we're hoping to hear more about this as the president continues his overseas trip. we're also keeping a close eye on the weather continuing. the snow in some areas. dangerously cold temperatures affecting millions in the midwest. we're blanketing that story and we'll have the information on the areas in danger today. in a few moments. back to why i'm here in mexico. anger and frustration over the 43 students missing. they've been really a boiling point yesterday is what we saw. violent clashes with police as the people of mexico and parents of the missing students continue to search for answers. >> hoping to get some good news. the parents of 43 university students that disappeared last month met with federal officials in gur rerer row. thousands prof testers clashed

with police, getting pelted with tear gas. eventually taking high level police officer hostage. the mob broke into the offices of the political party in the country leaving it destroyed. fire, ashes, smoke, a window broken. complete destruction. that's left of this office. just outside the offices i met renee. he lived in chicago for two decades before deported back. he got a job but just lost it. he fears for his future here in mexico. doesn't know what he's going to do. >> i also shared a soft drink and chat with the owner of the tiny shop. she said the president of mexico is traveling the world but is yet to come here. come here, mr. president, she says! deal with the critical issues facing the people of mexico. >> the people of mexico facing so much, so much text and frustration. now to president obama's high

stakes trip to asia. the president arrived in burma a couple of hours ago after wrapping up his three-day visit to china with a major climate announcement. both nations have made an unprecedented pledge to cut carbon emissions. >> as the world's two largest economies, energy consumers, and emitters of greenhouse gases, we have a special responsibility to lead the global effort against climate change. that's why today am proud that we can announce a historic agreement. >> and let's bring in nbc news chief environmental affairs ann thompson. good morning. what is the big take away from the agreement? >> first of all, it is a milestone because for years now the world has been trying to figure out what to do about reducing carbon emissions and now you have the two biggest emitters and the world's two biggest economies saying that we're going cut emissions and we believe in a low carbon future.

that is huge. let's see exactly what they have agreed to. you see the united states here has said it will reduce its carbon emissions by 20 to 28% by 2025. perhaps even more dramatic is china's. this is the first time china has ever agreed to anything like this. it is promised to reach peak carbon emissions by 2030 and make sure that 20% of the energy portfolio comes from nonfossil fuels. that means 20% of the energy source will come from nuclear or renewable such as wind and solar. jose? >> and, ann, what does it mean for the world's climate talks in paris next year? things will be different. >> it gives a big shot of momentum. we've seen it fall. there was the huge people's climate march here in new york city in september when 400,000 people took to the streets to demand that the world's

countries do something about climate change. there will be talks that will sort of set the table for paris in lima at the end of this year. now what this says, if the world's two largest e milters and two largest economies can agree to reduce carbon dioxide emissions certainly the rest of the world can do it. they have really sort of set the template and given lots of energy to those discussions that will take place in paris next year. >> and thank you so much, ann. in a few moments i'll be joined by maryland democrat chris van hollen who has been pushing for climate legislation in the house. his thoughts on the challenge. i'll have that in a few moments. i'm following a potentially dangerous weather alert right now. the arctic chill blasting the upper midwest and the rookies is spreading. this is the scene across michigan's upper peninsula with

a heavy snow forcing several schools to close for the day. nbc meteorologist bill karins is tracking the storm. bill, good morning. >> good morning. >> where is this monster heading? >> this arctic outbreak and the big snowstorm. the arctic outbreak is left behind. snowstorm is gone, thankfully. we have our history making headline for the cold outbreak. we're at 25 degrees blow zero in casper, wyoming. going back to the 1930s when the records began to be kept there it's the coldest november temperature they've ever recorded. that's significant historical climate fact of how unusual this air mass is. in most part it's located over the northern rookies and spilling down into the central plains. the windchills along with it are as bad as it gets. probably will

probably won't be much worse. it's snowing in denver with a windchill of minus 19. there's the light snow right know over the front range and snow on i-90. it's light and powdery and blowing all over. look at denver a high temperature of 4 degrees. today that would be a record for the coolest daytime temperature view. thankfully denver goes up to 40 on friday before another blast heads your way. let's track for the next seven days the cold air in the blue and purple and kind of by the weekend goes east to west and spills into the east. it's not brutally cold. but, jose, the bad news. what we've been talking about the duration of this event another cold blast comes into the northern plains and great lakes monday and tuesday of next week. there's no relief in sight. this is a relentless start to winte winter. >> so, bill, we can be facing these kind of extreme weather drops for, what, a week? >> it looks like about two weeks. i think sometime right around thanksgiving week it's going to break apart and we'll get pacific air which is warmer air.

