business being blown away, except for the bathroom, and that's where the employees were. also breaking, the pilot speaks. for the first time, what did the recordings tell investigators. we have the audio. happening today, the nba set to make a major announcement about clippers owner donald sterling. sponsors flee, players angry. what will the league do? what can the league do? your "new day" starts right now your "new day" starts right now p. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning. welcome to "new day." 75 million americans are still in the path of deadly tornadoes. and threat is clear from the pictures overnight. just look at this. look at this storm. there's lightning, the tornadoes are touching down napts one of 12 that touched down in mississippi. emergency officials in the state

are reporting eight fatalitys. numbers are always preliminary at this stage. tupelo is described as decemb devastated. we've got reporters on the ground beginning with chad myers in tupelo. chad, what do you see? >> reporter: it was a day like i haven't seen in a very long time, chris. it was like a 500-mile rake. and the tyings of that rake ripping across mississippi and alabama with so many tornadoes on the ground at the same time. i have not seen a day like it and tupelo had a nasty day yesterday. >> big one. >> reporter: you can hear the power of this massive cloud churning just outside of tupelo, mississippi. it's just one of a string of tornadoes that barrelled through the southeast with tupelo hit hard. the threat fosting local meteorologists to take cover mid broadcast. >> basement now. >> go! >> reporter: the sheer force of the winds estimated at more than

100 miles an hour hoisted cars several t feet off the ground, topped power lines, and reduced homes to rubble. residents struggle to pick up the pieces. severe weather spawned more than a dozen tornados and left more than 30 dead across six states since monday. in lewisville, mississippi -- >> oh, my god. no, no, no, no, no. >> reporter: -- another twister reportedly as large as a mile wide. just look at this field littered with tossed cars. and in alabama about 42,000 people are waking up without power. the severe thunderstorms battered the state into the night. a tornado in kimberly being blamed for ripping the roof and siding from this church. >> reporter: now, kate, in all honesty, if you have loved ones in tupelo only 5% of the city looks like that. the rest is in good shape. this storm developed and just

exploded right over the city. so it's the north and northeast part of town that got hit hard. the tyings of rake we talked about is a mile wide. f-4 damage in alabama and mississippi this morning. it will be daylight before we hear how severe it is. i heard horror stories in my hotel of people trying to drive out of the way. when they couldn't drive anymore they got out of their cars and ran away from this tornado. they had warnings but they didn't expect it to be this bad. kate? >> you talk about the random nature of these storms which makes it so difficult. what it hits, what it decimates, and what it does not. it is so random. this was a longer the fiing night as well in alabama. three deaths in that state. tornadoes decimating the tiny town of athens, 100 miles north of birmingham. brian todd is there. brian, how is it looking this

morning? >> reporter: kate, this is a neighborhood that has just been completely blown away by the tornado. this area, athens, alabama, and points west were fwht bull's-eye. you see the mangled cars behind me. this is an area that just got completelies decimated. this is an area of complex of apartments and houses. some were manufactured and prefabbed of lighter material. they told those people to get out and they did. even if you had a house of solidly built material like this, these are floorboards, it didn't matter. this is part of a siding of a house here. you can see the window and the shutters there. all of it just got completely decimated. three deaths in ma'am ma'am totaled. two in a trailer park near here, kate. in tupelo, when daylight comes and people start to come back and pick through the wreckage of what was their homes, that's when you're going to see the scope of the damage. about 16,000 customers just in this area were without power.

and local officials are warning them when you come back you've got to be careful because still a lot of down power line, gas leaks are a problem. after a situation like this, and people are going to be eager to get back to their homes. they're telling them, be very careful. there's still a lot of danger. as chad mentioned, more storms coming today. >> hopefully when they get there they find homes. people say people matter most but it really just wrecks the family's existence when they have nowhere to return. now, the big problem is, as horrible as the pictures were last night, it's not over. 75 million americans are in the way of tornadoes and severe weather is in the forecast. indra peterson is working it for us. what's out there? >> we're talking about still, like you said, 75 million people with the risk of severe weather. let's look at what we ju saus in the last 24 hours. we're talking about 80 reports of tornadoes, guys, in just the last 24 hours. kentucky out towards tennessee. they exploded, especially out towards mississippi and alabama.

the concern is today once again we're going to be dealing with exact same spot. we're still talking about that focus area. this area is so slow moving we're talking about a moderate risk area. including birmingham and just north of mobile. that's 2 1/2 million of you today under the gun for moderate risk. even a slight risk today including 73 million of you. detroit to virginia beach back through tallahassee today. this concern is huge. remember, slight risk does not mean you cannot still get a very large tornado in its path. today, warnings and watches. here's the watch box including atlanta and panama city beach and asheville. it's the afternoon when you get the sunlight in there you start to see these things explode. that's the reason to see them pick up toward the afternoon and evening hours. why are we still dealing with this? a huge system blocking it. this guy is bringing you rain in the northeast. this is blocking this system from moving forward. same cold front bringing all that enhanced weather down to the southeast. not moving fast. the key thing is though, any tornadoes that pop up those

cells are moving very fast. 50 miles per hour. in through tomorrow, risk in d.c. back in through florida. a threat nowhere over just yet, kate. >> thank you. let's turn to breaking news. overnight for the first time we are hearing the final cockpit recordings from flight 370. overnight, passengers, family members heard the very last communications between the planend ground control during a meeting with malaysian officials. here is a little bit of that long awaited audio.

>> difficult to hear a little bit of that audio because it was played over a loud speaker during the meeting. important none the less. joining us to discuss it shawn. thank you, it's great to have you here. great to see you. i want to get your take. we have waited a long time. don't worry, who cares about us. the families have waited a very long 250itime to hear those fin communications. what do we get from them? what do you hear? >> what i hear is when i listen to this, this is basically a fairly routine conversation between air traffic control and an aircraft. tlast there's really nothing

abnormal about what we hear here. this is, in fact, pretty routine. >> this is routine. walk me through a little bit about what is going on in this communication for the uninitiated. what are we hearing and what we had just played. you hear flight level 350, malaysian 370. obviously every time they communicate they talk about their call sign, essentially, right? >> that's right. that's what we're hearing when we see the -- their call sign. what they're talking about, flight level, they're speaking to the altitude that they're either climbing to or currently at. >> and it's difficult to have to do this because the audio quality is not great in what we heard because it was played in this meeting of family members. but do you -- everyone is going to try to look at this and listen and read from it. do you hear anything unusual? do you hear different cadence in a voice? is there anything strange about what you hear in these communications? >> well, i think the biggest problem there is the quality of

the audio is so low. those things that we normally look for when we are looking at a cadence, you can actually detect stress levels. they can do analysis if the quality is good enough. i'm not sure the quality is, in fact, there for that. the awed yudio experts would ha look at that and run it through their computer and scrub it a little bit and see if they can clean it up and notice that. they're going to need to compare it to something. they're going to need a prooe use recording of those individuals so they can go back and forth and try to detect that change. >> let's listen to one more portion, that last communication we talked about so many times throughout this six weeks of waiting to hear this audio when they say the final "good night." let's listen. and that is what the families have been waiting for, shawn, go night, malaysian 370. you know on some level many

people at home are saying if this is so routine and it sounds so routine why has it taken 50 some odd days to have this released? >> well, i think that is unusual. i think what we have to keep in mind is that not everyone around the world is comfortable releasing this type of information. here in the united states we do this as a matter of routine. in fact, these tapes are put on websites where you can listen to these very early after the accident. that's not the case in all area of the world. and i think that holding some of this information close to them just because they're not comfortable releasing it. it's just not something that they do. >> and it has taken a lot of pressure from the families and outside pressure for them to get comfort releasing. and they released serial numbers from the black box and the flight data recorder that was requested by the family members. they released that as well as additional information. one thing maybe i found surprising or unusual i wanted to get your take on. when you look at the timeline of

these communications, something that the malaysian officials also released, there is no direct communication between the ground and the plane for some five hours, until 7:13 when malaysian airlines says that they tried to make a voice call to the plane for them to communicate back anything. and they did not respond. five hours without communication. is that unusual? >> yeah, that is unusual. in fact, what is typically required in most parts of the world is that airlines have to stay in communication with their aircraft. and typically can either watch them on radar because a lot of places have their own capability where they can watch their aircraft on radar from an operation center. but if they don't have that, then they have to have the ability to check in every hour or so. so that is unusual that it took so long. i think part of that might have been the fact that at that point in time or immediately after that it was suspected that the aircraft was missing, so

everyone was consumed with other methods of trying to reach them and maybe it didn't occur to them to, let's just try to old backup system that we use because most is done electronically now. they probably went to a backup voice system to reach them. >> let's try to old way and try and get them on the phone. a lot to discuss further. shawn, great to see you. thank you so much. let's look at more of your headline right now. over might, north korea conducted live fire artillery drills near western board we're the south. analyst view this as lack of enter sashl aid. both koreas conduct the drills but they often become tense because of disputed maritime boardd boundaries. the european union is adding sanctions against 15 people no connection with russia's actions with ukraine. they include vladimir putin.

russia is criticizing the move as well as sanctions from the u.s. they're vowing a painful response. the u.s. targeted seven officials. today vice president biden will unveil a plan to combat the epidemic of sexual assaults on college campuses. it would require colleges to survey students for a better sense of how often assaults take place and provide a checklist for schools to re-examine sexual misconduct policies. the white house is launching a new website notalone.gov to publish enforcement data. those are your headlines at quarter past the hour. let's take a break. when we come back on "new day," a piece of puzzle revealed for flight 370. the last radio communication between the cockpit and the control tower finally played to the families. we're going to get reactions this fr them and analysis from our team of experts. nba just hours from announcing possibly repercussions for the l.a.

