assassination of president kennedy. that does it for this edition of 360. thank you for joining us, piers morgan live starts right now. this is piers morgan live. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. and james ray had had it all, fame, fortune, even oprah winfrey, listen to what he told her back in 2006. i had peers in our industry telling me you will never be on oprah, you re not mainstream, i said baby, i m the new mainstream. and he was, it all came crashes down in tucson, arizona, promising powerful breakthroughs, the spiritual warriors paying $9,000 each. after two and a half hours, nine people were dead, and ray james went to prison for nearly two years, now he is a free man, more on the questions about what happened that day in the desert. and tonight for the first time since getting out of jail, james ray is here live to answer those questions. i want to begin with the story of how it went so very wrong for the king of self help. your greatest calling is to find your help. at the peak of his popularity, author james ray was a top motivator, giving speeches, writing books that reached the new york times best seller lists, even catching the attention of oprah. giving up the hope that the past could have been different. you released that. but true forgiveness. you say i don t want it to be different because there are so many gifts that came out of that. true forgiveness thank you for giving me that experience. he was also attracting flocks of people willing to pay thousands of dollars to attend the self-help boot camps. part of his philosophy, push the followers to test their physical limits. but on october, 2009, near sedona, arizona, he pushed too far. what is the problem? two people not breathing, there is no pulse. okay, is this the result of a shooting or something? no, it was a sweat lodge. it was james ray s version of an american sweat lodge, where temperatures reached 120 degrees, killing three of his followers, and sending others to the hospital. everybody was throwing up everywhere, there was spitting going on, people were so confused there was screaming at one time. i know they were yelling and yelling at this man, he was so disoriented that he started to crawl into the pit with the hot rock. witnesses say that ray, instead of helping people to get out, wanted the people to say inside the hot tent, even though they wanted to leave. he was telling people to come back in. ray was charged with three counts of manslaughter, for the deaths of kirby brown and liz newman, he faced up to 40 years in prison. after days in court, with nine hours of deliberation, the jury reached a verdict. we the jury, in the above entitled action, do find ray james, of the death of elizabeth newman. not guilty of manslaughter, but he was found guilty of negligent homicide. and the relatives of the victims were outraged. my daughter did not choose to go unconscious in a tent in an event that mr. ray ran, and then be ignored. james ray spent 20 months in an arizona prison, today, he is a free man, cnn, chicago. and james ray joins me now exclusively. it is the first time he has spoken since coming out of prison after all of this dreadful tragedy. james ray, how are you? you served 20 months in prison. you have had a few months since you came out to reflect on what has happened. how are you, yourself, and what do you feel now about it all now that you served your punishment? well, i m doing pretty well, piers. i mean, i m very sorry, remorseful for what happened. i wish that i could change that, and there is really no way that anything can change that. you know, i have apologized time and time again, and it doesn t seem like that is enough. it has not been easy for anyone, really. it has been very difficult for me and my family. and yet there has been a lot of learnings. i m grateful for the learnings and the lessons that it has brought. that moment that you were convicted, i mean, that is the moment your life changes. obviously, you had been arrested and charged. but to actually be convicted of negligent homicide, being partly responsible for the deaths of three people. for somebody like you who was a force of being positive, that was the message you always spread, of self help, getting over bad times in your life, this is a terrible moment for you. what was going through your head when you heard guilty, negligent homicide? well, if i can back up a little bit. i think the most difficult thing i can ever imagine is investing your entire life in helping people. and then finding them getting hurt. it is just the antithesis of anything that i had ever stood for or wanted. and so that anguish has continued every single day since that moment on october 8th. when i was sentenced, the hardest thing was that my mom this is going to be tough. my mom had had cancer. and so the first thing that went through my mind, i was her caretaker. and i had always been kind of the caretaker for the family. and so the first thing that went through my mind was oh, my god, what is going to happen to mom? she had to have her thyroid removed in the middle of my trial. and obviously, that was tough. and then it went to her lungs and liver, and the doctor had told me it was stage 4 at the time. and so you know, that i can t describe how horrible i felt. my greatest fear of going into prison was that i would never see her again, that she would pass while i was gone. and what was the reality? how was she you know, it is interesting, piers, that the first month that i was in, i was the better part of the first month i was in solitary confinement. the first couple of weeks i was in what they called the hole, which is where death row is. and so the point being is that i was not able to be in contact with my loved ones for the better portion of the first month. and when i finally got to call her, and i said mom, i m okay. don t worry. it is interesting now, i mean, she is in full remission. i m just thankful to god. because it was a complete turnaround, which tells me that she had really stressed herself into a situation that you know, i feel responsible for that, as well. there will be people watching. and they re going to say on any human level we can see how traumatized you are, how upset you are, obviously powerful what you just said about your mother. but she has survived the experience. you have survived the experience, three people did not survive the experience, they paid big money, $9,000 each to come and have this extraordinary experience with you. you were very famous around the world at the time. and they lost their lives. when you look back on it, what is the single biggest regret about any aspect of the preparation, the planning, any of the things that led to these people dying? you know, hindsight is 20/20. and there is a lot of things that i wish were different. as i said earlier, there is no greater pain than attempting to help people and end up, they get hurt. it is horrible. and, you know, i think one of the great lessons, piers, and there has been many more than we have time for here tonight. is when is good enough good enough? i mean, that has been a tough one for me. because all of my life i have kind of been driven to bigger, better, best. and i reflect back on that particular week. and the sweat lodge was that much it was kind of the sizzle on a steak. it really was not what the week was about. and that has been really misinterpreted and misunderstood. and that whole week was so powerful, and everybody was so high at the end of it. and then we have this graduation physical metaphor. and you know, if i had stopped when everybody was on the high, it would have been different. but when is good enough good enough? i remember thinking, everybody is on such a high. and i m really not into doing the lodge. i have done plenty of lodges. but you know, the contracts were signed. and the commitments were made. and there was expectations. and some people were looking forward to it. and i felt compelled to do the lodge. and you know, maybe again, the lesson is when is good enough good enough? let s take a break, let s come back and talk about what happened that day about what happened in that lodge, because it became a death trap to three people, 19 more were injured. it was a horrifying spectacle. here we are, me and you on the road and we know that it goes on and on [ female announcer ] you re the boss of your life. in charge of making memories and keeping promises. ask your financial professional how lincoln financial can help you take charge of your future. oh, oh, all the way oh, oh oh, oh, all the way stick with innovation. stick with power. stick with technology. get the flexcare platinum. new from philips sonicare. yeah. try new alka seltzer fruit chews. they work fast on heartburn and taste awesome. these are good. told ya! i m feeling better already. 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we had had 75, 73 to 75 the year prior. the lodge that was built was built specifically for a large group of people. and it was built by a native american that the facility at the facility, we had paid. we had hired them to build it. so what happened how could within an hour of this thing starting, a two and a half hour show that you put on in the sweat lodge, how within an hour could 18 people be pretty badly injured? and three people lose their lives? how does that happen? such an environment? i don t know. piers, i really don t know. and you know, there is a lot of different ideas. i mean, there was a lot of medical evidence to say that there were toxins involved. and then the state felt that it was too hot. and obviously, the jury ultimately thought it was too hot. and we ll never really know because the lodge was destroyed within 48 hours of the accident. so there was nothing to follow up on. what was the specific evidence of the sweat lodge, part of the process? well, you know, i m glad you asked that question, because a lot of people believe that the lodge is a native american tradition. it is a native american tradition, but there were a lot of other cultures that used the sweat lodges, as well. many other cultures, it really depends on the culture that you go to. for me, the physical metaphor, it is difficult. so it was a physical metaphor to be able to say after all of this work i ve done, during the week, to embrace and to heal and to deal with the issues that have haunted me. this, i m going to do and metaphorically, rather, i m going to go in, to have this physical metaphor that is going to be difficult. which i warned them it would be i mean, physically, it is punishing. you go inside, they re crammed in like sardines. and they re basically exposed to ever greater amounts of heat. i mean, that is how this works, a sweat lodge, they sweat, and they re very hot. so what kind of barriers or controls did you have in practice, given that it was clearly potentially dangerous? well, obviously, not good enough. and you know, again, as the captain of the ship i have to be responsible for that. and was there a heat limit that you used to have for the sweat lodge? well, you really don t know how hot. no one knows how hot it was in there. because there is no thermostat in there or anything to people watching, why wasn t there? if you have 60 human beings crammed into this vast sauna, which is basically what it is. you know, a sauna has to be regulated, why was there no regulation? there is no regulation for a lodge, i mean, again, in hindsight, there are many thing that is could have been done differently. however, i ve been in numerous lodges and no lodge has a thermostat that i have been in. and people were free to come and go. and the records showed that 16 people did leave when it got too hot for them. others have claimed that you sat by the tent door which remained sealed as chaos continued, people were collapsing, vomiting, having trouble breathing, hallucinating, i mean, foaming at the mouth. i mean, it seems pretty extraordinary that the first thing you wouldn t do would be let s get everybody out of here. again, why didn t you do that? again, i didn t know, know did anyone know that anyone was in a life or death situation. i have been very physical all of my life. and what i noticed was a lot of people having challenges much like you would see at a marathon or any other physical activity. had i known, i wish i would have known. you didn t see anybody suffering from any of those things? nobody collapsing, nobody vomiting, hallucinating or foaming? i didn t see any of those things, those things were happening outside the lodge. again, as i said, my remorse, there are many physical things i would have done differently. of all the metaphorical things i did, the rope walks, the bridges, were extremely powerful. for whatever reason, the lodge was the only one that i participated in. all the rest of them. and in retrospect, i m not sure why. but who was in charge that day in the lodge, who was running the show? you? well, i was in the lodge running the lodge, which the prayers and affirmations, those type of things but were you in charge? i was not in charge to that degree. so you had it in your power if you were genuinely concerned about what was happening, to just open the flaps and everybody out. we did, every 15 minutes we opened up the flaps and people were free to leave. come and go. and there were people outside standing around and again, in retrospect, i probably should not have participated. because i was dealing with the same issues that many of the people inside were dealing with. there was an allegation, a woman said that you were asked if she could open up the back of the sweat lodge to get two victims out. you told her it would be sac religious to do that. i don t recall that. do you recall anybody saying we need to get out of here? i do recall that. were they panicking? some of the people were going out, i told them to go out clock wise carefully, because obviously there was a pit of hot rocks in the center. so you know i was doing my best to control their movement out in a controlled manner so they wouldn t fall into the pit. one gentleman actually ended up burning himself in the pit. when you see what happened and the scale of it, the number of people that were clearly suffering, pretty dramatically, it just seems extraordinary that nobody in any position of authority called a halt to this. i mean, you must live with that every day now. that guilt because it cost three people their lives. i do. and it just prompts the question, why was nobody being more responsible, i guess? i had systems in place and the systems broke down. what was the system in place for that kind of event? there were people positioned within the lodge that were supposed to take care of the participants. and you know, there were people positioned outside the lodge that were to take care of people. and we had you know, i mean, the record we deliberated that, you know, ad infinitum in the trial. we did our best to provide the things outside the lodge for hydration, et cetera. because i had done this experience for a number of years, and we never had anything even close to this. but you had people injured, right, at least three different instances where people suffered a type of health injury? no, there was one time that a gentleman was taken to the hospital two years prior for hydration. and he was dehydrated. he got hydrated and they sent him back within a couple of hours. and so we immediately put in hydration mechanisms, post that year. because we realized hey, we want to address this. i was totally shocked. totally shocked. let s take another break, i want to come back and play the dramatic 911 call which alerted the authorities to what was going on here and also hear from some of the relatives to the victims and get you to respond to what they say. it s the night before christmas, our plan is in place. we ve rigged up a trap to catch sight of his face. if only we could, just stay awake. yep. got all the cozies. 