who then tracked down the owner who happened to be a college student who needed that money because he was trying to buy a new car. since doing that, talley has been getting donations from around the country. >> i'm really happy cry, this is really phenomenal. just got tears in my eyes people want to help somebody out. >> it really touches your heart and i think when people see something good and inspiring they like to get behind it. >> talley hopes we all understand that many homeless people are, you know what, just down on their luck, having a hard time but they're honest folks just like so many others out there. great, great story. glad we could bring that to you here on this "cnn saturday morning." top of the hour here i'm t.j. holmes, glad you to be here with us. what's happening right now in lisbon, portugal. the u.n. summit taking place there right now and some word we're getting from these nato leaders about how long troops, particularly american troops

could be in afghanistan. we'll have a live report from lisbon straight ahead. also that time, a lot of you not traveling yet but some are already starting to travel for this busy, busy holiday travel season so what are you going to go with? pat-downs or are you going to go with the full body image screener? we're going to separate fact from fiction for you out there. a lot of myth-busting that needs to be done. also, a lot of people already thinking ahead to the shopping season, black friday, is less than a week away. we've got some critical shopping secrets to tell you about. but i do want to turn to liz done. president obama is at the nato summit there in portugal, holding key talks with afghan president hamid karzai, in just a half hour we'll be holding a news conference. the president news conference coming in about 30 minutes. we will bring that to you live. the meeting already producing some headlines about nato's future and the car in afghanistan, including specifically how long coalition troops could be there. i want to turn to our white

house correspondent suzanne malveaux live in lisbon. hello to you. an important point to make there and a lot of people standing by. what does this meeting mean to us americans? well, we're trying to get an idea here when u.s. forces could be coming home. >> reporter: um-hum. absolutely, t.j. a lot of people want to know exactly what is taking place here. what we have is a new agreement, a negotiation if you will between nato, also the united nations and of course we heard from president hamid karzai of afghanistan, what do they want to do? starting next year they'd like to take province by province, region by region, turning over control from the nato forces, u.s. forces to afghan forces. they hope that this will be completed by the end of 2014, that of course, t.j., is the goal in all of this. hamid karzai believes that this is going to work. he wants it to work. he thinks. it's going to work because he says now he has the commitment from the international community and there's also determination

from the afghan people. here's how he put it before the world leaders. >> we are confident that the transition will succeed to the afghan authority, leadership and ordership, because i found today strong commitment by the international community, this strong commitment by the international community will be matched by sbermgs and hard work by the people of afghanistan, the two combined will give us the results of an effective irreversible and sustainable transition. >> t.j., there are a lot of questions whether or not this really is going to happen, if they're capable of making this happen by the end of 2014. obviously and expectedly there was a lot of public optimism about this. we heard from the secretary general of nato rasmussen who

said the reason why he's optimistic is because they say when it comes to training afghan forces that they're ahead of schedule. he says afghan forces are much stronger that, they've improved in the quality of their fighting. he also says, too, that what they're seeing on the ground is more fighting between international forces and the taliban so a lot of casualties and blood but they say that will lead to progress because ultimately the taliban is going to be finished. so there's at least publicly, t.j., there seems to be some hope that this 2014 might be a goal they can stick with. >> you can talked about that public optimism, is there some behind the scenes pessimism about this possible plan? >> reporter: absolutely. absolutely. you even hear some of it spill out in the public. we heard from the u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon who simply said look, you know, this is not about timetables. this is about being realistic, reality, even this document here mentioned the fact that

corruption is a major challenge for the afghan government and even senior administration officials privately are saying, look, if u.s. forces, xwapt forces may have to stay beyond 2014, that is a decision that whoever the president is, is going to have to decide at that time. there are some who are saying, allied forces are saying under no circumstances are we keeping our troops beyond 2014. so that is why it's in the u.s. interests and all of these guys' interests to try to keep this agreement on track so that 2014 is the date that they can pull out and at least sppull out of combat role. they'll be there until at least 2014 in a training compass wit afghan forces. they may be engaged in fighting as well. >> suzanne malveaux for news lisbon, portugal. suzanne we appreciate you as always. thanks so much. a reminder to our viewers we are standing by to hear from the president a live news conference, supposed to be happening at the bottom of the hour. when that does take place we'll bring you that live.

