thanks for being with us. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. we're learning that what may be one of the black boxes from downed malaysian flight mh-17 has been recovered from the crash site. you see that orange item there. this is in a field in eastern ukraine where the plane went down. apparently happened two days ago. this video is new in to cnn what

appears to be ukrainian searcher carrying either the flight data recorder or the digital voice recorder. it's not known where the black box is. it could tell us a lot about the final moments of the flight that ended so tragically with the loss of 298 lives. a brief cease-fire for a neighborhood east of gaza city, the area has seen near constant shelling since last night. 40 people are dead following last night's assault. and many more could be buried under rubble. cakarl penhaul describes the citizens as shell shocked. >> a jury awarded a widow $23.6 billion, with a b. $23.6 billion in punitive damages for her suit against the rj reynolds company. the woman whose husband passed away claimed smoking killed her husband and the giant was negligent in not in forming him

that nicotine is addictive. the company promises to appeal. >> both variety and the "l.a. times" reports that actor james garner died. he was best known for two iconic series, maverick and the rockford files. we do not know a cause of death but james garner was 86. >> look at this. a hot air balloon crash caught on camera saturday in clinton, massachusetts. you can hear the people screaming. wow. according to cnn affiliate, the passengers in the balloon were waving and taking pictures when the balloon hit a power line during the decent. all six passengers survived. but five of them suffered minor to serious burns in what you see this huge flash, possibly when the propane tank hit those power lines. >> hope they are all doing okay.

let's talk about flight 17 now. moments ago reuters released video that apparently shows a recovered black box at the crash scene. you see it in that man's hands. >> this was recorded on friday. this is just released but recorded on friday. we're trying to figure out who has the black box now, whether it's been examined, of course we'll tell you as soon as we learn any of those details. >> we do know that large numbers of bodies are collected and loaded on refrigerated train cars today near the crash site in eastern ukraine. this is according to a cnn team traveling with a convoy of international observers. >> observers have not independently confirmed if the bodies are from the downed flight but that's what they have been told. >> the train is expected to remain in place until international specialists arrive. but it's not clear where the bodies will be taken from that point. let's bring in aviation

analyst mary schiavo and justin green and floyd wisener of the wisener law firm. good to have all of you. >> thanks for having us. >> mary, let me start with you. good morning everybody. if the black boxes had been found, first of all, what is your reaction to the thought that they may have been in somebody's hands for the last two days? >> well, i'm glad they have been found and in somebody's hands. my worry is in whose hands. because they are just a handful of agencies i would trust to download the data t ntsb tbeat australians, the british, you know beyond that i don't trust the ukrainians or the russians because they have too much at stake and each have a history of having tampered with evidence in prior shoot-down crisis. the ukraine on the shootdown of siberian airways, russia, former soviet union. so it's good they have them but they need to be in the right hands. let's hope they don't try to do anything to them before the data can be downloaded.

>> justin, if investigators determine who is responsible, not just a group but if they have a name, if they indeed determine that russia, on the russian military was involved, how do you go after them? >> that's a very good question. part of the missing evidence i mean t black boxes apparently have been found. the missing evidence is the missile battery that took it down, where is that. the missing evidence are the people that manned that missile battery, where are they. if we determine that this was shot down as everyone believes right now, by russian separatists using russian-supplied equipment, trained perhaps by russian soldiers, then the world is going to be looking at russia. now, legally, russia has some of a major defenses, it's a foreign sovereign, entitled to immunity. i think this is more after political problem for russia and you know, the world is going to

be putting serious sanctions on russia and i think that it's up to russia now, not only to help with the investigation, help with the recovery of the bodies, but also ultimately to compensate the victims in the same way the united states compensated the iranian victims of the vincennes shootdown. >> talking about the families, because this is a human tragedy as we've had so many people recognize at the heart of this. i understand, floyd, let me ask you, that the montreal convention requires the airline to pay compensation regardless whether the airline was found to be at fault. is that true? >> well, that is true. the airline will be responsible for the first 100,000 drawing rights which is about $150,000 u.s. after that it also will be responsible to pay additional compensation unless the airline can prove that it took all necessary measures to avoid the loss.

i don't think malaysian air can prove that because it was flying this route and because of that it's going to be somewhat responsible and if it's somewhat responsible it has to pay full compensation to all of the passengers. >> justin, what can investigators, i know it's probably too soon for lawyers to be involved in such a chaotic scene, but investigators do to protect the dignity of those 298 who were lost in this crash? >> you know, over the last couple days i've been watching chris cuomo report from the site and it's been a number of years since i was on one of those scenes. but i have to tell you, it's a horrible, horrible situation and in fact, i'm quite sure will change anyone's life who has to go through it. you know, we've already lost about 48 hours. it's in a place where it's not the best place in terms of response, but a lot more could have been done to protect the dignity of these victims.

