Is there a chance that man could Face Criminal Charges . And rollover. No winners in last nights powerball drawing, the jackpot the largest in history, nearly half a billion dollars today, thursday, may 5th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on tuesday. Savannah finally waved the white flag of surrender. Shes been sick for a while. Battling some sinus thing and i hope you buying tickets for everybody will make her feel better. Half a billion dollars, nothing to sneeze at. Well talk about that later. First, donald trump training his sights on the general election and Hillary Clinton. Is he the last man standing in the republican race. We have complete coverage, beginning with our nbc national correspondent, peter alexander. Peter, good morning to you. Hi, matt. Good morning. Republican race now officially over. Donald trump focused on his next prize, the white house. He says he will not be completely self funded in the general election, telling nbc news he wants to raise at least 1 billion for the gop. And once that reporter donald trump unrivalled and unplugged speaking to Nbcs Lester Holt, previewing his strategy to beat Hillary Clinton. We need strength in this country. Shes not strong. Shes not going to be strong at the brd border or military. Shes not going be strong with isis, no matter how you look. Reporter the candidate, who ev evicerated his opponents with insults. If they treat me properly, im going to treat them properly. It would be beautiful to see. Reporter already an uphill battle with the new National Poll that shows trump trails clinton, his harsh rhetoric fueling his high unfavorable rating, majority of americans saying they have a negative view. I dont know what youre talking about negatives. I won with women, africanamericans, hispanics, at every single level. As i suspend my Campaign Today reporter with his last rival, john kasich, suspending the race, the party is divided. Both past president bushs will sit on the sidelines, not endorsing anyone. Newt gingrich says trump has the upside and downside of any candidate he has ever seen. More likely to be crushing hillary. Mike huckabee now on the trump train and john boehner vowing to vote for him as well. The rnc tweeting, thank you tore the entire republican field for a hardfought race. The party is better for your efforts. Nebraska senator staunchly antitrump applying i assume this is a parody account . Preceding to go on a twitter tirade, pushing for a thirdparty candidate, why are we confined to these two terrible choices . This is america. If both choices stink, we reject them and go bigger. Thats what we do. Matt and natalie . Peter alexander, thank you very much. Hillary clinton finds herself in a challenging position for preparing for a showdown with trump while still dealing with Bernie Sanders in the democratic primary. Kristen welker is in los angeles with that part of the story. Kristen, good morning. Reporter natalie, good morning to you. Thats right, clinton is fighting on two fronts now but the battle against trump is her top priority, underscoring that point, nbc news has learned this morning that for the first time, the Clinton Campaign is expanding its general Election Team at its brooklyn headquarters, adding new staffers and giving some of their standouts bigger roles. Those headquarters now ground zero for taking out the presumptive gop nominee. Its the fall fight in sharp focus, Hillary Clinton and donald trump. No holds barred. This, to me, a classic case of a blustering, bullying guy who has knocked out of the way all the republicans, because they were just dumbfounded. Reporter trump, flooding the airwaves after clinching the nomination wednesday. I think hillary will be easier to beat than many of the senators, governors, et cetera, that we just were victorious over. Trying to make voters fear the businessman. He is a loose canon and loose canons tend to misfire. Reporter shes ramping up for the general election, deploying staffers to top battleground states, sending out fundraising emails, including one on wednesday which warned the whole world is counting on us to win this thing and making sure voters remember every controversial comment. He is the one who has run the campaign insulting people, demeaning women, degrading people with disabilities, talking about keeping muslims out of the country. Reporter the clinton team is also reaching out to independents and even republicans. This new ad showcasing top gop officials lamasting trump. Is he a phony. A con artist. A know nothing candidate. Donald is a bully. Reporter and shes bracing for the onslaught coming her way, trump with an anticlinton biographer this week, and already taking shots at bill clintons past indiscretions. Shes married to an abuser, a woman who claimed rape. If he wants to go back to the playbook of the 1990s, im more than happy to have him do that. Reporter and the former president made a joke while campaigning in san diego wednesday, when a young woman said he, quote, looked good. Its been a long time since