also i want to tell you about what's happening in new zealand, following another mine crisis, if you will, another mine accident we have trapped miners. at least 29, 29 coal miners are trapped. the rescue can't exactly get under way just yet because they are trying to check the levels, the tare quality to make sure it's safe for rescuers to go in. in new zealand an explosion happened yesterday. two men were able to get out but still another 29 miners stapd there. the ages are believed to be between 17 and 62 that are trapped down there, mostly new zealanders but a couple of australians, englishman and a south african there. right now they're trying to make sure the air quality is okay. they don't know the condition of those miners just yet. everybody is holding on, maybe another mine miracle. also this is saturday, a lot of people going to start traveling, wednesday, next wednesday the day before thanksgiving considered one of the busiest. a lot of people hitting the road and starting to fly around. one airport is getting some

attention right now, the orlando sanford international airport. they're getting attention because they say they're done with the tsa. they want the tsa to go away. increasing number of critics out there, of course, you've been seeing this plenty covered this week, the full body scanners, more intruive pat-downs, people don't like them. sanford that airport does not have the particular scanners in place but could get them and on "ac 360" last night, florida congressman john micah told anderson cooper the tsa is too inefficient. >> tsa in my opinion is out of control. i have 3,590 administrative personnel making on average over $105,000 just in washington, d.c. i never intended, when i wrote the tsa law, to have that kind of bureaucracy or another 8,000 out in the field and 67, growing to 67,000 people.

it's a massive, bloated br eed bureaucracy that needs to be trimmed and tamed. >> i'd like everybody to be reminded we might have wanted to have this equipment on 9/11, we saw 3,000 or more americans lose their lives. this is a different america, and a different world, and so we have to confront issues. head-on. >> what i have a problem with is the pat-down, standard pat-down procedures i've seen demonstrated that i can't do as a law enforcement officer until i was probable cause to put cuffs on you and take to you jail. >> important thing to note here that even if sanford airport gets rid of the tsa and has private contractors doing the security, the government is still going to play a major role in securing the private screeners still have to follow the same tsa guidelines on pat-downs or the machines or the body image scanners. either way you're going to get

the same experience but some airports are able to opt out. 16 use private screeners. the argument is they are able to give better customer satisfaction. i want to turn now to a closer look, closer look now at the furor over the controversial airport screening measures. there's a lot of speculation and possible misinformation out there about what travelers are facing. let's bring in our kate baldwin at reagan national airport outside of washington and kate, there's so much online, people are out there putting out some of it is misinformation, some kurpt but it's scaring people to the point they don't know what's going on at the airport. debunk some of the myths, please. >> reporter: exactly. there is a lot of information out there and clearly by now i'm sure you have heard the stories of pat-downs or searches more like groping or virtual strip searches as some would call it than a usual security search but the tsa says these new security

procedures are necessary and they are safe. as we're heading into the busy holiday season we wanted to answer some of the questions that will hopefully help or at least prepare people as they are heading to the airport. one of the things and i think we have graphics to help me out here. one of the things that many people are wondering when it comes to the full body scanners, are they safe. there's concern raised, some people would say the low level radiation may be a health risk. tsa says the full body scanners are safe, that there is less radiation exposure going through one scan of these full body scanners than you are subjected to in two minutes of being on a flight at altitude but that hasn't stopped pilots union who raised health concerns about it as well as a group of professors in california who have called for suspending the program until further studies can be done about the health risk. tsa says it is safe. another thing we wanted to talk to people about and help you out about, if you don't want to go through the body scanner if you

opt out, what do you do? the enhanced pat-downs nao come into place. not everyone is exposed, is going to be subjected to one of these enhanced patdowns. you are subjected to a patdown if one, as i just said you refuse a full body scan or go through the bull body scanner or metal detector and an alarm goes off and they need to do another search, raises a red flag of some sort that they need to look closer. also there are still randomly selected people, obviously tsa is not telling us how they do the random selections but they randomly are selected for the enhanced patdowns and you can be subjected to that. how many people is that? tsa is not saying how many get the patdowns but sources tell cnn between 1% and 4% of all air travelers so really showing it's a low number of people that do get these enhanced patdowns that has kind of raised the eyebrows of so many people. tsa says finally that since november 1st when this enhanced

patdown procedure has been put into place they've received fewer than 700 complaints about these patdowns that people call invasive, they say that basically that's indicating a small amount compared to the nearly 2 million people we're told daily that travel that go through security checkpoints. >> you're right, good to point those out, give perspective, certainly some people have their horror stories and a lot of those are getting a lot of attention. we should point out and i think you talked about it earlier, all of the polls showing between 80% and 90% of the travelers polled are in favor of these new security measures. people want to get where they're going safely. >> reporter: right, many people, and i've been talking to people here, they've said they're conflicted. they don't want to be groped when they go through a security line but also want to know that they are going to be safe on a plane. so how thorough is too thorough? how much is too much? that's kind of where we are in this debate now. >> kate, appreciate you as always. good to see you. thanks so much.

