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how people in the u.s. and canada are dealing with the snow and freezing weather. and scientists are attempting to make history trying to land a spacecraft on a speeding comet. >> a lot to cover there. hello and welcome the our viewers in the united states and of course all across the globe. i'm rosemary church. >> great to have you with us. i'm john vause. >> we begin this hour with major news involving the u.s. and president. presidents barack obama and xi jinping have announced a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by close to 1/3 over the next two decades. >> but the tone was less than harmonious when a reporter asked about the pro-democracy protests in hong kong. let's bring in david mckenzie who has been following the developments from beijing. it's not often that a chinese president will actually talk about human rights. what did xi jinping have to say? >> on human right, certainly, john, he was at least just being

there, showing up for the press conference that he could take questions from foreign reporters is extremely unusual. i want to start, though, with the climate change deal that these two countries have announced. it's very significant indeed. the chinese are saying they cap emissions by 2030, and maybe even before that. now that might seem like a long time away, but that's in fact the first time the chinese have ever announced some some kind of climate action and anti-co2 action. then there is the u.s. side they're going to significantly reduce according to barack obama their co2 emissions. the u.s. president said this was a historic deal. take a listen. >> this is an ambitious goal, but it is an achievable goal. it will double the pace at which we're reducing carbon pollution in the united states. it putt puts us on a path to achieving the deep reductions

achieved by economies that the scientific community says is necessary to prevent the most catastrophic effects of climate change. >> well, president obama will obviously have to push through that action domestically in the u.s. but certainly for a bilateral meeting, this came up with a number of headlines. and that was one of them. john? >> of course, the other one was human rights. it's not often as you say that a chinese president will actually stand there and actually take questions. he didn't say a lot. it wasn't significant. but him actually just simply talking about it was the big deal here, right? >> that is a big deal. there were a lot of back room negotiations. u.s. officials to even get a press conference off the ground. it says something that they did about the cooperation between the u.s. and china on this trip. but it also says perhaps something more about how bad the state is for the press in china that we consider this a major

achievement. but for those of us who report out of china, it is amajor achievement. the u.s. reporter from "the new york times" asking about the human rights record of china, particularly relating to the hong kong protests. and president xi jinping eventually got around to answering that one. take a listen. >> translator: in my talks with president obama, i also pointed out that the act pie central is an illegal movement in hong kong. we are firmly supportive of the efforts of the hong kong special administrative government to handle the situation according to law so as to maintain social stability in hong kong and protect the life and the property of the hong kong residents. hong kong affairs are exclusively china's internal affairs. an the foreign countries should not interfere in those affairs

in any form or fashion. >> well, that question came from a "new york times" reporter. as you know, john, the "new york times," bloomberg and over outlets are still blocked here in china. cnn's coverage of china frequently is blacked out by the chinese government. when asked whether "new york times" might have a better chance of getting visas this year, president xi jinping effectively said that they should look to their own coverage to solve their problems. john? >> not too subtle, was it? okay, david, thank you. david mckenzie live for us in beijing. well, a big moment for the european space agency. any minute now, the rosetta spacecraft will release a probe that is supposed to land seven hours later on a spinning comet. now, if it succeeds, it will be the first time this has ever been done. right now rosetta is orbiting the comet more than 500 million

kilometers from earth. pretty impressive. now, it has taken more than ten years for rosetta to reach the comet. but for the engineers and scientists at the european space agency, the coming hours are what the entire mission is all about. issa sesay shows us what is expected to happen. >> reporter: this week marks the climax of an epic journey across the solar system. with all eyes at the european space agency, keeping a close watch on the rosetta spacecraft. >> we're all of course very excited. everything has to work very well at the right moment. >> reporter: for more than ten years, the rosetta has been chasing after this comet, better known as 67-p. it's a mission that took the spacecraft more than four billion miles and five times around the sun before it finally caught up with the comet in august. now in a first, the rosetta mission will attempt to put a

lander on the comet's surface. it will be a nail-biting seven-hour operation. the robotic probe about the size of a washing machine will separate from the main spacecraft and descend toward the comet. scientists are aiming to land on the head of the odd duck-shaped comet, hoping to touch down on a smooth spot and not rocky crated terrain. if the program is successful, it will start gathering data about the composition of the comet which could shed new light on our solar system, our planet, and even the origins of life. >> has water on life come from comets? has life on earth come from comets? we hope to give answers to these questions. we hope to find new questions to answer. >> after a decade-long wait, scientists believe rosetta is ready with landing set for wednesday.

