anne-marie? >> thank you, don. >>> a frightening scene during a protest near police headquarters in minneapolis. after protesters attacked a car, the driver accelerates dragging a protester along the pavement. the driver is questioned. >>> this is one of the busiest travel days of the year. a major storm on the east coast is going to make a mess of things. many tried to get a jump on the weather by leaving a day early. moderate to heavy rain and snow is expected from washington to boston. >>> as the storm approached, airlines began canceling flights. this morning so far, 222 flights have been canceled. major airlines dropped their ticket exchange fees for passengers in the northeast. meteorologist eric fisher of our boston station wbz is following the fast-moving storm. >> we've been talking about it for a couple of days, and now it's a storm. it's a quick moving one but impacting us right through the holiday, and it's changing plans, and we've seen that already. so moving up the east coast as we

anne-marie slaughter. you are up next. >> so blaming barack obama for the state we are in right now is like blaming the island for a hurricane. think carefully about what our opponents have to prove, not only do they have to prove that the world would be less dangerous if obamaa were not president, but they would have to prove that the world is as dangerous as it is because he has emboldened our enemies. it's a two-step thing they have to prove, not just that it's more dangerous if somebody else were president, but if the causal accident is that he has emboldened our enemies. they have to prove that putin would not have annexed crimea or invaded ukraine but for obama's action, and in fact, putin hardens when the ukrainian president fled. at that moment, putin's advisers, who had been telling him the united states seeks only to overturn regimes, at that moment, putin decided it was time to get serious, that there was no way of dealing with the united states. so it was when he thought we were more hard lined

thank you. >> thank you, anne-marie. bob kagan, you're our next opening statement. >> thank you so much, and thank you all for being out here to listen to a debate about foreign policy. i would like to think we could get as many americans out as we have gotten you out. maybe some day. anyway, it's a pleasure to be here. i know my colleagues are very pleased to be here. this is an excellent day to be defending barack obama in canada. i suspect it might be a little tougher back in the united states. we all saw the results of the election. you may know what the approval ratings of president obama are. what you may not know is that his general approval rating is significantly higher than his foreign policy approval rating. his general approval rating among the american people is between 40% and 45%. his foreign policy approval rating is between 30% and 35%. that's george w. territory, folks. okay? that's george w. in 2006. and you know, you canadians may not trust the american people's judgment, and i would accept that. and

i'm anne-marie green. now that the leftovers are in the fridge, millions of americans are already crossing off items on their holiday shopping list. consumers are expected to spend nearly $616 bill from november through december and while black friday is considered the official start to the holiday season many retailers are trying to kick start their earnings by opening up on thanksgiving. don champion is in times square this morning where shoppers have been at it since last night, don. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. no sleeping for shoppers coast to coast today, millions of them started spending on thanksgiving day, which could take a bielt out of black friday's bottom line. a crowd of about 200 people were ready to go when the toys "r" us here in times square opened its doors at 5:00 p.m., some waiting hours to get inside it's real good. hopefully i'll be able to get everything i need to get today. >> reporter: while shoppers complete their lists, stores are opening earlier in order

mary ann is of course right.o law is precise and gets 100% of the bad guys and 0% of everybody else. and the first amendment context, we were choir efforts to at least move in that direction that are aching to be difficult in this context. not impossible, but very difficult. >> section 230 came up again. i don't know if you want to pick up that conversation as well and how that applies here. >> just to say, section 230 is one of the greatest of the last 20 years. it is in large measure it -- graduations. we are while in congress bashing mode all the time, other than those who are sitting in this room i suppose. but section 230 was of critical importance in helping the internet become the internet. in 1996, you couldn't have facebook, tumbler, twitter, you name it. the explosion of user generated content on the net was unthinkable without protections against liability. there are many reasons to think there is an active debate about whether this very broad immunity for the intermediaries is a good thing or a bad th

