joining us from paris is correspondent jim bittermann. >> reporter: good morning, christine. president obama meeting with president erdogan of turkey. that takes on urgency because the turks shot down that russian jet just a couple of days ago. that is increased tensions with the u.s. which has urged turkey to ease things with russia. the president met with putin yesterday. in any case, obama has a meeting with the small island nations who take this conference very, very importantly because they, in fact, could be an issue if waters continue to rise. the goal of 2 degrees is not ambitious enough because at 2 degrees, they feel the nations will be flooded. after that, the president holds a news conference at the organization of development and flies back to washington. the leaders here have set the stage for the rest of the conference which happening over the next two weeks. all of the leaders will be debating all of the clauses and sub clauses in the document and trying to come up with something they can agree on. >> jim, there have been

let's bring in our jim bittermann who joins us live from the paris bureau. what more do we know about the third paris attacker? >> reporter: well, his name is mohammed aggad. he was identified formally by the prime minister a few minutes ago in a televised interview. there's a lot of reporting going on about this in the media this morning. apparently 23 years old from strasbourg on the east side of france. and his -- he had a known association with moread forez who is known as a recruiter here in paris. he was fairly well-known to the strasbourg police as a juvenile delinquent. he left the area in 2013 and believed he went to syria, and was there, and that was probably part of his radicalization process. apparently authorities have known about his identity for about two weeks now, according to reports. and they have not been disclosing it, because it's part of their investigation, they thought it would be better not to disclose it. last night we are told, according to some reports, that authorities searched the apartment of aggad, his mother's apartment in th

jim bittermann for us there in paris. k you very much, jim. >>> whatever emerges from the climate conference will have repercussions around the world. cop-21 hopes to produce the first-ever legally binding plan to combat global warming. the agreement would essentially be a legally enforced protocol, the kyoto protocorr, expiring in 2020 and excludes top greenhouse producing countries. attempts to reach a similar agreement in copenhagen earlier failed meaning all eyes on cop-21 were a lasting solution. many people waiting for this. this perhaps is the moment for a deal. >>> with news on a potential agreement, it's important to regular significant climate milestones reached this year. derek van dam, talk us through the milestones. >> two important milestones for 2015. firstly, we roach eed -- reache global temperatures of one degree celsius, above the global average temperature before we started to basically mess with the climate system. that would be preindustrial-era times. we also reached a milestone to my right of 400 pa

joining us from paris is jim bittermann. good morning, jim. >> reporter: good morning, christine.expressing good intentions and the need for urgency. president obama spoke. here is how he expressed the u.s. position. >> this is a turning point. this is the moment we finally determined we would save our planet. is the fact our nations share a sense of urgency about this challenge and a growing realization that it is within our power to do something about it. >> reporter: and president obama doing a lot of other meetings while he is here with the other leaders that are here meeting with turkish president erdogan to talk about turkey shooting down the russian jet the other day. obama saying recognizing that turkey is a nato member and the u.s. supports its sovereignty and need to defend itself. president erdogan says it wants to find a peaceful way out of this. the president right now meeting with members of the american embassy at the oecd where he will be meeting later on with the presidents of the small island nations. these are nations deeply concerned about global warming. their

jim bittermann is there in paris.possible vote this morning? >> well, christi, it's more what we're seeing. we just got this from the folks at the united nations, this is a 31-page draft agreement that the various delegations, 195 delegations, will be looking at this afternoon. and about an hour and a half from now they'll be asked whether they approve. it's then up to any desceissent to stand up and say, no, we don't approve, otherwise the president of the conference will gavel the agreement to acceptance. so it's an interesting equation, interesting approach here, in which countries will have to actually be visibly against it in order to be ruled out. of course, also down the line gives a country the possibility saying, well, we never voted for it, didn't vote against it either. so it's an interesting way, interesting approach which could lead to ambiguity down the line. also in the 31 pages there's a lot of ambiguity, as well, but the goal is there. the goal is there to keep global climate change, climate warning,