announcer: this is "new day" with chris good morning, everyone. welcome to nude yale. it's tuesday, august 26. it's 6:00 in the east. in i'm john berman and in an upset victory alisyn camerota decided to come back. >> why an upset? >> you did not scare me away, john berman. >> and i also had to come back because it's a very special day. it's michaela's birthday. happy birthday. >> and holding. >> thanks for spending it with us. >> we do have a lot of news to tell you about. we'll tell you about breaking developments in the fight against isis. president obama giving the go-ahead for reconnaissance flights over syria. the move is an effort to get a better idea of where the militants are stationed and where they are training right now so the big question. are these flights a precursor to air strikes against isis in syria in addition to the strikes already under way to slow the militant down in iraq? cnn's barbara starr has been way

ahead of this story from the very beginning and has the latest developments for us from the pentagon. good morning, barbara. >> good morning, john. a u.s. official does confirm to cnn that president obama has authorized those reconnaissance flights to collect intelligence about isis positions inside of syria, but the question, of course, now is what exactly will trigger a decision for air strikes? u.s. reconnaissance flights could begin over syria at any time, according to u.s. officials using possibly drones, u2 supply planes or f-18s. the pentagon is drafting options to strike inside syria, but the u.s. won't warn the syrian government who says carrying out air strikes without their consent would be a breach of its sovereignty and an act of aggression. it's unclear, however, how much the president's top military adviser, general martin dempsey, supports immediate u.s. military

action. a spokesman confirmed dempsey is preparing options to address isis, both in iraq and syria, with a variety of military tools, including air strikes. but the lack of action so far is prompting critics like hawkish republican senator lindsey graham to charge the white house is trying to minimize the threat we face in order to justify not changing a failed strategy. before any bombs could fall, the u.s. has to get fresh intelligence. >> we don't talk about reconnaissance and intelligence matters, but in general when you are thinking about conducting operations like that, you certainly want to get as much of a view on the ground as you can. >> my knee is peter theo curtis and i'm a journalist in the city of boston, massachusetts. >> reporter: the debate comes as american theo peter curtis held hostage by the militant group al nusra in syria gets his first taste of freedom. >> he was over-the-top excited.

i think obviously he's -- he has to decompress. he's been through so much. >> reporter: u.s. officials so far are not saying much about the release of mr. curtis which the government of qatar apparently helped to facilitate, but they are saying the u.s. policy of not offering ransom to terrorists still holds. john? >> all right, interesting. barbara starr at the pentagon, thanks. >> alisyn. >> this is breaking overnight, exclusive audio coming to light from the very moment police shot unarmed teenager michael brown. it was recorded inadvertently we're told during a video chat by a man who lives near the scene of the shooting in ferguson, missouri. cnn has not been able to independently able to verify this reporting. stephanie elam has the latest. what do we know, stephanie? >> alisyn, when you take a listen to this audio, for some people it might be a bit disturbing but when you're

listening try to listen past the man you hear speaking and see what you hear behind him for yourself. listen closely. >> you are pretty. you are so fine, just going over some of your videos. how can i forget. >> this audio obtained exclusively by cnn allegedly the gunshots fired during the shooting death of 18-year-old michael brown, a lawyer for a ferguson resident says her client recorded this audio while video chatting with a friend when the unarmed teen was shot by ferguson police. his lawyer says he was questioned by the fbi about the audio. listen again as you hear a series of gunshots fired and then a brief pause, followed by another round of shots. >> you are pretty. you're so fine. just going over some of your videos. how could i forget. >> not just the number of gunshots, it's how they are fired and that has a huge relevance on how this case might

finally end up. >> cnn cannot independently var fight authenticity of the tape and has reached out to the fbi for confirmation. facing the possibility of charges in the shooting, 28-year-old officer darren wilson, the grand jury not expected to return a decision until mid-october. heavy police presence, protests and violence on fearirguson's streets thrust the small community into the spotlight. >> today is for peace, peace and quiet sunshine side the friendly mission baptist church a somber home going to lay michael brown to rest. >> yes, we call him the gentle giant. we call him big mike. we call him mike mike. he said one day the whole world will know my name. >> reporter: standing before her son's photos and his casket his mother grieving, wiping away tears. among the thousand gathered inside were friends and family

and many who came to pay their respectsed to the slain teen having never known big mike personally. >> we're still not defeated. >> reporter: including well-known public figures like the reverend jesse jackson and spike lee who tweeted during the service our brother mike brown's st. louis cardinals cap lays upon the casket. on this day protesters stayed silent but mourners reminded of the need for change. >> michael brown's blood is crying from the ground, crying for vengeance, crying for justi justice. >> and back to that audio recording. the question on many people's mind, what exactly was happening during that pause in the shooting? alisyn. >> let's look into, that stephanie, so stick with us for a second because we want to bring in paul ginsberg, an audio expert who has examined this new recording. paul, thanks so much for being with us. let's play the recording one more time and then see what you

hear. let's listen. >> you are pretty. [ gunshots ♪ >> just going over your videos. how can i forget? >> the reason that sounds so strange is because there's a man simultaneously having an audio chat with a woman and we think that he had ear buds in so he doesn't respond to the gunshots that we hear caught on that ambient audio tape. what do you hear as an expert? >> i hear six shots being fired in rapid succession followed by a pause of about three seconds. i'll have to measure that precisely, and then there are i believe four more shots. i made a plot and i've examined it both in realtime as well as in halftime to be able to get more precise information. >> so you hear six shots and then you hear a pause and then you hear four more shots.

>> exactly, that's right, and they all appear to be about the same type of signature. another, the same type of weapon. >> let's play that again and see if we can hear what you, the expert hears. let's play it one more time. >> you are pretty. [ gunshots. you're so fine. just going over some of your videos [ gunshots. ] >> paul, we should mention you have analyzed many audio tapes from crime scenes, including the gunshots from the newtown massacre in connecticut, so how vital -- if this tape is proved verifiably true to be of michael brown's shooting, how critical do you think that this could be in the investigation? >> well, this will test the credibility of the officer and whatever else is included in the official report as to how many shots were fired, what type of weapon was used? was it reloaded and was it from

the same gun? >> stephanie, we were told, as you well know, that michael brown was shot six times. how do you think this changes the investigation? >> reporter: well, we know that he could have been hit six times, doesn't mean that there weren't more shots fired and that's where the lack of clarity has been. like the only thing we know for sure is there were two young men walking in the street when an officer engaged them. after that, it becomes a game of he said, he said so that's what we don't know. what this could possibly help do is add another plane, another texture to this investigation, and, really, i do think it comes down to that pause. what was going on there. on the politician side they are saying that mike brown was reaching for the officer's weapon. on the other side they say that he had his hands up and he was saying don't shoot. i'm unarmed. what this pause does it adds texture from that question. >> from the police side, stephanie, we understand that

darren wilson, the officer, said that he believed that mike brown was charging him or preparing to charge towards him, so that pause might have been what was happening there? >> reporter: well, that's the thing, it could have been. the distance between where his body was found and where the officer was, from what we know at this point, remember, there's a lot of questions out there still, it was not when he was right up on top of the car so that lack of clarify, again, this is just audio. it just adds another layer to that investigation of figuring out exactly what was happening then. >> paul, do you have any theory on what those three seconds mean? >> well, it could have been reloading. it could have been turning around and so on. they may want to do an acoustic analysis of test firing a gun and setting up the fellow's ipad or whatever at the location where this chat occurred to take measurements and to see under

different circumstances what they hear. >> paul, you did a time domain wave form pattern. how did that differ from what you're suggesting investigators do? >> okay. that's just a pretorial representation of what exactly we hear. they will do the same thing, but they may do it under test circumstances to compare, to see how long does it take to reload. in other words, shoot six shots, take the clip out, reload and shoot some more and see whether that compares to what i've got. >> stephanie, very quickly, do people in ferguson have a chance to respond to this new audio yet? >> this is all just coming out. i spent a lot of time on the street where mike brown was killed yesterday, and the people there are hoping that this investigation, they seem to be hopeful in the fbi investigation will shed more light on this,

but how this audio is being received, we'll have to see as sun comes up here in ferguson. >> paul ginsberg, thanks so much for your expertise. stephanie elam, we'll check back in with you. >> reporter: of course. >> thanks so much to both of you. we want you to weigh in on the new developments. join chris cuomo at 11:00 a.m. eastern on our facebook page for a chat of what happens next. go to facebook.com/new year's day, and you can also find me on twitter @alisyn camerota. >> over to michaela. 12 minutes past the hour. we begin in the middle east where palestinian officials say new israeli air strikes destroyed one of gaza's tallest office and apartment buildings. israel says the building was a hamas command center. palestinian officials say nine people were killed, 20 others wounded. also overnight rockets from gaza hit a home in israel, but the family had escaped when warning sirens went off. egypt is meanwhile reportedly trying to revive

these ongoing cease-fire talks. ukrainian president poroshenko is expected to meet with vladimir putin in belarus. they are attending a regional trade summit. they will meet to discuss the crisis in eastern ukraine obviously as well. this meeting comes as fighting continues between ukrainian forces and pro-russian separatists. ukraine says it captured russian troops across the border. russian media though says they crossed by mistake. voters are headed to the polls for primary elections in arizona, vermont and florida. democratic candidate charlie crist is expected to win and not many hoe-profile races today but some could affect the balance of power in the chamber next year. can we talk about the emmy awards, past my bedtime two nights in away. "breaking bad" took top honors winning outstanding drama

series, k""modern family" winnig for a record fifth time. the night's most memorable moment, however, was this. did you see this, bryan cranston? plants one on "seinfeld" car julie louie dreyfuss. passionate kiss when she went to receive her award for leading actress in a comedy. so good. >> and finally an emotional tribute that billy crystal paid to his good friend, the late robin williams, really touching, and i think you couldn't help but feel the emotion in the moment from somebody who knew him so well. could i mention, a big mention to alison janney, two emmys, a guest role for in a drama series and for the tv show "mom." not a bad night, get all dressed up and walk away with two statues. >> still your birthday. >> still your birthday.

