that's it for us. thanks for watching. our coverage continues next with cnn international. losing control. more government buildings fall into the hands of separatists as officials in kiev scramble to respond. in an hour everything was there. >> it kachgs florida by surprise. after the nonstop rain. under arrest. why they're questioning jerry adams for a 40-year-old murder. as the scandal dies down, investors are making their move.

high profile bidders are lining up to bid for the l.a. clippers. thanks for joining us. you're watching "cnn newsroom." >> acting president admits there's not much kiev can do about separatists seizing control of the east. masked men with automatic weapons stand guard. it's become one of more than a dozen cities falling under pro russian control. despite the control, the economy is getting help from the imf fund. alexander pachinof says combat troops are on full

readiness to stop the terrorist threat. >> judging from what's going on around the city, that may not be enough. nick payton walsh has the story. >> reporter: when they say they're losing control you can see why. >> they saw about ten ukrainian armored personnel carriers. they pulled back. a week ago a similar assault killed three of them, they say. but the smoke obscured the scene and quickly to their surprise, pretty well armed men say only the soldiers saw the armor turn back. locals bring them food as they protect them from the poor and jobless. i can't survive on my salary, he

says. we had a factory here that closed. hundreds lost their jobs. andre says he's an affected para trooper that served in the congo. i'm with the people, he says. i serve ukraine. this man says his rocket launcher is also from affected para troopers. as we drive around to look for the ukrainians, we notice on the edge of the camera lens heavier armed people at the checkpoint rivals. different to the scantily armed locals normally running here. the stakes rising, kiev's long declared crackdown still elusive, especially here on the other side of the check point. in the wheel fields, the armor rolled in and then out again.

when you see the ukrainian armor turn around, you have to wonder why. it might provoke a russian military response or some of the comments from kiev in the past few days suggest do the forces really lack the will to intervene here in sloviensk. they're woken by the military hellie don'ter. his wife is terrified to tears. i won't have anything. i'm afraid to say anything to anyone in case they come and burn my house down. the day's fast and frightening when before only rustled the wheat. and for more on the unrest in ukraine, let's bring in phil black. he joins us live from kiev where

he is at a may day rally. phil, pre-dawn security drills in kiev indicate concerns about what may day might bring today. how's it looking right now? >> reporter: that's right. big security operation in the government corridor of kiev. a lot of security here today. may day is always something that's a politically charged holiday with people rallying. the dominant issue in this country at the moment is clearly survival of the country as it stands today. so there is real concern things have been pretty stable. there could be some unrest. there is the potential here. we've seen thousands of people on the streets preparing to march through the center of the city towards the government buildings, not independent square itself but to strengthen areas around there. in the east of the country where there's that divide between the pro ukrainians and separatists

and pro russians, where that divide is so stark, there is even greater concern of what the day will bring. >> that's the point, isn't it? as they march for unity in kiev, the eastern part of the country is slipping away and ukraine's interim government admits it's lost control. why are police and security forces in the east not defending the authority of ukraine's interim government? >> you're right. they've simply been unwilling in these areas where the pro russian separatists have consolidated the control. local police and security forces have been unwilling to stand their ground and resist, to defend the government buildings and really to defend the authority of the central government in kiev. that has been a great frustration for the government. a number of factions, including the likelihood that some of those offices will stick with the pro russian forces and they're simply unwilling to use

force to fight back to allow things to escalate against people who are their neighbors, members of their community and so forth. they're unwilling to use force against fellow citizens. >> many thanks to you, john. police in northern ireland have arrested jerry adams for questioning in a murder that happened more than 40 years ago. adams has long denied any part of the death of sinn fein. she was accused of being a spy for the bring the particular. nic robertson will have the story 30 minutes from now. toronto mayor rob ford is finally doing what many people have been asking him to do for months, he's stepping aside from

his duties and getting some help. this as a new local newspaper shows him using drugs saturday. he admitted he has struggled with alcohol for some time. the mayor says he's taking a break from his city duties and from his re-election campaign to seek immediate help. in the u.s. high temperatures and strong winds are fanning a southern california fire. >> the fire in san bernardino has scorched more than 400 hectares so far. mandatory evacuations were lifted for 1700 homes but officials warned residents to remain on alert. the building has been damaged and right now others are being threatened. >> but the problem is rain, and lots of it in alabama and florida along the u.s. gulf

