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and two senators from different sides of the ail taking a break from the real the i of capitol hill and finding survival skills to make back to washington. good morning from washington, i'm peter alexander. it is tuesday, october 28th. thises the the daily rundown. election day is one week from today. the big questions are can democrats stop a republican wave, and can both parties save struck struggling incumbents? paul's pac shall have six figures to air this ad starting today on foreign aid saying roberts voted to stop sending our money to countries who hate america. yesterday mitt romney who carried kansas with 60% of the vote in 2012 joined former senator bob dole on the stump. that's where kansas city nbc affiliate reporter spoke exclusively to romney about his own future. >> are you thinking about it anymore? >> you know, i'm not running.

not planning on running. but i am here to support pat roberts. really the people of kansas are going to make a decision that the whole nation is waiting to understand. and that is, are we going to have three times where people vote for barack obama or just two? >> as republicans worry about deep red kansas, democrats are nervous about states the president carried, iowa, colorado, and even new hampshire, where republican scott brown is trailing democratic senator jeanne shaheen by just two points. stumping for bruce braley in iowa yesterday, biden said a win in iowa would break the back of the hard right. hillary clinton will be in iowa to campaign for braley on wednesday. former president bill clinton headlines a rally for uudall. former florida governor jeb bush will be in the state on wednesday. and a new louisiana poll shows a democratic state runoff is likely. republican congressman bill

cassidy is at 35, and tea party favorite, rob maness has 11%. here's the head-to-head matchup. there cassidy is ahead of landrieu by seven points. 48-41. at a debate last night, landrieu was asked if she would blame the president if she loses. >> i've now worked with three presidents, six governors and four majority leaders of various different parties. some have been popular. some have been very unpopular. i'm not going to blame anyone but myself if i lose. >> would you vote for harry reid? i'm going to make a decision. i said that i would. i'm going to make a decision based on what is before me and who is running. >> so you're not committing? >> i'm going to wait to see what the leadership looks like. i think harry reid can speed up more than he deserves. i'm not saying yes. and i'm not saying no. >> the president will be in milwaukee, wisconsin, for a rare

campaign appearance. he's going to stump for mary burke there. and it's an overwhelmingly african-american war that he carried with 90% of the vote. for the latest on where all the races stand with one week to go, we're joined by nbc news senior political reporter, harry bakin, casey hunt, and from our kansas city affiliate, garret haig. and we begin with perry. wisconsin, perry, is a state where president obama is actually wanted. can he make a difference on the ground there? >> yeah, he's headed to five states this week. he's mainly focused on governor races. those are places where there's a big policy difference. also a lot of governors where he's popular. today he's in wisconsin, where his numbers are pretty good. particularly among african-americans. that's where he can boost the vote there. this race is about turnout. you hate scott walker or like scott walker. he's the republican version of obama in a lot of ways. he's a very polarizing person

right now. >> and give us a sense. democrats in the the south are really trying to walk a tight rope. in unof them want to appear with the president, but they don't want to alienate. particularly the african-american voters. what did you think of the way senator landrieu handled the issue last night? >> she did a pretty good job. you can tell landrieu and michelle nunn are trying not to create all the news by her being so unwilling to say she voted for president obama. landrieu said she was supportive of him and not too critical of h him. . >> thanks so much. garret, let's head to you right now, if we can. you've been covering the race on the the ground in kansas. youfr covered the romney campaign in 2012. so can orman win in a state where romney won with 60% of the vote, and what can rand paul really do today for roberts? >> orman can absolutely win here, and this is why pat roberts really needs rand paul in the primary here. more than 40% of republicans

voted for roberts' primary opponent. he has really lost some of the republican base here. so despite the enormous registration advantage, the m ares have here in kansas, roberts has to bring all of these people poem. that's why some of the events have looked more like presidential events where he brings big endorsers into kansas to appear side by side. ted cruz and sarah palin. any republican figure who can validate pat roberts and maybe bring a few of those folks home is someone who matters. and a few folks can be all that decides this race. this will be the closest senate race in the country come election night. mitt romney highly popular on the trail right now. garret, as you have witnessed. ann romney said done, done, done. i think she said it three times when asked if they would be back for a 2016 run. did they have a different tune when you spoke to the governor yesterday? >> no, and it was interesting. it was bob dole on stage who

