preparing for an historic visit to the u.s. a first in his lifetime. now three major cities try to make space as millions make the pilgrimage to witness history. welcome to the lead. i m john berman in for jake tapper today. our politics lead yet again donald trump finds himself under fire. this time not for a slip of the tongue but for holding his tongue. trump failed to correct, failed to challenge, failed to even remotely question a supporter at a new hampshire town hall who claimed we have a, quote, muslim problem in the united states. and that president barack obama is a muslim and that he is not an american. trump s campaign claims he did not hear the question. religious groups are calling on the republican front runner to apologize, but thus far mum s the word. let s get right to cnn s sara murray in greensville, south carolina. sara. reporter: donald trump canceling a campaign appearance at the last minute today as he s under fire for this exchange last night in new hampshire. we have a problem in this country. it s called muslims. we know our current president is one. you know he s not even an american. we need this question. but any way, we have training camps growing where they want to kill us. uh-huh. that s my question. when can we get rid of them? we re going to be looking at a lot of different things. a lot of people are saying that and a lot of people are saying bad things are happening out there. we re going to be looking at that and plenty of other things. reporter: trump didn t press the questioner to explain what he meant by get rid of them or push back on the false charge about the president who is a christian and american citizen. trump s campaign claiming he did not hear that part of the question. but refusing to say whether trump believes president obama is in fact an american. trump s silence sparking a chorus of criticism today. chris christie saying he would have handled it differently. somebody at one of my town hall meetings said something like that, i would correct them. and say, no, the president s a christian and he was born in this country. those two things are self-evident. i think you have an obligation as a leader to do that. reporter: senator lindsey graham calling it inappropriate. you need to look the guy in the eye say, listen, i don t agree with you. i don t appreciate what you said. reporter: but polls provide a hint to why trump might be willing to let the issue linger. 54% of his supporters wrongly identify obama as muslim. according to a cnn/orc poll among all republicans the number stands at 43%. today, amid the fallout trump s scrapping an event in south carolina just hours before he was slated to speak. saying in a statement that he has a significant business transaction to attend to. prompting this tweet from fellow gop candidate bobby jindal. sorry to see donald trump cancel on event today with senator demint and governor haley. filing for bankruptcy again? perhaps fifth time is a charm. now, there is a little grumbling on the ground here in south carolina about donald trump not being at this event. a couple folks do think he did it to avoid tough questions including what were sure to be questions from the press about whether he does believe president obama is an american citizen. we will definitely have our fair share of presidential candidates tonight though. ten are expected to appear at this event this evening. back to you, john. sara murray for us in greenville, south carolina. thanks so much, sara. i want to talk more about this with cnn chief political correspondent dana bash live in los angeles. dana, the headline donald trump doesn t speak is bizarre enough to begin with. for a guy who likes to embrace controversy, even stoke it, his silence today about his silence yesterday is even more remarkable. it s deafening. i have to say even just as you were coming to me i was just looking at my phone to check his twitter feed. sure that at some point he was going to be the typical donald trump and take to twitter and tweet out something sort of in your face or at least something, anything. the fact that he hasn t done that on twitter, the fact that he hasn t said anything through his spokesman as sara was talking about, the last they said officially was last night when i spoke to his campaign manager who said he didn t really hear the question and that his response was just the idea of looking into whether there are terror training camps in this country. it is highly unusual. he is not somebody who is shy when it comes to controversy. and he s fought back on everything along the way over the past several months. so this is perhaps let s give him the benefit of the doubt. maybe he actually does have a big business deal and he s in a boardroom somewhere trying to work it out. they say we re going to find out what it is next week. he s made many, many billions as we well know. dana, you know, politicians are always confronted with do they need to confront or apologize for things said or not said on the stump near them when they re at events. but with donald trump it s not like this is happening in a vacuum. this issue is one that he was very much involved with, the birther movement back in 2011 and 2012. he has connections to these ideas. not just involved, john. you re absolutely right. he really helped stoke the birther movement. you remember he was on the view back in 2011, you know, calling out the president saying he doesn t know whether he was born in the united states. and even after the president then produced his long form birth certificate saying he was born in hawaii, he said he wasn t really sure if it was authentic. the fact is though that was 2011. and this year he hasn t been talking about it much, at all. in fact, i just went and looked it up he told anderson cooper just this summer that he s off that subject. he wants to talk about jobs and other things. but sara eluded to this earlier, it s a fine line because he is definitely trying to appeal to the sector of the republican base that wants to hear this kind of thing from him. but at the same time he understands that, you know, that ship has sailed and he needs to look fmore presidential. perhaps that s one reason why he s being very untrump like and being quiet to sort of see how this thing goes. you don t really have an issue often where trump is stumped. and this seems to be one of them. dana bash live for us in los angeles. dana, great to see you. thanks so much. democratic presidential candidates they were quick to pounce on all this. hillary clinton tweeted, donald trump not denouncing false statements about potus and hateful rhetoric about muslims is disturbing and just plain wrong. cut it out. bernie sanders called for the republican front runner to apologize. and martin o malley joined in saying muslim is not a slur. i want to get right to cnn national correspondent suzanne malveaux traveling with the clinton campaign in manchester, new hampshire. suzanne, hillary clinton had a lot to say about this this afternoon. reporter: she certainly did, john. this was an opportunity for her to hit trump and hit him hard. i asked her very specifically about those statements that the trump supporter made that the problem in the country was muslims, that the president was in fact a muslim and that also he was not an american and that he went forward and said there were training camps trained to kill us. and then his final question of course when he said when can we get rid of them and then trump s very initial response simply saying we need this question. so she reacted to trump s response and then she also laid out what she potentially would have done. well, i was appalled. and as you may know, you know, quickly put out a tweet expressing the great disappointment with that kind of rhetoric. and calling on him and anybody else who is seeking the highest office of the land to start behaving like a president. to show respect and to stand up for the truth. he knew or he should have known that what that man was asking was not only way out of bounds, it was untrue. and he should have from the beginning repudiated that kind of rhetoric, that level of hatefulness in a questioner in an audience that he was appearing before. so i would, you know, call on him and call on all of the candidates to stop this decent into the kind of hateful, mean spirited divisive rhetoric we have seen too much of in the last months. and how would you have responded? well, i don t think that person would come to my event. but if that person had been in my event i would have called him out on it. and i would have said from the very beginning that has no place in a political discussion like the one we re trying to have here. and not only is it out of place and wrong, it is totally factually untrue. and to quit impugning the integrity of the president. do you think it s racist? i think it s prejudiced. i think it s discriminatory. i think it comes out of the same unfortunate reservoir of hateful rhetoric that we ve seen too much of where people are being, you know, set against one another and that has no place in our politics. we have serious issues we have to deal with in the years ahead. we should be trying to bring the country together around solutions, not trying to divide up people and set them against each other. hillary clinton was also asked whether or not she believed trump should apologize and she said she certainly hoped that he does. but there is no expectation that that is necessarily going to happen. all the previous controversies have not led to trump apologies so no one is holding their breath on the democratic side. john. apologies and donald trump, suzanne malveaux, thank you so much. so she faced off with donald trump at the debate and received high marks for her performance. but now carly fiorina s performance in the business world is drawing fire just like donald trump said it would. that s next. that 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me. donald trump, the question is, does this hurt him, margaret? because the stuff with megyn kelly, the stuff about mexican immigrants, the birther movement four years ago, none of that seems to have had an effect in his poll numbers so far. so why is this night different than any other? well, the question is who supports donald trump? and of the people that already support donald trump does this bother them? or does this reinforce what they already like about him? i mean, donald trump rose to prominence in a crowded field of 16 other candidates by saying we need to build a wall. we need to build a really big wall and keep all the mexicans out. and then he also mentioned mexicans were drug dealers and rapists. those people who liked that message might very well like a message that thinks muslims are derogatory. so maybe this doesn t hit that base of support, but this absolutely does hit his credibility with mainstream republicans, with christian conservative republicans, with the broader coalition that whoever the nominee is will need to pull together. so, hank, the poll numbers show 29% of americans in the most recent cnn/orc poll think president obama is a muslim. 43% of republicans think president obama is a muslim. and 54% of trump supporters think president obama is a muslim. so in terms of nuts and bolts, maybe this doesn t hurt. it does hurt trump over the term. why? nobody minds being a racist. they mind being found out. the real question here is the good news is he s the front runner, the bad news is he s a front runner because people are now going to focus on what he says and does, not what they think he does or might say. this is now subject to a lot of examination because his overall behavior is now subject to question. that s what happens when you re in the front of the pack. you re a new yorker. one of the things donald trump is not generally is silent. right? so this happened last night. everyone s talking about it and there s nothing donald trump likes more than being talked about. and yet he s eerily silent, what s going on? this is the kind of silence he doesn t like because he doesn t want that image tarnished. mexicans, they may be rapists but i have a lot of them that will work for me. that will only go so far. you re getting closer to iowa and new hampshire, conservative republicans and mainstream republicans are going to say, wait a second, we want to win the election, donald trump s not the way to get there because people not exactly like us are going to be voting. margaret, forgive me for the conspiracy theories but wed heard two minutes of hillary clinton lashing out at donald trump for this statement. i couldn t help but think there are probably a lot of donald trump supporters say fg hillary clinton is yelling at donald trump for this that s a good thing. what he said is, again, it s only going to boost the supporters who like him already for what he stands for. and it s going to alienate the people who already don t like him. i don t think this helps or hurts him. it s probably status quo for donald trump. the piece about him canceling his event tonight is incredibly interesting to me. isn t it? as you said he likes the attention. but it s just sort of unlike him to not take the reigns and fight back. i sensed at the end of the debate, you know, first of all it was three hours so he was tired. but he couldn t carry his own weight. he was totally diminished in the policy conversations. the only time he could really insert himself is when they were personal attacks. you had a sense an awareness he wasn t able to carry water against the other candidates. he is doing the job normally party leaders do in any primary setting. the party leaders ultimately determine who the nominee is. donald trump is beginning to cut his own legs out from under him. the more people see of the negative donald trump the less likely they ll see him as the guy that can beat hillary clinton and that will fuel conservative republicans in iowa and new hampshire coming up. so the person who arguably had the best debate, carly fiorina. one thing that happens when you do well when you emerge from the pack is people start to knock you down, right? sure. so hewlett-packard, her time as the ceo there it was an issue in the 2010 senate race in california. and i have to say i have seen more people e-mail and tweet out some of the ads from that campaign over the last 24 hours than i ve seen over the last five years. well, look, is she going to survive that? not likely. is this an accident? there are no accidents in presidential politics overall. this is a determined effort to make sure she s not the nominee. by guess who? my hunch is the democrats. they don t want another woman in the game. democrats, she has a field of 16 contenders. also the research barbara boxer put out she s going to have to contend with. the question is we know carly is a shrewd candidate. she was at the bottom of the pack and she has fought her way to the top really a top tier republican candidate. has she learned lessons from how she communicated about her hp record that will transcend this round of the debate? and she s going to have to because, you know, she s not going to be the president, vice president or any sort of part of any next republican cabinet if she can t defend herself. so far it was donald trump talking about carly fiorina and her business record. but you re already starting to see some of the other candidates. chris christie flirting with the idea, i think, of talking about carly fiorina and her record. starts getting incoming from multiple sides it could be a different story. could be a different story. but chris christie s real job is kill donald trump because he s convinced in the back of his mind if trump weren t there that would be his space. tempers. so many of them. i don t agree with that but as far as carly fiorina s problems are concerned those spots being tweeted are ultimately going to cut her legs out from under her. why? california not being great place for republicans any way, people need a way to get rid of her. maybe the republicans doing it i bet it s the democrats because they want to make sure there s no women there on the republican side so they continue to push republicans out to the right. hank, margaret, great to have you with us on this friday. have a great weekend. thanks. this programming note. in case you missed the cnn republican debate, which i find frankly hard to believe, you can watch a re-air of the debate tonight at 10:00 eastern right here on cnn. coming up, the white house lashes out at donald trump and republicans who are refusing to not deny these claims, these statements that the president is a muslim and not an american. that is next. plus, baby doe finally identified by police after millions shared her picture on social media. are investigators any closer to finding out how she died? iflike i love shrimp, red lobster s endless 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of our packages today. welcome back to the lead. i m john berman in for jake tapper today. continuing our politics lead, president obama is a muslim, he is not an american. falsehoods spouted anew this time at a donald trump rally. but it s only the first time that either claim has been made. i want to bring in cnn s senior white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, it feels like five years ago. it feels like we ve heard this again. and seen this before. we have seen it before and they ve seen this at the white house before. the white house fired right back at donald trump today, john, after donald trump failed to correct a supporter at a rally who said president obama is a muslim. for the president it is a false slur he has heard over and over and over. they are lies president obama has heard before. they hounded his first bid for the white house. now they re back just as he s approaching the end of his second term. this time it was a false smear about the president s religion at a donald trump rally. we have a problem in this country. it s called muslims. we know our current president is one. you know he s not even an american. we need this question. trump s failure to set the record straight was no shocker to white house aides who ve heard the gop front runner repeatedly deny the truth of the matter, that the president is a christian who was born in hawaii. is anybody really surprised that this happened at a donald trump rally? but the white house did note unlike trump mr. obama s one-time rival john mccain made it clear seven years ago when false rumors first swirled in the heat of that campaign. he s an arab. he is not? no, ma am. no? no, ma am. no, ma am. he s a decent family man, citizen that i just happen to have disagreements with. colin powell did the same just days later. well, the correct answer is he s not a muslim. he s a christian. he s always been a christian. but the really right answer is, what if he is? four years ago it was trump who led the birther movement questioning the president s background. very simple. i have people looking into it. the president responded, posted his own birth certificate, dubbed trump a carnival barker. we do not have time for this kind of silliness. and then mocked him at the white house correspondents dinner days later. tonight for the first time i am releasing my official birth video. despite the president s numerous speeches about his christian faith. it led me to embrace jesus christ as my lord and savior. 