>> first up, a sad milestone. the second ebola fatality in the united states. it's a sierra leone doctor who is a permanent resident of the united states. he passed away at the nebraska medical center. it was days after he arrived for treatment. the doctors said he was the sickest of the three patients treated there. >> we used the maximum amount of supportive care and every advanced technique available in an effort to save his life. we are very, very sorry that the out come was not the we had all wished for. >> dr. richard, a free lance cameraman was also treated at that same nebraska facility successfully. over to another loss for another family that has the entire nation reeling right now. we are awaiting the first public

remarks from the parents of the third american executed by isis. that man is peter kassig, a former army ranger turned aid worker. kassig was captured doing humanitarian work trying to help the needy. he converted to islam before his abduction. one of his friends spoke about this loss. >> obviously i will miss him quite a bit and there is a lot of other people too. good people like him who have been lost too. the main message of this is he didn't step down. he didn't give up. they didn't give in to the fear and intimidation that these thugs such as isis thrive off

of. >> kassig's parents said this. we are incredibly proud of our son for living his life according to his humanitarian calling. our thoughts are with that family right now. we expect his parents to speak at about 3:30 eastern today. we will bring you that. over in washington, president obama is back at the white house after his week overseas in asia. there is one thing everybody in the beltway is talking about right now. immigration reform. reports suggesting the president could be preparing to take that long executive action as soon as this week. he would be doing without congress through his pen. he explained why before heading back home. >> it continues to be my great preference to see congress pass comprehensive legislation because that is not reversed by a future president. it would have to be reversed by a future congress. >> we hear the order could spare millions of immigrants by

granting them legal status. there threats of retaliation in congress. up to and including a government shut down. >> a very different sunday for the nfl. there was a dea sweep over the weekend investigating pain killer use gone wrong. they questions medical staff members of the san francisco 49ers and other teams. amidst allegations that some teams have been distributing pain killers illegally to keep injured players on the field. they said this. our teams cooperated with the dea today and we have no information to indicate irregularities were found. we will gate the latest from an insider in a few minutes. sad news that so many of us are mourning. isis executing a 30 american. a grizzly video announced the murder of peter kassig. in a letter to his parents he addressed the possibility that he might die. >> don't worry, dad.

if i go down, i won't go down thinking anything but what i know to be true. that you and mom love me more than the moon and the stars. >> heart breaking story. we will hear this afternoon from kassig's parents who say they are doing all they can to continue theirs son's legacy. you knew peter kassig personally. talk about the last time you saw peter and why he was in the region. >> it was september of last year around the same time that the chemical weapons attacks happened when the u.s. was preparing for possible strikes along with several other journalists who knew peter much more so than i did. we all hung out in beirut killing time and lounging around in between work. peter was preparing to go into syria and that's when we found out that he had been kidnapped. it was at that time that i had a chance to get to know him and spend time with him that

afternoon. he was a very nice man with siancy of purpose and committed to what he was doing. you got the sense to how close he was to everyone else and how well respected he was by the other journalists for the work. he had come to beirut many times before. and getting the people who were suffering. >> motivated by the best instincts and putting everything on the line in the end. so many have come with the best of intentions met the worst fate. we have to assume that that will cause the blow back for the executionistis executionistists. >> no doubt about it, they have among many in the region lot of credibility and more importantly is completely rejected. and they are widely despised.

>> i know and the planet earth just concluded the warmest october ever. take a look at this. i found this interesting. a heat map from the university of alabama. .67 degrees. it feels like the opposite. extreme cold. on that front, a new blast of snow moving south and east. freezing temperatures reaching as far as tennessee. ahead of the arrival of that cold, there is the threat of tornados for parts of the south including georgia and florida. there is already a report that a tornado touched down near a state prison. it damaged cars and knocked over fences. dylan drier is following the snowier end of the extreme weather from cleveland. >> more snow and cold air and

another week another storm at this point. the snow is coming down in spirits here in cleveland. it's kind of misting, but it's a very wet kind of snow that is about to accumulate up to to three inches. it's not much, but enough to make the roads slippery. it's a few inches of snow that made the roads icey and caused spinouts and cars on the sides of the streets. there was also one accident-related death because of the ice. it transitions over into lake effect snow. that is going to really accumulate, especially across northwestern pennsylvania near erie and south of buffalo. we are looking at to three feet of snow. it's the arctic air that crosses over and they are relatively warm. we will see the lake effect snow. while we are on the snowy side of this storm, there is also a rainy side up and down the east coast causing all sorts of

