it's only if you've had a heart attack in the past. >> sanjay, thanks very much. that's it for me. see you at 5:00 p.m. eastern in the situation room. newsroom with briana keeler newsroom with briana keeler starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com the first warnings emerged more than 100 years ago, but now a team of scientists said the time for dire predictions is over. that global change is here, right now, and we're all being affected. longer summers, hotter summers, drought, and extreme weather patterns across the u.s. the report concludes, quote, that climate change once considered an issue for a distant future has moved firmly into the present. that is a quote. politics here? you bet. the report was released by the white house, and immediately rapped by republicans. that said, supporters of stronger government action to meet this challenge say the study could be a game changer.

we're going to start with the science here. cnn meteorologist chad myers joining us on this topic. >> brianna, it seems like what this says, breaking it down piece by piece, is that there will be fewer normal days. our heat will be higher, our floods will be deeper, and our droughts will be longer. in any one spot. so when you see high of 72, that's normal. we're not going to see normal days. we're going to see flooding, we're going to see droughts, heat. not 72, it could be 92 or 62. eventually you get to normal. but there will be fewer normal days. across the northeast, we'll see increased coast ag floodings, and down to the south, same story. that kind of coastal flooding. water issues, fresh water issues, because we're in the middle of droughts across the southeast that don't seem to be going away. you put more people in the way of those droutsz, you need more

water. the midwest could see a bigger growing season. that could be one positive. if you have a drought, flood, or heat wave during that growing season, all of a sudden that's not helpful. back out to the southwest, fires, and lots of them. more droughts, more fires. wind u and the water that's scarce there, could be more scarce. to the pacific northwest. not as big of an issue. we do see if the snow melts earlier, there won't be as much water in the system for the summer. to the north and to alaska, rapidly reducing this. the sea ice is going away. the glaciers are very, very low at some points in time here. and also the permafrost, this thawing, if that ever happens, there's a lot of methane stored in that permafrost, that would be released and increase the global warming gases. methane is more potent as a global warming gas than c02. the ocean with the carbon dioxide, turns into carbonic

acids. the crustaceans, the small fish, the bottom part of the food chain, begins to have problems. we don't want to lose the bottom part of the food chain, because obviously we're at the top. >> it all becomes destabilized. chad myers, thanks so much for that. richard muller is a physicist at uc berkeley, my alma mater. thanks for joining us. i want to ask you, we've seen report after report after report warning about climates change. but what do you think makes this one any different? is this going to provoke some different kind of response? >> i think the report is actually fairly moderate. the news reports of it tend to pick certain points out of it, and be alarmists. but the report itself is quite honest. it states that, for example, that the number of hurricanes hitting the united states is not going up. the news reports emphasize the fact that they are going up in the north atlantic. those that don't hit the united states. key point still is that global

warming is real. it is happening. it's about 1 degree fahrenheit over the last century. that it will continue, because it is caused by humans. i think those points now are very well established. this report makes them once again. but 1 degree fahrenheit, yes, our highs will be higher, over the last 100 years, 1 degree fahrenheit. we're not getting huge extremes. the point it makes, although it states that climate change is here, it's actually here so far in a very moderate way. the real danger is in the future. just as chad myers said, it's what's going to come that's of worry, not what's here now. >> richard, one of your suggestions involves natural gas. when it comes to the use of coal, to phase out coal, which is a big c02 producer, and replace it with cleaner natural gas. but, you know, coal is produced, for instance, all across the u.s. many developing nations use it.

i mean, do you worry that politically that is unfeasible? where does it sort of come to the point where maybe this could actually change? i don't really see it on the horizon so i wonder what you think, where the science kind of meets the politics. >> i think this is where the obama administration has to show real leadership. the solution to global warming cannot take place by unilateral action we take in the united states. reducing our own emissions. our emissions are going down. the emissions from china as reports state surpass the u.s. in 2007. they're now roughly twice ours and they're growing. any report that doesn't emphasize the importance the china and the developing world is not addressing the mitigation of global warming. it is our responsibility as the technological leader to help china and the developing world make the switch away from coal. i like to think that there is -- if you'll forgive the term, i

say the solution is cnn, c stands for conservation, the biggest thing we can do, n stands for nuclear, and the united states now is scaring the world about nuclear. we're not setting an example that the developing world can go to. nuclear is essential. the last n is natural gas. this is something where we have pioneered the technology. we need to share this with china to encourage them and the rest of the developing world natural gas not only reduces the greenhouse emissions compared to coal by more than a factor of two, for buying us lots of time, but it also reduces the air pollution, which is currently killing 3 million people around the world. so cnn, conservation, nuclear and natural gas, that's real mitigation. >> chad, let me bring you in on this as well. this is obviously your wheelhouse, as you cover all kinds of different extreme weather. how accepted is it that climate

change is playing a role in what at least, you know, in a short term aspect, feels like a lot of crazy weather? >> i think the fact that we're above 400 parts per million in the observatories in hawaii, for so long now, that the c02 is going up. it's a known fact that c02 can hold in heat, can hold in natural processes here. what we don't know yet is why. why the texas droughts are so long now. why the floods are so deep. why is everything in extreme. are we just focusing on it because now there's tv and that's the story? and it's always been that bad and now we get some exposure? but it just seems like to me in 27 years of doing weather, that everything seems to be going to the extreme. and not in the middle anymore. my dad told me stories about walking uphill to the school both ways, bare feet in a snowstorm. where are those snowstorms?

i grew up in buffalo. i grew up where the snow was above my house. those storms don't seem to be there anymore. but yet, you would think that if we're going to get to that extreme, the snowstorms could be bigger as well. there's a lot of unknowns here. where we are at this point in time, we will look back in the year 2050 and go, wow, wish we knew that then. because i still think there are a couple unknowns out there. >> chad myers, thank you. richard muller, thank you. we'll be looking at this report a little more throughout the hour. the outcry to find hundreds of missing nigerian girls as more girls have been kidnapped by gunmen believed to belong to a terror group. the violent abductions happened overnight sunday in a village. witnesses say eight girls, 12 to 15, were taken by armed men who raided homes. three weeks have passed since more than 200 girls were kidnapped during a fiery attack on their school. the group's leader claimed responsibility. he vowed to sell the girls into

marriage. meanwhile, outside the nigerian embassy here in washington, dozens of protesters marched, demanding immediate action by the nigerian government. cnn white house correspondent michelle could s michelle cosin ski is here to talk about this. the president welcomed and accepted the u.s. offer to help in the search. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: you kind of have to read between the lines to some extent here. it's been a sensitive topic from the beginning as to what exactly the u.s. involvement has been, and will be. cnn is getting different information from different sources as to what exactly accepted the u.s. offer means. today the white house said that, yes, we took it to mean the u.s. took it to mean nigeria has accepted the offer, which would mean a team of experts going there and being formed there to help them with security issues, and finding these girls. but it's really been described

as a team going down there to talk about what can be done. so accepting an offer to help might not mean much in a concrete sense right now. we know that secretary of state john kerry talked to the president of nigeria about this. and that's where they took it to mean, an offer of help was accepted. the president will also be meeting with kerry today to discuss this in more detail. the u.s. has offered to help so far. it's been described as experts in military, in communications, in law enforcement. but not so far boots on the ground. here's what the press secretary said just now. >> i think the distinction was, we were asked would we bring military force to bear, troops to bear, and we're not considering that at this point.

