especiallyist donald sloat -- specialist donald sloat, who stood above that grenade, and command sergeant-majornie adkins who fought through a ferocious battle and found himself on that jungle hill. nearly half a century after their acts of valor a grateful nation bestows upon these men the highest military decoration, the medal of honor. normally this medal must be awarded within a few years of the action. but sometimes even the most extraordinary stories can get lost in the fog of war or the passage of time. yet when new evidence comes to light, certain actions can be reconsidered for this honor and it is entirely right and proper that we have done so, and that is why we are here today. so before i go any further, i want to thank everyone present here today, whose research and testimonies and persistence over so many years finally resulted in these two men deserving the recognition they so richly deserve. i especially want to welcome members of the medal of honor society, as well as two american families whose love and pride has never wavered. donald sloat grew up in the heart of oklahoma, in

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listen. >> donald sterling, what he said, i'm his partner. i can't be partners with somebody who shares those views. i was voted into this league by my partners. i can be voted out of this league by my partners. i think i speak for all my partners when i say we were all deeply offended and we quickly spoke out against these words that we heard on that tape. >> so this e-mail sent to two co-owners was sent two years ago in august 2012. it was this july that he decided to self-report himself to the nba and before they even finished their investigation, he announced that he was selling his controlling interest in the team anyway. the whole thing is a bit strange for sure. >> the question remains, what precipitated this epiphany two years after the e-mail and two years after his comments about donald sterling on our air and on the record condemning those kinds of remarks that donald sterling articulated. >> maybe he just wants to sell the team? a cynic would argue that he got more publicity for this this way and this is just a theory. you look at

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jones. >> donald t jones ii. >> donald w jones. >> linda jones. >> mary s.jones. >>. >> mary jones. >> arthur joseph jones. >> andrew jordan. >> stephen joseph. >> jane josiah. >> michael f. judge. >> paul william jurgens. >> gavkharoy kamardinova. >> my father. 13 years ago yesterday you put me to bed not knowing it would be your last time. i miss you so much. daddy you're my hero. i love you. >> my father james nicholas papa george. not a day goes by i don't think about you. you're one special soul that touched my soul that inspired me to do many great things in my life to respect his name and just have a good life. >> howard lee kane. >> jennifer lee kane. >> vincent kane. >> joon kang. >> shell don robert kanter. >> robin lynne kaplan. >> charles karczewski. william karnes. >> charles l.kasper. >> andrew k.kates. >> john katsimatides. >> robert michael kaulfers. >>,ideya kawauchi. >> edward keane. >> lisa kearney griffin. >> barbara keating. >> paul keating. >> leo russell is keene iii. >> joseph john keller. >> peter kellerman. >> joseph. kel let. >> fr

. >>> all new at 6:00, can donald trump save atlantic city in tonight the donald is talking to nbc 10 about the possibility he could swoop in to save the city where three casinos once bore his name. nbc 10's jersey shore bureau reporter ted greenberg talked to trump by phone. he's live in front of trump plaza which just closed its doors today. ted, what did trump tell you? >> reporter: renee, donald trump told me he would love to make a return to atlantic city but any plans he may have still could not stop the doors here at trump plaza before being locked today. >> right here. >> reporter: with a drink on the boardwalk two hours after his final shift, laid off security supervisor james kurt bid farewell to his employer of a decade, along with nearly 1,000 co-workers. >> it was a real sad day for me, you know, because we dedicate our life to this place, and this is what we get for thanks. >> reporter: hardly anyone was inside trump plaza's casino before it shut down at 6:00 a.m. recently the gaming hall has been atlantic city's weakest performing casino. parent company trump entertainm

whoopee goalburg, donald trump, diane sawyer, barbara wallters arriving.ursday a week after she suffered cardiac and respiratory arrest during a medical procedure at a clinic. alexandria field has been covering the story throughout. you were there today. i know press was not allowed inside. what can you tell us about it? >> an invitation-only service. but there's a wonderful moment at the enwhen the doors of the temple swung open and the new york police department's bagpipes and drummers spilled out on to the street and it was that moment that the fans who lined up and waiting there for hours, they would enjoy it and feel like a part of. it's one thing that joan rivers' friends said she would have really enjoyed. ♪ a stylish send auoff with a bagpipe salute for keen of comedy, joan rivers. her daughter and grandson cooper saying good bye surrounded by thousands. >> a private moment and i think that melissa handled it with dignity and refinement and the way that the mother joan would really wanted this to be. >> it was a-list all the way. it was like regale

