At auction, tuesday, may 12, 2015. 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 a Tuesday Morning. As we open this Tuesday Morning our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of nepal. Can you imagine what theyve been through and now another major earthquake has hit. Breaking news out of nepal where this damaging new quake struck overnight causing deaths and injuries and causing buildings once again to collapse. Nbcs katy tur, what do we know . There are buildings, mudslides and 42 People Killed so far, but that number is only expected to rise. This was 7. 3, centered on namche and 51 miles from kathmandu which as you know is devastated from the april 25th 7. 8 quake that killed 8,000 people. This one not as big, but still powerful and felt as far away as new delhi where buildings swayed for more than a minute. The usgs says todays 7. 3 quake lasted more than a minute and the rattling captured. It was sending up clouds agust. This one seemed like it would never stop and eventually i ran down the stairs trying to get outside of the house as fast as i can. Reporter people rushing out into the streets and the shell shocked in a state of panic. I jumped up and thought i was having a nightmare and the room was really shaking and i was in the sixth floor. Reporter within an hour, four major aftershocks including one measuring 6. 3. A red cross worker based in kathmandu says the tremors were big enough to scare the living daylights out of everybody. So far there were reports of landslides and buildings going down and bodies. Patients were dragged out of the hospital in their mattresses for fear the building would collapse around them. Unlike the april quake which hit at lunchtime on a saturday, this one happened during the week when people were in schools and at offices and todays was even closer to closer to everests base camp. The moment captured on camera. The climbing season was canceled after the april quake so no one should be on the mountain right now. Now if theres any Silver Lining here is that this earthquake was smaller and deeper than the april one. The shallower quakes usually cause a lot more damage. It was also centered on a relatively unpopulated town. Still, its only been a few hours. There is a lot left to discover and there is a warning that that death toll could rise sharply. Here with breaking news. Thank you. Lets get more from kathmandu. We have donatella joining us via skype. Good morning to you. I know you were on the fifth floor of a restaurant at the time. Tell me what you experienced when this quake hit. I was in central kathmandu on a fifthfloor terrace overlooking the royal palace and initially everyone thought they were aftershocks and weve had so many aftershocks since the april 25th one and we all ignored it and the tables started moving and the whole building was situation back and forth forth. So everyone got up and tried to go toward the stairs. My husband grabbed my hand and said were not going to the staircase. Its the worst place to be and were staying here. Its very difficult to know how long it lasted because weve all been traumatized by so many aftershocks and the big earthquake and when we did get down to the street and for miles afterwards because i drove to find my son at school afterward to pick him up and there were thousands of people on the streets and the medians and running to the only big park in central kathmandu. From my ride to my sons school which is on main avenue there was no sign of buildings collapsing, but thats not the the places where the buildings collapsed in kathmandu is very site specific, along new road, an old area of time where all of the Migrant Workers worked with a lot of buildings collapsed leaning one on top of each other and sinking into the ground. Thats where the new casualties are. Thats where further collapsed buildings have happened as well as in that eastern nepal in the district capitals of totara, i gather from friends of mine who are nepali search and rescue, that there are reports of many, many people buried in the houses where they opened their shops underneath leaning buildings and many of those buildings have now collapsed on top of them. Donatella, i mean, we are just beginning to take the toll there. Thank you so much for your reporting this morning and as we mentioned its the very moment so many people in nepal were starting to return to that normalcy. The last thing they need. No question about it. Another major story this morning. We are talking about the hefty penalty being leveled against tom brady and the new England Patriots for the deflategate scandal. Nbcs Peter Alexander is here with their reaction to the story. Good morning. Talk about a big hit. This could cost tom brady close to 2 million. Brady will miss a quarter of the nfls upcoming regular season and its the same punishment that a player would get for being caught using performanceenhancing drugs and they will appeal. First the punishment now the pushback. Late monday tom bradys agent teed off saying the discipline is ridiculous and has no legitimate basis. Patriots owner robert kraft offered unconditional support for his marquee quarterback and the punishment far exceeded any reasonable expectations. Bradys teammates weighed in, Legarrette Blount saying this is absolutely ridiculous. Fans weighing in, too. Four games is excessive. Its surprising. A quarter of the season. Its sizeable. Other nfl athletes backed the stiff suspension. This from an Arizona Cardinals defensiveback. Well done, nfl. And they super imposed an asterisk. Brady first addressed the deflategate allegations just before the super bowl. Is tom brady a cheater . I dont believe so. I feel like ive always played within the rules. I would never do anything to break the rules. On monday the league cited substantial and credible evidence that brady was probably at least generally aware that two locker room attendants were deflating footballs and had faulted his failure to cooperate fully with the investigation. The