and "anderson cooper 360" and wolf blitzer at 9:00 p.m. be sure to watch wolf, he's back on the air at 1:00 eastern. in fact, every afternoon at 1:00 eastern. then again at 5:00 eastern for "the situation room." >>> the secretary of state john kerry is testifying before the house armed services committee. in fact, he's doing that right now he along with the secretary of defense, chuck hagel and the chairman of the joint chiefs talking about the need for military action. all of this going on in the last 24 hours, the russian overture. secretary kerry said any plan to have the russian community take charge of chemical weapons cannot turn into a waiting game. and he talked about the stakes for the united states. >> the instant reaction of a lot of americans anywhere in our country is, whoa, we don't want to go to war again. we don't want to go to iraq. we don't want to go to afghanistan. we've seen how those turned out. i get it. and i'll speak to that in a minute. but i want to make it clear at the outset, as each of us at this table want to

president obama told cnn's wolf blitzer the u.s. is seriously considering russia's offer to remove chemical weapons from syria. the president also made a strong case for enforces the chemical weapons treaty. >> it is important for assad to understand that, you know, the chemical weapons ban, which has been in place, is one that the entire civilizeside world just about respects and observing. it's something that protects our troops, even when we're in the toughest war theaters, from being threatened by these chemical weapons. it's something that protects women and children and civilians. >>> joining us again, senate foreign relations commit aye chairman bob menendez and committee member rand paul. senator paul, again to you, do you think that the united states should be a party to the chemical weapons ban treaty? >> yes. i think one of the problems we've had and senator menendez talks about this. we've had all these votes in the security council, to me i consider them to be show votes. we know in advance i want so how would you divor

so, quote, i thought it'd be more interesting to reimagine the wolf being wolf blitzer sneaking intobeard with a baby dancing in his belly while drinking lemon flavored vodka. still gets to me. now, i don't know if you noticed in that picture there, but the lead singer of man man is wearing a custom made tunic that is emblazoned with multiple wolf blitzer heads. how do i get that was my first question? as ryan notes, it turned out gorgeous and wolf looks very handsome and devilish and might i say hungry. ladies and gentlemen, i know three things. one, if i was in charlotte, north carolina, tonight, i would be going to the chop shop to see man man on tour. two, i would steal that tunic during a sound check. three, we finally have an answer to a question that a young balloon boy poised many, many years ago as he awaited his interview with wolf blitzer. >> say hi to wolf. >> hi. >> hi, guys. >> who the hell is wolf? >> i'll tell you who wolf is, he is an enigma. that does it for us, we'll see

i'm wolf blitzer at the white house. just ahead at the top of the hour in our special report, crisis in syria, my full interview with president obama. i just finished talking with him over in the white house. you're going to see it in its entirety. that's coming up, an important interview with the president on syria options. stick around for that. >>> meanwhile, the number of no votes in congress for president obama's case for potential u.s. military strikes, that's growing, while the number of lawmakers planning to vote yes has dwindled, according to cnn's latest count. let's bring in our chief national correspondent john king over at the magic wall, breaking down the numbers for us, the voting, the potential voting, i should say. what is the latest tally? >> it's nice to see you back in that familiar spot on the north lawn there. you know the reason you're there, the reason the president is giving these interviews, the reason the president will address the nation tomorrow night, is because at the moment, he's losing wh

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president obama sits down with wolf blitzer tomorrow. at 6:00 p.m eastern on cnn. and then tuesday night he'll address the nation from the white house 9:00 p.m. eastern. i asked two of the "crossfire" hosts about the president's push and what does the president need to do to sell his idea? >> i don't think it's going to pass. i don't think it should pass. i don't think we've done enough to exhaust the diplomatic opportunities. i don't think we built a global coalition or gone to the u.n. i'm more of a dove on this but i think the president has to make a decision. right now he's not hawkish enough for the hawks who want to go in and go in for real. he is not dovish enough for the doves and sitting between the middle and fallen between the cracks. being a modern in this is hurting him. if he wants us to engage, he has to make a strong case for that and lay out a strategy to how we actually have this work out well for us and the syrian people. if he doesn't do that tuesday night, everybody goes to either the hawkish side, dovish side and he