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clippers owner donald sterling. the remarks have triggered an angry backlash from player, fan shs and fellow owners. major sponsors are also now severing ties out of outrage with the clippers as a result. cnn's dan simon is live in los angeles and has much more on the ongoing outrage. dan? >> >> good morning. the clippers are set to take the court tonight. the question is how will the players and fans react. some have suggested that the far fans stay home as a way to protest as the pressure is mounting. donald sterling seen leaving a restaurant with his wife just hours after she publicly distanced herself from those racist comments reportedry made by her husband to his girlfriend. >> you have problems with me. if you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people. >> reporter: but here mrs. sterling seems to defend him when asked if he's a racist.

are you a racist, mrs. sterling? >> no, of course not. >> reporter: the shocking audio of an nba owner disparaging african-americans continued to ricochet with a steady stream of corporate sponsors withdrawing their up support for the clipper, state farm, mercedes benz, red bull, virgin america to name a few. >> there is a personal, economic, and social price that mr. sterling must pay for his attempt to turn back the clock on race relations. >> reporter: so far, both sterling and the woman at the center of it all, girlfriend, have remained quiet since the tape first surfaced on tmz sports. that's her getting into a waiting bentley. both nba stars and fachbs alike continue to sound off. >> there's a man in a powerful position and a man who should be embracing minorities, not discriminating against them. >> he's tainting the league and he's tainting america. and when you hear something like that that is the mentality of a

slave master. he sees his players as slaves. >> reporter: all of this against a backdrop of a basketball game and a clippers coach trying to keep his players focused on the playoffs. >> these last 48 hour or more have been -- they've been really hard for our players and for everyone. and i would just like to reiterate how disappointed i am and how upset i am, our players are. >> reporter: now, clippers coach doc rivers said he had a chance to speak with donald sterling but he declined. how is the league going to address this awful situation? what can they do with donald sterling? the commissioner will hold a news conference later on today in new york. back to you. >> no question the commissioner needs to do something quickly. as we see, everybody is starting to spin it and it's starting to

per mea ferment so there has to be action. sports columnist for the "new york times" and a strong inside presence for many years in the league now vice chairman for the nba retired players association. good to have you both here. bill, what do you think we're going to hear from the commissioner? >> well, you know, provided that they've authenticated that the voice is actually sterling, there's going to be a suspension at the very least. i'm hur there will a ban from day-to-day operations. you will see not see him again at any of the games. and so at the very -- at the very, very, very least you're going to see a suspension and probably a ban from day-to-day operations. now, will that be enough to satisfy everybody? you know, probably not because this has become a feeding frenzy and probably no -- you know, anything he does short of saying

i'm taking your team away probably will not be satisfactory. but if you look at what happened to it took four years before she actually decided to sell the team and that was only when she was faced with multiple suspensions. >> right. i mean, there's little precedent to support taking a team obviously. commercial enterprise. the owners would get together and compel some type of sell. marge shot, she voluntarily did it and wound upkeeping as piece of the team. do you think there's any chance that sterling does something voluntarily here? >> i think there is a chance. there are several ways i think this can go down and obviously we'll see what adam silver has to say today. but there's a possibility that he could step up and say i.e., remove myself. you know, i give up, you know, majority ownership. i'm not sure that's likely to

happen, but i know that commissioner silver has obviously a huge task in making sure that obviously it's swift and just to the satisfaction of -- this man is on an island right now. so it's got to be to the satisfaction of the popular opinion. >> now, on the one side catering to popular opinion is going to be rough because the commissioner probably doesn't is a power. let's ride it the other way forsake of argument for a second. is there anything saying maybe this is over bloeb. it was a private conversation. he seemed to be set up by his girlfriend. there's no "n yt "word involved here. we may have heard worse in the past. do you believe any of those mitigations here? >> clearly it was private and clearly i think if this is a fact twen sterling's girlfriend. yeah, she did lead him down the primrose path but she did it because she knew it was a bigot.

the problem is whether it's in private or public, if you are a racist, you're a racist. if you're a homophobia and it gets out and the world just knows -- just let me say this. the one thing that is sort of disturb -- not disturbs me about this is the clearly this was like a fast ball down a plate. 80-year-old guy with this old school ku klux klan type of racism. today, you know, i think that probably these conversations are -- had a lot of times behind closed doors. whenever i walk into a press box and i see no black reporters or when i walk into a newsroom or any corporate office and i see know black people, essentially the owners are saying the same thing. they're just not getting caught. they are saying we don't respect you, black people, we're not going the hire you. one thing i would suggest a lot of nba players and black nfl players, when you get a chance, walk through your respective

offices, team offices, and find out how many people look like you are in the marketing department and the sales department and the public relations department and the executive offices and you will be stunned. so let's not get so carried away by this -- what's kind of like an easy fast ball to hit and really dig down into the systemic racism in the organizations. who, in fact, pay you a lot of money. so i think that this is a great launching pad but let's not just stop here at the the easy part. >> you know, it goes back to the individual. i mean, we know that there's racism in this country. there always has been to some level there always will be. but when you publicly view your opinion, especially in a position of donald sterling where you are a man of power, you're a man of great wealth, and you employ a lot of african-americans.

and they say that the truth always comes to light, whether it's behind closed doors or not, you know, allegedly this manmade these statements. and so i think there has to be a moment in time where you step up and you take responsibility. it's going to be interesting to hear from mrs. sterling at some point in all of this, but, you know, i think when you talk about -- when i listen to a lot of our retired nba players talk about how difficult it was for them, the journey to get into the nba, when, you know, blacks had to go stay at another hotel or had those kind of adversities and we get to 2014 and we are dealing with something like this, there's just no room for it at all. >> maybe the idea that it was a private conversation and it may have been subtle in some respects but it's getting a lot of negative attention, it's going to force some change, maybe that's a good sign that

the bar is not as high for what's offensive anymore but we'll have to see what happens with it approximately bill, i look forward to what you're writing about it. thurl bailey, an honor. kate? coming up next on "new day," more from inside the cockpit of malaysia airlines flight 370. for the first time we hear the voice of the pilots on the night the flight disappeared. what can we learn from it? what can investigators, more importantly, learn from it. and we'll get reaction from family members. 29 people in 6 states killed by tornados and severe storms since the weekend. 75 million people are facing more severe weather today. update ahead on whether it's expected to hit. narrator: these are the skater kid: whoa narrator: that got torture tested by teenagers and cried out for help. from the surprised designers. who came to the rescue with a brilliant fix male designer: i love it narrator: which created thousands of new customers

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welcome back to "new day." following breaking news. it's been a horrifying night in the southeast. the threat is not over. dozens of tornados tearing through the region since sunday. eight deaths reported in mississippi. the tiny town of tupelo decimated a how it was described. in alabama is under a state of emergency with three fatalities reported. tens of thousands of people are without power this morning. joining us by phone to get an update on where things stand from birmingham, horse walker, jefferson county emergency manager, mr. walker, thank you for joining on the phone. >> yes, ma'am. >> tell me. it's been a horrible night in a lot of places. what kind of damage have you been seeing? >> we had three areas in our community that received damage. >> we're looking at video from various places in alabama.

can cryou describe it? >> we had a fire station that took a direct hit that took responders out. church was damaged where there were people trapped there. and just homes that were damaged. >> you said there was a church where people were trapped? >> yes, ma'am. >> what's the status on them this morning? >> well, they are, as far as i know, have been removed with minor injuries. nothing major. no fatalities or anything like that within our county. >> have you had any -- are there any fatalitieses that have been reported in your county yet? i had seen that there had not. i just want to make sure that's not changed. >> that's true. we've not had any reports of fatalities. >> what do you expect you're going to be up against and what does it look like when the sun comes up this morning. >> i don't know. we're going to be sending folks out and hopefully it's not as bad as it was last year -- a couple years ago on april 27th,

2011. >> absolutely. almost to the day a few years ago. the threat continues today. more storms in the area. more tornadoes that could be coming. what's your message to everyone in your community? >> have a plan and just be prepared. we went through this particular past day, so pay attention to the weather and get weather alerts and have a plan in case something happens in your neighborhood. >> mr. walker, what does that mean for the folks who have suffered a lot of damage to their homes or to that fire station or to that church? what do people do? they've already had one punch. there's another one coming. >> hopefully they can manage during this time frame. there are shelters that are going to be open to help them, and hopefully they have a place to go until then. after that, we will work with them and try to help them recover from this incident. >> yeah. got a lot of work ahead to help recover from this incident. just a few short years after

another bad hit that came to hit your area. horace walker, thank you for joumpi in jumping on the phone. >> my thoughts are with the folks in the path and in the wag of those tornadoes. let's look at more of your headlines right now. for the first time we're hearing the cockpit recordings from flight 370. and families of passengers families are finally getting answers as they hear the last conversation for the themselves. in the meantime, australian marine exploration company is claiming that it may have found the wreckage of flight 370 in the bay of bengal. now, that's about 3,000 miles away from the current search zone in the indian ocean. the european union is adding sanctions against russia for akzs in ukraine. 15 people including top allies of vladimir putin are targeted with economic and travel restrictions. russia is firing back with those sanctions as well as sanctions from the u.s. the u.s. imposed sanctions on seven officials and restricted

exports that could help russia's military. secretary of state john kerry said if he could rewind the tape he wouldn't use the word apartheid in talking about israel. the lack of a two-state solution in the middle east could lead to israel becoming a, quote, apartheid state. he is stressing his record as strong supporter of israel. those are your headlines at half past the hour here on "new day." >> hot water for the secretary. >> some hot water. let's break here. haunting audio played in malaysia. we have the final recording of flight 370. what is on the tape and when was it said? was the plane already miles off course when the pilots were so calmly saying good night? we'll talk with a family member of an american passenger on board. and nba owner donald sterling may learn his fate later today. will the l.a. clippers owner be banned? we'll talk with the options with a former star, what leak rose,

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welcome back to "new day." for the very first time we're hear that last radio communication between the

cockpit and the control tower. overnight malaysian officials played them for the family members in beijing. i want you to take a listen. >> again, a little difficult to make out because it was being played over a loud speaker in that room. again, it was just some of the information officials revealed during that briefing.

sarah bajc is joining us live from beijing. she is partner with philip wood who was on board flight 370. so many people, and i know you among them, the family members have been desperately wait for any sort of information to be released from the malaysian authorities. concrete evidence like these audio recordings. now, i know you weren't able to be at that meeting but you've had a chance to catch up with the family members. i'm curious what your take is, sarah? >> well, we are very, very pleased that the malaysian government and malaysian airlines has come forward with some new information to share. we've been, i think, both sides of the conversation escalated to a little bit too much heat up through last week and everybody has had a chance to take a big deep breath. and, you know, we're trying to start over in a little more cooperative way. so this because great first step. >> i think people understand the emotions running high.

certainly on the part of the family members. i don't think anybody faults you for that for wanting answers. does this -- the release of these recordings give you any new insight, sarah? >> it really doesn't. the bulk of the recording is the same content as was contained in the transcript that we've already seen. there were two new clips that we haven't seen transcripts for. one was the airplane to the airport and one was to the radar tower. so we haven't had the chance to get that in any transcript format and it wasn't understandable from the audio clip in person, either. so we'll have to wait and see when we get that in transcript form. >> i want to play the words that were originally debate sod, so much. you will recall that. the last voice contact between the pilots and malaysian air traffic control. let's play that one more time here.

