anden last, certainly not least, anden last, certainly not least, we havey carlos cascos, current secretary of state, one of government abbott's first appointments when he was elected. he is a former democrat from -- before switching parties to the republican side. where he was elected cameron county commissioner and later became the county judge before being appointed. thank you all for being here. with really appreciate it. we've done several iter ace rations of this panel. last year the gop leading into the 2014 gooper in a tore elections, but this year a presidential coming up. we have a very, very crowded

anden though they say the recent attack show dramatic expansion many traveller say they are not going to let fear ruin their plans. >>> i think there's certain precautions that need to be in place. sometimes there's an overreach of security. >> this travel advisory isn't just for this week. it will extend throughout the fact it's not set to expire until the end of february. live from logan airport, victoria warren 7news "today in new england." >>> rgs we have breaking overnight four people have died in a helicopter crash at fort hood. officials say the crews on routine training mission that's when the chopper went down. the cause of the crash is being investigated now. >>> new this morning 29-year-old eberly women is arrested on drunk driving charges after she hit a state trooper. that trooper working a traffic detail in foxboro. happened around midnight. troopers taken to the hospital to be looked out but is expected to be okay. >>> and to the deflate gate football controversy now. we official know tom brady will not miss any game. they found in new york nfl's appeal of the case will

this war of words between merkel andens the bar barrens have be . over the weekend, and over the past few weeks we've seen merkel's position significantly hardening including new immigrant populations. >> you can never appease everybody in politics but will she have gone far enough in the short term at the moment do you think? >> in the short term she has bought herself some time. she had a crisis summit and she has managed to since then at least agreed to sign up to a lot of the things that the barbarian premier was calling for. she will have the heat off in the short term however in the long term it is simply unsustainable if 10,000 are arriving in germany every day. now merkel will have to look at other issues, working with transit exeant, particularly. >> they have agreed to transit zones and i think something else which i can't quite remember off the top of my head. but what are these elements going to buy her? what do if tran is it zones mean? >> it's this idea that at the poured of judge germanborder ofe found not to be asylum seekers or refu

officers say the honda hopped a curb to get on to southbound 680 anden stead of stopping, led them on a chase up to 90-miles-an-hour, and exited off at crow canyon road. >> officer goes through a detailed process of making a decision whether to continue pursuit or not. at this time of day, with no traffic out, it was within our policy and safe to do so. >> two passengers in the car were taken to the hospital with serious injuries. >>> you can looking at northbound 101 traffic in san rafael where chp just opened all lanes after a deadly crash shut done all but one lane just after 2:30 this afternoon. police say at the driver of a white toyota camry was driving recklessly in the fast lane and then veered across all five lanes before going up an embankment and then slipping on to a black escalade. the camry righted itself and then came to a stop. the woman passenger inside died. the man driving is in critical condition, and the driver of the escalade suffered serious but nonlife-threatening injuries. >>> fire investigators blame a chevy nova for starting a fire in novato. investigators s

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that are our beliefs still have the power to denigrate and also have the hour re power to liberate anden enlighten. >> a lot of talent. >>> lingering rain is moving out of the reach. >> the sun will come out again, kate, how long will we stay dry. >> not for long, take a look at stormscan 3, you can see the last of the rain starting to push out. we'll zoom in quickly. a few sprinkles back to the west most of this is out of here the sun comes back but then tracking more rain at the later part of the week. i'll have more on that coming up in the seven-day in just a bit. >> a pill makes you smarter. some say it actually exists. we'll take a look at how it works straight ahead. . >>> taste with tori heads down the shore and this local makes you feel like you're dineing in a european seaside village. . >>> oh dear, one family's unwanted house guest, how it ended up in the bedroom. >>> and coming up after "eyewitness news" at 11:00. it's late show with steven colbert. television producers bruce campbell and actress lucy lawless show time 11:35. right back. >>> think about this, a pill that mak