we'll shut the door to canada. for the next two weeks a lot of extremes. bill karins, thank you so much. 4 degrees in denver today! be careful, folks. let's bring in congressman chris van hollen ranking member of the budget committee. what a pleasure to see you. good morning. >> good morning. great to be with you. >> thank you. i know, you've been pushing for climate change measures in the congress. let me start by getting your thoughts on this agreement that was announced yesterday. >> i have -- this is a very important step forward. a lot of chrritics of president obama's climate change efforts said the united states is going at this alone. we need other partners. and now have we have a partner, in fact, china, as people know, is the largest emitter right now of carbon pollution. it was really important to get them into this agreement. a very important step forward on

climate change. again, a lo wang toy go, of course, the commitments have to be met. it's a historic moment. >> yeah. mitch mcconnell is calling it an unrealistic plan that would ensure, quote, higher utility rates and far fewer jobs. he went on to say the voters rejected the president's policies last week. is this deal going to go anywhere in congress, you think? >> well, the president doesn't need congress for this deal. the president has already laid out his plan to help reduce carbon pollution here in the united states. now i would urge congress and i would urge mitch mcconnell to be part of the solution here not part of the problem. because the president has acknowledged that we can accomplish our carbon pollution targets more efficiently if we do it through the kind of market base system that many of us in congress have been pushing for, which actually will create huge job opportunities as we move toward cleaner energy.

we want all of the above energy approach including clean energy. there are obviously huge opportunities here, if we do it right. i witch mitch mcconnell would stop keeping his head in the sand when it comes to climate change. it's costing us billions and billions of dollars a year already. let's get to work. >> you say it costs us billions and billions of dollars already. how? >> well, it costs us billions of dollars in the form of extreme weather events that are making things like hurricane sandy more intense in terms of the damage they do. if you look out west at the drought problems in california and the midwest, scientists say that the intensity of these droughts will only increase. and actually you can see it in the way insurance companies are pricing their products. so for people who think that this is all sort of hazy nonsense, the reality is insurance companies are putting a dollar price on the additional

costs to ensure against these kind of effects. so why not have a policy in place that reduces both the human costs of those extreme weather events but also invests in the technology and energy of tomorrow. and it's a huge opportunity. right now china is actually the largest investor in solar and wind. we want to win that international kpe tension in the united states. it will help push us in the right direction. >> the house and senate reconvene after nearly a two month break. after meeting with party leaders the president is hoping the lame duck congress will approve extra money to fight isis and ebola and approve a government spending bill that will keep the government running through december. do you think anything can be done? >> first, you have the jovovera

issue of keeping the federal government open. the agreement on funding the government expires on december 11th. congress has to get its act together. i think we're on track, except the possibility of these murmurings from some of the tea party folks they may want to use that as an opportunity to prevent the president from moving forward on executive action on immigration reform. the best way to actually prevent that is to have a vote in the house on the bipartisan senate immigration bill. with respect to ebola, i think there will be additional funding. and finally, with respect to isis, at lot of us will want to make sthurt funds that are going to used to train and equip the iraqi and kurdish forces in iraq are used for that. and that we are not going down the slippery slope toward getting u.s. forces reengaged in combat operations in iraq. the president has said they're not for combat operations but a lot of us would like to see that in the law.

