they have this attitude, we're all in this together, we will rebuild. it's going to take time, but they believe their community is as great as it ever was. >> it's meaningful to others to see that healing and rebuilding together. that matters. that's going to be interesting to see what they are capable of doing and we're sending our best to them certainly. >> it will. a u.s. government report on climate change contains dire warnings. >> it is frightening and screams serious action has to be taken now. >> former vice president and environmental lift al gore said the president may try to hide the truth but his scientists and experts have made it as stark and clear as possible. another controversial figure possibly ready to flip and help robert mueller investigate the trump campaign. >> this yes that jerry corsi could implicate me, there's no evidence. >> roger stone's personal motto

is admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack. >> he could end up providing a really critical missing link between russian hackers and wikileaks and the trump campaign. good morning. 7:01. you're up early. we're glad for it. i'm christi paul. >> i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell. president trump is grappling with the reality that democrats will soon control the house of representatives. the president's pushing his legislative agenda while staying at his estate in south florida. calling on congress to strike a bipartisan deal on border security. >> the democrats have laid out a different set of priorities, promising to investigate saudi arabia, look into the president's financial ties to the kingdom, and a devastating report on unchecked climate change, warning of premature deaths, extreme economic

consequences if global warming isn't addressed. we're talking about devastating wildfires, destructive storms, crippling economic losses. that's what is in this new report that outlines what could be a grim future for americans. >> cnn's renee marsh looks at the impact laid out in this government report. >> reporter: if you weren't paying attention to the climate change issue, this report could change that. it is frightening, and it screams serious action has to be taken now. the work of federal agencies and the scientific community. the report makes it clear that we are already experiencing the dangerous effects of climate change. it states that wildfire season is long now but will only get longer, burning six times more forest area per year by the year 2050. more people will be exposed to ticks that carry lyme disease and mosquitoes that transmit viruses such as zika, west nile, and dengue.

allergy season will be a lot worse. higher temperatures will kill more people. it specifically looks at the midwest. the midwest is predicted to have the largest increase in extreme temperatu temperature, seeing an additional 2,000 premature deaths by the year 2090, per year. and the cost is a big one. the cost of clarchimate change according to the report could reach hundreds of billions of dollars annually. by mid century it says it is very likely that the arctic will be nearly free of sea ice by midsummer. the congressionally mandated report was released by the trump administration the day after the thanksgiving holiday when people we distract -- people were distracted and families are shopping. sparking controversy and speculation that it is being buried on a day when few people will be paying attention. the report came one day after the president tweeted and i'm

quoting, brutal and extended cold blast could shatter all records. whatever happened to global warming? that illustrate trump's continuous skepticism when it comes to climate change and directly contradict the findings in this government report. the tweet also illustrates the president's lack of understanding on the issue. as we know, climate change is best zircexemplified by the consistent rise in temperatures year after year, not extreme weather over a one-day period. renee marsh, cnn, washington. >> the scientists behind the study didn't just look at climate shifts over one day or year ethey looked at long-term trends. >> joining us, allison chinchar, and kim taub from the climate change university. alison, you were on this call, and there was interesting insight that came out in the way

questions were asked or answered or not. >> yeah. the main focus of the phone call was to talk about the report. and the main takeaway was to show the direct impacts of climate change on americans' lives. usually these reports it's from a global standpoint. this was to focus on the united states. they talked about the three industries most impacted -- real estate, health care, and agricultural. but probably the most interesting thing about that call was at the end they did a question-and-answer session. they had numerous people ask about the timeline of this being released on friday. one person asked this is the official report saying climate change is valley. you have the president of the united states say it aep's -- sg it's not. what do we believe? the report or the spokesperson? they refused to answer. the moderator would not allow any panelists to answer the question. these scientists, they wrote the report, and they're not allowed to answer that simple question. >> did you get a sense that they wanted to answer the question? did anybody start to answer? >> you could hear like -- things

