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not allowed to stay the night. >> i am suzanne malveaux. >> thanks for your company. we'll start with the crisis in syria, front and center on the world stage. >> leaders of the most powerful global economies attending the g20 summit in russia. the international impasse over how to handle syria overshadowing a lot of the economic agenda. >> which is why they're meeting to begin with, all eyes on president obama and his russian counterpart, those two battling of course over the u.s. plan to potentially attack syria. today they were shaking hands during a photo op. you see a smile there. there are no forming meetings scheduled between them but they will have opportunities to talk during the summit on the so-called margins of the meeting. >> and president obama will spend time trying to persuade allies to support his plan for military strikes on syria. that of course in response to last month's chemical weapons attack. the u.s. says the attack killed more than 1,400 people.

>> meanwhile on capitol hill the administration holding more closed door briefings with lawmakers in an effort to secure more swroevotes and the pope ha written a letter asking leaders to lay down what he calls the futile pursuit of military solutions in syria and seek peace through dialog. >> the world's 20 biggest economies flying their flags in st. petersburg today of course. all around the world leaders gathering around one table and the summit agenda business oriented and the president of course making his case for a strike in syria. >> absolutely. that has nothing to do with trade issues. they will be talking about that as well. have a listen. >> i also look forward to having an extensive conversation about the situation of syria and i think our joint recognition of that, the use of chemical weapons in syria, is not only a tragedy but also a violation of international law that must be addressed.

>> it is hard to over state the high-stakes diplomacy under way right now. want to go live to russia. jim acosta traveling with the president joins us from st. petersburg and phil black is in moscow. jim, i want to start with you. talk about the optics. i remember the first time president obama and putin met years ago in the country residence just outside of moscow and we saw putin barely looked at him, barely looked at the president. now they have met face-to-face and eye-to-eye. what do you make of this appearance today. >> reporter: they only met for about 10 seconds as he welcomed president obama here, and we did not get any sense from the president of the united states as to what he thought about president putin just yet. did you hear in the comments you played a few moments ago from

that spray of the meeting with the little bit of video we just showed between president obama and prime minister abe of japan that the president is talking about syria. a few weeks ago, suzanne and michael, this g20 summit happened, the conversation would have been about edward snowden and the nsa. that conversation is not happening that much. it is really all about syria and the president trying to make his case to the other countries that are at this summit that his course of action is the right one when it comes to taking military action against bashar al assad's forces and i want to point out about an hour ago we attended a news conference being held by russia's equivalent of jay ka karny and i asked him ab the issue of the evidence being shown and at one point during the exchange i asked his name is dmitry peskov what more does the president needs to say or more proof does he need to provide?

the russians sticking to the talking points saying they are waiting for conclusive evidence coming from the united nations and i asked do you think they're lying or fabricating the evidence and he responded, very interesting, he said i did not say that. suzanne and michael, one thing that keeps cop coming up, every time they bring this up, they bring back iraq and that is sort of their default response and they say last time around the evidence wasn't there and we don't want to make the same mistake twice. >> the warm greeting we saw when we saw the president smiling with putin and shaking hands and trying to talk a little bit, is he trying to warm them up for a side bar meeting? do they think that would be advantageous at all? >> what we heard from administration officials is president putin and president obama plan to meet on the margins as they call it and that's sort of a i guess you could say a metaphor for the relationship right now. it is very much on the margins.

they are not supposed to have a pull aside or any bilateral summit. if there is a conversation it is going to be almost impromptu. i heard from administration officials obviously they will be trying to set it up in advance and it is not going to be very formal nonetheless and one thing that i think you can make at this point is that there are just too many huge obstacle that is stand in the way of a warm relationship between these leaders. it has been said maybe they don't like each other and president putin tried to put that to rest earlier this week and the obviously the body language is chilled, a bit stilted and we'll see as this goes on whether it warms up at a all. >> we want to talk about what is at stake with russia. they share a port and also have a trade relationship and it is not necessarily a very significant one. the main fear really could be if assad falls that you have the fear of islamic militants who