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[ male announcer ] fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex. what is the problem? two people are not breathing. there is no pulse. okay, is this the result of a shooting or something? no, it was a sweat lodge. a sweat lodge? he made one comment, and they did say she is passed out, she is passed out. i don t know if she is breathing, he said the door has now closed and this round has begun, we ll deal with that after this round. this is a 911 call and talking about the tragedy that happened. he is back with me now, he is speaking out for the first time since his release. a little reaction on twitter, and give me your views at piers morgan if you want to join in this debate. the guy said come on, making loads of money, maybe $10,000 each, packing in as many as he could, didn t really give a darn, and just wanted to get out of there. what do you say to that? i understand. i mean, if the only thing i knew about me was what i saw in the most media coverage, i would think i was arrogant, self centered and noncaring. were you before that day? had you become a bit like that. i watch this clip of you, supreme confidence, many would see it as arrogance, all about making money, famous, did it go to your head a bit? did you maybe subliminally cut corners? i don t know, piers, i ll answer the first part of your question. was i arrogant? yes. i have that characteristic, i can be arrogant. and i think there is a lot of hubris that comes in my former business. you know, people flying all over the world and asking me how to have a better life. and it tends to go to your head. you know? you tend to think you have got all the answers, and so you get humbled. when you were told that people had died, three people had died, what was your immediate reaction? shock. denial, disbelief. i couldn t i couldn t comprehend it. anguish, like i said it is the greatest pain i can imagine is to really care about helping people. and end up seeing them getting hurt. i mean, people who heard you say that earlier reacted quite strongly said well no, the greater pain is to be a relative of somebody who died in your lodge that day. and i want to play a clip now from kirby brown, one of the victims, 38, from westtown, new york, this is her mother talking about what happened. how many people walked past my daughter in her last moments trying to gasp for breath and didn t help her? how do you live with that? somebody was working to help her outside the tent and i don t know that they were even trained to do cpr. how do you live with that? how do you live with that? and what do you say to a mother who has lost her daughter in such circumstances? i m terribly sorry. it is not easy to live with. you know, it is something i have thought about every single day. and will continue to. do you feel guilty for what happened? it was my event, it was my lodge. i designed it. not the lodge, i zodesigned the event. i chose to do the lodge. and to that degree, i m responsible. i was the captain of the ship. i have to take responsibility for that. there was an allegation that you left the scene pretty quickly and just disappeared. is that true? and if so why did you leave so fast? you know, piers, i wish i could say that i was enlightened enough to not have any impulse for self preservation. i m not. i within the first five minutes, the detective told me that they were investigating it as a homicide. and i was already in shock. and i was like what? and i called my lawyer, and my lawyer said get out of there. i told him what the detective said, he said get out of there, they seized my room, there was nowhere to go. and so i left. and again, there are many things i wish in retrospect i could do differently, but i was scared. i think that is perfectly understandable you would be scared. but it also will appear to people that it was pretty cowardly. as you say, the captain of the ship would normally stay there right to the end. but you fled. and left this catastrophe behind you. i wouldn t argue. you know, i wish i was strong enough to say in the moment, to my counsel, i had never been there before. i was in a situation where i was scared and i was shocked. and you know, again, i wish i was enlightened enough to say that i could overcome that, but i was not. were you a nice person then when you look back on yourself? do you look back on yourself with a certain degree of disgust perhaps at your actions? and recognize that there was a character trait in you that you had to change? there is definitely traits in me that i had to change. and there still are. i don t know that i would say disgust. you know? i m human. and i think i had to go to prison to learn some things that i couldn t learn anywhere else. scared the hell out of me to go. what is the single biggest thing you learned from the time in prison? there are so many. i think the biggest thing i have learned there is a lot of things. but, is that i felt like i in prison, first of all i was scared to death when i went in. i didn t know if i was going to be beat up or stabbed or raped, you know, all i knew about prison was what i saw in the movies. and i was scared. when you found yourself in the first few weeks, as you said with death row inmates, it is about as low as your life could possibly have gotten coming down from this huge high. what the hell were you thinking as you sat in your cell? i had to play mental games with myself, because i had to wear shackles to the shower. you know, you get a shower twice a week. and you have to be escorted in shackles to the shower. and it was an amazing experience. you know, but humiliating? well, humbling. humbling. you know, it was dirty and disease-ridden, but at the end of the day i met a lot of really interesting people. and you know, back to what i learned there, when i first got there, piers, i saw every one else and then me. and then the longer i was there i just saw us. and i felt like i was in the boiler room in the bowels of the ship of humanity. and in the boiler room it is hot and we fight and we scrap and take drugs non-stop, believe it or not. and we tattoo our gang affiliations all over our face and bodies to try to show our importance and to escape our pain. up in the penthouse of the same ship, there is still the same pain. you know? we cheat with our best friend s wife. and we have to build our business bigger and make more money and we tattoo with jewelry and cars and houses. the pain is the same. it is the human experience, the only difference is how we try to escape it. and that is the great lesson, one of the great lessons, the many that i learned. let s take another break, let s come back and talk coming out of prison about the feature and about the call from many of the relatives of those who died in the sweat lodge, there should now be regulations and they want some guarantees from you personally that you won t repeat this kind of thing going forward. i ll get your reaction to that. 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it is going to be harsh, given that you have tried to explain your feelings in that sense. and if any of the families are watching, and they might well be, to see how you have changed, what would you say to them? first of all, again, i would say i m sorry. i m extremely sorry for what happened. you know, if i could trade places with any of the three, james kirby or liz, i would do it. and i know nothing i can ever say would change any of that. i you know in reaction to your comment before the break, i mean, i have no intentions whatsoever of certainly ever doing another sweat lodge. and nor doing any experience-type activities. will you do any kind of self-help stuff? have you thought about that? i mean, ultimately you could be in an even better position to help people who have been through a nightmarish experience. i hope so you know, i think we re all here to serve. some entertain, some build business, some teach. and my personal belief is that the universal intelligence, which many people call god, send situations to you to help you learn. and you become a better person. you lost not just your liberty but most of your money. all of it. actually by chance, went to view a house in l.a., it happened to be your house you sold at a bottom rate because you just had to sell everything. did you lose everything financially? everything. how much did you have before this? millions. ten, 20 million? you know, it is a lot of my money was tied up in my business. and in hard assets. i had i mean to go from that kind of wealth, to getting wiped out and to lose your liberty, it is a huge toll on anybody. but do you think looking back it was an appropriate punishment given that three people who paid money to be in your tutelage lost their lives? i have no complaints. you know, i feel like i have taken the punishment, and that god gives us what we deserve. you came here tonight with a delightful lady who has been sitting here watching this whole interview. tell me about that relationship and the future for you? you know, all the things that we there is another lesson, if i may digress. all the things that we hold in such high value in our society, at the end of the day really it amounts to nothing. that is my lesson. you know, the millions i once had in the bank, the new york times best seller, all the accolades, the inc. 500 company. all of those things amount to nothing. i mean in a matter of months they were gone. and they couldn t buy me one ounce of slack with my on my mortgage or anywhere else. and so coming back, i believe that the most important things in life are the things that we sometimes take for granted. like our health, you know, i m so grateful to be healthy. and our family and our loved e on ones. you know, i i had an incredible family unit that stayed with me through all of this. and it was hard for them. really hard for them. and this lady that you came with tonight? she is in that category. you know, she didn t have to stay with me through it. you know? she drove five hours one way to visit me for four hours, to drive back five hours in the same day. you know, time and again. it s been hard for her, she had three jobs. you know? i couldn t because i was wiped out, i couldn t help her, i couldn t take care of her in the way that i would have liked to when i went away. my brother drove 22 hours, one way to come visit me and also to come to my trial and sit through the trial and then turn around and drive 22 hours back throughout the night. i mean, i m very, very grateful. i have no complaints at all. and i am incredibly grateful. what did your mother say to you finally, i mean, obviously you were talking very emotionally about her at the start of the interview. when you came out, what did she say to you? my mom is my greatest supporter and always has been. and she was always so proud of me. and you know, one of the greatest pains was to have to see in her eyes, all of these horrible things were being said about me. she was just glad i was home. and safe. james ray, i appreciate you coming in. i appreciate you talking so openly about this, i know it has not been easy for you and i wish you all the best in sorting out your future and getting your life back on track. i appreciate that. good to see you. when we come back, the winter storm that is threatening all of your holiday plans. where it will strike next. hey there, i just got my bill, and i see that it includes my fico® credit score. yup, you get it free each month to help you avoid surprises with your credit. good. i hate surprises. surprise! at discover, we treat you like you d treat you. get the it card and see your fico® credit score. shhhh! i have a cold with this annoying runny nose. 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reporter: the late zest that the russians are still waiting to see what if any troops movements they re going to see. the latest that we re hearing from the kremlin is that apparently at this point in time it s not clear what a decision has been made to use those forces yet. prime minister medvedev was on the phone with the leadership in ukraine, he assured them at this point in time the kremlin has not decided whether or not to actually deploy the forces that were ok d today by the parliament, those forces don t name seem to be on the way yet. the russians have enough forces in crimea to control the situation there, they re in control of the two airports and many of the government buildings and that is something that s causing a lot of the international anger here which russia just seems to be brushing off at this point in time. we keep saying again and again, it seems that the russians in crimea is so important that russia is not listening to what the white house is saying, what the international community is saying and what the u.n. is saying as well. these tensions have been building over the past couple of days. one of the things that christianne said before and is interestinging that really plays into russian fears in ukraine. what you hear again and again is that the russians, or the people of russian heritage there are very afraid that they might lose special rights, they might be marginali marginalizes. lennon s statues were being torn down, there were motions to tear down now, statues that were put up during the times of the soviet union. laws that were repealed that gives special status to the russian language so there really hasn t been much on the part of the russian government both in crimea and other parts of the countries, you have been hearing statements for the president and the new prime minister saying that ukraine has this new european way that it wants to get away from it s ties with russia and that certainly isn t something that has helped the situation very much and certainly isn t something also that was received very well in moscow and might have also fuelled the tensions as well, wolf. good point, fred, reporting from moscow, let s go to the white house right now, our senior white house correspondent jim acosta is standing by. jim, there were important meetings in the west wing of the white house, we saw the top national security advise scores leafing the west wing of the white house. i assume they ll be issuing a statement or someone will be going before the cameras, what are you hearing? reporter: and this is eerily similar to when the president was weighing whether to use military force against syria, there were some tense moments over here at the white house on some weekends as you will ll recall, wolf, and these principal meetings do occur from time to time. it does appear that one occurred this afternoon but the white house has to officially congrfi that mississippi t that that s the case. the chairman of the joint chiefs, martin dempsey. so it does a appear that senior officials have been meeting with the president here about this situation in ukraine. and you know, wolf, you ve been talking about options a that the white house has available to it, options that the president has available to him. he talks about cost to vladimir putin, cost to russia if they decide to go ahead and invade ukraine. they re still trying to ascertain what they re doing in crimea, but the white house at this point is only willing to say that it s looking at its options, it s trying to decide what to do if this does get to a situation that s going from bad to worse, we heard from senior administration officials say last night that the u.s. is evaluating whether or not the u.s. will be involved in the g-8 summit that s scheduled for sochi, later on in june, as to what might happen after that, we just don t know at this point so that s what we re waiting to find out at the white house, what the president will say next. we suspect we know what s going on, but they haven t confirmed it just yet. i assume they will fairly soon, i know they re in touch with officials over there, they ll make a decision on how to respond to this escalating crisis. jim acosta, thanks very much. let s go to kiev right now, that s the capital of ukraine. we re hearing these ominous reports that the you cukrainian military is going to a higher state of alert based on these provocations, they call them provocations coming from moscow? reporter: that s exactly right a and it s actually the highest level of alert and readiness, they re saying that the morale among the troops is high and that they re ready for any sort of provocation from moscow. although that being said, the prime minister did talk with his counterpart in russia to try to ease tensions and the russian prime minister dmitry medvedev says that russia hasn t decided to use further force in ukraine, but that is still an option. also the chief of ukraine s navy also had a conversation with his counter part to deescalate the tensions around a naval base in the crimea that is controlled by ukraine and they said that that has also taken place. but there are high security, they said, arrange critical infrastructu infrastructure, that being nuclear power plants in ukraine and they said any sort of military intervention would be dealt with swiftly and that would end any sort of relationship between ukraine and russia. let s be blunt about this, ian, they would be no match to the russian military, the russians are so much more powerful. reporter: well, that s exactly right. if you look at the airplanes, the size of their tanks, artillery, even their military budgets, it s just a fraction of what russia has. russia has right now 150,000 troops on military exercise, that s equivalent to amount of troops that the u.s. had at the height of the war in iraq. it s definitely a lot larger force than the ukraine yaian military, but they said they are ready, if you look, the ukraine was ready to have a guerrilla warfare against the russians, that would be more the likely hood, you re rights, ukraine couldn t go blow for blow with russia. let s hope it doesn t come down to any of this, as the u.s. secretary general ban ki-moon s spokesman, as he said, cooler heads hopefully will prevail all around, this is a moment where intense diplomacy will get underway and resolve this situation without violence. we re going to get back to you, we ll continue to watch what s going on in ukraine, the fallout, we ll see what the white house does as far as issuing some sort of statement. much more breaking news right after this. c? 