i asked steve mcdonald what could be in store for that area. >> if there are, indeed 25,000 of them. it depends how heavily armed they are. the south sudan regular army, the s.p.l.a. is moving towards bentiu and has recaptured bor and mccala or maybe half. they have a large presence up there. if there's 25,000 of these guys, there may be a real knock-down, drag-out battle. >> that was steve mcdonald with the wilson center. >> a former u.s. diplomat is at the center of an effort to bring the northern island political parties together. richard haass is there to resolve disagreements. >> catholic fought protest ants, but now the arguments are on smaller but sensitive matters. >> they are calling it a final effort to reach an agreement between northern island's political parties. as richard haass and his team convene talks, he admitted it was difficult. >> by noon on monday we'll have had 12 hours of plenary sessions. it will be very hard at that point, given everything that will have come before it to argue that rt missing ingredient is more time. >> the issue that is toughest to crack

is steve mcdonald, the senior advisor for the african program at the wilson center. thank you for being with us. there's talk of a peace deal. we see the reports and pictures. how likely is it that that country will come to peace? >> well, of course i have seen the reports. the negotiations on friday in nairobi under the auspices of the intergovernmental authority for development, and the visits by the presidents of kenya and the prime minister of ethiopia, plus, as i understand it, probably tomorrow uganda's president is going in. these are welcome efforts, of course. and there has been acknowledgment for agreement by president salva kiir of south sudan to seek a ceasefire and to undergo a negotiation process to bring these hostilities to an end. without like commitment from riek machar, the former vice president who is the one who perpet rated who led the rebel group, these will come to nought >> do you get the impression that the vice president is willing to engage? do you think he'll soften his stance at all? >> this is speculation. i do not get that feeling yet.

i asked steve mcdonald, senior advisor at the wilson center what could be in store for that area. >> if there are indeed 25,000 of them, it depends upon a little bit of how heavily armed they are, the south sudan hesudaneses recaptured bor and mcalla. well, maybe half of mcalla. they have a large presence up there. if there are 25,000 of these guys, there may be a real knock-down drag-out battle up there. >> that was steve mcdonald, the senior advisor for the africa program at the wilson center. >> an intention heat wave has hit argentina. national weather center has declared a red alert in the capital, bon as aries. some people have taken to the streets to voice anger over the power outages. >> no one listens to us. we followed all of the correct procedures, and we have called the energy company, but only computer deals with us. they say the engineers are out working, but that's a lie. we have no alternative but to do this. >> with temperatures over 100 degrees, the government is now handing out water and until energy companies fix the problems, residents are trying to beat the heat

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. >> thanks to steve mcdonald with the wilson center. >> fighting in cairo between student protesters and police had a fever pitch. 2,000 were killed. demonstrations are taking place at the university. >> we have been speaking about protests around the universities here in cairo and there was another incident at a university in alex molnar -- in alexandria after an explosive device was found. there was a bomb found on board a bus there was diffused. the passengers found the device hidden under a seat. the grenade went off. it caused damage to some cars. now, the protests are all in response to the government's decision to designate the muslim brotherhood as a terrorist organization. since then 400 preem have been rounded up accused of having links to the organization. anyone in the group can be gaoled for up to five years. the punishment is death. a lot of people are getting worried. there's a few people reconsidering their plans. a lot are thinking twice. for fear of an attack. >> iran is flirting with the idea of moving the capital from tehran. some feel the move won't solve much. >

mcdonald's dollar menu. ♪ >>> morgan mengel and her young lover steve shappell were both sitting in jail for the murder of to playing a small part in the crime, helping steve shappell come up with the plan to spike her husband's snapple iced tea with poison, only it was a joke, she said, that was taken too far. >> what were your first impressions of her? >> very good. i peemean, the allegation compa to the person that i was speaking to did not seem to fit. >> morgan's attorney, jack mcmahon, said that she wasn't at the crime scene when kevin was killed ahad no convincing motive for wanting her husband dead. >> financially she was way worse off with her husband's death than she would have been with him alive because he was the life blood of the company and there was no life insurance. >> you think she had some musing about it, i wish my husband wasn't around and i wish someone would take care of it? >> i think morgan was walking around with dynamite, so to speak, and stephen shappell was the mass that lit that dynamite and exploded it but that person that took action was shappell. he is a cold-blooded kill

mcdonalds. he says congress ought to vote across the board hike in the minimum wage. i'm steve handelsman, news 4. >>> the fast food protests have a lot of people talking. we want to know what you think. do you support the fast food employees striking for higher wages? call or text your response to 202-601-3444. text one for yes, i agree with the protests or text two if you don't agree with the protests. we'll share your responses on news 4 at 5:00. >>> turning to the weather, we have cold stuff headed our way worth talking about, right? >> definitely worth talking about. as far as this evening goes, hey, a lot of folks going around with short sleeves on today. you'll be able to do it for the evening. the temperatures are in the 60s. we drop to 60 by 11:00 p.m. nice and warm with the possibility of showers around 10:00 or 11:00 p.m. i can show you where the showers are setting up. more advancing into areas like northern west virginia, but of course, it's all of this, this major storm setting up with not only snow south of st. louis, but where there will be a lot of ice from the

mcdonald's drive-thru on his way to eat." i'm going to eat. get a big mac before he went to his -- >> steve while i'm there. >> jimmy: this next one's from my sister. this one's from @gloriafallon123. she said, "i was an annoying teenage vegan one thanksgiving and came to dinner with a veggie burger and it made my grandma cry." [ light laughter ] she was a full on -- told us she wanted to be a vegan this year. for one year, she was, and so like the stuffing was made in the turkey and the gravy was from the turkey so she didn't want to touch anything that had to do with it. so she made my mom like give her like a frozen veggie burger. and my grandmother was like, "why wouldn't you eat?" [ laughter ] anyways, it made us laugh. she wasn't that bad. next year, she ate. this last one's from @eclypse. he says, "tried deep frying turkey for first time. this happened." [ laughter ] [ audience oohs ] [ applause ] oh, show that again. release the kraken! [ laughter ] >> steve: release the kraken! >> jimmy: for more "late night" hashtags and to check out more of our favorites go to latenightwithjimmyf