blitzer. can you tweet the show at cnnsitroom. can you watch us live or dvr the show so you won't miss a moment. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." er erin ber net "outfront" starts right now. >> conflicting messages. is the threat to the u.s. beyond anything we've ever seen or is the homeland not yet at risk? plus, an american is free tonight after being held in syria by terrorists for nearly two years. why was he spared just days after another american was brutally killed there. and remembering michael brown. a community and some very famous faces paying their respects in st. louis today. will they be a catalyst for real change? let's go "outfront."

and good evening. i'm jim sciutto in for jerin burnett. >> u.s. officials tell cnn the pentagon is now preparing options for airstrikes against isis targets inside syria and syria says it is ready to work with the u.s. andn't national community against isis. the question now, will the president take the u.s. war against isis to syria. and might the u.s. fight alongside the government the administration had sworn to remove. we join jim acosta. he is at the white house. >> reporter: still spreading terror, another conquest, this time an air base in northern syria. but the white house now appears to be down playing expectations for military action in syria right away. >> chairman dempsey talked about it over the weekend.

he indicated according to intelligence assessments, there is no evidence of an active plot right now. that said, we are well aware of the threat posed by isil. >> white house press secretary josh earnest pointing to a comment made by martin demty who says white house and syria does not pose a threat against the u.s. homeland. can i tell you with great clarity and scertainty dempsey said, that if there was danger within syria my recommendation would be to deal with it. that's different than what was said last woke after the beheading of american journalist james foley. >> this is beyond anything we've seen. we must prepare for anything. >> can they be defeated without addressing that part of the organization which resides in syria? the answer is no. >> earnest acknowledges, the semantics matter. >> that seems to be a different question than does isis pose a national security threat to the

united states. >> correct. >> what's the answer? >> we are concerned about the threat posed by isil. >> in the white house briefing one of the chief policy critics senator lindsey graham tweeted. tom aides are making one thing clear. president won't seek from al-assad to airstrikes. tell that to syria's foreign minister who said this cooperation should be done through the syrian government as it is a symbol of national sovereignty. any violation of sovereignty from any party is aggression. but that would put the president in the position of becoming strange bed fellows with a regime he nearly went to war with a year ago. >> we would have preferred to go two years ago, last year, six months ago, two months ago. >> aep the white house said today that president has not

made any decisions on taking military action on rg taets inside syria. that doesn't mean the pentagon isn't drawing up options. jim as you know, those preparations take time. >> jim acosta at the white house. join meg, peter mon sore, serving as executive officer to general petraeus during the surge in iraq. colonel, it would be great to start with you. i have spoken with u.s. officials who privately tell me they don't know what the u.s. strategy is for dealing with isis. is there a strategy that you can see here? >> i don't think so. not yet at any rate. i think the president is getting his advisors and collecting options. but i don't think he has decided o not a strategy. i don't think they decided on whether isis is a threat to the united states and i don't think they've decide fed he this will help the iraqis and kurds beyond the minimal assistance we have already offered. so right now, there's no

strategy. there could be one in the if you tour. let's hope so. >> as you know, the president considered and rejected military action in syria before. whether it was to strike chemical weapons facility or arm the moderate rebels there. congress doesn't support it. american people doesn't support it. that's what the administration said. so nothing was done. in your view, the failure to nd the civil war but also strike isis earlier did that make isis stronger today? >> yes. i think our failure to ipt veen in 2012 will be remembered as one of many original sins. and perhaps the most important one in the middle east. and i worry that will haunt us for decades to come. because right now, we can talk about air strikes but a lot of damage has been done. there was an opportunity in 2012 to boost mainstream rebel forces who are clashing with isis on a regular basis and continues to clash with isis on a regular

basis. and they've been literally begging for u.s. assistance but it hasn't been forthcoming. so now we find ourselves in this very odd position where we might actually, not cooperate with them directly, but direct as his air force. right new, the two dominant actors are isis and al-assad regime in syria. for hurting one, the other will benefit. that's the reality of the situation now. that why i think we have to look at the alternative, which is finding a way it boost a third force in syria society, which is the beleaguered mainstream syrian rebels. >> which has been outgunned, outfought by isis and others there. i've had briefings with u.s. intelligence officials, they told me in no uncertain terms that syria is in effect in an intelligence black hole buzz they haven't had relationships with a lot of those groups on the ground.