experts on intelligence and investigations and hostage negotiations, to assist and advise the nigerian government as they deal with this challenge. >> that explained it pretty well. the question is, are they going down there to talk about it at this point or are they going down at this point to actually do that? another big question has been, has the nigerian government been dragging its feet on this, or dropping the ball as some have claimed? and they didn't say it in so many words, but press secretary jay carney initially said, well, secretary of state kerry reiterated today the offer of help to nigeria. so why did he need to reiterate it, why wasn't it accepted right off. that wasn't explained. also today, the white house took the time to urge the government of nigeria to bring all appropriate resources to bear. urging that government to act.

so you kind of have to read between the lines and how the u.s. is viewing the nigerian response so far, brianna. >> they say if they feel like what they're doing so far is sufficient. michelle kosinski, thank you for that report. michelle knight in her own words. today marks the one-year anniversary since she and two other girls escaped from that cleveland house. and she's sitting down with cnn to reveal what went on inside. and what she's doing now. and people in ukraine prepare to vote as the violence escalates. we'll have a live report from the region. later, monica lewinsky speaking out nearly 20 years after her affair in the oval office. what did she say, and why now? lots going on in the newsroom today. stay with us. ♪

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the scenes out of ukraine are looking more and more like a country toppling into civil war. eastern ukraine is in a state of uncertainty after a day of deadly fighting. the government is pressing on against pro-russians. a short distance from the center of the violence, flights were halted in and out of the city. joining me now from donetsk, our senior international correspondent. arwa, just give us a sense of what the situation is like where you are now. have flights resumed at all? >> reporter: they have. aviation authorities gave no explanation as to why they decided to shut down the airport for those few hours earlier in the day. of course, causing a lot of questions. especially amongst the population living in such times of uncertainty. a lot of the fighting has been

concentrated in the city of slaviansk, about two hours away from here. yesterday, government troops tried to push their way and clashing heavily with pro-russian militants. casualties on both sides. the ukrainian military seems to have pulled back a little bit. in the city itself, according to one of the cnn teams that was there, the pro-russian camp was using that as an opportunity to fortify some of its positions to ready themselves for what they believe to be an imminent government offensive. we're not really seeing the ukrainian troops really making any sort of concrete progress on the ground here. all the while, that pro-russian camp digging in even more, brianna. >> arwa, the ukrainians are actually supposed to go to the polls soon to pick a new president in the midst of all of this. sergei lavrov said this is unusual. are you thinking, and what is really the word that this is going to to ahead, this

election? >> reporter: yeah, that's a presidential election set to take place at the end of the month. it will be difficult to see how the government is going to actually hold elections in the eastern part of the country, when in most of these key cities, it has little to no control. the vast majority of the government institutions are actually in the hands of the pro-russian camp. another interesting thing that is taking place also is that may 11th, the referendum that the camp is intent on holding, is said to go ahead. the initial key question of do you want to be a federal state. and we're hearing that there will be another referendum asking whether or not people here want to join russia. so there's a lot of unknowns, and a lot of uncertainty. and that really is having a devastating impact on the population here. >> certainly. arwa damon, thank you so much for that. coming up, a dire climate change report released by the white house, what's the outlook and what are the political

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cleveland. to mark the anniversary of their freedom, both berry and de jesus expressing hope for the future. michelle knight talked about her recovery with cnn's anderson cooper. >> did you ever think about screaming, or yelling? >> i screamed, but nobody would hear it. there was a day that i screamed until i had no voice. still nobody heard me. and when he hears you scream, he just shoves a sack or cloth down your throat. until you choke on it. >> did you think that this would at some point end, that it wouldn't go on, that he would let you go? did he promise that he would let you go?

>> no, he told me he would never let me go. >> he said that from the beginning? >> yes. he said you do not have a family that cares about you. >> for the first several months she was kept in what she refers to as the dungeon, the basement on seymour avenue. sitting on the ground she was chained to a pole, gagged with a sock, and a motorcycle helmet placed over her head. all the while the abuse continued. what would you think about each day? i mean, just to get through? >> i would basically think about my son. and how i would hike to see his loving smile again. >> i want to bring in now clinical psychologist eric fisher. eric, you know, we all watched how michelle knight, who's been very public all along, how she responded right after she was released. we heard a lot of sort of pos tith, i think in the wake of the relief of being released. but now, you sort of see her,

she's really confronting the gravity of the situation that she was in. how does she appear in your expert opinion to be coping here a year later? >> you look at the person's ideal self they present to the world and the real self and their feel self inside. for her presenting on the news with all these interviews, she has to get herself up for this. but for people who have been through that much trauma, for doing this for 20 years, people who have been through trauma, there's often a whole inner life of turmoil that they're working through for years to come. so to see her courage, her strength, her ability to forgive, those are all great moderating factors, even as well as being held captive with two other people was another moderating factor that she had through the years. >> and the strength that she shows, as she's able to describe what happened. you know, in a way to bring to light, i think, what ariel castro really was, it's amazing

she can do that. she sits there so strongly. one of the things that she's doing now, she's actually using the name lily. is that significant to you, that she's using a different name? >> yeah, i think it is. lily rose lee is the name that she gave herself. what i appreciate, they're both flowers. they both are a sign of birth and growth, and abundance, beauty. i think that's a healthy thing for her to be doing. often, people who have been through tramumas, they do want o change their name. but they find out they still can't escape what happened to them. she said, my early life prepared me for this. that was a really important factor that she said it's almost like she was ready for the worst. but what i see in her is, i want to see people not just survive these experiences, but hern to thrive in their life. and i think she can do it, with the proper healing, and with the proper support system around her. i think there's a very favorable outcome. >> certainly watching her, you

