mother's day. it's what we had witnesses tell us, they may have seen two jump or possibly somehow they got out, whether they leapt on their own or maybe the basket, the condition of it, they fell, we don't know that for certain. but we've also seen video that people have provided us that it does have that appearance as two people exited in whatever fashion the bhas ket. -- basket. >> we have breaking news this morning. a fiery hot-air balloon crash in virginia. i'm anna cabrera in for christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. you're in the "cnn newsroom. ". >> we have more on the crash. one body has now been recovered.

police say they've narrowed down the search but they've not found the two remaining passengers. >> we've also found kind of a debris field. we found different items that would have been inside the hot-air balloon. this is very helpful for us in our search efforts, because now we have an area of concentration. >> and that appears to be the moment when -- you're seeing here what appears to be the moment when the burning basket fell away from the balloon. we've got more on the accident now that happened just before 8:00 last night. authorities say that hot-air balloon participating in the mid-atlantic balloon festival near richmond drifted into power lines and caused the basket to burst into flames. the balloon then continued to fly away and that basket, as we saw, right here looking like a fireball in the night sky. the pictures are unbelievable. one witness reported hearing two people screaming as they jumped from that burning basket. >> and you could hear them screaming, please, dear god,

sweet jeez sujesus, we're going, please help us. >> let's get more from erin mcpike, live in caroline county, virginia, at the site where crews are now searching for two of the people on board who were on that balloon. erin, what's the search scene like there now? >> reporter: well, victor, the activity is actually picking up. we're hearing some helicopters overhead, and we heard from virginia police that this has gone from a rescue mission to a recovery operation, meaning, of course, that they believe there were no survivors. i want you to take a listen to the dispatch calls from last night to hear just how bad this crash was. >> possible mass casualty incident reported multiple hot-air balloons have crashed into power lines and the balloons are now on fire. >> visual of the airborne and hot-air balloon, appears to be smoking, still pretty high in the air. >> we got a report that the

basket has come off, so we're trying to find that right now. >> caroline, advise all units the several balloons aren't the issue. we need to locate the basket. >> reporter: police say they also have specialists on the scene who are trained in this grid system search who are fanning out throughout the search area, and they have found some debris from inside the basket, and they believe that they're making progress now, victor. >> and also, erin, we heard from a witness earlier who saw that balloon on fire from the ground. let's listen to how he described it. >> i was on goelz road coming home, about five minutes from my house, and my kids and i, we saw the hot air balloon a couple thousand feet up, and it was smoking pretty bad. >> now, i heard from one of my producers that this -- by the time you got home, it flew right over your house? >> yeah, it had just passed right over my house.

by then, it was probably maybe a couple hundred feet, 500 feet at the most above the trees. >> so, erin, what else are you hearing out there? how are people describing the scene at the time when that fire broke out? >> well, anna, we've actually had a number of witnesses come by here this morning and talk about this, and a number of people said they saw the balloon fly over their house. they saw it detach from the basket, a couple of people said they saw two people jump out. and what we've heard from some is that the fire engulfed the entire basket and was a really awful scene. one man i spoke to said he was about two miles away, and he could even hear the explosion that far away, anna. >> all right. erin mcpike, thank you for staying on top of that for us. again, the hunt for those inside the basket has now changed from a rescue effort to a recovery effort. they're still not releasing the name of the one person whose

remains have been found. listen to more from state police this morning. >> we spent all night searching for the wreckage of the basket, the balloon. it was just before midnight that we were able to locate one of the occupants, one of the three occupants in the balloon. the remains have been transported to the office of the chief medical examiner in richmond for positive identification. we do know who was on the two passengers and the pilot. we have been in contact with their families overnight and through this morning. but at this time, we are not going to identify which one of those occupants has been recovered. >> so what could have caused this horrific crash? we know it hit a power line, but could it have been poor visibility, pilot error? we asked an aviation expert just that this morning. listen. >> balloons, of course, never know quite in advance where they're going to land. this is one of the beauties of

ballooning, but also, of course, one of the reasons pilots have to remain very alert. so it's impossible to know where a balloon is going to land before you -- before you take off or when you take off. so i think that isn't a practical proposal to define a landing site in relation to wires. but on the other hand, of course, it's the pilot's responsibility to look out for wires, to be vigilant, to keep his situational awareness high in a landing situation where there may be wires. >> and, phil, we talked to former faa safety inspector david susie a little bit ago who said pilots have quite a bit of control of these balloons, so in a situation like this, do you think it is weather related, or could it be pilot error? >> well, it's very hard to say at this stage. but i think your guest from the faa did say that the evening situation is sometimes

difficult, and i think that's not from a weather standpoint. that's more likely to be because of poor visibility or reducing visibility, and also possibly because the pilot might have been looking into sun, and seeing wires when you're looking into a low sun situation is sometimes very difficult. one of your other guests -- i think the one from the ntsb -- said that the lines should be marked on the chart. but, of course, the ones that are marked on charts, not just in the u.s. but worldwide, are the big ones. and the ones that are the most dangerous are the small ones, which you don't get marked on charts, domestic supply cables, that kind of thing. >> phil, in this unfortunate situation, if a balloon hit the power line, what's the protocol? what is that pilot supposed to do? >> well, so much depends on at which stage he was aware of the presence of the line. if he saw the line but knew he would not be able to clear it, then the advice is to deflate

the balloon and come to the ground as soon as possible so that even if the top part, the fabric part of the balloon touches the wires, at least the occupants are on the ground and have an opportunity to escape. of course, if the pilot did not see the wire until more or less the time he hit it, then at that stage, a lot depends on whether the -- the wire arcing began a fire, which would probably have begun to set fire to the propane, the liquid propane, which powers balloons or gives balloons their lift. and that, of course, is a point of which it's very hard for the pilot to do anything, which is likely to end up with good results. >> our thanks to phil, and we'll keep you updated as we get more details on really a terrible accident.

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employees were encouraged to game the system in order to hide the fact that sick veterans were waiting months for medical treatment. and it gets worse. >> a cnn investigation found as many as 40 veterans died after being placed on a secret wait list. that was in phoenix. but in san antonio, a scheduler there says his bosses told him to fudge the numbers on paper, even though in reality, veterans weren't getting the appointments until months out in some cases. now, senator and vietnam vet john mccain now says if this is all true, it boils down to a crime. >> if these allegations are t e true, there are violations of law, and it's not a matter of resignations. it's a matter of whether somebody goes to jail or not. okay? >> well, before you get to prosecution, should the man in charge, v.a. secretary, shinseki step down? let's bring in paul sullivan, and also joining us is alex

nicholson, director for iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. good to have you both with us. >> glad to be here. >> alex, these kinds of delays have been going on for sometime, for years. the alleged cover-ups are egregious, but the bigger question is, why haven't things changed? >> well, that's a good question, and that's what we are asking the v.a. secretary and president obama, and we would love to see them more vocal on this. we think those questions need to be answered. we've known this has been going on for years. it's nothing new. our members have been telling us about it for years, and they're outraged. we're ready for answers, from the secretary, from the president, and just a couple of cherry-picked media interviews on the topic is not going to be sufficient. we need answers on this. >> john, do you have answers? >> oh, there are definitely reasons why there are problems sat v.a. it's simple -- supply and demand. first, there aren't enough doctors to treat the veterans

showing up for care, so the v.a. facilities are having to cook the books. and similarly, there aren't enough claims processors to process the disability claims, so veterans are saying, wait for us, wait for us, delay, deny, and wait until we die. the bottom-line answer is to hire more staff and to have more accountability. >> so, paul, let me ask you about that. let's stay right there for a moment. i want to read from this e-mail at the center of the controversy in wyoming. and here's the e-mail. let's put it up on the screen. yes, it is gaming the system a bit, but you have to know the rules of the game you're play g playing, and when we exceed the 14-day measure, the front office gets very upset, which doesn't help us. i mean, so essentially -- and gaming the system is an egregious phrase on its own, but let's talk about the rules. the person or persons who implemented the 14-day mandate had to know when they implemented it that it was unrealistic that they would meet it based on, as we've said, supply and demand.

>> that's right. frankly, congress hasn't given enough money to v.a., and v.a. hasn't asked for enough money. so there's a shortage of doctors. so what happens is the v.a. local facility has to cook the books to give the appearance of helping veterans in a timely manner. >> let me jump in here. should the pressure be on shinseki or congress? >> the pressure needs to be on the white house, on the secretary of veterans affairs, and on congress. because let's be clear, veterans for common sense sued v.a. over this issue in 2007. it went all the way to the supreme court last year. the facts were very clear. no one disagreed with the fact that there are not enough doctors and not enough claims processors so that veterans get timely care and benefits. however, no one has the political courage and the courts and the white house and in congress to make sure that veterans get what they've earned. that's what needs to be fixed

right now. full transparency for the medical facility directors to say, here is what i need to make sure that when a veteran walks in who's sick, that he or she gets treated right away. and for a veteran who files a claim, the regional office director should be telling washington this is exactly how many employees i need so every claim can be processed accurately and completely within a reasonable amount of time. >> paul, what you're saying -- >> that's what needs to happen. >> you're saying we need more manpower for one. >> absolutely. >> i want to bring alex back into the conversation here. obviously, alex, it's a widespread problem. phoenix, san antonio, wyoming, who knows where else this is possibly going on? where does the v.a. and the administration begin to fix this broken system? besides just adding more people? i mean, does this need to be -- do they need to clean house all around? >> yeah. you know, one interesting point

i'll have to disagree with from earlier is that while you certainly do need to keep pressure on congress, administration and the v.a., it's important to remember congress has given the v.a. every penny it has asked for. paul is right. the v.a. is not asking for enough money a lot of times. but congress has given it more than the administration has requested for the v.a. if it weren't for house veterans affairs chairman jeff miller doing, you know, 30 hearings on the v.a. and extensive oversight and investigations and for a cnn story, breaking this phoenix issue, you know, we still wouldn't know about it. but congress has given the v.a. everything it has asked for. prabl they're not asking for enough. i don't think congress is the problem here. for once. i think it's the v.a. certainly we need to add more staff and capacity to the v.a., but we've also going to be taking away -- we have to see people held accountable, and that's one of the things, i think, at least the house veterans affairs committee has been trying to do. >> alex, quickly, when shinseki

was chosen by the president, a lot of people were excited because he is a combat veteran. he came in during those confirmation hearings saying he would modernize and revolutionize the department. and we see this. the simple question, when you say take away, is it too big? should it be broken into maybe two departments? >> as far as the v.a., you know, i don't think so. i mean, it's -- it's a big bureaucracy. it's the second biggest bureaucracy in the federal government behind d.o.d. i think ultimately the problems are fixable. it just needs leadership. there's a confidence crisis in the v.a. it's important we keep telling vets, if you're in crisis, if you need help, if you need care, you still need to go to the v.a. to get the care and help. we need to continue working on fixing the v.a. it is a fixable problem. we've just got to keep the pressure on. >> big problem. >> all right, thank you so much for adding your voices to the conversation this morning. >> you're very welcome. >> thanks. still to come, the l.a.

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first order of business is just settling everybody down. so a lot of people are now asking if donald sterling ends up out, what about his estranged wife? could she still be a co-owner of the team? cnn's alexandra field breaking down where we're at and what's next. >> reporter: clippers players still playing, donald sterling still talking. >> i'm talking to a girl. i'm trying to have sex with her. >> reporter: the latest recording released by radar online is believed to be sterling offering some kind of explanation for his racist rant. >> what the hell, i'm talking to a girl? the girl's black. i like her. i'm jealous that she's with other black guys. i want her. >> reporter: sterling could be forced through a vote by nba owners to sell the team. this week, his estranged wife shelly sterling is saying she's a partial owner and she wants to keep it. clippers coach doc rivers. >> i think it would be a very hard situation if you want --

i'll say that much. i think it would be very difficult. i guarantee you, every person would be on board with that. >> reporter: players have already protested donald sterling turning their shirts inside out. sports law professor mark edelman said they could turn to social media, too. beyond that, there are consequences. >> everybody is so quick to say what the players should do when they don't have any skin in the game. for a player, they have to be cognizant of their contract. and the fact they don't show up, they do run the risk of termination. >> reporter: professional athletes have had lockouts and disputes, but a team rarely publicly goes up against its owner. there is an extreme example. eight players, including the infamous shoeless joe jackson on the 1919 chicago white sox team were accused of conspireing with gamblers to lose the world series, an apparent act of retaliation against an unpopular owner. >> it just goes to show what could happen if all levels of respect between an owner and a player would fall apart.