29% of americans still believe the president is a muslim. as do 43% of republicans and more than half of trump supporters. the lies live on in social media. every time the president sweet tweets, the smears are tweeted right back at him. the white house insists it s up to republicans to stop it. this is a cynical strategy that too many republican politicians have dabbled in because for some of them it s proved to be successful. and white house officials all but rolled their eyes at the trump campaign s claim that donald trump did not hear that supporter say that president obama is a muslim. john, they are just not buying that. so, jim, we have some breaking news out of the white house just a few minutes ago. that s right. we heard that the president intends to nominate a new secretary of the army. and this is a nomination that makes history. that s right. eric k. fanning, he s going to be the first openly gay secretary of a u.s. military branch. he s going to be the secretary of the army. and the president released a statement just in the last several minutes saying he looks forward to working with eric to keep our army the very best in the world. john, this is a part of that cultural sea change we ve seen happening at the pentagon. and this is just another example of that. we ll have to see how that all plays out in the coming days, weeks and months. but president obama putting his full faith in eric k. fanning to run secretary of the army. jim acosta at the white house. thank you so much, jim. in our national lead, her name is bella. the toddler dubbed baby doe by police, she is finally been identified and now her mother and her mother s boyfriend are in police custody. the tip that led investigators to them, that s next. when you re not confident your company s data is secure, the possibility of a breach can quickly become the only thing you think about. that s where at&t can help. at at&t we monitor our network traffic so we can see things others can t. mitigating risks across your business. leaving you free to focus on what matters most. i god blessed and teeming with citpeople of all kinds.e. living in harmony and peace. trump: they re bringing crime. they re rapists. if i am elected they re. going to be out of there day one. reporter: do you think birth right citizenship should be ended? walker: yeah, absolutely. cruz: i think we should end birth right citizenship trump: i will build a great, great wall. in my mind it was a tall proud city built of. rocks stronger than oceans. and if there had to be city walls. the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. that s how i saw it and see it still. welcome back to the lead. the national lead now. it was one tip, just one tip that led to a major break in boston s baby doe case. police now identified the little girl as bella bond. her mother and mother s boyfriend now under arrest. all this as detectives return to boston harbor where the child was found in june wrapped in a trash bag. more than 50 million people viewed this computer generated image of what she might look like. one tip led police to search a home in the boston area yesterday. that house about 40 minutes from where the remains were found. cnn s alexander field is working to learn more. a alexander, what are police saying? reporter: so, john, police have not said how they believe this child s body got to deer island, how long she may have been left in that bag or what she could have endured before she was placed there. we don t know how she died. but police also didn t know who this toddler was until just a day ago. they ve now identified her. and along with that identification they ve taken two people into custody who they believe could have the answers about what happened to this toddler. with big brown eyes, long brown hair and chubby cheeks, her image captured the country s attention. the outpouring of concern and compassion for a toddler has been unprecedented. reporter: this video posted on facebook shows a happier time with her mother. what s that, bella? what d momma and aunt shannon do? reporter: celebrating her second birthday calling her by a nickname, monkey. come on, monkey. reporter: authorities called her baby doe after her body was discovered in june in a trash bag along the shoreline of deer island just east of boston. she was wearing polka dot pants with her a zebra blanket. at last count her image generated by the national center for missing and exploited children shared online more than 50 million times. and after nearly three months, a break in the case thanks to a tip called in yesterday to boston police. baby doe finally has a name, bella bond. her mother, rachelle bond arrested according to a law enforcement source. her mother s boyfriend, michael mccarthy, also arrested according to the same source. police say he s not bella s b biological father. since june investigators continued to find new clues, a lab test completed last month turned up pollen native to trees and shrubs in new england indicating bella was from the area. and soot further showing she may have been from an urban area. the presence of that evidence also suggesting she was never in the water but placed on the shore, likely a local girl. tips came in from 30 states and four countries. finally, police know who she is and who may have been involved. john, the department of children and family services say that they had contact with baby bella twice before, once in 2012, once in 2013. both times child for support services for neglect. we also learned an official with the same agency that two other children had been removed from the care of this mother some time between 2001 and 2006. and just next hour we should be learning more from officials who plan to hold a press conference concerning the circumstances of baby bella s death and also these two arrests that we are now reporting today. john. all right, thank you so much. more information in the next hour. i want to bring in michael murphy. michael, detectives back out in boston harbor. that s where baby doe s remains were discovered. now they have the body, they have a name. what else do you think they re looking for? well, i think that they re going to try to make sure that they get every piece of information that they possibly can. and gathering all the evidence that they need so they can proceed with their investigation and wrap that up as quickly as possible. but at the same time make sure they do it in an appropriate timeframe. i remember talking to the d.a. when this case first went public. and he told me flat out he said he suspects that it was a family member involved. because it would only be a family member responsible for something like this that would not report a missing child. in your experience with these types of cases, is this normal? well, this is certainly something that occurs. this happens as a result of family members can sometimes be a stranger, we know that oftentimes it s someone in the child s life. i think it s important also for us to remember that these investigators, the folks at the massachusetts state police have been absolutely amazing in their tenacious work and in their never giving up and just like we do always being hopeful and always looking. 50 million views of the computer generated image of baby doe. remember, this body was found and it wasn t like they could put a picture of the body up for people to identify. so they came up with this computer generated image. 50 million people saw it. you can see the likeness right there. it s pretty remarkable. is this something that you think was crucial in helping break this case? well, certainly i think it s important that we have it. i think it s important that people remember that when our forensic artists do this work it is a composite. it s created with art and with science and with technology. and those three things together have created these images that in many instances are so strikingly correct that they will actually give you chills. there are 700-plus cases that we re constantly working on as a result of this case there are over 200 welfare checks that were done by law enforcement across the nation and outside of the united states. so these images can be vital to the process. we want to remember that people can go to facebook to help id to look at other images. we don t want to lose track of that and make sure we keep the momentum going forward. you know, if it is the mother and this boyfriend, does the case stop there? is it possible that other people knew? is that something that will be investigated, michael? i m confident that law enforcement will leave no stone unturned in reference to this investigation. and that anyone that was responsible or had any part in this process no matter who that would be would be held accountable. michael murphy, thank you so much for being with us. just a very, very sad story. knowing the name perhaps will bring some peace to those who hopefully are out there and still love that little girl. in our sports lead, a shocking report showing nearly every ex-nfl player who donated his brain to science after death tested positive for a brain disease linked to concussions. now the nfl is responding. that s next. in our money lead, half a million cars recalled not for a safety issue. because the carmaker tried to pull one over on the federal government. that s ahead. staying in 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correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, this report is from boston university and the department of veterans affairs. explain exactly what cte is and what the science is about how athletes might get it. yeah. this is a relatively new term, john, for a lot of people. cte, chronic traumatic is a brain disease that is progressive. it is most similar to an alzheimer s like disease. people actually deposit these proteins in the brain very much like they do in alzheimer s. some of the same proteins. this typically occurs from people who ve taken repeated blows to the head. i talked to one of the pathologists who conducted this study. i said is there any other thing that would cause cte? she told me no. it s blows to the head that cause concussions or sub con kusive sort of hits. when people have had a number of those it can lead to the cte. we talk about it in the context of football, john, because of this new study. but it can happen in other sports as well. and people are talking about it more than ever. and it s only diagnosed, i understand sanjay, after the fact like this when brains are donated after the death of some of these players. the nfl put out a statement in response to this saying, quote, we are dedicated to making football safer, continuing to take steps to protect players including rule changes and advanced sideline technology and expanding medical resource. but sanjay, with players constantly getting hit, are there ways the sport could change to prevent brain damage? i think so, john. and i ask the researchers who ve been doing this study. i talked to the chief health adviser for the nfl recently and they both say it is possible to make it a safer game and still have it be football. couple examples, first of all one of the worst consequences is if someone has a concussion and then is not taken out of the game. and they get a second concussion. that s called second impact syndrome. that can even be deadly in certain situations. so preventing that from happening. you ve probably seen the sideline exams now taking place if you ve been watching football. they re doing other things in terms of the rules as well trying to decrease the types of hits that are actually taking place. and also in practices not having blows over and over to the head. so helmetless practices for example. this particular study, these were players during their life were worried they might have cte. so a little bit of a biased population when you look at those numbers. hopefully in their deaths it will contribute to the science of understanding what s going on here. dr. sanjay gupta, thank you so much. sanjay you noticed is out there in malibu and a beautiful setting is there to compete in cnn fit nation triathlon which he is predicted to win. so good luck, sanjay. you re next here, john. yeah, right. eight nfl players suffer concussions in the first week, in the very first week of the regular season. so just think how many hits a pro athlete takes in a lifetime all the way back to the earliest days playing as children in peewee leagues. now a robot perhaps can prevent helmet to helmet contact. violence on the gridiron, glam glamourized in movies. hall of fame running back tony dorsett took this heavy blow in 1984. my explanation was it s like a freight train hitting a volkswagen. now a high-tech game changer called the mvp, mobile virtual player, the brain child of dartmouth engineering students and head football coach. just as close as you can get short of tackling a real person. a robot with speed. we ve clocked in, you know, five-second 40-yard dash. capable of moving forward, backwards, even spin moves. it makes some quick cuts too. it s definitely pretty difficult to tackle. the mvp allows players to rehearse in-game scenarios without tackling each other reducing one of the biggest injury risks, concussions. the risk to college players is huge. the ncaa rules allows them twice as many contact practices as professional counterparts. and the stats are concerning. the nfl reporting more than 200 concussions per year for the past few seasons. thousands of former players recently sued the nfl claiming the league knew the dangers of concussions for years but did little to mitigate the risk. players like dorsett now suffer serious brain diseases including alzheimer s, parkinson s and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. i ve been taking my daughters to practice for years and all of a sudden i forgot how to get there. the class action suit was settled months ago for about a billion dollars. the league has appealed. but concussion prevention has become a focus of the sport. gives us a better sense in terms of perspective of cutting injuries down. well so if we think about over half the condition kougss in football might occur in practice, most of those are occurring in things like blocking or tackling type procedures. so if normally those are two people, right, going at each other. but now we cut it in half. the mvp took two years to design. it s the first season dartmouth is using it at practices. we ve had players and teams contacting us wanting to know when they can get their hands on one. at this point all we re trying to say is we re developing it. so teams from across the country are contacting you? across the world. the sports world searching for an innovative idea to help tackle one of the greatest concerns threatening the future of football. anna cabrera, cnn, hanover, new hampshire. thanks, anna. in our world lead, pope francis just days away from his u.s. visit. but are americans ready for what could be some tough talk? that s next. verizon has backup generators for most of their towers, so they re ready if the power ever goes down. 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(laugh) nice. doing the big things that move an economy. see you tomorrow, mac. see you tomorrow, sam. just another day at norfolk southern. .is as easy as it gets. wouldn t it be great if hiring plumbers, carpenters and even piano tuners. were just as simple? thanks to angie s list, now it is. start shopping online. .from a list of top rated providers. visit angieslist.com today. welcome back. our money lead now. nearly half a million, that s how many volkswagens and audis the u.s. government wants off the roads. the german automaker is accused of intentionally using software in deiesel vehicles to evade requirements. the software turns up emission controls only when the car is being tested. no word yet how much the company will be fined. turning now to our world lead, the historic visit pope francis scheduled to touch down on u.s. soil tuesday after a short trip to cuba. catholics across the nation are expected to make the pilgrimage. i want to bring in cnn s rosa flores in rome. the pope scheduled to make a number of high profile speeches. give us a sense of what to expect. you know, john, if you look at the pope s itinerary a few things really stand out. as soon as he speaks to congress then he goes and meets with the homeless. and then in new york he meets with immigrant families. and then in philly he meets with inmates. so all of these actions very francis-esque if you will. but what about what he s going to say in these major speeches? even insiders will tell you with francis you just never know. the pope s visit to the u.s. was supposed to be all about philadelphia and families. but insert a stop in cuba, a cameo before u.s. congress and a speech at the u.n. and the visit could create a trinity of tension. first, havana where the vatican s influence helped ease 60-plus years of cold war animosity between the u.s. and cuba. there is a checkered and complicated past, but that s the past. and the pope is about living in the present. and moving forward. during president raul castro s vatican meeting with francis earlier this year, the communist leader said he plans to attend every mass celebrated by francis. with castro in the pews, will the pope score in the country s history of human rights violation and lack of religious freedom. pope francis told students in cuba thursday through video conference he d like to see friendship between the u.s. and castro s communist nation saying, [ speaking spanish ] translator: one of the most beautiful things is social friendship. this is what i would like to be able to achieve, social friendship. whatever the pope says in cuba will set the stage for a major address before a divided house in american congress. during his recent visit to south america francis called capitalism the dung of the devil. but will he utter those words inside the nation s capital? and what about those presidential candidates? we have to build a wall, folks. that charged anti-immigration rhetoric, polar opposite to the pope. i m not sure if he s worried about alienating people. i mean, he ll be encouraging, but he speaks the truth. his speech before the united nations at a time hundreds of thousands of christians are fleeing persecution in syria, iraq and afghanistan. will he put world leaders in the hot seat asking them to do more to help refugees? or will he praise the nations who have already accepted thousands? no one really knows what francis will say during his more than 20 speeches. if he speaks off the cuff, cuba, congress and the united nations better get ready for a coming to jesus moment. now, i ll be traveling with pope francis on the papal plane, so, john, if you have a question for the pope, tweet me with #askthepope. john. what an assignment. rosa flores, thank you so much. that is all for the lead. i m john berman. i now turn you over to wolf blitzer in the situation room. happening now, trump to the gop front runner cancel campaign appearance at the last minute amid a barrage of criticism for failing to reject anti-muslim comments from a questioner? murder mystery, boston police now say they know the identity of baby doe who was found dead in a trash bag. were the killers under their noses all the time? and why were 50 million people who saw this sketch unable to identify the victim? tonight,
