want to be. hello and welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i'm natalie allen. >> i'm john vause. great to have you with us. ahead at this hour, an act of pure evil. the white house lashes out after isis militants behead another u.s. aid worker. caught on video. newly released recordings shed new light on the killing of an african-american teenager by a white police officer in ferguson, missouri. also ahead, vlad against his critics. the russian leader heads home early after a frosty reception at the g-20 summit in australia. and wet phone?

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the victim. peter kassig's parents say they are heartbroken their son lost his life as a result of his love for the syrian people and his desire to ease their suffering. alexander field reports his family and friends remember a brave young man who just wanted to help. >> reporter: paula and ed kassig asking for privacy and asking for their son peter kassig to be remembered for his important work and the love he shared with friends and family. last month the parents publicly pleaded for mercy from kassig's captors. >> most of all, know that we love you and our hearts ache for you to be granted your freedom. >> reporter: their 26-year-old son telling them in a letter, "i'm obviously pretty scared to die. but the hardest part is not knowing, wondering, hoping and wondering if i should even hope at all." >> i think he wanted to return back to the middle east and contribute in a very different way, in a more constructive way, helping people directly.

he didn't want to be another guy with a gun. >> reporter: the army ranger turned aid worker had gone far from syria and turkey's border. back home in indianapolis he'd graduated from north central high school and later took classes at butler university. in a statement the school's president says, "isis has accomplished nothing through this abhorrent act of violence. all it has done is taken away a good person who wanted to help the syrian people." >> peter really believed that an individual can make a difference in the world. through their love and compassion and their intelligence and that willing to give back. that is the message i think peter would want me to convey. the world has lost a bright light and a compassionate heart. and as we mourn him, i would hope that we all can recognize that the violence must end. ♪ >> reporter: on campus students held a vigil during kassig's captivity.

in his home town local muslim community groups embraced his parents. >> there are really no words you can put for somebody that like -- with so much courage, that was willing to risk his life, risk everything. >> reporter: kassig took on the name abdul rahman. he had converted to islam months before his captivity, his parents say. in the letter he says he's in a dogmatically complicated situation but at peace with his belief. he tells his parents, "don't worry, dad. if i go down i won't go thinking anything but what i know to be true, that you and mom love me more than the moon and the stars." alexandra field, cnn, new york. during the summer of 2012 peter kassig was helping to care for thousands of syrian civilians who'd been hurt during the civil war. that's when arwa damon caught up with him to talk about his need to do that work. >> reporter: the first time we met peter was during the summer of 2012. it was quite the sight. peter, a former army ranger, pale, tattooed, and though at

the time speaking only a handful of arabic, tending to wounded syrians with a compassion that transcended the language barrier. >> we each get one life, and that's it. you get one shot at this. we don't get any do-overs. you know, and like for me it was time to put up or shut up. the way i saw it, i didn't have a choice. you know, like this is what i was put here to do. i guess i'm just a hopeless romantic and i'm an idealist. and i believe in hopeless causes. >> reporter: for peter doing something meant starting his own non-profit. just months after we met him he was already delivering humanitarian aid and medical assistance to syrians in refugee camps and inside the war-torn country. profoundly touching all who lived and worked with him. in the words of this syrian activist, he would treat everyone, no one was exempt. he trained many on first aid. "he lived in the house with us. he was extremely kind. he was sad during our times of sorrow and happy for our times

of joy." dr. ennis recalls his last conversation with peter saying, "i asked him if he was afraid he would be killed, and he said no. my life is not worth more than yours. and that he considers himself to be like any other person who was part of the syrian revolution." peter was kidnapped shortly afterwards, in october 2013. at some point during his captivity he converted to islam and took on the name abdul rahman. in this letter drafted to his parents during that time he wrote, "if i do die, i figure that at least you and i can seek refuge and comfort in knowing that i went out as a result of trying to alleviate suffering and helping those in need." and that is how peter will be remembered, for his humor, laughter, but mostly his drive and compassion and the way he inspired us all more than he could ever imagine. >> there's this impression, this belief that there is no hope. you know, that's when it's more

