center of demamascus and the ars that were hit. the president said there are three things that need to happen before the united states takes further action. they ve got to verify this chemical strike. they ve got to have a u.n. mandate and a coalition to work with before they do more. how much time would you give the president an tell us what his options are that would be effective in this case. i don t think the president is in a hurry to plunge into syria s killing field. i think he s correct to try to find if chemical weapons were use and who used chemical weapons in the eastern suburb of damasc damascus. we have no independent evidence. we have reports, very credible reports as we have seen the images in the last few days. regardless of whether a gas was
how complicated the situation is. do take care of yourself. what are the options here? you have a air strike, the cruise missile strike. are there any options for protecting the people? i know in the united states, particularly senator mccain has been calling for military strikes. once american bombs fall into a damasc damascus, the dynamics would change. this would exacerbate the situation. it would change the dynamics from the anti-assad into the american situation. that s why i think president obama is correct. we re going to have to cut you off. i m sorry. we re returning out of time
happening now in the newsroom. picture of the morning, color curiosity red. successfully landing overnight to cheers, hugs and tears. nasa erupting with pride this morning. an amazing feat and an amazing view. deadly strike at nascar. lightning killing one and injuring nine others. severe storms forcing 85,000 fans to run for cover. startling new images from space showing just how much pollution crosses the pacific into america. nearly half of all the smoke and dust and ash and pollen above us coming from more than 7,000 miles away. and bad behavior to bolt. someone threw a beer bottle a beer bottle at jamaican olympic sprinter usain bolt. who does something like that? newsroom starts right now. and good morning to you. thank you for joining us this monday morning. i m carol costello. we begin with new details on the bloody rampage at a sikh temple and the man who opened fire. as mourners lit candles and honored the six people killed, a troubling image emerges of
colorado, this morning after a mass shooting at a batman movie premiere. so far, 12 dead. and 38 injured. as a community searching for answers. a special edition of cnn newsroom starts right now. hello, everyone. i m in for carol costello. we welcome viewers from around the world watching on cnn international. a night at the movies turned into a night of terror for moviegoers in colorado after a gunman opens up a rampage. and here is the latest of what we know. gunshots erupted just outside of denver in an aurora, colorado, theater during an early morning screening of the dark knight rises. that is the new batman movie. 12 people are dead, 28 more wounded. a 3-month-old baby is among the wounded. police have a suspect in custody, a young man. a witness saw that man burst into the theater. somebody kicked in the emergency exit and started throwing gas grenade sais and started shooting people at random. was it movie theater number nine? number nine, which is the one
damasc damascus. and they were not lying. it was a great place to visit a few years ago. what about vogue magazine building up his family and glamorizing it. exactly. then when pushed and cornered, i don t know if it was an evil streak within bashar al assad himself or if he became a prisoner of his inner circle or as i said earlier, a little bit of both i suspect. but this regime started behaving like saddam hussein s regime in the worst days. there s really no way to go back from there. i wish there was some place to go. some old sandals where we could dump these guys and sandals? wouldn t have this many people killed in the end. it seems these guys go down and tens of thousands of people go down with them. chemical weapons are the biggest concern. syria has a lot of chemical weapons. and the big concern is syria could use them. it s not like a nuclear weapon. you can use chemical weapons for