that a bomb brought down that jet plane killing all 224. and prance is vowing revenge. they carried out dozens more raids, and meanwhile, in multiple outlets, tha car has bn found by the eighth attacker, the subject of the flow ball manhunt. nic robertson is standing by with the latest on the investigation, and our justice reporter evan perez is tgoing t be joining us about prior warnings about the suspected s mastermind. and what are you learning, evan? the apparent link between the paris attacks, and other terrorists plots center around abdelhamid abaaoud s role. police believe that he was a ring leader in a foiled plot to attack police in verviere, and what police have found now is more ominous in the hindsight of the attack. they found weapon, and precursor to the exe ploeives to make the tatp and that is the same chemical found insooide of the suicide vests, and they found a connection of jihad connections from safehouses to back to gree greece. they believe that he faked his own death in syria to travel back and fort to ball back and forth to belgium without being discovered, but still, authorities could not stop him. and now, evan, you are getting more information on the scope of this, and over to nic, what are you learning? the investigation has led the police to a hotel room that was used by the attackers, it appears on the night before the attack. and also an apartment they had rented for the week leading up to the attack. syringe syringes were found in the apartment, and not clear if they were used in some way to help make the explosive vests, the suicide vests that the attackers were making, and the vehicle that was discovered on the northern suburb of paris when armed police went door to door, and this is a vehicle with belgian plates by the man on the run, salah abdeslam, and international warrants out for him, and he had rented the vehicle, and today, police went door-to-door with armed sear searchers. but more evidence coming forward about the attack, and the discovery that the audio on the threat by isis yesterday matches another french isis suspect f fabien clain who spent time in jail because he was an al qaeda recruiter and left jail and went to syria, and involve and connected to the plot to attack a french church in april of this year. also connected to the attack a gunman on the train from brussels to paris, and that was thwarted with by the three brave americans, one of othem a serviceman who took that attack down. and now, this is targeted outside of france, and another senior figure emerging as a hand and role it appears in the attack, wolf. nic robertson, thank you, and evan perez, thank you as well. the french intelligence has confirmed that in russia, a bomb did bring down that jet plane killing all 224 people, and most of them russian people. the police say that the 2.2 bomb detonated. that is the size of a small laptop. vladimir putin, the russian president, vowed to the find those responsible. translator: the murder of our people in sinai is one of the bloodiest in terms of victims of such crimes. we won t easily wipe away the tears from our hearts and sous.s lit stay forever. but it will not prevent us from finding and punishing the perpetrators. we should not apply any time limits, because we need to the know all of the perpetrators by name. we will search for them everywhere, wherever they are hiding, we will find them on any spot on the planet, and we will punish them. and our senior correspondent matthew chance is joipi ijoinin live from moscow. the egyptian authorities say they have not come to a conclusion the downing of the plane, so what made russia finally make the determination that a bomb brought down the metrojet plane? well, oru shg, sha of course reluctant to make a leap into the terrorist attack, but now russia is indeed confirming it is a bomb. and they said that because of to traces of explosives found on the parts of the fuselage gathered and on the luggage of the passengers as well, they have drmed it was a explosive devi device, and homemade, and as you said, it carried about 2.2 pounds or thabts this explosive tnt. and they are responsible for the deaths of 2224 people. the russian president as we heard there vowing revepg, and already that retribution has begun with russia stepping up the air strikes in seer yachlt it has been there for a couple of months carrying out strikes gai against isis and other groups as well, but it is doubling the amount of air strikes. today, strategic long-distance atta attacks. and i don t know if you are hearing this in moscow, matthew, that the russians are formally coordinating the airstrikes and giving the u.s. advanced word where these air strikes are heading? yes, wolf. u.s. officials told cnn earlier that the russians had coordinated the strike with them, and in other words a head s up so that the forces could avoid the cruise missiles while they struck their targets. that is happening. and also a higher degree of coordination taking place with the french. the fact that the attacks of paris have taken place at the same time that the downing of the russian plane has brought the two nations together. in fact, france president will visit russia, and the russian and the french navy are cooperating and coordinating like allies, are the words of the kremlinings as they carry out attacks ins gat isis inside of syria. and officials have said to me, that i think that tathey ta word that russia will find the people responsible for the down ing of this plane, and they will pun ush them and not only go after them with a vengeance, but they will find them. and u.s. suspects they will try to kill all of them, but they are taking putin at his word. matthew chance in moscow, thank you. let s round up the recap of the last three weeks. nine people are in custody with another attack claimed by isis in beirut in a neighborhood there killing more than 40 people, and last week s bombings targeting a shia neighborhood in southern beirut. lebanese officials say that seven of the suspects arrested are syrian. and as many as 26 people have died in a series of bombings in baghdad carried out, and the largest was a suicide attack that targeted a funeral, and that attack is now being plamed directly on isis. don t miss our special profwram tonight, deep inside of isis and what do they want. blindsided by fareed zakaria is also going to be a airing tonight at a 9:00 p.m. eastern. after the attacks in paris, will the u.s. lawmakers finally agree to vote on this military action? 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no, i believe it is accurate. we know it. again, i know that there are isis people, and by the way, they are not syrian refugees or yemeni refugee, but people who are already here, and in various backgrounds that are waiting for the word. in fact, we have thwarted a number of the plots here, but this is a nightmare scenario, wolf, where it does notn t have a large number of people, and not a lot of planning, and not a lot of communication, and so it is hard to get the information, and maybe one or two people in kansas city or st. louis or san diego who go out to take weapons to the place that is where people gather. that is what is chilling about the french attack, it was not against government or military, but against people, and i think that calling them terrorists is sometimes because these people are thugs as far as i am concerned. and it is not just the fear of the lone wolves or the lone individuals, but this is presumably what the c ixcia joh brennan was alluding to to a a high level group who can attack. and we have to keep our guard up on all fronts, and pay attention. one of the more difficult problems to thwart is that you have people in the u.s. self-radicalized online or whatever, and then isis sends out, and we know they do this water errorist apb to say, now is the time to go, and they take up the arms and go after a hard target like the military recruiting center the re or a soft target. and the thing is that, wolf, you can t be 100% sure, and we don t want to become a police state, but we have to find the balance between protecting people s security and also not throwing a waway the values that make us wo we are as americans. but i think that people are legitimately worried and concerned. i am too, and i think that we have to look at who we let into the country, and the whole vetting process to make sure it is meet iing the needs of this relatively new threat. are you comfortable to let thousands of refugees are from syria into the united states? well, i think that if you announce tomorrow that you want to be admitted to the united states, it takes two years to get here, and it is a long procedure to get here, and the biometric data, and the fingerprints and all of that, and even though there is a 18-month to 2-year period starting now, it takes time to dig into whether this process is adequate to protect our security. and whether we need special precautions from people who are coming from regions of the world that are harboring terrorists. i have been saying for months that people could be infiltrating and terrorists could be infiltrating the refugee group, and we don t know that is what happened in france, but it appears that is the case. so we have to really step back and say, okay, what are the processes that we have in line now, and are they adequate. in the wake of the paris attacks, do you believe that congress should finally vote authorizing the legislation to give the president the department of defense authorization to go to ahead to launch military action gaiagain isis in syria? i am smiling, wolf, because to me, it is so obvious. something that we should have done a year ago. tim kaine, myself, and a handful of others have been beating the drum, and just saying, look, this is congress responsibility, but we are not doing it, wolf. people don t want to take that responsibility. congress is very good at sitting on the sidelines and criticizing, but not very good at saying, okay, this is what we have to do. but the answer is yes, of course, there should be a congressional authorization, and the president sent a proposed a authorization up six months ago, and it has not seen the light of d day. the answer is yes. this is the fundamental constitutional responsibility, and we should undertake it, and get into the debate right away. a lot of the lawmakers, democrats and republicans for that matter reluctant to the raise their hand and vote on this, because politically it is going to cause them some pr problems down the road. at least that is the fear. thank you for joining us, senator. last time i looked, wolf, the job is to vote on thing, and hard things as well. you don t just vote on the easy issues, you vote on the hard issues, especially when the lives of men and women in u.s. military uniforms are on the line. absolutely. senator, thank you so much for joining us. thank you, wolf. the debate of how the defeat isis is clearly intensifying. could the current u.s. strategy be the best hope for defeating the terrorists? 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we will discuss that and a whole lot more after the break. welcome back to the continuing coverage of the paris attack. the president of france francois biggest known groups associated with terrorism. and now it is complicate and a reminder of some of the reasons why. first, the world is divided over the fate of the syrian president bashar al assad. turkey and others want him sidelined, but russians and others want him to remain in power. and the sunni arabs and turkey don t trust the kurds who they consider to be terrorists. the chaos is fueled by the broader battle between iran and saudi arabia and both of them trying to flex their muscles in the region. our correspondent nick paton walsh is joining us from irbil in iraq, and also analyst bobby ghosh. nick, you wrote an article, and important article about this, and tell us why it is so come pla complicated in the region where you are? after the massacre in paris, there is a conversation of what can the west do? is send in ground troops, and that i have attacked us, and send in the military and finish them off as a organization. that is a problem, because it is a region that remembers the disaster of the iraq war, and the inability of the military invasion to administer that country, because colin powell says once you break it, you own it. they were looking for the obvious ally on the ground and no real one is emerging. you can t a ally with the syrian regime, because they have allies like hezbollah who the u.s. considers to be a terrorist organization. so do you look at the sunni rebellion against bashar al assad? well, the majority might, but it has al qaeda as one of the key groups. the whole group called the army of victory, and that is doing a lot of the amateur regime in the north, but as i say, al qaeda are a substantial part of it. there are moderates, but they are deeply underfunded a tpd kurds are at the natural ally, but they won t sit too well in the sunni areas of north syria where they have to move into the clear out the isis, and so they have to have sunnis in the ranks to trust them. and so you have to look to the east to the iranian militia, but fighting isis now sh, they were fighting the u.s. a years ago when the u.s. had presence there in iraq. so no obvious ally there on the ground, and that is an issue, and why so many of the out of the box solutions that you are hearing in the stump in the united states or the presidential race don t really hold water when you put them to the mess that is now the battlefield in syria, wolf. bobby, you heard president obama go into great length yesterday in the news conference in turkey to try to explain his strategy to degrade an destroy isis. does he have a clear strategy to people in the region right now? do they understand what the u.s. strategy is? no, they do not. nobody in the region understands that there is a strategy. there is language and one thing to say, we will degrade isis first and then try to the destroy them, but we are not seeing enough happen on the ground. nick s point is well taken, we don t have a reliable ally there and all of the rules of traditional conflict are out of the window, and the enemies are not necessarily your friend, and your friend s friend is not your friend. so i do, you know, you have tok a knowledge that for president obama, it is a very complicated landscape, but that is what all of the more reason that people need to see a strategy and plan for them to wrap their heads around. nobody realistically expects the united states to the charge in there willy-nilly or france to come to that with ground troops, but the sense of knowing what they are doing, and that have a plan, that is important, and right now, nobody in the region is seeing that from the u.s. and a what about the russians, bobby? are they the going to be responding with a ferocious strike against isis? clearly, the threat delivered by president putin today? yes, and we are seeing that, they have doubled the number of strikes they have ordered, and apparently it would appear that they are serious about attacking isis, and previously, a lot of the attacks were in other parts of the country against non-isis rebels. so there is going to be a number of aerial attacks. and putin has the same problem, they have more boots on the ground, but they are not confronting isis. they are in the military bay bases and directing the operations of the syrian forces. nobody apart from the syrian forces and the syrian rebels, and nobody is directly, none of theest wi the western forces have started a ground campaign. we have seen the bombing works, but not enough. isis has territory and they control cities. they have in their minds, that i have a country. that is a problem. thank you, nick paton walsh and bobby ghosh. we will have much more of the breaking news when we come back. innovative sonicare technology with up to 27% more brush movements versus oral b. get healthier gums in 2 weeks guaranteed. innovation and you. philips sonicare save when you buy the most loved rechargeable toothbrush brand in america. more than two dozen states here in the united states are refusing to accept syrian refugees which is part of the backlash of the terrorist attacks in paris. critics say that terroristists could be among the refugees and you can t vet them in advance. donald trump blasted the president s plan to take in new syrian refugees and questioned his sanity. refugees are pour into our country from syria, and we don t know who they r and they could be isis or anybody. what is our president doing? is he insane? wow. democratic governor jack markel is here from delaware, and donald trump says that is he insane, and so i suppose he would ask you sh, are you insan? the refugees from syria are the most vetted people that come into the country. they are vetted before they come into the atlantic. and for somebody to only say, we should let in the christian, and rewrite what is on the statue of liberty, bring us your poor, and your tired and your huddled masses. is that what we are? i know they are the most carefully reviewed people. and there are some members of the homeland security who say that they cannot properly vet these people, and peter king who is on the homeland security committee and the armed forces committee, he says that there is no way the do it in a perfect way by any means, and if anybody says they are a refugee and not a terrorist, we wouldn t know. and many of this em are vulnerab vulnerable, and so many of them are saying that they would not allow in a 5-year-old orphan, and so are the women and the people who are malnourished, and so we have to do the best job of vetting the people from the security standpoint. because isis, itself, and the experts say that you have to believe them when they make the threats that isis, themselves, they said that they would plant terrorist m terrorists in the groups of refugees to go into the united states and europe and elsewhere to kill the infidels. at any point when the people who are doing the review, and certainly starting with the president who i know that his number one concern is keeping the people of this country safe, if they determine that they can t be sure who they are letting them in, they will stop letting the people in. and the idea to carte blanche reject people from syria, and most of the folks involved in paris are french and belgian, and so do we reject the people from france or belgian? well, one or two of them was a french or belgian national, and that is raising all of the concerns right now. how many syrian refugees have you accept sod far into delaware? none directly. and three families who have come in from other states in more than a year. and the people of delaware there, and if you say a few hundred, and i don t know how many you are willing to take, but a few hundred, would they be happy with you? well, the feedback is mixed. a lot of people who are against it, but the more we can explain the security process, the vetting process, and again, what this is goinging the say about us as a people if we are going to be saying carte blanche that we are not going to be taking anybody from a particular region, but the number one priority is to keep our people safe. thank you governor jack markell and the people of delaware as well. we have breaking news right now that we ar now that we ar just getting in from rene marsh, and what is this? some boston-bound plane has problems? exactly right. we are working to get all of the details. but this is what we know so far. we mow that a passenger had to be restrained while the flight was in the air. it was a boston-bound british airways flight, and minutes ago the plane touched down from british airways, and we have learned that they have asked for the police to meet the plane on the tarmac there, because they have some concerns about an unruly passenger. now massachusetts police telling cnn and tweeting out that this individual tried to rush the cockpit door. however, again, because this is so early, as far as the information coming in, we are getting some conflicting information, because the faa saying it is not the cockpit door but the exit door, and any way you put it, unruly passenger who is doing something that they should haven t been doing, and this person had to be restrained, and you are looking at images right now, and i believe they are live, there in boston, and i believe that police, you should see them momentarily, but a they have been called to the aircraft to deal with the passenger. that is all we know at this point, wolf. but you know that with the climate of things occurring now, especially with the aviation world, everybody is on edge. we have seen a number of cases over the last couple of days in which crews have called and asked for police assistance when they think that thing s as are looking quite right. we don t know what the situation was many this instance, and of course, we know that police will when they remove this individual, that will have a lot of questions for the person to get to the bottom of the what their intention was, but in this climate, needless to say, everybody is on edge, especially when it comes to aviation, wolf. and this british airways flight, and we arerare showing viewers the pictures of the plane. where did it originate? from london s heathrow airport, and originated from europe bound for boston and british airways flight, and the airline is confirm iing to us tt the crew was concerned about an unruly passenger, and they have asked for the police to meet this aircraft on the ground. so, you know, if these are indeed live pictures in realtime here, we should start to see the police presence at some point as they get this unruly pas ssenge off of the aircraft and make sure that everybody is okay on board? all right. you will get more information, rene, and we will check in with you. thank you very much. we will take to a quick break and much more news after this. thinking about what to avoid, where to go. and how to deal with my uc. to me, that was normal. until i talked to my doctor. she told me that humira helps people like me get uc under control and keep it under control when certain medications haven t worked well enough. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you ve been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, and if you ve had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flu-like symptoms or sores. don t start humira if you have an infection. raise your expectations. ask your gastroenterologist about humira. with humira, control is possible. i ve got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn t pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. 