Lived a healthy life, a vegan, and had no addictions we are worried about. Was prince hiding a dark secret . And lemonade. Back door the only woman when im not everyone is talking about beyonces surprise album, video and her message about cheating, recovery and addiction. Today, monday, april 25th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live in studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Willie is in for matt. This is what i get for going to bed at 8 00 on a saturday night. I didnt get lemonade. Hourlong video from beyonce, putting jayz at the front and center of their relationship. Everybody is talking about it. First, the republican race for president is getting wilder, if you can believe it. Ted cruz and john kasich afloun announced theyll coordinate in a lastditch effort to prevent donald trump from reaching the 1,237 delegates needed for the nomination. As you can imagine, this is not sitting well with trump. We have complete coverage, beginning with nbc National Correspondent peter alexander. Good morning. Good morning. Make no mistake, this is a major development. Ted cruz and john kasich are teaming up against donald trump. The strategy is to divide up the primary map, to clear the path for each other in select states. Ahead of the team going against trump, this antitrump movement, calls the move encouraging. The question this morning, so late in the game, will it work . Reporter for ted cruz and john kasich, a temporary truce to stop trump. Kasichs campaign agreeing to see the may 3rd battleground of indiana to cruz. Cruz agreeing to give new mexico to kasich. The competing camps releasing strikingly similar statements overnight. Cruzs team calling trump a disaster for republicans. Kasichs writing, our goal is to have an open convention in cleveland. Cruz blasting trump this weekend. Donald trump is the master illusionist. He is the harry houdini, engaged in an act of misdirection. Trump is a phony. Reporter trump tweeting overnight. Wow, Just Announced that lying ted and kasich are going to collude in order to keep me from getting the republican nomination. Destination. The agreement comes as trump eyes a clean sweep from maryland to pennsylvania. On tuesday, im expected to win all five. I hope. I hope. Trump pu reporter trump pushing back at calls for him to calm down on the trail. Wouldnt it be interesting if i changed and people said, this is the most president ial candidate since abraham lincoln, and then we started to lose. Reporter cruz predicted the fierce rivalry will disagree. Once i defeat them, i like every one of them. Right now, i dont like lying ted cruz. In four or five weeks from now, i think el hhell be one of my friends. Reporter the season turning off billionaire charles coke. He wont put a penny into trying to stop trump but they may take a pass on trump and cruz. Youre role models and terrible role models. So i dont know how we can support them. Reporter asked if clinton could be preferable to one of the republicans its possible. Its possible. More on that kasichcruz alliance, weve learned that john kasich cancelled all scheduled events in indiana. The procruz super pac says its now rethinking its 1. 6 million advertising buy against kasich in indiana. For trump, he put out a long statement overnight. Called it sad. Said it was yet another example of everything thats wrong in washington and with our political system. Peter, thank you so much. Mark halperin is managing editor of bloomberg poll siiticd nicolle wallace. Cruz and kasich need to do Something Else. Ive been surprised how theyve been doing the same things, expecting different results. This is also desperate, showing what position trump is . Too little, too late . Trump road into his megavictory on a message of a rigged system. Nothing reinforces it more than the collusion of his last two opponents. He tweeted about it. As you said, desperation, sad. Exclamation point. Are the campaigns telling voters, vote for other guys, or talking to the independents and money . Every dollar spent attacking each other you had kasich attacking cruz in indiana. They had to take all resources and say, every dollar we have to stop trump has to be spent against trump rather than against each other. Again, its a process argument, as nicolle said, this plays into trumps message, as opposed to a positive message. Charles coke, conservative politicians, mused about voting for Hillary Clinton over trump or cruz. General haden said she might be a better choice if kasich doesnt emerge. People who care about free market economic policies, free trade, people who adhere to the libertarian strain in the conservative movement or robust Foreign Policy are not growing comfortable with trump. We want to get you in with the democrats in a second. Hillary clinton leading in all five states tomorrow for primaries and Bernie Sanders is still drawing big crowds. Andrea mitchell has that for that. Hillary clinton is so far ahead in the polling, she could all but eliminate Bernie Sanders tomorrow. That said, shes still drhes s huge crowds and big money and making demands over the future of the democratic