>> it's time for "morning joe." but up next we have "the rundown." have a good day. >> and good morning, i am jose diaz but first, a terror attack inside the holy city of jerusalem. it's exactly 4:00 p.m. and mourners are in the streets waiting for the victims. four are dead. three israeli americans. we're going to show you pictures of what happened. but i want to warn you, they are tough to look at. the attack occurred this morning inside a synagogue in the western part of the city. two men burst into the building armed with a meet cleaver and a gun, attacking people while they were praying. three were israeli-americans. the fourth was a british-american. several others were wounded. >> we came to pray this morning. we were coming into the synagogue, and we heard gunshots from downstairs, and one shot,

two shots and then a flurry of shots. at least five, six, seven shots. we all ran out. >> the attackers tried to escape, but were killed in a shootout with police. take a look. israeli police are calling this a terrorist attack saying it was carried out by these two men, two cousins from east jerusalem. israeli prime minister. netanyahu promised israeli would respond with a heavy hand. secretary of state kerry condemned the attack. >> this violence has no place anywhere. >> this is the middle l east correspondent for buzzfeed.

she's on the phone from jerusalem. what is the latest? what are they saying in the city about this incident? >> well, at the moment the families of those injured are standing outside the hospital waiting to hear about the conditionover their loved ones. we do know four people were killed. the police have now shut those neighborhoods down. there's a lot of tension here in jerusalem. people are worried that these states of attacks are only going to continue. and at the local services and police have no way of stopping them. >> and what can you tell us, anything about these two attackers? >> what we know so far is that these two men were cousins from a neighborhood in east jerusalem. both of them have family members

recently arrested by israeli police in various riots. one of them worked at a grocery store that was very close to the city that was attacked. it's the comings and going, they would have known at 7:00 in the morning that synagogue was packed full of men. clearly, this is a neighborhood they were familiar with. they were going to carry out these attacks. and it's almost a pattern of these lone wolf attacks where young men decide to do this. >> and, i just wanted to show you these live images from jerusalem. it is 4:03 in the afternoon jerusalem time. and i just want to listen to some of this prayer and chants that are occurring right outside the hospital for a second.

[ praying in foreign language ] what do we expect for the rest of the afternoon? they actually waiting for information about the injured person? >> yes, exactly for those injured. and there's quite a few still in critical condition. the whole city is holding its breath not knowing what's coming next. i spoke to parents today who said they would keep their kids out of school tomorrow. palestinian and israeli parents because everyone is worried. no one knows wh enthe next attacks are going to happen. and as we have seen in previous attacks. whether it's someone ramming their car into a crowded platform or opening fire into a

crowd, those palestinians and israelis have been killed in the last couple months. >> correspondent for buzzfeed. thank you so much for being with me this morning. appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> and we'll of course have much more on this attack, including reaction from the chairman of the senate foreign affairs committee. jeff, what a pleasure to see you this morning. just transitioning from this terror attack in israel, but i want to talk to you about foreign policy, and the white house is facing all kinds of issues and crises regarding foreign policy. what's the challenge for the the white house as it responds, for example, to this attack in jerusalem just days after isis beheaded american peter kassig? >> well, look, the challenge is

that you're managing a war against isis. at the same time, you're in the middle of negotiations with iran in a nuclear deal. all of that has the potential to create more friction, perhaps, with israel. so there's a lot of moving chess pieces for this administration regarding foreign policy -- actually regarding middle east policy, let alone foreign policy. so i think the challenge is sort of keeping everything in some sort of stable environment because if one thing goes sour, it could impact what else you're trying to do. >> yeah, three americans killed today in jerusalem. that's a fact. >> three americans killed today. you get beheading on isis. so it's precarious. and that's why i bring back up the iran deal. and we know we're in the closing stages. something could get struck there. right at a time when israel is very, very nervous about what's going on in jerusalem, let alone

what's going on in their borders. >> let's turn to the domestic agenda. and the keystone pipeline that comes up for a vote in the senate this afternoon. if this passes, how likely is a white house veto? >> i think very likely. they have given no hint, no effort. the president says he wants to this let the process play itself out. the question you have to wonder, is there some sort of negotiation? is it used at the last minute to senate democrats somehow find a way to strike a deal and use keystone to get something they want and then therefore encouraging the pot to cut a deal on this? i think the trickier issue is here is whether mary landrieu has 60 votes. i don't know if she's going to find 60 votes. >> let's talk about immigration. it could be any day the the president issues executive orders on immigration. what do you think the fallout will be? >> well, that's the unknown here. the fact that we hear behind the

scenes republican leaders are circulating memos, reminding members how bad the shutdown played for the republican party. because some members, some conservatives like to see congress use its budget authority to try to prevent or stop the president from enacting these changes on immigration. so i think step one is to figure out how are the republicans going to react? i think there's sort of a split between where the base is and where leadership is. >> yeah, as the president has said, i mean, if the house decided to act on immigration, these executive orders, according to the president, would go away. so it's going to be very difficult to see which road the republicans go down. >> jose, i think they my roll the dice and hope a lawsuit gets filed and let the courts deal with this first. and then see what happens. because i think there's a lot of -- i think there's still a legal question about what he's

trying to do. it's an open question. it's going to be enough of a question that somebody is going to file a lawsuit. >> who would do that? who would file a lawsuit? >> that's what i've been trying to figure out. who is the aggrieved party? right? perhaps it's congress itself. i mean, that. maybe it's in the authority of challenging the president's authority on this. so i think somebody has to have standing. but i think once something gets filed, i wouldn't be surprised if this is an open question. >> chuck todd, look forward to seeing you every sunday on "neat the press. >> thank you, sir. >> we're going to live to capitol hill where the hunt is on for the senator that might put the keystone pipeline vote today over the top. also, to ferguson, missouri. major developments in the last 24 hours. governor nixon activating the national guard ahead of a grand jury decision on whether or not to diet darren wilson in the death of michael brown.

