accident. >> he's in intensive care. >> a walmart truck driver in court this morning facing state charges. >> two tractor-trailers involved. >> was the driver dozing off? >> what we said and we're looking into whether it is possible to release the proof of life video. >> white house, pentagon, state department, inviting all house representatives to see the bowe bergdahl video. should you have the right to see it too? this as the fbi investigates death threats against the bergdahl family. >> they have received e-mail and phone threats. plus, it's a far cry from digging your way to freedom. why do that when help comes from the skies. let's talk live in the "cnn newsroom." good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. three innocent lives gone in an instant now we're learning the

married couple blamed for killing two las vegas police officers as they ate dinner at a pizza restaurant held extremist views toward law enforcement. i apologize. investigators say they found what appears to be a manifesto, backpacks and flags or insignias with marking on them at one of the shooting scenes. let's go out to dan simon for more. >> reporter: this seems to be a very thought out and calculated attack based upon what you're talking about with those items that were found, the manifesto, the backpack and the flag and insignias. we don't know what they symb symbolize but it appears they went through the trouble to think things through. i want to talk through chronology with you. it's important here in sort of talking about what happened and the events that led up to what happened here at the walmart. so it's around 11:22 a.m. when

these two suspects we're talking about a married couple enter a pizza restaurant and they see these two police officers and they shoot them dead. then they take the officer's guns and the ammunition. they then go across the street essentially to this walmart where they confront a woman near the front of the store. they shoot her dead. then, police converge on the scene. there's some sort of shootout between the suspects and police officers but apparently this married couple had some kind of suicide pact. the wife then literally shoots her husband and then she shoots herself so the details are absolutely horrific here. what motivated all this, we're not certain. based on what we have seen online with what this married couple has written, it appears that they harbored anti-government and anti-law enforcement views. now, we know the names of the

suspects, but cnn is not releasing them until authorities do. so right now we're holding back a bit. certainly this is a group or this is a couple rather that harbored anti-law enforcement views. >> joining me by phone from vegas is a reporter with the las vegas sun. welcome, joe. >> hi. >> i know you talked to neighbors about these suspects. what more can you tell us about them? >> they just appeared -- they talked a lot with everybody about various types of conspiracy theories. one of the neighbors described them as possibly being involved with methamphetamine. they kind of lived in a neighborhood -- actually, only about four minutes from where i live. i wouldn't necessarily call it a bad neighborhood. it's just a little bit older than most neighborhoods in las vegas. >> they were very overt with their views. they didn't hide the fact they

hated police officers, right? >> no. i think they just -- a lot of people talk. i think people thought it was just a bunch of talk. they didn't have anything to back it up with. >> and then of course this tragedy happened. some strange things went down in the course of the crime. after the police officers were shot, one of the suspects covered them with some sort of flag. do you know what kind of flag that was? >> that hasn't been confirmed. from some reports say it was a yellow flag some say is associated with tea party movement, which has a don't tread on me insignia on it. that hasn't been confirmed. i don't know if that's true. >> and then the other allegation that's out there and according to your article, i believe, that these two suspects participated somehow in the cliven bundy saga? >> the neighbors said the two

came back and bragged about being up at the cliven bundy ranch in march. however, other reports say they were kicked out of the place. i don't know why they might have been kicked out. mrs. bundy said she didn't really know anything about them. >> and then finally, as they rushed toward this walmart store, they said something like this is a revolution. were these extremists? meth heads? in your opinion, where was their anger really coming from? >> you know, it's puzzling to me. it's almost beyond conception to me. i can't understand it. i don't know if they were just drug addicts lost in their own fantasy world or -- in either case, no matter what their motivation or what they thought they were doing, it's insane. that's all i can tell you about it. >> i think i would agree with

