good evening, everyone. a very busy night. breaking news. election results from big primary races across the country and the nba commissioner making it clear donald sterling has got to go. also, tonight, the va scandal investigation growing and questions of president obama knew about the game playing and book cooking. joining us only 0n the program, the doctor that first blew the whistle at problems at one of the now 26 hospitals under investigation. 26. later, michael jace's accused of murdering his wife. sad and puzzling case. we begin with the breaking news and states across the country as results coming in from a big and potentially consequential string of elections. especially in kentucky with mitch mcconnell. over the weekend, he predicted that tea party candidates would get crushed in the primaries.

tonight he appears to be doing his part. cnn can project him the winner in the race. that said, the electoral troubles, rare troubles for a powerful incumbent might not be over. i want to talk about that and the kentucky results. dana bash is there and gloria borger is in washington keeping her eye on the other key races. dana, mcconnell expected to gate major challenge from the right, from the tea party. what happened? it turned out to not be much of a race at all. >> reporter: that's right. you know, as you said, he promised to crush the tea party opponent and that looks like what he's headed to do. at this point, it looks like matt bevin is probably not going to crack 40% and that matters because it's all about at this point pitching forward to november and how much juice mcconnell can get first and foremost monk the republican friends and republican voters in order to beat the woman he'll likely have a neck and neck race with, the democrat.

i'm watching mcconnell four years now try to deal and to play the tug of war with the idea of the tea party coming up and surprising a lot of republican colleagues, some of foremost monk the republican friends and republican voters in order to beat the woman he'll likely have a neck and neck race with, the democrat. i'm watching mcconnell four years now try to deal and to play the tug of war with the idea of the tea party coming up and surprising a lot of republican colleagues, some of his fellow senators were beaten, outright beaten, and at the end of the day, those republican challengers lost to democrats. and so, you have that dynamic that mcconnell watched and personal for him and hard because he's been very candid behind the scenes and elsewhere saying he felt some of the challenges have robbed him over the past two cycles, the ability to win back the majority for republicans and be the majority leader. >> dana -- >> reporter: that's why with him -- >> go ahead. >> how tight is his general election going to be against the democratic challenger? >> reporter: at this point, it's extremely tight. it is early. but that's why the idea of unifying the republican voters to vote today is really

critical. but what is interesting, what we're going to likely hear from mcconnell is something we heard from him on the trail over the last couple of days which is that he is going to argue that people who vote for grimes are voting for obama and why that matters and why that's considered a big negative here is because president obama lost all but four counties in this state. he's extremely unpopular and more so than election day in 2012. the question, though, is, is mitch mcconnell as unpopular? polls show he is and the democratic opponent alison grimes is thinking that she can hit on that, hit on his personal unpopularity to propel her forward in november. >> right. showing her picture there. gloria, the other republican primary tonight. other pivotal one in georgia. the tea party battling the establishment. when's happening there? >> yeah. there's a real civil war in the republican bear and the democrats love it. they think they have a good candidate going forward in the fall. michelle nun who's the daughter of a former senator.

you see all these primary candidates here. there are three tea party candidates, two establishment candidates. there may very well be a runoff if nobody gets a majority here but, anderson, you know, what we see going on in this race is that it becomes increasingly difficult to tell the tea party candidates from the establishment candidates because what's going on is the establishment is running very, very far to the right so they can get those tea party voters out because they know that they're also going to need them in the fall. >> and dana, for republicans to take the senate, they need a net gain of six seats. what does tonight mean for that? >> reporter: well, certainly means here in kentucky that it's much more likely because if it's republican challenger matt bevin won it would have been game over for the seat and likely gone to the democrat in november but as gloria was just talking about, georgia is a different ball game. that's actually a seat where

democrats feel they have the best chance of picking up and the fact of a republican runoff, a continued nasty republican fight, perhaps makes those chances even better, so it really is wide open. republicans for sure feel as good as they ever have about taking the six seats and democrats are not sure. >> gloria, you sat down with the house democratic candidate in pennsylvania who also happens to be chelsea clinton's mother-in-law and locked in a heated primary. >> she is. she was a congresswoman 20 years ago and she actually delivered the vote. there you have her. she delivered the vote for bill clinton's economic plan that actually saved his presidency. fast forward 20 years. she's running again the district has changed. she lost her seat as a result of the vote to help out bill clinton. now she's running again in a much more democratic district and it's a very tight race. there's a bunch of other democrats running. we don't know if she is going to win but i'll tell you what.

