she is director of the phoenix v.a., and now she finally did agree to talk with our drew griffin after leaving in her vehicle. tonight, at 8:50 to be precise, we got word that she and two others have been placed on administrative leave. we ll have more on this later in the hour. first, though, malaysian authorities releasing more on the flight 370. what little there is is not flattering. the document of wasted time and opportunities to contact the boeing triple 7, to track it and investigate whether or not it was in trouble and ultimately find the remains of it. rene marsh has more. reporter: almost two months after flight 370 vanished, malaysian authorities finally released an official report to the public. the five-page document doesn t explain why the plane went missing but does make clear that for hours after the plane went missing there was confusion and misinformation. moments after the flight s now famous communication. contact with flight 370, good night. good night. 370. reporter: the plane s transponder goes off causing it to disappear from radar at 1:21 a.m. local time. but the report shows it was 17 minutes before air traffic controllers in vietnam asked their counterparts in malaysia what happened to the plane. during that time, the plane unexpectedly turned left eventually crossing. the report shows during this time malaysia airlines may have added to the confusion sending two messages to air traffic control. both of which turned out to be false. the first at 2:03 a.m. claiming the plane was in cambodian air space, it was not. the second message at 2:35 a.m. saying the plane was tracking to beijing. again, the information water wrong. 5:30 a.m., four hours after the plane disappeared from radar search and rescue was alerted. precious time lost to confusion. the plane continued south far into the indian ocean. the last partial satellite communication coming at 8:19 a.m. the report includes maps of three possible crash sites, red indicating the most likely. also released, passenger seating assignments in the cargo manifest, which lists lithium ion batteries as some of the materials transported. the report is brief containing one recommendation saying that realtime flight should become the international standard. and i understand, family members of the missing also received the report? that is right, anderson, and to hear the families tell it the report is somewhat relevant. it doesn t tell them anything new that gets them closer to finding out what happened. now, this is the preliminary report. it is pretty short here, just this paragraph. compare that to the preliminary report from air france, 128 pages. the bottom line here is that the country in charge of the investigation can tell you as little or as much as they want to. and to be fair, they really in this case don t know a lot about what happened to the plane. that said, there is still a lot of information that they could have included here that is not in here, virtually no detailed information on the plane. its maintenance history, engine or performance data. nothing about air traffic control staffing in kuala lumpur, the number of controllers or their experience level. all right, renee marsh, thank you, and david gallo, director of special products at woods hole oceanographic institute. and david souci, author of why planes crash. regard, you have been talking about this report for a long time that it needs to be released. you pressured the authorities, it is now out there. what do you make of it? as you said, in terms of what they could get away with in terms of detail. it was nicely padded out with lots of graphs and pictures of air traffic control regions between brazil and all that sort of thing. and that is what we might have expected here. you might have expected a bit of a treatise on acars, about transponders, something that gives a fuller picture. or even basic questions from the families it would have given a fuller picture. but as a preliminary report it is unimpeachable. it does what needs to be done. it is all of this other stuff, where the real story is today. anderson, it is all the various documents that we got that were released on the instructions i m told of the prime minister who insisted that these were released, as well. documents about what was in the cargo, about lithium batteries, we ll talk more about that. the delay, though, that we see in this preliminary report not only in realizing there was a problem but even longer delay in actually starting the search. would it have made a difference? i don t believe it would have made much difference, the final outlook. if you look at the plot of the map, the planes and various times the plane is well and truly on its way by any reasonable time. you have got to allow air traffic control a certain leeway. i m going to be charitable. say up to two hours before you push the big red button that says crisis. even though, right at the end, anderson, there are times when you have gaps of 37 minutes, 44 minutes. 36 minutes, all of these gaps before so there was plenty of opportunity for somebody to do something. david souci, you have been involved in the investigations like this. four hours to start the search? yeah, i think starting the search is not the only point. the point is that the military picked up the aircraft and knew it was there, prior to the search during that four-hour period. so why that was not communicated back, the same problem we have with 911, the military radar was tracking the planes but they had no way to connect to the civil radar. they knew something was going on. the military knew something was going on but they didn t communicate together. since that time, we did do that. we have very good communication. the military radar when they send out the primary ping, they send also what aircraft is there, the transponder as it is, as it should have been there. i am questioning, why didn t acao take that rule and push the international civil authority. that is what they re there for. to make sure the citizens who travel to other countries, why did that not happen? you cover the disasters, how is it compared to other reactions that you have seen? very slow, embarrassingly slow. if there had been a simple phone call from the military radar room to the civilian or vice versa, i suspect two and two would have added up. because you had a missing civilian airliner on one side and had an unidentified blip on the other side. and presumably that would have had somebody get into a fighter aircraft to intercept. and here is where it gets tragic. if it really was a deliberate act and suddenly there was an f-18 on your wing tip could the whole chain of events have ended right there perhaps without the tragedy we talk about there. and in terms of size, 128 pages long. you know, i ll take what we can get, anderson. i didn t expect a lot. i frankly expected less because if you look at the basic form for the preliminary report for icao, the narrative required is supposed to be 200 words or less. so that is practically a tweet. but the bottom line is we always wanted more information. we still need more information on this. for the families this is just excruciating. it has been disrespectful to them, the emotional toll on them. and david gallo, what is interesting in the report. it highlights a wide range of assumptions about the speed of the aircraft. and at one point it is 323 knots, and at one point they estimate it could be 350 knots. yeah, all the little speeds and changes that are heading plus the flight, you re talking about big differences where it impacted the ocean. and that is huge when you talk about searching the sea floor. and we have seen what the bluefin, searching a 6-mile radius, imagine if it was off another ten times that. and miles again, you have a huge variety in terms of altitude. at one point in time it assumes the plane flew an altitude the 31,000 feet, another time, 15,000 feet. that is a huge difference. the map, i m not quite sure where they derived their assumptions. one of the altitudes that leads to the red box which is supposedly more likely the red box and where the search is indicating assuming 30,000 feet. and yet 323 knots, which is much slower than you would expect at that altitude. so i m a little confused on these numbers. on the speed and altitude that they chose to build these assumptions. you know, it doesn t take as we just discussed it doesn t take much variance in speed to change the search location by literally hundreds of miles. right, a lot more to talk about ahead. we ll take a short break and continue the conversation, quick reminder, you can set your dvr so you never miss a program. next, more on the cargo mentioned that richard alluded to. batteries like these that are usually safe but always flammable. there are new developments on that. and new on the donald sterling affair, to decide his fate with the l.a. clippers. how easy will it be to get him out? 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it is not only about these flights, but the previous flight she talked about. the batteries are very volatile, they put off gases, and it burns very, very hot. it is interesting, though, richard, malaysian airlines earlier had said this was in compliance with all international regulatory requirements. it doesn t mean they are not potentially dangerous. no, it doesn t mean they are potentially dangerous. the way bill makes it clear, the package must be handled with clear. my understanding is that these were packaged in accordance with the procedures. and they were in the back of the aircraft in the makes a huge amount of difference. but everything i have been told about these lithium ion batteries is that they do not believe they were a cause of anything going wrong. but therein lies the problem. they met those standards. well, let s look at the standards, we have higher standards here in the united states. they can t be on passenger aircraft like that. these amount of batteries wouldn t be on aircraft in the united states. that is why you put it on cargo aircraft. especially 5,000 pounds. i have to tell you, i burned a lithium battery in the hotel, and it practically burned down the hotel room. why were you doing that? i was charging up battery and gear, i can tell you i don t want to fly with these batteries underneath me. that is a very good rule. just because malaysian airlines says they were packed well in the back do we even know that? david souci, you talked earlier to somebody who checked on the batteries and the pingers and they were not even being stored properly in a warehouse. obviously it is a different issue, but if one battery is not stored correctly how do we know for sure they re packaging these things correctly? there are two different divisions, you have the maintenance division, as you recall maybe a month ago or so we talked about how many reported incidents there were with these batteries. most of them in loading or taking off because that is when they re most vulnerable to some kind of damage is when they re being put on the aircraft by a forklift or any other kind of metal that is going on the aircraft. you know, miles when you look at where the plane disappeared and there was a thing mentioned in the wall street journal and it was mentioned that it all may be a coincidence. but if you were choosing a moment in the flight to go dark this moment when it was getting into the vietnamese air space was the moment. if it was a technical failure it was a pretty extraordinary coincidence. to that you say what? well, handoffs are the opportunity for something like that to happen. because there is this period of time when one guy has said good night and the other guy is supposed to pick up the ball. and during that period of time each thinks each person thinks the other is talking to the aircraft. and so if you wanted to disappear that is the time to do it. there is an opportunity there. you know, you talk about this 17 minutes of time before ho chi minh city started to wonder where the plane was. that is a long period of time but not unprecedented as part of the routine course of action in handoffs on a day to day basis. so it happens, it is an opportunity time. miles, good to have you on, richard quest and david souci, as well. up next, put on leave just a day after we aired this interview with her. there was a secret list that kept the reality of wait times hidden. unbelievable, drew griffin has more later. and donald sterling, the first step taken as you know. and the owners talking today, what they decided ahead. . at od, whatever business you re in, that s the business we re in with premium service like one of the best on-time delivery records and a low claims ratio, we do whatever it takes to make your business our business. od. helping the world keep promises. we re now in the breaking news on the top of the program sparked by the exclusive investigation into vets dying. while waiting to see doctors at the v.a. and two other facilities. the woman who runs the phoenix hospital and two others on her staff have been placed on leave. their boss, erik shinseki, we repeatedly asked for an interview with him. he has refused. this video shows the director running away, finally she sat down with drew griffin, trying to explain the hospital keeping a secret list of veterans, each who had waited 21 months to see a doctor. the secret list was being kept so that the public and helman s bosses would not know just how many veterans were waiting for care there. up to 40 veterans died waiting to see the doctor there. those were the allegations we asked the inspector general to review. but those were allegations that i assume you two would have direct knowledge of. again, those allegations are the ones that the office of inspector general are reviewing right now. when we heard about this, it is the first time we have heard about the allegations and that is why we asked the office to come in and do a thorough and impartial review. now director helman and her staff denied the knowledge of the list. however, her boss, eric shinseki announced the two are on administrative leave. our reporter drew griffin has been on the story from the start and broke the story of the possible deaths and secret list. joining us now. this is really the first indication that we have had that secretary shinseki was showing any interest in this? reporter: yes, and the v.a. secretary has been under fire, anderson, not only from us but from many in congress for what they see is paying very little attention to cases across the country of veterans who have been dying, waiting for care across the country at these hospitals. it took this to get him to finally act. but i want to show you what may also have prompted him to act today. we have been trying to get an interview with eric shinseki since last november. last night we told you about the 50 or so employees that work in his public affairs office to handle scheduling his interviews. well, today we decided to try to reach every single one of them and asked them one more time for an on the record interview with secretary shinseki. i m calling to put in a formal request for an interview with secretary shinseki. we have been asking to speak to him for six months and we really want to talk to him about delays in care at v.a. hospitals around the country. the allegations that they could have contributed to as many as 40 veterans dying because of delayed care. and who is the best person you recommend? okay, so it is drew s decision whether or not the interview will happen? this slant on this story no, i well, we don t have a slant on the story but we have been asking for the secretary s reaction to this. and his comments and for him to respond for six months. anderson, we called 20 different government numbers in that public affairs office. five answered. three of those people told us we needed to talk with a public affairs officer named drew brooky. and as you know, one of them even asked what our slant was. for the record, drew brooky has been exactly the person we have been calling and e-mailing and trying to get an interview since november of last year. and their response has always been either we ll get back to you or simply no. well today, we have yet to hear back from drew brooky, but we did get this press release tonight announcing that the v.a. director, sharon helman, is now on leave. it is amazing to me, again these are public officials. their job is to be transparent. their job is to present information to the american public. i mean, the fact that they re like dodging and weaving and squealing off in their cars running away from you. that their head won t do an interview with you, it just boggles my mind. this started back in november. you got questions about delays and care in several hospitals, not just phoenix. and i mean, congress has been asking questions. that is exactly exactly right. the lack of response is becoming a bit of a sick joke. we know at least 23 veterans died because there was delayed care the veteran s hospitals. that is what the v.a. has admitted to, 23. we know several veterans died in pittsburgh because of the bacteria that was running through the water system in the v.a. hospital and the v.a. officials there tried to hide that fact from patients and even staff. and now it is alleged 40 veterans died in phoenix waiting for care. it is an and also waiting for care, many of them on a secret list so their names would remain hidden. yet there is no one being held accountable. and all of these letters, i want to show you all of these letters, these are from members of congress and the senate asking eric shinseki exactly what and who is being held accountable for all of this mess. the house veterans affairs committee says the lack of response, anderson, is so bad. this is what they are doing in congress. they are keeping an electronic tally on its website every time a reporter or member of congress or government or official on a committee does not get any response. and tonight again you can add one more to that list. our request today for an interview with v.a. secretary eric shinseki is now being ignored. and again, every politician, everybody in government loves to say that you know, veterans, you know they have served our country and they deserve the best care possible. they don t deserve to be waiting for months just to see a doctor. i mean, we re not even talking about you know, a course of treatment. these are people who have served our country just to see a doctor. they are waiting for, for months. that is outrageous. it really is. you know, the vets get political lip service every time there is an election. both parties go down to these v.a. veterans conferences. they talk a good game. they talk about improving benefits and access to health care. they also specifically in this last election talked about transparency. and even specifically talked about cutting down wait times. people in office right now. in fact, the person that is in the white house talked about that. that is why this is so disturbing. the lack of transparency and until now the lack of any action. it is incredible. drew, i appreciate you keeping an eye on it. we ll continue. coming up, a committee of donald sterling s colleagues talks about whether to oust the disgraced clipper s owner. what the head of the nba said. and the italian appeals court making shocking claims, with cnn s chris cuomo. when we continue. it end after e expanded your business? 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no, i don t think there will be a chance at all. in fact, i m not so sure that the nba doesn t face severe obstacles. it was reported that he holds the team in a family trust. i don t think necessarily that they can terminate him through the family trust. and if they have approved the team being held in that legal entity they have got enormous problems trying to terminate him. now, he at at some point that doesn t mean there wouldn t be a negotiated surrender. but at this point i don t think it will be a situation where the nba by-laws say you can get rid of somebody if they have financial problems. this is based on the first amendment and there are a whole lot of problems for him to just summarily terminate him. if he were forced to sell he would get hit with a lot of capital gains taxes, whereas if he just gave it to his family members who are currently part owners he would be able to avoid all that. so his family would take a big financial hit if he sold it. yeah, that is absolutely correct. and that is one of the reasons they got it in a family trust, i m sure. i think there are also significant issues. you know, adam silver took pains to talk about that this was only to mr. sterling, not to mrs. sterling. she has got all kinds of options, as well, and is basically running the team if you believe what is being reported. and i just don t think that they re going to be able to do this in a summary fashion. sunny, what do you think? shelly seems to indicate that she is sticking in. this is one of the few times mark and i agree. i have been saying all along, shelly sterling really is a player here, and a lot of people are disagreeing with it. she is part owner of the team, the bottom line, very difficult to hurt family trust, they re put in place the kids are also a part of this. it is not something that is going to be summarily done. he sues people just for the sport of it. he sues his mistresses and fights with the justice department. this is somebody who has lawyered up at this time. maybe you, mark, are one of his lawyers, they re figuring out all sorts of maneuvers. mark, i have to ask you about v. stiviano. i mean, you know l.a. better than anyone. you deal with a wide variety of celebrities and people who want to be celebrities. what is her next move? she is walking around town in this sun visors, with one of their names on her hat. she has multiple names. i like that hat, i have ordered one. this is such to me an l.a. character. she is the quintessential l.a. characters. i asked before we came on, i said do you think sunny would want her daughters to grow up like v.? not one of the visors, this is not exactly a role model. i always said women who sleep with other women s men s wait, what? women who sleep with other women s men yeah, husband. you absolve him of any responsibility in this? he is responsible, as well. but with v. stiviano, the bottom line wait, can we ask one question? this gal was 27 when she hooks up with this 77-year-old guy who was then 76, really, do you think it was because of it was not for the hard body. that is right, she is not a noble character but she has done the country a service by exposing. she has done the country a service. yeah. okay. sunny, thank you. mark geragos as well. the sterling case may have opened a pandora s box, if this is the new standard, then the concept of what crosses the foul line may have in implications elsewhere reporter: another is suddenly back in the spotlight. it was 2009 when the owner of the orlando magic first opened up about aids patients. aids is a disease that people gain because of their actions. it was not like cancer. he was talking with his hometown newspaper, the grand rapids press. and he did not stop there. when asked about same-sex marriage, here is what he said. live your life, i will respect you, but don t keep asking for favors. don t ask for a concession on a marriage issue which is not vital to them, in my opinion. reporter: then he went further. i deal with a lot of wonderful gay people, i hire them a lot, i use them, they re terrific, i am good friends with them. reporter: even before that he fuelled protests for giving $100,000 in support of an anti-guy gay marriage vote in florida which passed, controversial, to be sure. once you start to monitor what owners say now you really open yourself up to saying well, which remarks are okay and which ones are not okay? reporter: espn senior writer wonders where the league will draw the line and how will it decide who to punish? if you re in league with an openly gay player how then do you turn a blind eye towards owners? reporter: and what about players? remember in 2011 when los angeles laker kobe bryant reacted to a foul call? he was caught on television saying this. bryant was fined $100,000 and apologized on the radio days later. and what about cases of sexual harassment? hall of famer isaiah thomas was sued when coaching the new york knicks by this woman, a knicks executive. she claims he verbally abused her and tried to kiss her. she says she was fired after complaining. i am very innocent and i did not do the things that she accused me of in this courtroom of doing. reporter: in 2007, a jury found thomas and madison square garden liable for sexual harassment. the garden was asked to pay more than $11 million. isaiah thomas paid nothing. randi kaye, cnn, new york. up next, an exclusive interview with amanda knox after a new judicial report says she is the one that fatally stabbed her roommate. i did not kill my friend. i did not wield a knife. i had no reason to. . gigantic, gigantic, gigantic a big, big love gigantic, gigantic, gigantic a big, big love ndred and seventy-seven thousand dollars per minute. that s what big oil made last year. now they re spending it to rig the system against you. pushing washington to cut american-made biofuels. bullying gas stations to use more of their oil. all so they get richer.and you pay more. truth is, biofuels are cleaner, better for your engine and less expensive. washington, don t let big oil rig the system any more. protect the renewable fuel standard. sunny or bubbly? 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she is standing by her story. i think her level of emotion is indicative of how surprising this result is in the motivation, in the decision of the judge. it is surprising to her? it is very surprising to her. because this judge goes farther than any judge before. the knife being the murder weapon, her being the killer, these are all things that are familiar. the way the judge describes that her dna on the hilt of that knife, that is the murder weapon even though it was dismissed before. he believes all three, rudy guede, the man convicted, and her boyfriend, all conspired to kill meredith kercher and it is amanda knox that delivered the final blow. this has been her life, from the time she was 20 years old to now. i want to play some of the exchange. she has been able to carve out a life. you talked to her about this. you started in 2007, it is now 2014. for you and your life, is it present day? are you able to be present day or are you still trapped in 2007? it is definitely a limbo. my entire adult life has been weighed down and taken over by this tremendous mess. this i mean, on the one hand i have my life in seattle. i get to go to school. i get to be with my family and friends. and i m so grateful to have them. they really helped me get through this. i guess i m just one of the lucky ones. how so? well, because i m actually i m actually supported by people. and people have looked into my case as opposed to have forgotten me. and people who know about what kinds of things happened to lead to wrongful convictions have come out and said things in support of me. and that is that has made a huge difference in my life. i don t feel as alone as i could. you talked to her, i think it was may of last year. does she seem different than she did back then? i think she is growing up in a way. i think she is stunted in a way. and i think there is real anxiety now. this is one step away, and she says she has people who support her. but the question is are those people on the supreme court in italy because she is suffering from two real problems. one, is one of perception, what i call a problem of first impression that they had there. the first image that she didn t act right. the second image she has to deal with is she is forced to make the case for her own innocence. and there is something that always makings credibility questionable in that, when somebody said i didn t do it and didn t do it and being their own attorney in effect. it is a rough spot for her. and the politics of the situation seem to dictate that the chance that the supreme court overturns this is not great, probably not a 50/50 proposition. so she is having to deal with that. she knows the stakes better than anyone. that is incredible, i ll look for the interview. and you can tune in to chris cuomo s exclusive interview, the trial of amanda knox. up next, anthony bourdain, where to find the best street food in the world. i sit down with him next. load! we keep moving to deliver what you need. and that means growth, lots of cargo going all around the globe. cars and parts, fuel and steel, peas and rice, hey that s nice! norfolk southern what s your function? 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we claim to not want them, we claim to not want them in, yet we can t live without mexican restaurant workers, our economy would collapse. do you like real mexican food? i love real mexican food, i love the subtle flavors of handmade, you know, the sauces. i love a simple greasy street taco made with a homemade tortilla, made by somebody who really cares. so you will eat one on the streets in mexico? some of our happiest moments of the day, we put our cameras down and eat the straggly little tacos in the street. i feel like if i do that i will get sick. these people can t afford to put it in the refrigerator, if they bring to market what they think they re going to sell they cook it right there. they make the tortillas fresh, the tacos fresh, not the sad bitter things you get in the chains. it is a beautiful thing. like you must have known, somebody must have told you the right stand to go there. the guy has an iron stomach. you can catch parts unknown sunday on cnn, it is a great show. beef up its military. it is disturbing and perhaps criminal that these documents, the documents like these were hidden by the obama administration from congress and the public alike. republicans taking aim at the obama administration after they say new information rev
