i'm megan lopez and you're watching rt. president obama is in russia. a number of world leaders have already made up their minds on what they want to be done. back at home, lawmakers on capitol hill are in a very similar position. a deadlock about whether the u.s. should use military action. this is not a partisan issue. congress members have come out for intervention. that is why they feel so strongly about this issue. >> it is not our responsibility, it doesn't involve any vital national security interest. it won't do any good and it is expensive. and it is dangerous and can easily spin out of control. the washington post just updated the list and found among the 435 members, only 20 have declared in favor of the resolution, against his 183. we are closing on the magic number. a majority of the house indicates it will vote against the president boss resolution. -- president's resolution. emails are running 100 to 1 against intervention in syria. in addition to that, they have in no time attracted 40,000 signatures. >> you have also said that you belie

i am megan lopez and you're watching rk. john kerry is in geneva, switzerland, participating in another round of talks with his russian counterpart about the chemical disarmament of syrian military forces. as well as chemical weapons experts that will discuss the overarching question of how this disarmament will happen. a resolution at the end of these negotiations. and they discussed disarmament. >> this is not a game. i said that to my friend serge. it has to be verifiable and it has to be credible. it has to be timely and implemented in a timely fashion. finally, there ought to be consequences. >> the military option is not off of the table after all. resident assad has openly agreed to hand over chemical arms in his first interview with reporters since the news of a possible agreement came out. the united nations secretary general's office has confirmed it has received an application from syria to join the international convention banning production and use. it will take 30 days to become a party and they will submit dat

megan lopez has more. >> for over seven months we have an reporting on mass hunger strikes happening at guantanamo bay. monday officials announced 19 are left, but before we declare the hunger strike over, let take a look at how the protest played out and what has changed since it started. on february 6 the hunger strike began. humanitarian groups said the reason was the pervasive churches conducted -- the eve a sieve searches. it took weeks before prison officials acknowledged what was going on. even then, the number of those participating was lower than other reports. the spokesman for the un's human rights body wrote a letter to our team, saying they are looking into the details of the mass hunger strike. the more they knew about the hunger strike, the more petitions to lace across the country. guantanamo detainees saw a change of command when they reported richard butler. the military realized how serious the strike was, and it sent 40 different medical personnel to guantanamo bay. president obama formally acknowledged the hunger strike in his speech and reaffirm his commitment t

. >> megan lopez has been looking into the dangers of synthetic marijuana. here is part two of her investigation. >> it is a wonderful town. i love this place. we have got great character, great people. >> the quiet city of frederick, maryland, is perhaps best known as the final resting place of francis scott key, author of "the star spangle banner." and while this little city no longer has to worry about bombs bursting in air, frederick is a battleground of the different sort. >> we got to the point where we realized we had to do something. >> something about a drug problem taking over the city. synthetic marijuana. it is a designer drug wear nail polish remover mixed with chemicals is sprayed on dried herbs. sold -- similar to that of actual marijuana. with sometimes serious side effects. >> you are smoking chemicals. smoking something that is laced with, you do not know what. you might be smoking lighter fluid. >> what started off as a community nuisance turned into a public health emergency. >> we started noticing that more with some reports from the fre

correspondent megan lopez brings us the story of three families dealing with the real consequences of synthetic marijuana i had never heard of so-called marijuana and should probably the day after my son died i was at my front and i got a phone call and i was told my son had died and our son is. no different than any other child here from a county he was a straight a student played baseball everything by the book and then unfortunately you know somebody there introduced him or whatever he got involved in it and it was all downhill from there i bought a bag and i tried it and then i got the. most of them. and then i got my own and then i was smoking like a half and i would go. three families thousands of miles apart but all linked by a dangerous drug these are the stories of tristen cancer an athlete who was getting ready to has a college emily bauer a seventeen year old known for a funky hair colors and next stop in are the adventurer who loves snowboarding his dog and his family three stories three very different outcomes. it goes by many names as not because climber and mr nice guy