i'm anne-marie green. well, overnight a gunman opened fire on the campus of florida state university. multiple shots were fired in the school library at the heart of the tallahassee campus. at least three people were wounded. video appears to show police communicating with people still in the library. >> we have a shooting in the library. stay where you are. we'll be coming to get you more clearing and take care of everybody. >> james buechelly of our tallahassee station wctv joins us on the phone. what's the latest on the situation? >> reporter: i'm here on the campus of fs unh there are literally hundreds of students being taken next door. they're now allowed to go backes in and grab any possessions that they left. three people have been sent to the hospital. at one point he shot at the campus p.d. they returned fire. we don't know who the suspect is. the latest, at least three people in the hospital for injuries. we talked with a lot of students. they said they heard noises, what they didn't think were g

i'm anne-marie green. well, violence erupted in ferguson, missouri, overnight. the trouble began soon after it was announced. the grand jury did not indict white police officer darren wilson in the shooting death of black teenager michael brown. at least a dozen buildings and cars were set on fire. there was gunfire and looting. after the decision was made public you president obama called for a peaceful response. >> first and foremost, we are a nation built on the rule of law. and so we need to accept that this decision was the grand jury's to make. >> and in ferguson, danielle, what is the latest there. >> reporter: anne-marie, well, the national guard has moved in. the main strip here, in ferguson is still on fire this morning. it seemed like in a matter of minutes, what were peaceful protests gave way to violence. police officers say they were hit by batteries and rocks. reporters took cover from gunfire. police say they arrested at least 29 people. police say this is much worse than the scenes we saw

i'm anne-marie green. it is starting to seem like there is nowhere to go in this country to escape the early taste of winter. by tonight much of the nation will be feeling temperatures either at or below freezing, and that is without factoring in the windchill. and on top of the bitter cold temperatures, some areas are also getting their first look at snow weeks before the official start of winter. don champion is here in new york city where a snow alert was issued last night, don? >> reporter: yeah. good morning, anne-marie. that alert was more of a precaution. we did not see many flakes here. it was mostly rain. there was some snow in the northeast, though. a little more than an inch fell north of new jersey. this is part of a storm system that's expected to be gone by the start of the morning commute here. a heavier coat of snow came down on the philadelphia suburbs less than a day after temperatures were in the 70s. in ohio highway travel became hazardous. highway road conditions in cleveland led to se

i'm anne-marie green. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said he will respond harshly to a deadly attack on a jerusalem synagogue. two palestinians used knives, axes and guns to kill four worshippers. six other worshippers were wounded. police are looking for other suspects. this is the latest in a series of attacking by palestinians and israelis on the growing tensions over contested holy sites. secretary of state john kerry called the attack an act of pure terror and senseless brutality. palestinian president mahmoud abbas condemned the attack. >>> and this morning, much of the country is engulfed in a deep freeze. a very archic freeze. a record chill brings record temperatures from the midwest all the way south to the east. there are freeze warnings from texas to georgia gg and the cold weather system has triggered heavy snow in the great lakes region that could last more than a week. buffalo, new york, is expected to get 2 feet of snow, but some areas could see 3 feet. the windchill in kalamazoo

i'm anne-marie green.mericans go to the polls today in what is possibly the most costly midterm election ever. a large number of races for the house and various governorships are too close to call but the big ties are for the senate. with 36 seats at stake. republicans need six seats to take control of the senate. our background tracker finds out if republicans have a better chance of taking control. susan mcginnis is in washington. good morning. >> anne-marie, good morning. if republicans gain those six seats or greater in the senate as they are expected to, the gop will control the house and the senate for the first time since 2005. now, that prospect has democrats doing all they can to get voters out to try to save their majority. voters take to the polls today in an election that will determine which party controls the senate. turn outin midterm elections is notoriously low, but some polling stations have prepared for large numbers. >> this is not -- fighting for voters there's so many incentives. >> r

