>> reporter: who can't get over these sweet little faces. it will be awhile before the cubs are out here on exhibit. by the way, they won't be named until they reach the 100-day mark. that's according to chinese tradition. for now, they will be known as panda a and panda b. >> "ac 360 starts" now. thank you very much. we begin with breaking news, political, diplomatically and the final runup action against syria. un inspectors will be out of the country and looking more and more likely american cruise missiles would be on the way in. president obama may not have the support of security counsel or great britain norp the majority of the american public. he sounds, however, like a man who decided to act. >> we have consulted with

allies. we have consulted with congress. we've been in conversations with all the interested parties, and in no event are we considering any kind of military action that would involve boots on the ground, that would involve a long-term campaign, but we are looking at the possibility of a limited, narrow act that would help make sure that not only syria but others around the world understand what the international community cares about maintaining this chemical weapons ban and norm. >> limited narrow, no boots on the ground. that's what the president said. there is, however, the capacity for more. barbara starr who joins us shortly learned the uss san antonio is in the mediterranean with 300 troops aboard.

certain, that the facts on the ground will justify the response. >> the american intelligence community has high confidence, high confidence. this is common sense. this is evidence. these are facts. so the primary question is really no longer what do we know? the question is what are we, we collectively, what are we in the world going to do about snit. >> as the intelligence, the white house put out a summery including a death toll from last week's gas attack outside damascus. 1449 killed. they picked up preparations days before the attack and surveillance intercepted video confirmed chemical weapons were used. the inspections leader is scheduled to brief the leader of the u.n. tomorrow but a western

diplomat tells us not disclose preliminary results to the security counsel. the full lab work could take another two weeks. president obama today gave no sign he'll wait for that, slamming what he called the security counsel's incapacity to respond. he spoke with david cameron and france's president. winning support from france but a pledge of continuing friendship from britain, parliament voted against intervention in syria. the president earned conditional support from turkey. the tour kirk prime minister said it would be to drive the assad regime from power. 42% support for military action, 50 percent opposition from many lawmake lawmakers. a lot of ground to cover tonight. let's start with jim acosta. >> the president has not made a final decision on action against syria but a white house official said they feel like they made a

strong case in the event the president calls for a strike on syria. administration is pleased with the response to that intelligence report on last week's chemical weapons or suspected chemical weapons attack. they believe this presentation quote exceeded expectations and a tick toc how the attack took place on august 21st. for what happens next, starting to sound not a question of if but when this official said that quote, everybody acknowledges the gravity of this situation. the president does not take this lightly, and even though they may just have to be settling for the support of world leaders after this action is taken, this white house official i talked to said the president is still prepared to take unilateral action against syria, anderson. >> some said the president's travel schedule could impact the window in which military action is ordered. how so? >> reporter: we understand from listening to the u.n. today is they expect their weapons

inspectors to be out of syria tomorrow morning. that opens up a potential window of opportunity for military action in syria because those inspectors will be out of the country. now, the president goes to russia, of all places, on tuesday for the g 20 summit that will be hosted by valid mir putin s. there is a window 48 to 7 two hours for the president to take action and we're not hearing from administration officials but the rollout that took place today, it feels at this point action is imminent for this president but again, say no final decision. >> is the white house still reaching out to members of congress to get them on board? >> reporter: they are. they say yes, the consultations will continue but feel like those conversations have been had to their satisfaction, at least at this point. anderson, you heard the

president in the cabinet room today. he was asked about two things that he's talked about in the past, something that should be rekwierped before military action. some sort of international corporation. he's probably not going to have that and congressional authorization. he certainly is not seeking that, only consultations. this president is very much going at it alone but his red line, he'll enforce it. >> thanks for the reporting. joining us now, fran townsend who sits on the homeland security and cia external advisory boards, dickty and chief political analyst gloria borsher. we heard from kerry, you know, they are saying quote the high confidence assessment is the strongest position that the u.s. intelligence community can take short of confirmation. what exactly would a smoking gun look like? i mean, is a high confidence assessment enough? >> this was a pretty -- look, anderson, i've looked over