you there. joe, thank you so much. with "las vegas sun." appreciate it. breaking news to pass along to you. we have learned the truck driver charged in the accident that left comedian tracy morgan critically injured was awake for more than 24 hours before it happened. that's according to the criminal complaint. the 35-year-old walmart truck driver faces one count of death by auto and four counts of assault by auto. in the meantime, morgan is responsive. he's showing signs of improvement after that terrible crash on saturday on the new jersey turnpike. the collision killed one person, left three others hospitalized. listen to what morgan's limo driver told tv station wcau about this ordeal. >> i saw traffic and i stopped. i was upside down in the vehicle. >> let's bring in cnn aviation and government regulation

correspondent rene marsh about this latest bit about new information. tell us more. >> well, carol, this is really highlighting a debate that's been happening in washington. we've been asking the question since this weekend at last minute why did this truck driver swerve to avoid vehicles and essentially it seems as if he wasn't aware of the slow moving traffic ahead. now we're just getting that information that he was awake more than 24 hours before the accident. now, we do know that investigators are there on the scene as far as new jersey state police as well as the ntsb looking into all of these factors, the log book for this individual and they're going to want to know more details about his work schedule, we do know that the drug and alcohol tests are being conducted. however, authorities have already said they don't believe that will be a factor. let's get back to this issue of fatigue. that's something that ntsb investigators have always been

very concerned about and back to this debate happening here on capitol hill. we do know that there are senators both republicans and democrats who are calling for changes to the truck rest rules which are currently in place. we should say the department of transportation put these rules in place about a year ago in july. the portion of the rules that they want to change is when a driver hits 70 hours of driving for a week, we know that they're required at this point to take at least 34 hours off. and that must include two mornings between the hours of 1:00 and 5:00 a.m. those are the rules that are up for discussion here on capitol hill because there's some lawmakers who say they want to change that portion. essentially we're telling truckers when to sleep and they believe that that will in turn force them onto the roadways during the daylight hours. the 9:00 a.m.s, 10:00 a.m. when

more people are on the road and they feel that would be more dangerous than having them work overnight. carol? >> okay. so i know that walmart has responded to this crash. what did they say? >> we do know the president of walmart just this weekend put out a statement in part saying that this was a tragedy and they're very sorry for what happened. one of their truck drivers was involved. the president of walmart going on to say the facts are continuing to unfold and if it is determined that our truck caused the accident, walmart will take full responsibility. so they're getting out front of this issue here because as we know that truck driver was a walmart employee. >> all right. rene marsh reporting live from washington. thank you. there are new details of the tortured captivity of bowe bergdahl and the firestorm over the deal that convinced terrorists to free him. today on capitol hill all members of the house will meet behind closed doors with the three main points of those

negotiations, the white house, the state department and the pentagon. those officials will face very tough questions from lawmakers. they're worried about the future threat from those five taliban commanders who were released in exchange for bergdahl's freedom. that deal is causing outrage in bergdahl's family. fbi investigating death threats against his parents who stayed out of public view in recent days. cnn's ed lavandera is in hailey, idaho this morning. lisa, tell us about this meeting. how contentious do you expect it to be? >> this definitely could be highly contentious as this classified as behind closed doors so we won't know what's said inside. i will tell you this. this is the first chance that house members will have to get this information since it was announced. the house was out of session all last week and a full week of

house members to get their blood boiling and to hear from some of their constituents about this. also, carol, it's being held in visitor center auditorium which is a very large space. they are planning for a crowd tonight. the question will be do the house members believe that the white house has a political agenda here or do they think they're getting straight information today? that will tell us whether it's contentious or not. they have a lot of questions. talking to sources today, a lot of republicans and democrats feel they're getting a few different stories from the white house over the past couple days especially over why it was necessary to release bergdahl now. expect those questions and think of today's briefing as very important but really an opening to this week. we'll get more information on wednesday when the households an armed services open hearing with secretary of defense hagel. >> that should be very interesting. i want to ask you about this proof of life video. there was talk it might be shown publicly. are lawmakers for that? >> yes. most lawmakers on capitol hill that are taking a position on