i'm anne-marie green. this morning there is a new political landscape in washington. the midterm elections can only be described as a route republicans throttled democrats, seizing control of the senate and expanding their control of the house. cbs news projects republicans picked up at least seven seats in the senate. the republicans ousted democratic incumbents in arkansas, north carolina, and iowa. they won in south dakota, virginia, and iowa. it is the first time the gop has held the majority in the senate since 2006. it >>> and a man >>> and a man likely to become the new senate majority leader is the current minority leader, kentucky's mitch mcconnell. he easily won re-election in one of the country's most watched races. mcconnell trounced alison lundergan grimes. the republicans control the house. the gop picked up ten seats and come january will hold the largest majority there since 1949. now that they control president obama's final two years in office will get a little more complicated. susan mcg

i'm anne-marie green. well, it is reported this morning that the japanese air bag manufacturer takata knew its air bags were dangerous ten years ago but covered up the results of secret tests. two former takata employees told "the new york times" the testing was stopped after three months and the evidence destroyed. don champion is here in new york with more. don, good morning. >> good morning, anne-marie. that was four years before takata told federal regulators it first tested its air bags. the faulty air bags have been tied to four deaths and forced a recall of more than 14 million cars worldwide. the secret tests were conducted at takata's facility in michigan on weekends and holidays. the defects can force the air bags to deploy with too much shards caution pieces of metal to go into passengers. last night it responded to the report saying it raised additional concerns about takata's handling of the air bag issues and is one of the reasons it's compelling them to produce documents and answer questions

i'm anne-marie green. this morning the decision of aid to dying is being rekindled for a 29-year-old woman determined to take her own life. we learned your night that brittney maynard, the terminal cancer patient who was the face of the right to die-movement, chose to take a lethal dose of a drug ore the weekend. >> i'll die upstairs in my bedroom that i share with my husband, with my mother and my husband by my side and pass peacefully with the music that i like in the background. >> that is how brittney maynard died on saturday. according to a statement from compassion and choices, a right to die advocacy group, maynard passed away peacefully surrounded by family and friends. last month she went public with her battle against brain cancer and her decision to die on her own terms. >> i can't even tell you the amount of relief it provides me to know that i don't have to die the way that it's been described to me that my brain tumor would take me. >> maynard and her husband moved from california to oregon,

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back to you. >> mary ann, thank you very much. just a few weeks ago another american was released from the communist nation. jeffrey fowle was arrested after leaving a bible at a club. the swedish government helped negotiate his release. fowle says he never had any contact with either of the two men released tonight. >>> a stern warning coming from the state department for u.s. citizens who want to travel to north korea. u.s. government strongly recommending against visiting. north korean officials demand tourists have a guide and driver at all times and never just wander around on their own. few have been arrested for just trying to talk to locals or taking unauthorized photos. cell phones are allowed but all communication is monitored at all times. even unknowingly violating north korea laws could lead to a death sentence. >>> it has been four days since voters cast their ballots and yet no definitive answer in the san jose mayor's race. about 75,000 ballots are still unaccounted tonight. right now tallied votes a 2% lead over d

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i'm anne-marie green.>> well, this morning scientists at the european space agency are attempting a first and cosmic exploration, landing a spacecraft on a comet. the unmanned rosetta spacecraft reached the comet in august after a ten-year chase. scientists finally gave the final go-ahead for rosetta to release its lander for the journey to the comet. cbs space consultant bill harwood will have a little more later on in the broadcast. >>> well, this morning that early mid-winter-like storm is blanketing much of the country in an unseasonable cold and sometimes and the misery is headed east. this is denver. the high temperature is expected to be in denver. just 10 degrees. the slick condition caused dozens of car accidents. in some parts of texas in oklahoma, lows are expected to fall in the teens today. folks in austin got a taste of cold yesterday. meteorologist eric fisher of our boston station wbz has more on the big freeze. >> well, the arctic express continues its march southward and eastward. we've g