to realize that the plane had even disappeared from radar. then, malaysian authorities failed to initiate any kind of search for four hours. overnight, government officials in malaysia held a news conference, their first since releasing their findings. let s get the latest now from will ripley, who s live in kuala lumpur. will, i do understand there s another news conference scheduled any minute from now, and we will take that live as soon as it happens. in the meantime, how are they justifying this report? reporter: well, you know, this report, the prime minister actually tweeted it out, a link to it, earlier today, saying that it was being put out in the interest of transparency. it s almost eight weeks since mh-370 disappeared, and families have been asking for this report, literally for weeks, john. what contains in it, not a lot of surprises, but certainly some revelations about the true extent of the time that was wasted and the confusion in those initial minutes and hours, when mh-370 disappeared. 17 minutes before anybody even noticed that the plane dropped off radar. and then during those four hours before search and rescue was activated here in kuala lumpur, you saw a lot of miscommunication, you saw a growing amount of panic. but the thing that you saw the most was relative inaction in the sense that nobody made the call, okay, we have got a problem, let s get someone up in the sky to look for this. and at the same time, the report also highlights the lack of communication between the civilian air traffic control and the military, because we know, while the civilian air traffic control had realized that they lost this plane, malaysian military radar, at least for a time, was tracking this aircraft. and that was confirmed by the prime minister to our own richard quest. so, the press conference overnight didn t really touch too much on this report, but we were expecting this new press conference, which could happen at any moment, to possibly address some of those questions. and this is going to be one of the press conferences that we ve seen traditionally over these last eight weeks now, where we re going to have not only the acting transport minister, but the department of civil aviation, the ceo of malaysia airlines, also ministers representing next of kin, the families of flight 370. so, it will be interesting to see what happens. we certainly do have a lot of questions that we would like to ask. indeed, we do. and again, we will bring you that news conference the minute it happens. will ripley in kuala lumpur. thanks so much. let s bring in jeff wise, cnn aviation analyst. so much is made of the 17 minutes, this gap before they realized the plane hadn t checked in with the vietnamese air and then four hours before they even started to sort of look for it. is that just the way the system is set up, or is this, you know, a lack of oversight on the part of the malaysians? well, you re going to expect that it takes a certain amount of time, first of all, to realize that they re not where they should be, and then to try to figure out, okay, well, where are they then? so, when you look at the transcript of the proceedings, you see that air traffic controllers in ho chi minh called malaysia, the malaysian air traffic people called the malaysian airlines, and there s calls going back and forth, basically saying, has anybody seen this? then there s a rumor that they re in cambodian air space. that took a little while to be disproved. so basically, imagine like if you were supposed to meet a friend for dinner and they didn t show up, then maybe you called their wife, you start to call around. it would take a while before you realized, oh, this person is actually missing, and i think something similar s happening here, it just took a while. and i understand that and i understand the natural level of confusion that emulates from this. but the problem is, it s not your girlfriend for dinner. right. it s 239 souls, sure. in a giant 777 there. so, some people aren t surprised by the confusion, jeff, but i guess the question is, should we be surprised and should there be a better system in place to make sure this doesn t happen again? well, bear in mind, too, that you know, the leading hypothesis that investigators have is that this was an intentional act, meaning somebody deliberately absconded with this plane. and as i pointed out before, the plane took its diversionary turn to the left, that famous westward turn, in a place in its flight path when it was just leaving radar coverage. so, it was no longer under radar surveillance from air traffic controllers. this would have been the perfect time for it to slip away. you know, normally, air traffic controllers see a symbol of that plane moving across their screen, and that s based on the radar returns. when radar coverage slips away, that symbol keeps moving across their screen. right. and this is something we saw in air france 447. right. and if this was deliberately done, it leads you to maybe suspect that they were very cleverly turning at just that point where they would have slipped away from surveillance and taken advantage of that gap. i mean, i think when you talk about the time gap here, i mean, there s a lot of people saying this was korbable, this shows authorities are not watching this plane, this should never have happened, but what you re saying is the system is built on the presumption that a plane is going to keep going where it said it s going. exactly. no one s anticipated this action before, so the system isn t designed to prevent people from absconding with planes. after air france 447, though, fell into the atlantic ocean, there were protocols that were supposed to have been put in place to make this type of situation at least run more smoothly. that did not seem to happen. right. the technology exists to allow planes to be tracked via satellite, you know, instead of being based on ground radar, as it currently is. it wouldn t be such a hard objective to have planes automatically communicating their position and other crucial information. that, though, could also be turned off as the position equipment seems to have been turned off in this case. jeff wise, great to have you with us. again, we are awaiting a news conference from kuala lumpur, where they will talk about this report at great length, and we hope in new detail, because there s a lot of questions still that people have from this report. no question. six minutes after the hour. the crisis in ukraine will be front and center today when president obama hosts german chancellor angela merkel at the white house. tougher sanctions against russia could be on the table, all this happening as the violence in ukraine escalates dramatically overnight. cnn has been monitoring a large-scale military operation being launched by the ukrainian military, all while russian president vladimir putin is calling on kiev to withdraw its troops from southeast ukraine, withdraw its troops from its own country, if it wants to keep peace. let s get more on today s meeting between the president and angela merkel. senior white house correspondent jim acosta filed this report. reporter: john and christine, german chancellor angela merkel s visit to the white house comes at a critical time. both the u.s. and germany have tried to apply pressure on russia to try to de-escalate the crisis in ukraine, the u.s. taking the lead on sanctions, while chancellor merkel has tried to use her closer relationship with russian president vladimir putin to resolve the crisis, but it s not clear whether those closer ties are helping. in a phone conversation that the two leaders had on thursday, putin told merkel that he wants to see ukrainian troops pull out of the southeastern part of their own country. white house press secretary jay carney called that suggestion preposterous. now, the white house expects both leaders, both president obama and angela merkel, to talk about another round of sanctions against russia. that next round would likely be targeted at russia s economy, key sectors of the russian economy, such as its banking and energy sectors, but that would hurt the german economy as well. so, expect that question to come up at a news conference with president obama and chancellor merkel later today. also, one other big question to expect would be about those revelations that the u.s. has been spying on foreign leaders, most notably, angela merkel. john and christine? meanwhile, the ukrainian government is launching a large-scale operation to recapture the eastern city of slovyansk, as the violence in ukraine threatens to erupt. i want to get the latest from arwa damon, live from donetsk, where ukraine riot police have been clashing with pro-russian activists. what s the latest, arwa? reporter: well, those clashes happening yesterday at the prosecutor s office when the pro-russian camp tried to storm the building, eventually forcing the riot police out and taking control, asserting their own authority. and then in the early hours of the morning, ukrainian troops in the cities of slovyansk launching, what they re calling an anti-terror operation. according to the ministry of defense, two helicopters shot down, two soldiers possibly dead, nine barricades taken back. and driving into these various cities that are in the control of the pro-russian camp, you do see a number of barricades, tires that the pro-russian camp has established. those, now reportedly, some of them being taken back by ukrainian forces. but moving forward in the antiterrorism operation, if they decide to really go on the offensive, it s going to be incredibly difficult, because these various buildings that are in the hands of the pro-russian camp, they re in residential areas, they re in the very heart of these various cities. the potential for even more bloodshed, street-to-street combat very much out there, very much of great concern for a number of civilians that we have been speaking to throughout all of this. but it does seem at this stage as if the central government in kiev s at the very least attempting to try to reinforce its own authority, christine. all right, arwa damon, thanks for that, arwa. wow. dramatic developments overnight in ukraine. and again, very much on the table as the president meets with angela merkel today. there will be a press conference live at about 11:30, 11:40 between the two leaders. cnn will be taking that live. now, a heartbreaking loss for the l.a. clippers and their fans last night. they re going to need a game seven to advance in the playoffs after losing game six to the golden state warriors, 100-99! oh, my goodness. meanwhile, a panel of nba owners met thursday, unanimously agreeing to proceed as expeditiously as possible to oust clippers owner donald sterling from the league for his racist words. three-quarters of the owners need to approve his removal. and the president of the los angeles chapter of the naacp has resigned. leon jenkins stepping down for his decision to honor sterling for promoting civil rights. and happening right now, the east coast cleaning up after historic flooding just covered communities with water. and this morning the rain not over yet. oh, no! indra petersons tracking the storms, right after the break. woman: this is not exactly what i expected. man: definitely more murdery than the reviews said. captain obvious: this is a creepy room. man: oh hey, captain obvious. captain obvious: you should have used hotels.com. their genuine guest reviews are written by guests who have genuinely stayed there. instead of people who lie on the internet. son: look, a finger. captain: that s unsettling. man: you think? 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[ screaming ] oh, my god! the whole thing! [ screaming ] that is unbelievable. incredible video of a landslide swallowing up ten cars and a retaining wall, then dropping it all on to railroad tracks below. this is right in the middle of a baltimore neighborhood. that city suffering its worst flooding in decades. it happened so slowly. i can t believe it! whoever s shooting it showing a huge amount of faith that the rest of the road will not fall in there. wow. we could loop that for the next 45 minutes or move on to this. flooding is also a big problem in parts of pennsylvania. so much rain fell in the schuylkill river that it actually crested higher than it did during hurricane irene or superstorm sandy. more grim news in mississippi. the death toll in that state from this week s tornadoes now 14 with the discovery of the body of a missing boy. we re getting new images of the devastation in jackson. at least nine twisters touched down in the state on monday. and just look at the flooding. rivers so far over their banks, residents, look at how they have to get in their homes. it s been kind of crazy. i woke up at 7:00 to head to school for a final and saw the water was above our mailbox out in the front yard. there was a papa john s car that we saw over there that was completely flooded. wow. the pizza s in jeopardy, you know it s serious. i was thinking the same thing. that means it s friday. we re hungry. it s friday. indra petersons has decided to join us this friday with a look at the forecast. and hopefully, some good weather for the weekend. good morning. good morning. we ve been talking about that same frontal system, right, all week long. you can see it s still out there on the map this morning. very easy to see this huge frontal system, very tail end of this cold front still hanging over florida even this morning. but the other system i wanted to show you, you can see the contrast here, much lighter. you can see almost a hint of a spin out here. that will be the next story with just light rain into the ohio valley and northeast over the weekend. first, let s take them one at a time. here s the cold front we ve been watching. notice it stalls out and pretty much lingers or very slowly exits out of florida. that s where we ll be watching for more rain in that area today. of course, here s the next system making its way across with just light showers for a lot of you in towards the weekend. so, how much rain is everyone expecting? we ve been talking about this. florida already seen so much rain, a lot of flooding concerns, still looking for heavier amounts farther south, though, than a few days ago, maybe just a few inches. toss it back to christine and john. thank you, indra. in malaysia, there is a news conference, officials briefing us now on the report just released on flight 370, the official report. this is the malaysian defense minister. let s listen to what he has to say. along with additional information. this is consistent with our stand in the interests of openness and transparency. all information which does not jeopardize the investigation or the search operation should and will be made public. it must be stressed that the report made public yesterday is a preliminary report. nevertheless, i repeatedly stressed since the beginning, we really have nothing to hide. heating with angus houston and jean-paul troadec this morning. earlier today, i met with retired air marshal angus houston, who has been leading the joint agency coordination center, jacc, in perth, coordinating the search of mh-370 in the southern indian ocean, and mr. jean-paul troadec, the head of the french investigation team for air france flight 447 and the former head of the aviation accident investigation bureau. the presence of these two individuals in kuala lumpur is to discuss the new phase we are entering into the search operation. the meeting was a testament to malaysia s inclusiveness in coordinating the next phase of this unprecedented search, and it reaffirms our relentless commitment as well as that of the international community in searching for mh-370. progress regarding the subcommittees. the three subcommittees or ministerial committees led by the three deputy ministers have been meeting and efforts have been intensified to prepare ourselves for the next phase. let me now update you on this progress. the technical committee. the international investigative team, which is led by dr. chun, the former director general of the dca and a former representative to icao council in montreal, has commenced investigations on the incident as stipulated by the terms of reference laid down by acio. the investigation team has convened five times so far, and progress will be reported in due course. in respects of the next-of-kin committee, yes, indeed, malaysian airlines has announced it will make advanced compensation payments as soon as possible to the nominated next of kin who are entitled to plane compensation. the compensation package is aimed to meet the immediate economic needs of the families. i would like to reaffirm the government s stand as iterated yesterday by the deputy foreign minister who heads the next of kin subcommittee, that we are confident in malaysian airlines commitment in assisting and supporting the families of those aboard mh-370. and on that note, i would also like to record our sincerest appreciation to the chinese government for their strong support in this matter. i strongly urge that malaysia airlines continue to engage the families of the passengers as we enter this new phase. it is imperative for us to maintain and improve the communication platforms and channels which have been established between the airline and the families the past eight weeks. the designated family members of the passengers, wherever they are, must be kept informed consiste consistently and timely on significant developments relating to the search. we owe it to the families to keep abreath with the progress and keep up to date on this incident. on asset deployment, we have had detailed discussions with several malaysian companies, namely, petronas, boustad and others in the past few days on deploying specialized assets. these underwater platforms include autonomous unmanned vehicles, auvs, deepwater towed side scan sonars, remotely operated vehicles, rovs, and support vessels to deployed assets to join in the new phase of the search mission. it is important for all the malaysian entities involved in this effort to be on the same page, working as one team, flying the malaysian flag to find mh-370. my trip to canberra. next week i will lead a delegation to canberra to attend the trilateral ministerial meeting, which will be hosted by our australian counterparts on the fifth of may. the meeting will be chaired by the deputy prime minister of australia and the minister of infrastructure. i will be accompanied by the heads of the three subcommittees, the deputy minister of defense, the deputy minister of transport and the deputy minister of foreign affairs, along with amajari and other relevant representatives from respective ministries. in addition, a chinese delegation will also be joining us for the meeting led by the transport minister and accompanied by the vice minister of transport, his excellency, and vice minister of foreign affairs, his excellency zi hang shang and other senior government officials. on the lead regarding bay of bengal. on the bay of bengal allegation, we agree with angus houston s statement that this claim is highly unlikely. many leads in the past have proven to be negative, and this is similar to what we have done before. there is nothing new, but we have informed lateral states to verify this claim. currently, there are three ships from bangladesh, including a survey ship in the search area, and to date, nothing has been found. as we enter into the new phase of this search, ladies and gentlemen, we are grateful for the continued support that we have received from the international community as well as stakeholders domestically. we are also heartened by the new support from countries who have come forward but were not in the initial phase of the operation. we will strive to overcome the new challenges facing the search operations in this new phase, which requires expensive, sophisticated and complex underwater assets. and as always, our thoughts and prayers remain with those on board mh-370 and their families and the search goes on. thank you. okay, ladies and gentlemen, we ll now open the q&a session. we ll start with the local media first. okay, ma am, local media? local media? okay, from this corner, please. yes. good evening. could you introduce yourself? good evening. i am su lin. good evening. i would like to ask, when exactly did the malaysian military spot mh-370 on its turn back across the peninsula? and upon spotting it, what exactly did the military do? did they contact with the civil aviation authorities, for example, or did they try to contact the plane itself? thanks. i don t have the actual details with me today. and i m very cautious and very careful what i say in this stage. so, it is very important for me to get clarification on that. but if you guys have got anything to add on that we do i ll get back to you. all right, the next one. first row. the lady with yes, please, there. you mentioned earlier that excuse me, could you [ inaudible ] i need to ask a question. earlier, you mentioned that china may be roped in to assist with the bay of bengal search. why is that? because since it was by australian, why do we still have to send in secretary-general? well, i haven t decided yet whether to deploy the vessel. and as our standard operating procedure in the past, whether the leads includes landing, whether satellite data from china, oil slicks, life rafts, life vests, those were all in the south china sea, mind you. we will proceed this uncorroborated and unverified evidence. secondly, you have to understand that this lead involving the bay of bengal, we need to deploy assets, especially sapporo assets to be responsible to them, to be responsible in our decision to deploy it. we have to understand, it s going to be expensive. secondly, it is the exact vessel that we are going to use to deploy in the new phase of our search. so, any detour from that search is going to cause delay, 14 days, exactly. and thirdly, in the event that this vessel is deployed, and the lead is negative, can you imagine the families that had to go through another episode of hoping finding closure to it? so, these are all my considerations in having to deploy it, but i can assure you that as far as china is concerned, they re ready to deploy it, but i m just awaiting feedback from what i ve said just now on countries, neighboring countries, specifically bangladesh and other countries that have deployed assets in that area to come back to me. then i will then have to talk to them on whether it s actually deployed or not. but we have not strayed away from our standard operating procedure, which is to make sure that in doing that we do not affect the present search operations, it doesn t affect the emotions and the feelings of the families. and in this case, it will affect very expensive equipment and vessel, which might have been detoured just because of this lead. my second question would be, is there any specific reason on why boeing is in the investigation team? boeing? yeah. and because since would it be a conflict of interest since [ inaudible ] the investigation? boeing, yes. boeing not in the investigation team as such. they are an adviser to the effort rep of the usa, and usa being the state of design, state of manufacture, and the national of transport safety board of usa obviously needs a lot of important information from boeing, and that s the reason why boeing, same like rolls royce, representing the engine manufacturers, are in the part of the accredited rep team. thank you. all right. 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[ inaudible ] [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ] all right, you ve been watching a news conference from kuala lumpur. that s the malaysian defense minister, the acting transportation minister, hishammuddin bin hussein. he was giving the latest update, this the day after malaysian officials finally released their official report on what happened to flight 370, at least as much as they know. in this news conference, he basically laid out the next phase of the search operation, talking about the underwater search and the new machinery, the new efforts that will be involved off the coast of perth, australia. he also spoke about this possible sighting, these signs that this company in australia thinks it s seen off the coast of bangladesh. unlikely, he said. highly unlikely, he said. whether or not bangladesh goes to search that area or another country does, he says he s still looking into that, but he doesn t want to divert key resources right now from the underwater search off the coast of australia. let s bring back in jeff wise here. jeff, what do you think the most important thing is we just heard? well, we heard a lot of talk about organization and communication and named different committees. committees and so forth. pretty dry stuff, actually, but he did mention all of these assets. they re really going all in on this underwater search. they re really committed. we heard about this australian company, georesonance, their claims. and he is affirming that they don t want to be distracted from what they really see clearly as the main priority, to search the ocean bed. very interestingly to me is that in this report, amid all the really interesting information that they did release, they really have avoided the key issue, which is, why did they believe so strongly that this stretch of ocean is where the plane is? they really haven t laboratoried on that. no, they haven t opened the books in terms of the inmarsat data. there was havean interesting mo to me in the press conference. the first question was about the malaysian military, also not in this official report released, no word of when malaysian military radar first spotted this flight, flight 370. no word on when it spotted it, no word on what the malaysian military did. the malaysian defense minister was asked, point blank right there, you know, about those facts, and he claimed not to no, said he d have to look into it and i have to say, i was taken aback, almost laughed or giggled when he answered that question. he said i have to be cautious or careful, had a big smile on his face. would not answer that key first question. very, very interesting. and speaking of military radar, another interesting thing in this report is, you know, we heard a few weeks ago reports that the plane had circled around indonesian air space to avoid being detected by their radar. the new report shows a map showing the plane flying directly over the northwestern tip of sumatra, where there is a radar station pretty much right there. and so, you know, that s another interesting question that, again, wasn t addressed in this report. and the indonesians claim that s a radar station manned 24 hours a day. they claim they saw no sign of it flying directly overhead there. hard to believe that that s the case. well, either that that s the case or that it went in that direction. i mean, these things would seem to be mutually exclusive. but again, this is a case full of mysteries. jeff, one of the things the wall street journal s reporting today is that it could take now six to eight weeks to get these new underwater search assets on the scene there. as we said, they re now delving into this underwater search full force. you know, enlisting the help of private contractors, new equipment, and it could take some time to get this new equipment in place. at this point, does the delay matter? does it make the job harder or is it just a matter of being patient? well, you know, a few weeks ago, angus houston was talking about six months, eight months. now we re hearing today a year. clearly, this is a long-haul kind of operation. people have often cited the case of air france 447, two years. that s right. you know, and in that case, we had much, much better information about where the plane was and what had happened to it. so, yeah, i think if it takes a couple weeks to get this equipment in place, it doesn t really matter. this is clearly going to be something that s a long-term project. great analysis and insight. thanks for watching that press conference with us, jeff wise. thank you. another major story we re following this morning, the cau crisis in ukraine. it will be front and center when president obama hosts german chancellor angela merkel at the white house today. tougher sanctions against russia almost certainly on the table. in the meantime, the ukrainian government is launching a large-scale anti-terror operation to recapture the eastern city of slovyansk, this as the violence in ukraine escalates. so, let s get the latest from the ground there. arwa damon is in donetsk, where ukrainian riot police have been clashing with these pro-russian activists, arwa. what s the latest? reporter: well, those clashes happening yesterday evening when the pro-russian camp decided to storm the prosecutor s office, clashing with riot police. molotov cocktails, stun grenades were fired and used, but eventually, the pro-russian camp did manage to fairly quickly, relatively speaking, push the riot police off the premises, moving through, ransacking the entire building and declaring themselves the ultimate authority. meanwhile, kiev seemingly trying to reassert itself to a certain degree with that operation that began in the very early hours of the morning here, focusing on the city of slovyansk. that has also been one of the key areas that has fallen to the pro-russian camp. according to the ministry of defense, two helicopterserwn, ts were killed. the ukrainian forces managing to overtake or overcome nine barricades that were set up by the pro-russian camp. we do see these barricades on the outskirts of the vast majority of the cities they do control, made up of tires. and so, it does seem at this stage as if kiev is at the very least trying to once again put on a show of force, moving into somef these areas, conducting an operation. but at the same time, not yet going into these various cities full force. that, understbl incredibly challenging and potentially very devastating, because these buildings that the pro-russian camp controls are in resiial neighborhoods and in the heart of the cities. the potential for violence and bloodshed very much on everyone s mind. we have our eye on that today as this situation develops and as the president meets at the white house with the german leader. arwa damon in ukraine this morning. thanks so much. thanks, arwa. okay, back here, to the sports world. the hollywood ending was not in the cards last night for the l.a. clippers. they re going to need a game gao advance in the playoffs after losing game six to the golden state warriors in heartbreaking fashion, 100-99. just one little point. meanwhile, a panel of nba owners met thursday, unanimously agreeing to proceed as expeditiously as possible to oust donald sterling from the league for his racist talk. three-quarters of the owners need to approve his removal. and the president of the los angeles chapter of the naacp has resigned. leon jenkins stepping down for his decision to honor sterling for promoting civil rights. all right, 38 minutes after the hour right now. the death toll is rising this morning as the southeast cleans up from a series of just awful storms. communities torn to pieces, under water, and there s more rain in the forecast. indra petersons tracking it all right after the break. 