hope that's the case for her. you hope that she can thrive. i imagine this -- you never really recover from this, right? this is a daily battle that she will have for the rest of her life. >> it may be. she has physical issues, too. she's not able to have children again. she's got the physical reminder. >> she was beaten tremendously and we understand bore the brunt of the abuse. >> exactly. exactly. the ability for a person to heal, i always say is really up to them. so may she be dealing with those the rest of her life? yes. but either we can be a victim or victor. and how we choose to, you know, become powerful over our situations, and find our way through them, to use them as things to stand on top of this to see further, i always tell people i work with, with trauma, it is an honor that they chose to work with me and trust me. because i know what they've been through and how much their trust in the world has been shattered. so to see her working on these issues and have the courage to go in front of us all and share

her experience, hopefully to prevent this for other people happening, is extremely admirable and incredible to me. >> she refers to ariel castro, who committed these heinous crimes as the dude. she said he doesn't deserve to have a name. which sort of i think also highlights as she has changed her name for a bit of a rebirth. but he killed himself in his prison cell in september. how did that impact michelle, and her -- and the other women? how does it impact their recovery? >> it depends on what they do with it. they could in some ways feel like he copped out of the situation, and didn't have to pay the price for what he did. that's going to be up to them really. but could it have an effect on them and how they feel in the rage they carry on? that's an individual factor that hopefully they're working through therapeutically. even though she's forgiven at one level, she'll have to work through that at different levels of her healing as well. >> it's a long process.

everyone certainly responds differently. but our west best of luck to th girls. and hopefully they get the support following their release in cleveland. eric fisher, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. the interview will air tonight at 8:00 eastern on cnn. growing anger, more girls are kidnapped in nigeria, along with the more than 200 taken weeks ago. social media helped bring this tragedy to the forefront. but is it actually helping with the cause. [ female announcer ] it's simple physics...

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as the world watches and waits, eight more girls have been kidnapped, taken to a frightening and uncertain future. according to a villager in a northeast nigerian village, armed men in vehicles stormed in and took the girls. the latest abductions come amid international outcry after the april 14th kidnapping of more than 200 girls, taken by the islamist militant group boko haram. the world is refusing to simply stand by. rallies, calls for international aid, they have been gaining steam over the last week. also sparking the bring back our girls twitter hash tag. a rally in washington has just wrapped up. athena, what was the message today? >> reporter: hi, brianna. the message, apart from bring back our girls here at this rally that was organized via social media and twitter, the

message was to the nigerian government. they want both answers and they want action. they want the nigerian government to explain what it is doing to try to find these girls and do more. as far as the folks here are concerned, not enough is done. it took the president weeks to come forward and acknowledge what was going on. they want to keep the pressure on. that's why they had this event right outside the nigerian embassy. they want to put the pressure on the top nigerian official in america. one interesting point was brought up by one of the speakers, nicole lee, the outgoing president of the trans-africa forum. she described this incident to two other incidents that have gotten a lot of media attention worldwide. let's listen to what she had to say. >> when a plane goes down, or a ship goes down, all the resources of the planet are brought to bear. here in nigeria, everybody's talking about complications and how difficult it is. i don't want to hear that. those people behind me don't want to hear that. the moms and dads in nigeria

don't want to hear this. this is going to be global worldwide action. we want the nigerian government to be responsible and accountable, and listen to their own citizens. they want their girls back. >> reporter: they want their girls back, and have vowed to keep up the protests. the most emotional moment came when the families coming out to talk to the protesters. they said they're going to keep the pressure on, and they want the media to keep paying attention to the story. brianna? >> they certainly are keeping the pressure on. athena jones, outside the nigerian embassy here in washington, thanks so much. boko haram is no stranger to the nigerian government. they've terrorized the northeastern region for several years. u.n. human rights watchers say its actions have grown increasingly monstrous. that is a quote. chief international correspondent christiane amanpour joining us with a closer look inside boko haram.

thank you for being with us. give us a sense of why this group is so pervasive, why the nigerian government seemingly unable to handle it. >> well, it depends on who you talk to. i've just been speaking with nigeria's laureate who has been watching this closely for years. he thinks it's because they simply didn't tackle it from the beginning, and threatping not just nigeria, but west africa as well. al qaeda's ally boko haram, you can see swaggering, gleeful and laughing, talking about setting off these girls, and western education should be banned, and really completely showing himself for what he is, and what the group is, to the world. so the point here being, that the nigerian government seems to be, according to critics, in a state of denial. and that was exemplified beyond any doubt by the fact that the president did not address the nation, say anything public for

about 20 days since these girls were kidnapped. he only said something this weekend. i will tell you, it is incredibly hard to get the nigerian government to engage. we had an exclusive interview with the minister of information planned for our program just half an hour ago, just refused, just didn't turn up. just didn't show up. this has been going on, you know, several days now, since all this happened. so they don't know how to combat them. they don't have the wherewithal. according to cnn sources, and our own jake tapper basically reporting that the nigerian government has not yet accepted officially this offer of u.s. help. that may come when they meet with the u.s. delegation. but they are really standoffish about all of this. even though president goodluck johnson told me several times that boko haram poses a threat to the nation. >> that's the minister of information who bailed on the interview. >> yes. exactly. >> the nigerian government on one hand, i mean, they've been

doing a very poor job of communicating this situation, in denial as you said. they say that they are working to find the girls, though. is that the impression you get, that maybe publicly not doing a whole lot, but behind the scenes, really working here? >> well, they really better be, but the parents of these girls, the people who live up in that region where they were taken from, and where apparently they were still being held, at least for the first 11 or 12 days after the abduction, say that absolutely nothing was done. and that's why they're so desperate and that's why they're protesting in the streets. they say they saw these girls, they saw the people who took them. they followed them, and they just needed help to go and be able to bring the girls back. and that they understood from villagers that these abductees and their captors awere hanging around that area a couple of kilometers from where they were taken for a good period of time. but nobody from the government

came to try to rescue them. and it's only because it's gone viral around the world, they say, that the government is reacting now. >> yeah. it's a shame. and hopefully they are moving to act, as you said. christiane, thank you so much. christiane amanpour. now, coming up, battling climate change, a big personal issue for president obama, and with a new report on the changing climate out today from the white house, how could this issue play in the coming elections. we'll discuss.