like that where people would start to but the moderator -- again, i know that's a moderator's job is to decide who gets to answer the question. but i did get the sense that if they were allowed that some of them would have liked answered that question. >> what about the question of timing? you released it when -- >> the moderator shut that down, as well. the response was we want the focus of this to be about the content of this, not about the timing of release. >> kim, kim cobb with us now, you go to christmas island every two weeks. this is your area of study. christmas island, the pacific, of course. is what you heard from this report, does it correlate with what you have found if your 18 years of research? >> yes. absolutely absolutely. as a climate scientist, some of us are digging back into the past to look at climate extremes before the rise of carbon

dioxide. what we've seen locked into the records is coming up into the president, things are getting warmer. and the natural climate exchange that i study are getting more extreme. perfectly consistent with the findings of this report. >> and -- go ahead, martin. >> i was going to ask, we've had a number of reports done over the years. what makes this so important and why should we so carefully look at it? >> yes. these reports come out every several years. and this uncaught my eye because it ratcheted up things we had bigger uncertainties about in the past. with this report they're becoming clearer than ever. that's unfortunately in the worse direction. sea level estimates have ticked up. the evolution of climate extremes has improvened since the last report -- improved since the last report. we're facing with more certainty some of these very, very damaging types of climate extremes and impacts. ump, this report is just another ex-kplamclamation mark on a yea

dizzying fires, heat waves, and the hurricane season in the southeast. >> are we in the thick of this based on what you ticked down the list of what we're dealing with, or can you give us some sort of a timeline when we're really going to see this ratcheted up or, again, are we in it? >> you have some aspects that are already taking place. you have coastal flooding, places like florida, the care lines -- carolinas. they call it sunny day in florida, it's not raining, but anywhere getting thecated entitlement. a -- cadcaden tides. a decade or so before you will notice large-scale issues. but the fact of the report was not just to shock -- that separates this report. there's not just the here's the doom and gloom. in gave solutions to the problem. here's how we can fix the ones happening now, here's what we can fix down the road. >> what solutions stood out to you? >> they talk about certain

things, you know, in areas of the west. they have this drought program meant for farmers and ranchers how to prepare for drought, for heat waves, and hop it could affect the -- how it could affect the livestock. there was a group in anybody built to talk about affecting things in the southeast. groups looking into the future of what can we do to mitigate the issues that we know will take place. >> professor, is it too late? i mean, can we still prevent this? >> absolutely not. we have so much work to do. some of the work is reading into the regional reports which the report has region by region, what are the expected impact. thinking about how how scientists can work with people -- about how scientists can work with people in the communities to protect communities today from the impacts coming down the pike today actually. the other bucket of recommendationdatis is to get op

of emissions and make sure we're not baking in more risks than we need to. it's absolutely not too late. we have time to get to work. the report stresses that the time to do so is now. and it's really important for the american health and well being and economic prosperity that we take this seriously. >> allison chinchar, we appreciate you being here, kim cobb. thank you. >> thanks for having me. on the flip side, in paris, measures taken to encourage more environmentally friendly policies have not always been embraced. these are pictures now coming it us live in paris -- coming to us live in paris where people are protesting rising fuel cost. they're opposed to taxes on oil and gas that president emmanuel macron imposed on vehicles. two people died in the unrest. president trump has frequently argued against implementing environmental laws saying that they are too expensive and will harm american

business. >> cnn senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny with us now. despite the new environmental report, obviously, activists face some stiff opposition from the president and a lot of people in his party. with that said, where do we go here? >> reporter: good morning. the president did not talk about this at all yesterday when this was released. he does often want to draw attention to what his administration is doing. the fact that he did not mention it at all is a sign that he is not focused on this. the white house released a statement saying all this is largely based on extreme scenarios. but we do, of course, know where the president stands on climate change. he has been someone who has said repeatedly along the line that he does not believe it's caused entirely by humans. he was visiting the wildfires just last weekend in california, said that he does not believe that climate change caused any of that. take a listen to some of what he has said and why it may make this report more complicate d i