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we don t know, but we know in the current climate that we are in, an unruly passenger mid-air is a recipe for concern, and that is why we are seeing the reaction that we are seeing. and you know, even if we weren t in the climate that we are in, anybody trying to rush the exit door or the cockpit door is a problem, and so the authorities will want to get to bottom of what is going on here, wolf. all right. they don t want to take any chances. thank you, rene. president obama did not hold back when he defend ed the plan to accept thousands of syrian when i hear folks say that maybe with we should just admit the christians but not the muslims, when i hear political leaders suggesting that there would be a religious test, that s shameful. that s not american. it s not who we are. i ll ask the ohio governor john kasich, republican presidential candidate, for his reaction and if he believes president obama is wrong. stay with us. theand the kids always eat sky their vegetables.e. because the salad there is always served with the original hidden valley ranch. the uncertainties i don t wantof hep c.with or wonder. .whether i should seek treatment. i am ready. because today there s harvoni. a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. harvoni is proven to cure up to 99% of patients. .who ve had no prior treatment. it s the one and only cure that s. .one pill, once a day for 12 weeks. certain patients. .can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. with harvoni, there s no interferon and there are no complex regimens. tell your doctor if you have other liver or kidney problems, or other medical conditions. and about all the medicines you take including herbal supplements. harvoni should not be taken with any medicines containing amiodarone, rifampin, or st. john s wort. it also should not be taken with any other medicine that contains sovaldi. side effects may include tiredness and headache. i am ready to put hep c behind me. i am ready to be cured. are you ready? ask your hep c specialist if harvoni is right for you. we re getting more. breaking news into cnn. today s germany and netherlands soccer game has been cancelled at hanover stadium. it s being evacuated. police say all the people, the fans at the stadium have been asked to leave calmly. they are citing security concerns. there were terrorists outside. the french president was in. the stadium at the time. we re going to get more information. let s discuss what s going on with the governor of ohio john kasich, republican presidential candidate. governor kasich, when you hear these reports of what s going on in europe right now, you have to assume god forbid this could happen in the united states as well. wolf, i made a comprehensive speech today on foreign policy. one of the things that s clear is that the west, our friends in nato along with our friends in. the middle east who share our values, whether it s the jordanians, egyptians, gulf states, we need to go together in a coalition and we need to destroy isis where they exist. if that means boots on the ground, which it certainly will, we need to do it. when i hear reports like this, it brings to mind two critical areas. one, the need to act quickly to destroy isis. two, to continue to share intelligence and beef up intelligence cooperation, particularly with the western powers. in addition to that, we could move even more quick ly to institute a no-fly zone to provide a a sanction ware for people in syria, project u.s. power into the region, these are the things we need to do. and the west has to understand delay negotiation not moving quickly is you re either going to pay me now or pay me a lot later if we don t beef up intelligence and promote our ideas and values worldwide. the president yesterday said deploying thousands of troops to seyria, for example, would be a mistake. . what do you do after wards? it would only antagonize people in syria as the deployment of u.s. troops in iraq did. what do you say to the president? i fundamentally disagree with the fact that we can just wait this out and things are going well. wolf, we should not just go alone. we should be there with our nato allies, with the turks, with the saudis and form a coalition to destroy isis, wherever they exist, particularly in iraq and syria. . we have to move and we have to move quickly. we wouldn t be there alone. frankly, the whole world is understanding the threat to those who believe in the rights of human beings, in. free speech, the right to gather, freedom of religion. even our friends in the middle east understand that they are under attack. our friends in nato also understand that we are absolutely under attack. e we can t deal with this just with intelligence alone. we have to go to the heart of the problem, which is isis itself. once that is done or as it s being done, wolf, look, the values of the western ethic, which has served us for centuries, needs to be put out there. i m calling for an agency to begin to communicate what the west believes in so people who are confused don t seek radicalism to try to figure out meaning in life because the western ethic advances life. that we all are supposed to live a life u greater than ourselves. it needs to be taken around the world. we re just getting word that the office of the german chancellor has now confirmed she was due to attend that game at han hanover germany. the deputy chancellor, justice minister, all high level visitors as well. that stadium has been evacuated. other news organizations are reporting out of security concerns. this follows what happened at that soccer game in paris the other night. unfortunately, governor, because of the breaking news we have to leave it on that note. we ll continue these conversations down the road. governor kasich of ohio, thank you for joining us. that s it for me. our special coverage of the war against isis will continue. right now we re following all of these developments, what s going on in germany, what s going on in paris, lots of news unfold ing now. stay with us. cnn is all over all of the breaking news. wolf, thank you so much. i m brooke baldwin live here in new york. and i m jake tapper in paris, france. we re going to begin this hour with breaking news. . a flight originating in london on its way to boston has just landed over issues apparently having to do with an unruly passenger. let s go to renee marsh to find out more about this. what can you tell us so far. we know that just minutes ago, roughly 30 minutes ago this flight british airways from london bound for boston landed there. we know that police met this aircraft once
praised the deadly attacks here in paris. they re now warning an american city is next. tonight, we ask, what s being done? world news tonight begins now. good evening tonight, from paris. and we begin with the breaking news. that global manhunt. they are now searching for a second fugitive who could be the ninth attacker. and the potential new terror threat tonight, fears of a bomb, leading to an evacuation at a soccer stadium in germany. sirens blaring. what authorities call a credible threat. thousands rushed to safety before kickoff. fears of an explosive. isis has been vowing to strike germany, and our team is right there tonight. also this evening, french authorities are asking for any information on this man. one of the suicide bombers, the man who they believe entered as a refugee using a fake passport. we have the new images of the alleged eighth attacker, described as dangerous, heavily armed. his family tonight begging, turn yourself in. and a massive emergency terror crackdown under way across europe tonight. at least 128 raids in france alone. but we begin tonight with that major evacuation at yet another stadium. abc s chief foreign correspondent terry moran is in germany tonight. reporter: fear filled the air around the hanover stadium tonight. police vehicles, sirens screaming, rushed to the scene. just 90 minutes before kickoff, loudspeakers ordered people to go home. please remain calm, they announced. the soccer match will not take place. outside the stadium, phalanxes of police lining up, evacuating thousands, all there to see the match between germany and the netherlands. german chancellor angela merkel scheduled to attend. but the match was canceled. the german players already on edge since last friday [ explosion ] when they were playing in paris and the suicide bombers struck. tonight, the whole stadium in hanover was searched, seat by seat, dogs brought in. police with assault rifles shutting down the whole neighborhood. but nothing was found. german officials saying later it was an extremely difficult decision to cancel the match, reportedly because of a bomb threat. a very different scene in london. france and england playing there. prince william laying a wreath for the paris victims, and then, in stirring solidarity, joining 80,000 englishmen singing france s national anthem. but europe is badly rattled right now. in this city, seven arrests today, all suspects released within a couple of hours. in hanover, a concert canceled. that s the new normal here. david? terry moran leading us off from germany tonight. terry, thank you. we turn now to the fast-moving developments involving the alleged eighth attacker. we showed you that new picture of the suspect. tonight, we have learned authorities believe he rented a house right here in the suburbs of paris, and may have been at a hotel right near the soccer stadium the night before the attack. and now, we ve learned he s not the only fugitive. authorities confirming they are searching for a second man on the run who could be the ninth attacker. tonight, we take you out on their trail, retracing their final steps before the attacks. tonight, there is mounting concern amid the urgent manhunt for salah abdeslam. the suspected eighth attacker in the paris attacks still on the run. police issuing these two new photos of him tonight. he allegedly fired on innocent people in restaurants and cafes. authorities warning he s dangerous, not to intervene. well aware that the rest of the attackers were wearing identical suicide belts, and that he might be willing to die, too. one of his brothers, brahim, also a suspected attacker, blew himself up. a third brother was detained, questioned and then released. and tonight, he s made a very public plea to the one brother who is still alive to turn himself in. saying he and his parents had no idea the carnage the two brothers were plotting or where his fugitive brother is. tonight, authorities retracing the attackers steps in the final days and final hours before the attacks. today, outside paris, we went to the scene, where investigators believe those two brothers and the other attackers might have been the night before the attack. you can see the activity here, as well. it s believed the eighth attacker might have rented two rooms here at this hotel. right over my shoulder. we are not far from the soccer stadium, where the terror began to unfold last friday night. and it s believed the attackers might have been staying here in the nights leading up to the attacks. and while authorities won t confirm they were in those rooms, today, french media reporting they honed in on rooms 311 and 312. tonight, new images of what they found beds stripped. the mattresses pulled off the beds after police searched the rooms. analyzing the evidence. reportedly confiscating the hard drive from the computer in the lobby. there were no security cameras at the hotel. investigators also believe that attacker on the run had rented this home in the weeks before with his brother, right outside paris, in the suburb of bobigny, believed to have been strategizing under the radar. investigators have been here to this paris suburb. you can see the police presence. the school across the street. kids getting out right now. and this is the building where it is believed the terrorists were renting two apartments. in fact, the landlord reportedly saying that they were calm, dressed well and that they said they were here on business from belgium. across the street, as school let out late today, we talked to this mother picking up her child. do you know they were staying here in this building? we are all stunned. we have learned everything on tv, she told us. we re just here to pick up the children and try to move on with a normal life. and this grandmother here for pickup, too. shocked? oui. and tonight, as they search for that eighth attacker, a new alert. asking the public to study this photo of one of the deceased bombers, looking for any information about who he might be. his body was found outside the stadium with this fake passport near him. authorities suspect he used it to sneak into europe, posing as a refugee. 24 hours after french president hollande said, we are at war with isis, tonight, new air strikes on isis in syria. overnight, this new video. the emergency anti-terror crackdown in and around paris. 128 raids, mobilizing 115,000 extra troops. teams of police driving through the streets of paris, pounding on doors, dogs barking, police calling out. inside, they pour over the home s electronics, handwritten notes, searching, and in some cases, arresting those inside. and police finding this car parked in paris, sealing off the area around it, believing it could be connected to the attacks. while outside the bataclan theater, police onhand as workers in protective gear cleaned up the blood-stained sidewalks. amid those images now emerging of concert-goers smiling just before the terror unfolded. the theater owners telling abc news, no words are enough to express the magnitude of our grief. and 24 hours after we took you to the eiffel tower last night, lit up in blue, white and red, today, we learned it had been shut down again for a time, amid worries from the workers it could still be a target. showing you just how tense this city remains. and as we reported there, russian investigators now confirming tonight that a powerful bomb brought down that russian passenger jet, breaking up in air, killing all 224 on board. tonight, russian president vladimir putin promising to, quote, hunt down and punish those responsible. offering a $50 million reward, launching a strike on isis. as we learn the size and the scope of the bomb put on that plane. abc s chief investigative correspondent brian ross tonight. reporter: any doubts this scene of death and destruction was terrorism were put to rest today. with russian officials saying trace amounts of explosives found on plane parts and luggage reveal someone smuggled a huge bomb on board the russian jet before it left egypt. causing an explosion 15 times more powerful than the one in this demonstration. today, a steely-eyed russian president, vladimir putin, vowed revenge. we will find them at any point of the planet, he said, and we will take retribution. and as we now know, the plane was only the beginning of a two-week isis wave of terror that would take 400 lives. a series of bombs in beirut, and the next day, the attacks in paris, and today, that scare at the soccer stadium in germany, with isis threatening more to come. three major attacks in three different countries within a week, killing over 400 people and none of it was seen coming. reporter: the failure is especially pronounced since u.s. authorities clearly knew isis was planning something big in europe. a stream of propaganda videos carried threats against france. and just this may, a u.s. intelligence assessment actually warned about the man who would mastermind the paris attacks, abdelhamid abaaoud. the u.s. said a police raid in belgium this past january revealed that abaaoud was plotting a massive attack involving a large group of terrorists using kalashnikovs and explosives. david, tonight, abaaoud is believed to be back in syria, where he and top isis leaders are facing the fury of the u.s., france and now russia. david? brian ross in our new york studio again tonight. brian, thank you. russian president vladimir putin not just vowing revenge, but also taking action now, unleashing those new strikes we mentioned on isis targets in syria. france launching a new wave of air strikes, as well. and tonight, abc news obtaining video of one of those russian cruise missiles flying over syria with isis now the target. france and russia now cooperating with one another. abc s chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz with the images and this new show of force tonight. reporter: revenge came swiftly. russia sending 34 cruise missiles launched from the air and the sea today, aiming at isis targets in syria. and long-range russian bombers, dropping the kind of ordnance that flattens buildings, with little thought of civilians who may get in the way. the french, in their third day of withering retaliatory strikes. the u.s.-led air war has intensified, as well. secretary of state john kerry telling our alex marquardt today, more needs to be done. the united states has been steadily ramping up over the course of these last months. reporter: air campaigns have ramped up before, only to taper off, but this could be a game-changer. russia, france and the u.s. all joining together in a powerful coalition with one goal to defeat isis. david? martha raddatz reporting from the region tonight. martha, thank you. we reported last night here on isis praising the deadly attacks here in paris with their new message, warning that washington, d.c. is now coming. tonight, high anxiety back in the u.s., and scares on passenger planes in baltimore and boston. abc s david kerley covers aviation. reporter: this morning, on this spirit airlines jet, passengers report what they think is suspicious activity. returning to the gate in baltimore i want you two to step off the plane. reporter: four passengers are removed. all the bags rescreened by dogs. sunday in washington, a similar story. two passengers removed from a flight. in both cases, all were released. are americans jittery? we are hitting a period of concern. it clearly is heightened anxiety, but also, it s because of what s happening around, so, it s understandable, in some cases. reporter: late today, police met this british airways jet at boston s airport. a woman had tried to open an emergency exit, and was restrained on the flight from london. not a security threat, rather an unruly passenger. with isis threats aimed at washington, d.c., there has been no public announcement of increased security. but at train stations and the airports, there is a strong show of force. america s largest flight attendants union has sent a message to its members, asking they remain vigilant and situationally aware in the days after the paris attack. david? david kerley tonight. david, thank you. we turn now to the fiery debate back home. the backlash against refugees. as authorities grow more convinced that one of the attackers posed as a refugee using this passport. and look at the map tonight. at least 29 governors in the u.s. now saying refugees are not welcome. tonight, house speaker paul ryan calling for a pause in the president s plan to welcome 10,000 syrian refugees to the u.s., saying it s better to be safe than sorry. and just today, donald trump sitting down with our own barbara walters. what he says about the issue. on the campaign trail tonight, here s abc s jonathan karl. reporter: presidential candidate ted cruz told abc news today that he is pushing legislation to ban any syrian refugees who are muslim from coming into the united states. so, what do you do? do you ask are you a christian or a muslim and then you how do you do that? you know, at the end of the day, that s not that complicated. there s no history of isis terrorists embedding in the christian community and pretending to be christian. reporter: and you don t think it s un-american to say, only christians, no muslims? you re not suggesting are you suggesting that all muslims are terrorists? or a threat of being a terrorist? what i m suggesting is the commander in chief reporter: i mean, there are radical islamic terrorists and there are muslims who are not. what i m suggesting, the commander in chief should protect this nation. reporter: in an interview with barbara walters for 20/20, donald trump said he wants to ban all syrian refugees, christian and muslim. some people are saying that only christian, not muslim refugees from syria should be allowed in. should we make that test? the problem is, we don t know if they re christian or not. and i would certainly say that would be superior. but we don t know if they re christian or not. we have no idea who the people are, they have no papers, they have no paperwork. you can get forged documents very easily in syria. reporter: the administration says that each refugee goes through extensive background checks by multiple agencies. in fact, david, they say, that process takes 18 to 24 months before a refugee can set foot in the united states. jon karl in washington for us. jon, thank you. and we will have much more of barbara walters interview with donald trump and his wife, a special edition of 20/20, a barbara walters exclusive, this friday night, 10:00 p.m. eastern. in the meantime tonight, up next, the breaking news at home. the severe weather alert. the new tornado threats at this hour. already, dozens of reported twisters across four states. and the blizzard dumping more than a foot of snow, closing highways, stranding drivers in their tracks. also ahead, protesters arrested, outraged tonight over a deadly police shooting in yet another american city. and the powerful conversation between a father and his little boy, right here in paris. you will want to hear what this boy says about the terror. at aleve is the better choice for her she s agreed to give it up. that s today? 