catherine?> catherine: it took years to build-- we have incredible timelapse video showing the construction of the new span of the bay bridge. shut down, more drivers will be passing through the peninsula to get to the east looks at some of the things that might just get you in trouble. >> reporter: plus the 49 derrick forty-niners hit with the injury bug. one they're running bexar down i will tell you who is spirit coming upper and those stories and more was this is cool.time-lapse video of bay bridge construction. starting in october 2008,,,and ending in august of 2013. >> reporter:you can see the support tower going up. then portions of roadway being put down. sections of the deck. earthcam posted this video on you-tube earthcam has cameras all over the world.and with more than half a decade of recording.you can capture some pretty cool transformations. >> catherine: still ahead. >> catherine: highlights for just a fraction of the usual price? >> catherine: and coming up next-- a lot of peopl

catherine? to >> catherine: now to a developing story. the bay bridge shutdown. crews are trying to hook up the new eastern span, before the tuesday re- opening deadline. while bay area drivers -- come up with alternate routes to the east bay. you're looking live at the view - from our helicopter partnership with abc7 news. we'll have more on the traffic impact in a moment. but first lets get a to dan kerman. he's live at the bay bridge toll palza. with a construction update. dan? >> reporter: we have a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. an unusal sight -- no commuters -- just work crews. >> reporter: now we are focused on tuesday morning in all is on schedule. if you look right here this is the open side of the toll plaza appeared yesterday they were still punching holes in be pavement. and a grinding it up. now is clearly black talk. the vehicle over here is striking the area so they are making a lot of progress here. not just this location but throughout the area. here is the spokesman f

catherine heenan tells us what happened at the start of his trial today. >> catherine: the fort hoodgs happened nearly four years ago at fort hood, texas. 13 people died. 32 others were injured -- after an army major due to deploy to afghanistan suddenly opened fire on his >>"all of a sudden we just somewhere and just, bow! bow! shooting everywhere." >> catherine: former soldier mick engnell was in this processing center when nidal began shooting. >> catherine: floor. >>"then all of a i saw a laser come across my eyes, and i looked over and saw him pointing a gun at me.and right at that time i tried shifting over. and it just felt like a baseball bat hit me right on the side of my neck and then blood went everywhere." >> catherine: for other victims the physical scars are fading, unseen injuries linger. >>"since the shooting, i don't know what happened, but my short term memory is just non-existent." >> catherine: 42-year-old hasan is himself paralyzed from the waist down after being shot by army civilian police. >> catherine: he is representing himself and can cross-examine his alle

but first, catherine heenan >> catherine: is here. to show us how the big rig fire played out this morning. >> catherine: let's look at the scene. this is the view from down below the big rig.as it was still burning. this is westbound 80 - right before the 5th street off- ramp.in downtown san >> catherine: this was such a mess.it might have been 'worse' than a bart strike.in terms of traffic on the bay bridge. >> pam: >> pam: because of a flat tire about 5:45 a-m. he pulled over to the right shoulder and got out -- and spotted smoke coming from the engine. fortunately - he ran away from the truck - because only a short time later -- it was engulfed in flames. he was not injured - and the c-h-p calls him 'very the truck had been hauling sushi, rice, vinegar and destroyed. two and three lanes of westbound 80 were closed for hours. let's give you a look at the aftermath. >> catherine: the shell of the truck. it was so badly burned.there's not much left.and the c-h-p says it may never be known why that engine caught fire. pam? >> pam: a l

catherine heenan is here with the reason behind the rare political snub. >> catherine: the problem isn'trd snowden. russia's decision to grant asylum to the rogue nsa analyst is just the latest in a range of disputes between moscow and washington. >> catherine: the president chose the tonight show to express his displeasure with russia, >>"there have been times where they slip back into cold war thinking and a cold war mentality. and what i continually say to them and what i say to president putin, that's the past." >> pam: >> catherine: this morning white house press secretary jay carney issued an official official statement, saying, "we believe it would be more constructive to postpone the summit until we have more results from our shared agenda." >> catherine: the u=s is not happy with russia's support for syria's president, its human rights record, violations of arms treaties, for barring american couples from adopting russian children and for its anti- homosexuality laws. >> catherine: and the white house statement said russian's disappointing decision to grant temporary asylum to e

