>> good morning i'm morgan radford. these are some of the stories we're fog at this hour. in an address to the nation, president obama makes the case for mill tr military action agat syria while opening the door for diplomating action. nations call for syria to hand over its chemical weapons. on the anniversary of the 911 attacks, shanksville, ohio,

prbltiomemorial. >> in his speech to the nation tonight, president obama officially changed course. he asked congress to delay a vote to authorize a military strike against syria and said he'll spend time exploring russia's plan for syria to destroy chemical weapons. military action against the government of liter bashar al-assad is in the core united states interests. >> if we fail to act, assad will, it could be easier for terrorist organizations to obtain these weapons. >> but even as he made his way for strikes the president announced that he would ask

congress to but aside his request to use them. while brokering a deal with russia. >> this initiative has the potential of removing chemical weapons without the use of force. >> to take control of its chemical weapons. >> we are ready to announce the location of the chemical weapons to stop production of chemical weapons and to show these production facilities to representatives of russia and other united nations member states. >> secretary of state john kerry and his russian counterpart sergei lavrov will meet on tuesday. >> we're waitering for that proposal. but we're not waiting for long. president obama will take a hard look at it.

but it has to be swift. it has to be real. it has to be anniversary verifi. if the united nations security council seeks to be the vehicle to make that happen, that can't simply become a debatable society. there must be a contingency plan if the credit united nations does not are make good its promises. >> meanwhile i've ordered our military to maintain their current posture to keep the pressure on assad. and to be in a position to respond if diplomacy fails. >> that was white house correspondent mike viqueira. a diplomatic solution can be reached only if the proposed strike against syria the is taken completely off the table.

>> obviously this all make sense and will work only if we hear the american side and all those who support the united states reject the use of force. because it is hard to force any country, syria or any other country, to department i disarmy way, this will be a good step towards the peaceful resolution of the crisis. >> so far, russia seems to be going along with syria's proposal. >> we are ready to announce the location of the chemical weapons. to stop production of chemical weapons and to show these production facilities to representatives of russia and other are united nations member states. >> it demands syria grant u.n.

inspectors access to all chemical weapons sites personnel and equipment. it also threatens syria with certain necessary measures for failure to comply and gives 15 days for the explanation of its entire program. al jazeera's libby casey brings us that part of the story from capitol hill. >> from members of the house of representatives in districts stretches from alabama to california the president's speech did not move the needle. members say if they were post officed to the are situation they still do. both on the diplomacy front and using the potential threat of a strike in syria as something to use as a bargaining chip or potentially even do. those members say they are still in the president's camp. things are on hold on capitol hill as members watch to see how

the broader diplomacy effort holds. secretary of state kerry and his counterpart later this week, so far no votes in the house. the attention is turned to the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, what they will be thinking about, the anniversary of 9/11 and then other legislative business as they see how the diplomatic efforts unfold. today is the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and since then, the government has spent billions of dollars for protection. as ali velshi reports. >> america's security sector is booming. the government spends nearly six times what i.t. did in 2001 in

the fight against terrorism. fueling the nation's growing security apparatus. homeland security accounted for more than half a trillion dollars in the last date. since september 11th there has been a steady growth, what you can do with a technical degree, military background, security clearance. >> adding thousands to its payrolls, u.s. intelligence spending has grown. the private sector has added $280 billion to the market, bolstering to cybersecurity and hardware. that turns bedroom communities of the nation's capitol into transportation hubs. >> there are new people new ideas. >> for those like kevin lenane that spells opportunity. two years ago, he start ed his

only video analysis company in arlington, virginia. are using complex algorithms. and that's caught the eye of the security industry. >> let's say you're looking at syria and 10,000 videos a day. i see the presence of this particular weapon is 3% through month of june then all of a sudden in july 10,000 videos a day we see the jump. >> over the past two decades it's not just overseas, surveillance cameras are dot the landscape. they raise questions about what level of privacy we can come to expect. >> american companies have basically been compelled to work with the defense establishment and community to provide critical intelligence for the nsa potentially in the