would spill into russia and what does putin hope to get out of this and particularly in his exchanges with the president? >> the major diplomatic goal remains preventing any sort of military intervention in syria, suzanne. that's the russian diplomatic goal throughout this crisis going back to the beginning. they beginning they thought a lot of protecting syria because of the naval port and historic ties and what has been clear over time through the consistent and unchanging policy of russia and its statements on this issue is what it doesn't like it regime change t doesn't like the idea of the united states and the friends getting together and deciding who gets to be the ruler of a sovereign country. it doesn't like it on principle and also doesn't like that from a practical concern. it talks to previous examples and it believes the united states has something of an aggressive precedent in trying to achieve this. it talks about the former

yugoslavia, iraq, libya, and so forth and looks at these and says these are countries where the united states and its allies got involved and got involved militarily and tried to change the government of the day and from a practical consideration believes these countries are no longer safer and more secure and the regions are no longer more stable and things got worse and you are right and in the vacuum that is created, that radical islam could rise in its place? it is a real concern for the russian government, both in terms of what it would be mean to the reason and the middle east and what it would possibly mean to russia which has islamist regions of its own and some of which are still dealing with their own insurgencies. >> phil black and jim acosta, good to see you both. our foreign affairs correspondent has an excellent piece on the strained relationship between the presidents obama and putin and really how it got to this

poichpoint. check it out. >> while we're looking at body language in syria and st. petersburg, let's talk about the g20. it should be about the economy. we're talking about an international forum and brings together the finance ministers, the central bank governors, from 19 countries plus the european union and hence the 20 and it was initially formed after the financial crisis of 1997 which revealed just how vulnerable international financial system was. it is now as we are seeing today often overshadowed by the world's pressing issues and various crises that leaders have to deal with these days. the go 20 leaders summit brings together the heads of state for formal meetings and equally important, the side bar meetings, the on the margin meetings, talking about president obama having with the leaders of say china, france and japan.

will it be moscow as well? this year the big focus, they're talking about syria and you can see by the map what a huge portion this represents even though it is only 20 or 19 current tries and two-thirds of the world population live in the countries. countries involved like argentina or australia or brazil and canada, china, france, germany, indonesia, japan, mexico, russia, saudi arabia, south africa, south korea, turkey, the u.k. and of course the united states. hundreds of millions of people, suzanne. >> here is what we're working on for around the world. we have seen these are heartbreaking pictures of the chemical weapons attack in syria. they say nobody is really asking the basic question of who

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with 50% more medicine. pain over. this is kind of something unusual that is now happening in the twitter verse. this is a world leader sending a holiday best wishes to the world's jewish community on the occasion of rosh hashana. >> and the world leader we're talking about is the new president of iran. here is the quote that he put out on twitter apparently. as the sun is about to set here in tehran, i wish all jews, especially iranian jews, a blessed robb blessed rosh hash hannah. you we would never have seen that in from the predecessor.

>> we want to bring in christine to talk about this. are we sure these are coming straight from the president of iran? we don't know whether the account is verified or not. how do we know? >> i have been doing a lot of ringing around, calling, investigating into this and why is it such a big deal, the former president mahmoud ahmadinejad made a big deal about pertaining to israel and it colored relations and the tension around iran for eight years. when the tweets started to come out, you could understand they took everybody by surprise and everybody wants to know what you're asking, is this real? here is what i know. the iranian president that is a moderate and wants to bring reform and won the election despite conventional wisdom does not tweet himself but his office does on his behalf. certainly when he was running for president we were told that

was the official twitter site and that he is doing it through his office members. i spoke to the foreign minister, a long time connoisseur of america and speaks and writes in perfect american english and has confirmed he is doing it himself and he wished iranian and jews worldwide a happy rosh hashana. he said they never denied the holocaust and the one perceived to have done so is no longer here. happy new year. he was referring to mahmoud ahmadinejad. it makes a difference in the tone coming out of iran and the interaction between iran and the rest of the world and president rohani, his office further tweeted on an equally important

issue about the up coming nuclear negotiations. that is what colors all relations between the united states and iran, the state of iran's nuclear program and says these will start at the end of september and he nominated the foreign ministry, presumably foreign minister and that is significant because he has enormous amount of experience with americans, american politicians and international negotiations >> sort of a twitter diplomacy perhaps starting out here. what is interesting, though, and perhaps ironic in a way, these tweets are of course in english. twitter not available in iran. is he saying these in a way or manner or forum where iranians hear them? >> it may not be officially available, but you can bet iranians hear them because everybody is connected. satellite television, cnn, is not officially allowed in iran

