before 6:00 in the east. chris cuomo and alisyn camerota with breaking news, an historic agreement between the u.s. and china for a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. president obama calls the deal ambitious, but achievable. however, here's the odd twist -- the main obstacle going forward may not be the normally change for china, but it could be the new republican-controlled congress. >> the two leaders met for five hours tuesday, longer than expected before announcing the deal at a rare joint news conference where china's president announced human rights in his country. president obama is headed to myanmar, the next stop on his asia-pacific trip. cnn's jim acosta is covering it live for us in beijing. hi, jim. >> good morning, president obama is wrapping up his visit in china with a big surprise splash on two fronts. first, cutting an historic climate change deal with china's president xi before both leaders took questions from the press,

something that hardly ever happens on chinese soil. in a deal forged by the world's two largest economies, and its biggest polluters to combat climate change, president obama and chinese president xi unveiled an aggressive plan to cut greenhouse gases. >> this is an ambitious goal, but achievable. >> the u.s. would cut a third of it's carbon emission levels set in 2005 by the year 2025. china would have until 2030 to level off its emissions. the climate accord may be the boldest sign yet of the president's determination to bolster u.s. ties with china at a time when he's putting heads with russia's vladimir putin. >> the united states welcomes the continued rise of a china that's peaceful, prosperous and stable. >> mr. obama and xi went on to take questions. one from an american journalist. rare on chinese soil.

>> high drama, the chinese president initially ignored the questi question. then xi conceded the country's human rights record is not perfect. china has made enormous progress on its human rights, that is a fact, xi said. xi eventually answered handler's question, blaming "the new york times" for its own access problems in china, the party that has created the problem, xi said, should be the one to resolve it. >> white house officials breathed a sigh of relief after working for weeks to convince skeptical chinese officials to hold a news conference, it was a diplomatic victory. mr. obama toasted xi for china's efforts to help fight ebola in west africa. xi offered praise of his own saying the u.s./china

relationship had reached a new starting point. >> using a lot of big qualifiers for the deal. what's the meat in the middle of it? what would make it new and more than ever before? >> well what president obama and president xi both hope to do is spur change around the world. they figure if the two biggest polluters around world can do this, other countries can as well. this would be a big part of the president's legacy in the united states. if he can get the rest of the world to go along with this climate change plan. this is a proposal that has been stymied up on capitol hill. he hasn't been able to get the republicans to go along with proposals to go after climate change. so he's hoping he can do this on his own. as mentioned at the top of the show, the republicans have been criticizing this plan announced by the president already. the new incoming senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell said it's unrealistic and a plan that the president would be leaving to his successor. so it remains to be seen how far the president can make the deal

work. >> quite the commentary there when you can get china to do something before can you get your own congress to do it. let's go to the enforcement part of this. that will be the big ticket on it. how do you make this stick. any word on that yet? or is it too early for that? >> you know, i think it's too early for that. what's interesting about this is that this is something that both president obama and president xi have been working on for some time. in part in secret. and in a special white house counselor, john podesta has been working on behind the scenes for almost a year now. so if they can get this done, and you just mentioned there are lots of doubts as to whether or not they can do it, this would be a huge part of the president's legacy. i remember covering the president's first presidential campaign in 2008. if you asked president obama what was the one thing you wanted to do as president, he said tackle climate change above all of these other things he's done as president. so if it can get done, it will

be a big deal for him. >> to have the u.s. and china being the two biggest offenders coming to a deal, that's a good start to say the least. jim, good checking in with you from china. chris, so much international news to tell but this morning. several developing stories out of the middle east. escalating tensions in yemen, forcing u.s. officials to consider evacuated personnel from the embassy in the capital and iraqi security forces have retaken a key city back from isis fighters. that city is home to iraq's largest oil refinery and a major electricity plant. and also this morning, a human rights group says the u.s.-led coalition air strikes have killed 865 people, most of them militants since the operation started in september. so for everything you need to know about the hot spots overseas, let's bring in bobby ghosh, the cnn global affairs analyst and managing editor of

"quartz." let's start in yemen, american officials are considering evacuatesing american personnel from the embassy because we have word that al qaeda in yemen has joined forces with al qaeda in saudi arabia, what does this mean? >> well the al qaeda in yemen is actually the much bigger group. for a long time it has been the most dangerous of the many franchises of al qaeda. they call themselves al qaeda of the arabian peninsula. this is a bigger deal for the saudi arabian unit than it is for the yemenis. but the capital here in sanaa has essentially been overrun by a shiite militia that's set themselves up for an open war with al qaeda. al qaeda has callhood in reinforcements from saudi arabia. because you're seeing a battle develop between shia and sunni

militias. kaul caught in the middle are all the foreigners. things are becoming dangerous in sanaa, so the u.s. is thinking of withdrawing. when the united states embassy says its people have to pull out from a key country like that, you know things are getting quite out of hand. >> let's move to egypt, because a militant group, they were called abm. and they have just pledged their allegiance to isis. how troubling is this? >> we've seen this happen more and more often. has isis has become more and more successful in syria and iraq, a lot of al qaeda-related franchises are switching allegiances to isis. we saw it in libya, in pakistan, and now you have a group in egypt saying we're pledging allegiance to isis. they're trying to attach themselves to something that's successful. this has important ramifications for their fundraising abilities, their abilities to recruit people. whether it makes them more dangerous to the egyptian authorities, we'll see.

whether it's rhetoric or whether they're going to act on this something we need to see. >> in iran you've written an excerpt in "quartz" that explains how complicated iran's relationships are in the region and will be with the united states. let me read it from the american perspective, iran is not only the enemy of an enemy, meaning isis, but also the friend of a friend. iraq. and the friend of an enemy, assad and hezbollah and the enemy of a friend, saudi arabia. so in other words, bobby, this is complicated. so iran is now friends with iraq? >> iraq and iran have been friends since there's a shiite government. shiite majority countries. they're friends, iran is friends with turkey. iran is also friends with syria. iran is a rival of saudi arabia. and pretty much all the gulf arab countries which are sunni countries. >> and a rival of isis. >> and a rival of isis. so what's going on here is that the traditional military sort of

axiom is the enemy of my enemy is my friend. you seek them out and you can work together. there's some talk in this country of doing that with iran. it's not as simple as that. this conflict is so complex, that none of those old adages hold true. we're working for instance recently in syria, we were bombing isis to basically help out a kurdish group called the pkk. now turkey, which is our friend, regards the pkk as a terrorist group so essentially we were helping out the enemy of a friend. and these are the kind of calculations the white house is having to make all the time. i mean, there are so many different groups at work here, who's friend, who's foe. it can shift from month to month. >> thank you for helping us understand the shifting landscape as it is today. let's go back to chris. all right. alisyn, breaking this morning, an historic most high above us,

a decade in the making. for the first time ever, a spacecraft is going to land on a comet. here's what we know. it's all systems go for the lander, it's been successfully released from the mothership and touched down with the comet is expected in just over four hours. however, sounds a lot more simple than it is. that's why fred liken is live for us in germany and he has models to show us this. what do you have, fred? >> i certainly have models for you, chris and you've caught us at a very interesting and important moment. now what happened earlier is that the rosetta spacecraft, all of this is happening further away from earth than pluto, it released the lander, that's going do land on a comet of which i have a model. the lander is dropping slowly. just a couple of minutes ago made the first contact here back to earth. every signal that this thing sends out takes a half an hour to get to earth because it's so far away. in four hours, they hope it will

land safely on the comment. they can't steer this thing at all. it's like throwing a bomb off a world war i aircraft and they don't know what the underground is going to be like. they don't know if there's going to be an even surface for this thing to land. they hope and are quite confident everything goes according to plan and the data they hope to get is to see whether or not human light might have originated from comments, because they're made of ice, they have a lot of minerals on them. and they think perhaps 3.5 billion years ago, a lot of these crashed into the earth. made the first water on earth and the minerals inside the water in conjunction with the sun turned into the first life on earth. a lot of potential data we could get from this mission. >> you might start getting on the path to answers of how it all began. stay with us on it, fred, let us know how it goes, we'll check back in a little bit. well, meanwhile two u.s. senators are returning from cuba

today empty-handed. senators jeff lake and tom udall were hoping to bring an american prisoner alan gross home. this comes days after a diplomatic mission to north korea proved successful. bringing home two americans. so why didn't this mission work out? patrick ottman is following developments out of havana, what do we know? >> good morning, alisyn. this mission was always a long-shot from the get-go. you could see the disappointment in these two senators' faces, they're going to be going back to d.c., with the prisoner serving out the remainder of a 15-year sentence. they said that alan gross is increasingly upset at the united states. not meeting with u.s. diplomats any more. they were encouraged woe meet with them. they did say that alan gross has threatened to commit suicide. something he said before, he will not serve out another year in cuban prison. despite his understandable

frustrations, senator jeff lake said progress in gross's case is being made. >> i do feel we're closer there. one, because what alan gross has said himself. this is, this is going to end one way or another. and you know, we've got on five years, i think any benefit that the cuban government may have seen, has to have evaporated by now. in that regard. >> and the cuban government has said that they are essentially proposing a prisoner swap. they have three intelligence agents that are serving lengthy prison sentences in the u.s. they want to see those agents returned here. the u.s. has called them spies and has nixed the idea of any kind of swap. they said if any deal can be made any negotiations are going to happen between the u.s. and cuba to free alan gross, that needs to happen now, the senators said. >> this is not a case that obviously has been in the

forefront of americans' minds, so please keep us posted as to what happens. there's more news to tell but, let's get over to michaela. >> a story we've been watching for sometime, the cease-fire deal between ukraine and russia looks as though it's in dire jeopardy. cnn has learned that fighting between pro russian rebels and the ukrainian military has returned to levels preceding the truce, possibly bringing the standoff to a new level. what can you tell us, cnn's matthew chance. >> this truce that has been in force since september in on the ground in eastern ukraine was always very shaky. there are growing concerns they are going to return to conflict in the region. the international observers on the ground in eastern ukraine saying within the past 24 hours, sheaf observed 43 unmarked military trucks in the region around donetsk, the main city, five of those vehicles carrying 120-millimeter howitzers, big field guns.

