Foreign policy speech, when he joins us live. Breaking overnight, more than a dozen tornadoes reported from oklahoma to illinois. Relentless rain surprising drivers caught in flash flooding. And this morning another 9 Million People face the possibility of even more Severe Weather. Midair scare, American Airlines flight leaving seattle forced to turn around minutes after takeoff. We hit some birds on takeoff. Well have to come back and have the plane looked at. It lands safely but leaves a huge dent on its nose. And key clue . Local authorities find powerful prescription painkillers on princes body and in his home. The feds called in. Where the have education goes from here today, thursday, april 28th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welc bn to today on a thursday morning. Will you be my running mate . Are you running for something . No, but ill be yours if youll be mine. Absolutely. I was thinking czar germ eradication. Oh, thats what i get . Exactly. Okay. Another odd day in politics. A twist for the race to the white house. Ted cruz naming a running mate three months ahead of the Republican Convention and even though hes not the nominee. Donald trump did not waste any time going after the new pairing. Well talk to mr. Trump after that in a minute. Lets begin with National Correspondent peter alexander. Peter, good morning. Good morning, savannah. Ted cruz the first to announce this early announcement is unusual, frankly a lot like this campaign. Sources close to the campaign say the move was designed, at least in part, to change the conversation, to try to undercut trumps momentum and at least with this arranged marriage hours old. A new relationship has started, cruz and carl y. Whats he doing picking Vice President s . He cant win. He cant win. Reporter now fresh off a speech. Vice president of the united states, carly feorina. Desperate attempt to resurrect his candidacy, bold move announced in indiana, in the Hoosier State where fiorina could attract women and where the former packed ceo launched her career. After tough talk about cruz months ago. He says whatever he needs to say to get elected. Reporter on stage she serenaded his daughters. Im so happy i can see them more he does not represent me and he does not represent my party. Reporter later with nbcs hallie jackson, teeing off on Hillary Clinton. She will not bring a track record of trustworthiness to the oval office. Reporter fighting back, barbara boxer, who beat fiorina in 2010, comparing cruzs moved to the doomed hp merger. I predict that the latest Carly Fiorina merger will be as successful as the last one. Over shadowing trumps Foreign Policy speech. America first will be the overriding theme of my administration. Reporter reading off a teleprompter with only a few fumble s fumbles otherwise sticking to the script. Strategic Foreign Policy it has been a complete and total disaster. Donald trump vowed to shake the rust off americas Foreign Policy, largely preaching restraint and several experts criticized his speech, the chairman of the Foreign Policy praised it as a step in the right direction. Peter, thank you. Lets talk now to donald trump about this. He is on the phone. Good morning. Good morning. Ted cruz says Carly Fiorina is his running mate if he gets the nomination. Gets headlines. You on the other hand seem to say things that alienate women voters. You say Hillary Clinton is still ail playing the woman card and if have 2 of the vote. Nobody respects women more than i do. I am not playing the womans card. Shes playing the womans card. Everything she says is about the womans card. Frankly all im doing is stating the obvious. Without the womans card she wouldnt even be are you saying women in this country vote simply on gender . I dont think they vote on gender, no. I think they vote for jobs and security. Thats why im doing so well, thats why im leading the republicans a lot. In all the elections i won on tuesday night, which is five states. And then, of course, new york the week before. Im winning them one after another now and building up tremendous numbers and tremendous numbers of delegates and millions and millions of voters. In all of those exit polls, i led with women and i led with women by tremendous margins overall other candidates. But, mr. Trump, for you to would be getting 5 suggests the only thing she has going for her is that she was a woman, not that she was a former senator, former secretary of state and lawyer. Do you understand why people find that to be kind of a demeaning comment . Nochlt i. I find it to be a true comment. The only thing she has got going is shes a woman. She has done a terrible job in so many ways. Look at libya. Look at some of the things that shes done that are absolutely disaster russ. No disastrous. The primary thing she has going is that shes a woman. Shes playing that card like ive not seen anybody play it before. Let me ask you about your Foreign Policy speech yesterday, mr. Trump. Whats very interesting is what was not in the speech. You didnt talk about the wall with mexico. You didnt talk about supporting 11 million undocumented immigrants. You