brand new commissioner reacts to racist comments attributed to the owner of the los angeles clippers. the league has a news conference set for tomorrow. meanwhile, many others inside and outside the league weighed in today. the latest from los angeles. reporter: born donald tokowitz, he changed his name when he became a real estate developer using that wealth to buy the clippers. today, the franchise is worth $700 million. as the team heads into a playoff against golden state but in the court of public opinion is fouling out. after he asked his girlfriend not to bring african-american to nba games. you can sleep with them, you can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. little i ask you is not to promote it on and not to bring them to my games. his girlfriend who is black
were warned by the individual, the suspect prior to the shooting not to go to school. we have not corroborated that yet. we do not have a definitive answer. we will be looking into that. the 11-year-old boy hit in the face remains in critical condition. as for the 13-year-old girl, kendall sanders seen in a couple of facebook photos is recovering after being hit in her shoulder. here she is. he are learning more about those hurt, we are hearing about those who helped. let s go to stephanie live in roswell. there is a news conference set for next hour and we will take that, but tell me about the hero teacher and as far as a motive. that s the question that everyone wants answered at this point. why would a 12-year-old take it upon himself to bring a gun to school and shoot into a group of his classmates? that we still do not know. police are taking a look at
as i said, i m sure they love that. to bow live kra, thousands gathering around an ecofriendly christmas tree. the tree stands 45 feet high. made up of 50,000 plastic bottles. pretty cool. people have to pedal on a bike to produce enough energy to actually light up the tree. oh. really cool. all right. that will do it for around the world today. we ll go off and make a list. yes, thanks for watching. cnn newsroom starts right now. have a great weekend. right now, president obama is getting ready to face some tough questions after a tough year. we ll preview the president s news conference set to he boo gin in one hour and have brand new job approval numbers out this hour. how is the president doing? right now, wall street investors are reacting in a big way to new economic numbers that show the economy growing at a much faster pace than initially thought. the surprising figure and what it means for your finances just ahead.
and right now, snow, ice and driving rain. a nightmare scenario during one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. what you need to know before what you need to know before heading home for the holidays. captions by vitac www.vitac.com hello, i m wolf blitzer in washington. president obama goes before the many cap raz and the reporters about an hour from now as he winds down a rather meanwhile, new poll numbers are out right now on his job approval rating. his end of the year news conference set for 2:00 p.m. eastern. we ll have live coverage here on cnn. president facing tough questions on a long list of issues. we ll preview what to expect. first, let s get to the brand-new poll numbers. chief washington correspondent jake tapper the anchor of cnn s the lead is here. the numbers no not exactly booming for the president right now. not how you want to end the year. about a month ago the president
two to four or three to five is no more fun. meteorologist chad myers, thank you so much. now some breaking and frankly shocking news out of los angeles. it is the country s largest jail system but the feds say the inmates were not the only criminals there. several former and current deputies with the los angeles sheriff s department were just arrested as part of a major sting that targeted everything from corruption to inmate abuse. among the allegations, deputies and high-ranking officials in the jail went out of their way to try and hide an fbi informant. the informant was apparently providing agents with the names of corrupt deputies and the informant used a cell phone to take pictures of inmate abuse. the fbi will shed more light on what they uncover during a news conference set to take place within this hour. frankly, any minute. joining us from los angeles, near with the briefing will take place, cnn correspondent stephanie elam. this was a two-year investigation. how did it