party. Reporter at yale, hillary and bill clintons law school alma mater, Bernie Sanders was mobbed in a huge crowd saturday night. Holy moly. This is a lot of people. Reporter and during a campus walk, sanders has the young people. To stop clinton, hed need to win every remaining primary by big margins. Our latest poll has him down by 15 points in pennsylvania, the biggest state voting tomorrow. Clinton is moving on from sanders, focusing on donald trump. Those insults, the kind of demagoguery we are seeing from him, you have to ask yourself, what really is at stake in this election . Reporter and in a new ad out today walking together now reporter clinton advisers talking about possible running mates, including ohio senator sherrod brown. Sensors cane or wornewarner, or elizabeth warren, though her can cl and clinton are not close. Also, cory booker and former Massachusetts Governor patrick. Sanders is now demanding that clinton pay a very big price for his full support. His enthusiastic support after the prix i mamaries are over. That she adopt their controversial positions at the convention. In pennsylvania this morning, there is a big prize tomorrow. We turn back to mark and nicolle. What is sanders likely to get . He wants to have a big voice at the convention. I think the clintons are masters at this, through the selection of a running mate. The slot that sanders speaks at the convention. I think theyll find a way to unite the party and make Bernie Sanders happier than he and his supporters are now. The Clinton Campaign turn td corner of the general election when the vp talk fwlbegins. What person should she look at . She wants to do that. Yesterday on meet the press, sanders talked about all the things that divides them. I understand hes still raising money and winning states, but to no end. I admire them for sort of employ plowing forward. I think until they settle the sanders portfolio, its difficult to focus on a running mate because itll be viewed in terms of sanders views. The u. S. Will send 250 special Operations Forces to syria to help Syrian Forces fighting isis. Touting recent gains against isis, the president said the added troops were necessary in order to keep up the momentum against the terror group. Make no mistake, the terrorists will learn the same lesson that those before them have, they are no match for our Nations Defense in our way of life. This move will bring the u. S. Personnel up to 300 up from 50 special Operations Forces already there. New information on the manhunt in ohio for the killer or killers who shot eight members of the same extended family, execution style. Marijuana grow operations discovered by investigators at special of the crime scenes. Gabe gutierrez has the latest. Good morning. Good morning. Investigators finished processing the four homes involved in all this. But the neighborhood behind me remains blocked off, as investigators scour the surrounding woods for more evidence. Still no arrests in a brutal crime that authorities are calling premedicated and well planned. Reporter this morning, a growing manhunt after an unprecedented massacre in rural pike county, ohio, and a possible motive as authorities confirm marijuana grow operations were at three crime scenes. Could that be related to a possible motive . I think, you know, we can speculate what the motive was. You talk about revenge. You can talk about drugrelated. Frankly, we just dont know. Reporter investigators say eight relatives were murdered execution style in four separate homes only miles apart. Maam, maam, youve got to tell me whats going on. Theres blood all over the house. Reporter some shot dead while they were sleeping. I just found my cuz within a gunshot wound. Any record of any sort that this family was involved in drugs prior to this . Not to my knowledge. Reporter today, with orange ribb ribbons, the county is remembering the victims. The child, just 16 years old and 22 and clarence, who went by frankie. His fiance also killed. So were kenneth and gary rhoden. The only survivors, Young Children. A 3yearold, 6 month old, and hannahs four day old baby, found alive in her same room. Unimaginable. An act of a person or persons that would come in, no warning, come in and kill eight members of a family. I thank god they spared the children. Why do you think the Young Children were spared . My only guess, and i would be speculating, but theyre not witnesses. Chilling thought. In 2012, authorities in pike county discovered a marijuana grow operation with suspected ties to a mexican drug cartel. For the murders, investigators are declining to comment whether they have suspects. Autopsies are expected to be completed on the victims later today. Willie and savannah, 25,000 reward is being offered for any information leading to an arrest. Just a horrifying story. Gabe, thank you. We move to the untimely death of prince. Friends of the pop star are opening up, as fans around the world are awaiting autopsy results. Joe fryer has the latest on that investigation. Joe, good morning. Savannah, good morning. We now know princes body has been cremated. The final resting