i'm brooke baldwin. >> i'm jake tapper. police search for a motive as new details emerge about the deadly shooting rampage, but we may never really know why a gunman killed 12 people and wounded eight others. >> we're learning new details today. here is the latest exactly as far as what we know beginning with law enforcement sources say the gunman it, aaron alexis, recently contacted not one but two va hospitals apparently for psychological issues. authorities say alexis was a former navy reservist who was discharged after eight instances of misconduct. >> eight instances. right now forensics investigators are scouring the navy yard for evidence. sources say police have recovered three weapons from the scene. one is a shotgun that police believe he brought into the compound. the other two are handguns that may have been taken everyone guards. >> police have now released the names and the ages of all 12 shooting victims. we have learned today that the oldest was 73. the youngest 46. as far as those wounded and there are seve

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

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

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

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

"newsroom" continues right now with brooke baldwin. >>> hey, wolf. thank you so much. great to be with you on this monday. i'm brooke baldwin. only congress could make a crisis look cliche. you know this, i know this. we have been here before. congress is dysfunctional, hopes are low and pressure is high. lawmakers are cramming on something that could have been done months and months ago. here we are, the final hours before this ominous deadline wolf was talking about here. look at the clock with me. in ten hours, less than ten now, if there is no agreement, the government will shut down for the first time in 17 years. so here's what's happening right now. the u.s. senate, they're convening. they are now on the receiving end of this house bill, this latest version. this version from the house that keeps government money flowing, but would delay obama care for a year and would repeal a tax on medical devices. so, the senate at this hour is just beginning to talk about this bill. they will be voting on this bill, but likely tabling a lot of those amendments. republican h

i'm brooke baldwin. you have been listening to white house spokesman jay carney taking questions. an important q & a when it comes to syria, the "new york times" op-edfrom the president of russia today, vladimir putin. all of the above we'll be exploring over the course of the next two hours. happening right now, the u.s. is going from the president's red line on chemical weapons to john kerry and his russian counterpart working on this blue print of how syria will get rid of them. the secretary of state is meeting as i speak with his russian counterpart, foreign minister sergei lavrov. this video just in. to come up with this plan, as far as how syria will hand over this massive chemical weapons stockpile. the biggest in the entire middle east. hand it over to international control. and moments ago, these two men spoke in front of the media. >> expectations are high. they are high for the united states. perhaps even more so for russia to deliver on the promise of this moment. this is not a game. and i s

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

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

i'm brooke baldwin.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.

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you so much for being with me today. our big story, let's call it the super bowl of foreign diplomacy. a meeting of world leaders in new york. but a speech by president obama with a message of peace has the world abuzz and leaves one very big question hanging. that is this. is the deep freeze between iran and the u.s. thawing? >> in the near term, america's diplomatic efforts will focus on two particular issues. iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons and the arab-israeli conflict. while these issues are not the cause of all the region's problems, they have been a major source of instability for far too long and resolving them can help serve as a foundation for a broader peace. the united states and iran has been isolated from one another since the islamic revolution of 1979. this mistrust has deep roots. iranians have long complained of a history of u.s. interference in their affairs and of america's role in overthrowing the iranian government during the cold war. on the other hand, americans see an iranian government that ha

i'm brooke baldwin. we're now getting word that a rapist in montana is out of jail after serving one month. you know the storae ary here. this is the light sentence. it triggered national outrage. not just against him but against the montana judge who ordered the 31-day punishment. the victim in this case was ram bold 14-year-old student who later committed suicide. and kyung la now reports on what the rapist now must do. >> this former teacher will eventually have to show up here at probation and parole in billings, montana, because he's still technically under parole, but he is for now a free man having served his time. for the last 31 days, prison has been stacey's home, having served just one month behind bars for raping his 14-year-old student. as she waited for her teacher to face trial, morales's mother said she was tormented by bullingy and victim blaming. before the case was heard, moralez committed suicide. >> she was beautiful. hopefully, he'll get justice. i hope. >> justice has failed at eve

i'm brooke baldwin.>>> 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

brook baldwin picks up our coverage right now. >>> wolf, thank you. i'm brook baldwin.loser 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.

i'm brooke baldwin. >> i'm jake tapper.or a motive as new details emerge about the deadly shooting rampage, but we may never really know why a gunman killed 12 people and wounded eight others. >> we're learning new details today. here is the latest exactly as far as what we know beginning with law enforcement sources say the gunman it, aaron alexis, recently

i'm brooke baldwin.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 ob

i'm brooke baldwin.st 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,

i'm brooke baldwin.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

i'm brooke baldwin.apist in montana is out of jail after serving one month. you know the storae ary here. this is the light sentence. it triggered national outrage. not just against him but against the montana judge who ordered the 31-day punishment. the victim in this case was ram bold 14-year-old student who later committed

newsroom continues right now with brooke baldwin. >>> wolf, thank you. i'm brooke baldwin.reaking news. good news for a change. after 36 hours on edge, a teenager and her family are right now reuniting after she was kidnapped from her own home. in what started as this home break-in. lease have now just confirmed they have found 14-year-old ayvani perez. we have learned she's doing just fine. she's being checked out. police have the community to thank as well as folks helping out with social media.