he explains his decision in a conference call last night. >> i hope the expectation is that peace will prevail. but we have a responsibility to plan for an eventuality that may arise. >> later today he'll be in swearing in members of the ferguson commission. they'll be tasked to study and make recommendations raised by the events in ferguson. meanwhile, the fbi is warn police that protests after the grand jury decision could be exploited by people who want to attack law enforcement. msnbc's trumane lee is live. >> let's talk about how people are reacting o this announcement made by the governor. >> so on one hand there was the expectation that the governor would mobile but at the same time, residents see this as dangerous. the state senator wrote a letter to barack obama saying she fears

it's returning to the days of kenlt stat kent state. others say it will grow to violence. but there's the very real concern about violent. in this community, they don't know what justice looks like. they feel they've kpauted all the the possibilities, what is next and there's the fear if if government noblizes and appears ready for war, they may get something of the like. so as everyone is still bracing for the worst and next steps, there's still a lot of concern and worry on the ground. >> we've been featuring some of your reporting yesterday. yesterday you spoke to a moon who was protest for mike brown and is now collecting petition signatures to keep chief jackson in charge. here he is making a reference to the senator claire mccaskill. >> you were out here for mike brown. and now you're protesting and getting petitions to keep the chief in charge. it sounds counter. are people shocked?

>> they're shocked. but i'm still protesting for mike brown. i'm out here to let the senator know that she's not going to run out of town. but justice for mike brown is number one. >> you know, there seems to be, you know, jus a frustration that we've been seeing dins day one. but it's growing. >> frustration from day one shortly after the the the killing of michael brown. but now we're more than 100 days later. as they're waiting and waiting in anticipation, everyone is still holding their breath. the the frustration is growing. what will that look like? but many of them don't know what justice looks like. as they prepare and anticipate for a nonindictment, so each day people are filling in with their own emotions. >> trymaine lee, what a pleasure to see you. thank you for your time. we'll have much more of your

reporting in our next hour. including an explainer of what exactly is happening as a grand jury inches towards its decision and all of our reporting can be found on msnbc.com. i encourage you to go there. it has a lot of information. and now to the other major story driving the rundown today. take a look at this one city. just one of the many cities impacted. buffalo, new york. they're preparing for up to five feet of snow. it's a system so volatile that some folks say they see thunder snow and lightning. we'll have a live report from the ground in buffalo coming up. also across the country, temperatures are plunging overnight. at least one location in all 50 states, tumbling below the freezing mark. 200 million americans are in the middle of the cold snap today. and the to add instult to injury, some regions are dealing with cold and snow. this was hamburg in upstate new

york. they're expecting two to three feet of snow today. up next, senator mary landrieu says she has the votes to passkeytone pipeline. but who is the magic vote? the last-minute lobbying is what's driving d.c. this morning. plus take a look at this. the nose of the plane inside a chicago living room. the tail standing straight up after a crash overnight. the two people inside were unharmed. the pilot still missing. we'll get a live report from the scene there. and also later this hour, our own ronin farrow joins us fresh from his trip to the southern border. what fe found in his ride-along with agents straight ahead on "the trundown." but first, a very busy day on capitol hill. a pair of five live events at the top of the hour. house hearing on ebola response and high stakes news conference from speaker boehner. we'll be watching it all on "the

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a closely watched vote is driving d.c. today. the senate is scheduled to vote on the project around 6:15 eastern time tonight. that's about 3:15 pacific. right now the outcome is still up in the air. this morning mary landrieu is trying to persuade several undecided democrats. the bill needs 60 votes to hatch. 59 publicly support completing the pipeline project. but landrieu thinks she'll have the votes. here's what's at stake. an oil pipeline from canada down to the gulf of mexico, about 40% of the project has already been built. oil is flowing. nbc news capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell joining us this morning. good morning, kelly. >> good morning, jose. this is a vote years in the making. and it could spell the difference between victory and defeat for mary landrieu. that's at least sort of the atmospherics of what we're seeing today. you have 45 committed to voting for this. so mary landrieu needs to really

shake the trees among her fellow democrats. she's got a number of them who are from red states and so forth, but to get to 60, that magic number that moves things forward in the senate, she is still publicly one vote short. now she's speaking very positively about this. and that is what you've got to see with a legislator trying to do the arm twisting that's required. and the fact that the vote will come late in the day gives her several more hours to have conversations. they've been on the target list, talking about the way she's trying to present this. could will be ways to sweeten the deal, in terms of other opportunities for votes on other matters in the future. independent who caucuses with the democrats is not saying which way he would go. bigs target opportunity. there have been other notable democrats who have come out against this, and namely chuck schumer, cory booker, and so forth. an she'll really be looking at

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crashes into their house in the middle of the night. check out these incredible images. the plane took off from midway airport. it was heading to chicago executive airport when the pilot reported engine problems and then tried to turn back. now right now the pilot is still unaccounted for. nbc news correspondent john yang is at the scene now. john, good morning. >> reporter: jose, this is an incredible scene behind me. that's a twin engine plane, propeller plane, half way in, half way out of that house. it's sitting in the living room of that house. it crashed about 2:45 this morning. it reported engine trouble shortly after taking off from midway. it was trying to head back to midway. we're about a quarter mile short of the runway. but the amazing thing is the elderly couple who lived in the house got out safely. without injuries. they were in a back bedroom and able to get out through a back door. right now they're across the street at a neighbor's house.

right now chicago fire officials are trying to shore up the house. so they the actually get in and to search for the the pilots -- the for the pilot who is believed to be in the wreckage. believed to be dead. the ntsb is on the scene to investigate this crash. but amazingly when you look at the pictures, the the couple h the house got out without any injuries. jose? >> really, it's a miracle. thanks so much. appreciate your time. john yang. we'll be following these developments out of chicago as crews search for that missing pilot, presumed dead. let's get a check on wall street. we're just minutes away from the opening bell. mandy drury is joining us. good morning. another day, another record on wall street, right, my friend? >> absolutely. so the s&p once again closed at a record high yesterday. but here's the thing. it is in such a narrow range. and in fact, here's a great stat for you.

it's moved less than 0.1% for five consecutive sessions now. and i believe the last time that happened was back in 1969. we did get data today suggesting inflation creeping in at the producer level. but the underlying trend here is what is important. and that really did continue to point to benign inflationary varmt. which we interpret as the fed will not have to be in a hurry to raise rates. afarther from earnings, it is pretty quiet out there. there's a lot of action following the announcement. oil and gas is now at an all-time high. megadeals. like $10 billion plus are at a six-year high across all sectors. back over to you. >> and nor row rang indeed.