several administrations with classified intelligence and this is a pretty compelling story. i think that with explains why jim is saying the white house is pleased. they see the chemical weapons being mixed three days out. they can trace the rockets coming from the assad regime into controlled areas into 12 different opposition controlled and heavy areas. none of these weapons fall where the regime actually is in control. they then have open media that, you know, social media and open sources that tell you what the effects are shortly thereafter. this is a pretty cop pelling narrative. they have all sorts of intelligence, human intelligence as well as satellite. so i think they are feeling like they've made the best case they can make in terms of using the chemical weapons used by the regime as the trigger for crossing the red line. >> fran, i guess there are people skeptical and say if they saw this in advance and saw this

intelligence about a planned attack, why didn't they do it back then. a lot of this is not analyzed in time, correct? >> that's right. when you have satellite and signals intelligence and human intelligen intelligence, that has to be pulled together and often takes time to understand the picture, the connect the dots part we hear about. >> christopher, you were pretty opposed to this action yesterday. did anything you heard today change that? >> not really because i didn't really doubt that assad used chemical weapons. i don't think that really was a big question. i think we're playing this out a lot because of what happened with iraq, with the failure to find weapons of mass destruction there, but the problem is not whether he used them or not. the problem is will the kinds of actions that are being contemplated have the kind of effect that's being articulated by administration in that i still doesn't believe. >> a warning shot across the

bow. >> assad has his back to the wall. this is a question of survival for him. he'll use whatever means he has at his disposal. the idea to warn him and say we want you to tie your hand behind your back and not use chemical weapons because it's bad but you can go on fighting, well, this is nuts. he's going to use everything at his disposal every chance he gets. in iraq, one of the things weird about the iraq war is that at the end of it, we spent so much time and money looking for weapons of mass destruction. if saddam had them, he would have used them. that's exactly what assad is doing. >> did anything change your mind? >> oh, no, as you know i'm relengthless on this question of syria, we need to intervene and save the syrian people. i have not changed my mind that this intervention that's contemplated by the president will not get the job done and

indeed, you yourself were quoting an important ally, the tour kirk prime minister. he issued an important statement. he shares 550 mile border with syria. he's committed to the over throw of bashar al-assad and he originally has always been barack obama's most reliable and most trusted ally. what does he say now? he says, cruise missiles will not work. we need to campaign. it interesting. what example did he use, which is remarkable? kosovo, we need a kosovo like operation and the aim should be to over throw bizarre al al-- b al-assad. you don't shoot to wound. you shoot to kill. you shoot to kill. and i think president obama wants to shoot bashar to wound. >> there are no good options you said last night. >> none, none. our reputation as a country is

implicated. the reputation and credibility of our president is on the line, and we have to do it. we have -- we have to go with the president. it's his call. it's his call. >> christopher, you're skeptical of the whole idea the credibility is on the line and this is something the president has to do to maintain credibility. >> i'm skeptical of the idea that attack that's being contemplated will restore or protect his credibility. in fact, it can destroy it. if they carry out the kind of thing they are talking about, this limited taylored attacked, and assad stays in power and the war goes on, how does that ensure that he keeps his credibility? i don't see it. he is talking about turkey. i ask myself why are the turks telling us we have to carry out this campaign when the turks themselves have an army with 400,000 soldiers in it? they are nato power. they have enormous resources. if they really think you have to do something to change the regime in syria, let them

participate -- >> i get -- >> volunteering to do. >> i get a lot of e-mails and tweets from people around the world saying why does the u.s. always have to do it? >> it's the fate of the great power. we are the great power and organizer of world order. we provide world order. we protect world order. chris is right, the case of the turks, if they could do more they would but they would follow american leadership saudi. if the united states doesn't do it, no one else will do it and there is something about the obama predicament now where he finds himself. he finds himself alone but you know what, anderson, he's been a man alone from the very beginning. from the very beginning he sought no alie yenlss. he's not really close to leaders. he's always be a solitary figure in the world and prided himself perhaps on that and now he finds

himself without allies. >> gloria, we heard most americans oppose action and eight in ten want congressional approval before military action. does that hold any weight with this administration? any leader will say they don't listen to mopolls, but often th do. >> right, the american public would like to hear the congress and the president are on the same stage, even though of course, they hold the congress in very low esteem. but when push comes to shove. this administration did not ask for the congress to come back. they did not want a vote before the congress because there was the distinct possibility, anderson, that if the congress were to vote on military action, it would not have approved it. so now you have a president who in his past life has said, for example, when bush reauthorized the war in iraq there needed to be a vote on it. now he finds himself isolated to