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soon. he is urging vladimir putin to focus on fighting isis rather than supporting syrian president bashar al assad. the u.s. is sending more special operations forces to fight isis in iraq. they will join about 50 commanders already authorized to fight isis in syria. the defense secretary ash carter says they ll be able to conduct raids, free hostages, gather intelligence, and capture isis leaders. carter testified tuesday before the house arms services committee where he faced some pointed questions. it puts everybody on notice in syria that you don t know at night who s going to be coming in the window, and that s the sensation that we want all of isil s leadership and followers to have. are we winning, mr. secretary in. we will win. are we winning now? we re going to win. now, if the united kingdom votes to begin air strikes in syria, they would become the 10 th coalition country to do so. britain and eight coalition countries have launched air strikes against isis in iraq, including australia, belgium, jordan, netherlands and the u.s. canada s new prime minister says his government is ending air strikes but will remain in the coalition. some of those same countries are also conducting iraqs in syria, along with baa raun, saudi arabia, trrurkey. separate from the coalition russia is conducting air strikes in syria in support of the asaad regime. iran has also sent more than 1,000 of its elite revolutionary guard forces to support troops. in syria, kurdish fighters have been on the front lines. many are poorly equipped but are determined to keep fighting. ben wedeman meat met a female unit. reporter: she s part of an all female kurdish unit on the front lines on the war on isis here in north eastern syria. we met her and her comrades at a forward position. when i asked her if isis ever gets near their position, she responds with a laugh. if they do, she says, we won t leave one of them alive. at the hands of what in the past was called the gentler sex, isis may have met its match. they think they re fighting in the same of islam says a 21-year-old, and they believe if someone from daesh is killed by a girl, a kurdish girl, they won t go to heaven, so they re afraid of girls. she uses the word girl, but these are tough women. her name, by the way, means revenge. at the moment, this position on the front line is quiet, but the commanders say it s just a matter of weeks before they intend to push forward against isis. a few years ago, this man traded in construction material and now he leads the so-called syrian democratic forces, a coalition of kurdish, syrian, fighters. the u.s. defense department announced it s deploying additional forces boosting the less than 50 president obama authorized in october. that should be welcome news to him, who feels the assistance until now has been modest. the help we ve received, he says, has been ammunition for heavy machine guns and mortars, but we haven t received any weapons. his forces including these women fighters, recently drove isis out of the nearby down of ahule. for more than a year, isis was here. signs of the rule remain in the police station. he points to room where complaints could be filed. in the small prison, pieces of foam were the only comfort for the unlucky inmates. in front of a wall to bed with the words islamic state still stands the platform where isis publicly whipped people. the town s arab inhabitants have yet to return. some fled with isis, others wanted nothing to do with isis and ran away and are eager to move back. rasaan lived under isis rule for over a year. his family fled but he stayed with his flock. you couldn t do anything, he tells me. smoking was forbidden. women had to be completely covered. you couldn t go anywhere without permission. he can smoke again, and hopes to soon be reunited with his family. ben wedeman, cnn, eastern syria. back in the united states now, the mayor of chicago has forced his police superintendent to resign. garry mccarthy s dismissal comes after a video was released showing a white officer shooting a black teenager to death. the illinois attorney general wants a federal investigation of the chicago police department. we ll show you what s led up to this. reporter: six seconds. that was the time it took for the officer to leave his vehicle and open fire on laquan mcdonald, killing him on the spot. it is these six seconds that have rocked the city of chicago with protesters citing a lack of transparency within the chicago police department. the dash cam video released last week revealed discrepancies regarding what happened the night mcdonald was killed, including the initial claim by police that the 17-year-old lunged at officers. going at one of the officers, the officer defends himself. reporter: it s a claim the family says the video does not support. the video shows him walking away. he was not threatening anybody. he didn t lunge at the police officer. this was originally presented as an act of self-defense. reporter: the police department initially claimed he was shot in the chest. he was shot a total of 16 times, nine of which were in the back. another issue, there s a gap in surveillance video. the police cam shows him running through the restaurant s parking lot. the burger king manager alleges the video was reviewed by police and they erased it. a top prosecutor says the video was not tampered with, but the manager says i was just trying to help the police with their investigation. i didn t know they were going to delete it. garry mccarthy quickly swatted down these allegations. it s not true. i think the state s attorney addressed that today. there were apparently technical difficulties, but there is no evidence that anything was tampered with. reporter: perhaps the darkest cloud of controversy continues to be how they went to great lengths and cost to try to make sure the public would never see the video. first, there was the $5 million settlement paid to the family. critics say that was from keeping the video from being released. then the questions about why the chicago police department continues to employ officer van dyke for a full year before pressing charges. he had 20 complaints against him, so for use of force. a judge s deadline for the release of the dash cam video. i felt compelled in the interest of public safety to announce these state charges today. reporter: for some in chicago, that was too little, too late. cnn, chicago. now to a mystery on japan s shores. at least a dozen wooden boats have been found over the last two months carrying decaying bodies. the coast guard is trying to figure out where the boats came from and what happened to those on board. some clues are pointing to north korea. cnn s paula hancock joins us live from seoul, south korea with the latest. paula, the big question is who were these people in the ghost boats? presumably from north korea? reporter: well, there are some clues that we ve heard from the coast guard. one of the boats, for example had some korean writing on the side which said korean people s army, which is the north korean military. so that s a sure fire way of knowing that the boat at least was from north korea. there was a piece of cloth that was believed to be part of the north korean flag, and also the point that the boats a wooden and basic, and they re not really seaworthy. that would point to north korea as well. and the fact that it is so geographicfully close to japan. it is from the north, but why are the boats coming now. from the past couple of months, we ve seen an influx of these boats. 34 this year. 65 this year. 80 the year before. it s not a new phenomenon. and a gruesome task for the japanese coast guard. they say on some of the boats the bodies may have been dead from a week ago, but others they may have died up to three months and the boats have been drifting on the ocean. and paula, i know you have had an opportunity to speak with north korean defectors on this issue. what have they been saying about this? reporter: well, there s a split as to whether or not these are defectors that haven t made it to safety or whether or not they are potentially fisherman who just strayed too far from the coast. one defector said that the north korean leader has a real push on at the moment for an increase in fish production, an increase in the amount of fish that are being caught, not just for domestic food and production, but also they can sell the fish. they export it to china for hard cash which north korea is in need of. the fact that the boats, few of them have decent engines or gps systems, it would be easy for the fisherman to get lost, and they feel pressured to try harder to get more quotas and to fulfill their quotas. it could push them to more dangerous waters. that s one of the scenarios being tallied. the other option is there may be defectors on board these ships trying to escape the hardships of north korea. there have been defectors that have escaped the coronet untry boat. paula joining us from seoul, south korea. it s just after 8:30 in the morning in paris. day three of the cop 21 climate summit. most of the heads of the state have rushed home leaving thousands of representatives to hash out details and figure out just how to limit global warming, and not rise above 2 degrees celsius. barack obama says he s optimistic a binding agreement can be reached. if you add up all the pledges and they were all met right now, we would be at a estimated 2 .7 centigrade increase in temperature. that s too high. we wanted to get two centigrade or even lower than that. but if we have these periodic reviews built in, what i believe will happen is that by sending that signal to researchers and scientists and investors and entrepreneurs and venture funds, we ll actually start hitting these targets faster than we expected. republicans in the u.s. congress are pushing back. they passed legislation to block the president s latest environmental measures. mr. obama says he will veto their resolutions. we want to turn to africa where oscar pistorius s appeal will be read in court. he s the double amputee olympian sentenced for the shooting death of his girlfriend. he was released from prison in october and is now under house arrest. david mackenzie was taken on a tour of pistorius could potentially return to. reporter: we re heading into south africa s most notorious prison, once home to oscar pistorius. they say they want to set the record straight. with us, everybody is treated equally. we don t have a famous offender. we don t have a famous person. reporter: prison officials cannot remember when they last took a group of media through this maximum security facility. it s the first look at oscar pistorius s private cell and the bathroom they modified in his block. he spent nearly a year here for killing his model girlfriend. he was released under house arrest. if he loses his appeal, he could be heading back. the prison boss told me they wanted to show us this because it s not exactly five star accommodation, but the truth is, south african prisons are hugely overcrowded. in this part of the country alone, prisons are over capacity by more than 10,000 inmates times up to 50 squeezed into a cell sharing one toilet and a basin. they wouldn t let us show the prisoners. you ve had a famous inmate. what do you think of him being in the prison? iss did oscar pistorius get special treatment? no. reporter: the commissioner says as far as he can remember, pistorius is the first double am you tee they ve had to deal with and required protection. david mackenzie, cnn. we ll take a short break here. when we come back, facebook s billionaire founder and his wife plan to donate most of the stock they own in their company to charity. see what major event inspired the couple to give it away. the pursuit of healthier. it begins from the second we re born. because, healthier doesn t happen all by 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richest men in the world. in a social media post, facebook co-founder, mark zuckerberg and his wife told their followers they expanded their family, and are giving away a large chuck of their fortune. cnn money digital correspondent paula monica explains. reporter: the facebook ceo announcing unsurprisingly on facebook that his wife, pri s l priscilla chan has given birth to a daughter. they are also planning to gift 99% of their facebook stock worth currently about $45 billion to charitable causes over the course of their lifetime. here s how it s going to work. in a separate filing, facebook said that zuckerberg is going to sell no more than $1 billion of facebook stock over the next three years. he will control the voting power for that stock, so investors don t have to worry that zuckerberg is stepping away from his other baby, facebook any time soon. he said he plans to be the ceo for many, many years. $45 billion, the current market value could go up based on how well facebook stock is doing. this is a very admirable move by zuckerberg. it will be interesting to see whether or not other tech executives decide to do something similar with their massive fortunes. all right. well, in it quest to be thinner, smarter, and sleeker, apple s iphone may have to drop one of its key features, samuel burk tells us what could be the phone s next casualty. apple is going to do what? reporter: the latest iphone is just 7.1 millimeters thick. if the next iphone is going to get any skinnier, it ll have to go on the indica diet. that might mean eliminating the audio jack. how will we listen to our music? people who don t want to get tangled up in problems use cordless. it creates another problem. you have to keep these charged. if you don t want to fork out the money for new blue tooth headphones, you can buy an adapter that allows you to connect your existing headset to the charging port. sorry, no listening while charging. apple does have a history of making drastic changes 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campaign. and the u.s. feds are asked to investigate the chicago police department amid growing calls for the city s mayor to resign. hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m rosemary church. this is cnn newsroom. and we begin this hour with a war on isis as germany, the united kingdom and the united states are stepping up their efforts. the pentagon says it s sending more special operations forces to help fight isis in iraq. the defense secretary says they will be able to conduct raids, free hostages, gather intention, and capture isis leaders. thousands of protesters in london are urging the british parliament to vote against a proposal for uk air strikes in syria. lawmakers will begin a marathon debate in just a few hours from now with a vote later on wednesday. it is part of a broader strategy. it s about the politics and the diplomacy and the humanitarian aid, all of which we need to bring peace to syria and to make sure we protect our national interests of fighting against this appalling terrorist organization. and in berlin, lawmakers will start debate on a plan approved by the german cabinet for expanded military assistance in the fight against isis. it includes up to 12 00 troops. atika schubert is following things in berlin, but we start with max foster in london. max, parliament set to hold an all day debate on whether to support air strikes in syria. how likely is it that they will vote to expand air raids against isis in syria? it s pretty likely. david cameron said he wouldn t bring this vote to parliament if he didn t feel confidence that it would get through. so they ve been doing all the work behind the scenes and adding up the number of mps that would support this syria vote, and he seems confidence he ll have enough votes. there s a big debate on the opposition side about whether or not to support david cameron. just to explain, the leader of the opposition party is against it. he has allowed a free vote for his mps, but they re under a huge amount of pressure to go with him on the vote. david cameron feels confident he ll get enough to support him. lots of questions about the war, and concern about it. we understand that some mps have been under the sort of pressure that you get on twitter or on e-mail that they are supporting a war which will kill women and children, so they feel this pressure, but they also feel that isis does need to be confronted in some way, and david cameron is giving that option on his side as well. david cameron s conservative mps, not all of them are going to vote for this. the concern is have they thought about what s going to happen after the war and will it work without a ground invasion. lots to debate. more than ten hours of debat. after that the vote will come. we expect it to go through. you mentioned the pressure. they re also feeling the pressure from the streets with the protests against britain s further involvement. what more are planned for today, and talk more about what the major concern is about going forward on the possibility of these air strikes in syria. reporter: i think on the left, it s basically is war a solution to changing regimes. perhaps you should be going for more economic sanctions or political pressure. but on the right, on david cameron s, it s is it working as well. david cameron gave the figure of 70,000 or so rebel fighters in syria who are effect ily ground force. that raises all sorts of question. can they work together and can he unite them against isis. they re fighting the asaad regime, not just isis. whether that will work. cameron has convincing to do, and you remember after the iraq war, tony blair was under huge amounts of pressure and was seen to have messed that up because they didn t think about what would happen after the war. so he s also going to have to explain who s going to be in charge of syria after this, what sort of support is the syrian people going to get after this. all the debates happening in other countries as well about whether to get involved in the convict. david cameron needs the support of parliament. he doesn t want to make the same mistake as tony blair who is now seen as making a huge mistake. david cameron wants to share the decision. many thanks to max foster. let s go to atika schubert. she is in berlin, and atika yar, let s talk about what germany is planning in this fight against isis. reporter: well, the cabinet has approved a one-year mandate for up to maximum, about 1200 german troops going in to help the fight against isis, but the key here is that none of these troops will be in a combat role. these will simply be really logistical support for the french flights, for example, striking isis now. what germany is sending in is tornado jets, midair refueling jets that will allow the french strikers to extend their range, for example. there s a navy frigget involved as well. it s been approved. now it needs to be debated in parliament. what they will be having is having the debate in a few hours. that debate will continue on friday, and that s when we are expected to get a vote. and while it s being debated, what about the public in germany? how do they feel about all of this? reporter: well, i think the public is going to this with a bit of caution, but there doesn t seem to be much controversy about it as there is in the uk. it s expected to pass pretty easily. there s not much opposition from parliament. angela merkel s grand mission generally supports her in this. if n the general public, there are questions about whether it will expose them to the possibility of more terror attacks. as we know, germany has also received its fair share of terror threats. we know a football came in hanover was cancelled on concrete information of the possibility of an attack, so for many people here, they feel we re already being threatened. this may be the best way to go forward to prevent further terror threats. many thanks to atika schubert live in