asked mitt romney to run. he got a huge response when he was on stage. he demureded at the moment. when i caught romney after the event, i asked him and he immediately dismissed the question. i'm not running. we're not thinking about it, which was the question i asked him. not if he was ready to make the jump, but was this something they were think or talking about? he said no and quickly turned the conversation back to roberts. at least for now that door remains closed. >> a little romney reunion here. it's fair to say we shared a lot of time, a lot of bus rides in the 2012 campaign. let's focus on new hampshire right now. another friend of mitt romney right there is scott brown. but about shaheen specifically, she may be in better shape than democrats in iowa or colorado, but this rals, too, is tightening. what was your sense of how the momentum is trending there? >> i think it's really up in the air, honestly. i think scott brown had a surge of momentum. possibly more than any other

republicans. he's capitalized on the handling of the issues probably more than anybody else. and he's really doubled down. i talked to him over the weekend. and we talked about ebola. some republicans are accused of being alarmists and have backed away. scott brown is not one of those people. when i asked if he should be afraid of the outbreak, he said, well, i pray that doesn't happen. not exactly a definitive pushing away. but it's pretty clear over the past couple l of months brown has gotten stronger while shaheen has had to be more and more on the defensive. now, she is still above 50% in her own approval rating, which is pretty noteworthy because most of the democrats in the the other red states are below 50. and that's really the big indicator of trouble for an incumbent. >> casey, garret, perry, all three of your friends of mine. nice to see you all today. thank you very much. turning to what may be the most interesting senate race in the

south. and it's likely to go on for two more months. that's the georgia fight between michelle nunn and david perdue. it's chuck todd's latest stop on the meet the voters road trip. yesterday he spoke to north carolina voter republican tom tillis, who is trying to deflect attacks that his record in raleigh has leaned too far right, particularly on education. >> i think if you look at my record, you would be hard pressed to say that we have really gone down a partisan path. whether before the super majorities or afterwards? >> today we'll catch up with nunn in georgia. both are polling under 50% required to avoid a runoff. but nunn has been rising thanks largely to her attacks on the business record at dollar general. >> when i think about this race, i think about a contrast that we have. and thz between someone who

spent their life here in georgia for 26 years, mobilizing volunteers and building communities and someone who by their own words has spent their career, majority of it, outsourcing jobs. >> here we go again. these are not based on facts. none of those allegations are based on facts. >> perdue told reporters again yesterday, quote, one man does not decimate an entire industry. chuck todd, moderator of "meet the press, joins us now from augusta, florida. good to see you. do you have a sense of why the democrats' outsourcing message has been so potent, and really will michelle nunn be able to sustain the momentum if this goes into january? >> well, i think there's one big reason the outsourcing message has resonated in georgia, and it's one number. it's not a poll number. it's the unemployment rate. georgia has the highest unemployment rate in the country. two points higher than the national average. if you go county by county, it's

amazing particularly in rural georgia. you see double digit unemployment rate. so unlike the economic recovery, which is fairly uneven as it is around the country, it is really, really problematic here in georgia. and while four years ago bad economic numbers hurt democrats, it's different this time. neither one, nunn or perdue are office. and so it takes the outsourcing for many in the smaller towns and counties in georgia, they look at the the outsourcing and that's what they think. for older georgians. remember the plant that used to be here in the textile plant? now it's not here. and so it is, you know, whether it's that sort of feels like it's an accurate portrayal, never mind the facts in this case. and, of course, politics many time is about a gut feeling more so than anything else. and i think that is what hurt purdue uniquely because of his

resumé and what has given nunn this second act in the campaign. >> give us your gut feeling on how nunn has handled the difficult task of distancing herself from the president without alienating his voters. it's been a delicate dance for a lot of candidates. >> well, it has been, but she's had an easier time for one reason, it's her last name. sam nunn is synonymous with the phrase conservative democrat. and that's what he was. he always was. when he served in the senate. and so particularly when you think about who the swing vote is here in this state, it is older georgians. older white seniors here. particularly senior white women. and they have a memory of sam nunn as a conservative democrat. and so i think it makes it harder for purdue to make the obama/democrat charge against her. she has no voting record. that's another thing. that is, you know, whenever you

don't have a voting record for your opponent to go after in this day and age in politics, it makes it harder for an opponent to get effective attack ads. so that has helped her, too. but this is still a reddish state. it's certainly moving demographically. but it's still a reddish state. it feels like at a minimum we're headed to a runoff. and quickly. you stopped in north carolina. you think kay hagan is in better shape than pryor and begich and landrieu. why specifically. >> but she's not out of the woods. but why is she in better shape than the other three democratic incumbents? one simple reason. she's had a better chance to make this a quote/unquote choice election, rather than a referendum election. obviously the republican is trying to make it about barack obama, how many times has she voted. i think she's 97%. you get them confused. some are 99%. some are 96%.

