cnn during the 3:00 p.m. eastern hour. that's an hour from now. you will want to catch that interview. that's it for me. >> boka haram has carried out another attack. at least 150 people were killed by militants who stormed the area. and now nigerian police put up a reward.

>> they stormed the local market, firing indiscriminantly, firing into the crowds, sending people fleeing into the bush. and really, it was an attack that took place over 12 hours we are told. and at the end of it, some 150 people were dead. they have only now returned to that area.

so afraid and now they have come back and what are they finding? they are. >> horrific details. there are police efforts, or there is supposed to be. there is reward money. they say they have dispatched helicopters and search planes. why haven't we seen any results of their efforts. boka haram has killed 1500

people this year alone. it is isolated from the capital. there is a huge forested area that is believed that militants have used as their base. and it is so dangerous that we keep hearing that nigerian military don't want to get into it. so, there are a lot of logistical challenges on the ground but at the end of the day we are talking about 200 plus girls who have gone missing. the government needs to do everything that it can and provide information to back up the statement that they are doing everything they can. information which until recently that they were very unforthcoming with. >> they were certainly to stay today. now many of the parents whose children were kidnapped have avoided the media out of fear for their daughter's lives.

but we spoke with one family about their ordeal. they described the shocking moment when they arrived at the burned down dorm stories.

s. >> you heard earlier saying that some of the parents were fleeing in the forest. some say they were sleeping in the bushes for protection and they openly criticized the federal government and accused nigerian officials of hiding the truth. >> i have never seen such a thing. >> the nigerian government has waited three weeks to pubically acknowledge. i want to bring in someone who knows the area very well. he is the author of revolution

by other means, the challenge of the emerging generation. thanks so much for being with me. we heard the father of two kidnapped girls saying he has not seen a military presence. what's your reaction to that. >> well, thank you for having me. yeah, the truth is that military presence has suffered in deficits. the nigerian military is incapable of covering every inch of ground in that territory. i have to say that the initial response to this debacle lacks intensity and urgency. a lot of protest and anger on the ground here. >> can i ask you, i mean, we're talking about a number of girls here and obviously the hope is so much that they will be returned safely. what should be done to make sure that they are safe moving forward. will it ever be safe for girls

to get an education there? >> the group has evolved over time from having a new islamist agenda. right now this is simply pure criminal an arky going on. there is no alternative to defeating this group. we are not dealing with people interested in peace. there is no at terntive to defeating this group and securing those communities. there is no alternative to that. >> and just as someone who does know this area, just tell us a little bit more about this group and also its leader who we have seen in this video. >> it's important to note that this group has evolved over the last five years.

it started as a small group with local concerns. after the first crack down on the group in 2009, it simply demanded that the mosque be rebuilt. it demanded to remove the state's governor and demanded the prosecution of the police officer, guilty of killing its leader. it launched a series of bomb attacks on churches. it's aim was to start a sectarian war. there were no reprisals. and it has never had a base

among mainstream muslims. that's important to note as well. the best would be to compare to the resistance army in northern uganda. you have a group that started in 1986 that started in 1986 with great support but over time its brutal method cost it support and now it has degenerated into a transnational anarchist group. if it is not contained in nigh g -- nigeria, chances are high that it will destabilize neighboring countries. >> and certainly that is a reason why people should be paying attention to this. thank you so much for your perspective. really appreciate it. now moving on to another story, thousands of packages of illegal substances, bath salts, spice,

all seized in a nationwide crack down on the synthetic drug trade. you are looking at exclusive video of border patrol agents testing suspicious packages. synthetic drugs can have unpredictable effects on the mind and body. evan perez with us here in washington. he has been tracking this story. evan, tell us about today's drug raids and how many people are we talking about when it comes to these arrests? what makes the drugs particularly enticing is things packaged. these drugs are commonly called

synthetic marijuana and bath salts. and they are causing heart attacks mental health issues. >> this is a big issue. i have interviewed parents who have lost children to these readily available synthetic drugs. there is something else now that is grabbing our focus, which has to do with terrorism. explain this. >> part of the problem here is that some profits from the synthetic drug trade is winding up in the hands of terrorists. the government says that some of it is ending up in the hands of it is concern that money from the drug trade is helping to fund terrorism and some of these groups are taking advantage of the drug business to make money. >> and taking advantage of kids.

you can almost tell by the packaging as well. evan perez, thank you so much. day 62 in the search for the missing plane and now we are entering what is called phase two. what officials are saying will be the next steps. also ahead, vladimir putin says russian troops have with drawn. we are live in moscow. >> plus donald sterling has reportedly hired a high profile celebrity lawyer. we have a close up look at who could be representing the la clipper's owner as he fights to keep his team.

