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Reporter as daylight broke, more bodies were pulled from the debris, and the devastation from saturday nights disaster lay everywhere. Stephen kueffner, of the economist, is watching inch quito. You start hearing the window frames cracking, you feel the ground shake and then you look up and see the lamps moving. Then you realize that this is not going to be over quickly. Reporter the quake had a magnitude of 7. 8 and struck about nine miles off ecuadors coast in the pacific ocean, and about 100 miles from the capital city, quito. It was the strongest tremor in decades to hit the andean nation of 16 million. Drone footage over the provincial capital of portoviejo shows multistory buildings completely askew and a ruined infrastructure. Cars were crushed, homes teetered at precarious angles, and families slept on the streets, on edge after hundreds of aftershocks. Ed translated hopefully we get the support and help we need, because we slept in at field all night. Reporter faced with the disaster, ecuadors president , rafael correa, flew back sunday from a trip to italy. The priority of priorities is to save human lives but, of course, theres a lack of basic services, lack of water,e reporter theres almost nothing to work with in some of the hardest hit places. Again, repoter stephen kueffnerm in the beach town of kanoa the situation is so grave that there are about 400 Homeless People including 150 Homeless Children with extremely limited supplies and bodies are being taken to the local park as they have nowhere to put them. Reporter relatives consoled each other outside portoviejos morgue this morning, as more and more bodies arrived. The injured were tended to in makeshift tents set up by the red cross, with more than 2,500 people hurt in the quake. Diego castellanos is with the red cross in quito. La they dont have water. They are looking for relatives all the time. During the day. During the night. Some of the work or the job that we are trying to do with them iu just to give them the support. And also to give them the food and the water and all the support that we can. Reporter meanwhile, aid has begun to trickle in from neighboring countries, including bolivia. And a plane loaded with a 47 member spanish rescue team left madrid today to help with the search effort. It also carried 15 tons of humanitarian aid. Sreenivasan in the days other news, thousands of rescue workers in japan kept searching for survivors from two earthquakes last week. They hit the Southern Island of kyushu, on thursday night and again early saturday, killing 42 people. Rl the u. S. Military lent its support today, with tiltrotor osprey aircraftft delivering aid. Landslides and damaged roads have left hundreds of people stranded on parts of the island. Woodruff here in the u. S. , parts of houston are under water today, after more than a foot of rain hit the nations fourth largest city. Some 110,000 homes and businesses lost power, schools closed and hundreds of flightsun were canceled. People waded through waistdeep water in scores of subdivisions, and some used anything that would float to seek safety. The citys mayor warned theres more to come. The heavy rain appears to be sagging out of the area for right now but if you look on the radar system we can anticipatepa some additional heavy rain probably into late tonight going into tomorrow morning so this woodruff the flood watch also extended into western louisiana and arkansas. So sreenivasan this was president ial primary eve in new york state, with therye frontrunners hoping for big wins tomorrow. Ne Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton are well ahead in delegates, but both have suffered a string of recent losses. Er meanwhile, 300 people were arrested at the u. S. Capitol. Its the latest in a weeks worth of protests against big money in politics. Well return to the president ial race, later in the program. Woodruff the United States will send another 200 troops and for the first time, attack helicopters, to battle the Islamic State group in iraq. In baghdad, defense secretary ash carter announced the advisers will be closer to the front lines. But the white house insisted it is not mission creep. This has to be a fight that is lead by local forces with th support and assistance of unitet states and our coalition partners. Nd and thats exactly what weve done thus far and that hasnt changed based on the enhancement that were announced today. Se woodruff the announcement comes as iraqi forces are gearing up to try to push isis militants out of mosul, the countrys second largest city. Sreenivasan in ethiopia,ni Government Troops are hunting gunmen from south sudan who killed more than 200 civilians in a raid on friday. They also abducted more than 100 children. Ct it happened in an eastern region, close to the countrys border with south sudan. The ethiopians have now crossed that border, in pursuit. Woodruff a bomb set fire to a bus in jerusalem. No doubt it was a terror attack, police say. Two people were seriously wounded and the rest of the victims were in another