second term presidents like to have an impact and so far not so much. >> he has got a big agenda ahead of him. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i will be back 5:00 p.m. with another special two-hour edition of the situation room. newsroom starts right now with pamela brown. >> it may be beautiful from space but this weather system has produced ugly and deadly scenes in the plains and south. >> we're in it right now. all right. we're pulling over. an apparent funnel cloud, all but two victims were killed in

arkansas. teams are scouring debris, fearing the number of dead may rise. many areas are bracing for possible tornados. tennessee has declared a state of emergency ahead of the storm. a news crew from our arkansas affiliate, kark, was able to help one woman out. >> i don't know if this belongs to you, but i found this right near the tree. >> oh, it's my daughter's! thank you. >> you're so welcome. i'm so glad i was able to find a picture for you. actually my photographer found that. >> thank you so much. >> joining me now, george howl. so much devastation, destruction.

tell us what you're seeing there. >> setting the scene here, you look at this power pole, you can see it ripped in half. it gives you a real sense of how strong the winds were. you can see some of the damage and devastation here. a lot of the power lines were down. we're at a part just before it got really bad. if you look down the road there, that's where it's a lot worse. down the road officials are doing their best to go through the debris. they are keeping us back at the moment so they can do the job of trying to find survivors. i also want to show you this, over there, that community just behind the gas station, levelled. you get a sense of exactly the path of this storm. it seems like the suspected tornado started over there, went across the street and went into that community where it levelled those homes there. you mentioned ten people who

died in this county, it was really hit the hardest. also in the state of arkansas, a total of 14 people. and also in iowa and oklahoma, we know that people died in those two states. a total of 16 people died from this very strong storm system. one other thing that i want to put out there, we understand that it's getting pretty rough in parts of mississippi. this is a particularly dangerous situation has been issued in that area. folks, when you see something like that, it's best to stay in touch with what's happening with the weather. a pds, it's pretty important to watch what's happening with weather changes. >> 16 dead at least. george, thank you. and on the phone with me right now, the fire chief in arkansas,

just about a half hour drive from mayflower. thank you so much for taking the time to talk with us. tell us how much of the damaged area you have covered and what have you seen so far? >> we have covered about 20 square miles, roughly. some of the houses there were damaged and some of them wasn't. all together we got approximately 80 structures that were damaged. most of those were totalled. >> incredible to see the damage. and in light of that, how do you think so many people did survive? >> i'm sorry, i couldn't hear you. >> incredible to see the damage looking at the pictures here on our screen. in light of that, chief, how do you think so many people did survive? >> well, i mean, you know, awareness is number one. and, you know, we set the sirens off about a half an hour ahead

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as we go through the afternoon and evening hours. it is already starting up as we speak. looks like we will have another dangerous afternoon. >> people need to heed those warnings. what about all of those that are starting the clean up process? >> the good news is central arkansas and the northwest are in the drier cooler air so it looks like they will stay free. the storms will shift to the east so it's good news that they will be able to get some of that clean up done without any more storms. that's the last thing you want when all of this debris is on the ground for another storm to go through because all of the broken pieces of wood and nails act as little missiles and they can be deadly. they will be free from those storms today. most of the storms will be more into mississippi, alabama, and tennessee. >> we will continue to follow this as the severe weather picks up today. thank you so much. and coming up, stunning racist

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>> tension is starting to boil over after inflam tory comments were posted online. >> people call you and tell you that i have black people on my instagram and it bothers you? >> yeah, it bothers me a lot. if you want to broadcast that you're associated with black people. you don't have to. >> you associate with black people. >> i'm not you and you're not me. you're supposed to be a delicate latina girl. >> i'm a mixed girl and you're in love with me. and i'm black and mexican whether you like it or not. >> he happens to be black and i'm sorry. >> i know him well and certainly

admire him. i'm saying too bad you can't admire him privately. and during your entire [ bleep ] life, your whole life admire him, feed him, [ bleep ] him, i don't care. you can do anything but don't put him on instagram. and don't bring him to my games, okay? >> so take a look. this is the picture in question showing his girlfriend with the legendary player magic johnson. players are demanding a swift response from the nba. state farm says it's taking a pause in its relationship. and the stakes here are high for the fans, the city. should there be an all out boycott? that's the question at this

hour. here to discuss this more, cnn sports. great to have you both here with us. i want to start with you. i just looked at your blog and you say that sterling is no aberration. he has a tainted history in the city of los angeles, having been sued by the government for housing discrimination. so why shouldn't we be surprised by what is coming out? >> most people that know his history and his relationship, by the way, with the clippers and city of la, they were not surprised. this is typical sterling. we have got a long history. there have been lawsuits. there have been allegations of harassment. there have been many claims. there have been setments with many government agencies. sterling had made statements that are intemperabointemperant.

he has been a fixture in la. how could this happen? and now that it has happened, the bigger question is what does the nba, at the end of the day, he's your baby. he's one of your owners. what are you going to do about it? >> do you support a boycott of the team? >> well, originally, when it came out, many people were saying we got to boycott and we have got to do this. we said no, we're not going to go with the boycott for a couple of reasons. number one, it's grossly unfair to the clipper players. these young men have sacrificed. these young men have honed their craft and paid diligent attention to their professionalism. they're in the fight of their life for a championship.