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welcome back to "new day," everyone. the united states may be one step closer now to taking military action against isis inside syria. president obama has authorized air surveillance, spy planes, drones, to gather intelligence on isis strongholds. how far will the u.s. if to retrain or detain terror in that region? let's bring in bobby ghosh, the managing editor of "quartz." these flights that will go over syria, drones, spy planes, u2s, what will they be looking? >> looking for clusters of military equipment. we know isis has stolen or ceased a lot of tank, armored vehicles, both within iraq and syria. they will be looking for where those are and looking for training camps and movements of

large numbers of suvs and also armored things like this, exactly. they will also be trying to confirm intelligence that they are collecting from the ground, for safe houses, where isis is keeping its prisoners, its captives. we know, for instance, we learned last week that the u.s. did send in special forces to try to get jim foley and the other captives. the information was a little out of date but the time the special forces got to the scene in syria. the prisoners were moved. if we had eyes over that scene for a few days we might have known that. >> talked about boots on the ground. it already happened. went in to try to rescue james foley, didn't work. had boots on the ground briefly in iraq where we also had air strikes already against isis. there is another component though us a talk about moving into syria, and that's bashar assad, the regime in syria. i had a respected man in national security yesterday, and he told me, and he's not alone,

that he's in favor of working with bashar al assad to fight isis in syria. what do you make of that? >> i'm very skeptical about that. one is you don't fight one sort of bad actor with another bad actor. bashar al assad has killed 100,000 of his own people, most of them sunnis. if you join forces with him, assuming that he's even trustworthy enough to join forces with, if you're sending forces you're sending the wrong kind of signal. you're empowering isis because isis is able to say the united states is fighting with the shia against us sunnis, come and join us. you're making isis' propaganda for them. >> so without assad and without large numbers of ground troops or boots on the ground, what can these air strikes against isis do? >> well, the administration has already been talking about strengthening the non-islamist opposition to assad. there are plenty of groups involved there. we've had connections with for a while now.

they have been fighting, and with varying degrees. >> are they giving us intelligence, by the way? >> i'm sure they are. how could they not be? if we're smart we're collecting intelligence from them. they are outgunned. don't have the kind of equipment isis or assad had and there's many outside the administration, for instance, john mccain, saying we should be giving them weapons, enabling them to foot. they need to be the boots on the camp in addition to whatever aerial campaign is being waged. >> another major development that we learned over the last 24 hours coming from the region right now and that's in libya, word that i should point out that egypt right here and the united arab emirates have launched air strikes in libya. now, this also apparently happened without the knowledge of the u.s. let me break this down into two parts. first of all, do you buy the possibility without the knowledge of the u.s.? >> i find that very hard to believe. they may not have formally asked for permission, but the united

states has eyes all over that piece of ground, and the uae, egypt can be an unreliable actor, but the uae, i find very hard that the uae would have spent planes all the way across without the united states knowing about it. >> what does this mean then for the united states, the fact that you have these two arab nations, egypt and the uae launching air strikes in that region? what does that mean for our country facing other threats in that region? >> something it means for the whole world. for years now people everywhere have been asking why is it only the western countries that are putting boots on the ground, military hardware. why aren't arab countries who are very well armed, they pout all this equipment from us, why are they not participating in the fight against islamist groups in their own lands? this is the first time we've seen this kind of concerted action to large significant arab countries participating, collaborating and attacking islamists in a third arabic country. this opens up the possibility that now we can see to the

egyptians and to the uae, if you can do that in libya, why aren't you helping in syria and iraq? >> it does put them in direct conflict with other regions in the area. qatar is aiding the different half of what's going on inside syria right now. >> qatar is trying to be on the fence, trying to be brokers and trying to be helpful. there's -- there's a lot of accusations that they are funding groups like al nusra which gave up this -- the other captive this week. we don't know that for certain. we know that qatar has been in talks with these groups in the past. it's not a bad thing in itself. it's useful to have somebody who is in communication with some of these groups. nobody talks with isis. isis talks with nobody but there are many other groups in the region. >> so much going on right now in that region. the u.s. is involved in a lot clearly and the u.s. not involved in. interesting to see what happens over the next few hours. bobby ghosh, really great to have you with us. >> next up on "new day," much more on the alleged new audio of

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good to have you back with us here on nude yale. let's take a look at your headlines. in the middle east an israeli air strike blasted a residential tower in gaza overnight. palestinian officials say nine people were killed and 20 more were injured. the israeli military said the building housed a hamas command center. former fbi directorlouis freeh was in a car accident. he was in a car accident and underwent surgery for unspecified injuries. police say the suv went off the road and struck a mailbox before landing in some bushes. freeh was director of the fbi from 1993 to 1991. to the latest in the fight against eparticular, the world trade organization calling the death toll among health care workers in western africa unprecedented. so far 120 health care workers have died, twice in a number have been infected. these are really huge numbers

considering that in the three hardest hit countries the w.h.o.ization only one or two doctors are available to treat 100,000 people. we'll keep an eye on that. we want to show you a drone's eye view of damage from the powerful earthquake that shook california's wine country. the damage was recorded to some of the historic buildings and homes and businesses in the downtown area of napa and post it had on youtube. you can see this. look at this. terrible damage. dozens of homes and buildings are now considered uninhabitable, many have been red-tagged because the walls or the roofs might just collapse. an area hospital said it treated more than 200 patients. one is still in critical condition. gives you an idea of the scope because we've seen footage from the ground and we know it was bad, 6.0, and there's been a series of aftershocks, but that really gives you an idea. >> it does. >> some of those buildings i think were rhett fitted, designed to withstand that and

even they suffered damage. >> exactly. >> there's trouble in the tropics. hurricane cristobal has formed in the atlantic with sustained 75-mile-per-hour winds. meteorologist indra petersons is here to tell us how the east coast will be affected. what's it looking like? >> still talking about this making its way out to sea. doesn't mean we won't see any effects on the eastern seaboard. a category 1 hurricane, weak hurricane, makes it a category 1 sitting at 75 miles per hour. expected to go right between bermuda and the outer banks staying as a hurricane even as it enters cooler waters before dissipating but we'll be watching. look at surf. so many people are headed to the beach ahead of labor day weekend. 5 to 7 foot surf along florida and making its way to the outer banks and even though this system is hanging offshore. another side is the strong rip currents. not only do you have rip currents but a dome of high pressure. with that you're talking about a high rip current even out there towards the mid-atlantic so that's one side of the equation.

keep in mind, on the opposite side, this was a huge story, category 5, a rare system was hanging there and dissipated to a category 2 with you you're still talking about this very rare to come all the way into southern california. this is going to be an epic event in their region. talking about 10 to 15 foot waves out there. what they are expecting that comes in wednesday through thursday and there's even damage possible. a lot of beach erosion and beach front properties could be taken by surprise, especially when some of the waves come up. people go in the eddys to take a look. >> there could be an impact far, far away. >> cat 5 sitting in the water. >> thanks, indra. next up on "new day" we'll break down this brand new exclusive audio. you need to hear it allegedly of the gunshots that killed michael brown. how many shots were fired? count for yourself. why was there a pause at one point between the shots. the audio straight ahead. so what we're looking for is a way to "plus" our accounting firm's mobile plan. and "minus" our expenses. perfect timing. we're offering our best-ever pricing on mobile plans for business.

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brown. it was apparently recorded inadvertently during a video chat with something like skype or one of those other video chat services near the shooting scene. now on it what sounds like gunshots, a pause and then more gunshots. i want you to take a listen. we should mention it is a bit disturbing since they are the reported fatal shots, and you also have to try to ignore the man talking and try to listen to what's happening in the background. >> you are pretty. [ gunshots ] >> you're so fine. just going over some of your videos. [ gunshots. ] >> how could i forget. >> we want to bring in mo ivory, cnn commentator and legal analyst and i know mo you're hearing it for the first time. what off the blush, first off, what do you hear and what comes to mind? >> the first thing that i started thinking that's more

than six. >> mm-hmm. >> and i've always had that number six in my head because of the autopsy, but that certainly -- that first series, pop, pop, pop, pop and then a break. obvious break and then a bunch more shots. w wow. >> mel, we know our audio expert paul ginsberg was on with us, counts ten. he said ten. we said 11 but he said the last one was an echo. >> they said it was at least six shots. i don't find the number of bullets to be the bombshell here, it's the pause. >> let's listen. >> play it again one more time. >> listen how long it is. >> you are pretty. [ gunshots [. >> you're so fine. just going over some of your videos. how could i forget? [ gunshots. ] >> mel, it sounds like, and, again, our expert says there's a three-second pause. >> wow. >> what is that to you?

>> that's extremely significant. let me put it in the context of the legal proceedings that are going on. >> okay. >> what the pause means is a question of fact for the jury, and one of the things that's been troubling me greatly is that on the bus or train of justice it's the prosecutor that drives it, and the prosecutor in this case, michaela and mo is not driving the bus. he's along for the ride, and i'm extremely concerned about what's going to happen in the grand jury and so this sort of pause could mean that the officer shot six times, paused, saw the hands were up and then shot again, or it could mean that michael brown was lunging at him, but these are questions of fact that belong in front of a criminal jury to decide. think about the porch shooting. a prosecutor could have decided that the resident in that detroit house was acting in

self-defense. a jury just unanimously convicted him of murder because these are questions that a jury are supposed to be deciding and this pause is a huge thing. >> so mo, we know -- we understand from the lawyer of the man that's on this audio tape that the fbi, the lawyer tells us the fbi has this audio recording and has interviewed the man. we can't independently confirm either of those facts, but that is a big part of their investigation. this is another missing link, if you will. >> sure, and just like she said. we will not know if this information goes before the grand jury. can you imagine if this didn't. the grand jury proceedings are so secretive we don't know what's going in and we don't know what else there is. >> i was shocked yesterday when i was in ferguson and i went to the scene, how close the proximity, how small this street is and how close the apartments are so i would not be surprise federal there's more audio, if

there's more people that were on the phone and caught stuff on their cell phones just because this street is so small, the neighborhood is so close to the street, and, i mean, i'm sure there's a ton more we'll find out. >> we already learned earlier this week, i guess it would have been last week, quiz cuomo and anderson cooper speak together young man saying they heard it. it bounced around any noise, a dark barking, child being thrown, bounced around between those buildings and sort of echoed and that's a very good question. what else will we find out, mel, and why did it take so long for this to come forward? august 9th was the shooting. today is the 26th of august. >> you know, investigations do take a fair amount of time. >> but does it surprise you that this audio came out so late in the game? >> no, it doesn't, actually, but what is scary is the fact that the state has moved forward with these grand jury proceedings and

the federal government with their 40 phoebe agents on the ground have other evidence, so we don't know if the state, as mo was saying, is going to be introducing this into the grand jury if they even knew that this existed. >> this is a game-changer then. >> absolutely, and i know that there's been a plea from senator mccaskill in missouri for the federal investigation to be in line with the grand jury so they can come out both at the same time with their findings so there's not one, you know, set of findings and then the fbi and the federal government comes back and says something else. i mean, they should be moving together with all of the stuff that they have, but, again, the grand jury is so secretive the prosecutor is so not being transparent, and it's making -- it's putting more stress on the community, especially when stuff like this comes out. >> it's so interesting, too, that everyone collectively, supporters, people that were

vocally voicing consternation of what went on in ferguson, supporters of the police officers, supporters of the family. everybody took a pause yesterday as they laid michael brown to rest and now it sounds as though with this new audio and the fact that people are really seeking justice this will really reinvigorate things. >> you know, michaela. >> go ahead, mo, first. >> there was a pause yesterday at the funeral and at the church, friendly temple, but there was not a pause at the scene. when i went to the scene, there were still people, still cameras and still, you know, trucks going on so there was the respect of what was happening at the other side of st. louis but still attention at the scene yesterday. >> mel? >> the other reason, michaela, that this is a very significant piece of evidence is not only because of the because but because it is a piece of evidence that actually puts you right at the scene. we only have the photos of

michael brown lying in the middle of the street. we don't have any video of the actual context, and now we have audio that actually emotionally puts you right there, and that's a major development, michaela. >> so a jury will hear this, mel? >> absolutely. >> yeah. >> let's put it this way. i don't know that a jury will hear this, because as i mentioned before the prosecutor drives the bus in the system of justice, and what has troubled me, it's that the prosecutor has not made a very clear position about whether or not they are committed to prosecuting this case, that they are committed to bringing charges. he's basically said he's going to give the grand jury every scrap of paper and then they will figure it out, and that is a bunch of malarkey. the prosecutor always knows going into the grand jury what he or she hopes the charges will be, and we do not have that in this particular incident. >> mel is right. >> if he doesn't think he should prove a case, he should say so.