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this is a major international event, wolf, it s a major challenge to european security and to think of it, one of the great positive developments in the last three years was the end of communism in europe and the creation of a free democratic europe. what putin has done by going into crimea and expangding his presence into the eastern part of the ukraine. we know that the ukrainian defense minister, we just reported a little while ago, he says that the ukrainian military now is on the, quote, highest state of military readiness. is it really realistic that there could be military confrontation between ukrainian forces and invading russian forces? reporter: i don t think either side wants that and i think what the president and his advisors are trying to think about is two things, how do you drive up the cost to putin and how do you limit putin to go no further than he has already gone in crimea. give him some good advice, which would be restraint, don t take on the russian military unless they think twice about it. but also give them substantial economic support, stand by them, get the imf in there to give them short-term economic stability and there ought to be some kind of dramatic signal by the major foreign ministers of europe, and shicning an international spotlight on putin. the critontribut we need to cha there s a lot the administration can do to orchestrate at least an attempt to limit putin and drive up the cost. we just got a statement from the chairman of the house armed services committee, and he s saying this, among other things, he s saying vladimir putin s imperialist aspirations are a throw back to the last century, he s violated the freedom of all ukrainians and their 20-year international commitment to respect the existing borders of the ukraine. the rhetoric on all sides seems to be escalating in a rather dangerous direction. there s a shock for the international system. we thought the cold war was over, we thought it was in the distant historical past. and an attempt by the russian federation essentially to divide a sovereign nation state in europe and that simply can t stand. and so the last thing the united states would want to do would be to provoke any kind of conference, to see the u.s. pursue a diplomatic path. but we can limit putin and we can certainly drive up the cost to him, make this painful for him and hopefully preserve the integrity of the rest of ukraine and help that state move forward towards the presidential elections. all is that is in play, but it does require clear leadership by the united states and germany and some of the other european countries. our jim acosta reporting that the u.s. may cancel its participation in the g-8 summit meeting in sochi russia scheduled for june. i aassume some others in the european union will as well. reporter: it is important that we send a signal of no business as usual. it might make sense to decide to kick russia out of the g-8. president clinton was the one and he had good reason to do this when he worked with president yeltsin, expanding from g-8 to g-7. president clinton gave substantial support to the russian federation. but you see putin acting in a way that so we certainly cannot somewhere i would be surprised if president obama did not announce that today or in the coming days that he s not going to sochi and i think the european allies should support him on that. that goes with the cold war who would have thought things would be unfolding as quickly as they are right now. nick, thanks very much for offering some good perspective on what s going on. our own christianne amanpour is standing by in longdon. but first, today s cnn hero, he s changing the lives of families. meet this very special man. i m emotional right now. i m excited. i m so glad things are starting to turn around. it s been like five years, me and my kids didn t have nowhere to go. we just had to go from place to place. we slept in abandoned cars. we moved in here with nothing. when i seen my children on the floor, going to bed, it hurts me. okay. hi. there s no stability and there s no dignity when you live in apartments that have nothing in them. so how this works, okay, anything it is that you want here, you put your sticker on. and that s what you guy also take home. okay. once we get the homes furnished, they have a chance to just take a breath and start to create a different life. we pick up furniture and other home goods from people who have more than they need and we district them free of charge to people who have nothing. i would like to have this table, as a family, we can sit down and just eat. something to sit on, something to lay on, now we come back on track. now my kids can pursue their dreams. this is a good start. yes. right? 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oh, absolutely, and one of the things u.s. intelligence does very well is it picks up on things that are already going on, so of course, that speaks a little bit to christianne amanpour s report a little bit earlier when she talks about the intelligence services not seeing this coming or not really anticipating what s happening, we are definitely very good at picking up what s going on right now, there are 150,000 russian troops that are on the eastern ukrainian border, that are definitely in the camera lenses of satellites and other sensors they have that can take a look at what they re doing. so just briefly, give us a sense when the chairman of the joint chiefs, general martin dempsey participates in this west wing meeting with the president, the top national security adviser, what do they want to know from him? what they want to know is preparedness. the other thing that they ll ask him is if the u.s. military is ready to go to watch something like this from an intelligence perspective or intentionally to interve intervene, they ll ask what the military is capable of doing of the other nations, particularly of the nato nations, nations that are on the ukrainian border on the western side, and they will ask, are you going to be able to be working with these people and have you spoken with your russian counterparts? because of the military tensions that we have dealt with in the past 24 years or so have actually been resolved in military talks on the other side. so they will be asking those questions and they will want the military to be prepared, but that doesn t mean they re going to use the military to use force in this particular case. thank you for joining us. it s my pleasure, wolf, thanks for having me. tense situation seemingly escalating right now. we ll go live to the united nations, we ll go live to crimea, much more breaking news coverage right after this. hey guys! sorry we re late. did you run into traffic? no, just had to stop by the house to grab a few things. you stopped by the house? uh-huh. yea. alright, whenever you get your stuff, run upstairs, get cleaned up for dinner. you leave the house in good shape? yea. yea, of course. 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senior administration official just told me, wolf, that this was a meeting of the national security team at the white house earlier today, it was on the situation in the ukraine and they were discussing policy options about where to go from here. one interesting thing we should note, is that the president has been brought up to speed and been brought up to the situation in the ukraine by his national security adviser susan rice and his national security team, but that is only what the administration is saying right now in terms of what happened a over at the white house in terms of earlier today, we re going to just find out as the hours and days go on as to why this meeting took place the way it took place. i did run into the senior counselor for the president, jo jo john pedesta, i briefly asked him, is this a test for president obama and president putin s relationship, is this a test for the u.s. and russia, i suppose that might be an obvious question, and he yes, the administration is confirming this meeting did take place. you saw chuck hagel the defense secretary, james clapper director of national intelligence, chairman of the joint chiefs, martin dempsey and john brennan the director of the cia leaving the white house around 1:00 this afternoon. the president evidently was not at that meeting, wolf. is there any indication, jim, that we might be hearing from the president at some point later today? yesterday he walked into the briefing room at around 5:00 p.m. eastern time, previously unscheduled, wanted to make a statement. made a three-minute statement, directly suggesting there would be costs to the russians if they were to intervene militarily. any indications from the white house that could happen again today? reporter: we re anticipating further updates as the day goes on, wolf, as to what went on here at the white house today, who to expect from the president and his team. that is always a possibility. that has not been ruled ought today. but really no indication at this point as to whether or not the president might come out. you heard what he said yesterday. it was a very cautious and brief statement. that was backed up by a real diplomatic threat by this administration when they said later on in the evening that the u.s. might not go to the g 8 as a result of what s happening in the ukraine. at this point we don t have any indication. you ll be staying there at least until they tell us that there s nothing else going to be happening over there at the white house. very familiar with that drill. all right, jim acosta, thanks very much. john mccain spoke out today on the situation in ukraine saying he s worried the russian military presence in crimea which of course is part of ukraine could spread to more parts of the country. joining us now on the phone is josh rogan, senior national correspondent for the daily beast. you had a chance to speak with senator mccain. what did he tell you about this escalating deterioration in ukraine? reporter: yes, thanks, wolf. i ve just finished a phone conversation with john mccain. this is new information first on cnn. in his statement he said that america has several serious policy options to confront vladimir putin s aggression in the ukraine. in our phone call he laid out what he thought those options were. he believes first of all the congress and administration should work together to use a law already on the books which allows the u.s. to sanction russian human rights violators. john mccain believes that law should be applied to senior russian leadership and that the invasion of ukraine as he terms it should be considered a human rights violation. that would immediately allow the united states to sanction russian leaders, institute visa bans, asset freezes and other punitive measures. john mccain believes that president obama s threat not to attend the g 8 summit in june in sochi is not strong enough and that this should be expanded and that russia should be disinvited from a series of high level multilateral meetings over the course of the coming months. third, john mccain believes that the u.s. and nato should work together to immediately move to increase to speed up the process to bring ukraine and also russian neighbor georgia which it invaded in 2008 into nato by speeding them towards something called map status. a precursor to membership in nato. fourth he believes that the united states should reverse its decision which it made unilaterally two years ago to halt missile defense plans in eastern europe. that was largely seen as a concession to the russians while the u.s.-russian reset was ongoing. and that s a decision that mccain thinks was wrong headed, has always thought was wrong headed. now a clear signal could be sent to the russians if the u.s. went forward with those missile defense plans in europe which vladimir putin is strenuously objecting to. two specific recommendations from john mccain. he told me he thought the president was in his words a bit naive when it comes to putin and what he s up to. thanks very much for that. the situation in ukraine is clearly a very dangerous situation right now. dangerous moment for u.s.-russia relations, what s going on in ukraine. we re going to continue to watch what s going on. that s it for me. thanks very much for joining us. i m wolf blitzer, news room continues after a short break with jim sciutto. in 30 minutes, can a newborn have three parents? 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rio 2016. welcome to what s next. comcast nbcuniversal. you are in the news room. i m jim sciutto in today for don lemon. just one message coming out of the united nations, nato and the white house today. it is for russia. and that message is slow down and back off. i m talk about things that are moving very fast in ukraine this weekend. it appears that russia is eager to get a toe hold in part of ukraine where the people are mostly of russian descent. while the rest of the country is offbalance from protests which already cost a russian ally his job. ukraine is oug today the russian parliament voted to send troops inside ukraine saying russian people and military interests there need to be protected. the head of the u.n. calling for calm and dialogue. nato leaders warning russia to respect ukraine s borders. and while all this is happening, people who support russia are fighting with people who do not. on the streets of crimea and in the capital of ukraine, kiev. we re live right now in ukraine s crimea region in the main city there of simfarapol. cnn s diana magnay is there and also in washington our senior white house correspondent jim acosta. diana, you re on the ground there right in the middle of it. we re hearing reports that russian troops are already there. we ve been hearing that from u.s. officials yesterday, even reports from a ukraine official at the u.n. that those numbers of russian troops might have risen as high as 15,000. do you see any evidence, one, of russian forces and of russian forces in numbers like that? reporter: well, there certainly seems to be a very heavy military presence at this capital of crimea. troops in going fatigues, heavily armed and in control of the government facilities, patrolling the streets. they are all over the place. it is difficult to believe that they are anything other than russian, but they do not wear any kind of military insignia. they are trying their best to hide their identities. that said, jim, i did manage to get an answer from one of them, a young guy who i spoke to today. and i said, where are you from? he said, i m from russia. so take that for what you will. the russian president says that there are no russian boots on the ground outside of russia s military bases in sebastapol. from what i ve seen on the streets, it s difficult to assess who these people might be if they re not taking their orders from russia. as u.s. officials have been telling us since yesterday they re confident those forces on the ground there are russian, under russian direction. i have to ask you as we see those pictures, these are armed soldiers, they have magazines in their automatic weapons. they re wearing masks. what is the reaction of people on the ground? this has to be a destabilizing, a scary presence if you are a resident of that area. what s been the reaction to this show of force by russia? reporter: well, actually that s what s surprising. we know that this has a majority of ethnic russians. but really today there was a sense of jubilation on the streets. there was a whole series of pro-russian demonstrations going on around this city. people chanting russia russia the name of the hated rye cross police disbanded last wednesday. they were chanted as heroes on the streets of the city today. and it does give you the sort of feeling that what is going on here is that these military forces, alongside pro-russian self-organized units, are massaging this sort of political process and the situation in crimea so that the pro-russian agenda is consolidated ahead of a referendum at the end of this month which the new premiere has just announced when crimea will decide whether or not to become a separatist state. so to follow the logical conclusion from all of that, it would appear as though that is something that russia is behind, jim. well, that s exactly something we ve been worried about is that clash of those very divided cultures and ethnicities there in ukraine. the pro-russian, pro-ukranian and alarming to see that take place right now. thanks very much to diana magnay. right now we are waiting for president obama s response to all this in ukraine, including the russian parliament voting to allow russian president vladimir putin to send troops, boots on the ground inside ukraine. we re going to go now to our senior white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, is there any sign, signal that the president is going to make a statement today in response to that vote in the russian parliament? reporter: jim, we re waiting just as you re waiting to see if the president will respond to today s developments. we can tell you that a national security meeting was held here at the white house earlier today as you know, jim, and as we ve been showing our viewers all day long. we do have video of some of those top national security officials leaving the white house, defense secretary chuck hagel, the director of national intelligence james clapper, martin dempsey chairman of the joint chiefs and john brennan, director of of the cia. according to a senior administration official the president did not attend that meeting. he was briefing by his national security adviser susan rice and other top national security officials. but that national security meeting that occurred at the white house was on ukraine, policy options according to the senior administration official. we can also report we ve just learned in the last couple of minutes that vice president biden joined that national security meeting via video conference. so the vice president is also involved in this. as you know, jim, he is a very top close official to the president when it comes to national security questions, big foreign policy questions such as what is unfolding in ukraine. i did go back to a national or senior administration official to ask why the president was not involved in today s meeting. and this official would only say it s just not unusual for the president not to be there. he was as this official said briefed by his national security adviser. so they re watching these developments. no official response from the president yet as to what s occurred today, jim. well jim, you ve been at the white house a long time. is it indeed unusual for the president not to take part in a meeting in the situation room, i imagine, when you have such a tense situation overseas and with such remarkable developments today? reporter: well, they have meetings as you know, jim, like this quite often. the president has had a lot of foreign policy crises on his plate. i remember being here on a weekend when the principals as they call it did meet on the situation in syria. and you saw the president. you saw the rest of his top national security team in the situation room. the white house would release a photo later in the day confirming all of this. we don t anticipate that at this point because the president was in fact not involved in this meeting. and it s interesting. i did run into senior counselor to the president john podesta here at the white house giving his family a tour of the west wing. he s obviously here very busy monday through friday but here on a saturday. just caught up to him very briefly. asked him whether or not what is happening right you in ukraine is a test for this relationship between president obama and president putin. the u.s. and russia. it seems like an obvious question. he responded by saying that goes withsaying. so they re well aware, they know that maybe president put ten is playing this a little bit differently than the president of the united states. perhaps putin does see this as an international chess game as the president of the united states has said he does not want this to be seen as. secretary of state john kerry as you know said he doesn t want this to be rocky iv. speculating here, jim, can t say that officials are telling me this. but perhaps the president is not getting as engaged, was not as involved in that meeting today perhaps as much as people might expect because they don t want to give that image. they don t want to give that across as if the president is somehow being held hostage by what vladimir putin is doing every move that he s making out there on the world stage. but the president they say here at the white house is keeping up to speed on the situation in ukraine through his national security team, jim. well thanks, jim. another update we ll be looking for shortly, i imagine, is when the president if the president speaks again with vladimir putin as he did on friday. we do know that secretary of state john kerry spoke a short time ago today with the ukranian president, keeping those lines of communication open. certainly. we have an update just in right now. the u.n. security council is going to an open televised session on this subject of the ukraine. we re going to take you there when that starts. in the meantime, russia s decision not only adds more strain to an already tense relationship with the u.s., but it could also impact the situation in syria. we explain how right after this. 