mitchell reports, at least 18 people are dead after a tornado outbreak rips across 17 states overnight turning entire neighborhoods into rubble. the worst of the twisters carving a half mile wide path of devastation 80 miles long as communities pick up the pieces today we'll have the latest on where the severe weather is heading next. >> as far as the tornado threat, the best chance of tornadoes will be between 4:00 and 10:00 tonight. these storms will be moving at 40 to 50 miles per hour. >> putin's circle with eastern ukraine at the boiling point, the u.s. orders new sanctions against putin's cronies, is it too little too late? >> the goal here is not to go after mr. putin personally. the goal is to change his cal sculus on how the current actions could have an impact on the russian economy over the long haul and to encourage him

to actually walk the walk and not just talk the talk. >> the l.a. clippers playoff squad wore their shirts inside-out to show their disgust for owner sterling after his alleged racist comments, commanding the league take action. >> he shouldn't own a team anymore and he should stand up and say i don't want to own the team anymore. >> all players feel the comments were reprehencible and unacceptable. >> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. a devastating scene across the midwest and south whereas many as 31 tornadoes tore a path of destruction leaving 18 dead and in hard-hit arkansas, emergency officials have begun searching

for survivors or at least 16 were killed in tornado's 80-mile path and the threat is not over for tens of millions of people as parts of the midwest and south will see more destructive storms today. nbc charles hadlock is joining me on the phone from mayflower arkansas. first to you, charles, what are you seeing around you there in m mayflower? i think communications with charles are difficult, cell phone coverage also affected by the storms. let's get to dave in mississippi. dave, let's talk about where the storm is heading next. >> reporter: andrea, i can tell you what charles was going to tell you about in the northern part of little rock there's a city called mayflower and it was just completely wiped out by that half mile tornado that came

through there. the city is just destroyed. you will see lots of damage there and trailers being thrown into bill boards and areas just wiped out. 16 plus people were killed in that so we're looking back on that and still they are trying cleanup efforts there, it's going to take a while. they are right in the middle of this. but now we're looking ahead here in the state of mississippi. i'm standing here in the state capital at the capitol building where don't let the sunny sky fool you, we are in a dangerous serious threat here throughout the entire nation. there are 38 million people who are under a severe thunderstorm area where they could be facing severe thunderstorms. they are in a threat area. and then tomorrow, there are even more people, 57 million people will be under a threat of severe thunderstorms and possibly tornadoes. here in the state of mississippi, just got out of a

meeting with the governor, he told me that he is meeting with the emergency operations folks who are already activated there and ready to respond for anything that happens. the entire northern half of the state is under a severe threat and not only one but two, we're going to have one that starts just a little bit after 10:00 a.m. this morning here local time in that area. that's why you don't see the severe weather behind me because it's mostly in the northern part of the state. then right after that, about dinner time, 5:00 p.m., to 7:00 p.m., there's going to be another one that comes through. so the threat here according to the governor and the eoc folks is that people will become kplasant even see the first line of storms come through and think it's all over. but then, andrea, the second line of storms will come through then the next day it's going to be even more dangerous. so i think the word is to keep

an ear out for what's happening and the alerts coming from officials here. it could be a dangerous, even deadly day here in mississippi, andrea. >> dave, we also have the weather channel and national weather service also have storm alerts out for alabama, tennessee, louisiana. tell us are these the same storm systems first and what is the timing for these other states? >> this is the same storm system that's moving through what we do is we put up a tore con, 5 out of 10, there's a 50% chance of any tornadoes happening within a 50 mile radius. if you go east to nashville and huntsville, you'll see that number increase to even a 7 or a 10 torcon.

there's a very lightly chance we'll have a severe thunderstorm or tornado outbreak, the same kind of thing we saw unfortunately in arkansas will come through these states as well, andrea. >> thank you so much, dave for all of the warnings. and everyone will stay tuned on the path of those storms. now to the story that everyone is talking about today the nba is considering sanctions the own of clippers who allegedly made racist comments. tmz says is donald sterling making offensive statements to his then girlfriend. he has not been independently verified by nbc news. according to tmz, he was upset about this photo with magic johnson that she posted on her instagram account. >> people call you and tell you that i have black people on my instagram and it bothers you. >> it bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people.