that say release it. we want the public to see it. as we reported last week with dana bash, senator tom coburn who is a medical doctor says i look at this video an see someone that's drugged. the public should look at that themselves. the white house is not releasing so far. today the house members will see the video for the first time including some high ranking members like the chairman of the house armed services committee. he still has not seen this video that we haven't seen. he'll see it tonight. i expect afterwards we'll hear more calls for that to be released publicly. >> lets head to idaho and check in with ed lavandera. what do you know these threats against bergdahl's family? >> law enforcement tells cnn that the threats came through e-mail to bergdahl at his home. there were several of those threats. military spokesperson for the family says they will not comment on it. this is a law enforcement issue. it's obviously something of great concern not only to the

bergdahl family but many friends here in hailey, idaho, who have told us that bergdahls have been stunned by the level of intensity and backlash against not only their family but toward bowe bergdahl as well. they knew there would be some controversy given the unknown questions and unanswered questions about his disappearance and how he became captured. the intensity of all of that family and friends tell us has surprised and saddened the bergdahl family and of course this just intensifies that even more. >> we haven't seen the bergdahl family publicly for quite sometime. have they gone into hiding, do you know? >> reporter: we know they've been here in hailey. they live several miles on the outskirts of town of this small town in one road out through this canyon in a very remote area. they laid very low. the last time they spoke was a week ago yesterday when they arrived back from washington, d.c. in boise and spoke briefly

with reporters and saluted some of the supporters that they had here for almost five years throughout all of this ordeal. but because of the intensity and everything, we've asked repeatedly if they want to make any statements or comments and they said that they have nothing to say for now and they're focusing on trying to reunite with their son, bowe. >> thank you so much. still to come in the "newsroom," reducing the burden on millions of americans with rising student loan debt. our chief business correspondent christine romans has more on what president obama plans to do about it. good morning. >> the white house wants to make it more manageable for 5 million more student borrowers to get their monthly payments down so they can have a financial life. i'll have details right after the break. listen up, thunder dragons, it's time to get a hotel. hey, razor. check this out. we can save big with priceline express deals. hey you know what man, these guys aint no dragons.

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in just a few hours, president obama will announce a new initiative aimed at easing the burden of crushing student loan debt for millions of americans. take a look at the numbers. federal student loan debt now tops $1 trillion. it is now the second highest consumer debt behind mortgages. and more borrowers are having a hard time repaying. the three-year default rate jumped from 13.3% to nearly 15%. the president says more has to be done. >> the average undergraduate student who borrows for college now graduates owing almost $30,000. i've heard from too many young people who are frustrated they've done everything they were supposed to do and now they're paying the price. >> cnn's athena jones is at the white house with a closer look at the president's plan and

christine romans looks at what it means for the overall economy. what is is the president's plan, athena? >> we're talking about expanding a program that allows borrowers to cap their monthly payments at 10% of their discretionary income. this would help an additional 5 million borrowers. this is part of the white house's effort to make college more affordable. it's something we heard the president talk about for years frankly. he said no one should go broke because they choose to go to college. now, the white house is saying this is part of what they call the president's year of action. he uses the power of the phone and the pen like signing this presidential memorandum today on this issue to bypass congress where we have seen this bipartisan gridlock. the president is also going to be asking congress to act in this matter so they can help even more borrowers. there is a plan put forward by senator elizabeth warren, massachusetts democrat, that would help up to 25 million

borrowers refinance their loans bringing interest rates from 7% to below 4%. he's using his own executive action but calling on congress to act and this is an issue the white house sees as a big winner for democrats. that's a bit of what we can expect today. >> is it students or former students discretionary income or total income this is based on. >> it's discretionary income. 10% monthly payments, the white house sees this as something that should be manageable for students and it's part of a series of efforts to try to bring the costs down for folks who borrowed a lot of money to go to college. >> and christine, i'll throw this question to you. isn't is it hard to determine what discretionary income is? >> it's your after-tax income and you work with the department of education on that. there's calculators on sally mae and cnn money has calculators the borrowers can use. income based repayment is