delays at new york city airports and into washington, d.c. reports of tornado watches and warnings and confirmed tornados along the gulf coast. we talked about the type of no we are dealing with. we are at about 33 degrees. for us here, that's a very wet snow. you have to have fun sometimes. we worked hard and my crew got together and this is perfect snowball and snowman making snow. not a bad looking fella if i say so myself. >> dylan drier for the snowman making. appreciate it. a darker story. a new allegation levelled overnight against bill cosby attiat i adding fuel to the fire of a list of women who said he assaulted them. over the weekend, cosby had an awkward moment staying silent about the accusations while he was being interviewed.

>> there have been serious allegations raised about you in recent days. you are shaking your head no. i'm in the news business and i have to ask the question. do you have any response to those charges? shaking your head no. >> his attorney released this statement over the last several weeks, decade old discredited allegations have resurfaced. the fact that they're being repeated does not make them true. thank you so much, craig. obviously not a fun story to report on. what are you hearing right now about why the allegations are resurfacing? >> in terms of the why, the best we can gather is because of a popular comedian a few weeks ago. you probably know he was giving a stand up routine and he called bill cosby a rapist. we heard from barbara bowman who wrote the op ed where she talked

about being abused and assaulted by bill cosby. bill cosby raped me and why did it take 30 years for him to believe my story? the legendary 77-year-old denied the allegations. he has been in the past adamant in news denials. what was interesting is the clip that you played from npr. he and his wife being interviewed on saturday about an art exhibit. they donated and they loaned a great deal of the african-american art collection. they were talking about that and the reporter asked them about it. the first voice you hear is his wife camille, the interview ends and he said thank you. thank you. that was it. >> it's a sad story for the family and obviously a difficult position for anyone following

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>> welcome back, everybody. we are back with a brewing political firestorm happening at this moment. what happens if and when president obama takes executive action on immigration. the senior white house officials are telling us the president is looking to grant status to millions of workers. >> i can't wait in perpetuity when i have authorities that at least for the next two years can improve the system. >> as "the washington post" reports, republicans made it clear that if obama goes forward, it would be the equivalent of giving the middle finger. >> the president wants to fight andi ivgiving the extreme thing. >> this idea of poking republicans with a stick in the

eye is not a good idea. he knows that. >> my concern is if we end up shutting down with a record of legislative accomplishment that is there for the taking if the president chooses cooperation instead of conflict. >> you hear there, the spector of a potential shut down. he did say shutting down the government doesn't solve the problem and he does not believe we are headed for a shut down and hopes that cooler heads will prevail. casey hunt is following all of this. casey, some say there rumblings about a shut down. how real is that threat? wouldn't that be too great of a political cost for them? >> the question here really is what does the right wing of the within party do? this order if it comes before this december 11th deadline that we are looking at for funding the government, it could give leaders two things. first an introduce to throw their hands up and say look.

this is president obama's fault. this is why we are in this problem. it also is going to create pressure for them among their right wing. i think while we have been focusing on discontent in the wake of their losses, looming over all of this is the reality that republican leaders evaporate been able to successfully wrangle the right wing f. they go through with this and if they lose control of that right wing and the consequences could be intense. you had mitch mcconnell saying we are not shutting down the government, but on the other hand, john boehner has not ruled out that possibility. >> a tangled web for all involved here. casey hunt, thanks for following this for us. >> nice to see you. >> also following this story, of course the host of the run down for two whole hours every day. i saw the program today and it's terrific. it looks great. it's interesting stories.

congrats on that. i wanted to get your take on the news. immigration activists. what are you hearing on this potential act from the president and what it includes in terms of policy specifics. >> they are hoping the president acts sooner rather than later. we will remember that the president had promised to act on immigration before the elections. they decided to delay that until after the elections. so the folks on the ground who could be deported in the future are hoping he goes big. maybe or million people and for example, parents that have kids that are undocumented. also extend deferred actions for the young dreamers to include a larger group of people who

