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this weekend, really has decided to behave itself. i think you might like the weather you did today, couple degrees warmer, looks mikes out there so farment it is dark, little hard to see just how nice, but we'll finds that once the sun comes up. 39 degrees in reading, definite warm up from where we were yesterday at this time point. storm scan3, few clouds overhead, one of the reasons we stayed warmer overnight, we have those clouds out there, we will be looking for day where the clouds do start to thin out. forty-nine in philadelphia right now, 42 degrees in trenton, we have 42 degrees in wilmington, 46 in millville, above freezing, in every single location. in fact, it is a big change in our temperatures. we're 10 degrees warm they are morning than we were yesterday morning at this point. in philadelphia, and 13 degrees warmer in millville than we were yesterday. our temperatures today by noon, 54 degrees, by 3:00 p.m., we should be at 56, 57 degrees, so looks like mild day, light winds. clear the clouds out, the computer model says yes, they're gone, and we will be finding increasing amounts every sunday shine going through the day today, and i think the next couple every days you will really like. we have big cool down coming in. i'll show it to you on the seven day coming up. >> carol, thank you. >> and new this morning, a homicide is under investigation in philadelphia's hunting park neighborhood. it happened shortly before 11:30 last night, 1600 block of rowan street. investigators say an unidentified woman was shot in the head. she died at that scene. right now there is no word on motive or suspect. also, new this morning, one person is dead after a shooting outside a north philadelphia bar. investigators tell us shots were fired outside last chance bar at 18th and girard avenue. the shooting happened just before 11:00 last night, no word on the identity of the victim r police still looking for that shooter. >> philadelphia police cruiser catches fire after a hit-and-run crash in south philadelphia. the search on this morning for the driver who fled that scene. now, the officer was actually pulled out of the car before it burst into flames. "eyewitness news" reporter matt rivers has that story. >> the police at 28th and cast kerr in south philly, an eyewitness shot this video around 6:30, right about the time dante johnson jumped off his couch. just two houses away from the crash, he describes what he saw, as he raised toward the flames. >> literally like fourth of july lightning. the hotter it got, the more is it spread, more popping annex providing. >> moments earlier this pick-up truck had blown a stop sign colliding with the police cruiser, officer stuck inside crazed his door stuck shot and the engine caught fire. >> me and couple ran to the cop car, pulled him to safety. >> meanwhile the driver of the pick up had fled and passenger in the truck was taken to the hospital. both crash victims were safe. but the car continued to burn prompting police to worry about the growing crowd of bystanders. well timed instruction, as the the fire flared, just seconds later. firefighters arrived soon after and the flames were put out. this was the aftermath. black metal, charred driver seat, where the officer might have been had it not been for the action of dante and few others. >> i call awe hero, what do you say? >> i wouldn't even be able to call myself a hero, i'm just an innocent by stands here did the right thing. >> both police officer and the passenger inside the pick-up truck are expected to be okay. the driver of the pick-up truck did flea the scene of an accident and will face criminal charges if caught. we're outside of police headquarters, matt rivers, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". the search is on for the gunman who shot a temple university student during a attempted robbery in north philadelphia. the shooting happened off campus during a party on the 1500 block of north 17th street early saturday morning. police say the victim was sitting on the porch when the gunman demanded his wallet. eyewitnesses say the student lunged at the would be robber and the pair struggled. gun went off, and student was shot in the leg. >> really shocked. i mean, i feel like my bike was robbed, i mean, from me, and i think that was the worse it would ever be on the block. everyone seems pretty friendly and pretty call. >> cops dragged him out of the house and dragged him off in a police car, just shut down the street. >> the victim is okay. expected to be released from the hospital very soon. >> the two remaining american citizens imprisoned in north korea now free and back in the u.s. this morning. their release big step in diplomatic relations with north korea correspondent chris van cleve has the latest. >> kenneth bay and matthew miller back on us soil following their release from north korean prison saturday. >> it has just been amazing blessing to see so many people being involved, getting relief the last few years. >> director of national intelligence, and other us officials flying to negotiate their release, canned the pair back to the states on military jet to a base in washington state. officials say there was nothing given to north korea in exchange for the men's release. bae, a missionary from washington state, arrested two years ago and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for what the north korean says were crimes against the state. miller of bakers fields, has been in custody since, sentenced to six years of hard labor charged with spying. both said in a interview they were being treated humanely, miami err and bae release comes three weeks after freed fellow american 56 year old jeffrey pal of ohio after six months in captivity. fall was taken into custody after leaving bible at a sailor's club, he was traveling as a tourist, chris van cleve, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". bae's family said in a statement that it is greatful and relieved. miller's family has asked for privacy. and new this morning, just as the freed americans touch us soil, president owe bomb a leaves for china for the summit. headed on week long chip. during three day visit to beijing, obama expected to spends several hours with chinese president and other foreign leaders. this will be the president's first visit to beijing since 2009. well, president obama announces his pick for the next attorney general. lore eight lynch currently serves as the us attorney for the eastern district of new york. cbs news correspondent wendy gillette has her story from brooklyn, new york. >> let me introduce to you miss loretta lynch. >> president obama introduces the woman he wants to serve as attorney general. >> lore eight doesn't look to make headlines. she looks to make a difference. she's not about flash, she is about substance. >> loretta lynch would take over the job from eric holder who is stepping down. >> if i had the honor of being confirmed by the senate ill wake up every morning with a protection of the american people my first thought. >> eleven of lynch's monumental cases helping to prosecute police officers here at the 70th precinct in brooklyn accused of brutalizing a haitian immigrant. >> some women its dollars with a broom stick in 1997 became national symbol of police brutality. lynch's nomination comes as the attorney general's office continues to investigate the police shooting of 18 year old bribing and brown in ferguson, missouri, lynch also helped prosecute terrorists and corrupt politicians. >> she has spent years in the trenches as a prosecutor, aggressively fighting terrorism, financial fraud, cyber crime, all while vigorously defending civil rights. >> confirmation hearings will likely be held next year. if confirmed, lynch would be the first black female attorney general. in brooklyn new york, went zero wendy gillette, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> meantime, current attorney ay general eric holding is praising agencies in our region for their work rescuing area duck sean victim. holder offered his thanks in a letter. now, authority say, delvin barnes snatched that 22 year old woman off the germantown street last sunday night. atf agents found them in just up maryland wednesday. barnes is currently behind bars in virginia where he faces attempted murder charges in another case. officials say, he is currently on suicide watch. >> a judge orders the ncaa to turn over nearly 500 internal emails relating to the sanctions imposed on penn state over the jerry sandusky scandal. a state lawmaker and the state treasurer seek the material as they prepare for january trial. they're trying to keep the fine money collected under the 2012 guess end decree within pennsylvania to address child abuse. >> it is 6:09 right now. and hollywood actor is arrested in a very bizarre case. what he is accused of stealing, that's coming up next. >> also ahead, aluminum bat comes in handy behind the counter. how a store clerk turned the tables on gun toting robber. >> have you heard through the grapevine maybe someone in your class has the flu? forget word of mouth, get your hands on a smart phone. now you can track outbreaks on your own, coming up health reporter stephanie stahl will show us how. chilly start to the weekend becomes you now temperatures, well, they're worming up. good news for all of house aren't ready for the cold. carol has the seven day forecast coming up next. 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"tmz" says the actor encountered a man on the street in hollywood friday night. the man recognized him, showed him the piece of jewelry then he allegedly took off with it on a bicycle. well, police saw andy dixon his bike and arrested him. the necklace worth about a thousand dollars. >> and new this morning, a meteor lights up the night skies in the southwest. this is dash cam video posted to youtube t shows a first-hand view of the bright streak. check it out there. and take a look at this picture, actually snapped near lore aid owe, texas, people in california to the lone star state reported seeing that fireball. now, some say it crashed to earth. nasa says, every day about 100 tons of meet its enter the earth's atmosphere. how about that? >> well, hey, macy's unveils new roster of stars for the thanksgiving day parade. spiderman and thomas the tank engine, just some of the balloons that took part in the dress rehearsal for the 88th annual parade in new york city. flight teams were out testing the balloons ahead of their debut, pad inning ton bear, thomas, among the newcomb ers to this year's event. i neice will be very please today see thomas the train involved in that parade. carol, good morning, how is the weather looking? >> weather not bad at all. if you have outdoor plans today, nicole, probably do with the baby, i think it is a fine day to do it. >> and i think anybody who has someplace this -- plans in weekends, much better shape than we were last weekend when so incredibly winds i. we watch this tree, our gauge, really none the leaves have been able to shack loose, and the branches pretty quiet this morning. that's good start. there are few clouds out there. we move to another location, we find atlantic city looking lovely this morning, as usual. nice beach day too i think. anywhere you go, 39 degrees, that's the temperature out in reading right now, we have about 15, 20, 25 minutes before the sun finally wakes up. so glad you're up ahead of the sun. not authorities do these days. the sun has a very shortened work day. we are looking at conditions that are going to be pretty nice over our area, so, we will continue to enjoy nice weather, through philadelphia, 46 right now in philadelphia, 42 in trenton, 42 degrees in wilmington, 35 in the poconos, you remember yesterday morning, a lot of these temperatures were in the 20's, we had windchills down in the 20's, for everybody, it is a lot different feel out there today. storm scan3, some clouds, and we can thank the clouds overnight. i think at night it is not a bad thing this time of the year to find few clouds, because it will tends to keep our temperatures up. that's what we found overnight. and then clearing, starts to move in. so we have a day that looks like it is going to be shaping up pretty nicely, note's, yesterday, we got to ooh degrees, today, we should be get to go 56, 57 degrees. couple of degrees shy of normal. sunshine, though, will be increasingly coming outment tomorrow looks like nice day, too. these 50's may be replaced by even 60, 61 degrees even monday, then tuesday it will be even milder. we should be well into the 60s at that point. and at this point it looks like it should be dry, maybe some clouds, something to watch, along the coast and does it just go taught sea or does it throw in couple of more clouds on tuesday? future weather, not really any reason to stop this occasionally a pause point in here, just at random, midnight, in case that's an important time to you. then going through tomorrow at 8:00 p.m., still looks nice, around here, tuesday, few of these clouds, as you can see, and then early wednesday, we keep these clouds around a little bit. but i think what you will note this week, the tail of two cities really, bus just two different temperatures, mild to start the week, cold to finish the week. it is a blast of cold air that starts to come down here, and it oozes over into the philadelphia area, and that's going to be on that thursday and friday timetable. and then next weekends, too, looks pretty chilly. but today into the 50's everybody, the poconos, 48 degrees, i think you will like it outside today. winds out of the win five to 10 miles an hour. 40 degrees as the sunsets, way too early, way too early tonight. tomorrow 06 degrees, tuesday, six a, wednesday we could still be in the 60s, before we real cool down, thursday, 46 degrees, and then, it is only in the lower to mid 40's, for the rest of the week. >> you know, saturday, november the 15th, mark this in your calendars, because we want to see you f noon to 3:00 at the plymouth meeting mall we have kid caster's, great kids come out, test their weather skills. whole team is there. and we can't wait to see you again next saturday 12:00 to 3:00 plymouth meeting mall. >> 6:13. and the 26 