didnt talk about restoring torture. You didnt talk about possibly allowing japan, south korea or weapons. Are you backing off some of the key tenents . No, not at all. Ill be doing a big speech on immigration and ill talk more about that in the form of immigration, the wall, undocumented immigrants having to be brought out of the country. We will do that. Its never been a worse situation than we have right now. You look at the crime. You look at the tremendous impact they have on our country economically. You look at whats coming across the border. I consider that immigration as opposed to Foreign Policy. And im going to be doing a policy speech on immigration fairly soon. Lets talk about isis. You said in your speech yesterday that they will be gone very quickly in a trump administration. So, can you be more specific . Are you envisioning a massive ground troop presence in syria it seems that would be necessary if you want to get rid of them quickly. Well, one of the tenets of my speech yesterday its gotten great reviews, as you know, was unpredictability. People are casting votes. They should know whether that means a massive military presence in the middle east. Savannah, if i get elected president , i dont want isis to know what im going to be doing. What about the American Voters . I dont like the idea. And psychologically, we need to and as a country, we need to when president obama announced were sending 250 soldiers, when he announced previous to that, were sending 50 soldiers and he announces it to the world, they have a target on their back. He shouldnt be announcing that. He shouldnt be talking about what hes doing militarily. The enemy is watching every move we say, every move we do militarily, we announce what were doing and they prepare for it. I dont want that. One of the big tenets of my speech yesterday was the fact strongly we need unpredictability. We need to be unpredictable. Were so totally predictable, matt. Some American Voters might be nervous that this call for unpredictability is actually a way of masking an understanding of the issues or grasp of the details. Well, i have a total grasp of the details far greater than just about anybody else. That, i can tell you. When i said take the oil ive been saying it for a long time i didnt want to tell that. But yourselves and everybody else has been saying tell us what it is. Tell us what it is. After three months i said take the oil. Now i would have preferred not doing that. Politically, i really had to. It got to the point where people had to know. I would have preferred not saying take the oil. You go in, you surprise them. Now fortified oil reserves and theyre prepared. Well still take the oil and we should be taking the oil and were not. Would you rule out the use of i dont want to rule out anything. I will be the last to use nuclear weapons. Its a horror to use nuclear weapons. The power of weaponry today is the single greatest problem that our world has. Its not global warming, like our president said. Its the power of weapons, in particular nuclear. I will be the last to use it. I will not be a happy trigger like some people might be. I will be the last. But i will never, ever rule it out. Donald trump. Thank you very much. Got to leave it there. Appreciate it. Thanks for joining us this morning. Thank you very much. On the democratic side, big changes for Bernie Sanders and his campaign. Its now laying off more than 200 staffers. The move comes after sanders lost all but one democratic primary in five states on tuesday. The campaign had more than 1,000 staffers in late january. Now it will have no more than 350. A spokesperson downplayed the layoff saying with only ten states to go, they needed fewer taken place regardless of tuesdays outcome. More Severe Weather expected today after more than a dozen tornadoes reportedly touched down in several states wednesday. Dylan is here, tracking it for us. Whats in store for today . Today wont be as bad. Take a look at some of the video in evansville, indiana, 1. 66 of rainfall in a very short period of time. They tried to close the roads but cars and trucks were getting stuck in the floodwaters. Luckily, the drivers did get out safely. It was a mess yesterday with the heavy rain. Moving to missouri, we had a huge super cell. Look at the size of this developing storm. This actually was in northeastern missouri. It went on to produce a tornado. You can see it growing in the early stages there. A lot of wind damage to the church there and a lot of tree damage as well. Today, were not going to see storms as widespread. We are looking for a possibility especially in North Carolina later on today, as this starts to move eastward. Were going to get a bit of a break today. Everything will ramp up again tomorrow. Here is this area of low pressure, producing heavy rain through parts of the appalachians. Were looking at isolated stronger storms to produce wind gusts and large hail. This will move eastward. It gets unsettled as we go into friday. Well see a chance of scattered showers and storms produce perhaps up to 2 to 3 of rain in a short period of time. Again its not a ton of rain. When it all falls very quickly, that can lead to flash flood nth ing in the carolinas today. All right. Dylan, thank you very much. Dramatic fall from grace of the former speaker of the house, den nis has dennis hastert. His alleged abuse against students. Stephanie gosk has the details. Reporter asking for probation, that their client had been punished enough. But the judge came down hard. Once beloved speaker of the house dennis hastert, federal judge repeatedly called him a serial child molester before sentencing him to 15 months in a federal prison and two years of supervised release for illegally withdrawing large amounts of cash, 1. 