ever solved. >> at the end of the day, it was the forensic evidence that was most powerful. >> a young high school student just taken just a short time in life here. it's tragic. if we can find a truth and justice in that, that's why we're here. as southern southern california smolders from devastating wildfires, marines are working to combat the flames and smoke. cnn rode arog for a view from the air. subtle racism is more dangerous than outright bigotry, according to attorney general eric holder, in his speech he made at morgan state, coupled with the first lady's remarks in topeka. and we are one race away from breaking a 36-year-old triple crown drought. can california chrome pick up

where firmed left off? your "new day" starts now. it doesn't matter if you're still in your pjs, sit back and relax. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. i'd be in mine. we start with the destructive wildfires in southern california. firefighters there, they now seem to have the upper hand thanks to the weather, cooler temperatures, lighter winds helped them gain containment of three more fires. >> four are still burning though, the largest one at 42% containment. now it scorched 15,000 acres and in some areas a lot of residents have been given the all clear to return to their homes, try to assess the damage and see what's left there, but three of the fires converged on camp pendleton. officials say that nearly 20% of the marine base has burned. there had been no casualties, though, which is the most

important thing and no buildings damaged. >> pendleton has an advantage. they have an experienced fire fighting force on the base already and they're ready for action. >> our indra peterson looks at how they're getting the job done. >> reporter: this is the airstrip the marines use to battle these blazes, in all, they dropped a half a million gallons of water and 150 round trip answer we just went along for one of them. wall of flames closing in on a military base, under siege. >> i watch as this marched from about a half a mile away almost until 200 meters of us. i could feel the heat on my face as this thing approached. >> reporter: enter the 3rd marine aircraft wing, we're headed for a lake on the base with a 300 gallon bucket in tow. our chopper is guided by a crew chief manning a door in the chopper floor known as the hellhole. from our window you can see the

del cot balance as others lower toward the lake. once the bucket's full we head for the fire line. again using the hellhole and a lot of precision, the crew chief spots the right moment to make the drop. on his signal the water is released. in all, these choppers made over 9 hub drops. at the fire's peak, captain bradley gibson pulled it off with zero visibility. >> you see the aircraft go into smoke and he disappears. you don't know if he goes straight ahead, out to the left or if he got his bucket dropped off. best you can do is hope. >> reporter: the smoke so intense it cut off the water supply forcing the crews to move elsewhere. so you just went along on one ride but in all these marines have spent 250 hours in the air fighting these blazes. it helped them get the upper hand on this fire and the cooler weather here is only expected to help even further.

>> indra petersons, thank you so much. earlier we talked about how the weather was cooperating at least yesterday for these firefighters. >> today, will it continue? let's bring in alexandra steele. what is it looking like today in. >> it's cooperating in the short term but it's really the longer term that's the problem and here's why. this is the pattern. it's called what you can see a blocking pattern. an area of high pressure in control and blocking, meaning this is the jet stream, so as any moisture comes in from the pacific this jet acts like a wall, and it pushes all the moisture to the north, thus leaving california for the third winter in a row incredibly dry. california's wet season is in the fall and the winter, so they've been incredibly dry last fall, the winter, the spring as well. so we haven't really seen a major change and the problem is, there's really no rain relief until we get into october potentially, any drought-breaking relief. so there's the western pattern.

we have seen a change, of course, the short term, but the big picture will not change. this year 2013 has been the driest year on record. so we're going to have a really incredible season as we head toward the next six months because we're working on this very dry pattern. so relief is on the way. again, the short term. we've seen the winds change direction. now we're seeing a flow off the ocean, bringing in some moisture, bringing in humidity. also temperatures are 20 degrees cooler than where they were but we still have of course this critical fire danger because in essence, the ground has been set. the stage has been set, and everything is so dry. but we again will see the pattern change and things will improve but the big picture for the country, warm conditions moving through the south, through the east, so we are going to see temperatures certainly warm up along the eastern seaboard this coming week but for the west coast really, first time in a century the entire state in a severe drought or worse. >> all right.

