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why some say it's a bad idea? we begin with safety on the roads, allegations of cover ups, and the car recalls numbering in the tens of millions. general motors, two new developments, and the other with the company responsible for producing detective airbags. paul beban has more. >> this report is disturbing and devastating for airbag manufacturer takata. former employees allege they were under pressure to speed up production even when they knew some with bad. one said what if my daughter bout the car with the bad air bag. the answer, "just ship it." >> reporter: takata is a big air bag maker. in a new report it was claimed the company knew about the detective air bags 10 years ago.

takata conducted secret tests according to the "new york times", and was preparing to fix design problems. executives ordered lab technicians to delete test data and did not alert safety regulators, takata makes 20% of the air bags. it can cause them to crack and explode, causing shrapnel flying into passengers and divers. four deaths have been linked to the problem. the problem prompted car-makers around the world to recall 14 million vehicles. at the same time general motors is struggling to deal with 2 million vehicles recalled due to gelentive ignition switches. it's fixed half of them. this week g.m. started to offer 25,000 gift cards, a bid to entice owners to take the cars in. the switch problem can cause cars to shut off, leaving drivers with virtually no

control. the defect has been connected to 30 deadly accidents. the deadline was originally december 1st, but was pushed back after customers complained they needed more time. g.m. is facing several investigations, including a federal criminal probe and lawsuits from hundreds of car owners over the switch defect. >> car-makers are required to send a quarterly notice to owners of recalled vehicles for 18 months. g.m. says cars can be repaired at any dealership, and gift card or no gift card, there's no time to waste the city known as the epicentre of the auto industry is about to find out if it can emerge from bankruptcy protection. a federal judge is expected to move on the restructuring plan tomorrow. bisi onile-ere has more. >> none of this is our fault. >> sop.

>> the future of detroit is in the hands of a judge of after two months of testimony in a large bankruptcy case, federal judge steven rhodes will determine if the restructuring plan is fair and feasible. one of three things could happen. rhodes could rule in favour, ask them to revise it or dismiss the case altogether. >> i will expect that he will express reservations but on the whole i expect that he will confirm the plan. with the crushing $18 million if debt, the emergency manager spent the past year cutting deals and shedding liabilities. and reached settlements with major credit holders, and financial reinsurance company. city-opened ard could be spared. for months, retirees resisted giving up anything.

but thousands of civilian retirees agreed to a 4.5% cut in the monthly pension, and 90% reduction in health care, losses that for some will not come easily. >> there are days i have to make up my mind whether i'm going eat or get some medicine. that's it. that's it. >> reporter: detroit's bankruptcy exit plan include clashing billions, and re-mogg blight and improving city services such as police, fire and transportation. with the declining population, more hurdles lie ahead. >> they can't fall back into the practices that got them into the situation to begin with. that's probably the key. >> if judge rhodes approves the plan, detroit could exit from bankruptcy.

the city would be free of an emergency manager. and for the first time since being elected, mayor mike duggan would have the power to lead detroit: a major set back in the push to legal same-sex marriage, a federal appeals judge upheld the appeal in michigan, ohio, kentucky, tennessee, and it could bring the issue to the supreme court. gabriel braur is the director of a nonprofit focussing on l.g.b.t. families, and is in atlanta. welcome. this has been a successful year for gay marriage in many states, was this decision a surprise? >> it was a sprays. it ignores talks with thousands

of people. the suggestion was it may not be the case. >> what does it mean practically. will it go to the supreme court. >> we hope so. we need the supreme court to settle it, that i, as a gay man and a father am equal to my straight brother. that is for all americans, equal rights at the center of democracy. >> 32 states legalized gay marriage. this is clearly slowing down progress on this issue. it slow it is down. i would argue this is not about momentum, it's a coordinated effort. to gain yal rights for a large portion of citizens, and marriage is a key and important issue. we'll fight until we win it. and we have other issues that we have to fight for. you say this is not the central

