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You roll it all together and it doesnt paint a good picture. the economy is still in a p precarious position. its adding jobs, just not adding enough jobs. news of weakness, not just here, but abroad causing investors to sell. just about four minutes into the trading day. we are watching cisco shares drop more than 6%. carol, walmart shares down 2.5%. carol? >> well check back with you, alison kosik reporting live from new york stock exchange. all right. a bit new information on our breaking n...

More than 90,000 people have died in the civil war. are we hearing anymore specifics about what we are doing in this civil war? >> no shep, is the short answer. that is confusing. last week, the white house kind of billed this as an important policy shift of president obama, stepping up and helping the rebels in syria, but never gave details can the heavy arms that senator john mccain and others said would be pivotal to turn this around. president adding a little confusion, doing an interview wi...

Breaking news tonight on syrias use of chemical weapons. chris lawrence has the latest. >> piers, tonight there is a major policy shift from the u.s. towards syria as u.s. officials conclusively say the u.s. government has used chemical weapons and crossed the red line president obama set. they said quote following a deliberate review they used chemical weapons including s usa rin. it was used at least eight times over the past year and killed up to 150 people. now the u.s. has been providing no...

Major policy shift from the u.s. towards syria as u.s. officials conclusively say the u.s. government has used chemical weapons and crossed the red line president obama set. they said quote following ade a deliberate review they used chemical weapons including s usa rin. it was used at least eight times over the past year and killed up to 150 people. now the u.s. has been providing none loo non-lethal aid to those rebels, food, communications gear. they asked for missiles for anti tank weapons a...

Could mean additional armaments, additional humanitarian aid or even something bigger like a no-fly zone, but for now theres no talk of putting u.s. troops on the ground. and note as the white house made this announcement yesterday, it was a 5:00 p.m. conference call, the president was continuing his day, hosting an lgbt pride event at the white house. if he were even close to putting boots on the ground or doing something bigger, i assume we would have seen the president himself announcing this...

Not as a boundless global war on terror but rather as a series of persistent, targeted efforts to dismantle violent extremists that threaten america. >> id like you both to answer this but ill begin with you, chip. do you read that as a policy shift or a different way to label it? >> i think its a little bit of both. hes trying to change basically the american policy on this. i think the speech was interesting in the sense of whenever obama has problems outside, he goes back to what he does best...

Appreciate the fact that the president has reaffirmed more than any other president israels right and duty to defend itself by itself against any threat. we just heard those important words now and i think that sums up our, oil say our common view. >> one of the major through lines in the plot between, you know, the story arc of netanyahu and obamas relationship is about iran and netanyahu has at times seem to all but threaten a preemptive strike with or without the u.s. pap lot of behind-the-sc...

Secretary kerry speaking to abc news in the gulf where he said the window was closing and time seems to be running out. iran is getting closer to the bomb and then vice president biden at the apec meeting said the window is closing. is a policy shift coming? i cant say. it is too early. this it the first time that they seem to say that their strategy is not working and the president is preparing to h head to israel later next week. is he going to reset u.s. israel relations as we get closer to a...

How is it possible that this has only happened twice in four years? no captures abroad. >> well, there have been captures on the battlefield but not captures of terrorists in this way because most of them are not crossing the border into turkey as this -- as this man was. thats where he was captured. most of them are hiding in the most remote areas of places like yemen and somalia and pakistan. and theyre very hard to reach. i think the preference would always be to capture these high-value terr...

Policy shift that we didnt really debate that was to kill rather than capture? i know capturing seems like a better idea, but we really have done none of it. >> well, look, im -- i think that the -- one of the reasons why theres been less of it is because these leaders are on the run. these terrorists are on the run, and theyre going to place thats are remote enough that theyre hard to find and theyre plotting from those locations. and thats the nature -- thats the down side or the upside of the...