important than ever that we come in against all odds and try to do something. >> cnn's arwa damon reporting there. we want to turn now to the battlefield. a series of u.s.-led air strikes zeroed in on isis targets in the syrian community of kobani sunday. columns of smoke from the strikes could be seen rising over the skyline as fighting on the ground intensified. some of the shots fired from the turkish side of the border. isis has been trying to seize kobani from kurdish defenders for the past couple of months. in iraq it's believed isis is behind two bombings near baghdad international airport. one explosion targeted a u.n. convoy headed to the green zone. no one was hurt. the other was a suicide car bombing. it's unclear if there were casualties in that attack. the u.s. president barack obama questions about u.s. military involvement in iraq and syria returned to center stage this past weekend as he returned home from his tour of asia and the g-20 summit in australia.

some comments the president made at that summit -- as that summit wrapped up are now getting a lot of attention. here's erin mcpike. >> reporter: as he headed home from the g-20 summit in australia, president obama was briefed aboard air force one by national security adviser susan rice on the latest aggressive move from isis, the apparent beheading of a third american, aid worker peter kassig of indiana. the video's release came just hours after the president shifted slightly from his vow that he would never commit u.s. combat ground troops to fight isis in iraq. >> there are always circumstances in which the united states might need to deploy u.s. ground troops. if we discovered that isil had gotten possession of a nuclear weapon and we had to run an operation to get it out of their hands, then yes, you can anticipate that not only would chairman dempsey recommend me

sending u.s. ground troops to get that weapon out of their hands but i would order it. >> reporter: dempsey, the nation's top general, has just been in iraq, evaluating whether the u.s. presence there was enough. the president, though, held firm that the u.s. will not change its position against working with syria's president bashar al assad to battle isis. >> assad has ruthlessly murder ed hundreds of thousands of his citizens. and as a consequence has completely lost legitimacy with the majority of the country. for us to then make common cause with him against isil would only turn more sunnis in syria in the direction of supporting isil and would weaken our coalition that

sends a message around the region this is not a fight against sunni islam. >> president barack obama there, finishing that report by erin mcpike. and the president's comments come after reports this past week that he has ordered a wholesale review of his administration's policies on syria. well, comedian bill cosby faces growing pressure over accusations he sexually assaulted several women over the past 20 years. >> cosby has never been charged with a crime, but a number of women have accused him of intimidation, abuse, and rape. one of his accusers is actress barbara bowman, who she says was drugged and raped by cosby and it happened several times. >> cosby's lawyer on sunday released a statement saying in part, "over the last several weeks, decade-old discredited allegations against mr. cosby have resurfaced. the fact that they are being repeated does not make them true. mr. cosby does not intend to dignify these allegations with

any comment." >> cosby is not staying out of the spotlight. he performed in the u.s. city of erie, pennsylvania sunday night, and the crowd gave him a standing ovation. this all comes after an interview over the weekend with national public radio, where he refused to answer any of the questions from the host, scott simons. >> as i began to say this question gives me no pleasure, he began to shake his head and go like that. so i think he certainly understood which question was coming. he was -- you know, he gave what i would refer to as that delightful impish kind of cosby smile at first. and then was silent, didn't answer the question. i thought there was a good chance the interview would be canceled. obviously, it wasn't. and i think we can probably fairly safely say that they have a strategy in place for when the question was asked, which maybe they thought that we couldn't use silence on the radio. >> this of course is trending on

social media. we went through, had a look at some of them. f equal support as well as disapproval for the comedian. >> we'll wait and see if he remains silent. that's a hard thing to do. but so far he's maintaining it. well, next here on cnn, a major decision looms in ferguson, missouri. we take a look at new video from the hours after a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed african-american teen. also ahead, tennis star roger federer pulls a rare move, but it'ss not one for the recor books. ahead here, his disappointing end to one of the game's biggest tournaments.

