The storm has already led the flooding, high winds, low temperatures and heavy snow in several states. New Mexico would be one of hardest hit areas this weekend with slowing icy conditions. New Mexico emergency management spokesman Estevan Lujan says the state wide effort is underway to prepare for the storm.

 

The state police are actively monitoring all highways and interstates, just make sure that condition in state if there are incomplete or impossible that closing the roads.

 

The storm is responsible for at least four deaths, three in California and one in Arizona. The weather system is expected to move to the southeast over the next two days and end up on the east coast where it should die out just before Thanksgiving. Sam Sanders, NPR News.

 

Delegates at UN climate talks in Poland reached a last minute compromised today. This is after discussions deadlock when China and India arguing that the developing nations should not have to commit to cutting the same among of greenhouse gas emissions as developed nations. From Warsaw, the BBC’s Matt McGrath reports that is one compromise among many aimed a larger global deal in 2014. 

 

After an hour long huddling at the corner of the hall, a compromise was found where the word “contributions” was substituted for “commitments”. It may seem like trivial detail but it allows the richer countries to continue to claim that a new deal will apply to all, while for India and China it allows them to maintain that their obligations will be very different from the likes of the US and the European Union. This was a key moment of compromise, but many others will be required before the work is done in Warsaw. A new deal in Paris is still a very long way away.

 

The BBC’s Matt McGrath.

 

Delegates to Afghanistan’s Grand Assembly Loya Jirga say they expect to overwhelmingly approve security agreement that allow US troops to stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014. NPR’s Sean Carberry reports the 2,500 delegates concluded deliberations today and are due to deliver their final reports tomorrow.

 

Delegate Said Jawad, the former ambassador to the US, says there was heated debate in his committee over some provisions of the agreement. Still all the provisions passed, including one placing American troops under US legal Jurisdiction. 

 

 

Although for 36 members, four members verdict against it, surprisingly majority of the support came from the area that most of the fighting are taking place.

 

NNNN who give only one name says her committee has a message for President Hamid Karzai who announces he would not sign the agreement until after the presidential election next April.

 

We need to sign that, we need to sign that now.

 

Other delegate say they will not perfect to agreement is good for Afghanistan. Sean Carberry NPR News, Kabul.

 

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In northwest Pakistan, thousands of demonstrators turn out today to protest US drone strikes. They blocked crucial road that NATO used it to ferry supplies and equipment in and out of Pakistan. Meanwhile a legal battle is taking shape in Pakistan over the doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden. From Islamabad, NPR’s Philip Reeves reports Shakil Afridi is charged with murder. 

 

The murder charge against Afridi stems from allegations involving a teenage boy who died after the doctor operated on him. The boy’s mother filed complaint. The boy actually died in 2006 and Afridi’s lawyers want to know why it is taking so long for the accusation to surface. They are vowing to put up Afridi’s legal battle. The doctor has already been sentenced to 33 years in jail over allegations of military links but that verdict was recently overturned as unsound. He still in prison though, awaiting a retrial. Afridi’s case is adding to the friction between Washington and Islamabad. US official preached he was a hero for his role in helping track down Bin Laden and to press for the doctor’s release. Philip Reeves, NPR News, Islamabad.

 

In Venezuela, thousands of protestors took to the streets, expressing outrage over food shortages and soaring inflation. They are also protesting a new law that allows the country socialist President Nicolas Maduro to rule by decree on economic matters. Maduro is blaming speculators for the more than 50% inflation and he has been ordering stores to drastically reduce prices. Opposition leader Henrique Capriles who narrowly lose April’s presidential election to Maduro called the day of protests ridiculous.