i don't think it's fair for them and even the fans to make them pay, to penalize them for the stupidity, the dumbness, the ignorance and bigotry of an owner. i don't think that's fair. however, having said that, the position that we did and many other thoughtful people have taken, too, those that feel strongly and we hope anyone of a right mind would, that feel strongly about the statements and the conduct of donald sterling should use their own judgment. voice their protest anyway they can. and if they feel that we cannot as individuals support this team in anyway shape or form, go ahead and do that. exercise your own judgment but do something and take some action. >> we saw the players do that in a showing of solidarity. rachel, you're in charlotte covering the play offs. this story moving very fast. what are the next steps for the nba here? what can the commissioner do

here? >> the commissioner who has only been in office for lest than three months is going to give a news conference tomorrow. a lot hope that he will announce an indefinite suspension until this matter can be investigated further. however, there is a limit to what he can do. the nba constitution is a secret but from what has leaked out, there does not appear to be anyway to force steriling to sell this team. donald sterling is worth 1.9 billion dlr billion. he could suspend sterling maybe for a year or two years or indefinitely. the idea and hope would be if he made him so uncomfortable, if sponsors are pulling out, there would be a way to convince sterling that it's in your best

interest and everyone else to sell the team. but sterling has proved himself to be a verily tijeous guy. he's not a guy who will probably go gently into the good night. this is going to be a fight and it will be very interesting to see how adam silver handles this. >> we have heard from other owners around the league. michael jordan is completely outraged. >> these other owners have stood by and let what has long been considered the worst one among them stand as a member of the nba ownership community. nobody just woke up this weekend and realized donald sterling has got a problem. i think that other owners are feeling some of the public pressure and heat over that. we have seen some of the new owners come out and say this is not acceptable.

some of the old owners have come out and said the same thing. all of that being said, the politics coming down, will ownership give adam silver enough power to maybe change the constitution a little bit? actually put in place ways for owners to be removed from their teams? or in the end will this group of owners say wait a minute, i don't want to be in the position of having my team taken away. there is a lot of complicated power plays going on here that may have nothing to do with sterling. we saw in the nfl, roger goodell came in as commissioner. there was a rash of player arrests and he grabbed a bunch of power and decided he was going to be judge jury and appeals hearing person to be able to suspend players when they had not had a trial or charges with the police. he used the public pressure to institute those policies for

himself and he has not let them go even as public demand ebbs. you have to wonder if adam silver will use this public pressure to take some power away from the owners. >> it will be so interesting to see how this all plays out. i want to go back to you, earl. the naacp rescinded an award they were going to give to him next week. are you surprised he was going to be given this award in the first place? >> no. you have got to remember one thing and i wrote about this in one of my columns in 2009. the naacp, we're not talking about the national naacp, we're not talking about the california statewide naacp, but the la, los angeles naacp. there has been confusion. in 2009 sterling got an award. he got a lifetime achievement award from the la branch in

2009. i opposed it then. i said you are the old eest venerated civil rights organization in the nation. it seems to me an award must be given to someone who has earned their spurs in the civil rights battle. sterling doesn't qualify. so now we fast forward five years. i said then it's going to come back to haunt you if you continue to do this. now we see that it has come back to haunt the organization. >> it has been an embarrassment to say the least. thank you so much for sharing your perspective and insight and be sure to stay with us. in about ten minutes, la clippers head coach will be speaking to the media and we will be sure to bring that to you live. >> at least 16 are dead after powerful twisters flattened homes in the plains in the south

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>> so remember when officials had us thinking that we could be perhaps just days away from finding flight 370? those hopes have faded faster than the black box pings. now everything is about to

change. the search zone is expanding a lot. that little dot on the screen is about to get a whole lot bigger. authorities plan to suspend the mission and focus solely on if floor of the indian ocean. joining me to talk more about this, jeff wise, aviation analyst. so 23,000 square miles, about the size of indiana, we're hearing, how are authorities determining this broader search area? >> you know, they know and they haven't really told us, it's very strange search. this is not how one normally goes about looking for a missing aircraft. >> what does it tell you? does it tell you they don't have as much confidence in the black box pings? >> they used very strong

language to promise us that the pings were associated with mh-370. they said they were hours or days away from finding the plane. that didn't pan out. why did they take the extraordinary steps of promising us that they would solve the mystery. so these did not come from mh-370. that means whatever caused it was not mh-370. we don't know why they are continuing to search in the area. there is no evidence that we

have that it is in the southern ocean. we only have the authority of the malaysians and australians to go on. now that they have been proven wrong about this search area, we really ought to start asking wes about their judgen't. >> another point is reaching out to private contractors to help and bring in new search technology. why wasn't this done in the very beginning? i know a lot of people have been asking that. >> as i said the search has been carried out in a backwards fashion. normally you figure out roughly where in the world you want to look and then you use an aerial survey and then once you found the debris on the surface, then you work backwards and try to find a likely search area on the bottom. then you listen for pingers. we skipped all of these steps and gone right to using the blue

fin 21. it's a very fine grain, small, slow searching device. and so when your plane could be anywhere in this huge area it's really not clear why they're doing what they're doing. >> and coming up, shocking comments about race attributed to la clippers owner donald sterling. players and fans alike are saying he has to go. what, if anything, can be done? and next, fierce tornados kill at least 16 people across the plains and south. more bad weather is on the way today. what to expect next? stay with us, we will be right back. in the nation, it's not always pretty.

