one man down, but will there be more to go? the scandal that sacked the leader of the v.a. it's not over yet. >> if people have committed criminal acts they should be punished. no ifs, buts and maybes. >> 17 tons of explosives packed into a truck. this time the man is an american. who is this man? we're learning more about him this morning. sure, he's about to lose his team but embattled donald

sterling has a lot of fight in him. $1 billion fight, in fact. hey, if you're going to rise, you might as well shine, and we are happy to see it. i'm christi paul. >> i like that. >> you might as well shine. >> might as well. >> i like it. i'm victor blackwell. 6:00 on a saturday. this is "new day saturday." and waking up without a job, amit revelations of stunning failures of the agency charged with caring for the nation's men and women who serve our country. >> yeah. retired four-star general eric shinseki resigned friday hours after he apologized for the systemic shortcomings but on his way out laid out a plan to start to correct those problems. >> cnn white house correspondent jim acosta learned shinseki's departure, as we saw it, i think it surprised everybody how fast it happened, it was, he said, very sudden and very swift. good morning, jim. >> reporter: cristty and vicris0

minutes. shinseki stepped down on his own. for president obama, there was not time to wait. >> secretary shinseki offered me his own resignation. with considerable regret, i accepted. >> reporter: according to white house officials the veterans affairs secretary shinseki was over in one hour. first shinseki met in the oval office with the president, chief of staff denis mcdonough and the top aide over seeing the d.a. and they went fon a walk for a private conversation. minutes later, shinseki concluded he was too much of a sdrikz. >> and so my assessment was, unfortunately, that he was right. i regret that he has to resign under these circumstances. >> reporter: shinseki's departure came as the v.a.

released an awed its health system that found facilities were flag around the current because of schedules practices. the v.a. secretary was more plunt in a morning speech claiming his own officials had been lying to him. >> i was too trusting of some and i accepted as accurate reports that i now know to have been misleading with regard, patient wait times. >> reporter: the president was also in the dark v.a. officials were concealing wait times. >> this issue of schedules is one that the reporting systems inside of the vha did not surface to the level where rick was aware of it or we were able to see it. >> reporter: over at the capitol, house speaker john boehner had his own rapid response, that shinseki's departure is not enough. >> his resignation, though, does not absolve the president of his responsibility to step in and make things right for our veterans. business as usual cannot

continue. >> reporter: besides the internal probes with the scandal awed under way, the chairman of the veterans committee says the justice department is also involved. >> criminal acts they should be punished. >> reporter: expecting other v.a. officials to go. >> we'll hold accountable specific individuals. >> reporter: the v.a. does that with sloane gibson only in his role three months as deputy secretary. the white house says it's too early for a short list for a permanent replacement. christi and victor. >> jim acacosta, thanks very mu. there is a list and it's very short. >> there s. jois. >> to discuss these replacement, six people on the list? >> reporter: krchristi and vict, what president obama said in his

press conference yesterday, i want to play for you, why we know sloane gibson, jim pointed out, only in the job three months probably won't get the full-time job. take ap listen. >> we're going to need a new v.a. secretary. so sloane is acting. sloane, i think, would be the first to acknowledge he's going to have a learning curve he's got to deal with. >> reporter: and former senator jim webb of virginia is another name that has surfaced, but he was on the lead with jake tapper yesterday, and jake asked him, would he be interested in the job? here's what he said. >> i have a family who has a citizen soldier tradition. it goes a long way back. my son left college and enlisted in the marines and fought in iraq. i've followed the issue, i'm here to help if they want advice but not particularly interested in the position. >> reporter: now, another name that has come up is rhode island senator jack reid. of course, he has come up for a number of cabinet conditions

over time. he's always suggested as a possibility, another one, admiral mike mullen and also general peter chiarelli. but as a general, shinseki understands the military, but that's a far different animal than the bureaucracy. that's part of the reason he did not fit so well in that job. some of the generals also on that list may not be under consideration at the end of the day, cristty and victor. >> erin mcpike, thanks for bringing it down for us. appreciate it. and questioning family members to find out more about the american who carried out a suicide bombing in syria. >> we know that they're saying he grew up in florida. the u.s. state department says he's believed to be mohammed abu

al amriki. keeping tabs on him since he were went to syria to join extremist fighters. >> he blew himself up at a syrian government checkpoint. you see the video there. all right. donald sterling. still in the nba for -- a mere $1 billion, sold the clippers. the embattled los angeles clippers owners is taking the league to court because of its decision to ban him for life, and force him to give up his franchise. >> this latest twist comes just after his wife shelly sterling agreed to sell the team for $2 billion. hey, it's the most ever paid for a franchise. remember, we are talking about the l.a. clippers here. the clippers. $2 billion. "new york times" points out, it net sterling a nearly 16,000 return after buying the clippers for $12.5 million back in 1981.

cnn's brian todd has more. brian, good morning. >> reporter: christi and victor, they're speaking in two different tones. donald sterling is suing the nba for $1 billion, while shelly sterling has apparently resolved all of her differences with the league, and new information from sources on donald sterling's mental condition is throwing another wrench into all of this. sources tell cnn that doctors declared donald sterling mentally incapacitated. a finding that opened the door for his estranged wife to sell the clippers for a record $2 billion. sources say donald sterling was examined by two independent doctors, both neurologists, sometime over the past month. it's an important finding, because the clippers are owned through a family trust with two trustees. donald and shelly sterling. cnn learned from one source a clause in that trust says if either sterling become s mentaly unfit, the other becomes the sole trustee. sources say shelly was only able

to negotiate the mega sale because of that declaration, but it might not be that easy. experts say donald sterling still has grounds to challenge the finding, and the sale of the team. >> he would retain his own physicians, neurologists, psychiatrists, whatever it may be, and have those physicians take issue with the findings of the physicians that found him incapacitated. >> reporter: all of which means what seems like a done deal could still wind up in court, and donald sterling's attorney maying ready for that. maxwell blecher tells cnn he believes the direction of mental inka pa incapacitation was an overstatement. calling it slowing down. it comes one day after telling wolf blitzer, sterling will fight the efforts to throw him out. >> we don't think the team can be sold without mr. sterling's

consent. he's not going to consent. >> reporter: blecher and sterling are suing the nba for $1 billion in damages calling for sterling's lifetime ban from the league and his $2.5 million fine to be lifted claiming the nba's case against sterling relies entirely on an illegally recorded conversation. it's not clear if the lawsuit would interfere with the sale of the clippers. hours earlier, blecher told us sterling would look at the sale to steve ballmer and decide where to go from there, saying, "he doesn't want to fight with shelly. that's the bottom line." >> anything's possible with donald sterling. with $2 billion on the line, not even donald sterling will mess this up. >> reporter: the nba announced its resolved disputes with shelly sterling, withdrawing its effort to terminate the ownership of the clippers and cancelling the owners' vote on that and in exchange she won't sue the nba and she's going to protect the nba from future lawsuits from donald sterling

side. but donald sterling's side may dispute that, of course. >> brian todd, thank you very much. i can't decide if -- i'm sure it's something that's dangerous but thinking my kids would be in awe of it. a sinkhole in florida, that's getting bigger and it's right across the street from -- one very popular theme park. >> we'll tell you whichg a stand unlike, really, any before. from a first lady. some say. we'll tell what you she's fighting for. okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu.

