true that the technologies are starting to do more on their own. the software programming may be the important part of the decision and that's a part that's we're really not well equipped to deal with. >> reporter: jake tapper, cnn, washington. you are in the newsroom. i'm miguel marquez. we start potentially huge business deal to affect your tv and internet options. at&t is reportedly in talks this afternoon to acquire directv. if the boards of the two companies finalize the deal, it would be worth about $50 billion. cnn has seen an internal presentation outlining what they say is consumer benefits of a merger between the two including internet speed. for example, satellites provide faster connections to customers demand but at&t can. this potential deal comes just a

few months after another blockbuster telecom deal. comcast to buy time warner cable, a deal worth $45 billion. to politics now and the race that's a long way from getting started. and the candidate washington can't stop talking about. hillary clinton. not even the race yet at least not yet, chatter today is all about remarks by republican strategist karl rove who's questioned the seriousness of clinton's concussions from days as secretary of state. erin mcpike is standing by at the white house. sounds like hillary clinton is getting a tough reminder of 2008 very early on. >> reporter: miguel, she sure is. massachusetts governor duval patrick was on cnn "state of the union" this morning and he suggested that that very thing, the inevitability factor going for her in 2007 and 2008, was a big turnoff for voters and he's worried about it again going forward. now jerry brown, the california

governor, was also on a sunday show this morning. he was on abc's "this week" and listen to the point he made about that. >> i can't see any opposition or even potential opposition. whether it's good thing or not, it does carry with it risks. being a front-runner is being on a perch that everyone else tries to knock you off of. >> reporter: certainly like karl rove and those health comments he made that have a lot of democrats angry and worried about this front-runner status but republicans say it's fair game. listen here to reince priebus. >> i think that health and age is fair game, fair game for ronald reagan, fair game for john mccain. >> reporter: and karl rove defended his comments as well

this morning on fox news quund saying she might not run as a result. however, clinton's own spokesman put out a strongly worded statement this week saying her health is 100%. but it's not just health coming up. her record at the state department and specifically leadership over mbenbenghazi ha republicans talking for a couple of years now. dick cheney said we haven't heard the last of it. california senator dianne feinstein was on "state of the union" this morning as well saying specifically that's akin to a hunting mission for a lynch mob, miguel. a lot of strong words going back and forth. >> oh, it is only just begun. i'm guessing it gets more interesting before it's over. erin mcpike at the white house, thank you very much. the words californians waiting to hear. the wildfires are down for the count. cooler winds and moist, ocean air returned helping to bring one of the most fang rous fires

to his knees. families are allowed to return home. three active fires should be contained soon. the weather change is also good news for the thousand weary firefighters out there on the fire line but their work far from over. this year's fire season expected to be one of the worst ever. california residents are dealing with smoky air. people are being told to limit activity outdoors until it clears. cnn meteorologist alexandra steele has more on the weather that's giving fire crews the upper hand. >> reporter: yeah, miguel, finally good news. we are seeing improvements in the weather forecast and that's for the short term, though. we have seen now a change in the wind direction, a southwesterly wind bringing the cool ocean air. the temperature and the moisture from the ocean coming inland and what that's doing is increasing the humidity. so here's the humidity throughout the day and into tonight. 40s, 50s, 60s into the 70s and certainly that's good news. also, we're seeing some moisture

begin to make the way south. you see with that ridge being removed and low pressure coming in, that rain coming down but not making it unfortunately as far south as the fires are. also, we are seeing temperatures go from the 90s to where we have been at 97 in los angeles down to the 70s. so temperatures are coming down. humidity is coming up. so that is certainly good news. weather forecast is favorable. unfortunately, miguel, the fire forecast is less so. this year alone we have doubled the five-year average. so last year, the driest year on record in california, this year looking even worse. the first time in a century the entire state has been in a severe drought or worse. >> not good. thank you very much. weather isn't the only saving grace in southern california. the massive team of fire crews had more than 100 engines in service and two dozen water trucks and bulldozers and marine

