starting to arrive in the devastated philippines. right now the military can confirm 942 deaths, but by some estimates as many as 10,000 could be dead in just one philippine city alone. most are victims of the typhoon storm surge that rose 13 feet high. the help can't come fast enough. survivors now three days into this are on an increasingly desperate search for food and water. looting is a problem. and the faces of the children especially heart breaking. unicef estimates 1.7 million children were living in the bath of the storm. complicating efforts, no electricity, telecommunications are down, and limited access to hard-hit areas. this is the mayor of the city that bore the brunt of the storm. >> our problem is, is getting more relief goods in because the roads are not yet accessible, okay. i myself already have even the day after the storm we were retrieving bodies at the same

time clearing roads. >> now, there is a political component to this as well. the ongoing tragedy reigniting the climate change debate. the huffington post calls it a wake-up call for the u.n. climate summit. and from the u.k.'s "the guardian" what really alarms filipinos is the rich world ignoring climate change. we'll have much more on that in a moment with senator bernie sanders and the weather channel's bryan norcross, but first let's get you the latest on what's happening on the ground. ian williams is in manila for us today. how are the rescue and relief efforts going? >> reporter: well, they're getting under way and of course the u.s. are making their effort as well, getting marines in there typhoon's normally go.

this is down in the center. that's unusual. last year there was one even farther south which is unusual which is also category 5.

so this trend towards having these strong winds to the south, is that a symbol or signal of something changing in the climate or is just mother nature, we don't know at this point. >> obviously when you look over the last 10, 20 years there has been an increase in extreme weather. massive flooding in colorado, hurricane sandy last year, the hurricane in haiti, of course hurricane katrina in 2005. what is the latest thinking in the science community on the global change connection? >> well, you have a couple of different things there. in terms of these tropical systems, hurricanes and typhoons. they're exactly the same system, just different names in different parts of the world. the consensus is a warmer climate does not dramatically affect either the number or intensity or has not been. in the future the climate models indicate there might actually be fewer of them but stronger because of the way the atmosphere is changing. but the atmosphere is changing

and some of these other kinds of things like the flooding in colorado, like the intense heat wave that we've seen in russia a few years ago and over the eastern part of the u.s., these would seem to be aggravated or more likely by the changes in the atmosphere but we're not seeing that signal in the tropics. we think most of what's happening in the tropics is more related to the variety of mother nature and unfortunately this one met a very bad part of the world for this kind of disaster. >> senator sanders, let me bring you into the conversation. organizing for america made a video that i want to play for you. >> the debate on the causes of climate change are far from settled. >> the climate is always changing. that's not the fundamental question. the fundamental question is whether manmade activity is what's contributing most to it. i understand people say there's scientific consensus but i've seen reasonable debate on that

principle. >> senator, is there reasonable debate and if so will action on climate change ever gain any political traction? >> well, chris, that's a great question. i think it's very clear that the scientific community, the people who have most studied this issue overwhelmingly believe that, a, global warming is real. b, that it is caused by human activities. c, that it is already causing severe damage in the united states and all over the world. and, d, when we're talking about the possibility, and this is what the predictions are, that by the year 2100 this planet may have a temperature of 10 degrees fahrenheit warmer than it is right now. what we're looking at is real catastrophe unless we begin to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel and into energy efficiency and sustainable energy. it saddens me very much, and i know people are totally frustrated with what goes on in congress right now for 100

different reasons. but the idea that you have a major political party that is rejecting -- rejecting all of the science out there and it's preventing us from going forward in the kind of ways that we have got to go forward to save this planet is enormously distressing. >> well, you have talked about global warming. in fact most recently in an interview in interview saying it's a far more serious problem than al qaeda. and an article suggested governments in vulnerable countries saying those of us in rich countries have lost the political will to do anything about climate change. would you expect, for example, anything at all to come out of the upcoming u.n. summit? >> not much. i mean when the most powerful economy on earth, the united states of america, where you have, you know, a party that