and the authorities in kiev, the government in ukraine, saying they believe it's russian equipment with troops being used to reinforce the pro russian separatists in the region. and disturbing comments made by the supreme military commander of europe, of nato saying look, nato has observed that military bases inside crimea, the area of ukraine that was annexed by russian in march, inside crimea, military bases there, they're seeing military equipment being deployed by russia that is capable of carrying nuclear weapons. nuclear weapons. not that there are nuclear weapons there. but the actual machinery, the equipment that can carry nuclear weapons is in place. so very worrying signals at the moment being sent by the russians to the west. >> wore iing indeed, giving the fact that president obama and president putin made some face time over the last few days. an off-duty chicago police officer is fighting for her life after she and her 21-year-old daughter were shot at the

daughter's home. reports out of chicago say the daughter's boyfriend is the suspect. he was taken into custody hours after he allegedly fled the home with the couple's 2-year-old child. the child was taken to the hospital for observation. but appeared to be unharmed. the surgeon at the heart of a series of sterilization deaths in india is pointing the blame at local officials. dr. gupta says medical distributors gave patients expired medicines after their surgeries. the surgeon says no medicine was distributed at the mobile clinic where the surgeries were performed. at least 11 women have died, dozens more needed medical care after having those operations. a dramatic rescue in dallas, a city employee pulled from the water by two co-workers after he had some sort of medical emergency behind the wheel of his truck. he lost control, the truck went into this creek. but two guys driving by on their way to a job noticed the brake lights flashing on and off the submerged truck. jumped in when they realized someone was still inside, used a

hammer to bash out the window to save him. the driver said to be in stable condition at an area hospital. thank goodness they happened to be driving by. >> these good samaritans who are so brave. i love these stories you bring to us. >> and a that their instinct is to grab a tool and get right in there. >> people step up all the time. >> so glad for that. let's get to meteorologist jennifer gray, in for indra petersons, keeping track of the latest forecast, which we understand will be cold. >> yes, very cold. we've had a lot of snow in the northern plains and the midwest, a lot of that snow is going to stay on the ground for the next week or so. as temperatures not expected to get above freezing for quite some time. denver right now you are at 2 degrees. we are nine degrees below zero in cheyenne, and we're a degree below zero in billings. when you factor in the wind chill. temperatures feeling like 15 degrees below normal in denver. 14 below zero in billings, feeling like chicago is feeling like 20 degrees this morning.

and kansas city, at 7. these temperatures are going to stay in place. we are 40 to 50 degrees below normal. denver, your high temperature today only 5 degrees. that's 49 degrees below normal. 17 degrees below normal in minneapolis as we go through the next couple of days. the chilly air is going to head to the east and southeast. st. louis, your high temperature tomorrow, 35. and then new york, we go do 50 degrees to 45 degrees on friday. ten degrees below normal. and temperatures about 44 in d.c. on friday. so guys, these temperatures are going to stay in place for the next week or so. just reinforcing those cold temperatures. >> yikes. the next week or so? all right, thanks for preparing us, jennifer. well the governor of missouri says he will take steps to prevent any violence whenever the grand jury announces its decision in the michael brown shooting. we'll debate those steps, next. and speaking of police, there's a police officer stuck

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the grand jury decision in ferguson expected any day now, missouri's governor is issuing a stark new warning. governor jay nixon says violence will not be tolerate and anyone who crosses the line will face consequences. he's considering calling out the national guard. meanwhile michael brown's parents spoke out during a u.n. meeting in switzerland. saying the world needs to know what happened to their son, cnn's sarah sidener has more. >> as the grand jury announcement on whether to indict officer darren wilson grows nearer. the governor sends out a message. everyone is ready. >> if folks cross that safety line on property or on person,

we will use the full power of the law to keep peace. >> the governor says he will send in the national guard if required. the st. louis county police department is gearing up, purchasing more than 100,000 dollars in riot gear. some protesters blame police for escalating tensions after the killing ofchael brown. and they, too, are planning their reaction. >> there's going to be a little anger, a little tension. there's going to be a few bad apples that do some looting. but my position is you can always replace a window, can you replace things. but you can't replace human life. 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. >> but police say they have been targets of violence and have been diligently meeting with the community over the past 90 days to make safety for all a

priority. >> we have had instances where officers have been injured. we've had instances where they've been hit with rocks in the face and different things like that 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. >> while the community plans, michael brown's parents took their message to the world. speaking to the u.n. committee on torture. >> we're sprying to do is get help from whoever we can. >> it's overwhelming. it makes you emotional. and to talk about it makes you relive that day. and i hate reliving that day. i hate that day. >> sarah sidener, cnn, ferguson, missouri. a lot of questions about how this situation has been handled and how it's being prepared to be handled. let's get perspective here. mel robbins and joey jackson. mel, cnn commentator, joey legal analyst for hln and a defense attorney.

let's starts with the governor, there's plenty of criticism to go around, for the state leaders not being present in the way they should have been in a situation like ferguson. but is it fair to call what the governor just said in the press conference a warning, or is he saying what the facts are, i have to have my people ready to deal with the situation in a strong as possible mode. >> here's the reality -- in living in america people have the right to their opinions, certainly. but at the same time you want to express that opinion freely and voluntarily and there should be a change of ideas and hurt feelings and someone's dead. at the same time you need safety, you need security and it's the governor's obligation to provide that. and so irrespective of how he couched it or his bedside manner, the message is clear, protest, do so express your opinions and thoughts, but everyone should be safe and everyone should feel comfortable that they're doing it in an environment where no one gets harmed. >> mel, you've seen the pictures, i was there. if this was boston or new york city or los angeles and they

were anticipating this kind of event do you think they would do anything different? >> of course not. he should do what they should do based on what they've seen in the past. chris, woo keep talking about riots in the event that there's no indictment. what do you think is going to happen if there is an indictment? >> what do you think will happen? >> you have people storming the streets like at major sporting events, people can get rowdy and out of control at those incidents, too. keep in mind regardless of what happens, whether it goes toward the indictment or no indictment. you're going to see people reacting. when you've got this much emotion bottled up and that many people congregating in one place, it's bound to get out of control. >> so the criticism is this, though, on the face of it. is that the way you see to be handling this is enhancing division. you're making it us versus them. and that's a problem. now can you debate that about

the police thing. where it's less debatable is in the piece of sound i want to give to you right now. with the prosecutor's office, with authorities. since this happened. take a listen. >> we haven't heard from anyone. which that i feel that's -- pretty cruel. and unfair, you know. with this type of -- situation going on. no one really reached out. let us, no nothing. just you know, basically just deal with it. >> we've all worked in and around the system as counsel. how unusual is this, joey, that the office isn't in contact with a victim? >> highly unusual. and in fact mel and i watched the interview yesterday together as we were appearing with ashley banfield and we both had a similar reaction in looking at each other and our jaws dropping about it. as a former prosecutor in manhattan you have a victim's advocate unit. and the victim advocate unit, i

understand the dynamic of this case, chris, it's an unusual case, there are certainly entrenched sides, there are entrenched feelings, there are very hurt feelings by the family and the police officers have their position. but at a minimum you have an advocate to work with the family, to explain the process to the family. to indicate that if there is an indictment, we'll reach out to you. if there's not an indictment we'll reach out to you. so the fact that there is not that connection between the two is very shocking. >> in st. louis, chris, there's a victims services division to the st. louis prosecutor's office. and typically, if you're prosecuting a case or putting a case into the grand jury, where it involves a deceased person, the family of the deceased person is almost like your client. you're prosecuting on their behalf. so the fact -- >> you always hear prosecutors saying, we've consulted with the family. how often do you hear it. we talked to the family, this is what they want, this is what they don't want. >> absolute radio silence according to the family. >> unless they come out on the other side and say that's not true. the lawyers said they don't want

it. but we haven't heard that yet. >> no, we have not heard that at all. >> this is not a good message in terms of how it's being handled. >> he said it was cruel and hurtful. i think that's exactly what it is to a family and unfair. >> and those types of moves, that type of communication is not as important as what happens with the administration of justice in the case. but almost as important. so let's see what happens going forward, joey jackson, mel robbins, thank you very much. the u.s. and china announce a breakthrough agreement to reduce the pollution blamed for climate change, the two presidents discussed other thorny issues as well. and we'll go live to beijing for those details next. and a landing a space probe on a moving comet. it's harder than you might think. the latest on the historic rosetta mission, just ahead.

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welcome back to "new day," the u.s. and china are finding common ground in the global fight to combat climate change. president obama and china's president announcing an agreement that would significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions in both countries. despite the deal, both leaders acknowledge areas of discord do remain, including cybersecurity and those recent protests that went on for weeks in hong kong. let's bring in cnn's jim acosta again live for us from beijing. jim, let's start with what the president had to say in his

reaction to those protests in hong kong. >> on the issue of hong kong, which did come up in our conversations, i was unequivocal in saying to president xi that the united states had no involvement in fostering the protests that took place there. these are issues ultimately for the people of hong kong and the people of china to decide. the united states as a matter of foreign policy, but also a matter of our values, are going to consistently speak out on the right of people to express themselves. >> how did that go over with the chinese president? >> you know, it didn't go over well. that was one part of the news conference, even though the president and president xi showed a lot of agreement on the issue of climate change, we've talked about that this morning. on this issue of hong kong, they

simply just don't agree. the president saying during that part of the news conference, that while the united states is not behind those protests, they're not backing those protests, orchestrating the protests in hong kong, president obama said they do support in the united states, you know, free and democratic elections in hong kong. the rights of people in hong kong to choose their own destiny. and president xi could not have been more on the other side of that issue. calling those protests illegal. so that is one sticking point that was not resolved during this visit to china. >> let's talk about cybersecurity, there are occasionally reports that china is engaged in computer hacking. what did the two leaders talk about? >> right, you know that came up as well, although it was interesting, because during the president's comments, he sort of made a subtle reference to this issue of cybersecurity. he didn't come out and right there publicly accuse the president of china, of supporting hacking.

