>> it's major change, especially if you project these changes into the future very soon we can actually cross this zero degree celsia threshold. >> melting permafrost is a threat to more than just the arctic - that's because it stores carbon - up to 1600 gigatons. that's more than twice the amount already in the atmosphere. >> is that something we should be concerned about? >> definitely. >> this study co-authored by romanovsky found that up to 15% of the carbon stored in permafrost could be released by 2100. >> so the arctic is warming, the permafrost is thawing, the carbon is getting released. >> right. >> is that just going to thaw it even more? >> yes, because that's typical positive feedback, it will affect climate, warmer climate will thaw more permafrost, by another 20-30 years, this feedback will really kick off an then it can have a much more affect of this thawing permafrost. >> now, what's interesting about this episode to me is we've seen climate change affecting all different sorts of places, whether it be alaska or panama or right here in california, and it's not like we a

they changed the processes. but we have been able to create more jobs in most parts of history as things change. we have not been a very good job recently. and hopefully, this is just a temporary thing. but nevertheless, you will always lose some jobs, you always create some other jobs in some ratio. the real question is, what is the impact on human lives? and life expectancy continues to go up, generally around the world. poverty goes down. in the last 40 years, the percentage of the world that lives in poverty has gone down by 50% or 60%. nobody is willing to say that because the advocates say, there is still some poverty. therefore, you can still say -- advocates never want you to show progress. because then you devote less resources to what they are trying to do. all of this is designed to give us a planet that we will survive on. and in the meantime, to help those who cannot take care of themselves. and if you think about it, most places where climate change will really kill people and change their ability

the popular thought that climate change leads to terrorism. >> climate change is directly correlated to the rise in terrorism. kennedy: you can glean from his logic a direct cause and effect between a change in climate and murderous jihadism which fits into the president's allergy to using terms like radical islam. the hate and terror is directed at the rest. the president sums it up with a bow. >> what great rejection to those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it. kennedy: i'm sure isis is going to send the conference a handwritten thank you note. now we'll stop raping your children and beheading christians as they sit by and do nothing to curtail their mission. and we'll spend billions on our tour cartel. brilliant lefty minds point to drought in syria as those winds of the globe are the only variables that account for resource scarcity. we have seen how in a rich regulated state like california has compounded the drought. one can imagine in a hell hole like syria it could be slightly worse. but you can't be bothered with an inconvenient truth.

change was des moines mayor, frank cownie. kcci 8 news close-up starts right now. >> this is iowa's news leader. this is kcci eight news close-up. >> good morning, welcome to close-up. the paris agreement calls on companies -- countries to cut and eliminate greenhouse pollution, but there are no sanctions on nations who did not make those cuts. mayor frank county -- county -- mayor frank county attended the meeting. you have attended a number of national and international sessions on climate change. mr. cownie: we were active in des moines and i was through first, planning and zoning, thinking about what the future for the future, whether it be our food sources or water or how people move around, went public transportation looks like. where do people live, where do they work, where do they get their necessities of life, and what does that mean about their cost of living? what is happening with the environment? you start running into scientists who have a position on it, and it seems like collectively over time, now we are abou

it was about climate change. and she asked whether i was optimistic about what we can achieve here in paris, and what young people like her could do to help. i want our actions to show her that we're listening. i want our actions to be big enough to draw on the talents of all our people, men and women, rich and poor. i want to show her passionate, idealistic young generation that we care about their future. for i believe in the words of dr. martin luther king jr., there is such a thing as being too late. and when it comes to climate change, that hour is almost upon us. but if we act here, and if we act now, if we place our own short-term interests behind the air that our young people will breathe and the food they will eat and the water they will drink, and the hopes and dreams that sustain their lives, then we won't be too late for them. and my fellow leaders, accepting this challenge will not reward us with moments of victory that are clear or quick. our progress will be measured differently in the suffering th