i'm brooke baldwin. a major development in the crisis in syria.ia'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

"newsroom" continues right now with brooke baldwin. >>> hey, wolf. thank you so much.ke baldwin. only congress could make a crisis look cliche. you know this, i know this. we have been here before. congress is dysfunctional, hopes are low and pressure is high. lawmakers are cramming on something that could have been done months and months ago. here we are, the final hours before this ominous deadline wolf was talking about here. look at the clock with me. in ten hours, less than ten now, if there is no agreement, the government will shut down for the first time in 17 years. so

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you so much for being with me.here at work tomorrow 4:30 p.m. filling out for sanjay gupta, who is in neighboring lebanon. we'll talk to sanjay as far as what he's seeing with all these refugees in neighboring nations. here is jake tapper with "the lead" right now. >>> the president was asked several times but still no direct answer as to whether he might order a strike if congress says no. i'm jake tapper and this is "the lead." the world lead and yet by any other name, they came, saw, agreed to disagree. president obama leaves a meeting with vladimir putin with the same deep divisions over syria. and our politics leave the senate set to vote right as the president plans to address a skeptical nation. and some are facing everything but pitch forks in angry town halls. >> and in our bd

i'm brooke baldwin. we begin today with breaking news. good news for a change. after 36 hours on edge, a teenager and her family are right now reuniting after she was kidnapped from her own home. in what started as this home break-in. lease have now just confirmed they have found 14-year-old ayvani perez. we have learned she's doing just fine. she's being checked out. police have the community to thank as well as folks helping out with social media. >> local, state, and federal agents came together, worked together, and were able to bring this young lady home. i also would be remiss if i did not say my thanks to the community. they immediately jumped on social media outlets and spread the word. the word spread very quickly. media responded. thank you for putting out the word in response to the kidnapping as well. >> police and fbi speaking there at the news conference moments ago. we have learned two suspects have been arrested. we know two men broke into this family home around 2:00 in the morning on tu

i'm brooke baldwin.missouri last hour after house republicans voted once again to defund obama care. it's about the 40th time they have done so. each time, they have come up empty because the senate won't agree to it. it's just that simple. this time, the house republicans coupled their anti-obama care bill to this measure, this continuing resolution to fund the government past september 30th. that means this urgent bill to avert a government shutdown is dead on arrival in the senate because it now includes this anti-obama care provision, and democrats consider obama care to be really as big an achievement as republicans think it a blunder. here was the president. >> republicans in congress, they've tried to repeal or sabotage this more than 40 times. they've had these repeal votes. every time, they fail. this law that is in place is already providing people benefits. it's not holding back economic growth. it's helping millions of americans, including some of you or your family members that you may not b

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

i'm brooke baldwin. now time for a check 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 the u.s. intelligence community says was a chemical weapons take in syria. adults and children suffering, convulsing, foaming at the mouth. many people in the video appear to be dead. horrific to watch as you can hear people crying, screaming and wondering what on earth is happening to them. we'll have much more on these shocking videos in a moment. how they may change some minds around the world about syria's civil war. also we learne

. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> and i'm brooke baldwin. happy friday to you.so much for joining me. let me tell you, huge, huge day of news. an even bigger hour of live events. see the two boxes over my shoulder. let me tell you about these two people we are watching for any minute now. hours after the nfl season kicked off last night, one of its former stars is right now appearing in a courtroom. this is near boston. on murder charges. you know

. >>> let's get to some other stories making news with brooke baldwin. >> one question we've been asking is was kendrick johnson murdered. he was the 17-year-old found dead in a rolled wrestling match in georgia. it happened this past january. his death was ruled accidental, but his family was granted permission to exhume the body in may and our correspondent victor blackwell has obtained this independent oups report that says the georgia high school teenager died from, and i'm quoting this report, an unexplained apparent nonaccident blunt force trauma. victor joins me in studio. the family all along when they got that initial autopsy had a lot of questions. >> they always questioned it and so did hundreds of supporters who rallied in this small town. they never believed the story that he dove into the mat and got stuck and died because of the position. they had his body exhumed. there's a second autopsy and that pathologist determined pfs blunt force trauma to the right neck consistent with injuries. now you have two feuding reports. one says accidental. the other said consistent with i

