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"early start" begins now. have a great day. ♪ diplomatic breakthrough or during this period of timic bungle? a deal on the table that could avert an air strike. no. he is in his car and he continually has his hand on his gun and say step closer. he is threatening us with his firearm and he is going to shoot us. >> a dramatic 911 call from george zimmerman's wife and the dispute ends with no arrests, no criminal complaints. why shelly zimmerman says she felt threatened by the man who killed trayvon martin? >> the force of the nature. the southwest under water. >> do not want to be stuck there. >> not one bit. there is more rain on the way. >> good morning. we are happy you're with us. i'm zoraida sambolin i'm. >> john berman. >> it's tuesday, september 10th and 5:00 a.m. in the east. >> the latest on syria. the offhand remark that has turned the battle on the assad regime on its head. president is meeting with lawmakers today and address the nation evening. with the american public overwhelmingly saying no, to an air strike on the assad regime, a senate vote now delayed and strong opposition in the house to authorizing military action, the only choice for his administration may be to go along with a new proposal from russia. brianna keilar begins our coverage. >> reporter: in a six network media blitz, president obama spoke about his latest plans for dealing with syria, telling wolf blitzer. >> if we can accomplish this limited goal without taking military action, that would be my preference. >> reporter: earlier in the week, it seemed a military strike was the only option on the table for the u.s., until this. secretary of state john kerry making a seemingly off-script comment that turned into a possible option, providing syrian president bashar al assad a way out of a military strike. >> we turn over every 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. >> reporter: a u.s. official quickly chalked up kerry's statement to, quote, a rhetorical argument but russia saw a game plan what considered a gaffe, considering syria to take action saying, we are calling on the syrian authorities to not only agree on putting chemical weapons storage under international control but also for its further destruction. syria responded just an hour later. their foreign minister saying i declare that the syrian arab republican welcomes russia's initiative. >> it is a development and i have to say we would not arrive to that point where there are public statements like that without a credible military threat to deal with the chemical weapons use inside of syria. >> reporter: but even as support seem to grow, some question if this is the answer. >> if the regime immediately surrendered its stockpiles to international control, that would be an important step, but this cannot be another excuse for delay or object instruction. >> reporter: a sentiment shared bit president. >> we don't want just a stalling or a delaying tactic to put off the pressure that we have on there right now. >> reporter: but that pressure, at least for now, seems to be subsiding as the senate postponed their wednesday vote on syria. meanwhile, experts wonder if the russia proposal is a bunch of empty words. >> you would have to have a cease-fire and long period u.n. inspectors would come in and seems to me almost unimaginable. >> syria's foreign minister says syria welcomes the proposal but the question does remain this morning, will that government actually open up its weapons stockpiles for international inspection? muhammad is in beirut this morning. this is a crazy 24 hours. at this point, what is the assad regime saying? >> no final decision as of yet. all we have heard officially is the foreign minister of syria saying yesterday in moscow that the syrians welcomed this initiative because they believe that the ruxs care deeply for the welfare of the syrian people and the russians want to avert any direction toward syria. what is interesting here this is coming less than a day after the remarks in that interview that president assad gave to cbs charlie rose he would not confirm or deny whether syria possessed chemical weapons. all the while, you have syrians dying, sometimes in the dozens and sometimes in the hundreds, every day by conventional weapons. i can tell you that in this region, there has been sort of a collective sigh of relief. so much tension, especially in countries like i am now in lebanon about what these air strikes might do and how it might inflame the record high tensions but really that is all we have heard from the syrians as far as what they are going to do next. we have heard there may be some sort of presser later in the day in damascus and we will have to wait and see in the hours ahead. >> mohammed, you mentioned people are dying in syria no matter what the means, chemical or otherwise. there has never been this admission from the syrian government they had chemical weapon stockpiles and with all of this going on, what are the rebels saying at this point? the rebels are angry and very disappointed. the rebels thought these air strikes were going to happen and many believed that would help their cause and fight against the regime. we have spoken with the syrian free army and say here we go, another stalling tactic by the assad regime. they and others activists have told us they don't think assad is serious at getting to the negotiating table of allowing the international community or any international body to take control of their chemical weapons arsenals. what we are hearing from the opposition in syria is they are deeply disappointed. they think this is only going to prolong the suffering of the syrian people and they are saying yet again what they really need is nsyria is a military intervention which is what we have been saying close to two years now. john? >> mohammed jamjoom, in beirut, thank you. >> interesting to hear what the president has to say tonight. >> whatever speech they had planned has to be drastically different over the past 24 hours. fascinating. 