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[crowd cheering] >> perhaps the worst part of the blitzer reportage using phrases like. >we begin to draw initial conclusions. that's semantic word for saying [bleep] i'm on until 4:00. cnn's brash on air acknowledgment they should not be doing this at all. >> what does that say if anything about a possible motive or whatever. can we begin to draw any initial conclusions. i want to alert our viewers sometimes these initial conclusions can obviously be very very wrong. >> jon: yes, yes, correct. they can be very very wrong. so don't say them outloud. if it's an urgent side of you that you have to get out, have a speculation jar. [laughter] [bleep] oh my god we're all going to die. [crowd cheering] >> jon: someone keeps reading this. who keeps reading. somebody keeps reading this. mother [bleep] really. flawplease[applause] >> jon: speculation is like a expulsion. >> if there are shoortsz shoote, if that proves to be correct that's a startling fact. >> that's a piece of information if that turn out to be accurate. >> this piece of information he please to be accurate he's

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obama himself doing a round of interviews with six major television networks, including our own wolf blitzer. that should give us a preview of his nationwide address tomorrow when he will take his case directly to the american people. >> meanwhile, syria's president is speaking to americans in a cbs interview. he says there is no evidence that he used chemical weapons against his own people. >> in other area were attacked chemically. our soldiers. they went to the hospital as casualties because of chemical weapons. but in the area where they said the government used chemical weapons, we only had video and we only have pictures and allegations. we're not there. our forces or police, our institutions don't exist. how can you talk about what happened if you don't have evidence? we're not like the american administration. we're not social media administration or government. we are the government that deal with reality when we have evidence. >> and we're going to have much more of that interview with the syrian president bashar al ass d assad. right now, live to washington. >> brianna keilar is l

i'm wolf blitzer at the united nations. you're in "the situation room." >>> it's midnight in nairobi, two and a half days since terrorists attacked an upscale shopping mall and began methodically slaughtering people inside. it's now been several hours since kenyan security forces stormed the mall. one official says some al qaeda linked gunmen may still be inside. the death toll as of now, at least 62 people. dozens of people are said to be unaccounted for. scores of people are injured. americans are among the wounded victims of the terror group al shabaab, which claims three americans took part in the attack. cnn's zain verjee is outside the mall and is joining us live. earlier, we all watched in horror, you had to duck for cover. tell our viewers what happened and what's going on right now. >> reporter: wolf, the kenyan military is insisting that they are in control of westgate mall, but i'm hearing now from two senior officials on the ground here that that is actually not the case. i'm hearing that there are several gunme

at 9:00, watch the speech with live coverage by wolf blitzer.ers morgan and wolf bring you reaction to the speech in washington, around the nation, and the world. at 10:00 on "ac 360," anderson and the panel break down the night's key moments. special live coverage all on cnn tonight, starting at 7:00 eastern with "erin burnett out front." >>> three weeks ago, more than 1,000 people were killed in syria, victims of this horrendous chemical attack. some survived, and some doctors who treated these victims are afraid to even talk about it. why? our doctor sanjay gupta has been talking with these doctors in lebanon. he'll join me live after this quick break. [ male announcer ] when you have sinus pressure and pain, you feel...squeezed. congested. beat down. crushed. as if the weight of the world is resting on your face. but sudafed gives you maximum strength sinus pressure and pain relief. so you feel free. liberated. released. decongested. open for business. [ inhales, exhales ] [ male announcer ] powerful sinus relief from the #1 pharmacist recom

