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as president obama makes his case for striking syria, laurmgs hear from the public on whether a military response is the right course of action. >> sure, there's no contemplation of putting a single american serviceman or woman in -- >> you can say that now. >> there's not. i'm telling you there's not. >> on june 22nd, 2013 -- >> online confession. an ohio man used an internet video. >> a controversial new film about the late princess premieres in london days after the anniversary of her death. and the new nfl season kicks off with a record-setting performance by peyton manning.
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>> and manning. captioning funded by cbs this is the "cbs morning news" for friday, september 6th, 2013. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. well, this is the final day of the g-20 economic summit in russia, and the dominant top ilk has been the crisis in syria. in st. petersburg, president obama has been lobbying for military action against the assad regime on two fronts, calling undecided lawmakers back home while meeting with skeptical foreign leaders. susan mcginnis has the latest. >> president obama continues to meet with world leaders at the g-20 summit in st. petersburg, russia, trying to gain support for military action against bashar assad's regime. >> the use of chemical weapons in syria is not only a tragedy but also a violation of
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international law that must be addressed. >> the president wants to use targeted strikes against assad and is considering training syrian rebels but this new video could complicate that effort. the new york times shows rebels in april moments before they executed syrian government soldiers. retaliation is also a concern. "the wall street journal" reports the u.s. intercepted an order from an iranian official telling militants to attack american interests in baghdad if a strike is launched in syria. the white house wants the united nations to punish the assad regime but russia is blocking those efforts. >> russia continues to hold the council hostage and shirk its international responsibilities. >> the president is pushing congress to authorize the use of force. >> we will not participate. >> but lawmakers are getting pushback from their constituents. >> surir, there's no contemplatn of putting a single serviceman or woman -- >> you can say that now --
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>> i'm telling you there's not. >> most americans oppose military strikes in syria. susan mcginnis, cbs news, new york. as susan reported, officials say the obama administration is considering a plan to train syrian rebels but a key concern among those who are opposed to u.s. involvement is that the u.s. would be providing aid to rebels who turn out not to be friendly to this country. elizabeth palmer has that part of the story. >> reporter: syria is anxious to convince the world that the fighters it's battling are al qaeda-linked terrorists. we were invited to meet some of the fighters by a syrian-american businessman with close ties to the assad government. we drove through damascus to a military jail where prison officials told us that 50% of the fighters were foreign
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religious extremists, but when the men walked in, we discovered they were all syrians, a builder, a metal worker, and a farmer. all three of them claimed they were a fighter whose units had been taken over by fundamental lists. this man told me they videotaped him slitting the throats of villagers to post on facebook. with a room full of military and government observers, who knows what the truth is, but we could find no trace of any such video. and when we asked the men, all of them accused of violent attacks against the syrian army how they had been treated in the country's notorious prison system, they took off their shirts and said very well. these may not be real al qaeda-linked extremists but no one disputes they are out there. their official websites proudly post videos of breath taking
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cruelty. here three days ago truckers transporting gooding were executed by the roadside just for being the wrong religion. the last thing the u.n. was. wao is empower men like this. now to the latest on the urs surveillance program. according to "the new york times" and britain's "guardian" newspaper the national security agency has figured out how to break most of the security codes on the internet, those codes that scramble information that protect everything from banking transactions to e-mails. the e-mails come from documents provideoed by nsa scanning g-mail accounts and
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the labor defendant releases its information. good morning, anne-marie. all eyes will be on today's jobless report. yesterday the government said unemployment dropped by 9,000, near a five-year low. economists predict that employers added 177,000 jobs in august. the unemployment rate is expected to remain at 7.4%. a strong jobs report could spark a run on wall street. investors are worried the fed may decide to taper off the markets were up. on thursday the market gained 6 points while the nasdaq gained. tokyo's nikkei lost more than 1%. hong kong's hang seng was flat.