>> good to see you. turn to our reynolds wolf now, keeping an eye on all of this talk about what's happening at the airport, a lot of people usually have concerns -- what are you doing? >> eating a little bit of stuff. just a little bit. we had the cooking segment earlier, saw the plate and the food and you guys were busy so hey. food is good eating. t.j. coming up we'll talk about your weather forecast. doesn't matter if you have a hard plan or just winging it. could have rough weather coming. if you were to cut a diagonal line across the country, eastern third is okay but out west is a problem, that could be a spreading problem moving into the great lakes over the next couple of days, more on that coming up. i'll save you some. >> reynolds clearly you were not paying atension. you're supposed to use the saucer, not the full plate for your meal. >> rule shj mules, i'm eating turkey. a lot of people are getting ready for black friday. everybody has a strategy to be first, get in line, get the best deals. your strategy can't beat hers. she's already, yep, already

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16 minutes past the hour. we're standing by waiting to hear from the president, president obama. we've got a live picture here, this is -- no, this is video i'm told from saturday. this is when he arrived. he has been meeting with other nato leaders today talking about at the top of the agenda certainly afghanistan, but certainly other things on the agenda as well, missile defense, an agreement announced missile defense with other nato leaders. we're expecting to hear from the president possibly within the next 10 to 15 minutes, he's holding a press conference in lisbon. when he steps to the podium we'll take his comments live. time to turn to my good friend reynolds wolf keeping an eye on travel weather. reynolds, first of all here, travel is going to be up, aaa projects that more than 42 million people are going to travel at least 50 miles away from home, that'sen kre an incrf

more than 11%, 6 million expected to travel by plane, the economic conditions are cited for the boost in travel. still way below levels it was 2005. >> do you know where all of those people should be tuning in, right here because cnn is your holiday travel headquarters. >> yes. >> i thought you might want to know that. >> i like that. >> weigh wanted to share that message with everyone. if you are traveling so many are going by plane, train, automobile. it's going to be a good time in parts of the country. delays in denver, ground stoppage until 10:30 local time. san francisco a 50-minute ground delay and the reason is simple. what we're seeing out west is really a series of two areas of low pressure, two separate storm systems that bring in heavy rainfall to parts of the gold. state but at the same time the higher elevations it's not snow biz we're talking about. from the rain to the snow and the reason why, of course, is because when it goes, the moisture rises up into the colder spots, the higher elevations t makes that transformation from rain drops

to snowflakes, beautifully mt. shas sta and sierra nevada. for all is said and done we'll get a break in reno. check out the moisture in parts of the san joaquin valley, going to the east and turning to snow and it will be heavy. notice the area shaded in dark purple that's in excess of over 20 inches of snowfall. you could have two, some locations possibly up to three feet of snowfall so it's going to be pretty interesting to see how that stacks up, along parts of i-80 over the next several days. we've been talking about the snow mostly in the sierra nevada and coastal range, wasatch range and snow in the rockies picking up in those spots. 44 degrees the expected high in portland for today. los angeles low 60s. 46 in chicago. overcast skies for wrigley field for the big game today. 70 in atlanta, 76 in dallas. wednesday into thursday this area of low pressure into

wednesday, pre-thanksgiving and thanksgiving day that pulls through the great lakes, heavy snow a possibility, lake-effect snowfall for buffalo. >> doesn't look good thanksgiving day. >> time something not too good. >> thank you so much. about $450 billion, that's how much the national retail federation expects stores to take in this holiday season. of course you know the big kickoff is next friday, black friday. this lady is not waiting and she ain't playing. this lady is already a full week ahead of time, she has camped out in front of a best buy store. this is in st. petersburg, making sure she doesn't miss the first of those deals. she says she got about ten family members that are going to be rotating here and camping out but a week ahead, the first to get in. some people take this quite seriously. but if you need some help for your black friday, josh levs with black friday secrets.