and keep in mind, alisyn, this is a subject we cover at the white house quite a bit. president xi for his part, he says that china is also the victim of hackers, that they have their own concerns when it comes to hacking in this global economy. but what the united states has said time and again, we've heard it from administration officials for some time, what they want to see from china is a real cease-fire when it comes to hacking. they believe this goes on for quite a bit. but many of the discussions on the subject have been handled behind closed doors. basically what administration officials are saying is that china should not be trying to seek a competitive advantage over u.s. businesses through this practice. they believe it's going to continue, it's another one of the sticking points that did not get resolved on the trip to china. >> good to know that they are wading into these sticky issues, even if they haven't been able to resolve them. thanks so much. let's go over to michaela for more. >> here's a look at your headlines at 37 minutes past the hour. russia announced a deal with

tehran to build as many as eight nuclear reactors in iran. they're said to be for the peaceful use of atomic energy. it comes less than two weeks after tehran and six world powers, including the u.s. to make a deal on limiting tehran's nuclear program. in exchange for an easing of sanctions. breaking this morning, at least three people are dead following a suicide bombing in libya. according to sources, it was home to libya's parliament. the attacker detonated a car bomb on a business sis road. dozens rushed to hospital. no claim of responsibility just yet. a teen is being praised for putting his own life on the line after pulling a philadelphia police officer from a burning squad car. officer mark kinsey's car burst into flames after colliding with a truck. 17-year-old joe chambers and another man jumped into action, pulling the officer out of the car. we should point out the 17-year-old, chambers, is a volunteer firefighter. said he just did what anybody

else would do. the officer as you can see there in the hospital, is expected to make a full recovery. not true. not anybody would do it people get afraid. they see situations like that. and obviously this kid did it. we have the video, but people don't. not because they're bad, but because they're scared. >> i think it happens more often than it doesn't happen. >> your newscast is evidence of this. you brought us two phenomenal stories just so far this morning. >> pollyanna. >> the reality sinks in, very often if you don't have first responders around, you're in trouble. how about a little money time? chief business correspondent christine romans is here with an update on the markets. up, up, up? why doesn't it mean sell? >> if you're close to retirement, you shouldn't have everything in stocks, a lot of stock market analysts are raising their estimates. the dow and the s&p 500 climbing

one tiny point for record high closes, here's the number that matters, the s&p 500 up more than 10% this year. that's the number that you'll likely see in the stock part of your 401(k). breaking overnight, five banks will pay $3.3 billion in fines to u.s., british and swiss regulators, citi bank, rbs, ubs. the banks are accused of trying to manipulate foreign exchange rates to benefit their own trades. a black eye for those banks. and billionaire michael bloomberg has this advice to high schoolers, become a plumber. the trades are a better option than college for many people he says, so is college worth it? we want to you head to facebook.com new day. college is worth it with an asterisk. if you have to take on too much debt, if you don't finish in four years, college might not be worth it for you. >> it's a topic that so many people are debating around their dinner table because it's gotten so expensive and it burdens students, so you sort of have to

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stuff happening in space. we should be getting photos in real soon of the action as scientists at the european space agency monitor the philae lander attempting to land on a moving comet. the mission is ten years in the making. it could actually help answer whether a comet could have helped spawn life here on earth. here to discuss this momentous occasion and momentous mission hakeem, good to have you on. professor of physics and space science at the florida institute of technology and here in studio, mike messimo, professor of engineering at colombia. this is a nail-biter, mike, i got to tell you. this is so amazing. first, we have to understand that this is landing something the size of a dishwasher on a moving target. just how fast is this comment kmet going? >> it's going about 34,000 miles

per hour. which is really fast. when we rendezvous with the space station, hubble space telescope. we were going 17,000 miles per hour. so an airplane -- really. you got to catch up to it as if you want to look at did as if we're looking at each other, relative speed is the same. so you want to be able to match that position, that speed and be able to land on this thing with, and it can't just land on it like it would a planet. you've got to grip the surface. it's moving really fast it doesn't have much gravity. there's very little gravity. when you land on a planet, you come on and gravity helps you land and you can stay there. with this thing, you've got to attach yourself to it. so it's an engineering miracle that's going to happen here hopefully. just a couple of hours. >> hakeem, other than this being a cool feat, why do we need to land on a comet? >> well it's sort of the last

frontier, right? we've landed on the moon, landed on other planets, landed on the moons of other planets, landed on an asteroid. and comets are like relics left over from the formation of the early solar system. there's a lot we can learn from them. there's a lot we can learn from the comets themselves, we can mine comets perhaps in the future like we're planning to million aasteroids, we can lear about the composition from the early galaxy. that could tell us something about the origin of life in our solar system. >> that's the cool part, the existential part of all this. something had to make it all begin with tons of theories. people believe things, some science-based, some not. how key could something like this be? >> for me? >> looking at you. >> thanks, chris, i think it would be really key, we got here somehow, our stuff got here somehow, the water, the elements

that make up our life what's inside of our body. it got her someway and comets are flying around our solar system. most of them are very far away. but sometimes they come close like this one is and it's very possible that that's how all of our stuff got here. the formation of life got here from a comet. and that's what we're going to hopefully get some answers to. and i bet we're going to come up with questions, too. the thing is you look for some answers because you know the questions you want to ask. but i bet it's going to come up with stuff we're not going to understand. and it will raise some new things. >> they discovered. i bet we're going to find things like this out. >> this is such a moment we're getting to live out in history, perhaps, right here. and i push back on you, i think it's really cool that a dishwasher is landing on a moving comet. mike, hakeem, fantastic, we'll keep an eye on it here on cnn. another story we'll be

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protesters are not backing down in mexico over the abduction of 43 missing students.

demonstrators with rocks and fireworks challenging police, firing rubber bullets as questions remain over the fate of the students. a lack of concrete information is sending family members in search of answers on their own. let's get some perspective from someone on the ground. we have ana maria salazar, editor in chief of "mexican daily review" and a former pentagon and white house official. thank you for joining us this morning. the protesters started out mostly teachers, students, but now we understand they're growing in number. what's happening? >> well they're growing in number, but i think you have to separate between those protesters who are demanding more information, trying to find out what was the real fate of these students. and then there's protesters that have other political objectives. i think what we're seeing is how other groups with other political interests are starting to use the disappearance of these students, as a way of

promoting their own political objectives. and as you can see from many of these scenes, they're very violent. it's shocking, because this is now we're seeing that these protests are kind of simultaneously taking place in different parts of the country. >> the question is, is this somewhat of a waterhead moment? the combination of these kids, college kids, disappearing in dozens. no swift justice. every time they dig for them, they find other bodies. and obviously there seems to be a pattern of being too slow to correcting this situation by the government. you think it's all combining to create a real movement? >> you're right, there's a question mark as to whether this is the tipping point in mexican history or mexican politics. the other problem is there's doubts as to whether this is going to be a final resolution for these poor parents. because as you know, the way the bodies were destroyed, i mean they literally burned them, to make it almost impossible to

establish the dna so that they can link them to the family members. now you also, are right, as they were looking for them, they found 38 other bodies. and also, there's trying to identify who those other 38 other bodies are. there is an effort by the mexican government at the federal level to try to get to the bottom of this. but these are extremely dangerous, violent criminal organizations. that functions in an area of mexico where there is no rule of law. where the governments, local governments are linked to these organizations. and where you really don't have local police, so it is a huge challenge. >> right. but you want bodies for the families, you don't necessarily need them for the prosecution, especially if you have confessions, that's why we're going to keep an eye on this story for closure for these families. these kids were not members of the cartel, not a member of the

drug wars, but they've become casualties. ana maria, thank you for the latest, we'll check in with you. this someone of the stories we're following, but a lot of news this morning, so let's get to it. >> this is a major milestone in the u.s./china relationship. >> in a deal forged by the world's two largest economies and biggest polluters. >> this is an ambitious goal, but an achievable goal. >> to defeat isis and allow iran to be a threshold for nuclear power would be to lose the battle. >> a landing has never been tried on such a small body. >> we to a fly past mars and the earth three times. which has a little bit of magic to it. very cool stuff to tell but this morning. good morning again. welcome back to "new day," i'm alisyn camerota along with chris cuomo. president obama calls it a major milestone in the relationship between u.s. and china. after meeting for five hours, which was longer than expected,

the two countries jointly announced new targets to sharply cut greenhouse gas emissions. >> the agreement is a win for the president to be sure on the world stage. but it could be a big liability back here at home. that's because republicans are lining up to criticize the deal. one saying this is part of the president's quote war on coal. let's get to cnn's jim acosta traveling with the president. jim? >> chris, president obama wrapped up his visit to china with a surprise splash on two fronts. first, cutting a climate change deal with chinese president xi before both leaders took questions from the press, something that hardly ever happens in this closed-off country. in a deal forged by the world's two largest economies, and its biggest polluters to combat climate change, president obama and chinese president xi unveiled an aggressive plan to cut greenhouse gases. >> this is an ambitious goal, but it is an achievable goal. >> under the agreement, the u.s. would cut nearly one-third of its carbon emission levels set

in 2005 by the year 2025. china would have until 2030 to level 0 off its emissions. the climate accord may be the boldest sign yet of the president's determination to bowlster u.s. ties with china. at a time when he's putting heads with russia's vladimir putin. >> the united states welcomes the continuing rise of a china that is peaceful, prosperous and stable. >> then, mr. obama and xi went on to take questions. one from an american journalist. a rare occurrence on chinese soil. in a moment of high drama, the chinese president initially appeared to ignore the question from "new york times" reporter mark handler on press access in china. leaving mr. obama looking astonished. but then xi conceded his country's human rights record was not perfect. china has made enormous progress in its human rights and that is a fact, xi said. on the question of china's human rights, we should never consider our work to be mission accomplished. xi eventually answered handler's

question. blaming "the new york times" for its own access problems in china. the party that has created the problem, xi said, should be the one to resolve it white house officials breathed a sigh of relief. after working for weeks to convince skeptical chinese officials to hold a news conference, it was a diplomatic victory. before leaving beijing, mr. obama toasted xi for china's efforts to help fight ebola in west africa. xi offered some praise of his own, saying the u.s./china starting point.d reached a new republicans are attacking the president's climate change plan, incoming senate majority leader mitch mcconnell called it unrealistic, a plan he would be leaving to his successor. the president heads to burma where he will be checking on democratic reform efforts there and on to australia for a g-20 summit where he may have one more run-in with russia's president vladimir putin. >> we'll check back with you in a little bit. so much international news to cover this morning.