bus and camp. Such attacks have been rare. In recent years. Sreenivasan the sreenivasan the syrian peace talks hit a new snag today, when the opposition suspended itsp formal participation. Only three delegates from that side attended a meeting with a u. N. Envoy in geneva. A senior negotiator pointed to new attacks by Government Forces inside syria. translated the humanitarian conditions and regime attacks and violations of the ceasefire, negatively affect the political process. We need clear and concise answers, and we need an agendada reflecting real political transition in syria. We want real negotiations, not farcical ones. Eg sreenivasan meanwhile, yemens shiite rebels backed out of u. N. Brokered peace talks in kuwait. They complained of ceasefire violations by saudi arabia and other supporters of yemens government. R woodruff back in this country, the Pulitzer Prizes were handed down for the 100th time. The Associated Press won the Public Service prize for its investigation of slave labor in seafood, in southeast asia. The Los Angeles Times was honored for its breaking News Coverage of the San Bernardino shootings, and the hit Broadway Musical hamilton won the prize for drama. Sreenivasan wall street started the week on a high note, the Dow Jones Industrial average gained 106 points to close at 18,004, the nasdaq rose 21 points, and the s p 500 added 13. Po woodruff and, on this Boston Marathon day, runners from ethiopia swept the mens and womens titles, ending kenyas dominance. Some 30,000 people took part, including victims of the bombing three years ago that killed three people and wounded more than 260 others. Some ran with prosthetic blades. Still to come on the newshour the fate of four million undocumented immigrants beforeor the supreme court. The candidates final push to win over voters in new york. Brazils president facing impeachment, and much more. Sreenivasan there was justen one case on the docket today for this shorthanded supreme court. But that case happened to be one of the biggest of the term a dispute over immigration, ander the scope of president ial power. The arguments inside the court drew hundreds of proimmigration demonstrators outside, chanting yes, we can in spanish. They were there supporting the president s program known as dapa deferred action for parents of americans. It shields some four Million People from deportation. My dad travels all over theda state of texas. Every time he goes out we live in fear that hes going to be deported and families shouldnt live like this. Sreenivasan congressional supporters also turned out, to defend the president s acting without congress approval. The president of the United States has taken actions that were clearly established today in the court that Ronald Reagan took. Ha that george bush took. It was made abundantly clear the ability of the president to grant deferred action is of long standing and based in statute and regulation. To deny that at this point would be an extraordinary departure from law and history. Sreenivasan but texas and 22 other states have mounted the legal challenge to dapa. They argue the president did overstep his constitutionalit authority. If we allow a president , whether its this president or a future president , no matter what political persuasion or their party, to make changes in their law without congressional approval, then we will end up with a perverted constitution. Sreenivasan a small group turned out today to support that position, including several from congress. Its very clear that even from the beginning they created groups or classes of people that would blanket amnesty under the directive given by the president. Sreenivasan . Sreenivasan lower courts have put the program on hold. But, with the death of justice antonin scalia, a 4to4 split on the high court would leave the program in legal limbo. On we get more now on todays arguments from someone who was in the courtroom today marcia coyle, chief washington correspondent for the National Law Journal and a newshour regular. Na whats at the core of the dispute . There are a number of issues before the court that texas raises about this program but the arguments today really focused on mainly two. The first issue has to do its a threshold issue, does texas actually have the right to be in federal court suing the government over this program . M . This is what we call standing to sue. Texas argues that it does have standing because it will suffer an injury, a financial injury, and what its going to cost to deliver license drivers licenses to these immigrants. The government contends they dont have standing, that this is not the kind of injury, itss an incidental injury. Texas could easily change its own law which provides these licenses to not give them to this category of immigrants. So when the issue was addressed right away two the start of the arguments, and here you had the chief justice and Justice Alito for the most part asking the most skeptical questions of the Obama Administrations lawyer, solicitor general donald varili. Chief Justice Roberts said, for example, isnt money the classic