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And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. S orst sreenivasan from rules governing delegates to rules governing bathrooms, it was all part of this campaign day in the president ial race. Is john yang begins our coverage. Reporter at a today show town hall this morning, donald trump promised a kinder, gentler republican frontrunner. Its easier for me to be president ial than for me to be doing what ive been doing for the last, really, nine months. But at the right time, i will be so president ial, you will be so bored. You will say, cant he have a reporter he also stepped into a contentious issue, defending the right of transgender people to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity. Ba you leave it the way it is. There have been very few complaints the way it is. People go. They use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. There has been so little trouble. Th this morning, donald trump went on the today show. Reporter that drew a swiftnt rebuke from texas senator tedd cruz, as he stumped in maryland, one of the new primary battlegrounds. Um donald agreed with Hillary Clinton and barack obama, in attacking the state of northh carolina for passing their bathroom ordinance. Have we gone stark raving nuts . The political correctness, this is basic common sense. Meanwhile the Republican National committee met in hollywood, florida, amid trumps complaints about party rules. There are reports the group made no changes. The roons chief straft gist told me yesterday, the chairmana reince priebus, directed members here this week not to set new rules ahead of the conventions. Reporter Hillary Clinton meanwhile is close to wrapping up the democratic nomination. She campaigned in connecticut, focusing on gun control. Ca im raising it everywhere i go because we need a national movement. The gun lobby is the most powerful lobby in washington. Reporter Bernie Sanders returned to campaigning in pennsylvania, after taking a beating in the new york primarye i dont mind losing, but three Million People in new york state three Million People who registered as independents did not have the right to participate in the democratic or republican primary. Reporter sanders muted on his criticism of clinton today, whose delegate lead is now all but insurmountable. For the pbs newshour, im john yang. Ay n sreenivasan you can hear more online from dan bush, covering the Republican National committee meeting. And, well take a closer look at the primaries in five states next tuesday, later in the program. In the days other news, aftershocks rocked ecuador again, five days after the countrys worst earthquake in decades. And, the official death tollto ticked steadily higher, reaching 577. More than 160 people are still missing and more than 23,000 aro homeless. Meanwhile, president Rafael Correa announced hes raisingng the National Sales tax and putting a onetime levy on millionaires to pay for reconstruction. Volkswagen formally submitted a plan today to settle with u. S. Customers, over its emissions cheating scandal. Under the terms, the german auto maker says it will buy back the affected models or fix them, whichever the owner wants. In all, some 482,000 customers of volkswagens dieselengine cars will be affected. Details, including the total amount that v. W. Will pay, areil still being worked out. Ng Queen Elizabeth celebrated a milestone birthday today and thousands paid tribute to her across britain. Tim ewart of independent Television News wraps up the days celebrations. De reporter the band played, the sun shone, wellwishers lined the streets to offer flowers and cards in a town heavy with royal britains 90 year old monarch set forth to meet her people. 0 some of the real diehards had slept on this pavement for two nights to be in prime position. She knows these faces well and she was not going to disappoint them. Three cheers for her mag see. Hiphipwhat ray. A statue of victoria the queens greatgreat grandmother stands outside windsor castle. Victoria was once britains oldest and longest serving monarch. But she died at 81 and elizabeth passed the milestone of longest reign last year. A group of other 90 year olds was assembled to meet the monarch. Mo such an age was once rare but no longer. There are roughly half a million nonagenarians in england and wales. The queen though never fails to impress. U i thought she looked wonderful and i was interested in her makeup because she looked so lovely and smooth. I was wondering to ask her what she used. Wo [laughter] reporter the queen is 90, her husband nearly 95, but for all the advancing years the show goes on. Sreenivasan elizabethl ascended to the throne in 1952,n after the death of her father, king george vi. Th the man who flew a mini helicopter onto the u. S. Capitol lawn, a year ago this month, was sentenced today. , Douglas Hughes got four months in prison for piloting a gyrocopter without a license. Hughes and his craft penetrated some of the nations most restricted airspace beforece landing at the capitol. He said he was protesting big money in politics. Wall street came back to earth after a threeday rally. