Game seven coming up in los angeles on saturday. Reporter battling until the buzzer. The Los Angeles Clippers losing in game six by just one point. The game overshadowed by Donald Sterling but overnight, a new complications. Espn and the post reporting that Donald Sterling is battling prostate cancer. Cnn has not been able too confirm but after the game players said they were not aware that sterling may have cancer but expressed their sympathies. If that is true, you know, you know, my thoughts and prayers are with him. I mean, nobody deserves to go through Something Like that. Yeah, thats the first ive ever heard of that. Thats truly unfortunate. Reporter coach doc rivers also reaked to the news. Didnt know it until just now. You know, i dont have a reaction to that. You know, i hope its not true. Reporter meanwhile, nba owners wasting no time in an effort to put a for sale sign on the l. A. Clippers, ten members held the first meeting thursday and agreed to move as quickly as possible on the process of terminating sterlings ownership and plan to reconvene next week. Amid the backlash of the controversy the president of the l. A. Chapter of the naacp is stepping down over its since resended plans to give a Lifetime Achievement award to sterling saying, in a statement that hes resigning in order to, quote, separate the los angeles naacp and naacp from the negative exposure i have caused the naacp. And this mornings l. A. Times has a report that in 1982, believe it or not, the nba tried to get rid of Donald Sterling over an audio tape. He was at a lunch clon and said he wanted his team to finish last to get the first round draft pick. Apparently the same sent narrow kicked in. The subcommittee that met yesterday, the same type of committee met in 82, sterling ended upkeeping the team, waited on to the owners. Audio tape almost cost him the team in 82 which is what hes looking at now. Kate . All right. Ted, thank you very much. Lets take a turn right now to the violence happening overseas. Its been taking a deadly turn in ukraine. I want to get to our International CorrespondentNick Paton Walsh in eastern ukraine. Violence is breaking out. What are you seeing on the ground right where you are . Reporter well, kate, you join me in sloviansk. Casualties us caused on both sides. A helicopter taken out of the sky. According to the interior minister nine similar checkpoints like this have been taken over. There is cheering now amongst that crowd but moments ago they were angry because they said, one of the soldiers there, backed that up too, an old man was ran over. We saw blan answer taking somebody away from here. This is the standoff. Local residents furious with the troops. Reenforced by a hell continuer in flew in and dropped off 10, 15 more. These are serious soldiers. Properly trained. Were not sure if they intend to move into the town. For now they have to deal with local hostility, people here just angry at what they did to the old man and their presence here, too. Kate . Nick, be careful as always over there. Thank you very much for the update. Its a very unstable situation. Hes in the middle of it right now. Weve got the violence happening in ukraine as we speak. All of this is happening as president obama and german chancellor Angela Merkel are set to hold a highstakes meeting at the white house. And merkel may be key in finding a peace solution. She is one of the few people that many say has the ear of russian president Vladimir Putin. For more on this, this highstakes meeting lets get to senior washington correspondent joe johns at the white house this morning. Good morning, joe. President obama meets with german chancellor Angela Merkel at a critical time as both countries are trying to put more pressure on russian president Vladimir Putin to deescalate tensions in ukraine. Once again, the Obama Administration finds itself walking a Foreign Policy tightrope. No doubt they will discuss more economic sanctions on russia but at some point the real question is whether tightening the screws on a Major Trading partner ceases to be in the interest of the german government. Joe, a bit of a turn. Another problem, really one thats plagued the administration for quite some time now. I want to get your take on. New criticism coming at the administration for their handling on the violence in benghazi, the deadly events in benghazi. This email from ben rhodes that came out, is it really a smoking gun as is being described by republicans or is this just more is this politicking as this issue has become a bit of a political football ahead of the midterms . Well, its a question of optics, kate. Also a question of putting the Obama Administration back on defense with House Republicans exploiting those newly disclosed documents that suggests the white house may have misled the public about the attack in benghazi that killed a u. S. Ambassador. This all had quieted down but now sort of brought back into the limelight after the Nonprofit GroupJudicial Watch uncovered emails that appeared to designed basically to make the white house look good. So its a problem of optics for the administration and question, of course, whether they were leveling with the American People in the attack. Kate . The white house, of course, doesnt want any of this criticism but i think its kind of valid to continue to conversation of why no one really faced the music yet and really been held responsible for the events that happened in benghazi. Though that is separate from what the intention of this email was which kind of is why theres always politics involved. When it involves republicans and the president. Joe johns at the white house, thank you. Chris . So the big question is, is the president the reason ukraine is out of control . Or are sanctions going to be the solution . What about this other foreign political scandal benghazi . Is it back and bigger than ever . Lets get some take here. Maggie, cnn political analyst, writer for politico. Context, how