it was cooking. it was moving fast. >> no end in sight. that is the view of firefighters battling the rim fire. we go behind the front lines to see what they're up against. at this point, no matter what the outcome, we just want to find him. >> a mystery out of pennsylvania. a teacher who is supposed to return to school tomorrow has been missing since july. so where is he and why has he trail gone cold? and remember this kiss? this dress? mtv's video music awards are known for breaking boundaries.

this year's show airs tonight and there's already a twist. good morning everyone. i've ivan wattson. >> the u.s. is promising a speedy response if it's proven that syria carried out a chemical weapons attack. any response could include cruise missile strikes or a no fire zone. >> the rebels claimed that a chemical assault killed 13 people yesterday but the regime so it's the rebels who are killing people. you may some of the images disturbing. >> the syrian military began an offensive in damascus early sad morning. the government says as the troops were pushing forward rebels unleashed chemicals on them. this soldier says he was there

and tells me several of his come raids couldn't breathe of the incident. were not feeling well, he saids, eye burning. the syrian opposition denies the claim but they're been arg video of what they show a chemical stash the army found in the area. the soldier i talked to showed me gas masks he says that the units have been outfitted with. they've been in rebel hands for a year. the troops showed me some of the recent battle damage. >> this is as far as the military is going let us go. we're actually on the front line in the district. the area around us is controlled by the opposition. in the recent weeks they've been making gains but they claim that the use of chemical weapons by

the opposition have been holding them up. they've been blaming each other for the chemical weapons. and accusing the international community of inaction, especially the u.s. >> from here i ask and i demand that the american president, mr. barack obama as the head of the country that has the strongest presence in the international community to be responsible at a personal level as well as his country level. the u.n. has sent its high representative for disarmament to damascus to persuade the government to let the chemical weapons inspectors to the site. every second counts in an investigation is to have any chance of success. >> that was fred in damascus. >> here at home a bit of good news on the monster wildfire

that is burning out of yosemite national guard. the canyon winds have died down a little bit slowing the flame's marnl toward the park which is 200 miles from san francisco. >> still 4500 buildings are at risk. more than 129,000 acres have gone up in flames. nick valencia has been covering this over the weekend. >> it was cookin'. it was moving fast. >> reporter: this is the time of year that the park is usually packed with tourists not firefighters. but about 40 miles from the heavily visited park, firefighters are dealing with this. >> it's on the minds of the public in this area and beyond. >> reporter: fast moving, fierce and unpredictable the rim fire could potentially be the largest fire in california's state

history. it's being fueled by extremely dry conditions and canyon winds. cnn was escorted through the fire zone by the u.s. forest service. here in yosemite national park firefighters are making progress but they're dealing with a lot of hot spots like these. >> it's critical at the time we have so many teams out nationwide we do have to share resources. but because i say we are number one priority we're getting what we need. >> reporter: what these firefighters also say they need is for the weather to cooperate. so sob rously there is still a long way to go. question is the weather going to hurt or help firefighters today. >> we're going to turn to our meteorologist alex and dra steel. >> it's not helping. actually the weather and some odd things about the weather

have created some issues. the temperatures didn't get as cool as it had been so it allowed the fire activity to spread a little earlier. the temperatures do help with that and yesterday morning that wasn't the case. it's making it a little difficult to predict. in that regard here's why. the smoke column is building up, breaking down and collapses on itself and then sending downdrafts and wind gusts in different directions. that's made it a little more difficult. this fire is burning through at 2,000 degrees. here a look at where we stand. it's 52 degrees. it is a degree or two warmer than it was yesterday. humidity at 42%, dew point a little higher than it was. that's the measure of the moisture in the air so the moisture is what we need. it's up to the 30s so that a good. winds are a little lighter than that do get through the afternoon. here's what we're expecting

through noon. winds palatable, five, six miles an hour, gusts more than that. in terms of the temperatures we thael ooh stay where they are. no rain at all and obviously we could use a good dump ofg rain. all this monsoonal moisture is coming in coupled with a tropical storm off the baja coast. so it is so close, flooding rain, mind you, so close but yet so far. it's not going to get to the fire. on the temperature front, on the winds front and the rain front, nothing really working in its favor per se. >> thank you for that. now police are trying to find a motive in a shooting spree in northern florida that left three men dead including the gunman. police say that 72-year-old hugh better allen shot and killed a former coworker and his boss.

he also shot and injured two other workers before turning the gun on himself. >> in southern california, a crowd of 500 turned out to remember christina and ethan anderson, the mother and brother of kidnapped teenager hannah anderson. both hannah and her father attended the service. an fbi agent killed dimaggio while trying to rescue hannah morninger are also remembering an australian baseball player gunned down in oklahoma. hundreds turned out in duncan, oklahoma to remember him and cnn affiliate reports that many in attendance brought australian flags in support of lane amanda knox will not return to italy for retrial in the 2007

death of her british roommate. italy's supreme court plans to retry the case this fall saying the jury that acquitted knox two years ago didn't consider all of the evidence. it's still possible italy could request her extra diction from the u.s. with primary elections just 16 days away, the "new york times accounts is endorsing quinn. he's one of seven in the crowded democrat field. quinn is currently speaker of the city council. and the times said that quinn offers the record and achievement anyone would want in a mayor. still to come here on "new day", thousands of people from all over the world gathering all weekend in the nation's capital

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hey, washington, d.c. good morning to you. beautiful view there of the washington monument as they begin to light it up this morning. sort of the lights are moving around. it's funny. we watched them here in the last couple of moments. mostly sunny skies, 82 degrees. you can't argue with that. thank you so much for starting your "new day" with cnn. >> i have a dream. let freedom ring. >> and it's a good day to have really nice weather in washington because that weekend and into next week, americans are marking a watershed moment for civil rights there.

50 years ago this wednesday the reverend delivered his i have a dream speech. >> own saturday thousands gathered at the national mall to commemorate that moment. and to spear from the speaker to call for auction in the ongoing fight for equality. we have a look at some of the day's most pouferful moments. >> thousands of people from all over the world, each with their own story to teal. >> keep dreaming of the constitution right to vote. stop the madness in north carolina and texas. keep dreaming. to go from strop an frisk to stop and employ, stop and educate, stop and house, stop and choose schools over jails, keep dreaming. as we gather today 50 years later, their march is now our march and it must go on pep and our focus have broadened to

include the cause of women, of latin latinos, of asian americans wrs of lesbians of gays of people with disabilities and of countless others across this great country who still yearn for equality and fair treatment. >> when the leading cause of death for black men my age and younger is gun violence, we still have work to do. when we still have a justice system that treats the economically disadvantaged and minorities different than others, we still have work to do. >> i gave a little blood on that bridge in selma, alabama for the right to vote. i am not going to stand by and let the supreme court take the right to vote away from us. you cannot stand by. you cannot sit down. you got to stand up, speak up,

speak out and get in the way, make some noise. >> the vision preached by my father a half century ago was that his four little children would one day live in a nation where they would not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. however, sadly, the tears of trayvon martin's mother and father remind us that far too frequently the color of one's skin remains a license to profile, to arrest and to even murder with no regard for the content of one's character. >> we continue to march together like children and we pray together so we don't get tired because we know that at some point we all will be able to join with dr. king and say free at last, free at last thank god

all mighty. >> president obama will be here at the steps of the lincoln memorial to mark the 50th anniversary of martin luther king jr.'s i have a dream speech. >> chris lawrence with rousing speeching from yesterday. also in washington there was another birth last night. sadly know the second panda cub was stillborn. >> the zoo's panda cam show her grooming on her lifeless baby for 17 minutes before finally letting it go. zoo staff retrieved the cub, said it wasn't really form and wasn't ever alive. the first cub fortunately continue to do well if you're looking to grab life by the horns you don't have to two all the way to spain, do you? >> you don't. up next thousands of runners are gearing up to run with the bulls right here in the u.s.