>> and they should appoint a special prosecutor because his behavior is showing the signs of him not vigorously going after this case, and it's time for the cries for a special prosecutor to be heard. >> mo, mel, great conversation. thanks for walking through it all with me. this new audio tape, as you said, sounds like it's a game changing certainly in the investigation. we want you to weigh in on this new development and all the others. join chris cuomo. he'll be conducting a facebook chat at 11:00 a.m. eastern on what happens next in terms of the investigation. facebook.com/new year's d facebook.com/newday is where you find that. >> the u.s. is stepping up surveillance over syria trying to get a better handle on isis and its locations. are air strikes next? ♪

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the united states may be one step closer to taking military action against isis in syria. president obama has authorized air surveillance to gather intelligence of isis strongholds in the country. syria has warned the u.s. not to take unilateral military action without consulting its government. let's discuss all of this with mike baker, a former cia covert operations officer and president of diligence, a global security firm.

mike, great to see you. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. >> air surveillance, how well can air surveillance target isis positions and their activities? >> well, i mean, using manned surveillance will provide us with a much better target practice than what we've been dealing with in the recent past, primarily satellite footage and using intel sources so this is a step in the right direction if what we're talking about is significantly degrading isis' capabilities in syria and that's where they got it all started. they have been working now for months and months to consolidate their territory that they hold in northern syria. in fact, they have taken an entire province in syria, so, you know, i'm afraid when we talk about mission creep and the need to try to figure out how to defeat isis. we're not just talking about iraq. if we're willing to do this the white house is correct. we've got to be looking into syria. >> sounds like air surveillance

is an imprecise science particularly in targeting their activities. if we want to know what isis is doing on the ground, doesn't this require some boots on the ground, even if it's a special cosert operations force? >> yeah, you're absolutely right, yes, it does, and so i think that the white house, they have been spending a lot of time talking about what they are not going to do and from a strategic point of view, from a tactical point of view, that's not a good idea when you're talking about facing an enemy like isis. better to get up and say we're going to do what we need to do in concert with our allies and get the job done, rather than box ourselves in, so, air surveillance is -- is, again, a step in the right direction, but you're right. we're going to need access to -- to the crowd, whether through our troops or our allies. the turkish military, quite frankly, is a key to this area and isis right now is working very hard to take territory

along the turkish border that they have at times controlled and at times have battled with the syrian military over. the turkish military and turkish government has a lot at stake here and what we need to be doing, and i'm sure the administration is working at it, but what we need to be doing is a very aggressive effort to -- to draw in the jordanians, the turks, the saudis, all those countries that have a very, very significant short-term interest in what happens here. >> syria also has an interest obviously in getting rid of isis. they have warned the u.s. against any sort of unilateral action or air strikes. if they haven't approved it, how do we handle it since we don't want to collaborate with the assad regime, how do we handle it if syria never gives us permission? >> you're absolutely correct to point this out this. aspect could be the most complex foreign policy strategic issue that this white house is or has been dealing with. how do we defeat an enemy like

isis, a major threat to our national security as well as obviously to the region, without being drawn into a situation where we're supporting bashar assad? as surreal as it sounds. i know for months, again, we have to understand what's been happening in the region, the iranians as an example have had boots on the ground in iraq supporting the former governor of maliki who has now left. you know, you look at the bedfellows that this current issue has been creating, it's very unusual, but for us, for the u.s., for the white house n now, it is a major complex issue. how do we do this? how do we move into syria appropriately with our allies, without being seen by our allies without being seen as supporting assad? >> syria is asking for the help of the international ministry, here's a statement that the

foreign minister put out yesterday. syria is ready to collaborate and coordinate regionally and internationally to fight terrorism in accordance with the united nations security council decision 2170. if we're to take that at face value, and i don't know if we should, it means that there's an opportunity for us to mend fences with this brutal dictator somehow to fight isis? you're cringing because that's just not possible, is it? >> yeah. >> well, it's possible but it would mean we'd have to do a complete left turn and complete 110 on our policy towards assad. i don't believe this white house is going to do that. you know, the way the real world works it may be the most pragmatic solution to turn around and say, yes, as distasteful as it is, maybe we have to work with assad. again, i don't believe that's going to happen but assad and his crew have been ever since

they have started. to some degree frankly when we're talking about isis and some of their like-minded minions in syria, they are right, but does that mean that the white house is going to rush into a agreement with assad to work against this particular enemy. i don't see that happening. >> strange bedfellows indeed. >> thanks for the expertise. >> thank you very much. >> back over to john. >> just one piece of the developments going on overnight. a lot of news we're following this morning. let's get right to it. >> u.s. reconnaissance flights could begin over syria at any time. >> we are well aware of the threat that is posed by isil. >> the real answer here long term is stable governance in syria and in iraq. >> this audio allegedly the gunshots fired during the shooting death of 18-year-old michael brown. >> not just the number of

gunshots, it's how they are fired. >> we call him big mike. we call him mike mike. he said one day the whole world will know my name. >> we don't say good-bye. we say good journey until we meet again. >> good morning, everyone. welcome back to nude yale. i'm john berman joined again by alisyn camerota. chris and kate both off. we'll begin with breaking news overnight. exclusive new audio coming to light. it may be from the very moment that the police shot and killed michael brown, the unarmed teenager in ferguson, missouri. it was recorded unintentionally during a video chat by a man who lives near the scene of the shooting there. we want you to listen to this. you can hear multiple gunshots trying to ignore the conversation that the man on this is having because it's a little confusing but listen to the gunshots right here. >> you are pretty. [ gunshots ] >> you're so fine. just going over some of your

videos. how could i forget? [ gunshots." >> two sets of shots with a pause in between. cnn has not independently verified the recording but very, very interesting. stephanie elam in ferguson has the very latest. stephanie? >> reporter: john, when you take a listen to that audio and you hear that group of shots, it may be disturbing for some people to hear, but when you listen to it, it sounds to me like there's six shots and then a pause and then another four. if you take a listen, try not to listen to that man talking and listen to the shots again. >> you are pretty. [ gunshots ] >> you're so fine. just going over some of your videos. how could i forget? " [ gunshots. ] >> the question for several part-time that i've talked to and just about reading this, what was happening in that pause, john? that's what people want to know. two sides to that story already. police say that they believe

mike brown was trying to take the weapon away from the police officer, but witnesses on the street say that's not what happened. they say that he was actually surrendering and saying that he wasn't armed. so what was happening in that moment. this could be a key point in the investigation if in fact the fbi finds that this audio reporting is true and valid and did happen at the time that mike brown died. >> stephanie elam in ferguson for us. let's talk about the three-second pause and talk about the new audio. what does it mean for the investigation? let's bring in danny cevallos, a cnn legal attorney and criminal attorney. danny, you first heard this video and you thought what? >> well, i thought that there's a large number of shots, possibly even more than we've originally thought, and the question i think obviously in everyone's mind is why is there a pause. now, first, is a pause explainable? >> yeah, there is a set of facts that would explain a pause and, for example, the assailant could have kept charging as just an

example to give, but more likely than not people are going to start thinking any kind of pause would have given the officer a chance to give another order or that michael brown might have been submitting so i think the number of shots is problematic and obviously that pause, i think what we're also going to see from here is now that it's out there, witnesses are going to unconsciously or consciously tailor their testimony now to fit within those parameters because they will be sort of a starting point and i think that you will see, every witness will say, yeah, that coincides with exactly what i said and here's why. >> let's listen to it one more time. our expert paul ginsburg we spoke to moments ago counted ten shots. let's listen again. >> you are pretty. [ gunshots. ] >> you're so fine. just going over some of your videos. how could i forget? [ gunshots ]

>> now, you hear that pause in the middle, the three-second pause, you say, danny, that's a key moment bass it gave the officer time to what, time to think which gets to the issue of what was a reasonable use of force in that instance? maybe the first few shots were justified for whatever was going on, but then how do you justify the next series of shots, is that what you're saying? >> absolutely. well, hypothetically, let's say that an assailant was just charging and never stopped charging. that is an example of a set of facts that would explain that three-second pause. maybe that police officer is waiting to see if a suspect stops charging and i'm talking about a fictional subject and, on the other hand, a lot of us don't use firearms, so to us that use of deadly force, plus a pause, plus using deadly force again, if you don't use firearms that often, it's going to seem a little excessive when you think of all that time to reflect.

even though we don't know what's going on in between. you know, it's interesting. data on firearm use shows that the still plus, the brain is not as quick as we like it to be, that the message to stop shooting and start shooting doesn't move as quickly from the brain to the hand as we think, but does it take three seconds? well, that may be stretching it. >> that's a question that could go ultimately to a jury. before it gets there though, the question is will this evidence end up before the grand jury, what do you think? >> well, that's a great question, and for those people this is a great illustration of why maybe it isn't always the best thing to rush to a grand jury. this appears to be information that was only recently obtained. maybe law enforcement has had it the entire time, but you have to wonder and in speeding to commit this to a grand jury, what other information they may miss because we're not going to hear about it for another month or

so. in this case, you have to look at what's going to be submitted to the grand jury and how they will perceive it and i really believe that different, reasonable people can perceive this differently especially if they have any background in the military and any background in law enforcement. they may take a totally different perspective than someone who doesn't use a firearm ever, and people who have no contact with firearms, i think that their initial reaction is going to be, wow, this many shots, plus a pause. not knowing much about firearms, seems a little much to me. but, look, there is a sense of facts that would justify those shots including the pause. since we don't have video. we just don't know. >> and that's what makes this such a fascinating piece of evidence if it does turn out to in fact be authentic, and it will be, i imagine, a key point if this ever does go to trial. it raises as many questions as

it answers, so who does get to answer that question ultimately, is that the jury? >> exactly. like i said, now that witnesses are hearing this audio, not lying, it's human nature to conform whatever evidence you have with your story so every witness' testimony is going to jive with that audio recording. i can almost guarantee it. even though their respective stories will be on different ends of the spectrum and in many ways this audio tape may cause more confusion for a jury than it will resolve issues because the audio itself will be played and then there's many witnesses, if there's a trial, who will be talking about how they perceived those gunshots at the time. >> and, of course, the jury could then project their own emotions and experience into those three subjects. as a defense opportunity you

have a lot of experience out there. i get the sense as a defense attorney if you were called on to defend the officer in this case, you find this tape problematic. >> you know, it's a good point. any number of shots, going back to a jury, a reasonable juror. you think of the number of shots, and i think for every defense attorney thinking about this case, you know, you can put aside the initial stop and put aside all the racial issues. the bottom line is to me this is a case where have you to justify six shots and yesterday that problem was justifying six shots. today it becomes justifying maybe six or more shots, plus a pause. three seconds, four seconds, enough time to contemplate. now, certainly, there may still have been an assailant charging and still could have been a reason for that deadly force, but, yes, you are right. overnight the defense attorney's job in this case becomes quite a bit harder.