climate change is real. climate change is caused by human activity. climate change is already causing devastating damage on this planet. our job is now to stand with our children, to stand with our grandchildren and make certain that they have a planet which is healthy and which is habitable. and that's what the legislation that i am introducing will do. thank you very much, madam chaii relinquish the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. blumenthal: thank you -- mr. murphy: thank you, madam president. next week we will mark the three-year anniversary, for lack of a better word, of the massacre at sandy hook, connecticut. and senator blumenthal will be joining me on the floor momentarily. and i wanted to come here and speak to our colleagues for a few moments about what this week will mean to us in connecticut and the challenge that it presents to all of us. i want to open by talking about one of the young men who perished that day, a little first grader by the name of daniel bardon. daniel was a r

and all supported the changes. "times are changing and i take my kids, between 9 and 16, we take our kids out of town to go do stuff. please i'm begging the city council give us reason to keep my kids in town." "you're doing a good job i think, but don't go backwards. when you make that park out there, put in all kinds of things and make it work." since announcing it's proposal park and rec director matt salvatore says the committee has worked hard to show why the numbers don't support keeping 5 city pools open. he thinks people are hearing the message,. "people are starting to come around to the idea of splash pads and the impact they could have. free facilities for kids to use in the susuer. they encourage us, if we do the aququic center, to do it right. obviously nobody wants to see their swimming pool close." says director of parks & rec. director matt salvatore. jessica rae: the pool committee will meet again monday to talk about the feedback and dicuss any alterations to their recommendations. the city park a

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does climate change pose a security risk? more than 660 million people have no access to clean drinking water, and there will be less and less of it to go around. nearly 800 million people are malnourished. climate change is turning more and more regions into inhospitable wasteland. once-fertile soil is turning saline. and many areas are so arid that little grows there. food is growing scarcer and more expensive. unless we take swift action, the world bank estimates that 100 million people will face extreme poverty over the next 15 years. africa and east asia will be hardest hit. to escape hunger and thirst, people will try to flee the affected regions. the struggle for resources will intensify and conflicts will proliferate. extreme weather events will grow more common. sea levels will rise. storms and flooding will strike islands and coastal areas. large stretches of land could be submerged. cities and industrial centers will be affected, weakening economies all over the world. climate change threatens everyone on the plane

>> it's changing. it's really changing. >> when fall comes, yeah. it's hard for me to sleep. it's hard to sleep night-time when you can hear the waves, have a lot of kids that we have to evacuate. >> in the middle of a storm, there was 8-10 foot waves hitting that wall. my dad sat down me and my brother and he told us, 'you cannot leave this village. you have to save it. so no matter what, you cannot leave.' >> but saving the village is becoming harder, especially because the erosion is encroaching on kivalina from both sides of the island. sandbags only last for so long, so in 2008 a rock wall was built along the ocean's edge, to shield the village from storms. >> it's just that this island can't take anymore. can't take any more of the thrashing of the waves. >> kivalina is run by its city council, as well as its tribal government. millie hawley is the tribe's president. >> people say -- just move to anchorage or why can't you combine with another village >> that's like asking us to quit being a people. if we try to commingle or move, we will lose our identity, our culture.

change in needs a rules, i said it needs a change in behavior. i'm convinced it needs some changes in rules, but it still needs a change in behavior. don't know that, it has been a very successful year in the senate. the trade bill, the highway bill , strong democratic leaders working on them. but the one thing we didn't do was bring the appropriations bills up in june and july. we can to that with the change in roles. we need to do with a change in behavior. ms. swain: the republican debate this week was, of course, in reaction to the mass shootings we have seen the recently. unfortunately, a number of these have been on campuses over the past year. i'm wondering if there is a solution to the fear americans are feeling right now, and if so, what it might be. mr. alexander: there are probably many solutions to it. one solution has to do with mental health. early next year, our committee will begin to take all the bills we have on mental health, and we will do our best to change a system that really turns out onto the street people who are having