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i want to show you two photos from the climate change report out today. on the left, that's a black-and-white snapped 70 years ago. this was the month of august, alaska's glacier. and also in august, but on the right is in 2004. you can see how the glacier has

melted. now it is a lake, very scenic, but a lake nonetheless. there's every suggestion today that the climate change study hasn't moved the debate in washington. let's listen quickly to the senate republican leader, mitch mcconnell. >> later today, we expect the president to talk about the weather at the white house. presumably he'll use the platform to call for a national energy tax. i'm sure he'll get loud cheers from liberal elites. from the kind of people who leave a giant carbon footprint and then lecture everybody else about low-flow toilets. >> now, ryan liza is with us to discuss this. he's cnn political commentator, and washington correspondent for the "new yorker." ryan, we talked a lot already about the contents of the report here. it says global warming is here. it's here already. but first, i want to get your take on the politics of this. mitch mcconnell's suggestion that this is a class issue by slamming what he called elites. what do you make of this?

>> well, i think it's probably indicative of the fact that he's up for reelection this year, in the coal states. let's be honest, the way to deal with climate change, producing electricity using coal, is going to have to get more expensive if we want to do anything about reducing carbon. and so folks from states that still rely on those energy sources are not excited about doing anything that increases the cost of coal. i think it's as simple as that. climate change is one of those very strange issues, where the scientific community has no debate that it is happening, but politically it's so far off the most dire consequences from climate change, is so far off, that it's really difficult for our political system to do anything about it, because our political system only responds to emergencies, things that are immediate crises. what the white house is trying to say today is, it's here. look at these pictures. this is no longer something that

is far off into the future. but as mitch mcconnell's comments made clear, our political system is not even close to addressing this issue. >> so break down the politics of this election year for us. and also, it's important to note that when you're talking about climate change, you're talking about energy states. this is not along a party line all the time. but talk about what the white house is hoping to get here, and sort of how this plays into midterm elections, even for both parties. >> it's complicated. as many of your viewers know, the democrats are playing defense in the midterms this year. a lot of the seats in the senate that they are defending are in places where climate change is not the most important issue for voters, to say the least. in a sense, i think a lot of the senate democrats up for reelection in tough races, this is probably not the issue they want to talk about. on the other hand, the other story of this election is the tale of two electorates. it's democrats and the obama

white house trying to activate the electorate from 2012, that included a lot of voters who don't get very excited and don't vote in midterms. now, one group of voters that voted for the president, but is not likely to vote this year, are young voters. millennials. >> yes. >> they're not that excited about obama, the polls show. what's an issue they care about a lot? climate change. i think that's something -- i think the white house thinks it can activate those voters. the donor base of the democratic party cares a lot about this issue. >> yeah. it's a big issue for them. they want more from president obama on this. ryan, thanks so much. >> yeah. >> really appreciate it. >> thanks, brianna. monica lewinsky speaking out nearly 20 years after the scandal that rocked the oval office. what she's saying now. when it comes to good nutrition...i'm no expert. that would be my daughter -- hi dad. she's a dietitian. and back when i wasn't eating right, she got me drinking boost. it's got a great taste, and it helps give me the nutrition i was missing.

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it's been more than ten years since monica lewinsky has spoken about her affair with president bill clinton back in 2002. she was over him. >> my heart certainly doesn't beat like it used to. and i don't get excited. i'd be lying if i said i wasn't angry some days. but i really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger, disappointment in the past. and a lot of -- i've really worked on moving forward. and kind of looking at my

future. >> now we're learning that her future was never able to shake the scandal of her internship and his impeachment. lewinsky writes in the june issue of "vanity fair" that she had suicidal thoughts because of the ordeal. suzanne malveaux joining me to talk about this. you covered this. does she have a new perspective on what she did in her 20s? >> it certainly seems like she's grown up here and she puts it in perspective. 16 years ago, when we covered her at the watergate apartment complex, stake her out, she was always gracious, friendly. it was a very tough time for her at the time. she completely disappeared after the trial. and as you mentioned, she was 24 at the time. she's now 40. she gives us a accepts sense ofr life has been like. she moved to london and got a master's degree, moved to l.a., new york, portland. she's moved around. she also said she's had a lot of

difficulty holding down a job. various startups. she turned down a $10 million job offer because it wasn't the right thing to do. so she wants to reveal a little bit about what she thought of this affair. and how she saw her relationship with the president. and she says, quite frankly, she says, look, realistically, my boss took advantage of me. but i will always remain firm on this point. it was a consensual relationship. any abuse came in the aftermath when i was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position. the clinton administration, the special prosecutor's minions, prosecutors on both sides of the aisle and media were able to brand me. that brand stuck, in part because it was imbued with power. she gives a sense that this is what happened to her. as for her feelings about the first lady at the time, hillary clinton, clinton in the past, she has referred to her as a narcissistic loony tune. that came out previously. monica lewinsky said, if that's the worst thing she said, i

should be so lucky. but then she also makes this very serious point. she says, and i'm quoting here, yes, i get it, hillary clinton wanted it on record that she was lashing out at her husband's mistress. she may have faulted her husband for being inappropriate, but i find her impulse to blame the woman, not only me, but herself troubling. she's done a lot of growing this last ten years. bri? >> because hillary clinton wondered if certainly -- or she had said, i think as well in those records, that she felt perhaps she had been emotionally neglectful and that was the cause. suzanne malveaux, thank you for that. the legal troubles for donald sterling are just getting warmed up. that story next. get together for over 70 lunch combinations

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donald sterling says he won't sell his team, but the legal battle could get ugly. cnn looks at sterling's legal challenges and potential game plan. >> reporter: as the clippers launch into the second round of play-offs, another court is warming up. the legal court. at center, embattled clippers owner donald sterling. >> the only limitation is a lawyer's creativity in terms of who to sue, and how to sue, to really drag this thing out. >> reporter: playing defense, says attorney darren kavinoky, is sterling's first move after the nba banned him from the league for life. despite the harsh ban, he spoke with the 80-year-old billionaire who doesn't fully realize the effects of his now infamous racist remarks. >> i think he thinks he's going to be the owner for a lock time, that he wants to stay the owner. i said, this would be a long, protracted fight. >> reporter: in los angeles sterling has a long history of civil court cases.