>> really, really interesting, as many as ten shots counted by our audio analyst with a three-second break in the middle. danny cevallos, really appreciate your insight. weigh in on all the developments. join chris cuomo at 11:00 a.m. in a facebook page on our facebook page to discuss what happens next that. address is facebook.com/newday. >> all right, john. the fight to slow isis being taken to the skies over syria. president obama has given the green light for reconnaissance flights over syria to get a better idea of where the militant group is organizing and how they are training. will air strikes be the next step? let's go to barbara star. she's at pentagon with the latest. barbara, what are you hearing? >> good morning, alisyn. the president has now given the go-ahead for reconnaissance flights over syria. these could be drones, you be manned aircraft and could even be manned aircraft flying at high altitudes. what the military needs to do now is collect fresh

intelligence about where isis is exactly located inside syria. where are the training camps, the concentration of forces, the leadership targets and the command and control facilities. that's what they are trying to get the best and most president bush intelligence on. then the president would still have to authorize air strikes and what would trigger that still remains to be determined. the white house not yet making that decision to make that step. one of the big challenges for them is how to do air strikes inside syria without coincidentally perhaps benefiting the assad regime what. would the goal of air strikes be? u.s. officials tell us they would be looking to disrupt isis, set them back on their heels and prove that they have no safe haven and keep them from reorganizing and moving forward even further. isis now controlling a very wide swath of territory across northern syria and iraq alisyn. >> thanks so much for monitoring

that. we'll check back in with you. >> turning now to new details about the release of american hostage peter theo curtis who was held hostage by a group in syria for two years. a media mogul and former fbi agent played key roles in securing theo's freedom. this as theo curtis' mother nancy spoke out in an interview with abc news about talking to her son for the first time since his release. >> it was wonderful. usually he doesn't have a whole lot to say to me, typical guy, hi, mom, yeah, everything is fine, but he was so excited, and he was saying, mom, they are being so nice to me! and they have put me in this 12-star hotel. he was over the top excited. >> joining us now is peter theo curtis' former roommate and friend. matt, great to see you. what do you think -- i know you've been friends with the curtis family for a long time.

you and theo were high school roommates, so, of course, you know nancy, his mom. what do you think when you see her reaction to his release. >> oh, it's very, very thrilling, i have to say, and, you know, she's born the brunt of the hardship over the last couple of years and to see her so thrilled is needless to say very infectious and we're just -- we're all ecstatic individually, but for everyone it's really nancy i'm most ecstatic for so i'm very happy. >> can you tell us what happened when you got the news that your friend theo was going to be free? >> it was -- we were actually down at the beach that day, and my wife had gone home to pick up a few things and she heard on -- on voice mail theo's cousin left a message, guess what, guess what, guess what, theo's free

and he came sprinting up to me saying he's free, he's free. very emotional moment which it continues to be for me. >> okay. we can only imagine what these past two years have been like for you, his friend and for his family. i know you likened it having to live with a friend being held in captivity and not knowing his fate. you've likened it to having a friend with a terminal illness. how so? >> well, well, you're in a very powerful situation. it was incredibly -- the thing that's so difficult about it is you can't talk to him. he lives -- he lived almost in this apparition state for me for a long time. he would come up in my thoughts really throughout the day at the most unexpected times and you would want to reach out and talk to him and from time to time i would actually e-mail him knowing that it would never come back. just to say, you know, i'm

thinking of you and hopefully i'll get a response in the next few days but he's got some catching to do. >> he sure does. sure he's happy to have gotten all the e-mails. you and your family must have been panic-stricken and devastated when you heard about james foley being beheaded and killed while in captivity. what was that like? >> well, it was a -- it was incredibly difficult moment because, you know, for the first nine months we heard nothing at all, and i had known that theo was in an extreme war zone. at that point i in my heartfelt he was gone and it was very difficult so in many ways knowing he was alive but held by an extremist group was very difficult. hearing about jim foley it just

underscored the unbelievable risks that theo is facing. i knew that negotiations were -- had been progressing at that point prior to jim foley's killing so there had been a moment of optimism but needless to say we all knew how precarious that situation was, and as you can imagine it was not -- absent any relation to theo it was a horrifying act to all of us, but with theo in mind it was really doubly so and i think for all of us close to him. >> do you think that his family lost hope at that point that theo would get out alive. >> i don't think so. the main reason being that theo was with al nusra and jim foley was with isis and i think to all of us their flavors of the same ice cream, but -- but to the extent that there were differences in terms of their

approach and degree of extremism, i think they still held out more hope while still being incredibly scared for theo. >> do you have any idea when you'll see theo. >> i don't know, but it's going to be soon, and i'm sure looking forward to it, i have to say. >> and it's going to be sweet. matt, thanks for sharing your personal thoughts on all of this. really appreciate your insight into the family for us. >> thank you, alisyn. >> thank you. >> best of luck. wow, it's great to hear from him and how happy they are now and his mom who seems over the moon, theo's mom seems like -- >> i can't believe he sent e-mails to his friend, you know, even though he knew they would never be responded to when his friend was in captivity. that's amazing. >> and able to put such a personal face on it because it seems other worldly because this brings it right back into focus. real people dealing with a loved one who is in captivity. >> i know. >> worst nightmare. >> i know. let's take a look at headlines at 12 minutes past the

hour. in the middle east we begin with an israeli air strike blasting the residentialer to in gaza overnight. palestinian officials say 29 were injured in the latest attack. the israeli military said the building housed a hamas command center. ukraine says it has captured ten russian soldiers who crossed the border into the donetsk region, but russian media says the soldiers were on patrol and likely crossed over by mistake. all of this as ukrainian president petro poroshenko is expected to meet with russian president vladimir putin in belarus today. the two leaders are attending a regional trade summit. they will meet also to discuss the ongoing crisis in eastern ukraine. the nsa built a google-like search engine for the billions of digital records it collects. a report published on the website cites documents provided

by nsa whistleblower edward snowden. they say the search index indexes more than 50 billion records of phone calls, e-mails and other communications. 2 government agencies have access to that search engine including the fbi and the drug enforcement administration. voters heading to the polls today for primary elections in arizona, vermont and florida. that's where former governor charlie crist is expected to win the democratic nomination as he tries to reclaim the job. also, a runoff for a house seat in oklahoma. some of the primaries for house seats could affect the balance of power in the chamber next year, so, of course, we'll be watching them and bringing you the results. >> big tuesday. >> thank you so much. next up on new year's day, u.s. -- next up on "new day," are air strikes now imminent in syria? we'll speak with a senior member of the house about the very latest developments.

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welcome back. president obama has authorized reconnaissance flights over syria, drones, spy planes. this marks a significant step forward. a look at possible military action in syria, pentagon looking at plans to strike isis extremists but the white house has said the white house has not

made a final decision about whether to move forward with the air strikes. want to discuss this now more with republican congressman mike turner, a senior member of the house armed services committee. congressman, thanks so much for being with us. >> john, thanks for having me. >> i want to try to cover some ground quickly here. yes or no, do you support u.s. air strikes in syria targeting isis right now? >> well, i think what the administration needs to do is come forward with a plan. right now they have no coordinated plan and no stated goals and objectives. the administration has inconsistent statements as to whether or not they see isis as a threat to the western united states. british prime minister cameron clearly restating that isis is a threat to the west. this administration seems to be waffling on what the threat is and how to approach it so it's very difficult to galvanize the american public or certainly congress behind the administration without a strategy in place. >> you are a leader among republicans in congress.

what do you support? do you support air strikes right now targeting isis in syria? >> well, i think the president, if he puts together a plan to defeat isis, he has said we need to defeat them. it will require action within syria itself but haphazard military action is not a strategy or a plan and we certainly don't see from this administration a policy. as i look to both syria and iraq, the president has not put together a coordinated goals and objectives and a statement of where he's going to comply with american diplomatic or military effort. these isolated military actions can only result in more difficulty. the president needs to put together his national security team with the department of defense and put together a plan. >> you seem to be suggesting something more comprehensive than just the air strikes. maybe special operations forces on the ground in syria? >> well, at this point i think no one should say that we're

going to go invade iraq and syria and put troops on the ground. what we do need though is a plan and jumping all the way to military boots on the ground would be really irresponsible but the president cannot do these isolated strikes without working in a coordinated fashion with our allies, with those in the region, certainly with iraq itself, to have any goals and objectives achieved. we have to defeat isis. general dempsey has said that isis a strong threat to the united states and these isolated acts that the president is taking have no coordinated plan or execution. >> and i do understand and i hear your criticism of the administration, but you certainly are a leader in congress, you're on the armed services committee. >> sure. >> it's your job as well to think about these things and think about what you would support, not support. do you think the president needs to put a plan forth before congress that you need to vote on before further military action? >> well, i think the president

certainly has enough authority currently militarily to take action. what he doesn't haved is the moral resolve or the plan that he needs in order to be able to execute that. people are confused, both in the united states and in congress and i think throughout the world as to what the president's goals and objectives are. until he does, that we certainly don't have any degree of confidence of success. be assured. this is a real threat. it is a real threat to the united states and to the west, and the president seems to be taking an isolated approach to this as opposed to a coordinated plan. he needs to sit down with his national security team, department of defense and put forth a plan and strategy where the congress and american public can say no only do we understand what the threat is but we understand how to defeat it and then he'll garner support. >> if he called you on the phone, congressman and said what do you think we should do -- i had clark kent irvin, a very respected man, defense analyst, who says the united states needs to consider partnering with bashar al assad perhaps and maybe it is worth it to partner

with assad to fight isis. would you support that? >> again, it depends on how this begins to unfold but i would take the president back to his cairo speech because in his cairo speech he laid out what his plan was for iraq in addition to withdrawing military force, working for a strong and stable iraq, an iraq that can have territorial integrity and self-determination, independence and pursuing islamist extremists to hold them at bay. those three goals and objectives still apply today. the president walked away from them which is why we have the problem we do in syria and iraq and he needs to reapply his own policies stated from the back of the beginning of the administration. >> i'm getting a lot from you what the president has or has not done but not a lot what you think yourself. bashar al assad, a bigger threat than isis or is isis a bigger threat than the syrian regime? >> well, assad is a threat to his own people and isis is a threat to the west and to other nations. the reason why you're getting so much about what the president

should do because he is the commander in chief. he is actually in control and has responsibility for our foreign policy and he has put us in a situation where because of the lack of definition, the indecisiveness, the uncertainty, the culture of uncertainty that the administration has allowed to unfold, we have this growing problem that the president needs to address. colonel dempsey says absolute threat to the united states. the president needs to put together a plan that says how he's going to address and garner the support to lessen that threat to the united states >> you said at the beginning, you said assad is only a threat to his own people and isis a threat to the world, including the united states. does it mean it may be worth giving him some support or at least having a loose partnership with bashar al assad against isis? >> well, i think, again, that's jumping way far ahead. because this president doesn't have a plan doesn't mean you have to say we have to partner with assad. certainly i would turn, as the president should be turning, to general dempsey saying i need a plan. what is this threat, what are

the capabilities and how can they be contained and defeated? i'd be incredibly surprised if the president in turning to our military would have them come back and say we have no other options but to partner with assad, but certainly they have no options until the president is willing to work in a coordinated fashion to put together a plan. the legs planning, the less our options are. >> well, congressman turner, we appreciate you coming on and talking about what the president is doing and not doing. in the future i also hear what you think on some of these subjects about what the u.s. should and shouldn't do as well. great to have you here, sir. next up on "new day," a new hope for peace this morning in gaza. could israel and hamas be ready to return to a cease-fire? we're live on the ground with the very latest. plus, the stars were out for tv's biggest night, and a few familiar favorites took center stage once again. we'll look at what won big and who was shut out. [ female announcer ] birdhouse plans. nacho pans.

