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0 maybe something else will still evolve out of this. maybe the things i ve done and am still doing will still shine a light and give them hope at some point. a carnival nightmare. children plunge to the ground when the ride shuts down. good morning, everyone. happy monday. welcome to early start. i m john berman. happy monday! that is nice and cheery. thanks for being with us this morning, it is monday, september 9th, it is 5:00 a.m. if you heard him ahead of time, you would believe he didn t mean it either. nonetheless we will start right away with the latest on syria. it is the beginning of a crucial week. the battle over whether to bomb syria takes place on tv. president obama sits down for key interviews after he was a surprise guest of isn t that true republicans to get author 6:00 for an attack. president assad allowed his first television in america in years. the balance of the power of this debate lies in congress. back in the capital to begin a week of deliberations, the outcome far from certain. the latest cnn count shows the senate equally divided about half of that body still undecided on giving its okay for a strike. only 25 senators say they will vote yes right now. the numbers are even more striking in the house about a third of house members say they definitely plan to vote no. but 25 tell cnn they will give their okay for military action the rest undecided. clearly the president has a long way to go in congress and in the country to win the support he so badly wants. katie murray has our first report. reporter: congress is back to work monday expected to top the agenda, debate and votes on a resolution giving president obama the go ahead to take military action in syria. though, it s far from certain how events will unfold, what does seem clear is the uphill battle the president faces to convince a divided congress. but for once, the divide is not down party lines. democratic representative jim mcgovern says obama should withdraw his request for authorization. we are being told that there two choices. to nothing or bomb syria. clearly there has to be some other choices in between and we ought to explore them. reporter: the senate foreign relations committee passed a measure and the senate could vote on it as early as friday or saturday. the gop leaders say they will wait for the senate to act. the republican chairman of the house and intelligence committee mike rogers supports s obama s call for military action in syria, but says the administration has failed to make its case to congress and the american people. there is a quconfusing mess to this point and i think a challenge on what an important issue and this cannot be about barack obama. it has to be about what is in the best interests of the united states of america. reporter: president obama hasn t said whether he would proceed with a strike should congress vote against his resolution. but white house chief of staff dennis mcdonough says the president has the final say. the president ultimately is going to make this decision in scheduletation with congress on his best time line. the administration is continuing to make its pitch overseas. secretary of state john kerry is in london this morning where he met with britain s foreign minister. the government there officially supports an air strike but parliament says it will not authorize british involvement. kerry met sunday with arab league leaders and announcing that qatar and saudi arabia are backing an intervention but unclear what the two nation might have in what sort of military action against assad and we are seeing part of the administration s case against syria. these images are disturbing. showing what the white house says is the aftermath of the chemical attack. you can clearly see that people are convulsing. not in those particular images. you can see bodies wrapped there. secretary kerry, defense secretary chuck hagel and susan rice are expected to show these images and many more to congress later today. coming up in our next half hour, we will speak to our reporter in london about secretary s trip to europe and if he won any more support for a military strike on the assad regime. we are hearing from bashar al assad himself. the syria president telling charlie rose of cbs and pbs his administration had nothing to do with the chemical attacks. assad suggestses the rebels may have been behind it and says syria may retaliate if it is attacked by the west. one country not planning to strike back is iran. the country s foreign minister is brushing off reports it has asked militants to go after the u.s. embassy saying the world needs a peaceful diplomatic solution to this crisis. where does president obama stand now? we will find out later today. wolf blitzer sits down with the president to talk about the situation in syria and the effort to win over the votes in congress to authorizing military action and coming up at 6:00 p.m. interest and stay tuned at 6:30 for the premiere of crossfire. the panel will debate syria and a lot of issues of today. a big debut tonight at 6:30. not 6:30 a.m. 6:30 p.m. they don t get up like us. i m sorry. did i say p.m.? you did but i m just reiterating. they don t get up early. we want to go to connecticut and very scary moments for parents and their children. they are supposed to be enjoying a fun day at a festival