correspondent megan lopez brings us the story of three families dealing with the real consequences of synthetic marijuana i had never heard so confident that marijuana and show probably the day after my son died i was at my front and i got a phone call and i was told my son had died and our son is. no different than any other child here from the county he was a straight a student played baseball everything by the book and then unfortunately you know somebody there introduced him or whatever he got involved in it and was all downhill from there and bomb about it and i tried it and then i go. to the market and then i bought my own home and then i was smoking like a half and i would go. three families thousands of miles apart but only him to buy a dangerous drug these are the stories of tristen cantor an athlete who was getting ready to head to college and leave our a seventeen year old known for a funky hair colors and backstopping or the adventurer who loves no boarding his dog and his family three stories three very different outcomes. it goes by many names as a climber and mr nika sp

tests point to a virus playing a major role in the massive dolphin vitale's are to correspondent megan lopez has the full report. nine am and most beachgoers are just waking up in the tourist town of virginia beach but the virginia stranding response team is already in action this is by far the most serious event that i've ever seen this group is responsible for sea life recovery in the entire state of virginia and they've been working on the mystery of don't things washing up on the shores of the atlantic we have one bottle nosed dolphin stranding that we just got a call for about ten minutes ago the responding to a call from a local resident we have no why where today a team of three packs a stretcher cart and genetics kid into a trunk and heads out. a twenty minute drive takes them to a remote part of chick's beach and they're halfway on the shore but not far enough to escape the wrath of the waves. are first dead dolphin of the day it's a boy. the whole carcass immediately the group gets to work photographing the dolphin measuring its length counting teeth and assigning it a number this

hasn't stopped of military build up from multiple countries in the middle east r t correspondent megan lopez has the details well for the past week we have seen one obama administration official after another come out to talk about u.s. military options in syria and they're all using the term limited strike but what does that actually mean well let's break down some of the possibilities based on the various bits of information that are coming out first things first let's talk about what a limited strike is not and for that we turn to secretary of state john kerry the president is not asking you to go to war it's not asking you to declare war he's not asking you to send one american troop to war he's simply saying we need to take an action that can degrade the capacity. of a man who's been willing to kill his own people by breaking a nearly hundred year old prohibition ok so no official declaration of war no boots on the ground kerry did lay out the two missions that the administration has in mind to deter and to degrade now these strikes are meant to deter syrian president bashar all offside

crops artie's megan lopez has a full breakdown on the story. well it's not the first time g.m. crop contamination has been reported here in the u.s. but this time it could cost us billions of dollars earlier this month a local farmer reported to the washington state department of agriculture that his hay was rejected for export because it tested positive for a genetically modified trait that was not supposed to be in his crop now authorities are trying to figure out whether these claims are in fact true and if so how g.m. materials got into that crop at this point we don't know if the seeds the farmer bought were mislabeled or if g.m. material was carried into the crops by wind or if it was something else entirely or guard list this is not the first time west coast farmers have dealt with g.m. contamination scares in may scientists confirmed the presence of a banned g.m. wheat growing in a field in oregon it was from an experimental we project that monsanto ended back in two thousand and five in the middle of field trials that we strain was never approved for markets alfalfa is

things megan for joining us that was our tease make a lopez from the white house now to get more reaction to the speech and ask where do we go from here let's bring in a panel political commentator sam sax and our t.v. producer rachel curteous thank you guys so much for joining me now you guys are sitting here watching the speech right along with me sam let's start with you i want to get your thoughts will first off the president was up against timing here the timing of the speech isn't the best we don't have a resolution in congress ship for anything you want to do the seven hundred one it's working on a new one we have a possible diplomatic solution on the table that could avert all of these military strikes and that the president has to come out and make the case to the american people that they need to get behind military strikes that now may or may not happen but beyond that we heard a lot of the same from the present that we've heard over the last week and that we heard yesterday his interviews he likes to play that moral card you know he said the images of massacre are second until