coast. pensacola was hit especially hard, essentially submerged by more than 600 millimeters of rain in just more than a day. >> that much water was too much for some roads. it washed out highways and bridges and flooded homes. the u.s. geological survey estimated that more than 2 trillion gallons of water, 2 trillion gallons was dumped on the eastern u.s. in one day. the extent of the damage from the flooding that some describe as historic remains to be assessed. >> we went to ground zero to get a look at the devastation. >> reporter: it was a relentless rainstorm that for most people from mobile, alabama, to pensacola, florida, rivaled the wor worst hurricane. >> i've lived here 20 years and have never seen anything like this. >> reporter: the flood waters washed away massive chunks of the city's scenic highway

leaving massive craters. many neighborhoods drowned in hours and hours of rainfall. some neighborhoods were filled with five feet of water. florida's governor says as many as 300 people had to be rescued from their homes and this man was dramatically rescued from a tree in alabama. >> reporter: what was it like last night? >> scary. scary. i've never been through anything like this. >> reporter: the asphalt on this street was diesed up into chunks and floated away. the flood waters overwhelmed the drainage system and piedmont rode looked like a river. >> this is what her entrance looked like. this is your swimming pool. my goodness. >> it was surreal. >> reporter: david zimmerman's prized volkswagen beetle was no match for the storm. >> how high was the water? >> well, it was up almost to the doorjamb so this car was on the driveway. it was literally that high.

it lifted the car up and flipped it over. >> reporter: indra said 1450e felt helpless. you were using the towels to keep the water out of the room? >> yes. blankets, towels, everything. >> reporter: didn't work? >> no. >> reporter: no way it could work? >> oh, my gosh, i don't know where to start. >> reporter: the flood waters left a slick mess in her house. >> in an hour everything started gushing in. it was the strangest thing. it was weird. couldn't do anything. >> reporter: how heartbreaking is this for you? >> heartbreaking because i don't have flood insurance. i'm alive. it could have been worse, you know? i've still got a roof over my head and food on the table. >> reporter: i'm ed lavendera reporting from pensacola, florida. that storm moved north dumping a lot of heavy rain on the eastern seaboard. >> it proved relentless for a street on baltimore, maryland.

it swallowed a number of cars. we are happy to tell you all of those cars were parked on the side of the road unoccupied at the time and no one was injured. we'll find out where that storm system is headed next when we check in with our meteorologist. plus, the list of celebrities interested in buying the l.a. clippers. the details on oprah's involvement next.

incredible images there of the flooding in pensacola, florida. welcome back, you're watching "cnn newsroom." >> let's go to pedra with all of the data on those images.

>> i don't think i've seen a storm system, guys, of a nontropical origin produce that much rainfall in that time period. pensacola is well known for rainfall. go to the west. new orleans, we know ten inches came down with a storm system in katrina. hurricane ivan made landfall in 2004. ten inches came down. this particular feature lined up in place and did what we called, training. picture box cars on a train moving over the same region, one after the other. that's what a storage system did over a population of roughly 52,000 people producing the historic rainfall. pensacola dates back to the 1980s. never have they recorded that much rainfall in 24 hours nearly quadrupling their monthly rainfall for this time of year. to put this all in scale, city of seattle, this is what seattle would get in seven, eight months in one night they received here in pensacola, florida, causing

all of the historic floods that took place. in fact, if we go to the weather observation, there were 10,000 lightning strikes reported at that weather observation in a 15-minute period. knocked out the station. some personal weather stations recording over 24 inches in 24 hours. pretty impressive stuff. the end result, of course, significant destruction across the region. at least one fatality when they were trapped in this vehicle losing their life out there. to point out, this photograph is not bad there. what you see is many vehicles in this region dealing with when it comes to forrtorrential rainfal. many people trying to catch fish in pensacola. conditions continuing to improve. it went from two feet prior to the storm shot up to near record values. that exceeded a record value at 23 feet. now beginning to improve as the water gradually reseeds. the forecast initially had put the historic rainfall 7 to 10 inches over the metropolitan