a degree, and he's dealing with the same kind of post-iraq skepticism that he helped create when he was a senator and candidate for president. >> for both of you, does it seem odd to you the way this has just been so publicly debated by this president or talked about without any action being taken? >> telegraph to bashar al-assad, we don't intend to over throw you or do regime change. >> the message is hunker down and you'll live through snit. >> that's the only thing he cares about. he doesn't care about the faith of his people. it's really about the integrity, the survival of his own regime and of the clan around his own regime. and what we've done ahead of the campaign is to tell him, this campaign does not intend to over throw you. >> well, there is one thing that sort of nags at my thinking about this, and that is actually

an interview i did with the former defense minister of israel a few months ago talking about iran and he said one reasons the israelis calmed down about iran they were convinced by administration it had a lot of school pups it could use. maybe, conceivably we'll see that kind of approach. as it is, you know, if you've ever been on the ground in any of these bombing operations, these modern bombing operations, it is amazing. they are incredibly accurate. but we come back to want question again and again, if we're not going to attack the actual arsenal of chemical weapons, what is it we think we're going to do? >> we'll take a break with that and continue the conversation after the break. barbara starr and james spider marks, join the conversation as well and talk about how the military might actually unfold.

let's talk about this on twitter during the commercial break. at anderson cooper is my twitter handle. how a judge justified sentencing the rapist of a 14-year-old, a girl who took her life. the judge sentenced the man who did this to just 30 days in jail. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] this is jim,

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marines on board in the mediterranean. barbara starr has more. if the president orders military action, there is a very specific sequence of events that takes in. what do you know? could we say? >> good evening anderson. it's called an execute order. that is what everyone is waiting for the president to sign and issue. when the execute order comes from the president it will come to the pentagon to cheuck hagel marty dempsey and go out to the fleet. there are five u.s. navy warships with the tomahawk cruise missiles in the eastern med. they will receive the order and execute it. what is it they will do to achieve the president's objectives, which he states to be detouring the use of chemical weapons, they will strike a series of targets, if ordered. this is all very much already in place. as i say, it's simply awaiting

the president's orders at this point. >> do you know how long from the time that execute order is given to actually missiles going out is? >> that's a really interesting question because you know, the tomahawk missiles are programmed with gps coordinates guided by the satellite to the very precise target they are intended to hit. that's why everybody talks about it as a precision weapon. some of them are already programmed. we believe some may be reprogrammed to the targets may be updated along the way. that's what some of the military sources are telling us tonight. so it's a little bit unclear exactly how long it will take, but it will happen, we're told, very quickly once the order comes. >> also, barbara, i mean, from past attacks we've seen, is there usually a first round and then they count of ases damage, assess where things are and continue rounds? >> yeah, i think that's probably a good bet as to how this will unfieldold essentially. you'll see a first round of

attacks and bda, bomb damage assessment. they will send satellites ahead, gather whatever intelligence they can over the next couple days right after the first round of attacks, see if they achieve their objectives. frankly, did they get everything they wanted to get? did they destroy everything they wanted to destroy on the target list, and if necessary, and if approved, they will come back with a second round of attacks, just as you said, anderson, we've seen this many times before. >> all right. barbara, thanks for the reporting. back with our panel. let me start with you, if the goal is to kind of prevent further use but you're not striking the actual chemical sites, it's kind of a morphus goal so how do you tar get? >> i don't know if anybody said they will not target chemical sites. certainly -- >> so you can do that? >> within the u.s. arsenal we have the capability.

