i'm marlie hall.is the "cbs morning news." . >> >>> panic in las vegas after may floyd mayweather's big fight. a big noise thought to be a gunshot forced thousands to stampede out. 24 people were rushed to the hospital. investigators say the bang happened after a wall in the food court fell. >>> a nonprofit organization in harlem has introduced a sport to young people in the area that most didn't know exhibited but quickly it has changed their lives. anne-marie green has the story. >> reporter: it's game day for the sojourner truth tigers. the team from ps-149 is giving their all to lacrosse, a sport you don't normally see on the fields of harlem. >> i think the team really trusts me to lead them in games. >> he's the team captain and when he brought his lacrosse stick home, his family didn't know what it was. >> they thought it was a fishing net, but when they saw lacrosse got me into boarding school, they started taking lacrosse pretty seriously. >> reporter: wyatt meltzer is the tigers' coach. >> w

marlie hall is here in new york with more. good morning, marlie. >> good morning, that's right, part of the rant focused on magic johnson. during the interview, sterling continued to lash out at the hall of fame player. >> what has he done? can you tell me? big magic johnson, what has he done? >> he's a business person. >> he's got aids. >> donald sterling took aim at magic johnson, blasting him for contracting hiv and dismissing the charitable and business work the basketball star performed for years. >> what kind of girl has sex with every girl, then catches hiv. is that someone we want to respect and tell our kids about? i think he should be ashamed of himself. i think he should go into the background. what does he do for the black people? doesn't do anything. >> reporter: sterlings comments were met by a swift rebuke by the nba. commissioner adam silver issued an apology to magic johnson. >> i feel compelled to apologize to him that he continues to be dragged into this situation and attacked. it was a picture that prompted

marlie hall in new york. thank you, marlie. >>> in california, dry hot weather and strong winds are fanning a wildfire that's burning more than 1,000 acres. the fire broke out yesterday near the city of rancho cucamonga. mandatory evacuation orders for more than 1,600 homes have been lifted but the danger is not yet over. danielle nottingham has our report. >> reporter: flames are eating away at the san bernardino mountains east of los angeles. >> the fire's kind of moving around in a lot of weird places. it's not a typical line of fire. >> reporter: more than 500 firefighters are trying to contain the wildfire. dry gusty winds are preventing helicopters from attacking the blaze from above. >> as soon as the winds die down, we will bring in the firefighting aircraft. >> i can't take the piano with me, so it stays. >> reporter: residents packed up what they could and headed out. >> there have been fires that have come close but they never evacuated us. >> scary, but we have children and want to stay cautious. >

>> marlie hall in new york. thank you, marlie. >>> ukraine's interim prime minister is accusing moscow of trying to disrupt sunday's presidential election. that follows the deadliest day for ukrainian troops on thursday. pro-russian insurgents attacked a check point, killing more than 16 soldiers. more than 30 other troops were wounded with some in grave condition. >>> and in thailand this morning the ousted prime minister met with the army leaders who seized power in a bloodless coup. it's unclear why the former government was ordered to appear. leaders of pro and anti-protest groups are still believed to be in detention. the army said it took control to restore order after months of unrest. >>> tomorrow pope francis makes his first visit to the middle east. it's a three-day trip to jordan, the palestinian territories, and israel. francis says his visit is strictly religious. it follows the latest collapse of peace talks between israel and the palestinians. >>> and on the "cbs moneywatch" now, deep job cuts at h

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i'm marlie hall.captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. >>> good morning, it's friday, may 30. i'm juliette goodrich, in for michelle. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. the weekend is here and i have a good feeling about it. >> it's friday. what's bad to feel about that? >> hooray! >>> fog has returned to the bay area. we'll see more of that through the weekend. some drizzle, too. we'll talk about that coming up. >> and as you would expect for 4:29 a.m., it is "friday light" at the bay bridge toll plaza. there is roadwork westbound. crews will be out there until 5:00. we'll talk about that coming up. >>> we begin with this story. n incident caught on camera in an east bay high school last week. you can see a student in a wheelchair getting hit several times. the person hitting him was a security official for the oakland high school. the principal says the student objected to the guard pushing his chair and spat at the guard. the student's injuries were so

