Made. Racist remarks allegedly caught on tape. By Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. People call you and tell you that i have black people on my instagram, and it bothers you . Yeah, it bothers me a lot. Those comments are not surprising. This is nothing new. This has been a pattern. This is someone whose racism has been abided by the nba for decades. In 2009 sterling settled a housing discrimination suit. The largest settlement to the justice department. At issue allegations he discriminated against hispanic and africanamerican renters. Whos going to want to play for this guy . What player exactly would want to play for this owner . During yesterdays playoff game clippers players staged a silent protest, dumping their warmup uniforms on center court. Now everyone from hall of famers to the president is weighing in on this. The power, if you wills in the hands of adam silver. The nba has announced a News Conference tomorrow on its investigation. Donald sterling has become bad
He hits the road today to promote his agenda. Nbcs tracie potts is live in washington. Tracie, the president seemed pretty fed up with congress and says he is willing to go it alone. Reporter and were going to see some of that today, betty, as he heads to maryland to talk about the minimum wage, pennsylvania to talk about this new retirement bond he pitched last night. A lot of this agenda its a smaller agenda a lot of it, the president says, he can get started on his own. America does not stand still and neither will i. Reporter president obama says hell act alone to boost the economy, ease regulations to bring jobs back from overseas, build more manufacturing hubs, create Retirement Savings for workers whose employers dont offer them, and raise the minimum wage to 10. 10 an hour for new federal contractors. He urged Business Owners and congress to do the same. So, join the rest of the country. Say yes. Give america a raise. Reporter but he Needs Congress to simplify the tax code, fix
Made. Racist remarks allegedly caught on tape. By Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. People call you and tell you that i have black people on my instagram, and it bothers you . Yeah, it bothers me a lot. Those comments are not surprising. This is nothing new. This has been a pattern. This is someone whose racism has been abided by the nba for decades. In 2009 sterling settled a housing discrimination suit. The largest settlement to the justice department. At issue allegations he discriminated against hispanic and africanamerican renters. Whos going to want to play for this guy . What player exactly would want to play for this owner . During yesterdays playoff game clippers players staged a silent protest, dumping their warmup uniforms on center court. Now everyone from hall of famers to the president is weighing in on this. The power, if you wills in the hands of adam silver. The nba has announced a News Conference tomorrow on its investigation. Donald sterling has become bad
Nightly news begins now. Good evening, a winter storm has made a mess of the south, and has become a genuine natural disaster, with children separated from their parents, people sleeping in stores and highways jammed with cars. The worst of it was in atlanta. And a writer for usa today has gone ahead and put the question out there. Is atlanta simply meant to quit functioning every time it gets a few inches of snow . 10,000 kids were trapped at their schools overnight, 16hour commutes were not uncommon. Tonight, there is public disagreement between Public Officials and meteorologists based on what they know and when they knew it about this storm. And tonight, the south is getting paralyzed and that includes its largest city, atlanta. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez starts us off from there. Good evening, gabe. Reporter good evening, brian. Across this road, there are stretches of cars abandoned. The past 24 hours here have been chaos, and many are asking why state and local officials didnt see this
Weve got all that coming up, but lets begin with a big interview. Its with one of the handful of men who are really determining the future of all media. These moguls, they refer to each other an a first name basis 37 brian or Brian Roberts of come cast, jeff for jeff bewkes, bob for bob iger of disney. Rupert for Rupert Murdoch of stock and les for les moonves. Moonves is a legendary media mogul credited with friends and er and taking over cbs and making it what it is today, the countrys most popular tv network. What does the future hold for cbs and for showtime . This week moonves launched a streaming news service and talked about making shows for sites like netflix while still trying to grow his core business. He is perhaps the most fascinating man in the broadcast business right now, and every move he makes affects how were all going to watch tv and read books and get news in the future. So take a look at this. This is a trip to the cbs board room where there were some big surprises