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29 minutes the hour. here's a look at your headlines. cnn has received exclusive new audio said to be from the very moment police shot unarmed teenager michael brown. it was recorded inadvertently during a video chat by a man, an unnamed man works lives near the scene of the shooting in ferguson, missouri that. man asked that his identity not be revealed. cnn cannot independently confirm the recording's authenticity, the revelation happening on the same day that thousands of people packed a church for an emotional funeral for michael brown. president obama will be in charlotte, north carolina, today to address the american legions

national convention. the president is expected to comment on the sacrifices made by veterans. tomorrow the veterans affairs department is expected to release an inpersonal investigation into patient care delays. early reports indicate it will say there's no proof that any veterans died as a result of the long waits for care at the phoenix v.a. hospital. as you'll recall, cnn first reported the problems in medical care at the v.a. hospital in phoenix. former fbi director louie freeh is in a new hampshire hospital after being seriously injured in a car accident. officials tell cnn freeh underwent surgery for unspecified injuries. state police say his suv went off the road and struck a mailbox before it landed in some bushes. freeh was director of the fbi from depth 1993 to june 2001. >> all right. we'll keep an eye on that. michaela, thanks so much. meanwhile, israeli air strikes showing no signs of letting up in gaza. the latest palestinian officials say killed nine and dozens more were wounded.

this was in a blast that nearly leveled one of gaza's tallest buildings, this as dozens of rockets were launched at israel overnight, and there are reports that a new cease-fire deal could be close. cnn's ben wedeman is live in jerusalem with the latest. hi, ben. >> reporter: hi, alisyn. yes, it could be close, but we've seen cease-fire come and go so far, and nobody is overly optimistic at this point. apparently the egyptians are continuing to push their initiative. we've heard from mousa al marzuk that the egyptian initiative is acceptable to them, but at moment there's no israeli negotiators in cairo so it's difficult to see how it's going to move ahead until they get there. now, regarding the situation in gaza, you saw these two high rise buildings by gaza standards, one of them 14 floors, almost completely leveled. this appears to be part of what

is the israeli version of shock and awe in gaza. instead of what we saw earlier in the conflict, individual homes or offices are being hit by missiles, now they are just taking down entire buildings where according in one instance the israelis say there was a hamas command and control complex but our crew in gaza said that in one of those high rises that was brought down, there are also offices, stores and residences as well that were destroyed overnight alisyn. >> ben wedeman, thank you for that update from the location. thank you. meanwhile, next, there is new exclusive audio that we want to play for everyone that may shed light on michael brown's final moments, the sound of shots ringing out. you're going to hear it for yourself next, and we'll get reaction from brown's uncle. and "breaking bad" ends on a high note at the emmys. we will show you all the highlights. you're going to want to see

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alleged audio of the shooting of michael brown record inadvertently during a video chat. the unnamed man says he handed the tape over to the fbi. take a listen. >> you are pretty. [ gunshots ] >> you are so fine. just going over some of your videos. how could i forget? [ gunshots ] >> sort of have to ignore the conversation and listen to the background. you can hear several shots. cnn cannot independently verify the authenticity of that tape. joining me right now reverend charles ewing, michael brown's great uncle, and he joins us live from ferguson this morning. sir, good morning. i know you had a busy day yesterday. i thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you very much. it was very busy day. >> it was an important day, too, and i really want to talk to you about that and a eulogy you delivered, beautiful and heartfelt eulogy, and i first want to, and i know that this is a painful subject because this

is your great nephew, you've had a chance to hear this audio. we've just played it again. i'm curious what your thoughts are. what comes to mind when you hear that audio? >> when i heard the audio with the number of shots and regarding what the autopsy report is stating six shots, but we know, according to some witnesses, that there were more shots than six shots, and i'm not surprised when the audio video came out, not saying it's valid right now, but if it is valid i'm not surprised with the amount of shots that were fired that day at my nephew. >> the unnamed man has a lawyer who told cnn here that the fbi has a copy of that audio and that they are looking into it as well. our audio expert says that there were ten shots fired. we know that six hit your great nephew. i wonder have the parents of

michael, have leslie and michael brown sr., have they heard this audio? >> well, i haven't talked to them last night because we had such a full day at the funeral and by me very tired i went home and laid down and i didn't get the report until later on last night from cnn news with don lemon, and i was just in awe of the findings of the guy coming forth, whoever he is, with the audio tape, and i listened to it over and over and over again, and i myself as i laid there i counted the number of shots, according to the reporting, there were six shots and then five more, a total of 11 shots, and my concern was the pause between the six shots and then the five shots. it was almost like, you know, why was there such a pause there? >> the pause is a real concern. >> there's a three-second pause

between -- there's a three-second pause between those initial shots. we'll play it one more time for you. you can hear a pause. our audio experts says there was ten and the one other, the 11th as you heard, he believes that's an echo. let's take a listen. >> you are pretty. [ gunshots. ] >> you're so fine. just going over some of your videos. how could i forget? [ gunshots ] >> obviously, investigators will have to listen to that and comb through that and get their audiologist on it to hear and try to determine what that pause was. are you concerned what the reaction is going to be if this is going to enrage people? >> i am very concerned because of the fact we had buried my nephew yesterday, and i'm very concerned about the actions in a community with these later findings, and i'm very concerned, and we're praying for peace in a community and in a nation. i was sharing -- we as a nation.

we should set an example before the whole world that we must come together and healing can only take place if people are honest, when things are disclosed it breeds more animosity within people's hearts and it causes distrust in the community as well. >> people have said there's no justice, there's no peace without justice. i want to turn to your eulogy yesterday, very heartfelt eulogy. they chose you to deliver that for the family because we know it was a very, very personal day in a very public fashion, very hard to have to deal with that for the family and those that loved michael brown. i want to quote something that you said yesterday, a bit of a rallying cry. you said there's a cry being made from the ground, not just for michael brown but for the trayvon martins and the children at sandy hook elementary school, from the columbine massacre, for black-on-black crime. you made the remembrance, your remembrance of your great nephew

michael more than about just his death. >> yes, i did, because the nation is hurting, and we have to realize that something has to be done, you know, with the guns and with the crime that's taking place throughout the nation. my heart goes out to all people of the nation of the united states of america, and we have to come together as a nation, you know. i still hold true our flag, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. we should set a precedent and example for the whole world. the whole world is watching america, and we must show them an example that we as a nation, as a whole, black, white, in regards of what nationality that we should come together as a people to -- in order to heal the hurt within ourself and to come together, sit down at the table and come to an agreement. we must be our brother's keeper.

this is one of the -- the part of the message that i wanted to portray. we have to look out for one another. >> pastor ewing, a very moving speech yesterday. you also mentioned that you're great nephew had said prophetically that some day the world will know my name, and sadly that is true. thank you so much for joining us. i know this is an exhausting time both emotionally and physically for you and your family, and hopefully you can get some rest as the investigation continues and we get closer to justice. all right? >> thank you, and god bless you and god bless america. >> amen to that. all right. we're going to take a short break. up next on "new day," the emmys, served up some memorable moments last night. one gem was a bit of a "seinfeld" reunion of sorts that took that surprising turn. the superstar lip lock between julie louie dreyfuss and "breaking bad"'s bryan cranston. i didn't see that coming. i don't know about you.

this is the third consecutive emmy win for julie louie dreyfuss. over her career she's won five emmys and had 18 nominations. previous wins have been for "seinfeld" -- >> they really went for it. >> that was one of the most memorable moments from last night's emmy awards. brian canston gave a passionate smooch and it looked like surprising smooch to his "seinfeld" co-star. he made a bit appearance on it, julie louie dreyfuss as she won

the emmy for her role in "veep." "breaking bad" is off the air and still racking up statues winning for best drama series as well as best supporting actor and actress. joining us to break down the highs and lows is nischelle turner. >> good morning, guys. >> what were the highlights of last night? >> well, there were a lot. where would you like for me to begin? you guys were talking about the kiss with julie louie dreyfuss and bryan cranston after she won for best actress in a comedy and i heard you said it looked like she was surprised. >> you don't think so. >> i think that was long planned. remember last year when julie louie dreyfuss won, she had the whole bit planned with tony hale who came up with her, hold her purse and feed her lines. the whole thing was planned. her co-star reed scott told me on the red carpet before the show that if she were to win,

they did believe she had another really good bit planned because everybody was asking what would she do to top last year? >> that's a good scoop. that's good scoop, nischelle. >> you know, remember the bit earlier with hem when she said oh, you look like this guy that i used to -- that played the dentist that i went out with on "seinfeld." >> yeah. >> and he said, yeah. well, we kissed. >> and she's like oh, did we. there you go, that's culmination. >> he wanted to make her remember. >> other than that smooch, any other big surprises last night? >> well, i think -- i don't know if it was so much of a surprise, but i think it was more the anticipation was building, would "modern family" win for the fifth consecutive year in a row tying a record, and, in fact, they did. the thought there was because "orange is the new black" came in and enter that had category of best comedy series, which everyone said is that really a comedy, i guess it's kind of a dramedy, when they entered the fray, people thought "orange is the new black" is the new hot