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>> tornados across several states claimed the lives of many people. parts of kansas, iowa, and missouri have been reduced to rubble.

but arkansas took the brunt of the storms. former president bill clinton weighed in on the destruction saying my thoughts and prayers are with the families and communities in arkansas oklahoma and iowa. the clean up is expected to be lengthy. for more information, just go to cnn.com/impact. right now, let me bring in cnn meteorologist jennifer gray. she has been covering the severe weather. more tornado watches right now. is that correct? >> yeah. more watches and these are huge. this one in particular right here from southern tennessee through portions of alabama and through mississippi including jackson, this is considered a particularly dangerous situation. they don't issue those very

often and when they do you know we could have a very, very large threat of large tornados and they could be long-lived. a new tornado watch has just been issued for portions of eastern tennessee. this watch will be in effect until 9:00 central time for tonight. we also have tornado warnings in effect. this is for mississippi as well. these are moving to the northeast. they will be crossing i-55 in just a couple of minutes. these are fast moving storms. this warning is in effect until 2:15 central time. and it's moving to the northeast if you're in silver city you need to take cover, get into a small interior room. this storm is headed for you. we also have one just on it. if you are in this county, including the city of rolling fork, you need to be on the lookout for this as well. these are very dangerous storms. these could become very powerful

as we go through the afternoon we are going to have a similar day like yesterday but these storms have all shifted to the east. we have the same weather set up with very moist humid air coming in. this is going to produce these very large powerful storms. a lot of lightning associated with these storms. these two cells just in the past 30 minutes, almost 6,000 lightning strikes. these are very dangerous. if you are in the area around i-55 just to the north of jackson, you need to be very, very careful. these storms move quickly and sometimes they can be a little unpredictable with the severity of them, they can have large hail, golf ball sized and sometimes bigger. the lightning, the hail and gusty winds, and of course the possibility of tornados, not a day you want to be outside. >> speaking of that, some people

are outside particularly in arkansas cleaning up after the severe weather that went through there yesterday. >> it looks like they will have a quieter day for today. they have a little bit drier air trying to filter into arkansas. we could see spotty showers in eastern arkansas for today but luckily central and northern arkansas looks like they will be in the clear for severe weather today which is excellent news. >> thank you so much jennifer. >> and turning now to the controversy surrounding nba owner donald sterling. the los angeles naacp had planned to give him a lifetime achievement. the la chapter says that sterling will not receive the award. the la naacp held a news conference. paul, i can see why they cancelled the award. did they say why they were

giving it to him in the first place? >> no, and that's the question, pamela. and i pressed them on that both on and off camera and the answer was they repeatedly had conversations with mr. sterling and were comfortable with giving him that award saying not much more. but leon jenkins who is the branch president came out and came out swinging. he said if this is mr. sterling's voice on the tape, this is reminiscent of an ugly time in u.s. history. let's listen to more. >> on a scale of one to ten? 11. if you look at the content and the one thing you do have to consider is that it was a private conversation. but not with standing that fact, the words used were very gibberish. it goes back to a segregation system and a time that nobody in

america is proud of. i think when you say things like that you have to pay a price for those kind of things. you have to demonstrate if it's possible that that's not who you are. it was devastating. it's off the scale. >> and pamela, also saying he was going to be given the award because of his body of work and has hosted so many minority children at basketball games, given camps and to schools. >> thank you. we now want to take a listen to a statement that doc rivers, the head coach of the la clippers made just moments ago. here is what he had to say. >> hello, everybody. this is doc, and i would like to start again by, you know, these last 48 hours or more have been

been really hard for our players and for everyone. i would just like to reiterate how disappointed i am and the comments attributed to our owner. i can't tell you how upset i am, our players are. today i had a meeting with, you know, just people in our organization talking about everyone from pr to everyone because i just felt like, you know, they needed to hear a voice as well. and you know, when you're around all these people you realize that they're just as upset and embarrassed and it doesn't reflect who they really are. and you know, that was the thing that i got from all of them that, you know, they didn't sign on for this but they're part of this. and they're upset at this but they're going to hang in there.

and so are we. i can tell you that as a group and as a team. what i said yesterday after the game, i meant. i had to do a better job with our guys and try to get them back. and, you know, from our fan standpoint, being here over the last ten hours since i have landed they have been amazing. we need them. i can tell you that. we need unbelievable support right now, and we're hoping we get that tomorrow. >> you just heard doc rivers speaking to a group of sports reporters in a previously scheduled conference call and making remarks about this scandal involving the owner of the clippers saying this is a defining moment for the nba talking about the players saying they didn't sign on to this but they are going to hang in there and asking for support during this difficult time.

