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150 world leaders are gathered in paris for a climate change summit. and the u.n. secretary general put their task in stark terms saying we have never faced such a test. the goal is to draft a treaty to dramatically reduce green hos gas emissions around the world. the meeting comes just over two weeks after the paris terror attacks. the 130 victims were remembered in a moment of silence. u.s. president barack obama linked the battle against terrorism to the urgent need to curb climate change. >> we salute the people of paris for insisting this crucial conference go on. an act of defiance that proves nothing will deter us from building the future we want for our children. what greater rejection of those who would tear down our world, the marshalling our best efforts

to save it. >> we go now to paris where fred pleitgen joins us on the latest of the terror investigation. fred, always great to have you on the show. salah abdeslam remain on the run but authorities are now revealing new details about his alleged role on november 13th and his movements. >> absolutely, isha. important new details. apparently, salah abdeslam who had a lrnlg role in the logistics of the ating thes. renting some of the veengs used in some of those shootings as well as the attack on the bataclan theater. apparently he also came to paris before the attack and bout at least ten detonators at a fireworks shop north of the city. apparently he paid about $10 per detonator for them. also bought batteries at that shop as well. he is, of course, the man who is being sought in a global manhunt, but so far there are very few leads as to where he might actually be. is he already in syria?

is he potentially still in belgium? alexandra field has that story. >> reporter: the search for salah abdeslam, a global manhunt that's turned up few leads. sources tell cnn french intelligent authorities are looking under the assumption he may be in syria. belgian officials are not convinced, searching in prus sells. a day after the attacks at 1:00 in the afternoon salah abdeslam turned up here. a childhood friend of his meets hip at this metro station. his attorney says the men go on to a cafe an at some point abdeslam tells his pal about how his brother bra heem has killed people in paris and blown himself up. the men then drive several minutes until the suspect gets out somewhere in the brussels

neighborhood. >> translator: my client doesn't know how long salah stayed. actually he doesn't know if salah stayed here. maybe he went somewhere else afterwards. my client doesn't know. >> reporter: sources close to the investigation now reveal more details about abdeslam's alleged role. in september they say he's seen in paris. in october he purchased ten detonators at a fireworks store in the french capital. two days later, he rented a car. police say abdeslam drove the car to the soccer stadium to drop off bombers before abandoning it in a pedestrian cause walk near the sight of one of the attacks. later, traces cellphone, days after in the same neighborhood they find discarded suicide vest. 130 people are killed by seven terrorists who shoot them and detonate bombs on the night of november 13th. by morning the only living suspect is gone.

salah abdeslam crosses the border from france to belgium driven by two friends. police stop him at the border but let him go not realizing they had just questioned one of the world's most wanted men. alexandra fields, cnn, brussels. >> and of course that manhunt continues. meanwhile, isha, there are new details about abdel hamid abaaoud who plonted the paris attacks. apparently, this is something apparently a witness is saying to the investigators here, apparently he had other attacks in paris here, quote, ready to go. including on jewish areas, on transport networks, and also on schools as well. so it seems as though when the french police raided that apartment several days after the paris attacks they might have diverted other very big terror happening here in the french capital subsequently as well, isha. >> indeed. fred, turning our attention to

cop21, it's day two of the paris climate conference. while there are high expectations, fred, as you know huge obstacles stand in the way of really getting a credible deal. >> well you know what, i think at this climate change conference the expectations are probably higher than at any time that we have seen in the recent years. you see the united states, especially president obama, more committed than ever to finding some sort of global binding agreement. and also for instance, countries like china, a very positive attitude as well. there was a meeting between president obama and the chinese president that happened yesterday where they were trying to map out a way forward. but of course, the main issue that always happens as these climate change conferences is the one that defines this one as well. on the one hand you have the developed countries who are saying we need to cut down on emissions. on the other hand, you have the developed european countries who are saying in order to develop we need to use more energy and this is something that the

developed countries need to take into account. now, our own phil black is at cop21 and he earlier filed this report. >> many of the world leaders gathered here in paris declared this to be an historic turning point, an opportunity to save the world and future generations who will judge them harshly if they don't reach an agreement here. countries have come into them having already pledged what they're prepared to do to fight climate change. those declarations taken together, broadly seem to be a good start. pts accepted that together they will not yet help reach the goal of keeping temperature increases to within two degrees celsius. but it's hope that here in paris they can be locked into an agreement that will act as a framework to police these pledges, to review them regularly, to ensure that countries are keeping their words, doing all they can that is appropriate to their circumstances. they are also trying to get an agreement that will give certainty to businesses, encourage investment and green