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you see the cracks of it. not a full-fledged completely sunken in hole just yet. >> this started thursday when people in the area noticed a small depression there in the parking lot. >> yeah. by the evening -- this is what it had grown to. so much bigger. none of the building around the parking lot, we're told, have been affected. you can see the tape around it and they're probably going wait and see what happens with this thing. >> stand by and let nature take there. this weekend parts of the country will be getting really stormy weather. strong winds. you've got the rain. even some tornadoes that could become dangerous in some areas. >> sounds like a good time for me to just go to the basement and turn on a movie. >> stay inside. >> meteorologist karen maginnis in our severe weather center. >> we are looking at it spread over a broad area of the u.s. not really as far as the tornadoes are a concern, but fairly sluggish weather pattern. look along the gulf coast. even thunderstorms rumbling along the north central gulf coast at this hour, but our threat still remains for the

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so in case you haven't looked at the clock, edging towards the bottom of the hour. not that you need to know that on a saturday. you can kick back and relax. i'm christi paul. >> and i'm victor blackwell. eric shinseki is out this morning. the v.a. chief filed his resignation yesterday after weeks of criticism following allegations of a massive cover-up by v.a. hospitals. the vrchlts a.v.a. acknowledges 23 veterans died because of lack of care. donald sterling is suing the nba for $1 billion. the l.a. clippers owner has taken the league to court because of their decision to ban him from the court for life and give us his franchise.

his wife sehelly agreed to sell the team for $2 billion. not just a good deal, the most ever paid for an nba franchise. stay with us. a lot more on this bizarre stories twists and turns. i'm wondering if there's some info about his mental capabilities as well. >> if he's mentally incapable, how can you file a lawsuit? three, intelligence officials are trying to find out more about the american who blew himself up in a massive suicide bombing in syria. they believe they know the man's name. manneer mohamed abu saleh and in he grew up in florida. questioning family members, a few friends, and apparently he went to syria to join extremist fighters there. number four, a marine is in a mexican prison for accidentally crossing the border with several guns in his car. marine sergeant andrew tamiressi was punched, left naked in his cell and shackled to his bed

almost two months's he says things have gotten better since this became public, but not clear when he'll go three. expected to take the streets in moscow, part of an effort to stage a gay pride rally there. russian authorities have refused to let activists legally hold that event. the end of may marks the anniversary when russia decriminalized gays back in the earl '90s. sergeant daniel sought vehement from the v.a. >> served in the iraq war running combat missions in a humvee. after his second deployment diagnosed with a brain injury. gulf war syndrome and ptsd and daniel's parents say despite their son's best efforts, the v.a. failed him. >> sergeant sommers killed himself last year and yesterday on cnn, daniel's father howard read from his son's suicide note.

>> my mind is a wasteland filled with visions of incredible horror, increasing depression and crippling anxiety, even with all of the medications the doctors dare give. simple things that everyone else takes for granted are nearly impossible for me. i cannot laugh or cry. i can barely leave the house. i derive in pleasure from any activity. everything simply comes down to passing time until i can sleep again. now to sleep forever seems to be the most merciful thing. >> oh, my gosh, you just feel for those people. >> having to read those words. wow. joining us now, chuck receive, author of a book "a boy becomes a man in nam" understanding the cause of ptsd. chuck good to have you here, again. the question is how has this scandal and the wait times and

the delays, how have they affected people with ptsd? >> it's interesting, victor, that this process going on with the v.a., this malady is actually creating more ptsd and aggravating ptsd. one of the fundamental causes is abandonment. at some point, the warrior feels abandoned by the military service that he or she is in. in a firefight, or we don't get resupply. in my case we didn't even have ammunition. so that sense of abandonment leaves the warrior on their own. they have to make their own decisions and then they have to live with the consequences of those decisions for the rest of their lives. now we feel abandoned again. >> i understand, and i'm sorry to hear this, sorry for your loss, that you just recently lost a friend, and you say the v.a. failed him? >> the v.a. did. a wonderful guy, running a nonprofit to help veterans with

ptsd in a healing ministry that he had. and he would never say anything negative about any v.a., but those of his friends trying to get him, trying to get past the bureaucra bureaucracy, he constantly had to fight the battles for them. we lost a great warrior. we lost a great friend. >> let me ask you about the news about the resignation of general shinseki. >> yes. >> do you think he had to go? >> you need to understand first of all that veterans do not abandon veterans. >> you told me that this morning and it stuck out and will stay with me. that a veteran will not leave the wounded. >> that's right. right now we see general shinseki as a wounded veteran. did he have to go? politically, of course, he did. the focus, the press, the media, the public was all on him. he needs to get out of the way. but we need to recognize what's really going on here. whenever a large group of people come together, a bureaucracy is

inevitable. there are layers of management that naturally builds a bureaucracy. in the military, the bureaucracy, orders are obeyed, things are done according to the rules, because the consequences are life are and death. in business, a bureaucracy, we obey the rule, follow orders, because the consequences can be no profit. we can go out of business. are there consequences in government? if someone underperforms, what are the consequences? so what we have now is a bureaucracy that needs to be overhauled, and if anyone were to ask my advice, my recommendation would be, first of all, we need a combat veteran heading that up. >> not another general? >> but not another general officer, in my estimation, unless he or she surrounds themselves with a number of field-grade officers, like colonels and majors, because they are closer to the surface. now, listen closely to what general shinseki said.

he was surprised that he had not been given the information. a general always gets the right information at the right time, the right way. they're accustomed to that. they ask for something, they receive it immediately. between the general and the medical practitioners and the wounded. there's this wall of bureaucracy. and some people were saying whatever they will to say, doing whatever they had to do in order to preserve their position, or to meet some arbitrary guideline. that has got to change. >> all right. well, chuck reeves, we appreciate your service, sir. >> and we appreciate what you are doing to help the veterans. thank you. >> thank you so much for being here to talk with us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. you know, if you have not been vaccinated against measles, yeah, measles, you may want to consider it. measles cases are on the rise around the country. the question is, what's causing this outbreak suddenly?

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i don't know if you're aware of this, but measles cases in it's u.s. are at a 20-year high now. the virus is highly contagious and usually causes only a fever and rash, really, if you're lucky. >> however it did lead to pneumonia, brain damage, deafness and in rare cases, death. cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen has details this morning. elizabeth? >> victor, christi, yes, we broke a record and not a good one. reached a 20-year high for measles cases. 288 cases so far this year, and that's the most we've had since 1994. now there's really, you know, several reasons behind this, but here's the big one.

people are not vaccinating their children. and then what happens is those kids get measles and then spread it to other people. we're seeing that this is the worst in the state of ohio, and there's no mystery there. what happened was that some folks from the amish community went to go do volunteer work in the philippines. a lot of people in that community, in the amish community, don't believe in vaccination, and the measles unfortunately is quite common in the philippines. so you have unvaccinated people going to a country that has a lot of measles. well, that spells trouble. of course, those folks came back to the united states, and they were infected, and they got other people sick, and as you can see from this map, there are outbreaks in 17 other states as well. so you might wonder, well, i vaccinate my family. am i okay? well, a little issue here. babies don't get vaccinated until about 1-year-old. you can't vaccinate them when they're teeny, tiny babies. so you may fully intend to vaccinate your child when your doctor says do it at the age of

1, but your child is vulnerable for a year to somebody who comes in with the measles. so that's a problem also. not all adults are fully immunized and might not necessarily even know it. this is a problem even for those of us who do the right thing and vaccinate our children. victor, christi? >> elizabeth cohen, thank you very much. and tell you, too, about a new drug diving some women hope of having a baby after cancer treatments. it's called goserellen. putting ovaries on pause while a woman is in chemotherapy. when the chemo wraps up, it kicks in your ovaries again. women who took the drug are more likely to have a child after chemo than those who did not take the drug. the first lady takes one of her causes to the pages of the op-ed section. what michelle obama is fighting for, and what it might mean for her legacy.