>> reporter: donald sterling has, of course, already been banned for life from all nba activities, but he is still very much the owner of the clippers team. it's up to the nba now and various team owners to try to decide whether or not they could force sterling to sell his team. another nba committee meeting will be held to discuss that topic this coming week. anna, victor? >> all right, alexandra field, thank you for the update. republicans looking to strengthen their footing against former secretary of state hillary clinton, a look at the headlines this week and what it could mean for her possible presidential run. woman: everyone in the nicu -- all the nurses wanted to watch him when he was there 118 days. everything that you thought was important to you changes in light of having a child

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in the hot air balloon crash in virginia has transitioned now into a recovery operation. one body has been found. two other people are missing. what happened here is the balloon hit a power line. then it burst into flames. it happened about 25 miles north of richmond last night. we're also following this morning how democrats remain divided about joining the new committee created by majority republicans to investigate the deadly 2012 benghazi terror attack once again. now, democrats argue this is just a political ploy to keep the controversy in play during a midterm election year. republicans say this committee is a serious effort to get to the truth about what led to the deaths of four americans. number three here, there are new concerns today about the growing number of unmanned aircraft in the skies. the faa is investigating a near collision on march 22nd involving a u.s. passenger jet and a drone in tallahassee, florida. here's an animation to kind of display what happened here. the pilot said the drone came so

close to his jet, that he wasn't sure they hadn't actually hit the thing. an inspection of the plane turned up no damage. number four, pro-russian activists in two regions of eastern ukraine say they will go ahead with a planned referendum tomorrow, despite the calls from moscow and kiev not to do so. now, the separatists are seeking more autonomy from ukraine's interim government. meanwhile, russian president vladimir putin took part in victory day celebrations in crimea yesterday. this was his first visit to the region since russia annexed it from ukraine. five now, another veterans affairs hospital is under fire for trying to cook the books. this time in cheyenne, wyoming. an employee there has been placed on leave after a leaked e-mail reveals schedulers were encouraged to cover up long appointment delays for sick veterans. the v.a. chief shinseki calls the allegations unacceptable and has ordered an investigation. hillary clinton hasn't formally announced a plan for a 2016 presidential run, but you

probably wouldn't have known that given all the attacks that she's been the center of by republicans lately. >> this week, the former secretary of state has taken hits on everything from her personal life to foreign policy, her time as secretary of state. and with the creation of the panel do investigate the attack in benghazi. the pressure's not going to let up anytime soon. cnn political commentator sally cohn on the left, amy holmes from theblaze.com on the right. sounds like i'm starting "crossfire" this morning. we're here to talk about. good to see both of you. >> nice to see you guys. >> is this panel -- i want to ask another question about democrats boycotting. but first, is this panel a chance to attack secretary clinton for her time as secretary of state? >> yes. it is. there's no question that that is all it's about. and let's be honest, in suggesting that this panel and the continued republican obsession with benghazi is about

attacking president obama and hillary clinton, that's not to minimize what happened that night. but we've had 15 hearings, 50 briefings, 25,000 pages of documents, we've spent millions and millions of dollars in taxpayer money, we know what happened. we know what went wrong. there are reports from congress on how to fix it, and from the intelligence community, this is about trying to pin, you know, this notion that the white house was culpable in a cover-up and misleading people with talking points, and such binal trivial lit, and the republicans are fund-raising off of this. they're sending off fund-raising, bragging about how they're keeping benghazi in the news. the only reason is to hurt obama and hillary. >> amy, an opportunity for republicans to raise money and lower the profile of secretary clinton? >> are you suggesting that

politicians try to fund raise, that they send out letters to their supporters? for goodness sakes, both sides do it. democrats certainly have done it well. we have, in fact, the senate majority leader quite shamefully using the senate floor to attack the koch brothers, which is a big fund-raising effort by the democrats going into 2014. an election they're very afraid that they're going to lose the senate in. but getting back to the benghazi panel and its purpose. its purpose is to find out information that the white house has been withholding, and we learned this only this last week. of course, the e-mail, a white house advisor was advising about how to shift this conversation to be talking about a video, things we still don't know. we still don't know what the president was doing that night while our embassy -- or rather consulate in benghazi was under attack. we did learn from a fox interview with brett bear that he was not in the situation room. i think that was an admission that was not intended. we've learned that. and as for the former secretary of state hillary clinton, what did we learn from her in

hearings? she threw up her hands and said, what does it matter? >> oh, come on. >> sally, you were -- i'm sure you watched thecontext. >> she said people walking down the street. of course, it matters when it comes to america's national security. of course, it matters if hillary clinton was denying the backup at that consulate that was being asked for over and over again. we know that the ambassador was pleading for it. so in terms of the purpose of this panel, i think it is to flesh out or to ask these questions, hopefully get responses and responsive answers from the white house. but the charge that this was, oh, it's purely political, purely political was saying this was a youtube video ahead of a presidential election. >> sally, we'll come back to you to respond about that. let's bring in a bigger picture issue and that is clinton's foreign policy, and it's come under attack over and over again, not just about benghazi this week, but also about her

involvement with boko haram, and she did not designate them as a terrorist group back when she was secretary of state. is her leadership in question? >> you know, look, first of all, just to amy's opponepoint, thos legitimate points if we hadn't already answered them. we had petraeus in not tipping our hands. we have a senate intelligence committee report which makes clear what happened that night. and that there was not a standdown order given or anything. so republicans are trying to bring up things they already have the answers to and pretending the questions hasn't already been answered. number one. number two, to the -- to the -- what is that? that suggests, what, the president is culpable? you want to -- >> he's commander in chief -- >> -- your side -- i've heard folks on both sides that he and hillary have blood on their hands. that is not only factually wrong, it is insulting. let's go to boko haram which addresses larger concerns of

criticizing foreign policy in a way we never tolerated as americans before. the nigerian government did not want boko haram designated as a terrorist organization. they did not want more attent n attention, more prominence, more bragging rights given to what at the time was a regional organization. that was their request. it was the recommendation of the intelligence community. but, no, republicans, instead of doing what is right for our country and for the world and for little girls in nigeria are going to try to politicize this in order to take points out on hillary. that's sad. >> quickly to you, we have ten seconds left. i want you to respond to that. >> well, of course, if hillary clinton has an intention of running for president of the united states, of course her leadership is going to be scrutinized and examined when she was secretary of state. and for the -- for that matter when she was a united states senator. her record, of course, is very much irrelevant whether she wants to be commander in chief.

as far as the republicans don't care about missing nigerian girls, i can assure they do. as do conservatives. we certainly have in our news organization at the blaze. so i actually take great offense that the suggestion that republicans don't care about the kidnapping and possible enslavement of little girls in nigeria. i think that secretary of state hillary clinton, as i say, her record is very much in play here in terms of her future leadership aspirations. >> and i don't know if -- and we've got to wrap up here, but i'm not sure that's what sally said. >> not even close. >> that republicans are politicizing what i think we all know is a humanitarian international crisis, and boko haram is a terrorist organization that's been attacking churches and schools for quite sometime. >> a lot more to talk about nigeria. we're going to get into that. thank you both for your insight into that situation, and politics this week. >> good to see you both. >> yes. nigeria's president making a bold promise weeks after hundreds of schoolgirls were

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dreams. we can only imagine the anguish many of them are feeling now. many may have been hesitant to send their daughters off to school fearing harm might come their way, but they took that risk because they believed in their daughters' promise and wanted to give them every opportunity to succeed. >> that was the first solo weekly address by first lady michelle obama. >> u.s. advisors are in nigeria to help in this effort to find and rescue those girls. >> and a startling report from amnesty international says the nigerian government knew in advance about last month's kidnapping, and they did nothing. isha joins us from abuja, nigeria. the government denies they knew of the plans in advance, this report from amnesty international. what are you hearing? >> reporter: the nigerian government strenuously rejects that and says that is not the case. but i have to tell you that cnn has spoken to multiple residents in that local area, and they

paint the same picture. they paint a picture of giving the government, giving the security forces an advanced warning that something was about to happen, and they say that they were failed by their government, that there was an inadequate response to the attack, and in the aftermath, that the nigerian government was not there to pursue the attackers and get their girls and bring them back home. you mentioned the u.s. elements that are on the ground, here in an advisory capacity. we must be clear with our viewers, these are not combat troops. they're here to provide advice to the nigerian government and really determine whether gaps exist in their capabilities. victor? >> all right, isha sesay reporting from nigeria, thank you. the next woman you're about to meet, she went from living in new york city to a harem in a small asian nation. now, she's igniting a firestorm among celebs in hollywood over an iconic hotel. distinctions

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abortions, same-sex relationships could be whippings, lashings, dismemberment and stonings. and they're outraged to brew know, get out of town or lose business. >> a former girlfriend of the sultan of brunei's brother and an author of the book "some girls, my life in a harem," jillian lauren. thank you so much for talking with us. at age 18, you were essentially in a harem, you were once gifted to the sultan of brunei. what was that int other actiera the sultan like? >> that's correct. my interaction with the sultan was -- came as rather a surprise to me. his brother was my boyfriend, and one time when we were in -- we were on a business trip in malaysia, i was taken to the roof of the hotel we were at and ferried to another hotel by a helicopter where i was led to a

hotel suite and where i had an intimate encounter with the sultan. >> how did he treat you? >> he was very charming. both brothers were witty, and the sultan was breezy, and he seemed like a nice guy to me. of course, that is not how that's shaking out right now. >> so the criticism and actually the outrage coming from hollywood is that shariya law has been implemented in brunei, and they don't want people supporting the sultan who made these choices. i want to read to you, jillian, words of your own written in the daily beast. as citizen of a free society, it is my right to transgress. as long as i don't break any laws or impinge on -- infringe on the freedom of others, it is my prerogative to sleep with all the princes i damn well feel

like. i live with my choices. as the citizens of brunei face the erosion of their rights, i imagine the man i once knew hold up in a posh hotel suite somewhere, maybe with another american teenager in his lap, making laws that legislate morality. with that context, what would you say to the sultan? >> well, the sultan doesn't really care what i have to say, because he is not -- he's only concerned about his own needs and his own radical double-standard of morality. and i'm just one of the little people. but i would say, you know, that i have stood witness to the fact that he is enforcing a hypocritical standard. >> so let me ask you this. if you say the sultan doesn't care what you have to say, does the sultan care if at the end of the day he has to sell the beverly hills hotel? i mean, what skin of is it off his back? he's a very rich man. that's just one source of income.

>> well, i think that one hotel more or less, i'm not sure, will make a difference for the sultan's finances. but i am very encouraged by the fact that people are raising their voices with this boycott and saying that they don't want to line the pockets of human rights abusers. >> but yet, some are saying these boycotts may not be doing an effective job of really getting to the heart of the situation, getting to the beef of it all. do you think there's a more effective way these celebrities or others who are outraged about shariya law can speak out and do something that will make a difference in this case? >> well, i think that people are -- they're making their opinions known with where they spend their money, and i think that they are making this a visible issue, and that they're speaking out for what they believe in. i don't know what would be the

most effectual way of addressing this. but i think that historically those are all really good ways. >> is this hurting the employees, though, more than the sultan himself? >> well, i have a lot of compassion for the employees, and i think that whether or not the sultan owns that hotel, there will be people employed there, in the beverly hills hotel will go on, as, you know, historical institution here in los angeles. >> all right, jillian lauren, an amazing story, and thank you for sharing it with us. >> thank you for having me. >> sure. >> appreciate that personal connection. >> yeah. breaking barriers on and off the ice. coming up, you'll meet the cnn hero who's helping a group of girls skate their way to success. we're moving our company to new york state.

