But you have to go and vote. Despite this unfortunate slip of the tongue. I was down there, and i watched our police and our firemen down in 7 11, down at the World Trade Center after it came down. This morning, our decision 2016 team has it covered. Disguised for murder. A man dressed like a police officer, and now the desperate search for a killer on the loose. Everybody loves Raymond Doris roberts,d ributes are pouring this. Tuesday, april 19th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybod. Wee ome to today on this Everybody LovesDoris Roberts. She made me smile. The mom ho never had an unspoken thought on Everybody Loves raymond. Well talk more about her life and career later in the show. State of emergency is in effect as houston deals with torrential rains and flooding. Janet shamlian is there. This was historic rain, as much as 17 inches in a matter of hours. The death toll stands at five people, all were in vehicles that had driven into high water. Now, this morning, the concern is, there is a 70 chance of rain in the forecast today. That could certainly trigger more flooding. Reporter this morning, a city submerged by historic flooding. 17 inches in a matter of hours. Theres more on the way. The biggest mistake anybody can make is assume the worst as passed. Reporter it ambushed the region in the overnight hour. The house up to the ankle. Who hours after that, its up to the knee. We left. Reporter schoolsnnounced they were closing. 100 nay poor eighborhoods flooded. Students stayed home. The roads all but impassable. Ye some chose to try. Leave the car. Swim. Reporter this driver rescued live on the air in houston by a reporter. What if you call in . Reporter this mom and dad waded through the rising water with their newborn daughter. Rescues just in time like this one. Firefighters delivered 1,200 people to safety. Just as many were waiting. They have four feet of water in their house and everybody is ruined. Reporter tommy borrowed a boat to rescue his parents. Counties are disaster areas, year ago. The homes here are still being repaired o are being completely rebuilt. Reporter boat loads in the city. Outside the city, rescuers braved dangerooy conditions to save 70 horses. Its the most widespread flooding since Tropical Storm alison years ago, and forecasters say its not over yet. An epic f od, fearful city of whats ahead. Roads are still closed. For that reason, the houston hool district cancelled classes for a second day. Hundreds of thousands of students will be staying home. There is no getting back to normal, at least not today. Thank you. Janet said the fear of whats ahead. What is ahead for the folks . Unfortunately, more rain. Significant amount of rain. The normal course of things, this amount of rain wouldnt already flooding. You can see the areas in the red diamonds. Thats where major flooding is occurring now. On the radar, not much showing up. But our modelsar are sfowing she will be looking at rain veloping again today. Flash flood watches, s attered storms, saturated ground from the really historic rain. Moisture coming in off the gulf. Itll fire up more storms during the afternoon into the evening and on into tomorrow. More heavy showers and thunderstorms setting up r him er houston. Just to the east, itll continue to cause problems. Rainfall amounts look to be anywhere from two to three inches. Locally, we could see higher amounts of up to six inches of rain, guys. Hourly rain rates of one to two ches. The rainfall alone for harris unty since this event would have the same amount of rain would have flowed over nigh gragg thank you. After weeks of buildup and campaigning, it is voting day here. Donald trump and hill are y e ary lary clinton hoping for big wins on their turf. We have coverage beginning with peter alexander. Hes on the republicans this morning. Peter, good morning. Matt and savannah, good morning. Donald trump looking for a oresounding win in new rk. Hoping to sweep up all 95 republican delegates. With strong poll numbers in upcoming states like pennsylvania and maryland, by the end of this month, trump could be much better positioned to win a majority of the delegates before this summers convention. Reporter donald trump rallying his home state crowd. His last stop, buffalo. We are going to bring buffalo back. Were going to bring new york back. And were going to bring the United States of america back. Reporter despite the home field advantage, introduced by another ruckus affair. Protesters refusing to leave, dragged out by security. The front runner unphased. There is no place thats better, more fun or safer than a trump rally. Reporter later, bubbling a reference to 9 11. I watched our police and firemen in 7 11, down at the World Trade Center after it came down. Reporter ted cruz already looking to the midatlantic, comparing his rival to walter money dale, buried by reagans landslide in 1984. Hillary is beating trump in utah. If the republican cannot carry bright red utah, were looking at a Walter Mondale level blood bash across the country. New evidence this morning that donald trump is gearing up for the months ahead. An expensive reorganization of his Campaign Team from a small larger team of seasoned pros. Hes expected to spend some 20 million in advertising in big states in the months ahead. Peter alexander, thank you. Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are sounding confident about todays vote, as their campaigns continues to take shots at each other. Andrea mitchell is following the democrats for us. Good morning. Morning to you. New yorkers say if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. Only one of these two Democratic Candidates for president can win here today. Reporter against the back drop of new york skyline, Bernie Sanders. Are you ready for this . Yeah. All right. Reporte boasting new yorksized confident. For a political revolution. Lets do it. Reporter drawing hug crowds across the city. But Hillary Clinton already tasting victory, a dessert named in honor of a new york win. Thats a victory. Laterni late reporter later, making this im hoping to wrap up the nomination. Reporter the Sanders Campaign accusing clinton and the Democratic National committee of conspireing to funnel money to clintons campaign. They want to change the rules but they havent been changed. You have to follow the rules. Clintons Campaign Manager accusing sanders f r poisoning the well for democratic ca ndidates up and down the ticket. One measure of how sour the campaign has become. Another sign, mrs. Sanders complaining on urius xm radio. The Clinton Campaign has been a lot more undermining than we had ever seen before. Bernie sanders has been predicting victory in new york, but he is. Behind according to e polls in new york by double digits. Ststall, on this wave of huge cr ds and enormous online fundraising, he sees no reason to stop any time season. Matt and savannah. Andrea mitchell, thank you very much. Politicaa direconr aea moderator of meet the press. Appy New York Primary day. Lets talk about the polls. Both seem to be showing rather commanding leads by trump and clinton. Any reason to doubt that . Really not. Because of the fact that these are only open to registered republicans or democrats. Because of that, when you dont have the independent voter factor, its easier to poll. Most of the time when youre wrong, its the independent number and unsure of what pty eyll vote . Out on that limb, lets talk about the gop side. If donald trump wins and has a convincing win, whats it going to mean to the delegate count . We are assuming the big win, 85 of the 95 delegates. Gets him almost to a 300pledged delegate lead over ted cruz. Little reminder, the top three candidates, one is not running when it comes to delegates. John kasich is the guy were should he be what is he doing . Why didnt he do better after tonight . It should put him here. Then for trump, the following week, he could sweep these five statesi pennsylvania, mary nd, delaware, connecticut and rhode island. All of a sudden, he goes from needing 60 of remaining delylehates ow to 50 if he does as w bl as we think hell do. Then itll come down as far as the republicans are concerned, to see if they can stop him in indiana a week later. If they do, well talk convention again. If t mp wins tdiana, glide past. You think he can get the nomination . If he pulls that off. Letat talk about the democrats. Bernie sanders was just here and suggests that hes still got a lupath. To his credit, hes been saying hes going to win new york. Hes going to win new york in order to have a path. This is combined superdelegates and the pledged delegates. Even if you take out the supers, where is sanders going to beat her, in a state that changes the entire narrative of the race . This would be that victory. I dont know if hes going to get it. Look forward to the same stntes. What are her prospects . Very good. Pennsylvania, she should win. Connecticut is some place roker messed it up its a place her husband lost in 1992. Well see. She could win all five of those. Same thing, where does sanders win . Dont poke the bear. You have roker right behind you. I hear him. Really really . Chuck, dont turn around. As ial he hasnt attacked me before with the board, huh . Come over here we want to ask you about something else. Get your take on the latest nbc news wall street journal poll. When it comes to the candidates libility, 68 of all voters say they couldnt see themselves supporting donald trump. 61 say they couldnt back ted 58 say they couldnt see themselves supporting hillary ge inton. Not only about the race for the nomination, one of these people will become president. How do they start to govern with that kindof negativity surrounding them . This is what ive been throwing up my hands about. I dont know. The two most popular candidates are the candidates that dont look like they have a shot, Bernie Sanders and john kasich. The most popular as far as the public is concerned. A Strong Majority of the country dislikes the top three. I think itll be polarizing. Makes it where you dont necessarily have a honeymoon. Weve had lesser of two evil elections before, but this feels like its going to be in the pits. Ill tell you, with numbers this bad, ive got to wonder, is a Mike Michael Bloomberg rethinking, or somebody else . The public is begging for an alternative. The political system hasnt given them one. Thank you very much. Donald trump will be here live for a town hall on the plaza today. Another major story, the search for survivors in the powerful earthquake in ecuador. Overnight, more people were pulled from the rubble as the death toll continues to climb. Miguel almaguer has the latest. Good morning to you. Good morning. This is the devastating scene across so many communities here in ecuador. The desperate search for survivors continuing at this hour. Its believed some 32 people are trapped inside this building behind me. A shopping center, when the earthquake struck. Reporter overnight, the stakes are high. Rescue teams losing time as they pick away at a mountain of concrete. Witnesses say people are inside. Earlier, not far away, a man in the rubble signals rescue teams. Fragile but alive, two days after the quake. Still signs of life here, with children, even pets rescued every day. Hospitals are filling fast, but so are cemeteries. The 7. 