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost more than 113 points to close at 17,982. The nasdaq fell two points, and the s p 500 slipped nearly 11. And, the olympic flame was lit today, starting the countdown to the 2017 summer games in rio ded janiero. The ceremony took place at the ancient stadium in olympia, greece where the games originated. An actress playing a High Priestess lit the torch, starting it on a journey to brazil. The games are set to open on august 5, but theyve been plagued by delays and political turmoil in brazil. Still to come on the newshour mourning a music icon prince dies at 57. A look ahead to the nextd primaries and the fight over trade along the campaign trail. Obama in Saudia Arabia amid tensions in the relationship between two longtime allies. And much more. Sreenivasan prince was a pop icon, a superstar, but much more, embracing controversies and battles with the music industry. Tonight, fans around the world are mourning the sudden andan shocking loss of one of musics greatest artists. 2000 party, oops, out of time the song and album were called 1999, but it was 1982 when prince became a pop superstar. The flamboyant performer, whose full name was prince rogers nelson, blended gender norms as well as musical styles, taking elements from r b, funk soul and hip hop to help define the minneapolis sound. He was such a singular virtuoso that he was able to take from all of these different genres and move really fluidly between the genres in order to create really what was his own sound, a prince sound, or is a prince sound. No sreenivasan over his nearly fourdecade career he picked up seven grammy awards. Before he created the music, he lived every bit of it. Reporter he he also won an oscar for the soundtrack to purple rain. This is what it sounds like when the doves cry but more than the awards, the 1984 film and its infectious pop songs that helped define him for a generation of fans. E jim mcginn is Program Director for the current on minnesota public radio. He really stood up for his music and stood up for the rights of artists. R he believed really strongly in the s power of artists to create and, you know, time will tell if he some of his more controversial decisions were proven right. Sreenivasan despite so much early success, prince was always innovating, never settling. Ti he played guitar, drums, piano and other instruments and produced a rich and prolific body of work 39 albums, including four in just the past year and half. He continued to reinvent himself, and in a 2004 interview he told tavis smiley why. I dont know how any of us grow if we just tread water. The idea is that we keep growing, and like we were saying before, the fan base i have now, theyre so sophisticated they almost expect me to do the unexpected. Ow and that gives me a lot of room to challenge myself as well as them. Sreenivasan that same year he was inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame, where hee joined tom petty, jeff lynne and Steve Winwood for a version of George Harrisons while my guitar gently weeps. He was celebrated for influencing a generation of musicians, for nurturing youngec artists and for reaching fans across race and cultural divides yet prince also prized his privacy. He was very selective about who he worked with, and fought fiercely to have his likeness and work protected. Fi that included scrubbing his videos from youtube, and leading a decadeslong fight against the recording industry. Ngin at one point, he stopped calling himself prince, instead using a keylike logo known as the love symbol and referred to a the artist formerly known as prince. Is purple rain purple rain sreenivasan but he continued to cross over into mainstream culture, such as his performanca at the 2007 superbowl halftime show, considered one of the greatest. Last year he released the song baltimore, a show ofea solidarity with those outraged by the deaths of Michael Brown and freddie grey, and performed a benefit concert in the city. Y, many today expressed their shock at his passing, while his classic songs surged inng downloads. Prince had been recently hospitalized for the flu. Du. He died at his paisley park studio and estate ink minneapolis. He was 57 years old. For more on the death of prince we turn to alan light a music journalist and author of lets go crazy, a biography of prince and the making of purple rain. I should add the downloads came only on title because one of the legacies of prince is his music is almost impossible to find on anyn streaming service. Mi that is correct. He continued to fight for the principles of controlling hisg music as the technology continued to shift underneath him. Sreenivasan what aree ripple effects we have of prince, meaning what kind of o influences of prince do we see in musicians that are working today . Well, the impact of somebody like this is just enormous. N i mean, he really was the reigning musical genius of his generation. He was capable of things nobody else was. As you would hear a direct influence in all kinds of artists whether lenny kravitz, outkast, beck, or people producing his songs and making his sounds. But more so, i think his sense of bravery and risk taking and independence of pursuing all of these different musical avenuesa i mean, having shown that you can do that and have the degree of success that he did, i think that leaves its mark on any musicians who follow, who folloo after he came along. Sreenivasan you wrote. Him in a particularly earlycu chapter in his life, a chapter that a lot of us are familiar with, purple rain. R what did you learn from that . There is a theme of him being an entertainer through and through. You know, i think the remarkable thing when you look back atlo purple rain is it fes sort of inevitable that theree was going to be something that would make him this huge, global, International Superstars fut of but if you look at that moment, here was a guy who had a couple of pop hits. It wasnt really