Minutes of hell. We didnt know if he was still dieing or if they were still pumping drugs in him. A horrifying situation. They wanted to hurry up and get it done with as little transparency as possible. Shades of katrina. They have gone up there with chainsaws to try to be able to cut holes in the roofs and get people out of there. People trapped in their attacks, almost a foot of rain in 24 hours. The moment of death is just an inch away. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning. Im Carol Costello. Thank you for joining me. The nba handed down a sports Death Penalty to clippers owner Donald Sterling. The big question is how sterling respond . Will other nba owners vote to force sterling to sell the team . Clippers fans, they raised the roof for their heroes last night. One, two, three [ cheers and applause ] it was the first time the team had been home since sterlings racist rant audiotape surfaced. The clippers won a pivotal game five in the playoff series with golden state. Coach doc rivers say it is game was cathartic for fans as well as the team. You think it was just the players. It was the fans, too. Everybody was going through this. It was almost like everybody wanted to exhale tonight, and it was good. It was good. The game came hours after commissioner adam silver acted decisively, bang sterling from the nba for life. That means sterling cant go to the games, practices or enter any clippers facilities. Sterling was also fined 2. 5 mill qulun. Now he faces the possibility of losing his franchise. As for mr. Sterlings ownership interest in the clippers, i will urge the board of governors to exercise its authority to force a sale of the team and will do everything in my power to ensure that that happens. Theres been no Public Comment from sterling since this nba ruling, but before silvers sanctions, sterling told fox sports the clippers were not for sale. If sterling wants to fight, we know he has a long history of legal battles. If the clippers do go up for sale, boxer floyd mayweather, junior is lowing his hat into the ring. Mayweather says he can well afford it. Rachel nichols and dan simons are covering the business side of the story. I would like to start with dan. Youre outside the Staples Center. There was talk about fan boy cots, but the fans showed up in force. Reporter they really did, carol. For the first two fu days of this story the mood was down right somber. What adam silver did is he essentially removed the idea of any kind of rebellion. Its almost as if he gave the fans permission to cheer and celebrate. As you said, it wasnt even clear if there was going to be any sort of boycott. We didnt know what kind of show of support we would see. Would there be a full house . As soon as that decision was rendered, we know what happened. The fans came here in a big way to cheer on their team. I would suggest to you if you werent cheering for a team prior to all of this, youre now a Los Angeles Clippers fan, carol. I think youre right about that. Rachel, the game was great, but now comes the hard part. Tell us about the next steps for the nba. Well, adam silver did everything in his power. He banned Donald Sterling for life, made him be able to basically stay away from the nba in any capacity in the future, fined him 2. 5 million which is chump change for Donald Sterling, sbu the maximum of what adam silver was allowed to fine him. However, separating him from his team, forcing him to sell the team, silver cant do that on his own. What he did was very interesting. He threw down the gauntlet publicly to the oerns. Only the other owners can remove Donald Sterling. They have to do it by a 3 4 vote which is extremely high. We heard in the days leading up to this some trepidation from other owners. We heard mark cuban say its, quote, a slippery slope to remove a fellow owner for comments he made in private. We heard some concern. What adam silver did was very interesting. I asked him in the press conference do you think you have the votes, he said, i dont know, i havent polled the other owners. The ones i talked to i feel confident in he threw it out in public and is going to force the hand of the other owners to basically have to say to their fans, to their players, yeah, im going to side with the racist or im going to vote yes, which decision do you think theyre going to make, carol . There is this issue, rachel, that a lot of people are talking about today, frankly. So mr. Sterling says these heinous things in the privacy of his own home. Should he really be forced to sell his business . He didnt break the law. He said awful things but didnt break any laws. Why should he have to sell his team . The question is this somebody you want as a business partner, someone you want to be associated with. If youre a sponsor, do you want to spend your money with this man . If youre a player, you want to play for this man . If you are tnt or espn, do you want this man as a televisioner in partner . I think they want him out. Dan, i know fans were happy at the game last night. But as time goes on how do you think theyll work out in the long run . I think it depends on what happens. Is mr. Sterling going to contest this . Most legal ablists say if he does, he will lose. I think Going Forward in terms of the playoffs, i think theres going to be a full should i work for the clippers Going Forward . The next game, of course, is in oakland. In terms of the way they played last night. For the players, there was a real burden lifted off their chest. They came out and played very well and won the game. Now they have the momentum going into oakland. Dan simon, rachel nichols, many thanks. Still to con in the newsroom, a condemned killer dies of a heart attack in oklahoma 43 minutes after being given a lethal injection. Pamela brown has more on this botched execution. Reporter thats right, carol, an execution gone wrong sparking fierce debate. What happened . Well tell you right after this break. Most of the time people are shocked when we show them where theyre getting the acid, and what those acids can do to the enamel. Theres only so much enamel on a tooth, and Everybody Needs to do something about it now if they want to preserve their teeth. I recommend pronamel because it helps strengthen the tooth and makes it more resistant to acid breakdown. We want to be healthy and strong through the course of our life, and by using pronamel every day, just simply using it as your toothpaste, you know you will have that peace of mind. Help keep teeth clean and breath fresh. With beneful healthy smile food. 