"new day" sunday continues with victor blackwell and ana victor blackwell and ana cabrera. -- captions www.vitac.com >>> good morning everyone. i'm ana cabrera in for christine. >> happy mother's day to you. i'm victor blackwell. 8:00 on the east coast. this is "new day sunday." major history in the sports world and some would say for the country when michael sam shattered this new barrier, becoming the first openly gay football player taken in the nfl draft. >> he came with a lot of credentials. first team all american from

"new day" sunday continues with victor blackwell and ana victor blackwell and ana cabrera. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good morning everyone. i'm ana cabrera in for christine. >> happy mother's day to you. i'm victor blackwell. 8:00 on the east coast. this is "new day sunday." major history in the sports world and some would say for the country when michael sam shattered this new barrier, becoming the first openly gay football player taken in the nfl draft. >> he came with a lot of credentials. first team all american from university of missouri, scc co-defensive player of the year. taken in the final round by the st. louis rams. >> this was cheered from missouri all the way to the white house. >> with the 249th pick in the 2014 nfl draft, the st. louis rams select michael sam, defensive end, missouri. >> with that announcement, michael sam becomes the first openly gay player drafted by the national football league. he got the news by telephone from the rams head coach jeff fisher who said, you are a ram, the wait is finally over. it was an emotional moment. >> i'm overwh

blackwell, public opinion, if this is where it turns, do you stop campaigning?s there become a point where the social conservative community accepts gay marriage? >> i accept the constitution of the united states and how the constitution defines how people can change the laws of this land. at the end of the day i welcome the resurgence of the debate. only one poll that really counts that expresses the will of the people and that's the poll taken at the ballot box, and bring it on. >> okay. well, i think that it sounds like in 2016, we could have a rerun of what 20041 like with the same-sex marriage, and thank you so much for both of you to come on together, and it is very polite and robust debate. and thank you, sir. >> you guys have a great day. >> thank you. >>> and harold burton and howard taft were senators when harold rupton won the heisman trophy. jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up ope

. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you this morning. >> good to be with you. >> good to have you with us. we're at the bottom of the hour now. >>> he admits he embarrassed the league, but it's donald sterling's new comments about race and magic johnson in particular that are raising a lot of questions this morning. in an exclusive interview with anderson cooper, sterling says he's sorry for what he said about friend v. stiviano being seen with black people, but he insists he's not a racist, that his team loves him. and as for magic johnson, we'll let sterling tell you what he thinks in his own words. look. >> i embarrassed the league. i humiliated them. i don't know how -- why i did it. i mean, i feel terrible. >> so, you don't believe, though, that the owners would vote to have you removed as owner? >> i don't think so. the players don't hate me. the sponsors don't hate me. >> you don't believe the players -- >> the fans don't hate me. the media hates. the media, it's all the media pushing it. >> hones

at any point tropic people have helped with the san francisco foundation and i'm so existed fred blackwell could be and join us you are fantastic partners. i want to thank supervisor cowen for being a wonderful, wonderful supervisor out here. she's out here from the corridor to the nonprofits and our work in the valley to help visit lists the grocery store and having great arts programs and singing and dancing along third street she's wonderful to work with and i know the people in the district deserve here leadership. i want to thank her for our boldness on this. also david lee we share the same basketball team. thank you for your leadership at the department of housing and working with the whole are portfolio sf is fantastic it's something i think more and more every time we mention the title and word it give us hope to hundreds of thousands of people in the city by gives hope to washington, d.c. to see models and models after we get stimulus money and federal appropriations to help us we can only do with with a wonderful commitment and fellow through by nancy pelosi she's been there eve

the only child of henry blackwell and lucy stone. the first woman in america but refused to change your name upon marriage. lifetime 50 year campaigners for suffrage. their daughter was one of those women whose names i read you. a very good friend. she sent him all of her notes. i feel like that was one of the inspiring moments to look at what happened. the same experience. she sent him her notes about how birth control was mischaracterized. to she wrote him a letter. well, a we are. we are still here. i was so stuns to see a letter recognizing that they had both been in it for a long haul. >> i think what is interesting to me is that upton sinclair was despised by the man who owned his papers. the owners of the papers hated him, and that was part of the rest of the campaign. he was on very on friendly terms with reporters. that is part of his character. he was a likable guy. he must've been. so many people would trust him. the reason he was able to write his book is that he was given a lot of information. people would talk to him. h