in your view, to truly strike at isis inside syria, does the u.s. needs boots on the ground it fight this threat? >> i believe we will eventually have to put special forces into syria and embedded with the free sir yn army, that moderate as well as knitting together an alliance of sunni tribes that span the syrian iraqi border and rekindle the awakening that did so much to destroy skbral kial iraq back during the surge in 2006, 2007, and 2008. it'll be boots on the ground but green berets an not conventional forces. >> you heard earlier today, the foreign minister saying something remarkable, that assad government is willing to cooperate with the u.s. a government that has sworn to defeat it, remove it in effect to stop isis. here is what obama administration officials including the president himself has been saying about assad for

the past four years. have a listen to this. >> the regime of ba shir al-assad must come to an end. >> the position of the united states remains very clear, that's what assad must go. >> you cannot save syria from disintegration as look as ba shir al-assad remains in power. >> so we are in a remarkable situation now because of the threat from isis, at least the consideration here of whether the two sides can work together, this offer from the syrian foreign minister. in your view, even while holding its nose with assad, even share intelligence, to fight isis. >> there was a lot of good rhetoric about fighting the assad regime but there wasn't much policy follow through. i think as of last august, when we refrained from striking the assad regime, the chemical weapons agreement was a god send for assad because it made him, in a bay, partner.

i don't think we were ever truly serious about fighting the assad regime or defeating it. now where we are now, i this i that we have to avoid any kind of cooperation, tacid or direct, because the assad regime is one of the root causes of isis from day one. it would be kind of odd if we allied with the root of the cause it address the symptom and i worry that that's the kind of short term thinking that we're following back into. we have to be thinking about the medium to long-term consequences of any alliance with the assad regime. >> tactical decisions, not strategic. thanks very much. >> thank you. >> great to have you both on. "outfront" next. officials zeroing in on the terrorist that beheaded james foley. and 4500 mourners, will

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tonight intelligence agencies say they are zeroing in on the masked man in this grizzly video. the terrorist who beheaded american james foley.

foley is seen next to the man dressed in black speaking what appears to be an english accent. then a surprising development just days after foley's death another american held by terrorists peter curtis goes free. tonight curtis's relatives relieved and grateful saying that after nearly two years he seems to be in good health. payton walsh is out front in london with more. >> reporter: after a week of horror finally good news. an american held hostage in syria by rebels for nearly two years is free. 45-year-old peter theo curtis, froe freelance author and journalist. hay his family thanking the governments of u.s. and qatar. while the u.s. denies any involvement and details of his release are unclear. he was handed over to peacekeepers and then released to u.s. government officiales.

>> my name is peter theo curtis -- >> these videos show him in his last few months of be a tist. remember a rebel points a gun at his head while curtis speaks rapidly if there duress. he was caught? 2012 and held in aleppo with matthew sweer. curtis got stuck trying to escape. >> i'm pulling him and pulling him as hard as i could. we weren't making headway, making too much noise. windows were open, sun was coming up. >> and you today leave him. >> yes. yeah, that was one of the hardest thing i ever had to do. i'm not going to have closure until he comes home. >> curtis's release is five days after a video of one ofity militant beheading james foley. on sunday, his parents releasing

a letter on facebook, saying he talked about sharing one cell with 17 others. and playing games made up of scraps they found. foley add fellow hostage memorize the letter deictating t to his family upon release. the isis militant responsible for the beheading, he speaks with a distinctly british accent. investigators making headway using clues in the video to pinpoint the killer out of hundreds of british muslims who joined isis. >> we are putting a great deal of resource into identifying this person. i think we're not far away from that. >> now that video may not be as simple as it sound. some forensic experts point out that the man who gives the speech in english is different in physique to the man who appears to carry out the beheading. they are both carrying different designs of knife. the knife left sadly on the deceased body, very different than the knife held by the man giving the english speech.

