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Island over the years has attracted people from all over the world just like those on mh-370. >> nationalities and religions, and it's very, very important for this. >> reporter: some of those attending the service, members of the chinese community here. two-thirds of those killed on that malaysian air flight crash were chinese. eric. >> all right, greg. thanks so much. politics now. republicans running for president are making a big push ahead of the first primary debate this thursday. 17 candidates are hitting the trail and many of them are also doing the rounds of the sunday talk shows. e...

>> and very often you have to pay for the chore. how about the hotel in waikiki? >> i love this. this is a fun, funny one. they're showing you their fitness center. but it's cropped in very close. so you again, is it big, small? is it nice? is it not nice? >> it's green. >> yeah, there is some greenery out the window. you just don't know what to expect in terms of how nice it will be. the reality is it kind of looks like a basement. it sort of looks like a suburban basement where there is only one treadmill, only one bike. you've got the old lamp back in the right side corner. >> but it's a ba...

Our d.c. news room is working with secret service to get more detail on how hair going to be able to manage this in light of sequestration, but limited tours of the white house to begin again at the beginning of next month. what did i say, november 4th -- november 5th so if you have just been dying to get inside the white house on one of the tours, beginning november 5th you can do that in limited numbers. we'll have more information in the afternoon about to what degree they'll be opening. when the white house says limited numbers we don't know what that means. our washington newsroom is work...

Solve kosovo, you have a fractured arab league, a fractured region competing conflicts within syria. 1999-2000 was the height of united states power and the ability to lead a humanitarian intervention. >> i'm going to bring you to the conversation. white house reporter for the washington post who joins us from our d.c. bureau. david, can you speak to why the president is doing this now? a timing question to you. >> reporter: i think as you have said, repeatedly, the white house is about to have its deputies brief members of congress. i think once that happens they may have more information tha...

Truth. are we going to listen to folks like mike rogers who say trust us when we still have someone like james clapper who lied to congress is still being paid. he worked directly for the president of the united states. we have much work to do. this story is far from done. >> joe johns is live with us from our d.c. bureau. let's talk about the comments by the attorney general or snowden's asylum request. he wrote that letter challenging the question. why does he say it's without merit and what are the chances he'll be listened to? >> reporter: this is very tricky. it's about public relations a...