berlin has the debate goes forward in germany in how to push for the fight against isis. appreciate that. iraqi prime minister says there s no need for foreign troops on the ground, and any military operation must be coordinated with his government. that comes after the u.s. announced plans to send additional special operations forces to fight isis in iraq. the pentagon correspondent, barbara star reports. reporter: hundreds of u.s. special operations and support forces heading to dangerous ground in iraq and syria. these special operators will over time be able to conduct raids, free hostages, gather intelligence, and capture isil leaders. this force will also be in a position to conduct unilateral operations in syria. reporter: the announcement to send more forces coming after the attacks in paris. the military will now do more risky missions such as the special operations hostage rescue raid in october where master sergeant joshua wheeler was killed in action. we re good at intelligence, mobility, surprise. we have the long reach that no one else has, and it puts everybody on notice in syria that you don t know at night who s going to be coming in the window, and that s the sensation that we want all of isil s leadership and followers to have. reporter: the new force will number just dozens of commandos, but they will have significant backup. helicopters to get to their targets, rescue forces if they run into trouble. potentially, some 200 troops in all, officials say. all of this as a separate group of 50 special operations forces are to arrive at any time in northern syria to assist anti-isis forces there. the chairman of the joint chiefs underscoring the u.s. needs better fes intelligence. our effectiveness is linked to the quality of intelligence we have. our assessment is that this force will provide us additional intelligence that will make our operations more effective. reporter: a raid that killed a leader in may provided an initial trove of intelligence, leading to improved information about isis. two operatives still in the u.s. cross hairs, isis s leader, al baghdadi and another said to be involved in plotting future attacks in the west. u.s. officials telling cnn, it could be days or weeks before the u.s. forces arrive. barbara star, cnn, the pentagon. and we want to get more on this. want to bring in our military analyst who is joining us live from california. rick, u.s. special ops forces will be heading to iraq and syria to conduct raids, free hostages, gather intel and capture isis leaders. how significant is this shift in u.s. policy, and what impact is it likely to have on the fight against isis going forward? reporter: i think it will have a good impact. instead of being in a train, assist, advise role, these are combat forces going to conduct direct operations. this is no longer are we going to put boots on the ground. we are putting boots on the ground. this is not going to be in a standoff role. these are going to be combat forces. i don t know how the if the u.s. administration is going to spin this. they re going to say it s not a combat role. i don t know how they can do this. this represents a shift. i think it s an admission that what we re doing so far hasn t worked, and this is the next step. a lot of people are concerned that the next step, of course, is what we call mission creep. we re getting more involved. what if this doesn t work? will we beef up the presence further? in a way they can t win. if they don t do this, they re accused of not doing enough. if they do, then it s mission creep. how do you deal with that problem? i think the administration is going to have to come out and address just what their goal is here. i listened to the secretary and the chairman s testimony today, and they were quite they didn t want to come out and say exactly how big of a step this is, but i think this is major, and when the secretary said they will also conduct unilateral missions into syria, this is a sea change from where we are today. i think it s a good step. i ve been arguing this for all along, and i still think we ought to continue more the special ops controlling the air strikes. what we re looking at, i think is a shift in the american attitude in what it s going to take to defeat isis. obviously the iraqis aren t getting it done. i don t think the kurds have the combat pour to get it done. it looks like we re going to do it yourselves. michael flynn told cnn tuesday that the white house ignored reports warning of the rise of isis in 2011, 2012 because it didn t dpit thefit t reelection narrative, his words. what s your reaction? i was a little surprised to here that. he was part of the whole operation at the time. his advice, obviously, he felt was being ignored, but those of us on the outside, all of us retired, still watching what was going on, it was pretty obvious to us that there was this power vacuum, especially in syria, being created by the lack of the west help to the syrian rebels. and al-qaeda in iraq, spent people over there. they created isis. i thought it was pretty easy to see. i don t think that the administration wanted to deal with it at the time. all right. thank you for joining us from california. pakistan has executed four taliban militants tied to a deadly school attack. you may recall at least 145 people, mostly school children, were killed in the december 2014 massacre. seven people were given a death sentence and another got life in prison from a pakistani military court in august for their roles in the attack. donald trump, the man who wants to be president of the united states has a message for his rivals. bring it on. hear why he thinks even the the nice guy in the race will come at him swinging. and chicago s mayor forces the superintendent to step down with a controversy over a deadly police shooting. that story still to come. i absolutely love my new but the rent is outrageous. good thing 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a judge revealed some discrepancies regarding what happened. including the initial claim by police that the 17-year-old had lunged at officers. going at one of the officers. at this point the officer defends hymn. it s a a claim the family says the video does not support. the video shows him walking away. he was not threatening anybody. he didn t lunge. this was presented as an act of self-defense. reporter: the chicago police department initially claimed mcdonald was shot in the chest. he was shot a total of 16 times, nine in the back. there s a gap in video. the police cam shows mcdonald running through a parking lot. the manager of ttop prosecutor chicago says the video was not tampered with. the manager says, in part, i was trying to help the police with their investigation. i didn t know they were going to delete it. a former chicago police department quickly swauted down the allegations. it s absolutely not true. i think the state s attorney addressed that today. there were apparently technical difficulties, but in no way is there any evidence that anything was tampered with. reporter: perhaps the darkest cloud of controversy is how the chicago police department went to great lengths and cost to try to make sure the public would never see the video. first there was the $5 million settlement paid to the family. people say it was to keep the video from being released. then the questions about why the chicago police department continues to employ officer van dyke for a full year before pressing charges. van dyke had 20 complaints against him. ten for use of force. the police only suspending him without pay a day before the judge s release of the video. i felt compelled in the interest of public safety to announce these state charges today. reporter: for some in chicago, that was too little, too late. cnn, chicago. yahoo may be looking for a buyer. the wall street journal reports that yahoo s board will meet several times this week to talk about selling the core internet business, and the stake in alibaba. a spokesman for yahoo has not responded yet for a request for comment. mark zuckerberg and his wife are celebrating the birth of their baby daughter max by pledging to give away a fortune. this a letter to their daughter, the couple said they plan to donate 99% of their facebook stock to charity during their lifetime. they say they want to leave the world a better place for their daughter and all children. their shares are currently valued at $45 billion. republican u.s. presidential front runner, donald trump, is telling his political rivals to hit him, but he warns he hits back. attacking his opponents has been a staple of trump s presidential campaign, and as our correspondent reports, he has some new targets. reporter: donald trump is urging his rivals to bring it on. so far christie hasn t hit me yet. he will, at some point. rubio has to hit me. reporter: bravado from the republican front runner before the iowa caucuses. even i think cruz is going to have to hit me, because he s a nice guy. reporter: after defending trump for months, cruz is on the rise and may not be a nice guy in trump s i eyes much longer. at some point he s going to have to hit me. it s going to be a sad day. we will hit back. reporter: hitting back has become a trump trademark. cruz is running neck and neck with trump in one iowa poll, and already making a bold prediction. let me be clear. i don t believe he s going to be our nominee or president. reporter: cruz appears to be taking a page from trump s play book, making attention grabbing comments. asked about birth control in iowa, he said he knows of no conservative no flat out oppose contraception. he says he and his wife do not. they were happy they had two girls, not 17. last i checked, we don t have a rubber shortage in america. look, when i was in college, we had a machine in the bathroom. you put $0.50 in. reporter: many religious organizations are opposed to birth control. he also told a radio host democrats commit for violent crimes in america. the overwhelming majority of violent criminals are democrats. reporter: and he took the media to task by saying no more baby parts as he was arrested in colorado. it s reported he was registered as an independent and woman and transgender leftist activist. reporter: aids said he was trying to make a point. sorting out fact from fiction has become a full time task in this race. trump is standing by his assertion that he saw thousands of muslims celebrating in jersey after 9/11. no one has supported it with video evidence. and giuliani said small pockets of cheering took place in the city, but he accused him of exaggerating the claims. let him show the evidence. if it shows up, it will corroborate him. if it doesn t, it will make him look bad. reporter: so far nothing trump has said has diminished him. he s stepping up his campaign. he s heading to virginia, north carolina, and even iowa this week. a new aggressive phase as they are weeks away from starting off the campaign. and there s some tough love advice for donald trump from the former governor of michigan who says he can can make america great again by dropping out of the race. a magazine has given an award to british singer and novelist, morrissey, that he probably doesn t want. the literary review gave him the bad sex in fiction award. it is supposed to draw attention to poorly written sex scene in otherwise good books. the part reviewers had problems with said two characters, i m quoting, rolled together into the one giggling snowball of full figured copulation. there s more. you ll have to read it yourself. i m not going there. we ll take a break. while the angry rhetoric escalates, the u.s. president urges others to ro fus. and rumors are swirling after the new mayor of alaska s capital was found dead in his home. we ll explain why the death is such a mystery. our viewers here states and all around the world. this is cnn newsroom and i m rosemary church. want to check the main headlines right now. the british parliament will start debates in a few hours on whether to expand uk air strikes on isis into syria. the prime minister supports the move, but thousands of protesters marching outside parliament voiced their opposition. a vote is expected wednesday night. the iraqi prime minister says there s no need for foreign troops in his country, and any military operation must be coordinated with his government. that comes after the u.s. announced plans to send more special operations forces to fight isis in iraq. myanmar s opposition leader has met with the country s current president to discuss the transfer of power. this is the first time they have seen each other since her party overwhelmingly won last month s election. though she is is party leader, myanmar s constitution bars her from being president. the russian pilot killed when turkey downed his jet is being buried. he was killed after turkey shot down the war plane near the syrian border. turkey insisted russia was violating its air space, but russia argued it stayed over syria. relations between the two countries have deteriorated with russia imposing sanctions on turkey in retaliation. now, before he left the climate change summit, president obama urged both sides to reduce tensions and return the focus to battling isis, but they don t appear to be reaching any common ground at this point. and we are covering this from all angles with ian lee in istanbul, we want to begin with matthew chance. putin says he has evidence that turkey was protecting black market oil that it gets from isis. where do things stand on this? and what s the likely next move? reporter: well, yes. that s an allegation that s been received in a particularly sensitive way in turkey. the idea that this russian war plane was shot down because the turks were trying to protect the very lucrative, illegal trade in oil from isis to profiteers inside turkey. even russians sayered wan s family is in that trade. it s an allegation which presidenter presidenter dejuan has denied. it s not something the russians have backed down on, and it s just one of the allegations and insults that moscow is hurling at ankara in the aftermath of the shoot down, which the russians are extremely angry about. they lost the pilot who is being buried today, and then another russian soldier on the ground as well who was involved in the rescue attempt. it s something that s been a very painful episode in syria, and in relations within turkey and russia. and talk to us about this evidence that russia has, appare apparently. are we likely to see that in the days ahead? reporter: i m not sure whether we will. certainly, the russians say that they ve received information in that regard, that this is all about the trade in oil between isis and turkish business people. and what they ve been showing us over the past several weeks is russian attempts to target isis oil facilities. it s no secret that isis makes a great deal of money from the production and sale of oil. we ve seen lots of videos provided to us of russian war planes striking convoys of oil tankers and other instralations as well in an attempt to degrade that oil infrastructure that isis controls inside syria. there s also no secret that much of the oil passes through turkey as part of an illegal smuggling trade. it s an issue of the leadership of turkey being involved in it which is controversial. as far as that s concerned, we re not seeing any evidence so far, for do i believe we re likely too. matthew chance live from moscow. let s get more reaction now from turkey. ian lee is in istanbul, and these are extraordinary things. you brought it live to us 24 hours ago. let s talk more about reaction. it is serious when you re talking about the turkish leadership perhaps involved because we haven t seen this evidence, these accusations coming from russia, but what more is being said about this on the turkish border? reporter: well, rosemary, this has angered the turks greatly that they could be working with isis to smuggle oil outside of syria. turks have said that this is an excuse by the russians to bomb areas where the russians are saying this smuggling is taking place. the turks are saying, in fact, it didn t happening there, but the russians are using that excuse to bomb a group of people that is a very sensitive situation for the turkish government. they view them as their kin. these are people that live around the same area where the plane was shot down. and so we heard from yesterday, when the turkey president was speaking with president obama, saying that hundreds of civilians have been killed in these bombings, and that there is no evidence that their oil is moving through this area, and the prk president has said show me the proof. they say if there s proof turkey is buying oil, he will resign from the presidency, and still, yet, russia hasn t been able to provide that proof, and russia has said that there is a long line of vehicles bringing or of oil terminal that is sending oil into turkey, and turkey wants to see this proof, wants to know wants to see these allegations, the evidence for the allegations, and so far, as we heard from matthew, the russians haven t been able to produce it. yeah. that is certainly the case, and we are seeing a rise in tensions. they are very far away between turkey and russia from any fence mending efforts. ian lee joining us live from turkey. word just into cnn that nato has invited montenegro to join. russia has objected to any nato expansion. it s now day three of the cop 21 climate change summit in paris. most of the heads of the state have gone down. it s now up to thousands of representatives to hammer out a resolution. before leaving, barack obama said an agreement is important for the world environment and global security. if we let the world keep warming as fast as it is, and sea levels rising as fast as they are, and weather patterns keep shifting in more unexpected ways, then before long we ve going to have to devote more and more and more of our economic and military resources not to growing opportunity for our people but to adapting to the various consequences of a changing planet. this is an economic and security imper thetive th imperative that we have to tackle now. and cnn is in paris. it is day three of the climate change summit. what is on the agenda and what is expected out of discussions today? reporter: so, as you mentioned, world leaders incl e including obama have largely exited paris and that leaves the negotiators here to get down to wiz. they will be working on a draft agreement that hopefully will be signed at the end of the two-week process. they will be talking about money, some things countries will have to fight about. the developing countries want money to deal with the consequences of climate change. these are countries that haven t caused the climate change happening. there s a question of financing on the table. there s also the idea of when they re going to review the process. we haven t finished an agreement here at cop 21, but one of the major sticking points is how often these commitments from countries to reduce the pollution will be reviewed, and how often they have to ratchet up their ambitions. that s important. underlying this whole process is the idea of a 2 degree celsius target for warming. if we cross that mark, we re in dangerous territory. the goals here won t get us to the two degrees, but we re hoping the process will set in motion a framework that could get the world to that goal over time. all right. 