we ran out of time. that does it for us. "early start" begins now. leaders set to collide over syria in hours. president obama and russian president vladimir putin come face-to-face. can he sell to the political adversary as well as the rest of the world? >> it doesn't feel right. there's no note. >> found hanging from a bed sheet in his prison cell this morning. new questions raised about the suicide of a cleveland kidnapper, ariel castro. >> it was like a split second

and it just happened. >> lucky to be alive. the only way to describe this guy. an suv smash sboog a gas station. how this customer's forgetfulness saved his life. it pays off. >> i knew forgetting was going to pay off for me. good morning, happy new year. i'm john berman. >> i'm michaela pereira. >> we are going to begin with the latest on syria. the pressure mounts day by day on whether to support military strikes. this morning the epidemic of the crisis is in st. petersburg, russia. the leaders of g-20 dead set. this could be a gathering to say the least. in a few hours, a moment that could be remarkable for stage clash and friction. >> president obama scheduled to shake hands with vladimir putin.

will it be more than an icy stare? brianna keeler is in st. petrsburg. >> reporter: president obama and russian president vladimir putin are set to come face-to-face at the meeting of g-20 leaders as issues bloom over syria. obama defending his position to launch strikes. >> i didn't set a red line. the world set a red line when governments of the world population said the use of chemical weapons are not right. >> reporter: putin is opposed casting doubt over the evidence the u.s. government has over the syrian regime. >> translator: if we have objective, data of who is responsible for the crimes, we will react. >> reporter: russia is not alone. britain and germany endorsing

military action. >> we will have a bad patch if there is a military attack on syria. i think we can expect some frosty time. >> reporter: russia and syria have been strong allies for decades. >> russia is very close to syria. they provide and buy weapons from each other. they are a client state. >> reporter: the conflict over syria, just the tip of the iceburg in the rift between the world leaders. obama canceled his private meeting with putin several weeks ago after he refused to extradite edward snowden. while in st. petersburg, he plans to meet with gay rights activists on putin's turf over the new law of promoting gay relationships between minors. relations between putin and obama rocky. >> we hit a wall in progress. >> meanwhile, top administration

officials are expected back from capitol hill today for closed door briefings in the house and senate detail whag they know about the weapons attack in syria and what the administration wants to do to send a message to the assad regime. a house panel was less than hospitable to secretary of state john kerry. he was peppered with questions from skeptical members. >> is the power of the executive branch so intoxicating you abandon pulling a trigger on military response so quickly. >> i volunteered to fight for my country. that wasn't a cautious thing to do when i did it. we are talking about people being killed by gas and you want to talk about benghazi and fast and furious. >> many asking secretary kerry, what happens next, if the u.s. gets involved and could it lead

to another long war? those are among the questions chris cuomo and his guests will discuss tonight as he hosts, a crisis in syria, a cnn town hall. it's at 9:00 eastern here on cnn. >> an independent panel says it state department did not pay enough attention to security embassies and consulates overseas. it does not specifically address the benghazi attack, but recommends they make security more of a priority. four americans, including the u.s. ambassador to libya died in the attack september 11, 2012. instability in egypt leading top national security advisers to suspend spending hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to that country. egypt receives $1.5 billion in u.s. aid each year. the president is expected to wait until congress votes on a

syria strike before making a decision on providing less aid to egypt. bradley manning is now seeking a presidential pardon. documents reveal manning said he did it quote, out of love for my country and sense of duty to others. he's sempb serving a 35 year sentence. he reveals he wants to live his life as a woman and be called chelsea, now. the white house says mannings pardon request will be considered like any other. to the investigation into the death of ariel castro, the cleveland man who admitted to holding three women captive for years. he was supposed to spend the rest of his life in jail. many are asking how he wound up hanging with the bed sheed inside a state prison. >> reporter: alt one point, prosecutors threatened the death penalty against castro. in the end, authorities say he delivered it to himself.

ohio corrections officials resport castro committed suicide. they found him at 9:20 p.m. tuesday. the question for many is, how could it happen? he was separated from the prison population and supposedly under protective custody, checked every half hour. his family is shocked. they don't have suspicions but do that questions. the family has raised that question. it doesn't feel right. there's no note, we don't know, did he write a suicide note? >> reporter: authorities aren't giving details. an investigation is under way. his mother and sister last visited him ten days ago and noticed a change, the clear signs of depression. >> his body language, tone of voice, his conversation, he wasn't as conversational.