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[ mthat if you wear a partial,w you re almost twice as likely to lose your supporting teeth? try poligrip for partials. poligrip helps minimize stress which may damage supporting teeth by stabilizing your partial. care for your partial. help protect your natural teeth. welcome back. you re look now at a live picture inside the u.n. security council session to discuss the crisis in ukraine. we heard of some stumbles earlier in the afternoon when they were struggling even just to agree on the format for these talks. we ll be taking you there later in this hour to see how that discussion goes forward. russia, remember, a seat at the table in the u.n. security council along with the united states. all week russian president vladimir putin has said russia was not planning to violate ukraine s sovereignty. yet today he asked his lawmakers to sign off on sending troops into the ukraine. and they voted unanimously to give him that right. plus there have been images like this. surveillance video shows armed men storming a government building in crimea. it s still not clear who they re working for, but if they are linked to russia as ukranian officials say, it s another example of how russia s official communication with the united states is not matching what s happening on the ground. and that growing disconnect between russia and the u.s. may go beyond just eastern europe. joining me now is cnn s elise lavin, our foreign affairs reporter at the state department. so much on the table right now. nuclear weapons with iran, the situation in syria. how does russia defying the u.s. on ukraine so publicly, how does it affect those other very key issues that we need russia s help on? syria first and iran? reporter: well, jim, i think that the u.s. and russia have kind of demonstrated over the years that even in their areas of tension they re able to kind of compartmentalize and work together when it s really needed. i think you have to see what s going to happen over the next couple of days. clearly the syria issue i think is going to suffer for the mere fact that this ukraine issue is an existential issue for russia. that s going to be all consuming right now. you have to see how that plays out. if the escalations are able to calm down, if the tensions are able to be smoothed out a little bit, and russia is able to make some kind of accommodation and see some kind of national unity government in ukraine where there are russian influences protected and interests protected, i think maybe you might see russia calm down a little bit, be able to focus on syria. you have a little breathing room right now with the u.n. security council resolution on syria and those peace talks stumbling. so there s a little bit of time right now to focus just on ukraine. but if this were to drag out, i could see a situation where russia would say listen, i m not really willing to push syria, bashar al assad, not really willing to make it a priority to get that human tearian acquisition in. so i think syria could suffer in the next couple of months. on iran i don t really see any lack of cooperation. it s really in russia s interests to make sure that their commercial interests are protected in iran. it s in their interests to have a nuclear deal. and even in the height of tensions between the u.s. and russia on syria, they ve been able to work on iran. so i see syria suffering a little bit more than iran at this point. it shows the intensive importance of keeping the lines of communication certainly on the crisis in syria, ukraine exchanging so quickly. on these other issues that are continuing issues, syria and iran. briefly now i want to bring in our own richard roth who is at the u.n. as this u.n. security council meeting gets set to start, discussing ukraine. richard, what are you hearing now? are they under way? is there any substantive discussion going on now? reporter: jim, we re going to see probably some fiery remarks on this unfolding crisis in crimea. yes, the u.n. is known critically as a talk shop. this time occasionally people appreciate the chance to at least vent, get some thoughts on the table. they re taking it from the closed door meeting, the second in two days, to now this open historic security council chamber. we are very likely to hear ukraine and russia be the main sparting partners in this diplomat ill dic duel. there will be no you ll hear several speeches including condemnation of what s happening. trying to send warnings to mr. putin who the secretary general is supposed to have talked to sometime today still hasn t happened the last time we checked. there ll be some preliminary announcements at the beginning of the session. yesterday u.s. ambassador samantha powers said there should be an international mediation mission that should go to the region. russia said it didn t mind as long as the proper preparations are there. but there s been no talk of that here. one representative of the ukraine mission without any corroboration said there are now 15,000 russian troops in crimea. but we ve always in the past been leery of statistics made by diplomats here far away from any battlefield. we will likely hear the ambassador possibly say that in his remarks. you have the current president of the security council for this month, first day on the job, the ambassador from luxembourg who will bring the meeting to order with some preliminary remarks, jim. richard, a lot of of our focus now is focusing on consequences. president obama said yesterday there will be costs for russia s actions in the ukraine. that s even before today s events where the russian parliament gave president putin the right to send troops into all of ukraine. in the u.n. in light of that russian veto, what can the u.n., the u.n. security council do in terms of raising costs for russia? is there anything they can do? you mentioned they have the veto or is it really as you say just a place to vent? reporter: i think remarks will be made. but i think as you have hinted and said in other reports, the diplomat action will take place elsewhere with strong groups, whether it s lack of attendance at a g 8 meeting, sanctions, whether it s going to be condemnation. are going to get it on the table here. but while russia signeded on to some statement calling for calm and stability, it is rather meaningless. they would block any substantive action. but we ve seen it with kosovo and other crises around the world, countries act so-called coalition of the willing whether diplomatically or militarily and bypass the u.n. itself. it makes the ukraine feel good. many countries still rely on the u.n. if for anything just to be heard. ukraine will get its chance on the international stage right now. we re going to go now to that. the session is under way. let s have a listen inside the u.n. security council. translator: addressed to the president of the security council. the agenda is adopted. in accordance with rule 37 of the council s provisional rules of procedure, i invite the representative of ukraine to participate in this meeting. it is so decided. the security council will now begin its consideration of item 2 of the agenda. i welcome the deputy secretary general, his excellency mr. john arielson and i give him the floor. madam president, members of the security council, since the briefing yesterday by assistant secretary fernandez toronko to this council, there have been reports of continued serious developments in ukraine. in crimea, key sites such as blic buildings, including the regional parliament, reportedly continued to be blocked by unidentified armed men. there are further reports of armed personnel taking control of regional administration buildings in several cities in the east and south of ukraine. the new crimean prime minister serg serg ser atsenov appealed to vladimir putin to insist on security in the region of crimea. in the same statement he announced he was taking control of security in crimea. and i quote on a temporary basis. he told all security personnel to declare allegiance to him rather than to the authorities of kiev. following the reported deployment of additional russian troops and armored vehicles to crimea. the russia s federation upper parliament today approved a request from president putin for russian forces to be used in ukraine and i quote pending the normalization of the public and political situation in that country end quote. at the same time, in this fluid situation, however, there are some encouraging signs. one of them is the reported announcement from kiev just now about the intention to broaden the government to include representatives from eastern ukraine. we also are noting that tcalls for dialogue by all interested parties inside and outside of ukraine appear to be resonating. referring to the security council discussions yesterday about robert series fact finding mission, he was in touch with the authorities of the crimea. in his statement today, siri noted if he had traveled to crimea he would have conveyed on behalf of the secretary general a message for all to calm down the situation and to refrain from any actions that could further escalate an already tense environment. robert siri will travel to geneva today where he will brief the secretary general on his mission to ukraine and discuss further possible steps. the secretary general is gravely concerned that the situation has further deteriorated since yesterday s meeting of the council. in this regard, let me reiterate the secretary general s important messages conveyed in his statement of today. and i quote, the secretary general continues to closely follow the seriously and rapidly unfolding events in ukraine, including developments in crimea, and is gravely concerned about the deterioration of the situation. the secretary general reiterates his call for the full respect for and preservation of the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine. he calls for an immediate restoration of calm and direct dialogue between all concerned to solve the current crisis. the secretary general will be speaking with president vladimir putin of russia shortly about the situation in ukraine unquote. let me say in closing, at this crucial moment it is important to recall the mission of this organization, to always search for peaceful settlements of dispute. this is the essence of the u.n. charter and should serve as our primary guide in this situation. now is the time for cool heads to prevail. thank you. translator: i thank the deputy secretary general for his briefing, and i now give the floor to the representative of ukrain ukraine. madam president, distinguished members of the security council, deputy secretary general, mr. eliason, excellencies, colleagues, the media, thank you very much for agreeing to have this meeting on such a short notice. mr. eliason, thank you for your comments, and thank you for presenting us the statement of the secretary general which is very promising. what i am going to state now was stoe sent to all the nations this afternoon including the recent information involving developments in ukraine and mostly in crimea. the situation continues to deteriorate. as i told you yesterday, the russian troops had illegally entered the territory of ukraine in the crimean peninsula on the reason to protect russian-speaking population of ukraine. a few hours ago, the upper house of russian parliament, council federation, has unanimously authorized the use of military force against ukraine upon request of the president of russian federation vladimir putin. but the troops are already there. and their number is increasing every coming hour. this action by the russian federation constitutes an act of aggression against the state of ukraine. a severe violation of international law posing a serious threat to sovereignty and territorial integrity of our country as well as peace and stability in the whole region. the russian federation doesn t comply with its obligations as state guaranotor of ukraine to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity of ukraine. it is a dangerous challenge to the very principle of the [ inaudible ]. russia officially rejected ukrainen proposal to hold immediate bilateral consultations under article 7 on the treat treaty of 1997. russian federation brutally violated the basic principles of charter of the united nations, of member states to refrain from threat or use the force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state. the announced military intervention of the ukraine, the government has requested to call this session of the security council. they call upon the security council to do everything they can to stop this aggression. ukraine asks the guaranotor states to prevent intervention. we are calling for monitoring with regard to the russian federation. we urge all member states of the united nations to demonstrate solidarity with the ukrainen nation to protect sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country, to protect the very basic principles of the united nations. currently brutally violated by a permanent state permanent member of the security council. thank you, madam president. thank you for your attention. translator: i thank the representative of the ukraine for his statement, and i now give the floor to members of the security council. i give the floor to the representative of russian federation. thank you, madam president. first of all, i would like to thank my express my sympathy to you because under your presidency in just the two hours we wasted on discussing the format for this meeting, and we agreed that in an open format only three people would speak. mr. eliason, my ukranian colleague, and the prime represent of the russian federation. as i understand, some of the colleagues of the security council already intend to break with this. but what can you do? went there s a game without rules? i would like to thank mr. eliason for his briefing and support the idea that he ended on, the idea that in this situation cooler heads must prevail. unfortunately, i must note that my ukranian colleague did not go for that, and in his speech what i heard was a number of terms. we can t agree with them. that s all. characterizing the situation in ukraine and the actions of the russian federation. the colleagues we discussed the crisis. a crisis which should not have taken place. in order for it to occur, there was no objective reason for it to happen. there was and there still is our fraternal country of ukraine, our neighbor. if you talk about this in terms of the last fall situation, the democratically legally elected president mr. yanukovych, he is relying on the parliamentary majority in a democratically elected parliament. truly, the country is dealing with serious economic challenges, and with the leadership of ukraine they have serious decisions to make. in particular they need to make a decision whether they will join or will they sign an agreement of association with you. this is a complex decision. one of the mistakes of the ukranian leadership maybe was the fact that at the last minute they realized that that agreement on association that was being proposed by brussels could have significant economic consequences for ukraine. in these conditions, the ukranian leadership, the president, took a decision which is fully constitutional, and it fully meets the prerogatives of the head of any state to refrain, pull back at the moment, from signing an agreement on association with the e.u. that didn t mean, as many have said that, there was a full repudiation of european orientation, just that he had to weigh the circumstances that had come together at that time. so i repeat, that was a decision which was fully within the legitimate prerogatives of the