potential players in this legal battle, the nba. now the commissioner adam silver banned sterling, the league says it will begin a search for a new clippers ceo. >> his legal defense would be that by trying to force him out, that the league has actually violated the contract. >> reporter: it may not stop with the league. there's also the nba owners. three-quarters of the current owners must agree to force sterling out. he could then sue them for unfairly ganging up on him. potentially the most powerful player in all of this, his wife, shelly sterling. in a statement, mrs. sterling says of the commissioner's ban of her husband, i fully supported his recent swift and divisive action. while it seems to undermine her husband, don't be so quick to bench this player, says kavinoky. >> in one sense, her interests are very much aligned with donald. that is, the one winning play for donald and his heirs, which

presumably would include shelly, would be making this litigation so protracted, and so complex, that the court case outlives donald sterling. >> reporter: why? for the lucrative end game, avoid taxes on a forced and rapid sale of the team. with sterling alive, a sale today means a potential tax on hundreds of millions in profits. that tax shrinks significantly. adding yet another court and a layer of litigation. what about the player who started it all? the lady hiding behind a visor. she said sterling is not a racist. but his words don't match what he feels. >> mr. sterling's right hand man, mr. sterling, everything, i'm his confidante, his best

friend, his silly rabbit. >> reporter: is she a part of all this legal maneuvering behind the scenes? >> somehow, i'm skeptical that she's a real player in all of this. maybe there's a book deal. maybe there's a short-lived tv show in her future. i don't see this as being a long-term play for her. >> reporter: donald sterling moving forward with his legal play, reportedly calling major law firms. tmz is reporting that he has reached out to the very same lawyers who represented paula deen in the wake of her "n" word scandal. cnn, los angeles. i'm pamela brown in for brooke baldwin. great to have you with us on this tuesday. the first warnings emerged more than 100 years ago. but today a team of scientists say that the time for dire predictions is over.

that global climate change is here, it is here right now, when we are all being affected. longer, hotter summers, drought, and extreme weather patterns across the u.s. they conclude climate change once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present. that is a quote. there is politics here, of course. the report was released by the white house and immediately rapped by republicans. supporters of stronger government action to meet this challenge say the study could be a game changer. with us now from atlanta, professor marshall, noted authority on climate change. he's with the university of georgia. and from here in washington, white house correspondent michelle kosinski. nice to have you with us. marshall, we want to start with you. what's new here that really jumps out to you? >> well, what's new to me is that the report is so consistent. it's bringing the specter of future climate change into the present. i think the public thinks this is something far off. but a year or two ago during

drought, they were paying more for their cheerios and bread because of drought. there are issues that really affect their lives. the other thing that really jumped out to me was that we're seeing sea level rise and melting in the arctic. much faster than even the projections would have said even several years ago. and these things actually have links back to our life here in the u.s. it's not just about polar bears. >> michelle, i want to go to you to talk about sort of the political implications here. some republicans have come out and said the timing, the release of this report is convenient. of course, the whole debate over the keystone pipeline taking center stage in the senate this week. how could that impact things? >> there's an energy efficiency bill coming up in the senate. really right now, but the thought is, that they're going to be these amendments trying to tack on there, like keystone. that is an issue that's not going away. even though the white house has kind of delayed it as long as

they possibly can, it seems. so there has been criticism. i think it's interesting now that when you see the criticism from the other side of this assessment, it's not so much denying climate change outright anymore, it's the politics of it. they're saying, why -- is this going to become a way then for the administration to try to impose greater taxes? things like taxes on gas, and other fossil fuels. the administration could be focusing on other things that are more important. just today, one congressman said, the focus should be elsewhere, for instance, on america's treatment of veterans. so they're not necessarily criticizing the substance of the report, although there has been some, certain language that's in there and things like that. but it's mostly the politics of it. but what the white house has said is they're basically not going to let congress stand in their way, for pushing this year of action as they've portrayed it for the second term, push for more climate action.

like imposing greater restrictions on emissions, on industry, on coal-fired plants. that the administration wants to bypass congressional together through these executive actions and executive orders that the president we know has planned. is there a time line for more of these actions that will go through the clean air act or epa? not necessarily. in fact, just today, the administration said there is no time line for that. i think we can be assured that we're going to be seeing president obama taking some action outside of congress. because there's virtually no chance if some of this getting passed in that way. pamela? >> of course, the white house suggesting that this report is a game changer. marshall shepherd, i want to go back to you. we can trace the first climate change warning back to the 1800s. whose fault is it that we are where we are, in your opinion? >> well, it's interesting, because oftentimes i'll have someone walk up to me in the grocery store and say, dr. shepherd, you know climate

change is natural. i said, i certainly do, i wouldn't have my ph.d. if i didn't know that. but we know human beings are contributing. we learned how to burn fossil fuels in the 1850s. we've outside the boundary of rising c02 and temperature. but thinking about it from a policy standpoint. climate change directly impacts national security, the economy, agriculture, transportation. there are results in this report that suggest that it is raining much harder than it did 30, 40 years ago. that overwhelms city management, farmers have to think about drought-resistant seeding. the national military, i was on a national academy of study panel for the navy. they're concerned about things like political destabilization from climate refugees. i know there are stakeholders and policymakers that are concerned about, that are directly traceable back to this science study. we can't be dismissive of this as some sort of egghead science

that we shouldn't be concerned about. >> but you have the deny yeaier there, marshall. do you think this debate will ever end? >> sure. i talked for length about the zombie theories out there. these theories that just live on, even though the science has refuted it. they just kind of live on like zombies. oh, it's the sun, natural variability. the science has dealt with these things. sinclair said it best, it's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it. that particular quote sets the context why we have some of the discussions we have. i kind of steer clear of that. the science is clear, 97% of us that publish and speak on the science have known this for a while. there's a lot of noise out there, but i try to stay focused on the signal. >> michelle, as we mentioned, this report was released by the white house. is there any indication that there was any sort of political intervention with this report? >> i think that the detractors

out there will say, look, this was commissioned by a white house, by an administration that has an agenda to advance, especially in president obama's second term. but these are scientists who when asked, will stand behind the science of what they're doing. and for every detractor out there, of course, there's a response not only from the administration, but from the scientists themselves, pamela. >> all right. michelle and marshall, thank you both. >> thank you. the offer is on the table. but the question remains, is the u.s. headed to nigeria to help find hundreds of missing kidnapped school girls? three weeks have passed since more than 200 students were snatched during a fiery attack on their school. and today, cnn learned that eight more girls have been taken. reportedly by the boko haram, the same group that claimed responsibility for the april 14th kidnappings. the latest violent abduction was overnight on sunday in northeast nigeria. the eight girls, ages 12 to 15, were stolen by armed men who raided homes there.

