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tv   Forensic Files  CNN  July 20, 2014 11:30pm-12:01am PDT

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30 more minutes of cnn newsroom, thank you for staying with us. >> we will check the headlines. israel's military said it cannot confirm or deny that hamas has capture a soldier. israel is reporting 13 soldiers
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killed, making this the deadliest did i left. pro russia a separatists refuse to return over information about flight data a recorders may have been pulled from the wreck. this footage from reuters he shows a worker that appears to be with the international black box. fighting has intention identified in libya as rival malitias are battling for control of the airport. at least five people are reported dead. a local said that shells are falling on residential areas and the unand other organizations have temporarily evacuated. >> serious concern has been expressed due to the israel conflict. >> member s met in a koesed sdor
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session is. they were just outside, the security council was slammed for not doing enough to end the bloodshed. >> if the security council, the party that is supposed to be responsible for international peace and security is not stopping this killing against our people. where should we go to stop this congressional against our people. >> well, israel's envoy is being wide wide widely criticized for the minority deaths. >> some authorities say, we have a right to fend ourselves, but when we do that, we are being condemned. how do you have the right to
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condemn yourself on one hand and when we exercise the right to defend our citizens. rocketing and fire, thousands of missed hours, we are bowing conde condemned. >> the fighting has people scrambling to get out of harm's way. [ speaking in a foreign language ] sg sglr. >> fleeing for their lives. a few belongings, cloekts on their back. a as they go, israely bottmbs a hitting the neighborhood. this man said he had to abandoned his own mother. >> yeah. >> since first light, thousands of people have been streaming down the street, this is one of
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the roads that the israelis in a pamphlet, teld people could transit safety. but as they walk, we are hearing explosions all around. >> tanks and artillery and plans pounded dpmpt aza throughout the night. hamas mill sanities were fighting back. a human tied, trying to cling to life. on foot, in cars, on donk carts. any way, just out. >> they are just hitting and hitting he said. >> when they leave, where do
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they come to? well, one of the united nations schools that has been opened to shelter, that displaced people. i just talked to united nations official, he has no time to speak on camera, but he said it's a critical situation. >> over flowing, but a safe haven for now at least. at the main hospital, no more space for the wounded, no more choice, transfer the bleeding and dying to other clinics. others may still be lying in the combat zone. >> many people are still underground. those people, we could not arrive and extract them. so surely from those people, dead people, injured people, and those who may die if not do anything urgent. >> for those that did not make
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it, a resting place on the blood soaked floor. no need to arrestedunderstand ao understand his pain. he saw a missile hit his brother and mother. no time to pronounce time of death. cnn gaza. >> israel's prime minister is aware of the problems. you see the painful pictures. the refuges, thousands fleeing their homes. it's a horrible sight if you look at the images. what goes through your mind? >> i'm sad.
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we are sad for every civilian casual casualties. the hamas will deliberately hide behind civilians and target civilians. they put their weaponry from which they fire, when they used to fire on us in civilian areas. what choice do we have? we try to target the right targets. but hamas wants to pile up as many civilian dead as they can. they use, telegeniticall 84 dead pal stin millions is what they want. >> i want to say this, i mean, there's few examples in history, of countries that were rocketed on this scale. if you look at our response, it's actually very measured and trying to be as pinpointed as we
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can. but i think when people say that, i appreciate the support we have received from president obama and many world leaders for israel's right to self defense. others are saying, yeah, the have the right of self defense as long as you do not exercise it what can country do if your cities were rocketed, you know, people would say in the united states. as they were telling me, obliterate the people, we don't want to do that. we don't want battle. >> it is brutal. >> it is very difficult because hamas is using them, the pal stin millions as human shields. we developed anti-missile systems. we used it to protect the silvans, they they their villeans to protect their --
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civilians. they all fall on the responsibilitity of hamas. >> israel lost many soldiers yesterday. >> they have lost 20 people in all, 18 soldiers. so this has been a big loss of life on the israeli side, one of the biggest so far of. >> right. >> when we come back, we will return to the other main story, malaysia apartment 17. -- dand a man who changed his plans to not get on night 17, a story told by his parents coming up.
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the delays in the investigation of malaysia flight 17 are adding to the frustration for people who lost loved ones on that flight. that is particularly true in the netherlands, which was home to 193 of the passengers. we are live in amsterdam, we have the latest on this public grieving and the frustrations people from are dealing with. >> yes, good morning. it's early morning here in
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amsterdam and yet, people are still coming out on sign the book of condolenses that has been set up. i will step aside to show you how many people are cued up outside. just by checking in 29, that is where those passengers checked in to board mh 17, we are seeing a lot of families cy ies coming don't know if you can see right now. there's such a crowd, there's two young girls with their father who came to sign. people are leaving flowers, ted they bears for their young children on board the fight. balloons, that someone tied a flag just yesterday to that area. and we have seen it grow over the weekend. this is in a country that greavess publically. there's not a major out pouring or visible out pouring of grief like we you a -- live we've seen with a previous crash.
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on saturday, i traveled to where family of 6, four young children, and two parents were on the plane. people were saying brars and grieving and saying how much the community has been touched. and added along side the grieving is frustration. we heard the dutch prime minister come out with stern words starting saturday where he released a press statement saying that now that the passenger list has been released, adding faces and names makes this incident all the more horrible. but, the fact that investigators cannot reach the site, the factn away makes this, and his words, disgusting. we have not had much of a response from russian president
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putin. a lot of pressure, diplomatic of course, going out for him to say something about this incident. and for him, to perhaps speak out approximate access to the site, because we know there's russian separatists and rebels battling uvainans right there right now. we know it's an ungoing battle. and finally, on sunday, president putin spoke out, he made a statement saying that -- and saying that people around there, not directly talking to anyone specific should allow the independent investigation team to have access, that will come as some kind of constellation of course, sickly here, where the dutch prime minister said that investigators are now on the way. this morning as we understand it, investigators have is left amsterdam on their way to ukraine to try and get to the crash sight.
