healthier thing. >> healthy is not one of the things i would think about but tasty, yes. watch tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern as anthony bourdain heads to the delta. and then at 10:00, morgan spurlock explores the world of ufos. we've got much more ahead in the newsroom and it all starts right now. hello again, i'm fredricka whitfield. these are the stories topping our news this hour. at&t sets it sites on america's biggest tef provider. a merger that could affect tens of thousands of you. and thousands of californias who have been forced from their homes for days because of raging wildfires finally get a break while the battle against the flames takes a turn. and private moments suddenly becoming very public, not just for the celebrities but

everybody. it's happening to an increasing number of high profile people inparticular and ordinary citizens. privacy rights, what you need to know in this age of high-technology and social medi media. a huge merger is in the works today and it could involve your cable provider. telecom provider at&t is expected to meet to acquire directv according to a source who knows about the meeting. and if it goes through, that deal will be worth about $50 billion. at&t and directv are both staying quiet on this for now but sources say the announcement could come as early as this afternoon. so, cable customers are wondering, how does this affect me? for more on that, i'm joined now by brian stealth zer. good to see you again. how is this potentially going to

affect customers in. >> well we're talking about so many people that would be affected by this. one in four people who are watching us right now have directv or at&t television. about a hundred million house holds in the united states that have some form of cable or at light. 20 million of those are directv subscribers all across the country, particularly in rural areas. another 5 million or so have at&t television service. at&t though hasn't had a very strong time expanding its television service. this is going to let them do it. now they're going to own one out of four holdholds that have their tv service. >> so for folks who are ready, have cable, how might this open up options for them? because, you know, a lot of folks will complain that cable prices are so high. and now with another option like this, what could it mean? >> well what we're seeing is a

trend toward consolidation, viewer options. the government is reviewing possible mergers. and the government will have to review this deal between at&t and directv. but in cases like this, the companies don't go forward unless they believe they're going to get it through the government regulators. i was able to take a look at the portion of the internal presentation for shareholders in this deal. i was able to get my hands on it this morning. it make clear they believe it will pass muster. let me read you this quote. it says the transaction will create content distribution leader across mobile, video and broad band. you can get your att mobile service, our television subscription and internet from the same company. at&t is thinking about that in the same way that comcast is because everything is merging into an internet pipeline. we're going to get all of our content, a phone call or a video

program like this via our internet connection and at&t is trying to look down that road and be prepared. >> the consolidation could be a good thing for customers but is there a downside to this potential merger? >> when you a case like this you never expect price to go down. comcast has been honest about that in their efforts to merge with time werner cable. i don't think there's anything in the at&t directv deal that would imply that either. but what you have to hope for in a merger like this, the proconsumer view would be it would make more television available in easier ways that every. the negative said side, the anti-consumer point of view would be fewer option to get your internet, to get your phone and get your tv. by the way, i think we'll get an announcement about this in thement coing hours, maybe this evening, definitely no later than tomorrow morning. like i said, $50 billion, it will be a very big deal. >> thank so much. good to see you again. now to southern california

where firefighters are making big leaps in their battle against several raging fires. four are still spreading in san diego california county. but cooler temperatures are helping firefighters in their fight. some described their experiences as they rushed to evacuate. >> there was smoke coming up over the wall and we grabbed the computer and a couple pictures, the dogs and took off. >> it's been hard. it's like moving back and forth and back to one place and then to another. >> meteorologist an lex an dra steel back with us monitoring the conditions. how is it looking? >> well are going to see an improvement. it's short term. weather wise we'll see an improvement. an area of low pressure has developed off the coast. this counterclockwise flow changing the wind direction. southwesterly winds bring in the mischur off of the pacific and

increasing the humidity. so finally we're seeing increased values. 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, check on the humidity value. dew points coming, humidity coming up. notice too, we've had this ridge in place. we haven't had any rain. now with the ridge eradicated we're seeing some rain come in. see that? that's in northern california. that's not going to get as far south as southern california but certainly moisture is coming in. also temperatures have been exor dentally high, in the 90s. now temperatures are in the 70s. temperatures coming down, humidity values coming up. so the weather forecast in the short term is certainly favorable. the problem is the fire forecast. it's lez so. this year alone we've doubled the five-year average for fires. last year california had its driest year on record. this year, last thursday, first

