>> axelrod: tonight, making the case for a strike on syria. >> this is not the time to be silent spectators to slaughter. >> axelrod: secretary kerry tries to rally europe while the president readies aenously court press here at home. the olympic committee picks the host city for the 20ed 20 summer games, and the winner is. >> tokyo. gloom alphonso van marsh tells us why the japanese won the gold. are e-cigarettes the new cool? barry petersen looks at the campaign to lure the next generation of smokers. and wheels of fortune. mark strassman shows us how this entrepreneur turned an entire town around. captioning sponsored by cbs

this is the "cbs evening news." sphwhrim good evening. i'm jim axelrod with the western edition of the broadcast. the u.s. now has the backing of the european union for a "clear and strong response against the syrian government," but a group of e.u. foreign ministers meeting today about press for a delay in any airstrikes until inspectors from the united nations deliver their report, expected at the end of the coming week. all this comes as congress gets ready to vote on an attack, and president obama begins a campaign to rally support. we have three reports tonight, beginning with margaret brennan, who is traveling with secretary of state kerry. >> reporter: john kerry, the obama administration's most vocal advocate for intervention, traveled to lithuania to convince 28 european ministers that they should endorse a u.s.-led strike on syria. they did not. instead, they told secretary kerry to slow down and said the e.u. will not respond until the

u.n. issues a report on the chemical weapons attack last month in damascus that killed over 1400 people. that report is expected to take at least another week. but secretary kerry said waiting for the u.n. is a mistake. >> if we don't confront this now, i promise the people of france and europe and the americans we're going to see this issue grow, and it will be required that we confront it in some other place at some other time where there may be a greater miscalculation. >> reporter: even the french, who was the fers to say they'd join the u.s. in striking assad, will now wait to see whether the u.s. congress votes to intervene. >> margaret brennan from cbs. >> reporter: i asked the secretary why it has been so difficult to get countries to join the effort. is there anyone besides france willing to take concrete action to participate in a military action? >> ythe answer is there are a

number of countries in the double digits, who are prepared to take military action, and i have said previously, and i repeat again we have more countries prepared to take military action than we actually could use be in the kind of military action being contemplated. >> reporter: here in paris, secretary kerry will meet tomorrow with arab leaders, many of whom privately support military action, but they fear reprisals if they help join a coalition to attack a neighbor. >> axelrod: margaret brennan traveling with the secretary of state in the paris. thank you. president obama will spend the next several days making an appeal to the members of the congress and the public for support on strikes. let's bring in chief white house correspondent major garrett now. major, would the president launch a strike before the u.n. issues its report? >> reporter: jim, that's really not the key factor for the white house. the central otherwising approach of the white house is to wait for congress to decide whether

or not to authorize this attack. that's the schedule the white house is operating under. but it's not to suggest this u.n. report about the chemical weapons august 21 in syria is not important. it is and here is why. the president had a conversationed from evening with french president francois holland who announced the report would come out later this week. why does that matter to the white house? if that report comes out and builds greater international support after the senate authorized military strikes, which the white house believes it will do, the white house also believe that could give it fresh moment towm win that uphill struggle for the authorization vote in the house. >> axelrod: what can we expect to see from the white house as the lobbying effort picks up steam? >> lots of private lobbying by telephone calls, and lots of public lobbying. by phone calls, the president made them last night, talking to bicamera members of the house, republicanrepublicans and democ. john kerry, the secretary of state, chuck hagee, the defense

secretary. the president will give six interviews, three major networkes, two capable networks, plus pbs plus an address to the nation on tuesday. >> axelrod: major garrett at the white house, thank you. and you can see scott pelley's enterview with president obama on monday's cbs evening news. joining us now is clarissa ward who is inside syria this week talking with rebel commanders. she is reporting for us tonight from the turkish side of the border with syria. clarisa, what are they telling you about the the possibility of u.s. strike? >> reporter: the rebel commanders told us they want the strikes to happen and they want them to happen soon. their concern is the longer the delay, the more time president assad has to move things around, and they're also concerned, they told us, that if the strikes rbt severe, they might have a counter-productive effect, in essence, doing little to diminish assad's ability to kill

butangering him enough where he may try to launch retaliatory attacks against the syrian people. >> axelrod: what is the rebels' think about how they might be able to capitalize after the strikes occur? >> reporter: well, the rebels are still fundamentally fractured and disorganized, and there's no real coordination going on between the u.s. military and the rebels so it's difficult to see how they can plan and major operations in advance. but certainly, one those strikes happen, if they do harn the rebels plan to go in and try to take control of any strategic targets, such as airbases, that the u.s. might hit. but, of course, if assad's air force is up in the skies the next day dropping bombs again, it's very unlikely that they will be able to hold on to those targets. >> axelrod: clarissa ward reporting for us tonight from the syrian-turkish border. thank you. we now know where the 2020 summer olympic games will be held. three cities were in the running when the day began, tokyo, istanbul, and madrid.