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failure. the disease was already well into the second week without having had the benefit of some experimental treatment while he was in west africa. >> just wondering why it took so long to get him here if he was having those symptoms already. >> i know. a lot of issues have been raised about that over the last couple of months. they have to be able to get the airplanes and not so many airplanes and industry airplanes for this purpose have been sort of difficult to get into the zone to get the patients out. so i think it requires a number of different steps, and in this case, since the patient was there independently, his family had to agree to pay for it, et cetera. i'm sure it was costly. >> yeah, let's talk about that ebola hot zone. how is the sichs in west frommic? >> so what we are seeing, what we have been seeing in the last week, week and a half is there has been a plateau in the number of patients that certainly we've been seeing in liberia.

there was initial concern or question that perhaps the numbers could be misleading. then we saw a big uptick in swing in summer. but we're hoping between a combination of appropriate education and screening and the home kits we've been sending out to families in west africa that there may truly be a curve in the outbreak now. >> dr. natalie, what a pleasure seeing you. thank you for your time. we'll monitor today's first ebola hearing on capitol hill, which begins in less than half an hour live. but now to the continuing crisis in mexico for 43 students missing for almost two months, presumeded murder as the outrage continues. protesters trying to break down the doors yesterday at the head skrn quarters. the country's ruling party throwing rocks and molotov cocktails with outrage spreading across the world. this picture from argentina outside the mexican embassy. building up to a major day of

protests on the 20th of november. mexican revolution day. for more on the continuing crisis out of mexico. the bureau chief for "the new york times." what ha pleasure. thanks for being with me. >> thanks for having me. >> another day of outrage? what answers are these protesters looking for? >> well, i think there's a lot of questions about the case. officially the students are considered still missing. although the government has taken pains to strongly hint that they were abducted by police. they were turned over to a drug gang. they were killed and they were burned to ashes. the attorney general gave excruciatingly extraordinary press conference laying out the case in detail. he stopped short of saying it was resolved resolveded. but the students are probably presumed dead. >> and you know, when you think

about it. the big picture is really this was according to the accusations an actual elected mayor of a big city calling in his police force to take 43 kids and make them disappear. and these kids are handed over to drug cartel groups. i mean, think of the relationship that exists between elected officials and police there is it because people see this is drop after drop after drop something. almost part in parcel of every day life in mexico? >> yeah, this is an accumulation of grievances and frustration and anger over impunity in mexico. the massacres have been occurring for several years, but i think this case has really touched a nerve because we're talking about 43 students that officials say didn't have any connection whatsoever to

organized crime. for mexicans to consider that 43 young people could be rounded up by the police, who are colluding with a powerful drug organization there and killed is really a true shock to the senses, and it raises a lot of questions at the surface about corruption, impunity and the lack of rule of law there. >> what a pleasure seeing you. thank you for being with me this morning. appreciate you time. >> thank you, jose. >> i want to go back to ferguson. a grand jury decision on whether to indict officer darren wilson is expected any day. but what goes on behind the closed doors of a grand jury? here now to explain that, attorney ari. good to see you. >> good day. >> let's talk about this grand jury. what charges are they considering? >> bafgsly, what is different about this and that's where you

have jurors decide if someone committed a crime. if they decide someone probably committed a crime, they diet. usually you have him recommend something specific. here he said they're going to put all potential charges relating to this killing before the grand jury. that ranges everything from first-degree murder, murder one, where it's premade dated and planned. the worst kind of murder in the criminal code, all the way down to a negligent homicide or involuntary manslaughter, which is the crime we associate more with an accident. >> so ari, talk to me about the prosecutor's role and the importance of the prosecutor in this grand jury. >> well, this is, we call it a grand jury. we refer to jurors. but this is not a courtroom. there is not a defense attorney. there is not a judge. so when you talk about the prosecutor, you're talking about, jose, the only game in town in a grand jury. and that's why the famous jury

that a grand jury could indict a ham sandwich. they're only hearing from the prosecutor, the evidence that that prosecutor wants to present. and then it's secret. so there is not the kind of transparency and outside pressure you may sometimes see in a normal court proceeding. again, this doesn't resolve the question of guilt or innocence. this is the prosecutor showing the first step. and if you do get that indictment out of the grand jury, then you go to much stricter higher standard of guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in an actual court proceeding and an actual trial. >> all right. thank you so much. pleasure to see you. >> nice to see you. >> and you can catch ari with his fellow cyclists weekdays at 3:00 p.m. eastern, noon pacific here on msnbc. now after the break, we'll tick you back to our top story. the terrorist attack on jewish worshipers at a synagogue in jerusal jerusalem.