>> you know, it's interesting, sarah, you mentioned that it was a good first step. did you get a sense from talking to the other family members that the release of this audio, while not necessarily reveal aggregate deal of new information at all, do you think it increased the confidence in the malaysians or the confidence in the investigati investigation? >> well, it increased the confidence that they're listening to us. the malaysian airlines group has brought in some new leadership recently to be part of connecting to the family members. and i think that that's part of it. you know, we've had a chance to sit down and have conversations with that gentleman one-on-one and that really opens up the lines in a different way than when we're sitting on opposite sides of the table. in the end, transcripts or recordings don't really help us find the airplane. they might help us to understand what happened at an early stage but we are trying to stay focused on the look forward to

actually find where the airplane is. >> absolutely. you know that prime minister of malaysia announced hess going to release this preliminary report on the plane's disappearance, the government report. are you confident he's going to follow through on those words? are you looking forward to it? what are you expecting to hear from it? >> i have no idea. if it's just more of the same analysis then we will continue to push for raw data. confidence in the investigation team having analyzed the data in front of them properly and there are enough independent experts out in the industry who have looked at their calculation models and raised questions as to marry validity. so we don't trust the analysis. we want to data still. >> one thing i know you are hanging on to and it speeksz to you're looking forward in the search for the wreckage, there's

an australian search firm who said they had a strong credible lead in the bay of bengal, some 2,000 mile s north of the curret search area. they say they are reason to believe that could be wreckage from mh370. you had a chance to speak to the director. what did he tell you and what do you believe from this information you've been able to hear? >> well, i wanted to hear in a human voice what we had seen on the news release that had come out through channel 7 earlier today. and i have a fairly sensitive bs meter at this point and this gentleman sounded credible to me. his company is in the business of isolating digital signatures, if you will, for metal, so they do metal detection. for a number of different industries. so they're not in the business of looking for airplanes but they are in the business for identifying metal signature and that they felt fairly confident as of four weeks ago that they

had seen something. they released that data. it was ignored. after two weeks they released another set of reportings, and that was ignored, too. so they went to the media. so i do believe it's worth sending a boat out with proper sonar capabilities. the water is only 1,000 meters deep in that area and they have gps coordinates of where to go. so we would like to see the government follow-up on this. it seems valid. >> we're told that the malaysian government has that information and they are looking into it. and hopefully you can keep some pressure on them to go to that area because, again, saying they found something in the bay of bengal that could very well be, in their estimation, the wreckage of flight 370. hopefully we'll hear more information about this in the coming days and weeks. sarah, thanks so much again for joining us. we appreciate it. >> you're welcome. kate? >> coming up next on "new day," players want punishment for donald sterling, but how far can the nba go in disciplining the

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anonymity in foyour finances anymore. so today we could learn the fate of l.a. clippers owner d donald sterling. he was caught on tape making racist statements about african-americans. the nba commissioner will hold a news conference about the c controversy today and he could hand down a punishment. let's bring in malik rose, two-time champion, and game analyst for comcast sportsnet philadelphia covering the 76ers of course. great to have you here, malik. so, first, they have to make sure they're right, right? the commissioner has been doing his due diligence making sure that this is the right voice and figuring out his options. is that your understanding? >> yes. that's what we're being told just to sit tight and wait for commissioner silver and rest of his staff to do their investigation and report their findings. >> all right. so there's a lot of critical mass getting around this for different reasons. there's an expectation of severe action. doing a little homework, what can they do? >> they can suspend him from

operations. i don't know what that really means to an owner. they could fine him a million dollars. i don't know what that really means to a billionaire. but the commissioner could, i believe, call on the owners to have a vote to oust sterling from membership, force him to sell. do you think there's an option of that? >> i think there's possible. right now from a players side and the union side, we're dealing with unchartered territory. i don't remember a time where an owner has messed up to this ebbs tent. right now we don't know what the sanctions are, what the process is for correcting an owner when he makes a mistake like this. so it's really going to be interesting come 2:00 today to hear what commissioner silver has after his investigation. >> owners have been coming forward but do you think it's right to put the pressure on them instead of the players, this talk of should chris paul lead his team to boycott, should the fans boycott. do you think that's where the focus should be? >> absolutely not, chris. this is not a player problem.

so often in the media we see where players make mistakes and they have to be corrected or whatever. in this instance, this is an owner making the mistake. so in my opinion, the players don't need to do anything. they need to sit back and see what the owners and commissioner silver do in response to these terrible accusations and if the owners drop the ball with their report today, only a hand tap or he's not really reprimanded, thennic it will be time for the players to ratchet it up and do something on their side. but as of right now the players need to sit tight and let the league do what they need to do. >> aspect of this seems to be bigger than the game as well. do you think it's true or your time in the league, did you ever hear that sterling was a race snis. >> you heard a lot of things. i know i did. during my playing days, the clippers were never really a championship contender so they were -- that's being generous. >> kind of like an after thought for most of my career and before then. most of the stuff that came out of l.a. as far as the clippers

was disregarded but you did hear things. you heard stuff with baylor and mike dunleavy, guys who had the sued to get their money or sued to get a fair shake. all of these guys had things that they were chirpings throughout my time in the league but none of it was ever taken seriously obviously. >> i was reading on yahoo! that sterling, there were stories about him that he believed he wouldn't pay top dollar. now, listen to this -- for white players because he believed that, well, if i'm going to pay top dollar it's got to be a black guy, it got to be a long, strong, athletic black guy. i'm not paying that for a white guy. had you ever heard of that? >> i've never heard anything like that. with j.j. reddick and bledsoe, this is recent. this isn't like it was 40, 50 years ago. it wouldn't have been acceptable then but it just shows you how crazy things are and the clipper land out in l.a. it's shocking. to we me, someone that's been in

the nba to hear more and more things start to come to light, i'm actually kind of embarrassed that it let it slip past me. i never thought about it. >> it would make sense that players are focused on the game and there's that tension between management players anyway, in any base, let alone in the league. if the owners knew and they sat by and let it exist because he wasn't a threat, does that deserve scrutiny? >> yes. that's one of the reasons the kevin johnson is helping them through this process. this is one of the five things that the union needed to know, all the past accusations and any type of report or incident brought up between the los angeles clippers and docsterlin the union is asking for full disclosure of his history. >> the one good thing we're talking about, discussing it, condemning it, maybe it's not the worst stuff we've ever heard it deserves to be condemned

equally. mal malik, a pleasure. >> thank you. >> good luck to your 76ers. all right. so there's a lot of news going on today. we're tracking severe storms and dangerous tornadoes. plus, never before heard audio from the cockpit of flight 370. a lot of tell you. let's get to it. this is a tornado ripping through the city of tupelo. >> there is all sorts of stuff falling out of the sky. >> there are cars tossed. >> the damage is very devastating. >> they played for the very first time. radio chatter believed to be between missing flight 370 and ground control. >> there's a man in a powerful portion should be embracing minorities, not discriminating against them. >> the players feel very strongly that hess not fit to be an own oer and a part of this n brk a family. welcome back to "new day." we begin with breaking news. devastation across the south

with more dangerous storms and tornadoes on the way. well over 50 twisters in the last 24 hours ripping apart the region. mississippi, alabama, sustaining enormous damage, multiple fatalities. in alabama three confirmed deaths. mississippi, eight people confirmed killed. remember, numbers are early. 12 different tornadoes roared through the state, destroying everything in their paths. we have reporters in the hardest hit areas. and we have meteorologists indra petersons looking at what we can expect today. still 75 million people in harm's way. let's start with chad myers on the ground in tupelo, mississippi. ch chad? >> this is a shell station, chris, it was, what's left of it. it was a car getting fuel. 130 to 145 miles per hour. the town of lewisville, south of here, got hit unbelievably hard.

>> there is all sorts of stuff falling out of the sky. the road is getting lit. there are cars that have been tossed. >> you have no idea what you're going to find. here's a bee from somewhere. this sell station has no "b" in it, i have no idea where that came from. >> chad, thanks so much. in alabama, thousands or forced to take cover in shelter or hud until hallways. tornadoes touching down throughout the state there as well. brian todd has the very latest from the hard hit town of athens. brian? >> kate, we're seeing first light here and seeing our first glimpse of the sheer devastation that hit this town. this is foundation of a home that is not there anymore. part of it may have been just swept over here. walking along the foundation here you can see the wreckage of this home. it was completely pulverized. there's part of a toilet and an

appliance here. all of it completely blown away. and this entire neighborhood is just decimated. this was a group of hughes hou apartme apartments. some people here at first light is just returning to pick through what's left of their homes. lot far away from here in kimberly alabama, you have incredible video just from the height of the storm when it was hitting. a church, half of it collapsed. roof ripped off. we have video of that. just almost at the height of the storm when it was raining. also a fire station, some first responders had trouble getting out. a fire truck covered in debris as the lightning and rain pulverized that area of kimberly, alabama. not too far south of here. people just now returning to their homes. we're told three people in the state of alabama, three people died. two not far from here in a trailer park. casualty numbers are going to be fluid as the day goes on. chris, back to you. >> brian, we've got to be mindful of that and continue to monitor it. be safe as you're walking around.

