L. A. Clippers. Former microsoft ceo Steve Ballmer has signed a binding agreement. The question now is will Donald Sterling give it his approval . Overmight his lawyer said no. I will not defend it because it is undefensible but i can take responsibility for it and i do. Ill have a serious conversation with him. The Santa Barbara county Sheriffs Office says it was aware that killer Elliot Rogers posted disturbing videos online but it never looked at them. For the first time in 52 years, there are cochampions. Jacob williamson sealing the show. But in the finals came up just short. What . The nsa has released what it says is the only email Edward Snowden sent to supervisors. The glass floor at chicagos willis tower cracked 103 stories up while tourists are on it a design for a new spacecraft to carry astronauts to the space station was unveiled by elon musk. And a medical emergency. The singer was rushed from the stage. And all that matters. Looking for this money. For the second night in a row, the race is on to find hidden cash in the l. A. Area. What message do you have for the people leaving these envelopes behind . Thank you and god bless. On cbs this morning the rangers are going to the finals they want the cup and now they have a chance, they have a chance this eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. Norah odonnell is on assignment but gayle king is with us. Good morning, charlie. Eric shinseki is apologizing for a breach of trust. Eric shinseki is removing top leaders at the phoenix v. A. Hospital. Hes also denying performance bonuses for all executives this year. And the v. A. Is reaching out to the 1,700 veterans kept off hospital waiting lists. As many as 40 veterans died in phoenix allegedly while waiting for care. Shinseki says he put too much trust in some top v. A. Officials. I cant explains lack of integrity amongst some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something i rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so i will not defend it because it is indefensible, but i can take responsibility for it. And i do. So given the facts i now know, i apologize as a Senior Leader of the department of Veterans Affairs. I extend an apology to the people whom i care most deeply about and thats the veterans of this great country, to their families and loved ones who i have been honored to serve for over five years now, its the call of a lifetime. I also offer an apology to members of congress who have supported me, the Veterans Services organizations who have been my partners for five years and to the American People. All of them, all of them deserve better. Major garrett is at the white house where president obama is promising what he calls a seriou conversation with shinseki. Major, good morning. Reporter good morning. President obama has promised accountability in the v. A. Health care scandal and that accountability may be taking place right about now. The president in the oval office is due to meet in just a few moments with the Veterans Affairs secretary, eric shinseki, who will present to the president a report on system failures dealing with fraud and mismanagement in the Health Care System on shinsekis watch. Given numerous opportunities, White House Press secretary jay carney would not say if the president still has confidence in shinseki or if he would keep his job. Im just not going to speculate more about personnel. Rick shinseki has performed overall well as secretary on issues like homelessness, on the g. I. Bill, the 9 11 g. I. Bill and on working with us to reduce the back log. Reporter but those issues have nothing to do with the scandal now engulfing the v. A. Those charges have prompted 12 Democratic Senators to call for shinseki it resign. Nine face tough reelection battles, an unmistakable signal to the white house that the v. A. Scandal is taking a toll. Mark warner of virginia. He should step down because we need to spend our energies on getting the v. A. Fixed. Al franken of minnesota. We need new leadership. Thats what this is ultimately all about, our veterans getting the proper care at the right time. California republican duncan hunter, a marine who served in iraq and afghanistan said the v. A. Failures have shaken his generation of veterans. Its quite simple, the trust between the v. A. And our veterans, the trust between the v. A. And me, the trust between the v. A. And the men that i served with and for, its broken. Reporter shinsekis fate appears to be sealed. The only question now really is a matter of timing. One top official here at the white house told us the president would like to resolve the situation, quote, as soon as possible. Major, thanks. New developments this morning in the Boston Marathon bombing case. A friend of the suspects is due in court today. He is accused of blocking the bombing investigation. Vinita nair is here with the charges that came out a short time ago. Good morning. Reporter good morning. He has not been charged with participating in the Boston Marathon bombings or knowing about them ahead of time but the fbi alleges he took a series of steps to impede their investigation. According to the department of justice, the 23yearold was not on friends with the boston bombing suspect here, regularly communicated with them and shared in their philosophical justification for violence. The department of justice alleges after they released the images of the bombing suspects, he continued to falsify, conceal and cover up evidence at the extent of his friendship, contact and communication with the tsarnaev brothers about the bombings. If convicted he could face 20 years in prison. This morning it looks like Donald Sterling will lose the l. A. Clippers one year after the nba banned him for life. Shelley sterling says she has a binding agreement to sell the team for 2 billion. Ben, good morning. Reporter good morning. There is another twist in a story that has had many of them. Sources close to the negotiations claim that Donald Sterling is mentally incapacitated and that is what has cleared the way for his wife, shelley, to sell the team. The deal shes made with Steve Ballmer would smash the previous record sale price for an nba franchise. One strategy, one team. Reporter former microsoft ceo Steve Ballmer is worth an estimated 20 billion, and hes willing to part with 10 of his fortune, offering 2 billion to buy the los angeles clippers. He beat out bids from other big names, including media moguls Oprah Winfrey and david geffen. 2 billion is a very large amount of money. However, there are only so many franchises in the top three sports in the top two markets. So its simple law of supply and demand. Reporter Donald Sterling s estranged wife shelley has been frantically trying to sell the team before tuesday when nba owners were scheduled to vote on whether to terminate sterlings ownership because of Donald Sterlings racist comments. But his lawyer says hes not ready to approve the deal. Mr. Sterling has not agreed to accept that, or any other offer. Reporter but sources close to the negotiations say that Donald Sterling has been declared mentally incapacitated. According to the rules of the Sterling Family trust, this gives shelley sterling the power to act without him. But his attorney wrote i have no court order declaring mr. Sterling mentally incompetent. Is Donald Sterling mentally stable . Absolutely. I dont see any indication to the contrary. Reporter Donald Sterling bought the clippers in 1981 for 12. 