i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. >>> as congress gets ready to debate action in syria, i'll speak live with one congressman about the one reason he's still undecided. >>> plus, graphic new video of executions in syria raise the question, who really are the rebels the u.s. wants to support? >> and -- a celebrity's attempt to get americans interested in what could be america's next military conflict. >>> here we go. i'm brooke baldwin. breaking news just into us here at cnn. it is the evidence that helps the obama administration's case against syria. britain says samples collected from a victim of that reported chemical weapons attack back in damascus in october, rather august 21st, have tested positive for sarin. atika shubert is live in london. just to be crystal clear, this is not the official testing by those u.n. chemical weapons inspectors who've been in syria. that said, what do we know about these samples? >> reporter: that's right. these are britain's independent testing samples. and what the

brooke, jake? >> barbara, aaron alexis we're told was honorably discharged from the navy reserve but had a pattern of misconduct. you've learned there were eight instances of misconduct? >> that's right. bear with me. this is a little bit of military bureaucracy for everybody. hang in there. he had eight instances, we are told, of misconduct while he served as a navy reservist. things like insubordination, being absent from his job without authorization, things the military takes seriously but it didn't rise to the level of the most serious disciplinary action. they didn't take him to court-martial. at the same time, in the civilian sector, he's getting into trouble for gun offenses but he's not convicted of any of those offenses. so the military decides, we're told, they want him to get out of the military, that he's not suitable for service. but because he's not convicted of anything, they can't discharge him under the most onerous of penalizing circumstances. they can't give him a dishonorable d

brooke?he reason why those investors are still a little nervous. dan simon, thank you very much. coming up, the man who confessed in that online video to killing a man in a drunk driving accident. here he is. he was in court today, and the judge, not happy. >> now, this court does not hold these proceedings unless it's what i just explained. sorry you all came. >> that was just the beginning. wait until you see what happened. that's next. on tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is easier. celebrex can be taken with or without food. and it's not a narcotic. you and your doctor should balance the benefits with

brooke, back to you. >>> thank you. i'm brooke wald wn. hour two.ood news for a change. after 36 hours on edge, a georgia teenager and her family are right now reuniting after she was kidnapped from her very own home, in what really started as a home break-in. police confirmed just a short time ago they have found her. she's 14-year-old ayvani perez. we're told this afternoon she is doing just fine. she is being checked out. two suspects, according to fbi and police, are in custody. but as they told reporters last hour, there are additional suspects who are still as large. >> i must stress that this investigation is still active. we have suspects, potential suspects at large, and the information that you all are asking for would potentially jeopardize our investigation. so we ask you again to please be patient with us as we provide information to you. >> so here's what we do know. we do know that two men broke into the family home right around 2:00 in the morning tuesday. they demanded money. they wanted jewelry from ayvani's mother. when she couldn

i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. >> it all started out in afghanistan. >> a jihadist rapper from alabama targeted by his fellow terrorist said, but is he really dead this time? >>> we're tough. and we stand together. >> fire on the boardwalk. and now, the recovery. >>> plus, cyberbullying blamed for another child suicide. this time, she was just 12 years old. >>> and julie chen admits to help her career she had surgery to fix her, quote, asian eyes. so how common is this? >>> great to be with you on this friday. i'm brooke baldwin. here we go. yet another day of rain in northern colorado. exactly what these folks do not need. some parts of the state, look at this, have gotten nearly 12 inches of rain in the last 48 hours. just the sheer volume and how fast the water is moving in front of these homes. so far, three people have been killed by the storms. we know that the national guard has been called in. but the weather is so bad its helicopters can't get off the ground. more families are being evacua