a vote with repercussions will be felt around the world. we are live as these votes come in. good morning. welcome to early start. i m john berman. it is thursday, september 18th. christine romans is off today. a crucial element in president obama as plan to fight isis is moving ahead. the house voted to support funding to train and arm so-called moderate syrian rebels. many republicans back the president s plan. they did so by a more than 2 to 1 margin. this despite gop chrriticism th the plan does not go far enough to defeat the militant group. the president underscored his message that soldiers on the ground in iraq is off the table. i want to be clear. the american forces that have been deployed to iraq do not and will not have a combat mission. they will support iraqi forces on the ground as they fight for their own country against these terrorists. as your commander in chief, i will not commit you and the rest of our armed forces to fight another ground war in iraq. the united states secretary of state had the same message. john kerry told the senate foreign relations committee that the only role in iraq is to support iraqi forces. he responded to anti-war protesters saying this is no negotiation with isis. for a philosophy or cult or whatever you want to call it, frankly comes out of the stone age, they re cold blooded killers marauding across the middle east. that is precisely why we are building a coalition to try to stop them from denying the women and the girls and people of iraq the very future that they yearn for. the administration sales effort on capitol hill continues today with secretary kerry testifying to the house foreign affairs committee and chuck hagel appearing before the senate committee. and hasan ruhani says the killing of the people is a shame for them and concern for all mankind. he did have plenty of criticism for the u.s. plan, particularly the reluctance of the american ground troops. syrian president bashar al assad stepped up his campaign to destroy the so-called moderate syrian rebels that the united states will count on to battle isis on the ground in syria. anti-assad fighters are hit with a new wave of air strikes and assassinations. the obama administration says it will not coordinate with the assad regime in the night against isis. on the ground in iraq, isis has control of the second largest city. mosul. the militant group is ordering schools to open with a ban on history and geography and l literatu literature. now kurdish peshmerga forces say they are not strong enough to change that situation to retake mosul or help at least. the top kurdish leader says peshmerga fighters need international help and lots of it to dislodged isis from mosul. but also complicated matters, the kurds differ ethnically. the mostly population is sunni. anna coren is 60 miles from mosul. reporter: hello, john. you say the battle for mosul is yet to approach, but it is certainly coming up. it is going to be epic. the reason being is that they need to kick isis out of the city which is of 2 million people. iraq s second largest. it is also, you know, a strategic importance to isis. it is where the leader, al baghdadi gave his address to his followers of the caliphate, but also to the world. to kick isis out of that city would just be extremely important. it would really cripple the organization. it would mean the forces on the ground near in northern iraq could then cut off the artery, if you like, from syria. that would be extremely effective. stopping the flow of fighters of arms moving freely between syria and iraq. it would just really hurt the terrorist organization here in iraq. you mention the peshmerga. they are not ready to take on that battle. we also have to remember that mosul falls outside of the borders of kurdistan. we spent days embedded with them over the last couple of weeks. they would say we don t have the arms or the equipment or training. they are calling on the americans and other ally countries within the global coalition to come to their aid. that is happening, obviously. they say they definitely need more help. u.s. air strikes are critical. they are helping change the situation on the ground and they are being effective in pushing isis out of the small villages. we were there on the ground at the frontlines several days where they took back five villages and a strategic bridge. this is what we will see moving forward in the weeks and months as they gradually get closer to mosul. the u.s. air strikes are critical for cover for the ground forces, but in taking out the enemy position and taking out the artillery targets. certainly what we are hearing, john, from the peshmerga, is they want more air strikes and intensification of the air campaign so they can really make a difference on the ground. considering they are the forces who are taking the fight directly to isis. anna coren, thank you so much. here at home, new york city police on high alert after the isis supporters online to target times square and other tourist sites. commissioner bill bratton says isis has more dangerous considerations because of the social media connections. bratton said on tuesday, new york is a plane ride way for militants who have the proper documentation. there are thousands of potential fighters over there who will exit that conflict at some point in time. including many canadians and british citizens and australia citizens. the potential for them to try to come back and try to commit terrorist acts here are very real. in addition to times square, the isis linked web site called for attacks on the vegas strip. rochester new york store owner in federal court answering allegations of funding isis to fight along side jihadists. mufid elfgeeh faces more than 60 years in prison if convicted on all of the charges. this is really interesting. australia confronting its own domestic isis this morning. officials there say they disrupted the plan to assassinate a member of the public. the prime minister tony abbott said it was issued by a isis member. there is enough equipment on board the plane heading to liberia to fund 25-bed hospital in monrovia. this as the united nations announces plans to establish an on the ground mission in west africa to coordinate the battle against ebola. dr. kent brantly says he would like to return to west africa to continue his work against ebola. he told lawmakers on wednesday they have to move quickly. this is a global problem and the u.s. must take the lead immediately. the longer we wait, the greater the cost of the battle both in dollars and lives. we must act decisively to bring healing and stability to the people of west africa and the african continent and the world. three vaccines and ten medications are in development, but officials say it is not nearly enough for everyone when it is available. discussions are under way to determine who gets them. encourage news from nebraska. dr. rick sacra is expected to make a full recovery after contracting ebola in liberia. another nfl player accused of domestic violence. four players pushed aside by the teams for off the field violence for the time being. what team leaders are saying this morning and the big cost the nfl is facing. our andy scholes is breaking it all down next. 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i want to be on the field with my team. i did something. i have to accept my consequences. reporter: seems like every few months, winston finds a way to get in trouble. we cannot come close to say what he shouted. i m sure everyone out there, if you investigate, you will understand why he is being punished. you may wonder why it is only half a game. andy scholes, thank you. sponsors of the nfl are speaking out, but so far they are not taking a stand with dollars. this in response to the domestic violence issues around the league. two big sponsors, pepsi and anheuser-busch expressed dissatisfaction, but neither company has pulled advertising or sponsorship. pepsi s ceo spoke in support of roger goodell yesterday. another sponsor, nike has u suspeus suspended the deal with peterson and ray rice. the company supplies jerseys for all 32 teams. most sponsors promising to monitor the situation before making major decisions. curious how long they will watch. 17 minutes past the hour. time for an early start on your money. european stocks are higher and u.s. futures are at a high after a close up yesterday. 11 wildfires burning across the state of california. the king fire east of sacramento has burned 30,000 acres and forcing 2,000 people to evacuate. it is about 5% contained so far with more than 1,600 buildings threatened. more than 200 firefighters on are the scene. beating the odds. indra petersons is here to give us a look at the forecast. i want to show you what it looks like from space. look at the massive wildfire. you see the smoke from way up high. this is the concern as we still have really horrible drought conditions across the state. we are talking about 95% of the state of california now in a severe drought. you have dry fuel and last week, we have talked about record temperatures as well. we are still talking about the unbelievable heat and the dry fuel not good for firefighters. the problem in the southwest. what are we looking at? the remnants from odile. the flooding threat is high again. take a look at the amount of rain they saw yesterday. 4 inches of rain. you have the dry ground and that is not a good combination. places like texas looking for anywhere from 3 to 7 inches of rain which is possible out there today. if you are in the northeast, kind of a calmer picture. a couple of fronts making their way through. southeast is improving. everyone feeling better for the next several days. by the weekend, we will watch another storm make its way and bring more of the showers. maybe friday for the midwest and saturday or so into the northeast. what will you notice? the drop in temperatures. especially as we go in to tomorrow. boston from the 70s today down to 50s as they re highs. you will feel that change coming your way. thanks, indra. happening right now, scotland voting on its independence. will it leave the as of now united kingdom? and if it does, what will the new scotland look like. we re live as the votes are cast next. you know what my business philosophy is, reynolds? 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[ male announcer ] ship a pak via fedex express saver® for as low as $7.50. within the next 24 hours, we will know whether the united kingdom will be united or whether scotland will strikeout on its own as an independent country. polls opened about three hours ago or so. more than 4 million residents have registered to vote. this is the largest electorate ever in scotland. cnn s nic robertson is live in scotland. we have never seen anything like this, nic. reporter: i have been talking to people outside of the polling station here who covered elections in this area before. they tell me they have never seen this number of people coming in at this time of day. normally it is just a trickle of people. we have been here since the poll opened. it was just a flood of people the first couple of hours. it is still busy. traditionally a time when people are at work and not out so far. a huge interest. 97% of the possible electorate have registered to vote. there have been 790,000 postal votes registered so far. that is more than an 80% pick up on the postal votes, john. serious concerns, nic, among those who oppose and the rest of those in the united kingdom as to what happens starting tomorrow if scotland votes to leave. reporter: okay, so tomorrow would be the day, if it votes to leave, that they would begin david cameron, the prime minister of the united kingdom would talk to scottish leaders to separate the countries. and then by march 2016, that is the expected date. that is when scotland would become independent if the vote goes through. there have been so many questions in the lead up to the voting day today. what will happen to the currency? will scotland share the british pound and london is saying no. how quickly would scotland get into the european union and get into the subsidies for the farmers. they don t want to see separatist groups in their country breaking away. it may take time. the view is that they would get in quickly and they would have the voice at the table at the european union. no one has concrete answers, john. the polls are within the margin of error. kids as young as 16 could vote and that could change the face of scotland forever. nic robertson for us in scotland. thanks so much. 26 minutes after the hour. the house officially signing on to the war against isis. at least part of the president s plan approving the effort to fund the moderate syrian rebels. this as a new terror plot suggesting isis may be ready to attack outside of the middle east. the new concern in the u.s. and why law enforcement is so concerned. the hunt for isis. the house of representatives approving the president s plan to battle the terrorists, but the war, well, it might not be that easy. new problems facing the united states in syria and the new terror plot that suggests isis militants are perhaps ready for bigger and bolder attacks. another nfl player arrested, accused of domestic violence. four players now inactive for off the field violence. how team leaders are responding. and happening right now. historic moment. the polls open in scotland. voters deciding on independence. will scotland split from the as of right now united kingdom? a vote with ripples that will be felt all around the world. good morning, everyone. welco welcome back to early start. i m john berman. christine romans is off today. a crucial element to fight isis is moving ahead with a house vote to train and arm the so-called moderate syrian rebels. this is over republican criticism that it is not going far enough. the president took pains on wednesday to underscore his message that putting soldiers on the ground in iraq is off the table. i want to be clear. the american forces that have been deployed to iraq do not and will not have a combat mission. they will support iraqi forces on the ground. as they fight for their own country against these terrorists. as your commander in chief, i will not commit you and the rest of our armed forces to fighting another ground war in iraq. the u.s. secretary of state is reinforcing that message. kerry told the senate relations committee the ground troops role in iraq is to support iraqi forces. he is calling for further diplomatic efforts saying there is no negotiation with isis. for a philosophy or cult or whatever you want to call it, that frankly comes out of the stone age, they are cold blooded killers marauading across the middle east. that is precisely why we are building a coalition to try to stop them from denying the women and girls and the people of iraq the very future that they yearn for. the administration s sales effort on capitol hill continues today with the secretary of state testifying to the house foreign affairs committee and secretary of defense chuck hagel appearing before the house arnold services committee. hasan ruhani says the killing of innocent people is a matter of shame for them and concern for all mankind. he criticized much of the u.s. plan questioning the combat troops on the ground. saying quote, are americans afraid of their soldiers being killed? and syrian president bashar al assad has stepped up his campaign to destroy the rebels. assad fighters are being hit. the administration says it will not coordinate with the assad regime in the fight against isis. on the ground in iraq, isis has control of mosul. the group is ordering schools there to open, but with a ban on teaching history and geography. kurdish peshmerga forces say they are not strong enough to change the situation in mosul. peshmerga fighters will need international help and lots of it to dislodged isis from the city. you are talking about urban combat. we have anna coren in erbil. reporter: good morning, john. as you say, the battle for mosul is still some way off. it will be a critical fight when it finally does happen. yes, the peshmerga not ready yet to hit this city. iraq s second largest city taken back in june. they say they need arms and weapons and training to operate this equipment. they also need the intelligence gathering. they need the help from the united states and the global coalition before they go in. the kurdish forces are really going beyond what their duties are. when you take into considers what general dempsey said, half of the iraqi security forces not here in northern iraq, but for the rest of the country, are incapable of partnering with the united states to push back isis. it is alarming. it does mean that the peshmerga will be very much on their own taking that fight to isis. certainly in the city of mosul. now if they are able to hit mosul and do it well, then they can cut off the artery from syria. it is close to the syrian border. that means the stop of the flow of fighters and arms which happens so easily and freely between the to states. this is now a caliphate. it would cut off that flow. just as far as the importance of mosul. we have seen the address from isis leader al baghdadi speaking to his followers within the caliphate and to the world with the address months ago from the mosque in mosul. it would hurt isis badly if mosul was taken. john, as we know, it is not going to be easy. peshmerga and kurdish forces cannot walk in and take it back. this is densely populated. a city of 2 million people. air strikes have been critical in the area so far will not be effective. they won t want to hit the city in case of inflicting mass casualties. the united states doesn t want collateral damage. it is up to kurdish forces to push isis out of the city. to liberate iraq from isis, they have to get rid of isis in the city of mosul. to do that, air strikes is not as effective as the rest of the country. anna, thanks. police on high alert after isis targeting times square. commissioner bill bratton says isis is more dangerous than al qaeda because of the social media use to gather followers. he said militants are a plane ride away with the proper documentation. thousands of potential fighters there to exit that conflict at some point in time. including many canadians and british citizens and australian citizens. in excess of 100 u.s. citizens. the potential for them to come back and commit terrorist acts here are real. in addition to times square, the isis linked web site called for attacks on the las vegas strip. and a rochester, new york store owner is in federal court to trying to recruit jihadists. mufid elfgeeh is expected to plead not guilty. he faces more than 60 years in prison if convicted. this is interesting. australia confronting its own domestic isis there. the police have disrupted a plan accused of threatening a member of the public. prime minister tony abbott says the planned attack is directed from the middle east by a senior isis leader. another nfl player arrested accused of domestic violence. a problem plaguing the league. four players now separated their teams. inactive for the time being for off the field violence. developments ahead. plus, california burning. a state of emergency declared. extreme heat and wind fueling the fire. indra petersons is tracking it all for us next. oh hey craig, i need to talk to you. hey jake. you know how you won t let me touch your dart? 