are unable to come to a resolution about what happened in that van. officer porter tonight says told the baltimore sun that the process will go on and that he s ready for it, it seems, and that he now remains suspended without pay from the baltimore police department. we ll continue to check in with miguel and have more on that story and updates throughout the next two hours. now the commander-in-chief question, the focus on the cnn debate in las vegas. the third most watched primary debate in history. tonight, we begin with jim chute toe, keeping them honest. we have people across the country who are scared to death. reporter: in the wake of the largest terror attack on u.s. soil since 9/11, is the presidential candidates 6 with tough talk. still, their command of some of the defense topics was, well, up
tech equipment supplied by iran. let s go straight to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. barbara also seeing reports of high-level defections including at least four generals. do u.s. officials think that s significant? reporter: right now, john, senior u.s. intelligence officials are telling us no. and that s the problem. they are seeing no cracking in the inner circle around because char bashar all assad. they are seeing no evidence his powerful inner circle is cracking. and that imagery that has now been declassified and released today is also critical. because what it s providing the u.s. intelligence community is very specific information about where syrian forces are on the move, what they are shelling, the destruction of mosques and hospitals in critical neighborhoods. you have the video on the internet. but this is the kind of key intelligence that they are pouring over right now to get a better idea of what the syrian military s really up, to john. as the