blackwell was the only child of henry blackwell and bluesy stone, the first woman in america to change her name upon marriage. she and her husband were lifetime, a 50 year campaigners for suffrage in the nineteenth century and their daughter. her daughter was one of the names i wrote her, very good friend of upton sinclair. she sent her notes which was one of the inspiring moments for him in writing this book, to look at what happened. margaret sanger had the same experience, sent notes about how birth control was mischaracterized. she wrote him a letter, a beautiful letter in 1959. and here we are, old friends. we are still here, largely. i quote it in the book and i was stunned to see a letter in 1959 recognizing they have both been in it for the long hall. >> what is interesting to me about the brass jacket is upton sinclair was despised by the men who owned newspapers such as hearst or notice in los angeles, the owners of the papers hated him and that is what question in the campaign. he was on very friendly terms with reporters, with the editors of these newspapers and that is par

i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. we're starting with the destructive wildfires in southern california. the firefighters now seem to have the upper hand. you can thank the weather for that. four major fires are still burning. >> we know in some areas, residents have been given the all clear to return to their homes to assess the damage. at camp pendleton, nearly 20% of the base has burned. our indra petersons has a unique look on how to fight the blaze. >> this is the airstrip the marines use to battle these blaze z. they dropped half million gallons of water in a round trips. a wall of flames closing in, a military base under siege. >> i watched as this thing marched from about a half mile away almost to 200 meters. i could feel the heat on my face as this thing approached. >> enter the third marine aircraft wing and 22 helicopters ready to battle the flames. on this flight we're headed for a lake on the base with a 300-gallon bucket in tow. from our window you can see the delicate balance as other choppers lower tow

i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell.he destructive wildfires in southern california. the firefighters now seem to have the upper hand. you can thank the weather for that. four major fires are still burning. >> we know in some areas, residents have been given the all clear to return to their homes to assess the damage. at camp pendleton, nearly 20% of the base has burned. our indra petersons has a unique look

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one of them is my friend morton blackwell here.ost americans have not heard of him but he is a person we all stand on his shoulders, deeply in his deck and on the short list of unsung heroes is tom ellis who was a peer of former senator jesse helms in north carolina and in my opinion, ellis almost single-handedly elected three of the best senators of the 20th century, jesse helms, first election 1972, john east in 1980 and faircloth and tom is a lawyer in north carolina and tom ellis and jesse helms literally told ronald reagan and his team in 1976, reagan before he got to north carolina had lost four five primaries, lost the florida primary, new hampshire primary, things were looking really dark. so, ellis and jesse helms said don't come, we don't want you here, we will handle the campaign. end take care of it but if you insist on coming in we have to do four things and jesse helms and tom ellis told reagan four things and four things were must attack ford, henry kissinger, the giveaway of the panama canal and detente. reagan said

i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. are starting with those devastating wildfires in california. hundreds of thousands of people affected. now, charged have been filed against one of the three people arrested for alleged arson. >> here is what we know. so far, about the fires themselves. more than 27,000 acres scorched near san diego. nearly 200,000 people have been told to evacuate. take a look at what it looks like here at marine corps base camp pendleton. firefighters there, good heavens, trying to contain a fire that erupted overnight. >> san marcos, firefighters are making progress. the dry temperature, the strong winds fueling the flames again. >> those flames are so ferocious. a terrified homeowner told the l.a. times, one neighborhood looked like a scene from quote, armageddon. that's how they saw it. >> it's not over yet. thousands of homes in jeopardy. let's bring in cnns dan simon in san marcos. what is the latest this morning, dan? >> reporter: good morning. the flames are dramatic. one thing you feel when y

i'm christine romans. >> i'm victor blackwell.are hearing magic johnson's side of the story now, the nba legend and business philanthropist. he is responding to donald sterling. he said during his sit-down that johnson should be ashamed of himself for his hiv diagnosis and he doesn't do enough for the black community. johnson is firing back, calling the situation bad and wondering why sterling is going after him. listen. >> he's a man who you would think would be educated and a man who would -- is smart enough to build this type of wealth and own a team and have an incredible platform to change the world, but he's doing it in a negative way. 22 years ago, i announced i did have hiv. i came out like a man. i talked to a lot of young people who just got hiv and was thinking about, you know, committing suicide, you see? i tried to talk them out of that. then, we gave away over $15 million, my foundation. magic johnson shouldn't have been included in your conversation. i have nothing to do with this, since you put me in it again and t