5 million. The clippers deal with be just shy of the overall sports record of 2. 1 billion paid for the l. A. Dodgers in 2012. Whoever owns the team is putting the team under better ownership and will be a hero to the league and will be a hero to the entire nba ecosystem. Reporter now, Steve Ballmer has already been vetted by the nba when he tried to buy the l. A. Kings last year. Another one of sterlings lawyers says he has no idea what socalled expert declared him incompetent and that simply is not accurate. Hillary clinton is lashing out at her critics over benghazi. Nancy, good morning to you. Reporter good morning. This is probably the most highly anticipated section of Hillary Clintons new book hard choices because its the topic that republicans will raise against her most often if she decides to run for president. The title of the 34page chapter about benghazi is under attack. It was obtained by the newspaper politico. In it the former secretary of state strikes a defiant tone about ongoing republicanled investigations into the deaths of four americans in 2012, including the u. S. Ambassador to libya. Clinton writes those who exploit this tragedy over and over as a Political Tool minimize the sacrifice of those who served our country. She goes on to say, many of those same people a broken record about unanswered question, but there is a difference between Unanswered Questions and unlistened to answers. There is a good chance clinton will be called to testify again before a new House Committee that has just been formed to investigate the benghazi attacks, but she writes, and this is interesting, i will not be a part of a political slugfest on the backs of dead americans. Its just plain wrong and unworthy of our country. Those who plan to politicize the issue will have to do so without me. Jason chaffetz told me there are four dead americans and nobody held accountable. I know secretary clinton wants this to go away but before we know the whole truth and nothing but the truth, it will not go away. This book is due out in about a week and a half. The clinton team is rolling it out very strategically with a big media blitz. We should note that hard choices is being published by simon and schuster, which is a division of cbs. This morning the nsa said it only found one email from Edward Snowden asking about illegal issues in his work. Last night on my pbs program, National Security adviser susan rice rejected snowdens assertion he didnt hurt anybody. If his intentions are honorable, as he claims, which is hard to imagine given the damage hes done, then he ought to be brave enough to face the Justice System that is the foundation of the country he loves. Snowden tells the Washington Post this morning that the nsas release of just one email is incomplete and not telling the whole story. There is new information this morning on last fridays deadly california rampage. The Sheriffs Department now says it knew a month ago that killer Elliot Rodger had put alarming videos online. Deputies did not watch those videos before visiting his apartment. Hey reporter concern from family and friends about Elliot Rodgers disturbing videos promptd four Sheriff Deputies and a Police Officer to go to his home to check his welfare before the attack. The Santa Barbara countys office outlined the visit saying they found him to be shy and plight. He said the videos were just a way of expressing himself. Deputies determined he was not an immediate threat to himself or others. They did not ask to go inside, view the videos or conduct a weapons check. He was able to make a very convincing story that there was no problem, that he wasnt going to hurt himself or anyone else. Reporter rodger wrote about that visit in his 137page manifesto saying if they demanded to search my room, that would have ended everything. The Sheriffs Office was not aware of his manifesto or the video detailing of the planned attack until after hour after the shooting. Some are left wondering why they never asked to be let in knowing the nature of his earlier videos. Law enforcement officers are not trained to interpret someones behavior, their not processes and determine whether theres a Mental Health issue. Reporter he acknowledges there are cracks in the system. We try to protect Civil Liberties and the freedom we enjoy while trying to create a buffer for people who have milness imil ne Mental Health issues. Were just not very good at it. Lawmakers voted in favor of blocking the federal government from interfering with states that allow medicinal pot. Almost half of the states have legalized pot for medical use. The nations measle outbreak is surging. It is at a 20year high. 90 of the illness began with a traveler bringing measles back to the united states. Most of those who came down with the virus had not been vaccinated. America has two National Spelling bee champions this morning. For the First Time Since 1962, last nights final round ended in a tie after a dramatic showdown between two teenage boys. Jan crawford is in national harbor, maryland, where the judges just finally ran out of words. Reporter good morning. Were joined bit two cochampions. Congratulations to both of you guys. So lets go back last night on that stage, you both spelled the word right. What was that moment like . It was pretty exciting. With all that hard work, how about for you . Yeah, i was not quite expecting the cochampionship. Which makes this so special. Lets take a look at that moment. Correct. With that, the 13yearold and 14yearold outlasted everybody but each other. Im feeling pretty excited and shocked. Now the trophy is mine with him. Ours i should say. Shiram was the favorite, just 8 years old when he competed in his first National Spelling beam. Andson didnt make it past the preliminaries last year. In the 16th round it was just down to just the two of them when the frontrunner stumbled. The ball was in ansons court if he got the word right. He didnt. And that meant both boys got a second chance. A word i know this time, please. Reporter from then on they were clutch, getting through a list of some of the trickiest words in the english language. Can you please repeat the world . Nia. Correct. Hel. Correct. Reporter eventually there just werent enough words left on the list, forcing the tie. Can i please have the part of speech . I know it, i know it, i totally know it reporter turns out he didnt. What reporter these are the first cochamps in more than 50 years. It means a lot. And to share it with another person is great. Pretty awesome to be a cochampion. Reporter even though theyre sharing the spotlight, one thing they wont have to share is the prizes, 33,000 in cash and prizes and the trophy, they each get their on. Thank you, jan. It is now 7 19. Ahead this morning, well look at the headlines around the big change in the weather today. Low clouds and fog have surged back onshore. A little thick in some of the valleys visibility to a quarter mile in santa rosa. Cloudy over the financial district in San Francisco. And its going to be slow to break up today. So the temperatures are going to be dropping off from yesterdays high. Some places as much as 14 degrees cooler. Sun and 70s and low 80s well inland, 60s and 70s inside the bay. Clouds, 50s and 60s toward the coastline. Announcer this natio Weather Report sponsored by toyota. Lets go places. Ahead, a sky deck scare. Were 103 floors above the street here in chicago. Imagine standing in this glass box and feeling the floor starting to crack. Well tell you what happened next. The news is back in the morning here on cbs this morning. Stay tuned for your local news. Announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by its salad season. 