Good to have you with us. We begin tonight with the white houses efforts to convince congress that syria used poison gas in an attack that killed more than 1400 people, including at least 400 children. President obama wants lawmakers to approve a military response. Al jazeeras jean reserve has more from washington. Meeting with a prominent member of the Iranian Parliament said his country is cape alan of confronting external aggression. The Obama Administration is pushing hard. John kerry and on all of the sunday talk shows claiming the u. S. Knows what weapon was used in the chemical attack we now have samples back from First Responders in east damascus. Those samples of hair and blood have been tested, and they have reported positive for signatures of sarin. So we are now getting a stronger case each day. To persuade congress to authorize the use of military force, the administration held classified briefings sunday on capitol hill, but when members emerged, there was largely skeptic
He heads the baur row of medicine for the navy. I lacked at his bay oh in the program, educated in georgia and hes had a great career in the Navy Commanding several hospitals, winning several awards and his most recent command was as the commander of walter reed, and i was so glad that he was here to hear the panel that we had with our medical peer to peer exercise. And hes going to talk to us now about navy medicine. With that, please help me welcome vice admiral matthew nathan. applause . Thank you, general, very much. Well, its a pleasure here and im honored to be able to speak in front of such a distinguished audience. Secretary schultz, mrs. Schultz, pleasure it see you and you lend tremendous gaffe tas to this program. General spees, distinguished flag officers, general officers and mostly everybody here who is in the readiness business, i am honored to be speaking to a group of people and that would include i think everybody in this hanger deck who is part of that cadre of indiv
Humanitarian exchange. Its been a wonderful way for us to Work Together on some of these common issues and figure out how our agencies are all going to integrate. I think the time and effort that has been expended by both the military planners and also the civilian planners is definitely going to be bearing fruit in years to come when something happens. I know we are quite a bit ahead of time, you are going to have a 20minute break from now and then our next speaker will come up at that point. Thank you again. He heads the baur row of medicine for the navy. I lacked at his bay oh in the program, educated in georgia and hes had a great career in the Navy Commanding several hospitals, winning several awards and his most recent command was as the commander of walter reed, and i was so glad that he was here to hear the panel that we had with our medical peer to peer exercise. And hes going to talk to us now about navy medicine. With that, please help me welcome vice admiral matthew nathan.
Cast of dancings most sizzling season ever will be revealed live this morning. Our exclusive first look at the celebrities and their partners, here in times square. Get ready to be surprised on who is going to go headtohead in the ballroom this fall in just moments. Are you ready, america . Were getting so close. Good morning, america. What a packed couple of hours we have for you this morning. Look at all that excitement this morning in times square, over the big names on the new season of dancing with the stars. The cast reveal in just a moment. I couldnt see any in that bus. I just saw the pros. But look at those 10s. Perfect already. And, oh, look there, tom bergeron and brooke burkecharvet. Theyre leading the charge to times square. Our gma bus filled with the celebrities and the partners right behind them. Thats all coming up. But we start with that dramatic news breaking overnight. Ariel castro found dead in his jail cell. Abcs alex perez has all the latest. Good morning, alex.
Translator during this election, voters overwhelmingly told us they want us to push on with our economic policies using decisive and stable politics. I want to practice politics in a firm and responsible manner. Along with the economy, Prime Minister abe is also expected to focus on reviving the constitution. He noted the diet must first adopt the motion with the support of twothirds of the lawmakers in both houses which would then have to be approved by a majority of votes in the referendum. Abe said deeper and wider public discussion is needed to achieve that. Candidates from abes liberal Democratic Party and their Coalition Partner have won 76 seats, which is enough to secure a stable majority in the upper house. That allows Coalition Members to chair all upper house committees and hold half of the seats on them. Prime minister abe has been frustrated by a lack of control ever since he returned to power in the lower house election in december. So he and those around him have been ey