the end. >> the united states will withdraw from the paris climate accord. i was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh, not paris. i don't think there's a hoax. i think there's probably a difference. but i don't know that it's manmade. i will say this -- i don't want to give trillions and trillions of dollars, i don't want to lose millions and millions of jobs, i don't want to be put at disadvantage. i have a strong opinion. i want great climate. >> reporter: given that as a backdrop, it will be interesting to see how the administration proceeds going forward or if any changes are made at all. unlikely to think that the president will usher in any type of changes. there is one thing for the pure, raw politics of this, a political strategist in the political party will say they believe younger voters are much more interested in the environment, in climate, other

matters. it is helpful for the long-term strength of the republican party, as well, to acknowledge climate change even as there are some skeptics in this administration. certainly the president not mentioning this at least so far. >> while we have you, wanted to ask you, the democrats in a little over a month are going to be in control of the house. they're promising to investigate the president. how tell change the dynamic in washington? >> reporter: it will change it dramatically. for the first two years of the administration, there's not been a check on what the administration has been doing. in an era of divided power in washington, there are going to be new investigations, new oversight regulations. a check on what the white house is doing. again yesterday the president got the first wind as he was golfing in south florida. adam schiff, the incoming chairman of the house intelligence committee, said he and his committee are going to investigate the links, potential links between the white house,

the trump family, and the kingdom. saudi arabw -- the kingdom of saudi arabia. they are going to look into the links. that's one example of the new era in washington that will begin in january. democrats could interfere rea-- overreach. we've seen that before. we don't know how this will end necessarily. this will be a new moment for the trump administration. behind the scenes, white house lawyers preparing for what they will and won't cooperate with. it is going to be a defendaiffe moment. we'll see if the president realizes how different this will be. for at least the next few days he's here in south florida. likely to play golf. a beautiful day again. he heads to mississippi on monday for a campaign rally and then back to washington. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. for democrats taking control of the house in january, as we were talking about, president trump's financial ties to saudi arabia is near the top of the

agenda. contributor to the "washington post" and cnn here with us, wesley lowery, god to see you. adam schiff has promised they're going to investigate the president and connections with financials, with business. is this their way to get to the president's tax returns? >> yes and no. the democrats, in fact, have steps and means of getting hold of president trump's tax returns now that they control the house as is. there are other steps. broadly it is a way to ask and answer additional questions about what the president's relationship is with saudi arabia, what additional financial ties he might have. and more crucially, i think, perhaps equally crucially, is what -- how is what the president is saying publicly, is it consistent with what the administration knows privately? so for example, in a lot of these cases, whether it be the case of my colleague jamal khashoggi, whether it be other incidents, we rely basically on what the president is telling us and then leaks from the white

house and the rest of the administration that contradict what the president is telling us. very often without us ever receiving a definitive answer about what is true or what is not true. right now, for example, in the jamal khashoggi case, we have based on unnamed sources a sense of what the cia has concluded in that case. and we have that standing in opposition to what the president of the united states has said on the record. what democrats being in control of the house can do is now running these committees, they can provide a definitive account for the public about what the cia does believe happened in this case. what we know about what's happening overseas. so again, it's going to provide a different level of oversight and clarity and accountability. a check on the presidency outside of these unnamed leaks that we've seen from the very beginning of this administration. >> never know how the president is going to respond to those checks and balances. wesley lowery, thank you for being with us. stay here because we have more questions for you. in breaking news overnight, the gunman in an alabama mall shooting thanksgiving night is still on the loose.

>> yeah. authorities now say that 21-year-old man killed by an officer at the mall, quote, likely did not fire the rounds that injured two people. investigators say the man was involved in some aspect of the altercation and was armed with a handgun. police say the error came to light after investigators and crime experts spoke to witnesses and examined evidence for 20 hours. more trouble for president trump after an associate. roger stone is negotiating a plea with robert mueller's office. more ahead. also, she made their marriage look perfect on social media. but newly released text messages revealed days before her murder, shanann watts told a very different story to friends. an american missionary's last letter. it detailed his desire to evangelize the people who killed him. the craziest job,

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new developments in the russia investigation. roger stone's associate, jerome corsi, said that he is in plea negotiations with special counsel robert mueller's team. corsi could face a number of charges ranging from perjury to obstruction of justice in regards to his relationship with wikileaks' founder julian assange and roger stone. last week corsi said that he expects to be indicted for giving false information to the special counsel or to one of the other grand jury. during a radio interview, roger stone was on the defense and said that there's no way he could be incripple natal as a result of the -- jim cripplenated as a resucripple nig -- incriminate head as a result of the deal. >> there's no evidence that would show that i knew about the source or the content of any allegedly stolen emails or any allegedly hacked emails that were published by wikileaks. just not so.