just moments ago, secretary of state john kerry called nigerian president goodluck jonathan to help. it was followed by a statement from nigeria saying that the president welcomed and accepted the assistance. the aid would include an intelligence team on the ground. >> today i spoke with president goodluck jonathan, on behalf of president obama, and offered on behalf of president obama, offered america's support for nigeria in their response to this crisis. our embassy in abuja is prepared to form a coordination cell that could provide expertise on intelligence, investigations, and hostage negotiations, and to help facilitate information sharing and victim assistance. >> why is it taking so long for the government to formally

accept a full offer of international help? it all seems a bit ambiguous. have they also welcomed an offer from the uk? >> reporter: hi there, pam. to the best of our knowledge, the nigerian government, we saw that in the statement put out by the state house, the office of the presidency, they have accepted this offer from the united states. we heard details of what that assistance would look like. the nigerian government has been saying for weeks now that they have the capability, they're able to handle this on their own. maybe simply it's a case of the reality, that this is much more difficult than they maybe anticipated, and that they have now come to the realization after three weeks, or at the point of three weeks, they need to accept help. the nigerian government saying on camera on sunday that they have no idea where these girls are. i will say to you, that it will be very welcome news to many in this country, especially, especially the parents of these 200-plus girls, to hear that the

united states is getting involved. and that the nigerian government has welcomed and formally accepted their offer of help. when it comes to the united kingdom, unclear what the situation is there. we know an offer of help has been extended. we have not heard of any formal statements from the office of the presidency as to whether that has been accepted, pamela. >> and what has nigeria's response to the reports of these additional kidnappings of those eight girls, what has the response been from the government there, and what search efforts has the government deployed thus far? >> reporter: well, i just spoke to the president's senior special assistant on special affairs, and he said that they were mobilizing troops, and that they were stepping up efforts and going after the assailants and those who captured these eight girls. these are words that they uttered when it came to the abduction of the 200-plus girls, and the feeling on the ground

is, you uttered words, but you didn't give details of the action that was being taken. in fact, added to that, the parents on the ground, from the area the girls were snatched from said, we didn't see much activity on the ground. so again, they're saying that they're doing everything they can to find these eight girls, this latest group of girls that have been kidnapped. we will continue to press for more information, because we need to know the details as to what exactly is being done, pamela. >> absolutely, we do. isha sesay, thank you so much. we have more coverage of the missing girls throughout the hour, including how social media played a role in the search. the #bring back our girls helped bring awareness to the cause. but does activism on social media make us less likely to do more? is ukraine on the edge of all-out war. several countries came together to talk about that fear, and see what can be done to stop it. and then, how a biplane from the last century snarled air traffic at one of the world's biggest airports and led to delays across the country.

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here are two names you probably would never have put together. jay leno and brunei. they're on opposing sides right now. why, you ask? well, because lenai is the first asian country to adopt a criminal code of sharia law. more now from ted rolands. >> reporter: the tony beverly hills hotel, a haven for

hollywood's elite. but now some stars are rushing for the exits. >> i know a number of people are canceling events at the hotel. and it's all economic. >> reporter: jay leno, his wife may ha mavis, took demonstration across from the hotel monday protesting not the hotel per se, but its ownership, an investment group controlled by the sultan of b brunei. they want people to know about the new laws in brunei, a majority muslim country in southeast asia. the sultan approves of the law that approve stoning of those found in homosexuality or adultery. >> it's people being stoned to death. hello. >> reporter: ellen degeneres and richard branson also announced they won't patronize the hotel or other properties in the dorchester group of luxury

hotels. the talk show host tweeted, i won't be visiting the hotel bellaire or beverly hills hotel until this is resolves. >> the actions they're taking are unfounded. >> reporter: christopher, ceo of the dorchester collection, says celebrities and groups shutting the company's hotels put their focus in the wrong place. >> it's going to hurt our employees. this is nothing to do with them. not whatsoever. it's not their fight. >> reporter: he said celebrities who want to influence politics in brunei would be better off lobbying the state department. a state department spokeswoman addressed developments in brunei. >> let me be clear that we have serious concerns. >> reporter: park was asked whether diplomats stay in dorchester collection hotels on business. >> i don't know the answer. >> reporter: government officials in beverly hills are taking a stand. mayor lily bossy is introducing a resolution before the city council that would urge the sultan to divest his interest in

the hotel, that bears the city's name. >> we have a history of standing strong against injustice. >> reporter: the legendary property has been around for over 100 years, even longer than beverly hills itself. >> the resolution is not a call for a boycott of the beverly hills hotel. this is really a focus on the government and their laws, and not a statement about the hotel. >> reporter: ted rolands, cnn, los angeles. let's go now to senior media correspondent and host of cnn's live sources, brian, great to have you here with us. i first want to ask you, this boycott has gone beyond the administration. it's really having an impact on the hotel's bottom line. by the way, this is not just any hotel. this is a well-known, prestigious hotel there in l.a. >> when i used to be out in los angeles doing reporting for "the new york times," these are the hotels that the hollywood big wigs would want to meet at. this is where they want to go to have coffee or drinks. these are important brands out

in hollywood. bloomberg reported today that at least nine entertainment industry events have been withdrawn from these hotels. also, three events over in europe, hotels part of this chain. it is having an impact on the bottom line. >> do you think celebrities taking up causes actually makes the media pay more attention? and then the public as a whole? >> well, the headline celebrities boycott is a catchy headline, that we're more likely to click than not. having jay leno, for example, at that protest, was a big deal. it was a pretty small protest. but cameras were guaranteed to show up when they knew that jay leno was going to be there. he made for quite a spokesman, when he was talking to that cnn crew and others. it does bring a lot to the table. it also helps that this particular protest started with people that were already elite in their industry. you know, it started with the designers and with others that were big names, big shots within the industry.

not household names, not jay leno, but big players within the industry, that they were in. it took off from there. not totally, it wasn't that they were obscure to begin with. it's happened before as well. remember 2012, a couple of years ago, the campaign against the guerrilla warfare. that started in large part because the celebrities were the ones tweeting and facebooking and getting people to watch the youtube that got it all going. >> yeah. it's amazing to see so many celebrities, especially take to social media like twitter. ellen degeneres did it with this story, and made their voices heard. it looks like we'll continue to see that. brian, thank you so much. >> thanks. a growing outcry in nigeria, and around the world. bring back our girls. could it come at a worse time for nigeria. a huge economic forum this week. if you're waiting for the controversy of climate change, the wait is over, according to a new report saying no corner of

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first on cnn, there is a personal plea from 20 female senators to president obama. they want the u.s. to do more in nigeria to help find the abducted girls. cnn has obtained a letter they wrote to the president. while we applaud the u.s. condemnation of the kidnapping, we believe there is much more that the united states government should do to make clear that such an attack will not be tolerated. we urge you to press for the addition of boko haram to the united nations security council sanctions list. the mechanism by which international sanctions are imposed on al qaeda and al qaeda-linked organizations. chief congressional correspondent dana bash is on capitol hill and spoke to two of

the senators who signed that letter. dana? >> reporter: hi, pamela. sure. it was the senator collins of maine, republican from maryland, they led this letter. all female senators signed it. what was really noteworthy, and newsworthy in the interview i just did, is they went beyond what they called for in this letter. and susan collins in particular talked about the use of the u.s. military. special forces in particular. listen to this. >> more can be done by this administration. i would like to see special forces deployed to help rescue these young girls. some of these girls are as young as 9 years old. we're now up to more than 300 girls who have been kidnapped by this terrorist group. they're being sold into slavery, forced into marriages, required to convert. this is just horrible.