alphonso van marsh tells us who got the gold. >> the international olympic committee-- ... >> reporter: it was a neck-to-neck race for the two finalist. >> of the 22nd olympiad in 2020 are awarded to the city of... tokyo. >> reporter: now, tokyo celebrates news it will host the 2020 summer olympic games. tokyo was a front-runner, and already has its infrastructure complete, but this olympic vote was about more than stadiums and a swimming pool. it was about overcoming fear. new reports this week about radiation leaks from japan's fukushima nuclear power plant, seemed like they could jeopardize the billed bid, but japan's prime minister made a strong case for his recovering country. >> let me assure you that the situation is under control. >> reporter: japan also made

the case that none of its athletes has failed a drug test at an olympics or paralympics. if turk hewon, it would have been the first majority muslim nation to host the games. the problem for istanbul was the ongoing crisis in neighboring syria, as well as turkey's own crackdown on antigovernment protests. madrid lost out earlier today in the first round of voting. spain's crown for instance philippe, an olympic medalist himself, said his country needed an economic boost and would host the game on a reasonable budget. >> i see it as an opportunity. >> reporter: that wasn't enough. ma. alphonso van marsh, cbs news, london. >> axelrod: next wednesday marks the 12th anniversary of the september 11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 americans. by now, the 9/11 museum was supposed to have opened at the site of the world trade center.

but as terrell brown reports, the museum is still months away from completion. >> reporter: seven stories under the 9/11 memorial is the 9/11 museum you still can't visit. >> they think this is probably most complicated construction project that's ever been undertaken-- at least it's certainly up there. >> reporter: joe daniels is president of the 9/11 memorial and museum foundation. after years of delays, he promises the museum will be ready next spring. the project wasn't supposed to take this long. there were financial disputes with the agency that owns the land and is overseeing construction. that had to be coordinated on a site with new towrkz a new train station, and a memorial with millions of visitors. when construction stalled last year, some 9/11 families spoke out. >> the vast majority of us that i have spoken to or heard from are disgusted. >> reporter: now renderings are becoming a reality. giant still tridents that held up the twin towers, a staircase

that hundreds of survivors used to escape the attack, the last steel column removed after a nine-month cleanup. >> this was put in place in the late 60s when the original trade center was built. >> reporter: this was the base of the south tower, visible at bedrock. >> i put us in the 75% there stage, although this last 25% is some of the most difficult work, which is the installation of the exhibitory itself. >> reporter: tom hennes is lead exhibit designer, putting an emphasis on the interactive. >> it's a piece that people will see at the end of the exhibit experience. >> reporter: visitors can express their feelings at the end of their tour. >> if i'm standing in the museum and i see this, what am i looking at? >> so this is actually projection. you're actually seeing in real time what people are writing with. >> reporter: they will be able to see faces for all the names on the memorial, and of the terrorists. will they see osama bin laden? >> certainly in this space. no one will leave here without

knowing who did this to us, including bin laden as the head of al qaeda. >> reporter: the museum and memorial cost $700 million to build. while daniel says the memorial will always remain free, the plan is to charge admission to the museum. terrell brown, cbs news, new york. >> axelrod: later, nasa launches a rocket to the moon with much of the east coast looking on. and this man's online video may help put him away for a long time. those stories when the cbs evening news continues. there are times it feels like

>> axelrod: a video shot in ohio and posted online is attracting a lot of attention. in it, a man admits driving drunk and caution a deadly accident. as don dahler tells us, the

admission of the guilt came before the man had even been charged with a crime. >> reporter: it begins with a somber declaration over a black screen. >> i killed a man. >> reporter: then an obscured face appears. >> i was out with some friends. we were all drinking really heavily. >> reporter: in a digitally altered voice, he describes driving drunk and a fatal accident. this is where the video enters unchartered territory, even for the internet. he says a lawyer told him he could beat the d.u.i. charge. >> i won't go down that path. my name is matthew cordle. and on june 22, 2013, i hit and killed vincent canzani. this video acts as my confession. >> i have never seen one like this before, i'll tell you that. >> reporter: the confession took frank lip county prosecutor ron o'brien by surprise. cordle was already the prime suspect.

he was allegedly found injured at the scene of the accident and test positive for alcohol. o'brien watched the confession three times. >> it was compelling piece of video. >> reporter: steve crain was a friend of the 61-year-old victim. >> this is the right thing to do, and i think that's the way vince would look at it. in fact, i think vince would be proud of that young man. >> reporter: to get his message out, cordle chose the web site "because i said i would" created by alex sheen. how did the video actually come to your site? >> i actually helped matthew cordle film this confession video. he was looking fair way to reach people with a message of not drinking and driving, and not making the same excuses that he made in his life. >> reporter: cordle didn't tell his attorney about the video. >> i have never seen anything like this, and i doubt i will ever see anything like this again. >> reporter: he says cordle will plead guilty. the maximum penalty is eight years in prison. >> i'm willing to take that

sentence for just one reason, and that reason so i can pass this message on to you. i'm begging you, please, don't drink and drive. >> reporter: charges could be filed as early as monday. don dahler, cbs news, new york. >> axelrod: we have a recall to tell bu. johnson & johnson is recalling 200,000 bottles of motrin infant drops original berry flavor. the worry is they could contain tiny plastic particles. j&j has made about 40 recalls since 2009. next up, e-cigarettes and the marketing images being used to entice new users.

