And tornadoes race through an area near kansas city. Meanwhile snow blanketed parts of colorado and wyoming. A wildfire in the texas panhandle forced at least 700 people in their homes and at least 1,200 more are in danger. The leader of boko haram said hell release more than 200 school girls in exchange for their prisoners. Its a terrible mistake and ill never do it again. Both say donalds racist comments were wrong but both are saying theyre not ready to give up the team. Im fighting for my 50 . And victory in a referendum which could see two regions pledge loyalty to moscow. Gun fire opening on crowds. And a grand reopening of the Washington Monument. An Iowa Police Officer nearly getting crushed by a falling tree. All that a highscale rescue from the top of the sydney opera house. Police say the man was simply drunk. And the parents of newborn twins born holding hands. I started tearing up immediately. If anyone believed marco rubio was on the fence about running for president , his latest interview leaves little doubt. Shes going to have to answer for her failures. And the st. Louis rams the nfl and espn proved they are not concerned about whether there are gay thoughts on michael sams head. They are only concerned about whether hes ready to use that head to smash into other peoples heads. We did it Everyone Welcome to cbs this morning. Good morning, nora. Good morning, charlie. We may be getting our first look at some of the hundreds of school girls kidnapped in northeast nigeria. Their captives released a video this morning. It shows dozens of girls in veils praying at an unknown location. In the video, the head of that islamist terror group, boko haram, says it is willing to exchange the girls for prisoners. Deborah, what could this mean . Our source tells cbs news that this video is a coded message to confirm that informal contact has been made with the organization, that they are ready for a prisoner swap and that back channel negotiations may be under way in some form. In the video the Abducted School girls are talking clearly to show proof of life. The leader says he is ready to swap the girls for boko haram militants being held in nigerian jails. This confirms the government has a twin strategy, a rescue mission on the one hand and on the other, a Dialogue Committee possibly to negotiate with boko haram. Boko harams campaign of violence appears to have intensified since the abductions. These are images blown up. Its believed the girls are being held somewhere in the dense area. This marketplace was looted and burned to the ground. Security in the area remains extremely tight. Boko haram is demanding a pure islamic state, often killing christians who refuse to convert. For the parents of the missing school girls, this video will come as some relief. Finally this might be confirmation that the girls might still be alive. Norah . Were hopeful there. Thank you. And a powerful spring storm is causing a second day of weather chaos. The Northern Plains are seeing heavy rains and strong winds. The storm is also bringing tornadoes that have caused Severe Damage in nebraska. Vinita nair is in nebraska. Parts of the state also saw record rainfall. More than 100 miles across the state of nebraska were affected by the weather. Big time tornado, guys. Oh thats huge large, violent tornado. A slew of powerful tornadoes touched done in nebraska sunday causing widespread damage across the state. Winds gusting more than 100 miles an hour proved to be too much for these power lines, snapping them in half. This driver was barely able to get out of the way as they came crashing down. Throughout nebraska as many as 20,000 people were left without power late sunday night. In seaward county the picture was the same. Torrential rains and blistering winds causing flash flooding in areas. The surge of severe storms that rolled through here leveled houses buried cars and tore down trees. The full scope of the damage is not known but people are already picking up the pieces of their crippled community. Later today the governor intends to tour the most damaged parts of the state. Charlie, the good news here is despite the mangled scenes like the ones you see behind me there are no fatalities and so far only two reports of injury. Thanks. Tornadoes also tore across ports of kansas. This twister was across kansas city. Megan glaros is tracking the Severe Weather threat that continueses this morning. Good morning and good morning to our viewers in the west this morning. We are looking across the great lakes at a risk for tornadoes, large hail and damaging wendsinds. The highest winds will be in illinois ohio and wyoming. As much as 12 to 24 inches of snow on the ground by the afternoon. The west coast looking pretty good pretty dry but very hot, 91 in los angeles, 80 in San Francisco and temperatures will soar into the 70s, even for seattle and portland. Megan, thank you. A wildfire still out of control this morning already burned dozens of homes in the texas panhandle. The fire broke out north of amarillo. Thousands of people are out of their homes this morning. Reporter at least 75 homes have been destroyed and approximately 1,500 acres of land have burned since this wildfire sparked late sunday afternoon, but authorities still havent been able to fully assess the situation. We dont know the extent of the damage. We dont know if theyre completely burned partially burned. We havent been able to get in to evaluate. The primary goal was to evacuate homeowners. While over 2,000 people have been impacted by this fire no loss of life has been reported. Schools in the frich area will be closed today as fire crews from all overs texas panhandle and new mexico work to put out the fire which is currently 75 contained. Theres no word yet on what caused the fire. For cbs this morning, omar villafranca, dallas, texas. Were hearing from Donald Sterling sinces first the nba banned him from the nba for life. He apologized but insists he is no a racist. Ben . Reporter sterling says he was baited by his girl friend to make those racist comments. As for why its taken him so long to apologize, he says hes too emotionally distraught to speak sooner. In his interview with anderson cooper, Donald Sterling takes responsibility for his racial comment. I mean, i love my league i love my partners. Am i entitled to one mistake . Its a terrible mistake and ill never do it again. Reporter he tells cooper he may not fight a ruling that could force him to sell the team. At the end of the road what do i benefit, especially at my age . Reporter wife shelley sterling spoke with Barbara Walters. Is Donald Sterling a racist . I have never heard him say racial things. I dont know. It was horrible when i heard it. I mean it was just degrading and it made me sick to hear it. But as far as a racist i dont really think he is a