solutions an importantly an agreement that will give detail on how wealthy countries are going to provide $100 billion a year from 2020 to poorer countries to help them deal with the worst consequences of climate change while also helping them develop economically, improving their citizens' lives without having to resort to burning fossil fuels. a tricky issue is whether or not all of this should be wrapped up into a legally binding treaty. many countries say yes. others, including the united states, say no way. there is a lot of detail to be crunched through by negotiators in the coming two weeks. but it's hoped they will get there. phil black, cnn, paris. and isha, of course, one of the coupleries that many are going to be looking at is india. india is a country vastly expanding its use of coal, firepowered plants, coal energy. but also at the same time is one of the countries most likely

going to be impacted by climate change with for instance flooding in coastal areas. of course, with that large population also in many ways holds a large part of the key to trying to curb climate change as well. but again, the leaders here trying to reach some sort of agreement. of course, this conference is going to go on for about two weeks. mostly in working groups. at the end of it they all hope they will make significant process after a lot of years that have seen mostly stagnation and trying to curb climate change. is isha? >> it is a huge undertaking. the world is ch watching. the world is hopeful. fred pleitgen joining us from paris. appreciate it. thank you. u.s. presidential candidate donald trump met with more than 100 black pastor on monday. there was plenty of confusion and controversy surrounding the meeting. but trump true to form called it a huge success. our sarah murray has details on

the closed door meeting. >> i saw love in that room. i see love everywhere i go. >> reporter: despite walking back what his campaign origin originally promoted as an endorsement event, donald trump emerged calling today's closed door meeting a success. >> we didn't think we would have a press conference. we have many, many endorsements that came out of the meeting. >> reporter: in a lead up to today's get together several of the pastors invited said they had no intention of backing the gop front-runner or even attending the meet and greet. >> if you you talk down to women, if you talk down to documented immigrants calling them rapists and then black lives, get them out of here. no, you can't represent me. i don't need to hear your platform. >> reporter: victor kuzins said he came to talk with trump, nothing more. >> it's incumbent upon me to

take the opportunity to query him about the types of things we need to expect from a potential trump administration were the pastors caution an out right criticism comes as trump faces scrutiny for retweeting a racially charged message and suggesting a black lives matter protester deserved to be roughed up at a trump campaign rally. others attending today's meeting said they would attempt to convince their colleagues to support trump. >> anybody who knows donald trump personally knows that he's not a racist, he's provided more jobs for minorities, for mexican, african-americans. he's exactly that not what only the african-american community needs but what america needs. >> reporter: today trump seemed undeterred by the change in plans. >> the beautiful thing about the meeting is they really didn't ask me to change the tone. i think they want to see victory because ultimately it is about we want to win and we want to win together. >> reporter: meanwhile trump continues to face scrutiny for repeatedly insisting he saw

large crowds of muslim-americans celebrating in new jersey on 9/11. >> i've had hundreds and hundreds of calls and tweets of people that saw it. and plenty of people saw it. >> trump may not have picked up the 100 endorsements he was hoping for but he still picked up a couple before he came down here to georgia where he got the crowd roaring with his attacks on hillary clinton, bernie sanders, and most of his gop rivals. sara murray, cnn, macon, georgia. clearly trump is no stranger to controversy. his campaign is dealing with plenty of it right now. including one having to do with some gestures trump made at a recent rally. many have said he was specifically mocking a disabled reporter. jake tapper spoke to a trump adviser to get his take on. >> trump cited this report in the "washington post" from serge

cover s koval kova kovalski. >> written by a nice reporter. now the poor guy. you got to see this guy. i don't know what i said. i don't remember. he's going, i don't remember. maybe that's what i said. >> all right. now let's put up the still photo of donald trump from the event and a picture of mr. covkovalsk >> how many people do you think have covered donald trump in the past? >> with that disability, i would guess one. >> do you really think mr. trump remembers this specific reporter? >> he said -- >> mr. trump himself said he does not remember this reporter. >> fantastic memory. >> and he most certainly does. he sees thousands and thousands of reporters a year. >> but he said -- >> let me say one more thing. >> michael, he said this was

