people, at least on twitter today, saying that they were going to do just that. >> thank you all. we did invite uber onto the show tonight. they did not accept. >> good evening, chris. thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. okay. last night in the "the tonight show," jimmy fallon, you might have seen this, he learned to fly. apparently, they're about to do a live action version of "peter pan." last night, on "the tonight show," the actor who was playing alison williams, she went on "the tonight show" and hooked jimmy fallon into the peter pan flying harness. hooked him in delicately and then they hoisted him up into the air. so he got to fly. jimmy fallon took over "the tonight show" about ten months ago. and, with him as the host, "the

tonight show" has become this very unpredictable show. it's more of like an old school variety show with singing and dancing and flying and skits and gymnastics. it's great. it reminds you that these shows are driven by and a reflection of who the host is. it could really only be done by jimmy fallon. the host, he took over from at "the tonight show," jay leno, his style was 180 degrees different. jay leno's style was basically like unflappablity. a calmness, a calm, down to earth every man -- in which a lot of the joke with jay leno -- was about him not getting not too riled up about anything. not being surprised. he's a man who never expressed shock. and that is why on rare

occasions, mr. mellow talked about politics, whatever he said about politics would reverberate. you didn't expect him to care that much. it wasn't something he'd get excited about. so when he did get excited, he would just point something out in politics as remarkable or unflappable to him, people would noticed. just after the last election, jay leno, made a point about talking to newt gingrich about something that happened in the election and he brought this up. >> here are the gop committee chairs. every one is a middle-aged white guy. is there a diversity problem in the republican party? >> the fact is that pictures by definition not helpful.

>> this was the last election. this was 2012. in the 2012 election, republicans got beat. they didn't lose so many seats as speaker, they got to pick their committee chairs. when it came time to pick their committee chairs, this is sort of the only job worth having in congress. it's the only way you do something of importance in congress is the chair of the committee. when it came time to give out those plum jobs, the republicans looked around at their 19 committee chairs that they had to fill, and they filled those 19 committee chairs with 19 guys. they even had to throw over some of their own republican women in order to make sure that they would have that all-male cast. ilianna had been chair of

foreign affairs, they threw her out. candiace miller argued openly to instead being chair of homeland security. she wanted it known that she wanted that chair. but, no, instead, they decided to give it to this guy. so they're initial announcement was 19 guys to fill those 19 chairs. now, i should mention in addition to being 19 guys, they are all white guys. after they made the initial announcement of what they're doing after the 2012 election, they were a little bit embarrassed, i think, about even people like unflappable jay leno criticizing them over what they've done. sew they realized that they had to do something. they still did have two chairmanships that they had to

fill. there were these last two committees that had open chairmanships after that initial, embarrassing announcement. they still had the house committee and the committee on ethics. if speaker boehner wanted to remedy that embarrassing appearance, what newt gingrich called this unhelpful picture. if john boehner was going to pick a woman, what he had to do was find a woman from one of those two committees. pick any woman from among a membership of those two remaining committees, you've got yourself a female chair. this, at the time, was the republican membership of those two committees. this is what john boehner had to choose from. tough choice. which of these gals is it going to be? you remember candiace miller who

wanted to be chair of that serious community? plainly, she can't run something like homeland security. instead, they moved her over. the committee they picked for her was the house committee on administration. which is responsible for -- not like the monitoring of the obama administration. so she's in charge of, like, the cafeteria and the bathrooms. administration. seriously. that's what they felt comfortable allowing a woman to be in charge of but nothing else. they now get to name all of

their committee chairs again. keeping in mind what happened last night. but, tonight, they made their announcement. behold life's rich pageant. it's like a beneton ad, isn't it? both a mike and a michael, as well as a mack, they decided to pick a bob and a rob this time. they got to keep their old jobs from the last congress. they've allowed candiace miller to stay in charge of the

bathrooms and the cafeteria. so, yeah, this is your republican party in washington. in all of its glory. it should be noted that this is the cross-section of america. as i noted earlier, daryl isa is half lebanese. that issue is taken care of. they've decided to go with a simpler look. more consistent. a more sort of homogonous, single thing. you put them all together with what we've got so far from the house and this is what they've decided to do. what else is a group of 25 white