>> senator, do you agree, special forces should be sent in? >> i think that should be considered. pause this is the sovereignty of another nation. i really do think that african nations forming an international effort. but it has to start with the nigerian president, using his resources and african coalition, and then calling upon the expertise of nations that have special forces, special intelligence data, satellites, et cetera. find the girls, rescue the girls, punish the bad guys. and send a message, we won't tolerate it. you try it again, we'll come after you again. >> pretty tough talk from the female senators who feel that when they join together as a group, a bipartisan group as they did, pretty warp speed, this letter which they just sent to the president, they got all 20 signatures on it just a few hours ago today. they feel they will have more power and will help the president get the white house to have more international support.

the senator admitted even though she's circumspect, she thinks that the region should deal with it first and then the u.s. can come in and help. she also admitted that the nigerian government has been tepid in its response. that also seems to be another problem. one last thing i can tell you is the senators, the female senators are going to meet with secretary of state john kerry at some point in the next few days to discuss this and other things. >> dana bash, thank you so much for that reporting. fires, floods, mean and horrific weather of all kinds. is this a new world we're facing? a new report has something for all of us to worry about. (music)

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snapped 70 years ago in the month of august at a glacier in alaska. on the right, a shot from the same vantage point. also in august. but in the year 2004. you can see how the glacier has melted. now it's a scenic lake. as chad myers tells us, the report says climate change is a reality right now. >> it's been like nothing i've seen. i've lived here almost 30 years. >> this past winter was one few will soon forget. snow, endless snow, and a deep freeze that went on far too long, shutting down cities, airports and highways. but wait, did you know the past ten years are still the hottest on record? that's just one of the findings by some 300 scientists in a new government report. the national climate assessment. the report on climate change and the warming of the earth is alarming, at best. what they found appears to be destined to have widespread, massive effects on human health,

access to water, the economy, and the planet. the report says climate change is not a futuristic distant issue. it's already here. across the country, and it's man-made. the national climate assessment says america's already noticed the impact. in the length and severity of seasonal allergies, in how long plants thrive in the dark. and even in the kinds of birds they see in their neighborhoods. americans are noticing change all around them. the report says. echoing a draft version from last year. summers are longer and hotter. rain comes in heavier downpours. but the report suggests there is more to come. and the picture, well, isn't pretty. let's start with the northeast. scientists warn the real future threat lies in extended heat waves, and more severe flash flooding. people's lives, homes, and infrastructure under possible threat. in the southeast, a combination

of drought and increased population is likely to threaten the region's water supply. farming, agriculture, and a rising sea level poses a continuing threat to cities and industries at low elevations. and to the plains now, where the message is clear, the weather will become more extreme, higher heat, longer droughts and deeper floods. and out west, those dreadful wildfires, already all too common today. the report suggests more drought that will lead to more wildfires. continuing to threaten precious fruits, vegetables, vegetation, not to mention homes and wildlife. >> meteorologist chad myers joins us now. chad, you touched on just about everything in this report, famine, rising sea levels, what's the big takeaway from the report for you? >> i think fewer normal days. you see your local weather guy say, the normal high today is

72. it's either going to be 50 or 90. sure, that's a normal at someplace, but there's not going to be that many days at that normal. it's going to be drought, heat or flooding. those are just one of the things. this is a graphic i showed you earlier. this is a glacier in alaska. that's what it looked like. this is where the glacier used to be. it is no longer there. this is the ice that's melting, that's causing sea level rise. i talked to a cab driver in new york last week when i was there. he's from pakistan. he said, my town no longer exists because the glacier that was above my town is gone. it has completely melted. there's no water in my town. he said when the water left, the people left. that's just one example. that's worldwide. we're only talking the u.s. here, but this obviously is a global issue. >> the pictures really put it into perspective for us. chad myers, thank you. >> you're welcome. it is one of the most guarded recipes in the world.

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as the world watches and waits, eight more girls have been kidnapped, taken to a frightening and uncertain future. according to a villager in a northeastern nigerian village,

the men stormed in and took the girls. there's international outcry over the kidnapping of more than 200 girls taken by boko haram. we bring in cnn global economic analyst, live in abuja, nigeria. first off, we're learning nigeria stated it's welcomed and accepted the u.s. offer of support. do you think other countries are likely to join the search? >> reporter: i think it's possible. you know, i'm here actually for the beginning of the world economic forum in abuja. this is supposed to be a moment where companies would come in to invest in nigeria. now everyone's preoccupied with these abductions. there's a lot of concern within the business community. i'm talking to the heads of western companies here saying this is a place we want to do business. there's a lot of concern on the ground and i think that will be one of the key issues discussed at the forum this week. >> let's talk about that. obviously this comes at an embarrassing time for the country there. there's been a lot of criticism

about the nigerian government. the first lady told protesters to stop, that they're making the country look bad by speaking out about these kidnappings. does it appear that the world economic forum is there could possibly be influencing the government for this push to save face? >> reporter: i think so. it's very interesting, because there's a large military presence around the airport. they're taking great pains to make people feel secure. but the fact is, people don't feel secure. the country is not secure. the crisis is only getting bigger. and i think this is really threatening to overshadow a forum that should be about growth in nigeria. instead, it's about security in nigeria. despite the fact there's an incredible amount of wealth in this place, it's not a good place for girls and women taken from their homes. and also for companies doing business here, i think that's a real worry to the companies that i'm talking to on the ground.