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his interview with our own wolf blitzer will air at 6:00 p.m.astern time in the "situation room." >>> number three, a few days after a break-in at buckingham palace, police thought they had caught another intruder. they approached a man walking in the palace's garden and asked him to verify his identity. it turned out to be that intruder was actually prince andrew, the brother of prince charles. andrew was born in buckingham palace and still keeps his office there. >>> our joe carter has an update on the men's u.s. open final. first, a huge day in college football. here's joebleacher report. >> looks like the big house lived up to its big name. more than 115,000 fans watched michigan beat notre dame last night. by comparison the super bowl attendance record, 105,000. look at this great shot. all kinds of people out there. when ohio state comes to down the end of november, this will be a new attendance record set for those two schools. what a great way for michigan to show off to the country. they have so much pride. michigan quarterback, devon g

don't miss the president's interview with wolf blitzer tomorrow 6:00 p.m.on room." >>> in connecticut, an accident on a swing ride left 13 children injured, two seriously. the ride lost power and threw the children to the ground. one witness says he heard a big boom then a whole bunch of screaming. >>> i'm don lemon. see you back here 10:30 eastern time. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

president obama will give a few interviews on monday and he will sit down with cnn's wolf blitzer. you'll see it right here monday, 6:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn. brian todd with me now from washington. brian, intelligence complete senators have seen these clips. president obama sits down for an interview with wolf on monday. how much stronger is the president's case for strikes now that these videos are out there? >> reporter: you can only imagine it's getting stronger. and dianne feinstein makes a good case for all this. but, remember, just about every member of the house has not seen the videos yet. some members of the senate who have seen some of this evidence are still not supporting air-strikes. you have to bear all that in mind. we've been speaking with chemical weapons experts about these videos, about the reactions of these victims and some of the telltale signs they're showing here. what the experts tell us is the characteristics of these victims are very consistent with a sarin gas attack. it's important to note, according to experts we spoke with, including a former u.n

president obama spoke with wolf blitzer today. and we're going to take you inside the bomb lab. >>> and george zimmerman detained by police after his wife said he threatened her with a gun. we have the 911 call with right here. >>> good evening, everyone. i'm erin bush nit. the president backs off from a strike on syria. president obama tells cnn he's leaving the door open to averting a military strike but that the u.s. must keep up the pressure on syrian president assad. you are going to hear wolf blitzer's interview with the president in a moment. and we hear from marco rubio. did the president convince him? is he on board with this new idea? we'll hear from marco rubio. >>> and then -- >> he can turn over every single bit of his weapons in the next week. all of it. without delay and allow a full and total accounting for that. but he isn't about it do it, and it can't be done, obviously. >> he isn't about to do it and can't be done obviously, sort of walking the proposal back. it got a lot of momentum. russia, and france jumped

. >> wolf blitzer takes it over >> wolf blitzer takes it over from here. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> right now, the senate the senate is voting. this follows a 21 hour talkathon against obama care by is that right ted cruz. we're going live to capitol hill. also right now, the secretary of state john kerry, he's getting ready to meet with top diplomats. kerry discussing syria with representatives of the five permanent members of the u.n. security counsel, plus germany. we're waiting for an fbi news conference on the washington kna navy yard shooting. also about to get never before seen video that from that day over at the navy yard. we have live coverage of that coming up this hour. >> i'm wolf blitzer reporting from new york. we want to welcome our viewers in washington on capitol hill. we've been watching an epic move by the texas republican senator, ted cruz. he started his antiobama care marathon after 2:00 p.m. eastern yesterday afternoon, but now, cruz has turned over the microphone. the senate is wrapping up their vote on moving the debate ahead and a move to club, getting

wolf blitzer goes one-on-one with the president on syria.00 eastern, right here on cnn. >>> coming up next, it is hot on cnn.com right now. incredibly compelling stuff. the victims of wars that we don't see. like allison spann, who was all of 9 years young when her dad was killed in afghanistan, days later, her mom passed away. find out what happened to this young girl. her father, the first american killed in combat in afghanistan. and here she is 12 years later. allison spann, and the writer of this incredible piece on cnn.com. join me next. [ male announcer ] progress isn't about where you've been. ♪ it's about where you're going. the new ram 1500. best-in-class 25 mpg. ♪ north american truck of the year. ♪ the truck of texas. ♪ better residual value than ford and chevy. it's the fastest-growing truck brand in america. guts. glory. ram. just by talking to a helmet. it grabbed the patient's record before we even picked him up. it found out the doctor we needed was at st. anne's. wiggle your toes. [ driver ] and it got his okay on treatment