men and one white woman who's been put in charge of the kitchen part. but i don't think there is an analogous thing like that anymore in america. not since they let condoleezza rice into augusta. they can announce committee chairs whenever they want to. so we shall see when they do that. amazingly, though, tonight, even when the republicans haven't taken over the senate, they call the vote on the floor of the senate to authorize the keystone oil pipeline all the way across the united states from canada to the gulf of mexico. this is a decision the democrats made. they can spend this lame duck period in the senate however they want. they decided to spend it voting

on the keystone pipe line. and the vote to authorize fell short by one vote tonight in the senate. now what happens next here is a foregone conclusion. the number of republicans will have increased by eight or nine. it has already passed in the house. it's going to go to president obama's desk, where, in all likelihood, president obama will veto it. so either way, the pipeline is the same. the keystone pipeline is not going to get built. or at least it's not going to get built with congress forcing it to be built.

mary landrue wanted them to do it to save her own senate seat on december 6th. i should note that the keystone pipeline has nothing to do with louisiana. she's decided maybe that's the way she's going to win? maybe that's the theory. regardless of what happens, it's likely that mary is going to lose that runoff. it's roughly running 96%. the latest polling heading into that runoff show, she's losing by double digits. she has the exact same position on keystone that her opponent has anyway. the bill in the house is named for the guy she's running

against. bill cassidy is the sponsor of it. it has her leading the fight. it's hard to see why people would vote for her and against her opponent. i mean, nothing is certain until it happens. all democrats did was burn up some precious time that they have left to get something done. how is this a constructive use of time by the democrats.

it's what they did to predictable results of no practical kal or political consequence what so ever. except to highlight what the republicans enjoy having highlighted and also put a spot light to get something done for one of their own members. was it fun for you, too? today, the top democrat in the senate talked about something that they were not doing in the lame duck period because, instead, they wanted to do stuff like this inane keystone vote. one of the things they could do, but they do not do, is confirm president obama's choice to replace eric holder as attorney general of the united states. the democrats clearly have enough votes to confirm her in the senate if they wanted to.

there are no substantive objections that have been raised to current senate rules. they can confirm her with a majority vote of 51 senators. democrats have got that in change while they're still in control. they would not try to get that done while they still have the power to do it. so what's the thinking there? why do keystone, which is like bad news, bad news and oops news? what's the thinking here? it's got to be one of two things. either they think there's no reason for democrats to spend any time trying to confirm loretta lynch because republicans will confirm her. they won't have any problem doing that. just leave it to mitch mcconnell. one of the things mitch mcconnell is looking forward to is a lot of high profile obama nominees. maybe they're thinking that.

or what they're thinking is mitch mcconnell and the republicans are not going to want to confirm loretta lynch for attorney general. maybe, in fact, they are going to slow walk or outright oppose her nomination. they're going to find some way to demonize loretta lynch and drag her through the mud once they have the power to do so. if that happened, the republicans will not want to do that. they are very concerned about what black women think of them. republicans know that appearance matters. so republicans trust them to do the right thing because if there's no chance that they'd want to be that embarrassed on

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>> get in the truck. get in the truck. oh, my lord. >> the aftermath of that massive ammonium nitrate plant left a crater in that town. hundreds of buildings were destroyed or damaged. that was last year, last april. and then this past may, this plant, this building near athens, texas, got a delivery, sort of a ramshackle building. as you can see, it's part cinder block, part wood. this building got a delivery of 70 tons of ammonium nitrate. 70 tons is significantly more.

that wooden building had 70 tons of highly explosive fertilizer delivered one fine thursday afternoon last may. and then, just hours after those 70 tons arrived, a fire broke out at that plant. and with the 70 tons stored in that building, the local fire department realized what they had on their hands and they evacuated the entire town, fearing the worst. and amazingly, by the grace of god, that thing did not blow up. after those incidents in texas, those two incidents in texas, there's growing concern about what chemicals are being stored. it begs the question if texas knew what it was doing on stuff like this. texas state government actually moved to keep secret more information from the public about what kind of chemicals

were stored where in the state of texas. people are obviously starting to get interested in that for obvious and terrifying reasons. but the texas state government response to that was to decide to keep more stuff secret. to keep more away from public knowledge. >> you know where they are. you drive around. let's bear this down. if you're living in west, texas, you know that there's some facility there and you have the right to ask the people in west, texas, hey, what chemicals do you have in there? >> just drive around and ask. knock on the door and see what they tell you. that was texas attorney general greg abbot who was just elected governor of texas, explaining no texas longer believed it should post information about people in the state. just drive around and figure it out yourself. regulate yourself from any dangerously stored chemicals in your neighborhood that could explode.

