if you re in the sun why would you do that? we don t need to get too deep into this. we ll have to nauk the break. good morning, everyone. here s what we re dealing with this morning. trouble travel spot has to deal with the minneapolis area. we have a little bit of light rain from rochester to bing hampton. the heat, yesterday was it was 108 in nebraska. all that hot air that s been out there even denver was 100 yesterday is now going to start spreading to the ohio valley. it s going to continue very hot today. 95 in chicago. just starting the warm things up. d.c. getting up into the mid to upper 80s. boston and new york holding on to one more day of these coolish type temperatures, and then you ll really notice things getting hot into wednesday. boston hasn t even had a day in the 90s yet and we re expecting
double ditch. michelle obama doing work with the rope a bit later in the show. first let s get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. on a full slate of international crisis at this year s g-20 summit, one has overshadowed the rest. the civil war in syria. president obama will meet mete with the chinese president to discuss a way to ease bashar alassad out of power and end the violence that has gripped the country for more than a year. china and russia have resisted the idea and have been the two key obstacles to international intervention in syria. effectively using their veto power to block u.n. security council votes that would authorize any action. in a two-hour meeting yesterday, president obama and russian president vladimir putin agree that the violence has to end but offered no solution as to how that would happen, and they did not discuss the fate of syrian president assad, whose removal has been called the only way forward by america and many of its european allies. we dis
created to prevent civil war and the kind of horrific deaths that we ve seen over the last several weeks, and we pledge to work with other international actors, including the united nations and all interested parties in trying to find a resolution to this problem. the body language, by the way, between the two presidents, noticeably chilly, stiff. both leaders sitting back in their chairs, rarely making eye contact, not smiling, sharing only a terse handshake at the end. it was their first face to face meeting in three years, as chuck todd pointed out, it was a stark contrast to the relationship between president obama and putin s predecessor, often seen chatting and laughing together. that has been your body language analysis this morning on way too early. the white house warned not to read too much into the men s relationship. this isn t the first body language will have gate that we ve had with the russians. president medvedev, who president obama has a great relatio
captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. axelrod: good evening. i m jim axelrod. all but certain republican presidential romney mitt romney made an appeal today to evangelical christians, a group whose whose support he will certainly need if he is to prevail in the fall. romney traveled to the largest evangelical college in the world to reach out. chip reid joins us now. chip, good evening. reporter: well,ing good evening, jim. mitt romney has struggled to win over evangelical christians in part because many evangelicals believe mormonnism, romney s faict, is a religious cult. today romney emphasized the shared values of two very different branches of christianity. people of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose when there are so many differences in creed and theology. reporter: their different faiths can meet, romney contended, by way of a common world view based on christian values. there is
presidential romney mitt romney made an appeal today to evangelical christians, a group whose whose support he will certainly need if he is to prevail in the fall. romney traveled to the largest evangelical college in the world to reach out. chip reid joins us now. chip, good evening. reporter: well,ing good evening, jim. mitt romney has struggled to win over evangelical christians in part because many evangelicals believe mormonnism, romney s faict, is a religious cult. today romney emphasized the shared values of two very different branches of christianity. people of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose when there are so many differences in creed and theology. reporter: their different faiths can meet, romney contended, by way of a common world view based on christian values. there is no greater force for good in the nation than christian conscience in action. reporter: romney said the word christ, christian,