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michelle obama did something this week we're told as far as first ladies go, this is pretty rare. she took to the "new york times" to publicly take congress to task over a house bill that would make it optional, not mandatory, for schools to serve fruits and vegetables and control sodium levels. she says it undermines the progress made as a result of her anti-childhood obesity initiative. "you don't have to be a nutritionist to know that this doesn't make much sense."

one of the things she wrote. he is went on to say, our children deserve so much better than this. >> but despite the effort, despite the op-ed, the bill has passed out of the committee and will be debated by the full house later this summer. joining us to talk about this, jason, a politics editor at "source" magazine and on and on -- how rare is this move? >> this is incredibly rare and not so much just the first lady writing something "new york times" in the but criticizing congress. usually they take on fairly soft issue, advocate, but completely different to say congress is doing something wrong now and we need to do something different. it's a reflection of michelle obama's unique power. >> first ladies haven't taken on soft issue os. hillary clinton, health care. nancy reagan, drug campaign. barbara bush, literacy. what is it about michelle obama that's different? >> one, it's her popularity

letter an level and why she chose fits in. hillary clinton caused bill clinton so many problems because we didn't vote for her. michelle taking a fairly simple, i'm not going to advocate but when congress doesn't help me i'm going to criticize them? that's new. >> and up for vote to the full house. say she loses's what does that mean? >> she'll complain more. that's the issue. if you look historically, they've been taking polls from gallup back to eleanor roosevelt. michelle obama is the second most popular lady in office of any. just following laura bush, much more popular than nancy reagan, lady bird or hillary clinton. she's in a unique position to make these criticisms because of high public stature a lot of other first ladies haven't been able to do. >> isn't it hard to talk about

popularity when we're living in a world of facebook, twitter, social media, you can get out there so much more than first ladies? >> they didn't have those. >> it doesn't mean people like you. nancy reagan was out there all the time. on "different strokes," a popular show. people didn't like nancy reagan, surprising given how much they loved her husband. hillary clinton, probably the most active in history, the last 30, 40 years, people still doesn't like her. michelle obama's ability to get herself out there, writing on different blogs is because people actually like her and want her more. in the past some of the first ladies, we didn't want to hear from them. >> i've often thought about what politics would look like if we had social media in different times. if jackie kennedy had a facebook page? >> if richard nixon had a twitter account? the things we would learn. >> we already know what happens with anthony weiner. so i don't know -- >> oh, my -- >> you say the first lady is so

popular and taken up a fight with the house. do you think that means a run for office at some point? >> i don't think so. i think that my brother's keeper initiative the obamas talked about will keep them really busy. the connections he's established in hollywood. i think michelle obama will go and be an activist. hillary clinton always wanted to run for office. we knew that was actually going to occur, even when she was with bill. i don't think they have a political future but an advocacy future probably closer to jimmy carter than we see with the clintons. >> as a ubl ccouple, one of the influential in history. post-president, why? >> exactly. a lot of people don't like how he's done his job but like him the person. personal approval, high 60s. as a couple, icons, even for people who don't like the presidency, looks like a strong marriage. they're good parents. when they leave office, the kinds of things to represent about family initiatives,

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time now for the good stuff. this is really good. this is really good. we've all been there. you just could use a little extra cash, $10, $20, $50 extra. >> just a little. one man or twitter is making that happen leaving envelopes full of cash hidden across cities like san francisco, los angeles. he sparked a trend that stretched all the way across the country now. >> dan same hanimon has a look hidden cash creating a twitter frenzy. look. >> i just really want to say, god bless to him, this is really helping my family. >> reporter: it's an exciting treasure hunt and everyone has a similar reaction. >> are you guys looking for the cash? >> yeah. >> reporter: this one caught on live television. >> ooh! i got some.

we got some money. >> reporter: the anonymous real estate investor behin behind @hiddencash wanted to spawn a movement. the idea is simple. he hides cash-filled envelopes and posts clues to their location on twitter, amounting to $1,000 a day. >> absolutely no political agen agenda, no religious agenda, business agenda. the whole agenda is random acts of kindness, pay it forward. and seeing a smile on people's faces. >> reporter: his generous efforts paid off. what began as a social experiment in fransan francisco los angeles produced copycats, new orleans, tampa, st. louis and here in boulder, colorado. >> great to see the happiness on people's faces and people excited about kind of exploring the city. >> reporter: the movement even spread overseas. what's remarkable is @hiddi

iis @hiddin i@hiddencash did not exist ten days ago. find mr. franklin along the crookedest street. we followed him along san francisco landmarks. >> tweeted the money is near the golden gate bridge. we'll be there in a minute. >> reporter: izzy miller was among the lucky ones. his envelope stuffed with a hundred dollar bill. what do you think about what he's doing? >> awesome. a fun thing to do and the fact he's doing it in a philanthropic mindset is cool. >> reporter: a mind-set that has quickly spread around the world. >> you're out of breath. >> girl. >> reporter: dan simon, cnn. >> trying to get this money. >> such an honest reaction. >> girl, i'll trying to get this money. i know you have a question. i'm trying to get this open. >> jonathan tweeted me, mystery cash, vancouver, b.c.

>> i'm on hiding cash cash, @hiddencash, the hash tag. now 2 million followers. if you know the game, "angry birds," with cash. >> can't be angry with that bird. >> 11:00 a.m., more money to be found. >> so you now. good luck to you if you're out there looking for it, or will be. >> or, would go for it this morning. good luck to you, too. next hour of "new day" starts now. p.j.s look good on you. you're allowed. it's saturdays. i'm christi paul. >> and i'm victor blackwell. "new day saturday." >> if you slate to talk to you about. first developing news here. an american who blew himself up in a suicide bombing in syria

has been identified this morning. >> the state department believes the young man is moner mohammad abu salha who grew up in florida and apparently rent to syria a couple months ache to join hard core extremist groups to fight the syrian government and a week ago filled a truck with explosives and detonated it. >> cnn's mohammed jamjoom joins us from washington. thank you so much for being here. what are you hearing from the state department about this american suicide bomber? what else are we learning? >> reporter: christi, as more details emerge about moner mow hamm it abu salha, the say the department believes was the bomber, in the past couple of day, indeed the first american bomber in syria who blew himself up in that truck loaded with 17 tons of explosives at a government checkpoint in syria this past sunday. a worrying development. u.s. officials aren't just worried about americans who are going to syria and fighting

there currently. extremely worried about earn ins fighting there and then come back to the u.s. once their done in syria. this deadly explosion thousands of miles away is now being blamed on this man. an american citizen. cnn has learned the man was born in florida. officials won't say when he went to syria or why, but they believe he is responsible for packing 17 tons of explosives into a vehicle and blowing it up. becoming the first american suicide bomber in syria. experts say he may not be the only american training for such a deadly attack. >> you go over there. you meet a lot of very hard core al qaeda types, if you're associated with these groups, and they indoctrinate you further, and base and previous historic examples, particularly the afghan war against the soviet, lots of people trained and bombe the world trade center in 1993 and others

planned the 9/11 attacks, and they have reason to be, concerned. >> reporter: at least 100 americans flooded into syria since the start of the civil war, and u.s. ish tos fear many more may already be joining a bloody belgts, getting expert training how to plot attacks once back in the u.s. >> syria remains a significant destination for our home-grown violent extremist population. >> reporter: even more frightening, sources say, it's a group becoming increasingly difficult to track. >> there isn't a single easily identifiable community from which our syria travelers all spring from. they are a very diverse group. they are of both genders. when you put them all together, they look like america. >> reporter: and another reason why there is concern about this development is because there's actually more than one war going on in syria. you have the actual physical war on the ground, and then you have the propaganda war, and jihadist

groups use the fact americans are fighting there and now the fact of an american suicide bomber in syria to try to get a lot more recruits to their cause. christi? >> the propaganda war just as valuable times as that bullet and ground war there. mohammed jamjoom in washington, thank you so much. donald sterling is suing the nba for $1 billion. with a b. the embattled los angeles clippers owner isic taing the league to cord becauurt becauser decision to ban him from games for life and to sell the team. >> his wife sold the team for $2 billion to microsoft ceo michael ballmer. the most ever. but did ballmer pay too much? 's we have more. the question is $2 billion and the rest of that sentence is, for the l.a. clippers. alexandra? >> reporter: you got it. what's $2 billion worth to you?

