Right now at least 272 people are confirmed dead. More than 2,000 are injured. So far, there have been more than 200 aftershocks from the massive quake. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer reports from ecuador. Reporter a hundred miles outside of the Nations Capital of quito, the frantic search for survivors is growing even more desperate every hour. A crowd trying to save this driver of this car, only to realize later there was nothing they could do. Ecuadors largest city is in ruins. Bridges have collapsed, roads have crumbled, entire neighborhoods are flattened. This woman cries, my cousin is in the rubble. Anguish and devastation are everywhere, and so is the plea for help. Stephanie lives just a few hours from the quakes epicenter. Please help us. My country needs everyone now. Reporter in regions hard hit, power is out, phones are down, and many are the streets. That was nbcs Miguel Almaguer. Now to decision 2016 and tomorrows new york primary. Hillary clinton is counting on a big night as she edges closer to the number needed for the nomination. While Bernie Sanders looks to continue on with his recent string of primary and caucus victories. Sanders drew another massive crowd in new york this weekend. Just over 28,000 people showed up at brooklyns prospect park. There are 291 delegates up for grabs for the democrats tomorrow. And the latest polling shows clinton out in front by 10 . For the republicans, donald trump has a 33 lead on ted cruz. There are 95 delegates at stake for the republicans. Over the weekend, cruz won all 14 delegates at the wyoming convention. He still trails trump by almost 200 delegates. And we have two reports for you now, starting with nbcs jacob rascon covering the republicans. Reporter on the home stretch in ahead by the widest margin of the primary season, campaigning as if the race was neck and neck. 12 Campaign Stops in 12 days. We have to win by big numbers because we have a system thats absolutely rigged. Its rigged. Reporter determined not just to win but to mathematically wipe out rival ted cruz. When he gets wiped out in new york, which he will, he no longer has a road to the nomination. Reporter pivoting confidently past cleveland, the master of name calling poor jeb. Little marco. Lying ted cruz. Reporter trump now testing political death by nickname on the other front runner. Crooked hillary. Reporter meanwhile, ted cruz betting on a contested convention, shutting out Trump Delegates again in wyoming, saying this is how elections are won in america. Thank you and god bless you. Reporter but to trump, losing wyoming, where there was no voter primary, is a badge of honor. Thats not democracy. You know, youre allow people. Reporter trump voters buying his argument. It sounds like its rigged. The person with the most delegates should win. Reporter or maybe the most merchandise. Selling campaign souvenirs since 1992 whatever sells the most per that candidate, that candidate wins every time. Reporter the white house . The white house. Reporter every time . Every time. Reporter their prediction, donald trump. His campaign counting on a knockout before july. Jacob rascon, nbc news, poughkeepsie, new york. Reporter im Kristen Welker on Staten Island with secretary clinton. We have a big election on tuesday. The democratic primary. Reporter she and senator sanders making a final frenzied push ahead of tuesdays primary. This is a movement of people who are prepared to think big, not small. Reporter this as clinton is coming under fire after attending two california nd amal clooney. The top tickets for saturdays event, 100,000, prompting some sanders supporters to throw dollar bills at clintons car. Today, the secretary on defense. I am raising money to elect other democrats. Im a democrat, and i want to see us take back the senate. Reporter on meet the press, clooney echoed that sentiment but also agreed with parts of sanders argument. Its ridiculous that we should have this kind of money in politics. Reporter those words giving sanders an opening when asked if clooney is backing the wrong horse. Well, i think he is, but hes honest enough to say that theres something wrong when few people who are able to contribute unbelievably large sums of money. Reporter still, clinton is leading by double digits in new york. Sanders aides acknowledge a loss here would make his tough odds even steeper, but sanders has the money to keep going. His strategy now, trying to win as many delegates as possible and then pivot to more winnable states like oregon and delegaterich california. Cri meanwhile, saturday night live took full advantage of it all in the form of a mini seinfeld reunion. Youve been pretty vague in the past, but how exactly are you going to break up the big banks . You mean the Big Bank Breakup . Yeah, Big