tonight s two minute drill, captive clipper, deandre jordan resigned with the clippers after midnight today. it came less than a week after the free agent made a verbal commitment with dallas. then a bizarre series of events led to his backlash. teams and athletes from other sports joining in the fund sending out these faces back and forth. the clippers literally sent reinforcements to jordan s home to keep them from contacting the mavs. this photo of their efforts to keep deandre from leaving the house. mavs owner mark cuban says he was unable to contact jordan at all on wednesday.
the u.s. state department is urging americans in south sudan to leave the country immediately because of the worsening security situation. evacuation flights are underway and they reduced the staff. as of saturday, there will be no consecular services available for u.s. citizens. in western germany, a bulldozer struck what authorities believe was a world war ii era bomb causing an explosion that killed the driver. at least 13 others were injured too critically. for those looking for hard numbers on the popularity of pope francis, visits to the vatican tripled last year. more than 6.6 million people flocked to events led to the new pope since march. no doubt he s new popular. that s bono. it really is. thank you for that. coming up, a toxic love triangle. a woman found out her husband got her best friend pregnant but
year, 6.6 million attended vatican events led by pope francis in 2013. that s three times as many as visited in 2012. don t take it personally, pope benedict. sure, pope francis is drawing in bigger crowds than you and was named times person of the year even though he wouldn t be pope if you had not decided to retire. you were the first to leave by helicopter. that s still pretty cool. coming up in our pop lead, the british are coming, the british tv shows are coming. what to expect when we return to downton abbey sunday. humans even when we cross our t s and dot our i s, we still run into problems. that s why liberty mutual insurance offers accident forgiveness with our auto policies. if you qualify, your rates won t go up due to your first accident. because making mistakes is only human, and so are we.
the couple used to communicate while he was in jail. dude, relax. rhode island set to become the 15th state to decriminalize marijuana. no big fines, no jailtime, nothing on your record. and other states are noticing. we ll talk with a state representative from rhode island about the growing nationwide movement. plus this. oh, you remember the kid who played darth vader in the volkswagen ad. this week, he goes in to have open heart surgery. 7-year-old max paige. this hour, we ll hear from his parents as we all say may the force be with him. newsroom begins right now. and good morning to you. i m carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. we begin this morning with one of the most respected men on wall street and his bank s jaw-dropping blunder. in 60 minutes, jamie dimon appears on capitol hill to say jp morgan chase s multibillion dollar loss is an isolated event. but those risky investments are reviving the debate over toothless banking regulations and taxp
and protesters have been led to believe through a series of statements on the record, off the record in kirow and also back in washington, that the mubarak era was coming to a prompt end that. has not happened and they are upset. so, you know, changing fromma an imminent victory if you will, to one where they have a lot of work to do. i think you will see a tremendous outpouring of sentiment as dawn breaks today. christian, we have about 30 seconds. why do you think there was so much misinformation yesterday about whether or not mubarak was going to resign? reporter: yeah. it was very interesting, of course, not only in egypt were there conflicting statement, but back in washington from our own intelligence community, with cia director panetta saying that he was about to go. history will tell what course of events led to that, what indications came that mubarak was leaving and what turned