Family affair. The wife of disgraced clippers owner Donald Sterling, could she be the teams next owner now that the nba has banned her husband for life . We have new details of their complex relationship and her own legal wrangling. New search, navy ships set out to look for Malaysia Flight 370 thousands of miles from the current operation. The Company Claims to have found a plane in the ocean near bangladesh. Experts call it farfetched. Could it be the missing airliner . Im wolf bliter. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Following multiple breaking news stories right now. Fire and floods in california. Flames are burning out of control, near los angeles threatening homes, forcing residents to flee. In florida, deadly flooding, unlike anything most of the residents have seen in their lifetimes. Hundreds of people have been trapped by fastrising water, leading to very, very dramatic rescues. Cnn correspondents covering all angle of the breaking stories. Start with Paul Vercammen in Rancho Cucamonga in california. Whats the latest on that fire, paul . Reporter well, wolf, the fire has burned 800 acres. A short time ago, fire roared through the canyon. We saw ten acres burn up there, weve had 1600 homes evacuated. No homes burned down yet. The good news for these firefighters, there is what they call defensible space. You can see the asphalt the fire burning in the vast national forest, absolutely so much smoke kind of blotting out the sun and Everything Else at this time. A lot of resources responding to this fire and they are responding quickly. Weve got at least 550 firefighters on the ground. But youre not hearing helicopters and youre not hearing fixed wing aircraft. Thats because the winds crested at 80 miles per hour, just absolutely vicious winds. It too dangerous right now to fly and drop water via helicopter or retardant via fixed wing aircraft. What are they saying . Whats expected in the next hour or two . Reporter well, what theyre saying is, they actually think the winds will die down. That will help firefighters immensely. Another point to make, as they get more resources here, look way down the street there, wolf, you can see engines have literally been going right by us, able to get in structure protection and thats when these crews ring an area we saw a dozier cutting fire line and do that job that is so necessary which is cutting fire lines and using existing asphalt and other forms to dpeen these houses against the fire. So far, so good. We havent seen any homes burned. As you look at Forest Service truck, these are critical because they can go up the canyons without hooking up to a fire hydrant, they carry enough water to get after the fire. Most of it is burning in the wild land. We havent seen anything dramatic where a homes caught fire. Thats the good news so far. All right, paul, well stay in touch with you, fires out in california. Now to floods in florida. Meteorologist chad meyers in pensacola. Chad, what are you seeing there . Reporter seeing streets that have turned into rivers. But theres no street left. The asphalts gone. The base levels gone. The sand is gone. It looks like a river. Looks like the Canadian River in oklahoma city, all sand underneath, water running through streets and people saying, how did this happen . We didnt have to ask for Flood Insurance when we bought the house. Its never flooded here as long as i lived here, 20, 30 years but the water came up today. Heres what its like if the water cops rushing into your house at 2 00 in the morning. I talked and reporter through the back doors and flowing in out this door. So we just had water in the house, we had kids, we were getting a claire to get into the attic, we didnt know what was going to happen. Theres a pretty frightening evening. Reporter some people did have to get in the attic, wolf, it got that high in some of the houses. Flash flood. I would be waistdeep in water 12 hours ago but its gone, way down there now. But that doesnt help when the waters in your drywall, wood floor, electrical system, in your basement, for one thing. Not a lot of basements here in florida but some people were pumping out water from homes today. So the flash up and the flash down doesnt help when youre soaked, couch is soaked, tvs ruined and Everything Else gone. A lot of rebuilding. Some people telling me their home knocked down by a tornado than flooded because its a longer process to put this together than a tornadoknocked down house because at least you get money right away and you rebuild. This is a mess. Amazing video shot showing these floods, showing homes. Obviously a lot are going to be destroyed by all of the water yesterday, you were chasing tornadoes. Today, floods. Is this connected . Whats going on . Reporter we had a rash of good luck in alabama and mississippi, but the people of Florida Panhandle here, they took the brunt of it. Didnt get tornadoes here. But what the moisture that should have been in birmingham, tuscaloosa, tupelo to make tornadoes didnt get there, cut off at pensacola. And that water rained and it rained and rained. Talk to the mayor in a minute what it was like for 20 hours of nonstop rainfall. Some coop reports say 25 inches of rain in 24 hours. Some of that