atlanta area. the city population 500,000 people. pensacola, 25,000. the effects would have been far more devastating. it re-energized here where we have heavy rainfall and causing flooding across new york city and washington. over a month or nearly a month's rainfall coming down in places like philadelphia. in baltimore you saw how much rain came down. a land side there, sinkhole taking place as well. even d.c. picking up two inches of rainfall and the flood watches and warnings still in place. we expect another half an inch to 3/4 of an inch. new york city could get an additional inch of rainfall, again, all of it from the same storm system that is in the eastern half of the country. >> an extraordinary amount of water. >> it was. they'll be cleaning up for a very long time across the gulf coast. >> i think you mentioned there, john, how much water has come down over 2 trillion gallons. that's 80 million swimming pools

worth of water coming down in 24 hours. >> it's mind boggling. >> thanks, pedram gentleman planes are taking off again from los angeles international airport after they grounded flights on wednesday. >> yeah, the problem was caused by a computer glitch at the los angeles flight center. the regional air traffic control facility. that caused delays at other big airports like salt lake city in las vegas. dozens of departures were delayed and southern l.a. bound flights were diverted to other airports. the death toll is riding in the south korea ferry tragedy. >> it now stands at 213. 89 people remain missing. it was a heart wrenching scene wednesday at the high school. 325 students from the school were on the ferry for a field trip. about 70 survivors of the disaster visited a memorial at the school. students wept as they walked past pictures of their dead

classmates surrounded by flowers. still to come on "cnn newsroom", the los angeles clippers owner could be forced to sell his team. >> could his wife step in to take control. we'll look at that. >> harvard, yale, princeton. they all want him. the super student. now he is making his pick.

downtown virginia, a freight train caught fire. >> some 50,000 gallons of crude oil is missing. it's unclear how much burped off and how much spilled into the water. this accident will heighten concerns of environmentalists who have been concerned about hauling oil through the downtown area. a committee of nba team owners is scheduled to meet today to discuss the next steps for l.a. clippers owner donald sterling.

the billionaire could be forced to sell his team if 3/4 of the other owners agree that his racist comments violated the league standards. >> meantime, oprah winfrey is joining the list of those interested in possibly buying the clippers. a spokeswoman says she is in talks with oracle owner. >> oscar della hoya has shown an interest. >> the clippers need a face. they need a face. what better face than my face, a fighter who has been in the ring, who has fought for his life, has fought for the world championship titles. i know the players, you know, they're fighters. they just want to be champions. i can bring that championship spirit back to los angeles. >> and donald sterling's wife shir lean may try to take control over the nba franchise.

forbes magazine estimates they're worth $575 million. >> we have more now on mrs. sterling's role in the scandal. >> reporter: immediately after her husband, donald sterling's racist rant, hit the air waives, shelly sterling stood by her man. leaving a steakhouse, she stood by his side. >> reporter: are you a racist? >> no, of course not. >> reporter: she reportedly told tmz our family is concerned about the racist comments made by my estranged husband. federal court documents include accusations to the contrary. in 2007 the sterlings were sued for housing discrimination involving a los angeles apartment complex they owned. tenant darryl rhodes stated in this 2009 deposition that when he asked mrs. sterling if she would reduce his rent she

replied, who do you think you are, you black mf. he also testified that she called him a black mf several times during another exchange. the court documents reveal sterling unequivocally denied ever using a racial slur. the sterlings ended upsetling the case for $2.7 million. since the racist audio tapes emerged selly sterling has gotten a pass. while her husband is now banned from showing his face at any nba event, shelly got l.a. head coach dock rivers permission to attend tuesday's game where she sat out of view in a suite. >> it's a tough one for shelly really. you know, she didn't do anything wrong either, and you have compassion for her. >> reporter: she even asked him for a favor. >> she just wanted the players to know that -- she told me to tell them that she loved them. >> reporter: but rivers and the

players association have made it clear, they want a clean break from both of them. sports attorney david cornwell says shelly sterling has no legal claim over the team. >> the decision to remove or terminate the franchise would apply to him and her as well even if she was, quote, a minority owner, had less than a majority interest in the team. this is done. >> reporter: as for donald sterling's girlfriend, v v. stiviano wearing a facemask, she has aspirations of her own. >> one day i will become president of the united states of america and i will change naud and laws in which naud modern day history civil rights movement. >> it will be interesting to see if or when donald sterling emerges and kplornt he'll address his racist remarks. suzanne malveaux, cnn,