marlie hall has a look at the interview with the most wanted man in the world. good morning, marlie. >> good morning, anne-marie. the interview was conducted in russia where snowden has been living in asylum for much of the year. snowden says he has not cooperated with russian intelligence and says he orchestrated the leak as an act of service to the united states. >> there have been times throughout american history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. sometimes to do the right thing you have to break a law. >> reporter: edward snowden says he told the world about the government's massive program out of a duty of the constitution. >> do you see yourself as a patriot? >> i do, but being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. >> reporter: snowden said he joined the military after 9/11 but after leaving the army and beginning work in intelligence services he became disillusioned with the way u.s. uses and collects information. he claims he tried to go through er channels, notifying his superiors of his concerns ov

i'm marlie hall.ns by vitac -- www.vitac.com and i'm brian hackney, in f frank z. >>> good morning, everyone. it's monday, may 26. i'm michelle griego. >> hi to both of you. happy memorial. mostly clear skies and the fog is holding just off the coastline and will it hold off the remainder of the day? >> we've seen accidents outside and cleared one on westbound 80. are you trying to use binoculars? >> there's no traffic. update you on the road work as well. >> thank you. >>> the first three victims of friday night's killing spree in aye esla vista. >> reporter: david, a one of the first victim's of

marlie hall has the latest on what authorits are calling the flood of the century. ((pkg)) (track - sund159) helicopters could only resc victims one by one after mae flooding hit croatia, serbid bosnia over the weekend. the months' worth of rain fell the region in three days. ts man and thousands of others were forced to evacuate the homes. (nat - sund234 @ 1:14 bosnian - anto zuparic, evacuated villager) (track)e says "water took everything away, i had cattle, the ani probably drowned" (track sund030, sund234) in many p of bosnia only rooftops and tree tops could be seen from above. on the ground, these people had to row where they once walked. (ap photo week) across the balkans, floodwa triggered more than 3,000 landslides. authorities are calling this the region's wt flooding since record keepi began 120 years ago. (nat sund159 @ : 46 croatian) (track) croatian municpal lr hrvoje lucic said "there i'a single house that hasn't be flooded." (track) sund160 f waters threatened serbia's n power plant, which supplies electricity to a third of t country. there are fear

as marlie hall reports, sterling now says the league has no legal grounds to terminate his ownership of the los angeles clippers. >>> reporter: donald sterling says the nba has no right to take away his team. in a 32 page response to the league, the l.a. clippers owner called the efforts to force him to sell the franchise illegal. the document from sterling's lawyers said putting it most simply, stripping mr. sterling of his ownership because of a private lover's quarrel that was not intended to harm the nba in any way or even become public is an outrageous punishment. the nba banned sterling for life and fined him $2.5 million after his statements to former girlfriend v stiviano were leaked. [ inaudible ] >> broadcast that you're associating with black people. >> reporter: the nba charged sterling with damaging the league and his business partners with his racist remarks. but sterling argues those comments were illegally recorded during a lover's quarrel and were never meant to be made public. the league said in a statement on tuesday night that it had received sterling's response a

marlie hall, cbs news new york. >>> hewlett-packard is getting ready for another big round of layoffs. as many as 16,000 employees could lose their jobs by october. the palo alto company made the announcement after putting out a lackluster earnings report. the move is expected to save the company $1 billion a year. hp just finished laying off 34,000 employees. meg whitman says she doesn't anticipate further cuts. >>> a uc-berkeley grad says she spilled hot coffee at this drive through in oakland in april. she says employees refused to help her. the employees say they didn't call 911 because it's against company policy. the suit asks for damages for injuries. no comment from in-n-out. >>> lots of barbecues for this memorial day weekend. >> a lot of people going out of town maybe a little camping. >> who's working today? that's the big question. >> just us! but glad to be here today. it looks like the fog moved well onshore. we are seeing some drizzle again to start out the day but i think here comes sunshine and warmer temperatures away from the coastline. by the afternoon the clouds g