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Democrat john perez for controller. Your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. Good morning. Its 7 26. Heres whats happening on this friday around the bay area. A Security Officer in an Oakland High School is charged with assaulting a student in a wheelchair. Surveillance here. The principal says the student spat at the guard before the attack. The officer is facing felony charges. About 400 students at Amador Valley high school in pleasanton will have to retake their ap exams due to seating irregularities during a test. The school will hold informational forums today and tomorrow for parents. Mark zuckerberg and his wife are donating 120 million to help bay area schools. The donations will be spread out over the next five years. The ravenswood and the redwood City School Districts will be among the first recipients. Traffic and that all important weekend forecast coming up right after the break. ,,,, good morning. Liza battalones here. Starting off kcbs traffic with an accident in the clearing stages. It is an overturn southbound 680 at mckee. This is right in san jose with the brief delay behind it. North 101 has been crowded in the commute direction from beyond the 280 680 interchange and over at the bay bridge toll plaza, expect delays into the maze. Its also delayed on the ace train, train 5 is 20 minutes late out of stockton. Thats traffic. Heres lawrence. All right. We are looking at a lot of clouds moving onshore right now. A gray start to the day no delays though at sfo because of the clouds. Looks like those will begin to lift throughout the morning. Pulling back to the coastline in the afternoon. That trough of low pressure really is bringing in a lot of clouds early on today the most we have seen in a few days. Temperatures this afternoon mostly sunny inland. 70s and low 80s there. 60s a few 70s around the bay. And 50s and 60s cloudy at the beaches. Next couple of days more gray skies for the start of the weekend maybe drizzle, too. Warming up toward the middle of next week. Now hondas slinging mud, launching false attacks. Isnt it time to put the old politics aside . The chronicle endorses ro khanna, saying he offers an upgrade in congress for silicon valley. And the mercury news says, ro khanna is ready for the congress of tomorrow. While honda is a politician of the past. For our future ro khanna. In portland, oregon, a bus driver saved a toddler who was starting to cross a busy street all by himself. The driver stopped the bus when he spotted the barefoot boy on thursday. He brought the child on to his bus and tried to calm him down. He goes, chocolate. Thats when i knew he liked hot chocolate. Once he gave the boy some hot chocolate, everything was fine. It turns out the boys father had fallen asleep and the child wandered away. And mom is really, really mad today. But you could see the kindness of that driver, charlie. Thats what was so sweet and the boys all right. Hot chocolate works. Always. Welcome back to cbs this morning. Coming up this half hour, the view from a glass ledge 103 stories above chicago is meant to inspire all, but for a group of tourists, it brought a scare like knno other. Were at the willis tower with what those men did when they heard cracking. And a teenager stunned her opponent in her first grand slam tournament. We look at the underdog winning praise and defies her critics. The Washington Post looks at the ukrainian crisis. Defense secretary chuck hagel confirms russia withdrew thousands of its troops from the border. He calls it promising. The Obama Administration wont say total withdrawal. It warns any Troop Movement back across the border would mean new sanctions. The wall street journal says a brazilian rival is making an alternate bid. Bloomberg wants harvard graduates to stand up to opinions they dont like. He said harvard and other schools like it are becoming homes of intolerance. Today on many college campuses, it is liberals trying to repress conservative ideas, even as conservative faculty members are at risk of becoming an endangered species and that is probably nowhere more true than here in the ivy league. Alumnus criticized conservatives who reject Climate Change and gun control. If youre looking for workplace diversity, dont bother with silicon valley. The staffing is made up of most white men, some of asian dissent and few women. And the Chicago Sun Times said visitors at americas second tallest building got a shock and workers had to make emergency repairs. The very popular larges at chicagos willis tower reopened this morning. Dean reynolds is on the sky deck 1,300 feet up. Dean, good morning. Reporter good morning. Well, nothing really dangerous happened on the ledge, but for a few moments this week, it was a pretty scary situation, way up here. How would you like to stand on a clear glass deck jutting four feet out and how would you like to hear a cracking noise beneath your feat as you stood there. Thats what happened to this group of friends. Collectively we start standing up at the same time and it was at that moment that we start hearing the noise and start feeling the crackling of the glass. And at that moment thats when all four of us just completely just flew out of it jumped off, crawled off, whatever we could to get immediately off the ledge. We turn around and we can see it shattering or cracking. We were like oh, my god, were really there just a few seconds ago. Reporter officials at the building formerly known as the sears tower insist the popular tourist attraction is safe and that it was a protective coating on top of the glass that shattered. The Structural Integrity of the ledge, they said, was not affected. Still, they briefly closed it to the public while workers attempted to make repairs on the shattered coating. The ledges have drawn millions of thrill seekers since they opened in 2009. This one and the other three ledges are all expected to be open this morning 1,353 feet up. And here it is now, good as new. And youre all welcome to come to chicago to try it out for yourselves. Any takers . Dean, no tanks, no tanks. Get off, get off how do you know when the glass starts cracking that its the protective coating and not just the real deal . What are the physics of that . I think you just look down and pray. Okay. Thank you, dean. Were getting our first look this morning at a Space Shuttle replacement, spacex former live unveiled its dragon v2 last night. The company says the spacecraft can dock with the International Space station without any outside help. Nasa believes the new capsule could launch by 2017. Dragon ver oon version two, of carrying up to seven astronauts, landing almost anywhere in the world and something thats designed and is said to be fully reusable so you can fly this multiple times, allowing for potential dramatic reduction in the cost of access to space. Our science professor is from the university of new york. What is the significance of this . Three years ago, president obama took a huge gamble by cancelling the Space Program and critics said it would make us hitchhikers to other programs. But