>> a missed warning? perhaps. good riddance say most in the street and online. this man couldn't take for even a month a small portion of what he dished out for more than a decade. castro's family gets it. listen to his brother-in-law as he verbally walks a painful tight rope between justice and the family's love for the man they knew long ago. >> the world in general feel they are rid of a monster. but to the family, the family has lost a son, a father, a grandfather, an uncle, a brother-in-law. and even though he did all these bad things and the family does not condone that, you cannot change human behavior.

they will and they must grieve the loss of their loved one. >> reporter: but, they will do it privately, no funeral, no wake, no service. not wanting to revive the suffering of his victims, gina dejesus, amanda berry and michelle knight. martin savidge, cnn, cleveland. >> still so many questions. >> so many questions and having to relive that pain, again. they are just beginning the healing process, which is set to be a long one. >> nine minutes after the hour now. don't blame pot growers for starting that really, really big fire near yosemite national park. it's not their fault. federal authorities insist it was not the cause and lightning wasn't behind the blaze, either. it could take months to determine the reason that fire started. it remains 80% contained.

it's burned 237,000 acres. >> it's amazing to find out the exact ignition point. indra petersons is tracking the forecast. let's talk about the weather out west. things are changing. >> a big storm, early for the season in the pacific northwest. we are talking heavy rain in places like washington. they could see three to five inches of rain. three inches as you move into idaho. this could also affect the yosemite fire. the reason is they are watching a cold front. notice that. with that, we are talking about the potential for stronger winds in the area. we are also watching for severe weather through washington and idaho. most likely against strong winds, big thunderstorms. a chance for an isolated tornado not out of the forecast. again, here is the cold front. the reason i brought that up is i want to talk about the wind chances around yosemite. they are higher, 15 to 20 miles per hour.

some gusts about 30 miles per hour. it's tricky for the firefighters in the region. the big news everyone is talking about, tropical storm gabrielle. the heavy rains over puerto rico, we are looking at it over the dominican republic. a hard time holding together. most important thing is it will be moving out to sea. it is curving away from us. big bermuda highout east. this time of year, it's closer to the u.s. i was looking at that and how weak the hurricane season has been. there's still time left. >> there is time. we are not seeing a hurricane. >> i'm grateful for that. we don't need a bad hurricane season. >> no one is objecting to that. our next story comes to us from australia where a sydney area man very, very lucky to be alive this morning. stopped at a gas station to buy a magazine. didn't have the cash, so used his credit card. that few second delay saved his

life. look at that. an suv barrelled through the front of a store. >> i see this car come through. the corner of my eye, a big bang. so, it was like a split second and it just happened. >> if you believe in miracles, this might be one of them. that suv came inches from striking him. if he paid and left a few seconds earlier, he would have faced that roaming suv face on. he feels very lucky, as does his fiance. they are set to be married in a couple weeks. as for the driver, she was trying to stop at a gas pump when the car accelerated. >> that's crazy. >> it's crazy. >> it's so close to where he was standing. >> sometimes when you forget something and have to go back, i wonder if that was a plan. he knows now.

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a chilly political face-to-face reminiscent of the cold war. in hours president obama and russian president vladimir putin expected to go toe-to-toe over whether the u.s. should strike syria. we are live. >> i don't judge you. >> you are a bad example for your people. >> a shouting match. what got new york mayoral candidate, anthony weiner riled up. a husband with a sign on a mission to save his wife's life. welcome back to "early start." i'm michaela pereira. glad you could join us. >> i'm john berman. glad to see you. promises for a tense day in

st. petersburg russia. president obama is on his way there now. he should be arriving within the half hour. president vladimir putin will be there, too. their relationship is frosty. feelings aside, can they come to terms over a military response in syria. jill is in st. petersburg this morning. what is the plan for president obama at the summit? >> reporter: well, he will be arriving here and actually the most dramatic moment will have to be the firsthand shake with president putin. president putin is the host of the g-20 here in st. petersburg and has to greet mr. obama as other world leaders. you can bet the cameras will be flashing at that one. then they have a working session and another handshake this evening at a working dinner. the question is, they will have chances to be at the same table.

they will be brushing into each other. will they actually sit down and talk about syria? at this point, there's nothing formal, either say is saying, planned. they will have a chance to exchange comments. it will be very interesting. >> it's interesting to imagine this. these events are so well orchestrated given the security concerns, the pomp and circumstances of such an event. we have heard rumor it may be, are they actually changing the seating assignments in the summit to is president and putin aren't seated near one another? >> reporter: yeah. there have been some reports about that. not sure exactly how recently they did that. what they have done, apparently, is if you did it acourting to the russian alphabet, it puts president putin and president obama close to each other. if you do it by the english

alphabet, they are separated by four people. that is how they ended up. they won't be close to each other. there's a lot of choreography that goes on at this, michaela. president obama comes in here with a win with the senate foreign relations committee vote offering a limited military action. still had to go to the senate. not clear how it will go in the house. so, he has his own domestic concerns about that issue and president putin seeing it completely in an opposite direction. those are the dramatic moments they will have to address, if they talk, if they pass in the night. >> i'm sure on our president's agenda he's got many things to address with putin and will find time for it to happen, whether in a hallway. thank you so much. >> it's like when a divorced couple goes to a wedding.

