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WCAU Today May 22, 2015

Were celebrating two decades of today show summer concerts kicking off this season with pop superstar Meghan Trainor. Thats why its all about that bass today. Friday may 22nd, 2015. Announcer 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 this friday morning. Now it officially feels like summer. It does. We have our concert. Speaking of all about that bass how you feeling from your ride . You leave my bass out of it. I feel good. Good to be back. Weve got a big story to start with this morning. That is this morning a suspect is in custody in that murder mystery in the Nations Capital. The manhunt came to an end exactly a week after the bodies of a businessman, his wife son, and their housekeeper were discovered inside a burning home. Nbc National Correspondent Peter Alexander has more on this. What can you tell us . Reporter matt good morning. Those dramatic developments taking place overnight. Now in Police Custody here in washington, d. C. Daron dylan wint Police Picking him up after a manhunt. And Police Picking up two vehicles. One wint was in and a separate box truck they found 10,000 cash inside. This morning the massive manhunt for first degree murder suspect Daron Dylan Wint is over. Police taking wint into custody overnight in this northeast washington neighborhood. Law enforcement sources tell our station wrc that they followed a white chevy cruze. Officers pulling over the chevy arresting wint without incident. Wrc reports three unidentified women were also in the car with wint. Overnight investigators were combing through the chevy and this truck nearby. Wints search took them from brooklyn to new york where they believe he traveled before returning to d. C. Wint tracks him using a phone found in his girlfriends possession when police interviewed her thursday. She told them wint was returning to d. C. Where they used separate phone records to track him down. The question remains this morning did wint target the savopoulos family . Police say he once worked for Savvas Savopoulos business american iron works. And one of wints relatives were fired from the company. Do you feel that wint was acting alone . We have not ruled out others could be involved. Reporter in 2010 according to Police Records, wint himself was arrested outside of american iron works after he was carrying a machete but charges were dropd. He was also charged with assault three times found guilty in one of the cases. And had three unrelated separate orders against him. I cant believe that he did it and i met him many, many times. I do not think hes the one. Reporter that former attorney of wints telling us that he said wint would not hurt a fly saying specifically hes the kind of guy you wouldnt mind your grandmother having lunch with. This morning wint is in custody accused of first degree murder. Matt hes likely to make his first appearance in court later this afternoon. All right. Peter, thank you very much. Clint van zandt is a former fbi profiler. Good morning to you. Hi matt. Good morning. Hats off to the police on this. Absolutely. You think of the circumstances here. The crimes this guy is accused of committing. The fact he had to be considered extremely dangerous. He knew hed been identified so that cliche he had nothing to lose they did this quickly. They had to matt. This guys history goes back as peter was just telling us hes got an extensive criminal history. This is the same person who his attorneys said he wouldnt hurt a fly. He threatened to kill to shoot his parents. He told a woman that he would stab her to death and her young child saying i know how to use a knife very well. Im not afraid of the police. So this is someone Law Enforcement had to get in custody as quick as they could. Now the question is is there a second or even a third person involved . And other than interrogating this suspect, how are police going about trying to figure that out . Well you know one of the great things in this case was the dna. Weve all heard it was dna from the pizza crust. But if you think of that crime scene, matt youve got four dead bodies in there, a fire going on Fire Department pouring water in there and yet some good detective, atf agent was able to go in find that pizza box and say look, two pizzas. This guy probably didnt buy pizza for the people that hes torturing. He got it for himself. So they were able to find the dna. Perhaps they have dna of a second suspect, they just have no match it. And again were looking now at something that does not appear to be totally random because of this suspects history with this family and the Company Owned by this family. Exactly. Exactly. Weve got a history here of why he would have targeted this specific house and neighborhood. I think the people in the vicinity has to take solace theres no one on the street like this still. But as the police suggested there still may be accomplices out there. This would have been a hard crime for one person to pull off. There may be more to come. Thanks again. Credit to the police for bringing this man in. Clint, thank you very much. Meantime weather is the big story down south. Historic rains leading to major flooding in texas and oklahoma. Al weve been talking about this all week. And its going to go right through memorial day weekend, unfortunately. Look at some of this video thats come in from Corpus Christi, texas. Some areas in Corpus Christi picking up 6 inches of rain in a short period of time like several hours. I37 was shut down for awhile. Cars literally floating by the power of this water. And there is more on the way, unfortunately. Some guys of course take advantage of it. A paddle boat and a beer president not bad. As you look right now, weve got at ft. Smith 14. 