i'm anne-marie green. winter is not set to arrive for more than a month but much of the country will start to get hit with bitterly coal temperatures and some will see snow. it's already snowing in north dakota. a massive storm is being pushed by the remnants of a major pacific typhoon. winter storm watches and warnings are posted from idaho to michigan. >>> in minnesota, they're getting ready for the snow. folks in minneapolis could get a foot with below freezing temperatures that could last for days. some parts of the country could see single-digit temperatures and arraign fisher, meteorologist of our boston station wbz says the weather is moving south. it's starting to work its way deeper toward the south. as we head toward the middle of the week. not just the rockies and plains but deep down across parts of the ohio valley and well into south texas. we'll look at temperatures as much as 40 degrees below normal. as we head toward friday will end up being florida, a little cooldown but certainly not what

i'm anne-marie green.uffalo, new york, is used to dealing with a lot of snow, but this morning, the city is paralyzed by a monster lake-effect storm that threatens to bury it in up to six feet of snow when all is said and done. at least four deaths are blamed on the storm. it's part of a nationwide system that's wrapped the country in a deep freeze. yesterday temperatures in all 50 states fell to freezing or below. and the storm is being called one of the worst in memory. the storm -- the snow, rather, is so deep and conditions to severe that a 135-mile stretch of the new york state throughway is shut down. drivers and cars, trucks and buses are stranded. some for more than 30 hours. the niagara university women's basketball team has been stranded on the throughway for about that long. the team was returning from a game in pittsburgh when they got stuck early tuesday morning. they've been in touch with police but haven't seen any help. they're in good spirits, but they're running low on food and water. ali

i'm anne-marie green. well, this morning that nasty mix of rain and snow that made for a miserable thanksgiving getaway in the northeast has just about wrapped up, but yesterday's monster storm certainly left its mark. hundreds of flights were canceled and driving was treacherous on one of the busiest travel days of the year. don champion reports. >> reporter: by last night new england hit with messy ice forcing some folks to rethink their holiday plans. >> plans changed with the weather. i usually travel but staying home this year. >> reporter: from virginia to pennsylvania and new york, roads were a mess. >> rwhen you encounter snow or ice-covered roads the most logical thing to do is to slow down. roads and highways were a hazard up and down the busy washington and boston corridor as millions made the thanksgiving trek to family and friends. according to aaa 89% traveled by car but many flew. flights were canceled, thousands delayed. >> it's tough to sit and wait and not know what's going to happen but

i'm anne-marie green. this morning a woman who was kidnapped off a philadelphia street is safe and reunited with her family. and the man seen grabbing her on surveillance video sunday night is under arrest. last night carlesha freeland-gaither's family left a maryland hospital where she was treated for unspecified injuries. she's said to be in good condition. she was rescued in a baltimore suburb. as kris van cleave reports, her family is relieved and grateful. >> i'm taking my baby home, thank you. >> she thanked the public for the happy ending to her daughter's nightmare. her daughter was found wednesday, three days after her apparent abduction was captured. >> her abductor has been arrested. >> reporter: they tracked the woman to maryland where someone used her atm card. police chased the car and her abductor to jessup about ten miles southwest of baltimore. >> the agents at that point moved in, utilized one of their vehicles to block him, to prevent him from leaving the parking airy. >> when the subjec

i hesitate to keep quoting anne marie. is is all quite unfair the he's an extremely formidable person but we've been asking reed to hold up this argument -- fareed to hold up this argument all by himself since anne marie has been on our side. 2013, "the solution to the demrice ukraine lies in part in syria. t's time for barack obama to demonstrate that he can authorize the offensive use of force" -- close your ears, fareed -- "other than in secret drone attacks. he result would be seen in damascus, beijing and tokyo." >> he's doing it now, so putin must be trembling. obama has now 500 strikes in syria? >> let's talk about putin for a second. i think it's worth talking. anne marie is exactly right, that putin went into cramia because of -- cr ifert mea because of what happened in ukraine. what's happened since then? how do you deter putin from going further than he had already gone? fareed is talking about all the incredible suffering the russian economy is going through and certainly it is. the only problem is every day put