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

they were imprisoned at they were imprisoned at blackwell's island just because blackwell's island justecause they couldn't make themselves they couldn't make themselves understood. understood. she found a lot of appalling she found a lot of appalling abuses of power there. abuses of power there. doctors who seemed to be doctors who seemed to be sexually soliciting nurses, sexually soliciting nurses, patients who were mall flourish patients who were mall flourish malnourished, malnourished, her editor got her out in ten her editor got her out in ten days so she could write the days so she could write the exposÉ. exposÉ. but nellie bligh was a pioneer but nellie bligh was a pioneer of of this investigative this investigative journalism. journalism. >> mawsheemaureen corrigan thanu >> mawsheemaureen corrigan thanu very much. very much. >> thank you lisa. >> thank you lisa. >> why did they get rid of >> why did they get rid of arguably the best player in arguably the best player in history, just before the world history, just before the world cup? cup? i'll i'll ask ask the coach when i sp

victor blackwell has more on michael sam's next step. >> reporter: with the historic pick of michael sam, the reaction was immediate in st. louis, and from president obama. >> with the 249th pick of the 2014 nfl draft, the st. louis rams select michael sam, defensive end, missouri. >> reporter: with that announcement, michael sam becomes the first openly gay player drafted by the national football league. he got the news by telephone from the rams head coach jeff fisher, who told him you are a ram, the wait is finally over. for the all-american defensive end from missouri, it was an emotional moment. >> i am overwhelmed. i'm excited, and i'm proud to be a ram. i knew he was going to get picked somewhere. and every team that passed me, i was thinking how i'm almost their cornerback. >> reporter: president obama said from the playing field to the corporate boardroom, lgbt americans prove every day that you should be judged by what you do and not who you are. the nba's jason collins who became the first openly gay athlete in any of the major four american sports when he came out in 2013

. >> i'm victor blackwell. i'd be in mine. we start with the destructive wildfires in southern california. firefighters there, they now seem to have the upper hand thanks to the weather, cooler temperatures, lighter winds helped them gain containment of three more fires. >> four are still burning though, the largest one at 42% containment. now it scorched 15,000 acres and in some areas a lot of residents have been given the all clear to return to their homes, try to assess the damage and see what's left there, but three of the fires converged on camp pendleton. officials say that nearly 20% of the marine base has burned. there had been no casualties, though, which is the most important thing and no buildings damaged. >> pendleton has an advantage. they have an experienced fire fighting force on the base already and they're ready for action. >> our indra peterson looks at how they're getting the job done. >> reporter: this is the airstrip the marines use to battle these blazes, in all, they dropped a half a million gallons of w

i'm christi paul. >> ike' victor blackwell.i'm feeling sorry, believe it or not, for the speaker of the house as well. these days the house republicans actual give john boehner a harder time than they give me, which means orange really is the new black. >> got some laughs from the president last night, had to hit obama care and bridgegate, john boehner's tan, that orange tint. few topics were immune to the zingers at last night's white house correspondents dinner. the political power brokers, hollywood a-listers, you saw the crowd out in full force. erin mcpike was there. erin, good to see you up early with us this morning. >> did you get any sleep? >> reporter: a little. little. not much. >> who got the biggest laugh? >> i will have to say you know how we were talking about yesterday morning joel mchale would be talking about "the real housewives of atlanta" and the kardashians? >> yes. >> reporter: that didn't happen at all. he took quite a few pot shots at chris christie so you heard a lot of audible whoas from the crowd but

i'm victor blackwell, 6:00 on the east. it's "new day" sunday. michael sam is making history, shattering barriers, becoming the first openly gay football player taken in the nfl draft. >> he was a first team all-american from the university of missouri. sec co-defensive player of the year. he was chosen late in the seventh and final round by the st. louis rams. >> now the historic moment was cheered from st. louis all the way to the white house. >> with the 249th pick in the 2014 nfl draft, the st. louis rams select michael sam, defensive end, missouri. >> reporter: with that announcement michael sam becomes the first openly gay player drafted by the national football league. he got the news by telephone from the rams head coach jeff fisher who told him "you are a ram. the wait is finally over." for the all-american defensive end from missouri, it was an emotional moment. >> i am overwhelmed. i'm excited and i'm proud to be a ram. i knew i was going to get picked somewhere, and every team that passed me i was thinking how i'm going to sack their

