nc. that's it for today. thanks for joining me. until next time, i hope you're learning to be a more healthy you. president obama going all out as he tries to rally support for military attack against syria. but right now, he faces an uphill climb. welcome to "america's news headquarters." the intense campaign will culminate on tuesday. that is when the president will deliver a prime time address to the american people from the white house. and he hopes that this gruesome video that fox obtained from a u.s. government official which reportedly shows victims of the chemical attack will help make the case of the syrian regime must be punished.

national correspondent steve is live in washington, d.c. how is the press conducting this for support? >> right, heather, the president is making calls, on capitol hill, tomorrow he appears on the tv networks, including here on fox. then on tuesday, at 9:00 p.m., as you mentioned, he'll address the nation from the white house. in addition, secretary of state john kerry spoke in paris today said nerve gas is much more insidious than conventional ind. it goes wherever it takes it. who horrendous to describe. >> mr. obama wants a limited action to punish syrian president bashar al assad while using chemical weaponses while tipping the balance of the rebels in that syrian civil war,

heather. >> so how is opinion stacking up on capitol hill? >> well, there is strong opposition. and it comes from both sides of the aisle. here's a sampling. >> i'm a big supporter of president obama. i have great admiration for him. i support him on almost everything. but sometimes, friends can disagree. we're being told that there's two choices, do nothing. or bomb syria. clearly, there have to be other choices in between. we ought to explore them. >> i just wish the president had laid this out better. i wish he'd quick bagging away from his own red line. i wish he were more a commander in chief than a community organizer. >> the debate begins as early as tomorrow. >> thank you, steve. tomorrow, as lawmakers consider a possible military strike on syria, president obama will sit down with chris wallace. now that interview will air during a special report with brett bear on monday, 6:00 p.m. eastern time. all of this in advance of the

president's address to the nation on tuesday night. fox news will bring you complete coverage starting at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. to vatican city for you, pope francis thanking those who joined him in a prayer for peace for syria last night. he presided over a four-hour vigil in stat peter's square. and today, he condemned the selling of weapons, wondering if the desire to make money is fueling wars in the world. as we follow the crisis in syria, we also remember the terror attack in benghazi, libya. wednesday marks one year since the terror attack on september 11th, 2012, that killed four americans including u.s. ambassador chris stevens. no one has yet been held accountable. chris wallace brought it up on "fox news sunday" with white house chief of staff denis mcdonough. >> look, we've been very clear that we will hold those people who carried out this dastardly

heinous attack against our people -- >> it's been a year. >> it has been a year. you mow what the united states does, chris, we track every lead until we find and can accomplish what we say we will do. >> why can't we find -- >> this president has demonstrated that. and we will do that. >> well, you can catch the rest of chris wallace' interview on "fox news sunday" that's at 6:00 p.m. eastern time tonight. switching gears, widespread damage left behind from a massive wildfire that burned the size of chicago near yosemite national park. now scientists are racing to protect the park. domenic is live from the l.a. bureau >> hey there, heather. it's what they call a burned area emergency response crew. 50 in total gathering in the yosemite national forest. it's the twice the aftermath to

deal with california third largest wildfire in history. the third mud slide to come -- sorry, sorry, rather, they are going to be concerned about dealing with the first mud slide that comes in this fall rainy season. >> what they generally look for are at risk the roads, could get washed out. bridges, campgrounds. and any kind of property, but our number one objective for the burn program is to try to protect human lives and safety. >> well, equally important is protecting san francisco's main water supply hedch reservoir.

how much they dig ditches or plant trees or use the hydrothat is getting sprayed. right now the cost stands at $89 million because of the risk to water supply, heather, also the possibility of higher number of mud slides because of the size of this fire, it's likely to be a very expensive natural disaster once it's over. back to you. >> those costs expected to rise. thank you. firefighters from across texas marking the 12th year of the attacks on 9/11 is a memorial event. it's a climb. the climb involved 344 firefighters ascending the dallas metroplex by stairway honoring the members of the new york city fire department who lost their lives in 2001 trying to rescue people trapped in the twin towers.

