the fbi meantime is not talking about macfarlane's hiring process but some here in oakland, some councilmembers are frustrated to find out public funds are being used to pay a disability pension to someone who has the ability to work. there was question about whether the payments would be cut off and they said there's still more investigation that needs to be done before any action is taken. alex savidge, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. >>> police in morgan hill are searching for a man threatening people with a gun at two shopping centers. police say the man tried to steal a woman's purse in the parking lot of a target on cochran road last night. then held up employees at a nearby subway. news of the robbery left customers shaken. >> she's probably just, you know, doing her own thing and somebody comes up to her with a shot gun. i would be in shock, you know, hopefully, you know, i -- you know, i would run or be -- make it out of it. >> morgan hill police have released these surveillance pictures of the suspect. he's described as a white man in his 20s, slim build, mohawk, tattoo on his left

the fbi is also investigating the attack. meantimenia and at least four states have launched an investigation into ebay's business practices. >>> l.a.'s clipper owner the owner of the l.a. clippers, donald sterling, is handing over the team, despite threats to sue the nba, source says that sterling is authorizing his wife shelley to sell the team. the nba banned sterling for life and fined him $2.5 million after the clippers' owner made racist comments captured on tape. owners of the other nba teams will meet in june to vote whether to terminate sterling's ownership. the commissioner has said that he would prefer sterling relinquish ownership voluntarily. >>> still ahead on "today in the bay," the giants swing for the fences against the minnesota twins and we have the highlight for you coming up next. >>> let's take a baseball tour around the bay area, shall we? looking live at the oakland coliseum the a's on the road and now to at&t park, looking lovely this start of your memorial weekend. giants at home taking on the red hot minneso

fbi, along with police in around 20 countries, carried out the year-long investigation. >>> we are now less than a week away from the presidential elections in ukraine. they're scheduled for saturday. in the meantime, russian president vladimir putin has once again said he'll pull back troops from eastern ukrainian border areas. our matthew chance is in moscow. matthew, so what was putin's order as far as the troops, 30,000, 40,000 russian troops along the ukrainian border, on the russian side? >> right, 30,000 to 40,000 accord to nato estimates. the russians aren't confirming that. vladimir putin in a meeting with the russian national security committee saying he's giving the order to pull those troops back from the ukrainian border, where he says they're on a routine training exercise that's now come to an end. it sounds very convincing of course. if it's true, wolf, then it could be a major step towards deescalating the crisis in ukraine. the problem is of course this is the third time that vladimir putin, the russian president, has issued this order publicly. these troops to go back. so far, there's been no movement on them. saying it's seen no substantial movement of troops since this third o