will her dress look like? who will attend? will they stay married for longer than 72 days? i sure hope so. we do wish them all the best. for cnn, i'm samantha shocker. >> well, wedding in florence seems romantic. thanks. that's your fast forward into the week ahead. i'm miguel marquez. the next hour of "cnn newsroom" starts right now. you are in the "cnn newsroom." i'm miguel marquez, in nor don lemon. developing story, your tv and internet habits, they may be changing. this, after today's major announcement that at&t and directv have agreed to merge. the roughly $50 billion deal will have to be approved by federal regulators. under terms of the agreement, at&t will acquire directv in stock and cash deal for 95 bucks a share, create a company with

unprecedented capabilities in mobile, video, broadband services. merger comes after a few months after another blockbuster telecom deal, comcast announcing it's buying time warner, a deal worth $45 billion. joining me now on the phone, lee gallagher, assistant managing editor of "fortune." if regulators approve the merger, good, bad for consumers? seems concerning. >> it's just a continuation of what's happening which is a huge consolidation of video, voice, data, all coming together. and you know, as you mentioned, this is right after the time warner and comcast deal probably one reason why regulators may not have a problem with the deal, because it will present a more robust competitor to comcast/time warner but it's definitely interesting times. >> very interesting times. you do have to wonder, you have these very large companies that will controlling all of the

broadband in the pipe that all of that information is sent through. is it changing too fast, are regulators able to keep up and actually properly regulate this industry? >> i think they are, i mean regulators are looking at this industry very closely right now, especially with the net neutrality debate. this will probably draw a lot more attention, obviously, but you know, we live in changing times. and this -- there's been more activity in this space in the past few months than there has been in years and i mean this the first big deal for at&t since the failed effort to take over t-mobile, which was thwarted by regulators. there's a lot of activity. what's interesting also, pay tv's not -- growth is slowing in pay tv. if you think about it, all of the activity that we talk about, the way we watch tv now is changing and everyone watching "house of card" on am flick, and

amazon all getting into the game. a lot of analysts saying strategically it's not the most obvious deal but they're doing it for other reasons. >> binge tv is what it's all about these days. >> yes. >> but these two companies coming together for jose and josep josephina consumer wihat will they say. >> directv offers pay tv and at&t sells data wireless telemun indication services so they'll be bundling those. you can already get those bundled depending on the market. it may benefit consumers in rural areas but it really remains to be seen. it's -- these deals tend to make more sense for the companies than for the consumer sometimes. >> is it the comcast/time warner cables of the world most concerned about these guys, or is it the content providers,

studios and television networks most concerned about the large amount of power? >> comcast will be the biggest competitor. but one of the things that this deal will do will give the combined company more access with content providers and more able to strike more and better deals with programming, which is the naum of the game. >> leigh gallagher, thank you. "new york times" publisher getting personal why he fired jill abramson, first emale exec editor-be a bramgson will speak publicly since fired four days ago. she'll give the commencement speech at wake forest. her daughter posted this photo, showing her mom boxing. she wrote, this story isn't over, not even close. what does "the new york times" publisher saying about all of this? >> hearing from arthur

sulzberging saying the dismissal had nothing to do with pay and gender to knock down the reports last week. jill abramson learned she was making less money than her predecessor, she confronted management and afterward dismissed. so here's how he's answering, he says, quote, perhaps the saddest outcome of my decision to replace jill as executive editor it's been cast as an example of the unequal treatment of women in the workplace. he goes on to say, in her last year on the job, abramson, look at her total pay package making 10% more than bill keller. and he lists the reasons that she was dismissed. he said it had to do with failure to consult and bring colleagues with her, arbitrary decision making, public mistreatment of colleagues and other characteristics. we spoke to a media executive, when you've got even the implication of gender

discrimination, she says she can understand why the "times" without try to address it head-on. >> it would only suggest that the publishers or "the new york times" so worried about being regarded as a sexist he's willing to take the risk of legal liability here by detailing how terrible a manager jill abramson was. >> a lot of people are speaking about what may or may not have happened behind the scenes at "new york times" what it means as far as female journalists. >> we are going to hear from her, wit the boxing picture, a shot across the bow, i'd say. "new york post," others, reporting this was over her hiring i co-managing editor, that she basically lied to sulzberger about it, lied to get her way, didn't mind mixing it up with the boy. she's a role model to female journalists, what are they saying. >> a lot has been said negative

about her management style, whether you buy it or don't buy it. this is a big issue. jill, she was the first executive editor of "the new york times" appointed to the job three years ago. it's a high-profile position that means this is a high-profile loss in the field as well. peop people, journalists trying to say why aren't we seeing more women to the level in the field. here waxman had to say. >> we're talking about jill abramson, she seems to symbolize something broader going on in the gender politics of high-achieving women. we are worried there's not enough women, opportunities for women to rise to the top. >> alexandra, thank you very, very much. this story has legs, as they say. rutgers university today, graduation day.