they were imprisoned at blackwell's island just because they couldn't make themselves understood.she found a lot of appalling abuses of power there. doctors who seemed to be sexually soliciting nurses, patients who were mall flourish, her editor got her out in ten days so she could write the exposÉ. but nellie bligh was a pioneer of this investigative journalism. >> mawsheemaureen corrigan thanu very much. >> thank you lisa. >> why did they get rid of arguably the best player in history, just before the world cup? i'll ask the coach when i speak to him next. and we'll explain in our data dive next. next. arrested >> these people have chased a president from power, they've torn down a state... >> what's clear is that people don't just need protection, they need assistance. >> today's data dive dips off cashz. icarbs. those who eatd white and whole grain were not at an increased risk of weight gain. those who only ate white bread were 40% more likely, white bread loses fiber contents, and white flour quickly becomes sugar in your body. >>> 2.1 billion are overweight, that number is

they were imprisoned at blackwell's island just because they couldn't make themselves understood.she found a lot of appalling abuses of power there. doctors who seemed to be sexually soliciting nurses, patients who were mall flourish malnourished, her editor got her out in ten days so she could write the exposÉ. but nellie bligh was a pioneer of this investigative journalism. >> mawsheemaureen corrigan thanu very much. >> thank you lisa. >> why did they get rid of arguably the best player in history, just before the world cup? i'll ask the coach when i speak >> every saturday join us for exclusive, revealing, and surprising talks with the most interesting people of our time. rosie perez >> i had to fight back, or else my ass was gonna get kicked... >> a tough childhood... >> there was a crying, there was a lot of laughter... >> finding her voice >> i was not a ham, i was ham & cheese... >> and turning it around... >> you don't have to let your circumstance dictate who you are as a person >> talk to al jazeera only on al jazeera america real reporting that brings you the world. giv

. >> i'm victor blackwell. 6:00 on the east coast. this is "new day" sunday. we're starting this hour of course with the devastating news from that sleepy college town in california, a town now in mourning after a madman went on a rampage killing six members of the community before taking his own life. >> we know the shooter's identity, it's 22-year-old elliot rodger, he described a lifetime of rejection by women and sexual frustration. in a 140-page manifesto and left behind a youtube video detailing his plan to attack. >> tomorrow is the day of retribution, the day in which i will have my revenge against humanity. >> meanwhile, the santa barbara community is united in anguish. last night thousands of students and residents staged a candlelight vigil, singing "amazing grace" also walk through the streets of isla vista. >> some of the deepest pain is being sought by those who lost the people they love friday night including the father of 21-year-old christopher martinez. he lashed out his anger at his son's death. >> why did chris die? chris died because of cr

i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm christine romans.ic johnson's side of the story in an exclusive interview with anderson cooper, responding to donald sterling. the l.a. clippers owner said during his sit down that magic johnson should be ashamed of his hiv diagnosis. magic is responding calling it sad, insisting he doesn't know v. stiviano and why sterling is going after him. listen. >> he's a man who we would think would be educated and a man who would, is smart enough to build this type of wealth and own a team and have an incredible platform to change the world, but he's doing it in a negative way. first of all, 22 years ago, i announced i did have hiv. i came out like a man. i talked to a lot of young people who just got hiv and was thinking about, you know, committing suicide, you see? i tried to talk them out of that. then, we have given away over $15 million, my foundation. magic johnson shouldn't be included in your conversation. i have nothing to do with this. since you put me in it, again, then you want to try to disrespect

entrepreneurs community partners and the san francisco foundation and welcome back our brother fred blackwell and director olsen lee. and also want to recognize the executive director of the housing authority barbara taylor smith. thank you barbara i know you've had quite a year and at least i want to thank the hunter's view residents thank you so much for being patient. and recognize the hunter tenants association and as we help our people with walk it's a new organization that's been be born out of the entire process. to our housing authority and commissioners thank you very much for your services and mothers against crime we wouldn't be her without you and uplift our educational macomb x institution and we wouldn't be here for the leadership of then mayor gavin newsom and my predecessor between the two of them i also want to welcome the secretary back to san francisco thank you for being here. and thank you, everyone (clapping.) as we've heard so far take the village i was to invite our next village person secretary thank you. now we'll do the ymca. so good morning to you all. thank you co