9 inches of rain. Dallas, 6. 9 inches. Corpus christi 12. 7 inches for the month of may and it is not done just yet. Of course well continue to track this. But weve got more heavy rain for memorial day weekend. Other parts of the country not looking so bad. Thank you very much. Well get to your local forecast and your holiday forecast in just a couple of minutes. First, though dylan is high above philadelphia. Shes keeping an eye on some of the 37 million americans expected to do some traveling this weekend. Which by the way is apparently a tenyear high. Hows it looking . Hey, matt. Its looking good from up here. This is the way to beat the holiday traffic. Get yourself a helicopter. If you are one of the millions of people traveling this weekend, brace yourself because it is going to be extremely busy. We are up above i95 the heavily traveled corridor here thanks to our nbc station wcau for sending us up in their chopper for this view. We are going to see a lot of this this weekend with 33 Million People expected to hit the roads. The reason for the increase is because of the decrease in gas prices. Theyre averaging around 2. 66 a gallon. That is a full dollar cheaper than this time last year. You can also blame the harsh winter. A lot of people are just ready to get their summers started. If youre flying youll join 2. 6 Million People at the airport. Thats up 2. 5 since last year. If you look at the flight aware, flights are going now. This is going to be a busy map. Youll want to check this website to make sure there are no flights or cancellations to affect you. If you cant get a helicopter i recommend downloading a great play list be patient on the roads, and download a good traffic app to give yourself some sanity as you try to enjoy this memorial day weekend. Thank you very much. By the way, my much maligned play list from my bike ride is available. A lot of old man music. Put that on today. Com, the orange room. Enjoy it as well. Hows the Holiday Weekend looking . In the eastern half of the country, its going to be darn good. But more of a slight risk again in texas, kansas nebraska. Wet weather unsettled for the rest of the country. As we look towards sunday again east coast looks great. Upper 70s into the mid80s. More heavy rain again in texas moving up into the great lakes. West coast looking good. But weve got rain in the interior sections and on memorial day again gulf coast on into the midmississippi and ohio river valleys. Showers and thunderstorms, interior parts of new england looking wet. More rain in texas. And also in the rockies. But again along the west coast, it is looking pretty darn good. There you go. Our memorial day weekend is off and running. Al thank you. This morning an unexpected call by the president of the boy scouts and its getting a lot of attention. Former defense secretary robert gates says the time has come for his organization to reconsider its ban on gay troupe leaders. Pete williams has been following the story. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. The message is a blunt one. If the boy scouts dont change the policy on gay scout leaders themselves on their own terms, itll be forced on them in a way they wont like. The battle of the boy scouts reporter after a bruising battle two years ago led to ending the ban on admitting young gay people to the scouts robert gates, the former defense secretary whos president of the boy scouts says the Organization Must now accept that Public Attitudes are changing even more quickly. He says the current policy that still bans gay scout leaders will not survive. We must deal with the world as it is. Not as we might wish it would be. The status quo in our movements membership standard cannot be sustained. Reporter the Greater New York council is already defying the ban. Just last month hiring an openly gay eagle scout to be a summer camp leader. 15 years ago the Supreme Court upheld the scouts right to exclude james dale when he came out as gay. Now gates says the scouts might lose a similar case and james dale agrees. Even if you dont exclude a young person when they become 18 years old theyre not good enough anymore . Thats the wrong message for the boy scouts of america. Reporter he says they should respect the thoughts of local churches. He oversaw the policy change on gays in the military when he was secretary of defense and that experience impresses some local scouting officials. This is not what we expected but leaders lead. Bob gates is used to leading. This is not a guy used to sitting on the back of the seat and rubbing his hands and wondering what to do next. Reporter such a big change would have to be approved by a vote of the scout leadership. The Mormon Church says it will carefully consider how such a change would affect its centurylong association with the scouts. Pete williams thank you very much. Natalies joining us now with more on the oil spill out in california. Yeah. Not good news because officials are now saying it could take