We start with what looked like the end for Donald Sterling. Has agree to let his wife sell the team. Now its up to her to work out the details with the nba and prospective buyers. Our brian todd has been digging into this story. Hes got the very, very latest. It looks like he has capitulated. It looks like he has blinked. That is the appearance right now, wolf. We have, from a source familiar with the situation, that there has been a deal between the two sterlings, an agreement for Shelly Sterling to negotiate the volen tae untary sale of the l. Clippers. This source tells us there have been discussions between Shelly Sterling and the nba. Again, this does appear to be maybe the beginning of the end of the sterlings ownership of the l. A. Clippers and maybe just some resolution, some final resolution to this case. Maybe taking it to a point where the nba and the sterlings might be satisfied with the end of the agreement. Maybe neither side necessarily wanted it to go further, however further it may go. Again, a source familiar with the situation tells us there has been a deal between donald and Shelly Sterling for Shelly Sterling to negotiate a sale of the l. A. Clippers. Shelly sterlings lawyer seems to be suggesting for days now they were going to fight and fight and fight and challenge this. Donald sterling himself in that interview, exclusive interview with anderson cooper, he seemed to be going back and forth, whether to fight or not fight. Let me play this clip for you. Sure. I got to maybe somehow make them believe im a good member who made a mistake. And im apologizing and im asking for forgiveness. Am i entitled to one mistake . After 35 years. I love my league. Am i entitled to one mistake . Its a terrible mistake and ill never do it again. Other parts of that interview, he seemed to be saying, okay, if they want me to leave, ill leave. If he does, if this goes ahead now, she gets full control of the team. Then the league would not presumably have to take a vote. 29 other owners would not have to vote. That vote would be coming up in june. Maybe the league didnt want it to get to that point. Maybe some of the League Owners did not want it to get to the point where maybe something will be decided in court where Donald Sterling might have some information or uncomfortable things to say about the other owners. It could have been an effort to maybe preempt some of that. Youre right, look, just a couple of weeks ago, Shelly Sterling said part of this is my team and im going to fight for it. Donald sterling indicated that himself not too long ago. He just hired a prominent antitrust attorney, max bleker, which would presume he was girding for a legal fight here. The owners are scheduled to be in new york june 3rd to vote on the termination of his ownership of the clippers. I want to bring in stephanie elam. Shes been covering the story from los angeles. Also our cnn legal analyst sunny hostin in new york. So legally what to you think, this would be a very Dramatic Development if he hands over the team to his wife shelly and she agreed to what the nba and adam silver, the commissioner of the nba, have been demanding, that they sell the team. Its pretty masterful, i think, because no one wanted to see it in court. I think we all can agree that this was going to be an epic legal battle if there was one to occur. But i will say this, ive said from the very beginning that Shelly Sterling has always been the wild card. Shes always been 50 owner of this team. And i think that it is very smart for Donald Sterling to transfer his ownership part over to Shelly Sterling. What still, though, doesnt make sense to me is this report that Shelly Sterling is so willing to sell the team because, again, web had every indication shes a fighter. Every indication shes in love with this team. Shes been Front Row Center even after the scandal broke. She was attending all of the games. She was calling the coach, she was calling doc rivers and asking to be a part of the festivities. I think its odd that all of a sudden she is just going to give up the team. What i see that seems to be more in line with what the sterlings have always done is for Shelly Sterling to remain an owner and to sort of be a passive owner. Maybe not involved in day to day operations but somehow still to have some sort of involvement with this team. And so i think this is a step, its a turn, but i dont believe at this point Shelly Sterling is just going to divest herself of this team. Well, stephanie, youve been covering this story. Maybe Shelly Sterling and her attorneys, they now recognize theyre going to lose if they go to court on this, that they dont have necessarily a good case. On the other hand, they are getting ready to walk away with a ton of money. All of the sterlings, if they sell that team, for 1 billion, and some suggesting it could be even more than 1 billion. They bought the team in 1981 for, what, 11 million or 12 million. 12 million, yeah. Maybe thats the incentive. You may lose. Take the money and run. Heres the thing, her quality of life as a coowner has changed. She used to sit court side. In the last few games, she was sitting up in the box. Not coming down to the court because im sure she knows theres a lot of people who dont want to see any sterling there at the helm. At the same time, i do believe the sterlings have enjoyed making money. That is what theyve been about. They have done this together through the 50some years theyve been married. Mainly through real estate. When you look at what this franchise is worth and what theyll be able to get out of it, you heard adam silver say this earlier. We owe it to the sterlings to get the best value that we can. Theyre going to get a lot of money. Its not like theyre going to like 1983, right after they purchased it. The numbers theyre going to get are much different here. I do, you know, when we looked at that interview before, she said, Shelly Sterling said she wanted to get the value she wanted to stay on as an owner because she had helped build up the team and she wanted to be a passive owner is what her lawyer told me. Youre still looking at the sale going through because they do know the pressure is just so huge. We dont know what the nba completely uncovered in their investigation. For then, theyre saying they know both sterlings have to go and they know pressures there and that may be changings situation. Youve been covering this in the formal legal document the nba released to us. The termination charges against the sterlings. One line says, if the nba board of governor sustains the charge, the ownership interest will be terminated. It later goes on to say, termination of the Los Angeles Clippers entire membership, including mrs. Sterlings interest in the team, is calleded for by the constitution of related agreements and is the only viable means for bringing mr. Sterlings interest in the clippers to an end. The nba is making it clear they are no longer differentiating between mr. And mrs. Steriling. Which is new from that document. At the beginning of this, if you remember, mr. Silver, adam si silv silver, the nba commissioner, left a little wiggle room. Now theyre unequivocal. They want both