i had the same number confusion in 2006 when democrats were using the same tactic against republicans. she's able to make raleigh republicans also an issue. and she's made that if t the face. she's had a better go at it of making it a choice election than say a mark pryor or mark begich. >> chuck todd on the ground in georgia today. nice to visit with you. safe travels. we'll see you again soon. >> you got it, buddy. >> coming up, the final bole la patient from dallas gets sent home today. and what governor chris christie is saying about the nurse being released from isolation in his home state. and two senators who prove that republicans and democrats can work together. they'll join us live to explain. first, though, a look at today's planner. a lot of campaign trail action. one other event happening today. at 11:00, corporal nathan who

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you're watching "the daily rundown" right here on msnbc. amber vincent tested negative, the second person being treated for ebola virus. she tested negative. she no longer has ebola in her blood. she'll be released from emery hospital later today. we're expecting to hear from her at a news conference. she contracted the virus while caring for thomas eric duncan. once vincent is released, dr. greg spencer will be the only

known ebola patient being treated in the u.s. he's still in isolation at new york's bellevue hospital. nurse casey hickox is back in her home state of maine. speaking exclusively to nbc. governor chris christie defended his state's quarantine policy. >> i understand that the cdc has been behind on this. folks got infected in texas because they were behind. and we're not going to have folks being infected in new jersey and other states in the country, asking them to quarantine at home for 21 days unless their symptomatic. i don't think it's draconia n. i think they're responding like that because they've been wrong before. now they're taking steps towards the policy that we put in effect in new jersey. >> dr. anthony, whom christi was referring to the national institutes of health told

"morning joe" what is important is the clarity of the guidelines and making sure the restrictions are based not on pop ticks, but on science. >> i think i know that they come back and not really bothered by having to do things that safeguard the american public as well as alleviate concern. what they are concerned about is arbitrary complete restriction that's not based on scientific data. >> in the last few days, at least seven states have now enacted some kind of quarantine, and the cdc now has new guidelines, including a high-risk category of people who should voluntarily quarantine at home for 21 days. meanwhile, military personnel serving in west africa will be quarantined on a base in italy for three weeks before returning home. nbc's gabe gutierrez joins us from atlanta where nurse amber vincent, as we noted, will be discharged this afternoon. this is one of the days that we

continue to look forward to. >> reporter: we have great news out of emery this morning. amber vincent, as you mentioned, the second person infecteded with ebola after treating thomas eric dunn is expected to be released. she's virus free and expected to speak public for the first time. but much like her colleague nina pham did when she was released by the national institute of health in bethesda, maryland, last week. as to her call, she got a lot of attention because she flew from texas to ohio to visit family members and plan her upcoming wedding. she called the cdc and self reporteded a low grade fever before she returned back to dallas, but she was allowed to fly back. she was brought here to emery university and admitted to the isolation unit on october 15th. now emery university hospital has a lot of experience now dealing with ebola patients. they successfully treated and released several aide workers. dr. kent brantly, nancy writebol

and the unidentified doctor who contracted the disease in sierra leone. he was released a few days ago. today the fourth ebola patient successfully treated and released here at the hospital, amber vincent, is expected to be discharged and we expect to hear from her publicly for the first time. >> another moment worth celebrating. gabe, thank you very much: the new guidelines ask states to categorize health care workers coming home from west africa instead of quarantining everyone, no matter what their risk level is. i'm joined now by nbc's senior health writer maggie fox to explain these changes. no rest for the weary for you. nonstop for so long. a lot of americans focused on the ebola topic right now. governor chris christie we heard tell matt lauer he thought the new risk categories were effectively confusing. do you agree? >> well, what the cdc is trying to do is make it flexible so