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good morning, virginia beach. look at that view there. we got the surf and the stars and stripes. it's a nice day in store there. partly cloudy skies, 76 degrees. thanks for start your day with nad on cnn. >> so you know every day thousands of tourists travel here. they do the annual running of the bulls there in spain but this year you don't actually have to travel that far to experience the ultimate thrill. >> the first great bull run inspired by the traditional spanish festival it kicked off yesterday in virginia and people don't really see the need to

wear white like they do in spain. >> would you do that? >> yeah. >> not in virginia you're going to go for the real deal. >> i want to go in the evil city. >> it's not quite the same but it's close. more events are planned in cities across the country including atlanta, how ston and chicago. >> fortunately it doesn't look like anybody is getting stomped on or gored there. >> there was a little pam ploen that on the highway. instead of on the streets what you're seeing is a youtube video. it's showing a run away bull in spain charging toward cars, attacking them, ramming one of the vehicles with those horns. a pretty frightening seen for people inside, especially if you were sitting on that side of the car.

>> well, moving on now, mike tyson who we talked about yesterday, now he's reveal to us all that he's been lying about his sobriety. the champ opened up in a way he never has before. >> this is powerful stuff. he says he and been battling demons for fierce than any boxer he's ever faced. this is such a change from what we talked about yesterday, joe. >> absolutely. i don't want to take away from the fact that he has turned himself into a successful businessman. but yesterday he used this moment with the media to come clean. he used this as sort of an admission during the news conference to say that he, you know, he's been battling incredibly dark demons and that his battle with drugs and alcohol is pretty much day to day now. >> i'm a vicious alcoholic. i haven't drank or took drugs in

six days. for me that's a miracle. i've been lying to everybody else thinking i was sober but i'm not. it's my sixth day. i'm never going to use again. >> you can watch more of his reveal confession on bleacherreport.com. >>. first of several lawsuits against armstrong has reached a settlement. he's agreed to pay the same british newspaper that he once sued in 2004. according to the "sunday times" the paper was suing him for $1.5 million. the exact society lment amount is unknown but it's being called a mutually acceptable final resolution finally the little leaguers from california, well they crushed west port, connecticut yesterday 12-1. the pitcher struck out nine batters and hit a monster three run home run.

the last four champions have come from either japan or california. my money, guys, is on california. they have a 6'4" pitcher. >> you know ivan is from connecticut and i'm from california. this really mattered to us, joe. >> i think you're going to win this one. >> all right. i'm excited. still to come on "new day," and experienced hikers disappearance baffled friends and police. and the donald sued. did you know that he taught real estate classes? well his students are saying they've been stiffed, ripped off and we're going to tell you why.

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win with our fans. 29 past the hour now. welcome back everyone. i'm brianna keilar. >> and i'm ivan watson. here are five important things you need to know if for your "new day." >> number one, the military has

updated military targets for syria. that's just in case the president decides to hit syria with cruise missiles. number two, one of two u.s. children recently infected by a brain eating parasite passed away on saturday afternoon. doctors use an environmental e medication but the child did not respond. the 12-year-old girl in arkansas survived and se recovering. >> number three, you're sued. that was the message to damaged trump on sad. the $40 million lawsuit accusing trump university of telling the students they'll get rich. trump says the lawsuit is politically motivated an unclaiming winning ticket

worth millions of dollars expires today. this ticket was sold outside of new york city a year ago. but the winning ticket holder has yet to claim the prize. the winning numbers, 1, 6, 7, 20, 49 and powerball 23. officials say if no one claims the prize, the money will return to the lottery pool for future winners according to the "new york times" julie harris passed away this weekend. she will be remembered as one of broadway's most successful performers h. the cause of her death is not known turning down to a mystery in california. officials there are searching for 29-year-old matthew green. >> he would have started classes

tomorrow but he hasn't been heard from since mid july after exchanging text messages with a friend. his friends started a find matthew green facebook page. they've found a pair of glasses that could belong to the hiker but they're not sure. take a look. >> i want to be hopeful but yet at this point it's so hard to be hopeful. >> it's hard because her brother matthew green is missing. the avid hiker and math teacher from pennsylvania who loved being outdoors van nished more than a month ago while hiking. his family says he went there to camp, hike and climb. he had been staying at the shady rest campground nearby while his car was being repaired. his family says he was suppose to pick up his car and meet some friends. he never picked up his car and his friends say he never showed up. >> there's not a lot of clue to

go by and that's sort of the pitfall of the invest gag right now. >> air and ground searches haven't produced many clues. his family and friends have launched a find matthew facebook page. >> this one of my best friend. we're going to focus on the pages of the guide book that he had with him but he ear looking at an area that's 20, 30, 40 acres of mountains. >> police aren't sure what's happening to matthew. it's maszing person's case for now. his family just wants answers. >> at this point no mat whaer the outcome, we just want to find him. you know? we just want him back. we want to know what happened to him. >> green's friends plan to organize their own search team to find the missing hiker this week and anyone who has any information is urged to call the mammoth lakes police department.

crews are making some progress in the fight against a fast moving fire in yosemite park. >> it's only 7% contained. >> better than yesterday. >> and at that point you've got more than 129,000 acres that have been burned. >> let's get a check of the weather to see how the forecast could help or hurt the situation. >> it's not helping on any front really. i want to give you a perspective. what this is you're seeing here, maybe we can zoom in, this is the rime fire right here. it's 200 square miles. what the whole picture is, you can see yosemite. it's 1200 square miles. where the rim fire is encroaching is really in the remote northwest corn erp. three of the four entrance to the park are still open and where all of the visitors predominantly go, you can barely see smoke. here's one of the aspects. look at this. we were talking yesterday at the

kwan oneffect and what happened with the air and why winds are such a factor. when the wind gets channelled through the canyon the air gets squooed squeezed and it accelerates, similar to walking in a big city and you walk between a narrow passage way and the winds pick up. the topography is making that so. you can see denoted in the blues where the heaviest and the strongest winds are. right now they're to the east. here is where the rim fire is. today's winds again with a southerly component -- when we talk about wind we talk about the direction from which they come. when they come from the southwest they blew this way. and so that's of course the direction this fire is moving bringing it into the northwest quadrant of yosemite.

no rains in the forecast. we'll talk a little bit about that in the detail forecast. the temperatures how they're playing a role. pretty interesting what happened yesterday morning and how that has impacted the fire and not in a good way. >> can i ask a stupid question. >> there are no stupid questions. >> why do we call it a rim fire? >> well because when you look -- siel show you that again why it's named the rim fire. you see kind of the topography of it too. you'll notice it looks like a big rim. remember yesterday i was hearing someone tweeting and what they said was they were standing on one side looking over. the fire was on two sides of the canyon and it almost created this circle looking like a rim as well. that's maybe why they're calling it the rim fire. >> thanks for answering my stupid questions. >> never a stupid question. >> we'll take a look at the incredible video. a sinkhole in parish, louisiana, swallowed an entire row of

cyprus trees. that's unliking anything i've ever seen. this started last year when a pit was that 400 feet wide opened up. it's grown since prompting mandatory evaluations. and the sinkhole was caused by a drilling of a well into an underground salt mine. there's in way to fill it. it could actually double in size to what it is now. the state is now suing the company who owns the mine. >> tloez 20 or 30 foot tall trees. >> unbelievable. >> natural toilet bowl. >> kind of like, yeah. well moving on, this going to refer to a word i've never heard of before. in arizona the area was hit by a monster sandstorm called a

haboob. 12,000 people lost power and more than 50 power poles were knocked down from heavy winds pap they experienced thunder, lightning and flash floods. >> i would think that you would have experienced a sandstorm. >> i have experienced sand storms. i had no idea they were called that. now i know. >> now you're going to use the word all the time. >> use it all the time. moving on, play begins tomorrow at the u.s. tennis open. we'll tell you all about a group of kids who already know who the tournament's champions are. it's a story of stars giving back.

