but the views, have you ever been to the top? >> no, i have never been there. i need to take my kids, though. it sounds amazing. >> reporter: you do. and until labor day, you can get up until 10:00 p.m. knowing mrs. tapper, i'm sure she would appreciate a twilight tour, jake. >> that's it for "the lead." i turn you over to mr. blitzer next door in "the situation room." mr. blitzer? >> thank you, jake. breaking news. tornado warnings. severe weather is bearing down on detroit right now. millions may soon need to take cover. we're tracking the fast-moving storms. the nba strikes back. the embattled clippers' owner tells cnn he's sorry for his raci racist rant and wants to keep his team. we'll go live to los angeles. we'll hear from the man now in charge of the clippers.

terror shootout. al qaeda tries to abduct two embassy workers in broad daylight. are americans across the middle east at a new risk? we have details on a growing threat. and breaking news, a wildfire burning out of control forcing thousands of people to flee. an entire town is now at risk. can fire crews keep the flames at bay? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> we're following multiple breaking news stories at this hour, including a tornado warning from detroit, michigan, right now in the path of a severe and potentially deadly weather. we're standing by for reaction by donald sterling who is giving an exclusive interview to cnn. and a bold move by al qaeda to kidnap two embassy workers. and thousands of people are

evacuated due to a wildfire burning out of control. our experts and analysis are covering all of these stories. they are getting new information from the latest details for the kind of coverage you won't see anywhere else. let's get the latest on the severe weather threat. meteorologist jennifer gray is tracking a very dangerous storm system for us. jennifer, what do our viewers need to know? >> they need to know it's coming up on rush hour and they need to stay right where they are, especially if they are in detroit trying to get home. we have nasty storms headed your way, even if they are not pro us doing tornadoes, they are still producing hail, up to half an inch in diameter and also winds up to 60 and maybe even 70 mile-per-hour gusts. we have a funnel cloud reported just on the west side of taylor and this storm on the southwest side of detroit. this tornado warning in effect until 5:30. it's headed for you. get into that safe spot that we have told you about.

get into an interior room. frenchtown and monroe, to the south of detroit, you have a very nasty storm headed in your direction. a tornado warning means that these storms are capable of producing a tornado. a radar-indicated tornado has been spotted with these storms and they are very, very dangerous and headed to the southwest side of detroit. >> jennifer gray, thanks very much. jennifer gray, we'll stay in close touch with you. i want to go out to los angeles right now. the new ceo, richard parsons, is speaking out to the donald sterling interview. >> move on to what i think is going to be an interesting time for everybody. as you just heard, my name is dick parsons and i have been asked by the league and have accepted to be the new interim ceo for the clippers. and so let me first -- let me

start by telling you what that role is, what we've been asked to do and what we've not been asked to do and tell you how we're going to go about it. i spent a fair amount of time with adam and the lawyers and senior management of the league trying to sort of sort through where we are in this adventure and how i can be helpful. and what was -- the league felt it needed. essentially it comes down to two things. one, given the suspensions and the indefinite leaves of absences, the team finds itself without executive leadership. and that's not something that we can tolerate. they need to step in and take hold of this thing and be, on an interim b interim basis and make sure that

the enterprise continues to function in an appropriate way and perhaps help it move through this period of transition that we're in. because at the same time, the league has announced that it is commencing a process by which it seeks to terminate the ownership of mr. sterling and those affiliated with mr. sterling and that's a process that has lots of sort of due diligence and other protections, if you will, for league owners and involves the participation of the league owners. so my job is the former. my job is to be the ceo of the enterprise to make sure the enterprise is headed in the right direction and maybe even pick up a little speed. adam and the league's job is to

prosecute the second part of that process i talked about, which is the question of ownership and bringing in new owners. so that may help you in terms of shaping some of your questions as you go further into the press conference. the other thing i'd like to say is, what are you going to do? and the answer to that is, i'm only beginning to get my arms around what i'm going to do but the first step was to come out here and to meet with the management staff of the team. i've talked to doc but i have not yet met with the players. it just seems to me that the players have other things on their mind right now and need to be focused on that and i didn't want to be a distraction. but i want to come out here and meet with the people that are keeping this thing afloat. so we spent the morning with the management and with the staff just letting them know that we

appreciate not only what they are doing and what they have been doing. people frequently overlook the fact because there's this turmoil going on at the top that it leaks down into the rank and file and a lot of these folks have felt beyond disappointed in terms of the way that the franchise has been characterized and their role in it and not only did i want to sort of say to them that we're here to help stabilize but to find out from them, most importantly, what do we need to do that? what balls are in the air, what needs to be moved forward and begin making decisions as to how we're going to run the franchise going forward. so that was very rewarding and it's given me a lot of ideas, some of which i had already. i'm pleased to say not only was i impressed with the team, i'm impressed with the opportunity in front of them.