i'm pleased to be joined this morning by the real donald trump, can i hear it for donald trump, everybodyttle bit louder, please. show some excitement. >> yeah! >> yeah, there we go. mr. trump, thank you for taking my phone call. are you up this early? >> generally, i am, i watch the program. >> thank you, sir. >> i have to. >> donald, i want to say first because people love to hate you. can we show the als bucket challenge? you proved a lot of people wrong about your ie cconic hair ha it real. >> it is. >> you're proud of this because miss universe and miss usa did that for you. what was it like? a lot of people challenged you. >> it was called and vince mcman and others challenged me. it was seriously cold. i did it, as you know, miss universe and miss usa, and we're proud of you, by the way, at the job you do. but look at that hair, that thick beautiful hair, what a mess. you know me well, and you know it was my hair, but over the years, i take heat on the hair. >> you do. >> i have to comb it back. people like it comb back like that better. >> amazing als raised over a hundred million

>>reporter: the nba forced donald sterling to sell the l.a. clippers last month. he was are making comments the his arthe -- >> zero tolerance for what he said just zero tolerance. nothing more. those were racist bigoted remarks that we can't tolerate. >> donald sterling sold his team, los angeles clippers to microsoft ceo steve ballmer for $2 billion. the hawks are worth a fraction of that. estimated the team could sell for about $425 million. >> mark strassman in atlanta thank you very much. the warehouse says president obama will speak to the nation on tuesday or wednesday and will detail his strategy. julianna goldman reports hit new targets. >> as the u.s. continues to hit i.s.i.s. targets in iraq this time near baghdad, key dam, president obama said he will expand his are offense against i.s.i.s. and that he'll lay our a game plan in a speech on wednesday. >> mainly i just want the american people to understand the nature of the threat and how we're going to deal with it and have confidence how we'll be able to deal with it. >>reporter: that strategy will no

i mean, bruce levenson has never publicly been accused of any racist behavior the way donald sterlinghas been throughout his tenure. you heard him on wolf's show, one of most vocal owners in advocating zero tolerance policy and the need to get sterling out of the league. the idea ta he would be the one in this position now is a big surprise. but regardless, there's no question, that zero tolerance policy is where the nba is right now and this post-donald sterling world. and this e-mail and the way of thinking it represents are completely unacceptable. we don't know at this point the events that led up to levenson's self-reporting the e-mail, but i am told that after he did that, once the nba launched an independent investigation, levenson decided he didn't want to put himself or family through the public scandal that he feared was eventually coming. that's why he called adam silver last night, before that investigation had even wrapped and said, he thought it would be better for everyone if he sold the team. and there's a lot of relief around the league right now that he decided to go

you played for donald sterling. >> huh. >> in the years in between you came back to coach. discrimination, the and settled for the largest amount ever. you knew those things why did you feel comfortable going to work for him in the first place. >> i didn't at first. i looked at it as a crazy challenge. man if we can turn this thing around this will be really cool. >> did you have any reservation as but working for some one that might bea bigot? >> that that time i didn't did not. i didn't think about it in those terms. there was history. there was no denying that. there was history. that was the gamble i took. that's also why it took so long. it took months, at least two for me to decide, should i or shouldn't i. >> you wrote a become on basketball toward the end of your playing career, an entire chapter on race. this is not an issue you run away from? >> i don't think any of us should. it's part of our life. growing of in chicago in the early '60s. it is very segregated you. didn't mix, didn't meet other groups. you weren your group. so i think it is important. >> you met