>> alexandra steele, thank you. for the first time we know of, someone has picked up mers, middle east respiratory syndrome, inside the united states. >> the cdc says an illinois man caught the virus from another man who had just come back from saudi arabia. the good news, the new patient is already well. >> elizabeth cohen, good morning. >> victor, christi, this is the third person in the united states who has been found to have mers, or the middle east remember pirtory syndrome. this third person it's a little bit different. the first two people were infected, got infected in saudi arabia, then they got on a plane and came here. this third one became infected in the united states, so this is now the first case of someone becoming infected on u.s. soil. and here's what happened. this third case, he had a meeting with one of the first two cases, a gentleman in

indiana. so this new case, a man from illinois, and the man from indiana, had a meeting late in april for 40 minutes, they sat and they talked, they were within six feet of each other, they shook hands and that was their own physical contact that we know about. then the next day, they had another meeting which was even shorter so two meetings, one 40 minutes, one shorter, the only contact was a physical handshake, that is apparently enough to share from one person to another. this is a little bit different from many people's minds. doctors said in order to get it you had to have close contact, someone who lived in your household or the contact a doctor and a patient would have repeatedly over time. this is a little bit different and i think it will definitely raise concern for some people, can i get mers just from having a business meeting with someone. having said that, it is important to note mers is not a

virus that is super easy to transmit person to person. it's not like the common cold, flu or measles. you can't get mers by just passing someone in a hallway that we know, but this is a new virus, only been in this country for two years, in the country for two years. doctors are learning more how it's spread and contracted and experts i've been talking to said they expect to see more mers cases in this country in the future. victor, christi? >> all right, elizabeth cohen, thank you so much. 60 years after the historic brown versus board of education ruling, attorney general eric holder says segregation is recurring now. today. >> holder was speaking to graduates at morten state university in baltimore yesterday. he also told them that subtle racism is more damaging than hateful outbursts from people like l.a. clipper's coach donald sterling. this is a quote "proposals that

feed uncertainty question the desire of a people to work and relegate particular americans to economic despair are more ma g malignant than intolerate public statements." >> he said subtle racism endures long after the headlines fade. first lady michelle obama made these similar comments on friday at a high school in topeka, kansas, she, too, marked the 60th anniversary of brown. she told the students despite the ruling, many schools have pulled back efforts to integrate. >> here's the question this morning. has school integration fallen apart? we'll ask our experts later this hour. hln contributor jayson johnson and shanika williams will join us in studio. neighboring countries unite with nigeria to help bring more

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13 after the hour now. west african leaders have agreed to now work together against this boca haram threat. they met in pairs to talk about ways to bring more than the 200 nigerian girls kidnapped by the militant group back home. >> the u.s. is using drones and manned surveilance aircraft to search for the girls and the foreign affairs committee will be meeting wednesday to discuss the issue. cnn's vladimir gutierre joins us. what was discussed at the summit

specifically? >> hi, christi and victor. what we know is for the if, time in a long time, west african countries have a concrete plan to try to combat this rising terror threat. president front swa hollande expects the coordination of intelligence activities among the countries and surveillance of the border. one of the problems with boko haram is that they are able to move freely between nigeria, cameroon, chad and niger. that's something on the table. the french president stressed there was a military presence required around elections which tended to be violent in some of the countries and intervening when there is some kind of credible threat or danger. he stressed the french would not be putting any combat boots on the ground. that's also what we heard from the united states and united king come but more reson sans and surveillance to rescue the

girls. one area interesting, goodluck john than said 20,000 troops are on the active search. >> you said the french president will not intervene military with nigeria, however, we've heard reports that the nigerian military is afraid to engage boko haram so there's a discrepancy there. >> yes, victor. in fact the governor of borno state where most of these activities have occurred in the past has said the nigerian military is outmanned and outgunned fighting boko haram. boko haram fighter also arrive, 200, 300 fighters that storm avilleage, come with rocket propelled grenades, armored personnel vehicles, many they've stolen from the nigerian military. the military on the ground, not more than a half a dozen or a dozen soldiers with an ak-47 and

one magazine clip. not enough to meet the challenge and fight these guys. they are bold and courageous for standing their ground when boko haram does arrive but not well trained, not capable to meet this terror threat especially when they're using guerrilla tactics and their own weapons to fight them. after the break you'll want to see this, it is a dream come true for a former football player who was par litzed in a game two years ago. this weekend devin walker got the surprise of a lifetime. the new orleans saints signed him to the team. >> woo hoo! plus that elevator scene is viral wait until you see "snl"'s sane on the jay-zsolange snafu. passion...