bill and hillary clinton have been raising money for her. bill clinton did some of the robo calls for her and might be the pixie dust that gets her over the finish line. >> we don't know how she's doing yet? >> we don't know the result yet. >> all right. thanks very much. a day after outlining the charges against l.a. clipper owner donald sterling, a day after the lawyer demanded three months to answer the charges, it was answered back and aggressively saying sterling has to give up the team sooner than that. pointing out to the remarks with me why he needs to give in. >> the timing is laid out in the nba constitution. we're following it to the letter in terms of numbers of days that mr. sterling has to respond and then when the hearing will be held and as i said, i know we're doing the right thing here. this is an unprecedented proceeding. you know? will there be bumps in the road? presumably yes.

you know, mr. sterling on one hand at least in his cnn interview indicated a willingness to accept the judgment of his owner partners, his lawyers are saying otherwise. so we'll see. but this will all get worked out. i mean, i know we're pursuing the right course and doing the right thing. the proceedings and the process is set out in our constitution and something they signed on for when they became owners in the league and my position on mrs. sterling and i said at the initial press conference, we haven't focused on any conduct by mrs. sterling. the way the franchise termination proceedings work is if the primary controlling governor of the team in essence is found by three quarters of the members of the other members of the association, the other owners in the league, to have in essence, you know, done something under our constitution that calls for the termination of his team, all ownership interests are terminated as part of that proceeding.

as i understand the position of mrs. sterling's lawyers, in essence, they would say we accept you can terminate mr. sterling but somehow mrs. sterling comes with the team. i think even if that's not what it said in our constitution it just doesn't make sense. the same way even if you had unrelated partners, if you terminated the franchise of the primary owner and that owner had several, you know, colleagues, cronies who were also owners with him, it wouldn't make sense that under our constitution we could then go about selling the team but those other partners would have to come along. and so, our position is once under the constitution based on mr. sterling's conduct, if the owners ultimately decide that it's appropriate to terminate his franchise the interest of all owners is terminated. >> what was it he said to anderson that made the situation worse in your opinion? >> you know what? it's outlined in the charge that

we made against mr. sterling. i will say i responded in part right after that interview to particular comments he made about magic johnson, but also, to comments he made about african-americans. >> on the left-hand side, right here, dave. >> adam, dave, espn los angeles. piggybacking on the last question, you mentioned early on when you had -- announced the lifetime ban of donald sterling you had an interaction with him, information gathering process. has that continued at all or by virtue of his public comments in the cnn interview and then your statement afterwards, are you beyond that point where you guys can hash it out just between man to man? >> well, i'll only say that mr. sterling still owns the los angeles clippers. mr. sterling, as i understand it through a trust, owns 50% of the team, as well. it is their team to sell. and so, he knows what the league's point of view is. and so, i'm sure if he wanted to

sell the team, you know, on some reasonable timetable, i'd prefer he sell it than we go through this process. so if that's what you mean by man to man, i'm open to that. >> the process could be long, nasty and tough. a look at how it could play out with rachel nichols as well as jeffrey toobin and sunny hostin. jeff. adam silver says no more time. does sterling have any options here? >> he has one option out this point which is to go to court and persuade a judge to stop the sale for some reason but it seems entirely clear that if the process goes forward on june 3rd as the schedule now has it sterling -- adam silver will get well more than three quarters of the owners and it will all be over by then. >> sunny, if there's doubt about shelly sterling's standing in this, silver said without a