cnn's victor blackwell is working his sources.is with terms as couched as possible for our audience. this man, it's not just how he died, it's how they found this crime scene. >> absolutely, ashleigh. the details are indelicate so i'll be as delicate as possible. he was found tuesday by friends in the garage of this home decapitated. 88 years old. his name is russell dur mont. his 87-year-old wife missing. her purse, cell phone, still inside the home. the whereabouts of his head, as the sheriff said, where mrs. dur mont is and the killer still all unknown. those searches are happening now. i just had a conversation with the deputy coroner in putnam county. he tell, me the autopsy on mr. durmont is complete. manner of death, as expected, homicide. cause of death, here, cerebral cranial trauma. whatever killed him happened to his head. but there's still the question, was it trauma to the head, was it a blow to the head before the cap tation that killed him? or was it the decapitation itself that killed him. also, the toxicology repo

. >> i'm victor blackwell. 8:00 on the east coast, 5:00 out west.ant to push forward to get some answers and understanding why. the devastating killing, the spree that left seven people dead including the shooter in that college town in california, ala vista. >> 22-year-old elliot rodger described a lifetime of rejection by women and sexual frustration in

. >>> victor blackwell is here this morning.nald sterling banned from the league over racial recordings. now they say they will appoint a new ceo for the team. this comes after the clippers advance in the playoffs after beating the golden state warriors last night. >>> also, violence is in the city of ukraine. hundreds of pro-russian activists in odessa attacked a police station. i'm victor blackwell. fareed zakaria gps is up next. >>> this is gps, the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. the u.s. seems sure that its sanctions against russia will work. few outsiders agree. so what does the u.s. treasury know that we don't? well, i will talk to the man charged with making putin pay a price. the treasury department's david culp. plus we will track dangerous developments in parts of the mideast, egypt and iraq. i will ask egypt's foreign minister about more than the 1,200 brotherhood muslim supporters sentenced to death in his nation, and about the american gover

. >> i'm victor blackwell. 6:00 on the east coast. this is "new day" sunday. we're starting

i'm victor blackwell. >> and i'm deborah feyerick. now 30 minutes past the hour. >>> well, he admits that he embarrassed the league, but it's donald's sterling's continued comments about race, and in particular, magic johnson, raising more eyebrows this morning. in an exclusive interview with anderson cooper, sterling says he's sorry for what he said about his personal assistant, v. stiviano, being seen with black people, but he insists he's not racist, that his team loves him. as for magic johnson, we'll let you hear from sterling exactly what he thinks of him in his own words. take a listen. >> i embarrassed the league. i humiliated them. i don't know how -- why i did it. i mean, it's so terrible. and -- >> so, you don't believe, though, that the owners would vote to have you removed as owner? >> i don't think so. the players don't hate me. the sponsors don't hate me. >> you don't believe the players -- >> the fans don't hate me. the media hates. the media. it's all the media pushing it. i mean -- >> honestly? you really believe tha

. >> i'm victor blackwell. 8:00 on the east coast, 5:00 out west. we want to push forward to get some answers and understanding why. the devastating killing, the spree that left seven people dead including the shooter in that college town in california, ala vista. >> 22-year-old elliot rodger described a lifetime of rejection by women and sexual frustration in this 141-page manifesto. what you're looking at there, a lengthy youtube video that detailed his plan to attack. >> new details this morning about the shooter. early this morning, santa barbara sheriff bill brown told us rod jer had been treated for mental illness and prescribed medication and he planned friday night's attack for at least a year. >> let's take a moment and really remember the victims. here, this is christopher martinez. he was shot inside the ivy deli, just 20 years owed. his father called him, quote, a great kid. >> this is veronica weiss, shot by rodjer. always smiling. >> a photo we just received of 22-year-old katy cooper, studying archaeology at uc santa barbara. our thou

i'm ana cabrera in for christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell.rginia. police are searching for three people after their balloon drifted into a power line and burst into flames. >> we are expecting more information at the top of the hour. witnesses say they saw people plummeting or at least jumping, possibly, from the balloon's basket as it caught fire. let's bring in a hot air balloon expert joining us via skype. phil, thank you for taking time. how does something like this happen? >> because i can't comment specifically on this accident, but, ballooning is one of the safest aviation activities. power lines are a significant threat to balloon safety. >> we know it happened near the landing area where they hit this power line. should the landing area have been so close or close at all to power lines? >> well, balloons, of course, never know in advance where they are going to land. this is one of the beauties of ballooning and one of the reasons pilots have to remain very alert. it's impossible to know where a balloon is going to land before you ta

