reporting, as well as an exclusive interview with the former cia director michael hayden. so it's going to be incredible. i've seen a bunch of what he's sent back so far. it's amazing stuff. set your tv watching plans now. required viewing tomorrow night at 9:00. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. at 9:00. "first look" is up next. good morning, everybody, right now on "first look," it's an unusual weather phenomenon. thundersnow. take a listen. the relentless arctic invasion isn't going anywhere and a new cold outbreak begins on sunday. half a world away president obama readies for political battle at home on immigration, keystone pipeline and pollution. residents of ferguson, missouri are getting ready for the michael brown grand jury to issue a decision. plus rokerthon continues with a few hours to go. al roker tries to break a world record. good morning on this friday and thanks so much for joining us today. i'm betty nguyen.

getting out of that warm bed is not easy. bone chilling cold outside. right now five weeks from winter, a deep freeze is bearing down on two-thirds of the u.s.,er and then there's the snow. a record breaking eight inches, in fact, in south bend, indiana. looks gorgeous on tv but slick roads caused several accidents. in nearby ohio a rare sight and sound. that noise, thundersnow. it is rare but lightning can strike when temperatures and airflow are just right even in colder seasons. now to montana. a rancher had to bring in a little calf to protect it from the frigid weather. many in the northeast might need a blanket soon too. if you haven't left the house since last night that cold weather has arrived on your front door step. bill karins will join us in a few minutes with forecast. new this morning the president taking on a big domestic issue on his overseas trip to asia, the topic the fate of the keystone x lpipeline project.

>> we should judge this pipeline based on whether or not it accelerates climate change or whether it helps the american people with their energy costs and their gas prices. >> nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker is live with the president. kristen that's not a good stein for republicans? >> reporter: that's right. president obama count escape the battles back home even here at myanmar. today during a joint press conference with the pro democracy leader he was asked about the controversial keystone plain. republicans plan to relight. he reiterated past comments saying he wants to let a state department review play out but also made some of his strongest comments to date about the keystone pipeline pushing back on the notion it would create jobs or significantly lower gas prices. now he also doubled down on his

vow to pass immigration reform without congress before the end of the year. republicans vowing to fight him tooth and nail on that. president obama is here in myanmar to talk about the bourgeoning efforts of brokecy here which have stalled. park geun-hye has got some criticism. president obama reiterated his support for her saying democracy is difficult and can be a slow process. from here president obama heads to brisbane, australia for a global economic summit. back here at home immigration showdown is brewing. president obama is ready to go it alone. his plan could happen by next week. and the president says he'll flex his executive powers to get it done. now if it does happen, 5 million illegal immigrants with kids who were born in the u.s. can stay. this morning the president had a warning for riled up republicans.

>> i indicated to speaker boehner several months ago that if, in fact, congress failed to act i would use all the lawful authority that i possess to try to make the system work better. and that's going to happen. >> we're going to fight the president tooth and nail if he continues down this path. >> also under the president's plan border security would be increased. a stunning new report could reignite the debate over gun control. the brady center found more than 1.7 million children live in homes with unlocked and loaded guns. the report comes on the heels of yet another gun accident just last night involving two small children. they were left home alone with an unlocked and loaded gun. according to the brady center 20,000 children were shot in 2011. 2700 of them died. firearms are the second leading cause of death among children and teens. the advocacy group also identified eight states with the highest death rates, and they are all states that the brady

center to have found loose gun laws. a new head shaking report finally answers a major question, how did an armed intruder get into the white house last september? peter alexander has more. >> reporter: this is the home video of fence jumper omar gonzalez running across the white house north lawn in september. a damning review by the department of homeland security blames the secret service for the failure. the report found secret service alarm systems and radios failed to work properly and that many of the officer on duty didn't see gonzalez armed with a knife as he scaled the fence. among the failures the actions of a uniformed secret service officer with an attack dog who was not listening to his two way radio his ear piece was out and a stand by radio was left in his locker. instead he was talking on a cell phone and only saw gonzalez after witnessing another officer

running towards him. >> the secret service is set for redundancy. we can accept a couple of human errors but not this many. >> reporter: gonzalez overtook a secret service officer. he barrelled past the guard, turned left and ran into the east room. he ran the entire length of the white house to the other end of the east room before he was tackled by a heavily armed counter assault agent near the doorway to the green room. congress's reaction was swift. >> i just would like to see it cleaned up to go back to the organization that we all admired and respected so much. >> that was nbc's peter alexander reporting. geologists are monitoring those two sink holes that opened up in florida this week. a big worry is that both sink holes are connected. the entire area remains taped off. one of the sink holes is in a driveway and it did swallow up an entire car. the woman who lives in that