time in an entire century that the entire state was in a severe drought or worse yet. so fred, short term it's okay. we're going to see some changes but the longer term, the stage is set. we've had three very dry winters. so the wet season hasn't been wet. so drought begets drought. we're in a hole here. >> that really underscores the worry. the "the new york times" is now dealing with the fall outfrom a high profile dismissal, the publisher of the times is disputing claims that sexism fueled the firing of his executive editor saying jill abramson was dismissed for performance issues and nothing else. abram sob hasn't spoken publicly about it. this is also opening up a conversation about women in media and in executive level positions. here's jean casarez. >> in one day, proof of how far women have come and how far some

say they still need to go on the job. tv trail blazer barbara walters retiring after over 50 years in broadcasti in broadcasting. but she wasn't always welcome. >> i had great difficulties and it was a very difficult unhappen my experience. >> she's talked about how she was the flop of the first news cast and how the mail coanchor undermined her every chance he got. >> i'm honored to be the first woman to serve as executive editor. >> at the same time another female pioneer gets the ax. jill abramson, executive editor of the "the new york times" since 2011. the speculation as to why. a national conversation with some wondering does america have a problem with powerful women and female bosses? it turns out to female ceos are

forced out of their jobs more often than their male counter parts. a recent study found 11% more. the "the new york times" says the decision was made because of an issue with management. npr's media reporter said some who worked with her found her to be brusk, even to the point of rudeness. and close associates are telling the new yorker that she confronted top brass after finding out that she was making less money than her made predecessor. the publisher of the times issued an internal memo saying, compensation played no part whatsoever in my decision that jill could not remain as executive editor. abramson isn't talking publicly about her yousster but her daughter posted this picture of her on instagram, referencing criticism of her mother's character with the hashtag pushy. shilly clinton close to

clinching the democrat nomination for presidency in 2008 but not close enough. in her concession speech she referenced the struggles. >> although we weren't able to shatter that highest hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you it's got about 18 million cracks in it. >> but cracks in the glass ceiling may be replaced with the glass cliff for women who do break through, begging the question whether for women getting to the top is only half the battle. jean casarez cnn new york. and coming up, social media, drones, surveillance cameras. we'll look at why you don't have to be a celebrity to wonder whether you have any privacy left at all. and then in ukraine, the pro-russian separatists are putting out a call for more man power.

we'll ask an expert what the u.s. could or should do now.

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learn about all of our programs at capella.edu. to ukraine now today. rebel leaders are appealing for more fighter to join the insurgeoncy. clashes have broken out where the ukrainian army set up the check points. 177 have died since the pro-russian separatists took up arms in april. the latest flareups come now. they're calling for the government to end its attack ons the spraitest. each side blames the other for torture and targeted killing. let's expand our conversation with christopher hill. he's the former u.s. ambassador to iraq and the head of the core bell school of international studies at the university of denver. good to see you again.

all right. it seems as if we've reached and stalemate in ukraine. how do you see it? do you see either side really taking charge? >> well, first of all, i don't see the russians having quite the appetite to annex other slices of ukraine. so that's somewhat of an improvement, whether the russians have decided to pull back a little, whether sanctions have had some impact on their thinking. hard to say. but they don't seem to want to go to route of overannexation at this point. what vi haven't done though is close off any option to do that. and i think it's pretty clear that they're continuing to have trouble among these rebels. i think the real question will be who kiev is able to get through this may 25th election and whether they are able to continue this process of reaching out to eastern ukraine to come up with governance solutions. as you know, there's discussions about whether it should be a

federalized struck chr or whether it should be a structure that does have more autonomy to it but doesn't go the whole route of federalization. that is probably the right direction and we should be encouraging that. >> so the international community and the u.s. has expanded, intense fied sanctions. is there anything more that the u.s. could do? >> i'm not sure there's much more we could do in the area of sanctions. the more we push on it, the more chance we start having problems with our european allies. i think a key ingredient in our entire response to this has been to work closely with our european allies. we want to be a little careful that we don't push too hard on sanctions and then lose that solidarity. i think it's also been very important to shore up these sort of eastern flank of nato. i spent four years as u.s. ambassador to poland. and from poland it's very important that we be present there in nato.