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it. it's the human costs. very infrequently do we hear the human stories, and it's all on all sides of this, jose. this is this game of cat and mouse every day in the most difficult terrain in the country, if not in the world, between smuggler cartels, criminal elements. the crossers themselves, many are needy families trying to get to the american dream, and then the agents who are risk everything and who are often kids themselves, jose. they're people in their early 20s, often with diverse heritage, right there on the border. you have people from the nate v e american communities. you have mexican-americans on the border. and they're just trying to do their job in this incredibly pressurized atmosphere. you have the combination of blowback from washington and the intense debate lane the day-to-day risks to their lives. >> you visited whatst called the forward operating base. tell me what's going on there. >> so at the very far reaches, there's little access.

and they're patrolling thousands of square miles of territory. elemental exposure could kill you very, very quickly. so to get access, they've erected small modular clusters of buildings, sectioned off from this desert behind high chain linked if pences. everything from living quarters, detention facilities to horse stables in some cases. the horse territory demands that, jose. >> i have to tell you, i'm sorry so -- i don't know. i'm so happy that you're doing what others are not doing. and you're going to places few people get to. i really appreciate you being on and everything you do. >> well, jose i so appreciate you staying with this story. it's so important right now. particularly important to capture that human side. >> and of course, you can capture more of his reporting from the border. part one of his series mortar battles coming up today only on ronan farrow daily. catch his show. extraordinary work. and developing this morning,

a top story inside a brutal attack inside a synagogue in jerusalem left three israeli-americans and an british-american dead. right now crowds have gathered outside the synagogue. that's where funeral services are taking place as we speak. and with me now, the man who knows all the challenges, chairman of the senate foreign affairs committee. new jersey democrat bo bob menendez. what's your reaction to this attack and your level of concern about the kind of violence it could trigger? >> well, this is the most brutal condemnable act that woun could imagine in a house of worship to have such violence is absolutely beyond any sense of human dignity. and i am concerned that every action breeds a reaction. and this is a time, my mind, for

a president to make sure that he shows leadership among the palestinian people. and at the same time, to make sure that as we are certainly our hearts go out to the families of those, the who lost a loved one, including u.s. citizens worshipping in the synagogue. you know, we have to work to try to diffuse the violence and at the same time think of a pathway forward. it's condemnable to see acts of violence, particularly in places of worship. do you think you're goirng to get that? >> well, we'll have to wait to see, jose. i don't know that as the negotiations sit right now, that they are anywhere near the type of deal that i certainly could support.

iran with a nuclear, as a nuclear threshold statement of power to have nuclear energy for ultimately conversion into nuclear weapons. which the world is convinced that they were on a path to doing. is a threat to the national interest and security of the united states. it's a threat to a whole host of our allies in the region. as i travel the region, many countries have said to me, well, senator, if iran ends up with a type of nuclear power that can move towards nuclear weapons under the theory of mutual self destruction, we're going to have to try to achieve the same goals, which means an arm's race in a tinderbox of the world. of course, our ally state of israel, i believe it would be a threat to them. so the reality is that we cannot in our own national interest and security permit iran to do this. and i am concerned that every benchmark that we originally

stated in our negotiationing posture has been moved closer and closer to the iranians. so of course i'll judge a deal when a deal is had, but i'm not optimistic that a deal will be had by the 24th. >> senator, i want to talk lastly on immigration. are you concerned that if the president uses executive action to pass reform it could in some way affect the possibility of some immigration reform down the line? i know you actually sent a letter yesterday talking about this issue. >> well, look, clearly what the senate did a year and a half ago in a strong bipartisan effort, 67 votes. we don't get 67 votes on critical contentious issues in the senate on a normal basis, as you know. that happened a year and a half ago. the house of representatives was sitting on it for a year and a half. hasn't voted on that. hasn't voted on what their own vision of immigration reform is. i believe the president in the absence of any republican action in the house of representatives,

which they control, should use his executive powers as 11 presidents since president eisenhower on 39 different occasions has done over the las over the last 60 years. and so this is not a unique power that this president is exercising. it's been exercised by republicans and democrats alike. and the most recent period of time, you know, first president bush and president reagan used it. so there is no reason why this president should not use it. if the republicans are concerned about the use of executive action, they need to use their own power and exercise a vote on either the senate bipartisan immigration reform or their own vision. >> senator bob menendez. thank you very much for your time. it's a pleasure to see, ysir. we're going go live to hamburg, new york. residents are getting buried by this november snow.

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lot of the city. these are live pictures outside the city where funeral services are underway. joining me now are two folks. gayle lemon and ayman mohyeldin is nbc's foreign correspondent. it didn't come out of nowhere. there's been a growing tension in jerusalem for awhile. >> absolutely. if you go back within the just 40 to 72 hours there's been mounting tension in jerusalem itself following the killing of a palestinian bus driver, palestinian officials believe that man was lynched by an angry israeli mob. at the same time israeli police were saying the individual committed suicide. if you take a bigger picture over the course of the last several weeks there's been growing tensions over what palestinians call the noble sanctuary where the mosque is and where israelis have the wailing wall and the temple mount. over the past several weeks israel restricted access to that

for palestinian muslims. there there was an attempted assassination attempt of a prominent israeli jewish figure. tensions have been brewing. officials have been trading accusations blaming one another for the downward spiral. what we saw today was a continuation of the tensions. >> yeah. police, ayman, said initially it may have been two guys acting on their own. do you suspect that's the case? >> i don't suspect that will be the case in the sense they're acting individually. it may not necessarily have the backing or operational command of one of the palestinian groups. we've already heard one of the lesser known palestinian groups claimed responsibility for it. we've heard from hamas celebrating or at least praising the attack calling for more similar attacks. that doesn't necessarily mean there was within the organization an order for something like that to happen. but the atmosphere over the past several weeks has allowed the tensions to brew. it allows for these types of individual attacks to be carried out by individuals.