isha sesay, cnn, atlanta. >> and for the latest on rosetta's incredible mission, log on to cnn.com there is a detailed timeline of the landing and some remarkable animation of the spacecraft. john? all right. rising palestinian tensions have led to more bloodshed in the west bank. israeli forces shot and killed a palestinian man in a refugee camp on tuesday. the israeli military says he pointed a weapon at its soldiers. his family says he was just watching the ongoing clashes. the israeli and palestinian leaders are trading accusations over the rioting violence, and the main flash point in the reason is the al aqsa mosque in what the muslims call the noble sanctuary and what the jews revere as the temple mount. >> the recent weeks have seen a dramatic rise in terrorist attacks against jews across the country, including here in jerusalem. these are attacks have been accompanied by a systemic campaign of incitement,

including libels about israel trying to change the status quo on the temple mount, and even wild allegations that we are publicing to destroy muslim holy sites. these are false accusations. they're absolutely fabrications. >> translator: we ask you to keep far away those settlers and extremists from the al aqsa mosque. we won't let them pollute our holy places. and may god spare the faithful from the wrath of war. >> meantime, crowds of mourn airs tended the funeral for an israeli woman killed in a knife attack in the west bank. an israeli soldier was killed in a similar attack in tel aviv. after months of heavy fighting, iraq's military says it has finally pushed isis militants out of a major oil city north of baghdad. >> but the militant group is

claiming progress of its own by expanding into egypt. barbara starr reports. >> reporter: a hard fought victory for iraq in its battle against isis. the key town of baji has been retaken from the terror group. the city, some 150 miles north of baghdad, home to the biggest oil refinery in the country. but isis is continuing to sell its battlefield prowess. in its latest video, isis shows a helicopter being shot down in iraq, and recounts the history of fighting in kobani. some battlefield video even shot with what appears to be helmet-mounted cameras. the 21-minute video includes graphic scenes we cannot show of isis killings. it's high-tech propaganda. the u.s. believes isis is trying to protect an image of victory over the west.

it comes as the first 50 u.s. troops moved into al anbar province. >> they're spoiling for a fight with the united states. because if they can deal us a blow, they think that might break our resolve. so i expect we're going to see a lot of action in that al anbar province. >> isis appears to be gaining support from one of the most dangerous militant groups which has shot down egyptian military helicopters over northern sinai in the past. now the egyptian militants pledging obedience to isis. >> radical elements in egypt have now aligned themselves with isis. isis is winning. at least in the eyes of young radicals all over the middle east. >> reporter: the u.s. watching for signs that isis is moving into egypt. >> we don't have an assessment of that at this point in time. >> reporter: and what about the fate of abu al bakr al baghdadi? u.s. officials say they still

have no confirmation about whether he was injured or killed in an err strike. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. and the u.s. may be considering its options for getting diplomatic personnel out of yemen. that's after al qaeda in the arabia peninsula claimed it tried to kill the u.s. ambassador there now. we get more now from brian todd. >> reporter: pitched street battles. no one in control. this is the chaos engulfing yemen, a key u.s. ally in the war on terror. u.s. officials have grown so concerned over recent instability in recent days that the military is updating plans to evacuate personnel from the embassy in the capital. marines at the ready on board an amphibious warship off the coast. it's worrisome to a friend of u.s. ambassador to yemen matthew tuler. >> i would say he is in a great deal of danger, just because you

have all of these factions righting around the country. at least a couple of them would like to take out the embassy in yemen. >> reporter: the terror group claims it recently targeted the ambassador, saying it planted explosives at the home of yemen's president while the ambassador was visiting. the group says the bombs were detected just minutes before detonation. but u.s. officials say they have no indication of an attack truly aimed at the ambassador, and a yemeni diplomat says there were no explosives that they know of found at the president's house. still, u.s. officials are worried about another benghazi. in yemen, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, which is sunni, has been battling against a shia rebel group called the huthis, who also want to seize power. and the president of yemen has little power to control either side. >> now with the destabilized situation with the huthis, it's a big problem for us who going to be in charge. frankly, right now no one. >> reporter: no one is in charge. what does it mean for u.s. stability and interest there's?