which some consider troubling. >> pam: catherine heenan is here with that story. catherine?>> catherine: asked for privacy this week.so hannah can heal in peace. so some are surprised that the teenager who was kidnapped by a family friend who murdered her family -- is talking and answering questions --- on social media. experts are already debating >> catherine: whether this was a healthy outlet for hannah anderson. or just plain strange. going on the site ask-fm. she posted several photos of herself. including photos with her cat. the manicure she just got. and the note she says she wrote to her mother and younger brother - killed by abductor james dimaggio. it says."in the clouds i'll meet you again." >> catherine: and in general.the 16-year-old does not seem upset. >> catherine: the online posts. "this is a 16-year-old who's totally traumatized, she's in a state of trauma and so she's not thinking. sometimes in a numb state you do things that you don't really consider the consequences." >> catherine: hannah also answered questions from strangers. including - did you want

one posting by james edwards referred to it being 'time to take lives.' >> catherine: >> catherine: this just a couple of days before chris lane was killed. >> catherine: people in australia are outraged. one former political leader suggesting that australians boycott the u.s. until congress gets the message about gun control. chris's father says the family is still stunned that their much loved son is gone. >>".best we can." >> catherine: police caught the teenagers a few hours after the shooting.with the help of surveillance cameras. one of them made it clear to police that their victim was chosen at random. and police now believe they were planning to shoot at least one more person. >> catherine: a lot of people are talking about this on our website -- kron- 4 dot com. stay connected -- with this story and many others. log on. you can also check in on our facebook page and twitter. >> reporter:record rainfall and flash flooding continues to batter the southeast. a large swath of tropical moisture has drenched much of the region from the gulf coast to the carolinas. heavy rain triggere

in the newsroom, charles clifford kron 4 news >> catherine: a developing story. a california sheriff says a group of horseback riders in idaho wednesday apparently spotted james dimaggio and the teenaged girl he's accused of abducting. that led to a search of the remote wilderness area. and now -- dimaggio's car has been found. >> this morning, the blue nissan was found covered in brush. the license plates had been removed. the law enforcement were able to confirm that the vehicle to belong to the modu dimaggio dimaggio." >> catherine: ofdimaggio is accused of killing hannah anderson's mother - and possibly her younger brother. one of the questions now -- did the 16-year-old leave with dimaggio by choice? authorities say the two were spotted with camping gear. the horseback riders who saw them didn't realize who they were until they saw the news later. they say it did "not" appear that hannah was being held against her will. >> pam: in his first formal white house news conference in more than three months, president obama talks about making everyday americans mor

gabe slate kron 4 news. >> catherine: he kidnapped a 16 year old mother. >> catherine: now the familymaggio is raising the possibility that he may be the birth father of both children. the story of hannah anderson's abduction -- taking a strange new twist today. crackle crackle >> catherine: a burning building with the bodies of ethan anderson and his mother dimaggio left that behind as well as a life insurance policy worth more than 100=thousand dollars. >> catherine: the beneficiary: the paternal grandmother of his kidnap victim, hannah anderson. >> catherine: now dimaggio's sister lori is requesting *dna samples from both hannah. and from ethan's remains. a family friend says she wants to know if jim was actually the children's biological >>"there has been a lot of rumors that jim might be the father of either or both children. we find it very strange that he has left all this money without any explanation. it states specifically that he didn't want to give it to either parent cause he didn't trust them." >> catherine: in a cnn interview while hannah was still missing. anderson's f