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miami heat just like they did last year at this time with a trip to the nba finals on the line, the best of seven series starts in indianapolis at the pacers earned home court advantage for the matchup, the best regular season record in the eastern conference this season. game one tips off at 3:30 eastern. and california chrome took another step for the triple crown, on saturday, racing ahead for the impressive victory at the preakness stakes. the 3-year-old colt matched his sixth consecutive win and becomes the 13th horse to win the first two legs of the triple crown since 1978. now california chrome is awaiting the final and longest leg of the triple crown at belmont park in three weeks. trending on bleacher report, a feel good story is feeling better. devin walker, who was paralyzed back in 2012 during a game against tulsa has been signed which the new orleans saints. he was on his way to lunch with his family, they dropped him off

at saints rookie mini camp where the team surprised him with a contract. >> obviously he's been an inspiration to our region, our community, new orleans, the tulane family and it's carried over to us at the saints. >> just to be a part of the team and just to be allowed around the players is just more than i could have hoped for. >> prior to signing that contract with the saints, he actually participated in graduation at tulane, where he earned his degree in cell and molecular biology. pretty impressive weekend. >> all in 24 hours! >> one day. >> that drive where you think you're going to mcdonald's and then you end up in training camp. >> went to go get some lobster or oysters with his family and pulled into saints' rookie camp instead. >> kristen, thanks. >> thank you.

so we may never know, maybe we'll never know what was behind that infamous elevator brawl between beyonce's younger sister solange and jay-z. >> they're mum but you know who is not? folks at "saturday night live." they think they have an idea what went on that night. take a look. >> now that i have you alone, i've been waiting to do this a long time. as god is my witness, i would never do anything to hurt you. >> okay. you know what? and to prove it we got an exclusion video, this time with the audio included. >> it tells a completely different story, look. man, what a great party. >> i know, yep. >> oh my god, there's a spider on you. >> what? get it! >> it keeps moving. >> kick it! oh, great job.

i love you solange. >> i love you too. >> hey, thanks again for help with that spider. >> you know what? no problem. >> let's go back to the party. >> yes, that would be fun. oh my god the spider's back. >> i got arachnaphobia. i love you. >> i love you, too. >> that's so creative. >> man, clearly that's not what happened but thank you "snl" for filling it in. >> it's a good take. so this is something that i guess there is let's call it a drumbeat, because this is the second beat, attorney general eric holder saying that subtle racism is worse than outright bigotry 60 years after the landmark brown versus board of education ruling. we heard from the first lady yesterday. political leaders are speaking out about racial inequalities. is it part of a political agenda by the white house, is this going to turn into some legislation? >> we will see. also we're going to talk about that and we're going to show you how crews train to rescue trapped miners during disasters. you do not want to miss this

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with the retirement of hhs secretary kathleen sebelius. joe abramson's shortcomings included "arbitrary decision-making, inadequate communication and the public mistreatment of colleagues." cnn confirmed abramson will deliver the commencement speech tomorrow at wake forest as was scheduled. >> although will not speak at brandeis today. new president of the naacp says he's deeply humbled and honor to lead the nation's oldest, largest civil rights organization. he's a lawyer, civil rights activist and minister. he's tackled issues from job access to foreclosures. as you know this weekend marks the 0 anniversary of the historic brown versus board of

education ruling that groundbreaking decision desegregated schools and really forever changed the makeup of american classrooms but a lot of people including attorney general eric holder say that racism is still very much alive and well. >> he talked about it yesterday. he was the commencement speaker at morgan state university, an historically black college university in baltimore. referencing recent comments by l.a. clippers coach donald sterling, holder said this, these outbursts of bigotry while deplorable are not the true markers of the struggle that still needs to be waged or work that needs to be done. the greatest threats do not announce themselves in screaming headlines. they are more subtle and cut deeper. proposals that feed uncertainty question the desire for people to work and relegate particular americans to economic despair are more malignant than intolerant public statements no matter how many eyebrows the

outbursts might race. >> we wring in jason johnson and sheneka williams, associate professor at educational administration and policy at the university of georgia. we're grateful to have both of you here. jason, i want to start with you first because we've seen the first lady talk about this. now we've heard it from eric holder and you can't help but wonder what these similar statements, are they making a specific political move here, l you know about subtle racism? is this the new legacy in. >> i think this is the new old legacy. they're talking about the fact there's only so many things you can legislate. you can't legislate people to be nice to each other. if it's overt administration, bundy orstering, there's something you can do. michelle obama talked about in her commencement speech, being are nice to other people, stopping your uchkle from making that racist joke at thanksgiving that's the modern day subtle

racism. >> i think a lot of people were surprised, sheneka, that the segregation that was supposed to be wiped away 60 years ago and schools continues, and this is what you study. has it gotten worse? are we slipping back into a pre-brown versus board era? >> absolutely. in a lot of ways we are slipping back to a pre-brown versus board era. i argue a lot of that is due to racism and what is happening in neighborhoods. we have to understand that residential segregation begets school segregation, and until there's something that can be done with housing, in conjunction with education, i think we'll continue to have this conversation. >> well, i mean, i want to read something here, contributor and democratic strategy donna brazile said the integration is falling apart all together. i want to read something to you that she wrote on cnn.com.

