good morning. i'm donita meyer. >> and i'm anthony mason. here's a few of the stories we'll be backing at. president obama returns home from the g-20 summit determined to win support for military action against syria. his plan to address the nation and new details on what the strike would entail. a violent crime spree in tampa ends in a gun battle with police. details on a night of terror that led to bullets flying on the highway. dennis rodman returns from north korea. what he didn't ask of that country's leader and the profane words he has for president obama. and the world of food through a different lens. one photographer's goal of

showing us another angle of what we eat. all that and much more on "cbs this morning," saturday, september 7th, 2013. and good morning. welcome to the weekend. we also have a terrific lineup of guests for you here this morning including alan alda. we'll take a look back at his 11-year run on "m.a.s.h." and give you a preview of his brainy new tv show. then an award-winning chef who presides over one of new york's best restaurants. singer jimmy webb will perform right here in studio 57. we begin with the ongoing debate of military action against syria. president obama is back at home at the white house after the g-20 summit in russia. >> now president obama will prepare a speech in which he'll try to convince congress.

jeff is at the white house with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the president left russia without the broad support for military action that he was looking for, and so this speech on tuesday from the white house becomes critically important for his administration with growing opposition to military action in syria. the president returned to the white house after a trip to russia that was dominated by his effort to line up support for military action in syria. he left the g-20 economic summit with 11 nations condemning the august 21st chemical attack but stopping short of calling for a military response. the president acknowledged the obstacles in front of him. >> there are a number of countries that just as a matter of principle believe that if military action is to be taken, it needs to go through the u.n. security council. >> reporter: the path ahead isn't any easier in congress. both democrats and republicans are facing a deluge of sentiment against getting involved in syria. >> you and the rest of congress

including the president of the united states have went against the will of your people. >> reporter: town hall meetings have been heated. arizona senator john mccain who supports military action is getting an earful from constituents. >> you don't care about these people, that's fine with me, ma'am. >> reporter: on friday the senate foreign relations committee officially filed a resolution authorizing military force against syria. it's set to be voted on next week. >> it's a hard sell, but it's something i believe in. >> reporter: meanwhile, the president continues to press his case against bashar al assad's regime. >> what i've been emphasizing and will continue to stress is that the assad regime's brazen use of chemical weapons isn't just a syrian tragedy. it's a threat to global peace and security. >> reporter: russian president vladimir putin was the host of the g-20 summit in st. petersburg, russia. he and the president met for about 20 minutes. we're told the meeting was cordial, but they still have their differences. after the summit, putin remains against military strikes in

syria. anthony? >> thanks, jeff. activists opposed to the syrian government say syrian forces killed 16 people, mostly rebels, near damascus this morning. since the civil war began two years ago, the rebels have proved tore a formidable force against the syrian army. so much so that the assad regime is using so-called citizen soldiers to beef up its front lines. elizabeth palmer is the only american network reporter inside syria. she reports. >> reporter: as the fighting here spreads the length and breadth of the country, the syrian military was getting badly overstretched, so the government decided to pour some serious resources into creating the national defense force, which is now 100,000 strong. they may look like soldiers and fight like soldiers, but actually, they're civilians, supplied with guns and bullets by the syrian government. these four men are all proud

supporters of president bashar al assad, the main qualification for joining the national defense force. two years ago they were working in this damascus neighborhood called tatamon, but the war shattered their livelihood, so they traded unemployment for a crisp uniform and a job on the front line. so the bullet went in here and came out here. wow. the national defense force has the full support of syria's professional army. just last week unable to dislodge a sniper, they called for and got backup from the military's big guns. they've been assigned a full-time military liaison officer, too. he didn't want his face shown on camera, but he did lead us into his bullet-scarred command post where he told us the defense force fighters with their local knowledge are critical and have top political backing >> it was supported from the high level because it contains

soldiers from the local inhabitants protecting their homes, so support them as much as we can, you can. >> reporter: that support has given the fighters huge confidence. and none of them think america will attack. why do you think they won't? "well, it would be the start of world war iii," he told me, "and i think the u.s. must be thinking hard about that." if the u.s. does go ahead and attack, though, and that attack provokes an all-out assault on damascus and other cities, it would be the men from the national defense force along with the army who would be fighting back. for "cbs this morning saturday," i'm elizabeth palmer in damascus. for more on syria we turn to president of plowshares fund and author of "nuclear nightmares." he's an expert on weapons of mass destruction. he's in our washington bureau. joe, good morning.

