change. we knew that would happen, but official recognition. this is the climate change conference that starts at end of november. heads of state are scheduled to arrive the first two days of december. there were calls by some to postpone it. it was too dangerous. the situation was too tense in paris. this is not a small summit. this is tens of thousands of delegates who will be arriving in paris over several days. the actual summit itself is two weeks long. the heads of state portion of it is only, i believe, 48 hours. we are hearing reports there may be some of the events, sideline events of the summit will be modified or scaled back. there may be some impact on this summit. the french leader will travel and leave france to meet with president obama in washington. i imagine those high profile
know now, now that he is trotting his brother out openly on the campaign trail. and tonight in washington, d.c., as we speak, i think, former vice president dick cheney is out there, too. he is the keynote speaker tonight at the national republican party s biggest fundraiser of the year. the nrcc annual mardener raises millions of dollars for republican candidates. the republican party s biggest such gig of the year. the man they chose to give their keynote this year, tonight, is former vice president dick cheney. and this follows several high profile meetings with him. they keep inviting dick cheney back to capitol hill to meet over and over with republicans. sometimes they led him in wearing a cowboy hat. dick cheney is also having a big round of press in the conservative media. you might have heard about him
partially blocked traffic today in washington, d.c. a group of about 20 people formed a human chain across the 14th street bridge briefly shutting it down. activists are calling for students to walk out of school and employees to walk off the job nationwide at the top of the hour we re on that. we re also waiting for news on several profile meetings today at the white house. the president is holding a cabinet meeting about the protests and will meet with civil rights leaders this afternoon and also we re keeping an eye on the stock market. stocks taking a hit today. we have some disappointing news on retail sales as thanks giving and christmas shopping season kicked off. we ll discuss that and tell you about shopping on this cyber monday. it s all coming up happening now. thank you, jon. thank you. millions of americans are firing up their computers today for cyber monday as retailers hope to make up for lack luster
the afternoon. president obama holding a series of high profile meetings at the wours centered around the violent protests in ferguson, missouri that lead to this and the demonstrations across the nation. the white house said the president is sitting down with lawmakers and law enforcement officials plus other community leaders to try to talk over new ways to strengthen neighborhoods. earlier today the president met with young civil rights leaders to discuss what the white house calls mistrust between police and minorities. another meeting focus order the administration s federal programs that provide military style equipment to the police. the white house said the review has shown, in many cases, the programs are useful and help protect communities. what is needed, however, is much greater consistency in oversight of these programs. primarily in how the programs are structured, how they re implemented, and how the programs themselves are automated. a report shows the president p
andretti was leading with three laps to go and finished third. congratulations to ryan hunter-reay. the annual rolling thunder motorcycle rally reving up today in our nation s capital. also pope francis holding some high profile meetings in the holy land, calling for peace between aa ancient enemies. my hope is this holy land by exploiting the value of their own religious tradition prove intolerant and violent towards others. bla blacks doing this all day, my feet and legs got really tired.