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[ screaming ] oh, my god! fairly genuinely insane video right there of a landslide swallowing up ten cars and a retaining wall, then dropping them on to railroad tracks. this happened in a baltimore neighborhood. that city suffering some of the worst flooding in decades. flooding also a problem in parts of pennsylvania. so much rain fell, the schuylkill river actually crested higher than it did during hurricane irene and superstorm sandy. and those were big, big rain-makers. that s right, and there s some sad, grim news in mississippi. the death toll in that state from this week s tornadoes rising to 14 with the discovery of the body of a missing boy. we re getting new images of the devastation in jackson. at least nine twisters touched down in that state on monday. and you have to look at the flooding. rivers are so far over their banks, residents have to use jet skis to leave their homes. kind of crazy. i woke up at 7:00 to head to school for a final and saw the water was above our mailbox out in the front yard. there was a papa john s car that we saw over there that was completely flooded. indra petersons has a look at your forecast for us this morning. another day of rain. got to get through it. another day of rain, same system. that s the hardest part to believe here, we re still talking about the very same cold front, so slow to move here. we re looking at that tail end of it still kind of lingering into the southeast. that s going to be one of the things we re watching. the other s going to be, yeah, just some light showers kind of making their way through chicago today and into the northeast. but you can see the difference here, nowhere near as strong. we see how light that is in comparison to that cold front, still hanging on, guys. talking about the rain. there you go. you can see the cold front itself still lingering into the southeast. as we go through the weekend. then you can see the next system will start to make its way through the upper midwest, ohio valley and then into the northeast, bringing light showers in through saturday and sunday. not a big deal as far as that system. we re still really going to be focusing on the rain into the southeast. the heavier rain farther down south. it s not really hanging out in the panhandle today, but either way, still light showers in the forecast for them, so not exactly drying out yet. they definitely need that sunshine. also, as we go through the weekend, light, scattered showers will be out there, upper midwest, ohio valley, northeast, but again, 1 to 2 inches. a lot of time, just clouds intermixing throughout the day. not a biggie. the big story will be the jet stream. this is the good stuff, right? really lifting out, starting to warm up. so, you re going to see temperatures really warming into the south, and that s going to feel a lot better through the weekend. a lot of us will be a lot happier after the weekend. oh, i needed that news. thank you very much. lift the jet stream, please. single-handedly, indra petersons raising the jet stream. lift it up. let s look now at the powers of kate bolduan, telling us what s coming up on new day. i can t promise any kind of that power. raising the jet stream? i mean, i knew she was strong, but my goodness! happy friday. we ve got a lot of news this morning. of course, donald sterling, the clippers owner. his team lost in a playoff nail-biter last night. game seven is tomorrow. it s also almost game seven for him, as owner, to be quite honest. the nba s promising to move very quickly to force him to sell the team, but is that fair? and can it even happen? how long can donald sterling himself drag this out? we re going to be talking to a lot of smart minds about this. we ll have that all covered on the show. and also, we re going to be talking about much more and bringing you much more on chris s exclusive interview with amanda knox. she insists that she did not kill her roommate. the fact that she has to still insist that this many years later is pretty amazing. she is taking real issue with what an italian appeals court has said recently. it was a very revealing conversation. you ll want to see it this morning on new day. john, christine? thanks so much, kate. have a great show. have a terrific weekend. thanks, guys. families of those on board missing malaysian airlines flight 370 furious this morning, told to pack up and get out, after investigators release a controversial report they say reveals more questions than answers. we re live in beijing with that part of the story for the families, next. i ve quit for 75 days. 15 days, but not in a row. for the first time, you can use nicorette even if you slip up, so you can reach your goal. now, quit on your own terms with nicorette or nicoderm cq. make every day, her day with a full menu of appetizers and entrées crafted with care and designed to delight. fancy feast. love served daily. the families of so many of those on board flight 370 this morning are outraged. they are not satisfied with the findings of the preliminary report released by malaysian officials, and now these families are being told to go home. authorities in kuala lumpur announcing assistance centers where the families have been gathering for weeks, these centers are closing. sarah bajc, whose partner was on flight 370, insists that malaysian officials used the closing of the centers as a distraction. listen to what she told cnn s michael smerconish. the average chinese person, when they go home, they will have no other means of communication. so, malaysian airlines is sending everybody home, but they haven t actually created any kind of interim step for them. but you know, i think there s something very important to raise here, is that the timing of this was almost too perfect to distract from the release of the ako report, because that report raises far more questions than it answered. it is riddled with discrepancies. it contradicts itself, even between the maps given and the document of the report as well as the list of actions taken. there are actual contradictions between what they ve put in those three documents. so, how are the rest of these families accepting or receiving this report? how are they receiving the news that the centers are closing? let s go to david mckeynesies, who s been in beijing spending so much time with them. good morning, david. reporter: good morning, john. to answer your question about the report, i heard the word irrelevant several times. many of these family members say even if there are some kind of discrepancies, it doesn t get them closer to the one question they want answered, which is where are their loved ones. and so, as these weeks stretch out, drag out into months, they are just exhausted, tired, distrustful of anyone giving them information. for them, the big issue today is that they are being moved out of the hotel where hundreds of them have been since the very beginning of this ordeal, many of them giving very emotional reactions when that news came out. and now we ve been told that chinese officials have told the families they need to get out within the next 15 minutes or so, in fact. there have been family members leaving. it s not the case that everyone wants to stay. many of them, in fact, have said at this point, as this search enters the new phase, they want to go home, on some level begin to pick up their lives, pick up the pieces of their lives. but you know, as people who have dealt with this kind of situation before will tell you, this concept of a missing loved one is just so terrible to take in. and until there s some kind of closure, i feel these families certainly will never even begin the steps to get over this terrible event. john? it s just one difficult stage after another. david mckenzie in beijing for us. thank you so much. this morning, dozens of colleges across the country facing investigations into federal sexual assault crimes. an unprecedented report released. what comes next for these universities, ahead. and a teenager accused of planning a massacre at his high school. police finding bombs, ammunition and a journal detailing these plans. stunning stuff here. we ll have that story next. 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[ bottle ] ensure®. nutrition in charge™. for the first time, the education department has revealed a list of 55 colleges and universities under investigation for how they handled campus sex assault claims. small colleges, state universities, even some of the ivys included on the list. they say it s to bring attention to sexual violence and there is a zero presumption of guilt. we re learning more about an alleged plot by a minnesota teen to murder his family and bomb his school. police say the 17-year-old, an admirer, apparently, of the columbine killers, kept a detailed journal outlining his plan. he was less than two weeks, they say, from carrying this plan out. police uncovered the plot after receiving a phone tip. they found three fully functioning bombs and numerous firearms at the teen s home and storage locker. he faces now four counts of attempted murder as well as explosives charges. the big story in money today, the jobs report for april. until then, stocks in europe basically flat, u.s. stock futures slightly higher. the dow just 22 points now from the record it hit on wednesday. economists expect 205,000 jobs added in april, net new jobs. the unemployment rate they think dropped slightly to 6.6%. that would be a slight increase from the 192,000 jobs in march. it would show, as you can see from this chart, a thawing after a very brutal winter, back more toward the numbers we were seeing late last year. now, 200-plus net new jobs a month, something the chief u.s. economist at deutsche bank says should become commonplace in the near term. still, at that rate, it would take us years to come back to the employment at prerecession, but at least looking at 200,000-plus in the near term, hiring ramping up in the united states. this is a key number to see if the economy has turned the page from the cold winter. that s right. so much has been blamed on the cold winter, including low gdp. this jobs report for april, if it is also negative or sluggish, i think people will have a whole new look into how the economy is growing. especially with the dow only 22 points from a record high. hard to see it a record if the jobs market isn t going to come roaring back here. have a great friday and a great weekend. great weekend. new day starts right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com the clippers lose their playoff game but who will win the war over their ownership? new reports donald sterling may have cancer. it turns out this isn t the first time the league tried to take his team. we re going to tell you how he beat them the last time. happening now. fierce fighting in ukraine. the country tries to retake cities from pro russia separati separatists. the chancellor is one of the few leaders who has vladimir putin s ear. cnn exclusive. amanda knox speaking out one-on-one denying the allegations against her by an italian court. was she in an argument with her roommate the night of the killing and why does she think she s one of the lucky ones? your new day starts right now. this is new day with chris cuomo, kate balduan, and michaela pereira. welcome to new day. tgif on this may 2nd. it is 6:00 in the east. up first, nba owners wasting no time in an effort to put a for sale sign on the l.a. clippers. a ten-member committee held the first meeting yesterday and agreed to move quickly on booting donald sterling. this as we re hearing new reports from espn about sterling s health. the question, does he have canc cancer? another question, does it matter? ted rowlands is live in los angeles. ted? good morning, chris. a wild game last night on the court for the l.a. clippers. off the court, more developments in this on going saga.
enough to sweep away parts of homes overnight. also overnight, a suspected gas explosion caused part of a jail in pensacola to collapse. that incident killing two inmates, injuring more than 100. it s unclear though if the blast is connected to the severe weather. let s get to ed lavandera. hopefully you re starting to get a better idea of just what happened. good morning. here the crews are waiting for the sun to come up. the jail and part of the green structure on the build that you see that exploded last night. it was a dangerous situation and deadly. breaking news overnight. day four of a catastrophic storm system in the southeast is now barreling up the eastern seaboard threatening millions more. officials have issued flood warnings from florida to new york with six inches of rain predicted in some parts of the northeast. city streets are already submerged. in maryland several thousand gallons of water rushed into a town 20 miles south of baltimore after a breach in the dam. in baltimore the deluge so heavy that it caused a massive landslide on one roadway sending a half dozen cars tumbling into a revere. in the southeast, an explosion caused a roof to collapse in a county jail in the florida panhandle, injuring hundreds of inmays. it s not known if flooding in the area played a role yet. you can hear the roar of the violent flood waters on wednesday spawned by nearly 20 incheses of rainfall in only 24 hours. in an hour everything just started gushing. reporter: flooding over five feet in some areas forcing hundreds of rescues. in mobile, alabama, a dramatic moment as flood waters trapped one man, barely able to cling to a tree before he s rescued. the town of orange beach, alabama, almost completely flooded. local marina now under water. and in pensacola, florida, the torrential rains went over a scenic highway, sending cars plummeting into a ditch. i twoentd one home where the foundation was gone. reporter: leaving entire neighborhoods in the city inundated. i ve lived here two 20 years. i ve never seen this happen anywhere in the city like this. reporter: and. this is a closer look of the jail here in pensacola that exploded last night. you can see the structural damage from the force of that blast. and officials here trying to figure out the cause, chris. that building did take on extensive t water in the flooding. the flood t waters have receded. they re trying to figure out if that flooding is what caused this gas leak and this explosion last night. chris? they re going to have to check for cracks above and below to see if the building maintained its integrity. you just heard ed mention that dam break in maryland that was forcing hundreds of people to evacuate overnight. so let s get to janet with our cnn affiliate wjla. she has details. reporter: the rain has stopped for now but it s too little too late for what s going on here. the current situation. take a look behind me. this is route one in laurel. look at the water levels here. this has been going on for the past several hours. i also want you to see right across the street there s a car dealership here. you see the cars parked. and that should give you an idea of how high these water levels are. a little over the halfway mark on those tires. evacuations currently under way because of this. everyone in the surrounding area is being asked to leave over 100 residents are already being sheltered at the robert j. community center. hundreds more are expected. but i want to explain why this is going on. it is due to the rainfall but it s indirectly. officials say they were forced to open the dam because of the rainfall and the levels. and so all seven gates are open indefinitely. evacuations are mandatory. it is not an option. of course, it is for the residents safety. we will follow this story as it developss. back to you. let s turn to another story breaking. toronto s embattled mayor rob ford is now taking time off from his job and re-election campaign to seek additional treatment for alcohol abuse. this comes just after reports of a new video surfaced that all e allegedly shows ford using crack cocaine. we have two developments live in ottawa. what do we know this time, paula? kate, what have we ever known here? i think many supporters, even his lawyer saying last night, look, they wish he had said this months ago, and rob ford finally uttered those words that everyone wanted to hear, i need help. calling it one of the most difficult times in his life, embattled toronto mayor rob ford says he is taking a break from his re-election campaign. this comes after the toronto globe reporting to have seen a new video allegedly showing the mayor smoking crack cocaine from a copper colored pipe. the publication saying the video was shot this past saturday in fords s sister s apartment and that they can t verify the substance was, in fact, crack. in may of last year cellphone video was released appearing to show ford smoking crack we cocaine which he at the time denied and later conceded. yes, i have smoked crack cocaine. reporter: this morning his opponents, outraged. for the good of the city i call on mayor ford to resign from office as mayor. reporter: mayor ford released a statement saying in part, i have tried to deal with these issues by myself over the past year. i know that i need professional help, and i am now 100% committed to getting myself right. his attorney told cnn ford is taking a leave immediately for substance abuse problems. also in comments to the globe he questioned the authenticity of the video and the motivation behind it. in march ford was recorded stumbling and swearing outside toronto city hall, and back in january ford admitted to a, quote, minor setback after this rant surfaced. he insisted he had a small amount of to drink but had not taken any drugs. now, canadian media saying that they have seen partz of this new video. none of it has been released. at this point, kate, even his lawyer saying, look, he needs help. he s taking some time out to deal with what are clearly some very serious personal issues. michaela? another dramatic chapter in the life of rob ford. let s look at more of your headlines. the simmering tensions in ukraine threatening to come to a boil. russia s calling on kiev to halt militaryistic statements after ukraine s acting president declared his country s military was put on full combat readiness. ukraine s leader making a stunning acknowledgement wednesday saying pro-russian militants have taken control of much of the eastern chunk of ukraine. in virginia, federal investigators are raising to find out what caused a train to jump its track in downtown lynchburg. several cars burst into flames. thousands of gallons of crude oil were dumped into the james river. clean-up crew rsz scrambling to contain the damage. some 50,000 gallons of oil are unaccounted for. thankfully no injuries were reported, but the incident has safety experts calling for greater oversight. flight departures expected to be back to normal this morning. out west after a technical glitch for several airport toss ground the airplanes. f,aa sayses there was a malfunction at a radar center north of los angeles. it afri affected los angeles, phoenix, and salt lake city. no word of what it caused the radar problem. of course, there s the ripple effect. technology. air travel today? a lot of questions this morning but at least we have one answer. we now know how quickly the nba owners will meet to decide the fate of donald sterling. they will meet today, in just a few hours. and they will decide if the clippers owner should be forced to sell. sterling was just banned for life and fined $2.5 million. that s the max he could get, because of his racist comments. there appears to be no shortage of suitors for the franchise but the big question is will donald sterling give up the clippers or is he going to fight it? for more on that let s get to cnn s stephanie elam. i am banning mr. sterling for life. reporter: now that nba commissioner adam silver has ousted donald sterling from the league, the question is, will the clippers owner put up a fight to keep the team. donald sterling to me is not going down without a fight. reporter: sterling disgraced after his racist rant went public told fox sports that the team is not for sale. but according to the nba s constitution, if 3/4 of the owners agree that he has to go, sterling could be forced to sell. silver pledging to do everything in his power to ensure that happens saying he pecks to get the backing he needs. more than 20 teams stating they support silver s harsh punishment but it s not yet clear if those public positions would translate into votes. and sterling does have the right to try to convince the other nba owners to side with him. any owner who decides to side with donald sterling in this is a fool and in the court of public opinion he will just as guilty as sterling. reporter: all-star trio is already waiting in wings ready to pay big bucks for a contender in the league. a spokesperson for oprah winfrey says she s talking to entertainment mogul david geffen and software billionaire larry ellison and a possible joint bid. peaked interest in boxers floyd mayweather and oscar de la hoya. what about sterling s family? his wife was at the game but only after asking for and getting the green light from head coach doc rivers. this ruling applies specifically to donald sterling and donald sterling s conduct only. reporter: the nba says no decisions have been made but the player s association telling yahoo! sports it won t accept any sterling as an owner. the nba once they get the 3/4 vote, they are in charge of this franchise and they decide who gets to buy whoond doesn t. i have zero doubt that the nba is going to prevent anyone from the sterling family from controlling this franchise. reporter: stephanie elam, cnn, los angeles. how long will this legal battle drag out? we ll have to see. yeah. it s a little confusing. the standard for why they can make him sell. never happened. the reason why the make him sell is fuzzy in this. we have a document here, beautiful read if you want to look through it. but how he will test that process is what the question is. uh-huh. let s take a break. coming up next on n new day, we re wait for a first look now at a preliminary report expected to be released any moment by malaysian investigators on the disappearance of flight 370. it s been a long awaited report. families have been demanding it. is it telling us anything we don t already know? 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we ll find out when the report comes out half an hour from now. what would be the rational for not putting obvious disclosures into this first report? the reason why you might keep the report extremely brief is you really don t want to give too many details away because you re not sure of those details. but i m going to give you an example of where we have seen pretty different types of reports. where we have seen them. let s take, for example, in the case of air france 447. now, in air france 447 the report ran through 128 pages. in 32, 53 pages. you can do large pages if you so wish or you can choose to make them three to four. known data or completeness? is there a lot of stuff in this that s just paperwork? you would expect to find out the plane, the route, the details of what time it departed, which route it left. you re looking as if to say tell me something i don t know. no, no, no, it s not that. but there s something curious. a big function of this if i m hearing you right is motivation of those putting out the report. and the idea that, well, you may not put out some details because you re not certain of them, okay, but what if you just don t know details or what if you do know things and for some reason, see, that s the suspicion here is they may know things and they re not saying those things. right. that is not the function of the icao preliminary report. the function of this report is known facts. and the rationale and the annex 13 under the icao treaty, manual of accident investigation, is that after several weeks you know certain things and those certain things can be released publicly. what i think is perhaps a little bit worrying here is, first of all, the malaysians didn t tell us that they sent this report. we had to pull it out of them. secondly, they ve made such a deal about releasing it. this should have just been released when it was sent. you were generous. you said the period is 30 days and they just about made it. my understanding, my understanding is they were given leeway. and quite right, too, because they had such an enormous task on their hands. i can look, if this report, when it come out, is only five pages long or four pages long, i can make an argument that says, i can understand why because they re too busy trying to find the plane. they ve got a blank sheet of paper what do they know exactly? i feel i can put it down as one screen what they know, right? other than the obvious and kind of, you know, boring details of the plane and all of those other things. why this actually happened and why this other stuff put into the report should be very thin. yes. but will be the detail, we re looking for detail here about after this last known point of contact what did they know as the plane did this. whatthat s what we re lookin for. who saw it as it went over malaysia. what did they do about it? what happened at this last point of contact? did vietnam notice it? did the controller at malaysia notice it? that s what you re looking to find out. and if they know details about this, we know this from air france 447, we got chapter and verse on what the air traffic controllers did. if you know it here are they going to tell us it now? why do they get to control the report? why wouldn t you have someone issuing a report like this checking on the actions on this body as opposed to allowing the body to dictate the completeness of their own work? that happens everywhere. that s like saying when the ntsb does a report who polices the ntsb? the bea in france, somebody has to present the report and it s the investigating authority of the state of occurrence or state of registry. it s just how it is. it is. so we look for woord to getting it. i m morest sbred in what s not in the report. what it seems they don t know or what they speculated about that they shouldn t have. i can tell you one thing. from my visit to malaysia, there is is no great single fact out there that is not known. there is no hidden secret that s under the carpet that i believe that everybody is saying, pst, don t tell anybody about that. there are things they don t want to talk about but it s not a big secret. richard quest, thank you very much. we will be back with you soon. kate? coming up next on new day, about two feet of rain fell in pensacola, florida, in just over 24 hours. record flooding now producing some streets to rubble or making them look like lakes. we re going to talk to the city s may yr about how they are dealing with all of this this morning. plus, he s an owner in exile. that s for sure. will donald sterling fade away or will he fight back against the nba s efforts to force a sale of the l.a. clippers? 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[ female announcer ] the x1 entertainment operating system. only from xfinity. tv and internet together like never before. welcome back to new day. here s a look at your headlines this hour. the conflict in ukraine entering a new volatile phase. the president publicly admitting the government lost control of two key regions. they seized symbolic buildings in more an a dozen towns and indust cities. let s get the latest from our senior international correspondent arwa damon in d donetsk. one of those key cities where we are right now in donetsk there was a rally here earlier where you did not see a single ukrainian flag. instead, people chant for russia, chanting that they want a referendum and absolutely no indication of authority coming from kiev. at the same time, in lieu hangs, the other key city, now under the control of the pro-russian camp there were even sandbagged fighting positions that had been set up in the corridors. plans of moving ahead there to hold a referendum as well. despite all of the talk from the central government of wanting to launch the so-called antitechnology operation on the ground in these sar use key locations. there is absolutely no indication whatsoever what kiev has any sort of authority or that it can take any sort of measures to try to regain any semblance of control over the rapidly disintegrating situation. arwa damon, thank you for that latest there in ukraine. meanwhile, back at home, serious damage being caused by all sorts of bad weather across the east coast. hundreds of people have been evacuated in laurel, maryland, after a dam opened up releasing thousands of gallons of water. in pensacola, largely under water after a storm of epic proportions. the weather could be responsible for a deadly gas explosion at a local jail. one woman was killed by flood waters yesterday. we re go to talk about the damage. the mayor of pensacola will be joining us on new day in a few minutes. meanwhile, the winds have died down. mandatory evacuations have been now lifted for over 1600 homes in the foothills east of los angeles. wildfire in the areas has burned over 1,000 acres. families in the northern neighborhoods are still being urged to evacuate voluntarily. since winds are still too high to fight the fire from the air and we certainly know firefighters have their work cut out for them. there s a red flag warning in effect yesterday. gusts up to 80 miles an hour, chris. a lot of concern there in east of los angeles. we ll keep an eye on that for you. s there s no bigger enemy to fire than wind and obviously that s been a big factor there. now, today is a big day. nba will be one step closer to pushing donald sterling out of the league. ten-member committee of owners is set to hold aen cofrens. on call today together to discuss the next steps in removing sterling as an owner. is it going to put up a fight? the answer will be yes, if anything is to be expected here. so what will happen here? jeffrey kessler joins us. sports law attorney, partner at the firm of winston and strawn, llp. you know the documents. you re the right guy to talk to. i m going to represent sterling s interest in this. just to help people kind of follow along with the process. all right? the first question is, can you do this? you represent the owners. can you do this to me in the first place? can you hold a vote and see whether or not i have to sell my franchise? well, the constitution and bylaws says they can hold the vote. they have to bring a charge. he gets to respond to the charge and there s a hearing. it all happens supposedly within 20 days under the constitution and then they make a decision with the vote. that s colorly in the document. it gets heavy here because it s why. why can you do this? it says in the constitution for violations of article 13. article 13, i read it. there are several reasons given here. six, seven, eight reasons. none of them seem to fall under the category of what we re talking about here. it s all about not paying dues, not doing the right things as an owner from a fiduciary, financial capacity. none of this about morality, none of this about behavior, there s none of that of what we we often see in player contracts. what are you going to see i violated? there are at least two provisions that i think the league is going to use. one has to do with violating any of the rules, regulations, agreements of the nba. somewhere in the nba there s a rule of regulation that says you cannot engage in racist comments, behavior, in this league. they have that handle. secondly, they have a provision about violating agreements with adversary affect the interests of the nba. violating agreements that adversary affect the interest of the nba. what does that mean? it means you do something bad in violation and agreement with the league and they can take this vote. it s a very, very broad prescription. so you don t need necessarily the specific who can anticipate this? who would ever think that somebody would express these types of views in this way. their behavior off the court is as relevant as what they do on the court. it s a growing part of the understanding of the contracts between players and management but it isn t in heerks i would argue, it s not in here for a reason. you can t judge me on this level. actually the rules about what the league can do for players are much more limited than what they can do for owners. owners are members of their club. they voluntarily join it. they agree to these restrictions. they are set to one set of rules. players have a bargaining agreement which and the owner doesn t have the same standard. you make an interesting point that will come as a surprise to in many people. what s the presumption? money matters. but in this situation it s more onerous for donald sterling when he walks in this room. this hearing is not a very fair forum. it s done by a board of governors who is motivated against him. the rules of evidence do not apply. he can have a counsel but it doesn t matter because the arbitrator is a governor. the commissioner of the nba can be involved and you know he doesn t like sterling. it s set up against him here even though it s called a hearing. fair? i wouldn t say it s fair. it s the hearing he agreed to. he agreed to subject himself, all the owners do, to a vote of their peers. they agree to these procedure p. in fact, in the constitution it says when you agree to this the vote is final and you waive your right to go to court. again, very different from the players. the players would have a right to an arbitrator. i waive it for any reason even if it doesn t fall within the bounds of the contract, undue burden being placed on me, it s way too fuzzy? if i fight on those grounds can i beat my own contract? the language says you waive it for any reason. there is an exception. the exception is legal exception, not in the constitution. if he claims an antitrust violation you can t waive antitrust rights. that s the law. however, you have to an antitrust claim. just because you have a right to file doesn t mean you have a claim. antitrust would mean what? well, his problem is he would try to claim, if he filed the antitrust, that there is some restriction illegally on competition. it s very hard to see how there s any restriction on competition here. this is replacing a very foul owner selling a team to another owner. same competition. so i don t think there is an antitrust claim. his only defense is going to be to go to other owners and say it s me this time. next time it could be you. you want me out, that s fine, but let me do it my way because this is a real slippery slope. he might say that but i will be stunned if the owners did not back the commissioner, if the owners do not back their players on this. there would be an open revolt among the whole community, sponsors, fans, players, if the owners did not go through and decide this. you don t know who votes and how. i think the vote is not going to be close. we all see. it won t matter. if you re an owner, would you want it to be an open vote? i wouldn t care because i would be happy to tell the world how i voted. this is some interesting stuff. and it s great to have insight into it because for so many it s a mystery. we don t know what s going to happen and how you do. thanks for telling us on new day. pleasure. kate? coming up next on new day, pensacola, florida, slammed by record rainfall destroying homes, forcing residents from their homes, to their rooftops even. we re going to talk with pensacola s mayor to see how the community is coping this morning. also ahead, the much anticipated initial report on flight 370. what did the malaysian government find and what do families of the passengers say? we re going to hear from the partner of an american passenger coming up. make every day, her day with a full menu of appetizers and entrées crafted with care and designed to delight. fancy feast. love served daily. woman: this is not exactly what i expected. man: definitely more murdery than the reviews said. captain obvious: this is a creepy room. man: oh hey, captain obvious. captain obvious: you should have used hotels.com. their genuine guest reviews are written by guests who have genuinely stayed there. instead of people who lie on the internet. son: look, a finger. captain: that s unsettling. man: you think? 