>> it means it's yemen. yemen as a country. it's very mountainous, very tribal. rarely has a central government that had authority that went all over the country. >> reporter: a u.s. counter terror official tells cnn now that the huthis have pushed into sunni strongholds, they have pushed up the pace of operations. >> there is a worry they could take advantage of this just like isis did in iraq, take advantage of sectarian tensions to increase their safe havens, their zone of operations, grow in strength. and aqap is a group that wants to attack the u.s. homeland. they made clear that's a priority. >> reporter: aqap has already successfully gotten bombs on planes bound for the u.s., the christmas day underwear bomb plot in 2009, and the bomb planted in printer cartridges the following year. the masterminds of the plots, aqap's leader, and its chief bomb maker ibrahim al asiri are still at large, still plotting against the united states. brian todd, cnn, washington. we're going to take a very

short break now. just ahead, anger over the disappearance of dozens of students in mexico is turning to violence, and our reporter is right in the thick of it. a firsthand account coming up. students at a youth leadership conference in russia have been sent home after being put on trial. and an early winter storm wreaks havoc across parts of the u.s., turning roads into sheets of ice. and the arctic blast is on the move. we will have the forecast coming up. stay with us.

authorities in missouri are bracing for a grand jury decision on whether a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager will be prosecuted. >> the shooting sparked weeks of unrest in ferguson. and as sara sidner reports, officials there do not want it happening again. >> reporter: as the grand jury announcement on whether to indict officer darrin wilson grows ever nearer, the missouri governor sent a message out to everyone. law enforcement is ready. >> if folks cross that safety line on property or on person, we will use a full power of the law to keep peace. >> got to fight back! >> reporter: the governor says he will send in the national guard if required. >> when we make the determination the national guard is necessary to provide support, i'm prepared to issue that order. >> reporter: we've talked to dozens of people from pastors to

residents to protesters to police, and they all say the city is on pins and needles, waiting for the grand jury's decision. and everyone is plan, not just here in ferguson, but in the entire st. louis metropolitan area. >> the st. louis county police department is already gearing up, purchasing more than 100,000 in riot gear. some protesters blame police for escalating tensions after the killing of michael brown, and they, too, are planning their reaction. >> there's probably going to be is a little anger, a little tension. probably a few bad apples do some looting. but my position is you can always replace a window, you can replace things, but you can't replace human lives. so as long as no lives get lost and if any lives are lost, it's probably going to be at the hands of the police officers and then that would just cause more problems. >> reporter: police say they

have been diligent over the past 90 days, meeting with the community to make safety for all a priority. >> we have had incidents where officers have been injured. we have had incidents where they've been hit with rocks in the face and different things like that. so we're going to do what we can to protect them. but at the same time, we try to always portray a posture of appropriateness to the situation that we're faced with. >> reporter: while the community plans, michael brown's family was in geneva, speaking to the u.n. on police brutality. they've been calling for a peaceful reaction to any decision. but if there is in indictment, they told cnn they will join protesters in the streets once again. >> because the fight will not be over. we understand that our son is gone, but the movement will be that we're trying to make sure that this doesn't happen to anyone else. >> reporter: sara sidner, cnn, ferguson, missouri. still to come here on cnn, the fight against ebola in sierra leone, where doctors just can't keep up with the ever increasing number of new patients.