controls the republican party that controls the house of representatives, not only not wanting us to go forward in a significant way but denying the science, i mean what kind of signal does it send to the entire world? what we need to do as a nation is say, look, we have a planetary crisis, we have to break our dependence on fossil fuel, we have to work with china, india and the rest of the world to make this transformation as soon as possible. you're talking about low-lying countries, coastal countries and cities in the united states that maybe experience severe flooding in the years to come. if we don't get this wake-up call now and we don't start investing in transformation of our energy system, we're going to be in very bad shape. >> it's obviously not just a humanitarian imperative and that's what we're seeing in the philippines right now but it's

an economic imperative. when you look at the numbers at what kind of damage is caused by these storms, it's off the charts. >> we spent just the federal government spent $60 billion helping new jersey and the other states impacted by hurricane sandy. we spent hundreds of millions of dollars helping vermont and other states hit by hurricanes irene. you're talking about forest fires, you're talking about drought. a recent report came out recently from the scientific community worrying very much about food production because of drought in years to come. the rising price of food, hunger, political dislocation because countries and people are fighting over limited resources. ask the cia. they worry very much about the long-term implications from a national security perspective about global warming. so all over the world the evidence is very clear, we have got to act. it is literally beyond comprehension how little we are doing and that you have again, i

don't mean to have overly political here, but when you have a major political party rejecting what the overwhelming scientific evidence is, it is pretty scary. >> let me switch gears with you real quickly since it is veterans day and get your thoughts on a new report that came out just today and we're going to do more on this later in the program, but it says that the va backlog for veterans' benefits are getting better. are you convinced that's happening and is the improvement enough? >> well, chris, the improvement is not enough but i think what is happening is we are making some significant progress. the secretary of the va pledged to make significant reductions by the year 2015 and to transform the system, which has been paper into a digital system. i mean bringing us into the 21st century. so progress has been made. more progress is going to have to be made because the idea that any veteran in this country is

waiting one year or two years to get his or her benefit claims processed is clearly unacceptable. >> senator bernie sanders as well as the weather channel's bryan norcross. thank you, gentlemen, good to see both of you. >> thank you. iran and the united nations nuclear chief have a deal for more monitoring of iran's nuclear sites. iranians are touting it as a sign of progress after talks in geneva ended after broader deals that the u.s. wants. secretary of state john kerry now headed back to the u.s., insisting no deal is better than a bad deal. kerry says it was iran that stalled the program and pushed back on complaints from israeli prime minister benjamin netanya netanyahu. >> it seems to me that israel is far safer if you make certain that iran cannot continue the program. now every day that we don't have it, they're continuing it. so i think the american people and most people in the world want the president of the united

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a lot of enthusiasm this past weekend on the west coast for hillary clinton's visit. >> whoo! >> from los angeles to northern california, everybody seemed to be waiting for the same thing. was she going to give any hints about her plans for 2016? >> we just wanted to show that she has the support that she needs to run for office whenever she decides. >> she is looking quite presidential, i might say. so i believe there was a lot of hints. >> people started chanting "just

say yes, just say yes" but she didn't give a direct answer. >> let's look at some of what's behind the talk of inevitability. of course the fund-raising prowess, the organization, the early endorsements. but that's what everybody thought in 2008. and a new republic piece asks the provocative question is hillary's nightmare a democratic party that realizes its soul lies with elizabeth warren. let me bring in jonathan allen, and a politics reporter for the "washington post." good morning. >> good morning. >> so let's start with hillary because she's touring the country doing speaking engagements. she's racking up political chips. let me read this piece. anyone who lived through 2008 knows that inevitable candidates have a way of becoming distinctly evitable.

is that her biggest problem, the sense of inevitability? >> certainly that hurt her in 2008. i think she spent this year trying to be as much under the radar as possible for her, which is essentially impossible, to borrow a constructive inevitable to evitable. but i think the plan has been to lie low as much as she can and preserve the political capital she had coming out of the state department where she was seen as above the partisan fray. i think in 2014 you'll see a lot more explicitly political work. >> and as much as we talk about hillary already, then that leads to the question of if not hillary, who. let me quote again. the candidate would almost certainly have to be a woman, given democrats' desire to make history again. she would have to amass hunl piles of money with relatively little effort. above all, she would have to awaken in democratic voters an almost evangelical passion. as it happens, there is