hot is it right now in the white house . How big a moment is this . This is a very big moment. Hes going to meet with merkel later today. They are going to be focusing on a number of issues. They have not met since the nsa spying issue related to her came out and her cellphone being tapped. Theyre going to talk about ukraine. The president is under pressure from republicans to do more, act harder, act more forcefully. The American People dont want more action. They think the sanctions hes enak red appropriate. The white house argues theyre working. Some people argue not so much. It might be a psychological impact. People fear more sanctions down the road. We have to wait and see. You use the word impact. Do you think it is fair to see the president in the situation as more having an impact on the problem or on the potential for a solution . It is too early to tell what he is having the impact on. The white house argues they are absolutely impacting a solution that they are forcing an instability in russia. Russia is going to see and want to move away way from. There is no evidence that that is true and european leaders are nervous about going too hard on this. We wouldnt be where we are right now if he had been tougher with putin . Very broad criticism that is hard to substantiate. Sanctions will work. He needs Angela Merkel for that to be a true proposition. Correct. So tied to the need for gas, so tied to investment in russia. Yes. What is the leverage to get merkel on the side of the u. S. President . Its very difficult. He doesnt have a whole lot of leverage other than arguing if the situation spins out of control this becomes a global problem. There are look, european leaders dont want to see this become more dangerous. They dont want to see russia continue with a push. So the leverage is essentially join me or we all have a much bigger problem. Everyone is mindful of that. Right now european leaders dont feel it the same way. Merkel says, remind me why i care . I want my gas. I dont want particularly care about yearn ukraine, if they really want to go that way, they go that way. Syria and iran, i keep telling you, mr. President , that he is a reasonable force there on some levels. Give him an opening. Psa spied on me recently. I recently trust is not really there. This is going to be a very, very interesting conversation at the white house. And it is difficult to it is difficult to make the argument that its going to emerge successfully right now. Well see. Benghazi, the email comes out. The white house was saying this was about malaysian, pro militia groups. You knew it all along. You tried to spin it. Fair criticism . If its true, their argument is this is cut and paste. This does not change our argument we did not author hes talking points. The other criticism is that you withheld this from us, coming from republicans in congress. We asked for cogments like this. You didnt release it to us. You did release it to Judicial Watch. Thats a very fair request. That is going to give this much more legs than it would otherwise have. Is this yellow cake . Is this wmd analysis from the walk war buildup . This is i think thats a bit hard to say. I think that this is new information in a case that had run a bit cold for republicans tracking it in congress and this is a very, very hot issue with republicans in midterm. The base really likes this issue. To that end, it keeps it going. Whats the chance that they make a dispositive case, they make a case to the American People, the republicans, that the white house did a cover up . Another smoking gun, that case will go easily. But right now based on the ben rhodes email while it doesnt look great and while jay carney had a rough day at the podium over it, too soon to say. Smoking gun on anything, youre in good shape. It does. This is not the smoking gun but it is problematic. So then we turn to who will be the next t president here . Maybe we get insight from a president on this. Take a listen to what president george bush said to jake tapper. I hope jeb runs. I think he would be a great president. I have no clue whats on his mind. And we will talk when hes ready. As he said publicly, im thinking about my family. He knows full well what run for the presidency can do on family. After all, he has seen his dad and brother run for president. I hope he runs. Hey, jeb, if you need some advice, give me a call. The chance that they have never discussed this is and options are zero or zero . The option im going to go with zero. Does that work for you . I think its fair. The options they have never discussed this is very, very hard to contemplate. How deeply they discuss it, how frequently, you can get into that. Im not sure theyre the closest of brothers. Its hard to imagine this has never come up. As jeb in the last two years that he has been looking at this has never picked up the phone and given his brother a call as his brother requested. Can a Family Member say, i dont think they should run . Well, his mother has done a pretty good job of that. Mom has got to be protective. Were all so mean in the media. All we do is attack people who run for office. What mother would want that . I think shes acting out of appropriate concern as a wife of a former president and mother of a former president. Shes honest about it. You dont hear that very often. Other than that youre not hearing any Family Member say, jeb, dont run. His wife is not particularly interested in this because that is said privately. Although i will say that people do give a little bit too much credit to the allure being in politics as if were like a royal situation. Its a lot of pain and a lot of strain on a family. Theyre aware of that as well. Polls arent great for him against hillary even in his home state of florida. Not so much. Hes been out of office for a long time and has not run a campaign in 12 years. Its always interesting to hear family talk about family. Sure. Maggie, thank you very much. Thanks. Lets look at