annual special olympics pennsylvania fall festival as in full flange in weekends, great weekend for t villanova university, thousands of volunteers, athletes, coaches, all taking part in soccer, valley ball, running and more. largest run special olympics event in the worm. our own chris may will be the mc. well, very important lesson, taught in south philadelphia. saving lives. "eyewitness news" at the philly heart walk here. a team of physicians researchers and staff from the university of pennsylvania were teaching people to perform hands-only cpr. it was all part of the mobile cpr project. the program has trained more than 5,000 people to date. on the health watch this morning, flu season is here, tan can spread quickly. so some are asking: who has the flu, and am i being exposed? "eyewitness news". >> reporter: err stephanie stahl explains how you and your smart phone can barak outbreaks. >> flew near you is a free website and mobile app that uses power of crowd sourcing to track and monitor flu symptoms around the country. >> it increases awareness around the flu, and your area and country wide. >> once you register, questionnaire for box toss check with signs of the flu, like headache, fever, chills, fatigue, people with the symptoms can easily spread it which is why it is important to know where they might be. you can check for illnesses based on zip codes. >> tracks them based on blue dots for symptoms, yellow symptoms but not flu-like illness or rid dot for flu-like illness. >> personal information including e-mail addresses are kept completely confidential. food near you created near boston children hospital and the american public health association, especially interested in getting people under 30 to sign up. >> they don't feel vulnerable. may not be in position where their parents are getting older, where they may feel like as carriers, they make their parents more vulnerable. >> doctors say the best way to prevent the flu is getting a yearly flu shot. the cdc says flu is sporadic around the country including in our area all three states are reporting confirmed cases of influenza including almost 200 in pennsylvania. we have a complete flu resource guide, at cbsphilly.com. click on health. it will include link to flu near you. i'll also have that information for you on twitter and facebook. i'm stephanie stahl, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". all right, it is 6:21 right now. still ahead, it is a special day for a very special sunday morning program right here on cbs-3. one of the longest running news shows in television history marks a milestone. i'm susan macinnis in washington where "face the nation" is ♪ you're unpacking already? yeah. help me find some mugs? sure. ♪ [ beep ] hey. okay. -these'll do.? -yeah. 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more than 7,000 top newsmakers, military leaders, cultural icons, and candidates. eleven presidents have appeared on "face the nation", beginning with dwight eisenhower. >> if as you say there is nothing there, mr. president, how can so many reputable, respected professionals, keep pressing along with this? >> well, that's your characterization, not mine. >> we're delight today have the secretary every state with thus morning. >> secretaries of state often in the hot seat. henry kissinger has been a guest for the last 57 years, most recently september. >> what has happened here? >> over the years, the sets have been spruced up, and the broadcast technology has improved. but schieffer says the shows approach to news remains the same. >> we'll celebrate this 60th year by doing just what we've been doing, we won't change. >> cbs-3, "eyewitness news". and we love that about him. well, don't miss this special edition of "face the nation" with bob schieffer this morning, at 10:30, happening right here on cbs-3, and coming up in our 8:00 hour as we always do, we will talk live with bob about todd's special program. stay with us, we'll be discover the power of just one new dove body wash with abreakt. just one shower gives you softer smoother skin. my skin is really silky smooth. new dove body wash. softer, smoother skin after just one shower. you need healing., new vaseline intensive care with micro-droplets of vaseline jelly relieves dry skin and moisturizes to heal it in just 5 days. clinically proven. that's the healing power of vaseline. >> from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". a south jersey business destroyed by flames. investigators try to figure out what sparked this huge fire that also sent the business owner to the hospital. and, horror when a passenger plane has to make an emergency landing. piece of the propeller goes through a window, coming up hear from a passenger injured in that crash landing. syma? >> it is a beautiful morning to run for a great cause. i'm syma chowdhry with a live report coming up. today is sunday, november 9th, good morning, everybody, thanks so much for joining us, i'm nicole brewer. it is just about 6:30 right now, let's get awe check on the forecast, and not so bad out today, right, carol? little cold? >> yes, not bad at all. really cold yesterday morning, when we struggled in here in the chill, but today not so much. we've got temperatures that will be acceptable, they'll be higher than they were yesterday, and not as high as they will be, or as low as they will be either for that matter as we get to the end of the week. looks okay out there in center city but i think the skies still a little gloomy looking will be brightening up later on today, more and more sunshine starts to filter in, and fewer and fewer clouds will be in the sky. looks okay in atlantic city at this point, but again the day does get brighter. we have temperature every 38 degrees, that's the reading right now in reading, and so a lot milder than yesterday by ten to 13 degrees. temperature in the poconos, 35 degrees, with your winds out of the west about six. westerly winds, not a bad direction, for the winds to come from. forty-six, philadelphia, 45 degrees in atlantic city, then as you see spread out overall of the map, we have a temperature that ranges from that 35 in the poconos, and lancaster, all the way through 48 degrees and that is down in wildwood. temperature of 37 in quakertown, 38 pottstown, mt. holly, 41 degrees this morning, we have storm scan3, showing, not much, notice the clouds, though, and they're through south jersey and you're seeing some in other locations, as well, of course, but they will be on their way out, and that leaves us with a day that will be brightening up, and warming up. 54 degrees, the temperature by noon, 56, probably, just about the expected high temperature this afternoon, our future weather says the clouds leave, and we are left with sunshine today. i think you will like the day. winds won't be all that bad either. how nice is that, nicole? in fact, sunday, what about the rest of the week, however, we will take a look at that coming up. nick snow. >> carol, thank you. fire destroys long time mower shop in maple shade burlington county. this morning, investigators are trying to figure out what sparked that huge fire. steve patterson has that story. >> dark clouds over maple shade. tall flames. >> saturday morning took less than two hours to desomate a business that stood prout for more than 30 years. >> staple of community. been here for a long time. >> the two alarm fire sent flames spewing out of this structure that housed both south jersey mowers, and the home of the people who owned it. >> it is a shame, really is, sad, you know, you have been here for years, you hate to see something like this happen to anybody, and in any town. >> fire officials stay broke out around 4:00 in the 600 block of styles producing towering flames that would not stop until daylight broke on smoldering ruins. >> amazing, to sit they had it under control an hour late things would start to shoot back up again. >> emergency workers say one of the owners, a woman, suffered minor smoke inhalation and throat burns, she'll spend the night at nearby hospital in stable condition. the business is gutted. county fire marshall work to go determine how the flames started while the community stands marveling at how this decades-old building ended. in maple shade, steve patterson, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". 6:32 right now. british police stop a plot to assassinate queen elizabeth the second. police arrested four suspected islamic terrorists after they say the men planned a knife attack on the 88 year old queen. sources told the sun that they also believe they may have had access to guns. the queen is planning a number of public appearances this weekend, she has reportedly been informed about the foiled assassination attempt, but intends to go ahead with her schedule as planned. well, today, germany marks 25 years since the berlin wall came down. the wall was a literal and symbolic barrier, which once divided nation and world. german chancellor, angela, was among many dignitaries with flowers and preserved segment of the wall. more than a million people expected to participate in today's festivities. well, a frightening experience for airline passengers on board a air canada flight that was forced to make an emergency landing last week. one woman recounts the horror to reporter amanda anderson. >> all the sudden something came crashing through the window and hit my held. >> looks like propeller launched between two window seat. christina sitting in one of them. >> couple of bumps on my head, basically the right side of my body ask bruised and bummed. >> corril a, bunch three hurts, when air canada jazz flight 8481 crash landed at the edmonton airport. her co-workers, melissa menads, also on the flight, still in shock by the images. >> the first time i seen it, i still didn't realize that it was actually the propeller right through the window where christine with a as sitting. >> she was covered in fiberglass, she was dazed, not fully aware of the cabin was filling with smoke, she says it was the stranger sitting next to her that helped her to safety. >> he stayed with me right to the very end. he was fantastic. he really helped calm me down. >> the aircraft was removed from the runway around 10:00 friday night, moved to hangar for examination. they say the runway then inspected for any damage from the incident. >> they swept for debris, they had to do a minor repair on a runway light that was damaged during the incident, but other than that, they were able get the lights back on, runway open again. >> according to on line sources canadian turbo prop plane built in 2012, nan service less than two years, the same model grounded by scandanavian airlines in 2007 for crashes involving landing gear failures. although thursday's crash is still under investigation, some passengers feel it is being brushed off as a rough landing. >> this could have killed people. literally inches away from killing someone. they just got lot i it didn't. so it wasn't a rough landing it, it is a little bit more serious than that. >> and that was amanda anderson reporting, now, that flight had took mat emergency landing after blowing a tire during take off. well, the nurse who fought her ebola quarantine order wants to move out of state. casey hickox plan to leave the last day of the 21 day incubation periods. judge from maine sided with hickox when she challenged the order to be isolated after she treated ebola patients in west africa. >> well, ebola took center stage at a special training exercise, for the philadelphia medical reserve corpse. around 150 volunteers with the group attended the event at the university of the sciences campus. trainees were briefed on ebola preparedness and response in philadelphia. the medical reserve corpse was created in 2005 to support the public response to public health emergency. and, happening today, more than 2,000 runners and walkers are lacing up their sneakers for the sixth annual lemon run. now, their mission, to raise money to help finds a cure for pediatric cancer. "eyewitness news" reporter syma chowdhry is live at memorial hall in fairmount park where registration is now underway. syma, good morning. >> good morning, nicole. we are very familiar with this organization, alex's lemonade stands, and if you see behind me, they are setting up for this lemon run, registration is around about seven. they have a children's race around 8:00. that's 100-meter dash. and at 8:30, is the 5k run/walk, and it is supposed to be a loft fun, about 2,500 people participating in this event. again, all to raise money to fight childhood cancer. lots of folks are going to be out here, it seems to be great weather, lots of folks also participating and volunteering >> we're in front of the please touch museum, registration starts at 7:00. so if you are thinking about want to go come down here for a run anyway, why not do it for a good cause? actually register right here on the spot, in front of the please touch museum. if you want to come down here, and enjoy and do a good run for a good cause. we're live in fairmount park, syma chowdhry, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> great day for it, too, syma, thank you. 6:38 right now. tuesday, of course, is veterans day. and many people honored our nation's fallen heroes this weekend by cleaning up their neighborhoods. volunteers rolled up their sleeves for the travis manion foundation national day of service. they helped beautify the frankford avenue commercial corridor in philadelphia. and similar projects are happening all across the country. >> we have yacht's from st. joe's prep here, say hi, guys. who decide to skip their lunch today to stay here, and finish their service, put service above self, that's what the foundation is really all about. >> great work there. now the foundation named after first lieutenant travis manion who grew up in doylestown. he was killed in iraq back in 2007. a member of the unveiled the latest piece of public art in south philadelphia. the colorful portrait is of doctor sean white, aids and community activist, who died last year. he is a childhood friends of tariq trotter from the roots. >> i think it create a difference sense of awareness, you know, just in the community, with regard to health, and particularly, heart, blood