>> congressman chris van hollen, thank you. >> thank you. much more on the situation right here in mexico ahead. plus, the parents of michael brown appeared in a news conference in switzerland where they're attending a hearing on torture while their hometown of ferguson, missouri reveals the plan to deal with possible violence if police officer darren wilson is not indicted in their son's death. you, my friend are a master of diversification. who would have thought three cheese lasagna would go with chocolate cake and ceviche? the same guy who thought that small caps and bond funds would go with a merging markets. it's a masterpiece. thanks. clearly you are type e. you made it phil. welcome home. now what's our strategy with the fondue? diversifying your portfolio? e*trade gives you the tools and resources to get it right. are you type e*?

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shooting the 18-year-old in august. they appeared in a news conference a short time ago in gene geneva, switzerland, after testifying on a committee against torture. >> me and his mother came here to get justice for our son. there couldn't be a better place that we could start at. >> we've learned the doctor who conducted michael brown's autopsy, dr. michael baden, is scheduled to testify before the grand jury tomorrow. let me bring in attorney and radio host liz brown. thank you for being with me. >> thank you, jose. >> let me play some of what the brown's attorney said at the news conference today in switzerland for you. >> it's important they are here though because as a country of civil society in the united states of america we really

pride ourselves on making sure that human injustices don't take place. michael brown, jr., is a victim of a human injustice. >> what is your reaction to that and to what michael brown's father said this morning in switzerland? >> well, i think the fact that the brown family, that michael's mother and father, had to even go to geneva is an indictment on our country. they had to go to a foreign country to raise issues and underscore problems and challenges that far too many people in this country in particular african-americans have to go through. so it is marvelous they've had the opportunity on a world stage to talk about the injustice that has been against theirson. it's marvelous they've had an opportunity to show the world about what is going on in our country.

>> what do they their message to the rest of the world about what is going on in our country. >> i think the message is a clear one. it's bolstered by the amnesty international report about the police atrocities that occurred during this in the shooting of michael brown and the response to the shooting and killing of michael brown. i think what the world will learn is what has happened in ferguson, missouri is a crime against humanity. it is an act against a united states citizens that should never have happened. when you have a young man who was shot and killed an 18-year-old unarmed man supposedly having the justice systems of the united states to respond to him. a justice system of the county to respond to them by having a preliminary hearing or having a grand jury report and we have a grand jury that has been fatally flawed almost from the moment of its inception. so that's what the world will be

able to see and respond to by the family of michael brown going to geneva. >> and, you know, back in ferguson, some store owners are boarding up their businesses. it looks like they're preparing for a hurricane but they say they're preparing for a possible storm of protesters after the grand jury's decision is announced. take a listen to this. >> we're taking necessary precautions measures just in case anything get outs of hand so we can be prepared and -- >> you're really concerned that something bad is going to happen? >> yes. >> do you think we'll see more violence in ferguson once the grand jury's decision is announced? >> i don't know. i hope we don't see the violence that the protesters and the citizens that have responded to this have received. i hope we don't see innocent

citizens being shot with rubber bullets. i hope we don't see a militarized presence. give what the governor said yesterday, it appears the governor is going to respond to the citizens if the citizens have been engaging in over the 90-day period over those activities. when in reality the activities that have taken the brown's family to geneva are activities that have been engaged in by law enforcement. i understand that business owners are going to respond this way but i think that we need to have a long discussion on whose fault is that? i think the fault and the responsibility of this is on the shoulder of bob mccullough who drug it out for the period of time. who did not recuse himself from the issue and the united states senator clare mccaskill who could have asked for a special and impartial and fair prosecutor. we would have had a quicker

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and back live now from mexico. all is quiet for now but as we've been reporting, look at the scene yesterday as protesters clashed with police. thousands, as many as 6,000 protests have intensified since friday when gang members confessed to murdering 43 students and insin rating their bodies. all taken from the city of i think wall will. no real answers yet for the mexican president and government. the president is still in china yesterday. the outrage is exposing a broader problem with the justice system here in mexico. joining me to talk about that angle in mexico is james gholston. human rights lawyer and executive director of the open society justice initiative. james, thank you for being with