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just turned 3:30 on a thursday morning on the east coast of the united states. welcome back, you're watching "cnn newsroom." i'm john vause. >> i'm rosemary church. let's check the headlines for you at this hour. police are questioning gerry adams about one of the most notorious crimes. they admitted to killing gene mcconville. he denies any involvement.

rob ford said he'll step aside from his city duties, putting his re-election campaign on hold. this comes as a local newspaper has shown a new video showing ford using drugs as treatmently as this past saturday. ukraine is getting a $17 billion life line from the imf. it includes more than $3 billion for immediate obligations and it's expected to clear the way for more help from the u.s. and european union. ukraine's acting prosecutor general says former president victorian know could he vich and his cohorts took $50 billion. >> that came at an international forum on stolen assets. they're accusing him from bank rolling debts all the way from kiev to the eastern provinces. >> translator: part of the money

besides the amount appropriated by members of the family was used to clamp down. the money was used to pay for hired thugs. it was used to pay police who suppressed peaceful protests, to pay snipers. today that money is used to finance the separatist actions in the east of ukraine. >> he and his associates may have gotten away with billions but they did leave plenty behind. >> all the markings of an extravagant lifestyle insulated from prying eyes. phil black has our exclusive report. >> reporter: ukraine's ministry of revenue building looks pretty average from the outside but from within they tell me these locked and sealed doors provide images of excess. this is much more. tax workers used to think it was a secret jail. they'd hear yelling through the door. he says that's because bare

knuckled fighters clashed in this ring for the entertainment of government vips. an extraordinary story, impossible to verify. what we see through the next door is also pretty amazing. this enters a pleasure lounge. there's a big jacuzzi with a complicated control panel. >> whoa. >> super. good. >> reporter: a well-designed sauna including the cold water bucket ukrainians like to shock themselves with and it's all surrounded by swanky furnishings. gold surface. muriel murals on the ceiling. down the room, a room clearly designed for -- >> massage. >> reporter: as well as the company bench, there's something like a cryosorter like a fridge for humans, good for you

apparently, and another device which takes me a few moments to work out. >> this appears to be a tanning bed. a facility that would allow ukraine tax officials to develop a nice golden glow. he calls the next room the master piece. a salt cave. salt all over the walls, ceiling and floor. you lie here and breathe the salty air. again, supposed to be good for you. throughout the tour he repeatedly tells me the average ukrainian wage is less than $1 an hour. in this room we find lots of expensive things lying around just left behind. >> so a lot of versace boxes here and the home wear. this is the former minister responsible for the tax office. alexander klemenko. they say this security video

shows him in february fighting his way through an airport to flee the country when the last government collapsed. more of the exstraf gans, tasteful and otherwise, that government left behind is now an exhibition in a kiev gallery. people are lining up to see it and learn from it. >> i am sad because i didn't take part in the presidential elections last time. >> reporter: a common response here. ukraine must never let people like this lead the country again. phil black, cnn, kiev. >> extraordinary images there. >> pleasure lounge, huh? >> indeed. this may day is bringing back images of time gone by in moscow. >> thousands of people crowded into red square. hundreds of flags with flying banners waving. state media says as many as 2

million people may have turned up. >> this is the first major may day rally in moscow since the soviet union fell apart in 1991. well, may day observations in turkey aren't quite as peaceful. this is new video from istanbul where security forces have begun firing tear gas to disperse may day protestors. they had been warning demonstrators not to create the same sorts of protests that began last year. mr. irdowan put thousands of people on stand by. >> ivan is there so he'll report on that especially if the expected confrontation between the police and antigovernment protests. gerry adams is denying any involvement of the murder of a woman in bell fast in 1972. >> they've arrested adams and are questioning him.