in this case, if this sale goes through at $2 billion, steve ballmer would play about three and a half times what the clippers were valued at by forbes and paying $4 million more than the next bidder. clearly, worth it to steve ballmer and already analysts speculating this bid will make a lot of other teams worth a lot more. a $2 billion bid for a basketball team smashes records, but what's steve ballmer, the former microsoft mogul, getting for all that money? >> a team that's better on the court today than the los angeles lakers, with a great lease at the staples center and a new upside television deal they're about to negotiate in los angeles. >> reporter: future tv deals both local and national could bring in close to an extra $100 million a year by some estimates. which is a lot, but not the big picture. >> in the first few years, profits will be very minimal. this isn't something he's buying

principally because he wants to make money. this is someone who's going to take 10% of their net worth and they're going to buy a sports team in l.a., which is going to give them a lot of prestige. >> reporter: for $2 billion, there's plenty of prestige. a way for the wealthy to diversify investments and we a salary cap in place, nba owners can be protected from dipping into their own pockets. >> steve ballmer knows if you had runs this team somewhat prudently he's not going to have to put any capital in to the team. >> if you have $20 billion. >> not a bad thing. >> reporter: in january, his list of valuable nba teams, clippers at 13th, worth $755 million. steals price, estimated at $1 billion once donald sterling's racist rant was revealed. >> the nba should trip over itself, get the documents done approve the transaction and move on to other business as fast as

humanly possible. >> reporter: the $2 billion price tag could help send the values of some of the league's most valuable franchises soaring. >> i don't think you'll be able to buy a big market nba team for less than $3 billion. >> and it is worth pointing out here that donald sterling bought the clippers for $12 million back in 1981. given this sale agreement to steve ballmer, the nba said it cancelled the june 3rd meeting during which the other nba owners would have voted to try and force donald sterling to sell the team, but there will still have to be a vote. the other owners will still have to approve this sale and christi and victor, analysts say at the $2 billion price tag, should be added incentive to try to rush the sale through. >> all righty. alexandra field. thank you so much. after eweeks of criticisms and a drum beat for him to resign. eric shin sek hey done just

that. he resigned yesterday after allegations of a massive cover-up by v.a. hospitals across the country. >> the v.a. acknowledges 23 veterans died because of delayed care. and up to 40 other deaths are under investigation right now. some facilities, like the one in phoenix, for instance, are accused of keeping separate waits lists to cover up long wait times for sick veterans. >> on friday president obama said he agrees with shinseki that a shift in leadership is necessary. listen's. >> he told me this morning, the v.a. needs new leadership to address this. he does not want to be a distraction, because his priority is to fix the problem and make sure our vets are getting the care that they need. that was rick's judgment on behalf of his fellow veterans. >> shinseki's departure, of course, comes days after the vanchts released ap audit of its health systems and the findings reveal v.a. hospitals across the country were flagged for

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to search for a new v.a. chief. retired air force general shinseki resigned friday amid stunning revelations of bureaucratic lapses at his agency. >> before stepping down shinseki describes the problems as systemic. the question is, will installing a new chief at the top of a massive and apparently very troubled bureaucracy really change anything? let's talk now with in washington alex nicholson, legislative director for the organization iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. thanks for being with us. we just heard from a vet last hour. another veteran, who says veteran doss not abandon other veterans and there is some sort of a backlash to some degree for the firing. well, the resignation of shin sek pin

seki. as a veteran yourself, thank you for your service. what is your opinion? >> she a well-decorated widely respected man who did a good job at the v.a. the issue became he had been lied to by many subordinates in the v.a. and detached from a lot of the problems deep down in thataucracy and ultimately the president and shinseki decided it was best to try to fix the problems, that he step aside and new leadership come in. there's no do doubt that everyone pretty much agrees that general shinseki has a long celebrated, decorated career and is a very honorable man who honestly wanted to help veterans. >> so the leader of the organization, at least the chief of staff, had a closed door meeting with shinseki on the 29th. i've got the press release from the website. you write here you still have concerns. serious concerns, about whether

the secretary has the tools, resources and the confidence of the v.a. staff and veterans to create real reform. secretary shinseki is gone. the question is, what are the resources, the tools needed to move forward? >> well, one of the things that needs to happen is, you know, congress has given the v.a. every dime its asked for and more. definitely concern the v.a. is not asking for enough resources. that the administration has not been forthright about exactly the amount of money the v.a. needs. so congress needs to step up and increase funding for the v.a. even if the v.a. doesn't ask for it now. it also needs to pass the v.a. management accountability act, which passed the house overwhelmingly. it's bogged down in the senate now. but that would were give the new secretary the tools to more easily fire non-performing bureaucrats. there's a bure crass problem at the v.a. and the new select have

to deal with three over arching issues. deal wg management, technology and metrics. make sure that best management practices are mandated throughout the agency. they've got to get on the technology train and really revamp the technology tools the v.a. has and then they've got to make sure metrics are focuseden 0 the quality and care to veterans, not so much the quantity. that's one of the reasons people think we saw the secret list coming out of phoenix and other places. directors were so focused on the quantitative metrics they were forced, they were going to be jumped on that they ended up cooking the books to try to make themselves look good and not get behind on the metrics and still get bonuses. >> speaking of quality of care what do you believe is the biggest problem, when we think about, you know, we have got to take care of our veterans. what is the biggest problem, in your opinion, for veterans coming home now from iraq and

afghanistan? >> the biggest problem that our februarys are telling us they're facing, especially this year, honestly, suicide. and there's definitely a mental health crisis that needs to be addressed, and we need an expansion of mental health services and resources. another thing congress can help dop with passing the suicide prevention for americans veterans acts. suicide has been the number one issue raised and flagged to us by iraq and afghanistan veterans returning home. >> so the question now after sloane gibson, who should take over the v.a.? there are media outlets with lists, "washington post" that one out. a few names discussed. senator jack reid, admiral mike mullen, general chiarelli, jim r webb and talk about chief of staff ray odierno. who would you add to this list or is there one name you want to endorse? >> we're certainly not endorsing anyone in particular, but i've heard some of the same names

floated. chiarelli has been really good on attacking mental health issues, finding solution. senator jack reid a great advocate on the senate arms services committee. another name not on that list we've heard, congressman walsh, highest enlisted member to serve in congress. amazing advocate on the house veterans affairs committee. a number of people perfect lly qualified and capable. we want to see someone with the post-9/11 military involvaled we feel we need a transformational new generation leader in the v.a. to help bring the v.a. into a 21st century v.a. >> thank you, sir, so much for your service. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. still ahead, imagine you're standing on this glass. we have the glass? picture here? >> gosh. let me tell you something.