corps and their equipment. we have an up close look at how firefighters are battling the blaze from the air. >> reporter: a wall of flames closing in on a marine airstrip. a military base under siege. >> i watched as this thing marched from a half mile away to almost 200 meters of us and 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. headed for a lake on the base with a 300-gallon bucket and guided by a crew chief. you can see the delicate balance as other choppers lower toward the lake. they lower until the bucket is submerg submerged. once it's full, we head for the fire line. >> over the fire line. we can see how badly burned this area is. again, using the hell hole and a lot of precision, the crew chief spots the right moment to make

the drop. on his signal, the water is released. the choppers made over 900 drops. at the fire's peak, the captain pulled it off with zero visibility. >> see the lead aircraft go in the smoke and disappears. you don't know if he's going straight ahead or the left or if he got the bucket drop off or not. >> reporter: the smoke so intense it cut off the main water supply on the base forcing them to look elsewhere. this video shows a chopper over the pacific ocean. these marines don't just fight fires on camp pendleton but nearby communities. some cases, water drops like this to protect their own homes. >> you have confidence. i could go -- i can call home and the wife and say, hey, neighborhood looks good. >> reporter: the water drops, they couldn't make in 2003 when the massive cedar wildfire killed 20 people. today, new policies united the marines with local firefighters. >> rather than going back to

washington, d.c. to launch aircraft to fight the fires, the local commanders make the determination there's an immediate threat to life and property and we had our aircraft air born inside of hours. >> reporter: immediate action to save property and lives. those lives were their own. cnn, camp pendleton, california. now, "the new york times" publisher is getting personal about why he fired jill abramson, the paper's first executive editor. co-workers complained about the quote arbitrary decision making and failure to consult, inadequate communication and the public mistreatment of colleagues. the comments are getting strong reaction. >> it would only suggest that the publisher of "the new york times" is so worried about being regarded as a sexist that he's willing to take the risk of legal liability here by detailing how terrible a manager jill abramson was. >> now, abramson will speak

publicly tomorrow for the first time since fired four days ago giving the commencement speech at wake forest university. her daughter posted this photo on instagram showing her mom's new hobby, boxing. her daughter wrote friday, this story isn't over. not even close. now, turning to horse racing in a possible roadblock to california chrome's bid to the triple crown. the kentucky derby and preakness winner wore nasal strips to improve breathing. new york, home of the belmont stakes, doesn't normally allow them. so today california chrome's tr trainer hinted the horse may not run in the belmont. meanwhile, new york racing officials are saying make a request for the strips and we'll let our racing stewards decide. is hillary clinton too old

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thousands of its citizens from vietnam after deadly riots broke out there over a chinese oil drilling. protesters are outraged because china sent an oil rig to drill in ocean waters both countries claim as their own. china's state-run media reports two chinese were killed and more than 100 injured last week in vietnam. five chinese ships are sailing to vietnam with help on the evacuations. sunday newspapers in turkey all scream the same thing on their front pages. anger, disbelief and sadness. autobodies have been removed from a coal mine where an explosion and fire this week killed more than 300 miners. people are furious how the government responded to the emergency. getting physical with demonstrators and appearing incensive to victims' families. 25 people detained in connection with the disaster. three of them have been

indicted. also, overseas today, something we don't see or hear very often. a public apology from north korea. that's after an apartment building collapsed last week injuring or killing an unknown number of people. on state-run media today, north korean officials apologized for what tay call a serious accident and said the building was not constructed properly. north korea rarely calls attention to its internal problems. at least 13 people have died in flooding across bosnia. nonstop rain fall pushed water levels to the highest in recorded -- in the last -- ever recorded for the former yugoslavia. officials say parts of the country got two months worth if two days and pushed rivers way out of the banks. it's bad, too, in neighboring serbia. more than 24,000 people had to be evacuated out of the flooded areas. red cross officials say many people are refusing to leave their homes.