>> 62 days after flight 370 went missing, we are about to shift. officials from malaysia, china and australia met today to determine the frame work for future search operations. they are expected to re-examine data and determine where exactly the search area will be and decide what is up coming forward. who should continue. joining me now, richard quest, cnn aviation correspondent. at what point does it not make

sense to keep searching. >> there is no question that they are going to keep searching. that is not even an issue. now many of those costs, to be frank, they are by and large, they are fixed costs anyway. you have got the ships. you have got the staff and navies and air forces. but moving forward as they decide which assets they're going to need. which private contractors they're going to have to bring in. so you move from a question of what you need to how you're going to pay for it. >> and who all is going to pitch in. i want to dig deeper into this poll. you have 57% of respondents

think that terrorists were responsible. there is flight crew overlap as well. >> a very clever way of what do i think happened, which i have avoided answering. in that survey, what is fascinating about that survey is that half think it could still be mechanical. it's when you look at the half that think it wasn't mechanical that you start to look deeper. more people, once you have said you don't think it's mechanical, then you start to say terrorism or the pilots. most people seem to believe it's the pilots or one of the pilots

was involved. it really does come down to there is substantial evidence for the nefarious option and i know some people will go full throttle on that. wasn't made because of political problem. >> we also do know that officials met today to discuss this next phase. you have been looking at this for weeks now. what is the best way to tackle the search going forward? >> very difficult question. you really have to get down to the knitty gritty. what they are doing is a fundamental recognition that what they have done so fares has not worked. what we have heard again and

again is the best evidence. it has not yielded results. what d you do in this situation. you look at all the evidence that you have got. you have got the turn of the top and the primary radar for the malaysians. what we will be doing anywhere else is reviewing it. but i warn you this, if they decide there is something fundamentally flawed in the data from which they have been working, they have nothing else to back it up with. that is why it's fine and dandy. but if they're wrong, then, that

plane could be anywhere. >> remember, it took a couple years to find that air france plane. at least the remnants that were at the butt tottom of the ocean. thank you so much for that. coming up, vladimir putin says that russian troops are with drawn as separatists continue to ramp up the violence. we are live next. plus he was caught on tape making racist statements and now donald sterling could be in a legal battle to try and keep the clippers. over 400,000 new private sector jobs... making new york state number two in the nation in new private sector job creation... with 10 regional development strategies to fit your business needs. and now it's even better because they've introduced startup new york... with the state creating dozens of tax-free zones where businesses pay no taxes for ten years.

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>> what is vladimir putin up to today. he says putting off votes set for later this month could create more room for diplomacy. and we just got reaction from the state department hopeful that this is a step by putin. kerry also said -- pardon me. hold on just a second. okay. so we know he is pulling back some of the troops from the ukraine border. some 40 to 50,000 fighters in all. we asked the pentagon for comment. they say there is no sign of a pull back at this point. this is an odd twist today.

is there anyway to determine whether putin is telling the truth about pulling back these troops from the war? >> there are modern surveillance techniques that might be able to give us hints. they haven't seen any of the movements that the russian president says has taken place. he says because of the concern that these troops, 40 or 50,000 of them across the border could be used to invade eastern ukraine. he has ordered them back to the bar racks and their training grounds. there is a few other points, which have given rise to hopes. it is not a man particularly known for his flip-flopping.

firstly, saying that he backs a may the 25 presidential election. also calling on the pro russian separatist groups in eastern ukraine to postpone their independence referendums that are due to be held over this coming weekend. it will be interesting to see whether those groups on the ground listen to what putin has to say. it will be interesting to see how much actual influence he has on the separatist activities. >> and so what do you make of that, though? when he's talking about how he has pulled back troops when you have the pentagon saying they don't see a sign of the call. what is the relevance of that. >> yeah, it's difficult, isn't it, with somebody so opaque as

