Authorities warning its a lifethreatening situation. And reports of funnels downing touch as we come on the air. Race to the finish. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton fight for big victories in new york. The only person, crooked Hillary Clinton does not run against is donald trump. And faces a new challenge from ted cruz after he sweeps delegates in wyoming. Ted cruz here this morning. Answering questions in a town hall only on Good Morning America. The sister of Hollywood Star sharon tate speaking out this morning. As a convicted killer could go free. Johnny depps huge apology. Protecting australia is important. This morning. Good morning, america. Happy monday. Look upstairs right now, were counting down to our coffee with the candidates town hall with senator ted cruz. Everyone getting ready right now. Theyre in our studio upstairs for lastminute preparations. Were not just live here in times square, were all across the country, senator cruz will be answering your questions this morning and his wife heidi will be joining us as well. Thats all coming up in our next hour. We begin with the severe storms putting millions at risk. Flash flood emergency in texas right now. New reports of funnel clouds right now and so far already today its the wettest day ever recorded in april in houston. Abcs phillip mena is in texas with the latest. Good morning, phillip. Reporter good morning, george. More than a foot of rain has at this spillway that feeds into the trinity river. Normally its so calm you can actually walk across it. As you can see this morning, it is raging. Here in texas at least 16 inches of rain turning roads into on obstacle courses. Were stranded in the middle of the roadway and the waters coming up. Reporter this abandoned suv discovered upsidedown on the other side of the railing. Emergency crews rescuing the driver of this red car engulfed by floodwaters. Even airboats deployed to tackle urgent water rescue. This outdoor market washed out. This row of pow irlines struck down. These fences and the bottom half of this gazebo, buried under water. And with relentless rain, comes lightning strikes, believed to have kindled this air tank fire south of dallas. Several explosions. Were completely engulfed. The downpour dealing a tough pitch to the local baseball teams. The danger here is far from over. The rain is not expected to let up much today. George. Okay, phillip. Lets get more on that from rob marciano. A slowmoving system butching into this omega block. Unfortunately for the folks in dallas, very slowmoving rainfall. Flash flood warnings will continue. Through the houston area. Theyre rising quickly. No doubt about this. This is ahead of the front thats yet to push through. Another 4 to 6 inches. Several rounds of this going through the next couple of days. Robin. Rob, thank you. We turn now overseas, a three deadly earthquakes hit ecuador and japan. Now, questions about whether the u. S. Could be hit. Today marks 110 years since the 1960 San Francisco earthquake. Abcs matt gut man is live if japan for us this morning. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning, robin. We have been feeling constant aftershocks here in japan. This town has suffered major damage, many of the houses here destroyed. Were actually in a street, knocking the houses right into it. The on other side on the ring of fire, ecuador, that quake so much more powerful. This morning, theyre clawing through the rubble in ecuador scrambling to save the living. That quake striking ecuador coast. Buckling overpasses with at least 270 dead, thousands injured and many others missing. Stretched to the limit. On the other side of the ring of fire, in japan, twin quakes rattling the country over the weekend. Rescuers scouring the mud in a lastditch effort to find the ten people still missing here. Landslides marooning the hardesthit areas and hampering rescues. The only way in by foot and then we saw it. There were cars on that highway when the earthquake hit. Cars dropping off the you mountainside. That blue one stuck hundred of feet down. Earthquake. Okay, just now we felt another tremor. More than 500 aftershocks registered in southern japan. This mudslide was over a halfmile wide. It came down roaring down this mountain, ring it in half and roads on the other side. Its not just japan and ecuador, the u. S. Also on the ring of fire and seismologyists here are worried. Its not a matter if were going to have future earthquakes, were going to have them. Reporter you guys might remember, that 9monthold baby girl miraculously saved over the weekend. She was chubby weeks and miraculously unscathed after six hours in the rubble. A bright spot in otherwise grim news day here. Okay, matt, thanks very much. Move on to the race for the white house. Stakes high for tomorrows big vote. Frontrunners donald trump and Hillary Clinton both facing tests in their home states. Abcs cecilia vega. Bernie sanders has new york roots, too. He needs a upset. Reporter new york is a mustwin for sanders. Starting right here. Hillary clinton heads into tomorrow with a doubledigit lead. Bernie sanders surrounded by a sea of supporters in his final push. More than 28,000 people. His Campaign Calling the largest crowd of this entire race. New york state help lead this country into the Political Revolution reporter this morning, sanders is in need of a big blowout. And Hillary Clinton is using all her moves to stop him. My opponent in the primary talking about taking on the interest, where were you . I mean, really. We were fighting tooth and nail trying to get universal Health Care Coverage passed. Reporter clinton on the attack, overnight, while fending off the newest attack line from her rival across the aisle. Let me tell you, the only clinton does not want to run against is donald trump. Reporter clinton telling george on this week bring it on. I dont respond to donald trump and his string of insults about me. Reporter over the weekend, her campaign