coming up right here on newsroom, more on the racist comments acontributed to clippers owner, donald sterling. >> people call you and tell you that i have black people on my instagram and it bothers you? >> yeah, it bothers me a lot if you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people. >> lots of discussion about what, if anything, the nba can do. that story up next. stay with us. e pain was terribl. um, i remember my feet hurt so bad that it felt like i had hot pins and needles coming from the inside out of my skin. when i did go see the doctor and he said, "i think i can help you" and prescribed lyrica. it helped me. [ male announcer ] it's known that diabetes damages nerves. lyrica is fda-approved to treat diabetic nerve pain. lyrica is not for everyone. it may cause serious allergic reactions

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sterling's team is predominantly black, he's dating a woman of color, but private beliefs expressed on the recording are true, what makes a person lead this seemingly double life. >> i'm not surprised by any of this. we have people who have very racist views but who don't consider themselves to be racist. they think the things they say about certain people and they thought patterns are based in some sort of reality. they're based on stereo types, of course. so you don't hear sterling coming out and saying these things to the public. this was a conversation that he had and in some ways kind of led into that direction of that conversati conversation. >> you look at his track record. he's been sued twice for housing

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i think that has a lot of people scratching their heads. >> there has always been a pattern of certain type of people. white males who may be sleeping with a woman of color. less than or inferior. yet they are still involved with these women. they may go out with these women but often times they don't marry these women. they may have children with the women and take care of the children but often times don't acknowledge them pubically. that was exactly strong thurman's situation. >> thank you. >> thanks pam. >> coming up, president obama getting tough on russia, but will it be enough? we will discuss it up next. [ female announcer ] hands were made for playing.

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mail fraud and filing false tax returns. >> after two and a half years after being deluged and bombarded with allegation after allegation after allegation, i haven't been able to fully defend myself. it's been anonymous sources and let's be honest, let's call it what it is, absolutely shameful disgraceful government leaks. >> grim said he has no plans to resign his seat in congress. that does it for me. newsroom continues with doug right now. >> thanks, pam. breaking news at the top of the hour out at los angeles where doc rivers just talked about the controversy surrounding his boss. rivers, a former clipper himself said this just moments ago. >> these last 48 hours or more

have been, you know, they have been really hard for our players and for everyone. and i would just like to reiterate how disappointed i am in our -- in the comments attributed to our owner. and i can't tell you how upset i am, our players are. today i have a meeting with this organization. i just felt like, you know, they needed to hear a voice as well. and you know, when you're around all of these people you realize that they are just as upset and embarrassed and it doesn't reflect who they really are. that was the thing that i got from all of them. you know, they didn't sign on for this but they are part of this. they are upset at this but they will hang in there.

so are we. i can tell you that as a group and as a team. what i said yesterday after the game, i meant. i had to do a better job with our guys and try to get them back. and, you know, from our fan standpoint, being here over the last ten hours since i have landed they have been amazing. we need them. i can tell you that. we need unbelievable support right now from other people. and we're hoping we get that tomorrow. >> now let's bring in cnn sports rachel nichols who is covering the nba play offs in charlotte. you're a former player, former agent. he had to stand up. what are your thoughts what are

your thoughts given everything that has been said? >> first of all, as a player, it's a very, very difficult situation. we spend our whole lives trying to win a championship. if it's him, it puts such a cloud over everything that they are doing. if you look up what is racism, it's the belief that one race is superior to another. and you look at his statements and they're racist statements. so it's a very difficult situation. >> this all started because of an audio clip released by tmz sportsful sterling berating his girlfriend. >> people call you and tell you that i have black people on my instagram exit bothers you? >> yeah, it bothers me a lot. if you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people. >> you associate with black people.

>> i'm not you and you're not me. you're supposed to be a delicate white or latina girl. >> i'm a mixed girl. >> okay. >> and you're in love with me. and i'm black and mexican whether you like it or not. >> he happens to be black and i'm sorry. >> i tell you to ignore him. i know him well and he should be admired. too bad you can't admire him privately. and during your entire [ bleep ] life, your whole life [ bleep ] admire him. feed him or [ bleep ] him, i don't care. but don't put him on instagram for the world to see so they call me. and don't bring him to my games, okay? >> now the league is investigating the circumstances of this tape. it is disturbing on many, many levels. i listened to the whole thing. the one thing you do get is this is a heartsick 80-year-old man in love with somebody 50 years

younger. she keeps bringing up skin color and he says this is not what it's about. is this just cutting too close that these comments were meant exactly the way he said them if he said them? >> nobody this weekend discovered that donald sterling has unfortunate views on race. he has a track record and history of problems in this area. significant ones. the federal government has twice sued him because apartment buildings discriminated against black and hispanic tenants. instead of fighting lawsuits, he settled both for what were then historic amounts. he also has been sued by one of his former employees, one of the greatest players ever in the history of the nba who went into management, worked for donald steriling a sterling. there is a statement alleged to

be made by sterling where he said he didn't rent to black and hispanic tenants because black people smelled and attracted ver mo -- vermin. not only are these comments so hateful and hard to hear, that makes an impact. and the fact that it is the latest in a series of incidents has had people saying enough is enough. you heard the emotion in his voice, the difficulty of these players and the position he is in, it's unbelievable the pressure he is under. he said the night before the game he slept for 45 minutes. i'm not surprised. >> no question about that. what do you think should happen? should he be suspended? should he be banned from the game? should he be forced to sell the team? what can the nba legitimately do to reprimand him?