this is an advanced version of the sput welfare reform new Safety Systems giving us cheaper access to space. But in private hands . In private hands. To put this in orbit around the planet earth costs 10,000 per pound. Think of that, thats your weight in gold. Think of your body being in solid gold. Thats hough expensive the Space Program is. Obama wanted to drive down the cost by relying on private enterprise rather than public dollars. It seems to have paid off. Theyve had four Successful Missions in space so far. New Safety Systems that the old Space Shuttle didnt have. The bad news is we are suject to black mail from the russians. The russian Prime Minister has already said they may kick us out, denying us access by 2018. Lets have this operational before 2018 before the latest agreement expires and we could be out of space. The boosters are expensive but they are cheaper than earlier versions. Bureaucracies have less incentive to drive down the cost of space travel. But again, it will take three to four years before this is fully operational and we seasoned u. S. Astronauts on a booster rocket. Would you go . No. Among all the accolades and all the bravado. I wouldnt go either. Id be with you. Charlie would go. Michelle obama her food night this morning. She is pushing for standard that require healthier meals at schools. A bill provide for schools to opt out for a year if theyre losing money. 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The result, a win for townsend may have shocked paris but it didnt shock any who has followed the fascinating career of this 18yearold from chicago. I really believed in myself and really believed that i could do it. So when i did it, i was shocked and i was so happy. But at the same time i felt like, you know, i should have done it. This should have happened. Like, you know, you belong here. Reporter townsend is becoming known for more than her tennis, even for more than her victory dance. Shes become a controversy because of her weight. Despite ranking number one as a junior, the u. S. Tennis association held back support money for health reasons, code for they thought she was too heavy. But townsend argued that her shape was her shape, that she didnt have to conform to some idealized image of what a tennis player or any woman should look like. They can say whatever they want to say but no one really understands. I mean, theyre not in my body, theyre not here, theyre not playing. So, i mean, its like whatever they want to say, they can say but i just try to keep the ball roll ing. Reporter keep the ball flying more to the point. Townsend, despite or maybe because of her size, is quick around the court and is a natural hitter of the ball. She is, people on the circuit say, the future. Even andy murray, the current wimbledon champion thinks so. How good is Taylor Townsend, he tweeted . Talent. Townsend may get to do her victory dance a lot more in her career. Taylor townsend made it to the french open the hard way. She had to win two tournaments and then qualify. Shell have to follow the same hard path to qualify for wimbledon here next month and nobody should bet against her. For cbs this morning, im Mark Phillips in london. I love this story. It makes me want to go to the french open this weekend. Me, too. Talent. She really does let her tennis racket do the talking. And the idea that dont let some imagined notion of what someone should look like. 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Heres lawrence. We are looking at plenty of low clouds and fog surging well onshore today. Its going to take some time to break up so temperatures will be cooler out the door we go. Overlooking the bay bridge. You have a lot of clouds out there now and looks like its going to hang around for the weekend, too. In fact, we may see some drizzle near the coastline. Temperatures this afternoon will be down just a bit. Some 70s and low 80s well inland. 60s and 70s around the bay. Cloudy toward the coastline and 50s and 60s. A little cooler for tomorrow then slow warming as we head in toward sunday. Good morning to our viewers in the west. Its friday, may 30, 2014. Welcome back to cbs this morning. More real news ahead including Steve Ballmers 2 billion to end the l. A. Clippers nightmare. First todays eye opener at 8 00. I will not defend it, but i can take responsibility for it. And i do. President obamas promise to account the in the v. A. Health care scanndal and that may be taking place right about now. Steve ballmer has been vetted by the nba last year, so that may speed up the approval process of this deal. The former secretary of state strikes a defiant tone about investigations into the deaths of four americans in 2012. The what was that moment like . It was pretty exciting. Spell that hard word. What about you . I was not quite expecting it. It was a pretty scary situation way up here. Youre all welcome to come to chicago to try it out for yourselves. Any takers . No thanks. No thanks. The it will take three to four years before this is fully operational and we send u. S. Astronauts on a u. S. Booster rocket. Would you go . No. Take a look at this short video of actor Dick Van Dyke dancing in a department store. He still has moves. I know that you have a chip on 0 your shoulder, okay . Yale law is always number one and you are always number two. But listen, you are all nerds. Okay . All of you. With gayle king, Norah Odonnell is on assignment. Donald sterlings wife says she has signed an agreement this morning to sell the los angeles clippers. Former microsoft ceo Steve Ballmer will spend a record 2 billion for the team. If nba openers approve it could end the drama that started five weeks ago when we first heard the audio recording of Donald Sterling making the racist comments that got him banned for life from the nba. The billionaire does not want to sell but he may have no choice. The sale of the team on sales Donald Sterling is meantally incapacitated. Our legal analyst jack ford is here. Jack, good morning. Good morning. Just explain where we are at this time. It is confusing. Ive described this as similar to a law school final exam. There are more twists and turns in this. The first thing is Donald Sterling being declared incapacita incapacitated. Its not unusual this in a situation where you have joint ownership and joint Decision Making that theres some kind of provision that says if one of them is physically or mentally incapacitated the other can make decisions. We have that in termination. Gayle, ive decided to incapacitate you. Ive been thinking the same thing about you. She just told me that about you in the greenroom. Who decides that . Usually theres a process that has to be followed for this. Generally speaking its not enough if you and i are partners for me to say, you know what, charlie, i dont like your Decision Making or you dont agree with the deal i want to do so im going to have you demd to be mentally incapacitated. You could see this in the courtroom. And a judge having to decide it and it could take a long time, both sides could present expert m medical testimony. The judge might say i want an independent assessment of him. If again Donald Sterling is going to fight this, and we know hes fairly ly titigious, you cd have the whole nba thing possibly put on hold while they fight out whether or not, indeed, hes incapacitated and she can move forward with the sale without him. Now the nba has to approve