ann marie, good morning. the president says his decision to bypass congress is in line with previous administrations and urging lawmakers to pass their own plan. >> our immigration system is broken and everybody knows it. >> reporter: the plan will shield 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation, including parents born here and those in the u.s. more than five years. it will grant work permits and expand the dreamer program and people brought here illegally as children. >> if you register, have a criminal background check and willing to pay your fair share of taxes, you will be able to stay without fear of deportation. >> reporter: it will not provide a pass to citizen zip. president obama is in for a long battle with the very angly gop. >> the only way to do this properly is have congress enact a law, an immigration law, which congress is in the process of doing and have the president enforce the laws. >> he said he's not a king or emperor. he's sure acting like one. >> reporter: he defended his ac

i am anne-marie green. captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com . >> a cold wet morning, and katie has the forecast for you in just abient. >>> first, we have two major breaking stories for this morning. one person killed in a fire at a philadelphia home, and four police officers injured trying to douse those flames. we'll have the very latest on their conditions coming up in a live report. >>> if i, pope francis is officially coming to philadelphia, vatican made the announcement just about an hour ago. it is monday, november 17th, good morning, everyone, i'm ukee washington. >> i'm erika von tiehlment back to the major breaking news, vatican pope francis is coming to philadelphia. >> the pontiff visitedhi

. >> listening was all she could go when a doctor gave mary ann some bad news. >> a doctor puts it upn the screen. it was from her head to her toes and it looked like her body was on fire. >> mary ann died in november 2012. nicole now a mom herself fell into a depression. it was her husband who suggested taking a class to take her mind somewhere else. nicole looked at an adult education catalog. >> when i saw that crochet class, i knew that was my connection back to my mom. i just finished the border on this. >> crochet because it was something her mom used to do. crochet because it was something she thought she could do to help others going through what her mother just did. nicole, never took that class. instead sho instead she opened a laptop and began teaching first. five hours later she had a single square and a big idea. >> how about we get the world involved? >> project chemo crochet. >> i'm comforting people in the world who needs something during this hard time. >> her husband created a website asking them to crochet squares. within two weeks the first scares started coming in

mary anne, do you want to start? >> i would be happy to. the civil rights work did not start with any high profile case. the jennifer lawrence incident is not the beginning of this. we started two years ago when average people were being affected by this. this has been something that is happening private citizens for years. this is not some high profile case we are responding to out of a sense of now that has happened to someone famous we care. we care about this because the experience of victims has been that none of these laws work. if the image is out there, if it was not necessarily by someone trying to harass, and many of them do not, just to give you a oncrete example, just a couple weeks ago, and then are arresting women for drunk driving, taking their phones, and sharing pictures with other police officers. with each other, he did not even 100 find out about it. find out how many times they get turned away by lawyer's. there's no money there, no reason to pursue this. for all these reasons, we are responding to an issue where thousa

i'm anne-marie green. the deadly mid-winter like storm that hit the rockies and upper midwest is headed south and east this morning. the weather system brought harsh conditions including plunging temperatures from the dakotas to the upper michigan peninsula. in denver, yesterday, the temperature dropped 46 degrees in six hours. the heavy snow caused widespread travel delays. more than 150 flights in and out of minneapolis were cancelled yesterday, but things appear to be getting back on track today. don champion reports. >> reporter: from south dakota to michigan, the sights and sounds of winter are taking over. >> we're learning how to drive on snow. >> reporter: monday, the rockies and upper midwest were hit with cold temperatures and snow. today northern wisconsin and the upper peninsula of michigan will feel and see the chill. the taste of winter is being pushed into a powerful storm that hit alaska. by the end of the week it will send temperatures diving by the east. wintry weather hit right as rush h