9:40 in the morning there in paris. john sutter joining us with the live report. we appreciate it. many thavpg thanks. the cop 21 summit has protesters. but brand alism found a way around it. they posted fake ads around paris. the spokesperson says they re targeting sponsors of the group which the group thinks are part of 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you and me . titude. and positively radiant skin. aveeno® positively radiant moisturizer. with active naturals® soy. aveeno® naturally beautiful results®. welcome back. just weeks after taking office, the new major of juneau, alaska was found dead in his home. stephen fisk was found with injuries and many people wonder if he was assaulted. randi kaye reports. reporter: about 3:30 in the afternoon the 9-1-1 call came in. the major of juneau, alaska was dead. at about 3:34 we received a 9-1-1 call from a man. there was someone who appeared to be deceased inside. offices were on seen at about four minutes. reporter: mysterious deaths like this one, let alone the mayor, rarely happen in this city. a community tucked away on alaska s pan handle. the strange circumstances have many in town speculating about what happened. the detectives here are, for now, stumped. the mayor s son had gone to check on him monday afternoon after getting word that others in town were having trouble reaching him. after he looked inside the home where his father lived alone, neighbors said the son could be heard shouting. that s when he called 9-1-1. officers rushed to the scene, but the mayor was already dead. right now there are more questions than answers. the police say they found no sign of forced entry and they ve concluded that the mayor did not commit suicide. what happened? some are already suggesting that the mayor was assaulted. the police are playing that down, though the chief did tell the newspaper that assault is one of the possibilities out there. but that it also could have been a fall or something else. meanwhile, juneau s department mayor will take over the duties. she was a long time friend of fisk and taught his son. we are devastated. he was a wonderful person and a friend, and from the calls i ve been receiving tonight, i m not the only one who felt he s a wonderful person and a good present to juneau. reporter: a neighbor told us fisk was in good shape. he hiked and swim often. he had a great smile and was a great guy. he was elected mayor about two months ago. he won with 66% of the vote after running a positive campaign. he was looking forward to ver diversifying the market. all of that is on hold as mystery hangs over this town. it s just so devastating to have this happen. it s basically unbelievable. reporter: randi kaye, cnn, new york. an iconic holiday television show draws rave reviews from a top republican. we ll have the story after this short break. ve asthma. .one of many pieces in my life. so when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my long-term control medicine, i talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment. once-daily breo prevents asthma symptoms. breo is for adults with asthma not well controlled on a long-term asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. breo won t replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. breo opens up airways to help improve breathing for a full 24 hours. 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50th anniversary of a charlie brown christmas. the special featuring the peanuts gang first aired in 1965. and late night kmeed comedian, jimmy kimmel marked it by how many times a candidate used the p word. the cost of the word is peanuts. that s peanuts. that s peanuts. that s peanuts. that s peanuts. peanuts. there s peanuts. peanuts, you know. peanu peanuts. peanuts. peanuts. col it s peanuts. he does use it a lot, doesn t he. we want to go to the southern indian city of chania where over 300 millimeters of rain fell on tuesday. the airport was closed for several hours because the runways were closed. let s join pedram javaheri with more on this, and pedram, these are deadly floods, and there is more of this to come. more of it the to come the next couple of days. you look at the numbers, the amount of rainfall that fell over this region would equate to what happened in london over six months. you go past the last 40 or so days over this region of southern india, and i share with you some of the images as far as the airport and the runways there taking on water. this is a city with a metropolitan of almost 9 million people. we the third largest metropolitan city in the u.s., the size of the city of chicago. the concern is the amount of rainfall that fell in this region in the short time period. in the past 40 days, it s rained 39 days. it would take los angeles to accumulate the amount these folks have gotten in four weeks. a foot of rainfall, doubling the month of december s average already on the first day of the month. another wave here. we talk about india and the dry season typically. that s the beginning portion of the year with the indian dry season. the monosons not in yet. october and november, now you re talking about the monsoon season. about 350 millimeters of rainfall come down in november. the wettest month of the year. look what happened this past november. the rainfall amounts staggering, through the roof with almost four times of what is considered normal just from those several weeks of rainfall. that s what s led to this 100 year flood in some of these areas. the heaviest rainfall since the early 1900s. the forecast continues to bring in rainfall the next couple of days. again, it is the monsoon season in this part of the world, but you don t see as much as we ve seen in recent days. the beginning of december, the monsoons withdraw over this word of india. unfortunately, the forecast continues to bring rainfall over this region of southern india. thank you, pedram. thank you for your company. i m rosemary church. early start is coming up for our viewers in the united states, and for earn else, max foster is up. have a great day. this is not going to ruin my christmas. was there a coverup in a new investigation launched into the police department. a top cop is fired. the u.s. is expanding its troops in iraq. few ground troops head in, terrorists make alarming new ganci in libya. good morning, welcome to early start. 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hillary clinton still speaking. bernie sanders event just finishing up as the final cnn pre-election polling numbers come in and the snow is coming down. of course, it is new hampshire and it is winter. secretary clinton still trails sanders by a two to one margin. while the gop race, donald trump campaigns later in the night remains comfortably ahead of the republican pack. up 24 points on jeb bush. even though governor bush, who just wrapped up his event, is way back in fifth place, he seems to be holding on to his spot as donald trump s favorite punching bag. donald trump took a punch against him as well as ted cruz and used a word we haven t heard him say. the latest jabs and tweets and bad blood leading up to it all. jim acosta has all of that. jeb is a lightweight, let me tell you that. reporter: new hampshire primary boiling down to this, a fight between donald trump and jeb bush and ted cruz. donald trump said this. see, i m the only one taking on donald trump. i m not afraid of donald trump. he s like a child. he s like a spoiled child. reporter: only this time bush, who has ignored these attacks before, is battling back. donald trump, you re the loser. reporter: bush is counterpunching hard in what may be a last-ditch effort to save his own campaign. donald trump organizes his campaign around disparaging people as a sign of strength. it s not strong to insult women. it s not strong to castigate hispanics. it s not strong to ridicule the disabled. reporter: the two men are at war on twitter. trump tweet, everybody is laughing at jeb bush. spent $100 million and is at the bottom of the pack, a pathetic figure and bush tweeting back, you re a loser. even though the bush family has led the gop through two presidencies look at that awesome selfie. vote for trump! vote for trump! reporter: trump supporters don t seem to mind. does that bother you to hear donald trump going after jeb bush or the bush family? not really. he s into it. jeb hasn t been too kind to him either, so not at all. because obviously he knows something that some of us may not and obviously another bush in the white house isn t the right thing for us. reporter: as a new poll shows, trump is still way out in front. the other big fight appears to be for second place. rubio is playing defense after his shaky debate performance from over the weekend. this notion that barack obama doesn t know what he s doing is just not true. there it is. the memorized 25-second speech. there it is, everybody. reporter: rubio, who seemed glued to anti-obama talking points. i believe it s true. reporter: also, john kasich and ted cruz is fighting for third place. we never viewed any of these states as a must win. winning is better than losing. we are here in new hampshire competing for the votes and at this point it s a turnout game. jim acosta joins us tonight. jim, i ve been seeing some tweeting in the last couple of minutes but a word that was spoken at the event tonight? reporter: that s right, anderson. donald trump is feeling so confident about his chances here in the new hampshire primary that he quoted a woman in the audience who described ted cruz as a part of the woman s anatomy that i cannot say on national television. i won t elaborate any further. at another point in the speech he went over marco rubio s debate performance and said he was sweating like a dog. but as you heard in our piece, anderson, trump supporters have not minded these comments before and they didn t mind them here tonight. as a matter of fact, that comment about ted cruz really got the crowd going here. the trump campaign, they are pretty confident. they are seeing new hampshire as being different than iowa. they thought iowa was about explaining the confusing caucus to their voters. just so we re clear, a word used by a person in the crowd and then he repeated it and sort of jokingly reprimanded her. is that correct? reporter: that s right. just to be perfectly clear, a woman said it first in the crowd and then donald trump had the chance to repeat it or not repeat it and he went out and repeated it to this audience of about 5 or 6,000 people and they seemed to really enjoy it, i have to tell you, anderson, it s a word i ve never heard out on the campaign trail before. we have gone where no came has gone before in that regard, anderson. jim acosta, thanks. i want to bring in our old friend and former colleague paul ste steinhauser who is in his element right now. trump has a big lead in new hampshire according to the latest polls but still feeling the sting from iowa. what did he say to you about it? reporter: i talked to him this afternoon. he didn t use any profanities. he was a little more reservd. take a listen. can you continue on if you don t finish first here and you didn t finish first in iowa? yes, i can. but i would love to finish first here and i think i probably finished first in iowa if you add in the votes that were wrongly taken away from ben carson so i think i did really great in iowa. it s a caucus state, not the place that i m used to. i like this much better where you go in and vote. we re going to do really well in new hampshire. reporter: you know, he s been up in the polls here by double-digits for so long but if donald trump doesn t win by at least 10% here, others will look at it as a loss for donald trump. anderson? you also pushed him a bit on his conservative credentials compared to senator cruz. reporter: yeah, because he s been battling with senator cruz for quite some time on this. here s how it went. ted cruz talks about being a very conservative candidate. he says he s real conservative in the race and you are not. he also says he s trying to reignite the reagan is ted cruz trying to have it both ways? i think so. look, ted s been nice to me and i ve been nice to him the last couple of weeks. we ve been going at it for a bit. he talks about he s the conservative, the big conservative and he is to a certain extent but i m the toughest by far on immigration or illegal immigration. there s nobody close. i m the one building the wall. these people don t even talk about the wall, although he did mention it quickly one time last week. i mean, he s another person that s a competitor. he s one of a number of people. we started off with 17 and now we re down to 8 or 9 or 10 and they are rapidly leaving. i think we re going to have an amazing election tomorrow. it s going to be very interesting to see what happens. reporter: trump also talking about the rubio performance and cease so media savvy. i stumbled for a second and said, do you want to do it again? that s classic donald trump style. i m somebody who stumbles 45 times an hour, i felt your pain. that wasn t even a stumble compared to what i do. paul, thanks for being with us. back to our panel, i mean, tomorrow, there are still a lot of republicans, as you were showing the cnn/wmru poll. there s still a mixture among candidates. if donald trump does not win tomorrow night, it would be stunning because of the size of that lead. iowa is close. trump underperformed his poll numbers again and somebody gets close to him. if somebody beats him, that would be a stunning collapse, given the poll numbers. did they learn lessons from iowa? do we know? they have veterans on the team up there. a primary is different from a caucus. a television message helps you all day. we ll see tomorrow. this is still fascinating for me to watch him in the conversation with paul there because, remember, he s never run before. he s been in one election and he came in second and he thought he was going to win. whether you like him or hate him, the psychology of donald trump is fascinating to watch because you know despite his public bravado, it s going to be tense waiting for the results to come out. we should point out, this is different terrain than iowa. 63% of the vote in iowa was evangelicals, not hospitable to him there. value voters who didn t respond to him. new hampshire is much more secular, probably a third of the number a third of a percentage will be evangelicals and they are more moderate and he s done better with moderate voters and you ve got this big slug of independent voters who can go to either and he does very well among independent voters. he s led in 76 public polls in new hampshire. so it would be stunning if he lost tomorrow. right. and this is where he s so smart, though. he knows who his enemies are at any given time. and so he s picking on he s picking on jeb and he s picking on moderates, the governors because he knows that he s got to get their independent voters to keep his to keep his margin up. so he knows who his opponents are at any given time and that s always that s always been how smart he is about this. and i think the question is, if he wins tomorrow, you talked about his sort of psychology, how does that change his as a cann candidate? not at all. it s aums like we ve seen him at times dialed down. he has a trump-tastic way of dealing with people. but then you have sort of the old trump coming forward. humble upon victory. let s go over to our political commentators here. jeffrey, you re a trump supporter. he s going after bush even though bush is so far down on the polls. does that make sense to you? sure. because the bushes, i like them, they are the ultimate symbol of the establishment and so it makes perfect sense. this is exactly what you don t want. this is why you know why, folks, you heard an earlier somebody being interviewed and he said we don t want any more bushes. we saw a slight tick-up for cruz although it s hard to tell if it was before the debate, not after the debate. it s still kind of a lot could happen tomorrow. yeah, a lot could happen. i think he has a good amount of support on the ground in new hampshire. he s looking to have a good showing third or fourth. there are two things that could help cruz going into south carolina that don t mean a win for him. one, donald trump doesn t have a big, huge winning margin. knocks him down another leg after cruz beat him in iowa. but also, lack of consensus among the establishment lane because rubio appears to be stumbling a bit. that could be a lot tighter and the longer that kasich, rubio and ted cruz stays in, the better life is for jeb bush. we talked about this a little bit in the last hour but politico and others reporting about drama in the campaign, a concern about whether or not they should retool somehow. you say just stay the course? yes. and john podesta, more importantly, says that. he is campaign chair. he put out a tweet and said do not believe what you read. it s a shock but hillary clinton is giving an interview saying, look, this is ridiculous. i don t know where this is coming from. of course, we re going to look at where we are as we move forward but this is the team that we have. right. and the challenge hillary has is not staff. it s appealing to young people. the challenge that he will have is in vermont. they talk about new hampshire being a home game for donald trump and it is for bernie sanders who represents the state next door who does extraordinarily well with white voters, even whiter than iowa. now that it s snowing, it s whiter still. it s a whiteout. once you get to more diverse communities, hillary has a much better track record. as a supporter, do you buy that argument? that s what the hillary campaign has been saying, wait until nevada, wait until south carolina. look, it s clearly a challenge for bernie because of who he is, a senator from vermont. it s not been necessarily his issues. but i think, again, they are underestimating underestimating appeal of bernie sanders which they have done from the beginning and it s showing. if they are not retooling, they ought to be retooling. he resonates beyond just white voters and appeals to young people and he talks about core with martin luther king. he s not unknown. ben jealous help as lot. former president of the naacp. of the naacp. i say watch out for south carolina and nevada, paul. the only human being, beside a politician, i ve ever seen do this. the thumb like this. i ve never seen an actual human being doing that other than a politician. let me tell you, to my family that means something. it s a hidden significant flat. the thumb on top, that s only a political thing. we use other gestures. exactly. exactly. i m glad i bring some distinction. i m amazed that a human being has actually done that other than a politician. we re going to take a quick break. just ahead, i ll talk to hillary clinton s campaign manager i m over here now, about that shake-up i just mentioned. plus, what to watch out for tomorrow night. tracking the primary by the numbers. we ll be right back. think of it as a seven seat theater. for an action packed thriller. buying smartphones for the whole family is expensive. not at t-mobile® for a limited time, check out our half off smartphone event. get one of our most popular smartphones, and get the second one at half price. need more? 