they don't sit at the same table. >> but they meet at the coffee maker. president obama is making a pitch overseas, some top officials are on capitol hill for closed door briefings in the house and senate to lay out the case why they say the assad regime was behind the chemical attack that left 1,400 people dead. why the administration says the u.s. has to take action. the argument was met with skepticism in a house committee on thursday. >> why does american always need to be the world's policemen? our enemies don't know what our foreign policy is. our friends don't know what it is. i'm not sure americans know what our foreign policy is in the middle east. this is not about getting into syria's civil war. this is about enforcing the principle that people shouldn't be allowed to gas their citizens with impunity. >> the senate foreign relations

voted to authorize the use of force. the full senate is expected to vote next week. you'll want to stay with cnn for the latest. tonight, chris cuomo hosting a town hall to discuss this crisis, what they are planning and what it could mean for this country. that's tonight at 9:00 eastern on cnn. how much will it cost for health care. ? the results are mixed. we looked at premiums in 11 states and the district of columbia and found the average 21-year-old smoker pays $270 a month. up to $330 a month for the average nonsmoking 40-year-old. it hits $615 a month once you hit 60. that's before tax credits and government incentives to help those with lower incomes. president bill clinton is defending obama care ahead of the october 1st start of

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allegiance from @yiss. they are denied meaningful participation because it refers to god. the lawyers argue the pledge is not mandatory and students can opt out by leaving out the reference to god or not reciting the pledge altogether. fire officials are ruling out an illegal maureen grog operation as the cause of the fire. one speculated this illegal pot garden may have played a role. they say it's unlikely. the ground is too steep for that kind of operation. lightning was also ruled out as a cause. right now, 80% containment on the fire. it's burned an area about 370 square miles. >> so bill. indra petersons is here with more on the weather. >> we have a big storm in the west that could impact that area. i'll show you why. this is an early storm for the

season in the pacific northwest to be this size. three to five inches, the potential in washington and idaho where we have the fires and burn areas. more importantly, we are concerned about flooding in those regions. a big storm moving in. we have a cold front kicking through. toward yosemite, we see the tail end of the cold front. it's important because the winds could kick up. we are watching for 15 to 20-mile-per-hour winds. gusts as high as 30 miles per hour. by friday, they should back off. stronger winds are never a good thing for firefighters. temperatures remain normal, about the 70s there. the big story is a cooldown here in the northeast and mid-atlantic today. a cold front that swept through overnight. look at the temperatures. new york city three degrees below normal. boston, 60s. as we go forward in time, new york city goes seven degrees below normal. we are talking low 70s tomorrow.

a little recovery behind it. either way, we are talking about cool lows. possibly the potential for frost, not here. notice, 20s and 30s, especially in the mid-atlantic and northeast. >> explain to us, i thought we were supposed to have autumn before winter? >> i have been waiting for winter. forget that. >> california girls. >> thanks, appreciate it. a houston area high school sophomore is dead and three others injured after a fight escalated into a knife attack. it happened during the second week of school at spring hill school. the victim is a 17-year-old. three teens taken into custody. the houston chronicle reports police are focusing on one of them, a 17-year-old. he's charged with murder and is old enough to be considered an adult under texas law. the department of justice will not open up a civil rights

investigation into the death of kendrick johnson whose body was found in a rolled up wrestling match at his high school in georgia. the doj says there may be criminal concerns in the case. there's not enough to indicate a civil rights violation. they call the death an accident. a second autopsy conducted claims he died from unexplained non-accidental blunt force trauma. oklahoma's governor ordered the father of a 3-year-old at the center of a battle he be sent back to south carolina, signing an extradition order on custodial interference charges. he's ree fused to let his daughter be seen by her adoptive parents despite four courts saying the girl should be returned to them. the man's lawyer says he doesn't expect the extradition to go through because brown has not committed a crime. it's getting ugly on the

campaign trail. anthony weiner got into an argument with a juish voter. it was caught on camera, it took at a bakery in brooklyn. the man called out to antey wiener. >> you are fine. you talk to god and work out your problems and stay out of the public eye. >> that's not up to you to judge, my friend. >> i don't junl you. it's your judgment? >> no. >> that's why they have elections. you are perfect. you are going to judge me? you know who judges me? you know what judges me? go visit with your rabbi. it shows how much you know. >> he responded to a twitter post saying he melted down with a tweet of his own saying if by meltdown you mean stood up to a heckler, yep, did that, it's

