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today three people are still missing and we re expecting an update any minute from officials. we re following these major developing stories and more all coming in right here to cnn news central. a big vote on capitol hill as soon as tonight. these two republican u.s. senators, florida s rick scott and utah s mitt romney, just told cnn s manu raju, the goal is to get a final vote on that debt ceiling bill tonight. it would go to the president s desk to be signed into law just ahead of that monday deadline or the government would otherwise run out of money to pay its bills. manu raju is on capitol hill covering this from the beginning. is that where the momentum, to get that done tonight so senators can go home for the weekend and don t want to interrupt their weekend plans? yeah, the smells of jet fumes in the air in the senate tonight as a push to get this done is intense. in fact john thune, number two republican who s deep in these negotiations to try to ensure t ....
We re establishing diplomatic connections with iran. what is the state of the u.s./iranian relationship there, and has the chances of a direct confrontation increased given a revelation such as this? i think what we re talking about here in this case with the washington post article appeared the potential leaks through the teixeira accounts is not just engagement with irch di iran directly but the paramilitary groups they use, in this case syria. the thing that got my attention was an increase in the use of something called efps, explosively formed penetrators. this is an explosive device that truthfully ours troops, my troops, as militia came across the border and used these. these are extremely dangerous weapons. they re much more deadly than a ....
United states government now knows at least 1,429 syrians were killed in this attack, including at least 426 children. even the first responders, doctors, nurses and medics who tried to save them, they became victims themselves. we saw them gasping for air, terrified that their own lives were in danger. this is the in ddiscriminate, n inconceivable horror of chemical weapons. secretary of state john kerry laying out the case syria has indeed used chemical weapons as recently as nine days ago against innocent civilians including women and children. 1400 people were killed, according to the secretary, and he says it is in controvertible evidence, based on three things, ....
voices the regime of bashar al assad has for 14 months tried to silence with batons and bullets and mortars and murder. these are men, women and children who 14 months ago began raising their voices, asking semifor change, reform. an end to corruption, discrimination. basic freedoms that most of us in the world take for granted. they spoke out peacefully and were with met with tear gas, tanks and torture. there s no more talk of peace were of reform. now they fight back. they ll not stop, they say, until bashar al assad and his regime of lies has fallen. just over 300 yards from where i m standing is the syrian border. you can see lights in the distance. that s syria, that s how close we are. the syrian regime does not want us here, they refused our request for visas to enter syria, as they have for many months now. we wanted to come so that you could hear the voices that they have tried so long to distance. children who have lost their parents. mothers and fathers who ....
basic freedoms that most of us in the world take for granted. they spoke out peacefully and were with met with tear gas, tanks and torture. there s no more talk of peace were of reform. now they fight back. they ll not stop, they say, until bashar al assad and his regime of lies has fallen. just over 300 yards from where i m standing is the syrian border. you can see lights in the distance. that s syria, that s how close we are. the syrian regime does not want us here, they refused our request for visas to enter syria, as they have for many months now. we wanted to come so that you could hear the voices that they have tried so long to distance. children who have lost their parents. mothers and fathers who have seen their kids shot to death in the streets in front of them. the refugee camps in turkey are well run. they re probably the cleanest refugee camps i have seen, but they re miserable places. nearly everyone here has lost a loved one. we ve been visiting the camps ....