written by a nice reporter. you got the see this guy. >> he was talking about this article, until he ended up pulling it back which he did for whatever the reason that he did. >> he said you got to see this guy and then he mimics his injury. >> mr. trump donates millions and millions of dollars each and every year in order to combat disabilities, in order to combat cancer, whether it's children, he donates millions of dollars a year. mr. trump is not the type of individual that's going to make fun of somebody's disability. he wouldn't know this guy prior to this entire nonsense. >> we just saw him do it. we just saw him make fun of his disability. >> he was not making done. he was basically showing the xaser rags of a reporter that's pulling back on a story, xser rags and saying something like, now i don't remember. now i don't remember. had nothing to do with his disability. >> it just so happened -- first of all, he said he's a nice guy. then he said you got to see this

guy. and then he twists his arms to mimic the disability. >> he wasn't twiszing his arm to mimic anything. >> the controversy will continue to monitor for you. sometime for a quick break. investigators are trying to figure out what triggered on attack on a women's clinic in colorado as alleged gunman has his first day in court. and chicago officer charge with murder after a year of a fatal shooting. details just ahead. the keys to this home belong to mark and alissa anderson. they bought the place four months ago on what was arguably the scariest day of their lives. neither has any idea what the future holds for them. but they bought into a 30-year mortgage anyway. that was bold. they must really believe in themselves.

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was struggling to stay awake, slowly blinking his eyes as the judge advised him of his rights. friday's mass shooting and six-hour standoff left three people dead. 44-year-old police officer garrett swasey, 29-year-old iraq war veteran ke'arre stewart, and jennifer markovsky, 35-year-old mother of two. nine others were wounded, survivors hid in offices as gunshots rang throughout the building. >> we actually had a gun bullet go through the wall, came through one and went through the other. you could see the gunpowder and smell, smell it. it was just frightening at that point. >> reporter: dear's appearance comes as investigators try to determine a motive behind the planned parenthood attack. a law enforcement source tells cnn dear mentioned something about, quote, baby parts, and expressed antiabortion views. the comments come just months after a series of videos

produced by antiabortion activists accused planned parenthood of engaging in illegal fetal tissue sales for research. the organization has vehemently denied that, saying the videos were heavily edited. the issue has become a topic of debate on the campaign trail. >> there is no excuse. planned parenthood must be defunded. >> reporter: gop candidate carly fiorina one of the most outspoken critics of planned parenthood says it's irresponsible to link antiabortion rhetoric to this attack. >> secondly, this is so typical of the left, to immediately begin demonizing the messenger because they don't agree with the message. >> reporter: and mike huckabee known to his social conservative says the attacks should not be linked to the antiabortion movement. >> what he did is absolutely abominable, especially to those of us in the pro life movement because there's nothing about any of us that would condone or in any way look the other way at something like this. >> reporter: a law enforcement source tells cnn that investigators are still going

over the evidence, evidence that includes a multitude of weapons, handguns and rifles that the suspect allegedly brought to the scene in a duffel bag. at this point authorities are still trying to figure out why that planned parenthood was targeted. dan simon, cnn, colorado springs, colorado. ? baltimore the first of six officers are on trial in the case of a prisoner who died in police custody. jury selection began on monday for porter. he has pleaded not guilty. outside the courthouse demonstrators gathered to protest gray's death in april sparked riots in baltimore and a wave of protests that swept across the u.s. chicago's mayor is expected to announce a police accountability task force tuesday. this follows the release of dash cam video of an officer fatally shooting a teenager. that officer has been charged with murder and just posted bail. cnn's kim law has details of the delay in the case. >> reporter: the night of

october 20th, 2014, chicago police respond to calls of an erratic man with a knife. six seconds after exiting a police car officer jason van dyke fires, striking mcdonald 16 times. but this is not the story officers tell that night. the police union spokesman gives the first police account. 17-year-old mcdonald was shot once in the chest after lunging after police. >> going at one of the officers. at this point the officer defends himself. >> reporter: an autopsy the following day shows of the 16 shots, 9 entered mcdonald's back. officer van dyke, the only cop who fired goes on paid desk duty. van dyke has 20 complaints against him, 10 of them use of force complaints. all of this goes unreported as the public accepts the police police explanation and the dash cam video is sealed. all of this as mayor rahm emanuel is in the middle of the most contentious chicago mayoral

race since the 1980s. he wins. eight days later he's there as the city council votes without any debate to award mcdonald's family $5 million. the city pays mcdonald family even before the investigation is complete and even though the family had not filed a wrongful death lawsuit. chicago alderman howard brookings voted for the settlement and now says the council was misled. >> i think there was a cover-up. i think that people were looking out for their own skin. >> reporter: mayor emmanuel and the prosecutor cook county state's attorney anita alvarez battled for months to keep the dash cam video under wraps. they lose when a judge orders the release of the video. just hours before the video release, the prosecutor charges officer van dyke with first degree murder, a full 13 months after the shooting. the prosecutor says she'd intended to charge the cop for