and everybody has the secret satellite dish. i have so many times visited the country and know that every time there is a potential crackdown, everybody and people are incredibly connected. it is one of the most electronically and technologically sophisticated countries in the world, and i might as well say this. so many american that is form the backbone of the u.s. electronic and tech industry, so they're very connected. they want to know what's going on. they want better relations with the rest of the world and it is one of the reasons why they elected him because he promised he would have a more constructive and moderate and less extremist relationship with the rest of the world. >> very, very sharp connected and intelligent young population, too as you point out. fascinating stuff. who knows where it will go from there. twitter diplomacy. who knows? >> it is very telling this time.

christian making news and breaking news about the nuclear talks and where they're headed next. it is very significant. >> who knows where that could lead to. facebook. >> as congress debates whether to back military action against the syrian regime, there are images that show a darker side to the rebels. we'll show that up next. [ female announcer ] you tweeted, posted and cheered about yoplait's fall favorites. so we brought pumpkin pie and apple crisp back for a limited time. see? you really do call the shots.

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this is new disturbing video. it appears on the "new york times" website. the times is reporting that this shows syrian rebels executing soldiers loyal to the regime of bashar al assad. >> not the first time we have seen such videos. they say it was shot in april and was smuggled out by a former rebel commander who was disgusted himself by the violence in his own country. we'll show you a portion of the clip. obviously not the moment of the executions. we will warn regardless that of course it is extremely turning to watch the prelude.

>>. [ gunshots ] >> what you see at the end there is bodies being dumped unceremonially into a well. atika is in london looking into this. unfortunately it is not the first time we have seen such execution videos. what do you know about these people and their motivation in this case? >> it is not the first time at all. we have seen other videos. this is one of the clearest frankly most cold blooded videos we have seen of this type. according to the "new york times" the man in charge there and you see him there holding a gun on the side of the screen is a rebel commander, abdul assawi

and controls several hundred armed fighters and doesn't seem to be allied with a cause and somebody bent on revenge for personal reasons and is particularly takes brutal revenge against anybody associated with the assad regime and calls into question and how much the opposition has over armed groups like this. there are many jihadist rebel groups the united states is worried about and lawlessness like this and the syria national council president is actually in london today. he met with foreign minister william hague and the council just put out a statement now condemning that video. in that statement it says the supreme syria coalition and supreme military council want to make it absolutely clear that they and all mainstream opposition groups condemn and the strongest possible terms any action that is can kcontra vene

this. >> it talks about secretary kerry trying to reassure lawmakers this is not a large group, the rogue people if you will inside of the opposition maybe 10 to 20% and other lawmakers say they understand it is as much as half so is there any sense at all in terms of these people, do they make up the majority or how small, how big are they as a part of this opposition which the president is now trying to reinforce? >> i think the very fact that there is this debate as we saw just yesterday shows that nobody knows exactly the percentage of how many of these groups may be, for example, jihadists or maybe have other motivations to carry out these kinds of extra judicial killings and what is frighteni frightening, it shows the syrian

national council may not have control and if a military strike or arms are given to these groups, what's to guarantee these guys won't carry out more killings like this? >> thank you so much. appreciate it. she brings up a good point. people don't really have a good sense yet of who is on the ground and who has the weapons and if they are motivated by revenge, there is no one that will stop them from doing those kinds of things. >> and local commanders in different area that is don't come under any umbrella, the rebel leading that group apparently said on the cell phones of the soldiers they found videos of looting and mistreatment with civilians and that is still a barbaric way to deal with the situation and remember that the guy that was eating the organs of another soldier as well. there is a lot going on on both sides. >> absolutely. former defense secretary donald rumsfeld, one of the architects of the iraq war, now he is questioning president obama's leadership during the syrian crisis. a lot of people finding that hard to believe and rumsfeld

says it is president obama, not iraq, causing this lack of support throughout the world, broader support. >> interesting to hear from him. he is especially critical of the president's comments yesterday actually when mr. obama said he had not drawn a red line, the world had. >> it is a stunning comment. it conjures up the thought of the uncertain trumpet or the trumpet that provides an uncertain sound. who will prepare themselves? it is exactly the reason that there is not a large coalition wanting to support the president. it is a reason that the congress is confused because he has spent so much time saying what he would not do and what it would not amount to that i think people are confused and the essence of leadership is clarity. and providing a vision. he has not done that, and i think as a result it is

