number on that, anderson. it s over 80% of those people who are contracting measles are because they did not get vaccinations. so measles is probably one of the the best examples of sort of cause and effect. if you vaccinate you ll see the numbers go down dramatically. if you don t the numbers go up. let me point out something elsing anderson. in the year 2000 we almost got to the point where we said look, we ve eradicated measles. there was no evidence really of person-to-person transmission. over the last several years you have about 50 to 60 cases a year. so far as you point out, 159 cases if this trajectory continues thissee year, this will be the fwhors two decades for measles cases. just those who underestimate how strong measles can be and how serious it is, explain it. it s very contagious. so if there is a child, for example, who s not been vaccinated and they come in contact with someone who has
deaths of four people found in a car in rural tennessee. cumberland county prosecutors say they will seek charges against jacob allen bennett. three of the victims were teenagers, the fourth was a 22-year-old mother. crowds gather in india as a judge sentenced four men to death for the gang rape of a 23-year-old woman in new delhi last december whose wound were so severe she later died. the case made headlines around the world. united airlines says it will honor tickets mistakenly sold online for 5 to $10 on thursday. they said human error is to blame for the great deals not a computer glitch. an update on the ikea monkey. a canadian judge has ruled the monkey must stay at an animal sanctuary and can t go back to the woman who illegally bought him and kept him at home. that is until december 2012 when the monkey was found running around outside a toronto ikea store in an faux coat and diaper, anderson. monkey s name is darwin.
that is until december 2012 when the monkey was found running around outside a toronto ikea store in an faux coat and diaper, anderson. monkey s name is darwin. i think we should use his name. very well dressed. well, the shearling coat set me over the edge. originally i thought the monkey had escaped naked and picked up the shearling coat in ikea. but then i realized they don t sell coats. up next, really kind of a stunning development. measles cases in the united states are on the rise. this year on track to be the worst in nearly two decades. health officials said they know what s behind this spike and it s basically parents not vaccinating their kids. i ll talk to dr. sanjay gupta about why. hundreds of defenseless dogs rescued from a brutal dog fighting ring. we ll see how they re now being lovingly cared for.
the pentagon. how big is this disagreement, chris, among the intelligence officials and what does it mean for any action the u.s. might have to take against syria? reporter: it gets pretty wide, anderson. on one end of the spectrum, some analysts have looked at the intelligence and say they know where most of the chemical weapons are. on the other hand, other analysts have looked at it and say, the united states may not be able to verify the location of up to half of syria s chemical weapons. so we re talking about 1,000 tons, this is a lot of chemical weapons. what they all agree on is that there was siff significant movement of these chemical materials in that time frame when the president seemed to be ramping up the united states foreign air strike. in fact, the wall street journal is reporting that an elite unit of the syrian army moved some of these chemical stockpiles to up to 50 sites. and it s important no matter how this shakes out, if this all works out with the u.n. and
wage this war against a president assad who we said had to go. we ve done very little to make him go. so i think our position has been quite weak. and the threat of using military force against assad with resistance coming, strong resistance coming from the people of this country and from the congress makes it very difficult for the president. he could launch an attack against certain assets of assad. but he would do so after having asked congress for authority and then not getting it would be very difficult for him politically. we ll continue to watch what happens tomorrow. secretary cohen, appreciate your expertise. thank you. good to have you on the program as always. secretary cohen mentioned syria may already be moving its weapons around. there s disagreement right now within the intelligence community about where some of that enormous arsenal is located. chris lawrence is following that side of the story tonight from the pentagon. how big is this disagreement, chris, among th