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good morning, new york. rise and shine for what's going to be a gorgeous day there. you can already see it. 66 degrees right now but you're going to a high of 82, mostly sunny. beautiful weather today. ivan. >> let's hope that keeps up because the uchl s. tennis open kicks off tomorrow in new york. but before play even starts, last year's open champions have taken to the courts and proved winning goes well beyond game set and match. alina cho has more. >> andy murray is not used to hitting tennis balls with pint-sized players. but today, all his opponents are just that. >> i remember when i was that

age and i would have loved to have gotten to play with andre agassi. this is why murray and serene that williams are spending this preshl pretournament time leading this clinic. >> i know you're very big on getting youth into tennis. why is that important to you? >> it was a clinic something similar to this that really got me so excited. i met some professional players and i was like i want to be -- >> until today, 9-year-old joseph and his six-year-old brother charlie had never picked up a racquet. during sandy they lost one floor of their home in queens and two cars. today tennis is providing an escape. >> how does that feel? >> like the total opposite. it's really cool. >> total opposite meaning what? >> like the total opposite like

i was worried and scared with the storm and now i feel great and it's cool. >> this is a very amazing experience for all of us. >> when you play with them, what do they say to you? >> they're so cute. i usually have conversations with them. when they're young they're like my mom watched you or you're famous. they're always so cute. >> i was that age, i remember. >> do you? >> yeah, i remember what it was like. i used to play with my brother a lot when i was that age. you charge around the court. you try to hit the ball as hard as you can. there's no thoughts or pressure. >> like there is now as these two tennis stars at the top of that their game. while cult vath these tiny stars that could be the next one to play on the centre court. >> cute kids there. all right. it is that time of year again.

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this happened in michigan and the 17-year-old who shot the video said she shad seen the truckdriver hit a sign in the middle of the median so she took out her phone and started shooting. that's when she captured the terrified accident. doctors believe the driver had some kind of medical episode. he is now in the hospital. he has serious injuries but expected to make a full recovery. so this might make some of us feel old, present company included. the mtv video music awards turned 30 tonight sfl thaes ooh right the show has been making headlines for three decades. what can we expect from tonight's show. cnn correspondent nischelle turner has a preview. >> reporter: happy birthday vmas. they turned 30 this weekend and thaz their mo to goes, expect the unexpected. >> the vmas are known for

spectacle. if you want to see brittany spear kissing madonna, lady gaga in a meat dress. >> they leave their hollywood home and head east to brooklyn. lady gaga is expected to open the show with her new single applaud in one of her first tv surgeries since yurnd going hip surgery earlier this year year. kanye west rocked the mike. and look for songs of the summer tribute features miley cyrus and robin thicke. since this is an award shows, a few moon will be a handed during the telecast. justin timberlake leads with six nominations apiece. both are nominations for award

of the year. there are rumors of a reunion with nsync. >> are you kidding me? i'm freaking out. that's great. >> it's the vma's baby. you got to expect the unexpected nischelle turner cnn, new york. >> nischelle turner there, thank you. are you rooting for anybody there? >> no although i do love that blurred line song. i was at the vmas one year where brittany was having her comeback which actually kind of seemed like more in person than on tv and i think kid rock and tommy lee got in fist that cuffs over pamela anderson. >> how did you get invited to the vmas. >> i have some people there. i used to do a news cast that

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and her owner that would not be possible would it no be for the power of the good stuff. >> she lost her beloved rottweiler. she thought she would never see her again after being stolen. five years ago, she popped up in a shelter thousands of miles away in phoenix. sosh sha had a micro chip so the workers called jen up. >> i always wondered what happened to her. i still have all of her pictures because she was a part of our family. i don't know who she's been with or what she's been through. i hope that whoever had her gave her a good life. >> the good stuff doesn't end there. right after the shelter told jen they found sasha they told her that would youth nieds mer if she could not get there to get

her in a couple of days. jen has had had no way to make the triplet alone on time. >> that's when this organize nation stepped in. they picked up sasha in time. volunteers drove sasha as far as they could go, a little piece of the journey at a time back to indiana. and in all it took 26 volunteers and two weeks to get sasha back to a very grateful jen. >> it's moments like this that we do what we do. it's just seeing the dogs get back to their owners. it's great. >> you know what? they are always looking for more drivers. so if you're willing and able, you want to help out, check out kindred hearts transportation connection on facebook. >> that's quite a car pool there. >> exactly. >> another happy ending. this dog was rescued after he was found struggling to swim in the honolulu harbor.

a tug boat crew spotted it and the coast guard was called in. the search is on for its owner. so please anyone with information is being asked to contact the coast guard. all right. now for today's must see moment videos. an ingenuous way to beat the heat. don't live next to a water park. just do make your own. they took a construction crane and they turned it into a water roller coaster of sorts. >> people riding on that that. >> i can't decide if it looks fun or fright nng. i would not suggest trying that at home, folks. >> the russians never fail to surprise. >> oh my goodness. >> wow. just keep watching that for a while. and here's proof that there's a kid in all of us, even animals. you're looking at the oldest tiger in captivity.

he is a 24-year-old bengal tiger. who lives at the big cat rescue in tampa, florida. look at him. he's playing with the sprinkler, i guess. >> yeah. >> like a kitten? i don't know. i've never seen a cat enjoy water quite on that level. >> no. normally they kind of hate it. >> my cat certainly does. >> but he's loving it. good way to stay cool. >> thank you for starting your morning with us. >> we've got much more ahead on "new day" in the next hour, which is going to be starting pretty soon here. >> right now. good morning everyone i'm brianna keilar. >> and i'm ivan watson. h is "new day" sunday. >> let's start with that whopper of a fire that's burning outside

yosemite park. you have can the canyon wince letting it up a little pit. >> it may give crews a chance to gain ground on the monster fire today. nick valencia is there with the latest details. >> reporter: good morning, ivan. the firefighters are really focusing a lot of their attention on the western boundary of the park. so far now you may want to know about the impact on tourism. there's only been a few cancellations right now. we saw a lot of charred trees yesterday when a lot of hot spots that firefighter wrs still working very hard to try to put out. this fire though is spill still about 30 or 40 miles from the more heavily visited area of the iconic park but the firefighters aren't celebrating just yet. take a listen. >> the concern there is it's actually starting to back down

into some canyons that could make some big runs and that's where we get large fires spread. >> reporter: some good news overnight. the fire containment jumped up a couple percentage. now it's 7%. but that acreage is still very high. more than 126,000 acres burned. the firefighters have a load road ahead. >> they get 4 million tourists a year. any indication that some of them may be staying away. i know you say a lot of people haven't canceled but do you think that could change or are they still enjoying themselves in. >> reporter: well anytime you have a fire associated with their name, that's the concern. and i think for tourist officials there in the park, they want to get away from that as far as they can. but fire officials we've spoken to and cnn has talked to, they say at least in the very heavily populated areas, there's very

little smoke and blew skies. but where i am, there's smoke all around us this morning, a lot thicker smoke than there was yesterday and that's surprising when you consider that the fire officials are saying they're making progress on the fire. it's still tough and difficult to breathe out here this morning. >> thanks for theup date. well you know you can bet that the firefighters are paying close attention to the forecast here. let's check in with meteorologist al exand dra steel. >> what he was just saying out there, you saw the flames. this fire is large. the number has gone up in terms of containment in terms of percentage, but ice large, more so than i was earlier and it's moving farther eastward and it is hot, 2,000 degrees. it's pretty tough. but in terms of the weather we actually had some problems as well. what happened yesterday, temperatures didn't get as school as they had earlier.

so the fire activity picked up a little bit earlier in the day. it usually picks up more in the afternoon but not so yesterday. today the temperatures are better. one interesting thing, the fire, it's creating its own weather. the smoke column, it builds up, it breaks down and as it breaks down and collapses and downdrafts and wind gusts go all different ways. so kind of disoperate wind directions which makes it harder to follow the fire because it's not only the winds taking the fire in one direction. which that direction is predominantly eastward. right now it's 50. wind direction in the southeast. the winds are pretty light at 5 miles per hour. but the gusts do get higher than that. here's what we're going to see throughout the afternoon. this is pretty cool, the time stamp through 1 clock. has watching the darker shades. showing you the winds that are getting stronger and it shows you where the winds are getting

stronger and they will be stronger in the afternoon. this continues to be the same scenario. temperatures consistent, air consistent and also the dew points, the dryness of the air is consistent and no rain in the forecast and the irony as we've been saying is there's a tropical depression just west of the baja bring in flooding rain to phoenix and vegas so it's so close to the fires but not going to get there. from albany, new york to albany, georgia, dry. if you're vacationing right along the gulf of mexico, a few storms for you. other than that it's palatable in the northeast. >> thanks. so the u.s. military prepping now for a possible strike on syria. that is an if though. >> an important if. if the u.s. verifies syria used chemical weapons on civilians last wednesday.