>> go i have oi have one of the the closest i'll ever be to being a rock star, paper jams, love it, how to see the whole list of the hottest toys and which ones are good for different age groups. first something more serious, i want to tell you about some secrets for black friday, i've been learning these as well. our team at cnn money put together a great list, i want to bang you through a few. limited supplies, a lot of the times you see ads for black friday, these doorbuster deals you want to get, there's only three or four per store. call the store in advance, even if you're on hold it will save time over waiting hours in line and they don't end up having it. these you're less likely to have heard of, beware the derivative. a lot of nimz stores you will try to buy a product, could be an electronics product and you find it doesn't have the features of the standard model. watch out there. avoid bad bling cnn money is saying.

there's stuff going on with commodities and gold. sometimes you see jewelry advertised with the word gold all over it. gold plated or gold filled. be extra careful about that. one more, don't assume price matching and the reason is a lot of stores are not doing price matching at the time of black friday when they might elsewhere during the year. let me show you video here. i posted this online for you. this video is when i spoke here in this show with an expert on toys who talked to me about the hottest toys of the season and told me which ones are good for which age groups and why and what to watch out for. also one thing i'll mention before we go here is this, next week on saturday, the day after black friday will be small business saturday, small businesses around the country are pushing for you to go to them. i posted all of this on my facebook and twitter, joshlevs cnn, and also my blog cnn.com/josh. lots of tools and helpful information coming from our special section on holiday shopping at cnn.com. hopefully all of this will get you through black friday. t.j. back to you.

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we are at 26 minutes past the hour now. next week former gop vice presidential candidate sarah palin will be hitting the road to promote her book "america by heart." she stops in a few primary states as she considers her political future. here's what she told barbara walters about her future. >> i'm looking at the lay of the

land now and trying to figure that out, if it's a good thing for the country, the discourse, for my family if it's a good thing. >> if you ran for president, could you beat barack obama? >> i believe so. >> woo. there you have it. deputy political director paul steinhauser in washington. >> very influential among the republicans. what do americans think about that? president barack obama versus sarah palin, if he runs and wins the nomination. a poll, cnn/opinion research corporation, about three weeks ago, look at that 52% barack obama, 44% sarah palin, a hypothetical, very hypothetical matchup. favorable and unfavorable, it's interesting, four in ten have a favorable opinion of sarah palin with nearly half those we questioned, 49% saying they have an unfavorable opinion of sarah palin. t.j. as i always say with the

polls they're a snapshot of how americans feel now. 2012 a long time from now. cameraman zoom into the ticker. another person who may want to run for the white house, mike huckabee, he's got a speech to a major social conservative crowd. you know something about mike huckabee in arkansas. >> chased him around the state capitol in arkansas for three years as i worked there for a little bit. isn't it something, paul, a presidential candidate or any politician, you can't even have a layover in iowa or people will think you're running for president in 2012. so there you have it. he's in iowa. paul, appreciate you as always. talk to you soon. we are standing by waiting to hear from president obama, he of course and the other nato leaders are gathered right now in lisbon, portugal, for the u.n. summit. afghanistan the top of the list of things to do. the president expecting from him a news conference to start at any moment, when it does take place we will take you there

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welcome back. we're at the bottom of the hour here now. we're standing by for the president, gathering with the other members of the, of nato, having their summit right now in lisbon, portugal. the president is expected to come out and make some comments, expecting a press conference from him at any moment. when that happens we will take you there live. the president of course and the other nato leaders have been talking about what's going to happen for the future of afghanist afghanistan, trying to set a target date of 2014 for when the handover of the security operations to the afghans. a lot of people think that's an optimistic plan, public optimism being shown for the plan behind the scenes and a little in front of the cameras as well, pessimism that the plan can happen. we'll let this country, a lot of family members, husbands, wives,

moms and dads waiting for their young men and women to come home could get a sense of what this means for the future of u.s. forces in afghanistan. when the president steps out again it could happen at any moment. when he steps out we'll take to you that live press conference. want to in the meantime get a check of other stories making headlines across country. the amazing rescue could end up now on the silver screen, but the chilean miners already getting a taste of hollywood, right now toured universal studios theme park, got a trolley ride and simulated 3-d clash with king kong. some of the miners will be special guests. at the fourth annual cnn heroes all-star tribute which you will be able to see right here on cnn thanksgiving night, 8:00 eastern time. also take a look at this picture, can you imagine seeing this on the highway? that's a revealing billboard, has some driving wrecking, not quite wrecking but turning their

