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Analysis. secretary of state john kerry says samples collected show signatures of sarin gas. the united nations says theres another face to the crisis that the world has to deal with, refugees. a syrian becomes a refugee every 15 seconds. the numbers add up quickly. theres more than two million syrian refugees. thats ten times more than this time last year and more than four million others have been displaced inside the country. it would mean 30 million americans becoming refugees. 30 million. t...

Russia sends into the syrian regime? >> it could, senator. they have assured the regime if we destroy something they can replace it. but thats not a reason for me to hesitate to act. and to your point, theres always unintended consequences of conflict. but as the secretary has mentioned, we know what the consequences could be, probably would be if we do not act. >> thank you. mr. secretary, its my understanding that the u.n. chemical inspection team left syria on saturday. and that pan-ki moon h...

Their foreign minister, who said we have nothing to hide, i said if you have nothing to hide, let the inspectors in today and let it be unrestricted. it wasnt. they didnt. it took four days of shelling before they finally allowed the men under a con strained prearranged structure. we have now learned that the hair and blood samples from first responders in east damascus has tested positive for signatures of sarin. so my colleagues, we know what happened. for all of the lawyers, for all of the fo...

We have nothing to hide. i said, if you have nothing to hide, then let the inspectors in today and let it be unrestricted. it wasnt. they didnt. it took four days of shelling before they finally allowed them in under a constrained, prearranged structure. and we now have learned that the hair and blood samples from first responders in east damascus has tested positive for signatures of sarin. so my colleagues, we know what happened. for all the lawyers, for all the former prosecutors, for all tho...

Why dont they get into that? >> well, this is the security council in its best or worst, depending on your perspective. because of russian and chinese objections, the resolution authorizing the inspectors limited them to be determination whether chemical weapons were used. now let me say, there is an out. if some of these samples were, as i suspect, collected from artillery shells, bombs, rocket warheads, you can describe, even have pictures that show them as some of those are things that the sy...

>> it effects your gland as well as muscles. for your glands, a runny nose, teary eyes, vomiting, diarrhea. for your muscles, it can paralyze them. you die by suffocation. it is a very terrible way to die. >> how much does it take? >> just a little bit. just a drop let is enough to kill somebody. >> give me an example of what we -- we know that something happened over there. john kerry pointed out that sarin gas was used and some of the first responders were able to detect from hair and plood sa...

Security council. heres the more important bit. the samples have arrived at the laboratories in the hague that will do the testing and that testing is supposed to be happening within the hour now. >> how long will it take to get the results? >> hard to tell. some experts saying a weej. theres a huge amount of pressure given how the u.s. managed to go after the attack. about 11 days. they have blood and sample tissues they were confident enough that contain sarin signatures. its entirely possible...

The united states to join him in affirming the international norm with respect to enforcing the use of chemical weapons. >> you look at the polling. our nbc news poll released late in the week, 50% of those asked oppose a military strike. the british vote in parliament failed as a vote for military strikes. and the abrupt shift now, does it undermine u.s. credibility or will it be seen as careful deliberation? >> i hope and pray it will be seen as careful deliberation, as appropriate exercise of...

Inspectors took enough and kromed them well enough the reliability should be high. a u.s. official we contacted wouldnt say how many samples they took or talk about methods. what we do know, many of these victims never had a chance. >> sarins if you dont have one of these. >> if you dont have one of those online very much out of luck. literally, within minutes, your body will begin to shut down. its not just the types of things youve seen on these videos with the twitching and difficulty seeing ...

General on how this process is going. theyve been clear we are not going to get the final result until information is ready and collated in one place. its entirely possible given the speed the u.s. has shown within 11 days since the attack taking samples of blood and tissue and producing what they said is definitive result, the pressure is on at the u.n. to deliver with similar speed and possible it may happen. so before congress the unmay have given their verd whether chemical weapons were used...