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. >> pam: catherine heenan reports. >> catherine: experts are already debating whether this was a healthy outlet for hannah anderson. or just plain strange. goingshe posted several photos of herself. including photos with her cat. the manicure she just got. and the note she says she wrote to her mother and younger brother - killed by abductor james dimaggio. >> catherine: it says."in the clouds i'll meet you again." >> catherine: and in general.the 16-year-old does not seem upset. some question the wisdom of the online posts. >> "this is a 16-year-old who's totally traumatized, she's in a state of trauma and so she's not thinking. sometimes in a numb state you do things that you don't really consider the consequences." >> catherine: hannah also answered questions from strangers. including - did you want to go with dimaggio? no - not at all. why didn't you run? he would have killed me. >> catherine: why didn't you tell your parents he creeped you out? in part, he was my dad's best friend and i didn't want to ruin anything between them. >> catherine: she shed new light on the night she was

catherine: floor. of a i saw a laser come across my eyes, and i looked over and saw him pointing a gun at me.and right at that time i tried shifting over. and it just felt like a baseball bat hit me right on the side of my neck and then blood went everywhere." >> catherine: for other victims the physical scars are fading, unseen injuries linger. >>"since the shooting, i don't know what happened, but my short term memory is just non-existent." >> catherine: 42-year-old hasan is himself paralyzed from the waist down after being shot by army civilian police. >> catherine: he is representing himself and can cross-examine his alleged victims. >> catherine: in his opening statement, he said quote. "the evidence will clearly show that i am the shooter." >> catherine: then he added, "we are imperfect muslims trying to establish the perfect religion." >> catherine: and "i apologize for any mistakes i made in this endeavor." >> catherine: hassan has admitted carrying out the attack before, but military law prohi

laurie dot com catherine austin fitts welcome back to the kaiser report i-max it's great to be back now catherine often fits you know almost every other headline on bloomberg dot com these days is about yet another massive bank fraud there's lie boring the is the fix regaining energy market rigging selling fraudulent mortgage backed securities everything is infected with this plague what should our response be well our response should be to stop banking with the criminals so i have for many years recommended that people pull their money out of the big banks and only take the time to find a responsible bank that you can trust or credit union and bank it institution is that we need to enforce isolating with the market whether our bank deposits here's a thought exercise because i'm glad you mentioned credit unions since the financial crisis many move their money to credit unions now the commercial banks are lobbying to have credit unions tax advantages removed so your thoughts on what this bodes for fighting back through your money or through any kind of competition. well you seen in i

dot com catherine austin fitts welcome back to the kaiser report imax is back now catherine often fits you know almost every other headline on bloomberg dot com these days is about yet another massive bank fraud there's libel or rating the is the fix regaining energy market rigging selling fraudulent mortgage backed securities everything is infected with this plague what should our response be well our response should be to stop banking with the criminals so i have for many years recommended that people pull their money out of the big banks and only take the time to find a responsible bank that you can trust or credit union and bank it institution is that we need to enforce i phone with a market whether our bank deposits here's a thought exercise because i'm glad you mentioned credit unions since the financial crisis many move their money to credit unions now the commercial banks are lobbying to have credit unions tax advantages removed so your thoughts on what this bodes for fighting back through your money or through any kind of competition. well the scene in industry after industry

tonight, elizabeth monroe and the lease catherine adams. -- louisa catherine adams -- louise catherine♪ >> elizabeth monroe was a true partner in her husband's career. they were a love story and absolutely devoted to each other. elizabeth monroe had a well- developed sense of style and image. this is a woman who knew how to carry herself with great elegance. >> it is called the era of good feeling. >> this is a woman who spoke french. >> very great beauty. she received is seldom anything in the white house. she hated it. >> dignity, civility. those are the words that come to mind. >> elizabeth monroe served as first lady from 1817 to 1825 as a time known as the era of good feeling. coming up, we will explore her life and what were not always happy times inside the white house for this woman born into a well-to-do new york family. she married james monroe at the age of 17 and traveled new york extensively with him. she brought with her to the white house a certain french sensibility. welcome to c-span and the white house historical association's "first ladies." we will look at the life