each state can have their own individual approach so governors can do what they think is right for their state, for their people. but it's really hard, as we're seeing with the ebola situation, to balance being flexible with what many people are calling being confusing. >> should we expect to hear from other states soon? only seven have come forward and made a new ban. >> the the state health department has to sign off on the bans. they need to look at what they feel is right for their state. some of them will certainly wholesale the cdc recommendations and rewrite them and put them out. but it's a political process as we know. the governors and elected leaders like to be seen doing something. >> another major headline from the world health organization right now. the head of the world bank said this morning the ebola infected countries in west africa need 5,000 more health care workers. so the question is, do the policies like the one employed

by chris christie and other governors create this sense of a chilling effect as so many have happened? >> that's what the organizations that are sending the aid workers over are saying. they're saying already these people are taking time off work. they're taking three to six weeks off work to go. their employers have to give them up and let them go. and then they have to come back and take another three weeks off work. which would be fine if it were necessary. but they're arguing that it's completely unnecessary and perhaps feeding unnecessary fears. it makes people think if they're quarantined, there must really be a danger of the spread. so the objection is not only that they have to give up so much of their lives but it's not for a good reason. >> ultimately, you have to shut it down at the base. >> exactly. as long as it's spreading in west africa, it's a threat not only to the united states but the rest of the world. >> maggie fox, nice to see you again. coming up, one week until voters hit the polls. it may not all be said and done come election night. we'll tell you why. plus a massive river of red hot lava is moving closer to

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so how is this for a thought? could election day stretch into election month? had to say it. leave control of the senate in limbo until 2015, it's all possible. msnbc's steve kornacki has more. >> we're talking about what a suspenseful election night this will be. we don't know which party will have control of the senate. there's a particular reason for that. it has to do with two states. i want to show you which ones they are and why.

we're going to go over to the big board here. in yellow you have battleground. you have the ten senate races sort of up in the air, they're volatile. they're not sure who is going to win. in some of these states, one candidate has moved fairly significantly ahead in the polls. enough where right now we can color in some of the states to make some assumptions to illustrate the point i want to make about the two key states. in new hampshire, jeanne shaheen, a democrat has been running ahead there. could still get caught. the republicans have a few of their own. kentucky, mitch mcconnell is one of them. mark pryor is in grave political danger. mary landrieu, running behind in louisiana. at least in terms of a runoff, people think. alaska, another one tough to poll. expectation is the republican is ahead right there. now let's pause.

where does that leave you? it leaves the republicans at 49. they need to get to 51. they have the majority. they control the senate. now look at this map. what do you see? i see two red states. i see georgia and i see kansas. kansas is a state that has not voted for a nonrepublican for the u.s. senate since 1982. and georgia is a very republican state. neither one of these states at the start of this year where many people talk about being in play at the end of october, and yet here we are, nobody was talking about kansas? the democrats got their candidate out. republican pat roberts was more vulnerable than people realize. and now there's an independent candidate very much in position to beat pat roberts there. this could deny the republicans a seat at the start of the year they all assumed they had. same thing in georgia. david perdue, the republican nominee has stepped in it recently. he's running against michelle nunn, the daughter of a very famous georgia politician, sam nunn. she has taken the lead in the polling average. a state that republicans figured

at the start of the year was theirs. if those assumptions had held. if these states hadn't gone crazy, then republicans would have georgia. republicans would have kansas. no sweat. republicans are at 51. this thing is over before we get to colorado and iowa. instead, because david perdue is stepping it, because michelle nunn has run a very good campaign, because georgia is changing and because of all the chaos in kansas, republicans are stuck at 49 when we start making assumptions, and you have a real battleground and real suspension on election night. >> steve kornacki, thank you very much. coming up next here, two senators put politics aside for one common goal, staying alive. it's a decent goal as that goes. senators martin and jeff joining us live to explain. here's what they told david letterman last night. >> you were unable to start a fire. that's embarrassing for both of you. >> you're from new mexico! you're from arizona! you two couldn't start a fire!