>> axelrod: the centers for disease control reported this week that nearly two million middle and high school students have tried electronic cigarettes. public health vacation worry marketing campaigns could push those numbers even higher. here's parry peterson. >> it's time smoking changed forever. >> reporter: the tv commercial now being test marketed in colorado is something new that is so old it hasn't been seen in more than 40 years-- a tv commercial for cigarettes. >> bel air has the clean difference in taste. >> reporter: those were days of smoking jetsetters as trendsetters. the trend now is high-tech for a high-tech product, electronic cigarettes, suggesting they are

says because they're tobacco free. a battery heat a nicotine and water capsule, inhaling the water vapor, called "vapicturing" delivers the nicotine high and sales are heading for a high as well, projected at $1.7 billion this year air, boon as regular cigarettes head for a bust. >> you're seeing approximately 4% drop in cigarette sales. the sales of electronic cigarettes have doubled. i think the industry anticipates it going even further than that. >> reporter: marco manages a shop called smoker friendly selling e-cigarettes in various flavors. >> cinnamon, similar to your hot to mali, red hot type flavors, and the fundamental fruits, grape, beat. >> reporter: chocolate? >> haven't seen a chocolate yet. >> so they're selling. >> it certainly looks like like it.

>> stephanie works for the state of colorado trying to keep kids off cigarettes and the ads they are pushed as appealing she finds appalling. >> it is surprising to me that the tobacco industry can take a product that is addictive, that basically puts a monkey on your back and market it as something that promotes freedom. >> reporter: the f.d.a. is studying the new e-cigarettes but new regulations could be months or years away, time, say critics, for millions to become the new high-tech generation of customers who are big tobacco. barry petersen, cbs news, denver. >> axelrod: nasa launched an unmanned rocket to the moon last night from the coast of virginia this time rather than from cape canaveral in florida. the brilliant arc of its flight was captured by time-lapse photography as far away as washington, d.c. and midtown manhattan. still ahead, bikes from bamboo. and a reversal of fortune for a struggling american town.

>> axelrod: we close tonight with a look at a woman determined to be part of the solution and not the problem. her town was overrun by wild bamboo, of all things, and her local economy was on the skids. mark strassman shows us what she

did. >> reporter: pam dorr rode into greensboro, alabama when its main street was on life support. even the catfish had moved on. >> 75% of the businesses downtown were vacant or abandoned. >> reporter: but dorr has a special gift using whatever is lying around to build possibility. so this is bamboo. >> this is bamboo. it's an engineered bamboo tube in a hex shape lined with carbon fiber. >> reporter: wild bamboo was a local nuisance. and this stuff grows all over. >> everywhere. and it turns out it's great for billion bikes. >> reporter: but until you came look, it was just an announce. >> no one liked it. ythere was a lot of complaining about bamboo. >> reporter: in 2008 she opened a bamboo bike business. how much of a learning curve was that? >> it was a long learning curve. it takes a while to figure out how to cure bamboo properly and build bikes that are going to last. >> reporter: hero bikes has gone global. adam fowler manages 24 people in what was an abandoned building. >> we sell to japan, france,

belgium, germany, spainue name it, we've sent it. >> reporter: surprising? >> i would say yes. >> reporter: dorr, a designer with victoria's secret in san francisco, visited greensboro in 2003, loved it and never left. her nonprofit development group called hero has become this community's one-woman stimulus package. she baked this pie business from scratch with a few local recipes. where did you get the oven? >> we found the first ofnen a dumpster. >> reporter: a dumpster? >> yeah, everything in the pie shop was free or found. >> reporter: most people think to themselves, okay i need a business plan. i need investors. and you had none of that. >> we didn't need it because we had pie. >> reporter: pie lab now takes in $25,000 a month and helped get 24-year-old nikita pelley off welfare. >> i can provide a good living for my family. >> reporter: dorr has created 11 small businesses and 50 new

jobs, $15 million in profits since 2006 have built affordable housing for hundred of people in seven counties. it's almost as though wherever you look, you found an opportunity. >> it's amazing, yeah. there's-- i have all kind of ideas to do more. >> reporter: what was it that you discovered about yourself once you realized you could do it? >> that there's a lot to do, yeah. >> reporter: dorr has a new business idea-- quilts, sewing together patches of new life. mark strassman, cbs news, greensboro, alabama. >> axelrod: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. later on cbs, two editions of "48 hours." for now, i'm jim axelrod in new york. for all of us here at cbs news, thanks for joining us and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

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