precisely such a person. her name is elizabeth warren. they make the comparison to bill de blasio, kind of indicating maybe a liberal's time has come. what do you think about that? >> i think the big question as that article raises is if not hillary, who? is it warren? can she actually excite that passion among that obama coalition? latinos, african-americans, young people, women. it's not clear to me whether or not she's just a boutique candidate right now. and if she's just a boutique candidate, can she essentially become a super store type candidate in the way that you already see that hillary clinton is, in the way that obama was able to do with that grassroots organization. it's -- you know, i think the big question for democrats right now is that they do seem to have all of their eggs in the hillary basket and on the right you have somebody like chris christie, who is very much a breath of fresh air. i think warren is more of a breath of fresh air, but she is -- i think she's 15 years

older or so than chris christie so you wonder if he's going to be able to really capitalize on that. >> listen to us, assuming -- >> assuming that all of these people run, right. that's what we're saying, right, right. >> this piece also talks about warren's persona and there's almost this disconnect. she has not been somebody, jonathan, who's hogging the spotlight. he's not doing lots of fill busters and press conferences like ted cruz. she has been described as differential in the senate. she's clearly well liked by her colleagues but this piece describes her first ever senate banking committee hearings where it claims she set off a national furor with these comments. >> the question i want to ask is about how tough you are. about how much leverage you really have in these settlements. and what i'd like to know is tell me a little bit about the last few times you've taken the biggest financial institutions on wall street all the way to a

trial. >> and she almost stunned the room into silence at that point. jonathan, that video has been viewed online a million times. he's almost like this media sensation in that for somebody who speaks as quietly as she does, there's a number of videos about her that have gotten multimillion hits. what is it about her? >> well, she's certainly got a following. you know, the progressives are putting out bumper stickers that say i come from the elizabeth warren wing of the democratic party. look, i think she's speaking to a core value of the democratic base, of the liberal base that wealth has been concentrated in the hands of too few and that it should be -- it should be shared more evenly across the country. and i think that as a result of that, she's definitely connected with a lot of americans, and particularly with the liberal wing of the democratic party. that said, it's not clear yet that that's enough. barack obama had very strong rhetoric when it came to wall street but as president of the

united states he's often worked with wall street bankers to the frustration of a lot of liberals. and i think that anybody who gets into the office of the presidency has to weigh the needs of all the sectors of society, whether you're talking about government, business, nonprofit, et cetera. and so it would be interesting to see how elizabeth warren would position herself as a candidate for the presidency if she were to run. again, you know, she was one of 20 senators, democratic women senators who signed a letter urging hillary to run. >> really quickly, i think the key question here, and again we're out of time, what are the chances hillary doesn't run? which obviously would be a big opening for somebody like elizabeth warren. >> that's right. from the folks i've talked to who are close to people in the hillary camp, it's a yes until it's a no. who knows what would make it a no. would it be a health issue? would she sense that there is this growing obama fatigue? that's the question, whether or not people would see a hillary clinton candidacy in 2016 as a

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>> if you want to attract a majority of the hispanic vote, if you want to nearly triple your african-american voters, what you need to do is show up. you go and show up and listen. on governing it's about doing things, accomplishing things, reaching across the aisle and crafting accomplishments. >> but some conservatives, including ted cruz, sarah palin and rick perry seem less than enthusiastic about christie. >> he was a successful governor in new jersey. now, does that transend to the country? we'll see in later years and months to come. >> new jersey, a blue state, has a republican governor. right on. beats the alternative. >> not exactly a resounding endorsement there. let's bring in gabriella domanzine and frank donatelli. frank, conservatives don't seem

to like him. "the new york times" headlines say they recoil at the notion that chris christie would be the party's savior. how deep is the dislike? >> chris, if you're going to run and win nationally, you have to put coalitions together. you have to appeal to a broad cross-section of individuals. and you need conservatives, you need moderates, you need some liberals, you certainly need hispanics. >> but you also know, frank, you have to be able to win the primaries in the early states. >> of course you do, and that's why i think if governor christie runs, he's going to stress his conservative credentials, which means he took a very bad economy that he inherited from the democratic -- his democratic predecessors and he's really fixed the budget. he's turned it around. so that's something he can talk about. these other individuals are good too. we have many good candidates that we can choose from in the party, chris. all i'm saying is that governor christie has to be considered because of his b so are democrats worried about

