>> the world stops. everybody is watching. >> good morning. welcome back to "new day." we spent almost a decade looking for chemical weapons in iraq and supposedly getting rid of them. well, guess who found them? isis. militants have taken control of a notorious chemical weapons facility that once, of course, belonged to saddam hussein, potentially deadly poisons are said to still be inside. now iraq's grand ayatollah is speaking out as president obama announces the u.s. course of action. we're tracking every angle of this crisis. let's begin in baghdad with nic robertson. nic, what are we hearing from there? >> reporter: well, chris, one of the keys is, and as we all know, there's a real distrust in this country of prime minister nuri al maliki. president obama says essentially that he has to go, but how does he go? well, it's got to be through, if you will, the -- the words of the senior -- most senior shiia cleric here. i mean, listen to his prayers this morning.