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>> former dodgers manager says he has known the shamed owner of the clippers for the past 30 years and is not surprised by what he had to say. lasorta had this to say about them. >> he shouldn't have said it. and it just hurt himself by talking too much and doing things that he shouldn't be doing. and i tell you, i don't wish that girl any bad luck but i hope she gets hit with a car. >> all kidding aside, sterling is facing a serious legal battle as he reportedly plans to challenge the nba's move to sell his team. who could be leading the fight? >> if he has any chance of keeping this, clippers owner donald sterling has to fight this. and he is going to need a go for the jugular no holds barred

lawyer. the kind who defends clients like paula dean after she was caught using a racial slur in 2013. >> i want to apologize to everybody for the wrong that i have done. >> that lawyer, according to tmz sports, is patty glazer, who would not confirm that she is working for sterling but is certainly a logical choice. glazer got the charges against dean thrown out. she also successfully defended kelsey grammer. >> he doesn't want to be treated specially because he's a celebrity but he doesn't want to be penalized for it either. >> and glazer successfully represented conan o'brien during contract talks. >> how can i get nbc to screw me over? >> if she comes in there and represents the interest of the

trust, i think she's on much more solid legal ground than if she comes in and just represents sterling. >> and it's not just glazer. sterling is talking to a number of high profile lawyers. one of the first orders of business for in lawyer sterling potentially hires will likely be figuring out whether the tapes were recorded legally under california law, second, whether it's legal to force a sale of such a valuable team. >> the players' association for the league needs to start thinking about the contingency plan. what are you going to do for those clippers players who no longer want to play for a man profiting off of their skills and talent. >> lawyers could hire investigators to dig up dirt on the opposition. one time friends, now potential enemies. >> the owners may have to give up information that they may not want out in the public. that is why part of any

litigation is whether or not donald sterling will win but what do the other parties have to lose if this case goes to litigation? >> and of course there is the question of who actually owns the clippers. is it donald? wife shelly? is it both through the family trust? that strategy could very well apply ultimately to ownership of the team. >> thank you. let's bring in sonny. why wouldn't a law firm want to take this? you would definitely get publicity even if it's not definitely positive and certainly you would make a lot of money. >> and you get paid which is one of the reasons why lawyers sometimes don't take cases. i think there is that notion perhaps among lawyers that they don't want to be affiliated with a known biggot or racist. i don't think that he's going to

have a problem actually finding a very, very good lawyer. there is just no question about it. many lawyers i have spoken to feel that the nba cushionstitut is less than clear. i think a lot of lawyers will want to be up to that challenge. >> that he has a legal if not moral case? >> right. >> when sterling hires an attorney, what is the first thing that that lawyer needs to do? >> get his or her arms around the facts. that lawyer is going to try to stop this train. he has already been suspended for life.

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>> former "american idol" star is clinging to a teeny tiny edge. and right now the democratic primary for north carolina's second congressional district, it is just too close to call. aiken is ahead only by 369 votes, proving he is not invisible to voters in his natithe native state. ♪ if i was invisible ♪ if i could just watch you in

your room ♪ ♪ if i was invisible ♪ i'd make you mine tonight >> he does have different hair in his campaign videos for sure. back in 2003 he got a record deal after finishing second on "american idol." the winner rueben studdard, the current opponent says he will decide tomorrow on any possible recount requests. the primary winner will face renae elmers in the november election. when the woman threw a shoe at hillary clinton, some conservatives, rush limbaugh among them, spun theories of a set up. when chelsea clinton announced her pregnancy, other conservatives claimed a campaign stunt. now monica lewinski, that piece

in vanity fair coming out, this is sounding a bit like a trend. >> i really wonder if this isn't an effort on the clinton's part to get that story out of the way. would vanity fair publish anything about monica lewinski that hillary clinton didn't want in vanity fair? >> i love this theory. >> so three alleged clinton conspiracies in the course of a mere month. let's talk about monica lewinski. we have a republican commentator and democrat strategist. some say hey, this is good for hillary clinton. it gets the monica issue well out of the way. others are saying this is designed to hurt her. you're not buying either of these, right? >> i don't think there is any political conspiracy in the works here. not everything has to be a political conspiracy. i can tell you that i have

talked to many republicans. i was on the hill today. nobody's talking about this. nobody wants to talk about this. this is a no winner. there is no way to win with this topic in politics. it does not hurt hillary. they have survived in politics for all of thoo tiis time. she became a senator. and it really is a toxic issue. i think this is about monica lewinski turning 40. it makes you take stock of your life, look back and say what do i do, what do i need to do. i think that's where she is and she's trying to take the narrative back. i think it would be a heck of a experience involving vanity fair and monica lewinski and the clintons. it sounds a little surreal to me. >> i have to agree with you on that. when you're talking about this dredging up the 90s and you

