Im betty nguyen. It is official, Speaker Paul Ryan is not in any way, shape or form seeking the presidency. So let me be clear. I do not want nor will i accept the nomination for our party. Count me out. I simply believe that if you want to be the nominee for our party, to be the president , you should actually run for it. I chose not to do this. Therefore, i should not be considered period, end of story. And in an exclusive interview airing this morning on today, speaker ryan elaborated on his stance and touched on whether candidates who dropped out of the race could return if the nomination is contested at the gop convention. Im not going to foreclose on anybodys option. All i can say is that i believe the members of the rules committee who have yet to be selected, its compromised of delegates i think that they should have a rule that you have to run for president to get the nomination. You have to be one of the candidates running for president who ran for president. I didnt run for president. I chose not to run for president. This is why that this is why i say will not be the nominee for our party. We should select among the people who actually ran for the job. Meanwhile, the candidates running are looking toward new yorks primary. It is less than a week away and if the latest polls are any indication expect the frontrunners to have big nights. Donald trump holds a commanding lead, 35 points over governor kasich and while Hillary Clinton is ahead of Bernie Sanders by a smaller but still substantial 13 points. This as trump and clinton are setting their sights on one another. Nbcs Hallie Jackson gives us an inside look. Reporter from the frontrunners an inside look at their playbooks. Neither taking the nomination for granted but previewing their strategies in case of a matchup this fall. Her whole life has been a big fat beautiful lie. Reporter donald trump now hitting Hillary Clintons personal life would pivot to more policy in a general election and nbc news has learned from a top Campaign Aide who reveals he could go after clinton for not creating jobs. Pointing to the lack of private sector experience. Watch for attacks on benghazi and her email controversy. Look at the horrible scandal with the email. Reporter and a Campaign Source is crediting Bernie Sanders to move to the left. Clintons camp ready to take on trump. There has to be a form of punishment. Reporter already out with ads against him. Her advisers told Kristen Welker the candidate wont respond tit for tat to every insult but will hit trumps Business Practices like with Trump University to undercut hes not really a middle class advocate. Theyd target immigration and womens issues. Now on tuesday, the president ial library released several hundred pages of documents related to trump. It shed light on their relationship in the past. Be sure to check out john kasich and ted cruz on backtoback town Hall Meetings tomorrow. Meanwhile, trump participated in a town hall with his family last night. They talk about what it was like learning that donald was running. And ivanka and don talked about the recent controversy of not registering in new york. Im an independent so were not a family of politicians. We havent been in politics very long. New york has onerous registration and it required us to register almost a year ago. And we didnt do that. We found out about it, sort of after the fact. It was our first kind of foray into politics. We didnt realize how the whole system worked. We are less than an hour away though from a massive strike by verizon workers in the northeast. Nearly 40,000 employees are set to walk off the job at 6 00 a. M. This morning. This stems from an ongoing contract dispute between verizon and two unions. The communication workers of america and the International Brotherhood of electrical workers. Employees have been working without a contract since last summer. Theyre also upset over outsourcing is of positions overseas. The strike is set to be one of the largest in verizons history. If youre wondering if this will affect your service, the chief Administration Officer tells the washington post, quote, we are very prepared and they have trained thousands of temporary replacements. All right, move over mars because we have a bigger neighbor to visit. Russian billionaire yuri milner backed by Stephen Hawking and Mark Zukerman is announcing a plan to send a satellite to alpha centauri. It would be equipped with a solar sail and fired from the earth and the probe would travel at the speed of light. Standard probes would take over 70,000 years to make the same trip. Milner said it would take two decades to prepare so with the four years it would take for images to get back to us, it wont be your desktop background until at least 2060. Weve got a little time. Well, it is one of the largest donations ever though for cancer research. Shawn parker behind napster and the founding president of facebook has announced hes gives donations nationwide. It will go to fund 300 scientists researching cancer and its a new field that looks to use the bodys own immune system to kill the cancer cells. Former president carter was diagnosed with melanoma that spread to his liver and brain. After being putting on a new drug treatment he announced he was cancer free. New developments in the killing of will smith. Police said they found a loaded gun inside smiths car leading to more questions about the circumstances surrounding his death. While new Surveillance Videos may shed light on the moments leading up to the deadly encounter. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez has details. Reporter this Surveillance Video from a restaurant blocks away from the shooting appears to shed new light on former nfl star will smiths final moments. Police have said that smith was driving a mercedes suv and the man now charged with his murder Cardell Hayes was driving a hummer. In this new video, a hummer suddenly stops and is bumped by a mercedes suv. The hummer pulls over, but the suv appears to speed away. Seconds later, the hummer follows. Video from another business shows both vehicles driving by. Just down that block, police have said a hummer rear ended smiths suv and smith and hayes then exchanged words. Leading to the gunfire. The defense says hayes was not the initial aggressor. This cell phone video taking moments after the shooting shows a witness describing how the argument escalated. I guess this guy was like get out of the i have a gun and he says i have one too. And he shoots him. Reporter police found another two fully loaded guns one inside hayes vehicle and another inside smiths in addition to the weapon they previously confiscated. Pierre thomas is speaking out for the first time, writing on social media i witnessed a close friend, i thought of as one of my big brothers in the nfl, shot to death over a fender bender. Gabe gutierrez, nbc news, new orleans. Its that time of the morning. Lets get down to business with landon dowdy. Good morning. Hey, good morning to you. Were being tethered to the ground theres not a real hover theres a real hoverboard that can fly 10,000 feet in the air. Its unclear how it works but reports say its a turbo engine fueled by a backpack. No word when youll be able to buy one though. Samsungs newest tvs can set you back 20,000. Thats for the top of the line model which has a curved 80 inch screen with 4k resolution. Theres a feature called ultra black that cuts down on reflections. And walmart is expanding free Curbside Pickup of groceries including austin and kansas city. Shoppers can choose from 40,000 items online, you drive to the store at a designated time and a personal shopper will bring the groceries to your car. Betty, back over to you. Sounds pretty good. Thank you. Lets take you to some sports now. What is the hottest ticket in the nba tonight . Is it kobe bryants final game or Golden State Warriors trying to set a record for number of wins in a season . Well, ticket prices to the golden state game can land them in the record books. Tickets are selling for 300 for nose bleed seats and 17 grand for courtside. But we are hearing the tickets for kobe bryants final game is even higher. Two hot games. The penalties for texting while driving they are about to get a whole lot more serious. Plus, president obama forgiving billions in Student Loans. Find out who benefits. Youre watching first look. They said it wasnt possible. To make a sunscreen you can apply to wet skin. A wrinkle cream that works in one week. 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When you see hailstones going through the living room window, that is impressive. Look at siding on some of the homes too. Millions of dollars worth of damage were done. Some even pierced a couple of roofs. Heres a picture of a bigger one i saw. Softball sized hail in wylie. Last night, this thunderstorm complex intensified over the top of san antonio and areas to the north. Thats moving into areas around houston. Now into louisiana. Even last night, i mean, it wasnt as big, but it was still pretty big. Thats a tennis ball sized hail there. So well continue to be watching these storms as we go throughout the day. Northern gulf coast is the target. Most of the heavy storms and lightning is off the coast. But we have a setup for additional storms. This is i10 in new orleans and tallahassee. Even rain up to montgomery. The northern half of the country were doing our big warmup. Today in the 70s. 60s in areas in the midwest and 50 still 50s in new england. Hold on. By sunday, should be 70 in the northeast. All right. Bring it thats what we say. Thank you. Over 7. 7 billion in federal Student Loans will soon be erased. The Obama Administration made the announcement tuesday. It will help nearly 400,000 permanently disabled americans with their student debt. It streamlines a plan by identifying those who are eligible and actually reaching out to them. Letters from the department will be sent out next week. Police in new york may soon be equipped with a text alizer. What is that . Well, a new device that can determine if a driver involved in a crash was driving while texting. So make sure you dont do it or youll get caught. Well, this may be hard to believe. But right now, in the year 2016, women in the u. S. Are still making 21 less than men for doing the same job. It is an issue that brought about the commemoration of equal pay day and Andrea Mitchell explains why the day is so important. Reporter the average woman makes 79 cents for every dollar a man makes. From the world cup winning u. S. Womens soccer team, paid 40 of what the mens team earned. Just like what do we have to do in order to close that gap . Reporter equal pay day marking how much longer women have to work this year to catch up to what men made last year. Working moms have to work until june 4th. Africanamerican women must work until august 23rd. Latinas until november 1st. The state with the biggest pay gap louisiana. The smallest right near new york. Where experts say women have greater access to highpaying jobs. In addition to equal pay for equal work for men and women, women are really conceed about fully paid maternity leave, child care and time off. Reporter the industrys giving women the best chance at a pay raise Financial Services and health care. Education, teachers ranking worst. That was nbcs Andrea Mitchell reporting. North carolinas governor attempts to walk back parts of that controversial antilgbt rights law and jimmy fallon on an important tidbit said by john kasich. Scrambled politics is next. Trees . Eese. Xerox helps hospitals use Electronic Health records so doctors provide more personalized care. Cheese . Cheese patient care can work better. With xerox. Thats it. How was your commute . Good. Yours . Good. Xerox real time analytics make transit systems run more smoothly. And morning chitchat. Less interesting. Transportation can work better. With xerox. Thats life. You diet. You exercise. And if you still need help lowering your blood sugar. This is jardiance. Along with diet and exercise. Jardiance works around the clock. To lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. This can help you lower blood sugar and a1c. And although its not for weight loss or lowering systolic blood pressure, jardiance could help with both. Jardiance can cause serious side effects including dehydration. 