. >> i'm victor blackwell. we start with ukraine. more concerns that the country is on the verge of an all-out civil war. the bloody battle is bitting iranian forces against the rebels of odessa. 41 people were killed there when a union hall was set on fire. >> meanwhile, a group of western observers have been freed, we are told. senior international correspondent nick payton walsh is in the city. good morning to you. >> thanks. >> i'm in the town where in the last hour 12 osc military observers were released according to the self-declared men of the town. he said it was the arrival of an envoy from the kremlin that meant the release happened, not the negotiation that is happened with the osc delegation for the past eight days during which time they were held in this town. paraded, at one point, in front of the media. it's a complicated moment for an international scandal. those men held despite requested from western governments and marks a good moment for the kremlin. now, surrounded in the town behind me because many of the check

one of the reasons that i think most people don't know but blackwell wrote was but if you go stand withay. [laughter] she said this is what happened to the women's movement. the only child of lucy she was the first that would not change your name upon their urgent -- marriage. 50 years and their daughter was a very good friend. she sent him all her notes. i felt that was one of the inspiring moments to look at what happened. and margaret sanger had an experience to send a note out birth control was mischaracterized. she wrote him a beautiful letter that said here we are of french. we're still here. aren't we? it is a great letter. i was still solvent -- stunned that they had been in net for the long haul. >> what's interesting is she was despised by those so the owners hated him but he was on and tear me -- but then editors, that is part of the character. he was likable. the reason he was able to write the book is he was given a lot of information and people piled up the information about what was happening. one of the reason his papers he kept all together he head even lower good mater

i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell.people confirmed dead and several others hospitalized after a shooting in a college town of isla vista next to uv santa barbara. the sheriff is calling the event a mass murder. >> by a madman. >> yes. >> it happened about 9:30 last night in isla vista. witnesses reported seeing gunfire from a black bmw. the gunman has been identified, but they are not releasing details on that. hln law enforcement analyst mike brooks joining us by phone. mike, it seems the threat of other shootings is squashed, at least for now. do you believe they are looking for any other shooters or they believe this is the lone shooter? >> reporter: it looks, right now, like they believe this is the lone shooter. he was seen as a number of different locations around isla vista. it has somewhere between four and eight crime scenes established. apparently, he exchanged gunfire with the sheriff's deputies and crashed into at least two cars. when they found him, he was dead of gunshot wounds. they don't know if it was

joining me now to talk about that reaction, ken blackwell at the family research council and dale hansen the dean of texas sport casters who went viral with a little bit of, well an op-ed you might call it about sam going into the draft and how it might be -- how some nfl players thought it would be uncomfortable. >> it would be uncomfortable because that's a man's world. you beat a woman and drag her down a flight of stairs pulling her hair out by the roots you're the fourth guy taken in the nfl draft. you kill people while driving drunk, that guy is welcomed. players caught in hotel rooms with illegal drugs and prostitutes, we know they are welcomed. players accused of rape and pay the woman go away, you lie to police trying to cover up a murder we're comfortable with that. you love another man, well now you've gone too far. >> dale it's great to have you on. i'm interested in your reaction to the events over the weekend of him falling so far, even further than even you hinted in that and then the kiss. >> well, i am a little bit surprised he fell that far but i think it is because he