joining us to update us is mayor j jason shelton. thank you for joining us. i know you're concerned about the entire community. is your family okay, is your home okay? >> thank you so much. my family is fine. my home is fine. we have had one casualty here in tupelo and wide spread devastation here in the community and just praying for all the residential and business owners and starting the healing process. >> we see what is bed hind you. and we heard the governor of mississippi qualify it this way, phil brian that he lived through katrina but he's never seen anything like this. what is your experience? >> the governor was very gracious, reached out to me, called me twice yesterday, as he dealt with storms literally covering half of the state of mississippi. terrible storm system. he's on his way to tupelo this morning and plan on touring the city with him and assessing the

damage. and he's going to work with us to get the best response possible for our citizens. >> what's your best information on search and rescue there? what are you diskcoverdiscoveri? >> the tupelo first responders, emergency management team led by fire chief thomas walker did a wonderful job. they did a house-by-house, door-to-door search last night of every affected neighborhood. they did a second search last night. it's my understanding we will do a third today just to make sure there are no casualties or no one still trapped in their home. >> is it true, mr. mayor, that in one sent narrcenario, an ent business was taken down to the ground except the rest room and that's where the employees were hiding? >> no, we're actually standing directly across the street from that business now, the steak escape here. that was just a miracle of god. they huddled in the bathroom

facilities and the vast majority of the building was destroyed around them. >> how did that happen? was it just plain luck or, as you're saying, a miracle, or did that structure, that part of the structure get built up and re-enforced? >> well, we can see it here. you know, i don't know the ins and out of the structurist. certainly very fortunate to be able to seek shelter there in the strongest part of the building and survive the storm. >> wow. whatever it was, thank god they did survive. most importantly, mr. mayor, what do you need? what do you want people to know about the needs on the ground there in going forward? >> just continued support and prayers. we're going to work with the federal and state emergency management crews. tupelo's response has been great. we've got surrounding

communities that are literally waiting 15 miles away to get here to help today. for the local people, i would continue to urge people to be weather aware and to resist the natural urge to kind of go see the situation, try to assess the damage, or even check on a friend's home or business. the emergency crews and responders need to be able to do their job. there's still a few natural gas lines that have damage that the crews are working on. and the electric lines, as they restore power, there's a very real threat of electrocution. just ask people to continue to pray but at the same time give the first responders the space they need to do their job. >> mr. mayor, as the sun comes up we hope that it isn't revealed to be even worse than it looks right now. stay in touch. let us know what you need. thank you for joining us this morning. good luck. quick recovery. >> thank you. thank you. a third of the country now

is on alert today for more severe weather including even more tornadoes. meteorologist indra petersons is taking a closer look at that. indra? >> it's hard to believe we're still talking about severe weather. again today, the fact that we're talking about more people effected by the threat for severe weather is devastating. look at what we saw yesterday. 80 reports of tornado damage. where? kentucky, tennessee, especially out towards mississippi and alabama. keep in mind unfortunately today that concern is going to be in the exact same region. we're going to be focusing again right into the southeast, especially again, notice out towards birmingham north of mobile. 2 1/2 million of you today under the threat for a moderate risk. that's an enhanced risk for severe weather. 73 million of youing looking for a slight risk for severe weather. keep in mind slight risk does not mean you cannot get a strong tornado. that threat is still very much out there today. especially as we go through the afternoon again. so let's talk about what we're dealing with. this morning still looking at tornado watch boxes including

atlanta, macon, albany. that concern will enhance as we go through the afternoon. why? why are you still dealing with this? look at this system not northeast. it is packed here. it has been for days. the system behind it, producing severe weather parked in place. that cold front spinning up and fueling the thunderstorms in the afternoon as we get that sunlight or the daytime heating. again today looking for severe weather and also unfortunately in through tomorrow, still looking for more severe weather from d.c. down through florida. tough thing to consider when you talk about the wooded areas. we're still very hard to see tornados in this region, especially when they get rain wrap we'd ped with heavy rain. let's turn to another breaking news story this morning. in the search for flight 370, for the first time we get to hear there t. final cockpit recordings, the missing passengers' families getting access to this audio for very first time during a meeting with malaysian officials. take a listen to a bit of it.

>> there was that final communication that they have waited, those families have waited so long to gain access to. let's discuss what this means to the investigation and some other developments this morning. joining us now airline accident investigator shawn much nicky and the author of "why planes

crash" david soucie. good morning to both of you. shawn, i want to it get your take once again. we hear this audio for the first time. it's been six weeks. this is something the families have been asking. something that we have land, i have learned as uninitiated through this process, pretty basic hearing the communications but what do we learn from this now six weeks in? >> unfortunately not a whole lot. what we hear by this audio recording, which is rally pretty low quality from what we've heard so far, is that this was a normal transmission. this is a normal discussion between air traffic control and the aircraft. and really nothing that tells us anything could have been amiss. >> what if the quality is better and you assume they have better quality, the reason our audio quality isn't as great is they have playing it over a audio speaker in the room. what are theying looking at? what have they been investigating? what can you gain from listening? >> there are several things to look at. primarily they can look at --

try to detect stress patterns. >> you can really try to get that from those communications? >> absolutely. that's been done before. they can even listen to engine sound. if they're wondering about, you know, the power settings on the engines, sometimes they can actually detect that noise in the background and determine approximate engine level settings. more importantly they're going to focus on just the voice patterns themselves, trying to detect stress. you have to have another recording of the same individuals to compare it to and do the analysis. >> you assume, david soucie, the investigators have previous communications from the pilot, that they can try to compare it to. what do you gain -- what do you gather, anything unusual you sense from these communications that the families have waited so long to hear? >> well, i don't think there's anything terrible unusual, however, if you listen to it it keeps repeating back we're at 350, we're at 350. typically what that means is the

pilot is trying to remind the tower they requested a change in altitude but you haven't resp d responded to me yet. what's more important is the malaysian government is releasing it and opening up communications and sharing things with the families they hadn't previously done. i think that's a big step forward. >> a big step in the transparency people have been calling for for so long. >> david soucie, on this, a report coming out of an australian exploration company is report that they possibly have detected debris in a very different part of the ocean. they believe that through their analysis they may have detected debris just south bangladesh, in the bay of bengal. do you think that's possible, because so far is joint -- the joint coordinating committee out of australia came out and essentially dismissed it already.

>> well, remember you would have to disregard so much other information that they've been basing everything on. now, as far as this company and their credibility is very high and they do have information that something is there shortly after the accident that wasn't there before including metals. they sensed metals. that what they're there for. they're sensing titanium and aluminum and the metals not in that particular spot before the accident. so as far as that, it does have credibility. as far as the fact that they would have to ignore literally the entire investigation that they started from ground zero, they're not going to be very quick to respond to that, specifically because the inmarsat data is very credible and accurate and we still can't discount the pings. the pings we haven't found any other thing in the ocean that could make that same sound and at that same frequency. so i think that's good that they're disregarding it for now but certainly everything has to be investigated and examined. >> to be specific, from the

joint committee, shawn, the team is satisfied the final resting place of the missing aircraft is in the southern portion of the search arc. this would take you into the northern portion which had been discredited wiks ago. >> absolutely. i think david is right. we have more evidence to indicate that it's probably in that southern area. i think those pings are a really good point. >> is there any problem though dismissing it so quickly? >> absolutely. >> should they send something there? >> i think someone needs to take to a look at this. we need to bring some experts in, folks other than just this company, present this data to some other individuals, other people with the technical expertise to look at this and say does this merit bringing resources a significant distance from where those resources currently are. >> which means time and money and if it's wrong, a distraction and a departure from where they need to be focused right now. >> absolutely. >> a little bit of why not at this point. >> let's take a look at it and talk to the people.

>> shawn, david, thank you as always. great to see you guys this morning. let's look at more of your headlines. north korea conducted live fire artillery drills overnight. they took place near pyongyang's dispute maritime border with south korea. analysts view the drills as a sign of frustration with the lack of international. both korea yas conduct the drills but they often get tense. 15 people are facing sanctions from the european union for their part in russia's aggression against ukraine. economic and travel restrictions are on the table for the group which includes members of vladimir putin's inner circle. russia is criticizing the sanctions from the eu and u.s. which targeted seven officials. sanctions restrict exports that could help russia's military. the house is ramping up some pressure on colleges to crack down on sexual assaults. vice president biden unveiling new guidelines today urging colleges to conduct surveys about assault.

the white house also plans to launch a new website notalone.gov to provide victims with information and track enforcement. >> people are going to be shocked when they find out that assaults on campus are actually going up. you would think in this day and age they would be going the other way. >> still so underreport sed one of the biggest problems. >> and one of the challenges is the dna databases are sitting there to be examined. let's take a break right now. coming up on "new day," big sponsors, they're not waiting for the nba. they cut ties with the clippers owner donald sterling because of his alleged comments. so what will the league do? we're supposed to find out today but we're going to bring in former nba star mr. greg anthony for his take coming up. also coming up on inside politics, congressman michael grimm, a former fbi agent but yesterday he was in fbi custody. why grimm called federal charges against him part of a witch hunt. that's ahead.

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there is something that's in the nba constitution that's called a nuclear option, if you will, that could compel the league or could compel an owner to have to sell. and i think in light of what's happening now, with sponsors starting to pull out now, that's all still basically local, but that could get momentum. if it were ever to get to a point to become national, the league would have a monumental issue. there's an interesting dynamic with all of this because this is not so much to focus on donald sterling and his behavior but the biggest picture and mark cuban talked about this yesterday is the press decedent it could set for the league if you were to, in essence, be able to come up with a scenario whereby a team could be taken from a perspective owner. so this is -- has a lot of underlying dynamic to it that adam silver is going to have to deal with. so i, like you, will be anxious

to hear what steps are going to be taken here at 2:00. >> he can't do it alone though, right? he would need to basely envoc the owners council to have their own vote, right? that's how it would have to work? >> yeah. and i think you've already seen the groundwork being laid for significant action based on the fact that so many of the owners have come out with really strongly worded statements in condemnation, if you will, of donald sterling. so that is, in essence, the first step in that process. you're kind of aligning yourself of getting alliances from the owners before something could be done. so you would assume, and knowing the folks in the league office, there has been a tremendous amount of legwork done in terms of aligning those owners because they do understand the significance of this. this is, again, it's not illegal to be a bigot or a racist, but it's also not good business.

and they all realize that. and i think that's why you're going to see the league along with the support of the owners and we've already seen how the players feel about this, come out strongly in their response to donald sterling. >> if you look at the situation in the best light for sterling, is there any case that can be made for mercy? he wasn't screaming the "n" word, he gave money to naacp, he dates someone of color. is there any way to mitigate what he said, well, he's not as bad as other people? >> well, listen, there have been many people throughout the history of our society who have been racist and discriminatory. that didn't stop them from hanging out with people of color or from differentest necessities. that's not necessarily going to fly, i don't think. i think, also, just because of, youctive he gave in terms of why he feels the way he does about people who don't share the same ethnicity

as he does, that's really compelling stuff. that speaks to the heart and to the core of who the person is. that's really hard to walk back. you know? i just don't see a secenario where that's going to be acceptable. i think this will forever stay with him and potentially with the clippers organization, which is why it's so important that things happen and happen quickly. but within a process that will allow the league to not set the kind of precedence that could do severe damage to its infrastructure moving forward. >> in terms of why the ownership should act as a collective, if it's true that people knew that sterling had these kinds of views, if it's true that it was known that white plays w. like j.j. reddick or bledsoe saying, i'm not going to pay that for a white player, i'm only going to pay that for a black player because they're naturally better, if that is known don't

they have to act because they let this guy be in their membership? >> well, chris, you've got to be careful with that stuff because, again, we all know that have -- maybe or we have suspicions about how people feel about certain things. but having feelings and suspicions and ultimately being able to prove it are far different. and that's why we have the kinds of laws that with sland and libel and that's one reason why people haven't been willing to necessarily speak out until something is damning as that audio was released. so again, i think enough damage has been done by donald sterling to now warrant the kind of reaction and outcry we're seeing around the country that something has got to give, something strong has to be done to send the kind of message that that type of behavior will not be tolerated. particularly in sports. again, a society that tends to be far more progressive and open

than the rest of society. >> doc rivers, the coach there in the presence is help by the moving the onus away from the players, away even from the fans somewhat, this should be about the ownership and league. and let's be honest, it's beggar than basketball, this dialogue. hopefully action will be taken and the conversation continues. always a pleasure, greg. >> all right. thank you, chris. all right. coming up next on "new day," an australian exploration company says it has found what it believes could be plane wreckage, and they believe it may be from flight 370. we're going to talk to the director of that company, of that group. what makes him think it could be the missing plane? how could they be so sure. also ahead, secret recording of the secretary of state john kerry forcing him to apologize. what he dade about israel and why it has sparked calls for his resignation.