the irish republican army admits to killing jane mcconville. let's go to nic robertson. he's covered northern ireland for years. he's on assignment in kuala lumpur. he joins us now. nic, exactly what role did gerry adams play in this murder, at least according to police? >> reporter: well, it's not just according to police, it's according to former ira comrades of his. he's said all along he had no floel jean mcconville's murder. he was never a senior leader as many of his former colleagues claim he was. that time they say that he was the head of the sort of internal investigation of the unit of the ira in that part of bell fast where jean mcconville lived, that he was a senior ira commander. now we know this because after -- or we know this from a number of different people who gave testimony, who gave

statements recorded on audiotape to be held in a -- securely until they were dead. they were not to be made public, that they were there for academic research. they're being held at a university in the united states. the police service of northern ireland through the legal system managed to obtain parts of those tapes relating to the murder of jean mcconville so there are tapes there that we haven't heard, however, there are parts of some of those tapes, brendan hughes a former senior ira commander on the tapes made public or parts of them made public after he died a few years ago claim that gerry adams was the commander at the time of jean mcconville's killing and he would have been responsible for her abduction and whatever happened after that. it appears that police are acting on the information that's in the public domain already plus some of these secret tapes that were being held in the united states, parts of which

now handed over to the police in northern ireland, john. >> nic, we've said this and we'll say it again. adam denies any involvement in this. a statement he put out hours after the story broke he had said -- he says he has concerns about the timing of all of this and also we're hearing from shin fein that says these may be politically motivated. where are they going with that? >> it's politically motivated. they would say that the people who recorded these secret tapes were antiadams people and they were antithe peace process. i talked to some of these people and they say that's not the case. there's sort of a line, if you will, from schin fein that adams is being dissed by former comrades at arms who don't like him anymore and don't like the peace process. that would be one claim. there's another claim as well sort of buried in that statement, and that is that at the moment adams is by many

polling one of the most popular politicians in the south of ireland. schin fein is said to do well. they're looking pretty good. so sinn fein would say this was damaging for them in the coming elections south of the border. the time frame for all of this, this has been in the process for a long time. brendan hughes's statements became public about three or four years ago. the police have been trying to get their hands on these tapes for a couple of years now. they only recently got the tapes and made a number of other arrests over recent weeks related to jean mcconville's murder so the police would certainly say this is part of a process and not of a political timing but there are many layers to what sinn fein is saying this is politically motivated. >> nic robertson live in kuala

lumpur but as we said nic has covered this story for many, many years. thanks, nic. well, the conservative watchdog group judicial watch says new documents show the obama administration has not been truthful about its explanation of the 2012 attack in benghazi, libya. >> u.s. ambassador christopher stevens and three other americans were killed when terrorists raided the consulate. judicial watch says the the attack as a spontaneous ray- reaction to an anti-muslim film. >> the documents include talking points prepared for then u.n. ambassador susan rice who appeared on a number of talk shows. the white house denies there's any smoking gun. >> this document, as i said, was explicitly not about benghazi but about the general dynamic in the arab -- or in the muslim world at the time. i would also point out that the

document itself states explicitly that ambassador rice is not on the sunday shows to talk politics. this was part of our effort to explain our views, both as a matter of policy and as a matter of what was happening on the ground, with regards to the protests that were underway around the region. > critics say they tried to cover up the real reason for the attacks so it could show that the president was tough on this in the 2012 campaign. >> they show benghazi was a political problem for re-election and they approached it from that point of view. i think they understood this was a chink in the president's political armor in terms of his narrative about his foreign policy successes, the fact that they would manipulate the evidence for political purposes

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the fire station and happened to choose the only part of the building that remains standings. brian has tracked several tornadoes in this region. >> it's a shock. look out in the front yard and everything you own is in the street. the people of alabama pull together. they help each other. you have friends living next door and they're willing to help you. >> reporter: the severe weather wasn't finished when the tornadoes slammed into kimberly. bessemer and alabama. mobile got more than 11 inches of rain and dramatic video shows one man being rescued from swift moving waters. they got him a flotation device and got him out of there safely. brian todd, cnn, kimberly, alabama. >> we'll take a short break and be back in two minutes. >> stay with us. while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult.

