coming up the debate on capitol hill continues over a potential u.s. strike on syria this while the war torn nation of syria remains in a growing state of chaos the latest updates ahead and the california state senate overwhelmingly votes to reject indefinite detention in the meantime the highest court in the nation is considering hearing a lawsuit challenging the n.d.a. more on that coming up and it's been months since the deadly fertilizer plant explosion in west texas and now five other facilities storing the same chemical that caused the deadly blast have turned away the state fire marshal state fire marshal himself tells us more and tonight show.

it's wednesday september fourth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm sam sax and you're watching our t.v. and we begin in stockholm sweden where today president obama was asked to again make the case for military strikes in syria describe the dynamic to be a nobel peace price winner and getting ready to attack syria i would refer you to the speech that i gave. when i received the nobel prize. and i think i started the speech by saying that compared to previous recipients i was certainly on worthy the question though that all of us face not just me. our citizens face not just political leaders is at what point do we say we need to confront actions that. are

violating our common humanity meanwhile the president's plans for congress to approve military strikes are on raveling on tuesday night the senate foreign relations committee released its strapped of an authorization for force in syria it narrows the much broader authorization submitted to congress by the white house over the weekend senate plan imposes a sixty day limit on any military operations in syria and it explicitly forbids deployment of u.s. troops on the ground in syria and earlier this afternoon the senate foreign relations committee passed their resolution and at ten to seven vote the next step is to piece together sixty votes to move the resolution forward and hold a full vote in the senate on it next week but then it goes to the house of representatives where its prospects are dim or today the house foreign relations committee stage hearing two on syria summoning secretary of state john kerry

defense secretary chuck hagel and chairman of the joint chiefs general martin dempsey to the hill for the second day in a row to make the case for u.s. intervention and they faced off against some skeptical lawmakers that this will not stop the butchering in the killing that takes place over there so what is the purpose what is the end game here where is the imminent danger to the united states i have spoken to hundreds of constituents this represents about three hundred e-mails that moffat's has gotten not a one not a one member in my district in south carolina or the e-mails of people that have contacted my office say go to syria and fight this regime so far most members of the house who have taken a stance on syria are opposed to military strikes r.t. was on the hill and caught up with some members of the house foreign relations committee and this is what they had to say. you got out had it on the on the rebel

side you've got hezbollah which is a terrorist group on the syrian side you've got two terrorist groups fighting each other and we want to get involved in this every time i hear this administration say this is going to be clear targeted and concise and brief the conversation always then tends to steer into. in some way shape or form we're going to support opposition what that signifies to me is we're going to get dragged into a civil war that we have no business in doing the u.n. card charter is quite clear about this the u.n. charter for bids one country attacking another country except under the auspices of international organizations or because of treaties neither one of which applies here that's where i become very but very tepid a unilateral response it is a multinational international problem and it seems to me that the most optimal solution would be the response in that regard we have absolutely no guarantee it won't expand no guarantee of peace in the region a lot of american money spent some american blood maybe american lives and i'm very

concerned we have no guarantees that will be successful and one word we've heard used by the president again and again when discussing military options in syria is the word proportional as in there needs to be a proportional response to syrian president bashar al assad's allegedly use of chemical weapons but what exactly does a proportional u.s. response mean especially when syria hasn't actually attacked the u.s. well arty's liz wall has more. one. over one hundred thousand dead and the bloody syrian civil war a chemical attack blamed on the assad government appears to be a rad lie in the military plan that has been developed by our joint chiefs and that i believe is appropriate is proportional it is limited in this case the administration sees proportional as limited intervention through airstrikes no boots on the ground with the goal of deterring assad from using chemical weapons

regime change according to the administration is not the goal if it is arrogant enough and i would say foolish enough to retaliate to the consequences of his own criminal activity. the united states and our allies have ample ways to make him regret that decision the call for action in syria comes two years after a multi-state military intervention in libya the united states and british forces fired dozens of cruise missiles at the north african country coalition forces and force a no fly zone this all in an effort to crack down on libyan leader moammar gadhafi there's some things that a no fly zone can do. in terms of air traffic. and things that it can't do in terms of low low flying helicopter. activity for example the operation aided the rebels and destroyed key targets here libyan rebels rest in the bed of the ousted leader's