attacks was planning to target the city's financial district a few days later but abdelhamid abaaoud anden accomplice were killed in a raid before they could carry out the second plot as police try to track down the eighth attacker and another man they say a sleeper cell of ben ten is still on the loose. >>> as that search goes on in europe, french president francois hollande has -- was here in the u.s. during an international effort against isis. he met with president obama at the white house before the two leaders addressed the issue with reporters. >> make no mistake, we will win and groups like isil will lose and standing with allies like france we will continue to show the world the best of american leadership. >> hollande meets today with german president angela merkel and tomorrow with russian president vladimir putin and president obama says turkey has the right to defend itself after it shot down a russian jet. the turks say they warned the russians ten times in foo inter interminutes their plane strayed into turkish air space. one of the pilots shot down is now in the hands of th

trump: in my opinion, janet anden is highly political not raising rates for a specific reason.d her not to because he wants to be out playing golf in the year from now and doing other things and he does not want to see a big bubble burst during his administration. janet yellen should have raised the rates and she is not doing it because the obama administration and the president does not want her to. david: john joins me now. saying again what he said before. he has made this accusation before. hypocriticaleems of donald trump. yes, donald trump is not a big fan of janet yellen. it is interesting. he questions the political motives of the fed chair. whethert clear to me the rational or policy driven underpinnings those rp or it is he actually and inflation hawk? that no other economist or forecaster can see? there is a debate about race and when we can start to tighten. because of the way it comes out, we never get to come out and drill down. to what his theory of the case is with the obama economy and why exactly he thinks janet yellen should have raised rates earlier other th

everything is going to think they may be the next target, but in reality this is hard to do, anden in who is going to attempt an attack will do it on a high target. either a major airline, western airline, or damaged cars or against a target nation like the russians or the united states, or maybe the british, so it will definitely have an impact, but i don't think in the same way that previous attacks have had. >> you heard the russians complain that they should -- the british should share their evidence, why do they need -- do they need to do that? should they do that in your opinion? >> sure, i mean right now there's a ton of speculation, and if anyone has the evidence they should share it, unless of course that inhibits an investigation, or an intelligence operation. so i trust the judgement on this. but the reality is we are going to find out if this was a bomb or not. there will be pinning on metal, there will be discoloration, there will be burn marks. >> won't they see that now? is. >> possibly not, could have been a small bomb strategically placed with that particular part of

the temps today and tomorrow anden into wednesday behaving more like october than november with number heading toward the 60s the city 60 to skooifr. tomorrow middle and upper 60s now wednesday a little bit cooler at the coastline. city of boston probably around 58. even that is going to be bo normal. i don't really have cold weather this forecast until sunday. that's brief. it is going to warm up next week. too. >>> enjoy your day everybody. thanks for watching. i'm christa delcamp. i'm jadiann thompson.

staying in the 60s an the coast and the bay and a few more 70s and in the 60 at the coast open friday andenthe 70s through the weekend. we have an accident involving four or five vehicles causes delays into richmond. we have one lane blocked at san pablo. there are multiple vehicles. it is going to tack on minutes to the commute. the rest of the drive through albany and berkeley and the maze we have clear conditions at top speed by university avenue. out of lafayette to orinda, we have green on the map. that mean we are at top speed into oakland. some emeryville slowing because the metering lights were turned on. the altamont pass westbound 580 at greenville road an accident with a big rig. that is slowing things down. all in all westbound is taking an hour and a half from tracy to dublin. >> apparently, parents really like pranking their kids. >> jimmy kimmel challenged parents to pretend they ate all of the hall wasn't candy and get reaction on camera. >> last night after you went to bed...i ate all your candy. >> really? what? our candy? >> you are in big trouble young lady. >> i ate all

