shootout facing a judge in just hours as we get new information about what may have triggered that attack. good morning. welcome to early start. i m christine romans. i m alison kosik. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. chaos on the streets of paris. ahead of historic climate talks that begin today. police arrest hundreds following a battle that included protesters throws shoes and bottles from the paris attack memorial. president obama arriving sunday in paris for the talks. visited the memorial at the bataclan theater with president francois hollande. now to the business of hammering out a deal to limit greenhouse gasses. nearly 150 world leaders in town for negotiations and possible deal. president obama hopes this will cement his legacy. he met with chinese president xi
today. police arrest hundreds following a battle that include protesters throwing bottles and candles that came from the paris memorial. officers respond with tear gas. president obama arriving sunday in paris for the talks. visited the memorial at the bataclan theater with the president hollande laying a single flower. how to hammering out a deal to limit greenhouse gasses. almost 150 world leaders in town for two weeks of intense negotiations and possible deal. president obama hopes will cement his legacy. the president just finished a meeting with the chinese president. we have the latest from cnn s phil black. reporter: alison, it is extraordinary this meeting is going ahead at this scale given this is the city that was struck by terrorism two weeks ago. it is a city in lockdown.
and have a right to kill or capture enemy combatants trumps the fact that one or another of those combatants might have u.s. personhood wrapped around them. reporter: and the former ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee is in too, but she wants the administration to be transparent about its legal justification for killing an american without due process. i believe there is a good case. imminent threat beyond our ability to arrest him, the authorization to use military force against al qaeda. he was explicit with al qaeda. but i think the justice department should release that memo. reporter: in fact, two americans were killed in the u.s. attack. the target, anwar al awlaki, a master recruiter linked to several plots against the u.s., including the ft. hood shootings, and an al qaeda propagandist. something eats that the dick cheney, something president obama said in cairo in divine about the u.s. reaction to the 9/11 attacks. the fear and anger that it