violence and chaos engulching the streets of yemen, forcing u.s. military officials to update plans to evacuate the u.s. embassy there. officials say they're poised to act, but any military involvement would happen only if the u.s. ambassador asks for it cnn's barbara starr is live at the pentagon with the latest. >> good morning, alisyn. the u.s. ambassador has not asked for military help for an evacuation. officially the state department says they are not evacuating that embassy. but they will remain. there's a good deal of unrest on the streets of yemen. and growing concern how long u.s. diplomats can safely stay there. so the pentagon updating plans, one of the big worries? there's been fighting around the airport, that means if diplomats had to go, they could not take the most reasonable option, which is simply driving to the airport and flying out commercially. that's why the pentagon has marines offshore, helicopters offshore on an amphibious

warship. they've updated the plans to be able to go in and get those diplomats out. but that is not something the pentagon wants to do they like to say please get out before we can't get you out. they do not want to go in. into a hostile gunfire situation potentially. so there's a bit of give and take between the state department and the pentagon about how long and whether diplomats can safely stay. yemen is very different than many other countries where this issue comes up. because of the al qaeda presence there. al qaeda in yemen is very active. plotting against the u.s. and the state department and the c.i.a. worry, legitimately, that if they pull out, if u.s., the u.s. presence pulls out, they will not have a window and the best intelligence into what al qaeda there may be up to. alisyn? >> barb remarks we also understand that there's a developing story out of iraq. iraqi forces have made progress against isis in a key oil city. what can you tell us? >> absolutely right. iraqi television and the iraqi

government reporting now that iraqi troops have retaken the center of the town of baiji in northern iraq. very important, it is the site of iraq's largest oil refinery. so that means of course, key revenue for the iraqi government. that has been a contested area for many months. after isis moved into there. and the iraqis have struggled to move north, get up there. apparently now they are in the process of, if not already, having retaken the town. >> barbara starr, thanks for all of those updates this morning. violence a common theme this morning. also spiking in the middle east. separate attacks, one on a palestinian mosque, the other at an israeli synagogue. access to a jerusalem holy site seems to be the point of conflict. let's check in with senior international correspondent nic robertson, he is there. what do we know? >> these attacks on the religious sites come hard on the heels of hot rhetoric yesterday from the palestinian authority

president mahmoud abbas, who criticized the israeli government saying they were essentially trying to start a religious war over access to these religious sites. israeli prime minister benjamin netenyahu responded in a public speech later in the day, saying that the palestinian president doesn't make good partner for peace right now. that he is lying about this issue. but israel has no intentions of changing the status of these religious sites in jerusalem. that said, overnight an attack on an ancient synagogue, a fire attack there. and on a, on a mosque in the west bank as well. a firebomb attack there, destroying more or less the lower floor of that mosque. about 200 people normally pray there. the real incendiary image to emerge from that is a pictures of burnt korans on the floor. when tensions are so high, it's a tinder box. the concern is that the next contentious event like this, yesterday's shooting of a palestinian young man, the next

contentious event could really spike violence into a direction that it's not quite reaching at the moment, chris. >> and the question is nic, how do they control it where does it lead? the questions have plagued the region longer than we've been alive. we'll stay on it, thank you very much. clearly a lot of chaos overseas to dissect this morning, let's bring in phillip mudd, a cnn counterterrorism analyst and former deputy director of the c.i.a. counterterrorism center. phil, great to have you with us this morning. >> good morning. >> so it feels like there's all of these shifting landscapes and alliances happening internationally and particularly in the middle east this morning. let's start in egypt. and that's where this militant group known as abm has released a statement explaining why they now want to form an alliance with isis. listen to this. >> in obedience to god and his prophet, who warned against division among his people, we

are announcing our allegiance to the caliphate. >> phil, the fact that these two groups are joining forces, what does it mean? >> look, in the post 911 era, there have been a lot of groups that have tried to take the baton from al qaeda in afghanistan and pakistan. the yemeni troop tried, the somali faction tried and failed. there's wednesday group that's been able to capture energy on the air waves, that's isis. and so these organizations that have been looking for some place to affiliate, because the core al qaeda group failed, these organizations are now saying finally after 13 years, there's somebody we can ally with. and that somebody is in iraq. >> one of the confusing things about this alliance is that abm, as far as we know, their mission statement has been basically to kill government officials, police officers, they want to overthrow the government. that is different than slaughtering civilians. so are they changing their m.o.?

>> this is the core question we face here. this is not just a union of people who might share resources, who might share recruits. if you will from the al qaeda trench. if you think about the world from the al qaeda perspective, the success that they had 15, 10 years ago was to persuade people like this group, that the target they should focus on is not a local target. it's not a local police station. it's not the local government. it is what they would call the far enemy, the head of the snake. it's the united states. it's new york, it's washington. my concern about affiliations between groups like this group and the egyptian sinai and isis is not the physical co-location, it's not sharing resources, it's what you said, alisyn. this group in egypt might now say hey, our primary goal over time is not just killing egyptian police officers, it's creating cells that might go after the head of the snake in american cities. we have not seen that before out of this group. >> that does seem a real marked change and obviously very troubling. let's talk about barbara starr's report about the chaos in yemen

and whether or not it's time for the u.s. to pull personnel out there have. give us a status report. >> anybody in washington who sat in the seat that i once sat this has one word on their mind this morning, and that is benghazi, if you have diplomats at risk and we have had diplomatic sites hit before by al qaeda in yemen, you have one site saying we want a diplomatic presence because we have a huge american interest in helping the yemenis in the fight against al qaeda. we had an operative sent over detroit who tried to take out an airliner with an underwear bomb, that was out of yemen a few years ago. this isn't just a diplomatic story, this is continuing to fight with the yemeni government. but as al qaeda in the yemeni government fight, you've got to sit and worry about american diplomats, you do not want a replay, especially in this political environment in washington, where democratic administration allows diplomats to sit in an embassy for too long. >> of course not. i mean benghazi is a cautionary tale to everybody. does that mean today it's time to pull out u.s. military personnel from yemen or not? >> i would say no. the reason is we still have a

core al qaeda elements that's a threat to american, we've been degrading them for more than a decade. part of that drone operations, partly operations in concert with the yemeni forces who over the past couple of years have been taking fight more to al qaeda than they did with the previous president. i think there's a risk/reward calculation. the risk if you pull out is you lose some of the momentum, the traction in the fight against al qaeda and that's a core american interest. >> phillip mudd, thanks for the expertise, over to michaela for more news. here are your headlines, russian military equipment has been observed entering eastern ukraine. nato says tanks, artillery, air defense systems and combat troops have entered the country. the cease-fire was already on the verge of collapsing after fighting increased between pro russian rebels and the ukrainian army. the missouri government says he's prepared to call out the national guard if protests turn unruly following the grand jury

decision in the michael brown shooting. jay nixon is warning violence will not be tolerated. in the meantime, michael brown's parents were in geneva tuesday, addressing a u.n. human rights panel saying what happened to their son cannot happen to anyone else. congress begins its lame duck session today. among the issues on the senate's agenda, the keystone oil pipeline which may now have democratic support for a vote as the party tries to boost louisiana senator mary landrieu's senate runoff election next month. and breaking this morning, this is so very cool. in just three hours' time, a space probe is expected to land on a comet. a moving comet. a little robot called philae has been released after ten years, locked aboard the rosetta orbiter. the probe, it is hoped will secure itself following a seven-hour trip to the comet. the european space agency should be getting the first images any moment now. this is really ground-breaking.

comet ground-breaking. >> cue the billy joel song "pressure." ten years this thing has been orbiting. >> it's only moving at many dozens of thousands of miles an hour. >> 34,000 miles per hour. but it's relative speed. like astronaut mike massimino says, that makes it okay. >> even if landing on the comet is touch and go. >> it can't land it has to reach down and grab and hold on. there's no gravity field. which i had never thought of. like everything else about this. >> get me close, i'll jump out. >> don't tempt us. we'll update you on all of that this morning. and also this interesting story, piecing together the puzzle of robin williams' final moments. no evidence of alcohol or illegal drugs in his system. but there is something that may have contributed to his suicide. chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta will help us break down williams' final moments. the clintons are in the

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breaking medical news as the coroner's report is released in robin williams' suicide. there was no alcohol or drugs in his system. but there was something else going on that's worth discussion -- williams was dealing with a disease called lewy body dmethia. you may have heard of it, you may not. but it affects an estimated 1.3 million people. we called in dr. sanjay gupta, to understand this. this often misdiagnosed, i had never heard about tmt. but tell us about it. >> there are different types of dementia. alzheimer's is the one that immediately springs to mind. this is less common, but similar to alzheimer's in that you're basically getting these proteins that are depositing themselves in the brain. interfering with the way the brain communicate. you're looking at two slices of brain. on the left is normal. on the right is lewy body disease, or lewy body dementia they've been stained with a brown stain. you see none of it over here. that's the first point.

the other point is the these are the lewy bodies this brown clump of protein and all of these other threads, that get into the system of the brain, the sponge of the brain. >> what does it do? >> it prevents you know signals from going back and forth as easily. what is interesting is sometimes it can initially go in the same area of the brain that is responsible for parkinson's disease. one of the first symptoms often for somebody with leyw body disease would be parkinson's type symptoms. we know robin was suffering from as well. it can cause other types of symptoms, depression, hallucinations. this is tough. because there's no known cure and you can't conclusively diagnose it snl someone has passed. so other than the medical fascination about this and it affecting people. what does this help us understand? >> there's a couple of things. if someone has depression, aside from lewy body disease, there are known medications that can be used and they can often be very effective. with lewy body disease, some of the same antidepressants may not

work. someone may take these medications and really get no benefit. they can even make things worse. sometimes they have to be on different medications. but i think the most important thing is, from what we know about this right now, it's a progressive disease. so despite the fact that you're taking medicines for parkinson's, for depression, can you continue to get worse and worse. >> do we know whether or not robin williams knew he had this and whether or not it was part of his health protocol? >> it's a great question. the only way to know for sure, after someone has passed, you have to look at the brain to be 100% sure. doctors can have a reasonable guess. the reason that they guess that is because medications that were once effective no longer doing the job. that can be frustrating for the patient, for robin williams in this case, if he was taking medications and not getting better as a result of those. >> so the bottom line is we're still learning so much about this stuff. you're saying post mortem is where they get a confirmed diagnosis on this. the point is they cannot know

really what it is while you're still alive. and that obviously makes it difficult to treat. >> it makes it difficult to treat. what you find is patients who just are not responding to medications the way that you would expect. parkinson's is a fairly, it's an easy thing to treat in that you just replace something that is missing in the brain. depression, you're restoring certain neurochemicals in the brain. but you can imagine, chris, if your brain looks like this, no matter what medications you sort of throw at it, what you're trying to give. if you have this much congestion in the system, it's hard for that to work. >> as it relates to robin williams, it's hard to draw any conclusions i would suspect. however, there were no drugs or alcohol in his system. so that level of speculation should stop, right? i mean you know very well, many people were speculating about what this was. that's a basis not to speculate about abuse. >> and this type of report, can you rule out certain things for sure. but i think to your point, which i think is very important, many people with these types of dementias do not go on to do what he did.

so one cannot speculate that there's a cause and effect here. but there's no question, this is a tough disease to treat. and it's a tough disease to, just it progresses. >> that's the frustration. you know as we all grow older, and we deal with our families and what takes loved ones from us, often the answer is, well you can't do anything about it. parkinson's, they have us taking this coq 10. and all the family of brain disorders growing and growing, what can we do about it? >> it's a great point and what works for some people doesn't. the larger question i think sometimes, chris, is we may get to the point where we can diagnose things earlier than we can treat them. and then one has to ask the question, would you want to know. if i tell you yes, do you have this lewy body disease, but there's no known treatment, there's nothing we can do, we can't slow it down. do you want to know? that's what we're getting to in many cases of science, we can diagnose things before we can treat them. >> would you want to know? >> i don't think so, the anxiety sort of with this. i think you know, we human beings, we like the idea of

hope. and i think if something like this basically strips that away from you, without any known treatment or any known action that you could take, i'm an action-oriented guy, i'd like to be able to do something about it. in this case, you don't have many options. >> you're not just action-oriented, you're a superhero. >> i was trying to get that out of you. it took me a little while. >> i saw you put the mind ray on us. thank you for helping us understand this we care what happened to robin williams, so any little bit of information is important. congress is back, and they're ready to fight. over virtually everything. from climate change to obama care. john king preview it is all for us, when we go "inside politics." and could you drop something the size of a dishwasher on to something moving away from you at 34,000 miles per hour? don't answer that. because this is happening right now in the void of space. this is exactly what's happening above our heads as we speak. we'll talk with bill nye, the science guy, about this big mission.

