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0 that does it for this edition of ac 360. ea early start begins right no. v a great day. what kind of world would we live in if the united states of america sees a dictator brazenly violate international law with poison gas and we choose to look the other way? the high-stakes prime time speech as the syrian crisis shifts by the minute. what changed overnight since the president made his latest case to the american people? my name is matthew cordle. and on june 22nd, 2013, i hit and killed vincent canzani. he confessed to the world that he killed a man while driving drunk. now, this ohio man is facing a judge. and how about a ticket to mars? one way. hundreds of thousands of signing up to be part of very first martian colony, if it sounds like a bad reality show, it is. seriously, no, i m not going, thank you. bye, john berman. you can tweet us. my million-mile trip to mars. good morning, welcome to early start. we re glad you re with us, i m zoraida sambolin. and i m john berman. it s 5:00 a.m. in the east. let s start with president obama sending a message to the american people and the assad regime in syria. addressing the nation last night, the president laid out some of his case for strikes against syria but cautiously embraced a russian plan to try diplomacy first. here s briana keerl. reporter: from the east room tuesday night, president obama told americans why his administration is certain syrian president ba bashar al assad regime is responsible for a sarin gas attack the u.s. government said killed more than 1400 civilians. in the days leading up to august 21st weshg know assad s chemical weapons personnel prepared for an attack near an area where they mix sarin gas. they distributed gas masks to their troops. then they fired rockets from a regime-controlled area into 11 neighborhoods that the regime has been trying to wipe clear of opposition forces. reporter: he made the case for a military response. this would be a targeted strike to achieve a clear objective. some members of congress have said there s no point in doing simply a pin prick strike in syria. let me make something clear. the united states military doesn t do pinpricks. even a limited strike will send a message to assad that no other nation can deliver. reporter: but facing a likely defeat in hong for a military strike, the president then argued against military action pointing to a russian-brokered proposal for syria to give up its chemical weapons. i have therefore asked leaders of congress to postpone a vote for the leaders of force while we pursue this diplomatic path. reporter: it s an extraordinary turn of events. the policy of u.s. involvement in syria s civil war began with one reportedly off-the-cough rourke that president obama made a year ago. a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. reporter: and it has unexpectedly turn on what appears to be another. is there anything at this point that his government would do or offer that would stop an attack? sure. he could turn over every single built of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week, but he isn t about to do it. and it can t be done, obviously. reporter: what one u.s. official initially called an off-message comment by kerry, it bore the proposal that russia that the president has yet to endorse. it s too early to tell whether this offer will succeed. and any agreement must verify that the assad regime keeps its commitments. but this initiative has the potential to remove the threat of chemical weapons without the use of force, particularly because russia is one of assad s strongest allies. reporter: brianna keilar, cnn, washington. secretary of state john kerry is set to travel to geneva tomorrow to talk about all of this, the latest syria proposal with the russian foreign minister. but what about the syrian regime itself can, can it be trusted to turn over the chemical weaponses? officials say they plan to sign on with the chemical weapons accord. so is this a capitulation or a stall tactic? nic robertson following that part of the story from beirut this morning. nic, what s the latest? reporter: well, the syrian state tv didn t take president obama s speech. what did they run was a ticker that said obama asked for a vote allowing for the russian gloam has to take over. his is a country whose president just owe the weekend who said they couldn t confirm or deny whether or not they have chemical weapons. now the foreign minister is saying they re willing to open up those stock files international analysts, international inspectors as well for the country to sign the chemical weapons convention. translator: i am authorized to reiterate our support for russia s initiative regarding the syrian chemical weapons, in compliance for the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. and to reaffirm syria s willingness to fully cooperate in implementing this initiative. reporter: and, of course, a reality is there s a war going on in the country. difficult to imagine how any inspectors could get into the country. so syria really seems to be taking advantage of russia s initiative here. but is it a stalling tactic? certainly, the opposition thinks so. the gulf countries that want to see the convention taking over. 76 people died in syria yesterday. and the world is missing the point. that s what we re hearing from the gulf countries, john. and to turn officer the chemical weapons, it would take some kind of enorm us in international presence inside syria that doesn t yet exist, although that s part of these details that are yet to be worked out? reporter: well, absolutely. i mean, syria has dozens, we re told, of chemical weapons stockpiles around the country. some of