that could suggest two different characters in that video. that will just complicate the investigation. >> nick paton walsh in london. not only are there clues to pinpoint the killer, there are also clues from the video to determine exactly where foley's murder took place. elliott higgins, investigative blogger believes he located the exact spot where this video was shot. a really incredible piece of detective work. these are details he focused in on behind. the thing behind foley and his killer in the distance. let's get to some of them closer here. first one here, what appears it be a road going over the mountains in the distance. two angles to the camera. here is another look at that road. he compared that to this road here. cutting through the mountains. he also noticed another detail, a dip in the mountains here. gets lower and reveals details, fields, community in the background. he compared that same dip in the

mountains, slight drop in altitude. here, if you will remember, is where the road was. here is the dip in the mountain possess. one more final detail. that is here. from another camera angle, you can see some of the details off in the distance revealed by that dip in the mountains. features from farm fields there. buildings. blurry but possibly identifiable. look at a google map. bring the three clues together. the road cutting through the mountains. here, the dip through the mountains. from one camera angle, features he saw opt field and buildings that zeroed in to this spot where he believes very close to an isis strong hold in syria. that spot where he believes this very memorable unforgettable grizzly murder took place. i want to bring in christopher dickey now. foreigneder to of the "daily beast." as well as phillip mud oo, used to be with the cia. this is an incredible piece of

detective work going on here. one pinpointing possibly the location where this took place. which frankly makes since sense. near an isis strong hold. how valuable is that investigation? i wonder wonder if there is a danger here. if you reveal you know the location, possibly, and you know the killer, doesn't that encourage them to go into hiding so you can't get them? >> yes. it changes the equation as far as they're concerned. if you know exactly who they are and where they are and they know you know, they are going to move. but the question here is what is called actionable intelligence. if the cia or any other organization were able to put things together the way that belling cat this website put it together, which i hope they can do, the whole question would be, can they do it in time to catch the people in this location. >> before they move. >> before they move.

i'm sure those people moved long ago. we don't know when that was filmed. sometime in the last couple of weeks but we don't know when. they moved after they filmed it. they imagined this he could be tracked down that way. also, the next report is very interesting. we don't know if the people in masks and video whether it is one person, two people, whether it is the same knife, different knife. it is all a grotesque and very theatrical event made to manipulate us. it has been quite successful. >> and draw attention, to the fear they can instill. phil, i ask you to help our viewers understand, the stark difference if outcomes here. have you james foley brutally killed by isis. few days later, another terrorist group, also al qaeda tied, releases an american safely in good health p. how do you explain that

incredible difference? >> i think a couple of factors. first i'm not sure we have around the world an intermediary who can take to isis. but obviously what we learned is the gutries emerging on the globe at stage in egypt and afghanistan as people who want to be players, they have proven to have in roads into extremists across the middle east they are willing to use. i'm sure that's what happened in this case. second interesting factor here, jim, is believe it or not, beheading among the extremist seen as fringe. seen as the extreme among extremists. my guess is he might have seen some of the reaction against the beheading from their rivals, isis, and said we don't want anything to do with that. we want to be differentiated from the fringe. so we will release this hostage. >> incredible to think that this group which was isis ex communicated in effect by al qaeda for being too radical. too radical even for al qaeda. incredible to think about.

i want to ask a question about qatar. erin has done a lot of investigation. she asked about this link. have a listen. >> how big of a player is qatar? >> qatar is at the center of this. they have taken their place if the lead of countries supporting al qaeda and al qaeda-related groups. >> what do you make of qatar's place in this? we have worked with them on a number of things. they have close relationships, arming, funding some of the more radical groups in this fight. how do you balance that? >> i'm not going to defend their position. it is a very complex position and hard to defend in certain aspects. what phil said is right. when he said, you've got have somebody that can talk to these people. qatar can talk to them. they aren't so much oriented toward supporting terrorism p. what it has done is support the

muslim brotherhood. that maybe that's a terrorist organization. maybe it's not. but that the length that's been important to qatar. not the link to al qaeda. and that is the thing that they've been playing on. now some groups are on the fringes of the muslim brotherhood but not isis. isis is beyond the pale. and it is not funded by qatar. it is funded by its own oil wells, kidnapping, smuggling. incredibly rich and incredibly independent. >> some estimates of them making a million dollars a day from extortion, oil exception. >> that's what makes them so dangerous. >> absolutely. phil, i wonder if i can ask you this. can we assume some exchange is made to secure the release of curtis. whether it was money, arms, other forms of support. if so, what kind of message that sends and frankly does it make other americans more likely to be taken hostage in the future. >> i doubt the exchange is as

blatant. but i think, assuming or judge, that the gatryes with their relationship didn't say something like, hey, weapons flows coming into you. you might jeopardize those weapons flows if you don't do something here. they've got leverage. assuming they don't have to have leverage is i think is naive. i doubt it went as fafr as laying out a bunch of money on the table and say we will pay for a hostage. european governments have done as much as 2, 3, 4, there are 5 million for their release thp. thanks to phil mudd. thanks to christopher dickey. many of those in attendance calling for action for change, real change, including bishop dj jakes who joins me next. in one hot zone, no running water with be no sanitation, no

