breakthrough in syria? he asked me and he said i don t want to hurt you but i will kill you so i got up and i gave it to him and he took off. stabbing a deputy and stealing his uniform and carjacquesing his way to freedom and how he managed to pull it off. about an hour. is this a repeat performance? a record breaking gator catch. it s the third one in a week. how hunters managed to wheel this 741-pound beast in! very carefully. he looked alive. not there. not smiling either. not this time and not last time. no smile. welcome back to early start. i m john berman. i m zoraida sambolin. nice to have you with us this morning. 31 minutes past the hour. our top story is syria and
why shelly zimmerman says she felt threatened by the man who killed trayvon martin? the force of the nature. the southwest under water. do not want to be stuck there. not one bit. there is more rain on the way. good morning. we are happy you re with us. i m zoraida sambolin i m. john berman. it s tuesday, september 10th and 5:00 a.m. in the east. the latest on syria. the offhand remark that has turned the battle on the assad regime on its head. president is meeting with lawmakers today and address the nation evening. with the american public overwhelmingly saying no, to an air strike on the assad regime, a senate vote now delayed and strong opposition in the house
agreement i d like to see. the recent developments complicating the politics here. the president is set to spend the afternoon on capitol hill and try to get the lawmakers to vote yes for military action. the big pitch is tonight when he addresses the nation on syria and cnn will carry that live tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. 36 minutes past the hour. back in custody this morning, a detroit man police say stabbed a sheriff s deputy and escaped wearing the officer s uniform. abraham pierson also known as derrick white was in a holding cell on monday. the deputy had just removed the inmate s handcuffs when authorities say he pulled a sharpened comb and stabbed the deputy in the neck and handcuffed him and fled. then police say he kidnapped a woman but the police caught up
legend. i m really uncomfortable right now. gretchen: he said he s really what? steve: uncomfortable. gretchen: oh the awkward encounter has gone viral. eminem was trying to promote his new song weberserk. he admitted live tv freaks him out. brian: they asked him about the lion, he s big lions fan. what do you think they re going to do? i don t know. we have a fox news alert. secretary of state john kerry calling on syrian president al assad to hand over his arsenal of chemical weapons by the end of the week? gretchen: steve has the latest for us. good morning, steve. good morning. as the president continues his push for a strike on syria, the secretary of state speak in london this morning says the solution to this stand-off is in the hands of syrian president alice al
launched, not all of them, but most of the strikes we ve launch in the modern era, certainly since the end of the korean war, has been and definitely since the end of the war in vietnam has been couched in the terms that we re there to save lives. and this is no different. it s a way to get political support for something that nobody wants to do. colonel jack jacobs, always appreciate your insight. thanks, craig. meanwhile, we ve got our eye on buenos aires this hour where it happened earlier than we thought it would. madrid, madrid has just been eliminated in the voting for the 2020 olympics. we do not have a winner just yet. but count madrid out. tokyo and istanbul now beatling it out. no, the united states does not have a dog in this fight. the winning host city expected to be announced within the hour. won t be madrid. coming up, as president obama pushes for a strike on