this is important. this could have big implications in the middle east and for the u.s. as well. our cnn pentagon correspondent is live now for us. >> chris can you outline the steps that the pentagon is taking here. >> they've updated their target list to present the most current and comprehensive options for the president. officials tell us that the syrian forces continue to move. and so these updates have to be dup. but this was probably one of the most comprehensive updates in several months. i am told that a lot of it had to do with looking at ways to target syria's ability to deliver chemical weapons and also looking heavily at the cruise missile option. so that end the navy has moved a fourth zroir into the region. that's important because these destroyers have long range cruise missiles that are designed to hit land targets

from the sea. again these are options and that's a point that secretary chuck hagel was stressing on his trip to asia. >> president obama has asked the defense department to prepare options for all contingencies. we have done that. and again, we are prepared to exercise whatever option, if he he decides to employ one of those options. >> secretary hagel participate bid video conference with the chairman of the joints chiefs of staff and really the president's entire national security team over the weekend as the white house also conferred with its european allies to scope out what needs to be done next. this was a big meeting, not a normal meeting to call in this many principles on a weekend. it shows the seriousness of the

situation in syria right now. john kerry also placed a call to his counterpart in syria, the syrian foreign minister. those two do not talk very often. this too was a sign that things may be taking a turn to a far more serious turn. >> that's chris lawrence in washington. i can't even imagine what that conversation might have been like between kerry and the foreign minister of syria. >> awkward, tense were serious. >> especially since the obama administration has been calling on the syrian president to step down for more than a year now. >> extremely rare. we want to move on now and show you a startling piece of video that turned up on youtube today. it shows what appears to be syrian rebels firing up at a syrian jet somewhere in syria which then responds in kind. it tells a whole deadly story here. you can see those rebels, they were firing up and then, bam,

they get hit by some kind of attack. whether it was the jet retail yath or some kind of rocket to rocket fire. now, the opposition activists who put this online say this was shot near the northern syrian city largely controlled by rebels. and much of it has been destroyed. we should note that cnn cannot independently confirm the authenticity of the video but it brings home the viciousness of the conflict that's been ranling for more than two years, left more than 10% of the population forced to flee out of the country. >> unbelievable video. >> still to come we have a cnn exclusive major progress for the little girl whose battle for new lungs touch off a nasal debate. our exclusive interview with sarah mur that hahn.

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fight for new lungs changed the rule at least for now for kids desperate for a transplant. >> sarah has had a major break through. just ten weeks after her double lung transplant the 11-year-old is breathing without the held of an oxygen machine. yesterday her mom posted this on her facebook page, quote after two and a half years on oxygen, sarah is officially off oxygen. this is us outside enjoying the sunshine today. >> our cnn national correspondent jason carroll sat down with the murnaghans. he's joining us from new york. sarah obviously has an important case. she's a hero and also an 11-year-old girl. does he understand how significant this was? >> she's a very mature 11-year-old girl. that's one of the impressions you get. you know when children get sick,

i think what it does is it really forces children to grow up. and sarah is no exception. i was really taken aback at the level of her maturity and how she was able to understand how far she has come and what has happened to her. her fight with cystic fibrosis which destroyed her lungs and having to survive not one lung transplant but two lung transplants. and when i sat down with her at that hospital bed, we played a little bit of monopoly, we talked a little bit and we also talked about how tough she is and what she understands about her illness. >> you know, so many people have said that you're a tough little girl. do you feel like you're a tough little girl in. >> yes. >> you do. >> very. >> can you tell me why?

>> because i thought it was going to be hard and i've done it. >> you can see she barely talks. it's a whisper but the strength is there. she's actually breathing on her own. she's still has a long way to do but it's incredible that she's been able to come this far. you see her mother at her side, her father were her aunt has be there as well. her brothers and sisters really looking forward to her homecoming. >> she really is a brave little girl there. do you get any sense how much longer she'll have to stay in the hospital? can he ever really live a normal life, do you think? >> here's the good news. it turns out sarah could be

released as early as thursday of this week. looks like she will be going 0 home this week. her original hope was to be able to actually walk outside on her hone but because of hospital protocol, that probably won't be able to happen. her mother very aware of exactly what she's expecting for sarah. we talked about that in toerms of her prognosis. she hopes she's going to be able to live, do all the other things that little girls will be able to do. it's going to take some time. listen to what so so ra's mother janet had to say when we talked about her prognosis. >> she's going to fight and she's going to be okay. i fully plan to watch her graduate from college and watch her get married some day and do whatever it is she wants to do. and, you know, i believe those things are a reality. i just don't think they're going to be as easy for her to obtain those things as somebody else but i think she's going to have

them. >> and one of the things that sarah said to me was, she said, i'm not going for easy. i'm going forpossible. >> good advice for a lot of people to take. thank you for that story. you can see jason's entire interview with sarah and the murnaghan story tomorrow morning she was a beautiful little girl who ultimately became the face of the march on washington. we're going to have the story of the young lotter who took this iconic image. if you're looking to get away for labor day. how to book the last-minute trip without breaking the bank. play close. good and close. discover the new way to help keep teeth clean and breath fresh. new beneful healthy smile food and snacks. he'll love the crunch of the healthy smile kibbles. you'll love how they help clean.

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the dark and desolate value oif segregation. >> i was 50 years ago and the words still resonate as if they were spoken yesterday. i have a dream. but it was more than those words that are burned in r in our mind and in the pages of our history. don lemon has manufacture >> we although know those words. vi a dream that one day this nation will rise up. those were the words that people remember from the original march on washington. but there were also the images, those indelible images you see in black and white of the faces that were there, the black and white people who were there. one of those was taken by a very young photographer. his name is roland cherman and he was there and spotted one little girl with a sign in her hand behind a picket fence and she became the face of the march.

>> i was out there covering this giant event. kid reporter with a couple of cameras photographing the whole thing. i was the official government photographer. i couldn't be denied access to any part of it. i was sort of like a free roving guy. you could see the access i had, the proximity i had. it looks like they're in their back yard singing folk songs to each other just for fun. but there are hundreds of thousands of people gathered around listening to them. i'm really so happy with this picture. it shows all of the emotion that's gone through this man's face. he was the guy who created the march on washington. this picture shows the spirit of it, another face in the crowd. just happens to be caught at the right moment. i saw this face. she's really a beautiful young girl and she was so intense.

i wasn't the only one to be struck by it. she has become like the face of the march on washington. i wanted to show the people who couldn't be there the greatness of it, the majesty of it, the scope of it, closeups and long shots, all of the faces in the crowd, not only the superstars gu people themselves. i was just a kid, just starting out. you're a freelancer and this is your first job? what is your first job is the biggest event that's ever happened in your lifetime? so you heard it. it took almost 50 years for her to figure out that he was the iconic face of that march on washington because a family member told her. so it's not just the words that came out of the march, it was also those images that will leave a lasting impression on the nation, not just the nation, the world. brianna. >> don lemon, thank you so much. tonight at so:00 on cnn you can

take a look back at that historic event 50 years ago. we were there. it's an oral history of the march on washington. and if you're looking for last-minute labor day deals you're not alone. labor day travel is expected to sore this year. we'll be taking a look at what you can expect on the roads and how to get to your destination without putting a dent in your wallet. but first let's check in with dr. sanjay gupta to see what's coming up at the bottom of the hour. >> brianna, this week the cdc reported the number of lyme disease cases is ten times higher than they reported before. i'll explain why so many people think traditional medicine may be fail them. the school year is here. we've got all that and much more, 7:30 eastern. with diabetes, it's tough to keep life balanced.