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incredible story. four cousins feeling lucky to be alive today, as they should be. >> they were on an observation deck, 103 stories off the ground. what you're supposed to do, walk out to this glass and look down. 103 stories. look what happens. the coating shattered beneath them. cnn's george howell has more from chicago's tallest building, the willis tower. >> reporter: 103 stories above the ground. >> all i see is just glass that's breaking underneath me. i hear it, i feel it. >> reporter: four cousins pose together for a picture on a glass observation deck overlooking chicago, and the second they stood up -- >> i could feel the glass shattering fleetly around my hand. >> reporter: they look back to see the surface they'd been sitting on shattered. >> i was thinking, i'm going down with it. you know? i'm thinking, this thing's breaking rile we're on it. my first instinct, get the hell outta there. >> the cracking. >> reporter: they also got video of the glass, literally cracking

in front of their eyes. they feared the ledge was about to fall to the ground. >> because you can see through it obviously, you have the psychological effect that, you know, oh, my gosh, something broke. nobody was ever in danger. >> reporter: the engineer, michael swanberg, says there's a thick panel of glass that didn't break. designed to withstand 10,000 pounds, or 5 tons of weight. we watched as crews replaced the thin layer above it that caused such a scare. so this is the new sheet of glass that will go on the sky deck. if you look here you can see exactly how thin that is. crewing tell me this is meant to be scratched and scraped up. in fact, it's replaced every six to nine months, depending wear and tear. from outside, at a helicopter's vantage point, you can see how the observation ledge extends just beyond the willis tower. with the new glass panel finally in place. you put it to the test. >> so we are stepping on to that thin sheet of glass now. >> that's correct.

>> the quarter inch top pete of glass is designed to protect the 1 1/2 inch thick structural glass. the sole purpose is to keep the structural glass free of scratches. >> oh, my god. take the picture! >> reporter: the ledge on the sky dack now back in business, and even these guys admit after the scare of their lives. >> for the record, an awesome view. awesome building. >> reporter: the view from up top made such an impression on them they may just come back for more. george howell, cnn, chicago. >> boys, just don't step out there together. >> yeah. i'm a man of girth. it's okay. but there's no way i'm going out there with three other hefties to stand on some glass sheet. >> i wouldn't even go out there. i stood at the delineation line between the floor and the glass and i did this -- >> looked over. >> okay. that's was far as i got. >> i know they say it's not supposed to happen. not supposed to shatter. >> not buying it, people.

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28 minutes past 7:00. you got time. relax. it's a saturday. i'm christi paul. >> and i'm victor blackwell. what you need to know for your "new day." after weeks of criticism from both sides of the aisle, eric shinseki resigned, as you know. the announcement comes after allegations that hospitals were cooking the books and tries to hide long wait times for sick veterans. the v.a. acknowledged 23 veterans died because of delayed care. sloane gibson in the mean time will lead the v.a. until a permanent replacement is named. and ftries to find out more about the american who blew

himself up in syria. his name, abu huraya ale amriki, grew up in florida. he went to syria to join extremist fighters there apparently. and a marine in mexico two moss now for accidently crossing the border with guns. an grew tahmooressi says he was punched, left naked in this cell and shackled to his bed for a month. it's not clear when he'll go three. and arrested five people in connection with a shocking gang rape and public hanging in india. two of the men are police office, three are brothers of the victims. they're facing rape and murder charges, among others. the attackers should be hanged in punishment, says one parent, just like her daughter. and donald sterling suing the nba for $1 billion. the l.a. clippers owner isic

taing the league to court because of banning him for life from the games and having to give up his franchise. his wife shelly sterling just agreed to sell the team for $2 billion. it's the most ever paid for an nba franchise. >> digging into this morning, danny savalas, paul, good morning, gentlemen. >> good morning. >> sterling's lawsuit states, and we have a portion of it, a quote here. the forced sale of the los angeles clippers threatens not only to produce a lower price than a non-forced sale, but more importantly, it injures competition and forces antitrust injury by making the market unresponsive to the operation of the free markets. >> so we're wondering, can an argument really be made that he could have sold the team for more than this, you know, historic $2 billion? just last month the milwaukee bucks sold, i don't know. for $550 million, i think, danny? >> yeah, think of it this way.

if i said to you you had to sell your car within the next 24 hours, do you honestly think you could get just as good a deal as if i gave you six months to do so? that's essentially this creative antitrust argument, that the nba is a market, and there is serious competition for these nba teams and ownership of these nba teams. so if you force someone to sell, you can't rely on the people who want to buy the nba team to not try to minimize the price as much as they can. just like a potential buyer of your car that you put up on ebay or craigslist, if you had to sell within 24 hours because you had to get out of town, then you're not going to expect to get the real market value price for that product. >> so there are these new reports that two neurologists have found donald sterling to be mentally incapacitated, sources tell cnn. so many questions here.

first question is, if he's mentally incapacitated, how can he also file this lawsuit? and at some point before that's dealt with, aren't they going to hire their own doctors who hired the initial doctors? >> you're right, doctors. that's the theory on the antitrust suit. a different theory, run away train threy. two trains. train one, donald sterling, who's been found to be at least by two neurologists reports, to be incompetent, mentally problematic, have dementia. he hires one of the flashiest antitrust lawyers in california who starts drafting a big antitrust suit. at the same time run away train number two, wife shelly, has hired her trust and estates lawyers so she can take over the team. she negotiates a brilliant sale of the highest price, a staggering high price, $2 billion, on a team they paid $12

million for. while runaway train number two is going down the antitrust track. now, in the end what's going to happen with these trains? they'll both are derailed, and the sale will go through, and i assure you of one thing. the lawyers will be paid. that's how this is going to end. >> danny, let me ask you, there are people, i've heard a lot of people talking about this. suspecting that maybe donald and shelly are -- they're playing each other. >> in cahoots. >> good cop/bad cop. in cahoots. how possible is that, danny? >> well, depending on which inconsistent action they've taken over the last week it's certainly possible. on one day donald sterling says in a letter from his attorney, shelly sterling has my authority to sell the team. now it appears they are circling their wagons under a different theory. to jump on to paul's run away train theory, there are several different run away trains and sterling at different times has

pursued different theories of liability against the nba and different theories of why he should be able to keep his team. so certainly if you look at this like the, they are, shelly sterling, the sterling trust, and donald sterling, are all imin aed plaintiff ei named plaintiffs in the lawsuit, yeah, all one plfr acting together, but at different times in the course of this very odd proceeding, they have seemed to be, taking an adversarial relationship. we will see very much in the next few weeks how they circle their wagons. >> i just want to say, circling back for a second on victor's point, too. if, in fact, donald sterling is of you issering from dementia, he doesn't even have the authority to have a lawyer file a lawsuit. i don't know how a judge is going to resolve that. who started it all? how about that v. stiviano? left out in the cold while the sterlings walk away with $2 billion. >> you don't know. he could be handed her money.