thing and might take it away from "modern family." tried and true. "modern family" won last night, and i have to tell you, last night's show was a bit of a win for network television. we've heard cable is taking everything away from network because they're able to push the boundaries. we saw network television come back last night in a big way and i think it was really good to see. >> they didn't get shut out completely because uzo udoba won at the creative arts emmys the week before and won for a guest starring role. let's say the second year for them, they had 31 nominations, so i think that is still a big win for netflix. >> can we say how great the ladies looked at the red carpet, a far cry from the prison uniforms. >> uduba was working it last

night in the red dress last night. >> matthew mcconaughey, not only good looking but wins everything except, again, not so much last night and they kind of made fun of him a little bit. >> a little bit? jimmy kimmel roasted him big time and it was hilarious. one the best moments i think of the show. it was just that funny. jimmy kimmel basically told him to go home because he didn't belong there, he was a big movie star and last night was the night for television personalities and he was encroaching on their territory. he said because matthew lost a lot of weight for "dallas buyers club" jimmy looked at him, i almost didn't recognize you, you've got son fat since the oscars because he's gained some of the weight back. there was this big anticipation in the best actor in a drama category. almost seemed to be a two-horse race between matthew mcconaughey and bryan cranston. it was bryan cranston's night and he was visibly moved and

good to see because bryan cranston besides being one of the best actors in hollywood is one of the nicest men in hollywood and he had i tell you "breaking bad" is a great show but he had some of the richest material this season to submit to the emmys. i didn't see any way that bryan cranston wouldn't win this award. >> what a tribute to robin williams and the perfect man for the job, too. >> yes, everybody was wondering what they would do, how they would aproep it and i think billy krigsal came out and spoke from the heart. you could tell there was some genuine love and friendship there, and they played some of robin williams' best moments and at the end they played a poignant moment. let's listen to it. >> some of the brightest of our celestial bodies are actually extinct now. their energy long since cooled, but miraculously, because they float in the heavens, so far away from us now, their beautiful light will continue to

shine on us forever, and the glow will be so bright, it will warm your heart, it will make your eyes glisten and you'll think to yourselves, robin williams, what a concept. >> beautiful. >> what a concept. billy crystal said it was hard for him to even talk about it because robin had been a part of his life for 40 years and one of his best friends for 40 years, so it was so difficult for him to even speak those words. >> he did a good job. he seemed supposed, he seemed poignant and poetic and compo d composed. >> and heartfelt. >> we have to go guys but i talked about uzo oduba in red but happy birth day to the lady in red in the studio. i give my love to michaela. >> thank you. thanks so much, darling.

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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com breaking overnight, preparing for air strikes, the u.s. now flying reconnaissance aircraft over syria, tracking the terror group isis. the pentagon now making plans for an attack. we have the latest. cnn exclusive, an audiotape allegedly of the moment michael brown was shot. the gunshots heard for the first time, how many shots were there, and what we make of the pause in the middle. we'll have that tape for you. modern dynasty "modern family" wins fifth for the big time. we have all the best jokes, that kiss, and billy crystal's touching tribute to robin williams.

>> your "new day" continues right now. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. >> everyone's fixing their hair. good morning. welcome back to "new day," tuesday, august 26th, 8:00 in the east. i'm john berman joined by alisyn camerota. >> you look fine every day. >> back at you. big news this morning, president obama looking for eyes in the sky in the fight against isis. he has approved reconnaissance frigts ov flights over syria to get a better idea of where militants are staged in training. will the president limit air strikes to iraq where they are at least for now? cnn's barbara starr has more from the pentagon. >> good morning, john. the president authorizing reconnaissance flights over

syria to gather fresh intelligence about isis movements but the question now as you say is what will trigger a decision by the president to proceed with air strikes. u.s. reconnaissance flights could begin other syria at any time according to u.s. officials, using possibly drones, u2 spy planes or f-18s. the pentagon is drafting options to strike inside syria, but the u.s. won't warn the syrian government who says carrying out air strikes without their consent would be a breach of its sovereignty and an act of aggression. it's unclear, however, how much the president's top military adviser, general martin dempsey, supports immediate u.s. military action. spokesman confirmed dempsey is preparing options to address isis both in iraq and syria, with a variety of military tools, including air strikes. but the lack of action so far is

prompting critics, like hawkish republican senator lindsey graham to charge the white house is trying to minimize the threat we face in order to justify not changing a failed strategy. before any bombs could fall, the u.s. has to get fresh intelligence. >> we don't talk about reconnaissance and intelligence matters but in general when you are thinking about conducting operations like that, you certainly want to get as much of a view on the ground as you can. >> my name is peter theo curtis, a journalist in the city of boston, mas mass. >> reporter: the debate comes as american peter thee row curtis held hostage by al nusra for nearly two years in syria gets his first taste of freedom. >> he was over the top excited, i think obviously he's, he has to decompress. he's been through so much. >> a senior u.s. official told me a short time ago if air

strikes are approved by presidentobama, the goal will be to disrupt isis to keep them from moving their fighter, their equipment, their weapons around, especially across that border between syria and iraq. john? >> it's the first stage. what's next is key. barbara starr at the pentagon thanks so much. now a cnn exclusive, in the investigation into the shooting of michael brown, we are about to play you new audio which could be from the very moment police shot brown in ferguson, missouri. this was recorded inadvertently by a man who lives near the scene during a video chat that he was having. cnn has not been able to independently verify this recording. cnn's stephanie elam is in ferguson with the latest. tell us more, stephanie. >> reporter: alisyn, what you're about to hear may be disturbing for some but try to listen past the man speaking and take a listen to what you hear behind him. listen closely. >> you are pretty.

[ gunfire ] you're so fine. just going over some of your videos. how could i forget. >> reporter: this audio obtained exclusively by cnn allegedly the gunshots fired during the shooting death of 18-year-old michael brown. lawyer for a ferguson resident says her client recorded this audio while video chatting with a friend while the unarmed teen was shot by ferg on police. his lawyer says he was questioned by the fbi about the audio. listen again as you hear a series of gunshots fired, a brief pause, followed by another round of shots. >> you are pretty. [ gunfire ] you're so fine. just going over some of your videos. how could i forget? >> it's not just the number of gunshots, it's how they're fired and that has a huge relevance on how this case might finally end up. >> reporter: cnn cannot independently verify the authenticity of the tape and reached out to the fbi for confirmation. facing the possibility of charges from the shooting,

28-year-old officer darren wilson, the grand jury not expected to return a decision until mid-october. heavy police presence, protests and violence on ferguson's streets thrust the small community into the national spotlight. >> today is for peace, peace and quiet. >> reporter: inside the friendly temple missionary baptist church monday a somber homegoing to lay michael brown to rest. >> yes, we call him the gentle giant. we call him big mike. we call him mike mike. he said one day the whole world will know my name. >> reporter: standing before her son's foe foes and casket his mother wiping away tears. among the thousands gathered inside were friends and family and many who came to pay their respects to the slain teen, having never known big mike personally. >> we're still not defeated. >> reporter: including well-known public figures like

the reverend jesse jackson and spike lee, who tweeted during the service "our brother mike brown st. louis cardinals hat lays upon his casket here at the homegoing." on this day, protesters stayed sigh let and mourners were reminded of the need for change. >> michael brown's blood is crying from the ground, crying for vengeance, crying for justice. >> reporter: and if the fbi does find that that record something authentic, what may play into the investigation is that pause between those two groups of shots. what people want to know is what exactly was happening during that time, jal salisyn. >> thanks, stephanie elam. we wring in criminal defense and hln analyst joey jackson and paul ginsburg, an audio expert who has examined the new recording for us. let's play the audio one more

tirm and paulily' get your analysis. >> you are pretty. [ gunfire ] you're so fine. just going over some of your videos. [ gunfire ] ha how could i forget? >> paul, what do you hear in the background of that video chat with that man? >> okay, i was up pretty early this morning going over this, a number of times, in both real time and slow speed to precisely measure what we have. essentially, there are six gunshots, there is a pause that i measure at 3.02 seconds, followed by four more shots, same type of weapon, and about the same distance. >> okay, six shots, a three-second pause, four shots. that's different than what we had heard before. >> correct. >> joey, we had heard that michael brown had been shot six times but also heard from witnesses that there were stray gunfire found in homes along that street. so that's fitting.

how do you think this changes the investigation? >> big development, alisyn and here's why. what happens is the officer's, whether or not he's criminally culpable will turn on two things, did he act reasonably and did he act in a necessary way. so you examine that and then you look and examine the shots. now, when you look at them, you're going to have to determine, a, what was the threat that was being posed to him at the time those shots were fired. b, what was the immediacy of that threat, and c, was the force used proportionate to any threat and so the big question becomes for the grand jurors as they analyze this, what he did, examine exactly what the officer did, were those shots excessive and if if the answer is yes, then it becomes problematic for the defense. >> can this be fitting with what we heard from officer wilson's side which is that mike brown turned towards him and the officer perceived him to be charging towards him. could that account for the three-second pause and more shots? >> it could. there will be a variety of evidence presented and sometimes evidence is conflicting and

ultimately ballistic evidence would identify the number of shots but audio is important because it helps the jurors grip it, it helps them understand it, it helps them internalize is so it could explain based upon the pause that he was charging, michael brown, towards him or it could not explain that and show the force was excessive, that depends upon all the evidence as presented. >> paul, you have analyzed scores of gunshots, including those from crime scenes, i should let our viewers know you were involved with the newtown massacre, analyzing some of those gunshots. how instrumental do you think this audio will be in the investigation? >> well, i agree that it can become a very crucial piece of evidence especially relating to credibility of the officer and other witnesses, so we'll have to see how it turns out. right now, there are six shots, three seconds, and another four shots. >> joey, what do you think it changes?

>> well it changes the equation in terms of the excessiveness of the force or the appropriateness of the force, seen as you look at it, different witness also say things differently and perceive things differently, but what is a fact will be the amount of shots you hear on the audio and people forensically could determine how many there are. ultimately when you examine the officer's conduct, the questions the grand jurors are going to ask is did what the officer did, was it absolutely necessary in order to end the threat that michael brown posed if he posed a threat at the time, and so when they examined that, based upon the amount of the shots, will it be viewed as excessive or will it be viewed as necessary and that's the critical question. >> paul, you were saying there's another level of examination i don't know what we're hearing in the tape and beyond what you've done this morning on your graph that we've put up, there is another level that investigators can go to determine more. >> yes. of course what they can do is try to recreate this type of recording by putting an ipad or

a recorder at the location where this was made, and then having people go to the actual site of the shooting and fire six times, pause, fire another four shots, and then we can overlay the different wave forms and see whether, in fact, they agree. >> alisyn, critical to the case will be the officer's state of mind at the time he was firing the shots, what was he perceiving? was he perceiving a threat? was this overkill or was it something that he needed to do to preserve his life. >> is he going to say he was perceiving a threat and it sounds like if you're firing off that many shots in that rapid-fire succession that he felt, you can deduce afraid for his life. >> sure, could you say anything, alisyn. the issue is whether it jives with the other evidence and so that may be true that he was fearing for his life. however, it depends on what the other witnesses say. was he fearing at the time the hands were up or was he fearing because he was being bum-rushed as has been suggested and that will be seen as the investigation unfolds. >> fascinating, new

developments. joey jackson thanks so much. paul ginsburg we appreciate it. we want to you weigh in on your thoughts on this new development, so you can join chris cuomo at 11:00 a.m. eastern on our facebook page for a chat about what happens next, as you know, chris has been covering this from the beginning. it's facebook.com/newday and tweet all of us, find m me @alisyncamerota. in the middle east, palestinian officials say new israeli air strikes destroyed one of ngata zha's tallest apartment and official buildings. israel says the building was the hamas command center. palestinian officials say nine people were killed. all of this while egypt is reportedly trying to revive cease-fire talks that continue. ukraine says it captured ten russian soldiers who crossed the border into the donetsk region.