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power lines. the balloons are now on fire. >> actually, it was one balloon, and now we have new details on the deadly accident and the search for missing victims. and the wife of embattled l.a. clippers owner donald sterling makes her intentions for the team crystal clear, while a new leader takes over the team operations. and a commercial airliner comes frighteningly close to a drone in the skies over florida. how could this happen? we'll hear from the faa and experts who say the danger of drones are very real. all right. back to that top story of that balloon and the search now. search crews are scouring a wooded area north of richmond, virginia, looking for victims of that horrifying hot air balloon accident. flames engulfed the balloon after it hit a power line. one person is confirmed dead. but two other people who were on

board remain missing. erin mcpike is live in the search area. erin, what are officials saying about the victims and how they're going about this search? >> reporter: well, fred, officials are not naming the victims just yet. they have spoken with all of the families, but they don't want to name them just yet. i want to play for you a little bit of what the spokesman for the virginia police said earlier this morning when she was talking about what happened last night. >> we had witnesses tell us they may have seen two jump or possibly somehow they got out, whether they leapt on their own or maybe the basket and the condition of it, they fell, we don't know that for certain. but we've also seen video that people have provided us, it does have that appearance, is two people exited in whatever fashion the basket. >> reporter: and, fred, unfortunately, that official also said this has moved from a rescue mission to a recovery operation, meaning they don't

believe there are any survivors. now, as far as the search goes, they have not found the basket or the balloon, which separated last night. but they have found some debris that was inside the basket. so they believe they have a more concentrated search area now. >> and so, erin, help us understand the big pekt, too. this was part of a balloon festival, was it not? there might be a whole lot of witnesses to all of this. >> reporter: well, there were a lot of witnesses, but first off, we should say that the remainder of that balloon festival, at least for today, has been cancelled. some of the witnesses actually lived in the area. we've had people come up and down this road all morning telling us what they saw from their homes. one man said he could hear the explosion from about two miles away, and said it was very awful. of course, that he saw flames engulfing the entire basket. some people said they have seen the two -- or they saw the two victims try to jump out of the basket. here is one woman who noticed what happened last night.

>> you could hear them scream g screaming, please, dear god, squeeze jesus, help us, we're going to die, oh, my god, please help us, please help us. >> reporter: and we have heard similar sentiments from everyone in the area who has come by here today, fred. >> frightening moments for so many. erin mcpike, keep us posted. thank you so much. let's bring in our safety analyst david susie, and mary schiavo joining us from charleston, south carolina, via skype. david, people say the balloon's pilot tried to contain the fire by letting the hot air out. is there anything else the pilot could have done based on what we know here to put out the flames, or was it inevitable it would be a catastrophic ending? >> the fact he opened up the top of the balloon, which allows the hot air to escape, is an attempt to get it down to the ground quicker. obviously, it's an emergency maneuver. he did try that. that is the right thing to do. but at that point, the explosion

had happened. the hot gases had already expanded the balloon, so they were going up into the balloon and making it rise very, very rapidly. it's very tragic situation, really. >> and so, mary, people think of a hot air balloon ride, it's exhilarating, lots of fun. but this kind of incident underscores that there are serious dangers. how risky is it in general? >> well, in terms of statistics, it's less safe than a commercial airline passenger's experience, you know, by far. but there are so few accidents, that it's difficult to get a reliable statistic on the risks compared to commercial air transportation. but every year, there are few -- a handful of balloon accidents. and some of them concern, you know, the propane heaters, the fire with the propane heaters, or the balloons, or the baskets. but a lot of them include things that you see with airplanes, collisions, collisions with each other, collisions with electrical wires, as here, and a lot of it goes back to the

balloon airmanship of the pilot, and they do have to be licensed by the faa, including commercial. >> and the faa is investigating. you formally with the faa. how does the investigation of something like this go about? >> well, as far as the -- i'm sorry, mary. >> go ahead, mary. >> well, the investigation, you know, can be an ntsb investigation or an faa investigation. i had thought that the ntsb was going to dispatch a team, as well. you know, the first thing they do is obviously try to secure all of the elements, the crash site at the ground. they're also doing a behind-the-scenes thing. they're looking at the operation of the balloon, the company. they're looking at the pilot's training. they're looking at the equipment. so the paperwork that goes on behind an investigation may be just as important as what happened in the sky. there are lots of witnesses to that. sometimes the secret's in the paperwork and the training of the crew. >> david, how do you see this playing out, the investigation? >> well, the investigation part, in this type of accident, typically the ntsb will delegate the accident to the faa, who's

local and on the ground, rather than dispatch a go team, necessarily. in this case, i would suspect that's what's happening. but the faa is qualified and would do the same steps the ntsb would on behalf of the ntsb, as well. >> all right. david susie, mary schiavo, thank you so much. we are expecting new information as it involves this accident at noon eastern. we understand there will be a news conference, and we'll monitor it live if not take it live as it happens. all right, a near nightmare in the sky. a passenger plane almost crashing into a drone. there's the graphic right there. a big question now, how safe are you when you fly on a commercial jet? and yet another audio recording surfacing, alleging -- allegedly of the l.a. clippers' owner, donald sterling. this time, he tries to explain that rant and maintains he is not a racist. alexandra field is here with a preview. alexandra?

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this. he says he is troubled by the pain that the clippers team and its fans have felt over the last few weeks. he's speaking about all that's transpired, and he says this, to quote him, he says, this is actually a large and important issue, not just for the clippers or the nba, but for the country in some ways. all eyes are on this, and how we work our way through it is important. now, as the ceo tries to move the team forward, the team's owner, donald sterling, also seems to be speaking. recording in which he tries to say what it is he was trying to say. clippers players still playing. donald sterling still talking. >> i'm talkin' to a girl. i'm tryin' to have sex with her. >> reporter: the latest recording released by radar online is believed to be sterling offering some kind of explanation for his racist rant. >> what the hell, i'm talking to a girl? the girl's black. i like her. i'm jealous that she's with other black guys.

i want her. >> reporter: sterling could be forced through a vote by nba owners to sell the team. this week, his estranged wife, shelly sterling, is saying she's a partial owner and she wants to keep it. clippers coach doc rivers -- >> i think it would be a very hard situation if you want me -- i'll say that much. i think it would be very difficult. i guarantee you every person wouldn't be on board with that. >> reporter: players have already protested donald sterling turning their shirts inside out. sports law professor mark edelman says they could turn to social media, too. beyond that, there are consequences. >> everybody's so quick to say what the players should do, when they don't have any skin in the game. but for a player, they have to be cognizant of their contract and the fact that if they do not show up to a game when they have an obligation to appear, they do run the risk of termination. >> reporter: froegsal athletes have had lockouts in contract disputes, but a team rarely publicly goes up against its other than. there is an extreme example. eight players, including the

infamous shoeless joe jackson on the 1919 chicago white sox team were accused of conspireing with gamblers to lose the world series, an apparent act of retaliation against an unpopular owner. >> it just goes to show what could happen if all levels of respect between an owner and a player would fall apart. >> reporter: now, while sterling has been banned from all nba activities for life, he is still the owner of the clippers team. but adam silver, the commissioner, has asked the other nba team owners to vote to try to force sterling to sell the team. that was the topic of an nba committee meeting that happened earlier this week. the same committee will meet to discuss it again next week. fred? >> all right, alexandra field, thank you so much. we're going to talk more about this now. let's bring in cnn commentator l.z. grander from grand rapids, mitch michlt. good to see you. >> good morning. >> let's start with richard parsons. does that move, signing on an

african-american ceo soften the blow or simply send a new message? >> well, it sends a new message. it definitely doesn't soften the blow. as long as the public is cognizant of the fact that the sterling family will be making money off this team, and once the players and coach rivers are aware at the end of the day the sterling family are making money off of them, it doesn't completely take away the sting of relearning, if you will, what we already have known about mr. sterling. i was happy to hear mr. parsons say this situation is larger than the clippers and larger than the nba, because it is. very much in the same situation that -- moments in which we've seen other tense race relations play out in the media, they extend beyond just the immediate people affected but as a cultural touchstone, as well. >> and that he said, quote, how we work our way through it is important, underscoring that, you know, that message is not getting lost just simply because he's been named ceo. so now, back to donald sterling. you know, his newest alleged recording says -- he says that

he was jealous, and he also said that it's unamerican to take someone's business property, and that simply can't happen. so how do these two statements from him -- those two messages in his very lengthy statement -- how does this potentially change the game, if at all? >> well, you know, i think there's several different layers to the new recording, if you will. you know, as i said in the past, it's like when you are -- when you are taught in jourmism school, when you get ahold of something that's breaking news, exclusive, you have to ask yourself, why, why did i get this material, who stands to benefit from it? you look at the tape, and you wonder, did it really leak, or did he send it out there so people could hear him try to explain himself, to sway the public opinion -- >> change the conversation? >> exactly. make it more about something that maybe the average guy can understand, right, lying to try to get in a girl's pants. it may work for some people. but i would think by and large it doesn't work for the majority of americans.

they can kind of see through that sort of thing. as far as, you know, his rhetoric, forcing him to sell, the nba has bylaws, and you have to adhere to those bylaws. now, i think they're vague, they don't explicitly talk about what you may say, you know, in the privacy of your own home. but it talks about morality and about the image. and so, it's not about somebody forcing him to sell his team. it's about him being compliant to the membership of the nba ownership family. >> and then, you know, you've got magic johnson who was initially kind of brought into this fold, and he's commented along the way, and most recently in a "usa today" article, he comments again saying that no player will want to play for a team attached to a sterling name, saying that because shelly, you know, sterling, is saying i got 50% of this, and so i'm going to hang on, and her attorney has made it very clear she's in the fight all the way. you know, i wonder, you know, is this an anomaly now, or are we talking -- you know, is magic johnson speaking to the point that players are considering a number of things, not just the team, not just the coach, not

just the team's record, but also the ownership of a team when saying, yes, to a contract with the team, or is this now a new dynamic as a result of the sterling mess? >> you know, i've been covering the nba for a long time, in sports for a long time. and ultimately, i look at the players' relationship with his or her own agent, right? because the agent is the one that's supposed to guide them to make the best decisions, both financially, but as well as personally. and so, before i start talking about whether or not the players are ever going to play for donald sterling again, i would wonder -- >> or a sterling name. >> -- right, or a sterling name -- i would wonder what kind of conversations are the players having with their agents? why weren't those players better informed? because we've known about the sterling family's history of racism as far back as 1982. that was the first time that sterling was recorded saying some racist remarks in regards to ralph sampson back in 1982. so essentially, this guy has

been saying and dropping and doing racist things for the past 30 years, and players have still been signing with this man and with this team. so i'd be wanting to know, why wasn't the agents informing players of this, and why wasn't the players association informing members about this man so they wouldn't have signed with him in the first place? i just want to add one final thing. >> okay. >> and that is, i understand that magic johnson, you know, may be upsociety, the players are upset, but it's important to realize some of the true victims in all of this haven't been talked about, and those are the people that have had -- were discriminated against because of housing. trying to move into nice areas where the violence is low, trying to move into areas where education would be better for their children. they were discriminated against, and we don't talk about the victimization happening back then, but talking too much about millionaires who at the end of the day live in safer neighborhoods. >> lz, thank you so much. >> thank you. and i will be talking to our legal guys next hour about shelly sterling's push now to

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a major domestic airliner flies dangerously near a drone. the consequences could have been disastrous. well, now we're learning more about the incident and the threat to passenger planes from small unmanned aircraft. here now is renee marsh. >> reporter: fred, this could have been deadly if that drone made contact with that passenger plane. the two came dangerously close to colliding midair, but this isn't a first. there have been other near disasters in the air involving drones. a near nightmare in the sky, a passenger plane narrowly crashes into a camouflaged drone flying at 2,300 feet, well above the typical altitude for a private drone.

the incident in the tallahassee skies, involved a u.s. airways express jet flying near the airport. >> a remote-controlled aircraft, 2,300. >> reporter: the first details of the march scare previously not revealed until an faa special spoke about it thursday. >> -- so close to his jet that he was sure he had collided with it. thankfully, inspection to the airliner after landing found no damage. >> reporter: authorities do not know who flew the drone, but say it could have brought down the plane. the safety of our passengers and crew is our top priority. u.s. airways parent company tells cnn in a new statement, "we're aware of the published report alleging an indent with one of our expressjets, and we are investigating." there have been close-calls before. the fbi is still investigating a drone that came within 200 feet of an al italia flight in new york earlier this year. >> we saw a drone, a drone aircraft. >> reporter: the pilot in that

incident can be heard telling air traffic control. and this monday, a small drone was found after apparently hitting this building in st. louis. in the next five years, the faa estimates as many as 7,500 drones could be flying in the u.s. airspace at any given time. the agency has been working on a plan to safely integrate drones into the airspace so that you don't have accidents with passenger aircraft. now, it is illegal for commercial use, although there are some exceptions. as for hobbyists, the faa only allows recreational drones to fly up to 400 feet. fred? >> all right, renee marsh, thank you so much. that provokes a whole lot of questions. i want to bring back cnn safety analyst david susie and mary schiavo. mary, the defense department is not commenting on whether this was a government drone, saying they don't usually have drones that are painted in camouflage. but then it brings the question, are there a lot of independently owned drones in the skies, period, whether it's 400 feet or more, as renee was saying?

