Asking for a second chance. Sterling was banned for life by the nba for making racist remarks which were caught on tape. Our own Anderson Cooper sat down with sterling for his first post suspension tv interview. Listen to this. Im a good member who made a mistake. And im apologizing. And im asking for forgiveness. Am i entitled to one mistake . After 35 years . I mean, i love my league. I love my partners. Am i entitled to one mistake . Its a terrible mistake. And ill never do it again. The Vice President of the nba players association, roger mason, he said the players wont accept anyone in the Sterling Family owning the clippers. Not you, not your wife, not your soninlaw, not your daughter. Do you believe it . I really dont know. The people that are going to decide my fate i think are not the media and not the Players Union, but the nba. The owners . Pardon me . The owners. The owners. If the owners feel i deserve another chance, then theyll give it to me. But there is a path for you to fight their decision, isnt there . Of course. But if you fight with my partners, what, at the end of the road, what do i benefit . Especially at my age . If they fight with me and they spend millions and i spend millions, lets say i win or they win. I just dont know if thats important. Why wait so long to apologize . Its been a couple of weeks. You could have come out thats a very good question. I just im so emotionally distraught. And the reason its hard for me, very hard for me, is that im wrong. I caused the problem. I dont know how to correct it. Do you trust me . I mean i do. There have been a couple phone recordings in the last week or two of people youve talked to on the phone or seems to be your voice who then sold it to, you know, radar online or tmz. I hear that and i think, to you have anyone you trust around you . I dont give interviews. The only one that i know that i talk to is magic johnson. You have talked to him . Twice. And then yeah, hes did you apologize . He knew the girl, he said. He knew the girl well. Did you apologize to him or well, if i said anything wrong, im sorry. Hes a good person. And he what am i going to say . Has he done everything he can do to help minorities . I dont think so. But ill say it, ill say it, you know, hes great. But i just dont think he is a good example for the children of los angeles. That clip, it sounded like sterling was ready to accept his punishment if his fellow nba owners decide to make him sell the team. His wife, Shelly Sterling, isnt giving up. She says she wants to keep her 50 share. The nba now says that is not, repeat, not, an option. Lets discuss the interview and more. Joining us, rachel nichols. Shes the host of cnns unguarded, and cnns legal analyst sunny hostin. You know, what jumped out at me, rachel, you know magic johnson. I know magic johnson. One of the most decent guys out there. He does a lot for minorities. He has a lot of businesses. He hires a lot of people in the urban areas of the country. What is sterling talking about . Its unbelievable. Im not sure how in one breath he can say that he deserves to remain a part of the nba community, and deserves to be partners with the rest of the nba and the ownership, and then in the next breath, takes a shot at magic johnson, another shot at magic john son. I dont know how you can be so oblivious to the climate that youre in. And it just shows that he just doesnt really have a place in this league. What do you think, sunny . I dont know if you know magic. Rachel and i have met him on many occasions. Hes such a wonderful hes a role model for so many people out there. Hes an icon. Youre right, he has all of these businesses. You know, he came out and i think sort of changed the tide of people that had hiv diagnosis so its sort of shocking sterling doesnt seem to have his finger on the pulse of america. He just doesnt seem to understand the climate that hes in. That is really remarkable. On the one hand, he says, im sorry. He also says, if i did anything wrong, im sorry. Sort of that connotation that he doesnt really think that what he did was wrong. And the nba is making it clear, rachel, shes not going to be allowed to keep ownership of that team. Hes banned for life. Hes going to be banned for all practical purposes. Theyre also making it clear shes not going to be allowed to keep the team either. Well, her lawyer said on your show to you that she will, quote, fight to the death, which is a visual, by the way, i dont really need, but to keep part of the team. I got to tell you, the nba is trying to put a stop to this right away. Her lawyer keeps saying weve been working with the nba. The nba released a Statement Last night making it absolutely clear that they are not working with Shelly Sterling, that they dont think she has any right to ownership. Remember, the board of governors, which is the official way owners step into their majority role in the nba council there, he is the representative, and the rest of the nba would have to have approved her as a board of