conversation continues on our website aljazeera.com/considerthis or on our facebook or google plus pages and >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. these are the stories we are following for you. >> mr. secretary, we have made every effort and will continue to make every effort to avoid civilian casualties. >> israeli prime minister, benjamin netenyahu urging the international community to hold hamas responsible for the carnage in gaza. >> secretary of state john kerry in egypt at this hour trying to broker a peace deal. and the remains of those kills on malaysian airlines

flight 17 are moved from the crash site in ukraine to be flown to the netherlands. ♪ we begin with breaking news coming out of washington, d.c., moments ago an appeals court handing down a blow to the federal appeal act. the court agreeing that those states that opted out of obamacare cannot receive subsidies. those subsidies are used to reduce the cost of insurance. if the obama administration appeals the case could end up before the supreme court. meanwhile another day of shelling in gaza, the death toll rising. israel's prime minister met with the un secretary general, benjamin netenyahu blaming hamas for the escalation in violence. >> the international community

must hold hamas accountable for using palestinian civilians as human shields, deliberately putting them and keeping them in harm's way. mr. secretary we have made every effort and will continue to make every effort to avoid civilian casualties, we are targeting hamas targets. >> my message to israelis and palestinians is the same, stop fighting, start talking and take on the root causes of the country, so we are not back to the same situation in another six months or a year. >> now on the israeli side the death toll now stands at 27, a soldier believed to have been kidnapped has instead been killed. nick schifrin has more. >> reporter: for days israeli has been silent on the claim that hamas captured one of its

soldier i alive. israeli now saying that that seventh soldier in the armored personnel carrier hit over the weekend by an anti tank mine, that person has died. they used the same name that hamas used when it claimed that socialed was in fact alive. meanwhile, of course, the fighting really rages on. we are now near the sea just to my right. the mediterranean sea. that way a eastern gaza, that has been the focus of so much of the fighting. that continues as well. this morning there was two shells fired into the office of al jazeera. not explosives. they came in over where we usually do our live shots, no one was hurt or injured. the military isn't commenting specifically on what happened, but they have used these munitions before as a kind of

warning, a knock on the roof as it's call. meanwhile for the people of gaza, it's still extremely difficult. the un now saying 40% of the gaza strip is completely no-go area, simply too dangerous. all of the people ask as they watch from homes where can we go that's actually safe. meanwhile secretary of state john kerry is in cairo at this hour pushing for a ceasefire. mike is there any hope that the secretary's trip will be successful? >> del, even aids admit that this is not something that is going to be happening overnight. since the secretary arrived in cairo a few hours ago, he has had a series of high-level meetings. he has always met with egypt's president. we understand from reportering traveling from secretary kerry he is now in his second meeting with the palestinian intel

chief. those same aids traveling with the secretary, perhaps the understatement of the year when they acknowledge this is going to be extremely difficult. even more difficult than the ceasefire in 2012. egypt has had a new government and a new president since then. and the current regime does not have the same good relations with hamas that its predecessor did. we mentioned ban ki-moon and the un, the nation of qatar has a good relationship with hamas. john kerry spoke after meeting with the egyptian foreign minister. and he raised the prospect of reinvigorating the peace process that ended in april. >> just reaching a ceasefire, clearly is not enough. it is imperative that there be a

serious engagement, discussion, negotiation, regarding the underlying issues and addressing all of the concerns that have brought us to where we are today. >> and again, secretary's presence in the middle east, after that sunday oust burst that open mic moment when he voiced his frustration with the israeli administration, saying he needed to get to the region, this was something that was crazy just sitting around in washington. well he is there now. but it's an open-ended commitment. officials are not saying where he is going to be on hliz next stop. >> where does he go from here? >> that is a great question. there is speculation he could go to qatar, or other capitols in

the region. >> mike viqueira live for us at the white house this morning. mike, thank you very much. meanwhile there are media reports coming out that delta airlines has canceled all flights into israel indefinitely. now to the crisis in ukraine. investigators finally at the debr debris field. they joined a team of european monitors who had been on the ground since sunday. a group of residents holding a service nearby honoring the people killed in the crash. the remains of those victims have been moved from donetsk to kharkiv where they will make their final journey home. the 282 bodies that made their way up from the crash site passed through these gates, the beginning of the process to get

them out of ukraine. there is some paperwork that is involved. they werest sorted up here, the bodies by malaysian and dutch officials. it's expected that they will leave on a dutch aircraft probably on wednesday going to the netherlands where they'll start the indication process. one the indication is discovered they will be sent to their countries. also what was handed over in the middle of the night down in donetsk, about 350 kilometers south of where we are. the flight data recorders were handed over by the head of the donetsk people's republic. the self proclaimed prime minister who has been ruling that area. so the pieces could possibly put together the mysterious parts of this story, we don't yet know, are finally being put forward. the bodies will arrive in the netherland and then have to go