60 years later separate and unequal is still alive. praftizing our school system results in increased segregation, not improved opportunities, whether in new orleans or philadelphia or detroit or new york, 0 years later, separate and unequal is in some cases entire districts. you just talked about residential segregation, get that. is what she's saying inherently true here as well? >> in some ways. i just think there is a policy disconnect, right? but also the ownership has to be on individuals to continue to want this. i am not certain that the public, a, is aware of what is happening in our schools, and b, if they are, that where is the grassroots, if you will? where are the individuals that will step up for this? >> where is the change? because this is my question and i've got three girls in school, and we are, and we're in public school, in a particular

district, and we can't change that district. so what do we do to better integrate? >> i think the change happens with districts looking at how they design and implement their student assignment policies. actually, district leadership has more control in this area than they think they do. i think there could be a way to get districts such that students of color, low income, are merged in schools with students that are of higher income, not students of color, and there could be a balance both in terms of race and socioeconomic status that could push us down the road a little bit further than where we are. >> we talked about the grassroot evident that is to happen. jason, my question from the top, are we now excited again because we have a person who is in the president's cabinet who is a person of color speaking at a university majority of color. the president spoke at hampton university in 2010, the first

lady at spellman in 2010. at morehouse in 2013, he's spoken at other schools. if there is no policy connected to it, is it all just a bunch of words? >> it is beautiful window dressing but accomplishes little or nothing. barack obama spoke more than a year and a half ago and at the same time gutting plus-one loans which are essential for minority students to go to college. he's had the my brother's keeper problem but there's a problem, the claim to get grant money is 35 of 40 states. barack obama and michelle obama and eric holder are very good at talking integration and very good at talking racial progress but the actual policies he's put forth have been very neutral and in many ways gutted by his own ineptitude, not just the gop. >> i wonder if this is equivalent to having a republican running for the nomination speak at liberty university. is this politics, is it legacy

time? is it i was at the right place at the right time saying the same thing? >> i think the president cares. i don't think he has the right policy from time to time. not just from the plus one loans but if you look at residential segregation and what's happening in our public schools, some of it is a funding issue, some a simple matter of reminding people the way we create our districts that, we sort of exclude some neighborhoods here, giving local school boards that much power, that's where a lot of this new segregation is coming from, class based, race based and sometimes language based. >> i'm glad we've had this conversation but at the center of it, i hope it becomes more than a conversation. >> that's the point. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> for being here. all righty, let's talk about some rescue operations here, too, in turkey for the mine fire victims. apparently they've come to an end, but the job of mine rescue crews is so difficult. we'll show you how they're trained to deal with what's happening. i make a lot of purchases for my business.

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so record flooding across the balkans has killed at least 20 people we've learned and forced more than 16,000 to evacuate and more rain is expected today. look at these pictures we're getting in. this just adds to what meteorologists are calling the worst flooding to hit that area in more than 120 years. more than 10,000 troops are involved in active rescue operations now. >> you have likely never seen a picture like this one. north korean officer here is publicly apologizing for what

officials call an unimaginable accident at an apartment building in the capital city of pyongyang. state-run media says the building collapsed under construction but apparently people were already living there and some were killed. >> as the search for victims at the coal mine fire in turkey, authorities say the final death toll is at 301 right now and all of the victim's bodies have been recovered. in the meantime, riot police are patrolling the streets and authorities banned protests after police clashed with demonstrators who were furious over the government's handling of the disaster. >> the mine disaster is raising questions about mine safety around the world of course and the challenges of rescue operations. >> cnn's ana cabrera finds out how rescue cruise train for the disaster. >> reporter: battling darkness and smoke. >> get out there, get out there. >> reporter: tough to see, tough to breathe.

