hits landfall or not, there will be flooding in carolinas, virginia, maybe georgia. if it makes landfall in this saturated ground, we ll have trees falling inland for hundreds of miles. roots saturated, it s just mud. we certainly don t want anything like sandy. it s not out of the question. i just want you to know there are so many other scenarios other than sandy. let s hope they are better scenarios. chad myers, thank you as always. you want to turn to the rising tension between washington and moscow. confirmation russia carried out a second straight day of air strikes in syria. we got new video in of some bombings. at the heart. concern, washington says there are evidence warplanes are striking u.s.-backed rebels trying to oust ba shash al assad, who russia supports.
groups. i want to show you first what he said in berlin and then get your thoughts. some of the stories out there publicly have gotten a little overcranked in terms of the idea that somehow the united states is preparing to go all in and participate in another war. what we want to do is end a war. senator, what is your response? what s your response to the president? didn t something fundamentally need to change on the ground to force the regime to the bargaining table in the first place? i think the president s in a difficult position. clearly there s a slaughter in syria. i can understand why he feels compelled to act. the problem is really twofold. first, the momentum is on bar shash al assad s side right now. so in order to turn the tide in syria, you can t just give a bunch of automatic weapons to the rebels. you have to give them some fairly serious weapons. the reality is, well, we re
but to take up gene robinson s point, gene is describing precisely the slippery slope. the initial aid that we will give to general idris forces will almost certainly not be enough to overcome ba shash al assad or the extremists. you ve got to do more. we re in it now. our credibility is at stake. as we know from our history over the last 50 years, it s very easy to go down that slope toward a kind of leveled involvement that the american people didn t understand they were getting into in in the first place. that s why i think the president really has to level with the american people about what he s doing here. and, you know, mika, before we send the first troop in or involvement, we have to look back at our history since world war ii. kosovo not kosovo. start with korea. and certainly, you know, didn t end well. vietnam, the same. you can look at both of the iraq
opposition group there are 110 deaths in homs, 10 were children. also in this country, six children are alive after these pictures were recorded. a school bus bursting into flames. wow. you are going to see the driver who got those kids out just in time. we re going to talk to her actually. very excited. there s an alzheimer s break-through. scientists stumble on an exciting discovery. a cancer drug that reverses alzheimer s in mice. we ll put a kick in your step as well with tunes and political players and play lists. have you ever thought about the music behind these fabulous productions, the speeches, the applause, the showmanship? there s morep to the music you might not know about. but after today you will. early start starts now. we begin with the slauter in syria. it is escalating by the hour. government tanks now storming homs. 137 more civilians have been killed. among them, there are ten children. this is the fifth straight day images like these have
chris mathews week nights at 5:00 and 7:00 eastern, only on msnbc. president obama has asked the pentagon to review american military options for dealing with the crisis in syria. still the president and his defense secretary are resisting calls for u.s. intervention. leaving economic and diplomatic actions are the best ways to pressure ba shash al assad into giving up power. nbc s francis coe reports. reporter: as violence continues in syria, obama administration officials are pushing back against demands for u.s. military involvement. speaking before the senate armed services committee, defense secretary leon panetta said there is no simple solutions to what is going on in syria. we all wish there was a clear and unambiguous way forward to directly influence the events in syria and, unfortunately, it s not the case. it is not an excuse.