now to the latest in the shooting death of michael brown. demonstrators in the u.s. state of missouri staged what they call a die-in to mark 100 days since a white police officer shot and killed the unarmed black teen. some of the protesters laid on the ground in chalk outlines, trying to recreate the scene of the controversial shooting in the town of ferguson. a grand jury could decide at any moment whether to indict officer darren wilson for the death of 18-year-old michael brown. now attorneys say newly released video contradicts what the police department said about some of the events surrounding the controversial shooting. here's cnn's sara sidner. >> reporter: the number can now see some of the video and hear some of the audio that fills in

some of the gaps as to what happened on august 9th when michael brown was shot and killed by officer darren wilson here in ferguson. what you're seeing and hearing is some sound from the dispatch to officer wilson and some video of officer wilson coming in and out of the police department. and there are a few things that it tells us. the audio that you hear lets us know that there was at some point a call to officer wilson to tell him that there was a suspect who was accused of stealing cigars from one of the convenience stores here. but as the family of michael brown points out, he did not know that in his very initial greeting of michael brown, when he told him to get out of the street. now on to the video that you see of him going in and out of the police department. that surveillance video. that video shows you what he looks like. it doesn't give you much sense of what his demeanor is, but certainly shows you what he looks like. and at the very beginning of all

this, there was some information that was leaked from the department and leaked from sources who still remain unnamed, who said that officer wilson had been badly beaten about the eye and he had very bad injuries to his eye socket. you can see that is not the case from the video. however, the police department did come out not long after that and say no, he did not have major injuries to his face although he did have some swelling. now let's talk a little bit about what's happened here as far as whether or not officer wilson will immediately get his position back if indeed he is not indicted. that is something that some of the local stations here had reported. we did talk to the mayor and the police chief, and they say it is much more complicated than that, there are other investigations that still need to happen before that could happen. here's what the mayor had to say. >> this is a criminal investigation that talks about things that rise to the level of criminality. it doesn't mean that there might not be something still of concern to address in an

internal personnel investigation. >> so like breaking policy rule, something like that? >> sure. and so again, like i said, it's just -- i think it's premature to talk about what the status would be until all that stuff's been addressed. >> ultimately, it's a waiting game, but what people are waiting for first is that announcement with the grand jury's decision. everyone is on pins and needles in this town. everyone is planning for it. the police, protesters, residents. they are all waiting to hear the fate of officer wilson and to see what that's going to mean in the streets of ferguson and the surrounding cities. >> sara sidner there with that. now to mexico and a federal judge has opened a court proceeding against the former mayor of iguala. jose luis abaka stands accused of crimes preceding the disappearance of dozens of college students in that southern mexican town. over the weekend protesters demanded justice and answers concerning the fate of the 43 students who suddenly vanished two months ago and are believed

to have been killed. the students' disappearance is just the latest incident in southern mexico where crime is a huge ongoing problem. and the case itself, along with street protests fueled by the controversy, has only added to the difficulties many people there are now facing. rosa flores reports. >> reporter: the chaos starts as people roll into town. mass protesters blocking the highway. and siphoning gas. enough to scare drivers and people who call guerrero, mexico home. especially business owners who depend on open roads to get merchandise and make a living. like this woman, who doesn't want to be identified for fear of retaliation, but who says at least four distributors have stopped deliveries to her store. >> she says she feels a sense of hopelessness because there's not

much that citizens, business owners can do. >> reporter: protesters have also commandeered vehicles by day and by night and turned them into fiery messages. >> there's this commercial vehicle that delivers milk. >> reporter: it's all an effort to pressure the government into finding 43 students who went missing just under two months ago. officials say they're dead. families don't believe it. while most support their cause, others are fed up. >> she has talked to other business owners who say they feel like taking arms and defending their stores and defending their property from protesters. >> reporter: this is a perfect example of how protests are impacting the economy. right now it's the middle of the day, but take a look. there's an empty parking lot and a closed grocery store. at the nearby acapulco airport,