something that's been around for a long time. it was expanded under healthcare reform and there's forgiving student loans. the white house even gives this example of a teacher who makes $39,000 a year. she's got 26 grand in debt. this would cut her monthly bill by $126 a month and then after a period of years if you're in public service, you would forgive the rest of the loan. that's another important part of this. say you're in the arts and you have a student loan bill or a public defender, over the course of your working life if you are current on your loans at some point they'll forgive the loans. that's a really important part of this. the president talked last week about forgiving student debt for va doctors to get more va doctors and nurses. the white house really trying to use this as a way to fill some of the gaps we have in society and help students at the same time. one thing it doesn't address, carol, is the fact that we're borrowing too much money to go to college in the first place. we are borrowing a lot of money

and families really should be talking about where they're choosing to go to school, how long it's taking to get out of school. there are a lot of universities with three-year programs now. that helps keep the debt down. keeping the debt down on the front end, tuition is up 544%. 544% since the '80s. we have to talk about that too. >> we certainly do. christine romans, athena jones, many thanks. still to come, the nba commissioner addresses why nothing was done about donald sterling before now. >> i don't want to make excuses. clearly there's a different standard now in part because of social media and there's a much greater awareness now. >> cnn's rachel nickels sits down with the nba commissioner since the sterling scandal broke. laquinta.com, he gets a ready for you alert the second his room is ready. so he knows exactly when he can prep for his presentation. and when steve is perfectly prepped, ya know what he brings? and that's how you'll increase market share. any questions?

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working in san antonio last night but the spurs were still overcome by the heat. the miami heat that is. lebron james bounced back after leaving game one with cramps but he scored 35 points leading miami to a 98-96 win and tying the series at one game each. before the game, nba commissioner adam silver sat down with cnn's rachel nichols for his first one-on-one interview since the donald sterling scandal broke. >> the board of governors needs to approve but what does it feel like to be on the other side of all of this? >> i don't have any feeling about it yet because it's not done. donald sterling has a billion dollar lawsuit filed against the league, against me personally. i'm not worried about that because i can't afford it. there's still a last issue to resolve and that is donald dropping his lawsuit and resolving his former issues with his wife. >> his lawyer said they plan to

do that but are you in a i believe it when i see it mode? >> absolutely. i've been there with him before. he's almost sold his club over the years. there's well known incidents in the league when he was there at a closing and at the last minute decided not to sell and until he sells that document, we have pending litigation with him. >> we saw you come out for that press conference which is historic. give me behind the scenes the five minutes before you walked out to that podium. what was going on? >> i generally get nervous in those situations. i haven't walked out on such a large stage ever in my career with that many cameras and that many members of the media. up until the last second, i was really writing what i was going to say. effective immediately, i am banning mr. sterling for life from any association with the clippers organization or the nba. >> so then what about the five minutes after you walked off that podium and had delivered

the shell shock bomb to everybody? >> i didn't have a sense of what a big moment it was until i walked back to the office. i began to have a sense of people coming up to me. >> you were walking on the street and people just started talking to you about it. >> absolutely. >> love the idea of him walking back from that press conference, carol, and people just coming up to him with tears in their eyes telling him how important it was to them. i also pressed adam silver on why the league did not do anything about donald sterling earlier. he acknowledged to me that they should have. that just because there weren't any convictions in any of these harassment or discrimination cases against him, he settled them with money. they should have done something more. at least they are doing something now. you have to give him credit for being accountable in that interview. he did admit they should have done more in the past and they'll try to do better going

