mary landers celebrated her return to congress by going light on the palm but jumble on the circumstances. she made an appeal for a vote on the long-delayed keystone pipeline. >> i didn't come here to see my name in lights. i came here to create jobs for my state and this country. i believe i have done an excellent job through difficult circumstances. i believe that we should take the new majority leader at his word and stop blocking legislation broadly supported by the american public and has been for quite some time. it is shameful it is wrong and it must stop today. >> this is obviously an attempt to get this vote for her by harry reid another democrats. with all the things going on with the house and senate can this get to the president's desk? does the vote help her save her job? >> i think there are 62 senators who have said they are in favor of this. it doesn't look like there is going to be a filibuster. i'm not sure it's going to save mary landrieu. you look at those numbers, she had 42% at her challenger. then there was a third-party candidate at 15%. that is going to go to cass

mary lander is in a fight for her seat in louisiana.ving forward, a democrat moving forward to schedule a vote in the senate. we anticipate we will have a vote in the house tomorrow. this has been a political issue. there are a lot of questions as to what might happen next. assuming this happens in the house, will they have votes in the senate? if it does get through in the senate, what will the president then do? don't forget he vetoed this back in 2012. you have seen a groundswell of support among a lot of people in states that would benefit from this. they would like to see those jobs coming to this country and the benefits this would bring in terms of our own energy independence. we will talk about this coming up on street smart. a representative will be joining me to talk about the house vote tomorrow. we have also got major m&a news to talk about. dreamworks animation. and warren buffett is making a big bet on batteries. is agreeing.haway i will get some insight from a team of expert m&a folks. we have a whole lot coming up, all t

manual defeat for the bill author louisiana democrat mary lander run off election battle at home. it would carry if gas from canada to the gulf coast. if president obama has threatened to veto the bill if it passes. >>> accelerating electric car. coming up next. effort by one of the grit east research lab coming up next. effort by one of the grit east research lab to help build a better battery. >> he. >> take a look at the car of the future. toyota japanese word for future. it's a fuel cell car capable of going 400 miles on single charge of compressed might row general gas which emit no exhaust. although only a few dozen fuel cell filling station toyota plans to begin selling this in japan next month and in the united states next year. and 57,000 dollars each. >> push is on in this country to put more electric car on the road. >> world leading laboratory is helping to develop better battery. >> january thon bloom has more on that. >> said to be the nation lon longest building. nearly 2 mile long listen i can't remember particle accelerator. government lab run by stanford in menlo

the one thing we can agree on is that mary landers is an incredibly tenacious and tough politician. >> a little plug for rollcall. spread showing our rollcall on the road project. we have so many photos from mary landor. she is fiber and and happy. >> there are not many candidates doing cake stands and line dances that say louisiana is its own wonderful place. she fits right in. philosophical point of view to voters look at this as republicans of arty one so is turnout going to be an issue? >> you can make that argument and say the democrat base was depressed and will be more depressed, i think we have to run our own races. our a committee perspective ground game will be the number one thing we focus on and other folks will hopefully covert the tv and the other stuff. focusing on the ground game and getting things out. we call it a runoff but it is really a brand-new election. with the tell them that just because they showed up six weeks ago doesn't mean they will show up. it is not for the majority but a senate seat is a terrible thing to waste and we have a shot right now so let's g

with batteries on the lander running dangerously low, and the mission itself in peril, there's something of a hail maryn progress. and abc's aditi roy is on the story. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the philae lander is getting well-deserved rest after becoming the first spacecraft to land on a comet and study it. to get the prize data, it had to take quite a roller coaster ride through space. overnight, high drama 300 million miles into outer space. this time not starring matthew mcconaughey or anne hathaway. the philae lander had a seriously nail-biting week. began with a rough landing on a comet. traveling at more than 80,000 miles per hour. if you listen closely, we even get to hear the unexplained singing noise from the comet. [ singing noise ] and ended nearly losing battery power. unable to charge its solar panels due to the shadow from another rock on the comet. to rescue the first of its kind spacecraft friday, scientists from the european space agency and nasa shut down most of the lander's systems. leaving technicians unable to communicate with the $1.8 billion probe. >> it's is wh