it is not employed as a result of cruise missiles. that doesn't do the job. what does the job is what's called a fair -- a fuel air explosive or bomb. those are released by fixed-wing aircraft. the scenario you just described which is cruise missiles take out the integrated air defenses, takes out the commander control, takes out the delivery systems, in other words blinds assad's reality to react. we ensure degradation is achieved, if not, restrike with cruise missiles and once the dead grags you go after the sites known. the concern is where are the chemical munitions now? they probably are not in the e predesignated sites. >> if the u.s. decided they wanted to wipe out the air force of syria, not institute a no-fly

zone but destroy the air force, is that possible? is it a huge air force? >> it's possible. i would suggest assad probably already disbursed his aircraft. they might even be in iran right now. >> that would certainly be sensible. >> sure. >> it does look like the window for any action is now. >> it's imminent. it's imminent. even if we don't support the president, even if we don't like the way he did it, even if we have all kinds of ideas about his conduct the last 2.5 years, i mean, i think it's interesting when you are taking -- when you take a look at the president and his chief lieutenant in this war, in this effort and that is secretary kerry, secretary kerry is moving. he's spoken of the morality of this issue in very gripping terms, but there is something very interesting about secretary

kerry. this is pending for him because as john kerry as senate of the foreign relations committee in 2009 and 2010 was for the court ship of bashar al-assad. the obama administration said assad is good and a reformer and likes the music of phil colins and lived in england. the bush administration hasn't really courted him. so we courted him for two years and when the ra bell yin broke out, we took our time to say this man has to leave before we found what he's about. >> you have no doubt any chemical weapons attack that took place, anything that's done is the result of bashar al-assad. >> anderson, i'll give you a very good arab express for that. it's not a bird could fly in syria would bashar al-assad or his brother or family knowing.

this man controls the means of destruction. this is his country. he owns it. his father gave it to him. remember, his father's name is havis and he would see him bequeathing the country to his son. everything in the country depend on the will of bashar al-assad. >> what goes into the thinking on a timetable like this? obviously, a lot goes into it, and is it strange in your opinion to kind of have this public debate where it's been telegraphed well, you don't want to -- you know, this is not regime change but a shot across the bow? >> it is odd to say up front before you begin a campaign what you won't achieve and what you're not going to do. why would you signal that to the enemy? the battle plan barbara described, the battle operation, you want to take an assessment. have you been successful?

do you want to go back and strike? in advance of this you want to leave yourself opportunity, right? you want to leave yourself freedom of action. the other thing is look, the president has because of his own view of the iraq war, his own votes and public statements, i think he didn't want to be seen as sort of acting and announcing to the nation something that had already taken place. he's public about coordinating with congress, reaching out to allies multiple times he had multiple conversations with foreign leaders. some on this is he's constrained and politically how he acts but history and experience. >> we'll have another quick break and more with the panel after the break. growing calls for a month monday judge to resign over his handling of a rape case. he's accused of blaming the teenage victim. the sentence he gave the rapist is barely bun nichement at all. we'll be right back.

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tonight president obama may be on the verge of ordering military strike against the assad regime over the use of chemical weapons. in the few minutes we have left on this top pick. general marks, what will you look for in the next 24, 48 hours, what will you watch for in the strike? >> what i would be most interested in is what assad is doing. we gave him ample time to prepare himself for this inevitable strike.

he'll go to black. he'll turn off the system to command control capabilities. he'll do what i would call a rope a dope. he'll take the blow rather than present targets that we can go after. fixed targets, we will attack and he'll do his best to make sure that the international community will see the damage that we're causing. so it will become a humanitarian issue and the issue of the chemical strikes and real raise on debt for the attack will disappear. >> christopher, you see a concern about a widening of this? >> well, i think what almost always happened in the past whether we go after saddam or ka doff fee, there is a dterrorist response and it keeps ratcheting up on both sides until you have in libya for instance the benghazi in '86 and invasion in

panama. they start out little and become big. >> i'll tell you what i would like to see, and i would be looking for. i would like to see the arabs do the right thing. i would like to see them celebrate, if you will, what american power is doing to this brutal man. i don't want to see the arabs doing the usual thing, hide, duck, and say, oh, this is an american invasion of an arab country. they need to disown bashar because that's beginning of redemption for them. >> fran, what will you watch for? >> we have to be careful to watch for retaliation. what will bashar al-assad do? will he take action against his own people and release chemical weapons. what will he visit? who horror will he visit on the syrian people as a result? >> appreciate it. general marks, thank you-all. coming up, calms for a montgomery judge to resign after he sentenced a teacher to 40 days for raping his 14-year-old

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welcome back. in "crime and punishment" tonight, anger, protest and calls for a judge to resign. how did a teacher get sentenced to just 30 days in jail after he admitted to repeatedly raping a student? he was 49 years old at the time. she was 14 years old. and why in the world would a judge say that the victim, a child, quote seemed older than 14, as if that had any bearing on anything and quote it seems to me was as much in control of the situation as he said the adult authority figure who raped her? the victim isn't here to stand up for herself because she committed suicide and prosecutors are looking for a way to fight the sentence. ran dayca randi kaye reports.