7 minutes after the hour. brazil's president is bristling over reports that the nsa spied on oil giant. if the latest information leaked by edward snowden is true, the u.s. would be guilty of industrial espionage. the report comes as brazil prepares to auction drilling rights to some of the largest oil fines in decades off the atlantic coast. is the government using border inspections to get access to your electronic devices? no documents relieved by the aclu is part of a settlement with the obama administration shows the government can create a travel alert for almost anyone. that, "the new york times" says, allows custom agents to detain you at the border and confiscate your electronic devices without a warrant. customs and immigration forces are not commenting. west lawn of the capitol this afternoon who is leading the charge to defund obama care and they are calling on the white house to exempt americans from the plan. to florida now. an parent altercation between george zimmerman and his estranged wife and her father. 911 got a call from shelllie zimmerman. she called 911 and said her husband threatened her and her father with a gun. >> is hes in now? >> no. he is in his car and he continually has his hand on his gun and he keeps saying, step closer. he is just threatening all of us with his firearm and he is going to shoot us. >> a friend of george's, wes, was there and was able to keep the two of them separated. there may have been some incidental touch between wes, the friend, and dad. but the reality is what happens here, it is a divorce case. these people have been living for 16 months under the spotlight and, you know, they are suffering from it. >> o'mara said george zimmerman did have a gun on him but that he never took it out. shellie claims that george accosted her father and smashed her ipad but declined to press charges and george zimmerman was not arrested. >> apr expert will tell you what the people want to do is laying low right now but this is not the definition of that. in phoenix, take a rolook a these pictures of heavy rain leaving a street flooded. what do you think that guy is saying? i'm in a little bit of traffic right now. dozens of accidents. many cars like that truck ended ub submerged in upwards of a thousand homes lost power. >> karen, how bad will it be in arizona today? >> it looks like we still keep about a 60% chance of showers in the forecast coming up. as we go watch flash flood warnings and watches out all across the four corners regions. the rainfall is going to be isolated so it doesn't look like it's widespread rainfall but look at the prescription we have got out there right now. we have moisture coming up from the southwest. typically, it's monsoonal moisture but enhanced by a lot of the tropics have been active here so some of the moisture is making its way around the north. swirling around the four corners region. if you live in albuquerque and tucson and phoenix and you could see the potential for flash flooding today on the order of 1 to 2 inches. around phoenix, as i mentioned, only about half an inch but you get the dry river beds and they fill up so quickly and you see the damage that we saw there. >> those poor folks over there. thank you. we will check back in with you. a thrilling finish to the u.s. open. number two seeded rafael nadal defeating djokovic in four sets in the men's final. this was the third time in the last four years that nadal and djokovic have played for the u.s. open title. we will have more on last night's final match in "the bleacher report." >> let's not wait. >> let's not. >> this was a stunning match. >> that is what you said yesterday i believe. >> these guys are hitting the ball so hard. i was exhausted watching. how can they possibly keep doing this? >> please go to picture. >> there is me with my friend. >> there is a lot less gray in your hair. how long ago was that? >> a few years ago. he has won a lot of grand slams. >> john berman was apparently giving him advice. >> he accepted it and look. 13 grand slams between us. no, these guys hit the ball so hard and stung to watch. 13 grand slams. rafael is one behind pete sampras now. two very good days of tennis. congratulations to everyone involved with that. >> including you. >> including me and my friend rafael nadal. coming up judgment day for two political candidates plagued . a new program that could help you skip those horrid long security lines. that's coming up next. thank you orville and wilbur... ...amelia... neil and buzz: for teaching us that you can't create the future... by clinging to the past. and with that: you're history. instead of looking behind... delta is looking beyond. 80 thousand of us investing billions... in everything from the best experiences below... to the finest comforts above. we're not simply saluting history... we're making it. from capital one... boris earns unlimited rewards for his small business. can i get the smith contract, please? 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