heard -- a lot of people just don't want to do this. whether it's good or bad or neutral, on a personal level, this is not what she wants people focused on. this was a terribly painful time for her. how does this story affect her calculus as she decides whether to run, whether she wants stuff like this coming out here in the next couple of years? >> i don't think it really affects her calculus. if there's one thing we have learned about hillary, it's that her strength is immeasurable. i think what her calculus will be in terms of whether she's going to run or not is what does she have to offer this country. she's talking about every single issue that is facing our country today. she did it yesterday, she is doing it today. she is on the circuit with speeches about income equality for women. about girl's and women's leadership around the world. those are the things that are going to be actually making the

calculus in hillary clinton's mind as to whether she's going to run or not. this was absolutely incredibly painful episode for her. this issue, back in the 90s, had absolutely nothing to do with hillary and it will have nothing to do with her politically if she decides to run. >> so rand paul, possibly republican white house hopeful, he's taken to calling bill clinton a predator. again, dating back to lewinski. let's listen back to what he said very recently. >> the democrats can't say we're the great defenders of women's rights in the workplace and we will defend you against some kind of abusive bos ths that us their position of authority to take advantage of a young woman when the leader in their party is bill clinton who is a perpetrator of that kind of sexual harassment. >> so he was ask this, he was

responding to a very specific question about this. but whether one agrees with what rand paul is saying or not, it's sounding pretty 90s. here we are in 2014. what kind of strategy is this? it doesn't sound like you think it's a winning one. >> what's old is new again. i think we have picked out with cheney and rand paul, two rare voices in the republican party. i have also heard people, today, on tv, say that it's a vast republican conspiracy to get this out. i think it's neither. and i think the majority of republicans are not shaking this mantle. are not trying to wave this banner. this is not a good political issue. particularly for my party. we have a problem with women. and i don't know any woman who wants to drudge up a painful episode for another woman. i think we need to scrutinize hillary clinton's record. she's got a record as a first lady, as a senator, in the private sector and she's got a

record as secretary of state. if anything this distracts from looking at that record. she needs to stand on her accomplishments and failures in her career but this has no place in scrutinizing hillary clinton. >> have a more substancetive kafgs conversation. i have talked with a whole bunch of young voters. this is a big group. there are many voters who did not vote in 2008 who don't give two hoots about the 90s. it just doesn't resonate with them. do people even care? no. and i think this is the problem in the right wing conspiracy including lyn cheney. it's not a winning strategy for republicans. sensible republicans understand that. but there are still those for whom this is political crack for the voter base. that's why they were talking about it last night on bill

o'reil o'reilly. it will backfire not only because the republicans have a huge problem with women and they don't want to alienate them more than they already have. but to your point, today's elect rat is very different than what it was in the 90s. this is certainly not an issue that speaks to young voters, to african-american voters, to women that are making up this america. it will be a losing proposition. >> a lot of agreement on this panel. >> i think we do have to point out that no potential republican candidate is really out talking about this issue involving monica. >> rand paul brought it up. let's hope that he doesn't any more. >> now there is video of that

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>> incredible images coming from nasa. you're looking at the clearest images from a solar explosion. joining me now to tell us exactly what this is, cnn chad myers. it's not a solar flare.

>> it's cool pictures. it's a piece of plasma that got stuck between two magnetic fields. just really cool stuff. there it is. all of the sudden shot off into space. you can see pictures like this all the time at nasa.gov. this is actually what our sun looks like right now. please don't go out and look at it. look at it on the website. it's cooler here because the solar dynamics observe tory takes this. the pictures that we see from the sun are phenomenal. you can't get anything like this looking at it. so please do not. use nasa.gov. cool pictures. >> childhood 101, do not look at the sun. >> exactly. >> thanks for that. and coming up next, remember that young stow away who hopped a flight to hawaii?

well, there is video of him now climbing out of that plane.

>> watch this closely. video of that 15-year-old who stowed away in the wheel well of a jet has finally been released. here is cnn's dan simon. >> this newly released video clearly shows someone emerging from the rear of the plane. authorities say it's the 15-year-old california stow away coming out of the wheel well of the boeing 767 that landed in hawaii. moments later it appears the young man is dazed. >> you can see he is obviously affected by 5.5 hours well above 3500 feet. he is clearly affected. >> the boy continues walking until he gets past the stairs of

the jetway. eventually you see him talking with an airport worker. if there were any lingering doubts about the story this video should put that skepticism to death. >> he was a really shy person. he didn't talk a lot. >> the reserved high school sophomore identified as yaya told investigators he was trying to get to somalia to see his mother and had no clue where the plane was headed. it's believed that he hopped a fence shortly after 1:00 a.m. on april 20 and stayed on the grounds for nearly seven hours before the plane took off. medical experts say the lack of oxygen and sub zero temperatures put the boy in a state of hibernation. >> he may not have needed as much oxygen. >> he is now back in california and in the custody of child welfare officials. local police want to conduct another round of interviews.