8 quake has left more than 400 dead, an american among those killed, and this canadian mother and son. Video chatting with family when the tremor took their lives. In ecuador, so much loss. Still, some hope. Rescue teams tell us they havent heard any cries for help from inside this building for several hours, but they say anyone who may be trapped inside would certainly be weak. They say they wont leave this area until they are certain there are no survivors left here. Matt . Miguel almaguer in ecuador on this story for us, thank you very much. Overseas, the taliban is claiming responsibility for a bombing attack in afghanistans a bomb was detonated in a car. Aitboas in a rcoidential neighborhood. At least 28 people have been killed. More than 300 others wounded. The bomb was so powerful, it broke windows nearly a mile away. President obama flies to saudi arabia today. The president s tri comes amid rising tensions with the saudis, angered by congressional legislation that would allow families of 9 11 victims to sue e kingdom. 15 of 19 hijackers on 9 11 were saudi citizens. The president is joined in the middle east by defense secretary ash carter. Visiting iraq on monday, carter told lester holt, who was with him on the tripk that the u. S. Would send 200 more troops and 8 Apache Helicopter gun ships to fight isis in iraq. Its important to do this because we have to and we will defeat isil. We need to get this done as soon as possible. That means being more aggressive in the moves we make. Carter says the addional be used to help Iraqi Forces Retake the city of mosul. Lester will have more on that trip tonight on nbc nightly news. Now to the tributes were seeing to Doris Roberts who died at the age of 90. Ta tmron has more on her life and emmywinning career. What a Beautiful Life she ved. The tributes are pouring in. For nine years, Doris Roberts played the prying mom on Everybody Loves raymond. Her talent extends far beyond that sitcom. On the stage and screen, she honed her skills to become one reof hollywoods most prolific stars. You have mblk spots. How can you tell its milk from over there . Its what i do. Reporter iconic character tress, doris roeertsgm career spanned more than six decades. Born in st. Louis and raised in new york city, she made her broadway debut in 1955 and film in 1961, something wild. She wouldnt give you the reporter commanding presence on television, she was nominated for 11 prime time emmys, winning her first in 1983. For her appearance on the medical drama st. Elsewhere. From there, a career break through. Her versatility and emmy win, helping her land the role originally written for a younger woman. Shell be best remembered as as marie. Dont send us any more food again, okay . Thanks. Reporter ra s loveeg but tmeddlesome mother on Everybody Loves raymond. Its different every month. Every month . Thats why its fruit of the month club. Its a club . Oh why did you do this to me . Oh, my gosh. I cant dea with fruit in thhee house. Reporter the role earned her ur more emmys. Wow. Reportee in a statement, ray romano aidr quote, doris robertl had an energy and spirit she did it all with such a grand love for life and people. I will miss her dearly. Appearing on today in 2003, roberts shared her love for performing at an early age. I loved it. The feeling of that. Of recognition and attention. Thats when it bit me, when i was 5 years old. Friends and fans are sharing tributes online for the beloved actress. Pierce shared this photo, you made me laugh and made the work better for the laffer. Patricia heaton said she was a professional from whom i learned so much. She was funny and tough and loved life, living it to the llest. To see her interview with al and talk about the bug at 5 and loving the praise that we all weamre able to and lucky enough to have met her and give her that love. The show was wellwritten but rememberable. Thanks. Lets get a first check of als forecast. Show you you are looking at some more gorgeous weather along the eastern seaboard. Rain from the upper Mississippi River valley to the heavy rain in texas. Out west, recordsetting temperatures. Well look at that in the next half hour. Well get to you dry conditions and breezy conditions this afternoon. Again, a little spark can start a brush fire in a hurry and spread in a hurry. Be extra careful. Thats for the entire viewing area today. Clouds out there this morning. Could be a sprinkle in one orb two spots. 70 by 3 00. Forecasting a high of 71. Tomorrow, lots of sunshine, upper 60s, back to the 70s, thursday and friday. Here come the clouds. Showers late friday, drying up. Back to the 60s weekend. 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