400 grads showing love orrer grik legrande, the football player paralyzed in 2010. today, legrande graduated. the degree in labor relations. he was one of the commencement speakers telling fellow grads he's proof that anything is truly possible in this world. former new jersey governor tom keen also spoke. keen a last-minute replacement for condoleezza rice who pulled out of the ceremony after rutter. >>s students and staff protested her selection. to politics now. the race that's long way from getting started and the candidate washington can't stop talking about, hillary clinton, she looms over the democratic feel as odds-on favorite. erin mcpike reports, most favorite status can also work against her. >> reporter: some top democrats are growing concerned, hillary clinton is so far ahead, so early. >> i do worry about the in inevitability thing.

i think it's off-putting to the average voter. i think that was an element of her campaign the last time. >> this is hard for me because i did talk with her and thought it would be better that she not get out there early because her favorability was so high that all that could happen in this is go down because somebody would do the stupid things that karl rove has just done. >> a concussion is by definition a traumatic brain injury. >> roves and other republicans kept up the pressure. >> any presidential candidate or vice presidential candidate is going have to answer questions about their health. >> health and age is fair game, it's fair game for reagan, it's fair game for john mccain. >> rove insisted she might choose not to run because of her health. and said, these bill clinton comments supported his case. >> -- that she staged a terrible concussion that required six months of very serious work to

get over. >> there's also benghazi. >> i think she clearly bears responsibility for whatever the state department did or didn't do with respect to that crisis. i do think it's a major issue. i don't think we've heard the last of it yet. >> i think it's ridiculous. i think it's a hunting mission for a lynch mob. >> but whatever comes her way, defenders say -- >> but there's one thing i know for certain, karl rove engaging in cheap shots is not going to back off hillary clinton. >> well, erin mcpike joining us from washington. what's camp clinton saying about the gop comments? >> well, miguel, clinton's spokesman put out a strongly worded statement earlier this week, essentially calling rove's comments desperate and saying that clinton's health is at 100%. but i would point out, miguel there are some republicans in washington who are saying that what rove is doing is smart because he's beginning to cast

doubts about clinton so early. >> so it begins. it's going to be a long campaign. thank you very much. a woman with incurable cancer got an experimental, new treatment and it put her cancer in remission. she talks about her incredible recovery, ahead. but first, firefighters claim victory against those huge dangerous wildfires in southern california. but the governor of the state is sounding a warning about what's to come.

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lie ahead on cnn's "state of the union." we're just a small part of a very large, overpowering system that we have to adapt to with great wisdom and preparation and investment. and that's what we're doing in california. we're ahead of the curve. but that curve of dryness and fires and disasters continues to escalate, we're going to have to deploy more resources. >> now, california residents are also dealing with state's aftermath in the air, smoky skies have forced people to limit their time outside. weather isn't the only sanking grace in southern california. massive team of fire crews had more than 100 engines in service and two dozen water trucks and bulldozer, not counting the ranks of firefighters from the marine corps base and their equipment. cnn's indra peterson gives us an upclose look 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, almost to within 200 meters of us, and i could feel the heat on my face as this thing approached. >> reporter: enter the third that reason aircraft wing, 22 helicopters ready to battle flames. on this flight, headed for a lake on the base with 300 gallon bucket in tow. chopper guided by a crew chief, manning a door in the chopper floor, known as the hell hole. you can see the delicate balances. our pilot does the same, lowering the bucket until submerged once full, we head for the fire line. >> we can see how bad this area is. >> again, using the hell hole and a lot of precision, the chief spots the right moment to make the drop on his signal it's released.