what has to happen is probably dna testing, it's a long process. probably be weeks or even months before it's complete. and there's still a very good chance that some of the victims will never be identified. >> floyd, do you have any thoughts on how this whole unique situation we've been watching unfold may change aviation law going forward for other airlines? >> christi, it's interesting i think it might. one thing that happens in most aviation disasters is some changes come from them, some changes are made. i think you'll see additional safety measures, security measures about flying over war zones such as this. i think you'll see things come about. this is the first time something like this happened under the montreal convention regimes. the other shootdowns we've been talking about were under the warsaw convention, this is the first time some of the rules i've been talking about will apply. >> mary, what's your concern

about some of the spokespersons and i guess government officials that maybe have not been forthcoming up to this point, now that we have this video of what appears to be the black box f we put that back up. we haven't heard about this. this came from a news agency. and it's been apparently two days that someone, somewhere had this thing. >> right. we've got a hint of it i think richard quest got it out of one of the ministers of ukraine, and he's pretty cagey and said they knew that the black boxes were still in ukraine, and so you know, one can only hope that they are in reasonable hands, thoughtful people, not people who shot down the plane. so my thoughts are at some point people have to put this together and get reasonable and realize that they are working with a crime scene and also that this is the possession not only just of the investigators for now but it does belong to the airline and the possessions i have to mention, in any crash, the things of the family members

that were lost in a crash, be it a shoot-down, terrorism or other kind of a plane crash, negligence plane crash, they become very, very important to the families and the families want those back. so, they don't even understand that. there are organizations, there are businesses whose job it is to go in there and catalog all of these personal effects and everything in the crash. put them in books so people can see what belongs to different people. have that process been put in place we'd know not only where the black boxes are but everything else as well. >> justin, quickly we've been seeing especially this morning, many of the parents and family members pleading with the government to bring their children and their loved ones home. but from a legal standpoint, if you had any of these people as your clients what would you advise them to do at this juncture? >> you know, i think part of the frustration is that they feel helpless and really, they are

helpless at this point. it's really going to take, i mean, the recovery now is finally under way. the bodies will be returned. but it's really out of the hands of the families and even if they hired a lawyer, the lawyer has very little ability to force anyone to do anything. really president putin probably has the best ability and the government of the ukraine together have the best ability to make this process go better, better information go out to the families and to quickly like i said before, it will take probably several weeks or even months before all of the remains are identified. but to make the process go as easily as possible for the families, it's going to be hard no matter what. >> thank you all for offering your expertise to this conversation. we'll speak with you again as we continue to learn more about

this downed plane. thank you so much. >> thank you for having us. >> we've got chris cuomo on the phone who is there at the crash site. chris, i've been following you on twitter. you tweeted about the bodies and where they are now being placed on this refrigerated train car. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: good morning victor and christi. to quote the old monitor, that the international organization that is here observing the violence, but they have kind of then thrust into this position of overseeing what happened with mh-17. he says today has been a good day because there was some access, there was a meeting at a local train station that we were able to follow along on, and they did see bodies that were put in refrigerated cars and they were told by the local donetsk republic, self-declared republic officials, that they

would be kept there until international monitors came, and experts. they are not able to verify what that means or whether it will be held. they couldn't count the bodies, in part because of how long they sat outside, very difficult to be around the bodies but also they weren't given that invitation. and they couldn't do i.d. either. we then followed behind as they were finally led into the main crash site. even though they weren't allowed in, aviation experts were. so we're going to have to see what they develop. bodies are still being taken out of the scene. they are being put in bags but they are lying on the side of the road and it's very hot here. and there's a lot of luggage. it was clearly picked through, victor. i have been slow to report about looting. i haven't seen any but it's clear that there is luggage that has been gone through. you see the names on it. and people have picked through things. it's as simple as that. we are now headed with the

convoy trying to follow along as they go to where the cockpit is that will be very important obviously for aviation experts. >> chris cuomo live for us there at the scene. thank you so much for bringing us the latest. and the hospitals are over flowing with victims, the morgues are filled with dead bodies, we're talking about the scene in gaza. this morning it's chaos after a relentless round of shelling by israel. back to that region next. ♪

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this is the scene in gaza today. thousands running trying to get away from the destruction of more than 15 hours of near-constant bombing from the israeli military. >> that assault is on hold for now. the idf says a cease-fire is in effect to allow aid workers to come in and tend to the dead and the wounded from that overnight assault. >> let's get to martin savidge from jerusalem. >> we're hearing that hamas has now violated that cease-fire. do we know what that means for the israeli end of that? i guess pause as you called it. >> reporter: yeah. we've only got about 40 >> reporter: minutes left.

there have been violations of the cease-fire. hamas is claiming and those in gaza saying israel never let up on artillery strikes. israeli forces came under attack and as a result it has responded in-kind. there has been a dramatic escalation of the military operation that's taken place inside especially northeastern gaza in what's called the shujaya neighborhood. it's been building over the last 4 hours. you can see the explosions and the fires last night but by daylight dramatically huge plumes of smoke and of course reports of dozens of civilians that have been killed as well. it's clear the israeli military considers that area to be i guess you could call it a center of terrorist activity, at least on the part of hamas that it's carrying out its strikes against

israel. israelis warned the people living in that neighborhood via telephones and via leaflet drops that they should evacuate the neighborhoods. why people didn't leave is unclear but the israeli military is maintaining they gave those people plenty of warning, but whether they heeded it or not, it is quite clear that there is a humanitarian crisis that is building as a result of this substantially increased military operation, victor and christi? >> martin savidge, thank you for the update. we appreciate it. we'll have more on the crisis in gaza later on in the show. wolf blitzer is interviewing israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in the next hour, right here live on cnn. we'll be right pag. back. when you run a business, you can't settle for slow.

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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com 8:00 on a sunday morning. i hope that it is treating you well so far. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. this is "new day sunday." >> we want with start with the crisis in gaza, growing deadlier by the hour. >> israel and hamas are blaming each other for breaching a two-hour cease-fire that was slammed overnight by shelling. >> the humanitarian pause as it's been called was coming at the request of the red cross. it called for a halt in fighting in order to reach the wounded in the overnight assault that's left at least 40 people dead, we've heard >> we'll have more on the crisis there in gaza. wolf blitzer interviews israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu live here on cnn in just a few minutes.