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other side. thanks for joining us. barack obama has a couple of tough years ahead of him as voters took out the anger on the status quo on his fellow democrats. >> tuesday's elections gave the democrats the upper hand for the first time since 2006. leaders say they will look for common ground and republicans say they're eager to get to work on what they see as the biggest challenges ahead. >> some of the message also is a message that the american public is tired of gridlock, they're ready to see something happen and i want to be part of that. >> the american people put a stop sign out in front of the oval office. the president obviously can't see it. so i don't say this as people in america becoming republican. i see this as telling the president stop, reconsider where you're going. >> there's such anxiety in the country about what's happened in washington and how things just haven't gotten done. and i think what they were doing with governors was rewarding the governors they believe get their job done and don't engage in all

the partisan bickering and ugliness. they work together with their legislatuo legislators, whether it's the same party or a different party. people are so tired of gridlock and ugliness in washington. they want to see things get done. >> the president really has a choice because of the strength of the veto pen, he would probably stay on the current course he's on. you know, just vetoing any effort we made to pushback against what he's doing and have the people who work for him do his bidding. or he could say let's see if there's some areas of agreement. >> now despite his promise to incorpora incorporate, mr. obama said he's carved out area where he's going to stand his ground. >> looks like a showdown may in the works over immigration reform. >> reporter: his party trounced at the polls, president obama at

moments sounded glumly resigned to two more years of having to compromise or fight it out with republicans. >> what stands out to me, though, is that the american people sent a message. to everyone who voted, i want you to know that i hear you. to the 2/3 of the voters who chose not to participate in the process yesterday, i hear you, too. >> but he vowed to reach out. if the ways that we're approaching the republicans in congress isn't working, you know, i'm going to try different things, whether it's having a drink with mitch mcconnell or letting john boehner beat me again at golf. >> on immigration. >> i'm eager to see what they have to offer. but what i'm not just going to do is wait. >> radio meaning the time for him to take executive action is likely near. >> they have every opportunity to do it. my executive actions not only do not prevent them from passing a law that supersedes those

actions, but should be a spur for them to actually try to get something done. and i am prepared to engage them every step of the day. >> the president listed some areas where there is common ground. but on the really big challenges like health care, he made it clear this is likely to be a rough road. that there will be places that he will not compromise. he could veto republican efforts to repeal obama care, oto take out chunks of it that would render it effectively dead. >> there are certainly some lines i'm going to draw. repeal of the law, i won't sign. efforts that would take away health care from the 10 million people who now have it and the millions of more who are eligible to get it, we're not going to support. >> michelle kosinski, cnn, the

white house. >> and candy, was it a mistake for president obama not to take more losses which were suffered by the democrats on tuesday? >> the message that he wanted to say that voters were trying to transmit to washington was, and we need you to work together. republicans heard an entirely different message. but if the president says yes, it's all my fault, the voters really rejected my agenda, he would have to save his agenda and somehow turn it around. he made it clear in the same press conference that his agenda is still his agenda. raising minimum wage, doing something about climate change. so accept responsibility would

require him to change his agenda, and he's not going to do that. >> this is, in fact, a rejection, not just of president obama but also his policies. the democrats are saying hey, this has more to do with history and the election cycle. so who is right here? >> they both are. listen, everything is multidetermined. yes, it was a bad election cycle for the democrats. historically mid-term, particularly, in a president's second term which this is, run against the party that's in the white house. the democrats were defending way more senate seats than republicans were. and they were defending them in places that mitt romney won the presidential. so yes, the landscape and terrain was terrible for democrats, but there is is a lot of anger. you look at those polls, the exit polls where they asked people, why did you vote. how do you feel about certain things? there is across the board acker

about almost everything, the economy, the way washington works, the president, leaders, republican leaders on capitol hill. but what voters appear to have done was not so much an anti-incumbent vote but an anti-establishment vote. and it seems that voters decided that the establishment was democrats and the one way to get to the president was through this vote for republicans. >> is a republican-controlled congress good for hillary clinton, if she runs? assuming she will. >> yes, i think. i don't think she wanted it, but i certainly think that it gives her a foil. she doesn't necessarily have to run -- one talked about the distance she has to put between the president and herself. because the president is at this point quite unpopular.