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we want to discuss this and some other issues with congressman steven cohen, a democrat from tennessee. thanks for being with us here. >> nice to be here. >> let's talk about syria first, the united states conducting surveillance flights over syria, air strikes could possibly follow. would you support air strikes against isis now? >> i think isis is a definite problem for the world. they are, desirous of setting up a caliphate dangerous to our security and free-thinking people everywhere so i think it's important that we take action, and i think that the defense department and the president can come up with a strategy harmful to isis and not necessarily favorable toward assad >> something like air strikes. >> exactly and i think we'll see them. >> you recall last year the united states was considering bombing the syrian regime going after assad himself. you thought it needed congressional approval. do you think any action against isis requires congressional approval? >> isis claims to be a state. syria is a state.

isis claims to be one. i support the president's action and see no reason to come to congress because if he does it will become a circus. congress is dysfunctional and no matter what the president does, the republicans will oppose it and find reason to find fault. there's no reason to do that. this is the real world. i think about the evils that are in the present and the threats to our security, the problems in ukraine, the problems with iran and nuclear armaments, the problems in the middle east, with he need to act and act with, support our president. >> interesting, democrats also say it should get congressional as well, senator tim cain is calling for a vote. >> i think we need to take action and i think congress has become dysfunctional. >> i want to move on now to ferguson, the shooting there, michael brown, 18 years old, his homegoing ceremony was yesterday, a moving ceremony, many people watched. i know this is an issue you've been think being a great deal over the last several weeks. i want to bring you up to speed on the latest news reporting at cnn. cnn obtained alleged audio of

what could be the moments that michael brown was shot. we haven't been able to verify the authenticity of it, but it is very interesting. i want to you take a quick listen. >> you are pretty. [ gunfire ] you're so fine. just going over some of your videos. [ gunfire ] how could i forget? >> now, you heard a man talking there, this is being recorded during some kind of video chat but what you did hear in the background according to audio analysts, ten shots fired, could have been by the police officer, if this is an authentic tape. we heard before michael brown was hit six times. >> well, the officer potentially could have missed, but the issue isn't really of that awe then c thennicity of the audio, it's the fact african-americans are shot with police not resulting to deadly force as a last means after exhausting all reasonable means of apprehension. there are shootings in this

country, police have a tough job and we need to have civil order but there are too many killings and this man was unarmed, he could have been tasered, shot in the leg. we all say you shoot in the middle of the cavity because it's the best target, it's the best if you're apprehending a felon because there could be a risk to somebody else down the line. with michael brown there was no risk to anybody. you could have plastered his calves and then stopped. >> you brought up an interesting term, exhausting all reasonable means. you have a lot of experience, you thought about this for years and years. what does that mean at a national level? how do you get that discussion going? >> well, the congressional black caucus, elijah cummings, congressman from maryland, suggested a police czar, somebody to give direction to the police departments that get federal funding. there's a lot of federal funding in police departments, there should be better direction and better carrying out of the use of the federal funds and i think that's a possibility. >> the police are, sounds like,

federal central control at some level over local police forces, which traditionally have been -- >> it's not going to happen. the reality is the republicans would never put it to a vote. there needs to be more ties to grants and other grants to see they're used for the proper purposes. the military equipment that's gone out is improper. i think some of the times i think policemen probably just like to shoot the m-17s for sport. policemen, they've got a tough job, i support police but at the same time they like guns. lot of people in america like guns. >> the police fire at guns at people just -- >> no, just recreational stuff. the m-17s have hardly ever been used by a police department in this country. they were used as a standup tool to intimidate people in ferguson but that's the only time i've seen them. i don't think they're actually used. i think people get them, go out and use them for sport. >> the president called for review of a lot of the military equipment purchased or given to local police forces around the country. you want congressional hearings on this subject and others. what do you think the focus should be? >> well, the focus should be the necessity of it. i can see a possibility in some

community where you have a terror situation. you could have an oklahoma city, and there could be a standoff and a situation police need some type of special equipment. generally in that situation you have the national guard called out and take action, but there should be limitations on what any of that equipment could be used for, and there should be some certifiable need for the equipment in the community. one of my smaller communities, 15 m-17s. it's absurd. >> what do you think would be the one thing that could be done by congress, by you, maybe that, would keep us from having this conversation one year from now, where you would see another black kid shot at? >> well i tried to do something about it in 2008. i introduced and passed a resolution for the united states apologizing for slavery and jim crow. did not pass the senate because sam brownback put language in unnecessary about reparations because it never dealt with that. i wanted to get a discussion of race in this country started, the president talked about it

and also in 2008 in philadelphia. that discussion needs to have taken place. it's a shame it hasn't. it still needs to take place and with he need to have a major discussion on it and take action. there is a real problem in america with differences in opinions and opportunities for people based on race, and african-americans have been redlined on capital, red lined where they live, redlined on opportunity over the years and there needs to be an effort to bring these people forward. we do a lot of things for people in foreign nations and don't do enough for our own. >> you're not saying an apology about jim crow would change policing, you're saying it would be the background to changing -- >> the part of police something part of the problem coming through the years. it's been 246 years of slavery, nearly 100 years of jim crow and after jim crow it's been a slow, slow, slow slog, and we need more promise zone grants, more commutations from the president, i encourage him to do, because we're warehousing people in prison as part of the drug war, basically a race-based, starting with hispanics in the '30s and

with nixon, went to african-americans. there's a lot of problems based on race in this country and a lot of expense and a lot of libertarians behind the argument as well. >> you wring up a lot of very big issues that are a subject for discussion and need discussion going forward. >> i want to mention something i'm in this chair, the last time i was in this care with chris cuomo and cuomo and jackie rose who handled the situation i was in a year ago they deserve a emmy. they acted professionally and responsibly. >> we're big fans of those as well. congressman great to have you with us. >> thank you. a hurricane has formed in the atlantic, that's right, a hurricane. cristobal is set to churn north. will it hit the united states? we're tracking this storm, we'll tell you where it's headed right after the break. tv's biggest night delivers surprises. many memorable moments and a lot of laughs. congressman steven cohen a big fan of "seinfeld." we'll talk more about it coming up.

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president obama authorized reconnaissance flights over syria, this move is seen as a possible precursor to air strikes against isis in the war-ravaged nation. exclusive new audio to cnn said to be from the very moment police shot and killed unarmed teenager michael brown. in it you hear apparent gunfire, a pause, then more shots. cnn cannot independently confirm the veracity of the audio. russia and ukraine leaders will meet to discuss the conflict in eastern ukraine, after ukraine says it captured ten russian soldiers who allegedly crossed the border. an israeli air strike blasted a residential tower in gaza, palestinian officials said, nine people were killed, 20 others injured. and primary elections being held today in arizona, vermont and florida, with a runoff for a house seat in oklahoma. some of the primaries could affect the balance of power in the house chamber next year. and we update the five things to know so visit

newdaycnn.com for the latest. alisyn? >> thanks. there's trouble in the tropics, because hurricane cristobal has formed in the atlantic, with sustained 75-mile-per-hour winds. meteorologist indra petersons is here to tell us how it will affect the east coast. >> this is the third system of the atlantic season, all three of them hurricanes. cristobal is a category 1 hurricane, weak at 75 miles per hour. 74 miles-per-hour makes it a cat 1 hurricane. wednesday going between the outer banks and bermuda and staying a category 1 hurricane until finally it dissipates in some of the cooler waters. even though it's offshore it doesn't mean we'll not be feeling the effects on the east coast. wave heights five to seven feet toward the outer banks and the other side is the strong rip currents. you have cristobal out there, you're talking about all of the waves and high pressure and a lot of people are heading to the beach early, especially ahead of maybe the last week of summer

before school starts and that is the east coast. let's take to you the west coast. this was a huge story, originally a cat 5 storm, marie was out there, this was huge, talking about the waves impacting southern california starting today, lasting all the way even in through thursday. this is unusual for them, 10 to 15-foot sets will be out there, talking about the threat for beach erosion and possible destruction to the piers and some of the beachfront homes. this is not something they typically see. i'm terrified people will try to look at the waves and tall takes is one of the sneaker waves that will take lives >> don't do it. >> thanks, indra. next up for us on "new day," "modern family" and "breaking pad" the big winners at the emmy awards and some memorable moments, some really good ones. stay with us. so why are we so obsessed with turbo? because there's nothing more exhilarating than a powerful ride. and you can get that in places you might not expect. like the passat. and also in the fun-to-drive jetta.

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president obama has authorized surveillance flights over syria to gather information about isis strongholds. if we pip point their location, air strikes could be next. syria says they oppose air strikes unless they are done in coordination with them. syria's foreign minister said syria is ready to collaborate and coordinate regionally and internationally to fight terrorists in accordance to the united nations security council decision 2170. let's bring in chief international correspondent christiane amanpour to discuss all of this. christiane, great to see you. >> good morning, alisyn. >> it sounds like president owe about ama has a couple of bad options, either go it alone in syria against assad's warning or somehow turn assad into an ally. how do you see the path forward? >> well, i think there is very,

very little doubt that they will not be turning assad into an ally. everyone from general martin derpcy, the top commander in the united states, to the british foreign secretary have said that that is a no go area. with he cannot turn assad into an ally, even if we have a common enemy, which is isis. they don't, they believe they don't need permission from syria to attack isis strongholds inside syria, and of course they know exactly where isis is. isis controls racca province in syria and controls a huge swathe of land inside syria and iraq, which the british foreign secretary said is a terrorist state which is going to be launched, they are absolutely convinced it is going to be used to launch attacks on britain, on europe, and perhaps even on the united states as well so they're saying it has to be addressed now. >> you interviewed u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon yesterday. what was his suggestion on how to combat iceis? >> well, look, he is not a

military man. he doesn't believe in military action, but he said that the intolerable barbarism of what isis has been doing has to be confronted. that requires political will and international consensus and as you know there hasn't been international consensus over the last three years of this war that has raged in syria, which is the birthplace of isis. this is actually what's happened, that other u.n. owe fishes have said the international paralysis over the last three years in confronting what's going on in syria has actually enabled this terrible group, and now the u.s. is saying that we need to confront isis on both sides of what is in a sense a non-existent border anymore. that's what general martin dempsey has said to the press the last few days. the question is how much of a strategic shift will president obama make in taking on this group, and the other question is, if the united states and coalition of allies does not

take on this group, that de facto means that the west is prepared to live with an islamic caliphated terrorist state at heart of the middle east, raising armies, threatening minorities, and conducting the kind of brutality that we've seen especially with the murder of james foley. >> you're coming to us from britain. what are countries in europe and great britain doing to combat radicalization at home, particularly the person who they believe assassinated or was involved in the beheading of james foley? >> that is a massive question and a massive problem and challenge to are many, many people in europe. their muslim populations, people who feel either they need to go off on an adventure or feel alienated have been going in the hundreds to fight in the syrian civil war. isis has been very, very sophisticated with its recruitment, with its social media musage and many, many britains and other europeans have gone over and, i might add,

many americans as well. so what they're trying to do now is to try to figure out how to deradicalize them, if and when they come back, some have suggested that they should be stripped of their citizenship. some have suggested that they be very very draconian measures put in place. the question is really how they're going to do it and what they're going to do, but there's no doubt that there have been long, long warnings about blow-back from leaving the syrian civil war to rage unchecked, and now these warnings are coming true, not just in the rise of isis, but in the very, very severe worry that they're going to come back and attack homelands in europe and in the united states. >> and do we know what's happening with the investigation into the man who was heard on that tape with a british accent, who had been involved with the assassination of james foley? >> well, this again is, you know, they seem to make a bit of progress one day and then dispute it the next day.

