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Even though visitors are starting to leave, the outlook for people who live here is very bleak. rescue workers will be going back to some of those hard-hit communities, trying to find the disappeared, still today, kate. >> thanks so much, shasta. lets go around the world now, starting in hong kong where a super typhoon, the strongest storm to hit the planet this year, is threatening taiwan and the philippines. lets get the latest from pauline chiou. >> reporter: kate, what looks like the most ...

Senator john mccain is showing vladimir putin of russia that he, too, can play the russian presidents political game. mccain is lashing out against putin and members of his government in an opinion piece that he scribed for the russian newspaper pravda. quote, they punish dissent and imprison opponents. they rig elections. he, putin, is not enhancing russias global reputation, he is destroying it. this is after putin talked about president obama in an op-ed piece in "the times." cnns jake tapper...

Did not stop and just focus specifically on the tragedy that was happening yesterday. theres so much with the president right now, if you think about this. you can help but think part of his reaction to this still goes back to his frustration over an inability to get anything done and the resistance he encounters when he tries get something done on gun control after newtown. the culture is increasingly sadly inur to these things. some of his frustration at the republican party which is so pervas...

Around my -- for people to see me. i didnt say anything to her. but my point is, if you drug these people, and then you release them and then theres no prescription for them to get, to take, to do the same thing, and they go back to the same place. now about this time, this is when you hear the no-grows jump up and say, why dont you talk about the good things. because the good thing happened to be taking care of themselves pretty well. were trying to help those geniuses, those not geniuses, peop...

Genius, those not genius, people who deserve, because they are human beings on this earth, in the united states of america, we are trying to get them in a position so they will understand and want to. >> why is it so hard for some people to get that message, to hear that message, to receive that message and without lashing out? >> well, its because they feel, i think, i think they feel embarrassed. i think they feel embarrassed about, you know, sammy davis said something to me one day. we were i...

Syria as part of its diminished sphere of influence. having america attack syria would be a humiliating event for russia. because it cant defend its client state. its client state of many decades. theres serious currents of resentment and feelings of weakness and this lashing out -- >> this is sort of a mini mini cold war mentality. the proxy, thats what that was all about. >> were in the 80s in some ways. >> if the u.s. is this divided over syria, what lesson do you think russia draws about how...

Point is acting like a cornered animal. its lashing out. sometimes it retreats for a very short time as happened when navoni was sentenced to five years in prison and released. i am absolutely certain navoni will be incarcerated as soon as the attention dies down a little bit. that business about attention is key. as long as the world is paying attention to whats happening to lgbt people in russia and to other parts of civil society, that makes us just a little bit safer. >> i wish you and your ...

This is part of a broad crackdown on civil society. and that crackdown has had two themes, one of think is fighting so-called foreign agents. and putin sincerely believes that hillary clinton personally inspired the protest that began in december of 2011. he looks at those protests and he sees enemies of the state, he sees foreigners, he sees again foreign agents. and to him lgbt people are the quintessential foreign agents. and thats why we have ended up the prime target. >> just a quickie, mas...

Syria reports it did take the first step today. they joined a convention banning chemical weapons. that includes a promise. a promise to destroy the weapons. but basharal assad wont turnover information for the next 30 days. john kerry is rejecting the time line and refusing to rule out any possible military strike. he is in geneva, switzerland meeting with the foreign minister to work out the details of the chemical weapons deal. today secretary kerry said, "this is not a game." >> it has to be...

>> reporter: it was a campaign of laughter without mirth. >> the ever-delusional anthony weiner. >> reporter: so it ended with shoving between reporters and weiner handlers. >> do you like the fact that theyve been pushing you. >> reporter: and instead of a flamboyant nixonian waving good-bye -- >> the question is what do you plan on doing after you lose? >> i dont plan on losing. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. happening now, the future of a deal to avoid u.s. military strikes agains...