marlie hall tells us at the time of the candidate's at the time, two men were in a democratic primary that was too close to call. >> reporter: he was a successful businessman turned politician. and colleagues say 71-year-old keith crisco didn't need to run for public office but it was a higher calling. >> he did it at his age because he truly believed that we needed to send people to washington who had experience in business and public policy and could make a difference. >> reporter: before his unexpected death, crisco trailed former "american idol" contestant clay aiken by fewer than 400 votes for the democratic nomination in north carolina's second congressional district. a longtime friend said during a phone conversation yesterday, crisco told him he planned to concede. >> an hour later after that, he slipped and fell and is no longer with us. >> reporter: but his campaign manager said a decision had not been made. >> we were not ready to concede until every single ballot was counted. >> reporter: achen has suspended all campaign activities and in a statement posted on his website

marlie hall reports, the group responsible for the abduction is now linked to more violence. >>> reporter: president obama told guests at a fundraiser in california that the kidnapping of nearly 300 schoolgirls in nigeria is one of the many stories that shows the problems the world still faces decades after the holocaust. >> we have not yet extinguished man's darkest impulses. >> reporter: the first lady also joined a worldwide twitter movement called bring #bringbackourgirls to get the girls back. others in the international community are also speaking out calling for more action from the nigerian including the pakistani schoolgirl show the for supporting education of women. >> this is my feeling that this will happen more and more. if you want to stop it, then we have to speak. >> reporter: the terrorist group boko haram has claimed responsibility and vowed to sell the girls into slavery. [ chanting ] >> reporter: distraught parents blamed nigeria's president goodluck jonathan for failing to act. >> finding my daughter or our daughters lies in the hands of the government. >> reporter: a

marlie hall, cbs news, new york. >> parts of the south and midwest are still reeling from the aftermath of those killer tornadoes, as well. they hit earlier in the week. the storms are expected to weaken later today. >>> happening today in the bay area, a number of may day marches are planned. protests promoting human rights are held on may 1. the first event will be at 5:00 this morning in san francisco. marchers will gather at 16th and mission streets. in san jose, two marches will begin at 3:00 this afternoon. they will merge for a 4:00 rally at city hall. in oakland, a march is planned at 3:30 starting at the fruitvale village plaza and in san francisco, there's a rally at 4:00 at 24th and mission streets. >>> and one of the marches in san jose will be to support the deported mother of a san jose state university student. a rally held on campus tuesday calling on immigration and customs enforcement and the president to stop antonio aguilar from getting deported. congresswoman zoe lofgren had even introduced a bill this week but the feds sent her back to tijuana. >>> it's another ear

marlie hall kpix 5. >> an attorney for sterling's wife shelly has confirmed her husband has given her written permission to sell the team. >>> advocates for renters have created a crowd sourcing map for people going through -- for people going through eviction. in a story you'll only see here on kpix 5, we have discovered it's especially a big problem in of where the rent board is swamped. it's trying to handle a record number of cases over the past year mostly dealing with evictions and skyrocketing rents. >> so if you walked in today you wouldn't get a hearing for many months. that's not acceptable to me. >> executive director wilkes says there are nearly 600 folders with cases all to be handled and heard but the department's staff can only hear 80 cases a month. >>> two students taking legal action against a school, a city and county over a clash with the campus police. they said they were injured in march and were left with emotional and physical scars. they want the school to apologize for saying they investigated the violence they also want their medical bills paid. >>> a tribut

cbs reporter marlie hall has the newly released details. >> reporter: the national transportation safety board is calling the april 24 incident at newark liberty international airport a near midair collision. >> this could have been an absolute catastrophic and horrific event. >> according to the ntsb report, a united boeing 737 from san francisco was coming in for landing and an express jet flight headed to memphis was preparing to take off on an intersecting runway. the planes were reportedly about 200 feet apart laterally and about 400 feet apart vertically. air traffic controllers told the united flight to aboard its landing. >> 1243 go around. traffic off your left departing. >> at that point, the other aircraft recognized that it needed --even though he was in the air he could not climb so kept his nose level. >> put the nose down, real close. real close, sir. >> reporter: the united flight was carrying 161 people while the express jet flight had 50 on board. marlie hall cbs news. >> the incident occurred where two runways in newark go north to south intersecting with runways that