7 million in hush money to pay a man who says he was 14 years old when hastert, the coach of the his wrestling team, abused him in a motel room. Multiple mol sex sexual molestation crimes are too old to be prosecuted but the judge said matter how old it is. The sister of the victim first confronted him in 1995. What did he say . Nothing. That was my confirmation. He said nothing. What was the look on his face . Stone face, no emotion. Scott cross now 53 years old, told the court he was abused, too. At times, breaking down, describing my darkest secret. Hastert, who is in poor health, and spent much of the hearing in a wheelchair, apologized to his victims. They looked up to me and i took advantage of them. The judge had little sympathy for the former speakers fall from grace. Saying if theres public shaming of the defendant because of the conduct he has engaged in, so be it. He ended the sentencing by calling it a horrible case, horrible for the defendant, horrible for the victim s s, horrible for the country. Then he added i hope i never see a case like this again. Authorities have yet to determine where hastert will be will he have to enter a sex tlfender program. Matt, savannah . Stephanie gosk in chicago, thank you. Scary moments in the air wednesday for passengers on board a plane from seattle to dallas. A bird strike caused the plane to head back to seattle shortly after takeoff. Tom costello covers aviation for us. Good morning. Good morning. The nose of the aircraft is also called the radar dome. It houses the weather radar, which provides information to the cockpit crew. Bird strikes happen weekly, sometimes daily. You dont want to fly the plane if theres any chance that your weather radar antenna has been damaged. Watching this American Airlines flight make an Emergency Landing back at seatac. Tense moments captured on live television, our nbc affiliate covering this American Airlines flight as it was forced to land shortly after takeoff, after a bird strike. Looks like we hit some birds on takeoff. Were going to need to go back 126 passengers and six crew members were on board headed from seattle to dallas when one or possibly several birds struck the nose of the plane. Less than an hour later, the aircraft landed safely back at seatac and taxied to the gate. Severe damage across the nose, a dent stretching nearly two feet. Do you need your nose gear inspected by your company on the runway or can the airport ops do it off the runway . Reporter no injuries reported and maintenance teams are now evaluating the aircraft before it flies again. Looks like a big bird. Airline crew also take the remains of the bird, feathers, bone fragments and send in to the smithsonian here in washington where they will match to determine what type of bird was involved. That should tell the airport what steps they need to take to limit that type of bird activity anywhere near the air field. Back to you. Tom, thank you. Another incident in the air. This one, involving a Jetblue Dennis miv jr. Faced a judge wednesday. He was arrested last week after flying 151 passengers from orlando to new york. It was the second flight of the day. Murphy was selected for a random alcohol test. Police say he was over the limit. He blamed the reading on the gum he was chewing. Jetblue says it has a zero tolerance drug and alcohol policy, murphy no longer employed with that airline. Lets turn back to dylan and get the rest of her forecast. We talked about storms in the carolinas. Well see storms later tonight in oklahoma and texas, and snow still falling out in the rockies, above 9,000 feet. Up wards of a foot snow. Thats a look at the weather la vie est belle. La vie est belle the eau de parfum, lanc me. Only at macys, your fragrance destination. Its a chilly start out there. Temperatures in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Northwestern sections of new jersey, in the 40s. Clouds are thickening up, though. Well get breaks early on today, especially north and northeast of the city. But the clouds are thicker across new jersey and eventually we get showers in here later on probably towards the afternoon and early evening. Nothing heavy, the upper 50s. On and off rain and drizzle tomorrow. A break on saturday with some sun. Then more rain returns on sunday. Highs again only in the 50s. R latest forecast. All right. Dylan, thank you. Coming up, why the dea is now involved in the investigation into princes death. 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