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specialist donald p. sloat's heroism beyond the call of duty is reflects great credit upon himself, company b, nd battalion, 156 light infantry brigade and the united states army. [ applause ] [ applause ] >>> at this point i would like to ask bennie adkins to come join me on stage. now, let me just say, the first thing you need to know is when bennie and i met in the oval office, he asked if he could sign back up. his lovely wife was not amused. most days you can find bennie at home down in opelika, alabama. tending his garden or his pontoon boat out on the lake. he's been married to mary for 58 years. he's a proud father of five, grandfather of six. at 80, still going strong. a couple years ago he came here to the white house with fellow veterans for breakfast we had on veteran's day. he tells folks he was the only person he knows who has spilled his dessert in the white house. and i just have to correct you. that makes two of us. i've messed up mai tai. i've messed up my pants. but in the spring of 196

thrilling the crowd singing 'big spender' celebrities in the audience including donald trump. whoopi goldberg. bravo's andy cohen and audra mcdonald performing inside. media stars filling the pews: diane sawyer, barbara walters, kathy lee gifford and hoda kotb. fellow funny lady - kathy griffin also there to send off a comedy legend. "she influenced all comedians, not just women comedians, she stayed relevant into her eighties which just doesn't happen in show biz and i admire her. she was like my comedy aunt. if there's a god, i hope he or she is well dressed today." joan river's fashion police co- stars came together, designer carolina herrera - was escorted by her husband. emma "joan would say it went off exactly as i planned it, exactly as i envisioned it. it happened sooner than i wanted but it was perfect when it happen. "howard said he didn't want to live in a world without joan rivers and i feel the same way." >> a celebrity studded send off - fitting for a star among them. joan rivers' friends came out saying that melissa rivers, joan's daughter, was stoic and compose

donald spirit grew up in this hampton county community. his mother and sister-in-law are still here. as you can imagine, they are in absolute shock. >> he loved his grandchildren. he loved them. this is something i cannot even explain. i don't have no explanation for this. i don't know what to say. >> reporter: a day after the massacre in bell, florida, stacey spirit can't comprehend why her 51-year-old brother-in-law donald spirit, would kill six of his grand children, his daughter and then himself. spirit was the oldest of eight children. they're natives of camden county, several relatives still live in south jersey. stacey told me she last spoke with donald about a week ago. >> any warning signs that this was coming? >> no, no, none at all. not at all. his mother is beside herself. it's hard. it's very hard. >> reporter: stacey spirit says donald was last here last year. she described that visit as wonderful.ç live in lindenwold, i'm ted greenberg, nbc 10 news. >>> nbc 10 news were in the air and on the ground overnight as a warehouse

that's where they are in the post donald sterling era. they feel they have to earn back trust of fans, frankly of players. it can't be this is just a little racist. that's not okay with them. it's not going zero tolerance. this clearly cross the line from zero. we're not at zero here. >> he actually said some of what bruce levenson said made him uncomfortable but the bulk did not. >> that's his right to feel that way. there are a lot of people in atlanta especially in that market who feel differently. it made them extremely uncomfortable. the bottom line is they're in a zero tolerant world now. this crosses that line. >> when we hear mr. levenson voluntarily turned over this e-mail and offered to sell his stake in the hawkss, is that true? >> it's going to shock you. it's more complicated than that. this is obviously different from the donald sterling situation. sterling was exposed and fought tooth and nail and argued he did nothing wrong. levenson has a behaved better. what happened is that there was a comment made by the gm of hawks re

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donald sterling, what he said. i'm his partner, i can't be partners with somebody who shares those views. i think i speak for all of my partners when i say we were all deeply offended. we all quickly spoke out against these words that we heard on that tape. the n-b-a commissioner called levenson's email unacceptable, though he did praise him for self-reporting the email to the league. a growing wildfire near yosemite national park has prompted evacuations of about 100 campers.some by helicopter. the fire has burned 400 acres today. sending huge plumes of smoke into the air. that smoke can be seen from three separate counties. the fire is burning between little yosemite valley and half dome. several trails in the park are closed.for more details visit kron four dot com. the cause is still under investigation. fire crews making progress on a separate fire in mariposa county. the bridge fire has burned 300 acres about 10 miles east of mariposa.and is 65 percent contained. still.700 structures are threatened. though ev