and i think we've done a pretty good job of that and i think having president obama soon going to poland will be further a sign of our commitment to those countries. >> with elections in ukraine next week, any concerns that you might have? do you worry about people voting more than once like we saw in last week's elections or even that people would be intimidated? >> well there will be some of the latter. people don't usually steal elections on retail basis. i'm not too concerned about the double voting. i'm more concerned about incidents of intimidation that in turn kind of taint the entire election process. and clearly the russian, while seem not to go the route of annexation at this point are quite happy to make problems for the ukrainians. >> all right. thank you so much. good the see you >> thank you. olympic track star lolo jones have been ranked and one of the best in the world wu she

says something is still missing, a gold medal. what she says to her critics about that in my face-to-face interview with her coming up. it seems celebrities can't go anywhere without cameras following them. what about the rest of us? is there any privacy left, whether it be in the elevator or out in public? anything? i'll ask our legal lady to weigh in. ...we'll be here at lifelock doing our thing: you do your connect to public wi-fi thing protecting you in ways your credit card company alone can't. get lifelock protection and live life free.

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all right. a private moment suddenly made public from the phone conversation to what happens in an elevator. it can be pretty embarrassing. or in the case of donald sterling, downright damaging. and yet it keeps happening over and over. celebrities and public figures assuming something is private just before it ends up online and in a very public way. how much privacy do any of us really have. jean casarez takes a look. >> from a private conversation -- >> don't come to my games. don't bring black people and don't come. >> to an alleged elevator brawl. is nothing private anymore? >> there might be a right to privacy but there's no reality to privacy. >> donald sterling said he had

no idea his conversation with v. stiviano was being recorded. >> did you know you were being recorded? >> no. of course not. i just wish i could ask her why. sf she was just setting me. up i think people say she was taping me for two years. >> ter ling's fellow nba owner mark cuban who never shied away from the limelight said the red light of the camera is always on no matter where you are. >> first of all, you have no privacy from the little things like license plate cameras to walking down the streets, there's sensors everywhere, cameras everywhere. >> case in point, what seemed to be a private elevator ride turns out to be anything but when tmz posts the security video propose edly showing beyonce's sister solange attacking jay z. expectation of privacy in an elevator may not be warranted.

>> you've raised the question of being in someone's home. that's a different level of privacy to expect. and elevator is a public place. anybody can enter that. >> security cameras are ubiquitous capturing our every move yet most people never feel their privacy violated because the pictures never go public. but when the famous and the powerful are involved, the right to privacy is often trumped by the public's appetite for the tape. but mark cuban says celebrities have learned to expect the kind of exposure and now you should too. >> i'll give you another perfect example that should terrify you. you tweet, post on pinterest, public postings on facebook, all of that information and you footprint know more about you than you know more about you. >> report. jane casarez reporting. thanks so much. there is a question of how much privacy do any of us really have. let me bring in our legal laid

days are, mo ivory. good to see both of you. carriry, you first. is the definition of privacy changing or does it have to change now that that we've got cameras and phones everywhere? >> there's a big difference between our subjective understanding and thoughts of what should be private and what legally is private. there is very little legally that is private president pretty much in our homes that should be private. here in georgia, a conversation between two people can be recorded and that is not a violation of breach of your privacy. very little is actually legally private. >> so when people are in an elevator, in a, you know, whether it's a private business or a public building, you cannot expect that you're having a private moment with whether you're a slibty or, in the elevator. it is out of your control. >> there is a reasonable

expectation of privacy in an elevator. >> to what degree? >> they put the cameras high up so you're not at eye level. >> they're there for security. >> protection and a valid business reason. you're not allowed to have audio in elevators and a lot of times they do black and white. you hardly ever see a color video from a camera in an elevator because it's to sort of give efb in the elevator a little bit of privacy. it's a reasonable expectation but not a huge one. >> beyonce, jay z, solange, they're identifiable maybe because the person who supplied the tape said guess what, let me tell you who's on there. beyond that, if they were to say we're ready to sue the standard hotel because this violates our privacy, would you have grounds in which to do so? >> no, i don't believe so. i think it depends too on what the hotel holds themselves out

as providing. if the hotel contractually with their guests say yes you can have an expectation of privacy in our elevators, then certainly. >> what is happening now when you have cameras everywhere, you've got, you know, whether it be audio or visual, surveillance, and it may be there for security reason or folks get their cell phones and do or record anything. anything. people decide they want to videotape it. you, because you're in a public space cannot expect that you have a private moment. >> no. >> your image is private. >> when you're public and you're out walking on the street and people are recording, you have no expectation of privacy. now when you were in the bathroom or a dressing room or a fitting room, anything like that, you do have an expectation of privacy. out in public, i think the way we've dealt with social media and the way we've put all of our business out, we sort of have diluted the idea of privacy.

