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and falling flat. outrage over this new pepsi ad featuring kendall jenner. why critics are blasting it as tone deaf. and how pepsi is pushing back today, wednesday, april 5th, 2017. from nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. a lot of people raising eyebrows over that pepsi ad. when you try to mix politics or social issues with a soda ad, it s tricky. it s hard to pull it off. and pepsi is answering for that ad this morning. we ll have much more coming up. but let s start with the top story. it s a surprising reaction from the white house overnight to yet another north korean missile test. that provocation, just one of the national crises now facing the trump administration. we have complete coverage, beginning with hallie jackson at the white house. hallie, good morning to you. reporter: hi, matt. good morning. if kim jong-un is loo ....
featuring kendall jenner. why critics are blasting it as tone dueaf. and how pepsi is pushing back today, april 5th, 2017. from nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. a lot of people raising eyebrows over that pepsi ad. when you try to mix politics or social issues with a soda ad, it s tricky. and pepsi is answering for that ad this morning. we ll have much more coming up. but let s start with the top story. it s a surprising reaction from the white house overnight to yet another north korean missile test. that provocation just one of the national crises, now facing the trump administration. we have complete coverage, beginning with hallie jackson at the white house. hallie, good morning to you. reporter: hi, matt. good morning. if kim jong-un is trying to prod a response out of the u.s., he s not getting one. the secretary of state ....
anticipating a general election matchup between hillary clinton and donald trump. if you include superdelegates, she surpassed a 2,383 delegates needed to become the presumptive democratic nominee and that makes her the first woman in history to do so, but vermont senator bernie sanders is not backing down. in fact, he s urging superdelegates to shift their support to him arguing that he is the stronger candidate to take on trump and we just learned some breaking news regarding trump and the race as a whole. the republican senator from illinois mark kirk said, quote, he cannot and will not support trump for president. it s a reversal of kirk s previous statement that he would support trump and comes in light of trump s recent comments about a federal judge. those comments also prompted new criticism today from another party leader. house speaker paul ryan is the latest to blast the nominee s remarks on gonzalo curiel. he can t preside over lawsuits over trump universi ....
s department has worked 75 heroin over dose cases that resulted in eight deaths. one official told us the alleged drug dealers clearly have the skills to operate a legitimate business. michelle meredith, wesh 2 news. angela: an ohio pharrell board has decided to separate a man who is captured 62 years escaping from prison. he had run off from the shawshank prison in ohio 1959. he had been held for running over and killing a man. he was re-imprisoned last may. jim: we are learning more information about an i-4 worker who was killed while on the job yesterday. angela: it happened just before noon in a construction area near i-4 and the maitland boulevard exit. wesh 2 s amanda ober is live. amanda, this man had a dump truck back over him? amanda: that is what happened who was killed was a father of three children and that he was only on this job about a month, a job he was very excited to have. meantime you may have noticed there has been no activity at any of the i-4 con ....
holly bristow is live in orlando where the police chief is speak next case. he is and right here in this affidavit police specifically asked that the judge deny bond for lopez, the man connected in with the shooting, saying that anyone in the club who had a gun had no regard for human life. there is still an open and active investigation and he could be a danger to the community, but the judge gave him a $5,100 bond and he bailed out of jail in less than $4,800. an arrest made in connection witch the chaos at the ultra lounges morning. police charged jose lopez with carrying concealed weapon and tampering with evidence. the police chief says this was not a random shooting. there was a fight between two groups that escalated into a shooting. those two groups began to shoot at each other. two people are dead, 33-year-old jonathan avila rojas. they were on opposite sides of the fight. police are not saying who the shooters were, witnesses saw lopez running out ....