>> that's going to wrap things up for sgmd. stay connected with me. let's keep the conversation going. "new day sunday" continues right now with christi paul and victor blackwell. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com look who is up and at 'em? we're glad for it. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. we're starting with the destructive wildfires in southern california. the firefighters now seem to have the upper hand. you can thank the weather for that. four major fires are still burning. >> we know in some areas, residents have been given the all clear to return to their homes to assess the damage. at camp pendleton, nearly 20% of the base has burned. our indra petersons has a unique look on how to fight the blaze. >> this is the airstrip the

marines use to battle these blaze z. they dropped half million gallons of water in a round trips. a wall of flames closing in, a military base under siege. >> i watched as this thing marched from about a half mile away almost to 200 meters. i could feel the heat on my face as this thing approached. >> enter the third 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. 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 it's full, we head to the fire line. >> right now we're flying directly over the fire line. you can see how badly burned this area is. >> reporter: again, using the hell hole and a lot of precision, the crew chief spots

the right moment to make the drop. on his sill nall, the water is released. in all, the choppers made over 900 drops. this captain pulled it off with zero visibility. >> you see your lead aircraft go into smoke and disappears. you don't know if he's going straight ahead. the best you can do is hope. >> reporter: the smoke so intense it cut off the main water supply on the base forcing them to look elsewhere. you just went along on one ride. in all, these marines spent 250 hours in the air fighting these blazes. it helped them get the upper hand on the fire. the cooler weather is expected to help further. >> thank you, indra. so earlier we said the weather was cop rating with the firefighting efforts today. the question is what about tomorrow? still so much to be do. >> let's bring in meteorologist alexandra steele. >> improving conditions, no

question about it. so short-term it's fine, and certainly improving. but it's the longer term. we've been in this blocking pattern, our third dry winter in a row, 2013 going down as california's driest on record. and 2014 looking even worse n. the short term we've seen kind of a change in the pattern. cooler air coming off the water now, so increasing the moisture. temperatures coming down out of the 90s, in toward the 70s where we should be in southern california and increasing humidity. that's all good news. the bigger picture, the fire danger in and of itself. the weather forecast is favorable, but the fire forecast is less so. this year alone we've doukd the five-year average. the fire forecast not looking bright. in terms of other news and weather across the country, here is what we've got, the line of showers and storms. showers also in the northwest and kind of a much cooler pattern for the next couple days on the eastern seaboard.

then warming up as we head toward the beginning of the week. >> looking forward to it, alexandra steele, thank you very much. an illinois man who may have thought he had a spring time cold instead had the sometimes deadly virus mers. the centers for disease control says it's the first known case of middle east respiratory syndrome spreading person to person inside the united states. two other people are thought to have brought the virus to the u.s. from saudi arabia. one infected the illinois man in a business meeting. the new case was very mild, we want to let you know, and the patient is already better. new this hour, 18 people are set to be arrested in connection with the deadly turkey mine disaster according to state media. the search for victims ended with 301 bodies recovered. investigators are still trying to figure out what caused this tragedy. riot police are patrolling the streets of that mining time. authorities have banned protests

after police clash with demonstrators furious over the government's handling of the disaster. this week marks the 60th anniversary of the brown versus board of education ruling. that landmark supreme court decision overturned segregation in america's schools. this morning cnn's candy crowley has an exclusive interview with massachusetts governor deval patrick who is opening up about how that decision shaped his life. hey, candy. >> you're right. deval pat track, the two-term governor from massachusetts which has produced a couple of presidential nominees. he also is going into the private sector at the end of this year, but in many ways he is the son of brown versus board of education. he was born two years after and he has gone basically from a south side tenement where he was raised by a single mom in his

grandparent's apartment to the governor of massachusetts. he has quite the story to tell and a lot of observations about race in this country and the bitter words we've heard in the past couple weeks versus what really we should be discussing. >> candy, looking forward to it. thank you very much. watch candy's exclusive interview with governor patrick today at 9:00 eastern right here on cnn. a "new york times" firing is now getting public. it is turning nasty. these allegations of sexism after the executive editor was fired. the publisher says that's not what happened here. see how he's responding. also, hillary clinton just had her first big political event this year, hosted a fund-raiser for a congressional candidate. we'll tell you why she's helping out here. ♪ that's keeping you from the healthcare you deserve. at humana, we believe if healthcare changes,