taking in some serious cash. George and amal clooney hosting a pair of starstudded fundraisers. Price for ticket, 33,000 each. Sanders supporters showering clintons motorcade with dollar bills. Clooney said, theyre right. Theyre right to protest. Theyre absolutely right. Its an obscene amount of money. Reporter and sanders agrees. I have lot of respect for clooney on his honesty on this issue. Hes right. Reporter once again, the fight making its way on snl. Thats how we do it in brooklyn, baby for grabs here than any state so far. Thats whats on the line. To cut into clintons delegate lead, Bernie Sanders would need to win by huge margins. All right, cecilia, thank you. Now to the republicans. Donald trump looking for a big win here in new york after losing ground to ted cruz in the delegate hunt this weekend and abcs tom llamas is at trump headquarters here in new york. Good morning, tom. Reporter trump hoping to finish strong here in new york and steal back some of those headlines from ted cruz. This morning, donald trump on the eve of what may be his biggest single victory yet and predicting the end of ted cruz. When he gets wiped out in new york, which he will, he gets wiped out. He no longer has a road to the nomination. Reporter but as trump was adding to the hype, cruz was adding to his delegate total. Wyoming and picking up more delegate support in some states trump wants. We got a slate of delegates who are committed of supporting me in cleveland. Reporter trump campaigns said thats not the game theyre playing, describing wyoming and earlier colorado as sneakattack wins. Im sure i could met the head guy, thats not democracy. Reporter trumps delegate hunter telling george hes confident that they dont have to play those games because ballot. Theres not going be a second ballot. Reporter and Rosie Odonnells who has had a feud with donald trump, she came up in that first debate with megyn kelly, she now says that trump doesnt have the intelligence to run a game show. The delegate count going into New York Primary. Abcs jon karl is in philadelphia. Good morning, jon. Reporter good morning, robin. Over the weekend in the state of wyoming they held a convention, there were 14 delegates at stake. Donald trump was mia out there. Ted cruz won all 14 of those delegates. Ted cruz is slowly narrowing the gap, but hes still almost 200 delegates behind donald trump and robin, what that means, going forward, trump is the only one realistically can clinch the nomination before the convention in cleveland. But he would need to get 63 of the remaining delegates. As you see, cruz would need 88 and john kasich is mathematically eliminated from clinching before cleveland. Trump is about to go very friendly territory. Of course, tom was talking about hes poised for a big win in new york. Hell need a big win there. But then the following week, a whole bunch of states in the northeast, including right here in pennsylvania, connecticut, maryland, territory that should be friendly to donald trump. All right, jon, youre there in philadelphia for one of our watch parties for our upcoming town hall with senator ted cruz. Thank you, jon. Lets talk more now to abcs matthew dowd. We just heard jon talk about the road ahead for donald trump. Lot at stake tomorrow. Hes got to pick up just about every delegate. He needs a huge victory. He lost his mojo after wisconsin. He needs to get it back in new york. Its the only way that puts him on the path of the possibility of winning 1237 delegates. If hes not at 1237 at the convention he probably doesnt donald trump, no major gaffes, a different tone. He brought in a professional Campaign Team and hes had the most message discipline from donald trump in the entire campaign. Hes been on message. Hes been harping on this question the fairness of this delegation selection. Really, a new donald trump. Well come back to you in the next hour. Matt dowd on the democratic side, mustwin for Bernie Sanders. This is the last real big moment for Bernie Sanders. He has to win this. He has to win not really because of delegates but because of a political earthquake. Okay, matt dowd and jon karl, see you next hour. Coming up. On thursday, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton will be here answering your questions. Now to a major battle brewing at the Supreme Court. The justices are set to hear arguments on a controversial Immigration Law and abcs jim avila is live with more. Reporter this is the latest flash point deeply splitting red and blue states. Both sides are here in force on the steps of the nations highest court this morning. Like up to oral arguments. Does president obama have to wait for Congress Even when congress doesnt act. Allow 4 million lawabiding to stay here without deportation. Today the Supreme Court will get an eefrl. The ruling is expected this summer. People will watching closely today. Of air scare. A British Airwayss colliding with a drone. Abcs lama hasan has the latest. Reporter a possible drone and airplane collision. A British Airways on its way to london making its final approach to heathrow airport, thats when the pilot said an object strikes the front of a plane, believed to be a drone. Engineers inspecting the aircraft finding the damage superficial. Clearing the plane to fly again. We have had so many nearmisses with drones around the world. Reporter this simulation from virginia techs crash lab shows how a drone can destroy a jets engine in just seconds. The flying public is being put in unnecessary jeopardy with people who are irresponsibly reporter in the u. S. Faa has laws in place of flying drones within five miles of airports. Yet in these nofly zones, there are still 25 incidents reported stateside every single month. Aviation Police Officers here at heathrow are questioning that British Airways pilot to find out who was responsible and if it was a drone that slammed into that plane. Lets go to amy with the top stories. 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