here's a look at your headlines, russian military equipment has been observed entering eastern ukraine. nato says tanks, artillery, air defense systems and combat troops have entered the country. the cease-fire between ukraine and russia was already on the verge of collapsing after fighting increased between pro russian rebels and the ukrainian army. militant group in egypt known as abm appears to be swearing allegiance to isis. a new audio tape call it is isis the emergence of a new dawn.

abm's attacks in egypt have grown more sophisticated over the last few years. breaking just minutes ago, cnn now projects republican dan sullivan on the left defeating incumbent democrat mark begich in the race for alaska's senate. this is the eighth seat to flip to the republicans in the election. the gop will now have at least 53 seats in the senate next year. there is one final race to be decided in louisiana. mary landrieu and bill cassidy face off in a december 6th runoff. stay tuned for those results. strikes are expanding nationwide for nurses demanding tougher ebola safety precautions. 20,000 nurses and union officials have walked out in 16 states demanding tougher standards. in the meantime, dr. craig spencer left a new york city hospital tuesday after 19 days in an isolation unit. spencer was diagnosed with ebola last month after returning from working in guinea. the hip hop world is mourning the loss of a pioneer,

big bank hank, henry jackson, one of the three members of the sugarhill gang has died. he had been battling cancer. the group of course burst into the main stream with their hit song "rappers delight" think about it, it was 1979 when the song was released. it went on to be a playlist favorite. he more rhymes than the serious bank, big bank hank was 57 years old. >> where were they from, the sugarhill gang? queens. grew one them. they used to play it over p.a. system in my school. big bank hank couldn't go anywhere in queens and pay for dinner, his money was no good there. >> we could all sing river word df right now. >> i only got a few words of it. i love "rappers' delight" and they launched a genre. >> they were the granddaddies. >> 57 years old, losing his battle with cancer. >> a rich life and a guy who was

appreciated for whey did. let us know where you were when you first heard "rapper's delight" i was in my cousin's living room. i was like, what is that? how do i learn that? it was great. >> my reaction was, nothing like that. i tell you who is a fan of the hip hop you may not know old school rap. john king. we go to him, "inside politics." i heard him sing a little "house of pain" doing jump around, bounce around, he's got some flavor, don't kid yourself. john, you're there. >> a good friend of mine was a deejay in high school. >> i could see you. >> i was off to the side doing my thing. we were saying as we came here, does that make us feel old or forever young? >> different genre of music, i like the reference. >> we'll see you in a couple of minutes. busy day here in washington. with me, nia malika henderson of

the "washington post" and ron fournier of the "national journal" everybody is celebrating because congress is back. this is the so-called lame duck session. the question is post election do you get cooperation or confrontation? early indications are, confrontation. overnight you may have seen this, the president struck a deal with the chinese, he's in asia on the climate change agreement to reduce emissions. republicans are saying it's not worth the paper it's printed on. it doesn't require anybody to do anything for 11 years. and yet, ron and nia malika. mitch mcconnell, the incoming republican leader who will soon be majority leader says it's going to hurt the economy. listen, our economy can't take the president's ideological war on coal. it will increase the squeeze on middle class families and struggling miners. the unrealistic plan that the president would dump on his successor would insure higher utility rates and far fewer jobs. >> on the one hand, it's useless, on the other hand, it's devastating. >> i guess he doesn't like it. this is something mcconnell ran against the epa, he ran against

any sort of regulations, when it comes to the environment. you know, i think the president struck this deal, which is sort of a big deal, i mean getting china to agree to some of these limitations. i think the question for republicans is, what do they want to do? you have a situation where now someone who is going to be in charge of the energy committee is a bit of a climate change denier, is that where the republican party goes in terms of dealing with anything? >> it's one of the issues, you make that point, i believe were you talking about on the senate side, there's people who deny the science, or who say, even if you glee with the science, what the president wants to do is too devastating for the economy. the this will be one of the points of contention over the next two years. >> i don't know, the chinese agreed to peak their emissions at 2030. it's not a huge concession on their part. and lastly, i can understand why

mitch mcconnell and people are supporting republicans and worried about the war on coal and their way of life. maybe have some doubts about climate change, but why bet so heavily on the earth's health that all the scientists are wrong? that's what i worry about. they're placing a very heavy bet that they're right and the scientists are wrong. because if they're wrong? and we don't do anything about climate change? the earth is in a mess. >> and if they stay off in their corners it's hard to have a conversation about how do you protect coal jobs or is there technology that can extend coal. >> you have to have the conversation to do that. another conversation, remember, republicans ran saying they were going to try again to repeal obama care. they took majority in the senate, expanded majority in the house, they're going to try again. they won't have the votes, they won't get 60 in the senate if they did, the president has the veto pen. but listen to senator orrin hatch, writing an article in "u.s.a. today," he says republicans will continue to p ush for a full repeal and replacement of obama care in the next congress.

conservatives should take advantage of all opportunities to repeal any part of the law and replace it with better policies that empower americans, not washington. to me that's a message from orrin hatch to the conservative base saying when we fail to get full repeal. because they don't have the votes. >> they're going to try to do some other things and the base should accept that. will the base accept that? >> you know, we'll see. those, everybody is talking about the medical device tech, very small-bore things, not taking it out root and branch in the way of it, even mitch mcconnell campaigned on. i think in some ways, conservatives should be looking at the supreme court. they're the ones who are looking at a case that could really up-end this law with the state exchange and getting federal money. >> the subsidies. >> the court would rule the subsidies unconstitutional, that would pull the financing essentially from the law. but in the meantime we have this situation where we have a newly empowered republican congress, a democratic president, looking for battles between them.

but the republicans have internal battles. will this one rip apart when they have to concede, we can't repeal it, let's try to talk to the president about fixing it. >> i think it's going to be hard to convince the republican base not to keep trying to get rid of obama care. just like it's going to be hard for obama not to impose an executive order on immigration. that's the problem. both the leaders of both parties are scared to death of their bases, don't have the courage to stand up to their bases and come together to talk about things like climate change and immigration reform and health care, that need to be addressed in a bipartisan manner. >> and in 2016, are republicans still talking about repealing obama care? >> it's not going to be repealed. it does need to be fixed. work with democrats to make it a better law and move on. >> work with democrats, yeah, right. somebody write that down. another priority possibly for democrats in the lame duck congress, meaning between now and the end of the year, having the senate democrats pass the keystone pipeline. pass a law, send it to the president. the republican house has already done this. democrats are now talking that maybe this could help mary

landrieu, the louisiana democratic senator in her run-off. and we've called the alaska senate race, if mary landrieu loses the runoff, they'll go to 54, from 45. really? is number one, if it's important to do, why didn't you do it months ago. number two, do they think mary landrieu's whole campaign was, if we're in the majority i'll be the chairwoman of the energy committee. no matter what happens, can tth can't be in the majority. >> both parties think vote remembers stupid. the one message that came out of the elections that cuts across everything is that the voters are tired of gridlock. it's the second issue to the economy. that they want these parties to work together. they see what the democrats are doing for what it is, just pure politics. >> the meantime, the democrats are pulling money out. over the run-off, this isn't

going to help. it's sort of a least they could do at this point. >> i think it shows how political she is and her party is. if you do something like this, it just makes it worse. >> a couple of points on the 2016 primary party. that the msnbc reported that the hillary clinton is going to report with the progressive coalition. she wants to reach out to us, she must be nervous about her left flank. maggie haferman tweeted, the quickest way not to keep an open line of communication to clinton landland is to tell people about it. bernie sanders is bringing in tad devine. he knowings delegates and filing deadlines, bernie sanders sending a clear signal that he's serious about to challenge hillary clinton. what do we make of these? >> good for bernie sanders, for getting out there, possibly. you know i think it would do hillary clinton some good to have some challenge. i think the question is, whether or not this is a serious challenge in the way that somebody like elizabeth warren would be or a less serious challenge in the way that dennis

kucinich or ralph nader would be. >> he's a feisty guy, i don't think he can beat her, but he can give her some grief. >> she might lose and end up winning, but it would be good for her if she was really challenged. >> since fournier and i got gray hair and lost our hair during the clinton. bill clinton was on "ellen" and was asked about his new granddaughter and he was asked a question about imagine u.s. president in the world of how they portray this on "house of cards" or "scandal." listen. >> the thing about "scandal" and "house of cards" that makes it fun to watch is i can't imagine that either president spacey or the president's chief of staff on "scandal" could really get away with murder. i wish i had known about that. you know think of all the opportunities i missed. so little time, so many people that have it coming.