months but moved up her decision because of the timing of the video release. >> i felt compelled in the interest of public safety to announce these state charges today. >> how ludicrous is that? clear, she was trying to jump the chard, get ahead of the release. it does make me angry that people who are charged with the public trust and protecting the people and dishing out equal justice under the law are playing petty politics with the issue that is so serious. >> reporter: cnn, los angeles. i head, we go back to the climate change conference in paris and the ranking of the world's biggest polluters. plus, amazon is making a splash with new video of the drone service. it is hoping to start. we'll take a look at what they're proposing, coming up next. more "sit" per roll. bounty is two times more absorbent. so one roll of bounty can last longer than those bargain brands.

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you are watching "cnn newsroom" live from los angeles. i'm isha sesay. theed a headlines this hour. the u.s. embassy in the afghan capital of kabul is assessing what it calls credible reports of an eminent attack in the city. the embassy didn't release many detail, only that the threat was for a possible attack in the next 48 hours. sources say french authorities believe a key suspect in the paris terror attack salah abdeslam may have thread to syria. another source says more attacks were ready to go for jewish areas, transport networks, and schools. the leaders of 150 countries are meeting in paris for the cop21 climate summit. their goal, to agree on a legally binding reduction of

greenhouse gas emissions. on monday the presidents of the u.s. and russia spoke one-on-one. climate change is one of the greatest threats humanity is facing. the world bank has ranked the worst countries for carbon dioxide emissions. that's the primary greenhouse gas responsible for global warming. china is by far the biggest emitter of co2 releasing 8 hundred kilotons in 2010. the u.s. is number two, followed by india and then russia. first, let's go to semi who is joining us live from new delhi. of course a significant stakeholder in these talks as a third largest emitter. how is prime minister modi approaching the negotiations? >> isha, modi has an interesting

balancing act to play in paris. on the one hand while india wants to be seen as this reliable country, wants to take the lead in this fight against climate change, on the other hand, it's also a champion of sorts for the developing nation. so one thing that india keeps mentioning is climate justice. from the very beginning, india has been saying, while india takes all of this very, very seriously and will do what it can, at the same time, what we're seeing right now, the climate change, the global warm that we're seeing right now, is a result of years of industrialization that's taken place in these developed nations. the onus is on the developed nations. india second quarter looking for climate financing and looking for carbon space, if you will. listen to what modi had to say yesterday. >> it is not just a question of historical responsibility. they also have the most room to

make the cards and make the strongest impact. and climate demands, the carbon space we still have countries who have enough room to grow. >> reporter: so they will do whatever it needs to do to be a responsibility stakeholder, but pragmatic to lift the hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. isha? >> it is indeed a very careful balancing act. appreciate the reporting. if i could bring in matt rivers now joining us there. matt, world leaders gather for the climate talks in paris and the issue of pollution is front of mind for millions of chinese people right at this very moment. >> absolutely. really the timing could not be

worse or better, depending on your view in terms of the pollution here in beijing. it is really, really quite bad here. the kind of day you don't go very far without one of these, a pollution mask. take a look across our balcony here at the cnn bureau. these are buildings, 200, 2 another meters or so. those are windows you can usually see in to. now you can barely make out the buildings. the pollution is that bad. as bad as the pollution here in beijing is, there is another city in china we traveled to recently where the pollution is actually worse. we went there to talk to some people who are doing their best to try and make air pollution in this country a little bit better. these are streets choked with pollution, thick enough to see to burn your eyes, to leave an taste in your mouth. this is china's most polluted

city where daily life goes on under the cloak of a toxic shroud. he grew up here. he's raising his young son here. in the air they breathe is always on his mind. when the pollution gets really serious, we can't even see the buildings next to us, he says. you can't even describe how bad the smell is. like thousands of others here, he gets ready for work each morning and heads out to the haze as the coal power plant churns out toxins above. he works in the energy sector, too, though his factory hopes to make coal obsolete. this is solar, one of china's largest solar power companies right in the middle of the town, and business is booming. the company says they have plans to more than double their current capacity by 2020. i believe there will be a large increase in renewable industry.