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hillary clinton is still pretty tight-lipped on a 2016 bid for the white house, but she was on the campaign trail last week stumping for a house candidate in pennsylvania. >> that had a lot of people wondering, what's hillary -- what brought her out for a kind of, as they called it, run-of-the-mill congressional race. cnn ice chief political analyst gloria borger explains. >> i would be here if her son was not my son-in-law. >> she is marjory morgue lease. her son happens to be married to chelsea clinton. chelsea is now expecting a baby. >> mark and i are very excited.

>> reporter: and her mom may be running for president. >> your son has married into a political dynasty. what is that like? >> it's surprisingly normal. >> reporter: that depends on how you define normal, because the back story of the two families is anything but. >> i'm not saying vote for her because 20 years ago she saved the economy. >> reporter: she also saved clinton's presidency. it was 1993, clinton's defining economic plan was on the house floor and about to die. >> republicans were high-fiving saying it's going down. >> reporter: she was a holdout, a philadelphia freshman who had won by just over 1,000 votes. >> a lot of democrats were talking about changing their vote. >> reporter: that's when the president called. >> and i said, and i will only be your last vote. i know how important this is. >> reporter: he hung up and then watched her from the white house. >> we all gather around this

little one-foot, 13-inch screen and watched the vote. republicans taunted her and said bye-bye marjory, bye-bye marnlgry. >> the vote was needed. i gave him the 218. >> i'm quite sure he knew that that was a political death mail. >> reporter: and it was. >> i do not regret my vote, nor do i apologize for it. >> there was a lot of hostility in that room. >> reporter: hostility that would send her packing after just one term. fast forward 20 years, now her old seat is open with one big difference. the district is redrawn and solidly democratic. so he's at it again, locked in a tight primary as an advocate for abortion rights and the middle class. >> is this a little bit the politics of redemption to a degree? >> i'm not sure.

i think it would be more resilience. i don't have any retirement skills. >> reporter: she spent the last two decades on women's issues, both outside and inside politics. >> sexual harassment on capitol hill, is it there? >> first of all, i think it has to be addressed. >> reporter: do you think women have a harder time still running? >> when i was running in the '90s, i always got questions as to who is taking care of your children, and even if the questions aren't asked, they're there. >> reporter: in this campaign she started as the big name front-runner and has been attacked on campaign finances for coasting early on and her use of a valuable asset, the clintons. >> he seems like a great guy, but everything he's talking about happened in the past. >> we always knew that, if they came in too much, we would be blamed for their coming in too much. if they didn't come in enough, people would say they didn't

come in enough. you're kind of damned if you do and damn fd you don't. they have done everything we've asked them to do and i am running on what i have accomplished in the last 20 years and not on my affiliation with the clicntons. >> reporter: she's not exactly running away from them either. >> this district will be well served if you elect her. >> reporter: did she consult with former president about running? >> i called and he said that's a good idea. but that's it. >> reporter: even more guarded if you dare to ask personal questions about life in the clinton family. >> it's just -- it's an area that i will not get into. they are lovely. the clintons couldn't be any nicer. >> reporter: are you going to talk about what it's like to be

co-grandmother-in-chief. >> reporter: she knows,000 stay on message even when it's hillary clinton. >> is there any doubt in your mind she's run? >> she says she smaking up her mind. i take herality her word. >> reporter: so -- >> she said she's making up her mind and i take her at her word. she has said -- >> reporter: gloria borger, cnn, philadelphia. >> making it very clear there. >> typically when someone is fired, it's a personnel matter, it's private. this is now turning into something very public. >> talking about the termination of jill abrahamson from "the new york times." her boss is weighing in now. it is getting dicy. ry to combine solar and natural gas at the same location. during the day, we generate as much electricity as we can using solar.