issue for gay rights. >> it's the central issue, we put a lot into winning it. with marriage, families are protected, with more than a thousand rights. we need to win this to protect the thousands of children droeing up with l.g.b.t. parents, and we need to fix this so that all l.g.b.t. have access to this vital institution. >> but not the only issue. >> it's not the only issue, we need to end discrimination in housing, employment, service. the truth is that in many states where you can get married, you get married on sunday and walk to work on monday and be fired. >> if the supreme court rules against you, where would that put the movement? >> well, it's hard to imagine that they have a right to be

denied. we witness it happening in our country's history more than once. we'll keep fighting and telling stories. a key piece to gaining equal rights is allowing americans to see as we are. i'm not an other to americans, i'm another citizen a raising my family, married to my husband, working harding trying to raise a responsible citizen. because of stories that we share, judges and americans across the country begin to see us as part of their families. >> good to have you on the programme. thank you very much for talking with us tonight. >> thank you so much president obama goes face to face tomorrow with leaders of both political parties. the white house meeting as republicans prepare to take control of congress, and they are making intentions crystal

clear. lisa stark reports. >> house speaker john boehner did not mince words, he warned president obama not to go it alone on immigration reform. >> i believe that the president continues to act on his own. he will poison the well. >> when you play with matches, you take the risk of burning yourself. >> john boehner says if the president takes executive action, there'll be no chance immigration reform will pass congress. president obama said he would prefer congress to acknowledge, but will not wait around for that to happen. john boehner and the other leader also promises new attacks on the affordable care act. writing in "the wall street journal," they pledged to: that's a non-starter at the white house, as the president made clear on wednesday.

>> on health care there are lines that i will draw. repeal of the law. i won't sign. >> reporter: the house voted 54 times to repeal obama care. aren't the republicans poisoning the well themselves by vowing to try again. john boehner said no. >> my job is - they get along with the president to get along with him. we have a nice relationship. the fact is my job is listening to my members and the american people and make their priorities our priorities. >> priorities that will focus on growing jobs and shrinking the government. despite the disagreements, the white house and the republicans are talking at least publicly about working together. >> there's an opportunity for us to find common ground, let's make sure differences do not get

in the way going into election day polls suggested that democrats would do better than they actually did. proving again that using polls to predict the win exercise losers can be difficult. sometimes accurate answers stem from the best questions, jonathan betz explains. >> if you want to know which candidate will win an election, the classic way is to ask people who they'll vote for. >> asking people who they want to win may not work so well at predicting races. pullsters learn to ask a single question who do you expect to win. if you ask who they'll vote for, they may change their mind. when you ask one person what they want, you get one perspective. when you ask who they expect to win, you have to consider everyone around them, church, school, the water cooler.

pollsters ask both questions, before the 2004 elections, when voters were asked who they wanted to win. when they were asked who they expected to win, most chose bush, and that turned out to be true. >> one study found in presidential relations, asking for expectations predicted the winner 78% of the time. the who you want question was correct 22% of the time. consider tuesday's election. in kansas, when people were asked who they would vote for, the race was a dead heat. when asked who expected to win, it was pat roberts, win he did. the same hoped in alaska. iowa, and south dakota. all in all, it's who people expect, not necessarily want to win that can predict the election. >> that's jonathan betz. jeannie is a professor of political science at n.y.u.

why were the polls so wrong? >> they have a black eye. we were here and when those results came in for virginia, warner was up in the polls nine points. they were within one percentage. that was repeated across the country where pollsters underestimated the g.o.p. turn out. >> people lie to pollsters. >> no, no one lies. it's not the lying as much as polls don't predict the behaviour well. when you talk about election polls, what you do is try to predict behaviour. it's not that people... >> people are better at that nowadays than 10-15 years ago. >> it ebbs and flows. we had changes. it's hard. people say yes, i'm going to vote, and something happens. it's hard to get a representative sample. people don't have land lines, many of my students only own