this is a post-donald sterling world.re still trying to win fans back and they have said zero, nada, nothing, and this is more than nothing. period. >> well, do a little follow the bouncing ball for viewers understanding how -- 2012 people will be scratching their head trying to figure out why is it we're only hearing about this now? >> this is fascinatinfascinatin. this is information cnn broke. self-reporting is the way the nba has been portraying this. abuse levenson self-reported the e-mail. technically, sure. but what happened was gm danny ferry was in a meeting, a conference call where he was reading a scouting report prepared by someone outside the organization full time but still and it had a racist comment in it and the fact that danny ferry would repeat this comment in a meeting disturbed enough people within the organization that they called for an internal investigation. they talked to 19 different people within the organization about, gee, what is this franchise's attitude toward rates in this city of atlanta

donald sent out a tweet in support for senator majority leader mitch mcconnell. would the people of kentucky want a rookie senator, they have sen mitch mcconnell. let me just tell you that mitch mcconnell would not be speaker e he would be majority leader. >> you can watch "the five" on your computer, smart phone or tablet. go to fox news.com. >>> this is a fox news alert, i'm brett baier in washington, while president obama figures out how to fight isis on their home turf, faces chilling news that some may already be on our home tuft. >> reporter: an alarming admission from a senior administration official that of the 100 americans who have travelled to syria to train with isis, a number of them are already back in the united states. there are, quote, some who have gone to syria, some who have tried to go, and some who have come back and are under active fbi surveillance. >> east these have individuals who have been trained, who have

this morning, donald trump took to twitter saying he may buy back into atlantic city at a much lowerprice to save the plaza and the taj. within the last hour, donald trump spoke with nbc 10 jersey shore bureau reporter ted greenberg about that potential move. >> so we'll take a look at it. it will depend on a lot of things, including price. of course, taxes are too high in atlantic city. they have a lot of things to straighten out. i would love to go back and dependent on price, certainly right now the price would be pretty low. >> trump entertainment resorts did not comment on the donald statement. trump plaza's closure is leaving nearly 1,000 people unemployed. there are eight casinos open in atlantic city, tropicana, caesar's, harrah's golden nugget, bali's resorts and the trump taj mahal which could close and borgata's. >>> we have an entire section dedicated to this major local story on our website, nbc10.com. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather. >> sunny and cool conditions across the tri-state area todayç here's a live look at the beach in cape may. a few people soaking up

would you like to hear more from donald trump in atlantic city go to cbs philly.com. we will have cleve's entire interview posted there. >>> philadelphia police release clear surveillance video of the group wanted in connection with the attack on the same sex couple in center city. this video was captured late thursday in the 1600 block of chancellor street. victims tell police group made disparaging remarks and then beat them. one of the victims had to have his wire, his jaw wired shut. in addition to the possible hate crimes, police say someone in the group, of five stole a victim's bag. >>> amtrak services along the northeast corridor has resumed between philadelphia and washington d.c. that service was suspended earlier today on the acela a express and northeast regional lines. for a freight train hit a pole and brought down some wires. engineers work to open up one track, they hope to have full services restored by tomorrow morning. >> a lot of people that were significantly inconvenienced. the the good news is now that trains are operating we are running a limit

clippers owner donald sterling to sell his team.terling was banned for life, after his racist comments became public. >> ironically, levinson, owner of the hawks came out hard against donald sterling when all of that situation went down, so an interesting scenario that he is playing damage control, even though he went against donald sterling just a year ago. of course, this team is now on the chopping block to be sold. >> in fact, he said zero tolerance, but did self report in this case. the clippers sold for $2 billion. what are the analysts saying the atlanta hawks will go for? >> >> the clippers sold for four and a half times the amount that economists probabled. the atlanta hawks clearly not worth that value. it's a much smaller market here in atlanta. they are expected, according to forbes, to go for about $425 million. could go a little bit more, but in this world of sports that we're in right now, no one really knows. you could get a high bidder come in and take this to the nail. >> thank you very much. >> robert bolland is a

that's the same thing that donald sterling also did in their apartment complexes. so there ice a lot of similarities here. you knts cower under the umbrella of it's just business. it's not really racism. people will find you out and will be able to see, just as my daughter says, that you're full of garbage. >> this is the key argument in the room. it's predominantly white in its ownership structure and it's demographic base is the blackest demographic base of any fan base. it's three times higher than the nfl or ncaa basketball. it's fearful it's going to be seen as too alienating black. and this is the thing, one of the examples that he gave was able poland. i saw how able poland conducted business. the thing about it, we had people of all races. for him to be able to use the late able poland as an example, and able poland was here when -- he didn't do that. it just -- the entire thing is really, really a mess. >> it's a great thing about going into an nba game, how incredibly diverse the fan base is. >>> the human toll president obama's broken promise has taken.