catherine? >> catherine: president obama says he has not made a decision yet on taking military action against syria. but says he has 'has' concluded that the syrian still reviewing the options retaliation.but promised itthere are growingsyria, meantime - continues strikes could happen within the next few days. from the president. >> catherine: hassan had weapon that himself. >> pam: major nidal hasan has been the 2009 massacre that left 13 people dead. a 13-member penalty. prosecutors had hoped for that -- insisting that death martyr. before the executionhasan had represented defense.and apparently executed. >> pam: happening right now, in the east bay - police are on the hunt for a man they say is armed and dangerous vallejo police say the suspect is wanted in avasion - the suspect and his partner reportedly posed as pge workers in one incident. as kron four's terisa estacio reports, police are releasing a photo of the will recognize him. >> reporter: police say that during a home invasion he

gary radnich will have latest. >> catherine: and also of o.j.ood news. look at 'em. living on cloud nine with that u-verse wireless receiver. you see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldn't just set up a tv in the basement. i mean, come on! nope. we could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, we'd have to go to my aunt sally's. have you ever sat on a plastic covered couch? [ kids cheering ] you're missing a good game over here. those kids wouldn't have lasted one day in our shoes. [ male announcer ] add a wireless receiver. call to get u-verse tv for just $19 a month with qualifying bundles. rethink possible. >> catherine: and o-j simpson gets long time -- some good news. the parole board decides to give him a break. o.j. simpson has been granted parole on some of the charges stemming from his 2008 kidnapping and armed robbery convictions. but he still won't get out of prison any time soon. he'll have to serve at least four more years. on the other hand - the decision

. >> catherine: san diego mayor bob filner has announced his resignation. this - after he was publicly accused of sexual harassment by 18 women. this was the scene last night.as he left city hall with some of his belongings. belfort my own-for my own i offer a deep apology of all the women i had no intention to be offensive. not one allegation has ever been independently verified or prevent in court. i have never sexually harassed anyone. >> catherine: that will take effect on august 30th. today he resigned - effective august 30th.but complained that none of the allegations against him had been independently verified.referring to his critics as a 'lynch mob.' the city council is working out a settlement between the mayor and the city. it could include the city covering some or all of filner's legal expenses. >> pam: coming up at five. freedom -- only to be killed back at home. we'll show you who is wanted for the disturbing attack, on an elderly veteran of war. but first - counting down to the shutdown. we'll layout the bay bridge altertantives you need to

catherine has been talking about how quickly this has been jumping. >> catherine: oh my gosh! these people have said that this was starting off as oh my gosh! was a grass fire but then the media to leave, this has gone up so quickly. immediately-as jacqueline mentioned, the wind and those hot embers are fueling this fire. you can see it is fairly densely packed with the evacuations people are going to a safe zone such as the area high school. the smoke has slowed traffic. however, broads were even impacted grant? >> let me show you this map. it looks like there are five homes that have burned. it went from just two homes to now five homes. marigold drive that we have highlighted is for the fire started. and it started as a grass fire. and it quickly started burning structures. as we can see from this live footage the 2800 - 3000 block of marigold drive along interstate-80. also, the commission village shopping center and the fairfield high school is also close. north texas street is also a close area and people are being evacuated along the texas st. there are multiple hotspot

louisa catherine is politically and attuned figure. i don't think you would find her dictating a platform. >> john quincy was 100 years ahead of his time. was the john quincy presidency about? -- what was the john quincy presidency about? >> john quincy was 100 years ahead of his time. famously, in his first message to congress, -- remember this is a man whose legitimacy had been questioned. and yet, he introduced this breathtaking program that anticipates the new deal by 100 years. saying the federal government should in the rowboat business. there should be a national university and washington. he proposed a national astronomical observatory. a white house of the sky. for this, he was ridiculed by the jeffersonian small government crowd. it did nothing to enhance his popularity at the time. it may have contributed to his defeat for reelection. 100 years later, it looks prophetic. >> hi, jennifer. caller: hi. i am enjoying this series, i watch every week. >> thank you. caller: my question is, and it may have been shown during the prog