doubt all the sterlings have to go. >> well, that's what silver's position is. that's no surprise. that's been the nba's position. but i don't think that that is actually so cut and dried, anderson. >> you think shelly has options? >> i do. i think that the nuclear option, of course, is filing for divorce. this entire thing will end up in a court somewhere in los angeles, some family law divorce court. i think that's a possibility. i disagree with jeff. bottom line the lawsuit that donald sterling is filing is drafted and filed this week and may very well find a judge that says i need more time to look at this. you can't take this man's property, the man's franchise without a due process. i think we are in for a legal fight. >> jeff, would a divorce derail this thing? >> i don't think so. i know sunny has said that and mark geragos said that. i think the nba says, look, you want to be divorced, fine. we are putting the franchise up for auction, and you can split

the proceeds however you want. but you are out. and you cannot use your marital problems as something to interfere with the workings of the nba. i just think there is -- this is not going to be a factor in how this matter is resolved. and sunny talks about a lawsuit. there is no lawsuit yet and they haven't filed one and talk is cheap. it is easy to talk about filing a lawsuit but nobody has filed one yet and i have my doubts about when one will be filed at all. >> rachel -- >> i take that bet. >> rachel, donald sterling could be rattling the saber. he in the interview back and forth on it and didn't want to be in a fight with the league. >> people want me to hire a wall of lawyers and them to hire a wall of lawyers and to go to war.

i don't think that's the answer. the league is a good league. all honest people. and i think that whatever they decide that has to be done i think i should work with them. i don't want to fight with my partners. you know? we all do what we have to do in life. i love them and i respect them and whatever their decision is, with regard to the disposition of my terrible words, then i have to do it i think. i mean, i love my league. i love my partners. am i entitled to one mistake? it's a terrible mistake. and i'll never do it again. the league won't stand for that. they won't stand for racism. i'm telling you. and i did it. is it harsh? of course it's harsh. but it's not like i don't deserve -- i they were going to

do more. >> rachel, that's clearly the message to the owners hoping to influence them on how they may vote but at the same token he talked about what his other options are. what do you think is going to happen? >> look, donald sterling has a history of saying anything and everything to get him what he wants. you have seen it from him before and delay tactics before. when the nba delivered the charges to him what did his lawyer ask for? a three-month delay. we have seen him even say he's going to sell the team before. remember, 30 years ago the nba's advisory committee voted to force him to sell his team because he admitted openly that he was trying to tank, to get the number one draft pick. he said, sure, absolutely i'll sell the team. didn't do it. he got to keep the team. we have seen all of this from donald sterling before. we have seen him go through the legal system before. i think when's convenient in the moment he'll say. he may try to get a temporary injunction here to slow the process but the bottom line is the nba wants him out and laid out in the charges just how he's defamed the league.

justin tim beryllake goes on the tv the other night and says i want to thank everyone in the world except for donald sterling. he is now eclipsed kim jong-un. basically now the world's worst person and he's currently a nba owner. that's a problem. the nba wants to separate. >> i wouldn't put him in the league with certainly with those but i understand. >> i wouldn't either but the fact that he's on tv making this statement, now being singled out as the worst person in the world and obviously not the worst person in the world but he's the poster child for it and not an association the nba can stand for anymore. that's very telling the fact he's being singled out and the other places that have nothing to do with sports. they need to get him disassociated with the league. >> yeah. and i get your reference. you also, sunny, heard adam silver reference some of what sterling said to me about magic johnson. i just want to play a bit of that. >> big magic johnson, what has he done?

