it in context. all right. that's it for today. thank you to all of our guests. we'll see you online. [ ♪ music ] america. i'm del walters. these are the stories we're following for you. the international community now pushing for a cease fire. there are no allegations from ukraine that russia is involved in fighting in the eastern part of that country. plus new steps by the white house to confront the immigration crisis. asking now the states to pitch in.

>> the death toll in gaza now 173. more than a thousand people have been wounded and thousands more are fleeing. on the ground the israeli air strikes continue to hit northern gaza. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu not saying when the offensive will end, only saying he will do what is necessary to stop hamas. now there are calls on both sides for a cease fire. >> nobody can see what useful purpose will come out from the continuation of the present exchange of fire. i think there is either an open or a hidden wish to arrive to an immediate cease fire. >> we want to see an immediate cessation of this assault, of this aggression of this military assault against the palestinian people but we also want to see that israel is held to account. >> in the meantime life in gaza

is anything but that. not life at all. nick schifrin has the story on people searching for safety. >> the children don't come here to study. they come here to live. more than 15,000 people from rural north gaza but here to gaza city to escape the bombardment. this was their neighborhood last night. israeli bombs light the sky. israel warned all residents to leave. they feel they had no choice. each family's story is repeated a thousand times. each classroom is now a bedroom. thrive-year-old sabria arrived here yesterday. home to families, 29 people live in 229 square feet. her son has seen things that no one, no child should ever see. >> translator: even if the

bombs don't hit our houses they'll kill us from fear. at night our children cling so tightly they won't even let me go to the bathroom. >> her one-year-old is violently ill. she has nothing to offer him. they asked their neighbors for blankets and bread. >> if god gave mercy why can't men? why us? why is this happening to us? where do i get food to need my child? >> reporter: the family suffered three wars in six years. in 2008 an israeli bomb destroyed their house. >> translator: that's what god has written. israel will bomb us and we will die martyrs. >> reporter: this woman also lives here. she was so scared she fled in the back of an ambulance. she is if i. her youngest daughter is three.

>> we can't return to our homes. we can't pray. we don't have water. we have no privacy to go to the bathroom. all in the holy month of ramadan. what can i do? >> reporter: israel tacks their neighborhood because palestinians used it to launch rockets. the military wing of hamas released this propaganda video. unless 'til that happens these families will be homeless. nick schifrin al jazeera, gaza city. >> meanwhile israel says there is now evidence drones are being used. israel's military claiming he shot down a drone on the southern border. this is the report -- the first report of any drone. bern bernard smith is there. >> we're along gaza's eastern border.

it's been quiet-ish today. we've had a couple of rockets come in. that's gaza rite behind me. in the last ten minutes the warning came in and we saw a rocket a few hundred meters away. that's the second time in the last couple of hours we've had this. we've spent much of the day driving around the area, having a look at the israeli buildup. you'll see military camps being set up, materiale being moved in. reservists being told they must report for duty. nobody's telling us there's going to be a ground offensive but israel's army certainly making all the preparations for one should the order come from the army's political masters. >> and as those people in northern gaza flee the air strikes there is no sign that

either is backing down. i asked about the reports that a possible israeli ground invasion is imminent. >> i think that a ground invasion is not something which has been decided yet. there is no appetite in israel for any ground invasion. although aol we may have to -- although we may have to do it if the firing may continue. because with ground invasion you can seek all those bunkers which are underground which we do not want to bomb from the air because then the casualties will mount. but at the end of the day, there will be i hope earlier than later negotiations which then will bar or prevent a ground operation. but the most important thing is the regime after the negotiations and after the cease fire. we don't want to repeat what happened in the last few operations, where you reach a cease fire and then hamas at will starts firing again.

>> and there are now media reports the secretary of state john kerry is going to visit egypt tomorrow for talks on the conflict. arab leaders are meeting there today to try and present a united front. support for hamas may be waning. >> a father mourns his child who was killed in an israeli air strike on gaz. he is one of the many palestinians who was caught in a new cycle of confrontation between hamas and israel. many have been killed and homes destroyed but unlike 2008, and 2012, when israeli offensives in gaza triggered an uproar in the arab world there have been fewer shows of solidarity from arab government this time. on monday, arab foreign ministers will meet in cairo to

come up with a united response to the conflict. but that's unlikely to happen. the situations in the arab world now during this war is different from the situations of the arab world and the region in previous similar wars. airbus now are very busy with -- the arabs now are very busy with themselves. controversy, surrounding the arab countries now, surrounding gaza. that's why the israeli conflict and the palestinians are not as prominent as they used to be in the arab world. >> egypt which has traditionally protectraditionally -- brokerede conflicts, has not had much influence lately.

