Matt about her stepfather Bruce Jenners transition and the impact on their family. I think when youre finally ready to be your true self, then youre prepare. And viva today. Romeo santos kicks off a very special week with a live concert on our plaza. Today, monday, april 27th, 201 announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Matt has the morning off. The crowd is here because Kathie Lee Gifford joins me on the show. I was going to say you dont look familiar, but you do today. We begin with the earthquake in nepal. The death toll is rising. Its now more than 3,700 people including 3 americans. A u. S. Military plane may arrive today carrying muchneeded supplies and search and rescue teams. And take a look at this. This is chilling video of the moment that avalanche swept through base camp. People are running for cover as they are overcome by a wall of. In a moment we are going to talk to a man who was there. First lets get to Richard Engel whos in kathmandu for us this morning. Ri y reporter officials here tell us any death toll is really just an estimate. They are still coming to terms with the scale of this disaster and the aftershocks are continuing. The entire city of kathmandu seems to have moved outside. Families live on curs trying to keep their children fed, clean, and most of all away from buildings. The Historic Center of kathmandu is the citys most popular by far with ancient temples and palaces and it bore the brunt of this earthquake. Where a tower had been over 150 years old, now just a stump. A temple reduced to a pile. Volunteers today were digging with their hands. They dont expect to find survivors, just bodies. Police have already found around 150 of them in this area. This woman used to come to this exact spot. Why are you helping out today . Ive been here every day. We used to come here and hang out. We used to sit around here. Its my country. Its my people. Reporter this is also the height of tourist season. An american visitor captured this video of guests huddled in front of their hotel during the earthquake and aftershocks. There was a huge crowd and we had a couple of big aftershocks afterwards. Everybod get down get down. Reporter kathmandu is on edge. But whats happening to the east on the slopes of mt. Everest is far less c. There were more avalanches sunday. Trails and camps swept away. At least three american have died on the mountain. A few dozen survivors have been rescued. Its unknown how many people are trapped on everest. A military official told us here that teams are now heading out to remote parts of nepal which are difficult to access even under normal circumstances which now may be inaccessible. All right. Richard engel, thank you very much. As we mentioned, crews are slowly beginning to rescue climbers who have been trapped for two days by the avalanche on mt. Everest as we see video of part of that disaster. Miguel almaguer has more on that. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. Saturdays earthquake spread waves of terror from kathmandu to the slopes of mt. Everest when the ground shook here waves of snow cascaded off of the mountain. At least 18 are dead there, dozens injured. For so many there was simply no time to run. The ground is shaking. Reporter this new video shows climbers trying to outrun a wall of snow. Fleeing into the tent as the avalanche heads straig. Among the dead three americans. Marisa eve girawong from new jersey who served as a doctor at a base camp posting on facebook just hours before passing. Day 28 on this arduous journey, snow is falling and my food cravings here are at an alltime high. Dan fredinburg was on a threeweek expedition to everest. Here is where all the things we have are. Reporter he shot this video in his tent just a week ago. His exgirlfriend actress sophia bush posting on instagram. He was one of my favorite human beings on earth. He was one of the greatest loves of my life. Tom taplin also from california also died on the mountain while filming a documentary. His wife said this was never supposed to be a dangerous expedition. An earthquake was unfathomable to me. Its just so shocking. Reporter saturdays earthquake comes just a year after an avalanche claimed the lives of 16 Nepalese Sherpas ending the 2014 climbing season. Since then a new route has been put in place by local authorities avoiding areas that have a high risk of avalanche. Dozens of injured climbers have returned here to kathmandu, an all too familiar scene of horror and terror on the worlds tallest mountain. Miguel almaguer thank you so much. Garett madison was on the mountain during that avalanche. Hes joining us by phone. Good morning to you. Good morning. First and foremost wed like to say how sorry we are to hear about your base camp doctor marisa eve girawong. How are you doing today. Today the climbers are okay. Weve come down from the camp where weve been two nights since the avalanche occurred. Today we descended and will evacuate base camp. Take us back if you dont mind when the earthquake hit. Where were you and describe what was happening. I was leading a team in the crew between camp one and camp two on mt. Everest. We were about twothirds of the way up when we heard an awful noise and heard avalanches coming down on either side of the valley. We thought we were going to get taken out. Thankfully we were only dusted by a snow cloud. Got