pressure health and maintenance. >> love to see the folks giving back. by the way trotter son boards of the mural arts program and you can see that mural at 21st and ellsworth streets. good stuff. still to come this morning, smart watches, and fitness bands, all the rage these days. but, they're not just for grownups. "3 on your side" jim donovan tells us wearable technology for tots, and made for safety in mind. we'll explain. plus, from swimsuits to lawsuit. the story over disputed sand dunes in one shore town. that's coming up. >> and a cool start to the weekend, but warmer temperatures are on the way. carol has your forecast, when we come dad,thank you mom for said this oftprotecting my future.you. thank you for being my hero and my dad. military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa auto insurance could be one of them. if you're a current or former military member or their family, get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life. >> wearable tech devices ex seems like every time you turn around they're getting smaller, many new devices are actually meant for kids. like the grown up gadgets, some designed to turn fitness into fun. as "3 on your side" consumer reporter jim donovan finds, others more focused on safety. >> six year old mark cohen entertains himself with his dad's smart watch all the time. so when adam saw the kitty zoom, a child size version of the gadget, he got one for mark. >> just modelled after adult smart watch, but made for kids with kids apps and games. pretty new and pretty fun. >> reporter: wearable tech for kids goes beyond entertainment. some options on the market like the leap band and scored are design to encourage activity. doing the stuff that fit bit and other activity trackers like the nike fuel bands were doing for adults, but also having them work in larger school settings, to try to create some sort of group initiative. >> other on the market, and in development, including philip, cuzon and tiny tell, are aimed at safety and include gps technology. >> some of them make calls. some of them sends more sos messages. some of them are more about simply gps tracking. >> so how can focusing on every foot step and following every movement be beneficial? >> a lot of kids really have trouble comprehending what a reasonable amount of exercise is. >> having device like this could help them meet those goals. be able to have a monitoring device, so that you can make sure that they're safe, that's great use for something like this. >> now, it is hard to track the popularity of these devices right now, since they're so new, in fact, some of them are just hitting the market. so i posted additional information on few of them, on cbsphilly.com/consumer or you can follow me on facebook and twitter. reporting for "3 on your side", i'm jim donovan. >> all right, speaking of wearable devices, got to get those coats out. it is that time of year, carol. >> really, and they are, there is nothing better than a warm coat on a cold day. not all that cold today, though, nicole, though you might want to start the morning out in a jacket. we have a gloomy look, this is at the shore it, will not stay looking this gloomy all day long, a, the sun will be up, fully up, pretty soon, and also, these clouds will start to leave. but, right now, it has got that, you know, that look. let's go to another location, that has that look, but notice the bright thank we're seeing here in the poconos. this is just kind of a classic pocono scene. you got little body of water, couple of little hills, rises, mountains, looks nice. 46 degrees, the temperature in philadelphia, but it is cooler, to the north, but not below freezing. 35 degrees, in the poconos right now, and we have 46 degrees down in wildwood, 46 in millville, 38 degrees in reading. if you watched yesterday morning, which i hope you did, you know immediately that these temperatures are a lot warmer than what we started with yesterday. fortunately, winds are coming up out of the west, and the southwest, four, 5 miles an hour, so it is not a winnie morning at all. it is just enough to boost the temperatures a little bit, and the cloud cover helped keep these temperatures up, as well. notice, the clouds are on their way out, just little batch of precipitation heading towards williamsport, isolated, dying out, not going to be a problem for us today. we have temperatures that will be getting to voila into the middle 50's. yesterday we stopped at 50 degrees. sun will be out, high pressure building in, love that, tomorrow it may not be in the 50's, it may be in the 60s, could be 60, 61 degrees tomorrow, so we'll take the pessimistic view and say it will be 59 tomorrow, keep it in the 50's, but actually it could be 62 degrees. then, on tuesday, we will be well into the 60s, maybe as high as 65, 66 degrees. looks like nice day on tuesday, the way things are looking right now. cold front coming. and it is one that means business. and it will be cooling down around here. we find that starting thursday and friday and next weekend. our clouds go on foot your weather, looks great, as we go through the day today, tomorrow, early in the morning, looks great, tomorrow, all through the day, looks really really nice. tuesday, what do we see? well, we see few clouds that would like to start to come in, and then even overnight, late tuesday into early wednesday morning, we do have some cloud cover around here. temperatures should be mild until then. and then this waiting in the wings. and this is a cold push of air coming in to the area. we will find that again on thursday, starting really late wednesday night, and then thursday and friday and next weekend will probably be seeing highs no higher than the 40's as the colds air finds us and sticks around for little while. but otherwise today, 56 degrees, sun, clouds, in philadelphia, the shore, 55, in the poconos, 48 degrees for the temperatures there. the win not all that bad either. five to 10 miles an hour out of the west, tonight, we drop down to 40 degrees. and then it will be slightly cooler in the outlying areas, next couple of days, we've got readings that will be in the 60s, call it 60 degrees for monday, tuesday, wednesday, and then thursday, friday, and saturday, we do cool down with highs no higher than into the 40's. you know, this is nice look. this is margate. want to come to the beach with me? you know, there is a fight brewing there in margate. a shore town fighting over sands dunes, residents in margate on tuesday, voted by 79 vet margin for court battle with the state to try to stop any sands do you know construction. >> big old lucy has her eye on some competition. an elephant in the corner, in margate. >> new jersey demands be part of protective, massive coastal do you know system, one as tall as 6-foot mayor, mike becker. but he opposes any dunes, in slim majority of margate voters a greeted on tuesday to funds a court battle. >> mother nature wanted this islands, mother nature would take this island. >> with or without the dunes? >> with or without the dunes. >> 6 feet today, 80 feet across, disputed dunes may see lawsuit, before they ever see a swimsuit. >> this beach walker and margate resident, don't think dunes work in margate. >> i'm actually for the lawsuit and hopefully we would win. >> dunes could still win, despite voter approval to spends thousands -- hundreds every thousands of dollars on legal fight against the state. >> they have big guns. we have little pistols. let's see where it goes. >> no one bringing anything yet. lousy's beach will be left alone for now until margate's lawyers take on the state's bulldozers. >> like lick to be a costly fight, meeting monday the margate lawyers, just kinds of discuss the strategy on whether or not they want to june in a coastal do you know system. right now they're sort of the missing link in it. >> right. >> must feel strongly, to put up all of that money for legal fight. >> seventy-nine people in that town, yes, total vote was like a thousand, 900 something on the other. >> so they won out. thanks, carol, interesting stuff. >> 6:49. let's check on the roads with ann avenue. good morning, ann. >> good morning, nicole, cash old, looking at the ask schuylkill expressway at montgomery. no problems or delays at this portion of the schuylkill. schuylkill looks fine through philadelphia and it suburbs. onto the martin luther king drive which is closed this weekends, this time not fosh recreational activity but for construction, see the construction cone set up near the ben franklin parkway, shutdown between the ben franklin parkway and sweet briar drive. this is in the in effect until tomorrow morning. >> on to the ben franklin bridge, construction westbound lanes, to the right of your screen, and tees are headed into philadelphia. road construction, two right lanes closed. right now, no delays, but later in the morning, there will be, so you might want to take the walt whitman instead. headed into philadelphia, that is. that is the latest, from the cbs-3 traffic center. i'm ann evans, "eyewitness news" will be right back after this with sports. home ice has been good for the flyers, won four straight going into last night's game against colorado. defense welcoming back braiden after missing 12 games with a foot injury. flyers on the power play, claude giroux with the puck, they shot upper right-hand corner of the net for one-nothing lead. to the second periods, flyers still main advantage, jerro, to wayne simmons, his shot goes in, orange and black with two goal lead. later in the periods, flies on the attack, matt read shot braidenson right there. flyers with three-nothing lead, to hold onto win four to three. >> it looks like nate allen will be back on the starting line up for the birds against the panthers. lost last week's game with hamstring injury. since the final game of the 2012 season monday night, mark played five years for the jets, leading them to two afc championship appearances, and he hopes he can play much higher level for the eagles. >> chance to get birds' eye view of everything, and, you know, put that new york experience in its place, and take with me a lot of the things that went well, and improve upon things that didn't go so well. and so now i'm hopefully a better veer monday of myself and the best version of myself for this monday night game. >> we will set the stage for that monday night battle at the linc. this morning, at 11:30, sunday kickoff, join sports director beasley reese, myself, cbs-3 special contributor lesean mccoy. >> to college football, desperate penn state football team taking on end ann a the nittany lions had lost four straight games going into the contest. second quarter penn state with the ball, deep in their territory, hand off to sicklerville new jersey belt on. bussing through the middle. and he is gone. a school record 92-yard touchdown run, that is going to tie the game. ran for 137 yards against indianna. to the thirds quarter, sam thicken, making two out of three field goals in the game. twenty-seven-yarder gave the nittany lions ten-seven lead. would not give up fourth quarter, defense, did not allow a touchdown on the game, hartman with the interception, penn state, holding on, for a 13-seven victory. over to the main line, nova taking on to you send, john robertson with the ball. ends zone, finding anthony for the 22-yard score, and the caps will take the lead fourth quarter. robertson, keeping it all to himself. he scores. another strong game, 3td's in the air, to go along with the running score, villanova beat town sends 42 to 14. ivy league battle between penn and princeton, hits connor scott for the 5-yard score. they trail 12 to seven. to the third, quakers with the ball, justin watson making great one handed grab right there. but just not enough. princeton beat penn 22 to 17. that's all for sports. i'm leslie van arsdale, have a good day. >> and that's it for "eyewitness news" at 6:00. here's what we have for you coming up at 7:00. why homeowners in one town are mad about breaking bad. plus, the bizarre incident that had one woman cleaning off her roof. >> then it is beginning to look a lot 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dropping a war head on the white house or for that matter on anywhere else within the continental united states. he will be joining us to give us perspective on that. we are exactly two weeks out as of tonight from the u.s. senate race in alabama where republican roy moore faces democrat doug jones. stress appears to be getting to the roy moore campaign a little bit. his staffers have taken to physically shoving news crews who are trying to cover their candidate in alabama, even when those news crews are credentialed and rsvp d for official events because they were invited to cover them. i've also got lots of eyes tonight on democrat john conyers where a third former staffer of his has now come forward to allege that congressman coniers sexually harassed her in the workplace. john conyers is the longest serving member of the house of representatives. he's a founding member of the congressional black caucus. he's the leading democrat on the judiciary committee or at least he was. he already announced yesterday he would be stepping aside from his leadership role but in the light of another accuser coming forward, congressman c nrkconye rule is precarious. on trump national security advisor mike flynn. yet another new report on mike flynn that loads yet more weight onto the pile of legal scrutiny that he appears to be facing. siting people familiar with the matter, which is always the least helpful hint to figure out who is leaking. people familiar, come on. the wall street journal reports that mike flynn as trump's national security advisor in his brief tenure in the white house, according to the journal, he aggressively pursued at least one project he had been paid to promote as a consultant. a controversial plan to build nuclear power plants in the middle east. according to the journal sources, even after national security counsel staff pushed back on thatted a va ed a va a flynn, if you've been paid to promote this deal from staff, people hired by and loyal to flynn inside the white house reportedly continued to promote flynn's plan. and that brings me to our nightly reminder that