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high in missouri. after thousands gather to say good-bye to 18-year-old michael brown. 4500 people came to remember the life of the unarmed black teen shot and killed by a police officer. so many turned out in fact at least 2,000 people took part in overflow areas outside the church. today was an opportunity to pay tribute to michael. >> michael was a big guy, a kind gentle soul. and before he left this earth, the day that he was killed, he ka was out spreading the word of jesus christ. >> michael brown's blood is crying from the ground. crying for vengeance. crying for justice. >> his death is not a dying. i want to say to mike, that i love you. >> three officiales from the

white house attended fod's funeral. brown's family called for a day of peace. that call appears to have been heeded. michael brown's mother shed tears as she stood at his coffin. she also wrote a letter to him, quote wab a son like you i thought you could never be because the day you were born i know god sent me a blessing, and that was you. michael's father also wrote a letter to him in part. i always told you i will never let anything happen to you. and that's what hurts so much. i couldn't protect you, but we love you. i will never let you die in my heart. you will always live forever. david mattingly is "outfront" from furgason, missouri. david, powerful emotional words from michael brun's parents as a father myself, i found them difficult to read. i wonder what others are saying there that you've met about today's funeral. >> jim, much the same way that michael brown was killed, the way he is being remembered car

different messages for many different people. those messages are picked up by recognizable figures and sent out to audiences of millions. >> with the nation watching, there was no doubt the funeral for michael brown would be more than just a family affair. but also seated for the services, big names and film and music. each one with the potential to reach audiences of millions. all sharing in the families grief and in the community's outrage. >> you're talking about celebrities who are tweeting their way through this entire scene. and they have thousands of twitter followers. and they are reaching young people who aren't necessarily getting their information from cnn. >> and the narrative is already beginning to emerge. in attendance, filmmaker, spike lee, would just days ago said this to cnn. >> i just think there's a war on the black male and it is tearing the country apart. in my opinion.

>> lee today tweeted out the words, our brother mike brown's st. louis cardinals hat lay upon his casket. a powerful image aimed at thousands of twitter followers. that's a fraction of the 3.4 million following recording artist mc hammer who also attended. he tweeted in the moment about a personal reaction, riding through st. louis, outpouring love and respect for mike brown's family is overwhelming. people with their hands and fists up. >> you have creative people looking at this news as it unfolds. ung one of the things that is so fascinating about celebrities getting involved in this particular moment is that these are moelts moments, this is a news event still unfolding. they are filtering it in realtime. >> this is not the first celebrity involvement on the streets of furgason. grammy award winning recording

artist nelly made an appeal for peace. rapper went to the place he was killed. hill harper spoke to local teens telling them a story of michael brown, a man about their age, killed by police. >> i want to have a discussion with you all, not only about that, but moreover, about the future. about what's next. >> and that appeal for what's next is that relentless call for change and that appeal for change seems to resonate a little wider with every tweet that we see from celebrities. jim this is. >> david mattingly, thank you. bishop td jake is attended michael brown's funeral today. he is out front tonight. is founder and pastor of potter's house in dallas with over 30,000 members and 50 outreach ministries. bishop jakes, glad to have you

with us tonight. >> thank you. pleasure to be here. >> why do you think it is important for leaders to make their presence known at michael brun's funeral. >> i think we have been riveted across the nag by the trauma occurring in that community, in that city. wherever there is pain, of family, wounded people, the pastor, i think it is appropriate i should be there. but i think all leaders should take part and notice when we see issues and scenes that are reminiscent of the '60s playing out before our eyes again. we have to be careful that nothing allows history to repeat itself. >> looking a tht case, and still so many questions to be answered, but you blame michael brown's death in part on racial profiling. in america. i'm very aware of the statistics for instance, disproportionate number of blacks for instance stopped and frisked by police versus whites. but when do you have such conflicting eyewitness accounts here, isn't it too early to make that judge amount that racial

profiling in this case was too t.o. blame? >> i think this place is the conduit which we can look at the state of america in jean. we will continue to have these individual cases. if we take them as one off and don't see them as propensity to perpetuate itself in our country, then we won't do the analysis properly to dismiss it. the reality is to many communities, not always divided by race, sometimes by class, by economics, by education, are not having the same experience that some others of us are having and we have to make it an equal playing field. particularly with jobs, education and justice. >> after michael brown was killed, you wrote something very powerful about your own three sons. as a father, it struck me in particular. i want to read one line for that for our viewers. you wrote, unlike the majority of parents i now have the added burden of knowing recent events placed my sons squarely on the endangered list. those are very powerful words that's ominous words. explain why you have that fear.

