Wisconsin in a nail biter. And that sets off a massive celebration on campus. A fifth title for the school and coach k. He is celebrating the big win with us live today tuesday april 7, 2015. F2 de nbc news, esto es today. Con buenos dias a todos. Good morning. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. That was everything a National Championship game should be, at halftime tied. Down by nine points in the second half. They come back to win it. Mike krzyzewski has won for the thumb. His fifth National Championship. We will talk to coach k live in a little bit. We want to get right to our top story this morning in the world of politics. Kentucky senator rand paul becoming the second republican to join the 2016 president ial race. He has scheduled an event today in louisville. Kelly odonnell is in position. Good morning to you. Reporter rand paul hopes a nineletter word will set him apart, different. When he announces here today rand paul is trying to position himself as a different kind of republican in what will be a large field of gop contenders. Hes not an establishment figure. He is trying to cut a different path. Finishing touches late monday from prepping the stars and stripes to the big screen staging. Today from rand pauls old kentucky home his president ial Campaign Begins with this movie style trailer. Its time for a new way, a new set of ideas, a new leader. Reporter the 52 year old inherited his president ial ambitions and grass roots organizations. Father ron paul ran three times. The 2010 Tea Party Movement propelled him to the senate. We have come to take our Government Back reporter and push his Republican Party beyond its comfort zone. Paul is libertarian, against most foreign aid and werry of military intervention and use of drones. Putting him at odds with gop hawks. I think everybody on our side except maybe rand paul could do better. Sglf i think diplomacy is better than war. Reporter pauls strategy courts Younger Voters. Last year paul who is an eye surgeon took cameras along when he performed free procedures. Paul becomes the second senator to formally announce a president ial run. First in the ring was ted cruz. Next week marco rubio will launch his bid in miami, florida with a broad field of hopefuls considering their next moves. And in a Campaign Season details matter and paul has dropped the word senator from his official twitter handle deemphasizing his place in washington making it easier for him to try to position himself as someone running as an outsider in a field that probably will have a bush and clinton. Thank you very much. Mark halpert managing editor of Bloomberg Politics and in louisville. Good morning to you. Good morning, matt. Different is the word of the day. This is a different rand paul than the guy who was elected to the senate four years ago as a darling of the tea party. What are the biggest changes . Look, the country is not going to elect a pure tea partier to be president of the United States. Rand paul wants to not just be different but try to win the white house. He is convinced if he is particularly on Foreign Policy he has a chance to be right in the hunt for the nomination. I want to talk about Foreign Policy in a second. Can he retain that tea party cred, the street cred while still attracting more mainstream republicans . Thats the trick. Hes a very talented guy politically and speaks a language particularly to Younger Voters that older republicans wont recognize. The ability to speak to his core base i think will sustain. The question is while he does that and keeps those people really energized with the special relationship he has, can he reach out and expand the party in a way that allowed people to say that guy can be a credible commander in chief. He is a young senator with controversial Foreign Policy views. That makes being seen as credible commander in chief tough. Lets take one Foreign Policy iran he defended talks and was one of 47 senators who signed the open letter saying any deal could be undone. An outside group is running an ad that contains a comment rand paul made about iran saying it is ridiculous to think of them as a threat to our national security. Does he have a credibility problem when it comes to Foreign Policy . He is going to have to convince people that his new position is more in line with where the rest of the Republican Party is. They are a departure from tone and substance from what he felt before. This is for me the big challenge for him. He is a talented guy but the Republican Party is not going to nominate someone who cant be seen as president from day one. Some of the positions on israel and iran are litmus tests. He will have to try to figure out a way to be true to convictions. In the ten seconds i have left on the scale of electability where does rand paul fall . In terms of getting republican nomination i think he is still about a four or five. He is in the hunt whereas other people wont be able to raise money he will. Thanks very much. We should mention rand paul will be our exclusive guest tomorrow