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welcome back to "new day." breaking overnight, for the first time we're hearing flight 370's cockpit recordings. so are missing passengers' family members were desperate for information to know what happened to their loved ones. hours ago they updated them on the investigation into the missing plane. e ivan watson is in beijing. after all that time, how did the families react? >> reporter: much more positively. this is the first time in two weeks that i haven't seen the family members crying and cursing at the malaysian officials. instead, they listened to these audio recordings that they had requested in the past.

the malaysians had released transcripts but now we're hearing the final words to the outside world from what we believe was the crew of the missing malaysian airlines flight. take a listen. now, they answered a number of technical questions. they gave the serial number of black box, flight data recorder, for example, and also explained their attempts to reach out to the plane as it was in the air. it's interesting, they've made a phone call around 2:00 a.m. on march 8th and then waited more than five hours to try to make another call to the plane. both were not answered. the second call which came about five hours later, was about 45 minutes after the plane was supposed to land here at the international airport in beijing. no explanation for why malaysian airlines waited five hours to

reach out to the plane and waited after the plane was supposed to land here at beijing airport. some questions beginning to be answered though as some of these distraught family members saying, hey, finally we're making some progress with the malaysian authorities. >> shame it took 53 days for the information to come to those families. thank you so much for that. all right. it's time to take a turn inside politics on "new day" with mr. john king. john, how are you doing? >> great. happy tuesday morning. let's go inside politics this morning. a lot to discuss. with me to share the reporting and insight atlantic's mahli ball and cnn's peterer hamby. the president's approval rating. you will have polls up and down, issues rise and fall. the one constant the f. you look at history is the president's approval rating. abc news/"washington post" poll out, president's approval rating at 41%.

abc/"washington post" poll, some say the enrollment numbers are up, obamacare doesn't seem to be as bad. when you see that number you think ug. >> this is a low point for obama, for his entire presidency. and there are a lot of democrats who really did think he had turned a corner. a lot of democrats thought after steady stream of good headlines on obamacare in particular that maybe that was something just sort of temporary, that now that the website is working and people are enrolled that people would start feeling t better about obama. you see what's driving this, he's got a low rating on health care but also a low rating on the economy and a very low rating on his handling of the situation on ukraine. and you know, the headlines for obama in recent weeks have really been all about foreign affairs. there hasn't been a lot of good news for the united states there. >> that's been part of the problem, peter. can he find something to get his footing and then from there try to rebuild his standing. something overseas. to molly's point, people just feel the economy is quicksand right now.

in the "post" poll, 28% think it's getting better. that means more than seven in ten americans think the economy is stagnant or getting worse for any president, whether you're a democrat or republican or whatever. if 28% of the country thinks the economy is getting better you are in trouble. >> yeah. especially in a midterm year when republicans are expected to turn out with more intensity and greater numbers. look, the right track, wrong track number the president's approval is is much better indicators of this point of how the senate races, statewide races are going to go than, you know, the individual polls in the race. if you look through for silver linings here, the one take away for me is just that the republican brand is so damaged still. democrats have advantages on who can help the middle class, who can help the economy, who is better on health care, the budget. those are things that democrats see advantages on. obamacare, though, not one of them. >> that's the challenge. can you motivate the people who are probably with you more on

the issues? can you get younger people who drop off dramatically? can you get nonwhite t voters who drop off more significantly in midterm elections? 62% of the american people think the country is on the wrong track? will any democrats -- now, the president just a week or so ago was saying campaign aggressively on it. will they listen to a president, if you're in a tough race and you're a democrat, do you reason to a president when 60% of the country says we're on the wrong track and he's at 41? >> it's hard to imagine a lot of the candidates suddenly wanting to put themselves on the line and be the one who steps out as sort of the poster child for obamacare given numbers like this and given the fact that the president is now out front on it and the president is not popular. i think there may be an impulse to sort of let him take all the flack for it while other candidates position themselves in more nuanced ways or try to make their individual elections a choice rather than a referendum. right? try to make their individual election more about who they are and who their opponent is, particularly who their opponent

is and what they stand for and other issues where peter mentioned, democrats do have an advantage. >> if the president is having a bad day, anyone in washington might be having a worst day, it's the president's sec taf of state john kerry is apologizing for using the term apartheid. israel risks becoming an apartheid state. he said he did not think it was being covered by journalists, talking about if israel doesn't get to the palestinian moving forward with the peace process, get to a two-state solution, secretary kerry being condemned by democrats and republicans. here's liberal democratic senator barbara boxer of california. israel is the only democracy in the middle east and any linkage between israel and apartheid is nonsense call and ridiculous. that's from the left side of the political spectrum. ted cruz who is the right soid of the political spectrum on the senate floor. >> before any further harm is done to our national security interests and to our critical alliance with the nation of israel that john kerry should

offer president obama his resignation and the president should accept it. >> molly, secretary kerry saying if i could rewind a tape i would have chosen a different word. when ted cruz says he should resign, is that going to happen? >> i think ted cruz calling on a member of the obama administration to resign is sort of a day that ends in "why" f "l n fe fell nom non. he is backpedalling p. he's apologize for using this language but i think it reflects his frustration that the peace process that he undertook that he knew was borderline impossible has fallen apart, if anything has had sort of negative mo m negative momentum and is not going anywhere. this is word that israeli politicians use commonly in their own discourse but it is something that is not acceptable at all in american discourse. >> go to israel, i was there

several months ago. this is the conversation they're having. younger generation of palestinians are saying, okay, fine, if you won't give us a state. forget the peace process. give us voting rights. let us be part of this conversation. the secretary kerry's point is you can't have a jewish state then. if the israelis want a jewish state, if you give the palestinians a right to vote within a larger israel, you're out numbered. but he's not supposed to use that term. >> in the american political context, especially. it's a term outside the campus left he probably has no allies on this in this country. it's just one of those words you cannot say even if there's a kernal of truth behind it you can't say it. that raises the question of behind closed doors why did he bring this up? >> debate about how the "daily beast" reporter got in the room or not a tape recorder in the room. we could have a conversation and i'm sure will be this weekend. john kerry should know better. anything you say in today's world is most likely being recorded by someone. let's move on to michael

grimm. he's a republican con man from the state of new york. indicted yesterday for corruption charges, tax evasion, perjury. he says he's innocent and he'll fight. >> i will not abandon my post or the wonderful people who entrusted me to represent them. with honor and distinction i will serve, and then on top of all that, i have an election to win. >> now the indictment comes down after the filing deadline. it's harder for the republican leadership to say get it, let us get another candidate. that's a seat that republicans could pick up. does his defiance last until election day or does this depend on a month from,000 on what the polling says? >> he may be testing the waters. mi michael grimm has been under fire since he was elected in 2010. the indictment comes down and you wonder what tooks them so long, back in january when he

threatened to throw him off the balcony in the house. so, you know, the problem for republicans is that it may be impossible to get him off the ballot or put anyone else on the ballot because filing is over. >> and he's a former marine, former undercover fbi agent. he has tough skin. i think you're going to have to wait and see what house leadership does, what john boehner does behind the scenes. we've seen with other republicans who have been in scandal he is methodical about applying pressure. >> back to you guys in new york. we're all awaiting adam silver, news conference. last night jimmy fallon proving how deep water is donald sterling is in? listen. >> it seems like everybody is weighing in, everybody president obama is calling donald sterling's racist remarks incredibly offensive. you know it's bad when putin is like, i hate to say it but i am with obama on this one. that dude is the worst, man. >> big day, chris and kate, for

adam silver. i don't do this very often. i have a huge conflict of interest here because adam is a friend of mine for more than a decade and he will do anything he can on this one. trust me. >> everyone is waiting to see what he can do. we will see, john. thank you. >> complicated situation. this is the next step in the process that needs to happen and all the dialogue around it needs to continue as well. so we'll see what happens when he says it. coming up next on "new day," more on the breaking developments in the search for flight 370. australian group says they believe they've located plane wreckage that could be the plane. so how is that possible after such an exhaustive search in a completely different area? we're going to talk with the head of the group coming up after the break. we're going to give you more insight into this controversy surrounding the l.a. clippers basketball owner. why did he get in such hot water to begin with? what's going to happen to him? what can they do? we're going give you the best information we have ahead of the nba commissioner eisen nounsment.