>> yes, what the public doesn't realize, and what took the faa apparently by surprise, since they have not moved to fully regulate the industry yet, is that drones have been an exploding medium, literally for a couple of decades. this plane was probably a model airplane, and there are model airplanes that can fly -- they're breaking the speed -- or the sound barrier right now. they have model planes that are so capable. but drones are exploding. two years ago, for example, was the year we passed the benchmark, and that there were more trained -- these are trained -- trained drone pilots than aircraft pilots. so it's an exploding industry, and right now it's no-man's land in regulation, because the faa regulations are not in place. >> oh, my gosh. so, david, i read in some reports that this drone may have been about 2,400 feet, that was the calculation of the pilot, and we're talking about no regulation, as mary's underscoring there, this really could be problematic, especially if the market is open, people

are buying them, they're using them, experimenting with, but no regulation? >> well, not only is there no regulation, but the faa is fighting to grab what they do have, which is just the ability to even prosecute someone for careless and reckless use of these. there was a case that was brought up in 2012 and as of march 7th, the faa is trying to appeal to the ntsb to overturn their ruling, which at the time said that this operator did not operate in careless and reckless, he just basically used the aircraft -- or the drone to take pictures. so they've been trying to pursue that case, as well. so it is no-man's land, but jim wilson and the faa is in charge of that office, and they're mandated by congress by 2015 to do something. >> oh, my goodness. you know, mary, does this kind of incident mean that they have to do something sooner than that? >> well, they probably can't, and i'm going to question whether they can actually get the job done by 2015. what they have done is they've opened six different centers around the country, one's in new york, one's in alaska, all over the country, to study drones and

what they should be. for example, they have to ask -- answer questions like, are drones going to be put in special altitude categories, are they going to be interspersed with the rest of the flying public? are you going to have to have a pilot for every drone, or can you have one pilot , on the ground pilot, i'm referring to, controlling several hundred drones? there's so many questions to be answered. the faa has a big job in front of it. >> wow, it does look like a big job. it could be a huge, exploding industry. all right, david, mary, thank you so much. appreciate that. >> thank you. we're also hearing horrifying stories now of those people trapped on a burning hot air balloon. coming up, we'll speak with an expert about the art and the dangers of hot air balloons. it starts with little things. tiny changes in the brain.

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. search crews are still trying to find two people missing after a hot air balloon struck power lines. it happened in virginia. witnesses say the three people on board were screaming for help and pleading for their lives. the witnesses describe seeing people fall from the balloon's basket, but crews have not yet found the balloon or the basket. >> we've also found kind of a debris field. we found different items that would have been inside the hot air balloon. this is very helpful for us in our search efforts, because now we have an area of concentration. >> so search crews have recovered the body of one person but are still looking for two others that were in that balloon. joining me now on the phone from albuquerque, new mexico, is troy bradley, an expert on hot air balloons. so, troy, apparently you have flown nearly 6,000 different flights carrying some 20,000 passengers over the years. there are always going to be

risks with everything, but when we talk about hot air balloons, there are certain risks that are greater than others. what is the greatest danger of these kinds of flights? >> sure. the one thing itself is a very, very safe activity. there are hundreds of thousands of flights that go off without anything ever occurring. we had 30 balloons up in albuquerque this morning, as well. those are the things that just don't get the coverage. just because the balloons do have an occasional accident, it gets a lot of media, because it's a very colorful aircraft, and usually there's somebody with a phone or some way to record that. but i don't think we had a fatality in the last two years outside of this in the united states. and so, the real dangers that are involved with ballooning aren't the balloons themselves, as much as it sounds like this balloon may have hit a power line, and so there's an obstruction there. we have very good vertical control under a balloon going up and down. we have to go with the wind for

steering. but the possibility that maybe there was a line that wasn't seen in between trees or something like that is what might have got this pilot. but i have no idea. i'm probably less familiar with this accident than you are at this point because it turns -- >> well, sure, they are still investigating. and i know you're in albuquerque, and the investigators are on the ground there in virginia. you know, you talk about as far as you know, there have not been any fatalities involving hot air balloons outside of two years. and right where you are, albuquerque is probably one of the world's biggest hot air balloon events, that takes place every year. talking about the albuquerque international balloon fiesta. so in your view, when hundreds of balloons are in the air at any one time during that event, what is so paramount to keeping everyone safe there? is it just an issue of expertise? or -- >> no. >> -- or regulations or restrictions in place tone sure that everyone hits relatively the same altitude, or is in the general same vicinity?

>> well, to make the general public feel very comfortable with balloons, we are regulated by the faa, just like any other type of aircraft, because we're dealing in the airspace. all the pilots are certified by the faa, as well. there's a lot of regulation overseeing it. the limited control a balloon has, the complexity of where you're going to go, though. we do have good vertical control, horizontally we have to go where the wind takes us. because of that, though, all the winds -- balloons are moving in the same wind, so they'll keep a relative distance to one another, unless you shift altitudes and maybe come over the top of one another. the pilots are very cognizant of the fact when they're flying in busy airspace, whether in the event back east or the albuquerque fiesta. and so, it's very seldom we have any midair type issues with the balloons. like i said, typically it's a manmade structure or something that somebody runs into. >> okay. here you are talking about the fact that this doesn't happen that often.

we're looking at still images. i don't know the history of the still mans we are seeing, but we are showing a catastrophic event here, some sort of fire. okay, well, apparently these are fairly new images now as it relates to virginia and that balloon that got in trouble. we understand reportedly there was an explosion. there was a report of it hitting power lines, but to the extent of that we don't know, and here we are looking at those images, though you are joining us from albuquerque and talking about the more optimistic view of the hot air balloon journeys. thank you so much, bradley, i appreciate it. troy bradley. thank you so much. we are expecting new information on the hot air balloon crash coming up again related to those images you're seeing out of virginia. a news conference is scheduled for 12:00 eastern. we'll bring that to you live as it happens. all right. it is the final day of the nfl draft, and all eyes are on michael sam, the first openly gay player ready for a shot at the big time. what are his chances? a live report next. across america, people like basketball hall of famer

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is gay. and that made him the first openly gay nfl prospect, which means today could be historic if he gets drafted. i'm joined now by cnn's sports joe carter and also former atlanta falcon chris drat. joe, i'm saying if. do we know anything about the measurements of the draft of michael sam? >> as far as the managers we've talked to, they said, yeah, it probably will happen, but more like the sixth, seventh round. michael sam did a great job at the combine when he met with the media. he didn't do as good on the field. it's the measurables -- [ overlapping speakers ] -- a distraction, but when it comes to running the 40-yard dash, the 225-bench press reps, he didn't match up to those in the third, fourth round. he doesn't have the football measurables, but you look at his tape from missouri, he can play

between the white lines, and that's what matters. >> when we're talking about a draft, a lot of this is about numbers. he ran a 4:9, and for a lot of people out there, they might say, it's in the 4s, it sounds like it's all right, but for a linebacker in the nfl, that is absolutely slow. we were talking about how there were defensive linemen that ran faster than that. when you talk about how strong he was, there were wide receivers and dbs stronger than him. so those numbers, along with his vertical jump, only 25 inches, those numbers make it where it will be difficult for a team -- even if, you know, you take away the fact that he's gay -- if you just look at the numbers, it would make it difficult for them to pick him. >> does the total package include the numbers, include the poise, include the appeal, include the life story, and so that might round out, you know, these numbers in any way, chris? >> it is. it's a function of all of that. >> yeah. >> we're looking at the numbers right now. he came out, a lot of attention on him. and they're looking for this guy, you know, i came out. all right? now, you have to go and show people why you should be picked. and his numbers didn't back that up.

>> huh. >> what he's done on the football field, absolutely. you know, 11 1/2 sacks, 19 tackles for a loss. it says he can play. but -- >> co-defensive player in the s.e.c. arguably the best conference in college football, the guy dominated. i have to say here, that if he doesn't get drafted today, his football career is still going to be a success, because you know what? he will end up on a roster. and if he can play, they'll find a spot for him. lions don't listen to what sheep say. if the guy can play, the guy can play. >> will that make a statement on behalf of the team that were to find ultimately pick him, whether it to be today or later on a team he plays for, might they be considering that it says something about the team, too, that they are considering the total package, the fact that he's the first openly gay prospect? >> this is not a typical sixth or seventh round pick. let's be honest. it's not the typical undrafted free agent. there's a whole lot that comes with picking this guy or picking him on his team. a whole lot of distraction and noise. when they talk about that,

bringing tim teebow, it brings a lot of noise. they have to decide if they're ready for this. >> absolutely. tim came there, the jets, i played with the bills in 2009, and it was a totally different jets team. when you move forward, you bring tim teebow in, a lot of people didn't recognize they lost leon washington, braylon edwards, thomson. and so, the distraction, you don't really want that. and so, it's going to be important, the team that brings him in, they don't want a distraction. as long as he can come in and play, that's the great thing about football. at the end of the day, regardless of what you're doing kind of off the field, as long as you can come on and play, there'll be a place for you. >> all right. >> it doesn't matter who you are, who you're dating, what you can do, if you can win game, they'll find a spot for you. >> mm-hmm. >> all right, thank you so much, gentlemen. all not hopelessly good publicity. >> not necessarily. >> all right. joe, chris, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thank you. all right. a white house report on climate change and the news isn't so

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world since 2011. he sees the impact firsthand. >> you want to have the people in the south to understand how things are changing here. and there's a common strand, a common theme that goes throughout. and that theme is that things changed drastically in the last 30 years especially. >> it is much warmer in the summer, and the season is getting earlier and earlier. >> deering and his team planned seven ex-pi digs, one to each continent over four years. he just got back this week from the sixth journey, to napol. he is joining me from minneapolis. good to see you, aaron. >> good morning, good to be here. >> in a nutshell, what is your mission when you go on these expeditions? >> what we want to do is put a face to climate change, so there are always people around the

world, and they want to tell their story. we're going using adventure learning, getting them excited to tell their story about what is happening and have people throughout the world hear it. >> so you've gone to six of seven stops on these continents. the last is to antarctica. tell us what impact you saw that climate change is actually having on people in nepal? >> in all these areas it is similar, australia, antarctica, nepal, people are impacted greatly by weather conditions. they can't grow crops like before. these are people that can't go to the grocery store, it is sub cyst tense living. they need to be able to grow their food. now in place we were two weeks ago they're not able to and having to adapt to that change. >> why are they not able to, what's happening

environmentally? >> they're experiencing drought where they never experienced it before, experiencing downpours of rain they never experienced before. so they're having to come up with solutions. and a solution, for example, we were in peru, i was with a farmer outside of lima, an area that was completely drought. and what they did, they put up fog harvesting nets, collected the fog, trickled into a barrel, then they could use that for irrigation. people have to adapt to it. doesn't matter literally where you are, you're seeing it, as we have seen it on all six continents. >> in peru, people are being incentive, not consulting manuals, no experts are coming in and introducing them to new ideas, they are trying to figure it out on their own, seeing that okay, in that fog is moisture, let's catch some of that moisture and now let's feed our crops with it? >> yeah, that's correct. you're exactly right. they're also trying to bring education to these villages so that people can literally get themself educated about the

different opportunities to invest into adapting to the changing world. when we were in nagi, this village outside of katmandu, what they're trying to do is bring the internet there to keep their students there, so that they can be educated, so they can adapt to the changing world. >> over time, we heard a lot about ice melting in the arctic associated with climate change, certain animals are having difficulty surviving because their habitat is the ice. what did you see in the arctic circle? >> yeah, you know, i spent actually a decade traveling around the arctic by dog team and ski and delivering online education program, telling stories from the people. what you're hearing like the lead in there is that they're having this early breakup of ice in a late freeze. what it means to these people, they have to travel the ice to hunt caribou and fish. it is not like they can turn and go to the grocery store, like i said. even their travels on the land

are am impacted by this. >> what's next? what happens from this information you gather? does this mean this is a flat forum in which you say world, you have to help these people in these places or this is what we can learn from people who are doing these magnificent adaptive things as a result of climate change? what's the next step. >> the whole goal behind the project was to build this tapestry of voices, and to get people engaged in a dialogue around climate change. that's what our goal was. that's what we have been doing. people can literally go online and share their story themselves. and hopefully inspire someone to do something different in order that we can adapt to the changing world. >> all right, aaron doering, thank you so much. what an incredible adventure. one more stop to go and beautiful images. we are all learning so much by way of your journeys. thanks so much, appreciate it. good to see you. >> thank you. speaking of journeys, how

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struggling to find its identity. will its soviet past hold back its capitalist future? i asked anthony if he felt any tension during his visit. >> we felt very much, i don't know whether you call it tension, but you do a fair amount of casual eating and drinking with russians at olegarks, and those that have done well under putin, eating with ordinary people who either suffered or benefitted from life in the new imperial russia, you get a sense of how the world is going there. ukraine did not i have to say, hardly a pundit or geopolitical expert. what's happening in crimea came as no surprise to me after eating and drinking in russia,

it is no mystery why it happened or what will happen. you have a hammer lock on the country. >> people openly were discussing their thoughts, their fears, their wishes, trepidation about all of that? >> most russians feel that ukraine is part of greater russia, even soelz neets a thought it was part of greater russia. protests against putin is a dangerous thing. whoever you are, however powerful you will be, you serve at his pleasure. you could be stripped of things and in jail. this is something we felt strongly there. as far as what's happening in ukraine, i would say sadly that there's -- don't look for the russian people to rise up in protests over what they're doing in ukraine and crimea, it seems to be sadly a popular move.