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the strong economic recovery keeps sending mortgage rates higher. according to freddie mac, they're almost the highest. they average 14.4%. a disappointing back-to-school season for retailers. the international council of shopping centers reports that sales rose only 3.7% last month. that's a slight increase from july but well below last august's gain of 6%. and google is asking a federal judge to dismiss a class action lawsuit. in a california court thursday, lawyers said googles practice of scanning the content of people's g-mail account is legal but the plaintiffs say it violates california's privacy laws and federal wiretapping statutes. g-mail says it scans e-mails in orders to sell ads. >> if you want access, you have to give up a little bit of privacy lately. coming up on the "morning
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and on june 22nd, 2013, i hit and killed vincent canzani. this video will act as my confession. >> prosecutors say cordle was already a suspect. he could be charged with aggravated vie hick lar homicide and if convicted get eight years in prison. the first large-scale study on the use of electronic cigarettes is out and it's found that more and more teenagers are trying them, but as dr. jon lapook tells us, it's still not clear just how dangerous e-cigarettes are. >> reporter: by 2012, nearly 2 million kids have tried the electronic cigarette. >> kids' brains may be highly susceptible to nicotine addiction, and this may be condemning those kids to electronic addiction for life. >> reporter: electronic cigarettes use a battery to use liquid nicotine and other chemicals into a liquid vapor. unlike conventional cigarettes
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that's no fire, smoke, or cancer-causing tar. this is the founder. >> think this is a great product for people who are addicted to smoking who just can't live without it. >> reporter: this year sales are projected to triple from 2012 to $1.7 billion. companies feature celebrity endorsements and offer easy online sales. the industry currently operates without food and drug administrations, but the fda says it will impose new restrictions. >> right now you can click on an ad on the internet and it says if you're over 18, it will sent you some free samples. have you seen this? >> i have, yes, and i think practically there's so many entrepreneurial companies that have cropped up, and everybody is try dog anything and everything to get this out in the market. they're trying to utilize the time between now and when the fda clamps down to get the brand out. >> because e-cigarettes are not
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regulated there's no way of knowing exactly what's in the lay pore. in 2009 they found toxic chemicals in two leading brands. dr. jon lapook, cbs news, new york. marital problems for george zimmerman. his wife of six years is filing for divorce. his wife says they've lived like gypsies in a trailer for the past year and a half and then after his trial, zimmerman reportedly packed up and left and didn't tell anyone where he was going. last week shelley pled guilty for lying during a bail hearing for her husband. straight ahead, your weather, and in sports the broncos bust out. the nfl season kicks off with a performance for the record books by peyton manning. ♪ and i'll never desert you ♪ ♪ i'll stand by you yeaaaah! yeah. so that's our loyalty program. you're automatically enrolled, and the longer you stay, the more rewards you get. great! oh! ♪ i'll stand by you
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storms passed through the denver area, but it looked like peyton manning was ready to go long before game time. he ties the nfl record throwing seven touchdown passes. that hasn't been done since 1969. denver gets revenge for last season's playoff loss to baltimore with a 49-27 win. and afterward manning said the delayed kick-off had an effect on his team. >> we broke it down in the locker room three different times. coach fox brought us together three different times. they said go back and sit down. three different times they did that. i think that did take a little momentum out of us. >> it sure didn't seem like it for manning at least, but not all the broncos were flawless. linebacker danny trevathan appears to bring an interception back down for a touchdown in the third quarter, but he throws the ball away in celebration before he crosses the goal line. that's a fumble, and the ravens
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would recover the ball. despite being up by 25 points, his coach was not pleased. in baseball the yankees and the red sox get a key four-game series started in new york. the yankees overcome a five-run deficit and had a one-run lead in the ninth inning, but closer mariano rivera can't get out of trouble. the red sox tie the game up with two outs, and in the tenth inning shane victorino drives in the go-ahead run for boston. the red sox win, 9-8. at the u.s. open defending champ andy murray is out. stanislas wawrinka takes murray out in straight sets. he'll face top seeded novak djokovic in the semifinals. djokovic has reached the semis in 14 straight grand slam tournaments. when we return, princess diana's secret. a controversial movie depicting diana's alleged love affair with a doctor makes its world debut. . [ male announcer ] may your lights always be green. [ tires screech ] ♪ and your favorite songs always playing.