on the radio checked with the base camp and learned of the awful destruction of the base camp. There are Food Supplies obviously, things you guys need. Tell us how important it is everyone get off the mountain as quickly as possible. The route from base camp to base camp was totally destroyed by the earthquake and the avalanches that came down. Tried to find a route back down but it was impossible. And there were the aftershocks creating more danger. The only option was to fly by helicopter. Fortun a break in the weather today. This had to be like the worst possible time for this type of a tragedy to happen. Because explain that this is actually the time where a lot of people try to climb that mountain. Absolutely. Yeah. The climbers were being set up from base camp. Staff a standing by. Unfortunately base camp was hit the hardest. We were for up in the mountain we lucked out. But a huge rock and ice snow cloud came down behind base camp. Garett madison, we wish you all the best. Thank you for sp. And everyone talks about in that region he are helping people in a way theyve never seen before. Its not turning into one of those things where sometimes theres rioting and looting and that kind of thing. Seismologists were just there a week and a half earlier and all signs were pointing to Something Big happening. What a terrible time for pit. Meantime youre following nasty weather. This is in stevenville, texas. I mean theyve gotten so much hail 19 tornadoes, but hail destroyed the windshieldf this m chaser. So much so they had to put goggles on to protect themselves. Now take a look at whats going on in rio vista. This is unbelievable video. You can see what happens here. Tractortrailer turned over flooding massive problems. Its going to continue today. You can see the lightning going on in the background. As we said 19 tornadoes already. More on the way. Heres what weve got going on. You look at that flooding. Right now weve got the subtropical jet. A lot of gulf moisture coming in. Right now we have tornado watches in effect for eastern texas and its extending across a good portion of southern louisiana until afternoon. We also have tornado watches. Were watching all of this thro so we have the risk of strong storms stretching from houston up to shreveport, mobile, alabama, new orleans as well. Enhanced area 13 Million People at risk. The tornadoes from new orleans back to lake charles. Tomorrow the risk continues from new orleans into tallahassee. About 2 Million People. Plus we have flood watches in effect because were looking at anywhere from 3 to 4 inches of rain. As you can see, the rainfall is going to be very heavy stretching along southern louisiana on into the panhandle of florida. So flooding tornadoes, damaging winds, hail. All a big possibility today. Houston the biggest city under the gun today. All right. Thanks. Thank you. Turn to natalie following a tr starts today. Opening statements begins in the trial of james holmes, the man accused of opening fire in a colorado Movie Theater killing 12 people and wounding 70. Jacob rascon is in colorado this morning. Reporter good morning. Nearly three years later a jury will decide whether he was sane when he did it and if so whether or not he should be put to death. Hundreds of people were packed inside that Movie Theater in suburban aurora colorado when Authorities Say james holmes entered wearing Tactical Gear and started shooting. He killed 12 people and injured 70 before his rijammed. Police had to disarm his boobytrapped apartment. The defense admits holmes carried out the act but will try to argue he was insane at the time. The prosecution will try to convince the jury his elaborate planning of the attack prove. S he was sane. The trial expected to take several months. The horror of that day to be relived in pain staking detail. Jacob rascon in centennial colorado thank you. The defense begins its arguments today to save the life of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. 21yearold dzhokhar was indicted on 30 federal charges. The defense has maintained that tsarnaev was manipulated by his older brother tamerlan who was killed in a shootout with police. Tsarnaevs defense is expected to take up to two weeks. Some dramatic video this morning after l of flames engulfed a tanker truck near los angeles. The truck was hauling 8800 gallons of gas when it jackknifed and exploded. The driver managed to escape with minor bumps and bruises. But the accident shut down the freeway for hours in both directions. One of new yorks most wanted is finally off the streets this morning. A surveillance camera reported new york police capturing a coyote that has been roaming around the city. Police cornered the animal at an outdoor cafe after an hourlong pursuit. They tranquilized the female coyote and she was taken to the Animal Hospital for evaluation and will be released into the wild where she belongs. And a movie night that is out of this world. Astronaut scott kelly sent out this tweet saying movie night in micro gravity. And you can see there at the top of the photo, they were watching the 2013 film gravity. Oh come on. Not really the movie you want to watch when youre floating along in outer space. Yikes. Its about a catastrophe that destroys the shuttle, leaves characters off in orbit. Couldnt they just have watched titanic . Thats not so good either. A documentary or something with a happy ending. All right. Thank you so much. And mr. Roker . Al again. We like you. Well see whats happening today. We are looking at more wet weather making its way through the gulf. Also a Beautiful Day out west. Look at those temperatures in the pacific northwest. Well detail those coming up. Were going good morning, im meteorologist bill henley. Clouds, some sunshine and temperatures that will be climbing into the 60s. The winds pick up this afternoon. Northwesterly winds 8 to 18 miles an hour. An isolated shower is possible today. Its gone by tomorrow. Look at the warmup. Sunshine, a little bit of a breeze. 