arrive to this country when they were young. maybe the cutoff was just a little bit past their time the last time they had deferred action. the white house insists that he has not made a decision yet on the specifics, but i expect him to do that probably by the end of this week. >> take a look at what they said for the audience. >> there was a collapse of the youth vote. they held steady and was remarkable given what we had. perhaps because the president didn't get the immigration order. it was a tough call for him. had he done so, they would have lot of by even more. that is a difficult call. >> a lot of questions for democratic leadership in his words of the youth vote and a little bit of a diminishment of

the latino vote with him putting immigration reform or the lack there of at the heart of that. what's your take? >> it's not just that he decided to extend or delay the decision on immigration. that was a blow to many people. that's of key reporters. it's easy to kick that can down the spearhead immigration. the candidate in june of 2008 when i first spoke to them. the first two years of his administration when the house and senate was in their hands, they didn't do anything. they have the republicans that are essentially building a wall. you want to talk about building a wall, how about building a

wall around anything that had to do with reform. they said we don't want to touch the issue. there was a feeling that the political parties are not really taking this seriously. when you have 1,000 deportations, that hassa an impact. this impact on many, many families here. >> you mentioned that adage of why not build a wall around the border. we spent time down in texas and arizona. thank you so much for that. the thing i was struck by was the legal limbo that they face and the confusion with those who want to pursue a path to citizenship about what options are available. highlighting the need for reform. we will definitely into that throughout the week and bring those views to our viewers and to yours. as the realistic changes that can happen.

>> they could do something, anything on immigration reform in the last year. but at the final analysis, the republicans just couldn't seem to -- you were just talking about this with casey. they couldn't seem to get past the difficulty of getting their right wing to be able to deal with it. even if they have it and it's there, what good do does it do if it is never presented. >> jose diaz, thank you very much for your insight. >> the feeling is mutual. watch all two hours on the run down, weekdays at 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. a great show already. on that mythical subject, we were just discussing a

bipartisanship in immigration reform. here's a side issue getting just that kind of support. they could impact a lot of lives. that's our call to action. we are writing to the governors and refused to expand medicate programs to dreamers. we want you to sign that letter to encourage them to expand programs to provide the dreamers with health care coverage. for those we have decided on the current laws should be afforded those protections. that's at our website. as we said, one of the few areas with republicans and democrats behind it right now. mounting support on both sides. tomorrow on this program, we will return to this issue in a big way. we will air the first part of my three-part series on the frontlines of the border battles. i traveled down to the border patrol on the u.s.-mexico border and some of the most unforgiving terrain on the country.

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protesters are not the only one prepping. they are preparing for the works. they performed $100,000 in riot gear since michael brown's murder. joining me now with the latest is amanda. thanks so much for following this for us. they are outlining rules of engagement with long lists of equipment with bandages and goggles and places where they can escape the cold or the tear gas. they suggest that the first shots were fired from inside wilson's vehicle. what's the mood with all of this coming to a head on the ground? >> protesters offer to preview the types of actions of difficult scivil disobedience. when we will hear a final decision in the case, protesters remain adamant that they want to

keep things peaceful and want to shed the image that they are trying to stir a great amount of unrest. yesterday we saw a peaceful march down the middle of the street. it was a scene acted out that pretended to be police officers and protesters who were shooting one another. sorry, the police officer shooting the protesters and the protesters lying there on the ground. it only disrupted traffic for a minor amount of time, but to send the message that they are wanting to raise awareness about police brutality. >> a tense moment there. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we will keep an eye on that for you. here at home, the polls are open for our next under reported competition where you tell us what you want us to report on more. what the media is overlooking. we then dig down and report out the winner. you can send your suggestions on twitter. we will then ask to you choose

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care act. sylvia is in florida getting people to sign up. the administration claims 500,000 people logged on over the weekend and 100,000 committed applications for health plans. that's a success. emphasis on relative. last year only six applicants were able to sign up on day one. open enrollment is launching in the shadow of one controversy spurred by one john gruber. obamacare consultant whose comments you know well about the stupidity. they continue to cause a furor. president obama responded for the very first time. take a listen. >> i just heard about this. i get well-briefed before i come out here. the fact that some adviser who never worked on our staff expressed an opinion that i completely disagree with in terms of the voters is no

reflection on the process that was run. we had a year long debate, ed. go back and look at your stories. the one thing we can't say is that we did have a plengty debate in the united states of america. >> it continues through this new set of obstacles. they know it well and a former mitt romney adviser and fellow at the manhattan snud institute. you spearheaded the opposition during the initial discussion of this. how do you see the president's defense holding up in retrospect. is it accurate to say the points that gruba gruber made like the squishy framing of faxes versus mandat mandates, wasn't that on the table?