>> who knows. >> that's true. >> she's not exactly a sympathetic figure. >> no, no. she's not. >> not too many sympathetic figures in this case. >> who ordered, or requested that analysis to have him stand before these two neurologists? would that be something shelly could request as part of a trust? >> i think she could. obviously, she's one of the trustees, and in any sort of a family situation, if you think your spouse or one of your kids or your parent is suffering from dementia and can't manage their affairs, you can have this finding made. normally it's followed by going into court for a legal guardian to be appointed. notice, no legal guardian appointed for donald sterling. postures? or does she really think he's suffering from dementia? we'll only find out when it's all over. >> love your insights, gentlemen, thanks for being with us. >> thank you. chances are, you have been hacked. hate to break it to you, but a new study is saying almost half

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here's an alarming figure. i shared it before the break. nearly half of all adults in the u.s. were hacked within the last 12 months. >> half of us. according to new research that includes the mind-boggling find that 432 million online accounts were also hacked in the last year. so not just, you know, the

people but the accounts specifically. >> yeah. and let's look at it this way. basically, there's a 50% chance that a cyber criminal has or had access to your personal information. we're talking your name, your physical address, credit card numbers, passwords, anything. >> so let's talk about this with robert sicilyanno. an online security expert and mark rasha, a are toer justice department prosecutor for cyber crimes. gentlemen, glad you're here. robert, start with you. >> good morning. >> a lot of people sitting at home going, how is this happening? >> yeah. we're all asking that same question. the fact is, you have troves of data that's boon housed by corporations and government agencies that essentially is a big target. social security numbers, user names and passwords, could be used to access existing accounts and taking over those existing

accounts or be used to open up new lines of credit. so it's very attractive to thieves, and corporate i.t. managers are under the gun every day to protect that information. >> you know, mark, some people might have, in their mind, this image of, a 19-year-old sitting in his basement with a laptop and doing all this, but these are in some cases very sophisticated networks, sometimes governments. we saw what, the indictment of the chinese officials a few days ago. what should we be looking for, and give us an idea of who these people are. >> the threats come from all over. they do come from these 19-year-old, 20-year-old young hackers. they come from organized groups of hackers. they come from organized crime, but the big threat here are what we call the advanced persistent threats that come from state-sponsored attacks by countries like china, russia, former soviet republics and things like that. so it's the old willy sutton

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your mother, your grandmother sitting at home with a wireless route are, they're being attacked constantly as well. the problem isn't that it's not being reported it's that it's not being prevented. it's a very difficult thing to do robert, i find that companies nowadays kind of force you to become part of this. you've got to get an online sign-in, use a card in some places. is there any person, any profile that is more vulnerable than another? >> yeah. that's a good question. the fact is, from birth you are given a social security number today. and that primary identifier canning used to open up new lines of credit under a baby's name. so even a child can be a potential victim all the way to somebody who has passed, the deceased, also vulnerable to identity theft as well, which is crazy. but we're all potentially victims. the path of least resistance to get into these big servers is now going through rpc.

like it was previously said, that unsecured wireless connection that you have to the internet may be the direct access to your bank's online account, whereas your bank may spend millions yearly to protect their networks. again, your unprotected local pc could then be that path. so we all have to take responsibility to protect our devices, our mobiles, tablets, our laptops and desktops with anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-fishing fire walls, locked down with a vpn and then change up your passwords, secure password management. application, lower case, using characters and not having the same password for all of your critical accounts. changing up your passwords is essential. >> so much. >> i know, i know. we've already talked how i have, like, 17 different passwords for things. an institute said, a quote, if you're not a data breach victim, you're not paying attention. so it made me wonder, how much

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the cusp of figuring this out and protecting our information? >> so what's happening right now ask -- is there are developing technologies. technologies already in place consumers are beginning to adopt that work towards securing them and the corporations which they do business with. two-step authentication, two-factor authentication, you might be provided an additional one-time password via mobile text with companies like google and facebook and twitter. paypal offers it. apple offers it. as consumers get more savvy to use this additional secretary factor forms of identification, it makes them and the korgs corporations they're doing business with safer. and getting better in password management in general and understanding the fundamentals of information security. as consumers become more aware, as they up their security intelligence, as banks and major corporations tighten up, we begin to be more secure.

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team, but the embattled clippers owner for now, donald sterling is not going down without a fight and it is a $1 billion fight. >> if you are going to rise, you might as well shine. good saturday morning. thank you for shining with us. i'm christi. >> i'm victor blackwell. it is 8:00 now. "new day saturday." first up, donald sterling, he is now suing the nba for $1 billion. >> the embattled los angeles clippers owner says he is taking the league to court because of the decision to ban him for life and forcing him to give up his franchise. >> this is after his wife shelly agreed to sell the team for $2 billion to former microsoft ceo mike ballmer. this is the most anybody has paid for an nba franchise. did he pay too much?

we have alexandria field joining us from new york. this could have implications around all of sports. >> reporter: right. the league and beyond. that is what people are focused on. $2 billion is an eye-popping figure. a record setter for the nba. it is surprising because the l.a. clippers are not the most valuable franchise. the most recent forbes estimate puts clippers at 13th most valuable with the worth of $575 million. why is steve ballmer willing to pay 3.5 times that much? he outbid the closest bidder. here is what is it in for ballmer. >> in the first few years, profits will be minimal. this is not something he is buying principally because he wants to make money. this is someone who will take

10% of their net worth and they will buy a sports team in l.a. which is going to give them a lot of prestige. >> reporter: there should be added revenue for the team. future and local and national television deals which are estimated to bring in an extra $100 million for the team. not a small amount of money, but the big impact of the $2 billion bid is global. a lot of analysts saying this will drive up the value of other teams. chicago, new york, boston. teams that don't come on the market much. analysts predict those could go closer to $3 billion. really big numbers. especially when you put that into context and consider the fact the bucks were sold last month for the record-setting price at the time of $550 million. >> setting a new record now. alexandria field, thank you so much. so it is saturday, but you better believe people in washington are working this morning.

it is the first day of the fix for the veterans affairs department and search for a new head of the v.a. president obama accepted eric shinseki's resignation yesterday after the two agreed that shinseki's leadership would be a distraction. >> the announcement comments after allegations that v.a. hospitals across the country tried to hide delayed wait times for sick veterans. erin mcpike is at the house for us this morning. >> reporter: christi and victor, in his remarks just yesterday, eric shinseki said he was, quote, too trusting of some. it became clear yesterday that the growing chorus of calls for him to resign was something that he just couldn't survive even though he already begun to fire some top v.a. officials. taking reporter questions about how it came to this. president obama explained. >> we occupy a not just an

environment that calls for management fixes, but we also have to deal with congress and you guys and i think rick's judgment that he could not carry out the next stages of reform without being a distraction. so, my assessment was unfortunately he was right. >> reporter: but shinseki's resignation might not end the firestorm. >> well, the difficustractions refers to. >> cannot be used as an excuse to paper over a systematic problem. >> reporter: the president tapped deputy secretary sloan gibson and he has been on the

job for three months. >> we need a new vsecretary. sloan is acting. he will be the first to acknowledge that he has to deal with. >> reporter: but obama insisted gibson can bring order to the v.a. >> i want someone spending every minute of every day figuring out have we called every veteran that is waiting. have they gotten a schedule. are we fixing the system. what kind of new technology do we need. have we made a realistic assessment of how long the wait times are now and how are we going to bring those wait times down in certain facilities where the wait times are too long. >> reporter: still, he will have investigations and congress to contend with. >> our committee in the house will continue in full force investigating all of the systematic problems that exist within the department, including the criminal activity that is growing more apparent every day. >> reporter: and president obama said he will leave it to the

justice department to determine whether or not criminal activity took place. christi and victor. >> erin mcpike as the house. thank you. >> before he resigned, eric shinseki described the issues plaguing the department as systemat systematic. >> will this new chief atop the troubled bureaucracy really change anything? one person out of 300,000. >> let's talk to joe vialante. he is in charge of the disabled american veterans. let me ask you, we heard people say shinseki was a good guy. the people around him may have more of a problem than himself. do you think he was the fall guy? >> unfortunately, i think so.

secretary shinseki over the last five and a half years has been able to tackle some big problems at the v.a. the claims backlog. making it easier for women veterans to get into the system. he had a new gi bill, post-9/11 dumped on his lap and he dealt with that and also the homeless veterans issue. >> let me ask you who should go in next. we know sloan gibson is the transition leader. there is a list floating about. washington post has some floating about. some people want to put their names in the hat. senator jack reid. admiral mike mullen and peter chiarelli and former senator jim webb and then representative tim walz. patrick murphy also. one of these gentlemen should get the job or someone else?