the water is chest deep in some places. it was ten years ago, a historic moment for gay and lesbian couples. years after fighting for the right to legally wed, one consolidate became the first to allow same-sex marriage. that's ahead. but first -- an opera sing we are a soaring career with a metropolitan opera in new york. then a stroke nearly up ended his career. dr. sanjay gupta has the story about how the singer fought back in this week's "human factor." ♪ >> every time i sing, my soul is bared. >> reporter: when he had a stroke a year and a half yoog, eric jordan's ability to bare his soul, to sing, was stifled. 5:30 a.m., the morning of the stroke. 18-month-old gabrielle crawls into bed with his parents and everyone goes back to sleep

except eric. >> i thought he was trying to settle down again and get comfortable. he never stopped kind of moving around and jerking around. and then i realized, there's something wrong. >> reporter: and then the jerking around stopped abruptly. >> i slapped him. he wouldn't wake up. he couldn't open his eyes. >> reporter: later at the hospital, a doctor revealed three large blood clots in eric's brain. >> i explained to him eric was an opera singer. i urged him to do whatever it took to get the clots out of his brain, especially in the speech area of his brain. >> reporter: doctors removed clots saving eric's life. and against the odds, his ability to sing. only eight weeks after his stroke, the bass was back on stage at new york's metropolitan opera. >> this is a very magical house. >> reporter: singing again somehow came easy. speaking is still difficult. so's memory loss. ♪ you are my sunshine >> reporter: but those are minor

challenges considering he's alive. it's not lost on him that one reason why is gabrielle crawling into bed with his parents that morning. >> he saved my life. >> we look at him and we're reminded of our blessings. right? >> yeah. every day. >> reporter: eric says the incremental nature of his recovery taught him to slow down, savor life's small blessings. >> i can say it's better to be thankful for the little things. all the little victories add up. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting.

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of columbia. roughly 40% of people live in states where same-sex marriages are legal and marriage equality lawsuits are pending in 30 more states. >> certainly now i think it's, you know, it's just a matter of time. >> reporter: for bill and frank, that's progress that was tough to imagine just ten years ago. even for a couple that helped lead the way. alexandra field, cnn, new york. and this just in to cnn. we told you about this at the top of the hour. now it's official. directv and at&t announced plans to merge. they finalized the deal this afternoon and said to be worth $50 billion. the combined company able to offer consumers bundles that include video, high speed broadband and using all of the sales channels. at&t has 2,300 retail stores and thousands of authorized deals and agents of both companies nationwide. the merger approved by federal

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whatever you might think about karl rove, he knew by bringing up the concussion hillary clinton suffered in december of 2012 that he would inject new questions about her health into the 2016 race for the white house. let's talk about it with cnn commentators mark lamont hill and ben ferguson. mark, let's come at this in a

slightly different way. is karl rove doing her a favor getting this issue out there early? she has to talk about it anyway. >> he's done he an enormous favor getting the issue out of the way. but also, people are going to come to her defense. people are outraged that he would not only put something like this out there but he would litter with it untruths of being in the hospital and the technology on the face and doing that, she made women empathize more and seeing this as a gender, sexist attack and made the elderly sympathize with hillary clinton more. this did much more for hillary clinton than potential republican nominee. she should be sending karl a thank you card. >> we'll see about that. ben, republican strategist alex, your colleague, he says that rove's attack on hillary clinton, whatever the victory republicans feel right now may leave a bitter taste. could all this backfire on him? >> certainly could backfire and i think it brings up the obvious

which is she is the front-runner and in the position before and i think the earlier you kind of say to everyone, this is the candidate, the more pressure also to put on a campaign. she was in the exact same position and then barack obama took it from her. i think it may have been played too early. i certainly wouldn't have suggested this idea out there. i disagreed with it. but it is going to bring up the issue of age and health, the same way that we always do with candidates, people did it about john mccain saying, you know, the guy's too old and there was also suggestions out there about him tortured that he may not all be there together. and that came out when he was running for president. so unfortunately, this is the ugly, bad part of politic that is a lot of people say they don't like it. i'm one of them. >> yeah, well, that certainly came out closer to the election and maybe this is good for hillary clinton. >> sure. >> the hard ball politics isn't limited to 2016 race. in mississippi, the senate primary is getting nasty.