cell phones, never pick up a landline. it's hard to get an example. they wait to control that. >> has early voting happened as well. because you can't do exit polls. >> absolutely, this is interesting. so many people are voting through early voting and buy mail, that impacts - you can't exit poll and it's hard to predict early on. >> a snapshot. they are a snapshot in time. if they vote earlier than the election, then you don't necessarily have their representative when you talk about it closer to the election maybe that makes sense, i'm not sure. >> it makes sense. >> good. you know, this has been an issue since 2000. is it a fact that the - part of the fact that the country is so divided and close and separated, almost 50/50 down the middle? >> i think it's part of it, pollsters have a difficult time, you look in 2004, 2006, exit

polls were disastrous. 2012. you over predict. the republican turn out is the opposite, and mitt romney didn't come as close as predicted. there's a wide disenchantment making it hard to work out who is out there. >> don't we know more about voters. don't the high tech polling people have more information instead of less information about these people? >> we know a lot about them. what they are trying to do is predict behaviour. we though things about them. do they own a subaru, are they a soccer mum. that doesn't help us predict what they'll do in the future. that's where the difficulty of election polling lies, how do you predict voter tonne out. it's been a challenge. >> what do the parties learn? >> the main take away is you have to look at a compilation of polls, take an average. you have to remember that

polling is more art than science. they have a great teacher who used to say this is not art as much as science. >> do you think you'll see changes, and what will they be? >> we will see changes as they do the post mortem, trying to figure out what went wrong. it's been the history of polling, back to 1948. do we defeat truman. they look to see what happens. we may see more internet polling. there's a lot of distrust. the changes are the kind that we see that try to figure this out. >> google has all this information. they are not predicting elections. >> they might get in the business down the road. we have so much information. eventually that is where polling may head. it takes a lot of trust and you have people with access to computers to do that.

>> good to see you again. thank you for your help on election night. >> a hero who died in the civil war received high military honours, president obama recognised a union officer who was wounded but refused to leave his post. we get more from kimberley halkett. >> reporter: it is the highest military award that a soldier can receive. it is an award long overdue. anson accepted the medal on behalf of her distant cousins, a 22-year-old soldier whose valor was recognised 155 years after his death in the battle of gettysburg. >> today the nation pauses to pay tribute to one that died that. to bestow the medal of honour, our highest military declaration upon first lieutenant alonzo h

cushion. >> reporter: it was the summer of 1863, the future of the united states uncertain. separatists soldiers from the south advanced on northern union soldiers. first lieutenant alonso cushion stood his arms, he was bleeding heavily. the first soldier said "lieutenant leave, get out of here", he said "no, i'll civil and fight it out or die in the attempt." he led his me for a harrowing 90 minutes, until a shot to the head killed him. the soldier's actions made it possible for the union army to fight back against the assault. a major turning point in the war. cushion received a promotion. his descendants and a woman who brought the property where he was born believed he deserved more. >> he needed the recognition, and people needed to know not

only what he did, but what had to be done. people don't understand the civil war. >> for more than 40 years, she fought for cushion to receive the federal honour. it took an act of congress to pave the way for the president to carve out the war. it's one that will be hoped will be appreciated. >> it means that a fine award was given to a saviour of the union. awful things could happen if we hadn't been able to win the war. >> a rare honour from an exceptional act of battlefield bravery coming up, a major snow storm could be heading your way. plus, why the u.s. army is apologising for language used in a policy document. and a first in the nation's soda