texas. the largest city, the fourth most populous city in the whole country is houston. about 25 miles east, you will find the city of la porte, texas. and one of the businesses you will find there is this dupont chemical plant. >> my son called me and said dad, there's been an accident at the plant. >> a horrifying phone call. two of his sons killed during a chemical leak at the dupont facility. >> gilbert learned that the leak killed four people and later a fifth. >> two of that man's three sons were killed. what killed and injured these people was a leak of a chemical

that's used mostly in pesticide, but it's also used in jet fuel and plastics. dupont manufactures the chemical at that plant. but when the leak happened and four people died in quick succession, when the supervisor called 911, the plant supervisor sounded like he had no idea what was going on. what chemical might be involved or, crucially, what first responders might be in for when they responded. what you'll hear here is the 911 operator doing a pretty solid job here trying to figure out what's going on. but the plant supervisor just has no idea. >> a plant shift supervisor was not completely clear about the

nature of the emergency on its hands. >> how did this happen? is it chemical related. >> i'm not certain. >> sir, i need to know what's going on. >> we have some injured people. i'm not sure if there's any chemical involved or not. >> curiously, though, while lacking a full understanding of the situation at hand, including the type of poison gas that had escaped. >> you really don't know what kind of chemical it is? >> no, ma'am. as soon as i find that out, i will let you know. >> the shift supervisor was still confident enough to declare the public was not at risk. >> can you tell me is this any risk to the public?

is it going to be possible to escape? >> no, ma'am, it is not. >> no threat? >> no, ma'am. >> but i have no idea what this is. or what's happened. why don't you come on over. when firefighters did show up, they did not have the equipment they would need to get in there. the fire fighters were unable to recover the accident until hours after the deaths. fire fighters couldn't have gotten far enough into the building on the air packs. even if they could have, the clothing they had was not enough to protect from such high levels of that chemical. even though the 911 call came in at 4:00 a.m. and that gas that was leaking killed four people almost instantly and injured a fifth person, they couldn't even shut the leak off for more than two hours after that call came in.

they couldn't get to it. they weren't prepared for it. they didn't even know what it was. the medical examiner couldn't even get near the bodies until that afternoon. what was the plan for dealing with this stuff at this plant? why didn't the plant know what they were dealing with. how are the first responders supposed to handle this leak if something that can kill you in one breath that even your air packs can't keep you safe from without the plant clueing them in on what they had and how they might suggest it be dealt with. in 2009, the same plant was in 2009, the same plant was fined for a seven-hour long leak. they were fined for the leak and for waiting five days to report it. in 2012 and 2014, the plan was given a six-figure fine for the way it was managing its hazardous waste and its air emissions. they've been cited 50e times for

leaks. 51 citations just from texas. and it's not like texas is known for being real sticklers on this stuff. the federal chemical safety board investigates stuff like this. they are on scene to investigate. but as far as we know, we believe that that team still has not been able to enter the location where the leak happened on saturday morning because it is still too unsafe to get in there. what just happened in la porte, texas, that killed these four people, and what happens next? joining us now is mark colette. thanks very much for being with us. i appreciate your time. >> thanks. glad to be here. >> i should ask you about one of those last facts. do you know if investigators are still not able to get in to the site of the leak because it's still too dangerous? >> they're not. we received word from the chemical safety board late tonight that they are, in facts, still not able to access this

scene because of some residual material that they believe is still inside a vent line inside of that five-story building where the accident occurred. >> based on your reporting and what you learned from the emergency coordinator, it seems like firefighters wearing all the gear that they have, still couldn't get to the site safely. they couldn't get in for hours. do you know anything about how safe it was for them? and whether they could have been better prepared for this? >> they did make an initial entrance into the building wearing standard gear that they would take into any situation they were going to. part of the difficulty about