>> people are seeing a genuine commitment from the white house on climate change. and president obama has clearly chosen to implement this through the epa rather than trying to ratify an international agreement through the net and the congress, but many question marking raised by american politicians is one that's worrying the international community. > >> i'm not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing that we have a presidential election approaching. as you know, we have two parties, and one of them frames it in purely economic terms, in terms of the sacrifice that's americans would have to bear alone without matching commitments from other emitters. >> i think that that's the concern that many countries have, the concern that they will have to address climate change, and that others will lose out economically. but the situation that we're in today, not only has the united states offered a commitment in the paris agreement. but so has china, and in many senses, the chinese agreement is comparable to what the united states is offering, so hopefully that will redu

the changes are not simply on the hillsides. on the plains, you can see greenhouses that are filled with vegetables. this extends the growing season. it's a very high value produce. the abundance and variety of new produce can be seen in the local markets. follow-up studies have shown that incomes have risen threefold. and scientists point to a more global benefit. plants, through photosynthesis, remove carbon from the air, countering the effect of human greenhouse gas emissions on the climate. as a result of its success, the lessons learnt from the loess plateau rehabilitation are now being applied all over china. but could such projects work elsewhere in less centrally controlled societies, with fewer resources and different soils? ethiopia, perhaps more than any other country, has come to symbolize the vulnerability of humankind to environmental catastrophe. this is a country whose problems have been increased by war and civil conflict. and now human-induced climate change is predicted to make matters worse. as on the loess p

climate change. as michael alluded to, is to leave the fossil fuels in the ground. and what we do after that, other than -- switching to alternatives is crucial, but it is undermined unless we are retiring those fossil fuels. unfortunately, that didn't even arise as an issue during the climate talks. amy: michael brune, how does india and china fit into this picture? >> in a lot of ways. lumia grew a george, we need to keep also fuels in the ground and i hate big macs. i agree with that as well. here's what is happening with india and china. both countries have made commitments which are kind of diplomatic in that both -- emblematic and that both countries are not committing to a specific date in which their emissions will start to decline, nor a what levels those emissions will start to decline. and yet both countries have made dramatic world changing movements -- commitments to install. what is happening in china, the united states and the european union, two things are happening at once, we're sca

is changing business. mark: if you're going to have a task force in the private sector, you want somebody who believes in transparency. who believes in the global provision of information, it is a global information -- covering the globe. you want somebody who has a track record of action -- not just on climate change, but across the board -- who gets results. we can think of no better person. we went to mike bloomberg and asked if he would serve as chair. and the announcement this morning, which i am making so he cannot back out, is that he has agreed to chair this climate disclosure task force, which gets launched officially today. john: can i come back -- can i come back first to you and push you on the idea that there are already 400 organizations out there that have been -- all of these different ones. what's going to be different about this one? what is the selling point? mark: the first is to recognize, and we did some work in terms of looking at the top 1000 companies around the world, what proport

that is in a store very change, and extraordinary adjustment -- that is an extraordinary change, andjustment. toht now with a look forward "bloomberg ," david westin. david: it is jobs day, and that will be a principal focus. we will be joined by alan krueger of princeton and tim kaine of the hoover institution. in addition, we will come to paris, where you are, to make a special announcement on a new climate initiative. in the last hour, we will be joined by rick rieder of blackrock. that is all coming up on "bloomberg ." tom: david, thank you so much. it is jobs day, but we are focused here on the linkage of economics and financing in climate change. francine: that financing that we hope we will find an agreement on is basically the promise from the wealthier nations of the world, that they will give $100 billion to the poorer ones. we also spoke to the columbia university professor jeffrey sachs earlier today, and he was saying we will get an agreement but it will probably be a watered-down one. jeffrey: there is no time or taste for the really tough agreements, and when y

