organized by coalition group. many blacklisted in pakistan and abroad as terrorist organizations. the international committee of the red cross says it s trying to broker a cease-fire in syria. so it can get access to people ra advantageed by the government 11-month crackdown on dissent. chief washington correspondent james rosen shows us tonight that crackdown seems to be intensifying. reporter: outside mosqu mosques, and houses, amateur video purportedly shows the city of homs absurding the artillery, amid reports that regime tanks in the east are streaming toward the city. damascus, too, is aflame with violence. the uprising against president bashar assad is now in the 12th month. and the death toll according to the u.n. exceeds 5400 with some placing it above 7,000. that fact along with growing defections among syrian army
month. the u.n. general assembly plans to stroet this afternoon on a resolution condemning president assad for the brutal crackdown. our journalists in syria say government forces appear to be losing their tight grip across the northern part of the country. we re going to get a firsthand account on the ground from cnn s ivan watson. reporter: young men and old sit on the ground chain-smoking next to assault rifles, but they say they ve gotten these weapons within the last couple of months. they re trying to protect their communities, their families and villages by laying rings of improvised land mines but they re aware they do not have weaponry to match the tanks or personal carriers and air power of bashar al assad s army. we are learning more about how whitney houston spent her last days. they say she was drinking heavily the week before her body was found in a beverly hills hotel room. hotel guests heard her complaining that her drinks waurpted down. here s what dr. dr
white house briefing room to blast house republicans, blaming them for the gridlock. and let s not play brinksmanship. the american people are weary of it. they re tired of it. minutes later, the house speak, john boehner said, no, this is the democrats fall for refusing to pass a year-long extension. the republican speaker called on the president to order senate democrats back to washington. i need the president to help out, all right? cnn is working its sources on both ends of pennsylvania avenue. chief white house correspondent jessica yellin will join us in a second. first up to capitol hill and dana bash. the president seems to think he has the upper hand here. let me ask you this from a policy perspective. the house went home after this. they think they re on the high ground. do they have a plan b? reporter: plan b is to have the republican gauche yar negotiators to have them out front and center as much as possible, in front of the cameras and put the pressu
what we at the time believed to be his ashes in central park just five days after he died. my name is karen dell ray and i live in new jersey. my dad s name was james thornton, senior. michael mastromarino called my father bm04l125. what that code means is biomedical for bm, 0 4shgs the year my dad passed away, l for the 12th month of the year and 125 is the 125th body they harvested that month. thehe s ruined thousands of people s lives and he s ruined family members who are horrified and have nightmares when they think about what happened. their there s not a day that goes by when i think of him and what they did to him and the hardest thing is that i can t get to any of the good memories.
voted down the infrastructure bill that would have created according to the president thousands of jobs. that s true. the numbers were not nearly as good as we wanted, but they are not as bad as some people like to portray. it is the 12th month that on average be gained with 125,000 jobs. we need to do better. part of the protest to be revenues, cuts, and jobs. we need to grow our way out and not cut our way to a successful growth in our economy. speaker boehner and mitch mcconnell and the rest of the gop continued to do all they can to protect millionaires. this infrastructure bill would only raise kax taxes for.opinion 7% on people making plus a million in income. that s .2% of americans.