protesters beat a police officer last week. their protests blocked air travel for several hours at one of the nation's top tourist destinations. all signs of the escalating dysfunction. >> in the hands of god, she says. >> reporter: a test of faith that many in this community find increasingly difficult. rosa flores, cnn, in mexico's southern state of guerrero. still to come here on cnn, tennis fans excited to see one of the biggest matches of the year were disappointed after an unexpected move by roger federer. we'll explain what happened. sir, we're going to need you on the runway. (vo) theraflu starts to get to work in your body in just 5 minutes. (vo) theraflu breaks you free from your worst cold and flu symptoms. (vo) theraflu. serious power. but when we start worrying about tomorrow,

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welcome back to cnn. several professional u.s. football teams got a surprise visit from government drug agent on sunday. according to a report in the "washington post," it was part of an investigation into prescription drug abuse in the nfl. the raids stemmed from a lawsuit filed by thousands of nfl players which alleges players who were illegally given painkillers by team doctors and trainers to keep them on the field. a highly anticipated tennis match ended before it began sunday. roger federer was slated to face off with novak djokovic in the championship match of the atp finals but pulled out moments before it was about to start. cnn's christina mcfarland was there when it happened. here's her report from london.

>> reporter: the stage was set for a final showdown. but instead of going out with a bang the atp season closed with a whimper after roger federer stepped out on court here at the packed o2 arena and announced to fans he was not fit to play. he shortly afterward revealed to press that he tweaked his back in the final tiebreak of the third set against fellow swiss stan wawrinka. and having fought so hard to get here he wanted to tell the fans himself. >> good evening. i'm sorry here. i'm here in a track suit and not in a match outfit. unfortunately, i'm not match fit to play the match tonight. clearly, i wish that it wasn't so. i tried all year to be ready for the atp world tour finals, and i didn't want it to end this way, but i tried everything i could last night, also today. painkillers, treatment, rest and so forth. warm-up. till the very end. but just i can't compete at this

level with novak in a finals like this. it would be too risky at my age to do this right now. and i hope you understand. i wanted to come out personally and excuse myself for not playing. [ applause ] >> reporter: it's the 17,000 fans who missed out of course. and some of them had paid up to $170 for a ticket. and there was a mixed response to the news. >> i'm very disappointed. you know, you pay a lot of money to come here. it's -- for most of us it's a once-in-a-lifetime chance. so it's very disappointing that the match isn't taking place. >> i thought he's roger federer, he's going to recover for today. you know, i didn't realize he was injured last night. >> i think he should play. if rafa would be here he would play even wounded, even injured. so i'm not happy but i can expect from roger exactly what he did. >> i think he is as disappointed as we are. he loves tennis.

it's his thing. so i think he was very disappointed. it's good of him to come out and do it himself and give the news himself. >> reporter: speaking shortly after the announcement while collecting his trophy, novak djokovic said it was not the way he would have wanted to win. in fact, it was even difficult for him to talk about. but it was still the crown for all his achievements this year. christina mcfarland, cnn, london. >> at least he manned up, did the right thing. >> what a disappointment, though. >> of course. for everybody. we'll take a short break. when we come back, there have been hundreds of air strikes on isis targets. and the top u.s. general says the tide is now turning. ahead, what the latest gruesome video from isis tells experts about the militants' future. also, u.s. president obama returning home from australia to face off with congressional republicans in a new political climate. huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know words really can hurt you?