>> sunday night, see more of anthony bourdain's interaction with the russian people in an all new anthony bourdain, "parts unknown," 9:00 p.m. eastern. at 10:00 eastern, an all new morgan spurlock, inside man. morgan takes you inside religion in america. makes his debut in the pulpit to give his first sermon. we have much more straight ahead in the cnn newsroom which begins right now. hello again, everyone, i am fredricka whitfield. here are the stories we are following. a terrifying scene at a virginia festival, a hot air balloon burst into flames, authorities are searching for victims in a wooded area. a news conference is moments away. and staking her claim, the wife of embattled la clippers owner donald sterling makes her case for keeping the team just as a new ceo takes the helm.

and could monica lewinsky's affair with bill clinton end up haunting hillary clinton in 2016? lewinsky's tell all article fuels speculation about impact on the potential presidential race. first up, that horrifying hot air balloon accident in richmond, virginia. flames engulfed the balloon after it hit a power line. one is confirmed dead. two others on board remain missing. search crews are looking in a wooded area where debris has been spotted. at any moment now, authorities will be holding a news conference on the progress of the search. we will bring that to you live as it happens. first, let's turn to erin mcpike who is in that search area joining us live now. erin, what have officials been

saying about missing victims? >> reporter: well, fredricka, they haven't identified any of the names yet but have spoken to the families of all three of those passengers who were on board. we heard from the press conference earlier this morning, though, that this has gone from a rescue operation to a recovery mission, meaning they believe there are no survivors. that spokesman for the virginia police shed a little bit more light on what happened last night. >> according to witnesses, they say they heard an explosion and it was after that that the basket and the balloon actually separated. we are still in the process, we spent all night searching for the wreckage, for the basket, the balloon. >> reporter: they also said they have located some of the debris that was inside the basket that separated from the balloon.

they have not yet seen the basket or balloon. we may hear more in the upcoming press conference. we believe they have a more concentrated search area. >> we know the balloon festival has since been cancelled. what are investigators able to glean from some of the images and the eyewitness account? >> reporter: from what we have heard from a number of e eyewitnesses, some came by to say what they have seen, they all said how horrible it was to see. here is one woman that described just what it felt like to watch it. >> oh, we heard like a loud bang. we thought it was just a fire work, something like that, then remembered the balloon festival, and all of a sudden my boyfriend came running out, oh, my god, look at the sky, the balloon is on fire. all we seen was stuff falling from the sky, the basket, the balloon, everything was on fire.

i said please, god, tell me there's nobody in there, i don't want to know that somebody is hurt. and all of a sudden we started seeing stuff falling through the sky. >> reporter: and another man told me this morning that he could both hear and see the explosion from about two miles away, fred. >> all right, erin mcpike, thanks so much. we're waiting for new information from the news conference scheduled to take place any moment now. you're seeing live pictures at the podium. we're just waiting for someone to step up. we'll take that live as it happens. meantime, the saga of embattled la clippers owner donald sterling is getting even more bizarre. in a new recording released yesterday, a man alleged to be sterling says he was jealous and that's why he made those racist remarks. listen. >> who thinks anybody is going to tape something? what the hell, i'm talking to a girl. the girl is black. i like her. i'm jealous that she's with

other black guys. i want her. so what the hell can i in private tell her? you know, i don't want you to be with anybody. i mean, do i have -- am i a person? do i have any freedom of speech? >> that audio from radar online, still unclear who recorded it, supplied it, et cetera. in the midst of this fire storm, sterling's wife shelly says she's not giving up her half of the team. alexandra field is following the latest and joins us outside nba headquarters in manhattan. alexandra, has the team responded to shelly sterling in that she is holding on, in her words, for the rest of her life? >> reporter: so much for this team to contend with over the last few weeks, fredricka. and you know the players have to try and keep their head in the playoff games now. we know how they feel about donald sterling. they made themselves very clear when they staged that protest

after that first racist rant, that recording was released, remember the players came out and had shirts turned inside-out. a clear statement of their feelings toward donald sterling. so how do they feel about shelly sterling, how would they feel if she did indeed retain some ownership of the team? that question was asked of their coach, doc rivers. here is how he put it. >> i think it would be a very hard situation if you want me, i'll say that much. i think it will be very difficult. i guarantee you every person wouldn't be on board with that. >> reporter: so currently the clippers are owned by the sterling family trust. an attorney for shelly sterling means that she's entitled to ownership of half the team. what she would like to see happen is keep her 50% of the team, have an investment group own the other half of the team in place of donald sterling. we should point out here while donald sterling has been sanctioned by the nba, he has been banned from nba activities for life, he has been fined $2.5 million, he is still an owner of this team.

the nba has not voted on whether or not to force him to sell his share, but there have been no sanctions against shelly sterling, fred. >> she's still allowed to be court side and promises she will continue to be. now let's talk about leadership of that team in the form of the ceo, the former citigroup and time warner chairman richard parsons now named interim ceo. he made a statement this goes beyond the nba and beyond the la clippers, doesn't it? >> absolutely, fred, taking this opportunity to make a statement, talk about the gravity of the situation, not just his role as interim ceo. that's where he wants people to focus attention on how to move forward from this, what we can learn from this, what needs to be fixed. he released this statement. he says in part, this is a large an important issue. not just for the clippers or the

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hot air balloon accident in virginia. live news conference about to take place. you're looking at live pictures of the podium. when that news conference happens, we'll take it live. all right, it is time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress. that's what the woman who had an affair with president bill clinton, monica lewinsky, is saying in a new article. the scandal broke in 1998. here is more about what to expect from the bombshell. >> reporter: hello, fred. it was 16 years ago i covered monica lewinsky, saw her often outside the watergate apartment, occasionally run into her in a coffee shop. she was always gracious and kind, but clearly in was a very difficult and anguishing time for her. she says she's speaking out now because at 40 years old, she wants to move on with her life and give some purpose to her past. to show those who experienced public humiliation like she did

you can survive. in her tell all vanity fair essay, she's opening up about her scandalous past to move forward. i would do anything to go back and rewind the tape. she provides insight besides what was in the headlines. it had frequent visits, plans made, phone calls, and gifts exchanged. now 40, the world's most famous white house intern examines the situation with new perspective. i look back now, shake my head in disbelief, and i wonder what was i? what were we thinking. lewinsky remained mostly reclusive, an effort to protect herself from the shame she felt when the affair went public. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman, miss

lewinsky. >> reporter: following president clinton's vehement denial and subsequent admission. >> indeed hi a relationship with miss lewinsky that was not appropriate. in fact, it was wrong. >> i felt like a piece of trash. i felt dirty and i felt used. >> reporter: lewinsky says the scandal changed the entire trajectory of her life, making her virtually unemployable. she remains very much stuck in time. never getting married or having children. she writes with every man i date, yes, i date, i go through some degree of 1998 whiplash. lewinsky says she considered the consequences of telling her story on the clinton universe and felt compelled to speak out now, before hillary clinton's potential 2016 presidential bid. something which means more to her than just the possibility of having a female president. when i hear of hillary's prospective candidacy, i cannot

fear the next wave of paparazzi, the next wave of where is she now stories. but should i put my life on hold for another 8 to 10 years? it is interesting, lewinsky also plans out her life on the political calendar, anticipating when is the next time she could be thrown into the spotlight, if and when hillary clinton decides to run, the 2016 election, and the books that will follow. but she said this. she said she thought about tyler clemente, the rutgers student that killed himself after video of him kissing another man went viral online. she says she wishes she could have talked to him and shown him that even in your darkest moments of humiliation, your life can go on. fred? >> all right, suzanne malveaux, thanks so much from washington. does this potentially hurt hillary clinton momentum or clear the air for monica lewinsky. john avalon, and sally cone,

political commentator. john, to you first. why did monica lewinsky write this article? talking about timing now. why now? >> i think it has to do with the fact she's 40, inflexion point in her life. she's anticipating the hillary clinton run, to get out ahead of it, tell it in her own words on vanity fair, and then get off the table during hillary's book tour and possible presidential. she wants to turn the page in her own life. that's why she took the reigns to tell her own story. >> anything that makes it more prominent, there are a lot of people didn't know about it. now they're voting americans. does this clear the air for monica lewinsky or does it really kind of drudge it all back up again? >> for monica, i imagine it clears the air. she made the decision to. and it seems like she never addressed it quite this way, it

was always looming over her personal life and career. she makes that clear. for hillary i think, you know, most of the voters already knew this happened. still like hillary. she still has the highest likability, favorability of any contender. and for younger folks that don't remember, i think they're accustomed to sex scandals in politics at this point. >> fred. >> yes, john? >> the youngest bill clinton voter is 36. for a lot of folks, this is literally history. pretending it doesn't exist doesn't make it go away. by addressing it early, makes it less likely going to dominate the conversation. >> even in her article, she doesn't necessarily reveal just herself, she says it revealed a lot about feminists. she felt while this was a relationship, she writes it was consensual, a bad decision, yes, but she also felt abandoned by the feminists and was stunned by

hillary clinton's response to it all, blowing a fuse with bill clinton behind closed doors. is this helping lewinsky gain understanding, support or sympathy? is this really an indictment against feminists as well, sally, that they weren't there for her and that in her view they should have been? >> i mean, there's a lot bound up in there. i think monica has a legitimate critique of the feminist community in particular, we scrutinize hillary and i have scrutinized hillary's experience as well. but feminists in general, not all, but in general were certainly like president clinton politically, defended it personally. and in some cases said mean things about monica lewinsky. if this coming up again gives everyone a chance to rethink, recast, apologize for some of that, that's good. i wouldn't put the blame too much on the feminists. even monica does this as well.

it was the right wing media machine that was growing its baby legs, starting to walk back then that really is what drug her through the mud and tarnished her reputation and slandered her and shamed her. let's be really clear about that. >> john, you can't wait to respond. you have to after we take a short break. we are going to continue this conversation. how is that for a cliff hanger? we will be back to talk about this lewinsky tell all, how it impacts hillary clinton, if at all. we will have more on that after this. get all your favorites all day, everyday.