>> those are excellent candidates, but it doesn't make a difference who gets the job next if they don't have the direct access to the president and if they don't put forth an honest assessment of the v.a. needs. v.a. has their own analysis of construction which is roughly $2 billion a year. they have not asked for. it so what we need is an honest assessment. the next person coming in needs to do that. >> do you think more people other than shinseki need to go as well? do we need to see an entire new leadership there? >> that, i don't know. i certainly think that we allow these inspector general to find out how in depth this nd wrongdoing is and hold those people accountable. also the secretary has started audits. the v.a. believes we need

independent third party experts go out on the audits and look what the we found. >> i wonder if the modern v.a. with as many veterans, thank god to modern medicine, they are surviving, but they are coming home and they need care. can the modern v.a. care for every veteran should some get vouchers and the v.a. hospitals reserved with those with the least resources and indigent? >> right now, we have 22 million veterans. only 9 million have enrolled in v.a. health care. only 6 million are receiving their health care from the v.a. i think the model works and you know v.a. has the authority to send veterans outside the system when it is necessary. i don't know they used it properly. when they do send someone out, they need to also coordinate and

manage that care. it is not an easy answer. >> all right. joe volante, thank you for making time for us, joe. we appreciate it. >> thank you. another story that they watching in washington and we are watching here. the suicide bomber in syria. he gets the attention of the u.s. after learning that he is an american from florida. we'll talk to our terror expert about this disturbing discovery. and fabian cousteau. we are talking about what no other underwater team has done before. ♪ up on the shore they work all day out in the sun, they slave away ♪

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postings, he is a guy who subscribed to the al qaeda beliefs. he is not the only american, unfortunately. we found four other americans who have been indicted for trying to join al qaeda in syria. another american, an army veteran, convicted in 2012 for fighting with the al qaeda affiliate there. a man from flint, michigan, may have died in an al qaeda association in syria. it is part of something of 100 americans have gone to syria, not necessarily to join al qaeda, but a number of factions fighting there. there is a great concern of any of the folks returning to the united states with battle training and even more concerning is the idea that

europeans fought. they come from the visa waiver program. they don't need a visa to come to the united states. 450 from britain. hundreds from france. one or two of these folks come in. that is really the big concern. >> peter, let's pull that thread a bit about potentially some of these people coming home. is it their m.o., to go after the enemy there, in which we saw fighting the syrian government or come home and use the skills to pressure the u.s. to get involved in the fight in syria? >> reporter: i think victor, it is more the former. people are volunteering to fight in a war where they see assad and the totalitarian. he is almost a perfect villain.

often this is a one-way ticket. this abu-salha is not coming back to the states. the woman i mentioned earlier, nicole mansfield, was killed there. the government has every right to be concerned. with all these folks, they will end up dead because they don't know what they are doing. they got caught in crossfire or die in a suicide attack as this man did in the last several days. >> cnn national security analyst peter bergen. thank you for your insight. >> thank you. an ash cloud forms over indonesia after a volcano erupts. look at this thing. we will show you what it is doing to the region. and later, remembering dr. maya angelou. we will talk about a production about her life that you probably didn't know about. stay with us.

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winds and rain and tornadoes possibly. >> we have meteorologist karen maginnis live in the weather center. >> we have two areas focused on this afternoon. along the gulf coast, this is persistent. a sluggish weather pattern ushered in the moisture from the gulf of mexico across the southeast. particularly along the gulf coast. it started in texas and louisiana and mississippi. filtered around the region for a while. i'll talk about the plains in a second. this high pressure is wagging along the gulf coast region. it will allow the rivers to rise above flood stage. that will happen over the next 24-to-48 hours but not before dropping the rainfall off across louisiana and mississippi. you see in the orange and red

shaded area from billings, montana to rapid city and cheyenne. the threat for isolated tornadoes and possibility of hail and high winds with good old afternoon and evening thunderstorms. it shifts to the east. from south dakota extending all the way down to the panhandle of texas. very typical for this time of year. what is not typical? 86 degrees in chicago. typically they would be in the mid-70s. these readings are a good 10 to 12 degrees where it should be for this time of year. washington at 77. denver, 92 or 82 rather. seattle, a comfortable 75. back to you guys. karen, thanks. we will head down to florida where geologists are checking out a sinkhole that opened up in a parking lot. that parking lot is across the street from legoland. >> don't get too close.

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another. nonetheless, i think it was correct that he had become so much of a distraction in trying to do better at the v.a., that it was time for shinseki to go. >> let's talk about foreign policy because i heard a lot of people talking about the world was watching this week as president obama spoke. how this big speech on foreign policy. when you listen eed to it, what stood out to you? >> i love the line the fact we should remember in the cold war, america was and americans felt, much more at risk of attack by countries. as he said rightly, there is no country that would attack the u.s. today. we're safe from any urgent or immediate and existential fear that we might find ourselves in a war. in the cold war, that was not the case. if you go back to the cuban

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that's the challenge that he was taking up and i think he did a good job, as i say, not great, but good. >> how close did we really get to say a world war iii nuclear disaster? >> today, for people that are 25 years old, they simply cannot believe or imagine that somehow or another over cuba the u.s. and soviet union were seriously contemplating choices that would in a very short period of time have killed hundreds of millions of people. but during the crisis, at one aside, president kennedy was talking to his brother, bobby kennedy, who was the attorney general at the time. he said the odds this would end up in war were somewhere between 1 and 3 and even. think about that. that's as if you have a revolver and it has two or three shells

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poet, writer, and so much more. dr. maya angelou. she died this week. she was 86 years old. truly an inspiring life. she was known for her frank chronicles of personal history and won three grammys for spoken word recordings and presidential medal of freedom. >> her passing can be summed up from words from the poem "when great trees fall." when the souls die, the air around us becomes light, rare sterile. the documentary about her life was already in the works. we want to talk about the director of the film. bob hercules. bob, help us understand what went through your mind when you heard the news this week.