rescues race into risky conditions, quickly moving toward trapped miners. >> there's danger in what we do, by all means, but we train for this. >> reporter: this is mine rescue training, inside the edgar experimental mine in idaho springs, colorado. in the case of a fire, how complicated is a rescue like that? >> very complicated. >> reporter: bob ferriter has studied mine safety for more than a decade. fire, gas pockets, water, weak walls can lie just beyond each patch of light. the team went ahead and put these poles up here because as they test the roof they realized it wasn't stable. this ensures they stay safe as they move into the line. crews work methodically, making sure not to leave any tunnel or cave unexplored. even in a maze of tight spaces, they bring along crucial but cumbersome equipment, a stretcher, blankets, and a

special breathing apparatus. >> it provides us with oxygen for about four hours. >> reporter: is it sort of like scuba diving? >> very similar. >> reporter: lack of oxygen is perhaps the biggest danger, that's why crews constantly measure air flow and air quality. >> that is showing me concentration of methane, concentration of o2. >> we got a man down! >> reporter: for emergency responder it's aa test of braun and bravery, a race against time. each passing hour makes finding survivors less likely. the best and perhaps last chance? miners make their way into a mine refuge chamber like, this a small compartment that can pack up to ten people, is sealed off, and can provide fresh air for up to 100 hours. safety requirements in the united states mandate mines come equipped with these chambers. >> this is not exactly some place you'd want to take a vacation but it will save your life. >> reporter: there are reports that the turkish mine had some sort of safety chamber but

tragically 14 miners were found dead inside. for them, there was simply no escape. ana cabrera, cnn, idaho springs, colorado. >> thank you so much, ana. the ambitious 9/11 memorial and museum finally opened the doors this week to the public, coming up we'll have details on that. plus another major first for pope francis. new car!

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abramson confirms she will give the commencement speech to wake forest graduates. she hasn't spoken publicly about her departure. it's not clear if she'll address it during the speech but we'll have more on the story later with brian stelter. moving ahead to wednesday the 9/11 museum opens to the rest of us to the public here. built in the bed rock of tragedy the museum is dedicated to the nearly 3,000 people who perished in the september 11th terrorist attacks and 1993 bombings. exhibit halls are filled with oral histories and photos as well as some very personal items from those victims. also on wednesday in washington, there is going to be a house foreign affairs committee hearing on boko haram and the threat to school girls in nigeria and beyond. saturday pope francis is leaving for a trip to the holy land saying his three days in jerusalem, bethlehem and amman

are aiming to boost relations with oth drthodox christians an calling for a peace between the palestinians and the christians. on sunday, the survival of ukraine may be at stake here with a bloody insurgency raging in the east, a presidential vote could help throw the country out of crisis or plunge it into a full-fledged civil war. cnn is going to be there live and covering the story like only we can on sunday. victor? >> you know what else is coming up this week, a big deal, it could be the biggest deal apple has ever pulled off. alison kosik has that look ahead. >> this week in business news, we're keeping a close eye this week on the apple and beatz deal. there were reports earlier this month apple was in talks to buy the high-end headwear company for $3 billion. if it goes through it would be apple's biggest acquisition ever and a xart tour for a company

that's known for creating its own products, not buying them from others. it's also a big week for housing. we get reports on new and existing home sales. investors will be looking closely to see if the spring selling season is getting off to a good start. housing had been leading the economic recovery but lately other reports have shown a bit of a slowdown. >> finally it's that time of year, business leaders from all across the country descend on college campuses to share words of wisdom with graduates. federal reserve chief janet yell listen deliver the commencement speech to new york university graduates. even though yellen won't be giving any insights on monetary policy the business world will be watching to see what advice or inspiration she has to share. i'm alison kosik in new york. >> alison, thank you so much. so barbara walters is not just a television personality, people. she is a broadcast news pioneer and stepped down this past week as co-host of "the view."

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nischelle turner walks us through what happened. good morning, nischelle. >> good morning, christi and victor. the end of "the view" on friday really marked the end of a legendary and when i say legendary, i mean legendary broadcast career. barbara walters got this high profile sendoff, hillary clinton, michael douglas and oprah winfrey on set and as a crowd of successful women in the industry, including connie chung, katie couric, diane yaw we are, robin roberts, they were all there to wish her well. take a look. >> wow! i just want to say this is my legacy. these are my legacy, and i thank you all. >> after a career that has spanned six decades, six decades, barbara says yeah, she knew it was time. she says she wanted to walk away while she was still doing good work and good work is probably

an understatement. she was still landing the huge interviews. last week she sat down with shelly sterling and while she's walking away from the everyday "view" job on television i think we'll see her again on our television screens doing projects that are important to her. i don't think she can just sit and not do anything. looking back on her career, her list of interview subjects include some of the most important figures of the last half century, and she says she would have loved to have interviewed the queen and the pope. that's probably the only two people that she hasn't interviewed. when it comes to her legacy, she has been telling everyone, it's not the people that she spoke with. she wants it to be that she helped pave the way for all of the women in this industry who are succeeding and to that, i say you did, barbara walters, because definitely you inspired me. christi, i'm sure she inspired you and victor as well. >> amen to that. >> me, too. thank you, nischelle turner.