governors member and she was never approved as a board of governors member. So theyre saying no shot. And one thing i think is interesting in all of that, by the way, is that lebron james came out in the afternoon and made a statement, i actually asked him in front a bunch of other media, how would you feel about the pace of this investigation and other people stepping in from the Sterling Family and he said to me, he said, no way, nobody in this league is comfortable with the idea of anyone in that family owning a piece of that team. And it was just hours later the nba released a statement. So theyre obviously listening to their players. Theyre aware of what a tinder box this is. I dont think sterlings interview is going to help his cause at all. Sunny, let me read to you the statement the lawyer for Shelly Sterling, pierce odonnell, released, and ill get your legal reaction. We do not agree with the leagues selfserving interpretation of its counsel ugs too, its application to Shelly Sterling or its validity under these unique circumstances. We live in a nation of laws. California law and the United States constitution trump any such interpretation. So clearly theyre setting up a legal battle. They are. Ive got to tell you, ive read of course the nba constitution by this point, and i think that Shelly Sterlings lawyer has a pretty good legal ground to challenge the nbas position. Yes, the nba is saying, you know, per the constitution, if youre a controlling owner, you know, and you behave inappropriate like this, then every other owner cant participate in the team. Well what is the definition of a controlling owner . I think thats something thats open to interpretation. In contract law, quite frankly, when theres aqabeing a ambigui ambiguities cut against the folks that drafted it, the nba in this instance. When we hear the lawyer saying yes, were going to challenge, i got to tell you, i take him at his word, that there is going to be a challenge, and i think theres Firm Legal Footing for that challenge. I dont doubt that the lawyers going to challenge because hes going to make a lot of money making that challenge, and there is wiggle room, but i will say the nba has a board of governors set up, there is a specific designation for who the controlling majority owner is and that controlling owner has to be voted on to that board of governors and that person was Donald Sterling, Shelly Sterling never voted on to that board of governors and the nba is saying that to get on to the board of governor, she would now have to be voted in, and that of course is never going to happen, so thats their side of it. But, hey, thats what lawyers are for, right, to try to pick at those loopholes and make a lot of money doing it. Thats right, and were in territory weve never been in before in rt spos law so this is going to make precedent and its going to be very interesting to watch. I would agree that the nba has made its position, you know, very, very clear. But i dont know if thats going to hold up in a court of law, well tell you. Well see what happens together with you guys, rachel and sunny, guys, thanks very, very much. A reminder, you can see the entire Donald Sterling interview tonight on the a. C. 360, andersons complete interview, 8 00 p. M. Eastern, only here on cnn. Still to come, in the dead of night they were wourounded u kidnapped from their schools. Now a month later, we may have our first video showing the abducted girls. Later, why there are now new doubts that are being cast on the search for flight 370. I am totally blind. 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The girl describes how she managed to escape her captors and explains to nima why the town lives in fear. This is a road few are now willing to travel. Its been one checkpoint after another as we have traveled north from the capital of abuja, weve seen the enforcements the government is talking about. As we got deeper into the boko haram countryside where theyve been striking terror into the hearts of villages, much of that presence seems to have evaporated. Attacks are constant in this part of nigeria. What happened in chibok put the world on notice. Armed men in what they describe as military uniforms came to their dormitory gate and told them that theyd come to protect them. The girls started to assemble in the yard, as ordered to. Didnt realize who the men really were, until it was too late. This girl managed to escape. Shes now too fearful to show her face. Too fearful to go back. Big lorry. Big lorry . Yes. Was it one or more . Seven. Seven lorry . Yes. Trucks, motor bikes. Residents here tell us this raid was effectively a shopping trip for boko haram. Over 200 girls dragged from their beds to be sold off as bounty. A message that the militant groups edicts on female education must be heeded. But big men with guns make money off terrified girls. I will never go again. Youll never go back to school . Yes. Because they made you afraid . Yes. Before the militants left, they destroyed