several years ago. and then ever since then he was named reserve deputy of the year in 2011. ever since then he s been going on he said 100 or so undercover operations. do you know why he was reserve deputy of the year? did he do anything in the field? any kind of exemplary service or something like that? he may have. we don t have any records of that. we do know that during that time and a year or two before that and at that time he d given the undercover unit five automobiles, donated those automobiles to the unit as well as surveillance equipment. so in terms of motivation here dylan, your sources on this point, are they telling you that this was about trying to get the sheriff s pal certified to do what he wanted? i mean what do they think was going on here? i mean that s been the allegation since they brought us his name originally. was that this was just someone who, you know the sheriff called him a long-time friend he d taken on fishing trips. someone the sheriff liked
michaela pereira. alisyn and michaela are off. they told me not to take it personally. we do have breaking news for you this morning. a major report claiming tulsa county sheriff s supervisors were ordered to falsify the training records of robert bates or else. he is the 73-year-old reserve deputy who accidentally shot an unarmed man, he says when he confused his gun for a taser. now, we ve been told the whole time he was trained. now that is not as clear. cnn has also just obtained copies of the bates training record. they still don t give a full picture at all of his qualifications or lack of qualification. those records now being called into question. this as the tulsa sheriff s office is planning to audit the reserve program that allowed bates on the streets with a gun. let s begin our coverage with cnn s ryan young with the breaking details. good morning, ryan. reporter: good morning, poppy. a new report calls into question whether robert bates should have
about his training record. i can now tell you that the tulsa world report is now saying that supervisors at the county sheriff s office were told to falsify the training records for bates. in fact the tulsa world reports that three of bates supervisors were reassigned after refusing to sign the training documents. now, the report does not say who asked the supervisors to allegedly falsify the records. now, people have seen this video. they heard bates say he s sorry after saying he was reaching for his taser and instead pulled a gun and shot this man who later died. but like i say records show in the last seven years bates has taken a variety of courses, everything from weapons training including glock, taser and rock river training. now, all these training records were suppose to show bates was ready to be on the streets with his gun and taser training. but now all that s coming under question. we ve tried to contact that sheriff s department to figure out exactly whether or not this
records they have to try to put all this together. but obviously it s going to need more examination after these new reports have come forward and this video has surfaced. all right, ryan. rock river and some of those other things are obviously the types of weapons he was supposedly trained on. more information to come on this story. ryan stay on it for us. appreciate it. in full disclosure we invited the tulsa sheriff s office to come on this morning. they declined. they did call the tulsa world report unsubstantiated and deceptive. earlier this morning we spoke to the reporters behind this reporting and they say they standby what they ve found. here s what they said to us. you would think the sheriff s office if in fact there has been no pressure applied, no falsification of records that they would be forthcoming with these documents. we certainly hope they are. we ve asked for them. they said they don t believe they re public records. there are hundreds of hours that may have
rockies. like two feet of snow. part of this is spring. cold on one side warm on the other. look at the rain we ve already had down across the south for the past couple of days and more rain coming. even a tornado warning yesterday for new orleans. no report of any damage but they did have hail there. here we go for later on today. the storms fire here. the snow s in the rockies. the rain s in the southeast. and it s still pretty nice in the northeast. not as nice tomorrow because we start to see some rain coming in but that s the precursor to warm air coming in to the northeast. temperatures will be pushing 80 in a lot of the big cities by saturday. still snowing tomorrow into friday all the way through friday night rockies. here comes the rain and warm front and warmer air. it s going to be a very nice week. d.c. on saturday all the way to 80. guys back to you. thank you very much chad. we ll stick with you on that see how it develops. now we have news of a new report claiming su