there's the street law which is what's really happening and then the law to fit it into what has become the societal norm. >> do you think the law is going to be changing, now privacy, our space what we have to expect. all of that is changing. >> people want the laws to change to protect privacy interests, but i think particularly with celebrities, people that are in if public eye, at this point you can no expectation of privacy. >> donald ter ling, there we go, right? >> there's a lot to talk about with privacy, yes. >> very good. mo, carey, thank you so much. out west firefighters are actually getting closer. good news to putting out all of the fires burning in the san diego county area. we'll take you high above the

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all right. bottom of the hour now. we've got a look back. here are the big stories. outrage is growing over a death sentence for a pregnant woman who refuses to renounce or christian faith. now the government of sudan is reviewing the sentence and nothing is time yet. they say that the 27-year-old woman is muslim even though she says she's a christian. he was found guilty a week ago of abandoning her muslim faith and adultery of marrying a clis chan man. she's in prison, eight months pregnant and also with her 20-month-old toddler. eight people are hospitalized after a bus crash in the bos tton area. the transit bus slam into a

guardrail in newton around 7:30 this morning. seven passengers and the driver were hurt. and police say none of the injuries are life threatening. no word yet on the cause of the crash. and it may with the largest ever dinosaur discovery. could it be? a museum in argentina has unveiled what they're calling seven titanosaurs. experts think each one was about 130 feet long weighing 180,000 pounds. that's about the weight of 14 elephants and as long as two tractor-trailers. the discovery dates back to about 95 million years ago. and what a day for d'von walker, once a star safety at tulane university until he was paralyzed on the field. he refused to allow that deaf stating injury to end his dreams. the saints actually signed him to a contract yesterday after graduation. the coach calling him an

inspiration. walker did graduate from tulane with a degree in cell and molecular biology. congrats to him. all right. officials in san marcos california have just lifted an evacuation order for people living in the path of a fire that's now 80% contained. cooler weather and calmer winds are helping the fiert fighters in their battle against that fire and three others still wurng in san diego county. more than 27,000 have been scorched. one evac wee who is back in her home described her emotions. >> to see my home, oh, it's just such a relief. i feel so bad for the ones that lost everything. >> our andrea peterson get an up close look of the battle happening high above the flames. >> this is the airstrip that the marines use to bat tl blazes.

a wall of flames closing in on an airstrip. >> i watched as this marched from half a mile away almost to within 200 meters of us and 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 glams. 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. you can see how bad the badly burned this is. the crew chief spots the right

moment the make the drop. on his signal the water is released. in all the choppers made more than 900 drops. >> you see your lead aircraft go into smoke and he just disappears. you don't know if he got his bucket dropped off or not. the best you can do is hope. >> the smoke so intense it cut off the main water supply on the base. this video show asthma reen chopper hovering over the pacific ocean. >> these marine don't just fight fires on camp pendleton but in nearby communities. in some cases water drops like this are to protect their own homes. >> i can call home, call the wife and say, hey, the neighborhood looks good. >> their water drops these marines couldn't make in 2003 when the cedar fire killed 20 people. today new policies have united the marines with local firefighters. >> rather than having to go back to washington, d.c. to launch aircraft to fight these fires, the local commanders here can

make the determination that there's an immediate threat to life and property and we had our aircraft airborne inside of hours. >> immediate action helping marines safe property and lives. in this case, those lives were their own. you just went along on one ride but in all these marines have spent 250 hours in the air fighting these braces. it helped them get the upper hand on the fire. and the cooler weather is only expected to help even further. >> thanks so much. investigators suspect arson may be involved with some of the fires. three people are under arrest an one of them have been charged. next, a little girl caught up in the middle f of a custody fight. does staying with her adoptive parents or going with the biological dad best to benefit her? which one? woman: this is not exactly what i expected.

