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Slaughter its own citizens. today united nations inspectors returned to the scene of last weeks alleged chemical weapons strikes. during a previous attempt to access the site, the un team reported it came under sniper fire. the un special envoy to syria said today those inspectors came back with samples and spoke to witnesses and that, quoting here, it does seem that some kind of substance, unquote, may have killed as many as 1,000 people. syrias president, bashar al-assad, has called the accusa...

Up to 337 degrees so a lot of this see this as returning from hence it came. marketing is how the sand performs and how the way it feels and looks and the samples we saw, i have to say it was not really noticable, the difference it was glass recycled versus how this feels right here and the big other issue here is the environmental protection that beaches do play for hurricane season. they do provide a buffer protecting all of these coastal communities, condo towers and the tourist towns. gregg:...

John kerry and one thing thats also going on, this is sort of a syrian show of force, they have been absolutely pounding the outskirts of damascus with artillery all day, the area where is the rebels say the chemical attacks took place. >> any sense of the u.n. inspection team to when theyll report their results? >> reporter: well, were not sure when exactly the final report is issued but clearly they said that they got some good evidence today and they also said that they have been evaluating t...

Dollars of tourism for the beaches, all options are on the table, including crushed glass. phil keating is on miami beach. causing a sand war, right? reporter: the sand wars are underway between the counties in florida because the ones up north still have 50 years worth of offshore sand supply waiting to replenish the beaches due to erosion, and heres an example in miami beach. it drops down five feet in miami-dade and broward county their sands have run out, and one day maybe people couldnt bur...

These two counties, bringing up the idea people no longer could bury themselves up to the neck in sand, roll around in it or build sandcastles. >> heres some samples that came from some sort of green bottle. >> reporter: broward county has a literally green solution. take recycled bottles, crush and grind them to the same size and courseness of natural sand and rebuild the beaches that way. all the testing so far shows promise. >> the idea we could take glass being thrown away and turn it into s...

Its unclear whether they go to the same area visited today or trying to get some of the other sites where also chemical weapons have allegedly been used. the place they went today is a very hot zone. thats been a lot of fighting there in the past couple of months. it was obviously very difficult for them to get there and managed to spend a good couple of hours on the ground getting samples and especially talking to people. thats sometimes something thats very underrated sort of in the public sph...

$70 billion a year to the states economy. due to constant erosion up and down the beaches like you see ex efrp li fieed here, theyve been rebuilding the beaches. but those off shore sand supplies and these two counties are now gone. as you can imagine, that is creating an environmental and economic crisis of the future where perhaps one day people would no longer be able to bury themselves up to their necks in the sand or even build sand castles. >> here are samples that came from some sort of a...

He brought this stuff to new york and held it up in the united nations building. he held up all this stuff then had to rush out of the room saying, "i have to wash because my hands are burning." he said his country would not testify the samples, themselves, but he said he knew the u.n. could and that was why he brought those samples to new york so the u.n. would study those things. and the united states through all of that said nothing even though we know that what he was alleging was absolutely...

Enthewe enthusiastically with sand, the idea of doing that with broken glass led to sharp opinions. >> translator: he said he would not get in the water because the glass is dangerous. >> reporter: hes an afraid of getting cut. >> yeah. >> one is processed a different way. one is coming naturally. it doesnt make a difference. sand is sand. lets get the sand on the beach. >> reporter: to make glass, you take silica sand and heat it up to 137 degrees fahrenheit. a lot of people see this as just re...

Accountability for those who would use the worlds most heinous weapons against the worlds most vulnerable people. >> there must be accountability. earlier today, a six-car convoy carrying u.n. weapons inspectors was attacked by sniper fire. no one was hurt, but thein t u team was forced to return to a government checkpoint. the team replaced their damaged car, proceeded pop t eed to the suburb to complete their investigation. the team visited two hospitals and interviewed witnesses, survivors an...