By a Police Officer at a school in texas. And the outlaw hero. The tributes are pouring in for country legend merle haggard, the mark he left on music during his complicated life. Today april 7, 2016. This is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. When you say country legend you have to think merle haggard. One of the originals and there arent that many of them left. We will talk more about Merle Haggards life and career. The president ial candidates are in a new york state of mind. The next big Battle Ground in the race and are ratcheting up the rhetoric. Lets start with democrats. Andrea mitchell has her eye on the race. With both democrats needing to win the New York Primary on april 19th verbal sparring has escalated. The angriest exchanges of this year long campaign. Bernie sanders unleashing a blistering attack against Hillary Clinton. He said she started it. She has been saying lately that she thinks that i am quote, unquote, not qual
Football draft. The controversy surrounding one player as others try their best to stand out with the some unique looks. Were going to figure out who wore it best on this friday, april 29th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Did you have a favorite outfit. There were so many different colors at play. Almost should have been a red carpet oscar style. They really did have a red carpet. People were asking like who were you wearing. They were all like thrift store. Well, they havent quite gone the the check yet. Well get to the draft and the fashion at the draft in just a minute. Something that turned ugly speaking of the riots that were taking place. What seemed like riots with donald trump attracting a massive crowd in california. The state that could be the deciding factor for the republican nomination. Antitrump protesters and supporters clashed in last night, forcing police in riot gear and swat teams to intervene. Trump revved up thousands inside an amphitheater cappin
Boys that fateful day. Amid the battle over the iphone discovered with the boat. The decision now in. Good evening. Its great to have you with us on a friday night. And we begin with donald trump forced to hike around a giant crowd of protesters at an event in San Francisco. This was the scene, Police Holding back hundreds of protesters, but they broke through the barricades, forcing trump and his motorcade to go around. You can see trump jumping down the step, climbing up the grass to get to the back door. Heres cecilia vega, leading us off. Reporter tonight, throngs of angry protesters in San Francisco blocking roads, knocking down barricades, clashing with police in riot gear. And when donald um ready. Abcs josh haskell right there. Reporter protesters outside the Hyatt Regency trying to use whatever entrance they can to stop donald trump from speaking here. Reporter the republican frontrunner forced to take a detour. Watch as trump leaves his motorcade surrounded by secret service,
Reporter good morning bill evans. Reporter routes 1 and 9 north, we have this problem and news copter 7 up above. John del giorno here to show us a picture. Good morning. Reporter heather, good news, the accident is pulling away. This was a bad accident northbound on route 1 and 9 right at avenue c, in front of the Walmart South of the airport. You can see the two vehicles involved in the accident, left lane was blocked. But just as we came to air you can see it all lanes reopened. Still a little bit of a left over delay on 1 and 9. Reporter thank you john. We are also going to talk about 78 eastbound near exit 18. An accident has been cleared away. And we are looking at the bqe southwest into the bridge, disabled truck, two lanes closed down as a result. Buses replacing trains long new Jersey Transit, metro north doing okay. Street cleaning rules suspended meter rules are in effect. Ken over to you. Developing this morning in new jersey, dozens of people forced out of their apartments
Away by the force awakens. Now we have the World Premiere, the first trailer for the explosive new star wars movie. Before there was luke and leia, rea and finn there was rogue one, the first look at it right here exclusively on gma. Good morning, america. That music gets up on a thursday morning. We have a brandnew star wars surprise. Remember the force awakens. Such a force at the box office. Biggest u. S. Film ever and now well give you the first look at the trailer for a brandnew movie that explains the events that got star wars started. Its so top secret we cannot show you a frame of it yet so what you were looking at was from the force awakens, not this new one so the clock is going. The World Exclusive moments away. First those tornadoes touching down in the south overnight as storms damage homes and cars from kentucky to georgia and ginger is tracking it all. Hey, good morning, george and amy. The strong to severe storms now moving through from Central Florida up through the ca