hour two. welcome. i m brooke baldwin. families are reacting as the man accused of carrying out the massacre officials hears the charges against him. 124 counts including two dozen murder charges. we ll talk about that in just a moment. first, to syria. we have been talking about the commercial hub of this country, that being aleppo. so far they have failed to rest control of the city from the increasing confident rebels. take a look at this video. far from hunkering down and taking a pounding. the anti-government rebels attacked this military base. this is north of aleppo. they drove out the government forces and seized all kinds of weapons including several tanks. iran watson is in syria. he witnessed this battle overnight. here is what he said. reporter: the army base was firing in all different directions with machine guns. it was firing big tanks outside hitting the neighbors villages. they called in artillery all the way from aleppo which was a couple of miles down
to and we talked to seven said absolutely not. i would not do this. they all said kind of what you re saying it s a slippery slope but they weren t against it which is the question i have as a parent. what a story. tweet me. i d love to know if you would do this or not. thank you very much. watch sanjay on the weekend here here on cnn. thank you. now our two. top of the hour. all eyes on syria. we are talking about potential cracks in the regime of syria s bashar assad. we ve talked a lot about the city in aleppo. it s the largest city. it s like the new york city. now the rebels claim to have captured this army installation. they released this video via youtube. they claim to have captured yet another police station. what your about to see next is tough to look at. fair warning. this is the aftermath of government shelling. you see blood everywhere. unconfirmed reports say the attack killed 15 people and wounded more than 20. government forces continue sporadic shellin
off of a glacier this week and scientists say it is probably because of global warming, but too early to say for sure. oh children in south africa singing to nelson mandela on today, his 94th birthday. civil rights icon and south africa africa s first black president turns 94 on what is officially mandela day in the country. and what is most important today is what sis happening in syria and the most important development there. a bomb in damascus that killed four officials who were all part of the president s circle. the first man killed is the syrian defense minister who is our equivalentf the ministry of defense and he is killed da wood rajiha, and also is the president s brother-in-law and the president s security adv and all of the men were in a meeting when the bomb went off. cnn does not have reporters or camera crews in syria right now but arwa damon is watching this unfold from beirut, and arwa we are talking about the president s closest advisers and a family
take years to fix. and sanjay gupta joining us live this hour in cambodia where children are dying after 24 hours of hell. how will they fix this? where is the solution? hi, everybody. we start with house republicans renewing their efforts to overturn the affordable care act. you know the thing they call obamacare which was upheld by the supreme court but there s always tomorrow. you re looking at one of the hearings on capitol hill dealing with health care. a whole lot of debate going on tomorrow, because that will set the stage for a vote tomorrow. what you re looking at now, the house ways and means committee. not long from now the house oversight committee is going to tackle the very same subject. our senior congressional correspondent dana bash is in washington live. it s hard to believe that there have been 31 attempts to either tweak, yank, pull, dissect or destroy this thing all together. what is the point of tomorrow s vote? reporter: well, they obviously have fr
meteorologist chad myers monitoring tropical storm debby, chad, debby s proven to be pretty stubborn. not moving really at 5 miles an hour. and it s still spinning at 40 miles an hour. so don t get me wrong, it s still there, but it s not moving along, so when it begins to rain in one spot, it rains for hours. in fact one spot in tallahassee picked up 20 meninches of rain. it s still flooding right now. we re still trying to get crews into these areas to see how bad it is. east of panama city, near the panhandle of florida, but not all the way to jacksonville. this is the latest, the 11:00 advisory, east at 3 miles an hour. it doesn t even make landfall until 8:00 tomorrow morning and it s only about 60 miles away from shore. it s going to take a long time to get across the body here of florida, then back out into the ocean and then eventually turning on up into the northeast. and when it gets out here, these are spinning again, because it turns into a tropical storm again,