>> good morning, sir. >> joe, we saw the president just returning from the g-20 summit and trying to gather international support for an attack on syria. how important is it for the president to have an international coalition of some kind here? >> well, the president is gathering support. the question is is it enough and will it come in time? he needs international validation for this case. clearly the american public is very skeptical about going to war. we have something of an iraq syndrome. the american public feels they were tricked into going into an unnecessary war, and they're very reluctant to do it again anywhere in the middle east for any reason, even though the case for syria is much stronger than it ever was for the iraq war. the president needs global validaters to help convince the american people. >> joe, when you see what's been happening over the past several weeks, you wonder is this a charm offensive. you see secretaries kerry and hagel on capitol hill multiple times last week. we hear about the vice president now hosting a dinner with republican senators. is that the approach?

>> that is the approach. there has to be an individual connection here between the president and his leadership and those who need to support. it has worked. you saw how he brought john mccain and senator lindsey graham over to the white house earlier this week. and they walked out keen supporters of this effort. >> joe, what do you think the effect of an attack on syria would have with u.s. relations with iran? >> well, this is the key issue here. whatever you think about whether we should or should not go, military attacks on syria, we have much larger strategic objectives in the region including iran. we want to stop iran's nuclear program. and so you have to keep that end game in mind while you're conducting these military attacks. the attacks on syria, you know, might degrade syria's military capabilities. they won't topple the regime. they won't end the threat of c.w. they won't solve your fundamental problems. only a political solution can do

that. and to get that political solution, you need all the states of the region involved including russia and iran. so you need russia to help you with syria. and you need iran to play a role in this. and you need to maintain your relations with iran for the sake of making a deal with the new iranian government that seems willing to talk to the united states in a way the previous regime wasn't. you have to balance all that. >> what do you think the role is of congress right now? does the president need their support, and if he doesn't get it, will he still follow through with this? >> absolutely needs their support. i worked in congress for nine years. when you go into the house armed services committee, the first thing you see is article 1, section 8. only the congress has the power to declare war. it's not up to the president. president obama, whatever you think of him, is doing the right thing. constitutionally, he's following the right path. right now he's betting, a roll of the dice, if you will, that

congress will back him. if congress doesn't back him, it's very difficult to see the president moving ahead. so he needs congressional authorization to conduct this attack. he needs congress behind him in order to make a deal with iran. he has a very difficult road ahead over the next couple of months. >> in washington this morning, thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. and syria will top the agenda tomorrow morning on "face the nation." bob schieffer's guests will include white house chief of staff denis mcdonough, republican mike rogers, justin ammash and elijah cummings. dennis rodman arrived at beijing this morning following his five-day visit. during that time he met with leader kim jong-un with whom he's developed a friendship. rodman angrily told reporters he didn't try to persuade him to release kenneth bae.

rodman said it's not his responsibility. >> that is obama. that is obama. ask hillary clinton. ask [ bleep ]! >> rodman also said kim asked him to speak positively about north korea when rodman returns to the u.s. now to the violent end for a policeman hunt in florida. the suspect wanted in connection with a series of home invasions and sexual assaults was discovered yesterday in tampa, but his arrest was another matter. >> reporter: after a high-speed car chase on a florida highway, police in an unmarked vehicle nudged the bumper of the red sedan driven by 24-year-old suspect charlie bates. sending the car careening across several lanes of traffic. on coming to a stop, bates immediately engaged the deputies in a shootout. >> shots fired. shots fired. right in front of the waffle house. >> reporter: for more than 60 seconds, bates and officers from at least three agencies exchanged fire. he was hit by several bullets

and died about an hour later. >> he wanted very badly to hurt someone. so it wasn't going to go any further than this. >> reporter: it was a dramatic end to a crime spree that began the night before when bates allegedly forced himself into an apartment where eight university of south florida students had gathered to watch a football game. >> he sexually battered four females who were there. the males who were there were bound up. shortly after that, he fled. he went to another location. >> reporter: investigators say bates entered two more homes at gunpoint, including another party where he forced more than 20 people into a bedroom. >> i was very sure that some of us in the room were going to die. >> reporter: officers spent more than 12 hours on friday searching for bates. with deputies going door to door at the apartment complexes he targeted and conducting searches of cars driving in the area. the hunt ended shortly after he