a report says a conservative blogger who supports the challenger to senator tad cochran arrested accused of sneaking into a nursing home taking pictures of his wife that is bedridden and suffers from dementia. >> you have a crazy blogger that's a conservative who went entirely too far. should have been arrested. he is not working for the campaign, advise the campaign, been a big person in the campaign of the tea party candidate that conservatives -- cochran. he crossed a line. should have been arrested for it. he was. and then you see the media jump on this to imply that somehow the underdog was in charge of this or made this happen which he didn't. i mean, the facts have come out about it. he didn't. you know, this is -- this is a very, very intense race. and unfortunately, you have a guy with a computer that broke into a retirement facility to take a pathetic, sick picture of

an elderly woman that's fighting a long-term disease and that's something that should be cond n condemned and i'm glad he was arrested and stays in jail for a while. >> mark, do you think this will have an affect on the race out there? >> yeah. again, it further frames the tea party members as extremists and wing nuts. i don't know whether the challenger had any connection to this guy. according to the evidence he did not. but nevertheless, this speaks to this growing sense in the nation that the tea party's filled with extremists and odd balls, people that can't politically be trusted. i don't know that's a fair criticism but that's a part of the conversation. if you look at the more recent polls, not only do most americans have less satisfaction with the tea party than four years ago and many more republicans dissatisfied with the tea party and will affect the race. >> let's be clear. >> let me finish the thought. >> the tea party in mississippi made it very, very blunt they condemned this immediately. >> yeah. they did. >> because main line republicans become more and more turned off

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veterans affairs secretary shinseki says he is mad as hell offal lagss of veterans to wait for treatment at va hospitals, some hospitals waited so long, in fact, that several dozen vets died while waiting for treatment. shinseki has no plans to resign and doesn't look like he's going to get fired either. let's bring back mark lamont hill and ben ferguson. so shinseki is keeping his job. kathleen sleel yus wasn't fired and no one involved in benghazi is fired either. mark, the president has a reputation of being a hands-off manager. is he too hands off? >> let's take benghazi off the list for a second. that's an outlier in the example and if you're asking does the president not have enough oversight, i would say probably. i mean, if you look at the health and human services issue, to not know the website was dysfunctional in june and then

august, is kind of odd and then rolls out in the fall and i had no idea this was happening, sebelius had no idea that was happening. shinseki, i'm not sure that he could have known. the president could have known this. if the constant narrative is i didn't know and my team didn't know, you have to take accountability for it. let me say one more thing. i don't necessarily believe the obama administration always doesn't know and their position to distance themselves from the stuff as much as possible seeing it political expedient but if you have mistake after mistake and never know about it, that looks equally bad. >> ben, on shinseki -- >> yeah, no -- him staying from a republican point of view, him staying, does that hurt the president more or him leaving? will the republicans smell blood and go after him harder? >> i don't think it's republican or democratic issue for once. this is veterans affairs which affects anyone that ever served

in the mill and the and democrats and republicans affected in a negative way. when people die like this because of a list, you have to fire the ceo whether they knew about it or not because that's your job to know. i understand benghazi, why he didn't fire anybody. he asked susan rice to tell a story on television, a lie to protect the presidency and the re-election campaign. i get that one and understand health and human services from a political point of view. if she admits it was a debacle and fires her, that hurts him and kept her around to protect her and him and his white house. this one i don't understand. no one is going to say it's political when people died on a list. you should fire this person because people, in fact, did die and they should be -- we should care about our veterans. it should not have anything to do with politics and that's what i don't get about this one. i think people would applaud him for firing him. i really do. >> do you think that, mark? >> no. i think there's a gap in ben's