a girl said that to me. Reporter now, president clinton quickly clarified that usually people tell him he looks good but for his age. Secretary clinton will campaign in the Los Angeles Area today as he fights to officially clinch the nomination. Natalie, matt, back to you. Kristen welker in los angeles for us. Thank you so much. Say good morning to mark halpern, managing editor of bloomberg politics. Good morning. Good to see you. Good morning, matt. Donald trump talking to lester holt said when he comes to the campaign for the general election he wants to see a policy oriented campaign. I wouldnt bet on that. Both of them are interested in putting forward negative things about the other side. Hillary clinton has talked more policies than donald trump. Name a policy shes talked about that really broke through to you, i usually ask people. I dont think shes done it so far. I dont think donald trump will want to make it a referendum on Hillary Clinton or bill clinton. In terms of try iing to coalesce and get the Republican Party to back him up, has it been that lukewarm acceptance or now with our nbc news wall street journal poll, trump is within 11 points, perhaps, of a Hillary Clinton matchup there. As that gets closer, do republicans need to back him up . He needs to coalesce the Republican Party. Peter alexander reported since the two bush president s are not for him, thats not good. But reach out to people in the general election. Coalescing the Republican Party doesnt get you to the white house. Those are two tough things to do for a guy who has never run before. As you look to the future you can learn a lot from the past. Lets go back to 2012 and talk demographics here. See what happened in that race and what does it tell us about what trump needs to do this year . Underlying the electoral votes you need and look at what mitt romney did against president obama. Can trump do better with white voters than that . Maybe a little but hard to do. Africanamerican vote, maybe a little bit better. Obviously, an africanamerican president will do better with africanamerican voters. And latino vote, he has to do better than what romney did. A lot of people say he will do worse than that, given some of the statements he has made that havent played well in the latin community. As he told lester, he doesnt see that as a problem. That was the primary. Here in the general election it could be more of an issue. It will be difficult for him to turn this around but those who say its impossible are those who underestimated him for the nomination. Were not in a normal year. Donald trump will run against Hillary Clinton the way he did against jeb bush and say business as usual wont work and Hillary Clinton will say this guy is not acceptable to be president. On one side of things, mark, theres the demographics. Lets talk about the geographics. Again, lets go back to 2012 and put the map up of what happened. Talk to me about how you see donald trump having a path to win the general election . Theres the map from last time, the baseline, president obama 332 electoral votes, well over the 270, governor romney, 206. Donald trump has to find im not great at math but about 64 additional electoral votes. Blue states, where can he go . Florida and ohio is where you always start. Republicans used to win those two big states. Democrats today say no, mitt romney lost those states soec s. So will donald trump. Those states on the west coast, northeast, those wont change. So florida, midwest, maybe colorado, where donald trump will have to find enough to overcome. Electoral college is all that matters, 270. A lot of discussion between now and november about anything else. Thats ke thats the key right there. Put that map back up. Will he find a Vice President ial candidate there . First big decision in the spotlight, pick somebody the country says that would be a great president if the time came and that person had to be president. Mark halpern, thanks for being here. This weeks firefight during an isisled siege in iraq in which a u. S. Navy s. E. A. L. Was killed. Chief Foreign CorrespondentRichard Engel joins us now. Good morning, matt. U. S. May be calling them advisers but this video shows that at times troops in iraq are in this fight and in combat. This video obtained by the british newspaper the guardian reportedly shows the pitch battle north of the iraqi city of mosul this week in which American Navy s. E. A. L. Charlie keating was killed. U. S. Military Officials Say dozens of isis fighters in 20 vehicles broke through a kurdish front line in a wellplanned and executed attack. American forces were advising the kurds. Under fire, more americans were called in for backup. While their faces are blurred run americansounding voices can clearly be heard. What is described as a u. S. Helicopter flies ahead. Nbc news has not authenticated the video. This is a large fight. No question about it. We think there are at least 125 enemy fighters involved in this fairly complicated, complex attack. Reporter the military