perfectly understandable that people in the congress are getting arranged to oppose what he is proposing because they find that it is uncertain and lacks clarity. >> rumsfeld's position is that the united states should go big or go home. it is interesting our colleague of course chris cuomo pressed him whether or not there were any mistakes made in iraq and he said one of the things he did acknowledge was that nation building is something that should be modest and that the idea of the u.s. can come in and change everything is not really that realistic. >> a lot who look back on what happened in iraq would be fascinated to hear rumsfeld's viewpoints here. talking about the secretary of state john kerry who said the other day that there is proof beyond any reasonable doubt about the chemical attacks and there are many around the world asking, okay, if the evidence is irrefutable, let's see it. who is behind the attack?

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welcome back to around the world. the obama administration pushing hard to get congress backing for the military action in syria. >> many senators and representatives from both parties are not yet convinced, and one republican susan collins of maine had this to say earlier. >> not yet reached the conclusion on how i will vote and these briefings have been helpful, and i still have many questions about the wisdom of the president's action. >> this is a question we have been asking every day since u.s. officials claim to have irrefutable evidence that chemical weapons were used by the assad regime against civilians in syria. that question of course is when do we get to see that evidence, you? >> we have heard the president talk about this.

he uses words like high confidence and john kerry say he has seen proof beyond a reasonable doubt. this is rumsfeld from this morning and he has had his own problems as we know with intelligence versus facts before iraq. >> if intelligence were a fact, it would be called a fact and not intelligence. i think when colin powell went before the united nations with george tenet, the director of intelligence, talked about the intelligence they had, and in great detail, and then it turned out that stockpiles were not found and that people were cautious and began to recognize that intelligence is intelligence and not necessarily a fact. i don't think that's what's going on here. >> let's get somebody in here to help break this down. hillary mann leveret, the middle east expert and was in both the clinton and bush

administrations. rumfeld's words reminds us we need to see the evidence. i imagine that a lot of it is they ought to be revealing how they got the evidence and if you're going to have military action, isn't it something not just we but the united nations and russia for that matter should see? >> yes. and former secretary rumsfeld is correct in alluding to the presentation that secretary of state, then secretary of state powell made to the u.n. he showed the world the satellite pictures. he played for the world the intercepts, the audio of the iraqis. it all turned out to be wrong. in fact, we interrogated the u.s. army interrogated those iraqis that we had caught on the intercepts after we invaded iraq and found out that much of that so-called intelligence wasn't just mistaken, it was manufactured. it was made up. the iraqis that we interrogated on those intercepts told us that they're now in documentary films saying they can't believe how distorted the comments were, how much they were taken out of

context. it is early similar to what we're being shown or not shown on syria. it is astonishing in some ways that secretary kerry is showing us much less than secretary powell did and asking us just to take his word for it because he says it is irrefutable when in fact there was alone of indicia that should make anybody question this. there was an alleged attack in march when russians on the ground did their own analysis, an 88-page analysis from that attack in march and gave it to the u.n. secretary general and they found two very important things. one was that the sarin gas or the gas used in march was probably not military or industrial, but probably homemade. they also found that the delivery devices, the rockets for that gas used in march were also not military and industrial and probably homemade. the consequence of that, if that is true, and if that was true in this attack, that means that maybe it wasn't the assad government, maybe it was either

a rogue group within the syrian military or even the rebels themselves, rebels openly aligned with al qaeda. this is critically important. a lot of these groups are openly aligned with al qaeda and if they in fact are responsible for gassing hundreds or thousands of people, the idea that they're going to stop in syria is the definition of insanity. >> professor, if i can, when you listen to the former secretary rumsfeld, it is maddening to hear the parsing of the language here when it comes to intelligence, facts and evidence and most americans just to want get to the bottom line. what do they have? what do they know? what kind of evidence would you ask of secretary kerry, of this administration, if the president goes before the american people and says this is what i know. what do you need as proof if in fact that it was assad who was responsible, the regime itself responsible for the chemical attacks? >> i love my country. i love the united states. i never would have thought that the former president george bush and his administration would