>> brooks: in...king. >> kroft: that strategy has already had some success at adept technology, the largest manufacturer of industrial robots in the country, with a wide and varied product line. >> john dulchinos: so this is our flagship product. this is our cobra robot. this is the class of robot that was used to automate philips electric shavers. >> kroft: the robots at the dutch company's factory in the netherlands proved to be so efficient and economical that philips decided to move its main shaver assembly line out of china and back to holland. >> brynjolfsson: i think that those workers in china, in india, are more in the bull's eye of this automation tidal wave that we are talking about than the american workers. >> kroft: but even if offshore manufacturing returns to the u.s., most of the jobs will go to robots. >> mcafee: when i see what computers and robots can do right now, i project that forward for two, three more generations, i think we're going to find ourselves in a world where the wor

i'm brooke baldwin. want to continue where wolf left off with breaking news, chilling new video of the navy yard shooter. you see him moments before he killed those 12 people. so i just want to pause as we all sit and watch this video just released by the fbi of 34-year-old aaron alexis. you see him clutching his sawed-off shotgun, looking for victims at the navy yard. here he was. >> it is chilling. it is erie to watch. just released by the fbi. they released it in silence. we wanted to present it to you as the fbi presented it to the members of the media. mike brooks sitting alongside me. we were in washington, d.c. covering the story. worked at metropolitan pd, with the fbi. but the first thing we have noticed and we see it here, this is a shotgun. we confirm it was a sawed off. the reason one would saw one off is in order to conceal it. >> this is a remington 870 shotgun. he sawed off about this much of the barrel. he sawed off, i would say, over a foot of the stock. and he wrapped some purplish-blue

on that same day, levon brooks was set free. >> he told me, "mr.brooks, all your charges been dismissed, you're free to go." that was exciting, like, "ooh." it felt so good. and forensic experts, like dr. west and hayne, they should not never be able to practice no more med... no nothing, in this state, in no kind of state, because of what they did to us, and maybe other people. >> bergman: citing ongoing lawsuits, doctors hayne and west declined to be interviewed. in 2008, the innocence project wrote to the mississippi state medical board, stating that dr. hayne is "a danger to the public" and should not be allowed to testify. dr. hayne is suing the innocence project for defamation. the case is expected to go to trial later this year. meanwhile, he continues to testify. among the various qualifications he cites is a certificate from acfei. >> there she is, guys, we got her, you can see her, she is coming out the front door right here. unbelievable... >> bergman: after 33 days of testimony, the defense prevailed. casey anthony was found not guilty

>> well, you know, a couple things, brooke. first of all, these things, i'm expecting it to be short-lived. it's a clear headwind to the economy. if you're one of the three quarters of a million federal workers that's about to be furlou furloughed, you don't know how long that's going to last, i'm going to guess a lot of these people were not at the mall going hog wild this weekend, right? there's uncertainty. that uncertainty causes people to pull back. that's where the headwind of the already slow-growing economy comes into play. as long as it's short-term in nature, it doesn't disrupt people's finances too much, doesn't disrupt the economy too much, and the nervousness you're seeing in the financial markets is something that will be quickly forgotten and then on to the next thing, the debt ceiling, which is far more significant. gr that's the but. one thing to have a government finite shutdown, but another one when they need to increase their borrowing limit to pay their bill. if congress can't get their act together on that

brook baldwin picks up our coverage right now. >>> wolf, thank you. i'm brook baldwin. top of the hour, one day closer to the first of october. one day closer to a possible government shutdown, and now something approaching really civil war has broken out among conservatives about who hates obama care the most and who is most willing to shut the government down to keep it from working. here's an idea for you as far as what we have been seeing when we talk about disdain for obama care. this is an ad out today from a self-describing libertarian outreach group. take a listen. >> okay. so those folks don't like obama care much. no doubt about that. neither does house speaker john boehner. today, here he was. he announced he has scheduled yet another vote to try to quote/unquote defund the law. >> law is a train wreck. and it's going to raise costs. it's destroying american jobs and it must go. >> so that is speaker boehner. clearly, he doesn't like obama care. neither does republican ted cruz of texas. you see him there today. he has led the senate's push to defund obama ca