take a listen why they do it. >> it's a good reminder of what our brothers and sisters went through on that day. it just really puts that in perspective, just the amount of effort it takes to get up on those floors, and to operate. it's a real struggle to get up there when the elevators don't work. >> the climb also honors the 70 police officers who were killed in the terror attacks. well still to come, we all know that our personal information is not safe online. but is there a way to control what marketers know about you? we'll tell you about a new member service and whether it is actually a smart idea for consumers. and the political arm wrestling over syria. what president obama needs to do convince congress and the american people to back a military strike. >> everybody's trying to say this isn't iraq. but it also isn't a good situation when we're going in with ally to al qaeda. i don't know it will pass in the

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time for a quick check of the headlines for you. the white house saying that a, quote, common sense test shows that the the syrian government was behind last month's chemical weapons attack. this, today, from president obama's chief of staff who also said the evidence obtained by

the u.s. is, quote, irrefutable. >> the president of pakistan today stepping down at the end of his five-year term, making him the first democratically elected president in the country's history to completete. and a militant group in egypt's sinai peninsula reportedly claiming responsibility for a failed assassination attempt on the country's interior minister. the attack killed a civilian bystander and wounded 21 others. internet giants like google and facebook have been collecting users' personal information for years. and selling it to marketing firms. well, now a new website is allowing you to provide your information upfront. but is this a good idea for consumers? let's bring in brenda butner, she's a senior business correspondent and anchor of "bulls and bears." she's right here beside me. hey, tell us about this new program. >> so it's basically that you have a chance to kind of look

behind the curtain and see what marketers are getting. what kind of information they're getting about you. you go online and basically, this company has taken a look at government records. drivers licenses, tax accessers, websites, anything that's out there about you. and the reason they do this, they sell it to marketers, to their clients. so that their clients can then target the right kind of ads for you. you know all the annoying ads you get. >> so you provide information to them, and then they turn around and sell it? >> no, they find the information about you. >> that's out there. okay. >> this new website allows you to find out what they're selling, basically what they think about you. and you can go on and correct it and edit it if you want, like the best kind of marketing sent to you. but i'm not so sure it's exactly got all the bugs out. i actually went on to find out what was being said about me. >> right. okay. >> first of all, you have to give out the last four digits of

your social security number. you have to give your birthday. there's a lot of information you give them what i found out i was of german descent, i am actually port portuguese. this is one i loved my marital status is inferred single. i don't know where they found that out. >> it could be wrong? >> it could be wrong. they're very good on household information on income and all that. you can edit that and their client will have a better sense of who you are. you'll get the ads coming to you. the other thing you can do, you can opt out, saying you want no more ads from this company if they do that, it's a gamble, a lot of people do that, they're going to lose their business. >> right. participating in something like this, would that open you up to

more identity theft? is that a possibility? >> i don't know. >> when you talk about providing the last four digits of your social security number and your birth date, that concerns people? >> yeah, it does. who knows who can hack into this, whatever. identity theft is already such a threat and such a risk, honestly, i figured i'm going to go on there, a lot is known about me. i'd rather know what it is that's being said. >> and it's serious because that can affect your credit rating vand long-term repercussions? >> yeah, absolutely. but you know, google, all these companies know so much about you from what you do on your computer that, i don't know that this is an added risk that you're taking. >> so what is your best advice for people? i mean, should they participate in something like this? >> well, i want to know. and also, if you don't like all of these ads, you can opt out, you just hit a button and you're not going to get ads. this is a major company that supplies information to a lot of

marketers. so, you know, you might have that chance. you don't have to give your social security number. >> oh, okay. >> all right. >> yeah. i mean, if you want to know, if you want to know what's out there about you, it makes sense. you can correct it. you can get better information sent to you, you know. >> just be aware, whatever you do online, there's someone watching? >> oh, there's always someone watching. at least you can see what's being said about you. >> brenda, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> okay. >> you can catch brenda as always on "bulls and bears" every saturday morning right here on the fox news channel. still to come, ex-offenders now getting a second lease on life thanks to horticulture. an internship program is giving former inmates the job placement and jobs they need to get back on their feet. live in the new york city newsroom with the story, hi, brian. >> how, heather. for ex-offenders coming out and

lookinging for a second chance the odds can be insurmountable. in new york city, the hor horticultural society is helping them quite literally to grow. >> when i was incarcerated, i just felt like, wow, i let myself down. i let my family down. sand and i needed to find a way to pick myself up. >> wendell harrison spent 12 years on rikers island. it starts on rikers, once ex-offenders are leased they end the green team program. maintaining gardens, installing green roofs, landscaping city parks and planting trees. the program offering transitional work opportunities and then job placement. >> it keeps your mind occupied and you're not wondering and thinking too much of what you should be doing, or shouldn't be doing. it also brings on responsibility.