heads. this is in downtown memphis. it advertises a shoe store. let me see that picture again in case you were wondering the store's owner calls the billboard risque but believe it is tasteful. you be the judge. i didn't know if she was wearing shoes. check this out the holiday lights illuminate, this is, they're just doing a memphis block. who is giving me memphis love? "american idol" winner, actually did the honors and lit this thing up but every year, elvis presley's mansion is decorated with hundreds of shiny, blue lights along the driveway, life sized nativity scene and santa and his sleigh. a lot of memphis news, thanks to the producer who put that in there for me. we're making over your thanksgiving dinner, all the trimmings but less of the fat. you think you can do it? you think it can't be done? don't want to miss this showdown between me and a doctor who is only trying to help.

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all right, as we know thanksgiving just around the corner. you know you're going to be eating a lot. but we're trying to keep you

healthy. here as best we can, we've got a menu makeover here i want to you listen to. this is from dr. felicia wade, she was in here with us trying to get to you change your menu a little bit. we're going to let you hear what she had to say. i wanted to give you a heads up that we are standing by for the president as well, having a press conference in lisbon, if he does come up live, we'll break into this piece so make sure you hear it. i want to you know you're not going to miss any of the president, but still, want to get you started here with the menu makeover. this particular day, though, isn't this the day to just splurge? even if you behave and eat well all year, can we not just get one day to just go at it? >> i think it's important, t.j., to spend time with family and friends and i think it's important to have the foods that you love. i think you're right, you're brilliant, t.j., you know this but i think it's not the time to have 5,000 calories. i think it's the time to probably have somewhere between 500 to 1,200 calories but not 5,000.

>> that's every day. we're supposed to eat the 500 to 1,200. this is what we're going to do. we have my menu up. i have a fairly traditional meal i cook. i grew up, mama, grandmama, granddaddy, everybody could cook in the family. let's look at this. honey baked ham, we don't have a holiday without that honey baked ham. you got a turkey, stuffed with vegetable, a lot of butter in there, too. delicious. >> how much butter? >> a couple of sticks in the whole, over time. why are y'all laughing? macaroni and cheese, jiffy cornbread and green beans. let's leave it up. i put bacon and onions in the green beans. what is your problem with that menu right there? >> t.j., let's start with the ham. >> okay, start with the ham. >> do you know how much sodium is in the ham, t.j.? >> enough to make it delicious. >> can i make you a question? >> sure thing. >> what is your blood pressure? >> my blood pressure it was a little high last time i went to the doctor. >> a little high? >> i have been checking since i

came to the doctor and in a decent range but go ahead. your point? >> in ham, in three ounces just three ounces, there's 1,000 milligrams of sodium. >> that's bad? >> that's bad, t.j. with somebody who has high blood pressure we don't want them to have 1,000 milligrams of sodium in three ounces of ham. three ounces of ham, very thin slices is three ounces, little, tiny slices. that's not worth it on one day. what i'd like for them to do is take that ham, put it in a big pot of water before they cook it in the oven, because my family is from the south, too, from louisiana. you want to spar? let's spar. >> let's do this. >> they're from louisiana and ander this from north carolina. i want them to put that in that pot, soak it in that pot, okay, on the stove, boil it so all of that sodium comes out in that water. i want them to pour that pot of water in the sink and bake it in the oven. >> how is it going to taste afterwards? >> fine. because you know what i really would rather?

i'd rather than not have that ham with that thousand milligrams of sodium because i want their blood pressure to be normal. >> put the list back up there. >> the american heart association rather than have the turkey. >> anything else on that list you have a problem with? >> oh, t.j., that macaroni and cheese, it just gets me right here. >> what am i supposed to eat instead? eliminate the macaroni and cheese as well? >> you know one cup of macaroni and cheese do you know how many calories? >> of course i don't. >> it's like 600 calories. do you know how much cholesterol is in that? >> you're saying eliminate that or put different things in it, different cheese, low-fat cheese? >> yes. i'm so happy now. t.j. >> give me the second screen with the stuff on it. i have sweet potato pie, lemon meringue pie, cornbread dressing and mashed potatoes. what do you have issues, take issue with that? >> can we change cornbread and do whole grain bread. >> ooh.