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welcome back to "new day." breaking flnews approximately australian company called geo residence says it discovered what it believes could be plane wreckage in the bay of bengal. they're saying they are looking to verify the report.

the sighting though would put the plane wreckage on the northern arc of the search, a very different place than where they're searching right now. this would be where australian teams had suspended search operations weeks ago. let's find out more about this. joining us on the phone from geo residence david pope. mr. pope, thank you so much for joining on the phone. >> good morning. how are you? >> i'm doing very well, thank you. i do want to get your take on how -- what did you find that leaves you so confidence that the plane's wreckage could be in this northern arc in the bay of bengal? >> technology was originally created to search the nuclear, biological, and chemical weaponry under the ocean and under the earth, as in bunkers and so on. and what we do is we look at the nuclei of an atom, copper or nickel or iron.

and so we knew we had the tools to search for the plane so we started searching on the 12th. we got images which were a mixture of satellite and images from airplanes between in a multispectral images. not visual images. they're a bit more scientific than that. so we started looking north of malaysia and then we started moving northwest of malaysia. we ended up in the top of the bay of bengal. and as we searched all of those areas, we were looking for alominum which makes up 70% of the boeing 777. if we got a hit or a reading for alomi alomi alominium then we moved on to copper and steel and nickel and

iron. there were a few others but the main ones we were looking for. >> so you look for all of these metals. you look to detect these metals in a very scientific way, if you will. what led you to this area though? we are talking about a vast part of the association where, at that time, the search efforts had already begun focusing very squarely in the southern indian ocean on that southern arc. and this is really in a completely different area that had already been discredited by the joint search effort. what led you to this area to begin with? >> no, you're actually incorrect there. the date when we started looking on the 12th, only four days after the plane disappeared. >> so you were already looking on the 12th. okay. >> yeah. the search hadn't moved down south at that stage. so we were looking where everyone else was looking. and it seemed the most logical area to look as well. the southern area doesn't seem logical to us at all.

the pings coming from the satellite is basically a 50/50 chance that it was hitting on the northern corridor or the southern corridor. as it turned out we found out afterwards but we still say we could be right. we're not saying we have actually found mh 370. we have found what we think is a lead that should be investigated. >> so you pass along this information. as i can see from your press release you passed it along twice. you passed along your report on par march 31st and again on april 4th. what response have you gotten? today australian officials essentially appear to be dismissing the report when they came out in response saying they're still very satisfied saying the final resting place of the missing aircraft is in the search arc. >> they may very well be right. but we still think that what we have found is a wreckage of an aircraft and somebody should

actually look into it. and -- because the metals that we have discovered and we have double-checked our work and our final report was actually sent to all of the agencies on the 15th of april. it was sent two weeks ago yesterday. and that -- we had double-checked all of our findings. and we had a total of 23 scientists looking at the -- looking at the project. so we are very, very positive that we have found something. and it may be down south but we definitely found something up north. >> mr. pope, what is the response from the australians and the malaysians? have they said that they're going to look into it? >> the malaysians -- their response has been excellent today. the malaysian high commission contaced us around midday and we forwarded on the copies of the reports again. and they forward them on to the malaysian search and rescue

headquarters in kuala lumpur. then after that we did a 1 1/2-hour technical presentation. on our technology and on our findings on the wreckage that we have found. and they were very interested, very excited about it and very thankful for our efforts. and they were passing it on up the chain of command. so that's very new, just happening today. do you think that's in response to you putting out your research and findings publicly? until this point seems they may have been a bit slow to respond to your report? >> yes. what happens it just got lost in their system. i don't know, but we didn't want to go public, and that's why we've held off for a month, now four weeks and one day since we sent off an initial report. we're not seeking publicity. we're just trying to help, and we knew we had the capability to help, and we could help further,

if required. >> what would you like to see happen right now? >> well, we would like the malaysians to organize, perhaps the indians or perhaps the bangladeshi navy to send a boat out and have a look at the exact code we've given them, because it's not guesswork. we've actually given them a precise coordinate and have a look down there with sewn ar. sonar. >> sarah batyrrah bacj was on e saying you or someone from your group had spoken to you about your findings. when you look at all the attention on flight 370, any concern on your part or hesitancy on your part of giving the families false hope when the majority of the search is now

clearly focused somewhere else? >> absolutely. as i said, we didn't want to go public at all. we were -- we're a large group of scientists, and we were being ignored, and we thought, we had a moral obligation to get our findings out in the -- or to authorities, and they weren't answering e-mails or phone calls, and we feel so deeply for the relatives of the passengers and the crew onboard mh-370. we've never declared that we have said it is that aircraft, but what we have found is a wreckage of an aircraft, we believe to be an aircraft, are very confident that it is and that our leads should be followed up and dismissed or approved. >> in pursuing your lead, you are not dismissing the other data by the insomar data and the

ping data? are you dismissing that data? >> we aren't dismissing the satellite data, but we still think that it could very well be north or south and it was close to a 50/50 chance of either. the very first ping from the chart a ship that was dismissed by, if you will, all of the french authorities. the second ping picked up by the australian ship, two hour, and 20 minutes long that has pretty well been dismissed, because as the ship is trolling and covering probably 10, 12, nautical miles in that 2 hours and 20 minutes, it was actually impossible to pick up a ping from 4.5 kilometers in deep water, and probably the same with the second ping, which was about 30 minutes. but the other pings, three and four, from the australian vessels very well could be

coming from the black box of the mh-370. we don't know, but all we know is what we have found through purely scientific work that we've been using for many, many years. >> uh-huh. >> have told us. we found a lot of metals down there that look exactly like a boeing 777, or an aircraft. >> mr. pope, thank you so much for jumping on the phone. very interesting data, now just becoming public. we will see what kind of attention this report will be getting going forward. as you said, because you seemed, you felt you were being ignored when you tried to keep it quiet and tried to not go public with it yet. thanks so much. >> thanks. coming up on "new day," breaking news for you out of georgia. we're following the situation as it develops. it's an active shooting at a fedex facility there. six people have been shot. we have a live report coming up with everything we know right after the break. your education is built to help move your career forward.

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>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome back to "new day." we do have breaking news coming into cnn right fou. an active shooting underway in a fedex facility in kennesaw, georgia. what we know, six people wounded, several taken to the hospital. surgery is involved. let's get reporting from the ground. rebecca schramm is a reporter with our wgcl emil yit.

rebecca, if you can hear us, tell us what you know. >> reporter: hi, chris. we were the first crew on the scene and for a long time were right up next to all the action here in kennesaw, georgia. this is a suburb of atlanta, and we were right there at the fedex. we've been pushed back for our own safety, because the shooter is not in custody. we have a number of law enforcement officers from all over cobb county, georgia who have descended upon this facility, and they are looking for this shooter. it is a very large facility. stow could take some time for them to pinpoint exactly where he or she is inside this building, but we know this -- there are six people, at least, who have been transported to a nearby hospital. their injuries range from the walking wounded, meaning they have minor injuries, to people who are in surgery. so this is a very serious situation here in kennesaw,

georgia, just north of atlanta. we're trying to figure out who the shooter is. is it someone who works for fedex? perhaps who was mad or angry at someone he or she works with? or was this some sort of domestic dispute that spilled over into the workplace? we do not have those details yet. law enforcement officers are concentrating first on capturing the shooter before they come to us and release this information. so we're going to continue to stay here on the ground, and try to sort out the details as best we can. back to you. >> so, rebecca, for now, let's stick to what we know. fedex just put out a statement they're aware of the situation our prime marry concern is for safety and well-being of our team members. fed ex is cooperating with authorities. earlier reports about who the suspect may be. they have thought been confirmed. let's stay away from them. you say you were there first, rebecca. we believe there are like 50 differ vehicles on site.

were you able to see the order in which they came? police first? ambulance first? fire and rescue first? what did you see? >> reporter: you know, when we got here, there were already all of the above on the scene. as we said, this is a suburb of atlanta. we were actually inside covering this weather system that was coming through here this morning. so we had a lot to contend with, and as we made our way up here, hearing the signs of this workplace shooting, we saw all kinds of law enforcement vehicles here already on the scene. the mobile command center, as a matter of fact, was already here on the scene. so this is something they responded to very quickly here on the ground as they tried to locate this shooter. now, we did see canine units, a number of dogs out sniffing the cars in the parking lot, and at one point, we saw a fedex employee, a person with, it was a man, and he on a fedex shirt. he was in handcuffs at the back

of a, an suv, however, they released that person. took the handcuffs off of him, and he walked back into the facility. so it looks like they're taking no chances as they try to figure out who this shooter is. >> it's not unusual for the authorities to take people into immediate custody as they're trying to abscess tssess the si. don't want to draw too much conclusion from that. word from a local hospital saying they took in six patients. no description of injuries, however, one is currently in surgery. so we do know this has been serious enough for people to go to the hospital. we do know that it is a shooting. the suspect still at large, as you can see on your screen. a lot of different first responders were involved, whether they're national guard, s.w.a.t. team, local police as well as medical officials. rebecca, have you heard any word from authorities as all about what they're saying beyond the statement from fedex they're cooperating with authorities, but little is known? >> reporter: no.

all we can tell you is what we saw with our own eyes on the ground, and that was a number of law enforcement officers continuing to put on their bullet-proof vests and reaching into their trunks and grabbing their rifles. so as they moved into the facility, and continued to do so, we were trying to figure out exactly what was going on. one thing we're noticing here on the ground is a number of fedex employees who have been blocked from this area. they're not being allowed any closer either, and they're waiting desperately for word on who the injured people are. they're wondering if it's people they know. they're wondering who the shooter might have been. so this is a very tense situation. many of them, the guys here, are friends with each other. so they're at least relieved to know that their close friends are not among the wounded. yes, this has been quite a horrifying situation for many of these folks up in kennesaw, georgia. >> small measure of comfort in the fact that people who are injured did make it to the hospital, are being treated.

one of them is in surgery. we're told it is an active crime scene. that's why you're seeing them prepare themselves to find out if there were one or more shooters and try to button up that situation. early reports from the suspect having fled are unconfirmed. we'll keep monitoring it. rebekah schrammthank you for joining us. let us know what you learn about the situation. we'll get back to you. we'll stay on top of that. unresolved and active down there in kennesaw, georgia. >> all right. we're also following other big news overnight. we want to get to. two days of terrifying tornadoes taking 29 lives in 6 states and the threat isn't over yet. alabama and mississippi sustaining the heaviest damage on monday. three people killed in alabama. dozens of buildings and homes flattened. in mississippi, the death toll is up to eight at this point. at least 12 tornados, they believe, touched down in the state. we're live in some of the hardest hit areas. chat myers live in tupelo, mississippi.

chad, what are you seeing now as first light comes up? >> reporter: it is first light, but something else has just happened. the fog has rolled in, which tells me that the humidity is still here, which tells me that tupelo is not in the clear for today just yet. take a look at the tree line over there. a little earlier i could see those trees. hard to see them now. but if you notice the tops ripped off, they're not ripped off as severely as yesterday in arkansas, which tells me the storm was probably 20 or 30 miles per hour less than yesterday, and so the humidity, the fog, is going to make this day certainly with more to come. you could hear the power of this massive cloud churning just outside of tupelo, mississippi, on monday. it's just one of a string of tornadoes that barreled through the southeast with tupelo hit hard. the threat forcing a local meteorologist to take cover

mid-broadcast. >> basement, now. >> let's go. >> reporter: the sheer force of the winds estimated at more than 100 miles per hour hoisted cars several feet off the ground, toppled power lines and reduced homes to rubble. residents struggled to pick up the pieces. [ crying ] >> reporter: severe weather spawned more than a dozen tornadoes that left 30 dead across six states since monday's in lewisville, ins mis. >> mississippi. >> oh, my god. no, no. no, no, no. >> reporter: know twister reportedly as large as a mild wide, and look at this field littered with tossed cars. and in alabama -- about 42,000 are washging up without power, with severe thunderstorms battering the state into the night. a tornado in kimberly being blamed for ripping the roof and siding off this church. we'll be on the move again

today, kate, because there are more storms, about 100 miles to our east. where we think they'll be severe again. it did rain all night in atlanta. that could be some good news, keeping temperatures cool. it could also be bad news, putting a lot of potential humidity at the surface. if you see sunshine today, alabama, georgia, mississippi, you could be under the gun for more severe weather. that sunshine heats the atmosphere. the atmosphere rises and that creates all the problems, that bubbling air, just like a hot air balloon. let me show you what this gas station looks like from the other side. the mayor was here. doing an interview, didn't want to interrupt with with one of the local affiliates there. i didn't want to be in that car when this tornado hit this gas station. not a pleasant sight. more to come today, kate. >> we see it too often. every time you see one of the images just how powerful these storms are, it is mind-blowing. chad, thank you very much. lats ta let's talk about what chad was talking about. the threat continue today.