was spotted driving theed sedan, leading to the dramatic shootout where he was killed. aaron hernandez is being held without bail in a massachusetts jail. >> sir, how do you plead? >> not guilty. >> hernandez said "not guilty" six times yesterday. he is charged with first-degree murder and other charges in the shooting death last june of semiprofootball player odin lloyd. cbs legal analyst ricki klieman is on the case. one side says the case is airtight and the other side saying everything is circumstantial. what do they actually have on hernandez? >> i think the prosecution is quite confident about what they have on hernandez. what they have is video of him going in the car, picking up lloyd who is the victim, going into a car park with lloyd,

coming out of an industrial park without lloyd. so that's powerful in and of itself. plus, you have other video surveillance after the crime of mr. hernandez with a gun. but most important is what's in the pocket of the prosecution. and that is one of the codefendants, if not both of them, may be cooperating with the prosecution. we shall see. i think both sides, again, massachusetts, grit lawyering, just the same kind of lawyering we saw in the bulger case. both sides excellent. and what they're doing is putting on their spin, as they should. >> these aren't hernandez's only troubles. there are other cases that could develop. how would those cases affect this case? >> well, the most porptd one, of course, is a double homicide that occurred in 2012 in boston. hernandez is a suspect, and certainly if that one comes to fruition, now, mr. hernandez is in big trouble, and it is said, though not proven, that the

motive for the killing of odin lloyd. >> what happens next? hernandez is being held without bail until october 9th. do you think this will go to trial? >> i do think it will go to trial. i'm very excited about looking at this on october 9th because if there is a bail hearing on october 9th, we're going to learn all of the facts that both sides seem to think that they have. so october 9th is a big day. if it's going to go to trial, it's because these lawyers believe on the defense side that they can show, just like o.j. simpson, mark chemora, ray lewis and even a lesser included for rae carruth, all cases of nfl cases which i've covered where the verdict is either a not guilty or a lesser, that's extraordinary. >> ricki klieman, thank you so much. >> you're welcome. montana's supreme court has blocked a judge from resentencing a former teacher who was ordered to serve 30 days in prison for raping a 14-year-old student who later

killed herself. he said he did not have the authority to impose a new sentence and ruled the sentence could only be changed on appeal which was launched by prosecutors this week. the judge was widely criticized for saying the victim, quote, was older than her chronological age. the latest jobs report is a mix of good news and bad. employers hired a relatively modest 169,000 new workers in august. but the unemployment rate fell to 7.3%, the lowest in nearly five years. even so, jobless americans are discouraged. the proportion of those even looking for work has dropped to the lowest level in 35 years. joining us is lauren lister, host of "hot stock minute" on yahoo! finance. lauren, good morning. >> good morning, guys. >> along with the sort of relatively disappointing number for august, we had revisions downward for the two previous months. >> yes. >> is there anything encouraging in this report? >> there are a few things. wages improved a little bit. and in general, it doesn't show us falling off a cliff. it just shows us decelerating in

terms of jobs being added. and the unemployment rate fell. it's just because more people fell out of the labor force. this doesn't change the trend that we are improving. and we're not in a recession. i mean, job gains aren't ending. but no, i mean, this isn't a great report. as one economist put it to me this week, we're bumping along the bottom of a very deep hole after falling off a cliff during the recession. >> you know, you look at job growth right now, it seems to be a lot in the lower-paying industries. >> yes. >> what does that say? >> we don't have a great, robust recovery. we saw a continuation of a trend that we have seen where a lot of these job gains are in retail. they are in restaurants. and these just aren't the kind of jobs that support a broader economic recovery. because not only can you not live on $8.80 an hour, as most walmart workers are said to make, or the average according to some organizers of the strikes, but also then you can't go out and spend money on things which helps to fuel a broader economic recovery in an economy that is said to be 70% driven by consumption. people buying things.

>> this jobs report was being looked at very closely because it was considered to be a key barometer in which way the fed would go at this point in terms of its policy. what do you think the fed sees in this report? >> well, i think the fed sees, i guess, a little less indication that the economy is ready to have their stimulus pulled out from under them. but at the same time, many analysts are saying -- and i seem to agree with this -- i hope the fed is not just looking at one report to hinge their decision upon. it's just kind of the closest to when the september meeting is where they may decide to pare back on their bond purchases a bit which have been keeping to keep interest rates low. one of the kind of consensus-building numbers that we've seen is that people think that maybe $10 billion will be taken out of the $85 billion in bonds they're buying per month. so this just kind of makes a little bit more of a question in terms of what the fed will decide later this month, but i don't think it takes the so-called taper off the table according to most people that i've been listening to. >> lauren lister, thanks so much