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breaking overnight another star football player arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife and child as another player is suspended. we re live with the latest. happening now the polls are open and centuries of history hang in the balance. will scotland break away from the united kingdom? it s down to the wire. christiania amanpour is live in scotland. your new day starts right now. announcer: this is new day with chris cuomo, kate boldaun and michaela pereira. good morning, welcome to new day, it s thursday, september 18th, 6:00 in the east and we have breaking news here. the situation against isis is getting more complicated. here s the latest. a terror plot in australia was thwarted. what we understand is isis sympathizers were planning to find a random member of the public and behead them to send an obvious message this is going on as president obama is trying very hard to win over congress and you in his plan to combat isis. president obama and secretary of state john kerry doubled down in their simple truth that no u.s. combat troops will be on the ground in iraq and syria. take a listen. as your commander-in-chief, i will not commit you and the rest of our armed forces to fighting another ground war in iraq. just as clear is that who is strong enough and willing enough to fight isis except the u.s. is getting more and more difficult to answer. the president s plan to go after isis in syria did get a boost. it got a green light from the house. but you have to take a look at the numbers. 71 democrats, members of h
no fight and no violence during that. here is what happened. they were doing a grid to grid search. what they ve. doing for the last 48 days. very calculated. very organized search when we re told the law enforcement happened to surprise him outside of this flight hangar. they say he had some weapons inside but they said he was outside at the time. he didn t attempt to return inside. he followed their command, dropping his knees. a few minutes ago he was arraigned in court on charges including first-degree murder. right now prosecutors say they plan to seek the death penalty. they say that today is really the beginning of justice for the family of that slain trooper, for the family of the wounded trooper, and the wounded trooper, of course, as well as the community as whole who have been living in a state of fear and unease for the last 48 days while the hunt has been ongoing. i can imagine the community feels such a sigh of relief. in other words, you know, even schools that have been closed now halloween is going to be a lot more pleasant for that community. it has. and the keyword you ve got it there. it is relief. for 48 days people have been trying to go about their normals but it hasn t been possible. it s always hanging orr their heads. i remember the first week of the search we talked to one guy who said he knew to be going about the routine i. he couldn t shake the feeling that he needs to look over his shoulder. we had schools closed. parents having to explain to their kids. we had the hunting area shut down. people not able to go into the woods, part of the reason they live here. you had the fear that search urs could be harmed at any time. in the press conference you heard investigators say that they felt frein was targeting law enforcement. they the target on their backs the entire time. we re seeing a huge outpouring of gratitude. somebody hung out a giant bed sheet and it says way to go ptp. thank you so much for being with me, sara. i appreciate your time. and now to a major development in that ebola quarantine standoff in maine with doctors without borders nurse caskaci hickox. let s go back to maine near the border with canada. that s where stefanie is with the details. good morning. the district court here in maine granted the state s request for a court order. this is not a court order that compels kaci hickox to remain inside of her house all the time without leaving or she ll be arrested. it is rather something that is in line with the cdc guidelines for someone who is at, quote, some risk. and among those guidelines are included daily active monitoring. meaning someone comes here, health official from the cdc to check up on her. we ve seen that. someone coming in around 3:00 or so and checking in on her. it also says she cannot go into large crowded public places. she s not allowed to travel freely. she can t travel on public transportation and she can t leave the fort kent area without consulting with state officials. but it also says that she can leave her house as long as she s in not crowded public places. and not within 3 feet of people in the public. that means the bike ride she took yesterday or run or even getting in her car and going for a drive are within the guidelines. so far there s no response from casey or her legal team. they said they would challenge any court order in court. so far we don t know if that s what their intention is. jose? thank you so much for being with me. one note to pass along on another nurse. nurse nina pham. tomorrow the nurse who recently beat ebola will be reunited with her dog bentley. tomorrow will officially end his 21-day quarantine. how great is that? we ll hear from president obama next hour in rhode island where he s making his final 2014 pitch and he s zeroing in on women and the economy. give us a little preview at a campaign stop in maine last night. we re going strengthen the middle class for the 21st century then we need leaders from the 21st century who believe that women care just as much as what they get paid as men care. we want women paid fairley! nbc kelly o donnell is live at the white house. good morning. well, you know, maybe the improving economy is the october surprise democrats have been looking for? we have some better than expected news on that front yesterday. and today the president will be tapping into that as he makes his final push for women voters well, this is the last day of october. it there s a surprise to be had, perhaps that is it. it s today. and, you know, there s mixed news. progress on the economy, also consumer spending is off a bit. so i think people are still trying to get a sense of how confident do they feel about the economy. but certainly the president and many democrats are talking about those pocketbook issues hoping to have democratic voters energized enough to turn out on tuesday. that s so critical. we ve watched during the campaign season how the president has really not been a part of the conversation except as a target in many races when it comes to senate and congressional house races. but he has been making the rounds especially for candidates for governors to try to help democrats there. there s often some bleed over when he s in a state the message that he just gave about women and the economy and their issues certainly would carry with voters who are open to that when it comes to a broader list of races response the president has been effective as a campaign fund fund-raiser. he s had an aggressive schedule in that way. we ve seen how his image, his presence, his agenda is in some places not effective for democrats. typically in the south. he s in the northeast today. that certainly is a place where that message can ring a little louder. he s going do what many american dads will do today. he and the first lady will be giving out trick or treat candy at the white house for some special kids invited to the south lawn. so he s going to have a bit of that holiday message. will there be a boo in the forecast for democrats? many pollsters say it s going to be a rough tuesday. the president is trying to do what he can to shore up the base and get out the vote for tuesday. jose? nbc kelly o donnell. thank you so much. our halloween lingo is starting this hour. and you know, we re going to stick with it throughout the hour. the president will make the remarks in rhode island at the top of the hour. you can watch them on msnbc.com. coming up we re going to have more on the midterms as we mark this halloween. we ll ask the question could there be an october surprise that swings the midterms one way or another? the head of the dcc representative steve israel joins me. also, joining me rachel maddow. i want to ask her about the governor s race in florida, her reporting in colorado, and why immigration activists keep disrupting hillary clinton. you know, immigration is an important issue and in this state the dream act was passed! 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let me bring in the washington post and the national journal lauren fox. thank you so much for being with me on this halloween friday. good to be here. thank you. thanks. i want to start with you, one big story line is the absence of president obama in many races. we re talking about that recently nbc s chuck todd asked mary landrieu where the president had a hard time in louisiana. thereon her response. to be honest with you. the south is not the friendliest place for african-americans. it s been a difficult time for the president to present himself in a positive light as a leader. it s not a good place for women to present ourselves. it s been a conservative place. we ve had to work a little bit harder. the people trust me, i believe. really they, they do, trust me to do the right thing for the state. do you think race will play a major role in louisiana? yeah, it will. and mary landrieu is right when she talks about race. race has been a sub text, a name text in many ways when you look at politics in the south. i mean, it s the reason why you had in 2005 kent apologize to the ncaa p over the southern strategy. she s not incorrect in what she says, but again, it s probably not the smartest thing to say. when she really needs to put together a multiracial coalition not only of african-american voters but particularly white voters. that s really where she is struggling so far in the poll she s giving something like 25% she has to get closer to a 35, 37, 38%. politically i m not sure it says close to the race. lauren, your latest article you focus on democrats and women voters including on the senate race in kentucky. and you say there s a troubling trend for democrats there. what do you mean? well, one of the things that i look at was in some of these races not all of them. there are races where democrats are leading among women. but it s some of the races including in the state of kentucky when allison lundergan grimes is running so close to mcconnell. so i think, you know, this race was always going to be close. it was always going to come down to a nail biter. even if groims doesn t win on election day. it s kept us guessing in the state of kentucky. why do you think lundergan grimes hasn t been more effective? i think kentucky is a conservative state. it has continued to trend more and more republican since 2008 since president barack obama took office. i think a lot has to do with the national mood of the country and, you know, she does very well in, you know, the city centers in kentucky but she tends not to do as well when we talk about rural voters. i think it s more about a national trend than her not necessarily being able to resonate her message with women. yeah. and put on your soothe sayer hat. any october surprise? i think one of the things that might be surprising is colorado. here is a state where everyone gets a mail in ballot. if you look so far it s been really tight with gardener with something of an edge there. but i, you know, i think we should look closely at the race. if you look at what happened in 2010 michael bennett had been trailing in the polls leading up to election day and eked out a victory in the last weekend and won the senate seat. it s a race to keep an eye on. yeah. and i m going to be talking with rachel maddow about that in minutes. it s indeed something we have to keep a close eye on. lauren, what do you think? any trick or treat surprises in any races? i have my eye on kansas. it s been a surprising race so far. we never expected pat roberts would come out of a primary and have a challenger in the general election like you have seen with greg orrman. certainly i ll be watching on tuesday to see whether or not an independent might win in the state of kansas. that going to be a fascinating race indeed. thank you so much. i appreciate your time. i want to continue the conversation now. joining me now is steve israel of new york. he s with me this morning. great to be with you jose. some republicans may think they got their october surprise with the ebola or isis. are those issues in the news now driving voters, you think, one way or another? well, there s no question the issues are in the news, but here is what is going on. democrats beat republicans on virtually every issue of middle class security. the fact that a woman should be the paid the same as a man for equal work, allowing middle class families to refinance their college debt. the difficulty we ve had admitted admittedly. it s difficult to breakthrough on the issues where democrats win when the global issues are dominating the news cycle. so we ve adjusted by going trench warfare. trench by trench precinct by precinct, house by house, talking to voters that the facts that democrats have their backs while republicans in the house of representatives stacked the deck against them to protect the special interest. i ve been interested in seeing how some democrats have really kind of been keeping a distance some turning their back on president obama this time around. if you look at some issues, look, the price of gasoline is coming down in a lot of places it s under $3 a gallon now. it s been years since we ve seen that. the economy seems to be doing well. we showed the stock market doing up 140 points almost this morning. and yet there is still a i don t know some wanting to keep a distance from president obama well, a couple of things. number one, in any president s second midterm election, the president s party loses seats. historic age is 29 seats even reagan at the height of his popularity his second midterm he lost seats. it s kind of natural. history says that the president s party has tough terrain. more importantly it s this. here is what i tell our candidates. it you re running in a really blue district, chances are your voters want to make sure you ve been with the president every step of the way. if you re running in a really red district, chances are the voters in the district want to make sure you have never taken a step with the president. jose, the districts where we re competing they re purple. they re in the middle. most people in the districts agree with the president on some things like pay equity for women, may disagree with him on other things. i say to my candidates, just be those people. state your agreements with the president when you agree, state your treatmeagreements with the president when you disagree. but reflect the priorities and sensibility of the congressional district you are representing or want to represent. your thoughts on the senate, how do you think it s going to turn out after the november 4th or maybe december because there may be some runoffs. how do you see it ending up in the senate? i think you put your i think you nailed it, jose. i think, you know, the senate is not my lane. i m in charge of the house races. i will say this, house and senate we re going to see a lot of surprises on election day. i believe that the day after story will be that neither party expected to see the results that we saw. very, very close races. i think we re going to be looking at a lot of recounts and in the senate maybe some runoffs. the final chapter of the 2012 midterm elections may not be written until december or january. okay. i m trying to figure out. you think the senate is going to be democratic or republican hand? i don t you know what do you any come on. it s just us. i don t honestly. no spin. i just don t really focus on senate polls. my job is to elect house democrats. and that s what i m focussed on. i hope the senate remains with the democrats well, thank you, steve for being with me. i like when you re in the lane. i try get in the diamond lane and things sometimes go there and don t. thank you for being a good sport. we ll zoom some of today s other sttop stories. a frightening picture yesterday in kansas. this morning we have new details about the deadly plane crash in wichita. later he s featured in a powerful new documentary about his decision to take up arms in libya. matthew van dyke will join me to talk about the documentary you will not want to miss. once there was a girl who snooze-buttoned her morning run away. one cap of downy created such irresistibly soft sheets, she wanted to stay in bed forever. downy. surround yourself with three times the softening. woooooah. 