the british ambassador to the united states told cnn over the weekend that they are close to making an identification. the problem, though, is now they're trying to figure out whether the voice, that english accented voice that was clearly heard on the execution video is actually from the same person who committed the execution, and that seems to be taking up a huge amount of time, as they forensically try to examine the video, voice analysis, and all the kind of analysis they can make of the shape of the executioner, the shape of the face, the style of the weapons that he used. one man apparently had a knife, a different kind of knife was then seen at the site of the execution. it's very complex and they haven't yet been prepared to tell us that they've actually nailed down who was the murderer. >> it has been incredible, christiane, because all they have seen are the man's eyes, and even from that, they have been able to do some sort of facial imaging to try to imagine

what his full face might look like and then match it with i guess known suspects that they have, but they do have their work cut out for them. christiane amanpour, thanks so much for all of the information. great to see you. >> thanks, alisyn. >> watch "amanpour" on cnn international weekdays at 2:00 and 5:00 eastern. next up a touching moment at the emmy awards, billy crystal paying tribute to his late friend, robin williams. we'll bring you his memorable words. >> it's very hard to talk about him in the past because he was so present in all of our -- yeah, i can fix that. (dad) i wanted a car that could handle anything. i fixed it! (dad) that's why i got a subaru legacy. (vo) symmetrical all-wheel drive plus 36 mpg. i gotta break more toys. (vo) introducing the all-new subaru legacy. it's not just a sedan. it's a subaru.

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this is the third consecutive win for julia louis-dreyf louis-dreyfus. previous wins for "seinfeld" "the new adventures of old christine --" >> i feel that was the best moment. we were debating was it surprise or planned. i'm going to go with planned now. julia louis-dreyfus in a passion aate kiss with bryan cranston. the two once appeared in a "seinfeld" episode together. "breaking bad" they went out with a bang, taking home best drama series and best lead actor for bryan cranston and best supporting actor and actress. joining us a couple of winners in their own rite, entertainment correspond edge nischelle turner and host of "reliable sources" brian stelter.

the competition, who got more sleep last night i go with brian. >> four hours? >> oh yeah you did. you win. >> let's go through the hits, runs and errors for those just waking up. we have to lead with the kiss because that was a really fantastic moment right there, nischelle. we believe that it was planned because you heard about some chatter on the red carpet leading up to this. >> well, she had a bit planned last year when she won, and yes there was chatter on the red carpet from some of her co-stars on "veep" they believed she had something big planned for this year. everyone had been asking if you win how are you going to top that moment with tony hale last year, and i believe this is the moment, because we did see a little bit leading up to this with her and bryan cranston talking about hey you look like the guy i used to date. he said i am that guy, we kissed, remember, she said i don't know if i do. >> it's sort of a shame, we all want real unscripted moments during these shows and they're all so planned. >> she's so funny, who cares.

>> that was a three-peat for her. >> that's big. >> it was a big deal for "veep" as well. keep getting better on hbo. >> another family favorite, got that, "modern family" a nice big nod for network usually kind of shut out in past years. >> it was, five years in a row "modern family" won. i remember writing about them in 2010, i was so excited, the kids were still young, it was a brand new show. it feels a little long in the tooth but this is the tug-of-war between network and cable, sometimes people think networks are dying and cable is where it's at. the future of television is all of the above, it's network, cable, netflix, everybody. it was nice so see networks win a bunch of awards. >> nischelle, interesting enough a lot of our favorites on netflix were not shut out but they weren't big winners last night. >> no, they weren't big winners last night. i still say and i still maintain

that network is a big winner to get 31 nominations in its second round of go round, more than doubled their amount of nominations last year. we don't know how many people watch and subscribe to netflix. >> "orange is the new black" right. >> exactly. but i think cable has pushed the boundaries so we did see cable leading the way. i talked to so many people on the red carpet last night, so many celebrities said this is the gold. age of television, the golden era of television, there's so much good stuff out there to be consumed and being made. chuck lorre said he passed on so many great projects and hasn't had to do that in years, so they're seeing this real resurgence of television and i have to agree, guys, i think there's some fantastic tv being made. >> even though it wasn't a great night for netflix it is interesting to point out sherlock, one of the biggest winners on pbs, the only place

to catch up on "sherlock" is netflix. it shows the connections between these competing services. >> what did you think of seth meyers hosting? >> i'm a fan of seth, i thought it was excellent but i see why he leaned on a lot of his friends, amy poehler and jimmy fallon. nischelle, that was not an accident, right? >> no, absolutely not. i think the smartest thing that seth meyers did was surround himself with very funny complimentary pieces last night. it drove the show, i thought it was a good show and it made him look much better than he probably would have been if he tried to drive himself. >> it is mart. you were talking about julia louis-dreyfus, she's sort of entering this epic territory right now. she's like the lucille ball almost now of modern tv. >> yes. >> she's actually, i think she's getting better with age, she's getting more beautiful with age. she's got that thing about her that some actresses have. >> the fact that you were complaining she had something planned, if she did, it goes to

show she's a pretty good idea she's going to win it if you plan something like that, you kind of think it's going to happen. >> i'm going to let the age comment on my birthday pass me by, brian. >> i think you know what i mean. >> one of the things i wanted to talk to you about and i know it's something that we've sort of chatted about a little bit, about this apparent kind of disconnect between emmy voters and those of us that sit on your loungers and sofas watching this stuff every afternoon or evening depending on when we time shift or watch it live. >> it's like 19,000 people in the industry that vote for these categories. they are probably older than the viewers of a lot of these shows and they're probably voting in some cases for their friends. i don't want to say "modern family" was the easy choice this year but it was in its fifth year on network tv. >> brian, let me disagree with you for a little bit. "modern family" had great material this season. you had the whole cam and

mitchell wedding, embarking on territory we hadn't seen before. i think they had one of their stronger seasons to submit. >> did say to my wife i want to catch up on the most recent season on huu, that's the beauty, we can watch all of the episodes. >> and thus the beautiful relationship and where networks and online can kind of symbiotically exist. >> the future is nothing goes away, it's all added to. netflix will be nominated for more awards next year and more competitive. >> can we finish off and it's fitting the moving and touching tribute to robin williams. can we look at that real quick? >> some of the brightest of our celestial bodies are actually extinct now. their energy long since cooled, but miraculously, because they float in the heavens, so far away from us now, their beautiful light will continue to shine on us forever, and the glow will be so bright, it will warm your heart, it will make your eyes glisten and you'll

think to yourselves, robin williams, what a concept. >> i think we kind of have to leave it there pause he said it best, don't you agree? >> i loved that line "what a concept." >> what a concept. >> brian and nischelle, thank you so both of you. go get some sleep. brian for "reliable sources" sundays at 11:00 a.m. eastern on cnn and let us know what you think about -- >> that's brian in his high school photograph. don't we need good stuff? >> always. >> clothes for a cause, a tremendous lady has been sewing for a very good cause, we're going to tell you what it is coming up. where the reward was that what if tnew car smelledit card and the freedom of the open road? a card that gave you that "i'm 16 and just got my first car" feeling. presenting the buypower card from capital one.

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visine® gives your eyes relief in seconds. visine®. get back to normal. ♪ cause we are living in a material world ♪ ♪ and i am a material girl i want you to go a different direction from the song, you follow me? >> i'm hoping. >> for our "good stuff" today. phenomenal woman, she means a lot to me, gives a whole new meaning to the term iowa nice. since 2011, lillian webber has been sewing a dress a day, one a

day, everybody, for a charity group that distributes them to orphanages and schools throughout africa. she decided she was going to set herself a goal of sewing dress number 1,000 by may 6th of 2015, which happens to be her 100th birthday. >> wow! >> you're kidding me. >> such a lofty goal, doesn't mean lillian's cutting any corners, though. >> she personalizes them all. it's not good enough that she just makes the dress, she has to put something on the front to make it look special to give it like her mark. >> a little bling. >> so she starts a dress every morning, gives herself a bit of a break in the middle of the day and adds all the finishing touches and embellishments in the afternoon. as for what happens after lillian makes that 1,000th dress here she in her own words. >> when i get to the 1,000, if i'm able to, i won't quit. i'll go at it again, because there's no reason to not, do

nothing. >> it's wonderful, online you can see pictures of the little girls in the villages wearing the dresses that she made and they wear them with such pride and such a beautiful link, you know? >> that's great. >> 99. >> you know another beautiful link, its eight her 100th birthday and it's your big birthday. >> happy 100th, michaela. >> thank you very much. >> it's a wonderful day, thanks, guys. >> we're celebrating just about every minute of this day. >> not 100 yet. >> not 100 yet. happy birthday. >>s that, honey. >> that's all for us today. time for "newsroom" with carol costello. >> i would sing but that would spoil your birthday. >> oh, come on, carol. >> no, no, have a great day, happy birthday. see you tomorrow. "newsroom" starts now. good afternoon, everybody. >> happening now in "the newsroom," a new plan and a new eye on isis, the white house looking to the syrian skies as it considers taking military

action against the terrorist group. searching for a killer, shocking new clues this morning, word of a second terrorist in the james foley beheading video. we'll break down the tape straight ahead. and the whopper goes north, burger king announcing it's merging with tim horton's. this morning, new calls for a boycott and claims of tax dodging. let's talk, live in the "cnn newsroom." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening . and good morning. i'm carol costello. the white house takes major steps to new military action against the terrorists. u.s. officials tell cnn at any time reconnaissance flights could launch over syria, that could set up air strikes against the group that has vowed to kill americans at home and abroad. isis has ady