palace international intervention lasted until the gruesome death of the longtime libyan leader oh oh oh oh oh. oh. oh in addition to libya the calls for military involvement in syria have prompted fears of another ordeal like iraq but full fledged invasion lasted for nearly a decade resulted in hundreds of thousands of iraqi deaths and over four thousand american deaths well past conflicts show that military intervention is not a guarantee for peace and democracy the world has seen that when intervention adds violence remains a part of daily life as the country struggles to pick up the pieces that's perhaps why most u.s. citizens now are weary of getting involved in another conflict and washington live

all are taking. the now onto some news regarding indefinite detention this week the california state senate unanimously voted thirty seven to zero to reject the federal government's indefinite detention powers prescribe by the national defense authorization act. n.d.a. nearly two years ago the california measure reads quote it is the policy of the state to refuse to provide material support for or to participate in any way with the implementation within the state of any federal law that purports to authorize indefinite detention of a person within california the measure was previously passed by the california state assembly all timidly if the measure is signed into law by california governor jerry brown it would make it a lot more difficult for the federal government to use its indefinite detention powers at least in the state of california now elsewhere the main plaintiffs in this long legal battle against the n.b.a.'s indefinite detention provisions are

planning to file paperwork in the coming days to have their case heard before the united states supreme court this would be the last remaining legal challenge available to critics of indefinite detention after a u.s. court of appeals ruled last year that plaintiffs a lack standing to challenge the law for the latest on this fight i was joined earlier by tendering bolen founder of revolution truth in a plaintiff in this n.b.a. case and i started off by asking her how effective this california measure could be if it signed into law curtailing the government's indefinite detention powers. well it's a great question and i have a two part answer the first says it's effective just in that all these groups have come together and congress is taking it seriously so. you know i think that that helps move move us down to that and go a little closer to really know looking at the n.b.a. it's also about a full of loopholes and the most significantly loophole that i thought was an over

reliance on corpus maybe a program as a measure of last resort so much to be indefinitely detained and held for a long time before the government actually honors p.b.'s corpus that could be time fifteen twenty years or so is kind of meaning that and the issue with the n.p.a. is the suspension of due process all of our rights not just against corpus. is good and that well let's move on from the other avenues you guys are sort of working here and that is through a supreme court to hear your case what are you hoping to hear from the high court in response. well first of all that they take the case they don't have to it's a little bit worrisome because as we've seen the judiciary even all the way up to the supreme court has tended to defer to the executive on it while we're in the war on terror so they don't have to take the case they could say that this is all settled this is the international laws of war and this is what congress decided we're not touching it we have obviously they didn't take the case and that they take the constitutional issue seriously there were two issues we brought forth the

first and fifth amendment. free speech freedom of association and due process we are a really significant really important questions all along the road as you know last year we won and even though people court agree that we raised very very tricky questions so the supreme court ought to take this case many lawsuits against the government spying on americans have been tossed out after courts ruled that they didn't have standing since they couldn't prove they were actually spied on that's now changed in light of n.s.a. revelations we'll probably see a lot more lawsuits to come out what new information may come the why what sort of action might be taken by the government that could help your case and give plaintiffs against india is standing at the appeals court so they didn't have. you know that's such a great question and i'm glad you asked that as you know chris hedges also was part of the clapper case one of the journalists that ailes and they lost on standing grounds precisely what you describe they couldn't prove that they were being spied

on well now we can't so you know it's a roundabout thing but they can affect our case positively and that the government can quite easily square him out of this and say when you can't prove anything thing you have no standing in our case it's really really absurd we were denied standing because you have to be indefinitely detained before you could have founding well some of the deputy detained there secretly almost and secretly arrested and they are they're held secretly somewhere we don't know where they are tonight absent through an attorney no phone calls the family or friends and it's legal now to hold them for as long as this. vermette wishes there's no way that you can find the people so you know absurdity them bound and hopefully we're going to continue to get judges like judge johnson catherine forrest who really can see this all out assault on the u.s. constitution and start to roll it back moving on from state governments to the supreme court to now congress which is working on a new n.d.a. right now is there an opportunity during that process to rein in these powers what

should people know during this coming to pay. well you know there are several center senators and congressmen and women who are really fighting to reopen but their efforts are being rejected at every turn people in both the democrat airing the democratic and republican parties are halting them and their track and rejecting the amendment. no we applied my friends and colleagues who are writing this in the in congress just like review those who are writing help orientate state why no vacation are accurate and i think what needs to happen though is every one of us sort of has that carries here we need to go and it's broken institutions broken due to due to sherry whatnot and politics but not so we need to fight on every france and make a rational right matters but right now is looking rather pessimistic it will should be an interesting few months ahead i was tendering bolen founder of revolutionary revolution truth and in india a plaintive thank you thank you and moving on to the latest leak coming from edward