>> for some, alisyn, the clinton administration never ended and those comments are only going to stir up his friends. >> absolutely. some republicans will see that as an admission of controversy somehow. wow. but it got a great laugh on "ellen." a lot of fun. a daring and historic moment for a spacecraft, it is landing this morning on a comet for the first time ever. bill nye, the science guy, is here to explain how. hi, bill! the holiday season is here, which means it's time for the volkswagen sign-then-drive event. for practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a german-engineered volkswagen. like the sporty, advanced new jetta and the well-crafted all-new golf. if you're wishing for a new volkswagen this season just about all you need is a finely tuned... pen. get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit and zero first month's payment

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as we speak, scientists at the european space agency are monitoring the final approach of the philae lander as it tries to land on a moving comet. this is mind-boggling, the first of its kind mission. scientists are hoping to study the comet over the next year. what exactly big discoveries are they looking for? the man to ask, the author of "undeniable evolution of science and creation" the one and only bill nye, the science guy is here. a two-pronged proposition, a

engineering marvel and a scientific exploration. we've received a tweet, bill nye. yes. let's look at the tweet. >> the kids, finally i'm stretching my legs after more than ten years landing gear deployed. >> so it worked, that's an important step. >> so there's mutual gravity. even though these things are quite small. they still have gravity. >> what does that mean, mutual gravity. >> everybody remember when you see dust on the book shelf, not only is the earth pulling the dust down, but the dust sfr so slightly pulling the earth up. that's what isaac newton realized watching the apple fall from the tree. >> you're blowing my mind. >> so when you do a mission like this human kind, really, it's exploration. so two things are going to happen. you're going to make discoveries. what are you going to find there? we don't know, that's why we're going. is it a bunch of little pebbles. how much ice is it? how is the ice and pebbliness mixed together?

is it soft, hard, like sandpaper, is it smooth? that's one thing and the other thing, is we're having an adventure. discovery is an adventure. from a practical standpoint. i remind you all there is no evidence at all that ancient dinosaurs had a space program. and that cost them. so when the earth got hit with an asteroid, the ancient dinosaurs were wiped out, okay? we don't want that to happen to us. from a practical standpoint, some day, somebody is going to have to deflect -- >> the movie "armageddon." >> yes, but you don't want to blow it up. i love the bruce willis. so by the way, you guys, this is an exciting time and this is a robotic mission and this is cool and we at the planetary society are very supportive of this. if you haven't done so, please check out planetary.org, and read emily's blog. that said, if there are people on this mission, we would all be

out of our minds with excitement. >> we're pretty into it. we're taking it on pretty big here. >> so just keep in mind that space exploration really is, an extraordinary thing that humankind does. we loorigins. there's two questions, everybody, that get us all. where did we come from? and are we alone in the universe? >> help us understand how landing on a comet will help us understand where we came from? >> the comet is made of primordial stuff. the stuff of the earliest solar system. and learning more about that material informs more about what the early earth was like. so there's a lot more water in the solar system than used to be presumed. and by water, i'm talking about water ice. and ice. and so the earth was probably forming and a bunch of comets came in and put water there. what kind of water watt was it? was it salty, ammonia-full water? were there amino acids which seem to form like crazy in the solar system and they hooked up and here we all are?

these are cool questions. we chip away at this. and we are, it's very reasonable that we are the first generation of humans to find out if life is common in the solar system or common in the universe or just extremely rare. which either way is spooky. and then we are the first generation of humans that could prevent the only preventible natural disaster. which would be the earth getting hit with an asteroid. >> are we making too much of the fact that this was a ten-year orbit? >> no, no, no. >> or that it's such a difficult mission. >> there's so much space in space. >> that's deep, bill. >> it is deep space. and it's icy and cold and black and space. and so just it's extraordinary that you can find the object as we say, looking for a typical asteroid. and a comet is like an asteroid, it has enough water to make a tail when it's near the sun. and the word "near" the sun,

millions of miles. it's like looking for a charcoal briquette in the dark. that's one thing, it's hard. then the other thing is getting your washing machine to show up going 34,000 miles per hour. this is really hard, guys. hitting a bullet with a bullet. >> there you go. >> thanks, somebody finally -- >> bill nye, the science guy. >> check out his new book "undeniable evolution: science and creation." always a treat to have you here with us. >> i have in here a little chapter about the asteroid test. maybe the reason we've never heard from another civilization is you have to pass the asteroid test. if you get hit with an asteroid it's like -- what is it, on a pc, control-alt-delete where everything wipes out? if we get hit with an asteroid or a comet, it could just -- kill everybody. >> on that cheery note -- >> no, but it's preventible, if

we support space exploration, we can prevent this. >> that is a cheery note. >> that's cool. it brings out the best. thank you. >> segue, these questions have spawned lots of different ideas of where we come from and what-not. which has spawned a lot of ideas about faith. and that takes us to our next story. the mormon church, a huge and growing area of faith has battled the stain of bigamy or polygamy for a while. one of the key defenses was that their founder was a one-woman man. turns out, not so much. we'll explain ahead.

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polygamy is a troersial pco part of the more monday community. the church acknowledging joseph smith took as many as 40 wives, some of whom were already married and one was as young as 14 years old. why is the more monday church coming forward with this information? >> let's get an answer. michael pepper with us, professor at theologist at fordham university. professor, always good to have you here. >> thank you. >> what is going on? obviously we have to believe if it's true, if they're saying it, why would they lie but what does it mean? >> what's new here this is an official admission on lds.org on the official website of the more monday church. we have a surprising extent of the number of wives, up to 40. we also have an admission about emma smith his first wife and that might be the most interesting piece of the admission. emma smith went on to become a

member of early more mondayism, against polygamy. >> they were supposed to have this blissful union, right, the story was that they were monogamous. people held him up as a pillar of the community and monogamy and the fact he had alienated and hurt his wife so much by doing this, that is a bombshell. >> it is. it calls it an excruciating ordeal in the document for emma and when we contrast this with the way joseph and emma smith are presented in temple square for example in salt lake city a statue of them holding hands looking like the image of marital monogamous union so i mn the pews it creates another story. >> this was going to be discovered in people wanted to look in the right places, they hadn't decided to i guess. >> early mormon history is fuzzy

from the period of 1831 to the arrival in utah there's a period of years there's not a of material record outside the papers of joseph smith. ls has a website called joseph smith papers and starting to unveil and be more transparent in print and online about his personal effects and writings. >> we have an excerpt from the report about this bombshell. "after receiving a revelation commanding him to practice plural marriage, joseph smith married multiple wives and introduced the practice to close associates. this principle was among the most challenging aspects of the restoration for joseph personally and for other church members. plural marriage tested faith and provoked controversy and opposition." so why did he do it? >> he certainly believed that he was receiving special revelations from god which were going to overwhelm civil law and scriptural practices before him. he said that he prayed on the

testament, old testament, stories about the biblical patriarchs from the hebrew scriptures that revealed their plural marriages and believed god was revealing this to him. the article says he was visited three times by an angel, the third of which threatened him with a sword if he did not consent to this revelation of plural marriage as restored by god in this day. >> certainly not an uncommon practice through the ages although to some it will smack a little bit of the doth protest too much against something he obviously indulged in heavily. it's good to know the truth. thanks very much professor peppard. >> thanks for having me here. one groundbreaking piece. here's another one, a deal in china between the u.s. and china. two countries usually don't agree on much but they appear to be making a big move on climate change. we'll tell you what it took to get this deal in place and what it could mean for you. ferguson, missouri,

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>> your "new day" continues right now. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. >> good morning. welcome back to your new day. it's wednesday, november 12th. now 8:00, there it is, in the east. chris cuomo and alisyn camerota here. right now, the president is off cutting this really big deal with china, climate deal. >> the deal calls for both countries to reduce the greenhouse gas emission blamed for climate change. ivan watson joins us from the capital of myanmar where the president is about to land and ivan will tell us about this climate deal. good morning, ivan. >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. president obama saying this is a great example of what can happen when the leaders of the two world's biggest economies which also happen to be the world's biggest producers of carbon emissions when they work together. take a listen to what the president had to say. >> this is an ambitious goal but

it is an achievable goal. it will double the pace at which we're reducing carbon pollution in in the united states, puts us on a path to the deep reductions by advanced economies which the scientific community says is to prevent the most catastrophic effects of climate change. >> so what have they agreed to do exactly s lexactly? the u.s. pledged to cut carbon emissions to below levels of 2005. meanwhile, china has promised to have its maximum carbon emissions reached by 2030, and then to increase non-fossil fuels, the use of those by 20% by 2030, and if you've ever been to china, if you've ever seen the air pollution that just smog in beijing, the likes of which i've never seen anywhere else in the world, many chinese should be applauding this agreement, because it may clean up their air a little bit.

alisyn? >> ivan you make a great point. so many people who are concerned about climate change or question it here in the u.s. say why am i going to buy a hybrid when china is cranking out so much pollution. let's move on to what you're doing in myanmar. what is the president expected to do there? >> reporter: well, he's coming to a meeting of southeast asian leaders here that will take place tomorrow. he's coming back nearly two years exactly after the day he first visited myanmar or as the u.s. refers to it as burma. it's one of the foreign policy successes that the obama administration has had. burma going from being a military junta to trying to build towards holding democratic elections next year, but it hasn't been all rosy. the obama administration warning that some of the reforms have slowed down. there have been some steps backwards, and we've actually been reporting this week on a policy, what appears to be ethnic cleansing of the rohija

muslim minority in the west of this country. oba obama's visit will include, the president will be traveling to the commercial capital where he'll meet with the chief opposition leader aung san suu kyi who is also a nobel prize winner, who was living under house arrest for years there, but released within the last two years along with many other political prisoners. back to you. >> so many human rights issues to talk about on the president's trip. ivan watson, thanks so much for explaining it to us. so how are congressional and global leaders responding to this climate change deal? we bring in chief congressional correspondent dana bash and bobby gush, managing editor. the president calls this an ambitious deal with china, republicans say it's basically a raw deal. >> if anybody is wondering what is going to change with the new republican senate, this is exhibit "a" and the reason is because the new head of the senate environment and public

works committee, the committee that will have jurisdiction over all things environment is james inhofe of oklahoma. he wrote the book dog manmade climate change a hoax. we have the first cnn statement from him about this deal and i'll read part of it. he said "in the president's climate change deal the united states will be required to more steeply reduce our carbon emissions while china won't have to reduce anything. it's hollow and not believable for china to claim it will shift 20% of its energy to non-fossil fuels by 2030." it's not just senator inhofe who will have an important role in the new senate it's the new majority leader, mitch mcconnell who also issued a statement saying that this is case in point of why the president's policies, he said, were on the ballot. he is from a coal-producing state and campaigned, i was there with him, very, very hard on rolling back the epa regulations that are very

similar to what would have to happen if this treaty would go into place. so that's the kind of reaction you're getting from the republicans in the senate. look, a treaty has to have a super majority to pass the senate, two-thirds majority, 67 votes. do not hold your breath and wait for this to happen in the senate, but republicans i talked to this morning say they think the president can again do some of this on his own with his regulatory powers in the executive branch. >> we bring in bobby gush for more perspective on this deal. as you heard, republicans say it's a raw deal because china is making baby steps while the u.s. is making grander steps. how do you see it? >> the good news is china is going to keep to the targets regardless of what the u.s. does because for months now we've been hearing china independently of this deal has been aiming toward some of the targets, wanting to cap their emissions and wanting a better mix of different kinds of power generation, not simply depending heavily on coal.

so this is in their interests. they've decided it's in their interests to increase the amount of power generation from non-fossil fuels and that's good for the rest of the world. whether the u.s. is going to -- >> they don't have to do anything until 20 o30. >> that's according to the treaty. analysts look at china's power situation and have been predicting actually they will tleech peak sooner, maybe 2020 or 2025. so independent of american politics, this is a direction china is going. so this deal from china's point of view is simply confirming what they've already planned, the bigger leap in faith has been and taen by presidetaken b. even before the ink is dry he's already getting pushback. the normal skepticism that the u.s. will keep up its side of the bargain. the chinese side i think is already baked in. >> dana, what happens when the president returns from his asia trip? how quickly does all of this start to boil?