it's tough to run for a third term of someone else's first two terms. yes, she has to put herself and the president, but it would be much easier against the republicans. oh, my gosh, put me in there because those republicans are crazy and they need someone to make sure they don't run roughshod. >> police in israel are on high alert after two brazen car attacks. first, we have to warn you, these videos we're about to show you are graphic. and some people may find them disturbs. -- disturbing. >> one person is dead and 13 injured after a van ran down a crowd of people at a rail station. police shot and killed the driver. they say he was a member of hamas which sent out a text to media outlets praising the attacks. >> and a short time later, another van plowed into three israeli soldiers in the west

bank. they are in the hospital in moderate condition. the driver got away in that instance. there's emphasis in the old city to prevent disturbs there. this will continue as long as necessary, leading up to the next 24, 48 hours. >> clashes with palestinian protesters got out of hand at the temple mount. the site is also sacred to muslims who call it haram a haram al shari. an activist rabbi was shot and wounded there last week demanding the jews be allowed the right to pray at the site. >> israeli and palestinian officials are call on the u.n. to try to help defuse tensions. israelis blame the palestinians for inciting violence.

the palestinian bass doth to the u.n. says israel must withdraw what it called extremists from the holy sites in jerusalem. >> we know what jerusalem means to the islams. 1.6 billion. it is a spiritual connection. it is a spiritual connection. >> and israel has recalled its ambassador to palestine phil rudd was taken into custody in north dakota but later released on bail. >> he's charged with attempting to procure two murders, threatening to kill and possession of drugs.

rudd entered no plea at his court appearances and officials did not release details of his intended victims. should note, ac/dc is slated to release a new album next month. protesters from the group anonymous clashed with politician outside parliament and buckingham palace. many of the anti-capitalist protesters woer white masks as they set off fireworks and tore down street signs. police say at least ten people were arrested. >> we'll take a short break here on cnn. when we come back, syrian rebels are facing a three-pronged assault as well as an offshoot of al qaeda. ahead, the possible steps that the u.s. may take to try to help the rebels. . >> plus, a woman brazenly abducted in philadelphia has

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responsibility. >> syrian rebels may get some additional help from the united states. >> syrian rebel fighters struggle fighting regime forces. across northwest syria. challenged by syrian president bashar al assad's troops, as well as isis and al qaeda fight fighters. the administration suddenly hoping open the door by not ruling out possibly expanding the u.s. mission to air strikes against elmishra which has pushed the rebels from key areas. >> united states remains concerned about all threats in syria. that's driven by the fact that they have been public in threatening the west.

>> i am really not going to get into speculating about what options we may or may not be considering with respect to kinetic operation, to act stif operations or strikes in particular. >> the u.s. plan to help the rebels has focused on training up to 5,000 syrian opposition soldiers. to defend their towns and villages against isis. but their ultimate challenge -- conduct offensive operations, fight isis toe to toe. today, president obama said identifying moderate rebels to partner with is tough. >> what we're trying to do is find a core group that we can work with that we have confidence in that we've vetted that can help in regaining territory from isil. that's always been difficult. >> training syrian rebels will take time. once the program starts, the pentagon estimates it could take a year to finish basic training

for individual soldiers. and up to 18 months to train more advanced units. fighting units might not be in the field before november 2015. >> teaching them how to salute and how to shoot. >> reporter: and the u.s. has no guarantee after training the rebels they will do what the u.s. wants. >> i think our mission is certainly to go against isis. when you talk to those on the ground, they might have a different view of this. their primary mission is to go against assad. >> mitch mcconnell says the subject of training those rebels and fiesing isis will be a subject to have conversation at his friday lunch with president obama. barbara starr, cnn, the

pentagon. the fbi said a woman violently abducted from the street in philadelphia has been found a live and a suspect has been arrested. >> surveillance video captured ga gathers on sunday. they found her in a parked car a few hours ago more than 100 miles away in maryland. her alleged abductor was arrested at the scene. you see him there. he's being held on a previous attempted murder charge and will soon be charged in this case. >> he's a vicious predator. he's off the streets and hopefully he'll be in jail for the rest of his life. that's the only thing he deserves. >> the victim's mother was very relieved and very happy. >> great outcome there. >> when we come back, a fugitive mayor and his wife are under arrest in the missing students case in mexico. >> but some say there are deeper

