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reporter: absolutely. jon: thank you. reporter: certainly. jenna: thousands of people evacuated from their homes as a massive wildfire carves a path of destruction through parts of colorado. this is a big, big story, a very dangerous situation for that state. we ll have the latest coming up. and the violence as well growing today in syria with the president s red line now in the rearview. what s next for our role in the bloody role? what about iran in all of this? the broader regional prospect? we re going to be discussing that next hour. what makes your family smile? backflips and cartwheels. love, warmth. here, try this. backflips and camm, ok!s. ching! i like the fact that there s lots of different tastes going on. mmmm! breakfast i m very impressed. this is a great cereal!
stakes politics game about who will eventually run syria, to date more than 200,000 syrian refugees have fled to turkey. in the meantime, turkey has its own internal problems seeing its biggest protests in decades. those all started over plans to redevelop the park and became much bigger than just that. leland vittert is live in the istanbul is more. reporter: this is the park, jenna, and if these protesters are showing any signs of standing down, we haven t seen it here. go ahead and take a look beyond me. i m going to have the photographer pan over and show you this large crowd that is continuing to gather here. 6:35 right now in the afternoon on friday in istanbul, and the crowds are flowing. a lot of these are young professionals. we ve talked to chemical engineers, doctors, accountants, lawyers who are not only angry at the plans to revamp the park, but also the pictures coming out of istanbul over the past couple of weeks that we ve been showing you these major clashes between
chemical weapons, that s a drop in the bucket compared to the slaughter that s been going on in syria. take a listen to mccain. with we ve determined that bashar assad has killed about 100-150 people with chemical weapons. how did he kill the other 93,000? it s just what the president did was he gave them a red line but gave them a green light to do everything else. reporter: now, the other factor in all of this is that in a couple of days the president will be heading to northern ireland for the g8 summit, sitting down with allies from britain, france, others who have been saying for days and weeks now that they had already come to the determination that bashar al assad had used chemical weapons, so there had been pressure to acknowledge what our allies had been saying, and we expect we may hear more early next week on all of this. jon: lots of decisions yet to be announced, obviously. ed henry at the white house, thank you. some context now on what we know about syria s chemi
flexibility some want a little bit more flexibility in the negotiations with the west. by the way, iran s role in syria is not coming up in this campaign at all. the results from this round are expected tomorrow. no one is thought to be getting the necessary 50%, and that will then lead to a runoff next week. again, though, many including secretary of state kerry who spoke out on this question the validity of this vote. we heard from eye ayatollah khai today. he responded to the u.s. and i quote what he said and pretty much sums up the iranian attitude: to hell with you. finish. [laughter] back to you, jon. jon: greg talcott from london, thank you. jenna: strong words there. over the last few months our government is increasingly concerned about iran. in fact, in may the state department released its country report on terrorism pointing to, quote: a marked resurgence of iran s state sponsorship of terrorism through its us rally revolutionary guard corps or the