>> the policy discussions and his general take on things. the disavow of centrality to the aca and architecture is strange. the "huffington post" did a comprehensive description of how central it was. the individual mandate and the cadillac tax and the way these exchanges were designed, these all gruber's work. he didn't write the legislation, but he was the guy, the architect who designed the concep concepts. >> more to the point, isn't it accurate to say there was debate about each of those facets of the plans that you mentioned at the time on the hill. i heard a lot of this back before. this is the second run through. >> absolutely. he said yeah, we had that debate and we made law as convoluted as possible to clout people's understanding. we have to understand that senator barack obama campaigned hard against john mccain because it taxed health insurance. this is the first time in

history anyone proposed tacking health insurance and turned around and did the same thing. that's why they made it so convoluted. he didn't want to be seen as violating the tam pain promise to raise taxes on the middle class. >> there is a lot about this motion of gruber being central or not. the way in which he was cited was narrow and specific. here's an economist with an economic take. we hired him for that and not general judgment on the law. the whole country is fighting about it. i want to get your take about the employer mandates. we know that 2015 mean employers have to start facing up to the mandates. you have been arguing with renewed vigor about that. >> not just me. a lot of think tanks and the urban institute said if you don't have an employer mandate, the number of people with health insurance won't change.

why? some won't cover as many people, but the exchanges will take up the slack. that might be a better system. people can choose the plan they want instead of getting it from their employer and take it from job to job. that would strengthen obamacare and it would be a better policy to give people control. >> what about that question of state versus federal exchanges. the drafting of the bill is divisi ambiguous having worked with romney who is the precursor of romney care. do you think it's just a typo that prevents the exchanges? >> it's not a typo, but i'm the only approximate other than who thinks this is not a big deal. what will happen is even if the supreme courtsides with the challengers, what's going to happen? i think the vast majority will set up or subcontract their state exchanges. why?

it's too much federal money they would be turning away. it's a different situation. medicate is a tough program. the stays have to fund a lot. with the exchanges, it's all federal doctors and i don't see them turning those doctors away. >> an interesting and valuable take. appreciate hearing from you. up next, a very different story. it is every subway rider's worst nightmare and it's the big news in new york today. what that news reveals about this public infrastructure challenge that the country faces right now. that's next. [ male announcer ] some come here to build something smarter. ♪ some come here to build something stronger. others come to build something faster... something safer... something greener. something the whole world can share. people come to boeing to do many different things. but it's always about the very thing we do best.

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man suspected of fatally shoving another man in front of a subway train. the 61-year-old was on the platform with his wife when it happened yesterday. this is the account we are getting of that event. push, push, she screamed according to witnesses uttering one of the few english words she knew. 49 people were struck and killed by new york subways just this year prior to this incident. david goodman follows the transit beat. joining me is jim o'grady for wnyc. what's the latest you can tell us on the investigation? >> at this point there is a 24-7 effort by the police department they are going out with wanted posters and the canvassing for new witnesses who may have seen anything, but might know this man. they put out a video late last night of a man who was wanted for questioning. it's important to say it's not definitive that this is the man who is suspect in the case, but

they want to talk to this guy. he was leaving the train station and getting on a bus and smoking a cigarette on the street. his picture is out there, but no one came forward with a tip and here's where to find him. >> jim, 50 of afirst of all, wh you do? do you run or find yourself in the middle? >> it's a great question and speaks to the point that there is almost no uniformity in the subway system. i did a story about what you do and a lot of people have the idea that you find the rails and the lie down and the rain rolls over you. in others you can't do that. if you are on an elevated track, you probably can't do that. that goes back to the way the system is. we now know it was built and there was three private compe competing lines built in the 20th century to their own unique

specifications. >> jim, we mentioned there 49 subway deaths prior to this in new york. >> for the past several years that, number is about average. we average about one death a week and sometimes by people committing suicide and sometimes by people accidentally falling and these tragic circumstance, someone being pushed. when a push occurs, the notion of railings or glass walls at stations comes up. it's very difficult. if you did that, just about every station would be a custom job. it's expensive. it's not like building a monorail where you are starting from scratch and you can make it the same. >> on that subject, one pub

dha pubication that surveyed this, they cost about a million dollars per station. a lot of cities like tokyo have done that in parts of the lines. you follow this beat. that could spending ever be politically feasible in new york? the difference is they were on the stations that were newer and the lines they stuck with with one train. it's incredibly complicated and as we were saying, each station is their own animal. i don't think they are 100 years ago. >> we looked at the problems and this terrifying scenario if one were to find themselves this it. we looked at the obstacles.