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. >>> so we took the next street up andened up at one of the places where the shooting was . >> anchor: carly, her sister and friend were running to their hotel after a day at the when they walked past the scene of the first bombing in paris . >>> a lot of sobbing people. the scene was a mess . >> anchor: restaurant where at the orists opened fire . >>> we saw a lot of bodies. most of them were covered already in white sheets. it was all of the table turned over, chairs were everywhere are broken glass . >> reporter: realizing paris was under siege they rushed to the near of the cava to call their parents let them know they were okay . >>> it looked look a tornado had gone through. it was just over turned. it was like ambulances still showing up, army officials and policemen . >> reporter: by odd of hill tear and police they locked themselves in their hotel room . >>> i think we got really scared when we realized that they did not have anyone in custody . >> reporter: criminally is studying abroad in spain but was in paris jut for a weekend trip. in the newsroom, i'm adam williams, 7 n

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kel talk to top government officials anden expert on terrorism. plus, terror in the campaign. the democrats debated last night and jeb bush joins us this morning. do the current events lessen the appeal of the outciders. joining me are eugene robinson. andrea mitchell. welcome to sunday and a special edition of "meet the press." >> nbc news in washington, this is a special edition of "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning, here is what we know about the attacks. and the number of wounded in the series of deadly attacks in and around paris friday night. france says three teams armed with assault rivals and suicide vests carried out this attack. authorities identified one of the concert hall attackers at a 29-year-old citizen of algerian origin. it's apparent that they were aware of him and his organization since 2010 but he was never actively investigated. one of them also entered through greece and was registered as a refugee in serbia. a number of arrests have been made in brussels leading the french to say this was a terror network. and the paris atrocities

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in 2010 we rose against the imhumane conditions were forced to live and work in andened up in rome.re was no work, so i started my own. >> reporter: he is one of the tens of thousands of refugees who make the dangerous crossing of the mediterranean every year. he is one of the very few refugees who managed to find a respectable job here in italy. most wait months in overcrowded reception centers or linker in major cities like rome, hoping for a chance to continue their journey to other countries in northern europe. last september, e.u. members pledged to offer shelter to 160,000 refugees there italy and greece. but only 116 were located elsewhere in europe so far. >> we need to step up efforts to get the relocation numbers increased. i think we need to take measures overseas for those entitled to international protection so they don't have to take dangerous journeys and risk their lives to obtain something they are anyway going to be entitled to. and i also any we have to look at legal, safe channels for those that have legitimate reasons to move economically. >> reporter: while ten

she will also be campaigning in concord andene, new hampshire. she has been hovering around 5 percent in recent new hampshire polls, far behind donald trump and ben carson. >>> here in massachusetts, presidential hopeful hillary among the state's democrats. the associated press contacted 20 of the state's 25 super delegates. 14 back clinton. the other 6, including senator warren, were undecided. super delegates can support any candidate and are not bound by the primary. >>> 5:11 now. coming up, a final chance to weigh in on student testing here in the bay state. >> when officials will decide if they want to change standardized testing for public school kids. >>> 100 teenagers giving back and raise aware face. the expensive weekend unplugged and sleeping in cardboard boxes. good morning, danielle. >> good morning, everybody. a quiet start to the week today. temperatures in the 50s, pretty pleasant by november standards. i will tell you when wet weather comes back in the mix. >>> welcome back. 5:14 now. jet blue will be showing off the latest impro

kel talk to top government officials anden expert on terrorism. plus, terror in the campaign.bated last night and jeb bush joins us this morning. do the current events lessen the appeal of the outciders. joining me are eugene robinson. andrea mitchell. welcome to sunday and a special edition of "meet the press." >> nbc news in washington, this is a special edition of "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning, here is at we know about the attacks. this is the current death toll, and the number of wounded in the series of deadly attacks in and around paris friday night. france says three teams armed with assault rivals and suicide vests carried out this attack. authorities identified one of the concert hall attackers at a 29-year-old citizen of algerian origin. it's apparent that they were aware of him and his organization since 2010 but he was never actively investigated. one of them also entered through greece and was registered as a refugee in serbia. a number of arrests have been made in brussels leading the french to say this was a terror network. and the par