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if you're looking for last-minute labor day get away, you are not alone. according to aaa more people are planning to travel than in year's past. >> it's going to be busy out there and alison kosik joins us live. what can travelers expect this weekend. >>abor day weekend is the last blast of summer for many people to get out there and sneak in the last vacation. once labor day hits, here comes the cold weather. so in the last vacation that people are going to be take it's going to be more crowded from the roads to the skies. 34 million people are expected to travel for the labor day weekend. on the roads, 29 million people are expected to take the roads to get their their destination. 3 million people are expected to fly. you're not going to be alone. take a lot of patient with you because it's going to be crowded. why is this? believe it or not, housing

prices have a lot to do with it because when you think about what makes you feel rich, what your house is worth has a lot to do with it because that's your biggest asset. also what your portfolio looks like. although the market has been down for the last week for the year it's up quite a bit. you're seeing home prices improve, you're seeing confidence return to people and people are feeling more comfortable about being able to afford the extra trip for the labor day weekend. >> that's certainly good news. i imagine a lot of people are still being very careful about what you're spending. so should you drive or fly? >> it depends on how far you're going to go. many people are going to stay close to home. although gas prices are at the high level, they're actually down almost 3% compared to last year around this time. as far as being able to maybe score some deals, keep in mind that as we get closer to the

labor day weekend, which is right around the corner, those deals with going to diminish because more abmore people are going to procrastinate and book those deals. you're going to see, especially with the airlines, what they wind up doing is kind of tricky. if they see they have empty fligh flight seats, they're cut the flights and you're not going to be able to get the discounts. one other thing to keep in mind, many people are going to actualactual ly leave on their labor day vacation august 30th and then come back on september 2nd. if you're looking to book a flight, the trick may be not to book on those days. you may be able to get a better discount. >> thanks for those travel tips. so are you going to get one last blast of the beach? >> no. >> you've got a work trip coming up. >> sweden and russia, i'm not complaining but it's not beach time. i'd like to get a tan. >> on air force one?

>>. >> maybe not. on a different plane. but we're going to see you back here at the top of the hour, 8:00 eastern for another hour of "new day" sunday. >> lyme disease under the microscope, sanjay gupta starts right now. >> today, why most schools don't teach the way that our blans are in fact wired to learn and how some schools are trying a different approach. also a diet that's almost all fruit. doesn't sound like this would be healthy but i was surprised by what i found. but first over the past two deck seeds a tick has, spreading a fear throughout the northeast united states. it spreads lyme disease. it also spreads controversy. and this year the cdc reported cases ten times high eer than it had before.

for most people antiby yotices are going to be the cure. >> i start out taking a probiotic and then an our later i take three different medications. i take one that will help with the yeast -- >> this is how 33-year-old tara nickels start her day. >> it is hopefully addressing what makes me feel hisable ever day. >> she has like disease and it's all the result of a bite from that deer tick when we was ten years old. it's worth pointing out she never got the bullseye rash so she neverought treatment but she did feel the symptoms. >> it was during the night i remember getting such severe leg pain and i would wake up my mom and dad. >> and the pain has only gotten worse. >> it was when i was in grad

school and working full time that my whole body just crashed and i couldn't get out of bed. >> so just last year her general practitioner gave her 0 two weeks worth of docks psych lean. that's the traditional protocol and things did improve slightly but it didn't last. >> i saw countless doctors throughout her life and u was always told it was in hi head, i need to go earlier or i have e fibromyalgia. >> this year he was given the diagnosis of lyme disease and and 8 months of treatment. if many in the mainstream medical community, simply using the diagnosis chronic lyme disease is controversial >> the lime community believes this can be a progressive infection. however the medical establishment says this's no radio proof of that and taking

long term medications is very dangerous for you. >> joining me now from baltimore is dr. paul at water. thanks for joining us, doctor. >> happy to be here. thank you for having me. >> we just met tara in this piece. she's one of the patients that did not find me relief with that traditional two-week rej meant of medication. she's not alone. about one in five patients don't seem to get better with standard treatment. what do you think is happening with those patients? >> i think there is two possibilities. one is that for a number of my patients i tell them they do have to expect, if you're in the to%, you may need three to six months of recuperation to feel improvement. there may be a delayed immune response keeping them ill. the second responsibility that is true for me patients who come to my office for evaluation of

lyme disease is they have an alternative problem and looim is not the kroekt diagnosis. >> what do you tell them, three to six month os taking it easy? not going to work. >> it obviously has to be individualized for the payne. >> the vast majority of people do improve over time and it's really managing expectations. what i can tell you for absolute certainty is that long courses of antibiotics do not seem to help people get better after the initial two to three weeks of therapy in the vast majority of cases. so what i do is take leads in other studies that have looked at patients suffering from fatigue or other difficult theties and that includes low impact exercise, includes looking at your sleep habits. sometimes cognitive therapy to help deal with stressor are

helpful as well. sometimes we use nont anti-by yot tick medication as well. >> if they want another course of treatment, what do you say to them? >> what i'll say is we do not and cannot find persistent infection in the body. and also say, from our own scientific viewpoint, these are not bacteria that are terribly difficult to kill with ant medication. when he compare it to a sugar pill, we don't see any dimps in the groups that would suggest that the medication would help patients over the long term meaning they would get better and cured. if they did i would be

advocating for it and treating patients that way. i want to be convinced by evidence. >> thanks for joining us. i really appreciate it. as the from said, those ticks are found in the northeast and in the great lakes, the wooded ord grassy areas. when you're outside, make sure you use insect repel lant, use long sleeve clothes and pants. here's a cdc tip, take a shower within two hours of coming indoors. just ahead now, how schools might adapt to new science about the way that children learn.

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you know parents all over, they ring their hands about the states of school.

there's this big debate of high stakes testing. so imagine a school then with no tests, no technology, not even traditional text books. it's the waldorf way. in a waldorf school, learning just looked different. instead of writing a book report on a literature lesson, they take that same story and create a play or a song. >> you can go to the store and buy bay a bit of new technology an the man there can tell you how to do it and you're clueless. when you've done it comes into your soul and your limbs in a way that you never forget. >> it's true that most people learn by doing and that's the approach of a waldorf education. it's been around now for more than 90 years. >> we know for example how related math and music are in the brain. 36 minus 6 plus 1. >> 31. >> rhythm and using the limbs is

not just a tool but it stimulates their ability to think and especially in working with numbers. >> the school keeps it simple, chalk boards, paper and pencil. no computers until 8th grade and that's when the students actually take one apart and rebuild it. >> all of us learn in different ways. some of us are auditory learns were some of us are visual learners. so the traditional way does not actually address all of those styles. >> the only textbooks you'll find at a waldorf school -- >> so the heart and the main arteries -- >> -- are the ones that the students create based on their interpretation and retaining of the subject. and while subjects like knitting and hand working may seem frivolous to some, waldorf will

counter with this. it teaches problem solving, math and coordination skills mpl it takes around six weeks for a child who's never had standardized testing to understand how the bubble works. i think it takes a lifetime to know how to think. >> according to the oesh yags of waldorf schools, 94% of their students go on to clenl including stanford, harvard and yale. >> there are r many than 150 waldorf schools in the united states and enrollment has skyrocketed from coast to coast so the question a lot of people have is how does it compare to mainstream medication. welcome to the program, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. good morning. >> i'm very interested in this topic because i have three small children myself and i think when you have kids this age it's a large part of what you think about and one of the things were first of all, i just wanted to ask you fb you look at the

video, a big part of the waldorf way is to keep students engaged through constant movement. does that help the brain in terms of retaining information? >> it does. movement does a couple of different things for learning. it help orient the person and anchor them in their experience as to what they're learning but it also helps with memory consolidation dung there's a negative impact of too much testing in young kids? i mean based on what you were saying earlier, do the kids brains process tests in. >> i think testing it's important that people understand that it has a specific context and has specific goals and that sometimes those goals apply to everyday learning and in the real world army sometimes they don't always transfer or apply that well. and the impact of a lot of testing or having kids early on learn that testing, you don't want them to think that testing

is synonymous with learning because for some kids being under a timed condition makes them nervous and kids who are reflective thinkers and have to kind of survey information in their minds don't always do as well under testing environments. and so it's important to be mindful of those principles of human learning and thought within a testing environment. >> i think you've just described my oldest daughter. she'll probably hate me for bringing this up. i feel she understands topics but under testing conditions it does tend to be a little different for her. maybe it's the pressure. i'm not sure. he's eight years old and they use a lot of technology now in the classrooms. ipads and screens and different things. i mean what do you think of that? helpful or harmful? >> i think the technology is wonderful. you know, if you think about learning happens best when you're engaging a lot of your senses and we shouldn't underestimate the impact that reaching and touching have in

learning and what tablets and touch screens give us the ability to do, it gives the child the ability to touch new information and knowledge and to grab new information and knowledge. so it's engaging a spatial sense and freedom of information that those of us who are our anyone, we didn't have those freedoms when we were learning but it's a wonderful layer on top of more formal processes in school. >> i think the parents worry about the impact of another screen. but for educational purposes it can have a benefit. as a reporter and a dad i'm always cure yus about this stuff. thanks for joining us. learned a lot. >> thank you. >> still ahead, a look at a very unlikely diet. this elite endurance athlete eats nothing but fruit. okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu.