>> four cornbread muffins, mix them together. >> some cornbread. >> some cornbread and what we have is we have mushrooms in there, we have onions, a little bit of low sodium chicken broth, so we do know how to cook. we put that all together and so instead of 89 milligrams of cholesterol we have 59. tastes very similar and instead of the next day having to go to the hospital for high blood pressure, i'm talking about the 41 million diabetics out there, the 500,000 people who die of heart disease every year, we want them to enjoy their families too. >> i need to get to this one other thing, you call it a magic number that everybody should be targeting for this holiday. >> yes. >> put that up. what does this mean, whose magic number is that? >> the magic number is we should be having a meal that's really not greater than 500 to 1,200 calories. we're talking one meal.

most people should be eating somewhere around 1,200 to 700 calories for a day. you know, like someone who is my size, i shouldn't be eating more than about 1,600 calories for all my meals. >> okay. >> so that means to sit down for thanksgiving, i should be, can i show you the plate? >> please. >> i should have a plate that looks like this. >> what are you supposed to do with that? >> have my food on it. >> on thanksgiving? >> on thanksgiving but most people t.j., i know you have a plate like this. >> i don't use a plate. i use a platter. >> you go back twice. >> oh my goodness you have no idea. >> do you go back three times? >> maybe a third but it's not full each time. >> t.j., i can't carry all these plates. >> people should use saucers for their meals on thanksgiving. >> a saucer. she was serious and it is, it's a serious epidemic in this country, nobody is doubting, so we certainly don't want to make

fun there. it is obesity epidemic in the country certainly and dr. wade certainly a good sport and good spirit, has a book out "the heart of the matter" trying to get people to be and eat healthy including thanksgiving day but you make the decision for yourself. you see the bottom of the screen keeping a close eye on what's happening in lisbon, portugal. the president expecting him to step out at any moment. producer, did you get guidance on when he's stepping out? soon is what we're told. i think we might be able to get in a commercial break here and we'll take you back live when the president steps out for his press conference, again at the u.n. -- excuse me the nato summit, taking place in lisbon, portugal. stay with us. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] what does it take to excel in today's business world? our professors know. because they've been there. and they work closely with business leaders

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as we mentioned we want to turn now to president obama taking the podium having a press conference in lisbon, portugal, at the nato summit. >> -- to the terrorists who threaten us all have no safe haven and so that the afghan people with fortunately a more hopeful future. at no time during these past six decades was our success guaranteed. indeed there have been many times when skeptics have predicted the end of this alliance, but each time nato has

risen to the occasion and adapted to meet the challenges of that time, and now as we face a new century with very different challenges from the last, we have come together here in lisbon to take action in four areas that are critical to the future of the alliance. first, we aligned our approach on a way forward in afghanistan, particularly on a transition to full afghan lead that will begin in early 2011, and will conclude in 2014. it is important for the american people to remember that afghanistan is not just an american battle. we are joined by a nato-led coalition made up of 48 nations, with over 40,000 troops from allied and partner countries, and we honor the service and sacrifice of every single one. with the additional resources that we've put in place, we're now achieving our objective of breaking the taliban's momentum,

and doing the hard work of training afghan security forces and assisting the afghan people, and i want to thank our allies who committed additional trainers and mentors to support the vital mission of training afghan forces. with these commitments i am confident that we can meet our objective. here in lisbon, we agreed that 2011 will mark the beginning of a transition to afghan responsibility, and we adopted the goal of afghan forces taking the lead for security across the country by the end of 2014. this is a goal that president karzai has put forward. i've made it clear that even as americans transition and troop reductions will begin in july, we will also forge a long-term partnership with the afghan people. and today nato has done the same. so this leaves no doubt that as

afghans stand up and take the lead they will not stand alone. we also reached an agreement in a secondary. a strategic concept for nato that recognizes the capabilities and partners the alliance needs to meet the challenges of the 21st century. i want to give special thanks to secretary-general rasmussen for his outstanding leadership in forgeing a mission that observes the enduring strength of the alliance while adapting it to meet the missions of the future. as i said yesterday, we have reaffirmed the central premise of nato. our article five commitment that an attack on one is an attack on all. to ensure this commitment has meaning, we agreed to take action in a third area, to modernize our conventional forces and develop the full range of military capabilities that we need to defend our nations. we'll invest in technologies so that allied forces can deploy and operate together more