have lied to me and to the american people. that's what happened. so this time around there is a u.n. investigation, investigators from the united nations have gone in on the ground and they're now have taken samples and done analysis and they're now trying to put it altogether and compile a report. it may take two weeks. president obama assured us we don't need to act right away. we can wait a few weeks. we can even wait a month. why not wait for an impartial u.n. investigation. it is very strange the administration has been trying to dismiss and under mine the u.n. administration just like the bush administration did for the u.n. inspectors in iraq. let them do their work. let them present it. if they come up with conclusive evidence, we can go from there and have a much more rational debate with probably more allies with us than the go it alone approach obama adopted. >> all right. leave it there. interesting that i point of view, too, and good to have you on, professor hilary mann, the middle east expert and former

staffer on the bush and clinton administrations. thanks so much. >> what an important things she says, the u.n. report will not determine who was responsible for the chemical attack. they're only going to determine whether or not that actually happened. it is going to be up to on the onus of the obama administration and the intelligence they have to make that link. >> and often the delivery systems and the types of munitions used to deliver it may give a clue as to who did it and the great fear of a lot of people as it is being quoted, the u.s. doesn't wind up being al qaeda's air force going in and helping the enemies. it is a very complex situation. >> and of course there is going to be a lot of movement on syria over the next week as well. there is a bill authorizing a limited military strike that heads to the full senate after clearing the senate foreign relations committee yesterday. the president is expected to lobby for that when he returns from the g20 summit in russia. he is actually coming back tomorrow. >> when congress issues the summer recess on monday, check

the calendar there. both the house and the senate are expected to debate and vote on the measure. also next week that russian delegation we reported on here on around the world, they're going to be coming to capitol hill to lobby against a strike. >> and the u.n. are report on syria's suspected chemical weapons attack, that, too, also expected to be released soon. now, this is a place that people say is so dangerous and people cannot stay during the night. we're talking about the 12-mile zone around japan's crippled nuclear plant. we're going to take you inside. , a writer and a performer. i'm also a survivor of ovarian and uterine cancers. i even wrote a play about that. my symptoms were a pain in my abdomen and periods that were heavier and longer than usual for me. if you have symptoms that last two weeks or longer, be brave, go to the doctor. ovarian and uterine cancers are gynecologic cancers. symptoms are not the same for everyone.

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welcome back, everyone. almost two-and-a-half years after the fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown, leaks of contaminated water have been spiking the radiation levels higher than we have seen before. >> this is really turning the area around the plant into a ghost town when people don't even know when or if they will be able to go home for good. paula hancock traveled there taking us inside, a 12 mile safety zone to show the clean up here, what is being done and why this is so incredibly dangerous. >> within the 20 kilometer or 12-mile exclusion zone and this is the area that residents were

moved away from in the immediate aftermath of the disaster in 2011. you can see there is a fair bit of activity behind me and cars are allowed in and residents allowed back during the daytime because the radiation levels lowered. still not allowed to stay the night. the government still worries about a cumulative radiation, so people aren't allowed to stay here 24 hours a day. what you can see by the side of the road, the cleanup operation is on going in different areas of fukushima. you can see what a pain staking operation this, basically having to take away the top layer of the soil which has radiation in it and also cutting back the grass and you can see combing through the bushes as well. it is a colossal task to try to decontaminate this area, just a bit further down you can see there are thousands upon thousands of bags where the soil is being collected and where it is being stored. not only is there a problem with

where to store this highly radioactive water but in the surrounding area where do you store the soil as well? it is another problem that the government is having to copy with and of course people who live here, it is very difficult and they don't know when or even if they will be able to come back to the area and this is symbolic of what we're seeing in and around fukushima. this was a busy train lane before and you can see it is over grown by plants and clearly not being used since 2011. this is part of the area they're trying to clean up as well and just symbolic of what happened to the area. >> more than 100,000 people have died in the past year in syria, most of them of course innocent women and children. >> it wasn't until the chemical attacked two weeks ago that the world talked actually about military intervention. fareed zakaria talks with us

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nicks week the u.s. congress is expected to begin debate on authorizing or not that military strike in response to the chemical weapons attack allegedly carried out by the syrian regime on its own people. >> the deaths in syria have been steadily climbing since the civil war began two years ago.

