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The time being. late monday night the white house issued a warning to syria saying assad would pay a heavy price if he uses chemical weapons again. secretary mattis said it appears they took the warning seriously. they did not do it. he adds that the u.s. will continue to monitor syria s activity and would not rule out assad launching another chemical attack in the future, saying, i am not paid to have confidence in this sort of thing. i am paid to be one of the sentinels. one of the watchers. officials have said that intelligence indicates syrian chemical weapons personnel have recently been visiting known production facilities and that an aircraft was parked at a hangar at the airfield. a known chemical weapons facility. let s get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. you are tracking some storms in the midwest. those storms continue this morning. it wasn t expected to be this bad. we thought they would have a few tornadoes, but iowa had 24 to 26 tor ....
Welcome back. it is the bottom of the hour. we ll start with the morning s top stories. australian police have charged a top vatican cardinal with multiple sexual assault offenses. george pell is the most senior official and pope francis s chief financial advisor. officials say there were multiple accuse raccusers, but little details. cardinal pell says he looks forward to cleerlg his name. jim mattis says that the white house is warning to syria regarding a potential upcoming chemical weapons attack has worked at least for the time being. secretary mattis said yesterday it appears they took the warning seriously. they didn t do it. he adds that the u.s. will continue to monitor sear yaes activity and wouldn t rule out assad launching another chemical weapons attack in the future. president trump appears to be shifting his attention from health care to one of his key campaign issues. immigration. he met with family members who had lost loved ones to crimes ....