they have not ruled out charges. if it's anything it would be trespassing. his journey would have been punishment enough. dan simon, cnn, san francisco. >> it's worth more than 300,000 dollars. attacked another nigerian town and the border town. at least 150 people were killed. the sense of urgency is spreading a day after women senate leaders condemn the

kidnappings. some of their congressional counter parts did the same. >> the militant terrorist group is now planning to sell these young women into sex slavery for just $12 a girl. we cannot stand idly by by fear and violence oppress the freedom and dreams of women around the world. >> it will take the efforts of the niany yearian government an the international government to rescue the young girls. >> it appears the international support is well in the works. nice to have you along with us. nigeria has accepted help from the united states and britain so what are the next steps? >> well, the next steps are when these teams arrive here on the ground which we are told will arrive here in the next couple

of days. when it comes to intelligence gathering and equipment that will be necessary and just critical and skills needed to compliment the effort here that has been gone yoing for some three weeks. the government has said, the president said on camera on sunday, they have no idea where these girls are. they need help. he said this is not a time for pride. this is not a time for a kind of embarrassment on the part of the government. they need to accept all help wherever it's coming from because they need to bring these girls back home. >> there has been a lot of criticism. it's been a few weeks since these girls were kidnapped and a lot of people said the government was dragging its feet. until there was a big movement

on social media, that's when they started to finally take action, it seemed. what is the sense there among parents and others in anigeria and others in how they have responded. >> there is no doubt about it. there is a sense of utter disappointment, outright condemnation in some parts in the way the government has handled this. we want to be absolutely clear. cnn has been on the story from the very beginning. we have been speaking to the parents of the children that have gone missing and they have told us that until quite recently, there was no mass movement of troops on the ground to the area where the girls are taken to. speaking to this lacking, that is what we're hearing from the parents affected by all of this. that is obviously fed down throughout the rest of the country and people are angry and they have every right to be. 200 plus girls are missing.

the government saying they are doing everything they can to find them, saying they are following up on every lead but until recently, refusing to provide the operational detail to back up the statements. a lot of mistrust, a lot of anger and someone can say, a break down in trust between the government and some of the people here on the ground in any year ya. >> now there is just a question of where they are, it seems that no one knows. thank you so much for your report. so, how is the u.s. specifically going to help? the pentagon has started planning according to a senior american military official and several say the u.s. will probably be limited to intelligence, mission planning and hostage negotiations. and they say it's unlikely u.s. troops would help in operations there. also britain is sending a small team of experts to assist the united states.

jane asher grew up in nigeria. nice to see you. i want to bring you into this conversation to get some perspective here. if you could, give us a sense of who this group is and do you think the nigerian government is capable of defeating them or will it take something more? >> that is honestly the million dollar question. they are an islamic extremist group. and they are opposed to westernization and the reason why education specifically is so offensive to them is that in their mind, education is the ultimate symbol of westernization. so in terms of answering your next question about whether or not the government can do anything to really cripple this group, part of the problem is they have to destroy the funding for boka haram. the way they raise their money is not only through drug trafficking but also through kidnapping innocent people and holding them ransom.

better armed and better equipped. when you talk to people on the ground, there is this fear that if the u.s. comes in and swoops in and either rescues these girls or really kills the leader or other leaders of boka haram, people are worried what are the consequences going to be. that is the state that people have to live in constantly. this constant fear in the northeastern region. >> tell us about your personal experience in nigeria. i just looked at some data. it seemed there was a spike in kidnappings. were you and family members affected by situations like kidnappings? >> my family is from the southern, eastern part of any

ye -- nigeria. in my region, kidnapping is also a huge issue as well. it's mainly for ransom. i did have an uncle. he was coming back to any year ya. he was drifing into the compo d compound. when kidnappers basically hit him over the head, they took over the vehicle. they drove the vehicle for five hours into the night honestly, nobody is surprised. one of the most dangerous times as a westerner is really during christmas. you have a lot who are based abroad. that is when kidnappers roll up

their sleeves and get to work. pamela? >> in light of that, i don't know how often you return to nigeria but are you ever fearful to return? >> sometimes i am. you know? it's just a situation that where you're told by your parents, one of the things my parents always tell me is when you go back to nigeria, don't tell anyone where you're staying, don't announce your arrival and any time you stay at any location, make sure it's not for too long, especially when you're traveling over the christmas holidays. 26% of all kidnapping in the world occur in nigeria. 171 million people. but also there is a general lawlessness.