i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks very much for watching.aptioning sponsored by >> ifill: the obama administration declared today the syrian government did use poison gas on its citizens and the u.s. will hold the assad regime accountable. good evening. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, after facing sniper fire, u.n. inspectors arrived at the site of the alleged chemical weapons attack in syria.. we have the latest on the investigation, and look at options on the table for a u.s. response. >> ifill: a massive wildfire nearos

it's thursday, august 22nd, i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. the people who operate the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant are wrestling with yet another challenge. they'd already confirmed that more than 300 tons of highly radioactive waste water has leaked from a storage tank. and now they say it may have flowed into the pacific ocean. workers with tokyo electric power company detected high levels of radiation inside a ditch. the ditch is about 50 meters from the leaking tank. and it runs into the ocean. workers have set up hundreds of tanks on a hillside near the reactors. they erected a low wall around the tanks, still the water seeped out. officials at japan's nuclear regulation authority said they're considering raising the severity rating of the leak. they rated it as a level one incident on the international scale that runs from zero to seven. they're considering raising their assessment to level three for serious incidents. previously tepco officials had said it was unlikely that contaminated water was reaching the shore. they said the le

. >> pam: catherine heenan explains why the decision did not come as much of a surprise. >> catherineent chose the tonight show to express his telling host jay leno. "there have been times where they slip back into cold war thinking and a cold war continually say to them and what i say to president putin, that's the past." >> catherine: this morning white house press secretary jay carney issued an official official statement, saying, "we believe it would be more constructive to postpone the summit until we have more results from our shared agenda." >> catherine: the u=s is not happy with record, violations of arms treaties, for barring and for its anti-homosexuality laws. >> catherine: and the white house statement said russian's disappointing decision to grant temporary asylum to edward snowden was also a factor. president obama will attend a g20 conference in saint petersburg next month. but instead of flying on to moscow to meet with president putin afterwards, he will go to sweden instead. >> jacqueline: we do see the upper 70's and livermore to that. 74 in sunnyvale and san jose.

>> catherine: cia and national security the message that set off alarm bells across washington.eda leader ayman al=zawahiri, believed to be in pakistan. communicating with the head of al qaeda in yemen about a terror attack. >> catherine: that man, once osama bin laden's personal secretary, is reportedly now the second in command in the organization world wide. it >> may well be this a naser al-wuhayshi's coming out party as the number two of al >> catherine: qaeda. the wording indicated the preparations are in the final stages. >>it basically could be in europe. it could be in the united states. it could be a series of combined attacks. so, we need to be ready for everything. >> catherine: the u-s response has gone beyond the worldwide travel warning and closing embassies defense secretary chuck hagel ordered u.s. forces in spain and italy onto a higher state of alert. fifteen-hundred marines on board three navy warships in the red sea will now remain off the coast of yemen, ready to react. >> catherine: u-s intelligence officials have said he could be the most dangerous terror

>>> catherine te ha tocado su familia fue dividida que quieres ver?has gracias, por estar aquÍ. >>> creo que el eje de esta familia separada que finalmente se pudo volver a unir lo que muchos hispanos quieren escuchar. >>> muchas gracias. >>> gracias. >>> la familia figueroa se imaginÓ catherine que con el video que vimos iba a frenar la deportaciÓn de los padres, vea la respuesta en nuestro segmento punto y seguimos. >>> hacemos una pausa, pero al volver la increÍble historia . >>> ♪ ♪ vamos a iniciar un nuevo segmento del programa que llamamos los innovador de lo que se trata es destacar a jÓvenes que estÁn cambiando la forma con lo que vivimos y nada mejor que comenzar con michael a quiÉn no exagero al presentar como niÑo genio. >>> michael muchas gracias, por estar aquÍ con nosotros. >>> no gracias a usted. >>> te vi por televisiÓn y me llamo la atenciÓn de lo que estabas haciendo. >>> tienes cuantos aÑos? >>> 16. >>> te podemos llamar inventor para no sÉ mÁs que nada cuando hago aplicaciones es algo divertido no es algo de de versiÓn que hago apa