>> he's a business person. he -- >> he's got aids. did he do any business? i'd like -- did he help anybody in south l.a.? >> i think he has hiv. not full-blown aids. >> what kind of a guy goes to every city and has sex with girls and catches hiv. is that someone we want to respect and tell our kids about? i think he should be ashamed of himself. i think he should go into the background. that's one problem i have. jews, when they get successful, they will help their people. and some of the african-americans, maybe i'll get in trouble again, they don't want to help anybody. >> i mean, sunny, he's certainly, you know, in an effort to apologize, he certainly did himself no favors and that interview is now being referenced by the nba. >> no question. and it's going to be used, going to be used in court, as well. but, you know, i think the bottom line here is that this

guy likes to sue for sport. he is a lawyer. remember, he wasn't supposed to move the clippers from san diego to los angeles. he did it anyway. the nba sued him. he sued back. guess what. the clippers are in los angeles. he's not afraid, i think, to file suit when he thinks that he doesn't have a good chance. i think he does think that he has a good chance. so are we going to see an injunction filed? request for injunction. absolutely. see a lawsuit? absolutely. i couldn't disagree with jeff more. the bottom line is this again is a guy who likes to sue for sport. what adam silver said today means game on. you're only giving me a week donald sterling is thinking? i can file a lawsuit in a week. >> thank you for being with us. it goes on. quick reminder, set your dvr to set "360" whenever you like. more developments in the va health care scandal. the scope of the investigation more than doubled in size and a house committee said the va is dragging their feet on the

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investigated. new number tonight, 26. in case you missed it hear's how va secretary shinseki characterized the allegations while testifying at the same hearing. >> in your judgment, based on what you know, are people quote/unquote cooking the books? is that, in fact, a problem within the health care system? >> i'm not aware and other than a number of isolated cases where there is evidence of that. but the fact that there's evidence in a couple of cases behooves us to take a thorough rook. >> keeping them honest, 26 by almost any measure is more than a couple of cases. today the white house says it's sending a top aide to review the problems at the va hospital in phoenix. problems first reported by our own drew griffin. drew's reporting sparked the investigation that is are now under way and today drew once again asked shinseki to talk to

him. he didn't gator have view. that's not stopped drew from trying, though, over and over and over again. >> reporter: we have been trying to get an interview with eric shinseki as you said since last november. >> trying for months. >> yes, we asked again today. well, i didn't gate callback today. no response to the request. they don't respond. we are again asking an interview. >> again, the invitation of secretary shinseki on the program or talk to drew stands. >> and still stands tonight. we are not the only ones he's you could say been stonewalling. today the chairman of the house committee calls the call to the subpoena weak. he also said if they don't get the information in a timely fashion the committee could move to hold the va in contempt. president obama's resisted calls to fire shinseki and facing growing questions of when he learned about the problems at

the va. today the white house again asked about internal va memo first disclosed last week. the office of the inspector general is now investigating 26 facilities. do we know where they are? >> no. they won't tell us. what we do know is the allegations, 26 confirmed involved in wait times, possibly the hiding of how long those waits for veterans are. it's certainly today does not seem isolated at all, anderson, as you said. >> drew, there's also evidence that the va knew that facilities were gaming the system, manipulating wait times for years, right? >> yeah. even used those words. let me show you a memo of 2010, 4 years ago, written by a va undersecretary, a call to immediately and here it is, review current scheduling practices to identify and eliminate inappropriate practices. this is 2010, anderson. the memo goes on to list all the

different ways that facilities have used, quote, gaming strategies. we reached out to the va yet again today to ask if the secretary has read this memo. they haven't gotten back to us on that either. >> and they haven't gotten back to you for an interview request i assume. >> no, no. not at all. >> let's bring in jim accosta. they said that the president learned from drew's reporting of the problems in phoenix and now saying that the president is aware of the problems at the va for years? >> they're clear they're talking about the delays, the wait times for many years and asked about that 2010 memo and here's what jay carney had to say. >> this is going on for years, this concealing of wait times. how's it, is the president satisfied he did not hear about -- >> there's a misunderstanding and misreporting about this specific topic. yesterday i think i was asked by you when did the president learn of the specific allegations or