but the fun turned awful when a carnival ride malfunctioned. i heard a big bang. the whole apparatus, the swings came smashing down into the bottom of the swing. i looked to my left and i saw the swing ride. it collapsed. all of these people were there. i actually saw someone fall out of the cart. reporter: this swing ride in norwalk, connecticut, became a dangerous terrifying thriller on sunday when the ride suddenly lost power and sending children to the ground. just injured kids everywhere. the parents ripping out the gate just trying to get to their kids. it was horrible. reporter: sitting in chairs suspended by chains, 13 children were injured, at least two seriously, when the ride malfunctioned. other right side in the annual oyster festival were shut down as a precaution but soon reopened following inspections. portable rides have a very good safety record and the state of connecticut, however, they are only inspected once a year. super amusement owns the ride posted this to their website saying in part the ride suffered a mechanical malfunction and we are continuing to cooperate with authorities as they investigate into the root cause of the accident. the ride was inspected on friday, just two days before the incident. this comes on the heels of a deadly accident in july at six flags amusement park in arlington, texas. a woman fell to her death from the popular ride, the texas giant. known for having one of the steepest drops in the world. there are currently no federal agencies enforcing safety regulations on fixed amusement parks like six flags and some experts are calling for a change. because this particular ride in connecticut was a traveling ride, there will be federal oversight and an amusement ride is an amusement ride and they need to be the same inspection guidelines for amusement rides all across the country. pamela brown, cnn, new york. 91 emergency workers who rushed to the pentagon in shanksville, pennsylvania, on 9/11, are planning for federal compensation and they are also seeking health benefits. even though there are no studies suggesting those sites were never where as toxic as ground zero in lower manhattan, other have applied for the benefits after developing illnesses. the united states spent over 60 billion taxpayer dollars from 2003 to 2012 to rebuild iraq. the job not even done according to stewart bowen. his report on iraq reconstruction says the u.s. spent $15 million a day during the nine-year project, but unexpected security costs left the work incomplete. bowen warns that an attack on syria could leave the u.s. with a rebuilding bill there in the tens of billions. new allegations this morning against the nsa that it targeted private computer networks at google, a bank transfer company, and brazil s state-run oil firm. brazil s global tv says documents leaked by edward snowden says the nsa training manual shows instructions to target those networks and the obama administration are not denying the claim saying the intelligence community roux routinely collects information. dennis rodman told reporters it wasn t his job to ask kim jong-un to release kenneth bay and it was open to president obama and hillary clinton to secure bay s release. rodman used a vulgar anatomical term to describe the president and former secretary of state, but he did reveal the name of kim jong-un s baby daughter and described the north korean dictator as, quote, a good dad. there you go. let s get a check on the forecast. we are hoping for good news but i m looking at like 37 degrees behind you? what is that? a little chilly, right, in the morning? it feels like fall already. kind of cool in the afternoon as well. you start off cold and end up cooler in the afternoon. it will change as a warm-up is on the way. boston about 53 and new york only about 57 and a lot of 30s. 30s! by wednesday talking 90s in the northeast. dome of high pressure that is going to be building into the northeast but that means it will be escaping the midwest. if you think we are hot, look what they are expecting in des moines. 21 degrees boabove normal. they will take that in the northeast to see that relief. i like the idea of getting hot. good for you. serena williams riding high this morning celebrating after picking up her fifth u.s. open championship. literally jumping for joy there. it took nearly three hours. second set i say is one evident best sets of tennis i have ever seen. serena dropped the second set and i thought she was done but fought back hard in the third and clenched her second straight u.s. open title and 17th grand slam crowd and one i didn t know those chris everett and martina navratilova. he was complaining about the wind and she had bad body language. she said, i can t play with that wind. yes, you can! it was not like the wind only affects one side of the court there. she won the third set and it was amazing. she is incredible. i love to see her pick up a few more. steffi graf at 22 grand slams and it seems far away but she could move up that list. i like that too. a teenage prank turns into a horrific tragedy in colorado. how a surprise for a friend ended in blood shed. olympic victory. tokyo celebrating a win this morning. that s when we come back. pop goes the world it goes something like this everybody here is a friend of mine everybody, tell me, have you heard? 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