>> well, you know, there's no way he's going to try to push this through the democratic senate. i don't think there's time, meaning in this lame duck session, which is about six weeks before the new republican majority is sworn in, in january. but i think it's important to keep in mind in this context that already the new republican majority leader, mitch mcconnell, campaigned on a promise to use his power through the appropriations process, through the basic powers of congress to roll back the epa regulations that the president has already put in place, so never mind what the president wants to do in the future. they're already talking about rolling back what he's done in the past so that gives you a sense of the climate you'll see politically with regard to this issue. >> bobby, you were saying it's not just a political challenge but actually doing it, achieving this goal. why is it so difficult? >> the political atmosphere

creates the difficulties. the chinese are building a lot of new infrastructure, so they can, as they go into that process, they can plan ahead, before they put power generation plants on the ground, they can plan for what kind of power they're going to generate. and the u.s., a lot of the generating capacity is already there. so it requires changing. that's expensive to do, that is technically not easy to do and then you have to deal with the local communities everywhere. this is a democracy. nobody is going to push back at president li. president li says it's going to get done and nobody dares political opposition and no lobbies for the coal industry that will try to persuade him to change his mind. any american leader is going to have to go through the gauntlet of political difficulties, technical difficulties, heavy lobbying by vested interests in those industries. >> bobby ghosh, dana bash, thank you for explaining what they're

aulg an historic deal. thanks for being here. a new surge in violence to report. al qaeda offshoots are active in yemen and the u.s. is on high alert. they may evacuate the embassy and they say it will not turn into another benghazi. barbara starr at the pentagon, odd way to characterize readiness, what do we know? >> good morning, chris. if there is going to be an evacuation at the embassy that has to come at the request of the ambassador. the state department runs the empassy. if they need military help, what is happening is behind the scenes the pentagon has updated its evacuation plans to be ready if the call comes, because violence is throwing those streets in yemen not fully under the control of the government. there has been fighting around the airport, that means if diplomats have to go, they may not be able to drive to the airport and get out. that is why you see an amphibious warship off the coast with marines and helicopters ready to go if they get that call.

now, yemen very different than any other place, because of al qaeda there, the al qaeda group in yemen is promised to, vowed, if you will, to attack the united states. they are very capable. they are a big worry. no diplomats, no cia operatives, no u.s. military personnel, the u.s. could lose a very valuable intelligence window into those al qaeda operations. it's one reason the diplomats want to stay. the pentagon getting nervous saying you might need to think about going before we can't get you out. chris? >> disappointing especially when, under the new regime there in yemen, there had been more efforts to take on al qaeda. now this turn. all right, so let's go to the warfront right now. some hope for good news in terms of taking a town back from isis in iraq, what do we know? >> in iraq, the iraqi media and the iraqi military reporting now in the last several hours that the iraqi forces have retaken

the town of baji in northern iraq. why is this so important? isis had taken control in this region some months ago. baji is the site of iraq's largest oil refinery. iraqi forces struggled to maintain control. they have apparently moved back into the town and the fighting is under way. they believe they are retaking control of baji, a very important stronghold for iraqi forces and isis. they hope to take it away from isis. chris? >> the question will be what damming was done to the facilities there, how quickly can they get it online? thank you for the reporting. appreciate it as always. mick? >> let's give you a look at headlines. nato claims over the last two days russian combat troops were spotted entering eastern ukraine armed with weapons. the cease-fire was already in trouble, fighting intensified tuesday between ukrainian military and pro-russian separate is. >> very well could be an historic day in space.

check out these pictures in from space, the lander has deployed its landing gear and will try to land on a comet, some are describing it as the shape of a rubber duck t is moving at that comet at a mere 34,000 miles an hour. the probe separated from the rosetta orbiter after ten years affixed to its side. the landing is hoped comes around 10:30 a.m. this morning. stick with cnn on that. breaking just minutes ago cnn projecting republican dan sullivan on the left defeating imcouple bent democrat mark begich in the race for alaska's sthath. i senate. it's the eighth seat to flip to the republicans in the election. the gop will have at least 53 seats in the senate next year. mary landrieu and bill cassidy face off in a december 6th runoff. got to share this bittersweet moment. couple in texas, justin nelson and christie warrer in tied the knot in the neonatal intensive

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new developments out of ferguson, missouri, to tell you about. cnn confirmed that the forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy on michael brown will

appear before the grand jury. this comes following a new warning from missouri's governor that violence will not be tolerated after the grand jury's decision and anyone who crosses the line he says will face the consequences. we will speak to a local official in ferguson in a moment. first to issara sidner live in missouri. who is the feel there? >> reporter: i think with every day that goes by, people's nerves are even more on edge. lot of folks are calling me on a daily basis saying is it today? we hear it's today. we hear it's this weekend and so i think just people's nerves are frayed here in this town. some people are preparing diligently, some are deciding to go out of town. there are plenty of folks who are going to stay here. they don't think it's going to be that bad but there is a certain level of fear that has existed all this time waiting for the grand jury to come back. governor nixon tried to assuage those fears in his speech last

night. as the ground jury announcement on whether to indict darren wilson grows ever near the missouri governor sent a message out to everyone, law enforcement is ready. >> anybody that comes here needs to know they'll be safe, all at the same time exercising those rights of speech. if folks cross that safety line on property or on person, we will use the full power of the law to keep peace. >> we've got to fight back! >> reporter: the governor says he will send in the national guard if required. >> get back! >> reporter: 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 blaming their reaction. >> it's finally going to be a little anger, a little tension. there are going to be a few bad apples that 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. >> reporter: but police say they have targets of violence and have been diligently meeting with the community over the past 90 days to make safety for all a priority. >> we have had instances where officers have been injured. we have had instances 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 parents took their message to the world, speaking to the u.n. committee on torture. >> what we're trying to do is get help from whoever we can. >> it's overwhelming. it makes your emotional and to talk about it makes you relive that day and i hate that day.

>> reporter: michael brown's family has said time and again that they want the protests to be peaceful, but when asked if the indictment does not come down for officer darren wilson, they said they would march in the streets as well alongside protesters. alisyn? >> sara sidner, thank you for previewing everything that may be happening there this week. we appreciate that. let's go over to chris. the question of leadership looms large. let's bring in missouri state senator maia chappelle-nadal. i saw you out there, senator, good to have you. >> thank you. >> the need will be even greater now, no matter what happens and let me get your take on a few developments we have. we know the brown family is in switzerland at the conference. they said something to cnn, they haven't been addressed by the prosecutor's office, they don't have a victim's advocate, no elay soel liaison. that's unusual. did you know that? how do you explain it? >> we have been hearing that for

several weeks now, probably a couple of months and i think it is a concern for the community that the family has not had any kind of communication with the prosecuting attorney's office at all. and i mean, it's really reflective of what's happened since day one. we should have had counselors and psychologists on the ground to help this hurting community, and we haven't. so the resources that should have been in the community have not been there, the lack of communication starts from the top from the governor on down. >> well we're reaching out to the prosecutor's office because you know, by implication, the prosecutor in situations like this is kind of the counsel not just for the state bringing action but the victim's family. you hear prosecutors talking about how they consulted with the family what they want and what they'll pursue so that is certainly unusual, that's one kind of leadership. now we get to the political form of leadership with the governor. i've called him out before wondering where your leaders are in terms of being in ferguson when they're needed but what is wrong with what he's saying

about how we will keep the peace, we will have the national guard if we need them, we will be ready? >> well, i do want to give the governor just a little bit of credit. he finally acknowledged that the first amendment right is necessary and should be acknowledged. that's a huge achievement for him in his speech. what he is lacking is why people are protesting. obviously we know that the agitators are not welcome in st. louis or in ferguson, but for the people who i have been with, those who have been protesting, he needs to understand why we are protesting, and for him to really focus on all of the ar r armory and weaponry that is here in st. louis and at the airport and all the pictures that we have seen of vehicles and apache helicopters as well as drones, i mean, that's what he's focusing on but he's not focusing why are thousands of people in st. louis angry. he has not addressed that and

it's one of the failures in his administration at this point. >> you're in the same party, isn't' that right? >> we are. >> it's unusual, but what i'm saying is this, is it an either/or proposition or is it a both? you have to have sensitivity to the community. you have to be present. you have to work on the problems or they won't go away but you must also prepare for what we saw the last time, because the cops there, as you know, were not ready right away. and that creates instability, that creates danger. you need both in place, don't you? >> you're absolutely right. and i have to tell you that law enforcement has also come a long way from the very beginning. in fact, the department of justice has offered some training classes for a couple of d days, that's very good and it's also indicative that there were some problems that occurred, including me being tear gassed for three hours on the third day of this entire movement, but i have to tell you that when the world discovered that our human rights were taken away, that's when people started addressing

the issue. some later than others, but what we have to focus on is a balance between our exercising our first amendment rights and also what is most important and if the governor does not realize -- >> we lost the senator's shot there, obviously. senator maria chappelle nadal, making the point the governor has to understand why people are angry in missouri and not just what to do about it once the anger boils over. we'll be back in contact with her to be sure that's the story there from right now. alisyn? >> thanks so much. mexico is looking like a war zone and protesters and police are clashing. a government building has been torched. demonstrators are demanding answers today about what happened to those dozens of missing students. and are you thinking about going to college? well, save a lot of cash or you could just find a job after school and make a lot of money. that's the advice from one of