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an update now on the situation in hawaii, where flowing lava prompted an evacuation for residents. this is specifically on the big island of hawaii. lava is oozing downhill for months after a vol cay know erupted this summer. it's now heading towards the village of pahoa. it's 07 yards from the nearest residential property. it's advancing 5 to 10 yards per hour. halle jackson has more from pahoa, hawaii. >> good morning, starting tomorrow, the local elementary school will close indefinitely because it is in the path of the lava flow, and so are a number of homes. officials here say that will let the people who live in the threatened houses stay and watch them burn from a safe distance

as part of what's being called a grieving process. this red hot river of lava wider than a football field is closing in on the town, moving slowly in fits and starts, but still melting hundreds of yards over the past 24 hours. for weeks the flow has been making its way towards town after a volcanic eruption in june. it only recently closed a main road and then a cemetery on the edge of to un. that's what some call a reality check. a sign this is real, this is happening. and that's why you're seeing some folks packing up and leaving already. but officials here say they are ready. >> halle jackson, thank you very much. here's another story from the great outdoors. it sounds like a punch line. two marooned on a desert island. this is no joke. this is what happened. martin he mirks rich and martin

flake spent six days on a deserted island to see if they could put politics aside and focused on what was really important. >> as we arrived certainly didn't have either the conditions to create a fire or the time. and really had to focus on the most pressing needs, which is finding something to drink and making sure we had a shelter. zblf the experience was filmed for the discovery channel's new show. it's called "rival survival." it will air tomorrow. they came up with the the idea themselves. they island in the north pacific, 7,000 miles from washington, d.c., with only a handful of items in tow. the two men wanted to prove to their capitol hill colleagues and the rest of the country that they could work together even if they don't always see eye to eye. >> it's very dry. very dry.

shelter is good. >> it was my first night sleeping with a democrat. gratefully not too close. but he helped build the shelter. he built the structure and everything. so i applaud him. that's more than i thought a democrat could do. >> when i first came out here, it was quite surreal to think that i was going to be marooned with one of my colleagues, much less one of my republican colleagues for a week. >> you know, you're sitting right under the machete. careful there. >> joining me now, the stars of rivals survivals. arizona republican senator jeff flake and martin heimrich. thanks for being with us. i want to pick up where david letterman left off. neither one of you can start a fire? >> i think we can all agree that the senate needs more people who can can put fires out, not start fires. >> we were counting on the lava flow. it just never came. >> exactly. right. well, you're better served that

that missed you guys. you two pitched this idea. senator flake, where did it come from. what was the thought behind this? >> you know, i've done a little of this myself and with my two boys that are still at home. and, i just thought you know, we ought to prove that a democrat and republican can get along. in the senate today we just don't see that. and whoever controls the senate after next week, it's going to be a slim margin. and so we have to get along. and so we pitched it to discovery. we were going to go procameras and film it and give us footage. they said, let us come and film it. it turned out well. >> so again, i know you do this stuff. i trust you don't do it as often. when you got the word and it was brought up to you, your first thought was what? >> my first thought is it was a pretty crazy idea. and when i started to think about what would be going on in october of an election year, that this is a message that could really resonate with folks

and particularly reach an audience not as political as the folks who watch the cable news stations all the time. >> so give us a sense. you both said politics is like swimming with sharks. the goal is to demonstrate how basic pli what you guys were up against the the outdoors is much like what washington is up against, trying to accomplish something for a much bigger goal, for a much larger audience than the individuals to whom so often you're speaking directly to. so how do you drive that point home. how do you get washington on board with this idea that you're focused on something bigger than the two of you? >> i think when you're in a situation like we were on the island, you have no other choice than to survive. there's things you have to do. you have no choice. and i think we're at that point in the senate. we have to make the institution work. and if this country is to survive, we have to have a

functioning congress and senate. the parties have to work together. they don't have to agree necessarily, but they need to trust each other. we don't have that trust. >> one of the things you both realize, a lot of the trust that used to be there in the senate, and a lot of the relationships are gone. it's not that people necessarily disagree more, it's they don't have the trust to find a path forward both sides can live with. we're going to have to rebuild that. >> that trickled down from the leadership in the parties. so first to you, is mitch mcconnell the right leader for the republicans in the senate right now? >> i think he can lead the senate. but it's going to take the rest of us saying, hey, we're not going to stand for what we have had in the senate. we're going to move legislation to the floor. we're going to volt on it. that's what the senate is all about. >> so would you vote for him as leader again? >> mitch mcconnell? >> yes. i will.

i plan to. i think republicans will control, and i just hope that we have the guts to take tough votes and to bring legislation to the floor. >> senator, same? >> i think it's perspective of who is in charge after the election and who is in the leadership post. we shouldn't allow the senate to become paralyzed in the way it has. one of the things senator flake and i are going to push for. it will be true if harry reid is lee leader. it will be true if mitch mcconnell is leader. we need bipartisan events. >> so in real terms, then, would you vote for harry reid as leader in the senate? >> i would. >> so i'm trusting there will be a sequel for rival survival. reid versus mcconnell. i trust you're working on that as well. >> oh, definitely. we could move legislation. and if they didn't, we could really move legislation.