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i appreciate it. and more than i could ever tell. it hadn't been hard on me, i don't pay it no attention. >> that is love right there. that's his wife. she says she knew her husband would not stop until he got her a new kidney. it's just the kind of guy he is. if all goes well and this donor is a good match, the surgery could take place next week. we wish them both well and many, many more years of happiness together. >> he would have walked hundreds of miles over hot coals, if he had to. >> that's devotion. >> wonderful. with that, let's look at what's coming up on "new day." >> good morning. beautiful story. a very, very good story. we are going to bring good news, hopefully, in the news. but there's a lot of serious and

not great news we are covering as well. you want me to start off? normally i try to be differential to you, my love. >> one of the stories, syria. the president landing in russia, heading there for the g-20 summit. it's taking a backseat to the tension in syria. i it's going to dominate the meeting. what will happen when he meets vladimir putin? it's a time when relations between the two kucountries aret an all-time low. what can the president say to win favor to russia in favor of a military strike? can the president say anything to change the relationship? this is critical for the president trying to win international support among allies as he heads home to sell his case. we are covering all the angles there. >> it's important to start with that story. it's immediate. the implications are now and

affect us in the united states. syria, what will be the ultimate impact of helping? >> the other story is an emotionally confusing one. ariel castro, he hanged himself in his jail cell. people have mixed feelings about that. his family and the family of the victims, there's confusion here, what they wanted, is this justice? is it closure? we have exclusive interviews, reaction from the family that has surrounded the victims now and what they are saying and how they feel. we are going to take you there this morning. you get to hear from them. that's what we have. >> it's important to remember, they are not the one that is committed the crime. >> right. >> we'll get to you in a few minutes. enjoy your coffee. >> get ready for some football. the nightmare is over. the 2013 nfl season finally here. andy is coming back with the early favorites on the bleacher

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it all gets started with the match up, broncos and the ravens. usually, they get to start off at home on the first night of the season, but a scheduling conflict forced them to make it an away game. kick off 8:30 eastern. the broncos that las vegas has as a favorite to win the super bowl this season. wes welker will make his debut. earlier, the former patriots said he felt he couldn't be himself in new england with bill belichick. now he's free to express himself in a line of whacky, old spice commercials. take a look. ♪ when the going gets tough and it's not your day ♪ ♪ let it take you to a fresher place ♪ >> i don't understand it, but

it's funny. the best offensive teams in baseball squaring off. the red sox hosted the tigers. john, sure you were enjoying this. the red sox hit a franchise record tieing eight home runs in the game. feels so good. david ortiz had quite the night. collected 2,000th career hit on an rbi double. red sox crushed the tigers 20-4. you can read about floyd mayweather's payday. he's guaranteed to receive $41.5 million for the fight. it breaks his record of $32 million, which is what he received for each of his previous two fights. john, who says boxing is dead? >> i tell you what, you keep coming back with red sox victories where they score 20 runs, we are going give you more time. make it a 15-minute segment to

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that is all for "early start" this morning. i have been completely abandoned by michaela pereira. where did she go? find out on "new day" that starts right now. >> we have taken her. thank you, john. we'll take you, too. >> it is the top of the hour. it's time to give you the top news. >> i didn't set a red line, the world set a red line. >> happening now.

president obama lands in russia amid the highest tensions since the cold war. what will he say to vladimir putin. the committee votes for a strike against syria. we'll show you the next steps. a tropical storm forms in the caribbean. we are tracking the path. could this be the longest we go without a hurricane? weinor fights back. we now know what started it all. >> your "new day" starts right now. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. >> good morning, welcome to "new day." it's thursday, september 5th, 6:00 in the east. we're going to hear exclusive this morning from some of the friends and family of ariel castro's victims. they are reacting to his suicide with a combination of anger and relief. one rel liative saying she wish

he suffered more, starved to death. you'll hear from others coming up. two more than health alerts, a major recall of ayogurt and a new study says you should not wash chicken before you cook it. plus look at this man paying at a gas station when suddenly a car crashes into the front, missing him -- wait for it -- misses him by mere inches. we're going to tell you what exactly happened. more on this amazing story coming up. >> holy cow. up first, the showdown in st. petersburg. president obama arriving for the g-20 summit. he and vladimir putin set to meet within hours. it is hard to overstate just how high tensions are between the two leaders and in the past 24 hours, it's gotten even worse. cnn's global coverage of the crisis in syria begins with senior white house correspondent brianna ke t