i'm wolf blitzer.ion room." >>> we could get the autopsy results of the navy yard gunman at any moment. a spokesman says the d.c. medical examiner will finish work on aaron alexis' body by the end of the day. we're also learning about bizarre markings on the gun he used in his shooting rampage. a law enforcement official telling cnn, the phrase is "better off this way" and "my elf" etched into the gun. investigators don't know what it means. they're trying to figure it out. twol days after the massacre in building 197, the evidence and the grief still very, very fresh. let's bring in joe johns. he's been looking into all of this. what are you finding out, joe? >> reporter: wolf, today, law enforcement authorities said they were still processing the multiple crime scenes inside the navy yard as the issue of who gets legitimate access to defense department installations like this one became an issue at the highest levels. almost back to business, so-called essential workers were allowed to return today t

tonight an important programming note for you, wolf blitzer our own wolf blitzer is going one on onear al assad in that interview, it will be part of that, that interview you can see tonight only on cnn at 6:00 eastern and right after that, the return of "crossfire" tonight at 6:30 eastern, we'll talk with co-hosts s.e. cup and van jones. >>> listen to this quote from one woman, it was like a black monster of lava, that's how she described a massive mudslide that made a complete mess of a neighborhood in utah. let's get to meteorologist indra petersons. she's following all of this. wow, that is really accurate, though. >> literally, sometimes you have the remnants of the tropical storms, lowrena and the pacific and monsoonal thunderstorm and combine those together. >> oh my gosh! >> it was like a black monster lava. >> reporter: this amazing cell phone video was just one of many scenes across utah, massive storms caused flooding, evacuations, power outages and mudslid mudslides. in alpine city 100 people were briefly evacuated. the national weather service reported three-quarters of

i'm wolf blitzer in washington. we're less than 90 seconds away from one of the most critical moments of the entire obama presidency. i'm told he'll say they are prepared to launch targeted and limited air strikes against syria without u.s. ground troops and not like the wars he'll say in iraq and afghanistan. he'll tell the nation that the threat of military action by the united states has already helped convince bashar al-assad to agree to give up control of the chemical weapons stockpiles. the u.s. remains skeptical but this last-minute development has already delay aed a vote in congress on use of force, a vote the president seemed likely, almost certain to lose in the house of representatives. anchors, correspondents and analysts are here to share their takes on the president's speech and how it could alter his legacy and world's perception of power. an undecided congressman is with us tonight. elijah comings of maryland. also, we'll get reaction from americans across the country that watched the president's re

i'm wolf blitzer. >>> we're just hours away from president obama's address to the nation about syria, and no doubt his speech is undergoing multiple revisions, fast changing developments unfolding right now. as the president was asking lawmakers on capitol hill to delay a vote authorizing a u.s. military strike on

wolf blitzer, thanks for joining me today.e it. >> thank you. >>> so while the president makes his case on syria, a lot of people are hoping to hear some hard evidence that president bashar al assad was, in fact, responsible, for those haunting chemical attacks. there's little doubt a chemical attack did take place, americans are really only hearing circumstantial evidence about who is to blame. cnn pentagon correspondent chris lawrence is at the pent gone to tell us more about that side of the story. good morning, chris. >> that's right, exactly, carol. u.s. intelligence officials say they don't have a smoking gun that says they have a phone call or some interceptances bashar al assad directly ordered this attack but they say their evidence is more than circumstantial. one of the things they've been showing senators behind closed doors are the videos of what happened after the attack. it's not our job to tell you how you should react to seeing this video but we should warn you that some of these images are very disturbing. th

