and talk with his very upset mom exclusively today, thursday, may 24th, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on 7:00 on the west coast on this thursday morning. i m ann curry. and i m matt lauer. we re following breaking news this morning. police are saying the man being questioned in the etan patz case lived and worked in etan s neighborhood here in new york city at the time of his disappearance. that was back in 1979. so far the man has not been charged with a crime. but new york city s police commissioner says he has implicated himself in the boy s death. the latest in a live report straight ahead. also ahead on a much lighter note, a man whose fiancee broke off their engagement six months before the big day says he shouldn t be stuck with the bills for the ring and the wedding. he is suing his ex-fiancee. this morning what she has to say, and ask you to weigh in on our website. also this morning an olympic hopeful is in the
campaign treasurer since thomas gore plead guilty to obstruction of justice. both are accused of using campaign money to attack another candidate mayor fenty. mayor gray spoke to reporters as he left the wilson building today. matt ackland has more. reporter: the mayor doesn t want to on didn t want to talk about this because it s a pending investigation. federal authorities say thomas gore and howard brooks worked together to pay former mayoral candidate brown to verbally attack then-mayor fenty. tonight, many still want ton if mayor gray had knowledge of this. vincent gray s campaign for mayor was a long time ago but questions about what went on behind the scenes won t go away. mayor gray refused to talk about two of his campaign workers charged this week. this is an ongoing pending investigation and there is nothing, really, i can comment on and this is obviously continuing to unfold. reporter: according to authorities, brown was not lying when he said members of gra
here lives are endangered with rotating storms tornadoes bamut started alabama groups and power lines share offer no different tennessee and ohio and indiana high school level. in the state eight people died at least. storms coming through with company golf ball sized hail and wind. kentucky s governor declared a statewide emergency to tap into state resources and reports of people trapped damaged buildings small town in west liberty eastern part of that state tornado of bettering the midwest and south harrisburg illinois it still cleaning up from ef4 twister days ago hoping to be scared a second blow we are going to come back very resilient community twisters part of system rainfall and snowfall to chicago tom skilling live in the weather center more on the storm 33 states tied up in the storm system exploded today between 80 degree temperatures and the 20 degree readings to the north 150 mi. per hour jet stream. thunderstorms producing super cellular cells producing t