more than 100,000 syrians have died, many of them innocent civilians. >> earlier today i spoke with al fareed zakaria about why the obama administration and others considered the use of chemical weapons over the red line even though conventional weapons have been more deadly in this war. here is what he said. >> chemical weapons, the conventions, the treaty, the phobia about it, are something of a throwback. they're terrible weapons and to the extent we can outlaw any kind of terrible weapons, it is a good thing but they came out of a time world war i, world war ii, when conventional weapons couldn't kill lots of people and chemical weapons could. the reality is now reversed. have you bombs that can kill many more people than these chemical weapons which tend to get disbursed quickly. they're still terrible. they still cause enormous pain. the idea they're uniquely terrible or that they are part

of weapons of mass destruction but large conventional bombs are not is somewhat old-fashioned yet as i say, this is not in any way to say they should be okay. to your other point about the red line, do you get the sense that president obama hadn't thought through exactly what the plan was because we now know that the syrians have violated that crossed that red line several times and the obama administration has had months therefore to prepare for a kind of game plan of when they got to a point where they would say thus far no further and the events of last week seemed to show that they have been scrambling and improvising and even changing their mind about whether to go to congress committee very last minute. that's why i wrote on cnn.com this seems like a case study how not to do foreign policy. >> we spoke in that interview on cnn international about what syria, if syria could survive this war with the refugee situation and the sectarian

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talking a lot about syria and the sarin and waiting for the u.n. inspectors to come back with their report about whether it was sarin and how it was delivered hopefully. britain meanwhile we're getting reports from our bureau in london saying that samples taken from the chemical weapons attack site in damascus have tested positive for sarin. what type of sarin, we don't know. delivery, we don't know. the u.k. saying it has evidence that sarin was used in that attack. >> that's welcome news for the obama administration and for president obama there and part of the g20 summit because the prime minister was not able to deliver when it came to the support from the parliament. he certainly is able to take a look and say, look, we have our

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and free dvd and brochure. get the hearing aid that can. lyric from phonak. lyric can. welcome back. want to bring you up to date on other stories making news. a car bomb went off in cairo, the muslim brotherhood area of town. >> we're told it was not a

suicide bomb but it did explode near a motorcade carrying egypt's interior minister. state run tv says the minister was targeted actually for assassination and the bomb being quite a big blast here. this is what the neighborhood looked like, incredibly if you can imagine this, nobody died. four people were wounded including a policeman that had to have his leg amputated. >> the interior minister walked away and his car wasn't one of the ones damaged. nobody knows yet for sure who or what group is responsible for setting off the bomb. a lot of them turning towards the muslim brotherhood margin inalliesed. >> in kent england a dense fog created a huge chain reaction accident. you can see how many cars, as many as 100 cars and trucks were involved in this and amazingly nobody was killed but at least eight people were seriously injured. >> what a pile up that was. the worst of it happened on a bridge, a new bridge by the way where according to police this is in kent, by the way, a very

thick fog cut visibility to almost nothing. >> and let's have a look at what is trending right now around the world. this is in china, a 16-year-old like most teens couldn't imagine losing his playstation, so he dropped it down a narrow gap between two walls and naturally he tried to give it and he slipped and got wedged between the walls. >> of course he did. if you look closely to the right of the policeman's white helmet you can see the little kid's face. it was pretty serious. the team was beginning to suffocate and firemen had to cut a hole in one of the walls and pull him through. it took about two hours. the teen is okay. no word about the playstation. sydney, australia, okay. one of your favorites, i guess. one of these heart stopping close calls caught on surveillance video here. this man, let's get to this guy sda standing at the counter paying

for something and a car comes crashing through the front of the gas station and missing him by inches. >> if he was leaning back he would have been dead. you can see the force of the impact demolishing the front of the store and he was not hurt. at the end of the video you can see he is annoyed, though. >> next thing you know, this car comes through and in the other than of my eye, this a big bang, and it was like a split second and it just happened. >> if he had been leaning back, did you see at the end of the video going what are you doing? >> what happened? >> all right. >> lucky guy. >> that will do it for us and around the world. i am michael holmes. >> i am carrying on. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. this is "cnn newsroom." i am suzanne malveaux. it is a simple h