New report says while russia may claim its war machine isnt in motion the propaganda war machine definitely is. Good afternoon, im jake tapper. Welcome to the lead. The world lead. A very rough, scaled down way of looking at the task before the bluefin21. Imagine, if you would, if new york central park was under water and it was pitch black, and you had to search every bit of it, 2 1 2 miles long, a half mile wide, and all you had was a single mag light, that is the challenge before the searchers, as they use the u. S. Navys unmanned robotic mini sub to search for flight 370, which disappeared 41 days ago now, with 239 people on board. The bluefin21 is on its third mission, the map of the search area, miles under water, after technical issues forced the first two missions to end early. Last dive cut short when the oil that protects the bluefins electronics ran low. In fact, technical issues abound all across the board in this investigation, from the deep of the indian ocean to the brie
Flight 370s black boxes. Sounding more sure than ever, saying this plane will be found. Is it time to dive down for a look . Not so fast, the searchers have an unmanned sub at the ready to go down there. Why are they in no hurry to launch it . Welcome back to the lead. Im jack tapper. National lead, it aperiod a student turned whatever is troubling him into trouble for everyone. Were expecting officials to update us on the rampage inside a pittsburgh Area High School that was carried out not with a gun, as weve seen so often in the country, but with a knife. Rather, a pair of knives. At least 20 victims stabbed, some horribly, that they are clinging to life at this hour. Almost all of them fellow students. Two people remain in Critical Condition, others have been released. The suspect, a 16yearold sophomore is in police custody. Authorities and cnn not identifying him at this time because hes a juvenile. Whatever his motive might have been is a mystery now. In a moment, hear from a fel
Ballmer will be buying the clippers. Calling the nbas fine a and lifetime ban, efforts to force to give sterling to give up his team quote, draconian remedies, making it clear sterling is going to take this to the court the league makes the move to terminate the ownership over the racist comments he made. On tuesday they will confiscate his team under terms that are by constitution and bylaws, theyll do that illegally. And if they dont want a lawsuit challenging that conduct, they need to let us know before tuesday. Our senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin is outfront. Youre part of that interview. You asked a lot of questions. Now there are these reports that there could already be a deal here, that you could have the former ceo of microsoft buying the clippers. What is going to happen here . Are they going to fight back . I think there is going to be a deal. I think the most interesting thing the lawyer said he is not suing now because he wanted to give Shelly Sterling the chance to n
Gerry McNamara has signed a deal to take over as coach at Siena, deciding to leave Syracuse after two decades as a standout player, assistant and eventually ascending to associate head coach for the Orange. McNamara's signing was announced by Siena on Friday and makes him a collegiate head coach for the first time. McNamara has been on the Syracuse staff since 2009 — first as a graduate assistant, then more than a decade as an assistant under Jim Boeheim and last season he became associate head coach for the Orange when Adrian Autry took over as head coach.