place for his remains has not been disclosed. Fans at paisley park are still remembering how he lived and wondering how he died. Even those closest to the performer are searching for answers. Reporter private during his life, princes death is now shrouded in mystery. The autopsy complete but toxicology tests pending, as questions swirl around what the results will reveal. Itll take weeks before the medical examiner issues a report on how the superstar died. He lived a healthy life, a vegan. He had no addictions that we are worried about. Reporter a close friend spoke with prince five days before his death. He said he was doing perfect. We now understand that he was not in the best of health. However, perhaps hes in a Perfect Place now. Reporter in rhett retrospec those attending princes final party at paisley park find things strange. A doctor was next to him. He wanted everyone to give applause for that. He said five seconds later, lets give another applause for him. Reporter over the weekend, Close Friends and relatives held a private service at paisley park, celebrating the legends life. Musician and princes onetime fiance, sheila, said it was a lowkey affair, music playing at a low volume. You grabbed who you could and cried. We were in disbelief as to is this real . Are we having a big dream . Reporter prince was busy this year and received this custom purple piano from yamaha, a centerpiece for his tour. Other greats like Bruce Springsteen are filling the void. Purple rain, purple rain reporter saturday night live produced a tribute show, hosted by jimmy fallon. Prince has never not been cool. Reporter the Program Features princes appearances dating back to 1981, along with never released footage of his party last year, following snls 40th anniversary special. Sheila tells us princes family wants to plan a musical tribute for the public that would feature old bandmates and people who performed with him over the years. Its unclear when that might happen. One more note, in the three days following his death, more than 500,000 albums sold and 2. 3 million songs. A lot of people appreciating prince over the weekend. Joe fryer, thank you. Students return to class at a Wisconsin High School two days after a gunman opened fire outside their prom. Two students suffered nonlife threatening injuries after being shot as they left the dance. An officer patrolling the parking lot returned fire, fatally wounding the gunman. 18yearold wagner planned to enter the prom and shoot randomly. The officer prevented what might have been a disaster of unimaginable proportions. Monday morning, we have dylan in for al. Whats the week looking like . Okay though today is probably the warmest in the northeast. We had crazy storms, especially near kansas, yesterday. This is in Central Kansas. We have reports of quarter sized hail that shut down this road. Its i135. It was closed for a time because of these severe storms. There was a tornado watch in effect at one point, as well. Although it didnt amount to producing any tornadoes. We did see the gusty winds and the hail. Today, weve got another chance of isolated, stronger storms. In and around chicago, theyll be isolated but well still see the threat of medium sized hail. Also some damaging wind gusts. This morning, its showery near minneapolis with reports of thunderstorms. As we go to tomorrow, we have our better chance of strong storms. This area in yellow is where we could see stronger storms develop. Isolated tornado possible but hail and wind is the big concern today. Watch what happens as we go to tomorrow. Right through this Tornado Alley here, through Central Kansas stretching to Oklahoma City, we have the risk of baseballsized hail. Also a possible tornado. Outbreak, Long Duration, good morning. Im meteorologist bill henley. A sunny and warmer day today. Look at the temperatures. Upper 70s for south philadelphia and somerton. Middle 70s for bethlehem and easton in the Lehigh Valley. South jersey, plenty of sunshine. A few clouds later in thec day glassboro, warms to 77 degrees today. Low 60s Atlantic City. But closer to 70 for wildwood and with the southwesterly breeze, middle to upper 70s in delaware. Have a great day. Thats your latest forecast. Dylan, thanks. Check out this catch of the day from major league baseball. Wasnt made by a player, but a proud dad. This was in houston. It was a game between the astros and the red sox. A father with a baby in his right arm and a glove on his left, reaches over a couple of seats and grabs that foul ball. Well done. By the way, this is the 12th inning. It was after midnight when this happened. Really . Yes, and he still had the catlike reflexes. The little guy hanging in into extra innings. There was another one this weekend. Dads doing glove work around the bigs this weekend. Defense around the baby. Is it for protection or he wanted the souvenir. He had a glove in the other hand. The boat that belonged to two florida teens missing at sea for nearly eight months. Its been found off the coast of bermuda. On board, one of the teens cell phones. 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