for example, can easily start at 65,000 a year, and with one out of five american jobs now stem related, that's enough to make students and parents at many strong stem schools very excited, indeed. >> i am doing that! >> reporter: tom foreman, cnn, >> reporter: tom foreman, cnn, washington. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hi, there. i'm brianna keilar sitting in for brooke baldwin. first up, we know that the u.s. will punish syria. after two years and five months of attacks on its own people, president bashar al assad crossed what the u.s. called the red line. one step too far in this civil war using chemical warfare on his own people. today defense secretary chuck hagel told the bbc that the u.s. is ready to go if president obama orders an attack on syria. >> well, as i said, and i think prime minister cameron has said,