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doing better than the town of pensacola is fairing at the moment. let me ask you about the apparents gas explosion at the county jail. not clear from what i ve seen yet if it is weather related but what are you hearing? yeah, what i m hearing right now, i m getting the details as we speak. they re coming in. i understand there s over 600 inmates here and over 100 folks had to go to the local hospitals here. and there s a potential of two deaths right now. i am getting the details and i ve heard the same thing that it was maybe a gas explosion. so i m getting the details right now. any concerns where the inmates are? i assume everyone has been cleared out of the jail even though it s a partial building collap collapse. where are all the inmates? inmates are setting up a temporary jail as we speak. some of them had to go to the hospital. over 100 are at the hospital. they were able to contain the others. we re taking care of that right now. let s go from that to what the entire community is dealing with. you are breaking records for all of the wrong reasons overnight. tell me, put it in perspective, what it has been like, this historic rainfall and the flooding that is taking out roads in your town. as you know, public safety is number one and citizens safety is number one. tuesday evening the storm just parked over pensacola, kate, and it didn t move. we were hoping it would move to the east 25 miles an hour but it hovered over pensacola and dumped over 22 inches of rain in a matter of 24 hours. so it s been devastating to us. obviously we re prepared for hurricanes but when you talk about flooding, pensacola has never had this kind of flooding. pensacola is on the water so they re used to that but not this flooding. you grew up in one of the neighborhoods that was hardest hit. what happened to it? i did. there s a street called piedmont that runs east and west in pensacola. and it just completely blew out. the retention ponds from near our airport just overran and came right into this street. it was an old riverbed over 100 years ago, so the water just completely blew out. but growing up over there, you never imagine that we would have flooding on this street. the asphalt blew out, the swuer blew out, the gas blew out. it devastated homes right there. it was really almost it was surreal. absolutely. i can only imagine what that looked like. what is the situation for residents now? do you have people who are missing? have you heard of fatalities? are emergency vehicles what are they doing? well, ye yesterday we didn t have any fatalities in the city. there was one death we believe in the county, however, people are displaced from their homes ride now so they re going to be displaced for weeks and months. so we re managing that situation right now. we haven t had to rescue anybody over the night. the water did recede, which we were very fortunate. but we re just being proactive and obviously taking care of our people and public safety is at the forefront. absolutely. from what i can see from where you are it looks like the rain has stopped for the moment. are you expecting further rain today? no, we re not. the weather dropped about 20 degrees which was interesting, so we have a little cold front that came through here. and we re expecting the skies to be clear. so that s a good thing that helping out search and rescue efforts and recovery efforts this morning. what are the biggest challenges as first light comes up? obviously organization and public safety but most importantly from an infrastructure standpoint we ve had major damage within the city of pensacola. they re contained which is a good thing so we can manage people getting to and from work. however, we re going to have our team together and the engineering department getting the roads temporarily repaired so we can go forward. you ve talked about that one road being completely blown out and other we ve seen some video of a lot of flooding. but put it in some additional perspective for our viewers who maybe haven t been to pensacola who don t understand what kind of flooding you are up against. have youer se ever seen anythine it? i ve never seen anything like it. i lived in new york city for a long time and we would have flooding in manhattan but imagine walking out of your front door and then just walking right into a river about 4 1/2 feet deep and water running through your front yard. so it was, like i said, surreal and an anomaly for pensacola to have this flooding. what s your best advice for residents this morning what are you telling them? well, i can tell you it is dry. the temperature did drop. the schools are canceled today. however, parents are going to have to go to work. so just use caution. be smart. people know our city. 37 geographical miles. manage your way around the city and be careful and be cognitive of the law enforcement and public safety. cost estimate on how much the damage is going to cost the city? just a guesstimate but i can fell you it s over the $100 million mark. ouch. that s a painful price tag to be looking at in just over 24 hours, mr. mayor. well, we know how infrastructure is and a lot of infrastructure is under the ground. there s a lot of money that goes into that. we re going to put a pen to the paper and get focused and get after it. the cost right now obviously is not the priority. it s making sure everyone is safe and getting making sure the roads are passable and everything is back up and running. thank you, mayor, for coming on. good luck today. thank you, kate. of course. wow, chris, they re up against a lot. you re telling me. boy, if you re a resident of pensacola we re going to put pen to paper, get focused and get after it. that s what you want to hear from your elected official. we ll find out what happens once they do that. when we come back on new day, the malaysian government about to release its report on what happened to flight 370. so what can we expect? 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[ male announcer ] troubleshoot, manage appointments, and bill pay from your phone. introducing the xfinity my account app. welcome back to new day. obviously we re awaiting the release of this first preliminary report of the disappearance of flight 370 from the malaysian government. we re expecting it at any moment. the family of those on board are demanding to see these findings for weeks now. they re hoping to get some answers for the fate of their loved ones. live from kuala lumpur. anxiously awaiting is the way to describe how the familying are feeling. what are we expected to hear in it, will? well, you know, we re not really expecting any major surprises. a lot of details in this report are details we ve already reported here from kuala lumpur and throughout the region on cnn. we re pegging a rundown of what happened with the flight, information that we know, the time it took off, where it was when there was a last radio transmission and the plane turning and, transponders being switched off. we re going to hear more about the satellite data that shows the plane most likely took a southern course towards the southern indian ocean. these are all things reported. we re not expecting any major surprises in the report but this will be the first time that these families actually have something tangible they can hold in their hands to look at and say, okay, here it is in black and white spelled out. there was supposed to be a press conference here in kuala lumpur where this information was going to be released. that press conference was canceled. so what we ve been doing, we were told it was going to come in via e-mail. we ve been check ourg inboxes to see when the report comes in and as soon as it does we will let you know. yeah, we re hope that there might be some nuggets of new information but we re not anticipate that will be the case. in any sense the report will ak gonlg the bay of bengal, the georesonance report? there s been a lot of skepticism coming from our aviation an lists about this. any sense they will address that? we don t believe that it will simply because georesonance just came forward been the last few days. we know there are two ships from bangladesh heading to the bay of bengal to check things out. the australian search chief angus houston is either here in kuala lumpur or on his way to meet with malaysian authorities. they may be discussing this new information. but the search chief s office has said all along they are focusing on the search corridor in the southern indian ocean. and one thing that will be laid out is perhaps the details to expand the underwater search. maybe we ll learn what kind of technology will be used aside from the bluefin-21. we ll have to wait and see. will ripley is live in kuala lumpur watching his e-mail as we are here. we will bring you that preliminary report from malaysian government as soon as we receive it. you can count on cnn for thanchthat. let s turn to the amanda knox case. they are explaining why she is guilty. at least one person is calming eight fantity fit for a movie script. he should know. he is the judge who has given the case after the original conviction. take a look. i m not responsible for what happened. i didn t do it. i wasn t there. i don t know anything more about it. amanda knox has long maintained her innocence in murder of her british roommate meredith kercher. now as she fights back against new theories and allegations, she s getting support from a veteran of the italian justice system. claudio hellmann, the italian judge who tossed out knox conviction in 2011. he s now lashing out at his colleagues who overturned that acquittal. in a hefty 337-page report an appeals court in florence justified reinstating knox s murder conviction, not only placing her at the crime scene but also claiming it was amanda herself who delivered the fatal knife wound to kercher s neck. the motive, a fight about rent money the night of the crime. but judge hellmann is dismissing the report as, quote, if result of fantasy. in a scathing statement obtained exclusively by cnn hellmann slams the court s lack of physical evidence to support their reasoning against knox and then boyfriend rafael sollecito. he says they have written a script for a movie or a thriller book while it should have only considered facts and evidence. there is no evidence to condemn knox and sollecito. it s the latest battle in a seven-year legal saga for the 26-year-old. and it s show nothing signs of ending any time soon. judge hellmann is now retired and fears knox will fall victim to politics, telling cnn, i think that the high court will be obliged to confirm the florence ruling if they don t want to openly contradict their colleagues. i m afraid to go back there. i don t want to go back into prison. understandable. now, how do you judge hellmann? on the one side he s retired so he can speak freely. maybe he s upset because his decision is the one that was overturned by this latest decision that we re going to go through. on the other side, why would he lie? what s his interest in lying? so his comments are very important. but even more important is what will amanda knox say to what is in this new report and she will speak out for the first time since the release of this damning new report in our exclusive one-on-one interview with her that will air tonight in a cnn special report the trials of amanda knox. that will be at 10:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn and then we ll bring you more of that interview and parts that you will want to hear tomorrow on new day. more on the flight for 370. that search, the reports coming out any moment. we re going to give it to you when we get it as well as the latest on the devastating floods that are on the east coast. and news about toronto s mayor rob ford taking a leave of absence to deal with substance abuse issues. let s get to it. seems like the malaysians initially did not intend to release this report until we find the actual plane. no one anticipated it would just keep raining and raining and raining. a new video allegedly showing the mayor smoking crack cocaine. the nba, they decide who gets to buy and who doesn t. any own whole decides to side with donald sterling in this is a fool. there is not a stitch of evidence a implicates amanda knox. good morning. welcome back to new day. it is thursday, may 1st. 7:00 now in the east. and there are powerful storms leaving their mark all along the east coast. breaking overnight, hundreds of people forced to evacuate in a city in maryland after a dam opened up spilling thousands of gallons of water. the northeast dealing with powerful wind and rain. many folks waking up to flooding in and around new york city. we have it all covered starting with indra petersons in queens. what do you see out there? reporter: just look what people are waking up to. you re seeing several feet of water here in queens. you re looking at what looks like maybe a runoff from the city. we re hearing reports that a lot of what is sitting on the ground is actually sewage. keep that in mind if you re thinking about walking across these waters. at points in time residents were saying it was so high vehicles were under water. you can see if i walk up this hill just a little bit, this is the problem. we saw all of these streets completely flooded, that the sewers were actually overflowing and running into the basements of many homes where residents are waking up to a good two feet of sewage in this home in their homes. keep in mind this is not limited to the new york area. we re hearing this all across the northeast and even the southeast this morning. breaking overnight, day four of catastrophic storm system in the southeast. now barreling up the eastern seaboard threatening millions more. officials issuing flood warnings from florida to new york with seven inches of rain predicted in the northeast before it s all said and done. in maryland several thousz gallons of water rushed into a town 20 miles south of baltimore after a breach in a dam. forcing hundreds of residents to evacuate. in baltimore, the deluge so heavy it caused a massive landslide on one roadway sending half dozen cars tumbling into a ravine. rain triggering a mud slide in upstate new york collapsing this retaining wall. the torrential rain will continue battering parts of the northeast for hours to come. so this is the concern again this morning. we still have so many areas under flood warnings this morning and even flood watches of the entire tri-state area. from the northeast down to the southeast many areas are already flooded just like this. many of these streets completely impassable and the concern is more rain is on the way which will only mean conditions like this are expected to worsen. watching it here in new york. let s head down south where the storms have left a trail of devastation there. in pensacola, florida, forcing some people to navigate streets by boat. overnight, a deadly gas explosion caused a partial building collapse at an area jail. cnn s ed lavendandera is at the jail. we just spoke to the mayor and he said he grew up in pensacola and has never seen anything like this. reporter: kate, that s saying something considering the number of hurricanes and powerful hurricanes this region of the gulf coast has seen. i spoke with many people who yesterday said the flood levels and the flood t waters they saw here rivalled any kind of hurricane they have seen. nearby 20 inches of rain in 24 hours. this is a situation the emergency officials are dealing with here in pensacola. that is the county jail. explosion late last night killing two inmates. having to force the evacuation of this building. atf and the state fire marshal are investigating. you can see the power of that explosion and the ripple effect that it had through that building. a lot of structural damage there that they re dealing with. it was the flood waters and for the most part have finally receded throughout the region here from mobile, alabama, all of the way into pensacola, the waters have receded and people are getting a good chance today to continue the clean-up efforts in what we saw throughout the area was powerful and some homes had taken up to three feet of water. other neighborhoods swallowed up by five feet of water into their homes. a lot of clean-up left for these folks. everywhere we went yesterday people telling us they had never seen anything like this or dealt with rain with this intensity and this magnitude for a long period of time. thank you, ed. we also want to tell you today the ball is in the nba owners court. will they force clipper s owner donald sterling from his team. they will meet on this today after sterling was banned for life from the league for making racist comments. cnn s stephanie elam is live in los angeles. the big question is, how will donald sterling face his fellow owners? that is the question, chris. and there s a lot of rich people already looking at ways to put their money together to potentially get a bid together. but the first thing that has to happen is is they ve got to get donald sterling out. i am banning mr. sterling for life. reporter: now that nba commissioner adam silver has ousted donald sterling from the league, the question is, will the clippers owner put up a fight to keep the team? donald sterling to me is not going down without a fight. reporter: sterling disgraced after his racist rant went public told fox sports that the team is not for sale. but according to the nba s constitution, if 3/4 of the owners agree that he has to go, sterling could be forced to sell. silver, pledging to do everything in his power to ensure that happens, saying he expects to get the backing he needs. more than 20 teams stating they support silver s harsh punishment but it s not yet clear if those public positions would translate into votes. and sterling does have the right to try to convince the other nba owners to side with him. any owner who decides to side with donald sterling in this is a fool. in the court of public opinion, he will be just as guilty as sterling. reporter: all-star trio of would be buyers is waiting in the wings ready to pay big bucks for a contender in the league. a spokesperson for oprah winfrey says she s talking to entertainment mogul david geffen and software billionaire larry ellison about a possible joint bid. peeked interest from mayweather and de la hoya. about his wife? only after asking for and getting the green light from head coach doc rivers. this ruling applies specifically to donald sterling and donald sterling s conduct only were the nba says no decisions have been made but the players association telling yahoo! sports it won t accept any sterling as an owner. the nba, once they get the 3/4 votes, they are in charge of this franchise and they decide who gets to buy and who doesn t. i have zero doubt that the nba is going to prevent anyone from the sterling family from controlling this franchise. reporter: and commissioner silver said he wanted swift action and that he was going to stay on it. to that end, the owners are supposed to have their first meeting about this topic today. kate? all right, one step in a long process. stephanie, thank you very much. also new this morning, toronto s controversial mayor rob ford announces he s taking a leave of absence to get treatment for what he calls a struggle with alcohol. this comes after reports of a new video showing ford smoking what is allegedly crack cocaine from a pipe. cnn s paula newton has more. reporter: calling it one of the most difficult times in his life, embattled toronto mayor rob ford says he is taking a break from his re-election campaign. this comes after the or tront globe and mail reporting to have seen a new video allegedly showing the mayor smoking crack cocaine from a copper-colored pipe. the publication saying the video was shot this past saturday in ford s sister s apartment, and that they can t verify the substance was, in fact, crack. in may of last year cellphone video was released appearing to show ford smoking crack cocaine which he at the time denied and later conceded. yes, i have smoked crack cocaine. reporter: this morning his p oppone opponents, outraged. for the good of the city i call mayor ford to resign. reporter: mayor ford released a statement saying in part, i have tried to deal with these issues by myself over the past year. i know that i need professional help, and i am now 100% committed to getting myself right. his attorney told cnn ford is taking a leave immediately for substance abuse problems. also in comments to the globe he questioned the authenticity of the video and the motivation behind it. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. reporter: in march ford was recorded stumbling and swearing outside toronto city hall and back in january ford admitted to, a quote, minor setback after this rant surfaced. he insisted he had a small amount to drink but had not taken any drugs. [ bleep ]. now, rob ford s lawyer declined to tell us exactly where he s going for this kind of help, what exactly what kind of help he would be getting. and he won t say, rob ford himself, how long he will actually be out. he has not called off his re-election campaign, merely saying he s taking a break to deal with some serious problems. paula newton with the latest on the embattled mayor in or ront tonchts let s lo toronto. ukraine s acting president is making a stunning acknowledgement saying security forces are helpless in stopping militants in yearn ukraine but put military on full combat readiness on wednesday. pro-russian gunmen have taken control of key buildings in the region. ukraine ordered expulsion of russian diplomat it accuses of spying. syria is not handing over what remains of chemical arsenal as agreed according to the washington post. u.s. officials say syria is holding on to 27 tons of saran as leverage in a dispute over the future of storage facilities. sunday was the deadline to turn it over to international observers who want tunnels and buildings used to store the weapons destroyed. this morning safety experts calling for tighter regulations after yet another crude oil train derailment. a freight train jumped the track wednesday in linkburg, virginia, erupting into flames and spilling thousands of gallons of oil into the james river. some 50,000 gallons are unaccounted for as clean-up crews fight to contain the spill. federal safety investigators are trying to figure out just what went wrong. fortunately no injuries were reported in that crash. chris? all right, thank you very much. we re awaiting the release of the first report of the disappearance of flight 370 from the malaysian government. meanwhile, malaysian airlines has just issued a press release. we are reading it as we re lng to the headlines. they re going to close down family assistance centers around the world by may 7th. they will maintain a presence in beijing. let s bring in david soucie, cnn s safety analyst, to discuss this. david, i m looking at it right now. in line with this adjustment, they say, adjustment meaning the new phase in the search and investigation, they re going to be closing all of its family assistance centers around the world by may 7th, 2014. they will keep in close touch with the familys, new updates, telephone calls. we then hear word they may keep something open in beijing. that s not what this says. what do you make of this? well, i think they re probably consolidating resources. the issue with having everybody together in one place is mostly for the purpose of being there when things are discovered. the family assistance centers, i think, are probably not very useful at this point, to be honest with you. the families are frustrated and they re trying to get some information but they re just not getting it anyway. but don t they matter the most? you have so many different it should. so many different silos of resources. this is the one group of people that actually deserves information. just to clarify, it says while it s closing those family centers it says, with the support of the malaysian government the airline family support centers will be established in kuala lumpur and in beijing. so they re closing these worldwide ones, whatever that number is, and they re going to open these two new ones. they will keep some presence. that s good because, again, the families deserve it. another point. as we re waiting for this report, why are we waiting for this report? forget about the malaysian authorities and their teaming. couldn t we have gotten this from icao? that s right, chris. that s the part that i don t understand at all, is when the report goes to icao, icao is under no obligation to try to protect anything that s in that report other than the personal and secret kind of things. in other words, you want to protect privacy. you want to protect anything to do with the criminal investigation. and icao can t release that kind of information if it s on there, which i doubt it is. icao has the authority to do this. i just don t understand why that s not being pushed. we ve heard very little from the icao authority, from the organization itself, from any of the ambassadors from any of the countries. remember, countries that are part of icao and the united nations, remember, icao is part of the united nations, each one of those ambassadors assigned to icao is part of it. they re part of the organization. they re part of the leadership. i ve seen very little leadership out of icao. where are the ambassadors? they re wait for malaysia. i don t understand that. this body icao is in transition, right? the person who is the head is out. the new head is pending approval from the obama administration. submitted by but waiting on it. could it be that they re caught flatfooted in this situation? there s a lot of people at the table and united states is not one of them. united states under duane s leadership used to be the president of the airlines pilot association, he s been actively involved in airlines, and he was fantastic at his job. he retired in december. there was a nomination made. michael lawson, from los angeles, and michael lawson has had some ridicule actually. he s not got the kind of depth of experience that duane did and yet congress has drug its feet on trying to nominate someone else or they just basically said we re not going to put this guy, we re not going to confirm him so, therefore, it s a done deal. where is the new nomination? this is the worst time in history to not have some representation on tirks cao. they re going to set some rules. the united states have to follow them and we re going to be stuck flatfooted as you said to respond to the icao rules. the united states isn t driving the entire thing but you do want some representation there to be sure. so this report is going to come out. we expect it to be a basic cursory analysis but the reason that we re interested is because it will be a window into how malaysia has been thinking about this all along and where the points of focus have been because legitimate questions about the investigative process here. we ll be waiting on the report and when we get it we ll come right to you, david, and get your take on it. thank you for lemmi inghelping these other factors. coming up next on new day, the company that claims they had identified plane wreckage suggesting it down meissing plane. we re going to talk with a critic coming up next. coming up on inside politics, it s the clintons versus the media. hillary clinton recently said the media scrutiny is one reason why not to run for president. now bill clinton has joined in. find out what the media totally missed about his presidency. 