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for almost seven years it was the only home and the only parents a little girl had known. but one day a stranger showed up and took her away after a court's ruling. that man was her biological dad who she did not know. as cnn's randi kaye reports, this heartbreaking legal battle may change everything you thought you knew about adoption. >> this is the sound of a nine-year-old girl begging to return to the only home she'd

ever known. >> what did you say, baby doll? >> i want you to come and get me. >> you just stay strong and everything is going to be okay. okay? >> that was the last time sonya's adoptive parents heard her voice, january 30th. sonya had been removed from their home, her home in tennessee the day before. but why? sonya had been in the care of david and kim hodgins since before she was two and adopted by the hodgins back in 2008. >> when the adoption became final, how thrilled were the two of you? >> we was ecstatic, so happy. >> but that joy was short lived. sonya's birth father is a convicted felon. under tennessee law his rights were automatically terminated because state law doesn't allow anyone incarcerated for more

than ten years to have right to a child under eight years old. but before his daughter's adoption were finalized he cut a deal and got his sentence reduced to seven and a half years. that deal and lesser sentence allowed him to assert his parental rights and fight to reverse the adoption that was later finalized. >> she's never laid eyes on this man. he's a total stranger. >> that total stranger managed to convince the court to reconsider. in november 2009, one year and 12 days after she'd been legally adopted, sonya's adoption was reversed. but she continued to live with the hodgins while both sides fought for custody. nearly five years later a juvenile court judge ruled sonya should be returned to her biological father. >> sonya is crying her eyes out, just screaming bloody murder, please don't let them take me.

>> they took her bags and that's the last time i seen her. >> just three hours after the judge's ruling, sonya was gone. dave hodgins asked dave mccaul to reconsider. >> i asked him to look in her eyes right there obviously he's standing there and she's begging and pleading and crying, it didn't matter. >> mccaul's lawyer told us despite repeat ed efforts by the adoptive parents to terminate his rights, his rights have not been terminated and his daughter has been returned to his care. this is sonya's home now. >> we came here to home has, nebraska hoping to get john mccaul to answer some questions about his daughter sonya and his past. he told me earlier by phone he could be open to that. but when i got ahold of his attorney she told me that at least for now mr. mccaul is forbidden by the tennessee department of children's services to speak publicly about the case and sonya.

back to that heart wrenching phone call the hodgins recorded in january during their last conversation with sonya, this is show she described her new life. >> how bad is that house? >> dirt everywhere. i think there's even mold. he doesn't have no clean water. >> no clean water, no drinking water. >> it's so dirty. there's dirt all over it. there's cigarettes everywhere. >> is he nice to you? >> yeah. >> it's a recording dave and kim hodgins can't even bring themselves to listen to. >> anybody within their right mind would be worried and yes we're terribly worried. >> randi kaye, cnn dickson, tennessee. >> heartbreaking. all right. you probably know the name lolo jones and you know her work on the track in the summer

olympics. did you see her on the ice this past winter? she talk to me what the winter olympics meant to her, how transformative it was in my face-to-face interview next.

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all right. right now, some of america's best known track and field stars

are competing in track meets on u.s. soil. something that's become rare in recent among the stars helping to get american fans filling the stands, lolo jones. she is competed at a race in georgia this past weekend and i caught up with her face to face and talked to her about her sometimes stormy and sunny journey on and off the track. at 31, two-time summer olympian and 2014 winter olympian lolo jones is striving for more. >> going to, you know, aim for rio 2016 summer olympics. hopefully that's my last one. >> reporter: used to beating the odds, jones believes being a sort of senior citizen on the track circuit makes her no less ambitious about medaling or make her feel anymore entitled. do you feel like you're more relaxed, more confident as a

runner? >> no. >> reporter: no? >> no. i feel like as a runner you are uptight. i think what as the years have gone along i'm able to handle the failures and the successes better. >> reporter: how have you managed the successes and failures in your view? >> well, like, before if i didn't make a team, i would like, i mean, it would be bad. like, i mean, i would just ta talk -- don't talk to me for a while. one race if i don't do good, the bigger picture is here. if i move some puzzle pieces i work better at this angle and salvage a season and not like, oh my gosh, like, a nightmare meltdown if things don't go my way in a race. >> reporter: is that a lesson out of by shang? leading the hurdles final in beijing 2008 her foot caught a hurdle. jones went down and the dream of taking home gold.