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violated, then we have the ability to be able to do things. >> what kind of things? >> i am not telling you that they don't have some ability at some point to go back and get involved. they also have an ability to get killed doing that. >> all right. let's head to cnn's nic robertson in qatar with the latest. you spoke with a taliban source who had knowledge of bergdahl's captivity. what did you learn? >> reporter: he said that in the first period of captivity, bergdahl was held in a house that wasn't very secure. he described it as being sort of looked after by an old man that bergdahl managed to break out of there, get away and was on the run for three whole days. because the taliban controlled that whole area, he had no chance of escaping and then when the taliban recaptured him, they put him in a much more secure location where they say that he had no chance of getting away from that time. they say over the period of five years that he learned the local

language well enough to communicate effectively with the taliban. he complained about his food. he was getting too much lamb. wanted vegetables and fruit. he was given that. that's what this source with the taliban says. but also that bergdahl said true to his christian faith. he wanted to observe christmas and easter. he was able to do that. the taliban also say they gave him reading material. also islamic reading material and english reading material. and that he was able to exercise on occasion even playing soccer with the taliban. so the way that the taliban sources describe this captivity is they were giving him a decent diet and he was allowed to observe christmas and easter. clearly very important to him and not so for his captors at all, carol. >> we know the taliban is adept at propaganda. you're painting a rosy picture of his captivity frankly. >> reporter: sure.

and you've got to look at it in that light absolutely. what i will say about this source is that this is someone who has provided accurate information on westerners held by the taliban in the past. while they're being held, information that's proved reliable and accurate later in time. this source says if you go talk to bergdahl, you'll find out this information is correct. however, we really need to put it in perspective. the taliban is adept at propaganda and this source isn't familiar with all aspects of bergdahl's captivity. it was over a five-year period. we have a few lines of information from him far from painting a complete picture, carol. >> very complex story. nic robertson reporting live from qatar. ucla made money off of o bannon when he played for them. now he wants cash. >> this lawsuit could change the

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all that money. we are covering the trial and we will talk about the big picture in college athletics right now. tell us more about this hearing today. >> it's the trial that begins today, carol. the argument that these players are making is that the ncaa essentially bullies these players. they give them two options. you either sign this waive er s you can't make money off your own image or you don't play and players say that's not fair. when the lawsuit was filed five years ago, it was about video games. ed o'bannon was at a friend's house and sees himself in a college sports video game. i never gave my permission for you to use my image and i'm not making any money off that. he sued. that part of the lawsuit was settled last year. the video game maker settled for $40 million. they agreed to stop making these games so when they go to trial this morning, what this is about is television contracts.

the ncaa, the conference, the universities, they make millions of dollars each year on tv contracts so that you can sit at home in the comfort of your home and watch your favorite games on tv. you don't have to go to the stadium physically to see your favorite games, your favorite teams play. players say that's not fair. everyone around us is making money. we want a cut of that. >> i can see their point. how will the ncaa defend itself? >> the ncaa says that it's protecting this amateurism model. in all of the defenses of all of the different attacks on the ncaa, all of the reform movements, that's their stance. they are protecting amateurism and these athletes are getting an education, a world-class education for playing sports and that has been their mantra and we don't expect that to change. leading up to this as i said, the video game maker settled. ncaa would not budge on a single

issue. >> because they have amateurism on their side apparently, right? >> and that's what they claim. they say that these athletes get an education. they get housing. they get food. they say that values about $40,000 a year and if you don't like it, just don't play college sports. >> now that would get the players somewhere if that happened, right? if all of the great players in high school said we're not playing. >> the problem is college football players only avenue if they want to play professionally and go to nfl, is college football. they have no choice in this matter. the direction we're going is we'll pay college athletes but there are hurdles to get to that. do you pay the kids at texas the same you pay the kids at middle tennessee state? that's a good question. do you pay them based on market value or do you pay everyone the same? if you pay the football players, you have to pay the swimmers. where does that money come from? the big argument the ncaa likes to make, if you start playing players, what incentive do they