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 what s happening to the enamel. once it s gone, it s gone away for good. i recommend pronamel. it s 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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well, they re defending their actions without providing a shred of evidence that they have technology that works. they say they have trade secrets. i get that. why not show previous verifiable examples of this technology working? they haven t done that. you don t have to reveal trade secrets to say here s what we ve done in the past and here s how it works. none of that has occurred. what also bothers me about this press release is it s kind of an exit stage right press release. we ve identified this site in the bay of bengal. we did it for moral reasons. now good-bye, everybody. thank you very much for coming. and that to me is just pretty much case in point that this is about publicity as much as anything else. now, the company says that it did provide all of their technical background to the malaysian government in a briefing that they held. they said they spoke for about an hour. they don t feel the need to release that to the public. and now bangladesh has announced they re sending two ships to that area to figure this out. so is this back and forth do you think in the end all for not because it s essentially we may find out one way or the other if what they re claiming is true. well, yeah. i mean, but remember, they briefed the malaysian officials, the real experts for an hour, and they dismissed the whole thing. don t forget that. number two, the malaysian navy, if it wants to check this out because there s so much public pressure, that s fine. if this company, which claims a moralal truistic goal is really all a it that why don t they keep helping with the search? why don t they train their technology on the southern site in why don t they prove somehow they can identify a verifiable piece of wreckage deep beneath the sea? none of these things have r. happening. they ve identified this apparent wreckage in the bay of bengal and now they re saying they re done. i think we should all be done with it. you make a very good point not only do you always make a good point but on the fact that if you think your technology has worked here, why not apply it to the area where everyone is focusing the search. i haven t heard that that s question has been posed to the company yet. have you heard any response on that? i ve been posing it for a day but nobody seems to be listening to me at georesonance. if they truly had a verifiable technology that could locate an ircraft on the bottom of the ocean floor, aim the satellite at the search site in the southern ocean, help out the search in that way. that s the moral obligation. what could be provided that would give you more interest in this kram rather than saying that they need is it just more evidence? is it their methodology, is there more information they could provide that could make it, i don t want to say more valid, but at this point, more people are skeptical than they are finding this promising. again, you know, i just think that, you know, i agree. i m sure there are secret things that they any company needs to hold close. but there s a whole body of knowledge and general information which they weren t sharing with anybody. just the basics of how this works, but, you know, basically some verifiable examples would go a long way. here s how we did it in the past. here s a piece of wreckage. here s a shipwreck, here s how we did it. go to their website. they made claims of finding a shipwreck in the black sea. that ship has not really been located, as it turns out. there s an abs sense of examples. extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. and there is no extraordinary evidence here. the thing that also is at play here you talk about an absence of evidence and absence of examples, there s also an absence of any real evidence in the other part of the search effort, in the search indian ocean. i think that is why some of the family members are feeling ingi little bit of why not at this point. no, and i do. you know, if the bangladesh navy wants to check this out, fine. i was concerned yesterday that somehow there would be pressure to move resources that are on the search site where we ve had the pings, where we ve had the inmarsat arcs, you know, where we might have had who knows australian defense radar verifying things. that won t be released publicly. if you moved resources off that, that would be bad. for the bangladesh navy to steam out there, call it a training mission and see if they can find wreckage there, why not. i see no problem with that. real quick, miles. along the vein of looking for real hard and true evidence that are facts, as we re waiting and anticipating this report to come out from the malaysian government, what are you going to be looking for as i know you ve read many of these reports in the past. repair yourself to be underwomened. i ve seen the form you re supposed to fill out for icao. it s very basic information. stuff we already know. when it has room for a narrative. the narrative has to be 200 words or less. so i suspect if they follow the letter of the icao procedures for preliminary report, we re going to be sadly disappointed by all this. 200 words, that s practically a tweet. at this point, a tweet plus a little bit of something. all right. exactly. yeah. let s hope that nothing when it comes to an explanation of evidence when it comes to this, the missing flight and everything that s gone on and the little that we know after some seven weeks can be summed up in a tweet. miles, great to see you. thank you so much. you re welcome. coming up, the malaysian authorities report that we were just talking about on flight 370 as soon as it is released we ll bring it to you. also, we have inside politics this morning. we ll go inside the white house, find out about president obama s favorite new stress reliever. we re going to tell you how he blows off steam and makes key decisions at the same time. welcome back to new day. here s a look at your headlines. malaysian officials are expected to release the first report on the disappearance of flight 370 any moment now. we ll bring it to you live. family members have been demanding to see those documents that document for a while. for weeks, in fact. this just in. malaysian airlines announcing it will close the support center where the families of flight 370 have been gathering at a hotel in beijing by tomorrow. they re also going to close some of their other family support centers. we re told they will keep family support center open in kuala lumpur and in beijing. huge parts of the east coast are under water this morning after massive storms. hundreds of people have been evacuated in laurel, maryland, after a dam opened up. several thousands of gallons of water was released. the dam has since been stabilized. pensacola saw rainfall of epic proportions. we know that one woman was killed. the weather could also be responsible for a gas explosion at a jail that collapsed part of the roof injuring some 100 inmates and killing two. a major concession by ukraine s acting president admitting security forces are essentially helpless to stop pro-russian militants, even so he put his military on full combat readiness wednesday. pro-russian gunmen have taken control of symbolic buildings in more than a dozen cities and towns taking over much of the eastern portion of ukraine. , in brk a ownership committee meets today to discuss donald sterling s future of the owner of clippers. the commissioner wants the owners to use their power to force him out. that would require the support of 3/4 of the other nba owners. see how i did that? i could bless you and tell the news. i m sorry. i really tried to hold it? we are human doing this show. that baby doesn t need a sneeze. don t want to wake her up even though we have to be up. didn t mean to scare her. i want her up. everybody has to watch. be nice. we want her to see asleep as long as possible. that s a dedicated viewer there. named christopher as she should be. great name. works for other genders. split screen. appropriate reaction. not appropriate. and that s why we re both here. thank you. balance. all right. time for inside politics on new day with mr. john king. j.k., how are you? immigra m great but if you w keep going, we can watch. the baby moves every time she hears your voice, john. she s into politics already. we ll be back to you. inside politics , a lot of ground to cover. with me margaret of bloomberg news and politico. let s start, i often talk about the politicians, the democrats and republicans seemingly living in parallel universes. sometimes the economic statistics operate the same way. i want to get your sense of how much the debate about the economy and pessimism about the economy affects the election this year. gross domestic product, growing, flat lined. last quarter, pretty much nothing. the economy was stalled. however, if you look at wall street, the markets hitting record lies. if you have a 401(k) you re probably doing well. margar margaret, how much frustration is here at the white house that they think the numbers, most of the numbers are getting better and yet seven in ten americans are pessimistic about the xhoi economy? they think is the lag and doldrums of winter that coming into the new year as it picks up, second, third quarter, things are growing. but the white house knows that really this doesn t matter that much until the summertime or late in the summertime. republicans are going to use this now to push down on democrats fortunes and get the most they can out of it. it really is a mixed bag and too soon to see how much it will hurt them. interesting perspective. you think it was just the winner. we re going to be fine. late spring and summer, things will be better. isn t there a sense that because this has gone on so long, because the recovery has been modest, there s just a psychology of people that it not getting better out in america. people in washington might be optimistic when you look at the statistics. if you travel the country, races rim pacted. democrats wanting to run on the economy this year. they didn t want to run on the health care law. they hoped the job numbers improving, the market improving, all the statistics showed an economic recovery that was going to get stronger, not be this type of recovery that we ve seen over the last several years. but as we saw yesterday, that s not going to be possible for democrats if we see economic growth not keeping pace with the has been in previous quarters that it s going to hurt people like mark pryor in arkansas, red states like in louisiana where they wanted to run on the economy instead. the best way to win is to viscerate their opponents. let s move on. yesterday we talked about a newly released because of a lawsuit by a conservative group showing the deputy security adviser ben rhodes was trying to give advice about benghazi and other issues in the middle east with susan rice in 2012. came up contentious issue at the white house briefing yesterday as to why, why did the white house not release this document with so many others a year ago. why were you holding back this information? why was this e-mail not turned over to the congressman? why did you not release this with of t. other e-mails? this is directly relevant. jon, again why did it take a court case for you to release this? jon, i can say it again and again and i know you can keep asking again and again. this document was not about benghazi. i don t know how you know, i don t have two hands. i don t know how you can say this is not about benghazi. if you look at the timeline of events i can t understand why the white house did this because if you released it with all the others you could say, ben rhodes, when he wrote this document was following, looking at the timeline, previous e-mail that came over t from the cia saying here are the talking points. they can release this and people could say it was wrong or misleading and be done with it a year ago. now people are saying why are you hiding this? right. in a year we will probably get the memo release and why they didn t release the memo, right? must be some combination of executive privilege, lawyers saying we don t need to release this. all of that. bottom line is it makes perfect sense for the deputy national security adviser for communications to be advising the national security adviser on how to communicate and now it s turned into an eruption that they didn t need. it makes perfect sense for the skeptics of the administration to say what else are you hiding? this is going to fuel calls from the republicans to create a select committee to investigate what happened in benghazi. this is what a lot of republicans have been banging the drums over. this is what makes the white house nervous about giving republicans control of the senate come fall buzz thatecaus going to be a huge push. purri in pushing and doing more investigation on benghazi, that s what s going to happen should republicans narrative for 2016, especially if hillary ends up there. not just the obama white house but potentially about secretary of state hillary clinton at the time and on that segue, not just jay carney who sometimes gets mad at reporters, listen to bill clinton speaking to georgetown university yesterday. his context here is the health care law mostly. he says in the coverage of obamacare people decided months ago it was a failure and as there s more evidence of it coming in he says the political press focuses on what s up here not on the facts. there is a craving which borders on blindness to shoe horn every fact, every development, everything that happens into the story line, even if that s not the story. that s bill clinton speaking from his experience. so much fun. you can just see the fun to come in the months to come. i ve been on the receiving end of bill clinton temper tantrum. i was a writing in those days mostly before i switched into television. m manu, hillary showed up. she was there. maggie from politico as well as one of our friends in the inside politics family has a piece on the clinton s relationship with the media. in it there is this quote from a campaign veteran. look, she hates you. period. that s never going to change. that s right. interesting to sort of coming out there before she s even said she s going to run. what the clinton friends are saying is that may be a reason why she does not run is because of the barrage of media scrutiny, the relentlessness of this 24/7 media environment. this could be her big factor and why she does not actually u lly ultimate take an easier path to the nomination. vast left wing conspiracy to boost the clinton juggernaut. that s part of this is that president clinton is concerned that she will not get credit and he will not and by virtue of the, you know, convey to her, get credit for being left wing enough. and his argument is right now, hey, you know, my moderate approach to welfare reform was about income and equality and the press doesn t get it. we just don t get it. quick footnote here and we ll move on. if hillary clinton needs an incentive to move on, the poll chose her 49-41 over jeb bush, the former governor of florida. leading republican candidate. look at that. that s a good poll for hillary clinton. it is 2014. not so bad. margaret, i want to end with a piece you wrote on bloomberg about how the president now when he s feeling stress decides to make big decisions. goes outside, walks around. there s a track outside the white house. we first learned about this in a policy context during a decision on whether to let congress vote or should american troop bs used in syria. walking with his chief of staff. how often does he do this? depends on the weather. we had that really cold winter where he wasn t getting out there much at all. now that it s nice again he s been out there as all the obamacare stats were coming in waiting to find out were they going to hit that 7 million target. for obama the frustration, so many frustrations, that walk helps him to kind of feel like he can get some movement on issues when things are really stuck. when things get stuck. can you discuss sensitive intelligence issues outside the white house? some things are better left for the sit room but if it s politics you re talking about, 100%. a lot of that around the track. edward snowden has a memo on that. as we go back to new york, often we let jimmy kimmel or david letterman or colbert end it, but frank trying his hand on late night comedy. listen. oh, no. i think we lost that one. barney frank on last night saying he used to be what s more controversy, being gay american or politician. he says it s now much more controversial, people frown on the politicians. barney frank, post-office. i bet he s loving his life. it s good that i hope he s right about that. you know what i mean? absolutely. at least that s an objective basis for criticism as opposed to what somebody is about. as john noknows, barney franks once told me, i asked him a question he was on the banking committee. at the time the banks were taking a beating and he was blaming the republicans. i said, wait a minute, don t you have responsibility? you re the senior person of the banking committee. why sb it your fault. he said, you are the worst. he said to me. you take that as compliment. at the time it was very frightening. i had a great routine at that time chasing him around the hill. he s got a certain charm when barney frank doesn t feel like answering. he would always say, that is a stupid question. and kind of move on and not oons it. there you go. i ll take stupid question over you re the worse. lots of people can ask stupid questions. coming up next on new day, malaysian authorities reports on flight 370 is set to be released any moment. we ll have it right here with you and we will break it down. plus, as many try to figure out how to force clippers owner donald sterling to sell the team, the focus is shifting to the women in his wife. the mi mistress, the wife who is suing the mistress. stay with us. 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well, the meeting began with really no personal introduction whatsoever. the presentation which was taped interviewed of the ceo of malaysian airlines, he came up on the video came up on a big-screen tv in english. and the chinese family members all watched it. i was there as well watching. and then when that video completed, i think it was maybe seven minutes or something. when it completed, then the screen went blank, and then an interpreter who had been taking notes during it came on the microphone and started to give the chinese translation of the message. and then all of the family members started to cry and to yell out. and i left the room at that point because it was starting to feel very, very tense. and i didn t want to get stuck in there. do you have any idea of how that meeting ended? i could hear i stayed outside of the room. i could hear a lot of yelling. some of the police officers that were outside went in. and they started to file family members out through a separate exit. so i could see them leaving in a line. and then there were a number of people still inside yelling. i m not sure how much of the presentation was in english. what did you understand and what do you think the families were so upset about? well, the entire presentation by the ceo of malaysian airlines was in english. so i probably thood understood better than anybody else in the room. most of the family members are not english speakers, so they only could get the content of it after the translation began. and that s when people started to break down. but i can tell you from prior conversations with the subleader group of the general family association, we met actually last night for dinner. and we were talking about this as a possibility. and they are very distraught because the average chinese family member will be sent home to mostly a very rural place with limited access to internet, and they just feel like all lines of communication will be cut. sarah, you re speaking of the fact that the malaysian airlines has talked about closing these family support centers. i understand there s going to be one kept open or a variety of one kept open in kuala lumpur, one kept open in beijing, but that hotel where so many families have been gathering, that is no longer going to be there. and it has really provided support for you and the families. well, it s provided support for the chinese families who don t have access to any other information. that s for sure. because in china, the media is very, very blocked. for instance, even all day today, i wasn t able to get online for most of the day. i had to go to a friend s house in order to access their internet connection. mine is certainly being monitored and cut off at opportune times. so it s really only the more educated chinese who have access to internet connectivity through an office as an example. right. who have any access to the international news. well, to that end, we nld e understand the next of kin, you have received a copy of this report. you have it in hand, but you haven t had a chance to go through it, is that correct is this well, i haven t received the report yet, the preliminary findings report. that was not in the e-mail i received. what did you receive? what i received was a copy of the briefing notes. so the presentation that was made and some sort of documentation around compensation calculations that will be discussed now with family members. i only had a chance just briefly to look at the e-mail content before we started this interview. i need to go back to it. well, we re all awaiting that iko report. what are you most specifically hoping to hear and glean there it? well, i m hoping that there s going to be some actual factual information in it. we are all quite frustrated with getting only analysis because we don t trust the analysis that s been done. and we re a pretty smart up groo group of people with a lot of engineers on our team and a lot of external experts who have come forward and volunteered their services to help look at factual data and try to come up with perhaps a different kind of analysis from it. so we re hoping that there are facts in the report. sarah, really quickly, the bay of bengal, the report, a lot of aviation experts are poking holes in this or at least they re skeptical of it. do you still hold any credence in that? we know that there s a couple of bangladeshi frigates headed that way to investigate further. well, i m not sure that the bangladeshi frigates have sonar capability to reach down 1,000 meters, but i m very, very pleased that they have stepped forward to do that. and a huge thank you to them. you know, i look at it this way. if their technology works, they re going to find something there. if it s the plane, then we ll all be devastated, but we can at least grieve properly and go on with our lives. if it s something else, like a ship, then at least we know the technology works and they could use that elsewhere. and if it s nothing at all, then they have some explaining to do. sarah bajc joining us from beijing, we appreciate you making time and getting to a skype connection to talk to us about this. sarah, thank you. kate? michaela, thanks very much. let s take a break. coming up next on new day, the malaysian authorities report is expected any minute now, and we ll have that for you and have full analysis on what it means for the search going forward. what new things are we learning? 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yes, more rain expected in the forecast as we go through the afternoon today. no, not as much as what we saw, but several more inches of rain where many areas are still experiencing flooding. never a good thing when you see this tri-state area already looking like this. all right, indra, we ll be back to you. we do have breaking news. this is the moment we ve been waiting for. if you re following the search for flight 370. the malaysian authorities have released their first report on what happened. let s get live right away to kuala lumpur. will ripley is there with the news. what do we know, will? what do you see? reporter: hey, chris. yeah, this is the five-page report i have in my hand right now. we just printed it out, and i have to say, as i m scanning through it, as we have been saying, there really are no big surprises here. it lays out in detail the time frame of mh370 s takeoff, the flight and then the disappearance as we know it. so it talks about the transponderswitched off, the last radio communication, the good night malaysian 370 that we talked so much, and the satellite communication, those six hourly handshakes that we have also reported about. one thing at the end of the report on the bottom of page 4 and 5, it has some safety recommendations. it talks about the fact that i m going to read to you while commercial transportation airport spend considerable amounts of time operating over remote areas, there is currently no requirement for realtime tracking of these aircraft, and there have now been two occasions during the last five years when large commercial air transport aircraft have gone missing, and their last position was not accurately known. it goes on to say it is recommended the international civil aviation organization examine the safety benefits of introducing a standard for realtime tracking of commercial air transport aircraft. in other words, it s saying that what needs to happen to prevent mh370 from happening again is that we need to find a better way to track these planes when they re in the air over these remote areas like mh370 was where it literally was able to vanish. here we are nearly eight weeks into this search and still not one single piece of the plane. what this report does not include, though, is a lot of answers to the questions we ve been asking. specifically what is it about the satellite data, the inmarsat satellite dat that that makes investigators so confident that mh370 is sitting in this corner of the indian ocean and not somewhere else? we were hoping this report might explain why, why there s so much confidence that mh370 is in this search zone where they ve been searching so long, chris, and haven t found a single piece of the plane or any evidence that the plane is there. thank you very much. let s assess if the malaysians put their best foot forward in this situation. what s in it, what s not. we turn to cnn aviation correspondent and all-around knowledgeable man on this, richard quest. first question to you, richard. you ve got the report in your hand. to question that the safety recommendations matter. it is an entirely separate issue and one of the main reasons we keep following this story, because after 9/11, the idea that an aircraft could just disappear and not be tracked is a dangerous proposition. so that s in there. that s good. what else do you see in the report that is relevant to the search? it is important to state right at the outset that the report meets the requirements of iko. it s meant to be a basic assessment of the core facts known at this particular juncture. and there s no question at alta this meets that standard. because? because it tells us what basically happens. the plane took off. the plane let s see if we can get this thing up and running. so what does it tell us? it tells us owhen the plane too off. it tells us where it went, the direction, and tells us that it was missing. so that s like the duh factor. that is the duh factor. so what else does it do? and that is what we ve got from this report. if we take a look at actually some of the things that it doesn t tell us, we can actually get a little bit more information. let s take this one over here. clear that out from earlier. what it doesn t tell us is who did what, where, when and why on the night. it does not reveal and we re waiting for more documents which i believe are going to come out in the next hour, they re putting a lot of appendices with this. the report itself does not go into details about why kuala lumpur missed it when it says it right here, it fell off radar. it fell off radar. 1:21, it was observed on radar. at 1:21:13, the radar disappeared. which means? which means literally that s when the transponder was switched off. we don t know. there s a 13-minute gap before vietnam said, hang on. where s that plane? a 13-minute gap before vietnam said, we haven t seen mh370. where is it? and then we get to what i think is probably the biggest issue of what this report doesn t say. what i m calling the four-hour gap. for four hours, air traffic control between malaysia, hong kong, vietnam, thailand, they were all talking to each other trying to find the plane. the report makes it clear between 1:38 and 5:30 local time, they were all saying where s the plane? but nobody nobody started the rescue coordination center. where s the period is that within the period when they stram be scrambled planes? they didn t. so that was before. we know from the prime minister they didn t. but what we also know from the prime minister is that during that four-hour gap while the plane is going this way, malaysian military is monitoring it. and what the report doesn t tell us yet and i need to see various documents that have come out with it, because they are releasing a lot more documents than just this report, i ve been told, we need to know, in that so-called remember, we re calling it the four-hour gap in the four-hour gap, were malaysian military involved in discussing? but don t they say that they scrambled planes? doesn t the military say that? no. somebody said it. we were reporting it. somebody had said they scrambled jets and they said no, there were planes, but they did scramble them in this direction. no. not during the time. so that was after. only after the 0530. only after the 0530 when the plane is now known as missing and the coordination center. but here s the really awful fact about this whole business. this is what needs to be brought in mind. at 0530, the rescue coordination center is activated. 