at the peak, captain bradley gibson pulled it off with zero visibility. >> you see the lead aircraft going to smoke and disappear, you don't know if he's going ahead, you don't know if he got his bucket drop-off or not, you just hope. >> the smoke so intense forcing the crews to look else where. the video shows a marine chopper hovering over the pacific ohhen. reassuring to see my neighborhood. >> they fight fires not just camp pendleton but nearby communities. water drops to protect even their own homes. >> i can call home, call the wife and say, neighborhood looks good. >> water drops they count make in 2003 when the cedar fire killed 22 people. new policies united marines with local firefighters. >> rather than having to go back to washington, d.c.ing to lawn aircraft, the local commanders can make the determination there's an immediate threat to

life and property and we had our aircraft airborne inside of hours. >> reporter: immediate action helping marines save property and lives. in this case, those lives were their own. >> extreme weather overseas now at least 13 people have died in flooding aabosnia, rainfall pushed to the highest levels ever recorded in the former yugoslavia. parts of country got two months' of rain in two days. it's bad, too in neighboring serbia. 24,000 people had to be evacuated out of the flooded areas. the red cross officials say many are refusing to leave their homes. water is chest deep in some places. just hours ago, gunmen stormed libya's parliament in tripoli after lawmakers ended their session and left the building.

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after 2 1/2 years people who fled homs, syria, are trying to return but with the city having been the scene of bitter fighting between the government and syrian forces, there's not much left of their homes. >> reporter: as we leave damascus for homs, in the outskirts of the syrian capital the devastation of the war is clearly visible. this road only reopened two months ago and still isn't always safe. these are the districts. there was very heavy fighting on this very road until recently. the rebels control large parts of the area, so we have to try to get through here as fast as we can. the highway to homs leads mostly through the desert. there used to be fighting here as well. some districts lay in ruins after 2 1/2 years of fighting and people are just beginning to pick up the pieces. they've only started the cleanup effort here in homs. you can see there's still quite a lot they have to do.

homs is one of the places where you go after the battle is over and you can still feel how heavy and how hard the fighting must have been. you can see the shutters of the build, absolutely destroyed the houses are pockmarked. a lot of heavy weapons used in urban combat. over there the bottom floor is burned out. mouft have been a massive fire. up there you can look into someone's living room because that house is destroyed as well. and just from that, you can see how long it's going to take for them to rebuild this place. it not just rebuilding the material things. it's trying to rebuild the social fabric of the community to get people to live together again. sunnis, christians and alawites live in distrust of each other after two years of civil war. their common history in the town has also been damaged as the sunlight creates a surreal mood in the burned and broken ancient

bazaar. the warring factions fought as hard as they could in the ancient bazaar, completely destroyed and burned out. up there, those stones are thousands of years old. of course none of that is in any way replaceable. sometimes i wonder, after an assignment like this one how i'm going to go home and tell my children all of this was destroyed in our times and we, the world, didn't do anything to prevent it. but now that the battle for homs is over, the people of the town have a chance to rebuild maybe one day move on together. fred pleitgen, cnn, homs, syria. >> amazing work there. talk more with syria with christopher dickey. you've spent some time there. assad's forces reversed any gains the rebels have made there. where are we right now? >> seeing slowly bit by bit,

assad's fors are regaining places they want to control. homs is near the lebanese border. if they control that, they may make it almost impossible for the rebels and a large part of the country to be resupplied. >> the president in the famous quote about chemical weapons being a red line for him, the u.s. promised military aid to rebels. is any of this going to happen? any sort of stomach in the international community here? >> they'll give some military aid to some of the rebels and some training but it's not going to turn the tide of the war. the problem is the united states and europe and the world could not decide what they wanted. first they wanted to get rid of al assad. but they didn't apply pressure that would do that, that would achieve that end. he knew if he left all of his world would disintegrate and everybody around him would be crushed by whatever forces came in. so that didn't happen. and now we've got a situation

where so many rebel groups are alied with or sympathetic with the aims of al qaeda, nobody wants them to take over. >> waited too long. >> it's a hopeless situation. it is, it's going on and on. it will be like the balkans, one of those wars that goes on and on. >> and clearly won't change anytime soon as assad holds power, i take it, that will comment in a status quo? >> he'll have a ruin -- he has and will have a ruined country. at some point he's got think about try reeg buiing to rebuil can. you know, we had one person who has been active in the syrian opposition say, let's bring israel in, let's get it involved in some way. it is next door. but that is truly a sign of desperation. >> let's switch over to libya. you've followed the fighting in tripoli today. it's been ongoing in benghazi. there's been a long-term fight against the militiaed in benghazi. looks like the same thing is