how about your whole life, every day, you could do whatever you want? you could sleep with them, you can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. the little i ask you is not to promote it on that and not to bring them to my games. >> during yesterday's playoff game, clippers players stanged a silent protest by wearing shirts inside-out during warm-up. a statement was released saying in part, we do not know if it is legitimate or has been altered. mr. sterling is emphatic that it is not consistent with nor does he agree with his thoughts and feelings. bob costas joining me by phone. bob, first to you, let's take it that this is proved one way or the other. hasn't there been behavior and comments from the past from sterling that would indicate that the nba, the league should

have been doing something sooner about this behavior? >> he's been a problematic and embarrassing owner for a long time since he purchased the team in the early '80s, he purchased it for slightly less than $13 million, assessed value is somewhere in excess of 700 million. but along the way he's run a dysfunctional franchise. he's been by the standards of the sport, only brief periods of success on court. one of them ironically is right now with doc rivers, an african-american head coach, one of the most respected figures in the game and two of the bright stars, chris paul and blake grif fin, both happen to be african-american. by and large, over more than three decades they've been a laughing stock team and poorly run. he himself has a very checkered personal history including charges he's made a lot of money

in real estate and discriminatory practices directed towards black and hispanic tenants enhad a case brought against him by one of the all time greats of the nba, the case involved an accusation of racial discrimination. it was dismissed. he has a personal history of checkered behavior that doesn't cast him or the league in a favorable light. i'm sure if you were to give every nba owner truth serum and asked them would the league be better off this guy was gone, not just now but a decade ago, the overwhelming answer would be yes. >> kevin johnson, the mayor of sacramento, former ballplayer speaking for the players association talked with the nba earlier and on the "today" show. >> it's a defining moment in the history of this league and i'm very confident that the commissioner will act in the

best interest of the players, owners in the league and i feel like the only way to do that is to do the most severe sanctions possible and i do expect him to do that in short order. >> let me bring into the conversation, bob, joining us is eugene robinson. this has been a pattern with sterling. and the nba has turned a blind eye. >> the nba has turned a blind eye. the owners are kind of a club and i think they are probably weary of setting a precedent that one can be forced out because if it happens to him, it might happen to me. but in this case, this is not an ordinary case. and i think the owners might actually do something here because, look, who's going to want to play for this guy and coach for this guy? who's going to want to buy this guy's team merchandise? this is a really tough situation and with kevin johnson saying this is a defining moment for

the league, he can't paint the stakes any higher than that. >> i was just -- bob kcostas an eugene, i was at the conference on high school graduation rates and one of the issues is pervasive racism and men of color and interviewing arne duncan, former ballplayer himself, played for harvard and professionally in australia. >> specific instance, again, innocent until proven guilty. it it's true, i don't think he has a place or role in the nba and folks, the owners will have to step up there. [ applause ] >> but for every horrific thing like this, you talk about a teachable moment. this is a teachable moment. >> he said he had spent the weekend talking to his kids about this. bob costas, this is a problem throughout society, but in sport and in a support which is

predominantly african-american and has such a huge fan base, there is a real issue as to what the billionaire owners -- how they need to be held to account. >> there's symbolism here, the nba represents something beyond its mere numbers. that's important. and it's obvious though, that what sterling has done in the past and what he's done in this particular case is so abhorrent and so far over the line, there's no dispute how objectionable it is. the question is what does the nba do now? this is the first real test for the new commissioner, adam silver, long-time lieutenant to david stern, the immensely successful nba commissioner who just recently stepped aside. this is a test for silver. the clippers play the first home game on wednesday, first home game since this incident and it's game five of their playoff

serialries against golden state. although it's not as important in the big picture, afterall the clippers are trying to win a playoff series. they are in kind of a bind. you get a sense of what the players would like to say and do beyond the symbolism of removing their warm-up jackets and wearing their jerseys inside-out and beyond what's been said, you have a sense they would like to say more once the season is concluded but on the other hand they have a game to play, maybe several games to play. there's a possibility of protests outside the staples center on wednesday. i would suspect that by tomorrow, adam silver will act and he'll find donald sister le sterling, the maximum is a million, suspend him for as long as the bylaws allow. some people might get confused between this and baseball. in baseball he has closer to unilateral powers.