>> reporter: in 2007 this high schoolteacher raped morlaes, then a 14-year-old student. stacy rambold was charged with three counts of sexual intercourse without consent. what happened next was even more tragic. just before her 17th birthday in 2010, she took her own life. a mother lost her beloved daughter, and prosecutors lost their star witness. so prosecutors cut a deal. they would forgo jail time if rambold admitted to one of the rape charges, completed an outpatient sex offender program and stopped contact with minors. in december the deal fell apart after prosecutors learned rambold was terminated from the sex offender program. he had unsupervised visits with teens in his family and sexual relations with at least one adult without notifying authorities so prosecutors refiled felony rape charges against him.

he was in court for sentencing on monday when the case took another strange turn. the judge shocked the courtroom when he ordered rambold to serve 15 years with 31 days suspended. an admitted rapist sentenced to a month in jail. morlaes' mother blames him for her daughter's suicide. >> he broke the law, confessed and got to walk away. >> reporter: the judge made matters worse when explaining saying morlaes was quote as much in control of the situation as the teacher. judge baugh also said the girl seemed older than her chronological age. >> who is he to decide she's older than her chronological age? she was 14 chronologically.

>> reporter: two days later the judge apologized. >> i'm not sure what i was attempting to say at that point, but it didn't come out correct. what i said was demeaning to all women, not what i believe in, and irrelevant to the sentencing. i owe all our fellow citizens an apology. >> reporter: it was too late. outrage on social media and buildings became ground zero for protest against the judge. >> our community will not stand for victim blaming language anymore. [ applause ] >> reporter: this protest organizer started a move on.org petition calling for the judge to step down. tens of thousands have signed it in support. >> he is a person who fails so deeply to understand the experience of victims. we feel that he ought to step down from his position as district court judge. >> reporter: montana's national organization for women agrees. >> i want justice. i want the judge removed, and i

want the sentence changed. >> reporter: judge baugh said the anger following the sentencing is quote perfectly understandable, indicating he has no plans to step down. he intends to stay on the bench until at least next year when his term ends. randi kaye, cnn new york. >> joining me now live is mark geragos, author of "mistrial, a look at how the criminal justice system works and how sometimes it doesn't." explain to me how a former teacher admitting to rape and violating a plea agreement is sentenced to 15 years but serves 30 days in jail? >> the thing that's really amazing to me about this case is i understand completely and i'm on board with everybody getting upset about what the judge said, even the judge has conceded that what he said, you know, was almost nonsensical.

what i don't understand is nobody rewinds this to the original plea agreement. randi talked about the original plea agreement he got for the original was no jail time, absolutely none. why aren't people protesting and ask the prosecutor resign with the judge. if the activity of raping and understand what this judge said was, well, it wasn't forcible. you know, blah, blah, blah, she had this chronological age, all of that is non-sense when you're below the age of consent. but the fact remains, the original plea bargain by the prosecutor was no jail time, zip initially only because this guy violated the plea agreement got terminated from the program did the judge end up giving him 30 days to begin with. >> how does that happen? how does that plea agreement get -- i mean, how do prosecutors think that's a good idea? is it not getting it? >> no, i think what happens here

is ultimately, when she commits suicide, you know, this poor girl, the prosecutors understand at that point and i don't know about the exact nuances but if they did not have her testimony preserved, she's dead. they can't get that statement in to be subject to cross-examination. so therefore, their case falls apart. so rather than just dismiss, they say okay, take a deal, we'll let you do no jail time. that sets it up for what this judge did because when the prosecutors telegraphed to the judge we don't think this case is worth very much, we're not asking for jail time, he violates the plea agreement, the judge thinks okay i'll give him jail time it's like they set the bar so low that he, you know, thinks it's okay to give 30 days. >> i got to read one other things he said. he said the rape wasn't quote, some violent forcible horrible rape, as if -- i mean, it is just unbelievable again.