it was similar to what we saw earlier this summer with the killing of three jewish teens in the west bank. at the time the israeli officials believed hamas was responsible. but they believed the individuals behind the kidnapping and killing turned out to be acting somewhat independently from within the organization. >> and, gayle, put it in a broad context of what is happening in the middle east over the last few months. >> it's an escalation of tensions at exactly the moment where you don't need it. the head of the u.n. refugee agency is in washington right now trying to find language that will make the world pay attention to what is happening in syria. he's also incredibly concerned about neighborhoing countries. you have about three million people who have left syria that is, you know, more than the population of chicago. and you now have countries that are touching borders with syria that are watching their own futures hit a question mark. and, you know, right now we're

talking about a mega crisis. he used the words tragedy of our time. and i think we're trying to figure out as an international community what architecture works in a world that seems to be on fire in just about every corner with the middle east leading the way. >> and it's interesting because we just don't know where the next spark will be and yet a spark that can really cause a much bigger problem. >> yes. i think right now if you look at what is happening in washington, the internal fight within the administration about what to do about syria has now spilled into the headlines. and there's really a debate going on, you know, is what is happening in iraq a result of syria? or is it a result of what happened with the u.s. war on the ground there in iraq. and there was folks that i talked to within the administration who are really worried that eventually the u.s. will have to continue to make a real choice between supporting the assad regime on one side or isis on the other when it comes to northern syria because in all the conversation about supporting moderate or national

syrian opposition they're now still engaged in battles each day. one administration official said we have to keep them alive before we can train and equip them. yeah. and ayman, i want to bring you back to the story that we've been following since this morning. what do you think israel will do next? >> we've seen in similar past vale tends to -- we've heard from the israeli prime minister israel will use a strong hand in trying to prevent attacks. they'll probably go to the homes of the individuals, the two men that carried the attacks out, probably try to destroy them. destroy the homes. that's going anger the palestinians in that neighborhood even further and more. but also look at it from a political perspective over the past several weeks. israel has been announcing the construction. that angered the american government but it's the type of ability that the palestinians say is leading to rising tensions. so you can expect israel to act on the political front in the sense it will make perhaps similar announcements to continue that development of those settlements.

but at the same time it will also from a security perspective step up patrols, perhaps find anyone that may have been involved in preparing the attack. may have helped the individuals and perhaps punish the family of thor. -- of the perpetrators. >> thank you for being with me ayman and gayle. we'll keep watching the story all hour. we'll bring you any developments as soon as we get them. i want to take you back to capitol hill where democrats have re-elected nancy pelosi to another two-year term as house minori tity leader. she was elected by voice vote and faced no challenger. meanwhile, we're watching two live events. the house foreign affairs committee on ebola just getting underway. we're waiting to hear from speaker john boehner who locked in a high stakes show down with the president on immigration. luke russert joins us live on capitol hill. and ruth marcus. luke, good morning. we're waiting to hear from speaker boehner. he has some big decisions to

make should president obama move ahead with plans to issue executive orders on immigration. >> he certainly does, jose. the main decision he has to make with mitch mcconnell is how long do they want to dig in and fight about whether or not to fund the government, which the funding for the government running expires on december 11th. so we don't have a clear cut answer as to what the house republicans are going to do. there's some speculation that the white house will wait to move until after the deadline. but what we're looking at now in order to fund the government is two things. would it be a year-long funding bill which is something mcconnell and boehner want. they don't want the first few months of the leadership. and will it be a smaller funding bill. a shorter funding bill that would make the fight inevitable next year over top level number.

any one of these bills more likely than not you'll see a joining bill that has strict language at the president not being able to use funds for the immigration executive action that he wants to do. or they could pass a bill alongside with strict border security. they're fig dwruring it out. what they don't want to have happen is the massive victory and get into a government shut down situation. we'll be talking and a clock next to the beautiful graphic that shows when the government is going to run out of money and shut down. that's what they don't want. how they get there remains to be seen. >> in addition to executive orders on immigration. the white house is signaling the president would probably veto the keystone pipeline. what is the fall out on that? >> well, i think that the bigger fall out is the immigration situation that luke did such a good job of explaining. particularly, the question of whether the speaker and the in coming majority leader will be able to control their caucus and

make sure there isn't a shut down. and the question whether president's action will happen before or after we get some of the funding bills in place. in terms of the keystone pipeline, it does look as if mary landrieu is going to get to the 60 votes, not certain but probably will amass the 60 votes. then it's interesting the president will probably -- the white house has signalled veto that. a lot of pushing on mary landrieu's part to get over this hump and then with a veto. then the question will be whether the new majority will be able to actually get to a veto-proof situation on keystone pipeline. that one is emotional but it is way less emotional than the immigration debate. >> and in many ways strictly a political move. right now >>well, the keystone pipeline as the president himself has said is a issue that has been

exploded kexplode ed exaggerated well beyond the importance in terms of jobs or the impact on the environment. i know, i'm going to get in trouble with folks on both sides for saying that. but it's an odd area to have this total show down in terms of, you know, immigration is kind of worth the fight on both sides. keystone pipeline, from my point of view, isn't. >> and, luke, let's turn to the ebola hearing underway this morning. one of two today. what are lawmakers hoping to learn there? >> i think the most interesting one about ebola, jose, will be the one around 1:00 when the house energy and commerce committee, mainly because dr. thomas frein, the head of the cdc will be before the committee having to answer, what i think will be tough questions. mainly the role of ron klain. the person the ebola czar. house republicans have a lot of questions of his role. what decisions is he makings and what decisions are the medical

officials making. i was going through the back notes on the briefing. expect questions about the real situation is that our troops are facing over there working to combat ebola. and lastly, expect some questions about how the overall fight is going. whether or not the screening procedures we've install at the airports are working. whether or not the public is safe. we have a lot of ebola hysteria earlier in the fall that seems to have died down. expect some spirited questions this afternoon. >> luke russert and ruth marcus, thank you for being with me this morning. i appreciate your time. and we'll have much more on today's senate vote on the keystone pipeline a little later in the show. we'll go back to washington to capitol hill on the latest for the last-minute arm twisting. coming up in minutes state of emergency in ferguson, missouri. how residents are reacting to the governor's declaration as they wait for the grand jury to decide one way or another. western new york is used to snow but not like this. and not in november!