wolf blitzer, which one do they want less? >> the senate, i thought the most interesting thing was when eric cantor cited four democratic senators who are up for re-election who are many of them in conservative states, prior of arkansas, hagan of north carolina, mary landrieu of louisiana, begich of alaska. what he was trying to do is say you know what, you four democratic senators who are up for re-election, you better be worried right now because if you vote with harry reid and the democrats, against what the house of representatives has just passed, you could be potentially in big, big trouble. so the pressure is clearly going to mount and eric cantor, the majority leader in the house of representatives, clearly signaled that. let's see what happens in the senate in the coming days. it was also interesting when they -- when he spoke about the bipartisan, when the republican spoke about the bipartisan nature of this vote. >> two democrats voted with the gop and one gop voted with the dems. >> it was basically strictly along

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>>. >>> a second day of fireworks in the obama administration's all-out push to sell members of congress on the case for military action against syria. secretary of state john kerry, defense secretary chuck hagel, and join chiefs chairman martin dempsey, all on the hot seat once again today, this time fielding very tough questions from members of the foreign affairs committee and the house of representatives. they are demanding to know more. if we start war, we invite war, do we not? i view this as un -- not just no, but something like heck no, don't get involved in this. >> mr. secretary, you said the world is watching what we are doing, but i have yet to hear some concrete things of what the world is doing. i'm fearful that it will isolate the united states. >> if the president thinks that as a matter of conscience, as a matter of policy, the best route to proceed is through the military action, but in april it was very clear, chemical weapons are ch

i now turn you over to wolf blitzer. he's right next door in "the situation room." >>> jake, thank you very much. happening now, we have breaking news. there are new details emerging of a possible u.n. resolution on syria, and a sticking point on the use of force. >>> also, the search for syria's chemical weapons. does anyone outside the bashar al assad regime know where they are right now? >>> plus, joe biden's latest off the cuff zinger. what the vice president and possible presidential candidate said about republicans. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." let's get right to the breaking news on syria. senior obama administration officials are now saying they do not expect russia to agree to include anything in a u.n. security council resolution that would trigger the use of military force in syria. that comes as talks between the secretary of state john kerry and the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov in geneva, switzerland are kicking into overdrive. our chief national security correspondent jim sciu

. >>> joining us to talk more about the changes made is david blitzer. he's chairman of the s&p 500 index committee. david, great to have you with us. you have been presiding over these chankinds of changes for long time. put it in perspective for investors, if they own it or are thinking of buying it, what does it mean? >> the stock, the pact they reacted today is no surprise. it puts stocks in the news and people respond. the reaction is typically very short-term. my guess is by the end of this week many not by this time next week, those reactions will be out and there won't be permanent changes, and i think the ones that were mentioned earlier, the permanent changes were the general movement to the market, much more than the stocks. what it really means to investors is the dow is a slightly different index, and i believe and we all believe here at s&p dow jones a much better ind index. the three stocks ha came out together were 3% of the index in terms of weight. the top stock, ibm with 9.5%. it will squeeze down to 8%. it won't be so dominant. the sm

blitzer when you had a list of questions ready to ask president obama you probably had to scrap that list because of the events of the day. >> i had 15 brilliant questions ready to go. and they were all assuming there was going to be a crisis and vote and u.s. air strikes on targets in seyria and during th course of the day there is a realistic chance there could be a diplomatic solution to avert the need for military strikes and avert the vote that would authorize military force. >> you had to take in the events of the day and craft a different set of questions and give them to the president. >> we did. during the course of the day as we saw what was going on and as i heard officials publicly and privately begin to warm up, i said you know what, there may been an opening now to avert a war. let's show our viewers the interview in the white house today with the president. >> mr. president, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> this idea by secretary of state john kerry picked up by the russians, is it possible this could avert a military strike on syria? >> it's possible if it's re