when it first opened in 1984, donald trump called this the finest build prognosis in atlantic city. by the end, the plaza was one of the citieses lowest performing casinos. today "eyewitness news" talk with the former plaza owner donald trump over the the phone and did express some interest in getting back in the atlantic city game. >> we will take a very serious look at it and if there is some way i can help the people, i have so many friend that work at trump plaza and the taj and if i can help them by doing something, it will be dependent obviously on price and what is going on. >> trump plaza is fourth casino to close in atlantic city think year, third in just the past few weeks. >>> big changes at franklin mills mall in northeast philadelphia effective immediately that mall is now known as philadelphia mills. renovations are underway including a new front and new look, for the interior as well. that work is expect to be finish in the fall of next year. >>> social media was buzzing sunday night hundreds of people talking about just what they saw in the sky. >> it was a fiery bal

it's got the donald fuming as the donald trump.first to the washington examiner's byron york on how these schools are coping. by law they have to fulfill this and make it happen but it doesn't come cheap. >> not at all. first of all you're right. they have a legal responsibility to take care of these children when they arrive. most of the children, by the way, are 14, 15, 16 years old. we have heard reports of the younger children, there are some of them, but most of them are teenagers. they're finding that some of them, maybe 15 years old, have not been in school since the second grade. that is a whole boatload of special needs. they do not speak english, they need tout fors and subsidized meals, psychological counseling after a difficult trip to the united states. this is all extremely expensive. it adds a lot to the cost per student, even -- let's say in texas, cost per student $7,500. at least $9,500 for these children. >> so, at a minimum, a couple of thousand bucks on each unparented kid. a lot of kid across the country. now,

go inside the cell and have a seat. >> drug problems led to donald stokes in jail as well.n conviction, and now is only two days away from his release. in the meantime, he holds a job delivering meals and clothing to other inmates. >> we're going to be doing that shortly here. we get to go pick up all the clothing, and every one of these guys comes down, and we hand it back and forth through that slot. so at no time do we get actual personal contact with these guys. some of them are looking upward to 10, 15 years each for the most random thing, you know, and knowing that i'm getting out in two days doesn't make me the most popular guy. >> stokes has mixed feelings about his upcoming release. >> well, it's, oddly enough, a little intimidating. when i was taken into custody, i had just checked into a motel room. 20 minutes later i walked out to my car to go get a cell phone charger, and there was a gun pressed against my head. they said, get down on the ground. my probation violation had popped up on the grid, and i was taken into custody with no shoes, no jacket, just a t-sh

clippers' own other, donald sterling. in cnn reporter, nick valencia, from atlanta, on this story. you know, this -- what is fascinating about this, it's very disturbing to read this e-mail, i know you're going to go through some of it for us. >> yeah. >> he self-reported this to the nba. >> yeah, poppy, we will get into more about the contents of what was said in the e-mail to give viewers context how this came about, that e-mail written by co-owner bruce levinson was addressed to hawks leadership back in 2012. as you mentioned, poppy, did he self-report this. what we don't know and what is still unclear is what the events were that led to him making this decision. we do know that the nba have launched their own independent investigation and that it's been reported, levinson perhaps didn't want to drag his family through the scrutiny that they would have faced during this investigation. so on sunday, combs out and says he is going to sell his stake in the team. we did reach out to levinson for comment, a man that answere

sterling for his racist rant and refusal to apologize. >> donald sterling, what he said, i can't be partners with somebody who shares those views. >> reporter: why would he come out now two years after the e-mail went out? >> the nba is still reeling from the donald sterling story and they know they can't get away with this anymore. >> reporter: the league is still investigating the circumstances of his comments but calls them unacceptable. abc news, washington. >> thank you. now to the asteroid flying close to new zealand. it was a near miss to planet earth and abc reports scientists didn't even see it coming until just last week. >> reporter: tonight a narrow miss for all of us. measuring 60 feet, roughly the same size as a small house whizzed by earth. just 25,000 miles away. this as extraordinary so big and powerful. if it had hit the earth, the result, disastrous. >> it's very similar to the asteroid last year. which had energy about 30 times. >> reporter: tonight's asteroid was a close encounter. ten times closer to us than the moob. in real life most of them go undetected. on