>> it includes more people than yesterday. look how many are under the gun. 73 million of you have a potential for a slight risk. remember a slight risk still mean as potential for a strong tornado. major cities. detroit, cleveland, charlotte, atlanta. then places like birmingham, still talking about a threat for a moderate risk. a heightened risk, birmingham to just north of mobile, alabama. 2.5 million of you today. as we go through the afternoon, typically we can see some of these advisories heighten. what are we looking at right now? tornado watch boxes including places like albany. monitoring through the afternoon again, that sunlight, enough of the break in the cloud cover, is a sunlight fuels the storms. producing rain through the northeast today but parked here. not moving. meaning this system with a huge squall line behind it is also parked here, blocking the system from making a fast-moving progression. with that still looking at thunderstorms into the southeast today, in through tomorrow, same thing. d.c. back through florida, still

looking for that rick sk of sev weather. >> thank you for staying on top of that. any sign of the search for flight 370. missing passengers families also hearing the last words during a meeting with inmalaysian officials. this is what it sounded like over that loud speaker. take a listen. >> [ inaudible ]. . >> obviously, very difficult to hear, but we do know what was said. we're going to discuss what that might mean in terms of timing.

there could be something significant there but also another potential we have to get some real answers on this morning. an australian marine exploration company reports it may have found debris in the bay of bengal south of bangladesh. let's go through this. joining us, author of "why planes crash," mr. david soucie and cnn analyst and director of special projects at the oceanographic institution. let's start with davis susie. we've know what said and known for some time. that's not new, however, the timing and what you hear and when the left turn was believed to be made. what are you now able to put together in terms of the atmosphere in the cockpit just nine minutes before this dramatic alteration of course? does it mean they were off course already? >> you know, i'm not sure that i read that into it, chris, but certainly that there's some questions raised here in my mind, and that is that they're

so calm. there's nothing going on. it doesn't appear, in their voices. now, there is some analysis that can be done on their voices to see if there's any stress and that's forthumcan -- forthcoming. the time they made this turn and went back to the south is only nine minutes. what would have to occur in that time? particularly if you think about what the radar is telling us about the altitudes. it went up in altitude, down in altitude. i don't put a lot of credibility in the altitude changes because it came from primary radar, not designed necessarily to give altitude readings but nonetheless, it's curious. so not really a lot to say about what it actually says or the recordings themselves, other than it's great that the malaysians are sharing this with the families. i think that gives them a little bit more connectivity to the investigation, which is a good sign as well. >> information is always helpful when dealing in the overall realm of the unknown. you banged it into my head,

navigate, communicate, forget it all. if they're under duress, you're going to hear it in their voices. you don't need a stress test to tell you that. >> right. as david said, it sounded very routine like this is the routine signoff. >> we'll use this to piece together. how you are in the cockpit has to have a bearing what's going to be done with the air plane only some minutes later. there's a piece in the puzzle. what it means, we don't know. another bit of information that um cans out. georesonance is this company that comes out, in the exploration business. they use technology to find things. they say a month ago they undertook this search going on, and they released a report a month ago that they believe they know where something that should be the plane based on its composite medals they were looking for in the bay of bengal. now, that's way north of where everybody else is looking. david gallo, have of heard of

georesonance as a company? >> not as a company but familiar with the techniques they're using, the electromagnetic field and what's disturbing that. disturbances from what it should be. >> real science? >> yes, real science. >> they say using proven technology in mining, found structures, ships, munitions? >> this exists. whether they have the resolution to pick up something like an aircraft are and some of the things i've read, all these different elements found on the seafloor, in the sediments, i don't know. depends on the background. you're looking at bay of bengal. the ganges river, all deposited in that region. hard to understand what the background looks like. >> they sent schematics which mean absolutely nothing to me. they look like a baby in a sonogram as much as an airplane. looking for metal composites starting with aluminum and going through different things that would be in an airplane, but not unique to an airplane.

right? >> not unique to an airplane. that's just it. what's in the background and what troubles me a little about those images, that data, it looks like the shape of an airplane. that's asking an awful lot, unless the plane is in one piece. this one right in particular, is the, actually the shape of an airplane sitting on the bottom. >> you see an airplane? >> that no what i see in my rorshach analysis. they say we're only going public because we want to help the families and didn't want publici publicity, don't know for sure it's the plane but they should have been looking. we gave it to them when the batteries were still alive from the beakicons so they could hav found it. if they're right, david soucie, that means all of this ping stuff is wrong. doesn't it have to mean that? >> that's right. yes, it would have to mean that. remember, that the pings, the inmarchset data, every piece of evidence we have is subject to a confidence factor. that confidence factor, because of this, and i do find this

credible, georesonance, i've used it before in a mining company i'm involved with, and they do work, and what's very credible to me is the fact they have reports before the accident and they have reports after the accident, and the fact that titanium has shown up is very different and it is, as david gallo said, could be natural occurrences of that, but that is a metal very specific to that engine, to both of those rolls-royce engines. to me it's very credible and shakes the very bedrock of the assumptions and confidence factors in both the inmarsat data up in malaysia. >> something you believe should be investigated. when you say "shakes the bedrock" do you believe this could be more reliable than the analysis done on the pings, done over all of those days and by all those experts? >> i'm torn between this, chris. remember, we're talking about probabilities and confidence factors in each of these events. so my confidence factor in the pings was extremely high,

because i've seen no contradictory evidence or any any other proof what could create those pings. my confidence factor was high in that, until think data. now this data, it's been split 50%. the bedrock of eve mooneyn thou assumptions from before, on this credible data. >> we'll let you know as we find out. thank you for the background of the company and how this could be possible. thank you both. we're going to take a break. coming up next on "new day," monitoring breaking news out of georgia with reports of an active shooting situation at a fedex facility in the town of kennesaw. we're going back to the scene for the very latest. also ahead what will the nba do to punish l.a. clippers owner donald sterling for alleged racist comments? what can they do, is the most important question? that's next.

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welcome back top nba commissioner adam silver is set to hold a news conference about the racist comments allegedly made by clippers owner donald sterling. some sort of punishment is expected. the question, will it be enough? can it be enough, by the league rules as they stand today? let's get perspective. sean gregory and don aldridge. a sports agent and founder of dle sports management group. sean, let me start with you. what is the expectation of what silver is going to do here out of the box? >> i expect an indefinite suspension of donald sterling. it kind of forces sterling's

hand, the strongest possible penalty he can doll out right now. a monetary fine. >> meaning you can't run the company? >> yes. you can run it. you can own the asset. there's precedence a 2000 timberwolves owner suspended for circumvented the salary cap. and in baseball. kicked george steinbrenner out for a few years. >> you can't negotiate. do the day-to-day type things. >> right. people are saying, kick him out. he shouldn't be able to own a team. easy to say. tough to do. true? >> very difficult to do. in many ways it's almost a first impress. talk about the strangle hold elements that would give them the ability to essentially strip a franchise you're talking something along the lines of gambling or financial insolvency we saw with the dodgers creating a forced sale of the team. outside one of those two narp

circumstances, it's difficult. the suspension is not a ban and a ban isn't tantamount to a forced sale. all of those people strumming the deal from a share legal standpoint saying, make him sell the team, force his hand, that's much easier said than actually done. >> now, the question is, even if you could, if you could rally the owners and they all lean on him and say you've got to get out, which you could argue they should have known more about him than anybody else over the years, is this warranted? do you believe what he has said is enough, sean gregory to get him to be forced to leave basketball? >> i think it taints the brand. he's never going to be able to show up at an l.a. clippers game again, and have a favorable reaction. so, yeah. i think, you know, you can't force him out, but i think these comments, the nba is 80% african-american. sponsor are fleeing like crazy. it's in the owner's best interests, the league best

interests, should have donald sterling thrown out of there. >> do you believe that? >> it's a great question and i take it one step further. one of the greatest accomplishments during the prior commissioner, commissioner stern's tenure, expansion on a global level. the nba is now broadcast in 46 languages over 216 countries around the world. in china alone estimated revenue this year will be over $200 million. right? so we're talking about bringing this into a foreign, non-english speaking and possibly non-caucasian populous. the effect of this type of statement and the perceptions as we say in our agency, perception is reality, the potential perception associated with this statement if not corralled and dealt with could have a far more reaching impact than in the continental united states. we're talking about the global expansion of the game. when you have aggressive markets like south america, asia and obviously the hispanic market right here in the united states, the nba not long ago released a statement indicating nearly 20% of the endemic nba fan base is

his pampg. wh hispanic. san antonio and other markets, over 50% regular attendees and viewers are hispanic speaking or spanish fans. it's much broader, talk about the brand impact of this action, this is a much greater question of right and wrong. 23 you were to monetize the alleged indiscretion, this is going to have a global ripple effect. >> also gets much bigger than ball, right? this is about how we treat race and what level of accountability is. that's what i want to ask you about now, sean. because you hear ugly terms. this is just a reflection of the plantation meant a lot that exists in ownerships sounds harsh and condemn in aer to. the reason they're judging on sterling, don't judge him they knew things about this guy. they knew how he felt about what you should pay white players versus black players's what do you mean you knew? do you really believe owners knew this guy harbored racist sentiments and did nothing about it? >> suits that were settled.

now hearing is believing. right? now it's on an audiotape in this world on tmz where it's plain as day. so, right. you could judge the owners and you could criticize david stern for not acting sooner. now that you have real cause here when it's obvious what he's saying is racist and it's clear. al-jabbar sued him, for long-term discrimination. he was never convicted, and now on tape it seems he has been convicted. >> we know what would happen if it was a player, doug, right? if a player were in this trouble it could end with silver and probably end very harshly and nobody would say anything. the question is, will an owner get dealt with as harshly? now, the qualifier is, silver doesn't have power over an owner the way he does over a player and yet the expectations are reasonably high here. do you think they'll be met, doug? >> i think that's a great question, and unfortunately, i think that's part of what's

really creating the rancor and angst among the players's they say we're reading the situation, god forbid we would be dealt with not only harshly, quite expeditiously. when the shoe is on the proverbial other foot, it's a different situation. i know some nfl clients said the same about the commissioner in so far how they're treated when they step out of line versus owners on the nfl side. when we talk about comparative accountability amongst the players on the court and the owners that sign their checks, this is a very real grievance among players. when trying to read tea leaves how justice will be meted out by new commissioner silver, it's a completely different set of standards and guidelines. it's almost unclear insofar as the scope and reach what ultimately did be kdone. a lifetime suspense, we pointed out earlier, it does eliminate his ability to deal with the

team lit alone the day-to-day operations. it's displicipline but it is tantamount to justice? >> thank you for joining us. reports of an active shooting at a fedex facility in a town just outside of atlanta. plus more inside the flight cockpit recorders of flight 370. hearing the final audio communication for the first time. can investigators learn anything can investigators learn anything from those haunting words? om at, he gets a ready for you alert the second his room is ready. so he knows exactly when he can check in and power up before his big meeting. and when alan gets all powered up, ya know what happens? i think the numbers speak for themselves. i'm sold! he's a selling machine! put it there. and there, and there, and there.

