360. Thanks for watching. Early start begins right now. Priority number one. After public outcry and political pressure, congress will vote today on a 9 billion Hurricane Sandy relief bill. Relief many say is long overdue. Turn for the worst, venezuelan officials admit hugo chavez is battling respiratory failure, now calling their leaders status severe. And trapped on thin ice. Two teenagers stuck in the middle of a frozen life, clinging to a dead tree for hours. Their dramatic rescue just ahead. Wow. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Were happy youre with us. Im zoraida sambolin. Im Christine Romans. Its 5 00 a. M. In the east. We begin this morning with a snowy mess in west texas. Conditions are so bad that large portions of interstate 10 between el paso and ft. Stockton were closed overnight. Do they really get a lot of snow . Theyve gotten record snow in that area. Youre absolutely right. It was really the spaghetti bowl on i10. The biggest problem where were the icy bridges an
Everybody all set up . Obviously im grateful to have my fellow president s here as well as the Vice President. Before i begin, i want to say a few words about the situation in syria. As you have seen, today we released our unclassified assessment detailing with high confidence that the Syrian Regime carried out a chemical weapons attack that killed well over a thousand people, including hundreds of children. This follows horrific images that shocked us all. This kind of attack is a challenge to the world. We cannot accept a world where women and children and innocent civilians are gassed on a terrible scale. This kind of attack threatens our National Security interests by violating wellestablished International Norms against the use of chemical weapons, by further threatening friends and allies of ours in the region, like israel and turkey and jordan, and it increases the risk that chemical weapons will be used in the future and fall into the hands of terrorists who might use them agai
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