mary in progress. aditi roy has the story. >> reporter: good morning. the philae lander is getting well-deserved rest after becoming the first to land on a comet and studying it. to get the data, it had a roller coaster ride through space. high drama 300 million miles into outer space. this time not starring matthew mcconaughey. it's had a seriously nail-biting week. began with a rough landing on a comet. traveling at more than 80,000 miles per hour. if you listen closely, we even get to hear the unexplained sing noise from the comet. [ singing noise ] and ended nearly losing battery power. unable to charges it solar panels due to the shadow from another rock on the comet. to rescue the first of its kind spra spacecraft, they shut down most of the systems, leaving technicians unable to communicate with the $1.8 billion probe. >> it's is where we got, but then we lost contact again. >> reporter: it resumed sending back scores of data and photos like these, showing off the magnetic field and plasma environment. and sending back tweets, i'm feeling a bit tired. did you get

the harpoons, scientists still don't know if the lander is going to be able to remain on that comet for an entire year, as it hurtles toward the sun. mary ann favro, nbc bay area news. >> what an amazing story this is. we could talk about it for hours. our coverage of this epic touchdown continues in just about 15 minutes with brian williams on "nightly news." he'll take a look at the big mystery the mission could help solve. >>> let's get a check of the forecast now. we're finally getting some rain. here's jeff ranieri. >> couldn't be more excited in the weather department. our approaching storm system continues to get closer, as we mentioned earlier. it's finally starting to get its act together. over the past two hours we've seen cloud cover increase off the bay. any rain returns, even on a wide scan, are way off to the north and well offshore. eventually, the pattern is going to be changing. the most disruptive thing we have happening in the sky camera network is the cloud cover moving in. also a colder night, temperatures in the upper 50s and low 60s. a beautiful shot from our weather underground camera here in belvedere. you can s

landers is running for reelection and perhaps get some credit for this vote. she is the chairman of the senate energy committee for the moment. if they have a vote on the floor, maybe maryan get some credit for it down in louisiana. still a hard sell. hard to imagine it will pass with 60 votes. the president will likely threaten a veto. so far, he says he will not back the project until the full environmental review of legal issues is resolved. committee chairman, who are the major players we should be watching? maybe theportant, most intriguing, the climate deal with china. james imhoff is the senator from oklahoma, arguably the biggest skeptic of climate change in the u.s. he has written a book called "the greatest hoax" talking about climate change. he is one to watch for the business community. the banking community, richard shelby is back in charge of that community. he has been a critic of credit policy and a big critic of dodd-frank. some policy changes there. and then the budget committee of alabama as well. he could be a big thorn to president obama moving forward. jt party favorite and someone who death really -- desperately wants to cut. >> our chief washingt

mary landrieu from her runoff which is next month. >>> an historic mission ten years in the making, the lander is on decent to touch down on a movingabout two hours' time, simple enough, right? land a probe on a comet traveling 34,000 miles an hour. chris? >>> time for today's "human factor." meet a woman who has been a transformational journey, she lost 100 pounds on her own and dropped another 100 pounds as part of cnn's fit nation challenge. chief medical correspondette dr. sanjay gupta follows the inspiring journey. take a look. >> reporter: at over 400 pounds she was revered in her samoan culture. >> i was considered by people a samoan woman of strength but there is no strength in pain, in hurt, in living with uncontrolled diabetes. >> reporter: complications from her diabetes even forced her to have all of her teeth removed. >> it was on that same day that i decided to be an activist against obesity and diabetes. >> reporter: already an acclaimed author, she used her platform to become a crusader, speaking to schoolchildren and parents about the dangers of obesity. she joined the 2014 cnn fit nation and began chaining for the