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they was just showing on the news at 12:00 l.a. rodney king. they were just showing it on the news today. i hope -- i have a feeling -- >> that was ferguson resident valerie williams talking to tremaine lee about what she fears what will happen in her city if officer wilson is not

indicted. it's a sentiment felt by many ferguson. people took to the streets calling for an indictment. i want to bring in some guests. liz, i want to start with you. give us insight what we can expect if there's not an indictment. >> i think that most citizens are very, very concerned about their not being an indictment. and i think the community will respond. we have to kind of measure the response of the community based on the actions, the provocative actions taken like the action by the governor to declare a state of emergency based on, i mean, if you look at the law you have to have a natural disaster of major proportions. this governor is looking back 100 days and saying the burning of one building and rock throwing and bottle throwing is a natural disaster. that's a provocative action to take because as a result of the state of emergencies, the law

enforcement can seize communications, law enforcement can track you through your communications, law enforcement with seize cars. law enforcement can get into your bank account. so right now -- this is a provocative action, citizens in this region are living under a state where they have no civil liberties as a result of being placed in a state of emergency. provocative -- >> and i want to bring out talk about what liz is mentioning. let's talk about the state of emergency that governor nixon issued yesterday. how are people in ferguson reacting? >> i think it's interesting. especially over the weekend you had members basically the leadership of the place in charge what happens here talking

about their worries about overreaction. and thinking that some of the news reports about people stocking up on guns and people worried they won't be able to get food could create too tense of a situation. obviously the media plays a role. which is interesting been you have the governor declaring a state of emergency anything happened. that raises about anxieties will what will take place here. >> liz, how would you see the governor or should you see the governor acting differently on this? he's being very clear on these statements. >> i think it's ironic, jose, that possibly if you look at the law, the governor has broken the law in order to put our community under a state of emergency. i have an active lawlessness by the governor to respond to what he said are acts of lawlessness. the governor knees to be clear

and correct and lawful about the actions he's taken. i think if you look at the law, he does not have the authority to engage in an act of declaring a state of emergency. it's troubling across the line and it's also fits within the pattern of the actions that this governor is taken in the past. >> later today the same governor will swear in members of the ferguson commission. he set it up last month. how successful could it be? >>, i mean, it depends how wide they end up going. i think the important context of ferguson. it's within the context of a larger area. there's a lot of tiny municipalities. i got to sit in one of the court last night. it's amazing to see you have someone in a household who is running a courtroom. it's a house and it's a small municipality and people feel explo exploited. there was one college student i

spoke with who goes to school seven hours away. got a ticket over missing a $10 had to drive seven hours back. otherwise there would have been a warrant issued for her arrest for not appearing in court. there's going to be need broad reforms here, i think, in order for the situation to calm down. >> ryan riley and liz browne, thank you. and coming up i want to take you to a live look -- if you can see it. hamburg, new york. snow and snow and more snow for millions of people arctic cold in all 50 states. bill karins has the chilly forecast in moments. first, this emotional moment on lawrence o'donnell last night. an exclusive letter written by the mother of brittany maynard she defends her choice to die. reminder, there are two sides to

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bill karins has the forecast. >> this one won't break the all-time record. some are 116 inches like in a ten-day event. this is only a three-day event. we'll see someone probably get close to 6 feet of snow. i was sent the picture and they call it white out conditions. everything is white. it's blowing and snowing. you can see the house on the left is a driveway. and on the right is a car. i asked the man to get a measurement. he stuck the tape measure in the ground. 47 inches of snow! there was no snow on the ground at this time yesterday. so we are up to 4 feet. this is about an hour ago. it's been snowing about 4 to 5 inches an hour in this region. epic stuff there south of buffalo. it's not a large area. downtown buffalo has 1 inch. south of there now approaching 4 feet. the temperatures, as you mentioned. a lot of people have been asking me how did you get hawaii to go down to 32? at the top of the volcano up

there about 10,000 feet they dip down to the freezing mark at night. you get the picture in the lower 48. the temperatures are still cold to the gulf. the windchills is coast to coast chilly. 33 in new orleans. the worth is up around chicago. it's not like last week. last week was horrible windchill. this one is plain cold. for today the record breaking cold is over with this morning. still dealing with the heavy lake effect. very little problems with snow or ice across the country. tonight will be the last very cold night across the country. when you see orlando, florida, down to 38 in the middle of november. that's extremely rare. that's where we get the record cold in the south. 60 in miami. one of the warmest and last warm spots in the lower 48 for you. >> i feel bad about this. victor, take the scarf off. it's 60. >> at least it's raining. at least you can't go to the

beach >>well, thanks, bill. a pleasure. an early morning crash, a missing beauty queen, and set back for free elections in hong kong. it was in the past half hour we learned the pilot of the small plane died when it kcrashd into a small chicago home. it was headed to chicago executive. the pilot reported engine problems and crashed into the living room and dining room and the basement. the two people inside were okay! at least a dozen people were killed in nigeria after a female suicide bomber attacked a cell phone market. no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. boko haram is expected in a wave of violent attacks in the past two weeks. the terrorist group is one abducting school children. it's killed thousand of people in the campaign for islamic state. search is on for a 19 year-old honduras beauty queen.

they are holding four people for questioning in the disappearance of maria and her sister who disappeared with the beauty queen. she was crowned miss honduras in april. she's expected to compete in the miss world pageant next month in london. a set back in hong kong today. workers began taking down barricades at the main protest site after chinese authorities declared the protest illegal. the demonstrations lead mostly by students began in september after beijing went back on the promise to allow open elections in hong kong in 2017. the chinese regime will screen all candidates and select the nominees. pipeline politics are driving d.c. today. senator mary landrieu is making a final push ahead of tonight's vote on the keystone pipeline. we'll be checking in with kelly o'donnell on the hill. that's where the freshman photograph took place this morning for new members of congress. all smiles before diving into