snowden according to a top secret intelligence report outlined by the washington post al qaeda is fever slee trying to deploy a counter drone strategy the report titled threats to unmanned aerial vehicles includes dozens of intelligence assessments dating back to two thousand and six exposing a number of methods used by al qaeda to down u.s. drones including jamming g.p.s. signals blocking infrared tags used to pinpoint targets using observation balloons and even using hobby airplanes also describes al qaida attempts to recruit more engineers and technicians to specifically focus on countered drone operations but the intelligence community noted that they are confident that al qaeda quote lacks the technical knowledge to successfully deploy a counter drone strike system though they cautioned that should they effectively

create a counter drone sharjah that it would be quote highly disruptive for u.s. operations in afghanistan and pakistan and finally the report noted that al qaeda is also focused on deal of drone strikes by taking advantage of growing public outrage toward drone warfare and in response the intelligence community wondered whether or not they are losing the battle of public opinion when it comes. the drones and one suggestion to turn the tide was to stop using the term drone strike and start using the term lethal u.a.b. operations. being on last month chelsea manning was sentenced to thirty five years in prison for leaking classified military and diplomatic documents while she served in iraq as an intelligence analyst in the army in two thousand and ten and he is now asking president obama for a pardon on tuesday her lawyer david coombs officially submitted a petition for pardon commutation of sentence to the justice department and president obama in it many claim she acted out of love her country and

a sense of duty to others anticipating such a request the white house announced last month that it won't it will consider a pardon for manning just as they would for anyone else but given how aggressive the white house and department of justice have pursued leakers of confidential information including using the espionage act against more people than any other presidential administration in history combined it's unlikely many will find much sympathy in the oval office. still ahead on our team who can forget that powerful plant explosion in west texas that state's fire marshal wants to prevent similar tragedies but there are major hurdles standing in the way we'll talk to him next to the bridge. that i think. it was like well if you go did you know the price is the only industry specifically

mention in the constitution so i think that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy right now versus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the quote for the takeover of our government and i was proud that a girl we've been hijacked a lie handful of trans national corporations that will profit by the story that our founding fathers. once it's all just my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem trucks rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america if i ever feel ready to join the movement then welcome to the big picture. but. there are

a. very sorry to take a. chance again. like that that had that with that arabic there. that i think. it. was one. of the. after the massive west texas fertilizer plant explosion earlier this year you would think it would be a top priority in texas to make sure something similar doesn't happen again but it might happen again this is the explosion in five different facilities in texas

going to large quantities of the same sort of fertilizer that sparked the explosion at the west facility have turned away state fire marshal inspectors you see in texas there is no state fire code and fire marshals a lack the ability to force inspections on businesses or facilities that refuse to cooperate so is this hands off lax regulation environment putting the safety of many texans at risk to answer that question i was joined earlier by texas state fire marshal chris camille it and i started by asking him about the inspection process at these fertilizer plants. well of the sixty two inspections that we've completed these are voluntary inspections we like that clear as you say there's not a statewide fire code and we were questioning permission to do a code inspection to see how that facility. compares to the fire

code and. by not want to come on the property now since then one of them has changed. and we have fact we have responsiveness back to them today got here so the vast majority of plants are being inspected just these five and now now for what might be a reason for these plants to turn you away that you know wouldn't be a safety issue i guess what we're hoping it's not a safety issue begs the question of why they louse was it a miscommunication on our part or what whatever it was we want to make sure we clear that up and we sent them a letter stating the best practices for storage of ammonium nitrate and some other information and just will make sure their release where that. i said we're not forcing the issue because there's no we don't have any authority to force the issue but certainly we encourage them and there's been a lot of media coverage on the spy facilities and again one have already changed

their mind and i have a meeting potentially this friday with another entity that may allow some on the property as well. are you concerned by your lack of authority to force these inspections and if there are these plans that are refusing these inspections can you say with confidence that what happened at west won't happen again well no i cannot say that with confidence also we have seen their facilities. is a policy issue that has to be termed by the legislature that's a statue that have to be. so take that ability to have a statewide bar code that's not in present state law currently and we'll see what the legislature the homeland security and public safety committee is reviewing all the issues with the less the investigation itself as well as the aftermath of best practices and and to their credit they want to make sure that these businesses are