george steinbrenner was suspended indefinitely and lasted a couple of years. adam silver can't do that to donald sterling, but what he can do is suspend him long enough, take him out of the picture, stop him from distracting from great exciting nba playoffs and during the time he's as you ssu bring the players and commissioner's office, bring all of that together to force donald sterling to see that his days as an nba owner are over and he must sell the team. >> i was also reminded recently of what happened in cincinnati as a baseball example. but what is the economic impact on suspension of sterling? >> just a million dollars. the economic impact would be selling the team but having purchased it for less than $13 million and it's assessed value

being $700 million, i think he's going to do okay. he hangs onto it partly because of ego and enjoys the position he's in. but he's forfeited that position. i think the reason you haven't heard for more nba owners yet, they are waiting to see what silver will do. i can envision a meeting taking place sometime after the nba playoffs, maybe before, where every nba owner is in that room with donald sterling and to a man and woman they say, none of us this is 29-0, there are 30 teams in the league, this is 29 to 1 maybe and you're the one. we want you out. there is no justification for you to remain. we'll make you whole financially as much as humanly possible but you've got to go. >> and eugene robinson, what is the lesson for professional sports for the owners? this is peer pressure that's

basically the only thing they've got. they can't force him to sell. >> that's kind of the way these -- this league works. they've got to bring this pressure to bear. actually, i was just in touch a few minutes ago with somebody who knows sterling and has dealt with him in the past and who's familiar with the team's finances and this person speculated he hasn't spoken with sterling recently, but if sterling did decide finally under pressure to sell, his price, he would probably say okay, you want me out and it's going to cost north of a billion dollars. >> eugene robinson, this is a subject close to your heart. >> it happens i'm writing about it for tomorrow. >> we will be there. >> thank you very much. and bob costas, thanks so much for joining us with your expertise today. >> thanks, aandrea. >> the white house announced new sanctions against president putin's inner circle.

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president obama announced more sanctions against russia over ukraine but getting an agreement with europe has not been easy. is it too little to late to get vladimir putin to change his policy? chuck todd is traveling with the president and filed this report for us on the sanctions and latest from the philippines. >> good evening from manila. the president is now asleep after having his third state dinner from four nations on this week-long trip to asia. this one his first visit to the philippines as president. this had to do with a new basing disagreement. for years the u.s. used to have a lot of military to military contacts here in the philippines and that went away over the last 20 years. this is renewing it, a 10-year

deal and you will have now more of a u.s. military presence here in the philippines. this asia pivot that the president has been pushing, really has the focus in many ways had been on the economic side but there's also been an expansion of the u.s. military footprint a few years ago there was a basing agreement made in australia and now we've added the philippines. all of it is about having the ability to check china. the president says this isn't about checking china or containing china. the u.s. has the ability to do that. the bigger story overshadowing the trip to asia has been the issue in ukraine. what you see when the president announced the sanctions, the new expanded sanctions targeting the individuals, that there is a reluctance that they haven't done more and that the u.s. wishes they could do more and apparently we're more prepared to go to the front if europe would follow suit. this is now a debate taking place inside the administration a bit. should the u.s. go it at a lone

on sanctions? a question i pose to the president and he said definitively he is not going alone. that would be a mistake that putin would use that to his political advantage and number two that economically it would hurt the united states because europe not only wouldn't follow suit, they would actually back fill, say whatever sector of the economy the u.s. stopped dealing with with the russians and end up back filling and try to make money on the side on that front. this is the challenge a little bit for the president. he does want to do more but he doesn't want to get ahead of europeans. and that's they believe the third part of this trip and this stop here in the philippines that's been interesting is the president vented a little bit publicly about what he believes is unfair criticism of his foreign policy and he called out the chief critic saying, most of these folks criticizing him, whether it's ukraine or syria are the same people he said were in favor of what he said was a disastrous decision to go into iraq. that's been private frustration for the president for months and