the president of the united states now says he will not be providing any financial assistance to mike flynn's legal defense fund. not a dime. washington post tonight reports that the president has been telling people for example at his golf club over the holiday break, he's been telling random passers by and friends that he is definitely sure the russia investigations and the muller inquiry itself will definitely be done by the end of this year. quote, hanging out at maralago, quote, some trump aids and confa dents worry which he repeat in conversations in recent weeks. waxing about how he's eager to be out from under the russia cloud by 2018. one outside advisor to trump warns that the president would quote blow a gasket if there was no statement of exoneration by year's end. blowing a gasket. i wonder what that looks like. there are 33 days between now and the end of the year. the president is going to blow a gadget if he's not exonerated if everything isn't over by then? while republicans have been in control of the house and senate and white house since january, they have passed no significant legislation of any kind and you can't blame all of that on the russia investigations. yesterday republicans and democrats all members of congress and senate came back from the holiday break with a head of steam because republicans think they have one last chance to show over the course of a year in power, they can maybe pass one thing. they haven't passed anything yet but think they can do it by the end of the year. the bill they are trying to pass is wildly unpopular with the general public so as congress is headed back to work to pass this tax bill of theirs, their constituents have headed back to work, as well, to trey y to blo it. ♪ ♪ >> this was a polite middle of the road, literally middle of the entintersection protest in texas. the way it worked is every time the light turned red, this group who said constituents would run out into the intersection and do a dance routine with a fake donald trump shoving money into hats to explain the effect of the tax bill. they call themselves tiny jazz hands as a tribute to the president. and, you know, when the light turns green, people would honk and they would get out of the intersection. it's hard to think the senator of texas will vote no on his party's tax bill because of the constituents entertaining people politely at red lights but at least they will let him know what they think of him and what they think of this bill. so that was john's office. constituents provided a giant $275 billion check to a guy dressed as mr. moneybags. the transfer of money to the wealthiest americans. mr. moneybags and the $275 billion check then marched through the parking lot and into congressman garrett's office lobby. congressman garrett's staffer would not actually take the check. they wanted to deliver it to him. he wouldn't take the check but he did take a picture of the check and said he would forward along the snapshot to his box. check your inbox. rob port mman's office had a ha tile handling the numbers of people coming into that office to tell senator portman to vote no. his staff would only let in a few of his constituents at a time so they patiently queued up outside his door. more rob portman constituents were outside his taloledo offic. they sang anti tax carols. they are telling me that is rob portman. in maine, senator susan collins' constituents took a look at this picture posing with a sheet of money. they decided then to ape that shot at a maine rally aimed at persuading senator collins to vote no on the tax bill. they also then rounded up a bunch of people to shove fist fulls of cash at the fake treasury secretary and his wife in her opera gloves. protesters targeted ted cruz' office in downtown houston. and senator marco rubio's office in palm beach florida and james langford in his office in oklahoma city. and senator corey gardener in his office in colorado. when your tax bill has rock bottom poll numbers and most people in america recognize that it will actually make their taxes go up, you really can't find protesters against it all over the country. to welcome congress back from the thanksgiving break, there have been more than 100 demonstrations targeting republican lawmakers asking lawmakers to vote no on their tax bill. that would increase taxes for millions of americans. the poorer you are, the more likely it is that it will raise your taxes. the congressional budget office report on this bill is absolutely brutal. it will slam the poor harder than it hurts anyone else. the lower income brackets will all pay more immediately as will most middle class families and that will get worse over time. the bill is expected to add $1.4 trillion to the deficit. 1.4 trillion and for good measure, it will cost 13 million americans who have health insurance to lose all their health insurance coverage and i'm no mind reader, but it does not seem impossible those kind of bare line -- baseline facts about this bill are part of the reason why republicans are trying to pass this with no hearings. and basically no debate. and on paper, when you try to push something through that way, it's very neat and tidy. no debate. no time for argument. just vote and get it over with. on paper, that is a very tidy process but in reality, when you're trying to do that with something this big and this radical that affects this many americans, this severely, on paper it might be tidet idy. did you see this on the party line vote? before they voted on the floor, they have to vote on it in committee. today was the vote in committee and happened today. it was a party line vote. all republicans said yes and democrats said no and sounds like the easiest thing to understand in the world. sounds tidy and easy. it made it seem like zip, zip got that done. look at what it was actually like, though. i just -- just look at this tape. i'm going to let this roll so you can see how it actually went. watch this. >> i thank the ranking member for his comments. >> my name is amanda anderson. i am running -- [ inaudible ] >> there is a disturbance in the hearing room. the committee will recess to allow the capital police to restore order. the committee will recess subject to the call of the chai chair. >> do not tell me -- >> do not tell me. do not tell me. >> do not tell people like me. >> do not tell people like me. >> do not tell me. do not tell me. [ inaudible ] >> i've been a nurse for 30 years. >> i've been a nurse for 30 years. >> i can't believe we had to come back. >> i can't believe we had to come back. >> about taxations. >> stop taxing ordinary americans -- >> my taxes -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> shame on you! shame on you! shame on you! >> shame! shame! shame! shame! >> if this bill is passed. >> if this bill is passed. >> people like me will die. >> people like me will die. >> i'm asking the republican senators to vote against this bill. >> to vote against this bill. >> can't tell us. >> don't tell us. >> tell them no. >> don't tell us. >> don't tell us. >> shame! shame! shame! shame! shame! shame! >> kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! >> i'll call the meeting back to order. i said that we would vote. clerk will call roll. >> grassly votes i. >> i. >> i. >> mr. crapo? mr. graham? mr. johnson? >>. [ inaudible ] >> kill the tax bill! >> mr. purdue? >> i. >> mr. gardener? mr. kennedy? mr. boseman? >> i. >> mr. stray? >> i. >> mr. sanders? >> no. >> ms. murray? >> no. >> mr. widen? >> no. >> mr. white house. >> no. >> mr. warner? >> no. >> mr. merkley? >> no. >> mr. cain? >> no. >> mr. king? >> no. >> mr. vanhallen? >> no. >> ms. harris? >> no. >> kill the bill! >> mr. chairman? >> i. >> report the vote. >> kill the bill! kill the bill! >> mr. chairman, the is are 12 and the nays are 11. >> kill the bill! kill the bill! >> the bill is reported out. >> kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! >> that's how it went. you saw the headlines about that today. it sounded like a neat and tidy process. it wish the republicans got their no debate, party line hearing today. what they are trying to do with this really enormous bill will hurt the american poor and hurt the american middle class quickly and significantly and for a long time and it will throw 13 million americans off their health insurance. and so what they are trying to do is very, very unpopular and that's why they are trying to go fast. that's why they are trying to outrun the resistance to what they are doing. they are also likely to get another non-partisan report on the cost of their bill and who it hurts as soon as tomorrow night and so they have got to outrun that, too. their whole strategy is to get this through now. when i say now, in the next two days they want to get this done before more of this starts happening and spreading before too many people realize what they are doing and how fast they are doing it. there is a lot going on right now i know but this is a huge thing they are trying to do and fast. watch this phase. >> mr. sanders? >> no. >> ms. murray? >> no. >> mr. widen? >> no. >> ms. stabernow? >> no. >> mr. white house? >> no. >> mr. warner? >> no. >> mr. merkley? >> no. >> mr. cane? >> no. >> mr. king? >> no. >> mr. vanhallen? >> no. >> ms. harris? >> no. jay chooses to run every day. no matter what it brings. or where he is. and pain doesn't hold him back. thanks to dr. scholl's running insoles. the only ones proven to relieve and prevent pain from runner's knee, shin splints and plantar fasciitis. dr. scholl's. born to move. thing. it's not public service announcement. it is trying to be a public service. this is a list i used to be able to keep in my head but then today we got another name to add to the list and i realized when i tried to rattle off the list in my head, including the new guy i was humbled. i realized that actually this list has gotten way too long to casually keep track. we need to start keeping a public count of this stuff. see if you agree. let's start with the most obvious one. the russian ambassador to the united states. there is nothing wrong with presidential members of a campaign and transition meeting with a foreign am basketball to -- ambassador. he did it a lot. he met several time with jeff sessions when he was a top campaign official and jared kushner and jared kushner and mike flynn during the transition. that was the meeting where intelligence intercepts afterward reportedly over heard the ambassador explaining how kushner inquired about setting up a secret communications channel between the trump transition and the kremlin. so that's the first one. that's the ambassador. then there was also the head of a kremlin controlled bank. a graduate of what is basically russia spy school that banker who graduated from spy school also met with jared kushner during the transition and then the russian born ex-con convicted of a $40 million mafia convicted pump and dump stock scheme. him and also the russian real estate mogul and former member of parliament he was working with were quietly working during the campaign with the trump organization to try to get a trump tower built in moscow. candidate trump signed a letter of intent to pursue that project as he insisted publicly he had no interest and no deals with russia. so then there was the -- ambassador, the banker, the ex-con guy, the real estate guy. then there was the long-time employee of trump campaign chairman paul manafort, a russian intelligence visit train in contact all the time with manafort and he's the one that fl flew to new york to deliver messages from a russian close to vladimir putin. then recently we learned about the official from the bank of russia. he's been described by law enforcement as a god father in the russian mafia and contacted top trump campaign officials to set up a meeting with donald trump at an nra conference. he did not get that meeting with donald trump senior but did get dinner with donald trump junior. then of course in june of last year, there was the kremlin connected russian lawyer who met with don junior and jared kushner at trump tower. there was also a russian-born lobbiest who was once a kgb kounts er counter intelligence operative and another russian dude at the center of a congressional investigation into russian money laundering in the united states in the 1990s. he has since been in business with some of putin's favorites back home in russia and the son of the russian billionaire that arranged the trump tower meeting and spoke about it multiple times with don junior. then there was also the director of a russian university that invited paige to speak in moscow and all the folks carter spoke with during his trip, a russian deputy prime minister, a top official at russia state oil company and according to one report that carter page de eer , the head of the oil state company one of the vladimir putin's top lieutenants and the kremlin linked academic that seems to have cultivated foreign policy advisor telling phim the russians had dirt on clinton and introduced him to a guy with connections at the russian foreign ministry who wanted to set up a meeting between trump and putin and met with a russian woman who was introduced to him as vladimir putin's niece. something he very excitely llid e-mailed superiors. vladimir putin doesn't have a niece but if you want to keep track what is going on in the muller investigation, say, what we have learned in the congressional investigations in terms of the trump campaign's links to russia, try looking at it in terms of the sheer number of russians and people linked to the russian government who made contact with the trump campaign and the trump transition. i mean, that's a lot of different russians. but all of those folks had to make room for one more today. back in april, "the washington post" reported that just before the inauguration, eric prince major trump donor and founder of the controversial private security firm black water and agent of bet sbetsy devoss went for a meeting with the russian with the representative of vladimir putin's office and presented himself as an unofficial envoy for president elect trump at that meeting. the purpose was to set up a secret back channel come pun ca -- communication between the trump camp and putin camp. eric