racist. It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that youre associating with black people. Reporter on the recording sterling can be heard chastising girl friend v. Stiviano for posting social media pictures with magic johnson. He has since reached out to the hall of famer. Did you apologize to him . Well if i said anything wrong, im sorry. Hes a good person and he what am i going to say . Has he done everything he can do to help minorities . I dont think so. But ill say it you know hes great. But i just dont think he is a good example for the children of los angeles. Reporter if sterling knows any hope of staying at the l. A. Clippers, it lies in the hands of 29 nba onwners who will vote on his future with the league. The people who are going to decide my fate i think are not the media and not the Players Union but the nba. If the owners feel i deserve another chance, then theyll give it to me. Reporter now it will take the votes of three quarters of those nba owners to force a sale of the team. Shelley sterling says shes plans to fight it. The nba said if a controlling interests in a team are terminated all other owners interests are also terminated. Shelleys lawyers called that interpretation selfserving and invalid. Thank you. The u. S. Secret service is on the defensive again this morning. A new report claims that misused Government Resources to protect within of one of its own. Bill plante is at the white house. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The leaders of the secret service insist in this case they have nothing to be embarrassed about. The incident happened nearly three years ago, and it involved the special Investigative Unit that sometimes works with those who protect the president. The unit goes by the code name prowler. Over the july 4 Holiday Weekend in the summer of 2011 they were isnt here to rural murland to check on marge sulk sullivans assistant, who said she was having difficulty with neighbors. At the time the president was at camp david. This is one of those black marks that makes you scratch your head. You have to ask if there is a Leadership Culture that needs to be ripped out at the secret service. The scandals have been stacking up at the secret Service Since 2012. Thats when agents assigned to protect the president during an overseas trip to colombia brought prostitutes back to the hotel. The next month sullivan apologized to congress but argued it was an isolated incident. Im confident this is not a cultural issue, not a systemic issue. Reporter sullivan left the agency last year was and replaced by julia pearson. Last year see she reassigned agents after an incident where the agents were drinking overseas. Ralph basham is a former secret service director. We are a very closeknit tight organization. We take care of our people. You know, it would not be the first time that that happened. Reporter well Current Secret Service officials vehemently deny there was anything wrong with that service mission. Sullivan told cbs news i believe the response was appropriate. It has been referred to the Homeland Security inspector general. The first vote on the referendum. Separatists in both regions claim more than 90 voted for selfrule. Clarissa ward is in donetsk, ukraine, with the insurgents next move. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Supporters of the prorussian separatist movement are calling this a sweeping victory. The kremlin has weighed in as well and said that the views of the people must be respected, but the Ukrainian Government and many in the International Community have called the vote a farce and illegal and have warned that it could further destabilize the situation. At polling stations across Eastern Ukraine, lines stretched as long as five city blocks as thousands of supporters of the prorussian separatist movement waited patiently to cast their ballots in favor of independence. The referendum did not appear to meet international standards. Many polling stations had no booths leaving voters to cast their ballot at an open desk. We saw one older woman vote twice. Some of the people waiting in line were clearly too young to so the, like 16yearold nazia, who told us she feared the government in kiev. Who do you feel closer to . Putin. Putin is closer to us. Reporter there were pockets of violence. Ukrainian forces shut down a Polling Center and began firing their weapon killing at least within one man. It was the latest of clashes with the military here that for many here have strengthened the call for independence. I have three grandchildren, i dont want that sort of thing to happen here. I dont want my children to die. The crowd echoed their approval. Not everyone in Eastern Ukraine supports the prorussian rebellion and many here boycotted the referendum leaving those who voted yes to declare a sweeping victory and prompting many to wonder what will happen next. And many people here are wondering what will come next. The prorussian separatist leader has already said they will start to build their on military and their on political bodies. That has many thinking the country could be breaking apart and that will will be more violence. Thank you. An interim director takes over at the phoenix veterans hospital. Eric shinseki has ordered a review at all v. A. Medical centers. On face the nation be robert gates said shinseki is committed to doing the right thing but he does need to dig through the v. A. Bureaucracy. My own view is the problem is below the secretary and i think its really important for him to delve into this and then if there are real problems, then to hold people accountable. We cant wait for a congressional investigation and findings and so on. This needs immediate action and im hopeful that secretary shinseki will take that action. Shinseki a retired four star general rejects calls to resign over the scandal. Chaos and gunshot next to the famed movie studio this morning. Police went to a night club on a disturbance call. Officers say they heard shots and saw somebody emerge with a gun. Thats when they opened fire. The club was hosting a deejay competition. And remembering the victims of the horrific hot air balloon tragedy in virginia. 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And the 49ers are battling joe montana over parking at levi stadium in santa clara. Montanas Company Plans to build a Big Development across the street. The team has threatened to block montanas big Hotel Project if he doesnt acquiesce. Weve got your traffic, weather and much more coming up after the break. Good morning. Another accident in oakland. This time in the opposite direction. The commute direction. Northbound 880, you do have an accident blocking at least one lane. As you can see its suddenly slow to the oakland coliseum. Changes causing some confusion this morning. This is an accident captured by our reporter on scene, foot looking two lanes