happening in tripoli now. how do you read the situation there? >> what it looks like is this general who has created this army of his own, a large militia that seems to be pretty efficient, first he has an offensive in benghazi, then an offensive in tripoli. he may be trying to establish some kind of order. he's an interesting character. he lived in the united states for two decades in northern virginia. >> right. >> and many people think he was in some weighed alied with the u.s. government at some point. >> they claim to be allied with the cia. >> maybe they were. >> maybe they were. maybe they have a point. the u.s. had great influence when this all first happened and then sadly chris stevens was killed there the u.s. ambassador. does the u.s. have cards to play here? does the u.s. have some arrows in its quiver? >> not many. we come up with the situation, the united states does not want to put boots on the ground, there's very little it can do in the situations, the chaotic

situations we've had the french putting boots on the ground, central africa republic, some places affected pli lby libyan . no one in the united states wants to dispatch soldiers to the middle east. we're if a situation where will try to move things from outside while the core of the problem becomes more and more volatile. just extremely difficult situation. >> so much hope. i assume you watched the arab spring from the inside as it was playing out? so much hope during that time. where are we in that process? >> we're in a bad situation. the only country that's really looking pretty good now as a result of the arab spring is tunisia, where they have had a democratic process that's moved forward in fits and starts, but certainly better than in other countries. in egypt, we'll have elections very sthoon wioon that will mak

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other international stories. sudan, 27-year-old woman, 8 months pregnant, sentenced to beth because she refuses to recant her christian belief. she's also convicted of adultery for marrying a chris man man. her husband says the court ruled their marriage illegal. >> translator: i was considered innocent and the marriage revoked. it means my son is no longer my son and the one coming is not my son, too will not be my son. this innocence means nothing, and i will appeal for my myself and for my wife. >> chris, is it common in sudan for these rulings to come down? seems extraordinarily extreme. >> no, it is extreme, and it's fairly rare. some of it may be the result of this particular judge and this particular case. but is it a really grossly unfair and by most standards illegal rule, even by standards of sharia law.

this is a woman raised as a christian, always a christian, ruling was made because her father was a muslim and when she was 7 he left. >> do you think they'll reverse? >> i think they've got time to appeal. i think the way that people are looking at this story, they tend to think she's going to be executed tomorrow. that's not going to happen. she's eight months pregnant, she's going to have the baby, they will wait until the baby's weaned. during all of that period, many, many months you'll have a situation where appeals will be made. >> reports out about christians being persecuted group worldwide, the most persecuted group worldwide, does that ring true to you? we've seen it in other places. >> miguel, every religious group you can talk to seems to think it's the most persecuted group there are a lot of christians persecuted and a lot of places muslims are persecuted as well. the real problem is that you have a few countries that look

really very sinister from the christian point of view, one being saudi arabia, our great ally, where it's very hard for christians to worship in public and countries like sudan, it's been called a genocidal regime. the president is in a war criminal. you've have a situation where if they want to play this game which is what they're doing with islamic law, they will go ahead and do it. their reputation could hardly be worse. >> not much leverage from the u.s. nigeria and boko haram now saying they want to install sharia law there. >> their kind of sharia law. >> their kind of sharia law. a theme cross parts of africa, northern parts. >> again, who is being persecuted in different places? the feeling of the people in northeast nigeria who are mostly muslims they've been persecuted and forgotten by the regimes in

lagos and the other end of nigeria. but this guy's crazy, the head of boko haram. but crazy like a fox. he knows he can motivate young men, unemployed, a lot trained in religious schools, to the extent they get any training at all and play on the discontent of the population. >> india held their six-week election, 450 million voters there, they've voted out the guys who had been in party, congress party for the last ten years, bjp, hindu nationalist party in there now. how do you see these elections? india's a very difficult place to manage. how do you see them doing there? in you know, the problem that is the congress party was doing so badly, it had been in power so long, i mean, essentially you can trace it back to naru. >> can the bjp rule? >> probably it can do a better job than the congress party. >> really? >> at this point. >> that's clearly important to

the entire world. >> at this point. remember, that modi, the man who is going -- is the new prime minister, he has been accused of being involved with massacres of muslims where he was in charge ten years ago. and that's going to be hard for 150 million muslims to accept in india. >> he's got some work to do. >> he does. >> do you think he'll do it? >> i think he'll try. he played down some of the hostilities of muslims during his campaign. now he's run on an economic platform. >> we'd like to see it stable in india. thank you very much. up next, is hillary clinton too old and too unhealthy to be president? an argument made by a former white house adviser. we'll debate it.