>> most people, most african-americans, and most minorities have to train their children to the realities that they have to be careful how they respond, how they react. and because we see so many images flashing on our television and elsewhere, police officers are human. most of them are very, very good. i'm not suggesting that this one is bad. but in the flash of a moment, we bring to the table our differences, our ideas, our fears, our inhibitions and so we have to train our children to be a little extra careful and more cautious because they are the prezu presums that because you dress and act a way that you are a certain way. and that something that every american parent should deal with everyday. >> a daunting reality, certainly, the country addressed issues like this before. you had it with trayvon martin. jordan davis, so-called loud music case when they were killed.

it strikes me that there is often lofty talk for a time. after these events. but you don't see real change np in this case, how do communities, how do leaders convert the attention this case has attracted into real national and community change. >> i think that there is a much bigger dialogue to have than this one individual case. it centers around the extreme difference in the amount of diversity that has been filtrated into the police department's in certain communities. i think we need to do a reboot and check those diversity trainings, level of preparation that's going into officers that perpetuate that are pointed towards certain communities to make sure they have a good standing of the communities they serve. we have done it in corporate america. we need to do it in our law enforcement agencies as well. >> i certainly share that thought. hope there is follow through and the conversation continues. thanks very much, bishop jakes. >> a real pleasure. thank you, sir.

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welcome back. tonight the ebola virus is spreading. a fifth african country is reporting cases of the deadly disease. two people in the democratic republican of congo have now tested positive. and this is another strain of the virus than the one that has already killed nearly 15 p00 people across west africa. right now, more than a thousand cases reported in liberia alone. now reports on what life is like in a quarantine zone. >>. >> reporter: on the drive into west point you're met with barbed wire and barricaded shops. and at the quarantine line, angry residents congregating to stair down police. crossing through the line, you

are immediately swarmed. people desperate to be heard. desperate to believe this isn't happening. at a rough of the mate theestim over a you this people living in the west monrovia. after a quarantine zone last week, no way out. this is after an ebola center claimed the virus was a government hoax. >> were you here when the clinic -- a nurse told us she arrived at her shift to find the center destroyed and not a patient to be found. you can see the center is not extraordinarily well equipped. they are having to rewash their protective gear. a square of diluted bleach and a door ransacked and left for broken during the riots mp this is it. this is the only place people have. and even here, the most that they can hope to get is to be

made comfortable while they wait to either overcome the virus or not. charming is a hair dresser. like many here in west point, she has to travel out of the township to make a living. the only breadwinner for her two children. >> translator: right now, my mother doesn't have anything. i was the one that provided for her. as time goes by, now she is complaining the rice is finished. >> are you more scared of ebola or more scared of the hunger? >> translator: that's what is worrying us. the hunger. the ebola. everything. i'm scared of everything. >> charming leaves us. she is going to see if her mother is right. if the food really has run out. as we walk back out on to the street, the crowd has grown larger. at the quarantine line, the stand-off continues.

desperate to at least be seen and heard, if not released. >> i'm sure for some of our viewers as well, it is concerning to see you cross that quarantine line but health workers have to as well. how did health workers treating people inside the quarantine zone, how did they make sure they are safe? that they don't pick up the disease? >> that is the heart break of this outbreak, jim. the people on the front line trying to get the help, the aid workers, health work weshs care givers in the community. these are the ones hardest hit by this crisis. they are the ones contracting ebola. for most of the rest of us, as long as you're not coming into direct physical contact with someone, in a situation that's so changeable like if west point, you can't always control that. but generally as long as you are not touching someone who has contracted the disease, you're okay. but when you see the risks other people are taking, jim, you

unfortunately have to go in and did what can you. >> it is great to have you there. it is the sad part of the story that the people needed most are the ones often paying the heaviest price, the health workers. thank you very much. "outfront" next. an earthquake ravages the heart of wine country. precious pinot and cabernet, now grapes of wrath. 1100 feet in the air for a selfie. fearless? or foolish? of not being here. the power you want with the fuel economy you dream of. performance with a conscience. this is volvo innovating for you.