him? >> i think that the inroads that he made with the hispanic community is prooi precisely what's not going to be him do well on the national level. the extreme conservative base that he needs to win to get the general election completely rejects. i think the biggest enemy in chris christie's case is his own party. >> everyone is looking at history too to try to figure out exactly what his future might hold, frank. some republicans comparing him to rudy giuliani, who obviously fell flat once he hit the national stage in 2008. you think there are more parallels which christie and george w. bush, right? >> i think there are a lot of parallels. look, it's not a perfect analogy. but i just note that the last two nominees of our party were john mccain and mitt romney. and so i think certainly chris christie you could argue is to

the right of governor romney. so there's enough, i think, commonality of his conservative position and the broad republican electorate that he would have a good chance. we have many good candidates this time, chris. we can talk about some others. but christie offers kind of a northeastern, more in your face sort of appeal. and as somebody that believes that we need a big, big number of voters in our party in 2016, i think the more candidates that run, the better. >> yeah, there are a couple of things, gabriella, that people talk about that are not policy related. one is what frank just said, that sort of in your face and that fine line between being authentic or enthusiastic and bullying. and the second one is about weight. i'm sure you've seen the cover of "time" magazine that says the caption "elephant in the room." christie was asked over the

weekend whether that bothered him. >> if i'm bothered by jokes about my weight, it's time for me to curl up into the fetal position and go home, okay. and the fact is that if they think that's clever, great for them. >> how significant do you think, gabriella, that these two things are, the weight and the temperament. >> i think that elections are won on substance, not style. his self-effacing humor and all of these things are great for style but on substance -- >> all of those things didn't help howard dean. >> on substance you have to think that your own cnbc has ranked new jersey number 42 as far as the economy is concerned. when he came in it was 30, right. he wants to repeal obama care, something that for hispanics in particular and all minorities is extremely important. he voted to defund planned parenthood, which is extremely important amongst middle class women, latinos, african-americans as well. and that's what's going to be

scrutinized if he even makes it to the general. i think the fact that his party will hound him just like they did mitt romney, who became the most extreme presidential candidate on immigration might even bump him out before he gets there. >> great seeing both of you, thank you. >> thank you so much. tonight the miami dolphins are back on the field for monday night football, but everybody is talking about the interview that suspended guard richie incognito gave over the weekend. he defended himself over accusations he bullied and harassed teammate jonathan martin saying no one had martin's back more than he did, and he even admitted they have exchanged text messages since the whole thing went down. nbc's kerry sanders is in tampa this morning with more on the nfl investigation and incognito's interview. kerry, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning, chris. the nfl investigation into allegations of bullying and one physical attack against player jonathan martin will now get the full attention of the independent investigation, ted wells. this as suspended player, richie

incognito, has now sat for his first in-depth interview. >> i'm not a racist. and to judge me by that one word is wrong. >> reporter: in an interview on fox nfl sports sunday, richie incognito presents himself as a misunderstood man. a sharp contrast to the man seen in this tmz sports video shouting and using the "n" word at a ft. lauderdale pool hall several months ago. in the fox sports interview, incognito admits he used the "n" word on a voice mail left for teammate yawn thjonathan martin. now he said he's embarrassed by it. >> it sounds like i'm a racist pig and a meat head. it sounds a lot of things it's not. >> incognito said it was a joke. >> i'm not saying it's right what i did in the voice mail but there's a lot of words thrown around the locker room that we don't use in everyday life. >> reporter: fox sports said incognito showed him his phone with 1,142 texts between him and

martin. one is said to have come from martin four days after he left the dolphins reading what's up, man? the world's gone crazy, lol. i'm good, though. congrats on the win. yeah, i'm good, man. it's insane, bro, but just know i don't blame you guys at all. it's just the culture around football and the locker room got to me a little. fox sports asked if martin were sitting next to him, what would incognito say now? >> i would say -- i think i'd give him a big hug right now and i'd just be like, dude, what's going on. >> reporter: also included in the text this one from a week before this all went down. fox sports said this text came from martin to incognito. it says i'll murder your whole family. incognito says as for their relationship, he thought that was just a joke. chris. >> kerry sanders, thank you so much. will the good times keep rolling on wall street?