them are in zones or close to zones where there is fighting. look at the inspectors who were in those areas a few weeks ago they were shot at. they go into multiple site, they would need protection, tens if not hundreds of thousands of some diplomats to get boots on the ground to secure the inspections teams on the ground. look what happened at iraq. the narrative, of course, there weren t chemical weapons in iraq. but, look, i was there when the weapons inspectors were going on at the sites. the concern is when they go in the front door, what goes out the back doory they ve inspected the site but who s there to secure the site? what dot authorities do, do they run the weapons off and hide them somewhere else? so it s a very, very difficult to get into to control such is a massive undispersed stockpile of weapons, john. and it may involve greater u.s. involvement. nic robertson watching the situation in beirut. thank you so much. what whole concept of boots on the ground nobody wants. breaking overnight an explosion in benghazi, libya. on one of the country s main streets. that blast happening a year after an attack on the diplomatic outpost in benghazi. that attack left four americans including ambassador christopher stevens dead. it s unclear if anyone was killed or hurt in that explosion. a new report claims that extremist groups including al sa reya. and they believe terrorist groups targeted the consulate in advance of the attacks. numerous have been identified and several sealed indictments have been issued in recent months. well, it is september 11th, and that means solemn ceremonies across the country to mark the 12th anniversary of taxi on the world trade center and the pentagon and shankville, pennsylvania. we have a live picture from the world trade center site. the 9/11 memorial, many will pause there, and at the pentagon in shankville to remember the dead and to remember all of the heroes. the world trade center site looks very different today than after the attack. this time video shows construction of the new one world trade center rising 104 stories and almost complete. it is expected to open next year. they will is shine those lights. i was just over, the museum is as expected to open next year as well. it s amazing the work they ve done at that site. 12 years. the white house easing sanctions against iran for the second time this year. humanitarian services, goodwill activity and athletic exchanges all relaxed. the obama administration is calling it a commitment to reinforcing ties. and it may have something to do with the new iranian president hassoun asanni who wants more with the u.s. and the records show the nsa routine avoided court procedures by tracking thousands of phone calls for a three-year period without determining if the calls could be connected to the new york times. no one had a full understanding of how the tracking program actually operated. breaking news from the tropics. indeeria petersons is here. good morning to you. i m looking at breaking news. what? what s going jon we have the first hurricane. we were so close to breaking the record for the latest hurricane possible, that was gustav in 2002 it formed at 8:00 in the morning today. unfortunately, if you re trying to beat the record, 75-mile-per-hour winds for humberto you can see currently moving to the north-northwest at 8 miles an hour. it s far out in the atlantic. take a look at the cone here still hanging on but eventually turning into the west and weakening in cooler waters. two things not good for hurricanes which we do not like hurricanes. keep in mind, as gabrielle reforms, we have a tropical storm out there. and maybe bringing heavy rain into nova scotia, but not before dumping heavy rain in bermuda today. and other big story, the heat. look at the morning temperatures, not the afternoon highs. we want to see how above normal we re expected to be. pittsburgh, 11 degrees above normal. d.c., 95 degrees, 14 above normal. things are always changing here. it s not going to last very long. indeeria dragging herself out of the sick bed to bring us the breaking weather news. we appreciate it. here s a question this morning, would you want to live out the rest of your life on mars? no. more than 200,000 people worldwide now say yes, sign me up. they have submitted their video applications to be part of the mars one procht. under 50,000 of those folks are from the united states. a committee will whittle down the list when all is said and done, only 2,000 will take part in the rigorous training that will eventually have them blasting off for mars in 2023. and they never return back to earth. the organizers say they may pay for it with a reality show. i don t want to editorialize here, but i think this is a load of fill in the blanks here. i don t think anyone s going to mars. sign. you it s so much fun to talk about it. a reality show and a ton of money. what are they going to do with all that money? absolutely. they re not going to mars. good luck with your endeavor. to be completely objective, i hope it works out but it s not going to. coming up, his deadly drunk driving confession went viral. but now this ohio man must explain himself to a judge. and i m really excited about this. it s a possible breakthrough treatment for women in the earliest stages of breast cancer. we have all the details coming up for you next. but going back to school is hard. because you work. now, capella university offers a revolutionary new way to get your degree. it s called flexpath and it s the most direct path, leveraging what you ve learned on the job and focusing on what you need to know so you can get a degree at your pace. and graduate at the speed of you. flexpath from capella university learn more at capella.edu