there will be a paperut coming o talking about cbd and especially with anxiety and irrightability. in the next year or two, there hers will tell me will be more research coming out, we will have a better understanding d. maineyoncern th. i have, too, parents get roven t don't do the treatments out there, that's mainly the behavioral therapy. they're saying, don't do that make sure youo the behavioral therapy for things you know work. if you add the cbd, add that on top of that talk to your doctor, drug interaction, how much you give them. how the patient is reacting. >> devil, i have been lookinghi into t a lot. a big question with this different cbd oil products are out there. it's how much they have of that potent thc compound, which as i understand is the thing that gets you high. you don't want that in the cbow but h can you tell what's in

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live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza this is the third hour of "today." >> and a good monday morning, everyone. craig melvin here along with sheinelle, dylan. mr. roker enjoying a few days off. we want to start on this monday by sending our thoughts and prayer to members of the sri lankan community and those affected by the devastating bombings overnight. the death toll from a wave of bombings in that country rose to nearly 300. sevel americans are among the victims. roughly 500 people wounded. bombers targeted churches and luxury hotels on easter sunday. another explosion happened just a few hours ago. it happened this morning. police