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i'm brooke baldwin. happening live, a deadly and active hostage situation at a shopping mall in nairobi, kenya. three days after an al qaeda linked militant stormed this upscale west gate mall, the fbi is looking into claims americans are among the al shabab terrorists. here's what we know right now. there are 62 people who are dead and five americans among those wounded. right now, it is nightfall in nairobi, and for the 200 civilian hostages, the nightmare is over. but their stories and the stories from all these shoppers are painting a horrifying picture of what it's like for those still held captive inside that mall. >> the last thing we know, we heard some shots, and people rushing. there sounded like ak-47s. >> we started to run, and there was a second explosion, which knocked us on the ground. >> you could hear while we were back there, methodically going from store to store, talking to people, asking questions, shooting, screams, and then it would stop for a while. >> completely luck. we were on

i'm brooke baldwin. we top this hour here with two days, two days after russia proposed it, reportedly the plan for syria to hand over control of its chemical weapons arsenal is now on paper. this is at least according taa russian news service. presumabl presumably, secretary of state john kerry will see those details for himself tomorrow when he meets with sergei lavrov in switzerland. now the world watches and wait. watches whether syria and russia live up to their word or live up to their reputations after critics warn this newfound cooperation could really just simply be a delay tactic. this is what was said on the senate floor today. >> so the offer that is on the table and the action that's happened since monday is very serious and very significant, very encouraging and madam president, it could be a game changer in this discussion. now, i said it's serious what we still need to determine is whether it's sincere. it's serious and significant, but obviously, what the administration needs to do in ta

i'm brooke baldwin.ment behind closed doors president barack obama is set to meet with two of his biggest critics, republican senators john mccain and lindsey graham. he needs their support to help convince congress taking action against syria is the right thing to do. i want to go straight to the white house to our correspondent there, athena jones. athena, not only is this meeting happening today, you now are getting word of a pretty high profile meeting happening tomorrow. >> reporter: that's right, brooke. house speaker john boehner is scheduled to come to the white house tomorrow morning to meet with the president as is minority leader nancy pelosi. this is part of the ongoing consultations and multiple briefings the president and other members of the administration have been having with members of congress to try to get this resolution passed. now, we know that the white house has said the president doesn't have to have congressional approval to act in syria. but now that he's taken this step in se

brooks? this is what every one of you ought to be doing. why do you call yourself a republican if all you want to dupe is lay down and agree with obama and the democrats why. don't you switch parties if it is so much better over there. what in the world has is he supposed to do. he was isn't there to stop this. he was sent to washington, specifically, to try to stop some of this. and the popular assumption, mr. brooks among most republican voters that's what the republican party at large is supposed to be doing. >> nbc news is reporting tonight that as of now -- the kamikaze mission is likely a go. the latest house republican leadership plan is to pass a bill that continues funding the government at a lower level and -- and defunds obamacare. joining me now is former economist for vice president biden, jared bernstein, congressman steve latourette, and crystal ball. former congressman latourette, don't you miss the place, wish you were there to work this one out? >> the good news i left in january. after watching it i decided i really wasn'

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. >> sister anne brooks is a doctor. at age 75 she worries who will take her place at the clinic she runs. >> 74% of my patients can't pay me, how will i earn enough money to pay the salary of another doctor. it's very sticky. >> sister brooks is one of three primary care positions in her poor rural county. >> you are there when grandma dies, or when the baby comes. you are with the family. they become part of you. >> it's a nationwide problem. the american association of medical colleges predicts a shortage of 45,000 primary medical positions. >> here this college was started as a solution to the shortage of primary care physicians in the gulf. >> dr james turner is dean of william cary college of osteopathic medicine. he predicts the situation will become worse because millions of americans without health insurance will be eligible. >> adding a burden to the system will make it worst. >> 24 medical schools opened in the u.s. since 2008. turner says it's only part of the answer. >> what we are about to see is a backlog

brooks? >> i am eric brooks and it is spec tack lawyer to see that the department is doing the accident job of reducing the waste even though the volume is going up, and similar cases in cal where electricity is going up and we are kind of keeping the production flat by doing a lot of conservation but the department has gone beyond that lowered the waste and that was accident and there was one part of the presentation that needs more, and that is the part regarding recycling plastic. it is very important that the public watching this understands that plastic recycling is largely ineffective. the previews on this is that over all plastic, only 5 percent of the plastic that you put in those bins gets recycled. and even the most recycled products which are kind of the pvc, coke bottles, ten percent or less of those get recycled the rest of that plastic material, much of it ends up in informally as the narrow developing countries overseas, and in the landfills because we don't have enough landfil