everything they could. Textbooks, the library, the laboratory, their attempt to forever shutter this school. Elizabeth and mary are friends, members of the same church. Their daughters were also friends. Hoping one day to study medicine. They and many of their classmates never made it home from school. We are pleading with them to leave our daughters. We dont have power to do anything that requires power. They say they feel powerless, no closer to finding their daughters nearly a month after they were taken. Nima elbagir, chibok, nigeria. A state Department Official saying most of the team sent to nigeria is now on the ground. The advisers have started coordinating with the Nigerian Military on planning hostage negotiations as well as helping to streamline communication among various agencies. Up next, new reports questioning the value of some of those pings heard last month in the search for flight 370. Our panel of experts standing by to tell us what it means for the search operation thats going on right now. It starts with little things. Tiny changes in the brain. Little things, anyone can do. It steals your memories. Your independence. Insures support. A breakthrough. And sooner than youd like. Sooner than you think. You die from alzheimers disease. We cure alzheimers disease. Every little click, call, or donation adds up to something big. Alzheimers association. The brains behind saving yours. Live in the same communities that we serve. People here know that our operations have an impact locally. 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Our Law Enforcement analyst tom fuentes is the former assistant director of the fbi. Peter, how significant would it be if these two pings they spent so much time searching that area where they think they may have detected ping from the black box, turned out to be nothing at all . I think its important because its a matter of trust as well. It was a great deal of expectation raised when all four pings were picked up. But there were some caveats. The two pings that theyre now dismissing came in at much lower kilowatts. They were 27. 5 as opposed to 37. 5. And now that the new team thats looking at it, the australians, the chinese, the americans, the brits and the malaysians, theyve now said probably not, were going to focus on the pings of april 5th. But the discrepancy they knew there was a Different Number for the kilohertz. They knew that from the beginning. But they said maybe if they were so deep under water, the water could effect what you are picking u. They thought it might be the real thing. Still might be the real thing. Theres no reports putting a highranking australian investigator, it sounds, at least two of them, sounds like its not coming necessarily from these black boxes. Are they looking in areas, should they be looking in other areas where it is ocean might be teacher and the bluefin cant go deep enough and they need new devices to come in there and search in that area if its below the capability of the bluefin. Our correspondent interviewed angus houston, the australian whos in charge of this investigation. Lets listen to this. Do you think something could be found within the next month . I guess what were doing is pursuing the lead that we have at the moment. We need to pursue that lead to its conclusion. If we found something, id be overvoied. If we dont, we go on to the next phase of the search. That doesnt sound exactly optimistic. Its not optimistic. From the beginning, weve said, this is going to be months, perhaps years. This is theyve got the search where the pings were. If it does not prove out, then theyre in for a very long time. And theyre going to be using t towed rays, its going to be slogging on month after month. It comes on the heels of an article by ari schulman in which he said that inmarsat, those pings from the satellite, those handshakes as they were called, they may be way off base as well. He said that, and then admitted their opinion is based on a lack of all of the facts as well. So they dont have all of the material that the analysts have that came to the conclusions in the first place about the inmarsat data. So theres still a question there. Because hes putting the caveat of we dont have all of the information, but we think the information is wrong. Because if all of this new information thats coming out raising questions about the inmarsat satellite, that southern arc into the southern indian ocean, now the information about the black boxes and the pings, if all that turns out to be accurate, this new information, they really are starting from scratch. They havent found anything yet. They havent even heard any pings. Thats true. Ive spoken to investigators over the weekend. They still have a very high degree of confidence in the work that theyve done on the inmarsat. They believe theyre in the right location. As tom indicated, they may not have the equipment necessary to find the wreckage. It may be deeper than where the bluefin can go. Peter, tom, thanks very much. Well continue to watch this story. Still to come, Donald Sterling says hes sorry. So what is his wife saying about the racist comments, the expected sale of the last clippers . Were going to hear her take. Stand by. 