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died after a bout of pneumonia. >> he was in who framed roger rabbit, and the long good friday. >> he retired from acting two years ago after being diagnosed with parkinson's disease. bob hoskins was 71. brush fire is raging in the southwest united states while an unprecedented heat wave is occurring in the northwest of the country as well. >> let's turn again to our meteorologist pedram who is covering this. it's strange across the country. >> the opposite extremes. think of the rain and the drought on the west coast, guys. take a look over california and you watch the jet stream, steering current in the atmosphere. look where it takes it, all the way to the south and drops it over pensacola, the florida panhandle. you begin to understand why all the flooding as the energy has been conducive to all the storms over that region while high pressure has dominated the

western part of the country. northwest, temperatures up in the 90s. beautiful coastal town in oregon. the south central coast of oregon where we know temperatures in the month of april 57 fahrenheit. record high 91 degrees fahrenheit on wednesday afternoon. broke an all-time april record of 85. in fact, only 14 times in their history have they obtained a 90 degree fahrenheit temperature, all 13 of them were in the month of august. it shows you the rarity of it happening in april. the trend goes up and down the i-5 corridors. upper 80s, low 90s. should be in the 60s and 70s. seattle's 82 degree day is unusual. the average high in the month of july and august is only 76 degrees. temperatures in reality. they should be in the mid 70s. the best we can do by saturday, only the mid 90s. we know the excessive drought taking place. look at the sarm perspective, 100% of the state in moderate

drought. 25% of the state in excessive drought. that's severity of droughts. fires as we've touched on in the news forecast. you work your way towards the san gabriel mountains. prominent area. very well known for incredible winds, winds up to 60 miles per hour in the forecast. upwards of 1700 people initially evacuated. now mandatory evacuations have been lifted. take a look at the video that shows you the fires as they're being fanned. we know low flying helicopters, airplanes had to be grounded because of hurricane force winds. the only time they can make ground on the fires is overfight when humidity is up and the winds die down. >> santa ana winds. >> very early start for the season. >> thanks, pedram. we'll leave you with this. there may be a new way to dodge

the paparazzi. >> it seems so he. the ex-girlfriend of donald sterling is sporting a visor. >> great look. >> jeanne moos tries it out. >> reporter: it's been the elephant in the room, except the elephant on donald sterling's alleged face. >> i'm trying to walk my dog. >> in that? we can't see through it but we can certainly marvel at it. stylish visoror eye sore. >> what the heck. >> do you remember, that visor is the bees knees. >> am i the only one who wants this visor? it's the ultimate in elegance. >> they call it clip tow night. her visor has been compared to a welder mask or what serial murder remember dexter wears to prevent from blood spatter.

>> keep firing [ bleep ]. >> reporter: you know what this thing really needs? >> what? >> reporter: windshield wipers. >> reporter: on a rainey day not specially suited for a solar shield, new yorkers did their best. there was the occasional double take, the lingering stare. it's believed it was popularized by women in china about sun burning their fair skin. >> do you think it's a good look? >> no. >> little strange. >> i think you're being followed. >> very daft punc. >> guys, over here. ♪ >> reporter: we were lucky enough to get our solar shield overnighted from amazon. $29 plus shipping. >> one size fits most. >> reporter: even a cnn.com colleague was confused. >> is that a guard. >> v.stiviano joins other celebrities who chose to cover

their heads. i am not famous anymore bag. >> to the gong show. that's woody harrelson hiding. lady gaga is always covered in something. michael jackson didn't just cover himself, he covered his kids. as for v. stiviano, we don't know if she's hiding or planning to drop her own visor line. >> not recommended for driving. there she is in her ferrari. the head band can swell. when she gets bothered, we recommend this. jeanne moos, cnn. >> just trying to walk my dog. >> reporter: cnn new york. paparazzi will lose so much money if it catches on. >> yes, if it catches on. >> thanks for watching "cnn newsroom." "early start" is coming up. >> for viewers everywhere else, stay with us.

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breaking news this morning. the east coast under water. historic water covering neighborhoods. storms so dangerous, millions told just to stay home, and the rain, it is not over yet. indra petersons tracking what is still to come this morning. also breaking this morning, investigators finally ready to reveal what they know about the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370. a report set to be released within the hour. right now, frustrated families of those on board hoping to get answers they've waited weeks for, as