>> you know, we're not privy to the deals that each team has with the nba. the commissioner talked about broad powers. we want to see the powers. the players' association has demanded that he not show up at any games. fans can hurt them by not showing up, cancelling season seats and i think he has to go. i don't think he can no longer be an owner with those kinds of views and opinions. i don't think players want to play for him. it's a black eye not only for the clippers but the entire mab. everybody is waiting to see if -- we want to sue due process. i think we will get a big reaction. we want to see this guy out of the league. >> do you think this is an

epidemic problem within the nba or one person who has extreme views? >> this is an extreme view and you have an organization with literally thousands of employees, you're going to get a variety of views and some of them are going to be extreme. you hope that this is the worst one. it's interesting when we talk about this guy has to go. i think that is the ground swell of feeling around the country. unfortunately, it's not that simple. the nba charter as you guys mention it is private document, we have had it leaked out that there are some circumstances what's available to the commissioner are fines, suspension and pressure to sell the team but sterile something not the type of guy to just go away. they have to worry about that, as well, getting sued by one of their own owners. >> absolutely. this is a good thing, right?

the fact that there has been such a ground swell and so many people are saying this is not acceptable, not now, not ever. >> i agree. he is veriy lilitigeous. i feel bad for the players. this team has an opportunity to win and to have this kind of cloud put on it. we would love to see this guy step away. is this endemocratic. i think this situation put race back on the forefront when you look at the gentleman, bundy, who was a folk hero and then he spoke his opinion about are we happier being slaves. that situation has not disappeared from our society. i think it's always great when ever it's a topic of conversation. it makes all of us take a look

in the mirror and re-evaluate exactly what's going on. >> all right thank you so much. we really appreciate all of your insights on this. and one curious side bar to this controversy. until the recording alleged to be donald sterling went public, the los angeles naacp planned to give sterling a lifetime achievement award and now the name is off of the invitation. >> the revelation that mr. sterling may have made comments reminiscent of an ugly time in american history demands that the los angeles naacp intention to honor mr. sterling for a lifetime body of work must be with drawn and the donation that he has given will be returned. >> so the group says that the money is being returned but when

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>> after a killer tornado system hit three states right now another four states are under a, quote, particularly dangerous situation for tornados. that's from the storm prediction center. much more on that in a moment. plus this is the weather system that has produced the killer conditions in the plains and in the south on sunday. it generated 30 reports of tornados with 16 people dead including two children in arkansas. take a look at how the city hall has been stripped to cement foundation. no walls, no doors. >> my ears are popping. yep. we're in it right now. we're in the tornado. all right. pulling over. >> and you can see how dark and

menacing that is. you can see the dark funnel cloud over mayflower, arkansas. all but two victims were killed in arkansas. two college students described what they saw. >> we knew there would be damage. we saw the tornado on the ground, but we weren't really prepared for the scene we were about to roll up to. there were cars flipped everywhere, there were people screaming. it was a really tough scene. >> arkansas wasn't the only place in the path of sunday's deadly storms. one person was killed when a twister ripped through a northeast oklahoma town. the same line of storms hit baxter springs, kansas. the town's 4200 residents hunkered down as the three block wide tornado rumbled through town. >> the minute it dropped and the array of debris is in the air

and it's wide and, you know, i knew it was going to be really bad. but it just all happened so fast. >> now, let me bring in cnn meteorologist jennifer gray. a whole new area is in the danger zone today. what active watches and warnings are we seeing at this moment? >> i'm going the start with the most important right now. this is the tornado warning. we have a confirmed tornado on the ground and this is moving to the northeast at about 45 miles per hour. if you are in this area, you need to find your safe place. take cover now. this is a very dangerous situation and this is going to be going for the next half hour or so until the threat weakens. it will be pushing towards the i55 and other tornado warnings in the area. definitely this one right around

yazoo city, you need to take cover now if you are in this area. i will try to get to some of these storms as well and let you know what's going on. mississippi, calhoun and chickasaw counties and houston, that storm is heading in your direction. we also have another tornado warning in mississippi and this one is in effect until 2:45 as well. especially if you are near yazoo city you need to take cover. a lot going on today. we have this one tornado watch where the warnings are right now. this means business. this is not issued very often so one of these watches are issued, you need to take it seergsly. if you're in mississippi, north western alabama into tennessee, this is in effect until 9:00

p.m. central time. we have a warning in effect in northeastern missouri and up to iowa. this is a large area that we will be watching as we go through the next 24 hours. this will all be moving east throughout the afternoon and evening hours. we're getting into the heat of the day. this is when things start to hat up when you start to see storms turn severe in a second. monitor the weather situation and be on top of this because this is extremely dangerous. tornado warning, tornado possibly on the ground. if you are in that area, take cover now. >> definitely better to be safe than take any unnecessary risks. thank you. >> well, next, a major change in strategy in the search for missing flight 370. what led the change and what is next in the search? that coming up next. plus the nba announced its holding a news conference