sure i mean first of all brookings is a collection of n dependent scholars we all have different views and there's no effort to have a common position and certainly i have a long arguments with some of my colleagues about some of the foreign policy implications and actions that are being taken by the u.s. government that you and and other actors you know many people who work on political and strategic issues tend to assume that the humanitarian side is easy let me tell you it isn't easy it isn't easy providing assistance to hundreds of thousands of refugees who come into a country and concerns about the political spillover a little bit a little bit and we have all due respect with all due respect to elizabeth do you think that america's allies in the region so do you rabia qatar israel are interested in the humanitarian angle at all. some of it i think there is an interest i mean you see that in terms of the assistance that's being given by gulf states including saudis directly to some of the some of the kind of i think there is a humanitarian interest and i also think that you know go

brooks? >> good evening, one more time, green party and local grassroots organization and city. and so it is really awesome to see that this is happening. and i would urge you and caution you to leave yourself plenty of time that night to run late because i don't live in the bay view, but because of my work, i have stood in herings and many other venues side by side with the bay view residents and especially around the toxic waste sites and just i must have been the scores of hearings at city hall and the board of supervisors and other agencies, and san francisco public utilities commission and the residentses of the bay view gets up over and over and over and over again. and raise very serious issues about impacts on their neighborhood. and rarely get listened to. and so you are going into a community that is very frustrated and has not been heard much. and that includes on the votes for things that go down in the neighborhood. and it took, i don't know, how many decades it took to get the w

i'm brooke baldwin. a major development in the crisis in syria. syria's foreign minister said the country, quote, welcomes a proposal to put its chemical weapons under international control. all of this could be a result of a statement by president obama's secretary of state, because let me take you back this morning in london. john kerry may have muddied the waters regarding the march toward an attack on syria. take a listen to this, if you would. >> is there anything at this point that his government could do or offer that would stop an attack? >> sure. he could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week. turn it over. all of it. without delay. and allow a full and total accounting for that. but he isn't about to do it. and it can't be done, obviously. >> that was john kerry this morning. syria and its good buddy russia both seem to think it is an ocean worth exploring. putting those weapons under international control as a way to avert an attack. we have to talk about this more with nick p

brooks. [inaudible]. welcome. >> good afternoon, commissioners, if i understand correctly, the only bidder for the contract when that contract was let go was with shell and it is a transition contract, a small p-e-r-c-e-n-t-a-g-e time you as an organization could be full speed ahead with local jobs, local people, even developing rec that could be purchased by other groups, one week ago today i walked into my classroom, my first course is environmental science, we won't focus on the science, i want to comment on some policy and politics and i would love to walk into that classroom and discuss with them the progress that the city is making in moving towards 100% renewable, clean energy, make no mistake, we will discuss the policy x the politics on the issue and i hope that's what i'm putting in front of them, i'm going to be teaching my 10th graders meteorologist, they will be seeing what's known oz a hock ke stick graph, the increase in carbon dioxide and we will talk about policy, and i hope this group mo

she goes down you still have to contend with christoph, freedman or doe dt this at, dod-- brooks, brooks-- we'll be right back. >> jon: welcome back. you know, living in the new york city we're continually reminded of where our food comes from. whether it be shake shack or secretary avenue deli. but did you know that the food that you eat comes from someplace before that? (laughter) aasif mandvi filed this report. >> america's heartland grows crops to feed the world. but we often forget to acknowledge those who bring us this bountiful harvest year after year. biotech companies. >> biotech companies are revolutionizing farming. >> really? >> yes, they are helping to put more food on tables throughout the world. >> for instance biotech giant monsanto makes patented genetically modified seeds that resist highly toxic weed killers. which they also happen to make. but now their time-honored way of lifed is under attack. >> sometimes farmers act in a man their is not in the best interest of the biotechnology feed company. >> yes, big farmer has forced monsanto to pursue legal action against th