0530. this plane is still flying. it s flying thousands of miles further south. and it continues to fly for another 2 1/2 hours. so not only have you got a four-hour gap, you ve got 2 1/2 hours after that where the plane is still flying and nobody knows where it is. and the biggest issue is going to be, in this part of the investigation, this. who knew what in the four-hour gap. and you also have diego garcia over there, right, which is the u.s. intel outpost that they have that supposedly has surveillance technology. the plane flew by it also. it s not unusual for there to be a gap of several hours when a plane goes missing. you know, i call you. you call them. they call them. have you seen such what about that? and everybody goes and has a cup of tea and then comes back and says no, i haven t seen them. have you? it s not unusual. but after air france 447, to have four hours of a gap where nobody seems to have said, where is this plane? it s four hours without contact. and what this report does not do and i think is deficient in not doing hold on a second. the last and most important point at this juncture, before they have their appendices and most legitimate question for you for the rest of the day, because we re setting the table, why are they adding to the appendices when they ve had plenty of time to release it, are they filling in the gap because they don t know or because they don t want to fill in the gap or want us to know? that s a key question. it s a key question, absolutely. absolutely the tick tock in our language of who said what to whom in that four-hour gap it might have had no effect on the final result. by the time this happened, the plane was somewhere down there. it matters for the accountability of process. it matters for the accountability because as they say in their recommendations, you know, for a plane to go missing is pretty unconscionable. the australian prime minister says, in this day and age, for a plane to go missing. so for the fact that it can be missing for four hours before the rescue and coordination center, and we don t know if malaysian military spotted it doing that, that, i think, is going to be key in this whole question now. all right. and that s where we begin, really, with this now for the rest of the day. we ll see what the appendices are. you ll be going through it. richard, thank you very much. kate, over to you. next on new day, we ll continue to pore through the malaysian authorities authority and the appendices, some of the key information is that we might get. we ll ask our experts if they think the report offers any new clues. where do they go from here? 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[ male announcer ] celebrate every win with nicoderm cq, the unique patch with time release smartcontrol technology that helps prevent the urge to smoke all day long. help prevent your cravings with nicoderm cq. welcome back to new day. breaking news we re continuing to follow at this hour. the malaysian government has just released its initial report on the disappearance of flight 370. let s continue to break it down. we have now documents just coming into our inboxes right now. let s break it down with miles o brien, cnn aviation analyst and science correspondent for b pbs and david seucie. i know you re going through these documents as we are. let s first get your initial reaction and then go through some of the information. miles, you said for me to prepare to be underwhelmed. i would put this in the category of beyond a preliminary report, which is good. basically, a preliminary report in the ntsb model investigation comes out a few days after. and it states the very basic facts. and if they really had stuck to that, you know, three-day post incident kind of model, we would have gotten a lot less information. i d put this in the category of more intermediate type of report, not final, and it does provide a lot more detail about the route. i don t know if you can bring up that map. yeah, let s put up that map. and i hope this is the map you re talking about as well, miles. from what i can gather, i think that s maybe five possible routes that they believe the plane may have taken south. is that what you re looking athe? yes. yeah, and what it does is and it looks like it provides much more specificity on the exact points at which radar interrogated this aircraft. i don t know if you can zoom in on that on the air, but it indicates the last air defense radar point. and then it indicates what their suppositions are on speed and their the time. and i m trying to see if they re just using guesses on the speed. but the point is, it provides a lot of information as to how they derive these the highest, lowest and mid probability areas. the highest probability area being the red box, low being yellow, mid being green. that s where the initial and now current search is, the current search being in the red box area. it does provide some information on the speed and altitude which they used to derive all of this. that s helpful. yeah, it is helpful. david, come and join us on this conversation. in the reports that you have looked through in the past, is this typical? because as i first saw this map, it kind of looked like one of those spaghetti models that our meteorologists use when we re kind of trying to track a hurricane as it s heading closer to shore. is this kind of a model showing the possibilities of where the routes could be and they re helping us out here, trying to zoom in. is that typical to see? you know, it would be in any kind of a search operation, but typically by now, you would have found, by the time the 30-day report comes out, you would have found an aircraft. this search is this is the key piece of the data. so therefore the key piece of the data should be in the preliminary report. but there is something that s very interesting to me in this report. the information that we didn t have before, which is the 40 degrees. they say that the pings or that the locator on the inmarsat data gave us 40 degrees from the satellite. now in my opinion, that really increases my confidence in this information. the reason is that at 40 degrees, what they re saying is this arc was derived from a 40-degree angle from the satellite, meaning that they now exactly what this came from that spot. that s incredibly encouraging for me and raises my confidence degree with that information. so that s very important to me, and it really reinforces that it s there. now, that s getting technical, but that s kind of where we are in this. and that s what no, i m glad you re bringing it up. that s the kind of information that as i understand it has been lacking to this point. folks have not been they have not been giving us the reasoning why they are so confident in the inmarsat data in how they have used a new way of calculating never before used to try to figure out the path of this plane. is that what this 40-degree angle is helping you better understand? well, the 40-degree angle is not new. the 40-degree angle from the satellite is something that s known. what wasn t known and what s new is using doppler-effect radar to determine whether it was the north/south, north or south route, and to earn did the degree at which the points relate to themselves. so, again, it s getting very technical and hard to explain without talking about asmussen and triangulations and things like that. if you visualize this satellite in space and you draw this being zero and you draw 40 degrees down from the satellite and then that comes down to the earth. so 40 degrees and then you draw a circle at 40 degrees from the satellite, that s going to tell you where these arcs are. and then the radar or excuse me, the doppler effect is telling you how far from that it is. so you ve got this information. you ve got that information. now you can plot out where that aircraft went based on how short or long these distances were. and bottom line, david this is extremely important. and bottom line, this is really starting to give us a hint of how they ve reached some of their conclusions which is very helpful, which has been lacking. as we were talking, david, i think we had another map that i want to pull up. and i want to get your take on it, miles. we can throw that back up. this is another map that they have just released. and i m seeing this for the first time as well. pardon me. so i m going to walk into this map. miles, what do you see? i see a whole lot of timestamps, and i m not understanding why. while you were talking not that your conversation wasn t stimulating, but i was looking at this it s really interesting because it shows the exact points at which they painted it with radar. you see at 1722, upper right, last civil radar point. and then it goes updated last defense radar point at 18:22 is all the way far left there. and then it shows this turn, which it doesn t indicate it s being painted by radar, but it shows that southerly turn there which it s unclear to me what they re using to derive that except maybe they re juxtaposing against the inmarsat. yeah then the pings come into play, maybe. right. go to the bottom. it s more clearly stated there. three-speeds that they used, speeds and altitudes range, differentials to come up with these potential locations for search. uh-huh. 332 knots, 344 knots, 350 knots. and go to page 3 now. if you could. and you ll see you ll see where that leads you. if you use those three-speed equations with an altitude of 30,000 feet or in one case they measure it at 15,000 feet. i don t know where they came up with these speeds and altitudes, but i think what they re basica altitude which is red-line speed, which is how fast you want to fly the airplane given the altitude. they ve got 30,000 feet. they ve got 15,000 feet. and they have 3,000 feet. so red-line speed for those three altitudes. and that s what gives you red, yellow and green boxes. the highest probability area, which is where the search is occurring, assumes 323 knots, a range of 2,700 nautical miles and 30,000 feet. so they ve determined that you know, we ve heard so much about altitude. they ve decided that this altitude and speed is the perfect equation which puts us on the spot where, number one, the last inmarsat ping is located, and number two, the pings and sorry to confuse you using ping twice that s okay. inmarsat handshake, we ll say. and then the pings from the black box is in that same location. that s why we ve got this highest probability area. exactly. we ve heard angus houston use that terminology a lot. so i assume that is why he s using the term highest probability area. i ve heard him use that over and over whenever he s spoken to the media. question on the altitude that you bring up. the altitude has been kind of a bit of a wild card throughout, i think. to say the least, yes. to say the least. especially in the northern part. in the northern part of the route, kind of a little earlier on, were they at 35,000? were they at 12,000? do the maps tell us, confirm any of that for us in regard to that? well, here s what you have to understand. the best military radars that are capable of identifying altitude, you can go back to page 2 if you want. we can talk about this. okay. the best military radars in the world, you know, the u.s. do-line radars, if you will, are pretty much plus or minus 3,000 feet or so. so not so accurate. not so accurate. now, you have to assume, frankly, that the radar system, the military radar systems in both malaysia and indonesia, you know, they re not prime for you know, some sort of cold war threat here. and so their accuracy, once that transponder is turned off and remember, the transponder is what sends to radar, it amplifies it provides information to the blip, tells you where the aircraft is relative to the ground. when that gets turned off, all you have is the blip. you have two dimensions instead of three. and so that s why we begin all this wild stock because frankly either their radar is not good even when it s tuned up, or it s not properly maintained. and so that s why all these altitude numbers we ve been talking about i would heavily discount. well, at least now we are just beginning to understand the most basic information that they are basing all of their assumptions on and why they believe that the plane has ended up in the southern part of the indian ocean, and that s why in that highest probability area for the first time we re getting a little window into the analysis, this complex analysis that has been going on with these high-level groups in australia, in malaysia. miles, stick with us. david, stick with us. we have a lot to go through. we re really just scratching the surface. we ve got a lot of information. thank goodness we have some of the smartest people here to help us. coming up, we ll continue to go through this report. richard quest has new information about that four-hour gap he was talking about from when the plane disappeared until the search, the real rescue effort, was launched. we ll be right back. frequent heartburn? 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[ female announcer ] lactaid. 100% real milk. no discomfort. come on, would i lie about this? so i use lactaid® members are cottage cheese. ry. it s 100% real dairy without the lactose. so i can make these creamy dishes my family enjoys without discomfort. discover more delicious lactose free recipes at lactaid.com welcome back to new day. to be sure, we do have breaking news. malaysian officials just released the report of the disappearance of flight 370. it says there was a four-hour gap from the moment the plane was missing until the start of the rescue attempts. even more importantly, until they were able to track it again. and that s going to be a big, open question as to why. we have our team of experts with us. let s bring in david soucie, miles o brien and richard quest. first, as we reset here, what do we now have? let s have the documents that have been given to us in the last 20 minutes. we have the preliminary report, the basic bare bones, this is what happened. we also have a tick tock. 20 minutes ago i said we needed it. now we have the tick tock. what did air traffic control actually say? we have a seating plan. which of the poor passengers was sitting in which part of the aircraft? we have details on the cargo manifest. those mangosteens. lithium batteries. lithium batteries. who was shipping what, where, when and how and how they were all shipped. important information. and crucial maps. that s going to be most important. we want to bring in our guys for it as well. but we also have the real clean audio of the cockpit as well now, right? because we had only heard it through the speakerphone that was being played for families. correct. so you re able to get a sense of tone. you re getting a sense of that ambient energy that was going on in the cockpit which would be relevant in assessing what s going on. it s not the cockpit voice recorder, obviously. right. it is the air traffic control recording. right. between ho chi minh, kuala lumpur and the cockpit. but that matters. yes. because within less than ten minutes after that conversation, something very dramatic happened. it all happened. so do we have david and miles? can we bring them in so everybody can point out what matters? all right, fellas. good. it s good to have the band together. let s look at this first map. and richard, you take the lead on this. and then fellas, you weigh in on what you want us to focus on. what do we now know from a hard data standpoint of what they understand about what happened? okay. let s follow this through. here s the plane. it leaves kuala lumpur and it goes up to the last civil radar point. what this now tells us is the last transmission from the automatic reporting system is at 17:06. this is all, by the way, in universal time. this is the way it s all been done. 17:06. the last civil radar point is at 17:22. that s the last time that the plane is being tracked officially when it s handed over from one to the next. now, for contexcontext, when the last conversation with the cockpit happen? that happens here. okay. that happens here. this is that calm, completely unimpressive, unextraordinary conversation of them just handing off and saying good night. that s the famous good night malaysia 370. that is when whoever s in control of the plane is told contact ho chi minh. miles, richard will get us to the next point of interest from your perspective, miles. what do you think? well, a couple of things. it appears there was about a 16-minute period of time as to 17? is that right? 17, between the handover when they last saw on the it s i m sorry, 22 being the last civil radar point. 16 or 17 minutes to me before ho chi minh city first inquired about mh370. while they do not release the ho chi minh city side of the equation, there is, as richard s been pointing out, a very detailed time line as to what was going on between the two air traffic control centers. there s also this interesting point that malaysian airlines ops indicated to kuala lumpur air traffic control that the aircraft was in cambodian airspace. that one i can t richard, do you have any thoughts on that one? and they actually queried phnom penh to check further with a supervisor. this is fascinating. fascinating, miles. what was that all about? why would malaysian airlines ops have that supposition? i don t know where that came from. david, you got any on that one? yeah. i do. because phnom penh, remember, if you re going to turn around to go to a maintenance base, that s where you go. right. so to me the reason for that turnaround has something to do with maintenance. people say they re not going directly towards phnom penh, they re going around. so if you re coming around, that s where it would put you. so you come down across the island where they had that last ping before it went down to 5,000 feet or below. that s where you would make your turn to come back around to connect with the bottom near kuala lumpur. all right. here s miles richard david, miles, richard, always keep in mind, you know much more about this and have sophistication than at home they re not having. so let s keep it very simple. right. you re talking about who monitored what and then told whom? so what we have here is kuala lumpur basically being told by malaysian airlines that they believe that the plane has received information that it s in cambodian airspace. but this is the one and only the first time we ve ever heard this. i think we re going to have to put it as a red herring because what happens, this happens at 2:03. the plane goes missing at 1:38. but richard, at item 9 on this, 2:15, it indicates that the kuala lumpur air traffic control watch supervisor queried malaysian airlines ops, which is the airline operations desk, and informed that the flight was able to exchange signals with the flight and was flying in cambodian airspace. but none of that is reflected on the very map that they released. i m trying to figure out this inconsistency. what this document shows is at 2:03, cambodia is first mentioned. and at 2:15, we hear cambodia mentioned again. and this is the four-hour gap, by the way. this is what happened. it s the beginning of it. yeah. it s pretty much all of it. it goes from 1:38 all the way to 5:40. what it tells oops. excuse me. that s all right. what it tells me is it s the classic, classic confusion that happens in these situations. a says to b, have you seen the plane? b says to d, where s that plane? d says back to ai i thought you saw it. by the way, have you still not seen it? and this goes on for hours. right. let s break down what this conversation means to regular people. david, when it says watch supervisor queried malaysia airlines ops who informed that mh370 was able to exchange signals with the flight and flying in cambodian airspace, mh370 is the plane, what s the difference between the plane and the flight? well, it s important to point out that the a cars, remember it s sending information to ops. communications is communicating with the airplane digitally. not necessarily through voices. it s sending that information up to the acars and back down to ops. ops is saying we think it s in cambodian airspace. that doesn t mean it knows that it is. that means is we expect it to be there. and at 2:18, kuala lumpur queries if the plane is supposed to be going through cambodian airspace. ho chi minh says it wasn t. ho chi minh checked. cambodia advised. backwards and forwards. ho chi minh confirms and onwards and backwards and forwards. can we say it didn t go that way? it can be ruled out. and now we know why it can be ruled out. this is just stuff. this is the air traffic control noise. so that s what we can rule out. what do we now have to start about ruling in? what do we learn from what they see here on hard data points? so the plane crosses goes over this over the country. we know that happens. but looking back, and this is the this is the smoking gun, i ve always said it from day one. if you look back in the four-hour gap, there seems to be almost no moment when the military is asked, did you see have you seen anything? and the military is go ahead. go, miles. i have go to item 16, richard. this is at 0330. this is interesting. and it indicates here that the malaysian airlines operations center called up air traffic control in kuala lumpur and said that all this information that they had previously been giving them about possibly going to phnom penh and into cambodia was based on flight projection and not reliable for aircraft positioning. so here s what happens in my view just off the top is the whole red herring in the fray, as richard s been well describing the confusion, the fog of war, if you will, about it going over into cambodian airspace probably is why we had such a delay in any sort of response in the way of military fighters, intercepts and so forth. they thought it was in cambodia. they didn t know where it was. and for some reason malaysian airlines ops was telling them call phnom penh, we think it s in cambodia, and it wasn t. and obviously for reasons that we don t understand, the military, which is actually looking at this plane in realtime we know that it is? yes, the prime minister admitted it in the interview with me. the prime minister said there was a radar operator. i know believe it s a junior radar operator who was looking at it during the night. he saw they saw it going across, and that radar operator believed it was a civil plane. and therefore but the military was not part of that discussion. and the military either wasn t monitoring or it s not their standard operating procedure. so as the plane goes across malaysia, nobody they re all thinking it s somewhere out there. nobody thinks to say but again, we now know that there s good reason, from the military and the civil side, to know that it did go this way. and everything keeps making sense. the cambodia does not make sense, so forget it. here s the really worrying thing. cambodia or otherwise, they still didn t know where the plane was, and they still didn t have contact with the aircraft. and that goes on for many, many more hours. particularly if you look at the hours from 2:00, 3:00 and 4:00. there were whole hours when nothing happens. 3:30, k.l. inquired if ho chi minh had checked with the next station. 3:56, k.l. queried malaysia airlines. 4:25, ho chi minh. these are half-hour blocks of a plane that s been missing for several hours, and nobody is thinking, we d better sound the alarm. and get this, though. the last item, richard, quick point, item 24. the first mention of search and rescue comes at 6:14. 6:14. and kuala lumpur air traffic control queries ho chi minh city and asks if a search and rescue had been activated. where would the plane be at that point, richard, you know? you re thinking my thoughts, miles. but hold the thoughts and here s why. we re going to take a break. when we come back, there s good and bad reason for why they were communicating and not being able to understand where the plane was, and then there becomes new data that they ll have that gives them their different search coordinates. we ll take you through all of it right after the break. ups is a global company, but most of our employees live in the same communities that we serve. people here know that our operations have an impact locally. we re using more natural gas vehicles than ever before. the trucks are reliable, that s good for business. but they also reduce emissions, and that s good for everyone. it makes me feel very good about the future of our company. he gets a ready for you alert the second his room is ready. when sales rep steve hatfield books at laquinta.com, so he knows exactly when he can prep for his presentation. and when steve is perfectly prepped, ya know what he brings? 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right. so let s jump right the way down to how they believe where the plane finally ended up. forget about all this stuff up here. we move further down. this is the route of the aircraft. as they believe. guys, jump in at any stage. the plane comes down this routing. how do we know? inmarsat data. the pings. well, because we ve got pings under water, let s call them handshakes. handshakes. to be clear. these are the six richard? yes. david. yeah, i was just going to say, it might be easier to at least in my mind, which is probably different than most, but is the 40-degree mark from the satellite gives us the arc in the first place, and then we use the inmarsat data to go backwards and track that out. see what i m saying? okay. why does 40-degree angle matter from the satellite? why is that relevant? because that gives you a cone. if you look 40 degrees down from the satellite, it gives you that arc all the way around the satellite, 360 degrees. so that s what draws the initial arc. then the inmarsat data verifies where on the arc it is. i know little about this satellites and arcs, david. it is the last transmission when it was on the arc of 40 degrees from the satellite. so that is the last bit down here where it s on 40 degrees. that s right. i hope we re not confusing people with all this. for those of us who didn t do so well in math. how could we not? basically, the inmarsat circles, what we re drawing, all they re doing is measuring the time it takes for the signal to travel from the plane to the saddle light. and as it moves, that changes by milliseconds. that s how you get those circles on the map. and that s all we re talking about here, all the other stuff you don t need to you don t have to understand the math. right. what i m saying is miles, you re making the right point because the perspective is what matters here. we re just saying i don t care about the angle or anything else. i m just saying from the new data that we have, there s now a basis for confidence in what they did in terms of plotting data points of where this plane might be. that s the point that we now know. so the question is, where did that lead us? because what they had to do, they knew the distance from the satellite. what they had to do was work out the potential destination bearing in mind speed and altitude. right. and here we have, for example, speed 323 knots, 30,000 feet. i m not sure why at the bottom we ve got 350 knots, 3,000 feet. richard, i think what they did, they picked three altitudes and chose the red line speed at those three altitudes. that s basically what they used. low, medium and high altitude. and miles, that explains correct me if i m wrong why these lines go from being very tight to then they start to broaden out like fingers because they started working off different assumptions? yes. all they re trying to do is find out the range. okay. and that s the key. they know the circle. but where on the circle is it? that s a function of the range of the aircraft. that has a lot to do with the altitude and speed. they know how much fuel was on board, but they didn t know the altitude and the speed. they put in three factors, low altitude, medium altitude and a high altitude, and they chose the speed which is what they call red line which is what you would safely fly at those altitudes. and that s why we have those three boxes. that really gives us an idea of how they came up with those boxes. we supposed that before, but we never had the detail on how they came up with those locations. all right. and then lastly, as we get into why we understand why this happened, the big questions, richard, what do you believe are the big questions that remain now after seeing what s here? after seeing what s in this report, the biggest question still comes back up to this area. it still goes back to those hours when the plane went missing. this will not answer what happened in the cockpit. but it will answer why nobody saw the plane going across the country, why nobody did anything about it, and after air france, why it did take 2:00 onwards, four hours in total, say two hours being charitable to do anything about it. now, there s more to go through because there s the cargo manifest, the passenger logs. there s a lot of information in the appendices that came out after. more information after the initial report. we ll keep going through that and take a break right now, though. kate? we ll have much more on the breaking news on this report about flight 370. a lot to work through. more than maybe some had expected we were going to get this morning. stick with us on that. and also, the latest on the severe storms slamming the east coast. what to expect today when newsroom with carol costello starts right after this break. ortho crime files. reckless seeding. a backyard invasion. enter homeowner, and ortho weed b gon max. kills weeds without harming innocent lawns. guaranteed. ortho weed b gon max. get order. get ortho®. ortho weed b gon max. most of the time people are shocked when we show them where they re getting the acid, and what those acids can do to the enamel. there s 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. the was a truly amazing day. without angie s list, i don t know if we could have found all the services we needed for our riley. for over 18 years we ve helped people take care of the things that matter most. join today at angieslist.com it s called truecar. and truecar users. save time and money. so when you re. ready to buy a car, make sure you. never overpay. visit truecar.com today. and you want to get an mba. but going back to school is hard. because you work. now capella university offers a revolutionary new way to get your degree. it s called flexpath, and it s the most direct path, leveraging what you ve learned on the job and focusing on what you need to know. so you can get a degree at your pace and graduate at the speed of you. flexpath from capella university. learn about all of our programs at capella.edu. this is cnn breaking news. and good morning. i m carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. we begin this morning with breaking news. a new transparency in the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370. just minutes ago, finally, malaysia s government made public its first report on the plane s final known moments. the big headline for you, the plane had vanished for a full 17 minutes before officials even took notice. and yet it took a remarkable four hours, four hours, before an official rescue operation was launched. it is the government s most thorough accounting yet of what