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outrage in mexico this morning as protesters demand answers about the abduction of 43 students. demonstrators are not backing down. they're hurling rocks and fireworks at police who are responding with rubber bullets. cnn's rosa flores has more for us from mexico. good morning, rosa. tell us, are the protests growing there this morning? >> you know, they are. tensions are really high, all-sip. alisyn. it looks and sounds like a war zone. but it's the 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 fireworks, rocks, you name it, sticks, and it's not stopping. this boiled over tension fueled by inconclusive news of the whereabouts of the missing. angry protesters not standing down, continuing their advance across this bridge. more than 70 arrests have been made, including the 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's nothing they can do. [ speaking in foreign language ] there's no hope. >> si. >> reporter: in the chaos cnn cameras catch a mob surrounding

the police officers with some of the protesters saying "leave them alone, leave them 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 lives back home. >> of course they want their 43 children back home and this story, rosa, is so inconceivable to us here in the u.s. that 43 college students could have just been abducted without a trace. do we know why these students were targeted in the first place? >> reporter: you know, we've been digging into that answer, alisyn, and we have been able to find some information from federal authorities. turns out, now all of this according to federal authorities, there's a history here. so these students were part of a protest, a demonstration in the city of iguala in the summer of 2013, and so according to

federal authorities when the mayor found out that the students were coming to his town, while his wife was delivering a speech, he really didn't like that, and so federal authorities say that's when he picked up the phone and called police and asked police to stop them, and then of course we know the rest of the story, according to federal authorities then these police officers shoot and kill about three people allegedly, and then turn them over to a cartel. and so it's a part of the plot that's fascinating because it shows us that there's a little history here. >> yes, but the idea that the mayor, to quell a protest, would have 43 college students abducted and then possibly murdered, it's so disgusting, and of course the protesters there today don't trust government officials because that mayor and his wife have now been arrested. >> reporter: and you know, it's even deeper than that, not only

at the city level but at the state level, and at the federal level, and so these protesters are saying we don't trust what the government is telling us. we don't trust what the attorney general is telling us. you know, the other thing that we learned is that there are argentinean forensic experts that are helping with the identification of remains, because they have found mass graves, and there are several that they had been testing because federal authorities said there's a possibility these were the students. they tested at least part of the remains of some of those mass graves and came back saying no, they're not them, so they're still working on these latest remains that they have found, and so it's been a roller coaster of emotion for these families to receive inconclusive news over an over. >> of course, and the fact that they can't, they don't trust of course the cartels, they're in danger from the cartels but then also they'd be in danger from the mayor and his wife and government officials. rosa flores, thank you so much for all the information on the ground.

we'll continue to cover this story, of course. let's go over to michaela for more news. all right, we have the five things to know for your new day. an historic deal with the united states and china agreeing to sharp reductions in greenhouse gas emissions over the next two decades. moments ago president obama landed in myanmar, on the next leg of his three-country swing through the asia-pacific. nato says russian combat troops were spotted entering eastern ukraine. the cease-fire between both sides already crumbling as intense fighting continues between pro-russian separatists and ukrainian troops. missouri governor jay nixon says he is willing to call in the national guard between to deal with any fallout from the grand jury's decision in the michael brown shooting. nixon says a repeat of this summer's violence will not be tolerated. congress beginning its lame duck session today, the keystone oil pipeline getting some attention. democrats may call for a vote to boost support for louisiana senator mary landrieu from her

runoff which is next month. an historic mission ten years in the making, the lander is on decent to touch down on a moving comet, expected in about two hours' time, simple enough, right? land a probe on a comet traveling 34,000 miles an hour. chris? time for today's "human factor." meet a woman who has been a transformational journey, she lost 100 pounds on her own and dropped another 100 pounds as part of cnn's fit nation challenge. chief medical correspondette dr. sanjay gupta follows the inspiring journey. take a look. >> reporter: at over 400 pounds she was revered in her samoan culture. >> i was considered by people a samoan woman of strength but there is no strength in pain, in hurt, in living with uncontrolled diabetes. >> reporter: complications from her diabetes even forced her to

have all of her teeth removed. >> it was on that same day that i decided to be an activist against obesity and diabetes. >> reporter: already an acclaimed author, she used her platform to become a crusader, speaking to schoolchildren and parents about the dangers of obesity. she joined the 2014 cnn fit nation and began chaining for the nautica malibu triathlon. in eight months she lost weight swimming, biking and running, she also gaund a lot of confidence. on september 14th she became a triathle triathlete. >> i feel like i'm a new person. i feel like i've been rebirthed, i've been baptized. >> reporter: not even a nasty bike crash who keep figiel from reaching the finish line. >> they wanted to take me in the emergency vehicle but i said i can't do that. may family's out there, my team's out there. i cannot ride in a car. i came to do a race!

>> reporter: she finished the race with her team by her side. >> my team was there. and they brought me in. >> reporter: more than 100 pounds lighter now, she's not ready to stop. >> i'll do it again. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, malibu. >> atta-girl. >> no better science than the demonstration of change. for her to have done that, it's not easy, it's hot, a mile swim, 26-mile bike and then it's a six-mile run. >> wow, i'm exhausted thinking about it. >> she's a brave woman, way to go. this hot topic, thinking of going to college? it may not be worth it. one of the richest men in america says save your cash and become a plumber. we'll debate that. plus, what would you do if an airline lost your dog? not your suitcase, that sucks bad enough, your dog? it happened to one man from tampa. we'll talk to him live and get

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♪ ♪ working for a living ♪ working for a living generations now kids fighting with their parents whether or not to go to college, for some it was a dream come true, for others a big moment of doubt. it's so expensive now and the job market being what it is, is it worth the cost? one of america's richest men is saying not necessarily.

this comes again as the news of skyrocketing tuition and how hard it is to get debt and pay it off and everything else that goes along with college, is just as prohimselfive as ever, much faster than the cost of living or inflation adjustment. what to do? chief business correspondent christine romans is here to explain. should i go to college? >> you should go back to school. no, this is michael bloomberg, former mayor of new york city, he said college might not be worth it for everyone. he was at the annual meeting of a wall street trading group. "today if your kid wants to go to college or become a plumber you've got to think long and hard. if he's not going to go to a great school and he's not super smart academically but is smart in terms of dealing with people and that sort of thing, being a plumber is a great job because you have pricing power, you have an enormous skill set." he also said you could pay a year's tuition at harvard about $58,000 including room and board and make that much in a year as an apprentice plumber.

bloomberg went to johns hopkins university and haar record business school. lot of people saying college isn't worth it. many have a college degree or happen to be exclusive and accomplished in the economy. i say college is worth it with an asterisk. if you drop out of school with a bunch of student loan debt, college is not worth it. if you study something the economy is not going to reward college is not worth it. couple numbers to give you, 44% of students in college don't graduate within six years. for them college is not worth it. $30,000 annual price for a fe r four-year private college. 51% of new grads jobs don't require a degree, for those college isn't worth it. >> there's a sea change happening in the country. if you were middle class or even lower class student that was the path. the great equalizer. you had to go to college and make something of yourself. something changed and it's the debt that you're going to be saddled with and you have to crunch the numbers >> chris makes a good point.

what are we doing in college? >> what are the numbers between the average money made by a college graduate and the average money made by a successful tradesperson, maybe the -- >> a successful tradesperson is going to do very well. those are ladder jobs, plumbers, electricians, coders. those people are making a ton of money. imlove the trade jobs like mike rowe. >> he has a foundation for it. >> if you have business acumen, if you can be an apprentice plumber and do business school you can employ a lot of people and those are not outsourcing jobs. here's the thing. there are a lot of jobs where someone, employer says you have to have a four-year degree proves to me you can do it, you can follow through what you learn about creativity and working with people, working with groups in a four-year college is incredibly important. so that is a real boom. but if you're borrowing all this money, and you have a degree that's not valued on the other end that's a real problem.

>> i want kids to have a choice to be able to know. i want them to know they can go to college if they choose to. my question is here, is society prepared to shift? what is the first question among the first question people ask you when they meet you. where did you go to school. what does that have any bearing on who i am and what i bring to the world? >> also depends where you. . if you're in more working class communities the first thing they ask is what do you do. >> in the northeast they ask you where you went to school. been there done that. >> professional class. >> it has to be what you can do well, what you can get paid to do and what you like to do. the intersection of those three things are incredibly important. for somebody that's skilled machinery working, going to a community college for two years, getting an apprenticeship and getting paid, unbelievable getting paid to learn how to work for one of the big companies. for others it's going to be working in the trades. for others it will be a four-year degree and then starting after that with a first foot in the workforce. it depends on who you are.

you cannot spend four to five years in college at 30 grand a year finding yourself. parents have to tell their kids that you can't -- we just can't afford to do that anymore. >> we want to know what you think about the value of college and you can find us all on twitter. we welcome your comments also on facebook. send us your comments. obviously this discussion we're going to help you out because it's going to be the central topic of "ivory tower." it looks at the frt-climbing tuition rates and student loan debt. it is on thursday, november 20th at 9:00 p.m. eastern, only on cnn. you won't get a better explanation of it than you'll get right there. airlines tend to lose baggage all the time. but what would you do if they lost something that you could never replace like your dog? this happened to one man traveling across the country. we'll speak to him live to get the details. clear protein drink. >>clear huh? i'm not juice or fancy water. i've got 8 grams of protein. new ensure active clear protein.

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>> i was boarding a plane at lax, and i was putting my carry-on baggage where it goes in the compartment. i sat down maybe two minutes later one of the delta employees took me to the side, first she said that she lost my, that my dog ran away and that they found him and they need moo he to identify him and two minutes later she said he bit through the kennel and ran across the airport and they still can't find him. >> oh my gosh, frank, what a story. so the last time you saw your dog was in los angeles at the airport, and you stayed for many days trying to recover your dog. what was the airline telling you during that time? >> they were just, he went missing october 31st at nighttime and they wouldn't give me no straight answers no, concrete answer. they kept flipping the story. >> how so?

>> like i said before, she first told me that he bit through the kennel and then she said like before that, she wouldn't give me into straight hour. she said he ran away an hour ago, then she said they had him. she couldn't make up her mind. >> delta released a statement about this problem "delta continues to investigate what happened but early indications show the procedures were followed and the dog may have compromised the kennel on its own. delta immediately worked with lax airport teams and the customer to locate the dog but was unsuccessful. we remain in contact with the k customer and we fully support the search for the pet. delta understands that pets are an important member of the family and regrets this occurred while the pet was entrusted to our care." what do you make of that statement, frank? >> well, me and my mom have been

calling delta at lax and we left countless amounts of voice mail and they don't get back to us. now the ceo of delta is getting in charge of this. he's taking over. >> good, frank. it matters. listen, we know this has got to be weighing on your heart heavy. dog just like another member of the family, make sure you stay in touch whether or not they put out flyers for you, whether you need help with that, whether at the local station, all the stuff you usually do if you lost your dog is getting done. let us know if we can help. >> i will. shelter in north hollywood is putting up flyers and offering a $1,000 reward. >> let's hope that actually brings your dog ty back. frank, thanks for sharing your story with us. >> yes, thank you for having me. >> that's terrible. >> it is terrible. hopefully maybe they'll find ty. >> that's a really hard story,

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a deep breath and blew the building down. >> i love that, handing out superhero capes. you can do anything with a cape. >> 4 years old, they grow up fast in those bad situations though and boy he's doing a good thing now. thanks for being with us. lot of news this morning. let's get you right to "the newsroom" with pamela brown in for carol costello. >> hey there, good morning, everyone. micha michae michaela, chris, alisyn, have a great rest of the day. "newsroom" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning i'm pamela brown in for carol costello. thank you so much for being here with us on this wednesday. and we begin today in geneva, sweats switzerland where the parents of michael brown have taken their fight in their son's shooting death to t