what i heard your question to be. the allegations of the fix facility. the president as we all know, we have discussed it here, talked about the challenges facing va since he was a candidate and it was precisely those problems that had been identified and were discussed in 2006, 2007, 2008. that he spoke about as a candidate. and that led him to commit to increased resources available to the va so that we could better serve our veterans and deliver on the commitment every year he's been president. this is not a new issue to the president. >> so to be clear, to be fair, the white house saying it is not a new issue. the president knew about the cooking of the books problems or at least the wait time issues for years? did they specify? >> no, they did not. when i pressed jay carney about this, when the president first learned about the concealing of wait times, there's a difference, jay carney asked we wait for the outcome of the

investigations and not clear at this point, anderson. >> okay, drew, we know from the memo of 2010 that the va at least, undersecretary of va at least, was aware that people were cooking the books or gaming the system, gaming the wait times. do we know if that got to the white house? >> we don't know if that got to the white house. jim had a busy day at the white house today. tried to press jay carney on that, as well. he danced around that. we don't have a direct answer from the white house on that. a little aside, everybody at the va knew about this for years and years and years and years and they've been telling about this by the general accounting office. >> i want to bring in dr. foot. thank you for being here. the fact that now 26 facilities are under investigation, does that surprise you? >> no.

this is a systemic problem and they have been cheating and gaming this for years. >> you say this is a systemic problem. how do you -- i mean, how can you say -- how can you say that for sure? >> well, i guess i can't say that for sure. it's certainly been going on in phoenix for years and talked the people at other vas and told me the same thing. basically when you have a system where if the hospital director turns in good numbers to the vision director, they get ahead. if the vision director turns in good numbers to the va administration, they ahead. if congress comes and asked how's the va doing? numbers are great. so there's absolutely no incentive for upper va management to demand or get good numbers. >> doctor, i'm curious about sort of an inspection process. we hear about the inspector general's office doing the investigations. i'm curious to see how the investigation plays out on the ground.

have inspectors from the va's office reached out the you or asked to interview you as part of the ig investigation? >> we outlined several strategies for key points of data and information retrieval. i can't go into discussion of that. >> sure. >> as it appears to be an ongoing criminal investigation. they were very helpful and they are leaving no stone unturned in this investigation. i have ultimate confidence in them that they're going to get to the bottom of this phoenix. >> that's interesting. you're confident. sorry, drur. go ahead. >> i want to jump in. since we first talked to dr. foote some three weeks ago now, everything he's told us is consistent with the other whistle-blowers coming forward, actual clerks in san antonio, texas. wyoming and others. so everything that dr. foote has told us about was happening here in phoenix, we have found to be happening according to whistle-blowers across the country and why he says it is systemic. >> right. >> we have certainly found that,

as well. >> doctor, a lot of pressure, obviously, on secretary shinseki to resign from the va. you think he should stay on as secretary. why? >> well, i'm afraid if he leaves then the focus will shift away from correcting the problem to who's the new guy going to be. and he know it is lay of the land. he knows who to count on most likely and who he can't and needs to shift from passively letting mr. petsell run in cover-up mode and get proactive on this. you know, sending vision employees to inspect other visions doesn't get useful data. they send to send out electronic survey and by the general accountability office for anonymous replies on the true waiting times from the providers and the staff and the clerks and then they can give the administration a, say, one-week amnesty for the actual waiting time numbers and if they differ, the ig needs to investigate them and if they found that they, you know, fudged those numbers, they need to fire those people and prosecute them.

>> you know, doctor, i mean, just briefly, obviously, there's a lot of really good people who have the best of intentions to work incredibly hard at the va across the country and want to do right. not everybody gaming the system. is the core issue here that the va's underfunded, they don't have the resources to treat the large number of vets? the growing older vet population, the large number of vets from iraq, afghanistan and that these are basically bureaucrats trying to cover up the fact they don't have the resources and game the system to fake the wait times? is to you the key problem behind all this? >> well, we have had poor administration for several years which has compounded the problem of more demand than we can supply. rather than admit to it and address it, they have elected to cover it up. that's where the problem lies, anderson. >> all right. drew, appreciate it. jim, dr. sam foote, especially, thank you for coming forward and being on with us tonight.