cnbc's michelle caruso-cabrera is here with what's moving your money. it was a good day. friday stocks hit another high. how are we doing today? >> two major averages are still in positive territory so once again that would be more highs for the market. more and more investors are getting nervous and we're seeing some wall street houses saying how much longer can it go on. amazon is slightly higher this morning after announcing that they are going to actually have sunday delivery in los angeles and new york if you're an amazon prime member. if you pay $79 a year, you get two-day shipping free all the time. if you order it on friday, in the old days you couldn't get it until monday. now you'll get it on sunday if you live in l.a. and new york and next year there will be four other major cities where that's available as well. >> we're an instant gratification culture and guilty as charged. okay, there is a viral video that is out there that everybody apparently but me had seen, because i'm culturally illiterate but it's about to become a children's book.

>> 200 million people has seen "what does the fox say." >> i saw the snl take-off on it which i thought it was hilarious. i just didn't know it was a take-off. >> let's play a little bit of it in case a lot of the audience is like you. ♪ what did the fox say ♪ what the fox say >> well, somehow simon and shoester has figured out a way they're going to turn that into an illustrated children's book, hard cover comes out december 10th. it will sell for $17.99. so it goes from youtube video, kind of new school media, to old school media, hard cover book. i'll get you a copy. >> really? that's nice. thank you, michelle caruso-cabrera. happy veterans day. to honor our military men and women, a lot of businesses offer freebies. denny's has an all you can eat

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glance from the center for investigative reporting. good to see you, aaron, good morning. >> it's good to be with you. >> so this latest report found that the average wait time for veterans has fallen by four months. what's behind the improvement? >> it's kind of a good news/bad news situation. the good news is we have seen this tremendous improvement from 250,000 veterans waiting more than a year for their benefits just a few months ago to 34,000 now. the bad news is that's still three times more people waiting more than a year than when obama took office. what happened? they finally launched a half billion dollar computer system that had just been kind of sitting around being tinkered with so these claims which were all in stacks of literally manila envelopes have been digitized. the va in response to our story partially made all of their workers work 20 hours of overtime every month so people have been working harder longer and with a more efficient system. >> yeah, i mean it sounds so

much like obama care. you just wonder why the government can't seem to get up to speed on some of this tech stuff. is that really just a big part of this problem? >> it was a huge factor. president obama when he was candidate obama pointed out that it was ridiculous that in the 21st century veterans should be mailing gigantic stacks of paperwork to the department of veterans affairs to physically read through these very long medical files to determine if somebody had indeed been hurt in war. he promised to digitize it. the government spent hundreds of millions of dollars doing it. to date over $600 million spent. but they were just still tinkering with it, they weren't launching it until it got so bad that at the winston-salem office of the va, the va's inspector general found that there were so many paper files that it was compromising the structural integrity of the building.

>> that's unbelievable. let me go back to when your story first broke last march and the obama administration vowed to make changes. they set a goal of no backlogged cases by 2015, no veterans waiting more than four months to have claims processed. today you find 401,000 cases are still back logged in spite of these improvements. so i guess the question is what are the chances the administration meets its goal of 2015? >> we calculate if they continue their current progress they have been on since march they will get there in december of 2014, so that would mean by about, what, two years from now veterans will have the luxury of only waiting about four months for their benefits. >> at the start of this show, we talked about this with independent vermont senator bernie sanders and he is on the veterans affairs committee. let me just play for you what he had to say about the progress that is being made.