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The comments eventually got sterling banned for life by the nba. He says hes sorry but he also seems ready to accept his fate at the hands of his fellow nba owners. Heres what he told Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview with cnn. The Vice President of the nba players association, roger mason, he said the players wont accept anyone in the Sterling Family owning the clippers, not you, not your wife, not your soninlaw, not your daughter. Do you believe that . I really dont know. The people that are going to decide my fate i think are not the media and not the Players Union but the nba. The owners . Pardon me . The owners . The owners. If the owners feel i deserve another chance, then theyll give it to me. Our brian taught is joining us now. Brian, Donald Sterling is talking now for the first time to anderson. Shelly sterling, she also gave her other tv interview. Shes making some bold statements. She really is. She told Barbara Walters of abc news she was horrified when she first heard about those comments. That her estranged husband had made to investment stiviano. Specifically to the question that walters asked her is Donald Sterling a racist, here is her response. It was horrible when i heard it. I mean, it was just degrading. And it made me sick to hear it. But as far as racist, i dont really think he is a racist. Have you discussed these remarks at all with your husband . He saw the tape. And he said, i dont remember saying that. I dont remember ever saying those things. What did you think then . Thats when i thought he has dementia. Really . Yeah. Now, we have tried to get comment from Donald Sterling to that remark by his estranged wife that she thinks he might have dementia. Weve not been able to get comment. Shelly sterling says of course shes going to try to fight the nbas decision to oust her as part owner of the clippers. On the dementia issue, there are some i guess studies that people who are dementia, early stages, midstages, they do sometimes say some really clearly outrageous things. It certainly is possible. I spoke with a psychiatrist on the phone who said that as far as, you know, its called a coarsening of the personality. There might be some things you thought in your mind when you were younger that you selfcensored that could come out. He said its because your frontal lob frontal lobes, part of your brain responsible for mental judgment, are not working as well. So its possible to repress racist thoughts in your mind when you were younger but they may come out necessarily when you were older. If you didnt have any racist thoughts, could they make you Say Something racist . Im told by a psychiatrist thats possible but unlikely. As far as the nba saying theyre kicking her husband out for life so he cant own the team, she says she doesnt accept this notion that she at the same time can be kicked out. Shes ready to fight that. Shes ready to fight it. Heres a statement from her attorney. Quote, we do not agree with the leagues selfserving interpretation of its constitution, its application to Shelly Sterling or its validitity under these unique circumstances. California law and the United States constitution trump any such interpretation. That seeps to be basically telling the nba from Shelly Sterling and her attorney, you can try to do this, but were going to fight you and well probably take it to court. Well see how far it gets. All right, brian, thanks very much. I know youre working the story. You can see the entire Donald Sterling interview later tonight on Anderson Cooper 360, 8 00 p. M. Eastern. 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Sent to live with severe grandparents who locked her in her room for a year as punishment for trick or treating. Leaving at 14. Striking out on her own. Clinton asked her how she survived. Ill never forget how she replied, at critical points in my life, somebody showed me a kindness, she said. Reporter by contrast, clinton said her mother always gave her unconditional love and support, including after she lost her campaign for president. Having her so close became a source of great comfort to me. Especially in the difficult period after the end of the 2008 campaign. Id come home from a long day at the senate or the state department, slide in next to her at the small table in our breakfast nook and let everything just pour out. Reporter and when her mother died in 2011, clint on said she longed for one more conversation, one more hug. She also said she felt moved to take the advice shes sure her mother would give. Never rest on your laurals. Never quit. Never stop working to make the world a better place. Thats our Unfinished Business. Reporter clinton doesnt say if that Unfinished Business includes another try for the