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hey, welcome back. public school kids return to the classroom from chicago and for many that meant going to a different school because dozens were closed at the end of last term. many parents are on edge kid haves to travel to a different neighborhood, some with gun violence. >> reporter: the first week of school and sidewalks are busy again in chicago with kids headed to class, but some are stepping out of their comfort zones this year. >> well, this particular route here, it's a high-crime area. >> reporter: vicki's kids are among the more than 12,000 students who will be attending new schools this year because of

budget cuts. but to get to their new school, they will have to walk through some of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods. the city solution, the safe passage program. >> days ago five people got shot and one died. normal people. they were saying actually the folks were getting a meal. they were picking up a meal at the time of the shooting. >> reporter: and this is the route your kids will walk to school on? >> this is the route that they claim would be a safe zone for my kids to walk to school. do i feel this is a safe zone? i don't. i don't. i don't feel this is a safe zone, the best route for my children to take. >> reporter: saturday, a 14-year-old boy was shot and killed a block away from a safe passage route and in the past few days, there have been more shootings on or near safe passage routes. >> we not in afghanistan or iraq but kids call chicago shiraq.

>> reporter: they insist kids will be safe. what do you tell parents worried about kids going on these new routes to different schools? >> i say see these vests, they will be on every route the demographi demographics, they will see us in the morning, afternoon and evening. >> reporter: safe passage started as a result of the fatal beating of a high school honor student albert in 2009 as he made his way home from school. this year the program was forced to expand due to the closure of 50 schools. the nearly 16 million dollar program has doubled routes and staff, 1200 workers lined the routes this week, armed with only vests and cell phones, their job is to ensure students get to and from school safely. school officials make the point all of the shootings happen during non-school hours and say safe passage is successful, no

child has been hurt or killed since the program started but all the violence lately gave some parents reason to worry. >> i think all of this is just for them to defend that they close 50 schools. >> reporter: she took matters into her own hands, mapping out a different route for her kids. but even with that, she knows that getting to and from the new school can be a gamble. george howell, cnn, chicago. >> just getting to school. let's get caught up on other stories. randi kaye has more. >> an 18-year-old man found guilty of murder for shooting a baby during a robbery. he could face life in prison. a judge announced aaron hernandez will be arraigned next week on murder charges. he's accused of killing odin lloyd in june. north korea with drew the invitation to request the release of ailing imprisoned american ken net bay.

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time new for "the ridiculist." i'll ask you to ponder a question, if you could only have one of the five senses, which would you choose? maybe hearing to enjoy music and the laughter of children. you're wrong, there is only one correct answer and it comes from the spring which is the source for thinking, the interview portion of a beauty pageant. list and learn from a contestant in the philippines pageant. >> if i had to pick from the five senses i would pick seeing because seeing is the best sense that we can ever see because seeing is believing and

believing into what you see is perfect and, out of all the senses, seeing would really be wonderful because -- thank you, that will be it. >> you have to admit. it's hard octo argue with her logic. seeing is the best sense that we can see. i feel the beauty pageants represent what could be use in educational and diplomatic situations. take for instance about what ms. utah was asked about men earning more than women. >> we can relate it back to education and how we're continuing to try to strive to figure out how to create jobs right now. that is the biggest problem and i think especially the men are

seen as the leaders of this, so we need to try to figure out how to create education better so that we can solve this problem. thank you. >> fine, fine, create education better, teaches america you have your new slogan. what better way to let them listen to the times, why can't a fifth of americans find the united states on a map? >> i personally believe that u.s. americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and i believe that our education, like such as south africa and iraq, everywhere such as and i believe that they should -- our education over here in the u.s. should help the u.s. -- or should help south africa and should help the iraq and asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our children.

>> thank you very much. >> still hurts. now look, some may cringe but i say look deeper. look beyond the gowns and crowns and grab a fork and pick through the word salad and you will always find the croutons of wisdom on "the ridiculist." tune in an hour from now at 10:00 p.m. "piers morgan live" starts "piers morgan live" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com this is piers morgan live, i'm wolf blitzer in for piers tonight. we want to well ccome our cnn viewers tonight in the u.s. and around the world there is breaking news in the show down with syria. president obama making a case for a military strike possibly. he says there is clear proof the regime was behind the use of deadly chemical weapons. the president also says he has not yet made a final decision on his military options, but he certainly appears to be moving closer and closer to ung