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not so with internet from the phone company. i would email the phone company to inquire as to why they have shortchanged these customers. but that would require wifi. switch to comcast business internet and get two wifi networks included. comcast business built for business. veterans affairs secretary eric shinseki says he's mad as hell about allegations some veterans have been forced to wait for treatment at v.a. hospitals some hospitals wait sod long, several dozen vets decide whiting for treatment. shinseki hasn't resigned and it doesn't look like he'll be fired either. i discussed this with marc

lamont hill. we started with hillary clinton's health, an issue that came out of nowhere where karl rove brought it up during a recent speech. marc lamont hill >> he's done her an enormous favor. one, because he gets the conversation on the table, gets the issue out of the way, but also people will come to her defense. people were outraged that he would not only put something like this out there but that he would litter it with so many untruths about how long she was in the hospital, what type of technology she had on her face. by doing that, he made women empathize with hillary clinton more because they see this as a gender sexist attack. he also made the elderly sympathize with hillary clinton more. this did much more for hillary clinton than for any potential republican nominee. she should be sending karl a thank you card. >> we'll see about that. republican strategist alex castellano says rove's attack on

hillary may leave a bitter taste. could all this backfire? >> well, it certainly could backfire. i also think it brings up the obvious which is she is the front-runner and she was in this position before. i think the earlier you kind of say to everyone this is the candidate, the more pressure it can also put on a campaign. she was in the exact same position and then barack obama really took it from her. i do think it brings that up. i think it may have been played a little 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 the guy's too old and there was also suggestions out there about him that maybe when he was tortured that he may not all be there together and that came out when he was running for president. unfortunately, this is the ugly bad part of politics that a lot of people say they don't like. i'm one of them. >> let's take benghazi off the

list for a moment. if you're asking the question does the president not have enough oversight, i would say probably. if you look at the health and human services issue, to not know the website was dysfunctional in june and then in august is kind of odd. then it rolls out in the fall and all of a sudden it's like i had no idea this was happening, that seems to be inexcusable. when it comes to shinseki, i'm not sure that he could have known, the president could have known this. either way, 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. i think their position is to distance themselves from this stuff as much as possible because they see it to be politically expedient and sometimes it is but in the long term if you have mistake after mistake and mistake and you never knew about it, that looks equally bad. >> on shinseki -- >> i think -- >> 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 -- i honestly don't think this is a republican or democratic issue for once. because this is veterans affairs, which affects anyone that ever served in the military, and there's a lot of democrats and republicans that were 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 go on tv and tell a story, tell a lie to protect the president in his re-election campaign. i get that one. i even understand health and human services from a political point of view. if she admits it was a debacle and he fires her, that is actually going to hurt him. he kept her around to protect her and really, to protect him and his white house. this one, i don't understand. because 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. that's what i don't get about this one. i think people would applaud him for firing him. i really do. >> my thanks to both of you. here's something you don't see every day. college football recruit was living out of a car, people wanted to help but the ncaa wouldn't allow it. now the organization is bending its own rules. that story coming up next.

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a college football player was living out of a car and is finally getting the help he needs all because the ncaa bent the rules. cnn's brian mcfaden has more. >> reporter: the ncaa forbids boosters from giving money to student athletes but it couldn't turn down the request from one school trying to bend the rules

in the name of common sense by helping to get a homeless college football player off the street. it's a movie in the making. >> wake up, survive, go to sleep, survive, wake up, survive. >> reporter: such is the story of incoming boise state football recruit antoine turner. he told ktvb after his mother died from cancer when he was 4, he lived with various family members in new orleans only to be left homeless after hurricane katrina ravaged his lower ninth ward home, killing his uncle. he told the station he dealt drugs for gangs in new orleans but never had a steady roof over his head. just trying to survive, the only solace he seemed to have was escaping to the football field. he played for a junior college team in california while living in parks and in his girlfriend's car. >> we had no blanket or nothing like that so i could either lay across this or sit under like this and put my head down.

>> reporter: he got his big break when he was recruited by boise state as a defensive tackle but he was still homeless. boosters pledged to help but the school let them know if they assisted, it could affect his eligibility. but that all changed on wednesday. the ncaa granted boise state permission to provide immediate assistance to turner. now at the age of 21, turner says he has a long way to go on his journey from homelessness to division one football player. >> i understand it's not over. i'm bringing all the pain, all the things that i have with me. feels like i owe boise. >> reporter: it's a nice ending to the story for turner and the ncaa. the ncaa has taken a lot of criticism recently with the way they handle student athletes and you have to believe that played a role in the positive outcome of this case and the speed with which it was handled. >> stay with cnn and cnn.com for the latest news. next, it's anthony bourdain

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