this was something that i said to the staff earlier today, sort of reminds me of the way that the chinese symbol for crisis, danger and opportunity. i think obviously there's huge danger and pitfalls in front of us but there's tremendous opportunity, i think, for this franchise and the exciting part to me is to help realize some of that. so with that, the only other thing i'd say, because i expect it will be a question so i'd answer for everybody, folks say, why are you doing this? you were purportedly happy in your semiretirement with your grandkids, which i was, but when adam reached out -- i've known adam from my days and time -- we were team owners. we owned the hawk. we also owned tbs and tnt. i've known this good man. but i got to know him better. he is -- he's a good man trying

to do an important job and it struck me that maybe i could be of some help to him and to the league and, frankly, to all of us in terms of bringing some calmness and order to this side of the equation at least as the big fight over ownership goes forward. so there you have it. simple as that. with that, let's roll. >> with the potentiality of players and coaches asking the league to avoid their contracts because of what has been said by the owner, what is the you are gener you are general see to find a new owner and also what about donald sterling asking for forgiveness? >> okay. so i think that the actions that the league has taken already,

the clarity and the swiftness with which they have taken those actions has kind of tamped down this notion that people say, all bets are off and i don't want to be with this league because i think people have seen and i think there's real urgency to get about the business of moving through this transition period because all eyes are on this. we need to move quickly. i have the simple job. my job is to work the management of the team and the team itself to sort of move through and keep a steady hand on it. the commissioner has a tough

job. he knows that there is a thing called process. it's articulated in the constitution of the nba. he's got to be -- he's got to be scrupulous but i think he's bound to move with deliberate speed. i think that's important and i think he knows that it's important and that's what you'll see. >> front row? >> mr. parsons, i'm from abc 7 eyewitness news. shelly sterling says she wants to fight to keep her 50%. she will take it to koucourt, i needed. if this becomes a long legal battle, are you worried about what that will do to the players or the fans? have you had a conversation with shelly or do you plan to? >> to answer the latter first and then you asked me one other question, jim, which i didn't answer and i'll get back to it. i have not had any conversations

with shelly nor don. i've never spoken to either. i would anticipate, as we go forward, unless something else changes, that in the fullness of time, we'll have conversations and get to know shelly. not so with donald because he's sort of been banned and the only thing we need to talk about is the team and you can't do that. if this -- i think a prolonged legal battle is in no one's interest. no one's. certainly not the league's interest. it's going to keep the media circus going, which may be good for the media but not good for the team or the franchise and i don't think good for the perception, fwrarankly, not to overexaggerate but the perception of the country.

so i would hope that we can avoid that but that's not my job. that's going to be the commissioner and the league working on one and mr. sterling working on the other. there's not shall i can do there except try and keep the team from losing value. and if it goes on, if it's prolonged, i think that's -- as i say, it's not a good thing but part of my job will be to tell the folks here, stay focused on the business. let's stay focused on the business. i believe the outcome is inevitable and certainly we have to manage the business if it's inevitable and i think that ultimately we'll get to the end of the transition and there will be a change in ownership and someone once asked me what the legacy of a good ceo is and i will give you my sort of adapted

version of a ceo. i want this place in good shape and good hands. and the good shape is as important as the good hands. that will be the focus going forward. you asked about donald sterling. would you just repeat the specific question because i -- >> yes, sir. i wanted to get your reaction to donald sterling apologizing and saying that he asked to be forgiven. >> you know, the donald sterling questions are hard for me to answer because i don't know this man and i haven't heard -- i guess that was today, some sort of -- i would observe, as most americans i think would observe, that he's a little late for sure but beyond that, you know, i'm here to help turn one of the burners off under the pot and i think i'll keep my personal

views and just stay focused on what are we going to do to keep this team as it is right now. >> so there you have it. richard parsons, the new ceo of the clippers. he's making it clear that he's got a mission to change charge of the clippers and to make sure that the l.a. clippers as a business survives. we're going to have full analysis of what we just heard from dick parsons. we've got a lot more coverage coming up. cnn's exclusive interview with donald sterling. the outrageous new remark that he made about magic johnson. we're going to get a lot more. jeffrey toobin, rachel nichols, don lemon, they are all standing by. when it comes to good nutrition...i'm no expert.