no matter, solarer power, wind power, or others. >> reporter: in 2014 chinese companies invested over 80 billion u.s. dollars in renewable energy projects. no country in the world invested more. and yet despite all of that renewable energy accounts for only 10% or so of china's energy supply. this is a country where coal remains king. many families keep piles of coal like this one to burn for warmth during the winter months. it is a major pollutant but it is also cheap and it is efficient. and because of that it accounts for between 60% and 70% of china's energy supply. coal use actually slowed in 2014 but the country still consumes nearly as much as the rest of the worldc combined. china is the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter but the government has said its emissions will peak by 2030. to hit that goal it will need

help. >> translator: i'm very concerned about my son's health, he says. if the air pollution says like this, he won't ever be able to leave the house. >> reporter: so he hopes his work will help make things better so his son won't be afraid to take a deep breath. the great irony is that it was actually labeled a low-carbon zone by the government back in 2010. that was in an attempt to reduce pollution there. but as you can see in our video, that really has not worked yet. in fact, pollution on some days is actually worse than in 2010. at least for now, the reality of life in balding is that it remains under that toxic cloud. isha. >> very difficult indeed. matt rivers reporting from beijing. our thanks to your both. well, even though our planet is showing clear i signs of a rapid warm up, one place stands

out when it comes to how quickly it's warming. meteorologist ped gram is joining us now with more. >> isha, you know, it's interesting because this all goes back to burning any sort of -- releasing greenhouse gasses and releasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the goal being consumed across that region. all of that goes together. that temperature right there, two degrees celsius, that is the number of that planetary wide, scientists are observing if our temperatures get to this level we're talking about not having or having irreversible damage done, especially coastal communities. right now planetary wide, one degree celsius increase in temperatures. in china that number has been as high as 1 1/2 degrees celsius. forecast going forward in the three of five decades would be 2 tlees celsius global number and in china, about three degrees celsius. when you're lauking act these numbers, directly translates

into sea level rise being the most major concern over this part of the world. go in for a closer look. portions of the philippines, guinea, northern australia. that's where the sea level has been rising ten millimeters per year since 1992. that's the fastest rise of sea level anywhere on our planet. i want to show you how this relates to when it comes to the conditions op the planet as far as sea levels increasing. one centimeter increase in see levels. it takes it out ten meters. that one centimeter increase in sea level is coastal communities. bring that up to ten centimeters in shanghai. expectations are 14 sent meters. now putting 14 meters of coastline and pushing it into these communities. that is what some of the forecasters are indicates for the boast densely populated cities in our planet. shanghai in particular. look at that. forecast for a three to four

increase in temperatures. there's the waterway, the river that runs through the city. notice how the water is dispursed out within shanghai. again, by the year 2040 to 2050 and then the waters within the city center. these are roads literally under water in some of the regions. the map continues to show you the devastation on the immediate coast if this pattern was to continue with the greenhouse gasses that are being released in this part of the world. globally but in this part of the world, among the highest, because of the consumption of coal, isha. >> very troubling indeed. issue to get to grips with in paris. pedram join us us there from cnn center. thank you. world heritage site is ravaged by ifl civil war. africa's oldest national park and protect its endangered mountain gorillas. the best of everything is even better during red lobster's ultimate seafood celebration. civil war. africa's oldest national park and protect its endangered mountain gorillas. new dishes like the decadent

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congo is home to africa's oldest park. some of the world's last remaining mountain gorillas live there. amid war and poverty, cnn's arwa damon has details on a solution to save the gorillas and the world heritage site. >> we're next to some of the last remaining mountain gorillas in the world. here in eastern congo their forested sanctuary is surrounded by uncertainty. >> even with the fighting, even when -- >> even if they war come, was just here, just protecting the gorillas. >> his father had the first trip back in 19897. and took him when he was just 11 to see gorillas for the first time. he says he was struck by how

human they seemed. now he and his rangers dedicate their lives to protecting this threatened species. and more than once they've proven their resolve. in 2007 there was a horrific massacre that saw seven members of one troop killed. this troop that we're visiting right now only five of them survived and none of them were silverback. so lukema came and adopte the survivors as his own family. the slaughter, a message to the rangers. wide did they kill him? >> they killed the gorilla to discourage the rangers so the rangers can go out of the forest and then people will benefit the rich soil. >> reporter: 4 million people live on the bench in abject poverty. in a region with unrivalled natural resources they continue

to suffer through one of the world's longest running and deadliest wars. as she prepares a meal she hopes will feed ten family members, 65-year-old suzanne tells us conservation doesn't put food on the table. for her, the park is a great source of wood and fuel. >> chop up points all along. the smell. that's actually inside the park. >> reporter: park director emanuel has made many enemies trying to protect the park. in 2014 he was ambushed. >> i got hit in the chest and head and stomach. >> reporter: more than 140 rangers have been killed in the last decade. clashing with rebel groups and criminal gangs, confronting war. and then there is oil.