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we're a month away from anor possible bart strike... andh the deadline looming -- the signs that the cooling off period has become a deep fr and... new lessons in the classroom -- the new training bay area teachers d students are getting... to stay safe. join us for kpix 5 news this morning... beginning at 4:3 good morning. it's friday, september 6-th. i'm michelle griego.,,,, here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around
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the country. washington, d.c., mostly sunny today. partly sunny in atlanta. mostly sunny in st. louis. partly sunny in denver, and seattle will see rain. a new film about the late princess diana premiered in london last night. it doesn't open here in the u.s. until october 10th, but as alphonso van marsh explains, it's already getting a lot of backlash. >> reporter: naomi watts hit london's red carpet like royalty for the world premiere of "diana." she plays the princess of wales in the new movie. >> it's the biggest risk one could possibly take and a huge challenge. >> reporter: the controversial film seems to portrays the last two years of princess die a nachlt it depicts diana and land miles and a secret love affair
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with dr. hasnat can. >> a lot of people didn't know about the love story between her and dr. hasnat khan. >> when you fall in love, you keep going despite the warning lights. >> reporter: their relationship report reportedly ended shortly before she died in a 1997 car crash along with boyfriend dodi fayed. the real one denied it and said it's based on gossip. he calls it a dramatic interpretation. >> perhaps i can show you around. i would adore that. >> reporter: diana's sons are only portrayed in one short scene. >> i'm absolutely certain william and harry would never watch this film because it would be incredibly hurtful. >> reporter: critics may accuse movie makers of cashing in on dinah's memory, but watts says she hopes the film will bring back good memories of one of the world's most famous women. alphonso van marsh, cbs news,
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london. well tonight, if all goes as plans, nasa will launch an unmanned spacecraft to investigate a mystery on the moon. ladee will focus on the lumar atmosphere and moon dust. astronauts who landed on the moon reporting seeing an odd glow on the moon's horizon. that was weird because the moon can't rye flekt light. meanwhile a private spaceship virgin galactic's space ship 2 broke the sound barrier for the second time. during the test yesterday over the mohave desert. space ship 2 flew over one and a half times the speed of sound. it hopes to fly tourists to the edge of space by next year. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," julie chen and sharon osborne from "the talk" will be in studio. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news."
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this week two this week two families met for the first time. they're linked by a tragic death that gave way to a new life. jeff pegues has the story. how long has it been since his death? >> four years, one month, and two weeks. >> mary dinardo counts the days since her husband passed away. marc dinardo was the 37-year-old father of three. the jersey city detective was gunned down during this shoot-out captured by security cameras as his s.w.a.t. team unit moved in to make an arrest. >> it was two nights before they finally took him to surgery to harvest his organs, and i listened to that heart beat. so i'm hoping to be able to hear that heart beat again. >> reporter: she's about to meet
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the man who is living because her husband died. >> it's a miracle, and i just can't wait to meet him. >> reporter: the heart now beats in don zolkiwsky's chest. what is it like having another man's heart in your body? >> it's -- you can't stop thinking about him. i've had dreams consistently about the episode with the shoot-out. >> reporter: what kind of dreams? >> the noises. and i can almost sense what it must have been like to be in a room with a gun battle going on. that had to be horrific. >> reporter: the 70-year-old knows what it's like to be in a gun battle. he earned a purple heart in vietnam. a virus destroyed his heart before he received dinardo's. >> he's like a buddy through the service. it's a bond. it's a friendship that i can't describe how the feeling is, but
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it's an intense one. >> reporter: four years ago he tried to put his feelings into words in this letter to mary dinardo. >> i can't explain it, but there is a deep sense of comfort and connection with the donor whom i've never met. saying thank you in person will lift some of the guilt that i carry as the survivor. >> hi. >> reporter: they finally met this week. the fallen hero's heart is now serving a war hero. >> you know, it may be inside somebody else's body, but that was the heart that fell in love with me. >> reporter: it is the heart that continues to beat for two families, forever connected. jeff pegues, cbs news, new providence, new jersey. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," we'll be live from st. petersburg, russia, as president
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obama rallies international support for a military strike against syria. plus, john miller will have more on new revelations about how the nsa bypasses computer encryption. and tennis legend jimmy connors joins us in the studio. that's the "cbs morning news" for this friday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. tching. tching. i'm anne-marie green. have a g day i'm anne-marie green. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com
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>> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald good morning. it's friday, september 6. i'm michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. nearly 4:30. if i look like i'm smiling, i am, because it's the weekend! >> yes! and friday.
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we have some great coming our way. temperatures starting to heat up. starting today we're going to see some much hotter temperatures, some places near 100 degrees over the weekend. we'll talk about it coming up. >> and checking your road forecast right now so far, so good over at the bay bridge toll plaza. we finally saw fewer cars behind the pay gates yesterday a little later in the morning commute so give you a breakdown of your travel times and get a check of mass transit on this friday. >> it is friday. all right, liz, thank you. we begin with some new video this morning. we're hearing reports of an explosion in a burning commercial building on pacheco boulevard in martinez across the street from that shell station. the fire started around 3:00 in a building near peach street about a quarter mile from the shell refinery. no word on what started the fire early this morning. a city of san francisco maintenance worker is accused of running over and killing a mother at a park in bernal heights. it happened at holly park. witnesses say the driver kept going after hitting

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