it says hamas supports jeementian groups in the -- egyptian groups in the sinai. severely deteriorated. the 2011 uprising against president bashar al-assad was a turning point. hamas expressed support for syrian rebels. its leader left damascus and relegated to quasht. israeli government considered hamas's support of the rebels a betrayal. iran was also critical of hamas's political shift but reports suggest hamas and iran are working to rebuild ties. hamas's main financial backer. but hamas can still tap into popular support in the region. scenes like these, growing civilian casualties and massive

destruction in the gaza strip infuriate arabs and muslims. there is anger over what's happening in gaza. hashim abara, al jazeera. >> in egypt, secretary of state john kerry is now trying to deal out a brokered deal. it is very difficult. world powers are homing to strike a deal by july 20th. cross border delivery of humanitarian aid into syria. they would be able to do so without the government's approval of the u.n. saying 10 million people in syria need help. ukraine accusing russia much

fighting alongside the separatists in the east. rory challenge has more from ukraine. >> the usual russian response is either to ignore them or to completely deny them. basically, russia says that while there may be russian citizens fighting against the eastern ukraine mill -- ukraine imran military in eastern easten ukraine, they are not being directed from the russian government. that has never convinced the ukrainian government and never convinced many people in the west either. there have been analysts that i have been talking to here who said that if russia were increasing its military involvement in ukraine that wouldn't be too surprising

because it seems as if the rebels who are fighting there are on the verge of military collapse. and that is something that the kremlin here cannot countenance at all. so what's going on is the rebels fighting in the east are finding that they are being dominated by a massive ukrainian air superiority. essentially the rebels are amateurs fighting against what is becoming a much more experienced ukrainian army. and so if russia does not want those rebels to be defeated, it has to find some way of redressing that military imbalance. >> now to the crisis on the u.s.-mexican border. thousands are fleeing central america creating an immigration nightmare here in the u.s. over the $3.7 billion the white house says it needs to combat the problem.

randall pinkston what is the white house's next move? >> reporter: well, del, they have sent shannon to the border to consult. former ambassador to brazil, former undersecretary of state to the latin america on how to stop the young people coming into the border. the administration is also looking forhelp from congress and from the states. it's a humanitarian crisis the white house says it needs $3.7 billion to fix. but convincing congress to move on a supplemental appropriation on immigration is no easy sell. >> as house republicans look we're not going to write a blank check for over $4 billion.

an influx of children entering the u.s. alone the obama administration is looking to other states for help. health and human services secretary headed to nashville, meeting behind closed doors, 52,000 miles an hour who have entered the country since october. and with the government split on how to house the miles a miles . >> beings the representatives from congress don't want it. the department of health and human services shouldn't be looking at it. >> reporter: but under current law children from non-bordering countries are turned over to the department within 72 hours. often reunited with their parents or relatives as their status lan quishe languishes.

>> if you come to our country illegally you will be sent back. . >> president obama is considering making changes to the law and last week forcefully stated that many of the children would be sent back home. but members of his own party on sunday were urging caution. >> we need to be careful whether we consider totally overturning had a law. >> honduras one of the source nation of the influx of children coming to the u.s., president juan her nan doe lopez, poverty and misinformation. at some point today a plane is scheduled to deliver 40 deportees, adults and children, back to honduras. that of course is a drop in the bucket literally and figuratively into the thousands

that have come into the u.s. in the past year, del. >> randall pinkston, thank you very much. and coming up next on al jazeera america. >> we want peace here. >> chicago residents demanding that peace. they are protesting the violence that is plaguing the windy city.