rvelgs mu a massive discovery in argentina. do you know what that is? that is the thigh bone of a newly discovered dinosaur, possibly the biggest that ever roamed the earth 95 million years ago. >> just the thigh bone. the as yet unnamed titanasaur was a sauropod, thanks for throwing these words at 6:58 this morning. how big are we talking here in 130 feet long. it's like two 18 wheelers back-to-back, front-to-front, as tall as a seven-story building and weighed about 14 african elephants or maybe the bigger ones. >> scientists found seven of these giants at their dig site, seven! i want to see that thing put together, like soon. >> i hope it gets to the

smithsonian. you know they have the displays in the lobby there, where you see the bones put together. just the thigh bone. >> look at how he was laying on top of that thing. that's something to think about this morning. we have much more ahead. >> we certainly do. thanks for starting your morning with us. the next hour of your "new day" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com well, we're calling your name. we want to you get up and get at it. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. this is "new day" sunday and we're starting this morning with mers now on the move. middle east respiratory syndrome has spread person to person inside the united states. so far u.s. health officials tell us it's the first they know of right now. >> good news the patient, a, was barely sick and b, is already well.

elizabeth cohen is here to explain. >> victor, christi, this is the third person in the united states who has been found to have mers or the middle east respiratory syndrome. this third person it's a little bit different than the first two. the first two people got infected in saudi arabia and then got on a plane and came here. this third one, this third one came infected in the united states, so this is now the first case of someone becoming infected on u.s. soil, and here's what happened. this third case, he had a meeting with one of the first two cases, a gentleman in indiana. so this new case, a man from illinois, and the man from indiana, had a meeting late in april, for 40 minutes they sat and they talked, they were within six feet of each other. they shook hands and that was their only physical contact that we know about. the next day they had another meeting which was even shorter. just two meetings, one 40 minutes, one even shorter. the only physical contact we know of was a handshake, that

apparently is enough to share mers from one person to another. this is a little bit different, i think, in many people's minds than what was said before. before doctors were referring to mers has something that in order to get it, you had to have close contact, someone who lived in your household or the kind of contact that a doctor and a patient would have repeatedly over time. this is a little bit different, and i think it will definitely raise concern for some people, can i get mers just from having a business meeting with someone in having said that, it is important to note mers is not a virus that is super easy to transmit person to person. it's not like the common cold or the flu or measles. you still need to have contact. you can't get mers from what we know by just passing someone in a hallway. this is a new virus, only been around for two years, only been in this country for a couple of weeks so doctors are still learning more about how mers is spread, how it's contracted and experts i've been talking to said they expect to see more

mers cases in this country in the future. victor, christi? >> elizabeth cohen, thank you very much. we want to talk about southern california what's going on there this morning. wildfires destroyed thousands of acres of landscape there. this morning, though, we are understanding firefighters do seem to have the upper hand, which is the good news. eye lot of the most destructive fires are contained. >> officials are lifting the evacuation orders, although some residents are upset that it took so long to get the all clear but those orders are still in place at camp pendle to be. three of the fires have converged on that base and indra petersons has more on the fire fighting efforts there at camp pendleton. >> reporter: this is the airstrip the marines use to battle these blazes, in all, they dropped a half a million gallons of water and 150 round trips and we just went along for one of them. a quality

wall of flames closing in on a military base, under siege. >> i watch as this marched from about a half a mile away almost to within 200 meters of us. i could feel the heat on my face as this thing approached. >> reporter: enter the 3rd marine aircraft wing, and 22 helicopters ready to battle the flames. on this flight, we're headed for a lake on the base with a 300 gallon bucket in tow. our chopper is guided by a crew chief manning a door in the chopper floor known as the hellhole. from our window you can see the delicate balance as other choppers lower toward the lake. our pilot does the same, lowering the bucket until it's submerged. once the bucket's full we head for the fire line. again using the hellhole and a lot of precision, the crew chief spots the right moment to make the drop. on his signal the water is released. in all, these choppers made over 900 drops. at the fire's peak, captain bradley gibson pulled it off with zero visibility.