same as catherine and harry. we've all grown up differently than other generations and i very much feel if i can do it myself, i want to do it myself. there are times where you can't do it yourself and the system takes over. but i think driving your son and your wife away from the hospital was really important to me and i don't like -- >> you didn't stall? >> it's automatic. >> the interpretation of the imagery is that this was a modern monarchy and a new way of monarchy. was it that? are we reading too much into it? was it just you and your wife doing it your way? >> i'm just doing it my way. if it's the right way, then good and if it's the wrong way then i try to do it better. i have fantastic people around me who give support and advice. >> the princess baby george is already quite a character. >> well, yeah, he's a little bit of a rascal, i'll put it that way. he reminds me of my brother or me when i was younger. i'm not sure. he's doing really well at the moment. he does like to keep his nappy changed. >> yo

. >> pam: tonight catherine heenan takes us through the strange new twist. in a tragic story. crackle crackle >> catherine: a burning building with the bodies of ethan anderson and his mother >> catherine: dimaggio left that behind as well as a life insurance policy worth more than 100=thousand dollars. the beneficiary: the paternal grandmother of his kidnap victim, hannah anderson. >> catherine: now dimaggio's sister lori is requesting *dna samples from both hannah. and from ethan's remains. a family friend says she wants to know if jim was actually the children's biological father. >>"there has been a lot of rumors that jim might be the father of either or both children. we find it very strange that he has left all this money without any explanation. it states specifically that he didn't want to give it to either parent cause he didn't trust them." >> catherine: in a cnn interview while hannah was still missing. anderson's father brett, said dimaggion was a platonic friend to the anderson family, who called him "uncle jim" >>"he basically became part of our family. we were j

catherine heenan reports. >> catherine: chris lane had just come back from a visit to his native australiahis american girlfriend. the 22-year-old - a promising athlete - was jogging in the small oklahoma town of duncan friday. when he was shot in the back - and left to die these are the suspects' mug shots. two of them have been charged as adults with first-degree murder. >> catherine: 15-year-old james edwards. and 16-year-old chancey luna. 17-year-old michael jones faces lesser charges, including being an accessory after the fact. >> catherine: one report says the teenagers were bored -- and 'tired of practicing on animals' -- when they decided to kill someone. police say the boys were keeping a log of their crimes on facebook pages. the suspects posing with guns.and stacks of cash. one posting by james edwards referred to it being 'time to take lives.' this - just a couple of days before chris lane was killed. people in australia are outraged. one former political leader suggesting that australians boycott the u.s. until congress gets the message about gun control. >> catherine: chris'

i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. the leaders of the government which are trying to restore order with crack downs on protesters claimed more than 235 lives. authorities on wednesday began with new supporters of the depos posed president morsi. they are exchanging sit ins in cairo. they bulldozed through barricades around the cabs and fired tear gas into the crowds. more than 30 people died. the bloodshed set off protests in other parts of the capital and the central city. they attacked gunmen at the facilities. they declared a month long state of emergency and imposed a night time curfew in 14 provinces. they gave security forces the power to detain people without arrest warrants. the authorities appear set to launch further crack downs on members of morsi's support base. the brotherhood responded by calling on supporters to launch fresh protests. the vice president can no longer serve in the government. they quit in protest over the bloody crack down. he tendered a resignation in the letter to the president. he said

catherine, let me start with you.have a parade of people who own businesses, who own franchise, who own larger businesses on and have asked them if you had to pay your workers 15 bucks an hour, they have said resoundingly they would be forced to cut their hours, to fire people. it wouldn't result in more take home money. how do you respond to that? >> you know the most profitable fast-food corporations in our economy actually do pay higher wages to their employees. not just to americans. in other countries there they are already paying 12, $15 an hour. our workers deserve to work with the same level of dignity as a worker in france or australia. melissa: peter what do you think about that. >> most of the workers in american fast-food, these are entry level jobs, primarily to a large extent, they're summer jobs. they're part-time jobs. they're second jobs in a very, in an industry where the profit is very low. let me give you an example. if operator has a million dollars in sales, his return will be about 10 or 15%. th