>> progress has been made, more progress is going to have to be made because the idea that any veteran in this country is waiting one year or two years to get his or her benefit claims processed is clearly unacceptable. >> now, there is a bill that's been circulating in the senate, i'm sure you know, that would require the va to post processing times and the percentage of claims that are proved -- that are approved but the veterans affairs committee says it's too much for us. it's just going to set us back even further. what can you tell us about that and how difficult would it be for there to be this sort of almost realtime accountability? >> the va could be providing these numbers to the public regularly but they don't. you know, one of the things that was very damning in our story in march was we obtained dozens and dozens of leaked spreadsheets, performance metrics from the va that show that the va had known all along that there were these hundreds of thousands of veterans facing these

excruciatingly long waits. 250,000 veterans waiting more than a year, about 50,000 veterans waiting more than two years. they knew all of this. their undersecretary for benefits was getting regular reports. but those reports were not being shared with the public. so i think it would be great, the va has made strides to increase transparency in recent months. they have increased the amount of data that's available online. but they still hide an awful lot from public scrutiny, even the oversight committees in the house and senate often have difficulty getting basic investigation. >> aaron, some great work you guys have been doing. thank you so much for coming on the program. >> thank you. today's tweet of the day comes from singer and actor harry connick jr. as a proud american, i celebrate veterans day to all who served selflessly for our freedom and way of life, thank you. my customers can shop around-- see who does good work and compare costs. it doesn't usually work that way with health care.

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to politics now, where secretary of state john kerry is raising some eyebrows after giving credence to jfk conspiracy theories. >> to this day i have serious doubts that lee harvey oswald acted alone. i certainly have doubts that he was -- that he was motivated by himself. but i have serious questions about whether they got to the bottom of lee harvey oswald's time and influence from cuba and russia. >> but kerry refused to say anymore when asked to elaborate by david gregory on "meet the press." in 1964, the warren commission found that oswald acted alone. in case you missed it, texas tea party senator ted cruz made his "tonight show" debut on friday. >> they describe you as aggressive, arrogant and abrasive. accurate? >> well, i don't know that you can believe everything you read. >> any one of those. can you believe any one of those? >> you know, what i'm trying to

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that i'll have to show you off the air that are very interesting. >> that you can't show on the air? >> no, i can't. isn't that a tease? it's time for my tease and that's the tease. >> welcome home and i get the welcome home sglent it was a good trip and i'm glad to be back. the agenda next hour, my one-on-one with donald trump. did his vocal stance against russia's anti-gay law move the needle for marriage equality here at home? you'll be interested to hear his answer. on this veterans day the president will honor those who have served and the fallen at a ceremony at arlington. we'll carry those remarks for you live. and then the aftermath of typhoon haiyan. the storm system is still moving. full details next. follow me! ♪ follow me! keep up, keep up, keep up. ♪ look he's right there! follow me! [ male announcer ] the nissan pathfinder. wow! follow me!

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his day of coaching begins with knee pain, when... [ man ] hey, brad, want to trade the all-day relief of two aleve for six tylenol? what's the catch? there's no catch. you want me to give up my two aleve for six tylenol? no. for my knee pain, nothing beats my aleve. good morning, everybody. i'm thomas roberts. a solemn ceremony tops our agenda on this veterans day. right now president obama is at arlington national cemetery where he is about to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns. the president will also be

delivering a veterans day address, which we're going to bring to you live. we see the first lady just arriving as well as the vice president and dr. biden there on site. nbc white house correspondent peter alexander joins me now. peter, what's the schedule of events expected for this morning? >> reporter: thomas, we're going to hear from the president a short time after he lays that wreath at the tomb of the unknowns. this, of course, is an annual tradition for this and every president. this president earlier today actually had a opportunity to visit with some veterans and their families. among them the oldest living world war ii veteran, richard overton, 107 years old, who was greeted yesterday at reagan national airport with a surprise salute as people applauded his arrival. he said at the time i didn't know i was worth that much. well, to this president each and every one of the veterans who have served on behalf of this country is worth a whole heck of a lot. that is the intention of today's events. he made an effort to have all americans say thank you to the veterans during his weekend radio address as well, thomas.

>> peter, we know there is still so much to be, i guess, to be learned about what happened with typhoon haiyan and some of our service members are helping with the aftermath in that, aren't they? >> reporter: that's right. already u.s. marines are participating in the efforts there to help. the devastation as we've witnessed today is dramatic, it's terrible. as many as 10,000 people killed there and the white house obviously salutes that effort as well. >> we'll talk more about that later. here we have president obama arriving at arlington national cemetery. let's listen in.