eric: mary ann, is he saying we're stupid and they lied completely?ds are. how does he get out of this? >> i think the american voters are a lot smarter than an mit professor who's dumb enough so so -- to say that. [laughter] here's the facts, republicans are going to try to repeal it with all republican votes. so they have the votes to repeal it, but president obama's going to veto it. that's why they're already putting pressure on the new majority leader, mitch mcconnell, the republican, to try to do that by reconciliation where they only need 51 votes. so you have the aca passed with all democratic votes, you'll see it repealed by all republican votes, and that's where we're going to end up. eric: mary ann, excuse me more interruptioning, but it passed with this guy saying they pulled the wool over our eyes, they made fools out of the supreme court, they knew if they wrote it as a tax, it wouldn't get passed. they knew -- these are his own words. in terms of healthy people, sick people getting money, it would not have passed. so that's why it passe

and i keep quoting anne marie. is all been unfair basically we're asking and to hold up this argument. and to think that she should have been on our side. for the solution to the crisis in the ukraine lies in part in syria it is time for the u.s. president obama to demonstrate he can order the offensive use with another intervention. the results will change the strategic oculus battling in damascus but moscow not to mention beijing and tokyo. >> let's talk about that. anne marie is right that putin went into crimea because of what happened in the ukraine. but what about since them the peace was hilo du deterred of that incredibly suffering? but every day putin puts with pins into the ukraine plans the troops into the ukraine in violation of his own agreement in the west only response is possibly more sanctions and a few weeks. we could not be bothered to provide some capacity to protect themselves weapon leap -- weaponry your training? that is the least we could do. >> i am not doing any work tonight i love that. a

. >> reporter: a doctor gave mary ann said bad news. >> everywhere you see yellow, that's cancer.from her head to toes. >> reporter: she died. nicole, a mom herself, fell into a depression. it was her husband who suggested takie inine ining a class to ta somewhere else. >> when i saw that crochet class, i just knew that was my connection back to my mom. >> reporter: crochet because it was something her mom used to do. crochet because it was something nicole thought she could do to help others going through what her mother just did. nicole, by the way, never took that class. instead, she opened a laptop and began teaching herself. five hours later, she had a single square and a big idea. >> how about we get the world involved? >> reporter: project chemo crochet was born. >> i'm comforting all those people in the world that need comfort during this hard time. >> reporter: her husband created a website asking others to crochet squares that she and her friends would sew for people battling cancer. in less than two years, nicole and her team have stitched and shipped close to 700 blank

one of the very quick, and want to make about the notion again, mary ann was saying does the law haveo wait until something happens, something bad happens before providing a remedy? i think in this context the answer may well be yes most of the time. because this is a lot of what we're talking about falls into the category of protected speech, or speech. there's a very strict problem with sort of a prior restraint doctrine that says you can't put it up in the first place. that would avoid much of the harm. that raises even more serious first amendment problems and sort of exposed regulation of its which raises its own problem. something that has to be taken, have to be thought about more carefully. >> and rob, you could toggle bit, you mentioned the computer fraud and abuse act. hacking, i'm so reminded of some years ago when sarah palin's e-mail address i was also hacked from what we understand it very -- very similar fashion. >> is wasn't guessing. if you're going to use password recovery questions and java wikipedia page, don't have the answer the on that page which, i mean, hopefu

we venture down one cul-de-sac on foot, where we could only shout a conversation with mary ann sanson. have you ever seen it like this? >> never my whole life. >> reporter: officials say they're doing their best to reach those facing emergencies and are reminding home bound residents to take precautions. >> we have been stuck here since monday evening. >> reporter: we met this family, still snow bound, but her husband david finally got out, walking four miles to get food for their baby evan. crews are clearing the new york through way, but it is still closed and hundreds of stranded vehicles remain. >> incredible images there. nbc meteorologist bill karins is here. good morning, bill. what is it looking like in that area? >> it is going to be a slow melt and then a rapid melt as we go through the weekend. i just saw a press conference, 30 major roof collapses in that area, just last night alone, and that's the concern. the weight of all of this snow. epic snow. seven feet in wales center, new york. many other areas in the 50s to 60s to 70 inch range. snow in the mountains of the west,