>> you see your lead aircraft go into smoke and he just disappears. you don't know if he goes straight ahead, out to the left or if he got his bucket dropped off or not. best you can do is hope. >> reporter: the smoke so intense it cut off the main water supply on the base, forcing the crews to look elsewhere. this shows a marine helicopter hovering over the pacific ocean. so you just went along on one ride but in all these marines have spent 250 hours in the air fighting these blazes. it helped them get the upper hand on this fire and the cooler weather here is only expected to help even further. >> all righty, indra petersons, thank you so much. let's talk about the weather indra says is expected to help even further there in southern california. >> my goodness, yes. alexandra steele, what is your assessment of the weather there today? >> she's right on. certainly the short term the weather will be better but the longer term is the bigger problem. why? we've been on the west coast in california in this blocking pattern. in essence, kind of staving off the rain from california, keeping it north and keeping it

west. so this is the third dry winter in a row, allowing 2013 to be the driest year on record for california and 2014 shaping up to be even drier, but again, for the short term we have seen the pattern change, that ridge is given way to a trough, cooler air coming in, so we are seeing improving conditions forecast wise with increased humidity, kind of a shift in the winds now, coming off the water. so short term, weather wise it is favorable. temperatures are coming down out of the 90s and the 70s now. humidity is coming up, but the fire forecast is less so. so that's the problem, kind of the stage has been set. all right, here in the southeast, we've got rain expected stormy conditions in the southeast, severe storms here today in the northern plains, rain in the northwest, maybe in northern california, but certainly not in the southwest, showers and some storms here along the east coast as well, for a wet, cooler sunday than we've seen in quite

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at morten state university and told them that subtle racism is more damaging than hateful outbursts from people like l.a. clippers coach donald sterling. "proposals that feed uncertainty question the desire of a people to work and relegate particular americans to economic despair are more malignant than intolerate public statements." >> he said subtle racism endures longer than racist rants, so his speech, i mean that's just one example today, of the impactful words we hear during graduation season. madeleine albright is giving commenceiment at dickinson college, katie couric at trinity college and temple grandin at providence college. >> student protests led to condoleezza rice canceling at rutgers, christine lagarde at smith college. joining me is michael rushmore. do we have michael rushmore this

morning? >> hi, it's michael. >> good we have michael rushmore who led the protest and ian is another person on the letter and we have greg alukioff, president of the foundation for individual rights in education. michael let me start with you. why did you have such a problem with bergenot and why did you say his decision not to speak after all the work was a minor victory? >> what we had an issue with was his response during occupy cal a couple of years ago where he's largely accountable, he said so himself for police brutality against protesters and he's never really been held to account, and i think what greg is going to say, this is a freedom of speech issue. i don't think it is. we didn't want to honor this man as somebody who upholds the values and ideals we hold here at haberford.

he can come here any other day of the year. >> we call this time of year disination year because it's common for students and faculty to get together and demand that speakers be disinvited. this lasts all year round and doesn't just affect commencement. so since 2012, 26 speaks successfully disinvited, either they were actually uninvited or stepped down in the face of protest and to me when you start factoring everything together it's becoming very difficult to find someone who is acceptable to speak on a college campus. >> that is the point that i wanted to make. nobody is perfect, not one of us sitting here or out there have perfect pasts, so how, as you know, you are talking about, michael, this is what you wanted. how do you know it's what everybody on your campus wanted? >> well, we held a community forum where well over 100 people showed up. we're not a very large school

and the overwhelming majority of people were not excited about bergenov coming to camp us so it was pretty clear. >> how do you -- does somebody have to be perfect? >> oh god, know no. >> there is something in everybody's past. >> we have four commencement speakers so three others are attending. i'm excited to see all of them. >> so i'm reading from this letter you spent dr. bergeneau there are many signatures on this, maybe 40 or 50. many of us admire the work you've done on issues such as lgbt rights, affordable education, the plight of undocumented workers. we would welcome to you haberford college and you make nine or so demands in order to have him speak. was there nothing you could have learned from him that day, although you disagree with the choice that he, according to your own letter, and other persons who have signed it, has apologized for?