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to complete. the sister of one of the passengers says an expansion is just not enough. >> they can say hopeless. because i think they waste a lot of time. maybe they can find from the other places or they can recalculate the satellite data. we also hope that government can release the data so that we can get somebody to recalculate whether the data -- whether the calculation is correct. >> and joining me now. and rob, is she right that it's time to go back to square one, bring in new eyes to re-evaluate everything? all the data that has so far

been available. >> she's on the right track. and i think, you know, at the moment, because of the lack of physical evidence, the lack of debris, if you like, that now is the time to look at the inmarstat data. i understand that all have agreed that this is consistent and absolutely the best path to follow. but the bit that needs re-evaluating the the information that led us to believe that these were the location of the pingers. if the pingers are not found at those locations, we have to reanalyze the data from the blue fin to make sure nothing was missed or accept that the pingers were never there. >> malaysia's first report is due out this week. should malaysia continue its role as the lead investigative unit or should they get someone else to take charge? there were a lot of experts

looking at this. >> i don't believe that malaysia is trying to hide anything. there is an open book policy essentially going forward. the operational leg if you like of actually looking underwater for the records. followed in an open way, then the relatives will find what they're looking for. >> and as for the search, rob, what sort of fresh ideas would you be looking for if you were leading this search? is there a possibility that the plane is buried under the thick silt that's there? weather, that's going to be worse. should we be waiting for pieces to wash on shore? what areas would you be considering to try to find this plane?

>> i don't think that the concerns about silt are valid at all. if wreckage will be sitting on top of any silt that is down there. i think you're seeing the next phase play out already. the search controllers have made it very clear that they're going wider. that's going to require tools that can cover a greater area of the ocean per day. you're also hearing them acknowledge that cost is an issue and make sure that anything is efficient. that's why they are looking at commercial contractors. >> okay. thank you very much. we're still keeping an eye on this. we're also keeping a close eye on the weather. 16 people were killed last night when tornados touched down across several states. we will take you live to one of the hardest hit places.

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will be crossing over i55 in just a few minutes. you will see this continue throughout the evening hours. we will see a similar situation that we saw yesterday. now mississippi, alabama, and southern tennessee, the target. so yazoo city area just to the east and northeast of you and all the points in between. and then it will be pulling up towards durrant. this is until 2:45 p.m. very dangerous out there. take cover now. >> very scary, jennifer. we believe he is on the phone with us. is he there? >> yes. >> sir, first of all, describe what you're seeing and the situation there. >> currently, i'm in yazoo city which is going to be to the

southwest of where the storm is now. we're clearing up a little bit. it's still raining, however, this is moving like michael said just a moment ago, it is moving towards the i55 pickens area right now. the storm, we did receive some good news. the storm has lifted up. it is not riding the ground any more. and also we have had no initial reports of any damage. we do have law enforcement, our deputies and police officers are out within city and counties looking for damage. and currently have not received any reports of any. >> and sir, can you tell us, what do families there do? do the kids usually stay home from school? are the families basically sheltering in their homes or basements? what do you tell people to do right now? >> well, as we have always recommend to be as safe as possible. our schools closed around 1:30 this afternoon. parents were told to come and

get their children. i have been told that all the children have been secured and taken care of. typically we encourage people not to get on the road. that's standard knowledge. we shelter them in place. and you know, lowest level of the home, things of that nature, for their protection and just have them ride it out. >> all right. and do you expect obviously, it's so scary to think of the possibility. is this expected to get worse or are we in the thick of the season now? >> we're in the early parts of the season, which is, as far as i'm concerned, i consider it an earlier part. this is exact almost a year -- four years ago to the day is when the 2010 tornado devastated yazoo city and yazoo county as well. it's still fresh on everyone's minds to take all of the

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>> and we are keeping a very close eye on the weather. as it happens, tornado warnings all across that part of the country. people digging out from severe

dama damage. >> and the controversy surrou surrounding donald sterling has spread far beyond the sports world. a recording has him making racist remarks. it has shaken the league, threatens sterling's status as a team owner. here is a portion of the recording that is allegedly donald sterling talking to his girlfriend. >> don't come to my games. don't bring black people and don't come. >> do you know that you have a whole team that's black that plays for you? >> i support them by giving them clothes and food and houses. do i know that i? who makes the game? do i make the game or do i make the game?