the deal. Whats that process . Its a vetting process, usually takes months, probably wont take that here. You cant imagine theyre going to have a problem with Steve Ballmer. Hes already been vetted before. You but the question is going to be now if there is this other fight with about mental capacity, does the nba just sort of step back and stay on the sidelines while that gets resolved, or do they say we dont know how long this is going to take and what the resolution will be. Well go forward with our own proceeding and come june 3rd well start our own hearing. Its evident that Steve Ballmer wanted this more than the other billionaires did. Single peer over here. I was ready to put on my clippers gear. I was all ready. The interesting thing is is it worth 2 billion . It doesnt matter. Its worth whatever somebody wants to pay. Thats the bottom line for all of us. Within the last hour president obama met with secretary eric shinseki. The retired army general is under growing pressure to resign. This morning he apologized for mismana mismanagement at v. A. s hospitals and promised to change the leadership where up to 40 patients died, allegedly, while waiting for care. This situation can be fixed with v. A. , congress, and all of our stakeholders like many of you in this room, working together with the best interests of veterans at heart. President obama said before this mornings Oval Office Meeting that he and shinseki will have, quote, a serious conversation about the future of the v. A. Thousands in San Francisco are taking part in a daily ritual this morning riding their bike to work. Ridership is up, but that is lead iing to a huge jump in bik thefts. In the city by the bay where police are going high tech to catch the thieves. Reporter San Francisco is considered one of the most bike friendly cities in the country. But its also been one of the friendliest for thieves. How long would it take to cut a lock like this . Half a second, maybe less. Reporter Shawn Ramirez is a bike mechanic. Much of his work these days isnt just fixing parts but replacing them because of theft. How off do you see riders who have had their bikes stolen . Pretty much every day. Sometimes more than one a day. They should be afraid of getting hit by a car but theyre more afraid of having their bike stolen. Reporter bike theft in the city has increased 70 since 2006. Literally one every three hours was stolen. Reporter officer Matt Friedman has San Franciscos antibike theft unit and this year implemented a plan to lure thieves with pricey wheels and weak locks. They call them bait bikes. The gps is activated. I get a note ification that the bike has been tampered with. Reporter the bicycles are equipped with a hidden tracking system so officers can use this device to find the stolen bikes. You can hear the faint beeping now but what happens when you get closer . It gets a lot stronger. Reporter theres the stolen bike. Hidden cameras catch the thieves in action including the arrest. The Police Department then posts the mug shots on social media. When you roll up to someone who has taken one of these bikes, whats the reaction . Utter shock. Their face and their expression is priceless. Reporter morgan st. Clair helped lobby the city for funding to buy the bait bikes. She drew from personal experience. I come back after work and it was gone, the whole bike and the lock. Reporter she also created these stickers, 5,000 of them are now on bikes around San Francisco. The idea is that any bike in the city at any time could be a bait bike. 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Secretary shinseki has begun the process of firing many of the people responsible including Senior Leaders at the phoenix v. A. Hes canceled any possible performance bonuses this year for vha Senior Executives and ordered the v. A. To personally contact every veteran in phoenix waiting for appointments to get them the care that they need and that they deserve. This morning i think some of you also heard rick take a truly remarkable action in public remarks he took responsibility for the conduct of those facilities. And apologized to his fellow veterans, and to the American People. A few minutes ago secretary shinseki offered me his own resignation. With considerable regret i accepted. Rick shinseki has served his country with honor for nearly 50 years. He did two tours of combat in vietnam. Hes a veteran who left a part of himself on the battlefield. He rose to command the first cavalry division, served as army chief of staff, and has never been afraid to speak truth to power. As secretary of the v. A. , he presided over record investments in our veterans. Enrolling two million new veterans in health care, delivering disability pay to more Vietnam Veterans exposed to agent orange, making it easier for veterans with post Traumatic Stress, Mental Health issues, and traumatic brain injury to get treatment, improving care for our women veterans, at the same time he helped reduce veteran homelessness and helped more than 1 million veterans to serve as members and their families pursue their education under the post9 11 gi bill. So ricks commitment to our veterans is unquestioned. His service to our country is exemplary. I am grateful for his service, as are many veterans across the country. He has worked hard to investigate and identify the problems with access to care, but as he told me this morning, the v. A. Needs new leadership to address them. He does not want to be a distraction because his priority is to fix the problem and make sure our vets are getting the care that they need. That was ricks judgment on behalf of his fellow veterans. And i agree. We dont have time for distractions. We need to fix the problem. For now, the leader that will help move us forward is Sloane Gibson who will take on the reins as acting secretary. Sloane became deputy secretary at the v. A. Just three months ago but he, too, has devoted his life to serving our country and our veterans. His grandfather fought on the front lines of world war i. His father was a tail gunner in world war ii. Sloane graduated from west point, earned his airborne and ranger qualifications and served in the infantry and most recently he was president and ceo of the uso, which does a remarkable job supporting our men and women at war, their families, our wounded warriors, and families of the fallen. So all told sloane has 20 years of private sector and nonprofit experience that he brings to bear on our ongoing work to build a 21st century v. A. And im grateful that he is willing to take on this task. I met with sloane after i met with rick this morning and made it clear that reforms should not wait. They need to proceed immediately. Ive also asked rob neighbabors stay at the v. A. Temporarily to help sloane and the department through this transition and to complete his own review of the v. A. Chair. In the meantime were going to look diligently for a new permanent v. A. Secretary, and we hope to confirm that successor and fill that post as soon as possible. Were going to do right by our veterans across the board. As long as it takes. Im not going to stop working to make sure that they get the care, the benefit and the opportunities that theyve earned and they deserve. I said we wouldnt tolerate m misconduct, and we will not. I said that we have to do better, and we will. There are too many veterans receiving care right now who deserve all of our best