me. >> thank you for having me. >> in something you wrote about for the new york times yesterday that really kind of mentions the broader systemic problem with the mexican justice system. it seems as though impunity is the rule of law. if that's the contradiction works >>well, i think this case has fuelled such extraordinary public outrage. in part because it is one in a series. it's a particularly tragic and dramatic one. acts of violence against civilians, which have yet to bring accountability for those who have been responsible for years now the mexican public has been enduring a vast wave of violence. more than 24,000 disappearances. close to 100,000 deaths from violence, wide spread torture. we have yet to see a significant degree of accountability for those responsible. second, it involves, according to reports, links between the

drug cartel and the security officials and local and political authorities. we've seen it in other cases as well. >> yeah, look. the mayor of the town where these kids were arrested by police before they disappeared is in jail now along with his wife. precisely because of allegations of his close link with drug cartels in the area. but, you know, it seems as though that's really not very unusual in this country. >> right. we've seen time and again that the mexican criminal justice system is all too reliant on one single tool for carrying out a criminal investigation. and that is the torture of persons who were accused of crimes and cofenfessions are coer coerced. we know that torture is

unreliable. it's not an effective tool. people will confess to virtually anything under torture. it doesn't even serve law enforcement let alone the victims of the terrible crimes. going forward it seems the criminal justice system needs to be reformed in a significant matter to ensure that police, the prosecutors, the investigators are relying on more traditional tools. >> i just don't know how you start doing that when there is a relationship between the cartels that have unlimited amount of money and some government officials. why do you think, james, there's not been more outrage across the world about what happened here? the search for these 43 students continues. unmarked bodies have been found in graves. no answers there yet either. and yet i don't see the outrage

around the world about what clearly is a problem here. >> the world has a lot of problems to with. certainly what is happening in mexico is extraordinary. i think it is going to increasingly attract more attention. one of the things that the mexican authorities can do, in fact, is be more open. indeed inviting scrutiny in places like the united nations, the american system to incite that scrutiny as a prompt for more effective accountability at home. the president indicated he intends to give more independence to the federal prosecutor in mexico. i think that's a very welcome move. and that should be accompanied by the designation of someone as a federal prosecutor who commands vast experience, integrity, and willing to inject competence into a criminal justice system which lacked it for so long. >> yeah. james golson, thank you so much for being with me. i appreciate your time. folks, just a reminder what is going on here in mexico will

have a direct impact on us in the united states. nothing happens in a vacuum. and the situation here is very difficult. people -- if they don't find a future, if they don't see a future in their own country, they may look to go elsewhere. what happens in mexico has a direct impact on us in the united states. where is the outrage? but anyway. moving to exclusive reporting of a fight against isis. nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel has made it inside kobani. nearly 1,000 people killed there, according to local activists. most of the dead were fighters with the group isis. on the ground richard met a few local residents who stayed behind to protect their town from islamic militants. many of the fighters are women. richard engel joins me from along the syrian turkey border. you made it into places never

seen before. extraordinary thing you found. >> thank you very much, jose. for the last two nights on nightly news we've been airing reports that we shot inside kobani. we spent four days in this town, which is right along the turkish border. it's a syrian town. it's half occupied by isis. the other half is being defended by kurdish fighters, a lot of them are women. they're secular nationalists. they impressed us with their i are sill yens. they're refusing to give up. many other towns in syria and iraq surrendered as soon as isis showed up. the people of kobani decide they wouldn't let it happen to them. it was a dangerous place to operate. there are many snipers. because of the snipers, the kurdish fighters we found try everything they can to stay off the streets.

>> avoid the snipe sers through burrowing through buildings. punching holes in walls so they can move from place to place without exposing themselves to the open air and exposing themselves to the snipers. >> we had to climb an exposed stair way to get to a top floor apartment now a kurdish snipers nest. where they lie in wait. she fires sparingly not wanting to reveal her position or waste precious ammunition. >> translator: kobani is under attack by the bloody isis terrorists. i had to take a stand and say i'm here, i'm a human being and i will fight you. she's already been shot twice. >> translator: we stand and fight, she says, it's especially important here in the middle east where women are treated as info inferi inferiors. >> what extraordinary stories,