white house. A lot of her book is going to be about her tenure at the state department when she was secretary of state during those four years. Several critics now, including marco rubio, might run for president himself, theyre beginning to pounce, saying her tenure was a disaster. Listen to this. Im sure shes going to go out bragging about her time in the state department. Shes also going to have to be held accountable for its failures, whether its the failed reset in russia or the failure in benghazi that actually cost lives. If you look at the diplomacy, it has failed everyone in the world. If shes going to run on her record as secretary of state, shes also going to have to answer for its massive failures. Thats the word a lot of republicans are using. Its certainly in the eyes of beholder i think when it comes to what her tenure at the statemestate department is. Thats going be to the controversial part of the book. A lot of it being benghazi. When she came out of the state department, for many assessments, it was seen as a positive for her. Managed to erase a lot of the stain of her poorly managed campaign in 2008. But its been very colored by benghazi. Americans were killed, including the ambassador. Republicans are certainly taking aim at that. Either way you cut it, this is going to be big in 2016. Voters when theyre polled think this is one of her best assets. When youre looking at it in terms of politics, it is smart politics for republicans to be trying to chip away at what voters consider to be a positive. Its just beginning. Thanks very much, Brianna Keilar reporting. Lets take a closer look now at how the markets are doing today. These are live pictures. Its up about 104 points. The Dow Jones Industrials hitting a record high today. Well be watching retailers for some signs of life in the economy. Jcpenney, among other, theyll be reporting earnings. Well watch. Right now, the markets up. Record highs. Over 16,000 right now. Theres a second confirmed case of middle east respiratory syndrome. Federal Health Officials announced mers was found in florida but they stress the virus poses a low risk to the general public. The very first cases of mers were diagnosised in 2012. While no one knows how it originated, there is evidence linking it to camels. Up next, an overwhelming vote for independence in Eastern Ukraine. But evidence of massive voter fraud puts legitimacy in question. Well take a closer look. So i can reach ally bank 24 7, but there are no branches . 24 7. Im sorry, im just really reluctant to try new things. Really . Whats wrong with trying new things . Look mommys new vacuum cat screech you feel that in your muscles . I do. Drink water. 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Just a short time ago, the Nigerian Government said all options are on the table when it comes to securing the release of the kidnapped girls. This comes just hours after the leader of boko haram made this statement. [ speaking Foreign Language ] boko harams leader also says that this video, this is the video of the kidnapped girls. If true, it would be the First Sighting since their abduction. The footage shows the girls dressed in muslim head dresses reciting the coe ining the kora. It does offer some hope that the girls have not yet been sold or separated. They are together at least in this video. Lets go to ukraine. An overwhelming vote for independence. Around 90 of the people in two regions of Eastern Ukraine voted to break from the government in kiev. Vote is being disputed by ukraines central government. In moscow, they say, and im quoting, moscow respects the will of the referendum and hopes it will proceed along civilized lines. Joining us is atika shubert. Are there questions, and i assume there are plenty, about the legitimacy of this entire vote . Definitely. Kiev has said its legitimate, it doesnt accept the results. We at a polling station saw plenty of voting irregularity. We caught on camera several of them, people putting multiple ballots into the ballot box. Was it out and out voter fraud . We really cant say. For whatever reason, there were a lot of irregularities that we saw. Certainly calls into question the validity of this referendum. But it hasnt stopped the donetsk peoples republic. They have declared independence from ukraine and are turning to moscow, appealing to russia, to make donetsk a part of the Russian Federation. We havent had a forr aformal re from moscow but clearly donetsk is hoping for action from putten. Atika, what happens next in these regions . Well, this is the big question, is moscow going to say yes, you can be part of the Russian Federation . Will they opt for Something Else like putting peacekeepers in here . If not, it goes into this limbo. Theres an increasing amount of violence and lawlessness on the street. Just a few days ago, about an hour and a half away, several people were killed in its tooing there. Its likely only to increase as the elections, the general elections, are to take place on may 25th. Kiev