i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo.hanks for joining us.  - coming up: an urgent call for sustainability. - if we're going to do what we have to do in the short window of time that physics and chemistry allow, then it will be through systemic change that it happens. - environmental activist bill mckibben explains the depressing state of climate change, and tells what governments and private citizens can do. that's just ahead on "global ethics forum." - few people have influenced our understanding of global warming quite like today's guest. though scientists first clued into the warming of our planet more than a century ago, it wasn't until the release of "the end of nature" in 1989 that folks like you and i began to take notice. the person who got our attention was bill mckibben. mckibben has since become one of the world's leading environmentalists. in addition to serving

i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks for joining us.  - coming up, new technology and new moral challenges. - these are questions we need to think about before we have the technologies. so, we have to engage in what i call prophylactic ethics. we need to think about what this means for us. - nasa's paul root wolpe talks mind-reading, cerebral privacy, health in the space station, and more from the cutting edge of bioethics. it's just ahead on "global ethics forum." - today's guest has spent his career examining the ethics underlying tomorrow's scientific breakthroughs. as one of the nation's most prominent bioethicists, paul root wolpe encourages scientists to reconsider not only what they can do, but what they should do. dr. wolpe is the asa griggs candler professor of bioethics and the director of the center for ethics at emory university.

catherine herridge is live in washington now. catherine, what are we learning?harris, think of the intelligence assessment having four boxes that need to be checked. number one, identifying the them call agent. number two, how it was fired. number three, who controlled the delivery system, in this case, rockets. and number four, the chain of command. who made the call to launch the attack. the assessment released by the administration today seems to check all of those boxes. and offers a possible motivation that the syrian regime uses chemical weapons to gain the upper hand or break a stalemate in areas where they are struggling to hold the territory, harris. >> harris: what is the key evidence on this. >> according to secretary kerry today an electronic intercept most like lay phone call from those close to assad. >> we know that a senior regime official who knew about the attack confirmed that chemical weapons were used by the regime. reviewed the impact and actually was afraid that they would be discovered. we know. this and we know what they did next. >> amo

i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. >>>ed leeers of ja man and russia will meet face to face on a long standing territorial dispute. prime minister shinzo abe and president vladimir putin will talk next month on the sidelines of a summit of the group of 20 nations. they'll try to find common ground over four russian-held islands claimed by japan. deputy foreign minister sugiyama and igo morgolov met in moscow. japanese officials say they didn't make much progress toward resolving differences but the diplomats agreed to make arrangements for abe and putin to talk early next month at the g-20 meetings in st. petersburg, russia. the leaders agreed in april to restart negotiations over the islands. they said they would work towards finding a mutually accept solution and conclude igiing a peace treaty. >>> china's defense minister has warned others not to underestimate the chinese. chang wanquan issued the warning after a meeting with chuck hagel. china is caught up in a number of territorial disputes in the east china seas.

i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. japanese prime minister shinzo abe has skirted controversy. he's decided not to go to a shrine in tokyo on thursday to observe the anniversary of the end of world war ii. the shrine honors japan's war dead including leaders convicted of crimes after the war. abe himself has not disclosed whether he'll visit the shrine, but government sources say he'll stay away. they say instead he'll pay for a custom honored at the shrine and make an offering of the branch of the sacred tree. chinese and south korean leaders condemned visits to a place that honors war criminals. and the government sources say abe wants to avoid any further strains in foreign relations. but he says the 18 other members of his cabinet are free to visit the shrine. deputy prime minister aso, foreign minister and 12 others say they won't go on the anniversary. the other four members of the cabinet have not said what they'll do. >>> students and staff at a university in okinawa, southern japan are remembering a terrifying