Bank Breakup. You break em up how . How . Once im elected president , ill have a nice sweat in the white house gym. Ill go to the big banks, sit them down and yada, yada, yada, theyll be broken up. What . No, no. You cant yadayada at a debate. Also, you yadayadaed over the best part. Now to a growing political crisis to tell you about. This out of brazil. Just as that country gets ready to host the 2016 summer olympic games, brazils lower house voted sunday to start president dilma rousseff. The measure now goes to the senate. Rousseff is brazils first female president , and shes accused of using accounting tricks to maintain federal spending and shore up support. Last night thousands of proimpeachment protesters took to the streets to celebrate the vote. The fight over immigration heads to the Supreme Court today. The obama administrations plan to protect roughly 4 Million People from deportation is faced with a fight from 26 states. Texas leads the way, arguing the president does not have the authority to do this. Nbcs tracie potts joins me live from washington with details. Tracie, how is this all expected to play out . Reporter well, we could finally be nearing an end, betty, to whats been a pretty long debate over the president S Immigration plan. He announced it 18 months ago. Since then, its been blocked and tied up in the courts. Lots of people are already camped out in front of the u. S. Supreme court. 4 million dreamers, these are children who were brought to the United States when they were under 16 years old, plus parents of legal u. S. Citizens, all of them could be shielded from deportation if this plan goes into effect. The Administration Says theyre putting them on the back burner in terms of deportations. They would allow them to get work permits and other benefits. The 26 states led by texas that argue against it say that, number one, president obama doesnt have the authority to do that, only congress does. They also argue that this is putting an undue burden on the states in terms of the money they would have to spend just to issue drivers licenses. So those arguments begin today, bet betty. Then well see some sort of decisi tracie, thank you. And the Rocky Mountains get a visit from old man winter this weekend. More than four feet of snow fell in parts of colorado. Denver got about a foot of the white stuff. Portions of interstate 70 and 80 had to be closed at times due to the heavy snowfall. Sure is pretty though. More Stormy Weather is in the forecast for today. No, bill. Its all about texas. Really . Yeah, they had a ton of rain on the warm side of the same storm that produced the snow. A lot of flash flooding over the weekend. It continues. Now its a lifethreatening situation just to the north of houston. This is a fourhour loop. This hasnt moved. This stuff is just sitting here north of i10. Its not in houston proper itself, but in areas just to the north, about a half hour drive to the north. The water is piling up in a hurry. That water will head eventually downstream towards the gulf. Well have to watch that during this morning. Thats the dangerous stuff. Lighter rainfall amounts around dallas, tooyler and shreveport. You notice all of the red here, flash flood warnings with all the heavy rain occurring currently. Also, del rio under a flash flood warning. Flash flood watch continues for oklahoma, but it will be improving there during the day today. Today the real big concern is from houston to victoria to corpus christie. This is where we could see an decisional 4 inches, isolated amounts up to 7. This is on top of the stuff i just showed you. Thats the area of greatest concern. Everyone east of the mississippi, enjoy an early taste of summer. Thats your national weather. Now heres a closer look at your day ahead. Well, the concern obviously right now is just to the north of the houston area. During the day, those thunderstorms will drift further down to the south, maybe into the city of houston itself. Still chilly in areas of colorado. That snow is not melting any time soon. Thats some powder skiing. So youll enjoy 80s today, be y betty. Your friends in texas arent happy. Hey, we over here in new york and along the east coast will take this warm weather, absolutely. Thank you. S breathtaking encounter between a paddleboarder and a whale. On sunday, pennsylvania became the nations 24th state to approve a medical marijuana program. Governor tom wolf signed the bill into law, but it could take up to two years to set regulations and open retailers. Youre watching early today. Wildlife rescue workers open up a lot of dawn. Tough on grease. Yet gentle. Dawn helps open. Something even bigger. Go to facebook. Com, dawn saves wildlife. 