mohammad hassan hopes that some of it, somehow, will change his life. before it's too late. >> small comfort to hassan in bangladesh, probably, but in rich countries, too, people's livelihoods are threatened by climate change. a case in point is the us-state of alaska, part of which borders on the arctic ocean. the arctic temperature is warming at a rate almost twice the global average, and sea ice at the north pole has decreased by more than ten percent over the last decades. as dw's gero schließ found out from inhabitants in kivalina in northwestern alaska, climate change is having other effects as well. >> they're getting ready to go out fishing. the whole family helps push the boat out. they head out several times a week. reppi swan depends on fishing to make a living, like many in kivalina. fish is a basic staple for him and his family. they couldn't survive without it. since the weather conditions turned warmer in kivalina, reppi swan has had to go further afield to catch fish. and the fish stocks themselves have also changed. >> this used to be o

and that wind is surely changing behavior. that wind is surely changing behavior. i will leave aside for the moment whether there is a national surge in homicides, even if there were, whether this means there is any reliable serious data that there is a change in police behavior, as opposed to anecdotal reports of understandable changes in feelings and attitudes of police who are now being more closely scrutinized than ever. that could be partially responsible for this change. i am happy to return to these topics, but here is what i would like to focus my remarks on today, that is that i think the public safety narrative has lost its way. it needs to be redirected and reshaped. that is why i chose this title, i am not sure you know my title, but i was told i need to have a title, for c-span. [laughter] my title is, "against public safety and for public security." let me explain. the president's task force report makes public trust central to the mission of policing, and the question is, how do we do it? the public safety narrative, by that i mean the narrative that

first of all we have changes in our global ocean that relate to climate change. so the ocean is getting warmer and more acidic. corals don't like warm water and they definitely don't like water that is lower in ph. >> its no coincidence that the 2015 bleaching event coincides with an el nino year, a global weather phenomenon which causes already rising sea surface temperatures to spike even higher. the consequences for reefs can be devastating. today 38% of the world's reefs are bleached. from australia's great barrier reef. to the carribean. to the islands of the south pacific. the rain picks up almost the moment we pull anchor... and continues to pour as we reach the docks of coconut island, the hawaii institute of marine biology's home. >> it's raining in paradise apparently. >> while lj secures the boat, jen makes the trek through the rain and mud to the wet lab and deposits an example of healthy coral and of bleached coral into the holding tanks. coming up. supercorals. >> is what you're creating a franken-coral? >> scientists race to get corals ready for th

>> climate change. we went to three degrees, the increase in average global surface temperature above the end of the 19th century -- amy: celsius. >> celsius, of course. temperatures we haven't seen on this planet for 3 million years. we would rewrite the relationships for humans on the planet. some areas would become deserts, probably much of southern europe would become deserts. other areas like florida would be underwater. other areas like the gulf of mexico and the philippines would be hit still more strongly -- amy: when? >> they're coming now. we are one degree now above where we were at the end of the 19th century. we're going to try to hold to two degrees. some of that will come. the answer to win is, well, some of it is here now and there is lots more coming. but you are seeing extremes now. in northwest england, he's already wolfsburg or than they have ever been before in the last week or two. not something that is rare the becomes less rare, but what we have never seen before. in southeast in

we cannot change the political system. we cannot change the economic system. we cannot change [indiscernible] and then we take it out of the hands -- amy: that was john trudell speaking in new york city in 1979. he died on tuesday of cancer at the age of 69. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from the u.n. climate summit in paris, france. today we start today's show with the global refugee crisis, the greatest exodus of people since world war ii. on monday, the united nations appealed for $20 billion in additional aid saying that at , present funding levels, the agency is "not able to provide even the very minimum in core protection and lifesaving assistance." un officials cited the wars in syria, afghanistan, iraq, yemen, and south sudan as one of the major reasons there are nearly 60 million people forcibly displaced worldwide. the largest single displaced community are syrians, with 4 million refugees forced outside syria's borders by the ongoing confl