>> peter bergen talked to cnn about the tricky position that this puts nigeria in. let's take a listen. >> the richest country in africa, it's got a huge oil trade, $100 billion in revenue. this week, staging the world economic forum in africa in nigeria. that's the one side of nigeria. and then you have this, competing for headlines at the same time. i think what's at stake here is if the nigerian government can't reduce this insurgency, investors will be scared off. and what is an african success story, can be quite interrupted if they don't get control on this insurgency which has killed 1,500 people in the last three months. which by any reasonable standard, is like a low-grade civil war going on in the country. >> all right. rhonda, do you agree? >> reporter: absolutely. you know, you have this juxtaposition really in this country, but in many african countries. six out of the top ten fastest

growing economies in the world are in africa. they may be growing by 7%, 8%, 9% a year, but they cannot maintain security within the country. this is something that will ultimately impact the growth trajectory. one of the biggest parts of africa's growth trajectory is about empowering women, about keeping girls in school, about empowering female entrepreneurs. something hillary clinton has done a lot with. now john skerry as secretary of state. security and the issues surrounding it are going to continue to be the possible biggest impediment to growth in the next few years, i think. >> nigeria has the biggest economy in africa. they have a lot at stake. rona, thank you for offering your perspective. many of the details surrounding the school girls' kidnapping are in question. where are they now? who's to blame for the delay in their rescue? of course, they were kidnapped three weeks ago. and what will become of them? one fact you can't argue, the

calls to find the girls are growing. and the world is not standing by quietly. everyone from hillary clinton and senator barbara boxer to mary j. blige, jumping in to help find these girls. let's bring in the foreign editor for "the daily beast," chris. the #bring back our girls has come on like a tidal wave as you say. why this cause, why the girls? >> i think there are a couple of reasons. first of all, the incident itself is so dramatic, that you have 250 girls or so taken away, out into the jungle, sold as slaves, taken as wives, whatever is happening to them. some of them probably dead. that's just a horrible incident. but i think the fact that the world was not paying attention also horrified people as they realized slowly what was going on. so this campaign began to build, and the people who are behind it, groups like girls rising, and amy foaler's smart girls, these girls recognize that this is also a way to bring attention

to a much bigger issue, which is the treatment of women and girls generally. their need for an education, their need to find different ways of life. the need to change the society around them so that they can have a future. >> and as we talked about, these girls, the bulk of them, kidnapped three weeks ago, eight more kidnapped we're learning. how much of a role do you think this social media movement played, and what we heard today, that nigeria's now accepting assistance from the u.s., and how -- and the action that's sort of going into play now? >> i think it's a huge role. i mean, look, why are we talking about this now when we weren't talking about it two weeks ago? i think the reason is because of the social media campaign. because of the hash tag, because of the various ngos, nongovernmental organizations, have started working together to focus global attention on this. and i think anybody who looks at this situation, of these particular girls, these are

girls in an area where fewer than 3% of the girls ever get anything like a higher education. and these girls were studying hoping to go to college when they were taken away into the jungle. it's a horrible example and many people in that area are going to be afraid to send their children and especially their girls to school from now on. so it drives a whole area backwards and that kind of thing happens around the world. so they want to make sure that we don't just care about these girls, although we certainly do, but that we also care about girls all over the world who are in similar, terrible situations. >> and also the fact that this boko haram have kidnapped these girls, this is not the first time that they have done this. it's just now being thrusted to the spotlight. i want to go to the flip side of this social media movement.

we saw hillary clinton, among others, tweeting about it. they are using the hash tag. is this an example, though, of selectivism, whereby people tweet about it, they use the hash tag and then say, i've done my part? >> certainly people are going to put up the new avatar that is going around that says bring our girls home. these things are easy to do. but the people behind this campaign also are very conscious about that and they are trying to mobilize people to go out and protest, to go and do things, to right their congressmen, to put pressure on the nigerian government, things that are tra tangible and build a force like a tidal wave behind the individuals trying to get things done. gordon brown, for instance, the former prime minister of britain, is at the economic forum. he's going to be talking about this and he's going to be backed

up by hundreds and hundreds and thousands of signatures already on a petition that change.org has circulating. >> well, it's wonderful to see so many people coming together to be a part of this movement. a really interesting article there on "daily beast." chris, thank you. >> thank you. you think those online petitions don't make a difference? tell that to coca-cola. the we'll talk about that right after this break. and you get a delicious milo's kitchen chicken meatball. i wish you liked my cooking that much. milo's kitchen. made in the usa with chicken or beef as the number one ingredient. the best treats come from the kitchen. get together for over starting at $6.99.ions all part of olive garden's entirely new pronto lunch menu. choose from handmade sandwiches and flatbreads. paired with unlimited soup or salad. 70 lunch combinations starting at $6.99. at olive garden.

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this just in to cnn. the president of the los angeles clippers is taking an indefinite leave of absence. this will provide a new ceo to begin on a clean slate. the nba is being looking for a new ceo for the l.a. clippers. well, if you're not into drinking flame retardant, you'll be happy to hear about this. coca-cola is going to get rid of an ingredient. what is it used for?

>> bromine is used in plastic furniture and also in bbo. what that does is help to distribute flavor. coke is currently using it and fanta. coke is taking bbo out of all of its drinks by the end of the year after complaints that it can be linked to memory loss, skin, and nerve problems. coke was saying that all of its beverages, though, are safe and they comply with regulations and that bbo is allowed in the u.s. in small quantities. obviously coke, pamela, has given into the pressure. taking it out after a teenager started a petition saying we don't want it. we don't want to drink it. pamela? >> good for her. alison kosik, thank you. it was one year ago today when michelle knight, aman da

berry and gina dejesus escaped from the home where they were being held captive for over ten years. michelle knight talked about her recovery with cnn's anderson cooper. >> what would you think about each day, i mean, just to get through? oh, basically think about my son. and how i would love to see his loving smile again. >> eventually he moved her upstairs where she was naked and only had about a foot and a half of chain, just enough for her to stand up and use a bucket for a toilet. her only connection with the outside world, an old radio. sometimes a small tv. it was nearly eight months into her hell when she saw on that tv that a girl named amanda berry

had gone missing. >> if anybody knows anything about my daughter, i wish somebody would come forward. >> when you heard that, what did you think? >> the first thought in my head is, he did it. >> you knew right away? >> yeah. >> and part two of anderson cooper's interview airs tonight at 8:00 eastern time. i was there in cleveland covering this story when it happened. i was in cleveland many times and it's amazing to see just how strong and resilient these women are and very courageous for michelle knight to speak out to our anderson cooper. into also, as we talked about earlier, amanda and gina dejesus are working on a book deal that will be released later this year. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. ukraine's hopes are pinned on elections that will be held there in fewer than three weeks but russia asks, can they really

be held there with people dying in the streets? i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." the world lead. in the middle of all of this, ukrainians are supposed to go to the polls, pick a new president? russia now questioning the timing of ukraine's elections even though president obama strictly warned putin not to interfere. the politics lead, we are off to the races. it's just one primary in one state but today's key north carolina senate republican primary race is the one making establishment republicans the most nervous. and the pop culture lead. unless you've stayed there, you are nobody in that town. but now some big names in showbiz are turning away from the older school hollywood law. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper.