by. the middle east not agreeing with the president s decision. you re not agreeing with the president s decision. politicians here in the united states not agreeing with the decision as well. how are people there reconciling all this? reporter: yeah, yasmin, that is the question a lot of palestinians are certainly asking this morning. they are asking of their political leadership. let s talk really quickly about what is happening here. this was the third day of what palestinians were calling days of protests and the friday prayers which everyone was watching very closely have just let out. you can see a lot of the worshippers starting to make their way out of the old city here. some chants in the background. it all comes on the backdrop of some heightened security across jerusalem and we re for the nat to have with us the spokesperson for the israeli police, superintendent mickey rosenfeld. i want to bring him in to get a better understanding of the overall situation. i want to star
here last week over frustration of one of the president s tweets this time there was plenty of talking, just not a lot of agreement. republicans cracking down here on military spending. they want to see that. democrats are looking for immigration concessions. both sides are committed to keeping the conversation going. a lot of work is to be done over the next couple of weeks as the president gets ready to head to pensacola. technically not alabama. it is the same media market. even though the president is not technically campaigning in the territory of roy moore, effectively that s what tonight looks to end up being. after that, the president will head to mississippi to attend a ceremony at a civil rights museum. john lewis is not attending. he has now said, and his office is confirming that he will not go. that s raising a lot of questions. yasmin, back to you zblie like how hallie put it, not
115,000 acres out of the total of 140,000 acres in the region that have burned, more than 400 structures destroyed. and we may have the first death as a result of the fire. a body that was recovered near ojai yesterday, the cause of death and the identity not yet known. so we don t know yet whether it s fire related, but this is continuing. these santa ana winds expected to continue blowing through the weekend so everyone is staying on guard and trying to get a handle on these fires. yasmin? important to heed the warnings there if you are called to evacuate your home you definitely should. as you said these things are moving quite fast. by the way bill karins later is going to have an update on the weather patterns there to i have go us a sense of when this fire could feasibly die down in those areas. scott cohn for us. thank you, scott. hoping those winds continue to die down. all right, turning now, senator al franken is announcing he is stepping down following mounting pressure
we ll maintain the situation and make sure that it doesn t develop into a full-scale riot. but as far as we are concerned, our units are located in and around the different areas and can respond if necessary. reporter: can you tell us a little bit about what has the preparation been like for you for the israeli police? i know from my time covering this in the past, i don t see the same presence that i ve seen in the past on days where we were expecting protests and emotions running high. well, we saw disturbances in the bethlehem area and in and around other areas out of jerusalem. here in jerusalem things have been relatively quiet and calm. but our units are experienced in dealing with disturbances as well as riots that could develop in all scales and sizes. our units are well trained. let s think back to what happened a couple months ago in july when two police officers were murdered on the temple mound. three weeks of incidents where nobody else was killed, no rioters and no po
house speaker paul ryan told reporters yesterday that he also has not changed his position on roy moore. my position has president changed. i have not changed. i think he should have dropped out. i think he should just because the polling has changed doesn t change my opinion on the matter. once again let s go to pensacola, florida where we find vaughn hilliard. good to talk to you again. it is a week before election day. what are both campaigns doing now to sway some of the remaining undecided republican voters? and this is become more of a grassroots effort. are they door knocking to get as many votes as they can? reporter: well, roy moore has nothing on the docket yet, yasmin, up until monday. this has been a very what they call an organic campaign but it s been very much of a campaign reliant on the roy moore name that the public has known here for 30 years. there is far from a robust door knocking phone banking operation. compare that to doug jones, we are told that john l