for the first time in a while he let it go public. a lot to chew on here. >> indeed there is. our thanks to chuck todd, up late in the philippines. joining us now for more on the sanctions and criticism, bob corker, ranking member of the foreign relations committee, senator corker recently returned from a visit to ukraine and moldova. i've seen your statement criticizing what the president has done. what is the main argument? because he is balancing a lot of equities and forcibly arguing today that the if the u.s. went one direction and europe in another, it would give vladimir putin even more of a wedge to try to divide the european allies from the united states. >> yeah, andrea, all i can say is the russian stock market has responded and that's sort of what has the final say at present. it's up a 1.5 since it was announced. i'm very disappointed. this was really just the same

set of sanctions that existed in the past, expanded to go to the individual companies but it isn't addressing those things that would have an effect on the economy in russia. and so i'm disappointed. i've been expressing this for some time. there are numbers of us that have great concerns working together to craft some legislation that would really deal with this issue more from a regional context but also focus on ukraine. so this is a major geopolitical issue and i'm so concerned that this tepid, cautious, response that the administration is putting forth actually creates even greater possibilities for something really bad happening down the road. yes, i'm very disappointed and numbers of people are and carl levin was just in the area a day after me last week. and he too was calling for us to hit some of the larger institutions that would have an impact and calls putin to at

least begin backing away the 40,000 troops on the border that are intimidating eastern ukrainians. we know they have black ops and little green men operating in there. right now putin continues to have his way. >> would you right now hit the big sectors that the major corporations with big investments there have so effectively pressured angela merkel and david cameron and other european allies not to grant that? what the president is saying, let's hold those back as the next step in case he actually crosses the border and invades. >> that's what they said last time. if you remember and let's be clear because i know when people say, andrea, sectoral sanctions, they think we're advocating hitting the entire sector. we've been consistent from day one that hitting four of the large banks, especially those that are state owned and hitting gas and not the entire sector

but sending the message that we're willing to do that. the president has said for some time he's willing to do that. it hasn't occurred and just in what you mentioned, demonstrates how the red line has changed. if you remember last week, we were going to put sanctions in place to move the troops away from the border. now the sanctions are about them going into eastern ukraine. putin in my opinion doesn't really want to go into eastern ukraine unless he has to do that. he right now is trying to build support with eastern ukrainians and knows he doesn't have their support at present. he's conducting these operations of intimidation, causing people to be really dissatisfied with their lot in life. he wants to make sure this election is not one that's credible on may the 25th. he can win eastern ukraine over time by continuing to do the things he's continuing to do. troops going in is the last

resort and maybe if ukrainian government makes a mistake and provokes him in such a way that the international community believes that he's done something that justified -- otherwise, again, he's doing exactly what he wishes to do right now. and i think we ought to go ahead and put sanctions in place that will change his behavior. >> senator, briefly, what do you think about the reports in the new york times and elsewhere this weekend that putin has a massive fortune and what the administration is trying to do is at least squeeze his partners and the investments that he has? >> look, i don't know whether there's credibility. you and i and everybody involved in this arena heard for some time he may have a net worth of $40 billion or any larger. i don't know any of those things to be facts. i know he's an autocrat and oversees a state and he doesn't

want to see ukraine move ahead to a market based society where corruption is routed out. russians resent what happens in russia. he doesn't want them to see ukraine move ahead in a very different way. this is very, very important. it's very important to the world. it's a geopolitical issue and i think this tepid, cautious, slapping on the risk is really not taking us where we need to go. as to what his net worth is and what he may have hidden, i try to deal in facts and i don't know -- i read the story with interest but i have no knowledge of what he may or may not have. >> okay, we'll leave it there. thank you very much, senator corker. >> tomorrow on the show, more on the u.s. sanctions and the impact. i have an exclusive interview with treasury secretary jack lew. also tomorrow the nba has just released a statement saying that they will hold a press conference to make an announcement about their investigation involving clippers