house is not allowed back in her home and was allowed only to take what she could carry. she describes the gaping hole like this. >> like a scoop of ice cream, like a tunnel. >> the earth was scooped down. >> yes. i have no place to go any more. >> we're going to switch gears now and talk about something that's going on at this moment. today's own al roker is still at it. here's a live picture. rokerthon is winding down. al's world record attempt for the longest weather report should wrap up at 8:00 a.m. this morning and when it's all said and done he'll have talked about weather for 34 straight hours. that's no easy feat. he can take a five minute break for every hour he completes and it's all meant to benefit the uso. i keep following him today. now let's get the latest in

sports. thursday night football in jeopardy? a bizarre theft occurred a few days before thursday night's bills/dolphins game. a multimillion dollar media truck was stolen. police were able to track down the 18 wheeler with the equipment inside. but the cab still missing. to thursday night football. the quarterback threw for two late touchdowns. that helped the dolphins break a two game losing streak with a win over the bills. the mavericks nochd the biggest win ever with a 123-70 victory over the winless 76ers. that is a whopping 53 point smackdown. >> catch and shoot. that's all you got. yes! yes! yes! >> it is a buzzer beater finish in memphis. the grizzlies came from 26 points down to beat the kings

111 to 110. bulls derek rose took a spill during the final minutes in the win over the raptors. he fell and sat out the rest of the game. he'll be evaluated back in chicago. a day after winning a cy young award kershaw takes the mvp honors. angels outfielder mike trout wins the almvp. he's the fifth youngest winner and youngest win in a unanimous vote. check out the first-ever world cup of indoor skydiving. it's a real competition. this week austin teens will compete in single and duo events. judges will judge their formations. the grand jury is set to announce its decision in the ferguson michael brown case.

a rare dangerous hammer head shark stalks a couple of kayakers. and the tallest of the tall and the shortest of the short. that's next. >> snow covering areas from maine to southern new england. cars are covered. grass is covered. roads are doing okay. we have another snowstorm coming across the country this weekend. i'll give you the details coming up here on "first look" on msnbc.

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all right. alaska, the sun doesn't rise until 11:48 and they have 2 1/2 hours of daylight. they are at 31 degrees in barrow, alaska. atlanta you are three degrees colder than barrow, alaska. all this cold air is supposed to be up in the arctic circle but it's not. it will stay cold for another week. the cold blast is with us.

wind chill 25 in new orleans. 16 in atlanta. so the first time the southeast is really feeling the cold outbreak. as we go through the weekend forecast we'll watch the snow that's now today in the rockies heading out to the central plains, kansas, iowa, missouri. chicago saturday night maybe one or two inches of snow. then we'll look at just rain in the southeast as we go into sunday. the next blast of really cold air betty comes down the great lakes sunday night and monday, it will arrive on the east coast on tuesday. northeast will be by far much colder with this outbreak. >> not like barrow, alaska. >> bar remarks alaska is 31. they are wearing shares and t-shirts. >> you don't want to get out of bed because it's only daylight for two hours. stories making news this friday morning. these aren't real fights taking place in a ferguson, missouri, church basement, they're actually learning tactics to defend themselves in case they get into confrontations with police. both sides are preparing for possible riots after a grand

jury announcement which could happen any day now. meanwhile, lawyers for michael brown's family are firing back at missouri governor jay nixon. he issued a one-sided warning during protests. >> law enforcement should have been equally condemned by the governor for this conduct at the same time he was admonishing the demonstrators. a strong message of zero tolerance should have been conveyed to all. >> i know it's hard for all of us, but just stay peaceful. >> a personal plea for michael brown's father. he and michael's mother just returned from testifying in geneva before the u.n. committee for torture. >> a sight most kayakers don't want to see. this is a hammer head shark.

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the leadership table. >> i believe in what the democrats are fighting for. we have to make this government work for the american people. and that's what we're here to fight for. >> chris christie has a pig problem. yes. it could hurt his presidential hopes. he has to decide by december if new jersey pig farmers can use gestation crates. animal rights call them inhumane. pig farming is big in new jersey but huge in iowa. healthercare.gov opens tomorrow but there's a catch. there will be a lot more low priced health plans. sounds good, right? that means you could actually pay more for coverage next year thanks to smaller insurance tax credits. see you in court, maybe. john boehner is going after the president again. this time for his decision to use his executive powers to pass an immigration bill. meanwhile check out how jimmy fallon handled the hot topic. >> that it's rumored that if