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key developments today regarding the wildfires that scorched thousands of acres in southern california last week. a joint task force is set up to coordinate the investigations of at least 11 fires that broke out there. investigators had determined some of them were caused by arson. and as they sift through debris and search for evidence, investigators have discovered video that shows the first few moments of one fire that turned into a deadly inferno. >> we have to leave. >> reporter: you are watching a rare and critical clue. cell phone video catching the first seconds of a fire. investigators now using this to unlock how a deadly wildfire. >> they're catching so [ bleep ] fast. >> reporter: you can hear the

panic recording on the cell phone. he was working on a house just up the hill and saw the first signs of smoke. this is what he saw. as a point set of fire grew and raged out of control. this video now in the hands of fire and arson investigators. >> holy [ bleep ]. look how fast it's moving, dude. >> scared for the people. scared for their lives and just got -- it was a matter of minutes. the people had minutes to get out of the homes. >> another house. >> there at the cul-de-sac. >> reporter: before flames reaching 100 feet tall started ravaging neighborhoods and gutted an apartment building, eight homes and two businesses. one person killed. >> this guy was really lucky to capture it like he did. >> reporter: retired san diego fire investigator michael american believes based on the video and pointing out here in the charred starting point of the fire -- so the fire goes from this hill -- >> right here.

to the center of that divide. >> over the median to the hill. it was likely started by someone on the gulf course, possibly an accident. but like many of the dozen or so fires in the san diego area, sparked by a fire we the golf club or discarded cigarette or something like that. i have to get out before they catch me and charge me with this. >> reporter: the fire moving fast, 20 miles per hour fueled by hot desert winds. bob and sophie payne's house sat in the line of fire there. >> welcome to our backyard. >> yeah. >> reporter: less than a week later, they laugh. so they don't cry. as we walk through the shell of their home. it took a lifetime for the retired bus driver and casino worker to build this home. they left to go visit an aunt that day. >> to have a dream home go to pot and not have it again is like, wow. >> reporter: how important is it for you to know what caused this fire? >> oh, it's very important. >> it's important and i hope he

gets caught so he doesn't do it again for somebody else. that's -- i mean, this is done. you know? so i just hope they catch him so there's no more future of this going on. >> incredible. joining us from california, you mentioned the cell phone video in the hands of investigators. has it led to developments we know about? >> reporter: we understand that authorities have spoken to a man who was seen in a part of the video only authorities have and see a golf cart leaving the scene of the fire. they have spoken to that person. we don't know what happened as a result of that conversation and part of the reason that investigators have been so cautious about making sure that the media knows to not label what started this particular fire may be that there was a death in this fire, anderson, and because there was a death, even if it's accidental, a cigarette butt or that golf club, the consequences certainly could be very different.

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they don't. they're hearty little critters so what the research out of auburn university found is that, for example, take an armrest that's between the seats, mersa which is an antibiotic resistant bacteria can survive for six days. that is a very long time. also, on that leather seat you are sitting on, mersa can survive for six days. on the tray table that you pull down from in front of you, survive for five days and this one, anderson, i have to say, i hadn't thought much about this. the window shades we put down, push up, they can survive for five days there. now, for e. coli, a really nasty one, doesn't survive as long but days and days. >> people that don't fly a lot thinking they clean the planes between flights but i fly all the time. you do, as well. they don't have much turn around

time and very often, you know, you open up the pouchs in the seat in front of you and find all kinds of things from the last person who was there. they're not cleaning these seats in between flights. >> right. i once found a half eaten cookie and glad to tell you i didn't finish it and all sorts of stuff stayses in the pockets and on the pockets, the bacteria stays the longest, seven days. >> that's where it stays the longest, on the pocket on the seat in front of me? >> the cloth pocket. that's where it stays the longer. tends to be absorbed and doesn't transfer as easily and survive for seven days there and about the disinfecting question, we're told that the planes get disinfected every day on the ground overnight and wipe down the surfaces but, still, if they're not doing it between every flight, it means that you're possibly getting the same