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anden last, certainly not least, anden last, certainly not least, we havey carlos cascos, current secretary state, one of government abbott's first appointments when he was elected. he is a former democrat from -- before switching parties to the republican side. where he was elected cameron county commissioner and later became the county judge before being appointed. thank you all for being here. with really appreciate it. we've done several iter ace rations of this panel. last year the gop leading into the 2014 gooper in a tore elections, but this year a presidential coming up. we have a very, very crowded field, and on the republican side, you know if you asked me a year ago when we first started talking about his panel if my first question would be about donald trump i wouldn't have believed you. but here we are. we have a very crowded republican field in which the front-runner is at the front of the field despite some of this rhetoric we've heard of him calling saying, mexico isn't sending its best to the u.s. they're rapists and drug dealers. do republicans on this panel struggle? how

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great irony about america's involvement there is that they were so enthusiastic when it happened, andeny fell apart the interest waned. it seems that for the remainder of obama's term, south sudan will be a low level issue for the u.s. the ironis, i'm not saying america's engagement brings peace and democracy. far from it. but although america is critical of the regime they back, the government is a government, frankly, of thugs and war criminals that the u.s. knew about that before they backed them, and yet people like george clooney and others who are keen -- clooney doesn't say as much as he used to, but -- i don't know what he is doing, make films -- >> married to an actually very good lawyer, who often gets identified just as george clooney's wife. >> isn't that great. >> one of the main lawyers for the al jazeera's journalists. >> and also representing the deposed leader of the mull days -- the dictatorship is being represent bid tonies wife. so they like to hang around with thugs. >> i'm going to open it up for questions from the community that is gather erred here. so if anyone

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it happened at eastern parkway andening roars avenue around 8:30. the the victim is recovering from non-life threatening injuries. the motive is not clear at this hour. >>> and police are investigating two slashes that took place in brooklyn. a man is accused of randomly attacking two men yesterday afternoon with a box cutter just before pulling into the raffle avenue station. the suspect ran off but was arrested a short time later. and this morning he is in the hospital. the victims are being treated at another facility. >>> a police officer is being credited with finding a missing italian marathon runner who disappeared for two days. he noted the man wearing running gear and a marathon backpack. he had been wandering the city lost trying to back to his long island city hotel. >>> and now over to john elliott for another update on the great temperatures. >> and another postcard for you this morning from the city in the park right now. 58 degrees. winds are calm. around the area, it's a little warmer here at the station. 55 at laguardia and jfk. and

that would happen in this neighborhood even with all the housing construction that had been projected anden titled. when you walk through you see the young faepz -- families and you see them in the beautiful library if you have not been there. you see them in the parks and all over the neighborhood. we want to see our families stay here and feel like there is going to be a school in the neighborhood that they can access if built. i know the neighbors will work with the school district post construction that many of our partners will be contributing to the school as well on the inside beyond the construction. i'm aware that the site may not be large enough for the need so my office will be exploring for available space and resources to accommodate all of our families and not have families fight over limited number of kindergarten spots in the elementary school. so we'll explore for the area. as many of you know much of the land is accounted for and expensive because of the value of the growth that's happening in this area. we can be creative and see what can be done. so, seeing no further co

get to matt miller, but no one knows outside research more than you do, when you look at what has andenedvaleant, before rob citroen, a guy who puts out the report is filled with typos, he puts out this report and the >> the stock wide-open. -- and it cracks the stock wide-open. 28 had as a buy, where the sleeping? a distinction of jim grant versus other. whether people agree or disagree with the hyper acute intelligent research opinion with no typos. stephanie: if you work at the bank, can you put something like that out? jim: we had long bearish announces and many -- analysis and we got the idea and we were 2000 words or so. the stock proceeded to double. now we looked very good. i think the story was very good. side cannot douy isstick or choose not to do stick with a story in the face of adversity markets. by being -- not in a year from now -- tom: i would go to a gretchen said, this is the gradation of the use of creative recognition the focal point. everybody else does the same thing and valeant does it a lot. jim: it has become of light. -- but it it becomes goes to the heart. we d

