Hightech planes. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. With just 27 days to go until all of us are hit with tax increases, takes it across the board a cut of 55 billion. People have it in their power to avoid the socalled fiscal cliff arent negotiating, theyre not debating right now, so many of them simply leaving town. But theres more going on than meets the eye. Lets bring in our senior Congressional Correspondent dana basch, she has the latest. Reporter theres so much political theater around here right now, you could say tickets. One of todays acts was the house leaving. Lawmakers streaming out of the capitol hill, racing to their cars to get to the airport and go home. Its a scene you usually see on a thursday afternoon or friday morning, not wednesday at noon. Good morning. House Republican Leaders told members theyre free to leave, because they have nothing to vote on. I understand that you are saying legislation has been put on the floor. When it comes to just pure opti
Are still missing. The misery not yet over. The storm is expected to continue to dump heavy rain in philippines until tomorrow. To iran where officials claim they have gotten some damning information from that u. S. Drone they say they captured. The information that the iranians say now proves that the u. S. Was spying on irans military sites and its oil terminals. The u. S. Has been trying to block irans oil exports as part of an effort to get iran to give up its nuke program, but as for the drone, a defense official says no u. S. Navy drone is missing. Were about to take you live to cairo. That is where riot police are bracing now for another night of violent street fighting, tear gas all over the city today. This week crowds of egyptians have now stormed the president ial palace, breaking through fences, fighting with Security Forces, trying to keep them back. Now, the protesters, they are furious about several things. First of all, all concerning president Mohammed Morsi and this g
Further below 8 . We now have the lowest Unemployment Rate in four years at 7. 7 . Were following the markets to see if it has an impact as well. Cnn has now learned that pentagon officials are reworking their plans for possible military action against syria. That is after now confirmed reports emerging from syria that forces loyal to president Bashir Al Assad are preparing bombs with chemical weapons. Syrian soldiers fighting with rebels for control over the outskirts of damascus. Now, witnesses tell cnn that 30 people were killed today in street battles across syria. Were also learning about a car bombing in the city of homs and a horrible, horrible discovery. Dozens of bodies believed to be victims of a massacre. The same time rebel fighters, they are taking on Syrian Forces literally house to house in the countrys largest city. That is aleppo, and that is where we find our arwa damon today. Reporter for two months the streets here have been a war zone. Part of a bigger battle for c
Be escalating the civil war. There are new concerns the assad regime is preparing to use chemical weapons. Lets get to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. Barbara, how does this change the u. S. Militarys syria plan . Are we talking u. S. Troops, boots on the ground . Well, not at this point, clearly, deb. But what we do know is that u. S. Officials tell us that they are updating some of the military options for action against syrias chemical weapons capability, why are they doing this . Of course, we chatted about this in the last several days. Officials say they do have the intelligence now that syria has filled aerial bombs with deadly sarin gas. Havent moved it to airplanes yet, but this is very concerning because that, of course, would be the next step. So once you have the deadly bombs, the u. S. Has to look at what the options could be, what they might want to target to essentially take out that kind of capabilities. So thats the options that are now being worked on. Deb .
Shut down a demonstration by both supporters and opponents of the president. They left behind piles of rubble, burning cars, month sense of stability as a major nationwide vote gets one day closer. President morsi said a few hours ago he is going to address the egyptian people. He has not yet, but when that happens, were going to bring that to you live. Nerve agents locked and loaded ready to be used against a Syrian People. Now, that scenario now a reality. That is according to nbc news. Now, it says that syrias military has loaded the component chemicals for the deadly nerve gas into aerial bombs that could be dropped from their fighter jets. I want to bring in paula gorani about this because you have a different take on this. I know theres a lot of breath held. You say that theyre not necessarily on that path. I believe that theres analysis that is very critical that the assad regime is not getting ready to use chemical weapons in syria, and heres why. Because the question were aski