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at any moment we are expecting information on the hot air balloon accident in virginia. this is the podium where officials will take to the microphone and give more details on the search for victims. one body was found from the hot air balloon accident, still missing two people on the balloon that crashed. more on it as we get it. meantime, she is not an official candidate for president, but hillary clinton is making the rounds, and she's sounding a lot like she might make another run for the white house. her time as secretary of state could be a double edged sword. here is cnn's brianna keilar. >> for the life of me, i cannot

understand why secretary of state did not want to designate boko haram as a terrorist organization. >> reporter: republicans raising questions about hillary clinton's decision not to classify boko haram as a terrorist group when she was secretary of state. clinton had pointed words for the nigerian government on the kidnapping of hundreds of girls. >> the government of nigeria needs to get serious about protecting all of its citizens. >> reporter: sources close to clinton tell cnn the state department didn't want to legitimize the group or energize recruitment. >> what is it you want to achieve? >> reporter: republicans are attacking clinton's record at the state department as she prepares to launch her book tour next month. meanwhile, clinton is wracking up miles and millions with a schedule of mostly paid speeches. >> miss clinton, if you don't represent women in politics in america as future president, who will? >> reporter: answering friendly questions in friendly forums

with one exception. last month, a woman threw a shoe at her in las vegas. clinton concentrates mainly on social issues near and dear to her heart. but her political opponents are trying to chip away at her tenure at the state department, something voters consider a political positive according to polls. house republicans forming a select committee to investigate the 2012 attack on the consulate in benghazi, libya. >> we're going to send subpoenas and we're going to expect her to comply. >> reporter: but clinton dismissed the need for further investigation. >> i do not believe there is any reason for it to continue in this way, but they get to call the shots in the congress. >> reporter: if hillary clinton decides to run for president, many sources in her camp tell me they don't think it is an election that will be won or lost on foreign policy. however, they're very sensitive to this part of her resume taking a hit. as secretary of state clinton had a reputation as a very good

boss, it helped to help erase stains from her campaign in 2008, soften her political image, and her allies don't want republicans to diminish that. brianna keilar, cnn, washington. >> thanks so much, brianna. not only is hillary clinton dealing with monica lewinsky breaking her silence, she's facing more scrutiny over benghazi and what she knew about the terrorist group that kidnapped the nigerian girls. back with us, john avalon and political commentator, sally kohn. john, before the braeak, i wantd to give you a chance to respond about the right wing media machine. you were shaking your head. >> first of all, the process that led to monica lewinsky actually did come out of what hillary famously characterized as a vast right wing conspiracy, not so vast, more loose. no question about it, it was part of a process drummed up by

was the -- do this thought experiment. imagine if monica lewinsky had an affair with a republican president, imagine the protesting outside the white house then. and you didn't hear that. that's how partisan spin ends up in all stories, whether benghazi or monica lewinsky. >> now, let's shake or move on and talk instead about lewinsky, shake things up a bit. let's talk about benghazi. the house gop, forming that investigative committee. sally, are these legitimate inquiries or is this just politics? is this, too, about timing and where hillary clinton is in the political hemisphere? >> two points. first of all, yes, they're legitimate inquiries to want to know what happened that night, and in general what happens when our embassies are attacked.

it was the only one in 2013 that were attacked. we have security issues, it is appropriate to investigate them. that's already happened. we had 13 hearings, 50 briefings, 25,000 pages of documents. we know what happened that night. there are reports by congressional committees. but republicans refuse to acknowledge it. to be honest, fred, this really isn't that different from monica. benghazi is how republicans pronounce monica lewinsky in 2014. they're so desperate for some way to attack hillary clinton. and by the way, they're doing it because they have no interest in solving the real problems america faces, they just want to play politics. >> john, there has been this piling on of hillary clinton, if it is not benghazi, now we're talking about the nigerian group, boko haram, she had an opportunity to label them as a terrorist group and didn't when she was secretary of state, and that, too, is a big problem. and now her name is being tossed into the blame game as pertains

to the nigerian girls missing as a result of the boko haram. is this too much? is this legitimate? how do you interpret it? >> that's more legitimate, interesting and troubling again than benghazi which is inquiry after the fact. the daily beast josh rogue and broke this. when hillary was secretary of state, she resisted naming boko haram a terrorist organization. >> she didn't want to empower them with that title. >> that's correct. >> and there are other critics that say if you did that, it may have meant devoting certain resources to fight that group. it might have meant kind of disarming them in a way of what has become a power. >> that's a fair characterization. the concern is how loose a terrorist affiliate was it at the time and would they draw attention to it. problem is when you ignore a problem, they don't tend to go away, they tend to coalesce and

c congeal. she's an advocate for women's rights. it is an irony and urgent problem now. but inquiring why the state department resisted this. it is something that is legitimate. we're going to need more answers about that. hillary clinton's state department tenure is an enormous asset in the presidential campaign. she also has to answer for the record for her tenure and there will be uncomfortable questions. that's just a reality. >> sally, will this be a detriment to hillary clinton, while there's great praise for her being secretary of state, then you have at least two of these matters that are constantly being brought up. the drum beat continues to get louder. >> i don't think so. specifically on benghazi, i think the american public is fed up with millions and millions of tax dollars being wasted on these investigations, but also in both stories understand the

danger of politicizing foreign policy. there were reasons to give certain information and not certain information with active terrorist investigations. similarly, there are reasons to not embolden, empower, buy into the hands of the nigerian government at the time the decision was made and boko haram was a regional concern and didn't need the attention nor accolades of getting internally in their own sort of warped minds of getting attention from the united states government. we could look at these things in a reasonable and fair and responsible and american kind of way or we can, you know, try and fund raise off them as republicans and turn them into political stunts. i think it is sad. >> thank you both. >> thanks, fred. and she's in the middle of a very different scandal, but you know what, she is not quiet about it at all. shelly sterling says she wants to hold onto the la clippers, even if the nba gets rid of her

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at this time, we have now located two of the occupants from the hot air balloon that crashed friday night. we still have crews on the ground now searching for the third occupant. we are not going to be identifying the gender or information concerning the second one or located a little while ago. our searches are continuing. we actually have more than 100 personnel on the ground. they have been searching since daybreak today. we have them divided into multiple teams. these include virginia state police troopers as well as deputies with the caro line sheriff's office. we have multiple search and rescue canine teams mixed in and on the ground, walking the immediate vicinity within caroline pines and glendale area. they will continue to keep searching until the wreckage can be found. we still have not located the basket or the balloon.

we do continue to keep finding debris and various items that would have been on the hot air balloon. and that is encouraging to search crews, it keeps us targeted and focused in the vicinity and help with the searches. it is extremely wooded, rural area. terrain is difficult. a lot of underbrush. that's why foot patrols are so important on this. the grid searches. we also have aviation support, we have virginia state police up through the day, assisting search crews on the ground. got a little more information. there were a total of 13 hot air balloons that took flight friday evening. they had pilot chosen landing sites. they landed in a particular location on ruther glen, it wasn't predesignated zone, it is

an actual landing site. one balloon landed there, based on witness accounts, a second balloon landed, the third was landing there. this was a landing site that would end the flight. then they have a tracking car that follows them. then those people, passengers and pilot would have gotten in that vehicle and folded up the balloon, then come back here. so that's how the right would have taken place. that's what happened with 12 others. they had tracking cars and balloons landed in various locations throughout the area as part of this event yesterday. at this point i don't have much more information to release. i'll take some questions in a minute. we have reached out to the ntsb. they're also here. they've got investigators here that are also conducting their search, and when they have information to release, they will come forward. greg, did you want to release anything? >> make a quick comment.

greg hicks. stressful situation for everybody. >> live news conference there out of virginia as pertains to the hot air balloon accident taking place yesterday. you just heard from corricorrine corrine geller. three people were in the balloon. there were reports of explosion and it hitting a power line. again, no identities revealed of victims. they continue to search for a third person on that balloon. they have not located the balloon or basket. but they have located debris. it is a treacherous search. the terrain is very difficult. 13 balloons in all part of this festival and tragedy. we will have more on the investigation as it becomes available. we will have much more in the newsroom after this. we're going to talk about donald sterling's wife, and how she's continuing to promise it

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welcome back. now to the latest on the donald sterling scandal. the l.a. clippers, the team, the players, managed to fight through distractions surrounding the team last night, but couldn't defeat the oklahoma

city thunder. the clippers co-owner shelly sterling was at the staples center for the game. game three of the second round of the playoff series. the clippers now trail in the series two games to one. meanwhile, the sterling scandal has taken yet another turn with the release by radar online of a new audio recording. here is our brian todd. >> reporter: he says he wasn't full of hate but was full of testosterone. >> i am talking to a girl. i'm trying to have sex with her. i'm trying to play with her. you know, if you to have sex with a girl and you're talk to go her privately, and you don't think anybody's there, you may say anything in the world. what difference does it make. >> reporter: this is donald sterling explaining why he made those racist comments to v.

stiviano. cnn can't confirm that's sterling or who he is speaking to. >> i have a girl here who has black kids and is partly black i think myself. i love the girl. and so she's telling me you're wrong. i know i'm wrong. what i said was wrong. but i never thought the private conversation would go anywhere out to the public. i didn't want her to bring anybody to my games because i was jealous! >> reporter: v. stiviano denies leaking those to the media, says she did not have a physical relationship with him. we couldn't get comment from the nba or anyone representing sterling to the latest audio release. sterling's estranged wife shelly is facing her own back lash against her claim to keep her 50% of the clippers. doc rivers says if she remains part owner. >> i think it would be very difficult. i guarantee you every person wouldn't be on board with that. whether i would or not, i'm not

going to say. but i just know that that would be a very difficult situation for everybody. >> reporter: shelly sterling's attorney responded in an e-mail, stressing her ownership would be passive and someone else would control the clippers. we also find it improbable that players and coaches under contract for millions of dollars a year would boycott their teams because of concerns a 79-year-old woman would rock the boat. nba commissioner adam silver insists the league only wants to force donald sterling out as owner. but one sports attorney says that may change. >> it sounds like at this point things keep getting worse, the sterling name appears that it may be too toxic for the nba. >> reporter: shelly sterlgs's attorney says if donald sterling is forced out as owner and she remains, she will not let donald have any involvement with management of the team. a source close to her camp says she wants to continue going to the games. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> so shelly sterling says she's in charge of the team.

what does that mean for the nba's efforts to force her estranged husband, donald sterling, to sell the clippers. let's bring in avery freedman, civil rights attorney and law professor in cleveland. that beautiful green. and richard herman, a criminal defense attorney and law professor from new york in a tux! oh, my goodness. >> for you, fred. >> just for me. we'll explain what the tux is about in a moment, guys. >> oh, boy. >> yeah, oh boy. first, let's talk about shelly sterling. clearly has no intention, gentlemen, of giving up her claim to the l.a. clippers. listen to what her attorney said in the situation room. >> and we will fight to the death any effort by the nba to involuntarily sell her asset. now, at the same time in conversations with the league, with adam silver this morning, we hope to resolve this dispute. but make no uncertainty about to decide when and how and for - what price she sells her 50% interest in the los angeles

clippers. >> all right. a fight to the death he says. that's what shelly sterling is going to do. richard, does the nba have any real leverage considering the worst accusations about her role in that apparent discrimination involving the apartments they owned were dropped, would the nba be able to say we have this morality clause and, you know, donald has violated it, but we don't have record that she has, so she has to keep her half of the team, right? >> fred, the nba constitution and bylaws does not have a morality clause, number one. number two, the commissioner made it crystal clear that his ban is only and solely with respect to donald sterling. he specifically said that. he didn't include the wife at all. personally, i think release of any information, especially the kind that donald sterling just did, is what he needs now because the train is rolling and building up steam down the track. and i don't see how these owners

can possibly keep him in. i think the pressure on them is enormous. and you're going to look at 80 to 90% of owners voting to oust him. having said that, fred, as we talked last week, i think he has serious, serious, real causes of action against stern, against the nba, and perhaps against the other owners for the snippets of release of an illegally recorded conversation, said in his bedroom. >> irrelevant. >> this is constitutional smashing in your face, avery. >> oh, my goodness. >> richard says him, him, him. he is talking about donald sterling, not talking about shelly sterling. so in your view, avery, shelly would be able to maintain her 50% and if the owners vote don sterling out, can't necessarily vote her out? >> i don't agree with that, fredricka. i mean, you can't -- you have to take a strong stand. you can't be lily livered about these things. the fact is that the

commissioner under article 13 of the constitution has the right, broad discretion, probably unbridled discretion making decisions where there's an adverse action or adverse effect on the league. the fact is if the players are going to boycott, if the fans are repelled by what's going on, if the sponsors are bailing out, i think at the end of the day commissioner silver has to end this. now, shelly sterling will get one half of whatever dough the franchise is sold for, but she's going to have no ownership interest. in fact, she's characterized as a noncontrolling owner. so i think ultimately she's out. whatever she's saying, she will be gone, get her money, and good-bye to the sterlings. >> richard? >> fred, the team is owned in sterling family trust, not in the name of donald or shelly, it is the sterling family trust. i think it is going to be virtually impossible for the nba to compel the trust to sell this

team. and i think there can be injunctions filed in court to prevent this. based on this scenario of facts, it may be that the owners hate sterling for all the years and abuse they believe he has created for the league and everybody else, but these set of facts that we're facing today really, if this is what's going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back, i don't think it will hold up in court. i think the sterlings have legitimate claims to stop it. >> we will talk about it again. every day there's more material added to this pile of really mess. before we go, gentlemen, because who can overlook the fact you both look so dashing, but richard is in a tux, and i do want to mention why. richard herman is going to be receiving a very special honor. being awarded ellis island medal of honor, the ceremony taking place shortly after he gets off the air from national ethnic organization of coalitions.

awards are given every year to american citizens that distinguished themselves in their ethnic groups while kp exemplifying the american life. congratulations. you'll be at ellis island there later for this award. congratulations. >> way to go, man. >> thank you, fred and avery. i share it with my wife, and others. thank you so much. >> fantastic. well deserved. have a wonderful day. what an honor. i can't think of anyone else more deserving than you. >> thank you so much. >> both of you are award winning. every time i turn around, avery and richard are getting an incredible distinction. thanks so much, gentlemen. we will be back after this. [ hypnotist ] you are feeling satisfied

