to that for a good ten minutes as the 90 peopl made their way into my living a wicked weather day ahead with new forecasts on tornado throots and flash flng with millions in the path. they worked together decades ago. this morning bob mueller is trying to set thei record straight on what attorney gen tal barr reported from )tation. tragedy on the campusñr of e university of north carolina where two students wlle and others wounded by a shooter on the last day of classes. a nation on the brink. venezuela waking up inçó chaos after v a cruel dating site scam. a widow a a mom of four wooed with promises of love and romance until she made a

disturbing discovery. e scammer was using someone else's photos, and wait till you hear who he really is. plus a scare the hard court for steph curry and a milestone night for cc sabathia on the diamond. "early today" starts right now. good morning. i'm marlie hall. >> great being with you. i'm frances rivera. attorney general william barr is in the hot seat today amid growing calls for impeachment from democrats. testify eduled to before the senate judiciary committee, who is sure to have plenty of questions after is breaking news overnight. robert mueller himself was reportedly frustrated with barr's brief summary of the special counsel's finngs. mueller reportedly wrote a letter to barr in late march, objecting to how his team's work was portrayed, saying that itd dit capture the context and substance of the full report. nbc's tracie potts joins us with the latest from d.c. tracie, barr's four-page memo here led to prident trump as we all know claiming tot exoneration. >> reporter: exactly,nc fra, which wasn't because there was

this question about obstruction of justice that was laid out by the mueller team, but then barr decided not to pursue it, and that is part ofhi what testimony before the senate judiciary committee will be about. explaining why he decided not to rsue it. but this breaking news overnight is significant because it shows that therewas concern by mueller and his team before barr came to testify a couple wee later here on capitol hill. an now democrats are claiming that he committed perjury in that stimony, that he should either resign or be impeached because of what he said about mueller and his support of the summary, the four-page summary that was given to congress. this is what barr said when he testified on apri 10th. >> did bob muellersupport your conclusion? >> i don't know whether bob mueller supported mycl consion. >> reporter: well, if, in fact, as "the washington post" is he

reportin had a conversation with mueller and received this letter outlining the objections that mueller had, then there are a lot of questions to answer during his testimony today about why he said hedn't know if mueller supported his conclusions. so we'll continue to follow up on that. but bottom line, there are going to be some tough estions from democrats, especially, and maybe from some reublicans who want him to explain the disconnect between having received this letter and then testifying that he didn't know that mueller d objections to his summary. >> we may have more questionsft even that report is released hopefully at 10:00 this morning. thank you. now to breaking news inor n carolina where a gunman is in police custody after a shooting at the unc charlotte campus left two people dead and several others in critical ti condion. students are speaking out about thic chaot moments on campus. >> when i was in thelibrary i was on the second floor. all of a sudden, someone ran in,

yelled there's an active shooter, get down. wh wastic in the library. i guess noere to go. people were just running. >> officials say police responded within minutes and one officer immediately went to the suspect to take him down. hip-hop artist walk ca flakka flame had been scheduled to give a free concert at the school. the concert was canceled but the rapper let fans now he's safe. we go to our reporter in charlotte. >> reporter: it was more than five hours after thesh ting before charlotte mecklenburg police identified the lone shooter asol 22-year-trystan terrel terrell. homicide detectives spent hours interviewing him. "i shot the guy." thosean appeared to shou words as officers brought him into headquarters almosttwo hours after campus police said a lorne gunman with a pistol shot several students. despite his outburst here, chief jeff baker said the unnamed

suspect didn't utter a word once police took him into custody, a man police aren't ready to retase details abjust yet, only telling us this. >> he is not somebody on our radar. >> reporter: a police sour identified the suspect as 22-year-old trystan andrew terrell. a source confirmed he was a former student, a historyñ2hsp% who o dropped earlier this semester. the federal bureau of investigation has offered to help in this case as well. pending ld charges are against terrell. >> nate, thank you. now to chaos in venezuela as streets erpted in violence after u.s.-backed opposition leader juan guaido called for an enrising against presid nicolas maduro. heeding his call, anti-government protesters faced off with police in brutal clashes. a crd of about 2,000 people got teargassed and some people ere run over by armored vehicles. meanwhile, the u.s. learned that nicolas maduro was ready to leave the country amid the violence. >> we literally nicolas maduro