more of your headlines. Breaking overnight, new satellite images seem to show north korea may be testing the engine for a possible Nuclear Missile. So say analysts at Johns Hopkins university. This comes as kim jonguns regime could be drawing closer to a nuclear test at the same facility it has conducted other tests since 2006. A minnesota teen facing charges this morning after allegedly plotting a killing free. Police say a 17yearold planned to murder his family and set off bombs at his school. That teen was less than two weeks away from carrying it out when mpolice discovered the plo after receiving a phone tip. They found three fully functioning bombs and numerous firearms at his home and in a storage locker. He faces four counts of attempted murder and explosive charges. E iing statistics on Sexual Violence. It is the first time the department of education has released a list of all current investigations. Shocking numbers from the u. S. Military as well. According to the pentagon, reports of Sexual Assaults in the military spiked by an unprecedented 50 last year. I want that to sink . I know. We were given it startling statistics. Giving it the pause there. 50 . The wrong direction. We know way too much. Reporting is supposed to be increasing and its not. Thats really worrisome. Abs lieuly right. As we head into the weekend, nothing more important than the weather so lets get to meteorologist Indra Petersons tracking everything going on. What do you see . The question is are you sick of the rain . Too bad. Were still going to be talking about more showers. So much of this rain is still from this same system. The good news, it has weakened but it is still hanging on. May be seeing more lingering showers through florida. Also keep in mind its not the only thing going up in the northeast and upper midwest. See the spin. This guy is bringing light showers in through today as well. Behind it, another system for the weekend. You could see the difference. Theres the cold front lingering today in through florida and here comes the next system thats going to be hampering your weekend in through saturday and sunday if youre into the northeast. Lets talk about how much rain. Heres the plus side. Its not as bad as unless youre in through southern florida and good news, yes, theres heavier rain in florida but not in the panhandle. Either way, theyre not able to dry out after all that heavy rain they saw yesterday or so. Now were looking at one to two inches of rain in the midwest and northeast. Most of the time youre going to see cloudy conditions. Partly cloudy. Sprinkles here and there. Its not the worst weekend. The upside, jet stream, the sky is lifting up. Yes, the cold airlifting up. Its going to feel better out there for most of you, especially down to the south. It may almost get too hot for you. Hot and muggy. Temperaturewi temperaturewise, new york city, 40s. Starting to see some 60s. Feels better. Notice the 70s down to the southeast. And may start getting cool here in the upper midwest thanks to the system. Look at the dimpss the jet stream lives up. Temperatures go right back up with almost gets plain old hot. Couple of sprinkles. It was a rough week getting better. For a lot of people. Yeah. Thanks. Sure. Coming up next on new day, malaysian Officials Say they have nothing to hide, they say. And promised more communications with the families of flight 370 passengers. Government officials there just held a briefing. What theyre saying now about the next phase in this investigation. [ female announcer ] grow, its what we do. But when we put something in the ground, feed it, and care for it, dont we grow something more . We grow big celebrations, and personal victories. We grow new beginnings, and better endings. Grand gestures, and perfect quiet. We grow escape, bragging rights, happier happy hours. So lets gro something greater with miraclegro. What will you grow . Share your story at miraclegro. Com. Welcome back to new day. We just heard from malaysias transport minister who is insist that officials have nothing to hide there. That comes on the heels of the report released by malaysia which shows i guess what we can describe as mass confusion after flight 370 disappeared. Lets take a closer look at the report and the investigation with dade soucie, author of why planes crash, former faa inspector, and major james spider marks. Good morning to both of you. Good morning, kate. Good morning, kate. Two of the numbers that stick out from the report, david, 17 minutes after it was 17 minutes after the plane had disappeared before anyone seemed to have noticed, according to this report. And then four hours before any search effort was initiated. That seems like, to be nice and to be kind, that seems like mistakes were made. But that seems like a whole lot of mistakes that were not corrected in time. Lets talk about 17 minutes first. Thats at the transition period. When youre going from one control area to the next control area. 17 minutes while it is a little bit extensive, its not unordinary at all. Thats something that you might expect. The other part, the four hours, now, this is something that troubled us in 9 11 is this communication, the military knew what was going on. They knew where that aircraft was during that four hours. Pre 9 11 we had the same situation. The military knew what was going on and could see the aircraft but couldnt identify who they were and what they belonged to. Now in the United States its much different. Turn communications there, they know that. Inmalaysia, they didnt. That fourhour gap, in this report, while theyre still nowhere near the amount of detail we need to get us further in this investigation, this fourhour gap, do you believe this is the biggest glaring mistake sticking out in this report . Its not a mistake. Its a systemic failure. Theres a big difference. It sounds worse. It is. Its much worse. Thats why it needs to be corrected and icao needs to step in and make sure all of the