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combat ebola. it will also go towards preventing the disease here in the united states. a group of liberian americans in minnesota say they have launched their own battle achains the disease. -- against the disease. joie chen reports. >> this is where i sat in the room, when i came back from liberia. is this is where i stayed for 21 days. this is the room. >> reporter: this woman is a mother, wife and a nurse living in suburban minneapolis, and is a liberia american who visited to protect her family. she decided to self quarantine to protect her family and for 21 days self-quarantined. >> it was difficult. i could not touch my loved ones. but i must do that. that's the only way not to spread it. >> reporter: she is not the only

one taking things into her hands. these part of a home-grown self-policing group in brooklyn park, the largest liberian community outside of liberia. it's the minnesota task force against ebola. they gather at the brooklyn city park hall once a week. >> we are people not voirges persons, not violence, we are neighbour, not violence. we are co-worker, not virus. we want to make sure that sticks. there's a lot of misinformation about what the viral is in america. >> the brooklyn park virus chief also was in america. >> the virus hasn't made it to america, but the fear arrived. we had a community struck with fear when the first case arrived. we set out to respond to the gear. >> this chief is no stranger to

the culture or his people. he made several visits to the country. the first in 2012. he discovered that liberia, the size of ohio had one fireengine to protect 4 million people. the xeef and his -- chief and his squad donated fire equipment to the nation. over the summer, the belief put into effect a policy under which firefighters and police officers will wear eye shields, face masks and gloves when responding to schools involving flu-like symptoms. a practice recently put in place. >> we should have the bags, suits if we need to go to that level. it's described as the worst case secretary-general. >> we are part of the solution, not the problem. we are your neighbours, your

friends, co-worker. we are are interested in making sure you are not exposed to the problem as much as we are that's joie chen reporting nonparole period is facing -- england is -- northern new england is facing a second snow storm in a week kevin corriveau is here with more. >> this is unusual. we saw 21 inches of snow in maine, and in the next couple of days we'll see another eight inches on top of that. maine, you had 130,000 without power. and you can see the storm here. we were affected here in new york, with heavy rain. we saw major delays at the airport. the temperatures have not begun to fall. we talk about new york at 50. portland maine, and we'll hover around freezing across the northern area of new england, and that is an area that we are

concerned about, where we'll see the warnings and advisories in place. it's not just northern new england, it's into canada, quebec. you can see here sherbrook, quebec city with heavy snow, 8-10 inches. 21 inches fell up here just four days ago. going into saturday, things change considerably. we get a little warmer. that turns to rain. as we two to sunday, a dusting of snow across the north. we'll see a major change. and we'll talk about that later. to the west we see the first poll our outbreak, anywhere between 15 and 20 degrees below average. >> uh-oh winter is here. next - federal agents arrest a

man they say resurrected a drug bazaar. the deep west senior citizens wants their marijuana. a development is pushing for a pot shop in their neighbourhood.

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coming up, the army catches up with "the times", and drops an outdated offensive term from its paperwork. a group of baby boomers pushing to pope a pot shop in their neighbourhood. >> from warrior princess to warrior for greenpeace. lucy lawless talks about climate change. republicans not only want control of the senate on tuesday, but there were symbolic victories for the g.o.p. kristen saloomey has that. >> reporter: it's been called the party of the angry white men. republicans are smiles since the election, with some winners challenging the stereotype. this is the first black woman elected to the house of representatives as a republican. the daughter of haitian.

>> we are not interested in dividing americans based on geppeder, race, social status, we are interested in the integrity and the honesty of a candidate. someone that will return power to the people and washington. 30-year-old ellees was selected to the house as a republican. harvard graduate worked for george w. bush, before returning to rural new york to work in her family's business and run for office. >> i'm humbled to be the youngest woman elected to the united states congress and add a crack to the glass ceiling for future generations of women tonight. >> my favourite part of

running... >> both parties waged a war on reproductive rights. as well as disenfranchising voters. >> clearly it's a good look for the republicans. >> it doesn't mean that the republicans will get 20-30% of the black belt. i mean, symbolism can take you so far. >> voters agree, it's a step in the right direction. >> it's about time that some changes happened, you know. it's the same thing, the same republicans and people running the show. >> i always like to see women getting in, breaking the glass ceiling. >> republicans have been accused of lacking diversity. the wins in utah and new york can be crucial for the parties, especially as it looks ahead to the presidential elections, and the possibility of facing a woman democrat, hillary clinton

a new report says the president reached out directly to the supreme leader of iran. according to "the wall street journal," president obama wrote an alert to the ayatollah last month, and the journal said the president centered shared interests in the fight against i.s.i.l. about the the president wrote that that cooperation would depend on iran's nuclear programme. the white house refused to comment. >> i'm not in a position to discuss private correspondence between the president and any world leader. i can tell you that the policy that the president and administration articulated about iran remains unchanged. >> republicans blasted the president for reaching out to iran, and secretary general john kerry will take part in negotiations over the iran nuclear programme. many military men told doctors they believe they were exposed to chemical weapons.

