city the 70s by tomorrow, we could be seeing low 70s. here is the big thing overnight lows are dropping way down, 20s and 30s in upstate new york and new england. we could be talking about frost which seems so early to be talking about this but overnight tonight, improved tomorrow morning. little chilly. indra thanks so much. we are close to the top of the hour which means it is time for your top news. there s no doubt that we ve kind of hit a wall in terms of additional progress. president obama goes into the lions den. he s in russia at this hour, meeting vladimir putin shortly. what the president needs to say. while at home a senate committee approves a strike on syria. danger on the roads, dare devil drivers racing around a major u.s. city trying to make the best time and filming it all. food warnings, two new
scrutinized to see if there is a thaw in their increasingly icy relati relationship. we ll cover this story like no other network can. brianna keilar live in st. petersburg. brianna? good morning, chris. well, president obama has touched down in russia and already begun his first official one-on-one meeting with the key ally. but it s another meeting that is not scheduled, but is likely to happen informally. one with russian president vladimir putin that is getting attention. president obama and russian president vladimir putin are set to come face-to-face at the annual meeting of g-20 leaders as big decisions loom over military action in syria. obama defending his position to launch strikes. i didn t set a red line. the world set a red line when governments representing 98% of the world s population said the
he suffered more, starved to death. you ll hear from others coming up. two more than health alerts, a major recall of ayogurt and a new study says you should not wash chicken before you cook it. plus look at this man paying at a gas station when suddenly a car crashes into the front, missing him wait for it misses him by mere inches. we re going to tell you what exactly happened. more on this amazing story coming up. holy cow. up first, the showdown in st. petersburg. president obama arriving for the g-20 summit. he and vladimir putin set to meet within hours. it is hard to overstate just how high tensions are between the two leaders and in the past 24 hours, it s gotten even worse. cnn s global coverage of the crisis in syria begins with senior white house correspondent brianna keilar traveling in st.
reporter: putin remains vehemently opposed. casting doubt of the evidence the u.s. government says it has against the seyrian regime. saying, if we have precise data of who is responsible for these crimes then we ll react. russia is not alone. britain and germany are also refusing to endorse military action, this is the highest tensions have been between the two world powers since the cold war. we will have a very bad patch if there is a military attack on syria and i think we can expect some frosty time. reporter: russia and syria have been strong allies for decades. russia is very close to syria, they provide and buy weapons from each other, kind of a client state. reporter: the conflict over syria just the tip of the iceberg in the rift between world leaders. obama canceled his private meeting with putin several weeks ago after russia refused to extradite nsa leaker edward snowden.
thursday, september 5th. coming up, face-off on syria, president obama and russian president vladimir putin at the g-20 summit in st. petersburg but keeping their distance. we ll talk with zha reed zakaria with if the leaders can find common ground. fasten your seat belt, video showing a driver speeding recklessly around the streets of manhattan, running red lights, cutting people off. the cops have some questions for this person understandably. we ll talk about it. lots of news for you this morning, let s get to michaela. mick? we ll tell you the headlines right now. meet at lies as chris mentioned just a moment ago, president obama now in st. petersburg, russia, for the annual g-20 summit where syria, not the global economy, is center stage. there are no plans officially for the president and russian president vladimir putin to meet one on one to discuss differences on syria but the white house says they ll talk on the margins of the meeting. meanwhile the senate foreign relati