prince said yeah, okay. i went and met some russian guy and think he was maybe a fun manager but we had a beer. he doesn't remember the guy's name. they didn't talk about anything important. whatever they did talk about, it had nothing to do with donald trump and besides, he can't remember anyway. today we found out who that russian guy was that eric prince so unmenbly shanerblbly shared and reports that according to flight records they obtained on the date that this meeting with eric prince occurred, a private plane flew, a man to the say shell islands, the russian direct investment fund. he confirmed they crossed paths in the seychelle and one more russian gets added to this roster of contacts. we got russian ambassador, russian banker, russian ex-con, mil military, russian lawyer, russian lobbyist, russian money laundering suspect. russian billionaire son and connected academic, oil executive, russian foreign ministry official, russian president's fake niece and now new guy head of russia's fund. that's too big for a band. that's too big for a marching band in most towns. i mean, but there is one more thing to say about the russian sovereign wealth fund that met with eric prince. the russian direct investment fund, the fund he runs is one of many russian government institutions under u.s. sanctions. since russia invaded crimea in 2014 which means that no american business person even eric prince should be doing business with that fund. prince's explanation about that meeting in the seychelles is it had nothing to do with the trump transition. it was just business. it couldn't have been business with that guy from the russian sovereign wealth fund, at least it couldn't have been business if it was legal business. eric prince scheduled to testify before the house intelligence committee the day after tomorrow. so maybe that will come up. meanwhile, though, more than a year after our presidential election, more than like a year and a half since the fbi started its counter intelligence investigation into links between russia and the trump campaign, how is it possible that even today we are still adding to the list of russian government figures who got themselves involved with the trump campaign and transition? still, we're still learning about more of them. how many more can there be? you might take something for your heart... or joints. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brain-health supplement in drug stores nationwide. prevagen. the name to remember. whstuff happens. old shut down cold symptoms fast with maximum strength alka seltzer plus liquid gels. sfx: tsfx: feet shufflingc life can change in an instant. be covered when it does... ...with a health plan through covered california. we offer free expert help choosing the best plan for you. and all of our plans include free preventive care. financial help is available, so check for yourself to see what savings you qualify for. for health insurance starting january 1st, enroll by december 15th. because you never know when life... ...will change. get covered today. on the first working day of every month, the state of hawaii conducts a test of attention alert siren. a steady tone, 60-second long siren that blares from loud speakers around the islands and when used properly meant to signal an incoming hurricane or tsunami or natural disaster. they test that once a month. hie hawaii is rolling out a second siren since the cold war since north korea conducted 16 missile test this year alone as it develops a program for nuclear weapons and hawaii is about 4600 miles from north korea and these days sometimes that doesn't feel like far enough. so hawaii as of this week is taking me precautions because hawaii is awesome, they are rolling out this new precaution. they are reminding people about this old siren and the most chill way possible. >> on the first business day of every month, the state and the counties normally conduct a test of the alert signal, which is a steady tone. starting december 1st, a second tone, the attack warning signal a warning tone will be added. the attack warning signal advices everyone to take immediate shelter. get inside, stay inside. stay tuned. to find out more info, go to ready.hawaii.gov. >> i would be less alarmed if it came with soothing music. stay tuned. in the event of a nuclear attack it would give the 1.4 million resident as little time. 12 to 15 minutes to find shelter ahead of an impending attack. today on the plan to dust off the attack warning signal, today north korea also decided to break from a two-month hiatus to launch yet another missile into the atmosphere. this was an icbm, the third one north korea tested thus far. the first two were launched this summer. north korea has been launching these things with unusual trajectory whether than sending off in the distance, they tend to shoot them almost straight up, really high up so when the missiles finally do land they land fairly close by. well, the one they shot off today reached a height of around 2800 miles. it went 3,000 miles up before it landed in the sea of japan. if it had been fired for distance. scientists said if the missile had thrown on a standard tra jek forry it would have a range of more than 8100 miles and i mentioned before that hawaii is 4,000 miles away from north korea. if it's got on 8100 mile range, this missile that means it will hit washington d.c. the concern scientists co-director today said it would have more than enough range to travel from north korea to washington d.c. it could hit new york city or full so or anywhere in the continental u.s. the state of hawaii in the pacific from the cold war days and being admirably calm and playing soothing music to explain that to the people of hawaii and north korea to being a threat not just to the pacific neighbors but the rest of the united states, how close was north korea to being that global threat and how much should we see the threat as changing with the kind of test they performed today. joining us is president of the plow shares fund and nbc news and nuclear security analyst. great to see you. >> thank you, rachel. >> we have not seen -- we're corresponding about this today. you mentioned that it's rare to see north korea do a big missile test like this at this time of year. why is this a weird time of year for them to be doing this kind of test? >> they normally don't test in the fourth quarter of the year. of the 85 tests they have done since 2011, only five have been in the last quarter. people think that this has to do with weather conditions. sometimes the troops move from military duty to harvesting for whatever reason we don't test this year and the pause that we've seen, the 74 days since the last missile test partly is explained by the time of year it might not have been a gesture. the u.s. said that if south -- if north korea stopped testing for 60 days, that would be seen as a positive sign to open up negotiations. they did stop testing but we didn't make any move to open negotiations. >> what about the quality of this test today? do you agree with these assessments that we've seen today, this is potentially the longest-range missile test? >> there is little doubt about that. this is a very serious step forward. it went a little over 4,000 miles. the second was the end of july. this is an 8,000 mile missile. this is about the range of our missiles, our minute men in north dakota and montana and other places. the good news is we don't know if it can actually carry a nuclear war head yet. it might have been a light payload on this test, a nuclear war head weighs a ton. can it carry a ton all the way? can it with stand the stresses and striains of reentry. these are unknown questions. if you're the u.s. military, you have to assume the worst and a nuclear arm ballistic missile that can deliver a war head on washington or mar-a-lago or anyplace in the united states. >> this feels like what we've seen over the course of this past year and a little bit in a broader time frame is a relentless march that they have been making significant, steady progress. is that a surprise or a disappointment to counter proliferation efforts, people running counter proliferation efforts in the united states? has the united states believed that we have done anything substantive to slow them down, trip them up, mess them up to put a cap on how far they can go with their missile technology? is this stuff a surprise or does the united states basically accept they will keep testing, keep learning from their tests and keep getting better? >> this is where it gets serious. it's not a surprise any longer. it was around last year we realized how much more advanced they were than some of us thought and we seen that demonstrated repeatedly. remember, this is the third successful test. they haven't had a failure. so these guys know what they are doing. this is a sophisticated program. is it disappointment? absolutely. only during the clinton administration and for some period of time in the george w. bush administration do we have real negotiations that really paused the program for eight years and caused a delay and we were very close to reaching a deal to end the program all together. but the obama administration kind of dropped the ball on this and the trump administration has done, well, it's hard to know what they have done. their policies is somewhat incoherent. a lot of bluster and tweets. i would expect more tweets tomorrow but no negotiations, no real strategy to stop them and that gets us to the really bad news. there is an increasing chorus you hear in washington that we have to go to war and take military action to stop the north korean threat. it's starting to feel like 2002 when a consensus is growing that the only thing we can do is go 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moretoparkinsons.com so this is the 11th week of recovery from maria in purr toe. 1.5 million are living in darkness. it's been one step forward, two back. puerto rico went through two major black joulouts in the las weeks. lines being fixed by the unlikely winner of a 300 million dollar contract to rebuild the power grid, a company two years old with two employees. that giant inexplicable contract became a national symbol of the botched disaster response quite literally plunging americans into darkness without end. and now we have another example. this time it's about those blue tarps that you often see in situations like this stretched over homes where the roof once was before the storm ripped it off. they don't seem like much, i know but when you spent the last ten weeks in darkness struggling to find clean water, anything helps. helps to have a roof over your head even if that roof is a blue tarp and this is where the story feels like deja vu. the company hired to deliver the blue 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have power in their homes. and as you mentioned before, we keep losing power lines. so you still have the inability to have stability in our energy grid. and that puts a lot of things in an unstable situation. medical services. you may be operating and all of the sudden you end up operating with your cellular lamp because the power went off or the generator went out. generators are not made to withstand -- see, you count 11 weeks because you're counting maria. but you have to count two, three weeks before that because irma came before that. >> right. >> my parents have been without electricity or water, running water -- they have running water, but they haven't had electricity for 72 days now. >> and as this work is being done, we've talked over the course of some of this recovery about work not being done. but as, you know, as there are work owners the ground, as there are people trying to fix the power lines, as there are people working on the issue of running water, do you feel like that work to fix things is being done rationally, and that the systems are being rebuilt in a resilient way? >> no, they're not. that's what bernie sanders did today, it's very comprehensive bill towards the transformation of the usvi and puerto rico. and it puts the transformation in the hands of people from puerto rico and the usvi. and of course the whitefish scandal didn't help a lot, the credibility of the puerto rican government. but that does not mean that we're incapable of doing what needs to be done. >> and the bill that he put forward today, it's a big bill. $100 million. and the idea is to go for infrastructure and n a way that is sustainable, resilient and locally controlled. >> correct. what happens with fema and the staffer act you, have you to build everything to the way it was. if you have a wooden house with a zinc top, you have to rebuild it that way. that's why i don't like talking about reconstruction. i like talking about transformation. we need a waiver on that to ensure that we can build to this. because we are an island surrounded by water. lots and lots of water. >> lots and lots of water. big water. >> we didn't know before this happened. and we need to build in that resiliency. the power generation in puerto rico happens in the southern part. and then the grid spreads out throughout the mountains. so if that generation gets off the grid, the entire island is blacked out just as it has been. so it is actually on president trump's best interests if we have the power to develop an economy that can plug in to the world economy. things like the jones act that congressman john mccain has talked about eliminating. but our brothers and sisters from the maritime units also have to eat and feed their families. so we need to develop a path so that at least humanitarian ships right now can come in and be waived totally. and it's interesting. texas. this was waived completely. and of course -- >> in the wake of the hurricane that hit texas. >> that hit texas. and then just to develop a path for the jones act to be completely eliminated. and now we have this -- and i'm going to do this on national tv, this reform. >> the tax bill. >> which not only as senator sanders was saying today a single mother of two children gets a $75 tax credit. and a family that makes $500,000 with two children gets a $4,000 tax credit. but it puts an ex-excise tax on import for puerto rico, 20%. >> so products made, like pharmaceuticals, big manufacturing