have to go to class? >> some of them don't go to class any way. >> the players argument is we have coaches making 7 million a year and super conferences making hundreds of millions of dollars, why aren't we getting a cut? there's great arguments on both sides. it seems that they're trying to meet in the middle. >> the tide is turning. o'bannon is in court today. a judge is hearing his case and college football players that voted to unionize is on the table too. >> the northwestern players made the point to say it's not about the money. we want a seat at the table with benefits and bargaining. whenever anyone says it's not about the money, what is it about? it's about the money. still to come, the war on women. a hot button phrase that sparks a lot of political finger pointing but has been bandied about so much that it's now meaningless. we'll talk about that next. ♪

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that white house event got me thinking about the state of working moms and the increasingly meaningless term war on women thrown around a lot including abortion rights to equal pay but rarely does that term include child care. if politicians really want to make women's lives more fair and easier, they would talk a blue streak about affordable child care. instead we get cheap jokes about how lawmakers really do understand women's issues. i'm sure you've seen this. michigan state lawmakers posed for a picture asserting they really do understand women and you can see that by the fashion magazines they're reading. it was a joke. but it underscores how the conversation surrounding women's issues has devolved. and that's a sad thing. here now to talk about that, kelly wallace, cnn digital correspondent and vicky barnett, michigan state representative. welcome to both of you.

>> good to be here. >> glad to have you here. i can't wait for this conversation. okay. so the overall question, is the so-called war on women so politically charged it's become meaningless? >> well, i think it is politically charged. that is fair. i think you would get a lot of people who would object to the sense that it is meaningless. i think in the case of michigan, you always have to look at the context here, right? you know that three republican lawmakers said this was a joke. it was light hearted. get what? i believe the percentage of women in the michigan state house is at the lowest level in 20 years. and you also look at policies such as that so-called rape insurance bill two years ago passed in the michigan state house where pretty much almost all abortions would not be covered unless women purchased this separate writer. i don't know that -- it's politically charged yes, but meaningless, a lot of women

would look at the makeup of the house and the senate there in michigan and also some of the policies and say these are perhaps not the policies that support women in the long run. >> and representative barnett, i do think it's disheartening that democrats and republicans can't talk about issues that are important to women without bickering over who loves or hates women the most. why can't we just talk intelligently about these issues? >> we lost the representative. this is not my day. >> it is not. she's such a key part of this. she and a couple of other female democrats in the state house put their photo out saying real women look at documents and bills and not fashion magazines. i hear your point, carol. i hear it loud and clear. it is unfortunate when this gets into this political charged back and forth.

women's issues are key. it is up to women voters, carol, ultimately, to make the determination on what issues are important to them and then vote on those issues when they go to the ballot box. >> i hear you. i think women's issues are incredibly important. i guess what i'm saying is we can talk about abortion rights all we want. the topic at the top of most women's minds is child care. that's what women deal with each and every day. why aren't we doing something to help women care better for their children because let's face it, women have to work. they can't choose any longer to stay home. so why not deal with an issue that they grapple with every single day. and couldn't both republicans and democrats agree on that? >> carol, if only it were that simple, right? many women in this country listen to this conversation and say one way is to get more women in the house and senate and states around the country and not just female democrats but female republicans who may feel

this issue more personally and deeply and may want to do something about it. so that is one thing. but it is also important, carol, to talk about -- you talk about child care. there are issues such as in the michigan state house there was a bill, i believe, in terms of requiring welfare recipients to perform community service or they wouldn't get the benefits and people would say, well, what are they going to do for child care to perform the community service and then they'll lose their benefits because they can't afford the child care. this requires a thinking and sensitivity to the issues of working women and working men in this country and a real desire to make those issues front and center and both parties are guilty of playing politics too often with these issues and not sitting down and getting things done on them. >> kelly wallace, thanks for filling in. i appreciate it. >> i'm happy to. >> thank you. still to come in the "newsroom," panic and terror at a seattle college after a gunman opens

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