. >> anden the other side parents appearing on the photo vault apps.an app designed to hide inappropriate content. these things are specifically designed for deception. >> these ghost app, what they are telling you as the parent is it is not about policing your children. give it up. try, but you are not going to be successful if they are hiding. it is more about the conversations you are having with them so they feel comfortable saying hey i'm feeling pressure or look, this is the image that i got. can you help me manage it. >> right. we've only got a quick amount of time left. how do you start that conversation with your kid? even at 10 or 11 or 12? what is the opening line? how do you go there? >> i'm okay with startic talk about your digital footprint. talking about how you want to be online and wlabd of images you should reflect online. >> it doesn't go away. >> understand it stay there is and talk about what kind of person do you want to be? do you want to be that sexy person? the boy needs to like you because of who you are, not because of the im

andenators ted cruz and marco rubio are gaining ground. >> i'm leading every poll by a lot. it's not even a little bit anymore. >> reporter: in the wake of the paris attacks, at least 2/3 of republican voters in the three early contests say a candidate must agree with them on how to handle isis in order to get their vote. an overwhelming majority favor sending u.s. ground troops to the midddd east to fight the terrorist group. today trump built on his controversial policy prescriptions, saying he would resume waterboarding, create a watch list for refugees, and motor mosques. >> i t tnk waterboarding is peanuts compared to what they do to us. >> reporter: in another new poll, 25% of new hampshire primary voters say trump is best equipped to handle the u.s. response to isis. rubio lags behind with 13%. >> what happened in paris could happen here. >> reporter: the florida senator said his campaign was using the issue for its first campaign ad. >> i obviously am not happy about the events that happened last week in paris, but i think it's a positive development that it suddenly

instead, we wait until something andens and doctors hospitals take care of us.h insurance and the health sector is the last resort is that at the first. you have to look at the statistics. .here highly variable mortality rates, for example, we have everybody who was born, the instance they are born, they count as a real human being. in other countries, you have to be a live for a certain amount of time before you count. measuredrtality is not the same way. other indicators are also not measured the same way, but there is no question that it is a more diverse country with bigger challenges, and we are pouring more money into the system. part of that is because we are a rich country and we are buying coverage and providing services. host: bernie in ohio. welcome. caller: good morning. reallylling because i am shy. when i heard mr. antos and dr. chen, when they said a single-payer system is controlling what health care people can get, and that is not true. said it is a less costly to administer health care through the private insurance companies and that is not tru

governor andenant a former state committeeman of this very party, it has been an honor to work alongsideve that i am the only person who can stand up to the broken system in washington that puts our future, our children's future, and our country's future, at risk. the job it comes first and always will is as husband to my beautiful wife renÉe, and father to our two precious girls. i'm running for the united states senate so that they can continue to live in a country that has provided the blessings of liberty and opportunity to my family. .y family came from cuba it would have been easy to come north and expect government to take care of us. when they arrived here, they arrived without much more than the clothing on their back in the few belongings that my grandmother was able to sneak out in her purse. they knew that this land, the land of the free, a place of infinite possibilities for those willing to work hard and play by the rules, they knew that work and sacrifice was the only thing that stood between them and success, so for them it was never a question of if they would be success

[applause] >> maybe before you ask your first question john was such a charming anden gauging speakerusing a quick story because there won't be a lot of giggles after this. in 1972, i was in china with richard nixon, and i found myself one morning sitting in a mini bus next to james mitch and he told me this story which he swore was true. it was appropriate. he said that he is going to call one evening around dinner time for someone who said mitch, congratulations he said our organization has voted you the greatest, living american author. and we would like you to come to semithe award name a time and place an they said that's lovely, thank you very much. terrific reward. do you mind if i consult my calendar. he got his calendar, he said i'm terribly sorry. but i have a previous engagement which i'm afraid i can't change. that was a long pause. and then the caller said, well -- can can you think of another greatest living -- [laughter] american author, and mitch said what about nailer, no, no, we already tried them. they couldn't make it either. [laughter] okay. as i say, the giggles