efforts, and an honest assessment if something is not working. This week i visited some of our men and women in un orm at different stages of their service. Our newest Army Officers who graduated from west point, our troops currently serving in afghanistan, our veterans and our military families at arlington. What i saw is what ive seen in every Single Service member veteran and Military Spouse that ive had the privilege to meet. A selfless, cleareyed commitment to serving their country the best way that they know how. Theyre the best that our country has to offer. They do their duty. They expect us to do ours. So today i want every man and woman who served under our flag to know whether your tour has been over for decades, or is just about to end, we will never stop working to do right by you, and your families. Let me take a couple questions. Leo shane from military times. Mr. President , what changed, in your opinion of secretary shinseki in the last few days . You had said you had confidence in him, even him coming in today and saying it was, you know, time for him to resign. What made the difference in your mind . Ricks judgment. I think his belief that he would be a distraction from the task at hand. Which is to make sure that whats broken gets fixed so that his fellow veterans are getting the services they need. I want to reiterate, he is a very good man. I dont just mean hes an accomplished man. I dont just mean hes been an outstanding soldier. Hes a good person. Whos done exemplary work on our behalf. And under his leadership, we have seen more progress on more fronts at the v. A. And had bigger investment in the v. A. Than just about any other v. A. Secretary. Cut veterans homelessness by 24 . Brought in folks who had been exposed to agent orange who had been waiting for decades to get the services and benefits that they had earned. Making sure that post Traumatic Stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, was dealt with in a serious way. Making sure we had facilities for our women vets who all too often werent receiving the kind of Specialized Services that they needed. So hes been a champion of our veterans, and where theres problems, he has been ready and willing to get in there and fix them. So, with the disability backlog that had shot up as a consequence of the admission of the agent orange veterans as well as making it easier to apply for post Traumatic Stress disorder disability claims when it spiked he went at it in a systematic way and weve now cut it by 50 over the course of the last year or so. Hes not adverse to admitting where theres a problem and going after it. But, we occupy a not just a an environment that calls for management fixes, weve also got to deal with congress and you guys, and i think ricks judgment that he could not carry out the next stages of reform without being a distraction himself. And so, my assessment was unfortunately that he was right. I regret that he has to resign under these circumstances. But i also have conversation in sloane and i share Rick Shinsekis assessment that the number one priority is making sure that problems get fixed so that if theres a veteran out there that needs help that theyre getting a schedule and theyre able to come in and see a doctor and that if there are facilities that do not have enough doctorses or nurses or space, that that information immediately gets in the hands of decisionmakers all the way up to me and all the way to congress so we can get more resources in there to help folks. And that seems to be the biggest problem. I think thats the thing that offended secretary shinseki the most during the course of this process that he described to me the fact that when he was in theater, he might have to order an attack just based on a phone call from some 20somethingyearold corporal and hes got to trust that hes getting good information and its life or death. And i think hes deeply disappointed in the fact that bad news did not get to him. And that the structures werent in place for him to identify this problem quickly, and fix it. His priority now is to make sure that happens and he felt like leadership would be would serve our veterans best and i agree with him. Phil mattingly. Mr. President , based on the ought it, the early stage audit the secretary presented to you, is there a sense that there was criminal wrongdoing . And i guess more broadly how much responsibility do you personally bear as this being an issue you campaigned on and cared about deeply during your administration, now that were at this point . Well, i will leave it up to the Justice Department to make determinations in terms of whether theres been criminal wrongdoing. In terms of responsibility as ive said before this is my administration. I always take responsibility for whatever happens, and this is an area that i have a particular concern with. This predates my presidency when i was in the senate, i was on the Veterans Affairs committee. I heard firsthand veterans who were not getting the kinds of services and benefits that they had earned. And i pledged that if i had the privilege of serving as commander in chief and president , that we would fix it. The v. A. Is a Big Organization that has had problems for a very long time. In some cases management problems, in some cases funding problems. And so what weve tried to do is to systematically go after the problems that we were aware of, and fix them. And where we have seen our veterans not being properly served, where there were too many Homeless Veterans or a disability claims process that was taking too long, we would go at it, and chip away at it and fix it. When it came to funding. Weve increased funding for v. A. Services in an unprecedented fashion. Because we understood that its not enough just to give lip service to our veterans, but not being able to put our money where our mouth is. And so, what i can say confidently is that this has been a priority, its been a priority reflected in my budget, and that in terms of managing the v. A. , where we have seen a problem, where we have been aware of a problem, we have gone after it and fixed it, and have been able to make significant progress. But what is absolutely clear is this one, this issue of scheduling is one that the reporting systems inside of the vha did not surface to the level where rick was aware of it, or we were able to see it, this was not something that we were hearing when i was traveling around the country, the particular issue of schedule, and what were going to have to do part of the review is going to have to be how do we make sure that we get information about systems that arent working. I just was talking to rob nabors and he described to me for example, just in in very specific detail how in some of these facilities youve got Computer Systems for scheduling that date back to the 90s. Situations in which one scheduler might have to look at four or five different screens to figure out where theres a slot and where there might be a doctor available. Situations in which theyre manually passing requests for an appointment over to somebody else whos then inputting them. Right. So you have, in many cases, old systems, broken down systems. This is stuff that is imminently fixable, but weve got to know about it. And, the big concern that ive got, and what im going to be interested in finding out is, how is it in a number of these facilities if, in fact you have veterans waiting too long for an