i'm brooke baldwin.eck of your top stories making news right now. >>> don lemon here. thank you for joining us. we have some breaking news we want to tell you about. i have to give you warning. i'm going to read slowly because if you have children in the room you'll probably want to get them out. you're about to see videos that were made in syria. they are very graphic. they show people in pain and they are difficult to watch. these are some of the videos that u.s. senators were shown in classified briefing a couple of days ago. it's the aftermath of what

eastern. >> woodruff: and to the analysis of shields and brooks. that's syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. so, welcome to the new format, gentlemen. >> thank you. >> at scary. >> woodruff: scary! what a difference a week makes, a proposal to get-- >> priewfl for a military strike, david, turns into an effort to get a peace deal. what do you expect is going to come out of these talks in geneva? >> i'm a lil worried that we're entering a little diplomatic morass here. that's in part because the arms response seems to be off the table. the congress clearly is in no need mood to approve this thing, and i think without congressional approval, even that leverage you have in the background of diplomatic talks is pretty much gone. the u.s. leverage is severely diminished, i think, and i think everybody knows that, especially in the region. when you get to the talks, there are preliminary agreements to sit down, but there are a whole series of things that i think are trouble sell. one is assad is beginning to make

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blacks flees by brooks brothers and they have come in for a store. there was no letter of determination no written letter on this item but they did go through a conditional use process because their name was black flees by brooks brothers and they did have more stores, there are more than 11 brooks brothers stores and they fell the products within those stores. i don't think it is quite comparable to this case. i went and looked at their website side by side and compared the merchandise. i understand their argument about the array argument, they are both selling the same array, they are not the same array with 50 percent of more of stock merchandise from a single distributing bearing the marking with jack spade and kate spade. if the jack spade sold more than 50 percent merchandise of kate spade, that would be different. if kate spade saturday i have seen that as a formula use, kate spade is the name. the argument is they both share the name spade, but in my opinion given the distinction between the stores and the misdemeanor offered while the primar

>> brooke: yeah, we're fine. aren't we, katie? >> will: [ crying ] >> bill: i'm gonna go put him down.

>> brooke: yeah. he wants his father in his life,

. >> brooke: liam told you about the annulment? >> bill: yep. >> brooke: so, hope and liam... >> bill: yeah, they can get married whenever they want. can we not talk about the kids? >> brooke: are you upset? >> bill: upset? coming home and seeing you like this? upset is definitely not what i'm feeling.

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hey, brooke. >> good to see you in lebanon. you as far as what you have seen in the last couple of days being in and around the beirut area. so, let me just begin with what we have seen so far. we have seen the videos. it looks absolutely devastating. you are there. is what you've seen what you expected? >> well, you know, i'll tell you, brooke, i've been to many refugee camps around the world, and i think, certainly, as a father, you can't help but notice the children in a lot of these refugee camps, and sort of trying to imagine what they're going through, the things that they've seen and how they're going to sort of move forward. and that's challenging. i think what is particularly challenging about what's happening here in lebanon, along the border, is it's a very disorganized, chaotic, fluid situation. you've got refugees coming across the border so frequently now, and those numbers are only expected to go up. so, you know, after two years now almost, brooke, of setting up these camps right along that border, in sometimes

. >> reporter: sister ann brooks is a doctor in the town of tutwiler and at age 75 she worries who willplace in the clinic she has run for 30 years. >> if 70% of my patients cannot pay me how will i earn enough money to pay the salary of another doctor, it gets to be sticky. >> reporter: she is one of three physician in her poor rural county. >> you are there when grandma dies and when the babies come and they are part of you. >> reporter: it's a nationwide problem, the american association of medical colleges predicts a shortage of 45,000 primary care physicians by the end of this decade. >> and here at hatisburg, mississippi this was started for the shortage of primary care physicians in the gulf. dr. james turner is dean of the college of osteopathic medicine and predicts the affordable healthcare act will make the situation even worse because millions of americans without health insurance will suddenly become eligible. >> adding a burden to that system is only going to make it worse. >> reporter: 24 medical schools opened since 2008 and he says that is only part of the answer. >> wh