this building from talking with emergency responders is that being a five-story building, not completely familiar with the layout inside, there was a limited -- they could only get so far in the building on the air that they had before they would have to turn back around. the chemical is very -- is very potent at 150 parts per million, which is a tiny amount. the amount inside a coke can that would reach that concentration is less than a single drop. at that concentration, it poses an immediate hazard to human life. they wanted to exercise every possible precaution and keep people out of there until they knew that they had the situation under control. >> more than 50 violations in the past five years. i mean, is this -- is this a facility that sticks out like a

sore thumb, or is this par for the course for this area and this type of thing? >> we did talk to an investigator who works for the sierra club. he did tell us that this particular plant is not high on their radar. he told us a lot of it is done from 2009 and 2014. many of those were low-level fines. and what this gentleman who now works for the sierra club told us is that this is pretty par for the course. this facility was low on their radar compared to some of the other facilities in the houston area. we have huge industrial complexes here. they felt dupont was one of the

better companies. >> wow, that's remarkable, given what happened. it's also remarkable to think of grading on a curve and what priorities mean based on context in a situation like this. thanks for helping us understand this. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> glad to be here. >> i will say the local press reporting on this, local tv stations, other papers, there's been the local coverage on this has been really, really good and really aggressive. there's a lot to say about texas. but one thing texas has right now is really strong local reporters. and texas is lucky for it. we'll be right back. to a dog walker as simple as a few clicks. buy their services directly at angieslist.com no more calling around. no more hassles. start shopping from a list of top-rated providers today.

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three feet of snow falls, basically, all at once as it did in western new york in buffalo over the past 24 hours. first, it was the county executive in erie county. that state of emergency declaration included a driving ban. the county executive couldn't get to the county emergency operations center to conduct the response and make announcements because the snow was too thick and coming down too fast. so he sheltered in place and made his announcement about the emergency. there was a driving ban put in place by those emergency declarations all over the hardest-hit parts of western new york. and then, tonight, governor cuomo issued an emergency that included travel bans in whole towns and whole counties on three major interstates. he's sending in 150 national guard troops plus humvees and bobcats to try to clear the road. keep in mind, in addition to these three or four or five feet, there could be another two

feet on top of that over the next few days. already in this storm, there are four deaths. and they already have people who have no power. where there is emergency right now is in the state of missouri. lots of below freezing temperatures right? but, hey, it's november. there's nothing going on in missouri right now like what's happening in western new york. "i do hereby declare that a state of emergency exists in the state of missouri."

the order activates the national guard. they don't just activate them in theory. they're activating them in theory. in partings of missouri, school has sent home separate packets of homework. they think this emergency will go so far as to shut down all the schools so they have pre-sent homework home with kids ahead of time. the state of missouri is in full freakout mode. up to and including not just deploying the national guard, but the state of emergency is in effect right now for the whole state, and it lasts for a whole month. if and when the state announces whether there will be a criminal indictment of the police officer who shot michael brown back in august, honestly, no one knows

what's going to happen. in part because no one knows what they're going to announce whether there's going to be an indictment. nobody is going to be charged in michael brown's death, surely, there will be protests in ferguson, missouri, and elsewhere too. the protests that happened in the aftermath were sustained and at times violent. and the police response initially was to treat that police response, that governmental response, undoubtedly, made the situation worse, although it started off pretty bad to begin with. but, now, as local and state officials are anticipating another possible round of protests, maybe, they're effectively gearing up again for more. new york is calling up its national guard to driver snowplows and rescue stranded drivers. missouri is calling up its national guard because of the official, all caps, exclamation

point anticipation that the military is going to be what's needed to put down what they just know is going to be a violent, massive uprising. brace yourself. and, you know, who knows. maybe that kind of uprising will happen. i say who knows, because, really, nobody knows. nobody knows what is going to happen with that grand jury until they make their decision. nor do we know what the response will be by protesters when that decision is announced. is the state of missouri engaging in a self fulfilling prophecy? are they upping the tension themselves in these acts of governance by bracing so publicly and in such a martial way against something that hasn't happened. his department came under fire. chief parks is now a member of the la city council.

