president look at the map. it s the most complicated neighborhood in the world and every time you think it can t get worse, it does. john king, candy crowley, gloria borger, thank you so much for this. our breaking news will continue right now with jim acosta. jim? thanks, brianna. a game changer in syria s civil war. the white house confirms that the assad regime has used chemical weapons more than once. what president obama will do. plus, a raging colorado wildfire. now residents of a major city are at risk. and a stunning confession by a man who says he killed more than 30 people since he was 16 years old. wolf blitzer is off today. i m jim acosta. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you re in the situation room. the breaks news this hour, the obama white house now says
change his response to the syrian crisis and has agreed to engage in some sort of military support for the syrian rebels there but ben rhodes, one of the president s senior officials and his national security council, would not specify exactly what they will be doing next. that leaves open the option of directly arming the rebels there, providing training to the rebels, or perhaps offering even more aid. we ll have to see in the coming days. jim, one of the reasons this might be happening right now is because in just a few days the president leaves to go to europe and meet with the leaders of france and england, the g-8 leaders who will be pressing him on syria, the next step in syria. he can discuss this with them there. jim? jessica, thanks. let s bring in cnn pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. i was listening in on that conference call with ben rhodes
enough because he believes if assad wins he wants them to take out their air space. what are the complications with the chemical weapons that you see? i mean, this is the main concern when you re being looking at syria. there are caches of chemical weapons stored all over the country athey are very dangerous. it would take 20,000 troops if you went in there. that s why the president doesn t want to put troops on the ground. he doesn t think the country is ready to support that, that the military wants that, that s why you have urgent conversations with the brits, the allies, what will you do? if we come in and arm the rebels, and maybe put some covert operatives on the ground to locate things to try to make sure which they would never announce or discuss if we do these things, will you do more? as the president crosses that red line, assad has crossed it.
murder. an alleged hit man s startling confessions about killings for the cartels. i m jim acosta. wolf blitzer is off today and you re in the situation room. our breaking news, the white house says syria has used chemical weapons multiple times crossing the obama administration s red line. the intelligence community has determined that the nerve agent sarin was used by the syrian regime killing up to 150 people. president obama has decided to provide more help to syria s rebels, including military support. let s go live now to frederick pleitgen. this is just breaking. what are you hearing? reporter: yeah, it s very limited at this point in time. of course, they are all hard to get in touch with. i ve been talking to very syrian
our breaking news in the situation room, the white house notifies congress that syria has used chemical weapons multiple times breaking that red line set by the administration. officials say sarin gas was used leading to the deaths of 100 to 150 people. let s go inside of syria. fred, i understand as you await to be in touch with rebel leaders there, you have been able to get in touch with the syrian government. how are they reacting to this development? reporter: the syrian government for a very long time has been selling me they were not the ones who used chemical weapons, they claim it was the rebels who used chemical weapons. they said they were to go to the unions. they also said they wouldn t let