appointment that that information didnt surface sooner so we could go ahead and fix it. One last point i want to make on this. When veterans have gotten access to the system the health care itself that they are receiving, has gotten high marks from our Veterans Service organizations and the veterans themselves. So i think its important to keep in mind that what the review indicates so far at least is that there have been Great Strides made in the actual care provided to veterans. The challenge is getting veterans into the door particularly for their first appointment in some cases and where they dont have an established relationship with a doctor and theyre not in the system. Part of thats going to be technology. Part of that is management. But as Rick Shinseki said there is a need for future within the vha or perhaps the v. A. As a whole that makes sure that bad news gets surfaced quickly so that things can be fixed and i know that was the attitude of secretary shinseki and what he communicated to folks under him. But they didnt execute. And thats a problem. Christy parsons last question. You said it was the generals own judgment that made the decision for you here. If i remember correctly secretary sebelius offered her resignation after healthcare. Gov failed an you declined to take it. Yeah. I wonder if theres a little bit of scapegoating taking place here. Meaning . Meaning, i mean the dysfunction within the department seems to have been very sleep and very widespread. Yeah. So, you know, lopping off the head of it really the best step to take Going Forward here . Is there what im asking is, is there a political reason for removing him, other than going straight to the problem well, the distractions rick refers to in part are political. At this stage what i want is somebody at the v. A. Who is not spending time outside of solving problems for the veterans. I want somebody who is spending every minute of every day figuring out have we called every single veteran thats waiting. Have they gotten a schedule . Are we fixing the system . What kind of new technology do we need . Have we made a realistic assessment of how long the wait times are right now and how are we going to bring those wait times down in certain facilities where the wait times are too long. If we need more money, how much more money do we need to ask from congress, and how am i going to make sure congress delivers on that additional funding . Thats what i want somebody at the v. A. Focused on. Not, how are they getting secondguessed, and speculation about their futures and so forth and so on and that was what rick agreed to, as well. With respect to secretary sebelius at the time i thought it would be a distraction to replace somebody hhs at a time when we were trying to fix that system and i wanted to just stay focused because i knew that if we beared down on it and got folksed enrolled it would work. So in each instance, my primary decision is based on how can i deliver service to the American People and in this case how can i deliver for our veterans . And because they are people of integrity i think in both the cases of secretary sebelius, but certainly in the case here of Rick Shinseki theyve got the same priority. Their view is, what is it that is going to best deliver on behalf of folks who, as rick said this morning, have been let down . At the time you felt she had so much knowledge about what had gone wrong that you couldnt afford to lose that. Right. Does somebody with three months in leadership at the department have the capacity to to attack the problem quickly now . Well, were going to need a new v. A. Secretary. So, sloan is acting. Sloan i think would be the first to acknowledge that hes going to have a learning curve that hes got to deal with. But, the nature of the problem that has surfaced, and is has been the cause of this attention is one that we can start tackling right away, and without completely transforming the system we can immediately make some progress. Were going to have some longerterm issues that were going to have to take care of. So my first step is, everybody whos out there waiting, get them an appointment. If we need more doctors, lets figure out how we can search some doctors in there to make sure theyre getting the help that they need. What i wanted to make sure of, then, is that even if its still patchwork, how do we make sure that theres no slippage between somebody making a phone call, and then getting an appointment scheduled. And lets have a realistic time for how soon theyre going to get an appointment. Those are things that dont require rocket science. It requires execution. It requires discipline. It requires focus. Those are things that sloan has. There are then going to be some broader issues that were going to have to tackle. The Information Systems inside the vha. Those are probably going to have to be changed. That will cost some money. That will take some time and will have to be implemented. I think theyre going to have to be some changes in the culture within the vha because as i said, theyre providing very good service, medical treatment, to our veterans when they get in the system. But, they dont have, apparently, the stateoftheart operations that you would want to see, for example, in a Major Medical center or hospital. Now keep in mind those of us who are outside of the v. A. System, and try to get an appointment with the doctor in the private sector, and try to get an appointment for a schedule for a hospital visit. There are probably some wait times as well. Part of what we have to do is figure out what are realistic benchmarks for the system, and my suspicion is that with not only all the veterans from iraq and afghanistan coming back but also the aging of our vietnam vets, who may have more chronic illnesses, may need more visits, we may need to get more doctors. And we may need to get more flurss. And thats going to cost some money. Which means thats going to have to be reflected in a veteran Affairs Budget which i have consistently increased, even during fiscally tight times theres been no area where ive put more priority than making sure that were delivering the kind of budget thats necessary to make sure our veterans are being served, but it may still not be enough and were going to but before we start spending more money, our first job is lets take care of some basic Management Issues that i think can be fixed. All right. Thank you. Head line of the hour, president obama has accepted the resignation of eric shinseki. The secretary of Veterans Affairs and a veteran himself. At a 45minute long meeting this morning, the president said the two men agreed new leadership is needed to fix the problems at the v. A. Chief among them veterans kept waiting for months for treatment at v. A. Hospitals. There will be much more on this story and your local news on this cbs station, online at cbsnews. 