Morning Brief: November 19

With the holidays around the corner, it's the time of the year for the New York Botanical Garden's annual Train Show. The minature trains whirling around small-scale New York landmarks are a perennial favorite around the holidays--oh, and the Botanical Gardens are always worth a trip too.

NEED TO KNOW

French Investigators Trying to Figure Out if Paris Mastermind Died in Predawn Raid  [Wall Street Journal]

Obama Wary of Allying with Russia Against ISIS  [Washington Post]

Poll Shows Half of New Yorkers Struggle to Get By [New York Times]

Gov. Malloy Welcomes Refugee Family to Syria, Strikes Back at Anti-Syrian Rhetoric  [New York Times]

De Blasio Blasts Chris Christie's Rejection of Refugees  [NY Daily News]

WEATHER

Rainfall likely, highs at 64 degrees

SPORTS

Yesterday

The Nets fell to Charlotte 116-111

Today

The Rangers play Tampa Bay at 7:30

ON STAGE TONIGHT

 WFUV Presents: Rickie Lee Jones @ Concert Hall at NY Society of Ethical Culture

 WFUV Presents: The Weight @ Landmark on Main Street

 Colin Hay @ Town Hall

 Luciana Souza @ 92nd Street YMCA

 Pearl and the Beard @ The Bowery Ballroom

 Billy Joel @ Madison Square Garden

 Richard Shindell @ Union Arts Center

 Meat Loaf @ Bergen Performing Arts Center

 Rhiannon Giddens @ Tilles Center for the Performing Arts

 Ryn Weaver @ Webster Hall

TODAY IN HISTORY

Today in 1863, President Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.