they served in operation iraqi freedom in 2003, and the secretary of defense ordered a review of records, and allegations of chemical weapons used on the surface last month. now, "the times" reported in october that u.s. troops encountered chemical weapons left over from the 1980s used in makeshift bombs. 30 years after the rest of america used the terms, the army dropped the term negro. it was in a document covering personnel properties: lion the army issued a statement saying it removed the word as soon as it realised it was in the document. they offered an apology to anyone offended. a former marine, managing editor

of "fault lines journal of politics and society", she is in atlanta. why did this take so long? >> there were thousands of military raids across the armed service, and sometimes when you have something this obscure buried in a document, it is overlooked. i'm glad someone saw it and point it out. it has no bearing on how we collect demography. and i'm glad the military reversed itself. snow h how did it remain years after it was considered acceptable. >> my 40 years on the planet i was never called negro, unless in a derogatory fashion. it is a bygone era, it's not used in common parr learnings to find it in -- parlance, to find it in a government document was offensive. i did not find it was done out

an insensitivity. i think it was an overlook, a misstep. and i'm glad that they corrected it much the problem for a document like this is it hampers recruitment. you go to parents, and wants them to entrust the lives of an 18, 19, 20-year-old child - you want to make sure you represent the communities, are sensitive to them. >> a now months ago the army we vised a decision on black service members, why the changes? >> this is a decision i was stunned by the there was a great deal of push back by women of colour like myself, who happen to be army men and women and marines, that want to wear their hair in culturally specific

style. i sided on the part of the generals who believed there were safety concerns. you don't stand out in the army, when you are standing out you are picked out - for kidnappings, hosting situations and by the enemy for other reasons. one of things about this is safety, that was not the case with the word negro. when you deal with a hair issue, everything is regulated - from the hair on my head to how i shined my shoes. i didn't find hairstyles was something that would be reversed. they did do that. they ran a cost analysis. was the safety more offensive. i think that the army, marines and air force came down on the side of we need to be sensitive,

and that we are got going to find as many nanses. -- instances. >> there are issues that can be debated. talk about the racial divide in the u.s. military, back to the time when white soldiers and black soldiers served in separate units. how far has the u.s. military come? >> quite a long way. and not far enough. and so we do serve together. i think when we train together it is in such a way as to create a combat ready force that is cohesive, that moral is high, that it is high performing and retention it high. that's the goal every day on the field. at the end of the day these young men and women, most young men and women are still reflective of the society from which they are drawn. we come to the service with the same bias that we carry in our

every day lives. the military is no panacea for racial reconciliation. it has issues like broader society has. it has to work harder on the issues to assist a combat ready force. >> thank you for being on the programme the outgoing cardinal of the archdiocese of chicago fulfilled his promise, releasing documents documenting the sexual abuse of more than 300 children over the last six decades. the names of three dozen former priests are included. the question - why did it take the church so long to do it. diane eastabrook reports. these are some of 15,000 secret documents that chicago's arch diocese released. they accuse three dozen police of sexually abusing children. some priests were transferred or given sabbaticals.