marlie hall, cbs news new york. >>> a check of traffic on this getaway day, how are we doing?hing going on right now as far as incidents go. we are finally starting to see a baby backup at the bay bridge toll plaza but traffic is light. it's friday and it's the friday at the start of a long holiday weekend so just a few delays beginning to build in the last couple of minutes in those far right cash lanes and no metering lights at 5:47 this morning. we have not been able to say that for much of this week or last. they have been turning the metering lights on, on the earlier side. here's a live look at westbound 80 so far, so good richmond into emeryville. drive time 20 minutes westbound 80 from the carquinez bridge. there's fog out there. you can see it in our golden gate bridge cam even drizzle. you may need your windshield wipers. you just missed the lane changes trucks. they opened four southbound lanes in the commute direction across the golden gate bridge heading into san francisco. our drive time actually went down in the altamont pass and the livermore valley so it's sti

. >>> some record-breaking rain continues to pound the east coast and as marlie hall shows us, all that>> reporter: people tried to drive through flooded streets in newark, new jersey after hours of rain from a storm that is dumping record amounts of rain up the east coast. this woman abandoned her car and walked through water up to her knees. other drivers turned back before it was too late. >> i just had to back out there was before i got stuck. >> reporter: parts of this street in baltimore collapsed wednesday, swallowing several cars. >> the wall, the lights, the cars, everything parked on that side of the streets, gone. >> reporter: the water in parts of maryland rose so fast, people got trapped. and emergency responders had to use boats to rescue them. hours before, the storm left its mark further south. parts of alabama were also hit with torrential rains. >> it ain't never been this bad. >> reporter: at the height of the storm, five inches of rain fell on the florida panhandle in just 45 minutes flooding sections of pensacola and destroying roads. florida's governor has declared

marlie hall has more tonight. >> when the rams called him to announce his selection an overwhelmed michaelsed his partner. >> listen the crowd. >> reporter: where most of the reaction from the n.f.l. teams, players and fans has been positive, miami dolphin defensive back don jones tweeted "o.m.g." and "horrible" in response to the kiss. >> it has since been deleted and the team's general manager plans to meet with him to discuss proper use of social media. >> i'm not worried about that. >> last night on a conference call with reporters sam said he is committed to making an impact on the field. >> ray davis played in the nfl for four years and came out publicly after he retired. he thinks players will adjust. >> sports is a different space, right. you spend so much time with each other, like in intimate spaces. so i believe that athletes are even better positioned to be able to accept a player who is from a different race, a different class, a different religion and different sexual orientation because you spend so much time together. >> originally projected to be a third or fourth round pi

as marlie hall shows us, the weather has been violent and very destructive. >> here we go. >> storm chasers captured the moment a tornado ripped down power lines in southeastern nebraska. several tornadoes tore through the state yesterday in seward county, a storm left mangled homes in his wake. it was a similar scene in orrick and marshall, missouri, saturday, after two tornadoes ripped through the small town. >> we all huddled up in the back of the basement. the glass was flying at us still, everything was flying around down there. and so i just -- you could hear the house collapse above us. >> this funnel cloud was spotted west of kansas city, on sunday as it got pummeled. in colorado, looked like the middle of winter. it blanket just in time for mother's day, covering springtime flowers and turning this roadway into an icy slushy mess. these. >>> two russian speaking regions overwhelmingly voted in favor of separating themselves from the rest of the country. the vote was marred by violence in some locations. the u.s. said they won't recognize the results. even russia is epicouraging to

marlie hall joins us now with the details. good morning. >> word of it is only being made public now but the fbi and securities exchange commission began looking into it three years ago. that's when carl icahn made a bid to bi-color red sox. no charges have been filed but there's a lot of questions. it was unusual trading activity that caught the eye of the federal investigators. in the days leading up to carl icahn's bid to take over clorox in 2011 there was a series of successful options trading made by billy walters and phil mickelson ahead of the corporate deal, an automatic red flag for them. the s.e.c. and fbi are trying to determine if icann tipped walters and if he in turn shared that information with mickelson. icahn who may have had dealings with him in the past told "the wall street journal" says he duh not know of any investigation and added that his company is always careful to observe all legal requirements in all of our activities. walters, one of las vegas's best known professional gamblers who was the phil mic

i'm marlie hall in for anne-marie green. this morning we're learning just how close police came

marlie hall is here in new york.