president obama is planning to announce a new ten part immigration plan before thanksgiving and you thought your family wouldn't have anything to argue about this year. >> that's your morning dish of scrambled politics. all right. it is friday. that means i'm joined by kevin at the hill. >> reporter: happy friday. >> let's talk about open enrollment tomorrow for healthercare.gov. there are reports these plans could be more expensive this year. how big of a problem could that be for the administration? >> reporter: here we go again. the politics over obamacare are heating up, betty and as we just heard there are a lot of concerns that actually cost, could actually be more -- could be more expensive than originally thought. this is a political fight that's happening just as we're entering the new congress. i got to tell you more political headaches for the administration. >> does sound like fireworks especially if plans are too expensive. the obama administration might have to see a backlash that

could be similar to last we're when the roll out experience remember those major website glitches. >> reporter: who could forget. seriously when you look at the republicans coming into congress, i mean everyone across the board in the republican party has indicated they are not going to back down on trying to at least repeal parts of obamacare and this, if you think longer term from a policy standpoint, betty, this could actually, i think, give some more leeway to that and this could be the launching point for that larger debate which i think more generally speaking is why the administration is nervous about this. >> i want to shift gears to elizabeth warren, the rock star within the party. she's insisting she's not running for president in 2016 but wealthy campaign donors are unwilling to take no for an answer. could she be a game changer if she does run? >> reporter: definitely a game changer if she does run. what's interesting about senator warren she represents a part of the democratic party that's

extremely upset and weary with the direction of how the caucus is moving. and i think that there's this tension between the wall street wing of the party as well as what they are calling the warring wing of the party and that's been on display these past couple of months and i expect that to continue especially as we edge closer to 2006. >> all right. you have a great friday and a wonderful weekend. we appreciate you joining us today. >> you too, betty. >> just ahead, cake boss buddy speaks out about his dw i. bono reveals how scared he was when his plane lost a door in mid-flight. millions of read it. now a look at "fifty shades of grey," the movie. when i spent $5,000 in the first 3 months after i opened my account. and i earn 5 times the rewards on internet, phone services and at office supply stores. with ink plus i can choose how to redeem my points.

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leading the news from nbc connecticut. two naval civilian officer hurt confronting knife wielding man. the first officer was stabbed in the leg. the second was caught in a spray of bullets. both were taken to the hospital. the suspect is in custody. at the box office, jim carrey and jeff daniels reunite for "dumb and dumber to." bill karins will be seeing it. >> the first one had its moments. >> jon stewart's "rose water." fans eager for "fifty shades of grey" got a look at the new trailer last night. they have to wait until valentine's day. >> i'm already sick of it. >> after the rather hatch of his plane opened mid-flight on wednesday causing luggage to fall out, bono had this to say

about the accident. >> a bit scary, really. we were about 25 minutes from the airport and there was a bang and we thought we hit turbulence and maybe the landing gear was coming down or something. >> buddy valastro star of "the cake boss" was arraigned thursday. he's charged with dw i. brian williams was inducted into the new jersey hall of fame. williams had this to say about the boss. >> if i had known back then that i would have hang time, friendship time with this man, i could have saved so much money in beer looking for him. [ laughter ] >> and instead of plugging his own movie, "rose water," jon stewart asked john oliver to come by and lead the discussion. >> you're talking about right now? >> i would appreciate that if you do it now. it makes more sense if someone else is leading the

conversation. i feel the best person to do that would be yourself. >> i'll take one more spin in the nonpremium host chair. >> all right. a little jab there. i'm betty nguyen. this is "first look." "way too early" starts now. come divisive errors is just one title the scathing report of new details of the failure of the secret service to protect the president and white house from an intruder. with congress's future control thands of the gop are we headed for another government shutdown. the trouble that bone and mitch kneel else facing from conservatives. and bill clinton and george w. bush share their love for one another with brotherly teasing on social media. this is "way too early." ♪ thank you. here we go, everybody.

good morning i'm thomas roberts. it's friday, november 14th. welcome to "way too early." that from, the presidential one will face the test as their loved ones talking to it out. we start at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. a new report has been released about white house security and breach that happened there in september. department of homeland security report out now faults secret service agents for nearly a dozen performance organizational and technical failures. those errors allowed omar gonzalez to jump the white house fence with a knife, run across the north lawn and enter the first family's home. he then overpowered a female secret service officer. he ran across the 80-foot east room before being apprehended. the report states the secret service alarm systems and radios did not work properly and that many of the officers on duty didn't see gonzalez as he climbed that nine-foot fence. a uniformed secret service officer with an attack dog was allegedly talkingn