logic here. he's right the impact is not partisan but health care isn't partisan or benghazi. the victims democrats and republicans. is the president hurt by firing somebody? if the president would have fired shinseki right now or asked for resignation it, it would be another thing on the list of mistakes the president made. whether it's true or not, so the president has a political investment and not allowing shinseki to go either. >> here's my point, mark. it's not near as much as the other two that are policies. the va is not the policy of the presidency like health care was or a foreign policy position like bmbengbenghazi was. i think republicans for one i would support the president in firing this guy who's in charge because -- >> did not -- >> this should be a nonpolitical issue. >> no. what ben would say -- if he were to fire shinseki, the president was asleep at the wheel. finally woke up and thank god he

fired shinseki unlike the treasury department, with health and human services. chart that stuff. >> let me ask you this. can we take politics out of it for a second. mark, mark, mark? >> the republican party has applauded president obama for his decision. >> mark? mark, can you and i take politics out for a second and maybe show some leadership if the people at the white house are watching and agree we both think that the guy in charge at the va when it happened should no longer be in charge and saying i'm mad as hell -- >> hold on for a moment. separate corners. i love the conversation. michael sam, i want to change gears in a moment. michael sam said he wants to be a football player and then word that tv deal in place before he was drafted. i want your thoughts on this and our sports contributor will join us to talk about that and maybe donald sterling, too. after that quick break. hang in there. not that one. that one. the one who seems like he's already got the job 'cause he studied all the right courses from the get-go.

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and the show has been postponed. bring back mark lamont hill and mark ferguson and joined by terrence moore and a columnist for mlb.com. terrence, the show postponed. should it just be canceled? >> i tell you what. it's hard to say no to oprah. i was one on oprah's show way back in the day. in this particular case, you have to pull the plug. this is reset. either michael sam has lousy pr people or he's not listening to them. i mean, everything he has done since he's been drafted has been a disaster from the pr sense. let's go backwards. okay? if you're seventh round pick, you cannot -- i'll repeat it, you cannot have a reality tv show. you just kpt do it. all right? second thing, if you're trying to make a social statement and want to tell people who you are and all that sort of thing, it's perfectly fine after you're drafted to have an interaction he had with his boyfriend. i mean, that's fine.

but if you truly want to be remembered as a football player, you cannot do that. so he's got to have it one way or the other. so far, this is awful with what he says he's trying to do. >> yeah. walking in with a tv show doesn't really set up things well for the locker room. >> no. >> mark, do you agree? is this a bad idea? >> let me respond to the last piece first. he shouldn't kiss a significant other on the tv is unfair. he wants to be a football player and not give in to the terms of ho whomo phobia. he did what everyone else does and what he's trying to do and revolutionary is normalize the idea of the gay football player as perfectly human with the same experiences as everyone else. to the reality show, i understand the logic. look. the guy was a seventh round draft pick and almost wasn't drafted. i think it's kind of interesting if he weren't drafted to have a

reality show getting into the league and financial security and didn't get drafted but now that he's drafted and he is a teammate, you have to worry about alienating the players in the locker room and first i think it was supposed to be very much a journey. every year -- >> but it is. >> yeah. >> ben, would you watch -- ben, would you watch a show with michael sam? >> i might watch part of it, but here's the thing. this isn't about a journey. this is about the sensationalism which is reality tv. oprah's very smart. this is not a normal seventh round draft pick and it's obvious he wants to be an activist, if not more than a football player. look at manti te'o, look at controversy around him. he shut up and played football because he didn't want it to be about anything else. and the first thing he did, which put i think a bull's-eye on him by other guys in the league was when he said, i

should have been drafted second or third round, no one had him in the second or third round. they had him five through seven throughout his career after he graduated. and all of the training camps. when you do this, somebody should talk to him and a, if you really want to make history, if you really want to do this, you better make the team and making a reality tv show is not going to help you make the team. >> terrance, i want to go to donald sterling. he's fighting the nba's lifetime ban. fine. how's this go -- how long is this drama going to play out? where is this going? >> this is much adieu about nothing. here's the point, he says he's not going to pay $2.5 million fine. good. because according to the contract he signed back in 1981, when he first bought the clippers it says any owner that does not pay a fine after 30 days can be and will be terminated by his fellow owners.

