If you think building with dna is only for mother nature, think again. Scientists have big ideas. Good sunday and a happy mothers day to you. So much to get to. We start with the search for nearly 300 schoolgirls kidnapped in nigeria this week. Two Army Divisions were deployed to the northern border region in the hunt for the girls and the men who took them. International resources are on the ground to provide assistance. Stephanie gox is live for us today in cameroons capital city. First of all, what more do we know about the International Effort there . Reporter the Nigerian Government has said little about the operation. The United States is involved. The uk, france, china. Now we are hearing israel may get involved in assisting. Those efforts are really based on assisting the intelligence effort. The boots on the ground are coming from the nigerian military. The fact they announced they were moving two battalions is the first we have heard details specifically. They have flown some
Ana wind event. Breaking overnight at least nine fires now spreading rapidly erupting one right after the other already destroying dozens of homes. You can hear the roar of massive flames engulfing close to 10,000 acres in San Diego County. The governor declaring a state of emergency. Were doing evacuations. Reporter tens of thousands now fleeing. Their homes in jeopardy. Even lego land, a popular amusement park, is forced to close, along with the university campus, a Nuclear Power plant, and Camp Pendleton. One of the Largest Military bases partially evacuated. We have winds, low humidity down into the single digits. Reporter thousands of firefighters working around the clock. Stunted by 100 degree heat and wind gusts close to 50 miles per hour. The wind can change and all of a sudden it seems like were going to be safe and were not. We packed everything and were out of there. Reporter the winds producing terrifying fire whirls in some parts. The phenomenon caused by intersecting wind
Ballmer, former ceo of microsoft the price tag, 2 billion, handedly beating out bidders by at least 400 million. But the deal is no slam dunk. Ballmer has signed an agreement with Shelly Sterling. But the next play belongs to Donald Sterling. There is no sale, and he is not yet agree to sign off, period. Reporter his lawyer telling wolf blitzer before news of the agreement that while donald gave her permission to negotiate selling the team, he did not give her permission to actually sell the team. Not without reaching an accommodation with the nba which gives him some form of vindication. The money is not critical to him. Reporter the nba is pushing for a quick sale, trying to ward off a contentious meeting scheduled for this tuesday where owners will officially vote to force sterling out. The reaction overnight was quick, with Magic Johnson tweeting, quote, clipper fans, youll love Steve Ballmer as your owner. But either way, Donald Sterling will not leave empty handed. He originally
Lives. He said moments ago he was going to remove the Senior Leaders of the phoenix va medical center. Again, youre looking at live pictures. Youre looking at pictures from that event as he spoke moments ago. Cnns erin mcpike is at the conference of homeless vets and has been listening to those comments. Athena jones in washington and our own drew griffin whose reporting broke this story and ignited this national firestorm. I want to get to all these guys, first to erin mcpike. Erin, shinseki said what he was going to do, how he planned to fix the problem. Much of it seemed to go over well, some of it didnt. Whats your assessment from being there . Reporter don, he got long ovations, both at the beginning and the end. Much of the speech was about addressing the strides that they have made to address homelessness with these veterans. Also some of the strides they made in health care in reducing those costs. That was the bulk of the speech and he ended by saying if we could fix those thi
In the path of the other plane. Moments later the controller seems to realize the mistake. 601, stop the turn right there, sir the. Stop your turn. Stop your climb and stop your turn. Reporter the two planes came within nearly a mile of each other. The roughly 300 passengers on both flights may not have been aware of the close call, but the pilots were left with questions as to what went wrong. 601, you know what happened there . Basely over the top of each other. Thats what it looked like from my perspective. I have no idea what was going on up there in the tower. Reporter this was the third incident with where where passenger planes got too close for comfort. A similar incident over Newark Airport and another over the Pacific Ocean near hawaii all involving passenger planes. All right, well, again the faa is investigating. For some perspective, the big picture here how often this happens in the skies, we know from faa numbers from 2012 that about 4,400 close or too close for comfort