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North Carolina Governor Pat Mccrory has issued an executive order in an attempt to walk back part of the states recent controversial lgbt law. It seeks legislation to reinstate the right to sue in state court for discrimination, but the governor reinforced the provision seen as most controversial. The part that restricts transgender people from using the bathroom that aligns with their identity. U2 front man bono addressed the u. S. Senate on the violent extremism. It was a serious call to action he could not help but suggest a week way to take on isis. You speak their language but you laugh at them when theyre goose stepping down the street and it takes away their power. I say that the senate send amy schumer and sacha baron cohen. Thank you. And jimmy fallon thinks john kasich may want to revise some things he had to say at a recent town hall. Cant forget about john kasich who is still in the race. For the republican nomination. He attended a town hall here in new york last night. Where he was talking about kids in school. And he had something pretty interesting to say. Take a look. One of the most important people you can find in the school is the janitor. Or the lunch lady. Because those are the people that kids feel safe talking to. And revealing their deepest, darkest, darkest kind of fears. [ laughter ] nothing is more comforting than a school januarier the is like, tell me your darkest fears. Okay. What . Call the police if that happens. Oh, my gosh. Im still laughing. Thats hilarious. Thats your morning dish of scrambled politics. Yeah, i dont have any of those kind of memories at all back in my school days. Let me bring in political analyst and best selling author ellis henican. I think you and i went to the similar kind of school. I dont know where kasich went. This could be the topic of your next book, you know . Janitors and lunch ladies. Janitorial confessions. Deep thoughts with the janitor. All right. Lets shift to this election. This thing is crazy. All right, the New York Primary less than a week away, seems like Hillary Clinton and donald trump are really setting their sights on each other. Are the gloves about to come off . What do you mean about to . Six months away from the election they have ads against each other. Right . You have to feel a little dissed if youre Bernie Sanders or ted cruz. Hey hey, what about me . Run against me . But, you know, listen, theyre still the likely frontrunners. We dont know for sure, but chances are, thats going to be whos on the ballot in november. Well, speaking of Bernie Sanders, hes doing a shift here. He is leaving the campaign trail thursday to travel to vatican city. Some sanders supporters really worry since hes an underdog is it in his best interest and best use of his time to do this especially given the fact hes not even publicly meeting with the pope . Theres not a lot of primary voters hanging out at the vatican, thats for sure. Yes is this odd to you . It is. Listen, i love the pope. I think bernie connects wonderfully with the vatican these days, but yeah, i think its odd. He might have agree and then realized oh wait a second, im also running for president. Yeah. Doesnt really work with my schedule here, but could he be thinking of a general election here and youre looking at what a jewish politician going to speak at the vatican. I mean, does that really resonate with some voters . Well, all of that is good. I like the sound of that, but you have to get the nomination first. I was going to say the New York Primary. I think that would have been a good thing to do in you know, july or august if it was looking good for bernie. I dont know. Its not the biggest thing though. Hell be back quickly. When it comes to this primary, were less than a week away. I mean, the frontrunner status between trump and clinton, is that disputable at this point or we going to things go awry . Well, listen anything can happen as we know. 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The exhausted pup was later reunited with her owner. Exhausted is right. My goodness. Glad the puppy is home though. Im betty nguyen. This is first look on msnbc. Dont forget to like us on facebook. Stay tuned, way too early starts right now. I simply believe that if you want to be the nominee for our party, to be the president , you should actually run for it. I chose not to do this. Therefore, i should not be considered, period, end of story. With all of the talk of a contested convention, house Speaker Paul Ryan says count him out as the president ial contender. And donald trump often reminds supporters he hasnt started on Hillary Clinton. Well, last night came another indication that a trump clinton general election could get nasty. Strike. Just 30 minutes from now, tens of thousands of verizon workers are set to walk off the job. But is the Company Prepared . Its 5 30 on the east coast, 2 30 out west. This is way too early. Good morning. Its wednesday, april 13th. Im jonathan capehart. Donald trump got his first newspaper endorsement yesterday. The new York Observer which is owned by trumps soninlaw Jared Kushner backed the billionaire business man in an editorial yesterday with less than a week until new yorks primary. Trump took his campaign to rome, new york, where he rallied 5,000 people after which he and his family sat down for an interview to talk about how he behaves away from the cameras. Do you talk to your wife and children the same way thatou