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Emergency crews continue looking for survivors after two major earthquakes struck the nation. Over 40 people have died in those twin quakes. Meanwhile in central chile, 4 Million People are without clean Drinking Water this morning. Heavy rains over the weekend triggered landslides that polluted rivers and caused them to breach their banks. Johnny depps wife, actress amber heard, has avoided jail time for illegally smuggling two dogs into australia. The actress pleaded guilty this morning to making a false statemenn card. She brought the couples dogs into the country without a permit. The Hollywood Alisters publicly apologized in a video posted by the australian government. I am truly sorry that pistol and boo were not declared. Protecting australia is important. Declare everything when you enter australia. And there you have it. Well, take a look at this magical moment. A whale breaching the waters right alongside a paddleboarder. It was a lucky meet and greet all caught on camera by a woman at a pier. Wow, look at that. All right. Time to get down to business, shall we . The price of oil has dropped more than 5 in Early Morning trading. It is now under 39 a barrel. This after the Worlds LargestOil Producing countries failed to reach a deal to freeze production levels. Apple netted 40 million worth of gold last year thanks to its recycling program. About twothirds of unwanted or broken products were made of reusable steel, silver, and gold. Apple users can join the recycling trend and receive an Apple Store Gift card in return for going green. And this stunning blue diamond ring might set you back around 35 million. The 9. 5carat stone belonged to a Young Shirley temple. She was 12 years old when she received the ring as a gift from her father. Itll be up for auction on tuesday. All right. Well, you got to see this. President obama schools steph curry on shooting hoops. Yeah, right. And a cringeworthy moment every male will understand. Sports is next. Ouch. Hi dad. Uh huh. Yeah. Sorry about that. Think about it there must be higher love down in the heart what do you think . And in the stars above hi ted, glad you could join us, these numbers. Bring me a higher love i could rise above why does your tummy go grumbily, grumbily, grumbily . No more questions for you ooph, that milk in your cereal was messing with you, wasnt it . Try lactaid, its real milk, without that annoying lactose. Good, right . Mmm, yeah. Lactaid. The milk that doesnt mess with you. Its easy to love your laxative when that lax loves your body back. Aturally, so you have peace of mind om start to finish. Love your laxative. Miralax. Kids he came here from rocky married 27 years. Raised 6 kids. Including 5 boys. He had grandpa move in with us. Glenn we loved having him as part of the family. Its what you do. Kids in congress, dad will protect president obamas legacy. Hell fight for jobs and protect Social Security and medicare. Glenn ivey will never quit on you; and we should know, were his kids. Glenn im glenn ivey and i approve this message. Ill take on the republicans for all of us. I dont believe that big money can buy votes not in our district. And i wont claim to have single handily passed just about every bill in annapolis. We cant settle for the same old politics, not when our basic rights are being threatened by trump and cruz. Ill stand up to their bigotry and be a passionate voice for maryland women and families. In tv and in business, i built relationships. Me to get things done. Im Kathleen Mathews and i approve this message. Heres some sports action on your monday. At the white house, president obama schooling nba mvp steph curry for the program my brothers keeper. The program looks at opportunities for young boys and men. The president even offered him some shooting tips. Maybe i should shoot lefty. You should try. 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Just picture them out there light thing and thunder trying to go in these boats and rescue people. Thats what were watching outside the houston area. Theers a rest of the region loo be improving. But our thoughts are with the people of houston this morning. Those rescuers in the middle of the night doing their thing. Tough work. Important thing though. Thank you so much. Now to Entertainment News k. The jungle book earning over 103 million here at home and 136 million more overseas. Barbershop came in second with more than 20 million. The boss took third, bringing in 10 million. Pop culture power couple. John legend and Chrissy Teigen welcome daughter luna simone over the weekend. The social media savvy teigen took to instagram saying, luna, were so in love with you and sleepy, very sleepy. Good luck with that sleep. Not going to happen for many years. Congratulations to the proud parents. On friday, george and amal clooney held a glitzy fundraiser