other are correspondence. the files document abuse against 350 children, going back over 50 years. barbara was one of them, and heads an organization representing other victims. >> she said releasing the files is a step in the right direction, but it doesn't go far enough. >> we know there's 141 credibly abused priests. >> allegations of abuse tarnished the archdiocese. it pays $130 million to settle claims by victims. in a statement the cardinal said: . >> blaine says the release of the documents could prompt more

victims to come forward. >> we can tell from the document that thousands of children are at risk. how many were needlessly vial aid we'll never know, probably, but we know that it's - that it's too many, and it was unnecessary. >> most of the alleged abuse happened before 1988. so the statute of limitations to file criminal charges has expired on those cases. tonight the secretive black market website silk road 2.0 has been shut down. its founder is behind bars, charged with drug trafficking and funny laundering. the federal bureau of investigation says he was making $8 million a month, using the deep web to allow users to buy and sell drugs. >> reporter: the internet searched with google and yahoo is the tip of the iceberg. beneath the surface is the deep

web, an unmeasured growing landscape of content that can't be indexed or retrieved by search engineses. it was developed in the 1990s, to hide communications. it holds mostly public databases accessed through a search box pt the national library of medicine, and private networks locked behind fire walls and log-ins. >> making online communications accessible. >> the smaller and talked about are hidden services, anonymous pages emailed and forums accessed through processors that use onion routing, wrapping messages and encryption and making them untraceable. >> you take your traffic and route around it, and transport it to three different places in the world. it's not your election. >> the ability to operate

anonymously makes it attractive to criminals, child important ogrye, firearms and other content. the most notorious is silk road. sut by the fbi, it resurfaced as silk road 2.0, just to be shut down aquap >> reporter: silk road was had a reputation for criminal activity. it was used for virtuous activities. activists from the green movement used the web in 2009 to sur cum vent cost restrictions and organise protests and educate citizens. >> hidden services are used by many ditch kinds of people. >> they are used by law enforcement. investigative journalists, military and ordinary people who don't want the online activities

monitored by the government or other outside parties. >> i think the deep web and hidden services are a force for good. the future will bear that out. >> now for the first fax for sugary drinks in the nation. supporters call it a victory in the war against obesity and diabetes, not everyone agrees, melissa chan has more. >> packing up, like many campaign headquarters across the country. for the activists, supporters have come out the winners. it is viewed as the first steps. >> the health conscious san francisco bay rear did what michael bloomberg couldn't.

regulating soda, and starting next year to combat. voters in san francisco rejected a similar measure. it required a two-thirds majority. coca-cola chipped in 5.8 million to fight the proposals. pepsi coe 4.4 million, and dr pepper, 1.8. battling the soda tax cost more than most congressional races. >> one side spends 10 times more than another. one side has 10 times more money to send out mailers to put ads on tv, and people on the streets. >> beverage companies may have bank rolled the no on soda tax campaign. they were not the oun ones

alarmed. >> we have 900 flavours all around the country. >> taylor's store only sells soda. >> i love soda. i love the flavour of soda, the carbonation is magical effervescent part. >> he has joined big beverages campaign against the tax, arguing that it has benefits. >> a personal favourite looks like orange and tastes like grapes. it would have targeted its with as little as 36 calories. we are talking about organic teas, some combutcher drinks, coconut waters. >> it's essentially a tax on the poor, hitting lower income families that buy more soda. and there's an argument over personal freedom. we frown upon taxing specific

things, because we think it interferes with decisions people make. >> more than 30 other cities tried to pass taxes and failed. in berkeley proponents won a battle and hope that it will ad fresh momentum to their cause. . >> one elderly community in california is taking a stand on a controversial topic usually supported by a younger crowd - weed. there's no dispensaries for marijuana where they live. the residents figured out another way to get what they want. >> inside the gates of california's largest 55 and older community, you'll find seniors that swim, stand, smoke medical marijuana. this man does more than smoke it. he wons one of three can bys collectives in this village home

to more than 16,000 residents. >> why is there a need for a collective. >> it's safe medicine. >> even though medical marijuana has been legal since 1996, there's no dispensaries in laguna woods. landlords refused to lease spots to pot shops. the collectives fill the void. >> this is for anti-inflammatory. muscle relaxing. >> good for arthritis. >> it would be. >> 64-year-old ben any johnson suffers from more than arthritis, she is battling breast cancer. >> i was miserable. i couldn't walk my dog. within five minutes of smoking marijuana, i was able to get up and take my dog out for 20 minutes. i felt better. >> we have a cancer patient who is dying, and he said "it's helping me die a little easier,