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i have seen your show. >> a bottle a day of vodka, it has an effect. and i need time between shows. >> how long since you have been in russia. >> a few years. you get a sense of what it is like to live and eat in russia. >> is it different than the russia you visited previously? >> you feel any notion this is a functioning democracy is a joke. they kill journalists there. they're happy to do it. and it is okay. >> people get killed in business dealings there. >> there's a definite line. everyone we spoke to comes up against a line. you can criticize the government. certain things you can say. when you start talking about corruption and putin's possible connection to corruption, you can see it in their eyes.

a real fear. we spoke with one billionaire in oligarchs that would stripped of everything for expressing discontent. bad things happen to you when you cross vladimir putin. >> and food in russia? >> food in people's homes can be really good. in mid range restaurants where they're doing traditional russian dishes can be delicious. the soups, the dumplings, i like traditional russian cooking. the best restaurants have sort of like 1989 post disco era pan asian horror show, generally speaking eating the best restaurant in moscow is kind of a worst case scenario. >> have an appetite when you watch tomorrow night. see more of anthony's

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one of the balloons hit a power line and burst into flames. three people were on board. we just heard from officials in virginia that two victims have been located. they're searching for a third victim. erin mcpike is live at the scene. officials wrapped up that press conference. it has been difficult to locate those bodies. how are they conducting the search for the third victim. >> reporter: first of all, the virginia police has said that of course there are no survivors. they're still looking for the third victim and the search will continue until they find that person. here is that spokeswoman describing how the community has been helpful in speeding up the process. >> we've had probably anywhere between 30 to 40 calls from people who witnessed it, from here at the festival friday to neighbors, to people driving in the vicinity and it has been a

tremendous help. we have been following up with those folks and appreciate them taking time to call and give us name and contact information. there's actual scientific steps being taken that help us to triangulize where we search. based on eyewitness accounts, where they saw things, where videos and photos were taken, it helped with concentrating search efforts and expedited the process. >> reporter: fred, this is an intensive search. there are more than 100 people on the ground now, still looking for the third victim. there's also civil air patrol assisting in the search. >> and they're not revealing the identity of the victims, right? >> reporter: they are not yet. they have spoken to the families of all three of the victims but have not yet released the identities or gender. when we get more information on

that, we'll bring it to you. >> erin mcpike, thank you so much. so immediately people sprang into action trying to find those in the balloon's basket. here is one of the first 911 calls. >> possible mass casualty incident, reported multiple hot air balloons have crashed into power lines and the balloons are now on fire. >> the airborne hot air balloons appear to be still smoking and pretty high in the air. >> report the basket has come off. we are trying to find that right now. >> caroline, advise all units airborne balloons aren't the issue, we need to locate the basket. >> in that call, it says multiple balloons. we since learned it is one balloon. three people were in one balloon. the bodies of two were located, they're still searching for the third. people from the ground described what they saw.

>> it was on fire on the left side, then there was big fire, and the fire dwindled down some and the balloon kept floating up. then the fire sort of circled around the bottom and then debris started falling off. my heart was in my stomach because all i kept thinking is this is not good, this is not good. >> we heard a loud bang. thought it was just a firework, and remembered the balloon festival and all of a sudden my boyfriend came running out, oh my god, look at the sky, he is like the balloon is on fire. all we seen was stuff falling from the sky, the basket, the balloon, everything was on fire. >> you could hear them screaming, please, dear god, sweet jesus, help us, we're going to die, oh, my god, please help us, please help us. >> gosh, horrible. joining me from frederiksberg, texas, hot air balloon expert, phillip brian. we heard about horrifying

accounts of what may have happened as you listen to eyewitnesses. police say it hit a power line. based on what you head from the eyewitness accounts, bobbing and weaving of the balloon, quick descent, what does that information tell you about what may have happened or caused it? >> it doesn't tell me anything about what caused the accident at all. i think we need to leave that to the investigators. i really don't have any facts or data about the event other than what i have heard through the news report, so i am not sure i can add any value to that. >> for those of you that make a living with hot air balloons, when people come and just envision to have a pleasurable ride on these hot air balloons, what did you tell them about the potential risks, what to be expected on a ride on a balloon. >> well, first of all, the

balloon is manufactured, inspected and serviced on a regular basis by certified repair stations such as i operate. the pilots are trained in conformance of faa regulations, so there's every expectation that this is a safe sport. what i tell the pilots is that the only thing we're going to do that morning is create good memories and my job is to bring you back safely, and you know, unfortunately ballooning is a very visual sport. people are taking pictures when it is going on. we almost suffer unfair advantage when our accidents hit the newspapers and tvs where other sports do not, and of course with videos that are around, you get more of that from other sports. it is unfortunate that these things are so highly publicized. that is not to diminish the

seriousness of it. it has happened. it's happened riding bicycles and cars. 3,000 people a year in the state of texas on the highways suffer similar events. so i don't know what to tell you other than we do all we know to do to provide safe trained pilots and the operators giving passenger rides are associated through the balloon federation of america, and they are working their first mission of safety. >> this investigation is under way, and continues. philip bryant from texas, thank you so much. overseas, nigeria's president makes a promise to the world today, weeks after hundreds of school girls were kidnapped. what he said next. it starts with little things. tiny changes in the brain. little things, anyone can do. it steals your memories. your independence.

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the search intensifies to find hundreds of girls kidnapped by a terrorist group. u.s. advisers are in nigeria to help in the effort to rescue the girls. earlier, nigeria's president promised the world, quote, that we must get these girls out, end quote. that's precisely what first lady michelle obama would love to see happen. she explains why today in her first weekly address. >> in these girls, barack and i see our own daughters. we see their hopes and their dreams and we can only imagine the anguish their parents are feeling right now. many of them may have been hesitant to send their daughters to school, fearing that harm might come their way. but they took that risk because they believed in their daughters' promise and wanted to give them every opportunity to

succeed. >> let's go to nigeria. vladimir, the first lady said president obama directed his administration to do everything possible to help the nigerian government. so how is the u.s. making its commitment and delivering on that promise and how about other countries? >> reporter: hi, fred. we know the united states already has a team here in nigeria. another seven military team flew in. what they're doing is an advisory role, fred. they're not going to need combat boots on the ground. that much we know. we know they're providing intelligence gathering and map analysis and looking at perhaps hostage negotiation techniques, some law enforcement officers are going to be accompanying the team. but it is going to be very difficult. u.s. intelligence reports that these girls may have been split up and may have been trafficked into neighboring countries.

the neighboring countries include cameroon, chad, nijar. it is an enormous area to cover. even with all of the technology brought to bear, french teams and perhaps chinese teams. even if you look at this wide area they have to look at, it is going to be very challenging no matter what assets are brought to bear in the search. >> then there's a report from amnesty international saying the nigerian government knew about the plot from boko haram in advance, but in the degree of four hours, but then didn't do anything. the nigerian military responded, right, saying not true? >> reporter: that's right. they vehemently deny the report. they say simply not true. what they say in fact is that they received a call to bring in reinforcements, they were on the way to reinforce troops that were already there, when they themselves came under attack in an ambush.

the report from amnesty international dovetails with what we heard from people on the ground which is that the military, the few soldiers that are there are outmanned, outgunned, and the night of the attack they were not anywhere to be seen. so it really is -- that report does verify the facts as we know them from the families we have spoken to, and the people we have spoken to, one father, we had a heartbreaking conversation with him, says the fear of boko haram is so great they sleep in the bush every night. >> so many families saying they're afraid to reveal the identities of their daughters gone missing because they're afraid of repercussions and afraid that publicity would bring more harm to the girls and family. vladimir, thank you. a man claiming to be the leader says there's a market for selling humans. one muslim human rights lawyer

is wondering if that man has actually picked up the quran lately. in a cnn op-ed, he says it is obscene and unislamic for these lunatic human traffickers to invoke the name of god while kidnapping young girls and threatening to sell them into sexual slavery, end quote. i want to bring in the author of that, joining us from chicago now. good to see you. so what does the quran say about treatment of women and girls? >> fred, it is quite explicit in condemning the actions of boko haram, if you look at chapter 4, verse 20, it explicitly says women cannot be forced to marry anyone and that they should never be detained against their will. both of the things that boko haram is guilty of. now, it is important to keep in mind the vast majority of muslims worldwide, here in the united states and abroad, have

categorically condemned actions of boko haram as being unislamic, including from saudi arabia, the egyptian minister, the largest block of the 57 muslim nations on earth. what we as muslims are trying to do is show we are just as horrified as everyone else in this case of human trafficking and sex slavery that's going on in nigeria now. >> and you write that boko haram translates to western education is a sin. and in your op-ed you spell out that these young girls, 16 to 18, might be sold for as little as $12 to the buyers. as it pertains to the muslim community who is hearing boko haram say that this is our right as muslims, this is our duty as muslims to sell the girls as property, what does the muslim

community do, if anything, to try to get ahead of this message, try to correct what boko haram is saying and invoking in the name of islam? >> fred, what i tell people is extremists like boko haram are as muslim as the westboro baptist church is christian. look at the lord's resistance army and joseph kony. it is a christianist organization that essentially recruited child soldiers, all christians know is empa thet cal to any normal understanding of their religion. we as people of faith around the world would like to show that -- i say if somebody claims god is telling them to do something, they probably need a checkup from the neck up, not be taken seriously as religious scholars. we as muslims around the world want to show our horror and condemnation of these acts and

as mother's day approaches, hope the 300 mothers in nigeria are soon reunited with their daughters. >> do you worry, too, the message is difficult to reverse, when you have boko haram who claims responsibility for taking the more than 200 young girls, then invoking the name of islam, that it is difficult to reeducate the world, people who believe that they are being guided by the koran. >> people should know that sex slavery and human trafficking is not allowed in any human religion. if it is a christian organization saying we are trafficking human sex slaves, i think most people would understand that to be distaupe i can and not part of the mainstream religion of over a billion people. i hope islam and muslims are afforded that same graciousness in that we -- this is completely empa thet cal to religion and humanity. as an international lawyer, this

is in complete violation of every norm of human rights out there. we hope the girls are soon reunited with their mothers. >> we certainly do. thank you so much for your insight from chicago. >> thank you, fred. donald sterling might be banned from the nba, but it doesn't mean his family is going away. what the team's coach is saying about the latest comments from sterling's wife next. this is the first power plant in the country to combine solar and natural gas at the same location. during the day, we generate as much electricity as we can using solar. at night and when it's cloudy, we use more natural gas. this ensures we can produce clean electricity whenever our customers need it. ♪

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the saga of embattled clippers owner donald sterling is getting more bizarre. in a new recording released yesterday, a man alleged to be sterling says he was jealous. that's the explanation for the racist remarks. that came just as the nba named a new ceo to the team, former citigroup and time warner chairman richard parsons. alexandra field is live outside nba headquarters. alexandra, what is parsons now saying about his role and the duty that comes with it? >> reporter: he has just been named interim ceo. he is reflecting on the gravity of what transpired. he said quote, this is actually a large an important issue not

just for the clippers or the nba but for the country in some ways. all eyes are on this and how we work our way through it is important. that's parsons. he is speaking out. at the same time it seems donald sterling also has some more to say. clippers players still playing. donald sterling still talking. >> i'm talking to a girl i'm trying to have sex with her. >> reporter: the latest recording released by radar online is believed to be sterling offering some kind of explanation for his racist rant. >> what the hell? i am talking to a girl. the girl is black. i like her. i'm jealous she's with other black guys. i want her. >> reporter: sterling could be forced through a vote by nba owners to sell the team. this week his estranged wife, shelly sterling, is saying she's a partial owner and she wants to keep it. clippers coach, doc rivers. >> i think it would be a very hard situation if you want me -- i'll say that much. i think it will be very

difficult. i guarantee you every person wouldn't be on board with that. >> reporter: players already protested donald sterling turning their shirts inside-out. sports law professor mark edelman says they could turn to social media, too. beyond that, there are consequences. >> everybody is so quick to say what the players should do when they don't have any skin in the game, but for a player, they have to be cognizant of their contract and the fact that if they do not show up to a game where they have an obligation to appear, they run the risk of termination. >> reporter: they've had lockouts, but a team rarely goes against its owner. there is an extreme example. eight players, including the infamous joe jackson on the 1919 white sox team were accused of conspiring with gamblers to lose the world series against an unpopular owner. >> shows what could happen if all levels of respect between owner than player fall apart.

>> reporter: the commissioner of the nba asked other team owners to vote to force sterling to sell his team. that vote hasn't yet happened, fred. >> alexandra field, thanks so much, in new york. coming up, veteran's affairs secretary eric shinseki testifies next week before a senate committee to answer questions about an alleged coverup. one that may have cost dozens of veterans their lives. we are back with that after this.