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>> authorities got a major break in this case with the arrest of a fugitive mayor and also his wife. >> both are expected being behind the disappearance of the students. as raf yaelael romo reports, th capture isn't quelling anger over what they say is mexico's corruption. >> police raided the house in mexico city. inside, a couple who had been on the run for more than a month, a former mayor and his wife. used to living in luxury, the couple had been hiding in a r rundown house located in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the mexican capital. they were sleeping on an air mattress. some call them the imperial couple. his political enemies say they ran the southern mexican city as if it were their personal

fiefdom. all that ended early tuesday morning. mexican officials said the couple was found through surveillance of their property, as well as family members and associates. their arrest is crucial. mess can authorities had already named the couple as probable masterminds in the disappearance late september of 43 students from a rural teachers college. they say the mayor and his wife ordered police to abduct the student who were handed over to a criminal gang. to the family of those miss, the couple's arrest is a significant development, but not the most important one. >> definitely the most important one for us is the boys reappear. that's the greatest desire all of us parents have here at the teachers college. >> reporter: despite the arrests, students from mexico city's teachers college protested in front of the attorney general's office. they say authorities respect doing enough. >> does it mean anything to you

that the mayor was arrested today? >> yeah, i think it was obstruction to the real problem that we have. we want missing people, missing students. we want a life. . we want to set anything else. >> reporter: this is becoming a political crisis for the mexican government. seven top officials have resigned over the scandal and the mexican federal police have had to take over security responsibilities in two towns. some say the case of the missing students and tuesday's arrests are a symptom of a much larger problem. >> translator: this individual who was just detained is nothing more than the lowest link of a great chain of corruption and complicity that the mexican state is a criminal state of all

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>> welcome to our viewers all across the globe. police and protesters clashed on wednesday at the temple mount, known to muslims known as hal halaf al sharif. >> london police say they arrested at least ten people, marking an attempt to glow up the houses of parliament back in the 17th century. anti-capitalist demonstrators set off fireworks and tore down barricades outside buckingham palace and westminster. >> the drummer from the rock band ac/dc has been arrested for allegedly trying to have two people killed. he's charged with attempting to procure two murders and possession of drugs. he did not enter a plea at his court appearance. he was freed on bail until november 27.

u.s. republicans spent the day after the mid-term elections spiking the football, doing the high fives and pretty much basking in glory. but for the man who stands to gain the most from tuesday's convincing gop win, it was all about business. >> mitch mcconnell who is in line to become the next senate ma jor tiff leader told repor r reporters his party is ready to work with president barack obama. at least on some of the major issues facing the country. he says what happens next is up to the president. >> the president has really got a choice. i think because of the strength of the veto pen, he would probably stay on the current course he's on. you know, just doing what he's doing. people say let's see if there's some areas of agreement.

>> even though there's a chance for progress, president obama is going to face a huge challenge, getting major legislation through congress. tom foreman gets through that. >> maybe president obama's agenda, his ability to move the discussion in congress in a direction he would like to see. here's some specific examples. there was a great outcry for more gun control in this country from some people. the democrats were unable to turn that into workable legislation. there's very little chance emboldened republicans will take that up now. what about immigration reform? this is abissue again upon which democrats and republicans have fundamentally disagreed as to the approach to it. in this case, the republicans may say to president obama you've got to come to us if he won't change their point of view, that could also be a nonstarter. the president says that he thinks he can work with republicans on infrastructure