after 56 days, finally, the malaysians releasing new details on what happened to malaysia airlines flight 370. this preliminary report is just a few pages. we ve got appendices here. it s got new flight paths, maps, other documents. we have the names and ages of every single passenger on that flight. tonight we now know thanks to this report that the plane was missing for 17 minutes before anyone noticed. then it flew for four hours before anyone did anything about it. could every life on that plane been saved? also on the report audio communications between the pilots and ground control. nick robinson begins our coverage in kuala lumpur where mh 370 of course took off. and nick, there are some fascinating details in this report, even down to we re finally finding out how many lithium-ion batteries were on this flight. yeah, and the most staggering of all those appendices is the one that details exactly what took place after the flight was first noticed to be missing. 1:38 a.m. to 6:14 a.m. what is staggering about it is that malaysian airlines own operating control center for two hours was confusing the situation because they thought they were tracking the aircraft. they were in fact tracking or looking at its predicted flight path, not its real flight path. so when air traffic controllers in kuala lumpur and vietnam contacted them to say do you know about the plane, they said yeah, we know where it is. it s flying over cambodia. that information was wrong, and it took two hours for them to correct it. we now have a much better picture of the clear timeline of that flight. reporter: included in the report, new audio of the last voice communication from flight 370, 1:19 a.m. local time. malaysian 370, hoechy anyone 120 decimal. good night. and what happened next. two minutes later, the plane disappeared from radar in kuala lumpur. it would be another 17 minutes. 1:38 a.m., before anyone noticed the plane had vanished. that s when ho chi minh tells kuala lumpur air traffic controllers it has not heard from flight 370. another four hours pass before a search was launched at 5:30 a.m. for the first two hours of that time period, malaysia airlines had been tracking the plane based on its intended flight path, not its actual position. something we still don t know. that mistake was admitted at 3:30 a.m. but precious time had already been lost. now the report suggesting one safety recommendation to prevent that mistake from happening again. real-time tracking of airlines. good morning. charlie 1. reporter: the report also details for the first time what and who was on the plane. the cargo manifest included four tons of mangosteens, a tropical fruit, and lithium-ion batteries which the malaysian government did not publicly confirm were on the plane until after the search began. also today, our first look at the passenger manifest and the seating plan. 51-year-old american philip wood, seat 11c. so that huge gaping question, what could have been done differently in those two hours where there was confusion that malaysian airlines operating center thought they were still in touch with the plane. we may never get the answer to that. erin? nic, thank you very much. richard, let me start with you. you have all kinds of there are some new information. it s not lots and lots of pages. but how significant is it that they have put this out? well that. had to make this report, the first one. the fact that it s only five pages long is pretty much pro forma in many cases. it s all the other information that goes around it that is significant. but if you want to stick to strictly the report itself, the most interesting part of the report itself is that this bit here, i think. at 1:21:04, the plane was observed on the radar screen by kuala lumpur. nine seconds later, nine seconds later, that radar label disappears. lumpur notices it. we know that from newspaper reports. and it s 13 minutes later before vietnam says hang on, we haven t quite seen that plane we were expecting. that crucial gap. that is the sort of detail. why didn t somebody say something sooner? arthur, that is the question here. crucial pieces of information. 17 minutes this plane nobody noticed it was gone. and then there were four hours before anybody did anything about it. this plane went invisible at exactly the right point in the sky that you would want to do if you wanted to make an escape. what happened when the transponder was turned off at 1:21, 17 minutes later, that gap, while timewise you have to cut the malaysians, the controllers a little bit of slack. that is a crucial, crucial time. and then when you extend this out over four hours, we re going get into this a little bit. but this was a comedy of errors by the controllers that permitted this plane to escape. it was amplified by bad information from malaysian ops. they use the word normal. they said the plane was over cambodia. they made the situation worse and much more confusing than it had to be. miles we are also, and when you go through this, all of the pieces of data here, and i want to talk about the cargo. we did get some very new and important information there. but it s even things like the seat list. just reading through this, we have been covering this story for a couple of months. now and all of the sudden you read through this, you see the names again. you see the ages. you see two 2-year-olds, a 3-year-old and a 4-year-old, and it brings the human side of this alive. that slowed me down, erin. just reading that. you know, it gives face to all of this. and it s a reminder of why we re talking about this 54, 55 days later. these are human beings who strapped themselves into an airplane on their way to see loved ones or go home or go on a vacation, and something awful happened. when you see the names, it hits you. it really does. this goes to what prime minister tony abbott said last week or earlier this week when he was announcing the change in the new phase. the traveling public has a duty and a right to know what happened. yes. as well as these people. it s very important. because any one of us who travels, some more than others, could have been one of these names on this list. all right. now let me ask about the cargo. because there is we now have more information about the cargo. and that s the attachment here, everybody there is mangos on this plane. everything was on the plane. arthur, we also now find that we re 5,400 pounds of lithium-ion batteries that is new information, at least as far as we all know. we did not know that information. that s a lot? that is a huge amount of lithion batteries. to put it in context. in the united states, that would be expressly prohibited. you are that amount? that amount. by a factor of ten or more. in the united states, you are only allowed to carry i think it s about 400 pounds of lithion batteries. onthat, you re in violation of regulations. but we can get into whether this doesn t change your view as to mechanical or nonmechanical? this was a huge amount. we can talk about this. i am firmly in the camp of an intentional deliberate commandeering of this airplane. this was not a mechanical malfunction of any kind. richard, what do you read into this cargo manifest? does it change your view as the facts start to come in? the cargo was this was, i m told by those involved that this cargo, these lithium-ion batteries, it s not like they were suddenly not aware. they knew they were on board. they knew they were properly packed. they were actually packed at the rear of the aircraft i m told in the rear cargo area of the aircraft. so any idea that there was a fire and these lithium batteries was not an explosion in my ear from miles. was that an explosion from mr. o brien? i m just saying 5,000 pounds of lithium batteries. if there is a fire in the back of the airplane, you ve got problems, richard. you ve got problems. it may not create the scenario, the specific scenario. but my point being, if there was a fire in the back of the aircraft. right, i know. there would have been warnings. they would have gotten a radio call off. i understand. i understand the point. and the plane is not going the fly for another seven hours. all that of is true. that is very true. but you have to the bottom line is if you re trying to go down the road of any sort of mechanical explanation, you should not exclude these lithium batteries from the discussion. agreed. we re pointing out here. but give it little merit. this report was not long, but these are the new pieces of information we got. air france, though, richard, air france 447, 128-page report one month after the plane went missing. we had a five-page report with attachments. but it comes to what, 20 pages or something. 56 days later. i went back well, qantas qf-32. that went to 53 pages. i went back and looked at those reports. a lot of it is padding. and they certainly could have padded this. they could have given us chapter and verse on acars. they could have given us transponders and flight information region and different areas. so, yes, a lot of what we saw with france 447 was background material to explain the situation. and i think maybe they should have done. we should have had diagrams showing kuala lumpur flight region and all the others. and 447, they knew a lot more about the crash. from the from the acars system. they also knew where the plane was, which is a big difference. hit pause for a moment. we also learned something very crucial in this report about the path of flight 370. that could be very, very important. what happened in those lost 17 minutes. we re going to actually show you on the map, because it s so important to lay it out. we also already know about donald sterling s wife and one of his former mistresses. tonight details of his relationship with yet another woman. 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have you heard from beijing? nobody has any notion that this plane is now well and truly down into the south indian ocean. and then 5:30. another hour goes by. 5:30. and then you end up with it s only at 5:30 that malaysia activates the official rescue operation. by this stage, the plane has flown down here. and not only that, it will continue to fly for another two hours. and all of this is in what i call the four-hour gap. the four-hour gap. and by the way, that s before? because it was around 7:30 a.m. that they announced to the world, hey, we have a missing plane. all of this dithering, the plane is going down here, and they are just going backwards and forwards talking to each other. and this better than anything else i think shows just how serious it is. all right. arthur and miles, let me bring you back in. miles, let me start with you. was there any way this could have been prevented when you think about this timeline? i mean, that there is so much time that went by? yes, yes. i think a simple phone call between the military side of things in malaysia and the civilian side would have gone a long way in either direction. because one had a missing aircraft, and the other side had a blip, and unidentified blip that they were tracking across malaysia. presumably, two and two would have gone together there, and they would have realized that this plane was headed in that direction, and presumably, somebody would have said why don t we go intercept that aircraft and see what is going on. now, if we go down the road and most of us in this panel are pretty much firmly in the camp that this was some sort of deliberate act, if there is suddenly a fighter on your wing, how might that have changed the course of events that night? that s the most troubling aspect. arthur, we began the program by asking could those lives have been saved. and that s a question raised in the report today. right. well, that now plays out a lot. but it s even worse than that. even assuming that there was no communication between the civilian side and the military side, the military radar tracked this plane across the malay peninsula. somebody looking at the screen would have realized, i think the prime minister said to richard, well, we thought it was friendly. they had no way of knowing that. this plane could have been carrying a nuclear bomb. as soon as this plane set out for the west coast of malaysia, they should have scrambled jets. they could have come up behind the jet. they could have tailed the jet. they would have known where the jet was. we would not be in the position that we are today as far as saving lives, it would have given these people a chance that they never got. and that i think is very much back to our to the map here. and this really does make the point. it is it has always been from the moment this thing began, it s what happens down here is important, obviously. but it s that cross back over. miles said if there were a fighter jet on your wing, would that have possibly changed? why didn t the military? but i m told by those people in the region that it is not unusual for civil and military radar on civil and military air traffic controllers not to talk to each other in the same way as they would say in the united states. i m told that is not unusual. which is so shocking. that aspect has changed dramatically since 9/11 here as well. it was pretty stovepipe before in this country. so maybe the lesson of 9/11 should have been learned all throughout the world. because this could very well have been a 9/11 scenario for them. it certainly could have. and it brings you back to the manifest with the names of all the people. you see the 2-year-olds, 3-year-olds, 4-year-olds, every age of everybody. and you realize at some stage in life, those lives were cut short, perhaps totally unnecessarily. outfront next, donald sterling. tonight we are learning of another former mistress with shocking similarities to v. stiviano. what was it about this man that brought everyone to him? 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reporter: well, erin, there are parts of this town that look like this. they re an absolute disaster. i want to show you what this road typically looks like. it s usually clear. i am standing on several feet of sand. there is debris scattered everywhere. there is this car there is also that red truck still stuck in the water that remains still stuck in the sand. no doubt that the cleanup effort here is going to take a very long time. now, we spoke to a man who has live heard for more than two decades, and he says the storm has forever changed his life. you were inside when all this happened? yes. reporter: what was that i was here all night. reporter: in the 22 years james ray has lived in this house, he has never seen this kind of damage. how difficult it is for you to be standing here in this living room? it s very difficult. this is my life. it s gone. reporter: ray lives in one of the hardest hit neighborhoods in pensacola, where more than 17 inches fell in a matter of hours. how did you know something was wrong? i was in back, and i started up here, and this hall closet here, i saw water coming out of the door. the carpet was wet. and i didn t realize that the flood was coming down the hill until i saw water bubbling under those doors over there. and that s when i realized it. it was like a river out there. reporter: it must have been terrifying to be inside not really knowing what was going to happen. i m a little worried. but i kept seeing my magnolia tree outside. i said i can climb that tree if i have to. reporter: this is what is left of ray s garage. you can see it s partially collapsed. it s being held up right now by a neighbor s boat. and i want to show you snag is interesting. if you look inside the garage, even though there is all this destruction, there are still tools hanging on the walls. also untouched, a picture of ray with the love of his life and the memories they shared that made this house their home. how do you how do you move on from this point? i don t know. i m 80 years old almost. so i don t have too long to worry about it. i guess i ll rent some place. settle down. finish what few years i got left. reporter: ray and his family have spent most of the day picking up what they can, salvaging stuff from inside the house. this is some of the stuff that they re going to take from this house and then load up in this truck and remove it from here. and ray, like so many other people in this neighborhood, erin, doesn t have flood insurance. so he is not sure if he ll be rebuilding any time soon. so sad what he had to say about his last years. thank you, aleena. up next, new details about donald sterling s sordid past. a previous lawsuit reveals new details about yet another mistress. and 200 girls kidnapped, sold into marriage. a special report from nigeria, coming up. 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and i know her name is alexandra castro. we learn more about the relationship between the steriles. alexandra castro is a young woman donald sterling met in 1999. she was 27 at the time. the two began a relationship. the information we re getting does come from a lawsuit. this powerful couple, donald sterling and his wife, they decide to enter into a business relationship with this young woman. it s a verbal relationship in which she is going to show them a home and then they re going agree to purchase it, and she will remodel it. once this is all done, they re going to sell the home and they re going to split the profits. well, it happens that they split in 2002. donald sterling and this woman alexandra castro. and all of the sudden the sterlings decide once again they re going to sell the property. so it s really a foreshadowing the exact same lawsuit that was brought against this young woman, v. stiviano as well. so the case is very similar to the stiviano case, as is this woman similar to v. stiviano. how so? what is very interesting is there is always a huge age difference between donald sterling and these young women. they re both in their late 20s when they meet. they spend a couple of years ago, break up in their early 30s. both women are latina. both women claim sterling gave them gift, including million properties. both of them in beverly hills. castro did acknowledge that she had a sexual relationship with donald sterling. v. stiviano, the most recent woman said no. she acknowledged that donald sterling was in love with her, but that she was not his girlfriend. she is an archivist. yes, yes. she is a note taker. and he has talked about their relationship together. there was this deposition that shows up on smokinggun.com. and in that deposition, castro s lawyer accuses sterling of being evasive and questions his credibility, something sterling s lawyer rejects. but in it apparently sterling says, quote, she was the best of the best, the best sex that anybody ever had. and he called her much worse than that. in this lawsuit, basically rochelle sterling said castro threatened if she went public with this, that castro would allege that rochelle sterling herself was having an affair. i think what is fascinating is in that lawsuit, rochelle sterling also sued this woman. and that is what i think is so fascinating. because it appears that the sterling are quite the unit. it s almost as that in cahoots. they re almost in business together. because the lawsuit that i have with v. stiviano, rochelle sterling suess her alone. in this other lawsuit, they sued together. what does that mean i think in terms of the future of the clippers? everyone is saying now there are some reports i believe that the clippers are owned by a family trust. you mean to tell me that rochelle sterling is very much a part of this scenario. she is very much a player with the clippers debacle. rochelle sterling in my opinion has destroyed her public reputation. when you have a second case where she is involved and says look, okay, so my husband is having a relationship, sexual or otherwise, it s hard to be clear. but this happened in 2002. this last case just happened before. and she sues the woman saying i want back what my husband gave you. where is the public sympathy? where is the sense that the public says you know what? you are an innocent victim here. you re the scorned wife. we want you the take over the clippers. the house is on rodeo drive. million ferraris. this is miss castro. she got a house on rodeo drive. she was asked to quit her job, allegedly. got $4500 per month allegedly in this suit. this is crazy stuff. he called her a prostitute. allegedly. and he says he paid her every time they had sex, $500. and this is the exact lawsuit. questioning his credibility, whether he is lying under oath. that s a huge question mark because we don t have all the documents. you take the v stiviano case. and you have a pattern of behavior of this man and who he was as well as his wife and her role that makes you ask really? no one said anything about this guy for 20 years, 30 years? sorry for interrupting, erin. no. we re not talking about a pattern of behavior that was incredibly discreet. we re talking someone who was on the sidelines with the woman with the adviser, v. stiver llaia stiviano. we re talking about a guy who settles the largest court case with the federal government, the department justice for $2.8 million for housing discrimination against blacks and latinos. the point is this is a bad character that the nba let get away with this for a long time. and rochelle, the wife, for her to in any way imply that somehow i can t believe this is happening to me. anyone who lets her get away with that, forget about from a legal point of view, i respect your view on it sunny, she was explicit in terms of public opinion. in terms of benefit of the doubt. you can t give her any benefit of the doubt. she knew he was sleeping with other women. notorious. i think that that s what is fascinating. . what i also think is fascinating in terms of the bigger picture here, we know that the nba met today to try to take away this team from donald sterling. he is so litigious. his wife is so litigious, we haven t heard anything from donald sterling because he has lawyered up. i suspect he is meeting with his lawyers, and he is not going down without a fight. buckle your seat belts, because we are going to see some legal maneuvering that we ve never seen. that s what he says now. but he is going to be forced. he is going to be pressed. in the end, the amount of money i think they re going to lose in this, he is going to ultimately in my opinion, he is going to fold. he is going to have no choice. very quickly no way. maybe not him, but we spoke to a number of people who basically said that the sterling file lawsuits for sport. they are mean. they re vindictive. think about it. think about it. they re going after $1.1 million, this woman castro when they re worth more than a billion? the stakes are different now. they re totally different. his reputation is on the line in a different way. those cases, that s chump change to them. i think everything is on the line now. that did it anyway. i think the stakes are different. now. and i love your point that people say that they use the system as sport. we see that oftentimes in the legal system with people that have that kind of money. and that type of access to that type of lawyer. i mean, we re talk about very, very skilled, highly paid attorneys. i d like to say when i was a private practice, i charged quite a bit as well. good for us to know, sunny. but the bottom line is i really believe that we are going to see a significant lawsuit, possibly an antitrust type lawsuit. this story is not going away any time soon. miss sterling is going to be a part of this. she is going to be a part of this case. thanks to all. still to come, a who is who of wealthy celebrities lining up to buy the clippers. how much it is going to cost? 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[ male announcer ] prilosec otc is the number one doctor recommended frequent heartburn medicine for 8 straight years. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. and now let s check in with anderson with a look at what is coming up on ac 360. we have breaking news tonight. the program action tonight at the highest level. 24 hours after we aired our exclusive investigation into vets dying while waiting to see doctors at the phoenix veteran s hospital and two other facilities, veterans affairs secretary eric shinseki has been placed on administrative leave. the woman who runs the phoenix hospital, sharon hellman, along with two others on the staff, you want to hear the report on what is being done after allegations that her hospital kept a secret list of veterans, each of whom had been waiting 14 to 21 months just to see a doctor. some of the vets apparently died while waiting. that s all at the top of the hour, erin. anderson, really looking forward to that. all right. well, our breaking news on the nba. it s gearing up for what could be a major legal battle against owner donald sterling. a committee of team owners announcing tonight they may force sterling to sell his team after going on a racist rant. a statement reads the committee unanimously agreed to move forward as expeditiously as possible, and will reconvene next week. this is the first time they have spoken since sterling was banned for life. and while the clippers are not yet up for sale, some big names with some deep pockets already lining up to bid. jason carroll is out front. let s have a good time. reporter: the notable list of names keeps growing. oprah winfrey says she is interested in buy the clippers, partnering with david geffen and oracle owner larry ellison. magic johnson confirming he is a potential buyer as well. you going to buy the clippers? i ve been saying no all the time. i think that we ll see what happens. i will be owning an nba team some time. it has to be right situation. if the clippers are the right situation, of course. reporter: encouraging news for matt damon. magic wants to put people together, i ll jump in as a super tiny minority. reporter: there is at least one prominent buyer from the middle east who is interested in the team. he may have to duke it out with floyd mayweather and oscar de la hoya. both have thrown their names in the ring. the clippers need a face. they need a face. and what better face than my face who is a fighter? reporter: and then i will always be a knicks fan but i am a businessman, did he buy the clippers? name your price. he bought the clippers in 1991 when it was based in california. now, they re worth $175 million, that is if the sale took place now. it remains unclear if sterling will fight the lifetime ban that the nba served him with that could ultimately force the sale of his team. the advisory committee held a conference call this afternoon to discuss the next step in the process. he is 80 or 81 years old and may be at the point where he doesn t want to put up a legal fight in court over the next several years. but donald sterling is described as somebody very litigious. if he does, look for others to fight back. lebron james called for him to be out. obviously it is not going to be as night and day. you know, it is not going to be like that. and we ll just wake up tomorrow and the team is in someone else s hand. but you know, we need to get the next step going. it can t be something that we just drag on. bloomberg sports business reporter, all right, jason, a lot of people are involved here, osc oscar de la hoya. she basically said yes, she is in negotiations. is speaking to geffen, also speaking to ellis on? why couldn t they afford to oprah made it clear she doesn t want to be involved in the day to day operations of the team. she would leave it to geffen. you put geffen and other people involved in the operational side, it is a winner. here is my view of it. every day that it takes to get this guy out of there. to get sterling out of there let me ask you about that stuff, the last two nba franchises, these don t come up for sell very often. they re emphasized they want to keep them in the family, right? all right, new orleans hornet, 387 million, people who don t know a lot about basketball didn t know about the clippers until this whole situation. but now, how much higher could the value be? let s go more recently, the milwaukee bucks, milwaukee needing a new arena, $550 million. milwaukee? yes, milwaukee, you had private equity guys, mark lazry, you know, he may be thinking could i have waited for the clippers? they re not making anymore of it. do you think the forbes number way less. it but here, listen, i appreciate and respect what you re saying. i think you re probably right. but the longer this goes on, say he sues, but again, we expect him to do that. he is not the owner and you can t transfer ownership. but the longer it goes on say you got free agents like well, you could lose the coach and some players. like griffin, you lose those guys and you can t bring in free agents. they re the ones that put fannies in the seats, they lost corporate sponsorship. if he remains in control then it is not for sale. what is the highest price paid, 200 million magic johnson was involved in that. you have a local media deal that is expiring in two years, and a national tv deal that comes due, re-negotiating probably 2 and a half x. two times the value of what you re getting right now. you re in the second media market and that is why there is more media incentive, and synergy with what they re already doing. about timing, you are absolutely right. it is a tick tock thing that is going on here. because the more time that goes on there is more damage to the team. the more that happens you anger players and you anger the people of los angeles. i disagree wholeheartedly. the problem with the dodgers was the owner, he was out the fans came back. came problem if you can get your hands on this team whenever it happens, if you can get your hands on this team it is a second media market dynamo waiting to burst. sooner rather than later. now to a story we have been following. 200 girls are missing in nigeria. the reports are they re being sold as child bribes for $12 each. they were kidnapped by boko haram, i asked about the efforts they are putting forth to try and get the girls home. reporter: erin, outrage across the country as the nigerians take to the streets to demand that their government do more to rescue the more than 200 plus girls kidnapped by boko haram. i spoke to family members who say they risked their own lives to track the girls but have been unable to do so. meanwhile, they also tell us that eyewitnesss have seen convoys filled with young girls and what they say are militants on a road leading into neighbori neighbori neighboring camaroon, and meanwhile, they say the efforts have been inadequate. and vlad mentioned protests, many are surged by social media. there is a hash tag now bring back our girls, rated at 20,000 tweets per hour at one point today. a huge thing considering this is a story out of nigeria that often goes completely undiscussed. and up next, jeanne moos shows us why chivalry is not dead. they work fast on heart burn and taste awesome. these are good. told ya! i m feeling better already. alka-seltzer fruit chews. enjoy the relief! 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documenting how some hospitals have been making them wait for care. and at least three hospitals made them wait for care. one v.a. hospital had a secret list of wait times that they kept hidden. and reporting last night got action, tonight, we can report on what could, what might be the early signs of accountability. it concerns the woman in the car you re about to see here running away. director helman, can you please talk to us, director helman? she is director of the phoenix v.a., and now she finally did agree to talk with our drew griffin after leaving in her vehicle. tonight, at 8:50 to be precise, we got word that she and two others have been placed on administrative leave. we ll have more on this later in the hour. first, though, malaysian authorities releasing more on the flight 370. what little there is is not flattering. the document of wasted time and opportunities to contact the boeing triple 7, to track it and investigate whether or not it was in trouble and ultimately find the remains of it. rene marsh has more. reporter: almost two months after flight 370 vanished, malaysian authorities finally released an official report to the public. the five-page document doesn t explain why the plane went missing but does make clear that for hours after the plane went missing there was confusion and misinformation. moments after the flight s now famous communication. contact with flight 370, good night. good night. 