morning when he joins us live from his First Campaign stop in new hampshire. We could have a verdict as early as today at the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Jury deliberations are getting underway after mondays emotional closing arguments. Pete williams is covering the case for us. Tell us what you can. Reporter good morning to you. This jury seven women and five men begin deliberations after hearing different characterizations of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev even though both sides agree he took part in the bombing. Prosecutors say when he chose a spot to set down his powerful bomb he intentionally targeted men, women and children because he wanted to make a point as a terrorist. Afterwards they say he resumed the study of violent jihaddest propagand propaganda. Defense lawyers at mitt he took part in the bombings but say it was his older brother, tamerlan, who goated him into it and took major steps in getting ready. The jury will begin hearing testimony probably next week on what the penalty should be. Pete williams on verdict watch at the courthouse. Lets turn to this guy talking about another round of really Severe Weather. April is making up for more than its share of Severe Weather. We had it last week. We are going to see a multi day event this week. This is just ahead of the system we are watching develop during the days over the next several days. We have warm moist air making its way from the south. This upper level low will merge on top of this bringing the moisture up. We have a fairly wide area of a risk of severe storms tomorrow stretching from central oklahoma including Oklahoma City, joplin, missouri, kansas city. The larger band we expect on thursday and this is where we not only have risk of Severe Weather from waco all the way up to chicago, but we also have an enhanced risk meaning very large hail, tornadoes likely between Central Missouri all the way up to chicago and parts of indiana and heavy down pours with this system anywhere from three to five inches of rain. Flood watches are very likely with this system, as well. Not only do we have a couple of days of Severe Weather by friday it makes its way to the southeastern Atlantic Coast and there could be problems here, as well. New fallout over the now discredited Rolling Stone article about an alleged rape at the university of virginia. The fraternity is planning to pursue legal action against the magazine. Reporter this morning Rolling Stones editors are still on the job despite a scathing report. These are not failures of dishonesty in an individual. They are systematic failures, collective failures. Reporter published last fall the article featured a woman identified as jackie who claimed she was gang raped at a u have, a fraternity house. Rolling stone retracted the story and apologized. The publisher says the problem started with its source, a really expert story teller. He saying we do not want to blame the victim. Two of jackies friends told us they wish the magazines reporter contacted them before publishing the story. The fault for this lies squarely on Rolling Stone. An attorney for jackie has declined to comment. She did not cooperate with the Police Investigation or columbia universitys review. Advocates hope this does not deter future victims. The article took the opportunity and went for sensational journalism. Nbc news. Obviously we have not heard the end of that story. Natalie is here with the latest on a sad story out of maryland. A father and his seven children died monday from suspected Carbon Monoxide poisoning. Police say they found a gas generator in their kitchen that had run out of fuel. Reporter police found the bodies of rodney todd and his seven children ages 6 through 16 dead in their bedroom. This by far is the most tragic incident in the almost 17 years i have been here. Reporter the family likely poisoned by Carbon Monoxide in a generator. Police say they discovered the family after being contacted by a concerned coworker of todd. This does not feel right to me. My heart goes out to his family. Reporter the incident in maryland comes one day after three people died of Carbon Monoxide poisoning at a house in tennessee. Two other members of the family were taken to the hospital. According to centers for Disease Control unintentional exposure to Carbon Monoxide causes about 400 deaths and more than 20,000 injuries each year. Friends and families say rodney todd hadnt been able to keep up with his electric bill but describe him as hard working and devoted father. You couldnt ask for a better father and a better man. He has had his kids for three years by himself. He did the best he could with what he had. So sad. Police say no foul play is suspected. An official cause of death was pending a medical examiners report today. Senator john mccain says he plans to run for a sixth term on capitol hill. The 78yearold senator from as said im more than ready and in some ways i am eager. For any voter who says he is turning 80, it is a sixyear term that is worrisome what do you