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half past the hour. we'd like to welcome back our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i'm john vause. >> and i'm natalie allen. thanks for being with us. our top stories now. >> the white house has confirmed isis has beheaded a fifth westerner. president obama called the execution of peter kassig an act of pure evil. kassig went to the middle east as a u.s. soldier and later returned as a medical worker, helping syrian refugees. demonstrators in the u.s. state of missouri staged what they call a die-in to mark 100 days since a white policeman shot and killed 18-year-old michael brown. the african-american teen was unarmed when he was shot. the protest comes as a grand jury is deciding whether to indict officer darren wilson for the shooting. japan slipped into a surprise recession after a dismal third quarter.

the country was expecting its economy to grow more than 2%. instead it contracted. this could mean the prime minister might delay an unpopular sales tax hike, which is meant to ease japan's huge public debt problem. now, the latest isis hostage video is different in a number of ways from the others which we've seen in recent months. the production standards are not as high. there was no threat at the end of the tape to execute another hostage. but it's believed the terror group still holds an unconfirmed number of westerners. a short time ago i spoke with cnn's national security analyst and former cia analyst bob baer about what all of this might mean. >> would be, this tape is different to the others. the isis soldiers who carry out the execution actually show their face. there doesn't seem any attempt to hide the location. so is that of any help in trying to track down where the other hostages might be held right now? >> i think it's going to be tough. i think what this tape indicates

is these guys are on the run. they didn't have time to do a nice setup. a lot of production values. i think they know they're being targeted. there's a lot of american platforms in the area. looking for the hostages. so i think they're trying to beat those. and i think the moment they took those pictures they probably got up and moved. at least when they were transmitted. >> so why did this tape come out now? >> i think they're fairly frustrated, isis is. they failed in kobani. they didn't move on baghdad. they were planning on moving on the airport. they failed at that. i think at the end of the day these airstrikes are hurting them. you know, they have great ambitions and they're not meeting them. they want to remind people that they can still hurt. >> but at the same time there's been, what almost 900 u.s.-led airstrikes against isis and this group still has the ability to shock the world. >> well, i think it does. and i think we're also forgetting that isis is joined by a lot of other let me say

fellow travelers, sunni insurgents. so it's a much bigger job than just taking out isis or going after 15,000 or 20,000 people. i think until we deal with the political problems in that part of the world the airstrikes will only go so far. >> what do you read into the fact that unlike the other tapes there was no threat this time to execute another western hostage even though we know that they're holding other hostages? >> well, it's pretty brutal. i think they're running out of hostages. they want to send a message to the americans. i think they understand that killing these hostages isn't getting them anything except bad publicity. i don't think we can look at this group as entirely irrational and unrealistic. and they know they're losing the propaganda war. they don't quite know what they're doing. look, john, this group is not going to be around forever. it's going to collapse at some point. it's going to be replaced by another sunni insurgency.

and they are making mistakes, and they're going to make a lot more. and i think at the end of the day they're going to go away. but you know, we shouldn't look at them as this -- as sort of a state organization, that knows what it's doing. >> do you agree with general dempsey, who said over the weekend that the tide is now turning against isis? >> i think the tide is turning against isis but not in favor of the government in baghdad. baghdad is fighting this war with militias. and the militias are being sent into al anbar province, the sunni province, and this is going to cause a worse reaction. i think the violence in iraq and syria is going to actually get wor worse. we're just looking at the periphery of this war. the hostages in kobani and the rest of it. i think dempsey is wrong. we've turned the tide and the government of baghdad is about to re-establish control over the country. i think he's dead wrong. >> thanks so much. bob baer there giving us his

insight into this latest hostage video. we appreciate it. >> thanks. the wife of an ebola patient being treated in the u.s. says she's confident he's now getting the care he needs but dr. martin sallia remains in extremely critical condition at nebraska medical center. he was taken there saturday after contracting the virus in his native sierra leone. the world health organization counts more than 14,000 confirmed or suspected cases of ebola in west africa. more than 5,100 of those have been fatal. some of the biggest names in the music industry are helping ebola victims as they celebrate the 30th anniversary of band-aid. remember that? members of one direction, ed sheeran, and even bono all sing on a new version of the song "do they know it's christmas." bob geldof, you'll recall, who was behind the original band-aid project for famine aid in africa, organized this new song. >> i spoke to the u.n., and the truth of the matter is that they

