Laravel 5 User::where() My where call isn't working with laravel 5

I have narrowed my error down to this line of code

$user= User::where(['email'=>$req->email])->first();

it it not working with Laravel 5 I think this is from a Laravel 4 project. How do I update it to 5?

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