says nearly 60 isis militants were killed in the hours long battle near in mosul near the capital of erbil. The third american to die in iraq since u. S. Sent troops back to fight isis. This is the video that u. S. Has tried to prevent coming out. This is supposed to be an advisory war, not a combat war. And that word adviser can be very misleading when you see video like this. Absolutely. A lot of troops are on their bases but are also pushing off their bases and, at times, right in the firefight. It shows you how much our Armed Services are still very much there on the front line. Richard, thank you. Thank you. Now to that raging wildfire, its forced more than 80,000 people to evacuate their homes in the canadian city of mcmurray. Its destroyed or damaged an estimated 1,600 structures and burned more than 20,000 acres. The province of alberta has declared a state of emergency. Ft. Mcmurrays downtown area has been spared so far. The fire chief says its being held through some herculean efforts by firefighters. Now to the North Carolina controversial transgender law. Saying the newly enacted law violates the u. S. Civil rights act and cannot be enforced. It requires transgender people to use public bathrooms that conform to the sex on their birth certificate. The Justice Department says North Carolina has until monday now to respond. A big story out of california right now. Starting next month, youll have to be 21 years old to buy cigarettes in that state. California is the second state in the u. S. To raise the legal age to buy tobacco from 18 to 21. Hawaii was the first. California governor jerry brown signed the legislation wednesday and Health Officials are applauding that move. The institute of medicine says 90 of daily smokers began using tobacco before turning 19. Back to that frightening video we showed you at the top of the show, that severe turbulence sending an airplane full of passengers into a panic. More than 30 people were injured on that flight from abu dhabi to jakarta. You can see some of the passengers praying there. The plane landed ten minutes later. 30 people were taken to the hospital. Thankfully, everyone expected to be okay. Frightening moments on board. If you live thud turbulence on a plane, that is no fun at all. Scary. Powerball jackpot on the rise. No big winner in last nights drawing, pushing the top prize to an estimated 415 million, the next drawing is saturday. As you probably remember, powerball fever gripped the nation back in january when the jackpot reached a record 1. 6 billion. The odds of winning the top prize, one in more than 292 million. The people who won that 1. 6 billion looking at this jackpot saying, amateur. Exactly. Nothing. Odds of Kerry Sanders being outside a convenience store, probably one in one in one. Exactly. I think i can predict that one pretty well. The other thing we can predict, unfortunately, is this soggy, cool wall weather here in the east. Remember, weve been talking about this omega block. The weather is not really moving. Boy, look at this. We are socked in all along the eastern seaboard. And its going to stay that way for at least another 48 hours. Got a couple of areas of low pressure making their way, meandering up the coast. As it does, that will help to enhance the rain thats out there. Heavy showers, gusty winds. Look for minor coastal flooding. Coastal flood watches around delmarva peninsula and d. C. We actually need the rain here in the northeast. Were in a bit of a mini drought. Some of the heaviest stuff will be in North Carolina, two to three inches of rain before its all over. As far as the rest of the day around the country is concerned, gorgeous weather from the plains. That omega block, theres the jet stream, kind of like that. This dome of High Pressure from texas to the plains, you cant ask for nicer weather. But out west where weve got lows, more wet weather to talk about. Thats whats going on around the country. Were going to good morning. Here we go again. Another cloudy, cool day. 58 degrees in University City this afternoon. An isolated shower is possible. Lansdale could see light showers. Its going to warm up into the upper 50s and low 60s. An occasional shower is possible this afternoon in south jersey. At the jersey shore, temperatures will only climb into the middle 50s. A little bit warmer in delaware. Keep an umbrella handy. A chance of a shower. Have a great day. Thats your latest weather. Matt . Thank you very much. Just ahead the u. S. Attorneys office joins the investigation into princes death. Could the Addiction Specialists who were who were called in to ask the music icon actually face possible criminal charges . And on where are they now, Casey Anthonys life today five years after being acquitted of murdering her daughter. Her attorney and the judge in the case speak out. First this is today on nbc. Coming up, are you bored at work . You could go with this guys approach or perhaps you could sue your bosses on trending a new lawsuit. 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