need 20 times now the resources that are in the three affected countries. not the money but the resources. the people. the medicines. the hospitals. they need 20 times that. >> if you'd like to help in the global fight against ebola, go to our impact your world website at cnn.com/impact. we've got more information on the virus, the outbreak, and how you can help. you know adele did not show up to that. she was invited and did not respond. kind of a mystery why. >> yes. her voice would have been voice. >> would have carried it. well, the new political landscape in washington promises some tough legislative fight for the remaining two years of barack obama's presidential term. >> you get the sense this is not going to be smooth sailing. >> it doesn't look happy. >> no. with mr. obama back from asia we're expecting in the coming week to get our first taste of the battles ahead. here's erin mcpike. >> the abill is passed without

objection. the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. >> reporter: so much for working'll together. confrontation is ahead when president obama returns from australia. on friday 31 house democrats joined more than 200 republicans in voting yes on a bill that would force the president to open up the keystone xl pipeline. >> with respect to keystone, i've been clear in the past. my position hasn't changed. i understand what this project is. it is providing the ability of canada to pump their oil, send it through our land down to the gulf, where it will be sold everywhere else. it doesn't have an impact on u.s. gas prices. >> reporter: there are senate democrats who support it including mary landrieu of louisiana who faces a tough runoff election. >> i called for a vote on the keystone pipeline, and i said it is time. now, i've been calling for a vote for over three years. as chair of the energy committee, i said the election's over. no more excuses. let's get our job done. >> they vote tuesday, and if it

passes mr. obama may exercise his veto pen. next up, immigration reform. the resolute president insisting he'll move ahead with executive action to stop deportations. >> i gave the house over a year to go ahead and at least give a vote to the senate bill. they failed to do so. and i indicated to speaker boehner several months ago that if in fact congress failed to act i would use all the lawful authority that i possess to try to make the system work better. >> we're going to fight the president tooth and nail if he continues down this path. >> reporter: erin mcpike, cnn, the white house. powerful video and a powerful statement coming out of ukraine today. for months the country has seen conflict on its eastern border with russia. and with more reports of russian weaponry moving into the country, ukraine's president has issued a bold statement. and it comes as new video is

posted online, purportedly showing the scene four months ago when malaysian airlines flight 17 came crashing down. in this amateur video you can see people reacting to the fiery debris with shock and confusion. western countries say pro-russian separatists brought the plane down with a surface to air missile. but russia insists a ukrainian fighter jet shot it down. on sunday european recovery crews began to remove what remains of mh-17 from the crash site. investigators hope to reconstruct part of the plane to try to prove what and more importantly who shot it down. >> they've got quite a task ahead there. not much left of that afrp. meanwhile, russian president vladimir putin says he did not feel a cold reception from other world leaders during this weekend's g20 summit. western readers call for further sanctions if moscow doesn't pull troops from ublg rein. mr. putin left the summit early saying he had to rest before a busy monday. before his departure from

australia he expressed hope a solution to the ukraine crisis is possible. >> translator: today the situation in my view has good chances for resolution. no matter how strange it may sound. but certain structures have been established on both sides that could handle the task they are facing better. bearing in mind first and foremost the interest of the people who live in the territory of all ukraine. including the southeast. >> not surprisingly, the ukrainian president, petro poroshenko, sees it a lot differently to mr. putin. amid reports of a pro-russian build-up in eastern ukraine he's toughened up his rhetoric, telling a german newspaper, "we are prepared for a scenario of total war. we don't want war. we want peace. and we are fighting for european values. but russia does not respect any agreement." russia has repeatedly denied that its soldiers have crossed the border. it's always denied that. and despite a cease-fire reached in september, volleys of mortar fire are common in eastern