knowing that republicans, too, like bridges and new dams and new roads, power grids, that sort of thing. here's the sticking point. many republicans are going to say yes, but that must be paid for without new taxes. you'll have to cut social programs. democrats will balk at that. and of course, there's obama care. a lot of top republicans are saying there's really no way to completely overturn this now, as some might wish. but what nekd they could do is down any efforts by the president and his party to put in improvements or things that might make it work better in democratic kbries. all of that could make all of this essentially fall by the wayside. and what's more, while that's happening, the republicans could be shoving legislation at the president that they know he will veto. that he just can't support. and then they will say, who's the party of no now?

>> with the midterm election, focusing on the presidential race. >> the race for the white house begins. including chris christie who's stumping across the country has earned him more 2016 speculation. >> i'm incredibly flattered but what i i feel this mourning is incredible pride. >> governor scott walker won a close race in wisconsin hinting he might run for a presidency as a washington outsider. >> that's the difference between washington and wisconsin. they are against something. we are for something pop beau

the intraparty scuffles are already under way. scott walker upset with chris christie for not sending more money his way. and paul, taking shots across the aisle, too. he quickly turned the conversation to the democratic front-runner. >> i think it's a refeud yags of the president's policies. but also hillary clinton. of. >> now on paul's facebook page, a photo also bull called hillary's losers including allison lundergan grimes. she lost big by 16 points. ? and democrat bruce braley in iowa. he lost by nine points.

overall, the losses outwayed the success. now to the growing tensions in jerusalem as there was a car attack. >> it's the second car attract of the day. >> a man crashes a fan and continues an attack on foot. 13 people are injured. a border police officer was killed. >> there was no evidence a terrorist attack was going to work here. >> the suspect is later

identified as a resident of an east jerusalem refugee camp. the attack is part of a wave of violence in jerusalem. known to jews as the temple mount. last week there was an attack on a right wing rabbi, one of the leetding voices calling for jews to be able to pray at islam's third holiest sites. for the first time in 14 year, it was completely closed, angering many muz lips. >> definite lay they feel that their place of worship is being lost. >> tensioned boiled over. clashes broke out between israeli forces and palestinian youth. >> the police had just cleared this area.

minutes later, there's an easy calm. the city of jerusalem remains on edge. >> the u.s. president is looking to attack ebola with fresh funds from law marngs barack obama will ask congress for more than $6 billion to combat the virus at home and in west africa. meanwhile, the world health organization has slightly lored the ebola death toll. we got the numbers here. they're putting it at a little more than 4,800, that's out of more than 13,000 cases across six countries. the w.h.o. also says it's seeing a rise in ebola cases but a slowdown in liberia. john? >> still to come, alex rodriguez his reportedly changed his story about alleges of doping. the details are just ahead. >> also berlin is getting ready

for a huge celebration to mark the fall of the berlin wall. we'll see why so many people have risked their lives for freedom.

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exchange for immunity against his supplier. he reportedly spent $12,000 a month on the drugs. >> a-rod's spokesman has declined to comment on the report. the star infielder has been suspended for sly lating baseball's drug policy, but he is eligible to play again in 2015. >> we are days away from what is sure to be a massive celebration in berlin. it's been 25 year since the fall of the berlin wall. >> the city has changed so much since the days of the division between east and west germany and our jim clancy who's also changed so much is there. >> workers were working overtime to prefair for sunday's commemoration for the fall of the wall. all around this city, the pieces to a so-called border of light

were being set in place. and visitors from around the world were right where they wanted to be. >> hi opinion i'm haley. >> we're at the berlin wall today. >> the german capital was engaged in a united effort that will reflect on the courage it took to win freedom a quarter century ago. huge scaffold willing allow hundreds of journals across the globe to cover the event and shelter the berlin philharmonic orchestra as well as guests and dignitaries. it is a monumental job in itself. there are thousands of illumination stands being set on the path the wall once took as it divided not only a nation but a once entirely surrounded west end. thousands of people have timed their visit to berlin to coin side with the answer verry and witness it for themselves.