i'm brooke baldwin. back here same time tomorrow. in the meantime, let's go to john berman, in for jake tapper. "the lead" starts right now. >> could our cruise missiles be clearing a path for extremists. i'm john berman and this is "the lead." the world lead. barbaric actions of alleged syrian rebels on display in another new execution video and raising the question who would we really be helping if the president ordered a strike? the national lead, the sharp divide over whether to attack. the blurred lines in congress and an american public not eager to ride into the fog of another mideast war. we'll hear passionate voices on both sides. >> and next "the sports lead." he celebrates touchdowns with show me the money sign. is it time that johnny football and other college athletes started getting paid? i'm john berman in for jake tapper today. it was a handshake worthy of a caption contest. as president obama arrived at the g-20 summit in russia this morning and greeted russian president vladimir putin. look, smiles! still, the meeti

. >>> i'm brooke baldwin. have a great weekend. i will send things to washington to my colleague jake tapper. "the lead" starts right now. >>> are they hero iic crusaders leading the charge for you or gremlins ripping the wings off the plane? for now i will call them house republicans. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." the politics lead. house republicans just voted again to get rid of obama care but this time, they tied funding the government to their effort. now washington is poised to close for business. i do not remember this from schoolhouse rock. >>> the world lead. he blames israel for everything and seems a little fuzzy about whether the holocaust happened but many say he qualifies as a moderate in the iranian government. will president obama actually meet with iran's new president? should he? >>> and the pop culture lead. he has been satisfying our morbid curiosity after nearly 100 episodes and three times that many plot twists, dexter himself, michael c. hall, drops by to tease sunday's series finale. good afternoon, e

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

"newsroom" continues right now with brooke baldwin. >> wolf, t

we're going to turn our coverage over to brooke baldwin who takes it from here. >> we'll take it fromso much. welcome to all of you. we are watching this incredible feat playing out live here on cnn. two boxes on your screen. live pictures. left side, smathers beach, key west,

and joining me from atlanta is my friend and colleague brooke baldwin. to syria, and i have a lot of questions for 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 c

joining me is my colleague brooke baldwin. >> you're next door to syria. as what you've seen in the last couple of days. let me just begin with what we have seen so far. we've seen the

i'm brooke baldwin.e of what's happening pretty heated exchange at points of this hearing happening on capitol hill. the house foreign affairs committee hearing. let me just set the scene for you in case you are just joining us. this is similar to what we saw yesterday on the senate side. this is the house side. you see the three men at a table. you have joint chiefs chairman martin dempsey and secretary of defense chuck hagel and on the far right, secretary of state john kerry. they are each being questioned here by different members of course both political parties, house foreign affairs committee. everything from folks showing pictures of gassed syrian children to one congressman quoting. it's been compelling. >> we have not acted previously on uses of chemical weapons. i do believe the world is watching. the day the united states does not act is not just the day that bashar al assad knows it is open season for chemical weapons, but also the day kim jong-un knows that and most ominously the day that t

i'm brooke baldwin. huge breaking developments regarding whether the u.s. will strike syria.president obama has just had with lawmakers as he was on capitol hill today. live pictures, here he is walking through the halls on capitol hill. he's talking to a lot of folks. he is asking, essentially, the senators to delay a vote to authorize a strike to give the latest diplomatic option this chance. that option leads us to the second headline here. this comes from this russian news service agency interfax. it reports that syria is ready to reveal the location of its chemical weapons. keep in mind bashar al assad has thus denied even having them. that's knew. also, agreed to halt production and show their facilities to representatives of russia and the united nations. still, the president's top officials insist syria's agreement to hand over control of its massive stockpile of these weapons is even more reason to keep the threat of u.s. force real. they spoke to the house armed services committee earlier. >> a lot of people say that nothing focuses the mind like the prospect of a h

i'm brooke baldwin standing alongside jake tapper. at this hour here in the nation's capital, flags are at half staff and a new wreath stands at the navy memorial today. >> those are just some of the signs of a capital in mourning after the massacre at the washington navy yard. the fbi is about to hold a news conference. in the meantime, police have released the names of all 12 people who were killed yesterday. the mother of one victim, 59-year-old michael arnold, spoke to reporters. >> it's just not possible. it's not possible that they shot him. just for no reason. he loved his country. he loved the navy. he loved flying. he was just a happy person. >> heartbreaking. we're learning more about the eight who were hurt but survived. >> investigators have yet to really learn why this military contractor, this veteran by the name of aaron alexis, walked into building ining 197 on the with his shotgun and just kept pulling the trigger. sources say alexis may have picked up two more handguns from guards before he was ultimately shot and ki