months to determine what caused that Huge Oil Spill in southern california. Nbc ease Hallie Jackson has the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you. Today, guys the size of this cleanup will nearly double with 300 more responders arriving to help. But the big question is still out there. How did this spill happen in the first place . This morning Unanswered Questions about what caused this pipeline to break. They will take that piece of pipe. They will have it inspected by a third party. Let the engineers determine. That could take weeks and months to get that information back. Reporter plains all american says it inspects the pipe every three years. Above and beyond what the federal government requires. The company now on the hook for cleanup costs. Where oil is spilled, a company will have to pay money for the recovery of that oil regardless of whether they took good care of the pipeline or not. Reporter so far crews have recovered about 10,000 gallons of oily water. Right now weve got five to six foot swells 20 mileanhour winds. You can feel it on this boat rocking back and forth. 17 boats are working to corral the oil slick with more booms arriving today. High above, nbcs Miguel Almaguer puts it in perspective. Environmentalists say the true impact on not just the environment but animals will take several days if not weeks. Reporter today well get our first look at the six pelicans rescues and responders also found an oiled sea lion who will be treated at seaworld. How did you get him into the crate . He actually walked right in. Reporter rescuers are bracing for more. Knowing it could be days before they see the true scope of this spill. Typically the beach behind me might be packed with people today, tomorrow and throughout the Holiday Weekend. But it will stay closed for memorial day. As will another state beach just to the south of us. Hallie jackson in goleta thank you. The fbi arrested two men on suspicions of terrorrelated charges. They were suspected to travel abroad to join isis. One man was arrested at l. A. X. The other in orange county. They were recruited through social media propaganda. A grand jury has returned indictments against all Six Baltimore Police officers in the death of freddie gray. The 25yearold suffered a fatal spinal injury in custody last month and died one week later. Grays death led to days of violent protests in baltimore. The florida man who landed the gyrocopter pleaded not guilty. Doug hughes was indicted on two charges. He says he was trying to call attention to the use of big money in politics. And a reminder about the dangers of distracted driving. After a car sing along goes horribly wrong. Four friends cruising down the lyrics to baby come back. When suddenly they had car trouble. I was wrong are we okay . Everybodys good. All right. Were not posting that video. Fortunately everyone was okay. The video somehow did get posted and has gone viral. Turns out, though the car blew a tire spoiling what seemed like a fun trip. Eyes on the road too. Its a good reminder. How did the video get posted . One of those four obviously did it. Somebody posted it. Theyre all doing a lot of finger pointing right now. How many of us have done a road trip singing baby come back . Just not videoing. And they have jeff bridges in the back. Unbelievable. What are the odds . Thats whats going on hey rich whats that in your hand . My at t cell phone bill. Verizon bill . Yeah. Thats cool no. How much are you spending per month . 110 bucks 120 bucks 330 dollars . Yeah. What if sprint could cut your rate plan in half and give you unlimited talk and text in the u. S. And match your data . Goodbye verizon. I am done with at t. Bring in your verizon or at t bill turn in your old phone, and well cut your rate plan in half. Switch now and well pay whatever it costs for you to come to sprint. Visit us online or at a sprint store today. trouble hearing on the phone, visit sprintrelay. Com good morning, im meteorologist bill henley. Grab your sunglasses and get ready for a gusty wind this afternoon, but mostly sunny skies. Look at those temperatures into the 70s today. The wind will deliver chillier air today. 48 tomorrow morning. Nice and comfortable in the afternoon, 78 degrees. Weekend warmup, 81 degrees. Low humidity with bright sunny skies. Memorial day monday, up to 88 with sunshine and then a chance of a heat wave next week. Have a great day. And thats your latest weather. Okay al. Thank you very much. Coming up inexcusable. An apology from the oldest son of the duggar family following reports he molested underage girls when he was a teenager. What impact will it have on his familys hit reality show . And from cyber bully victim to the toast of the town. The dancing man stops by studio 1a. Carson . Im going to have that song in my head all day. Weve got a surprise in store for you today. Were playing guess the guest. Well give clues out about our celebrity surprise all throughout the hour. First clue is this guest is known to be one with nature. You can start the guessing now. Use orange room. More clues coming up in a bit. First this is today on nbc. Crowds getting ready for Meghan Trainor on the plaza. Coming up texting in the cockpit . The controversy over a new system that could get your next flight in the air faster. And that didnt take long. 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