germs as the person that sat in the seat before you and before that. so it's, you know, once a day is not going to get hefrg. >> if you travel a lot, is there anything to do to protect yourself? wipe down the seat with wipes or not a good idea? >> you know, anderson, i'll tell you. i sat next to people that do that and thought they're so -- why are they doing that? i'll tell you that i read the study i think they're smart. you get an alcohol-based wipe and wipe down the tray table and the armrest and all of that, the window shade and kills the bugs so that's a pretty easy thing to do. >> some people said okayty bacterial wipes are bad and sort of overusing anti-bacterial stuff. is that not true? >> that's true. no. lots of concerns about that. look for -- doesn't need to say anti-bacterial but alcohol based and if you read the ingredients it tells you that. alcohol based. >> all right. i'm going to start traveling with it.

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an actor that played a police officer on "shield" is arrested in the fatal shooting of his wife. randi kaye reports. >> reporter: smiling and seemingly in love. pictures of actor michael jace and his wife from her facebook page. now in stark contrast to the explosion of gun fire in their home. it left 40-year-old april jace dead. her husband under arrest for murder. the 51-year-old actor reportedly called 911 hips to report he'd shot his wife. according to ktla she was shot multiple times in her torso. neighbors also called 911 to report gunshots. it happened about 8:30 monday night at the couple's los angeles home. april jace was pronounced dead at the keen. "the los angeles times" is reporting her body was nund hallway and even more disturbing the young sons under 10 may have witnessed the shooting.

>> they were, unfortunately, inside the home when the shots rang out. they were in the home. they're with family members. >> reporter: detectives say april who worked as a financial aid counselor just returned home with the couple's children minutes before the shooting. the couple married in june 2003, a year after jace divorced his first wife. the l.a.p.d. called the motive domestic violence and no reports they had trouble at the home before. next month would have been their 11th wedding anniversary. >> who painted that "s"? >> reporter: michael jace is best known for his long-running role on "the shield." the series ended in 2008. he'd also portrayed a member of the black panthers in the blockbuster hit "forrest gump" and a police officer in "state of play."

still, even with an acting career that spanned 22 years, michael jace was under financial strain. documents by cnn show he filed for bankruptcy in 2011 citing $500,000 in debt. annual income at the time was about $80,000 in tv and film residuals. he'd also defaulted on a mortgage of more than $400,000 for the home where his wife died. according to his lawyer, the bankruptcy case is still active. >> just so very unfortunate that a domestic incident occurs, we have two young children that lost their mom and now their dad, you know, is in jail and most likely will be in prison for this. >> reporter: a promising career and a family destroyed. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> very sad. big political night continues to gain momentum. the general election battle that sets up between georgia's governor and former president carter's grandson.

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side but trying to carry on that dynasty. >> for the republicans, vying for the georgia senate seat, vacated by sax xi chambliss, any results zblet. >> no. you have five candidates. three from the tea party and two from the establishment and very likely to result in a runoff. and so, we don't know the result yet. >> and as we mentioned earlier, mitch mcconnell secured the republican nomination for senate in kentucky. alison grimes won on the democratic side. is there an early read on how they match up? polls show them even, right? >> very close. don't forget, kentucky, kentucky is a republican state. barack obama only won four districts in that state. so, you know, you have to favor mitch mcconnell. some say over $100 million is going to be spent in this state. but she's a good kand date.

she's a woman. mcconnell has to unite the republican party and get those voters out and they're motivated in a midterm election with barack obama president. >> all right. we'll see what happens. terror in nigeria. twin blasts rip through a crowded market in the heart of a major city. talking in thailand. hopes for a break through as opposing sides meet this hour. the new study about germs on planes will make you want to pack a lot of hand sanitizer the next time you travel. new images from north korea in a land where foreigners are watched very closely. we'll hear from a photographer who captured some very