out. This seems to be what sunny, very quickly, if they both capitulate right now, accept the terms, make as much money as you possibly can, and walk away, theres no legal battle. They just sign the documents, sell the team, whoever wants to buy it for the highest bid. You would be surprised if that happened. Is that what youre saying . I really would be. These are very litigious people. I think it would be very odd. That being said, i still think its a masterful move. The nba commissioner says this is all about Donald Sterling. If you transfer the ownership, i would say that i dont know they have the basis for forcing the sale. Thats why, even legally, this is a massive move. They have a history of lawsuits. A lot of that was done when they were in their 40s and 50s. Hes now in his 80s. Apparently hes got some serious illnesses hes dealing with at the same time. When youre 80, you see things differently. Ive always thought if there was a way to take the billion and leave quietly and get out of here, they would take the money and run. Well see if this is the final chapter. Thanks very, very much. Good reporting. Well have much more on the sale of the clippers later this afternoon. Ahead this hour, another near collision between two passenger planes. Ill ask our Aviation Panel how often this happens and how can it be prevented. 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In connection with this political blogger who was arrested last week accused of taking this photograph of Thad Cochrans wife who is bedridden. We know Mcdaniel Campaign says they had nothing to do with this. We know kelly has been a supporter of the Mcdaniel Campaign. The Campaign Says hes not a volunteer, hes not a staffer. We know one of the additional three men arrested yesterday, one of them is a local lawyer. Hes a local tea party leader. Mcdonneaniels campaign have go a lot support from the tea party. I can tell you mcdaniels Campaign Says theyre not involved. Heres the statement. As we have said since day one, the violation of privacy of mrs. Cochran is out of browns for politics. Any individuals involved in this crime should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I should tell you we just got a statement from the Cochran Campaign and they say this Mcdaniel Campaign has been changing its story virtually every day, sometimes several times a day, and these latest arrests raise even more questions that the Mcdaniel Campaign has to answer. Its not looking pretty. Is theed th thad cochran cam suggesting it could go higher up . Certainly suggesting the Mcdaniel Campaign must have some sort of involvement. There was a lot of discussion when the first man was arrested. About when the Mcdaniel Campaign apologized to the Cochran Campaign, did they apologize before the Police Report came out . Is there have been a lot of accusations back and forth. Clearly a lot of distrust in this very, very ugly and tight race. Thad cochran, hes been the republican senator from mississippi for years. Hes widely consider to be a real conservative. How close is this race in the polling that youve seen . We dont have any polling since the scandal broke over the last couple of days but we know the folks down there have been bracing for a pretty tight race. This was a race that the tea party hoped to make a real impact in. They were hoping if they could get rid of of this incumbent, a six term senator, if they could get rid of him, they could make a big impact. Well have to see what happens. Well be watching closely to see. What an ugly turn of events sneaking into that nursing home like that. All right, thanks very much for that. Allegedly. Sneaking into that nursing home i should say. Athena, thanks very much. Up next, another close call in the skies. Ill ask our aviation experts about the latest near collision involving two passing en jer planes. Later, the democratic congressman cumming, talked about race, politics, a lot more. Explains why hes joining the committee to investigate what happened in benghazi. Ive your money . Uhhh. No, that cant happen. 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Peter, let me ask you, how does this kind of stuff happen, because were hearing more and more about these close calls. The numbers on this would belie that. There were 132 million Flight Operations last year. 41 incidents that made it into the record books as a close call. Thats 41 too many. That is 41 too many. The system worked, but in this case, the pilot, the controller told the plane to turn in the wrong direction. So it was a human error by the air Traffic Controller. It was a human error. Thats what it appears to be. They will retrain the controller. Theyll look at the process. Theyll move on. The key is we have the safest system. It works almost this way because its nonpunitive. People who make a mistake, they dont get fired right away. A lot of people are going to be flying, especially this weekend. They hear these kinds of reports. Close calls. Midair close calls. They get nervous. How nervous should the folks out there the be . Well, remember, as peter was saying, it is a safe system. Also the reason its safe is not just because of the fact the they get retrained and put back into the system and because of the fact its nonpunitive. In addition to that, theres Collision Avoidance systems on board the aircraft as well. When aircraft are heading into collisions with themselves, they get something thats independent from the air Traffic Control system that says you might be in danger of intersecting the path of another aircraft. It is a safe system. It doesnt still underscores the fact this system is overloaded right now and something needs to be done for the overcrowding of these air wave, and next jen is the abc to that and we need to keep pushing that through. Whats next jen . Jnext jen is the next generation. Modernization of the airspace system. Its critical because the system we have now was designed in the 40s. Were still doing it the same way. It needs to be modernized so we can put more aircraft in the sky safely. Let me shift gears quickly, pete, get your thoughts on the Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Weve been waiting for inmarsat to release all the ping data, if you will, all those handshakes, as some people call them. We thought they would be released earlier this week. Whats the delay . I think theyre deathly afraid that just putting out the raw data is going to generate thousands of more conspiracy theories, thousands of, you know, internet monitors who say theyve got it wrong. Ive rechecked with my sources. They say they have reached out. Theyve gotten the best people worldwide. The best satellite people. Theyve done the work. This is the right location. I think theyre going to issue a report sometime soon thats going to give a lot of the Background Data and a lot of the justification. But not all of the information. Theyre just going to release a summary. I think its going to be a summary. All of the information is going to cloud the issue. But you know david the families wont be happy with another summary. They want access to the initial all that data out there. And they will get it. I talked with mclaughlin who is the