>> amazing to hear your perspectives. thank you so much. >> of course. >> the kidnapping stuck a nerve with teen aged activist who was kidnapped for standing up for educational rights. she sat down in an exclusive interview with cnn and urged nigeria's leaders to take action. >> when i heard about girls in nigeria being abducted, i felt very sad and i said my sisters are in prison now. i thought that -- i felt it as if i should speak up for them. i felt a responsibility. i believe that we are being sent to this earth as a community and it's our responsibility that we take care of each other. so girls in nigeria are my sisters and it's my responsibility that i speak up for my sisters. i feel like i should speak up for them and raise my voice for

their rights. >> what did you think when you saw the leader of boka haram laughing and saying i have your girls. i'm going to sell them at the market. there's a market for human beings. sell them into slavery. what did you think? >> boka haram are extremists. they don't understand islam. they are abusing the name of islam. >> and no surprise here. she fully supports the bring back our girls campaign. >> ever get lost in traffic? i certainly have to admit. that is the reason a man ended up. the incident sent the white house into lock down. more on this, let's go to white house correspondent for the full

story here. sounds like we should actually feel sorry for this driver. >> when we first heard what had actually happened, i thought oh my gosh, i could see that happening to me. you're new in this town. you have got traffic circle and you can get a little turned around. it was -- you know, a little bit disturbing. you have the white house and the entire he was around a traffic

circle. he had no idea that he was following a motorcade into the grounds and immediately he was stopped by a uniform secret service and arrested. he's in court this afternoon. and nobody has really talked to him yet. but you can imagine the confusion when you realize the traffic that you thought you were following actually went over the barriers and into the white house. here on pennsylvania avenue on both sides it is shut off to automobile traffic.

how can the secret service let him pass those barriers. it seems to be a timing issue. that those barriers were down to let the motorcade go through. he is following closely behind. there was not time enough to put them up again. so the secret service made the judgment to just pounce on that car as soon as he got through. pam. >> wow, michelle, thank you. >> today vladimir putin said russian troop are withdrawing. that and more after this break. that's correct. cause i'm really nervous about getting trapped. why's that?

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>> p mutin is calling on prorussian separatists. he says this could create more room for diplomacy and he has said he's pulling back russian troops some 40 to 50,000 fighters in all. the pentagon says it has seen no sign of that. it is an odd choice today, could putin be blinking? all right. so eli, we have checked our sources. there is no sign of a pull back as we have seen. putin is claiming this. what are you hearing? >> it should be noted that some

of the pro russian separatists are not following this particular order yet from moscow. i think our reporter on the ground right now is reporting this as potentially as a pause. one of the things that is going on is there is still a campaign from the ukrainian military to restore order in the east. so in that situation, given that there is still conflict and fighting, it's difficult to have the referendum that they had in crimea where pretty much they took over the peninsula and then they were ready for a referendum and there was very little push back. right now you are seeing that push back and i think that that, you know, the best laid plans always have to deal with the moves of theed a vir sarry. >> these announcements coming from putin, the supposed pull back and saying that the votes should be postponed. some suggest that putin may be

blinking. >> until we see some of those troops actually move, i don't think we can call it a blink yet. i think it's probably safer to say that it's a pause. and there is, i think, not only significant international diplomatic opposition but the ukrainian opposition is trying its best to restore order at this point. it seems he is still very much interested. >> it's interesting. i was reading your article in the daily beast about how ukraine can learn from georgia saying that the ukraine crisis is not an outlier. there might be lessons in there. explain who you would talk to and what lessons could be learned.

>> what he said is you really emphasize the importance of having younger western oriented. he says frankly those people are going to be moles and probably will have divided loyalties. it's better to have a younger generation coming in. he is said to be very wary of pro russian separatists ngos. and it's important to get to that problem early before russia's -- giving them a pretext to fully invade. >> all right. thank you. >> thank you. >> and coming up right here on newsroom, an update to the

controversy surrounding historic beverly hills hotels. and now hotel workers are speaking out saying they are caught in the middle. plus this. >> you made sure we ate. you went to sleep hungry. you sacrificed for us. you the real mvp. >> all right. that was nba player kevin durrant accepting the mvp award playing tribute to his mother. he had so much more to say. we're going to play that for you and talk to his mother live. you won't want to miss it. we will be right back.

