and good morning, everyone. we begin with that developing story from syria s civil war. credible, new concerns about the use of chemical weapons by syrian forces. syria s chemical weapons stockpile is believed to be one of the largest in the world. and there s word that regime forces might be ready to use it. we spoke with alex marquardt a short time ago, from the turkey/syria border. reporter: it seems that syria went through the preparation phase, loading components of the highly-toxic sarin gas. syria doesn t even acknowledge that it has chemical weapons. they ve said that they would never use them against their own people. but one top official warned this summer that they would only be used against what he called external aggression. and that sarin gas that alex just mentioned, it is extremely toxic. a single drop can kill a person in a matter of moments. of course, the u.s. has been worried about syria using chemical weapons for quite some time, now. abc s tahman
good evening. we begin with another big bulletin about the record-breaking heat and the melting at the north pole. a new study shows a global thaw under way, affecting everyone on the planet. and it comes today as we learn how little snow there is here in the united states. as the temperatures here keep rising and the records keep falling. abc abc s meteorologist ginger zee tells us what s going on. reporter: nearly snowless in december. right now, only 7% of the united states is covered in snow. that s even less than this time last year, when 32% of the nation was laced in winter white. not enough snow means no skiing. yet. this resort in washington state has had to wait. impatiently. to get our show on the road here. reporter: less snow helped make it even warmer this past week. almost 700 record high temperatures have been set in the past five days. all of that will contribute to 2012 likely becoming the warmest on record in the lower 48. while one week or one season
and good morning, everyone. we begin with that developing story from syria s civil war. credible, new concerns about the use of chemical weapons by syrian forces. syria s chemical weapons stockpile is believed to be one of the largest in the world. and there s word that regime forces might be ready to use it. we spoke with alex marquardt a short time ago, from the turkey/syria border. reporter: it seems that syria went through the preparation phase, loading components of the highly-toxic sarin gas. syria doesn t even acknowledge that it has chemical weapons. they ve said that they would never use them against their own people. but one top official warned this summer that they would only be used against what he called external aggression. and that sarin gas that alex just mentioned, it is extremely toxic. a single drop can kill a person in a matter of moments. of course, the u.s. has been worried about syria using chemical weapons for quite some time, now. abc s tahman
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