change. what we hear about climate change we often hear about things like changes in precipitation patterns, large-scale changes in the distribution of plants and animals, changes in storm pattern that leave some people in dire straits in different parts of the world and species are potentially at the brink of extinction. when we read about this often what we get our incredible doomsday scenarios. one might wonder what we can do to stop this. if you are comfortable at all, climate change literature, one of the plots you are accustomed to seeing is this it looks a little bit like a hockey stick. what this is is the big line across the middle, average global temperature and then everything else is kind of relative to that. the temperature was pretty stable, maybe declining a little bit in the last couple hundred it increased by about one half degrees. people are predicting much more rapid and extensive increases in global climate. this is not the 1st time in its history that we have seen a very

is this going to change? but it's complex here in america, and you can see it right here in califora for two reasons. this shooting happened here in california. this state has some of the strictest gun laws anywhere in america 37 but it clearly didn't prevent this incident. also the four weapons that were used in this shooting, according to local authorities in this last press conference, were legally purchased. that gives you an idea of not necessarily gun control laws are going to make this problem, if you will, in the u.s. necessarily go away. it's very complex, very complicated, and clearly it's a discussion that is always brought up almost immediately after you have these mass shootings such as this. mass shootings that are becoming all too common in america. >> thank you very much. well now in other developments in the united states the secretary of defense ash carter has announced plans to let women serve across all military combat roles. the armed services will he until january 1st to submit plans to

>> if we saw those changes, we would see dramatic change in food crops. 40% reductions in rise, wheatorts of crops. huge changes in sea level rise by the end of the century but also locking in very large sea level rise changes going forward beyond that. increase in droughts and in flooding some increase in severity of typhoons in the southern hemisphere. a lot -- we have all learned to live with the weather we have had. what we're seeing is significant increases in extremes around the planet. we would suffer significantly from a 4 degree c to rise. climate scientists are self censoring. what are they saying? >> those who look at us retranslated what it means to policymakers, what we are afraid of doing is putting forward analysis that questions the economic paradigm, the way we run society today. we don't question that, we fine-tune our analysis so it fits in the political and economic framing of society currently. fundamentalnow asks questions about economic growth in the short-term, and we are reluctant to say that. the funding bodies are reluctant to fund research that raises those

that wind is surely changing behavior. that wind is surely changing behavior. momentleave a side in a as to whether there is a national surgeon homicide we need to explain and whether even if there were whether this national trend whether there is reliable data that there is a in police behavior as it opposed to anecdotal reports of understandable changes in feelings and attitudes. police are now being more closely scrutinized than ever before. that can be partially responsible. i am happy to return to these topics but here is what i would like to focus my remarks on. that is that i think the public safety narrative has lost its way. andeeds to be redirected reshaped. that's why i chose the provocative title. i don't even know if many of you know but i was told i had to have a provocative title. for c-span. my title is against public and for public security. let me explain. the president's task force report makes public trust central to the mission of policing and the question is how do we do it. the public safety narrative and by that i mean the narrative that

they changed the processes. but we have been able to create more jobs in most parts of history as things change. we have not been a very good job recently. and hopefully, this is just a temporary thing. but nevertheless, you will always lose some jobs, you always create some other jobs in some ratio. the real question is, what is the impact on human lives? and life expectancy continues to go up, generally around the world. poverty goes down. in the last 40 years, the percentage of the world that lives in poverty has gone down by 50 or 60%. nobody is willing to say that because the advocates say, there is still some poverty. therefore, you can still say -- advocates never want you to show progress trade because then you devote less resources to what they are trying to do. all of this is designed to give us a planet that we will survive on. and in the meantime, to help those who cannot take care of themselves. and if you think about it, most places where climate change will really kill people and change their abil

he hasn' t changed his views on climate change, and he' s not about to now. >> it' s all bogus. we' ve been given bogus numbers. >> plus, arab american stand-up comic dean obeidallah uses humor to challenge stereotypes about muslims. but today' s news from the middle fernando: i' m fernando espuelas. welcome to "matter of fact." as chair of the democratic national committee, deborah wasserman schultz is always in the spotlight, whether she is leading the charge for her own party or under attack from the opposition. her strategic decisions will help determine the outcome of the next election. donald trump recently said you were crazy and neurotic. is he right? >> well i really just want , donald trump to keep talking. his misogynistic alienating comments through the duration of this campaign have shown exactly where the core of the republican party is today. instead of the rest of the republican field criticizing him they' ve been doing everything they can to embrace his with his views because he is clearly attracting the base of the republican party. that is going to be the key