experience of their own interest. >> ali velshi, al jazeera, new york. >> and we'll have special coverage of the september 11th anniversary starting later this morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. one yore has passed since the attack on benghazi, libya, now officials say they have afternoon item who was responsible. several extremists were responsible, the group selected the benghazi outpost ahead of time. officials are no closer to finding out why the attack happened. are >> well we have had a lot of rain across the southwestern part of the united states, rain in arizona and new mexico. radar summary, all of that rain

there, things across the northeast, really going to be the temperatures today, that are coming up. slight rain showers are expected across the northern parts but these are just these building up afternoon thunderstorms we'll see there. new york at 92°, philadelphia at 93 and washington not far behind at 94. when you factor in the humidity, these temperatures are going to feel a lot warmer than this. up to the north though, look at montreal, 69° for you there. as we look at the forecast look at the big change we'll be looking at here. dropping all the way down to 74° by the time we get to the end of the week. over towards florida we do have a little bit of a disturbance off the coast, you can see a counterclockwise turn, showers along the east coast of florida really not bringing too much in terms of accumulation there. it's going to keep the temperatures down just slightly.

orlando expect to see about 90, down towards miami how about 88 for you and key west, 86. orlando a big drop in temperatures by the time you get to sunday. 87 to all the way down to 80 as your high. then very quickly over towards texas, rain showers down towards the south, a little bit dryer conditions up to the north, parts of new mexico, temperatures down, you can see albuquerque, about 80° there. dallas over the next couple of days 96 on wednesday and by the time we get to saturday about 96 as well. politicians in the line of fire. we'll have the results of a recall election in colorado that was all about gun laws. plus damaging new evidence that suggests the nsa may be listening on your phone conversations. and ringing up a new business. the very first smartphone manufacturing company that's made in the u.s.a, well, sort

of. we'll explain coming up.

>> it's been 40 years since a coup that brought general augusto pinoche to power. as lucia newman reports, the anniversary is rekindling are memories of a very dark are time in the couple. >> there was a dramatic 11th of september. it was also on a tuesday morning. a bloody u.s. military coup in chile, that overthrew salvador

allende, 40 years have passed, not more than enough for alley kuntzman to recall. >> this is the part of the stadium where the locker rooms were, where the prisoners were kept. a lot of the women were raped not just once but by packs of soldiers. >> more than 30,000 people suspected of ties with the fallen government were brought here. including manuelme mendez. a former factory worker. >> no one can enter but us and guests like you. >> today the national stadium has been totally remodeled except for this part in honor of the victims, the original gate and wooden benches have been preserved. the place for political prisoners were sometimes allowed to get fresh air.

but manuel mendez is still haunted by his experience. >> we carry a heavy load of memories feelings of bitterness and sadness and humiliation. >> chile in 1990 began confronting the truth of the 30,000 people who were tortured or kill. today chile is a modern society, certainly by american standards. there are too many people whose missing loved ones have never been found and too many perpetrators of human rights violations never been brought to justice. candidates to the presidency seem to underscore, an ideologic divide. michelle are bacheley is the

daughter of a rival, who died in priz open. a member of the military junta who has contributed to a national catharsis spurred by the national anniversary. now for the first time some of the staunchest advocates have been asking for forgiveness. which may finally help to heal chile's wounds. al jazeera, santiago. colorado senate president john morse and state senator angela heron both democrats voted in favor of tighter gun restrictions, this following last year's mass shootings in aurora, colorado and in newtown

connect,. tried to force recall elections but those efforts failed. public advocate bill deblasio won the most votes for new york's mayor on tuesday. but it's unclear whether he will require a runoff. the oner needs at least 40% of the vote in order to avoid a runoff against the second place finisher. on the republican side joe loda the former head of the mta was the winner. the winner will replace mayor bloomberg. all americans for nearly three years, al jazeera's tom ackerman said the court released the release of those documents. >> these documents declassified by the obama administration lent

support to the nsa whistle blower edward snowden set the nsa had misrepresented itself to the secret court that authorized the tracking of all kinds of phone information. not actual wiretaps but the names of americans who were called and justified that on the basis there was reasonable supposition that it was connected to terrorism. when in fact the nsa admitit had not known how to operate the program in violation of the court and had never told the court. these violations or disclosures came almost four years after the actual violations of the federal court but they do spur the demands for some kind of reform of the retire surveillance program. -- entire surveillance program.