sector, products made in puerto rico and exported to the united states. >> would get a 20% tax. >> that's not a -- >> a tax that's not there now. >> that's not there now. >> it would crippled the puerto rican economy. >> it's crippled already. it would obliterate it. this would be a much more devastating blow to our economy than irma and maria put together. and the republican congress has promised we're going change the language. we're going to change the language. but nothing happens. and that hurts the credibility of the trump administration if they have any credibility at all at this point in terms of the puerto rican humanitarian crisis. >> what do you think puerto rico needs now, right now the most in terms of national attention, federal attention, and charitable help? >> we need three things. one, we need our debt to be eliminated. we couldn't pay it before. we're certainly not going to be able to pay it now. we need tools for economic development. and in order to do that, we need power. but we need to move also from gift power right now and move to a more sustainable and more ecofriendly power. >> that's resilient and sustainable. >> and also have our grid divided along different sides that can help different sides and portions of the island. we have to provide our communities with microgrids and solar communities. and we have to move into that path. and we also have to sit down and talk about what is it about the relationship between puerto rico and the united states that keeps us from getting the help that we need to get. and just, you know, everybody in puerto rico, the politics is about the national pastime. so we all have a different way of thinking. some like statehood. some like things to stay the way they are. some like independence. i like free association. but i think it's more of what is the process that we're going to follow to ensure that everyone that comes to the table has a democratic way of showing what they have, and it's based on the facts, not on what we want it to be, but on what it's actually going to be. and we started a foundation. it's called somebody help us. because the trump administration and i love you say botched effort in puerto rico. so i started getting postcards with i'm a retired grandmother from austin, texas. here is $10 for you. i'm a kid from arizona. here is $1 for you. so we're putting this in this foundation, especially to help rebuild those homes that at this point will have nothing but the help that we can give them. >> in terms of what does happen next, what you're saying about the political situation there. obviously politics is not the point, but politics has to be part of the solution. it has been a process of education for the american public to be reminded that all puerto ricans are american citizens. >> yes. >> that puerto rico is part of the united states. that puerto rico does not have another president to go to besides donald trump. >> no. we're a u.s. territory. we're a colony of the united states because the power residence in congress completely. so let's change that. >> yeah. >> and you're right. it isn't about politics. it's about saving lives. but politics gets in the middle of that. and our relationship gets in the middle of that. i said very few weeks ago some strong words. we won't be able to hide our inequality and poverty behind palm trees and pina coladas anymore. so we have to transform puerto rico and ensure that we have an economy and a resilient structure that will help us move forward. this is what i don't get, rachel. i don't think president trump realizes that many of the puerto ricans that are moving to the states, about 100,000 in the past few weeks are going to florida. so they're going to change the landscape of the election for 2018. and we're going to make sure that they vote. and we're going to make sure that they remember who didn't help when the time came. >> carmen yulin cruz is the mayor of san juan, puerto rico. mayor cruz, it's really, really nice to have you here. >> thank you. >> thank you for being in touch with us throughout this whole time period. >> thank you for not forgetting us. >> well we haven't forgotten you. but you've been an incredible help to us in terms of being able to track and let the country know what's going on. >> and thank the american people for their heart. that's it for us tonight. now time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. and an extraordinary interview with the mayor. really glad to see that follow-up. >> thank you, my dear. thanks. >> good evening from philadelphia, by the way. did i lose rachel? i uguess i lost her. and i just wanted to tell rachel she has a lot of friends here in philadelphia where i've been spending the day. today donald trump gave chuck schumer and nancy pelosi more power than any republican president has ever given to a minority democratic party in congress.

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for that matter on anywhere else within the continental united states. he'll be joining us in just a fumes to give us some perspective on that. we are exactly two weeks out as of tonight from the u.s. senate race in alabama, where beleaguered republican roy moore faces democrat doug jones. the stress appears to be getting to the roy moore campaign a little bit. his staffers have now taken to physically shoving news crews who are trying to cover their candidate in alabama. even when those news crews are credentialed and are news crews that have rsvp'd for official roy moore campaign events because they are invited to cover them. we've also got lots of eyes tonight on democrat john conyers, where a third former staffer of his has now come forward to allege that congressman conyers sexually harassed her in the workplace. now, john conyers is the longest serving member of the house of representatives. he is a founding member of the congressional black caucus. he is the leading democrat on the judiciary committee or at least he was. he already announced yesterday that he would be stepping aside from his leadership as the top democrat on judiciary. but now in the light of yet another accuser coming forward this afternoon, congressman conyers' position on capitol hill is starting to seem precarious. one of his fellow judiciary committee democrats called for his resignation today. "the wall street journal" has a report tonight on trump national security adviser mike flynn. yet another new report on mike flynn. that loads yet more weight on to the pile of legal scrutiny that he appears to be facing, citing people familiar with the matter, which is always the least helpful hint to figure out who's leaking, people familiar with the matter. oh, come on! "the wall street journal" reports tonight that mike flynn as trump's national security adviser in his brief tenure in the white house, according to the journal, he aggressively pursued at least one project that he had been paid to promote as a consultant, a controversial plan to build nuclear power plants in the middle east. according to sources, even after national security council staff pushed back on that advocacy for mike flynn saying hey, way, we can't work on this if you've been paid for that deal, even after that pushback, people hired by and loyal to flynn inside the white house reportedly continued to promote fly flynn's plan. that brings me to our nightly reminder that the president of the united states now says he will not be providing any financial assistance to mike flynn's legal defense fund. not a dime. and it's reported that the president has been telling random passersby and friends that the russia investigation and the mule are inquiry itself will definitely be done bit end of this year. quote, hanging out at mar-a-lago and at his south florida golf clubs, trump told friends, this investigation is going to be over with pretty soon. some trump aides and confidantes worry about the president's optimistic assessment of the situation, which he has repeated in conversations in recent we s weeks, waxing on about how he's eager to be out from under the russia cloud by 2018. one outside advisor to trump warns that the president would quote blow a gasket if there was no statement of exoneration by year's end. blowing a gasket. i wonder what that looks like. there are 33 days between now and the end of the year. the president is going to blow a gas get if he's not exonerated if everything isn't over by then? while republicans have been in control of the house and senate and white house since january, they have passed no significant legislation of any kind and you can't blame all of that on the russia investigations. yesterday republicans and democrats all members of congress and senate came back from the holiday break with a head of steam because republicans think they have one last chance to show over the course of a year in power, they can maybe pass one thing. they haven't passed anything yet but think they can do it by the end of the year. the bill they are trying to pass is wildly unpopular with the general public so as congress is headed back to work to pass this tax bill of theirs, their constituents have headed back to work, as well, to try to block it. ♪ >> this was a polite middle of the road, literally middle of the intersection protest in texas. the way it worked is every time the light turned red, this group who said constituents would run out into the intersection and do a dance routine with a fake donald trump shoving money into hats to explain the effect of the tax bill. they call themselves tiny jazz hands as a tribute to the president. and, you know, when the light turns green, people would honk and they would get out of the intersection. it's hard to think the senator of texas will vote no on his party's tax bill because of the constituents entertaining people politely at red lights but at least they will let him know what they think of him and what they think of this bill. so that was john garrett's office. constituents provided a giant $275 billion check to a guy dressed as mr. moneybags. the transfer of money to the wealthiest americans. mr. moneybags and the $275 billion check then marched through the parking lot and into congressman garrett's office lobby. congressman garrett's staffer would not actually take the check. they wanted to deliver it to him. he wouldn't take the check but he did take a picture of the check and said he would forward along the snapshot to his box. check your inbox. rob portman's office had a hard time handling the numbers of people coming into that office to tell senator portman to vote no. his staff would only let in a few of his constituents at a time so they patiently queued up outside his door. more rob portman constituents were outside his toledo office. they sang anti tax carols. -- christmas carols. they are telling me that is rob portman. they also paraded around the grinch. they're telling me that was rob portman. in maine, senator susan collins' constituents took a look at this picture posing with a sheet of money. they decided then to ape that shot at a maine rally aimed at persuading senator collins to vote no on the tax bill. they also then rounded up a bunch of people to shove fist fulls of cash at the fake treasury secretary and his wife in her opera gloves. protesters targeted ted cruz' office in downtown houston. and senator marco rubio's office in palm beach florida and james langford in his office in oklahoma city. and senator corey gardener in his coughs office in durango, c. when your tax bill has rock bottom poll numbers and most people in america recognize that it will actually make their taxes go up, you really can't -- can find protesters against it all over the country. to welcome congress back from the thanksgiving break, there have been more than 100 demonstrations targeting republican lawmakers asking lawmakers to vote no on their tax bill. that would increase taxes for millions of americans. the poorer you are, the more likely it is that it will raise your taxes. the congressional budget office report on this bill is absolutely brutal. it will slam the poor harder than it hurts anyone else. the lower income brackets will all pay more immediately as will most middle class families and that will get worse over time. the bill is expected to add $1.4 trillion to the deficit. 