getting prepared to get on his airplane and head out of the country before he was stopped really at th direction of the russians. >> maduro denies thoscl ims. kerry sanders as the latest details and smome of the disturbing images. >> reporter: frances, this is day two now of the uprising. it's unclear whether those protesters will take to the streets again today. this asd the worl watches. protesters against venezuela's president, nicolas maduro, taking to the streets, calling for freedom. the country's military loyal to maduro responding with brutal force, including tear gas, bullets, and this national guard truck crossing a median, driving right into protesters, mowing down more than a dozen. it started early, flanked by what appeared to be uniformed members of the cntry's military, opposition leader juan

guaido calling on his supporters to take to the streets, saying, today the armed forces are clearly on our side. they are lsp& to th constitution, loyal to the venezuelan people. but it's unclear if guaido, who is view as the legitimate leader of venezuela by more than 50 countries including the united states, is actually getting widespread su from the military. these officers publicly backing maduro. and at maduro's government headquaers, crowds gath in support of the current socialist government. but as we found recently, many in venezuela are barely surviving, eating food out dumpsters. the nation's water supply erratic. simple medicines nowhere to be found. and at this hospital, we discovered children in kidney failure, some dying due to a lack of medical supplies. and another critical moment fori

venepu1ì(lc% in the last three years, an estitdf 3.3 million venezuelans have fled their country. more thanñi 70,000 calling sout florida home, where that ex-pat community is anxiously waiting today to see how this prising ends. frances? >> kerry sanders for us, thank you. a bombshell verdict out of minneapolis this morning. a jury has found former police officer mohammenuard guilty of murder. his sentencing is scheduled for june. he was convicted in the fatal shooting ofan unarmed bride to be who had1 called 91for help. nbc's kevin tibbles has more.ñr >> reporter: formerçó minneapol uarñi officer mohammed n found guilty of third degree murder and second degree manslaughter for fatally shooting justineçó damondin an alleyway inñi july ofçó 2017. the st-year-old auralian born life coach called 911 to report assault taking place behind her home. minutes later, she apparently

went outside to help.ea in she was fatally shot. >> shots fired.er >> reportover two days of tearful testimony, 33-year-old nu told jurors he made the split second decision pull the trigger when damond, wearing a pink shirt, approached their car in the dark. he aid, i fired once. the threat took a couple steps ck. did you just say the threat took a couple steps back? yes. the whole blond hai pink t-shirt and all, is a threat to you? his attorney said he did what he was trained to do.ve we haa tragedy, but what we don't have is a crime. prosecutors disagree. he knew exactly what he was ,oing. he pointede aimed, and he killed her. after two years, a jury's decision comes in less than two days of deliberations. kevin tibbles, nbc news. let's turn to the millions of people at risk for flooding and severe here's bill karins. good morning. >> good morning. the threat continues.

the tornado threat is ending bu theash flooding continues. flash flooding kills more people every year than tornadoes. as far as the ash flood warnings go right now, a couple in oklahoma, one in arkansas, missouri, illinois, even one plar detroit this morning. 31 million peoare in the flash flood watch. we have a lot of heavy rain to go. the worth of it looks to be in areas of klahoma, arkansas, and right through the heart of texas. we could see an additional one to threeh inces, maybe as high as four inches of rain. on top of that, more severe weather to deal with, about 14m lion people are in this scattered to numerous risk area this afternoon. here's a closer look at your day ahead. we will see isolated tornadoes. yesterday we had 25 tornadoes rouorted. we c see more tornadoes again this afternoon. we don't expect as many as yesterday. yesterday was a little mini tbreak. look how chilly those temperatures ano still in the hern plains. with all the active weather going on, we haven't talked much about river flooding. we're going to see the

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