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their behalf. >> all of the sudden, all these people flood into the back of the room, and there is police officers. there is a news camera, and there is people in really official looking uniforms talking to the director of the program. >> we were basically told that we needed to start signing things or we're going to spend the night in the room. they purposely pulled us in, and they fingerprinted us right next to the jail cells that were super dark and dreary. >> and despite what happened, the students all say they plan to return to russia one day. it has only been november, but it feels like the middle of january for a big part of the united states. from the rockies to the heartland, an arctic blast has swept away a relatively mild fall. a winter storm warning is in effect this morning in parts of wisconsin. in rhinelander 13 inches of snow. about 3 centimeters have fallen there since monday. snow and bitterly cold windchills have residents bundling up in michigan. the storm is hitting the state's upper peninsula especially hard

there is one report of 36 inches, about 91 centimeters of snow in marquette county. and if you're right in the thick of the arctic blast, you of course have our sympathies. our gary tuchman is in billings, montana, for a look at how residents, both human and animal are coping with the cold. >> reporter: it doesn't matter how cold it is. billings, montana billboard installer mason does his job. but this frigid cold spell has come much earlier than he is used to. >> i wear a little extra layers. and i would wear thicker gloves, but i kind of need to use my finger areas lot a lot for the j-hooks down here. >> reporter: montanans are hardy people, but with the upcoming overnight temperatures plunging close to record lows for the date, downtown billings, the heart of montana's largest city is very empty. >> we just watch the alerts. when they say it's going to be cold, we just bundle up.

>> the average high is the upper 40s. the temperature this past weekend was in the upper 60s. so temperatures have plunged 60 degrees in just a couple of days. the single digits today below zero overnight. >> when i just moved to montana, my friend told me, if you don't like the weather, wait ten minutes. >> reporter: at the zoo in billings, potential visitors don't like the weather much. that's why zoo montana is pretty much empty, except, of course, for its inhabitants. these two siberian tigers just arrived here from a zoo in florida. this is their first winter and first extreme cold snap. this is ozzie the grizzly bear who got into hot water for stealing people's food and is now thriving at the zoo. the animals are doing just fine because they're used to the cold weather. this is a canadian lynx, a native of montana. the bald eagle at the zoo is actually shivering, but we're told that's normal behavior for bald eagles who are no strangers

to cold weather. jeff is the executive director of the zoo. >> a couple of weekends ago we had our halloween event. we saw 4,000 people come through the date. so a 4,000 people day to a three or four female. >> three to people on a day like this? >> three to four people on a day like this. >> reporter: winter hasn't even started yet. it's still the middle of autumn. but extreme weather is here right now. >> right now i would love to have a buttery croissant. do you have one doing this billboard? >> nope, i don't. >> reporter: the temperatures are expected to remain frigid. gary tuckman, cnn, billings, montana. ah, yes, this is snowvember. let's go to pedram javaheri with how cold and bad it will get. >> it's going to get very cold. just did the research as far as the current temperatures around the united states. show you the extremes that we're

dealing with at this very hour across portions of anchorage, alaska. it is 40 degrees fahrenheit. that is 4 degrees celsius. it should be 27 is the high temperature average in anchorage. they're experiencing a heatwave by definition across portions of alaska. yuma at 68, which is 20 celsius. dead man creek in montana, appropriate man, right? 18 below zero. that is about an 80-degree temperature swing from what is going on across portions of arizona on into montana. shows the remarkable turn in the temperatures. there you go. there are the overnight temperatures as far as lows across montana and much of the western plains of the united states, about 26, 22 degrees below average. you take a look taft windchill as cold as minus 40 degrees. and any time you get this cold in the windchill department, it becomes very dangerous. schools begin closing at about 25 to 30 below zero. and you see with minus 30 windchills, 10 minutes exposure outside causes frostbite. you bring that down to minus 50, it only takes a couple of minutes, or around 5 minutes to

cause permanent damage at times to your skin. very dangerous situation with these temperatures. here goes the air mass that is going to be plummeting well to the south. it expands over much of the united states. in fact, on tuesday morning, 8:00 in the morning tuesday, the temperatures across the u.s. about 50% of the united states below freezing in the morning hours of tuesday. that's expected to expand on to about 80% of the u.s. by the time we get towards friday. a shift in the temps pretty impressive as well. from 63 on monday down to 12 in oklahoma city. also taking a 40-degree nosedive in a matter of a few hours. that trend expected to continue for several weeks potentially with this cold spell. we'll have more news coming back shortly.

