andrew thomas, al jazerra, samoa. >>> 13 cubans have been rescued by the mexican navy after they were on the ground a makeshift raft in the gulf of mexico. it's believed that they had been at sea for as many as 24 days and were showing signs of severe dehydration. one man was found dead in the draft and another died while being taken for treatment. >>> northern mexico farmsers are feeling the impact of a toxic spill from a copper mine, being forced to throw away thousands of liters of milk. in august a spill at the copper mine sent toxic chemical chemico the sonora river co contaminatig local pastures. >>> thousands of fish found dead in a lake in central mexico have left environmental assists puzzles think the rotting fish have been washing up on the shores of the lake over the past week. natural causes have now been ruled out by the state environment agency. wastewater treatment facilities and a nearby tequila distillery could be part of the problem. >>> india's prime minister and his japanese counterpart have agreed to speed up talk on a nuclear energy packed. necessary tokyo for h

all of the caribbean islands and samoa, not just the home of everyones third favorite girl scout cookie this is is a opportunity to insure the u.n. is fit for support. >> jon: syds? small island developing states. talk about people who can't get their own acronym. they have to share is sudden infant death syndrome. planning dinner and after. [ applause ] >> jon: i didn't realize i did that when i was so young. interesting. you know, you get pictures of me now, i work here. you know after hearing the moving speeches who wouldn't stand up to take action against action change. >> the leaders of china and india chose not to attend the summit today. >> jon: really. the leaders of india and china chose not to attend. they chose to be the first and third carbon producers of emissions. the u.s. is number two, but still president obama was there to do what it takes. they talked about a carbon tax. >> a price on carbon. something the united states has rejected. >> jon: rejected is such a harsh word. politely decline to legislatively consider, because it may effect us. anything get done at the sum

in syria, every man, woman and child in the united states, including puerto rico, guam and american samoae dead men walking. those 30,000 i.s.i.s. fighters will kill all 300 million of us over columbus day weekend. (laughter) for that matter, we could all be dead by the end of this sentence. okay. we dodged a bullet this time, but we could be dead by the end of this sentence. (laughter) okay. we're living on borrowed time. (laughter) unless i'm dead right now. i mean, this feels like heaven. (laughter) (applause) folks -- folks -- thank you. (audience chanting "stephen") thank you, folks. i agree with you. but while i applaud my fellow south cackalackian's statesman-like pants-crapping, please do not panic. hmm -- that really does not sound like me. (laughter) nope. same as always. 106.2. laugh and here's why you shouldn't panic -- because we "will" have ground forces, thanks to our closest ally: anyone who will do it. >> the president has ruled out u.s. combat troops and will rely on the iraqi army and the so-called moderate syrian opposition. >> kurdish peshmerga forces are fighting on

the while increasing the use of indigenous clean-energy resources in the insular areas of american samoa, the northern mariana islands, puerto rico, guam, the virgin islands and the freely associated states. before i go any further, i want to take this opportunity to thank subcommittee chairman whitfield and ranking member rush and committee chair upton and ranking member waxman who on hearing the high cost of electricity of my district, the u.s. virgin islands immediately supported my efforts to bring relief. i recall the very first time that i shared how much we paid for electricity during one of our early energy and power subcommittee meetings, chairman whitfield actually followed me outside the room to confirm that he had heard the right figure and then pledged to do whatever he could as chairman to help on this issue. and we thank you for your help and your support. with their support, energy and commerce actually passed this bill in july last year and we have been trying to bring it to the floor for passage since then. i also want to thank natural resources chair doc hastings and r

i was in samoa and they had tears in their eyes at times because the situation has become so serious.fects us everywhere now. we are not on course for a safe world. we will have this climate summit in today's time -- two days' time. the formerinson is president of ireland. how is ireland affected by climate change? >> ireland is very aware. andand is part of the eu they have a very important decision to make in october. they must accept the commission package by 2013. that is vital so that we can start to get back on a good course. >> the marshall islands -- >> six feet above sea level, sitting in the middle of the pacific. robinson in saying we consider this to be a wonderful case to be able to tell the world what a problem climate change is now and we must deal with it now. >> why did you come here? >> i came for the summit, but also for this march. >> more than 120 heads of states of governments. it is a bigger meeting of heads of states and the small island states are leading a lot of this . how the small island states are organized. association -- the alliance of small island sta

leaders samoa with they had tears in their eyes and times. the situation has become so serious.affects everywhere now. we're not on course for save the world. we have is, some in today's time. the leaders of the world have to have the pressure not just in new york at all over the world today. what the marshall islands. >> six feet above sea level sitting the middle of the pacific will stop one of the five most vulnerable countries in the world. sayingd ms. robinson and we consider this to be a wonderful occasion to be able to tell the world that the problem of climate change is now and we must deal with it now. >> i see a woman who has made history right behind us. is the first socialist city councilmember in seattle. talk about why you come from seattle. >> mainly because this is an forlutely distort weekend the budding movement against climate change. thousands of people are here marching together in solidarity shows there more than ready for collective action. what we were talking about last night was this collective action needs to be channeled into really radical militant n

so this story is told through the salal family, an immigrant family from samoa, and the mother, who worked as a domestic worker, would often say to my, i don't know how i'd make it without the church. and the church gave them diapers for their kids, and several times when they were short on rent the church provided some money. and she would always say, the lord has a plan for me. when she would get really, really stressed out she would pray the lord would find a way for her, and so when that happens, like when a friend of hers brought some food during a week that was really tight, and they didn't have enough money to buy food, some interpret that as god looking out for them. what is interesting is i never had someone at the top say, my 41k went up by 20% last year, god is really blessing me. so, god works in different ways for different people. [laughter] and it was a remarkable thing to see this church community really rallying behind the family. but this actually gets wrack to the point about the shift in risk, which is that welfare provision has increasingly gone outsourced from the fed

rwanda, samoa, sanç marino and serbia, sierra leon, slovakia. slovenia.mon islands and south africa, south sudan, spain, sri lanka. suriname, sweden, switzerland. thailand. macedonia, togo, trinidad, tunisia, turkey, uganda, ukraine, the united kingdom of great britain and northern island, the united states of america, uruguay, vietnam, yemen, and zambia. i shall put it to the vote now. will those in favor of the draft resolution contained in document s-2o 14-673 please raise their hand. the result of the voting is as follows. the draft resolution received 15 votes in favor. the draft resolution has been adopted unanimously asdh rez los 2177, 2014. i shall[p now make a representative of the united states.lúzÑ thank you for the remarks and the role of the united nations they are playing in confronting the ebola epidemic. i would like to recognize all the people in the battle. people like mr. jack who are risking their lives to curb this deadly virus. your dedication and compassion humble us. they are holding an emergency meeting on a health crisis for the