is there 30 owners in the league? >> and that was just the beginning. let's move the story forward talk about the potential fallout good as always to see you both. first of all, the potential penalties are we talking about sanctions or the possibility that he will be forced to sell that team? >> i certainly hope that he will be forced to give up the team. the commissioner's authority is actually relatively limited. he can suspend him and impose a fine up to one year, but this is an unprecedented act that warrants an unprecedented response. i believe that the public, sponsors and players and the other 29 owners have the ability to put pressure on donald sterling to make him understand

that he has a right to be ignorant but he does not have the right to be an owner of an nba team. >> over the weekend, the clippers president did release a statement that basically said that sterling's comments were not consistent or reflective of his views. clearly there has to be an investigation. when you look at the constitution of the nba, it's confidential, does sterling's future with the team depend on the nuanced language? >> it depends upon his language. his language was deplorable and disgusting and there's no room for it. first of all, knowing that he engaged in such a vicious attack against a minority group, everybody should be outraged. now the nba will conduct an investigation and as they have said he is entitled to due process. i represent people every day that are entitled to due process. once that due process is done and the investigation concludes

that those were his words and his remarks, the nba will act swiftly to remove him. owners have legal protections and as a result of that he would be expected to use those to defend himself but what they can do is remove him from the team via a suspension. the commissioner has the authority to do that. that would avoid him being involved with the team, overseeing the team and as a result of that, the end would be near and he would be out. that's what i suspect will happen and should happen in this case. >> there is such a majjor ick factor. there's that factor, the fact that this girlfriend who has has paid upwards of $2.5 million to support over time would do this. kevin johnson is a former nba player and has emerged as a spokesman and advisor on this issue has come up with five

player demands. one that sterling stays away from future games and the commissioner must explain why sterling was never penalized. explain the full range of sanctions, engage the player's union in the process and carry out quickly. are these demands realistic? due process does take time. >> we are talking criminal prosecution but this is a private business governed by the constitution and by laws. silver calls donald sterling and says was that your voice? end of investigation. i don't think he needs to do anything else. that man expressed the most vile, dilutional ignorant things that you can think about a minority. and it's about the men who support him. he got it wrong. this is the first time i can remember his team being in the

play offs so for years the revenue sharing magic johnson, michael jordan, patrick ewing, players all over the league have supported this man. he needs to be gone. what you do is you os tri size him. you lock up his revenues. you give him enough money to pay his salaried employees and take net revenues and put them in the bank. he can go anywhere other than the nba. >> it's not just the players. okay, let's be clear on that, that turned a blind eye or the league itself. the naacp was about to give him a lifetime achievement award. wouldn't you think that they would vet his record on race and race relations? that's not given arbitrarily. >> you don't know a person, deb, until you know a person. and clearly with the naacp, what

they were really doing is they said look, he gives a lot of tickets out to youth groups who happen to be people of color and we will express our appreciation by virtue of supporting him. should they have vetted him out more closely or clearly? yes, potentially. when he got the previous award, he did before in 2009, elgin baylor hah had charges relating to race. so the question now has to become not what has the naacp, will it be effective, swift, and the sanction that would be appropriate here which is his removal from the game. >> the one thing that i couldn't shake, david, is this is a man who clearly feels betrayed and

insecure. it's almost as if this wasn't just about race. this was also about somebody who was jilting him for somebody a lot younger, certainly -- there's again, i go back to that whole kind of ick factor, david. what do you think ultimately? how do we process this whole thing? this whole thing is just not good. >> i couldn't care less about the personal impact of his relationships on him. he expressed and the way that he did it demonstrates that he's absolutely dilutional. this man is insane. and i don't care less about his personal relationships. he has the right to be ignorant. i'm not outraged by the fact that he's ignorant. i'm outraged if he doesn't suffer consequences for his ignorance. he cannot profit off of the labor and excellence of black men and turn around and express

bigoted views about these men. he cannot insult players in the public while accepting concessions that the city and state give to all professional sports. if his heart is broken, so what. >> deb, i am outraged by his ignorance. i would not have any reason to believe that in 2014 you would have a person who would harbor this. there will be attacks on the victim. she's a gold digger and a horrible person. she is just looking to get money and her day in fame. nonsense. what did she have to do with the statements that were made, what was on his heart and mind and lips. you can attack her 20 days until sunday but the truth is he esspoused views that were in his mind and needs to be gone. >> thank you so much. certainly an interesting and passionate debate.

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tupelo, mississippi. we go to jennifer gray. what can you tell us? >> a tornado emergency has been issued for tupelo. a tornado is on the ground. a tornado warning now right over tupelo. it's heading to the northeast at about 45 miles per hour. a very, very dangerous situation. it's going on right now. very, very dangerous situation: it's a very, very dangerous situation. i want to circle this area right here, right over tupelo where we're seeing the possible signature. there's a video of storm chasers that are out there and they have caught a tornado on the ground on video. and so there's your confirmation right there as well. so as we go forward in time, these are going to continue to threaten areas of mississippi. they are going to be in the areas of alabama as well. this is a very serious

situation. we have now a high risk of tornado development from the storm prediction center for portions of mississippi and alabama as we go through the evening hours. but right now the focus is going to be on the tupelo area. it's not going to last there long. it's moving at 45 miles an hour. it's going very, very quickly. you get the warning out and it's going to move on to the next town. right now we have spotters that are seeing this on the ground right now. >> we're talking about tens and millions potentially affected from iowa to the carolinas. how many days are we expecting this system to continue? >> we're expecting it do go through today and it's going to last through tomorrow as well. you're looking at a possibility of a flooding threat across much of the southeast. and so this area that we're looking at, it basically stretches anywhere from louisiana all the way up through illinois.