>> joining me to discuss is cnn contributor and national reporter for the "washington post" wesley lowery and cnn legal analyst and criminal defense attorney, joey jackson. good morning again. >> good morning. >> joey, let me start with you. why is corsi being targeted here, and how confident should roger stone really be? >> well, he needs to be confident certainly in public to project that air and certainly in the event he gets indicted. you know, to influence the potential jury pool to follow. here's the rail eality. dr. corsi has been in discuss n discussions with the special counsel. before that he provided 40 or some odd hours of testimony. you don't provide that amount of testimony and giving over of documents because you have nothing to say. clearly there's an interest in the information that he's given.

whether or not that is accurate is the subject of any potential indictment on him. as you open the piece, will it be that they don't believe him and his explanations, and therefore, will it be perjury, will it be obstruction of justice, will it be something else? whenever you have a poun-- a spl counsel or prosecutor investigating associates of yours, who know you well, who know what you do, who you hang around with, what your activities are, there's a need to be concerned. while we don't know what if anything he told them concerning roger stone's activities, we know that he knows what those activities could be. and so very concerned i would be if i was mr. stone even though he's projecting the air that he's not concerned at all. >> right. he is trying to do that. wesley, corsi said he believes he is the victim of a perjury trap. what is his -- what does this potential indictment mean as it moves forwards? >> sure. at the most base level, the potential indictment here means

one potentially additional cooperating witness for the mueller team as they work to try to trace the ladder up as close to the president as possible or at least into his campaign inner circle. again, perhaps it allows investigators to be privy to or have sex to additional emails or text messages or other communications they might not already have. but it's notable that when someone says they have fallen into a perjury trap, you can't perjure yourself if you're telling the truth. any time someone raises that, it raises the specter or the question of, well, what were you saying in interviews presumably with legal counsel, either present or having previously advised you that you are concerned you said something that was untrue? you know, there's a real question in this case about this particular person, corsi, but whether or not, you know, how reliable of a witness he might be. again, he is going to be privy to conversations, interactions he had with roger stone. roger stone has been on both sides of this at times, denying any contact with wikileaks, and then people have -- we've seen

evidence of some of those contacts. and so again, whatever this particular witness is privy to is going to be helpful for mueller. whether it ends up being a key piece or peripheral piece one way or another. >> that needs to be seen. switching gears, former fbi director james comey and loretta lynch were issued subpoenas to privately testify before congress about the fbi's investigations -- about their actions in the 2016 both. both comey and lynch agreed to do this publicly earlier. there was no response. what's the significance of this last-minute request? >> certainly. i do think at this point you have republicans who have vowed, republicans on the hill who have vowed to investigate this and there's been questions raised about the extent to which republicans are interested in getting to the bottom of the extent of interference in the election had 2016. this is a means of them trying to tie some of this up. i think both jim comey as well

as former attorney general loretta lynch wanting to do this in public is an interesting move by them with republicans -- if republicans would agree, i'd be surprised. we remember the side show that was the initial james comey hearings of almost two years ago. i think they would be hess hadn't to do lrgs -- hesitant to do hearings like that again. there's an argument to be made in public that even republican viewers and voters might be sympathetic to the idea that, well, if you're going to bring in the fbi director and former attorney general, perhaps the public should hear what they have to say about their behavior during the 2016 election and what they know and they believe about this election interference. so there's a chance that these end up going public that this could be something that winds down a road republicans are not interested in going down. >> i think a lot of people would like to hear that. wesley lowery and joey jackson, as always, thank you both. >> thank you. >> thanks for having us. i want to show you some live pictures that we're getting from paris here.