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i would observe, as most americans i think would observe, that he's a little late for sure. >> dick parsons. that was the new l.a. clippers' ceo saying that donald sterling's apology was a little too late. let's get some analysis from what we just heard. jeffrey toobin is here along with rachel nichols. she's host of "unguarded." i think dick parsons made a pretty compelling statement. >> reporter: absolutely. and you can see here behind me, i'm at the arena here in

brooklyn. they are getting ready for the next heat game. if you talk to players, they say the same thing. they want to hear what donald sterling is saying but nothing they heard made them feel any better about the ousted clippers' player. they want him separated completely so the feeling to sell the team is bigger than ever. the players i talked to said, wait a minute, he insulted magic johnson again? he did that again? they can't believe that. as far as they are concerned, that is the final straw. >> that is amazing. for those of us who know donald sterling, he has done so much for the minority communities all over the country and for sterling to diminish him once again, that was outrageous. >> well, know when to stop, right? you have to know when to cut your losses and know when to show humility and when to be

contrite. listen, i think it's great that cnn got the interview. i think it's great that anderson sat down with him but i'm, quite frankly, shocked that the more he opens his mouth, the more he puts his foot into his mouth. i don't think he helped himself with this interview. i think most people see it as a pr stunt to try to save his reputation and to try to win over public support and opinion and it's just not going to happen. these interviews are not helping him. they are hurting him. >> let me play that little clip. here's donald sterling speaking exclusively to our own anderson cooper. and speaking about magic johnson. >> as he done everything he can do to help minorities? i don't think so. i just don't think is he a good example for the children of los angeles. >> all right. jeffrey, i don't know what he's talking about. he's a real gentleman and a real humanitarian. >> the full quote is even worse because he talks about the fact

that he has aids and that's not a -- >> oh, my god. >> it's just appalling. what do you expect with this guy? what he proved in this conversation with anderson that the off the cuff comments was not an abberation. i don't think anything he said could allow him to keep the team but he didn't say it. >> the only thing he could have said that -- i don't know that it would allow him to keep the team -- was weeks ago when this came out, that, i am really sto sorry and what you said, wolf, i'm going to work the rest of my life to correct it and but i don't think that there's anything that he can say. again, i'm actually surprised that he is still talking. he keeps screwing it up even more the more he talks. >> rachel, i think you'll agree

with me that adam silver was brilliant in his initial reaction banning donald sterling for life from the nba but another brilliant move getting dick parsons in to become the ceo of the clippers, that will totally reassure the fans, the team, and everyone else. >> reporter: absolutely. this is a guy who has a ton of experience running business. he's reliable, too. he's got a little bit of experience. he wants to be in a partnership with doc rivers who is going to work the basketball side while he runs the business side. he seems to be a good fit and understands the sensitivity at hand. i know some of the clippers' players have expressed that they are happy about it and they are also keeping an eye, by the way, on the overall situation. it's been two weeks since they

removed them as an owner. dick parsons is getting in there but players want to see the movement. >> what do you think he said about shelly sterling not having any communication with donald sterling but left open a conversation with shelly sterling. >> he did. frankly, we all have a bias where dick parsons is concerned but i thought he was just pitch perfect in the press conference. he said, look, my job is to calm things down, get the franchise moving in the right direction and we'll see about the larger questions about the franchise. who owns it? that's going to be under the control of adam silver and the nba. parsons is going to run the team, keep the wheels on and i think that's fully appropriate. later on, we'll see what else he does. >> jeffrey, i was sitting here watching, he was just so plain spoken and made so much sense and i'm not being sexist but it's like, daddy's home.

someone is in control of the situation and the team. i have to tell you, i was in the barber shop and people were talking about dick parsons being named interim ceo. and they say he didn't run a team? you forget, he ran tnt and tbs and the hawks and knows a little bit about it but i don't think the larger society knows it. >> those days at turner broadcasting, not only the atlanta hawks but the braves and a few other teams as well. he certainly knows a lot about sports and he'll do a brilliant jobs. guys, stand by. we'll have a lot more coming up later. by the way, you can see anderson's complete and exclusive interview with donald sterling. that comes up at 8:00 p.m. eastern only here on cnn. coming up, cnn is about to take you inside two of the most dangerous places in the world where the threat from violent extremists is growing at