that's going to take care of itself. either thing is, this is analogous to what we saw with the frank mccourt case with the dodgers. that was a nasty divorce situation but in the end it ended up getting settled. they sold the dodgers to the current ownership group with magic johnson as the face of the franchise. this is going to take care of itself, particularly with the moral clause where it says you cannot do anything that adversely affects the nba and what this guy's doing, donald sterling being the modern day boil conner, that violates that position. >> i can't imagine he's going to be around next season. he is, do you think players will refuse to play, if he's involved with the clippers if he's around, heebl the only one there. staples center will be empty. i wouldn't be surprised there's a boycott around the league. >> ben, you think the same? >> i wouldn't be surprised if that's accurate. i also think they say there's nothing scarier than a bunch of

lawyer, it's a guy that's a lawyer and can pay a lot of lawyers. i don't know if he's worried about losing money. he's older and he doesn't care and it looks like he's going to lawyer up, it looks now, and he's doing this to make everyone mad and stick it to the league and make it a nightmare. maybe he and michael sams can do a reality tv show together. that, i'd watch. >> this is his third set of lawyers. nobody wants to take on the case. >> somebody will for the cash. >> they're taking it off but it tells you even the lawyers know this is a loser. >> yeah. >> terrance, i think you have the idea here that the scarier than a bunch lawyers is saying no to oprah. >> exactly right. i would never do that. >> gentlemen, thank you. >> "saturday night live's" response to the elevator battle between jay-z and his sister-in-law, we'll flay after a quick break.

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. well, snl true style, the show took on the beyonce, jay z and solange drama. the alternative reason for the elevator scuffle. >> 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? >> the proof, we got an exclusive look at the video with audio included. >> tells a completely different story. look. what a great party. i know, yep. >> oh my god, there's a spider on you. >> what, get it? >> it's moving. >> i got it. >> great job. i love you, solange. >> i love you, too.

>> you think i condone this invasion of privacy, you must not know about me, you must not know about me. ♪ >> oh, dear. mark, are you buying it? spider on the shoulder? >> that was my theory the whole time i'm feel vindicated by sp the whole time. >> don't ever hit -- >> what do you think -- >> don't hit the stop button in the elevator. always go to your destination and the floor you hit originally and as soon as you can, get out of the elevator. i'll leave it at that. >> yeah, marc, the privacy issues that this has brought up are obviously a concern. is this -- is it too much? have we gone too far now? is -- should they be feeling this much heat over something that's cluely personal in a elevator. >> i mean, donald sterling would

probably raise the same question. two issues here. one we live in a surveillance culture, right? everything we do gets seen from technology, cameras, inter net. we're always being watched. it's quite scary. there's no space for private moment of error or poor judgment or honesty. we have this sixth sense of entitlement to everybody's else's business. i would love to know what happened it elevator but i -- >> i think it's funny, how stars want to become famous, when trying to become famous, they would die for any type of publicity like this, it would get them to a higher stage. then when they get there, they're like, hey, you guys leave me alone, stay out of my life, i need privacy. you should have thought about that before you put everything that you did on a reality tv show, or on twitter or instagram, facebook, and you call people that have cameras and say, i'm going to be at this club, take a picture of me,

please sell it. >> gentlemen, marc, ben, thank you very, very much. we have to leave it there you've done a yeoman's duty today. thank you. >> thanks. you are in the "cnn newsroom." i'm miguel marquez. we are fast forwarding to the week ahead. we'll take a look at stories you'll be talking about and hearing about this coming week. our five questions for the week ahead. question number one, will we see more mers cases this week? a third case of the middle east respiratory syndrome confirmed in the u.s. a man in illinois who had contact and a business meeting with an infected indiana man tested positive for mers but what makes this case worrisomwo the first case passed on two people on u.s. soil. cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen visited the cdc with a look how