welcome back to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. thanks for staying with us. i'm john vause. >> and i'm rosemary church. we do want to check the headlines for you this hour there is growing concern that a two-month ceasefire in eastern ukraine is on the verge of collapse. a british security source tells cnn fighting between pro-russian rebels and ukraine's military is now as bad as it was before the truce. nato's supreme allied commander says at this point it's a ceasefire, quote, in name only. the european space agency has given a final go for the rosetta mission. the spacecraft now cleared to release the lander and send it to a touchdown on a speeding comet. if everything goes smoothly, the probe will be released in the next few minutes. it will take seven hours to reach the comet, assuming it works. the u.s. and china have announced what they're calling a major agreement on climate change. both countries have agreed to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2030.

u.s. president barack obama and chinese president xi jinping will now head to an economic summit in myanmar. pressing issue now is how the country treats its more than one million minority muslims in the western state. >> the rahinjas are denied citizenship by their own government, and hundreds of thousands of them are living in conditions some describe as internment camps. cnn international correspondent ivan watson takes a closer look. >> reporter: at a little fishing port in western myanmar, it's boat building season. the carpeters say fishing boats like this are used for a booming business. smuggling members of myanmar's long persecuted rohinja minority out to sea. 50 people in a boat like this? part of a dangerous, illegal voyage to leave myanmar in hopes

of finding a better life somewhere else. the rohinja are muslims. a minority who are linguistically and ethnically different from the rest of the population in this overwhelmingly buddhist government. the myanmar government refuses to recognize the name rohinja even exists. >> it doesn't exist. never exists. never exist. our history and the history of the world, rohingya has never existed. >> reporter: he works in a government agency that oversees aid distribution to the poor. he calls myanmar's 1.3 rohingya illegal immigrants from neighboring bangladesh, and he wants to expel most of them from the country. >> that is our real deal want to expand these land. >> reporter: simmering tension between the rohingya and the

buddhists in myanmar state exploded in 2012, killing hundreds of people and leaving thousands of homes burnt to the ground. well over 100,000 displaced rohingya now live in camps like this. these men said they fled their burning homes two years ago with only the clothes on their backs. >> we learn never to forget. >> reporter: if try to go back to where my house was, he tells me, the people there will kill me. not that he has much of a choice. this is pretty much the last stop if you're a rohingya. as you can see, this police checkpoint. and people here are not allowed to go any further, unless you happen to be a foreigner like myself or a member of another ethnic group here in myanmar. then the road is open. the government severely restricts the movement of rohingya, confining them to enclaves that some critics have described as internment camps.

in the provincial capital where rohingyas used to live side by side with the rest of the population, you can't find a single rohingya on the street. they aren't allowed to come here for work, health care or even school. human rights groups accuse myanmar of ethnic cleansing of the rohingya, charges the government denies. but government policies have left a million rohingya stateless, with little hope for a future for younger generations. at a clinic for displaced rohingya, this mother says her newborn twins still haven't gotten birth certificates. neither she nor the medics here know if they ever will. ivan watson, cnn, myanmar. violence is picking up again in eastern ukraine, leading to fears that a two-month ceasefire

could on the verge of collapse. a british security force says fighting between pro-russian rebels and the ukrainian military is now as bad as it was before the truce. details from jim sciutto. >> reporter: this is the sound of a ceasefire crumbling. pro western ukrainian forces locked in battle. with russia-backed separatists inside ukraine. the fireworks weren't as loud as president obama met russian president putin in beijing, but their shorten counter, totalling just 20 minutes in all seemed to signal the u.s. and russia still sharply divided over ukraine. nato supreme allied commander was more direct, calling out moscow for violating the norms of western civilization. >> that nations will respect international borders. nations will respect the sovereignty of their neighbors. and so the ceasefire is in name only at this point. >> reporter: pentagon officials