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the sight of some of the deadliest fighting in syria. the city of homs is beginning to pick up pieces after a fragile truce as fighting tears the rest of the country apart. cnn's frederik pleitgen was one of the first reporters on the ground. he has an exclusive look inside the city of the ruins. >> reporter: in the city of ruins in the town of homs, mass migration as people come back in or to get their belongings out. very little seems salvageable but that doesn't stop many returning residents from trying. this man and his workers are clearing out what is left of this shoe store as they fleed the area more than two years ago. of course it was awful, he says. when the fighting started, i had to get out of here. i haven't been back in 2 1/2

years. only a few days after rebel fighters left the old town of homs, the clean-up effort is already under way. even as the syrian army says it is clearing streets and buildings of improvised bombs. this is the main square in homs and authorities are moving quickly. behind me you can see that they are cleaning up. as we look around, we can see that all of the buildings around this main square and this entire neighborhood are absolutely destroyed. they are flat and show the tragedy of what happened here in the past few years. >> reporter: homs was one of the first towns of large demonstrations against bashar al assad in 2011. they were crushed by syrian supporters and soon the military protected the area and homs became the uprising against the

assad regime. and then heavy shelling and a siege that cut off residents from food and water. finally, both sides agree to a truce and the rebels withdrew from homs last week, a deal that they say they endorse. i think it was the best thing to do, he says. it gives the people a chance to come back and start rebuilding their lives. with so many killed and wounded and so much of the historic town destroyed, there are no winners in homs. but many people now returning back here are still optimistic that maybe there is a chance for a new beginning. fred pleitgen, homs, syria. >> and joining us is the foreign minister. thank you for coming in. you've seen the heartbreaking pictures coming in. a parliament member just said

assad has won in syria. the regime will stay, the americans have lost. it certainly looks like assad at least for now has won. >> well, i don't think so. in fact, everything started in homs and it's because of the reaction of assad, a foolish reaction, very violent, that everything has started and then today you you have 150,000 people who are dead. >> but he's still in power. >> yes, unfortunately, he's still in power. through terror, through the help of the iranians and russian and hezbollah and what do we have to do? a, to support moderate position because we don't accept the dictator with the future and reaction is not inaction. >> and last week mike rogers was

very knowledgeable and was sitting exactly where you are. >> yep. >> he said that he is most worried about syria right now because there are thousands of what he called terrorists involved in a jihadist disneyland there. westerners have foreign passports and they are training now to come to france, the united states, and elsewhere. >> that's very true. that's very true. and that's a tragedy. you have on the one hand bashar who is a dictator and then on the other the terrorist groups and we can't support either. we have to support the moderate position. on the other hand, we have to put this mass crimes and crimes against humanity through the international criminal court and ask the security council to put

it into the international criminal court. >> but the russians will veto those resolutions. >> you will see that -- it can veto but it means that they have no consideration for any human life and we cannot accept this. >> bottom line in syria, bashar al assad at least for now is there to stay? >> yes. and in a few days, this tragic mockery of the election -- because it's supposed to be an election. how can you organize an election in those circumstances. >> let's talk about ukraine right now. that's a huge mess, not on the scale of syria but potentially could be a real problem. there's been criticism of france because it's going ahead with military sales to russia, even at a time of western sanctions against russia. including two warships. >> well, first, france has done what it has to do. now, our hope in ukraine is to organize presidential election

on the 25 of may because when you have such sort a crisis, you have to organize an election. then you know the reaction of the russians and all of us -- >> we're showing you pictures of these warships. this is a billion dollar deal. >> yes. these warships, the order dates from 2011 and we have a rule when there is a contract, it has to be implemented. >> so finally putin is going to get control of these warships? >> no. the decision would be taken in next october. but if we come to a new sanctions, it has to apply to the finance and as well to energy. >> are you on the same page as the obama administration when it comes to future tightening of sanctions against russia because of ukraine? >> i think so, provided that

everybody does those same sacrifices. it's not a sanctions against europe. it's a sanctions against europe. you must not forget it. >> but there must be a price that europeans are going to be paying. >> yes. well, two figures. out of 28 members of europe, you have six member states who are depending by 100% on russian gas and seven other countries depending more than 50%. that means that you have 13 countries depending on russian -- each one of the problems and everybody has to make sacrifices. >> foreign minister, we've got a lot more to talk about. our time is limited. welcome to the united states. good to have you here in "the situation room" and i'm happy that u.s./french relations are strong right now. >> they are very excellent. slept. >> thank you very much, the foreign minister of france. up next, a day at the barber shop becomes a deadly shootout. new details about a gun battle between u.s. embassy staff and