i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. residents of syria are shuttering themselves inside their homes. they're stocking up on food and water. they're waiting to find out whether u.s. forces and their allies will attack their country. western leaders believe last week syrian troops attacked civilians in the suburbs of damascus with chemical weapons. opposition activists say hundreds of people were killed. u.s. president barack obama and other leaders believe such action can't go unpunished. state-run tv quoted president bashar al assad as saying syria will defend itself against any aggression. he said an assault will only strengthen national unity. prime minister called a meeting of cabinet ministers. he said authorities need to prevent their enemies from disrupting state services such as electricity, drinking water, communications, food and oil. many residents are trying to flee into neighboring lebanon. those who have chosen to stay are doing whatever they can to prepare for a siege. the possibility of an attack from abroad has not stopped the fight inside syria. opposition activists

i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. >>> u.s. fugitive edward snowden has walked out of an airport in moscow after more than five weeks inside. russian immigration officials have fwrabted him a one-year asylum. the decision h angered u.s. leaders and left relations up in the air. snowden arrived from hong kong in late june. he has been holed up in the airport's transit zone ever since. his lawyer says now he's free to go. >> translator: snowden has just left airport and has headed for a safer place. >> snowden says eventually he wants to move on to latin america. some countries there have offered him permanent asylum. snowden worked on contract as an intelligence analyst for the national security agency. he told "the guardian" newspaper and other media that agents collect private internet and phone data. u.s. authorities have defended the surveillance programs saying they prevented terrorist attacks. spokespersons for the russian presidential office say the decision to grant snowden asylum will not affect relations with the u.s.

i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. egyptians are seeing things many have seen before. the leaders of the interim government launched a crackdown after more than a month of unrest. they say at least 578 people have been killed, more than 4,000 injured. and they say their forces will continue to use real bullets on groups that threaten peace. supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi have been demanding that he be reinstated. on wednesday security forces stormed two sit-ins in cairo and removed them. protesters elsewhere responded by taking to the streets themselves. they, too, have run into security forces. the state-run news agency says some demonstrators set fire to a government building in giza near the capital. armed protesters in the southern city of beni suef occupied a government building and a police station. >> you have to impose order on the ground, public order is very, very important. >> morsi supporters in the muslim brotherhood are not backing down. they're calling for demonstrations across the country

catherine is in cairo, and she has the latest. >> continuing their protest on this, the second day of the eid holiday in egypt. planning a number of marches from different mosques around cairo due to converge on the main sit in. square outside cairo university later on this afternoon. the coalition, as morsi supporters call themselves, issued a statement saying they are determined to continue protesting until the coup is ended. absolute defiance even though integral authorities have warned they will move into dispersed the sit in in -- imminently. the interim prime minister set the government is approaching a situation they would rather avoid. that would really seem to indicate security forces will move in soon to break up the protest. does seemd that, it likely to happen during the -- does not seem likely to happen during the holiday but early next week unless some kind of deal could be struck and the protesters agreed to leave of their own accord. >> catherine, you mentioned a deal being struck. foreign diplomats tried to negotiate a peaceful resolution. we have seen negotiations br

. >> for me catherine and now little george are my priorities. and lupo. a lot of people know, we've got dogs and bringing a newborn back they take a little time to adapt. but he's been all right so far. he's been slobbering around the house a bit. he's perfectly ahappy. >> reporter: in his first royal appearance baby george practically shut downtown city of london. prince william, just like any proud parent. >> i think i was on such a high anyway and so was catherine about george that we were happy to show him off to anyone who wanted to see him. as any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and proclaim he's the best-looking or the best everything. >> reporter: this modern couple wants to show the world they're normal parents. >> it's one of the things, it's nice that people want to see george. so you know, i'm just glad he wasn't screaming his head off the whole way. >> i think prince william and kate, they try very hard to maintain their private life. it's very important to them. they were living for three years and going to