isn't that a right?" >> reporter: if there was a dispensary nearby, many would have trouble getting there because they no longer drive cars. having the collective within the gates of the village makes medical marijuana more accessible. >> there's support here for you. you can find what you need in a safe, loving environment where people care about you. >> city council member and medical marijuana user sherry horn says seniors are emerging as a power of voice. the generation that lived through the great depression and the vietnam war are not sitting this out. >> we are not talking about seniors in a nursing home, but seniors that played tennis and golf. mentally stimulated. they want to live, they wants equality of life. we look at medical mahmoud ahmadinejad as a tool in the toolbox.

we are coming into -- medical marijuana as a tool in the toolbox this. is something helping us, not hurting anyone. why can we not have access to it? >> seniors find that there's more than one type of green providing joy and comfort during the golden years. he may not be a household name, but his invention has been in millions of american households since the 1950s. s donald stoout ski died on tuesday. the inventor of corning ware. he accidentally overheated glass and created something so strong the military used it in guided missiles. most know it as the white dish with the little blue flower, used to bake cas roles. the image of day is next, and lucy lawless talks about her efforts to curb climate change.

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earlier we talked about what would happen across maine and other areas. there's another change to the border states. let me show you the forecast over the next day. friday not too bad. as you get to saturday, notice the snow forming here across the border and into canada. by sunday it starts to push down. it will be montana that sees the majority of the snow, especially in the higher elevations, as we go from sunday to monday, the frontal system that is responsible will push into the mississippi valley, and we'll see a bit of rain with that. and down towards the south-east. with that temperatures are also going to start to fall. friday really not looking too bad. as we jump over here towards sunday, minneapolis getting to a

high of 41, sunday, jumping to tuesday, look at the drop in temperatures that we see across the central part of the country. >> billings montreana 22. overnight lows from minneapolis, 19 degrees and snow. that is a look at the weather. more news after this.

a salute concert was held at the white house. ♪ we don't run, her we don't compromise ♪ . >> the president and first lady hosted several well-known musicians, willie j wilson, mary j blij and others. the audience was full of military and families. lucy lawless is an environmental activist, arrested for protesting aboard an oil drilling tanker. she talks about her message and mission. >> i'm lucy lawless, and i'm best known for playing zeina warror princess. since then, i have gone on to do "battle store gallactica",

"parta cues", including environmental activism. i game alarmed about the spectre of climate change when i understood what that meant. in 2012 i joined with a greenpeace team to scale an oil rig or ship heading to the arctic, which shell was going to drill. and we occupied it for four days. trying to slow it, bringing a bit of attention to the fact that they were doing this. >> this started with seven of us. seven of us went up the rig. 133,000 people came down it with us. the reason that oil companies are starting to rub their hands about going to the arctic is because it's melting and seems more accessible for them. they are like kerr change, saying carve up the arctic. the problem is that we are digging up more of the stuff

which caused the melting of the arctic in the first place. do you know what the world will look like if the arctic is content to allow it to melt, and then antarctica. we'll be standing on the highest peaks, you know, huddled together. >> it's not a question of if there'll be an oil spill, it will be when. >> changes like ebola and i.s.i.l. are hot topics. climate change will affect everything. >> you need to contact your government and make sure they work with you. i'm amazed how few celebrities get involved in causes. for anybody that stands up and

says what they belief, inevitably not everyone agrees with you. harden up. >> lucy lawless. our picture comes from outer space. an n.a.s.a. photo of more solar flares erupting from the sun. believed to be the largest in decades. i'm john seigenthaler. "america tonight" is next. goodnight. reveals shocking new evidence. what really happened? the day israel attacked america. only on al jazeera america.

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