>> google has lost a legal battle involving privacy, google collected people's private information and they did it by tapping into home wifi systems as google drove will you neighborhoods for its street map program. the company could face millions in fines. expect long lines outside apple stores, because apple has revealed two different iphones. unlocking a screen without typing in a pin code, there will also be a lower priced version of the iphonement 5. comes in a plastic body and available in a variety of colors. on the same day apple unveiled the new iphone, a smartphone manufacturing facility in the northwest,

higher dizhou castro reports. >> this is the motor x product that is assembled in merrick. >> the motox assembly project hums with 2500 workers. the plant's operator singapore based flextronix assembled the plant in six months. >> to have this plant is a great achievement, something i am very proud of. >> eight years ago this was a nokia plant but then nokia decided to move its assembly plants to mexico and asia. >> we were very surprised that of the 150 smartphones in the u.s. none of them were made here. >> motorola and parent company google saw an opportunity. >> google is a place we take

bets. this is a bet we're taking on america, on texas, on this incredible workforce that's assembled here. we think this is a very, very safe bet. >> according to the product research firm ihs, the manufacturing cost of the moto x is three to $4 more than its overseas competitors. the total production cost is $9 more than the apple's iphone 5 but $7 less than the galaxy credit phone x. >> how do you balance it out so the costs average? >> what's really driving the cost of the devices is certain components but also the innovation that's gone into the product. so we're able to do some things in the design of our product that keep our costs down. >> some of the innovations are not u.s. born. samsung makes the touch screen,

japan's toshiba makes the flash. >> that's the reality of the global product and the global supply chain. >> nevertheless, the motox bears the label, made in u.s.a, he claims more states should follow texas's example of low taxes and low regulation, to lure companies back to american soil. >> anyplace in the world they could have chosen to build the facility. but they chose texas. >> for now motorola says the plant is shipping out 100,000 phones a week. hydey zhou castro, al jazeera, texas. the plant will create 2500 jobs across the region. and one state is turning opot to boost its bottom line. how colorado plans to turn marijuana into a financial boom.

and the show might not go up in a famous new york city opera house. how much it needs to raise to keep the doors open.

>> north and south korea have agreed to reopen a joint industrial complex on a trial

basis. it's being reopened because of renewed peace talks between the two countries. the plant located just inside the north korean border was shut five months ago amid tension. the plant will open next monday. marijuana entrepreneurs in colorado could soon get a boost in business. the state has just become the first to finalize rules for recreational marijuana business. they are expected to open their doors next year and the rules released by the colorado department of of revenue includes everything from pot shop advertising. one of new york's best known opera houses may be forced to shut down at the end of this season. the city opera has been in financial trouble for almost a decade now but now the situation is even worse and the arts community is asking the community for help.

cath turner has more. >> when new york city opera was launched 70 years ago, then mayor la guardia dubbed it the people's opera, now the company needs the public more than ever. in a severe money shortfall threatens its very existence. >> we cannot run a deficit, we will simply closed. >> managed to balance the company's last two annual budgets but it's not enough. ♪ >> it needs $7 million by the end of this month. if that goal is not achieved three productions planned for the rest of this season will be cancelled. and if the company can't raise a total of $20 million by the end of this year its entire 2014-2015 season will be wiped out. unlike other cultural cities nyc opera can't rely on the public

for help. >> maybe we make $25,000 or maybe we don't but in many european countries there are very significant federal subs st can help the advice is attitude $of we don't have those issues. >> what the company really needs are a few generous donors to sign a few checks. new york city opera does not have a permanent home, instead it appears here, that could be part of the problem. fred plotkin has been living and breathing opera almost his entire life. >> when you have a subscription audience used to receipts and days of the week they come out

of tradition. but if you have to find your opera company in four different theaters throughout the season they're not going to do that. they want familiar seats. they want to go where they know. >> new york city has launched the careers of some of the biggest names opera but resources and opportunities for future generations are singers appear to be fading. unless the public can save it from a final curtain call. ♪ >> cath turner, al jazeera new york. rankings are in from the u.s. news and world report. princeton harvard and yale ranked as top countries, top u.s. school is u.c. berkeley. with the changes penn state made the biggest gain since last year. and this will do it for this edition of al jazeera news.

i'm morgan radford. real money with ali velshi is next. remember, news at the top of every hour. thanks so much for watching.