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yemen is as high as it has ever been. with pitched battles between al qaeda and security forces intensifying throughout yemen, cnn has learned exclusively the threat to the u.s. embassy has become so critical that the embassy will be shut down for at least two more weeks. an extraordinarily long amount of time and quite rare showing how dangerous the situation in the country's capital has become. >> we continue to evaluate on a daily basis. >> reporter: the embassy closing comes after the revelation that two u.s. embassy employees got into a shootout with al qaeda militants attempting to kidnap them two weeks ago. the americans were quickly moved out of the country. but last week, after street fighting between al qaeda and the military worsened and more foreigners were targeted, a decision was made to shudder the embassy. >> we know from our sources that

in late 2011 they actually conducted video surveillance of the u.s. embassy compound so they have this footage on the shelf and it's being a real push from the group to try to attack it again. >> reporter: the event uptick in attacks by the aqap shows how strong the organization remains. even though yemen's military, with the assistance of the u.s., is battling the militants in several provinces. over the weekend, aqap attacked a security checkpoint close to the presidential palace. elsewhere, the group ambushed and killed more than a dozen yemeni soldiers. now as the war against al qaeda gets murkier, one thing remains clear. the u.s. has become an even bigger target. wolf, it's important to note that although the u.s. embassy is close to the public, u.s. embassy personnel have not been evacuated from yemen.

there's no plan to do so at this point. there's no indication at this point when it will reopen and that really tells just how worried us personnel are there right now. >> it certainly underscores the threats. mohammed, thanks. i want to bring in two experts into this conversation. joining us now, "the daily beast" senior national correspondent eli lake and peter bergen. chairman rogers said the u.s.' ability to track al qaeda in the arabian peninsula has been reduced in the last year or so because of the leaks. how much of a threat does this pose to the u.s. right now? >> wolf, i think the most important point is the crowned jewel, i've been told by two senior officials, his name is al siri, the bomb maker is dead.

so getting highly explosive materials, that part of the plan is still viable. >> terrorist threats are coming from yemen but also now nigeria, these nearly 300 schoolgirls, we see video purportedly showing them. eli, boko haram, the terrorist organization's bin laden connection, what is that? >> well, what is interesting there is there's a report from the international crisis group and i've spoke to officials about this as well that suggest as early as 2002, seed money was distributed in nigeria, which was given also to boko haram. and then there are some documents that pertain to communications between boko haram and osama bin laden that were captured in the raid in 2011. those have not yet been made

public there. are different teinterpretationsf what they immediate but there was certainly some strategic direction given from bin laden to nigeria. >> the boko haram leader says he's willing to exchange. the prisoners being held in exchange for the girls. is that really realistic? >> well, the u.s. government would not entertain this kind of negotiation. we'll see if the nigerians are. but it would be, i think, impossible for the united states government to get involved in negotiation of this type. and that's a very sensible -- there's a very sensible reason for that because you're encouraging this behavior if you start releasing people. >> guys, thanks very much. just ahead, thousands of people have been forced from their homes as wildfire burns out of control. and new doubts that the search for flight 370 has been looking in the wrong area for

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happenings now, the underwater search for flight 370 is about to resume. the ocean shield is almost in position. there's brand new reason to be deeply worried the data is wrong. and that crews aren't even

looking in the right place. plus, donald sterling tells cnn he's the victim of a setup who was tricked into making racist remarks. stand by for more of anderson cooper's interview with the interview. his health and state of mind. and this -- chaos and violence as a new vote threatens to tear ukraine farther apart. will russia annex another part of the country and throw more fuel on this explosive conflict? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." cnn has learned that a new reevaluation of flight 370 data is under way. this comes hours before the hunt for the plane resumes, serious new doubts are being raised right now about the possible