>> i think that there's a lot that we could learn from him. i don't want to give him an award and honor him. he should come to haberford college and give a speech some other day of the year where it's not an honor, which is what a commencement speech. i wouldn't go when i'm graduate but i'd go and listen and ask him a question, i don't know, i'd enjoy it. there's a lot we could learn from him. i don't think his values seem to align with the values of our school so why would we give him an award. >> greg, let me ask you, the fact that some of these folks are backing down and they're not going, as we were saying, would it not inspire more to go and talk about adversity, and the difficulties you faced in life? whether you want to be there or not, what does it say about the people who are asked and then who say forget it, i'm not going to go. >> that's what i'm afraid is happening, ultimately it's going to discourage a lot of interesting voices from being present on campus. i hear what i call the not on my

special day argument, but i'd have more sympathy for it, the idea i don't want this person speaking at commencement but i'd be fine at any other time, it just hasn't been true. in case after case, most of the cases that i talk about, 26 that i just talked about, those aren't commencement speeches. those are people trying to come to camp to us give a speech. when you have the strict purity test for speakers on campus you limit the marketplace of ideas. >> i actually agree with you on that. i'll just tell you, i totally agree that that's an issue, if that's happening other days of the year. >> and michael, who did you get in place of dr. bergenea snu. >> since we have the three other speakers, he wasn't replaced. fred crupp, environmental defense fund, william bowen, used to be president of princeton and elizabeth alexander, a poem she gave at the first inauguration. >> happy graduation to everybody

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shortcomings. "during her tenure i heard repeatedly from our newsroom colleagues, women and men, about a series of issues including arbitrary decision-making and failure to consult and bring colleagues with her in adequate communication, public mistreatment of her colleagues as well." >> cnn confirmed that abramson will deliver the commencement speech tomorrow at wake forest university. no word on whether she'll respond to her former boss's criticism especially in that venue. >> we'll talk more about this in our next hour. the husband of a pregnant woman sentenced to death after refusing to renounce her faith, she's now talking. she says he's praying for his wife who is now sitting in a sue khanese prison with her 20-month-old toddler. the court considers the woman muslim because of her father's faith and found her guilty of adultery because she's married to a christian. >> translator: i was considered innocent in the marriage revoke. the revoking means he is no

longer my son and the one come will not be my son. this innocence means nothing and i will appeal for myself and i will appeal for my wife. >> consider this, she was sentenced to death also 100 lashes. meantime the sudanese government defend the verdict. officials say it's a preliminary ruling. the controversy sparked outrage from human rights organizations understandably around the world. >> we'll take a look at the helicopters and what they're seeing as they try to rescue people from rising floodwaters in the balkans there. one area in bosnia, herzegovina saw two months of rainfall in two days. 20 deaths are blamed on the flooding across the region and in all more than 16,000 people had to evacuate their homes. the red sox organization says the woman who fell down an elevator shaft suffered serious

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"saturday night live" decided to poke a little fun at the whole jay-z solange elevator fight. >> they did it right at the finale of the season. >> now that i have you alone, i've been waiting to do this a long time. as god is my witness, i would never do anything to hurt you. >> okay. you know what? and to prove it we got an exclusion video, this time with the audio included. >> it tells a completely different story, look. man, what a great party. >> i know, yep. >> oh my god, there's a spider on you. >> what? get it! >> it keeps moving. >> kick it!

oh, great job. i love you solange. >> i love you too. >> hey, thanks again for help with that spider. >> you know what? no problem. foot five! >> let's go back to the party. >> yes, that would be fun. oh my god the spider's back. >> i got arachnaphobia. i love you. >> i love you, too. >> so you know what? >> it got better. then big sister beyonce showed up >> played by? one "snl" alum, maya rudolph. >> did somebody say my name? hey, it's me, beyonce. by onsay. beyonce. queen bay. back. home baby. baby back. back.

and it's my turn to talk. last week, we was all at the met ball having a great time. we'd been drinkin', watermelon, but the next morning we woke up and saw the people had post aid picture of us, and i was like, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, nah, nah, nah, nah. so if you think i condone this invasion of privacy, then you must not know about me. ♪ you must not know about me >> i love it. where is this breeze that is always there with beyonce? >> woo! we need to get some of that, put a fan there. >> thank you, maya rudolph, to are contributing to that. we'll be back here at the top of the hour, 8:00 eastern, for more "new day." >> we will see you then. stick around. "sanjay gupta md" is with you

next. hi there, i'm brooke baldwin, sanjay will be here in just a couple of minutes. first, a major update on a story we've been following for you for years. tim josephs joined the army when he was just 18 years of age. fresh faced, idealistic and he says they made him into a human guinea pig. he says it made him sick, and ever since he's been running into a brick wall trying to get some kind of help. sanjay tells us how his whole story started. >> reporter: tim josephs was just 18 years old when he joined the u.s. army. it was the height of the vietnam war. >> most of my friends were drafted. and i felt a duty to serve. >> reporter: but shortly after enlisting, josephs was chosen to participate in a two-month