Well, good morning every beeddy be body. Its officially, paul ryan is enno way shape or form seeking the presidency. Let me be clear i do not want, nor will i accept the nomination for our party. Count me out. I simply believe that if you want to be the nominee for our party to be the president , you ould actually run for it. I chose not to, therefore i should not be considered, period, end of story. In an exclusive interview on today, he elaborated on the stance and touched on whether candidates could return if contested at the convention. All i would say is i believe that the members of the rules committee who xave yet to be i think they should have a rule you have to be one of the candidates running for president , who rtr for president. I chose not to run for president. This is why i say i will not be the nominee for our party. We should select among the people who actually ran for the job. Meanwhile the candidates running are lookingonorward to new yorks primaries less than a week away and if the polls are any indication, donald trump 35 points ahead of john kasich and Hillary Clinton is ahead of Bernie Sanders by a smaller but still substantial 13 points. This as clinton and trump are inlacreasingly setting their sights on one another. Th reporter from the frontrunner, neither taking the other for granted but previewing strategies in case of a match up her whole life has been a big fat beautiful lie. Reporter and now hitting Hillary Clintons personal life. And a top campaign aid reveals he would go after clinton for not creating jobs. Pointing to a lack of private seeyctor experience. Watch forpe attacks on benghazi to paint her as weak on terror and her email controversy. A Campaign Source even crediting Bernie Sanders for moving clinton to the left. Something trump would want to exploit to rally republicans. And Clintons Campaign already out with ads against him. The candidate wflt respond tit for tat to every insult but will hit his Business Practices like his rivals did with Trump University to argue hes not really an a middle class advocate. President. Library released several hundred pages of cuments that shed light on the relationship the trumps and clintons had in t y past. And watch for john kasich and ted cruz starting at 7 00 p. M. Eastern only on msnbc in town halls. We are just a few hours away fromaw a massive strike by verizonanworkers in the northeast. Nearly 40,000 employees are set to walk off at 6 00 a. M. Eastern time this morning. This stemss rom an ongoing contract dispute between verizonov and the International Brother hood of electrical workers. Employees have been working without aki contract since last summer and theyre upset over out sourcing positions overseas. If youre wondering if this is going to effect your service, verizons chief Administration Officer tells the Washington Post quote we are very prepared temporary replaeemen,s. Move over mars, we have a bigger neighbor to visit. Russian oillionhire backed by ph iysicist steven hawking announced a 100 million plan to send probes to the nearest solar system, alpha centari. The idea is to create a tiny chip the size of an iphone and powered by lasers fire frumd the earth and travel at 20 the speed of light to make the trip in 20 years. Standard probes would take over 70,000 years to take the same trip. He said it would likely take two decades to prepare. So, with the four years it would take for imagg. To get back to us, it will not be on your desk top background until at least 2060. Donations ever for cancer. Founder of facebook has announced hes giving 250 million to two cancer nations world wide. To fund 300 scientists researching cancer immuno therapy. Now, you may recall former president jimmy carter was diagnosed with melanoma. After being put on immune based cancer drug treatment, he announced in december he was cancer free fr d theres also new developments in the killing of fochrmer nfl star will smith. They found a loaded gun in his car, leading to more questions surrounding the circumstances of his death. Nbcs gabe got toiuttierez. Reporter this appears to stars last minutes. And the main charged with his murder was driving a hummer. In this video a hummer suddenly stops and is bumped by a mercedes suv. The hummer pulls over and the suv appears to pull awa y. Just down the block they say a hummer rear ended smiths suv and smith and hayes then exchanged words. Ey says. Hayes was not the initial a greszer. This cell phone video show as wisutness describing how the argument escalated. Reporter pol thice said they found another two fully loaded guns, one inside. Ayes vehicle and another inside smiths. Previoelusly confiscated the night of the shooting. And pierre writing on soiial media i witnessed a close friend i thought of as one of my big brothers in ahe nfl shot to death over a fender bender. There is pounding hail that left widespread damage across parts of the south. Sending people running for cover. It destroyed cars, smashed through windows and ripped holes in the siding of homehomes. Lets get to nbc meteorologist, bill karins. Golf ball sized hail. And it went through decking. Heres one of the pictures. I mean, thats literally the size of a softball. Three to four Inch Diameter hail. Pretty rare even for thias standards. And the gavelson area, lot of people waking up. Effect. Houston, those rolled through your area. This is the stationary front. They cant make it much further to the south. And heavy rain all through the gulf. New orleans, to tallahassee, everybody has a chance for one to two inches of rain. Beautiful weather in the not rthern plains. 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Phones. Get used to women applying for combat positions. He called the integration a positive development that will strengthen the corpse a 72yearold missing in the wilderness for nine days was spotted with a distress signal made from sticks. They found the woman and dog safe and anxious to be rescued. Now to texas. A woman is accused of stealing a ing a ring from a corpse. Police say it caught her with a taking a ring from the body of a recentou deceased 88yearold woman. Heres the best part, perhaps the worst, Authorities Say the ring was only valued at 10. That is just despicable. All right. Now to south florida. Le a dog swam nine miles in search of her owner. The black lab apparently had separation anxiety when she entered through her owners home. She was spotted by a local resident who called 911 and the exhausted pup was reunited with its owner. Now a look ahead. President obama meets with his National Security counsel in langly, virginia. They will be reviewing u. S. Efforts to degrade and destroy isis while discussing ways to advance peace and stability in syria. Williams, 28. Actress and comedian carolyn ray, 52 and al green turns 70. Now keep it right here for more news, weather and sports. Im betty nguyen. Have a wrfrl day. Right now, verizon workers the job in a strike. What you should know if youre wondering if this is going to affect your service. Changes this morning after a man attacked and exposed himself to a young girl on her way to school. A new endorsement for one candidate on the campaign trail. Today in new york starts now. Good morning everyone. Wednesday morning, april 13th. Im darlene rodriguez. Im michael gargiulo. Raphael miranda is here with the forecast. Raphi, you said it would be colder this morning and colder it is. Thats right. Were feeling that chill this morning. Especially in the suburbs. Temperatures below freezing in some spots. In the city, in the low 40s. A nice quiet picture here. Rain or snow. Were exp ting lots of sunshine throughout the day. Its going to look very nice but feel chilly. Especially early on. Again, 42 degrees in the city. Back to the 50s later on today, 57 your high temperature. This is just the beginning of a