Syria. Well tell what you they focus on and when their final analysis will be complete. President obama said today in the white house rose garden he has made a decision on what he wants to do to syria after that governments alleged use of chemical weapons. After careful deliberation, i have decided that the United States should take military action against Syrian Regime targets. This would not be an openend the intervention. We would not put boots on the ground. Instead our action would be designed to be limited in duration and scope. But i am confident that we can hold the assad regime accountable for their use of chemical weapons. Deter this kind of behavior and degrade their capacity to carry it out. Before that can happen, however, the president said he will seek congressional approval. Mike joins us live now from the white house. Given that the president himself, mike, said today that he has authority to act without congress, take us behind the white house strategy and thinking in
5 00 a. M. Begins now. Live and in hd, this is good morning washington, on your side. Good morning. Tuesday, december 18. I am cynne simpson. I am scott thuman. Lets get to a meteorologist jacqui jeras. , but its working its way out. It will improve gradually day, so bethe patient. Half of the day looks a lot better. You can see the clouds lingering. We have a little patchy fog developed across the area. Well off to our west. Possibility of this morning as well. 50 degrees in manassas, 48 in culpeper, and 55 in fredericksburg, 48 in gaithersburg. For today, clouds and fog will t through midmorning. Turning mostly cloudy by noon, 58 degrees. Cloudy by 5 00 with 53 degrees. The sevenday forecast, in a few minutes. First, traffic with jamee whitten. Good morning. A quiet start. O problems on interstate 95 in virginia. No. The through stafford and our and over theg inoquan and here we are springfield. 395. E trip continues on to the beltway is running without any problems in virginia and m
Tonight the dreaded s word snowquester. Hundreds of schools closed and its heading your way. If wall streets doing so well, why are you still stuck in neutral . And the death of venezuelas hugo chavez. What it means for america and the rest of the world. Ill ask barbara walters. Also a side of the gun debate you may not have heard. Parents heartbroken by newtown who say the nra can be part of the solution. A man disagrees but never leaves home without his gun. This guy has a secret to winning. Tom coughlin, one of the toughest coaches in the nfl. Preparation is the key to success. Plus hes worn out his oscar welcome but shes hollywoods golden girl, Kristin Chenoweth. This is piers morgan tonight. Good evening. Breaking news tonight including a record smashing day for the dow and the death of venezuelas president hugo chavez, more on that in a moment but we begin with a store thats got people nervously eyeing the skies, but with good reason. A monster snowstorm has been dumping heavy sn
Chaos. I urge the protesters to come out and demonstrate in the Daylight Hours where your voices can be heard. Trying to calm the chaos. That was state Highway Patrol captain ron johnson a few hours ago, after some of the most intense clashes yesterday here in ferguson. Good morning from ferguson, missouri. It is tuesday, august 19th, 2014. This is the daily rundown. Im craig melvin in for chuck todd. Its been ten days since a Police Officer shot and killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown. Two people were shot last night, another 31 were arrested. Police say a criminal element, a criminal element from out of town set two fires, threw rocks, threw bottles and molotov cocktails. Officers returned fire with tear gas and smoke bombs as well. The National Guard, as you know, now backing up local officers. But the guard cannot make arrests. And while the daytime protests have been mostly peaceful, by and large, things continue to turn violent at night. If you are not credentialed media, you w
Accounts on twitter and you tube to determine if there is any kind of vulnerability. Clearly in this case there was and it is still unclear exactly how whoever these people are got into that account, krystle. Jim thanks so much. And joining us now is terrorism analyst. From flash point Global Partners evan thank you for joining us. So what do we know about the attack . Cyber caliphate, weve known about them for months. They are using a sphere phishing attack which means they send out emails in Cyber Command and get their credentials and stealing their twitter and you tube credentials. This wont end up with the military falling apart. This is not going to end up with classified information falling into the wrong hands. The folks did tweet out some of the things they picked up but these were unclassified documents. So in terms of what kind of threat do they represent . It is special embarrassing but nobody is going to lose their life over this. And the folks it is disturbing to see prois