1.4 trillion and for good measure, it will cost 13 million americans who have health insurance to lose all their health insurance coverage. and i'm no mind reader, but it does not seem impossible to me that those kind of baseline facts about this bill are part of the reasons why republicans are trying to pass this things with no hearings. and basically no debate. and on paper, when you try to push something through that way, it's very neat and tidy. no debate. no time for argument. just vote and get it over with. on paper, that is a very tidy process. but in reality, when you're trying to do that with something this big and this radical that affects this many americans this severely, on paper it might be tidy. in real life it is not tidy at all. did you see this article today on the republican party line vote? before they voted on the floor, they have to vote on it in committee. today was the vote in committee and happened today. it was a party line vote. all republicans said yes and democrats said no and sounds like the easiest thing to understand in the world. sounds tidy and easy. it made it seem like zip, zip got that done. look at what it was actually like, though. i just -- just look at this tape. i'm going to let this roll so you can see how it actually went. watch this. >> i thank the ranking member for his comments. >> my name is amanda anderson. >> my name is amanda anderson. >> i am running with -- [ inaudible ] >> there is a disturbance in the hearing room. the committee will recess to allow the capital police to restore order. the committee will recess subject to the call of the chair. >> do not tell me -- >> do not tell me. do not tell me. >> do not tell people like me. >> do not tell people like me. >> kill this bill. >> kill this bill. >> do not kill me. >> do not kill me. >> kill this bill. >> kill this bill. [ inaudible ] >> i've been a nurse for 30 years. >> i've been a nurse for 30 years. >> i can't believe we had to come back. >> i can't believe we had to come back. i can't believe we had to ask the government to stop attacking us. >> stop attacking my patients. not attacking americans that make ordinary income that you're going to devastation with the tax bill. >> stop taxing ordinary americans -- >> my taxes -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> shame on you! shame on you! shame on you! >> shame! shame! shame! shame! shame! >> my name is mark and i'm living with aids and cancer. >> i'm living with aid and cancer. >> if this bill is passed. >> if this bill is passed. >> people like me will die. >> people like me will die. >> i'm asking the republican senators to vote against this bill. >> i'm asking republican senators to vote against this bill. >> don't kill us! >> don't kill us! >> kill the bill! >> kill the bill! >> tell them no. don't kill us! don't kill us! >> shame! shame! shame! shame! shame! shame! >> kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! >> i'll call the meeting back to order. i said that we would vote. clerk will call roll. >> grassley votes aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> mic check! >> i have aids! >> i have aids asked. >> i need my medical coverage. because i want to live! >> stop the tax scam! stop the tax scam! >> mr. purdue. >> stop the tax scam! >> stop the tax scam! >> mr. gardner. mr. kennedy. mr. bozeman. mr. strange. mr. sanders. >> no. >> miss murray. >> no. >> mr. widen. >> no! >> miss dab know. >> no! >> mr. whitehouse. >> no. >> mr. warner? >> no. >> mr. merckly? >> no. >> mr. cane? >> no. >> mr. king? >> no. >> mr. van hollen? >> no. >> miss harris? >> no. >> mr. chairman? >> aye. >> report the vote. >> kill the bill! kill the bill! >> the ayes are 12 and the nays are 11. >> the bill is reported out. >> kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! >> that's how it went. you saw the headlines about that today. it sounded like a neat and tidy process. that was the neat and tidy process. it wish the republicans got their no debate, party line hearing today. what they are trying to do with this really enormous bill will hurt the american poor and hurt the american middle class quickly and significantly and for a long time. and it will throw 13 million americans off their health insurance. and so what they are trying to do is very, very unpopular and that's why they are trying to go fast. that's why they are trying to outrun the resistance to what they are doing. they are also likely to get another non-partisan report on the cost of their bill and who it hurts as soon as tomorrow night and so they have got to outrun that, too. their whole strategy is to get this through now. to get this through as fast as they possibly can. when i say now, in the next two days they want to get this done before more of this starts happening and spreading before too many people realize what they are doing and how fast they are doing it. there is a lot going on right now i know, but this is a huge thing they're trying to do and fast. watch this phase. >> mr. sanders? >> no. >> ms. murray? >> no. >> mr. widen? >> no. >> ms. stabernow? >> no. >> mr. whitehouse? >> no. >> mr. warner? >> no. >> mr. merkley? >> no. >> mr. cane? >> no. >> mr. king? >> no. >> mr. vanhallen? >> no. >> ms. harris? >> no. except for one of us. i write them a poem instead! and one for each of you too! that's actually yours. that, that one. yeah. regardless, we're stuck with the bill. to many, words are the most valuable currency. last i checked, stores don't take "words." some do. not everyone can be the poetic voice of a generation. i know, right? such a burden. the bank of america mobile banking app. the fast, secure and simple way to send money. replace the full value of your 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afterward reportedly over heard the ambassador explaining how kushner inquired about setting up a secret communications channel between the trump transition and the kremlin. so that's the first one. that's the ambassador. then there was also the head of a kremlin controlled bank. a graduate of what is basically russia spy school that banker who graduated from spy school also met with jared kushner during the transition and then the russian born ex-con convicted of a $40 million mafia conducted pump-and-dump stock scheme. him and also the russian real estate mogul and former member of parliament he was working with were quietly working during the campaign with the trump organization to try to get a trump tower built in moscow. candidate trump signed a letter of intent to pursue that project as he insisted publicly he had no interest and no deals with russia. so then there was the -- ambassador, the banker, the ex-con guy, the real estate guy. then there was the long-time employee of trump campaign chairman paul manafort, a russian intelligence visit in contact all the time with manafort and he's the one that flew to new york to deliver messages from a russian close to vladimir putin. then recently we learned about the official from the bank of russia. he's been described by law enforcement as a god father in the russian mafia and contacted top trump campaign officials to set up a meeting with donald trump at an nra conference. he did not get that meeting with drut donald trump sonald trump dinner with donald trump jr. then of course in june of last year, there was the kremlin connected russian lawyer who met with don junior and jared kushner at trump tower. there was also a russian-born lobbyist, who was once a kgb counterintelligence operative and another russian dude at the center of a congressional investigation into russian money laundering in the united states in the 1990s. he has since been in business with some of putin's favorites back home in russia and the son of the russian billionaire that arranged the trump tower meeting and spoke about it multiple times with don junior. then there was also the director of a russian university that invited paige to speak in moscow and all the folks carter spoke with during his trip, a russian deputy prime minister, a top official at russia state oil company and according to one report that carter paige denies, the head of the oil state company one of the vladimir putin's top lieutenants and the kremlin linked academic that seems to have cultivated foreign policy advisor telling him the russians had dirt on clinton and introduced him to a guy with connections at the russian foreign ministry who wanted to set up a meeting between trump and putin and met with a russian woman who was introduced to him as vladimir putin's niece. something he very excitedly e-mailed superiors. vladimir putin doesn't have a niece but if you want to keep track what is going on in the mule are investigation, say, what we have learned in the congressional investigations in terms of the trump campaign's links to russia, try looking at it in terms of the sheer number of russians and people linked to the russian government who made contact with the trump campaign and the trump transition. i mean, that's a lot of different russians. but all of those folks had to make room for one more today. back in april, "the washington post" reported that just before the inauguration, eric prince major trump donor and founder of the controversial private security firm blackwater and agent of betsy devos went for a meeting with the russian representative of vladimir putin's office and presented himself as an unofficial envoy for president-elect trump at that meeting. the purpose was to set up a secret back channel communication between the trump camp and putin camp. eric prince said yeah, okay. i went and met some russian guy and think he was maybe a fun manager but we had a beer. he doesn't remember the guy's name. they didn't talk about anything important. whatever they did talk about, it had nothing to do with donald trump and besides, he can't remember anyway. today we found out who that russian guy was that eric prince so unmemorably shared a beer with in the seychelles and reports that according to flight records, th they obtained on th date that this meeting with eric prince occurred, a private plane flew a man to the seychelles islands, the russian direct investment fund. he confirmed they crossed paths in the seychelle and one more russian gets added to this roster of contacts. we got russian ambassador, russian banker, russian ex-con, military, russian lawyer, russian lobbyist, russian money laundering suspect. russian billionaire son and connected academic, oil executive, russian foreign ministry official, russian president's fake niece and now new guy head of russia's fund. -- sovereign wealth fund. that's too big for a band. that's too big for a marching band in most towns. i mean, but there is one more thing to say about the russian sovereign wealth fund that met with eric prince during the transition. the russian direct investment fund, the fund he runs is one of many russian government institutions under u.s. sanctions. since russia invaded crimea in 2014, which means that no american business person, even eric prince, should be doing business with that fund. prince's explanation about that meeting in the seychelles is it had nothing to do with the trump transition. it was just business. it couldn't have been business with that guy from the russian sovereign wealth fund, at least it couldn't have been business if it was legal business. eric prince scheduled to testify before the house intelligence committee the day after tomorrow. so maybe that will come up. meanwhile, though, more than a year after our presidential election, more than like a year and a half since the fbi started its counter intelligence investigation into links between russia and the trump 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febreze unstopables. breathe happy. on the first working day of every month, the state of hawaii conducts a test of attention alert siren. it's a steady tone, 60-second long siren that blairs from loud speakers around the islands. and when used properly, it's meant to signal an incoming hurricane or tsunami or natural disaster. they test that once a month. now hawaii is rolling out a second siren, one they haven't used since the cold war since north korea conducted 16 missile tests this year alone as it develops a program for nuclear weapons. and hawaii is 4600 miles from north korea and these days sometimes that doesn't feel like far enough. so hawaii as of this week is taking me precautions because hawaii is awesome, they are rolling out this new precaution. they are reminding people about this old siren and the most chill way possible. >> on the first business day of every month, the state and the counties normally conduct a test of the alert signal, which is a steady tone. starting december 1st, a second tone, the attack warning signal a warning tone will be added. the attack warning signal advises everyone to take immediate shelter. get inside, stay inside. stay tuned. to find out more info, go to ready.hawaii.gov. >> i would be less alarmed by that siren if it did come with soothing music whenever it went off. stay tuned, hawaii. in the event of a nuclear attack it would give the 1.4 million residents a little time, about 12 to 15 minutes to find shelter ahead of an impends attack. today on the plan to dust off the attack warning signal, today north korea also decided to break from a two-month hiatus to launch yet another missile into the atmosphere. pentagon officials believe this was an intercontinental ballistic missile, an icbm, the third one north korea tested thus far. the first two were launched this summer. north korea has been launching these things with unusual trajectory whether than sending off in the distance, they tend to shoot them almost straight up, really high up so when the missiles finally do land they land fairly close by. well, the one they shot off today reached a height of around 2,800 miles. it went 3,000 miles up before it landed in the sea of japan. if it had been fired for distance, scientists said if the missile had thrown on a standard trajectory, it would have a range of more than 8,100 miles. and i mentioned before that hawaii is 4,000 miles away from north korea. if it's got an 8,100 mile range, this missile, that means it will hit washington, d.c. the concern scientists co-director today said it would have more than enough range to travel from north korea to washington, d.c. it could hit new york city or anywhere in the continental u.s. the state of hawaii in the pacific from the cold war days and being admirably calm and playing soothing music to explain that to the people of hawaii and north korea to being a threat not just to the pacific neighbors but the rest of the united states, how close was north korea to being that global threat and how much should we see the threat as changing with the kind of test they performed today. joining us is president of the plou ploughshares fund and nbc news and nuclear security analyst. great to see you. >> thank you, rachel. >> we have not seen -- we're corresponding about this today. you mentioned that it's rare to see north korea do a big missile test like this at this time of year. why is this a weird time of year for them to be doing this kind of test? >> they normally don't test in the fourth quarter of the year. of the 85 tests they have done since 2011, only five have been in the last quarter. people think that this has to do with weather conditions. sometimes the troops move from military duty to harvesting for whatever reason we don't test this year and the pause that we've seen, the 74 days since the last missile test partly is explained by the time of year it might not have been a gesture. the u.s. said that if south -- if north korea stopped testing for 60 days, that would be seen as a positive sign to open up negotiations. they did stop testing but we didn't make any move to open negotiations. >> what about the quality of this test today? do you agree with these assessments that we've seen today, this is potentially the longest-range missile test? >> there is little doubt about that. this is a very serious step forward. it went a little over 4,000 miles. the second was the end of july. this is an 8,000 mile missile. this is about the range of our missiles, our minute men in north dakota and montana and other places. the good news is we don't know if it