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>> pleading not guilty, not guilty until whatever happens, innocent until proved, but this is once you are indicted, isn't there under house ethics a whole step where you're supposed to step back from congress? >> you may need to step back from your committee assignments, it's up to the speaker and leadership, but he is in a lot more trouble based on my reading of the indictment and as you say, not proved, burden of proof all of that. more trouble than retaining his congressional seat. if the facts in this indictment are true he's going to prison. it actually doesn't involve his congressional service. i think it started with a campaign finance investigation but it moved to a business that he ran, a health food restaurant where basically he was under reporting the money that he was paying to employees to the authorities so he didn't have to pay as much in social security taxes and unemployment

compensation, insurance things. and it was just -- it was as alleged in the indictment just out and out crimes not really complicated saving himself money, something like a million dollars in under reported income that hecillizza this adds to the pretty terrible legal challenges but this is a serious one for this new york congressman. >> this is not one or two counts, which granted, when you have member of congress indicted in the same sentence it probably doesn't matter, but this is 20 counts. this is a significant sort of legal and problem for mike grimm that goes well beyond his congressional seat. i would say, andrea, this seat is -- there are so few real swing districts left in the country. this is one of them. it's staten island, it's a 52%

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it was a first for the vatican, two popes elevated to sainthood in front of a crowd of almost a million people, spilling out into the streets of rome, pope emeritus was at the ceremony. joining us from the vatican where they both attended the historic canonization. ann, this must have been an amazing thing to witness.

>> reporter: it really was, andrea. i think it was particularly special for the people of poland, most of the country seemed to be in st. peters square yesterday. they were red and white flags everywhere and they were here to honor john paul ii, who meant so much to them. he is the one who helped bring down communism and lift up the catholic faith again in poland. >> i know there's been criticism on several accounts, the left, the right, of course those who suffered from the terrible abuse, both of these pontiffs. what was pope francis trying to do by embracing both of them and having this as a joint canonization? >> i think he was saying s. andrea, the two bookends of the second vatican council, the most

important event in catholicism in 25 years. in 1962 had the courage to see it through a difficult first period. john paul ii gave the council an awe authoritative interpretation on the chair of peter. the pope francis was lifting up both of these men as men of the second vatican council. >> and i think he was redefining who they are because as saying, john was the pope of openness to the holy spirit and that john paul is the pope of the families, he was clearly taking two thoughts that are very important to his papacy and saying, these men, that's how i see these men as opposed to being icons of the conservatives and progressives. >> i think that's right. and pope francis is not into

these stereo typical conventional left/right things. he wants us to get beyond that and i think he helped do that yesterday. >> as we hear the traffic noise behind you guys, ann thompson, talk to us about the moment when we saw a little bit of picture we'll show a little more, of pope francis in the pope mobile going through the crowds and as you reported yesterday, actually got stopped by the crowd and had to make a u-turn. how did he get back into the vatican? >> he got -- andrea, he got in a car. what happened was -- and this is unusual apparently the first time it's happened during a canonization ceremony. instead of going around st. peters square in the pope mobile he went down where most of the people were yesterday. and he greeted people and then he got to the end and they didn't know what to do.

apparently they had given it this much thought, realized they needed to get him out of there. they got him out of the pope mobile and put him in a car. but for the people who came and could only see the ceremony on big screen tvs because if you're down there you couldn't see anything that was going on in the square unless you were watching it on tv. it was a way to say thank you. i think it's one more example of that human common touch that he has that really extraordinary. >> it is. >> it is incredible. and i envy both of you having been there to witness it. as always, thank you so much for being with us. >> we wish you were here. >> me too. next time. if there is such a thing. and more fallout from the l.a. clippers after their owner allegedly made those racist comments, two of the team's sponsors car max and state farm are ending sponsorship of the nba team. both made that announcement this past hour. we'll be right back. when he agreed to cosign for his daughter's credit card...

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