unofficial but if you have a big enough bucket, you can see how much rain came down. No place for two feet of water to go that comes down in one day. Thats more than half of the years rainfall total in less than 24 hours. Chad, well get back to you. I want to bring in meteorologist jennifer grey. Shes over at cnn Severe Weather center. This is a horrible situation. But is more rain actually on the way . Just isolated showers as we go through tomorrow and possibly friday. But as we get closer to the weekend, things should start to calm down. Were not going to see what weve seen over the past couple of days. Things are definitely improving, minute by minute. Now we have a few coastal showers here in the panhandle, and thats really it. Look what happened, though, over pensacola. These are rainfall estimates. You can see in the white over pensacola, over ten inches of rain. Thats a lot of rain for one place. What happened, just like chad said, we had all of this moisture basically stuck right over the Florida Panhandle. Nothing was pushing it out of the way. So the showers stayed over that one area. If you think of a train on the railroad tracks, one car after another over the same spot over and over, that moisture stayed right there, and produced incredible amounts of rain. Were looking at almost 19 inches of rain in milton, pensacola, picking up 18 inches. So this rain has definitely caused huge problems across the panhandle. As we go forward in time, we could see about four more inches of rain. But this is farther east than pensacola. If you look up to the east, the northeast, a lot of this rain is going to push into the northeast. New york city could see two to three inches of rain. Flood watches and warnings in the d. C. Metro area, weve seen two to five inches of rain today. The same situation, the showers going over the same area for several hours at a time and not letting up. Thats whats causing all of this rain. Jennifer grey, well get back to you. Ashton hayward mayor of pensacola, joining us live. Thanks very much for coming in. First of all, whats the latest on your Search Rescue efforts . Everyone in your town at least safe . Everyone in our town is safe, wolf. We have no confirmed deaths in the city of pensacola. One confirmed death in the county. Weve been doing rescue all night. Obviously starting late in the evening last night into the Early Morning hours. Weve been very fortunate, helping people out of cars and homes. When i think of pensacola, the panhandle i think of the threat of hurricanes, as im sure youre very familiar with, floods. How unusual is it to get flooding like this . Are folks prepared for these kinds of floods . I can tell you, wolf, its an anomaly, in all due respect. Coming back home from new york city, having hurricane ivan hit us in 2004, great flood in 2012, now last night we thought the concern was tornadoes. And then the storm just sat over pensacola and dumped over 22 inches in less than 24 hours. This was unexpected for our community. So what happens now . Do people have Flood Insurance . What do you need . What do the people in pensacola need . This is a major city. The governor called me at 4 20 central time, wolf, and left tampa to tallahassee, straight over here, brought the National Guard, his team of d. O. T. Folks and as you said, some of our citizens do have Flood Insurance and some dont. But everyones working together. The city, county, state of florida. Were coming together. As you said earlier, were very proactive when it comes to storms. So right now, all hands are on deck. So what do you think in the next two, three days . More bad weather or is it is the worst of it over . The Weather Forecast is clear to our understanding, wolf. Its going to take a lot of man hours and time to get our roads back. Weve had floods like youve never seen that look like a river, like your reporter talked about earlier. Pensacolas not used to that. Weve got teams on the ground from public works department, engineering department, and were going to make it happen because youve got people out of homes tonight. Probably close to 1,000 people that are going to be displaced tonight and in the weeks to come. Mayor Ashton Hayward of pensacola, good luck to you and all of the folks in the panhandle. Well stay in touch with you as well. Take a look at this. This is a live picture, coming into the situation room, from nearby baltimore, maryland. A street has apparently collapsed. These are images courtesy of affiliate wjz. Heavy rain all day in washington, baltimore area, emergency crews assessing the situation. Well keep following this story for you as well. Not pretty. Still ahead a helicopter tour reveals massive tornado devastation. Dozens of lives lost. Countless more turned upside down. Well go live to the disaster zone. A shocking appearance at a clippers game. Wife of the disgraced owner Donald Sterling just hours after the nba banned him for life, could she wind up being the teams next owner . If you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, like me, and youre talking to your rheumatologist about a biologic. This is humira. This is humira helping to relieve my pain. This is humira helping me lay the groundwork. This is humira helping to protect my joints from further damage. Doctors have been prescribing humira for ten years. 