tell cnn that russia has massed some 8,000 troops on the ukrainian border, and has stepped up shipments to heavy weapons to separatists in recent days. and moscow again has sent in a convoy it claims is humanitarian, but u.s. and ukrainian officials complain went through no independent inspection. now even the obama administration is admitting that so far, u.s.-led sanctions are not deterring russia. >> on ukraine, we continue to be deeply troubled by russia's activities. >> reporter: one sign of the lack of progress is the still lingering crash site of malaysian airlines flight 17. rescue workers removed more human remains, nearly four after the jet crashed, shot down, u.s. officials believe by separatist missiles supplied by russia. jim sciutto, cnn, washington. we turn to india now and a doctor who performs sterilizations that led to at least 11 deaths is pointing blame at local officials.

dr. gupta tells cnn those officials allowed the women to receive expired medication, including painkillers that caused their deaths. he says all necessary safety procedures were followed by himself and his team. the controversial program is meant to curb the country's population growth. >> what happens is women largely do not have access to any other form of contraceptive. their choices are limited. at the same time an extensive polls that is implemented where the woman is given a cash incentive. the field level health worker who works very closely with the woman is given a cash incentive. usually the doctor is given a cash incentive per surgery. and the facility and the health workers there on up will be praised and lauded for having very high sterilization numbers. so the entire system is geared

towards funneling women towards sterilization. >> india's government has suspended dr. gupta's license to practice while an investigation is ongoing. weeks have gone by, and the anger is building in mexico where dozens of college students are missing. gang members who confessed to murdering them is intensifying people's outrage. the protests are now turning violent. >> reporter: it looks and sounds like a war zone. but it's a clash between student protesters and federal police in the guerrero state capital in which a government building was torched. all in response to the disappearance of 43 college students more than five weeks ago. the situation is very tense right now between the protesters and federal police. now take a look.

on one side of this bridge are federal police officers. they've been firing rubber bullets. on the other side, you've got the protesters. they've been firing back with firework, rocks, you name it, sticks. and it's not stopping. this boiled over tension fueled by inconclusive news about the whereabouts of the missing. angry protesters not standing down, continuing their advance across this bridge. more than 70 arrests have been made, including a mayor and his wife. parents have been told their children are dead, and that three other suspects have confessed to the killings. but authorities have not provided conclusive dna evidence, and parents refuse to believe the students are dead. >> they feel like there is nothing they can do. there is no hope. in the chaos, cnn cameras catch a mob surrounding a police officer with some of the protesters saying leave him alone, leave him alone.

a standoff that would end with police pulling back as protesters move forward. he said that at the end of the day, they want the 43 alive, back home. rosa flores, cnn, mexico. >> and raphael romo was in the middle of a crowd of protesters as they clashed with riot police, then tear gas was fired. >> we can now really feel a tear gas. it's hard to breathe. my eyes are burning. the tear gas is really overwhelming. and this is probably a good idea to push back a little bit right now.

that's what the protesters have done, and that's what we're going to do right now. >> the protests have intensified since friday when the attorney general made the announcement about the gang members' confessions. breaking news news now from outer space. the european space agency says the rosetta spacecraft has just released the probe that they hope will land on a comet. touchdown is expected in about seven hours from now. but because this is all happening about 500 million kilometers away, it will take a full half hour to confirm that the landing actually happened or whether the mission has failed. well, coming up, the number of ebola-related deaths continue to grow in sierra leone. >> and medical workers there are struggling to keep up with all the new cases. >> we need support from the international world, because look at the situation now. the transmission is completely moving faster. don't put off checking out your medicare options until 65. now is a good time to get the ball rolling.

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officials in mali confirm the country's second case of ebola. they're not providing details of the patients' condition at this point. mali became the sixth west african country to record an ebola case when a 2-year-old girl from guinea died there last month. the world health organization counts 13,000 reported cases of ebola in west africa with nearly 5,000 deaths.