is, change challenges. despite of the difficulty and severity of the challenges we are endeavoring, i'm confident we have enough determination with solidarity to overcome these challenges. spirit thank you very much. angela merkel to be followed by mr. vladimir putin, president of the russian federation. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: secretary-general, colleagues we are meeting in paris and what are turbulent times and, indeed, times to fill us with great concern. not far away from your terrorist only a few days ago i packed the people of paris into the doing attacked us all. we strongly condemn terror no matter where it goes on a rampage. but our presence here today we show we are stronger than the terrorists. today, we have the possibility to surmount controversies that differences of opinion and to uphold one very strong message, a message that would be crucial for the survival of our planet. this is about creating the basis, the foundation of a possible existence, a possible life for future

climate change is very real. it's changed my entire life. this year was our most destructive fire season. the two most destructive fires in colorado's history occurring at the same time. it's different. it's a different world. the fire season is now longer. in most cases, we didn't have to worry about fires in the rocky mountains or the northwest until usually june or july. now, you know, the fires are getting earlier and earlier. the first season's getting longer. we're starting to get to be like california where fire season is year-round. >> the fast pace of climate change is clearly seen on america's coasts, hard hit by rising sea levels, flooding, and severe storm surges. >> what we see is the united states, the eastern part of the united states from the gulf of mexico all the way up to new england is among the highest local sea level rise rates in the world. >> more people live on the coasts than ever before. and now that we have more people in harm's way, obviously when a storm does strike, the consequences are even more dire. >> there

the changing weather is cause for alarm. the world afood program's office officer, some farmers have told him they have been a month without rain. an estimated 60% of corn and 80% of bean crops may be lost to. hundreds of thousands of families will need food assistance. >> translation: this is the worse crisis we have had since 35 years ago. it is affecting not only guatemala, but from nicuagura up to here. they have been hit very hard. a million people are affected by this. >> reporter: inside their tin ape mud shack, his wife prepares corn tortias for her children. it's what they eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner-- eat. today she had to borrow a few pound for the noon time meal. as each day passes, make sure their five children get enough to eat becomes more of a struggle. working to buy food isn't much of an option iritides. jobs-- either. jobs pay as little as $5 a day if you're lucky enough to find one. >> translation: no translation >> reporter: in guatemala when food is scarce the young often suffer the most. nearly

how their lives have changed. how they are better off compared with other women to say if your child grows, goes to school, has a profession, can work, can be like x who is a professor, you need to use examples which make sense for them to see, and as sort of evidence. but you also need to give to families some kind of alternative. that is why it's not an education issue alone. you are meant to bring organizations which are working in development activities to help families to generate income, so that they don't see the girl child is a commodity, which you give away because you'll get money or you'll get capital as an exchange. you explain the message, you show the results of what education can do to a young woman. at the same time you develop the ability of families to survive, without considering giving away resources. there are different strategies which we have to use, it's not a single direction in which you can fight against child marriage. it is really multiple strategies, that's why we always try to build

on susie's point i do think that behavior will change. it's going change in a good way. people are more vig lenlt. in tend hopefully if the administration is on the top, we start to spend smarter rather than more. that's the finger cross and then if the behavior changes, it's in such a way that people do not get away from shopping and more vigilante and spend it in other areas. it goes to maybe online roadway r retail, so the spending stays the same. hopefully the economy as a whole does not get the negative impact. >> susie, last word. >> well, the economy is built on certain behaviors. we go to football games where there are hundreds of thousands of people. our behaviors do change because of this threat and becoming part, a whole shift will occur in the economy that we can not look away from. there's no happy talk about around. >> that's right. hank thank you all so very much. >>> neil, what do you have? >> well, the california couple terrorizing and lived in a nice house, college education and a good job. does this prove that it's not poverty that's driving terror? >>