richard. great reporting, as always. tell me more about the situation inside kobani. >> well, kobani is not the only city under attack. it's not the most strategic place. it has become a symbol because isis is determined to take the city. isis talks about kobani in the propaganda, isis even sent one of the hostages into kobani to do a news report under occdureso talk about the situation. isis is investing a lot of its own capital in taking kobani. that's one of the reasons the u.s. is now stepping in with air strikes to help those defenders, to help women. but it is not at all certain that the kurdish defender of kobani are going to make it. the city is surrounded. they don't have a lot of ammunition. they don't have a lot of food. there's no electricity. if they have a bad few days they

could still be overrun by isis. >> richard engel in turkey, thank you so much for being with me. be sure to tune in to msnbc on friday. breaking news at this hour. federal judge has struck down south carolina's ban on gay marriage. the order, though delays marriages in the state until the 20th of november to allow for an appeal. but this is just breaking this morning. just as congress gets back to work in a couple of hours. some news on the next congress. republicans have added on to their new majority in the senate. dan sullivan is the apparent winner in the alaska senate race defeating mark begich. at this point begich is not conceding. it gives presumed majority leader mitch mcconnell a net gain of eight republican seats from the midterms with louisiana

holding a runoff election next month. let's bring in the half of the cycle. abby and crystal, good morning. >> good morning. nice to see you. >> abby, republicans have increased their majority. they could end up with a total of nine seats after next month's run off. what does it mean for the new congress and the republican majority? can they get something done? >> yeah, we're wondering what is going to happen in the next two years. what keeps me somewhat optimistic is the real they it seems impossible that it could be worse than the two years we've just had. we've had a government shut down for weeks on end. someone said to me this morning i'm often told about a time when the parties worked together and that seems almost like a fairy tail. that was the big take away from the election. people were sick and tired of parties working on the extreme. nothing getting done. this is not a time for lawmakers to run back into their corners. i feel like it's a time come

back to the middle to figure out whae with can comprise on. tuesday was a big night, in my opinion, if the establishment wing of the republican party. their next goal is winning something in 2016. winning a national election. something they haven't done more than once since 1988, by the way. they're thinking now what can we do to keep this narrative going in a positive way for the republican party that leads to 2016. it means they have to get things done. they have to do things they can speak to. mitch mcconnell made it clear he's changing his tone. he wants to prez the reset button. mitch mcconnell doesn't have another election in two years. there's folks who do. they're probably thinking more about their own future. >> and, crystal, abby talks about the reset button. all politicians tend to say what they think you want to hear. the fact is on this climate issue that china just agreed

with president obama on. you already heard mcconnell said it was a terrible idea. boehner said it would kill jobs. on immigration if the president acts unilaterally the republicans will go ballistic. do you think any possibility of anything going forward. >> not a whole lot. the president has gone time and time again to make a deal on imu gracio -- immigration. they had never had more motivation to do something than after the 2012 election when it was clear they needed to act to get their act together so they could be a national party again. i don't see how this collection is going to be any different than the last collection of republicans that were totally unwilling to come to the center. yes, for the party overall their interest would lie as abby said in getting things done. but to each individual senator, each individual member of congress is right now doing their own calculation. that usually involves playing to the base. i don't see a lot of hope for

anything really happening over the next two years. well, we have to wait what happens starting january and we'll, of course, be watching it very closely. crystal and abby, thank you so much for being with me. >> thank you, jose. and crystal, you'll be talking more about the republican jobs agenda in your commentary at 11: 30 eastern. you can watch them on the cycle every weekday at 3:00 p.m. eastern time. thousands of nurses in more than a dozen states going on strike today. we'll tell you why they're walking out for two days. we're going live to denver, colorado, as we follow plunging temperatures across the country and the danger it poses to millions of americans. denver could see highs of 4 degrees today. 4 degrees! the holiday season is here,

