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Improvement and more ambition to be built into it in the future. >> and you talk about the optimism. that's what we're hearing from this summit. are there any skeptics there in the mix there of leaders from the various nations across the globe? >> reporter: not really. no. not from -- i think what people are arguing here, and there are some points of difference. it's within the nuance. the people here believe climate change is a major problem, that it does, to a significant the degree, threaten the future way of life, the planet, everyone and everyone on it. what they disagree on is in the det...

Where phil black joins us with the latest on the summit. it is 9:30 in the morning there in paris, phil, we have seen what has come out of the first day at the cop 21 summit. what can we expect from the second day as the leaders arrive and settle in? >> reporter: well, rosemary, one of the more interesting things i think will be taking place today been president obama moving, mingling with leaders of small island nations, leaders that feel that their existence is most threatened by the consequences of climate change, notably sea level rise, and these are countries who think the summit is not b...

Well, in paris, nearly 150 heads of state will start arriving in a few hours for the cop21 summit. they will try to agree to a plan to stop the global warming. the summit is also a security headache for france. tens of thousands of officers have been deployed across paris. border patrol has been stepped up. protesters are demanding strong environmental commitments. these images come to us from new zealand, switzerland, the philippines and australia. we're joined from paris by a senior pal si adviser of greenpeace international. thank you for joining us. there is a draft pope sal that was has...

Paris haven't stopped him. if anything, he's more determined to arrive with a message of hope. john sutter, cnn, france. and you'll get complete coverage of the cop21 summit on a special section of our website. also reports on the climate change debate from the field from the community that's standing up to coal mining efforts to why that steak you enjoy is a bigger carbon footprint than you might think. it's all at cnn.com/2 degrees. in the united states, across the central plains, ice storms continue and temperatures to remain below freezing. karen maginnis is standing by. it seems prett...

Moscow curtailed the import of certain turkish groups into russia. there are new travel restrictions between the two countries. the u.s. law enforcement official tells cnn the suspected gunman in a woman's clinic attack expressed anti-abortion and apt government views following his arrest. robert dear is in jail without bail. he will be in court on monday. in the pope in in the central african republic. he's there to spread messages of peace to a country fraught with sectarian violence and underline the importance of uplifting people from poverty in one of the world's poorest countries. ...