Sometime things work, and this may be one of those cases. It has all the elements by thinking place, it will require for a successful disarmed operation, opinion in mind, we're drawing on lessons from the experience for Iraq in 1990s. 

The European Union and NATO were also welcoming the US and Russian initiative on dismantling Syria's chemical weapons. Teri Schultz reports. 

Demanding Damascus provide full access to all chemical stores, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is also calling on the long divided UN security council to reenforce the US-Russian framework with the formal resolution. Ashton notes many EU states have significant techinical  expertise in dismantling and destroying chemical agents. She offers European assistants in securing the Syrian sites. NATO secretary general  Anders Fogh Rasmussen says Syria must fully complied with this process. The international community, Rasmussen says, must continue to ensure the chemical weapons are not used, and to that end, he says those who have violated that norm must be held accountable. For NPR News, I'm Teri Schultz in Brussels. 

Top republicans are criticizing today's US-Russian solution on Syria. Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham say France and enemies of the US will view the deal as an actor of provocative weakness by America. 

Dozens of people are hurt after a Greyhound bus drove off an inter-state highway in southwest Ohio early this morning. Maryanne Zeleznik  of member station WVXU reports, the bus struck a tree and defence and then footstone aside before sliding to a stop in a corn field. 

The bus was headed north bound on I75, when it overturned in Liberty township around 4 o'clock this morning. But the county emergency operation center officials, say 34 people are hurt, suffering from injuries ranging from minor to severe. They were transported to area hospitals, six by medical helicopters. 52 people were on the bus when it crashed. The bus was headed to Detroit. For NPR News, I'm Maryanne Zeleznik, in Cincinnati. 

Rescue crews in Colorado say they are making progress reaching people who are stranded in mountain communities cut off by flooding. Emergency official Dan Dallasxxx, says airlifts are planned to bring supplies to those forced from their homes. 

We are looking in, what I called very larger show today to, who are, somebody of evacuations, and also supports some that escalated communities with, just really basic necessities, food, water, things like bed. 

The national guard says nearly 800 people have been evacuated. This is NPR News. 

Washington state agricultural officials announced today that genetically modified alfalfa was found and filled where it shouldn't have been. Growing the crop is legal in the United States, but it's not clear if the mix up will upset sensitive export markets. Anne Kingxx of the northwest News network reports. 

Jerks Ganxx, is a well known alfalfa grower in southeastern Washington. On this farm, all seed is tested before it's planted to maker sure that there is no genetically engineered stuff mixed in. Then in harvest, he tests its crop again. But even a harvester, with the bit of hey left from a GM field, could boggle a prime cell. Gan says. 

I want people to understand that they close do care about our markets, we want to make sure that our markets have the choice available to their own to buy home agri- type fruits they like to have. 

The state department of agriculture is working with the federal government to see if any further action is needed. FOr NPR News, I'm Anne Kingxx, in Richland, Washington. 

Ingrid has become the second hurricane of the Atlantic storm season of Mexico. The national hurricane center's MichaelBrandenxx, says Ingrid is heading for the western coast of the gulf of Mexico. 

We expect landfall to occur some time on Monday in that area. We do expect Ingrid is strengthening a little bit during the next couple of days. So we should see a hurricane making windfall in that area on Monday. 

Forecasters say the storm so far is packing 75-mile-per-hour winds. There are no immediate reports of the injuries.