>> well, no. i think i embraced it earlier than that. i think the first time i tried to make an olympic team i failed miserably. i wasn't top eight in the u.s. and, you know, ranked number one in the world in eight so i don't know. i think it's -- i think that was my biggest hurt and that was the one that kind of motivated me to work harder and not experience that again. i was like, i don't want to experience that again where i work so hard and i don't have the outcome of what i desire, so i was like, what can i do better? how can i improve the next four years? i kind of just evaluated every aspect i could and changed and, you know, got there. >> reporter: how did london feel different? >> london was different because i was injured a year out from the olympics. >> reporter: she had a tethered spinal cord, a birth detect as a result led to pain and loss of feeling if the feet. surgery and recovery that surprised even her doctors. >> i had spinal surgery.

i pretty much had to relearn how to walk and, you know, before i could even run, so i was not completely healed when i was on the start line of london but it was a proudest race. a lot of athletes with fourth at the olympics like, that's the biggest regret. i'm like, my biggest regret is hitting a hurdle. not getting a medal. i had spinal surgery, people pinned me not to make the team and going there and making the team and getting fourth, it's like, i don't know for some reason that's one of my proudest moments because i was like i know i faced so many odds to get there and get so close and i kind of just, you know, smile at the end of the day. >> reporter: but then, that smile was replaced by frustration. fueled in part by constant criticism. >> i just wanted to get away from track. i was so burned out after track, you know, i pursued this dream so many years and honestly i was

just tired of people just teasing me, making fun of me for not getting this olympic medal. for me, i'm like, look, i'm very proud of my effort. i have fought hard. i've made more teams than -- some make only one team as a summer athlete. i needed to step away. i was completely burned out on the track world. i didn't know if i wanted to run again and compete if my best effort was mocked by others that didn't take this step in one of my races. so i kind of just wanted to get away. >> reporter: it was time for a change. a big one. >> bobsled was an outlet. >> reporter: a diversion that reignited the determination and desire. >> it was a really tough transition. i didn't think it would be as tough as i thought. >> reporter: helping to soften the blow, her fellow bobsled teammates. >> honestly, lifelong friends and i don't have many lifelong friends from the track world that, you know, i've been in so

long, like not the bond i have in bobsled just because we traveled together. you know? we were in the same lodging. we -- i mean, eight and 12-hour days together and that bond is really strong. >> reporter: so it surprised you that this was an experience that would be revitalizing? >> uh-huh, absolutely. i was just like, it will be good as a cross training, you know? just be a -- i don't know. something daring to do. i didn't think it would be something that would kind of refresh me and revive me to return and pursue. >> reporter: right now, it's back to her roots on the track. she, other olympians and other stars competing in meets sponsored by the american track league in eight u.s. cities. >> well, number one question we get asked is where can i watch you run? they watch us at olympians. the country is supporting us and in between the years they can't watch us.

a lot of competitions are in europe. this is a first year we're bringing track back to the u.s. soil. you know, for track and field, usa track and field, we are the most dominant track and field country in the world. we go, we always win the medal count. there's so many talented athletes. >> reporter: possibly inspiring the next generation of athletes. jones doesn't mind looking back as long as she says it helps hers and others bring out their best. >> hard to believe as lolo says she is making the way to rio and needs to still lose 30 pounds. the weight gained in order to be that olympic bobsledder. we'll be watching. all right. thanks so much for watching. the next hour begins after a short break with miguel marquez in new york with the latest on the crisis at "the new york times" and whether you have cable or satellite, the tv landscape is about to change. hey. i'm ted and this is rudy.

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hello. i'm miguel marquez. topping the new this is hour, "the new york times" is dealing with a fallout of a high profile dismissal. the publishers disputing claims that sexism fueled the firing of the executive editor. jill abramson first woman to have the title in the paper's 160-year history. we have complete coverage for you. host of "reliable sources" and a former "the new york times" reporter and alexandra field following the story from new york. there are reports that she had complained at times she was paid