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now, we'll check in with anderson cooper. >> starting at the top of the hour. the funeral for michael brown. we'll cover that. the family and friends to say good-bye to the man they knew as mike-mike. we'll hear from his mom. trayvon martin and sean bell. the strongest earthquake hit napa in 25 years. a number of families escaped

with their lives. all that and more at the top of the hour. >> going to be watching. thanks very much, anderson. tonight, the ground continues to shake in northern california. aftershocks, a harsh reminder of sunday's earthquake. the strongest to rock the napa area in 25 years. you're looking at pictures of heavily damaged church in vallejo, california. authorities fear it will collapse any moment and it could cost the region lots of money. >> reporter: across napa valley, forklifts recover wine barrels and winemakers are getting a firsthand look at the damages but get out fast. here's why. barrel after barrel entire stacks of them precariously tilting. >> a big pile that's stacked up back there where they've fallen off the racks. >> reporter: this is his precious 2012 vintage.

>> that's my wine. >> reporter: each of these worth $10,000 to $24,000. >> these are full. that's really dangerous right there. >> reporter: there's some white wine on the ground. but until he can get all the barrels out and see them, drash won't know what he's lost. it took him two years to go from grape to wine. now in the balance after the short but powerful quake. >> it's unbelievable. just in ten seconds, right? 15 seconds. >> yep. >> yeah, yeah, it's making me nervous in here too. >> reporter: he's not just a winemaker. this is the historic home he owns near downtown napa dating back to the 1800s. >> pretty much everywhere you look is a crack, a sizable crack. >> reporter: how he recovers from all this as well as everyone in his neighborhood and city -- >> wow. that's bad. >> reporter: like everything in napa it comes down to the wine. there is spotty damage across the city to what's already been bottled like in ahmed's wine

storage room. >> be careful. don't touch. >> reporter: how many bottles are we talking about? >> hundreds and hundreds. i would say maybe over a thousand bottles. >> reporter: vineyards like sebastiani winery saw 19 of its tanks damaged but in many vineyards they're optimistic they can absorb this damage and it won't have a lasting impact on california's wines. >> it hurts but, you know, we're in agriculture. you know, we're dealing with these things vintage by vintage. we only have one shot at making wine every year then we move on. mother nature sometimes plays a role. >> reporter: so looking at that loss, you see this in the price tag of wines? >> reporter: despends what you want to drink. the bigger wineries will probably be able to absorb it, the smaller wine producers are the one who is are really going to struggle if they lost a lot of barrels.

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explain this next story except to say simply three teens scaled a 73-story skyscraper for a selfie and a snack. here's jeanne moos. >> reporter: sometime s your eys speak louder than your mouths. >> how did he get up on top of that building? >> reporter: all we hear is the wind. no explanation for how these three got on top of hong kong's fifth tallest building to take what's being described as the world's scariest selfie. that's photographer daniel lah holding a selfie stick that's holding the camera on top of the building known as the center. >> it would make me dizzy. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: the video ends when daniel seems to get a text message. >> he probably got great reception up there. >> reporter: but maybe, just maybe there are more layers to this story than meet the eye. who eats bananas 1135 feet in the sky. >> i would be throwing up

bananas. >> they might as well have a snack. >> energy, energy. >> reporter: energy? >> yeah. >> potassium. >> potassium, exactly. >> this is a guinness book of world record stunt. want to be the highest people to eat a banana. >> reporter: interesting. that was no banana king kong was clutching. some theorize there's a more serious connection to primates that this is an anti-racism message. this past spring, spanish soccer fans threw bananas at brazilian players they perceived as black. when it happened again during a spanish league match danny alves picked up the banana and took a bite. they already consulted with an ad agency and thus was born #weareallmonkeys, they were tweeting pictures of themselves eating bananas to make their

ant anti-racism point. >> that feels like a long way rupp. >> reporter: hope they didn't just drop the peels. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> a selfie with a message. "ac 360" starts right now. good evening, thanks for joining us. isis makes disturbing new roads. the question is will the united states expand air strikes to try to stop them? the syrian regime says it's ready to accept help. will the united states give it and will be enough as they take control of more of the country. napa recovering from the strongest earthquake it has seen in 25 years. see if this is a precursor for the next big one. we begin in missouri where the family of michael brown had a request to celebrate his life, to lay him to rest in silence. that request was honored today. protests gave way to peace, tear gas replaced with tears as people gathered at brown's