Everyone acknowledges their use. No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks. In syria. The president believes and i believe that those who use chemical weapons against defenseless men, women and children should, and must, be held accountability. The of accountable. The Vice President making it very clear the administrations intentions. Pathy culhane describes why the president has been hesitant to get involved. The president will respond to this the use of chemical weapons in syria. But the goal is not to get rid of syrian president Bashar Alassad but to send him a message. Regime change. They say no decision has been made but they say most likely it will involve cruise missiles not chemical weapons stock piles. A limited strike is unlikely to change the direction or the mowments in syria. In terms of shifting momentum on the ground its not likely. I think that targeted strikes are really more powerful in terms of the signaling
Indra petersons is tracking what you need to know. Security breach at home depot. Tens of millions of customers may have had their credit card information stolen. A cyber attack that could be bigger than any other and went on more months without noticed. Were breaking it all down. Biggest breach ever. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Im Christine Romans. 5 00 a. M. In the east. Lets start with the hack of the retailers payment system. This time, home depot. Tens of millions of consumers could be affected in the data breach. Home depot says hackers remained inside computers unnoticed for five months dating back to april. In that time, they stole credit card data. No evidence yet they stole debit card pins. It affected customers shopping at brick and mortar stores. That is everybody. Not homedepot. Com. No official confirmation of how many people have had information stolen. The information we have could be 20 million more than hacked the target breach. What happened if you shoppe
Lets go to our Becky Anderson in abu dhabi for the very latest. Becky . Reporter thank you very much indeed. Were live in the gulf. Apologize for the noise. Theres a military airport close to the cnn bureau here and its awfully windy. But these are the first air strikes yet on militants inside of syria, and they are being carried out now by the u. S. And five, five arab partner nations. The focus is on the militants selfpro gamed cclaimed capital raqqah. The pentagon is using tomahawk cruise missiles with air strikes from bombers and fighter jets. And a senior u. S. Official tells cnn so far theres been no interfeerns from Syrian Government forces, i spoke with jim sciutto just a short time ago. This is what he said. Multiple officials tonight, the start of this strike meant to be a decisive blow, going at key targets of isis, targets in the area of commandandcontrol, and resupplying. Where fighters and commanders might have been holed up for the night. This starting at nighttime, over
New competition designed to jump start invasion and manufacturing. Fitting on this National Manufacturing day. Bet you didnt know about that. The white house where the ebola News Conference will also be held and its where we find our own kristin welker. Lets start with those jobs numbers first. The white house has to be pretty happy about that. Oh, they are. As you mentioned, president obamas going to use that Steel Manufacturing plant to taut these strong numbers we are seeing this month. Hes particularly going to focus on manufacturing, which has added 700,000 jobs since 2010. Really helped to bring back some of the higher paying jobs. So its been key to restoring the economy and the economic recovery. Having said that, he has to walk a fine line. Of course, this is a strong report but a lot of americans saying they still dont feel the results of the economic roefr recovery. This comes at a good time for the president. Hes been dealing with a number of crises from fighting isis to eb
Fire. We wont show you these violent images but well have more detail on what happens in that video in a moment. Bill pane iraqi womb and the terrorists were using as a bargaining chip was hanged. Martha a Top Republican lawmaker says he believes King Abdullah will act in a way president obama has not. This president is not going to act. The only reason this is different than the american beheadings is King Abdullah is not barack obama and hes going to act and take the fight to isis. He has shown that over and over. Bill how else is jordan expected to react . Reporter jordanian officials are taking a hard firm stance against the fight against isis. A progovernment newspaper says there should be no truce no forgiveness of isis. The government will retaliate and be strong. But in addition to executing these two individuals. Including sajida alrihawi there is no word on what jordan will do. Jordan inside the country there always lot of concern about getting drawn into a larger regional wa