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[ laughter ] that was hillary clinton disrupted again by immigration activists. this time yesterday in maryland where she was interrupted at least three separate times at a rally for the state s gubernatorial candidate anthony brown. all days before president obama expected to take action. i spoke to the white house yesterday and they tell me the president is awaiting the final recommendations by attorney general holder on what specifically he recommends could be done on executive or theers vis-a-vis immigration reform. that final result has not arrived to the white house. the white house says that could be coming any minute. the president won t decide until he gets that. something three republican senators took issue with in a letter to the president yesterday. in colorado, meanwhile, as you can see the state s republican party is asking can we trust mark udall on immigration reform. in a new mailer four days until election day. with me today is rachel maddow. thank you for being with me this morning. happy halloween. good to see you. you too. thank you for having me. before we get to colorado. why do you think immigration activists keep targeting democrats like hillary clinton? is this a smart politic? you know,ive been thinking about for a long time. i think it is smart politics. i think it s better to be feared than loved. and when you take direct action like this it makes people mad at you in the short run. it annoys everybody in the room. it annoys the candidate you keep heckling like that. the activists are trying to change the political calculation for democrats. democrats substantiatively do want immigration reform. they want to do something on this. politically they re pretty happy to be able to point at respects and say, we would do it if it weren t for the republicans blocking us. the activists are changing the political incentives for democrats. they re giving democrats a political short term imcentive to much as much done so the heckling will stop. ting makes them unpopular in the short run but i think it s smart. let s talk about the president s side of this. he promised he was going to do the executive orders on immigration reform before the end of the summer and then decided to change until after the elections. politically smart? no. i mean, there s definitely a lot of expert opinion in the democratic party that believes that this was the right thing to do. i think it s idiotic. there s a political upside and political downside for the democrats in term of the president acts on immigration reform because congress won t do anything. the upside you would make your promise be a good one to latino voters. you would be making good on the things you ve been saying all the the time. the idea of the downside is the thing that the democrats keep mismanaging. democrats like mark pryor and mary landrieu will get attacked as supporting amnesty or whatever nonsense they ll get attacked for no matter what the president does. if the president acts or doesn t act, the attacks on them are going to happen anyway. there s nothing democrats can do to insulate themselves against the attacks. all they re doing is depriving themselves of the upside. by exciting their base, convincing latinos they ought to turn out and vote for democrats and sharpening the difference between parties. they re so worried about the attacks. there s nothing they re doing that make the attacks stop. in a place like colorado it s going to be key to see what the latinos do on the fourth of november. let s talk about that. you there were with a live studio audience. i need one of those. but the latino vote is over 15% of the electorate. it s something marc udall focussed on with you. take a listen. we ve been building for the last ten years this infrastructure. you re going to see the results on election day, rachel. it s a combination of the latino community being in. it s the younger voters. it s the sense that colorado has an example to sell. you talk a lot about colorado polling on your show. what is your sense of what is actually happening there? the polling thing is really, really interesting. because colorado is distinguished like almost no other state except maybe alaska in having terrible polling. the polling just obviously year after year mistakes what the ultimate result is going to be. in 2010 they said that michael bennett was going to lose to the republican. michael bennett won. in 2012 they said president obama was going to win by maybe a point. he won by over five. colorado is just wrong. what democrats in the state think is wrong with the polling it undersamples latino voters. it s a problem not getting better over time. there was a denver post poll that show gardener way up. it was only landline phones with only conducted in english. they only talked to a couple dozen latino correspondents. they think they don t ask the right latinos in colorado the right question. that s why democrats outperform the polling there. i think it s partly wishful thinking on the part of the democrats this year. i m assuming the pollsters are getting better. that s part of what they re hanging their hat nons the state. and finally, i ve told you before my house is your house here in florida. because we re here, my friend. tell me about scott with or without the fan? every election cycle florida voters do something inexplicable. and florida politicians do something inexplicable. this race i mean, my question to you, jose is how rick scott is governor in the first place. regardless of his policy positions. he is the worst campaigner and the worst debater and the worst public speaker i have ever seen at the top of the ticket in any state. in any top of the ticket race. how is he governor in the first place? , you know. honestly as far as political figures are concerned, it is an oddity here in florida. but, you know, there have been odd governors in the past. politically speaking, and, you know, i can t figure anything out in florida. i m just happy i live here and i want you to come and visit me and then we ll talk about this because i want you down here, rachel. i accept your offer. thank you. thank you so much! and be sure to watch rachel tonight and every night. 9 p.m. eastern and all night on election days as the polls roll in. brilliant. joining me now for more on the florida madness is miami herald political ryer. rachel s question. politically speaking we in the sunshine state do have odd political characters that represent us. we re a state of weird o-os. it s like halloween 363 days a year. if you look at the united states it s tilted and the interests sentiment falls here. including us. what do you see in the race? it seems to be close issues. ? what i see is an incredibly close race. i quoted a democratic pollster who performed a poll showing rick scott is up by 2 or three-point. it s in today s miami herald. he said the polling right now relative to this stage of the race is about this close if not closer to the polling in the disputed presidential elections. we had 537 votes. it went on for 37 days. i said is it going to be a long tuesday night? he said it could be a long month. it could take forever to get it counted? we could be a margin of error. what about the absentee votes and the early voting that has been going on. glad you asked. so far we ve had 2.6 million. that s a lot. probably will be about 6 million voters. out of the 2.6 million casts the republicans continue to lead the democrats in casting preelection day ballots. they re up by about 135,000. they ve falling anyone a day by about 5,000 from 140 that s roughly 5.2% points. so we could be talk abouting who is the next governor more than just november? right. this has all the ingredients of an incredibly tight race. thank you for killing the buzz on knowing things on the fifth of november on us. yeah. we have no clue. what are you dressing up as? that s a good question. maybe i ll dress up like someone who has money not a thank you so much. let s head back to colorado where new jersey governor christie spent part of his day yesterday. a day after his sit down and shut up moment in new jersey. something casey hunt asked him about exclusively. would you encourage you to kids to behave like that? what i would not encourage my kids to go to a public event and scream at a public official. could you continue to conduct yourself that way if you run for president? i don t know if i m running for president. that s speculation on speculation. casey hunt joins me live from colorado springs. one exclusive after another. yesterday it was jeb today it s christie. you didn t sit down and shut up. did he have any regrets on what he said in the confrontation? i asked him that directly and he said he had absolutely no regrets. which is right there in vain with how in the vain of how chris christie conducted himself all along. i asked him if he would continue to behave that way if he were president. he said this is who i am. i think this is what voters in new jersey like. i think it s the question if it wear wear across the country should he decide to run for president. thank you so much. have a great weekend. i know, you re going to working throughout it all. thank you, jose. you don t want to miss a spooktacular five things as tricks and treats collide in the nation s capitol. hopefully the first lady will bend a little bit on her healthy eating thing. you know, because she loves that healthy eating stuff. and today is candy did for many. he took arms in libya. he s been a frequent guest on our program. matthew vann dike joins me next. it was a nice welcome back. welcome back to the revolution. , $21. could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement? 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past exposed. could this tragedy have been prevented? good morning, everyone. welcome to early start. i m john berman. christine romans is on assignment. it is 4:00 am in the east. ebola in new york. an american doctor who volunteered for doctors without borders in guinea is in a new york hospital with a disease. dr. craig spencer received a positive test for ebola thursday night. he was rushed by ambulance from his new york apartment into isolation at manhattan s bellevue hospital. officials are traying his fairly extensive movements in the hours before the diagnosis. out in public at a bowling alley, in a park, restaurant, subway, taxi. public officials called a news conference overnight in an effort to alay fears. there is no reason for new yorkers to be alarmed. new yorkers who have not been exposed to an infected person s bodily fluids are not at risk. we have had a full, coordinated effort that has been working night and day, coordinating city, state and local resources, coordinating and drilling from airports to transportations to subway stations, to ambulances, to hospitals. so, we are as ready as one could be for this circumstance. training for this in new york city for weeks and weeks. poppy harlow is at bellevue hospital with the latest on this story. reporter: good morning, john. this is where the 33-year-old dr. craig spencer is being treated for ebola, the first ebola case in the united states. we know he came to new york back from guinea, he came here october 17th. on the 21st, he began to feel sluggish, but that s all we re told. thursday morning between 10:00 and 11:00 am eastern time, he started to develop that significant fever, nausea, pain, fatigue, those symptoms of ebola. he immediately contacted authorities. he was transported by ambulance with full protective gear, the premiere hospital in this city set to deal with any possible ebola cases just like this. we re told by the mayor of new york city it went smoothly, seamlessly. he was taken directly into isolation, where he has been ever since. some significant developments we can tell you about. officials say he was in direct contact with just four people, one his fiance, two very close friends of his. all three of those people are in quarantine at this time. also in contact with a cab driver, who drove him at one point. they do not think, though, that that cab driver needs to be in isolation at this point. we also know as recently as wednesday evening, he was out and about in new york city. he went bowling in williamsburg, brooklyn. we re also told that he went to a public park here in new york city called the high line, to a restaurant. he has been out. he has not been in isolation. though they say he has tried to stay at home, in his apartment as much as possible. he is cooperating completely, telling all of the officials everywhere he has been, who he has been in contact with. they re tracing his movements to his metro card. two priorities here. one is to treat him, cure him and save his life. the other priority here is to make sure that ebola is contained and does not spread in new york city. the message from officials, the mayor of new york city to the governor of new york, to new yorkers is do not panic. you are safe, saying that the more you know, the less you should panic. it is very hard to contract ebola. and they want new yorkers to know they can take the subway and proceed, knowing the likelihood of new yorkers catching ebola is extraordinarily slim at this hour. jo jo john? panic is not the answer here. thanks to poppy harlow. governor cuomo will be on new day in the 7:00 am hour to talk about the response to ebola here in new york. a confirmed case in a 2-year-old girl in mali. world health organization says she was brought there by neighboring guinea after her father died. in spain, five people being monitored for possible exposure to ebola are out of a madrid hospital. they include a cleaning lady. 15 specialists are expected to arrive in liberia to help build and operate ebola treatment centers there. other news, big news. huge new concern for new york police this morning, and new terror fears. attack on a group of officers by a man with a hatchet. surveillance video shows the man charging police with a weapon. two were struck, one in the head, in critical condition now. the others shot and killed the attacker. police are investigating any possible links to terrorism and are on high alert for so-called lone wolf attacks. let s get more from jim sciutto. brazen attack in broad daylight in queens new york, new york city. police officers walking on the street had paused to take a photograph when this man came out, swinging a hatchet and attacked them. one of them hit in the arm. he was injured. another hit in the back of the head, critically injured. we now have learned new details of the attacker, zale thompson, 32 years old. he had a criminal record in california, we re told, and discharged from the navy for misconduct. what s truly concerning police is they looked at his social media, postings on facebook, youtube and found signals there this is possibly tied to recently calls by extremist groups to attack members of law enforcement, soldiers, like those attacks we saw in canada earlier this week. and to demonstrate their concern, new york city police have issued a bulletin to all police officers there now, saying that they should have a heightened level of awareness against random attacks reich this one. this is a kind of attack that intelligence officials here have been telling me that they have been concerned for some time that this might happen. of course, the problem is, they re very difficult to prevent because they are lone wolf attacks. the attacker may not tell anybody else that he is planning it, as you saw here, just a hatchet. that s the only weapon he had. enough to attack, as we saw in canada. shooting on wednesday, a gun. earlier in the week, it was a car, using a car to attack a soldier. john? thanks to jim sciutto for that. jim mentioned of the attack in ottawa. we are learning more about the gunman that shot a soldier and then was kill ed himself by a police officer. michael zehaf-bibeau told a psychiatrist that he wanted to go to jail because it was his only way to break his habit of cocaine. people coming to the national war memorial to honor the life of the young soldier, 24 years old, shot and killed here on wednesday. now we re learning more about the man who killed him, identified as michael zehaf-bibeau. he had online interactions with islamist jihadist but apparently he had a low profile. he does have a criminal record involving drugs and violence and authorities had some suspicions about him but he was not being investigated as someone who was a high risk. he was not classified as an important threat. he came to ottawa october 2nd, was in the process of applying for a passport. what prompted wednesday s attack is unclear. he fired at least two shots at cirillo. he got into his car, drove to the parliament building. we got to see firsthand where he apparently burst through the doors, right through the hall of honor, where members of parliament, even the prime minister, were caucusing. he hid in an alcove behind an arch near the library. that s when we re told the sergeant in arms, kevin vickers, reportedly grabbed a gun from his office just along the corner and crawled along the wall to get into a position to shoot, killing the gunman. he is now being hailed a hero. vickers led this ceremonial parade down the hall of honor. it s a daily ritual, we re told. lawmakers here at the parliament building are telling us they are determined to move forward. they will not be stopped by fear. they want to act on courage and strength and have a steadfast resolve to ensure that the bad guy does not win. swron? thanks, ana cabrera, for that report. ebola taking center stage between the two candidates for u.s. senate. republican scott brown blasting the president for the handling of the outbreak of the ebola virus in the united states. and calling tore faith in the health system. we need to do a travel ban. it makes sense to do a travel ban so that anyone in an infe infected country obviously would come back and get screen. if the experts tell us that s what we need to do and that s workable, that s what we should support. but i m not willing to tell the experts that this is what we have to do. the world series back on tap tonight in san francisco. royals and giants play game three. the series is tied a game a piece after the first two games in kansas city. giants won the opener, 7-1. royals took the second game 7-2. games three, four and five will be played in san francisco. let s get a check of the weather with chad myers. chad? a very good morning to you. weather a little bit better in the northeast today. the farther you go north and east, the worse it gets. better in new york city, philadelphia, even connecticut, so on, as the storm finally will move away through the midwest and more heavy rainfall for the northwest. couple of showers across south florida as well. 79 will be the high in miami. 