i want to compare that. 1.7 billion people rode the subway in general. that means a small number of people actually do get killed in this way. obviously horrifying stories, but a small percentage there. how does that stack up to modern cities? >> that's a great point and i'm glad you made it. 8.6 million riders and relatively speaking, the subway system is extremely safe. i'm not sure as david was saying, it's hard to compare. even major subway systems in the united states because it's .47. if you take something like driving, the injury and death rate is far lower in the subway. >> helps to put that in context. really appreciate both of you helping to understand this. up next, another big story in the sports world. what's next for the nfl?

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we're back with a story rocking the sports world right now. those new dea investigations into the nfl. remember, agents conducted unannounced checks on medical staff on a handful of teams over the weekend. they're looking into allegations of widespread painkiller abuse. joining me from chicago is mike adamly, a sports anchor with wmaq and also a former player himself. he's played with the kansas city chiefs, new york jets and the chicago bears. also played college ball with northwestern wildcats. thank you so much, sir, for taking the time. first of all, your own personal take. what kind of impact do you see this investigation having on the players involved? >> well, first of all, i'm not sure how in-depth it is. i'm not sure how -- if it was

just done randomly, if the league knew anything about it. i need to have some more information, but it's not surprising. there is a lawsuit, apparently, pending out there by a lot of former players saying that they -- the abuse -- there was a lot of abuse with performance-enhancing -- not performance-enhancing drugs but prescription drugs. the last thing the nfl needs right now is another headache like that. so, i have to believe that maybe -- you know, when it comes to drug testing in the national football league, everything is done secretively, randomly. players don't know when it's going to happen, so maybe this was just a case -- that being the case. they follow a very, very strict protocol, do teams now. that being said, there's a -- it wasn't always that way in the nfl. let's face is, football is not a matter of if you get hurt, it's when you get hurt. and when you get hurt, how much

pain can you play with? >> i want to drill down on exactly that. this allegation is now out there with this story. that there is this widespread use of painkillers to get injured players on the field for longer, for unnaturally long. does that resonate with your own experience as a player? >> well, it was pretty wild back in the '60s and '70s, that's when i played. and i don't think there was any kind of drug control, prescription drug control back then. it kind of worked like this. the team doctor would -- or the coach would go to the team doctor and the coach said, hey, listen, i need number 34 to play today. get him ready, whatever it takes. the coach didn't want to hear what the kid was taking. but just get him ready. make sure that he's ready. back then i think the abusive thing was the -- getting needles, you know, shots of cortisone in the injured part of your body. that was commonplace.

there was a pretty high-power aspirin called darvon that was just a giant bowl waiting for you as you left the locker room or coming back into the locker room, you could put your hand in there and throw them in the mouth. there's all kinds of stories of that going on. >> i guess these current investigations will reveal how much that is still the case. mike adamlee appreciate your insights on this. >> thank you very much. that wraps up today's "r.f. daily," thank you for taking the time. it's always a privilege to have you here. it's time next for "the reid report" with my colleague joy reid. it's also a privilege to have you here. >> happy monday, ronan. have a great rest of the day. next on "the reid report," president obama calls it an act of pure evil as another american is killed at the hands of isis. plus, more protests in ferguson as a grand jury decision looms. and yes, we code, how the movement to empower young minorities in tech got its start. ♪ ♪

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hello, everyone, i'm joy reid. it's a busy day on "the reid report." we're following the reaction of the execution of peter kassig by isis. the army ranger turned aid worker. meanwhile, a doctor who risked his life treating ebola patients in west africa has died of the disease. plus, the growing storm around comedian bill cosby as another woman comes forward saying she was assaulted by the comedian years ago. in ferguson, activists mark 100 days since the fatal shooting of mike brown as the city awaits the grand jury decision. let's start with the brutal murder as abdul-rahman kassig, also known as peter kassig. president obama called it pure evil a