say . I say watch me. Take a look at my 18hour days. Take a look at the hearings we have and my legislative accomplishments. Im just getting started. This year mccain landed a job as chairman of the Senate Armed Services committee. The position gives him a bigger mega phone. Starbucks employees, the coffee giant is picking up the tab for college tuition. Workers can have four years of tuition covered for online degree from Arizona State university. Starbucks said the decision is part of the commitment to redefine the role and responsibility of a public company. So far nearly 2,000 workers have enrolled in the program. An 11yearold boy lost in an australian forest for more than four days has been reunited with his family. His dramatic rescue was caught on camera as helicopters spotted the boy sending rescuers racing down an embankment to reach him. Officials are calling the rescue a miracle after the boy survived nights of freezing cold and rain. More proof that a little teamwork can go a long way. Dozens of commuters pitched in to free a woman whose leg was stuck between a train car and platform in moscow russia. They rocked the train back and forth until she was able to get free. Took about 15 seconds. The woman was taken to the hospital with a minor leg injury but otherwise was okay. Incredible. It shows you the power of everybody working together. The scary part is the train is rocking. Does it do more damage on the way back . Unbelievable. Mr. Roker . Lets show you what else is going on across the country today and look at our map and show you we have wet weather stretching from florida all the way to new england. We are looking at more wet weather making its way into central and southern california. We will detail that coming up in the next half hour. We have snow showers coming across the northern plains, as well. We get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. But just a bunch of dreamers no way were just like everyone else we put our board shorts on one leg at a time. Start dreaming big at visitcalifornia. Com 7 16. Good Tuesday Morning. Im meteorologist christina loren. Tracking gusty wind and some pockets of heavy rain still impacting the bay area at this point. As we get into this afternoon, were going to continue to see that moisture roll through the bay area. And temperatures will be on the cool side for today. Upper 50s to low 60s expected. We are also counting on the chance for some thunderstorms, mostly between about 12 00 and 6 p. M. Tomorrow afternoon, a nice clear sky will return and were looking good to hit the 70s by thursday. Latest weather. All right, al thank you very much. Its good to be a blue devil this morning. Duke has claimed the mens Basketball Championship again. Tamron is here with more on the big game. Tamron . Absolutely. A lot of duke fans on the plaza. Well meet them a little bit later. Are you sleepy . Are you on the high of one of the greatest games in ncaa history . It was a great game. You stayed up . Tamron just carry on. So duke beat wisconsin, 6863. It turned out to be a great matchup in indianapolis monday night. So it was tied 3131 at halftime. You know that. The first time by the way, a championship game has been tied at half in 27 years. So you may not have known that little fact. So this as matt mentioned, marks the fifth National Championship for duke with coach k. Leading the team for each of those titles. And rightfully so. Duke students celebrated with great job on campus as they do with a whole lot of jumping and screaming. They always took part in a tradition sponsored by the university called the burning of the bench, stemming back from the good old days of 1986. Now, as for the brackets and, hang on here and the person who has a lot of buzz around him, mitt romney. Out of espns 11. 5 million brackets,or brackets governor romney picked the final four right down to duke winning this. Can you believe it . Not going to do it. 1 . Listen he said should have put 10,000 on my bracket. Congrats coach k. And duke. So are you ready to learn the winner of the today shows bracket showdown . Drum roll. Da da da. We all know. Youre right. Jack lauer is the winner. Great finesse and great style. Because your kid rules and his picks are pretty awesome, there you go can you make sure the youngster in your family who is the champion receives his orange room jersey. He will be the coolest kid at school. And you too. Matching father son outfits. I would like to thank the little people. Nice job. Good stuff. We are going to talk to dukes coach k. Live in just a few. Thank you very much. Staffers tell all whats being revealed about life inside the white house that has washington buzzing. And speak issing of the bees that had kids screaming in terror at the annual easter regular roll. The president trying to diffuse that situation. But first this is today on nbc. Coming up the poisoning of an entire family on vacation in the caribbean. You drop 40 grand on a new set of wheels, then. Wham a minivan tbones you. 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