>> i think a lot of people would like to be marooned on the island. nice to see you. we appreciate your time. coming up next, signs of the shifting strategy in the fight against isis as new numbers emerge about the cost of war in syria and iraq. but first, i know you like it. here it is again. your white house soup of the day. tasty treat. little lemon chicken and brown rice. how is that on 80-degree day in washington. we're hosting live twitter chats. 11:00 eastern today, jose diaz-balart will answer your questions on the election. tweet your questions use #msnbcvote. if i can impart one lesson to a

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says it costs to wage war in iraq and syria from early august to mid-october. more than half a billion dollars in all. that's $156 million more than the previous estimate. meanwhile, on the ground the battle for the syrian city of kobani rages on. you wouldn't know it from watching this video. >> hello! i'm john cantly and today we're in the city of kobani. on the syrian turkish border. that is in fact, turkey right behind me. >> translator: that is john canley, a british journalist reportg from kobani. he claims the city is mostly in militant hands and says western media has gotten it wrong. u.s. officials say that's not accurate. it is one of six propaganda videos he has made for isis. although this latest one seems to be the most elaborate. really taunting the west. and while kobani had been a

primary focus for u.s. air strikes earlier this month, that is no longer the case, if you go back two weeks, 95 air launches were struck in syria. just 34 launched in iraq. over the last week, that trend has now reversed. 77 air strikes in iraq over that period. just 32 in syria. although, nearly all of them targeting kobani. joining me now is gayle amhan, a senior fellow at the council of senior foreign relations. gayle, thanks for your time today. >> glad to join you. >> the focus has clearly shifted. why is that? what's changed on the battleground? what does the battleground shake up to now? >> from the start there's been tension from the war in syria spilling over to iraq and which of the conflicts would get the attention. armed conflict in iraq this year alone has killed more iraqis than u.s. servicemen and women killed in iraq since 2001. so the bloodshed has continually gotten worse. and iraq is a terrain that america knows better from its years at war.

syria has always been seen as the more complicated conflicts, the one harder to enter, and harder to exit, and i think the numbers you've just shown reflect that reality. >> so specifically, in syria, the u.s. focus almost solely on kobani as the numbers show. there is other fighting, though, in places like aleppo. why doesn't get that more attention? perhaps, why is kobani so significant? >> it's significant in part because of its very important spot along the border. also i think it's important because it's so visible. aleppo, in fact, i had an administration official tell me if you think that 50,000 is capturing world attention when they were trapped on the mountain, just wait until aleppo falls. and i do think that is the real concern that aleppo will be surrounded and will eventually fall, and the world will be watching, and in the meantime, you know, the assad regime has really used the focus on isis to distract from what it's doing,

what is a nightly and daily campaign of bombing and assault on civilian populations, including what you see in barrel bombs falling from the sky at a very regular basis. >> and obviously, gayle, ebola and other world events have sor distracted attention from what is happening with isis right now. it seems like isis momentum has slowed down. is that an accurate read? what does it tell us about where things are and go from here? >> that is a sense of that. it's very hard to tell. there are reports that i are marshalling resources in kobani which is in part why theest effort is attacking isis there. they seem to have this ability to recruit more and more because victory begins victory. that's the concern of administration and others. we're heading into a multigenerational multiyear. as the world gets increasingly dangerous and grim. as bad as things are today it's

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embraced corporal cirillo. >> absolutely. this is the final salute for nathan. he'll have a funeral in his hometown of ontario. people are beginning to line the streets. thousands are expected to show up. in is a private funeral, however, prime minister steven harper and all opposition leaders will be in attention. it's a quite -- on top of his casket will include a canadian flag, his belt he had on when he was shot, a bayonet, and cirillo's badge will be placed on top of the casket. now also here today is u.s. secretary of state john kerry. he is actually in ottawa to meet with his counter part foreign affairs minister john baird. they'll got national war memorial where corporal nathan

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