chief parks, thanks for being with us tonight. >> thank you for the invitation. >> when there is so much talk about possible unrest, anticipation of unrest, how do you calculate whether that poses a self fulfilling prove e prophesy. >> i don't know if you can calculate it. you can be on the wrong end of several decisions. if you choose not to be prepared and something does happen, the media and others will critisize you for failing to an tis pat if you basically come out prepared, bud, yet, deploy too prematurely, you can create some dynamics that you may not want to see and people may react negatively. so it's not a matter of are you declaring a state of emergency, it's more how you deploying

people and if you need them, they do not all need to be visible, but well before the employment of resources. they should be looking at mutual aid with the local st. louis police, st. louis county police. and, again, you don't need to have all of your resources deployed on the first day. there's almost limits of how you deploy. but you certainly do not want a 24 hour period that it takes them to be activated and deployed. you want to have those resources that may be available much quicker. >> i guess you'd say antagonizing people so that they do things they wouldn't otherwise do. are there specific types of

shows of force or specific tactics that you e you should be extremely cautious about or that authorities should only use as a measure of last resort because they do create a possibility in escalation? >> i hope that during this period while the grand jury was going on, that the police would be out working with the public, discussing the issues that they're confronted with. this has given them a pretty good amount of time to develop some relationships in the community. but i think as you move forward, you certainly do not want to be in your riot gear immediately. you do not want to stage visibly your vehicles. you do not want to stage, visibly, your armored vehicles. you want to be in your uniform early in the day, but certainly have access if this situation escalates quickly.

and then you can escalate from there. but you also have to have a chain of congressman or unity of command so that there's not the confusion not familiar with the commands or the tactics and the training with each other. so you need to begin to look at where and how you would deploy st. louis county police if they're available. where would you deploy st. louis municipal police? how would you deploy ferguson police in conjunction with that? these would be in an escalating scale and when do you bring certain equipment to make it visible? the one thing, when you have a show of force, you don't want to put yourself in a position of bluffing, because the community will generally call your bluff. and if you're not prepared to address the circumstances, you will often come out on the short end. >> chief parks, member now of the los angeles city council,

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one of the school board members explained at the time the cheapest, least disruptive way to solve the problem is to remove the page. another board member who voted for it said parents have already volunteered to rip the pages out of the textbooks. we mentioned previously we already saved these pages in perpetuity. we posted them front and back at arizona honors biology.com. we did that because those pages have been slated for the shredder and we wanted to save them. so the school board voted to tear out part of the biology books. they ordered the superintendent to come back this week, tonight specifically, with a plan for how to do that. but in the meantime, the voters of gilbert threw out the tea board members of their school board. the new folks will take control in january. and that leaves this interesting question of what happens now. does the current tea party majority insist that the superintendent break out the scissors right away while they're still in control?

what would the superintendent tell her bosses on the school board about this plan they demanded for carving up the textbooks? well, news. according to the spokesperson for the district, the superintendent, christina kishimoto told the board yesterday she will not be presenting any such plan tonight. she said there's nothing wrong with the textbooks. and now we think the tea party majority on that school board may be caving. they posted a new agenda for tonight's meeting that calls for discussion and clarification about what they meant when they said they needed to redact the textbooks. based on our reporting, we believe the tea party majority is kind of caving on this right now in this live streamed meeting, or at least that they're having serious second thoughts about ripping up the biology books. when it came time for the superintendent to report on her plan for the biology book, the board instead took a five-minute recess they said to go get advice from their lawyer about whether or not she should give that testimony. the lawyer said the superintendent couldn't make that report, not tonight. so this is happening right now.

there's no way to know for certain what this board will ultimately decide. it is in process as we speak. but this tea party majority is running out of time. and as i said, we do think they could be caving. we'll let you know. we'll be watching the live stream obsessively. i know we're dorks but this is actually kind of a new level. that does it for us tonight. we'll see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. but i have a confession about my high school biology textbook and please don't tell anyone this, but i was strongly tempted to tear pages out of that book. especially ones that i couldn't understand, which was most of them. but i never did. i never did. >> but if the school board had told you to rip them out, you would all of a sudden know how valuable they are. >> i would have a different attitude. absolutely. >> tonight, you're going to hear the amazing story of how president nixon's fight to deport john lennon back in the