70 tomorrow afternoon. The trend stays with us for wednesday. Up to 75 degrees. Then a chance well see showers for thursday and friday. Clearing out through the weekend. Sunshine sunday. Have a great day. Weather. Savannah . Thank you so much. Now to the talk of washington and the 2016 president ial race right now. Its the new book called clinton cash that raises questions about Hillary Clinton, her familys foundation and its foreign donors might have influenced policy during clintons time as secretary of state. Peter schweitzer is the author and he joins us this morning. Good morning. Lets put it bluntly. Are you hoping this book and the issues you raise in it torpedo her candidacy . This is not really motivated to her candidacy. Ive done two previous books that looked at corruption and looked at people in both political parties. What we have with the clintons is a unique arrangement where you have a powerful you know, public figure whos involved with all these foreign entities. If a person believes every word in yo book wouldnt that be disqualifying with everything youre saying. You say people donate and get favorable treatment by the state department run by Hillary Clinton. Certainly the evidence i think is pretty shocking and could have that implication. But really the motivation is consistent with my previous work to look at the whole issue of corruption. Do you have any specific instance in which Hillary Clinton directly intervenes on behalf of donors to the Clinton Foundation . Its a great question. What we have is a pattern of behavior. I was not in any of these meetings. I cant look into Hillary Clintons mind. I certainly cant look at her emails. So the question becomes what is this pattern . And this pattern consistently shows that donors give large sums of money to the foundation where they pay bill clinton a lot for a speech. Theres a policy action thats taken to the benefit of that donor. In some of those instances hillary cl reversing course on previous policy position. Thats why my recommendation is somebody with subpoena power, with investigative capabilities should look at this behavior. You think this is something that could be criminally investigated. I think it should be. I dont go in with the assumption it was criminal but i think it warrants further investigation. If everything in your book were put before jurors lets say, in a court of law and we were told to assume it is true have you proven a quid pro quo . Well i dont think a quid pro quo needs to be the standard. If you look at senator macdonalds, menendez those were not kwid pro quos. Its do people believe the events were connected and there was some sort of pay to play arrangement . And thats a question i cant answer but i think investigators should look into. You started off mentioning youve done bipartisan investigations. But a lot of your critics say you are conservative and this is a right wing hit job. Are you really claiming to be neutral here . Im not claiming to be neutral. But if you look at my work i have gone aggressively after republicans. I did a book on Insider Trading by members of congress and went after several republicans. You also did a book called makers and takers whose sub title said conservatives even hug their children more than liberals. I say read the conclusion to the book where what im arguing is on the left and right theres a misuse of science research. It was a humorous title. Thats the reason it was put that way. Got to go. Jeb bush is your next target. Yeah. Got a headline . Were looking at airport deals to land deals, but weve been on that investigation about four months. The book is called clinton cash. Thank you very much. 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We begin with breaking news were following for you out of Montgomery County. Sky force 10 is at the scene of a truck fire in audubon. Investigators say a tractortrailer hit a truck on south park avenue in Crawford Road. One of the trucks was carrying ink, another carrying sewage waste. There are reports the tractortrailer exploded. Lets get an update from Jessica Boyington. Well have alternates with sky force 10. This is video taken from a moment ago. This is live on the scene Montgomery County in audubon. South park avenue and Crawford Road. You can see a tractor trailer and tanker truck actually collided creating a hue among goss mess on the roadways completely blocking any traffic from going anywhere. In the next 25 minutes well have an alternate. Lets get you updated with meteorologist bill henley. Breaks in the clouds. Sunshine will warm things up. In fact the warming process has already started. Thats a live view from the Comcast Center in center city. 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