for democrats. Bernie sanders protesters were nearby. Clooney tried to talk to a protester who hit him where it hurts. He said i was some corporate shil. He said, you know, you sucked at batman. I was like, well, you kind of got me on that one. Then i walked away. That was basically it. He pulled the batman card . Oh, thats a low blow. Its always rough. You cant have a hit every single movie you do. Its always the dig. Batman will live on in infamy for clooney. Of course. He knows it. We all know it. Im betty nguyen, this is early today. Hey there, hi. Why do people have eyebrows . Why do people put milk on cereal . Oh, are you reading why people put milk on cereal . Why does your tummy go grumbily, grumbily, grumbily . mimics a stomach grumble no more questions for you ooph, that milk in your cereal was messing with you, wasnt it . Yeah, happens to more people than you think. Try lactaid, its real milk, without that annoying lactose. Good, right . Mmm, yeah. I got your back. Lactaid. Its the milk that doesnt mess with you. Quilted northern works their bathroom experience. Just like they forgot conductor randy, who sees all and forgets nothing. At least hes not constable bob. Now at 4 26, we are just a short time away from the search picking back up for a virginia woman who vanished in Shenandoah National park. What were learning about nicole mittendorff. Nd at road work that could impact your drive into work take. And the quest for the cup continues as we get you ready for the caps third postseason game. Hope you had a nice weekend. Chuck bell now more with what we can expect today. And expectations are that we can keep the weather this nice all the way through the week. And that is not going to be quite possible, but youll be loving the 80s for today and for tomorrow. But just as much as you love the 80s, you will be hating the pollen. It remains very high. Rain chances will be sneaking up a little later on in the week. Well talk about that coming up. Out the door for your job be here early this morning, 40s and 50s on your way out. Were headed into the 70s and 80s for highs today. Talk about hometown highs in a little bit. For now, monday morning construction. Northbound Georgia Avenue at colesville, we have road work still hanging around. Left lane gets by the work zone otherwise looking pretty good. Outbound 4 at silver hill road, left lane again getting by that work zone, as well. Taking a live look 270 at montrose, dont have any problems there. 270 at montrose, well take a trip in on 66 coming up. Thanks, melissa. Developing this morning, search teams will return to the Shenandoah National park to look for a missing Fairfax County firefighter and paramedic. Nicole mittendorff disappeared last friday and her car was found at the park abandoned saturday morning. Over the weekend, u. S. Park Police Conducted both ground and air searches for mittendorff. She is married to a Virginia State police officer. Police say at this point there is nothing that points to foul play in her disappearance. Our folks didnt do anything wrong. This was a typical check on the welfare type of call. That is Prince Georges County fire chief reacting for the first devastates ldevastate devastat devastatess will of a fellow firefighter. And now the chief is talking about how he and the department are coping after a firefighter was shot and killed. The firefighter is 37yearold john ulmschneider. 19yearold volunteer kevin swain was also shot. He is recovering. On friday night, the two forced their way into a temple hills home at the why of the homeowners brother. He was worried that the man was having a medical emergency. But when they got inside, the man started shooting. That homeowner was questioned and released with no charges filed telling police that he thought someone was breaking into his house and acted in selfdefense. As far as possible charges, the homeowner against the homeowner, the chief supports any outcome. If there is justice to be had, that its had. But i want the process to decide that, not us in a court of public opinion. As the department continues to mourn this loss, they tell news 4 changes will be made internally to make sure a tragedy like this does not happen again. Funeral plans for ulmschneider are set, visitation is being held tomorrow at st. Johns parish in hollywood, maryland beginning at 5 00 pc. M. The funeral mass is at the same parish on wednesday. He leaves behind a wife and 2yearold daughter. Firefighters set up a you caring fund to help support his family. As for injured firefighter kevin swain, were told he is showing signs of improvement. Swain survived after being shot four times on friday night. The 19yearold morning side volunteer is now out of intense of care at baltimore shock trauma. Im Kristin Wright at the live desk. Things have go