nfls message was clear. You are caught doing something you shouldnt be doing whether it relates to the integrity of the game or whether it doesnt there will be a significant punishment. Reporter the patriots will lose their first round draft pick in 2016 and fourth round pick in 2017 as well as facing a 1 million fine, the biggest team fine in nfl history. As for those locker room attendants including the selfproclaimed deflator both have been suspended indefinitely without pay. Tom bradys agent says his client did cooperate with his investigators and braids camp until this thursday to file that appeal. If the punishment stands, brady will be back in action on the sunday night, week six in indianapolis against the colts. Thats the very team that blew the whistle on him in the championship game that sparked the whole thing in the first place. Thank you very much. Look whos here, bob costas, host of nbcs football night in america. A Million Dollar fine against the patriots and two draft picks. Nobody can accuse Roger Goodell of going soft on a friend or a superstar. Does the punishment fit the crime . The crime is part of it and when you look at it in the overall, a Cleveland Browns executive was sat down for text messaging during the game which is against league rules. This kind of fits in a certain pattern and also the context in which it happens is important. Its been a bad couple of years with the nfl, with bountygate, with the bullying scandal, with the Domestic Violence and child abuse and the way the nfl ruled in each of these cases were sometimes perceived as random and sometimes perceived as incompetent and Roger Goodell wanted to make sure that he got this right. Bob, with regard to brady, if you look at the nfls reasoning it seems clear its not just the alleged deflation of balls. Its also what the report says sorry is lack ever candor when he spoke to investigators and not turning over those electronic records like Text Messages. When you look at that, did brady mishandle it from the beginning . Did he maker a mistake by circling the wagon . I think he mishandled it with the league and he mishandled it in the court of public opinion. Look. We all look for an edge. I like the football at the lowest possible end of whats allowable. I communicated that to the equipment guys, if they went a bit overboard, im sorry. My bad. See you later. Last night patriots owner bob kraft issued a statement saying he was prepared to go along with whatever punishment was understand thatted down, but this punishment exceeded any reasonable expectation. Are those the opening words of a long, protracted legal battle . There will be an appeal. No question about that and i think what could come out of this is the Players Association will push for an independent arbitrator. In the nfls bylaws thats up to goodell. Goodell can say im judge and jury. Ill hear the appeal although he could say ill agree with that and well name an independent arbitrator that we jointly agree to. In the long term its in the nfls best interest to have all these cases decided as baseball does by an independent arbitrator so there isnt this appearance of partiality. You can read this report as a patriots fan or nonpatriots fan. Do you think this tarnishes the golden boy image . Tarnishes it a little bit. Would have done what he did with inflated or deflated football. This is not barry bonds using steroids. Let me put the image up. Brady, number 12, the asterisk next to the number. Is there an asterisk next to the championship of the patriots last year . I think its in the minds of many. Officially there wont be. They didnt need it. This is whats so stupid about it. They didnt need it. When they adjusted the footballs against indy, the team that blew the whistle. They outscored them. They didnt need it. These are selfinflicted wounds. Meantime, the weather is a big story again. Severe weather firing up in parts of the south once again where at least five people died on monday. The town of van, texas, devastated by an ef3 tornado and theyre just beginning to pick up the pieces this morning. Nbcs nbcs carey sanders. Reporter the wind speed topped out at 160 miles per hour. What a mess they have here. You can see the vast area that was affected. These pictures were taken from a drone that was launched by a team of rescuers and it was the minuteman Disaster Response and they were looking for folks who might still be buried under the debris. This morning we can tell you everybody has been accounted for. Two people did die. The National Weather service says that the tornado looked as if it may have cut a path on and off which is about a mile long. The biggest area that was affected are the schools here that may have to be completely demolished and then rebuilt. Meantime in arkansas, in nashville, arkansas, a sad story of parental love. A tornado that touched down there hit a mobile home and when the rescue arers went in they found a mother and father, husband and wife who were embracing each other and in between them they were sheltering an 18monthold child. That 18monthold child survived the tornado. Really, a heart wrenching story and that child is now with family members who are going to take care of her. Al, as you know better than most, the conditions in the last six days of 131 tornados and now there could be more tornadoes come saturday. Thats exactly right, kerry. We started the month slowly and were pacing 50 above average for tornadoes. Kerry sanders in van, texas, thank you very much. We shift to the south and there is a lot of heavy rain down south and were watching this and it will just continue during the afternoon and on into tomorrow. As you can see, all this moisture, gulf moisture streaming up into oklahoma and on into kansas. We have flood watches and Flash Flood Watch warnings from brownsville all of the way to Oklahoma City. Almost 24 Million People, heavy rain. Rainfall amounts anywhere from two to three inches and some areas five to six inches of rain and as kerry mentioned, loading up, gulf moisture and a big upper level low coming out and as you look on friday we have a risk of Severe Weather from texas all of the way into nebraska. 