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when is a diet just a diet and when does it actually transition into lifestyle? well this week hundreds of fruit tearians, they're gathered for the 2013 wood stock fruit festival. before when is a diet just a i read about in details magazine recently. he's sort of a hero in this movement. he's an athlete who insists on fruit and fruit alone. of course i wanted to meet him face to face. the fruitarian.

how did you arrive at this? >> i had to lose body fat. i heard about raw food diets and i said, you know what? i'll give it a try. you're doing this for health reasons, which you may be, but really it was about your running time specifically, that's what you were trying to accomplish? >> i wanted to break two hours and 15 minutes in a marathon, which is a really quick time. i wanted to run 50-mile races, then 100-mile races. i kept performing at a higher and higher level. and i was just tissued at the results i was experiencing. >> you've heard 1,000 times,

you're not getting enough of certain proteins, certain fatties a sits. acids. but you're saying, look at me? >> i'm doing this for performance based reasons. for environmental and various reasons, but my performance keeps improving. >> did you try all the things that are typically recommended to try and improve your performance? >> yes, i have tried all the things in the vitamin shops and the supplements and the protein diets and i have tried everything. but this, eating nothing but raw fruits and vegetables, primarily fruits. i have become almost superhuman.

>> have you had physicals? >> the only thing that's been low at times has been my b-12. and there's lots of different reasons for that. everything else has been pretty enough perfect. how do you acquire so much of these raw fruits, which is mainly what comprises your diet? >> i have four refrigerators in my house. i eat a lot, as most animals do in nature. i eat up to 6,000 calories a day, i have between 3% and 5% body fat. i don't get sick, i don't get injured. i was fifth in the new york marathon a couple of years ago. i have mental clarity, i don't get dry skin. i don't wake up with crust in my

eyes, i don't have ear wax, i'm absolutely healthy, i'm vibe brandt. >> b-12, that's the only thing that you take. what did you have for breakfast this morning? >> 15 oranges. >> we usappreciate you being on thanks so much. you know, a lot of us play music in our heads, but it takes a special talent to share those tunes with an audience. but there's a man with hearing loss that writes music. >> deejay robbie wild. he lives in a world of rhythm and beats. severe ear infections as a child, left wilde completely

deaf in one ear. >> being dealing with the hearing los, i went up to my mom, i'm like mom, i'm going to be okay, like i promise you, i'll be fine. >> although hearing is the most important sense in a deejay's life, wilde was still determined to make it. >> i don't want you to see me as a deaf kid trying to be a deejay. i don't want sympathy because he's hearing impaired. >> wild skills got noticed by hp. also earned him a spot in a commercial, thrusting him on to the world stage.

>> it doesn't matter that i can't hear the music. >> besides, wilde says, some things are just better left unheard. >> there's a lot of sounds out in the world that you don't want to hear. i like it muffled. i like who i am. i'm proud of who i am. >> i'll tell you, every deejay uses hand signals when they perform. do y thank you for joining us. with kids heading back to school, i'm going to give you my take on childhood vaccinations. ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit hungry ♪ ♪ and there's nothing good around ♪ ♪ turn around barry ♪ i finally found the right snack ♪ ♪

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cdc.gov/vaccines. that's going to do it for me, but let's get the conversation going on twitter at doctorsanjay. >> it was going fast. no end in sight, that -- we go behind the front lines to see what they're up against. >> every time i face things, that i thought were going to be fun and i've done them. >> three months ago, cnn sunday morning was first to bring you the story of sarah mernahan. now in a cnn exclusive, we bring you the first interview with her since her transplant. >> and remember this kiss? this dress?

mtv's video music awards are known for breaking boundaries, this year's show airs tonight and there's already a twist. good morning, everyone, i'm brianna keeler. it's 8:00, this is new day sunday. >> the u.s. military moving ships into position, ramping up for a possible strike on syria if a and a big if. >> a big if, the u.s. verifies syria used chemical weapons on civilians last wednesday. >> what action could the u.s. take and how likely might they be to take those actions. >> the u.s. military and the pentagon have updated the potential targets for potential air strikes in syria. some of those targets could

include everything from command and control facilities to artillery batteries. now the navy has also added a fourth destroyer to the mediterranean sea and moved one of those closer to syria. in a conference cuall over the weekend, president obama got together his national security team. chuck hagel weighed in with his popgss. >> president obama has asked the defense department to prepare options for all contingencies. we have done that. and, again, we are prepared to exercise whatever option, if he decides to employ one of those options. >> although the secretary has mentioned the all options, sources are telling us that

basically what they're looking at are ways to deter the use of chemical weapons, not options that would involve trying to overthrow the assad regime in syria. >> reporter: the syrian government seems to have acknowledged that chemical weapons may have been used, it's confirmed chemical weapons in the hands of syrian rebels. >> reporter: the syrian rebels claim that 1,300 people were killed in wednesday's attack. take a look at some of this video, gas mask, canisters, other paraphernalia that could have been used. the government claims that some of its soldiers were suffocating, suffering from the effects of gas when they entered that city. we also know that the independent group doctors without borders now says that

doctors treated over 3,000 patients for neurotoxic symptoms, convulsions, difficulty breathing and things like that, and hundreds of them died. so you've got both seeides sayi each used chemical weapons. >> a blame game under way, but what's even more confusing is that the chemical weapons seem to have hit neighborhoods where the rebels control. so why would they use chemicals on their own people. >> this is the difficulty for the u.s. and other observers in figuring out where this was used definitively. there is a bit of hope. let's talk about that wildfire there in california. a bit of hope for that monster

fire that's burning in and around yosemite national park. >> fuelling the flames, marched toward the possible yosemite valley. >> nick, you have containment, it's up to 7% today, but we had 5% yesterday, 3% before, it just really makes you think it's going to be a long struggle here. >> reporter: the smoke is still very thick this morning, and one of the main priorities for today is to make sure that fire doesn't encroach any further into yosemite national park. this is the time of year yosemite park is usually packed with tourists. about 40 miles from the heavily visited yosemite valley, fire crews are dealing with this. >> yosemite is certainly iconic worldwide so it's on the minds

of the public in this area and beyond. >> fast moving, fierce and so far unpredictable, the so called rim fire could be the largest fire in california state history. getting a handle on this fire has been difficult, being fueled by extremely hot conditions and strong winds. here in yosemite national park, firefighters are making some progress, but with limited resources, they're dealing with a lot of hot spots like these. >> it's critical that we have so many crews out nationwide, and we do have to share resources, because i say, we are a number one priority, we're getting all we need. >> but what these firefighters also say they need is for the weather to cooperate. and containment is up to 7% this morning, but making matters very difficult for firefighters is that this fire is in inaccessible and rough terrain.