chinese, italians, americans and many others were already arriving, searching out what remains of the wall. particularly along the brightly painted east side gallery, that is one of the longest segments of the original wall that still stands. painted by artists from all over the world, most visitors agree this alone is worth a second look. >> okay, let's do one more. >> the current list of dignitaries is really quite short. it includes the president of the european parliament, german chancellor angela merkel, of course, as well as former soviet leader mikhail gorbachev. that is going to make this 25th anniversary of the fall of the wall very much a people event. that people of germany and the people who have come here from around the world. and in many ways, that is fitting because it is the people that brought down this wall. jim clancy, cnn, berlin. well, more than 100 people

died trying to flee east berlin during the 28 years the wall separated the city. >> some tried to get out no matter what the odds. >> reporter: when berlin was divided on august 13, 1961, this woman was 23 years old and in the final stages of her medical studies. she and her parents immediately knew they couldn't live in the communist east and decided to flee. we were unhappy in east germany, she said. we were christians and will be rals and that was just impossible under communism. the dictatorship of the proletariat was something we couldn't liver with. their way out was supposed fob a tunnel similar to this one from a house in the west to a house in the east. but when they came to the west, there was a nasty surprise. >> one of the helpers came out, she says. she was totally pale and says

the tunnel has been discovered. you can not use it. she was sent to jail for 2 1/2 years under harsh conditions with constant harassment and interrogations. a new exhibition at the berlin wall memorial shows the plight of people like schneider who kept thinking of new, creative ways to try to flee the communist state. a desire for freedom that put many of them behind bars. this is an exact replica of what the berlin wall used to look like. now, most estimates say 138 people died trying to get from east to west ber plin but that didn't deter others. there were people who tried to build tunnels. there were those who just tried to climb across and some even built their own aircraft to make it to freedom. after getting out of jail, she immediately tried to flee again with a false passport via

bulgar bulgaria. she was captured again. but she made a defiant vow to her interrogators. she would send them her wedding picture when she got married in the west. and that's exactly what she did. after being released in 1969 as part of a west german government program that purchased freet dom of jailed east germans. today, she says, the communist repression must never be forgotten. >> it was worse than you can imagine, she says. this was not a country of law and justice. it was never like that. 25 years after the fall of the wall, her testimony is more important than ever. as a whole generation has now grown up not knowing what german division was like. cnn, berlin. >> very tenacious. >> absolutely. very derped. >> absolutely. and this programming note for you. remember to join us for special coverage on this anniversary.

we'll have special reports from berlin. cnn has coverage all this weekend and begins at 1700 central european time on friday. okay, well, the most powerful person in the world is? vladimir putin. >> that's according to the "forbes" magazine annual leader. it's his second year in a row at the top spot. he beat out 16 other heads of state. "forbes" says the list is the evaluation of hard power, leaders with the ability to shake the world. >> others on the list, barack obama at number two. pope francis took the third spot. the first woman on the list is angela merkel. >> there are now photos of north korea's kim jung un who shows

him without a cane for the first time. >> there were reports he had surnlry to remove a cyst on his ankle. but doctors say this is not the end of his health troubles. brian todd has more. >> he gives the full appearance of a commander-in-chief, expe expecting troops, walking with battalion commanders. and in new paragraphs, kim jong un for the first time since his mysterious six-week disappearance is seen walking without a cane. this after reports that a cyst was removed from his right ankle. >> it's hard to know from these still pick kmurps after two or three weeks, you would have an almost normal gait. >> a rumtologist says it's when nerves and tendons in the foot become compressed by inflammati inflammation. he says the 31-year-old leader could have gotten that from gout, arthritis, weight gain. and in kim's case it could come

back. >> there's significant recurrence, maybe 30%, 40%. and if you haven't solved the underlying problems such as obesity or inflammatory arthritis, it's even more likely to come back. >> the stress he could be under certainly won't help. south korean lawmaker, briefed by intelligence officials said kim recently ordered the executions of ten party fishes by firing squad. the charges, they say, ranged from corruption to watching south korean soap opera ps . >> the soap operas may be the most salacious aspect of what is seen as a is a dishs act of smuggling outside information. >> able list patrick cronan believes some top leaders around kim may at the very least be doubting his ability to lead. >> he has good reason to be paranoid. he doesn't have the experience. but he does have the ruthlessness to commit execut n executions. >> the reported purging of those ten officials comesless than a year after kim jong un had his own uncle executed.