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>> right now president obama is speaking in arkansas. >> craig was down here after the storm and a team has been helping search through the debris. here the recovery process is just beginning. it's especially difficult because this town has seen more than its fair share of tragedy. but folks here are tough. they look out for one another. that's been especially clear

over the past week. immediately after the tornado hit, about 200 people including fire crews from other counties were ready to go house to house searching for injured neighbors. some were driven to the hospital by complete strangers. pick up trash and deliver supplies and water. and one volunteer. arkansas state troopers begin taking orders. she is extraordinarily impressive. i don't know what she's going be doing in the future but i know lit be something great. more than any disaster it is that dedication and commitment that truly defines this town. so the people and all the other towns devastated by the storm

understand there is a lot of work. your country's going to be here for you. we're going to support you every step of the way. you are in our thoughts and prayers, mr. mayor. thank you for the great leadership you have shown. i know you can count on your governor to make sure that every resources we have available to you is going to be there. and one of the things that the mayor expressed to me that we have got some concerns about is when this happens in a town like this, it's not just the infrastructure and the buildings that are torn down. you also lose part of your sales tax base. so we're going to have to figure out how you can make sure that you get back on your feet. but, i could not be more

impressed by the spirit of the community that is here. as important as possessions are, nothing is more important than family. those families, they are still morning those they lost. but they couldn't be more grateful and thankful for the way the communities responded. this is a testament to the strength of this community, the strength of arkansas and the strength of america and i could not be more proud of everybody who has participated in the recovery process. >> president obama is offering words of comfort to all of the people there cleaning up saying that the country stands behind

them. >> shifting to the hunt for malaysian airliner flight 370. a new cnn poll finds nearly one in five americans believe that flight 370 survivors are out there. 79% believes that no one survived and a slight majority of americans think the plane went down near the search area. 51% believes that flight 370 is in the south indian ocean and 46% think searchers are looking in the wrong place. officials from malaysia, china and australia will regroup to determine the next search area. can you believe it? 62 days passengers families have waited in limbo. no signs of their loved ones or debris. the next search phase may cost

$60 million. >> the international team of expects will be meeting again tomorrow just hours from now. this is a similar team that met here in the initial days and weeks after the plane went miss ing they are going to be looking, calculating, doing simulations to be sure that they still believe that searchers are looking in the right place in the southern indian ocean. it's very important that they take this second look at all of the information. some of it newly collected in the search for this plane. the reason why it's so important that they look is because

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>> a massive nation-wide drug bust. agents on the move across the country targeting synthetic or designer drugs. among them, bath salts and spice. police raiding places across many states. >> there have been more than 100 reported overdozes from synthetic pot. elizabeth, it's frightening to think just how easy it can be to get your hands on these drugs. how popular are they? >> they have become very popular. take a look at these numbers

from a national data base. if you go back to 2009, there were only 15 reports of synthetic marijuana at that year. in 2012, more than 41,000 reports of synthetic marijuana, and again that's just marijuana. that doesn't include other drugs. teenagers especially don't appreciate the dangers of these drugs. >> and these drugs can obviously have unpredictable effects on the monday and body. tell us about how dangerous they are. >> they can give all sorts of terrible side effects. seizures have been reported, racing heartbeat, hallucinations, dilutielusions. you sometimes get clusters of problems from one particularly bad patch.

so in texas, in just five days, more than 100 overdoses. so you see these clusters happen and it's really just tragic. >> some places are trying to crack down on these drugs so i wonder if the people are putting in new ingredients that can make them more dangerous. >> and the dea and others have been trying to crack down. they find one of these drugs, they look at the chemicals and say this chemical combination is illegal and then the folks who make them they change the chemical around so technically it's not illegal any more. it's a cat and mouse and constant race to keep up with the folks who are making this stuff. that is one of the things that has made this a particularly difficult phenomenon to try to stop. >> it's certainly frightening especially for parents who have teenagers considering how popular they are especially among teens. up next -- >> never give up hope.