protests have become quite violent there in paris as climate change legislation is being pushed bay the president and -- by the president and people are not taking it lightly. they do not like what is being proposed. we'll walk you through what's going on there. also, listen to this -- he has changed. that's what shanann watts texted a friend just days before her own husband killed her. we have more for you. what she said in those newly released messages. ♪

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just days before her death a colorado wife and mother texted a friend that her husband was acting distant and cold. chris watts was sentenced to life in prison for killing his pregnant wife shanann and his two daughters. he initially said they were missing and pled for their children. >> the next day he told police how he brutally killed his family and stuffed them into oiler barrels. released evidence shows shanann told their husband he didn't want their new baby. we have more. >> reporter: heartbreaking text was shanann watts to a close friend reveal that she said

chris told me he's scared to death about the third baby and he's happy with bella and celeste and didn't want a third baby. shanann was pregnant with a boy and tells friends, i'm supposed to go tomorrow for 4d ultrasounds and gender. gender reveal next saturday. i just want to cry. we've never had a problem in our relationship like this. no joke. never. this is total left field. shanann's friend tries to comfort her texting, oh, honey it will be okay. just give him time. he's adjusting to the idea of the baby. he's scared. he shouldn't be doing this to you, but he's a good guy. he will fix it. what if he really doesn't love me anymore? >> not possible, honey, he loves you. shanann responds, tomorrow is eight years we started dating. the next day, shanann tells her friend, he said we are not compatible, he refused to hug me. her friend texts back, go through his phone. make sure there's their isn't some other blank i have to kill. when the friend suggests counseling, shanann texts back,

he said he's not sit on no damn couching saying what he said to me to no stranger. she would add, this baby in my belly deserves his full love. finally, shanann messages, only thing i can think of even though i don't think he has it in him is another girl. >> again, that report coming from one of our affiliates. it was an emotional week of hearings in south florida where a state commission's been investigating the deadly shooting at marjorie stoneman douglas high school earlier this year. the parkland high school group is trying to develop a plan to prevent such a tragedy from ever happening again. >> cnn's natasha chen has been following the hearings and joins us now. what is the draft report saying? >> it addresses some of the mistakes that were made that day. and that includes the fact that broward county and coral springs law enforcement weren't even on the same radio channel. so this draft report issues, addresses issues like that in the final recommendations that will be given to the good morning, everyone education. the commission started with low-hanging fruit, options that

are easy to implement and low cost like identifying and clearing space for what they call hard corners. hiding spots in classrooms that are out of the line of sight for anyone looking through windows and doorways. during one of the hearings they said the investigation montgomeried it was likely one -- investigation said it was likely one of the students died because she was nudged out of a hard corner. there's a code-red alarm system with the ability for all employees to declare and lock down the school. they recommended a single point of enry and exit, something that marjorie stoneman douglas high school has done when they started school this august. they wrote about installing fencing around perimeters high enough to prevent climbing, considering metal detection d de-- detectors, and viewing what's happening in realtime. at one point they thought the shooter was on the third floor

when he had already left campus. then what takes more money -- electron electronically controlled door systems, putting global positioning system o school buses. they recommended every school have "stop the bleed" kits and training. students are taught to apply tourniquets and pack wounds as a first line of defense before medical professionals get there. other parts of the report say there should be changes to privacy laws so school districts can share more information with law enforcement. this commission will meet again in mid-december. and they were hoping to have testimony from scott peterson, the resource officer who resigned after video showed he did not enter the building where the shooting was happening. his lawyer spoke on his behalf at the hearings. we not sure when the final report will be released, but they are trying to get that done before the end of the year. >> wow. all right. natas natasha, thank you very much. the debate over guns has two big groups going head to head. this month a medical journal suggested ways for doctors to

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we want to take you to a developing story coming out of paris this morning. right now people are protesting, and they're protesting over rising fuel costs. they are opposed to taxes on diesel and gas that president macron enacted along incentives for green or electric vehicles. it's all part of an effort to enact more environmentally friendly policies. >> cnn senior international correspondent jim bittermann is live for us in paris. jim, what are you hearing, and who are these people protesting?