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cnn's victor blackwell is following the story. victor?nty, georgia, say the cause of death for 88-year-old russell is essentially whatever killed him happened to his head and they have not yet determined if it was trauma to the head maybe a blow to the head before the decapitation or if the decapitation itself killed the senior citizen in georgia. his wife, 87-year-old shirley, still missing. officials say that her purse, her cell phone were still there when they were discovered by friends who walked in through an unlocked door early on tuesday morning this week. officials believe that whatever happened, this crime happened sometime between friday and sunday. now, we know that this is a quiet community, gated community, where things like this don't happen. the reason friends were able to walk in through the unlocked door is because people in the community in georgia they don't lock the doors. we had an opportunity to speak with the couple's pastor. >> we haven't had a homicide here in ten years and free from the violence and that kind of

from the image of the lazy blackwell fair queen can we have the honest conversation.percentage welfare recipients who are white is almost identical to the percentage of welfare recipients who are black and that poor black people definitely work hard and poverty is not a character defect. and poor shaming is an unacceptable form of classism. misunderstood or not, when these sentiments provide political cover for policy that justifies damaging racial justice, then individual racism can become systemic racism. paul ryan met with members of the congressional black caucus this week because of his recent comments about what he called inner city men not value a culture of work. ryan said he was misunderstand but his 2015 budget would really hurt communities of color as it cuts $125 billion from the food star program while cutting taxes for millionaires. looks like ryan's a redistributionist. he just wants to redistribute money upwards. the supreme court's assaults on affirmative action and voting rights acts do serious damage to racial justice. they're couched the in idea th

. >> i'm victor blackwell. always a pleasure to be with you. 10:00 on the east coast. 7:00 out west in the cnn newsroom. she has been dodging cameras and that odd visor ever since her recordings of the clippers owner donald sterling went public one week ago. now v. stiviano is sitting down with barbara walters. she is defending sterling. the man who was heard telling her do not bring black people to his games. >> is donald sterling a racist? >> i don't believe it in my heart. >> have you heard him say derogatory things about minorities in general or blacks in particular? >> absolutely. >> you heard him say derogatory things. >> yes. >> don't they sound racist to you? >> i think that the things he says are not what he feels. >> cnn's deborah feyerick is looking into this. i know in the recordings you hear stiviano say he is in love with her. in this interview, he says he loves her like a father figure. she said i'm just his personal assistant. what is going on? >> reporter: whatever you want to call it. a girlfr

. >> i'm victor blackwell. >> start with donald sterling. >> he's suing the nba for $1 billion. embattled los angeles clipper owner says he's taking the league to court because of his decision to ban him for life and force him to give up his franchise. >> this latest twist is coming just after his wife shelly agreed to sell the team for $2 billion to steve ballmer. the most ever paid for in an nba franchise. but, did ballmer pay too much? a lot of people asking that question today. alexandra field is checking that out for us. hey. >> a lot of people thought the team would go for about half that much. but it is worth whatever ballmer is willing to pay for it. what this really means is that the teams that are already considered more valuable than the clippers could now be much more valuable than even their owners had imagined. a $2 billion bid for a basketball team smashes records. but what steve ballmer the former microsoft mogul getting for all that money? >> a team better on the court than the los angeles lakers with a great lease at the staples center and a new upside televisi

. >> i'm victor blackwell. we're starting this morning in california. the fires there are raging. firefighters are working around the clock. they're trying to get six wildfires under control. at least four other fires are now fully contained. good news there. >> that's the good news, right. more than 1,000 firefighters, though, are battling all of the blazes around san diego. police have now charged -- here's big news overnight -- one of three people arrested for alleged arson. they have brought a charge here. so far, though, more than 27,000 acres have been scorched. >> this morning, firefighters are making some progress, but they're not in the clear yet, because strong winds and dry temperatures, they could fuel the fires even further. officials say this is unprecedented. in some cases, worlds of flames have the potential to spit out winds as strong as tornadoes. watch this one. it becomes what is becoming this firenado, a cone, a tornado of fire. let's bring in cnn's dan simon in hard-hit san marcos. dan, what's it look like where you are? >> reporter: right now, it's looking p

. >> i'm victor blackwell. you're in the "cnn newsroom. ". >> we have more on the crash. one body has now been recovered. police say they've narrowed down the search but they've not found the two remaining passengers. >> we've also found kind of a debris field. we found different items that would have been inside the hot-air balloon. this is very helpful for us in our search efforts, because now we have an area of concentration. >> and that appears to be the moment when -- you're seeing here what appears to be the moment when the burning basket fell away from the balloon. we've got more on the accident now that happened just before 8:00 last night. authorities say that hot-air balloon participating in the mid-atlantic balloon festival near richmond drifted into power lines and caused the basket to burst into flames. the balloon then continued to fly away and that basket, as we saw, right here looking like a fireball in the night sky. the pictures are unbelievable. one witness reported hearing two people screaming as they jumped from that burning basket. >> and you could h