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if you haven't felt a nasty arctic blast yet, odds are you probably soon will. the frigid weather system is creeping across the country including in denver. residents are dealing with a mile high mess. weather channel meteorologist reynolds wolf is live in denver. not to rub anything in, it's about 70 degrees here in mexico. what is your thermometer showing? >> you're cruel and brutal individual. how dare you mention those temperatures, my friend! just joking. i'm teasing. you know, it is obviously much cooler here. we have temperatures in the single digits. i heard you mention before the break they were going up around 4. i agree. you're right. it's going to be about that. the thing is, when you have the wind that comes in, it's going to feel like minus 10 to minus 20. that's right. below zero. we should overnight lows below that and a gradual warm up toward the end of the week.

our viewers across america you're seeing the snow flakes come down. by the time the day is over could see two to three, maybe as much as eight inches of snowfall. higher amounts possible. here in denver the story will be the snow, wind, and of course cold. we're in a great spot in denver. it's washington park. you see the pond here. what is interesting here. you have the water, which is warmer than the air temperature. you have the water evaporating. you see the fog. the fog interacts with the cold air and you have not lake effect but pond effect snowfall. we're getting a little bit of that throughout the rest of the afternoon. the cold air locked in place affecting millions of americans. winter is here, my man. but not in mexico. back to you. >> not here. thank you so much. i kind of didn't mean to rub it in. it's dangerous the weather conditions. i appreciate you being there. now to another storm brewing today. the fight to protect u.s. health

care workers from ebola. some 100,000 nurses are expected to rally across 15 tastates tod. nearly 20,000 went on strike in california. national nursed united said current federal standards don't adequately prepare them to treat the virus. officials in dallas say they're monitoring two health care workers for the disease. they recently returned from sierra leone and not symptomatic. jane ross is the copresident. where would you say the biggest area where the us is faulting short? >> well, the biggest area has got to be the fact that we don't have any kind of a standard mandated. we insist on certain protections in equipment and the training adequate training that is interactive with the ability to ask questions on dotting -- how

many of these we have for each hospital situation. what we get are guidelines from the cdc that are an either/or type of guideline. we have written a letter to the president asking for an executive order to make such a mandate that all hospitals will comply with. and/or congress putting forward some legislation that has not happened. in this country, where each hospital is allowed to choose its own, you can get what what we have here a smorg board. we want our national standard. >> yeah, that's a very good point. that could be a very dangerous one. one of the things your organization wants specifically is personal prospective gear for nurses and other care givers. the cdc says it's ordered 2.7 million in personal protective equipment to help hospitals care for ebola patients. what more would you like to see from that agency? >> well, we would like a single standard, a uniform standard, a

mandated standard. i realize that with the system we have the cdc doesn't have the wherewithal to do that. that's why we have the petition online at nationalnursesunited.org. any citizens can sign that and ask for the proper equipment for us so we can protect ourselves as care givers and protect the public. then we would like to see more aid going to africa, which is what the people have asked for some time now. in the past they've been to be stem outbreaks there. with what we've got going on now not enough money or volunteers not enough people going there to stem it. we have the what we had here happen. the ability for ebola to cross borders and infect people worldwide. >> yeah. jean ross, thank you for being with me this morning. i appreciate your time. back in a moment with more on -- well, the explosion. it's the only way of saying it,

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welcome back to mexico. we bring you the stories of violence and protests and of mistrust. life still goes on in this country. about three hours norts of here today professional basketball comes to mexico city. the minnesota timer wolfes are set to play the houston rockets do tonight. the timberwolves were supposed to play there last year. the last regular season nba game played in mexico was in 1997. pope francis address the tragedy of the 43 missing students and got to the core of the problem. this is what he said in spanish. >> translator: this shows the dramatic reality of the crimety

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2:00 p.m. eastern time. that, however, is not the headline. right now senate republican leader mitch mcconnell is welcoming new gop senators with a reception at his office. as for the post election session, it's facing a packed agenda. it appears one controversial item may be left to the new congress. democrats are signaling the senate won't take up the nomination of loretta lynch to be the new attorney general until next year. it's even though she confirmed now with just democratic votes. luke russ earth joins us live from capitol hill. a lot of buzz surrounding what appears to be the move here. >> it's a question of timing. and harry reid wants to get a few things passed before they consider the nomination of mrs. lynch. they want to fund the government, which is coming up in the middle of december. they also need in theory to put forward a defense fundi b