Ballmer, former ceo of microsoft the price tag, 2 billion, handedly beating out bidders by at least 400 million. But the deal is no slam dunk. Ballmer has signed an agreement with Shelly Sterling. But the next play belongs to Donald Sterling. There is no sale, and he is not yet agree to sign off, period. Reporter his lawyer telling wolf blitzer before news of the agreement that while donald gave her permission to negotiate selling the team, he did not give her permission to actually sell the team. Not without reaching an accommodation with the nba which gives him some form of vindication. The money is not critical to him. Reporter the nba is pushing for a quick sale, trying to ward off a contentious meeting scheduled for this tuesday where owners will officially vote to force sterling out. The reaction overnight was quick, with Magic Johnson tweeting, quote, clipper fans, youll love Steve Ballmer as your owner. But either way, Donald Sterling will not leave empty handed. He originally
back at edward snowden who claims in an nbc interview he reported his concerns about illegal surveillance to directly to the agency before leaking a treasure trove of classified documents. nsa officials released an e-mail exchange with snowden which they claim shows he did not address wrongdoing at the agency, asking only about legal training programs. snowden calls this release incomplete. so, two champion word smiths are celebrating this morning. the scripps national spelling bee ended in a tie thursday for the first time in 52 years. these two young men beat the egg dictionary. 13-year-old ansun sujoe spelled fueilleton correctly and 14-year-old sriram hathwar nailed the word stichomythia. in fact, as i said, the boys spelled so many words right, the judges just ran out. i didn t know there could be a tie in a spelling bee. they go to every language in the world. they have to find more words somewhere. the two winners will tell us
whatever. however you say it, just spell it. f-e-u-i-l-l-e-t-o-n. correct. in the end, ansun and sriram both undefeated, named co-champions of this scripps national spelling bee. the first time there s been a tie since 1962. that s the neatest story. wow, i m so happy for them. i said before you know how kids everybody wins. these both actually did. they deserve it. by the way, they both said all of the money they have is going toward college. that s the right decision, boys. they both got nearly $33,000 in cash prizes and of course, each got their own little trophy. i suspect they will go to fine institutions for college. i think you might be right there. smart kids. coming up a special tribute to our favorite short-timer diana perez.
for the first time in more than 50 years we have not one, but two national spelling bee champs. 13-year-old ansun sujoe and 14-year-old sriram hathwar were both crowned winners. i m going to speak to them both, but first, here is how they took home the trophy. correct. a surprisingly emotional and at times hilarious competition at last night s scripps national spelling bee. tabatha discovered that while her milk shake brought all the boys to the yard oh, boy, oh, i m sorry i was reading the wrong sentence. reporter: 15-year-old jacob williamson was a crowd favorite for his unrestrained confidence. i know it, i know it! i totally know it. reporter: unfortunately, being too confident is what did him in the end. c-a-b-a-r-a-g-o-y-a.
cochampions. okay. whatever. however you say it, just spell it. f-e-u-i-l-l-e-t-o-n. correct. and the cochampions of the scripps national spelling bee, ansun sujoe and sriram hathwar are outfront tonight. so you guys are sitting there together. and i know when you went, in you weren t even sure if you would win, right? but you were both hoping. now here you are. ansun and sriram. how does that feel? is there a part of you that goes i like that guy sitting next know, but it would have been nice if it was just me? well, not really. i may have liked to, but it wasn t but i didn t really want to just win by myself. i really wanted someone to share the victory with me.