>> 1100 have died in sierra leone. alex thompson updates us on the difficult challenges facing ebola patients there. and he returns to the scene where a gravely ill woman was seen lying on the ground without anyone there to help. >> reporter: an agitated group in devil hole this morning as we arrived. it did not look good. sure enough, the woman who we filmed yesterday had died. writhing in the heat and dirt all day into the night. no ambulance, no comfort, no human touch at the end. >> we need support. we need support. the government is vulnerable. we need support from the international world. because look at the situation now. the transmission is completely moving faster. >> reporter: the tree marks her last resting place, but no one has any protective gear here. there is no cordon and she lies

by a busy pathway. devil hole just one village in this country. but this is what the shortage of beds here looks like. she suffered all day in the blazing sun only to die here last night. and a few hundred yards to my right, mohamud, still waiting for an ambulance to come after 28 hours and counting. 200 meters away, mohamud told us he is aching and he is vomiting, and he is waiting for help. what is the problem? if you dial 117, you should get an ambulance to go to the clinic. >> yes. >> reporter: it doesn't happen? >> it doesn't happen at all. we've been trying to reach them, but they couldn't shore at all. >> reporter: so they console mohamud and try and persuade him not to flee and thus perhaps spread ebola. his wife, terrified because she has been in close contact with

mohamud and wants an ebola blood test. an hour's drive down to the capital and you're in a different universe. ebola command and control center for western sierra leone at the british council building in freetown. 117 emergency calls are logged here at this desk, and they send a responder to check if the patient really does have ebola. if they do, it's at this desk next door where they try to match patients with beds. but look at this. on the wall, five panels, long lists of patients' names and locations and not a single bed for any of them. they knew he was out there, but no bed meant no ambulance, and she died in the dirt of devil hole. >> we know that there is a shortage of beds today in freetown. now that does mean that even though we send out a

surveillance officer who will investigate within 24 hours whether someone meets the case definition for ebola, it does mean that when we don't have the bed available, the person does stay in their home. >> reporter: it's awful, isn't it? you can see a competent system in place here. but the bed shortage is just crippling everything. >> it's a real challenge for us. it's really difficult. but we're making real progress. and what the international community has pledged and what is being done on the ground today promises to bring us really good results. >> reporter: fulfilling that promise is weeks away. it's true much is being done here. but the stealth think spread of ebola is not being matched by the one thing which the people here need most, hospital beds. >> alex thompson reporting there from itn. i want to turn to the weather now and an arctic chill is gripping much of the united states from the rockies eastward, snow and bitterly cold temperatures have residents bundling up. more than 13 inches of snow, that's about 33 centimeters has fallen in rhinelander,

wisconsin. and 10 inches of snow and more was common across northern minnesota. >> okay. this arctic blast is stretching from the u.s. through most of canada. it is cold. and meteorologist pedram javaheri will tell us how long it will be cold for, how bad it's going to get and what we can all expect. >> it looks like it's going to be kind of a long duration setup, guys. it looks like at least the next week and a half, potentially the next two weeks before things begin to come back to the norm. and the norm as you head into december not going to be very mild for much of the united states. look at the windchill over the next 24 hours. temps generally below zero fahrenheit which is 18 degrees below zero celsius or colder across some of the areas. and then you go out towards seattle, 26 degrees. pretty cold by their standards across the pacific northwest. and you notice we're getting a blocking pattern that is setting up across portions of the united states. really across the yukon territory eventually into portions of alaska. and this pattern creates a large kink in the jet stream. and when they have this sort of

a setup, you have the cold air being ushered in from the north to the south as opposed to having a more of a west to east setup in the jet stream where you have the milder weather. we're stuck in this pattern. that's bad news bears all the way around when you look at the setup. we're looking at this to continue into the portion of latter november. notice a second reinforcing bout of cold air towards the most populous corner of the united states there from monday into tuesday. if it's not cold enough for you, it certainly will be as we head towards the beginning of next week there it goes. denver on a roller coaster ride. 17 up to 40, down to 21, up to 29, and around portions of atlanta, also kind of playing that seesaw battle of temperatures with way above -- well below average temperature. you're in the 70s this time of year across the southern u.s. and the 40s and 50s the best we're going to be able the get out of it. across portions of europe, we do have rain showers still prominent across this region. but the fog still the trend and delays generally light to moderate. we'll have more news coming up shortly.

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