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available for your apple and android mobile device. download it now >> sergeant bowe bergdahl is, back on regular duty. bergdahl will now be working at fort sam houston. noncommissioned officer. providing sair various duties. more deadly gun violence in chicago, over the weekend more than four people killed, 30 people wounded. diane eastabrook reports. >> reporter: violence has really become a way of life in

some of these neighborhoods. particularly those on the south side of chicago. and many people who live in those neighborhoods say this shooting has to stop. >> no more shooting, no more shooting, no more guns, no more guns. >> reporter: for a second weekend in a row gun violence rattles the streets of chicago. friday evening just before community activists demand he peace, in a neighborhood scarred by gun fire. >> no more violence. peace peace peace. >> i come out every friday night. we want the violence to stop, we want peace here, we care, we are hopeful, we do positive things for the young people here. >> the violence we are facing right now in america and particularly in chicago, this is our katrina. this is our katrina. how we handle it as a community

as a city as a state, how we handle this is going to be our legacy. >> powerful storms dropped more than 3 inches of rain on the city. trearl trailer halting th tempoe violence. , nine people were killed and over 50 wounded in shootings over the july 4th weekend. on sunday illinois governor pat quinn visited the family of tanya gunn. he called for tougher state gun laws. >> we can't forgot tanya gunns across the state. we have to do something to protect the public safety. >> put down the guns! put down the guns!

>> and while the number of shootings are up in chicago so far this year compared to last year, actually the number of murders is down slightly. >> a community in n newfoundlan. daniel lak reports from little bay islands. >> the thriving port in one of the finest harbors in northern newfoundland. here it is today. very few boats left, businesses shuttered, most people retired or elderly. the town is dying. the man leading the push for government funded resettlement says there's no going back to an ilillustrious past. >> five or six stores here. lots of people, 150 people, kids

in school. now you got two people in the school and that's it. and you never see no one there because everybody that age, nobody goes here in the daytime, walking around there's nowhere to go. >> people tell me we are nuts. i don't feel that way but everybody's entitled to their opinion i guess. >> reporter: nearly 90% of residents voted to resettle last year. not perry lock. he and his wife have two of the few full time jobs. a government decision he dread, lock is increasingly at odds with his neighbors. >> almost like the mentality is there to let everything go go go until it just everything collapses. i think everybody is figurin fig leave it alone, let it collapse, lock it up and leave. >> in newfoundland they call villages an outport, remote but close knit, at one point vibrant

places to raise a family. near 30,000 people have been paid by the government to leave the coast. one of the biggest internal migrations in canada. it is cheaper to refund settlement than to keep providing services to a dying community. >> i think most people feel like me it is just terrible to contemplate knew foun newfoundl. >> settlement of the continent began, found a unique way of life at the edge of the north atlantic. now many are leaving, however reluctantly, as fish stocks decline. >> ananglican church will allow

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>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. these are your headlines this hour. despite international calls for a cease fire there is no letup in gaza. israeli air strikes continue to rain down on gaza, israel says it shot down a hamas drone. immigration crisis, obama administration is now calling on the nation's governors to help out. and chicago says it's seen an uptic in shootings this month. some chicago area residents calling for the city to do more to stop the violence. the costa concordia once

again above water. salvage crews working to right the ship. just how far from the shore the concordia has been dragged. it's been on that reef for over two years. it killed 32 and injured another 150 at the time of the wreck. i'm dave warren with a look at the national forecast. we have a big area of high pressure. this is the upper air pattern, goes well up into canada. hot and dry weather under this high pressure out west. bit of a change very unusual to see a dip in the jetstream like this with cold air coming down from canada. cold this time of year about 50 or 60 degrees, nonetheless, high temperatures across the northern plains. area of low pressure here and just to the south of that that is where we get this front. this will be the focus for severe weather later today. if you are in the midwest, mid

atlantic or the northeast here watch for severe storms. the winds set up where wind damage and even see a little rotation with these storms that will be developing here across the mid atlantic and the northeast. so watch that here over the next few hours. severe storms, already a watch across areas of indiana and ohio. that most likely will be extended to the northeast throughout the afternoon. right now the radar showing just a few storms developing but there's a lot of moisture in the air so this could lead to flash flooding over the next few hours and that area which is under the severe weather threat. the heat is beginning to build in the west. dry weather in place. temperatures across the northeast, will be 90° before that air pushes northeast, one more day. a lot of moisture in the air, these storms could be severe. flash flood watch in place, means conditions are in place

for flash flooding to occur. you get a dumping of rain seeing these storms beginning to pop up here. we'll continue to watch the radar closely along the next couple of hours. hot and dry weather continues. red flag warning in idaho and heat advisory in a couple of areas in the west. >> it's been a active year. a funeral for a fearless journalist. john siegenthaler seniors. a relentless -- campaigner for civil rights. founding editorial director of u.s.a. today and also founded the first amendment center at vanderbilt university. in case you're curious, he's the father of our own john

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