>> as you heard him say, there's still such a long way to go. is the weather going to help out here or will it be hurting firefighters today? >> to find out, let's turn to meteorologist alexandra steele, she joins us in the cnn weather center. >> the weather certainly has not been helping. i want to give you a perspective, comparing the size of the fire to yosemite. here's the rim fire, it's 200 square miles, it's delineation in green is 1,200 miles. it's encroaching into the northwest corridor, it's the remote northwest corridor. the park is still open, three of the four entrances are still open. but i wanted to show you the fire's progression. here's it's most recent progression. but since it's onset a week ago, here's where it started and this is the direction from which it's moved and it is moving in this direction because of the wirnd.

and we talk about those canyon winds. this is the topography, you heard nick just talk about that, it's so difficult, it's the topography of those ridges and can i don't thinks. here are the ridges and here is are the canyons. not only here but in cities like boston or chicago, where you have those very large buildings, and you walk in between those buildings, you'll notice the wind picks up. the air gets squeezed, it compresses and spreads out. that's what we're seeing here, it's allowed those very gusty winds to be a part of this. we talk about winds, the direction from which they're coming and they're coming from the southwest. so they're blowing the fire, obviously eastward and that's what's getting into yosemite, kind of slow and light, 2 to 5 miles an hour now. so unfortunately, we are not

getting any real relief because there's no rain coming as well. and the temperatures yesterday morning were really off so they allowed the fires to -- so what we're seeing today and in the next five days, temperatures in the 70s and no movement in terms of rainfall, you can see we're not seeing that at all, and the moisture, the dew points are getting a little bit higher, meaning there's a little more moisture in the air, but the irony, guys, as we look at the big picture, is the tropical depression off the baja peninsula, bringing flooding rains to vegas and phoenix. so all this moisture so close but yet so far. here's the other picture, beautiful conditions from albany new york, to albany, georgia, a beautiful sunday, except right along the gulf coast, a few showers and storms there. the march on washington, 50

years later, we will talk live with professor cornell west about the challenges facing the civil rights movement. get set for some strong opinions. and later in the show, a cnn exclusive. a little girl's fight for new lungs touched off a national debate.

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. free at last, free at last, thank god almighty, free at last. >> they sang the same song but in a very different time. ♪ we shall overcome someday >> that's right, thousands jammed the national mall saturday to mark the 50th anniversary of the march on washington. demonstrators heard from attorney general eric holder, john lewis and two of martin luther king's children. >> cornell west watched the march on washington on tv in

1963. he was a 10-year-old boy in a segregated america. >> and today, he's a professor of philosophy and christian practice at union theological seminary. mr. west, what's the biggest challenge facing the civil rights movement today? >> the biggest changes has to do with the three crimes that martin luther would want us to face, wall street crimes that remain unpunished, the war on drugs and the war crimes that drop bombs on innocent people, especially innocent children. both the march had mag -- the obama administration, they have betrayed the legacy of martin king because they haven't talked about those three crimes, wall street crimes, war crimes and

going into a bogus war against drugs have had their rights violated. >> you obviously feel that there is so much farther to go when it comes to civil rights, but i wonder, do you think that the modern civil rights movement needs a figure head? it doesn't seem to have one. >> that's a good question. reverend al sharpton, we witnessed yesterday the coronation of reverend al sharpton as the house negro in the obama administration. given the msnbc production, it was kind of an -- it's clear he's nomar tin luther king jr., and he criticize the good that he does and the bad that he does. but we need an awakening of young people. martin luther king jr. he called malcolm x on june 17, 1964, he said together, malcolm, we need to go to the u.n. to put the

united states on trial for the violation of human rights of black folk here and africans. and there's very serious radical business. we didn't see that kind of radical martin, that titan of love, that militant that's subversive for sweetness, that radical for tenderness, that's the issue that we need to focus on. >> dr. west, i would like to state a statistic here. there's a new pew survey here. they feel they have been treated unfairly with respect to police. we knew that 50 years ago in 1963, would you expect those kinds of numbers today? >> it's very sad, we need more white brothers and sisters, we have our brown brothers and sisters, high levels of deportation, i think that's wrong as well. we need to recognize that the criminal justice system is not

fair, especially as it relates to people of all colors, and especially as it relates to black and brown youth. we see the stop and frisk in new york. we're seeing progress on that from the courts, but we need a whole lot more. if we are going to survive as a democratic experiment, we can't be callus to catastrophe, m martin -- the kingdom of truth is always to allow suffering to speak. >> what do you think, dr. west? we just heard you be critical of the obama administration, but what do you think dr. king would have said if he knew that there was an african-american president leading the country? >> martin luther king jr. would say i will not judge a president or any politician by the color of his skin, but by the content

of his policies. and if those policies tilt toward wall street not main street, if they tilt to the 1% of evidence people, he was a christian minister, he leaned on the same jesus that i do and you begin with the least of these, the poor, the weak, the vulnerable. so martin luther king jr. would not lean on the color of the president. he wouldthat's progress, but what is the content of his character, does he love poor people, does he love black people and will he give poor and those who are on the edges priority, that's the kind of brother my brother martin luther king jr. was. >> dr. west, we told our viewers that you would come with your opinions and you certainly did, thank you for being with us. >> stay strong. >> thank you, very, very much.

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welcome back, everyone. mike tyson says he's been lying to everyone about his sobriety. the former heavyweight champ opened up in a way he has never done before. >> it's really powerful stuff and he says he's been battles

demons more than any boxer he's ever faced. john carter has more in this beacher report. >> this bombshell, you could call it that, an admission came on is the same night that mike tyson made his debut as a box g ing promoter. it was an incredibly honest moment about hiss day to day battle with drugs and alcohol. >> i'm a vicious chock. i haven't took drugs in six days. and for me, that's a miracle. i have been lying to everybody else to think i was sober, but i'm not, this is my sixth day, i'm never going to use again. >> you can watch more of tyson's very revealing confession. we have got that video for you on the bleacher report.com.

armstrong has agreed to pay the paper he once sued in 2004 for publishing an article about his doping. according to the "new york times," the paper was suing armstrong for $1 million. it's being called a mutually acceptable final resolution. final the little league world series. pitcher nick moore not only struck out nine batters, but he hit a monster three-run home run. they'll play at 3:00 p.m. eastern. by the way the last four champions of the little league world series came from canada. that's the 6'4" little league pitcher. this guy is 6'4". >> wait, how old is he? >> 13. >> 13, 6'4", oh, my goodness. go, california, though. >> boy, connecticut crushed.

>> sorry, dude. your home state. >> my home state didn't do so hot. >> all right. well, switching gears, this might make some of us including myself feel rather old. the mtv music awards turned 30 this year. but brianna won't be attending this one. >> but i'm going to watch it. it's been making headlines for three decades now. so what can we expect from tonight's big show. michelle turner has a preview. >> reporter: hey, brianna, hey, ivan. the first mtv music awards were held in 1984, they were hosted by bet -- michael jackson's thriller for video of the year. it's pretty wild, huh? let's fast forward 30 years and it's now justin timberlake and

taylor swift leading the pack. happy birthday vma's, the mtv video music awards turned 30 this year, and as their motto goes, expect the unexpected. >> the vma's are known for spectacles. if you want to see britney spears kissing madonna, lady gaga in a meat dress-- >> the vmas leave their home and head to barclay's center in brooklyn. lady gaga will appear in one of her first tv appearances after hip surgery. kanye west rocks the mike in his seventh vma performance. and look for the songs of the summer tribute. ♪ brendan haywohe

>> a few moon men will be handed out during the live telecast. matt lamore and -- timberlake will be honored with the michael jackson video vanguard award and there are rumors of a reunion wi wi with -- >> the day after, there's always something being talked about at the water cooler. >> dan akroid and bette midler 30 years ago. well, still to come, a cnn

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armed with cruise missiles have moved into the region. president obama says preliminary signs -- syria has denied using chemical weapons pointing the finger at rebel forces. and number two, that rim fire burning near yosemite national park, just kind of into the national park now. firefighters there have put just a small dent in it. they have the fire 7% contained at this point. but you could be seeing some stronger winds coming around in the afternoon. the fire has already burned 130 acres and one entrance to yosemite has been closed. number three, police are searching for a motive after a florida man went on a shooting spree on saturday. 72-year-old hubert allen shot and killed his former boss marvin pritchet. two others were also shot. number four, hundreds

gathered yesterday to mourn the deaths of christina and ethan anderson. the mother and the brother of kidnapped hannah anderson. t the two were killed by james dimaggio. if you have been holding on to an old lottery ticket, it's time to check the numbers. an the holder of an unclaimed winning ticket has until tomorrow to claim the -- drawn august 25, 1, 6, 7, 20, 49 and power ball number 23. >> and that was bought in rye, new york. i may have to call them up and say dig around in their purse or something, right? let's get to a cnn exclusive. it was three years ago this