insists this is the only way forward to resolve the crisis, but donetsk peoples republic said theyre not going to have it, there will be no election, and there are concerns there could be a growing standoff until that election date. I know theres a huge standoff, atika, right now, but as far as violence is concerned, whats going on on the streets of some of these towns and cities in Eastern Ukraine, between the Government Forces and the prorussian elements . Today and yesterday, during the referendum, it was relatively quiet. But you can feel the tension. There are still men walking on streets of donetsk carrying weapons, looking edgy and, frankly, a bit trigger happy. We saw extreme violence and really mob violence. It was just out of control. Its not as clear as ukrainian troops against pro russian groups. The police, for example, in mariopol, appear to be split in two. So its become very complicated. Its going to be very difficult if those tensions continue to rise for ukraine to try to take any action at all. So how this is going to move forward is the big question. Russia, clearly, has said that theyre hoping for some sort of negotiated settlement, but its not clear if any of the players will even sit at the negotiating table. Atika shubert, well stay in touch with you, thank you, atika. Other news, a 700day siege in the syrian city of homs is now over. Rebel fighters have left the city. Tens of thousands of people who live there, they are going back home. But what theyre coming to, that home, is a devastated area. Much of the city right now is in ruins. Many see it, potentially at least, as a new beginning. Cnns fred meet kin is the First Western journalist there. Reporter in the ruins of the old town of homs, a mass migration. As thousands enter this battlescarred neighborhood, either to come back in or to get their belongings out. Very little seemed salvageable. That doesnt stop residents from trying. He and his workers are of course it was awful, he says, when the fighting started, i had to get out of here. I have not been back in two and a half years. Only a few days after rebel fighters left the old town the clean up effort is already underway. Even as the sirrian army says it is still clearing streets and buildings. The authorities are moving very quickly to open this place up again. We can see that all the buildings are absolutely destroyed. It shows the tragedy of what happens here and shows just how long it will take to rebuild the whole town. They were crushed by sirrian security forces. Then Government Forces launched a Brutal Campaign including heavy shelling and a siege. Finally both sides agreed to a truce. A deal these government soldiers say they endorse. I think it was the best thing to do. It gives the people a chance to come back and start rebuilding their rooifs. With so many killed and wounded, there are no winners but many people returning back are still optimistic that maybe there is a new chance for a renewed beginning. More than 150,000 people have been killed in the fighting in syria over the past few years. Millions have been made into review gees. He travels the world but there is one place anthony boar dane doesnt like to visit very often. Its been nearly a decade since anthony bordine has set foot in russia. So you went to russia. You had not been to russia for quite a while. I try to space out my trips. I have a hard time with the drinking. Making friends, getting people to open up, it requires a lot of drink and more than i can be comfortable with. You can drink a fair amount. A bottle a day of vodka, it has an effect. I need time in between shows. How long has it been . A few years. You get a sense of what its like to live in putin russia. Its his. Do you find it very different from the russia you had visited previously . You really feel any an earlier trips any notion that this is a functioning democracy is a joke. They kill journalists there. Theyre happy to do it. Its okay. People get killed in business dealings there. There is a line. Everyone we spoke to comes up against the line. When you Start Talking about corruption and putins possible connection to corruption, you can see it in their eyes. A real fear. We spoke with, you know, what billionaire there is a couple of those. Bad things happen to you when you cross vladimir putin. Food in traditional homes can be really delicious. The best restaurants are sort of like 1989, post disco era asian fusion horror show. Generally speaking, its sort of eating the best restaurant in moscow is a worst case scenario. There it is right there. A magnitude 5. 8 earthquake. Repairs cost about 15 million. Public tours resumed ed about hour ago. The Washington Monument is back op. Thanks very much for watching. I will be back r5 00 p. M. Eastern. Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin starts right now. Thank you so much. We begin with this. The 80yearold billionaire said he was wrong to say what he did. He implies that he has been taken advantage of, complicating matters