at 301 square miles, it is rough size of new york city. alisyn: oh, my goodness. claudia wowen, thanks cowen, thanks so much for the update. jon: showdown in the united nations over syria with the fife permanent members of the security council set to meet just hours from now as the secretary general calls on the west to delay any military action until u.n. weapons inspectors can present their findings. eric shawn is streaming live from the united nations with more. eric? reporter: yeah, jon, that meeting of the security council now called at six hours from now, 6:30 eastern time. it is a follow-up to yesterday s fractured meeting, changes in language that were made to the british resolution, sent it back to the world capitals such as moscow and wait for the bosses, basically, to answer back for the meeting later on that we are waiting for. this comes as we now learn that the u.n. inspections team, the
where they really need to get some rain. back to you, gregg. gregg: thanks very much. arthel: breaking developments on syria now with senior defense sources telling fox it s not a question of if but when the u.s. will launch a military strike. just one day after u.n. inspectors came under sniper fire as they investigated reports of a chemical weapons attack near damascus. and attacked the arab league now blames on the asad regime. joining us is retired lieutenant colonel cowen. good to see you, sir. good to be with you. thank you. arthel: if you were leading the charge, what would your strategy be? thanks for having me. look. i think the pentagon and the white house have to be driven by three considerations. number one is, we put no u.s. lives at risk. we don t want to lose everybody and don t want to talk about boots on the ground. number two, we want to minimize collateral damage, innocent
running for a full term in 2014. in his farewell address, cowen talked about how slow progress has been when it comes to diversity in the senate. in my appointment and coincidence with the appointment of senator scott. two african-americans serving in this body concurrently for the first time in our nation s history. we are the seventh and eighth black senators to serve in this body. i believe this number to be far too few. i am hopeful that these united states will be represent eed by more diverse population. and the diversity of opinions across and within our diverse nation. my second bold prediction of the day, this one i feel more confident. there will be a second african-american, out of cory booker in new jersey. we have four or five dozen
can they? claudia would ycowen reports. we are teach ago computer to go through large enough data and look at patterns and understand what they mean. gary angel is head of simphonics. that makes it one of the most experienced players in the data gathering game. a big part of what the folks do is scan the web and analyze data. it s not unlike what the nsa will try to do at the utah data center. sift through the noise and all of the world s electronic communications, isolate the fragments of troubling data then connect the dots before a threat materializes. what do you think would surprise people most about data mining? what do they know?
can they? claudia would ycowen reports. we are teach ago computer to go through large enough data and look at patterns and understand what they mean. gary angel is head of simphonics. that makes it one of the most experienced players in the data gathering game. a big part of what the folks do is scan the web and analyze data. it s not unlike what the nsa will try to do at the utah data center. sift through the noise and all of the world s electronic communications, isolate the fragments of troubling data then connect the dots before a threat materializes. what do you think would surprise people most about data mining? what do they know?