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Last night witnesses say they watched in horror as he seemingly tried to talk well after being given the lethal cocktail. He was struggling to talk, those were towards we got out, man, im not and something is wrong. Reporter they may be the last words spoken by oklahoma inmate Clayton Lockett uttered during his botched execution. Locketts vein exploded during the eethal injection, prompting authorities to quickly halt the procedure. It was my decision at that time to stop the execution. Reporter the first drug in the lethal injection cocktail is supposed to render a person unconscious, but witnesses say lockett was still conscious seven minutes after that first injection. At 16 minutes he seemingly tried to get up and talk. It was then that prison officials closed the blinds, shutting out the media gathered to witness. We didnt know what was happening on the other side of the blinds. We didnt know if he was still dieing or if they were still pumping drugs in him. Reporter 43 minutes after the first injection, lockett died. The inmate suffered what appeared to be a massive heart attack and passed away. Reporter lockett and Charles Warner, both convicted in rape and murder were at the center of a court fight over the drugs used in their executions. The stays were lifted last week saying the men had no right to know the source of the drugs intended to kill them. They wanted to hurry up and get it done with as little transparency as possible. There should not be another execution in this state until theres a full investigation into what went wrong. Oklahoma governor mary fallin issued an executive Order Granting a twoweek delay in executions. Oklahoma is one of several states that has been fighting to keep information about the suppliers of lethal drugs confidential. Thats because these suppliers are afraid of repercussions if it gets out theyre supplying these lethal drugs. Is that right . Reporter thats right. There have been some Drug Companies who have pulled out and said you can no longer use our drugs for these types of lethal injections, and there are other companies who say, look, we neert going to let you use our drugs unless you keep our names private because of the fear of political backlash and that they could be targeted. Thats whats behind the secrecy laws in some of these states. Pamela brown reporting live from washington this morning. A bit of news in to cnn. It appears the American Economy was frozen by a brutally cold winter. A new report says the gdp grew by. 1 in the first quarter. Chief Business CorrespondentChristine Romans is here to parse it out for us. Not much to parse. It was a really bad first quarter. Frozen is the best way to put it. The economy barely moved, barely moved. Consumers were the only ones spending money. Businesses werent, the Housing Market didnt do as well as anybody thought. This was var tough quarter. Carol, this is a rear view mirror picture, and the question is, have things begun to thaw . Is the economy doing better now . Was it mostly weather that held the economy back and is that going to thaw . There are plenty of people this morning, plenty of xhichls who think thinks are getting better. Theyre hoping for a better jobs report on friday. Theyre hoping this, the slowest Economic Growth in two years, hoping its behind us, not ahead of us, carol. Christine, thanks so much. Newsroom is back in a minute. The average person will probably eat something or drink something that is acidic on a daily basis. Those acids made over time wear the enamel. A lot of patients will not realize whats happening to the enamel. Once its gone, its gone away for good. I recommend pronamel. Its designed specifically to help strengthen the teeth. Pronamel will actually help to defend the enamel from the acids in our diet. If you know that there is something out there that can help, why not start today . 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Times shes not his mistress and had nothing to do with releasing the audio tapes of these racist comments. Who is v. Stiviano. Deborah feyerick looks into her background. As she left her los angeles home, her intuition proved correct. The 31yearold woman posting online, quote, one day i will look back at instagram and say, ive been there and ive done that. It was her Instagram Page and this photo with Magic Johnson that reportedly sent her boyfriend, Donald Sterling over the edge. Stiviano was president of a company bearing her name. Suspended in 2008 by the california Franchise Tax board. It was unclear what the company did. Stiviano describes herself as artist, lover, writer, chef, poet, stylist, philanthropist saying i do it all. She definitely likes the rap world. Court records and public records show stiviano used five names, Vanessa Maria perez, monica guy egg goes and maria valdez. During the now famous argument, sterling seems at a loss for words when his girlfriend lays out her ethnicity. Im a mixed girl and youre in love with me. Im block and mexican whether you like it or not. Born october 1982, stiviano is almost 50 years younger than the 80yearold billionaire. She met the mogul about four years ag goechlt he reportedly began supporting her almost immediately. In a lawsuit filed before the tapes went public, sterlings wife alleges stiviano targeted her husband and initiated and participated in a sexual relationship with him in exchange for gifts allegedly worth more than 2. 5 million. Those gifts include a 1. 8 million l. A. Duplex and two bentleys and a ferraris with license plates that read, i heard you v and v hearts you. According to a report she was archiving the conversations eight his request. She claims she is not his girlfriend, an employee, an archivist who is tasked at recording conversations and working with a clippers charity. Reporter a spokesperson says stiviano did not work for the clippers organization. Stivianos lawyer says he plans to respond in the next several days. Its unclear when the relationship ended or if it ever did officially. However, sterlings wife is suing stiviano saying her husband had no right to use the Couples Community property to buy the girlfriend anything, not the apartment, not the cars, nor anything else. The wife wants it back. Deborah feyerick, cnn, new york. So now the nba turns its focus to other owners pushing them to get Donald Sterling to sell the team. But should they go along with the legals plans . Talk about that next. When la quinta. Com sends sales rep Steve Hatfield the ready for you alert, the second his room is ready. You know what he brings . Any questions . Can i get an a, steve . Yes three as he brings his agame the ready for you alert, only at laquinta. Com if yand youre talking toevere rheuyour rheumatologistike me, about a biologic. This is humira. 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