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facility, but then, again, they're emphasizing this is still a very active and fluid situation, indicating they really don't know exactly what they're dealing with right now, or what they're going to find inside that building. but the call came in about 2.5 hours ago. there's a very large police presence there now. we have reports from a local hospital saying that six people from the fedex facility have been taken to the hospital for a variety of injuries. they won't say what those injuries are, but they say at least one of the six was able to walk into the hospital, at least one of the six is now in surgery. but, again, not confirming exactly what those injuries are. there was a statement released by fedex a short time ago saying that they're aware of the situation. their primary concern is for the safety of their employees and for the first responders there, but at this moment, kate, again, police describing what they call an active and fluid situation after responding 2.5 hours ago

to an active shooter report at this fedex facility. again, they have secured the area outside the facility and are now working inside to clear the building and to find out if the shooter is still inside. >> that's what i was going to ask you, david. so the local police are saying they have secured the area around the building. still calling it an active situation. did they give any indication of the status of the -- what they believe is the shooter or shooters? >> reporter: no. only the vague active and fluid as the way they're describing the situation right now. the fact that they secured the outside and are proceeding with such caution inside right now indicates they're not sure if the shooter is inside the building or not, but they are proceeding just according to their training right now. security outside, and then inch by inch, and very carefully, go through the building and see what they still have to deal with in there. >> absolutely.

the fact they haven't given information about the status of the shooter suggests they don't know yet. local reporters telling us this is a very large area for them to work. our david mattingly is on the way to the scene and will bring us updates throughout. thank you very much. we'll continue to follow that breaking nugz for you. over to michaela. five things you need to know, watching dozens of tornadoes up itting down in the southeast killing eight people in mississippi. three people lost their lives in alabama. two in tennessee. more tornadoes are expected today. a possible breakthrough for flight 370 investigators. an australian marine exploration company says it discovered what they believe could be the wreckage of a plane in the bay of bengal. that south of bangladesh. also new, cockpit recordings from the last communications were just released. the european union sanctions 15 people in connection with russia's abcs in ukraine, this a

day after the u.s. targeted seven officials in restricted exports. russia is criticizing both sets of actions. clippers owner donald sterling could learn his fate today for comments that outraged pretty much everybody. the commissioner will hold a news conference on the league's investigation of the sterling affair. the supreme court today tackling the controversy issue of whether police officers he's in a warrant to search cell phones of people they arrest. a final decision on that is expected by late june. we always update the five things to know. be sure to go to "new day day" @cnn.com. kate, chris? >> thanks for that reminder. coming up on "new day," did someone find 370? an xplorpatiexploration companyy used sophisticated commitment that could have found the plane a month ago and told investigators, but no one

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so today l.a. clippers owner donald sterling could learn what his alleged comments are going to cost him after promising a quick investigation into the matter the nba's new commissioner adam silver could deliver tough sanctions. he's set to give a press conference. we'll set to cover it here. a member of the clippers back in

the '80s, better none as a celtics player and two-time nba champion player wery them. bring him in now. an mvp once. can't leave that out, sedrick. great to have you, but this isn't about playing. it's about the larger relevance of the game and what this means if these racial statements hold true and come out of the mouth of this man sterling. now, back in the day you played with the clippers when he was new with the keep in the earl 8 early '80s. tell us about the man. >> he wasn't involved in day-to-day operations. he was the owner. i wassen employee. it went like that. it really wasn't a hands-on operation as you see donald sterling now more involved with the clippers. >> these rumors that existed over the years, were you aware of them, do you put any stock in them? >> well, yeah. i mean, i talked to baron davis who talked with him.

he would tell everyone who wanted to listen, donald sterling would come to a game, scream and's yell obscenities to me. he was the highest player at the time. no one wanted to hear what he was saying. now, looks like a lot of that has come true. >> sitting there berating your player, that's bad, but on a racial basis, that's even worse. rumors he believes you only pay a lot of money for a black player because they're the real players, not white ones and the stuff that happened with elgin and the others, the idea he uttered racial sentiments, do you believe that? >> absolutely. the way it's said now. i didn't like the way the information is gathered. let me make sure i put that out there. i am not discounting anything and lot letting sterling off the hook when i talk about sterling, but at the same time, let's look at what happened. this is a horrible situation. the thing about the nba right now, i'm not sure if you can appease everybody unless donald

sterling is out of basketball. and i'm not sure if the nba has the bylaws really to do that the way they're talking about. >> i think you make two strong points there, cedric. first is, this is undoubtedly fruit of the poisonous tree. think was shady, coming through tmz the girlfriend seemed to be recording this intentionally. seems he was baiting him during the conversation. yes, that's speculative, but that's what it seems like, in absence of other evidence, and it was a private conversation to be sure, at least he thought it was. that's all a little suspicious but he said what he said. that then takes you to your second point. what can the league really do? if this were a player, god forbid, adam silver could have his way with him, make the final determination whether he stays in the league. he can't do that with an owner, is that right? >> that's what it comes down to bethe rights of the owners are really different. if you pay your bills, if you

don't pay your bills, maybe you can do something with an owner. get him out of basketball or make him sell that team. for bad behavior, i'm not sure what you can do with an owner. he has tainted the product. a lot of presence that comes here. i think that thing that the new commissioner has, he has to make a tough, decisive decision. this may be one of the biggest decisions we've seen in professional sports in a long time. this is going to change, really, the whole climate, when you think about how teams deal with owners and how teams deal with players. >> could it even go a step further? could it even be bigger than that, cedrick, in that this will be somewhat of a test of what wins, money or morality? and what is done to donald sterling? >> absolutely. >> he's a rich guy. you know, he paid his way, it seems, almost getting a lifetime achievement award from the in aa

krch a aacnaacp. >> i think he'll be punished. he's a two-time billionaire. so the money is not going to bother him. i don't think he's going to go down without a fight, and you know, because donald sterling has done that. he's been sued by a lot of different people over the years. so one more lawsuit really isn't going to bother him. the pressure of the nba, the pressure of the owners, i think that's going to be the big thing right now. the owners are going to put pressure on the new commissioner to make a stand, and one which is going to have to be strong, decisive and make a difference. >> and cred triedriccedrick, yo reaffirming what we learned from other people. it's what was said here, this became the proof for everybody else. more going on than just this one recording. cedrick maxwell thank you for coming on "new day." appreciate your perspective. >> thank you for having me. coming up next on "new day," a new lead in the search for flight 370 in a completely new

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this report. this citing would put the plane wreckage on the northern arc of the search, where australian teams suspended search operations weeks ago. joining us now is airline accident investigators sean, a pleasure to have you here with me. we'll try to get the map back up here. we want to talk about the fact where they're talking about is in the bay of bengal. georesonance says they have information, data, in fact, had a report from a month ago, a month ago, saying they saw evidence to believe that there was plane wreckage in this area. first of all, just even the location, the bay of bengal, some 2,000 miles north of where we've been looking? >> yes. you know, given the range of the aircraft, it's possible to be this far out and the fact the data points we have further down closer to australia, although we were putting a lot in those, you know, there's still variability in those data points.

this is still a possibility. but there's so much more to this that needs to be considered, the analysis. we're quite a distance from needing to sense resources out there to take a look. >> the joint international team is satisfied that the final resting place of the missinga aircraft is in this area. but others say don't forget about this arc? >> here's the problem, we need to look at that, have independent experts look at the data and verify what they're reporting is valid enough to send resources in that direction. we're not ready to go there yet. >> do they have a dog in this fight? says to be a research company not necessarily looking for this information, but they said, sean, this is interesting, had data from before the plane went missing. looked at that same area after the plane went missing and materials, their information, their technology detected, chemical elements and materials that make up a boeing 777. aluminum. copper, titanium, steel alloys.

that's what we're looking for? >> exactly right. what we're looking for but also elements found in ships and found naturally as well. we're a long way from confirming that is potentially, the location of an aircraft. >> what's the harm, 53 days in, when this is netting nothing? bluefin's netting nothing, to send some, a ship from the army of bangladesh, another resource from this area that's already relatively close? what's the harm in sending them out to investigate? >> i don't believe there's a harm in doing that. ob i don obviously taxing resources to get them up there. >> yes. >> before we do that we need to look at data closer and bring experts in to consider that before we do anything like that. >> we expect that's going to happen today? >> i would think so. >> always a pleasure to have you here on "new day." kate? still ahead, tracking dangerous storms. 75 million americans still in the path today of severe weather and potential tornadoes. everything you need to know, just ahead.

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all right. a lot of news for you this morning. we have a developing story in that fedex shooting. of course, the tornadoes are going on. these new implications for the search of 370, and, of course, we're all waiting on the nba commissioner to make his announcement about those alleged racist statements from the l.a. clippers owner.

get you right now to the "newsroom"ry carol costello. >> a busy day. thank you, chris. have a great day, all of you. "newsroom," starts now. breaking right now -- outbreak. >> that is definitely a tornado. >> 75 million in the threat zone. >> no, no, no. no, no, no. >> stop. >> stop! >> southern states slammed. towns wiped out. >> oh, jesus. cars that have been tossed. sterling sponsors pull out. >> we want to see this guy out of the league now. >> big american companies dropping the clippers. state farm, car max, sprint. for the first time, audio recordings from the missing plane played for the families. >> i'm here to represent hundreds of family members from malaysia 370. >> as the familieson