for being with us. >> thank you guys. well, americans are paying record prices when buying a new car or truck. the average price of a vehicle topped $31,000 last month. that's about $1,000 more than this time last year. auto industry analysts say low interest rates have less room for pricier add-ons such as high-end stereos, navigation systems and leather seats. it's been an unusually long wait for apple's legions of techno fans, but it's just about over. new products are being unveiled on tuesday. so what are we likely to see? let's ask c-net senior editor dan ackerman. good morning. >> hey, guys. >> the excitement always builds this time of year. the apple invitation read, this should brighten everyone's day. what do we think they're hinting at? >> that's what i really love. the chronological, searching for clues on them. this one had colored dots and brightens your day and matches the leaks we've seen with iphones with these colored backs.

red, green, blue, something we haven't seen before from apple. >> let's talk about the upgrades. we heard a lot about a touch-screen sensor. we've heard the possibility the screen could be bigger. what do you know? >> i think what we're looking at is probably two new types of iphones. one they're calling the iphone 5c. that's got the colors on it. so "c" for colorful and like the regular iphone 5, every other year they call it the "s" model. we've seen a gold version of that. there may be a fingerprint sensor built in which would be interesting for security. but i don't think it's going to be a major lean over last year's where they already made the screen just a little bigger. >> if we see a less expensive model, do you think there's a risk apple could water down its brand? >> that's interesting because apple rarely plays into that lower end of the market. their least expensive laptop is still $1,000. $200 for a new phone on contract if maybe you have a more plastic model that's $100, maybe there's room to get in there because you hit saturation at a point where

everyone has one. how do you expand into a new market? >> we've heard steve jobs say phones are their jobs but tvs are their hobby. what's the news about apple tv? >> that's what everyone's waiting for. the rumor's been going around for years. i don't think we'll see anything this week or even this year on it. what they may have is an update to apple tv which is a little streaming video box you plug into your tv and does all this media streaming. it's kind of a cool little stocking stuffer. >> meanwhile, samsung unveiled its galaxy smartwatch. i've seen potential apple prototypes, but samsung is here first. is this going to change this game? >> this one puckett may not be the game changer but i think that category kind of is because people get very excited about stuff you can wear, the google glasses, fitness bands everybody wears, the apple stuff. i think everyone's getting used to the idea of getting rid of kind of like a phone or tablet or something and just wearing your technology. >> you weren't very hot on this at first, dan.

>> i'm getting higher on it because i talk to people. whether you're 8 or 8 on, y0, yw what a wristwatch is. it's new and unusual. >> regardless of whenever they put out, you'll see people standing outside, ready to get their hands on the new product. >> dan ackerman, thanks. >> thank you. it is about 22 minutes after the hour, and now here is a look at the weather for your weekend. coming up, they're fast, beautiful and dangerous. competition for the america's cup starts today on san francisco bay. and a late-night nasa rocket launch dazzles sky watchers along much of the east ,,,,,,,,,,

coming up, u.s. open tennis. former pro and current analyst patrick mcenroe will join us to assess the good, bad and ugly so far including defending champ andy murray's quarterfinal defeat. what everyone's talking about and who is likely to go all the way. >> we'll be right back. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday." ,,

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come to fruition. so whether it's through my music, whether it was through our management company, flav unit, my partner, having an artist, creating ideas for them and watching them become platinum artists, that was exciting for us. it was kind of like watching, you know, your baby score the first basket type thing. when you succeed, they're great. when you take your lumps, you get up, brush op and try again. >> you have a new talk show. >> i do. >> what's the name of it? >> "the queen latifah show" on radio and cbs. >> you've had a daytime talk show before. then your friends will and jada pi pinkett smith approached you about starting the show. >> i was in london having a guinness. a van rolled up, someone jumped in, grabbed me and it was will and jada and kidnapped me and made me do this talk show.,,,,,,

football is back, but after seven months of waiting, last month's nfl season opener between the ravens and the broncos was actually delayed for 34 minutes because of lightning in the area. apparently god was, like, no tebow, no football. not going to have it. of course, the weather delay really killed a lot of the pregame hype and excitement. take a look at this. >> 10. >> 9. >> 8. >> 7. >> 6. >> 5. >> 4. >> 3. >> 2. >> 1. >> we have a 15-minute weather delay. >> kind of a party killer. kind of a buzz kill. >> no delay here. welcome to "cbs this morning saturd