Years. It is reusable and it will have legs allow you to land anywhere on earth. Nintendo is hoping a partnership can help it with slumping sales. They launched their mario kart and players will be able to drive a mercedes for the first time. The mario character appears in a mercedes commercial in japan as nintendo tries to make more money. To our lead story of the day. Steve ballmer is going to have something new to get excited about in retirement. The former microsoft ceo known for his emotional speeches, jumping up and down, has reached a deal to buy the l. A. Clippers for 2 billion and that shatters the record for an nba team. The previous high was 550 million paid for the bucs. Ballmer said i love basketball and will ensure that they win big. Ballmer signed the agreement when the Sterling Trust moved to sell after Donald Sterling was banned for life for making racist remarks. The big question has ballmer overpaid . Jon erlichman is in l. A. And former president of the golden state
Its muscle over asian neighbors, destabilizing the entire region. We think they should address the problem. The community at odds with one of its longtime employers. Why it says the coal company is refusing to clean up its contamination. Good morning. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. I am John Henry Smith. The white house is trying to figure out how to get the Veterans Affairs department back on track. Friday, the president nominated an interim secretary after Eric Shinseki resigned. The deputy secretary sloan gibson will take over until president obama nominates a new chief. Shi shinseki was under pressure after a new report showed the va was covering up long wait times. A report of how the scandal unfolded. A few minutes ago, secretary shinseki offered me his resignation. With considerable regret, i accepted. Until friday morning, Eric Shinseki was head of the va. Several weeks ago, reports said phoenix va hospital was lie to go headquarters about how long patients had to wait to see a
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Well talk to some of the young whiz kids how they tackle the words that have us on spell check, today saturday, may 31, 2014. From nbc news this is today. With lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill along with mike bet is in for dylan. Nice to have you with us. Were going to talk more spelling bee. I went on wednesday, saw some of the action before the finals and spent time with the kids and boy, did we get lucky. We hung out with one of the cochampions. And it also coincidentally. We got lucky. Spell coincidentally. I couldnt spell at all. I thought i was good until i went up against these kids. They are way smarter than adult i met. Look forward to that. Well have that. In the meantime. In the meantime we begin with the top stories. The future of the los angeles clippers. That huge lawsuit filed by owner Donald Sterling could it now get in the way of a record deal re
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