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welcome back. fredricka whitfield. at this hour, they're searching for one of the people from the hot air balloon that crashed in a balloon festival last night. it hit power lines as it was trying to land. the three people on board could be heard pleading for their lives as the balloon was coming down. witnesses say they saw two people jump or fall from the balloon. rescue crews have yet to find the balloon and the basket. a solemn procession through the streets of manhattan this morning. the unidentified remains of those killed in the 9/11 terror attacks were removed from the medical examiner's office and returned to the world trade center site. the remains will be housed in an

underground repository in the same building as the 9/11 memorial and museum. the search for the missing malaysian plane is focusing in on where the first ping was heard more than a month ago now. reuters reports australia's ocean shield is heading to that spot today. search crews had been focused on another area where other pings were heard, but there's been no sign of the plane. the 2016 summer olympic games may be changing its venue. olympic officials are apparently extremely concerned because host city rio de janeiro is so behind in preparations, so much so that one media report says london has been asked to take over. another conflicting report says the international olympic committee is dismissing those claims as, quote, totally unfeasible. the scandal that veterans died waiting for medical care at

one va hospital is growing wider. an employee at a wyoming clinic of veteran's affairs was placed on administrative leave, and allegations surfaced that scheduling clerks at the va hospital in san antonio cooked the books to cover up long wait times. earlier, the chairman of the senate veteran's affairs committee spoke to cnn's wolf blitzer about embattled va secretary eric shinseki. >> as of this moment, if you're asking me do i think shinseki has done a good job, far from a perfect job, far from a perfect job. has he done a good job, i do. do i think we should ask for his resignation today before we even have the facts about what went on in phoenix, no, i don't. >> for more, peter is the executive director of american legion joining us from the washington bureau. good to see you. >> thank you for having me.

>> so your feeling is shinseki should be fired or resign. >> it is not my feeling, it is the feeling of the american legion, greatest veteran association. the american legion reached a point saying it is not just phoenix. phoenix has to be investigated and we can't wait to see the results of that investigation. when you take into account phoenix, fort collins, san antonio, austin, and just yesterday, the secretary himself removed a va official at a facility in wyoming, where does it end, and how many more veterans have to die before we do something? >> it is the phoenix v that got the ball rolling with a cnn investigation revealing there were two lists and people died waiting to get medical care, and that's what kind of started this. consequently, we heard about other va facilities and allegations i mentioned. you heard from senator bernie sanders that says wait, all the facts aren't in. why not wait until they know the who, what, when, where, all of

that before shinseki or anybody else should be asked to resign. >> when national commander dan dell in injury made the decision along with the leader of the organization, they had seen enough and heard enough from america's veterans who are suffering and waiting for their care and earned benefits they earned through service to this country, we have heard enough is what the national commander said in meetings. it is time to act. and that action needs to be swift and strong. that's why the leadership of this organization made that decision. >> are you saying the american legion had heard of similar complaints, knew about some of the allegations long ago and if that is the case, then why would the american legion make more i guess -- get more attention about their concerns, its concerns, period, because is it not true that just a year ago the american legion was aggressively defending shinseki? >> that is true, but let me back up a little bit. we are hearing things now that phoenix had broken. we set up a special web page so veterans can let us know what's

going on and leadership is hearing that. yes, general shinseki did some wonderful things at the va. but all of the new allegations and questions coming out about access to health care, when you couple that with the huge delays we've seen in the past few years of the va disability claims, and you couple that with construction delays at four hospitals, va hospitals, construction delays that are overrun by years, then cost overruns in the facilities, all those things equate to one thing, fredricka, that's delayed access to health care that's earned by america's veterans. we are taking a strong stand on that. >> how do you comfort them and encourage them. they're relying on medical care, variation of care from u.s. hospitals and clinics and installations. what did you tell them as they come to you with their concerns about whether they're going to be treated with the dignity they're expecting? >> we tell them to trust american legion to work with va towards a solution.

this isn't about specifically blaming anybody, but it is about focusing in the right direction. if we know these things exist, if va knows they exist system wide and stories come out, a plan has to be in place by a leadership team to take care of it. we tell the veterans count on american legion to provide a voice not only for them and 2.3 million veterans of the country members of the american legion but everybody wearing a uniform now so when they return home and sacrificed their lives to serve this country, they can ensure they have a strong va to take care of them. >> peter gaytan, thank you from washington. >> thank you. a deadly fire at a home owned by tennis star james blake. now police say they know how a family of four was killed. i am totally blind. i began losing my sight to an eye disease when i was 10. but i learned to live with my blindness a long time ago.

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police something was horribly wrong. >> do you see flames? >> the house is engulfed in flames, ma'am. >> reporter: this mansion owned by tennis star james blame, authorities found a family of four dead. they believe darren campbell shot his wife kimberly and their two children megan and colin in the head before spreading fireworks through the house and setting it ablaze. police believe he then turned the gun on himself. why? investigators say they may never know. >> colin, my grandson, was pretty good ball player, and his dad was very active in his support. >> i was really good friends with him. he hasn't done anything wrong ever, and the daughter, she's beautiful. the parents were great people. it's just so bad this happened. >> reporter: they had been renting the house from blake the past two years, located in the exclusive gated community, a neighborhood where celebrities,

including new york yankee greats derrick jeter and mariano rivera owned property. in this surveillance video, you can see a man believed to be darren campbell in a phantom fireworks store in florida sunday, buying about $600 worth of fireworks. he walks out of the store with one cart. an employee seems to help with the second. authorities believe he also purchased several gas cans and bought gas from two stores. the alleged murder weapon, a gun, has been recovered. police say it was registered to darren campbell. >> this is certainly disturbing. you have two teenagers that were well respected, well liked by their friends, peers, community. the family seemingly normal. any time this happens, it is a tragedy. >> reporter: investigators are still trying to establish a time line. they also say they're going to go through the family's financial records as they try to figure out why this tragedy

happened. fred? >> so sad, thank you so much, alina machedo. a hot air balloon crashing to the ground. next, the latest on the search for the victims. fred, four years ago this month when this phenomenon started catching fire of extreme endurance challenges. now you have all sorts of races, warrior dash. back then, there was one. it was called the tough mudder. funny enough, one of our producers, ben tinker, decided to partake. we decided to go along for the ride. >> you guys look really, really pumped up. >> yes, here to enjoy all the people, like a challenge. i think it will be a lot of fun. >> we have been talking about doing some sort of adventure race for awhile now. >> i committed to doing this race, i am not sure if it is a good idea. when i signed up, i thought there would be all shapes and sizes of people here. everyone here is in really, really good shape.

i am starting to wonder if i can cut it. you reached the top of the hill, i have my number. sophie says it is too late to go back. you're going to mark me up. >> too late now. >> three, two, one! let's go, come on. started out with those guys you saw at the beginning of the race. they're a little ahead of me. hoping to escape everything they got in the beginning. i can catch them now. >> tough mudder. >> tough mudding! >> got it, all right. >> come on! >> almost at the end. how you doing? >> a little tired. >> how about you? >> it is awesome.

>> there's going to be something that tests everyone. every person is a different fear. nice thing about a tough mudder course, it tests all those fears in one place in one day. >> i don't know, fred. what do you think? you want to do that with me as well? i know you're doing the triathlon, that will be fun. sometimes it is nice to have the producers do some of the heavy lifting as ben did in this case. what you saw there was a lot of camaraderie. that's i think one of the big assets at these type of events, people really supporting each other. grab a friend, get outside, and try and get fit. >> sanjay, i am taking you up on the offer for malibu. i'm in on that for the triathlon, but i am not in on that mudder. forget it. that's for somebody else. but thanks so much for that encouragement. sanjay gupta. appreciate it. we will be right back with much more in the newsroom.

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lines as it was trying to land at the mid-atlanta balloon festival in virginia. the three people onboard could be hurt, pleading for their lives. two bodies located. they are still sempi insearchin third. more on the forecast. does weather have anything to do with it? >> we're really not sure. investiga investigaters are looking into it. it happens about 25 miles north of richland. the see the clouds pushing through. between 7:30 and 8:00, possible, a gust front. a big, strong gust of wind, a lot of times ahead of storms that can affect areas up to 75 miles away from the actual storm. when you go back in time and look at these wind gusts, sustained winds around richmond, 12 miles per hour at 7:30, but positive gusts up to 30 and going forward, those wind gusts died down to around 10:00 around 8:00 and picked up once it got

later. when flying these balloons you want ideal conditions. winds four to six miles per hour. above eight, it's considered dangerous and you want clear conditions. you don't want thunderstorms within 100 miles. they had storms within about eight to ten miles. investigators will look into that. switching gears a little and touching on the possibility of severe weather from springfield, kansas city, wichita, st. louis for later today with a possibility of large hail and gusting winds. slight chance of a tornado. the big weather is tomorrow. cooler air mixing with arm air from t -- warm air in the rockies, possible snow. mixing with warm, warm air and a possibility of severe weather will be there, fred, for tomorrow. moderate risk for places like kansas city. des moines, our eyes on the plains going through tomorrow afternoon that caught my

attention. may snow. colorado. all right. thanks so much, jennifer. appreciate that. it is day three of the nfl draft. coming up, we'll check in to see who is making the cut. [ male announcer ] legalzoom has helped start over 1 million businesses.

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. the third and final day of the nfl draft is under way. but one big question remains -- is will a team draft an openly gay player? here on the draft day drama or lack of drama for michael samms. bring us up to date. what's happening? who's being drafted, who isn't? >> five or six from chosen out the sixth round. the draft, seven rounds. looking at 8:00 p.m. eastern

they'll wrap it up. general managers and coaches we've talked to left couple of week s if michael sams is draftd late rounds. round six, round seven. >> oh, my gosh. nerve-racking. >> this guy has been waiting for this moment his entire life. a huge moment coming out back in february. after the season, chris it attest to this, came to the combine, went to the senior bowl, didn't perform. you have to go through numbers. >> track record has to mean something. voted one of the best players in s.e.c.? >> co-defensive player of the year in s.e.c., which is huge. it's definitely the best conference. >> has to count for something. >> it does, but went to the combine and ranned 4.9. not good. vertical, 25 inches. >> do they ever take into account, nervous? no. >> well, this is a game where you have to perform. you go out on the field, nervous. that's why we didn't win that game. when the spotlight is on, you have to perform.

>> that's just it. he grabbed the public's attention but not the scouts attention. some guys just don't perm well in those measurables and perform better when the lights are on in the game. he had a good senior season but nine of his sacks against pretty poor teams. not great teams. 9 of his 11 sacks. he's all heart and hustle. does that translate into the nfl game? the general managers thinking, we're in the war room. we've got to pick. take michael sam or some other guy? take michael sam what comes with that? this and i discussed earlier. what happens if they bring michael sam to the team, put him on the field and in august he doesn't perform? and they've got to cut him. what then? >> and it's not just, if they have to cut him but if he's close, it's more about if he's close. just absolutely doesn't perform, that's easy. you can say, he just is not good enough to play, but if he's close with another guy and he gets cut -- does he just go away? or does that turn into some type

of big scandal then? somehow you cut him because -- of his lifestyle? >> right. >> that's what people will think. people outside of the stadium saying, you cut him because he's gay. and the team's going to say, no. because he couldn't play football. what if the team says keep him for the public relations standpoint. players in the locker room would know they're keeping him because he can't play football, just because of who he is. >> one side says, keep him, not good enough, you can actually destroy your team, team chemistry. close and you have to cut him -- >> a gray area. >> yeah. >> he's not great but not bad. right in the gray area where he could be on the tipping point of a guy with an nfl career or a short and sweet nfl career. >> at first seemed a great advantage. notorietiy. everybody knows who you are. now it's almost a disadvantage. >> absolutely. >> because everyone knows who you are. >> absolute llyabsolutely. >> spotlight is on. two chances to really show, he

didn't perform. poor combine, poor senior bowl. >> it's a results game. results game. when he comes out, he made people aware. look at me, look at me. when they did take that look at him, combine, senior bowl. the numbers didn't add up. so, that's the question. >> pressure's on. clock is ticking. i'm sweating for him. i am nervous to him. chris, joe, good to see you. i'm fredricka whitfield. thanks for being with us this afternoon. "your money" starts right now. big business of the reprehensible kind. i'm christine romans. this is "your money." how does the terrorist group that has horrified the world, boko haram, make its money? [ speaking in foreign languag ] language ]. >> this problem isn't new in nigeria. 26% of the world's kidnappings has in that country. onhe