a starm in main stream america or in the pop universe yet, and he went to his managers and said, get me a feature film deal or youree fired and ill find someone who will. He had this vision and this ambition, and he knew what it would take musically, in terms of his image, in terms of telling his story, what it would mean visually. L he had mapped out, this is what i need to do to become the biggest star in the world. Nobody around him understood that. They thought he wasto nuts. Whos going to let you make a movie . He went and did this and executed against his ideas and became the prince that we know, one of the bestknown musicians, one of the bestknown people in the world. The movie made its money back opening weekend, and he elevated to a whole other stratosphere. Sreenivasan tr finally, he was a prolific songwriter, andng the fact is he stayed minneapolis, not l. A. Or new york or another cultural power center. I think minneapolis wasce really important to him. I think that, first of all, he needed to have a command centerd where he had built paisley park, the exact studio he wanted, rehearsal space he wanted, to be as prolific as he was pup need that you need a headquartershe like that. But i think that minneapolis meant a lot to him, that he wasnt from one of the big media centers, that he could move around that city in a certain way, and to remember thatr minneapolis was a city that was much more integrated and much more liberal minded much earliea than a lot of other cities were. So he was exposed to different cultures, sounds, races, listening to different music. They think all stayed with him, and he always ended up returning home there. T sreenivasan all right, alan light, thanks sore much. Thank you so much. Nothing compares nothing compares to you nothing compares nothing compares to o sreenivasan and now for more on the race for the white house. Voters in five states head to the polls on tuesday. Front runners donald trump and Hillary Clinton are hoping tuesday will bring them closerda to the necessary delegates needed to secure their partys nominations. The Newshours John Yang has the latest. S yang today we focus on twoo key states voting next week. Joining me to talk about the race in maryland is john fritze of the Baltimore Sun. And from harrisburg,bu pennsylvania, Karen Langley of the pittsburgh postgazette th talk about that states primary. Both of these states have littlt wrinkles in their ballots, and, kate langley, the biggest wrinkle may be in pennsylvania. Y when Republican Voters go into the voting booth next tuesday,sd what are they going to see . Well, theyre going to be voting for a president ial candidate, of course. Ur they will also be voting for delegates to send to the Republican National convention. But there is no tie between the president ial candidate who is selected by the state or its Congressional Districts and a these delegates who the Congressional Districts will be choosing on tuesday. Those delegates do not have to commit to supporting any particular candidate, even on the first ballot. Al and so you could theoretically t have a president ial candidatent win the state and not get any of those 54 delegates who will be selected by the Congressional Districts. Reporter and how will the voters know who these delegatesg are going to support . Theyre technically unbound, bun some of them are already saying what theyre going to do. T thats right. So when these delegates havees been asked, and reporters haveep been trying to fig outer what they would do if they were selected, some of them say that they would support a particular candidate, at least on the first ballot. Ba a large portion of them say they would go the way their congressionale districts does, t least on that first ballot, ando some of them just say that they will take into consideration c things like the statewide winner, the correct district winner, and then who they think would be most electable in november. So, those candidates, as we can imagine, going into cleveland,le could be coming inspector a lot of lobbying from the president ial campaign since they theyre the ones who have the majority of sway, as far as the delegates from pennsylvania are concerned. Reporter and in maryland, john fritze, this is the first time in a long time that this state has actually mattered in the race. Thats absolutely right. We have had a competitive president ial in maryland in decades. While pennsylvania is thec biggest prize on tuesday, iia ly to joke that the maryland delegates are more loyal. Our delegates are bound for the first two ballots in cleveland, and so, you know, for a candidate coming in and trying to get every single delegate, ie think we have perhaps seen a little more tension because of that. If trump winsat a Congressional District in our state, those three delegates are bound for the first two ballots. Al reporter and also in i maryland on the democratic side, youve got the primary vote really being driven in a way by lower level races rather thann the president ial race. L right, inap unusual twist, usually we talk. Topdown effect. In this state we have two really good races, a great senate race going on, the democraticic primary, but we have i mayoral race in baltimore, which doesnt get as much attention in washington. Its the first big election in the city since the death of freddie gray, since the rithes on last year. Ye huge amount of interest andes there are indications early voting supin the city. Reporter could theit races affect upward . I think so. S for instance, if you see a huge African American turnout in Balti