through a long indication process. in kiev a scuffle breaking out in parliament. pushing and shove taking over the proceedings. the majority of the legislators made heated comments against-russian rebels. the details of the crash are slowly starting to unfold. world leaders are trying to keep the blame on russia to take some type of control. we are hearing new information about the black boxes what can you tell us. >> the british government has confirmed that the black boxes from the plane will be heading to the uk, to britain. they will be doing the analysis, and we have learned from the national transportation safety board here in washington that a specialist in those boxes will

travel from washington to london, to the uk to help in that probe of the black boxes and the folks in britain tell us that once they get the boxes, if they are in good shape, they should have preliminary data within 24 hours. >> now that an access corridor has been secured, do we have any undates on the investigation itself? >> del, as you mentioned the first crash investigators finally on the scene, these are folks from malaysia. they got a chance to look at the wreckage today. they were accompanied by international monitors. they reported that a large piece of the wreckage looked like it was broken or sawed, or somehow split in half, and smaller pieces of the debris have clearly been moved. and this prompted the australian prime minister to say he believes this crash site has been seriously compromised.

>> after the crime comes the cover up. what we have seen is evidence tampering on an industrial scale, and obviously that has to stop. >> now, we'll have to see what can still be determined. obviously there still be a lot of evidence at the site even though it has been disturbed. as you mentioned, del, the bodies have arrived in kharkiv for the initial analysis, the initial processing. we are learning from the dutch they will be taken into the netherlands in stages. when they have a number of victims ready for transported, they will do this in stages to try to speed along the process and get the remains back to the next of kin obviously as soon as possible. del? >> lisa thank you very much. and meanwhile, as you heard, 189 people on board the flight were from the netherlands, several coming from just outside the same town outside of

amsterdam. as lori jane reports residents are coming together to mourn >> reporter: in holland the dutch are known for carrying on with life, business as usual, even when tragedy strikes ♪ hallelujah >> reporter: but in the quaint community here, a city of just over 85,000 people -- >> the old are damaged by this crash. >> reporter: -- the ache is especially raw. >> it's weird, more than all nightmares. >> reporter: the missile that took down the flight completely wiped out three families and another boy. neighborhoods have already transformed the victim's front porches into shrines. >> they bring flowers because they know their families left the houses and they were happy,

and they will never come again. >> reporter: our own "america tonight" producer at tended high school here. we asked her to guide us through town where grieving families live just miles apart. >> and it seems like this is a really tight knit community. >> it is. it is. everyone you meet on the street will known somebody that was affected by the disaster. >> it is incredible what happened, because whole families died. >> reporter: this man helped lay bundles of flower on the front lawn of the school where he works. two of the victims were students there. over the weekend, groups of the boys friends already out of school for the summer returned to campus to grieve. >> i think there are no words for it. because it's such a big tragedy, and it's almost -- you can't

almost believe this happens. >> reporter: for many residents comfort may never come, but the father is doing his best to help guide people through their grief. >> to say, i'm sorry, again before going to sleep. >> reporter: they will heal, he says. and hundreds of people in malaysia staging angry protests outside of the malaysian embassy. they carried banners demanding justice for the victims. earlier russia's ambassador said russia did nothing wrong. the governor of texas calling up a thousand national guard troops to help deal with the crisis on his border. coming up, we'll show you the struggles that law enforcement officers face each and every day. >> this is a domestic terrorism

issue. and leaders in many one florida city making a plea to law enforcement to help keep the peace.

♪ >> rick perry says he will call up 1,000 national guardsmen to help defend his borders. that will cost the state $12 million a month. texas hopes to be reimbursed by the federal government as he prepares to sue the obama administration for the funds. heidi zhou castro reports. >> reporter: a dispatch call on a remote stretch of highway, 70 miles north of the border. >> a22, 419, they are coming up on 755. >> reporter: this is a typical night in books county texas, a

corridor of human smuggling where according to the sheriff's office 300 people are smuggled through a day. a few miles up the road that car in front of us was seen dropping off a group of migrants. they don't often stop smugglers,esmugglers smugglers,est -- especially here, where four deputies patrol 944 square miles. this deputy is among the reserve deputies, commissioned officers who work for no pay. >> i'm telling you right now, i know what you are doing down here. >> reporter: this suspected smuggler, though, will get away, he said he took out the back seat to haul a washing machine. and those footprints on the floorboard, they could be anybody's. >> get out of my county.

he has done it before. you can tell he is cool about it, and he knows i don't really have anything -- unless we find some illegals and they put him as the driver, that's about the only thing. >> reporter: so you just have to let him go. >> yeah. >> reporter: must be frustrated. >> a little bit. >> reporter: a more common call is to pick up bodies who died under the texas sun. he says the 403 deaths since 2009 aren't accidents. he blames the smugglers. >> they will promise you the world. they will promise you they will get you to loved ones. if you are not fast enough, if you fall asleep, they'll leave you behind. they don't care. >> reporter: the deployment of 1,000 national guardsmen to the border bring hope that that will mean less smugglers.