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on the east we also understand they are sending a forensic team. we understand that they have over 100 care workers. i saw them ten, 20 minutes ago, they were leaving a hotel and going to the a hotel where next of kin and families are staying or coming and going. there's a care set thereupon that group of therapists. natalie. >> had to be so difficult, we keep showing video from the crash site there, and we know that it must be horrifying for the families to see any of that hopefully they are being somewhat shielded. we want to show you this right now. it's a satellite picture of the crash site, you can see how massive it is in the eastern ukraine. it stretches across 34 square kilometers.
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>> let's get more information. so, michael, you have been on the to the crash sight a few times. i understand the security is better and your access is getting better. when we go back out there and can you tell us what have you able to see so far. what are your impressions? >> good morning, today will be our fourth day, actually, accessing the crash site. weave identified a general impact area, we've managed to get to three of them. we visited the heavy impact area of the cockpit and part of the first class section. it was a scene of incredible devastation and he compressed wreckage, what was different from that site was there's no burns. no fire. you had a lot of material that was readily identifiable. you know, everything from -- you
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know, all of this is very, very difficult to look at the other thing to report on is escorted to the train station closest to the crash site and we were able to have access to three freight cars. it had 198 bodies. the -- they did open the carts for us. and the bags were stacked up on top of each other. they had a numbering system, it seemed to us. but we were of course, unable to have a closer examination. but they did say, again, 105 bodies of yesterday, late morning and more to come. >> so, i will get to the bodies in a moment. i want to be clear. you talk about going to the
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crash site anding looking at the impact. can you do you have aviation experts, crash investigators that can asays ses -- that can . they have been granted good access, they have been coming over and wreck skp the wreck and looking for the black boxes. >> you mention almost 200 bodies in the refridge rated train coura carriages, you are taking the word of the local workers in. >> we report what we see. to go in there, it does require
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special gear, special protection i ha protectionive equipment. we were able to detect that it was refrigeration. we were told that the strains are working fine and further, we were told that the train would arrive there pernding the arrival of the international expert. >> so we are looking at days and weeks before the bodies are headed back to the final burial and funerals? >> we did not get that sense. >>. >> okay. >> i take them at word. that they would like to see what to do. >> when we went back to the site afterwards, they were still active body collection going on. >> michael, i have to loaf it there, we appreciate it. thanks, michael.
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>> and still ahead here on cmn newsroom, thunderstorms, lightening and land scorched. >> flames hit the western part of north america.
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a number of fires have combined to form a inferno.
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>> we have had many fires combining in to one. the carlton complex set fire and the results have have been devastating. we have a significant number of acres that now burned. i will take you to aerial pictures. this is from a drone that flew through. we are talking about 200, approaching 238,000 acres. the biggest fire in w with a history. death, a heart attack, trying to save his home, with 150 structures that have been burned to the ground. weather conditions are not cooperating. hot weather, low humidity, and you will see, a frontal boundary that will move through and it will push in cooler air and more moisture in the air, so better
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weather. it is only 2% contained and they will get it over the next 24 to 48 hours. the out look, looking better for good friends there in washington state. >> all right, thanks, ivan. >> okay, well now this is the second time in a year that tragic has struck malaysia airlines. we hear about a family that narrowly escaped the last flight to be caught up with this one. >> this is a crash that should not have a happened and he should not have been aaboard. >> he is not supposed to be on. >> he took another flight attendant's spot to try to get home early to see his parents. >> fate has played an unfair hand against us. >> fate, that once favored him.
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he and his wife, are both malaysia flight attendants, last year, he was scheduled to work flight 370, she swapped shifts at the last minute, so she did not board what would be the missing plane. a brush with death then, and it has arrived to claim another. >> are you angry? >> internally we are angry, yes. we are angry that this thing happened to us. >> and leaves behind not just his wife but a 10-year-old son. who told his grandfather -- >> i'm here. i will take over from your son. he said, i am now the man of the house. >> you can tell what is coming, can't you? >> the unprecedented two disasters for one airline, just
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months apart has shaken air crews to the core. >> it hits you deep and seeing the faces of the people you know and the friends that you flew with and some that called me right before the flight. >> after this crash, the daughter in law may never be able to fly again. she left the public message to her husband in chinese on facebook. we know you are gone, and you won't be coming back, i wish you a safe journey and i know you will go to a much better place. but there's no such comfort for his parents. >> i beg the rebels to please be human for one reason. at least release the bodies. they want the to fight, they can go ahead fighting. >> but at least give these families some measure of peace. >> c inform n malaysia.
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>> he looked exhausted. >> and that does it for this hour. >> i'm natalie, and we thank you for watching another hour of c info nn newsroom is coming up after this. we don't jump at the sound of the opening bell, because we're trying to make the school bell. corner booth beats corner office any day. we make the most of our time... and our money. the 2014 malibu. highest ranked midsize car in initial quality the car for the richest guys on earth. amam rich. my social circle includes captains of industry, former secretaries of state, oil tycoons, and ambassadors of countries known for their fine cheeses. yes i am rich. that's why i drink the champagne of beers.
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coming up right now on cnn newsroom, gaza's deadliest day, blood is spill odd both sied on. plus, cheers follow the announcement that hamas has taken an isreali soldier prisone rmp, and pro russian separatists say they are holding the bodies of on

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