i think that's the first step of building a career and future. >> robert johnson say green team inturn. he hopes to work full time doing a surprisingly fulfilling job. >> the stuff that you gave me, i grew that. it came out of my pain and my struggle, you know, it makes you feel great. >> programs like this offer hope. according to one study, only about 40% of employers would hire applicants with criminal records, heather. >> thank you, brian. still to come, selling syria, president obama set to make his appeal to the american people in a series of televised appearances this week. but will it work? >> we can't ignore chemical weapons attacks like this one. even if they happen halfway around the world. and that's why i call on members of congress from both parties to come together and stand up for the kind of world we want to live in. the kind of world we want to leave our children and future generations.

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>> heather: president obama trying to sell syria to the american people. he has six television interviews lined up to tomorrow. that is before the big speech on tuesday night. what account president say to bring skeptics to his sighted? orientable security expert with a security study program joins us with more. thank you for joining us, first of all. jim, what does the president need to say to win over americans. poll after poll, people are not in support of military action in syria. >>guest: there are issues of substance but importantly issue of tone. on substance, i don't think

there is an art whether he is responsible. most folks think he is responsible. the question is, what should we do? that is where he should focus the attention. second, i don't know if you saw the g-20 press conference with the president, he might have had jet lag in the early hours of the morning but he came across as defeated talking about how hard this is, how hard it is to get votes and the difficulty of the mission. to rally people to strike at assad, he has to provide a positive and emotionally energetic case and say the united states is the one country that everyone relies on, the shining buy con on the hill. this guy is evil. it is up to us. we have done it before and we have to rise to the challenge. >> heather: should we decide to go in and perform the military strike, give me the pros for doing that. >>guest: as everyone says, all the options are bad.

this is a bad situation. it is a civil war. there are chemical weapons. this is as bad as it gets. best case, we go in and hit him and we take away some of the folks and we say you do this again, it will be worse next time and he will say, fine, i am winning the civil war anyway, and he declares victory because he survives and we declare victory. >> heather: do you really think that is a possibility? >>guest: there is a very good possibility. but he doesn't want to drag israel and turkey and the united states into more because that puts him at risk. he wants us to go away. in the past, he has not struck back when israel in 2007 he did not strike back. however, we can buy this deterrence. some. if he starts losing again and he was losing and now he is winning. if he loses again there is

nothing we can go to stop him. >> heather: the other side of the coin, the art against a military strike, would be that none of that happens you just described and the opposite, in fact, does. >>guest: the best case for those who are opposed to the war, there are a lot of unknowns and someone could mess this up. that is why we are here to begin with because bashar al-assad messed it up and the war spread. i don't think the syrians want it to spread. we don't want it to spread. israel doesn't want it to spread. >> heather: what about iran? >>guest: they are in the last couple of weeks, backing away from syria. they were victims of chemical weapons during the iran and iraq war and members of the chemical weapons convention. they feel...uncomfortable. they are tied to syria but they do not like their position. >> heather: what about the rebels and the different

factions? we had a report out today that talked about some rebels taking over a christian village and, in fact, they were backed by al-qaeda. >>guest: exactly. this is what makes this such a hard policy program. all the folks who were rebels if they were good, obviously, assad is a bad guy, a really, really, really bad guy. not rebels -- if we were confident the rebels would be democrats and would win, this would be a lot easier to call. there is a personal, 10 percent? is it 20 percent? there is a personal that are islamic extremists. if the rebels win, who takes power? that is the question. or does it descend into one set rebels taking part of the country and another set of rebels take another part, like afghanistan. that is the tough part: the rebels. the president will art it is about chemical weapons.

>> heather: jim walsh, thank you for your insite. we appreciate it. >> that is it for now and media buzz is up next. thank you for remaining part the evening. estible carbs to help minimize blood sugar spikes. [ male announcer ] glucerna. helping people with diabetes find balance.

>> this is the debut edition of "media buzz." leg ou >> this is the debut edition, and president obama is going on the defensive with the network anchors over syria. >> they have to get past the bun eling and the fact the president was ambivalent and did not communicate that to the secretary of state. >> the tugs is clear: is not a blank check for any executive republican or democrat to bring the countries into another ill conceiveed war. >> why have pundits ripped the last minute decision to seek the blessing? are reporters concept calculate