do you think most of the people have criminal elements? >> i'm sure they do. but that's not the ones we're finding. we're finding those that don't. >> reporter: the criminals get away, and the weak ones die. >> absolutely. we need to concentrate on those type of people, instead of doing what we're doing, taking our time and -- and gathering. >> reporter: gathering the aftermath. seen here as the product of a broken border. and the numbers of central american minors pouring over the border have hearing dates set off as far as 2018. courts already have a backlog of over 375,000 cases to be heard. nearly 50,000 of those are more than two year's old. liberty city in miami county

burned in 1980. fast forward 24 years and there is again a rise of tension. there have been 41 shootings this year, nine people are now dead. things got so bad there were suggestions that you might need a flak jacket? >> you'll see that in the upcoming piece, del. this is the example of the violence people here are battling. this marks the spot where several weeks ago, one evening people were outside enjoying themselves when two men pulled up and began shooting. two people died, seven were injured. grandma ella tells people a bullet has no eyes. if bullets did she feels surely they wouldn't have pierced through the walls of this house and killed her 24-year-old

granddaughter and 2-year-old great grand son while they slept. >> how could this happen when she was at home in her own bed. >> reporter: bullets sprayed on the sidelines where this coach coached a baseball game. he was shot and his friend died next to him. >> ak 47 that's the kind of gun you have nightmares about. >> reporter: this man grew up on these streets. he says people here aren't apathetic. they are living in terror. >> this is a domestic terrorism issue. they are captive in their community. and that's what makes this a violation of our u.s. patriot act. >> reporter: he is demanding the federal government provide more resources to stop the killing. one complaint is the lack of police presence. in three days of reporting, we never saw a police car. the president of the miami

fraternal order of police says there are fewer patrols because the department reduced pay and benefits and can't recruit officers. they have been authorized to higher 100 recruits but have only hired 48 so far. while we spoke to sar genth ortiz, we heard gunshot. that second gunshot, someone not happy that we're standing here? >> no, and like i said earlier, there's a reason i have a vest on. >> reporter: the police chief tells local reporters he has already added additional patrols and is moving in officers from less crime-ridden areas. neighborhood groups are trying toment combat the violence on their own. they are looking for ways to improvement economic development and offer more programs for children. after rising nine kids and helping to raise about two dozen grandchildren and great-grandchildren, grandma ella says she doesn't know how

to keep them safe. >> i don't know anything we can do. i wish i did have an answer. that would help me to be at ease. >> reporter: on the streets and inside the homes of liberty city, it seems no one feels at ease. people here are fed up. they also are resigned. they accept, it seems that this is just the way life is here in liberty city. and as one community leader told me in tears, that's the real tragedy. >> how does liberty city stack up with other cities. >> with nine murders so far this year, in a neighborhood of 22,000 people, the murder rate here in liberty city is higher than in chicago. >> thank you very much, natasha. and coming up on al jazeera america, modern technology, helping researches unwrap the

secrets of mummies.

welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm del walters, these are your headlines at this hour. a setback for the affordable care act. the appeals court throwi out th law that says that states that do nreceive accept sadyes. >> and benjamin netenyahu calling on the international community to hold hamas responsible for the violence. delta airlines has suspended service to tel-aviv. a u.s. flight recorder specialist will be heading to the uk to help read out boxes in the shot down mrash -- malaysian

airlines 17. and rick perry authorizing a thousand national guard troops to help secure the border. ♪ i'm meteorologist dave warren. these are the scenes coming in from washington state. battling wildfires, and they need some rain here. they have cooling weather, at least. these temperatures now into the 50s and 60s, so a little cooler. you can see the line of clouds, the showers pushing to the south. know we have rain returning. that caused the fires to change direction there. winds still a big factor, but the rain is helping a little

bit. there is still red flag warnings in effect for much of the northwest. but here is the rain forecast not only today but also tomorrow. may contain lightning with a few thunderstorms. we're benefiting from the rain at least. strong severe storms possible across the northern plains. and the heat continues to build. the heat advisory still in effect there with highs climbing up into the upper 90s in kansas city. don't want the lightning, but we can take the rain. >> dave warren, thanks. mummy cases that have never been opened are being scanned to determine how the mummies lived and died. using 3-d images they can create objects buried with the bodies.

the scans are now on display at the british museum. we want to thank you for watching al jazeera america. i'm del walters in new york. "inside story" is next. and a reminder, you can check us out 24 hours a day by going to our website, aljazeera.com. looking ahead to an end to the fighting between israelis and palestinians, president obama wants them to look back to pace. secretary of state kerry is in the region. who has the clout to get the two sides to stop fight something it's thein'. the "inside story." ♪ ♪ hello, i am ray suarez.