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Now learning more about her complicated relationship with her billionaire husband and her own legal wrangling. Our national correspondent, suzanne malveaux, here in the situation room with more. What are we learning about this rather complex situation . It gets more complicated, wolf, because shes been sparred from a lot of spared from the scrutiny but thats changing. Learning about her from Court Documents we obtained from several federal lawsuits filed against both her and her husband for alleged housing discrimination. These suits settled out of court but pulled back the curtain, exposed accusations against both of them for alleged racist remarks to black and latino tenants. Reporter immediately after her husband, Donald Sterling, rant hit the airwaves Shelly Sterling stood by her man, leaving an l. A. Steakhouse by his side, she defended him. Are you a racist, mr. Sterling . No, of course not. Reporter earlier that same day, she reported lid told tmz, our family is devastated by the racist comments made by my estranged husband. My children and i do not share the despicable views or prejudiceans Court Documents include accusations to the contrary. In 2007, the sterlings were sued for housing discrimination. Involving a los angeles apartment complex they owned. Tenant daryl road stated in the deposition, when he asked mr. Sterling if she would reduce his rent, she replied, who do you think you are you black mf. He also testified that she called hem a black mf several times during another exchange. The Court Documents reveal sterling unequivocally denied ever using a racial slur. The sterlings ended up settling the case for 2. 7 million. Since the racist audiotapes emerged, Shelly Sterling has gotten a pass. While her husband is now banned from showing his face at any nba event, shelly got l. A. Head coach doc rivers permission to attend tuesdays game where she sat out of view in a suite. Its a tough one for shelly, really. You know, she didnt do anything wrong either and you you have compassion for her. Reporter she even asked him for a favor. She just wanted the players to know that she told me to tell them that she loved them. Reporter rivers and the Players Association have made it clear, they want a clean break from both of them. Sports attorney David Cornwell says Shelly Sterling has no legal claim over the team. The decision to remove or terminate the franchise would apply to him and her as well even if she was, quote, a minority owner, at less than a majority interest in the team. This is done. Reporter as for Donald Sterlings girlfriend, v. Stiviano wearing a bizarre face mask. One day i will become president of the United States of america and i will change laws and modern day history civil rights movement. So everyone is in the spotlight for now, it will be interesting to see if or when Donald Sterling emerges and whether or not hes going to address those racist remarks, wolf. Amazing what the story gets more bizarre. Thanks very much, suzanne malveaux. More with the former nba star, Kareem Abdul Jabbar joining Us Los Angeles behind the film on the shoulders of giants about the allblack team, harlem ravens and the role in the civil rights movement. A powerful, powerful film. Joined by rachel nickels in new york. You worked for Donald Sterling, you said you were aware of his track record, you wrote a piece about it. You and others suggesting its taken way too long to punish this guy. So whats going on here . Well, i think the fact that mr. Sterling understood that his views might not be received very well, gave him the incentive to keep it under wraps and this recording, like pulled down the mask, so to speak. We have this situation that we have. How surprised were you when you heard those audiotapes . I wasnt very surprised because of the thing that you mentioned earlier where he was discriminating against people who wanted to rent some of his properties. And the only reason that they couldnt rent the properties, they were the wrong color or wrong ethnicity. Thats not what americas supposed to be about. His estranged wife shelly, do you know next about her . No. I met her a couple of times. She seems to be a very nice lady but i have no idea. But this whole idea about what weve gone through, something that i wrote about in the greatest team. Com, its right there for everybody to see. Some people dont put their views out there unless they feel that they can do it in confidence. Until you get behind closed doors with people, sometimes you dont find out where their hearts really are. This time we found out a lot about this guy. Rachel, is it possible that the wife, shelly, could wind up being the owner of the clippers . I think david is right, its unlikely she would end up owning the clippers. Is she going have a hand of running the team in the interim . Doc rivers talking about the fact he doesnt know who he reports to now. Shes still involved in the organization and its interesting to hear the comment from doc, shelly didnt do anything wrong, ive got to believe that doc just doesnt isnt aware of some of the information in those lawsuits that suzanne w