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well, clearly, we were disappointed. we ve tried to keep this a campaign on the issues and, you know, i certainly understand that the dynamics of the race have changed and that, you know, there is some disappointment and frustration on the part of the other side and, you know, we hope that this race, once we re past new hampshire, could return to more positive issues focused discussion. the clinton campaign is also saying, look, senator sanders took money in the past from the democratic senatorial campaign committee which got its money from wall street. secretary clinton has gotten a lot more over the years but their argument is that bernie sanders is not some political purist and has benefited from big money. i want you to be able to respond to that. look. this is the deal, when he ran for the senate he received less than $100,000 from the dnc and gave $100,000 to the vermont party. this hardly compares to having a super pac that just raised $25 million, 15 million of which was from a wall street interest campaign funded by big money and special interests. look, bernie sanders campaign is funded by a million individual contributors. average contribution is $27. it s a people-powered, people-orienteded campaign and. i asked senator sanders if he s still an underdog and he said he thinks he is. obviously we all know polls can be wrong but should he win tomorrow night but not as by big of a margin as some expect, could the clinton campaign claim some sort of momentum? well, they can claim whatever they want. let s be clear about this. there s only one candidate in the democratic primary who has won and that s secretary clinton who beat then senator obama in 2008. she won by a point. the clinton campaign, they are running a very effective and competent campaign. they ve put a lot of effort here into new hampshire. we don t take anything for granted. i think the poll that i saw just recently is a little bit exaggerated, frankly. i want to give you the opportunity to respond to former secretary of state madeleine albright where she said there s a special place in hell for women who don t support each other because obviously sanders is doing well with younger women. well, i think all of the young women who spoke about this on social media have said it much better than i can. all right. jeff weaver, good to talk with you. thank you. we ll see what happens tomorrow. it s going to be an exciting day. tonight, bill clinton took issue with senator sanders comments about the money she s taken from wall street and blasted sanders over online attacks on her. listen. if she really were so close to wall street you couldn t trust her, which is what her opponent has implied, they would be advertising against him, wouldn t they? but they are not. they are advertising against her. people who have gone online to defend hillary and explain just explain why they supported her have been subject to vicious trolling. and attacks that are literally too profane, often, not to mention sexist to, repeat. the hotter this election gets, the more i wish i were just a former president and just for a few months not the spouse of the next one because i have to be careful what i say. over the last couple of days, former president bill clinton on the campaign trail asked about the shake-up in her campaign and said she would be taking stock of the campaign structure but said she s committed to her current team. her campaign manager, robby muck, joins me now. robbie actually, i m sorry. i m told we re going to take a quick break and we ll talk to robbie when we come back. we ll take a short break. rtant. from the makers of one a day fifty-plus. one a day proactive sixty-five plus. with high potency vitamin b12 and more vitamin d. and feeling good, sort of.n and real, and 500 calories or less. the clean pairings menu. at panera. food as it should be. it s my job and it s also my passion. . but with my back pain i couldn t sleep. so i couldn t get up in time. then i found aleve pm. aleve pm is the only one to combine a safe sleep aid plus the 12-hour pain relieving strength of aleve. and now. i m back. aleve pm for a better am. we had some technical difficulties getting to clinton campaign manager robby mook. we have just ironed them out. good to have you on the program. i want you to be able to respond. there are reports that there could be a shake-up inside the clinton campaign, because former president clinton, according to one cnn source, a quote, lack of imagination, hasn t been forward looking enough. well, secretary clinton herself addressed this today. those reports are not true. a lot of people like to gossip. but honestly, we don t have time for that on the campaign. we are out there fighting to make sure that every woman gets paid the same as a man, make sure every child has a good future. there s way too much at stake in this campaign and we re just focusing on the issue and going out and earning everybody s vote. are you going to be looking, obviously as you move forward, it s a different electorate, to nevada, to south carolina, are you going to be looking at what worked, what didn t? well, absolutely. we do that after every state, after every campaign. we love doing after-action reviews. the fact of the matter is, we won iowa. that has an historic victory. hillary was the first woman to win the iowa caucuses. obviously she came in third last time. winning felt a heck of a lot better than losing. we have an uphill battle in new hampshire but then we go on to nevada, south carolina and super tuesday and we have have plan to go deep into the primary, whatever it takes to get the winning number of delegates. former president clinton is obviously taking a much more pointed attack against senator sanders in the past couple of days. is that something planned out by the campaign? is that something that he decides to do on his own? how does that work? well, he was making points that secretary clinton has made herself in debates and the campaign has been making for some time. senator sanders has been attacking secretary clinton for taking money from wall street. but we just discovered this week that he was hobnobbing at big retreats using money from the dscc funded by wall street to run his 2006 campaign. so the campaign has simply been pointing out, it s one thing to talk the talk but senator sanders also needs to walk the walk. so but can you say that s something i m just curious on how the former president is utilizing the campaign. is that something there s a call in the morning, says, you know, what let s emphasize this today or something that he just decides to go with? he s a very experienced campaigner. you know, briefing him constantly on the campaign. obviously we re briefing him constantly on the campaign. but he s just reinforcing points that secretary clinton and the campaign itself have been making for some time. also, former secretary of state madeleine albright, as you know, suggested that women who don t support other women will, quote, have a special place in hell. secretary clinton kind of got a big laugh out of that on the stage. that didn t seem to be something she knew about in advance. are you worried that something like that may not strike the right chord, particularly among younger women voters? well, we re working very hard to earn everyone s vote, particularly young women. i am obviously in our field offices all the time. we have outstanding volunteers of all ages young and old. secretary clinton is not asking anyone to vote for her because she s a woman. they are asking them to vote for her because she has been fighting to breakdown barriers for families for decades. she has a long record of accomplishments. she s worked across the aisle. she took on the insurance companies to get health care for every american when she didn t succeed she got the children s health insurance program for 8 million children. so she s asking people to vote for her because she can produce real results that are going to make a difference in people s lives, not because of her gender. robby mook, thank you for being with us. fascinating to watch tomorrow. two hours before the new hampshire towns begin to vote. they drop their ballots into boxes. they will be the first ones to vote. first to report, hardly the last places to watch. trying to get an early read on the outcome. back to answer the question to where to look for some early signs, john king breaking it down for us by the numbers. so john, let s talk about tomorrow, what happens when the returns start coming in. where will you be looking for clues on the democratic side? let s go back. there s the map of new hampshire. on yously it will fill in tomorrow night. clinton/sanders, let s go back to clinton/obama. first we re going to look over here. see this lighter blue? that s barack obama. we re going to look over there and down here. number one, let s come over here. hanover and dartmouth college. 60% of the vote in hanover. it s small. 1% of the state s population. a lot of municipalities this in the western part of new hampshire. again, this is right along the border. senator sanders needs to run it up big there. and then over here, on the sea coast, again, portsmouth, less than 2% of the population see, senator obama won over here, not as much and then on the sea coast he won a bit bigger. this is where you have to see senator sanders running up the numbers and quickly, david axelrod can remember this, the reason hillary clinton came back to win, is because of manchester. 8%, 9% of the population now. 45% to 35%. the late count in 2008, we were waiting and methodically turned out to vote here. blue collar traditional voters. what about when it comes to the republican candidates? let s flip it over and go back. here s quickly the 2016 map on the republican side. names listed in alphabet cal order because we have no results yet. let s look at 2012. i m going to start with the iowa winner. we don t expect ted cruz to win new hampshire tomorrow night but these are places that ron paul won back in 2012. if ted cruz is to win not win but have a strong showing in new hampshire and could conceivably win if there s a surprise, he has to get these libertarians. this is the wrong poll vote. it has to go to ted cruz. he s been courting them. this is mitt romney all the way up here. not a lot of people live up here. this is where you have seen the republican candidates, from here down to the bottom part of the state closer to massachusetts. this is where you see bedford. it s right here outside of manchester. there we go. i was at a chris christie rally and jeb bush rally a mile apart here. it s a suburb. you have the mainstream establishment republicans. they ve been cord donning them down there. governor christie is down here along the massachusetts border. a lot of people from massachusetts have moved up. this is where you find your traditional voters. as we watch southern manchester fill in tomorrow night, that will tell us if the republican race has decided to break late for the establishment candidate or if we get kind of muddled. a lot to watch for. john, thanks very much. let s go to our political commentators. amanda, how many people can move out of new hampshire onto south carolina on the republican side? a lot of it depends on money but also momentum. a number of people will get a ticket. certainly trump, cruz and then it s a competition between rubio, kasich, christie and bush for how much energy they have. and really what concerns me is that jeb bush has so much money. still? it doesn t matter how poorly he performs. he s going to have the money to continue and no one can tell the bushes no. that s a big part of the problem in our party and maybe they can tell the clintons no but not being able to force jeb out when he s such a poor candidate and takes that support from somebody more viable like rubio. one thing i m seeing on my part is emerson college poll and they apparently got iowa correct. they had jeb bush surging into second place, 31-16. do you know? well, the bush people and the kasich people both believe their internal polls are outperforming what everybody else s polls are. i think for jeb it s going to be, can he beat marco rubio? they both have spent an enormous amount of time in that state. i was with john kasich when he did his 100th town hall. jeb has parked himself in new hampshire lately. so, by the way, has chris christie, we should say. but those campaigns are fighting not only to try and be second place but they have to finish ahead of marco rubio and particularly jeb bush because he s been spending an awful lot of money attacking, i m going to do this, anderson, he s been spending an awful lot of money just attacking marco rubio and he s been pounded for it by the so-called republican establishment. why are you doing this to the guy, we think he can go all the way. if he doesn t beat marco rubio in new hampshire, it s a real problem. this explains, though, if he is surging, it explains why donald trump is going after them because this would be as well. one thing i wonder is if people believe bernie sanders is as far ahead as the cnn polls suggest, do some of these independent voters migrate to where the action is and go over to the republican side? if they do that, it can boost kasich and some of the more moderate republican candidates. so i think that s something to watch. well, let s take a quick break. we re going to have more with our panelists and a lot more to talk about ahead including how the campaign may take a loss tomorrow night. and how marco rubio may enter the race depending on what will happen. nine voters are less tan 2 1/2 hours away from their time in the spotlight. nine voters. we ll be right back. verizon, won big with one hundred fifty three state wins. a t and t got thirty-eight, sprint got two, and t mobile got, zero. verizon also won first in the us for data, call speed, and reliability. a t and t got, text. stuck on an average network? join verizon and we ll cover your costs to switch. can t afford to let heartburn get in the way? try nexium 24hr, now the #1 selling brand for frequent heartburn. get complete protection with the new leader in frequent heartburn. that s nexium level protection. how do robots work? 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because she entered 18 points behind, right? we quit polling on sunday because we wanted to save a little money and so we probably if we had polled one more day, we could have been prepared for the bad news. but we felt it shifting. you know, we had a bad debate. we came in i mean, i really that was the debate where your likable but i also felt it after that, subsequent to that, that the voters of new hampshire knew that if they had voted for barack obama in that primary, essentially the race would have been over and they wanted to see him tested. they wanted to see the race go on. you talk about debates having an impact and again we don t know the impact of rubio from saturday night. but you just mentioned the impact of your likable enough hillary with candidate obama during that race and how that affected how that affected him. for years, she looked like a kind of cautious front-runner sitting on top, you know, a podium and she came down to earth here in new hampshire and became a much more sympathetic figure. emotional? she was david and we were goliath and you could see that happening as each day ticked on to the primary. we felt it slipping away. wow. i think hillary clinton i traveled and saw the campaign in flint, michigan, when she was there on sunday. i think that s a preview of what s to come, at least the campaign hopes in south carolina. she spoke to a black church, about 800 people there, mostly black women, came into a standing ovation from this crowd, shouts of hillary, hillary, president clinton, it s your time, and walks off from the pulpit. did she leave with a standing ovation? she left with standing ovation. the preacher almost cried after her talking to these people. we know she s going to south carolina on friday. i think you re right. there s a panic mode after these first two contests that look nothing like the rest of bill clinton is maybe the greatest political talent of our time and he was for barack obama in 2012 the absolute most valuable player. on the campaign trail. brilliant, brilliant all the way around. i don t think in 2008 and from what i m seeing in the last few days in 2016 that he s necessarily the best point of the sphere for hillary clinton. why? because he s too emotionally involved. i think he goes farther in attacking opponents on her behalf. he s funny and artful and he was in 2008 in going after the republicans. you can see that. he just feels emotionally invested let s talk about michael bloomberg. the idea that he could ender this race, what sort of an impact where do you see this? trump, sanders or clinton who now says home is new york and bloomberg. three new yorkers, just what the country is looking for, right? you got a problem with that? if you look at the data now, it s hard to see michael bloomberg running. who is he going to take votes from? he s going to take your guns and big gulp. but i just say this, he s serious about this. i know that he s talked to a very tested republican trained lawyer to get access in the states. they are building their data and they are looking at it. and in this year, where trump, a guy who has said i m for single payer, i m very pro choice when it comes to abortion, the economy does better under democrats, where bernie sanders is giving hillary clinton a run for her money, why should we say michael bloomberg can t get when you have billions of dollars, tough take it seriously. it s not like he has to raise the money and if he wants to, he can get that valid access. he can pay for it. does he appeal to those who feel if it s sanders that he s too far to the left and if it s trump he s too unknowable or cruz if bill clinton, i agree, the best political person on the stage that we ve seen in our lifetime, michael bloomberg is the biggest political tease. he did this in 2007. he pulled our chain. he did it in 2011. he s doing it now. he will not spend his own money. i don t think it s a teaser. it s good judgment. it s good judgment. mayor bloomberg is not stupid. he didn t get to be the mayor of the largest city and great media firm by being dumb. if you do the math and i have and i m sure his people have, his candidacy, let s say he gets ballot access, will elect a republican president. he s not ross perot. he would draw exclusively from hillary clinton or bernie sanders and thereby elect donald trump or ted cruz for president. if that s what he wants. this is why he keeps not running. he s not an ego maniac. he doesn t draw from the gop? no, he doesn t. his appeal, it s perfect for new york but not very good for national republicans. as john said, it s antigun, anti-coca-cola, pro wall street which is a problem on the democratic side. that s generally the truth. i wonder if the constellation is one of the candidates who is seen particularly as cruz, or trump, he gets the suburban republicans. either way you re right in the bottom line which is he can t win. well, we know by and large originally they started talking about this as something he might do if it was a sanders and a cruz or trump. his polls have shown a piece in the wall street journal last week saying, if it s clinton, trump or cruz he might get into the race. i don t believe he s going to get into the race for the reasons you said. you know what they say about texas, he could fall into the democratic states and mess a lot of he could take regional candidates. i m still thinking about what you he could win a few northeastern states, though. it was not perot. mayor bloomberg has a much higher character and a fine man. run from it like a scalded dog? 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well, back in 1960, the owner of the resort here decided it would be a good idea using this new hampshire law with residents of less than 100 where you could open the polls and close the polls as quickly as you wanted to. at the time it was a gimmick. they did it in the general election. they voted all for richard nixon, not for john f. kennedy. we talk about that home state advantage being next door. john f. kennedy did not get that in the general election back in 1960. back in 2012 when they held the primary up here for mitt romney and john huntsman, they actually tied, and if we go back to 2008, barack obama had one, the dixville notch vote. are you hearing which way dixville notch may go tonight or in the morning? interestingly enough, john kasich, who we ve been talking about is coming on strong and has been really able to connect with new hampshire voters, he was the only candidate that has come up here and done a town hall. talking to voters up here, they tell me they kind of like his politics. i was talking to the kasich campaign today, and they told me as well that john kasich as well was calling these nine voters individually to try to get their support. so john kasich, it will be interesting if he were to come out of this. but as you said, there will be two other towns voting at midnight tonight. millsfield will be voting. there s 43 residents in millsfield rather, 27 residents. and in hart s location, 43 people. you re talking three towns that are less than 80 people that will be making history tonight, anderson. do we know how many people came out to the kasich town hall in dixville notch? yeah, so they re talking about 60. up here all these towns are incorporated and small. kasich had about 60 people come here for his town hall that he held back in january. not a bad town hall, certainly. far up north and 20 miles south of canada. i think he did okay. mark preston, we ll be watching. mark, thanks so much. amber walker has the 360 bulletin. amber? anderson, a senior counterterrorism source says before the november attack in paris, western security agencies received intelligence said that 60,000 terrorists would be carrying out attacks in five cities. those cities included paris, london, berlin and a major population center in belgium. at least 40 people have been killed after taiwan s earthquake hit saturday. most of them at this collapsed highrise apartment in tainan. the government ordered an investigation after tin cans were found at the top of the complex. it is said they may have been used as filler, although it may have been a legal practice. a wild day on wall street. at one point the dow shed about 300 points. the nasdaq and s&p also posted losses. analysts say sinking oil prices and concerns over european banking fuel the selloff. off the coast of north carolina, one of the world s biggest and newest cruise ships got slammed by massive waves and high winds during a weekend storm. passengers were ordered to stay in their rooms, and now their vacation is over. royal caribbean s anthem of the seas is headed back to new jersey early. tables, chairs, plates, cups and many other items were tossed around and broken. anderson? 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