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let's be clear about this, the keystone pipeline veto would sent the signal that this president has no interest in listening to the american people. a vetoing an overwhelmingly popular bill would be a clear indication that he doesn't care about the american people's priorities. it would be equivalent of calling the american people stupid. >> speaker john boehner just a few minutes ago. he's speaking on the keystone pipeline. that vote is driving d.c. on this tuesday. mary landrieu is speaking live as we speak on the senate floor. she's trying to find the key vote for the keystone pipeline. the louisiana democrat needs one more of her colleague's to come on board. the bill needs 60 votes to pass

and 59 have come out in support of the project. the vote expected around 6:15 eastern tonight. nbc news capital hill correspondent kelly o'donnell joins us. a pleasure to see you again. which senator is landrieu trying to win over? >> one target of opportunity might be angus king of maine. he caucuses with democrats but he's an independent. he has not made public what his vote will be. that's one possibility. another option would be to look toward some of the retiring or defeated fellow democrats who might be willing in the 11th hour to make a change. that's part of the strategy. mary landrieu trying to project confidence about this and at the same time it's one of those things that building the sort of drama around it may be helpful for her politically. because the politics and the policy are colliding today. you heard what speaker boehner said. also, senator mitch mcconnell and both republicans in favor of this made renchss to bill

cassidy and his work on keystone. that's an important name because bill cassidy is the person mary landrieu is in a run off in december for the senate seat representing louisiana. so this is a make or break it moment for mary landrieu. if the vote could have the sway in the runoff election, we can't be sure. she's certainly treating like it's make or break. even john hoeven had a slip of the tongue referring to senator cassidy. he's a member of congress now. potentially a senator fe elected in the december run off. the politics are colliding here, jose. >> a lot to do with her personally there. thank you so much. kelly o'donnell watching the vote for us. keystone pipeline is one topic being debated in washington with weeks left before the book is closed on this congress. many issues unresolved. lawmakers need to agree on a new budget by the 11th of december. that's a couple of weeks away. there's the economy, health care, and the fight against isis. joining me now is wisconsin

republican congressman sean duffy who just returned from a meeting. how are you? >> i'm doing well. thank you for having me on, jose. let's get your thoughts on what kelly o'donnell was reporting on the pipeline. you support the measure. what is your message to senate democrats? this is a job-creating bill. going to put a lot of hard working union members to work building the pipeline. not only that it builds on american energy and independence. the oil that will flow doesn't make a lot of sense. the energy is going to stay right here in america. it helps build out this american energy independence plan. it doesn't send american dollars overseas to people that don't like us. and i think what is happening now in the democratic party is you're seeing the divide. they tried to build this blue-green alliance. but you really see a fracturing right now. a lot of union members see they

get the short end of the stick. they want the jobs and want to go work. they want to build the keystone pipeline. it seems the environmentalists have the ear to the president. and it seems they lose out on good paying jobs. >> shouldn't there be a concern about the environmental impact? >> there should be. we've done -- there's been no infrastructure project studied more than the pipeline. i think we have to look if you care about the environment, what is the safest way to transport energy? is it via ship? via rail or truck? or pipeline? the pipeline is the safest most environmentally safe way to transport the energy. we hear about rail tipping over, tankers running the ground and leaking into the ocean. this is the safest way to transport it. don't why we have the green get on board and build the pipeline. we're going to be on fossil fuel for sometime into the future.

>> there's a new congress coming in january. where will your party be. let's talk about this, first. you get both chambers to have the republicans in charge. you said just a few minutes ago with your republican colleagues you want the president to help you and engage with lawmakers on legislation. what areas do you think you could find demcommon ground wit the president? >> i think the american people want to see washington work. they've given control of the senate now to republicans. they think it's going to be the best balance of power. but i think there's a lot of spaces we can work on. we can work on balancing the budget. we can work on revenue. we can work on bills that stream line our rules and regulation that don't take them away but make them more effective for small businesses across america. we can make there's more transparency. if an epa makes a rule that the president might say is a good rule, they have to show us the details of the studies they looked at. they can't do it behind closed doors. i think right now with both sides, if they're willing to

come together and work together, there's a lot we can get done. i know, the speaker and our new senators across the aisle are willing to work together. i just hope the president doesn't do this immigration bill right away. i think if he does, i know you talked about this a lot. and you know i support immigration reform. if he does this, this is going to be a poke to the eye of republicans and i think it's going to start the new congress off on the wrong foot. give us some time. with the new senate, let us work together. let us ferment our ideas, work on a bill. if six months, eight months down the road if republicans can't get something done let the president talk about executive action. to do it now is the wrong path. i think, frankly, it hurts those who come here without document takes. if they come out of the shadows thinking they are going to have amnesty, but if the president's executive order is overturned by the court or the future president, they have exposed themselves in a way that can be harmful to them and their families. that's not the -- >> that's an important point.

>> the president has said and talk about giving time. the president has said that he waited all of 2014. he waited all of 2013. there was a year and a half ago when the senate passed a bipartisan bill that includes a little more than $14 billion for the border and dealing with the undocumented. the house worked on a bipartisan bill. a bill you supported and yet you couldn't do anything. you know, there's a thousand deportations a day, congressman. >> let's take a look. the president could have done the immigration reform in the two years he had both the senate and the house. he didn't do it at all. one of the problems we've had in the house, you can't forget history. you know, we had daca that happened with the dreamers. i support dealing with the dreamers. we had the kids come across the southern border. it threw us off the rails and put a stop to immigration reform in the house as we're trying to figure out what was happening. the president, as you know, was willing to take time in the summer when he said i'm going do

executive orders in the summer. because of political reasons he delayed it to september and now he delayed it again until after the elections. he's not opposed to delaying executive orders. let's delay them for another six months or eight months and let us do our work. let's make sure we have a solution for those that come here without documentation that works in the long-term. not a short term play by the president. i think you center to admit, jose. it's a political play. it's not helping people. it's not advancing their cause to be able to come out of the shadows and work freely. because it can get overturned. there's too much exposure here. give us time and do it the right way is the right approach. we can build, i think, a coalition with the new senate and the president to get it done. >> all politics aside, congressman, removing democrats and republicans and the president from this. the fact is there are a thousand deportations every day. there have been a thousand deportations earth for the last six years. and a lot of people being

deported, in the president's word, is people who shouldn't be getting deported it has an important human cost. thank you for being with me. i appreciate your time. >> thank you. coming up, all eyes watching on what the president will do with immigration. senate democrats backing him but are the american people backing him? that's next on the "rundown." i was out for a bike ride. i didn't think i'd have a heart attack. but i did. i'm mike,

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now to more on the immigration show down with president obama expected to take executive action any day now. monday senate democrats sent a message to the president to take action. a new poll shows more americans would rather the president wait for congress. joining me now is someone who has been covering this story from every angle. what a pleasure to see you. >> thank you very much for having me. >> thank you.