part of the changing numbers. opportunitye is an if we seize it, if we have enough courage to acknowledge the reality of the country and what has been and what we want to be and the the work of getting to that place. i believe it can happen. i feel like i have to believe that because i have kids too.. herewant to thank everyone in the audience for being here. it's been a really important semester in talking about race and i really want to come as director of the series, continue the dialogue online, on twitter, and other forums. please don't hesitate to contact me if you want to speak more about this. thank you so much for being here and thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. [applause] >> on the next washington journal, gina smiley on the economic outlook for the year ahead and consumer spending and job creation. washington journal, live at 7:00 a.m. eastern. with congress on holiday we spent us -- holiday recess, the c-span network has a lineup of prime time programming. 8:00 p.m., journalists who

run us through those changes. the target for the asset purchase has not changed.rtram governor kuroda himself in a news conference. he kept making that point saying these were technical changes. they don't change the overall size of the program. by.inue to stand quantitative easing. we will continue to do it as long as it makes sense. also that they continue to stand by 2% inflation target. they will do their utmost to reach that target. he was making it clear that the program, they are tweaking the program. he knows of the changes are confusing. jonathan: will get to the potential for a move in 2016. but i want to talk to you about is the inflation target. he did mention crude. on brent. what is the risk of that inflation if it gets pushed back once more? give me more color. jodi: he was very firm about standing by the target. the drop in prices recently has made that more complicated. that will be a big issue. that is one of the things economists are talking about. about whether they are going to be able to make that target. how much a part of that picture? jona

you cannot build a border wall to stop by the change. make of that what you will i cannot make sense of this battle. a new poll shows republican for runner is the front runner by a wide margin. donald trump 20-point lead this is the biggest lead yet not bad considering every major strategist as declared trump to be not serious or he would fade after the first month now they are sputtering against the front runner. we will talk about that with our political panel. the top story the fbi finally admits the san bernardino massacre was a back the tears of the deadliest act since september 11. rigo the female shooter pledged allegiance to the leader of the islamic state just before she and her husband killed 40 people a and wounded 21 others in 85 christmas party. they tried to destroy their cell phones and hard drives in the fbi investigators are overseeing the search for those who may have supported them or directed them. our senior correspondent is an san bernardino with the report. >> as of today based of the abrasion and the fact we know

changing weather is cause for alarm. the world food programs mike vargus has been visiting farmers across guatemala. some had told him they had gone a month and a half without rain in the critical growing season. a 60% of corn and 80% of bean crops may be lost. the united nations is says hundreds of thousands of family will need food assistance. >>> this is the worst dry season we have had since 35 years ago. it is affecting not only guatemala but from nicuargua as well. a million people affected by this >>> inside their tiny mud shack his wife preparing corn tortias for their children which is what they eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. today she had to borrow a few pounds of corn meal for the dish. working to buy food isn't much of an option either. jobs here pay as little as $5 a day, if you're lucky enough to find one. >> translation: no translation >> reporter: in guatemala when food is scarce the youngest suffer the most. inside this hospital an hour from the main community, children are treated for malnutrition

we're the generation of climate change. from arctic village, alaska, the executive dress her dish director. knowe of the things we because of these investigations into exxon in recent months is researching were climate change as far back as the 1970's, they were interested in economic possibilities this would present because ice would melt. did you have a reaction to hearing that exxon saw this as a profit-making opportunity? >> it makes me angry. it makes me angry because we are ground zero. arctic communities are ground zero for climate change. my children are going to be devastated by what is happening. we have to do something now, and that makes me angry that they knew and are still trying to drill in these places like the arctic refuge, but also have already devastated a whole ecosystem in alaska. and they knew what they were doing, so it makes me angry because it affects my children, their children, all of our children. >> thank you for your testimony today. >> your honors, if it is all right, we will stay with this t