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Reporter is that reflective of your own life . Its what interests me. Being human interests me. Writing something about the earth ending, you know, a meteor coming towards the earth. Couldnt the care less. Thats not going to get me to sit down and go through that painful stuff at the typewriter, but being human does. Reporter why should people in mek care about broadway . Because, see, its not quite like anything else. 0 to me theater has always been an act of faith. You take a chunk of your very hardearned money to buy a theater ticket, not the cheapers entertainment in the world, and the lights go down and then the curtain goes up and whatever we put on that stage, you go. And theres an elected trricity happens between that Live Audience and the live people on stage. It cant happen with a movie. That movie is exactly the same 75 years ago as it will be 300 years from now. Its a dead thing. It doesnt mean theres not art attached to it. It doesnt mean there isnt beauty attached to it. But nothing is like theater. Ive seen the beauty reporter i think asking you a few questions about drag is a good place to start, a big part of Casa Valentina, the play you were nominated for a tony for now. Its that jay edgar hoover. Something about that man has never sat right with me. Reporter all kinds of different cross dressing in the world, portrayed just every one of them. I used to think that i covered the world in drag until i started doing the research on Casa Valentina and i said, i know nothing. I understood nothing. A man would have to be certifiable to not want to be female part of the time. In 1962 i left it there because historically it makes it safer, its a little safer to look at something 50 years ago and say its not quite that way any longer. Reporter so you do feel like since the time you wrote the trilogy to the time you wrote Casa Valentina that our culture has not really changed much . I think we have grown. We certainly have grown. But have we grown enough . Would i want to go back to the 1950s . No. Where you could be arrested on the street just for walking a little strangely. No. Reporter you are a rarity in the theater in that because im still alive . Reporter because youre still alive, partly. I shouldnt be alive anymore. Reporter you have won four tonys in four separate categories. Harvey fierstein. Reporter best actor in a play for your own work, best play for that same play. Reporter best actor in a musical for hair spray. Best musical, a singular achievement. What do those achievements mean to you . You know, awards are wonderful. Awards are lovely he especiallye ones voted on by your peers and stuff like that. But awards are there to help us market what we do. Broadway theater is such a remarkable thing. It brings more money into new york than all of the sports teams put together. But theres sports on tv every night. They have a theater report on tv every night. Theres nothing in the world as exciting as live theater. Reporter as harvey said new york city banks on broadway. According to the Broadway League this season brought in nearly 12 billion boost to the local economy. Casa valentina is a little bit different in terms of no men in drag . It is. Its based on a real place that these married men used to go to in the 60s and live as women. I want to go see it. I love him. You can watch the 68th annual to tony awards next sun day, june 8, right here on cbs. And ahead the most unforgettable moments of the week. You are watching cbs this morning. Gridlock. Teacher layoffs. And a 60 billion dollar budget deficit. Thats what john perez faced when he became speaker of the california assembly. So he partnered with Governor Brown to pass three balanced budgets, on time. For the first time in thirty years. Today, the deficits are gone and weve invested an additional 2 billion dollars in education. Now john perez is running for controller, to keep fighting for balanced budgets. Take the nestea plunge. Nothing refreshes like nestea. Have a great weekend. You, too, charlie. Be sure to tune in to cbs evening news with scott pelley. As we leave you, we look at the week that was. President obama is outlining an American Foreign policy that is engage bud not overextended. I was trained as a spy. This is a man who has betrayed his country. He should man up and come back to the united states. Maya angelou died in her sleep. She grew up in profb earth and rose to great lengths. I am the hope and the dream and the flame. She said you will always have a mother figure in your life as long as im here. This community is grieving for the six students who were killed. Forgetter about gun rights. What about chriss rights . Nigeria government has come under harsh criticism. Pro russian gunmen pick up position in this wooded area. The pollution prompted antipollution gimmicks. Even you admit this is a gimmick. Sources claim that Donald Sterling is mentally incapacitated. 2 billion. There are only so many franchises. Battery management. Sometimes in the oval office i play with one of these. My daughters classroom. Say, hi, everybody. She was first woman ever to coach a Mens Division 1 golf team. How do you get the dirt na no one else can get . A lot of texts, a lot of emails, a lot of phone calls, and a lot of denials. When youre hungry, you dont go a restaurant. You open the refrigerator and make yourself a sandwich. Oh, no, no, no. When youre hungry you go to a res straujts. Can i tell you a secret . This is not the first time gone to a symphony band where they were smoking caps by. That was fitty cent. That firsts to was not great. Im still not going to do it. Firefighters pulled a man out of the chimney. A wife might be feeling the burn. He tried to break into her house and got stuck. No wonder he got stuck. Kabaragoya. I knew it. I knew it. Nya. Tle. I knew it. , your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. Good morning. Time for news headlines. We have breaking news from washington, d. C. President obama Just Announced he has sends the resignation of Veterans Affairs secretary eric shinseki. The announcement comes amid widespread troubles with veterans healthcare. Caught on camera, a student in a wheelchair getting hit several times at Oakland High School. The person hitting him was a Security Officer. That guard was arrested and now faces felony charges. Facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg and his wife are donating 120 million to help schools in some low income bay area communities. The donations will be spread out over five years and the money is expected to go toward new schools as well as equipment, training and programs at existing schools. All right. Its friday and time for our weekend weather. Heres lawrence. And the fog has returned juliette. Looks like its going to be hanging around especially at the beaches this afternoon. But it will breakaway toward the coast throughout the day. So very much like a summerlike pattern. We have cloudy skies over San Francisco now. Trough of low pressure along the west coast is going to hang around to start out the weekend. That means some Cool Temperatures and probably some drizzle out toward the beaches, as well. Highs this afternoon will be cooler but pleasant, 70s inland, 60s and 70s around the bay and you will see 50s and 60s Cool Conditions with clouds out toward the coastline. Looking toward the weekend, we start off with some low clouds and fog and some drizzle. Some sunshine into the afternoon. Temperatures warm up slightly on sunday. Were going to check out your kcbs traffic coming up next. Good morning. Liza battalones here with your kcbs traffic. Its taking a while for the bay bridge toll plaza to lighten up. Still backed up from the foot of the maze with those metering lights on. In San Francisco, normal service has resumed on the j church line. Theres an earlier Police Action which has blocked off some of the streets out there. 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