ukraine. >> our phil black reports now from the front lines, where volunteer ukrainian troops are getting ready for battle. >> reporter: fighters in the mist. this armed camp is an exposed outpost of the ukrainian military. about 30 men, volunteers from the capital, defending a narrow finger of land. the tanks, weapons, and defenses point to the east, south, and west. their enemy is close. somewhere through that haze. they say the pro-russian separatists regularly attack. this they say is shrapnel from grad rockets. they say came into the position just yesterday. they say two men were killed here yesterday. 40 in the last month. to these men september's cease-fire means nothing. so do russia's denials about sending fighters and weapons across the border to help the separatists. they say they know they're fighting russians and they expect a major attack very soon. to prepare for it they've been

working underground. >> this is where dozens of these men sleep at a time. you can see there's one catching some rest just here. they dug this for themselves only a few weeks ago. concrete ceiling, timber supports. they desperately hope that this would be able to withstand a direct hit from rocket artillery or a mortar strike. in this place where they sleep. you can see they read, they keep cigarettes. it is so close to where the action is. out through this door come have a look. defensive trenches heading in that direction and the other direction as well because the fighters here tell us that only about 800 meters that way are the forces of the pro-russian separatists. a short drive away is the town of debaltseva, or what's left of it. this is government territory. but locals say artillery fired

by both sides falls here almost every day, often destroying homes. >> this is a strange, eerily quiet place. but clearly it has not always been so. most of the people here have left. the locals tell us it's mostly the young people that have gone behind the old remain. because they say they are too scared and they don't know where else to go. 73-year-old galina tells me of the territory of living under bombardment. she says she feels like her heart will jump from her body, she's too scared to eat or sleep. these people have little food or power. they dread the coming winter. and they don't care who rules over them. they just want peace. phil black, cnn, devaltseva, eastern ukraine. >> so hard to imagine that in 2014 you would see scenes like that across europe. >> what a grim, grim video with that mist adding to the overall look. time for a short break here, but when we come back, the g20

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the second round of romania's presidential election ended with the surprise winner. ethnic german klaus johanns is poised to become romania's next president. he overcame a ten-point deficit versus the prime minister after a first-round election earlier this month. johannis starts his five-year term at the end of the month. who could have predicted that? well, the g20 summit came to a close in your home country, and to hear the closing news conference, it sounds like everything's hunky-dory, everyone got what we wanted and it was just cooperation all around. >> i can tell you all the people in brisbane are happy that it's over, that the circus has left town. >> so world leaders accomplished a lot, especially concerning the global economy he and climate was a little bit of a surprise. >> you say that word like you believe. but some critics are asking which politicians missed the mark here. asia's pacific editor andrew stevens. did you know he's our asia pacific editor now? >> yes. >> this is a new thing.

he was at the summit. he reports on who won and who lost. >> reporter: a warm welcome for the u.s. president from students in brisbane. an even warmer welcome from students in myanmar. >> it's wonderful to be back in myanmar. >> reporter: the u.s. president tasting popularity on the road that he can only dream of at home in the aftermath of disastrous midterm elections. >> let me just say you're always most popular in someone else's country. when you're in your own country, everyone's complaining. >> reporter: but mr. obama did more than just generate a positive vibe. his three-country, four summit tour for a change not blighted which domestic issues had substance, not just style. a new trade agreement on high-tech product with china cutting visa restrictions to chinese visitors and forcing

climate change to the top of the global agenda with a new plan to slash carbon emissions by 2025 all unveiled by the president in his ten-day trip. but he wasn't the only world leader getting things done. sharing the wins, the chinese president xi jinping. xi also unveiling new climate change policy. the first ever binding target on chinese carbon emissions as well as a series of trade deals and the first step on what could be a deescalation of tensions between china and japan in the east china sea, a very public handshake with the japanese leader shinzo abe. at the other end of the scale australian prime minister tony abbott. >> for a long time most australians who went to see a doctor have been seen at no charge and we would like to see a $7 co-payment for people who are going to see the doctor. >> his opening speech as host of the g20 drawing criticism for

