today. and hulk hogan is back on the stand in his $100 million sex tape trial. the bazar scene of what happened next. "early today" starts right now. good morning. i'm dara brown. more primaries, more results. donald trump was a big winner, while bernie sanders had a huge % upset in michigan. trump handedly took michigan and followed closely by ted cruz, marco rubio and john kasich. cruz did win idaho, and a state trump didn't even campaign in, although he said he liked their potatoes potatoes. and michigan, where bernie sanders edged out hillary clinton, although clinton dominated in the mississippi primary and nbc news called trump as the winner in hawaii. speaking from florida last night, trump thanked supporters

>> thank you very much, everyone. this was an amazing evening. i want to thank the public, the people of michigan, i wantt to thank the people of mississippi. there's only one person did well tonit, donald trump. the single biggest story today is what's happening at the booth. the tremendous number of people voting. and the democrats are down. we're up by 50% and even more. you're talking millions of people. so i think it's the biggest story in politics today. believe it or not, i'm a unifier. i want to thank paul ryan, he called me a couple of days ago. he was very encouraging and i have great respect for paul ryan. and liying ted. and then he holds the bible high

i know politicians better than anybody, they're liars and they'll never get you to the promise land. and by the way, i can be more presidential if i want to be. and i've said this a couple of times, but more presidential than the great abe lincoln. >> and trump hit back in one of the stranger moments of the night, showing off his trump wawar, magazine and steaks and wine. >> we make t t finest wine, as good as you can get anywhere in the world. and i know the press is extremely honest, so i won't offer them any. >> and berere sandersighting back against recent polls. >> i want to take this opportunity to thank the people

polls who had us down a few days ago, who repudiated the pundts who said bernie sanders wasn't going anywhere and i want to thank the many thousands of volunteers for knocking on doors and making the phone calls thaha created this kind of enormously successful night for us. and what this means is that the bernie sanders's campaign, the ople's revolution that we are talking about, the political revolution that we're talking about is strong in every part of the country and frankly, we believe that ourtrongest areas are yet to ppen. >> meanwhile, clinton appears to be looking past sanders and not so subtlely jabbing her republican opponent. >> running for president shouldn't be about delivering insults. it should be about deliveriri results.

if we reach for love and kindne instead of bluser and gotry bigotry, we could see the best in each other, not the worst. if w lift each other up, instead of tearing each other down, there's nothing we can't do together. >> well, sanders w w in michigan was big, delegate wise, about even and with clinton's dominating performance in mississippi, she's set to win more delegateaid than sanders on the night. and trump has 456. senator cruz in second with 363. and trump is no doubt looking towards next tuesday with missouri and north carolina in play. and even though florida is

polling, trump is ahead. he was known as the fifth beatle, sir george martin has died at the age of 90. the news was broken early this morning by beatles drummer, ringo star who wrote it was 1962 when martin heard a demo tape from the beatles. he set them on a course that would lead them to the top of the rock andoll world and rise them to a level of ser stardom never beforo seen and even an academy award. and john lenin said george martin made us what we were in

he received a knighthood in 1996 and inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame in 1999. sir george martin dead at the age of 90. the search for a suspected shooter was arrested by the secret service outside the white house. saying he threw objects over the white house fence. he's accused of shootingastor 10 times on sunday, leaving him in critical condition, just one day after he delivered prayers at aed cruz rally. servl news outlets in spokane reportedly received letters with flflh drives, said to be from the subject. >> wunlsonce we got the information and realized the scope of really who could be in danger in this case, we alerted everybody. our federal partners were brought in, we were in contact

we began to alert anybody who we thought may be in danger. >> the pastor's son says his father is expected to make thehe full recovery. a massive manhunt in missouri that put schools on lock down as t`ey skoured. a mexican national suspected of killing five people is now in custody. the search began late monday when they found four men fatally shot in a kansas city kansas home and then the man hunt switched to missouri when a vehicle was found abandoned. and then they apprehended the suspect. they say he was deported in 2004 and reentered at an unknown date.

high-speed chase in n w mexico. they received reports of a woman reportedly throwing items out of her vehicle. the driver eventuall crashed at an intersection and fled from the vehicle naked. the 51-year-old woman was arrested and charged with multiple counts and there's no word yet on why she was naked. >> it is official. federal meteorologists say this winter is the hottest ever for the lower 48 states and alaska and they have their second warmest winter. that is 4.6 degrees above normal. record keeping began in 1895. the warmer temperatures are causing cherry blossoms to bloom earlier than expected. they say peek bloom is expected

one confirmed tornado damaged a mobile home park south of fort worth. at least one death is being blamed on the massive storm system. nbc meteorologist, bill karins is here with your storm update. >> we'rere not concerned with hail or damaging winds, we're very concern would the flooding situation in texas, and arkansas. just a ton of rain, lot of lightning. they're slow moving thunderstorms. already numerous reports of four to seven inches of rain. and that means there's fire workers out there in their boats. and there's a flash flood warning where they're sayingo get to higher ground. austin is under a flash flood warning. and that rush hour is going to be miserable. and this is going to be like this throughout much of the day.

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e reality star, jillian michaels is engaged. and "the daily show" asks kids what they think of the upcoming election. >> rubio, cruz and trump, i think they acted like a bunch of kids. they act like kids in preschool. >> and you should know because you were in preschool four years ago? >> yeah. >> and they're fighting over nothg and if they want to do that, they should go to jupiter. >> you don't want to act like children when you want to become a president like that. >> those are pretty interesting comments. >> you wonder what they absorb and filter at what ages and they're pretty young and getting the sense of this is unusual. >> this is crazy, yeah.

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