go ahead and tweet me at wolf blitzer. i'm wolf blitzer in washington.rin burnett "outfront" starts right now. >>> president obama reveals major breaking news for the first time in more than three decades. the leaders of the united states and iran speak. then new illegal spying from the nsa. this time those doing snooping were doing so on their significant others. and miss teen usa caught up in a nasty extortion plot against her, hacking into her computer, taking make the pictures flag she is our guest "outfront." a good friday evening. "outfront," the

i'm wolf blitzer in washington.e live coverage of the washington navy yard shooting, the rampage that left 12 people dead, eight wounded. right now, only forensic teams and a few essential employees are actually being allowed inside that military installation where the massacre happened yesterday morning. investigators are asking questions, they're taking measures. they're sifting through information. authorities say no military personnel were killed. all 12 people who died were civilians or contractors like the shooter and they ranged in age from 46 to 73 years old. the victims are being mourned by loved ones. they are being honored by lawmakers. the senate observed a moment of silence earlier today. this evening, the house of representatives will do the same. >>> it has become a sadly familiar ritual. president obama trying to comfort the nature in the aftermath of a deadly shooting. yesterday he had to do it again speaking brieferly about the victims of the shooting. he called them patriots. >> these are men and

president obama sat with wolf blitzer.that we have this morning. we have a team of experts to break down the possibilities. mr. john king and ms. christiane amanpour, all here to talk about what's going to happen. we also have mr. john mccain. >> plus, diana nyad set to face her critics today. some in the long distance swimming world are questioning whether she could actually have pull off that amazing swim in the way that she claimed. we hear from some of the skeptic and also we'll hear directly from her team. >>> and speaking of skeptics on uncompletely -- i can't

tomorrow, he will give interviews to six television networks including our own wolf blitzer and tomorrow he lays out his case in a primetime speech from the white house, 9:00 p.m. eastern time. u.s. secretary of state kerry is speaking out why they showed congress extremely graphic videos of the sarin gas attack in syria and it is graphic and shows people dying of the gas attacks. cnn was the first to obtain the clips of the children, men, women and children all seen convulsing on the ground, struggling to breathe, some are dead. secretary kerry said it's important congress know what the chemical weapons attack did to the civilians before they vote whether or not to strike. >> those videos make it clear to people that these are real human beings, real children, parents being affected in ways that are unacceptable to anybody anywhere by any standards. and that its the united states of america that has always stood with others to say, we will not allow this. this is not our values. this is not who we are. >> cnn's barbara starr is at the pentagon. what makes u.s. officials believe these ta

beginning with wolf blitzer right now. right now. >> see you tomorrow. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> authorities are questioning ten people in connection with the deadly shopping mall attack in kenya. security forces claim they have taken control of the mall. we're going live to nairobi. also, right now, president obama's arriving here at the united nations. he meets with the nigerian president in a few minutes. we'll listen in to see if he says anything about that terrible mall attack in kenya. i suspect he will. and the president is in good company. right now leaders from all over the world, they are gathering here in new york city for the annual united nations general assembly. i'm wolf blitzer reported from the united nations where officials from almost 200 countries will meet this week. iran's new president sure to make headlines. also, prospects for peace in syria. we're going to have extensive live coverage of the u.n. general assembly, that's coming up. but first we turn to the story that's held the wor

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> a fiery president obama isn't holding back with two potential showdowns looming in washington, one of them now only four days away. he's sounding a lot like candidate obama in his latest obama care event, the president accusing republicans of blackmail and worse, vowing he won't negotiate when it comes to last minute gop attempts to stop his controversial health care legislation from taking effect in exchange for a deal to keep the federal government from shutting down. our senior white house correspondent brianna keilar is joining us now from the white house. she's got the very latest. what a day it's been. >> reporter: sure has been, wolf. president obama trying to escape the beltway politics, just barely going outside the beltway to a community college if prince georges county, maryland, pushing his signature health care reform law as the online marketplace for obama care is set to open on tuesday. now, this comes of course as some republicans ha