aware of the best practices money nitrates and the various regulatory issues amongst various state agencies as well as federal all being reviewed simultaneously the presence is she does equitable order on the federal government to review how such is a west occurred and all other any gaps in the regulatory requirements and so we're all working collectively together and certainly the texas legislature the house homeland security committee. has us looking at a number of things we're creating a map as well to help citizens know where these facilities are in the state. all that'll be completed by november so there is a lot of activity going on and certainly this will help out a help in the policy terminations to say where we go forward but certainly i would give a lot of credit to homeland security committee for these various charges that we are working on right now in the state fire marshal's office because certainly we

all not one another west to occur is to tragically between lives lost on a million dollars worth of property that you know there's no doubt there's things can be done better and we're all working collectively to achieve that goal after west you know we learned of these major gaps these holes in sort of the federal regulation framework care of of inspectors i think the plant was and inspected it until like mid one nine hundred eighty s. have been inspected in and it's just simply impossible for federal inspectors to go around and look at every plant given the staffing and funding issues so it's it relies on these on the state inspectors here at texas given until there's a legislative fix that allows all of these facilities to be inspected is this a public safety issue. well we're working to minimize that right now hence doing all these sponsoring inspections state by marc klaas has agreed to do annual

voluntary inspections as i stated to provide feedback to these various. entities that have ten thousand pounds or more money nitrate to make sure they are where the best practices ballet sions the fire code that we alert them to that and strongly encourage them to make those fixes challenging this league say from our office park sex farm insurance and there are some other things that they are insurance commissioners looking at during the interim study of this. review of wes before going to two thousand fifteen session with ledger comes back and we'll have a lot of. answers and feedback of what we think should be done and be ultimately up to the legislature charmin it will be just an answer we'll keep an eye on what goes on there chris clearly texas state fire marshal thank you thank you for sharing your time. exploding wells in the atlantic ocean well that was the scene more than

thirty years ago as the british navy turned its torpedoes on whales mistaken in for enemy submarines during the falklands war recently published diaries belonging to crew members at the time shed light on this previously untold story according to the plymouth herald two of the three whale casualties came by way of a torpedo fired from an anti submarine for it with the fitting name of the h.m.s. brilliant the third whale was taken out by the ship's helicopter the british ministry of defense explained what the whale of a mistake was by saying that cerner sonar equipment at the time was not very advanced and was often mistaken by whale signals so captain ahab each your heart out. in the modern digital world a growing part of the economy relies upon the net for a variety of businesses this can range from the latest scientific research to many

online games but even with the many new services gained new problems have also come up in how some people interact with the internet for more on that the residents laurie harkness. will talk about physical base math in a way that's positive going to vince's i'm going to get. one so fitness on the other hand is treated behind same full closed doors no one brags about going to see that they're. so new mental issues just keep up. case in point internet addiction it's

a real thing and it's becoming more and more pervasive here in the u.s. a new inpatient treatment program for internet addiction just opened up in a pennsylvania hospital it's a voluntary ten day for a gram that costs fourteen thousand dollars. patients undergo a digital detox where they're cut off from the internet and computer use for seventy two hours founder dr kimberly young said that one of her out patients undergoing detox and resorted to shoeing styrofoam cups and punching a wall to deal with his internet withdrawal that's how serious it is. americans are not alone with this new addiction either according to a recent government study in japan half a million japanese twelve to eighteen year olds are pathologically addicted to the internet this addiction has caused problems with sleeping and depression and has even caused physical issues like deep vein thrombosis in south korea internet

addiction has been declared an official public health crisis that two people have died there after marathon computer gaming sessions a married couple was so addicted to being online that they left their infant daughter to starve to death and shine a labeled internet addiction as an official disorder way back in two thousand and eight before smartphones even took up. according to another doctor at the addiction facility in pennsylvania most people with a severe internet addiction have some other type of undiagnosed yet or disorder or personality problems that's the case with any addiction and many mental health issues and that's why after patients detox they undergo a thorough psychological evaluation and that's the bottom line until we acknowledge that mental fitness is as important if not more. so as physical fitness we'll just keep finding some of those shiny new toy or drug to get addicted to and

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