President obama his resignation. Very bad girlfriend, girlfriend from hell. I recommend to my wealthy friends they only date trump brand girlfriends. First up, major developing news in less than an hour, the nba will finally make an announcement about l. A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling of the pressure has been building to take action against the billionaire owner on racially charged recordings on two websites. Its unclear whether the new commissioner will punish sterling and if he does how far he will go. When you ask other owners about whether sterling needs to be punished, well, opinions are mixed from Dallas Mavericks owner mark cuban, its a very, very slippery slope if we start pup punishing owners and whatever it takes, we have to make sure this kind of event never happens again. Here is Magic Johnson yesterday, remember his Instagram Photo with sterlings then girlfriend sparked reaction. Unfortunately hes a man in a powerful position and a man who should be embracing minorities not discriminating against them. And it has no room in our society for it or in sports. Opinions are not mixed amongst the clippers corporate sponsors. This time yesterday three had bailed on sterling and now its a dozen. Adidas joined the list in the last two hours. Are you concerning this is hurting the nbas image . I think it has the potential to hurt the nba image. I hope they act quickly and decisively in dealing with this. We saw a show of solidarity for the clippers players from another team, the miami heat dropped warmup shirts center court, inside out with the clippers back on the court tonight theres a growing buzz that clippers fan will wear black at tonights game as their own show of protest. Nbcs ron allen will be covering the announcement for us. Ron, i think we have you here now. What can the nba do . Reporter ronan, thats the big question. Its really unclear what the commissioner can do. The nba is a private organization and its constitution and bylaws are secret. While theres talk of punitive things, its unclear whether he can and whether the owners, other 29 owners will go along with what he decides as well and what pushback there may be. You heard the statement by mark cube ban. Im sure they dont want a precedent set unnecessarily where the commissioner of basketball can dismiss an owner. Theres talk of several possible things happening. For example, a suspension of some sort or a fine of some sort. We understand the limit might be draft picks which hurts the team and players and i think universal feelings around the country and certainly the nba community that the players should not be harmed by this. Its a delicate thing to some extent. How do you punish this person yet also send a message and also to some extent punish the team who did nothing wrong. These players are doing what they can to show their solidarity. This is a very emotional and difficult time because the nba playoffs are under way and of course the clippers are now one of the best teams in the league suddenly after being around for so long. Thats a problem as well. This is more complicated than pushing them out without consequences. Ron allen, thank you so much. Its important to remember that this is not the first time sterling has been accused of this kind of racist behavior. Several years ago former clippers manager baylor sued the team for wrongful termination in a suit that centered on age discrimination but included claims of Racial Discrimination as well. He went on to lose that suit but al vin pittman has talked about experiences of this mans racism during that process. He joins me now from los angeles. Thank you for joining. Hi, ronan. You spent hours deposing sterling, what was your reaction when you heard about these recordings . My reaction was that its nothing new. The nba has long been aware of who Donald Sterling was. They were educated during that litigation. Donald sterling made comments and elgin baylor reported them. They are echoed in these tapes. I feel that in part the recordings bring to light that el elgin was right and nba failed to act when they were presented with the accusations long ago by the rep putable elgin baylor who stepped out alone, on his own and found himself basically unsupported by all of those who today say yeah, we knew this. Weve long known that sterling was this kind of person. And so when i hear people asking, what should we do . What can the nba do . Its what can the nba and Players Association do collectively because the sponsors are saying we are arent going to play. We are arent going to play. The nba and Players Association should see this as an opportunity to act. I think they should take the air out of the ball. If they take the air out of the ball they are principles at the bigger and more important than pursuit of a national championship. You think he needs to be pushed out. He needs to be pushed out but the players who are the product of the nba can take a unified action to effect wait that. Lets talk more about your personal experiences with sterling. You told the Huffington Post you challenge him about his racist behavior. Can you tell us what his reaction was . Denial. Denial. And i believe that at one point in his deposition while carl douglas was deposing sterling, he became so outraged that he made a a movement to him, he had gum in his mouth and attempted to spit that on him. You feel that was a racist gesture . Well, when i view his conduct in a comprehensive context, yes. I believe that as elgin stated, he maintained and manifested a slavelike mentality when he says he wanted his team to be constructed of poor black boys from the south and coached by a white coach, when he said he was given these poor black boys an opportunity to make a lot of money. I think that all is echoed in his rantings in the tapes. Nba shocking statements. The nba cant say were shocked by it. Because the nba was actively involved in it. The nba regular lates every aspect of nba basketball. But when it comes to an important issue such as discrimination, something that as africanamericans weve been fighting for a very long time to eradicate, the nba is mute. We will say what the nba does. They are coming up in just an hour with this announcement, a lot of us waiting because these are shocking to the conscience statements. Thank you very much. Keep it here because well be covering that nba announcement expected at 2 00 p. M. Eastern time. Now to developing weather news. President obama just signed a disaster declaration for the state of arkansas. Residents of that state are among the 76 Million People across the midwest and southeast still affected bycy veer weather that includes tornadoes and large hail and flash floods. You can literally see the tornado here in this video sweeping across louisville, mississippi. Over 50 twisters touched down yesterday and a number of People Killed since sunday keeps rising, now stands at 28. The national gartd confirmed an airman was among those kilds in vilonia arkansas after a massive twister stayed on the ground for nearly 80 miles. John ver votty was a junior finance manager and on their swim team. D Dennison King lost everything. Thats the back porch. Its still there but double wide is gone. Just memories, treasures, children and grandchildren, trying to find some things that weve had all of our lives. The kings and everybody else who have lost so much stay in our thoughts. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is there in vilonia, gabe, tell us the danger isnt over. Meteorologists are warning the atmosphere is reloading to produce more storms and super cells throughout the afternoon. Where are they headed next . Reporter hi, there, ronan, here in arkansas, the rain has stayed away which is a good thing for the residents trying to clean up. Other parts of the country could see Severe Weather today into tomorrow and deep south extending to the carolinas and tomorrow even the midatlantic states. As you mentioned, the president just signed this federal disaster declaration which will open up federal funding to this area where in arkansas 15 people died, eight of them in vilonia alone. Debris is still everywhere and its going to take a long time to clear this up. This is aspen creek drive. This neighborhood was full of military families and you can see pretty much everywhere you look an American Flag on top of the rubble here. You managed to speak with the father of one of the victims, his son was 31 years old and in Arkansas Air National guard and with his family, his wife and two young daughters age 5 and 7 on sunday. His father describes what happened next as his son shielded his daughters. Grabbed his family up and got into the smallest hallway closest to the center of the house and laid down on top of them and covered them until the tornado hit and was gone. He gave his life for his daughters. Yes, he did, trying to protect them. Hes truly my hero. And im going to miss him greatly. Reporter daniel wassem was 31 years old. The National Weather service declared preliminary reports indicate that this tornado was an ef3 tornado, a tornado with winds of at least 136 miles per hour. The Damage Assessment is still ongoing. As you can see behind me, hundreds of people just in this neighborhood are busy cleaning up and theyll be doing it for quite a while. Thank you so much for that report. 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Income inequality is an issue that is exploding into the american zit geist on the decay of the American Economy topping amazon to the New York Times declaring the american middle class is no longer the worlds richest. When it comes to inequality in america, race is the elephant in the room. The media net worth of latinos dropped 58 between 2005 and 2011. 48 for Asian Americans and 45 for africanamericans. Joining me now is new york congressman, a member of that Congressional Black Caucus who spoke at todays press conference. Thank you so much for joining. Thanks for having me on. The average latino household has only of and 7, 6 and 7 cents respectively of every dollar of white wealth. Why do you think that is . Its very important for us to have an evidence based conversation about race and disparty as they exist in america as opposed to one anchored in ignorance of others like Donald Sterling. This report in exposing the great wealth disparity that exists. Africanamerican communities were hit hardest by the Great Recession and we have recovered the least in terms of benefitting from the things that have taken place over the last several hours. One of the reasons why the Africanamerican Community is to great is because a lot of our wealth to the extent it exists is wrapped up in homeownership. When the recession hit and housing bubble burst there were a lot of foreclosures. I represent neighborhoods in brooklyn amongst the most foreclosed upon in the state and country. That is disproportionately a problem and one of the reasons that explains the tremendous wealth disparity. What do you hope will come of todays event . Well, its important that we focus on responsible policies in the congress unlike what has been put forth by paul ryan as republican colleagues that would cut the top tax rate for wealthy and high income eners in america while at the same time devastating the social safety net and programs like Higher Education, spending which will be cut by 260 billion by the paul ryan budget while at the same time weve got issues like africanamericans and latinos in america not being able to achieve Higher Education completion at the same rates and we know that of course is a pathway toward the middle class. This is an american problem in terms of the declining middle class as has been recently documented and as you referenced earlier, ronan. But its disproportionately impacting communities of color and in particular africanamericans. Thats a bad thing for our economy as we become a more diverse country. We should be lifting everyone up and we cant leave certain communities behind. When you fault proposals like the paul ryan budget, i understand that your caucus is meeting with paul ryan tomorrow. I want to ask you about that. First lets have a reminder of his comments that got him into trouble with people who critiqued him with being potentially racist. Take a look. We have got this tailspin of culture in our inner cities in particular of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and val tour of work. Theres a real culture problem that has to be dealt with. Its important to note that paul ryan did say it is clear that i was inarticulate about the point i was trying to make. I was not implicating the culture of one community but society as a whole. But clearly theres it meeting happening which is viewed as partly response to that. First of all, what do you think of those comments . And second of all, what do you hope will come of your conversations with congressman ryan . Those definitely were comments that werent based on facts or evidence. Were really rooted in this narrative that has been designed to explain away differences that have existed in terms of the ability of africanamericans and latinos and people in the inner city to achieve similar levels of educational and economic achievement as others in america. I expect its going to be a respectful conversation tomorrow. But we have sharp differences. I said on the budget committee, paul ryan voted against it both in the committee and on the Florida House of representatives and continue to denounce it as an extreme budget. But i think its positive that were willing to come together and have a conversation about our differences and hopefully be able to find Common Ground in terms of dealing with the problem of wealth inequality and poverty in america. It must be said that congressman ryan has responded in a full some manner and its a good thing hes having the conversation with you. Thank you. 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