effectively. we'll deploy new defenses against threats such as cyber attacks, and we will reform alliance command structures to make them more flexible and more efficient. most important we agreed to develop a missile defense capability for nato territory, which is necessary to defend against the growing threat from ballistic missiles. the new approach to european missile defense that i announced last year, the phased adaptive approach will be the united states contribution to this effort and a foundation for greater collaboration. after years of talk about how to meet this objective, we now have a clear plan to protect all of our allies in europe as well as the united states. when it comes to nuclear weapons, our strategic concept reflects both today's realities as well as our future aspirations. the alliance will work to create the conditions so that we can reduce nuclear weapons and pursue the vision of a world without them.

at the same time we've made it very clear that so long as these weapons exist nato will remain a nuclear alliance and the united states will maintain a safe, secure, and effective nuclear arsenal to deter adversaries and guarantee the defense of all our allies. finally we agreed to keep forging the partnership beyond nato that helped make our alliance a pillar of global security. we'll continue to enhance nato's cooperation with the e.u., which i will talk about in my summit later this afternoon with e.u. leaders after a two-year break. we are also resuming cooperation between nato and russia. i was very pleased that my friend and partner president dem try medvedev joined us today at the nato russia council summit.

we have led to concrete benefits for both our nations. now we're resetting the nato russia relationship. we see russia as a partner, not an adversary and we agree to deepen our cooperation in several critical areas. on afghanistan, counter-narcotics, and a range of 21st century security challenges. and perhaps most significantly we agreed to cooperate on missile defense, which turns a source of past tension into a source of potential cooperation against a shared threat. so overall this has been an extremely productive two days. we came to lisbon with a clear task, and that was to revitalize our alliance to meet the challenges of our time. that's what we've done here. of course it's work that cannot end here. so i'm pleased to announce that the united states will host the next nato summit in 2012, a summit that will allow us to build on the commitments that we made here today as we transitioned to full afghan

lead, new capabilities, expand our partnerships and ensure the most successful alliance in history will continue to advance our security and our prosperity well into the future. and i said to prime minister socrates since he has thrown such a successful summit in lisbon, i've been taking notes. you set a high bar of hospitality. i appreciate everything the people of portugal has done and we will try to reciprocate that hospitality when we host in 2012. so with that, let me take some questions, and i'm going to start with margaret warner of pbs. margaret, why don't you get a micro phone. >> thank you, mr. president. what message do you hope this summit sends to senator jon kyl and other republicans in the

senate who are resisting voting on and ratifying s.t.a.r.t. in the lame duck session? >> well, a couple of messages that i just want to send to the american people. number one, i think that americans should be proud that an alliance that began 60 years ago through the extraordinary sacrifices in part of american young men and women, sustained throughout a cold war, has resulted in a europe that's more unified than it's ever been before, that is an extraordinarily strong ally of the united states, and that continues to be a cornerstone of prosperity not just for the united states and europe but for the world. this is a direct result of

american efforts and american sacrifice. i think the world appreciates it. the second message i want to send is that after a period in which relations between the united states and europe were severely strained, that strain no longer exists. there are occasions where there may be disagreements on certain tactical issues. but in terms of a broad vision on how we achieve transatlantic security, that alliance has never been stronger. that's something that americans should feel good about. number three, i think the americans should know that american leadership remains absolutely critical to achieving some of these important security objectives. and i think our european partners would be the first to knowledge that. what we ratified here today is

the direct result of work that we've done over the last two years to get to this point. just to take the example of afghanistan, i think that if you said even a year ago or even maybe six months ago that we would have a unified approach on the part of our allies to move forward in afghanistan with a sustained commitment where we actually increased the resources available and closed the training gap in order to be successful, i think a lot of skeptics would have said that's not going to happen. it has happened in part because we have rebuilt those strong bonds of trust between the united states and our allies. the fourth thing, and this finally goes to your specific question, unprompted, i have received overwhelming support from our allies here that

s.t.a.r.t., the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty, is a critical component to u.s. and european security. and they have urged both privately and publicly that this gets done. and i think you've seen the comments of a wide range of european partners on this issue, including those who live right next to russia, who used to live behind the iron curtain, who have the most cause for concern with respect to russian intentions, and who have uniformly said they will feel safer and more secure if this treaty gets ratified. in part because right now w