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less than a month after donald sterling was forced to sell the los angeles clippers. the owner of the atlanta hawks is voluntarily selling his team following the disclosure of a racially charged e-mail. mark strassmann has our report. >> reporter: in august of 2012 atlanta hawks co-owner bruce levinson griped in an e-mail about the team's low attendance. my theory is the black crowds scared away the whites and tll is simply not enough affluent black fans to build a significant ticket base. i told our executives i want some white cheerleaders. i also balked when every fan picked out of a crowd to shoot time-out contest is black, and i have even bitched that the kiss cam is too black. he reported himself two months ago and before the league even finished its investigation, he announced he will sell the team. nba commissioner adam silver said in a statement the views he expressed are entirely unacceptable. i commend mr. levinson for self-reporting to the league office and for putting the best interests of the nba first. ken berger covers the nba for cbs sports. >> it's a

police say donald spirit murdered his daughter, and grand children and then killed himself.some of his relatives still live in cam ben county. his sister-in-law told nbc 10's ted greenberg the family is in shock. >> reporter: this commune in the bell, florida, is in mourning. authorities say they still can't answer the question as to why 51-year-old don spirit killed his six grand children and turn the weapon on his daughter before committing suicide. >> this is devastating. but we refuse to let this incident define us in how we do things. >> the ages of the children, as young as an infant all the way up to 11 years old. veteran law enforcement officers first at the scene say what they discovered was horrific. jeff manning is a father himself. >> it's a difficult thing. that's all i'll say. to try to fathom why somebody could do what they did, i'll leave it at that. >> with the six children murdered and their mother and a suicide, this incident killed 2% of the population here. >>> coming up at 6:00, you'll hear from spirit's anguished sister-in-law. they still lives in camd

>> the nba is still reeling from the donald sterling story and in many ways, they know they can't get away with this anymore. >> reporter: the nba commissioner says the league is still investigating the circumstances of his comments but calls them entirely unacceptable. abc news, washington. >> thank you. now to the asteroid flying close to new zealand. at 2:30 this afternoon. as galaxy measurements go, it was a near miss to planet earth and abc reports scientists didn't even see it coming until just last week. >> reporter: tonight a narrow miss for all of us. astroid measuring 60 feet, roughly the same size as a small house whizzed by earth. as close as a cosmic inch, just 25,000 miles away. this astroid so big and powerful. if it had hit the earth, the result, disastrous. >> it's very similar to the astroid that hit last year. which had energy about 30 times. the bomb dropped over hiroshima. >> reporter: tonight's asteroid was a close encounter. close to many of our baweather d satellite communications. ten times closer to us than the moon. it's the stuff in hollywood movies. in rea

they will award medals of army, donald slow the threw himself on to the grenade and bennie atkins will be recognized as an intelligence officer. the medal of honor is the highest medal award. >>> and a faulty transforms her caused an outage in jackson township. they were all safely loaded within 20 minutes but some people were a little bit shaken up. >> as it went up, it stopped and it was all in a panic. >> it was scary and i was like, thank god they got us out. >> well the rights why returned back to service for the day. people had long lines for refunds. >>> and a small manufacturing company is showing off the first 3d printed car. local motorists introduced the stratty in chicago. it was 3d printed and it took 45 hours from start to finish and can go up to 40-mile-per- hour. they hope to sell them early next year for about 18,000 dollars. >> that is crazy. >>> 4:47, a big crash on 880, let's go to sal. >> both directions are taken off and some traffic is going through barely but for the most part this is video taken earlier of one of the cars that caught on fire involving a big- ri