>> luckily it's not snowing here. >> i know. wait. maybe it will. you report on the the democratic senate letter. will their message, do you think, sink in? >> you know, i think that's something we might see very soon. i talked to a source this morning who told me the president met with immigration advisers yesterday. they're looking at thursday and friday as a possibility for something, you know, if it doesn't happen that soon, a lot of people are thinking thanksgiving. >> yeah. and that could be kind of, you know, one way or another very quickly. how is this going to impact, do you think, think things on the hill in terms of getting anything done with the republicans controlling both houses. >> the republicans have said if the president takes action, he poisons the well. i read a commentator's statement the other day who said you can't poison the well if you don't have any water in it. it's something to consider. if republicans haven't done anything how much of a well -- how much is there to poison?

and there's only so much time for republicans to get something done before things start ticking up for the 2016 presidential race. that's -- go ahead. >> no. and that's something i want to prick your brain on. there's no doubt what is happening with the executive order or without the executive order. republicans reacting to it has a lot to do with 2016. >> it does. it does. all though you have an issue of president having made promises in his race and people coming out for him in 2012. the problems that happened in the 2014 midterm elections. the president, too, has to sort of come through on a promise that he made. so, sure, there is a lot of concern about 2016 and what republicans can count on in terms of latino vote and whether they need to worry about that vote given what happened in the midterms. so you're right. there is a lot resting on this for elections that are coming up

and june is about the time when in the past that some people have sort of put out their announcements. that's about the window that you can at least think about as being how much time that republicans have to do something. >> yeah. susan, it's a pleasure to see you. it's not snowing yet. >> it's cold! >> thank you. >> it is cold. thank you. it was a pleasure to see you. more on the executive action. we're expecting from the president. i want you to listen to an exchange i had with president obama last september on just how far he could go with executive orders. >> won't you at least consider unilaterally freezing deportations for the parents of deferred action kids? >> yeah. here is the problem that i have, jose. i've said this consistently. my job in the executive branch is supposed to be carry out the laws that are passed. what we can do is then carve out the dream act folks saying young

people who basically have grown up here are americans we should welcome. we're not going to have them operate under a cloud. under a shadow. if we start broadening that, essentially i would be ignoring the law in a way that i think would be very difficult to defend legally. >> over the weekend, however, he said his position in terms of what he could do has not changed. >> my position hasn't changed. when i was talking to the advocates, their interest was in me through executive action duplicating the legislation that was stalled in congress, and getting a comprehensive deal of the sort that is in the senate legislation, for example, does extend beyond my legal authorities.

joining me now is msnbc contributor victoria defrancesca-soto and leslie sanchez. >> good morning. victoria, how does the white house square those two answers? >> well, first of all, he said he wants to implement the law, but as we know there has been no law to implement. we're going to see a pivot here. obviously there cannot be anything done in terms of a comprehensive measure where you address multiple parts of the problem. what we're seeing with the movement toward an executive action is a band aid. we know we have all of the these folks here who are undocumented, are living in the shadows. what are we going to do about them? we can't go on ignoring them. republicans and democrats, i think, can agree on that. the president is going to try to find a way bureaucratically speaking where he can put forward a bridge until laws are passed that can address more comprehensive solution to it. so it's a band aid as a bridge

until congress gets its act together. >> and leslie, republicans have abilitied on immigration unilaterally in the past. how is it different, for example, than what george bush sr. did or reagan did or other presidents? >> i think it's distinctly different. the president is creating a trail of false hope for people that think this is some sort of meaningful immigration reform. it is not. these are broad political measures, i think, rather than governing ones. the distinction between the 1986 measures of president reagan and george bush is the fact those were technical corrections for the '86 law. it was not sweeping in the case of 5 million undocumented immigrants. what distinction do we have that the president would stop there? i mean, if he's thinking in a power grab in that sense, why doesn't he deal for 11 plus

undocumented to have deferred action? it's false hope. it's broke. promises. it's not the good way to govern on such a serious issue. >> there are human tragedies and human costs behind every deportation. the president said a lot of people being deported should not be deported. you know, what do you -- what should the president do? just let it continue? he waited in 2013, he waited all of 2014 and the republicans in the house didn't get anything done. they didn't even deal with the measure that.c came out of the senate over a year and a half ago. >> absolutely. i go back to what i said before, which is these measures are bridges. i want to see our congress act, too. i want to see a large comprehensive immigration reform, and that takes two to tan go. it takes republicans and democrats. they're not on very good terms right now. maybe as we approach the 2016 and the republican party maybe decide to moderate we'll see some conversations.

in the meantime, not doing anything is not an option. as you say, jose, there is a human face to it. there's a human cost to. not just the individuals who are being taken away from their families, but our larger economy. remember the immigration is good for our economy, also. >> and that is costs you're well aware of and so eloquent about speaking up about that. i thank you for being with me. i'll have you back shortly, if you let me. >> thank you, jose. coming up one of the most expensive pieces of ad real estate in the world. check out this multimillion dollar billboard. there's a clock on that. but it will light up times square tonight. up next a look at some other history-making billboards in our five things. ody knows that. well, did you know certain cartoon characters should never have an energy drink? action! blah-becht-blah- blublublub-blah!!! geico®.

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