16 Million People at risk with wind gusts, strong winds, hail, damaging rain and the risk for more tornadoes in the areas where theyve gotten hit, guys. Well check back with you in a couple of minutes. Meanwhile, potential president ial candidate jeb bush under fire from both democrats and fellow republicans. It stems from bushs first major interview in months. In a comment that just like his brother, he would have authorized the 2003 invasion of iraq. Kristin welker has more on that. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning to you. Jeb bush is standing by his controversial comments this morning. If he runs for president hes the one to win. His family name continues to be his asset and perhaps his biggest liability. Jeb bush has insisted hes not a carbon copy of his brother, but now new questions after fox news asked him if like former president george w. Bush he would have authorized the war in iraq. Knowing what we know now would you have authorized the invasion . I would have and so would have Hillary Clinton just to remind everybody and so would have everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got. You dont think it was a mistake. In retrospect, what everyone saw, including the United States was faulty. Reporter his knowledge to focus on security once the war was waged. By the way, guess who thinks that those mistakes took place as well, george w. Bush. Your brother. So just for the news flash to the world if theyre trying to find places where theres big space between me and my brother this might not be one of those. Reporter no surprise, democrats pounce ed, fool me and i cant get fooled again. Reporter its the most damage from conservative radio host, laura ingram. What he said is rubbish. You cant think going into iraq as a sane human being was the right thing to do upon. Reporter with the majority of americans saying the iraq war wasnt worth it, hes tried to distance himself from his brothers legacy. Im my own man and my own views are shaped by my own thinking and my own experiences. Reporter hes wellequipped to take on Hillary Clinton, also a product of a political dynasty. I havent been in washington as the last ever. Im not part of washington. Reporter bush also said his brother is one of his top advisers on the middle east. When asked if he stands by his comments about iraq the bush team indicated hoesindicateds, his remarks to fox newsstand. She later regretted her vote in support of the war. Matt and savannah . Kristen welker at the white house for us. Thanks very much. More news out of the white house, the Barack Obama Foundation has made it official announcing that the president s president ial library will be on the south side of chicago specifically from parkland near the campus of the university of chicago. Both president obama and the first lady have worked at that school and they have a house nearby in hyde park. Closing arguments are set at the penalty phase of the marathon bombings trial. The defense wrapped its case by offering up something Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs remorse. Sister prajon whose story is told in the movie dead man walking testified that the bombing victims no one deserves to suffer like they did. She has met with tsarnaev five times and says she believes he is absolutely sincere. Prosecutors say he is a remorseless terrorist, and he has remained defiant even in his holding cell after the closing arguments and the jury will decide if tsarnaev will be put to death or get a sentence of life in prison. Natalie is here, blockbuster business deal. It certainly is breaking this morning. Telecom giant verizon saying it is buying aol for 4. 4 billion. After the merger aol will become a wholly owned subsidiary of verizon. Verizon says the deal will strengthen its mobile and add offerings. Four men including two suspects are in the hospital after a shooting in isla vista, california, near the Uc Santa Barbara campus. The violence came nearly a year after a deadly shooting and stabbing spree in isla vista left people dead and 14 others injured. It put the surrounding neighborhood under a temporary lockdown. One of the suspects was captured last night and the other surrendered today at a hospital. Secretary of state john kerry is in the black sea resort of sochi today meeting with russian president vladimir putin. Its kerrys first visit to russia since the ukraine crisis began and u. S. Officials say kerry plans to test putins willingness to push prorussia separatists in ukraine to comply with a ceasefire. Some dramatic moments on the side of the massachusetts turnpike on monday when a bus exploded into flames at the height of rush hour. The bolt bus was headed to boston from new york city. It had 47 passengers onboard when the driver started to notice the smoke and pulled over. People were evacuated and minutes later an explosion blew out the windows and panels and sent debris flying. No one was hurt in the incident, but traffic was backed up for miles and thank goodness for a fastthinking driver. A painting by Pablo Picasso smashed a new world record sold in auction. This is the women of picasso and get this, it sold for 179 million monday night at christies auction house here in new york. The buyer elected to remain anonymous. Probable a good idea. Albertos bronze sculpture of a pointing man sold for 141 million setting an auction record for sculptures as well. Blockbuster deals in the art world. Congratulations on the new picasso. You wanted to remain anonymous, but 179 million at least the body parts could be in the right place. Seems like a ripoff. How much does the dogs playing cards go for . A lot of money. Mr. Roker . Thats whats going on. Were going to bring you your local forecast in the next 30 seconds. Just in case she clunks her head. Every house has hidden dangers. This is her safety v