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a 5-week-old sea otter pup is getting a second chance at life. >> yeah, check out this precious video of the otter who's being called pup 681. apparently someone walk on a beach in california heard her crying and called marine officials. >> i think we can hear her crying. >> there it is. the pup was alone to rescuers took her to monterey bay aquarium. they're on the threatened species list. and pup 681 is settling into her new home in chicago at the shed aquarium and is very happy. >> so cute. well, the first lady of the united states got a little help from some well known penguins to promote veterans day. >> hi. i'm michelle obama and i want to talk to you today about a group of people that inspires me every day.

our troops, veterans and their families. the men and women who make up our armed forces, the army, navy, marines, air force and coast guard, they're some of the most courageous, most highly skilled people in this country. >> excuse me. mrs. obama, we're a little tired of the s.e.a.l.s getting all the good missions. what object us? >> i have a top secret mission for you penguins. >> the boys and us will be all over the job. >> good luck. we're counting on you. >> thank you. i have to ask. do you mind if he shoot a few hoops? >> go, right ahead. >> the penguins of madagascar from the dreamworks movie. mrs. obama sends them to help promote u.s. troops and their families. it's part of the first lady's campaign which focuses on shifting public views of the

veterans. >> smile and wave, boys. just smile and wae. >> one of my favorites. >> researchers in antarctica are using fake penguins to get closer to the real thing. >> jeanne moos has more on the odd friendship between penguin and robot. >> reporter: how do you bamboozle a bunch of penguins? with this. oh, sure, you may think the adult is saying that's not one of mine, but researchers writing in the journal "nature methods" report that penguins are a lot less stressed by rovers than humans. they peck and attacked this undisguised rover, heart rates are less than if a human researcher entered the colony to collect data. >> we call it chick cam. >> the first chak fantastic rover left the wheels exposed

and even it was allowed into the penguin huddle. then the new and improved was made by filmmakers in a documentary. the chick cam was such a hit it had an adult taking the fake under its wing. how fooled were they? fooled enough to sing to the pretend penguins. >> they made vocalizations to communicate with the fake penguin. >> a real chick answered. but the researchers say the next generation of fakes may play penguin calls. one web poster wondered, but can't they smell it's not a real penguin. turns out penguins don't use smell as much as vocalization to relate. you think the penguins are really fooled. they think this is a living creature? >> i think at least they're confused. >> well, no wonder.

the most sophisticated fake so far actually lays eggs. eggs with cameras in them. >> the egg would scoot out of the bottom here. >> giving a low angle view as it gets -- >> kicked around the colony. >> you can almost kmaj the penguins muttering these immortal words from happy feet. >> what an interesting penguin, okay? >> one robotic fake capable of raising its wings was so alluring that a male started preening it. that's when the two-timer's real mate returned. you call it research? she called it having a roving eye for a rover. she decked it. . >> all the trouble to go to to get some images. >> oh, that's a great study. >> i'm rosemary church. >> errol barnett is up next. you're watching cnn.

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be a weekender and book weekenour stay at hampton. hello and welcome to those of you watching here in the u.s. and all around the world. i'm errol barnett. i'll be here for you for the next two hours. coming up right now, soaring tensions after a van plows into israelis in jerusalem. and new clashes at a holy site revered by jews and muslims alike. we'll bring you the latest. also, friends for now. the u.s. president and the new republican leader of the senate vow to work together after an historic election. >> look, there's only one democrat who counts, the president. >> to his credit, he has never made a promise that he couldn't