>> that's where the drilling was due to be. >> the government had authorized uk oil giant to explore for oil. conservationists called the move illegal amid allegations of intimidation and violence. soko has denied the claims but this november it abandoned the project. >> and there's still a lot of uncertainty there. so we have to remain very vigilant. >> reporter: africa's oldest park is also its most unique. classified a unesco world heritage site by the unrivalled bio difficult verity to this, the world's largest lava lake. orange red waves crashing in a mesmerizing mosaic. but beauty alone will never be enough to save the park and the traditional model of protecting park boundaries and bringing in tourism dollars hasn't worked, either. so how does nature win given the

odds like this? a massive hydroelectric plant built just outside the park and powered by water from the protected mountains. it will bring sustainable energy to an entire region for the first time. this station is one of eight all set to be online by 2025. >> it's definitely the cleanest form of energy creation. >> reporter: it is a way to reverse what he calls an environmental injustice. >> an acre of fertile agriculture land, which is what the national park could be, can generate about $600 a year in net profit for a poor congolese family. that represents about a billion dollars of lost revenue for what are essentially some of the poorest people on earth. >> reporter: he readily admits the population here cannot be expected to bear the cost of conserving an asset that benefits the whole of humanity.

now constantly flanked by armed guards he knows the rangers can not fight the financial lure of the park's resources. but, they can transform it. >> it's very simple. if there are 100,000 people whose jobs, whose livelihoods rely on a healthy eco system in the park, they're going to want to protect that park. >> reporter: and bringing power to the region will do just that. with it will come small and medium companies, jobs, all dependent on the park's vigor to survive. the risk, overpopulation on the park's fringes. but one worth taking. ann says lead engineer safari opportunities for his children he could not have dreamed of. normally live in the dark, he says. this is going to allow a generation of youth not to busy themselves with armed groups but with developing the country. something that will start here.

lights in the classroom. its windows still damaged by war. electricity at night when the children are home. and all the opportunities and development energy, clean energy, from the park will bring. >> we're in a race with all sorts of damaging industries. so we're on the front line in terms of trying to protect that last, you know, incredible piece of forest and of course it's stabilizing climate in terms of addressing climate change issues is fundamental. >> reporter: ensuring development is dependent on nature. and with that, the peser is investigation of iconic mountain gor rils la, giving them a chance to win the conservation race. arwa damon, cnn. >> incredible pictures there. amazon's redesigned delivery drone is drawing all kinds of attention. we'll show you what the new version can do next on "newsroom

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amazon released new footage of its drone delivery service and people have been quick to go over every detail of the latest

video. our jeanne moos look a closer look of her own. >> reporter: in amazon's latest peek at their drone, the dog eats the new shoe, she needs a new pair for the soccer game so send in the drone. >> this one can fly for 15 miles. >> reporter: it's still billed as 30-minute delivery but since amazon introduced its first prototype two years ago, things have changed. >> can we look really cool. >> it's a pretty slick design. >> reporter: people are practically going over the amazon teaser trailer with a magnifying glass. but the old drone screen left and the new one, take off and land, the same way, like a helicopter, but the new version has eight rather than four propellers, plus a pusher prop in the back which takes over once the drone rises 400 feet or so. >> and becomes a streamline and fast airplane. >> reporter: the drone can do around 55 miles per hour. >> it uses censor avoid

technology to, well, sense and then avoid obstacles in the ground an on the air. >> reporter: but it seems unsuited for cities, preferring a nice big backyard where it relieves itself for the under five-pound package. unlike amazon google's experimental drones have used line to lower their packages to the ground. how close is amazon to deploying drones? a senior exec told fox business -- >> i think we're ready to go as soon as we get the regulatory hurdles to clear. >> reporter: there are high hurdles. there are lots of issues. >> people trying to take them down and still the contends, of course rs because people are terrible that would happen. >> reporter: what are you boying doing? hunting for christmas presents. and don't let the dog seek his teeth into the drone. seems like drone delivery has gone to our heads. >> now, they said less than 30 minutes. >> reporter: jeanne moos -- >> amazon, prime air.

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