standing injury . And mr. Virili said, not in this case, its a case where its almost hypothetical, the program hasnt begun, texas hasnt incurred an injury yet. Let them change their law. And the chief justice responds well, if they change their law not to give licenses, wont you sue them . Again, mr. Virili said something hypothetical. Thats the first. Then you had the more liberal justices standing to the turning to the standing question with texas lawyer scott keller and Justice Breyer said your view of injury here is so broad that every time the state has a political disagreement with theh federal government, it would sue the federal government, we could have a flood of litigation. Sreenivasan so those are the two big issues. Thats one issue. Sreenivasan just one issue. Yes. The second issue is the fundamental issue, is this Program Legal . Does it violate the law . Did the president go a step too far . There again youo saw almost the ideological breakdown. The government said were exercising Enforcement Discretion. There are eleven million immigrants, Congress Never appropriated enough money for us to deport all of them but congress does give us this Enforcement Discretion that president s have been exercisingg for decades. S. Texas says, huhuh, this is a different type of program, by giving deferred deportation to a whole class of illegal immigrants, you are actually changing their legal status, and you cant do that without a congressional act. There again you saw Justice Kennedy saying to the Obama Administration lawyer, you seem to be setting policy and asking congress to follow along. That seems upside down. Sreenivasan so does the absence of Justice Scalia increase the likelihood this is a 44 just by the way youre telling us where the justices were pointing their questions . Absolutely, it does, and when i came out of the arguments, i think it wasnt clear to me, at least, how the court was going to resolve this. If they decide 44 that theyre on standing, for example, or even if they decide 54 im sorry, 53 that there is no standing, thats the end of the case for texas. Texas loses. But if there is a 44 split, the case will go on. It will go back to the districtr court in texas for a full trial. This was just a preliminary nationwide injunction that is holding up the program right now. The District Court has not ruled on all the merits yet. Marcia coyle, National Law Journal, thank you so much. Uc woodruff and as we heard earlier, tomorrow marks the New York Primary, a critical contest for both parties. The two frontrunners, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, both claim ties to the empire state. Today, they jabbed opponents for different versions of their new york values. You know, we love this city. You look at the other folks that are running. They couldnt care less about new york. We do care about new york, and we care about new york a lot. And we care about new york values. D i will not let someone like donald trump or ted cruz say woodruff to dissect that new york brawl, and all the weeksdi politics, its time for politics monday. Thats analysis from amy walter of the cook political report, and tamara keith of npr. P and welcome back to both of you. So lets talk about new york. Tamara, youre there. Youre in new york city. Whats th the state of the democratic race . Ththe state of the democratic race is they are both running hard. Bernie sanders a little bit later tonight has likely to be a very large rally. Hes been having recordbreaking crowds at hisnr rallies. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is c racing from borough to borough doing small, retail politicsli kind of events, more of a traditional way of running in new york. The polling would indicate that Hillary Clinton, this is the state she was elected to twice in the senate, that she is favored. The Sanders Campaign is in their fundraising emails saying we dont axe have have to actually have to win, we just have to windell gats so the Sanders Campaign is trying to set expectations and the Clinton Campaign says this is closer than the public polls have you indicate. Its a race, but all indications are that clinton has the stronger position in new york heading into the voting. Woodruff amy, what do you make of it . Bernie sanders is drawing huge crowds, 20some thousand last night, but Hillary Clintons ahead in the polls. New york is really a question of whether Hillary Clinton be able to get her group back and shes been on the defensive the last few weeks here. Bernie sanders has won eight of the last nine contests, outraised her in fundraising, put her on defensive on a whole host of issues, whether she will release the transcripts she gave to goldman sachs. It has not been a good couple of weeks to be Hillary Clinton. Y this is her chance to reset the race and narrative especially if she wins by a significant amount. She will getnt to focus on thins she likes talking about more, like the math and how difficultu it will be for Bernie Sanders to catch up. If close, she still gets the most delegates, still is on then way to locking up the nomination, but gives