and we tweet about it more because it motivates us more. reporter: well, but those of faith say people are a combination of mind and emotion, thinking and feeling, and they use both to decide what makes them happy. guys? jon: fascinating. lauren green, our religious correspondent, thank you. alisyn: all right, well, we are just getting video of american jets at our base in turkey which, of course, borders syria, and officials say that they see no increased activity there. this as the u.s. navy is repositioning several vessels including five cruise missile-carrying destroyers in the eastern med mediterranean. so we are live with all of the breaking developments on the crisis in syria for you next.
amounts to a net negative of $53,000 per participant. the average person who gets training under taa gets one and a half years of job training, and for that they earn less than similar people, they exhaust the unemployment benefits, and they re less likely to find work. reporter: and the taa is set to expire at the end of 2014. jon? jon: dan springer live in seattle, thanks. alisyn: meanwhile, the obama administration is set to brief congress on syria as lawmakers demand to be kept in the loop on any retaliation for the assad regime s use of chemical weapons. a.b. stoddard is going to weigh in on that next. and crews are settling in for a long battle against the massive wildfire at yosemite national park. why firefighters say the flames could take months to put out. the great outdoors.
centers. obviously, israel would be a main target for president bashar al assad if he decided to retaliate. the iranians have already promised that tel aviv and israel will burn if there is a strike on syria and, obviously, syria has chemical weapons, so gas masks are in high demand. the other thing we re seeing is the israelis are quietly moving around their defensive weapons systems including the iron dome missile defense system, the patriot misis sill defense system and putting their reserve troops on standby, ready to be called up in the event they re needed. leaders say we don t think this is going to happen, but we are prepared if it does. alisyn: makes sense. thanks so much for the update. jon? jon: let s go a bit more in depth. should the u.s. take action against syria or not? some foreign policy experts argue we should just stay out of that fight because the civil war amounts to a battle between president assad and al-qaeda. enemy against enemy. peter brooks, senior fellow for
punishment today only if be they enter a plea. they had indicated two weeks ago they wanted to enter no contest, but it s still unclear whether the judge will allow that to be their plea. we ll have the latest at the top of the hour. alisyn: yeah. you can only imagine how traumatic it must be for him to even see a school bus, much less get on it. watching that tape is hard to stomach. reporter: he s still scared. alisyn: yeah, i bet. jon: you can understand why. unequal unemployment as a small group of out-of-work americans gets some very special benefits. why? we re live with that story. plus, we all know the dangers of texting while driving. many states have strong laws against doing it, but what if you re the person who sends a text that a driver is looking at and then has a crash? one state says that person could be held responsible too. is that fair? our legal panel weighs in.
if you can. why would the president, politically speaking, want to go it away? well, politically, it s terrible for him to go into a unilateral operation without an international coalition of allies. right now you have, obviously, no consent from the united nations because they won t be able to get a security council resolution because the chinese and the russians are not going to come onboard to actually go it alone at home without congressional authority and approval, no ownership and buy-in and backup from members of the two parties is going to be very difficult once the strikes begin and we see the consequences, many of them unintended, obviously, of the strikes. there might need to be further, additional strikes depending on what happens in terms of retaliation alisyn: right. and whether or not they actually are able to degrade any kind of weapons, supplier capability in syria. so it s, it is a risk, a huge