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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 raj...

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 s...

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 wher...

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 c...

hello and thanks for joining us. i'm frld fr i'm fredricka whitfield. first an update on some of the top stories of the day. ♪ bangkok, thailand, rings in 2012. we're bringing you new year's celebrations from around the world for new year's eve. bangkok holds out all the stops. it's a new year's eve tradition in thailand to set aside this night for total indulgence, they say. and quite the opposite in syria. huge protest crowds are turning out across the country again today. and the death toll has grown. earlier today an activist network reported nine deaths in clashes with secur...