its focus on local politics rather than the global picture. the opposition leader describing it as weird and graceless. and he was also very publicly on the wrong side of the climate debate. the man who abolished the country's carbon tax tried and failed to keep climate change off the official g20 agenda. and finally, vladimir putin. a verbal punching bag for many of the g20 leaders over russia's reported actions in ukraine. but if he was ruffled, he didn't show it. all smiles the g20 host abbott, even though he took the earliest possible opportunity to get out of brisbane. andrew stevens, cnn, brisbane, australia. >> he's our asia pacific editor. >> yes, he is. >> that's andrew stevens, our asia pacific editor. >> i know you're intrigued by that. >> i'm very pleased for him. the first round of wintry weather has moved through the united states but the coldest weather of the season still far from over for millions of people. let's go to pedram javaheri with

more on this. it's going to get cold here in the next 48 hours in the south. >> it makes it all the way to the southern united states. this last round kind of brought it back down well below seasonal averages. this particular round took it down one notch lower than that. round two in portions of the united states. the temperatures have been plenty cold for several days. the snow has come down. want to first start you off with video out of oklahoma city over the past 24 hours. look at this right here. changing lines becomes something like this in icy conditions across portions of okc and of course you have accidents across the board. a lot of damage done in some of these cities across the south we've been getting in on snow and ice over the past couple of days. but back of the map to show you what we're talking about when it comes to the cold air mass. there goes round 2. notice where it stops. tuesday morning. southern portions of this arctic air going to be lined up across portions of northern alabama, northern georgia. portion of the carolinas also get in on the extreme cold temperatures. temperatures in the fahrenheit scale down to around 20 in atlanta, which is about minus 7

celsius. and notice round 3 comes in on friday, more confined to the northeastern united states. and if you are tuned in on the west coast, finally conditions coming back to reality there from friday on into saturday. but here's the scene. 30 million people across the ohio valley underneath winter weather watches and advisories at this hour, mainly because of additional slow in the forecast. generally about two to five inches, upwards of 13, 14 centimeters across portions of western new york state around buffalo with some lake enhanced snow showers. this air mass pretty vulnerable. it's snowing to the north. these are tornado watches at this hour across the southern united states. mainly around new orleans on into portions of tallahassee. about three mus million people underneath conditions that are favorable for some tornadic development in the early morning hours of today. worth noting with severe storms. in fact, in new orleans got to tell you this, it's 70 fahrenheit at this hour, roughly 21 degrees celsius. it will drop to below freezing in the next 24 hours.

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this has probably happened to you. it's going to if it hasn't. but it happened to me once. my iphone flew out of my hand, big flip, and went right down into a vat of diet coke. >> a vat of diet coke? you have a vat of diet coke? >> a vat of diet coke. so yeah. it's when it goes into water we all just kind of panic. and it comes close for a lot of people. >> you shouldn't have your phone out in the bathroom or those kind of places. which would avoid the problem. but if you do drop it in water -- >> you can drop it anywhere. >> no, you don't. a u.s. company says it's nothing to worry about because it can vaporize your soaked cell phone and make it good as new. here's laurie segal. ♪ ♪ >> 22 million people a year in the united states get a phone

wet. we have a service that helps people who've gotten smartphones wet or other electronic devices. >> right here we have a brand new iphone 6. >> brand new. >> so we're going to drop that in water. i'd let you do it with mine but i just don't trust you yet. >> see the bubbles coming out? >> yep. >> looks like all the bublds have stopped. what you should do is take it out and attempt to power it down. you put it in a special chamber, and it uses low pressure and thermodynamics, a little heat, at a very low temperature. basically make the water turn to vapor and come out of the phone very quickly. we'll open this up. put the phones inside.

close it up. no tools. didn't have to open anything up. turn it on. >> okay. so 20 minutes has gone by. >> yeah. >> this right here means that the -- >> the moisture's out. no more water in the phones. >> all right. so let's test it. ♪ >> that's a good noise. >> bad news bears for this guy. it's not turning on. all right. >> i think it's going to need a charge. >> unless it goes number 3. and then it kind of sucks. >> you can just put it in rice. >> but if you do dump it in water don't turn it on. let it dry out first.

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