370. reporter: the plane s transponder goes off causing it to disappear from radar at 1:21 a.m. local time. but the report shows it was 17 minutes before air traffic controllers in vietnam asked their counterparts in malaysia what happened to the plane. during that time, the plane unexpectedly turned left eventually crossing. the report shows during this time malaysia airlines may have added to the confusion sending two messages to air traffic control. both of which turned out to be false. the first at 2:03 a.m. claiming the plane was in cambodian air space, it was not. the second message at 2:35 a.m. saying the plane was tracking to beijing. again, the information water wrong. 5:30 a.m., four hours after the plane disappeared from radar search and rescue was alerted. precious time lost to confusion. the plane continued south far into the indian ocean. the last partial satellite communication coming at 8:19 a.m. the report includes maps of three possible crash sites, red indicating the most likely. also released, passenger seating assignments in the cargo manifest, which lists lithium ion batteries as some of the materials transported. the report is brief containing one recommendation saying that realtime flight should become the international standard. and i understand, family members of the missing also received the report? that is right, anderson, and to hear the families tell it the report is somewhat relevant. it doesn t tell them anything new that gets them closer to finding out what happened. now, this is the preliminary report. it is pretty short here, just this paragraph. compare that to the preliminary report from air france, 128 pages. the bottom line here is that the country in charge of the investigation can tell you as little or as much as they want to. and to be fair, they really in this case don t know a lot about what happened to the plane. that said, there is still a lot of information that they could have included here that is not in here, virtually no detailed information on the plane. its maintenance history, engine or performance data. nothing about air traffic control staffing in kuala lumpur, the number of controllers or their experience level. all right, renee marsh, thank you, and david gallo, director of special products at woods hole oceanographic institute. and david souci, author of why planes crash. regard, you have been talking about this report for a long time that it needs to be released. you pressured the authorities, it is now out there. what do you make of it? as you said, in terms of what they could get away with in terms of detail. it was nicely padded out with lots of graphs and pictures of air traffic control regions between brazil and all that sort of thing. and that is what we might have expected here. you might have expected a bit of a treatise on acars, about transponders, something that gives a fuller picture. or even basic questions from the families it would have given a fuller picture. but as a preliminary report it is unimpeachable. it does what needs to be done. it is all of this other stuff, where the real story is today. anderson, it is all the various documents that we got that were released on the instructions i m told of the prime minister who insisted that these were released, as well. documents about what was in the cargo, about lithium batteries, we ll talk more about that. the delay, though, that we see in this preliminary report not only in realizing there was a problem but even longer delay in actually starting the search. would it have made a difference? i don t believe it would have made much difference, the final outlook. if you look at the plot of the map, the planes and various times the plane is well and truly on its way by any reasonable time. you have got to allow air traffic control a certain leeway. i m going to be charitable. say up to two hours before you push the big red button that says crisis. even though, right at the end, anderson, there are times when you have gaps of 37 minutes, 44 minutes. 36 minutes, all of these gaps before so there was plenty of opportunity for somebody to do something. david souci, you have been involved in the investigations like this. four hours to start the search? yeah, i think starting the search is not the only point. the point is that the military picked up the aircraft and knew it was there, prior to the search during that four-hour period. so why that was not communicated back, the same problem we have with 911, the military radar was tracking the planes but they had no way to connect to the civil radar. they knew something was going on. the military knew something was going on but they didn t communicate together. since that time, we did do that. we have very good communication. the military radar when they send out the primary ping, they send also what aircraft is there, the transponder as it is, as it should have been there. i am questioning, why didn t acao take that rule and push the international civil authority. that is what they re there for. to make sure the citizens who travel to other countries, why did that not happen? you cover the disasters, how is it compared to other reactions that you have seen? very slow, embarrassingly slow. if there had been a simple phone call from the military radar room to the civilian or vice versa, i suspect two and two would have added up. because you had a missing civilian airliner on one side and had an unidentified blip on the other side. and presumably that would have had somebody get into a fighter aircraft to intercept. and here is where it gets tragic. if it really was a deliberate act and suddenly there was an f-18 on your wing tip could the whole chain of events have ended right there perhaps without the tragedy we talk about there. and in terms of size, 128 pages long. you know, i ll take what we can get, anderson. i didn t expect a lot. i frankly expected less because if you look at the basic form for the preliminary report for icao, the narrative required is supposed to be 200 words or less. so that is practically a tweet. but the bottom line is we always wanted more information. we still need more information on this. for the families this is just excruciating. it has been disrespectful to them, the emotional toll on them. and david gallo, what is interesting in the report. it highlights a wide range of assumptions about the speed of the aircraft. and at one point it is 323 knots, and at one point they estimate it could be 350 knots. yeah, all the little speeds and changes that are heading plus the flight, you re talking about big differences where it impacted the ocean. and that is huge when you talk about searching the sea floor. and we have seen what the bluefin, searching a 6-mile radius, imagine if it was off another ten times that. and miles again, you have a huge variety in terms of altitude. at one point in time it assumes the plane flew an altitude the 31,000 feet, another time, 15,000 feet. that is a huge difference. the map, i m not quite sure where they derived their assumptions. one of the altitudes that leads to the red box which is supposedly more likely the red box and where the search is indicating assuming 30,000 feet. and yet 323 knots, which is much slower than you would expect at that altitude. so i m a little confused on these numbers. on the speed and altitude that they chose to build these assumptions. you know, it doesn t take as we just discussed it doesn t take much variance in speed to change the search location by literally hundreds of miles. right, a lot more to talk about ahead. we ll take a short break and continue the conversation, quick reminder, you can set your dvr so you never miss a program. next, more on the cargo mentioned that richard alluded to. batteries like these that are usually safe but always flammable. there are new developments on that. and new on the donald sterling affair, to decide his fate with the l.a. clippers. how easy will it be to get him out? 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too hot, it ignites just like this faa training video demonstrates. in the last two decades or so the faa reports more than 140 incidents involving batteries or cargo in baggage. in most cases, the batteries were undeclared. baggage handlers noticed batteries on fire or hot to the touch. on-board laptops or flash lights started to smoke. even though lithium batteries can cause this they are still allowed in the electronics in the passenger cabin. but in 2008, the faa banned loose batteries in checked luggage. a limited amount of batteries are still allowed to be checked if packaged properly. the concern is they could short circuit. a short circuit can happen by chance, say a loose battery in a person s checked luggage comes into contact with keys or coins or even jewelry. that can create a circuit for the path of electricity. the current flowing through that short circuit creates extreme heat leading to sparks and fire. lithium batteries burn so hot they can melt the body of a plane. nothing brings the fear of god to a pilot like having a fire or smoke in the airplane. you just can t pull off to the side of the road and hop out like you can a car. this youtube video shows how quickly it can fuel a chain reaction. in 2006, fire forced a ups lane to make an emergency landing in philadelphia. investigators found electronics containing lithium batteries in the cargo. the pilot survived. and this was what left of the ups plane after it crashed in dubai in 2010. the boeing 747 was containing a thousand lithium batteries. a chain reaction filled the cockpit with smoke and both pilots died. following the ups crash in 2010, the faa wanted to tighten the rules in cargo planes as well. and even classify them as dangerous goods. industry groups and lobbyists fought that hard. the final compromise approved by congress in 2012 blocked proposed tougher federal rules on transporting lithium batteries on planes. instead, relying on international standards set by the u.n. randi kaye, cnn, new york. and we re back with miles o brien and richard quest and david souci. as we said it is really interesting when we look at this report. we ll put it up on the screen, on the cargo manifest released today. it says the package containing lithium ion batteries, david you know when we look back on this how big a concern is it to you? it is not only about these flights, but the previous flight she talked about. the batteries are very volatile, they put off gases, and it burns very, very hot. it is interesting, though, richard, malaysian airlines earlier had said this was in compliance with all international regulatory requirements. it doesn t mean they are not potentially dangerous. no, it doesn t mean they are potentially dangerous. the way bill makes it clear, the package must be handled with clear. my understanding is that these were packaged in accordance with the procedures. and they were in the back of the aircraft in the makes a huge amount of difference. but everything i have been told about these lithium ion batteries is that they do not believe they were a cause of anything going wrong. but therein lies the problem. they met those standards. well, let s look at the standards, we have higher standards here in the united states. they can t be on passenger aircraft like that. these amount of batteries wouldn t be on aircraft in the united states. that is why you put it on cargo aircraft. especially 5,000 pounds. i have to tell you, i burned a lithium battery in the hotel, and it practically burned down the hotel room. why were you doing that? i was charging up battery and gear, i can tell you i don t want to fly with these batteries underneath me. that is a very good rule. just because malaysian airlines says they were packed well in the back do we even know that? david souci, you talked earlier to somebody who checked on the batteries and the pingers and they were not even being stored properly in a warehouse. obviously it is a different issue, but if one battery is not stored correctly how do we know for sure they re packaging these things correctly? there are two different divisions, you have the maintenance division, as you recall maybe a month ago or so we talked about how many reported incidents there were with these batteries. most of them in loading or taking off because that is when they re most vulnerable to some kind of damage is when they re being put on the aircraft by a forklift or any other kind of metal that is going on the aircraft. you know, miles when you look at where the plane disappeared and there was a thing mentioned in the wall street journal and it was mentioned that it all may be a coincidence. but if you were choosing a moment in the flight to go dark this moment when it was getting into the vietnamese air space was the moment. if it was a technical failure it was a pretty extraordinary coincidence. to that you say what? well, handoffs are the opportunity for something like that to happen. because there is this period of time when one guy has said good night and the other guy is supposed to pick up the ball. and during that period of time each thinks each person thinks the other is talking to the aircraft. and so if you wanted to disappear that is the time to do it. there is an opportunity there. you know, you talk about this 17 minutes of time before ho chi minh city started to wonder where the plane was. that is a long period of time but not unprecedented as part of the routine course of action in handoffs on a day to day basis. so it happens, it is an opportunity time. miles, good to have you on, richard quest and david souci, as well. up next, put on leave just a day after we aired this interview with her. there was a secret list that kept the reality of wait times hidden. unbelievable, drew griffin has more later. and donald sterling, the first step taken as you know. and the owners talking today, what they decided ahead. marge: you know, there s a more enjoyable 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their boss, erik shinseki, we repeatedly asked for an interview with him. he has refused. this video shows the director running away, finally she sat down with drew griffin, trying to explain the hospital keeping a secret list of veterans, each who had waited 21 months to see a doctor. the secret list was being kept so that the public and helman s bosses would not know just how many veterans were waiting for care there. up to 40 veterans died waiting to see the doctor there. those were the allegations we asked the inspector general to review. but those were allegations that i assume you two would have direct knowledge of. again, those allegations are the ones that the office of inspector general are reviewing right now. when we heard about this, it is the first time we have heard about the allegations and that is why we asked the office to come in and do a thorough and impartial review. now director helman and her staff denied the knowledge of the list. however, her boss, eric shinseki announced the two are on administrative leave. our reporter drew griffin has been on the story from the start and broke the story of the possible deaths and secret list. joining us now. this is really the first indication that we have had that secretary shinseki was showing any interest in this? reporter: yes, and the v.a. secretary has been under fire, anderson, not only from us but from many in congress for what they see is paying very little attention to cases across the country of veterans who have been dying, waiting for care across the country at these hospitals. it took this to get him to finally act. but i want to show you what may also have prompted him to act today. we have been trying to get an interview with eric shinseki since last november. last night we told you about the 50 or so employees that work in his public affairs office to handle scheduling his interviews. well, today we decided to try to reach every single one of them and asked them one more time for an on the record interview with secretary shinseki. i m calling to put in a formal request for an interview with secretary shinseki. we have been asking to speak to him for six months and we really want to talk to him about delays in care at v.a. hospitals around the country. the allegations that they could have contributed to as many as 40 veterans dying because of delayed care. and who is the best person you recommend? okay, so it is drew s decision whether or not the interview will happen? this slant on this story no, i well, we don t have a slant on the story but we have been asking for the secretary s reaction to this. and his comments and for him to respond for six months. anderson, we called 20 different government numbers in that public affairs office. five answered. three of those people told us we needed to talk with a public affairs officer named drew brooky. and as you know, one of them even asked what our slant was. for the record, drew brooky has been exactly the person we have been calling and e-mailing and trying to get an interview since november of last year. and their response has always been either we ll get back to you or simply no. well today, we have yet to hear back from drew brooky, but we did get this press release tonight announcing that the v.a. director, sharon helman, is now on leave. it is amazing to me, again these are public officials. their job is to be transparent. their job is to present information to the american public. i mean, the fact that they re like dodging and weaving and squealing off in their cars running away from you. that their head won t do an interview with you, it just boggles my mind. this started back in november. you got questions about delays and care in several hospitals, not just phoenix. and i mean, congress has been asking questions. that is exactly exactly right. the lack of response is becoming a bit of a sick joke. we know at least 23 veterans died because there was delayed care the veteran s hospitals. that is what the v.a. has admitted to, 23. we know several veterans died in pittsburgh because of the bacteria that was running through the water system in the v.a. hospital and the v.a. officials there tried to hide that fact from patients and even staff. and now it is alleged 40 veterans died in phoenix waiting for care. it is an and also waiting for ca care, many of them on a secret list so their names would remain hidden. yet there is no one being held accountable. and all of these letters, i want to show you all of these letters, these are from members of congress and the senate asking eric shinseki exactly what and who is being held accountable for all of this mess. the house veterans affairs committee says the lack of response, anderson, is so bad. this is what they are doing in congress. they are keeping an electronic tally on its website every time a reporter or member of congress or government or official on a committee does not get any response. and tonight again you can add one more to that list. our request today for an interview with v.a. secretary eric shinseki is now being ignored. and again, every politician, everybody in government loves to say that you know, veterans, you know they have served our country and they deserve the best care possible. they don t deserve to be waiting for months just to see a doctor. i mean, we re not even talking about you know, a course of treatment. these are people who have served our country just to see a doctor. they are waiting for, for months. that is outrageous. it really is. you know, the vets get political lip service every time there is an election. both parties go down to these v.a. veterans conferences. they talk a good game. they talk about improving benefits and access to health care. they also specifically in this last election talked about transparency. and even specifically talked about cutting down wait times. people in office right now. in fact, the person that is in the white house talked about that. that is why this is so disturbing. the lack of transparency and until now the lack of any action. it is incredible. drew, i appreciate you keeping an eye on it. we ll continue. coming up, a committee of donald sterling s colleagues talks about whether to oust the disgraced clipper s owner. what the head of the nba said. and the italian appeals court making shocking claims, with cnn s chris cuomo. when we continue. or how ornate the halls are. it doesn t matter if there are granite statues, or big mahogany desks. when working with an investment firm, what s really important is whether the people behind the desks actually stand behind what they say. introducing the schwab accountability guarantee. if you re not happy with one of our participating investment advisory services, we ll refund your program fee from the previous quarter. it s no guarantee against loss and other fees and expenses may still apply. chuck vo: standing by your word, that s what matters the most. well, looks like the nba is wasting no time in trying to oust clipper owner donald sterling, and today they had a meeting to discuss what happened. today, the advisory finance committee met via conversation call to discuss the process. the committee agreed to move forward as quickly as possible and will reconvene next week. sterling now has five days to respond to the charges and the board of governor has ten days to vote. let s talk to mark geragos, and sunny hostin. mark, let me talk with you. in the l.a. times they said they tried to kick him back in 1982, and he basically just rode the storm off. he waited until it lost steam. this seems to be a guy who knows how to hang on for dear life. do you think he will go quietly into the night? no, i don t think there will be a chance at all. in fact, i m not so sure that the nba doesn t face severe obstacles. it was reported that he holds the team in a family trust. i don t think necessarily that they can terminate him through the family trust. and if they have approved the team being held in that legal entity they have got enormous problems trying to terminate him. now, he at at some point that doesn t mean there wouldn t be a negotiated surrender. but at this point i don t think it will be a situation where the nba by-laws say you can get rid of somebody if they have financial problems. this is based on the first amendment and there are a whole lot of problems for him to just summarily terminate him. if he were forced to sell he would get hit with a lot of capital gains taxes, whereas if he just gave it to his family members who are currently part owners he would be able to avoid all that. so his family would take a big financial hit if he sold it. yeah, that is absolutely correct. and that is one of the reasons they got it in a family trust, i m sure. i think there are also significant issues. you know, adam silver took pains to talk about that this was only to mr. sterling, not to mrs. sterling. she has got all kinds of options, as well, and is basically running the team if you believe what is being reported. and i just don t think that they re going to be able to do this in a summary fashion. sunny, what do you think? shelly seems to indicate that she is sticking in. this is one of the few times mark and i agree. i have been saying all along, shelly sterling really is a player here, and a lot of people are disagreeing with it. she is part owner of the team, the bottom line, very difficult to hurt family trust, they re put in place the kids are also a part of this. it is not something that is going to be summarily done. he sues people just for the sport of it. he sues his mistresses and fights with the justice department. this is somebody who has lawyered up at this time. maybe you, mark, are one of his lawyers, they re figuring out all sorts of maneuvers. mark, i have to ask you about v. stiviano. i mean, you know l.a. better than anyone. you deal with a wide variety of celebrities and people who want to be celebrities. what is her next move? she is walking around town in this sun visors, with one of their names on her hat. she has multiple names. i like that hat, i have ordered one. this is such to me an l.a. character. she is the quintessential l.a. carriharacters. i asked before we came on, i said do you think sunny would want her daughters to grow up like v.? not one of the visors, this is not exactly a role model. i always said women who sleep with other women s men s wait, what? women who sleep with other women s men yeah, husband. you absolve him of any responsibility in this? he is responsible, as well. but with v. stiviano, the bottom line wait, can we ask one question? this gal was 27 when she hooks up with this 77-year-old guy who was then 76, really, do you think it was because of it was not for the hard body. that is right, she is not a noble character but she has done the country a service by exposing. she has done the country a service. yeah. okay. sunny, thank you. mark geragos as well. the sterling case may have opened a pandora s box, if this is the new standard, then the concept of what crosses the foul line may havein implications elsewhere reporter: another is suddenly back in the spotlight. it was 2009 when the owner of the orlando magic first opened up about aids patients. aids is a disease that people gain because of their actions. it was not like cancer. he was talking with his hometown newspaper, the grand rapids press. and he did not stop there. when asked about same-sex marriage, here is what he said. live your life, i will respect you, but don t keep asking for favors. don t ask for a concession on a marriage issue which is not vital to them, in my opinion. reporter: then he went further. i deal with a lot of wonderful gay people, i hire them a lot, i use them, they re terrific, i am good friends with them. reporter: even before that he fuelled protests for giving $100,000 in support of an anti-guy marriagay marriage vot florida which passed, controversial, to be sure. once you start to monitor what owners say now you really open yourself up to saying well, which remarks are okay and which ones are not okay? reporter: espn senior writer wonders where the league will draw the line and how will it decide who to punish? if you re in league with an openly gay player how then do you turn a blind eye towards owners? reporter: and what about players? remember in 2011 when los angeles laker kobe bryant reacted to a foul call? he was caught on television saying this. bryant was fined $100,000 and apologized on the radio days later. and what about cases of sexual harassment? hall of famer isaiah thomas was sued when coaching the new york knicks by this woman, a knicks executive. she claims he verbally abused her and tried to kiss her. she says she was fired after complaining. i am very innocent and i did not do the things that she accused me of in this courtroom of doing. reporter: in 2007, a jury found thomas and madison 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she is standing by her story. i think her level of emotion is indicative of how surprising this result is in the motivation, in the decision of the judge. it is surprising to her? it is very surprising to her. because this judge goes farther than any judge before. the knife being the murder weapon, her being the killer, these are all things that are familiar. the way the judge describes that her dna on the hilt of that knife, that is the murder weapon even though it was dismissed before. he believes all three, rudy guede, the man convicted, and her boyfriend, all conspired to kill meredith kercher and it is amanda knox that delivered the final blow. this has been her life, from the time she was 20 years old to now. i want to play some of the exchange. she has been able to carve out a life. you talked to her about this. you started in 2007, it is now 2014. for you and your life, is it present day? are you able to be present day or are you still trapped in 2007? it is definitely a limbo. my entire adult life has been weighed down and taken over by this tremendous mess. this i mean, on the one hand i have my life in seattle. i get to go to school. i get to be with my family and friends. and i m so grateful to have them. they really helped me get through this. i guess i m just one of the lucky ones. how so? well, because i m actually i m actually supported by people. and people have looked into my case as opposed to have forgotten me. and people who know about what kinds of things happened to lead to wrongful convictions have come out and said things in support of me. and that is that has made a huge difference in my life. i don t feel as alone as i could. you talked to her, i think it was may of last year. does she seem different than she did back then? i think she is growing up in a way. i think she is stunted in a way. and i think there is real anxiety now. this is one step away, and she says she has people who support her. but the question is are those people on the supreme court in italy because she is suffering from two real problems. one, is one of perception, what i call a problem of first impression that they had there. the first image that she didn t act right. the second image she has to deal with is she is forced to make the case for her own innocence. and there is something that always makings credibility questionable in that, when somebody said i didn t do it and didn t do it and being their own attorney in effect. it is a rough spot for her. and the politics of the situation seem to dictate that the chance that the supreme court overturns this is not great, probably not a 50/50 proposition. so she is having to deal with that. she knows the stakes better than anyone. that is incredible, i ll look for the interview. and you can tune in to chris cuomo s exclusive interview, the trial of amanda knox. up next, anthony bourdain, where to find the best street food in the world. i sit down with him next. legs, for crossing. feet.splashing. better things than the joint pain and swelling of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. if you re trying to manage your ra, now may be the time to ask about xeljanz. xeljanz (tofacitinib) is a small pill, not an injection or infusion, for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. xeljanz is an ra medicine that can enter cells and disrupt jak pathways, that comes with ra. xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers have happened in patients taking xeljanz. don t start xeljanz if you have any kind of infection, unless ok with your doctor. tears in the stomach or intestines, low blood cell counts and higher liver tests and cholesterol levels have happened. your doctor should perform blood tests before you start and while taking xeljanz, and routinely check certain liver tests. tell your doctor if you have been to a region where certain fungal infections are common, and if you have had tb, hepatitis b or c, or are prone to infections. tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, and if you are pregnant, or plan to be. taken twice daily, xeljanz can reduce the joint pain and swelling of moderate to severe ra, even without methotrexate. ask if xeljanz is right for you. constipated? 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