month that cnn enter deuced you to sarah murnaghan. . >> sarah has had a major break through, we're happy to report. just three weeks after her second double lung transplant, little scarah is breathing on hr own. >> here's a statement from her mother. after 2 1/2 years on oxygen sarah is officially off oxygen. she is outside enjoying the sunshine today. >> this is the first interview since sarah's transplant, jason, does she understand? she's such a little girl, does she understand what a big deal her case has been? >> she really does, brianna, she has a deep understanding of everything that's happened to her. and in this first interview since having not one but two lung transplants, she talks

about all she has had to endure. you know, so many people have said have you're a tough, tough little girl. do you feel like you're a tough little girl? >> yes. >> reporter: you do? >> very. >> reporter: can you tell me why? >> because every time i face things that i thought were going to be hard, and then i've done them. >> sarah is due to be released as early as this tuesday and not only did i speak with sarah, but i also spoke with her mother, janet and her father fran and talked about what her prognosis will be. >> she's going to fight and she's going to be okay. i fully plan to watch her graduate from college and watch her get married someday and do

whatever it is she wants to do. you know i believe those things are going to be a reality, they over just not going to be as easy to obtain as somebody else. >> sarah said she's not going for easy, she said, she's going for possible. and it looks like either this tuesday or at the very latest this thursday, the possible will finally be a reality for sarah and the rest of the family. a very happy time for the family and one that has been long-awaited. >> the organ procurement and transplantation organization says that they'll give all children a chance at transplant. >> only for a year will they do some study before they try to see if there will be a permanent change. but the murnaghan family is hoping there will be a permanent

change. all they have been hoping for is equal access. whether you be 10 years old, 40 years old or 90 years old. they believe that the sickest person should be next in line for whatever transplant becomes available, it shouldn't have to do with your age. >> all right, jason caroll, thanks for that report. and you can see the entire interview that jason had with sarah and the murnaghan family tuesday morning on cnn. it's going to be okay, i just want you to know that it's okay going to be okay, we all go something in life. >> howie george says she was able to use her faith to talk down a jumper. ♪

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hailed as a hero. that's what many people are calling this woman. antoinette tuff. >> we're taking a look at the elementary school worker who -- michael brandon hill was armed with an ak-47 and 500 rounds of ammunition when he entered the

building and held tuff hostage. she was able to calm the 20-year-old suspect down and get him to surrender to police. >> but she doesn't see herself as a hero. in an interview with cnn's anderson cooper, she says the toughness of her faith is the source of her strength. >> i was actually telling god that even though it seemed like i've been through hell and back, i promised him december the 31st that if he allowed me to live, that 2013 would be heaven for me. and i know today that all that i went through is for that one perfect day. >> when you first heard your niece antoinette tuff was the person who got this gunman to surrender, what was your

reaction? were you surprised? >> i was surprised from the stand point of you never know who's going to be in what situation. but not from the stand point of how she has been developed, what she has come to recognize and how do you know something to be true unless you're put in that situation? so even though she was placed in the situation a lot of preparation was a far as she could determine and we could determine that she really knew it was that it began to flow. so i was very elated that she was chosen for that reason. >> i think a lot of people listening to what your niece said to this gunman would wonder if they had within themselves the compassion that she did. some people would find that that's an unnatural response in a way when they're faced with

somebody who could, let's be honest, kill them, kill the people around them. were you surprised that she reacted with such an outpouring of compassion? >> i wasn't surprised because based on her life history, the situations that she has been in, she's constantly giving herself to make things better for whomever it may be. she's constantly seeking to improve the conditions not only of herself, but whomever she meets. so the focus behind is that l that is if someone is giving his life in this case christ gave his life to her. because she's indebted to christ, it became -- if you invest in what can you do to pay the person?

we can't pay the price back, but he has now the opportunity to make the difference. so for marie it became the natural course of events that just in the right situation, she was going to do what had to be done. as always she does that. >> we can all agree what a wonderful example and what grace under pressure and fear. pastor tuff, thank you for being with us. >> pastor tuff will most certainly be referring to this in his sermon to his congregation today. still to come on "new day" new developments in the use by syria of chemical weapons. moisn

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welcome back. we have breaking news out of syria. c nr cnn has learned that tsyria wil allow the u.n. full access to investigate the attacks. >> we're joined now by cnn chief congressional correspondent dana bash, she is in washington. obviously this move is very heavy with implications because it goes to the heart of the question who was responsible for the chemical weapons attacks. >> that's exactly right. and even more basic is did the chemical weapons attack actually happen? we have that report from the outside government and from groups who were there, but this is very, very important. because part of the problem and the pickle of that president obama and his administration is in right now is that you have

finger pointing, you have the syrian rebels saying that the syrian government did it and the syrian government is saying that the rebels did it. so we have the u.n. there trying to figure out what happened. this could make life easier or depending on what they find a lot harder for the president to figure out policy which he has had some criticism about because the president has said he's just been too quiet and to tend tiff about it. >> the idea that chemical weapons were used with death tolls of up to 1,300 dead according to to the rebels. if in fact true, this would be the deadliest use of chemicals since saddam hussein gassed the -- will the obama

administration be ready to move then? >> they're getting ready to move. we're going to talk on the state of the union in a little while, with pentagon correspondent who's been talking to sources about the kinds of plans that are getting into place at the pentagon. it's not unusual to have contingency plans. he's reporting from his sources that this time it's different. that they have sort of a more aggressive posture. just the fact that the president yesterday on a saturday called in his national security council to have a meeting kind of says it all about the kind of concern that you see inside the white house that as you said, that this is a very, very dire situation and has the potential to land on his plate and to force a decision that certainly somebody who ran on a very strong anti-war plank when he was president does not fwhesly want to be making. >> and also worth noting that

the obama administration has been very reluctant to get involved in the syrian civil war, which has been going on for more than two years, saying he needs to wind down the afghan war right now. and also worth noting, that both washington, the russian government which backs the syrian regime, the rebels, the syrian government, they're all in agreement that prior to this deadly incident this last week, chemical weapons have been used on the syrian battlefield, the difference here is the scale of the reported death toll, right? >> exactly, and that really could speak to the way the american public reacts to this and that really can fuel the kind of hand that the president has to act, militarily or otherwise, because the backdrop here in the united states of course has been a very war weary public. people are just sick of it, with the war in afghanistan as you mentioned going on for more than

a decade, obviously it's pretty much winded down, but you have the iraq war and people are just kind of over it. but if you have this kind of news, with this kind of death to toll, it is a scary thing. for people who are at the beach, doing their thing in august, coming back and hearing this news, depending on what the u.n. finds, that could really change the dynamic of public opinion which could change the dynamic inside the white house. >> we heard from david gergen yesterday, you heard the foreign policy sort of, i guess, analogy is walk softly and carry a big stick, he said that president obama is dangerous of walking loudly and carrying a small stick. >> it's also important to note that there's a shortage of kind of objective reporting from there, because this is still an active battle zone, but we do

know that the organization doctors without borders, it supplies at least three hospitals in that area and it has reported that those hospitals received more than 3,000 cases of people seeming to have some kind of nerve toxic symptoms and that more than 300 of them died. >> and this is obviously an alleged wide scale attack. we know that there's been in -- believed to be a smaller scale chemical weapons attack. this u.n. team that's going in, because this is the headline right now, that the syrian regime is going to let the inspectors in after this attack. they have said they believe this small scale attack was done at the hands of the sere yang regime. we're going to talk about travel this labor day, because it's expected to soar, if you're looking for last-minute details we'll tell you what to expect on the roads and how to reach your

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it's almost the end of summer, but you still have time to book that last-minute get away for labor day weekend. and according to aaa, more people are planning to travel than in years past. >> allison, what can people expect next weekend? >> there's going to be a lot of people traveling, more than last year, 34 million people in

total, on the roads, in the air. again bring your patience. if you're procrastinating long enough to get that plane ticket, keep in mind that most people are going to be leaving on their labor bay weekend this friday and returning on monday september 2. if you're looking to catch a deal, try to travel on a different way when you may, may be able to get a cheaper fare. >> can you tell us real quick, we have like 20 seconds. best way to travel. >> west wbest way to travel, ge in your car may be the simplest way to travel because gas prices are lower at $3.53 a gallon. >> all right, good to know. allison cossack, few very much. are you going away on labor day? >> going to the in-laws.