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>> exactly one year after escaping from cleveland's house of horrors, two of the three women were honored last night.

amanda berry and regina received the center for missing and exploited children's award for resilience. >> it's an honor to be here tonight accepting the hope award. it is really special to be here with gina and our families. it means more than you will ever know. i want to thank the center for everything they have done and continue to do, not just for us, but for all the missing kids and their families. if i could say only one thing it would be this. never give up hope because miracles do happen. [ applause ] >> i want to say that i'm glad to be here with you guys to accept this award and always believe in hope even though you sometime it is hard to believe in hope, just pray to god and god will give you that hope.

[ applause ] 6. >> the third kidnapping victim michelle knight has been talking with anderson cooper and you can catch part three of by the way, remember this guy right here, charles ramsey in he became a national hero and internet sensation after rescuing the cleveland women. jake tapper is here. jake had an opportunity to talk to ramsey. we'll learn about that in the next hour. tell me, he's had an interesting year since he rescued the women, right? >> an interesting year. i haven't met him yet. he's going be live on "the lead" in the next hour. his new book "charles ramsey, dead give away, the rescue, hamburgers and white folks" it doesn't begin to tell the story. a very engaging and hilarious read. very honest, very candid. talks about when he gets a call from the white house, incredibly

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oklahoma city's kevin durant nba's most valuable player of the year but didn't accept his trophy without leaving one woman in particular in tears. she wasn't the only one. his mother, right here you see her, overwhelmed with emotion last night as her son, kevin, gave her what may be the most memorable mother's day gift of her life. thanking her for years of sacrifice for him and his brother and told the world she's the real mvp. >> and, last, my mom. i don't think you know what you did. you had my brother, when you were 18 years old, three years later i came out.

the odds were stacked against us. single parent with two boys by the time you were 21 years old. we weren't supposed to be here. you made us believe. you kept us off the street. put clothes on our backs, food on the table. when you didn't eat, you made sure we ate. you went to sleep hungry. you sacrificed for us. you're the real mvp. >> wanda i was watching you as your son spoke there again and it looks like you were getting choked up listening to him. i can't imagine how that must have felt, even for me watching it, i was overcome with emotion. tell me what that was like to hear those heartfell words from your son.

>> it was -- it was overwhe overwhelming. the thing that resonated is that i remember exactly what he's talking about and it was really heart warming that he remembered. and i didn't flow that it was a part of him never giving up. i was not expecting to be honored in the manner in which he did. so it was all very surprising to me. >> so you said you were surprised when he talked about that everyone said we weren't supposed to be here. he talked about that moment and the apartment when there was no furniture, you were all huddled together holding each other. had you ever talked about that before? what did he mean by that? >> no. it was the first apartment that i had as a single mom. we shared a home with my mother and my mother had encouraged me and pushed me in telling me it was time for me to stand on my own with my children. and i was afraid at that time. and there that was the first apartment that we had.

all of our belongings hadn't been brought into the home yet but i had taken the boys there so that they could see that this is where we were going to be staying and this was our new home. we just sat there and kind of held each other and they were really excited about it, just as i was. >> wow. and then when kevin got drafted, wanda, what did that mean for you? >> it meant that all of the hard work ta he had put in really paid off. and he was living out his dreams and i knew that he had worked really hard. he had worked literally from age 8 or 9 to get to that point. and it paid off for him. i was really happy that he was able to live out his dreams. >> he made it clear, wanda, you were instrumental in his success. were you aware of that? did you know how big of an impact you had on your son? >> no, i did not.

i've always known -- excuse me -- that my sons love me but i didn't know that it was such a part of his foundation of who he become as a man. i tried to instill the best that i could and it seemed that it did resonate with him. so i'm really grateful for that. but it was a surprise to me. >> and it's incredible when he talked about the fact you were 18 when you had your first son, 21 when you had him. i can't imagine how difficult it was for you being a young, single working mother. what was that like for you raising kevin dur can'ant, a hua star, what was that like? >> it was -- in the early years it was really scary. but i'm thankful for my mom because she did, she pushed me and knew i had to stand before my children in a manner in which i could be honored and

respected, so i accepted the challenge. i knew that they depended upon me. i knew that they looked to me for all of the answers. they looked to me for -- >> wanda pratt -- i hate to interrupt you. we have to go to the next hour. we commend you, all of the single working moms. thank you, wanda pratt. i'm pamela brown. "the lead" with jake tapper starts now. >> did vladimir putin strong like bear turn tail like rabbit? this "the lead." the 40,000, 50,000 russian troops, putin said he's pulling them back. that vote on sunday that could break away southeastern ukraine, well, putin says, move that back. naturally the white house is skeptical of it all. also in world news, terrorist whose vow to