81 in kansas city for today. 64 in chicago and 64 in new york. that storm across the northeast is long gone. completely out of here and no more effects from that. no more travel problems as well. that s the good news. couple of showers for the midwest, ontario and quebec. that s about it. heavy rainfall, another batch of heavy rain into the pacific northwest. third one in a series of what will be five storms in a row. 65 in new york for your saturday. pleasant 76 with sunshine in atlanta. guys, back to you. thank you so much, chad. a mammoth donation from microsoft billionaire paul allen. $100 million to fight ebola, quadruples an earlier pledge. money will go to agencies like the cdc, world health organization and to projects like ones that evacuate infected health care workers. allen is the largest donor in the fight right now against the deadly disease. we ll have more details on this first ebola case in new york throughout the morning. meanwhile, the battle for kobani rages on. kurdish fighters continue to fight for control of that key city. and now there is word that new help is on the way. stay with us. new help appears to be on the way for kurdish forces. he will allow 200 iraqi kurdish troops to pass through turkey to aid in the battle to save the besieged city. the pentagon says u.s. jets conducting more air strikes against isis and iraq in syria, including four near kobani. this took out isis fighting positions, vehicle and a command and control center. cnn s nick paton walsh is standing by for us on the border between turkey and syria. what s the latest this morning? reporter: well, as you mentioned, they re not en route at all. their numbers still aren t known. they are, it seems, needed down here. we are seeing a situation on the ground which you could interpret as the kurds being increasingly confident. over to the west we saw yesterday that isis had moved toward a key hill there, perhaps even taken it. as dusk fell, an enormous air strike flattened their position there. it s not clear whether actually the kurds have purposely withdrawn to draw them into an ambush with the kurdish flag back on top of that hill, clear control to that strategic west. over to the far east, that s where we re hearing more consistent clashes today, one fighter inside saying that s where a lot of fighting has happened. isis has tried to push in. what is clear on the ground is the center of the city, as it stands at the moment, seems comparatively quiet. resupplied in the last few days by the american air drop may have more ammunition to hold the ground they have, but clearly will want the heavy weapons that these kurdish peshmerga fighters have brought with them if this is approved. isis clearly not giving up on their goal of taking it. kurds still able to hold their ground. john? until those troops arrive from iraq, nick, it is just talk. i am sure the kurdish forces inside kobani want more than just talk. nick paton walsh for us. thank you, nick. the fbi is sounding an alarm for news agencies about the threat to journalists from isis militants. they say they received credible information that members from the isis terror group have been tasked with kidnapping journalists and taking them to syria. seeking to retaliate against the united states for air strikes have identified journalists in the region as desirable targets. after weeks of air strikes, the u.s. is trying to hit isis in the wallet. anti-terrorism chief david cohen says the u.s. is working to cut off its flow of cash, including almost $1 million a day in black market oil sales. cohen was asked by cnn s jim acosta about targeting those involve involved. what s different now frankly is that the oil that previously had moved through these smuggling networks, we now know that that oil finds its origin with isil. anyone involved in the sale of this oil, frankly, assisting isil. funding isil. cohen says isis is probably the wealthiest terrorist organization the united states has ever confronted. he is also calling on foreign governments to refuse ransom payments for hostages, which netted isis $20 million this year. terror group boka haram, isl islamists kidnapped school girls. claims that more than 200 kidnapped girls kidnapped in april by boko haram will soon be released. they were supposed to be set freebie alleged cease fire that had been brokered but boko haram had never said that was a deal at all. and no one has been released. we are bringing you the latest on the first ebola case in new york. how a small plane and helicopter collided at an airport in maryland, leaving three dead. we ll have all the details. 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case of ebola. breaking overnight. a doctor testing positive for the deadly virus after a day after riding mass transit, a day after going to a bowling alley. we have the very latest, coming up. a single ember that escapes from a wildfire can travel more than a mile. that single ember can ignite and destroy your home or even your community you can t control where that ember will land only what happens when it does get fire adapted now at fireadapted.org breaking news this morning. ebola now confirmed in new york city. a doctor in isolation and three others quarantined, including his fiance. questions about extensive movements hours before his diagnosis. a vicious attack on new york police. why officials feel the unprovoked hatchet attack might be terror related. and a hero s welcome to the man credited for stopping what could have been even more bloodshed inside canada s parliament. plus details of the gunman s checkered past and possible ties to terrorism. christine romans is on assignment. breaking news overnight, ebola in new york. american doctor who volunteered for doctors without borders in guinea is in a new york hospital this morning with ebola. dr. craig spencer received a positive test for the virus thursday night after he was rushed by ambulance into isolation at bellevue, a hospital here in manhattan. officials are now tracing his fairly extensive movements in the hours before the diagnosis out in public at a bowling alley, park, restaurant, subway, taxi. public officials called a news conference last night in an effort to alay fears into what they call there is no reason for new york ers to be alarmed. new yorkers who have not been exposed to an infected person s bodily fluids are not at all at risk. we have had a full, coordinated effort that has been working, literally, night and day, coordinating city, state and federal resources, coordinating and drilling from airports to transportations to subway stations to ambulances, to hospitals. so, we are as ready as one could be for this circumstance. there are some pictures circulating this morning from outside spencer s apartment building in harlem that appear to show police officers tossing some protective equipment, gloves, masks, caution tape in open air reseptember alcoholles. we don t know the context fully of these pictures. that aside, cnn s miguel marquez is at spencer s apartment building. this is the apartment of dr. craig spencer. they ve sealed off that apartment. we don t expect anybody to thaent and certainly nobody to exit it until health officials get in there and figure out they need to sanitize anything or need anything else from the apartment, either from the doctor or to destroy it. also in this neighborhood throughout the day, health workers doing two things, informing residents here both in spanish and english how exactly it is that one gets ebola, what you have to be concerned with. the other thing they re doing is taking down information from anyone who may have come in contact with dr. spencer. folks up and down this neighborhood, you show them the picture, they know the guy very quickly, but health officials twoont know if there was any heavier contact with the doctor. now that there s that positive result, they may need to be in contact with some folks just to make sure that they are doing okay. folks in the neighborhood for much of the day didn t seem to care very much that this was going on. once that positive result came back, though, police presence went up a bit. taking pictures of the buildings, expressing concern, in some cases shock that ebola had come to their backyard, to their doorstep. people in the building now saying they re going to take more precautions, be more aware of their own health and if there s anything they can do to prevent getting this disease. john? thank you, miguel marquez at the apartment of dr. krg spencer in manhattan this morning. governor cuomo will be on new day at 7:00 to talk about the response to ebola in new york city. making an appearance in a different african nation. confirmed case in a 2-year-old girl in mali. world health organization say says she was brought there from neighboring new guinea after her father died. she is now in the hospital. out of a madrid hospital, hospital source says they include a doctor, cleaning lady, two beauty salon workers and a friend of ebola survivor teresa romera ramos. 15 specialists are expected to arrive in liberia today to help build and operate ebola treatment centers there. huge new concern for new york police, different concern, terror fears. major concerns about an attack on a group of officers by a man with a hatchet. this surveillance video shows the man charging police with the weapon. two officers were struck, one in the head in critical condition. police are investigating any possible links to terrorism. and they have been on high alert for so-called lone wolf attacks. let s get more now from jim sciutto. this was a brazen attack in broad daylight in queens new york, new york city. four police officers, new york city police officer walking on the street had paused to take a photograph when this man came out, swinging a hatch et and attacked them. one hit in the back of the head, critically injured. the attack identified by police as zale thompson, 32 years old. he was also discharged from the navy for misconduct. what is truly concerning police at this point is they looked at his social media, facebook posts, postings on youtube and found signals that led them to believe this is possibly tied to calls by extremists to attack law enforcement. a heightened level of awareness against random attacks like this one. this is a kind of attack that intelligence officials here have been telling me they ve been concerned for some time that this might happen. of course, the problem is they re very difficult to prevent because they are lone wolf attacks. the attacker may not tell anybody else that he is planning it. as you saw here, just a hatchet. that s the only weapon he had. enough to attack, as we saw in canada. earlier in the week, using a car to attack a soldier. heightened alert for these attacks. jim? we are learning much more about the gunman behind that attack in ottawa in canada that killed a he once told a psychiatrist that he wanted to go to prison because it was the only way to break his addiction to crack. reporter: there has been a steady stream of people coming heefr to the national war memorial and to honor the life of corporal nathan cirillo, shot and killed here on wednesday. now we re learning more about the man who killed cirillo. he has been identified as michael zehaf-bibeau, islamic convert. he had online interactions with islamic jihadists. apparently he had a low profile. he does have a criminal record involving drugs and violence and authorities had some suspicions about him but he was not being investigated as someone who was a high risk. not among the 90 people classified as an important threat. he came to ottawa october 2nd, in the process of applying for a passport and had possible plans to go to syria. what prompted wednesday s attack is unclear. we learn he fired two shots at cirillo. he drove to the parliament building. we got a chance to see firsthand where he apparently burst through the doors, ran right down the hall of honor, even where the prime minister were caucusing. gun shots rang out. eventually he stopped at the end of a hallway, hid in an alcove. the sergeant in arms, kevin vickers, reportedly grabbed a gun from his office, just around the corner, and crawled along the wall to get into a position to shoot, killing the gunman. he is now being hailed a hero. vickers, in fact, led the ceremonial parade down the hall of honor. a daily ritual, we re told. he was given a standing ovation by members of parliament to start their day. they are telling us they are determined to move forward. they will not be stopped by fear. they want to act on courage and strength and have a steadfast resolve to ensure that the bad guy does not win. john? thanks to ana cabrera for that report. contentious debate in new hampshire where ebola took center stage between the two candidates for u.s. senate, scott brown blasting the president s handling of the virus in the united states. that, as democratic incumbent jean sheheen called for public faith in the system. we need to do a travel ban. it makes sense to do a travel ban. anyone who has been in an infected country obviously needs to come back and be screened. a travel ban? if the experts tell us that s what we need to do and that s workable, that s what we should support. i m not willing to tell the experts that this is what we have to do. 40 minutes past the hour. least watched world series resumes in san francisco, kansas city royals and san francisco giants will play game three. the series is tied at one game a piece. the team s split the first two games in kansas city. giants won the opener 7-1. royals took the second game 7-2. games three, four and five will be in san francisco. mammoth donation from microsoft billionaire paul allen, $100 million to fight ebola, quadrupling an earlier pledge. it will go to research and agencies like cdc and world health organization and to projects like one that evacuates infected health care workers. he is now the largest individual donor in the fight against ebola. we ll have more details about the first ebola case here in new york city throughout the morning. but first, a key battle against isis rages on. will those fighting isis soon be getting a helping hand? how turkey has decided to aid in the fight for a key city. that s next. ks about what happens when you turn sixty-five. but, really, it s what you do before that counts. see, medicare doesn t cover everything. only about eighty percent of part b medical costs. the rest is on you. 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reporter: at this stage, no. speaking to those in northern iraq, they say the technical discussions about how, when, who, and how many are still ongoing. more optimistic, though, is the political head of the syrian kurds, fighting to hold kobani. one of them just said to us it s possible we could see them in the next 24 hours. it could take days, though. no concrete timetable. a recognition, too, if those peshmerga do come in, it won t be with ceremony and fanfare. they ll probably make the announcement that they have arrived after they re already inside. we re hearing jets around us and seeing a lot of the clashes now focused on the east and south of the city. that s been where isis have had their strongholds most forcefully in the past few weeks and out to the west where they appeared to make a flourish yesterday, trying to take a strategic hill firmly back in kurdish control and 20 isis fighters were killed by a combination of clashes and the massive coalition air strike we saw land on top of that hill as dusk fell yesterday. the kurds say they sound increasingly confident. they ve had that resupply. they apparently feel bolstered by the notion that the peshmerga are en route. we ve heard skepticism that if they even arrive at all but certainly the case that they feel more confident holding kobani. the fight certainly not over yet. john? 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good morning, welcome to early start. chri it s friday, october 24