>> reporter: okay. good morning. in fact, there are protesters below our office here on the champs e'lysee. i'll show what's going on. everyone's got a yellow vest on. these are -- movement being called the yellow vest movement all the things the french have in their automobiles. it's been quite easy to organize in the sense that everybody's got one and can put one on in and protest. it started out as a protests, as martin indicated, a protest over gas prices. it's morphed into something much wider about the high cost of living and the macron government in general. macron's popularity has dropped to about 25%. you remember that two weeks ago he had 70 world leaders including donald trump parading up the champs e'lysee. it's a different scene out there today. >> is there any indication that the government may be thinking about backing down on some of these taxes? >> reporter: well, there's a little bit of one. yesterday just before this

began, of course, there was a demonstration a week ago, too, but before this gathering today, yesterday the government announced that macron himself announced that he would be making a further announcement of something on tuesday. no one knows exactly what that something will be. but obviously the government is feeling the pressure from this movement which is quite autonomous. one of the things that -- one of the problems for the government is that there's no one organizing this. there's a lot of people in different cities across france, but there's no central figure that the government can actually deal with to decide which demands they can answer or accede to. they're trying to get their arms around it, but today obviously on the champs e'lysee which was supposed to be forbidden, there were to be no protests here today, and in fact all morning long we've seen just the opposite. >> so we're looking at a picture of -- we were looking at a picture of a car on fire. now -- and turned over.

now it looks like we see peel r-- see people running. is there a sense of whether there's a handle on the protesters and how expansive it is. >> reporter: it began this morning, it seemed they were caught by surprise about how early it started. started about 9:00 local time. the gathering was to take place at 2:00 p.m., many hours ahead of time people started appearing on the champs e'lysee. they've closed down the avenue to traffic. then started building bare kid, setting things on fire, and the rest of it. we were told just a while ago by the interior minister that he estimates the number of people on the champs e'lysee at about 5,000. i would say it's less than that now. it's down into the hundreds, i would suppose, or maybe -- maybe 1,000 or more. but in any case, it's diminished a lot from the high point which was earlier in the day.

in any case, they are now confronted with what the french call vandals who come out just about every protest demonstration we have here, who have their hearts set on doing as much damage as possible. those are the ones who are setting fire to vehicles and doing all kind of other damage along the champs e'lysee. they came here armed with crow bars so they could pry up the paving stones from the street and use the stones as ammunition against the police. >> remarkable images as you look at the -- what looks like clouds of teargas, the arkansc ditriom -- [ explosion ] >> we'll listen to what's happening this morning. a protest that has gone in a violent direction. and jim bittermann is there for us. we'll continue to check in with

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this morning a u.s. service member has been killed in afghanistan. they have not released that name until family members have been notified. >> this brings the combat death toll this year to eight. more than 2400 u.s. forces have died in the afghan war this far. we have new details for you about a letter. an american missionary wrote before he was killed on a remote, restricted island off india. he gave the letter to fisherm

before he left the boat. >> he wrote you might think i am crazy in all this but i think it's worth it to declare geezes to these people. please do not be angry at them or god if i get killed. it's believed he did get killed on his mission trip to the islands. zbls >> reporter: this is one of the oldest and most isolated tribes in the world and they say they're responsible for the killing of john allen chow. this archive footage from survival shows the tribe that live in complete isolation on the tiny island of north sentinel. chow illegally paid fisherman to take him to the isolated island hoping to convert the tribe to christianity.

and deliberately disregarding an established perimeter around the island. sha share would the washington post. he said i haulered my name is john and i love you and jesus loves you. an arrow piercing his bible. the next day made a second attempt. they remember seeing the body buried on the beach by tribe members. "you guys might think i'm crazy in all this but i think it's worth while to declare jesus in all this. god, i don't want to die." the same tribe killed two poachers that have been illegal illegally near their island. they believe the native's wish to remain isolated should be respected.

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