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during the tenure i heard repeatedly from women and men about a series of issues including arbitrary decision making, failure to cuonsult and the public mistreatment of colleagues. >> cnn just confirmed that abrahamson will deliver the commencement speech tomorrow at wake forest university. let's talk with brian tell ter, host of "reliable sources." as if people didn't know. for all clarification, brian, you worked for the "times." >> i worked for abrahamson. >> until now it appeared both sides agreed not to speak publicly about the departure. what's going on? >> it sure seems that way. for three days there's been this native in the media. within hours it started to come out in the press, that she had been paid less than the male editor that came before her. there were also questions about whether the behavior she exhibited as the editor of the

newspaper was that much different from the prior male editors in the past. we saw this statement on saturday from the publisher trying to break that narrative and present a new narrative. he says this is about her poor management skills. as one who worked for the "times" for six years before i came over to cnn about six months ago, i can tell you his statement rang true to me. as a reporter i never experienced that behavior he's describing. i know editors of the "times" did. that's why the timing is surprising, but not the decision to do it was surprising. >> at least from your experience, not so much about the sexism and the money, but these few items said in the statement, inadequate communication, public mistreatment of colleagues, those rang true to you. >> here is the thing. it becomes about whether there's unequal expectations for women. even if she wasn't the best manager in the world. even she would say she wasn't. were there unequal ex-pexations.

is there a double standard for women at the top of the journalism ladder? a lot of men and women say there is. >> there was a piece in politico about bringing in potentially a co-ed tore and that being sulz burger's last stand. do you think she'll talk about this tomorrow at wake forest? >> i sure hope so. sulzberger pet out serious, damning allegations and she should be able to respond. no matter whether the non-disparagement cause exists, her daughter has been responding, posting instagrams since wednesday. one had abrahamson at a boxing ring with boxing gloves on. on friday she wrote, this story is not over, not by a long shot. i do think we'll hear from this editor, i do think it's going to continue a conversation about how men and women are treated differently, not just in the need yeah, on television, for example, but in newsrooms. >> what is your take on that.

do you think women in your experience, from what you've seen, women are treated differently or expected to do things differently? >> at "the new york times" -- i talked to a lot of my former colleagues there in the last few days, there are pretty important questions that have come up about whether women are promoted as often and as well as men and whether they're paid the same amount. not a lot of clarity on that issue. arthur salz burger says -- i still hear from female editors and reporters who say there's a double standard, there is somewhat of a glass ceiling at the "times." in abrahamson's case, people call it a glass cliff. once you reach the top, then you're pushed off. let's talk about another story developing this week, at&t and this deal to buy dircectv for potentially $50 billion, comes after the comcast and time

warner cable deal. what does this mean for the phones apartment home? >> this may be announced as early as this afternoon. the boards of the two companies are meeting today to approve this deal. it affects a lot of people at home. one out of four people watching right now either has directv or at&t u-verse. i don't think their service, their packages will change right away. but this is further consolidation in an industry that seems to have fewer and fewer players, comcast and time warner cable are merging. if at&t and directv also merge, it will be one fewer option for consumers about how to get television, how to pay for television every month. the reason why they're doing this, why all this consolidation is happening, everything is moving to the internet in one way or another, the way we watch television, the way we access information. it's all digital, all internet-based in the future and at&t and directv are trying to get ahead of that trend. >> brian stetler, good to see

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getting married. what's marriage mean to you, baby? >> that's the thing you need in order to get a divorce. >> in one week kim will walk down the aisle, take her place at the altar and watch me ride down the aisle on a male elephant. >> elephants are the best. >> what better place for a cultural icon like kim to get married than florence, italy. >> cheerio governor. >> no, no. >> make some great memories. "inside politics" with john king starts now. another obama cabinet agency accused of incompetence, in this case with deadly results. >> any adverse incident like this makes me as -- makes me mad as hell. >> the white house voices