this summer in july in the wake of the donald sterling scandal, he then reports himself to it the nba and they decide to set up an independent investigation into this issue and before they even concluded, he said, well, i'm selling my stake in the team. >> and why do people believe that is the case? >> well, that seems to be what's happened. quite what his motive would be for -- >> why would he want to sell? >> why would he want to report himself in this way? remember, he was one of the most outspoken critics of donald sterling in the wake of the scandal towards the end of the last nba season. he even appeared on this network to say that he couldn't work with somebody like donald sterling and the other owners could vote me out if i was to behave in a similar way. so it's very, very interesting that it played out in this way. i think the league is probably relieved that it's not been dragged through the mud because it was an awful summer for the nba and its reputation and donald sterling did not go quietly. this one seems to be playing out very differently. >> is there a way of knowing

listen. >> i think that donald sterling is going to be the bell weather for situations like there isse of bruce letch venson it was an immediate recognition that something serious is going to happen if i don't come forward. >> and that's exactly levenson did. he reported that two-year-old e-mail to the nba. apologized to everyone, and now he says he is going sell his controlling interest in the team. >> what this reaction in atlanta? >> it made a lot of people uncomfortable. for a number of reasons. some people[( interpreted his comments as a slight against african-american fans, treating them as second class fans. some thought it underestimated the tolerance of white southerners in a city that prides itself on friendly race relations. in a statement yesterday levenson says, quote, if you're angry about what wrote you should be. i'm angry at myself, too. itself was inflammatory nonsense. we all may have assault biases and preconceptions when its comes to race but my role as a leader is to challenge them, not to validate or accommodate those who might hold them. john in. >> thank you

bandcomes after the nba donald sterling for life. -- banned donald sterling for life. howard stern, will be goldberg, sarah jessica parker, just some of the celebrities at joan ral service in new york city. >> famous friends arrived this morning. melissa kissed the casket. the emotional goodbye to a groundbreaking -- >> here is joan rivers! >> outrageous -- >> that dress. >> and, beloved comedians of our time. >> for comedy was overwhelming. >> there was no one like joan rivers. >> she died in new york after going in to cardiac arrest during a diagnostic procedure on herbal cool chords. cords.vocal to seented to look in why her voice got raspy. things happened. >> a memorial grows outside of her home. >> what has the outpouring been like? >> unbelievable. >> melissa rivers spent the past few days playing the funeral. rivers joked that it should be a lab or it. -- elaborate. >> i wanted to be hollywood all of the way. >> a star-studded event, just as she wanted. marci gonzalez, abc news. joan rivers loves coming to washington and always seemed to have a good time when s

donald trump took to twitter today.ere is a tweet, to say he may be interested in saving the trump plaza and the trump taj mahal. but any strategy he might have comes too late to keep this casino from ending its 30-year run. >> we opened it and we closed it. >> reporter: sherri and bill schillingford were day one employees at trump plaza in 1984 and stayed some 20 years. >> we're both so emotional about it. >> reporter: this afternoon, they checked out as the casino's last two guests, right before security staffers locked the doors. >> they're shutting her down. >> walking out right now. >> it's depressing. >> reporter: the casino at the center of it all, right in the middle of the resort was still advertising buffet deals today. hardly anyone was inside the gaming area before it shut down at 6:00 a.m. jozie grissom and nearly a thousand others are now unemployed. >> always happy to be here to say good-bye to everyone. it's like a death, you know. it's sad. really sad. >> reporter: recently trump plaza has been atlantic

specialist donald p.sloat, above and beyond the call of duty, while serving as machine gun we are company d, second battalion, first infantry regiment, 196 light infantry brigade, americaal division, during combat operations against an armed enemy(]ggárq republic of vietnam on january 17, 1970. on that morning, specialist 4 sloat's squad was conducting a patrol, serving a a blocking element in support of tank and armored personnel carriers in the area. as the squad moved up a small hill and in file formation, the lead soldier tripped a wire attached to a hand grenade bobby trap set up by enemy forces. as the grenade rolled down the hill, specialist 4 sloat knelt and picked up the grenade. after initially attempting to throw the grenade, specialist 4 sloat realized that detonation was imminent. he then drew the grenade to hishis body and shielded the squad members from the blast, saving their lives. specialist 4 sloa it. he's a actions of laying down his own life in order to save the lives of his comrades.

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