>> well, we were both shocked. my codirector rita is here off camera. rita got a call from the family early wednesday morning and it was shocking news. she called me and it was very sad and it was like somebody punched you in the stomach. it was unbelievable painful. >> every time she spoke and some things just in passing were profound. i remember, i used to keep an episode of "the master class" she did for the oprah network. what was her perception of her when you conversed with her and interviewed her? >> well, she was a riveting story teller. one of the most interesting people we ever interviewed. her ability to take you into those times she lived was unbelievable. so, it was just -- i also felt,

rita and i felt we were honored to tell the story. the film is "maya angelou, the people's poet." it will air in early 2016. believe it or not, nobody ever made this film before. rita and i felt incredibly privileged to make the film. >> i know the last time you met with her was in january. what was that meeting like? >> actually, the last time we saw her was actually in april. we went to the installation of her portrait at the smithsonian in washington. we filmed that. that was last time rita and keith walker and our crew, that was the last time we saw maya angelou in person. she was in tremendous spirits. can you imagine a woman who came from her roots, from arkansas, from the deep south, from tremendous segregation and poverty to having her portrait

installed at the national gallery. >> that is what i was wondering. what did she think of the fact you were doing the documentary of her? >> we started working on the film two and a half years ago. we got her permission and her exclusive to do the film. she was very supportive of the film. we have done three days of interviews of her over the three last year. she was in great spirits. she was full of energy during the interviews. she is a riveting person. i still think of her in the present. it is hard to imagine she has passed. she was -- she was a giant in the world of arts and politics and political activism in america. she was a true american icon. her story -- i tell people, she was a woman who lived the lives of 12 people.

so, our biggest challenge probably is how to take this enormous story and take it down to a 90-minute film. >> you could have named this a lot of things. the world's poet. the poet of the times. the 20th century poet. why did you choose "the people's poet" specifically? >> "the people's poet" is appropriate. maya came from a hard background and overcame a lot of challenges just like a lot of people in life. she connected to average people. she had a way of communicating with people from all walks of life. one of the greatest traits she had was she bridged across all kinds of divides. racial divides and religious and socioeconomic. that was one of her true gifts. the people's poet title evokes that ability she had.

>> bob hercules, thank you so much. look forward to seeing the documentary on pbs in 2016. thank you, bob. >> all right. one quick shoutout to rita. the codirector who should be on the show right now. >> thank you to rita. thanks. >> thank you. listen, get ready for an historic event. fabian cousteau is getting ready for something not even his grandfather has done. hi, fabian. we are talking to him in a minute. >> how are you? ...and a choice. take 4 advil in a day which is 2 aleve... ...for all day relief. "start your engines" and i get a lot in return with ink plus from chase i make a lot of purchases for my business.

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good morning. i'm michael smerconish. coming up on my program this morning, heads are rolling at the v.a. joining me will be two members of the congressional veterans committ committee. one of my guests has interviewed more than 80 serial killers. and what have i told you that your right to bear arms is not your right at all. we have a great program. terrific guests. i'll see you at the top of the hour. christi and victor. >> that's a provocative question. "smerconish" airs at 9:00 a.m. eastern. >> that will have a lot of people talking. would you live under water for a month if you could? well, maybe you could. coming up soon. >> in just a matter of hours, ocean explorer fabien cousteau

will start a month-long under water study in the florida keys. >> it is called mission 31. for 31 days, he and a team will live, work and dive under water to study pollution and climate change. it is all happening in a one-of-a-kind research lab here. >> guess what? we have fabien cousteau from islamorada with us. do you have to live under water for 31 days to find out what you are hoping to find? >> it's great to see you guys virtually. i wish you were down here. it is a beautiful day out. >> we will come down if you want us to come to florida. what the heck. >> you should. you should come play with our beautiful toys. it is necessary to live on the frontier to film things that you cannot from the surface.

giving us a full lunar cycle gives us the luxury of bringing back scientific data that you otherwise cannot do. >> you will be under water for 31 days. physically and mentally, how have you prepared for this? >> it is a fairly unusual endeavor. it does require a lot of preparation. we have been just through the last ten days of intensive training with helmets and full face masks and training with some of our latest greatest equipment. it is very unusual diving. it allows us to dive anywhere from 8 to 10 hours a day, but we have to go through some of the contingencies that recreational scuba divers do not. i brought a smattering of equipment we will use down there from mission 31 from the wonderful water shot housings that were custom-built just for

us to share stories via social media. we can bring these lovely nokia devices that will be able to put in there and go down to up to 100 meters into the water. beyond that, we have some wonderful cameras that only the best and the brightest in hollywood use such as james cameron. we have the red dragon 6 k resolution camera. that is nine times what hd can bring you in resolution. as well as the housings and the top cameramen in our team. tom hamilton and matt ferraro who will bring back live and magical pictures from mission 31. >> they will be phenomenal. >> you mentioned twitter and facebook. will you be able to communicate to facebook and twitter?

>> i can't get wifi in my kitchen. you are getting it 60 feet below the surface. >> that's a wonderful point. for the first time ever, we are able to invite the world in real time on a cousteau expedition. that was never available before. in the only under sea laboratory in the world, we have wifi. we are able to talk to you like we're doing right now from under water. >> so, we hope, of course, everything goes well. in the case of an emergency, what is the plan? >> there are a lot of plans. depends on the emergency. whether it is a physiological emergency or whether there is a problem with something functioning or misfunctioning in and around the habitat. we have been training for contingency plans. just because it is the start of hurricane season, we won't need

to deal with that. with something so complex and living under water for 31 days, a very unusual thing to do. >> so, we have to ask, what do you think your grandfather would think of this whole thing right now? >> well, as you probably know, this is based on the exploits of con-shelf 2 where his team lived under water for 30 days. we are doing one day longer to honor him and aquanauts. i think he would be thrilled because this is the next step in ocean exploration with regard to human beings. we will use a lot of different tools that just weren't available to him in his time. >> well, fabien cousteau, we will be entrenched with you watching this whole thing. thank you so much. best of luck to you.

we will keep you in our thoughts and prayers for sure. >> thank you so very much. watch us live at mission-31.com. good luck, my friend. thank you. >> fabien. thank you. looking forward to seeing those photographs. you know, something else you have to see. this oregon bus driver being called a hero after quick thinking on a busy street. you have got to see the pictures. >> you know what that is on the side of the road? >> a toddler. >> a kid. >> just abandoned on the road all alone. you want to see how this ends. -. mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here! aah! [ female announcer ] the complete balanced nutrition of great-tasting ensure. 24 vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, and 9 grams of protein. [ bottle ] ensure®. nutrition in charge™.

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♪ the good life this is going to be the good life ♪ >> good stuff now. this is great. great stuff. >> very good point. >> this bus driver in oregon, understandably called a hero this morning because of the dramatic rescue. >> bill clark's quick thinking saved a 2-year-old from what could have been a horrible accident. here is cnn's john berman. >> he was in the middle of linden avenue. >> reporter: a bus driver comes to a halt as the driver sees the toddler wandering on the busy street alone. >> i have to get that child out of the street. >> reporter: bill clark hits the brakes on the bus with this boy in the streets with a diaper and t-shirt. >> he made a b-line for me and the bus. i asked him several questions. i realized i would not get any response, that is when i took his hand and headed toward the

bus. >> reporter: after calling the police, clark and the passengers patiently waited with the boy who did not speak until clark said the magic word. >> when i finally got the hot chocolate, he came back with chocolate. >> reporter: police say james wandered out of his apartment while his father was asleep and mother at work. the toddler was eventually reunited with parents who reported him missing. as for clark, he says he is no hero. >> i just think that it is my place to do whatever i can to help out in this world when i can. >> boy, did he ever. >> well done. child services interviewed james' parents, but they are not facing charges. clark said he hopes they put better locks on their doors. >> frantic time for that mom and dad. >> hot chocolate. >> my kids, they would recognize that, too. trust me. >> the international offering of

goodwill. thanks for starting your morning with us. >> "smerconish" starts right now. we will see you at 10:00. a few minutes ago, secretary shinseki offered me his resignation. with regret, i accepted. >> good morning. i'm michael smerconish. the drum beat has caught up with eric shinseki. that is the headline. v.a. chief relisigns over the delays at hospitals. it could have been lifted from any major newspaper in the country. today, all the media are covering the story and for obvious reasons. the scandal over american war veterans dying at v.a. facilities has no end in sight. it began with cnn, with tips that spurred