you can see the line of showers developing across the mississippi river valley. this tornado watch right across mississippi and alabama, that's the one that we're very, very concerned about. it's considered a potentially dangerous situation. those are not issued very often. we also have a high risk of development right over that area as well for today. there's a couple of days a year that high-risk areas are issues. today is one of them. yesterday was one of them. we could again see the potential for very large tornadoes, long track tornadoes like we saw through arkansas yesterday. the potential is there. the atmosphere is very unstable so we could possibly see those tornadoes develop again. but today it's going to be across mississippi and alabama. we could see another day in the same area for tomorrow and then as we move on into wednesday and thursday, it's going to be more of a flooding threat. could see severe weather across portions of the east coast. so multiday event. >> now, we think about tupelo, the seventh largest city between

memphis and birmingham. there's about 35,000 people. when we think about the damage in arkansas, that may have been by more than one tornado. something called a super cell thunderstorm. >> yeah. >> are we expecting the same thing potentially in the tupelo area? >> potentially. we're going to see the supercells develop. the atmosphere is the same as yesterday. there's going to be a very similar setup. the supercells can set up very quickly and they can definitely spawn these tornadoes. they can produce very long-lived tornadoes. right around the tupelo area is the concern. that's why it's so important to take cover if you are in this area and that's lee county. anyone in lee county needs to take cover, deb. >> we've got greg from the mississippi emergency management office on the phone with us.

sir, what are you telling people there? what is your greatest concern now with what is happening? >> our greatest concern is that people had their plan in place to know exactly what they were going to do as soon as these tornado warnings are issued. it looks like they have one on the ground near tupelo, mississippi, a very highly populated area. they are revereavaging through area as well. just get to your safe place and be able to ride it out. >> how do you instruct people ahead of tornado season to take the kind of precautions? for example, tell us about whether schools are closed, whether people just need to be sort of prepared and minimize activities during the day where you think tornadoes are going to touch down? what are some of the key things that you tell your folks? >> i tell you what, the storm prediction center did a great job of putting this on our radar last week.

we've done a tremendous education campaign warning people of the potential outbreak that was forecast for today and it appears to come into fruition. just making people think about where they are going to be. are you going to be at work? are you going to be at school? are you going to be at home? if you're out in a store, know what you are going to do. have your plan ready to execute. get into your lowest level of your house, put as many walls between you and the outside and cover up. hopefully that's enough to keep you safe. but, you know, we certainly want our public to be aware and to really -- this is going to be an ongoing situation for the entire day. it won't be over yet after this first round comes through because it's going to be wave after waves, from what these forecasters are telling us. >> are you getting any reports of damage or of people having to evacuate at all? >> well, right now it's still so

early into it. but not a whole lot of damage being reported yet from yazoo city where they had a tornado on the ground earlier. it appears that it was not on the ground very long. but again, it's still very early and these things are ongoing. we're very concerned about what we're going to hear out of tupelo because that's moving over a major population and i'm just reading from my national weather system in memphis. the storm is just north of tupelo now. we really want people to take stuff seriously. >> when you say that there's debris in the tornado, how does that up the risks and the danger? >> oh, no question with debris flying around in the area, they become missiles and projectiles. your cell phone will survive. you may not. you don't need to be taking the chance of going outside.

you don't know what is flying around in the air and these tornadoes will move. one moment you think you're in a safe place, the next minute, no, it could be right upon you. >> when you think about a tornado going through tupelo, mississippi, how much greater of a risk is it to the people who live there as opposed to those who live in the surrounding areas where there's perhaps less reinforcement, less infrastructure? >> well, certainly the risk is higher because it's a population base. any time you have a tornado that is going to come through a major city or come close to a major city as tupelo is, a lot of houses in the suburbs, much of mississippi is rural and in the population bases is where we get concerned about the large amounts of potential damage. we don't have any reports of that as of yet but it's ongoing at the moment. >> all right. greg flynn from the mississippi emergency management office there, we appreciate you joining

us. we appreciate all of the warnings that you're giving to the folks there who have been told to stay inside. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. good afternoon, everyone. i'm jake tapper. we begin with the national lead. a tornado emergency in mississippi just hours ago. our cnn weather system is on high alert. it's building strength and barrelling towards more cities and towns. at least 16 deaths are already blamed on the storm system. right now, as many as 27 million people could be at risk from new orleans up to indianapolis. believe me, you do not want until you hear the sirens to get to safety. let's go to jennifer gray. who is in danger right now? >> these storms are to the northeast of tupelo and a tornado warning is in effect. anyone to the northeast of tupelo, north of