to climate change because climate change is undermining human rights all over the world.and undermining people's livelihoods, undermining people's health, forcing people to leave their homes because of drought or flooding. . itn, causing loss of life is having a very negative impact and that is being recognized at the human rights council. even if there were stepping in this agreement -- which i hope there will be -- about human rights, human rights is there anyway, very, very central to our approach to climate change. to me, it is the biggest human right issue in the world. amy: how did you come to this issue of climate justice? certainly did not make a centerpiece when you are the u.n. high commissioner for human rights. >> i've been very open and modest about that. no, i didn't. it was being dealt with in another part of the u.n. a little bit of a silo approach. i started work on economic and social rights in africa. everywhere i went, people said, things are so much worse. and i realized they meant the rainy seasons weren't coming in liberia the way they used to and t

climate change conference in paris. then in a press briefing, the president talked about the environment, russia's military involvement in serious civil war, the planned parenthood cleaning in colorado, and securing turkeys borders. this is 50 minutes. president obama: good afternoon. once again, i want to thank the people of france and president Élan for their extraordinary hospitality. hosting nearly 200 nations is an enormous task for anybody, but to do so just two weeks after the terrorist attacks here is a remarkable display of resolve. that's why the first place i visited when i arrived on sunday an, so thathe batacl i could pay my respects on behalf of the american people, who share the french people's resolve. it was a powerful reminder of the awful human toll of those attacks. our hearts continue to go out to the victims families. paris, we also see the resilience of the universal values that we share. and based on my discussions with president Élan -- president and other leaders, i'm confident that we can cont

part of the changing numbers. opportunitye is an if we seize it, if we have enough courage to acknowledge the reality of the country and what has been and what we want to be and the the work of getting to that place. i believe it can happen. i feel like i have to believe that because i have kids too.. herewant to thank everyone in the audience for being here. it's been a really important semester in talking about race and i really want to come as director of the series, continue the dialogue online, on twitter, and other forums. please don't hesitate to contact me if you want to speak more about this. thank you so much for being here and thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. [applause] >> as 2015 wraps up, the congress year in review. the newsmaking issues, debates, and hearings that took center stage this year. join us thursday, december 31 at 8:00 p.m. eastern as we revisit popeh mcconnell, francis'address. congress on from mass shootings here and abroad. gun control, terrorism, and the rise of i

so my question is what changes within the organization would you expect to come with that change, withringing in several you new countries that have a different economic and development perspective. thank you. >> and one more right here. >> good afternoon. we focus on oil and gas and energy. looking at your presentation, how do you look at africa now producing oil and do you think of africa being a member of the iea and if so looking at the oil production, what do you advise, oil exported or refined oil, what do you think working in this between now and 2030. thank you. >> okay. thank you very much for these very good questions. about our projections, first of all, we make on the base of the policies. the numbers i show you with the existing policies of the governments, we will see what kind of trends we will see. we also have projections with strong climate policies. in that case it's much stronger. many like you mention why our renewable projections are so conservative, we went back and we look at them. 95% of our projections are on the spot. upward was the solar projections and here

we have an with climate change. that's a major step forward to have 196 nations of the world say, "yeah, we've got to deal with this problem." none of us asked for the problem, but unfortunatel y we've got to deal with it. we need an urgent transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energy. this is just the iowa example of where this problem is coming up. in my view we can have a full employment economy without investing in fossil fuels. we've got energy solutions that work, electric vehicles, fuel efficient vehicles. we could be building a lot of infrastructur e for rail improvements. we have a lot of alternatives that work. we do not need this pipeline, so the legal issue will become well, is it in the public ... it can necessity. the policy issue is should we be investing more in fossil fuel infrastructur e at some risk to our environment, at some risk to rights knowing what we know about climate change? for me the answer is no.we can have a vibrant, this pipeline. that's the direction i'd like to see iowa mo