can actually carry a nuclear warhead yet. it might have been a light payload on this test, a nuclear warhead weighs a ton. can it carry a ton all the way? can it withstand the stress es and strains of reentry? these are unknown questions. if you're the u.s. military, you have to assume the worst and a nuclear arm ballistic missile that can deliver a warhead on washington or mar-a-lago or anyplace in the united states. >> this feels like what we've seen over the course of this past year and a little bit in a broader time frame is a relentless march that they have been making significant, steady progress. is that a surprise or a disappointment to counter proliferation efforts, people running counter proliferation efforts in the united states? has the united states believed that we have done anything substantive to slow them down, trip them up, mess them up to put a cap on how far they can go with their missile technology? is this stuff a surprise or does the united states basically accept they will keep testing, keep learning from their tests and keep getting better? >> this is where it gets serious. it's not a surprise any longer. it was around last year we realized how much more advanced they were than some of us thought and we seen that demonstrated repeatedly. remember, this is the third successful test. they haven't had a failure. so these guys know what they are doing. this is a sophisticated program. is it disappointment? absolutely. only during the clinton administration and for some period of time in the george w. bush administration do we have real negotiations that really paused the program for eight years and caused a delay and we were very close to reaching a deal to end the program all together. but the obama administration kind of dropped the ball on this and the trump administration has done, well, it's hard to know what they've done. the policy is somewhat incoherent. a lot of bluster and tweets. i would expect more tweets tomorrow but no negotiations, no real strategy to stop them and that gets us to the really bad news. there is an increasing chorus you hear in washington that we have to go to war and take military action to stop the north korean threat. it's starting to feel like 2002 when a consensus is growing that the only thing we can do is go to war, even though we haven't exhausted our 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firm and resolved to use my savings for the public good. but here we are nine years later and this president and the republican congress are making a bad situation even worse. they won't tell you that their so called "tax reform" plan is really for the wealthy and big corporations, while hurting the middle class. it blows up the deficit and that means fewer investments in education, health care and job creation. it's up to all of us to stand up to this president. not just for impeachable offenses, but also to demand a country where everyone has a real chance to succeed. join us. your voice matters. so this is the 11th week of recovery from hurricane maria in puerto rico. as night fell tonight, 1.5 million americans are still living in darkness. it's been one step forward, two back. puerto rico went through two major blackouts in the last two weeks. line being fixed by whitefish energy, the unlikely winner of a $300 million contract to rebuild puerto rico's power grid, a company that is two years old with two employees. that giant inexplicable contract became a national symbol of the botched disaster response quite literally plunging americans into darkness without end. and now we have another example. this time it's about those blue tarps that you often see in situations like this stretched over homes where the roof once was before the storm ripped it off. they don't seem like much, i know but when you've spent the last ten weeks in darkness struggling to find clean water, anything helps. helps to have a roof over your head, even if that roof is a blue tarp. and this is where the story feels like deja vu. the company hired to deliver the blue tarps for puerto rico after hurricane maria is a quote newly created florida company with an unproven record, a company formed by two brothers in august. the company had never before won a government contract or delivered tarps or plastic sheeting. despite that fact, for some reason this is the company that got more than $30 million in contracts from fema to provide emergency tarps and plastic sheeting for repairs in puerto rico. this company, address listed is a single family home in st. cloud, florida where presumably one or both of the brothers lives? shockingly, it turns out the company never delivered but were given $30 million worth of contracts to provide, they never turned up with the tarps and apparently took fema four weeks to notice that and start to sort it out. it's ground hog day, whether it's millions of americans living in the dark or living without so much as a makeshift roof, the response to this disaster and this part of america and puerto rico has bee long time now. no one knows that more than our next guest the mayor of san juan puerto rico that joins us in studio, next. and now we get an even bigger discount from bundling home and auto. i can get used to this. it might take a minute. -swing and a miss! -slam dunk! touchdown! together: sports! bounty is more absorbent,mom" per roll so the roll can last 50% longer than the leading ordinary brand. so you get more "life" per roll. bounty, the quicker picker upper the woman with the bullhorn here is carmen yulin cruz. she is the mayor of san juan, puerto rico. see her here wading door to door. to see her constituents. this is 48 hours after hurricane maria made landfall. we're starting the 11th week of recovery, which has been painful and slow for puerto rico. and the mayor of san juan joins us now. really nice to have you here. >> thank you. call me yulin. >> okay, i will. it's hard for me not to call you madam mayor -- >> no, no. >> this is probably inappropriate, but how are you personally? i know this has been an unimaginable time. >> it's been very stressful. it's been very difficult. but it's a lot more difficult for people that still don't have water or have to boil their water but they don't have anything to boil it with. we have about 50% of generation. but generation does not mean that people have power in their homes. and as you mentioned before, we keep losing power lines. so you still have the inability to have stability in our energy grid. and that puts a lot of things in an unstable situation. medical services. you may be operating and all of the sudden you end up operating with your cellular lamp because the power went off or the generator went out. generators are not made to withstand -- see, you count 11 weeks because you're counting maria. but you have to count two, three weeks before that because irma came before that. >> right. >> my parents have been without electricity or water, running water -- they have running water, but they haven't had electricity for 72 days now. >> and as this work is being done, we've talked over the course of some of this recovery about work not being done. but as, you know, as there are workers on the ground, as there are people trying to fix the power lines, as there are people working on the issue of running water, do you feel like that work to fix things is being done rationally, and that the systems are being rebuilt in a resilient way? >> no, they're not. that's why what bernie sanders did today, it's a very comprehensive bill towards the transformation of usvi and puerto rico. and it puts the transformation in the hands of people from puerto rico and the usvi. and of course the whitefish scandal didn't help a lot, the credibility of the puerto rican government. but that does not mean that we're incapable of doing what needs to be done. >> and the bill that he put forward today, it's a big bill. it's over $100 million. and the idea is to go for infrastructure in a way that is sustainable, resilient and local live controlled. >> correct. what happens with fema and the staffer act, you have to build everything to the way it was. if you have a wooden house with a zinc top, you have to rebuild it that way. that's why i don't like talking about reconstruction. i like talking about transformation. we need a waiver on that to ensure that we can build to this. because we are an island surrounded by water. lots and lots of water. >> lots and lots of water. big water. >> we didn't know before this happened. and we need to build in that resiliency. the power generation in puerto rico happens in the southern part. and then the grid spreads out throughout the mountains. so if that generation gets off the grid, the entire island is blacked out just as it has been. so it is actually on president trump's best interests if we have the power to develop an economy that can plug in to the world economy. things like the jones act that congressman john mccain has talked about eliminating. but our brothers and sisters from the maritime units also have to eat and feed their families. so we need to develop a path so that at least humanitarian ships right now can come in and be waived totally. and it's interesting. in texas this was waived completely. and of course -- >> in the wake of the hurricane that hit texas. >> that hit texas. and then just to develop a path for the jones act to be completely eliminated. and now we have this -- and i'm going to do this on national tv, this reform. >> the tax bill. >> which not only as senator sanders was saying today a single mother of two children gets a $75 tax credit. and a family that makes $500,000 with two children gets a $4,000 tax credit. but it puts an excise tax , an import tax, for puerto rico, 20%. >> so products made, like pharmaceuticals, big manufacturing sector, products made in puerto rico and exported to the united states. >> would get a 20% tax. >> that's not a -- >> a tax that's not there now. >> that's not there now. >> it would cripple the puerto rican economy. >> it's crippled already. it would obliterate it. this would be a much more devastating blow to our economy than irma and maria put together. and the republican congress has promised we're going change the language. we're going to change the language. but nothing happens. and that hurts the credibility of the trump administration if they have any credibility at all at this point in terms of the puerto rican humanitarian crisis. >> what do you think puerto rico needs now, right now the most in terms of national attention, federal attention, and charitable help? >> we need three things. one, we need our debt to be eliminated. we couldn't pay it before. we're certainly not going to be able to pay it now. we need tools for economic development. and in order to do that, we need power. but we need to move also from gift power right now and move to a more sustainable and more ecofriendly power. >> that's resilient and sustainable. >> and also have our grid divided along different sides that can help different sides and portions of the island. we have to provide our communities with microgrids and solar communities. and we have to move into that path. and we also have to sit down and talk about what is it about the relationship between puerto rico and the united states that keeps us from getting the help that we need to get. and just, you know, everybody in puerto rico, the politics is about the national pastime. so we all have a different way of thinking. some like statehood. some like things to stay the way they are. some like independence. i like free association. but i think it's more of what is the process that we're going to follow to ensure that everyone that comes to the table has a democratic way of showing what they have, and it's based on the facts, not on what we want it to be, but on what it's actually going to be. and we started a foundation. it's called somebody help us. because the trump administration and i love you say botched effort in puerto rico. so i started getting postcards with i'm a retired grandmother from austin, texas. here is $10 for you. i'm a kid from arizona. here is $1 for you. so we're putting this in this foundation, especially to help rebuild those homes that at this point will have nothing but the help that we can give them. >> in terms of what does happen next, what you're saying about the political situation there. obviously politics is not the point, but politics has to be part of the solution. it has been a process of education for the american public to be reminded that all puerto ricans are american citizens. >> yes. >> that puerto rico is part of the united states. that puerto rico does not have another president to go to besides donald trump. >> no. we're a u.s. territory. we're a colony of the united states because the power resides in congress completely. so let's change that. >> yeah. >> and you're right. it isn't about politics. it's about saving lives. but politics gets in the middle of that. and our relationship gets in the middle of that. i said very few weeks ago some strong words. we won't be able to hide our inequality and poverty behind palm trees and pina coladas anymore. so we have to transform puerto rico and ensure that we have an economy and a resilient structure that will help us move forward. because about 100,000 -- this is what i don't get, rachel. i don't think president trump realizes that many of the puerto ricans that are moving to the states, about 100,000 in the past few weeks are going to florida. so they're going to change the landscape of the election for 2018. and we're going to make sure that they vote. and we're going to make sure that they remember who didn't help when the time came. >> carmen yulin cruz is the mayor of san juan, puerto rico. mayor cruz, it's really, really nice to have you here. >> thank you. >> thank you for being in touch with us throughout this whole time period. >> thank you for not forgetting us. >> good evening, rachel. and an extraordinary interview with the mayor. really glad to see that follow-up. >> thank you, my dear. thanks. >> good evening from philadelphia, by the way. did i lose rachel? i uguess i lost her. and i just wanted to tell rachel she has a lot of friends here in philadelphia where i've been 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